Despite controversies around the Pancheshwar dam proposal and the panic it is creating among the villages around, the project is progressing fast.
River Mahakali snakes its way through the hills and valleys of Nepal and Uttaranchal, collecting its water from the numerous streams it receives on the way. Also known as Sharda in India, the river forms the international boundary between India and Nepal. The river has, of late, become a cause of disagreement between the state and the people due to the widespread community opposition to a proposed dam on it at Pancheshwar.


What is a Social Media Superstar?
Lights, camera, action? More like post, share, go viral (am I right, influencers?).
With 1.6 billion people on Facebook, 400 million on Instagram and 320 million on Twitter, it's clear that the world of social media is a cluttered one. The digital revolution has given many people a platform and voice, but between all of the posts and noise, it can be hard to stand out. Unless you're a social media superstar, that is.
A social media superstar is someone who is famous because of their social channels, as opposed to someone who is already famous for something else and has social channels. Did you get that? The superstars' fame is social-media made.
"Now more than ever, fame is accessible, and it creates a different breed of famous person. You can release a funny photo… You can create a social media account for your adorable pet, or post inspiring or funny videos about your life. You can change the world, if only for twenty-two seconds," writer Sarah Klegman said of the changing fame landscape.
What are these superstars doing right? First and foremost, they have a definite target audience. They have a following that connects with them – whether niche or more broad – and it isn't one sided. Engagement is the next critical aspect to social media stardom. Consistent posting, cross-promotion and responsiveness are all important for high levels of engagement. After all, if you have a loyal follower who constantly comments on your videos or asks questions about your photos with zero acknowledgement or feedback, won't they eventually just stop trying? Social media is all about connecting and sharing, and superstars only rise up with the help of others.
What else sets social media superstars apart? Have you worked with any superstars in influencer marketing campaigns? Share your insight with us in the comments!


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The Cost of Audacity
Magazine May 4, 2009, Issue
By Ramesh Ponnuru
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Obamanomics means less growth
Addressing Congress in February, President Obama argued that the recession was no reason to hold off on his signature initiatives. It was, instead, all the more reason to act on them.
"The fact is, our economy did not fall into decline overnight," said the president. "Nor did all of our problems begin when the housing market collapsed or the stock market sank. We have known for decades that our survival depends on finding new sources of energy. Yet we import more oil today than ever before. The cost of health care eats up more and more of our savings each year, yet we keep delaying reform. Our children will compete for jobs in a global economy that too many of our schools do not prepare them for."
The good news he presented was that by finally taking on these challenges, America would "build a new foundation for lasting prosperity." He added, "Now is the time to . . . invest in areas like energy, health care, and education that will grow our economy." Not every lawmaker cheered, but none of them did the appropriate thing and laughed. It would be a remarkable coincidence if the appropriate response to the economic circumstances of 2009 happened to replicate the longstanding wish list of liberal activists.
In truth, Obama's argument is, not to put too fine a point on it, absurd. European countries that have caps on carbon emissions and national health insurance have hardly been immune to the financial crisis. Some of them have suffered more than the U.S. And while Obama's explanation of our economic difficulties fails, his prescriptions would reduce America's long-term rate of economic growth.
Start with health care. Obama said that its "crushing cost" is "is one of the major reasons why small businesses close their doors and corporations ship jobs overseas." Many businessmen have been persuaded that health-care reform would improve their bottom lines, which is one reason that the administration is optimistic it can get legislation passed this year. In the popular press it is common to run across claims that companies based in the U.S. are at a disadvantage because of health-care costs.
The Congressional Budget Office, run by Democrats since 2007, recently explained why this reasoning is fallacious. Health-care economists generally agree that companies' health-care expenses come out of wages rather than profits. That's what you would expect when a competitive labor market determines total compensation, however that compensation is divided between wages and benefits. "As a result," the CBO concludes, "the costs of providing health insurance to their workers are not a source of competitive disadvantage for U.S.-based firms." If employers paid less in health-care costs, they would pay more in wages.
It is true that most people would consider rising wages part of the definition of a strong economy. But cost control is taking a back seat to expanding coverage in the administration's plans, as well as those of Congress. Cost control may be what Obama stresses, but expanded coverage is what pulls heartstrings. It is also politically easier to achieve: Cost control in a government-centered system would require rationing, which is not popular.
The administration claims that as it expands coverage, it will control costs by using the federal government's bargaining power as a purchaser of health care to drive prices down. Medicare has used this strategy for decades. The results: As Medicare spending keeps growing, costs are shifted to the private sector in the form of higher insurance premiums. Philip Klein, a reporter at The American Spectator, recently asked Obama domestic-policy chief Melody Barnes to name a government that had saved money by expanding coverage. She had no answer.
Even more outlandish from an economic standpoint than Obama's proposals for health-care reform is his energy plan — specifically, his assertion that placing a cap on carbon emissions will benefit the economy. Last year the Energy Information Administration, a division of the Department of Energy, estimated that an emissions-cap bill would cost the economy $444 billion through 2030 — and that estimate is based on heroic assumptions. (For example, that "key low-emissions technologies, including nuclear, fossil with carbon capture and sequestration . . . and various renewables, are developed and deployed in a timeframe consistent with the emissions reduction requirements without encountering any major obstacles.") With other assumptions, the cost is $1.3 trillion.
Increasing the price and reducing the supply of energy, as an emissions cap would do, would necessarily decrease economic output. The argument for this legislation is that it would avert the costs associated with global warming — that is, it would help us avoid worse economic damage. But this net benefit may be illusory. In these pages, Jim Manzi, relying on the work of the United Nations' Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change and of Yale professor William Nordhaus (who is respected on all sides of the global-warming debate), has concluded that a worldwide program to reduce carbon emissions that was perfectly designed and implemented could be expected to yield a net benefit of "about 0.17 percent of the present value of global GDP over the next several centuries." Most of that net benefit would not accrue to Americans. Assume that the program would not be perfect, perhaps because of side deals needed to keep coal-country senators or 2.5 billion Asians on board, and even that minuscule gain disappears.
#page#It is a little harder to analyze the economic effects of Obama's planned education reforms, because they are the least fleshed-out of his three big initiatives. Obama's health and energy plans really would be transformative, for good and ill, but his education agenda, as it has been described so far, is simply more of what we already have: additional money, plus unspecified reforms. The likelihood that Obama's policies will improve K–12 education enough to have a measurable economic impact seems slight. Even after the No Child Left Behind Act, primary education remains a decentralized enterprise in which Washington has limited influence. His expansion of college funding will not increase the country's skill level much, both because universities will simply raise tuition to absorb the extra money and because a larger number of diplomas does not necessarily mean a larger amount of learning.
Other items on the president's agenda are no more promising. Obama wants to sign the Employee Free Choice Act to promote unionization. The bill would, among other things, make it possible for workforces to unionize without a secret-ballot vote of the employees. In an analysis of Canadian unionization rates with and without secret ballots, economist Susan Johnson has found that dispensing with secret ballots does indeed increase the success rate of unionization drives. But is larger union membership good for the economy? Lawrence Summers, the head of Obama's National Economic Council, fingered unionization as a "cause of long-term unemployment" when he was an academic. Economists Harold Cole and Lee Ohanian argue that pro-union labor-law reforms made the Great Depression worse.
Obama also intends to raise both federal spending and federal taxes. In the short run, spending may stimulate the economy, particularly in a recession. Much of the debate over the stimulus concerned that question. But Obama has long-term spending plans as well.
Over the last 40 years, federal spending has amounted to, on average, 20.7 percent of the economy. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that by 2019, even with no major changes, that percentage will rise to 21.3 because of the aging of the population, rising health costs, and other factors. It further estimates that Obama's agenda would boost it to 24.5. Kevin Hassett, the director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute and a SMALLCAPSNational Review contributor, notes that "there is a really well-established literature on spending [that says that] it decreases growth in the long run." If the government's share of the economy rises by ten points — say from 20 to 30 — then growth drops 1 percentage point a year.
Obama wants to reverse Bush's tax cuts for high incomes and capital gains, and partly reverse his tax cut for dividends. The top income-tax rate would thus revert to the level in effect during most of the Clinton administration. (It will be higher than that, however, if Obama follows through on his campaign pledge of raising upper-income taxes to address the Social Security shortfall, or if his spending leads him to go for additional tax increases.) While those rates can be compatible with robust economic growth, they make it less robust than it could be. The drag will be worse since Obama plans to use the added revenue to finance new spending rather than to reduce the deficit.
He also creates new tax credits that are unlikely to have any long-term stimulative effect. This may encourage some poor people to work more, but the credits are phased out as their beneficiaries gain income. Work effort may fall modestly over that phase-out range.
Then there's trade. The last two presidents, one from each party, made moves to liberalize trade — dramatically, in the case of Bill Clinton. Obama appears to have little interest in passing new trade agreements, and even less leverage with Congress should he wish to do so. So nobody should expect a reduction of trade barriers that would boost the economy.
If the latest version of Obama's financial-industry rescue plan works — and it is the least ideologically driven element of his domestic agenda — then the president will deserve credit for strengthening the economy. But most of the initiatives that he has touted as being key to an economic recovery would have either no effect or a negative one.
The president has repeatedly promised to "save or create" 2.5 million jobs. That pledge has come in for criticism from conservatives, who note that as long as the country still has at least 2.5 million jobs at the end of Obama's term, it will be impossible to prove him wrong. Obama deserves a little sympathy for hedging his bets, since his policies will not determine the direction of the economy by themselves. Natural disasters, Federal Reserve actions, and technological revolutions can make good presidential policies seem mistaken and foolish policies seem wise. We cannot say with any confidence that the economy will be weaker after Obama than it was before him. But there is reason to think that Americans will be poorer than they would have been without him.
Ramesh Ponnuru is a senior editor for National Review, a columnist for Bloomberg Opinion, a visiting fellow at the American Enterprise Institute, and a senior fellow at the National Review Institute. @rameshponnuru
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The unsung community heroes of Shrewsbury have been officially recognised by the Mayor for playing their part in helping to make the town a special place to live, work and visit.
The Mayor's Awards scheme is Shrewsbury's equivalent of "The Oscars", with local individuals, organisations, groups and businesses being recognised for their achievements, for the benefit of the whole town.
The overall winners in each category were: - Business – Shrewsbury Market Hall; Built Heritage – Shrewsbury Flaxmill Maltings; Community – Polish Centre c.i.c.; Courtesy – Lorraine Fletcher; Environment – Shrewsbury Litter Action Project; Tourism – Theatre Severn; and Youth – Smash Life.
With a record number of votes cast in this year's Market Trader of the Year category, the Town Clerk revealed the winners at the event. With all the votes counted, and in true election style, The Card Store was declared the winner with a tight contest between second and third places with Ewe & Ply in second and Café AleOli in third place.
The Mayor also presented seven personal awards to individuals and organisations he has met throughout his mayoral year that he felt had made a significant contribution to the town. Certificates were presented to Ian Pritchard, Ryan Jervis, Judith and Stephen Williams, Morris & Company, Keith Jones, Tony Bywater and Sir Algernon Heber-Percy.
The Mayor of Shrewsbury said: "This annual event is the town's opportunity to thank those people who give up so much of their time to make Shrewsbury the great place that it is for everyone.
"With such a fantastic range of local people and organisations who do so much for the benefit of the town and its residents, it is a great privilege to be able to recognize and reward those who are so generous in giving their time for others.


I saw Roda Lits a while ago live in Belgium together with the noisepunkers Pink Room. The Antwerp based band creates very catchy punk songs with enough fuzz and garage influences to make a fun show.
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Wi-LAN Appoints Shaun McEwan as Chief Financial Officer
OTTAWA, Canada – January 21, 2008 – Wi-LAN Inc. (TSX: WIN) ("Wi-LAN"), a leading technology innovation and licensing company, today announced that it has appointed Shaun McEwan to the position of Chief Financial Officer.
"I am very pleased to welcome a seasoned senior financial executive like Shaun McEwan to Wi-LAN," said Jim Skippen, President and CEO. "Shaun brings an impressive track record and a clear understanding of what it takes to effectively manage the finances and financial relationships that are critical to a publicly traded high technology company. His experience and leadership capabilities will prove invaluable as we continue to grow our business."
Mr. McEwan has more than 16 years experience in finance and executive leadership positions in public and private high technology companies. Most recently, he held the position of Chief Financial Officer at BreconRidge Manufacturing Solutions (BreconRidge) where he was responsible for overall financial management. His many accomplishments while at BreconRidge included leading private placement transactions that raised more than $40 million and completing numerous corporate acquisitions. Prior to BreconRidge, Mr. McEwan served in increasingly senior positions at Calian Technologies Ltd (Calian), first as Chief Financial Officer and then President and Chief Executive Officer. During his tenure at Calian, Mr. McEwan was responsible for all financial affairs of this publicly traded company, completed several corporate acquisitions and divestitures, assisted in growing revenues to more than $125 Million and served as corporate secretary as well as a Director. Mr. McEwan also held senior executive positions at Microstar Software Limited and led the company's Initial Public Offering on the Toronto Stock Exchange in 1993.
"Wi-LAN is taking bold steps to realize the business potential of intellectual property and with its strong financial position, large patent portfolio and experienced team, Wi-LAN is well positioned for success, said Mr. McEwan. "I strongly believe that my diverse background in finance and executive leadership will help Wi-LAN continue to achieve its many goals. I look forward to assisting Wi-LAN with its ongoing efforts to lead technology innovation and licensing."
Mr. McEwan is expected to assume his duties at Wi-LAN on February 19, 2008.
Wi-LAN, founded in 1992, is a leading technology innovation and licensing company. Our portfolio of patented inventions applies to a wide range of electronics and communications products. Some of the fundamental technologies covered by Wi-LAN's patents include: CDMA, DOCSIS, DSL, GSM/EDGE, V-chip, Wi-Fi and WiMAX. Wi-LAN has licensed its intellectual property to a growing number of companies around the world. For more information: www.wilan.com.
Certain statements in this release, other than statements of historical fact, may include forward-looking information that involves various risks and uncertainties. These may include, without limitation, statements based on current assumptions and expectations involving a number of risks and uncertainties related to all aspects of the wireless and wireline communications industry and the global economy. These risks and uncertainties include, but are not restricted to: the almost exclusive reliance of the Company on licensing its patent portfolio to generate revenues and cash flows; that the Company may be required to establish the enforceability of its patents in court to obtain material licensing revenues; that the Company will need to acquire or develop new patents to continue to grow its business; that the Company requires investment to translate its intellectual property position into sustainable profit in the market; that the Company is dependent on the performance of its key officers and employees; that changes in patent legislation or in the interpretation or application of patent litigation could materially adversely affect the Company; and that the Company has and may make acquisitions of products, technologies or businesses which could materially adversely affect the Company. These risks and uncertainties may cause actual results to differ from information contained herein, when estimates and assumptions have been used to measure and report results. There can be no assurance that such forward-looking statements will prove to be accurate. Actual results and future events could differ materially from those anticipated in such statements. These and all subsequent written and oral forward-looking statements are based on the estimates and opinions of management on the dates they are made and expressly qualified in their entirety by this notice. The Company assumes no obligation to update forward-looking statements should circumstances or management's estimates or opinions change.
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This tells us the revision code (0x0f) of the board, and from that, and the excellent work that Frank Carver has done compiling a list of what those revision codes mean, we can tell than my board is a Revision 2 Model B with; 512MB RAM, Ethernet, two USB sockets, five LEDs, mounting holes, Pin3=GPIO1, Pin5=GPIO2, Pin13=GPIO27, 12C-1, 8 extra IO pads (P5).
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Atlantic Salmon Spawning Again In River Lyvennet
December 8, 2014 by cumbrianwa	in Community Projects, Conservation Matters, Environmental education, Farming Matters, In Praise of ... and tagged alleviate flood risk, Atlantic Salmon Spawning In River Lyvennet, Cumbrian River Restoration Strategy, Eden Rivers Trust, Howe Beck, Maulds Meaburn, migrations in the natural world, redds, the Environment Agency
Fish watchers on the banks of the Lyvennet river, Maulds Meaburn may now see Atlantic Salmon.
Local children designed the information signs beside Maulds Meaburn's Salmon ladder at the Lyvennet Weir, and today's news release from The Environment Agency (8th December 2014) will be greeted with excitement by young and old in the Eden Valley, Cumbria.
These Lyvennet trout, now share their river with Atlantic Salmon again.
According to the release, over 20 Atlantic Salmon spawning sites or redds as they are known, were documented this week along the stretch of river that was improved by Eden Rivers Trust (ERT) earlier this year in a joint project to naturalise the course of the Lyvennet river.
This highly ambitious groundwork project restored straightened parts of the Lyvennet and Howe Beck back to a natural meandering state, for benefits to people and wildlife (See related article). The project is already reaping great success with over 20 salmon redds seen this week in the restored reach of the Lyvennet river at Maulds Meaburn.
The Atlantic Salmon had completed one of the most iconic migrations in the natural world, they travelled to the rich feeding grounds of Iceland and Greenland, before journeying some 3000 km home to the becks of their birth to become parents themselves!
The Lyvennet river channel was originally straightened for land management purposes and the increased energy in the river water leads to the river removing the smaller gravels necessary to support spawning. Furthermore, the lack of bends, associated scour and natural features, prevented the formation of vital pool and riffle habitats for a range of wildlife to thrive.
Reinstating the river back to its natural state has brought multiple benefits, including creating larger, diverse habitats for plants and animals to flourish. More natural, meandering rivers also help alleviate flood risk by slowing the flow of the river, and reducing bottle necks. This can delay both the height and timing of flood flows, benefiting communities downstream, without increasing flood risk upstream.
The Lyvennet scheme is part of a wider Cumbrian River Restoration Strategy that is tasked with restoring rivers back to a more natural condition, made possible by a partnership between the Environment Agency, Natural England and the Rivers Trusts across the county.
It is part of an ambitious package of significant restoration projects being delivered in the UK right now which all deliver improvements for ecology, habitat and local residents.
Charles Lowther, landowner at Barnskew and Meaburn Hall at Maulds Meaburn, said:
"Hopefully this scheme along with the other excellent work Eden Rivers Trust is doing will help reverse the trend of decline in spawning salmon in the river Eden.
"It has been amazing to see the river Lyvennet transformed in such a short space of time and to have evidence of spawning so soon after the restoration is fantastic news and confirmation that this improvement in habitat has measurable results. We, the community in the area, are very proud of what ERT have achieved and wish to thank them very much."
Simon Johnson, Director Eden Rivers Trust, said,
"The welcome return of spawning salmon to this section of restored river is wonderful news. Key to the success of the project has been the close co-operation and support we have received from farmers, landowners and partners.
However, we should remember that Eden salmon populations are in a state of decline. This project is part of ERT's Saving Eden Strategy which will help to conserve this iconic species for future generations".
Ben Bayliss, Environment Agency Programme Manager, said:
"It is fantastic news that following our river restoration project, already Atlantic Salmon have been recorded in the reach building redds.
However, while improving the river environment will help to improve salmon stocks, it is not enough on its own and we need to work together with anglers so we can review measures that would increase the number of salmon surviving to spawn."
In early 2015, ERT will be organising a community tour of the restored reach of the Lyvennet including an opportunity to plant riverside trees. See www.edenriverstrust.org.uk for future announcements!
Mysteries of Home Smoking Unveiled at Kendal Festival of Food 2014
April 1, 2014 by cumbrianwa	in In Praise of ..., Local food, Stepping Out, Training Events and tagged brining food, Kendal Festival of Food 2014, Sillfield Farm, Simply Smoking Food, Smoking Food AT Home With Smoky Jo, Smoky Jo, the art of home smoking, The Shakespeare Centre, Wild pork pies
Simply Smoking Food. Smoky Jo (right) and George (left) demonstrating the art of home smoking at Cumbria Food Festival 2014
On Sunday Kendal was looking very fine in bright sunshine and delicious aromas wafted about the many street stalls of Kendal Festival of Food 2014. We were some of the happy visitors who thronged the stalls after attending a presentation on food smoking by Smoky Jo in The Shakespeare Centre. It was our first time and in retrospect, I wish we'd gone on Saturday too because there was so much to see and taste.
What drew us was the food preparation demonstration but we stayed on to enjoy browsing the fantastic street stalls that offered an amazing range of tempting fare including biscuits, cheeses, breads and pastries, chocolates, fine coffee, preserves, pickles and meats.
It was great seeing people enjoying the warm sunshine and festival atmosphere.
My wife and I enjoy smoked food as a treat. The smoking process doesn't overpower the flavours of food, it translates and elevates them. While smoked bacon, ham, sausage and salmon were the gateway to smoked foods for me, beyond this portal awaits a whole culinary world of variety with plenty of options for vegetarians. I can't remember a time when I didn't like smoked food, but through Smoky Jo's presentation I gained a whole new appreciation of what goes into preparing good smoked food. It takes 10 hours to properly smoke 500 gms of a good hard cheese, like cheddar!
We learned this and more besides from Smoky Jo's demonstration at this year's Kendal Food Festival. In a short hour, Jo Hamson gave us a surprisingly comprehensive and entertaining taste of the art of food smoking, or should I say the alchemy, for it certainly feels like an experimental quest to develop the food that you personally like. Her enthusiasm is very infectious. She explained that there's great scope for preparing full meals such as briskets, salmon and trout, and snack foods and ingredients such as cheeses and nuts. After introducing the principles of hot and cold smoking and discussing the equipment with us, she set up a table-top hot smoker (a Cameron) and showed us a cold smoking box that prepares food at less than 25 degrees Celsius, ideal for cheeses. There was a handy video-feed to a large screen that showed what was happening on the counter top.
Jo with the eco-smoking box. Yes, surprisingly you can smoke food with this box and a cold smoker coil.
While in hot smoking, the food is both smoked and cooked through, in cold smoking the food is impregnated with smoky flavour but remains raw to be eaten as is (such as cheese or fruit), or later cooked conventionally such as your brisket. Jo explained that cold smoking produces stronger flavours that are retained in later oven or skillet cooking. She then explored the variety of foods that tend to smoke well, giving relevant details and tips on timing for the various delicacies. People smoke a very wide range of foods! They even smoke salt, flour and water for use in dishes. She discussed the ins and outs of brining food in preparation for smoking and the flavouring of the smoke and of the food itself. There are various stages in the preparations where you can happily experiment to fine-tune the results to suit your palate, the brine marinade phase is a good example, though not to be used with pre-processed meat.
Jo's presentation was very information-rich but not bewilderingly technical, and I found it full of surprises. There was some amusing repartee between Smoky Jo and Smoky George about certain experimental foods that they personally favoured. Smoked bananas! Smoked wine? Those who like it, like it well!
The proof of the pudding is in the eating, and the food samples were snapped up!
It was useful to hear the types of wood and other materials such as peat, tea, herbs and rice that can be used, and the types of fuel to avoid – no resinous or pithy woods are suitable and tea-bag tea is inferior to the leaf. The volumes required are quite modest, a handful of Oak dust served very well in the example of hot smoked salmon that Jo prepared before us. The salmon was brined.
After her presentation she and George laid out a selection of smoked food and invited the audience to come up and try it. It was delicious and went down well. We enjoyed their smoked olives, almonds, cashews, cheddar cheese, trout and salmon.
Jo convinced me that home food smoking is both within most people's capabilities and most people's means and that it is worth trying ourselves. We bought their book Smoking Food At Home With Smoky Jo to investigate further.
Jo and George run popular 1 day and weekend residential food smoking courses at Castlehowe, Cumbria and have won accolades in the media and featured on TV.
Shap Chippy serves their great smoked sausage, 'The Smoky Jo'.
There's lots of other great smoked food in Cumbria too of course, notably cheeses and trout and of course you don't have to smoke your own food to enjoy it.
I'm pleased to see that in Penrith, not far from the Alhambra Cinema, a new shop called Smoked In The Lakes, dedicated to smoked food has opened recently, my wife and I found their sandwiches to be superb. Their smoked cashews are out of this world too.
I'm very pleased to have seen Jo's presentation because it helped me understand the processes behind smoked food.
The food stalls were really nicely presented, this stall of Sarah Nelson's Gingerbread from Grasmere being a great example
After the presentation we were ready for some lunch. The food stalls were really impressive.
Peter Gott wrapping the best pork pie I have ever tasted. He farms rare breed pigs and wild boar at Sillfield farm, just 3 miles or so from Kendal.
I love good pies and when I saw these Wild Pork Pies for sale I just had to try one. It was a fantastic treat. That's my dream pastry to filling ratio there. The meat was delicious, perfectly seasoned and very succulent. Trade was brisk so there wasn't much time for a chat then and there, but I learned from the Sillfield Farm website that Peter Gott and his wife Christine are famous for their free-range farmed food. Chefs regularly visit their farm as part of their training. The Gotts have been farming at Sillfield Farm, Gatebeck, for 20 yrs , rear their wild boar on 16 acres of woodland and have gained a well-deserved reputation for excellence, having won awards and featured on TV as exemplars of fine, fresh free-range farm produce. When I said how much I enjoyed his pies he said "I'm glad you like them. As I tell the Chefs, nine tenths of good cheffing is good shopping and that relies on good rearing."
No wonder they visit Sillfield Farm to learn about that!
Savoury lean wild boar with lots of jelly, evenly dispersed, and lovely crisp golden crust from Sillfield Farm.
I found Kendal Festival of Food 2014 a very impressive event and thoroughly recommend it.
Treasures Of Cumbria – a new online cultural resource
February 11, 2014 by cumbrianwa	in Arts and Crafts, Conservation Matters, Digital matters, In Praise of ..., Local food, Local History, Localism, Photography and tagged Arts Council England, Crosby Garrett Helmet, Cumbria, Cumbria Museum Consortium, Enabling technologies, Lakeland Arts, Renaissance Major Grants Programme, Treasures of Cumbria, Tullie House and Art Gallery Trust, Tullie House Museum, Wordsworth Trust
What do you treasure in Cumbria? Treasures of Cumbria is a new online cultural resource launched in January 2014 by The Cumbria Museum Consortium. It is, in a sense, an extra-mural extension of the museums into cyber-space – a website serving as a public archive of the Cumbrian things, places, memories, people, songs, poetry, recipes and traditions that people think are special, worth sharing and preserving. Even the soundscapes, such as the sound of a water wheel turning at Little Salkeld Mill and interesting memories recounted, such as The Mysterious Fire of Morecambe Bay are treasures that people value and that deserve preservation. They have meaning and lasting value.
A classical example of a Cumbrian treasure preserved for the county on this system is the wonderful Roman cavalry sports helmet that was found recently at Crosby Garrett, and displayed at Tullie House before leaving Cumbria forever.
How many more treasures are out there to be revealed? This is going to be a very interesting and valuable resource.
The digital revolution enables people to enjoy and share the things that they value in multi-media format – images, text, video and audio recordings. Treasures of Cumbria is a remarkable project that harnesses the recent developments in consumer-level digital equipment and information technology in a highly accessible way. The content management system is free to use and accessible to people of all ages and walks of life. It is likely to be highly useful to communities that wish to celebrate their distinctive qualities. A key thing to remember is that we must respect Copyright law and not copy material from existing publications whose copyright has not expired. There is some guidance on that on the website. Contributors retain copyright for their contributions but allow CMC copyright for them too.
Tullie House Staff Introduce Treasures of Cumbria at Lyvennet Activity Group Lunch Club
Proof came that there's no age limit to the digital revolution on Thursday, February 6th, as staff from Carlisle's Tullie House Museum visited The Lyvennet Activity Group's Lunch Club (LAG) at The Butchers Arms Community Pub and explained the Treasures of Cumbria project after a nice sociable lunch. The staff demonstrated use of the website on their iPad tablets, and on lap-top computer equipment kindly provided to LAG by Cumbria Community Foundation's Health and Well-being Community Fund administered by Action For Communities in Cumbria (ACT).
Treasures of Cumbria website being introduced to members of The Lyvennet Activity Group at the Lunch Club at The Butchers Arms Crosby Ravensworth. Mary Ferguson and Maria Staff from Carlisle's Tullie House, Maria and Mary demonstrate use of the website on iPads.
The staff explained that we can use the system to celebrate the things that we treasure here and make them known to others by registering as a contributor and uploading photographs and information about each treasure.
As anyone who knows Cumbria knows very well – we do have a lot of treasures around here; the physical include those that are primarily natural, our fells, valleys, rivers, lakes, fields and forests, to things cultural: our glorious monuments ancient to modern, our many stone circles, castles, Churches and superb Cathedral and our traditions and memories.
The new website has been launched but will be subject to improvements over time as and when the need becomes apparent. The address is: http://www.treasuresofcumbria.org.uk/
To publish your treasures you need to register with the system, the process of registration is very easy.
Then you enter your profile information,
Click on the "Add a Treasure" button and upload your media and related information for the treasure.
An important feature on the site is the map that shows people where the treasures are in the County.
There are various ways you can browse for treasures. You can use the map to discover them or search by contributor or view the treasures in order of popularity and date added to the system.
Tullie House and Art Gallery Trust in Carlisle is the lead partner and accountable body for the partnership which includes Lakeland Arts in Kendal and Bowness and the Wordsworth Trust in Grasmere. This Consortium is funded by Arts Council England (www.artscouncil.org.uk) through their Renaissance Major Grants Programme.
The CMC partners own website addresses written out are: www.tulliehouse.org.uk , www.lakelandartstrust.org.uk and www.wordsworth.org.uk
To conclude I quote the important message from the new website that hopefully will encourage you to record your treasures large and small:
A treasure is something that's meaningful to you.
Circles in stone part II: Gamelands Circle near Orton.
January 30, 2014 by cumbrianwa	in Conservation Matters, Fell walking, In Praise of ..., Local food, Prehistoric Sites, Stone Circles and tagged Circles in stone, Gamelands Stone Circle, Neolithic sites, Orton, stone circles
One of Cumbria's largest stone circles and also one of the most accessible can be found just about a mile from Orton Village and is reached from a turn-off to the right on the road to Sunbiggin.
Gamelands Stone circle with the wild Howgills in the background.
Though there isn't much song and dance made of it, Gamelands is a whopper and well worth seeing. Over 100 ft in diameter and with 40 stones still remaining, most of the distinctive pink Shap granite, it is thought to be Neolithic in age, but mesolithic stone tools have been found in the area and Tom Clare's observation that this site was associated with a nearby spring would make the site strongly appealing to the hunter-gatherers. See Megalithic Portal for more information and photos of Gamelands.
All the stones are fallen, but some are still 1 meter tall in repose. The circle is overlooked by the Castle Folds settlement on the lovely limestone escarpment and though it is on the Coast-to-coast route this fine walking country attracts walkers for the many shorter walks too. The limestone pavement and sweeping views make walking in this area very rewarding.
Recently, local residents have gathered to express their view that the Orton Valley should remain free of wind turbines. Rory Stewart MP for Penrith and The Border, EDC Councillor and Tebay Parish Chair Adrian Todd and Orton Parish Chair have supported the conservation efforts (Read More Here)
The Orton area has much to recommend it, whether you are interested in walking in the fine countryside or shopping for nice local produce including super cheese, poultry, pork and beef, vegetables, baked goods and Kennedys Fine Chocolates, I think you'll agree it has a lot of charm.
The Orton Farmer's Market is held monthly on the second Saturday.
Orton Farmers Market is popular with residents and visitors.
Swallows and Amazons Forever! Keswick's Theatre By The Lake
January 11, 2014 by cumbrianwa	in In Praise of ..., Performing arts and tagged Keswicks' Theatre By The Lake, Swallows and Amazons Forever
We saw a superb production of Swallows and Amazons Forever at Keswicks' Theatre By The Lake yesterday evening. It was well cast and great fun for the whole family.
We loved the rendition of the story and the music :
the acting talent – all characters faithful to the original story and suitably vivacious
clever use of innovative props
the music and sound effects ( all but one produced live by the performers)
the scenery
the lighting effects (lake ripples very effective)
Brilliant use of stage space and innovative props and special effects lighting combined with great acting and musical talent made for a fantastic and memorable performance.
My nephews greatly enjoyed the ice cream in the interval and agreed that the charcoal burners were very nicely portrayed.
All round it is a high quality production and it was great to see it performed in the heart of Lakeland.
Great fun, definitely worth seeing!
Up Front Theatre Presents The Pied Piper Of Hamelin
December 23, 2013 by cumbrianwa	in In Praise of ..., Local food, Performing arts, Reviews and accounts, Stepping Out and tagged Rod and string puppets, The Pied Piper Of Hamelin, Unthank, Upfront Gallery
Magical performance of The Pied Piper of Hamelin at The Upfront Gallery Puppet Theatre
Yesterday we greatly enjoyed a family trip to see The Pied Piper Of Hamelin at The Upfront Gallery in Unthank, near Hutton-In-The-Forest. It's traditional to see a show at Christmas time and everything about this one in the new 128 seat theatre at The Upfront Gallery was very good. I was stunned by the high-end production value and I hardly saw any strings until the performance was over and there was a fun 'meet the puppets' session. The sets and puppets were fantastic and very vibrant – these were based closely on designs from Michael Morpurgo's book, the voicing was excellent and the music was delightfully evocative.
It's perfect for families. My nephews particularly loved the donkey and the dynamic action of the rats, which are very spritely and amusing! The Upfront performers were brilliant, I thought, I was surprised that just five of them emerged when they took their bows.
Very talented rod and string puppeteers of the Upfront Gallery in Unthank taking their bows.
If you enjoy charming entertainment I heartily recommend you to see this show while you can. All Tickets £8:00 Performances: Dec. 31st at 2pm only Dec. 24, 28, 29, 30 & 31st at 1pm & 3:30pm Jan. 2nd & 3rd at 1pm & 3:30pm
The art gallery is worth seeing too and the food in the cafe is delicious and very reasonably priced offering tasty tray bakes, snacks and full meals.
Call the Upfront Gallery, Coffee Shop and Puppet Theatre Enquiries Telephone number for booking or more info 017684 84538
Or see their website for more details http://www.up-front.com/puppet_theatre.html
Eden District Council's Chairman's Carol Service at St. Andrew's Church
December 17, 2013 by cumbrianwa	in Care Matters, Charity fund raising, In Praise of ... and tagged Eden Carers, St. Andrew's Church Penrith, The Eden District Council's Chairman's Carol Service, Ullswater Community College Choir
St. Andrew's Church, Penrith
The Eden District Council's Chairman's Carol Service this evening at St. Andrew's Church Penrith was led by Reverend David Sargent and held in Aid of Councillor John Thompson's chosen charity, Eden Carers, a valuable support organisation for the many people, of various ages and circumstances, young through to elderly who are caring for someone.
The beautiful Church was filled with people from the Eden Valley and beyond and the service celebrated the first Christmas as the coming of light in the context of its difficult and dangerous times and celebrated the fortitude and nobility of people who are caring. We thought the Vicar's prayers were very good.
There were fine readings by Councillors John Thompson and Gordon Nicholson and The High Sheriff of Cumbria, Mrs. Dianna Matthews, an amusing light reading from Julie Barrett, and the address was by The Bishop of Penrith, Rt Reverend Robert Freeman.
The music was excellent throughout with superb performances from Penrith's Band, songs by the Lazonby and Beaconside School Choirs and Ullswater Community College Choir and solo performances by Joan Gordon, Helen Southernwood and Emily Richardson.
It was a very uplifting service. The congregation and participants were served refreshments afterwards in St. Andrew's cafe.
Circles in stone part 1. The Cumbrian Sculpture Valley at High Head
November 21, 2013 by cumbrianwa	in Arts and Crafts, Holiday accommodation in Cumbria, In Praise of ..., Local food, Photography, Poetry and tagged ANA Wingspan in-flight magazine, Axe Sculpture, Brian Cowper, Christmas dinner, Featured, fine example of farm diversification, Good food, High Head Sculpture valley, stone circle, Sun dial, tearoom, William Wordsworth	| 2 Comments
High Head Sculpture Valley, much to discover
We have recently learned that though the Stone Circle will still be accessible after December 21st, you should endeavour to make your visit before December 21st because the visitors' centre and cafe will be closed after that. Call 016974 73552 to place your reservations for Christmas dinner.
The Sculptor's Hands, High Head Sundial by Brian Cowper
We found High Head Sculpture Valley to be a delightful sun trap with a distinctly wild feel to it. Ive beck runs through it, feeding the wetland section and providing home to Otters, Water rats, Kingfishers and other wildlife, the sculptures are situated amongst the abundant foliage, and open spaces linked by paths, bull-rushes, willows and other trees in a pleasant naturalistic integration. If you came upon the haunting vision of a faun with Pan-pipes beside the island stilt-house, it wouldn't seem entirely out of place. Sculptural works by Jonathan Stamper abound, be sure to bring your camera, denizens of this Eden include a glass snake and brilliant giant butterfly.
Certainly, if you enjoy sculpture, particularly of the outdoor variety, then consider making a visit to High Head, for there is much to see here for visitors of all ages, there's a children's narrative in sculpture and good play area for children with a charming hollow tree and swing set, so it is family friendly. It is worth taking time over the exploration. After exploring the sculptures you can then refresh yourselves with good farmhouse cooking and browse the artwork within. That is what we did.
The first sculpture greets you at the entrance and just beside the parking lot there are more, they feed down past the visitor centre with its gallery, cafe and Spa and into the wooded valley and beyond, after a short walk through pasture to the crest of a hill a handsome stone circle emerges within a grove of native deciduous trees. There is a sense of surprise and discovery about your encounters with these artworks, one moment you aren't aware of them, the next, they are in your world and you in theirs.
Here's a glorious iron butterfly. In the garden of Eden, baby …
I came to hear of High Head while researching prehistoric sites in Cumbria for an ANA Wingspan in-flight magazine article. In the course of visiting some of Cumbria's amazingly rich prehistoric heritage it struck me as clearly impossible to ask the Neolithic and Bronze Age sculptors why they were erecting stone circles where they did and what moved them to do it, so I was very keen to talk with the contemporary Prehistoric Artist, Brian Cowper about Cumbria's Stone Circles. He is in a better position than most to help us understand stone circle constructions because he has made a thorough study of them both here and abroad, and has been commissioned to design and build circles for both the public and private sectors.
Brian loves neolithic sites and they inspire much of his work, which is very good. Formerly a lecturer in sculpture at University College Of St Martin, Lancaster, Brian has a thorough grounding in shaping his medium, stone.
Axe sculpture by Brian Cowper
His Sun dial for High Head is sculpted of polished limestone and is the result of meticulous calculations and set up with strict observance to ensure that the sun shines through in just the right place at one specific time of two days, noon on the equinoxes. But don't wait until then to visit, because the interaction of these sculptures with their seasonal surroundings is worth seeing.
Brian has designed and erected a stone circle for the owners at High Head and was kind enough to show us this work and to lend us some good reading material to help my wife and I better understand Cumbria's prehistoric art and architecture.
The High Head Circle like many Cumbrian Stone Circles: Long Meg and her daughters, Knipe Scar, Iron Hill and Castlerigg are aligned to the mighty saddlebacked fell, Blencathra.
The High Head Circle is of red sandstone and has landscape and astronomical alignment. Like the Gamelands circle, near Orton, it is aligned to the rising of the Moon, but some stones have other, private, significance in their own right.
Brian was kind enough to discuss issues that had been puzzling us and clarify some common confusions. He says that one commonly held misconception is that they needed vast numbers of people to move and erect the stones. Yes, they were determined and their action was coordinated, but stone was their medium too.
We asked him why, in his opinion, early Britons had built these structures where they did and what they might have been for. Brian clarified from the outset that though Birkrigg, Castlerigg and other circles have been attributed to Druids, these structures have nothing whatsoever to do with them. These sites pre-date the Druidicism vilified by the Romans by thousands of years. He thinks that the structures and their sites are intimately linked with the surrounding landscape and cosmos, and that the sites are usually within view of significant landscape features and/or other sites. He drew our attention to the sense of surprise, discovery and succession that is characteristic of coming upon them and stressed that this was an intentional factor both in their siting and creation. Even when you are looking for them and have the best guidebook (Robert W.E. Farrah's A Guide To The Stone Circles Of Cumbria ), your realisation of their presence tends to be surprising. It's a true, deep seated, visceral reaction to them that William Wordsworth captured in his poem when Long Meg and her Daughters took him by surprise.
"A weight of awe not easy to be borne
Fell suddenly upon my spirit – cast,"
These ancient architects were concious of cardinal points and astronomical cycles and factored these orientations into their site construction in many cases. Not just within the construction of each site, one stone in relation to another, but also the site as a whole in relation to other sites and to key landscape features. The alignments of sites with each other have been well documented. Ley lines, such as the Belinus line have been plotted on maps, they don't just follow obvious transit routes such as the Lune and Lowther valley, but also traverse steep rises, fells and dales. Gamelands and Gaythorne monuments seem aligned with Appleby.
These days we have come to associate straight roads with the discipline of the Romans, but straight routes would have been very important to pedestrian hunter gatherers who would be very fit and would prefer to climb a steep slope directly, on all fours for stretches if need be, rather than zigzag to reduce the angle of ascent.
Brian feels certain that stone circles were civilization centres, important focal points around which all kinds of activities would take place including but not limited to barter trade in polished stone axes and other items, there would also likely have been social and religious rites, actions of law and of celebration, education and information exchange and magic, these sites would likely have been important for respite and healing, the scientific centres too. They were usually sited near water that would have enabled protracted stays. They were made to powerfully assist their hardy makers survive and prosper in their tough world.
This conforms to information we gleaned from a lecture by Archaeologist Tom Clare and his excellent book ( Prehistoric Monuments of The Lake District ) that the earliest circles don't seem to have been used for burials originally, that seems to have been a later bronze age introduction. Professor Clare stressed how little material has been found in excavations within stone circles. It seems that people didn't originally discard items and bodies within these sacred spaces.
Brian Cowper's stone circle at High Head seen here under feather cloud, represents a continuance of a Cumbrian tradition that spans 6 milennia and despite considerable archaeological study retains most of its mystery.
We returned to the visitors' centre for a pleasant lunch in their cafe. High Head' s Cafe serves a variety of freshly prepared light lunches and delicious home made cakes (ingredients locally sourced when possible). The staff are very amiable and there's a shop with a good range of art work, Made In Cumbria products and nice children's clothes. High Head also has two holiday cottages available for rent and a health spa. It's a fine example of farm diversification.
Friendly service and good food at High Head's tearoom
High Head Sculpture Valley has indoor and al fresco dining.
More stone circles to come in my next article.
High Head is open everyday except Wednesdays from November to December 21st 10.30 to 16.00
Call 016974 73552 for further information and see www.highheadsculpturevalley.co.uk
Roadside dining reaches new heights at The Bridge Bistro, Kirkby Thore
November 15, 2013 by cumbrianwa	in In Praise of ..., Local food and tagged A66 gateway to the Lake District, Eden Valley, Featured, Good food, good restaurants in Cumbria, Kirkby Thore, Roadside Dining, The Bridge Bistro
Light trails from trucks and cars blaze past The Bridge Bistro, one of Cumbria's most elegant dining and drinking venues.
Located on the A66 gateway to the Lake District near Penrith, stylish bistro café The Bridge sets a new benchmark in roadside cuisine by serving affordable foodie fare.
How many times have you passed through Kirkby Thore on Cumbria's A66 and have hardly been aware of the fact? We always knew Kirkby Thore was there of course, most of us have driven through it numerous times on the way to somewhere else. The road bends, signs are there and we slowed down for the place and passed on through rejoicing. It was that sort of place, but …. it is no longer unremarkable, far otherwise.
Elegant interior design. Calming, suave, warm and bright, our visit to The Bridge Bistro was uplifting.
Now a very elegant Bistro has put Kirkby Thore squarely on the map of really nice places to eat! It's called The Bridge Bistro, and not only is it beside the bridge, on the Penrith side, but it bridges worlds by elevating roadside dining to new heights.
Yes, after today's experience I'd even say that I think its worth detouring large distances for Kirkby Thore now, certainly planning an eating stop there for A66 travellers and here's why, first in a nutshell for those who are busy, but do read on for the full account if you can.
The nutshell version
A nice range of meals and drinks variously priced for different pockets
Great quality food
Substantial portions
Stylish and comfortable
Warm, friendly staff
Clean as a whistle
Long opening hours, at time of writing Mon – Thurs from 9 am to 10 pm, Fri – Sat 9 am to 11 pm, Sun 12pm – 6 pm.
Imagine that a husband and wife team decided to do a very good job of designing a stylish cafe cum bar cum restaurant (Bistro), using the best materials, with tasteful consideration of your comfort and aesthetic satisfaction in mind at every stage of the process, no expense spared by the looks of things and then went ahead and realised the dream. They then staffed it with nice people who want you to enjoy fresh food cooked well, and then they resisted the temptation to charge you the moon to eat there. That's exactly what happened. Matthew and Louise Reay have produced a really good restaurant. Matthew grew up in nearby Culgaith, worked in London for a number of years where he met Louise and the couple moved north in 2006 to start their family. As keen travellers, they felt there was a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced food available on the road. They have now filled that niche, and how!
Shapely bar and a warm welcome and fine eating await travellers on the A66 at The Bridge.
Louise Reay beside the hand painted silk wallpaper.
Hand-painted silk wallpapers, wood-panelling, bespoke lighting and a handmade bar shape the venue's contemporary, elegant setting, with a glazed, gable end lending a bright, welcoming feel.
The Bridge is owned by husband-and-wife team Matthew and Louise Reay.
Matt says "Eating out in Cumbria is fairly limited – there is either fine dining or the local pub. The Bridge offers an outstanding mid-range alternative in a unique dining environment and as our Trip Advisor reviews show, we're proving popular with locals and tourists alike. Having just been open for six months, we're honoured to be included in next year's Michelin guide."
When we eat out we want it to be worthwhile. Today's lunch was a fine experience from start to finish.
Great uplift! Freshly brewed coffee in refreshingly elegant surroundings at The Bridge Bistro
Goujons of Plaice in light. crispy tempura beer batter on a bed of French beans, peas and rocket, with chips, Tartar sauce and the best mushy peas that I've ever tasted!
Here's that dish viewed again from the side, because I want to share the visual appeal and I'm showing off my new camera. Today's special at The Bridge Bistro.
Yes, it was as good as it looks. My wife enjoyed the Mushroom Risotto very much.
The Bridge Bistro serve a rich Mushroom Risotto with light, crispy battered cauliflower florets for texture. Locally harvested forest mushrooms impart deep, complex flavour. Delicious!
The Bridge Bistro is full of light and beside the expansive front window I encountered the French Electronica band Kwoon, pausing en route to Glasgow as part of their European tour having played in London and Hull. Parisians know Bistro dining, it's in their blood and these guys declared their meal to be very good. Sandy Lavallart, the composer, pictured in striped top, declared that it exceeded his expectations of English food, especially from a roadside restaurant. Spot on! I must say the same. I wish them best of luck with their tour.
Parisian Electronica band Kwoon taking time out on their European tour.
During a quiet spell, we chatted with the Chef, Paul Mckinnon who uses local, fresh produce to create a varied menu, ranging from simple sandwiches in artisan bread to classic French and Italian dishes. Originally from Gateshead, Paul spent eight years working under Tyneside's Michelin-starred chef Terry Laybourne at his '21 Queen Street' restaurant in Newcastle and at Newcastle United FC.
There is a map theme running through the menus and decor that befits the roadside Bistro
Paul says "Freshness of the ingredients is really important in our menu. You're not eating things from plastic bags here. Take your Plaice for example, it came in on the boat last night, early this morning, and is cooked today. We'll be offering game soon, pigeon, widgeon, pheasants and grouse." Son of a gamekeeper, Paul is skilled in venery, knowing the proper preparation and cuts of game. He is training up local lads in the culinary arts and is pleased with their development so far. The A66 is a major, arterial thoroughfare, with motorists, bikers and truck drivers travelling to and from Scotland, Yorkshire and the northeast.
He says at The Bridge there's a fine balance in providing a variety of good quality food to suit people who need to eat quickly and be on with their journey and also in serving those who wish to linger and relish a protracted dining experience. He's passionate about his art and I feel sure that The Bridge will continue to successfully achieve that balance.
Chef, Paul McKinnon explaining how fresh, often locally, sourced ingredients are brought together for nourishing and tasty dishes. Apples and plums, forest mushrooms and fine meat as examples.
East Cumbria's Eden Valley offers a great deal for visitors including lovely landscapes, traditional towns, pretty villages, castles, stately homes, prehistoric heritage sites and nature reserves including Lowther Castle, Acorn Bank, Lakeland Bird of Prey Centre , Lacy's Caves and Appleby Golf Club. Now there is fine roadside dining on the A66!
Appleby Golf Club – impressive views of Pennine Fells and Eden Valley
The Bridge serves breakfast/brunch, lunch and dinner with a sizable kids' menu, pricing from £5-20 per person.
Check out the menus, correct at time of writing:
BFast & Kids sample Evening Sample Menu The Bridge Christmas 2013 Weekday Sample Menu
Opening times: Mon thru Thurs 10am–9pm; Fri – Sat 10am–11pm; Sun midday–6pm.
The Bridge, Kirkby Thore Bridge, Penrith, Cumbria CA10 1UZ
Tel: 01768 362766 / www.thebridgebistro.co.uk
Text and photos Charles Paxton of www.thewebcat.biz
The opinions expressed here are genuine and the author received no financial inducement to write this review.
Cumbria Community Messaging short-listed for Technology4Good Award – please vote for CCM
June 24, 2013 by cumbrianwa	in Community Projects, In Praise of ... and tagged Cumbria Community Messaging, Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association, prevent and detect crime in local communities, Technology4Good Award, the Peoples Award
Cumbria Community Messaging is getting the word out. Click above to register for safety alerts and other information
Please take a moment to vote for Cumbria Community Messaging, a very useful system that passes messages out quickly to people by their preferred means, rapidly informing us about criminal activity, fire prevention and consumer threats amongst other things. See message below from Dr. John Perkins:
Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association is a charitable organisation who work with Cumbria Police and their partners to help prevent and detect crime in local communities. They are the driving force behind Cumbria Community Messaging – the means by which you get those important community safety messages.
Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association has been short-listed for a prestigious national award for their work on that system. You can help boost their chances of getting an award by voting for the Peoples Award – click here and give them your e mail address; vote for Cumbria Community Messaging; and finally tell them that you heard about the award through Cumbria Community Messaging – it'll only take a minute of your time, but it will mean a world of difference to Cumbria Neighbourhood Watch Association and the volunteers who work hard on your behalf to make this system what it is today.
If you are a Tweeter, there are separate instructions regarding sending Tweets.
Voting closes at midnight on June 30th.
Dr John Perkins
Chair of CNWA


Also, needs to enable user registration via registration page, otherwise ldap user cannot login.
By default, newuser (All Users) group already has admin role added in, so ensure you remove it before allow ldap user login, otherwise all new users will be admin!
New YoutTrack project code must be added in TeamCity Tracking module, otherwise issue tab does not show in teamcity build dashboard.
The way YouTrack link to TeamCity is not by userid or name, instead it is by email address. It's strange our YouTrack can grab email from our ldap server, while TeamCity can't! This leaves the email field in user project empty in teamcity. When we try to use comments command, the error message was, user not found, no email specified for user (commiter).
Watch out, don't add .(dot) after fixed.
Newly created project doesn't have any team member in it, the result is when trying to assign a issue, error message just kept saying assignee expected.
Comparing to CC.net, there is no xml/xlst transaformation in teamcity, or I still haven't found how to do it yet. The NCover HTML report will be displayed in iframe of a tabpage.
TeamCity recommend using NUnit2 for NAnt users, I tried adding runtime redirect in test config file, no go, and I don't like this messy work around either.
So using exec task for NUnit, passing server message to teamcity as shown in NCover official doc for TeamCity integration.
This is an autogenerated index file (there was no index.html found in the generated report).
The coverage xml ouput is automatically included in artifact, watch out the hidden/show link.
The idea of this is to allow user open xml in NCover client, or do xlst transformation by their own?
In XML report processing plugin, there is no report type related to NCover.
Problem described as this post. We need to setup a CI for an external svn repository on teamcity server sitting behind the firewall.
On CC.net we have the svn Tortoise client installed so we can easily control proxy through TortoiseSVN settings->Network, Enable Proxy Server. But TeamCity has its own svn library, SVNKit, how to configure proxy then?
By default SVNKit uses proxy settings from the servers configuration file that is located in the default SVN run-time configuration area.
It's very confusing that teamcity use C:\Windows\system32\config\systemprofile\AppData\Roaming\Subversion as default config folder. For some reason this folder is set to system folder on our server, which caused a lot of trouble to us.
Switching to a regular folder, e.g., c:/tmp, even C:\Users\TCADMIN\AppData\Roaming\Subversion, when first time clicking test connection button, it will create three files in that folder: config, servers and README.
If VCS checkout mode is set to Automatically on Server, this is all we need. If VCS checkout mode is set to Automatically on Agent, watch out! The config folder will be created on agent machine, and another auto-generated servers file! We have to change this servers file again, and the proxy username is not for agent, it should be the one works on Server!


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Currently featured at #1 on the US App Store in 'Edit Your Photos', Mirrorly is the ultimate tool for photo effects, filters and overlays that turn your pictures into masterpieces!
Double your pictures with studio effects that mirror your photos!
Import images to the grid and reflect them vertically or horizontally across 2 or 4 axes!
Overlay your photos with smaller versions of the same picture!
Manipulate the shape of your Mirrorly pictures with masking tools!
Twist and stretch your images at any angle!
Add definition by applying borders to your pictures, including reflection lines!
Choose from a selection of different background colors to compliment your photos!
Share your Mirrorly creations with us on Instagram using the hashtags #mirrorly #mirrorlyapp!
Find us on Facebook and share your art with the rest of your friends!
We have created two new tiled pattern mask packs for you to enjoy.
Now you can flatten your current progress and start again in the one place. We have included a new tab button which will allow you to flatten your Mirrorly as if you had exported it and imported it fresh.
Now when you're done, you're finally done! you can restart after your finished or continue editing to create more Mirrorly #magic.
Now when you're done, you're finally done! You can restart after you're finished or continue editing to create more Mirrorly #magic.
We have fixed a few bugs including misalignment of Axis' border alignments with a few UI improvements.
We have a brand new home screen!
We redesigned the borders system with new border types including dotted and dashed, more width variations as well as new border layouts.
Now you can undo and redo your changes with the new states system!
Fixed the weird edge bug when using different aspect ratios with masks.
Fixed the random line down the centre axis when full scaled.
Fixed a bug where ads weren't being removed for some users.
Fixed a bug where users couldn't exit out of feedback.
Fixed a massive bug where users were having issues saving.
Fixed a bug where the app would unexpectedly close when scrolling through photos.
Introducing a few new masks and outline versions of some of your old favourites! We have also included a few new background colors. New background color system coming soon! We have been working hard to squashing those pesky bugs and making sure everything runs smoothly on iOS 10. We appreciate any feedback or concerns you may have.
10 new layouts and a new way to pick them.
New sharing process. We have created a more interactive sharing process.
Edit brightness, contrast and exposure of your Mirrorly.
More masks! We have added a few extra sneaky masks for you to enjoy.
We have always made some performance improvements and bug fixes to make things a little smoother.
Small bug fixes and improvements. We are constantly working hard to improve your Mirrorly experience and love hearing your feedback, if you can think of anything we could improve or something new to add, please let us know! We have been loving all of your Mirrorlys that you have shared, keep it up! #mirrorly #mirrorlyapp.
Sorry for the inconvenience to everybody! This release fixes the bug which caused a crash when scrolling through your photos to choose an image.
Added improvements to the image quality and resolution on output for all devices and aspect ratios.
You can now select from your photo albums when choosing a photo to edit.
The rotation slider stepping can now be continuos! You can do this by pressing and holding either the left or right arrows next to the rotation slider.
Fixed the canvas size issues for iPads in landscape.
And as always we have made a few UI Changes to better your Mirrorly experience and we have been working hard to squash those bugs!
The app now opens straight into the editor allowing you to create a Mirrorly straight away!
The new and improved image picker now presents full screen in iPad making it easier to choose an image.
We have compressed borders and backgrounds into a slide away view to free up your toolbox.
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We have added new aspect ratios! We have separated the borders colors from the backgrounds. And as always we have been working to improve the performance and stability.
Introducing two new features to Mirrorly! Double up mode – Double up mode allows you to overlay an exact copy of your Mirrorly creation to create an even more mirror magic! Shape Mode – You can switch the canvas shape between a variety of shapes. We will continuously improving and upgrading shapes so stay tuned! And as always, we've made some stability improvements and bug fixes.
Rotation can now be performed by a slider for extra precision.
You can now scale images from the entire screen rather then a single segment.
We have increased the total output resolution to 4096×4096. We love feedback whether it be good or bad so feel free to send it to us!
Just a few minor changes for our first update, we've added the ability to add a caption with your photo when you upload it to Facebook, so you can let everybody know about your Mirrorly creations! Keep your eyes open because we are working on a big update which will introduce some exciting new features to enhance your mirror magic.


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DANIEL BROMLEY was appointed to the Camden Fire Department as an extra man with Engine Company 1 on April 5, 1882. He replaced Solomon Clark. Daniel Bromley served for two years, then was replaced in turn by John Collins. Daniel Bromley was the first of three brothers to serve with the Camden Fire Department. He was followed by his brothers Joseph Bromley and Wilson Bromley.
Daniel Bromley was born in New Jersey in October of 1855 to Joseph Bromley and his wife Anna Eliza. Joseph Bromley supported his family working as a boilermaker. The family was living in Camden's South Ward by 1860. When the Census was taken there were four children at home, Joseph Jr., Wilson, Daniel, and Emma. The Bromley's were still in the South Ward in April of 1870, sadly, Emma had died, but another daughter, Elizabeth, had been born around 1862.
The 1878-1879 Camden City Directory shows Daniel Bromley living with his parents and brother Joseph Jr. at 639 Spruce Street in South Camden. Older brother Wilson had moved out and was living at 248 Pine Street. The 1879-1880 Directory shows Daniel Bromley living at 638 Division Street. Joseph Bromley is also listed, the directory, however, does not mention if it is the father or the son, however the 1880 Census indicates that both were living at the Division Street address..
Daniel Bromley married in late 1878 or early 1879. The June 1880 Census shows Daniel Bromley, his wife Emma, and their 10 month old son Charles living at 425 Walnut Street. Their next-door neighbors at 427 Walnut Street were the John Guthridge family, sons William Guthridge, Thomas Guthridge, and Richard Guthridge all worked in various government positions in the ensuing years.
The 1881-1882 Camden City Directory shows Daniel Bromley at 616 Division Street, and his parents at 638 Division Street. The 1883-1884 Directory shows Daniel Bromley at 636 Division Street and his parents at 638. Daniel Bromley worked at the John H. Dialogue shipyard in these years. The 1884-1885 Directory shows Daniel Bromley and his parents and brother Joseph at 571 Division Street. By the next year Daniel Bromley was living at 569 Division Street, next door to his parents at 571 Division Street.
The 1887-1888 and 1888-1889 Directories show Daniel Bromley at 518 Division Street. He was working as a laborer in 1887. The 1888-1889 edition gives his occupation as transfer clerk for the West Jersey Railroad. His parents had by this time moved to 827 South 6th Street.
The 1890-1891 Directory shows Daniel Bromley living at 507 Line Street. He was working with his father at the R.D. Wood Foundry. He was living at 620 Line Street in 1891 and at 642 Line Street in 1893.
The 1897 City Directory seems to indicate that Daniel Bromley and his wife may have parted ways. Daniel Bromley was working as a mail agent for the Pennsylvania Railroad and was living at 827 South 6th Street with his parents. Emma Bromley is listed at 405 Taylor Avenue as "widow of Daniel".
Daniel Bromley was still residing with his parents at 827 South 6th Street when the Census was taken in 1900 and still working as a mail agent. He moved to 1503 South 10th Street at some point after the Census, the home of his brother-in-law, Alvin Wilke.
On September 1, 1904 Daniel Bromley died at home. He was buried at Evergreen Cemetery.
Daniel Bromley was a member of the Fraternal Order of Eagles, the Camden Mutual Association, and of Sioux Tribe No. 25 of the Improved Order of Red Men. James P. Shinn and George Adam Tenner, who were appointed to the Camden Fire Department at the same time Daniel Bromley was, were also member of Sioux Tribe No. 25. George Reeser Prowell, in his History of Camden County, New Jersey, published in 1886, wrote the following about this organization:
Sioux Tribe, No. 25, was instituted in Wildey Hall, March 2:J, 1871, by Great Sachem John E. Cheeseman, with members of Sioux Tribe, Philadelphia, who presented them with a set of tomahawks, still in use. The officers were: .S., Silas Letchford; S. S., John A. Parker; J. S., John Fox ; C. of N., F. W. Wilson ; K. of W., David C. Vannote; Prophet, Theodore L. Parker. The Past Sachems are Silas Letchford, James Broughton, Aaron Hand, William T. Mears, William F. Mason, Samuel H. Deal, .Sr., .lohn H. Mason, W. E. Campbell, Charles H. Hagelman, Henry F. Snyder, George A. Tenner, Isaac King, Theodore L. I'arker, David B. Peterson, John B. Wright, William Hagelman, James Barton, Edward B. Chew, George W. Kleaver, J.P.R. Carney, James C. Mason, Edward A. Martin and .John Barrett. The officers for 1886 are: S., James G. Smith ; .S. S., Franklin H. Drake; J.S., Daniel England; P., J.P. R. Carney; C. of R.. John P. Wright; .Assistant C. of R., David B. Peterson. The tribe has a membership of two hundred and ninety-three, and a reserve fund of $455.76.
Philadelphia Inquirer * April 7, 1882
G. Rudolph Tenner
James McCracken
Daniel Bromley - John S. Kelly
Michael McCaffery
James H. Brown
Thomas McKenna
James Shinn - Smith Moore
William Irelan
John Hill - James Read
Robert Miller - William Marsh
George Moffett - John J. Logan
Isaac M. Shreve - Samuel Welsh
Lewis Ferrell - Logan Bates
Isaac Collings - Harry Miles
John W. Elliott - William Turner
Charles Holl - John J. Hibbs
John Seybold - James H. McCann
Edward Swope - William Suders
Philadelphia Inquirer * September 2, 1904
Annie Smith - Mechanic Street - Dr. A. Haines Lippincott - Daniel Bromley
South 10th Street - A.C. McCausland - David M. Chambers - Cooper Street
Benjamin Eppinger - Federal Street - North 12th Street
Camden Post-Telegram - May 8, 1905
...continued...
Camden Aerie No. 65, Fraternal Order of Eagles - Alfred Kemble - William Denneler - Conrad Brill Jr.
Charles Beale - Frank Burt - Dr. Philip W. Beale - Jacob Hess - Daniel W. Bromley - Frederick Johnson
William H. Cole - Harry B. Middleton - John S.B. Candler - Harry J. Weiss - Thomas J. Atkinson
Julius R. Schaff - Anthony Oberst - William F. Jann - William Petzelt - James F. Cleary - Frank Rouh
Frank S. Deveroux - George Blake
Camden Daily Courier
Camden Aerie No. 65, Fraternal Order of Eagles
Alfred Kemble
William Denneler
Conrad Brill Jr.
Frank Burt
Dr. Philip W. Beale
Jacob Hess
Daniel W. Bromley
Frederick Johnson
William H. Cole
Harry B. Middleton
John S.B. Candler
Harry J. Weiss - Thomas J. Atkinson
Julius R. Schaff - Anthony Oberst
William F. Jann - William Petzelt
James F. Cleary - Frank Rouh
Frank S. Deveroux
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It is the last concert of the last night of this year's installation of Jazzkaar. People stream into Vaba Lava concert hall and fill almost every seat – the excitement is high among the audience. Guitar legend John Scofield has assembled world famous instrumentalists Bill Stewart on drums and Vicente Archer on bass to form his Combo 66. After quickly tuning their strings Scofield counted in and the band started the concert with an uptempo swing tune. From the first tone onwards each player soloed intensively, traded eights and fours, as well as showed off their impressive skills. The intensely concentrated Archer provided fast walking bass lines and time-bending solo passages while Stewart shone through with his melodic and polyrhythmic style, as well as through one of his own tunes. Scofield contributed most melody and solo ideas; all presented in his very unique and celebrated way of playing the guitar. The many musicians and enthusiasts in the audience where left slack-jawed and nailed to their seats by the bands virtuosity.
The trio presented a multitude of Scofield's original tunes like Memorette, Green Tea, Travel John, and Chariots taken from his many albums. Moreover, they also presented interpretations of tunes like But Beautiful by Stan Getz and Bill Evans, and a composition titled F U Donald by drummer Stewart – apparently inspired by a current high-ranking US politician.
The audience appreciated the band and politely applauded after each tune and solo section. Nonetheless, the players seemed very concentrated and did not communicate much throughout the concert. Even Scofield himself did not have much to say in between songs. Even though the band performed at a high-energy level the audience seemed to somehow hold back a bit, only slowly warming up and increasing the duration and intensity of their applause and cheering. They nonetheless celebrated the evening and the band with a standing ovation after they had played their last tune New Waltzo from the 2018 self-titled release Combo 66.
After a minute the musicians came out once more to play a jazzy interpretation of George Jones' classic A Girl I Used To Know before this year's edition of Jazzkaar was officially over. It was not in all regards perfect, but worthwhile and inspiring concerts by some of jazz's biggest figures.
John Scofield Combo 66 (USA)
Sunday April 28, 2019 19:00 – Vaba Lava
John Scofield – guitar
Vicente Archer – bass
Bill Stewart – drums
See photos from the concert here.