Category: Uncategorized

Uncategorized1 Comment

Episodic and digressive bitter history

rrn69

BBC journalist and film maker, Nick Thorpe makes an evocative voyage through the Carpathian mountain range of Poland, Slovakia, Romania, and Ukraine, in a “dark ring” or “magnificent horseshoe” some 1500km long, with its threatened landscape, people, history and talks woodland management in the ancient forests of northern Romania, with an expert nicknamed Ion Barbu; “Beardy John” A landscape of great spruce and beech forests, grass meadows, and ancient villages, it’s people contend daily with the elements- as well as Europe’s last large carnivores. But this fragile ecosystem is now under threat, from climate change and illegal logging. The Silvi-culturist … Continue reading Episodic and digressive bitter history

UncategorizedLeave a comment

England lose first ODI

rrn69

First one-day international, Nagpur England 248 ao (47.4ov) Buttler 52, Bethell 51, Jadeja 3-26, Harshit 3-53. India 251-6 (38.4ov) Gill 87, Iyer 59, Mahmood 2-47 India won by four wickets, lead T20 series against India, Jos Buttler’s England  did not make use of a good start with the bat to be bowled out for 248. Opener Phil Salt who scored 26 from one Harshit Rana over, scoring 43 from 26 balls only to run-out which triggered a collapse of three wickets for two runs in eight balls from 71-0. Captain Buttler mustered 52 before miscuing, leaving Jacob Bethell to bat with … Continue reading England lose first ODI

Uncategorized1 Comment

Everyday heroism of one community

rrn69

Robert Seethaler’s characters are unassuming, resilient and witness to a world that seems to rage especially around them.  It is 1966, Robert Simon has just fulfilled his dream by taking over a Robert Simon, an ordinary man whose blue eyes “were the only handsome thing about him”, and who takes over a rundown café in “ one of the poorest and dirtiest” districts in bustling Vienna. He recruits a barmaid Mila, and soon the customers flock in. Factory workers, market traders, elderly ladies, a wrestler, a painter, an unemployed seamstress in search of a job, each bringing their own stories … Continue reading Everyday heroism of one community

UncategorizedLeave a comment

Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 People’s Choice winner

rrn69

Wildlife Photographer of the year 60 People’s Choice winner Ian Wood’s “No Access” fought off competition form 24 other images to emerge winner. Residents of St Leonards-on-Sea, on England’s south coast, had been leaving food out on the pavement to encourage foxes, but other urban wildlife had better idea. Ian noticed that badgers living near his house were coming out of forage, passing by a piece of badger graffiti as they did so. As a solitary badger made its way along the pavement glacing around the street, Ian clicked the picture at the right moment. His photo shows the badger, … Continue reading Wildlife Photographer of the Year 60 People’s Choice winner

Uncategorized1 Comment

Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.

rrn69

Why our universities, established as sanctuaries of truth and higher learning are broken and are failing a generation of young people. Consumed by funding and admission crisis, mired in political scandal and governed by self-interest, their founding principles have been corrupted. Matt Goodwin spent decades working as an academic in some of the world’s leading universities including professor of politics at the University of Kent, delivering underfunded courses to increasingly disengaged lecture theatres, sitting on rudderless committees, counselling depressed colleagues and concerned students, watching standards slip and academic integrity decline. He argues that diversity of opinion is under threat in … Continue reading Language and curriculum have to be decolonised to deliver diversity, equality and inclusion.

Uncategorized1 Comment

England collapse to biggest-ever T20 defeat as India wrap up 4-1 series win

rrn69

India 247/9 off 20 overs, Abhishek Sharma 135 off 54 balls, Shivam Dube 30 off 13, Tilak Varma 24 off 15, Brydon Carse 3-38, Mark Wood 2-32, Adil Rashid 1-41. England 97 ao off 10.3overs, Phil Salt 55 off 23, Jacob Bethell 10 off 7, Liam Livingstone 9 off 5, Abhishek Sharma 2-3, Mohammed Shami 3-25, Shivam Dune 2-11. India won by 150 runs , and won series 4-1. England lose series after Sharma’s stunning 135 England slumped to their heaviest-ever T20 defeat, as Abhishek Sharma’s chanceless, shocking 135 off 54 deliveries, hitting 13 of India’s 19 sixes, seven, in … Continue reading England collapse to biggest-ever T20 defeat as India wrap up 4-1 series win

Uncategorized1 Comment

Addictive focus on the wrong things for too long

rrn69

Journalist Chris Hayes explains why attention and experience which are essential components of being human are under threat. The speed, scale and scope of technological innovation in that past two or three decades mean that the quality of our daily life is being altered – and not for the better, as we are all caught up in it. The utopian early days of internet has given way to fear and loathing, and yet we cannot tear ourselves away from our screens. Even people who work in Silicon Valley insist that their children real actual books and play board games with … Continue reading Addictive focus on the wrong things for too long

Uncategorized1 Comment

Boom Test flight: New Concorde prototype breaks the sound barrier

rrn69

Boom, US company’s prototype aircraft XB-1, has broken the sound barrier as the supersonic-test flight breaks the sound barrier. The test opens the way first supersonic passenger jet since Concorde was retired in 2003. During the test the aircraft reached an altitude of 34, 000feet before accelerating to Mach 1.1 speed  (844mph) – 10 per cent faster than the speed of sound (744mph). Continue reading Boom Test flight: New Concorde prototype breaks the sound barrier

UncategorizedLeave a comment

Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

rrn69

Bill Gates’s trilogy of memoirs, including his first two decades of his life, from 1955 to the founding of Microsoft and its agreement to supply a version of the basic programming language to Apple Computer in 1977. Once a snotty brat whom everyone loved to hate, now grown up into a beloved elder statesman. Gates Foundation, focuses on unsexy but critical technologies such as malaria nets, “effective altruism”.  His early childhood in the suburbs of Seattle with a lawyer father and a schoolteacher mother. He was fascinated by his grandmother’s skill at card games around the family dining table. Eight-year-old Gates … Continue reading Transformation from a programming prodigy to budding tech mogul

Uncategorized1 Comment

Behind every mistake there is a great invention

rrn69

Pierre-Emmanuel Taittinger, head of family owned Taittinger Champagne, made a comment in an interview with Le Figaro newspaper by saying “ I love England, It’s a big market for bubbles. They love Champagne. They created Champagne because of a mistake. Benedictine monks were supplying with still wines from Champagne, red and white wine. The English left these inexpensive still white wines on the London docks and the wines got cold so they started undergoing a second fermentation causing them to become carbonated accidently. Like all great mistakes, it led a to great invention”.  As the English have a little crazy … Continue reading Behind every mistake there is a great invention