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Professor Sir John Curtice takes us through the data on the closest by-election since the second world war and local elections in England. Niki Savva joins us from Canberra with the latest on the Australian general election. Neha Mukherjee explains why the US wants the deal on Ukrainian minerals so much. Professor Richard Wyn Jones looks ahead to the Senedd 2026 election, and Councillor Calum Davies tells us why he thinks the Conservatives should embrace getting rid of the Senedd.Sandra Loy from Cardiff Journalism School and Alex Barros-Curtis MP review the papers.

Neil Manthorp is joined by the former England fast bowler Steve Harmison to look back at England's T20 series victory over the West Indies and discuss which players can make a case for the Champions Trophy in February next year. England Interim Head Coach Marcus Trescothick reflects on his time in charge of the white-ball side, and discusses his ambitions to be a Head Coach in the future. The former New Zealand international Frankie Mackay previews England's upcoming Test series in New Zealand, and reflects on her own record of becoming the leading run scorer for a single Domestic team in New Zealand in List A Cricket. And the Brisbane Courier Mail's Robert 'Crash' Craddock joins the show to look ahead to the start of the Border-Gavaskar Trophy in Australia this week. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

A shock week in the T20 World Cup with some giants exiting the T20 World Cup. We look at England's performances and touch on India and Australia while also looking towards the final and second semi final. We will be back next Friday but in the meantime our Instagram & TikTok is @noughtiechildpodcast and out Twitter/X is @00Child Podcast so drop us a follow to stay up to date!

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 5th ODI, Bristol: We got there. Five matches, five results. This one could have fallen either way, with both teams walking the tightrope of imminent rain. It was another contest that went wildly one way or another. Sometimes bowlers looked unplayable, other times they looked unusable. But a flurry of boundaries decided it before a flurry of sleet. That's our final word for the English season: next up, Season 17. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 4th ODI, Lord's: Series level. What a spectacle. Rain first, shortened to 39 overs a side, then one of the most bizarre matches you will ever see. Explosive hitting, supreme fast bowling, 2023 callbacks, 2019 callbacks, 2013 callbacks, and more besides. Jofra Archer, Marnus Labuschagne, Travis Head, Liam Livingstone, all had their moments, at a ground where Australian teams so rarely lose. It's 2-2 with one to play. Will Macpherson joins Geoff Lemon. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode, hosts Jordan Shannon and Kieran Powell dive into the potential return of Ben Stokes to England's ODI setup following Brendan McCullum's appointment. They discuss how crucial it is for the ECB to manage the Test captain's workload. The conversation then shifts to the current white-ball series between England and Australia, with Kieran providing insights on the balance between individual player game time and team strategies. The duo also looks ahead to Australia's Test series against India, speculating on who might open the batting. Jordan doesn't hold back his frustration with the timing of the England-Australia series, arguing it should be played in the summer rather than autumn. Meanwhile, Kieran gives a quick take on the CPL and wraps things up with a discussion on the exceptional form of Kamindu Mendis. Tune in for a lively chat packed with cricket insights and strong opinions! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 3rd ODI, Durham: We got a game! They said it would rain, but Chester-le-Street had sunshine in patches and we got most of the overs in. It was tough going against the local seamers early, but Steve Smith did his thing and Alex Carey saved the day again for Australia. Then it was over to England, where Will Jacks and Harry Brook had their own night out. Daniel Norcross joins Geoff Lemon. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 2nd ODI, Headingley: No, there was no Daily for the 1st ODI. Sometimes, even Can't Stop Won't Stop is defeated by a deadline. But we're back on the horse for the second match, with Cameron Ponsonby joining Geoff in Leeds. Last time Alex Carey came here, he got a very hostile reception. This time, he showed them what's what, from a disastrous position. Like the first match, a see-sawing day. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 3rd T20, Manchester: It was a washout in Manchester: colour us surprised. But does that mean we won't record a Final Word Daily? Hell no! We still have to decide who now holds the T20 Ashes, and we have plenty to talk about ahead of the ODI series with new England captains, weird squad substitutions, and some reanimated corpses stumbling towards 2027. Matt Roller joins Geoff Lemon from the Old Trafford scorer's box. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 2nd T20, Cardiff: Wales has not been a happy hunting ground for Australia, and it looked like that might change on a brisk night when Travis Head and Matt Short again got flying. The contest didn't end there though, with a returning Brydon Carse having a say before the influence of Liam Livingstone, Jacob Bethell, and a truly mad finish. Matt Roller joins Geoff Lemon. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

The 2024 England Australia Daily, 1st T20, Southampton: Travis Head has been on a different planet for the last year. When he's not pinging golden ducks, he's pinging record fifties and tons. So it was on a cold night in Southampton where other than Travioli, leg-spinners ruled. Matt Roller joins Geoff Lemon. Support the show with a Nerd Pledge at patreon.com/thefinalword Check out Westfield London and Stratford City. Download the app: westfield.com/united-kingdom/app Geoff's wardrobe by Seadragon Studio: seadragonstudio.com Get all our links, including tickets to live shows: LINKTREE.com/thefinalword Find previous episodes at finalwordcricket.com Title track by Urthboy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Following an action-packed weekend of international rugby, Alex Payne catches up with Mike Tindall, Jon “Fox” Davies, and Shane Horgan to analyse the weekend's events. Season 4 is sponsored by Continental Tyres

Cricket was spread by England through its Colonies. But it needed stars like WG Grace to make it popular enough to become a spectator sport. The England-Australia rivalry led to the Ashes Trophy and containing Aussie star, Don Bradman, led to the infamous Bodyline series between the two sides.

A Cumbrian lad that loved his Rugby League and everything that came with it. He became a father figure before his time at home but soon made a new family with Barrow. He spent time both in England & Australia playing and formed many friendships. He come home and began coaching having spells with clubs such as Widnes, Wigan and Leeds while also gaining international honours coaching with England, France, Serbia & Great Britain.

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主播：梅莉 | Wendi 歌曲 ： My Day*更多节目配乐，请在“网易云音乐”搜索“一席英语-老外来了歌单”。今天，我们聊一个跟“吃饭”相关的话题——White People's Food（白人饭）。1. “白人饭”是什么？最近网上很火的“白人饭”主要是指spiceless（口味清淡的），American-style lunch（美式午餐），比如说veggies and dips（蔬菜和蘸酱），crackers（饼干），sandwiches，最重要的特点是一般这些饭都是cold meals that require little to no cooking（几乎不需要烹饪的冷餐）。• spiceless adj.无香料的• veggies n. 蔬菜比如说，raw carrots wrapped in cheese slices（用奶酪片裹着生的胡萝卜），sandwiches with just one ingredient（只有一种食材的三明治），或者只有一袋lettuce（生菜）。• ingredient /ɪnˈɡri:diənt/ n. 原料白人饭有3个条件：(1) a lack of spices 没有调味料(2) minimal preparation 不用怎么准备(3) typically consumed during work or school 一般是上班或者上学时候的午饭白人饭在中国变得so popular的起因很巧合：当初是有一个中国人在瑞士的火车上看到一个外国人吃午饭，她的午饭非常简单，it consists solely of a bag of lettuce and slices of ham（就只有一袋生菜和几片火腿），她觉得很震惊，就posted a video（拍了视频），并发到了网上，然后中国的网友们也被震惊到了，就把这种非常简单的午饭叫做“白人饭”：。2. 中国网友对“白人饭”有什么看法？中餐一般都比较重口味，所以很多的中国人are not really liking it。有人把“白人饭”戏称为“受苦餐”（lunch of suffering）。也有网友说，这种饭没有任何的调味料，it's too bland（太清淡了）。还有网友说， the food is “not of enjoyment”（吃起来享受不到吃饭的乐趣）。小红书上还有网友发问，“if such a meal is to extend life, what is the meaning of life?”（如果我要靠这种食物来维持生命，那我活着的意义是什么？）。但是呢，萝卜青菜各有所爱，有的人还挺喜欢这个白人饭的，他们觉得这种spiceless food比较清淡，很健康，很有营养，因为大多数食材都是蔬菜。有些在节食的朋友就会比较喜欢白人饭，因为它其实是一种low-carbon diet（低碳饮食）。• low-carbon /ˈkɑ:rbən/ adj. 低碳（的）3. 质疑白人饭，理解白人饭很多中国网友也因为这种白人饭easy to prepare and saves time（准备起来很省事），所以对白人饭从质疑变成了理解。中餐一般都需要很多ingredients（调味料），而且步骤比较多，it's very elaborate（很复杂）。那和中餐比起来，准备这种白人饭就省了很多时间。• elaborate /ɪˈlæbərət/ adj.复杂的在今天这种996工作制下，很多年轻人回到家已经没有精力去准备一道非常elaborate的中餐了，所以反而觉得这种白人饭很适合这种快节奏的生活，白人饭 is a good solution。4. 世界各地的饮食差异像在France, Spain, Italy这些国家，他们有着really deep food cultures（很深厚的饮食文化），所以，there are more elaborate meals（他们会做更精致的饭），people like to eat good food。哪怕是salads and sandwiches，也是可以more elaborate，it just really depends on what you are putting inside（就看你往里面加什么了）。比如说在意大利，they have really good mozzarella, burrata（他们有很好的马苏里拉奶酪和布拉塔奶酪），一般放在沙拉上，simple but tasty（简单而又不失美味）。像the United States, England和Australia这些国家，there is no deep food culture。比如说在美国，可能很多美味的食物来自Japanese restaurants or Italian restaurants。在英国的话，it is also all restaurants from other countries（有来自世界各地的饭馆）。澳大利亚is known for their barbecues（烧烤比较闻名），但是，the food is just not elaborate enough（食物并没有很精致）。梅莉去了很多国家，是“世界公民”，在中国和西方都住过一段时间。在梅莉看来，中餐和西餐的区别是：There is so much diversity, flavors and textures in the Chinese cuisine.中餐有很多品种、风味和口感都很丰富。The street food（路边小吃）是一个中国饮食特色。而且，因为中国幅员辽阔，天南海北的食物都有，from the spicy delights of Sichuan to the seafood-centric meals of coastal areas（从四川的辣味到沿海地区的海鲜大餐），这些都很好地体现着the diversity in Chinese food。• texture /ˈtekstʃər/ n. 口感• centric /ˈsentrɪk/ adj. 中心的，中央的当然，在西方，there is also amazing food. Europe has very diverse culinary cultures as well（欧洲也有非常多样化的美食文化）。• culinary /ˈkʌlɪneri/ adj. 厨房的，烹饪的你对“白人饭”有什么想法呢？欢迎大家在评论区分享。

Join James and Zac as they discuss the might of India and the closely fought game between Australia and New Zealand. They also give their views on England's performances so far... Become a CERTIFIED CRICKET NERD MEMBER - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGF1vvb71ANwrETMdS7N-Yg/join Join our Cricket Fantasy Draft! - http://thecricketdraft.com/world-cup/leagues/join/0838dcc4add0 Our Socials: https://linktr.ee/thecricketnerds Let us know your thoughts in our subreddit! https://www.reddit.com/r/TheCricketNerds

In this Cricket World Cup 2023 preview, we delve into India's major contenders: Australia, South Africa, and England. As India gears up for the ultimate cricketing showdown, these cricket powerhouses pose formidable challenges. 00:00 - Introduction 2:47 - England 15:14 - Australia 28:41 - South Africa 39:19 - Rest of the Challengers Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

At the IBSA World Blind Games in Birmingham blind and partially sighted women from England Australia and India came together to compete on the cricket pitch for the first time. After a week of matches against each other on Saturday 26 August 2023 the final of the IBSA World Blind Games 2023 Women's Blind Cricket final was held at Edgbaston between Australia and India with a win for India. RNIB Connect Radio's Toby Davey was pitch side and caught up with Deepika T C captain of the Indian Women's Team just after the medal ceremony.  Image shows Toby interviewing Deepika T C  with her gold medal on the pitch at Edgbaston

Former All White Fred de Jong joins Martin Devlin on It's Only Sport to recap the second semifinal at the FIFA women's World Cup between Australia and England in Sydney. England prevailed 3-1 scoring two decisive goals in the final 20 minutes of the match. Fred and Marty discuss key aspects of the game, the superior play of England that showed through, and more.

Brendan and Rebecca recap the exhilarating finish that sealed Spain's trip to the World Cup final — and sing the praises of the team's breakout star, 19-year-old Salma Paralluelo. Then, Brendan pens a love letter to Australia as he and Rebecca look ahead to the other semifinal matchup. Plus: a reflection on how this World Cup is contributing to a sea change for women's sports. ‘After the Whistle with Brendan Hunt and Rebecca Lowe' is presented by State Farm®

Brendan and Rebecca catch up on the Lionesses's cheeky quarterfinal win, the Matildas' epic penalty-shootout victory, and the England-Australia matchup that awaits. Then, former New Zealand prime minister Jacinda Ardern joins Brendan in person in Auckland to talk about bringing the World Cup Down Under, and to explain the intense Australia-New Zealand sporting rivalry. ‘After the Whistle with Brendan Hunt and Rebecca Lowe' is presented by State Farm®

Khawaja and Warner hit form just at the right/wrong time. We give reasons why England/Australia will win this test. Hosted by Andy Zaltzman and Chris SkinnerHear more from The Bugle family at https://thebuglepodcast.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

An incident during an England-Australia cricket match this week has spilled into the geopolitical sphere as prime ministers, Rishi Sunak and Anthony Albanese, both issued pointed statements toward each other. Andrew Mueller explains why it's such big news for all those who might find themselves stumped.   See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's the shortest day in NZ here today but in England… Australia will be embarking on the longest night on the sauce after, quite simply one of the greatest if not the greatest Tests ever… most certainly one of Australia's best Test Victories. Today we pull back the curtain and dissect this incredible Test Match If you enjoyed this or any other episodes, please share, rate and review  It really helps the Podcast grow, we can't appreciate you enough! If you want to support the Podcast or you just want some extra content, check out our Patreon at patreon.com/maximumcricket for the following; - Extra Podcasts and Content - Live Q and As - Access to Discord channel Thank You! Hosts - Matt Hunter (Munter), Simon Cromarty (Lugsy) & Jackson Latham (Jacko) Socials - ⁠⁠https://linktr.ee/maximumcricket⁠⁠ Email - ⁠⁠maximumcricket21@gmail.com⁠⁠ Logo - Created by ⁠⁠https://www.instagram.com/joy_creations_nz

B-Buck joins the crew again as they talk about foods we eat when we're high. Our favorite celebrity crushes. Ways to not cry when cutting onions.Buck thinks all celebrities are from England/Australia and so much more.

Join me as I cover the two 'Ashes' sides during their upcoming World Cup T20 journey in England's home away from home, Australia. These two will be the sides to beat as they both have a bit of a home side advantage with England in Australia during every other Ashes campaign...should be an exciting series! --- Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/aziz-hasan/support

On this episode of The Score, we're speaking with Kylie Day and Sarah Thorneycroft, leaders in the field of design and implementation of online examinations. Kylie Day is the manager of exams and e-assessments at University of New England, in Australia, and Sarah Thorneycroft is the director of digital education at UNE. Due to the length of our discussion, these interviews cover two episodes of “The Score” – episodes 9 and 10. Episode 9Kylie Day (07:06):… if we put our effort towards the student's feelings and attitudes and decisions before the exam ever starts. So, in the same way as a community safety program or a community health program, you would do population-wide communications to talk about the risks involved, expected behavior, alternatives to risky behavior. In the same way that the highway patrol police are not expected to catch every single person who might speed, they have a presence and that serves a purpose to make it risky, to dissuade people from speeding.Kylie Day (07:49):But that's not the only thing that one would do if you wanted to reduce say the road toll or the incidents of people breaking the road rules, you would expect to have a community safety program and narrative happening along with that. And when we catch people who might be cheating it's not a good outcome for them, it's not a good outcome for us as an institution.Kylie Day (10:05):… we see flexibility and easy flexibility as a key factor in letting students manage their own pressures in ways that allows them to succeed and not have to cheat to do that.Sarah Thorneycroft (10:17):That changes the cost benefit analysis.Kylie Day (10:20):So, we work with online exam proctoring service where our exams live in our learning management system, but we have highly skilled and trained supervisors who can... They have a view of the students' screen. They can use software to lock down that student's computer in ways that we ask them to, and they can also watch the student.Kylie Day (12:01):And that's the first thing that our faculty said when we started having conversations about flexibility, flexibility is an F word, if I can be cheeky. Students will cheat, and so that's when we talk about design. The assessment needs to be designed in the mode or in the context of the mode that it's held. It should not be that we are just doing paper exams on a web page, it's a whole second order change.Kylie Day (12:31):So, the design features might include using a question bank. So you would have just enough. I get a different question one to you. It's still the same topic, same degree of difficulty. But if I say, "Hey, what did you put on question one?" That kind of collaboration will be disrupted because we get different question ones.Sarah Thorneycroft (15:12):This is where it's really useful to help people make comparisons between the paper examination paradigm in which somebody is watching them, and often in more embodied ways of walking up and down and patrolling the physical room that people are located in. But we've also discovered, because online the proctor and student relationship is one to one, whereas in an exam hall it's one to many. Yes, that proctor is watching because that's the cultural condition for examinations that we've agreed on regardless of where they're held.Sarah Thorneycroft (15:49):But the proctor can actually also provide support in situ, which can be both technical support or general encouragement. And we've had a lot of comments come through student evaluation that actually talk about how helpful and supportive the proctor was. So that's one of the key reasons that we focus on human invigilation, not AI only invigilation, because of that personalized element and the ability to also provide benefits, not just stress and monitoring.Kathryn Baron (22:57):Do you have online practice exams to help students as well? I thought I had read that.Kylie Day (23:05):We do, and that's one of our favorite things. We call it a try it out exam. And you have to book it, it's supervised. You have to follow the rules, but it's got questions like, Hey, did you know this is where you can see the countdown clock on your screen?Kylie Day (23:24):Or a question that suggests that you change the batteries in your wireless mouse or keyboard before your exam and do all your windows updates. It's instructional around, how do I have a good time in my online exam? It has a thing on draw us a graph, which you can do, showing the correlation between the amount of caffeine that you consume compared to the amount of assignments you have due. So it's intentionally lighthearted, but it allows a student to work out what buttons do I have to push? How does this thing work out? What does it feel like? What does it look like? What do I need to do in my own space to conform to exam conditions? And will my computer actually sustain the technical requirements and the bandwidth that I need?Kylie Day (30:31):What rings in my head a lot is the phrase demonstration beats explanation. So just starting with people who wanted to come and play really and making sure that went really well. Those people then become champions. You can publicize details and say, "You know what? We can talk all we like, but we tried it and this is what happened." And having evidence to show people.Kathryn Baron (32:44):What are the concrete steps that these other universities can take?Kylie Day (32:48):One of the pieces of advice I give to people at other universities is that they should not consider it to be an IT project, nor should it be seen as a admin logistics project. That those pieces are really important, but the structure of the team I think is one of the reasons for our success in doing it.Sarah Thorneycroft (33:10):Yeah, I think I tend to frustrate my sector colleagues who hope that there might be a nice recipe of concrete steps and you just follow the steps and then it works, and it's all good. And they come and talk to us and we are like, "Oh actually it's a cultural change piece." -

On this episode of The Score, we're speaking with Kylie Day and Sarah Thorneycroft, leaders in the field of design and implementation of online examinations. Kylie Day is the manager of exams and e-assessments at University of New England, in Australia, and Sarah Thorneycroft is the director of digital education at UNE. Due to the length of our discussion, these interviews cover two episodes of “The Score” – episodes 9 and 10. Episode 10Kylie Day (03:58):… we do have a central team and that's been a feature at Australian universities for a long time. But what we've seen at other universities in Australia lately is that's being distributed back out to academic areas. And I think I would say that's a loss because I think it requires professional expertise to run what is probably the largest event a university will hold, high stress, high stakes, high numbers of people, really, really quite important. And to pull that expertise in terms of how do I wrangle 10,000 people without making them cry, to be a little bit cynical, but that's a skill. How do I communicate with people to achieve compliance with lots of different rules? How do I get people to actually do what they need to do so that everything coincides nicely for everyone and everyone has a good experience and how do I manage academic integrity issues well? I think distributing that out to academics who already have plenty to do it might not be their area of expertise, but to outsource that to them as well. I think you lose something there.Kylie Day (07:43):COVID helped us because we were at about 25% online exams before COVID, in the before times. And then we had a very rapid shift to 100% of all exams had to be held online with a 24-hour window in the online proctoring. So that really helped tear the bandaid off. And I think it helped people just take that step that they might not have been keen on doing. What we, my team put a lot of effort into was to make it really safe for them and massive amounts of support for students and for staff, so that nothing was too hard and that nothing went badly. And that's why we put effort into being on call till 1:00 AM so that there were no stories from students about how they were just left at midnight with no one to help them. And I think that really helped. And when we did have people who wanted to be a bit innovative, we went out of our way to support that. And so those then became the stories, the good examples that we could say, Hey, your colleague tried this and here are the metrics where we can see that student success increased. Students are happier. Students have more agency over all the demands on themselves. So they're much more settled and more engaged. And just supporting that in a really safe way with a lot of support. The whole flexibility piece did take a lot of time for people to get their heads around. And I think that exams exist as a cultural archetype, that they're hard, they're tricky, they're secret, they're tough. You have to turn up or else, all this stuff that people have embedded in their brains about exams. Helping people realize that the way exams have been managed in the past is not necessarily the way exams should be managed and really calling into question every assumption that people have consciously or unconsciously about assessment and exams and flexibility and students. So it really has been a long change piece.Sarah Thorneycroft (10:45):Access too is key for students that don't have to engage in geographical travel to get to locations. That can sometimes be a real barrier for our demographic. So being able to access online in your own home makes a real difference for a lot of students.Kylie Day (11:02):We had a student early on who actually rang crying tears of happiness and no one rings, right, to say what a wonderful exam they've just had, right? It's a occupational hazard in our line of work that you only ever hear from people who have a bad time, but this student rang early on in the project when she really realized that the flexibility that she could have. She rang, crying tears of happiness to thank us to say that she had a spinal injury, which meant she was in chronic pain. Traveling was really hard and would make her really unwell with pain. And that she asked for a comfortable chair, but our idea of comfortable chair was not the same as her idea. And we couldn't provide what she needed in the exam venue. When she realized that she could do, she had three exams in two days and she physically was not going to be able to do that at an exam center, which meant that she wasn't going to finish her degree, which meant that she wasn't going to be able to get that job that she had lined up, this dream job. Once she realized that she could actually choose the timing of her three exams and sit one on a weekend, sitting in her lounge chair, which was much better for her and lay down if she needed to, she realized that she could access those exams. She could finish her degree. She was going to get that dream job that she'd lined up and that moved her to tears and probably moved us to tears a bit too when she rang to tell us that. So exams are an institutional barrier. Traditional exams are an institutional barrier to accessibility.Kylie Day (13:13):Certainly easier to get those metrics in an online assessment mode rather than paper. From my perspective, we do a survey after every exam period to say, how was it? Which bits were good, which bits were bad? Why did you like it? Why didn't you like it? What impact did it have? And we also get various other pieces of feedback. And what we know is that students really appreciate being able to choose a time that suits them. They don't like having to sit in an exam hall with 300 other people, sniffling and tapping and wobbling their desks. They don't like having to travel, but I think Sarah can speak on the kind of metrics that you could get that would influence design.Sarah Thorneycroft (13:58):So in terms of designing our approach, getting metrics around when students choose to have their exams is really useful, because you can actually see the uptake of flexibility and understand when you make this available to students, how are they making use of it? And thus, to what extent you want to make sure you're designing your assessments to maximize that capacity. And some of the other metrics, I know that some of the ones that we use a lot are around things like the test taker experience. So this isn't necessarily about the design of assessment. A lot of the most effective actions you can take for assessment design are the things that don't look like assessment design. Metrics around the test taker experience in terms of satisfaction, technical issues, academic integrity issues, the incidents of actual confirmed breaches and that kind of thing.(section skip) When you're talking about an academic or you probably use the term professor, who's talking to a student who had a bad experience in the exam, that's really easy to understand as oh actually online exams are bad, but understanding that out of 10,000 exams, 85 to 90% of students are having a really positive experienceSarah Thorneycroft (18:26):The intangible costs are an important part of the conversation. In terms of dollars for instance, it's reasonably more expensive than our learning management system, just as an example. But the key thing is because human individualization, human proctoring is a key part of our strategy. It's not a platform cost it's people, it's people cost. So I think it's important to contextualize that way is that it's not a really expensive piece of technology. It's actually a part of a whole ecosystem and it's paying for the human experience. -

Originally from Brazil, Karen Santos was an undergraduate biology student when she volunteered for an intern project working with beekeepers and palynologists (who specialise in the study of pollen) to examine the diet of honey bees on the Brazilian savannah in 2012. This triggered a fascination with bees and led to further research, particularly in the different aspects of pollen ecology. In 2019, Karen moved to Australia to continue her research as a PhD candidate at the University of New England; her main interests involve understanding the diverse effects of large crops on native vegetation, together with the behaviour and efficiency of pollinators within these crops. She presented an intriguing paper at the 4 th Australian Bee Congress in April of this year and is our very special guest on episode 102 of the Bees with Ben podcast. Karen says it was exciting to be able to return to conferences after Covid lock downs; she normally attends more ecology-based forums, and the Bee Congress provided an opportunity to learn about different research and to chat with a variety of people, including beekeepers. She explains that she had zero knowledge about bees when she embarked on that first project in 2012. This involved analysing pollen grains collected in pollen traps amongst colonies of Africanised honey bees to determine what sort of resources they were collecting in a given area. Although people were telling her that the bees were ‘crazy' or ‘killers', Karen had nothing to compare them to at the time. She does acknowledge that precautions had to be taken to ensure the bees did not become agitated - such as avoiding noise or wearing perfume - and that Australian honey bees have a far more mild- mannered disposition and tend simply to ‘mind their own business'. Karen's presentation at the Congress concerned the diet of bees in almond orchards and was based upon data collected in Victoria. The results were surprising, as although almond pollen is extremely attractive to honey bees (it is a good source of protein), the bees nevertheless also seek out and collect complimentary resources, even at the height of the flowering season. Results varied significantly between hives, but the lowest proportion of almond pollen encountered was around 62%. Karen is currently working on other crops including blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and apples, and was lucky to finish her PhD data collection just prior to the onset of Covid restrictions - particularly since she was working with blueberries at Coffs Harbour, which is now the subject of a varroa mite incursion. However, plans to visit apple farms in Queensland had to be abandoned in 2020 and again in 2021 due to border lockdowns. Eventually, Karen is hoping to conduct a fieldtrip to gather data on the pollen flow between apple cultivars. Like some almonds and blueberries, apples also require cross pollination, and growers often interplant two or three cultivars in the same area. Fluorescent pollen dye is used to track the movement of bees via UV light, which Karen says can create quite a beautiful scene at night.

Matthew Hyland is CEO at Ultra Commerce.  In this episode, Matt talks about growing up in England, relocating to Australia, business, career, family, ecommerce, leadership, and so much more.

The 2021/22 Ashes series is continues in Sydney. The fourth test looks set to be affected by rain, with 43 overs bowled on day 1. Australia started well but England's bowlers came back to end the day fairly even. Ross and Max are joined by former Sussex and Notts batter Chris Nash to discuss what play there was, and inevitably continue the talk about England's red ball set up! We are pleased to announce that our 4th test recaps are sponsored by Serious Cricket (https://seriouscricket.co.uk/)! And viewers can get a 10% discount on cricket equipment from their website: seriouscricket.co.uk - use the code TCP10

Former Australian fast bowler Geoff Lawson chats to Jason Pine about some of his favourite memories of playing England in the Ashes. He played 46 tests in the 1980s, taking 180 wickets. 21 of those tests were against England, in which he claimed 97 wickets.

Test cricket's oldest rivalry resumes in Brisbane today when Australia and England lock horns on day one of the Ashes series. The home side are holders and hot favourites to win the five-test series, which has already had its share of drama before the first ball is bowled. Australian captain Tim Paine is missing after admitting his role in a "sexting" scandal - while England will have to cope without veteran paceman Jimmy Anderson, who suffered an 11th-hour injury. BBC cricket journalist Henry Moeran is following the tour around Australia. He spoke to Susie Ferguson.

Test cricket's oldest rivalry resumes in Brisbane today when Australia and England lock horns on day one of the Ashes series. The home side are holders and hot favourites to win the five-test series, which has already had its share of drama before the first ball is bowled. Australian captain Tim Paine is missing after admitting his role in a "sexting" scandal - while England will have to cope without veteran paceman Jimmy Anderson, who suffered an 11th-hour injury. BBC cricket journalist Henry Moeran is following the tour around Australia. He spoke to Susie Ferguson.

Today Rich and Rob breakdown the England V Australia T20 match at the T20 cricket world cup review.England smashed Australia thanks to great up front bowling and power hitting from Jos Butler.South Africa left it late in a close contest against Sri Lanka thanks to David Miller's big 6 hitting in the final overPakistan have done it again this time against a resolute Afghanistan team. A great advert for sub continent cricket both teams fought hard but once again Asif Ali carried his team home scoring 4 sixes in the final over.

Survival with an asymmetrical brain: Advantages and disadvantages of cerebral lateralization, Development and function of lateralization in the avian brain, A right antenna for social behavior in honeybees, and A function for the bicameral mind Prof. Lesley Rogers is emeritus professor at the University of New England in Australia. She is a Fellow of the Australian Academy of Science and has made significant contributions to the understanding of brain development and behavior, especially the lateralization of the brain in non-human animals. --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/scientificsense/message

GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 8th of November 2020 The news headlines: RSGB preps reply to 2nd EMF consultation Convention: Learn More About… stream on YouTube ARRL opposes new $50 licence fee The RSGB is currently working on detailed comments and suggested amendments to the second Ofcom EMF consultation. The Society is also preparing guidance to help all UK radio amateurs to assess compliance and keep the necessary records. Go to https://rsgb.org/emf and click on the link for the latest update. The keynote lecture and the presentations from the ‘Learn more about’ stream at the RSGB’s 2020 Convention Online are now on the Society’s YouTube channel. Catch up on what you missed or watch again. You can find them on www.youtube.com/theRSGB. US amateurs have been exempt from application fees for several years. The ARRL will file comments in firm opposition to an FCC proposal to impose a $50 fee on amateur radio licence and application fees. Under the proposal, amateur radio licensees would pay a $50 fee for each amateur radio application. This would apply for new licenses, licence renewals, upgrades to existing licences, and to vanity callsign requests. The ARRL is encouraging members to file comments that stress amateur radio’s contributions to the country and communities. For more information, go to http://www.arrl.org/news. The RSGB is taking part in December YOTA Month but the Covid-19 restrictions will make the event very different this year. If you are a parent with a newly-licensed youngster in your family, you can apply to host the callsign GB20YOTA safely from your own home. You must be a Full Licence holder to apply for the callsign. You can book an appointment slot within a set calendar shown on the GB20YOTA QRZ.com page. To register your interest, or to reserve an operating slot, contact RSGB YOTA Month Coordinator Jamie, M0SDV via email to yota.month@rsgb.org.uk. If you are on the lookout for interesting lectures, then a talk given to South Dublin Radio Club could be for you. Joe Ryan, EI7GY gave a presentation on the radio experiments by Colonel Dennis, EI2B, from 1898 to the late 1930s. Find out more at https://southdublinradioclub.weebly.com. The RSGB has made available the video of the Introduction to GNU Radio talk by Heather Lomond, M0HMO, which is one of Society's Tonight @ 8 Webinars. It joins all the previous Tonight@8 talks and the RSGB Convention Online talks, so there are many hours of interest for all radio amateurs. Go to www.youtube.com/theRSGB for all the videos. The RSGB National Radio Centre 80m net continues to run Monday to Friday at 10.30 am around 3.727MHz. All NRC volunteers are welcome to join the net and they actively encourage other amateurs to call in as part of the RSGB’s Get on the air to care campaign. If you haven’t got an 80m station, why not listen in using one of the many webSDR sites? Now the special event news Thurrock Acorns Amateur Radio Club will be running GB2REM on Sunday the 8th and Wednesday the 11th of November for Remembrance Day. The club will be focusing on keeping the station active on these two days but may be heard from Saturday the 7th until Thursday the 12th. More details at https://taarc.co.uk. Larry, G4HLN will be active as GB4CKS until the 14th of November. The station marks the 85th anniversary of the death of Australian record-setting aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith. He disappeared on the 8th of November 1935 off the coast of Myanmar, then known as Burma, whilst trying to break the England-Australia speed record. Larry will operate CW and some SSB on 40 to 10m. QSL via G4HLN, direct or via the bureau. Special event station 4X0RMN will be active on the 13th and 14th of November from Ramon Crater, Israel's largest national park. QSL via 4X6ZM, Logbook of The World and eQSL. Now the DX news Remo, HB9SHD plans to be active as 8Q7RM from Kandolhu Island, IOTA reference AS-013, until the 29th of November. Activity will be holiday style on various HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via HB9SHD. Robert, S53R plans to continue working in his spare time as T6AA in the Afghan capital city of Kabul, until mid-December. Giorgio, IU5HWS has been stationed in Iraq with the Italian Army since September and expects to remain there until around the 20th of January. The Iraqi Amateur Radio Society has authorised him to operate as YI9/IU5HWS until his requested callsign of YI9WS is granted by the National Communications and Media Commission. Now the contest news Please remember to check before the contest for new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your own national and local government’s advice first and foremost. This weekend, the Marconi CW contest ends its 24-hour run at 1400UTC today, the 8th. Using the 144MHz band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Tuesday the 432MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 1955UTC. It is followed by the all-mode 432MHz UK Activity Contest from 2000 to 2230UTC. The exchange is the same for both: signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the Autumn Series runs from 2000 to 2130UTC using SSB on the 3.5MHz band. The exchange is signal report and serial number. Thursday sees the 50MHz UK Activity Contest taking place from 2000 to 2230UTC. Using all modes, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Saturday the 14th, the Club Calls contest runs from 2000 to 2300UTC. Using SSB and CW on the 1.8MHz band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and your club information. Next weekend, the WAE DX RTTY contest runs from 0000UTC on the 14th to 2359UTC on the 15th. Using the 3.5 to 28MHz contest bands, the exchange is signal report and serial number. On Sunday the 15th, the UK Microwave group’s Low Band contest runs from 1000 to 1400UTC. Using the 1.3 to 3.4GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Friday the 6th of November. Sunspots are a bit like buses. You wait forever and three come along at once! Last week we had active regions 2778 and 2779, which pushed the solar flux index up to 88. This week we have sunspot region 2781, which is a monster. At the time of writing, this region had pushed the SFI to 88 again, but it has been active in terms of solar flares. These have been minor C-class events, so not too much to worry about. The good news is that geomagnetic conditions have been very settled over the past week, with the Kp index running between zero and two. This no doubt helped ionospheric propagation. There was some good DX reported over the past seven days. TX0T, the DXpedition to Tatakoto Atoll, OC-298, in French Polynesia, has been worked by several stations in the UK. The Far East has also been workable, especially on FT8, where Indonesia, China and Japan have all been spotted. Next week, NOAA predicts the SFI will be in the range 72-76. The good news is that geomagnetic conditions are predicted to be quiet with a maximum Kp index of two. We may get some radio blackouts or sudden ionospheric disturbances as a result of M- or C-class solar flares from active region 2781, but these are difficult to predict. Radio blackouts occur when the strong, sudden burst of X-rays from a solar flare hits the Earth's atmosphere, blocking high-frequency radio signals in the D-region of the ionosphere. NOAA puts the probability of an R1/R2 radio blackout at 15%, and an R3 radio blackout at just 5%. Overall then, it looks like a good week for HF propagation. And now the VHF and up propagation news. There was a brief return of Tropo at the end of the last week. The first of this autumn’s opportunities was complete with fog below the inversion layer. Unfortunately, the related high and its Tropo is not due to last and indeed will have probably moved away during the weekend. It does, though, show the capability of a good temperature inversion with foggy air trapped below it to produce good Tropo. The last vestiges of it are now clearing away across the northern North Sea, but may still be just worth exploring for the 48th Marconi Memorial VHF CW Contest on Sunday. During the weekend, the weather pattern changes to a more unsettled type, which remains dominant through the coming week. This will bring GHz band rain scatter, but also some strong winds at times. As we approach the Leonids meteor shower on the 17th we also have a smaller shower, the Northern Taurids, peaking this Thursday, so meteor scatter conditions should be above average. It is also worth the occasional check for Sporadic-E on FT8 on 10m and 6m. The Moon’s declination is high but starting to fall, going negative on Thursday, so Moon visibility windows will shorten. The Moon is at perigee next Saturday so path losses are low. 144MHz sky noise is low for most of the week. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 1st of November 2020 The news headlines: GNU Radio on Tonight@8 Introduction to presentations go online Yahoo Groups closes soon The next Tonight@8 is this Monday, the 2nd of November. Heather Lomond, M0HMO will give a beginners’ introduction to using GNU Radio to create simple amateur radio projects. Starting from the beginning, Heather will introduce the GNU Radio programming environment, develop a little of the theory needed to understand SDRs, and then go on to use some simple GNU Radio blocks to build a receiver based on one of the super-cheap SDRs. Finally, she will show how to build more complex radio systems and where to go to take things to the next level. Do encourage people to listen to this webinar, particularly if they are a new or returning licensee. More information is on our website at www.rsgb.org/webinars. The individual presentations from the “Introduction to…” stream at the RSGB Convention Online that took place on the 10th of October are now available to watch. You can catch up on ones you missed or take the opportunity to see again the ones you enjoyed most. Find them at www.youtube.com/theRSGB. Just a reminder for listeners who use or who have subscribed to a Yahoo group. On the 15th of December, groups.yahoo.com, or Yahoo Groups, and its list service will shut down. Many amateurs are still using Yahoo groups and not groups.io. If you want more information, go to https://help.yahoo.com/kb/groups/SLN35505.html. The RSGB sometimes receives complaints regarding incidences of deliberate jamming and foul or inappropriate language on the air and is trying to quantify the size of the problem. A Freedom of Information request to Ofcom showed only three identifiable reports submitted between the 1st of January 2015 and the 31st of December 2019. The RSGB would like to hear from radio amateurs who have reported similar problems directly to Ofcom, not the RSGB, during this period, and after following the Operating Advisory Service’s advice. For further information, including how to submit your reports to the Society, please see the RSGB website via tinyurl.com/rsgb-oas-reports. Results of the IRTS 80 metre Counties Contest held on 6th October have now been published. Band conditions were good for this contest, which kept local and overseas stations busy for the hour. 35 logs were submitted, showing participation from 22 EI and GI counties, as well as 12 overseas DXCC entities. See www.irts.ie/results for full details. The RSGB will once again be participating in the annual YOTA Month activities in December. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will not be encouraging large group events and all participants should remain within national and local guidelines. GB20YOTA is available for Full licence holders to book an appointment slot within a set calendar shown on the GB20YOTA QRZ.com page. All operations should be focused with the intention to get young people on the air. To register your interest, or to reserve an operating slot, contact Jamie, M0SDV, via email to yota.month@rsgb.org.uk. The proceedings from the 19th of September RSGB Board meeting are now online. Of particular note is that media and public interest in amateur radio continues, RSGB Membership numbers are still rising and examination numbers are still buoyant with an increasing number of candidates progressing to the next licence level. See https://tinyurl.com/gb2rs-board. Now the special event news Members of the HCDX Group will be active as HD1X from a remaining tropical rainforest in Ecuador, grid reference FI09IV. Active until the 3rd of November at 1700UTC they will use various HF bands including 30, 17 and 12m, using SSB, SSTV and FT4/FT8. Larry, G4HLN will be active as GB4CKS between the 1st and the 14th of November. He will operate CW and some SSB on 40 to 10m, marking the 85th anniversary of the death of Australian record-setting aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who disappeared on the 8th of November 1935 off the coast of Myanmar, then known as Burma, whilst trying to break the England-Australia speed record. QSL via G4HLN, direct or via the bureau. Pittsburgh radio station KDKA will celebrate 100 years of radio broadcasting in November, and Pennsylvania radio amateurs will run a multi-station special event. Special event stations K3K, K3D, K3A and W8XK will set up and operate at several locations in Pennsylvania during November. Stations will determine their own modes and schedules. Visit the W8XK profile on QRZ.com for information on certificates and QSLs. Now the DX news Remo, HB9SHD plans to be active as 8Q7RM from Kandolhu Island, IOTA reference AS-013, from the 2nd to the 29th of November. Activity will be holiday style on various HF bands using CW, SSB and digital modes. QSL via HB9SHD. Bob, W0YBS will be active as V31CO from Cay Caulker in Belize until the 13th of November. Activity will be on the 80 to 10m bands including 30, 17 and 12m, using CW, SSB, FT8 and RTTY. QSL via W0YBS and Logbook of The World. Robert, S53R plans to remain in the Afghan capital city working in his spare time as T6AA until mid-December. Now the contest news Please remember to check before the contest for new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your own national and local government’s advice first and foremost, especially in the instance of local lockdowns. The UK EI Contest Club DX Contest ends its 24-hour run at 1200UTC today, the 1st of November. This is SSB only and also has a 12-hour option. UK and EI area codes are multipliers for DX stations and all QSOs made by UK or EI stations between the hours of 0100 and 0500UTC are worth double points. For the rules and other information, follow the links from www.ukeicc.com. On Monday the Autumn Series contest runs from 2000 to 2130UTC. It’s data only on the 3.5MHz band, with the exchange being signal report and serial number. On Tuesday the 144MHz FM Activity Contest runs from 1900 to 1955UTC. It is followed by the all-mode 144MHz UK Activity Contest from 2000 to 2230UTC. The exchange is the same for both, signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the UK EI Contest Club contest runs from 2000 to 2100UTC. Using the 3.5MHz band only, the exchange is your 6-character locator square. Next weekend, the Marconi CW contest runs from 1400UTC on the 7th to 1400UTC on the 8th. Using the 144MHz band, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Friday the 30th of October. Last week saw more evidence that Solar Cycle 25 is definitely underway. Large sunspot group 2778 caused the solar flux index to rise to 82. And it then got even better when it was joined by active region 2779, which pushed the SFI up further to 88 on Thursday. This is the first time we’ve seen the SFI in the 80s for some time and a clear indication that things are changing for the better. Both regions were responsible for B and C-class solar flares, but nothing that impacted the ionosphere too much. In addition to the sunspots, we did have the lingering effects of a high-speed solar wind stream from a coronal hole, which saw the Kp index rise to four across the weekend. This corresponded with the SSB leg of the CQWW contest and did have an adverse impact on propagation. The elevated Kp index continued until late in the week and was still at three on Thursday, preventing the ionosphere from completely recovering. Nevertheless, Propquest.co.uk shows that over a 3,000km path maximum usable frequencies often exceeded 24 and were even 28MHz at times. Ten metre FT8 proved popular with the eastern states of the USA, Mexico, South America, Cuba, Malawi, Kenya, South Africa, as well as India, Malaysia and Papua New Guinea all of these being logged on Thursday. As for next week, the STEREO ahead spacecraft shows a couple of sunspots returning to the Earth-facing solar disk. Regions 2775 and 2777 are coming back, but it is difficult to know how active they will be. So as we enter November, NOAA predicts the SFI will be roughly 74-75 with quite calm geomagnetic conditions. The Kp index is predicted to be two by Monday, which bodes well for HF. With the seasonal improvement in ionospheric conditions, a quiet geomagnetic field and possible sunspot activity, the next seven days could be quite good for HF propagation. And now the VHF and up propagation news. We ended the previous week with very unsettled conditions bringing rain and strong winds at times. This pattern will continue into the first half of next week, so once again we expect GHz bands rain scatter to be on the propagation guest list. There is a suggestion that a ridge of high pressure will move into Scotland midweek, gradually extending its influence southwards to make Tropo a consideration. That said, the ridge may get overwhelmed by returning low-pressure next weekend. Recent unsettled weather, which is usually driven by strong jet streams, would be perfect for summer Sporadic-E, and it's worth saying that even out of the traditional Sporadic-E season, FT8 may bring the occasional surprise. Definitely worth a periodic check on 10m and up. The Moon’s declination is still rising, reaching maximum late on Thursday, so Moon visibility windows continue to be long. The Moon is just past apogee so path losses are still high. 144MHz sky noise peaks at 500K on Wednesday. Continue to keep an eye out for low-VHF auroral propagation and remember, we are just over two weeks from the peak of the big Leonids meteor shower. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

GB2RS NEWS Sunday the 25th of October 2020 The news headlines: Back to GMT today New Zealand loses 5MHz New RSGB Convention talks on YouTube Don’t forget, in the UK, the clocks went back one hour at 2 am today Sunday the 25th of October. We will then we back to Greenwich Mean Time, or UTC until the clocks change again in March 2021. The New Zealand national amateur society NZART reports that, unfortunately, the New Zealand Defence Force has advised they are not willing to approve another renewal of their 5MHz trial allocation and licence. As a result, all use by New Zealand amateurs of the two trial frequencies, 5353 and 5362kHz, cease from midnight on Saturday the 24th of October 2020. Although the trial is over, NZART will continue to work with the regulator to see if there are other ways of providing New Zealand amateurs with access to 5MHz frequencies. The individual presentations from the Introduction To... stream at the successful RSGB 2020 Convention Online are now available on the Society’s YouTube channel. You can catch up on ones you missed, or take the opportunity to watch again the ones you enjoyed most. The keynote presentation and the individual talks in the Learn More About… stream will be released next week. Find them at www.youtube.com/theRSGB. The German town of Bad Bentheim is taking nominations for the Golden Antenna Award. For 50 years, the town has hosted German-Dutch Amateur Radio Days, during which the town stresses the importance of amateur radio as a public service. A committee headed by the mayor of Bad Bentheim will choose the winner. The recipient will be invited to receive the award on the 28th of August 2021. They would favour candidates who did something special related to the Covid-19 pandemic, but other candidates are welcome. Send nominations via email to juerriens@stadt-badbentheim.de. The new IARU Monitoring Service Region 1 Coordinator Gaspar, EA6AMM has appointed Peter, HB9CET, as Vice-Coordinator. Both have been working together in IARUMS for more than a year. More on the work of the Monitoring Service can be found at www.iaru-r1.org. The RSGB will once again be participating in the annual YOTA Month activities in December. Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we will not be encouraging large group events. We do hope that smaller groups will be able to participate in the event, whilst remaining within national and local guidelines. GB20YOTA will be available for Full licence holders to book an appointment slot within a set calendar. This calendar will be available on the GB20YOTA QRZ.com page for you to choose when you want to operate. All operations should be focused with the intention to get young people on the air. To register your interest, or to reserve an operating slot, contact Jamie, M0SDV, via email to yota.month@rsgb.org.uk. Now the special event news As a tribute to Eddie Van Halen passing on the 6th of October, PA5150EVH will be on air from the 28th of October until at least the 31st of January. It will be operated by Van Halen fan Frank, PF1SCT. URE San Fernando, EA7URF, is participating in the official celebrations for the 500th anniversary of the first circumnavigation of the Earth. AM500ETS will be active from the 31st of October to the 8th of November. During fighting around Ypres in WWI, much of Sanctuary Wood, Hill 62, Armagh Wood and Mount Sorrel was taken at the expense of many casualties. The Great Reconstruction in the Westhoek is commemorated during November with the callsign OP20FENIKS. The station is located in the immediate vicinity of the memorial of Hill 62, and will be on HF and VHF using SSB, CW and some data modes. Full details are on QRZ.com Larry, G4HLN will be active as GB4CKS between the 1st and the 14th of November. He will operate CW and some SSB on 40 to 10m, marking the 85th anniversary of the death of Australian record-setting aviator Sir Charles Kingsford Smith, who disappeared on the 8th of November 1935 off the coast of Myanmar, then known as Burma, whilst trying to break the England-Australia speed record. QSL via G4HLN, direct or via the bureau. Now the DX news Cezar, VE3LYC will be active as TX0T from one of the new IOTAs in French Polynesia, Tatakoto Atoll, OC-298, between the 29th of October and the 5th of November. He will be primarily on 40, 30, 20 and 17 metres CW and SSB. QSL via Club Log’s OQRS, or via VE3LYC. Now the contest news Please remember to check before the contest for new rules due to lockdown and social distancing, which may differ around the world. The RSGB strongly advises obeying your own national and local government’s advice first and foremost, especially in the instance of local lockdowns. The CQWW DX SSB contest ends its 48 hour runs at 2359 today, the 25th. It’s SSB-only on the 1.8 to 28MHz contest bands. The exchange is signal report and Zone, which is 14 for the UK. On Tuesday the SHF UK Activity Contest takes place between 1830 and 2130UTC. Using all modes on the 2.3 to 10GHz bands, the exchange is signal report, serial number and locator. On Wednesday the UK EI Contest Club 80m contest runs from 2000 to 2130UTC. Using CW only, the exchange is your 6 digit locator. On Thursday the 80m Autumn Series runs from 2000 to 2130UTC. Using SSB only, the exchange is signal report and serial number. The UK EI Contest Club DX Contest takes place for 24 hours beginning at 1200UTC on Saturday the 31st of October. This is SSB only and also has a 12-hour option. UK and EI area codes are multipliers for DX stations and all QSOs made by UK or EI stations between the hours of 0100 and 0500UTC are worth double points. For the rules and other information, follow the links from www.ukeicc.com. Now the radio propagation report, compiled by G0KYA, G3YLA and G4BAO on Friday the 23rd of October. The last week was dominated by sunspot region 2776, which pushed the solar flux index to 75. Geomagnetically, it was a mixed bag though, with the Kp index peaking at four on Wednesday, but otherwise being relatively quiet and showing zero on Tuesday. The sunspots, plus the October seasonal enhancement, meant that the HF bands were quite active. There were reports of Australia being worked from the UK on 10m FT8. Alek VK6APK was worked at 0920UTC by Tony, G4HZW. Mario, FR4QT on Reunion Island was also worked on 28.380MHz SSB by Gary, G0FWX, according to the 10m UK Net Facebook group. If you like 10 metre operation the group is definitely worth signing up to. These 10-metre contacts bode well for the future and we look forward to other reports of VK/ZL as the solar cycle progresses. Next week, NOAA predicts the solar flux index will be the range 72-74. Sunspot region 2776 will have almost rotated off the visible disk by the time this report is published and there are no other spots at the moment. However, it does look like we are in for a disturbed weekend with poor geomagnetic conditions. This is due to a large polar coronal hole on the solar surface that has returned after a 27-day rotation and which could cause the Kp index to rise to five. The solar wind will likely increase in speed and density, resulting in an adverse effect on the ionosphere after a potential pre-auroral enhancement. Expect maximum usable frequencies to decline and conditions to be poor this weekend. Do look out for potential 10 metre auroral contacts though. And now the VHF and up propagation news. We are about to enter a phase of very disturbed weather with a series of deep lows dominating the charts, especially in the nearby Atlantic. Their influence will bring strong winds and periods of heavy rain or showers. At long range it’s pointless to try to time such events precisely, but nonetheless the general characteristics suggest that Tropo will again be a rare feature in the coming week other than transient weak ridges between successive fronts or lows. On the upside, rain scatter could do rather well for the GHz bands. The Moon’s declination is rising and goes positive on Thursday so Moon visibility windows will lengthen. The Moon reaches apogee on Friday where path losses are at maximum. 144MHz sky noise is low all week. With the Kp index set to rise to five thanks to the returning coronal hole, it might be worth keeping an eye out for low-VHF auroral propagation again. There are no significant meteor showers this week but get ready for the Leonids, peaking on 16th and 17th of November. And that’s all from the propagation team this week.

This episode starts as it often does, with This Week In Cricket, where we congratulate the Trinbago Knight Riders on their unbeaten season, talk more turmoil in the ranks at Cricket South Africa, the value of a TV deal in Australia and the England/Australia limited-overs series. In the second half of the podcast (22.40), we turn our attention to another Cricketing Mt Rushmore, as we debate the best four Pakistan bowlers of all time. There's still time to join our IPL Fantasy League - use the link below to sign up: https://fantasy.iplt20.com/season/league/join/801JP3WTLS0105. And, as always, remember to give us a like, follow, share or subscribe on all our channels (@Toporderpod on Twitter, Facebook & Instagram) and a (5-Star!) review at your favourite podcast provider. It really helps others find the show. If you'd like to reach out to us, correct a mistake or give us some praise, we'd love to hear from you at thetoporderpodcast@gmail.com, and we're now on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCo3GSknJELxxH4IDec2AjUA Thanks for listening.

Welcome to the 8th episode of Star Sports TV – 15 minutes of top midweek discussion and pointers from the Star Stable. We welcome your feedback or ideas for next week’s programme – please email the team content@starsportsbet.co.uk ! Hosted by Johnny Ward this week we look ahead to: Weekend Racing ‘First Look’: Johnny looks ahead to this weekend’s action with Star’s Head of PR Luke Tarr, including the Sprint Cup & September Stakes. Johnny also checks in Stateside with Kaitlin Free to discuss the Kentucky Derby. Football: Our man Adam Russell looks at our new season handicap markets and picks out a 7/1 selection in our unique and creative goalscorer pairings special. Trader Chat: Ed Dark dials in from Star Sports HQ to reflect on the ups and downs over the last week in the trading office. Greyhound Derby: Julie Collier meets up with Rab McNair who reveals one of last years stars could well be making her return to the track with the Derby on the agenda.  Cricket: Star ambassador Ryan Sidebottom previews the upcoming series between England & Australia.  Golf: Our golf pundit Blue Horseshoe has a selection in the upcoming Fedex Cup. Politics: Our Political Analyst William Kedjanyi discusses the latest on the US Election.  Hit The Tweet Spot, WIN A FREE BET & much more!

Pioneering Australian pilots Charles Kingsford Smith, Charles Ulm and Bert Hinkler are household names for their aviation feats and tragic fates. Eric Hook is forgotten — not even a Wikipedia entry. But in mid-1930 his England-Australia flight was a front-page story as the world awaited news of what had happened to him in Burma. Hear his story in today's episode. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

The Two Howlers recap the successful relaunch of the NRL 2020 season picking up with a fast furious Rd.3 filled with plenty of action, highlights and record setting footy showcased! Parramatta jump out to top the table early built on the stingiest defense in the NRL era, whilst the ever mercurial NZ Warriors play a near perfect game to set the record for highest set completion rate in NRL history! In general news, the North QLD Cowboys make a compelling argument for being Canadians' team in the NRL. The first Ashes Test Series between England & Australia for 17yrs is cancelled due to COVID-19. Ben Te'o is back in Rugby League; and Akuila Uate heads home to Aussie after being released from the last year of his contract with Huddersfield. In Super League news, all 12 clubs voted unanimously to maintain the 2020 salary cap at GBP2.1m in a show of solidarity for the sport and it's players. But is it as clear cut as that? The short answer, no. Listen in for more details. Turning ahead to this weekend & Rd.4 of the NRL is already underway and the Roosters have PUMPED the Broncos 59-0 in Thursday night's match up, but who will win the remaining fixtures? Will the Warriors continue where they left off? Will Parra keep their place a top the table, or will Canberra Raiders take the spoils of war vs. the Knights? And, at the foot of the table, will one head coach's fate be sealed come the full time whistle? Lastly, we ask the question: What in the Sam hell is a 'Giltini'? Tune in once again and come run with the Pack for answers to these questions and more!

With the NRL season about to return in a week, I cant think of a better person to come on the podcast then Rugby League Journalist Steve Mascord. Steve has worked with the Sydney Morning Herald, The Daily Telegraph and Triple M / ABC Radio. One of the most respected Rugby League journalist in Australia. In 2017 he released his book "Touchstones" Where he talks about his 3 passions in life - Rugby League, Rock and Roll and The Road. Currently he working on a new book about the Super League War. He has also interviewed some of the biggest names in the music industry. Steve has his podcast "White Line Fever Kicks" and merchandise business Mascord Browne. @steavis Here we talk about his new book he is working on, The Super League war, The 94 Kangaroo Tour, his first rugby league game at Dapto, the Toronto Wolfpack, The modern Rugby League game, Touch Stones, Music AcDc, Kiss, Van Halen, Australian music, what it takes to a rugby league journalist, his podcast with Jimmy Smith and whole bunch of amazing stories throughout is career. https://tellcraigyourstory.podbean.com  https://linktr.ee/tellcraigyourstory  tellcraigyourstory@hotmail.com  @tellcraigyourstory Youtube  https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCcCr6P3Ja395SkapnECvOFw?view_as=subscriber #stevemascord #tellcraigyourstory #rugbyleague #journalist #whitelinefeverkick #mascordbrowne #author #touchstones #ABC #triplem #dailytelegraph #sydneymorningherald #kangarootour #illawarrasteelers #stgeorgedragons #rockand roll #AcDc #vanhalen #kiss #torontowolfpack #England #Australia

Emma John’s dreams of the perfect summer of cricket are over as Australia have retained the Ashes. Joining Emma on this episode Adam Collins, Vithushan Ehantarajah and Steen Raskopoulos are on hand to work out where it all went wrong for England, and look for some reasons to be cheerful for home fans. Plus Australian journalist Peter Lalor explains why a drink in a Manchester bar cost him over £50k

Hello and welcome to Silly Point – an ICC Cricket World Cup special series brought to you by The Stats Zone. Fitting for a mammoth summer of England-Australia clashes is that we have one more to define a World Cup finalist, at Edgbaston. The lowdown for Thursday’s match is brought to you by presenter Martyn Hindley and TSZ gaffer Rob Esteva who debate all the key points and numbers ahead of the crunch match.

Eoin Morgan joins the pod on the eve of England and Australia at Lord's. We ask if England will stick to their guns after the Sri Lanka defeat, look ahead to some of the tournament's most impressive fast bowlers going to head-to-head, and hear from Paul Farbrace on how to get David Warner out. Meanwhile, Bangladesh take care of business and beat Afghanistan thanks to you know who, Shakib Al Hasan, and there's a spectacular meltdown from Usman Shinwari at being stranded on 49.

Recorded on Jun 23rd, 2019 (7:30 AM IST) Details: In this episode of the podcast, hosts Ujjwal Grover, Rahul Bhaskar (Oranjee), and Abhishek Deshpande (Desi) discuss the best week of World Cup. The banter following India's match against Pakistan, to India's close shave against Afghanistan, this has been an exciting week of Cricket. This week featured event's biggest upset as Sri Lanka won against England, Bangladesh's brave chases, and the Australia and NewZeland's consistent run. They also preview the upcoming India West Indies and the much anticipated England-Australia encounter. विवरण: पॉडकास्ट की इस कड़ी में, मेजबान उज्जवल ग्रोवर, राहुल भास्कर (ओरनजी), और अभिषेक देशपांडे (देसी) विश्व कप के सर्वश्रेष्ठ सप्ताह की चर्चा करते हैं। भले ही वो अफगानिस्तान के खिलाफ भारत की करीबी जीत रही हो या पाकिस्तान के खिलाफ भारत के मैच के बाद की रोचक इंटरनेट नोक झोक, यह क्रिकेट का एक रोमांचक सप्ताह रहा है। इस हफ़्ते इस विश्वकप में सबसे बड़ा उलटफेर हुआ जब श्रीलंका ने इंग्लैंड को पराजित किया। बांग्लादेश की बेहतरीन चेस और ऑस्ट्रेलिया और न्यूज़लैंड के लगातार अच्छे प्रदर्शन की भी चर्चा होगी । वे आगामी भारत वेस्ट इंडीज और बहुप्रतीक्षित इंग्लैंड-ऑस्ट्रेलिया मुठभेड़ का भी पूर्वावलोकन करते हैं। Podcast music: Last Summer by Ikson: http://www.soundcloud.com/ikson | Music promoted by Audio Library https://youtu.be/n2oTA5JSk80

Kris & David are guestless as well as under the weather this week as we discuss the week that was May 24-30, 2003. We talk about all the craziness backstage in TNA between the Jarrett clique and the Russo clique. We then go over all the many promotions in Japan at the time and even some England/Australia stuff as well. We then discuss the scene in Mexico before going to the US Indies which saw some interesting shows in IWA Mid-South & Mid-American Wrestling. Finally, we close with WWE featuring some fun clips starring Vince McMahon & Zach Gowen. We were sick but soldiered on and we hope the show is up to our normal standards! 0:00:00 TNA 1:01:26 Japan: AJPW, NJPW, NOAH, WJ, Zero-One, Michinoku Pro, Osaka Pro, Toryumon, WMF, Kageki, K-Dojo, Arsion, & Gaea 1:52:18 Commonwealth: WWA, All-Star, & MXPW 2:04:46 Classic Commercial Break 2:10:19 Housekeeping & The Amazon Game w/ Greg Allman tribute 2:44:01 Mexico: AAA, EMLL, IWRG, & Monterrey 2:53:17 U.S. Indies: Chikara, HWA, NAWA, Memphis, IWAMS, MAW, Rev Pro, UPW, Potpourri, & Hook 'n' Shoot 3:39:54 OVW & WWE To support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows! You can also support the show by shopping with our Amazon referral link at TinyURL.com/BTSAmazon — Nothing extra comes out of your wallet, but Amazon gives us a kickback for referring you to them. To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/between-the-sheets/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

Kris & David are guestless as well as under the weather this week as we discuss the week that was May 24-30, 2003. We talk about all the craziness backstage in TNA between the Jarrett clique and the Russo clique. We then go over all the many promotions in Japan at the time and even some England/Australia stuff as well. We then discuss the scene in Mexico before going to the US Indies which saw some interesting shows in IWA Mid-South & Mid-American Wrestling. Finally, we close with WWE featuring some fun clips starring Vince McMahon & Zach Gowen. We were sick but soldiered on and we hope the show is up to our normal standards! 0:00:00 TNA 1:01:26 Japan: AJPW, NJPW, NOAH, WJ, Zero-One, Michinoku Pro, Osaka Pro, Toryumon, WMF, Kageki, K-Dojo, Arsion, & Gaea 1:52:18 Commonwealth: WWA, All-Star, & MXPW 2:04:46 Classic Commercial Break 2:10:19 Housekeeping & The Amazon Game w/ Greg Allman tribute 2:44:01 Mexico: AAA, EMLL, IWRG, & Monterrey 2:53:17 U.S. Indies: Chikara, HWA, NAWA, Memphis, IWAMS, MAW, Rev Pro, UPW, Potpourri, & Hook 'n' Shoot 3:39:54 OVW & WWE To support the show and get access to exclusive rewards like special members-only monthly themed shows, go to our Patreon page at Patreon.com/BetweenTheSheets and become an ongoing Patron. Becoming a Between the Sheets Patron will also get you exclusive access to not only the monthly themed episode of Between the Sheets, but also access to our new mailbag segment, a Patron-only chat room on Slack, and anything else we do outside of the main shows! You can also support the show by shopping with our Amazon referral link at TinyURL.com/BTSAmazon — Nothing extra comes out of your wallet, but Amazon gives us a kickback for referring you to them. To subscribe, you can find us on iTunes, Google Play, and just about every other podcast app's directory, or you can also paste Feeds.FeedBurner.com/BTSheets into your favorite podcast app using whatever “add feed manually” option it has.Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/between-the-sheets/donationsAdvertising Inquiries: https://redcircle.com/brands

This is one of those shows that probably should never have been recorded, but was. Therefore, it's a must listen. Topics included: Our new work experience kid - Gayle's last stand - Cat describes the 9 types of men in her cricket watching life - Big Bash (both sexes) - South Africa v England - Australia v India - Absolutely nothing about NZ v Pakistan - Listener questions and of course the Scott Muller Award