James Hill

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/business/s/1073654_boss_who_helped_80_firms_steps_down?rss=yes

http://www.humanities.manchester.ac.uk/coursespublic/directory/lectureseries/roscoelectures/

Anyone interested in going?

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In 1866 Henry Enfield Rosco

He began a series of lectures to bring science to a wider audience - forming the foundations for a great tradition that eventually became Courses for the Public. We revisit his inspired idea with a series of one off lectures by some of the University’s most popular and prestigious speakers at the special price of a 21st Century ‘1d’.

13th November 2008
SE016A08 Einstein’s Theory of Relativity
Professor Jeff Forshaw, School of Physics and Astronomy

4th December 2008
SE017A08 Searching for Life Beyond the Solar System
Professor Ian Morison, School of Physics and Astronomy

22nd January 2009
SE018W08Dinosaurs, Space Shuttles and ParticleAccelerators
Dr Phil Manning, The Manchester Museum

19th February 2009
SE019W08 A Stroke of Bad Luck: Understanding Brain Disease
Dame Professor Nancy Rothwell, Faculty of Life Sciences

5th March 2009
SE020W08 The Bionic Man: Myth to Reality
Professor Tony Freemont, Clinical and Laboratory Sciences

Each lecture will take place from 7.00 - 8.30pm
Fee £7 per lecture

ART OF MONEY GETTING
or,
Golden Rules for Making Money

by P. T. Barnum
1880

See this page.

Very sensible writing, and as relevant today as it was back in 1880!

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The first mile or so is amazing purpose built XC.  The rest is fairly gentle, other than an unexpected gravel patch we hit at 25mph.  More about Wharncliffe can be seen at www.wharncliffe.info.

This is also the first time I’ve taken the GPS unit out with me, so I’ve been playing with the maps it can make, as seen above.  More detailed trip statistics can be seen at MotionBased.

A little wobbly, but at last!  Proof that I really do unicycle…