naughton on the saddle, South African horse Peggson crossed the line first ahead of Leven Point, also trained by Stidolph and Fareeq from Australia.
Arte, from South Africa and trained by Kirk Swanson came fourth.
The owners of Peggson pocketed $60 000 while the second placed horse earned its owners $20 000.
Last year’s winner Roman Discent, also trained by the famous Stidolph, and Amsterdam who went into race as favourites, finished outside the top four.
Roman Discent could not defend the title won last year and in the process failed to emulate Taranaki, the only horse to have defended the Castle Tankard crow in 40 years.
Taranaki won the title in 1978 and defended the crown the following year.
Comanche Brave won the 2017 title while Rock The Country rocked in 2016.
But it was trainer Stidolph who hogged the limelight at Borrowdale yesterday as she had two horses coming first and second in the 1800m race.
Peggson and Leven Point took first and second place in a thrilling race before an appreciative crowd at Borrowdale Park yesterday.
Stidolph also trained Roman Discent to the title last year.I try so hard to be good, and for the most part, I keep myself reigned in. Every now and then, however, I stumble and fall, and this time I did it in a big way.
I got a notice that a local shop/cooking School, Bodacious Shops, was doing a special Julia Childs dinner, a seven course dinner using genuine Julia Childs recipes.
“Book it!” shouts AdventureMan back from his office.
We miss France. We miss French food. We miss travel. We just moved, we have a house on the market, utility bills for two houses and projects for the newest house. We are masking and socially distancing to the point that we never eat in a restaurant, except two weeks ago when we ate outdoors at Flounders. Every item points away from an event like this, and we jumped in with both feet and never looked back.
When the day came, we were busy with normal family projects and a grandchild. When the grandchild got picked up, a storm was rolling in. I got in my nightgown, and settled in with a great book I am reading. At 5:47, AdventureMan called from his office “Don’t we have a dinner tonight?” and oh yes, and it started at 6:00. LOL, we scrambled. We got there by 6:10, last ones to arrive but ten minutes could happen to anyone.
We were very correct, very socially distanced, and masked, except it was a dinner, so masks came off.
The dinner was delightful. It could have been all formal, but it wasn’t, and it was a lot of fun. Chef Nick is very funny as well as skilled and knowledgeable, and as it is more a presentation than a hands-on course, we didn’t get too messy.
We started with salmon mousse. It was divine. It was as good as anything I’ve had in France.
The next course was Vichysoisse. It was really good. I make Vichysoisse myself, and I am happy to say, this was very similar, tasty!
The next course is mussels, which we love. We eat mussels in the Pacific Northwest, and we eat mussels in France. We ate a memorable bowl of mussels in Dubrovnik. AdventureMan makes a mean dish of mussels steamed in white wine, seafood broth and garlic, so Chef Nick was up against a tough standard. The mussels were good, and I can’t eat mussels without using my fingers, so it was delicious – and messy.
We had a salad, and we had a sorbet, and then a little break before the main course, Boeuf Bourguignon.
I’m used to a little stewier beef burgundy, but I liked this one just fine. It was rich and textured, and had a lot of flavor. I was delighted that they kept the portions French-like, smaller. When food is well prepared and full of flavor, you don’t need to eat so much.
A little French cheese, a Compte and something very soft, a lot like Brie but it wasn’t.
Ummm, there was actually more of the Compte (top one) but I forgot and ate a couple pieces before I remembered to take a picture. Forgive me!
And the evening ended with a lovely very chocolatey chocolate mousse, served in a little pastry puff.
Balanced against the risk of eating out in a town where the positive rate for COVID is still hovering between 13% and 14%, we agreed that this was a relatively safe bet. This was not a real downtown restaurant, but a specialty shop were they do cooking classes and special events. The number of attendees was limited by the space, the spacing, and, frankly, by the price.
We felt safe. It was a group of people who love good food, who weren’t drinking too much or talking loudly. People respected the 6 foot rule and wore masks when not eating.
AdventureMan said it was a good risk and a good investment in another way, in that we didn’t have to take a plane or a boat to France.
So yes, it was a risk. And yes, some risks are worth taking.
Slavery Remembrance Day is important to the history of Liverpool and remembering the part the City had in the Transatlantic trade of Africans sold into slavery.
An outstanding programme of events and time for reflection: an opportunity to remember and consider how we work towards the future for a more equal, just society and inclusive communities.
Gives us a chance to remember the victims of slavery, imperialism, and colonialism.&gt;I just can't help but feel the whole thing is a little silly. I'm a witch in my late 30s if I want to do magic I will go and do it I don't need a game to pretend.

You're thinking about this backwards. D&amp;D is fiction: you don't play because you want to do magic, you play because you want to play a game with other folks and tell a fun story. 

&gt; I feel like I could take the whole group outside and tell them you don't need to roll a dice to commune with this character or person you have created. 

You could also just as easily tell folks they don't need boardgames, video games, movies, TV, comics, fiction, poetry, etc

&gt;What do you guys think? Is this just a bunch of closeted pagans trying to commune with their higher selves?

No... It's a bunch of folks from diverse backgrounds getting together to have fun. 

Let people enjoy their hobbies. You sound like a Chick TractHave you ever heard that you can open the history of the sites you have browsed on your smartphone directly on your computer? This feat is possible to happen thanks to the synchronization of browsers. But, what’s true?
Before continuing, you need to understand what synchronization is in Computing.
When talking about synchronization, we talk of the possibility of accessing the same information in several devices and several platforms Windows Android iOS, etc.
This already happens in other applications that are surely used on a day to day basis. We give you an example: Facebook chat on the Facebook site itself.
All conversations are synchronized on any device, whether mobile or fixed.
This means that you can start a conversation on your computer and continue on your smartphone or tablet.
Of course, there are more applications that are also synchronized with various platforms and devices.
In browsers, this also happens. There are already several that allow the synchronization of open sites, historical, fields, passwords, etc.
With the evolution of browsers, it is now possible, for example, to have access on your computer to the history of sites that you have been on your smartphone.
Browser synchronization is interesting for those who surf a lot on their smartphone or tablet and want to have access later on their computer and vice versa.
This technological improvement serves as an easy-to-use transmission tool which allows the transfer of files of any kind and your computer to other electronic devices.
For this you need a sync cable we leave some models.
Charge and synchronize a Samsung Tab with a computer.
Best Buy Co. and Amazon.com Inc. see the future of selling electronics—and it’s happening in your living room.
Best Buy BBY, +0.84% is hiring hundreds of salespeople to sit down with consumers inside their homes and recommend the electronics they should buy, part of a free service it has been testing in several cities and plans to roll out across the U.S. this fall.
The company hopes its in-home salespeople will help drive sales of TVs and gadgets at a time when fewer people are visiting shopping centers, as well as drum up business for Best Buy’s Geek Squad, which provides tech repairs and in-home installations for a fee.
Amazon AMZN, +0.98%, meanwhile, is expanding a program that sends its employees into homes to provide free “smart home consultations” and let shoppers test its Echo smart speakers and voice-controlled devices. These consultants can also provide fee-based installation services after shoppers purchase the gadgets on Amazon.
Many of them are professionals, business owners, members of the military, teachers and artists.
In the US, Centroamerica,