Right you are: it was Casino.

Yes. We would need more. Wilkinson’s were very significant in eighteenth century racing, especially in North Yorkshire/Durham. But they were also, as you indicate, ridiculously scattered across the region. We need more to go on, but a connection between Harpur and Wilkinson families is not unlikely

And here’s a painting of Sir Harry Harpur with his horse, Furiband, “and groom.” The groom might be “Jockey Jack.”

www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/290362

A possible last name for “Jockey Jack” could be “Wilkinson.” This appeared in a 1785 account of the Durham races.

Ahh yes! So a later Harry Harpur than the one a century earlier, though certainly a descendant. It would be great to find out more about Jockey Jacky.

Very cool.
Harpur was owner of Harpur’s Arabian and other important influences on the origin of the thoroughbred.
Do you have the date of the newspaper notice?

I devoted my career to these activities. It’s impossible—even for AI—to “quickly pontificate.”

Allow me to explain why . . .

Absolutely nothing of which I am aware.

There is a window—one that I think is rapidly closing—in which University conferences can stand up for higher education.

But it has to be done at the conference level, not by individual institutions; and it must be done soon because so many university administrations are already compromised.

Yep. And they’re going after ALL of them.

For anyone interested in making a small independent film, this one scripts itself: the initial violent hook that draws the viewer into a quiet revelation of the deeper violence woven into the system, culminating in the release that feels like both a liberation and a call for reform.

Who runs a country with a weasel on his head like he’s performing a nightclub routine?
President Ferrettop.

Fussy lepidopterists often iron butterflies.

Violets are everywhere.

France mourns an ageing lothario as tortoise dies, aged 146 Kiki, 250kg tortoise whose energetic lovemaking made him a favourite with the French public, succumbs to an infection

I do think that someone could write an extraordinary history of the last century in Paris for children, as seen through the eyes of a tortoise who arrived there in 1923. 2/2

www.theguardian.com/world/2009/d...

Of course, I never got to meet Zarafa, but one of the pleasures of my life was a visit to the Jardin des Plantes, where I did get to meet briefly Kiki.

I have meant to write about that visit several times, but other projects keep intervening. 1/

We may be entering an era where “retail politics” takes on new meaning.

Had a long series of almost technically "absurd" meetings yesterday (about which I will say no more).

BUT, at the end, I did formulate my own academic/intellectual creed, the words I would like to see on some university's crest:

Curiosity and Humility

“What we cannot overcome, we must undergo.” -A. Pope

A. Facilitation of Abrego Garcia's Return The Court should order the Government to take the following specific steps—in addition to whatever other steps are within its power—to '"facilitate' Abrego Garcia's release from custody in El Salvador," Noem, 604 U.S. _ → 2025 WL 1077101, at *1, and return to the United States: Request that its agents and contractors release Abrego Garcia from custody in El Salvador pursuant to the contract or arrangement providing for his detention there at the Government's direction. See ECF No. 31 at 11-12 ("the record reflects that Defendants have 'outsource[d] part of the [United States'] prison system" and "just as in any other contract facility, Defendants can and do maintain the power to secure and transport their detainees, Abrego Garcia included"). Dispatch personnel to accompany Abrego Garcia upon his release from CECOT to ensure his safe passage to the aircraft that will return him to the United States. Provide air transportation for Abrego Garcia to return to Maryland, because he may not be in current possession of sufficient identification to board a commercial flight. Grant Abrego Garcia parole pursuant to the Immigration and Nationality Act Section 212(d)(5), 8 USC § 1182(d)(5), and prepare all paperwork and forms required to allow him to reenter the United States. B. Expedited Discovery Plaintiffs request that the Court order the following expedited discovery: The Government should be ordered to immediately produce contemporaneously prepared documents, in such form as they existed at the time of Abrego Garcia's removal, sufficient to reflect the terms of any agreement, arrangement or understanding regarding the Government's use of CECOT to house U.S. deportees.

NEW: It’s 5 p.m. ET, and DOJ is officially late on its first daily court-mandated report on the status of Kilmar Abrego Garcia.

But! Abrego Garcia's attorneys have just asked Judge Xinis to order the govt to take these specific steps to return him: storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Social Security website continues to experience frequent crashes as Musk pushes for cuts to the agency’s IT staff. Americans face chronic outages and login issues while trying to access their accounts—despite being urged to conduct more of their Social Security business online.

Jolly monk character (probably once a wine advertisement) with caption "I've started investing in stocks: chicken, beef, vegetable. One day I hope to be a bouillonaire."

Restaurants are so called because the first restaurateurs served "restorative bouillons" (their patrons were the bone-broth aficionados of the eighteenth century). It's very hard to get rich in the restaurant business. This still made me laugh.

From an anonymous account (I Louvre Art Memes) on FB.

A win for truth and history: A National Park Service page(removed by Musk) on the Underground Railroad has been restored to prominently feature Harriet Tubman, after her image and quote were removed earlier this year. Now, her legacy as a fearless champion for freedom has rightfully been restored. ✊

Who mandate both austerity and obedience. And, like most people who gravitate to authority to hide from fear, she is likely to adamantly deny being afraid while simultaneously clinging tenaciously to her stabilizing belief. It takes a lot of patience to wean animals away from that fear. 3/3

Uncertainty leads people to overcommit to the “safe harbor” of blind loyalty to a perceived stabilizing authority. In the case of your former classmate, economic anxiety drives her back to a childish security of idealizing her father, and then projecting that onto authoritarian political leaders 2/

One of the aspects of psychologizing politics that I think may be understudied is the relationship between fear and blind faith, which is also an important aspect of the psychology of religious belief. We often hear about fear as a political driver, but tend not to focus on how often a fear of 1/

Just sitting here thinking that the Dow did, of course, eventually regain its pre October 1929 high...

in the late 1950s.

Musk is claiming, without evidence, that the Wisconsin election was “stolen.”

Transmitted in unsecured fashion make those messages subject to a FOIA request?
It seems counterintuitive that one can disregard security in messaging and then claim that such messages by a government official that are government-related but unprotected must be kept secret.

Serious question: since Waltz had access to secure communications for transmitting classified and sensitive information, doesn’t his use of ordinary email remove any presumption of state secrecy? And if so, doesn’t a legitimate public interest in disclosing what sort of information was 1/