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Where The Wild Things Are / Re: Seen today
« Last post by Mrs Pingu on Today at 04:04:06 pm »Nice
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The Pub / Re: Tune Association II - Son of Tune Association
« Last post by rogerzilla on Today at 03:57:36 pm »Moon River - Andy Williams et al
Clicking this spoiler will ruin it for you forever - what has been heard cannot be unheard
Clicking this spoiler will ruin it for you forever - what has been heard cannot be unheard
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Rides and Touring / Re: Mid-Essex Mid-Week Nocturnal Series
« Last post by jiberjaber on Today at 03:55:05 pm »I'll be aiming for food so arriving around 7:30
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Where The Wild Things Are / Re: Seen today
« Last post by Salvatore on Today at 03:35:18 pm »A pair of otters in the sea. Nuncio spotted them running across the beach into the sea. They swam about a bit, dived and surfed, then swam off down the coast.
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Audax / Re: Intermediate Checkpoints Now Untimed for ACP/RUSA Brevets (Feb/Mar 2024)
« Last post by grams on Today at 03:25:44 pm »It's almost as if trying to strictly enforce minimum distances is a bad thing.
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The Pub / Re: A random thread for weatherish things that don't warrant a thread of their own.
« Last post by Regulator on Today at 03:18:59 pm »It's 19°C in Cambridge 
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OT Knowledge / Re: Witnessing form signing... solicitors etc
« Last post by Regulator on Today at 03:17:31 pm »To be fair. I had no idea you were a notary and no idea you worked in Derby!!
Paul 'snot just a notary - he's a full on solicitor (and a mine of useful information).
Notaries are also far more expensive than most solicitors when it comes to getting documents attested.
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The Pub / Re: No Sycamore Gap anymore
« Last post by Regulator on Today at 03:15:53 pm »
Two more arrests again.
They were charged - they were arrested and bailed last year.
“ The pair are due to appear before Newcastle magistrates on 15 May.”
Yes... because they were arrested and bailed last year (as the article clearly says) and were charged recently (as the article also says) - not re-arrested.
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Audax / Re: Intermediate Checkpoints Now Untimed for ACP/RUSA Brevets (Feb/Mar 2024)
« Last post by alfapete on Today at 03:15:40 pm »
I offered e brevet for the first time last year and found the effort it required was significantly greater than the benefit ...
It strikes me that the most effective way to manage proof of passage for a calendar event (especially one with a mandatory route and/or with lots of info controls) would be to let each rider submit a GPS track ie effectively having the event validation operate as a mass DIY x GPS. Vast majority of riders use a GPS now, it doesn't require either party to have a particular bespoke app, mandatory route adherence can be checked with zero secret controls and I'm already producing event gpx files(s) anyway.
John, I think you need to look at e-brevet again. The first time I used it as an Organiser I couldn't believe how simple and straightforward it is, and it required minimal input from me (even though most of the users were trying it for the first time). It's far quicker than checking traditional brevet cards and I'm not very IT savvy at all. I've used it twice on my annual events and love it.
The method you've described requires some pretty clever software to accept and extract the tracks from a host of individual emails sent to you (they might be provided in many different formats) and there might well be a lot of manual verifying to sort out queries. And you still need to cater for those using the Brevet card. To me the whole thing sounds like a minefield, but I'll give it a try if you provide the computer programme.
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OT Gallery / Re: Readers' Instruments
« Last post by phantasmagoriana on Today at 03:01:44 pm »As mentioned upthread (and to give some thread balance for nicknack) I put new strings on my EV - d'Addario Helicore. Very nice, and surprisingly for a "bright" string the E is very sweet.
My acoustic violin is overdue for a string change and I'd like something different but with good sets running at £60-£70 or more I'm a little hesitant.
I like Helicores on my viola, though haven't tried them for violin.
The price of strings is indeed rather prohibitive to experimentation these days, though.
