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Bombay Dyeing draws strategy to revive retail business

The reinvention started more than a decade ago, soon after the company decided to exit textile manufacturing.




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Bombay Dyeing to infuse new life into retail arm

PwC, Microsoft, KPMG & EY to help business turn profitable by next fiscal.




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The man with all the toys: Why Mukesh Ambani bought Hamleys

With 167 stores across 18 countries, Hamleys gives Reliance Retail a much-needed global footprint.




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Can Mukesh Ambani turn Hamleys into a titan or it'll just be a trophy buy?

Even with Reliance's considerable experience, turning a trophy into a titan isn’t a given.




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COVID-19: Amazon to deliver essential items in containment zones in Mumbai

Under the initiative, Amazon will deliver orders to a designated delivery point in the vicinity of the containment zone, from where volunteers will further deliver the packages to customers' doorstep, the company said in a statement.




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12/14: Combatting chronic absenteeism

Today on Crosscurrents: How one Bay Area school district is offering families extra support so kids get to school on time every day. Inside Real Guitars, the oldest vintage guitar shop in the city.




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Combating Domestic Violence Amid Social Distancing

On this episode of River to River , guest host Katelyn Harrop speaks with several guests about some of the latest and ongoing coronavirus stories in Iowa, including Gvernor Kim Reynolds' decision to partially reopen businesses in 77 of Iowa's 99 counties, and how survivors of domestic violence can access resources during this national crisis.




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Episode 0x0F: Why Samba Switched to GPLv3

This episode is a recording of Jeremy Allison's talk, Why Samba Switched to GPLv3 from the 2011 Linux Collaboration Summit, with some commentary from Bradley and Karen on the talk.

Show Notes:

Ironically (or perhaps appropriately), Bradley was at Samba XP with Jeremy the day this show was released. So, there he wasn't able to get show notes together in detail for this show.

However, Jeremy's slides from the talk are available (in PDF), and also ODP format. So, you can follow along with it in the talk.

Also, you may be interested to read Bradley live-dent'd Jeremy's talk, so the discussion there might be useful to read as well.


Send feedback and comments on the cast to <oggcast@faif.us>. You can keep in touch with Free as in Freedom on our IRC channel, #faif on irc.freenode.net, and by following Conservancy on on Twitter and and FaiF on Twitter.

Free as in Freedom is produced by Dan Lynch of danlynch.org. Theme music written and performed by Mike Tarantino with Charlie Paxson on drums.

The content of this audcast, and the accompanying show notes and music are licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 4.0 license (CC BY-SA 4.0).




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This Song: The Wombats

Matthew Murphy, aka “Murph,” from the British rock band The Wombats describes how hearing Weezer’s “Say It Ain’t So” and Radiohead’s “Creep” when he was a teenager set him on an alt-rock path, and describes what it’s like to talk about songwriting with Paul McCartney. Listen to this episode of This Song   Listen to […]




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McCleary impasse: Our children deserve a solution, not an embarrassing civics lesson


The Legislature needs to stop its dithering over school funding and reform and put Washington’s students first, writes Kate Riley, editorial page editor.




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Chamber Music (Viola da gamba) - MARAIS, M. / FORQUERAY, A. (J. and K. Karpeta, Birula, Niedźwiecka, Raczyński) (CDAccordACD259)




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BEETHOVEN, L. van: Folk Songs (Bohnet, D. Johannsen, Klimbacher, Herzer, Christelbauer, B. Bartos) (8.574174)

George Thomson of Edinburgh, a notable promoter of Scottish music, encouraged settings of his nation’s folk songs. In particular, he found a rich source of arrangements in Vienna, where he commissioned first Haydn and then Beethoven to set a large sequence of poems, including those of Robert Burns and Sir Walter Scott. Thomson envisaged simple works, agreeable to amateurs, but Beethoven found it impossible to compose within such limitations and his settings, which include Irish and Welsh songs, with the accompaniment of strings and piano, have proved perennially popular.




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Eight years after, Canada's move to close Iranian embassy still controversial

This week on The House, we look at the Trudeau government's quest for answers after the downing of UIA Flight PS752. Plus, interviews with: a former bureaucrat who helped close Canada's embassy in Iran; a legal scholar on the dispute between the Wet’suwet’en people and Coastal GasLink; a Venezuelan opposition leader on the unrest in her country; and a debate on monarchy vs. republicanism.



  • Radio/The House

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Photos: Nikki Bascome Defeats Alvin Lagumbay

[Updated with photos] Bermudian boxer Nikki Bascome won by a unanimous decision, defeating Alvin Lagumbay from the Philippines at last night’s boxing event at the Victualling Yard in the Royal Naval Dockyard. In the undercards, Andre Lamb representing Rego’s Gym defeated Deyshawn Williams representing Eastern Queen Boxing Club USA, and Krista Dyer from Bermuda Sanshou Association […]

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Bomba Estéreo - Elegancia Tropical

Bogotá quintet delivers fiery electro-Cumbia contortions with hidden depths.




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Poo-eating beetles and charcoal used by WA farmer to combat climate change

An innovative West Australian farmer uses charcoal and exotic dung beetles to boost soil fertility and reduce greenhouse gas emissions from his cattle, and international researchers are taking note.




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Baykali Ganambarr and Aisling Franciosi in The Nightingale




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Warrnambool's wombat: The story behind the video that went viral

Emily Bissland explains how she made a hilarious video about an accidental artwork that's been viewed by millions.




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'I was always hurting myself': This children's book author is striving to turn the gender imbalance on its head

In her time as a professional skier, a research student and working at Google, Annabel Blake noticed a reoccurring theme: an alarming shortage of women, and she's on a mission to change that for the next generation.




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Combatting COVID 19 misinformation

The COVID 19 epidemic has been accompanied by an infodemic of misinformation.





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Streetscape from the Toowoomba suburb where Naponi lives




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Church in Toowoomba






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Construction sector showing signs of turnaround: MBA

The Masters Builders Association (MBA) says it is highly encouraged by improving demand for commercial and housing developments in Albany.




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Murwillumbah Banana Festival forced to cancel annual street parade due to cost of anti-terror rules

Organisers of Murwillumbah's annual banana festival say national anti-terror rules have made it too expensive to hold a street parade.






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Woombah resident Emma Mills lives next door to the Woombah Woods Caravan Park.







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Visual arts: 2011 Archibald Prize Exhibition at the Tweed River Art Gallery, Murwillumbah

ABC North Coast resident arts reviewer, Jeanti St Clair looks at the latest music and theatre to hit the region.




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Ruby Princess crew partied after passengers disembarked in Sydney, staff reveal

Scores of crew members on the Ruby Princess celebrated with a party on the day it docked in Sydney unaware of the public health disaster that was about to happen.



  • COVID-19
  • Diseases and Disorders
  • Health
  • Travel Health and Safety
  • Travel and Tourism

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From Afghanistan to Murwillumbah: Ben Quilty and Olive Cotton

The Tweed River Art Gallery features a swag of interesting exhibitions just now, and there's nothing like a gallery hiatus to encourage you to get along to them. The Gallery closes for the first half of October to allow major works on the Margaret Olley Art Centre, which will open as an extension of the gallery in early 2014.




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Irrigators deny breaking official New South Wales pumping embargo after weekend rainfall

The water watchdog says it is investigating claims that irrigators in the Namoi Valley pumped water out of the river system during a recent embargo.





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'Coldest day of the year' no deterrent for Toowoomba exercisers

The Bureau of Meteorology forecast the coldest morning of the year today, but that didn't stop Toowoomba exercisers from rugging up and getting on with it.




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Toowoomba honours avid runner Roger Guard a year after MH17 disaster

Family and friends have gathered in a Toowoomba park to unveil 'Roger Guard Lane' named after the avid runner and popular doctor who was killed along with his wife Jill twelve months ago in the MH17 disaster.




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Baiting program combats feral pig problem on Cape York

An innovative baiting method being trialled on Queensland's Cape York Peninsula could be used on a larger scale to reduce the impact feral pigs have on Australia's marine turtle populations.




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Rare grass discovered in Toowoomba park now used in new park development

A Toowoomba-based environmental scientist says finding a small population of a threatened grass in the middle of the city was exciting, as is the process of conserving it in another park.





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Toowoomba's ABC garden winners of 2015

Congratulations to the winners of the ABC categories in the 2015 Toowoomba Chronicle Carnival of Flowers Garden Competition.




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A day in the life of Toowoomba's grand champion gardeners

After 25 years of entering Toowoomba's Carnival of Flowers garden competition, two 72-year olds have won grand champion.




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Go behind the scenes when ABC went on the road in Toowoomba

It takes a lot to put six television programs, and a host of radio shows, to air from a regional city, but that is what the ABC did in Toowoomba.



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  • southqld
  • Community and Society:All:All
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  • Information and Communication:Broadcasting:All
  • Information and Communication:Broadcasting:ABC
  • Community and Society:Regional:All
  • Australia:QLD:Toowoomba 4350

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The faces of Toowomba that capture a changing city

Amidst the reflections of cars and signs in the Toowoomba CBD, 12 faces of residents have appeared in empty shop fronts to celebrate the diversity of people who call the garden city home.




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Live: NSW Now: Embattled MP Andrew Constance stripped of senior parliamentary role

MORNING BRIEFING: The NSW Transport Minister will no longer serve as Leader of the House, the latest episode in a tumultuous week for Mr Constance in which he announced his bid for the federal seat of Eden-Monaro before withdrawing from the race 24 hours later.