Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

This gum tree on the banks of the River Torrens seems to be mimicking the arch of the bridge behind.

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

Moreton Bay Fig Tree, Park lands, North Adelaide

Darren Schiller has added a photo to the pool:

The memorial to the two members of the Angas family was originally located on North
Terrace. The Angas Memorial is now located beside the Angas Gardens in King William Road. The statue was executed by the sculptor, William R. Colton, ARA, in England. It was presented by Mrs L.G. Angas, in memory of the family’s father and grandfather and completed in 1915. The movement to erect a memorial to G.F. and J.H. Angas was initiated by the Angas family in 1909. Initially, it was proposed that the memorial be placed in the north western corner of Victoria Square. Council granted the request but
then discovered that the site had two years previously been granted to the Captain
Sturt Statue Fund, who intended to place a statue of Sturt on that spot. After some protests from members of the Sturt fund,
Council asked the Angas family to relinquish the site. The family agreed. A site on North Terrace, in the Prince Henry Gardens, in front of Government House
grounds was selected and prepared in January 1914 and in 1915 the statue was placed there.

The inspiration for the design of the memorial is said to be Italian and the memorial is in fact a fine example of Classical architectural components. The memorial is covered by a marble canopy supported on marble Ionic columns. The canopy and column structure is located on several steps of white marble. In the centre of the canopy is a column of green Italian marble on the summit of which is an Elizabethan ship of gilt. The four sides of the central column are occupied by bas-reliefs of the portraits of the two South Australian settlers. One face of the column depicts German immigrants departing from the homeland. On the steps at the base stands a draped and winged figure representing Fame, bearing a palm branch and pointing to the bas-relief of G.F. Angas.
The memorial commemorates the contribution made by G.F. Angas to the foundation and
settlement of the State and to the foundations of the pastoral industry in South Australia, laid
by J.F. Angas.
The statue was executed in London and the canopy made in Italy.

Angas Gardens, North Adelaide

Characters and memorable scenes from back catalogue made available to group of creator fans

The likes of Darth Vader, Spider-Man and Moana are about to become TikTok stars for the first time – at least now on an official basis – after Walt Disney struck a “first of its kind” deal with the booming short-video platform.

In an acknowledgment of the influence fan-made content now has in the entertainment industry, a select group of creators will be allowed to use characters and memorable scenes from Disney’s back catalogue.

Progressive candidate will face Republican Mike Rogers in race to represent midwestern purple state in the Senate

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Abdul El-Sayed won the Democratic primary for US Senate in Michigan, becoming the latest leftwing candidate to capture the party’s nomination ahead of November’s midterm elections.

El-Sayed, a progressive, beat Haley Stevens, a moderate US representative backed by the party’s establishment. He will now face Republican Mike Rogers in the race to represent the midwestern purple state in the Senate. The Associated Press called the race on Wednesday morning, moments after Stevens’ campaign said she had called El-Sayed to concede.

Big developers are discovering that the technical progress of photorealism doesn’t always translate into the creative spark that gives gamers joy – and keeps them playing

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Last week, Asha Sharma, the new head of Xbox, laid out her vision for the future of the console and interestingly, the two titles she picked out as potential areas of growth were Minecraft and Candy Crush Saga – games that don’t exactly scream next-generation entertainment. Neither relies on hyper-realistic visuals, which is the north star that games consoles and gaming PCs have been aiming at for the past 40 years. They are, instead, well-designed, well-loved franchises that you can play and enjoy on almost any PC, console or phone.

The fact is, the quest for visual hyperrealism is breaking the games industry. It’s becoming more and more expensive to put high-end graphics hardware into machines thanks to demand from the AI sector; at the same time, creating superrealistic visuals is an incredibly expensive and complex part of game development, leading to longer development periods. GTA VI, for example, has taken at least eight years to develop and is rumoured to have cost between $1bn and $2bn. By my back-of-an-envelope calculations, that’s around four times more than GTA V. Admittedly, the detail on everything, from the characters’ faces, to the cars, to the cityscapes, is astonishing. But will it be four times better than GTA V? Will it be four times more fun?

Farmers advised to vaccinate after recent hot weather provides ideal conditions for virus-carrying midges

There has been an “alarming” surge in the number of sheep affected by an outbreak of bluetongue in the UK, with farmers whose livestock are at risk being urged to move them out of areas where midges are plentiful.

The virus, which does not necessarily kill sheep but makes them ill and can have a long recovery time, presents as high fever and swelling of the lips and tongue, with a one-week incubation time. The tongue may go blue and even protrude from the mouth. More than 590 cases were reported last week, according to the National Sheep Association.

From histories of opera to compendiums of mosses, they’re beautiful, expertly written and don’t leave you feeling grubby. What’s not to like?

There are lots of reasons not to read picture books. You can’t really mark them “done” in the same way you might, say, tick A Tale of Two Cities off your bucket list, or add them to your tally when you’re humble-bragging about what you’ve read over the past 12 months. They aren’t going to become part of the cultural zeitgeist, like Middlemarch or The Odyssey, and you probably won’t be able to persuade a book group to talk about them.

Recently, though, I’ve been getting back into them in a big way, poking around the “oversized” shelves of my local charity shops, cooing over large-format collections of Hokusai prints in Waterstones.