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The building at 251 Gouger Street, Adelaide (on the corner of Bailey Street) has operated for over 185 years as a historic licensed hotel site known through various eras as the Angel Inn, Hotel Gouger, and the Director's Hotel, and currently houses a restaurant.

Early Beginnings and Name Changes
1839: First licensed on the corner of Gouger and Bailey Streets as the Angel Inn.
1928–1929: Briefly renamed the Auld Inn from November 1928 to March 1929 before reverting to the Angel Inn.
1947–1974: Renamed and operated as the Hotel Gouger.

Later Decades and Closure
1974–1987: Went through multiple iterations including Hotel Fantasia (1974–1982) and back to the Gouger Hotel (1984–1987).

Final Hotel Era: Operated as the Director's Hotel until its eventual closure as a traditional pub.

Modern Use: The historic building survived subsequent redevelopments of the surrounding precinct and has hosted dining and restaurant spaces, such as Asian cuisine concepts like That Restaurant on Gouger.

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283 Gouger Street, Adelaide is a property featuring a building dating back to around 1900 near the western end of Gouger Street close to West Terrace. Historically documented as a residential and mixed-use site, it later housed small enterprises such as Court Textiles & Printery in the 1980s and later underwent retail use including a Liquorland

The Australian-born cook and author shares her recipe for a thick, fragrant Japanese curry – with one secret ingredient

Japanese curry – kare raisu in Japanese – is unlike any “curry” you might know from south Asian countries. That is partly because of the nature of yoshoku (western-influenced) cuisine but also because it made a roundabout route to Japan, via the British Royal Navy during the Meiji Restoration, a period when India was under British colonial rule. It arrived in the form of British “C&B” curry powder, so it was considered western food, not Indian. Curry became a staple in the Japanese naval and army kitchens at the turn of the century and this in turn brought curry into homes and even into school lunches. Today, it is considered a national dish.

Japanese curry needed to be thick enough so that it could be easily eaten with rice, with the help of a spoon. This can be achieved with a French-style roux base of butter, flour and liquid, or it can be thickened in a more Japanese style using a potato starchy slurry right at the end of cooking, which is my preference. Then there is the spice mix. Today, Japanese S&B curry powder is one of the best known, which contains 17 spices such as turmeric, coriander, fenugreek, cumin, cinnamon, fennel, ginger and star anise.

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Philippa Northeast is entertaining as Sybylla Melvyn in this adaptation of Miles Franklin’s 1901 novel that has more erotica and a more pronounced love triangle

It’s difficult to believe that Miles Franklin’s wonderfully lively and rebellious novel My Brilliant Career is 125 years old: its prose crackles with life and energy, and the words leap off the page. Notwithstanding some inevitably dated turns of phrase (though I, for one, feel it’s time to return “what the deuce!” to daily conversations), the book feels like it could have been written yesterday. The story is centred around Sybylla Melvyn, a bullheaded author determined to write her own story – literally and otherwise – in a deeply patriarchal world that would prefer her to settle down, shut up and take a man’s hand in marriage.

Whereas Gillian Armstrong’s 1979 film adaptation is a class act, elegant and stately, Netflix’s new six-part series is, perhaps predictably, steamier and more juiced up, with at times Mills & Boon-ish vibes. There’s more erotica, a wilder tone and a more pronounced love triangle for Sybylla, played by Philippa Northeast. Unfortunately, it’s also a tad syrupy and wishy-washy, particularly towards the end (this review encompasses every episode) – the show even deploys one of those cloying photo album-like montages of key moments: the visual equivalent of Green Day’s Good Riddance.

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Following Australia’s first reported automated hacking accident, experts warn deployers – and possibly developers – of AI agents could be held liable for the actions of their bots

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The law is clear, says Prof Jeannie Paterson. “If I deploy an AI agent and it causes harm to someone else, I am responsible for that harm.

“Even if I didn’t intend for that to happen, it was foreseeable, and I should be taking responsibility.”

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Fellow pupils at his primary school have challenged Cambridge academic’s story, though others support it

The story of Jason Arday’s extraordinary rise to becoming the youngest black professor in the history of the University of Cambridge is all the more remarkable for one claim: that he did not learn to speak until just shy of his 12th birthday.

This claim was mentioned in a letter announcing his resignation last week, which came amid mounting questions about both his academic work and statements he had made about his past.

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A mother’s illness threatens to overshadow a stagestruck teen’s big break in a school production

Do you, like me, have a soft spot for both high-school angst and Broadway showtunes – and maybe Douglas Goodhart’s amusing Master It! Insta reels on how to make it in musical theatre? Then you might find yourself giving a pass to this sugary but heartfelt teen weepie from director and co-writer Julia Hart, co-produced by Adam Sandler and starring his daughter Sunny Sandler.

She plays Soph, the shy theatre kid who unexpectedly gets the lead in her school production of the musical Waitress. Her devoted mom Elizabeth (Melanie Lynskey) has cancer, and thinks she should maybe wait until after the run to tell Soph the awful truth, so as not to spoil her big moment. But will that be ... too late?

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As rallying cries for the dawn of a golden era go, “I am quite optimistic” is not “ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country”. It did not fit the “I think I am a special one” template set 22 years ago by Netflix’s latest documentary subject. Nor did Matthias Jaissle’s unveiling as Newcastle manager meet the pre-match billing of “fire” and “a rock star” that the club’s chief suit had promised the journalists in attendance. Though, considering the summer of tumult on Tyneside, it was a sensible path to take. Expectations among the Toon Army have certainly lowered since Geordies sunk Tin and donned tea-towel headdresses in celebration of Mike Ashley’s departure and the arrival of a consortium underpinned by the petrodollars of Saudi Arabia’s Public Investment Fund. As it turned out, Lionel Messi neither ended up mowing the pitch nor selling the pies.

Bob Cushion (yesterday’s letters), your football club was caught cheating. Your club deserves everything it gets. Oh and no, I’m not a Pompey fan” – Darren Dodd.

As a Wolves fan may I express gratitude to Wrexham and Southampton for preventing us from starting the season in last place. Although still in the relegation zone I remain moderately optimistic” – Rob Taylor

Reading Big Website’s League One preview I was reminded that Stockport County have replaced the legendary Dave Challinor with one Jimmy McNulty. Does that mean the Hatters’ promotion challenge will once again go down to The Wire? (with excuses if this has been mentioned previously)” – Duncan Roberts.

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Female staff alleged company failed to maintain safe workplace, after allegations of sexual assault against pilot

The Canadian airline WestJet has agreed to pay C$4.5m (£2.4m) to settle a decade-long sexual harassment class action lawsuit levelled by its female flight attendants, who alleged the company failed to maintain a safe workplace.

The suit followed allegations by Mandalena Lewis, a former flight attendant, that a pilot had sexually assaulted her and a colleague, but that WestJet kept the pilot flying, thereby putting other employees at risk.

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Enterprises must "feed" their AI ventures with reliable, well-curated data if they want worthwhile returns. But new mandates governing AI deployments also require them to act as careful custodians of their data, along with the infrastructure, supply chain, software and other aspects of their IT landscape. Sovereign AI gives an enterprise, or even a nation state, complete control over how its AI systems are built, deployed, operated, and governed. It emphasizes control over data, infrastructure, models, operations, and policies, often within specific legal, regulatory, or geographic boundaries. Sovereign AI matters for organizations and governments that need AI environments aligned with their own security, compliance, privacy, and governance requirements. For some, that means keeping sensitive data in-country. For others, it means controlling who can access systems, where workloads run, how models are governed, and which local laws apply. The HPE Sovereign AI Factory lets customers in highly-regulated industries keep sensitive data, models, and operations under strict local control, using customized, validated infrastructure integrated with HPE services from deployment to operational support that helps customers with security, compliance, and control across infrastructure, data, and AI models. In this Hot Seat, James Hayes hears from Thierry Pienaar, HPE fellow, Chief Technology Officer for HPC & AI worldwide at HPE, and Kaushik Shirhatti, VP, AI factory at NVIDIA, on how HPE and NVIDIA work together to help customers meet the latest sovereign AI mandates. Pienaar and Shirhatti sit on the frontline of this shift in AI development. In the video they cut through market hype and misunderstandings to identify the key considerations for any organization's sovereign AI program. You will learn: Why a sovereign AI strategy has become a priority so quickly, as governments and highly-regulated sectors seek greater control over their AI systems, data, and innovation plans. The key drivers for sovereign AI, and how it differs from at-scale standard AI workloads. How sovereign AI introduces new rigors of security, such as air-gapping and identity federation. How agentic AI plays into sovereign AI requirements, and how agents can be protected while retaining the freedom to deliver useful results. How HPE and NVIDIA partner to deliver sovereign AI factories that let customers build and run AI models while retaining complete control over sensitive data, infrastructure, and compliance boundaries within their defined borders. Learn more about how the HPE AI factory with NVIDIA addresses the main challenges organizations face when they run AI at-scale here. Sponsored by HPE.

James Webb Space Telescope posted a photo:

How close is too close to a black hole? Asking for a friend. 😬

Webb just revealed dust and water surviving in the extreme environment of a star located near our Milky Way's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*! Webb recently observed IRS 3, a star near the end of its life cycle, located just over half a light year away from Sgr A*. Similar stars are huge, cool, and luminous, and shed dust-producing gas with their powerful stellar winds. While we know that shedding cosmic dust is an important, and well-known, part of star life cycles, it was unknown if stars so close to a supermassive black hole would produce dust.

Though IRS 3 has been previously studied, Webb’s mid-infrared data revealed the clear signature of oxygen-rich silicate dust, as well as, for the first time, water, in its surrounding dust envelope. Even under the harsh conditions of its environment, stars of this kind can indeed produce dust and other materials, which will help create future generations of stars and planets.

This image shows NIRCam and MIRI data at left, and just NIRCam data at right.

Read more: esawebb.org/news/weic2617/

Image credit: Image Credit: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, F. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan

Image description: (left) A bright, densely populated star cluster lies near the center of the image, surrounded by intricate clouds of glowing gas and dust in shades of red, pink, orange, and blue. Dark lanes of dust weave through the nebula, contrasting with the luminous central region. Countless stars are scattered across the field, with a few brighter foreground stars showing Webb's characteristic diffraction spikes. A white box surrounds the region of interest. White lines extend from the box. The image is labeled NIRCam + MIRI. (right) An enlarged image of the region of interest. One yellow star is labeled IRS 3. A spot in the middle is labeled Sgr A*. The image is also labeled NIRCam.

Als premier van China leidde Zhu Rongji de onderhandelingen over toetreding van zijn land tot de Wereldhandelsorganisatie. Hij gold als de architect van China’s groei tot tweede economie van de wereld.

Watch today's total eclipse happen multiple times by following it on webcams. If you can't watch it in person from the plains of Spain, watch it online. Created by Jonty Wareing.

Alexander Khotin was detained Tuesday, west of Moscow, where they allegedly found a blood-stained knife inside a bathroom, according to RBC.

PARIJS (ANP/AFP) - De Europese Unie en 26 landen hebben de Iraanse executies van demonstranten veroordeeld. Dat schrijven de landen, waaronder Nederland, het Verenigd Koninkrijk en Frankrijk, in een gezamenlijke verklaring.

De landen roepen op "onmiddellijk te stoppen met het toepassen van de doodstraf en alle willekeurig opgepakte personen zonder uitstel vrij te laten". Volgens hen wordt de doodstraf gebruikt om critici het zwijgen op te leggen, de bevolking te intimideren en individuen te straffen die hun mensenrechten uitoefenen. Dat kan "nooit worden gerechtvaardigd".

De Franse buitenlandminister Jean-Noël Barrot heeft de verklaring gedeeld op X. "Het Iraanse volk moet vrijuit kunnen beslissen over zijn toekomst en zijn fundamentele rechten moeten worden gerespecteerd", schrijft hij erbij.

Schiphol vindt de wachttijden voor groepen reizigers te lang sinds de invoering van een digitaal grenscontrolesysteem. Aankomende passagiers met een niet-EU-paspoort moeten volgens de luchthaven gemiddeld één tot twee uur wachten, en dat is volgens Schiphol ongewenst.

Sinds april is in de Europese Unie het nieuwe grenscontrolesysteem Entry/Exit System (EES) in werking getreden. Niet-EU-burgers moeten bij aankomst biometrische gegevens laten vastleggen. De wachttijden na aankomst zijn volgens een woordvoerder van Schiphol duidelijk langer dan voor de invoering van EES. Vertrekkende passagiers hebben er volgens de woordvoerder minder last van.

"Schiphol doet er elke dag alles aan om reizigers zo goed mogelijk te helpen. We zetten extra collega's in om reizigers te begeleiden, vragen te beantwoorden en waar nodig te ondersteunen", stelt Schiphol. "Tegelijkertijd ligt de verantwoordelijkheid voor de grenscontrole en EES bij de Koninklijke Marechaussee en het Ministerie van Defensie."

GENÈVE (ANP) - Landen in een gewapend conflict of in een gevoelige geopolitieke situatie die het Eurovisie Songfestival winnen, mogen niet automatisch meer de volgende editie organiseren. Dat heeft de European Broadcasting Union woensdag bekendgemaakt. Tot nu toe was het zo dat de winnaar van het Eurovisie Songfestival het jaar daarna het evenement organiseert. Door de nieuwe regels zou een songfestival in Israël op dit moment niet kunnen vanwege de oorlog in Gaza.

"Als het nodig is, dan kan de EBU een onafhankelijke inschatting laten maken van de veiligheid in de regio", stelt de EBU in de verklaring. Afgelopen editie deden vijf landen, waaronder Nederland, niet mee aan het songfestival omdat Israël wel meedeed.