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Would you be interested in a Parkleys cargo bike share scheme? Richmond Council is asking for bids for their Active Richmond Fund and we are gauging your interest in PRS making a submission to set up an electric cargo bike share scheme for residents. Cargo bikes are bikes with a container attached. An electric bike still keeps you fit but makes light work of heavy loads and hills, making it accessible to a wider range of people.

Ham Community space Background Some residents of Parkleys started thinking of the idea of having a space to be able to get toguether. We met with representatives of Ham Parade Market and Makers United because we did not want to restrict it to only Parkleys residents. The options concluded from the meeting were: Rent out an existing location. Pro: We get to make it for the purpose we want. Cons: we will need to pay rent to someone that might not have the community at heart.

So if you want to compress a video that is just too big to upload or email you might be OK with compressing it. And I mean compressing the actual vido not putting it in a zip. $ ffmpeg -i OriginalVideo.mp4 OriginalVideoCompressed.mp4 I had a 1.2 Gb file that turned into 0.9Mb. But maybe before you do that you can just remove bits that you do not need in the first place.

Birthday (Or any) Presents UK based: https://www.openrightsgroup.org/join/ EU based: https://my.fsfe.org/donate America Based: https://my.fsf.org/civicrm/pcp/info?reset=1&id=34

Fun DIY for books I really enjoyed the novels of the discovery of witches and since my wife also likes it, it gives me a great resource for presents! So here I would like to explain a short step by step of the little things I was able to make for her (and for me!). Laser engraving! First I wanted to come up with a design. At this point I had only read the first book and my wife was very careful of not giving me any spoilers.

Doing some image editing on the command line For my reports, this web page and for personal sharing via social media I have used several commands. Why use commands when there are apps, and programs that will do it? Well, I could come up with all sorts of reasons: batch processing, more control (like driving stick), repeatability and so on. But in truth is that I enjoy finding out, and dislike the imprecision of using a mouse.