I’ve blogged a couple of times about the amazing Randy Pausch, the innovator and academic who is facing death from pancreatic cancer by sharing his life’s wisdom with as many others as he can. And he’s worth listening to. His most recent lecture, given at the University of Virginia on 28 November, is about time management - a particularly important subject for one who knows his time on this plane of existence is limited and who is determined to make the best use of it.

So here’s the video.

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Woolmer Green, Hertfordshire, in the November sunshine.

As I write, a squall of wind and rain is battering at my window. It’s a stormy, windy, wet day, but around 1.30 p.m. the sky cleared and we shot out of the house for 30 minutes walk between weathers.

Brisk, it was, and the clouds did start to fly over from the west while we were out. But there was no rain.

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Al-Azhar mosque / الجامع الأزهر, originally uploaded by Hossam all line.

Long-time friend Barry Thorne, who works for Radio Netherlands Worldwide in Amsterdam has drawn my attention to a programme on Radio Netherlands Worldwide about religious freedom in Egypt. The programme has a particular focus on the situation of the Egyptian Baha’i community.

The programme is called The State We’re In, and it’s broadcast around the world.

Barry’s keen to bring this edition of the programme to a wider audience for two reasons. One, so that more people can hear about the situation in Egypt (as told first hand by an Egyptian Baha’i), and two, so that by attracting a bigger audience to this edition of the programme, the producers will be encouraged to revisit this topic in the future.

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