Bell ringing of the sort we're talking about ("full circle ringing") is not even sufficiently practised as to be able to be called British, in fact it's peculiarly English. If you'd like to learn more online then I suggest you take a look at www.bellringing.org.

Church tower bells are used to call people to church, but they are also used to mark special occasions and, in theory, to sound a warning. We often ring for weddings, and sometimes for funerals. We also ring them to mark special state occasions. And I rang bells last night to ring in the new year. Personally I'm an atheist, but that doesn't trouble the vicar of the church where I'm tower captain. And the village loves to hear the bells. The bells here were rung for over two and half hours last week, just for fun.

It's a practice which is very ancient and is certainly only just able to keep going. But new bells are still cast and added to existing rings (during the last couple of months I helped put two new bells into the tower I rang at last night) and several individuals have put mini-rings in garages and outbuildings so as to provide a non-ecclesiastical setting within which to ring. As the practice of religion declines and churches become redundant, rings of bells are lost, but we try to re-use bells as much as we can.

As to teaching, it's something that stimulates the mind as well as exercises the body, so it's a great thing to do. But it's so unusual that a lot of people don't want to start. And, because of these dual aspects, people are sometimes put off because they either can't coordinate their body well enough to handle a bell, or can't get their mind around learning the more advanced aspects of change ringing (which, let's face it, is more mathematics than music).

But we're stil doing it!

You love to wander way OT, don't you?

Morris dancing is quite similar in many ways. I don't do it, but I know quite a few ringers who do. I suspect it's got something to do with tradition.

As to bees, I can talk about bees for hours, but I do not profess to really know very much. Bee-keepers have a couple of sayings:
1) Ask two bee-keepers the same question and you'll get three different answers, and
2) the bees don't read the same books we do.

In the UK there are two notifiable (to the government -- there is a small number of people with the job title "bee inspector") bee diseases and two notifiable pests. The most recent problem (for some reason not yet officially notifiable, but worrying everyone) is the Asian Hornet.

The agricultural use of pesticides is a thorny problem. The UK and European governments seem to be carefully walking a tightrope to try to keep everyone happy. We need food crops, but we also need pollinators. Monitoring the effects of chemicals and ensuring that good scientific evidence is used to regulate them is very important. In the UK farmers are getting better at keeping bee-keepers informed of when they are spraying, and there is reasonably good communication on both sides. The British Bee-Keepers Association seems to be keeping a steady hand on the tiller.

(That's enough OT chatter -- Ed.)

The only manner to get Tasks columns 'unsorted' is to dive into the registry and remove the 2 keys from BOINC Manager: ReverseSortOrder and SortColumn (with BOINC Manager exited).
Somewhere in HKEY_USERS. Open the registry, click on HKEY_USERS, Ctrl-F and search for SortColumn (F3 for next one).
You will probably find several, but then you will see the ones belonging to BOINC Manager's tabs Projects and Tasks.

I use BOINCTasks to view my clients instead of the BOINC Manager. It can sort and allow for other columns to be sorted after.

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Crystal Pellet wrote:Little Mermaid reacted:
I don't know if there's something of an equivalent of the '.BOINC Manager' file in your homedirectory for you (like there is on Linux), but on Linux you just edit the '.BOINC Manager' file (with BOINC Manager exited, as Crystal Pellet mentioned), find the section where it says:

[Tasks]
SortColumn=…
ReverseSortOrder=…

and then reset 'SortColumn' to -1:

[Tasks]
SortColumn=-1
ReverseSortOrder=-1

Finally, save the file and quit/leave/exit the editor; then start the BOINC Manager again.