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The bio-economy and green growth have been on the international policy agenda for several years. Two main views prevail concerning the 'bio-economy' – an industrial perspective, and the other a public goods perspective – each promoting different futures for agricultural systems and farmers' roles; some address both perspectives.
The Innovation Platform (InP) has become an attractive approach for supporting agricultural development. An InP is generally established to foster interaction amongst a wide range of stakeholders including producers, researchers, development practitioners and policy-makers, around a shared interest. The stakeholders interact to jointly identify problems and opportunities, seek and apply solutions and learn to stimulate continuous innovation. However, establishment and management are complicated given the multiplicity of actors with diverse objectives and expectations. This article describes how an InP in western Kenya contributed to increased control of banana Xanthomonas wilt (BXW). Several demonstrations were set up to show farmers how the control technologies worked. After couple of months, they told their neighbours about it and this helped in the scaling up of the programme. To enhance access to knowledge and information on BXW control best practices and technologies, additional InPs were formed and used to reach over 6,000 banana farmers.
Amir Kassam in his lead article argues that the no-till farming system involving soil cover and crop diversification, known as Conservation Agriculture (CA), is fundamentally changing farming practices and management of the land resource base, the landscape and the environment. As a proponent of this approach, Kassam notes that CA enhances ecosystem services and resilience, and offers additional economic and environmental benefits that are difficult or impossible to mobilize with conventional tillage agriculture. In his view, CA fits within the sustainable intensification paradigm which when defined in its broadest sense, encompasses production and ecological dimensions, the biological products produced and utilized by consumers and with minimum food waste, as well as the human and economic dimensions of socio-cultural aspirations, organizations and social equity and economic growth.According to Kassam, CA is not intensification in the classical sense of greater use of inputs but rather the intensification of knowledge, skills and management practices and the complementary judicious use of other inputs. He sees the new challenge for science and policy in the 21st Century as being able to produce more from less and with minimum damage and to rehabilitate degraded and or abandoned lands while conserving and optimizing the use of the remaining water and biodiversity resources. CA is now being practiced on 125 million hectares (about 9% of cropland) across all continents, and approximately 50% lies in the developing countries, including in African countries, namely Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia and Zimbabwe. Kassam believes that CA can contribute to the goal of sustainable intensification, but more research and extension effort is needed to inform policy formulation and development strategies.
By Calestous Juma and Yee-Cheong Lee Co-chairs of the UN Millennium Project's Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation In this new lead article, Prof. Calestous Juma, Harvard University and Prof. Yee-Cheong Lee, UNESCO, reflect on the progress made since the UN Millennium Project's Task Force report on science, technology and innovation (ST&I) was published. In 2005, the Task Force released the report Innovation: applying knowledge in development. It outlined a number of ways in which ST&I could be used to realize the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). The authors claim that the report has played a key catalytic role in raising global awareness of the importance of ST&I in development. Prior to this, ST&I for economic development was considered to be relevant only to industrialized countries, and often discouraged in developing countries, neither was it a priority for the UN, as it was identified as 'Target 18 of Goal 8 - the very last target of the very last goal'. However, much has changed and the innovation systems approach, which included infrastructure, more advanced technical training and entrepreneurship was presented as a framework for thought and action. While the concept of ST&I for development has gained momentum, the authors are of the view that much more still needs to be done by developing countries to ensure that ST&I achieves greater impact on alleviating hunger, poverty, illiteracy and ill health, political and social upheavals.
Urban farming systems are in constant development as urban farmers adapt their existing practices or come up with new ones, yet are rarely given formal support for their innovations. This issue of looks at how urban farmers can be supported in their efforts to improve their livelihoods. The issue is a collaborative effort of the RUAF, the Prolinnova (Promoting Local Innovation) network and Urban Harvest, an initiative of CGIAR and draws on experiences of urban farming from around the world. Some articles merely promote innovations, while others discuss ways to stimulate the innovation capacity of the farmers themselves. Titles include the following: Promoting Local Innovation in Rural Agriculture: experience and lessons for urban settings ; Innovative Wastewater Recycling in an Indian Village: linking the rural with the urban ; Innovations in Greenhouse Rainwater Harvesting system in Beijing, China ; Cleaning, Greening and Feeding Cities: Local initiatives in recycling waste in Kampala, Uganda ; Urban Agriculture in Msunduzi Municipality, South Africa ; Innovations in Producer-Market Linkages: Urban field schools and organic markets in Lima ; Urban Agriculture as Social Justice Change Agent and Economic Engine ; Innovations in Urban Livestock Keeping in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.Author: R. van Veenhuizen (ed.), RUAF Urban Agriculture Magazine No. 19, 2008
Following paradigm shifts in 1980s that resulted from relentless efforts made by a few informed social scientists in the early 20th century, some lead international organizations, NGOs, and national research and extension organizations came to pronounce innovation system in agriculture and rural development. These are, in fact, results of decades of intellectual dialogues among scientists in general and social scientists in particular as to what methodological routes should be followed in pursuit of science and science for development. The majors taken in this regard received increasing importance with the realization that more than fifty years of development assistance, especially in the developing world, did not adequately curve down poverty and its multiple consequences, notably, environmental degradation. In spite of encouraging efforts underway the world over by different agencies to promote what is named as a sustainable development through people's participation, achievements made so far seems to be far below the extent of responses required to cope up with multi-faceted challenges at hand. Moreover, there are still conceptual and methodological gaps that are adversely affecting the common intentions geared towards making a difference in poverty alleviation and reducing environmental degradation, among others. There is still substantial adherence to technology transfer while the intention is innovation system. For some, even using the term innovation seems to be a major shift in their approach. In my view, one of the major gaps in this respect is lack of shared understanding of methodological issues by scientists and development practitioners, both from social and natural sciences streams. This paper, therefore, attempts to shed some light on these issues and propose ways to get innovation system approach work better in agriculture and rural development.Author: T. Beshah (Post doctoral scientist at ILRI, India), Conference paper APPRI 2008 International Workshop, Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso, October 2008
Until recently, little attention has been paid to local innovation capacity as well as management practices and institutions developed by communities and other local actors based on their traditional knowledge. This paper doesn't focus on the results of scientific research into innovation systems, but rather on how local communities, in a network of supportive partnerships, draw knowledge for others, combine it with their own knowledge and then innovate in their local practices. Innovation, as discussed in this article, is the capacity of local stakeholders to play an active role in innovative knowledge creation in order to enhance local health practices and further environmental conservation. In this article, the innovative processes through which this capacity is created and reinforced will be defined as a process of "ethnomedicine capacity". The case study analyzed highlights examples of innovation systems in a developmental context. They demonstrate that networks comprised of several actors from different levels can synergistically forge linkages between local knowledge and formal sciences and generate positive and negative impacts. The positive impact is the revitalization of perceived traditions while the negative impacts pertain to the transformation of these traditions into health commodities controlled by new elites, due to unequal power relations.Authors: M.-C. Torri & J. Laplante, Journal of Ethnobiology and Ethnomedicine October 2009, 5:29
The balance of debates about innovation systems ideas in agricultural and rural development seems to have shifted from conceptualisation and historical analysis to planning and practice. National and international development agencies are now grappling with the need to rethink their investments in line with this new perspective. In this month's LINK LOOK, Andy Hall, Jeroen Dijkman and Rasheed Sulaiman suggest ten priority topics where rethinking is needed and where there seems to be enough experience to provide advice.
Much has been written on innovation systems (IS), especially in industrialized economies, and recently in developing countries contexts (Muchie et al., 2003; Hall 2005; Spielman et al., 2006; World Bank 2007). However, with few exceptions (e.g., Hall 2005; Hall et al., 2007; World Bank 2007), literature on IS does not adequately explain how system thinking enhances innovation or how IS can be initiated and facilitated. Another gap is the fact that "innovation" itself is promoted rather than its embeddedness within a system that in turn operates within certain institutional and policy contexts. Even though there is consensus on the importance of innovation for economic development, the systemic mechanism through which it can be enhanced is not given equal attention. These and other grey areas limit the promotion of the concept of IS, and in a worst case raises suspicion on its value addition for research and development.
Investments in knowledge systems have featured consistently in most strategies to promote sustainable agricultural development at the national level. The World Bank alone has invested more than 2.5 billion USD into agricultural R&D and advisory services over the past 20 years. Many of these investments have resulted in very high returns and pro-poor growth. We have also been fairly successful in strengthening research systems and increasing available knowledge but they have not necessarily resulted in greater use of knowledge and innovation (Rajalahti et al. 2005). Farmer productivity is still often constrained by lack of appropriate technology or access to technology, inputs, services and credit, and by farmers' inability to bear risks. In addition, farmers' information and skills gap constrains the adoption of available technologies and management practices or reduces their technical efficiency when adopted (WDR 2008). To address these challenges, we have gradually shifted from strengthening research systems and knowledge transfer towards building innovation capacity, enhancing use of knowledge and creating social and economic change.
Today, innovation is often defined as the development, adaptation or imitation and the subsequent adoption of technologies or the application of knowledge that is new within a specific context. It is seen as an interactive process, in which enterprises, in continuous interaction with each other and supported by institutions and organizations innovate and bring new products, processes and services into social and economic use. Taking this perspective, there is a need for changing our general perception of smallholder farmers who are often described as a poor, ignorant, illiterate persons, resistant to change and unwilling to adopt new ideas and technologies. Whereas in reality, they are resilient and enterprising – risk takers, who have context specific knowledge of their environment and are willing to adopt new ideas, knowledge and technology, especially if they respond to their specific needs and add value to their circumstances. Read more… Paper presented at the 2nd European Forum on Sustainable Development, Berlin, Germany, 18-21 June 2007.
The African Union's Science and Technology consolidated Plan of Action' responds to the inadequate attention that has been given to these topics. It seeks to address the low and declining public expenditure on research and development (R&D) in most African countries, and the weak links between industry and science and technology institutions. The Plan of Action notes that in Africa the bond between science and society is still weak, and that there are serious 'disconnects' between what researchers are doing and the development aspirations of communities. Often the public does not have ownership of, or direct infl uence on scientific and technological developments, and researchers are also not well connected with policy makers. The results have been a weak scientific culture, and constituencies that neither demand nor promote scientific and technological development. Read further in: Knowledge for Development, November 2006 / Vol. III
Innovation systems perspectives on agricultural research and technological change are quickly becoming popular for studying how society generates, disseminates, and utilizes knowledge. Taken together, the innovation systems framework demonstrates the importance of studying innovation as a process: knowledge is accumulated and applied by heterogeneous agents in complex interactions that are conditioned by social and economic institutions. Such analyses of developing?country agriculture are acutely needed. Download PDF
Science and technology have long been recognized as the catalysts for industrialization and, when linked with innovation, as the key to achieving social and economic development and global competitiveness. However, while developed countries continue to invest pproximately 3% of GDP in enhancing their scientific and technological capabilities, investments in research and development in developing countries, whether from public, private or international sources, are estimated at less than 1% of GDP. New strategies focusing on science, technology and innovation (ST&I) and the adoption of both 'traditional' and 'modern' approaches to creating, sharing and building knowledge systems, are needed to help developing countries improve their national and regional ST&I systems and revitalize their economies.
National systems of innovation (NSI) places innovation at the centre of economic activity. The kernel of the NSI approach is the nature of its elements (firms, institutions and other organizations), their interaction as well as their interdependence. The firm is often the locus of innovation but it carries out innovation in cooperation with other organizations such as the universities, standard setting agencies, research institutes, financing organizations. However, systemic cohesion may not emerge automatically and considerable time is required for institutions to tae root. This suggests policy action in nurturing and upgrading sectors into learning entities.
At the beginning of the year, CTA initiated collaboration with the United Nations University/Institute of Technologies (UNU/INTECH) to develop a methodological framework for analysing the national agricultural science, technology and innovation system (ASTI) in ACP countries, train six ACP professionals to apply the methodology and provide technical backstopping. CTA then sponsored the conduct of six ASTI studies in the Cameroon, Jamaica, Kenya, Papua New Guinea, Senegal, South Africa with a view to providing information on sub-sectors within the national systems which could support more informed decision making. The professionals and their related institutions have begun submitting their draft reports and the results are generating interest and excitement based on the feedback from the three interim reports that were presented at the Kenya regional meeting. The final reports will be presented to the Advisory Committee in November and published on the Knowledge for Development website in January 2005.
Farmer Innovation in Africa: A Source of Inspiration for Agricultural Development (2001) summarizes the findings of two regional programmes in Africa that supported farmer innovators and their innovations in eight countries representing a wide range of agro-ecological and socio-economic conditions: Burkina Faso, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Tunisia, Uganda and Zimbabwe. In these programmes, a farmer was considered an innovator if he or she tried out something that was new in the village without having been asked to do so by outsiders. This means that farmers who tested new crop varieties or other technologies on their fields at the request of researchers were not innovators. It also implied that an innovation in one region may have been a common practice elsewhere. The two programmes identified about 1000 farmer innovators and concluded that innovation is a fairly common phenomenon in regions where there is high population pressure on available natural resources. This is not surprising as farmers have to adapt to changes in rainfall, soils, demographics and markets, for example, in order to survive. Farmers with their ?backs against the wall? have no choice: innovate to improve their livelihoods, continue to live in poverty or leave the land and settle elsewhere.


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2 ingredient Nutella cake
2 ingredient Nutella cake
Yes, this cake has just two ingredients - Nutella and eggs. Give it a go so you know exactly how delicious it is. Eating is believing!
serves: 6 | prep: 0:10 | cook 0:30
- 4 eggs (large, room temperature)
- 240 g Nutella chocolate hazelnut spread
- 1. Preheat oven to 180°C (160°C fan-forced). Line a 20cm round spring-form cake pan with baking paper and set aside.
- 2. Place eggs into mixing bowl and beat on high speed until the mixture triples in volume. This will take 5-7 minutes.
- 3. Spoon Nutella into a medium glass bowl and microwave for 15-20 seconds until it is soft.
- 4. Spoon one third of the egg mixture and fold using a metal spoon to mix in Nutella until entirely combined. Continue with another third of egg mixture and then again until all the egg and Nutella is combined.
- 5. Spoon mixture into cake pan and bake for 25-30 minutes or until a skewer placed into the centre comes out clean.
- 6. Cool cake in pan entirely, before removing from pan. Slice and serve.
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How to make 2-ingredient Nutella cake
Yes this cake has just two ingredients and you've probably got them sitting in your pantry; Nutella and eggs. Give it a go, it...
- You REALLY need to make sure those eggs triple in volume or this recipe will not work. You can save yourself a cake fail by completing this step correctly. If you don't beat them well you will find that you end up with an egg-y tasting mess.
- Folding the eggs into the Nutella needs to be done with a light hand so you avoid the eggs losing all their volume.
- I used a metal spoon but some cooks may prefer a spatula for this job.
- Oh my! If you're as obsessed with Nutella and easy 2-ingredient recipes as we are, try this yummy 2-ingredient Nutella mousse and these easy 2-ingredient Nutella popsicles.
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A great hike in the dry season, but not recommend it during rains is an 8 kilometer trek (mostly, but not all downhill) through rain forest, within sight of Volcan Baru, into Boquete. Take a half-hour 4WD taxi (shared with two others/$5 per person) up to the ranger station and then hike for 5 hours to the ranger station on the other side of the park. At the other end, exhausted, and still with 4 kilometers to go to reach Boquete, you may be lucky and be able to hitch a ride with a farmer delivering carrots to market.


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OK readers of The Lonely Plate, I've done a bit of traveling and a lot of eating so I've got a lot of posts saved up to share with you. To start off this little travel series, I'd like to tell you about one of our favorite places to chow down for cheap in Melbourne: Camy Shanghai Dumpling Restaurant. It's located on the edge of Chinatown on Tattersalls Lane (a bit of an alleyway) between Little Bourke and Lonsdale. This place pretty much rules because they're fast, really cheap, healthy and they have free self-serve tea! They're always busy and staff can be quite rude at times, but you'll never wait long and you can always count on leaving full and satisfied for a good price.
I'm a huge fan of their Chinese Broccoli. They put this awesome brown sauce over the greens that's a little bit sweet and makes them extra delicious.
Free tea also pictured above - don't forget it's self serve along with the plates, cups, cutlery, etc located in a little cubby area around to the right of the main entrance as you come in.
Being a dumpling restaurant, they have quite a few dumpling choices. I'm definitely a fan of the steamed dumplings over the fried, but this is just personal preference. If you like prawns and don't mind fairly strong spinach flavour, I recommend the spinach and prawn:
Or of course you can't go wrong (unless you're a vegetarian of course) with the classic pork:
If you can eat a lot of dumplings, you can get like 15 or 20 for $6 so don't be shy.
Their noodle dishes are pretty tasty also. This trip we stopped here for a quick, cheap feed with some free hot tea on a cold winter's day before catching our flight to the USA. Next time you're hungry in Melbourne and on a budget, check this place out for yourself and let me know what you think.
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Camy Shanghai Dumpling Restaurant in Melbourne
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OMG *drools*. Gotta try this place. But unless you go with a big group of peeps, 15 seems like A LOT in 1 serve..? I get bored easily!ReplyDelete
I noticed this place gets mixed reviews online, but I'm definitely a fan. I love cheap eats, and their stuff is tasty too. Yeah 15 dumplings is a lot so it's good to have help to eat them, but they do offer a smaller serve of dumplings..it's just that half the dumplings is only like a dollar or so cheaper so it's pretty hard to pass up the big plate.ReplyDelete
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Frank Hamrick's My face tastes like salt is a series of still lifes and landscape portraits taken in Georgia, Louisiana, and Tennessee. The work is meant to generate questions, allowing viewers the space to create their own stories.
In The Seven Natural Wonders of Georgia, Caitlin Peterson explores the relationship between man and nature by drawing attention to the artificial elements of "the most wonderful natural places in all of Georgia."
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I am lying in bed on the Fourth of July. The apartment is empty. A box fan is propped on the dresser, blowing cool air, though I can't hear it. I'm wearing headphones and listening to Bohannon: Speaks from the Beginning. This is the audiobook memoir of Hamilton Bohannon. Not the audiobook of the memoir, in other words, but the audiobook memoir—it only exists in an audio format. He didn't find it necessary to write down the details of his life. Sound is his medium, always was. So he speaks.
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One of the paradoxes of George Ellis's career, in hindsight, is that alongside his run of cheap exploitation films, he maintained a parallel career as Atlanta's first great arthouse film exhibitor. It adds a layer of complexity to his work, to know that his own taste was impeccable—he understood the full range of cinematic possibilities and would have seen exactly where his films fit into that spectrum. Around the time Demented Death Farm Massacre was hitting theaters, Ellis was introducing Atlanta to the French New Wave and the New German Cinema, hosting retrospectives of Chaplin and Bergman.
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These sort of articles do not qualify because they're not specifically Microsoft related. Maybe they are about a technology you might use whilst doing say .Net development but not by themself a Microsoft technology. If you consider web development then you might use HTML5, CSS and Javascript. By themselves these are not Microsoft products and hence not appropriate for the TNWiki.
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Address: Am Kinseherberg 23, 94315 Straubing, Germany
Arena attendance capacity: 5825
Pulverturm was built in 1967 and has a capacity of 5825 spectators, including 400 VIP guests. Both the Straubing Tigers and EHC Straubing play all their home games out of the same facility, which is owned and operated by the city of Straubing. Marketing and catering are controlled and operated by Tigers GmbH.
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Straubing Tigers GmbH
Landshuterstr. 23
94315 Straubing
National titles
European championships or greatest European accomplishments
Last Seasons
2017-18: 13th regular season
2016-17: 9th regular season, preliminary round
2015-16: 9th regular season, quarter-finals
2014-15: 13th regular season
2013-14: 12th regular season
About club
The Straubing Tigers are a club located in Southern Germany in the province of Bavaria. The Tigers play in the top German hockey league, the DEL. The club's greatest achievement to date was its championship in the DEL 2 in 2002 and the subsequent promotion to the top division.
EHC Straubing is the club's affiliated junior program.


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In The Only Guide to Alternative Investments You'll Ever Need: The Good, the Flawed, the Bad and the Ugly, author Larry Swedroe questions claims that covered calls are less risky (when risk is measured by the standard deviation of returns) than long-only portfolios. He points out that in a covered call strategy, the distribution of returns is not "normal" and that standard measures such as the Sharpe ratio are not very useful in measuring risk.
Classifying covered calls a "flawed" alternative investment, Mr. Swedroe notes that the strategy has two undesirable traits: (1) The returns exhibit negative skewness (Skewness is a measure of the asymmetry of a distribution) and (2) The strategy eliminates the potential for a highly positive return while having no impact on the potential for an extremely negative return (Kurtosis risk).
Mr. Swedroe concludes:
While covered-call strategies appear to promise "a free lunch" of increased returns with less risk, investors who care about more than the volatility of returns will not find this an efficient strategy.


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Artel blinked as the harsh sunlight hit his face, cutting through his eye lids. For a moment he felt confused, unable to understand the bright forest world around him. He shook his head and pulled his stiff body into a sitting position, trying to remember the events from the night before. On the opposite side of the now smouldering fire Millon lay fast asleep, snoring lightly. Artel looked down at the sword he held in his right hand, it was his sword but he could not remember how it had gotten there. His eyes slipped from the sword in his hand to the dark scuff marks in the grass that surrounded the fire and a queasy sense of unease washed over him, settling in the pit of his stomach. Sheathing his sword Artel stalked around the fire and shook Millon roughly awake.
The smaller man murmured incoherently and rolled over as he opened his bleary eyes and looked up at Artel, a puzzled expression on his face.
"Wh-what?" He grunted as he pulled himself into a sitting position.
"Get up Millon, something happened here last night, I do not feel good about this place, we need to leave."
Millon looked around the campsite, something had definitely happened, and in the back of his mind he thought he could almost remember.
"Th-there was a... a darkness, a thing... it..." He trailed off as Artel shot him a dangerous look.
"Yes Millon, I can't be sure of it either, but what I can be sure of is that there is an evil in these woods and we must leave as soon as possible."
Millon nodded dumbly as he watched Artel walk back round to his sleep sack and begin to pack away. As quickly as he could he roused himself and followed suit.
It took the two men a remarkably small amount of time to pack away their small camp and before long they were heading through the trees again. They walked in silence, both of them pondering the strange half-remembered events of the night before and neither of them knowing quite what to say to the other.
The morning passed in the way that time often passes, neither fast or slow but somewhere in between, like an elderly man on a leisurely walk in the evening sunshine.
It was mid afternoon and the two men were fighting their way through an unwelcoming thicket of brambles when a loud clunking sound filled the air. Both men stopped to listen, poised in the middle of their actions. It sounded like the cogs of a great machine, clunking and bashing as they slowly turned. Millon shot Artel a concerned look, a look that was returned in equal measure. Neither man knew what they may end up having to deal with after their encounter last night. What they both knew but neither wished to say was that, whatever it was, they were most probably unprepared for it.
For a few long seconds they stood, frozen to the spot, listening intently to the sounds. Then, just as suddenly as it had started, the sound stopped, leaving a heavy silence in it's wake. The two men stayed still for a moment longer but the sound did not start up again and the forest stayed silent and still.
"D-do you think it's gone Sir?" Millon's voice wavered slightly, showing his nerves.
"I don't know, but I believe we should tread carefully from here. Whatever it was may still be close by."
"Y-yes Sir."
"And Millon? Keep your wits about you, it is not natural for any forest to be as still and silent as this."
Millon nodded as he looked around. Artel was right, the forest was eerily silent, no thing moved and no thing called or cried. The silence hung in the air, pregnant and oppressive. He looked at Artel again, waiting for the other man to make the first move. Artel nodded and took a step forwards. A loud clunk filled the air and Millon just caught sight of the shocked expression on Artel's face as the floor beneath the knight gave out and he plunged into the ground, leaving the terrified Millon alone in the forest.


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DIY- Semi Precious Gemstone & Driftwood Sail Boat Tutorial
Inspiration can strike at any time. I was walking on a path near the west side highway in NYC and noticed what appeared to be driftwood. In actuality they were just sticks washed up from the Hudson River - lots of them, almost a mile long to choose from. My first thought was to make a mobile or window hanging with them by using random gemstones I have left over from other projects.
As soon as I returned home, with the bundle of specifically picked sticks, I put them in the bath tub to soak them in bleach. This is not only to kill any bugs and germs that may be in the wood but to give them that driftwood look.
Since I had settled on the idea for a mobile that involves using my nephew's matchbox cars, that were not in my home, I had to come up with another plan for my pseudo driftwood that I could get started on immediately. So... what happened next was the gemstone sail boat.
I hammered a long nail through the bottom piece of wood into the vertical piece and secured it with some glue. I suppose I could have been neater with the glue. I then bought small screw eyes from my local hardware store and screwed them in where I wanted the gemstone sails to be tied. The screws went into the wood fairly easily, just by pushing and twisting, no tools needed.
Then I tied string to the top screw eyes and started knotting some glass and semi precious gemstones I had sitting around in a small dish, just waiting for a purpose.
This is how it turned out- meet the semi precious gemstone driftwood sail boat! Need to come up with a better name. I should have a Sheffield School student contest with photo entries of creative ways to use leftover jewelry materials.
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One of the EADV's main missions is to act as advocate and educator of patients, particularly those with cutaneous or venereal diseases.
Our vision is indeed to cooperate closely with our patients to achieve the continuous improvement of clinical care, to innovate and to support their rights.
To improve and raise the dialogue at an international level, the EADV decided to involve patient associations by organising a Patient Society Village and patient-centered sessions during its congresses, as well as other activities and projects.
To improve the dermatological health paradigm, there must be a fundamental collaborative partnership between the patient and the key healthcare providers. The EADV actively works to advance this theme with the patient community and strengthen productive relationships with patient leaders to explore how different roles and perspectives can be joined together to extend dermatological support.
Launched in 2015 during the annual Congress in Copenhagen, the EADV is proposing year after year a Patient Society Village during its main Congress.
We kindly invite patient advocacy organisations to take part in this initiative; bring the patient voice to engage and encourage communication between the parties. In this dedicated area, you will have the opportunity to showcase the work of your organisation, to promote patient advocacy resources and services to the professional dermatology and venereology community, and stimulate interactions with meeting attendees.
Patient Village - 27th EADV Congress, Paris 2018
For more information about the Patient Society Village at the 2018 EADV Congress in Paris, please click here.
Patient Village - 28th EADV Congress, Madrid 2019
Take part to our next Patient Society Village - We will be glad to welcome your patient association and offer you a free booth to stimulate interactions and exchange information with our dermatological community! To apply and know more click here
Dermatology is the science of the skin and its diseases. The skin is the outer barrier between the organism and the environment, preventing drying out of the body an penetration of foreign substances. Other essential functions include thermoregulation; protection against mechanical, chemical, ultraviolet and microbial insults; initiation and execution of immune reaction, as the most peripheral outpost of the immune system; and perception of touch, heat and cold, pain, itch and other sensations. Dermatology as a specialty is differently defined in the European countries. Core dermatology consists of medical dermatology, venereology (except United Kingdom, Ireland and Malta) and dermatosurgery as well as dermatopathology.
Venereogy is the science of the sexually transmitted infections (STI). In 26 of the 29 European countries, dermatologists are recognised as specialists for both skin diseases and STIs. From its beginning in the 18th century, dermatology has been involved with the study of STI, the reason being that syphilis, which was extremely common in Europe, presents with a broad range of cutaneous findings. Many other STIs have cutaneous manifestations, so that in daily practice, dermatologists often counsel, diagnose and treat STI patients.
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Patient organisations are committed to support education, advocacy programmes and are the link between patients suffering from particular conditions and highly ranked doctors in dermatology and venereology. The collaboration of these two partners - the first giving their day-to-day testimony and concerns, the second providing medical knowledge and experience - is one way in which to develop understanding and reach a higher status, consciousness and clinical care.Continue reading
A Dermatologist is a doctor who specializes in treating conditions that affect the skin, hair, and nails. A Venereologist is a doctor who specializes in treating sexually transmitted diseases. In many regions of the world, venereology is combined with dermatology. Click on the link below to find a specialist in your area.Continue reading


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Lila represents the best of Colorado style while in Milan.
Friday, June 29, 2012
120 comments
I love this look. Esp this colour combination.
For a tiny person she looks pretty damn strong and confident.
I like seeing women portrayed like this – tough, but not mean.
Great look, punch of yellow in the clutch is great. Love her sandals too…
Love her hair and simple classic outfit :)
I am definitely a fan of this look, because the basic shirt fits so well and really lets the bleached skirt speak loudest. Cute braid. Great accessories. Chic shoes.
x Peter @ http://low–couture.blogspot.com
LOVE the braid! That makes the whole look so much more interesting!
Tie-dye back is definitely back in, and I'm loving it! I recently went to a tie-dye party in London and we tie-dyed everything in the flat.
Wandering Minds
Love the blue theme in this look with the tie dye skirt and simple navy tee! The mustard clutch is a wonderful complement to the blue and is a great finishing touch!
love those braids!
I really like the t shirt/ skirt combination, all the shades of blue blend in perfectly
amazing skirt in the quadrilatero della moda <3
WOW! An amazing look that must be replicated ASAP! Navy and sunflower yellow is a combination I feature often, and she pulls it off beautifully. I love the flat sandals and the side braid. Beautiful!
Thank you for the inspiration!
simple sweatshirts highlight the image of elegance!
YESSS! Coordinated — it says "Athletic, Sassy, Confident, Summer" Perfetto per un estate Italiana, or any summer. Great photo, Scott.
Love her side braid! It really brings her look to the next level, plus it's a great way to feel cooler!
Very cool and stylish!!
Braids and tie dye effect are 2 of my favourite summer trends!
Simple and pretty outfit!
Looks great…she's hot!
Simple but stunning. Love the skirt
in Milan …
I love the tie-dye and the braid!
Nice outfit!!! Really comfortable for the city!
New post with my final collection of the univ. :)
Love this look and the plait in her hair, very clean & chic!
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This is a perfect summer outfit: simple and cool. The blue tie-dye skirt is refreshing and the pop of yellow clutch is just enough contrast.
omg! this look is fab!!!
xoxo from rome
I gotta say, clean look, but I don't find the appeal. It doesn't stand out much to me, it's fairly common around Milan. But I agree that simple is good, I had 2 posts about that, simple clean looks, on my blog yesterday even. Nice pic tho. Cheers.
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Polished but casual!
Lovely outfit!
Love the way how she is posed & what a cute outfit.
Her stance is the perfect complement to her look. This is a young woman who'd never point her toes inward while being photographed.
Love the skirt!
simple yet wonderful. Love the ease at which the items make for a very nice summer look. Blue is a favorite.
I saw her, and my first reaction, was wait a minute this woman is not an European. She looks remarkably like so many of the women here in Colorado, like she doesn't skip on food and runs marathons like other people go window shopping. Lucky her to be gone the summer of fires. I hope she's enjoying smoke free air—and take your time Lila- this summer our state is not an outdoor paradise.
Hell yeah reppin' COLORADO !!! Love her shoes !!!
Simple and effective!
mountain girl in italia.
she sure looks good.
Does anyone else notice more over the shoulder braids after the Hunger Games?
Simple & stunning. She looks like an athlete, just putting on a skirt for a change of pace.
This is one of my favourite looks of all time on this site. There's nothing I would change. Except maybe to swap the person dressed like this with me.
Is that asking too much?
This is a great outfit for summer. Navy blue is a color that can be combined with so many others and it's very classy.
I like her self-confident attitude.
Lovely. Lovely.
Greetings from Amsterdam.
I love it!! So simple…it helps that she looks so strong and healthy. And I love the intricate braid!
She looks like a Roman goddess or gladiatrix.
I love her skirt and sandals!
This outfit is too cute. Love the little purse.
I'm usually not a fan of tie-dyed looking items, but I'm loving this skirt!
She is Wonder Woman!
nice style, I like her hair!!!
She looks so adorable love it
Young, free, sexy. Love the look, fabulous!
She looks so COOL. Love her braid.
what a natural look!! love it!!!
I agree with Natasha Fatah!
She looks so confident!
Outfit very classic and she reminds me of a school girl,
and its a beautiful woman playing with fashion:)
Simple, but so lovely!
Yes, please! The tight (not to mention slick) braid and sunglasses command notice, which lead one to the pleasing blues/esp skirt.
Cute with the side braid and e'rything.
Literally no fancy pants! Simplicity working at its best. Scott I really like that you shoot girls full body, we get to see their shoes, PLEASE do the same with guys, there are some shoe fetishists around!
GORGEOUS SHOT! (and woman!!)
She looks very pretty and I really like her outfit!
What an amazing shot. Love her look!
Kisses from Norwegian model and blogger
Her skirt is so lovely. It really works well with the basic top.
She looks so strong ! I Love her bleached skirt and hair
Even though it's summer, I'm not feeling skimpy sandals at all. Don't know why. Booties with a short something on top is feeling new and fresh. Diggin' maxi dresses too.
I love this outfit too! ♥
she looks great!
what an amazing hair!
She's so natural and fresh, it doesn't seem to be in Milan :-)
The print of the skirt is quite interesting.
I tried that hair but it did not look nearly as good on me :)
Lovely Look
love the skirt!
Lovely look!!!
really cute the saffron clutch! Want!
So pretty!
Lovely sandals! A touch of gold. She look comfortable but still feminine and strong at the same time.
So pretty. beautiful outfit. lovely pic
wow , fabulous look, amazing
Parfum pas cher
Love the confident pose !
new outfit post
woooow! very, very cool! love it!
Simple at it's best! Love it xx
Gorgeous! Alluring…
She is like Lara Croft! I don't like the proportions in this outfit, I don't think the shoes goes together with that short skirt. The skirt should be either longer, far lover than the knee, OR really short and slim, OR she could wear that skirt but with ballerinas. I don't know but some how this doesn't work in my eyes at all. Beautiful she is anyway, and nice hair.
Love her yellow clutch…great sense for detail.
Love the hint of citrus.
nice pic .
classy and stylish
nice pic
take care
I must dissent. The proportions are totally off. Skirt either needs to be shorter and higher on the waist, or to the floor. The way it is looks really off-putting to me.
pure class
Glad to see my neck of the US woods represent, but I'm surprised no one commented on what looks to me like an ill-fitting and entirely too, well, "uplifting" bra under her T.
Otherwise, darling outfit on a lovely woman.
extremely pretty
so strong, fresh and athletic. got USA stamped all over her look
navy might be the hottest colour on a woman. her plat makes it though
I like navy with silver, it goes so well together.
The skirt is absolutely perfect length and shape. So is she she is a very well proportioned short woman. Very pretty and very self assured. I love the wayfarers. My absolute favorite kind of sunglasses.
@ Lucia and N; Yes, I agree with you all. She should pull up her skirt. Its riding wayyyyyyy low, and its meant to be at her waist. Its elongating her waist and shortening her legs. I don't think she is aware it has sagged low like it has. But thats just one detail. Everything else is pure class, No?
Braids are so in, this season. Like last.
She is a tie-dye princess warrior.
I like the mustard clutch detail, but I'd have worn another kind of tee (maybe a loose one) and wedges or heels, more classy.
blogandthecities, thats why she is in the one in the Sartorialist. Never have understood why people feel the need to tell what they would have worn when the subject is what SHE is wearing.
Heels are beautiful, but classy? I don't know. Don't you think wearing high heels often makes one look like they are trying too hard?
Nice picture!!Simple and tidy…..
what I'm saying is that with HER proportions IN MY OPINION she'd look better (and classier) with a nice pair of heels. Or wedges, if you prefer. It's not just the look , it's how it looks ON YOU, and it's not just about fashion, it's about one's physical. Don't you think so?
Nice Arrogant, stubborn, promising…. :) neat pic and a nice female.
I love all the strappy, black, flat sandals I have been seeing lately!
I love her yellowish purse/wallet and her tight braid
no offense, i think this look is hideous! the look does not flatter her body type. The shirt does not fit her upper body well; the sinch skirt is lacking a belt or should be worn a little higher around her actual waist; the sandals are nice, however don't compliment the look as a whole; the bracelet on one hand, watch on the other should be worn with a different outfit; and I guess I will end with the only decent piece to this look: the handbag! Great vibrant color, and well suiting for running quick errands or a lunch date.
I like her outfit. I dislike the way it fits her, but the colors are so good it makes up for it.
Her stance and expression that somehow reminds me of the books and tv shows that have the stereotypical "I can do everything myself" heroines. Its overdone. Lets face it, she has no physical intimidation to offer, so why pretend? I would rather see a girl be coy then this irritating phony toughness. None of which detracts from the outfit or the photo.
I think I agree with the poster on the last photograph that said he was tired of there being so few manly men. I think maybe we really do need more girls who are honest enough to act girly.
Interesting stance. Love the way this outfit flows and is styled on her top to bottom. Sunglasses included. Captured the moment perfectly.
not so special, this looks like an outfit my teenage daughter got at Forever 21 recently
I want to marry her!
Gosh, I think she looks great.
Wow! The outfit is great, esp the color combination. And the braid is cool too (Now if I could only learn to braid my daughter's hair that way). Not to mention Lila is FINE!
Love the skirt, looks like Proenza Scouler from a few seasons ago, or maybe home made. We adore tie-dye.
Very cute!
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I really dont get it. Does not appeal at all…
This girl is an insane babe.
Great outfit !! I have similar sandals….but I hate when a high heel stepped over my toes…..!!! I think that, mostly, is on purpose….
great look, but without the cute yellow clutch it's kinda boring


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I am a classic scatterbrain. I am the epitome of "Oh Look! A squirrel." Take me out for a walk on a sunny day and one moment I am strolling along talking with you, then I am paused to study some lichen on a brick wall, then I am marveling at the pattern of shadows made by the chain-link fence around a vacant lot, and then I am again listening to you–until I interrupt to suggest we find some lemonade somewhere (a squirrel!).
I move through my life like I am a Slinky on a staircase–all the moves are connected yet disjointed …
My tendencies annoy other people.
My tendencies annoy ME. My tendencies make it difficult to stay on task, to finish anything. Not finishing anything, makes it hard to feel accomplishment. Not feeling accomplishment, is distressing. And so on.
Like so much of what we do, what works for one person, doesn't necessarily fit for another. I've had to find my own ways to keep from chasing squirrels all day. About four years ago I read about Leo Babauta's Big Rocks. I have modified Babauta's ideas to suit my ways, but his principles hold, as follows.
The essence of Big Rocks is, if we think of our day as a bucket, and we fill it first with little pebbles and bits of sand, there will be no way left to get the big rocks in. So, the wise approach is to get the big rocks in first, then add the smaller (less important) bits of gravel and dirt.
So my day begins with identifying three big rocks. I confess, I rarely attend to all my big rocks, but this gives me a clearly defined launching pad for the day. And when I get off-track (all 312 times a day), I can correct my course by reviewing my morning's notes. Below are today's Three Big Rocks, plus some of the important pebbles.
Sometimes the notes are much more simple.
Here's another one with a mess of pebbles. Jotting down the pesky pebbles, frequently helps my planning for the entire day.
I love to use my watercolour crayons to make my rocks. There's a flow that comes as I move the wet crayon across the page, it's tactile, and feels encouraging. And, I love having a little interjection of "art & creativity" first thing for my day.
Now the point of the Rocks is to get me focused on the important things, the things I want to accomplish. But focus is not action! Action requires parts Two and Three, which are The List and The Timer.
Remember my whole Look A Squirrel problem? The List is a written break-down of the things I need to do, a chipping away at the Big Rock. Honestly, I will write down the minutiae, in sequence, and carry it around with me to refer to and help me stay away from squirrels.
- Check remaining quantities of meds
- Call Doctor's office for appointment
- Look up YouTube URL for my Happy Birthday video
- Send Olivia a Happy Birthday text [with video link]
- Draft client's brochure
When I finish up one list, if there is any day remaining, I make another. Frequently my day changes direction on me at some point, so there's little point in making a long list for the entire day.
Now, inevitably there are things on the list that I would rather not do. The Timer is how I tackle those. It's simple. Pick a number between 1 and 60 and set the timer. Stay on task for that amount of time. When the time is up, I can do whatever I want. Snack. Facebook. Play with the dog. And then I'll often set the timer again, and get back to what I was previously working on.
The Timer is stupid simple. But for me it works. It gives me a sense that the chore will go on for only X amount of time, not ForEVER. This I can do. And when I veer, I remind myself that this is a "timed exercise" and I get my patootie back on task.
The Big Rocks, The List, and The Timer have brought me a sense of accomplishment. I rarely get everything done that I've set out to, but I do get things done. Things that I planned/intended/wanted to get done. And that's damned good for a girl who loves to chase after the random squirrels.
These are the watercolour crayons I love to use. Bold, vivid, easy to carry, easy to use. And not too precious to share with others.


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The natural cycle of life's ups and downs creates growth or personal fears and blockages. Which of these dominates depends a lot on how we view change. Is it exciting or is it frightening?
Who is watching? Your employees, your family, your community? If you are a leader then you are modeling how to navigate our current economic crisis. Will you step up and face your fear so we can all grow and thrive? We call fear by a lot of names: overwhelm, anxiety, frustration, pride, anger. We rarely say, "I am afraid." The leading change program is for leaders who are grappling with their own fears while also leading others.
I wrote this intro below so you would understand that this program is confronting, rigorous and deeply powerful. It requires courage and self awareness. I believe it has the power to completely alter who you are as a leader and a human being.
We will work on:
- Understanding fear and how to be facile with it
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We know change is part of life yet we go to great lengths to make our world predictable, safe, comfortable, controllable and definable. In general, we don't understand our fear and how we as human beings operate with it. When we have a lot of fear, we go about setting up a world that does not stimulate our particular fear(s). We use our mind to devise ways to avoid having our fear stimulated. Fear is afraid of itself and does not want to be felt. You can do one of two things with fear. You can recognize it for what it is and stop acting on it. Or you can try to keep the world from stimulating your fear.
We all do it. Yet we don't talk about it. You know, try to figure out how things are supposed to be and then go about trying to make it that way. How did we come up with the idea that life is not okay as it is? If change is natural maybe life is too.
As a coach, I have noticed that our attempts to protect ourselves from our problems create more problems. If you keep attempting to arrange people, places, and events so that they do not disturb your fear, life will feel heavy because you are controlling and fighting with everything. Most of us try to get to peace this way. Most of us try to get to joy this way. What if there is another way?
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AC Milan have officially enquired about the availability Fernando Torres, but could give up their chase and pursue Liverpool flop Fabio Borini instead.
Milan want to take Torres on loan and have prepared a compensation package of €3m (£2.4m) for the Spaniard.
However, reports from Italy claim that fee would need to be doubled for Chelsea to contemplate allowing Torres to leave for the San Siro.
Another stumbling block is Torres's reluctance to leave Stamford Bridge on a loan deal, favouring the security of a permanent move.
The 30 year-old has even asked Chelsea to pay up the remaining two years of his £200,000-a-week contract, worth £16m, so he can engineer a move to Milan.
Blues unwilling to sell
Chelsea are said to be reluctant to see the striker leave west London, after manager José Mourinho stated he wanted a three strikers.
He has already brought in Diego Costa and Didier Drogba, but sold Romelu Lukaku to Everton for £28m.
Torres became Britain's most expensive player when he moved to the Blues from Liverpool for £50m ($82.9m, €62.9m) in 2011. But his Stamford Bridge career has stuttered, and he has scored just 20 goals in 110 appearances.
Serie A club Milan want to take Torres to Italy, after seeing Mario Balotelli leave the Rossoneri for Liverpool in a £16m move.
But Gazzetta Dello Sport reports Milan could turn their attention to Fabio Borini, if their move for Torres amounts to nothing.
The Italian is surplus to requirement at Anfield and was close to joining Sunderland, where he spent last season on loan, before the transfer fell through.
Like Torres, Milan want to borrow Borini initially, an idea shot down by Reds' boss Brendan Rodgers, who wants to sell the striker.


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Lucien Leduc, the former title-winning coach of AS Monaco FC, has died aged 85.
Three league championships
Leduc, who died at the weekend after a long illness, won three league championships and two French Cups in two spells with the principality club. After taking charge for the first time in 1958, he led Monaco to the title in title in 1961 and 1963, as well as winning the cup in 1960 and 1963.
Second spell
When he returned to the club in 1976, they were in the second division yet he took them to promotion the following year and they were French champions in their first season back in the top flight. Leduc also won the title with Olympique de Marseille in 1971.
French international
His other clubs as a coach were Annecy, SCO Angers, Stade de Reims FC and Paris Saint-Germain FC, as well as R. Standard de Liège in Belgium and Morocco's WAC Casablanca. As a player he was capped four times by France, and won the championship with CO Roubaix in 1947 and the cup two years later with RC Paris.
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A casualty list:
"A note of the men's names deceased out of the Dragon.
1 William Thomson. 2 Job Harket. 3 William Allin.
4 Raphe Arden. 5 Christopher Scot. 6 Edward Major.
7 Thomas May. 8 John Pegoune. 9 John Johnson.
10 Philip Salisbury. 11 Edmund Davies. 12 Richard Joanes.
13 Daniell Richardson. 14 John Clackson.15 Robert Poppe.
16 John Webbe. 17 John Humber. 18 William Burrowes.
19 Mathew Perchet. 20 Edward Keall. 21 Nicholas Williams.
22 Peter Bennet. 23 Leonard Nichols. 24 Robert Dame.
25 John Judson. 26 William Barker. 27 William Barret.
28 William Ridge. 29 Ralphe Salter. 30 Jeremy Gaufe.
31 Henry Thickpenny. 32 Henry Brigges. 33 Rice Williams.
34 Martine Topsaile. 35 M. William Bradbanke 36 Richard Androwes.
37 M. Thomas Pullin preacher. 38 Jeames Fullar. 39 William Winter.
40 William Hall. 41 John Hankin. 42 Richard Exame.
43 Robert Hill. 44 John Woodall. 45 John Jeane.
46 Robert Keachinman. 47 Jeames Caverly. 48 John Hope.
49 John Trincall. 50 John Duke.51 Martaine Cornelison.
52 Launslet Taylor. 53 John Settell. 54 William Burrowes.
55 Percevall Stradling. 56 John Harrice. 57 Frauncis Pormoth.
58 Edward Baddiford. 59 Thomas Price. 60 Phillip Goulding.
61 Roger Morrice. 62 Stephen Burdall. 63 Nicholas Ragwood.
64 George Wattes. 65 Myles Berry. 66 William Mounke."
The list appears with three others in the last pages of this pamphlet:
A TRUE AND LARGE DISCOURSE OF THE VOYAGE OF THE WHOLE FLEETE OF SHIPS SET forth the 20. of Aprill 1601. by the Governours and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London, to the East Indies.
WHEREIN IS SET downe the order and manner of their trafficke, the discription of the Countries, the nature of the people and their language, with the names of all the men dead in the Voyage.
AT LONDON Imprinted for Thomas Thorpe, and are to be solde by William Aspley. 1603.
It's hard to tell why. The other account of the voyage, A LETTER WRITTEN TO THE RIGHT worshipfull the Governours and Assistants of the East Indian Marchants in London; containing the estate of the East Indian Fleete, with the names of the chiefe men of note dead in the Voyage confined itself, as the title makes clear, to just the chief casualties, as they were seen, the ranking ships officers and merchants on board. The full list in this pamphlet includes two men given the honorific 'Master', among the ordinary seamen.
They were all embarked on the boat called 'The Red Dragon', previously called 'The Scourge of Malice' (by its first owner and commissioner, the Earl of Cumberland, who must have been reading too much 1590's satire). This is an excellent Wikipedia page:
Bought off the Earl, the ship was re-named for this, the first fleet voyage of the East India Company (1601-3). The Red Dragon was a big ship, 600-900 tons, with 38 guns, much larger than the other main ships making up the fleet sent out, Hector (300 tons, whose crew suffered 37 casualties), Ascension (260 tons, 38 casualties), Susan (240 tons, 39 casualties).
The attrition rate on the flagship was lower, because the Commander of the flagship and the whole fleet, Sir James Lancaster, made his men drink lemon juice daily, so that they did not die of scurvy or suffer fatal debilitation by it leading to death. Lancaster's report on this success was sent to the Admiralty, and promptly shelved and forgotten.
Lancaster, Sir James (1554/5–1618),
What did they die of, the casualties in this fleet?
Scurvy, dysentery, the calenture, they were lost overboard, or fell fatally, unspecified causes, tropical diseases after reaching their destination ("the countrie is very unwholsome, that almost it may be said of it, as it is said of Malacca, fewe come thether, but eyther loose hide or hayre: heere we lost ten or twelve men out of our ship.")
Or they were the victims of the grossest negligence:
"The 27. day being Saterday, the lamentablest accident happened, that happened since wee departed England, and thus it was, Maister Winter the Maisters Mate of the Admiral dying, the rest of the Captaines and Maisters went to his burial and according to the order of the sea, there was 2. or 3. great ordinances discharged at his going a shoare, but the maister Gunner of the Admirall being not so carefull as he should have beene, unfortunately killed Maister Brand Captaine of the Ascention and the Boatswaines mate of the same ship, to the great danger of the Maister, his mate and another Marchant who were hurt and besprinckled with the bloud of these massacred men, so these men going to the buriall of another were themselves carryed to their owne graves."
The Red Dragon (just) and the Hector survived to take part in the second (with Ascension and Susan) and third voyage. For the third voyage, the Red Dragon was commanded by William Keeling:
So, it was on this big ship that the purported performances of Hamlet and Richard II took place off Sierra Leone and Sumatra in 1607 and 1608.
This yarn about maritime Shakespeare productions has been comprehensively exploded by Jonathan Bate, who shows that 'Ambrose Guntio' was beyond all reasonable doubt a mask for the dread name of J P Collier. Collier removed the relevant pages (for the dates) of Keeling's surviving diary for the voyage, and left in print under the unlikely alias this tasty and poisoned tit-bit for literary scholarship to rejoice over, all the way up to the third edition Arden Hamlet.
Bate, bless him, simply googled the pseudonym to locate other items published as by 'Ambrose Guntio', and found comprehensive and convincing overlap with work the forger published under his own name:
But the other way to have thought about it was likelihoods. You might have put on a Hamlet on a Cunard liner, or White Star line ship heading for India. But when every day was a battle with storm-damaged ships for crews debilitated by illness, malnutrition, and dangerous labour, who was going to have the leisure to cast, distribute parts to, costume, commit to memory and play (or even spectate at) a Hamlet?
No doubt the East India Company did get a little better with more experience. But it's just laughable to think that participants on a most prosperous and lucky voyage would have spare energy for this kind of nonsense. They had preachers on board too, and this first voyage gives us an instance of the more pious sort of performance they would have considered edifying, and we can imagine that events of this general nature were far more likely to have been conducted on the third voyage than a Shakespeare play:
"Before our departure from hence we had a Sermon and a Communion one a Sunday in the forenoone, and afternoone one of our men which was a Jew, was christened and called John, our Generall being his godfather."
I still do not understand the full casualty list. The other pamphlet, which has less stress on the deaths and dangers, seems a more official sort of publication. I think women whose husbands had gone to sea were allowed to re-marry after three years with no news, so a list of men who hadn't come back at all, rather than come back and absconded, would have been useful and humane.
It is delivered without reproaches: the East India Company is not condemned, they are new to this risky game too (they still had to work out that arriving in London with a galleon full of pepper would drive down the price of pepper).
The pamphlet reminds me of Donne's 'The Storm' and 'The Calm' (though just how literary those poems look in the comparison), and of The Tempest ("wee continued here two monethes and eight dayes, having for the most part every daye fearefull thunder, raine and lightenning, as the like is not heard in our countrey, for they haue many slaine with the thunder which maketh them make hast to gette home before night. The people are very industrious and take great paines, both in setting of Rice which groweth there in great quantytie, so that there is whole stackes thereof, as also in beating and winnowing the same. They weave such thinges as they weare about their bodyes beeing made of the barke of trees. Their houses are but meane, standing halfe a yarde from the ground and covered with leaues, with a hoale at one ende of the same house to creepe in at on their knees. They love Wine exceedingly, with which they will bee very drunke").
The things those lost men saw - or if they were unlucky on the way out, almost got to see! Elephants with their boy mahouts, the Sultan of Aceh's damsels dancing in their bracelets and jewels, even mermaids ("The 13. day we saw two Marmaides, and as we judged them, they were Male and Female, because the Mosse of one of their heads was longer then the other, their heades are very round, and their hinder parts are devided like two legges, they say they are signes of stormy weather; and so we found it").
If Henry Thickpenny was one of the few to bear the Thickpenny name, as this site below seems to indicate he may have been, maybe he'd had good value for being a Thickpenny:
And if Methusalem Mountjoy (dead on the Ascention) had only a short life, it was certainly intense. Everybody on this crazily dangerous voyage deserved a monument somewhere, and the printing press of Thomas Thorpe provided it - it would later produce a more famous memorialisation (of sorts), without a name at all.


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Servo Blind Automation with MSP430 January 16, 2012 at 2:17 AM
A while ago I modified a little 8-gram servo I had lying around for constant rotation and attached it to the blade pitch adjust(is thats what you call it!? 😕 ) mechanism in my blinds. I've been meaning to build a simple controller for it for ages, so the other night I grabbed my MSP430 launchpad and some G2001 chips I had lying around. This was the result:
LED Suits :D (Part 1) January 4, 2012 at 8:32 PM
This project started as a small idea several months ago for led overalls to attend a new years eve(and other) party with. The idea was simple enough: grab some white overalls, wire them up with LED's and a controller, then go adventure and 'wow' some people! heh, easier said than done..


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I witnessed a conversation yesterday that I still can't really believe was real.
At the summer program where I work the kids arrive about an hour early and they all have breakfast downstairs in the cafeteria. Yesterday morning a girl needed to finish a project so she asked her counselor for permission and came upstairs. She walked in, told the office secretary why she was there, who had given her permission to come up, and then started working on a computer in the workroom [note: this was not a teacher's lounge type room, it was an open computer lab room] where I was. She walked in with a huge smile and said good morning to me. I asked her what she was up to and she told me about the project and then got started.
About 20 minutes later, one of the other teachers walked into the same room and immediately said to her, "What are you doing here? You know you're not supposed to be up here this early. Go back downstairs now." She started to tell him that she was working on a project and that she had permission. He cut her off and didn't even listen to her. He told her to stop making trouble and to leave right now. She continued to try to explain and he told her to stop giving him an attitude.
SERIOUSLY?? I just sat there stunned that this was really going on Even as I'm writing this it still makes me angry. I just quietly told her to save her work and just come into the library and I'd do my work in there with her while she finished up.
Later in the day at the weekly meeting that same teacher complains about how bad the kids are and how much attitude they have. Maybe it never to occurred to him that if he dislikes kids so much he shouldn't be a teacher.
I genuinely like kids. I think they're such funny and interesting little people. I think it's unfortunate and sad though that in most places I have been it seems like I am in the minority of people that feel that way.
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I have seen this a few times in my years of working with kids as well. It always floors me and frustrates me. I have seen adults instigate kids to arguing or to an attitude and then get on to them for arguing or for getting an attitude.ReplyDelete
What amazes me is these adults are always in wonder as to why kids don't respect them or have a desire to respect them.
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Wet weather superheroes!
These plants will thrive in harsh conditions while others struggle
In some gardens, plants cheerfully thrive, while others succumb to harsh winds, frost damage and constantly wet soil. For plants, heavy winter rainfall is a big problem. Many don't need as much water in dormancy or with reduced photosynthetic activity, so waterlogged conditions can easily lead to dieback and root rot. The plant wilts as its roots struggle to get vital oxygen. And with rainfall levels increasing, it's a good idea to look for plants which are able to specifically cope with these wet conditions. And these incredible superheroes will not only cope – they'll even thrive!
Liquidambar styraciflua
Flamboyant beauty with attractive corky bark and glossy-green, five-lobed pointed leaves that transform in autumn to brilliant shades of orange, crimson and purple. The flowers develop into exceptional round, spiky fruit, many of which stay on the tree throughout winter. Often found in swampy ground in its natural habitat in North America, it tolerates wet soils more than other trees. It's hardy down to -20C (-4F) and can be grown in an exposed position in a lime-free soil, in sun or part shade, and makes a nice addition to woodland gardens.
Iris pseudacorus
This vigorous iris grows up to 1.5m (5ft) high and loves wet conditions. It grows best in a deep, acid and fertile soil in sun or part shade, and will thrive in waterlogged soil, on a shelf in a pond or at the margins of a stream. It has beautiful, large, yellow flowers with darker veining in the centre in mid and late summer, ripening to seed pods which split into orangey brown seeds. It's a long-lived perennial, hardy to over -20C (-4F).
Zantedeschia aethiopica
This plant grows in wet, marshy places in the wild, so flooding or waterlogged conditions won't do it any harm. It grows best in a moist, fertile soil or shallow water. It's best to plant it in shade if the soil isn't boggy, but it produces more flowers if grown in full sun. It's striking appearance with its 15cm (6in) long, brilliant white spade and yellow spikes in the centre will amaze you in spring and summer. The female flowers produce green berries, turning orange when mature. To heighten the effect of this amazing plant, divide it in spring to increase its numbers.


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The Better Thing is, in my opinion, just to box it in. The final effect will look the same, after all. It will be cheaper, and I'm a better carpenter than I am a bricklayer. Let's play to our strengths. Step One is to build a frame onto which the timber cladding can be mounted. I bought a pack of eight lengths of sawn, treated timber (240 cm lengths of 4 x 1.8 cms) for £11.90 from the B & Q DIY store. This is cheap wood for gardening/outdoor work, but it comes in cheaper than the better finished PSE (planed square edged) timber. It's going to be covered up, so it doesn't really matter and it saves a few pennies.
Measure twice and cut once. Remember this. It's a good rule for life, let alone carpentry. Measure the correct length for your job, mark your wood, return to the job and check it. Every time. This is the sort of thing that separates the men from the boys. If a job's worth doing ...
I'll not add in the cost of the screws and rawlplugs here. These are things I'd bought already and had sitting around in my toolbox. Like screwdrivers, saws, hammers etc. If you are a young person, buy tools. Regularly - at least once a week. If you go into a PoundShop, buy something for a quid. When you are doing your grocery shopping in a supermarket, stick something from the DIY aisle in your trolley. Anything - a screwdriver, a roll of masking tape, a box of nails. If you go to a fleamarket or a car boot sale, buy tools. Over the years you will build up a collection of bits and pieces that will, one day, be the right tool for the job. Imagine the satisfaction when you think, "... if only I had a ...", and then remember that you already have one at the bottom of your tool box.
Saw the wood to the correct length. Then measure and mark for the screws. Use screws and not nails - you may need to take this apart in the future. Space them roughly nine inches apart. (Get used to the idea that I'm going to jump around between imperial and metric measurements in this blog. I was brought up using feet and inches. Then they started selling stuff in metric measurements. They even changed to money to decimal. I still work in pounds, shillings and pence - "They want thirteen bob for a Mars bar! Jesus!". Use a spirit level and a plumb line to keep it all square. Drill your holes. Remember to use the right drill for the size of your screws. Drill your holes because you don't want to split the wood, and it's easier to put a screw through a hole than through solid wood. It's not a Try Your Strength stand. Then, put your cut, drilled piece in place. Tap a nail through each drilled hole into the brick/plaster/wood behind it. This gives you a mark for where to drill the brick/wood/plaster. Move the piece away, make the mark more visible (with a pencil), check it again and drill your wall. Remember to use a masonry drill if you need to - you should find one in the bottom of your tool box! Tap the right sized rawlplug into the hole. Screw the piece into position. Repeat until your frame is up. You will need to work out in advance where the cross-pieces will go. The cross-pieces are what you will nail the cladding onto, so get them in the right places. You will need to know what length your cladding is going to be, so check it first. You can't nail cladding onto fresh air.
|The Timber Framing in place.
As with the timber, I bought tongue and groove wooden cladding from B & Q. A pack of five lengths was £5.84. Each pack covers 0.92 square cms, so I needed six packs. Measure and cut the cladding as required. Start at the outside edge and work towards in internal angle - that way, if you have to cut the final board to width, the cut will be in the corner and not out in the open. Drill holes for your panel pins in the cladding with a very fine drill - it will split if you don't drill it. Use panel pins to mount the cladding to the frame. Then go over each pin and tap it below the surface with a nail punch (...there's one in the bottom of your tool box, remember, and if not then use a bigger nail as a makeshift punch), take some wood filler and fill each hole with it. Use an artist's palette knife (in your tool box...) and take your time. Make sure you get them all. Leave the filler to dry properly - overnight should do it.
|One pack of cladding in place.
|The Second Pack follows...
|... as does the Third.
|Guess which this pack is ?
|All Done.
I also added a small door at the bottom - it will make a handy hole to shove stuff away in. I just knocked up a square frame and pinned the cladding to it. The whole job took about four hours (including a couple of brews).
Costs : -
Sawn, treated timber £11.90
Tongue and groove cladding
6 packs @ £5.84 each £35.04
Total £46.94
Running total £46.94