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PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab
The PopTech Ecomaterials Innovation Lab convenes this summer with a goal of fostering breakthroughs in next-generation, ‘ultra-green’ ecological materials and industrial processes.
A network of renowned materials scientists, sustainability experts, industrial ecologists and other key stakeholders will explore the future of such materials and processes, and strategies for accelerating their adoption.
Photography by John Santerre
Newbies: Please Stay away. Seek a mentor if you can not resist.
Experts and Gurus: All star cast.
Good For 2 Days only April 25-26
Update April 25, 2013 Thurs
HOLDER .50-.60 centavos Repetitive Behavior
@.86 centavos collective sentiment (.50-.60c holder) is to go for 100%++ return as otherwise the 2 months accumulation @ 9% p.a interest eats up the capital of marginal accounts.
What is a marginal account player
borrow money from the bank (broker does this to Master Tsupiteros)
use the money to buy stocks
pay monthly fee or interest of loan
full payment when stock is liquidated.
necessary evil to hit 1.15 at least
then what happens @ 1.15
LEAD TRADER(s) - Rollover ;unload(s) 100% price drops then buys back using 10-15% of capital to create enough momentum to tease shadow players
10% is the risk capital considered as sunk cost in case fellow Master Tsupiteros Panick.
Remedy: Get out after the initial surge in the opening. And you may risk back 10% of capital.
Disciplined Trader shall get out @ 2.2% 3.2% 4.8% and 7%% gain from the opening. I am out @3.2%
Greed shall hope and pray @ 18-22-42%
Cut loss @-22% or condition your mind to recover in 8 months. (due diligence ++ paperwork politics take 12 months to germinate
Tolerate -15% price drop
Then: Shortlist and Repeat with illiquid stocks that has nice story to cook and lowest RSI
1972 Columbia Tourist Expert III.
Columbia used the Sports and Tourist names on their three and five speed bikes. The Expert name was used on bikes with 27" wheels. At the time 27" wheels were still mainly used on expensive light weight bicycles. Most Columbias and other cheaper bikes stuck with the old 26 by 1 3/8" size wheels.
Columbia was one of the oldest bicycle manufacturers in the world. The company dates back to 1877. Over the years the company has been through many owners. But the decline started when Columbia was bought out by MTD in 1967. In the 1950s Columbia was roughly equal to or superior to Schwinn in the U.S. - MTD drove the quality of Columbia products down until the company was barely competitive with Huffy. Columbia was bankrupt by the end of the 1980s. It was a perfect lesson in how to destroy a 100 year old company in short order.
Voor hun inzet voor vredesoperaties over de hele wereld hebben 21 politieagenten, 12 leden van de Koninklijke Marechaussee en 10 civiele experts op donderdag 7 november de Herinneringsmedaille Internationale Missies ontvangen.
De in totaal 43 medailles zijn uitgereikt door minister Sigrid Kaag voor Buitenlandse Handel en Ontwikkelingssamenwerking, korpschef van de politie Erik Akerboom, plaatsvervangend Commandant der Strijdkrachten luitenant-generaal Onno Eichelsheim en Commandant Koninklijke Marechaussee luitenant-generaal Hans Leijtens.
De herinneringsmedailles zijn in dit gezamenlijke verband voor het elfde jaar op rij uitgereikt, vandaag in de Nieuwe Kerk in Den Haag. De gedecoreerde functionarissen hebben bijgedragen aan meer veiligheid en stabiliteit in landen als Mali, Oekraïne, Kosovo, Somalië en Afghanistan. Ze helpen onder meer bij de aanpak van grensoverschrijdende, georganiseerde criminaliteit, aan het versterken van lokaal gezag, en de opbouw van de rechtstaat.
Alle kinderen onder de 16 jaar van de gedecoreerde functionarissen hebben een kindermedaillon ontvangen voor hun steun vanuit het thuisfront.
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Brussels Motor Show
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Salon de l'Auto Bruxelles
Brussels - Belgium
January 2023
Gettysburg.
The Civil War from 1861-64 was the most tragic and momentous event in American history. It had its origins in the economic and agricultural differences between the North and the South which were exacerbated by different views about the morality of black slavery. Once Abraham Lincoln (a Republican) was elected in November 1860 as the next President to be inaugurated in February 1861 the fears of the South could no longer be allayed by compromise and logical thinking. South Carolina, always the most firebrand and radical of the Southern states seceded almost immediately. So technically the Civil War was about secession and whether the constitution gave any state the right to secede rather than it being about slavery. But the expansion (not the mere existence) of slavery was the issue behind secession. Sth Carolina was joined by other southern states and they quickly formed the confederacy with Jefferson Davis as President. Lincoln wanted to avoid war. He chose not to be the aggressor but as an able lawyer and great humanist he warned that he would defend the property of the US. When the Confederates (Grey Coats or Rebels) fired on Fort Sumner in the harbour of Charleston, the capital of South Carolina in April 1861 the war began. The north had the advantage of a much bigger population, better rail system, almost all of the industry in America, and money, but they struggled for four years to win the war. Many of the battles were in the Border States near Washington DC where the southern state of Virginia basically abuts the northern states of Pennsylvania and Maryland. (But Maryland really had no choice but to join with the north as it was placed under military control by Lincoln. After all the capital, Washington DC is almost surrounded by Maryland.) One of the great battles that occurred in this region was the Battle of Gettysburg.
Despite the advantages of the North it lost most of the battles in the first couple of years of the Civil War. The Yankees could not defeat the great southern General Robert E Lee. That is why Lincoln kept changing his generals. The turning point was probably the Battle of Gettysburg which raged from 1-4th July 1863. General Meade led the Union forces in their bloody defeat of the Confederates under Lee at Gettysburg. Around 163,000 men faced each other in the battles. At the end of the last day, Confederate causalities - dead, wounded and missing were 28,000 (out of 75,000 troops) and the Union casualties were 23,000 (out of 88,000 troops. ) After the battle General Lee had to retreat to the South quickly and leave the Confederate dead on the battle field. These were incredibly high death tolls for any battle. Is it any wonder the Americans still feel so deeply about the Civil War? By the end of the Civil War, over 620,000 men had been killed and nearly 300,000 wounded- many of them maimed for the rest of their lives: - a total of almost 1 million men. The death toll from the Civil War was greater than the combined US toll for World Wars One and Two. A total of16.47% of all troops were killed in the Civil War- a very high proportion. This compares badly with American involvement in say World War One- 2.46% of troops killed, or World War Two- 2.52% of troops killed. The Civil War was a huge tragedy.
After the battle Lincoln went to dedicate a memorial to the men who had lost their lives in this great battle in November of 1863. The Gettysburg Address is a remarkably short speech, for a politician, and is considered by many to be one of the finest speeches in the English language. In just over two minutes, Lincoln invoked the principles of human equality espoused by the Declaration of Independence and redefined the Civil War as a struggle not merely for the Union, but as "a new birth of freedom" that would bring true equality to all of its citizens, and that would also create a unified nation in which states' rights were no longer dominant.
At Gettysburg we will see battlefield, memorials and the interpretive centre with its dioramas and displays. Below is a map of the town and surrounding battlefields and memorials.
Abraham Lincoln 1809-1865. The Republican Party emerged in American in 1854 to oppose the EXPANSION of slavery into the new western territories. In the 1858 congressional elections Lincoln made his most famous statement:
“A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this government cannot endure permanently half slave and half free. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved—I do not expect the house to fall—but I do expect it will cease to be divided. It will become all one thing, or all the other."
Four nominees stood to be the Republican candidate for the 1860 Presidential election and Lincoln was chosen as the Republican candidate. He won the election and became the first anti slavery president from one section (the North) party to win an election. During the campaign the Democrat Party split into a northern and southern democrat parties with different candidates. Lincoln kept a low profile after the election and because of assassination threats and safety concerns in Baltimore he was secretly taken to Washington DC in disguise on 23 February 1861 to be inaugurated as President on 4th March. Once the November election results were known, Sth Carolina and then other southern states seceded. Lincoln’s training as a small town lawyer held him in good stead as president. He studied the constitution closely and developed his legalistic arguments. The South had no right to secede. The constitution was a binding contract and no state could unilaterally secede. He would not attack the South but he would defend the property of the US in the rebelling (seceding) Southern states and the posts would be delivered. Historians argue that Lincoln chose to avoid war, and not be the aggressor, but the South had little room for manoeuvring out of war. The South began the war at Fort Sumter. Despite Lincoln’s expert handling of the military aspects of the war, his choice of generals and his handling of the affairs of state, he was unpopular with many Republicans as he was not radical enough. Lincoln stood as an independent candidate for the US presidential elections of 1864 and won, this time not as a Republican but as the leader for the National Union Party. Perhaps Lincoln’s most memorable act was the Emancipation Proclamation of 1st January 1863 which set slaves free in the rebelling states. (It required a constitutional amendment to abolish slavery in all states.) This act brought former slaves into the War in both the North and South; it bought strong alliances with European powers, especially France and England who could not support a pro-slavery nation ( the Confederacy had tried to get France’s financial backing) ; and it turned the war from a war about secession and constitutional issues into a war about slavery. Lincoln was assassinated by John Wilkes Booth 5 days after General Lee surrendered to General Grant at Appomattox Court House on 9 April 1865 thus ending the Civil War.
Wheat rust expert Bob McIntosh, of the Plant Breeding Institute, University of Sydney, Australia, examining rust symptoms on a wheat line in the field at the Kenya Agricultural Research Institute's (KARI) Njoro research station in Kenya. McIntosh is a giant in the world of rust: he worked with Norman Borlaug and has taught almost all of the wheat rust scientists in the world today.
McIntosh was one of the experts who taught on a two-week international training course on “Stem Rust Note Taking and Evaluation of Germplasm” hosted by KARI at Njoro from 28 September to 7 October 2009. The course was attended by scientists from over 20 countries, many of whom are collaborators with the Borlaug Global Rust Initiative (BGRI). It was jointly organized by CIMMYT, the Durable Rust Resistance in Wheat Project, KARI, and the International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA). The participants focused on practical fieldwork skills, learning to score stem rust consistently and to a standardized international scale, allowing them to contribute to the global monitoring of the stem rust race Ug99.
Ug99 was first discovered in Uganda in 1999, following several decades of almost total freedom from stem rust for the world's wheat farmers thanks to resistant improved varieties. Ug99 is virulent to the great majority of wheat varieties, and can cause total yield loss. A major international screening program to identify sources of resistance to Ug99 is now ongoing at Njoro, where it is already endemic, with more than 30,000 wheat lines from around the world being assessed each year.
For more about the course, see CIMMYT's blog story at: blog.cimmyt.org/?p=2224
For more on CIMMYT's ongoing work on Ug99, see the following e-news stories:
2010, "Planting for the future: New rust resistant wheat seed on its way to farmers": www.cimmyt.org/newsletter/231-2010/716-planting-for-the-f....
October 2009, "From Cairo to Kabul: Rust resistant wheat seed just in time": www.cimmyt.org/newsletter/38-2009/460-from-cairo-to-kabul....
December 2008, "Report from the field: Wheat stem rust resistance screening at Njoro, Kenya": www.cimmyt.org/newsletter/37-2008/110-genetic-resources-p....
December 2006, "Threat level rising": www.cimmyt.org/newsletter/82-2006/263-threat-level-rising.
September 2005, "The World’s Wheat Crop is Under Threat from New Disease": www.cimmyt.org/newsletter/86-2005/331-the-worlds-wheat-cr....
Photo credit: Petr Kosina/CIMMYT.
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Valentina Stoevska, ILO speaking at the 24th Internet-agency and Expert Group (IAEG) Meeting on MDG Indicators, ITU, Geneva, Switzerland.
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Cdt. Damian Wright, University of Nevada, a seasoned shooter, 5th Regiment, Cadet Leaders Course, aims to make expert level on the Handiboe range. Fort Knox, June 27. Photo by Ariana Aubuchon
The people of the SHA2017 Team:Logistics/Off-site were picking up loads of Team:Decoratie stuff (including the awesome SHA2017 sign!) at Hackerspace Hack42, to be hauled off to the terrain.
The second expert working session with Daniel García Andújar, Archival process , Intermediae Madrid July 2009
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VIDAL Expert est le produit numérique le plus complet de la gamme VIDAL.
Enrichi de nombreuses fonctionnalités, regroupant aussi bien des modules d’alerte en lien avec l’état physiopathologique du patient que des modules de recherches approfondies, VIDAL Expert est pour le praticien un outil idéal pour sécuriser la prescription ou la dispensation.
VIDAL Expert fonctionne de façon autonome mais est également interfacé avec les principaux logiciels de cabinet médicaux disponibles sur le marché.
Experts in their field, North Carolina Air National Guard’s 145th Airlift Wing Command Chief Master Sgt. Maurice Williams, right, shares ideas with Air Force Command Chief Master Sergeant Mitchell O. Brush, Senior Enlisted Advisor to the Chief of the National Guard Bureau, at the North Carolina National Guard Senior Leaders Workshop held at NCNG Joint Force Headquarters, in Raleigh, Jan. 24, 2015. (U.S. Army National Guard Photo by Sgt. 1st Class Robert Jordan / released)
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The festival celebrates the finest in both gardening and food. Visitors can expect stunning show gardens and nursery displays alongside a bounty of food producers, shopping and top tips from garden experts and celebrity chefs.
Set against the picturesque Malvern Hills, show gardens are always a number one destination, with five designers being awarded with RHS Gold Medals in 2016.
The Floral Marquee is bursting with examples of the finest nurseries in the UK and abroad, with many old favourites and new varieties on sale.
The foodie hotspot, Festival Food and Drink Pavilion, is a lively market of food producers offering a variety of artisan produce. At the heart is a Kitchen Theatre where celebrity guests and local producers showcase their skills and produce.
Other festival favourites include the School Gardens, Get Going Get Growing pavilion and Family Day (Sunday).
RHS Malvern Spring Festival is a joint partnership with the Royal Horticultural Society and Three Counties Agricultural Society.
An entirely new vision brings RHS Malvern Spring Festival into full bloom for 2017, taking inspiration from the event’s Spa town heritage. The landmark four-day spectacle, taking place from Thursday 11 – Sunday 14 May at the Three Counties Showground, welcomes all new features and exhibits and a vibrant line up of the finest in gardening, food and lifestyle.
Jane Furze, Head of RHS Malvern Spring Festival, said: “We are so excited to share the glorious plans that are afoot for RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2017. It really is going to be a sensational year for our leading event with plenty for everyone. Whether you’re a newcomer to gardening, a veteran horticulturalist or simply looking for a family day out, RHS Malvern Spring Festival has it all. We look forward to welcoming visitors to our stunning showcase of spring in May.”
The new vision for RHS Malvern Spring Festival takes inspiration from Malvern Spa’s Victorian heyday as a fashionable health resort – a place where day-trippers descended to take advantage of the clean air and to enjoy the health giving waters amongst the romantic beauty of the hills and into a town of pleasure gardens, assembly rooms and numerous eating-places.
Promising a bountiful day out for everyone, visitors can expect:
NEW FOR 2017
FLORAL MARQUEE
RHS Malvern Spring Festival boasts the UK’s longest Floral Marquee at over 195 metres – the equivalent length of four Olympic swimming pools. The Floral Marquee welcomes more than 65 leading UK and international nurseries, setting the horticultural standards with impressive displays of prized blooms and new varieties. Exhibitors in the Floral Marquee represent the very best in plants and advice available. Here visitors can browse and buy from the very best.
JOE SWIFT’S PLANT HUNTER PARLOUR
BBC Gardeners’ World presenter and acclaimed garden expert, Joe Swift brings to life a new centerpiece of the Floral Marquee – Joe’s Plant Hunter Parlour. This immersive experience like no other features daily talks from award winning nurseries and welcomes budding gardeners big and small to discover, learn and indulge their inner plant hunter.
LIVE WELL
Newly introduced for the very first time, this dedicated zone interprets and explores the theme of health and wellbeing in the 21st century.
JEKKA MCVICAR’S HEALTH & WELLBEING GARDEN
The centrepiece of the Live Well zone, British Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar designs and builds a specially commissioned permanent garden, bringing to life the role gardens continue to play in our health and sense of wellbeing. Jekka’s garden is a living working space for mind, body and senses.
The garden is both a tranquil seating space where visitors can spend time amongst the aromatic herb beds, and a place to learn and explore what living well meant in yesteryear and what it means today. Visitors are invited to join daily ‘herbal conversations’ with Jekka herself and explore the awe-inspiring world of alternative therapies. The garden is in support of Pathways, a day service for adults with learning disabilities and difficulties.
GROW
A horticultural experience by Jon Wheatley, RHS Gold Medal winning gardener and Chairman of RHS South West in Bloom, Grow takes inspiration from interactive Country gardens and wildflower borders, showcasing a variety of edible beds and bountiful Grow To Show competitions.
SPA GARDENS
A brand new category introduced for the very first time to RHS Malvern Spring Festival, offering a unique platform for emerging gardening talent. Glorious gardens from up and coming designers bring to life the new vision and reflect the thirst for knowledge, new horizons and innovative technology at the heart of Malvern’s Victorian heritage. Gold Medal winning Chelsea garden designer, Jo Thompson is mentoring the new talent as they embark on this exciting new challenge. The Spa Gardens category also features one garden from an international designer supported by the esteemed Moscow Flower Show. This is part of a newly introduced exchange programme, which in return offers one selected British Spa Garden designer the once in a lifetime chance to showcase at Moscow Flower Show in July.
INDOOR SHOPPING ARCADES
A premium quality shopping experience, it is here that visitors can pick up unique pieces in fashion, furniture, homewares, horticulture, gifts and more from independent designers, craftsmen, artisans and artists.
PLANT ARCADES
An exciting open-air shopping experience with over 35 nurseries, each showcasing a wonderful array of plants. Plant steals aplenty can be found here, especially during the famous sell-off on Sunday.
MAKING A WELCOME RETURN
FESTIVAL GREEN
The heart of RHS Malvern Spring Festival featuring a colourful array of pleasure gardens, a bandstand of live music, an impressive collection of classic cars, an array of global flavours from the International Street Food Market, and plenty of places to picnic. It is here visitors rediscover the Victorian love of amusement, surprise and delight, alongside enjoying unique show gardens unlike any other.
FESTIVAL THEATRE
Hosted by RHS Malvern Spring Festival favourite and award winning writer and broadcaster, James Alexander-Sinclair, the Festival Theatre plays host to a lively line up of leading experts and familiar faces. Visitors may take a seat and enjoy demonstrations, talks and exciting features as personalities share their knowledge and passion for all things gardening and food. Confirmed experts include Carol Klein, Joe Swift, Jekka McVicar and Jon Wheatley with plenty more to be announced soon.
SHOW GARDENS
The highest standard of garden design is showcased in the Show Gardens of RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2017. Leading designers create awe-inspiring gardens as they compete for prestigious RHS accolades including Gold medals and the coveted Best In Show. RHS Malvern Spring Festival is famed as the show that raises the bar for design and horticultural talent with numerous RHS Gold medals awarded in 2016. This year is tipped to be no exception.
FOOD & DRINK PAVILION
A foodie hotspot, the Food & Drink Pavilion is a magnificent celebration of British tastes with bountiful offerings from the country’s best-loved artisan producers. Expect the freshest field produce, big cheeses, bread of heaven, specialty gins, decadent bakes and more.
KITCHEN GARDEN THEATRE
This animated live kitchen, hosted by Mark Diacono, showcases a line up of delicious cookery demonstrations from culinary experts and the country’s top chefs. Mark shares advice from his home farm cookery school, Otter Farm and experience as head gardener at River Cottage.
YOUNG GARDENER
A hive of activity tailored to inspire the next generation of gardeners and horticulturalists with fun hands-on activities to help children learn and explore the wonderful world of plants and gardens.
FAMILY DAY
Budding gardeners great and small are invited to get green fingered with a dedicated Family Day on the Sunday of RHS Malvern Spring Festival. This exciting and educational day with plenty of hands on activities is the ideal opportunity to engage children in the fun of gardening and the great outdoors. Expect Kids Cookery demonstrations, make and take crafts, Kids Plant and Grow workshops with BBC Blue Peter Gardener, Chris Collins and more.
SCHOOL GARDENS
RHS Malvern Spring Festival is one of the only RHS Shows in the UK to have a collection of Show Gardens designed and built entirely by young people. This year sees over 12 schools and educational groups from across the three counties taking part, led by BBC Blue Peter Gardener, Chris Collins.
RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2017 will take place from Thursday 11 May until Sunday 14 May. For more information, please call 01684 584900 or visit
British Queen of Herbs, Jekka McVicar will unveil the first ever specially commissioned permanent garden at RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2017. A magnificent centrepiece of the celebrated event’s all-new Live Well zone, Jekka’s garden will bring to life the contribution horticulture continues to make to our health and wellbeing in today’s bustling modern world. The Health & Wellbeing Garden will be launched when the show opens its gates on Thursday 11 May at the Three Counties Showground.#
RHS Ambassador for Health through Horticulture, Jekka McVicar said: “I am delighted to have been asked to create a lasting garden for RHS Malvern Spring Festival. I want the Health & Wellbeing Garden to be a usable and beautiful space that is embraced by people of all ages – a space for growth, education and reflection. With the Malvern Hills as a dramatic backdrop, RHS Malvern Spring Festival is such a beautiful place and because it’s at the start of the summer, it’s always a time of such optimism. It is a real privilege to bring this garden to life as part of such a dynamic and exciting show.”
Jekka’s Health & Wellbeing garden, as the focus for the new Live Well Zone, is inspired by the increasing need for reflection and escape from the stresses of modern life. It also seeks to preserve and share the vital knowledge of how horticulture and its associated therapies can help the mind, body and soul. The garden will be a living, working space with a tranquil seating area, where visitors can immerse themselves amongst the aromatic herb beds, and also educate themselves on the place that herbs and horticulture play in today’s society.
Head of RHS Malvern Spring Festival, Jane Furze said: “It is a real pleasure to be working with Jekka to build a garden not only for this year’s event, but also for the future. Jekka’s designs look spectacular and we cannot wait to see these brought to life and shared with our many visitors. The Health & Wellbeing Garden will no doubt be a real highlight of RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2017 and for many years to come.”
Throughout the 4-days of RHS Malvern Spring Festival, Jekka will host daily ‘herb conversations’ in the garden, unearthing hidden gems from the world of alternative therapies, food and gardening. Jekka will also provide insights into herbs as the foundation of modern medicine, seeking to preserve the knowledge that over time is danger of being lost.
The Health & Wellbeing Garden is in support of Pathways, a work-focused day service for adults with learning disabilities and difficulties. Pathways use gardening and the environment as an educational tool to introduce young adults to the working world. Clients of Pathways benefit from gaining vital skills for entering the working world, these include trust, communication, interaction with peers, taking direction and responsibility for themselves and others.
Leaving a legacy, Jekka’s garden will provide Pathways with a nurturing space to continue their works in encouraging clients to grow. Throughout the show times, Pathways will sell plants and refreshments from the garden. Funds raised from these sales go towards covering the costs of the residential trip taken twice each year for clients of Pathways, a vital retreat for clients that contributes to their sense of wellbeing. Outside of show days, Pathways and local schools will host sessions in the garden. The garden aims to inspire visitors of all ages and abilities with engaging elements tailored for all.
Jekka’s design will incorporate the unique and flexible WoodBlocX system, specially selected to provide permanent raised bed structures to house the garden’s vast selection of herbs and edibles. The centrepiece of the garden contains four large planted sections featuring smooth curves constructed from the unique WoodBlocX system. WoodBlocX use sustainable, long-lasting, organic and FSC accredited wooden bricks, which can be used to create any shape such as the naturally fluid curves seen in Jekka’s elegant design.
Considered an unmatched expert by the UK’s top chefs and horticulturalists, Jekka McVicar is an enterprising British herb grower, organic gardening expert, author and broadcaster. Jekka’s Herb Farm, in nearby South Gloucestershire, boasts the largest collection of culinary herbs in the UK with more than 500 different varieties.
Alongside her RHS Ambassadorship for Health through Horticulture, Jekka’s accolades include 62 RHS Gold Medals, Garden Media Guild Lifetime Achievement Award and the RHS Lawrence Medal for the best exhibit shown at any RHS show in 2009. Jekka is also a Vice President of the RHS, Vice President of the Herb Society, is a founder member of the RHS Herb advisory group, and a member of the RHS Three Counties Agricultural Society Joint Committee. Jekka has herself exhibited at RHS Malvern Spring Festival since 1993 and has been a vital contributor to the team at Three Counties for over a decade.
RHS Malvern Spring Festival 2017 will take place from Thursday 11 May until Sunday 14 May. Tickets are now on sale. For more information and to book tickets, please call
I ran into Ector as he sat on his bicylcle doing some people watching at the busy six corner intersection of Damen, North and Milwaukee Avenues.
It was a hoppin' Friday night and Ector was just taking it all in.
When I first popped him he gave me some shit... 'what... are you with the CIA or something' he quipped.
I walked a few feet away until I felt the challenge settle in.
I turned around and showed him the picture on the back of my camera.
'Would the CIA have photographers who could take a picture like this' I asked.
'Damn... that's good' he said after checking himself out on the viewing screen.
He said he liked the picture but he thought I could do a little better.
As an expert people watcher Ector had the perfect spot on the corner picked out so I stood and talked with him for a few minutes while I popped passersby.
Ector is quite a philosopher, a poet and an all around interesting cat.
We had some great conversation on that corner.
I kept thinking his name was 'Hector' because of his accent until he told me that there was no 'H' in his name.
Shortly after that his friend 'Ennis' walked up... like 'Dennis' without the 'D'...
'What's up with you guys gettin' rid of the first letter of your names' I commented.
Then I handed them a card... the ones that say 'Viewminder' but not my name.
'What's your name' Ector asked as he looked at the card.
'iewminder' I said 'like 'Viewminder' without the 'V'.
We all laughed... then I popped Ennis and we watched the world go by for a while and talked about everything under the sun.
Faces in the street
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There is no artificial intelligence without natural intelligence! Are human beings the sole owners of intelligence? The Expert Tour “Botanical Intelligence” poses the exciting question: Where are the limits of our knowledge? And what has this to do with our environment and our perception? We focus on plants, the actual rulers of this world. The range of topics we touch in this guided tour ranges from biodiversity to botanical sensory life to plant sex.
With Dr. Friedrich Schwarz (AT), Botanical Garden Linz, Biological Station.
credit. Florian Voggeneder
Pour répondre au manque de visibilité des femmes dans les médias au Sénégal, Social Change Factory,
l’Ambassade de France au Sénégal et le groupe Egaé, avec le soutien de ONU Femmes WCARO ont lancé la plateforme en ligne « Les Expertes Sénégal », accessible sur : expertessenegal.com. Elle recensera les profils de centaines de femmes chercheuses,
femmes d’affaires, professionnelles, journalistes et responsables d'associations au Sénégal, prêtes à intervenir
dans les médias.
Crédit Photo : Yulia Panevina/ONU Femmes
To address the lack of visibility of women in the media in Senegal, Social Change Factory,
the French Embassy in Senegal and the Egaé Group, with the support of UN Women WCARO, have launched the online platform "Les Expertes Sénégal", accessible at: expertessenegal.com. It will list the profiles of hundreds of women researchers,
businesswomen, professionals, journalists and leaders of associations in Senegal, ready to intervene in the media.
Photo credit: Yulia Panevina/UN Women