Whiskey & the One Eyed Rat
A Trip to the City of Ripon, England, part one.
a whiskey shop and a Real Ale pub
Un hombre lobo rosarino en Londres. The one eyed rat.
The one eyed rat pub. Ripon. Yorkshire. 07/2010. Tom y Gerardo conversan temas esenciales para el futuro del Mundo.
Didn't want to leave! Narrowboat journey back from Ripon, North Yorkshire
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Ripon - the second most northerly point of England's inland waterways after Tewitfield, Lancashire, and also the country's third smallest city. I loved it here, and I hope you enjoy this voyage log as much as I was sad to leave!
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The One Eyed Rat
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Hot flush: how to shoot a flurry
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Famine in India | Wikipedia audio article
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Famine in India
00:02:15 1 Ancient, medieval and pre-colonial India
00:06:43 2 British rule
00:08:48 2.1 Scholarly opinions
00:12:47 2.2 Causes
00:16:04 2.3 British response
00:19:30 2.4 Policy influences
00:20:42 2.5 Famine Codes
00:23:26 2.6 Impact of rail transport
00:26:31 2.7 Bengal famine of 1943
00:28:16 3 Republic of India
00:29:48 3.1 Infrastructure development
00:32:31 3.2 Local beliefs
00:35:18 3.3 Bihar drought
00:37:24 3.4 1972 Maharashtra drought
00:39:36 3.5 West Bengal drought
00:40:38 3.6 2013 Maharashtra drought
00:41:05 3.7 Other issues
00:42:19 4 See also
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Famine had been a recurrent feature of life the Indian sub-continental countries of India, Pakistan and Bangladesh, most notoriously during British rule. Famines in India resulted in more than 60 million deaths over the course of the 18th, 19th, and early 20th centuries. The last major famine was the Bengal famine of 1943. A famine occurred in the state of Bihar in December 1966 on a much smaller scale and in which Happily, aid was at hand and there were relatively fewer deaths. The drought of Maharashtra in 1970–1973 is often cited as an example in which successful famine prevention processes were employed. Famines in British India were severe enough to have a substantial impact on the long terms population growth of the country in the 19th and early 20th centuries.
Indian agriculture is heavily dependent on climate: a favorable southwest summer monsoon is critical in securing water for irrigating crops. Droughts, combined with policy failures, have periodically led to major Indian famines, including the Bengal famine of 1770, the Chalisa famine, the Doji bara famine, the Great Famine of 1876–78, and the 1943 Bengal famine. Some commentators have identified British government inaction as contributing factors to the severity of famines during the time India was under British rule. Famine largely ended by the start of 20th century with the 1943 Bengal famine being an exception related to complications during World War II. The 1883 Indian Famine Codes, transportation improvements and changes following independence have been identified as furthering famine relief. In India, traditionally, agricultural labourers and rural artisans have been the primary victims of famines. In the worst famines, cultivators have also been susceptible.Finally, the extension of the railroad by the British put an end to the massive famines in times of peace in the 20th century. India is currently home to a quarter of all undernourished people worldwide, making the country a key focus for tackling hunger on a global scale. In the last two decades, per capita income more than tripled, yet the minimum dietary intake fell.[1]
London 2020
A trip to pre-Brexit London in January 2020 that was filled with the tube, an expensive Harrods shopping spree, the tube again, a musical on the West End, more of the tube (god I really love the tube it's just so efficient), some of Van Gogh's sunflowers, and clips of Medb being ridiculously adorable
Featuring the world premier of THE Medb Hurley's new original song 'Glad We Had This' (as if she wasn't great enough she also writes unbelievably good songs)
Crow shoots the clay pigeon high tower
Andy Crow is shooting the high tower at Sporting Targets' clayground in Bedfordshire. He is there with the guys from Jack Pyke (on the day of the Jack Pyke Open Sporting), plus Brody Woollard, James Westbrook and Brody's dad.
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Do Figs Really Have Dead Wasps In Them?
Some figs need fig wasps to pollinate their fruit. But are we eating dead wasps every time we bite into a fig?
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Imagine for a minute that you’re a pregnant woman. Still with me, guys? Now, the only way you can give birth is if you crawl into a small, cramped cave made out of chocolate. And the tunnel to this cave is so cramped that the only way you can get through is by cutting your own arms off “127 Hours” style. Once you’re in this cave you give birth! Then you eventually die from either exhaustion or starvation.
Sounds pretty grim, right? As if giving birth wasn’t difficult enough, what I just described to you is the life cycle of the fig wasp. Their role in the pollination of figs is crucial, both to the propagation of their species and the survival of fig trees.
This arrangement between wasp and plant is called “mutualism,” and it’s evolved over millions of years. Without the wasps you wouldn’t have figs. And vice versa. And yes, most of the figs we eat contain at least one dead wasp.
But more on that later. First, let’s talk pollination.
A fig is technically just a flower with its petals folded inside. There are male figs – which are inedible, and called caprifigs – and female figs, which we eat. But in order to create seeds (and tasty fruit), the female figs need to receive some pollen from the male figs. Since the figs’ reproductive bits are tucked away, wind and bees can’t help as they do with lots of plants. Enter the fig wasp.
So okay… let’s get away from the whole pregnant lady/chocolate metaphor thing and break down how this wasp/fig mutualism process works. For a dude fig plant to share its pollen with a lady fig plant, a female fig wasp needs to enter a male fig. She crawls through a narrow passage in the fig called an ostiole. It’s so cramped that her wings and antenna break off along the way.
But the messed up thing is that these lady fig wasps don’t know is whether they’re entering a male caprifig or a female fig. If it’s a caprifig, she’ll find its male flower parts perfectly shaped for her to lay eggs into. The eggs hatch into larvae and grow within the fig’s petals.
The male wasps hatch first and are born blind and flightless. They mate with their female counterparts (yes… I guess they’re technically brothers and sisters) and start eating an exit tunnel through the fig. The wasp dudes can’t escape, though, so they die inside.
But the females collect the fig’s pollen, crawl out of the tunnel and fly away in search of a new fig plant to lay their eggs in. These wasps are only a few millimeters long, but they can fly up to 20 kilometers (12.4 miles) to find the right species of fig plant. When they arrive, they deposit their natal fig’s pollen, lay their eggs, and the whole process starts over again.
But if a female wasp enters a female fig, she won’t be able to lay her eggs because of a long part of the flower called a stylus. She’ll probably die, but at least she’s delivered the pollen. An enzyme inside the fig called ficin breaks down her corpse into protein, ingesting the dead wasp and making it part of the ripened fruit.*
Just so we’re clear, those crunchy bits you’re chewing in figs aren’t bits of dead wasp or larvae; they’re the fig’s seeds. And anyway, you should get used to the idea of occasionally eating an insect by accident. The FDA considers certain amounts of insect content in various foods “natural” and “unavoidable” – and it’s really not hazardous, just gross.
SOURCES:
Nature's Little Magician The Fig Wasp. By: Andersen, Christie B., Cricket, 00906034, Sep2005, Vol. 33, Issue 1
Fig-Wasp Upset. By: Milius, Susan, Science News, 00368423, 4/26/2003, Vol. 163, Issue 17
Nature's recourse. By: Milius, Susan, Science News, 00368423, 7/31/2010, Vol. 178, Issue 3
Big on figs. By: Kinnaird, Margaret, International Wildlife, 00209112, Jan/Feb2000, Vol. 30, Issue 1
British Raj | Wikipedia audio article
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British Raj
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The British Raj (; from rāj, literally, rule in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire.
As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India). It lasted until 1947, when it was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states: the Dominion of India (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the eastern part of which, still later, became the People's Republic of Bangladesh). At the inception of the Raj in 1858, Lower Burma was already a part of British India; Upper Burma was added in 1886, and the resulting union, Burma, was administered as an autonomous province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.
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Vanamagan - Tamil Full Movie | Jayam Ravi | Sayesha Saigal | A. L. Vijay | Harris Jayaraj
Vanamagan is an Indian Tamil-language action adventure film written and directed by A. L. Vijay. The film features Jayam Ravi and Sayyeshaa in the lead roles, while Varun plays a pivotal role with Harris Jayaraj as the music composer. The venture began production in September 2016. The film was released on 23 June 2017.
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British Raj | Wikipedia audio article
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British Raj
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SUMMARY
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The British Raj (; from rāj, literally, rule in Hindustani) was the rule by the British Crown in the Indian subcontinent between 1858 and 1947. The rule is also called Crown rule in India, or direct rule in India. The region under British control was commonly called British India or simply India in contemporaneous usage, and included areas directly administered by the United Kingdom, which were collectively called British India, and those ruled by indigenous rulers, but under British tutelage or paramountcy, and called the princely states. The whole was also informally called the Indian Empire.
As India, it was a founding member of the League of Nations, a participating nation in the Summer Olympics in 1900, 1920, 1928, 1932, and 1936, and a founding member of the United Nations in San Francisco in 1945.This system of governance was instituted on 28 June 1858, when, after the Indian Rebellion of 1857, the rule of the British East India Company was transferred to the Crown in the person of Queen Victoria (who, in 1876, was proclaimed Empress of India). It lasted until 1947, when it was partitioned into two sovereign dominion states: the Dominion of India (later the Republic of India) and the Dominion of Pakistan (later the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, the eastern part of which, still later, became the People's Republic of Bangladesh). At the inception of the Raj in 1858, Lower Burma was already a part of British India; Upper Burma was added in 1886, and the resulting union, Burma, was administered as an autonomous province until 1937, when it became a separate British colony, gaining its own independence in 1948.
B. F. Skinner | Wikipedia audio article
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B. F. Skinner
00:01:49 1 Biography
00:06:28 2 Contributions to psychological theory
00:06:38 2.1 Behaviorism
00:08:14 2.2 Theoretical structure
00:09:55 2.2.1 Origin of operant behavior
00:10:44 2.2.2 Control of operant behavior
00:11:41 2.2.3 Explaining complex behavior
00:13:27 2.3 Reinforcement
00:15:29 2.3.1 Schedules of reinforcement
00:17:35 3 Scientific inventions
00:17:45 3.1 Operant conditioning chamber
00:19:13 3.2 Cumulative recorder
00:20:24 3.3 Air crib
00:21:51 3.4 Teaching machine
00:25:14 3.5 Pigeon-guided missile
00:26:29 3.6 Verbal summator
00:27:24 4 iVerbal Behavior/i
00:28:42 5 Influence on education
00:31:47 6 iWalden Two/i and iBeyond Freedom and Dignity/i
00:33:18 7 Political views
00:35:19 8 Superstition in the pigeon
00:38:31 9 Criticism
00:38:40 9.1 J. E. R. Staddon
00:39:40 9.2 Noam Chomsky
00:40:55 9.3 Psychodynamic psychology
00:41:34 10 List of awards and positions
00:45:39 10.1 Honorary degrees
00:46:42 11 In popular culture
00:46:59 12 Bibliography
00:51:09 13 See also
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- Socrates
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Burrhus Frederic Skinner (March 20, 1904 – August 18, 1990), commonly known as B. F. Skinner, was an American psychologist, behaviorist, author, inventor, and social philosopher. He was the Edgar Pierce Professor of Psychology at Harvard University from 1958 until his retirement in 1974.Skinner considered free will an illusion and human action dependent on consequences of previous actions. If the consequences are bad, there is a high chance the action will not be repeated; if the consequences are good, the probability of the action being repeated becomes stronger. Skinner called this the principle of reinforcement.To strengthen behavior, Skinner used operant conditioning, and he considered the rate of response to be the most effective measure of response strength. To study operant conditioning, he invented the operant conditioning chamber, also known as the Skinner Box, and to measure rate he invented the cumulative recorder. Using these tools, he and C. B. Ferster produced his most influential experimental work, which appeared in their book Schedules of Reinforcement (1957).Skinner developed behavior analysis, the philosophy of that science he called radical behaviorism, and founded a school of experimental research psychology—the experimental analysis of behavior. He imagined the application of his ideas to the design of a human community in his utopian novel, Walden Two, and his analysis of human behavior culminated in his work, Verbal Behavior.
Skinner was a prolific author who published 21 books and 180 articles. Contemporary academia considers Skinner a pioneer of modern behaviorism, along with John B. Watson and Ivan Pavlov. A June 2002 survey listed Skinner as the most influential psychologist of the 20th century.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan by Winston S. Churchill
When the self-proclaimed Mahdi (“Guided One”) gathered Islamic forces and kicked the Anglo-Egyptians out of the Sudan, he unleashed a backlash. With the image of the heroic General Charles Gordon dying at Khartoum, the British public was ready to support a war to reclaim the lost territories. And when the political time was right, a British-Egyptian-Sudanese expedition led by the redoubtable Herbert Kitchener set out to do just that.
The river involved was the Nile. For millennia, its annual flood has made habitable a slender strip, though hundreds of miles of deserts, between its tributaries and its delta. Through this desolate region, man and beast struggled to supply the bare essentials of life. Though this same region, the expedition had to find and defeat an enemy several times larger than itself.
The young Churchill was hot to gain war experience to aid his career, and so he wangled a transfer to the 21st Lancers and participated in the last successful cavalry charge the world ever saw, in the climactic battle of Omdurman. He also had a position as war correspondent for the Morning Post, and on his return to England he used his notes to compose this book.
Chapter 01. The Rebellion of the Mahdi - 00:00
Chapter 02. The Fate of the Envoy - 1:24:09
Chapter 03. The Dervish Empire - 2:45:41
Chapter 04. The Years of Preparation - 3:33:13
Chapter 05. The Beginning of the War - 4:15:26
Chapter 06. Firket - 5:00:59
Chapter 07. The Recovery of the Dongola Province - 5:21:57
Chapter 08. The Desert Railway - 6:15:20
Chapter 09. Abu Hamed - 7:04:52
Chapter 10. Berber - 7:46:23
Chapter 11. Reconaissance - 8:22:42
Chapter 12. The Battle of the Atbara - 8:52:56
Chapter 13. The Grand Advance - 9:21:50
Chapter 14. The Operations of the First of September - 9:50:47
Chapter 15. The Battle of Omdurman - 10:17:57
Chapter 16. The Fall of the City - 11:34:01
Chapter 17. The Fashoda Incident - 11:55:29
Chapter 18. On the Blue Nile - 12:28:57
Chapter 19. The End of the Khalifa - 13:12:58
Appendix - 13:54:27
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