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[csrconsultants]

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[easternblocrelics]

InterPress Magazine Where everything is bigger Yearbook 1987

[probablynotaskeleton]

Finally completed my 1st entry into this years biennial SLC IPMS model competition. I imagine this will go in the Stock Box catagory and maybe the Diorama and Vingnettes, but im just excited to have something to share that im proud of :3

[technofinch]

Every person needs unlimited paid time off work for any reason. I have video games to play

[une-sanz-pluis]

Daughter and coheir of Henry Grosmont, duke of Lancaster, and his wife, Isabel Beaumont, Blanche [of Lancaster] belonged to a family in which education seems to have been the norm; as an act of penance, for instance, her father composed a devotional treatise entitled Le livre des seyntz medicines and an account of the laws of war, the latter now lost. Despite a 1347 agreement calling for the marriage of Blanche and John Segrave, she remained single until she was eighteen, when she married John of Gaunt (d. 1399), the son of Edward III and Philippa of Hainault. During their ten years of married life, John spent significant periods of time in campaigns abroad; nevertheless, Blanche bore him five children. Her inheritance of the vast Lancaster fortunes upon the deaths of her father (1361) and her sister, Maud (1362), brought John the title of duke of Lancaster and made him one of the wealthiest men of the realm. Although Blanche was no more than twenty-eight when she succumbed to the plague*, Froissart lauds her, ostensibly as a patron, in his Le joli buisson de jonece, and some of his poems may have been directed to her. Both John of Gaunt and Blanche of Lancaster have been traditionally linked to Geoffrey Chaucer, whose Book of the Duchess supposedly commemorates her untimely death. According to the Speght edition, moreover, Blanche was the patron of Geoffrey Chaucer’s ABC poem (also known as La priere Nostre Dame). Deriving from a prayer in Deguileville’s Pélerinage de la vie humaine, the ABC poem consists of alphabetically ordered stanzas addressed to the Virgin Mary. Such poems, as Susan Bell has observed, were used not only for private devotions, but also for teaching children reading and moral and religious values, and it is not unlikely that Blanche may have put her ABC to similar uses.

Karen K. Jambeck, "Patterns of Women's Literary Patronage: England, 1200-c.1475", The Cultural Patronage of Medieval Women (University of Georgia Press 1996)

* Blanche is now believed to have died from complications in childbirth in 1368. Her date of birth has been a matter of some debate; ODNB gives her birth as "as early as 1340 or as late as 1347".

[conservallama]

These bastards just won't die.

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[omarfor-orchestra]

Ma questi manco si ricordano delle loro stesse sceneggiature io non ho parole

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[praemonitorius]

PG 1/60 Banshee Norn.

Took it to the local Military Hobby show and it won first place in its 'Out of Box' category.

[youjustwaitsunshine]

when i went to the bathroom earlier this morning a silverfish walked over me single worst experience of my life

[g0reoz]

Who's up integrating their pest management!!!!

[vyragosa]

[sitting-on-me-bum]

Cosmic ray-driven winds superimposed on visible light image of Triangulum galaxy M33

Artist's illustration of cosmic ray-driven winds (blue and green) superimposed on a visible light image of the Triangulum galaxy M33 (red and white), observed with the VLT Survey Telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s Paranal Observatory in Chile.

Credit: Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences- IPM/European Southern Observatory

[a-very-tired-jew]

Polyculture can definitely be adapted to local species and crops, there's a big push in Ag sciences to adapt to this in order to reduce inputs and improve outputs. There's whole aspects of Integrated Pest Management (IPM) that also suggest polyculture as a way of cover cropping the cash crop the farmer is focused on (we love us some biocontrol).

However, the issue is cost and resources. A single walnut tree might not be expensive by itself, about $300-1000 USD, but to cover a large field that may become an issue. A lot of farms are not in the black, they are typically in the red or barely get to break even. Switching their entire system from a monoculture to a polyculture might not be financially feasible for them ever. They typically have to get some sort of grant, subsidy, or funding for big farms. There's also the state of the soil to consider. A lot of work has to go into recovering the appropriate soil health for trees and smaller crops to both thrive together and create a noticeable difference in input/output. Which, once again, goes back to cost. Now, some of you are going to go "well the big factory farms could do it! That 500 acre farm you were on is obviously a factory farm, why didn't it?"

Yeah, no... I was on a family farm that was 750 acres with 500 for planting, and it was considered a small to medium sized one for our area. The majority of farms in the USA are actually family owned, about 97%) and the factory farm term is more of a propaganda term than anything. Most of the corporate farms that you hear about as factory farms are still family operated, they typically just have a contract with a big name company because of cost. And in all instances, most farmers work with extension Ag professionals in some capacity to improve their production.

The impediment is cost and whether or not they'll listen to us. There are whole papers in the entomological literature about how to communicate to farmers about IPM and improved techniques and move away from "tried and true" methods that are no longer working (we had a talk at our university about this last year by an extension officer). We also tend to have an idealized version of things that can happen on the small scale and think they can be implemented at a larger scale. Not everything that works on one farm works on another, nor can the methods that work on a 50 acre work on a 1000 acre without significant adjustment.

There's no one size fits all solution or improvement, and that's what makes it so difficult.