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Barbara Baynton (1857-1929) was an Australian novelist and short-story writer. Her work is notable for its rejection of Australian nationalism and the Australian bush, especially tales of women struggling to cope with the harsh realities of bush life.
Conflicting Stories
Baynton was born in Scone, in the Hunter Valley area of New South Wales, Australia, on June 4, 1857. For many years, the date of her birth and the identities of her parents were uncertain, because Baynton altered her birth date and disguised her parents' identities. She claimed to have been born in 1862, to Penelope Ewart and Captain Robert Kilpatrick, who were supposedly Irish immigrants to Australia and fell in love on the ship en route to Australia. Although Penelope Ewart was supposedly married at the time, she began a relationship with Kilpatrick and later married him when her husband died. This story, which was believed even by Baynton's own grandchildren, was later proven false. Her parents' names were John Lawrence and Elizabeth Ewart. Baynton was born Barbara Lawrence, not Barbara Kilpatrick, and her father was a carpenter, not the rich landowner she claimed him to be.
As Sally Krimmer and Alan Lawson commented in Barbara Baynton, it is not clear why Baynton invented these things. In particular, her motives for saying that her parents were not married when they began their relationship are especially difficult to understand, especially since she lived in an era when unmarried relationships were considered scandalous. The authors speculated that Baynton and her social circle may have found the story romantic, or that she preferred people to think that her father was wealthy. Contemporary Authors Online quotes Baynton's grandson, H.B. Gullett: "She was a highly imaginative woman with no strict regard for truth. She told her children many conflicting stories of her early years … and it rather seems as if the truth to her was what she chose to believe it ought to be at any given moment… ."
However, Baynton's family life as a young girl may have helped with her fantasy about her parents. She was the seventh child of John and Elizabeth Lawrence, but when she was three years old, her mother had another child. This child was not John Lawrence's, although he raised the boy as part of his family.
Despite these stories, Baynton grew up in the Scone district, where her father did carpentry work. In the early 1860s, her family moved twenty-five miles north to Murrurundi, where one of Baynton's brothers established a blacksmith shop. Two other brothers set up a sawmill in Spring Ridge. Meanwhile, Baynton became a governess at Merrylong Park, in the Quirindi district, where she met Alexander Hay Frator, a selector. The couple married in 1880; Baynton was 23. They had three children, Alexander Hay, Robert Guy, and Penelope. However, Frater left Baynton for one of her cousins while the children were still young.
Began to Write
Baynton moved to Sydney and took various jobs, including selling Bibles door-to-door, in order to survive and provide for her family. On March 4, 1890, she and Frater officially divorced; she married 70-year-old Dr. Thomas Baynton the next day. On the marriage certificate, she wrote that she was widowed not divorced. Their marriage lasted fifteen years, and they had one son, who died in infancy. Thomas Baynton supported his wife and her children and introduced her to a wide variety of people. By 1903 she was friends with one-time Australian prime minister Billy Hughes; High Commissioner for Australia in London George Reid; and Federal Chief Justice Sir Samuel Griffith, among others.
Baynton's husband was an antique collector, a hobby she picked up as well. Her collection was famed throughout Australia, as was her collection of black opals. The couple bought "Fairmont," an impressive house in Sydney. Baynton, with her new financial security and high social standing, began to write. Despite the fact that she was now far removed from her rough childhood in the Australian bush, she drew most of her ideas from that time. Her first story, "The Tramp" (later retitled "The Chosen Vessel"), was published in the Bulletin in 1896. The Bulletin's editor, A.G. Stephens, became Bayton's friend and encouraged her to keep writing.
Baynton wrote a short story collection titled Bush Studies but had trouble finding a publisher in Sydney or in London. Edward Garnett, a critic and publisher's reader, persuaded Duckworth & Company of London to publish Bush Studies in 1902. Her later works, Human Toll (1907) and Cobbers (1917), were published by the same company.
Thomas Baynton died in 1904, after which Baynton moved to London and frequently visited Australia. She divided her time between writing and collecting antiques. By 1917 Baynton had written two more stories, "Trooper Jim Tasman" and "Toohey's Party," which she added to Bush Stories to make Cobbers. These stories arose from Baynton's experience of hosting "open houses" for soldiers at her homes in London and in Essex during World War I.
In 1921, Baynton married Lord Headley in London. Headley was the fifth Baronet of Little Watley, Essex. He had converted to Islam, was the president of the Muslim Society, and had made a pilgrimage to Mecca in 1923. When they married, Baynton received Ardoe House, a gracious mansion in Ireland, but the marriage did not last long; they were separated in 1924 after a year and a half of legal wrangling. Baynton continued to live in London and Melbourne and kept up her passion for antiques. Her health, never robust, began to deteriorate, and she spent several periods in health resorts and nursing homes between 1905 and her death in 1929.
Krimmer and Lawson wrote that Baynton was "a grand lady with a strong character," and commented that her friends said she was "lovable, rash, clever, impulsive, generous," as well as "quick to anger, liable to be unjust, but always ready to forgive and make friends." She was also notably tasteful in her dress and memorable for her "dramatic nature."
Critical Response to Stories
The tales in Bush Studies reflect some of Baynton's intensity. The stories emphasize the brutality and violence of the bush, as well as the starkly unequal relationship between men and women there. In Baynton's tales, men are associated with the bush and its malevolent nature, and women, as representatives of civilization and gentleness, are forced to succumb to their exploitation. Unlike other Australian literature of the time, which celebrated the bush community as a place of hospitality, camaraderie, and compassion, Baynton mocks bush people and their ways. However, she balances this negativity by emphasizing motherhood as a source of hope, redemption, and creativity. Contemporary Authors Online explains: "Considering Baynton's own experience of motherhood … it is scarcely surprising that ambivalence toward the maternal haunts Baynton's fiction."
Krimmer and Lawrence wrote of Baynton's work that her "stories are powerfully expressed and closely unified. Her vision is communicated through a straightforward yet intense style. Each story has a clear, almost single-minded impulse and each contributes to a cumulative effect which is memorable and convincing." They also commented that each story "sets out to investigate a particular situation, to explore a particular emotion, and to develop a particular motif. … Each story has an inexorable progress towards a dire conclusion—death, rape, rejection or some combination of these—and the progress itself is in the form of an ordeal which serves to heighten the victim's … perception of the horror of his or her vulnerability."
One of Baynton's most famous stories is "Squeaker's Mate." The title character of the story is married to Squeaker, a farmer. She is described as "the best long-haired mate that ever stepped in petticoats." A branch falls and breaks her back, and she is incapacitated, although her husband is too self-absorbed to notice. Forced to lie in bed, she must now rely on her husband for subsidence. As Squeaker brings his mistress into the home, his wife is forced to stay into a lean-to. However, she can still use her upper body, and when her husband's mistress comes to the lean-to to take away her food and water, she relies on it to strangle the other woman. Her loyal dog, in turn, attacks Squeaker. In A History of Australian Literature, Ken Goodwin commented, "Here is rage externally suppressed and then breaking out in a more positive and frightening way… ." and that this violence is "approved of by the author, not the fierce predatoriness of a peripheral marauder." The two stories that Baynton added to Cobbers are, according to Krimmer and Lawson, "of little interest in themselves," but they do show Baynton's interest in using local dialect as well as dark humor.
Human Toll
Baynton wrote only one novel, Human Toll, which was published in 1907. It has never been reprinted and is consequently rare and little known. Like her stories, it is drawn from her life in the bush, but it is difficult to determine how much of it is autobiographical. It does not have a strong structure but presents many short scenes of bush life. Ursula, the main character, wants to write but feels that she cannot do so until she moves away from the bush. The novel examines the effect of the bush on the men and women who live there, especially the toll the environment takes on them. Like her short stories, the novel also emphasizes women's vulnerability and men's exploitation and greed. It also emphasizes the positive value of maternity. Krimmer and Lawton commented that although the book is sometimes slow or discursive, some of the scenes "have a self-contained unity and intensity which echo the achievements of Bush Studies." They also wrote that the most vibrant scene in the book is the last one, with Ursula lost, carrying the dead baby through the trackless bush. A.A. Phillips of The Australian Nationalists, praised Baynton's grounding of her fiction in very real life; the "bread-and-butter directness" of her style, her clear visualization, and her skill in exposition. Baynton begins her stories at points of crisis, and shows events though characters' actions and dialogue, rather than through authorial explanation.
Baynton died on May 28, 1929, at her home in Melbourne, after breaking her leg and contracting pneumonia. Phillips wrote that Baynton represented "with rare directness, [a] revolt against self-confident Australianism, despite the fact that she is not a social writer." Krimmer and Lawson summed up Baynton's literary impact by writing that although she has long been unknown and unread, "in the past decade she has been enthusiastically 'discovered' by a large number of readers. … Now that her name is relatively well known the time is ripe to make available for assessment the whole range of her literary work."
Goodwin, Ken, A History of Australian Literature, St. Martin's Press, 1986, pp. 43-44.
Krimmer, Sally, and Alan Lawson, editors, Barbara Baynton, University of Queensland Press, 1980.
Pierre, Peter, editor, Oxford Literary Guide to Australia, Oxford University Press, 1993.
Phillips, A. A., "Barbara Baynton and the Dissidence of the Nineties," in The Australian Nationalists, edited by Chris Wallace-Crabbe, Oxford University Press, 1971.


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Bioremediation of a Crude Oil Polluted Soil with the Spent Mushroom Compost of Pleurotus pulmonarius and Glomus mosseae using Amaranthus hybridus as a Test Plant. Salami, Abiodun Olusola, Elum, Ejiro Anslem and Salako, Yinka Abdulkadir. IJBLST (2017), 9(5):34-47
Bioremediation of a Crude Oil Polluted Soil with the Spent Mushroom Compost of Pleurotus pulmonarius and Glomus mosseae using Amaranthus hybridus as a Test Plant
Salami, Abiodun Olusola1, Elum, Ejiro Anslem2 and Salako, Yinka Abdulkadir3
1,3 Department of Crop Production and Protection, Faculty of Agriculture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
2 Institute of Ecology and Environmental studies, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile-Ife.
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The study determined the effect of spent mushroom compost (SMC) of Pleurotus pulmonarius and Glomus mosseae on the growth of Amaranthus hybridus on crude oil polluted soil with a view to assessing the impact of these treatments on the degradation of crude oil in the soil. P. pulmonarius was cultured on potato dextrose agar in slant bottles while grain spawns were prepared using sorghum inoculated with mycelia from the slant preparations. Mushroom cultivation was done on pasteurized sawdust substrate and left to grow for six weeks. The substrate left after cultivation of the mushroom was then re-composted for six months in a dug compost pit and analyzed for nitrogen, phosphorus and potassium contents. Microbial load of the fresh and re-composted SMC and lacasse enzyme activity were determined. Experiment was laid in a complete randomized design using pots containing 3 kg soil with the various treatments; Glomus mosseae, spent mushroom compost and different levels of crude oil pollution one week after transplant of Amaranthus hybridus seedlings (0%, 2%, 3% and 4% v/w concentrations). Growth parameters were measured weekly, while the physical and chemical properties and Total petroleum hydrocarbon (TPH) of soil before and after planting were determined.NPK contents of fresh and re-composted SMC were: 2.76 g kg-1, 57.50 mg kg-1, 2.75 cmol kg-1 and 4.50 g kg-1, 62.50 mg kg-1, 2.70 cmol kg-1 respectively. Total fungi count and laccase enzyme activity in fresh and re-composted SMC were: 50,000, 250,000 spores/ml and 48.5 U/min, 62.8 U/min respectively. Total nitrogen ranged from 0.28 to 0.70 g kg-1, while potassium, sodium, magnesium and calcium concentrations ranged from 0.07 to 0.77, 0.1 to 1.46, 1.93 to 4.63 and 3.3 to 8.5 cmol kg-1 respectively. Effective cation exchange capacity (ECEC) of the soil after planting ranged from 7.08 to 13.79 cmol kg-1. Plant height, number of leaves and leaf area of plants grown on crude oil polluted soil inoculated with Glomus mosseae was significantly (p < 0.05) higher than other treatments. Pb, Cd and Cu concentrations ranged from 1.48 to 6.62, 0.04 to 0.17 and 1.76 to 3.64 mg kg-1 respectively. Crude oil reduction in 2 % and 3 % polluted soils was 96, 95 and 96.54, 82.50 % in sterilized and unsterilized soils containing mycorrhiza respectively. Crude oil reduction was lowest in polluted soils without amendments. This study concluded that Glomus mosseae and spent mushroom compost enhanced the bioremediation of crude oil polluted soils and the growth performance of Amaranthus hybridus.
Keywords: Bioremediation, Spent mushroom compost, crude oil, Pleurotus pulmonarius, Glomus mosseae, Amaranthus hybridus

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Will Ferrell and John C. Reilly are to team up on the big screen again for a hilarious new take on the Sherlock Holmes stories.
Ferrell will play Holmes and his Step Brothers co-star Reilly will take on the role of the literary sleuth's sidekick Dr. John Watson in the comedy Holmes & Watson.
Etan Cohen, who directed Ferrell in the comedy Get Hard, will direct from his own script.
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Holmes and Watson have previously been played on the big screen by Robert Downey, Jr. and Jude Law, John Barrymore and Roland Young, and Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce, while Michael Caine and Sir Ben Kingsley took on Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's characters in the 1988 comedy Without a Clue.


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Just the tonic: Aussie firm Arborvitae eyes export opportunities with premium multi-purpose liquid product
Arborvitae's current portfolio consists of five liquid tonic products for joint health, blood glucose and cholesterol, cognitive function, memory and eye health, children, and teenagers.
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Australian supplement firm Arborvitae Health and Wellbeing is seeing accelerated growth for its premium multi-purpose proprietary liquid tonic, which is now available in 500 domestic pharmacies, with demand now also rising in South East Asia, China and Canada.
Targeting inflammation, immunity, cognition, and cardiovascular, metabolic and ocular health, the five Arborvitae-branded products come in 1 litre bottles and have an identical formulation; the difference in their health benefits is linked to the recommended dosage for each product.
Though the company has been active since 2010, its sales and distribution began picking up only in the last two years.
Lean sales force, fat profits
Speaking to NutraIngredients-Asia, GM Matthew Harris said: "We were originally available only online, but about two years ago, we expanded to around 100 pharmacies.
"Now, we're in over 500 pharmacies and health food stores, and we've achieved that without a sales force. We don't have anyone except me working on sales and marketing to increase distribution — it all comes down to people hearing about the product through radio advertising or word of mouth.
"The brand's rapid growth over the last two years has happened mostly through demand from those who have used the products before and have told their friends and family about it."
He added that A$69.95 each, the products made for a highly profitable opportunity for the pharmacies that stocked them, and justified the price point using the high level of actives the products contain.
He further claimed that while an Australian pharmacy would typically sell 20 to 30 units of a single health supplement product every month, Arborvitae's products sell "at four to five times that rate".
He said this success has motivated Arborvitae to make its products available in countries such as Singapore, Malaysia, China and even Canada, where rising demand and a conducive environment for science-backed health supplements and functional foods make these markets ripe for entry.
"We're happy our customers have built the brand for us, and we'd now like to make the products available outside of Australia by replicating the model we've used here."
One formulation, multiple uses
Arborvitae's current portfolio consists of five liquid tonic products: Arborvitae Joint Health, Arborvitae Health & Wellbeing Supplement (for blood glucose and cholesterol), Arborvitae Cognitive Function, Memory and Eye Health, Arborvitae for Kids, and Arborvitae Teenagers Immune Boost and Concentration Supplement.
While the formulation was originally intended to alleviate inflammation-related ailments such as osteoarthritis and joint pain, it is also said to be effective for balancing blood sugar levels, supporting cognitive function and ocular health, and boosting immunity.
The combination of its main active ingredient, Pycnogenol (French maritime pine bark extract), along with papain enzymes, sodium chloride, aloe vera juice, procyanidins and honey, Harris said, has provided "fantastic results for a lot of our customers".
He further revealed that Arborvitae has applied for a patent for its proprietary formulation.
While the formulation is identical across the range, the key to getting specific benefits from the respective products, he said, was to use a "clinically recommended dose like we suggest with our products".
For instance, adults with joint pain are advised to take 100ml (50ml each in the morning and evening) of the Joint Health supplement to start, then 50ml daily as a 'maintenance dose'.
Those looking to boost overall health, on the other hand, are advised to take just 30ml of the Health and Wellbeing supplement daily.
Harris said, "People who have taken two bottles of the product have reported fantastic results, and I'm really excited to be able to offer a product with tangible benefits.
"It's also a natural product, so it has no long-term side effects, unlike a lot of prescription medication."
He added that while Pycnogenol is a rather commonly used ingredient in many dietary supplements, it tended to be used in only small amounts that were usually ineffective.
Arborvitae, on the other hand, wanted to optimise its inclusion of the ingredient in order to produce the best results — every 100ml of its product contains 260g of Pycnogenol.
In terms of sales and distribution, Harris said the company would continue focusing on pharmacies and health food stores as its key distribution channels for now,
"We believe these are excellent channels for us, because they have an excellent understanding of their customer base. For health food stores in particular, customers tend to look for natural alternatives to prescription medicine, and we are well-equipped to meet those needs."
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only one winner for me Pablo all the way and i think he will win by a big margin.
Agreed, that is who I voted for, what about young player?
I think Jack Clarke is probably the best talent but I went for Tyler Roberts as he has played more of a role this season than Jack and to be fair is improving game by game.
But I think the Leeds public will take to Clarke with him coming through the Leeds setup.
Klich goal and the Websites was my other choice.
But it could quite easily been another.
I went for Philipps, arguably the most improved player under Bielsa this season. And like you Johnny I also went for Roberts (even though Clarke will win it) and Klich's goal.
Best tweet of the year.


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Viji Subramaniam, also known as Viji Shankar, (15 August 1952 – 10 February 1995) was an Indian singer. She was the daughter of singer Lakshmi Shankar (Hindustani vocalist born into a South Indian family) and Rajendra Shankar (elder brother of sitarist Ravi Shankar, a Bengali). Like her mother and uncle, Viji was a musician and trained in both the Indian classical systems.

Born Vijayashree Shankar in Madras into a south Indian Brahmin family, Viji grew up in Bombay. A singer from an early age, she regularly accompanied her mother in concert, often playing tambura also. Among the prizes she received for her performances as a singer on radio and television, Subramaniam won the All India Radio "President of India" medal in 1972. In his 1997 autobiography, Raga Mala, Shankar described her voice as "sweet and lovely".

In addition to performing internationally with Lakshmi, she played tambura at some of Shankar's sitar recitals with tablist Alla Rakha during the early 1970s. In 1974, together with her aunt Kamala Chakravarty and Lakshmi, Viji joined Shankar's Music Festival from India, a revue sponsored by George Harrison. She also sang on the studio album Ravi Shankar's Music Festival from India (1976), produced by Harrison and recorded at his English estate, Friar Park. Following the Music Festival's European concerts in September–October 1974, Viji was among the musicians and singers on Shankar's North American tour with Harrison at the end of that year.

Subramaniam received a master's degree in music from the California Institute of the Arts. She met her husband, Indian classical violinist L. Subramaniam, in London in 1974 while they were both participating in the Music Festival from India. The couple married in 1976, at a three-day ceremony held in Bombay.

With Subramaniam, Viji developed the idea of Global Music, which aims to reduce the dominance of Western music and bring out the importance of other music systems of the world – including Irish, Swedish, Danish, Chinese, African, Japanese and Iranian. It is written for a 100-piece orchestra.

Viji composed and sang on the soundtracks for two films by Indian director Mira Nair: Salaam Bombay! (1988; winner of both the Cannes Film Festival Audience Award and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film) and Mississippi Masala (1991), starring Sarita Choudhary and Denzel Washington.

In 1992 Vijayashree and Subramaniam launched the Lakshminarayana Global Music Festival (LGMF) in memory of her father-in-law. Now an annual feature and held in various cities around the world, this festival brings together eminent Indian and international artists on the same stage. Among those who have performed at LGMF are Yehudi Menuhin, Bismillah Khan, Allah Rakha, Kishan Maharaj, Arve Tellefsen, Malavika Sarukkai and Christian Eggen, in addition to other musicians from countries including India, Norway, Denmark, Sweden, the United States, China, Japan, Cuba, Senegal, Iran and Baluchistan.

She moved to Los Angeles after giving up her career to be a mother and wife. She died in February 1995 after long suffering from cancer. Part of one of her vocal performances appears in Violin from the Heart, a 2006 documentary film on L. Subramaniam by French director Jean Henri Meunier. She is survived by her four children: Gingger Shankar, Bindu Subramaniam, Dr.Narayana Subramaniam and Ambi Subramaniam. A Los Angeles-based violinist and composer of film soundtracks, Gingger has credited Viji's influence in providing her with a diverse musical background, saying: "We'd go to classical concerts and listen to rock music on the way back home. She was a very open-minded person and because of that I was able to soak up so much." Also musicians, Bindu and Ambi were among the featured performers at the 22nd staging of LGMF, held as a six-city Indian tour over December 2013 and January 2014.

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 Collaborations, book accompanying Ravi Shankar–George Harrison Collaborations box set (Dark Horse Records, 2010; produced by Olivia Harrison; package design by Drew Lorimer & Olivia Harrison).
 Olivia Harrison, George Harrison: Living in the Material World, Abrams (New York, NY, 2011; ).
 Peter Lavezzoli, The Dawn of Indian Music in the West, Continuum (New York, NY, 2006; ).
 Chip Madinger & Mark Easter, Eight Arms to Hold You: The Solo Beatles Compendium, 44.1 Productions (Chesterfield, MO, 2000; ).
 Ravi Shankar, Raga Mala: The Autobiography of Ravi Shankar, Welcome Rain (New York, NY, 1999; ).

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Dirk al VII-lea (d. 4 noiembrie 1203, Dordrecht) a fost conte de Olanda de la 1190 până la moarte.

Dirk a fost fiul cel mare al contelui Floris al III-lea de Olanda cu Ada de Huntingdon.

În condițiile unui război intern din Sfântul Imperiu Roman, împăratul era în căutare de aliați. Henric al VI-lea de Hohenstaufen i-a acordat sprijin lui Dirk prin acordarea dreptului de colectare a impozitelor asupra negustorilor flamanzi din Geervliet. De asemenea, Henric a acordat Olandei și Grote Waard (Dordrecht și împrejurimile) pe speza episcopului de Utrecht. Dirk a făcut ca Olanda să nu poată fi moștenită de către femei. El a deținut pentru o vreme autoritatea princiară asupra episcopatului de Utrecht, în 1196. Acest lucru a condus la un război cu contele Otto I de Gelderland. Otto a fost înfrânt în bătălia de la Grebbeberg. Un nou episcop a fost ales în 1197, care a reprimit autoritatea princiară. Dat fiind că, între timp, dinastia Hohenstaufen a pierdut războiul civil din Germania, Dirk a trecut în tabăra învingătorilor, supunându-se familiei Welf.

Frizonii din Oostergo și Westergo au acordat sprijin fratelui lui Dirk, Willem, care a invadat Olanda, el fiind sprijinit și de către cei din Frizia apuseană.

Dirk a recurs la o alianță cu fostul inamic, contele Otto de Geldern în 1202, amândoi atacând Brabantul. În calitate de duce de Lotharingia, conducătorul Brabantului a emis pretenții asupra Olandei, Utrechtului și Gelderlandului. 's-Hertogenbosch și Geertruidenberg au fost jefuite pe parcursul acestui conflict. Ducele Henric I de Brabant l-a luat prizonier pe Dirk, închizându-l la Heusden. Dirk a fost astfel constrâns să plătească scump răscumpărarea. Astfel, el a fost nevoit să îl accepte pe ducele de Brabant ca senior al său pentru Olanda de sud, iar pe episcopul de Utrecht pentru nordul Olandei.

În 1203, Olanda va fi moștenită de către fiica sa, Ada.

Familie și urmași

Dirk s-a căsătorit în 1186 cu Adelaida de Cleves, fiică a contelui Arnold I de Cleves cu Ida de Louvain. Ei au avut două fiice:
 Aleida (d. cca. 1203).
 Ada (n. cca. 1188–d. 1227), căsătorită în 1203 cu contele Ludovic al II-lea de Loon; Ada și Ludovic vor moșteni comitatul de Olanda.

Note

Decese în 1203
Istoria Țărilor de Jos


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Capuchins are omnivorous monkeys, spending much of their time foraging for fruit and insects. Their diet includes a wide variety of fruits, seeds, frogs, bats and small vertebrates. Supplements to their diet include flowers, stems and leaves, nectar and nuts.


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Tickets are $30 and go on sale at the March 14th general meeting. They will also be available online at our website that same day.


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#### Original name
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Q: Visual Source Safe Eclipse Plug-in With my new job I HAVE to use visual source safe (yes I know it sucks but there is never time to actually migrate off).
so I went to investigate about an Eclipse plugin, and found only 1 but it doesn't work with 64 bit eclipse or any newer version of eclipse than 3.3 (I think)
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The winter waves in Hossegor have been pretty consistent recently!
We've scored bright blue skies, perfect barrels and offshore winds over the past few weeks.
I've been watched Sancho (2011 Billabong XXL Winner) and the boys towing in to perfect barrels every time I checked the surf. There was one guy out there last week under paddle power in Estagnots, just north of the Gravier but he wasn't catching much. The boys on the ski seemed to be loving it. There were two of them being towed at the same time, the guy the deepest was sacrificing his winter wave to get some film of Sancho – the filmographer was getting really deep in the barrel and then getting eaten alive!! The things you do for a good shot!
The Graviere was firing on the higher tide – thick, heavy lips right on the sand, about 15 guys out there committing themselves big time! There's no room for hesitation out there, 110% commitment or you're pinned to the sand bank with sandy ears and a complete cold water flush through the old wetsuit.
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The Center for Craniofacial Research (CCR) was established in 2013 as a collaborative endeavor between UTHealth's School of Dentistry and McGovern Medical School. Craniofacial anomalies are common affecting 1/30 or 3% of newborns with more than 4.5 million affected annually worldwide. The CCR's mission is to lead cutting-edge research to identify, understand, prevent and treat craniofacial abnormalities and disorders.
"Craniofacial abnormalities are common, costly and crushing for families. Finding the causes of these birth defects is of critical importance and achievable in the near future. This will lead to prevention programs and better treatments."
– Jacqueline T. Hecht, PhD, Director, Center for Craniofacial Research, UTHealth School of Dentistry
Distinctions of the CCR
14 full-time faculty members conducting clinically relevant studies to improve the lives of individuals with craniofacial disorders.
Funded by private and federal granting agencies including the National Institute of Dental and Craniofacial Research.
Collections that include tissues, cells, DNA and RNA collected from thousands of patients and families with cleft lip and palate, other dental anomalies and oral/dental conditions.
Outstanding facilities with state-of-the-art equipment in world-class laboratories.
Full-time genetic counselor providing clinical and genetic assessment of patients with craniofacial anomalies to help families understand why craniofacial anomalies occur.
The CCR is under the direction of nationally recognized geneticist Jacqueline T. Hecht, PhD, MS, professor and director of the Pediatric Research Center at the UTHealth McGovern Medical School. CCR investigators include award winning faculty including recipients of the Krane Award from the American Society for Bone and Mineral Research, two AAAS Fellows, and other honorable mentions in recognition of research achievement.
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Dr. Leticia Chaves de Souza's research interests are focused on understanding the molecular mechanisms underlying apical periodontitis (AP) development, susceptibility and healing. She is also interested in the clinical outcome of endodontic procedures, such as disinfection protocols, obturation techniques, and physico-chemical and biological properties of endodontic instruments and materials.
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The Ono & Ono Laboratory seeks to understand the fundamental characteristics of stem cells of bones and cartilages – termed "skeletal stem cells" – and how these cells orchestrate bone development, regeneration and diseases, primarily by means of mouse genetics approaches. Their laboratory has substantial expertise on in vivo cell lineage analyses, and application of this technique to interrogate the essential functionality of skeletal stem cells in vivo, in combination of single-cell genomics approaches. Noriaki Ono, DDS, PhD and Wanida Ono, DDS, DMSc, PhD study skeletal stem cells across many bone compartments through the body, including those residing in the growth plate, the bone marrow and the craniofacial structure.
The Wang Laboratory's research is focused in studying the molecular and genetic regulation of craniofacial and cardiac development, diseases, and regeneration. Our goal is to develop novel diagnostic and therapeutic tools for cardiovascular and craniofacial diseases. Dr. Jun Wang uses a combination of state-of-the-art approaches including mouse genetics, physiology studies, and next generation sequencing techniques.
Dr. Danielle Wu's main areas of expertise include mechanobiology and tissue engineering. Her research interests include developing and testing tissue engineering prototypes in preclinical models for the restoration of tissue function. She investigates mechanotransduction mechanisms in skeletal, salivary, and lung tissue using bioequivalent and scalable 'tissue-avatars' to interrogate therapeutic interactions in health and disease.
Simon Young, DDS, MD, PhD is a board-certified oral & maxillofacial surgeon and scientist whose research efforts include the synthesis and characterization of implantable biomaterials designed to elicit in situ cell recruitment and programming. His work includes the use of materials able to simultaneously deliver multiple bioactive factors with distinct release profiles. These constructs have been used in a diverse set of applications such as the promotion of craniofacial bone regeneration and cancer immunotherapy. Current work in the Young Laboratory seeks to develop novel material-based immunotherapies for the treatment of head and neck cancer and explore mechanisms of how this approach may synergize with chemo/radiation therapy. The paradigm of in situ cell programming using biomaterials is also being utilized in separate collaborative tissue engineering research projects exploring the use of semiconductor-based materials to enhance craniofacial bone regeneration and multidomain peptide hydrogels for nerve regeneration.
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6. Wu, D., Chapela, P., Barrows, C.M.L., Harrington, D.A., Carson, D.D., Witt, R. L., Mohyuddin, N.G., Pradhan-Bhatt, S., Farach-Carson, M.C. "MUC1 and polarity markers INADL and SCRIB identify salivary ductal cells." J. Dent. Res. (online ahead of print), 2022. PMID: 35259994.
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Over at On Apple, we discussed our efforts to get iPhone's Slingerplayer working over EDGE.
Quality is fine given the bandwidth limitation but it's more about principle than actually watching video with Slingplayer.
ATT is wrong in crippling Slingplayer and, hopefully, this issue will be remedied over time.


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663,000 names on petition protesting Troy Davis' execution
Supporters of convicted cop killer Troy Davis say time is running out.
Unless something dramatic happens, Davis will die by lethal injection next week for the 1989 murder of Savannah, Georgia, police officer Mark MacPhail.
Davis, 42, is set to be executed at 7 p.m. Wednesday, and since his 1991 conviction, seven of the nine witnesses against him have recanted or contradicted their testimony. No physical evidence was presented linking Davis to the killing of the policeman.
Many people fighting for Davis' life are feeling the pressure.
"We honor the life of Officer MacPhail," said Edward DuBose, Georgia state conference president of the NAACP, but he added, "You cannot right a wrong by offering up Troy Davis, who we believe is not the person responsible."
The NAACP joins several groups advocating for Davis, who also counts former President Jimmy Carter, Archbishop Desmond Tutu, Pope Benedict XVI and singer Harry Belafonte among his defenders.
The Rev. Al Sharpton's National Action Network plans to hold a candlelight vigil Friday for Davis at Atlanta's historic Ebenezer Baptist Church. Sharpton will speak at the rally at 7 p.m. ET.
Supporters Thursday delivered a massive petition containing more than 663,000 signatures in support of clemency for Davis.
They're worried that won't be enough, as all legal appeals have been exhausted and only the state Pardon and Parole Board can call off Wednesday's execution. The board denied clemency in 2008.
"In some ways, the board has an opportunity to look at this case afresh," said Laura Moye with Amnesty International USA, which has long denounced Davis' conviction.
A new witness who testified during a 2010 evidentiary hearing said he saw another person shoot MacPhail. Supporters hope that fact will be considered by the parole board.
"So why is it that we are willing to believe what they said in 1991, but are not willing to believe what they have to say today," Moye said. "Most of (the witnesses) have recanted or contradicted their testimony and additional testimony has come forward to implicate this alternative suspect."
MacPhail's family has steadfastly asserted that Davis was the killer, and the district attorney who prosecuted Davis has maintained his position that Davis is guilty. He does not have much confidence in witness recantations.
"I'm just disappointed so many people have been led to believe nobody has paid attention to these recantations. It is simply not the case," former Chatham County District Attorney Spencer Lawton once told CNN affiliate WTOC. "On what grounds are the recantations more believable than the testimony in court? None."
Reviewing Davis' claims of innocence last year, the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Georgia found that Davis "vastly overstates the value of his evidence of innocence."
"Some of the evidence is not credible and would be disregarded by a reasonable juror," Judge William T. Moore wrote in a 172-page opinion. "Other evidence that Mr. Davis brought forward is too general to provide anything more than smoke and mirrors," the court found.
Post by: CNN's David Mattingly, CNN's Eliott C. McLaughlin, CNN's John Murgatroyd
Filed under: Celebrity • Courts • Crime • Death Penalty • Georgia • Justice • Protest • U.S.
morbus gravis
its taken 20 years because of all the examination. they have not come up with any new evidence that says hes innocent. no alibi nothing. no new evidence at all
29 judges have reviewed this case. a jury saw all the evidence and conviceted.
what this is about is anti DP people makeing an issue with another agenda
September 16, 2011 at 9:16 am | Report abuse |
Perhaps you need a reminder in basic civics, but the way the United States justice system works is for the plaintiff to bare the responsibility of finding the evidence of GUILT, not for the defendant to prove himself innocent.
you need a lessson too in civics, he was found guilty, at this point hes guilty under the law and not presumed innocent. its up to him now to change that. learn grasshopper learn
kevin once you are found guilty the state does not have to prove anything any more, you are now guilty, and you are not presumed innocent. can you understand that kevin??
if you want out, the onus is now on you. to come up with new evidence. the state made their case
morbus gravis, so it means nothing to you that the majority of the witnesses have recanted or contracdicted themselves. It means nothing to you that a new witness has come forward saying he didn't shoot the cop? These things mean nothing to you? I fine human being you are.
a witness recanting himself does not mean he did not do it. 2 witness say he did. in fact have you ever heard of a case where this many witness recanted. it makes you not believe them.
clearly 29 judges have reviewed the recants, and find them imaterial to the fact the guy killed the cop. the shell casing from the cop kill were the same from the cooper shooting which he was convicted of
kurtinco
Murder is murder no matter how you try to justify it.
Josh Maxus
Not surprisingly the life hanging in the balance does not reside in a caucasian body. With the plethora of false accusations and doctored evidence against black people over the decades – the lying woman and man in MA, the lying killing mother of 5 of SC, etc etc, WHY wouldn't doubt be raised here? Then again we are talking about Georgia. This is the same state where a judge sentenced a 17 yr old black youth to jail for consensual relations with a female. I wish you well DRI.
"They" actually have come up with new evidence. As solid as DNA evidence, when it is found that the very cops who wrote the evidence against him are suspect, then, that evidence is no longer valid. Sure the case is shakey for Davis' part, but, if it is so grounded in fact, then, let's have a do-over. The worst for society is that we find he really is guilty. The best is that we, as a people, can be intelligent enough to recognize that there is NEW evidence to demonstrate that the trial was defective; and, that we retry to find him not guilty. Better to approach St Peter at the pearly gates knowing that you were more inclined to let ten guilty men be tried by the Lord rather than having violated the commandment of "thou shalt not kill" in error even once. It's you Georgia people who are guilty right now. .... if you retry and find him guilty without any more doubt; then, you are justified in killing him. It's your soul.
Jacknyd
One thing some of you are forgetting is that the state did NOT find him guilty, he was found guilty by his peers. Now it is up to the defense to prove there were errors or tainted evidence in the case to get a new trial. Under the conditions of 7 out of 9 witnesses recanting there story this places doubt on the first trial. This much doubt should grant a new trial. This is not in the prosecutions hands now.
Marv – your comment speaks volume about your lack of worth to even waste these words commenting with. I will not waste any more on 'you'.
"Murder is Murder" – You need to look up the definition of Murder. Murder is killing with Malice aforethought. This is not Murder. Call it Homicide if you like but at least be an accurate bleeding heart liberal.
To act like out of the 6 billion people on earth that some don't belong here is just naive. Killing a cop has a very high penalty for a reason – to protect those who serve and to help ensure people don't kill cops rather than be questioned or taken into custody. Do you want a society of law or of anarchy?
Mars Tom
Morbis...
The justice system is flawed.
Or are you one of those that think the govt works perfectly? (Or are you one of those that realize govt does NOT work perfectly and are screaming about getting govt out of our lives and the cost of govt.?)
The judicial system – a branch of our govt – is NOT perfect and there is no way guilt can be 100% proven accurately 100% of the time. And so... There are / have been / will be cases where the govt – on our behalf – is putting innocent people to death.
I guess you are OK with that though.
Are you also OK with the fact that the death penalty is costing states millions and millions of dollars to execute?
Are you also OK with the fact that this God-like application of ultimate justice in no way has ever been proven to deter such crimes that result in the death penalty?
(Do you know the story of the man in TX they are all up in arms about? The Willingham case. They say he started a fire in his house that killed his children. They used flawed science to determine that it was arson. Does that sound like 100% accuracy – enough to take a possibly innocent man's life – who may have already lost his children to a possibly tragic home fire???)
Sounds to me like you support a flawed, immoral govt program.
September 16, 2011 at 10:04 am | Report abuse |
Governor Parry (Perry with an "A") wants to add this to his already record 230 executions that the Tea Party loves so much.
He'll use this potentially innocent man's murder as a campaign prop.
This out of control mental case will NOT be our next president.
If America just isn't ready for a two term black president, then let be Romney.
how is he potentionaly innocent??? do you have any evidence you can bring forth that would say hes not guilty???
I'm a democrat and an Obama supporter, but I'm not sure if you're winning him any votes by saying those opposed to him are only opposed based on the color of his skin.
christmineng
You do know that Perry is from Texas, and this guy is from Georgia right?
I don't know if he is guilty or not. but it is a life we are talking about. Fair and just review of the evidence should be considered.
tehMadHater
already record 230 executions that the Tea Party loves so much
Norm, you are an embarrassment to humanity...
ThisKid
@Morbus Gray, I guess you don't know about the "innocent until proven guilty" thing...
Send him to meet his maker....
Did he do anything to you? I thought that the cops influenced the witnesses statements. Are you ok to kill him just because he is black?
No definite proof of murder? Why is he there? Maybe the Supreme Court needs to look at this one too.
the jury convicted him so there was PROOF BEYOND A RESONABLE DOUBT that he was guilty. learn to undstand the justice system
The proof may have AT THAT TIME been proof beyond a reasonable doubt; however, if new evidence comes up to shed doubt on the very evidence that convicted him, THEN the trial was defective. But of course Georgia people are too hell bent on hating black people. You Georgia people disgust me.
They have answered their own question. By asking "why one should believe the recanted testimony over the original court testimony" they open the door...because the reverse is also true. And if there is ANY doubt, you should release him ( I presume a second trial is impossible due to double jeopardy). Just remember, someday it could be YOU!!!
That's the thing, if the evidence is faulty, then the trial was defective: then they can retry him.
good. one less deadbeat on the government bankrolls.
This guy was no deadbeat.
GREAT! All you have to do to get by with MURDERING INNOCENT PEOPLE IS HAVE BLACK SKIN!!!! All of the bleeding heart blacks who were protesting his execution obviously have never had one of their own murdered. How would one of them feel if someone murdered one of their children, their Mother or Father, their Sister or Brother. I'll bet they would sing a different tune then!!! THIS MAN SHOULD DIE! HE TOOK TWO LIVES! WHO GAVE HIM THE RIGHT TO DO THAT??????
And you know he is 100% guilty... How?
The death penalty is an immoral act performed by our govt in an effort to apply supposed "ultimate justice"
Innocent people have / are / will be put to death because of a flawed system that in no way can be 100% accurate 100% of the time.
But I guess you're OK with that. I guess your OK with the killing of an innocent person – as long as the majority of those put to death are guilty.
You support an immoral act.
they know hes guilty because the shell caseings were the same from the earlier shooting he did. and the shorts he was wearing had the cops blood on them. so ya hes guilty
After this trial, maybe the last cop in Georgia who is "innocent" died. The rest who trumped up the evidence (the fact that cops influenced the testimonies proves that all evidence brought before the jury is defective) ... the rest, well, not so much.
TOdum
Apparently you didnt hear about the little ignorant white kids in Mississippi who ran the black man over and killed him with a truck a few weeks ago...JUST BECAUSE HE WAS BLACK!!!! And do you know what that BLACK man's family did???? They requested that those little idiots NOT be put to death!!!
So for all you folks who support the death penalty…
Do you all think govt works perfectly? (Our judicial system is simply a branch of govt)
Or are you one of those screaming about wanting less govt in our lives – screaming about the failures and costs of govt…
Well here is an activity – a policy of govt that is majorly flawed – a policy that is costing states Millions of dollars – and a policy where the result of such is that innocent people can /have been / and will be put to death for crimes they did not commit.
So if you want to yell at govt and have them to stop doing something that is wrong… Have them stop doing something that is morally wrong… Well then turn your attention toward ending the death penalty in this country.
Wouldn't be the first time we execute an innocent man. Those post mortem pardons are pure bullshiz.
he was found guilty so hes not innocent, and there has never been a case where an innocent man was executed
Hey Morbus, you don't read the news much do you? If not, I doubt that you have reviewed many death penalty appeal cases.....
@Morbus you're an idiot if you believe that. How about all the cases where people have spent years or decades in prison or on death row until DNA proved they were innocent? How many died before DNA technology reached a level where it could be used in criminal cases? How about all the cases where innocent people were railroaded by corrupt police & prejudiced or biased jurors? If you think that has never happened you're a complete moron... or just a troll.
wmpaulrobbins
If there is any possibility that this man is not guilty the system of justice must not execute until a reevaluation of the evidence is concluded. Perhaps another jury needs to decide since changes is tesimonies have occurred. A human life is precious and if a doubt should not be taken.
its been reviewed for 20 years now. 29 judges have found nothing to say hes innocent, and the supreme court now rejects his clame. how much more review can a person get?
The persons who testified are saying that the POLICE FORCED THEM to make statements that are not true? This is a grave problem with law enforcement in Georgia. It seems that the State of Georgia Law Enforcement community is covering up BAD COPS. I have been a bad cop, I know what the signs of a cover up are. The Prosecutors Office is just as bad and can wreak a huge toll on innocent people... and they do. This is an example of tyranny at its worst. Here in America where the government is to be run by the people, COPS and PROSECUTORS are to be feared... Great job Georgia people.... I shall never spend my white, affluent, ex-cop, DOE dollars in your state ever again.
they stated in court during his trial, that they were not coerced. his trial attorney asked them.
And I am sure that white cops have absolutely no influence over black Georgia people on ANYTHING they say in court. I am absolutely sure that any black someone in a GEORGIA court, under the scrutiny of white GEORGIA cops, will absolutely have no misgivings whatsoever about what they are saying in that Georgia white court. Being a white ex-cop, I trust ALL of what people say in court to the end of pleasing a prosecutor or a gallery full of white witnesses. Yes, especially after now, when the witnesses know that it is much more difficult for cops to lie and get away with coverups........ I'd really like to see this man tried again.
GaChick
I believe the whole reason for these recantations is because Davis' family has hounded them to death for 20 years to recant. I know (yes for a fact, as I know a person very close to the McPhail family) that the family of TAD has harrassed the McPhail family to the point that the police have been called on them to remove them from the property of the McPhail's, more than once. And I agree with what someone else said. If he's so damn innocent, why isn't the family clamoring for his release, instead of just reducing his sentence to life in prison?
Then all of that should come out in a re-trial. Why is the Georgia Prosecutor so scared of a retrial? If he is not guilty, then you should be more interested in finding out how in the world did the cops make this mistake, and..... how are you going to protect yourself from those cops. When cops go bad, they don't stop at just a black man. Abuse of power grows. I recognized it in myself and my brother cops. I removed myself from that career long ago. There are too many symptoms that there is a "nigg'a in the woodpile" here.
We, as a nation, would be better off to realize that the justice system has been thrown out the window in favor of politics. If you have time, I encourage you to read the book called "The Tyranny of Good Intentions." It'll paint it in raw color from a Duke and Harvard Law Professors' perspective. Truth has slowly become the greatest casualty of our justice system. Prosecutors get off on their job and to that end – the ends justify the means, almost always.
Blacks and muslims are guilty of something. So consider that if he didn't shoot the cop, he did something else and God is giving him his just due.
I dont know what to say about this case. It appears that plenty of eyes have reviewed it over the years and have upheld the conviction. I know we are going to have our conspiracy theorists and the usual race baiters. If this guy was innocent I would like to think it would have been overturned by now. enough time has been spent trying to determine the correct verdict here so im guessing they got it right
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Since we learned of event storming at Procurios it felt like an interesting tool to me. Several teams started experimenting and using it for two main reasons. Getting to know the customers business and helping the customer realise that their business is much more complex than they always assumed.
To help everyone in the company understand what we mean when we talk about event storming Pim and I organised a series of three workshops open to any employee. Bonus? I got three free tries at facilitating and learned loads.
A group that consists of lot of people that are expert on the same narrow field in a business. We're now collecting details. Hopefully friendly fights on how stuff works and should work spontanuously arise.
A group that consists of people that have expertise on fields that each touch eachother. Obviously, missing one link makes sure you end up with two groups of people without a connection. Discussion here should hopefully be more like "that is not what we do" and "we only put information X in location Y because there is no other place!".
Since we went for big picture eventstorming I arranged groups according to the second situation. Each session I removed all chairs from the room and put tables, etc to the edge. I prepared the not-so-infinite-but-still-pretty-big modelling space and gave only the shortest of introductions. Since the thing we have in common as a group is that we all work for Procurios, we were eventstorming ourself. Every process allowed. There are big differences between groups and will discribe all 3 sessions and things I learned below.
I was immediately off to a good start. At Procurios, people are pretty much used to stickies on walls so I did not have to help anyone accross the "I am a grown-up important person with very little time, am I really expected to put pink stickies on a wall"-barrier. Within minutes the wall started to get filled. Some people were more hesistant than others but little nudging and correction was required.
Pretty soon a discussion on invoicing emerged. People were clearly of different opinions on some parts of this process. This was great! What was meant to be an exercise in eventstorming actually turned out to be useful on the spot, if only for creating more awareness on issues surrounding this topic. The problem here was that people were reluctant to stop discussing and start writing again. They identified the problem but wanted to create the solution straight away as well.
It is hard to get people back to writing if they are passionate about a problem. Talking is so much easier than writing. I do not feel this is a huge issue since we learned something. Still I also feel we might learn more if I get people back to writing after a while.
If people think something is too "fuzzy" to write down on some stickies you're likely to have found yourself a hotspot. The hard part is to convince them of this. Writing allll those stickies is boring to them. Only when they're all on the wall does the effect of "omg this is horrible" truly kick in. If we do not get them there, it will just remain that "fuzzy process"
The second session was so different from the first session. It took people more time to start writing and sticking notes to the wall. Also it was more an individual exercise at the start. It took people about 25 minutes before the started collaborating. The result was a lot of small starts on processes that did not get finished or only got actively discussed much later.
I had hard time figuring out when to step in and correct some things like making sure that events where written down in past tense. Not too soon certainly but waiting for an hour makes it hard to get people to change what already has become a bad habit. I'm thinking of using pomodoro's next time and use each 5m break as a mini-retrospective.
This one had the smallest group of people due to some people being ill. It was also the first session where we experimented with smaller timeboxes. We noticed that we could help and correct people while they were actively event storming but we also lacked a formal retrospectal moment where we could redirect the whole group of people. We can of course shut the process down for a couple of minutes at any time, but since it takes people a while to get started it feels overly interruptive to bother them after only a couple of minutes with the first feedback on the process of event storming itself.
Timeboxes of 25 minutes (a pomodoro!) seem to be working fine. It is long enough for people to get going, but short enough to guide people trough the eventstorming process.
At 4 people this was our smallest group yet. It felt like this was the minimum for a session with a lot of different expertises. Less might work fine for the scenario where everyone is an expert in the same field.
Someone experienced a sort of 'writers block'. There were so many paths that he was hesistant to start writing at all. What would be the "best" path to start with? After a discussion the group suggested him to start at the end and work back. Simply use the last path you encountered and write it all down.
Be as invisible as possible when facilitating. Only ask questions, and give as little solutions as possible. The moment I got involved too much, all other involvement dropped.
I think I would like to prepare an example (very small, < 10 post-its) of a process that has nothing to do with the current business to give participants an idea of where we're going. I noticed people usually start out really fragmented and only after one or two retrospectives would they start finishing processes and zooming in. In part this may be to the unclear ideas of participants on event storming at the start, so a small example might help.
I think most attendees had some degree of fun and realised the value of this tool for our business. I got to learn a lot more on facilitating so I feel I ticked both boxes in the goals category :) Tickets are apparently a central part in our organisation since that was the one process that got a lot of attention during all three sessions.
Since I am by no means an expert I would love any tips and tricks or good stories from you all. Leave them in the comments!
Thanks for the splendid and methodical report on your experiment. Great read, making me more curious and eager to grab an opportunity to try it myself, too.


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