Podcasts about Ellesmere

Bernie in Ellesmere and Katie in Berwick go head-to-head in the almighty quiz!

The Canterbury Regional Council is being criticised for its management of Lake Ellesmere, with residents frustrated the lake was not opened to the sea before last week's storm. Environment Canterbury's director of science Tim Davie spoke to Alexa Cook.

In this episode, we explore the tragic murder of Andrew Gardner, who was shot and killed in the quiet town of Ellesmere. We'll examine the unsettling chain of events that led to his untimely death, the police efforts to bring the perpetrator to justice, and the profound impact this act of violence had on the community and those closest to him. Join us as we uncover the details of this deeply emotional case and the legal battle that followed. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Join us this week and find out how Matt Iremonger manages multiple dairy, sheep and beef operations across 6,500 hectares in Canterbury, New Zealand. Matt shares the challenges and opportunities in such a diverse farming enterprise, as well as his recent experience as a Nuffield Scholar looking at the integration of beef production from the dairy industry to create a high-value premium product.When Matt's parents sold the farm he grew up on, Matt needed to find another way into property ownership. After a stint at the New Zealand Wool Board and some time overseas, Matt returned to New Zealand to lease a farm. Matt and his wife then went into an equity partnership on a larger farm, which they grew for 10 years. More recently they have joined forces with the Thomas family, managing their farming business and purchasing farms in partnership with them. Matt and his wife Katy run dairy, sheep, and beef farming systems that operate across 6,500 hectares in the Ellesmere district in Canterbury. “We think of ourselves as a pastoral business,” explains Matt. “That pastoralism extends to a number of products which include lamb, beef and dairy. Dairy is no different to pastoral sheep and beef, it's just a different harvesting system.”Their stock consists of 1,550 dairy cows (plus replacement heifers); 12,000 mixed-age ewes and 3,000 hoggets (producing 22,000 lambs a year); and 1,200 beef cows (from which they finish the majority of the calves). Running such a diverse business prompted Matt to apply for a Nuffield scholarship in 2023. Matt saw an opportunity in the industry for better utilisation of surplus calves from the dairy side of the operation. Matt spent five months travelling and researching the challenges and opportunities in New Zealand, comparing it with practices in the United States and the European Union, and came across some surprising revelations. Mark and Matt also discuss the breeding principles that apply across these enterprises and how they select their bulls. Matt has valuable insights into managing diverse farming operations for optimal productivity and sustainability, capitalising on opportunities. From navigating partnerships to strategic breeding principles, this week's episode has it all. Head Shepherd is brought to you by neXtgen Agri International Limited, we help livestock farmers get the most out of the genetics they farm with. Get in touch with us if you would like to hear more about how we can help you do what you do best - info@nextgenagri.com.Thanks to our sponsors at MSD Animal Health and Allflex, and Heiniger Australia and New Zealand.These companies are leaders in their respective fields and it is a privilege to have them supporting the Head Shepherd Podcast. Please consider them when making product choices, as they are instrumental in enabling us to bring you this podcast each week.Check out Heiniger's product range HERECheck out the MSD range HERECheck out Allflex products HERE

Subterranea presenta un nuevo P3 – (G3), el conformado por Ricardo Hernández (Steve Hackett), David Pintos (John Mitchell) y Carles Pinós (Eric Johnson) El trío de subterráneos nos hablará de los más recientes trabajos de Big Big Train, Semiramis, Ellesmere, Gepetto, Magick Brother And Mystic Sister y Steve Hackett. No te lo pierdas. Edición: Jordi Via www.subterranea.eu www.davidpintos.com

Lets talk about life on a canal boat and pretend the weather is better!Find me all over the internet: https://linktr.ee/sortofinterestingPlaces mentioned in this episode: Ty Mawr, Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, Ellesmere, Blakemore, Oswestry.Support the show

Stories of times spent moored outside a canal pub!Find me all over the internet: https://linktr.ee/sortofinterestingPlace names mentioned in this episode (for those looking on Google Maps!)Hindford, St Martins, New Marton, Oswestry, Ellesmere.Support the show

Today's episode is another dungeon special, focused on Galakrond's Fall (though we don't get there for a full hour!) Mid-show the Tindral nerfs were announced so be sure to catch that part (~45 mintues in!) We also cover the Tier Set votes and the other stuff coming with 10.2.5! 0:00 Intro  4:00 Healing and M+ Scaling 51:00 Tip of the Week 58:00 Q&A 1:06:00 Darkheart Thicket 1:32:00 Patreon Thanks Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/titanforge Come join our Discord: https://discord.gg/6BcJ3Tu Music: Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Police are honing in on the movements of a car used by an alleged kidnapper, as the search continues for Christchurch real estate agent Yanfei Bao. They wont say if there's any evidence Ms Bao has been in the silver/grey Mitsubishi sedan. Registration DPH101. Earlier this week police revealed the missing person's case had turned into a homicide investigation,but wont say exactly why. A man is in custody charged with kidnapping and could face further charges. A house that's for sale on Trevor Street has been the focus of a forensic examination.. last night Checkpoint revealed an open home still went ahead there after police launched an investigation into Ms Bao;'s disappearance. A dive squad been searching water in the Halswell river, with grid searches in suburb of Green Park and an areil search of lake Ellesmere. Detective Inspector Nicola Reeves says there's a significant team involved. [embed] https://players.brightcove.net/6093072280001/default_default/index.html?videoId=6331977246112

This week we have Ellesmere on to discuss the affix situation. Affixes have been a point of discussion for the past few months and we tried our best in this episode to cover the discussion fairly, though it's worth noting that between our hosts and our guest we do have a solid majority of people wanting significant affix reform! Here's Ellesmere's Holy Paladin website: https://wingsisup.com/ Here's our clip of the week: https://clips.twitch.tv/HungryLightSalmonCurseLit--7JIId_c-LKWbDH0  0:00 Affixes 57:00 Tip of the Week 1:03:00 Affixes Part 2 1:21:00 Patreon Thanks Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/titanforge Come join our Discord: https://discord.gg/6BcJ3Tu Music: Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Check out the MDI for the next 3 weekends on the Warcraft channels on Twitch and Youtube! You can follow along at RaiderIO as well: https://raider.io/mythic-dungeon-international/dragonflight-season-1/highlights Next week we'll have Ellesmere on to talk about Affixes, then we'll take a week off since Trell will be prepping for the MDI Last Stand! 0:00 Intro 9:00 10.1 and 10.0.7 Stuff 35:00 Tip of the Week 42:00 MDI Recap 1:22:00 Patreon Thanks 1:25:00 Q&A Check out our Patreon at https://www.patreon.com/titanforge Come join our Discord: https://discord.gg/6BcJ3Tu Music: Take a Chance by Kevin MacLeod Link: https://incompetech.filmmusic.io/song/4457-take-a-chance License: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/

Finding an affordable home is a near impossible challenge for young people and lower paid workers in many rural areas, and the conversion of homes into short term holiday lets is often blamed. The Government is going to establish a registration scheme for holiday lets and is to consult on whether setting up new short term lets should require “change of use” planning permission. So will it help? ABP is one of the countries biggest meat companies, slaughtering 600,000 cattle a year in the UK: it has 13 abattoirs here processing beef and lamb. We visit one of them near Ellesmere in Shropshire, which takes in cattle from 2000 farmers. Seafood and fishing businesses in Grimsby have faced disruption from the pandemic and from the impact of Brexit. Last month, one firm in the town announced it was pulling out of the UK altogether. Now, a seafood storage and transport company, has been awarded 5 million pounds from the Government's UK Seafood Fund to expand and modernise its current cold storage facility. And as temperatures drop, we hear from one teenage farmer about her cold-weather jobs! Presented by Caz Graham Produced for BBC Audio in Bristol by Heather Simons

In 1639, doctor Edward May published a 40-page text about a serpent he found in the heart of a 21-year-old man during a post-mortem examination. We don't know exactly what it was, but there are plenty of theories. Research: Bush, Sargent Jr. “Bosom Serpents before Hawthorne: The Origins of a Symbol.” American Literature , May, 1971, Vol. 43, No. 2 (May, 1971). Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/2924236 Church, William Selby. “The Rise of Physiology in England: The Harveian Oration Delivered Before the Royal College of Physicians, October 18th, 1895.” Adlard. 1896. Denham, D.A. “A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of John Pennant, gentleman, of the age of 21 years.” Transactions of The Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, Volume 71, Issue 5, 1977, Page 455, https://doi.org/10.1016/0035-9203(77)90066-9 Eades, Bentley Gerald. “The Jacobean and Caroline Stage Vol-ii.” The Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1941. Healy, Simon. “KYNASTON, Sir Francis (1587-c.1649), of Oteley, Ellesmere, Salop; later of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Westminster and Covent Garden, Mdx.” he History of Parliament: the House of Commons 1604-1629, ed. Andrew Thrush and John P. Ferris, 2010. https://www.historyofparliamentonline.org/volume/1604-1629/member/kynaston-sir-francis-1587-1649 May, Edward. “A most certaine and true relation of a strange monster or serpent found in the left ventricle of the heart of John Pennant, Gentleman, of the age of 21 yeares.” London : George Miller. 1639. https://archive.org/details/b3033973x Morris, Thomas. “The man with a snake in his heart.” http://www.thomas-morris.uk/man-snake-heart/ Pender, Stephen. “Examples and Experience: On the Uncertainty of Medicine.” The British Journal for the History of Science , Mar., 2006, Vol. 39, No. 1. Via JSTOR. https://www.jstor.org/stable/4028546 Pennant, Thomas. “The History of the Parishes of Whiteford and Holywell.” B. and J. White. 1796. Perella, Chrissie. “Teratology: ‘Monster' as a medical term.” Historical Medical Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia. https://histmed.collegeofphysicians.org/for-students/teratology-monster-as-a-medical-term/ Richardson, Ruth. “Pennant's serpent.” The Lancet. Vol. 357, Issue 9260. 3/24/2001. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(05)71674-3/fulltext Ross, Alexander. “Arcana microcosmi.” London : T. Newcomb. 1652. https://archive.org/details/b30329140/ Slights, William W.E. “The Narrative Heart of the Renaissance.” Renaissance and Reformation / Renaissance et Réforme. Winter/Hiver 2002. https://www.jstor.org/stable/43445471 The Public Domain Review. “A Monster in the Heart: Edward May's A Most Certaine and True Relation (1639).” https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/heart-serpent Woolley, Benjamin. “The herbalist : Nicholas Culpeper and the Fight for Medical Freedom.” HarperCollins, 2004. See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Recorded before the end of the Club Rugby season, Riki sat down with Southbridge and Ellesmere coach Reece Allen to have a good chat about Reece's journey in coaching so far, and the landscape of created by coaching in Ellesmere.

A meat processing plant is claiming to be carbon neutral, using animal fats from the abattoir process to power the plant. ABP has invested millions of pounds in the vast new site at Ellesmere in the Midlands, using state of the art equipment to make the process as easy as possible for the animals themselves, and providing data and insight for the farmers that supply them. A new report by a group of charities says chemicals are the hidden killer in our rivers. WildFish (formerly Salmon and Trout Conservation) worked with the RSPB, BugLife and the Pesticide Collaboration, testing invertebrates from 12 rivers to assess river health. They found the number of species had declined, and are calling on the government to better regulate and police water quality rules. Defra says it is committed to river health, including through the new Environment Act. As part of our week looking at the rising cost of food, today we meet a farmer who says a 'perfect storm' of Brexit, war in Ukraine and the effects of Covid, have led to a drastic shortage of labour to work on farms and in food processing, pushing prices up for farmers and consumers. Presented by Charlotte Smith.

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People used to say "If you believe that, I have some swampland in Florida to sell you," but they really should have said, "I have some lovely acres in the Republic of Poyais you can buy, but you have to act now!"  Presenting one of my favorite con artists ever, the man who declared himself prince of a South American country that didn't exist, Gregor MacGregor (yes, that's really his name). Links to all the research resources are on the website. Hang out with your fellow Brainiacs.  Reach out and touch Moxie on Facebook, Twitter,  or Instagram.  Become a patron of the podcast arts! Patreon or Ko-Fi.  Or buy the book and a shirt. Music: Kevin MacLeod,  Want to start a podcast or need a better podcast host?  Get up to TWO months hosting for free from Libsyn with coupon code "moxie."   Remember back in episode 155, Hate to Burst your Bubble, we talked about, among other things, the Florida real estate boom and bust of the 1920s?  It's where we get the phrase, “if you believe that, I have some real estate in Florida to sell you.”  100 years before that, we could have been saying, “I have some acreage in Poyais to sell you.”  Never been to Poyais?  Trust me, it's amazing.  The weather is always perfect, sunny and warm.  Located along the eastern coast of present-day Nicaragua and Honduras, the soil of Poyais is so fertile, you can get three harvests of corn a year.  The trees are heavy with fruit and the forests teem with entrees in the form of game animals.  If you look into the rivers, you'll not only see water cleaner and more pure than you've ever seen in your life and more fish than you could hope to catch, but in the river bed, the sparkle of gold fills your eyes, not from flecks and dust, but nuggets as big as walnuts, just laying there, waiting for you to scoop them up.  The only thing missing is settlers to develop and leverage its resources to the fullest.  Wanna get your share?  Better hurry; hundreds of people are investing all their savings in a piece of the perfect Poyais.  All you have to do is [] to the Cazique or prince.  Who is the prince of this equatorial new world paradise?  A Scotsman named Gregor MacGregor.     MacGregor was born in 1786.  His father, who died when Gregor was 4, was a captain sailing with the East India Company, so adventuring on a quest for riches might well have been in his blood.  A clever chap from the get-go, Gregor enrolled in the University of Edinburgh at age 15, though he never finished his degree.  No shade thrown there, I'm a 3-time community college drop-out and look how I turned out!  (pause, sigh)  At age 17, he took after his grandfather and joined the British Army, where he quickly rose up the ranks to lieutenant, captain, and major, largely by buying the next rank up, but that's pretty much how it was done back then.  Two years after enlisting, MacGregor married a Royal Navy Admiral's daughter, and a mere five years after that, probably because he'd married into money, he retired from the army.  The young couple moved to London, where Gregor called himself Sir and claimed to be a baronet, which ranks underneath baron in British noble hierarchy and is apparently a modest enough lie that no one would think to put the effort and time into checking it out.     But ‘easy street' only lasted another year before his wife died.  No more wife meant no more wealthy in-laws, so MacGregor sold his Scottish estate and relocated to Caracas, Venezuela, where he married another wealthy family's daughter.  Never let it be said he's not consistent.  Wife 2 was actually a cousin of Simon Bolivar, of Bolivia fame.  He was able to sell his military prowess to Francisco de Miranda, the Venezuelan revolutionary general.  There was rather a lot of revolution going on in Spanish colonies at the time while Spain was well distracted dealing with a certain actually-of-average-height French emperor.  At least MacGregor wasn't lying about his soldiery, securing a number of victories and becoming a notable figure for the revolutionary set all across LatAm.     In 1820, MacGregor moved to a former British Colony, in Nicaragua, which, true to its name, a swampy and pest-infested area that Europeans had until that point left to the Mosquito Natives.  In 1830, MacGregor traded jewelry and rum for eight million acres of land.  Now that was either an F-ton of rum or the land was utterly worthless.  I'll give you three guesses.  The land was completely useless for farming, kinda of a big deal, being the production of foodstuff and whatnot.     Realizing there was no way he could draw settlers in with the land as it was, MacGregor decided to draw them in with the land as it wasn't.  So he headed back to England, where he was well-known in society circles for his military achievements, leading his men into battle against great odds.  Society not knowing that he'd also abandoned his men.  Twice.  But he rubbed elbows with the muckety-mucks nonetheless, telling them all about his new world paradise, the Republic of Poyais.  And he went so far beyond Baron Munchausenian story-telling.   Gregor made up a whole country and everything that goes along with it.  To hear him tell it, the Republic of Poyais was not an impenetrable, parasite-ridden jungle, but a glorious tableau with a thriving civilization with a parliament, banks, an opera house and cathedral.  The weather was ideal, a perpetual summer that was very appealing to Londoners.  The soil was so rich that farming required almost no labor.  The rivers that wound down the mountains teemed with fish and the surrounding forests were thick with game animals.  In this dubious district, the capital of St Joseph had a massive infrastructure and a population of about 20,000 people.  The economy was robust, if you felt like doing anything other than scooping up all the gold that was just laying around.  MacGregor had pamphlets promoting printed, and they sold in the thousands around the streets of London and Edinburgh.  He started a nationwide campaign to attract investment, taking out big ads in newspapers and even opened sales offices.     The world-building that went into this scam would have made GRRM blush.  Maybe even JRR Tolkien.  Feel free to at me on social media; I love a spirited nerd debate.  He came up with a tricameral Parliament and a commercial banking system.  Like an African dictator, he designed Poyaian military uniforms, several, different ones for different regiments.  He published a 350 page guidebook, under the pen name Thomas Strangeways, with a sliver of real facts about the region, but the Pacman portion of the pie chart all came from his preposterous posterior.  The book was full of detailed sketches and MacGregor had a seemingly endless supply of official-looking documents.  He had offices set up in London, Glasgow and Edinburgh to sell land certificates, which people eagerly bought.  The whole operation looked completely legit; you wouldn't even think to doubt it.  MacGregor didn't just succeed in his con, he was *wildly successful.  Not only did MacGregor raise £200,000 directly – the bond market value over his life ran to £1.3 million, or about £3.6 billion today – but he convinced seven ships' worth of eager settlers to make their way across the Atlantic. It became a popular investment, and many sank their life savings in land deed in Republic of Poyais.  A London Bank underwrote a £2000 pound loan, £23mil or $30mil today, secured with the land sales.     MacGregor was signing up settlers left and right.  Settlers meant development, which meant the value of bonds and land certificates would go up, which would attract more settlers and investors, driving the price up further.  Gee, it's like crime does kinda pay.  Skilled tradesmen were promised free passage and ostensibly, supposedly government contract work.  Don't think it was only the under-educated among the population that bought into this – bankers, doctors, civil servants, you name it.  Whole families signed up and backed their bags.   In September 1822, the first fifty settlers sailed for Poyais and were very confused when the landed.  There was…nothing there.  No port, not even a dock.  I mean, there were trees and snakes and mosquitos, but no city, no road, no nothing.  The settlers believed they were lost, but they couldn't get a ride to the “right” place because that ship had sailed.  Literally, the ship left them immediately.  So they set up camp.  150 more people, including children, shortly joined them.  They searched for civilization as best they could, but the rainy season descended on them, bringing on clouds of mosquitos, whose tiny bags were packed with yellow fever and malaria.  A few settlers who were saved by a passing ship informed the British Colony of Honduras about the situation. The colony organized a rescue mission, but only a third of the population was still alive and rescued. In the meantime, five more ships set for Poyais had to be stopped by the Honduras government.  They were informed that Poyais did not exist. It was Mickey Mouse, mate, spurious, not genuine.  Twisting the knife counter-clockwise, the King revoked the land grant and told them they were now illegal squatters and had swear allegiance or GTFO.  Dozens were too weak to leave.  In a particularly depressing bit of math, of 250 or so who had set sail for Poyais, with all their hopes and dreams pinned to this mythical land, 180 died.      That's not even the crazy bit.  Of those 70 who barely survived their ordeal, many of them did *not blame MacGregor.  Six of the survivors, including one man who lost two children to the ordeal, signed an affidavit insisting that blame lay not with MacGregor but with Hector Hall, a former army officer who was supposed to be in charge of the settlement.  They declared "[W]e believe that Sir Gregor MacGregor has been worse used by Colonel Hall and his other agents than was ever a man before, and that had they have done their duty by Sir Gregor and by us, things would have turned out very differently at Poyais". MacGregor claimed he's been a victim too, defrauded and embezzled from by his own agents and undermined by merchants in British Honduras because the richness of Poyais threatened their profits   Now I love a Scottish accent, but this must have been one charming melon-farmer.  MacGregor didn't know it, but he had actually been using “the six principles of persuasion.”  These comes from a 1984 book by Robert Cialdini, “Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion,” which looked at the factors that affect the decisions that people make, especially as pertains to sales, naturally.  At the core of his work is the idea that decision-making is effortful, so individuals use a lot of rules of thumb and decision making shortcuts (heuristics) when deciding what to do, and of course once you know what those things are, you can manipulate them to your advantage.  They are authority (in the sense that they're an authority on the subject), scarcity, reciprocity (i.e. you scratch my back, I'll scratch yours), consistency (I still believe in this idea as much as I always have), social validation (everyone you know is buying one of these), and friendship or liking (picture the smile on a used car salesman).  MacGregor seemed to know these instinctively.   Mcgregor skipped town when the scandal broke, claiming he needed to take his wife to warm, dry Italy for her health, and headed across the channel to France and began the whole thing all over again.  In Paris, he persuaded the Compagnie de la Nouvelle Neustrie, a firm of traders looking to break into the South American market, to seek investors and settlers for Poyais in France.  In a matter of months, he had a new group of settlers and investors ready to go.  Concurrent to all this, he tried to get in good with King Ferdinand VII of Spain, proposing to make Poyais a Spanish protectorate and a base of operations from which Spain could reconquer Guatemala.  Spain, at least, ignored MacGregor.  MacGregor might not have realized that France was more stringent than England in its passport requirements: when the government saw a flood of applications to a country no one had heard of, a commission was set to investigate the matter.  Or maybe he figured he was on a roll and utterly bulletproof.  This time, Mcgregor et al were arrested and tried.  But he was found not guilty on all accounts, mostly because one of his accomplices was hiding in the Netherlands with a ton of incriminating documents.  Once he felt that London had probably forgotten his colossal scam, he headed back…and started another scam.  Smaller this time; I guess he's learning.  But the bonds didn't sell well this time, and what's worse -for everyone- other fraudsters started pulling their own fake paradise scams following his model.  He retired to Edinburgh, then to Venezuela after the death of his wife, where he was granted citizenship and a pension as a retired general.  He never faced any consequences for his actions and when he died in 1845, Gregor MacGregor was buried with full military honors.  So the moral of the story is … crime does pay?  That's a terrible lesson.     Crocker Land   In 1907, Robert Peary was the most famous, and most experienced Arctic explorer in the world, but he had a problem—he hadn't yet managed to become the first to visit the most arctic of arctic places, the North Pole, and his cash reserves were becoming nonexistent. The previous year, he had almost made it—supposedly getting within 175 miles or 280 kilometers—but was turned around by a combination of storms and depleting supplies, but Robert Peary was sure he could get there if he just had another try. He possessed the kind of confidence that only a man with a Lorax level mustache can have. All he needed to make another journey was money. However, the arctic adventure capital market was a bit reluctant to give him more after the previous failures, so, Peary hatched a plan. The key to that plan was a wealthy San Francisco financier named George Crocker, who had previously donated $50,000 to Peary's failed 1906 voyage. This was, of course, a time when 50k bought you more than two buckets of movie theatre popcorn and a calculus textbook. Peary wanted Crocker to help fund his new voyage but, considering the previous trip he financed achieved diddly squat, this could be tough. But what if, and hear me out, the previous voyage wasn't a colossal failure. Peary thought of a way to not only convince Crocker that the previous voyage hadn't been a failure, but also to butter him up a little bit by doing the one thing that rich people love more than anything else—naming things after them. And so, Peary revealed that on his 1906 voyage, though he hadn't made it to the North Pole, he had seen, from a distance, an enormous, previously undiscovered land mass. He wrote that he spotted, “faint white summits,” 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, and that once he got closer, he could make out, “the snow-clad summits of the distant land in the northwest, above the ice horizon.” In honor of George Crocker, the San Francisco financier, Peary named this beautiful, snow-peaked land mass, “Crocker Land.” But then Robert Peary had two problems. The first problem? George Crocker had already given most of his money to boring causes like rebuilding San Francisco after the earthquake of 1906, and so as flattered as he may have been, there wasn't money left for funding Peary's arctic antics. The second problem? The island was totally, 100%, made up. Now normally, this might not be such a big deal. Guy makes up an imaginary island, who cares? Captain James Cook did so three centuries ago and still nobody's called him out, but this fake island ended up mattering a lot. You see, eventually, Robert Peary did manage to secure funding for another voyage, mostly from the National Geographic Society. On April 6, 1909, he finally made it to the North Pole, or at least, he said he did. He had a picture, but this could be any old pile of snow. He returned home proudly proclaiming that he was the first man ever to reach the North Pole, to which a guy named Frederick Cook, another Arctic explorer, replied, “um…I was there, like, a year ago,” but, Cook said that he'd sailed through where this giant land mass called Crocker's Land was supposedly located. If I know anything about boats, it's that they don't work well on land and, since Cook hadn't found a thing except for cold water and walrus farts, someone's lying here. But, because of this, the existence of Crocker Land became crucially important as it would prove who had really gone to the North Pole first. If it did exist, then Frederick Cook must be lying about going to the North Pole. If it didn't exist, Frederick Cook did go to the North Pole, and Robert Peary was the liar. Of course, at that time you couldn't just fire up your handy household satellite to check and so, to settle it, a man named Donald McMillian decided to go on another expedition to find the land. Not only would this prove who was telling the truth, but it would possibly give McMillan the opportunity to be the first to step onto what was considered, “the last great unknown place in the world.” That voyage was, incredibly, a failure. In addition to their ship getting stuck in the ice for three years before they could return home, the only bright spot came when a crew member saw what looked to be the island—a beautiful, snowy-peaked landmass—but it turned out to be a mirage. In light of that fact, some have suggested that Peary didn't lie about the island, but was actually just seeing a mirage, but unfortunately for Peary's reputation, it looks like that's letting him off too easy. Historians looked at Peary's original notes and logs for the date that Crocker's Land was supposedly discovered, and they found that he doesn't mention anything about it. All he says happened that day was that he climbed up some rocks, and then climbed down the rocks. Plus, the early drafts of his book even didn't include anything about it, but then three paragraphs about Crocker Land mysteriously showed up just before the book was published—just when Peary needed to get more money. In other words, Crocker Land was a load of crock. One of Peary's major issues, aside from inventing an island, was that, when he supposedly went to this north pole, his crew did not include a single navigator who could make their own independent observations as to whether or not they were truly at the pole, or just some pile of ice, and so people didn't believe him. In the archives of the American Geographical Society in Milwaukee lies a century-old map with a peculiar secret. Just north of Greenland, the map shows a small, hook-shaped island labeled “Crocker Land” with the words “Seen By Peary, 1906” printed just below.   The Peary in question is Robert Peary, one of the most famous polar explorers of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and the man who claimed to have been the first to step foot on the North Pole. But what makes this map remarkable is that Crocker Land was all but a phantom. It wasn't “seen by Peary”—as later expeditions would prove, the explorer had invented it out of the thin Arctic air.   By 1906, Peary was the hardened veteran of five expeditions to the Arctic Circle. Desperate to be the first to the North Pole, he left New York in the summer of 1905 in a state-of-the-art ice-breaking vessel, the Roosevelt—named in honor of one of the principal backers of the expedition, President Theodore Roosevelt. The mission to set foot on the top of the world ended in failure, however: Peary said he sledged to within 175 miles of the pole (a claim others would later question), but was forced to turn back by storms and dwindling supplies.   Peary immediately began planning another attempt, but found himself short of cash. He apparently tried to coax funds from one of his previous backers, San Francisco financier George Crocker—who had donated $50,000 to the 1905-'06 mission—by naming a previously undiscovered landmass after him. In his 1907 book Nearest the Pole, Peary claimed that during his 1906 mission he'd spotted “the faint white summits” of previously undiscovered land 130 miles northwest of Cape Thomas Hubbard, one of the most northerly parts of Canada. Peary named this newfound island “Crocker Land” in his benefactor's honor, hoping to secure another $50,000 for the next expedition.   His efforts were for naught: Crocker diverted much of his resources to helping San Francisco rebuild after the 1906 earthquake, with little apparently free for funding Arctic exploration. But Peary did make another attempt at the North Pole after securing backing from the National Geographic Society, and on April 6, 1909, he stood on the roof of the planet—at least by his own account. “The Pole at last!!!" the explorer wrote in his journal. "The prize of 3 centuries, my dream and ambition for 23 years. Mine at last."   Peary wouldn't celebrate his achievement for long, though: When the explorer returned home, he discovered that Frederick Cook—who had served under Peary on his 1891 North Greenland expedition—was claiming he'd been the first to reach the pole a full year earlier. For a time, a debate over the two men's claims raged—and Crocker Land became part of the fight. Cook claimed that on his way to the North Pole he'd traveled to the area where the island was supposed to be, but had seen nothing there. Crocker Land, he said, didn't exist.   Peary's supporters began to counter-attack, and one of his assistants on the 1909 trip, Donald MacMillan, announced that he would lead an expedition to prove the existence of Crocker Land, vindicating Peary and forever ruining the reputation of Cook.   There was also, of course, the glory of being the first to set foot on the previously unexplored island. Historian David Welky, author of A Wretched and Precarious Situation: In Search of the Last Arctic Frontier, recently explained to National Geographic that with both poles conquered, Crocker Land was “the last great unknown place in the world.” American Geographical Society Library. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Libraries. After receiving backing from the American Museum of Natural History, the University of Illinois, and the American Geographical Society, the MacMillan expedition departed from the Brooklyn Navy Yard in July 1913. MacMillan and his team took provisions, dogs, a cook, “a moving picture machine,” and wireless equipment, with the grand plan of making a radio broadcast live to the United States from the island.   But almost immediately, the expedition was met with misfortune: MacMillan's ship, the Diana, was wrecked on the voyage to Greenland by her allegedly drunken captain, so MacMillan transferred to another ship, the Erik, to continue his journey. By early 1914, with the seas frozen, MacMillan set out to attempt a 1200-mile long sled journey from Etah, Greenland, through one of the most inhospitable and harshest landscapes on Earth, in search of Peary's phantom island.   Though initially inspired by their mission to find Crocker Land, MacMillan's team grew disheartened as they sledged through the Arctic landscape without finding it. “You can imagine how earnestly we scanned every foot of that horizon—not a thing in sight,” MacMillan wrote in his 1918 book, Four Years In The White North.   But a discovery one April day by Fitzhugh Green, a 25-year-old ensign in the US Navy, gave them hope. As MacMillan later recounted, Green was “no sooner out of the igloo than he came running back, calling in through the door, ‘We have it!' Following Green, we ran to the top of the highest mound. There could be no doubt about it. Great heavens! What a land! Hills, valleys, snow-capped peaks extending through at least one hundred and twenty degrees of the horizon.”   But visions of the fame brought by being the first to step foot on Crocker Land quickly evaporated. “I turned to Pee-a-wah-to,” wrote MacMillan of his Inuit guide (also referred to by some explorers as Piugaattog). “After critically examining the supposed landfall for a few minutes, he astounded me by replying that he thought it was a ‘poo-jok' (mist).”   Indeed, MacMillan recorded that “the landscape gradually changed its appearance and varied in extent with the swinging around of the Sun; finally at night it disappeared altogether.” For five more days, the explorers pressed on, until it became clear that what Green had seen was a mirage, a polar fata morgana. Named for the sorceress Morgana le Fay in the legends of King Arthur, these powerful illusions are produced when light bends as it passes through the freezing air, leading to mysterious images of apparent mountains, islands, and sometimes even floating ships.   Fata morganas are a common occurrence in polar regions, but would a man like Peary have been fooled? “As we drank our hot tea and gnawed the pemmican, we did a good deal of thinking,” MacMillan wrote. “Could Peary with all his experience have been mistaken? Was this mirage which had deceived us the very thing which had deceived him eight years before? If he did see Crocker Land, then it was considerably more than 120 miles away, for we were now at least 100 miles from shore, with nothing in sight.”   MacMillan's mission was forced to accept the unthinkable and turn back. “My dreams of the last four years were merely dreams; my hopes had ended in bitter disappointment,” MacMillan wrote. But the despair at realizing that Crocker Land didn't exist was merely the beginning of the ordeal.   MacMillan sent Fitzhugh Green and the Inuit guide Piugaattog west to explore a possible route back to their base camp in Etah. The two became trapped in the ice, and one of their dog teams died. Fighting over the remaining dogs, Green—with alarming lack of remorse—explained in his diary what happened next: “I shot once in the air ... I then killed [Piugaattog] with a shot through the shoulder and another through the head.” Green returned to the main party and confessed to MacMillan. Rather than reveal the murder, the expedition leader told the Inuit members of the mission that Piugaattog had perished in the blizzard.   Several members of the MacMillan mission would remain trapped in the ice for another three years, victims of the Arctic weather. Two attempts by the American Museum of Natural History to rescue them met with failure, and it wasn't until 1917 that MacMillan and his party were finally saved by the steamer Neptune, captained by seasoned Arctic sailor Robert Bartlett.   While stranded in the ice, the men put their time to good use; they studied glaciers, astronomy, the tides, Inuit culture, and anything else that attracted their curiosity. They eventually returned with over 5000 photographs, thousands of specimens, and some of the earliest film taken of the Arctic (much of which can be seen today in the repositories of the American Geographical Society at the University of Wisconsin Milwaukee).   It's unclear whether MacMillan ever confronted Peary about Crocker Land—about what exactly the explorer had seen in 1906, and perhaps what his motives were. When MacMillan's news about not having found Crocker Land reached the United States, Peary defended himself to the press by noting how difficult spotting land in the Arctic could be, telling reporters, “Seen from a distance ... an iceberg with earth and stones may be taken for a rock, a cliff-walled valley filled with fog for a fjord, and the dense low clouds above a patch of open water for land.” (He maintained, however, that "physical indications and theory" still pointed to land somewhere in the area.) Yet later researchers have noted that Peary's notes from his 1905-'06 expedition don't mention Crocker Land at all. As Welky told National Geographic, “He talks about a hunting trip that day, climbing the hills to get this view, but says absolutely nothing about seeing Crocker Land. Several crewmembers also kept diaries, and according to those he never mentioned anything about seeing a new continent.”   There's no mention of Crocker Land in early drafts of Nearest the Pole, either—it's only mentioned in the final manuscript. That suggests Peary had a deliberate reason for the the inclusion of the island.   Crocker, meanwhile, wouldn't live to see if he was immortalized by this mysterious new land mass: He died in December 1909 of stomach cancer, a year after Peary had set out in the Roosevelt again in search of the Pole, and before MacMillan's expedition.   Any remnants of the legend of Crocker Land were put to bed in 1938, when Isaac Schlossbach flew over where the mysterious island was supposed to be, looked down from his cockpit, and saw nothing. Bradley Land was the name Frederick Cook gave to a mass of land which he claimed to have seen between (84°20′N 102°0′W) and (85°11′N 102°0′W) during a 1909 expedition. He described it as two masses of land with a break, a strait, or an indentation between.[1] The land was named for John R. Bradley, who had sponsored Cook's expedition.   Cook published two photographs of the land and described it thus: "The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice."[2]   It is now known there is no land at that location and Cook's observations were based on either a misidentification of sea ice or an outright fabrication. Cook's Inuit companions reported that the photographs were actually taken near the coast of Axel Heiberg Island.[   Cook described two islands lying at about 85 degrees North, which he named Bradley Land.  These islands, like Peary's “Crocker Land,” do not exist, yet Cook's partisans have tried to resuscitate Cook's credibility by linking “Bradley Land” to a discovery made in the Arctic only since Dr. Cook's death.      After World War II, aerial reconnaissance revealed a number of large tabular bergs drifting slowly clockwise in the arctic basin north of Ellesmere Island. Several arctic researchers and scientists have suggested these so-called ice islands—breakaway pieces of its ancient ice shelf—are probably what Cook mistook for “Bradley Land,” and Cook's advocates have repeated these statements to support the doctor's claim.       Cook gave this description of “Bradley Land”: “The lower coast resembled Heiberg Island, with mountains and high valleys. The upper coast I estimated as being about one thousand feet high, flat, and covered with a thin sheet ice.”      Ice islands are no more than 100 to 200 feet thick, total. They are nearly flat with only rolling undulations and rise only about 25 feet above sea level. Cook's “Bradley Land” therefore does not remotely resemble an ice island, or even an ice island magnified by mirage. And Cook published two pictures of the high, mountainous land he called “Bradley Land.”        Cook's Inuit companions are reported to have said these pictures were of two small islands off the northwest coast of Axel Heiberg Island; others believe they are of the coast of Heiberg Island itself, though the pictures have never been duplicated.      Ren Bay  has been suggested as the site.  Ellesmere trekker Jerry Kobalenko reports he could not match the picture exactly to that site, but Cook might have taken it at a time when fog obscured prominent landmarks, as he did in Alaska, making it impossible to duplicate now.  In each picture the photographer is standing on a point above the flat ice.  Kobalenko's was taken off a ten-foot hillock.   Sources: https://www.jetsetter.com/magazine/islands-to-visit-before-they-disappear/ Brigadoon https://www.history.com/news/the-con-man-who-invented-his-own-country https://www.huffpost.com/entry/sandy-island-doesnt-exist_n_2184535 https://interestingengineering.com/10-islands-on-maps-that-never-actually-existed https://www.thesun.co.uk/tech/8350278/mysterious-island-that-didnt-exist-four-years-ago-is-now-teeming-with-life-sea-volcano/ https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20160127-the-conman-who-pulled-off-historys-most-audaciou s-scam https://www.spurlock.illinois.edu/collections/notable-collections/profiles/crocker-land.html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/adventure/article/crocker-land-peary-arctic-continent https://research.bowdoin.edu/crocker-land-expedition/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=th_KQOeh-Co http://humbug.polarhist.com/bland.html https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Island,_New_Caledonia https://www.historytoday.com/miscellanies/gregor-macgregor-prince-poyais   There are Islands that have disappeared and not in the global warming, vanishing coastline type of way. These Islands are called Phantom Islands. To be considered a Phantom Island, a piece of land must have been agreed to exist at one point before eventually being undiscovered or corrected. Basically, academics and cartographers thought an island was real and then eventually found out it wasn't. For example, Atlantis would not be considered a Phantom Island because it was always considered a legend. But perhaps the best example of a Phantom Island is Burmeja. Bermeja first appeared on maps in the year 1539, and for nearly 400 years, it was accepted as a real island located in the Gulf of Mexico. But in the 2000s, the United States and Mexico were in a dispute over an oil field in the Gulf of Mexico. Basically, Burmeja marked the outermost limit of Mexico's economic territory. The oil field would have been within that border marked by Burmeja, thus making it Mexico's property. But when the Mexican government set a team to verify the island's position, it was gone. The team had the exact coordinates for the island, and Bermeja had appeared on maps for 400 years, but it just wasn't there. The team searched all over the Gulf of Mexico and concluded that Bermeja simply no longer existed. There are a few theories about how Bermer disappeared. One is that it vanished into the ocean as a result of natural geographic shifts. This has happened elsewhere in the world, so it's entirely plausible. There's also a theory that Birmingham was intentionally destroyed by the United States so they could gain access to the oil field. It's a bold strategy, and you would think someone would have noticed an entire island being blown up. But America has done worse things in the name of oil. Some people say early Mexican officials may have added it to the map in an effort to just expand their borders. This, again, would be a pretty bold strategy, but perhaps an effective one in the 15th century. The most likely explanation is that Burmeja never existed. It was a mistake by some cartographer in the 1500s, and everyone just went with it. Early cartographers were also known to add fake Islands to their maps to prevent plagiarism. These fake Islands would tip them off if their map was ever copied. But Burmeja has appeared in various ships, logs, and inventories, some of which were official documents from the Mexican government. Ultimately, Burmette was never found, and no one really knows why. But Bermuda has not been the only Phantom Island. The Baja Peninsula was believed to be the island of California for years before it was corrected. A fictitious place called Sandy Island appeared on maps for over a century near Australia. It was even on Google maps. Today, scientists think early explorers just saw a large piece of pumice stone floating in the ocean. Arctic Explorer Robert E. Pierre made up the Island Crocker land in an effort to scam some money from one of his investors. There have been dozens more of these Phantom Islands over the years with each having been undiscovered for different reasons. Today, though, thanks to satellite imagery, Phantom Islands are probably a thing of the past you. Con artists have long recognised that persuasion must appeal to two very particular aspects of human motivation – the drive that will get people to do something, and the inertia that prevents them from wanting to do it. In 2003, two social psychologists, Eric Knowles at the University of Arkansas and Jay Linn at Widener University, formalised this idea by naming two types of persuasive tactics. The first, alpha, was far more frequent: increasing the appeal of something. The second, omega, decreased the resistance surrounding something. In the one, you do what you can to make your proposition, whatever it may be, more attractive. You rev up the backstory – why this is such a wonderful opportunity, why you are the perfect person to do it, how much everyone will gain, and the like. In the other, you make a request or offer seem so easy as to be a no-brainer – why wouldn't I do this? What do I have to lose? Psychologists call it the ‘approach-avoidance' model of persuasion They called the juxtaposition the approach-avoidance model of persuasion: you can convince me of something by making me want to approach it and decreasing any reasons I might have to avoid it. According to Columbia University psychologist Tory Higgins, people are usually more likely to be swayed by one or other of the two motivational lines: some people are promotion-focused (they think of possible positive gains), and some, prevention-focused (they focus on losses and avoiding mistakes). An approach that unites the alpha with the omega appeals to both mindsets, however, giving it universal appeal – and it is easy to see how MacGregor's proposition offered this potent combination.  

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On New Year's Eve 2021, Ellesmere and Sierra Foley sat down with Patrick and Katy Hall to reflect on the highs and lows of growing up in a mammalwatching world. Ellesmere reveals the real reason to visit the Louvre, and Patrick gives tips on how to stare down a Tassie Devil. Sierra has an overly-close encounter with leeches. And Katy makes a shocking confession about feeling "lucky" to have had a mammalwatching childhood!Plus try to identify a mysterious mammal call that Charles plays at the start of the episode. More than 99% of mammalwatchers won't know the answer.Here is the YouTube trailer.For more information visit www.mammalwatching.com/podcastNotes: If you think you know what animal made the mysterious noises that Charles played at the start of the podcast please email us at mammalwatching@gmail.comCover art: from left to right, Ellesmere, Sierra, Katy and Patrick on New Year's Eve, by Lara Foley.Dr Charles Foley is a mammalwatcher and biologist who, together with his wife Lara, spent 30 years studying elephants in Tanzania. They now run the Tanzania Conservation Research Program at the Lincoln Park Zoo in Chicago.Jon Hall set up mammalwatching.com in 2005. Genetically Welsh, spiritually Australian, currently in New York City. He has looked for mammals in over 100 countries.Produced and edited by Jon Hall & Charles Foley.

Jerry Kobalenko is one of Canada's most experienced High Arctic travelers, and the author of The Horizontal Everest and Arctic Eden. We spoke about the lure of Ellesmere, and searching for the traces of historic travelers.

Show #1127. If you get any value from this podcast please consider supporting my work on Patreon. Plus all Patreon supporters get their own unique ad-free podcast feed. Good morning, good afternoon and good evening wherever you are in the world, welcome to EV News Daily for Monday 28th June. It's Martyn Lee here and I go through every EV story so you don't have to. Thank you to MYEV.com for helping make this show, they've built the first marketplace specifically for Electric Vehicles. It's a totally free marketplace that simplifies the buying and selling process, and help you learn about EVs along the way too. HONDA WILL BUILD ITS OWN ELECTRIC VEHICLE - Although General Motors will build Honda's first two fully electric vehicles for North America, the Japanese automaker plans to change course and manufacture its own later this decade. - Company officials say they're developing their own EV architecture, and after two GM-made EVs go on sale in 2024, Honda will start building its own. - Honda and GM have been partners on hydrogen fuel cell and electric vehicles. Earlier this year they announced that GM would build one Honda SUV and one Acura SUV using its Ultium-branded electric vehicle architecture and battery system. The company said the Honda SUV would be named the Prologue - both SUVs will have bodies, interiors and driving characteristics designed by Honda.   Original Source : https://apnews.com/article/joe-biden-technology-electric-vehicles-environment-and-nature-business-2b96916e9e6ce43fc55ab4455a97d419   CHINA: LFP BATTERY SHARE FOR MIC TESLA MODEL 3 REACHES 88% IN MAY   - According to very interesting insurance data released by EV Observer (via Moneyball), Tesla Model 3 sales in China are dominated by the version with LFP (lithium iron phosphate) batteries. Tesla produces in China two versions of the Model 3 that, as far as we know, are equipped with LG Energy Solution's NCM batteries or CATL's LFP batteries - The data - assuming it is correct - indicates that the SR+ version stands for a record share of 88% of all Made-in-China (MIC) Model 3 sold in China in May 2021 - One of the most interesting things is what will happen once Tesla introduces the entry-level Model Y with LFP batteries? According to rumors, such a version might be launched in July   Original Source : https://insideevs.com/news/516453/china-lfp-share-tesla-model3/   NISSAN MAY CONFIRM THIS WEEK IT IS BUILDING A BATTERY PLANT IN UK   - Nissan Motor Co will confirm as soon as this week that it will build a battery gigafactory in Sunderland, northeastern England, as part of its electric vehicle strategy, a reporter for broadcaster Sky News said on Monday. - Japanese media firm Nikkei reported last month that Nissan would partner with China-based battery maker Envision AESC group to build new battery plants for electric vehicles in Japan and United Kingdom.   Original Source : https://www.euronews.com/2021/06/28/uk-nissan-electric-britain   Revealed: I understand Nissan will confirm as soon as this week details of its EV strategy for the UK, including the construction of a battery gigafactory in Sunderland - paving the way for thousands of the Japanese company's electric cars to be built in Britain every year.   Original Source : https://twitter.com/MarkKleinmanSky/status/1409455006600814596   RENAULT SIGNS EV BATTERY DEALS WITH ENVISION, VERKOR FOR FRENCH PLANTS   - Renault said it signed a memorandum of understanding with the French start-up Verkor to co-develop and then manufacture high-performance batteries, with a view to owning a more than 20 percent stake in Verkor. - "The combination of these two partnerships with Renault ElectriCity will create nearly 4,500 direct jobs in France by 2030, while developing a robust battery manufacturing ecosystem in the heart of Europe," Renault said in a statement. - Renault's electric vehicle production hub, with sites at Douai, Maubeuge and Ruitz, is expected to produce 400,000 cars a year and create 700 additional jobs in the region. With the French state as its most powerful shareholder, Renault has come under pressure to preserve jobs and keep EV technology in the country. - The automaker currently buys batteries for its Zoe model from an LG Energy Solution factory in Poland, an arrangement that will carry over to the coming Megane EV lineup planned for next year, according to the statement. - Renault is also still talking to Stellantis' battery joint venture with energy giant Total, called Automotive Cell Company, about a potential third battery tie-up for around 2027, according to its statement.   Original Source : https://europe.autonews.com/automakers/renault-signs-ev-battery-deals-envision-verkor-french-plants   Renault confirms battery deals with AESC and Verkor - electrive.com   - Renault now officially confirms that Chinese battery manufacturer Envision AESC will build a battery factory at Renault's Douai site in northern France - a total capacity of 43 GWh is targeted by 2030, of which Renault is to purchase 24 GWh. The batteries from Douai are to be used in the future in the electric R5, among other vehicles. - “Our battery strategy builds on Renault Group's ten years of experience and investment in the electric mobility value chain,” expresses Luca de Meo, CEO of Renault Group. “The latest strategic partnerships with Envision AESC and Verkor greatly bolster our position as we ensure the Europe-based production of one million electric vehicles by 2030. This marks a major milestone as we strengthen our competitive edge, by rooting our Group in the underlying momentum of French industry and striving to reach our carbon neutrality objectives. The Group thus reaffirms its willingness to produce popular, affordable, and cost-effective electric cars in France.”   Original Source : https://www.electrive.com/2021/06/28/renault-confirms-battery-deals-with-aesc-and-verkor/   CHINA'S ENVISION TO BUILD RENAULT $2.4 BILLION BATTERY PLANT   - French President Emmanuel Macron is scheduled to unveil the agreements on Monday at Renault's assembly plant in Douai, where the Envision battery plant -- the first in Europe for the company that also makes wind turbines -- will be located. Ahead of a national election next year, Macron is seeking to reap political advantage from the prospect that some 4,500 jobs could be created by 2030 at the EV hub situated in a region that has long suffered from industrial decline.   Original Source : https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-06-27/china-s-envision-to-build-2-4-billion-battery-plant-for-renault   RIVIAN SHOWCASES R1T CAMP KITCHEN'S FEATURES IN NEW VIDEO   - Rivian CEO RJ Scaringe shared a video showcasing the R1T's camp kitchen feature recently. The Rivian R1T modular camp kitchen seems to deliver as promised, with a full set of utensils and a makeshift kitchen sink to boot. - The entire kitchen comes in three modules, stored in the electric pickup's Gear Tunnel. The R1T camp kitchen includes an induction cooktop for at least two pots or pans and a removable sink with a hose reel to rinse off dirty dishes, utensils, food, and more. - The sink seems to be attached to a water tank module. It does not have a drain but can be detached to throw out the water. The sink could also be used as a basket when removed from its module based on the video. The sink's cover seems like it also functions as a cutting board. - The R1T's kitchen modules are easily detached from the Gear Tunnel shuttle, which is 65” long, 18.1” wide, and 20.3” in height. It includes features like LED lighting, a 12V outlet, a 110V outlet, and a safety release.   Original Source : https://www.teslarati.com/rivian-r1t-camp-kitchen-features-video/   BRITAIN AIMS TO CAPTURE £8BN ELECTRIC CAR SPENDING SPREE   - Britain aims to seize on an imminent £8bn spending spree by international manufacturers to “catch the wave” of electric cars, Boris Johnson's investment tsar has revealed. The City grandee Lord Grimstone, who now leads the Government's Office for Investment, told The Telegraph he is in discussions with a raft of potential investors in the UK to capitalise on an “auto-Renaissance”. - Investment decisions are due from Japanese carmaker Nissan over a new gigafactory in Sunderland for electric car batteries. Stellantis, the owner of Vauxhall's Ellesmere port, has held talks over making electric vehicles on the site. The South Korean duo LG and Samsung are also reportedly in discussions over major gigafactory investments, while West Midlands carmaker JLR is looking to source batteries from a UK plant. - Lord Grimstone said: “I think we are in the middle of what I call the “auto-Renaissance” because all the manufacturers have been caught out across Europe and the UK by the speed at which the customer - not the manufacturer, not the Government - is moving towards electric vehicles. “Every single one of them I talk to - all of them - are changing their production schedules, bringing forward new models and reconfiguring their whole global footprint. - “This is a huge opportunity for the UK. Out of this kind of massive change, you are either going to catch the wave, or if you don't it is not going to be there for another 20 or 30 years.”   Original Source : https://www.telegraph.co.uk/business/2021/06/26/britain-aims-capture-8bn-electric-car-spending-spree/   2023 AUDI E-TRON FACELIFT RUMOURED TO GET NEW BATTERY, MORE RANGE   - The automaker began delivering the E-Tron crossover in 2019, and that model is due for a mid-cycle refresh. However, instead of the usual design tweaks automakers make, Audi is rumoured to be updating the electrified powertrain, too. - Not only will the E-Tron and E-Tron Sportback receive a new battery, which will increase its range, but the two will also receive improved electric motors that are more efficient. Autocar's sources say that the E-Tron will deliver more than 373 miles of range for both variants. The current 95-kilowatt-hour battery delivers 249 miles of range in the UK.   Original Source : https://uk.motor1.com/news/516603/audi-e-tron-battery-update/   VOLKSWAGEN IS #1 IN ELECTRIC VEHICLE SALES ACROSS THESE 10 EUROPEAN COUNTRIES   - Looking across the same 10 European countries as before — Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and Switzerland — the clear brand leader is Volkswagen, with 18.3% of the pure electric vehicle sales across those 10 markets. That's nearly one out of every five electric vehicles sold in those 10 countries. - Tesla, still carried by just the top-selling Model 3, is #2, holding 10% of EV sales. Renault is not far behind, with 9.2% EV market share, but expect Tesla to grow its lead notably in June, and probably further through the end of 2021. Peugeot (7.7%) and Hyundai (6%) round out the top 5.   Original Source : https://cleantechnica.com/2021/06/27/the-top-electric-vehicle-seller-in-europe-is-volkswagen/     Email me your thoughts and I'll read them out on Sunday – hello@evnewsdaily.com   It would mean a lot if you could take 2mins to leave a quick review on whichever platform you download the podcast.   And  if you have an Amazon Echo, download our Alexa Skill, search for EV News Daily and add it as a flash briefing.   Come and say hi on Facebook, LinkedIn or Twitter just search EV News Daily, have a wonderful day, I'll catch you tomorrow and remember…there's no such thing as a self-charging hybrid.   PREMIUM PARTNERS PHIL ROBERTS / ELECTRIC FUTURE BRAD CROSBY PORSCHE OF THE VILLAGE CINCINNATI AUDI CINCINNATI EAST VOLVO CARS CINCINNATI EAST NATIONALCARCHARGING.COM and ALOHACHARGE.COM DEREK REILLY FROM THE EV REVIEW IRELAND YOUTUBE CHANNEL RICHARD AT RSEV.CO.UK – FOR BUYING AND SELLING EVS IN THE UK EMOBILITYNORWAY.COM/

Hoy para celebrar el día de Sant Jordi, el día del Libro, vamos a hablar de uno de los libros de fotografía que más he disfrutado en los últimos meses. Se trata del libro El leopardo de las nieves o la promesa de lo invisible, de Vincent Munier. Libros seleccionados de los fotógrafos que vamos comentandoNueva clase del curso de Revelado en blanco y negro en Lightroom - Clase 8 - Blanco y negro selectivo. Dejar algo en colorNueva clase del curso de Lenguaje fotográfico - La yuxtaposición y su importancia en el lenguaje fotográfico.El jueves que viene, dia 29 a las 18h hora española estaré en directo en Youtube hablando de objetivos, qué comprar, cómo usarlos, calidades, y como siempre, dejaremos un rato para dudas. Vincent Munier y su libro El leopardo de las nieves o la promesa de lo invisible Rebajas El leopardo de las nieves: o la promesa de lo invisible (VARIOS) Munier, Vincent (Author) 26,50 EUR Comprar en Amazon Os dejo a todos los suscriptores la escaleta o resumen del episodio para que podáis ubicaros y repasar el episodio en el punto que queráis directamente sin tener que escucharlo entero de nuevo. Quién es Vincent Munier:Fotógrafo de vida salvajeFrancésCon 12 años empezó a fotografiar vida salvaje en los bosques junto a su hogar.Sus proyectos más conocidos:Lobos blancos en la isla de Ellesmere en CanadáCisnes y grullas en la Isla de Hokkaido en JapónEl leopardo de las nieves, en la meseta tibetanaTambién es cámara y director de documentales de naturalezaOso - Visión salvaje en AsturiasOtros documentales de Ciervos, Yaks, y también grabó al Leopardo de las nieves.Es embajador de Nikon en EuropaOs dejo enlazado su ficha en la web de NikonAdemás de conocerle algo mejorConsejos sobre fotografía de fauna salvajeComo su web no me funciona...Libro El Leopardo de las nieves o la promesa de lo invisibleCuaderno de aguardo en la meseta tibetanaRelato a modo de diarioCinco expediciones en busca de la naturaleza salvajeUno de los pocos lugares que podemos considerar prácticamente inaccesibleNo debió ser fácil elegir qué incluir en el libroNos cuenta las largas horas de esperaLas decisiones que toma en cada momentoLas largas caminatas y cómo transporta el materialIncluso cómo lo deja en mitad de la montaña para seguir andando más ligero.Cómo le afecta a él y sus compañeros el frío, jet lag, presión atmosféricaY también el dormir rodeados de lobos aullando toda la noche.Lo más interesanteComo va encontrando distintos animales salvajesCómo le emociona poder ver a esos animales, aunque no sean el centro de su expedición.Cómo pese a tener como objetivo fotografiar al LeopardoMuestra el mismo respeto por Yaks, lobos, liebres o avesSorpresa foto halcón.Lo que siente al ver al LeopardoCómo se siente observadoY los momentos de tensión al ver cómo un leopardo va hacia él para atacarley se debate entre seguir haciendo fotos o levantarse con la esperanza de asustarleMe parece un libro fabulosoDescubrir cómo se mueveEsas cosas más allá de la técnicaTan bien narradoNos pone en su pielNos descubre cosas que igual ni nos habíamos planteadoNo habla sólo de fotografíaHabla de su relación con las personas que le acompañanCon las personas que conocen en el Tibet en cada expediciónPero sobre todo, de su relación con la naturalezaSu pacienciaSu fuerza de volutadSus ganas de descurbir al Leopardo y poder fotografiarloLa edición del libroErrata Naturae100% sostenibleBlanco y negro todoIgual no es la mejor calidad para las fotosNo es un libro de fotografíasEs un libro con la historia y las fotografías ilustran esa historiaMunier muy comprometido con la naturaleza y su conservaciónSacrifica calidad por ...

Hace ya doce años empezamos este programa de Zoo de fósiles hablando de Acanthostega, el pez de ocho dedos. Acanthostega, que vivió hace unos 365 millones de años, está cerca del antepasado de todos los vertebrados terrestres, aunque él mismo era un animal acuático, sus patas eran incapaces de sostenerlo fuera del agua. Esto no quiere decir que no hubiera otros vertebrados terrestres en esa época, o incluso antes; seguramente Acanthostega descendía de un linaje de especies terrestres que volvieron prematuramente al agua. Nuestro protagonista de hoy, Tiktaalik, era capaz de arrastrarse por tierra firme como una foca, y es más antiguo que Acanthostega: Vivió en lo que hoy es la isla de Ellesmere hace unos 375 millones de años, a finales del Devónico.

Hace ya doce años empezamos este programa de Zoo de fósiles hablando de Acanthostega, el pez de ocho dedos. Acanthostega, que vivió hace unos 365 millones de años, está cerca del antepasado de todos los vertebrados terrestres, aunque él mismo era un animal acuático, sus patas eran incapaces de sostenerlo fuera del agua. Esto no quiere decir que no hubiera otros vertebrados terrestres en esa época, o incluso antes; seguramente Acanthostega descendía de un linaje de especies terrestres que volvieron prematuramente al agua. Nuestro protagonista de hoy, Tiktaalik, era capaz de arrastrarse por tierra firme como una foca, y es más antiguo que Acanthostega: Vivió en lo que hoy es la isla de Ellesmere hace unos 375 millones de años, a finales del Devónico.

Progresivos, instrumentales, técnicos, «metalingas» o simplemente preciosistas, orgánicos y profundos. Subterranea navega por aguas mediterráneas y contempla la puesta de sol desde el Cap de Salou al son de una maravillosa guitarra española tocada por Steve Hackett. David Pintos conduce y el trío formado por Fernando Pastor, Carles Pinós y Pedro Enrique Esteban analiza en profundidad las nuevas obras de Karfagen, Ellesmere, Lifesigns, Force of Progress, Evergrey, Ring Van Möbius, Panzerballett y Steve Hackett. No te pierdas este nuevo programa de Subterranea y larga vida al Art Rock. www.subterranea.eu

Con ustedes, el podcast del programa 285 de Cerca de la Orilla, para que lo tengan y lo escuchen a la hora que quieran. Cerramos con el quinto, de cinco programas, dedicados a lo más destacado en el rock progresivo durante el 2020. Disfruta gran material de Pendragon, Rodrigo San Martín, The Tangent, Ellesmere y Ring Van Mobius. Lista de canciones: Endeavour - Artista Ellesmere, disco Wyrd The Möbius Ring - Artista Ring Van Möbius, disco The 3rd Majesty * Sinfonía Arcana - Artista Rodrigo San Martín, disco Arcana (Act 1) Who Really Are We? - Artista Pendragon, disco Love Over Fear Jinxed in Jersey - Artista The Tangent, disco Auto Reconnaissance ** Ficha técnica: Fecha de publicación: 6/marzo/2021 Rúbricas: Nora García Producción integral: Javo Aguirre ¡Saludos progresivamente podcasteros! *Cita de Ring Van Möbius, tomada de: https://www.facebook.com/ringvanmobius **Cita de The Tangent tomada de: https://thetangent.org/about/the-band

Episode Two of 'Lost Clubs' sees Pint of Football returning to bring you another documentary piece, this time in the form of Staffordshire club Stone Dominoes. Since the start of the new millennium, the Doms had been a semi-regular part of the North West Counties Leagues and in 2018, after a few years of rebuilding, the club got its chance to play in the NWCFL yet again. This rollercoaster season has many interesting tales to tell, and in this episode we will bring you interviews from Alan Baxter, Pete Griffiths, Simon Dean and Pint of Football's very own founder, Daz Knapton. Featuring an embarrassing toilet incident at Ellesmere, a centre-back having to start in goal, and the future of a new Dominoes... it's a must for any non-league football fan! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As Vauxhall's owners discuss its future strategy, Sean looks at it could mean for its Ellesmere Port plant. He also looks at the growing popularity of disabled influencers and why Which? is launching a court case against a mobile phone chip provider.

Jon Turk earned a Ph.D. in organic chemistry at the University of Colorado, in 1971. The same year, in honor of Earth Day 1, he co-authored the first environmental science textbook in the United States. Jon is the author of 25 text books and 4 adventure books. In addition to circumnavigating Ellesmere island, solo kayak missions in the Solomon islands, biking across Tibet to the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, multiple kayak expeditions from Japan along eastern Siberia eventually walking across the Siberian tundra and so much more... In this episode we dive into Jon's newest book CROCODILES AND ICE and explore a Consciousness Revolution toward a personal, spiritual, & reciprocal relationship with the planet. Get bonus content on Patreon See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 373. In this edition we heard music by Big Big Train, Billie Bottle & The Multiple, Mildlife, David Minasian, Terje Rypdal, Chimpan A, Late Night Final, Blank Manuskript, Ellesmere, Votum, ESP Project, Hedvig Mollestad, Deftones, Crippled Black Phoenix, Osiris, Ozric Tentacles & Matt Berry.

Depuis 40 ans,  on nous dit que ça fond là haut. Où en est-on? Sans surprise, Le rythme s’est accéléré ces dernières années au point où il ne se passe plus une semaine voir passer des images de glaciers se détacher de la banquise. Ce qui s’y joue là-bas semble par contre faire l’affaire d’une communauté de gens d’affaires enthousiaste à l’idée d’y voir s’ouvrir un passage maritime permanent. De fait, ça change quoi qu’il n’y ait plus de glaces en Arctique ? Avec Véronique Morin et Charles Trahan.    Une production QUB radio Novembre Pour de l’information concernant l’utilisation de vos données personnelles - https://omnystudio.com/policies/listener/fr

Plant fossils are found coast-to-coast in Canada, from 45-million-year-old mosses in British Columbia to fossil forests on Axel Heiberg and Ellesmere islands in the Canadian Arctic. The early angiosperms developed advantages over contemporary groups — rapid reproductive cycles — which made them highly efficient, adapting well to "weedy" growth. These modifications, including flowers for the attraction of insect pollinators, proved advantageous in many habitats. Interaction between plant and pollinator has been a driving force behind the astounding diversification of both flowering plants and insects. Some of the earliest known flowering plants are found in northeastern British Columbia coalfields. Late Cretaceous (about 101–66 million years ago) floras of the Dawson Creek area of British Columbia, and Milk River, Alberta, reveal increasing dominance by angiosperms. These fossils, while generally resembling some living angiosperms, represent old, extinct families, and their relationships to living groups remain unclear. At the end of the Cretaceous, the climate cooled, inland seas covering much of western Canada drained, and dinosaurs became extinct. At the boundary between the Cretaceous and Paleogene is evidence of extinction amongst land plants, too. During this interval of mass extinction, the Earth was struck by a massive meteorite. The fallout from this impact is preserved in boundary sediments in southern Saskatchewan as a pale clay, rich in rare earth elements such as iridium. In the early Paleogene period (66–56 million years ago), we entered the age of mammals. Paralleling the rise of mammals is the rise of modern flora, which consists overwhelmingly of our glorious flowering plants. One of the most prolific fossil sites for Paleogene flowering plants, fruits and seeds is the Messel pit in Germany. In 2012, a research group found over 140 different plant species, 65 of which were previously unknown. Early Paleogene fossils are found over much of Alberta — Red Deer River, Lake Wabamun coalfields and Robb to Coal Valley coalfields — and southern Saskatchewan — Eastend area to Estevan coalfield — to as far north as Ellesmere Island. These floras reveal a variety of flowering plants, including members of the sycamore, birch and walnut families, but the most abundant fossil plants are the katsuras and the dawn redwood, now native only to southeastern Asia.

Miranda Currie is a children's entertainer who helps fuel a love of music for her audiences. She writes and performs songs that help kids learn Indigenous languages and to be proud of their culture in a fun and engaging way. She says that at the core of everything she does, she hopes to change the Indigenous narrative in Canada in a positive way.She's a talented multidisciplinary artist who was nominated for Indigenous Songwriter of the Year by the Canadian Folk Music Awards in 2015 for her album Up In the Air, and released her first children's album, Bouncing in the Boreal, in 2018. In 2019 she participated in an Indigenous Songwriter residency at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity where she worked on her second northern Indigenous children's album. Most recently she was selected to participate in the National Screen Institute's IndigiDocs filmmaker training program and the documentary she's creating about her Canadian Inuit sled dog Ellesmere will be available soon.On this episode, host Angela de Burger chats with Miranda about how she developed a passion for writing songs and performing for children, why she incorporates Indigenous languages into her music, and how she's exploring more ways of creative expression through filmmaking.Say hi to Miranda:  Website: http://www.mirandacurrie.ca   Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/mirandacurrie.ca   Show mentions and people who inspire Miranda:     - People who inspire: Leela Gilday, Fred Penner, Vivaldi     - Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity: https://www.banffcentre.ca     - National Screen Institute's IndigiDocs program:        https://nsi-canada.ca/courses/nsi-indigidocs      - Snow Castle: http://www.snowking.ca----Creative Pulse Podcast socials:  Instagram https://www.instagram.com/creativepulsepodcast  Twitter https://twitter.com/CreativePulseTWMusic credit: https://www.purple-planet.com

The Tempest crew work to uncover the real source of the Ellesmere's malfunction before the culprit can make an escape with invaluable intelligence.

Suspicious that there's more to the Ellesmere's situation than meets the eye, the crew of the Tempest work to repair the stranded ship while also uncovering the truth of the Ellesmere's predicament.

Another Wednesday in Scarborough at Mr. John's Kerala Kitchen; a Southern Indian smorgasbord of Malayalee Naadan favourites.

Episode 6 – RHS Bridgewater Welcome to the RHS Bridgewater podcast made as part of the Surrey’s Greener Future initiative. Please note: it was a windy day so there is some wind noise in parts of the podcast. Francis Egerton, them 1st Earl of Ellesmere, built Worsley New Hall between 1839 and 1846. His fortune … Continue reading "RHS Bridgewater" The post RHS Bridgewater appeared first on The MrT Podcast Studio.

Tras la avalancha magmática, regresamos del planeta Kobaia para volver a nuestra línea habitual de presentaros algunas de las más recientes novedades discográficas del universo progresivo. No os perdáis esta espléndida selección: Ellesmere, Focus, Lebowski, Overhead, Soen y Vespero. Además, recibimos la visita de Dante Demonson y Pablo Aks, componentes de Pervy Perkin, que nos presentan en primicia su inminente tercer trabajo, titulado "Comedia: Inferno", primer volumen de lo que será la trilogía que la banda murciano-madrileña ha proyectado dedicar a La magistral obra de Dante Alighieri "La Divina Comedia". Un programa variado, entretenido, con muy buena música y no pocos debates entre los integrantes del equipo de Subterranea. Lo habitual, vamos. ;-)

Tras la avalancha magmática, regresamos del planeta Kobaia para volver a nuestra línea habitual de presentaros algunas de las más recientes novedades discográficas del universo progresivo. No os perdáis esta espléndida selección: Ellesmere, Focus, Lebowski, Overhead, Soen y Vespero. Además, recibimos la visita de Dante Demonson y Pablo Aks, componentes de Pervy Perkin, que nos presentan en primicia su inminente tercer trabajo, titulado "Comedia: Inferno", primer volumen de lo que será la trilogía que la banda murciano-madrileña ha proyectado dedicar a La magistral obra de Dante Alighieri "La Divina Comedia". Un programa variado, entretenido, con muy buena música y no pocos debates entre los integrantes del equipo de Subterranea. Lo habitual, vamos. ;-)

Welcome to Live From Progzilla Towers Edition 277. In this edition we heard music by Rick Wakeman, Grand Tour, Antimatter, Bent Knee, Haken, Jethro Tull, Fright Pig, Ellesmere, Lazuli, Jolly, Yggdrasil, Crack The Sky, The Reign of Kindo, The Flower Kings, Mr. Radio, Eddie Jobson, Tom Robinson Band, Soen, Discipline, Syndone & Unitopia.

Life In Flux is back with the second half of our interview with A.J. Mackinnon. In the late nineties A.J. Mackinnon set sail from his job teaching at Ellesmere college England, to sail a mirror dinghy to the Romanian Black sea. He threads his adventure with literary quotes and insightful comedy in his first book "The Unlikely Voyage Of Jack De Crow". Jesse Begley and "Sandy" spoke about solo travel, how classic literature has guided his life's path and the next adventure.

Drums of Autumn Chapters 26-27 Week 15 “Plagued” Summary: Claire treats the ill man. John and Jamie play chess into the night. Claire is disturbed. Her feelings and thoughts run amok. She's jealous, but of what? There's an omen in the night. The sick man prepares to die. Claire performs the ritual. What will they do with the body? John takes ill. To keep William safe, Jamie takes him on a road trip. The journey is bittersweet and filled with the language of the heart. Inside the Chapters: Chapter 26: Who: Claire, Tuscarora Man, Jamie, John, William, and Young Ian. What: Measles, Claire's doctoring, and jealousy. Where: Fraser's Ridge, NC. Plague and Pestilence Claire attends to the ill Tuscarora man. He's stable but no better. He holds the amulet she left him and wants her to sing to him. She sings “Onward, Christian Soldiers” three times to his satisfaction. Concerned about spreading the disease, Claire pauses to rinse her hands with alcohol. She recalls Lord John mentioning a small outbreak in Cross Creek (p483, Nook). Lord John is surprised by Claire's knowledge. He asks if she subscribes to the miasma theory. She doesn't and changes the subject. The evening wore on pleasantly with conversation and the boys playing chess. Young Ian and William retire to the herb shed to sleep. Claire ponders bedtime and the issue of Lord John (p485, Nook). Jamie and John play a lengthy chess match. Claire notes John is a far better player than she is. John remarks on living in the backcountry. John makes a final chess move that wins the game. Jamie fills John's empty cup with the raw whisky he's been making. John is astonished by Jamie having twelve barrels of it. It will take ten years before it's truly palatable. What's Jamie planning to do with it (p486, Nook)? Jamie knows the Indians cannot handle alcohol well, so he's only giving it to them in small amounts. John brings up the Regulators and Jamie's presence as a means to quell lawlessness p487, Nook). Claire is unable to sleep as she lay awake disturbed by the conversation. She knows she's safe in this house that Jamie built, but her jealousy is getting the best of her. She is trying to parse out the why in her jealousy (p487, Nook). She knows part of it is the presence of William, Jamie's second born who looks so much like Brianna. She, the child Jamie would never see. And why? Why had John brought him here? Claire's brain is running at full speed trying to figure it out. It is a risky move bringing the boy to Fraser's Ridge. He resembled Jamie so much that even Young Ian had noticed. Claire peeks at the chess game in progress. She describes John's fair and attractive looks. His feelings locked down tight with no evidence of his feelings for Jamie, but Claire knows all too well what John feels for her husband. She also knows Jamie's feelings (p488, Nook). Now Claire gets to the bottom of her emotional spiral, Frank and his actions were there. Even though Claire had no right, she was jealous of Frank's affairs. She would demand he sleep with her after some of the late nights he spent out. Frank didn't have a consistent lover, and there were long gaps between women sometimes (p489, Nook). It bothered Claire his attentions weren't for her even though she didn't want the attention. Claire finally falls asleep after hearing comforting words from Jamie's mouth (p489, Nook). Claire has insecurities like every woman. She rebuffed Frank and seemingly bedded him out of jealousy and anger. Could it have been loneliness? To his credit, Frank was private about his philandering. I think he loved Claire until the end. I also think some of the late nights were part of ongoing intelligence work and his research. In the morning, Claire's patient is preparing to die. An owl was heard in the night. It's a sign or omen of death. Young Ian explains the death ritual of the tribe to Claire (p491, Nook). All painted up; Young Ian explains she mustn't say his name for fear of calling demons.  She sings Tantrum ergo since he thinks that's the style of music for such an occasion (here's a link to a beautiful choir singing the song with the English translation close captioned). I love the blend of religions and traditions here to sooth the dying man. Claire has never witnessed a death such as this; he waited until she finished singing the song, turned his head toward the door, and simply left his body. Jamie, Claire, and young Ian are trying to decide what to do with the body. Since he was diseased, and Claire cannot remember how long others could become infected from his body or clothing, they cannot take him wrapped to his village. The man was from a northern village, so the people could hear of the burial and think they killed him and buried him to cover it up. They decide to put him in a cave until they can get advice from Nacognaweto at Anna Ooka. Willie returns from picking strawberries explaining his papa has taken ill. Lord John likely picked up the illness in an inn or Cross Creek where a measles outbreak occurred. Claire exams John and tells Jamie to keep Willie away. Claire forms a plan. Wait a day or two to see if either boy comes down with symptoms. If not, Jamie will take Willie with him to see Nacognaweto, while Young Ian stays behind to help Claire. Jamie agrees to the plan but is worried. Claire assures him if the boy hasn't remembered him yet, he won't.  Her only request is for him to get the pig out of the pantry before he goes. Thankfully Claire, Jamie, and Young Ian are taking cultural need into account before simply doing what they would do with a dead body. This also shows how ahead of time Jamie and Ian have become because of their dealings with another culture of people. Jamie used to think they were Savages. Chapter 27: Trout Fishing in America Jamie has several things to complain about before starting the journey to Anna Ooka with William. It's raining. He doesn't want to leave Claire. He's worried for John. William, ninth Earl of Ellesmere just hit him (p496, Nook). William certainly has the Fraser stubbornness. After nearly having to tie William's feet into the stirrups, they were on their way. Riding in silence until they stopped to eat, the boy remains sullen in his defeat. The boy is still without signs of the measles. William finally asks Jamie his version of “are we their yet.” Jamie knows he needs to take it slower than usual because Claire instructed him to keep the boy away for six days. Being on horse afforded them to carry extra items along, including a gift for the Indians. William finally breaks the silence asking if the Indians are friendly. Jamie assures him they are. They are nicer than English people. Jamie tells stories and points out the animal markings as they pass. Jamie prefers this to the quiet. He can't help himself wondering what would happen if John died. He'd probably never see the boy again. John and Claire are the only two people who know the truth about William's paternity even if William's grandmother suspects. He says a prayer to St. Bride for John. The forest smells of fresh leaves and leaf mold. Jamie points out a tree with bear slashes on the trunk. Jamie's internal dialogue continues. If John dies, this is it. He'll never see or hear from William again, and he'll lose his closest friend on top of it. They continue to ride and come out into a valley. William is gobsmacked at what he sees (p500, Nook). I can imagine the mostly untouched land with a brilliant rainbow.  Do you suppose Diana Gabaldon put a rainbow here as a sign of Lord John's impending survival or that Jamie will see William after this visit? Rainbows hold significance to Catholics and Protestants. Jamie awakens from light sleep to the sound of William crying. Jamie could tell the boy is trying to conceal his crying, but Jamie worries something serious could be wrong. Jamie asks after his wellness and asks if his belly is griping. William calms and says that's the problem. It's lovely for Jamie to give him an out and accept help without bruising his pride from being overheard.  He gives him an infusion blend Claire sent with him. He wonders how she knew it would be needed. He decides he gave up long ago in questioning her ways of tending to heart and body. The thought of Claire grips him, and he has a moment of immense gratitude for her. How must she feel seeing William in the flesh? To know he's been in bed with another woman? She flipped out when she learned of Laoghaire, but not Geneva. What's the difference he wonders? Maybe it's because Geneva is dead. OMG. Dear Jamie, Laoghaire ill-wished Claire, tried to have her killed and had an unhealthy obsession with you. Geneva was a conniving young sexual aggressor who took advantage of her position (aka sexually assaulted you). Can you not see the difference? As for the boy, it makes her pang for Brianna and you not knowing her. Please put yourself in her position just a moment. Thanks. And P.S. Heck you are jealous of Frank and the time she spent with him, him raising Brianna, and YOU SENT HER BACK TO HIM. Okay, I'll stop yelling for a minute. Jamie's stream of consciousness thoughts moves back to William. William's mothers, step and real, are both dead. Now his father is gravely ill. No wonder the boy is upset.  The measles killed the Indian just days before. The boy is in a state of grief. William loves John and couldn't bear to lose him. Love is what caused his stubbornness. Love is what caused his tears in the darkness. This thought of the love of a father stabs Jamie with a small bit of jealousy (p502, Nook). The water is boiling, and the brew is steeping. Claire warned Jamie not to drink it because of the lavender in it. Remember Black Jack used lavender scented oil when raping Jamie? The good news is it doesn't bother Jamie if he knows lavender is in something, only when he's caught off guard. William is feeling better, but the signs of grief are still upon him. He tells William Claire is a fine healer (p503, Nook). William is curious what Claire did for the Indian (p503, Nook). William feels better about Claire caring for his father. He is feeling overall better as well, thinking the apples didn't cause the problem. Jamie successfully distracted him. Jamie brings up fishing for their dinner the next day, William is ecstatic. Jamie talks about fishing in England and instantly regrets it. He'd taken William fishing when he was only 5. Is he trying to get the boy to remember? William thinks this place is nothing like England and is excited. He'll miss only a few things about it (p504, Nook). Jamie thinks the girls will like this lad fine. William says Claire is very pretty. Sweet boy. The infusion is doing it's calming on William. Jamie asks if the boy would rather sleep close to him for warmth. William jumped on the offer and fell asleep snuggled next to Jamie. At the time status wouldn't allow Jamie to take William into his arms, but for warmth, men were socially allowed to sleep near each other. The next day, we find Jamie and William making lures for the fishing poles. Jamie says hungry fish matter most when trying to catch them. It's the early evening, and the pond is waking up. Jamie says it's fishing time.  Jamie shows William how to cast and waits for a fish to bite. Jamie gets a bite the first try (p507, Nook). The fish got away this time, but they kept at it. William loses his pole and uses Jamie's. He also gets an education on how to do the small steps it takes to get a fish. In the process of casting, we learn William is left handed like Jamie (p508, Nook). They get onto the subject that John was a soldier who fought in the Scottish Rising. William stops himself seeing Jamie's tartan. Jamie tells William that is where he and John met (p509, Nook). William will get a full education in sword fighting when he's a bit bigger. Casting with his left hand, William catches a fish. By the time the sun is setting, they have a nice string of fish for dinner.  William thinks the fish is delicious. The boy is naked under the blanket while his clothes dry. Jamie is still in a wet shirt trying to get warmed by the fire (p509, Nook). Jamie watches William without seeming to look at him. Gazing upon the thin, wiry handsome boy, Jamie takes in the moment and forges a memory that would last his whole life. He has no idea why a particular moment imprints this way over any other. The phenomenon reminds him of the photographs Claire showed him. He has thoughts like this of his father, Claire, Jenny, and Ian (p511, Nook). Nature speaks to him like it does Claire. There's an awareness of the life surrounding him. Jamie thanks the Lord for this moment, “Deo gratias,” and it startles William. Telling William its bedtime, Jamie is surprised at a physical behavior William does that is exactly like Jamie (p511, Nook). To distract his hands, Jamie decides to make more flies for the breakfast fishing in the morning. William comes over to him and helps without being asked. Growing tired, William asks Jamie questions about the Indians. Jamie assures him there's never been a scalping in the village though, like the Highlanders, the Indians don't take kindly to someone harming one of their own. William starts to comment on Scottish people (p512, Nook).  Does Jamie have many children? When Jamie says no, William wonders if he had had children, but they died of an illness. Jamie explains his daughter is living in Boston, all grown up (p512, Nook). Sniff, sniff.  Though I still don't believe William wouldn't recognize Jamie or at least believe he was familiar by this point. Regardless I love the dynamic here. Poor Jamie must have incredible restraint to manage not grabbing the boy and snuggling him up. He's bonding with him and teaching him something. It's the best he can do given the situation. He's also helping William feel less stressed about John and the other grievances he has. I wonder how Claire is faring with John. I can only imagine their conversations while Jamie and William are away. What's Coming up? Chapters 28 and 29 Drums of Autumn (DOA). How can you participate? Send your comments to contact@adramofoutlander.com or call the listener line at 719-425-9444 by Friday of each week. If you're reading ahead, you can leave comments for any part of the book too. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post. The Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook All images are Wiki Commons. Click on picture for attribution link. Follow A Dram of Outlander Thank you for sharing posts, joining the discussions, and following this website or pages listed below! Facebook,  Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+ To financially support the podcast, go to my Patreon page. Call 719-425-9444 listener/reader line to leave your comments.  

Temporada: 3 Episodio: 4 Título: La batalla continúa Año: 2017 Director: Brendan Maher Guion: Ronald D. Moore Reparto: Caitriona Balfe, Sam Heughan, Tobias Menzies, Duncan Lacroix, Laura Donnelly Sinopsis: Jamie comienza a trabajar como mozo de cuadra de la familia Dunsany, por recomendación de Lord John Grey. Geneva, la hija mayor, se encapricha con Jamie y lo chantajea para que se acueste con ella antes de su matrimonio con el Conde de Ellesmere. Nueve meses después Geneva da a luz y muere en el parto. El Conde de Ellesmere sabe que el niño es un bastardo e intenta matarlo, Jamie actúa a tiempo y salva la vida de su hijo. Los años pasan y William es la sombra de su padre, pero mientras más crece, más se parece a Jamie y pronto las malas lenguas hablaran así que Jamie debe irse lejos. En 1968 Claire, Breanna y Roger buscan a Jamie, pero Claire pierde la esperanza.

Of Lost Things Written for Television by: Toni Graphia Directed by: Brendan Maher This week's Outlander episode is brought to you by boxes of tissues and excellent tunes. Shout out to Bear McCreary the musical mastermind.  You must listen to the podcast to get my full thoughts and rantings.  Long story short, Jamie is protective of those he loves. He's willing to do what he must for their gain or to prevent their harm. He's a man of deep compassion and honor. When faced with blackmail and coercion, he rises the occasion. He wins the Dunsany's over when he saves their grandson. Jamie's a hero. His sense of normalcy and place, is shattered as the boy begins to resemble him. The man is given his leave and heads back to Lallybroch after 8 years serving his parole at Helwater. He adds the young Ellesmere, the son he cannot claim, to his list of lost things as the episode closes. He never expects to see the boy again. Lord John Grey and Lady Isobel are to be married. They will raise young William together. It's a beautiful friendship they have developed. Hopefully we will see John soon. Claire is at her end. Roadblocks since Ardsmuir, Jamie seems nowhere to be found. Brianna and Roger try to be uplifting and supportive, but she calls it quits, saying it's time to go home. Brianna and Roger share a kiss. The relationship is budding, but Brianna leaves with her mother. With they become more in time? There were a few misses with social status all but forgotten and that damned snake was just weird. Anyone remember the dragonlfy in amber paperweight Claire gave to Jamie at the stones in season 2?  This episode is full of bittersweet joy and sadness. It's life affirming, yet loss is great.  Will home be what it once was for Jamie or Claire? Can they go back? This is the gorgeous Bob Dillon cover that brought us all to tears. A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall What's Coming up? Season 3 Episode 5. How can you participate? To have your questions, comments for email or call in to the listener line after the show airs. Join the weekly Twitter chat Wednesday nights at 6pm PT/9pm ET to discuss the previous latest podcast chapters using the hashtag #ADoO. Comments or messages may be included in the podcast or a written post. The entire Outlander book series is written by Diana Gabaldon. You can find her on Twitter and Facebook. Follow A Dram of Outlander Thank you for sharing posts, joining the discussions, and following this website or pages listed below!  Facebook,  Instagram, Twitter, Tumblr, Google+, YouTube To financially support the podcast, go to my Patreon page. Call 719-425-9444 listener/reader line to leave your comments.  

In the case of wee Willie: Earl of Ellesmere, you are NOT the father! Lindsay (@red_devilress09) and I (@Other_Girl) continue to fight for the polyamorous triad of Claire/John/Jamie (Lord Clamie?) as we discuss the fourth episode of season three of Outlander, entitled, "Of Lost Things."Special thanks to AudioBlocks.com for the track "Irish Summer" which was used as the intro music!Marshall and Sarah's cover of A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aXO6FBVh0oALink to My Other Podcasting Projects: https://otherbluegirl.wordpress.com/podcast-links/ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

In the 21st century world, people make the mistake of not wanting to be vulnerable, and they miss out on so much. How do we overcome this and get the most value out of life? What is the ecstasy of a sore toe? How do you keep your skeletal system balanced? On this episode, Jon Turk shares his amazing life story and talks about how he stays in flow. You can compensate for than nanosecond loss of reaction time, with this long term mental space. -Jon Turk Takeaways You have to go inside yourself and find out where your power is and follow that power. Once you open your spirit to vulnerability, flow starts. Too often sports will stress a set of muscles, and not the counter opposing set so you throw your skeletal system out of balance. At the start of the show, Jon shared his life story, how he stays in shape and what he eats to stay energized. He also talked about how to follow and find your power, and how to connect with the tundra. We also talked about the importance of vulnerability, and why so many people miss out on it. Towards the end of the show, we talked about how to get through barriers. Jon also shared insights on; - His time in Siberia - The ecstasy of a sore toe - The reciprocal relationship we have with nature You have to draw your power from everywhere, not just physical or emotional. If you want to realize and effectualize your power to reach your optimal performance, you have to go in and find out the different parts of you and integrate them. You have to combine everything, and when you combine everything into a whole it’s completely glorious. Flow is being the moment and accepting everything that happens. As long as you can find yourself and not react emotionally, you’re going to be able to go through life and see it for what it really is vs. how we’re programmed to see it. Guest Bio Jon received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971 and worked in theoretical research and then in environmental education. Following internal callings, Jon gradually abandoned academics to engage in extreme adventures all over the world. His two-year voyage around the North Pacific Rim was named by Paddler Magazine as one of the ten greatest sea kayaking expeditions of all times. His circumnavigation of Ellesmere with Erik Boomer was nominated in 2012 by National Geographic as one of the world’s “Top Ten Adventures of the Year” and was also awarded “Expedition of the Year” by Canoe and Kayak Magazine. Jon’s world-view was transformed through his five year friendship with Moolynaut, a 100 year old Siberian shaman. This physical and mental adventure is chronicled in “The Raven’s Gift”. Jon’s newest book, “Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild” represents a continuing exploration of a Consciousness Revolution based on a deep, reciprocal communication with the Earth. Go to www.jonturk.net for more information. To Download Your FREE PDF Copy of the Amazon Best Seller: The Definitive Testosterone Replacement Therapy MANual, Click Here  For a FREE Paperback Copy. The TRT MANual has helped hundreds of thousands of men around the world reclaim their health and vitality. Don’t suffer in silence a moment longer! PS. As an added bonus, upon finishing the book-once you provide a Thoughtful, High Quality Review on Amazon (hopefully 5 STAR), we will send you our new unreleased eBook 7 Lies You’ve Been Told About Testosterone for FREE.* (To receive book, email jay@trtrevolution.com a screenshot of your posted review.)

Jon Turk earned a Ph. D. in organic chemistry at the University of Colorado, in 1971. The same year, in honor of Earth Day 1, he co-authored the first environmental science textbook in the United States. Jon is the author of 25 text books and 4 adventure books. in addition to circumnavigating Ellesmere island, solo kayak missions in the Solomon islands, biking across Tibet to the birthplace of the Dalai Lama, multiple kayak expeditions from japan along eastern Siberia eventually walking across the Siberian tundra and so much more... for more information and to buy Jon's new book CROCODILES AND ICE visit jon turk dot com. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

With the news of PSA buying out General Motors, we crossed live to the Vauxhall plant in Ellesmere port to get reaction from John Cooper, an employee at the plant and also the Unite rep. We also spoke to Justin Madders, MP for Ellesmere Port and Neston, to see what conversations will take place following the buyout. Plus, Continuity Editor Keith Jones from Parkers magazine told us the effect it will have on the car industry as they join Peugeot and Citroen.

Extreme Adventurer Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971 and wrote the first environmental science textbook in North America and continued as an environmental science writer for 40 years. However, he abandoned academics to engage in extreme adventures. His 1500 mile circumnavigation of Ellesmere (close to the North Pole) with Erik Boomer was nominated in 2012 by National Geographic as one of the “Top Ten Adventures of the Year.” Jon's newest book, “Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild” What does Jon know of life after death, you may ask? Well, he's also author of a book called “The Raven's Gift - A Scientist, a Shaman, and Their Remarkable Journey Through the Siberian Wilderness.” Today, he'll share how this experience changed his life and why he believes “We Don't Die.” His website is:  http://www.jonturk.net/ For more great episodes please go to: http://wedontdieradio.com/ and be sure to click on "The Insider's Club" for a free copy of "We Don't Die - A Skeptic's Discovery of Life After Death" and the healing audio "How to Survive Grief."  Thanks for listening!

Jon Turk, along with Eric Boomer, kayak south in the Nares Strait in the Arctic Ocean, a strait that is 12 miles wide and full of chunks of ice smashing into one another. Jon Turk received his Ph.D. in chemistry in 1971 and wrote the first environmental science textbook in North America. He has since engaged in extreme outdoor expeditions. Jon’s circumnavigation of Ellesmere with Erik Boomer was nominated in 2012 by National Geographic as one of the world’s “Top Ten Adventures of the Year” and was also awarded “Expedition of the Year” by Canoe and Kayak Magazine. He received “First Place in Print Journalism” by Northern Lights Awards. Jon is the author of “The Raven’s Gift” and “In the Wake of the Joman: Stone Age Mariners and a Voyage Across the Pacific“. His newest book is “Crocodiles and Ice: A Journey into Deep Wild“. Learn more about Jon & his work @ www.jonturk.net This episode of Tell Us Something was recorded in front of a live audience on June 22nd, 2016, at The Wilma in Missoula, MT. 9 storytellers shared their story based on the theme “Bad Advice”. Today’s podcast comes to us from Jon Turk and is titled “Don’t Do Anything Stupid”. Thank you for listening.

Maryse Jobin s’est intéressée, entre autres, à l’expérience de trek extrême qu’a vécue Anne Pélouas en se rendant sur l’Île d’Ellesmere dans le parc Quttirnirpaaq au Nunavut.

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We continue our film commentary on Ellesmere, take on some tornado scene related topics (speed / durability / limits), and look at if Clark is culpable for Zod's crimes. Answers, insights, and commentary on: Hitch hiking is optimistic Civilian contractors at Ellesmere Degrees of separation between MOS and genre media How cold is 40 below zero How much did Lois's camera cost Assumptions about speed, surprise, and durability Did Jonathan know Clark would survive a tornado? Testing your powers like Claire Bennet Why Jonathan dying of a heart attack doesn't teach Clark anything here The elements of moral culpability or justifiable blame ...and more. Happy Easter! Web: ManOfSteelAnswers.com Twitter: @mosanswers Subscribe: iTunes / RSS / Stitcher / YouTube Proud member of the Superman Podcast Network! Software Generated Transcript

In March of 2013, John Huston and Tobias Thorleifsson co-led a team of four that set out to explore Ellesmere Island in the Canadian Arctic as part of their New Land 2013 Expedition.  With the help of four sled dogs, the team skijored over 511 nautical miles on Ellesmere and Axel Heiberg Islands.  The purpose of their 65-day journey, beyond traveling through a remote and beautiful landscape, was to create a documentary film to celebrate the second Fram Expedition led by the Norwegian Arctic explorer Otto Sverdrup and to educate school children about climate change.  You can learn more about their adventure at johnhuston.com.  John Huston, welcome to The Pursuit Zone.