Neil Spurgeon's Blog (17)

Despite what is taught in the global pandemonium the reality of dealing with risk is to try as hard as possible to forsee risks and prepare contingency plans to deal with expected risks

If you take the standard risk equation where the probability of a given Risk occurring (range 0-5) multiplied by the Damage that particular Risk will cause (range 0-5) for all expected or likely future risk possiblities you will,create a matrix ranging from 0 to 25. All risks greater than 20…

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Deadline 1/4/2020

Place: Paris



La Bourse de Poisson



Fish has become such a rare and precious commodity that now a special exchange for fish has been opened in a Paris market place. Mme. Angelique de Lyon, the President, has today cut the green ribbon to open the exchange. Mssr. Soulon, Mayor of Paris remarked that "Cet bouse quands excitement pour tous les chefs de Paris".

The key market prices include 272 Yen for fine haddock, £300 for best cod and a remarkable $45… Continue

I've always been very sceptical about on-line transactions but as a result of the UE mission decided to chance it to buy a cd I really wanted from an on-line site. Simple, painless and very secure I am delighted with the result and will definitely use the system again.

read any (ideally all of) of

the first twenty chapters of Roots by Arthur Hayley

Scouting for Boys by Baden-Powell

the original version of the Jungle Book by Rudyard Kipling

and either The Lost World of the Kalahari or The Heart of the…

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On World Water Day we are going to create the world's first artificial Geyser just north of Edinburgh. We will use the four retired Trident Missile Submarine turbines to provide the power (they will then remain buried for ever when we have compelted this work).

Here is the explanation of how we will do it watch?v=X4zA_YPCyHs

Obviously I wouldn't normally support anything American - we have so many better things in Europe but for once I did find a really lively and interesting project in Santa Fe where school children are working with a Museum environment to find out more about, and do more about, water sustainability world wide http://www.harvesth2o.com/santafekidsmuseum.shtml I think this deserves a wider audience

http://thewaterproject.org/

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to meet the needs of new energy it was necessary to revert to eighteenth century ways of development in my home town. This map

shows some of the work we have had to undertake in order to revert older buildings which had been converted into houses back into their former, and now new, operational functions

Today the final doc**ent to allow the full emancipation of women in the Kingdom was signed and delivered. From today not only can women over the age of 18 drive cars - even without a male passenger, own property in their own name and wear any clothes allowed by the Koran but more importantly no person in the Kingdom will, in future, be subject to any form of Corporal Punishment. Even smacking in Schools has finally be abolished.

Freedom of speech is to be permitted for…

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First you will need a hand cranked (wind up) power supply. In UK Maplins do a really simply one that outputs via USB at £14.99 ($23.06 at today's exchange rate) Order Code N91GG USB Wind Up Eco Charger

Then using the instructions at…

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In a real crisis - the sorts of systems which have become 'normal' in the west; TV, Radio, Mobile Phones, the Internet, etc may no longer be available to central authorities. Of all of these, clearly the simplest, and arguable the most effective, is radio, using high power and HF frequencies if possible for long range and VHF for medium range. The idea that digital radio will soon replace standard AM/FM is a real danger to the future use of radio as an effective method of passing crisis…

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19 April 2010 – A top United Nations official today pointed to “encouraging” efforts to improve human rights by the six nations that make up the Gulf Cooperation Council, while also noting ongoing concerns in areas such as women’s rights and freedom of expression, association and assembly.

High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay highlighted economic and social rights, children’s rights and human…

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I use my MP3 radio player every day and change the battery at least once a fortnight - I have today purchased a pedal powered battery recharger which will sit under my desk at work and can be operated whilst I am using my computer to charge one, or more, rechargable batteries

http://www.rhs.org.uk/GROWYOUROWN grow your own food and check on your iPhone to see just how well, or otherwise, you are doing

Study of the limitations of the past, especially the study of sieges, offers suggestions for real, nurishing food in areas where famine is a real world problem today.



My first course, arguably my starter therefore, would be three fried locusts. Wherever they appear in the world locusts always imply famine to follow, but deep fried they are a tasty land based alternative to prawns and when they land they can be captured, in sacks, in very large numbers and will feed starving people for… Continue

George Meegan

First person ever to walk the length of the Americas, Lecturer and my best friend

George Meegan is an adventurer, lecturer and world traveller.…

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"If you have very few resources, you’re forced to be very creative in using and reusing them"

Clearly whether one is in Africa or Europe, over the next decade, resources of all kinds are going to be very scarce and hard to come by. As a result we have all to try and become much more creative about what we can actually use, how little we can use to achieve major impact and how much we can manage with very little or even nothing at…

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