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"The three dimensional affected me but I also liked that it was an older process that gave a classic, vintage look to the image. It took me a couple of years to figure it out. I did a lot of research on Orotones and tried to find out how they are made and learned there is no written recipe. With experimentation, I made several Orotones and then took them from there. It has a kind of granular effect, playing with the gold powder, there’s a metallic feel to it. All these things work together to make the image really interesting."

"The benefits of shelter cannot be exaggerated. Research has shown that sheltering s from even light winds can increase their yields by up to 30 per cent — which is equivalent to the increase in returns from optimum irrigation or optimum fertilizer use. The bents of sheltering plants from severe winds are considerably higher. In coastal areas, s also give protection from wind-borne ."

"By the 1980s we had reorganized our kitchen garden and laid it out in parallel narrow beds — a practical, efficient, centuries-old system, enabling the to develop a high state of fertility in the beds. ... Not long afterwards I made my first Little Potager, an area nor more than 6½ by 4½ m/20 by 15 ft. It was later enclosed in an undulating woven willow fence. Then followed a Winter Potage, primarily for edible plants which retain leaf, stem or flower colour in winter; these include s, hardy s, purple-flowering , hardy , , s, , 'Parcel' celery and winter pansies. Partially edged with low, stopover apples, the Winter Potager is surrounded on three sides by a of vines, and . With luck it remains colourful and decorative even in mid-winter. The full story is told in my book Creative Vegetable Gardening, but what is relevant here is the decorative potential of so many salad plants."

"... of all the Oriental vegetables, the , a group roughly defined as members of the cabbage family, should prove the most rewarding for Westerners to get to know and grow. An amazingly diverse group, it includes the sturdy, bud-like heads of (already well known in the West), the crisp white- and green-stemmed s, and with their delicious flowering shoots, the pretty fern-leaved s and the . Within the mustards there are exceptionally hardy varieties with beautiful purple-hued leaves, compact-headed mustards and forms with weirdly swollen but highly prized stems and roots."

"is a passion with people from all walks of life, all races, all ages, and the plots they cultivate range from large country gardens to allotments, to tiny urban patches, to es. For me, it is a very personal passion. In the 1970s my husband and I and our two young children spent a year touring western Europe in a caravan, studying vegetable growing and collecting old varieties. We "rediscovered" forgotten salad plants like and , as well as the then new and green Italian Lollo lettuces. On our return we introduced them to the UK, along with the productive cut-and-come-again technique for growing salad seedlings."

"Her book Grow your Own Vegetables is a masterpiece of good sense; I have read it more than once. And her Creative Vegetable Gardening is, as books go, my happy place, one I head back to whenever I feel uninspired by my own garden. So imagine how excited I was when I got an invitation to her retirement vegetable garden that sits on a windswept corner of . She and Don, her husband, converted it from a in just under 10 years. As a garden, it is everything I hoped for. Relaxed, a little messy perhaps to some (but not to the wildlife), joyous with colour and filled to the brim with food. I squished many s in return for some lemon verbena tea. If you want to read more about her garden, buy Just Vegetating. It is much more than simply a – it also takes in her travels in the pursuit of the best vegetables from Europe to China."

"My parents would lose up to 40% of their crops each farming season, which affected our standard of living. We are empowering smallholder farmers, many of whom are women, to increase their income. We aim to scale to one million farmers in the next five years."

"“I knew I was leaving home to change home, I saw how innovation could address the struggles of rural farmers, and that’s how Farmer Lifeline was born.”"

"Take the application seriously and make sure you align with the eligibility criteria … When you give it your best, it gives back in the best ways."

"“Men in rural communities tend to have smartphones, while women rely on basic feature phones, by using SMS alerts, we ensure women aren’t left behind.”"

"“Additionally, the technology has been successfully piloted across five African countries, showcasing its adaptability and potential for scalable impact across diverse agricultural landscapes.”"

"“Dare to dream — and dream big. When I was a girl farming in my village, I never imagined standing on global stages. But with hard work and belief, anything is possible.”"

"“Mentorship has been crucial, as a young founder, especially in tech, having advisors who believe in your vision makes all the difference.”"

"“We’ve made AI as easy as reading a text, because that’s what our farmers do every day.”"

"“Young founders in tech need more than capital — we need people who believe in us. That belief changes everything.”"

"“I quickly realised that technology could solve real-world problems,”"

"“My greatest inspiration is the farming community I grew up with. To get the opportunity to empower them gives me a reason to get up every day and do what I do.”"

"“I knew it would be risky. I had no capital, no team, and no guarantee of success. But I also knew that the potential impact of my work was worth the risk.”"

"“Entrepreneurship isn’t something you plan; it’s something you do when you see a need,”"

"I didn’t hack anything there wasn’t any need to get past the website’s security. There weren’t ANY security checks when you entered direct URL for document data download as file. URL has only one parameter EDS document ID, which is sequential. Anybody that knows a little bit about how the Internet works could do the same what Neo did."

"I had some doubts, that top ranking public officials shared the same pain as others during the economic crisis. Published data showed that to everybody. It is sad that there weren’t any consequences for those officials except public shaming. But I did my part, showing the problem. It was responsibility of state to react and take countermeasures to it. At least, a law was recently passed that requires the publication of detailed data about the income of state officials. Basically, what Neo did before now is perfectly legal and required."

"Changing the HOW doesn’t mean you change the WHAT or the WHY."

"Be relentless and unwavering in WHAT you want to achieve but not inflexible on HOW you want to get there."

"Challenges are part of a purpose-filled journey. They should not deter us."

"Remind yourself: Are you doing what you set out to achieve? If so, then keep going and ignore the noise!"

"To provide quality, accessible and convenient healthcare for people that have been neglected."

"It’s easier to get funding for a franchise than it is to get funding for a completely new concept."

"If all I do is make people question the cost in the private healthcare sector and make people just drop their prices a little bit because they see that obviously, they’re likely to lose customers then I’ve done my job."

"I’m here to help Five tackle the challenge of verifying autonomous vehicles. I have a clear aim: to help Five find ways of giving guarantees that Five’s cars are safe, so passengers can step inside the vehicle knowing it will do no harm to them or those around them."

"The general public will experience the car as a vehicle that performs journeys on our cities’ roads, getting people from A to B quickly and affordably. But, under the proverbial bonnet, there will be plenty more going on. These are not cars as we’ve known them. They’re autonomous in the sense that the car will be taking a number of decisions independently during the journey."

"With this in mind, we need to think about how we can give guarantees that the actions the vehicle will perform are safe with respect to its integrity and the environment. Let’s remember that we do not only have to consider the passengers but also the environment, which will be diverse and complex, encompassing other vehicles, pedestrians, cyclists, buildings, weather conditions, and more."

"To provide guarantees, we’ll of course perform extensive testing. This will give us some confidence about the way in which the vehicle will behave over a broad range of standard and corner cases. But testing is necessarily incomplete however extensive our testing, it can never be exhaustive. There are only a finite amount of situations one can test."

"A major challenge in deploying ML-based systems, such as ML-based computer vision, is the inherent difficulty in ensuring their performance in the operational design domain. The standard approach consists in extensively testing models against a wide collection of inputs. However, testing is inherently limited in coverage, and it is expensive in several domains."

"let's start with the approach. I'd say first of all that my approach is the historical one, that of early artificial intelligence. Artificial intelligence, born at the 1956 Dartmouth conference, is a technical discipline that brings together philosophers, computer scientists, engineers, neuroscientists, and psychologists of the time."

"I conducted a ground breaking research on use of insecticide treated clothes to prevent malaria among refugees in a camp in Kenya."

"In the community of artificial intelligence scholars, this type of approach, which brings together expertise from different fields to study the same phenomenon in both biological and artificial systems, is extremely rare. Today, hyper technicality clearly prevails."

"Those who work in computer vision, those who write facial recognition software, know almost nothing about the technical developments that concern, say, automatic reasoning systems: they know almost nothing about that sub-area of artificial intelligence. Furthermore, still using the example of computer vision, another important aspect is the fact that, in the vast majority of cases, this approach no longer draws on what we know from studies regarding the vision of other biological entities, such as humans or even animals."

"And this applies not only to vision but to all areas perception, action, reasoning, and even natural language, as is evident today with ChatGPT and other generative models of this type. It's important to emphasize that the way these systems respond has nothing to do with the way we humans generate responses using our linguistic competence."

"I was very interested in why people did what they did [and so took a degree in Social Anthropology and Psychology]. I found it really rewarding. It opened my eyes"

"We didn’t see my mother much during that time, she remained in Scotland, In my teenage years, I was desperate to get away from Westgate."

"[After taking her degree] I spotted in a newspaper this conversion course, where you learned about computers and artificial intelligence. I enrolled. I was one of only three women on the course...It was the first AI really"

"People may not know what they want from a system. But I was interested in watching what people did and working out from that what they needed. It’s very interesting"

"There are a lot of ethical issues in computing and AI: AI has also become an ever-present feature of computer programs – deciding who is called for interviews, who is granted a loan and who is seen at risk of reoffending when considered for parole."

"I’m more and more interested in Responsible Innovation…the trouble is, the industry is all about running fast and breaking things, it’s the mind-set. People often don’t think about negative or unintended consequences"

"We are a long way, she says from robots taking over the world...[but she] is championing the installation of ‘black box’ recorders for responsible robotics...[to] provide some accountability and information, in the event that something goes wrong."

"This Article identifies the government interest in enacting laws governing surveillance by private parties. Using social psychologist Irwin Altman’s framework of “boundary management” as a jumping-off point, I conceptualize privacy harm as interference in an individual’s ability to dynamically manage disclosure and social boundaries. Stemming from this understanding of privacy, the government has two related interests in enacting laws prohibiting surveillance: an interest in providing notice so that an individual can adjust her behavior; and an interest in prohibiting surveillance to prevent undesirable behavioral shifts."

"Framing the government interest, or interests, this way has several advantages. First, it descriptively maps on to existing laws: These laws either help individuals manage their desired level of disclosure by requiring notice, or prevent individuals from resorting to undesirable behavioral shifts by banning surveillance. Second, the framework helps us assess the strength and legitimacy of the legislative interest in these laws. Third, it allows courts to understand how First Amendment interests are in fact internalized in privacy laws. And fourth, it provides guidance to legislators for the enactment of new laws governing a range of new surveillance technologies — from automated license plate readers (ALPRs) to robots to drones."

"The newly developing “law of AI” has come to focus on risk regulation, and in many ways risk regulation seems like a good fit for regulating the development and growing uses of AI systems. AI harms tend to be systemic, occur at scale, raise causality challenges for potential litigators, and may not yet be vested (that is, they may constitute risks of future harm rather than current harm)—all challenges for traditional liability regimes."

"But as I argue in this paper, risk regulation also comes with what I call “policy baggage”: known problems that have emerged in other fields. Choosing to use risk regulation itself entails making a significant normative choice: to develop and use AI systems in the first place rather than adopt more precautionary approaches to AI. Risk regulation thus embodies what Jessica Eaglin has called a “techno-correctionist” tendency prevalent in scholarship on AI systems: the tendency to try to make technology “better” rather than to question the politics and appropriateness of its usage and to explore more systematically whether, given its harms, it should be used at all."

"Regulators should broaden their regulatory toolkit and move away from, or at least add to, the current narrow focus on AI impact assessments. If regulators want to truly address the harms caused by AI systems, they are going to have to do better than light-touch risk regulation."