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Cloud startup enables VMware to Hyper-V conversion
Open source cloud software developer Abiquo has released a new version of its cloud management product and announced its intentions to compete as a U.S. cloud infrastructure provider.
Abiquo making cloud headlines across the board
Spanish open source cloud software developer Abiquo has hit another milestone with Abiquo 1.5. New features include support for Microsoft's Hyper-V and something it calls "drag-and-drop VM conversion." Apparently, users can shift virtual machines from a VMware hypervisor to a Hyper-V environment and Abiquo will do all the heavy lifting for them.
According to the company, however, version 1.5 won't be available for some time. The new release is timed to build up interest in Abiquo's other startling announcement. With $5.1 million in venture capital, the EMEA open source underdog has reformed as a U.S. firm and stands ready to go toe-to-toe with Eucalyptus and other software vendors as a for-profit open source cloud infrastructure provider.
This information has been met with mixed results so far. Eucalyptus has announced the hire of big gun CEO Marten Mickos but is still "in the runway," as the VCs like to say. Meanwhile, Canadian startup Enomaly recently closed the source on its cloud infrastructure software in an apparent bid to make money selling its product instead of giving it away.
Cloudwashing continues unabated
Setting new standards for marketing froth, loan software maker Dorado announced that it will use First American Corporation's technology for some sort of Web service offering. We think. Some of the confusion stems from Dorado, hitherto a complete unknown in the cloud market, becoming "the provider of Internet-based cloud computing."
Amazon, Google, Microsoft, Rackspace and other real cloud customers need not fear; whatever Dorado is doing doesn't fall under loan-making services for banks, so they can simply pick another name for whatever it was they were doing before today.


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The Greatrex group at the University of New England in Armidale, Australia is focussed on translating the chirality found in levoglucosenone into products of industrial significance. Current targets include marketable products in the pharmaceutical space as well as organic catalysts and ligands currently used to introduce chirality in a range of chemical processes.
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CAMDEN, N.J. — The sport utility vehicle carrying Gov. Jon S. Corzine was traveling about 91 mph moments before it crashed, the superintendent of state police said Tuesday.
The governor was critically injured when the vehicle crashed into a guardrail on the Garden State Parkway just north of Atlantic City last week. He apparently was not wearing his seat belt as he rode in the front passenger's seat.
The speed limit along that stretch of the parkway is 65 mph.
The state trooper-driven SUV was in the left lane with its emergency lights flashing when a pickup tried to get out of its way. Instead, it set off a chain reaction that resulted in the crash.
Corzine broke his left thigh bone, 11 ribs, collarbone and chest bone. He also fractured a vertebrae in his lower back.
He remained in critical but stable condition Tuesday and doctors were assessing when he might be ready to breathe without a ventilator. Spokesman Anthony Coley said Tuesday the governor was showing improvement.
Doctors have said he doesn't have brain damage or paralysis, and is doing well for someone who sustained so many injuries.
The driver, Trooper Robert Rasinski, could be charged if the state police Motor Vehicular Pursuit Review Board determines the crash was preventable, Superintendent of State Police Col. Rick Fuentes said.
Fuentes said speed was a factor in the accident. A black box inside the SUV recorded the speed of the SUV five seconds before the crash. He said the executive protection unit has the discretion to move through traffic by stepping up its speed and using flashing lights when necessary.
"If it's a non-emergency situation, we would ask them to obey the traffic laws and the speed laws in the interest of safety," he said.
Rasinski and an aide to the governor were not seriously hurt. The trooper will remain out of work until he is cleared by a doctor to return, Fuentes said.
Other political news of note
Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
House Speaker John Boehner became animated Tuesday over the proposed Keystone Pipeline, castigating the Obama administration for not having approved the project yet.
- Budget deficits shrinking but set to grow after 2015
- Senate readies another volley on unemployment aid
- Obama faces Syria standstill
- Fluke files to run in California
- Animated Boehner: 'There's nothing complex about the Keystone Pipeline!'
The driver of the pickup truck was not charged.
There is no timetable for when Corzine may be able to resume governing the state Senate President Richard J. Codey is acting governor.
Once Corzine is breathing unassisted, he should be able to speak. That milestone would make it possible for physical therapists to do more to help him regain use of his leg — a process expected to take up to six months.
Corzine, a 60-year-old former investment banker, gave up his seat in the U.S. Senate to become governor in 2006.
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Dennis Hof, who runs the Love Ranch in Nevada where Lamar partied for four days before being found unconscious and foaming at the mouth on Tuesday, claimed Khloe's publicist asked him not to talk to the media about the tragic basketball star.
However, Dennis, 69, insisted that he doesn't care what Khloe, 31, or her family thinks of him and has been giving interviews to a number of publications, detailing 35-year-old Lamar's time at the ranch where he partied and took pills.
Speaking to Nancy Grace on her TV show, he said: "I got a call from the Kardashians' publicist today saying 'Are you going to do any media?' and I said 'Yes I'm going to go on the Nancy Grace show'.
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"And she said ''please don't do that, we'd rather have Khloe say what needs to be said'. I told her to go to ***."
He reiterated his comments to the 'New York Daily News', explaining: "They asked me not to talk to the media. I told her to pass on a message... If she really cared about this man, he wouldn't be at my place with my girls."
The room where Lamar Odom was found unconscious. (AP)
Khloe has flown to Nevada to be by Lamar's bedside and is making medical decisions for him as although she filed for divorce in 2013 amid claims he'd cheated on her and was addicted to crack cocaine, there is said to be a backlog in the family law courts.
The 'Keeping Up With the Kardashians' star delayed her divorce for a year and a half as she tried to save her marriage to Lamar - with whom she tied the knot after a month of dating in 2009 - and although they both eventually signed their final divorce documents the backlog means it won't be completed for at least two months, TMZ has reported.
The entrance to the Love Ranch brothel where Odom was found. (AP)
Lamar is currently in critical condition with Dennis claiming he looked "terrible" when he was found alone in his room and medical staff were unsure of his chances of survival.
He told 'Entertainment Tonight': "He looked terrible. He looked like a guy who was really sick and needed to be rushed to an ER immediately.
Ryder Cherry was one of the women who discovered Lamar Odom. Picture: Twitter/@RyderCherry
"We called 911, my staff did. They said 'Roll him on his left side' and he started throwing up a lot but he was breathing. Then the ambulance and the police came and took him to the [hospital]. They said he was in bad shape and they thought he might not make it."
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Secondment Fellowships
Secondment Fellowships are for humanities and social science researchers who we already fund. Researchers spend three to six months working at non-academic organisations to develop their skills.
Scheme at a glance
Career stage:
For people who have, or are about to finish, an undergraduate degree and want to go on to do a Master's or PhD.
For researchers with a PhD or equivalent.
Level of funding:
A fully-funded extension to a fellowship, PhD or research assistant position
Duration of funding:
3 to 6 months
Who can apply
You can apply for a Secondment Fellowship if you're a researcher in humanities and social science who we already fund.
Either you must hold one of the following awards:
- Doctoral Studentships
- Research Fellowships in Humanities and Social Science
- Research Awards for Health Professionals
or you must be a PhD student or postdoctoral researcher funded by one of the following:
- Investigator Awards in Humanities and Social Science
- Collaborative Awards in Humanities and Social Science.
If successful, you'll undertake a project during your secondment. This will depend on your research interests and the needs of your host organisation. You should discuss your project idea with your proposed secondment host organisation. Your work at the organisation should not be an extension of the research we're already funding.
Secondment host organisations
You can either propose to work at:
- one of our four existing partner organisations
- another non-academic organisation of your choice (this can range in size, for example from a small local charity to a large investment bank).
Existing partner organisations
POST is Parliament's in-house source of scientific advice. Its key services are:
- advising on research evidence relating to public policy
- writing impartial summaries of research from academic organisations, think tanks and non-governmental organisations
- identifying trends in research and analysing the implications for Parliament
- connecting parliamentarians with leading researchers
- helping people who work in Parliament to develop their skills in using research evidence.
A three- or six-month secondment at POST helps researchers to develop their knowledge of policy work and raise the profile of their research in Parliament.
Researchers get the opportunity to:
- work with MPs, peers and their support services
- work with businesses, academia, regulatory bodies, non-governmental organisations and government departments
- draft concise briefing materials
- respond to comments from internal and external peer review
- organise seminars in Parliament or elsewhere to inform or disseminate their work
- attend select committees and all-party parliamentary group meetings
- attend relevant conferences, workshops and seminars
- take part in training provided by the Houses of Parliament.
You can read POST briefing notes written by Wellcome-funded fellows on the Parliament website:
- Briefing notes for the medical history and humanities programme.
- Briefing notes for the society and ethics programme.
For more information, contact:
- Dr Peter Border at firstname.lastname@example.com, +44 (0)20 7219 2876
- Sarah Bunn at firstname.lastname@example.com, +44 (0)20 7219 1860.
The Science Museum Group's collection forms a record of scientific, technological and medical achievements from across the globe. Its museums in London, Manchester, Bradford, York and Shildon attract over 5 million visitors a year.
Secondments are usually six months. Researchers gain an insight into the Group's collections, public displays, and events.
Possible secondment projects include:
- masterplan galleries in London, Bradford, Manchester and York
- temporary exhibitions, for example about cancer, and music, science and technology
- working with communities on the museums' collection in our 'One Collection' project.
To discuss potential projects, please email email@example.com.
Find out more on the Science Museum Group website.
The World Health Organization (WHO) is the authority responsible for public health within the United Nations system. The Regional Office for Europe is one of WHO's six regional offices around the world.
Researchers on six-month secondments work in the Evidence-Informed Policy Network (EVIPNet) team. It promotes the systematic use of health research evidence in policy making.
Researchers play a key role in implementing EVIPNet methodology in focus countries in Eastern Europe by:
- gathering the necessary evidence to develop a policy brief
- taking part in a workshop – or facilitating it with someone else – to develop a policy brief on a priority issue in a focus country
- leading a public discussion on the health issue in the policy brief.
You may also be asked to monitor and evaluate knowledge translation.
For more information, email Tanja Kuchenmüller at email@example.com.
The mission of the OECD is to promote policies that will improve the wellbeing of people around the world. The OECD works with governments to understand what drives economic, social and environmental change.
In 2018, the Household Statistics and Progress Measurement Division will work on a number of projects, including:
- mental health measurement
- the geo-localisation of health outcomes
- wellbeing in Latin America
- job quality measurement
- trust statistics
- the use of surveys to measure the welfare value of time
- measuring businesses' impacts on wellbeing
- the production and use of national statistics on diversity
- Sustainable Development Goals.
A researcher on a six-month secondment in the division will contribute to developing a research and statistical agenda on a relevant project.
You can read reports on wellbeing and its measurement on the OECD website.
For more information, email firstname.lastname@example.com
What's expected of your host organisation
Your secondment organisation must agree to pay for office and project costs.
The secondment organisation does not have to administer or pay for:
- your salary
- your stipend
- any additional costs you face by working at the secondment organisation eg travel, accommodation and childcare.
If your host secondment organisation isn't one of our four existing partners, they must provide you with a letter to upload to your online application form, explaining:
- how your secondment will enrich their work
- how they will support you.
A Secondment Fellowship is usually for three to six months, depending on the host organisation.
It's a fully-funded extension to a fellowship, PhD or research assistant position.
We want to encourage applicants from all over the UK. If you don't live within reasonable daily travelling distance of your chosen host organisation, we'll fund your extra travel, accommodation, childcare and other relevant costs.
Your host organisation will pay for office and project costs during the secondment.
If you're currently working part time, it may be possible to do your secondment part time too.
You must submit your application through the Wellcome Trust Grant Tracker (WTGT).Start your application
Stages of application
Applicants proposing to work at one of our four existing partner organisations
Contact the secondment host organisation
Discuss your interest in working at the host organisation on the phone or by email.
Submit your application to your current university for approval
Complete the application form on Grant Tracker. Submit it to the 'authorised organisational approver' at your current university for approval. Make sure you leave enough time for the approver to review and submit your application before the deadline. The approver may ask you to make changes to your application.
View the Sample full application form for Secondment Fellowships [PDF 172KB]
Your current university reviews the application and submits it to us
Your application must be submitted by 17:00 BST on the deadline day.
Assessment and decision
Wellcome and the relevant secondment host organisation will assess your application. This process may involve an interview. We will let people know the decision by July.
If successful, you'll agree a start date with your secondment host organisation and your current supervisor.
Applicants proposing to work at a different non-academic organisation
If you want to arrange your own secondment with a different partner organisation, this will involve more work on your part – we won't be able to do this for you. You should:
- contact the organisation with your proposal
- make the arrangements with them eg start date, location
- get a letter of support from a person at the organisation with the authority to do this.
You then need to submit your application online (see step 2 above). We'll review your application and let you know if you're successful. If you're arranging your own secondment, there are no interviews involving Wellcome staff.
Disabled applicants
If you are disabled or have a chronic health condition, we can support you with the application process.
We consider applications once a year. We don't accept late applications.
2019 round
Application deadline
16 April 2019, 17:00 BST
June 2019
Key dates
We consider applications once a year.
2019 round
Application deadline
16 April 2019, 17:00 BST
June 2019
Apply for this grant
Log in to our online grants system (Grant Tracker). You can save your application and return to it any time.
Contact us
Contact our information officers if you have a question about funding.
If you have a question about the scope and content of your project, contact:
POST: Dr Peter Border at email@example.com, +44 (0)20 7219 2876, or Sarah Bunn at email@example.com, +44 (0)20 7219 1860.
Science Museum: email@example.com
WHO: Tanja Kuchenmüller at firstname.lastname@example.com
OECD: Fabrice Murtin, email@example.com


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What would you ask a hermit if you met one? I wondered about this when I read an article last week in The New York Times about Christopher Knight, 47, a hermit who lived in the Belgrade Lakes area of Central Maine for 27 years. He is now living in the Kennebec County Jail because he was not only a hermit, but a hermit-burglar.
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According to the article, when Christopher was caught, "He told the police that he had not spoken during his decades of self-exile except for one day in the 1990s when he had uttered a greeting to a passing hiker."
His interaction with the hiker really stood out to me because it represented the only moment of human interaction he had had in more than a decade. How does someone not have a conversation with another human for so long? Did Christopher talk to himself? I wondered. When the hiker walked away, did Christopher feel a sense of loss that he had missed the opportunity to connect?
The hermit and the hiker's exchange made me think of questions I'd like to ask the hermit. As I wrote the questions down, I found more began to emerge.
Did you ever love someone?
Were you lonely on Christmas?
Did you ever write letters to old friends and wish you could mail them?
Did you have any photos that you kept in your tent?
What do you wish you had found but never did in all the houses where you stole things?
Did you always want to be a hermit?
What was the most unusual thing that you've ever seen in the woods?
I tried to picture this "Boo Radley of the Woods" in jail surrounded by inmates pestering him for tips on how to break into people's homes. He went from living in a green beautiful peaceful world to a dismal gray one, overpopulated and noisy. He chose to do what he did to survive the wilderness and that led him to where he is now, in another place where he must also learn to survive.


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COTD #96 : The Evolution of Countless Questions, part 2 04.04.2009Posted by poligraf in COTD.
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In a fashion similar to which "Reinfused" resumed its evolution after the hiatus of 2003, various ideas and contributions from the musicians gave "Countless Questions" its present form, the most notable developments probably being the vocal arrangements.
For the longest time we used the name "1000 Radios" to refer to both the whole suite and its first movement. This obviously led to some confusion, and once I finally got weary of explaining myself I decided that the first section would be entitled "Countless Questions" after counting the number of question marks in the lyrics.
Speaking of which, the lyrics to this chapter probably hold the record for Highest Number of Rewritings in all the songs of the poligrafic repertoire, and as far as I can see only "Lifeforce" still stands of chance of dethroning it. Not that I would like that anyway. Here's the first verse and chorus :
There's a thousand radios playing in my mind
And I can't tell which wave is mine
Should I turn them off if they have me bound?
Or were they meant to make me sound?
Flow through my eyes, the dreams of another
Flood in my mind, the views of another
Flow through my eyes, the needs of another
Throughout my life, our lives altogether
The full lyrics are available on the chapter page.
Clip Of The Day #96 presents the first half of "Countless Questions" as released on our "CONGA 2008 Demo" :http://drop.io/download/public/eoda7y11dyayauobwfrm/3cb0a27685fea2acc8ee6afa6a268f90d3efe195/057a9350-0366-012c-481d-f1cff6f492b1/220cc780-036f-012c-c660-f6596f0ec8cc/converted-poligraf.cq.evolution.2008.part1_converted.mp3%20
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When asked about his recent weight loss and muscular physique, comedian and producer Wayne Brady says "The proof is in the pudding. I'm able to wear the size 48 suits that I want to be in. I'm kind of like a girl in that I really like clothes and I really like certain designers. And with the designers I like, you have to really be in shape to rock it. So I'm enjoying that. I'm also able to feel the effects energy-wise; I just feel healthier. And again, not to sound girly, but I've got a glow that comes from enjoying the working out. I love that buzz now. I think overall there's a huge difference."
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Welcome back to the second part of my series on gaining and retaining more clients! As you recall, I left you with some homework from Part 1; your first steps were to define your target market or avatar and then"find" where your target market is both physically and digitally. I hope you had some fun with these first two steps and now you're ready to jump into Step #3: Get Clients Excited and Step #4: Ensure Clients Return. If you missed Part 1, you can catch up here; otherwise, let's get started!
Step #3: Get Clients Excited
After you've created your avatar and connected with them, nearly every potential client will visit your website before they buy anything from you. Think about your own habits—would you see a new dentist without visiting their website first? Probably not, and the same advice holds true no matter what industry you are in! Because every potential client will visit your website, it needs to be beautiful, easy to use, and offer something unique. In 2018, all your competitors have beautiful websites, so you need something that sets your business apart from the others and gets your clients excited to do business with you. For my salon business, our little something special is a survey called Meet Your Stylist.
Meet Your Stylist is a psychologically-savvy survey that lives on your salon's website and matches potential clients with the top three stylists at your salon who are the best fit for them. After all, who doesn't like taking a survey about yourself?! As the owner of Be Inspired Salon, I needed a way to set my salon apart from the competition, get clients excited, and start building relationships with future guests, and Meet Your Stylist does all of this! If you are a hair salon, you need to check out Meet Your Stylist! I promise it will transform your business.
I know many of you reading don't own hair salons, but the same principles behind Meet Your Stylist apply to your business. Let me explain. I was recently on Neutrogena's website searching for a new face wash, and found myself taking a survey to find the skincare routine right for me and had a $2.00 coupon emailed to me. Boom! They connected with me, personalized my experience, captured my email address, and got me excited to purchase from them!
Personalized surveys and recommendations are everywhere! For instance, let's say that you own a vitamin company. Maybe your website could offer a survey that gives clients product recommendations and encourages them to book a consultation with you. The possibilities are endless; you just need to give your potential clients the right tools and information to get connected and excited!
Step #4: Ensure Clients Return
In the salon industry, new client retention rates are pretty low. In fact, the national average, new client retention rate is about 30%. That means only 3 out of every 10 new guests will return for a second time! I don't know the statistics for your industry, but retention is something we should all focus on to grow a strong business! Once we get a client to do business with us, we need to make sure they continue to do business with us. So, how are you going to do that?
For my salon business, retention is another problem that is solved by Meet Your Stylist! By matching clients with the right stylist the first time, I know that the guest is going to have a fabulous experience and want to come back. Let's think about the vitamin store example from earlier. If this new client didn't take their pre-visit survey, he would have simply walked into the store and purchased a product he thought was right for him. Then, a few days later, he started having adverse side effects, stopped taking the vitamins, and never returned to the store again because he thought the business was selling ineffective products. On the flip side, if this client purchased the right vitamins for himself the first time, I bet he would continue to come back for more! See how that works?
Beyond getting it right from the start, my salon focuses on prebooking clients for their next visit. Essentially, the stylist is helping the client make a reservation for their next visit. Instead of hoping that the customer will take time out of their busy schedule to call and make another appointment, we set it up for them to ensure they come back again. For the vitamin store, the sales rep could work with the customer to determine when their product will run out and set up a time for them to come back to the store and restock. This sounds pretty simple, but it will have a huge impact on retaining new clients!
You may have heard the Tony Robbins quote that success leaves clues. You don't have to reinvent the wheel, just put together the pieces that I have laid out: Step #1: Define Your Target Market, Step #2: Find Your Target Market, Step #3: Get Clients Excited, and Step #4: Ensure Clients Return. I hope you take the four steps from my playbook, add your own creative twist, and achieve massive success! If you have any questions on the four steps, please connect with me! I can't wait to chat with you!


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- Location cyprus, nicosia
- Industry for the position Electrical/Electronic Manufacturing
- Company StaffMatters Recruitment Specialists
Job Description
This company in the electricity sector in Nicosia is looking for an energetic and proactive Sales Officer with excellent English and Greek skills. The Sales Officer will be reporting to the CEO.
The main function of the Sales Representative is the sale of electricity to clients.
- Identifying new clients
- Develop proper business relations
- Visiting clients: hotels, shops, companies, houses, etc to sell electricity agreements
- Achieving targets in the assigned area
- Ensure shelf and warehouse stocks are correctly audited, rotated (FIFO), and the short expiry issues are properly handled in line with company policy
- Submit and maintain proper customer records, sales activities and other required reports
- Promptly complete all administrative requirements
- Experience in a sales role in the electricity sector
- Greek and English skills
- Good communication and influencing Skills
- Relationship building skills
- Selling and negotiation skills


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Monday, December 22, 2014
Handmade Holidays
A few days ago my hubby and I decided to have a neighborhood dinner......a get-together after the main event just to relax and reflect. I have been baking for the past few weeks and before I put that mammoth mixer under the cabinet, I decided one more bowl full of goodness into the oven!
Simona, from Briciole is hosting a handmade gift idea page and this is my contribution. Inside the wrapped packages, banana-nut bread. The recipe is one from Martha Stewarts "Baking Handbook" I received as a gift years ago. This recipe never fails, loaded with goodness and is the perfect sweet bread this time of year. On the back of the Merry, Merry cards I wrote our invitation to the dinner. The bread was baked early enough in the day so I could deliver these packages for my guests to enjoy with a cup of coffee or hot tea!
"Happy Holidays" to my blogger friends and your family~I wish we lived closer so I could have delivered a treat to you!
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
Scenes from our Simply French Tour ~ 2014
A walk down the Champs Elysees
Nothing as breathtaking as French floral arrangements!
Sunday, October 26, 2014
Sunday morning brunch ~ Brioche with eggs and mushrooms.
|A delicious recipe adapted from La Cuisine Paris. Easy and fun to prepare! Serves four.
Thursday, October 16, 2014
Fall Tuscan Beans with Spinach and Pesto
|Adding spinach and simmering until liquid is reduced by half.
2 Tbsp. of olive oil, heated in large frying pan
3/4 cup of chopped onion
2 cloves, small, of minced garlic
2 cans of white Cannellini Beans, 15 oz. size - use the juice
1 jar of sliced mushrooms or use 10 oz. of fresh ones
3 large handfuls of spinach
6 oz. of prepared pesto, 1/4 cup of white wine
salt and pepper to taste
Freshly grated Parmesan Cheese for serving
1/2 cup of vegetable broth
Heat oil and add onions, cook until clear. Add the garlic and mushrooms and cook until softened. Add wine. Cook down until half of the liquid is reduced to a level which you prefer to eat. I don't like mine too runny.
Add the vegetable broth and the beans. After the beans are heated, add the pesto, stir well and add spinach. It does not take very long to wilt the spinach. Season with the salt and pepper and top with grated cheese.
Recipe adapted from Wegmans
Friday, July 18, 2014
Summer Peas at their best
|Fresh Cooked Peas
|Blended with a dash of Creme Fraiche
3 T. unsalted butter
5 cups or around 2 lbs. of fresh peas or frozen~do not thaw before cooking
1 cup chopped sweet onion
3 cups of vegetable broth or more~depending how thick you want it
11/2 t. salt
1/2 t.pepper
Creme Fraiche for topping and maybe a few croutons
In a large saucepan, heat the butter and add the onion. Cook the onion until clear in color and tender. Add the vegetable stock. Bring to a boil. Add the peas and cook for 5 minutes or until the peas are tender. Add the salt and pepper.
Cool for five minutes. Puree the mixture in small increments until all the mixture is used. Top with Creme Fraiche and maybe some croutons, if desired. Season to taste. Serve hot. Serves 6
Saturday, June 28, 2014
Pear Clafouti~Summertime dessert.
Thursday, April 17, 2014
Making Fresh Mozzarella Cheese
|The biggest hurdle was just getting the fresh cows milk~ this included a one hour drive.... but very well worth it!
|Carefully stirring and adding the rennet at the proper time~blew the first batch! At 10$ a gallon, that hurts! Must read and follow directions very carefully! I could absolutely kick myself for reading too fast!
|Added some fresh basil and parsley from my herb patch.
Friday, April 04, 2014
Pecan Meringue Torte
|A family recipe from the Mumford side of the family.We certainly have had some great cooks- actually from both sides! My daughter and her husband are joining in the ranks as well! This is one of my favorites!
|You can add any type of fresh fruit that you prefer. I used strawberries as they are still in season here in Florida. Raspberries are fabulous in this recipe!
Tuesday, April 01, 2014
Bringing back the past
|In this photo, I have coarsely chopped two cups of cabbage~not much effort here....
|There it is~it couldn't be easier ! Sometimes, less is more~very few ingredients for a delicious side, if you happen to like cabbage. Salt and pepper to taste. For a little zing, I sprinkled on some ground red pepper.
Thursday, January 23, 2014
Loire Valley's Goat Cheese
|Regardless about the origin of this story and how the cheese got the shape, these short pyramids have become a classic symbol, meaning chevre and a delicious form of goat cheese.
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As with many government programs Americans come to accept them, rely on them and then fail to support financing them as costs grow. The Medicare health insurance trust is on the way to insolvency. Total Medicare costs are growing as a percentage of government spending and GNP.
Republicans see growing costs as a problem (and so should Democrats and you) and propose changes to reduce future costs. One of those strategies is to give beneficiaries a voucher to by health care coverage. So what is a voucher program?
Think of it this way, there are two types of pension plans; defined benefit and defined contribution plans. With a traditional defined benefit plan the plan sponsor commits to a benefit as outlined in the plan and spends what is necessary to meet that commitment. A defined contribution plan sponsor on the other hand commits to spend a stated amount of money and the ultimate benefit is variable. A 401k plan is a defined contribution plan. Unlike with a defined benefit plan, the sponsor can easily determine its costs and control future increases.
Medicare is now a defined benefit type plan. There are no limits on spending. The government (taxpayers) must come up with the money to pay for whatever the program costs. Thus there are only a few ways to control costs. Reduce benefits and or the payments for those benefits or reduce the money available to pay benefits thereby shifting costs to beneficiaries. Or, of course, keep raising taxes and let the expenses grow unchecked.
A voucher program simply means the government will give each beneficiary a set amount of money to buy health insurance or traditional Medicare. But how does this save money? Because the increase in the value of the voucher (or premium subsidy as it may be called), is independent of the growth in health care costs and hence premiums.
So, let's say there is a voucher that government increases in value by 4% each year to align with a budget. As long as Medicare premiums increase by no more than 4% there is no problem. However, if premiums increase by 5% next year and 5% the next, that extra two percent is the responsibility of the beneficiaries. That's how a voucher program hopes to manage government spending.
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Updated June 8 at EDT
The 2016 California Primary is held on Tuesday, June 7. I'll be updating the results here on election night as the returns come in. On this page, you'll also find information on how on many delegates are at stake and how each party awards them.
*** Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton win the California Primary ***
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Democratic Primary – 550 Delegates, awarded proportionally except for 75 uncommitted superdelegates
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The Democratic primary is open to all registered Democrats and Independents. The Republican primary is closed. Only registered Republicans may participate. Delegate Award Methodology
Pledged delegates (475) are awarded proportionally based on statewide and district level vote totals. A 15% threshold is in place for all delegates. This means that a candidate must win at least 15% of the vote in a district or statewide election to be eligible for any delegates. California is also allocated 75 superdelegates which are not pledged based on the primary outcome. Republicans
All California delegates (172) are awarded in the Republican primary. The GOP utilizes a modified winner-take-all system for awarding delegates. All three delegates are awarded in each congressional district (159 total) to the winner of the district level vote, and all 13 at-large delegates (including 3 RNC delegates) are awarded to the winner of the statewide vote.
Presidential Primaries and ResultsJune Results
06/07: California | Montana | New Jersey | New Mexico | North Dakota (D) | South Dakota May Results
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Ventoux Details
Starting from 2198€ for a group of 6 riders in shared (double) accommodation.
What's included?
5 Nights hotels and breakfasts
5 evening meals
Pre trip (from Avignon) and post trip (to Aix en Provence) transfers*
Aluminium Road bike or Aluminium Hybrid bike.
Custom maps
Downloadable GPS routes for your phone or Garmin.
Ride profiles
Support Van.
Photo slideshow of your trip.
We can easily make this a shorter or longer trip. Let us know what you would like.
What's not included?
Drinks at dinner.
E-Bike or Carbon Frame racing bike. Add 275€ to trip price.
* Pre and post trip transfers. All transfers happen as a group and within a pre - determined time frame.
We can easily arrange a private transfer if you wish, but they will cost extra.


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Greens wants their McCain back
Over the years, Sen. John McCain has been known to change his views every now and then. Environmentalists hope this is one of those times.
Now that McCain has dispatched a conservative primary challenger and Arizona appears set to send him back to the Senate, climate advocates are optimistic they will soon regain one of their biggest champions.
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The former GOP presidential candidate played a central role in forcing votes on cap-and-trade legislation during the George W. Bush administration. But McCain has been AWOL on the issue since losing the White House almost two years ago to Barack Obama, leaving his former allies without a powerful Republican voice as they sank on Capitol Hill.
Several environmentalists said they understand McCain's political situation back home meant he couldn't be a leader as he fought tea party favorite J.D. Hayworth. Even so, and despite the likelihood the window on cap and trade has closed, they're hoping they get him back.
"There's something to be said for making sure he lived for another day," said David Jenkins, government affairs director at Republicans for Environmental Protection. "He's not going to do very much for the climate fight if he's sitting at home and J.D. Hayworth is sitting in the Senate."
McCain's climate record is well-established. He latched onto the issue after losing the 2000 presidential nod to Bush. To the dismay of GOP leaders, the Arizona senator demanded floor votes twice on legislation capping carbon emissions and, after losing badly, pledged to keep up the fight, just as he did on campaign finance reform.
"Over time, we will not be elected Miss Congeniality in the Senate, but we will win," he said in April 2006.
But McCain backed away again after losing the White House in 2008. He lashed out when President Obama's first budget blueprint assumed billions of dollars in new revenue from passage of climate legislation. He dubbed the House's cap-and-trade bill a "monstrosity" because of the last-minute deals that Democrats cut to gain its passage.
And McCain repeatedly poked Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) by demanding that climate negotiations consider revisiting the Obama administration's decision to shutter the Yucca Mountain nuclear waste repository in the Nevada desert.
Multiple sources said McCain reassured them in private that he still believed in the climate issue. But he said he wouldn't be at the front of the pack if Obama didn't take the lead himself. And that meant staying on the sidelines even as two of his closest Senate friends, Joe Lieberman (I-Conn.) and Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), struggled to find consensus.
"If Obama had been serious about this bill, the thing to do would have been to approach McCain and say, 'We want to honor you on this,'" said an environmentalist in the middle of the climate debate. "But the notion John McCain was going to turn out in traffic with John Kerry and Lindsey Graham? Of course he'd say no to that. Anyone would say no to that."
McCain spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan insisted last week that the senator wouldn't change his tune on climate change now that he's beaten Hayworth and moved on to the general election campaign against Democrat Rodney Glassman.
"Sen. McCain's position remains the same: emphasizing the importance of nuclear power," she said. "And obviously the key components of a real nuclear power program are reprocessing and storage, which this administration has failed to focus on, specifically by closing Yucca Mountain."
Conservatives doubt McCain will come back to Washington next year espousing his previous views on climate change, including support for cap and trade.


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Nothing adds more fun to a party than karaoke. Watch your guests get involved. Watch them roar with laughter. They will go home with wonderful memories of the fun they had. Even people who don't like to sing will admit they had a blast watching others sing or dance their way through the classics.
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Karaoke doesn't live up to its potential if your guests can't sing along with their favorite tunes. At Diamond Dan Productions, we offer 50,000+ karaoke songs at your party or wedding: including Top 40, Oldies, Classic Rock, Country, and more!
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We know how to keep a party rolling. Our emcees have lively personalities that will help spice up the show. We know how to make sure people are engaged and having a good time. Your party guests will leave humming their favorite tunes of the night and chuckling over each other's friendly performances.
At Diamond Dan Productions, we have been providing karaoke and other services to our customers for more than 25 years. We have the experience you need to make your party a guaranteed hit. Just ask around any of the communities across Central Illinois, including Peoria, Pekin, Washington, Morton and beyond, and you'll see how much people rave about our services.
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Teeny Tiny Master Healer (gold)
$ 46.00
Clear Quartz is known to be the most popular crystal for healing. It's nickname is the "master healer." It is used to cleanse, focus and amplify energy levels in the body. It helps to realign and focus the mind, body and spirit toward clear goals. Harmonizes all the chakras.
Crystals have been cleansed with sage and have been handled with love.
Also available in sterling silver.
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LWE NYD will see a range of the finest sonic buccaneers head to Tobacco Dock for a hedonistic celebration of 2016, and a look into the future. It's about time we told you whose playing in each of the rooms, and what the various hosts have cooked up. Plus we're ecstatic to have Guti (live) back at Tobacco Dock, this time in the Car Park.
Great Gallery – Carl Cox & Friends.
When Carl Cox was last at Tobacco Dock he did the equivalent of 11kilometres, whilst grooving away, toe tapping, and fist pumping behind the decks. With his long lasting Space residency ending this summer, it's been clear to see just how much people from all over the world love Carl, and we're honoured to have him back at Tobacco Dock for LWE NYD. Joining him underneath the wooden rafters, and glass wrap of the Great Gallery will be long time friend and fine selector Jon Rundell. Manc lads Solardo will bring their uplifting and relentless tech house sound, whilst Circus's head honcho makes a long awaited debut at the East London venue. Not forgetting it's another first time into the Grade II listed venue for our special guest Dubfire.
Car Park – Hot Since 82 – Knee Deep In London
Knee Deep In Sound has become a stamp for quality music, and amazing events across the globe. Knee Deep In London has been a growing legacy that has continued to scope out London's most iconic warehouse spaces. Hot Since 82's London events have brought many memories, from the intimate surroundings of Taken, to last year's Great Suffolk Street celebration. To the famous Car Park he's brought in Anna, Butch and Cristoph, plus Guti will play one of his incendiary live sets.
Little Gallery- andhim – Superfriends
andhim will bring there super fun, super sexy, and super smooth sound to the Little Gallery. A room that will suit their natures perfectly; it's qwerky, intimate, and your almost as close to the DJ booth that the crowd can stroke Tobias's lovely beard.


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Today's Everyday Fashion: Groundhog Day/
Do you ever feel like you're living in the movie Groundhog Day? Like every day you wake up and it's the same schedule, the same tasks, etc. I've been feeling like that so much with clothes lately! Everything feels familiar at the mall, and my closet feels like one huge repeat. Make no mistake - I am incredibly grateful to have a closet full of so many beautiful things - I just wish I felt capable of enjoying them like I should.
I'm planning another closet clean-out and a huge clothing sale of more than 100 items soon. And I decided to expand my horizons regarding what stores I shop at, so today's picks are from ASOS. I've only ever placed one order from the UK's version of F21/Urban, but I'm keeping an eye out for a future second try, and since they offer free shipping in both directions it's relatively risk-free.
As for today's look? It's my favorite striped shirt again, this time in a mix of sweet neutrals that I would love to wear to the office if I worked in one. (See more striped looks in this post.) What are your tips and tricks for making your closet feel new again?
Blazer: Spiegel c/o
Top: Forever 21, $20 (similar, similar, similar)
Skirt: Banana Republic, $35 (similar)
Pumps: Enzo Angiolini/Piperlime, $32 (similar, similar, similar)
Purse: Calvin Klein/Saks Off Fifth, $130 (similar)
Earrings: My Stella & Dot, $34
Rings: My Stella & Dot, $39
Watch: Michael Kors, Santa
Bracelets: My Stella & Dot 1, 2


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Unbalanced Peering and the Whole Story Behind the Verizon/Cogent Dispute
In an article this week on GigaOM, the authors "blame Verizon" for failing to add more ports to accommodate the growing volume of traffic coming from Cogent Communications, another bandwidth provider. Unfortunately, GigaOM didn't have the full story.
Routine business dispute
The authors accurately describe settlement-free peering as "essentially an arrangement between two bandwidth providers where they send and receive traffic from each other for free." It goes on to say: "the logic is that the data sent from one network to another is reciprocated."
What the article doesn't say, however, is that Cogent is not compliant with one of the basic and long-standing requirements for most settlement-free peering arrangements: that traffic between the providers be roughly in balance. When the traffic loads are not symmetric, the provider with the heavier load typically pays the other for transit (see our ex parte from the 2010 Comcast/Level3 spat for more info on peering and transit agreements). This isn't a story about Netflix, or about Verizon "letting" anybody's traffic deteriorate. This is a fairly boring story about a bandwidth provider that is unhappy that they are out of balance and will have to make alternative arrangements for capacity enhancements, just like any other interconnecting ISP.
Readily available solutions
Verizon offers a number of readily available solutions for interconnecting providers who send significantly more traffic than they receive from Verizon's networks. Solutions such as cloud, hosting, Partner Ports and others are designed specifically to provide a cost-effective means of delivering very large volumes of out-of-balance traffic. Other large streaming video providers (and/or network service providers carrying such one-way traffic) are already taking advantage of these solutions and seeing immediate benefits. These solutions are available to today to Cogent, Netflix and any other content or network service provider with similar traffic profiles.
Repeat offender
Most commercial peering/transit arrangements are able to be resolved without controversy. Unfortunately, some parties prefer to grandstand, repeatedly creating a perceived crisis that could affect Internet users in order to attract the attention of policymakers and gain leverage in negotiations (we would add that this type of behavior is detrimental to a free, well-functioning Internet, and the tech media should know better than to encourage it). Policymakers should recognize that the Internet interconnection market has seen very few major disruptions over the past twenty years, and should allow it to continue evolving to serve the needs of Internet users and content and service providers alike.


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The World' First Travel Agency is Super Old
The idea of traveling is a modern concept, one not imagined before a man named Thomas Cook first opened a travel agency on July 5, 1841. It was the start of a dream that turned into a standard of living.
It wasn't that folks didn't migrate prior to Cook. Homo Sapiens have been moving about the Earth for hundreds of thousands of years.
This concept of enriching one's life with travel is a new one, afforded by modern travel technology, but started by the man who created the tourism agency.
That wasn't all. Thomas Cook was the man behind many other facets of modern-day tourism, like travel package-deals, and traveler's checks.
Cooks creation of the first travel agency remains one of the most important catalysts to our modern paradigm cultural exchange. It all started with a walking day dream…
A Cabinet Maker's Fantasy
Cooks beginnings read like something from the Bible. He worked with wood, believed in God, and saw a better future for humanity. Cook, a former Baptist preacher, believed that booze and poor education were to blame for the misguided lives of modern Sapiens.
The first time the idea of travel came into the picture for him was on the way to a temperance meeting. He was walking along the road thinking about better ways to travel.
This was in 1841. We'd had trains since 1804, but those were more for moving freight, not people. By the time Cook arrived at the meeting, he'd worked it all out in his head.
He announced his idea to the participants; they should employ a train to cart them to the meeting place.
The next month, on July 5, 1841, Cook's fantasy was a reality. A train carried 500 passengers 12 miles to the meeting place.
This first train planted the seed. Of the experience, Cook said, "thus was struck the keynote of my excursions, and the social idea grew upon me."
First Tours
Picking up on the same idea, Cook arranged trains to transport folks to temperance meetings and religious schools around England.
Cook's trains allowed thousands to travel distances they hadn't ever considered, for the first time ever. The investments didn't make Cook money, but each investment pushed his idea of helping people travel.
In 1845, he organized a much larger trip from his hometown of Market Harborough, England to Liverpool, about 145 miles. It was what we would call a day-trip in modern times.
Cook booked passengers for the trip and offered two classes of travel. He even supplemented the trip with a pamphlet, with information on their route and destination. The people loved it.
Europe and Beyond
In 1855, Cook organized his first tour to Paris. At first, he attempted to cross the English channel, but the channel operators would have none of it. They denied his requests.
Instead, Cook took his tour from Harwich, England to Antwerp, Belgium. The detour proved a mixed blessing. They traveled from Belgium to Paris, stopping along the way to see all the sights. He had officially begun a European tourism business.
In the early 1860s, Cook expanded his tours of Europe to include Switzerland and Italy, adding hotel stays and meals to the packages.
Then in 1865, he set up tours to North America, covering 4,000 miles of rail lines. Only one year later, in 1869, he toured the Nile. Thomas Cook was intent on developing his traveling business.
Every trip, every tour, only served to lure him farther from home.
Beyond Beyond
In 1872 Thomas Cook left home for eight months to tour the world. At age 63, with a small complement of travelers, Cook crossed the Atlantic to America.
They crossed the new country by rail, from New York to San Francisco. Then they set sail for Japan, well, set steam on a steam-powered vessel, touring the countries Asia.
Most of his group departed for England once they reached Cairo, but Cook himself traveled inland through Egypt, Palestine, Turkey, Greece, Italy, and France, until he made it home again.
Subsequent Cook world tours would travel to Australia and New Zealand instead of China, but his dream was full steam at that point.
Every trip would get better; the Cook reputation would grow. Today the Thomas Cook Travel Company remains the oldest in the world. The name Thomas Cook shows up in more travel related places than any other brand.
It all started on a July day, the 5th, 1841, with an idea in one person's head.


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A.L. Kennedy is the author of six novels and six short story collections, including Night Geometry and the Garscadden Trains, Day, and, most recently, The Blue Book. Kennedy, who lives in Glasgow, will be guest editing The Afterword all this week. She wrote all her posts while in Canada last week for, among other things, The International Festival of Authors.
Long ago, I used to lead writing workshops all over the west of Scotland. Dodging in and out of community centres, hospitals, prisons, town halls and libraries soon introduced me to more bacteria and viruses than my tiny body could handle. As a consequence, I seemed to have at least a severe head cold for approximately eight years. Things unknown to science lurked in my sinuses. Then I started to earn more and more of my living by sitting around at home and writing material which people were kind enough to publish and inflict on an over-tolerant public. This meant that I got soft. I became accustomed to breathing without even tiny wheezes, hacks or rattles and occasionally being able to jog upstairs.
And then my travels began again. Perversely, in an age of instantaneous internet voyages, the author is expected to patter about the globe in feverish attempts to promote his or her work in person. This is even more perverse, given that many writers — if they're honest — are aware the written, rather than spoken, word is a key form of expression for them precisely because it spares others the trauma of having them about the house, or distressingly in the vicinity. Of course, all forms of travel are just sources of infection. Aeroplanes are simply inflammable tubes full of other people's breath, buses and trains aren't swabbed down with disinfectant nearly often enough, cabs don't bear thinking about and amateur lift-givers are — naturally — kind and splendid, but also likely to offer lifts to all manner of dogs, children, strangers and relatives with tickly coughs, snuffles and the overlooked early symptoms of dengue fever. Every country, neighbourhood and hotel room has its own virulent micro climate just waiting to afflict the wandering author. Add in odd meals, missed meals, late nights, early mornings, stress, a marked lack of access to fruits and vegetables and the impracticality of travelling wrapped in plastic or baking foil and you will be able to guess how often I am felled by niggling, middling or frankly horrible illnesses on the road.
If I had a pound for each event I have attended while poorly then I would be able to afford the mobile hospital/isolation unit I so clearly need. Although — as we know — exposure to different micro organisms can provide a vital boost to ones immune system, having legions of them romp about all over you from every angle can be wearing. I would prefer to travel in a large glass jar. With a small curtained area for snoozing and privacy.
I do have tips for those of you — secret agents, international assassins, drug mules, carrier pigeons — who travel more than is prudent. Hand washing and/or sanitizing is a cheap and effective preventative measure. (Remember to moisturize, too — or you'll be operating with painfully red claws by the end of a week.) Carrying local dried fruit and nuts for your sustenance can be possible, even if you can't lug round a bushel of healthy fresh-picked carrots. Much of the hype around multivitamins and minerals is borderline voodoo when you look at the real science involved, but massive doses of vitamin C can at least produce a feeling of satisfying smugness. Miso soup seems a good tonic and flattens my jetlag. And it tastes nice. Beyond that, if you're appearing before an audience do try to cough at least a little or cultivate a limp, even when you're feeling fine — it's kind of expected that you should look pale and interesting.


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December 4 2017
Daniel Hissel received the Blondel Medal
Prof. Daniel Hissel, project member, was awarded with the SEE André Blondel Medal, for his numerous and outstanding scientific contributions in the field of Fuel Cell systems
February 2017, high impact publication:
Publication of the fastest photonic brain
Published in Physical Review X; Selected for a Physics Viewpoint by APS (there are 100 such selected articles among the 18,000 published every year by the American Physical Society); Also selected for the Research Highlights in Nature
Illustration for time-space transposed processing of delay-based Reservoir Computing;
Schematic of the photonic setup.
May 18th -21st 2016, international workshop:
"BEYOND! von Neumann bottleneck - Brain Inspired Computing", Max Planck Institute, Berlin, Germany
An international workshop at Max Planck conference center in Berlin, Harnack House, jointly organized by the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics (Prof. Stuart Parkin) in Halle, and the FEMTO-ST Institute (Dr. Daniel Brunner) in Besançon.
November 2-3 2015, international workshop:
"Dynamical systems and brain-inspired information processing", Besançon, France
The third edition of an international workshop focused on Reservoir Computing, however also strongly open onto side research activities. It is jointly organized by the LMB (Dr. Juan-Pablo Ortega and Dr. Lyudmila Grigoryeva) and FEMTO-ST (Prof. Laurent Larger) in Besançon.


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From Exodus 1947 to Lampedusa: Refugees, illegality and the Mediterranean | Part One
Part one
How long have immigrants been labelled 'illegal'? The slogan 'no one is illegal' has been taken up by pro-migrant groups, especially those campaigning on behalf of asylum seekers. It is used to highlight the common humanity of those placed beyond the law with regard to their national status. The children's character, Paddington Bear, who came to England as a stowaway on board a ship from 'Darkest Peru', has become 'amongst immigration lawyers a walking, talking, ursine pin-up for humanising our work'. Yet had Paddington (who arrived in the London docks in the 1950s) come just half a century earlier, he would have had no need to enter as an 'illegal immigrant'. Indeed, until the late nineteenth century onwards (and especially since the First World War), the introduction of border controls linking the act of migration with legal legitimacy was unthinkable. If the idea of 'open borders' is now regarded as utopian, for the vast majority of human history it has been the natural order of the world.
In the case of 'illegal immigration', the terminology is relatively new - it came into bureaucratic use during the 1930s. Once coined, however, it developed its own life beyond the time and place of its origins. And if its linguistic coinage owed much to the unique situation of Britain's Palestinian Mandate and a specific local colonial crisis, it had predecessors in Western countries of immigration. These can be identified, for example, amongst those who aimed to stop the entry of 'undesirable aliens' to Britain or likewise Americans seeking protection against 'the scourings of foreign disease, pauperism and crime'. What such descriptions had in common was the de-humanising of migrants.
What was innovative during and immediately after the Nazi era was the type of location where the struggles over migrant restriction took place. It has been suggested by Matthew Gibney that in the twenty first century the implementation of immigration controls has shifted in location:
The traditional view of entrance as something operated at the state's borders, train stations and airports by domestic immigration officials increasingly appears quaint and outdated. It is now beyond the boundaries of the state, on the high seas, in foreign countries, or in vaguely defined territories that exclusion from admission occurs.
In 2015 TripAdvisor produced a list of the top ten beaches in Europe. The first three were in the Mediterranean with Rabbit Beach, Lampedusa, ranked the highest. As is happening in other parts of the 'blue route', the misery of migration at its most desperate is coinciding in time and place with the pursuit of tourist pleasure. Affluent Western visitors are thus witnessing the victims of dictatorship, failed states, civil war, ethnic cleansing, religious intolerance and basic deprival of life chances.
There are no definitive figures for those who have died migrating to Europe using the Mediterranean. Using media and NGOs, the monitoring group Fortress Europe argued that between 1993 and 2011, close to 20,000 died en route. Since then the numbers have gone up alarmingly - estimated at 3419 for 2014 and higher still in 2015 and in 2016. The problem of using such information, however, is that 'Some places receive more... attention than others because they have developed into "border theatres"'. Of all these, Lampedusa is the most prominent example. Without its connection to boat migrants, 'Lampedusa would be just one of the many minor Italian islands living on fishing and tourism'. Its recent connection to migration began slowly and then transformed the island. At times migrants have outnumbered residents (5,800) and an infrastructure involving large scale policing and humanitarian presence has also impacted on its everyday life.
It is often assumed that desperate migrants have chosen to come to Lampedusa as the closest piece of European land from Africa. Whilst in the early stages of this movement in the 1990s, there was an element of truth in such assumptions, it has not been the case subsequently. Since the early twenty-first century, it has been emphasised that migrants 'did not arrive of their own accord': they did not choose Lampedusa, but were directed and diverted there by the Italian authorities as a way of controlling the flows of migration which were both increasing in numbers and diversifying in places of origin.
Lampedusa has now become a 'border zone', a place which had 'essentially become detached from the rest of Italy'. It is, in the words of Alison Mountz, one of many 'stateless spaces'. The Sicilian Channel had, in effect, 'become an outer border of the European Union', and Lampedusa was the focal place/non-place where attempts were made at controlling the flow of unwanted 'illegal' migrants. Then on 3 October 2013, 'the world witnessed the most dramatic human disaster in the Mediterranean Sea since the Second World War'. A small fishing boat that have left Libya carrying over 500 largely Somalian and Eritrean refugees caught fire half a mile from Lampedusa. Only 155 survived. What happened on 3 October 2013 was far from the first instance of mass migrant death at sea, and it has been surpassed by even greater tragedies thereafter. The disaster led to an international outcry, led by the Pope who visited the island where both the survivors and the bodies of some of the dead had been brought. Pope Francis responded that 'The word disgrace comes to mind. It is a disgrace.' Whilst in 2014, through a variety of governmental and private initiatives, some 170,000 migrants were rescued in the Mediterranean, less than eighteen months after 3 October 2013, several similar boats capsized close to Lampedusa, with over 300 migrants feared drowned. These, however, were overshadowed by an even larger catastrophe in the spring of 2015. In May 2015, a boat carrying over 800 migrants sank leaving just 28 survivors.
There is a parallel in Lampedusa to Exodus 1947, the most famous ship carrying 'illegal immigrant' – over 4,000 of them - which the British and Palestinian authorities wanted to make into a salutary example as well as a specific case of refused entry to Palestine in summer 1947.In both cases security and economic fears have run alongside humanitarian concern. In the case of the Jewish 'illegal' immigration, the British tried (and failed) to impress the world that those embarking on such journeys, and especially the organisers, were doing so at the expense of genuine, legitimate refugees. Today, similar dynamics are at work with the focus of European bodies and politicians being on the 'criminal' smugglers and the need to curtail their activities, including the destruction of boats used to carry the migrants. If those used to transport Jewish migrants in and after the Nazi era were larger vessels well beyond their useful life, many of those today are tiny. They are like the ones 'children used to play with on the beach. They are really just toys.'


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Awalnya nyoba masakan ini karena aku suka banget sama Hen katsu don di Sushi Tei. Add the hen and cook dinner, turning once, until golden brown and cooked by means of, three to four minutes per aspect. This tasty Japanese-impressed Chicken Katsu will change into a household favourite! Carry the soaked rice and water to a boil over medium heat. Whereas the rice cooks, put together the rooster.
Next, put a big, non-stick frying pan on a medium warmth, add the 150ml oil adopted by the coated chicken breasts and cook for four mins. Cook dinner half of chicken till just cooked by means of and golden brown, about 2 minutes per facet. Place the flour combination, eggs and panko breadcrumbs into separate shallow dishes.
You might need to flip and check the colour of the chicken cutlets more usually for those who use the saucepan to make sure that the hen is cooked to the best doneness. Chicken Katsu is very similar to hen cutlet however for Japanese fashion cutlet, we enjoy it with So-su (ソース; Sauceâ€).
The chicken katsu is nice to have if you're feeling up for it and have the elements available, but this delicious stew can just as easily be enjoyed with out it. While I'm not evaluating this katsu curry to the three-in-1, it does have comparable qualities: spicy curry sauce and crispy rooster all served with sticky rice.
Put the remaining substances in a pan. First coat the rooster within the flour, then the egg, finishing with the breadcrumbs. Heat the remaining 1 tablespoon oil in the pan over medium heat. Add the rooster and fry over moderately high warmth, turning once, till golden and crispy, 3 minutes per facet.


text: Share: Comments Print September 25, 2013 at 9:57 AM Nokia boss Elop's Microsoft payout complicated by divorce Posted by Brier Dudley A divorce is apparently complicating the controversial $25 million golden parachute that former Nokia boss Stephen Elop will receive as part of Microsoft's buyout of the Finnish company's phone business. Stephen Elop at Nokia World 2011 in London. AP photo by Sang Tan. The $25 million payment — closing out Elop's contract with Nokia — isn't too unusual in the U.S. He may get an even richer contract if he's selected to replace Steve Ballmer as Microsoft's chief executive. But the payment is a big controversy in Finland, which isn't accustomed to fortunes being showered on outgoing executives. It also adds insult to injury in a country shaken by the dissolution of its marquee company. Elop and Nokia Chairman Risto Siilasmaa have discussed canceling or reducing the payout, according to a report in Finnish paper Helsingin Sanomat. But the adjustment is complicated by the pending divorce of Elop from his wife, Nancy, the paper reported. Even if Elop were to give up the bonus, he may still have to pay her half of the payment that was granted while they were still married. Stephen Elop filed a petition for divorce on Aug. 1 in King County Superior Court, where the case is scheduled to continue into 2014. Lawyers involved in the case did not return calls for comment. At the time of the divorce filing, Elop and Ballmer were negotiating the $7.2 billion sale of Nokia's phone and services business to Microsoft, where he was formerly the executive in charge of the productivity software group. Elop will return to Microsoft when the deal closes, probably in early 2014. The Elops, who attended the same engineering school in Canada and have five children, have continued to keep their primary home in the Seattle area. However, they recently put their Redmond mansion up for sale, for $5 million. Comments | Topics: ballmer, divorce, lumia


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Welcome to the new and improved dannywhitecotton.com. One fine spring day as I was getting ready to fire off some e-mails to prospective venues asking them to check out my page and perhaps schedule me to play some songs for their fine patrons, I decided to update my site. Just in the most mundane way possible in hitting update to some plug-ins that were on the site. This was a mistake.
I then had a blank site. Just white screen. Godaddy folks saw the same. I spent a lot of time on building and designing that site. I eventually got my page back... kinda. You couldn't go to any other pages than the home page so it made it essentially useless. So after shopping around I wound up here at square space where everything just seemed to work perfect. I hope you like it and stay tuned for all the fun updates I can do now : ) Without the website coming to an end.


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It has been several months since I first asked the question: What's the deal with Gerber? I had been disappointed in their absence from the Blade Show, and combined with grumblings from many of you all about quality control and other issues, I called them out.
Gerber responded, I had the opportunity to do an extended interview with one of their Marketing managers, a man by the name of Andrew Gritzbaugh. You can read more about the interview at the above link, but the short version of the story is that Gerber has dramatically increased their domestic knife production, and Andrew sent us 4 of their Portland, OR- made blades for testing.
I sent the Ghost-strike to David, the Gator Premium to Nathan, and I kept the Strong Arm and Propel Auto. We have been testing these knives extensively all summer, and at David's suggestion we are going to run them all together in the incredibly creatively-named "Gerber Week", starting November 2nd. One each morning, and a final-thought editorial on Friday. I look forward to bringing you all the results of our testing.
To whet your appetite, our Editor Emeritus, Chris Dumm reviewed the Gerber Reflex Mini back in 2013. Give it a read and look for our new reviews next week.


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LGBT Festival Held in Seoul
Korea is such a conservative country.
Since long ago, people have used the honorific form to older people.
Elders like younger people listening to their words and behaving to their will.
People with a challenging and enterprising spirit cannot success.
Most rich people in Korea are within the fence of conservative people.
The current South Korean president is Park, Geun-hye.
Her father was also a president.
Her incompetence was not an obstacle for her to become a president.
Conservative people elected her
as a president as they were lost in old memories of liking his dad.
This country is messy and out of order now.
In such conservative country,
Korea Queer Culture Festival, a festival for LGBTs, was held.
It is hard to understand the elders' cry that this country,
hardly-rebuilt by toiling day and night, will be ruined due to homosexuality.
However, due to a trouble with
conservative people, this festival had to be stopped times.
Is homosexuality really ruining the country?
For them, homosexuality is disgusting and aversive, as they wear Hanbok,
the traditional Korean dress, show up at the festival, and
cry in front of homosexuals, holding a picket like that.
South Korea is still conservative.


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Allen Morris is a photographer based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. He received his M.F.A. in Studio Art in 2015 from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, B.F.A. in Applied Visual Arts in 2005 from Oregon State University and an Associates Degree from Eastern Oregon University in 2002. He makes photographs that focus on the relationship between humans and their environments with a particular interest on the influence of place on identity. His work has been exhibited in galleries in the United States and internationally. He is an active member of the Postcard Collective and the Society for Photographic Education.
Allen is currently Associate Lecturer of Photography at the Peck School of Arts at the University of Wisconsin - Milwaukee instructing courses in introductory, intermediate, and advanced concepts and methods within the medium. He has instructed photography courses at Metropolitan Community College in Omaha, Nebraska and at the University of Nebraska – Lincoln.


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text: Humanities › History & Culture Harlem Renaissance Women African American Women Dreaming in Color Share Flipboard Email Print Fotosearch/Getty Images History & Culture Women's History Important Figures History Of Feminism Key Events Women's Suffrage Women & War Laws & Womens Rights Feminism & Pop Culture Feminist Texts American History African American History African History Ancient History and Culture Asian History European History Genealogy Inventions Latin American History Medieval & Renaissance History Military History The 20th Century View More by Jone Johnson Lewis Jone Johnson Lewis has a Master of Divinity, and is a humanist clergy member and certified transformational coach. She has been involved in the women's movement since the late 1960s. Updated March 11, 2018 You may have heard of Zora Neale Hurston or Bessie Smith -- but do you know of Georgia Douglas Johnson? Augusta Savage? Nella Larsen? These -- and dozens more -- were women of the Harlem Renaissance. Calling Dreams The right to make my dreams come trueI ask, nay, I demand of life,Nor shall fate's deadly contrabandImpede my steps, nor countermand.Too long my heart against the groundHas beat the dusty years around,And now, at length, I rise, I wake!And stride into the morning break!Georgia Douglas Johnson, 1922 The Context It was the early twentieth century, and the world had already changed tremendously compared to the world of their parents and grandparents. Slavery had ended in America more than half a century earlier. While African Americans still faced tremendous economic and social obstacles in both the northern and southern states, there were more opportunities than there had been. After the Civil War (and beginning slightly before, especially in the North), education for black Americans -- and black and white women -- had become more common. Many were not able to attend or complete school, but a substantial few were able not only to attend and complete elementary or secondary school, but college. Professional education opened up to blacks and women. Some black men became professionals: physicians, lawyers, teachers, businessmen. Some black women also found professional careers as teachers, librarians. These families in turn saw to the education of their daughters. Some saw the returning black soldiers from World War I as an opening of opportunity for African Americans. Black men had contributed to the victory, too. Surely America would now welcome these black men into full citizenship. Black Americans were moving out of the rural South, and into the cities and towns of the industrial North, in the "Great Migration." They brought "black culture" with them: music with African roots and story-telling. The general culture began adopting elements of that black culture as its own: this was the Jazz Age! Hope was rising -- though discrimination, prejudice and closed doors on account of race and sex were by no means eliminated. But there were new opportunities. It seemed more worthwhile to challenge those injustices: perhaps the injustices could be eliminated, or at least made less. Harlem Renaissance Flowering In this environment, a flowering of music, fiction, poetry and art in African American intellectual circles came to be called the Harlem Renaissance. A Renaissance, like the European Renaissance, in which moving forward while going back to roots generated tremendous creativity and action. Harlem, because one of the centers was the neighborhood of New York City called Harlem, by this time predominantly peopled by African Americans, more of whom were daily arriving from the South. It was not just in New York -- though New York City and Harlem remained at the center of the more experimental aspects of the movement. Washington, DC, Philadelphia, and to a lesser extent Chicago were other northern US cities with large established black communities with enough educated members to "dream in color" too. The NAACP, founded by white and black Americans to further the rights of "colored people," established its journal they called Crisis, edited by W. E. B. Du Bois. Crisis took on the political issues of the day affecting black citizens. And Crisis also published fiction and poetry, with Jessie Fauset as the literary editor. The Urban League, another organization working to serve city communities, published Opportunity. Less explicitly political and more consciously cultural, Opportunity was published by Charles Johnson; Ethel Ray Nance served as his secretary. The political side of Crisis was complemented by the conscious striving for a black intellectual culture: poetry, fiction, art that reflected the new race consciousness of "The New Negro." Exploring the human condition as African Americans experienced it: love, hope, death, racial injustice, dreams. Who Were the Women? Most of the figures well known as part of the Harlem Renaissance were men: W.E.B. DuBois, Countee Cullen and Langston Hughes are names known to most serious students of American history and literature today. And, because many opportunities that had opened up for black men had also opened up for women of all colors, African American women too began to "dream in color" -- to demand that their view of the human condition be part of the dream, too. Jessie Fauset not only edited the literary section of The Crisis, she also hosted evening gatherings for the black intellectuals of Harlem: artists, thinkers, writers. Ethel Ray Nance and her roommate Regina Anderson also hosted gatherings in their home in New York City. Dorothy Peterson, a teacher, used her father's Brooklyn home for literary salons. In Washington, DC, Georgia Douglas Johnson's "freewheeling jumbles" were Saturday night "happenings"for black writers and artists in that city. Regina Anderson also arranged for events at the Harlem public library where she served as an assistant librarian. She read new books by exciting black authors, and wrote up and distributed digests to spread interest in the works. These women were integral parts of the Harlem Renaissance for these roles they played. As organizers, editors, decision-makers, they helped publicize, support and thus shape the movement. But they also participated more directly. Jessie Fauset not only was literary editor of The Crisis and hosted salons in her home. She arranged for the first publication of work by the poet Langston Hughes. Fauset also wrote articles and novels herself, not only shaping the movement from the outside, but being part of the movement herself. The larger circle included writers like Dorothy West and her younger cousin, Georgia Douglas Johnson, Hallie Quinn and Zora Neale Hurston, journalists like Alice Dunbar-Nelson and Geraldyn Dismond, artists like Augusta Savage and Lois Mailou Jones, singers like Florence Mills, Marian Anderson, Bessie Smith, Clara Smith, Ethel Waters, Billie Holiday, Ida Cox, Gladys Bentley. Many of the women addressed not only race issues, but gender issues, too: what it was like to live as a black woman. Some addressed cultural issues of "passing" or expressed the fear of violence or the barriers to full economic and social participation in American society. Some celebrated black culture -- and worked to creatively develop that culture. Nearly forgotten are a few white women who also were part of the Harlem Renaissance, as writers, patrons, supporters. We know more about the black men like W.E.B. du Bois and white men like Carl Van Vechten who supported black women artists of the time, than about the white women who were also involved. These included the wealthy "dragon lady" Charlotte Osgood Mason, writer Nancy Cunard, and Grace Halsell, journalist. Ending the Renaissance The Depression made the literary and artistic life more difficult, even as it hit black communities even harder economically than it hit white communities. White men were given even more preference when jobs became scarce. Some of the Harlem Renaissance figures looked for better-paying, more secure work. America grew less interested in African American art and artists, stories and story-tellers. By the 1940s, many of the creative figures of the Harlem Renaissance were already being forgotten by all but a few scholars specializing narrowly in the field. Rediscovery? Alice Walker's rediscovery of Zora Neale Hurston in the 1970s helped turn public interest back towards this fascinating group of writers, male and female. Marita Bonner was another nearly-forgotten writer of the Harlem Renaissance and beyond. She was a Radcliffe graduate who wrote in many of the black periodicals in the decade of the Harlem Renaissance, publishing more than 20 stores and some plays. She died in 1971, but her work was not collected until 1987. Today, scholars are working on finding more of the works growing of the Harlem Renaissance, rediscovering more of the artists and writers. The works found are a reminder not only of the creativity and vibrancy of those women and men who participated -- but they're also a reminder that the work of creative people can be lost, even if not explicitly suppressed, if the race or the sex of the person is the wrong one for the time. Perhaps that's why the Harlem Renaissance artists can speak so eloquently to us today: the need for more justice and more recognition are not so different than they were. Into their art, their writings, their poetry, their music, they poured their spirits and hearts. The women of the Harlem Renaissance -- except perhaps for now Zora Neale Hurston -- have been more neglected and forgotten than their male colleagues, then and now. To get acquainted with more of these impressive women, visit the biographies of Harlem Renaissance women. Bibliography Harlem Renaissance and Beyond: Literary Biographies of 100 Black Women Writers 1900-1945: Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph. Paperback, 1990.Harlem's Glory: Black Women Writing 1900-1950: Lorraine Elena Roses and Ruth Elizabeth Randolph, editors.Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Cheryl A. Wall, 1995.Women of the Harlem Renaissance. Lisa Beringer McKissack. 2007.Miss Anne in Harlem: The White Women of the black Renaissance. 2013. 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