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August 30, 2005
splurging on summer afternoon tea
While Clement was busy doing fabulous write-ups (starting from here) for the July edition of IMBB with the theme of Tea, I had a chance to have afternoon tea at an upscale hotel Park Hyatt Tokyo earlier this month. I had eaten at one of the restaurants of the towering hotel in the midst of metropolitan skyscrapers ages ago, but it was my first time having a seat at The Peak Lounge rising up at the 41st floor.
On that scorching hot day in one weekend, my friend N and I arrived a little late for our 2 o'clock reservation. The place wasn't all the way full, but quite a few people were there enjoying their drinks and treats.
Our table wasn't by the window which was a bit shame, but we didn't care that much - after all, we were there to have tea in front of us and not the hazy sky outside. And we weren't even eating with a date looking down the beautiful night view.
Soon after we were seated, our tea sets came. Their afternoon tea menu includes a selection of hot and iced teas accompanied by scones with jam and cream, finger sandwiches, and assorted small pastries, as well as small bites taken from trays. We knew this was going to be a big "tea" so we made it our lunch-cum-tea. (In my case, actually, this was my "breakfast" of the day as I hadn't eaten much before I came.)
Now there are quite a few places where you can have this sort of afternoon tea in Tokyo, and what particularly draw my attention with Park Hyatt tea was that you can have as many kinds of teas on the menu as you want; they serve six different kinds of hot teas and four kinds of iced tea drinks, and you can try all of them if you want to. It's not unusual for a tea room to serve you a bottomless cup of tea, but maybe not bottomless pots of multiple kinds of teas - so we were really excited about it.
Now we began with our first pot of the day; a tea called Rock Wood from Sri Lanka for N and Antu Valley from Nepal for myself. Mine looked paler than most regular teas and tasted indeed pretty light with a hint of smokiness, making it a good thirst-quencher.
(Click on a small image for enlarged view)
Scones. I would have been happier had there been a more generous serving of cream, but it was alright, specially when they had raspberry (or mixed berry, I couldn't quite tell) rather than staple strawberry jam, which I don't like.
Elegant bites from a tray that a waitress brought to our table. Jellied "Insalata Caprese" with a cherry tomato quater, pesto, and fresh mozzarella cheese, and a fig slice with prosciutto. I particularly liked the fig with a subtle flavor of olive oil.
Also from the tray were muscat jelly and orange panna cotta. Both were good except the panna cotta had a slight anise-y flavor (I could live with it, but wouldn't want a second).
N had other two glasses of these: one was blueberry jelly and the other was kuzu-kiri (Japanese arrowroot starch cake) with maple syrup, both of which were good.
Back to our tea plates, we had three small sandwiches for each. I casually popped the egg-salmon one into my mouth and gasped - it was strikingly good. I could call it the best egg sandwich I have ever eaten, but it was too small a bite for me to really declare that... must go back and try some more, perhaps.
In the course of eating all this, we had and finished another pot each of tea. This time N had Ruhuna, another Sri Lanka tea, while I had India's classic Darjeeling, which was reasonably good. Now we decided that it was time to move on to iced teas, which they call "iced tea refreshments" at the Lounge. Contrary to their rather standard selection of premium leaf teas with which you'd really enjoy the respective tea itself, their line of iced tea drinks had a bit of playful touch, offering an interesting combinations of teas and fruits juice - kind of like cocktails, but minus alcohol.
Our first choice of iced drink were: Oriental Delight, bitter melon tea mixed with passion fruit juice and brown sugar syrup, for N; and Pink Submarine, a mixture of lychee tea, pink grapefruit juice, and raspberry puree for myself. With the bright and light scarlet color, my "submarine" was really light and pleasantly acescent, while N's bitter melon (goya) tea was fun to taste - sweet but noticeably bitter. By the way, as you may have guessed, the teas were quite big; they must have contained well more than 20 ounces, which is plenty for a glass of tea in our standard in Japan.
While enjoying the iced refreshments, we nibbled some sweets from our plate. We had small slices of fruit cake and cheesecake (that's my guess), and lemon cookies with lemon curd. I liked the cookie - it was nicely tart and sweet, thanks to the curd.
Some more bites from the strolling tray: sesame grissini or breadstick and crostata or a thin cracker with dried fruits.
We thought our iced tea drinks were too big, but eventually we drank them up and got to our second round. I got Coral Reef Shake, a blend of ceylon tea, guava puree, and pineapple juice - wasn't that about the same combination as Mariposa Plantation Tea which I have just recently turned into gelatin dessert? Well, theirs was a "shake" and not in three layers, and although I'd opt for Mariposa's signature tea drink, this one was nice and refreshing itself.
The fourth of the iced tea drinks was called Iced Tea Punch which was a melange of dried fruit tea (that is what they say on the menu; I have little idea what kinds of "dried fruits" are in it), hirami lemon juice, and honey syrup. Loaded with lemon slices and tasting a bit like rosehip/hibiscus tea, the drink was super-refreshing - we agreed that this was a winner.
By this time the sun was going down low, but it was still pretty bright.
Actually, for the entire time we were at the table, the afternoon sun was dazzling and we were a bit worn out from it. There was of course the window shade pulled down, but it helped only a little. We would have enjoyed a whole lot more if it hadn't been that bright.
Anyways, we still stayed there for nearly three hours now, drinking, nibbling, chatting to catch up on each other's news. Then the last call came, so we had last small bites of our favorites from the tray - in my case muscat jelly, crostata, and fig with prosciutto.
We were pretty stuffed, but nevertheless had our last teas to wrap up the day: the last on the tea menu was Assam and Uva, both are good with milk.
We had somehow reserved one scone for each, which we wanted to have with our last "proper" cups of tea with milk. Their Assam was as strong as it should be, and that was a nice way to end our tea ceremony.
We left our table in the gathering twilight, totally satisfied with the quality time. It may not look like that, but the food wasn't really a lot - it sure was big, but not all that much as individual portions were tiny. But we did drink a lot; together we must have drunken over a gallon of tea in total over the course of some three hours, trying all of the teas on the menu on the day. I wouldn't say the set is cheap (3,300 yen or approx $30 per person, tax and service charge inclusive) but considering the quality and amount of things we had in the relaxing setting with reasonably good service, we thought it was well worth.
Now the only complaint we had after having a small luxury was the grim reality that we had to travel home on packed trains in the hot evening. Oh that was the way it was, I reckon.
16 comments:
hello chika! everything looks delectable, and for three hours of good food and company in a lovely setting, $30 is quite reasonable. but oh my goodness, that is a *lot* of tea :)
Posted by santos.
- 12:55 AM, August 30, 2005
That is HUGE and I think pretty good value for 3 hours of eating drinking and company :)
Thanks so much for sharing :)
Posted by clare eats
- 1:46 AM, August 30, 2005
that first photo is gorgeous, the colours are so vibrant and inviting :) mmmm
Posted by Catesa
- 2:41 AM, August 30, 2005
What is the curious graphic in the last photograph? It's charming, though puzzling.
Beautiful report. Thanks for this.
Posted by Tana
- 7:02 AM, August 30, 2005
Hello Chika, I wanted to let you know I mentioned your site and included a link to it on my food blog in San Francisco as part of Blog Day 2005. Love your site and especially the gorgeous photos! I couldn't find an email link, so I posted the message here.
Posted by Brett
- 3:47 PM, August 31, 2005
Beautiful pictures- thanks for sharing them! I love the Peak Lounge's tea and I think 3300 yen is really good value, especially for Tokyo. And now you've made me want to go again!
Posted by Amy
- 10:28 PM, August 31, 2005
I'm new to the blog and I saw yours and the pictures are amazing, everything looks so good and yummy. It makes me wish I was in Tokyo so I could go and get some tea and treats.
Posted by Giulia
- 1:12 PM, September 01, 2005
looks delicious! and very nice photos!!
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Posted by alice
- 2:29 AM, September 02, 2005
Your blog is a visual delight, and so elegant. Reading the current post makes me want to go out and buy a good white linen suit. :-)
Posted by Preest
- 7:31 AM, September 02, 2005
I need your help! We will be in Tokyo next week, and I want to get my hair straightened while I'm there. Would you be able to recommend a good place to go to? We'll be staying at the Park Hotel.
Onegaishimasu! ( ^_^ )
Posted by Jo-chan
- 2:04 PM, September 02, 2005
Hi Chika, that sounds like a fabulous way to spend an afternoon. I had no idea that going for tea is so much more than just that. Thanks for linking to my blog; I'm always inspired by your adventures!
Posted by Clement
- 2:57 PM, September 03, 2005
Wow. What an amazing afternoon tea. And gorgeous photos too!
Posted by AugustusGloop
- 8:40 PM, September 05, 2005
Hello Chika,
Afternoon tea is my favourite meal, and your pictures make me want to go and have it right now. I visited Japan earlier this year and was so impressed with all food presentation - so beautiful. Your site reminds me of all the good things I tried whilst there! I came back to England with a real taste for red bean paste and for green tea flavoured chocolate/cake/icecream etc. I look forward to returning one day!
Posted by Anna
- 11:46 AM, September 20, 2005
Hi, thank you all for leaving kind notes! I haven't managed to bring myself back to the Park Hyatt since this time, but I am hoping to sometime soon.
Tana - that was a coaster for an iced-tea glass. Funky, isn't it? :)
Posted by chika
- 9:25 AM, September 25, 2005
- kelli said...
That sounds amazing! I must go there when I'm in Tokyo. Thanks for telling us about it.
- 4:06 PM, October 09, 2005
Great post! I just love your blog! If you want you may watch my post about teapots. They are really beautiful....
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Swift and Sure: CIO Joe EngBy Baselinemag | Posted 2006-05-15 Print
A network upgrade lets banks around the globe communicate instantly. But is it secure? That's Joe Eng's other job.
If money makes the world go around, Joe Eng is both a spinmaster and a security guard. As chief information officer of the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication, or Swift, it's up to Eng to ensure that 7,800 banks and other financial institutions can communicate with each other on a global messaging network. At Swift, an industry-owned cooperative, Eng oversees an information-technology staff of 1,000 for a network that handles 12 million messages a day. One industry estimate pegs the value of the transactions the network helps facilitate at trillions of dollars a day. Eng declined to disclose the actual value, citing security concerns.
Since 2003, Eng has overseen the development and rollout of a $500 million, five-year network upgrade called SwiftNet. It allows banks and other organizations to exchange messages, including payment instructions from one bank to another, in real time. Previously, a financial institution sent messages to other institutions in a store-and-forward system; the message was stored until the recipient connected to the network to receive it. Now, the message is delivered immediately.
During the network upgrade, Eng and his team are working to tighten network security even more by requiring members to adopt public key infrastructure technology to exchange messages, and to use a Virtual Private Network box to secure messages as they travel via one of four telecommunications providers. Future plans include moving the Public Key Infrastructure certificate to a dedicated device, such as a smart card, USB memory sticks, or a PC that sits on a network and is connected to one or more Swift computers. The smart cards or memory sticks will be for small financial institutions, while the PCs are designed for large organizations.
To connect to SwiftNet, financial institutions use software provided by Swift that's available on Windows, Solaris or AIX platforms.
How important is security to this network? "It's completely critical," says Breffni McGuire, research area director for the Tower Group, a Needham, Mass., consultancy. "When banks are asked why they use Swift, besides global connectivity, it's because of security, availability and reliability. And that rolls up into resiliency."
Anna Maria Virzi, Baseline's executive editor, interviewed Eng in March to discuss how Swift ensures that the network remains secure and reliable, and the world's banks and financial transactions keep humming.
What security features are now in Swiftnet?
We introduced a whole new set of IP [Internet Protocol]-based technologies and, more important, brought about real-time messaging. In SwiftNet, we fully embraced the public key infrastructure, or PKI, technology. We felt that was the way the industry was going and it would give us a highly secure technology. It was also less complex than the security paradigms we used in the past.
What did PKI replace?
A symmetric model; if you and I were to communicate, we'd have to trade certificates or keys back and forth. And that always has to be coordinated. With PKI, because of the way the private and public keys work, you don't necessarily have to do that. A central directory does it.
Under the old setup, how often did a financial institution have to update keys?
A Typically, every six months. Each institution would maintain a set of keys, one for each institution that it exchanged messages with. This exchange of keys is not needed in the new PKI model.
What other measures did you take?
Another major security introduction in SwiftNet is at the network. We're not a network by itself. We're a financial messaging network that needs a network. Our customers connect to Swift using one of four providers: Colt Telecom [of London], Equant [of Amsterdam], AT&T and BT Infonet. We introduced a technology called a virtual private network box [from Juniper] that secures the network tunnel between a financial institution and Swift.
How does the VPN box work?
Both sender and receiver are connected to Swift, so the network is secured from sender to Swift, and then from Swift to the receiver. We went with hardware instead of software. This is tamper-resistant hardware, and it is highly secure. And it resides at a customer's site.
What's next for Swiftnet?
In the next release, the PKI [certificate] will reside on a hardware security module [HSM] instead of the computers used by SwiftNet members to send messages.
As part of the software on their SwiftNet computers, bigger customers will get a computer containing the PKI certificate from SafeNet [of Baltimore] that they can add to their local area network and will connect to their SwiftNet computers. Small customers can get a card from Axalto [of Amsterdam] or a token from SafeNet. A pilot phase began in April 2006; the feature will be made generally available by the end of the year.
Why were safenet and axalto selected?
A They are companies in the security technology industry. Via a technology evaluation performed by Swift, they were selected to provide the hardware security module.
How can you be sure these devices are secure?
These technologies, whether the VPN or HSM box, go through a certification process. We use the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) standard for
certifying security hardware to make sure the devices are tamper-resistant.
How so?
The FIPS certifications standard defines expectations on the strength of the device in terms of how difficult it is to intrude upon itwhether it be via computer or physical manipulation. For example, [the testers] see how much radiation the box can handle before it is disabled.
Have you ever had a breach?
None. Because we have these high expectations in security, we continue to invest not only in technologies but in the people and processes around security. I have a staff that focuses on security. They have to understand the algorithms: Are they up to date? What's the next advancement in supercomputing that can more quickly break the key links? Those are the types of things we work on all the time.
What challenges did you encounter while implementing security in 200 countries? And did u.S. Encryption export laws present an issue?
To make sure we get a high degree of security technology out to all these countries, there are sometimes import-export issues that we have to deal with. But we work those through. It could be that we work through an exception with a particular government, whether it's the U.S. or another, for an encryption technology. Because a government knows the technology is just used for Swift purposes, they're OK with it.
What do you think will be the biggest security threat and challenge for your customers in the coming year or two?
Security is not just about the right technologies and models; it's making sure you have the right assessment mechanisms for risk. People sometimes get themselves into trouble with security because they get complacent. We don't let ourselves get complacent. We have a team of people always looking at the next set of things.
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Hanoi old quarter Vietnam AdviceSuperstitious notion in Vietnam, and also beneficial support for traveling to Vietna
Just what is the best way to keep a kid healthy and balanced? An old Vietnamese grandpa believes the charm of a particular locket wards off fiends as well as he might give it to his grandson to shield the boy. A staff member neglects to appear for work with the third day of the lunar month due to the fact that he thinks that particular day brings him misfortune. A student aims to acquire cash to buy lotto game tickets since he dreamed of fire the evening prior to.
These are some instances of superstitious notion which may baffle the international visitor to this country. However, in Vietnam, it belongs to tradition and also custom-mades handed downed from one generation to the following. Lack of knowledge, obviously, plays some function in the traditional acceptance of superstition. Not having sufficient expertise, faith or trust in scientific techniques, a Vietnamese frequently relies on his prejudices, emotions as well as the word of his forefathers to guide his day-to-day life.
Superstitious notion, often, plays even more than a passing duty in Vietnamese culture. By the time a child is old sufficient to marry, as an example, he may not have the ability to wed the gal he loves considering that she was birthed in the wrong year. On the 12-year lunar calendar typically utilized throughout Asia, numerous of the years are taken into consideration inappropriate. Such years are believed to bring bad luck if they are poorly matched with various other years. Thus a youthful male birthed in "the Year of the Tiger," could not marry his loved from "the Year of the Equine" unless he intends to risk a break in household ties with his parents and also elder relatives. To the conservative family members, the Tiger as well as Steed are inappropriate and certain to bring rotten luck to such a marital relationship. The hoot of an owl is considereded as a bad prophecy revealing fatality or disease. According to ancient tradition the bird need to be repelled and those which heard his cry should be exceptionally cautious regarding their individual security.
A a great deal of fortune-tellers, astrologists as well as palm-readers owe their living to Vietnamese superstition as well as typically made a tiny fortune from their clients. Also the inadequate save money for periodic sees to prominent soothsayers. Superstition has actually been recognized to establish the conduct of the war in this ruined country. A friendly or enemy leader might reject to strike or might alter his approach if the stars are not in his favor. One story has it that an American leader always sought advice from a Vietnamese astrologist prior to preparing the deployment of his troops. When questioned by his incredulous superiors, he clarified that, baseding on his concept, he could possibly rely on the opponent to base his attacks on the locations of the superstars. So, he consulted a stargazer himself for knowledge on the opponent's motions. One more story gave via history is that of the well-known Vietnamese generals Le Loi and also Nguyen Trai. A number of years earlier, both was leading a war against Chinese intruders. Nguyen Trai determined to transform superstitious notion to his advantage and utilized grease to write the phrases "Le Loi vi Quan; Nguyen Trai vi Compared to," (Le Loi for King; Nguyen Trai for Minister of State) on the huge leaves of forest trees. Ants later consumed the oil soaked up in the leaf tissue and also left the prophecy accurately etched. People living neighboring noticed the perforated leaves and translated them as a "magnificent message." Inspired by this, they wholeheartedly sustained the battle which ultimately brought about the loss of the Chinese as well as the enthronement of Emperor Le Loi.
An additional story is informed of a Montagnard people that caught a white elephant in 1961 and also offered the uncommon pet to the late Head of state Ngo Dinh Diem as a present. Federal government information firms, trying to strengthen the already tottering routine of Diem, got the word out that a "effective king" had been sent down from Heaven to rule the Vietnamese. The Head of state himself flew to the city of Restriction Me Thuot in the Central Highlands to approve the present, a sign of supreme, top Hanoi old quarter Vietnam and magnificent power. The elephant was provided Diem in a much publicized ceremony. 2 years later, history proved no "powerful king" had involved the rescue when Diem was executed and his regimen toppled in an armed forces successful stroke. Whether by chance or not, superstition ratings a periodic factor in its favor. One story tells of an old Vietnamese Statesman that, discovering that the opening ceremony of the initial Vietnamese Us senate under the brand-new Constitution would certainly be October 10, 1967, voiced his displeasure. It was a bad day, he claimed, and an individual in the Us senate would certainly endure for the indiscretion. Four months later on, during the Communist Tet aggression of 1968, Senator Tran Dien, a prominent and well enjoyed figure, was executed, by the Viet Cong in Shade, in Central Vietnam. The age Senator is persuaded his prediction of ruin happened.
There are some social reformers in this nation which believe that superstitious notion is a problem, which should be removed in Vietnam is to become an absolutely progressive, contemporary country. A youthful whopper-snapper, a grad from an international western university, also suggested legislation to forbid superstitious notion in this nation. Just how boring life would certainly be if all our soothsayers, ton of money cashiers, palm-readers as well as astrologists were to be pensioned off as well as retired. We without delay took this awful recommendation to our preferred soothsayer that solemnly assured us that this is not in the superstars.


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|Hunger: Old torments and new blunders
Amartya Sen
Amartya Sen
It is so old a story,/ Yet somehow always new," so said Heinrich Heine, the German poet, essayist and political activist, in Lyrisches Intermezzo. That early nineteenth century frustration of Heine (Intermezzo was published in 1823 — he went into voluntary exile in revolutionary Paris seven years later) cannot but recur in our thoughts as we observe the continued barbarity of old problems with new and added dimensions, in the distressing world in which we live. Nowhere, perhaps, is this as exasperating as in the terrible continuation of massive hunger and undernourishment in India.
It is not that nothing has been achieved in India over the half-century or more since independence in 1947. Positive things have certainly happened. First, the rapid elimination of famines in India with independence is an achievement of great importance (the last sizeable famine occurred in 1943 — four years before independence), and this is certainly an accomplishment that contrasts with the failure of many other developing countries to prevent famine. And yet this creditable record in famine prevention has not been matched by a similar success in eliminating the pervasive presence of endemic hunger that blights the lives of hundreds of millions of people in this country.
Second, the stagnating agriculture that so characterised — and plagued — pre-independence India has been firmly replaced by a massive expansion of the production possibilities in Indian agriculture, through innovative departures. The technological limits have been widely expanded. What holds up Indian food consumption today is not any operational inability to produce more food, but a far-reaching failure to bring entitlement to food within the reach of the more deprived sections of the population. Indeed, as M.S. Swaminathan has pointed out, "We have reached a stage in our agricultural evolution when our production will increase only if we can improve consumption."[1]
First enemy: Smugness and ignorance
How can things be changed? The first thing to get rid of is the astonishing smugness about India's food record and the widespread ignorance that supports it. India has not, we must recognise unambiguously, done well in tackling the pervasive presence of persistent hunger. Not only are there persistent recurrences of severe hunger in particular regions (the fact that they don't grow into full-fledged famines does not arrest their local brutality), but there is also a gigantic prevalence of endemic hunger across much of India. Indeed, India does much worse in this respect than even Sub-Saharan Africa.[2] Calculations of general undernourishment — what is sometimes called "protein-energy malnutrition" — is nearly twice as high in India as in Sub-Saharan Africa. It is astonishing that despite the intermittent occurrence of famine in Africa, it too manages to ensure a much higher level of regular nourishment than does India. About half of all Indian children are, it appears, chronically undernourished, and more than half of all adult women suffer from anaemia. In maternal undernourishment as well as the incidence of underweight babies, and also in the frequency of cardiovascular diseases in later life (to which adults are particularly prone if nutritionally deprived in the womb), India's record is among the very worst in the world.
A striking feature of the persistence of this dreadful situation is not only that it continues to exist, but that the serious public attention it gets, when it gets any at all, is so badly divided.[3] Indeed, it is amazing to hear persistent repetition of the false belief that India has managed the challenge of hunger very well since independence. This is based on a profound confusion between famine prevention, which is a simple achievement, and the avoidance of endemic undernourishment and hunger, which is a much more complex task. India has done worse than nearly every country in the world in the latter respect. There are, of course, many different ways of shooting oneself in the foot, but smugness based on ignorance is among the most effective.
Poverty, healthcare and education
This takes us to the next question. Once we get rid of the smugness, what should we do? The old barriers to good nutrition do, of course, remain, and we have to recognise that they have not lost their bite. People have to go hungry if they do not have the means to buy enough food. Hunger is primarily a problem of general poverty, and thus overall economic growth and its distributional pattern cannot but be important in solving the hunger problem. It is particularly important to pay attention to employment opportunities, other ways of acquiring economic means, and also food prices, which influence people's ability to buy food, and thus affect the food entitlements they effectively enjoy.[4]
Further, since undernourishment is not only a cause of ill health but can also result from it, attention has to be paid to healthcare in general and to the prevention of endemic diseases that prevent absorption of nutrients in particular. There is also plenty of evidence to indicate that lack of basic education too contributes to undernourishment, partly because knowledge and communication are important, but also because the ability to secure jobs and incomes is influenced by the level of education.
Maternal undernourishment and its far-reaching penalties
So low incomes, relatively higher prices, bad healthcare and neglect of basic education can all be influential in causing and sustaining the extraordinary level of undernutrition in India. Yet, as Siddiq Osmani has shown, even after taking note of low levels of these variables, "one would have expected a much higher level of nutritional achievement than what actually obtains" in India in particular, and in South Asia in general.[5]
So something else must be brought in. Osmani suggests — plausibly enough — the lasting influence of maternal undernourishment, working its way via underweight babies (India and South Asia lead the world in this field), who grow into children and adults more prone to illnesses of various kinds. This is in line with findings that have been identified by others, such as Ramalingaswami and his colleagues.[6] Recent medical research has brought out the long-run effects of foetal deprivation, reflected in low birth weight, which appear to cause immunological deficiencies and other health vulnerabilities. The health and nutritional adversity related to maternal undernutrition and low birth weight children is almost certainly a significant factor in explaining the terrible nutritional state of India.
Since maternal undernourishment is causally linked with gender bias against women in general in India, it appears that the penalty India pays by being unfair to women hits all Indians, boys as well as girls, and men as well as women. Even though there is ambiguous empirical evidence regarding the relative nutritional backwardness of girls vis-à-vis boys (as Svedberg discusses in his paper in this number), there is no dearth of definitive evidence of the neglect of pregnant women. For example, the proportion of pregnant women who suffer from anaemia — three quarters of all — is astoundingly higher in India than in the rest of the world. The long-run effects of underweight births not only worsen the chances of good health and nutrition of children — both boys and girls — but also immensely increase the incidence of cardiovascular diseases late in life.[7] Interestingly, since men are, in general, more susceptible to cardiovascular diseases, it also turns out that the adverse impact of the neglect of the nutrition of pregnant women is, in this respect, even greater for men than for women. What is sown in the form of unfairness to women is reaped as illfare of men, in addition to the suffering of women themselves.
The analysis so far has identified particular problems that have to be tackled if India is to overcome the massive prevalence of persistent hunger from which it suffers in many different ways. The areas of action include economic opportunities (such as growth of income and its distributional pattern), social facilities (such as basic healthcare and education), and the countering of special deprivations of women (such as maternal undernourishment). These are old problems that have not yet been overcome, unlike other fields in which success has been achieved, such as famine prevention and technological expansion of production opportunities. What, then, are the new problems?
Amartya Sen is Master, Trinity College, Cambridge, UK. His work on hunger, poverty,
social choice and entitlements earned him the Nobel Prize for Economics in 1998


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A Yorkshire theatre company that has its own drama fighting to survive is bringing two shows to the region next week.
Leeds radical theatre company Red Ladder presents miners' strike play We're Not Going Back at Sheffield Trades Club and children's show Nicobobinus at Cast in Doncaster.
Artistic director Rod Dixon also directed We're Not Going Back. He said: "It's a comedy about three sisters who don't get on at all. That year of the miners' strike brings them all together. It's a metaphor for the solidarity that came together in the face of difficulty."
Red Ladder takes theatre to audiences that wouldn't think about going to a play. Rod said that We're Not Going Back has been seen in Hemsworth Miners' Welfare near Pontefract.
"They absolutely loved it and talked all the way through it, saying 'I remember that'.
"They were so proud we'd taken their story and thought we were doing a good job with it."
Red Ladder's production of Nicobobinus has been adapted from Monty Python star Terry Jones' children's story. The comedian is supporting a Save Red Ladder campaign.
Rod said: "The show is great for families because there is Monty Python humour for the adults and on the other hand there's real adventure for little kids."
Red Ladder had its Arts Council grant axed but Rod is optimistic that the company will continue.
A crowdfunding campaign has already raised £20,000.
We're not Going Back is on at Sheffield Trades and Labour Club on Duke Street next Wednesday at 7.30pm.
Tickets: email firstname.lastname@example.com or go to Evenbrite
Nicobobinus is at Cast in Doncaster next Thursday. Tickets: Cast in Doncaster or call 01302 303959.


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Just a quick little post today to show you the mani I had yesterday for July 4. It's obviously time to get some new white stamping polish...I have always used Konad brand, but do any of you use something else for white that works particularly well?
My base colors are ChG Poinsettia and Orly Stone Cold.
Here's me with my husband and daughter yesterday. We had a good time getting our patriotic outfits together and I also wore these crazy false eyelashes yesterday that were so much fun!
Hope everyone in the US had a great holiday yesterday!Pin It


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The bathroom scale…as prevalent as a toilet in the American home. But more seriously…
Scales are not the end all, be all when it comes to measuring your health and fitness progress. Haven't you ever wondered why the number on the scale doesn't always change even when your clothes are fitting better?
It's called body recomposition, and it is truly how the body adapts to your lifestyle. You almost never just lose body fat when you work out, because you also increase your lean body mass simultaneously.
For our sake and the simplicity of this article, we're going to break down the four main areas of body composition:
- Body Fat: Fatty tissue. It's how your body stores the extra calories you're consuming to use as extended energy over the long-term. Thank our ancestors for that.
- Muscle: We're talking about the sexy ones you would probably like to see on yourself like six-pack abs or biceps. They are responsible for your bodily movements.
- Bone: A type of connective tissue that gives the body its structure and supports various organs.
- Water: The body is mostly made up of water (about 65%) and is used by the living cells in our body to function properly.
The two key factors we're going to talk about when measuring body recomposition are body fat and muscle.
Why the Scale is Not the Best Tool for Measuring Success
Muscle is denser than body fat and takes up much less space.
From the example above, you can clearly tell that the scale is not the best tool to track success.Yes, it does a great job of telling you your body weight, but is not the best for tracking changes or body recomposition.
Two – Better Body Tracking Methods
The two methods I recommend for more accurately tracking the progress you're making:
- Body Part Circumference Measurements
- Body Fat Percentage
Get to Know your Body Part Circumference Measurements
Why measurements? Because you see yourself in the mirror every day. The tiny changes that eventually lead to significant changes over time, are not evident to the human eye from day to day. Let's face it, 1/32nd of an inch here is going to be missed by you unless you have the best vision in the world. However, at the end of the week, you have lost almost a quarter inch, which is definitely measurable. The change happens so gradually, you don't even notice with your own eyes.
What Body Parts to Measure
Measurements should be taken from these seven key areas:
- Calves, left and right
- Thighs, left and right, 2″ below the groin
- Hips, at the widest point
- Stomach, women at the narrowest point, men at the naval
- Chest, under the shoulders
- Arms, relaxed, at the widest point
- Neck, at the narrowest point
Measuring Tips
- You do not have to flex, puff out our your chest, or suck in your stomach. Just be sure to measure consistently in the same area and in the same state.
- Measure at the same time of day.
- Do not exercise before taking measurements, especially weight training as your muscles will be bigger after a good weight workout.
- Your measuring tape should be taut, not too tight or too loose. This comes back to being consistent.
Tools for Body Part Measurements
- Measuring Tape: You can use a simple fabric measuring tape. There are also specially designed one-handed measuring tapes that measure with the same amount of tension each time like OrbiTape. It seems like an indulgence, but it really makes life a lot easier.
- Tracking Journal: You can use a simple excel sheet, print my updated measurement tracking journal, or use plain sheet of notebook paper. Just be sure to write your measurements down somewhere and keep track at least weekly.
How to Measure Body Fat Percentage
There are many, many ways to measure body fat: You can get dunked under water, have x-ray beams shot through your body, or be put through an air displacement test. And even with how crazy some of those methods sound, they are not even always the most reliable…or practical.
Here are four realistic methods for measuring your body fat percentage:
Body Fat Calipers: You might remember these from school. A pinch here, a pinch there. Body fat skinfold calculators work by measuring the thickness of folded skin and the body fat that lies within. Though it does take practice to get the measurements right, and you need to be really careful about doing it the exact same each and every time, skin fold tests are very accurate when performed correctly. You can use these yourself or find a gym professional that has experience. Skin fold calipers are around ten dollars, I recommend spring-loaded calipers like these to get a more consistent results. Link to various online calculations of skin fold body fat test methods for men and women.
U.S. Navy Calculator: Input a few of your measurements here, and you have your body fat percentage. The web page states this test is accurate to within 1-3% for most people. but accuracy is not as high if you carry a lot of muscle.
Body Fat Scales: When I first saw these on the market, I thought they were a marketing ploy. But seriously, some actually work quite well. How do they work? These scales work by producing a low-level electrical signal that measures the body's composition and computes percentage of body fat. The EatSmart GetFit Body Fat Scale is what I have in my home and I am really happy with it. I recommend it to friends and family members. Scales range in the cost of $30 to well over $100. Read reviews before purchasing to ensure you're getting your money's worth.
BodPod: Air-Displacment Plethysmography. Weird…I know. Your body density is determined by air displacement. This is a highly accurate method of testing, but costs are $30-50 per analysis. Here is the BodPod site locator to find a testing site near you.
Key Point
If you switch between body fat measuring methods, you aren't doing yourself any favors as these methods will all have varying degrees of accuracy. However if you stick with one, you will have an accurate baseline to measure against. Select one method and stick with it.
You Should Still Use a Scale…Kind of
You must remember that a scale is one tool in the battle of the bulge, but not the only one. I hope by now you are able to understand why the scale is not the best for tracking results. A scale measures weight loss. I can tell you how to lose 5lbs by tomorrow morning, but it is going to be water weight – not lost body fat. Plus, you'd be grouchy, your body would not be running efficiently, and your skin would be dehydrated, which will make you look older.
In the end, don't get to caught up with the number on the scale. If you stick to daily exercise in addition to healthy eating and lifestyle habits, you will hit your goal. With that said, use the scale as a way to support your goals not work against them by focusing only on the number. Half the time when you set your goal weight, it's not the right weight for you anyways. The lowest weight you should be at as an adult is the weight you were able to maintain for one full year after you turned 18 years old. And remember, it's all about how you look and feel. Sometimes when I feel like I look sexiest, it's when I'm 5 lbs up from where I think I should be…muscle weighs more than fat.
Printable Measurement Log with Body Fat Percentage Tracking – Click File > Make a Copy or Print
Link to pdf: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B1ushyQyCrh2S01qLVFucHBDSWc/
How do you track results? Please leave a comment below.


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SAMCA (South African Majorette and Cheerleading Association) is the SASCOC (South African Sports Confederation and Olympic Committee) recognised Federation for Majorettes and Cheerleading, in South Africa. We have Regional offices in 8 Provinces currently, making accessibility within reach of all athletes and interested shareholders.
The Association strives to promote and make the sport with its related activities available to any athlete in South Africa, or to athletes in neighbouring countries, who may find the sport of interest. Further SAMCA has the goal of:
- Developing young people to reach their full potential – whether emotional, social, physical, or cognitive – through participation within the sport;
- Promoting group development and a competitive spirit;
- Improving skills;
- Recognising the principles of winning and losing.
- Encouraging athletes to manage time.
Participating Majorettes can enter the sport from a young age, and continue into the Tertiary section. Cheerleader athletes can also commence from an early age and can participate in the Tertiary Section.
Interested parties (not only young people) can get involved in various aspects of the sport:
- Participants / Athletes
- Coaching/Training
- Adjudicating
- Administration
Our sport further gives athletes the opportunity to partake in Mass skill related events as well as for Individual athletes, who are given the opportunity to obtain their Provincial and National Colours. The sport does not need to be associated with major financial implications.
We have had both Majorette and Cheerleading teams who compete internationally. This exposure had added immense value to the relevant Coaches and athletes. We have been most privileged in obtaining Protea Colours for these team members from SASCOC.
SAMCA is also proud to be affiliated to numerous International Bodies which cover aspects of our sport: These include:
- Cheerleading: SAMCA is affiliated to the International Cheerleading Union (ICU)
- Baton Twirling – SAMCA has recently been as an affiliated member to the World Baton Twirling Federation (WBTF);
- Majorettes – SAMCA is affiliated to both the American and Australian Dance Drill Federations.
I invite both Adults and young people to attend one of our competitions throughout the country, to experience the awesome displays, which encompasses excitement, anticipation and team spirit for both, spectators and athletes to enjoy. Once involved, always involved!! All of this culminates in pride and experiencing the thrill of working together as a team.
Please do not hesitate to contact us for any further information. We would be delighted to welcome you into a sport which offers precision, music enjoyment and total pleasure. We have a niche for you!
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Rabbits Galore
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Mother Nature has given us countless kinds of animals big and small for both our nourishment and enjoyment. Some of them even became our dearest friends and sometimes, also the ones we go to when we need some form of help, like the "seeing eye dogs" for the blind amongst us or the horses that pull our heavy loads, our carts and our buggies. Not to mention the dogs that do double duty as our friends and protectors, and countless other animals who in one way or another has been helping us throughout history.
But there are those animals which are very familiar to us yet seem to be also shrouded in mystery, the ones we thought we knew so well but is constantly surprising us with new information about them as the days go by. The Rabbit is one example of those kinds of animals and he lives up to the fact that there is always something new to know about them.
Here are several known bunny facts in both captivity and in the wild. Get to know them more closely and don't be disappointed if you ever encounter a new fact about them, as they always deem to surprise us in many ways possible.
- Rabbits snore when they are sleeping, go ahead and watch them sleep
- You already know what the fox says but do you know what sounds does the rabbit make? They snort and grunt
- Rabbits never needs to take any kinds of bath as they clean themselves perfectly well, unless of course they get diarrhea and stuff
- Did you know that rabbits hate getting held? It's from their upbringing as animals of prey and they really don't trust anyone or anything for fear of being eaten
- Rabbits gone? Look in dark and secluded places around your house as they like to go into them
- Rabbits are neither a day animal or nocturnal for that matter. They are crepuscular animals, meaning they more active during the times of dusk and dawn
- Rabbits are treated as pests in some areas because they eat so much
- Female rabbits are called does. Male ones are bucks, the little ones are kits or kittens, they live on a warren
- Rabbits can jump up to a meter and a half, sometimes higher when they have a fox behind them
- Rabbits can have 38 babies in a year, kits I mean
- There are almost more than 120 kinds of rabbit breeds
- Baby rabbits are born without fur, even the majestic Lionhead bunnies are no exception
- There are two million households in America that has rabbits as their pets
- Rabbits can die because of fright
- Rabbits can clearly see what's on their back yet is blind to the things that are right under their noses
- Female rabbits have a gestation period of only 31 days
- Female rabbits can become pregnant at the age of 3-6 months, talk about starting them young
- Rabbits can live up to 10 years, less if they have a nagging wife
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O'Reilly Reports Republican Congressman Darrell Issa's "Breaking" ACORN-Obama Video . . . But Fails to Mention That Parts Of It Were Made Public In 2009
Reported by Julie - February 23, 2010 -
Well, I guess the fact of ACORN's exoneration and reinstatement of funding just wasn't enough. I guess President Obama's past as a community organizer and voter drive organizer with Project Vote will always cause the right to paint him as a subversive. And now -- heavens, according to Bill O'Reilly, a Republican Congressman, Darrell Issa -- with a history of offensive conduct, including telling lies and making feeble defenses against Republican wrongdoing -- has reportedly unearthed a shocking video in which, allegedly, Barack Obama made some complimentary statements about -- and purportedly to -- ACORN members. First of all, this isn't really breaking news. Politifact reported a portion of Obama's statements Issa allegedly just discovered in this tape in September 2009, in a fact-checking response to a misstatement by Karl Rove that President Obama was formerly an attorney for ACORN. And Congressman Darrell Issa as an impeccable source? Get real. With video.
Apparently unhappy at being accused by Rush Limbaugh of being soft, last night (2/22/10) on The Factor, O'Reilly must have felt a new redemptive Obama smear was in order. Kicking it off, he proclaimed, "President Obama has avoided the subject of ACORN ever since that activist group got into a lot of trouble." (No mention by O'Reilly that ACORN got itself out of trouble, as well.) ". . . But there is a new tape recorded in 2007 and discovered by Republican Congressman Darrell Issa's office. The tape is heavily edited, so keep that in mind."
O'Reilly proceeded to roll a series of clips of Barack Obama making random statements, such as, "And you know you've got a friend in me, and I definitely welcome ACORN's input . . . When I ran Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois ACORN was smack-dab in the middle of it . . . Since I've been in the United States Senate I've been always a partner with ACORN as well . . . I've been fighting . . . alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career."
O'Reilly feigned a sort of glumness at having to report this devastating news -- uh, yeah. Barack Obama was a community organizer, and in the trenches of low-income Chicago neighborhoods, he rubbed elbows with ACORN. Barack Obama the Community Organizer ran Project Vote, which had a similar mission as ACORN. And as a lawyer, Barack Obama defended ACORN -- once.
More importantly, as I mentioned, this breaking news -- really isn't. In September 2009, Politifact reported, "When Obama met with ACORN leaders in November 2007, he reminded them of his affinity for ACORN and his time as a Project Vote organizer. Sen. Obama said, 'I come out of a grass roots organizing background. That's what I did for three and half years before I went to law school. That's the reason I moved to Chicago was to organize. So this is something that I know personally, the work you do, the importance of it. I've been fighting alongside ACORN on issues you care about my entire career. Even before I was an elected official, when I ran the Project Vote voter registration drive in Illinois, ACORN was smack dab in the middle of it, and we appreciate your work.'" Sound familiar?
So, now that we know at least one segment of the "breaking news" clips was rehashed from something made public quite a while back, O'Reilly would have us believe the rest of it . . . why, again? And, since O'Reilly couldn't be bothered to take this random smear a step further and caution viewers of Issa's lack of historical veracity, I'm forced to do it myself . . . that is, point out that Congressman Issa is a man whose record of untruthfulness and offensive rhetoric rivals that of James O'Keefe and is long and illustrious. From using Tim Russert's wake to make a political pitch, to attempting to deny funding to workers at Ground Zero because the 9/11 terrorist attack didn't involve a "dirty bomb" but "simply an aircraft," to trying to deep-six his own criminal history by blaming his brother, Issa is not exactly a poster boy for integrity. As the Issa "Hall of Shame" notes, it appears that no Republican deed is too dirty for Issa to defend. The flip side of that, apparently, is to use "heavily edited" tape to revive a smear against the President that should have long ago been put to bed, particularly in the wake of ACORN's exoneration.
I've got some "breaking news" of my own: From now on, every time a right-wing smear machine says "breaking news," I'm gonna figure they're just running a five-year-old clip backwards, like the Beatles White Album, and voila -- a story is born anew.


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A gas chamber is an apparatus for killing, consisting of a sealed chamber into which a poisonous or asphyxiant gas is introduced. The most commonly used poisonous agent is hydrogen cyanide; carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide have also been used. Gas chambers were used as a method of execution for condemned prisoners in the United States beginning in the 1920s. During the Holocaust, large-scale gas chambers designed for mass killing were used by Nazi Germany as part of their genocide program, and also by the Independent State of Croatia at the Jasenovac camp.[1] The use of gas chambers has also been reported in North Korea.[2]
Gas chambers have also been used for animal euthanasia, using carbon monoxide as the lethal agent. Sometimes a box filled with anaesthetic gas is used to anaesthetize small animals for surgery or euthanasia.
Gas chambers have been used for capital punishment in the United States to execute criminals, especially convicted murderers. The first person to be executed in the United States by gas chamber was Gee Jon, on February 8, 1924 in Nevada. In 1957, Burton Abbott was executed as the governor of California, Goodwin J. Knight, was on the telephone to stay the execution.[3] Since the restoration of the death penalty in the United States in 1976, only eleven executions by gas chamber have been conducted.[4] By the 1980s, reports of suffering during gas chamber executions had led to controversy over the use of this method.
At the September 2, 1983 execution of Jimmy Lee Gray in Mississippi, officials cleared the viewing room after eight minutes while Gray was still alive and gasping for air. The decision to clear the room while he was still alive was criticized by his attorney. David Bruck, an attorney specializing in death penalty cases, said, "Jimmy Lee Gray died banging his head against a steel pole in the gas chamber while reporters counted his moans."[5]
During the April 6, 1992 execution of Donald Harding in Arizona, it took 11 minutes for death to occur. The prison warden stated that he would quit if required to conduct another gas chamber execution.[6] Following Harding's execution, Arizona voted that all persons condemned after November 1992 would be executed by lethal injection.[4]
Following the execution of Robert Alton Harris, a federal court declared that "execution by lethal gas under the California protocol is unconstitutionally cruel and unusual."[7] By the late 20th century, most states had switched to methods considered to be more humane, such as lethal injection. California's gas chamber at San Quentin State Prison was converted to an execution chamber for lethal injection.
As of 2009, the last person to be executed in the gas chamber was German national Walter LaGrand, sentenced to death before 1992, who was executed in Arizona on March 3, 1999. The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals had ruled that he could not be executed by gas chamber, but the decision was overturned by the U.S. Supreme Court.[4] The gas chamber was formerly used in Colorado, Mississippi, Nevada, New Mexico, North Carolina, Oregon, Wyoming and California. Three states, Arizona, Maryland, and Missouri, retain the gas chamber as a secondary method of execution for inmates sentenced to death or having committed capital crimes before certain dates, though they have lethal injection as the primary method.[8]
When executions by gas chambers are conducted in the United States, the general protocol is as follows. First, the executioner will place a quantity of potassium cyanide (KCN) pellets into a compartment directly below the chair in the chamber. The condemned person is then brought into the chamber and strapped into the chair, and the airtight chamber is sealed. At this point the executioner will pour a quantity of concentrated sulfuric acid (H2SO4) down a tube that leads to a small holding tank directly below the compartment containing the cyanide pellets. The curtain is then opened, allowing the witnesses to observe the inside of the chamber. The prison warden will then ask the condemned individual if he or she wishes to make a final statement. Following this, the executioner(s) will throw a switch/lever to cause the cyanide pellets to drop into the sulfuric acid, initiating a chemical reaction that generates hydrogen cyanide (HCN) gas:
2KCN(s) + H2SO4(aq) → 2HCN(g) + K2SO4(aq)
The gas is visible to the condemned, and he/she is advised to take several deep breaths to speed unconsciousness in order to prevent unnecessary suffering. Accordingly, execution by gas chamber is especially unpleasant for the witnesses to the execution due to the physical responses exhibited by the condemned during the process of dying. These responses can be violent, and can include convulsions and excessive drooling. It is unknown whether or not the condemned actually experiences pain during the process.
Following the execution, the chamber is purged of the gas through special scrubbers, and must be neutralized with anhydrous ammonia (NH3) before it can be opened. Guards wearing oxygen masks remove the body from the chamber. Finally, the prison doctor examines the individual in order to officially declare that he or she is dead and release the body to the next of kin.
One of the problems with the gas chamber is the inherent danger of dealing with such a toxic gas. Anhydrous ammonia is used to cleanse the chamber after cyanide gas has been used:
The anhydrous ammonia used to clean the chamber afterwards, and the contaminated acid that must be drained and disposed of, are both very poisonous.
Nitrogen gas or oxygen-depleted air has been considered for human execution, as it can induce nitrogen asphyxiation. It has not been used to date.
Gas chambers were used in the Third Reich as part of the "public euthanasia program" aimed at eliminating physically and intellectually disabled people and political undesirables in the 1930s and 1940s. At that time, the preferred gas was carbon monoxide, often provided by the exhaust gas of cars, trucks or army tanks.[9]
During the Holocaust, gas chambers were designed to accept large groups as part of the Nazi policy of genocide against the Jews. Nazis also targeted the Romani people, homosexuals, physically and mentally disabled, and intellectuals. In early 1940, the use of hydrogen cyanide produced as Zyklon B was tested on 250 Roma children from Brno at the Buchenwald concentration camp.[10] According to Nizkor Project (Hebrew: נִזְכּוֹר), on September 3, 1941, 600 Soviet POWs were gassed with Zyklon B at Auschwitz camp I; this was the first experiment with the gas at Auschwitz.[11]
According to a website running by Jürgen Langowski, an anti-Nazi German activist, Carbon monoxide was also used in large purpose-built gas chambers. The gas was in exhaust gas from internal combustion engines (detailed in the Gerstein Report).[12]
Gas chambers in vans, concentration camps, and extermination camps were used to kill several million people between 1941 and 1945. Some stationary gas chambers could kill 2,000 people at once.[13] The use of gas chambers during the Holocaust was attested to by several sources including the Vrba-Wetzler report and testimony from Rudolf Höss, Commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, and other German soldiers.[14][15][16]
The gas chambers were dismantled or destroyed when Soviet troops got close, except at Dachau, Sachsenhausen, and Majdanek. The gas chamber at Auschwitz I was reconstructed after the war as a memorial, but without a door in its doorway and without the wall that originally separated the gas chamber from a washroom. The door that had been added when the gas chamber was converted into an air raid shelter was left intact.[17]
Execution by exhaust gas was performed in specially modified vans, known as gaswagen (variously translated as "gas wagon", "gas van", or "gas car").[18]
In his book, Le Crime de Napoléon, French historian Claude Ribbe has claimed that in the early 19th century, Napoleon used poison gas to put down slave rebellions in Haiti and Guadeloupe. Based on accounts left by French officers, he alleges that enclosed spaces including the holds of ships were used as makeshift gas chambers where sulfur dioxide gas (probably generated by burning sulfur) was used to execute up to 100,000 rebellious slaves. These claims remain controversial.[19]


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On Oct 17, 2007, at 8:47 AM, Michael Schneider wrote: [snip] If I might jump in.... > Another (meta) question which might also be of interest to other's > here in > the list: Yesterday I have found that there is a mailing list called > > "public-webont-comments" > > which seems to have to do with the new OWL-WG, It was created for the old webont working group, thus has not *yet* had anything to do with the new OWL-WG. Most working groups have a members list and a public comments list. I don't believe the W3C team (and certainly not the group) have decided whether to reuse public- webont-comments, or to have a public-owl-comments (similar to public- owl-wg) list (though I didn't check). Public-owl-dev is a general purpose list for discussion everything owl. > though it already exists for > quite a while (very low frequency). I wonder if the question, which > I have > put in my last post, would better be posted there instead of OWL- > DEV. Can > you please clarify for what kind of discussion this other group is > intended, > and how it should be distinguished from OWL-DEV? I think for a great while you are perfectly safe posting to public- owl-dev. That's where OWL 1.1 feedback was requested to be sent, and, as I said, I don't see that the wg has requested otherwise yet. Many wg members actively monitor public-owl-dev (as you know) so even when there is a more specific list, nothing should be lost by posting here. When last call working draft calls are circulated, they will contain directions for where to post your formal last call comments such that they are sure to "count" in the last call review process. Last call of *any* document is at least, I'd guess, 6 months off, so no worries. I also (speaking still as me, though a me who is a member of the wg, but not *on behalf* of the wg) hope we'll keep an "open to the world" issues list for people to propose issues through. I'll also take this quick opportunity to thank you for your close and challenging review. Your various comments and discussions are most definitely helping make the documents stronger. Cheers, Bijan.Received on Wednesday, 17 October 2007 08:31:39 UTC
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Invitation to TeliaSonera´s Press and Analyst Conference for the Interim Report January – March on April 26, 2005 N.B. New time for the Conference call at 14.30 hours CET (Stockholm time)
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Time: 13.00 hours CET (Stockholm time)
Place: TeliaSonera´s Head Office, Sturegatan 1, Stockholm
Anders Igel, President and Chief Executive Officer of TeliaSonera and Kim Ignatius,
Chief Financial Officer of TeliaSonera will present the Interim Report.
The press conference will be held in English and will be broadcast live over the Internet at www.teliasonera.com/ir.
See also the separate invitation to a Conference Call at 14.30 hours CET (Stockholm time) the same day.


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We had a surprise knock on the door today, it was our neighbour with a set of children's table and chairs. His grandchildren had outgrown them, so he offered them to my girls, who jumped at them. They now have a new favourite thing! They are very cute, with pencils for legs (and to be honest, I had the exact same ones on my Amazon wish list).
I found a little spot for them under the stairs and the girls got straight to work painting (the mess in the background is our overflowing craft box!) Princess has asked if they can eat their dinner at the new table tomorrow!
I'm going to set Princess up with a box of writing practice sheets so she can sit at her new table and practice her letters (hopefully this will encourage her to practice!) I was planning on doing this anyway, and it's funny how a spontaneous knock on the door has provided the perfect place to do it.
I think a thank you card is called for!


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Since we've notified Mayor Hans Trousil and the City Council of West Burlington of its unlawful firearm ban ordinance, a number of stories have appeared in the Des Moines Register and The Hawkeye newspaper. In each instance, journalists have contacted Mayor Trousil seeking comments and he continues—even in his emails responding to Iowa's NRA members' concerns—to disingenuously misstate our position and display a poor understanding of Iowa's firearm laws. As such, it is necessary to explain the facts on this issue.
Mayor Trousil claims his ordinance only bans firearms from a few municipal buildings.
A simple reading of the ordinance's definition of "municipal building" would show that "any structure, dwelling, garage, or shelter owned, leased or otherwise occupied…and used for any municipal or public purposes by the city" is also included in the ban. These are all much broader terms than "municipal building." If the city meant to limit its ban to only a few specific city buildings, as Mayor Trousil has claimed in the press, why didn't it write the ordinance that way?
Mayor Trousil claims that in the absence of his ordinance an Iowan would be unable to possess a firearm in or near said municipal buildings because they are in a "weapons free zone."
The Iowa Code provision that establishes so-called "weapons free zones" (724.4A) does not prohibit a person from carrying a firearm in accordance with a valid permit within 1,000 feet of a school or park. It merely increases the penalties for firearm-related public offenses committed within these zones. Carrying a firearm in accordance with a valid permit is obviously not an offense.
Mayor Trousil claims that the Supreme Court's ruling in MacDonald justifies his ordinance.
While the Supreme Court indicated prohibitions on the carrying of firearms in "sensitive places" (which it stated may include "schools and government buildings") might be permissible, it has never sanctioned broad firearms bans in or on any public "structure" whatsoever.
The current definition of "municipal building" in the ordinance is so broad that it encompasses such structures as bridges, benches, picnic pavilions, public rest stops and bathrooms, parking garages, bus stop overhangs or shelters, etc. These are hardly the sort of "sensitive places" the Supreme Court had in mind. "Sensitive" and "publicly-controlled" are not synonymous in law or in logic.
When Mayor Trousil called gun owners of
The following quote was printed in two separate Des Moines Register articles for your review:
So far, NRA is unaware of Mayor Trousil asking for a retraction—if in fact he was "misquoted." Mayor Trousil's recent comments in his e-mail raise further questions about his attitude toward his constituents' mental states: "Common sense alone should tell us that weapons have no business in a setting where discussions could become heated and out of control." Does he really think permit holders are so irrational and "out of control" that they will revert to violence over differences of opinion? Permit holders in the state of
Unfortunately, it has become clear that Mayor Trousil and the City Council of West Burlington have chosen to stand by the unlawful ordinance.
Please contact Mayor Trousil and the Mayor Hans Trousil Rod Crowner Kara Steward Therese Lees Dan West Rick Raleigh
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Badtux left a comment saying "The only argument the right wing has that actually has any validity is the 2nd Amendment argument, where the 2nd Amendment by any reasonable reading protects both an individual and collective right to keep and bear arms."
But, alas, Badtux -- along with many other Americans, most of whom are small-penis-compensatin whackjobs -- forgot the first clause of the Second Amendment:
A well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed. [emphasis added]And by "militia," the Framers were not thinking about the small-penis-compensatin', gun-totin' whackjobs like the Michigan Militia and the rest of the Militia/Patriot/Redemptionist genre, they were talking about what is today's National Guard.
The current crop of small-penis-compensatin', gun-totin' whackjobs wouldn't know "well regulated" if it bit them in their doughy asses.
It is astonishing how many people manage to miss the reference to a "well regulated militia," in their mad dash to justify keeping murderous devices in their homes.
Not that Badtux is in that crowd, mind you; I have a feeling he's pretty much on the side of common sense.


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"Tassignon's singing is quite versatile … she exhibits horn-like melodic and rhythmic dexterity, while at other times her voice wanders through a labyrinthine maze of amorphous syllabic abstractions."
This individuality, described here by Wilbur MacKenzie of All About Jazz, is what gives Belgian, Berlin-based vocalist Sophie Tassignon such a unique place in the world of modern jazz and creative music.
Her debut CD"Moon Talk", featuring her group ZOSHIA and eleven of her own compositions, was released in 2006 by Alone Blue Records. Sophie's second CD "Hufflignon", a collaborative project with Canadian saxophonist Peter Van Huffel, (and with the powerful duo of New York bassist Michael Bates and Swiss trombonist Samuel Blaser), was released in 2008 on the renowned Portuguese label, Clean Feed Records – hailed by All About Jazz NY as one of the five most important jazz labels today."Hufflignon" received critical acclaim by such publications as France's "Jazz Magazine" in which the CD was listed as a "CD d'emoi" – one of their most prestigious monthly mentions.
Sophie's new CD – "Dancing on the Rim" with Songwriter/Saxophonist Susanne Folk, which includes songs written by both artists, was released January 25th, 2014 on A-jazz Records. Folk Tassignon, originally founded in Canada in 2006, also includes bass clarinetist Lothar Ohlmeier and bassist Andreas Waelti, and is currently preparing their second CD.
Additionally, and in follow-up to the success of "Hufflignon", Sophie and Peter Van Huffel have formed a group consisting of musicians who have relocated to Berlin.
British pianist Julie Sassoon and Canadian bassist Miles Perkin complete the new formation called HOUSE OF MIRRORS which recorded a full set of new music for their second collaborative recording, released on Jan. 31st, 2014 on Wismart records.
The new music, co-written by the pair, delves much more into the modern avant-garde while maintaining an emphasis on song and melody. Plans for future concerts and tour periods are currently underway.
In addition to Sophie's main projects and collaborations, she can also be heard with the Berlin-based electroacoustic duo CHARLOTTE AND MR STONE – an experimental improvised project with electroacoustic composer Simon Vincent, and which demonstrates Sophie's unique approach to the voice, which she has developed through the use of loopstation effects.
Their debut CD "Trees & Birds & Beautiful Things" was released on November 20th, 2011 on the British Label visionofsound. Charlotte and Mr. Stone were invited to tour in France, Spain and Portugal as well as to perform at the International festival of electro acoustic festival in Ekaterinburg in Russia (SYNC 2014).
In 2013 they released their second CD "Live at Café Du Burgaud", which was recorded live during one of their tours in the South of France.
Sophie has now developed a solo concept using her electronic equipment. She has been invited to the VICC (Visby International Centre for Composers) to work on her debut solo album in March 2015 and she will be performing under the stage name Zôsh.
She also created the music of, and performed in a number of modern theatre productions by Polish director Elzbieta Bednarska (ie. "Taghaus/Nachthaus" by Olga Tokarczuk 2009, "Schneeweiß und Russenrot" by Dorota Maslowska 2010), "Nacht" by Andrzej Stasiuk 2011, "Stimmen Aus Tschernobyl by Svetlana Alexiejevich 2017 and 2018, "Die Mauern Von Hebron" by Andrzej Stasiuk in 2018, "Unrast" by Dorota Maslowska 2019) in which Sophie's "electronic-voice" techniques are also highly exhibited.
Sophie Tassignon performs frequently around Europe, and has performed in notable venues in New York City and Canada. She will be touring China with her band Folk Tassignon in December this year. For more information on upcoming tour dates and concert listings, please visit the CONCERTS page.
2017: Sophie Tassignon "Licht-Raum-Erkundungen" – 3 compositions recorded live in Berlin
2017: Azolia "Everybody Knows", Ajazz records – 6 compositions (jazz)
2014: House of Mirrors "Act One", WizmART records – 8 compositions (contemporary jazz/avant-garde)
2013: Charlotte and Mr. Stone "Live at Café du Burgaud", Visionhead records – 8 collaborative compositions with Simon Vincent (electroacoustic music)
2013: Folk Tassignon "Dancing on the Rim", Ajazz records – 7 compositions (jazz)
2011: Charlotte and Mr. Stone "Trees & Birds & Beautiful Things", Visionhead records – 8 collaborative compositions with Simon Vincent (electroacoustic music)
2009: Peter Van Huffel/Sophie Tassignon "Hufflignon", Clean Feed Records – 6 own compositions (contemporary jazz/ avant-garde)
2006: Zoshia "Moon Talk", Alone Blue Records – 11 own compositions (modern jazz)


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I have arrived in Valencia!
The beach is beautiful, the sun is bright and I don't think I've ever been so warm in my life. I'm currently in Cullera, a small town near Valencia, with my soon-to-be housemate Alex. I'm staying with her and her family and so far, it has been incredible. You can't imagine how lucky I have been to end up in contact with Alex.
I had every intention of travelling alone to Spain, staying in a hostel and then trying to find somewhere to live. However, over the summer, whilst working in a hotel, one of the managers (and also one of my ex-Spanish teachers) told me that his niece was looking for another girl to share the flat she had rented in Valencia. I couldn't believe my luck; Alex is the same age as me and is going to be studying minutes away from where I have my law lectures. So, on the 20th of August I left my parents at East Midlands Airport and began a much easier journey than the one I planned when I booked my flight.
Alex lives is Cullera, a small town that is a short distance from Valencia. Her Uncle invited me to stay at her family house for two days but, as they didn't want me to be alone in the flat, I have been invited to stay until my course starts.
After being picked up from the airport by Alex and her parents, we went straight to her house. They only have two bedrooms, Alex's and her parents, and after knowing Alex for only a few hours I ended my first night sleeping beside her in her double bed.
Alex speaks some English but we only speak in Spanish, apart from the occasional word when I'm struggling with something and she knows the translation. I think we're going to be excellent friends and I'm glad she's so friendly and chatty. By day four we had done almost all I had dreamed of doing, we'd shopped, been to the beach and even visited a pool in a complex where one of her friends lives.
I am very, very thankful to Alex and her parents for allowing me to stay with them. Above all, Alex has been excellent in letting me tag along with her whenever she goes somewhere. Her family have been amazing. They've paid for my meals when I've been invited to eat out with them, they've cooked for me, and have made such an amazing effort to make me feel welcome and help me improve my Spanish.
Quite a few of Alex's friends have asked me what I like most about Cullera and I stand by the answer I first gave when someone asked me the question; the family-orientated culture that the town possess is incredible. Alex's family all have houses within 5 minutes of each other and without warning the randomly agree to meet somewhere for breakfast within the next ten minutes. Everyone, from Alex's great grandma to her nephew all meet if they're available and just spend time talking to each other. As a guest in their house, I've always been invited to join them and have loved feeling like an extra cousin in this wonderful family.
A year abroad comes with many new experiences but also many challenges. It's been an interesting week with lots of changes but I'm definitely enjoying everything Valencia has offered me so far!


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I laugh every time I see that word. NaNoWriMo. It sort of sounds like Nanna Rhino. Anyway, I'm just letting you know I'm participating in National Novel Writing Month. But I don't plan on writing a novel. At least, I don't think I do. But who knows what will happen? Maybe I will, just for fun. What I do plan on writing is assignments, blog posts and lots of cover letters. All things that will in some way or another be "published". Continue reading
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Challenge: 30 Minutes for 30 Days
To get back into the swing of blogging, I've set myself a 30 minute, 30 day challenge. I am going to spend 30 uninterrupted minutes for the next 30 days writing. It won't all be published, but it will get me in the habit of writing again. Continue reading
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Artists' Hands
Artists' hands are colourful, messy, beautiful They have blisters, calluses and paper-cuts They are cold in the winter from working in the air, And hot in the summer from working too hard. Artists' hands have stories to tell Of adventure, … Continue reading
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Free Preview Recipe!
I am loving making this recipe book! And I wanted to share it a bit more with you, so I'm giving away another free downloadable recipe. This one is not only an old favourite of mine, but it's also a very popular one. The children I live with love it, my parents love it, and even my friends over at Mission Watoto love it! I hope you love it too… Continue reading
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A free printable preview recipe from the book! For you!
Wheeeeeee! Today I finished the ebook cover and a few pages. And to celebrate the milestone of simply beginning the thing, I have a gift for you! A free, downloadable, printable page from the book, with a totally new recipe that I've never shared before. Yay! Continue reading
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Celebrations and Preparations!
I have, for now anyway, finally caught up on all my uni assignments and am able to focus on my next big project. The book. Yipeeeee! Also eeeek! I'm so excited about being able to share my recipes with the world in such a fun way. Tomorrow I start working on the book in full scale, starting with a cover page, so I can show it off. Reading the paper on the train ride home this afternoon, I was a bit excited to read my horoscope (Which I know is just a bit of nonsense, but it's fun too!)….. Continue reading
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Today when the house was quite with the sounds of napping, I took a pad of pastel paper and my mum's box of pastels outside to sit and let rainbows smudge beneath my fingers. I haven't used pastels in a long time and it was fun rediscovering how much I enjoy playing with them! The first page I opened up to already had a sketch on it, one that my mum must have done back when she used to take life drawing classes. It was a nice surprise… Continue reading
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Grand Theft Auto V is with us – which is cause for celebration, of course. But there's also some space for reflection.
After all, this was a series borne from a small, Edinburgh-based development team which had seen a few too many car chases on the news.
From its humble, adorably violent origins, the GTA series is now all-conquering – selling in the millions and bringing with it a marketing juggernaut the likes of which no other game has seen - not even Call of Duty.
So we thought we'd look back at the main entries to the series – though special mention should go to Vice City Stories, Chinatown Wars et al – and see how GTA has evolved since it began in 1997.
One thing's for sure - every single one of the games is still a lot of fun to play, as we found out while making this video.


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Dickchicken Leaves Free Art In NYC #artdrops
Photos by G. Art by Dickchicken and Olek (you'll figure out who is who).
What a day I am having! Earlier today, I got to interview a musical icon from the 1980s (stay tuned for that post – it's going to be GREAT). A few hours later, and a month to the day after street artist Dickchicken gave away cans of Dickchicken Noodle Soup on the streets of New York, he was back again giving away free art. Dickchicken will be participating in Summer Invitational from the Jonathan LeVine Gallery (running August 10 – 27th, 2011) alongside another one of the According2g.com all-stars, the goddess of crochet, Olek!
Dickchicken announced via Twitter that he'd be doing a series of #artdrops throughout the Chelsea area, and for the faithful, such as myself, I was able to snag a very limited edition box of "Dickchicken McNuglets." If you are in the New York area and you missed this, you are obviously not following @dickchicken on Twitter. You are also obviously not following @according2g on Twitter either because I took a picture and sent it to my followers – live on the scene. Last but not least, you are also not following @hereandnow3 on Twitter because he also mentioned #artdrops. Remedy that situation now and follow us. Do you really want to miss my tweets where I share stories of meeting the biggest movie star in the world? That's certainly more interesting than people who retweet the same old shit and try and take credit for the idea, according2g.
Thanks again Dickchicken for making (and giving away) great art (twice in a month, no less!) and for giving great tweet! Dickchicken will also be releasing a limited edition print on 1xRun later this month, so don't miss it – it's going to sell out fast. Don't worry, I'll post a reminder because I am ninja like that.