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Anne Egros's curator insight,
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Very interesting article (in French) about immigration, religion, diversity, cultural values, religious symbols and secularism in France. I basically said the same thing in an article that I wrote about being an expat and respecting the host country's values, history, customs by simply keeping private your cultural differences. "I simply cannot drop everything that makes me who I am, my cultural values, beliefs, language and traditions in the name of integration or even in the name of respect for my host country as long as the way I behave is not hurting anybody's feelings or their own values Of course the complex problem of immigration, assimilation and, diversity in France is far more complex than what I experience as an expatriate but I still understand the basic needs of people to belong to a community they share values with. Educating yourself about your host country's culture in depth is a must for all expatriates and evidently for people who get the nationality of their host country and establish themselves there.
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(From the article) A typical sequence for resolving conflict has four stages – recognizing the problem, understanding the differences, creating shared purpose, and building and delivering agreements. Having recognized the problem, the next three phases involve moving past understanding the differences into finding common ground and deciding how you are going to work together in the future. These three phases are much more difficult to deliver remotely, particularly at the early stage where there is often an emotional component to the discussions. Meet face to face if you possibly can at this stage, as it is important to understand what people think and feel and also to understand why. You then need to look hard for existing points of commonality, which often means finding the common business goal.
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Russia's surging inflation rate will remain high through spring of next year, propelled by the devaluation of the ruble currency and the steep cost of Moscow's bans on food imports from Western countries that sanctioned it over Ukraine. ( https://zestnzen.wordpress.com/2014/11/30/russian-central-bank-forecasts-winter-of-high-inflation/  ) Expats already started to leave massively from August 2014 and it is very likely that this trend with accelerate as the European Union has no plans to ease Russia sanctions. ( http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/01/19/us-ukraine-crisis-eu-idUSKBN0KS0JJ20150119) The Ruble crisis also hit hard immigrants from countries that rely heavily on rubles sent home. In the region, most vulnerable countries are the central Asian countries of Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan. Source: @guardian: "Russia's ruble crisis poses threat to nine countries relying on remittances" http://gu.com/p/45xjh/tw
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(From the article): The richest person in the world could be miserable while a person living in the slums of a third world country could be happy and content. I have spent plenty of time amongst both groups to have seen it first hand. Happy people are happy because they make themselves happy. They maintain a positive outlook on life and remain at peace with themselves. |


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The town of Osnabrück, where the Peace of Westphalia was signed, is home to Germany's newest three-Michelin-star restaurant: local-born chef Thomas Bühner's exciting flavour-centric cuisine has made the town a highly desirable gourmet destination.
Thomas Bühner's development mirrors the recent meteoric rise of German haute cuisine: within two to three years, the protégé of classic-French inspired Harald Wohlfahrt (LINK) has become a leading exponent of the new German school of cuisine. Bühner's style could be described as German avant garde, but this hardly does justice his culinary imagination, which goes far beyond merely demonstrating his technical brilliance and his daring flavour combinations. Instead, he uses modern methods of gentle vacuum and low-temperature cooking to preserve the natural flavours of his meat and increasingly his vegetables (La Vie has been using the many varieties in the Ippenburg Palace kitchen garden since 2011), which concentrates attention on the taste and naturalness of his food. Bühner certainly subscribes to the idea of taking his foot off the gas.
The focal point of his creations are excellent ingredients, whose many facets he presents with great precision and sets off with different textures. The dining experience is a highly thrilling flavour discovery tour that is infinitely surprising, never hard work and full of blissful moments. Excellent illustrations of Bühner's cuisine are his lamb from front to back with miso cream, which very impressively shows different cooking techniques within an overall context, the pure venison 2011, in which his gently poached venison is served with a pure venison jus produced using a vacuum evaporator, and his marinated mackerel with sesame ice cream and passion fruit.
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The Phillies have enjoyed playing against John Lannan for years. Now they'll see what it's like to play with him.
The veteran left-hander will make his Phillies debut on Saturday night at Citizens Bank Park in the second of a three-game series against the Royals. Philadelphia dropped its home opener on Friday, 13-4, as the Royals topped their 2012 season high for runs in a game.
Lannan signed a one-year deal with the Phillies in December, following six years with the Nationals. During that time, he posted a 5.53 ERA against Philadelphia -- including 6.49 in eight starts at Citizens Bank Park -- compared with his career mark of 4.01.
Despite a solid 2011 season, Lannan was squeezed out of Washington's rotation last year. He spent most of his time at Triple-A Syracuse, but went 4-1 with a 4.13 ERA in six big league outings.
"They just thought they had better guys than me," he said. "That's what it came down to. I've always had a chip on my shoulder, but to be told you're not good enough, it's kind of hard to take. It definitely changed me."
With a spot in the Phillies' rotation secure, Lannan was having a good spring until his Grapefruit League outing against the Blue Jays on March 25. He allowed 12 runs on 14 hits, including two homers.
"I made some good pitches, but most of the day I was up in the zone and they took advantage," he said. "I got my butt kicked, and I've got to move on."
Lannan did that in his final spring outing on March 30, when he held Toronto to one run in three innings, with five strikeouts.
The Royals will counter with right-hander Luis Mendoza, who has had a successful last few months. First, the 29-year-old was named the Most Valuable Player of the Caribbean Series after throwing 13 1/3 scoreless innings. Then his strong spring allowed him to beat out Bruce Chen for the fifth spot in the Royals' rotation.
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Mendoza went 8-10 with a 4.23 ERA in 30 games, including 25 starts, for the Royals last season.
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Playing in a National League park, the Royals can't go with their usual lineup, which includes Billy Butler at designated hitter. Yost either has to sit Butler -- last year's team leader in batting average, home runs and RBIs -- or use him at first base while sitting Eric Hosmer or Jeff Francoeur.
Butler began Friday's game on the bench, although he walked and scored as a pinch-hitter.
Yost said he wanted Francoeur in the lineup, considering his past success against Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick. That figures to be the case again on Saturday, since Francoeur is 13-for-28 (.520) with four doubles and a home run against Lannan.
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• Domonic Brown won the starting left-field job by hitting .356 with seven home runs this spring, and after making his first Opening Day roster, the 25-year-old has carried that success into the regular season.
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I met Don as a result of doing the cover for this book while he was still writing the book. I also did a trailer for the book all CGI. http://www.sneill.com/oficeandsteel/ofIceAndSteel.wmv
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I'll make it short and to the point. This book could sell better if more people took an interest. Reference books seem to sell better with you guys. I buy many myself. But when Don finally sent me the book to read it could not put it down.
Forget Red October and the rest. The book blows Tom Clancy out of the water. Every page was like a delicious meal. Most importantly it gave me hope and raised my spirit about being a human being. This has to be one of the best sub stories of all time. And because Don served for 18 years on subs the realism and authenticity is overwhelming. Right to the last page it will make you shout for joy.
I also share the movie rights with Don and a good producer friend of mine. The three of us are working hard to get this made into a movie. We are long over due for a good sub film again. Don't worry I'm not green after working in film for over 30 years I have the connections. But do read this book. And you'll do yourself a favor.
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It's a bit of a saga getting here but to cut a long story short I got a sleeper bus to Honghe, but it was the wrong 'Honghe' which meant I lost a full day, but the bus was great. I got on at 3pm and after 8 hours we parked up in a bus station, it was dark and I couldn't tell where we were, bus as everyone started to get off leaving their bags etc. I just followed them. They went off to different places for food so I joined a few of them with a bowl of noodles together with some grilled 'bits', I don't really know what the 'bits' were, they didn't taste great but were edible and being invited to join them I tried not to think of what they were. After food everyone went back onto the bus and bedded down until we were woken up at 7am by the driver, time to get off. I thought I would need to find accommodation on arrival which is always a bit daunting when arriving somewhere late so I was really glad I didn't have to.
I arrive in a hillside town which has a nice atmosphere and I instantly take too, although because it's on the top of the hill it's a misty and murky old place. The town has a huge square with a massive screen in it showing Chinese TV, in the evening it is full of people dancing, I mean hundreds of them, this has got to be the biggest display I've seen yet, it seems like every part of China take part in this dancing every evening and is amazing to watch their slow deliberate moves.
The town also has an impressive market which I wander through the stalls of fruit and vegetables, spices, clothes, knick knacks etc. many stallholders wear traditional dress which is their everyday. It's different to what I've seen already, the woman wear heavily embroidered clothes, knee length skirts heavily pleated, long sleeve tops up to the collar, their legs have the same material wrapped around them and the headdress is set further back on the head, in more of a turban, it's wonderful to see and I didn't realize China had so many traditional outfits.
I sit in the market for lunch, right in the back of a wee place and I can tell they're not used to visitors by the nudges going on and looks I get. The food is laid out in big metal bowls so it's easy to order, I just pick a few vegetables that look good, and have them with a bowl of noodles which was excellent. The food is definitely not the 'Chinese takeaway' you get at home, this is all packed full of local vegetables which is great, no curry sauce in sight. They also have a lot of bbq places which open normally in the evening serving skewers for 1 yuen, it takes me a while to try them but when I do I head to one that's busy with locals and they were delicious.
The cycle down to the border was brilliant, although I was putting it off, when I get back on the bike I really enjoy it even though its hard work. The area is full of banana and tea plantations and I get to witness the whole process of the banana industry on my way down, often sitting at the roadside watching the processes. I'll never look at bananas the same again, they are bagged while on the plant with the flowers being harvested first; the stalks are cut and carried out two at a time on locals backs or sometimes being taken down by donkey's; it's not baskets they use but purpose built carriers, they're really heavy; they are then taken to a makeshift holding shed and stacked; when these sheds are full lorries come with all the flat pack boxes ready to get packed up to go. The bananas are taken to the back of the production line and are cut off the stalks, weighed, washed and boxed up being put straight onto the back of the lorry, it's quite a process. All the boxes I see are different from 'Slimming Diet' bananas to 'Produce' of different country bananas, some boxes are in English, or French, German etc. I'm starting to think China supplies the banana market worldwide.
When I get down to Hekou I still have a couple of days before my visa expires so I just relax and have a nosey around, I have a walk down to the border which I will be crossing and it looks very different. There are hundreds of 3 wheel carts stacked high with all sorts of products being brought into China although everything is covered so I can't see what's being imported. I'm staying next to a massive market which I enjoy wandering around, these places are just amazing and although I'm not able to buy produce while I'm staying in the hotel I love seeing what's on offer, it's different when I'm camping.
So I have my last look about before it's time to leave China and I have to admit I'm wary about heading to another new country but I will be fine when I get across the border. There have been many highlights to China starting with visiting The Great Wall of China, seeing the Terracotta Warrior of Xi'an, the rice terraces and mountains on the journey down south, Pandas, Shangri La's Songzanlin Monastery, Tiger Leaping Gorge, eventually ending with the tea and banana plantations on the way down to the Vietnam border town of Hekou. I think if I had flown into Beijing and just headed for a few weeks to different tourist places before leaving I would have hated it, China doesn't have volume control and as for the manners the hawking and spitting can turn your stomach, but travelling by bicycle has been amazing.
I've ended up in homes I wouldn't have done otherwise, having lunch in small farmhouses; cycling up high passes with breathtaking views; dodging traffic in metropolis size cities; viewing rice terraces; huge engineering works; massive power plants and millions of people. I've seen many different hill tribes and traditional dress and fascinating markets, every square inch of China is planted with rice, fruit or vegetables, no ground is left un-farmed (which can make camping difficult) it really is an amazing place, I would love to come back someday to see the millions of places I've missed.


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