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Minerality and geology
Talking about MINERALITY
LeRouge & leBlanc: Your often cover minerality, a term that is very much used today ...
David Lefebvre: That's right. Minerality is coming into frequent use as a qualifier for wine. The term has been around for a long time, but its attributes are very variable, and it lacked a common definition, though there were regional ones. For decades, in Alsace, minerality meant the taste of oil. In Burgundy, it was characterized by sulfur odors, flint, gunpowder, and burnt, even oxidized aromas. In other regions, minerality is linked to pencil lead, graphite or ink. In fact, it can also be linked to very advanced brettanomyces (brett). You can see that the current usage is quite varied. There is no consensus on how to define it.
Your approach to minerality seems quite original ?
It stems from my background as a chemist. At university, the chemistry curriculum covers both mineral (inorganic) and organic chemistry. The mineral part corresponds to 40% of the curriculum. However, when preparing an oenology diploma, the focus is primarily on the organic elements. This is surprising, since we know that minerals are omnipresent in wine. In fact, wine is about 85% mineral, including water, which is a mineral compound, the CO2 and the various salts. In addition, there is the organic/ mineral interface with its organo-mineral elements. A mineral compound is stable over time. Wine is made up of these stable elements plus others which can still decompose. To illustrate my point about the lack of reference to minerals, we can look at the oenological “bible”, Ribéreau-Gayon’s, Handbook of Enology: The Chemistry of Wine Stabilization and Treatments. Of its 3000 pages, only 3 pages focus on minerals. I do not pretend to revolutionize oenology, but we need to agree on what ‘minerality’ means, especially since winemakers take it into account, but oenologists refuse to acknowledge it. I suggest that we approach this semantically: minerality is related to the minerals - though this approach seems to horrify wine merchants and sommeliers. By saying that minerality is related to the minerals, we mean it is related to the stable compounds of the wine on the thermodynamic level; those elements which are unchanging and unchangeable over time.
How do you define minerality?
I start from experiments. We need to target the tasting: we will concentrate on the impact of mineral compounds on the taste components of wine. There are two main effects. The first is salinity, and its different types. The most obvious is sodium chloride, but metallic tastes are also a form of salinity. There is thus a great diversity of salinities and it is their combined presence that brings this salty dimension. Magnesium, for example, has a distinctive salinity that comes close to bitterness. The second is the harmonization of taste components of the wine. The minerality interacts with these other components and modifies the tastes. For example, when one experiences sweetness in the presence of different saline solutions, this sweetness will be appreciated in different ways. The same type of interaction holds true for acids, alcohols, tannins and even for astringency.
So Minerality has no smell, only taste?
That’s it. Mineral compounds have no odor, but they can cause physico-chemical reactions such as CO2 production. The reason is simple: Mineral salts cannot turn into gas, they may be 100% soluble or insolubilized (they form crystals), but they don’t go into the air. In contrast, organic compounds do have an odor.
Then what causes the flinty odors ?
The causes are organic sulfur compounds. In addition to the four components of organic matter: carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen (CHON), sulfur is also present
What about trace elements?
They are part of this minerality. In terms of Mendeleev’s table of the elements, if we exclude these four (CHON) components as well as excluding sulfur, all the other elements exist only in trace quantities in wine. The only way to measure minerals in wine is by dosing/analysing/extracting its ash. These can range between 2.2 g and 4 g of ash per liter. As an example, if we did this sort of measurement on mineral waters with different salinities, we would find that one might contain 2 g of ash and the other 4. The wine’s ashes, when assessed - the only reference measure in oenology to that lets us measure the wine's minerals - can range between 2.2 g and 4 g of ash per liter. And if we do a tasting of mineral waters, with different ash contents, they will have differing salinities. Obviously, wine tasting must take this minerality into account. For example, a wine may have 30g of residual sugar per liter; but this means nothing in absolute terms. It all depends on its mineral content. This is why we need a way to measure and compare minerality. I suggest that we construct this measurement by comparing the ratio of ash to dry extract. The ash is generated at a temperature of 700°C, and the dry extract by evaporation at 72°C. In wine-making this ratio is in constant evolution as elevage, fermentation and aging all diminish the dry extract.
Could you be a bit more specific (about this index ?)
The mineral element of the ratio would be the weight of the ash minus the potassium, the latter being the most important mineral element (a spectrometer is used to perform the assay). Since potassium is not a vineyard parameter, but a wine-making parameter, its weight should be subtracted, as it can represent between a quarter and half of the minerals. The potassium content can be modified during winemaking by varying the type of pressing.
How do minerality and acidity interact ?
Acids have a very special relationship with mineral salts. This concerns the phenomenon of salification, when the mineral salts harmonize the acids in the mouth. Conversely, acids have an enhancer effect on salinity. The salinity of a Riesling can be better appreciated because acidity is also present. When tasting with mineral water, minerals are seen to interact with alcohol. In the same manner, if a wine is considered too hot, it may not be too much alcohol, but too few minerals; this was the case with the 2003 vintages.
Are wines from limestone soils more mineral?
Not really. There is no obvious correlation between mineral presence and taste of a terroir. Even if a soil is limestone-rich, it does not mean that there will be more calcium in the wine. It is the same for a ferruginous soil. The parameters are too complex: there are processes at the root level, at the fermentation level (physical, biological, chemical), the filter of fermentations ... There is no easy conclusion.
So the more the wine is natural or biodynamic, the more mineral it will be?
To be able to answer this, you have to taste the wines while knowing their ash content. When we can get to that point, we’ll have a better idea what is going on. Currently, my experiments are only with mineral water. There are too many variables present when wine tasting; with mineral water, there is only the water and the minerals, ex.it is easier to add alcohol and taste the results.
Does minerality correspond to the verticality of a wine?
Absolutely. It's the wine’s skeleton. In the same way, the wine’s horizontal aspect is its organic matter, its dry extract, its muscles. If a wine is over-developed, (body-built), enriched, boosted with gum arabic, we will find more dry extract. Currently gum arabic can be as high as 30 g per liter, which gives fat. Today’s tastes, unfortunately, prefer dry extract over minerality. It was one of Parker’s errors; he focused on the wine’s concentration ; thus on the dry extract. The concentration concerns both polyphenols and acidity. This tendency to ignore wine’s mineral dimension (the chemical composition) always bothers me.
Do red wines have their own minerality?
Minerality has enormous effects on red wines especially on the harmony of the tannins. When these are too astringent there are two ways to make them harmonious: either by fining or tannin-reduction, or by adding minerals. In our experiments with mineral water, we can clearly sense the taste difference between a tannin level in demineralized water and the same level of tannins in mineral water. In the latter, the tannin will be harmonious while in fresh water it will be aggressive and astringent. Fortunately for wine, mineralistion through additives is just around the corner. The matter is far too complex; just think of all the elements in Mendeleev's table!
Are there different salinities?
If we profile the mineral composition of wines at the qualitative level (what makes them distinct from each other) there are as many salinities as terroirs. For example, calcium levels vary from 10 to 200 mg per liter.
That sounds like Burgundy climates?
In Burgundy, the expression of this minerality is detected thanks to the taste-vin . While the INAO glass is made to maximize the organic dimension of the wine in the mouth, the taste-vin tasting allows appreciation of its saline dimension. According to Jacky Rigaux, this science of the classification by terroirs is an Aristotelian approach. The Cistercians (e.g. Burgundy monasteries) sought to represent the terroir in wine. I have the impression that it was above all through its saline dimension. This raises the question of terroirs with characteristic aromas, but it is not contradictory (more complementary) because there is always a organo-mineral interaction and minerals control organic bio-synthesis. The coenzymes resulting from these syntheses are minerals. There's no contradiction. There may be an aromatic signature of the terroir, but it is also controlled by minerals (coenzymes, cupron-enzymes, all trace elements).
What do you mean by mineralization?
We’ll stay with the semantic point of view. Fermentation is one example of mineralization. During fermentation unstable compounds are transformed into more stable, more mineralized compounds.
So the more sulfur we add, the more we mineralize?
Sulfur freezes the process at a moment, but it prevents the completion (full realization ) of the biological mineralization. It leads to chemical mineralization by blocking decomposition of the molecules. The etching of colors is a typical example. When making an herbarium, sulfur is used to fix the color; the yellow will thus be preserved, but this process is a chemical mineralization. In wine,it is biological mineralization that is sought through fermentation, and all the art of the winegrower consists in controlling it. In all fermented products - from milk to cheese, from cabbage to sauerkraut, from grapes to wine - if we compare the taste of the fermented product with that of the product from which it is produced, the saline component appears. A fruit at the start is not salty, but the mineralization will reveal this saline dimension.
In the 17th century, the Cistercians were already discussing minerality (see Leon Potier de Gesvres,). It is possible that we are rediscovering this subject today. In oenology, if winemakers viewed fermentation not just as the transformation of sugar into alcohol and carbon dioxide, but as the decomposition of organic matter, they would have a different approach to their viticulture and winemaking. This line of thought leads us to aim for mineral-rich grapes. When these are released by the mineralization, the saline components will appear.
At the start, the minerals are bound up with the organic matrix, the calcium in the grapes is trapped with the calcium pectates. What happens to this calcium? There are enzymatic activities called pectolitics . They reprocess the calcium and some is released in the wine; it is this free calcium that contributes to the salty taste. Another example of looking at fermentations through mineralization can be seen in wines under veil or champagnes. In this case, additional organic decomposition processes are added to the alcoholic fermentation, this results in a stronger mineral expression. Champagne's reputation is fully deserved, it has been won by incorporating supplementary fermentations that reinforce what was called “the spirit of wine”: its minerality .
An interesting avenue to explore would be a base wine with yeasts of veil, or more highly oxidized, which would then move on to become effervescent. I think that intuitively Anselme Selosse (the champagne winemaker) - was working in this direction.

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As published on gov.uk, Wednesday 27th March, 2019.
HM Revenue and Customs has won a legal case over tax avoidance scheme promoter Hyrax Resourcing Ltd, which will help the tax authority collect over £40 million in unpaid taxes.
The victory over Hyrax means the promoter now has to disclose the details of their tax avoidance scheme to HMRC, along with the names and addresses of 1,180 high earners who used it.
If Hyrax fail to provide the required information to HMRC they could face a penalty of nearly £6 million, as well as £5,000 per day for not fully disclosing the scheme.
The scheme promoted by Hyrax was a disguised remuneration avoidance scheme which worked by paying scheme users in loans so they could avoid paying Income Tax and National Insurance on their earnings.
Scheme users were paid just enough to comply with the National Minimum Wage. The rest of their income was made up in loans which were transferred to an offshore trust in Jersey. The amounts received under loan agreements were not declared as income on the scheme users tax return, meaning they didn’t pay tax on all their earnings.
Mel Stride, Financial Secretary to the Treasury said:
“HMRC is cracking down on the unscrupulous promoters who sell these highly contrived tax avoidance loan schemes. Promoters need to take note of this decision and make sure they contact HMRC urgently about schemes they haven’t yet disclosed.”
The First-tier Tribunal agreed with HMRC that Hyrax Resourcing Ltd had not complied with the Disclosure of Tax Avoidance Schemes (DOTAS) rules, which requires promoters to tell HMRC about the schemes they sell.
The Hyrax scheme was a successor to the K2 arrangements which became widely known about in 2012.
New legislation has been introduced every year since 2014 to help HMRC take on promoters and enablers of tax avoidance schemes.
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La Punta Norte Okanagan
Shooting weddings in Okanagan is very simple when it is sunny. La Punta Norte wedding from last Saturday was a bit more challenging. The weather was up and down. Luckily for Steve and Crystal the sunshine took over for their big day. We met for the first time at the venue. Couple from Alberta booked a Vancouver photographer for their Okanagan celebration. Weird? Crystal saw my image of the bride dancing on the edge of a cliff on our website. She loved the scenic approach I usually offer to my couples for their wedding day. The emotions, love, tears, happiness dancing it all has to be there. But we like to spice it up a bit with more creative, modern and unique pictures. Those include lots of venue details, scenery of nature around and of course the couple in it. Here is a selection of pictures from this wedding at La Punta Norte.
This is a short version of this day. If you would love to see the whole day, you can find the complete gallery here.
And here is the link to the wedding slideshow from this day just to give you a visual and audio feeling of what we created for this great couple.

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Alex Crease is an engineer, a musician and an adventurer who says he “loves building things and taking others apart to see how they work.” Crease is one of four students who run the 3D printing space at Olin College of Engineering, where he’s a member of the class of 2016. He’s majoring in Engineering with Robotics, and as a leader of the 3D printing space at Olin, he says he’s constantly looking for new ways to use the 3D printers.
He’s also developing a 3D printing technique called “co-processing,” a technique he says will be documented and defined in a series of weekly posts on his blog.
The PulleyBot is driven by a system of belts and pulleys in a mechanical transmission. The belt is looped around sets of pulleys and driven via friction.
As for your toolbox, you’ll need a small screwdriver, wire strippers, a .05″ hex wrench, a 3/32 Hex wrench, some solder and a soldering iron, Superglue, a file, a hack saw or band saw, a 3D printer of course and some grease.
Crease began by 3D printing all the necessary components on a MakerBot Replicator 2 at standard resolution, and they were all designed to avoid the need for support material. The parts were all printed in a single job which took some 5 hours and 45 minutes. For the final version, Crease printed out the parts in different colors to show the method of construction and how the pulleys were looped together.
As far as tips are concerned, Crease says it’s a good idea to take some grease and spray or rub it onto the axles and holes for the axles in the chassis pieces. He says he also sprayed the axles and fed them through their respective holes and slid and rotated them a bit to spread the grease around.
To determine which direction you want the PulleyBot to move, turn on the motor and see which way it turns. The axle with the part called the Large_Drum will spin the same way as the motor and the part called Small_Drum will spin toward the front of the bot.
If you’re a contrarian and you want the PulleyBot to travel backward, twist one side of the O-ring 180 degrees before placing it in the pulley groove. Crease says this will make the top pulley spin in the opposite direction of the bottom one, and you get it backward.
You can check out all the documentation and a full series of steps to construct your own PulleyBot here on Instructables.
Will you build your own version of this 3D printed PulleyBot by engineering student Alex Crease? Let us know in the PulleyBot forum thread on 3DPB.com.
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First packaging of 100% Post Consumer Recyclates from the Yellow Bag
Werner & Mertz is revolutionizing the cosmetics industry. As of 1 May, the shower gel bottles for Frosch Senses will be made of 100 percent recycled HDPE, the first packaging with HDPE Post Consumer Recyclates (PCR) from the Yellow Bag for use in the cosmetics field. This innovation was made possible by a special treatment process for HDPE that Werner & Mertz developed in a joint project with The Green Dot and the EREMA Group.
Demanding requirements of the cosmetics industry satisfied
According to the EC regulation Nr. 1223/2009 on cosmetic products, manufacturers may bring to market only verifiably safe products. For the new packaging Werner & Mertz had ATC GmbH render a human toxicological expert opinion, which confirmed the safe use of this packaging from a hygienic perspective. "As we put together the report, it became clear to us that the team from Werner & Mertz and The Green Dot had worked continuously on the problems related to the reuse of plastic waste throughout the development process," said Joachim Haselbach, one of the experts from ATC. "Such a process takes months and years. Team members were in it for the long haul and they persevered."
Innovative technology in use
For the conversion to 100 percent recyclates from the Yellow Bag, the material had to be not only technically suitable but also odorless because the scent of a shower gel is very important to consumers. Consequently, the granules from the waste collection system had to be free of impurities and contamination. All the volatile odor-causing substances in the used plastic were removed during the recycling process. "We used a special processing technology for cleaning," said Dr. Markus Helftewes, Managing Director of The Green Dot. "With it we are approaching food grade quality." The treated flakes are further processed into granules. That's where the technology from the Austrian recycling machine manufacturer EREMA comes in. The company's INTAREMA RegrindPro extrusion system, equipped with the "ReFresher" module, was designed specifically to meet the challenges of processing plastic waste from the Yellow Bag. The combined thermal and physical processes also eliminate odors. The operation saves energy by utilizing the energy generated by the extrusion process for the pre-heated granules. "It's great to work with such an innovative company on advances in plastic recycling. The entire plastic industry needs this kind of effort right now," said Clemens Kitzberger, Business Development Manager Application Post-Consumer at EREMA.
Important contribution to meeting German recycling rates
The new packaging law prescribes higher recycling rates. In this year alone the requirement for the mechanical recycling of plastics increases from 36 to 58.5 percent. Starting in 2022, the rate will be set at 63 percent. "Since the new packaging law went into force in January, significantly more products with a recyclate share have been submitted for examination. So the law is having an effect," said Dr. Monika Rüter, Managing Director of FABES Forschungs-GmbH. FABES conducted the analytical examination of the recyclate bottles from Werner & Mertz with regard to health safety and thus to consumer protection. She predicts an increase in the share of plastic recyclates in the Yellow Bag. Recyclates of good quality, therefore, are necessary to ensure that the quality of the output material from the Yellow Bag does not decrease as the recyclate portion increases. Then the used plastic can continue to be recycled for high quality use. "For the recyclate bottles from Werner & Mertz we examined bottles and numerous recyclate granules from the recyclates and found both to be of very good quality," said Rüter.
"With our recyclate bottles for the cosmetics field, we contribute to meeting the German recycling rate targets," said Immo Sander, Head of Packaging Development at Werner & Mertz, "and take another giant step in our Recyclate Initiative!"
Ecological formulas free of microplastic
In accordance with the integrally sustainable philosophy of the Mainz company, both product packaging and formulas meet the highest ecological standards. The pH neutral formula for the shower gel is vegan and contains no harmful substances such as EDTA and parabens. As with all other Frosch formulas, the shower gel is free of microplastic and thus protects bodies of water. The German consumer magazine ÖKO-TEST recently conferred the label "good" to the pomegranate and aloe vera gels. The new scent of raspberry blossom will be launched in May when the bottles are converted to PCR.


You would be hard pressed to find a Maritimer who is not familiar with Cape Breton’s Matt Minglewood.
Touting a musical mixture of blues, country, and rock, Minglewood has been entertaining audiences for more than 45 years now, earning three gold records and a dedicated legion of fans from coast to coast.
Having recently celebrated his 65th birthday, Minglewood looks back upon his career with a mixture of wonder and gratitude for all that he has experienced over the past four and a half decades.
“In the band’s heyday, it was common for us to play 325 shows,” Minglewood tells The Times & Transcript from his home last week. “It seemed as though we were always on the road somewhere in the country. It is a much different landscape these days though. The number of places to play shows has dwindled and so the opportunity to play dwindles accordingly.”
Though Minglewood is known for his superior guitar skills, it is interesting to note that the musician actually got his start on the violin. Minglewood was inspired to take up the instrument thanks to his grandfather who would sit a young Matt on his knee and play Celtic music.
And while his grandfather was one key influence upon Minglewood’s taste for wide variety of music styles, artists such as Elvis Presley and James Brown proved to be an equal force in setting him on his musical journey.
“The first time I saw Elvis on the Ed Sullivan Show, I got turned onto so much in the way of music,” he says. “The radio was so different back then though. You could hear anything and everything on there. It was an eclectic mix of music; country music at one point of the day while the weekends would be dedicated to the hit parade. And at night, in Cape Breton, we could pick up radio stations from New York and got introduced to guys like James Brown and funk music.”
Minglewood credits FM radio for helping his band secure their following throughout the country.
“I am very thankful that we found success in an era where FM radio stations would play album cuts and not depend exclusively on hits. Sadly though, that era is gone now. I wouldn’t want to be starting my career in today’s day and age.”
Although the music business has evolved greatly over the past two decades, Minglewood is not an artist struggling to find his place amidst the turmoil. He continues making new music but for him, playing live is a vital component of his everyday life. Minglewood continues to perform with his namesake band and is fortunate enough to have the flexibility to perform solo shows, as well. His show on Saturday evening will be one of his solo outings, a venture that Minglewood admits initially took a little work to shap into what he wanted it to be for fans.
“By and large, solo tours have kept me in the music business and have given me another outlet as well as another outlook on performing,” Minglewood says. “It took a little while to develop the solo thing; people would come out and wants to hear songs from the band so I had to work to adapt them. Then I did an acoustic style record and I think that really brought the most different perspective to my fans. The acoustic show ended up evolving from that.”
Regardless of where the music industry is at these days, it is evident that Minglewood remains ever grateful for the opportunities that he has been given over the past four-plus decades.
In the past ten years alone, he has performed throughout Canada but has also had the opportunity to play for Canadian troops stationed in Afghanistan in 2005 and 2009. The experiences are ones that he says will stay with him forever.
“I loved my experiences there but it was such a complete culture shock,” he says. “Everybody sleeps in these tents called igloos; planes are coming and going all around you 24 hours a day. But what impressed me the most was the dedication that the soldiers showed towards the mission. I spent a lot of time with them and just watched at how much care they put into what they were doing and how they truly believed in what they were doing. The pride and professionalism that they put into what they were doing was incredibly heart-warming to see. To be there and see what their daily lives were like was very moving. It helps to put a lot in perspective; I was a very proud Canadian to be there. I had always dreamed that my music would take me around the world and it indeed has done just that.”
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Microsoft has acquired Ally, a 3-year-old Seattle-based startup that helps companies track and hit their goals. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.
Microsoft will use the deal to beef up Microsoft Viva, its new employee experience platform that launched earlier this year. Viva aims to improve wellbeing by analyzing how employees spend their time, provide a central hub for internal company resources, integrate learning into the flow of work, and provide better access to internal corporate knowledge and expertise.
Ally helps companies monitor their Objectives and Key Results (OKR), a popular framework for running teams and businesses. The idea is to bring together data from across an organization and keep employees on the same page as they work toward milestones. Customers include brands such as Dropbox, Zillow Group, Overstock.com and others.
Ally will power a new Microsoft Viva module, and Microsoft will integrate Ally into its other products such as Office, Power BI, and Teams.
“Ally.io and Microsoft Viva will enrich how people and teams come together to build alignment and achieve better business outcomes,” Kirk Koenigsbauer, Microsoft COO and CVP, Experiences and Devices Group, wrote in a blog post.
Having a comprehensive employee experience platform will be key to business success going forward. By bringing @Allydotio into Microsoft Viva, we will help employees bridge the gap between their everyday tasks and their employer’s most important objectives. https://t.co/FouuIRXWAz
— Satya Nadella (@satyanadella) October 7, 2021
Viva is Microsoft’s entry into the increasingly crowded category of employee experience technology that aims to measure and improve the overall quality of work, health and life of a company’s employees.
It’s part of a larger effort by Microsoft to make its Teams a central hub for work, attempting to give its communication and collaboration software an edge over rivals such as Zoom, Slack and Google, while expanding its productivity technologies further beyond the core Microsoft Office suite.
Ally had raised $76 million, including a $50 million Series C round in February. Investors include Green Oaks Capital, Tiger Global, Madrona Venture Group, Accel, Addition Ventures, Founders’ Co-Op, and Vulcan Capital.
“As a part of Viva, we’re excited to continue shaping the future of work, now with the power of the most important technology company in the business sector behind us,” Ally CEO Vetri Vellore, who previously spent 14 years at Microsoft, said in a blog post.
Ally’s software integrates with other collaboration tools including Slack, Jira, Smartsheet, Asana, and more. Microsoft said today that “current customers can continue to expect the same great support and service, and new customers can continue to purchase the existing service through Ally.io.”
Vellore came up with the idea for Ally after an experience at his previous startup. In 2007, he co-founded Chronus, a company that built digital tools for employee development programs. He implemented OKRs but found it cumbersome to track progress with spreadsheets and other manual methods. So Vellore built his own tool to streamline the process, which is what eventually led him to start Ally.
Aviel Ginzburg, general partner at Founders’ Co-op, which led the company’s seed round, wrote in a blog post that “Vetri is a man on fire with the passion to impact and elevate others, delivered through a rare balance of charisma and humility that we look for in every new founder that we meet.”
“While we’ll miss spending time in the trenches with Ally.io’s fantastic leadership team in this next stage of their growth, Microsoft is and always was the perfect long term partner for them, and we couldn’t be more thrilled for everyone involved,” Ginzburg wrote.
Ally has more than 1,000 customers across 80-plus countries. It employs 250 people.
Ally won Startup of the Year honors at the 2020 GeekWire Awards, and was a finalist for Next Tech Titan this year.

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Eltham Wildcats 69 def Geelong United 57
Top Performers: K. Ferronato/K. Mountford 13 points, A. Burrows/E. Davies 11 points
The Eltham Wildcats Youth Women have won their fourth game of the season on the road against Geelong United on Saturday night. After a close first half the Wildcats coaching staff preached defensive effort in the halftime break and the team responded putting United under pressure with their half court trapping defensive forcing turnovers and outscoring Geelong 21-14 in the quarter led by an offensive outburst by K. Ferronato who netted 11 points.
Eltham maintained that momentum in the last quarter once again outscoring the home side 17-11. Meg Stagoll was instrumental in the win filling the stat sheet (7 rebounds/8 assists/5 steals) while solid contributions from the whole team solidified the Wildcats second consecutive win of the season.
Coach D’Wayne Hogan said “there is a positive vibe around the group, we never conceded and stayed persistent and it turned our way.”
Eltham can still make the finals but with the next three games against the top teams Coach Hogan and the team have plenty of work to do.
“We are going to focus on one game at time and keep challenging ourselves to get better everyday.”
The Youth Women take on the Sherbrooke Suns this Saturday night at Eltham High School, tip off 6:00pm. Tickets are now available via: https://www.trybooking.com/BSXNN
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Eltham Wildcats 68 def by Nunawading Spectres 83
Top Performers: O. Magbegor 11 points/11 rebounds, Z. Cunningham 10 points, N. Dillion 9 points
In a 2019 Grand Final rematch the Wildcats have once again come up short to a well drilled Nunawading Spectres outfit on Saturday night at Eltham High School.
The visiting Spectres took control of the game from the start as J. Mutimer nailed a three point basket 17 seconds into play to ignite Nunawadings offence. From there the Spectres kicked away to a 21-12 first quarter performance and then winning the second and third periods heading into the final 10 minutes of play with a 26 point lead. Eltham put some respect in the score line winning the final quarter 27-16 to only still go down by 15 points.
Eltham Wildcats 77 def Hawthorn Magic 75
Top Performers: A. Bandilovski 19 points, N. Dillion 14 points, T. O’Connor 14 points/10 rebounds
There was no time to waste pondering about a bad performance the night before as the Youth Men quickly had to back it up on Sunday afternoon against the Hawthorn Magic at Boroondara Sports Complex.
Eltham started well outscoring the home side 20-13 in the first quarter but then hung on for dear life as the Magic won the second, third and fourth periods as the game would come down to the final seconds of play to determine the winner. With two minutes remaining in the contest the Magic took the lead for the first time and appeared to take the momentum and possibly the game as they hit big shot after big shot. The Wildcats responded to everything Hawthorn threw at them as Bandilovski & Whelan hit crucial shots to level the scores while Ovie Magbegor came up with the game winning go ahead two point basket with only 20 seconds remaining to win the game.
Eltham have won three out of their last 9 games and now in real danger of dropping out finals contention as they sit in 6th spot in the Terrill conference with a 10-8 record.
The Youth Men will play the Knox Raiders this Saturday night at Eltham High School, tip off 8pm. Tickets are on sale now via https://www.trybooking.com/BSXNN

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Pioneer is the first aftermarket car stereo manufacturer to offer Apple CarPlay software thanks to updated firmware for the Pioneer's NEX multimedia car receivers.
A firmware update for Pioneer's NEX series car stereos will add Apple CarPlay compatibility to their already impressive feature set.
Do we really need a multicharm wireless band? Apparently, someone thinks the answer is yes.
Sony's NEX-5T packs a 16.1-megapixel sensor, a 3-inch tiltable LCD and Wi-Fi and NFC to pair with your smart phone.
With the exception of the addition of an NFC logo, the 5T looks identical to its predecessor.
The Sony NEX-6 shares photos online and downloads apps, on top of shooting 16.1-megapixel pictures and 1080p video.
Learn how to adjust Sony's NEX-7 camera to create smoother, more natural looking video.
Learn how to adjust Sony's NEX-7 camera to create smoother, more natural-looking video.
The RhinoCam makes any Sony NEX camera turn into a medium format beast without the expense of a traditional back.
Sony's smallest, cheapest interchangeable-lens camera has a nice design with one annoying cut corner.


NFL free agency is just a month away as teams will gear up to fix roster holes before the 2023 season. Each time has players that likely will be cap casualties before then and PFF lists Cleveland Browns offensive linemen Joe Haeg as a possible cap casualty.
Haeg is a versatile and solid veteran depth option but injuries limited him last year and he was inactive nearly all season. It’s smart to have players like this around but with young players like James Hudson and the money spent on the line, this move makes sense. If the Browns cut Haeg they have just 500k in dead cap and cap savings of $2 million.


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Li Ching Yuen was quite the extraordinary man. As a Chinese herbalist he lived 256 years, through qigong and a diet rich in herbs including goji, ginseng. Skip to primary navigation.Lady Gaga follows a 5 Factor Diet made by her personal trainer, Harley Pasternak. According to this diet, Lady Gaga requires eating 2 times meals and 3 times snacks a day. She mainly likes vegetables.
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What is the Low Glycemic Index treatment (LGIT)? The LGIT for epilepsy was developed in 2002 as an alternative to the ketogenic diet (KD) for treatment of intractable epilepsy. The LGIT monitors not only the total amount of carbohydrates consumed daily, but focuses on carbohydrates that have a low Glycemic Index.Diet.com provides diet, nutrition and fitness solutions. Meet your weight loss goals today.
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Eating beans, peas, chickpeas or lentils may help lose weight and keep it off that a daily serving of pulses makes people feel fuller than if they ate a control diet, and that eating pulses.Here’s how I lost 4 pounds of fat every week by going on a 30-day diet to test the effects of rapid fat loss vs the traditional slow methods. Read more 0 Comments Diet. 30 Days of Fast Fat Loss – Part I. Jeff Kastner, March.

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A uniquely American art form, jazz is an essential part of the nation’s history and culture. Jazz studies is part of the Department of Music's Arts and Humanities program at the Columbian College of Arts and Sciences, and students study under the direction of GW jazz faculty. Coursework includes basic tune writing, a survey of jazz styles and an introduction to recording-studio technology.
Related Majors, Minors, and Concentrations
Students may choose GW’s big band or small groups such as the Ubercombo, blues band, Latin band and jazz vocal ensemble, among others.
What can I expect to learn in the Jazz Studies program at GW?
Students learn a variety of subject areas within the field, including elements in music theory, jazz musicianship and the history of jazz.
What is the Jazz Studies community like at GW?
Student jazz groups entertain regularly on campus, most notably as headliners at the Colonials Weekend Jazz Brunch. Our students have also recently performed at the Kennedy Center Millennium Stage, the Sylvan Theater at the Washington Monument and at clubs such as Blues Alley. The jazz community comes together every Friday for informal jam sessions, where students have played with guest artists such as Paquito D’Rivera, Walt Weiskopf and Tito Puente.
What can I do in the Jazz Studies field?
Career options include performer, music critic, music teacher, arranger and composer.


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Last week Esquire magazine published an opinion a poll which found that two thirds of Americans get angry at least once a day. Well it serves them right: it was they who invented the call centre. The only angrier group comprises those investors who followed a certain investment bank's new-year trading recommendations.
Goldman Sachs yesterday advised customers to close out five of the six strategic trades it had proposed at the beginning of January. One of them - to buy the US dollar against the euro and the yen - would have cost -4% had it been held all the way through to yesterday. The point of this observation is not to ridicule the bank for getting it wrong. It is to highlight the impossibility of making dependable exchange rate forecasts, even when the propeller-heads making those predictions have access to the most sophisticated data and modelling systems.
The one certainty in financial markets is uncertainty, and that has been doubly true in the year to date. The yen has forged ahead despite the best efforts of the Bank of Japan to use negative interest rates to make it unattractive. Sterling has lost ground even in the face of often class-leading UK economic data. The best result an investor can realistically expect to achieve is, by the use of hedging, to avoid buying at the top or selling at the bottom.
Rhyme nor reason
Yesterday's FX market was a case in point. Even though another broad selloff in equity markets was symptomatic of severe risk-aversion, the "risky" South African rand was the day's top-performing currency and the safe-haven Swiss franc was close behind it while the even safer-haven yen lost ground to sterling.
The latest fear to stalk investors is the ability of banks to provide the liquidity necessary for the smooth operation of financial markets. Negative and near-zero interest rates make it difficult for them to generate the profits necessary to make the capital increases demanded by regulators and to fund the massive fines levied on them from time to time.
Concerns such as this contribute to a high level of volatility that few had imagined before Christmas. They are not likely to go away any time soon.
What now for the Fed?
Janet Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairperson, will begin her biannual testimony to Congress this afternoon. Her comments will have an enormous influence on financial markets and investor sentiment.
More than a few economists believe the Fed made a mistake when it raised interest rates two months ago. Some even look for that move to be reversed in the face of the current market turmoil. Others argue that the Fed could not retain its credibility were it not to push ahead with further increases. Today's speech might not be the most important Ms Yellen has ever made but it is up there.
And now for the bathos. UK industrial and manufacturing production data come out at half past nine.

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By Sam Smith
May 19th 2022
In a world where we’re all trying to be more environmentally friendly and to put the needs of our planet first, one of the biggest conversations in commerce has been around the use of paper vs. plastic.
But is paper packaging better than plastic? What are the pros and cons of each? And how do we find better ways to package our goods without leaning too heavily on the earth’s precious resources? Let’s find out.
Plastic pros and cons
Plastic became the norm when it came to packaging because it was cheap, versatile, and held longer-lasting properties. As plastic production boomed, it seemed like the most obvious choice for businesses wanting to cut costs.
Of course, this came at a cost – and as a result plastic has a bad rap. But plastic does have some advantages, especially when it comes to durability and flexibility. Here we take a look at the pros and cons of plastic packaging.
The pros of plastic
- Incredibly lightweight
- Can be used for a range of purposes
The cons of plastic
- Production creates high levels of carbon dioxide
- Takes a long time to decompose
- Not always recyclable
Paper pros and cons
Paper is considered to be a sustainable and environmentally-friendly choice of packaging, and in many ways it is. Paper is a biodegradable product and comes from a renewable energy source, meaning that it can be replenished. It contributes less toxins to the world than plastic production, although it does contribute to deforestation.
While many would answer yes to the question “is paper packaging better than plastic?,” paper doesn’t come without its own set of drawbacks. Here we take a look at the pros and cons of paper packaging.
The pros of paper
- Can be recycled
- Made from renewable energy source
- Can be reused
- Doesn’t bring toxins into the environment
The cons of paper
- Some paper has plastic coating
- Can damage
- Has to be stored carefully
Why paper packaging is the best packaging solution
The world still has a long way to go when it comes to savvy sustainable packaging solutions. While paper is considered to be the lesser of two evils, there are still issues, such as deforestation and the harvesting of trees impacting the absorption of greenhouse gases, along with the high volume of water it takes to grow trees and produce paper.
However, with plastic having such an impact on our waterways, soil, animals, and fertility of the land, paper is the best solution when weighing up the pros and cons of each.
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At Smith Packaging, we have thought long and hard about our impact on the planet when it comes to the paper vs plastic packaging debate. Wherever possible, we’re striving to ensure all our packaging products are as eco-friendly as they can be.
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Michael Milford has spent more than a decade obsessing over the inner workings of the rat brain. Milford isn’t a neuroscientist or a zoologist, though. Chiefly, he’s an engineer and a roboticist at Queensland University of Technology, where he’s designing robots that would make Dr. Frankenstein drool if he got his kicks from brain modelling and computer vision instead of reanimating the corpses of townspeople.
Milford’s latest project blends the navigational ability of a rat with the vision of a human. He’s dubbed this a “Frankenstein” approach to robotics in the media, and he believes that such patchwork techniques are not only promising, but practical ways forward to developing artificial intelligence. The reason for this is that the rat brain is fairly well understood by scientists, unlike the human brain.
“Rats represent a really beautiful balance,” Milford told me, “because they have a really sophisticated mammal brain, but we understand more about their brain than probably any other mammal, just because they’ve been studied so extensively.”
Digitally modelling rat brains allowed Milford and his team to design a robust robotic navigation system called RatSLAM. “Rat” is included in the title for obvious reasons, and “SLAM” stands for simultaneous location and mapping. RatSLAM reconstructs the rat brain’s complex structure of place cells, head orientation cells, and conjunctive grid cells that can take a certain degree of environmental uncertainty into account during navigation, in a simplified form.
While a digital rat brain made for a useful platform to model and navigate space, the catch was that rats have pretty shitty vision. Rats use a number of different physical inputs to navigate space such as their whiskers, sense of smell, and poor eyesight. But the gold standard for robots, according to MIlford, is cameras, which posed a problem for his team.
“Cameras are ubiquitous, they’ve come light years ahead in the last decade, so there’s a disconnect,” Milford explained. “If we actually want to exploit the advantages of all of this really cool technology, you have to look for a natural analogue which does have highly capable visual sensors, so that’s why we moved to humans.”
Milford’s patchwork approach may not be quite as sensational as the multi-million dollar projects underway to digitally recreate the human brain, but the advantage his system has over the others, he says, is that it actually works. In 2008, he was able to map and navigate an entire suburb with RatSLAM. Just a couple years later, a tiny robot outfitted with RatSLAM and a camera was able to autonomously navigate an office building and deliver 1000 packages in a two week period, even charging itself by finding its own docking station.
“It’s partly a performance-based thing. We picked the best bits of what we know about nature,” Milford said. “It’s partly a pragmatic thing, in that we know a lot about mapping of space in the rat brain. Conversely, we know a lot about how the visual system in a human works. It’s pragmatic on multiple levels.”
Milford told me that his research is applicable in many areas of science and industry. After all, nearly every living thing on earth, from humans to rats, has to navigate space. It’s a ubiquitous task in nature, and the technology that needs to be developed to replicate it could be just as widely used.
Agriculture and infrastructure monitoring were just two possibilities Milford mentioned, and he’s already in talks with water utility officials in Australia to figure out how his technology could be of use. The most immediate application, however, will be in robotics and artificial intelligence.
“We’re trying to create a system where you can drop it onto any robot that may have different kinds of sensors—it may have a camera, it may have a laser, it might have whiskers, for instance—in any environment and have the robot learn very rapidly, by itself, how to navigate in that environment,” Milford said. “We’re looking to make a black box navigation system for robots, and it could be something to put on your phone, for example.”
MIlford describes these outcomes as “blue sky” thinking, and a portable rat brain that can help you find the nearest open liquor store on a Friday night on your phone really does seem pretty out there. But it’s not implausible, given the progress that Milford and his team have already made with rat-human “Frankenstein” robotics.
Prominent roboticists and thinkers like Selmer Bringsjord, who developed the Lovelace Test for artificial intelligence alongside David Ferrucci, the designer of IBM’s Watson, are pessimistic about the prospects of Artificial Neural Networks and digital human brain modelling for reaching general machine intelligence. According to Bringsjord, robotics researchers should stick to practical approaches short of recreating human biology with computers.
RatSLAM and its associated projects, like human-inspired computer vision, certainly fit within Bringsjord’s conception of where robotics research should be going, and Milford largely agrees with the sentiment.
“I believe that you need a whole portfolio of science going on, all the way from the European Brain Project, all these hundreds of millions of dollars projects that are literally creating the amount of cells that we have in the brain, turning it on, and seeing what happens,” Milford told me. “At the same time, I think we need more focused approaches, like the one we take.”
“One of the things I firmly believe in is that we must test and ground whatever these abstracts theories we’re developing are in actual real-world conditions,” he said.
Not everyone is skeptical about the prospects of artificial intelligence on par with that of humans, however. Some people are downright terrified of the idea, like Nick Bostrom, of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, who’s currently evangelizing for awareness about the world-ending potential of artificial intelligence.
Others are equally as scared, but for a more immediate reason: the effect of robots on the labour market. As robots that can do low-level tasks like answer phones more efficiently than humans can enter the workforce, experts and laypeople alike are concerned that they’ll put humans out of work.
I FEEL LIKE IT’S CONSISTENT WITH SOCIETY AND HOW SOCIETY’S PROGRESSING, AT LEAST IN WESTERN COUNTRIES NOW.
Milford is in a particularly sensitive position when it comes to this aspect of the potential societal fallout of intelligent robots. After all, he’s explicitly trying to create artificial intelligence that works for industry, right now, with the tools and techniques currently available to scientists. This isn’t some far-off possibility for him, it’s already here.
“It’s amazing how much society could change over the next several decades because of artificial intelligence, without any new breakthroughs,” he said. “Just through good engineering, good marketing, and good commercialization of incremental advances in what we already have.”
You might be wondering, as I did, what Milford thinks about his role in bringing artificial intelligence to the world on a subjective level. In my conversation with him, it was clear that he’s an intelligent guy not afraid to consider the ethical implications of his work while aggressively looking for commercial applications.
So, I asked him how he felt. His answer was about as candid as one could imagine coming from someone so engaged in the search for machine intelligence through uncommon means. “I feel like it’s consistent with society and how society’s progressing, at least in Western countries now,” he said. “That doesn’t necessarily make it right, but I’m reasonably comfortable with it.”
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Saturday, 12 July 2008
This will probably be my last post until I’m home from Sweden at the end of August. We’re away for 5 weeks travelling all over Sverige, with a few days on either side in Tokyo and Bangkok.
I wanted to leave you with a recipe I really love and which takes the humble potato to new heights while also turning breakfast into an exciting meal.
A lot of people (obviously not Indians) will baulk at the idea of curry for breakfast, but Rick Stein’s potato curry served with poached eggs is so gently spiced that anyone would adore it.
I love eating interesting things at breakfast (Breakfast Crumble, Çılbır, Fatteh, Khabeesa, Moringa Omelette, Quinoa Porridge etc) whereas Jonas is an absolute traditionalist. Nonetheless this potato curry won him over entirely and is a recipe that will make repeat appearances in our home.
Who could have thought breakfasts and potatoes could be so exciting!
Potato Breakfast Curry w Poached Eggs
Recipe by Rick Stein, Delicious Magazine April 2008. Serves 4.
500g waxy potatoes (eg nicola or kipfler)
1/3 cup sunflower oil
1½ teaspoons black mustard seeds
1 teaspoon cumin seeds
1 large onion, finely chopped
1 tablespoon freshly grated ginger
1 teaspoon turmeric
½ teaspoon ground coriander
½ teaspoon ground cumin
2 green cardamom pods
2 vine-ripened tomatoes, skinned, deseeded and roughly chopped
1 teaspoon lemon juice
1½ tablespoons roughly chopped fresh coriander
4 very fresh, free-range eggs
Pinch of chilli flakes
Splash of white wine vinegar
Coriander sprigs, to garnish
1. Peel potatoes and cut into 1cm cubes.
2. Cook the potatoes in a pan of boiling salted water for 5-6 minutes until almost tender, then drain and set aside.
3. Heat oil in a deep frypan over medium heat. Add mustard and cumin seeds. Cover with a lid until the popping subsides (about 2 minutes).
4. Meanwhile cut the cardamom pods in half and shake out the seeds into a mortar and pestle. Throw the husks away and lightly crush the seeds.
5. Uncover the pot and add onion, ginger and dried chilli and fry until soft but not brown (6-7 minutes).
6. Stir in ground spices then cook, stirring, for 1 minute until fragrant.
7. Stir in potatoes, 200ml water and 1 teaspoon salt. Simmer over a medium-low heat for 10 minutes, stirring occasionally, until potato is tender.
8. Stir in tomatoes and lemon juice and cook for another 2 minutes.
9. Stir in coriander, cover and keep warm over a very low heat.
10. To poach eggs, measure enough water so it reaches 5cm in a wide, shallow pan.
11. Bring to the boil then add 1 ½ teaspoons vinegar and ½ teaspoon salt for every 1.2 litres of water.
12. Reduce heat to medium-low and break eggs into simmering water. Poach for 3-5 minutes until white is cooked but yolk is still soft.
13. Remove with slotted spoon and drain on paper towel.
14. Lightly salt the eggs and serve on top of the curry with coriander garnish.
My feature ingredient this week is the humble spud.
And what a veggie it is! The root of the Solanum tuberosum is the world's most widely grown tuber and is in fourth place as the most produced food crop, after rice, wheat, and corn. Today China and then India are the largest potato producers.
The United Nations have decreed 2008 as the International Year of the Potato and many organisations see it as part of the solution for world food production since it is cheap to cultivates, generates good harvests and grows in diverse climates.
Research seems to put the potato’s origin in the Andes from Colombia/Venezuela to northern Argentina and the first evidence of cultivated took place in Peru 7,000 years ago. Some 99% of the world’s cultivated potato varieties descend from a subspecies indigenous to South-Central Chile, probably due to the trading routes that carried the first plant exports.
Potatoes made the journey to Europe in the mid 1500s and quickly became a staple food crop, particularly for the poor.
Lack of genetic varieties in Europe left potato crops vulnerable to diseases, such as Phytophthora infestans, which resulted in the infamous Irish famine and a reduction of Irelands population by 25% from starvation, disease and emigration to the New World.
The English word potato comes directly from the Spanish patata, which itself is a compound of two Native American words for potato and sweet potato: papa (Quechua) and batata (Taino)
Many Slavic, Baltic, Germanic, Scandinavian and Balkan languages derive their word for potato from an ancient word for potato which also meant “truffle”. French, Dutch, Hebrew, Finnish all have names meaning “earth fruit/apple/pear”, whereas Slovak and Polish use words that mean simply “ground”. Different Chinese languages have meanings such as “foreign taro”, “horse yam” or “earth bean”. Although the Hindi and Nepali word for potato is aloo and in Indonesian it is kentang, I don’t know what the base meaning of these words are.
Potatoes have excellent carbohydrate content but also good levels of Vitamin C, potassium, Vitamin B6 and traces of thiamin, riboflavin, folate, niacin, magnesium, phosphorus, iron and zinc.
The glycemic index (GI) of potatoes can vary considerably depending on the type, location grown, cooking methods and with what it is consumed.
Potatoes contain glycoalkaloids such as solanine and chaconine, which are toxic compounds found in high concentrations in wild potatoes. Light exposure and aging increases toxin levels but cooking at over 170°C (340°F) partly destroys the toxins. Affects are weakness, confusion, headaches, diarrhea and cramps and although coma or death could occur, poisoning from potatoes is very rare.
Common international varieties include Bintje; Désirée; Fianna; King Edward; Kipfler; New; Nicola; Pink Eye; Pink Fir Apple; Red Pontiac; Rooster; Russet Burbank and Spunta.
Interesting regional potato dishes:
Colcannon (Ireland, side dish)
Fish & Chips (Britain, main)
Gnocchi (Italy, pasta)
Locro de Papas (Ecuador, thick soup)
Papa a la Huancaina (Peru, salad)
Patatas Bravas (Spain, tapas)
Poutine (Canada, snack)
Stamppot (Netherlands, main)
Fun Wikipedia facts!
• Potatoes are part of the deadly nightshade family, a group of poisonous plants including tomatoes and tobacco.
• There are about five thousand potato varieties world wide. Three thousand of them are found only in the Andes, where over 100 varieties of potato can be found in one valley alone!
• A notice of 1573 shows that potatoes were being fed to the sick in a monastery of Seville, under their Quechua name papa.
• In France the potato was considered suitable only for cattle. In the mid 1700s Antoine Parmentier devised an ingenious strategy to encourage the French peasants to eat potatoes. Apparently he grew a field of potatoes and had it heavily guarded to make it look like a delicacy for the nobility. The peasants stole samples and started to enjoy them.
• The earliest reference to the potato in India is in a British journal from 1847.
• Belarus has the world’s highest consumption of potato per capita with each Belorussian consuming 338 kg in 2005.
• The fibre content of a potato with skin equals that of many whole grain breads, pastas, and cereals.
• The notion that “all of the potato’s nutrients” are found in the skin is an urban legend. While the skin does contain approximately half of the total dietary fibre, the majority (more than 50%) of the nutrients are found within the potato itself.
Weekend Herb Blogging is host by Simona from Briciole, who has the coolest blog tagline of "an idiosyncratic and opinionated dictionary of Italian words related to food, with audio accompaniment". Be sure to visit her blog for the round-up.
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A ‘broadcast flag’ mandated by the FCC in 2003 would have required consumer electronics makers to abide by specific digital flags encoded into digital television broadcasts. The flags could restrict whether or not the broadcast could be recorded or in what ways a recording could be used. It would allow content broadcasters to tell you how you can use your television recordings. The whole situation is pretty crazy but a ray of light has appeared as a Court of Appeals has ruled that the mandate is beyond the scope of the FCC’s authority. The original mandate required that any devices sold after July 1, 2005 adhere to the flags so this ruling came just in time.


To so many people, this is still a budding question. I’m certain that the majority of the population in South Africa are almost ashamed to admit that they do not know or understand what an Inverter is or what purpose it serves – hence, the fear of purchasing sets in.
I will try to outline in a brief and understandable way what this device does and why it is so critical to own in this day and age. With Load shedding as real as it could be in our daily lives, an Inverter stands between you and your life being on hold for 2-3hrs at a time.
First question I generally receive – Do I need a battery when I just want to buy an Inverter? Answer, Yes! Unfortunately the Inverter does not have the internal capacity to store power, that is what the batteries are used for. If you had to imagine the following layout: Power Outlet – Inverter – Battery. This is the simplest concept of having this solution installed into your household or office. During normal operations where ESKOM provides utility power, this sequence will ensure that your batteries are being charged (assuming that your Inverter has a built-in charger – not all of them do).
Once Load shedding is implemented, the reverse effect will take place. Now your batteries will push power through the Inverter and a conversion from DC to AC power takes place. This basically means that the power stored in the battery now becomes safe to use for any appliance or electronic device.
This can all be complicated a little further by adding solar panels to also charge your batteries, but we will get to that next time!!! I hope this has cleared up the question – What is an Inverter.


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Art of the Day: "Take it now, 2016" by Maria Paunova
Published Jan. 18, 2017
- Title: Take it now
- Medium: acrylic
- Material: stretched canvas ready to hang, Cotton canvas on a wooden frame, Ready to hang and no framing required
- Colors: basic color on the canvas - brown, blue, orange, apple red - magenta, white
- Size: : 60 x 80 cm., 24 x 31 in.
- Contemporary modern abstract art, conceptual modern art
- Two coats of protective gloss varnish are applied to protect the painting from UV rays and dust. Back wired.
- Painting is signed and dated by the artist.
I enclose a certificate of authenticity signed and printing.
This painting is the last challenge for myself, which I created. The meaning I put in, is, of course, the idea of temptation. The apple is the forbidden fruit in mythological aspect.My main aim is always to provoke deep thinking and bring a lot of positive mood and I believe that I managed to do exactly that .The details are bright and naturalistic, interwined with big and rough strokes, having the ability of catching the action and light.
I am taking good care that items are well secured and safe. The shipping service is Bulgarian Posts is available via the Bulgarian Post Office. The specific item can be tracked via Internet.
Depending on the time of the day, your order will be processed on the same or next business day. Bulgarian Posts accepts parcels Mon – Fri 7am – 7pm, Sat 7am – 1:00pm Bulgarian time (EET – Eastern European Time)
- Tracking number will be provided as soon as items are shipped
Combined shipping is possible if purchased items can be safely packaged together. We will gladly combine items and save you money!
Please send us a message for details.
Delivery time for Europe is 5-10 business days. Overseas deliveries take slightly longer: USA & Canada - 10- 15 business days, Australia - 20-25 business days. All items are very well packaged to prevent damage.
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Lemons, the citrus family food product, are available worldwide. It has been an important ingredient of foods of most cultures and its sour taste adds richness to the foods. And it also has a host of health benefits and also other non-edible uses. Read on to know them all.
Lemon and its various uses
Lemon juice can be squeezed and added to food dishes for that lovely tanginess. It can be used in desserts, beverages, and also to garnish meat and fish. In the West, lemon juice is mixed with salads and also water. In Asia, it is part of the culinary practices of all households. It is used to make savory snacks and breakfast dishes. It is part of summer drinks. And also forms an essential element of the oral rehydration salt solution (ORS) that is given to people with loose motions or nausea or vomiting. The list of dishes to which lemon juice is added is endless but definitely one cannot imagine life without it.
Besides, lemon juice is a stain remover. It is a natural cleanser and also added to detergents, dish washing powders and gels, and soaps. Its oil is present in some perfumes and skin creams. Its peel also is used in some desserts and other food dishes.
Lemon juice as an antidote for cold is a natural remedy known in many cultures of the world. Mixed with ginger and honey, it does wonders against cold. There are certain anti-bacterial substances in lemon juice that can cure mouth infections such as those of the gums. It can also act as a laxative for constipation.
Lemon and its nutritional value
If we look into lemon juice and its contents, one can notice that the consumer gets just 3 calories with 1 tablespoon of lemon juice. There is no proteins or fats in it and this has just 1 gram of carbohydrates. Sugar is 0 and fiber also 0.
But like all other citrus fruits, it is rich in vitamin C. This is vital as protection against various common illnesses. It also assists in blood formation, tissue repair, bone formation, and gum health. It boosts immunity and also prevents the free radicals from causing damage to your body cells. Newer studies have said that it decreases atherosclerosis and also useful in infertility and nerve tissue problems and Alzheimers.
It also possesses other beneficial phytochemicals and thus is good for body. It also lowers blood pressure and is good for hypertensive people. Its potassium and mineral content is also helpful for the body.
Cons of lemon juice
Though loaded with a lot of benefits, lemon juice also has certain disadvantages. Many people suffer from citrus allergies. They cannot consume lemon juice and it could lead them to have pharyngitis, cough, itching or swelling of mouth, burning of mouth and throat. Some also end up with gut distress and headache.
When taken in large amounts and over a long period, its natural acids can damage the dental enamel. Lemon juice also can precipitate a migraine attack. This happens due to its high tyramine content.
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Wildlife Managers Have New Tools to Contain Chronic Wasting Disease
Tuesday, July 28, 2020
SHERIDAN, Wyo. -- Wildlife managers in Wyoming are moving forward to combat chronic wasting disease in deer, elk and moose herds, after the Wyoming Game and Fish Commission approved a new statewide management plan.
Brian Nesvik, State Game and Fish Department Director, said managers can pick and choose from new tools in their toolkits, because herds in different areas face unique challenges. Some areas might see expanded hunting harvests, for example, to cull infected animals.
"Really, this plan was intended to provide a list of different options that wildlife managers out on the ground could use to apply to management to meet objectives in those herds scattered all around the state," Nesvik said.
In other areas, controversial winter feed lots, viewed as hot spots for the infectious disease, could be limited. The Wyoming Chronic Wasting Disease Management Plan is the result of a year-long process led by Game and Fish and a diverse working group of more than 30 stakeholders including scientists, private landowners, ranchers and hunters.
The group also received hundreds of written comments and in-person feedback from the public at workshops held across the state.
Joshua Coursey, president and CEO of the Muley Fanatic Foundation, said 31 of the 37 mule deer herds currently under state management have tested positive for the disease. He said while there currently is no silver bullet, the management plan is a good first step toward containing outbreaks.
"But what is known is clearly chronic wasting disease can have a significant impact to where it will eventually, when given enough time, change the population and the dynamics within a herd," Coursey explained.
Nesvik called the plan a living document, which can be adjusted and changed as managers learn more in the field, and said the public will continue to have opportunities to weigh in.
"This plan, now that it is approved, does not become frozen in time. And our intent is that we learn more about the disease, and we learn more about how it affects Wyoming, that we will continue to adapt the plan and make it better," Nesvik said.
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The first scene of Arrow‘s series finale revisited that fateful night where Slade Wilson held Moira Queen at gunpoint, only to holster his weapon… and instead run her through with his sword. Except this time around, Oliver untied his hands in time to rise up and tackle his arch enemy, so that in this reborn universe, his and Thea’s mother would live to see another day.
The changed-up sequence played out seamlessly, as if series alum Manu Bennett was actually in the rewritten scene from Season 2, Episode 20. And that is because he was. No stand-in or reshoot here.
As Arrowverse EP Marc Guggenheim explained to TVLine, “When we started working on the finale in earnest, I asked the postproduction team for a reel of every deleted scene, including the deleted scenes that didn’t get released on home video, and that scene” — in which Oliver manages to save the day, and thus his mom — “was the original opening of [Episode] 223. It was Oliver basically daydreaming about how he could’ve saved his mother and how things could’ve gone differently.”
“The moment I saw that [deleted scene on the reel] I was like, ‘Thank you,'” Guggenheim recalls. “What a find.”
Originally, the series finale was going to open with what wound up as the first scene from its second act, “which is a recapitulation of that life raft scene of the pilot,” Guggenheim shared. “But once I saw [the deleted 223 scene], I was like, ‘Well, that’s the opening of the episode clearly.’ And it was great, because it was the type of thing that even if we were to reshoot it, it wouldn’t have been as seamless because of the ages of the actors.”


The opening leg of the 2021 FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series took place today earlier this morning at Lake Ohrid in North Macedonia. There were four intended legs in the competition stages, however, the first leg that was set to take place in Lac Saint-Jean, Canada was cancelled.
France’s Axel Reymond won the men’s 25km race in a time of 5:10:31.00. Reymond is the reigning world champion in the 25km, having won gold at both the 2017 and 2019 world championships. Italy’s Edoardo Stochino finished 1 second behind Reymond to grab the silver medal. Stochino won his 15th FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series medal (3 gold, 9 silver, 3 bronze) with his performance this morning. Macedonia’s Evgenij Pop Acev won his 17th FINA UltraMarathon Swim Series medal (2 gold, 7 silver, 8 bronze) by placing 3rd.
Marc-Antoine Olivier, a two-time French Olympian in the 10km open water event, finished in 6th place. Olivier won the bronze medal in the 10km at the 2016 Rio Olympic Games, and recently placed 6th in the same event at the 2020 Tokyo Games.
Top 10 Finishers – Men’s 25km
|1. Axel Reymond (FRA)||5:10:31.00|
|2. Edoardo Stochino (ITA)||5:10:32.00|
|3. Evgenij Pop Acev (MKD)||5:10:34.50|
|4. Marcel Schouten (NED)||5:10:42.90|
|5. Matias Diaz Hernandez (ARG)||5:11:46.20|
|6. Marc-Antoine Olivier (FRA)||5:13:50.70|
|7. Francesco Ghettini (ITA)||5:16:49.40|
|8. Franco Ivo Cassini (ARG)||5:17:46.40|
|9. Matthieu Magne (FRA)||5:19:39.90|
|10. Aleksandar Ilievski (MKD)||5:39:18.10|
Top 10 Finishers – Women’s 25km
On the women’s side, France took the top two podium spots. Oceane Cassignol dominated the field, winning the race by almost 30 minutes with a final time of 5:16:39.30. Caroline Laure Jouisse, who’s competed at several FINA Marathon World Swim Series, placed 2nd in 5:45:42.20. Pilar Geijo, who has been competing internationally in open water races since 2000, placed 3rd in 5:47:21.40. There were only four female athletes that finished this race.
|1. Oceane Cassignol (FRA)||5:16:39.30|
|2. Caroline Laure Jouisse (FRA)||5:45:42.20|
|3. Pilar Geijo (ARG)||5:47:21.40|
|4. Samira-Svea Erhart (GER)||6:24:45.20|
The next FINA Ultramarathon Swim Series competition will take place in Capri/Napoli, Italy on September 5th.


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Work-From-Home Seafood Lunch Ideas
The COVID-19 pandemic shifted our daily lives in many ways. One of the ways it drastically affected our day-to-day routines is the move to working remotely. Even as restrictions regarding capacity and social distancing lift, many companies continue to offer remote working to employees, as many of us got used to the lifestyle. It allows more flexibility in our schedules and a plethora of other benefits. One of those benefits is the option to eat better lunches! Gone are the days are packing a sodium-packed deli meat sandwich or grabbing a slice of pizza or fast food on the go. Being at home has allowed us to get a little more creative with our options, as it doesn’t have to be packed ahead of time or eaten in a rush. If you’re looking for lunch ideas that are both nutritious and tasty, you can’t go wrong with seafood! Since fish is packed with omega-3 fatty acids, it’s known to be a good “brain food,” making it a perfect meal for mid-work day. Keep reading for some seafood lunch ideas while you work from home.
Haddock is a light white fish that’ll fill you up, without being too heavy during the day. Haddock is great fried, baked, or even broiled! It pairs well with green vegetables and potatoes. At Summer Shack, our Pan Roasted haddock is roasted in mushroom-sherry butter, served with garlic broccoli and herb roasted potatoes. This is a perfectly balanced meal to keep you energized and focused for the rest of your workday!
Shrimp is jam-packed with protein, so if you’re looking to stay filled up and satisfied for the rest of your day, you can’t go wrong with a shrimp dish! Shrimp is often served with pasta or even in the form of tacos. Our shrimp scampi linguini at Summer Shack is a fan favorite, served in a creamy lemon butter sauce to please your tastebuds!
Lastly, salmon is considered a super-food, as it contains a significant amount of essential omega-3 fatty acids and many other nutrients. Salmon is best when baked or seared. Our Cedar planked Salmon is covered in a lemon-maple rub and served with apple-fennel slaw, roasted brussel sprouts, and butternut squash puree. It’s the perfect lunch on a crisp fall or winter day!
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ANN ARBOR, MI — An independent report was released Tuesday detailing years of sexual abuse by a late University of Michigan athletic doctor, and failings by university employees who could have stopped the abuse.
The 240-page report, which goes into detail about Robert Anderson, was released by WilmerHale, a Washington, D.C.-based law firm, on May 11. Anderson worked at the university from 1966 until 2003. He died in 2008.
Survivors of Anderson’s abuse came forward throughout much of 2020 to share their stories, revealing much of what WilmerHale’s report details. However, the report gives recommendations to the university about how it can promote a culture of awareness when it comes to reporting sexual misconduct and abuse.
“We have no doubt, based on the evidence available to us, including the first-hand accounts of his patients, that Dr. Anderson engaged in a pervasive, decades-long, destructive pattern of sexual misconduct,” the report states.
Anderson began working at the university in 1966 as an associate physician at University Health Services and was later promoted to director of UHS. He eventually was demoted to a senior physician at UHS to become an athletic department doctor.
In those roles, Anderson frequently performed sensitive examinations that were not medically indicated, conducted those examinations in a grossly inappropriate manner and repeatedly engaged in conduct far outside the bounds of appropriate medical practice, according to the report.
Those examinations included a pelvic examination for a female patient seeking treatment for a sore throat; performing hernia, genital and prostate exams on students having respiratory issues; and a majority of cases involving unnecessary genital fondling and rectal examinations during physical exams, the report states.
Even further, the report states Anderson asked patients to fully disrobe and taught patients how to perform examinations by dropping his pants and using his own body and genitalia to model the exams.
More than 20 male patients told WilmerHale or UM’s Department of Public Safety and Security that Anderson manually stimulated their genitals or directed them to stimulate his genitals, and two of his patients reported Anderson proposing arrangements involving sexual conduct in exchange for expensive medical care or medical exemption from military service, the report states.
One patient described a visit to Anderson, likely at UHS in the mid-1960s, where the patient was told to strip down and do jumping jacks while naked. Anderson performed a prostate exam on the patient while simultaneously grabbing the patient’s penis with his other hand, stroking it until the patient ejaculated, the report states.
The patient told DPSS that Anderson saw the ejaculate and said, “Nice color.”
Multiple medical experts consulted by WilmerHale said it was never appropriate, medically necessary or consistent with professional standards for:
- A physician to manually stimulate a patient during a medical appointment, including a physical examination, to the point of erection or ejaculation.
- A physician to make sexual contact with patients, including manual stimulation, oral sex or anal penetration.
- A physician to propose or enter into any quid pro quo arrangement with a patient, such as soliciting sexual contact in exchange for medical care or a medical diagnosis in support of a draft deferment or exemption.
While the WilmerHale report offers dozens of anecdotes from Anderson’s patients, the experiences are not an exhaustive accounting of Anderson’s conduct, according to the report.
“Rather, it is a necessary consequence of the scope and duration of Dr. Anderson’s misconduct, such that it is impossible to chronicle every improper incident,” the report states.
WilmerHale found that a small number of university personnel were aware of Anderson’s conduct early on, and widespread rumors about Anderson began circulating among his patients, including many student-athletes.
In 1975, former wrestler Tad DeLuca sent a letter to coaches Bill Johannesen and Cal Jenkins that included a complaint of Anderson. Neither Johannesen nor Jenkins inquired about Anderson’s conduct or referred the matter for investigation, the report states.
Johannesen said in February 2020 the only things he heard about Anderson were jokes and rumors. He told WilmerHale he did not remember receiving DeLuca’s letter in 1975 and that no one ever said, “Hey coach, there’s something weird about this doctor.”
On at least three separate occasions, former Associate Vice President of Student Services Tom Easthope knew of Anderson’s conduct between 1978 or 1979 and 1981. And after the first instance was reported to him, Easthope did not inform the athletic department, UHS, UM police, Ann Arbor Police Department or the Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulatory Affairs about the allegations, according to the report.
Before his death in February 2021, Easthope repeatedly told WilmerHale he thought he fired Anderson, but Anderson was instead voluntarily demoted to a senior physician at UHS, the report states.
“Mr. Easthope himself signed the employment paperwork effectuating Dr. Anderson’s change in title from director to a senior physician at UHS,” the report states. “Mr. Easthope had no explanation of his sign-off on the title change.”
Members of Easthope’s family declined to comment on the report.
WilmerHale also identified eight instances where some level of patient concerns about Anderson may have been known to UHS personnel between the late 1960s and 1980. There were also eight instances, in addition to DeLuca’s 1975 letter, when a student-athlete recalled voicing concerns about Anderson to athletic department personnel, according to the report.
Those members included an assistant basketball coach in the 1960s; a men’s gymnastics coach in the late 1960s or early 1970s; an athletic director in the early 1990s; athletic trainers Paul Schmidt and Russell Miller; track coaches Jack Harvey and Ron Warhurst and legendary football coach Bo Schembechler.
In one instance, Anderson fondled a football player’s testicles and gave him a rectal examination, and the player told DPSS he asked Schembechler, “What’s up with the finger in the butt treatment by Dr. Anderson?” the report states. Schembechler told the student to “toughen up,” and the student told DPSS years later, “You do not mess with Bo, and the matter was dropped.”
While applying for Michigan Medicine credentials in 1996, Anderson disclosed a lawsuit against him that had been dismissed, which involved a female plaintiff suing Anderson after he “touched and manipulated” her breasts and performed rectal and pelvic examinations “for no appropriate or proper purpose” at a pre-employment physical in 1993.
Anderson denied the allegations and the case was eventually dismissed.
How did it happen?
Investigators repeatedly heard that Anderson engaged in conduct with patients who may have been susceptible targets unlikely to report their experiences for various reasons. Social science experts consulted by WilmerHale told the firm those subjected to sexual assault and misconduct often do not report their experiences until much later.
WilmerHale found that very few student-athletes reported Anderson’s sexual misconduct at the time it happened, but their discomfort with Anderson was an open secret. No athletic department personnel taking any action or referring Anderson for investigation shows that coaches deferred to his medical experience and assumed he was acting in accordance with the prevailing standard of care, the report states.
“We believe deference to doctors in general, and Dr. Anderson in particular, and insensitivity to direct and indirect expressions of concern about him coincided with a lack of adequate policies and procedures for identifying, reporting, and addressing sexual misconduct,” the report states.
When DeLuca sent a letter to Athletic Director Warde Manuel in 2018 and an unnamed individual sent a letter to the university in 2019, the complaints were properly forwarded to UM’s Office of Institutional Equity, which referred them to DPSS, which instructed OIE to stand down until DPSS completed its investigation, the report states.
The hold was lifted in May 2019 and OIE had made no progress in its review before January 2020, when the university retained outside counsel to conduct an independent investigation, according to the report.
“In the meantime, OIE prioritized allegations of sexual misconduct that potentially posed an active safety risk. That was a reasonable decision, but, given the seriousness of the allegations involving Dr. Anderson OIE should have addressed them more expeditiously,” the report states.
Why is this important?
In July 2020, WilmerHale released a report detailing years of sexual misconduct by former UM provost Martin Philbert. The report, just like the Anderson report, outlines recommendations the university can take implement to ensure sexual misconduct concerns are reported and acted on appropriately.
However, for the first 14 years of Anderson’s career at UM, there were no sexual harassment policies in place, and even after they were instituted in September 1980, they did not adequately ensure that misconduct was reported and addressed, according to the report.
Anderson’s conduct violated the Standard Practice Guide statement issued in 1980, but multiple students told WilmerHale they did not know where to report their complaints, the report states.
In recent years, UM has taken “significant steps” to improve its sexual misconduct policies, including with respect to faculty and staff, the report states. The university finalized an umbrella policy for addressing sexual and gender-based misconduct, and it has hired Guidepost Solutions, a firm that specializes in regulatory compliance, monitoring, investigations and security, to implement the recommendations made in WilmerHale’s report on Philbert.
Recommendations made by WilmerHale in the Anderson report include developing a culture of recognition and report of potential sexual misconduct, assessing individual departments’ responses to sexual misconduct issues and providing additional resources and training on chaperone policies and sensitive examinations.
Specifically, the report states training should address the culture in the athletic department and how team dynamics in the department may discourage reporting of sexual misconduct incidents.
UM spokesperson Rick Fitzgerald referred back to the Board of Regents May 11 statement when asked if the university planned to implement these recommendations, whether separately or in conjunction with Guidepost Solutions’ work.
“We will thoughtfully and diligently review and assess the report’s findings, conclusions, and recommendations; and we will work to regain the trust of survivors and to assure that we foster a safe environment for our students, our employees, and our community,” the statement reads.
While the university claimed this was an independent investigation, some attorneys representing survivors do not feel that was the case.
Attorneys Mick Grewal and Steve Drew, part of the Anderson Survivors Legal Team that represents more than 200 survivors, said in a statement the investigation was commissioned by the university, lacked subpoena power and was not trusted by many of their survivors, and they asked Michigan Attorney General Dana Nessel to investigate.
“Today we call upon Attorney General Nessel to undertake a fully independent criminal investigation, like the one that was conducted in the Larry Nassar case. We also call upon the university to waive all claims of attorney client privilege and release all documents and interviews with university officials that were conducted as part of the WilmerHale investigation.”
The Attorney General’s office isn’t currently investigating, and any investigation would require an official request from the Board of Regents – just like the Nassar case – and their agreement to waive privilege at the outset, according to Lynsey Mukomel, press secretary for the Office of Public Information and Education.
The university is currently engaged in a confidential, court-supervised mediation process with Anderson survivors who have filed suit against the university, Fitzgerald said.
In 2018, MSU and Nassar survivors reached a $500 million settlement -- $425 million paid to 332 claimants at the time, and $75 million set aside in a trust fund to protect any future claimants alleging sexual abuse by Nassar.
Before mediation began in the Anderson case, attorney Mike Cox, who represents more than 100 Anderson survivors, said mediation could take several months and noted that it took anywhere from six to 18 months in the Nassar case.
A Jan. 28 court filing showed more than 40 attorneys are representing just more than 850 plaintiffs and potential plaintiffs in the Anderson case who have not yet filed suit.
In March, the University of Southern California settled for $1.1 billion with survivors of George Tyndall, who was accused of sexual misconduct and abuse. At Ohio State University, survivors of physician Richard Strauss reached a settlement with the university for $40.9 million in 2020.


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King Wasiu Ayinde Marshal, popularly known as K1, has lost his favourite daughter, Wasilat.
The daughter, by whose name K1 is mostly addressed, was 34 when she died in the early hours of Tuesday morning in Canada.
Though there had been no official statement or confirmation from the family as at press time, sources confirmed the death of Wasilat, who had resided for a long time in Mississauga, Toronto, Canada.
She was said to have died during a brief illness.
She was said to be the only child her mother had for K1 before she died several years back.
One of K1’s closest allies and former manager, who is now the now Vice Chairman of Isolo Local Council Development Area, Bayo Olasoju, wrote on Tuesday: “May Almighty God give us the fortitude to bear this irreplaceable loss.
“We love you but God loves you more.
“Asabi Olaronke Wasilat, continue to rest in the bosom of the Lord.”


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The Andhra Pradesh government will call for tenders next month for construction of the new capital city, Amaravati.
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Chief minister Devendra Fadnavis said the government has involved people with experience in water conservation in the Jalyukta Shivar Yojana.