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Strawberry has developed a love for reading. It’s not surprising, given the number of books by which she is surrounded. What I’m finding somewhat amusing and annoying is that right now she has a very definite preference for what books we read together: she wants the ones she has read before, and if I try to read something else (to Raisin, for example), she gets very mad and throws a book and has a fit. I suppose this is perfectly normal for 17 months old. (more…)
Martin and Mahalia: His Words, Her Song by Andrea Davis Pinkney and illustrated by Brian Pinkney (Little, Brown, August 2013) is a poetic biography of the two influential civil rights individuals who together shared a message during the March on Washington in 1963. Brian Pinkney’s illustrations are sweeping and colorful, bringing the reader in to the tale of two talented individuals.
Martin Luther King, Jr., is obviously the more well known of the two, but I loved how the lives of both were weaved together. Martin spoke and Mahalia sang. It is a vivid reminder that each has a talent, and both could use that talent to share the gospel of freedom and encourage Civil Rights. Ms Pinkney’s text throughout brings an added talent to the story: that of poetry. I loved the rhythm of the text as I read it.
The picture book culminates in the March on Washington, with the “I have a Dream” speech by Martin Luther King, Jr., and Mahalia Jackson’s performance at that historical day. I loved how powerful that moment felt as I read the picture book. I had to find the videos of the events to compare. Unfortunately, the audio recording is pretty poor for Mahalia’s song, but it must suffice.
I’m reviewing this now in anticipation of the fiftieth anniversary of the August March on Washington. What a special summer that was for Civil Rights!
Note: I received a complimentary review copy from the publisher of Martin and Mahalia for review consideration.
I am busy beginning to track the books I read with Strawberry now. She’s at an age where she is beginning to love books, and look forward to our reading times together. What a wonderful milestone! On the other hand, Raisin is a proficient reader of chapter books now. I find I must remind myself to sit down and read with him too. I feel reading togehter is an important learning time, even for the proficient readers. Raisin is, after all, only five years old still. Parent-child bonding is essential to developing a lasting relationship.
I’ll begin with a few baby books, and segue in to books for my older reader. (more…)
The following children’s book all show how children (or, in one case, penguins) can find their own special talents. By sharing a smile, or doing a small service, one can change someone’s life. I like each of these books for the sweet messages they share, plus they are fun stories! (more…)
Now that he’s reading a mile-a-minute, it’s time to hear from Raisin again! (more…)

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Hong Kong Med J 2009;15(Suppl 3):S27-30
Unmanipulated haploidentical blood and marrow transplantation: where we are
T Wu, DP Lu
Beijing Daopei Hospital, Beijing, China
Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)–mismatched/haploidentical blood and marrow transplants (haplo-BMT) from family donors have been intensively studied because of the decreasing family size in mainland China, and also because the Chinese Marrow Donor Program is still not big enough. The protocol for unmanipulated haplo-BMT has been designated as ‘GIAC’ by Dr DP Lu—‘G’ represents granulocyte colony-stimulating factor mobilisation; ‘I’ stands for immunosuppression during pre-conditioning being prolonged and intensified; ‘A’ stands for the use of antithymocyte globulin; ‘C’ means combined use of bone marrow and peripheral blood as the graft. Haplo-BMT with GIAC regimen has been shown to be feasible for many applications as reported in 2004. Under this protocol, haplo-BMT has achieved comparable outcomes in terms of severe acute graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), chronic GVHD, relapse, treatment-related mortality (TRM), disease-free survival (DFS), and overall survival with HLA-identical sibling transplantation. The probabilities of DFS at 2 years in haplo-BMT setting were 70.7%, 49.6%, 22.2% in standard-risk, high-risk, advanced disease groups, respectively. As the third party cells, cord blood co-infusion could significantly reduce the incidence and severity of acute GVHD, and also 100-day TRM. The majority of refractory cytomegalovirus, Epstein-Barr virus and aspergillus infections can be controlled by adoptive cellular therapy. Many patients who early relapsed after BMT and failed, or are ineligible for standard therapy, have been salvaged with dendritic cell-primed cytokine-induced killer cells. With these new strategies, the lower TRM and improved DFS have been attained. Therefore, it is better to consider haplo-BMT for the patients with otherwise incurable haematological malignancies at earlier stage, when matched sibling or unrelated donors are not available.


Trying to nail down Hello Amnesia’s sound might be a difficult task. I mean, it’s a sound that’s reminiscent to music I’ve heard before, but their approach is so different that it gives their music a fresh appeal to it. A ‘brand new” vibe if you will. All I can do upon hearing this beautiful music is to start conjuring up images in my head that I feel fit with the music I’m hearing. Hearing this song makes me feel that I’m in a roadside desert bar with chicken wire separating the stage from the dance floor, and I’m watching Hello Amnesia inject pure adrenaline into the crowd who has never been privy to a band like them before.
I’d read that to listen to Hello Amnesia and truly appreciate them, then you must crank the speakers all the way up. Truer words have never been spoken. Their energy is so infectious one needs to hear them at the highest possible volume. From the cool swagger in the lyrics, to the energized guitar riffs, thumping drums and the intoxicating bass line. This is all a treat to behold.
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I stated earlier that it’s hard to place their sound, and the more I think about it the reason is their sound has formed from a multitude of sources. To me it sounds like they took a pinch of rock, a dash of rockabilly, threw in a little funk and bit of soul, threw it in the oven and cooked up something brand new. They took what came before them and evolved it into what is coming next on this great plane of existence we call the musical landscape. If you ever take any of my advice, then take this. Do not miss out on Hello Amnesia.


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MEMORIES OF A LEAF
We all go through a culmination of rough times to finally learn about ourselves and life as a precious gift. I believe today that life is something between tragedies and hopes, desperations and good wishes, a killing duality that teaches you only one precious thing: be grateful and go beyond!
PEARLS OF THE PEACE LAND
Memories and Musings of a Sahaja Yogini
The present moment is the real strand of pearls in the Goddess' hands. She helped me to put together the past and the future, from my ancestral influences to my futuristic projections, to the now; stringing the pearls one by one, together with poems, fables, and memories, to create this one true Peace Land.

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خودیاری / کمک های متقابل به عنوان انجمن شهروندی فعال: یک مورد مطالعه بیمار در ایتالیا
|کد مقاله||سال انتشار||مقاله انگلیسی||ترجمه فارسی||تعداد کلمات|
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Publisher : Elsevier - Science Direct (الزویر - ساینس دایرکت)
Journal : Social Science & Medicine, Volume 123, December 2014, Pages 242–249
Contrary to the most widespread conception that considers self-help/mutual aid as a component of the ‘third sector’, an approach is proposed which assumes, on the basis of the specific nature of the social bond and of the social action that characterizes it, it can be more properly considered as part of the ‘new civil society’ as it has been configured during the time in Western societies. This implies its location in the public non-state and non-systemic space that it has been created in the specific form of associations of citizenship. An interuniversity research project is then presented which, using this approach, studied the case of self-help/mutual aid associations for the chronically ill in Italy, offering some of the findings regarding the origin, structural characteristics, geographical distribution and activities of these associations in order to at least partially verify the heuristic value of this approach and its implications for the processes of reform of the health systems.
Self-help/mutual aid (which is the most general term chosen by the International Conference held in Ottawa in 1992 and that we shall adopt here) is undoubtedly a widespread social phenomenon, at least in Western countries (we shall not consider here similar kinds of social phenomena, such the microcredit, typical of non-Western countries, which are usually matter of different disciplines and approaches). One of the most interesting issue this particular type of collective social action raises in the current debate is its peculiar nature and location in the societal context. In fact, the answer to this issue brings with it a number of implications both theoretically and practically significant: however, they often remain implicit and unquestioned. Usually, self-help/mutual aid is considered as a component of the so-called ‘third sector’: a term first used by some scholars in the United States in the early 1970s (Seibel and Anheier, 1990:7). This seems to imply a conception of society as founded on three sectors, generally defined as state (of public nature), market (of private nature) and third sector. Sometimes, some authors (Dekker and Van den Broek, 1998) also add a fourth sector, identified with the community, including households and neighbourhoods. The nature of the third sector is, in a controversial manner, defined according to the different authors as voluntary (is most commonly used in Great Britain, see Baggott and Foster, 2008), non-governmental (in Poland, e.g., the term ‘self-help’ is synonymous of non-governmental organization; whereas in Western countries the latter term is used in the context of the international cooperation), social-private (used in Italy, see Donati and Colozzi, 2004), non-profit (the definition of which has been made at the international level by the scholars of the Institute for Policy Studies at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, who consider the prohibition of the distribution of the profits from its activities as the most important element of the third sector; to it, some scholars such as Anheier and Seibel (1990) and Salamon and Anheier, 1994 and Salamon and Anheier, 1996), add other four additional elements: the existence of formally constituted organizations, with statutes and rules governing their internal relationships; private legal nature, self-government with the election of its managers, and the voluntary nature of the choice of those who participate). Probably, this variety of definitions is the outcome of the range of different specific historical, political, economical and cultural contexts in which the social construction of what is termed as ‘third sector’ has taken place, as the long history of this concept can show (Laville, 2000). We assume that the idea of ‘third sector’ is an institutionalist vision of economical matrix which reduces the scope and meaning of social phenomena such as self-help/mutual aid to a simple component of a ‘sector’, albeit considering it as endowed with its own particular characteristics. Assuming that the notion of ‘sector’ can be considered as an equivalent of system or subsystem – and this is also problematic, since for example Evers (2000) defines the third sector as a component of the public space in civil societies – this takes no account of the mostly non-systemic nature of agency of the phenomenon. Moreover, it does not consider the more complex reality of the post-industrial societies, whose social sub-systems cannot be reduced to simple ‘sectors’ of single nature, but imply a plurality of social relations: the political systems, e.g., does not coincide with the state, of public nature, but also includes a private component (lobbies, pressure groups, representatives of various stakeholders, etc.) and a civic one (political parties, movements and political associations, etc.). In the same way, the economic system does not coincide with the market, of private nature, but also includes a public sector (state-owned industries, etc.) and a civic component based on social economy (and this is most probably what can be actually defined as ‘third sector’). Finally, a tripartite vision of the society does not consider the enormous development that, over the last century, have had on the one hand the welfare systems and, secondly, the telecommunications, media and information technology: and this is the rationale which makes nowadays necessary to recognize the differentiation of two new social subsystems, which can be respectively defined as social and health care (which includes the more or less integrated system of social and health services) and communications-cultural system (including the media techno-structure). A more sociological approach could start from what Borkman (1999:2) identifies as the most distinctive element which underlies the social phenomenon of self-help/mutual aid: the ‘circle of sharing’, that is “a small number (usually less than twenty) of people with the same predicament, disease or disability sit in a circle, sharing personal stories of their suffering and their attempts to cope with and resolve the problem”. The sharing circle confronts us with a conceptual difficulty which represents, from the sociological point of view, a theoretical challenge which calls into question the well established concepts of ‘private’, ‘public’ and ‘society’ itself. What is the actual nature of the circle of sharing? If we consider the kind of problems addressed – directly related to the sphere of the body, disease, disability, sexuality, family, life, death, feelings and attitudes, life styles – it can possibly be ascribed to the private sphere of primary relationships; but the relationship established between the members of a self-help/mutual aid group hardly could be regarded as of a private nature, since it is neither based on kinship nor neighbourhood, friendship or affection. The theoretical approach we followed in our study is based on the idea of ‘active citizenship’ (Moro, 2005 and Active Citizenship Network, 2007), on the basis of the consideration of the individual as a person, that is a unique human being and not just a social role-complex (patient, user, consumer, client), and as a citizen with rights and responsibilities towards the local community, the nation-State and humankind (whereas the definition of the rights is clearer since they are written as part of laws, national constitutions and of the Universal Declaration of the Human Rights of the United Nations, responsibilities are not as well defined and the debate is open as to what the responsibilities are toward the local community, the State and the humankind). An active citizen is someone who fulfils both rights and responsibilities in a balanced way: it entails the recognition that in a society all individuals are mutually dependent and that by making a positive contribution towards the society by participating in its life, they are helping themselves as well as others. Active citizenship is the glue that helps to keep society together, since it allows people to focus beyond their own self-interest. It implies a responsibility to ensure that no one is socially excluded, especially the weakest, disabled and ill people; and is oriented towards the full implementation of their social rights. In fact, the predominant purpose of self-help/mutual aid groups is specifically geared to the promotion, protection or rehabilitation of health and well-being of their members as specific social rights. However, in the real world, these groups are often part and parcel of wider organizations providing benefits or services of altruistic type (voluntary organizations, charities, etc.) or of associations aimed to safeguard the respect of rights of the most vulnerable citizens (advocacy associations). All these active citizenship associations have as a common denominator the desire to promote, take care and represent the rights, needs, interests and expectations of citizens, especially the most vulnerable ones such as the disabled and the chronically ill, as users, patients, caregivers, or simply sufferers in the context of health and social systems and of the wider societal arena. However, both organizations of volunteers and associations of advocacy do not necessarily share a common problem or predicament, which remains the hallmark of self-help/mutual aid and the social basis for the establishment of the ‘circle of sharing’. Even though practically the boundaries among self-help/mutual aid, volunteering and advocacy are often blurred in the same organization, from a theoretical point of view it is appropriate to distinguish them at least as ideal types of different activities, since the sharing of a common problem involves a different prevailing purpose and foundational principle. In fact, the main purpose of voluntary organizations is to deliver services of altruistic and solidarity type, whereas associations of advocacy are aimed to provide information and support to the observance of the social rights of the weakest citizens, especially when they become users/patients of social and health care services. Thus, we could define the ‘gift’ (on the meaning of the gift in non-Western societies, see Mauss, 1923–24) as the foundational principle of volunteering based on altruistic action; whereas empowerment of the weakest citizens is the foundational principle of advocacy associations, centred on the action supporting the exercise of their rights from the perspective of a substantive equality (for a specific perspective on ‘empowerment’ in the social and health care context, see Starkey, 2003). Instead, self-help/mutual aid is geared towards the promotion of what Riessman defines as ‘the helper principle’, that is “You alone can do it, but you cannot do it alone” (Riessman, 1965). On one hand, the direct taking of personal responsibility, on the other, the mutual aid: their conjunction implies a situation of interdependence, in which the person agrees to assume her/his responsibility, but within a context of mutual aid. It “consists in benefit, through the testimony of the personal experience, from the obstacles and the skills acquired over time. Helping others has a strong value of aid for themselves” (Focardi et al., 2006:23). It is probably this junction of proactivity and of reciprocal solidarity the basic element and the fundamental pivot around which rotate all the other possible characteristics of self-help/mutual aid.
نتیجه گیری انگلیسی
Even though what we have presented here just is a small part of our research findings (for a full account, see Giarelli et al., 2012), we hope that this snapshot of the Italian self-help/mutual aid groups has offered a significant representation of what the origins, internal characteristics and nature of these kind of active citizenship associations are. Once again, it should be clear that classifying them as belonging to an alleged ‘third sector’ would be quite reductive. Even the economic theories usually practiced to explain the condition and the rationale for the origin and development of these organizations are inadequate: in fact, both the view that considers them as a response to ‘market failure’ in cases where information is imperfect and asymmetric (Hansmann, 1987) and the opposite theories of excess demand which state that they develop in case of ‘government failure’, when it has not produced enough collective goods to satisfy everyone's demand, or where the differentiated demand by different groups within the population is not satisfied with the variant that the government chooses (James, 1987 and Weisbrod, 1988) appear somewhat limited in their ability to explain the nature and origin of the phenomenon. The mission of these social organizations is fulfilled in the process of a long-term transformation of the personal identity of each member who experiences a dramatic and profound change, through a structured and well-defined procedure. The size and the composition of these groups indicate a social phenomenon of a micro-community kind, which configures self-help/mutual aid as a form of non-selective support, with bland rules of inclusion as well as with open access to the external environment. The internal types of social interaction are centred on face-to-face relationships that are typical of small groups in which a direct and personal relationship is the foundation of the social bond. This confirms the helper's principle as a founding mechanism of the self-help/mutual aid phenomenon, where personal experience is the main tool for internal interaction and the for the establishment of this form of social capital. Further, by pursuing institutional collaboration and the involvement of the population, the groups project themselves externally, in order to maintain high awareness on the issues they are dealing with. Groups often go beyond the issues for which they were created, embracing a broader perspective that is oriented to responsibility as well as self-responsibility towards health and to the promotion of a new public discourse geared towards the empowerment of the ill and frail citizens (Fondazione Istituto Andrea Devoto, 1998–99). It is difficult to predict in which direction Italian self-help/mutual aid and other citizens' associations will evolve. This is because the process of development they are undertaking is directly and indirectly affected by both endogenous and exogenous variables to the associations themselves. Although structured and organized at a micro-social level, they are placed within a macro public space of civil society and interact with the external environment represented by the political, economic, cultural and social-health systems. This interaction produces continuous changes that can modify the organizational structure of the associations as well as the configuration of the social-health system in its entirety, proceeding in a direction that could significantly affect even the process of health care reform.

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Appreciate can be one of the most wonderful and incredible components of life, nonetheless it may also be distressing. Although some apprehensiveness was typical, some discover thought of slipping crazy terrifying.
Philophobia will be2 promo code be the concern about like or of becoming psychologically related to another individual. They shares lots of the exact same qualities as various other particular phobias, especially the ones that were social in general. And it will substantially influence lifetime if you don’t addressed.
Read on to understand everything you need to realize about philophobia, why it happens, and how you’ll overcome it.
beyond only a regular apprehensiveness about any of it. The fear is really extreme that it disrupts your daily life.
Warning signs can vary from one person to another. They are able to add both psychological and bodily reactions whenever also contemplating slipping crazy:
Maybe you are conscious that worries are irrational but nevertheless feel struggling to controls they.
Philophobia is not social anxiety disorder, although people who have philophobia could also have actually social panic. Public anxiety disorder trigger severe anxiety in personal issues, nonetheless it’s distinct from philophobia as it involves several personal contexts.
Philophobia part some similarities with disinhibited social wedding condition (DSED), an attachment condition in children under 18. DSED causes it to be difficult for people who have the ailment to form deep, meaningful relationships to other individuals. It’s often the results of childhood stress or neglect.
Philophobia can more widespread in individuals with previous upheaval or harm, stated Scott Dehorty (LCSW-C and executive director at Maryland home Detox, Delphi Behavioral Health party): “The anxiety is the fact that the serious pain will repeat as well as the threat isn’t worth that potential. If someone got seriously harm or discontinued as a young child, they could be averse to becoming near someone who may do alike. Driving a car effect will be abstain from interaction, hence preventing the soreness. The Greater Number Of one prevents the foundation of their anxiety, the greater worries increases.”
Particular phobias are often related to genetics and planet. In line with the Mayo Clinic, in some cases certain fears may develop due to changes in brain working.
Because philophobia is not contained in the Diagnostic and Statistical handbook (DSM) of this American Psychiatric connection, the doctor are extremely unlikely to offer the official analysis of philophobia.
Nevertheless, find mental assist in the event the concern gets overwhelming. A doctor or counselor will consider your problems together with your health, psychological, and social history.
If without treatment, philophobia may boost your issues for problems, such as:
Treatment options change according to intensity from the phobia. Alternatives add therapies, medication, changes in lifestyle, or a mixture of these therapy.
Treatment — particularly, intellectual behavioural treatments (CBT) — can individuals with philophobia handle their own concern. CBT requires distinguishing and changing mental poison, values, and responses to your way to obtain the phobia.
It’s crucial that you read the origin with the anxiety and to check out the harm. “There is likely to be lots of strategies for growth within experience that are merely are grouped as ‘hurt’ considering avoidance,” said Dehorty: “Once the source was researched, some reality-testing of feasible future relations can be carried out.”
What-if situations can certainly be helpful. Make inquiries instance:
- What if a relationship does not exercise?
- What takes place after that?
- In the morning We nevertheless okay?
“We typically making these problems much larger within creativity, and playing the circumstance away is a good idea,” Dehorty said. “Then, placing some smaller targets, like responding with a ‘Hello’ when someone claims ‘Hi’ to you personally, or encounter a friend or colleague for coffee. These May slowly build and certainly will beginning to ease the fears.”
In some cases, a health care provider may prescribe antidepressants or antianxiety treatments if there are various other diagnosable mental health issues. Medication are generally found in combo with therapies.
Changes in lifestyle
A family doctor might also recommend solutions such as for example fitness, pleasure strategies, and mindfulness campaigns.

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My research interests aim at generating a deep understanding of the correlation between materials functionality and their properties, which will greatly enhance rational design and optimisation of better materials.
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Filestream is a great feature for databases that have to handle a large volume of BLOB data. It allows the DBA to store data in Filesystem folders rather than data pages within SQL Server. Since the filesystem is meant to store and work with such data it makes it a perfect candidate for this feature. Previously we would store Blob data into varbinary max columns but with Filestream and File Table features we can integrate unstructured data into SQL Server very easily as shown in this video.
In this video we show the database options as well as how to setup and configure FileStream and load data into Filestream tables. The script used in the video can be found here. Even though the data is stored inside the file system they still follow database principles such as transaction level isolation and consistency. Database backups will take into account the data stored into file tables and features like full text search are compatible out of the box. The table captures additional metadata such as file paths, extensions, size, modified dates etc.
If you have unstructured data in your databases you should be considering Filestream and File tables or else you are not doing your due diligence. When migrating to the cloud and using Azure SQL PaaS we often replace Filestream with an even better option of saving the files in Azure Blob Storage.
sp_configure 'filestream access level', 2 reconfigure with override go CREATE DATABASE MyFileTable WITH FILESTREAM ( NON_TRANSACTED_ACCESS = FULL ,DIRECTORY_NAME = N'FileTableDir' ) /* Add a FileGroup that can be used for FILESTREAM */ Go ALTER DATABASE MyFileTable ADD FILEGROUP FileTableFG CONTAINS FILESTREAM GO /* Add the folder that needs to be used for the FILESTREAM filegroup. */ ALTER DATABASE MyFileTable ADD FILE ( NAME = 'FileTable_File' ,FILENAME = 'C:\Work\FileTable' ) TO FILEGROUP FileTableFG; GO use MyFileTable /* Create a FileTable */ CREATE TABLE resumes AS FILETABLE WITH (FILETABLE_DIRECTORY = 'FileTableDir')
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There's a big problem with making your own pie crusts. But first, let's look at what pie crust actually is.
Pie crust is a mixture of fat and flour, moistened with liquid. But what kind of fat you use, how you mix it, what kind of liquid, and what temperature everything is, is critical to the success of your pie crust.
First off, let's start with the proportions. There should be equal parts fat and flour, and just enough liquid to make the pie crust moist enough to roll out.
Second, the kind of fat: I have found that the absolutely best pie crust is made with equal parts of lard and butter. (Come on, you knew pie wasn't good for you!)
Third, the kind of flour--yes, it does make a difference! Gluten is what makes a pie crust tough, so you want to use the lowest-gluten flour you can find. Pastry flour is the best, and for the tastiest and most attractive crust, you want unbleached pastry flour or whole wheat pastry flour.
Fourth, the temperature of everything should be ice-cold. Yes, I keep my pastry flour in the freezer if I need the absolute best pie crust.
And now we come to how you mix the fat and flour. The most reliable way I have found is with two knives. Place the fat(s) in the sifted flour, and cut through the fats with one knife in each hand. You want bits of fat the size of lentils. The flour will stick to the outside of the bits of fat. Continue until you have the entire bowl of flour and fat in the appropriate-sized pieces.
When it comes to adding the liquid, most people use water, but I have discovered that replacing some or all of the water with 80 proof alcohol works the best. You can use anything you have lying around that goes with the flavor of the pie you are going to make: rum for peaches; whisky for pecans; vodka for savory pies. This also should be ice-cold. Put the mix in the refrigerator for a few minutes to keep it cool.
Finally, let's talk about equipment. For a crisp crust, you want a dark or glass pie pan. A pastry board and rolling pin you can refrigerate is good, or you can use marble.
Dust your pastry board with at little flour as possible (I use a tablespoon and spread it out evenly with my hand, and use the leftover to dust the pin lightly). Marble pastry boards are wonderful because they always stay cool! I also have a marble rolling pin, but my mother uses a hollow glass pin that she fills with water and freezes.
Without touching the pie crust with your hands, dump it out on the pastry board and roll to 1/8-inch thickness. Put your pie pan on top of the crust on the pastry board, and invert the crust into the pie pan. Press down to make sure there is no air between the crust and the pie pan.
For perfect crimping, you can use an iced fork, or make a "v" with one thumb and forefinger, and use a knife handle to push the crust into the "v."
If you need the pie crust to bake first, without browning, put a piece of parchment paper over the whole shebang and weight it down with a few glass marbles or river stones.
As always, some experimentation is useful. I have a number of tins which make very tiny pies, and I use these for experiments until I get a desirable result, and then I bake a few more examples to perfect the recipe.

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Interband transitions in GaAs1−xNx (0≤x≤0.033), involving a localized resonant N-derived energy level and the GaAs-like L conduction and valence band states, have been studied by resonant Raman scattering and spectroscopic ellipsometry, respectively. Raman scattering by the GaN-like LO2 phonon showed for x(approximate)0.01 a pronounced resonant enhancement for incident photon energies approaching the mostly N-related E+ transition at around 1.8 eV, but not at the E1 and E1+Δ1 interband transitions, reflecting the strongly localized nature of both the N-related electronic level and the Ga–N vibrational mode. Spectroscopic ellipsometry, in contrast, being sensitive to the overall dielectric function of the GaAsN, revealed the effect of N incorporation on the GaAs-like E1 and E1+Δ1 interband transitions, which is a high-energy shift with increasing N-content accompanied by a significant broadening. © 2000 American Institute of Physics.
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Bravo is a Brazilian multi-artist and currently lives in Leipzig, Germany. His relationship with dyslexia is one of love and hate, on the one hand all the difficulties that current society imposes on those with dyslexia, on the other, the immense creative capacity and ability to find solutions.
It is through art that he communicates with the public, expresses himself and develops as a person.
A character represented in diverse media, as in a Photographic shoot, video and public performances, Mister Z is a mysterious being that carries an ambiguity of transitions. With a human body and a zebra head, wearing gloves, a tie and supported by a species of cane, that provides him some authority, connection between the profane/telluric world and the divine one.
His pose, sitting and ecstatic, brings out an archetypical memory of authority and control. His hybridism points to a human capacity of leading and controlling, but its own posture indicates a sort of violence, and maybe even an internal uncontrol. Looking at him reminds of the well-known Minotaur, with a human body and the head of a bull. Fruit of a forbidden relationship, it used to feed itself from young people's blood in the labyrinth in which he was locked. Maybe we are, during a part of our journey, this human zebra / zebra human, threatening the others and ourselves. Getting rid of Mister Z, metamorphosing the selfish id of the brain into something kind, free of vanity, is the process of a lifetime.
My relationship with dyslexia is one of love and hate.
I say that there are times when I have dyslexia and there are times when it owns me, and then I am its hostage and I go through all the difficulties that a person with dyslexia goes through in society.
And when I have dyslexia, there are the superpowers it gives me, a different way of seeing the world, a different way of processing information, of finding patterns, of perceiving the world in a different, unique way.
It has an immense creative capacity, a capacity to find solutions, and I'm not just talking about the artistic creativity of concepts, of aesthetics, but also of making my work viable.
Dyslexia also influences my work towards being multimedia.

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September 21 - Prospective member arrives with aircraft.
September 17 - Not often do two flyiers show up on the same day for maiden flights on the same model - Foam P51 pylon racers.
August 27 - Doug McWha, Dwayne Graville and Jim Corbett photos
August 25 - Gary Morehead photos
I had it all to myself!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Its a terrible way to be treated, but I made my way through the worst of it.
August 24 - Last meeting at the field for 2010 - Doug McWha and Jim Corbett photos
August 17 - Dwayne Graville photos
August 17 - Doug McWha and Dwayne Graville photos
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The amount of UK farmland in organic production increased last year, according to Defra.
Figures from the UK Government department with responsibility for farming reveal 1.198 million acres of land was farmed organically in the UK last year – up 2.4% on 2018 – and the amount of organic land used to grow cereals was up 7.2%.
The increase was praised by organic body Soil Association Certification, which said it had witnessed a 14% increase in farmers with land in conversion to organic last year.
“More and more people are looking for organic products when they shop, leading to the eighth consecutive year of sales growth in the UK’s organic market in 2019 – now worth a record £2.45 billion,” said Soil Association Certification’s business development director, Clare McDermott.
“It’s also great to see a significant increase in the land being used to grow organic cereals, as demand for these on farms for animal feed is growing faster than UK producers can supply.”
She said converting a farming enterprise into organic production can take time, but there is confidence in the market due to high demand for UK organic produce.
“What we need now is for the UK Government to provide confidence that farming policy will also support them to grow more healthy, sustainable food,” added Ms McDermott.
She said future agricultural policy must support farmers to deliver environmental public goods across the whole farm by transitioning to agroecological practices, such as organic, that look after air, water and soil quality.

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What is at 9 p.m. on Sundays in the Coffeehouse, characterized by an impressive (at times bordering on ridiculous) number of colorful signs, and has a house? Not Swing House, not Beta, but SoundBoard, of course. This week’s featured artist, the illustrious Skyler Silvertrust, created SoundBoard as “an attempt to get people to go watch some music other than jazz or classical at this school,” a noble cause at such a music-focused university as Lawrence. Highlighting solo acts, student collaborations, and even themed nights, i.e. Christmas Soundboard, Skyler’s organization has come a long way in recent years — featured artists have run the gamut from Paul Karner to Travis Fondow, who will be performing in a few weeks and is really not an artist at all.Despite all of his musical involvement at Lawrence, Skyler is not actually a music major, but rather just a guy who enjoys music, but is bad at theory and sightsinging. He also happens to have interests outside of music, a big problem when one studies in the conservatory. Forced to take violin lessons when he was just seven years old, Skyler never guessed that this coercion would lead him to Lawrence, where he plays in the LSO and just recently gave a truly impressive recital.
Skyler’s raw musical talent, however, does not end with the violin’s sweet tones. In fact, he’s pretty excited about the new rap duo “Goofus and Goofus,” which includes both he and James Eric Prichard, and features “innovative raps about love and other such feelings.” Our featured artist also enjoys experimenting with hip-hop mash-ups on his computer, but don’t think that he is entirely hardcore. At the end of the day, what Skyler really likes to do is watch his favorite Astor Piazzolla DVD or rock out to Busta Rhymes “Break Ya Neck” and. the Mountain Goats. Not even a little hardcore.


Mumbai: 31-year-old Shahnawaz Shaikh has earned appreciation across social media platforms after he sold his SUV to provide free oxygen to over 250 families during the COVID-19 crisis, Mumbai Mirror reported. The report added that before selling the SUV Shahnawaz was using the vehicle as a makeshift ambulance to help people during Corona Pandemic.
When he bought the SUV in 2011, the Malad resident spent extra on a premium number plate – 007 – and a customized music system.
His decision to sell the SUV and provide free oxygen came when the wife of his business partner who was six-month pregnant died of COVID-19 in an autorickshaw, outside a hospital after being turned away from five other hospitals.
When he discussed the incident with his doctor friends, Shahnawaz was told that her life could’ve been saved had she been given oxygen on time. This, Shahnawaz said made him resolved to find a way to help people. He was introduced to a manufacturer by one of his friends. Shahnawaz added that the manufacturer was moved by his decision to provide free oxygen to patients and helped him thoroughly.
To acquire the oxygen, Shahnawaz sold his SUV and his friends spread the word on social media about free distribution of oxygen.
“There are just two simple things we ask from people calling to say they need oxygen cylinders - one, a doctor’s recommendation, and two, that they come to pick it up themselves,” he said. In exceptional cases, like when the entire family is in quarantine, a team of volunteers in protective gear travels across the city with oxygen cylinders. “The farthest we have traveled is from Malad to Haji Ali. Volunteers don’t enter the house and, despite wearing PPEs, maintain social distancing,” he said.
Shaikh said he gives each batch of relatives the oxygen kit and a crash course in its use, which he put together with the help of Dr. Sabauddin Shaikh of Care Hospital. He said, “[Dr. Shaikh] helped us make a video to demonstrate the use of the cylinders. He has also provided other support when needed.” Apart from this, Shaikh also advises each family to consult a doctor on the oxygen pressure required by the patient. “I’m not claiming to provide an alternative to hospitalization. All we can help with is providing life support to people with breathing difficulties,” he said.
Asked if it pained him to sell his SUV, Shaikh’s response was an emphatic “no”. “It’s not hard to give up one car to save someone’s life. Even if I’m blessed by just one grateful family for this deed, I will be able to buy four such cars someday,” he said. Shaikh recalled that just a few weeks ago, at the start of the lockdown, he had used his SUV as a free ambulance for people in Malad. “There are so many poor people in slums in this area who cannot find transportation, even to hospitals. Many of the people I took to the hospital later turned out to be COVID-positive,” he said. Because of this, Shaikh said, he has been taking extra precautions at home. His wife and two-year-old daughter live in one part of the house, which he does not enter unless he has been properly sanitized.
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Hong Kong, Oct 25: Amnesty International said Monday it would close its two offices in Hong Kong this year, becoming the latest non-governmental organization to cease its operations amid a crackdown on political dissent in the city.
The human rights group said its local office in Hong Kong would close this month while its regional office will close by the end of the year, with regional operations moved to other offices in the Asia-Pacific region.
This decision, made with a heavy heart, has been driven by Hong Kong's national security law, which has made it effectively impossible for human rights organizations in Hong Kong to work freely and without fear of serious reprisals from the government, Anjhula Mya Singh Bais, chair of Amnesty's board, said in a statement.
Hong Kong implemented a sweeping national security law in 2020 following months of massive anti-government protests. The law outlaws secession, subversion of state power, terrorism and foreign collusion to intervene in the city's affairs. More than 120 people, many of them supporters of the city's democracy movement, have been arrested under the law.
The majority of the city's prominent pro-democracy activists are behind bars for taking part in unauthorized assemblies, and dozens of political organizations and trade unions have ceased operations out of concern for their members' personal safety under the security law.
Bais said the recent targeting of local human rights and trade union groups signaled authorities were intensifying their campaign to rid the city of dissenting voices. It is increasingly difficult for us to keep operating in such an unstable environment, she said.
Critics in Hong Kong say the national security law is an erosion of freedoms, such as those of expression and assembly, that were promised the city for 50 years when the former British colony was handed over to China in 1997.


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Fruit is a popular choice for a dessert when eating the Paleo way because it’s naturally sweet, and will provide you with a serving of fruit that you should be getting each day. It’s easy enough to doctor up the fruit with some naturally sweet things like honey or coconut sugar, and in this recipe they’ve taken peaches, grilled them to unlock the flavor, and then topped them with coconut cream. This means you’re getting a sweet, flavorful, creamy dessert without any dairy, or any refined sugar. Walnuts are added to the top for a crunchy addition that also adds healthy fat.
Don't let your dietary restrictions get in the way of a great party. With "Gather: The Art of Paleo Entertaining," authors Haley Mason and Bill Staley show how to impress uninitiated guests with a multicultural Paleo menu. Dishes like Costillitas (Cuban-style baby back ribs) and General Tso's Chicken are perfect for large family get-togethers, while the recipes can be scaled back to a party of two. Organized by season to ensure the freshest ingredients, the book also offers tips on pulling off an elegant holiday feast.
Eat and Live Healthy for Two: Paleo Slow Cooking for TwoAre you trying to live healthier by following the Paleo way of cooking and... eating? Have you ever made and followed recipes and end up having tons of leftovers because your aim was to cook for two? Do you feel that you are too novice to make delicious dishes using your crockpot or slow cooker?If you have answered “Yes” to all these questions, then this book is definitely for you! This is Paleo cooking in its most worry-free and fool proof way!Paleo cooking using a crockpot or slow cooker can be both exciting and challenging. But with the help of this book, you can start recreating and even coming up with your own Paleo recipes using this cookware with utmost confidence. And not just that, inside you will learn:· The reason why you should go for a Paleo lifestyle· 40 delicious, healthy and completely Paleo recipes that you can cook using a slow cooker.· Recipes that help you prepare your food ahead of time.· How to reduce recipe servings or yields to suit your need to cook for just two people.· And so much moreBring out your slow cooker and get ready to be the star of the kitchen and the dinner table with these amazingly easy Paleo recipes!Don’t Delay. Download This Book Now. read more
Here are more than 200 recipes you can have at your side as you venture into Paleo and determine what it is you’re supposed to be eating. You can expect leaner muscles while eating these meals, as well as more energy and more mental clarity, all without having to suffer through hunger pangs and cravings like you get with a diet. That’s because they remind you that Paleo isn’t really a diet at all, and with the sort of meals they have you making here you won’t feel like you’re missing out on anything. Quite the opposite, you’ll actually feel like you’re indulging.
I went on Saturday morning and I excitedly told the young girl about finding your blog. The owner was out at the farmers market. I got the chicken salad wrap….delish! I purchases the paleo wraps and can’t wait to make my own this week. I am new paleo….I’ve tried many ways of eating…from raw to lord knows what. I’m 56 in pretty good health but have a bad hip. I need to loose about 20 pounds and want to do it healthfully and have the weight stay off and this be a lifestyle. I’ll be following your blog and maybe I’ll see you at Vive!
This stew is made from a bunch of beef, some blueberries, carrots, and an onion. It may sound like a bit of an odd mix, but trust us, it works. A stew is the perfect platform to construct a great Paleo meal, and here there’s plenty of healthy foods being combined. You’ll get plenty of protein from all of that beef, as well as important minerals like iron. Blueberries consistently make the news because of their antioxidant value, and carrots have long been known to be healthy due to the beta Carotene they contain. Onions also add to the nutritional value of this meal, and it will definitely keep you satisfied for several hours.
Practical Paleo is more than just a recipe book. Instead, the book acts as a particularly effective introduction to the paleo diet, offering information and steps about what you can expect from the beginning all the way through. Some of this information may even be new to people who have been following paleo for a while, especially as there is a discussion about gut bacteria and various ways to live a paleo lifestyle effectively.
Everybody gets their own mini personal pizza when you cook up these squash pizzas. Each slice of squash becomes a tiny sized pizza that is loaded up with Paleo friendly toppings. It’s a great way to use up that butternut squash you bought, and simply requires that you top them up with items that you like. They’re recommending meats and veggies so you can keep it Paleo, and really as long as you stick with those two types of foods you’ll be doing just fine.
There's no one "right way" to do paleo. If you're just starting out, it may take some time to figure out what feels best. Maybe you just eat paleo after 2 p.m. on weekdays; maybe you are so hardcore, you get uneasy just looking at a slice of bread. Most of us fall somewhere in between. We're advocates of a more generally "paleo-based" system, following paleo principles most of the time, but making reasonable exceptions for important events or your mom's famous chocolate chip cookies.
The author presented the facts logically and the book felt well researched. The recipes were varied and easy to execute. I've looked through a lot of Paleo cookbooks, so it's not often I come across much that is truly unique, but this cookbook had quite a few recipes I hadn't found versions of before! The meals look easy to make and the diet as a whole is presented in such a way that it doesn't feel intimidating. While I do not intend to adopt a complete paleo diet, I do intend to incorporate several of the concepts and make more of the recipes. And I would definitely recommend this book for anyone wanting to start eating paleo or who wants to add more recipes to their diet. I only wish this book came with beautiful color pictures. A cookbook without pictures or with very little pictures is kind of boring to me. First you eat with your eyes, then you eat with your stomach ;)


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The kids are starting to head back to school and, while it still feels like summer, fall is in the air. We have another fabulous fall tumbler tutorial for you today! Vanessa of VMD Designs is showing us how to make a caramel apple fall tumbler. It is so beautiful and gives off all the fall vibes!
One of the best treats that come with fall are caramel apples. Sweet and tangy, crunchy and sticky, they are an awesome autumn tradition. Vanessa came up with a fabulous fall tumbler design and has been generous in sharing it with us! In the video below she shows us how to make a caramel apple fall tumbler that is perfect for holding some tasty apple cider.
Vanessa used Nice N’ Thick to get those perfect caramel drips and they look almost real enough to eat! Vanessa shows you exactly how to make them and, if you are just starting out with using drips on your cups, you can also check out our post Making the Perfect Drip Cup with Nice N’ Thick. It will give you a great introduction to drip cups!
How to Make a Caramel Apple Fall Tumbler
These caramel apple tumblers are so gorgeous. Those deep rich colors are perfect for fall! In the video below Vanessa shows you all the supplies that she used to make these cups. We have also listed them in the recipe. Where we had a glitter color that was similar to what Vanessa used, we listed those for you too. That way, if you already have them on hand, you’ll be able to dive right into this cup!
The reds of this apple tumbler are stunning. And they are such a solid fall color. But you could also make one as a green apple. Some fabulous green glitter and mica would give you a great granny smith look! And we would love to see what you tumbler artists can come up with for a topper. The toppers we have seen recently are so creative and fabulous and it wouldn’t surprise if y’all come up with a way to add the stem or the stick to this apple!
The fake nuts are the perfect addition to this tumbler! It’s such a cute detail to add. As Vanessa says, you can also switch up your toppings. You could also use fake sprinkles or chocolate chips. Anything goes, really. Just have fun with it! When you are adding your epoxy to the cup after you’ve added your toppings, just be sure to use your gloved finger to pat the resin into the nuts. That will give you a more secure and even finish.
Vanessa loved the texture that came from the drips and the nuts so she only added one final layer of resin. If you prefer a smoother finish, though, you can add another layer or two of epoxy to smooth things out. There is no right or wrong way when it comes to resin art! Well, except when it comes to measuring your resin. Other than that, though, have at it!
How to Make a Caramel Apple Fall Tumbler
- Counter Culture DIY Artist Resin medium viscosity
- Counter Culture DIY Fast Set
- 10oz Wine or Mug Tumbler
- Tumbler Rotator
- medicine cups
- Mixing sticks
- Nice N' Thick
- Glitter Spoon
- "Apple Red" Rustoleum Spray Paint OR use CCDIY Prime Time White with "Red Ruby" Dispersion Color mixed in.
- Fake Chopped Nut Sprinkles
- Precision Knife
- Regal Red Glitter
- Very Cherry Glitter
- Penny Mica Powder
- Honey Mica Powder
- "Gingerbread Man" Woodies Goodies Mica
- "Matador" Glitter PDB Creative Studio
- Counter Culture DIY Quick Coat or "Triple-Thick Crystal Clear Glaze 0500" Krylon
- Sand10oz wine tumbler with 80 grit sanding block and prep with "Apple Red" Rustoleum Spray Paint.
- Apply a thin coat of Medium Viscosity Artist Resin and mix the Very Cherry and Regal Red glitters together. Apply the combined glitters to your resin and allow the cup to spin and cure.
- Once the resin has cured, apply Krylon Triple-Thick Clear Glaze or CCDIY Quick Coat and let it dry.
- Mix together Fast Set with a little bit of "Matador" Glitter by PDB Creative Studio mixed in and apply to tumbler.
- Use the torch to pop any bubbles and let it cure.
- Apply another layer if needed and let it cure.
- Mix the Honey and Penny mica powders together to get the perfect caramel color.
- Mix Medium Viscosity with Nice N Thick until desired thickness is achieved and then add your mica mixture.
- Start applying your caramel drip to the bottom of your tumbler. When you do this you want to take your tumbler off of the turner and make sure it is sitting upside down so the drips fall down.
- Sprinkle fake chopped nuts onto the caramel drips wherever needed. Let it cure.
- Once it has cured, clean up your rims and seal with another coat of Fast Set. Torch it and let it cure.
- Sit and enjoy your beautiful tumbler full of fall vibes.
If you are looking for a back to school gift or a fun fall cup for yourself, this project is a great one to try! The tags that Vanessa added to her cups are adorable. You could do something similar for your kids’ teachers. Or you can keep this one as your own. Whatever your cup’s final destination, we hope you have a lot of fun making it!
You can find more awesome video tutorials like this one on our YouTube channel!
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You're The Top: The Cole Porter Story (#504)
"Night and Day," "I Get a Kick You of You," "You're the Top," "Begin the Beguine," "My Heart Belongs to Daddy" - some of the cleverest, funniest and most romantic songs ever written came from the pen of Cole Porter. Outwardly a sophisticated bon vivant and international partygoer, he was also a dedicated musical professional who routinely spent hours agonizing over a single rhyme or musical transition. The life and legacy of America's most sophisticated songwriter is the subject of this documentary, which features interviews with the performers and artists who knew Porter best and more than 20 classic performances from his movie musicals. [57 minutes]
This episode has not aired in the past few months on Iowa Public Television.
Series Description: AMERICAN MASTERS is an ongoing series of award-winning primetime specials examining the lives, works, and creative processes of our most outstanding cultural artists. Created in 1984 by Susan Lacy and produced by Thirteen/WNET for national public television, the series is both a celebration and an exploration of creativity in America. Consisting of more than 250 hours of programming to date, AMERICAN MASTERS is a growing film library documenting the role important individuals, groups, and movements have played in the formation of our cultural identity.
All Upcoming Episodes
A Fierce Green Fire (#2701)
These episodes of American Masters aired in the last few months on Iowa Public Television.
- Pedro E. Guerrero: A Photographer's Journey (#2902)
- Althea (#2901)
- Harper Lee (#2504)
- Dorothea Lange: Grab A Hunk of Lightning (#2704)
- Billie Jean King (#2604)
- Alice Walker: Beauty In Truth (#2606)
- The Day Carl Sandburg Died (#2505)

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Pet Puzzles: Dogs
Prove your puzzle solving skills in this fun game featuring seven breeds of popular and cute dogs. Choose the Golden Retriever, the Bull Terrier, the Bull Dog, the German Shepherd, the Labrador, the Collie or the small Pug, pick a difficulty level and start solving the puzzle.. A fun puzzle featuring seven cute dogs....
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The Covid-19 pandemic has given everyone pause for thought. It has also been a catalyst for action. For some, global warming seemed like a nebulous, distant concern. But the fragility of life on earth has been laid bare.
● Investors in commodities have tended to stress the importance of economic cycles
● But decarbonisation and renewable electricity generation could continue to fuel rising prices for copper, platinum group metals and nickel
Environmental activism has become mainstream. A new report by the University of Oxford and United Nations Environment Programme shows $341bn (€290bn) has been set aside for green initiatives by the world’s 50 biggest economies, in $14.6trn of announced stimulus.
That 2.5% of overall GDP may seem trivial but it comes on top of longer-term commitments. Once the emergency funding of businesses and jobs abates as the COVID-19 crisis ebbs, it may be increased significantly. The European Green Deal Investment Plan has earmarked €100bn in spending annually. Boris Johnson, the British prime minister, wants to make the UK “the Saudi Arabia of wind”.
In 2019, the UK also put in place a legally-binding commitment to net-zero CO2 emissions by 2050. Large economies such as France, Japan, South Korea, Sweden, New Zealand, Denmark and Sweden have enacted similar legislation. New US president Joe Biden has pledged $2trn to tackle climate change.
But the game changer is China, the world’s biggest burner of coal and the largest market for all fossil fuels. President Xi Jinping told the United Nations in September 2020 that the world’s largest carbon emitter would begin reducing emissions by 2030 with the goal of getting to net-zero by 2060.
Hitting this target would mean the creation of 3,000GW (gigawatts) of new renewable energy. That is three-times the installed electricity generation summer capacity in the US. Tal Lomnitzer, senior fund manager at Janus Henderson, says: “When China committed to net zero, I don’t think it registered as the seismic event it is. It is the biggest carbon emitter and is still playing catch up industrially. It is an enormous change that will require massive investment.”
What is good for the planet can also be positive for investors, particularly those with ESG concerns who are cutting coal, oil and other fossil fuels from portfolios. There are a handful of liquid and tradeable commodities that stand to benefit most from the transition to renewable energy and electric vehicles. These are copper, nickel and platinum.
Regardless of whether an investment view embraces rising inflation and a commodities supercycle, there is a secular, fundamental case for owning these metals. Each has unique supply dynamics but the demand drivers are clear.
Copper earned the soubriquet ‘king’ because it is widely regarded as a bellwether of global economic activity. However, there is a solid case that copper prices have decoupled. Historically, a 1% fall in global trade has triggered a 4% decline in the price of copper. According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD), global merchandise volumes fell 8.7% in 2020. Copper rallied.
Having traded as low as $4,600 per tonne in March it is currently priced at over $8,000/tonne. Michael Widmer, strategist and head of metals research at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, forecasts an average price of $10,000/tonne in 2021.
Christian Kjaer, head of liquid markets and multi-asset investment at ATP, Denmark’s supplementary pension scheme with DK960bn (€129bn) in assets and the fourth-biggest pension fund in Europe, says: “In 2020, copper prices were supported by China recovering rapidly from Covid. But I think there is a strong trend that supports prices as well. We know that there is huge demand from electrification, decarbonisation and renewable energy. What we do not know is where the supply is coming from.”
Renewable energy and electric vehicles (EVs) need a lot of copper. An average EV uses 4km of copper wiring. That is about 83kg, according to a report from Jefferies Equities Research in November 2020. An internal combustion engine contains just 20kg. Every EV charging point uses another 10kg of copper. Offshore wind power requires 15 tonnes of copper wiring per megawatt (MW) of electricity generation.
Upgrading of electricity grid networks and connecting often remote renewable energy generation to where it is consumed are other sources of demand. Jefferies says copper demand from renewables will more than double by 2030 to 1.9m tonnes in its base case and demand from EVs will increase by 10 times.
In all three scenarios set out in its report – base case, bull and bear – “the copper market is entering an extended period of deficits”, Jefferies analysts write (figure 1). In a bull case scenario, cumulative copper demand from EVs and renewable energy alone could exceed current mined supply.
A copper deficit does not mean the world will run out. It means mined supply will not keep pace with demand and other more expensive sources, such as recycling, will need to be tapped. Basic economics suggests that when demand exceeds supply, prices will rise. Mined copper is already becoming a rarer resource. The mining industry has had to go further, to increasingly inhospitable locations, and dig deeper.
In 2002, Freeport-McMoRan’s Grasberg mine in Indonesia supplied 6.5% of the world’s copper. It was dug out of the ground (open cast mining). The mine now supplies 1% and most of the copper it will produce in the future needs to be hydraulically fracked from a deep cave deposit. The Escondida mine in Chile has also been forced ‘underground’ and new projects such as Caserones, also in Chile’s Atacama (owned by a Japanese consortium) and Rio Tinto’s Oyu Tolgoi mine in Mongolia’s Gobi desert have been beset by problems.
“When China committed to net zero, I don’t think it registered as the seismic event it is” Tal Lomnitzer
“The capex of the miners peaked in 2012,” says Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Widmer. “There is a laundry list of copper projects in the pipeline but many are located in places that are difficult to operate in for a range of environmental and geopolitical reasons. The focus has been on the brownfield development of existing ore deposits, but that also gets more expensive. Copper prices are high enough now to encourage more investment, but it takes between seven and 10 years to bring a new mine fully on stream.”
Every tonne of mined copper is a tonne less in the ground unless new sources are found, and depreciation has exceeded capital spending in the mining sector for a decade. “Copper is a huge market – 23m tonnes a year,” says Janus Henderson’s Lomnitzer. “And the price rises we have seen will bring Adam Smith’s invisible hand into the supply equation. But it takes time. A lot of time. There are new sources of supply but we need more.”
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Another big beneficiary from decarbonisation is likely to be platinum. It is already used industrially for the catalytic converters that all modern cars are fitted with. The automotive industry accounts for 40% of overall demand, followed by jewellery (30%). However, owing to oversupply in the last super cycle, prices have been subdued until recently.
For as long as prices of precious metals have been calculated, platinum traded at a premium to gold. It is 30 times rarer and geologists say it arrived on earth by meteorite strikes. But that price relationship with gold reversed in 2015. Having peaked at a price of over $2,000 per troy ounce in 2008, platinum now trades at $1,174/troy ounce. But it has rallied lately, up more than 60% over one year and 70% from its March lows.
That can largely be explained by an emerging technology, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFC) which electrochemically react hydrogen with oxygen to produce electricity. The only by-product is water and there are zero carbon emissions. “Our view is that hydrogen could provide 25% of the world’s energy needs by 2050,” says Janus Henderson’s Lomnitzer. Platinum makes up between 17% and 25% of PEMFC stack costs.
Asked whether to accept the case for platinum it is also necessary to see hydrogen as an important part of the future energy mix, Bank of America Merrill Lynch’s Widmer is succinct: “Yes and yes and we do.” That will require a lot of investment, but governments are stepping up. The EU’s Green Deal is expected to add €10bn annually in direct funding and loan guarantees. Commission first vice-president Hans Timmermans has said hydrogen can play a pivotal role in clean energy. The goal is to generate 40GW by 2030 versus 2GW today.
As part of Covid fiscal stimulus, France and Germany have dedicated €7bn and €9bn, respectively, to green hydrogen initiatives. The present focus is on FCEVs (fuel-cell electric vehicles). It is already possible buy a Toyota Mirai, Hyundai Nexo or Honda Clarity car. But the biggest win for the environment would be FCEVs in the freight and transportation sector. Hyundai is building a fleet of H2 XCIENT trucks in Switzerland (1,300 projected by 2030). Daimler and Volvo have a joint venture working on FCEV trucks and Airbus plans to have a zero-emissions hydrogen-powered aircraft in the skies by 2035.
“Given the targets set by governments for trucks and buses to move to electrification and hydrogen by 2030, we forecast with current average PEM (proton exchange membrane) loadings, platinum demand from this sector to reach four million ounces by 2030,” says Widmer.
The current mined output of platinum is about five million ounces, mostly produced in a small area of South Africa called the Bushveld around Johannesburg (figure 2).
The recycling of catalytic converters from cars will be one source of future supply, but there will be a lag. “Before you get to the point of internal combustion engines being scrapped, boosting the supply of recycled platinum, you will have ever more demand for catalytic converters, as emissions rules tighten and hydrogen fuel cells. Realistically, the time horizon is perhaps 10 or 15 years,” says Lomnitzer.
‘Green’ hydrogen power, produced from renewables, can also be used in heavy carbon-emitting industries such as steelmaking (8% of all global emissions). Almost 90% of Rio Tinto’s Scope 3 carbon emissions, indirect emissions that result from a company’s supply chain, can be attributed to iron ore being processed in coke-powered furnaces. There are a number of green hydrogen steelmaking sites already in operation including ‘Hybrit’ .
Nickel and dimes
Before FCEVs running off hydrogen become a core part of transportation, most EVs will be running off nickel-cobalt-manganese and nickel-cobalt-aluminium batteries. Wood Mackenzie predicts that nickel consumption for EV batteries will soar by 64% between 2019 and 2025. In February, Tesla boss Elon Musk tweeted: “Nickel [supply] is the biggest challenge for high-volume, long-range batteries.”
The investment case for nickel is, however, more complex. First, an alternative battery technology, lithium ferrous batteries, already exists. These cars currently do not have the range of nickel batteries but meet the needs of most commuters.
Second, there is one nickel price, but only high-grade nickel can be used in batteries to power EVs. There are three main suppliers of high-grade (class 1) nickel, Brazil’s Vale’s Canadian mines, Russia’s Norilsk Nickel and BHP in western Australia.
Buying any of those mining superpowers gives exposure to a lot more than class 1 nickel, including many other metals and the skill, or otherwise, of the management teams. But the biggest drag on class 1 nickel prices might be an emerging technology that processes low-grade nickel pig iron into an intermediate product called nickel matte. This can then be used in batteries. China’s Tsingshan Holding Group is pioneering this technology at an Indonesian mine it operates and already has contracts with two battery makers.
Widmer says: “I absolutely believe we will see exponential volume growth in the demand for nickel, but the upside for prices may be more limited. We were looking at deficits by 2025, but the Tsingshan development has altered the supply-and-demand dynamic in a meaningful way.”
There are other less-liquid metals that should benefit from decarbonisation including lithium, cobalt and even uranium. But copper, other platinum group metals (rhodium and palladium), nickel and their producers look like the best way for investors to buy exposure into the emerging build-back-better agenda and the push for net-zero carbon emissions by 2050.
Janus Henderson’s Lonmitzer says he shies away from using the term ‘super cycle’ when talking to potential investors about the metals and mining sector. He does not see it as doing full justice to the opportunity. “The early 2000’s super cycle was about the industrialisation of a single economy – China. China is very important, but decarbonisation is a global phenomenon. This isn’t a super cycle. It’s a mega cycle that will persist for decades.


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Human rights defenders are informed that the case of Yoshkar-Ola citizen Vladimir Ott, who was allegedly beaten by police officers and private security guards, has been transferred for further investigation to the Yoshkar-Ola Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Mari El.
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On 20 January 2014 Yoshkar-Ola city resident Vladimir Ott applied to the local regional branch of the INGO «Committee Against Torture» and the human rights organization «Man and Law». The man complained that he had been beaten up by policemen and servicemen of a private security company.
According to Vladimir, in the evening of January 10, 2014 he left home to meet his mother from work. He was waiting for her near a local cafe, when a «Chevrolet Niva» with a «security» sign drove over. Two men in uniform stepped out and, without explaining themselves, started twisting his arms. Mr Ott tried his best to explain that he has disability status (group three according to Russian scale) due to his hearing and speech disorders, but that made no difference – the servicemen began hitting his legs, evidently in order to knock him down on the ground.
Mr Ott can remember that he manged to break free for a while, but was soon caught again. The servicemen were first beating him right there, and then dragged to a household products store to continue beating. Eventually a police car stopped nearby, and several police officers stepped out and pushed Vladimir into the back seat. One of the officers sat near Vladimir, twisted his arm, pushed his head down, and hit him several times on his knees. Vladimir did not know what was wanted from him, for he had dropped his hearing aid while being beaten in the street.
Mr Ott was brought to Police Department no. 3 (Zarechny District Department of the Interior for Yoshkar-Ola city). The young man maintains that he didn’t hear the police officers’ demands, and didn’t understand what they wanted from him. He was given a piece of paper, on which he wrote his name, date of birth and home phone number. Then he was photographed and taken to a room on the third floor. There a policeman gave him something to sign. Vladimir felt threatened, so he signed the paper. Eventually he was led out of the department, and he went home.
After that Vladimir’s mother accompanied him to a trauma center, where a doctor observed and recorded the following injuries: bruises on soft tissue of his head; cervical spine strain and contusion; bruises on the right shoulder, right hand and right thigh.
Following Mr Ott’s application, lawyers working with Mari El regional branch of the INGO «Committee Against Torture» together with their colleagues from the regional NGO «Man and Law» have initiated a public investigation. The human rights defenders have already been granted participation in investigative activities in the proceedings under Article 116 (2) of the Criminal Code (battery) as the victim’s representatives.
On 8 August the human rights defenders were informed that this criminal investigation had been transferred from the Inquiry Unit of Police Department no. 3 to the Yoshkar-Ola Investigative Department of the Investigative Committee for the Republic of Mari El.
«We have already requested certain investigative steps aimed at obtaining evidence against the perpetrators. We have as well filed a request asking to change the charges against the guards from «battery» to «exceeding powers by private security companies’ agents». We are also determined to demand that criminal charges of exceeding official powers be brought against the police officers», says the Head of the Mari El regional branch of the INGO «Committee Against Torture» Dimitry Yalikov.

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Gov. Gavin Newsom, D-Calif., has made headlines for bashing the governors of red states. He’s urged his residents to avoid Texas, and he’s run television advertisements in Florida. California has banned state officials from dealing with numerous Republican-controlled states.
But now some members of Newsom’s inner circle are doing the opposite.
The Siebel Family Revocable Trust — an entity named for Newsom’s mother-in-law Judith A. Siebel and father-in-law Kenneth F. Siebel Jr. — donated $5,000 to the Friends of Ron DeSantis PAC in April, according to records reviewed by Fox News Digital last month.
In other words, Newsom’s in-laws reportedly donated to the DeSantis campaign ahead of the conservative Florida governor’s bid for reelection in November.
Conservative commentators mocked the California governor after this revelation.
“Thanksgiving is going to be awkward,” SkyNews Australia wrote in a headline.
Both Newsom and DeSantis have stirred speculation about possible runs for president. Newsom visited Washington, D.C., in July, and DeSantis has ranked as the highest-polling Republican in some surveys of New Hampshire.
“I’m sure he’s humiliated because of how aggressive he’s come out against Ron DeSantis,” radio host Clay Travis said on Fox News last month. “There’s a possibility, guys, that this could be a presidential election in 2024 or 2028. These guys don’t like each other.”
The Siebel family has reportedly donated to Republicans in the past. According to FEC filings reviewed by Fox News Digital, Kenneth Siebel Jr. has donated money to campaigns for GOP Sens. Tom Cotton of Arkansas, Josh Hawley of Missouri and Ron Johnson of Wisconsin.
Newsom has counted several other Republicans as members of his family, even revelation about his in-laws. In the 2000s, Newsom was married to Kimberly Guilfoyle, a onetime adviser to former President Donald Trump and the current fiancee of Donald Trump Jr.
Newsom, DeSantis and the Siebel family have all remained silent on this new report.
Both governors are headed toward reelection on Nov. 8… only a few weeks before a tense Thanksgiving at the Newsom household.
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Applications are invited for a Postdoctoral Researcher to join the Laboratory of Rob Field at the John Innes Centre based in Norwich, UK.
Rob Field’s research focuses on carbohydrate chemistry and biochemistry. He develops chemical probes and uses gene manipulation to impact carbohydrate biosynthesis and degradation pathways, thereby generating new products.
Rob’s research spans a broad range of organisms including plants, algae, bacteria and viruses. This work has resulted in a number of applications, from designer carbohydrates for functional food studies to developing diagnostics for infectious diseases.
The Postdoctoral Researcher will work with Rob Field’s group on the enzymatic synthesis of carbohydrate structures, including oligosaccharides, sugar phosphates and sugar nucleotides. The successful candidate will identify, plan, carry out and modify experiments to meet the objectives of the project.
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The ideal candidate will have a PhD in Chemistry or a related discipline. A record of achievement in chemical synthesis, with experience of carbohydrate chemistry, is essential as is experience with the use of enzymes in carbohydrate synthesis. This opportunity would suit a collegiate self-starter who is willing to work in a multidisciplinary project and to deal with collaborators around UK academia and industry.
Salary on appointment will be within the range £31,250 to £38,100 per annum depending on qualifications and experience. This is a full time post, for a contract of 9 months.
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Sitting on the corner of Queen West and Augusta, Java house is a ragged-yet-lovable little cafe/resto hang-out with a big patio, tiny kitchen and cheap eats menu that sees no borders.
The international mish mash line-up of entrees offers up favourites like pad thai, shanghai noodles, omelets, pierogies and more, including all-day breakfast specials like sausage & eggs and french toast. No meal is more than $10. Most barely scrape the $6 mark. If you're familiar with the Red Room on Spadina, this menu is going to look very familiar.
If that wasn't easy enough on your wallet, there are even greater deals to be had with daily specials every day of the week. I usually drop by on Saturdays when you can score a pitcher of sangria or imported beer + 2 entrees for $21.
The sangria is unreliable, sometimes strong, sometimes just sweet -- depending on who's pouring -- but always pretty tasty. It makes for a great patio drink, or in my case, an I-wish-it-was-warm-enough-for-the-patio kind of treat.
This evening, the order is one Chicken Pad Thai (pictured at the top) and a Veggie Stir-fry (with extra veggies in place of the standard chicken/shrimp/tofu option).
Both are huge portions, prepared quickly and just as we asked. I'm not about to hand out any fine-dining awards here, but most offerings are pretty good for the price.
Pad Thai is spicy and actually pretty fresh for something whipped up in a few minutes. The Veg Stir-Fry features lots of crisp fresh veggies (no freezer bag platefuls) aside steamed white rice. The whole dish is actually more steamed than fried, making it one of the healthier menu choices... something you might consider if planning on enjoying a pitcher or two.


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Combining multi-dimensional scaling and cluster analysis to describe the diversity of rural households
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Capturing agricultural heterogeneity through the analysis of farm typologies is key with regard to the design of sustainable policies and to the adoptability of new technologies. An optimal balance needs to be found between, on the one hand, the requirement to consider local stakeholder and expert knowledge for typology identification, and on the other hand, the need to identify typologies that transcend the local boundaries of single studies and can be used for comparisons. In this paper, we propose a method that supports expert-driven identification of farm typologies, while at the same time keeping the characteristics of objectivity and reproducibility of statistical tools. The method uses a range of multivariate analysis techniques and it is based on a protocol that favours the use of stakeholder and expert knowledge in the process of typology identification by means of visualization of farm groups and relevant statistics. Results of two studies in Zimbabwe and Kenya are shown. Findings obtained with the method proposed are contrasted with those obtained through a parametric method based on latent class analysis. The method is compared to alternative approaches with regard to stakeholder-orientation and statistical reliability.
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Chickasha police arrested a man who is accused of holding a woman and an infant child hostage at gunpoint Sunday afternoon.
According to police, just after 1 p.m. officers received a report of a hostage situation. The caller told police that his girlfriend and infant child were being held against their will at a home in the 1400 block of S. 5th by a suspect armed with a shotgun.
Officers responded to that home and several people came outside. They spoke with the suspect, later identified as Jesse Keene. Keene was then arrested and booked into the Grady County Jail on complaints of assault and battery with a dangerous weapon, kidnapping, and unlawful possession of a sawed-off shotgun.
No one was injured during the incident. The case will be reviewed by the Grady County District Attorney for consideration of charges.


Sunbathers pictured relaxing by the River Cam... yards from the bodies of a man and woman 'who were killed by drugs'
- Bodies lay in the heat near the water’s edge on Jesus Green, Cambridge
- Nearby families and tourists sat in the park by the River Cam
Discarded shoes and empty alcohol bottles lay on grass beside bodies
With sunbathers dressed in bikini tops enjoying the good weather and tourists punting down the river, it looked like a pleasant summer’s afternoon in Cambridge.
But as those making the most of the heat wave relaxed at the water’s edge on Jesus Green yesterday, two people lay dead on the opposite river bank.
As families and tourists sat in the park by the River Cam, the bodies of a man and woman were left on the sun-scorched grass covered by orange and white blankets.
As families and tourists sat in the park by the River Cam, the bodies of a man and woman were left on the sun-scorched grass covered by orange and white blankets
Police sealed off the area with blue and white tape after the man and woman, said to be in her 40s, were found collapsed shortly after midday.
Two pairs of discarded shoes and empty alcohol bottles lay strewn on the grass beside them.
The man and woman were declared dead at the scene and a second man was taken to the city’s Addenbrooke’s Hospital for treatment.
It is believed all three had been drinking by the riverside as part of a group since the previous evening and had taken drugs, though it is not known what substance was involved.
Police said there were early indications the deaths were drug-related but officers refused to rule out the searing 29C heat as a contributory factor.
The deaths are not thought to be the result of overdoses.
Detective Inspector Billy Bremner said: ‘We are aware that two people have died and a third was taken ill at about the same time. We are in the early stages of investigating these tragic deaths and are keeping an open mind as to the cause.
Police sealed off the area with blue and white tape after the man and woman, said to be in her 40s, were found collapsed shortly after midday
‘At this stage we can say that the three people involved are believed to have taken drugs in Cambridge shortly before becoming ill. We would urge anyone who has any information about the supply of drugs in the city to call police.’
One line of inquiry is that a contaminated batch of an illegal substance may be circulating in Cambridge, but the incident is not being linked to recent ecstasy-related deaths in Scotland.
The deaths of seven young people in Scotland in the last two months are being linked to a batch of fake ecstasy tablets thought to contain toxic chemicals.
An 18-year-old woman from Alexandria, West Dunbartonshire, was the latest to die when she collapsed last Tuesday morning after taking a pill she believed was ecstasy.
Police have warned that the suspect pills are green in colour and stamped with a Rolex crown logo, and that some have been found to contain the dangerous stimulant paramethoxyamphetamine, also known as PMA.
The substance causes extremely high body temperatures, hallucinations and convulsions. Officers have also warned of a white pill with the Mitsubishi logo imprinted on it, found to contain the chemicals 5IT or AMT, and a yellow tablet with a star logo.
Jesus Green, on the edge of the River Cam, is popular in summer with both residents and visitors.
The river will this week play host to the Cambridgeshire Rowing Association Bumping Races. The event sees a number of crews racing at the same time on the narrow stretch of water.
Rather than beginning side by side, the boats are lined up end to end, with one-and-a-half boat lengths (about 90ft) of clear water between them.
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This book brings a unique perspective to this previously unexplored topic of desert combat uniforms and patches with the authors' extensive knowledge of military history combined with a total of over 50 years of military experience. In this extraordinary comprehensive reference book, they provide a detailed picture of desert uniforms, patches, and insignia worn by the US Armed Forces in combat from Desert Storm, through Somalia and in the more recent hard fought campaigns of Iraq and Afghanistan. The sum of the extensive information gathered here on Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corps, and Coast Guard units that wore the desert uniform is not available anywhere else. Calling upon original source documents and extensive public and private collections, the authors have painstakingly assembled detailed research that will serve veterans, historians, collectors, and reenactors for years to come as the definitive reference on this topic.
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Kevin M. Born is an Army civilian at Fort Lee, Virginia. He has authored numerous articles on military insignia collecting. Alexander F. Barnes is a recently retired Army civilian. He has written three other books, most recently To Hell with the Kaiser, America Prepares for War.
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