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Which startups are worth paying attention to in the domestic smart home industry? Where are the most promising among them? What strategies did they use to stand out from other ambitious newcomers?
China's smart home industry mainly consists of four types of players: first, established home appliance companies like Midea (000333), Gree (000651), and Haier (600690); second, top 3C manufacturers including Xiaomi (1810: HK), Apple (AAPL: Nasdaq), and Huawei, who expand their product line from smart phones to smart homes; third, Internet giants like Baidu and Alibaba (9988: HK); fourth, budding startups like ORVIBO (Chinese: 欧瑞博), Aqara (Chinese: 绿米), Townew (Chinese: 拓牛) and Kaadas (Chinese: 凯迪仕).
These newcomers are fighting for a position in the market with their cutting-edge technologies and innovative designs, against much more experienced and mature competitors. Are they doing well? Who is more likely to survive in the intense competition and why? This article will analyze the performance of the new players from four perspectives: the amount of proceeds, the reputation of investors, the company's market share and the company's core technology.
The first half of 2022 has witnessed 40 financing events in China's intelligent household market, according to EqualOcean Data. Several companies stand out on the long list. As for the amount of investment, the largest corpus raised by June 19 is CNY 1 billion (USD 148.9 million), netted by smart projector brand JMGO (Chinese: 坚果投影) in March and intelligent home technology firm ORVIBO in January.
Smart stereo manufacturer Rokid (Chinese: 若琪) also performs well with its CNY 700 million Series C financing round, followed by smart lock producer Kaadas (Chinese: 凯迪仕) who bags CNY 600 million in its Series C round of financing. Geek Technology, a smart home appliances brand going globalized, also secures tens of millions of USD in May in its Series A funding round. From the perspective of investors, top VCs like Sequoia China, IDG Capital, BAI Capital, and 5Y Capital are pouring money into Speedfox (Chinese: 追光智造), a smart cleaning service provider newly founded in January 2021.
These startups are far from successful in terms of market share and core technology. According to IDC, Xiaomi occupied the largest share – 16.3% – of China's smart home market in terms of annual shipment in Q3 2020, followed by Midea's 11.3% and Haier's 9.8%. A large proportion of the market still belongs to already reputable companies, and it takes time for the new players to get recognition from consumers. Meanwhile, many startups lag behind the big firms due to a lack of core technologies, including cloud computing, 5G, AI, and big data. Aqara, which once led the market in the idea of whole-house intelligence, now lags behind tech firms like Xiaomi and Baidu in AI technology.
Given this, the new players still have a long way to go to win the market and the consumers. Another question emerges: how can the green hands rival those big names? Two strategies are noticeable in the rise of new companies: one is to cut the product size; the other is to globalize.
Blue ocean of small appliances
A common way to categorize household appliances is based on their functions: home security, sleep, entertainment, light sensing, connection, etc. However, another more natural way of categorizing the products – big or small – may make the trends clearer for us to see.
In the past years, big appliances like televisions (TVs), refrigerators, air conditioners (ACs), and washing machines were consumers' top choices, and the giants of home appliances got their fame from such products. However, the sales of big appliances have shown a downward tendency in recent years. For instance, between 2015 to 2020, the sales volume of China-made ACs reached a peak of 151.75 million in 2018, and the number went down in 2019 to 150.63 million, finally dropping below 150 million to 141.46 million in 2020. It is also true for washing machines, whose sales jumped from 60.57 million in 2015 to 71.82 million in 2019 and decreased to 70.38 million in 2020.
The growth rate of sales of big home appliances is generally slowing down, turning it into an existing market with few profits for newcomers. For these goods, brands that pop up in minds of consumers are, undoubtfully, large companies with a long history like Midea, Glee, and Haier. Moreover, the number of big appliances that one household will buy is limited, and the demand changes from buying a new one to replacing the old one once the consumers have one in their home. But the life of large equipment is relatively long, so it is hard to profit from an existing client again over several years.
It is a different situation for small appliances. A house may need only one washing machine, but it definitely needs more than one light bulb. Different from the commonly downward trend of big ones, small electronic products display a surging tendency in sales volume. From 2015 to 2020, the annual sales of smart toilets nearly tripled, growing from 3.42 million to 9.2 million. Smart dishwashers also enjoy a rise in sales, up from 3.51 million in 2015 to 7.12 million in 2020.
Although the overall sales volume of small home appliances cannot rival that of the big ones, it shows a growing trend and a promising prospect. Now, startups mostly target small tools and focus on product R&D, launching smart locks, alarms, lights, voice assistants, etc. with technology as the product's USP or 'unique selling point.'
Homegrown brand, globalized vision
Another trend in the smart home industry is to go global with a self-developed brand instead of the traditional way of OEM. Wini Wen, COO of Geek Technology (Chinese: 极咖科技), told EqualOcean that the "gene" of a product and the founding team are two of the key factors to establishing a globalized brand.
"First, a company needs to have the ability to define its products," said Wen. "We did research about the local market to see what appearances foreigners will like and which functions will be of help in their life. You need to localize the product. The team is also very important. Overseas marketing needs a different thinking mode from marketing at home, so our team must be familiar with local consumers' psychology."
One shared goal of companies eyeing domestic and overseas markets is to realize the interconnection of smart items and create an intelligent household ecology. Some problems still challenge the future of the smart home industry: can products of different brands connect with each other? How to satisfy customized demand with a standardized product? But overall, intelligence is an irreversible trend, and we are waiting for young enterprises to offer smart solutions.


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279 COVID-19 patients in Mambaling transferred to BIC
CEBU CITY, Philippines — At least 279 asymptomatic patients of the Coronavirus Disease 2019 (COVID-19) from Alaska, Barangay Mambaling in Cebu City have been transferred to the isolation center on Monday evening, May 11, 2020.
According to the Cebu City Public Information Office (PIO), the patients were pulled out from the different sitios (sub-villages) in Alaska to isolate them and prevent the further spread of the virus.
Barangay Mambaling now has over 600 cases, the highest number of COVID-19 cases in a single barangay in the city and in the region.
“Tuyong gipahimutang ang mga asymptomatic patients diha sa BIC (Barangay Isolation Center) aron ma-monitor og ma-atiman sila sa Cebu City Health Department og barangay samtang maghuwat ug 14 ka adlaw una sila ipa ubos sa laing testing,” said the PIO.
(The patients were placed in the BIC to be monitored and tended by the Cebu City Health Department and the barangay. They will wait for the 14 days period before being tested again.)
The patients were provided with hygiene kits as soon as they were admitted to the isolation center at the Mambaling Elementary School. They are also provided food and other basic necessities.
Not enough beds?
Barangay councilor, Anne Marie Palomo, posted in her Facebook page that some of the patients walked back home because there were not enough beds in the isolation center.
“We got feedback, that many patients walked their way back home because the school lacked bed accommodation for everyone. I trust that the city gov’t will address this soonest,” said Palomo.
But according to a barangay staff who refused to be named for lack of authority to speak about the matter, this was not true because the isolation centers are well-guarded and patients cannot just go out. /bmjo
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Currently, there is an average of between 900 and 2,000 passengers per day with 15 commercial flights and 6 cargo flights.
Despite the fact that Yucatan may change to red color on the epidemiological traffic light for the risk of Covid-19 coronavirus due to the increase in new cases and deaths, the Merida International Airport (MID) “Manuel Crescencio Rejón” will continue with the operations of national flights, as it is considered an essential service.
Currently, there is an average flow of between 1,900 and 2,000 passengers per day with 15 commercial flights and 6 cargo flights in one day.
Of course, the general administrator of the air terminal, Óscar Carrillo Maldonado, indicated that if the traffic light changes to red in the coming days, non-essential companies and businesses would be closed again and that could bring a reduction in flight demand, which would cause some airlines to cancel operations.
He recalled that to date, all the airlines that handle domestic flights are already stable and the number of cancellations has been minimal, however, if the traffic light changes, some flights might be cancelled, but the airport would continue to operate with the same schedule.
He stressed that on Monday, August 3rd, Volaris airlines reactivated operations with the Merida-Tijuana route and the first arrival from Monterrey at 18:00, a flight with capacity for 170 passengers.
“Air transport is considered an essential business, we have no instructions that flights will be canceled this week, but everything is based on passenger demand, if there is more demand there will be new flights and if there is no demand some flights could be canceled ”, he warned.
And as for international flights, the only route remaining was the Mérida-Miami. However, the general manager explained that American Airlines canceled operations since July 28 due to a reorganization in its fleet, and they announced that it would be reactivated on September 7.
Finally, Carrillo Maldonado said that the vast majority of people who move by domestic flights do so for work needs or for family reasons, but if the epidemiological traffic light switches to red, this could mean the cancellation of a number of flights.
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Showing visitors around the worn teak deck of the retired battleship USS Missouri, tour guide Reggie Johnson looks out over Pearl Harbor and notes how peaceful it is. Even though it’s still a major U.S. Navy base, the tone is always hushed—just as it was that fateful Sunday morning in December 1941, before the strafing and bombing began.
The Missouri sits in the spot on Battleship Row that was occupied on December 7, 1941, by the USS Oklahoma, which rolled over and sank during the attack—one of eight American battleships sunk or seriously damaged when waves of Japanese planes raided Pearl Harbor and surrounding military installations.
A couple hundred yards away is one of the nation’s most hallowed sites: the USS Arizona Memorial, a graceful white structure that sits athwart the hulk of the ill-fated battleship. A 1,760-pound bomb dropped by a Japanese Kate hit the Arizona’s forward magazine a few minutes after 8 that morning, sinking the ship in about 40 feet of water in 9 minutes.
Looking down at the submerged remains of the Arizona’s deck, I see a small oil slick. This is not modern pollution. Almost seven decades after the attack, the Arizona’s fuel tanks still leak. A few quarts a day bubble to the surface—droplets known as Pearl Harbor’s “black tears.”
My visit to the USS Arizona Memorial began at the onshore visitor center, a soon-to-be-replaced collection of concrete buildings containing exhibits that tell the story of that date that lives in infamy. Artifacts, photos, maps, models, a short film—even letters home from those who served at Pearl Harbor—illustrate the story of the attack. Admission is free, but a $5 self-guided audio tour is worthwhile.
Before we boarded the boats that take visitors across Pearl Harbor to the memorial, a tour guide cautioned, “The USS Arizona is not just another tourist attraction, not just another sunken ship.” Indeed, the ship is the gravesite of about 900 service members still entombed in its wreckage. In all, 1,177 sailors on the Arizona died—nearly half the 2,388 Americans killed in the attack. The churchlike atmosphere of the memorial, including a wall full of victims’ names, reflects the gravity of the place and its memories.
But perhaps the most precious element of the memorial is its living exhibit: a handful of Pearl Harbor survivors in their 80s and 90s who volunteer a few hours a day, bringing to life the history of what happened that quiet Sunday morning.
Hawaii native Al Rodrigues was on duty at Bishop’s Point at the entrance to the harbor, at a facility that handled small navy craft and maintained the antisubmarine nets at the harbor’s entrance. He was just sitting down to breakfast when the general quarters alarm sounded. He and the other navy seamen were given .30-caliber rifles and .45-caliber revolvers to try to defend the base. “That’s all we had to shoot at the planes with,” Rodrigues says. He never got to finish his breakfast.
Rodrigues is 88 now, and comes to the memorial’s visitor center three times a week to meet visitors, appear in “Witness to History” video conferences for school children around the United States, and talk about the history of Pearl Harbor.
“If I didn’t live on the other side of the island I’d come here every day,” he tells me, smiling. For visitors to the site, “having us here—to them it’s unbelievable.” And what does it mean to the survivors? “I love coming out here—I love to tell my story,” Rodrigues says. “I like the love they show us—the respect.”
Morse code radio operator Bob Kinzler was a few miles north of Pearl Harbor, at Schofield Barracks, when he heard an explosion at 7:55 a.m. that Sunday. “Initially, we thought one of the oil-fired stoves in one of the mess halls had blown up,” he remembers.
But he and the other soldiers at Schofield soon spotted the attacking Japanese planes. They were bombing nearby Wheeler Field—the first wave of the assault. Sitting at a folding table in the visitor center, Kinzler, 86, autographs biographical sheets and other mementos for visitors.
“I feel I have to be here to answer questions, whether they’re exciting or not,” Kinzler says, “to keep the legacy and story of Pearl Harbor alive.”
The National Park Service employees who run the Arizona memorial and visitor center cherish the work the survivors do, and are preserving their memories via oral histories and other means. “At Gettysburg, they can see the battlefield and visit the new museum,” says Daniel Martinez, the park historian since 1988. “But they can’t talk with anybody who was there.”
Hospital Corpsman Sterling R. Cale had just come off duty in the shipyard dispensary on the morning of December 7 when he saw planes over Battleship Row.
“I saw planes diving,” he recalls, “and thought something might be wrong. Then I saw the rising sun” on the wings. Cale grabbed a fire ax, knocked down an armory door, and grabbed a Springfield rifle to shoot at the attacking planes. He spent the next few hours pulling survivors—and bodies—from the flaming wrecks. The break-in almost got him court-martialed. “Fortunately, President Roosevelt declared war the next day, so I got an award for breaking into the armory.”
The Arizona memorial was completed in 1961, and while it is in good shape, the visitor center, built on reclaimed land in 1980, is sinking, falling apart, and generally inadequate to its historic task—especially handling the thousands of people who visit it every day, some of whom have to be turned away. Ground was broken in November on a two-year project to replace the visitor center with a modern facility; the memorial will remain open throughout the construction.
The new visitor center will preserve the survivors’ stories after they’re gone. “Now is the time to be talking to the survivors…they’re living history,” says Eileen Martinez, the chief of interpretation at the memorial, who recently was part of a Park Service project to compile oral history interviews with 50 survivors (about 4,000 are still alive). “That’s the challenge—how do we speak for them once they’ve passed?”
Scheduled to open on December 7, 2010, the new center will be able to accommodate more visitors and exhibits and take better advantage of the site’s waterfront location overlooking Pearl Harbor and the memorial.
“The hope of the new center is that it’s a pleasant experience that supplies an opportunity to learn,” says Ms. Martinez. The private, nonprofit Pearl Harbor Memorial Fund has raised more than $30 million of the project’s $52 million cost; a six-city road tour last fall brought the effort more attention, and actor and World War II buff Tom Hanks has pitched in as a fundraiser.
Back on the Missouri, Reggie Johnson explains the ship’s place in history to me. The retired marine leads tours of the battleship and loves to tell its story. The Missouri’s keel had just been laid in Brooklyn, New York, when its sister ships were attacked in Pearl Harbor. The “Mighty Mo” was launched in 1944—the last American battleship—and served in the Pacific fleet. On September 2, 1945, in Tokyo Bay, Allied and Japanese leaders gathered on the Missouri’s deck to sign the documents by which Japan surrendered, ending World War II.
Standing on that historic spot on the Missouri, I can see the Arizona memorial in the near distance—a unique confluence of space and time that simultaneously puts me at the beginning and the ending of America’s involvement in the war. The black tears continue to stain the gently lapping waves around the memorial, iridescent in the bright Hawaiian sunshine. It’s a sacred and solemn place, and the surroundings reflect that. “Pearl Harbor,” says Johnson, “is still quiet.”
What Else to See
While the USS Arizona Memorial and visitor center are the focal points of most visits to Pearl Harbor, three other attractions are clustered nearby.
The USS Bowfin, a World War II submarine that sank 44 Japanese ships, is located next to the Arizona memorial’s visitor center and available for walking tours (bowfin.org; $10 adults, $4 children, $7 seniors and military).
A short bus ride away is the Pacific Aviation Museum, whose World War II–era hangars house military aircraft and memorabilia (pacificaviationmuseum.org; $14 adults, $7 children). Another bus ride takes you to the USS Missouri, moored on Battleship Row (ussmissouri.com; $16 adults, $8 children; guided tours are an additional $7). Package deals with discounts on these attractions are available in various combinations.
Most other key Pearl Harbor sites in Honolulu are closed to the public because Pearl Harbor is still an active navy base. But another sacred memorial is the little visited but spectacular National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, located in a volcanic crater known as Punchbowl (808-532-3720). The setting is dramatic and serene, and the edge of the crater offers some of the best views of Honolulu. More than 34,000 American veterans are interred at Punchbowl, including nearly 800 victims of the Pearl Harbor attack, Challenger astronaut Ellison Onizuka, and famed World War II journalist Ernie Pyle.

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Beijing Institute of Space Mechanics and Electricity (BISME)
BISME was founded on August 1958, was one of the earliest institutions which engaged in space technology, belonged to CAST. BISME started with sounding rocket, and was successfully engaged in general technology of carrier technology, satellite and manned spacecraft.
BISME is mainly engaged in research and manufacturing of space optical remote sensing technology, spacecraft recovery and landing technology, pyrotechnic technology, space laser detection, aviation optical remote sensing technology and structure molding of composite material.
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BISME has engaged in space optical remote sensing technology in November, 1967, which is the earliest institute engaged in space remote sensors in China. By now，BISME has developed nearly 100 space optical remote sensors for all kinds of remote sensing satellites. Market share of operational space camera in China is more than 80%, and the successful rate is 100%.
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BISME is the only institute engaged in spacecraft recovery and landing technology, which made China become the third country mastering the technology independently. BISME has developed and manufactured more than 30 kinds of recovery systems. BISME has made great contribution to the succuess of the manned spacecrafts of ShenZhou series, assuring the safe and healthy return of 10 astronauts. The recovery and landing technology is also applied in the areas of unmanned plane and deep space detection, and the successful rate is at the world leading level.
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BISME is the earliest institution engaged in space laser product development, mastering many core technologies such as laser system general technology and system simulation. BISME has become the main research institution in the field. The space laser products of the institute are mostly applied in the fields of earth observation, manned spacecraft and space deep detection.
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Minnesota Vikings running back Adrian Peterson has been reinstated and will play this Sunday against the New Orleans Saints. He had been deactivated this past Sunday after being charged with child abuse.
According to Yahoo News, Vikings owners Zygi and Mark Wilf announced Monday that Peterson will be back with the team. Peterson was charged with hitting his 4-year-old son with a switch, causing several lashes. Peterson was not allowed to play this past Sunday in what was a 30-7 loss to the New England Patriots.
It was reported by several news outlets that the Vikings were considering all of their options, including trading Peterson to another team. Yahoo News notes that the Vikings claim to take the issue seriously and " … want the legal process to take its course before making any final decisions."
Peterson's lawyer told Yahoo News that he was not trying to harm his child but merely sought to discipline him.
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Gov. Doug Ducey spoke with hosts of KTAR’s Arizona’s Morning News talk show Thursday to address concerns over the spread of the coronavirus.
Fears surrounding the virus were renewed Wednesday after the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced a confirmed case of the coronavirus in North Carolina from an unknown source. After the discovery, health officials warned that the virus would continue to spread in the U.S. The warning was disputed by President Donald Trump, who claimed without evidence that cases of the virus were on the decline.
While Ducey did not address Trump’s claims, he said during his radio interview that state health officials are prepared for the virus’ potential spread into Arizona.
“We have to be concerned, of course,” Ducey said. “We can quarantine individuals and people that won’t cooperate. Public health and public safety is the reason we have a governor and a government.”
Other than quarantine, Ducey did not mention any specifics for addressing the spread of the coronavirus or steps residents should take if they contract the virus.
Instead, the governor reassured listeners that no state officials have expressed alarm regarding the coronavirus, and encouraged them to learn more about the state’s preparedness plan by visiting the Arizona Department of Health’s website.
Information about the coronavirus, including its background, symptoms, and how many confirmed cases there are worldwide is updated daily online by the CDC.
FBI Arrest Man Believed Responsible for ‘have been visited by your local Nazis’ Note
On Wednesday, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced the arrest of a man living in Queen Creek with ties to a group of violent extremists who is alleged to have intimidated individuals working and Black and Jewish news outlets.
Johnny Roman Garza, 20, and three other men were arrested and charged in the U.S. District Court in Seattle with a conspiracy to threaten and intimidate journalists and activists, stated a DOJ press release. The arrest was a coordinated effort by the DOJ’s National Security Division and the U.S. Attorney’s Offices in Phoenix, Seattle, Tampa, and Houston.
“These defendants sought to spread fear and terror with threats delivered to the doorstep of those who are critical of their activities,” said U.S. Attorney for the Western District of Washington Brian Moran in a released statement.
Authorities believe Garza is responsible for gluing a threatening poster to the window of Arizona Jewish Life Mala Blomquist’s home. The poster had Blomquist’s name and home address on it, along with the words “you have been visited by your local Nazis” written at the bottom.
The Phoenix FBI Joint Task Force is currently investigating the case in coordination with their FBI counterparts in Houston, Seattle, and Tampa.
Congresswoman Returns to Washington After Six Weeks Absence
Rep. Ann Kirkpatrick, D-Ariz., announced plans to resume her duties in Congress this week after taking a six-week leave of absence in early January to seek treatment for alcoholism.
The 69-year-old, four-term member of Congress announced plans to seek help after she slipped and fell on her way to a meeting at the Arizona State Capitol, leaving her with a fractured spine, cracked ribs, and a deep cut on her head.
In her first public interview since the fall and subsequent leave of absence from Congress, Kirkpatrick told The Arizona Republic that she had started drinking daily about 10 years ago, and the habit progressed as the years went on.
“It started out, maybe a glass of wine with my husband at night. And then a couple of years later, maybe two glasses. And then, you know, it progressed from there,” Kirkpatrick told reporters. “That’s the nature of the illness. It’s progressive.”
Before her fall, Kirkpatrick said she had been drinking wine with her husband at lunch, realizing afterward that she didn’t know how much she had consumed. Shortly after, Kirkpatrick went public regarding her struggle with alcoholism, and that she planned to seek treatment.
Kirkpatrick says that she has recovered from her fall, and feels ready to get back to work. As for her battle with alcoholism, Kirkpatrick said she views it as an illness that will be with her for the rest of her life.

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It’s rare for one long-standing Sussex record to be broken in a game never mind two so it’s no wonder the county’s supporters were dusting off their copies of Wisden at the weekend after a debut to remember for 21-year-old Ollie Robinson.
Signed just a few days earlier after impressing in the second team, Robinson became the first Sussex batsman to score a hundred on debut in the County Championship since 1920 while his last-wicket partnership with Matthew Hobden (whose career-best 65 was somewhat overshadowed) of 164 was the highest in Sussex’s history, beating a record lodged by Harry Butt and George Cox Senior that had stood for 107 years.Cox and Butt. It sounds like a firm of Sussex solicitors but in the years before the First World War they were involved in two heroic last-wicket stands.
The 156 they put on against Cambridge University at Fenner’s in 1908 might be scoffed at nowadays but back then the student teams often provided players for England and were as strong as most county sides.
Two years earlier, when Sussex played neighbours Hampshire at Chichester, Cox and Butt scored 113 together.
Cox was one of the finest cricketers Sussex produced in the first half of the 20th century. He would often come in down the order, sometimes even at No.11, but as his place in the record books attest he was a terrific competitor with the bat, who sold his wicket dearly.
Until last Sunday, his name figured in the best three stands for Sussex’s last wicket, the 130 he put on with George Stannard against Essex in 1919 being the county record in the Championship until Robinson and Hobden came together at Durham last Sunday.
Cox, whose son George Junior also played for Sussex, was first and foremost a bowler, good enough to take 1,810 wickets between 1895-1928, a tally beaten only by the great Maurice Tate. He once took 17 wickets in a match at his club ground, Horsham, having walked to the ground every day from his home in nearby Warnham and sweated off a celebratory pint or two at the end of each day’s play in a rudimentary sauna at the back of his house he built himself.
Bearing in mind the tenth wicket record stood since 1908 it could be a while before the efforts of Robinson and Hobden are beaten. After such an outstanding performance they deserve their place in the history books for a few years anyway.

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Watch out for that first step….it's a doozy.
-Ned Ryerson (Groundhog Day)
The First Step: Getting Clear.
Before playing any video game it is imperative that you know a few key pieces of information:
1. Who your character is
2. Where your character is
3. The objective
Are you Mario out to save the princess as in 'Donkey Kong'?
Are you to hack and slash anyone that comes near as in the game 'Gods of War.'
Perhaps it's a gun battle on crack as in 'A Call to Duty'
or maybe it's a simulation daily life as in 'The Sims'.
Whatever your game is you need to know:
1. Who you are
2. Where you are
3. What the objective is
Without this knowledge you will flop around like a fish out of water and you will not accomplish much if anything.
Ironically enough these are the fundamental existential questions of life.
Perhaps video games hold the answers to more than you ever imagined. Perhaps they are the cosmic clue to really understanding your life here.
The first rule of video games is the same as in life:
Know who you are, where you are and what the objective is.
Understand this and you will succeed if you don't you won't.
The second rule in video games is super simple:
Have fun. The purpose of video games is to have fun...consider the purpose of life is to have fun!

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We are so incredibly proud of our <A+> Alliance’s f<a+i>r Feminist AI Research Network’s third cohort of projects, which include papers and now a series of prototypes that emanate from applied research funded by the IDRC.
f<A+I>r’s aim is to support the skill and imagination of Global South/Majority World feminists in producing effective, innovative, interdisciplinary models that harness emerging technologies which correct for real life bias and barriers to women’s rights, representation and equality
Measuring Gender Based Violence in Latin America
Gender based violence takes on many forms: physical, psychological, economical among others. While the harms are known, the impact of GBV has not yet adequately been measured. The absence of this data in Latin America has led, in part, to the championing of open data initiatives in the judiciary. The aim is to understand GBV from a judicial perspective, as well as foster a more transparent, innovative and accountable judiciary. AymurAI is the first pilot project, developed by Data Género in Argentina initially as a paper for the f<a+i>r network: “Feminisms in Artificial Intelligence: Automation Tools Towards A Feminist Judiciary Reform in Argentina and Mexico”, through to a successful “Prototype for an open and gender-sensitive justice in Latin America – AymurAI”. When gathered this data could be used in machine learning to identify the patterns of violence that might ultimately lead to feminicide – and then to policy and potential remedies to hinder the violence and death.
AI-(Em)powered Mobility of Women– Socio-cultural, Psychological, Personal, and Spatial Factors to Urban Transit Safety: Informing AI-Driven Filipino Women Safety Apps
Manila has one of the most dangerous transport systems in the world for women due to harrassment, and sexual assault. AI can be used to mitigate and supplement the efforts to make transit safer for women – providing an avenue to contact authorities, get in touch with their emergency contacts and be alerted about unsafe areas or modes of transportation.
This prototype was developed from the paper on “AI (em)powered Mobility” which focused on transport systems in Metro Manila, which have been hailed as dangerous and unsafe for women. To address this, some machine learning applications powered by Artificial Intelligence (AI) have been created and developed to ensure women’s safety. These safety apps, however, do not tackle the underlying issue of perpetrators’ violence against women. Rather than empowering women to take full control of their mobility, these older apps normalize violence and reinforce victim-blaming mentalities. To empower Filipino women, and to make sure that these apps are what women need and want, frameworks for future models of AI-driven safety apps should be rethought. SAFEHER in its prototype phase is doing just that.
Digital Gendered Violence in Chile: Development of a system for reporting, and response-orientation based on a feminist chatbot prototype
This prototype is a reporting and guidance information system for technology-facilitated gender violence (tfGBV) situations in Chile. It is based on a conversational agent (‘chatbot’ type) using feminist principles that consider ethical issues and put the needs and context of women who are exercising the right to freedom of expression and opinion on social networking platforms – particularly women with a public voice – activists, academics, women involved in politics, among others who live this type of situations daily – at the center of the prototype.”SOF+IA” was named after a public consultation in social media. SOF+IA means “Sistema de Oída Feminista” in Spanish. In English this could be translated as ‘Feminist Hearing System’.
Gender perspectives in AI crowd work
How can AI Crowd work become more feminist and fair?
In order to function, algorithms require millions of labeled training data to learn, recognize and categorize information. This labeling is often done by crowd workers who are neglected in system designs and whose well being is seldom considered. Latin American and Caribbean workers have been identified as significant crowd work contributors depending on crowd work as a steady source of income. However most studies on crowd work center around Western women and fail to take into account the personal and professional advancement of Latin American women.
To facilitate communication between these women crowd workers and help them identify relevant conversations, an intelligent a conversational agent was developed to emulate the personality of Latin American heroines and assist users in searching for specific advice, articulating their interests, and navigating the platform. Furthermore, the conversational agent will recommend other crowd working women who might be valuable connections based on shared interests, expertise, and experiences.
A tool to overcome technical barriers for bias assessment in Human Language Technologies
There are currently many tools and techniques to detect and mitigate biases in word embeddings, but they present many barriers for the engagement of people without technical skills. Most of the experts in bias, either social scientists or people with deep knowledge of the context where bias is harmful, do not have such technical skills, and they cannot engage in the processes of bias detection because of the technical barriers.
Via Libre, a non-profit civil organization established in Córdoba, Argentina, alongside the National University of Cordoba and the Faculty of Mathematics, Astronomy, Physics and Computing developed this tool that is specially aimed to lower technical barriers and to provide the exploration power to address requirements of experts, scientists (and people in general!) who are interested and willing to audit these technologies.
Towards a feminist framework for AI development: From Principles to Practice
This is a practical approach, with a feminist perspective located in Latin America, focused on the development of Artificial Intelligence (AI). It questions if it is possible to develop AI that does not reproduce logics of oppression. To answer, they focus on the power relations immersed in the field of AI and make an interpretative analysis of the day-to-day experiences of seven women working in some field of AI or data science in the region, in dialogue with different statements of feminist principles and guidelines for the development and deployment of digital technologies. The prototype turns the paper into a living document and new methodology. Workshops will explore deepening of the basic guide of questions from the initial paper, and practices for development with projects actively in development.
To read a one-pager about the project:
To read the full paper:
To read the full paper (Spanish version):
To watch a short explainer: https://www.youtube.com/shorts/5pMd6ys22yU
PAPER: IdeasGym / Egypt
> Explainable AI-Based Tutoring System for Upper Egypt Community Schools
PAPER: Point of View & Digital Futures Lab / India
> Reimagining Automated Violence Interventions through Participatory Technology Design Feminist AI
PAPER: DataLat / Ecuador
> Analyzing Public Procurement Anomalies in Ecuador with a Gender Perspective
PAPER: Coding Rights / Brazil
> Compost engineers and their slow knowledge
PAPER: Child marriage in Indonesia:
> An exploration of how AI and a Digital Public Good for Gender Justice could contribute to better outcomes for girls
PAPER: University of Chile / Chile
> Feminist NLP: An Annotated Corpus to Evaluate Sex Differences in Work Related Diseases in Chile

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It can get pretty chilly in the depths of a Berlin winter. Just the thought of it makes me want to wrap up in woolly jumpers and cozy down with a cup of tea. Berlin commuters need brightening up on those grey days, and it's no wonder that art projects like this spring up. The video below documents how a group of guerilla knitters (disguised appropriately in hilarious knitted beards) installed a kaleidoscope of knitting in the carriage of one of Berlin's metro trains.
The guerilla art practice is known as 'yarn-bombing' and is considered an easily-removed alternative to your garden variety spray can graffiti. The knitting in the Berlin U-Bahn carriage remained in tact for a day's circulation, after which it was removed by security. Three months of knitting, one hour of installation, a day's worth of cozy, woolly, technicolour joy – all gone.
One of the artists said, however, that "I think we cheered up a fair amount of weary travellers on a gloomy January day!"
[Via Wooster Collective]

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There's one place in Tel-Aviv where you can buy a frilly red dress at one in the morning, and that's Berlin.
Is it a boutique, with the cheapest bar in the city thrown in for good measure? Is it a speakeasy, camouflaged by racks full of cloths? I think it's a city. Berlin is a common Israeli last name, but no one named that is involved with "Salon Berlin". Rather, there's something about the place that reminds me of Prenzlauerberg in the late 90s. It's too cool for school, with its nerd-punk vibe, its weird little sculpture shows, its free for all D.J. position, its trash movie nights (Invasion of the Body Snatchers, scariest film ever!) and left-leaning political soirées. Salon Berlin recreates something that is beyond Berlin, it's the myth of Berlin.
That myth fits Tel-Aviv wonderfully. There's a cafe in Jerusalem situated between Gaza Street and Berlin Street, it is named: "Twixt Gaza and Berlin". These are precisely the coordinates of the Israeli existence, and even more precisely, the Tel-Avivian one. This city resembles Gaza in its topography and layout (though considering Gaza's current situation, any comparison between the two cities seems vulgar), at the same time it aspires to be a Berlin: youthful, ever reinventing itself, exploding with artistic action.
This is no new thing. Tel-Aviv first became a decent city when German Jews, dubbed "Yekkes", escaped Hitler and came to Palestine. They were for the most part not idealistic Zionists who chose to come here and create a romantic, agricultural Jewish utopia. Rather, they preferred an urban environment, a cafe, a kiosk, a museum, a petit bourgeoisie existence, a Berlin.
Late at night, the tiny cafe at the back of Salon Berlin is both a showcase of how successful their endeavor was, and of the strange path their dream has taken. Their grandchildren are here, drinking both beer (first brewed in the Middle East by Yekkes in 1935) and Arak. At one point some of us get drunk and go try on clothes. I look bad in all of them. never mind, going to Germany in three days, I'll do my nighttime shopping there

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ORANGE COUNTY, Fla. — Some residents in the Orlo Vista community in Orange County have made it back into their homes on Monday following Hurricane Ian, but those homes are uninhabitable.
One resident is so angry they spray-painted “Thanks Orange County” on the side of their home sarcastically because they believe the county failed them.
Orlo Vista sits south of Colonial Drive between Hiawassee and Kirkman roads. Hurricane Ian isn’t the first time that flooding has taken over the area.
Channel 9 went inside homes of residents who had lived there for decades. One person was wearing a mask because of a smell coming from their home they couldn’t identify.
Others have stacked what they could on top of beds, largely unsuccessful because the water was just that high.
“They knew this was going to happen, but they didn’t care about us,” resident Betty Banks said.
Five years ago, Hurricane Irma caused massive flooding in Orlo Vista. 9 Investigates obtained a copy of a planned flood mitigation project that was only approved this year. It increases the capacity of the three retention ponds, making them deeper.
However, that work isn’t scheduled to start until next month.
Channel 9 reached out to Orange County Public Works about the time it has taken to make improvements in the neighborhood, but was told all questions should be directed to Mayor Jerry Demings.
Last Friday, Demings said, “Have we done enough over time to address the infrastructure needs? No. We’re going to step this up a bit because I think the people out there, they deserve that. It’s a costly fix.”
The plans outline the $10 million project that will be funded with a mix of county and federal funds. But that means nothing to those who have lost everything and now have nowhere else to go.
“I raised my kids here, I bough the home when I was 24,” said Kontara Sanders. “Now I’m 44 and it was supposed to be an investment.”
Those who may be able to restore their homes and remain in Orlo Vista question whether it’ll be a sure fix.
The county will still be limited on how much of the water can be sent to Shingle Creek.
“Right now, we are devastated, we are hurt, we are angry,” Banks said.
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The two-time IPL champions Kolkata Knight Riders defeated defending champions Mumbai Indians by 7 wickets on Friday. Opening batsman Venkatesh Iyer and Rahul Tripathi smashed 53 and 74 runs, respectively. This was one of the very rare instances that Mumbai lost to Kolkata in a IPL match, as MI has dominated KKR over the years. This was only the 7th time KKR managed to win against MI out of 29 matches played between them.
After winning the toss, KKR captain opted to field first. With Rohit Sharma back in the team, Mumbai Indians had a blistering start. The opening pair of Hitman and de Kock added 78 runs for first wicket in 9.2 overs, until Narine delivered the breakthrough for KKR, as Rohit got trapped into Narine’s ball. After that nothing went well for the five-time champions as they started to lose wickets at regular intervals. Quinton de Kock departed after scoring a well-made 55 runs in 38 balls. In the last overs, Pollard and Krunal Pandya made some quick runs and Mumbai Indians posted 155-6. Lockie Ferguson and Prasidh Krishna scalped two wickets each, while veteran Sunil Narine took 1 wicket by giving only 20 runs in 4 overs.
Chasing the target, KKR had a blazing start with opening pair Venkatesh Iyer and Shubman Gill adding 40 runs for 1st wicket in 3 overs. Iyer has been a surprise package for the UAE leg. Earlier against RCB, he smashed 41 runs in 27 balls. For second wicket, Iyer had an 88-run partnership with Tripathi. Iyer did all the damage he could before getting out to Bumrah. KKR chased down the target in just 15.1 overs and won the match. KKR won the match with 29 balls left, which helped them boost their net-run-rate and made an entry into the top 4. While MI slipped to 6th on the points table. All three wickets were taken by Jasprit Bumrah.


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David Bisbal is coming to the Majestic Theatre!
date: Sunday, October 17, 2021
David Bisbal Ferre is a Spanish singer, songwriter, and actor. He gained his initial fame as a runner-up on the interactive reality television show Operación Triunfo. He has since released five studio albums, all of which topped the Spanish Albums Chart, in addition to recording a number of live albums.

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The country had a 14-day-notification rate of 577 cases per 100,000 inhabitants, according to the European Centre for Disease Prevention and Control.
Passing one million cases in early May, Sweden has been near the top, just after Cyprus, for weeks with new cases subsiding faster in the rest of Europe. Sweden saw a peak in mid-April with a 14-day-notification rate of over 800 cases per 100,000 people.
“Many countries in Europe have been at considerably higher levels than what we are seeing now, so it’s probably more about Sweden had a fairly late surge in this hopefully last third wave,” state epidemiologist Anders Tegnell told a press conference, lamenting that the caseload was still higher than last summer.
The Scandinavian country has never imposed the type of lockdown seen elsewhere in Europe, controversially relying on mostly non-coercive measures. It has gradually tightened restrictions since November, including a ban on alcohol sales after 8pm and on public gatherings of more than eight people.
Since March, cafes, bars and restaurants have also been required to shut by 8.30pm.
The 14-day-notification for deaths however was much lower than many other countries, with 12 cases per million inhabitants. In comparison, Hungary and Croatia saw death rates of 133 and 128 per million inhabitants respectively.
The total number of deaths associated with Covid-19 since the start of pandemic reached 14,351 on Thursday, putting Sweden in the middle of the pack in Europe, although well ahead of Nordic neighbours Finland, Norway and Denmark.
Mortality statistics also show that Sweden had a lower than average excess mortality in 2020, compared to the rest of Europe.
The chart below from Our World in Data compares Sweden’s infection rate to the EU average and the eight other countries covered by The Local, and you can add further countries to the chart for comparison.


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Calling, all Aussie bartenders! B-Corp certified Cape Byron Distillery, is shaking things up with their ReGINeration Cocktail Competition!
The home of Brookie’s Byron Gin is inviting talented bartenders to showcase their creativity with a signature cocktail inspired by the rainforest.
Brookie’s Byron Gin is distilled in the hinterland of Byron Bay on a 95 acre property which has been regenerated by the Brook family with over 40,000 rainforest trees that have now grown into a thriving ecosystem. It is this unique rainforest that is an inspiration and a source for many of the 17 native botanicals featured in Brookie’s Byron Dry Gin.
Bartenders can submit their signature serve at capebyrondistillery.com by March 31st, 2023, and promote their entry cocktail in their venue throughout April. The national competition is open to all bartenders across Australia, with regional finals being hosted during May and June in Brisbane, Gold Coast, Byron Bay, Sydney, Melbourne, and Canberra.
Rainforests and sustainability are close to Cape Byron Distillery’s heart. They have also partnered with World Rainforest Day (June 22nd 2023), whose mission is to recognise healthy forests as one of the most powerful and cost-effective climate change mitigation tools and creates a global movement to protect and restore them.
There will be six winners, one from each of the regional finals. These six bartenders will win a trip to the Byron Bay Distillery as a group to experience the rainforest first-hand and the delights of the region. Bartenders will be treated to a gin-making workshop with Co-founder and Distiller Eddie Brook, where they will have the opportunity to craft their own Brookie’s Gin.
“We are stoked to officially welcome bartenders to submit their cocktails inspired by the rainforest to our ReGINeration cocktail competition. Our rainforest story began over 30 years ago with my family replanting over 40,000 rainforest trees on our family farm here in Byron Bay where our distillery is now located. By encouraging bartenders around Australia to create cocktails inspired by the rainforest and native ingredients, we aim to not only promote the unique and distinct flavours of Australian botanicals, but also raise awareness about the crucial need for rainforest conservation and regeneration” – Eddie Brook, Co-founder and Distiller at Cape Byron Distillery.
For more info and details, visit https://capebyrondistillery.com/regineration-cocktail-competition/ or contact your local reps HERE
Don’t miss out on this opportunity to shake things up and show off your cocktail.

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This turned out to be Marmalade Weekend. It's a two day job so when I was working I always dedicated a January weekend to the task and I still stick to that tradition. The scent of marmalade cooking takes me back to my childhood - my (Scots) Mum made industrial quantities and the sweet smell of bubbling oranges used to greet us when we came home from school. In my post from 14th January last year - have a look in the archive if you are interested - I give the full recipe and method inherited from her, so please let me know if you ever make it.
I was proud to be awarded a Bronze level certificate in the Dalemain World's Original Home Made Marmalade competition in 2021 and will be sending off my jar for this year's judging too. I was marked down last year for "not filling the jar properly" (I'd hastily re-jarred a set into a smaller jar as there is a size limit to the entry, and obviously had not filled it to the brim) so I might hope to correct that fault this year. Wish me luck!
You can buy so many versions of mincemeat in jars and most of them are quite good. But once you’ve made your own, you will make it again and again, and then you’ll start giving it to friends as a pre-Christmas present. When you make mince pies with this, people will ask – “are they homemade?” and then they will ask “and did you make the mincemeat too?” if they know what they are tasting. As with all home-made ingredients, one of the best things is to cater exactly to your own tastes. I like the subtle crunch of nuts in mincemeat, so I have more in my recipe than some others, and I also like the fruity appley taste. Too much fresh fruit means it doesn’t keep so well, but I prefer to use my fresh mincemeat up every year and not give it space in the pantry till next Christmas, so I don’t mind if my mincemeat doesn’t keep more than six months.
This is loosely based on Delia Smith’s Christmas recipe. I look forward to taking her book from the shelf every year and delving into it. Her tip is that melting the suet through the fruit adds to the keeping quality and is better than just adding it dry to the mixture as you will find in bought jars and some recipes. The melted fat looks quite a lot when you take the dish out of the oven but it coats all the fruit and disappears as the mixture cools. I always use the vegetarian suet you can get at the supermarket.
Make your own, try variations of ingredients and flavours, and you’ll end up with something unique to you. You might prefer whisky instead of brandy? You might like more orange flavour or want to add some spoonfuls of marmalade – give it a go! Leave out the peel if you don’t like it and use dried cranberries. Really go wild and add some preserved pineapple and slosh in some rum.
Makes about 2kg, 4 medium jars Timings: 1 hour on the first day, overnight soaking then 3 hours slow cook
Chop the apples into small dice and add to a large bowl with all the other ingredients except the brandy. Stir well and leave covered in a cool place overnight for the flavours to mingle and the fruits to absorb the juices.
Next day, pre-heat the oven to 120°C and cook the bowl - covered with foil – for about 3 hours until all the suet is melted. Bring it out and let it cool in the kitchen, while you stir it from time to time to keep the fat mixed in. Add the brandy when the mixture is cold.
Store in clean jars, tightly sealed. It does keep for a year or more depending on the mixture, but you can surely use it up over this Christmas? Make an extra batch of mince pies and take them round to an elderly neighbour?
Something this easy doesn’t really deserve the name of a recipe, it’s more of a doze while the alcohol and natural fruit does the work for you. But it ends up as something delicious for which you will gain praise, deservedly, because it also needs patience; a virtue in rather short supply.
You can make a flavoured vodka out of pretty much any fruit, but the stronger tastes and firmer fruits work best, and can be played with, as they can take extra notes such as cinnamon if you desire. Damson trees have a habit of over producing in some years and making a sweet spirit can be a great way of dealing with the excess, while you use up the very best fruit in crumbles, pies, jams and other preserves.
Because damsons have a thick skin and are small, so have little fruit compared to the big fat plums, they do need a good two months marinating with the vodka to get the flavour out. You can assist the flavour migration by spearing the damsons as you throw them into the bottle or by freezing them beforehand which splits the skins and allows the alcohol to penetrate. I never have enough room in my freezer for random bags of fruit, so I just pinch the fruit a bit as I clean it and leave it two months in the vodka. It seems to do the trick. As I said, more of a doze than a recipe.
Play with the flavours if you like – add a stick of cinnamon or a couple of star anise to the mixture if you feel you would like a Christmas tinge to your vodka. Having tried one or two variations, I prefer the plainer fruiter version but that’s just me.
Makes nearly 3 x 300ml bottles 20 minutes preparation, 2 months in the dark
Place the clean damsons in a container you can seal up – an old coffee jar or kilner jar is ideal. You’ll need 2 x large coffee jars for this quantity. As you put them in, prick them with a skewer or pinch them with your fingernails just to split the skin a little bit.
Add the sugar. Pour the vodka over.
Seal up your jars and leave them in a cool dark place. For the first 2 weeks try to shake them every day to distribute the sugar and keep the alcohol moving into the fruit. After that, shake them every week or so. You will notice it takes about a month for the sugar to disappear. The vodka will start off clear and gradually take a ruby tinge. It will also evaporate a little if your jars are not quite tight, doesn’t matter. But alcohol does tend to creep a bit so put the jars on a piece of kitchen paper to mop up any sticky spills.
After about 2 months, you can strain off the vodka and bottle it. If you bashed your damsons or froze them, you might have to strain the liquid through a muslin cloth to get the fine bits out if you want a crystal clear final result. I just sieved through a normal kitchen sieve because my damsons were still quite intact. The fruit can be de-stoned and eaten over ice-cream, added to a crumble or used in boozy chocolates – recipe for that one to come nearer to Christmas.
You are supposed to leave the Damson Vodka for a year to mature. I have never had the willpower to do this so I cannot vouch for how much better it tastes after a year. I really can’t imagine it can be much better than it already is. I stand ready to be corrected however, so all you experienced fruit vodka makers out there can put me right.
The Damson Vodka can be drunk by itself over ice as a seasonal aperitif, mixed with prosecco, used in all sort of cocktails, or as a post prandial tipple on its own.
Calendula Hand Balm
No, not a recipe as such, for putting on the table and eating, but still a sort of recipe. Using flowers from the garden, especially ones as exuberant as marigolds/calendulas always seems like a great idea. Calendula allegedly has healing powers, especially for skin problems. I can’t claim miracle cures or anything like that, but this balm feels nice, contains only natural ingredients and keeps your hands nice and soft.
I can’t give exact quantities here, weights of flowers don’t really add up. I picked yellow and orange marigold flowers over several weeks and kept stuffing them into two medium sized jars which I filled with lower quality olive oil. I left them in a warm corner of the kitchen and just added more flowers as I picked them. At first, I just picked off the petals and discarded the rest of the flower, but further research told me that the main healing chemicals are found in the flower head where the petals attach, so I then started just throwing the whole flower heads into the jar. You need to bash the flowers down with a wooden spoon to keep them under the oil or they will start to go off. You end up with a bright orange jar of flowers, under the cool amber of olive oil, so they look quite nice.
You combine the oil with a solid fat to set it. You can use just beeswax granules or you can add additional fats such as shea butter or cocoa butter – I used organic cocoa butter. You can also add a drop or two of essential oil if you would like more fragrance.
Once you think they’ve had long enough to infuse – I left mine about 2 weeks – then strain the mixture. I used an old teatowel in a sieve to let the golden oil run into a bowl. Discard the old petals.
Measure your oil. The general rule is to add about 4-7 parts oil to 1-3 parts of beeswax/other solid fat. The quantities depend on how firm you want your balm. I used about 6 parts oil, 1 part cocoa butter and 2 parts beeswax granules. That gave me a firm but very spreadable waxy balm which is solid at room temperature even in warm weather. I might make it a bit firmer if I do it again, I would say these quantities are slightly too oily for using on your lips, for instance, but it rubs nicely into your hands.
Melt the beeswax and any other fat together in bowl over hot water, not direct heat. Add the marigold oil a little at a time and keep stirring until all is absorbed. Pour the mixture into clean pots and leave the lids off until the contents have cooled down – you don’t want condensation forming on the inside of the lids and dropping onto the balm. Seal up the pots and keep in a cool dark place until use.
They make perfect Christmas presents and will bring a little summer sunshine onto your winter skin.
My recipe was:
About 6 handfuls of calendula flowers, picked over about 2 weeks, when dry.
Steeped in olive oil in glass jars for about 2 weeks. Then sieved out leaving about 200ml infused oil.
I melted 7 tablespoons of beeswax granules (they are very light) with 1 tablespoon of shea butter and mixed in the oil gradually.
That gave me about 12 little pots of balm. As you can see, I used the little jam pots that you get at some hotels. Sadly, I can’t resist taking, cleaning and saving them, and I’m very pleased to have found a use.
Charred Pineapple and Red Pepper Salsa
This just makes any meat dish sing out loud. The fresh pineapple, crunchy pepper and tangy lime juice combine to refresh your tastebuds and enhance the meal. A spicy meat really benefits from the contrast with the juicy sweet salsa. Griddling or charring the pineapple adds a slightly smoky depth which makes all the difference.
Serve as a side dish to Slow Roast Jerk Pork or to any spicy meaty dish. This relish is part of my Caribbean Christmas menu which will be on my website as a full menu from Cocktails to Cake de Ron in a couple of weeks.
Serves 8 Timings: 30 minutes
Peel and core your fresh pineapple and cut it into rings. Melt the butter and brush the rings with it. Fire up your griddle pan and place the rings on the griddle for about 3 minutes a side to get those nice charred stripes and the slightly burned taste. If you don’t have a griddle pan, use a frying pan, you will still get the flavour. Let the rings cool and cut them into slivers, place in a bowl.
Peel, de-seed and chop the red pepper into small dice, and peel and chop the red onion to the same size pieces and add them to the pineapple. Squash the garlic with salt, de-seed and chop the chilli and add to the bowl. Stir in the honey and the lime juice, sprinkle over a good teaspoon of salt. Stir and taste, depending on how sweet your pineapple was you might need more honey or more lime juice.
Stir to combine the flavour and serve at room temperature.
Rustic Chocolate Macaroons
These are clearly macaroons, the slightly raffish Italian older cousin of the sophisticated French macaron. A confection of whipped egg white with sugar and ground nuts has been around for a long time, and the idea was allegedly brought to France with the entourage and cooks of Catherine de Medici in the mid 1500s. In France they refined and formalised the original recipe to produce the riot of coloured macarons you can buy today: smooth and elegant, with various flavours and strong (mainly artificial) colours.
A macaroon/macaron is different from the classic meringue in that you leave it for a while after whipping the egg whites and mixing with the sweet stuff, so that it forms a slight crust on the top surface. The crust bakes to a chewy texture, contrasting with the fluffy softness inside. The usual filling is a rich ganache, which seeps into the inner surface of the macaron, adding another even gooey layer.
These taste just as good and have that chewy nutty texture but you don’t have to faff around with a piping bag to get the flying saucer perfection. If you want to make French macarons, I will bring some recipes onto the blog well before Christmas, so you can make them as pretty presents.
My friend Freddie Sykes is a great baker and made a batch of these for my recent birthday. He based his recipe on the You-Tuber Adam Ragusea’s version, so thanks to both these young men.
Makes 10 Timings: 90 minutes
Beat the egg whites until fluffy, then beat in the granulated sugar until the mixture is glossy and you get floppy peaks.
Put in the almond flour, powdered sugar, cocoa powder, and half a pinch of salt. Fold the dry ingredients into the eggs until you get a mousse-like consistency.
Cover a sheet pan with parchment paper and spoon the batter on in about 20 dollops. Let them sit and dry for a half hour.
Heat the oven to 180°C and bake until the meringues start to crack, about 15 minutes. Cool completely before filling.
To make the ganache, combine as little as 2 tbsp of cream with an equal quantity of chocolate by volume.
Microwave until just bubbling, let it sit for a minute, then stir until smooth. Cool the ganache down to get it to a spreadable consistency.
Spread ganache onto the bottom of a macaron, then sandwich it with one of roughly equal size.
Simple and sophisticated all at once. Mint, rum, limes and sugar, that’s all you need. And ice. To serve a crowd, you will need either a bartender working full speed or make up a whole jug of Mojito ahead of time and have someone ready to stir and pour, although the genuine cocktail is made carefully each in its own glass, taking the time to muddle the mint into the syrup. I quite like to set up a cocktail station and hand the task over to a guest who I know can be a bit shy – giving them something to do and keep their hands busy is a great ice-breaker and there’s the bonus of being extremely popular as people taste the cocktail and shower the creator with compliments. You will also need to assign a “runner” to the cocktail station to fetch more mint or crush more ice on command.
This recipe is one from my Caribbean Christmas series which will be on the website as a full menu very shortly.
Makes one Mojito. (but you'll want more than one...)
Place the rum, syrup, lime and several sprigs of mint in the bottom of quite a large heavy glass and “muddle” them with a proper muddling tool or with the end of a wooden spoon. You should take your time over the muddling; you aren’t smashing or pureeing it. Add crushed ice to the brim of the glass, then top up with sparkling water. Serve with a straw so your guests can choose how to mix up the layers – strong rummy sweet minty liquid at the bottom or lighter icy sparkle at the top. Garnish with another sprig of mint and maybe a jaunty slice of lime.
These are a bit like the Australian version of scones – not that I mean they’re actually like scones to eat, they’re more like thin flapjacks, but I mean that every family has their own recipe, thinks it’s the best, and the taste is evocative of home, family cooking, Saturday afternoon in the garden, packed lunch boxes and good times. They are also a commemoration of resistance in bad times – traditionally these are the biscuits that were made, packed up and sent off by communities to their troops on the front line in Europe in the First World War, far away from home. They’re sugary, chewy, full of calories and they’re a blend of the taste and texture of the North and the South – oats and coconut. Having no egg, they keep well, as they would have to, being sent half-way across the world, and that makes them ideal for all family occasions – picnics, long walks, movie nights on the sofa. They’re also easy to make, which means children can really let their creative instincts run riot. I’ve seen recipes with added dried fruit, or added chocolate chunks – not part of the classic canon but why not? This recipe is based on the one given by Kate Young in the Little Library Cookbook, with some tweaks suggested by other Australian friends.
The magic ingredient is of course golden syrup, which has properties that enhance just about any recipe – it provides that chewy sweetness and binds all the more substantial ingredients together. They don’t rise much but they do spread out in the oven, so give them a bit of space.
I made them for the Seniors Lunch Club group and we had a discussion on all things Australian – ranging from the animals to the wine, to the geography, to history. Some of our members have relatives who were deported, some have relatives who have emigrated. Many have visited and have happy memories. One of our volunteers is Australian and loves to make these for the group on Australia Day – coming up in January.
Makes about 30 medium sized cookies. Timing 40 minutes.
Pre heat your oven to 180°C and line two baking trays with greaseproof paper.
Put the butter, sugars and golden syrup into a small pan and melt over a low heat.
Sieve the flour into a large bowl and add the oats and coconut.
Mix the bicarbonate of soda and water, add to the pan of butter and stir in, then tip the pan of liquid mixture into the bowl of dry ingredients and mix briefly.
Put walnut sized spoonfuls of the mixture on the baking trays. I get about 4 in a row along one of the short sides of a tray. Some recipes say flatten the spoonfuls of mixture to get a more biscuit shaped outcome and some don’t, which gives a more domed outcome, but it’s up to you. I get about 12 on a tray.
Put the trays in the oven for 8 minutes and then swop over the position on the shelf – it does make quite a different to this mixture where in the oven they are cooked. Cook for another 5-6 minutes and then take them out when they are still soft and golden brown, not deep brown. They are very soft when taken out, so let them harden on the tray for a couple of minutes before sliding the whole sheet of baking paper onto a rack to cool.
This recipe is from my Christmas in the Caribbean menu which will be published in full shortly. Have a look at the Cake de Ron from August, and look out for more recipes in the series. Of course, a Banana Daiquiri is appropriate at any time of year, so don't restrict yourself to the colder months.
Creamy, delicious and fruity. The original Daiquiri, invented in Cuba in 1900, consisted only of lime juice, rum and sugar combined with shaved or crushed ice. It must have been very like the original Mojito too, but now the two cocktails are delightfully different. Along the way, some genius decided to add fruit to the blended mixture and the Daiquiri we know and love was born. You can use many fruit flavours, but banana was made in heaven to pair with rum and gives such a lovely creamy texture, it has to be the best.
You can make up a jug full by multiplying the quantities; stir well on serving to mix up the layers as it might separate if left to stand. Although it seems unlikely that any party with interested guests is going to let this jug of wonder stand for any length of time.
It’s a deceptive cocktail. Feeling gentle and fruity, it slips down easily; if you wanted to reduce the alcohol content you could substitute another shot of sugar syrup for the Cointreau.
Makes one Daiquiri
Simply blend all the ingredients together until a smooth creamy liquid can be poured out of the blender into your tall frosted glass.
Green Tomato Chutney
We all love chutney in a cheese sandwich or with a slice of cold meat, and home made is of course nicest. You can adjust to your own tastes. I like a chutney with small pieces, nothing big that feels like a mouthful, and I like a dark sweet deep tasting mixture rather than a light fruity jammy product. But that’s my preference and you might love a light spreadable apple chutney best. I also like a textural contrast, the sweet softness of the courgette pieces against the popping crunch of tiny green tomatoes.
This year, my tomatoes got blight quite early, so I had to take the plants down and remove all the fruit, so I had a good harvest of unripe small tomatoes. Last year, the blight arrived late, so I’d eaten all my own tomatoes ripe off the plants and had to buy green tomatoes from my friendly grocer (thanks, FreshSave of Didsbury!). You never know, and that’s the wonderful thing about chutney. Not only is it seasonal, it’s very much of THIS season, the way that things have grown this year. One batch is never quite the same as the next. You have to be a bit nimble about your ingredients and be prepared to change around – adding some sliced green beans if you haven’t got enough green tomatoes for instance.
This is the basic recipe, found in many books and on scraps of paper in your grandmother’s recipe drawer. I’ve again used Pam Corbin’s River Cottage Handbook No 2 for the basic inspiration and great advice on making all sort of preserves, but I’ve changed to suit my own harvest and preferences, and you should do the same. I like a malt vinegar/cider vinegar mix because I like the malt vinegar’s dark muscularity, but again, if you prefer a lighter gentler chutney, use all lighter vinegar.
The main thing about this sort of chutney (which is quite like the famous brown pickle you buy) is that all the ingredients are chopped up to about the same size little pieces. It does take time, but it give you a very consistent result, so it’s worth the trouble. That means tiny tiny green tomatoes can stay whole, little ones get halved or quartered, and bigger ones (larger than your thumbnail) might go into 6.
Make it on an afternoon where you can be in the kitchen. You don’t need to keep an eagle eye on it constantly but don’t leave it for more than 10 minutes at a time. Everyone in your family will come in now and then, have a sniff and say “vinegar”. It’s one of the joys of the season.
Makes about 6 x jam jars Timings: 1 hour to prepare, 3-4 hours simmering
A little bag of muslin (can be the corner of an old teatowel, or the piece of old muslin nappy you keep for such things, surely we all do that?) tied up tightly with string, containing a 2cm piece of fresh ginger, 2 teaspoons coriander seed, 1 teaspoon black pepper corns, 1 teaspoon cloves.
Put a podcast on and cut up all your fruit. Place in a large deep saucepan with the other ingredients and bring to a simmer.
Simmer over a low heat and stir every now and then to stop anything catching on the bottom of the pan; burned bits you don’t want.
Stir and simmer for 3 hours with the lid on the pan and then take the lid off and simmer another hour or so to reduce the liquid. You will have a brown sticky fruity vinegary gloop. It’s ready when you can draw a wooden spoon through it and still see the bottom of the pan in the trail of the spoon for a few seconds. You can cook it until you reach the consistency you like.
Spoon carefully into sterilised jars (I fill them with boiling water, empty out and leave them upside down in a coolish over to dry out so they’re ready when the chutney is), cover with jam pot covers, put the lids on and label the jars.
The chutney is better if you leave it a few weeks to mature, so it’s an ideal Christmas gift.
It will keep at least a year, more like two years, on a cool dark shelf.
Some Changes - April 2022
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Titanium alloy is an excellent corrosion resistance material due to its greater affinity with oxygen when exposed to an aggressive medium such as sea water. The protection against attack is due to the oxidizing fume formed into its surface. This paper reports the effect of laser power on the corrosive behavior of laser metal deposited Ti6Al4V alloy with 5 weight percent (wt. %) copper in freshly prepared artificial sea water. The open circuit potential, potentiodynamic polarization curves, and the scanning electron microscope (SEM) morphologies of the entire Ti6Al4V+5 Cu alloy samples had been investigated and reported. From the results obtained, it can be deduced that the laser power is inversely proportional to the corrosion rate. Sample PL3 deposited with a laser power of 1600 W exhibited the best corrosion rate of 0.0123 mm/year when exposed to sea water under aerated condition. The morphologies of the entire laser deposited samples of the scanning electron microscope (SEM) unveiled typical passivity due to the strong inter-atomic bonds between the α/β phases formed with the copper inclusion within the lattices of the titanium alloy.
|Translated title of the contribution||Influence of laser power on the corrosive behavior of laser metal deposited Ti6Al4V+Cu in artificially prepared sea water|
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|Journal||Materialwissenschaft und Werkstofftechnik|
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BRISTOL'S GREAT WESTERN DOCKYARD
The Clifton Suspension Bridge, spanning the beautiful Avon Gorge.
There are several old ships at Bristol's docks as well as the working vessels.
The Matthew about to go on a pirate sail. Unfortunately they were sold out of tickets by the time we arrived.
Aboard the ship before the actors and sailors boarded for the afternoon cruise.
Daniel and Adam by the SS Great Britain...
...in the dehumidifying chamber that protects the hull...
...and at the ship's wheel.
Here is a closer view of the ship.
And a wide view from the rear ship.
On board, the restored dining room...
...and one of the staterooms.
We saw several hot air balloons over Bristol and Bath in the days around Easter.