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Employee at Pontian Hougang allegedly picks up dumplings dropped on floor and puts them back into box
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According to the post, an employee of "Chinese nationality dropped some dumplings on the floor, picked them up, and placed them back into the Tupperware box together with the rest"
Singapore – A member of the public witnessed an "irresponsible hawker" employee who dropped some dumplings on the floor and placed them back with the others. When the witness tried to call out the employee for her actions, he got a scolding.
On July 17 (Wednesday), Facebook user Neb Mil SE posted a scene he encountered from a "Friends by Pontian" outlet at Block 682 Hougang Coffeeshop.
"Please help to share to let your friends and relatives avoid patronising this irresponsible hawker at Blk 682 Hougang Coffeeshop," wrote Neb Mil SE.
According to the post, an employee of "Chinese nationality dropped some dumplings on the floor, picked them up, and placed them back into the Tupperware box together with the rest."
The member of the public tried to "reprimand" the employee for her actions, however she allegedly replied with: "Who the hell will dispose of an entire box of dumplings just because of a few dirtied pieces?"
Neb Mil SE tried once more to get the lady to dispose of the contents of the container to no avail.
"She started shouting at me, insisting it was none of my business, and that she will dispose of (the dumplings) when she is free," wrote Neb Mil SE.
"Such an irresponsible idiot might cause someone to suffer severe food poisoning if not punished!" added the concerned citizen. In an update via a comment on the post, Neb Mil SE wrote that the box of dumplings was still on the table when he left, and it would likely be served to unknowing customers.
He also mentioned that he contacted their head office who promised to investigate the incident.
Friends by Pontian is a franchise that has been operating for 60 years and counting, in different countries.
It would seem that this was not the first time that the franchise had been called out for neglecting food safety standards.
Netizens shared their experience with different outlets of Friends by Pontian such as a certain Ms Wendy Choo.
Ms Choo said that her mom ate at a Pontian outlet in Kovan Market Centre. "My mum found a strand of hair in her noodles, and she asked them what that was."
"They denied everything," said Ms Choo. "Until we said we will call NEA. Then they threw away the noodles.
http://theindependent.sg/employee-at-pontian-hougang-allegedly-picks-up-fallen-dumplings-on-floor-and-puts-it-back/
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FUCKING TIONG DOGS.
You can take the tiong out of China, but you can never take China out of the tiong.
Macron-omics
Why censor her face in the photograph? Should shame the bitch proper!!!!!!
Emboldened
Absolutely disgusting, NEA should investigate this matter immediately.
Pontian Wanton Noodles investigating employee who allegedly kept dumplings that fell on the floor
https://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/pontian-wanton-noodles-investigating-employee-who-allegedly-kept-dumplings-that-fell-on
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Ate once at their Bedok interchange stall, food tasted absolutely like shit.
Sasa to close all retail stores in Singapore
Cosmetics retailer Sasa International announced on Monday (Dec 2) that it will close all 22 stores in Singapore. About 170 employees will be affected by the decision, the company said in its statement, adding that they will be "fully compensated" according to local employment laws and regulations. The Group's performance in Singapore has been less than satisfactory for many years, and has recorded losses for six consecutive years," Sasa said. In the six months ended Sep 30, the Group's turnover for the Singapore operations was S$17.36 million, a decline of 4.6 per cent. "The Group had taken measures in recent years to restructure the local management team and to enhance store display and product mix with a view to driving sales. Regrettably, the results were far from satisfactory," it added. Sasa said it has decided to concentrate its resources on the markets in Hong Kong, Macau, mainland China and Malaysia, as well as its e-commerce business. The retailer added that its core market in Hong Kong has taken a hit due to a "drastic decline in Mainland tourist arrivals". "After careful consideration, the Group believes that the closure of its business in Singapore will help improve the performance and profitability of its remaining businesses, and is in the best interests of the Group and the shareholders as a whole," the company said. More at https://www.channelnewsasia.com/news/business/sasa-cosmetics-to-close-all-retail-stores-in-singapore-12146180
Another bites the dust: Crate and Barrel to close flagship store on Nov 10
American furniture and homeware brand Crate and Barrel has announced it will be closing its flagship store in Singapore. The outlet at Orchard Gateway @ Emerald, which first opened its doors to the public five years ago, will remain in operation till Nov 10. The 25,000 sq ft retail space spans five storeys - from Basement 2 to Level 3. With the closure, the American brand will have just one store in Singapore - at Ion Orchard. In a media release yesterday, Crate and Barrel said consumers here can still head to its boutique store at Ion Orchard to view its collection of furniture, kitchenware and other home accessory options. It added that its e-commerce site, which was launched in July last year, will also remain in operation. More at https://www.tnp.sg/news/business/crate-and-barrel-close-flagship-store-nov-10
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Novel theoretical frameworks are being developed as global immigration challenges our traditional notions of languages bound to nation-states. These new approaches enable us to understand emergent social bilingual practices and identity development in children and youth. In this presentation, we will discuss how these new frameworks are being translated into game-changing pedagogical practices in the Harvard language classroom. Theory and practice join to address Latinx students' linguistic and cultural interests and needs. Research shows improvement in students' sense of ethnolinguistic and transnational identity. The presentation will include a discussion with Latinx students who have taken the RLL courses Spanish 49h and 59h, as well as examples of their essays and art work as part of the creative assignments integrated into the courses' pedagogy. The presentation hopes to contribute to the discussion of best practices for "heritage students", at all levels of education, as our classrooms become more diverse.
Dr. María Luisa Parra Velasco has a B.A. in Psychology (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México), a Ph.D in Hispanics Linguistics (El Colegio de México). She has fifteen years of experience in the fields of Second Language Acquisition and Child Bilingual Development. She is currently the course head of the first year Spanish sequence (Spanish 10 and Spanish 11) and of the advanced class "Spanish and the Community" (Spanish 59). She has pioneered the two first Spanish courses for Latino students at Harvard (Spanish 49h and 59h). She also teaches the new course "Frida's Kahlo Mexico: Women, Arts, and Revolution" at the Harvard Extension and Summer School. Along with Prof. Elvira DiFabio, she is the recipient of a Harvard Initiative for Learning and Teaching (HILT) grant to develop a methodology to incorporate visual arts into language classes and collaborate with Harvard Art Museums. She has published her work in the Heritage Language Journal (2013) and AAUSC Issues in Language Program Direction (2013 and 2015), as well as in several edited volumes on Spanish as heritage language. She has co-authored with Dr. Martha Julia García-Sellers the book Conexión entre la escuela y la familia: Fortaleciendo las bases para el éxito académico. Paidós, 2005.


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ANTI GRAFT DIVIDES ZANU PF
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PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa's anti-corruption crusade has widened rifts in Zanu PF with some bigwigs in the ruling party accusing him of dumping them despite playing key roles in his ascendency to power.
Mnangagwa has promised tough action on graft and Tourism minister Priscah Mupfumira was last Friday charged with corruption involving $95 million siphoned from State pension fund, National Social Security Authority (NSSA). She is the first senior government official to be interrogated by the Zimbabwe Anti-Corruption Commission (Zacc) under a new leadership which was appointed by Mnangagwa recently.
Mupfumira's arrest by Zacc followed the release by Zanu PF youths of a list of senior party and government officials they alleged were corruption kingpins. The list, that included Mupfumira, had several names of party heavyweights such as Obert Mpofu, Joram Gumbo and Jacob Mudenda. The youths, believed to have the blessing of Mnangagwa, have threatened to release more names.
The naming and shaming of party bigwigs, the failure by Mnangagwa to defend them and the arrest of Mupfumira has sent shock waves in the party, with officials alleging that the President was using the crackdown on graft to get rid of potential sources of political trouble for him.
"This corruption thing is a new political battleground," one top official said.
"The President thinks he will earn public support, but, in fact, by arresting some top people who put their political lives on the line for him, this is now dividing the party. Top officials are now unsure of what is happening in the party. They feel they will be targeted too."
The source added: "Some officials are meeting to find the best way to respond to this. They believed that if ever the President was sincere about fighting corruption, he should start in his own backyard, including arresting his own children and cartel leaders around him. Anything short of that is political targeting."
According to the officials, most top party members feel let down because they sacrificed their political lives to support Mnangagwa when he was hounded out of the party, government and country by former President Robert Mugabe.
Mnangagwa took over from Mugabe following a coup in November 2017 and party members are contemplating ganging up against him for failing to support them.
"They are saying Mnangagwa only thinks about himself and his family and no one else. They feel Mnangagwa is poor at protecting those who sacrifice for him, something they felt Mugabe was good at," the source said.
"The party bigwigs all have skeletons in their cupboards, but believe Mnangagwa himself is not clean from corruption and so are his children. They said he is sacrificing others for his political life. If he is serious about corruption, why doesn't he start with those people directly linked to him who plundered command agriculture and fuel funds."
The sources added there is a growing consensus among some Zanu PF top chefs that Mnangagwa was a "selfish" leader and the sooner he is shown the exit door, the safer they will be.
Their concerns validate claims by the MDC at the weekend that they were working with some Zanu PF legislators in a plot to impeach Mnangagwa.
Former minister and Zanu PF secretary for administration, Mpofu and Labour minister Sekai Nzenza yesterday dared Zacc to arrest them, claiming they were clean.
Mpofu described his accusers as lunatics and that he had nothing to hide.
"No one has phoned me or asked me, but I am ready for anything because I know I have not done anything wrong and it will be proven whatever needs to be proven. I have nothing to worry about. It is just wishful thinking by some lunatics," he told NewsDay in a telephone interview.
Nzenza, who was at the weekend reported to have fled the country to avoid arrest, yesterday at a Press conference, said: "I have a job to deliver and will not listen to nonsensical weekend stories on social media.
"Ask those who are saying I am under investigation; for what? I have nothing to hide. They can go on and investigate me. I am not dwelling on nonsensical stories. I have a mandate to deliver to ensure that money entitled to NSSA is managed properly within best practice of governance,"
At the weekend, Information secretary Ndavaningi Mangwana denied that the corruption hunt was a political exercise. Newsday

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Three generations of a single family; three generations which have lived through tumultuous times in China's history; three generations, each bearing scars of the events of their youth and their response to it. A clash of cultures, disputes within the family. Amy Ng's play, Under the Umbrella, grew from an original idea by producer Lian Wilkinson after she saw a video about Chinese Marriage Markets where parents affix their children's marriage CVs to umbrellas for display. Wilkinson approached director, Justine Themen and Ng and Under the Umbrella was born.
Wei is studying for a PhD in Coventry. At first, it does seem that she is simply using her continuing student status as a way of staying away from China and the obsession of her mother and grandmother that she should be married and make a good match. For Wei is 27 and becoming less attractive in the marriage stakes; once a woman reaches that age, she is thought of as a 'leftover woman'. Wei shares a flat with best friend, Lucy, and together they live a hedonistic life of clubbing and karaoke.
Wei's mother, Dong, was a young woman during the one-child policy implemented in 1979 to limit population growth. Families could have one child only: further pregnancies were aborted. And single women could have no children at all.
Dong's mother, known just as Grandmother, survived the great famine of 1958 – 1962 that followed Mao's 'Great Leap Forward' that was intended to reduce China's dependence on agriculture and move its economy to a more industrial one.
Under the Umbrella is a spectacularly beautiful piece. As Ng explained in her interview with us, three of the four actors have Lecoc or Gaulier backgrounds and it shows in their fluid movement around the stage as the marriage markets are created, or montages of events are displayed. A simple set has holes drilled in rows that are used to place, for example, umbrellas or lychee bushes and ensuring the action flows smoothly from one location to the next.
Mei Mac brings us Wei, a character full of contradictions, living a full life in Coventry with Lucy, but still, to an extent, bound by tradition, even if she is not consciously aware of that. She enjoys life but does feel something is perhaps missing: while she and flatmate Lucy form a formidable unit, she can't help feeling that she is second-best. Laura Tipper is Lucy, a free-spirit who is nevertheless needy, requiring others' attention; maybe that's why she's easily swayed when her unseen on-off boyfriend calls. Both actors have great physicality and mobile faces: one feels invited and welcomed into their world.
Wei's supervisor is Dr Zhang, played by Minhee Yeo. Yeo brings a sternness to Zhang as she despairs of Wei ever completing her PhD. Yeo also plays Grandmother, a tyrannical matriarch desperate to see her line continue through Wei. While her love for her family isn't in dispute, her manner is, at best, offhand. Later, we discover something of her history that helps us to understand her actions.
Charlotte Chiew brings us Dong, perhaps ultimately the most tragic character as her back story is revealed. Her desperation to find Wei a husband, trying different marketing ploys to make her appear more attractive to potential in-laws, is clear. Pulled in several directions and weighed down by her own history, Chiew's Dong is a tour de force.
Under the Umbrella has a strong narrative and a powerful story based, ultimately, on love and loss. However, there are areas that could be improved: the desire to give each of the Chinese women comprehensive backstories from China's history leads to a longer and slower moving second half; and there are some loose ends in the plot that never quite get tied: for example, the reasons for Dong's reaction to Dr Zhang are hinted at but not clear, and the part played in the past and present by Dong's brother remains vague – at least to this reviewer's western ears.
Nevertheless, Under the Umbrella is a thing of rare beauty, a thought-provoking look at China under Mao and since, at family, at friendships; while Ng says she doesn't try to write plays that will educate, inevitably, Under the Umbrella does just that in a stylish and enjoyable way.


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Romania: Fire in COVID-19 intensive care unit kills 10
by: VADIM GHIRDA and SABINA NIKSIC, Associated Press
The facade of the hospital is blackened by smoke from the ICU unit following a fire in Piatra Neamt, northern Romania, Saturday, Nov. 14, 2020. Romanian officials say a fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients has killed 10 people and critically injured seven others as a blaze spread through the intensive care ward designated for people with COVID-19 patients at the public hospital according to the Emergency Situations Inspectorate.(ZIarPiatraNeamt.ro via AP)
BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) — A fire at a hospital treating COVID-19 patients in northeastern Romania killed 10 people Saturday and injured 10 others, seven of them critically, officials said. Prosecutors quickly opened a criminal investigation.
The blaze spread through the intensive care ward designated for COVID-19 patients at the public hospital in the city of Piatra Neamt, local Emergency Situations Inspectorate spokesperson Irina Popa said. Most of the people who died or were injured in the blaze. were hospital patients, .
Health Minister Nelu Tataru told Romanian media the fire at Piatra Neamt Regional Emergency Hospital was "most likely triggered by a short circuit."
Romania's national prosecutor's office said it would investigate the blaze as a possible case of criminal manslaughter. The prosecutor who led the probe into a 2015 blaze that killed 64 people at an underground nightclub in Romania's capital, Bucharest, was assigned to lead the new investigation, the office said.
The fire at the Colective nightclub sparked massive protests that forced the Romanian government to relinquish office. The government was led at the time by the left-leaning Social Democrat Party, known as PSD.
The PSD hopes to reclaim power in the next general election, set for Dec.6. It is almost certain to use the Saturday fire in Piatra Neamt in its attacks against the center-right National Liberal party, or NLP, which has controlled Romania's minority government since last October.
The minority government has been struggling to contain the economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic by curbing social spending, and the tragic death of patients in a public COVID-19 hospital is likely to add to the ruling party's woes ahead of the election.
News outlets reported that Piatra Neamt Regional Emergency Hospital has long been poorly managed, with eight government-appointed managers overseeing the facility in the last year.
The hospital's current manager, Lucian Micu, was appointed just three weeks ago after his predecessor resigned over the poor treatment of patients. The resignation followed media reports of patients, including many suspected to have COVID-19, being forced to wait outside in the cold to see a doctor.
Micu said Saturday that a doctor on duty tried to save the patients from the flames and was in critical condition with first- and second-degree burns covering 80% of his body. Another doctor and two nurses also were being treated for burns.
Piatra Neamt is about 353 kilometers (219 miles) north of Romania's capital, Bucharest.
Niksic reported from Sarajevo, Bosnia.
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GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization chief on Monday lambasted drugmakers' profits and vaccine inequalities, saying it's "not right" that younger, healthier adults in wealthy countries get vaccinated against COVID-19 before older people or health care workers in poorer countries and charging that most vaccine makers have targeted locations where "profits are highest."
Director-General Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus kicked off WHO's week-long executive board meeting — virtually from its headquarters in Geneva — by lamenting that one poor country received a mere 25 vaccine doses while over 39 million doses have been administered in nearly 50 richer nations.
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Groundwater in 78% blocks 'overexploited' in Punjab
Updated At: Feb 07, 2022 08:38 AM (IST)
Groundwater level has fallen up to 30 metres in the last two decades.
Sanjeev Singh Bariana
Chandigarh, February 6
Groundwater in at least 78 per cent blocks of the Punjab is overexploited said Minister of State for Jal Shakti Bishweswar Tudu in a reply to a query posed by Anandpur Sahib Member of Parliament Manish Tewari during the ongoing Lok Sabha session. The minister said out of 150 blocks, as many as 117 have been categorised as "overexploited".
The minister said as per the 2017 groundwater assessment carried out jointly by the Central Ground Water Board (CGWB) and the state government as many as 109 blocks were found to be "overexploited".
The reply mentioned that "Groundwater levels are declining because of continuous withdrawal necessitated by increased demand of freshwater for various uses, vagaries of rainfall, increased population, industrialisation and urbanisation etc."
It's worth mentioning that the study conducted by Punjab Agricultural University (PAU), conducted from 1998 to 2018, had found that groundwater declined by over a metre every year in 18 of the 23 districts. The report, which was submitted to the state government recently, highlighted that groundwater, which was available at a depth of three to 10 metres around two decades ago, has fallen below 30 metres.
Barring four districts—Faridkot, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur and Muktsar— and a few blocks in Hoshiarpur, Nawanshahr, Ropar and Mansa, groundwater has been found to be "overexploited" in the state.
The reply of the Minister of state for Jal Shakti read that "information received from the state government of Punjab indicates that 790 habitations (from rural areas) spread across 17 districts are affected with arsenic out of which 29 habitations (with arsenic contamination ranging between 0.11 mg/litre to 0.46 mg/litre) are in Ropar district alone". Research results have shown that the long-term exposure to arsenic from drinking water and food can cause cancer and skin lesions.
Water being a State subject, initiatives on water management, including preventing contamination of groundwater is primarily the responsibility of the state. The minister added that the Centre had simultaneously initiated different steps to revive the falling levels of groundwater.
Level falling down rapidly
Out of 150 blocks, as many as 117 have been categorised as overexploited
PAU report states that groundwater declined by over a metre every year in 18 of the 23 districts
Barring four districts—Faridkot, Ferozepur, Gurdaspur and Muktsar— groundwater has been found to be overexploited in the state
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A Wrench in Earth's Engine: Stagnant Slabs
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Something's broken inside Earth? Scientists explore why millennia-old process has stalled
Scientists have diagnosed the Earth with a bizarre geological condition known as 'stagnant slabs', meaning tectonic rocks subducted into the fiery hot mantle mysteriously become wedged hundreds of miles below the surface.
In a study published today in Nature Geoscience, the team explored the physics of "stagnant slabs." These geophysical oddities form when huge chunks of Earth's oceanic plates are forced deep underground at the edges of certain continental plates. The chunks sink down into the planet's interior for hundreds of miles until they suddenly -- and for reasons scientists can't explain -- stop like a stalled car.
CU Boulder's Wei Mao and Shijie Zhong, however, may have found the reason for that halt. Using computer simulations, the researchers examined a series of stagnant slabs in the Pacific Ocean near Japan and the Philippines. They discovered that these cold rocks seem to be sliding on a thin layer of weak material lying at the boundary of the planet's upper and lower mantle -- roughly 660 kilometers, or 410 miles, below the surface.
And the stoppage is likely temporary: "Although we see these slabs stagnate, they are a fairly recent phenomena, probably happening in the last 20 million years," said Zhong, a co-author of the new study and a professor in CU Boulder's Department of Physics.
The findings matter for tectonics and volcanism on the Earth's surface. Zhong explained that the planet's mantle, which lies above the core, generates vast amounts of heat. To cool the globe down, hotter rocks rise up through the mantle and colder rocks sink.
"You can think of this mantle convection as a big engine that drives all of what we see on Earth's surface: earthquakes, mountain building, plate tectonics, volcanos and even Earth's magnetic field," Zhong said.
The existence of stagnant slabs, which geophysicists first located about a decade ago, however, complicates that metaphor, suggesting that Earth's engine may grind to a halt in some areas. That, in turn, may change how scientists think diverse features, such as East Asia's roiling volcanos, form over geologic time.
Scientists have mostly located such slabs in the western Pacific Ocean, specifically off the east coast of Japan and deep below the Mariana Trench. They occur at the sites of subduction zones, or areas where oceanic plates at the surface of the planet plunge hundreds of miles below ground.
Slabs seen at similar sites near North and South America behave in ways that geophysicists might expect: They dive through Earth's upper mantle and into the lower mantle where they heat up near the core.
But around Asia, "they simply don't go down," Zhong said. Instead, the slabs spread out horizontally near the boundary between the upper and lower mantle, a point at which heat and pressure inside Earth cause minerals to change from one phase to another.
To find out why slabs go stagnant, Zhong and Mao, a graduate student in physics, developed realistic simulations of how energy and rock cycle around the entire planet.
They found that the only way they could explain the behavior of the stagnant slabs was if a thin layer of less-viscous rock was wedged in between the two halves of the mantle. While no one has directly observed such a layer, researchers have predicted that it exists by studying the effects of heat and pressure on rock.
If it does, such a layer would act like a greasy puddle in the middle of the planet. "If you introduce a weak layer at that depth, somehow the reduced viscosity helps lubricate the region," Zhong said. "The slabs get deflected and can keep going for a long distance horizontally."
Stagnant slabs seem to occur off the coast of Asia, but not the Americas, because the movement of the continents above gives those chunks of rock more room to slide. Zhong, however, said that he doesn't think the slabs will stay stuck. With enough time, he suspects that they will break through the slick part of the mantle and continue their plunge toward the planet's core.
The planet, in other words, would still behave like an engine -- just with a few sticky spots. "New research suggests that the story may be more complicated than we previously thought," Zhong said.
The above story is based on Materials provided by University of Colorado at Boulder. Original written by Daniel Strain.


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Lakers Trade Rumors: The Magic might be interested in Luol Deng
This rumor brought to you by Orlando's own whiteboard, apparently.
By Harrison Faigen@hmfaigen Apr 3, 2017, 6:09pm PDT
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That the Los Angeles Lakers probably wouldn't mind getting out of the four-year, $72 million deal they gave to Luol Deng in free agency last summer doesn't seem like a very big assumption to make.
Deng posted the lowest points (7.6) and field goal percentage (38.6 percent) averages of his now 13 year career during his first season in Los Angeles, and at nearly 32-years old, it seems unlikely he's going to improve much over the final three-years of his deal.
There are two problems with any theoretical deal sending Deng elsewhere, however. For one, the Lakers would likely have to give up an asset if they wanted to send Deng elsewhere, and they have precious little in their treasure chest to offer in such a scenario.
The other issue is whether or not any teams would actually be interested in Deng, given his struggles, although that may not be as far-fetched as previously thought.
Thanks to a friend of recently signed Orlando Magic forward Patricio Garino, who posted a picture of him signing his NBA contract on Twitter with the Magic's whiteboard in the background, we now know Orlando's front office has at least some level of interest in Deng and/or his contract (h/t UPROXX):
Hold on.... enhance!
As our own Ben Rosales speculated on Twitter, the Magic's interest in Deng could potentially be limited to the Lakers taking back one of Orlando's own contractual misfires:
Biyombo can still defend well so yeah. https://t.co/pL94Cx3xj9
— Ben Rosales (@brosales12) April 4, 2017
Although to be honest, no one (possibly including the Magic themselves) ever really knows what the Magic are doing, so get ready to see Deng get sent out for Aaron Gordon and Mario Hezonja as Orland looks to grab veterans for a title run.*
*If this actually happens Lakers fans are justified in holding a championship parade, even without an actual title, and Rob Pelinka and Magic Johnson should be given lifetime extensions**
**This won't actually ever happen. Sorry.
All stats per NBA.com. and Basketball-Reference.com. Harrison Faigen is co-host of the Locked on Lakers podcast (subscribe here, or listen to our latest episode below), and you can follow him on Twitter at @hmfaigen.


This is not how anybody wants to kick off their Bahama vacation.
What you see above happened to Dr. Cutbirth on day one of his trip to the Bamahas. Yikes! He was diving and spear fishing when the attack happened. Cutbirth says he sure the six-foot-long Bull shark was after his catch, and not the dentist himself.
Steve was rushed to a local clinic and released after treatment. What a close call! Cutbirth also described the encounter in an interview with our news partners at KWTX News 10.
Out of nowhere, I felt like I was being hit by a freight train in the head.
Dr. Cutbirth says he's been vacationing in the same spot for 25 years, and that this is the first time he's ever had an incident. He say's he's ok, and that his family doesn't plan on canceling the rest of their vacation. He just says he can't go back in the water for about 10 more days.


Valentine's Day is around the corner. Some of us dismiss it as a cheesy Hallmark holiday. Some of us revel in the traditional chocolate and champagne. Some are happy to celebrate their loved ones, some are unbearably lonely, and some are just plain angry. Love does that to us.
I'm no expert, but as I get closer to middle age than youth, I can tell you this about love: love is surprising. Sometimes the beginning of love is surprising – it can come when you don't expect it to. And sometimes the end of love is (sadly) surprising. But there are a lot of surprises in the middle, too.
The surprises can be good – a grand romantic gesture you never expected from your significant other – or great – the way your heart fills to bursting when a child enters your family, and then fills even more when another child comes along. They can be bad – discovering that your spouse has been behaving in a way that you never would expect, that shocks and hurts you – or just sad – realizing your relationship isn't where you thought it would be.
Don't mean to go all Richard Curtis on you all – I can get a bit maudlin this time of year – but I hope you can celebrate Valentine's Day with people you love – your spouse, your girlfriends, your children, your family, or your dog (because is there any purer love? I don't think so.) And treat them to something a little surprising.
Chocolate covered strawberries are traditional Valentine's Day treats (and Valentine's Day is incidentally when you start getting the good California strawberries), but why not be a little more surprising this Valentine's Day? These strawberries are dipped in cookie butter (also known as Biscoff Spread or Speculoos Spread), and the gingerbread flavor (enhanced with a little white chocolate and coconut oil for texture) plays beautifully with the strawberries. As a note – these are firm in the fridge, but don't leave them out too long, or you might have a mess. On the other hand, a messy Valentine's Day can be pretty fun!
These strawberries, dipped in speculoos spread (or cookie butter, or Biscoff spread) are a surprising twist on the chocolate variety.
Melt the cookie spread, the white chocolate chips, and the coconut oil together in a saucepan. Let cool.
Dip the strawberries into the cookie butter mixture. Place on waxed or parchment paper, and chill until firm. Serve chilled.
Try to find white chocolate chips with cocoa butter as an ingredient instead of palm kernel oil. I buy mine at Trader Joe's.


Thank you, Uma! I'm so pleased you like them. India had a profound effect on me.
Great photograph, Steve! Your photographs of India are interesting. Each photograph tells a tale of its own!
The elaborately sculptured and painted Meenakshi Amman Temple is one of the most important Hindu temples, located in the holy city of Madurai in south India. The complex houses 14 magnificent towers and is dedicated to Sundareswar/Shiva and Meenakshi, a form of the Goddess Parvati.


OXFORD, Miss. – Like so many University of Mississippi students, Mike Ririe fell in love with Ole Miss during a campus visit.
As a high school junior in 2004, the St. Louis native and his dad, Scott Ririe, attended their first Rebel football game preceded by festivities in the Grove and a campus tour.
"We never visited another school after that day," said Scott Ririe, founder and co-president of Control Technology and Solutions, an energy service company based in St. Louis.
Mike Ririe graduated from Ole Miss with a bachelor's degree in business administration and is a commercial real estate agent in Chicago. His brother, James Ririe, of St. Louis, is on track to graduate from the UM School of Business Administration in 2020.
The Ririe brothers' love for their university spread to their parents, who recently made a $300,000 gift to establish the Ririe Family Scholarship Endowment, which will award $6,000 a year for up to eight semesters to two St. Louis freshmen in the School of Business Administration.
UM business Dean Ken Cyree thanks the Riries for their generosity.
Scott Ririe graduated from Cornell College in 1979 and his wife, Shelley, is a 1981 graduate of the University of Iowa. Yet now, they proudly support Ole Miss.
"Our family has become attached to Ole Miss through our boys and their love and loyalty to the university," Scott Ririe said. The couple also has two other grown children: Andy, a paramedic studying to become a physician's assistant, and Elise, who graduated from the University of Dayton (Ohio) and is a pharmaceutical sales representative living in Cleveland, Ohio.
Scott Ririe began his career working in sales for Honeywell International Inc. in Des Moines, Iowa. He became service sales manager in 1984 and moved to St. Louis, where he was soon promoted again to district general manager.
In 2000, he and a business partner founded CTS, which has grown to become the CTS Group, operating in nine states with more than 124 employees and revenue of more than $100 million a year.
Scott Ririe serves on the executive committee as treasurer for National Association of Energy Services Companies board of directors and the board of Midwest Easter Seals Association. He also has served on the advisory boards for General Motors and – along with his wife – Ranger Bass Boats.
His high school sweetheart and wife of 36 years, Shelley Ririe began her career with Revlon Inc., marketing cosmetics to retailers, before joining Ormco, an orthodontic supplier. She owns Branson West Marine and Powersports, which coincides nicely with the Riries' favorite activities.
To make a gift to the School of Business Administration, visit https://www.umfoundation.com/makeagift/ or contact Tim Noss at 662-915-5932 or tlnoss@olemiss.edu.


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Johnson Controls pays SEC $14 million to settle China bribe case, receives DOJ Pilot Program declination
Johnson Controls Inc. agreed Monday to pay $14 million to settle SEC charges that it violated the books and records and internal accounting controls provisions of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act.
The SEC said a wholly-owned Chinese subsidiary called China Marine used sham vendors to pay bribes of about $4.9 million to employees of Chinese government-owned shipyards, ship-owners and others, to obtain and retain business and personally enrich themselves.
Also Monday, the DOJ released to the public a declination letter dated June 21 that it sent to Johnson Controls's lawyers. The DOJ letter said "at this time and consistent with the FCPA Pilot Program, we have closed our inquiry into this matter despite the bribery by employees of JCI's subsidiary in China."
The DOJ launched the Pilot Program in April to encourage companies to self report FCPA compliance problems and cooperate with U.S. enforcement agencies and regulators.
In its declination to Johnson Controls, the DOJ cited the company's voluntary self-disclosure and thorough investigation, full cooperation "including its provision of all known relevant facts about the individuals involved in or responsible for the misconduct," and its remedial compliance efforts.
Wisconsin-based Johnson Controls is a global provider of HVAC (Heating, Ventilation and Air Conditioning) systems.
The SEC resolved the enforcement action with an internal administrative order and didn't go to court.
Johnson Controls acquired the China Marine subsidiary as part of a 2005 acquisition of York International.
China Marine consists of two legal entities: York Refrigeration Marine (China) Ltd. and JCI Marine (Shanghai) Trading Company Ltd. The China Marine entities operate as indirect, wholly-owned subsidiaries of Johnson Controls and are consolidated into its financial statements.
In 2007, York International paid $22 million to the DOJ and SEC to resolve FCPA offenses in China and other countries that happened from 2001 through 2006. The offenses involved York's marine unit.
Johnson Controls wasn't charged in the case.
York paid more than $7.5 million in bribes through subsidiaries and agents to win commercial and government projects.
On Monday, the SEC said in its administrative order that despite Johnson Controls's "efforts to remediate China Marine, the bribery continued."
From 2007 to 2013, the SEC said, the managing director of China Marine — with help from 18 China Marine employees in three offices — continued the bribery and theft that began under his predecessor by using vendors instead of agents to make the improper payments.
The SEC order said:
After Johnson Controls limited the use of agents, the China Marine employees used vendors to create slush funds.
Vendor transactions were considered low risk by Johnson Controls due to their low dollar value, with the average vendor payment about $3,400.
Johnson Controls's internal controls over vendor payments were less rigorous, and China Marine operated with very little oversight by Johnson Controls's Denmark office, which oversaw the global marine business.
Even when managers in Denmark did a review, they didn't understand some of the "highly customized" transactions at China Marine or the projects involving the sham vendors.
The SEC found that Johnson Controls violated the internal accounting controls and books and records provisions of the FCPA that are part of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.
The company settled the offenses without admitting or denying the SEC's findings.
Johnson Controls disgorged $11.8 million plus prejudgment interest of $1.38 million. It also paid a civil penalty of $1.18.
It agreed to report to the SEC for a year on the status of its FCPA and anti-corruption related remediation and compliance program.
Johnson Controls Inc. trades on the NYSE under the symbol JCI.
The SEC's Order as Securities Exchange Act of 1934 Release No. 78287 and Administrative Proceeding File No. 3-17337 (dated July 11, 2016) In the Matter of Johnson Controls Inc. is here (pdf).
Here's the full text of the DOJ Pilot Program declination letter:
Fraud Section
1400 New York Avenue, NW
Jay Holtmeier, Esq.
Erin G.H. Sloane, Esq.
Re: Johnson Controls, Inc.
Dear Mr. Holtmeier:
I write regarding the investigation by the Department of Justice, Criminal Division, Fraud Section into your client Johnson Controls, Inc. ("JCI" or "the Company"), concerning possible violations of the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act, 15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1, et seq. Based upon the information known to the Department at this time and consistent with the FCPA Pilot Program, we have closed our inquiry into this matter despite the bribery by employees of JCI's subsidiary in China. We have reached this decision based on a number of factors, including but not limited to: the voluntary self-disclosure of the matter by JCI; the thorough investigation undertaken by the Company; the Company's full cooperation in this matter (including its provision of all known relevant facts about the individuals involved in or responsible for the misconduct) and its agreement to continue to cooperate in any ongoing investigations of individuals; the steps that the Company has taken and continues to take to enhance its compliance program and its internal accounting controls; the Company's full remediation (including separating from the Company all 16 employees found to be involved in the misconduct, including high-level executives at the Chinese subsidiary); and the fact that JCI will be disgorging to the SEC the full amount of disgorgement as determined by the SEC, as well as paying a civil penalty to the SEC. If additional information or evidence should be made available to us in the future, we may reopen our inquiry.
Daniel Kahn
Deputy Chief
Richard L. Cassin is the publisher and editor of the FCPA Blog. He'll be the keynote speaker at the FCPA Blog NYC Conference 2016.
Post Tags: China, Cooperation, Declination, Johnson Controls, York International


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Ellis Patents Centaur cable saddles have been designed as a solution for cleating large diameter high voltage cables used in National Grid Power Transmission Systems typically 132kV, 275kV and 400kV. Centaur cable saddles provide a solution to cable cleating large diameter EHV power transmission cables from 100mm up to 162mm outside diameter generally installed within high voltage cable tunnels.
Cable saddles are designed for supporting high voltage cables with diameters from 100mm to 162mm from support steelwork at centres of up to 8.4m. The cable saddles have been short-circuit tested at 63kA RMS for 1 second.
Design - Centaur high voltage cable saddles consist of an extruded and pressed aluminium saddle and a hinged aluminium overstrap. The ends of the cable saddle are flared so that the cable never comes in contact with a sharp edge and the overstrap incorporates an LSOH polymeric liner, which cushions the high voltage power cable in the event of a short-circuit. All the fixing bolts are in 316L stainless steel. To eliminate the possibility of galvanic corrosion all dissimilar metals are isolated from each other by injection moulded separation washers. The cable saddles are available in lengths of 400, 600 & 800mm to allow for different cable diameters and mounting centres.
Mounting Options - Centaur high voltage cable saddles are almost unlimited and are project specific. The high voltage cable saddle can be directly fixed to lugs welded to the supporting structure or may be supported on a bracket made from aluminium or galvanized steel. Centaur may be installed rigidly or in such a way to allow it to pivot vertically, horizontally or both. (Observations of cable movement during short-circuit tests suggest that the latter option would be preferable).
Testing - Centaur high voltage cable saddles and intermediate straps were short-circuit tested at KEMA in Arnhem Holland in July 2008, using the commonly recognized National Grid requirement of 63kA RMS for a minimum of one second as an objective. Tests were passed on both three phase and phase to phase faults at 63kA RMS, 163kA peak. A copy of the full independent report from KEMA is available on request. Centaur has also been successfully tested for corrosion resistance having been subjected to an independent salt spray test carried out in accordance with BS EN 9227:2006 Corrosion tests in artificial atmospheres.
Ellis Patents has launched a project specific testing service that it says will remove any uncertainty about the ability of cable cleats to do the cable containment job they have been specified for.
The leading cleat manufacturer had previously gone on record calling for compulsory third party certification of all cleats, but says that a lack of understanding about the process has resulted in cable cleat products continuing to be incorrectly specified.
Ellis Patents commented: "Third party certification really should clear up any doubts about a cleats ability to withstand the maximum force it is likely to experience in any given installation. The problem is that the quoted short circuit withstand, which is seen as the indicator of a cleats suitability for a project, is only valid for a cable diameter equal to or greater than the diameter of the cable used in the test.
Intended to wipe out this issue, Ellis Patents new service provides specifiers and contractors with the opportunity to test the cables and cable cleats they intend to install in the most-extreme short-circuit conditions likely to occur in the final installation. A procedure that means the tested cleats can be granted project specific third party certification and be installed with confidence.
Ellis Patents project specific testing service is part of its on-going commitment to short circuit testing and third party certification. Ellis Patents currently spends a minimum of one allocated day every six months at a specialist facility where it tests its new or enhanced products prior to bringing them to market, and seeks to validate claims made by other manufacturers.


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«Балаидос» () — футбольный стадион, расположенный в Виго, Галисия, Испания. На данный момент вмещает 29 000 зрителей и является семнадцатым по вместимости футбольным стадионом Испании. Домашний стадион футбольного клуба «Сельта» с 1928 года.

История
В сентябре 1924 года группа испанских бизнесменов купила 75 000 м² площади для постройки стадиона. Два года спустя эти бизнесмены создают компанию «Стэдиум де Балаидос», которая будет осуществлять фактическое строительство работ на новом стадионе. До переезда на «Балаидос» «Сельта» выступала на стадионе «Койя». Для начала прошлого столетия этот стадион считался комфортабельной ареной. Клуб не планировал переезда, но муниципалитет города решил создать новый трамвайный маршрут, который пролегал через место, где находился стадион. Руководству Сельты пришлось спешно готовить проект нового стадиона. Однако найти подходящее место для возведения арены было сложной задачей. Руководители Сельты остановились на участке земли, расположенном в валле де Фрагосо. Здесь в 1925 году началось строительство нового стадиона, которое завершилось в 1928 году.

Балаидос был открыт 30 декабря 1928 года. Стадион был благословлен протоиереем Фрагосо, отцом Фаустино Анде.

Первый матч на новом стадионе состоялся в день его открытия, местная «Сельта» играла с «Реал Унион». На стадионе присутствовало 22 000 зрителей. Встреча завершилось крупной победой хозяев со счетом 7:0.

В сезоне 2002/2003 «Сельта» впервые в своей истории квалифицировалась в Лигу чемпионов УЕФА. Но радостные марши были прерваны, когда УЕФА сделало стадион команды не пригодным в связи с малым местом. Следовательно, стадион в ближайшее время был реконструирован. И свои еврокубковые матчи клуб из Виго проводил на стадионе ФК «Порту» Драган.

Чемпионат мира 1982
Балаидос был одним из стадионов, на которых проводились матчи чемпионата мира по футболу 1982, проходившего в Испании. На стадионе прошли три матча группового этапа группы 1.

Ссылки
 Balaídos at Celtavigo.net
 Estadio Nuevo Balaídos at CandidaturaIberica.com
 Estadios de Espana

Футбольные стадионы Галисии
Здания и сооружения Виго


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Coalition takes aim at state legislation on rent control
Posted on January 11, 2018 Author Jacqueline Fernandez, Contributing Writer	223 Views
CRENSHAW — Support for state legislation that would allow rent control to remain in the city of Los Angeles was one of the main targets of an emergency gentrification meeting Jan. 11 called by the Crenshaw Subway Coalition.
An estimated 200 people attended the meeting at Christ Temple Cathedral Church in Southwest Los Angeles to hear Damien Goodmon, head of the coalition call for universal rent control as a way of preventing the gentrification of South Los Angeles and other minority communities in Los Angeles.
Goodmon said AB 1506, a bill that would repeal the Costa Hawkins Act of 1995 that severely limited rent control in Los Angeles, was coming up for its first legislative hearing in Sacramento Jan. 11.
"We want people to call their legislator and support that measure," Goodmon said.
While Goodmon voiced support for AB 1506, he was stridently opposed to SB 827, a bill by state Sen. Scott Wiener, D-San Francisco, that Goodmon said would "gentrify every urban community in Los Angeles and the state."
The bill would spare new housing developments from certain restrictions if they qualify as "transit-rich housing."
It would override local zoning regulations that limit building near transit, including areas within a quarter-mile of transit stops with bus or rail lines that come every 15 minutes.
Wiener believes the restrictions on development have worsened the housing shortage, which have led to high rent in California.
About 200 people attended the anti-gentrification meeting Jan. 11 at the Christ Temple Cathedral Church in Southwest Los Angeles. Residents were urged to contact their state legislators on bills that are being heard in Sacramento. (Photo by Jacqueline Fernandez)
"We are going backwards, we are losing ground economically and culturally," said Estuardo Mazariegos, a facilitator at the meeting. "In terms of gains, its superficial, no systemic changes. At best we are at a stalemate, at worst we are going backwards."
Mazariegos is part of ACCE, the Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment.
"I've been part of the movement my whole life," he said. "I was born in it."
He grew up in Hollywood and experienced the changes in his neighborhood when the Red Line was being built. He said he couldn't walk anywhere without police asking him questions.
Goodmon showed examples of local gentrification with the major developments planned in Boyle Heights, Inglewood, Leimert Park, Baldwin Hills, downtown L.A. and South L.A.
The meeting wasn't only a moment to speak about politics, but more personal stories the community is facing.
Joyti Chand and Michael Wilson spoke about their fight, what they called the battle for Baldwin Village. They accused City Attorney Mike Feuer of trying to evict Baldwin Village residents from a 425-unit apartment complex Feuer says is a home to a street gang called the Black P-Stone. Feuer filed a lawsuit in November targeting the property's owners and managers to repress crime in the complex.
However, Chand and Wilson said they are seeing mothers, grandmothers and aunts becoming the victims of the evictions.
"There was a raid done last year, who knows about the raid?" asked Chand. No one in the room responded.
The Los Angeles Times covered the Baldwin Village raid that occurred the morning of March 2, 2017. The LAPD arrested 15 people and seized guns, drugs and more than $12,000 in cash. It was an undercover operation that spanned a few months before.
In an effort to help their neighborhood, Chand and Wilson give out clothing, diapers, fresh food and information on tenant rights and legal assistance.
"Everyone in here should try to uplift each other, because we are fighting next to each other," Wilson said.
The presentations ended with Dr. Amee Chew discussing her health impact assessment. It is similar to an environmental impact review, but instead its looking at the development of people — seeing how many people are being displaced and what might be the source of it.
To continue the conversation, the audience was split into breakout groups and facilitators asked questions on what would be steps to resolve the complex problems.
Large easel pads surrounded the room with topics like housing, culture, services, jobs and accountability written on top. Goodmon asked attendees to grab a post-it and write their thoughts on each topic.
One under housing said: "Demand universal rent control immediately after Costa Hawkins is repealed."
In the end, Goodmon was satisfied with the turnout at the meeting and the results.
"It's hard for me not to look at a summit that was put together in a month, it was the largest gathering of people on [gentrification] and see this room where over 200 people came through with just four days notice, and not think we are on the cusp of a moment, we are building a movement and that we can make tremendous strides for housing and human rights," Goodmon said.
Tagged AB 1506, Alliance of Californians for Community Empowerment, Baldwin Village, City Attorney Mike Feuer, Costa Hawkins Act of 1995, Crenshaw Subway Coalition, Damien Goodmon, emergency gentrification meeting, Estuardo Mazariegos, Joyti Chand, Michael Wilson, SB 827, state Sen. Scott Wiener
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Posted on February 19, 2019 February 19, 2019 Author John L. Grace
With the government shutdown in our rear-view mirror, it's a good idea to identify the elephant in the room. Instead of saving at a level that can make work optional, retailers are delighted to see that Americans have embraced the mantra, "Spend, baby spend!" As I have stated on nationally syndicated TV and radio programs, Read More…
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LOS ANGELES — A high-ranking Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department official bought a stolen luxury sedan last year from the owner of a towing company that contracts with his agency in apparent violation of department rules. Assistant Sheriff Michael Rothans paid $3,000 for the 2012 Audi A4, which had been seized by sheriff's deputies from Read More…
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By Dennis J. Freeman Contributing Writer LOS ANGELES — The vile words uttered by San Bernardino County Deputy District Attorney Michael Selyem toward U.S. Rep. Maxine Waters through social media posts has riled up local activists and elected officials, who are calling for the ouster and possible disbarment of the longtime prosecutor. According to the Read More…
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The moral compass of the United States is spinning like a top when one can even imagine a point-counterpoint on the validity of torture. The question "Are you pro- or anti-torture" seems as ludicrous as asking on World AIDS Day if one is pro- or anti-HIV. In the end, if one has any claim to being a decent human being, one has to admit that some things are simply wrong and best left to nightmares out of the Dark Ages. Torture is pretty high on that list. For any budding Torquemadas for whom moral repugnance is not a good enough reason, let's go over why it is that torture is a terrible, horrible, no good, very bad idea.
Torture doesn't work to get information. Ironically, the base of torture techniques appears to have come from US Special Forces training for how to withstand potential torture in enemy hands, such as in North Korea or Iran. Authoritarian regimes such as these make good use of torture largely to force confession, not to extract information. It's well understood that people under torture will say whatever they think you want to hear to get the pain to stop; that's why it is worthless as an information gathering technique, but wonderful for extracting propagandistic admissions of treason against, say, the Ayatollah or Dear Leader.
Torture always affects more people than even apologists could justify. Those being tortured aren't worthy of being treated like humans, we are told; they are terrorists, less than animals. However, the problem with such concepts is that if you don't have clear instructions from the get-go it's pretty hard to decide where to stop in the heat of the moment. Techniques intended for the worst of the worst have since been unleashed upon innocents rounded up by mistake, as was horrifically clear in the atrocities from Abu Ghraib. Bright lines are required in wartime; our soldiers are under constant threat from IEDs and suicide bombers, and with superiors screaming for intelligence ambiguous limits may as well not exist. Further, those who abuse prisoners are victims too, and are frequently mentally scarred by their participation in such acts.
Torture does not need a legal exception. The most laughable argument pro-torture people use to justify their actions is the "ticking bomb" scenario. "If we don't have the right to tie people up with their hands over their heads for days while dousing them with cold water in a dark cell" armchair inquisitors hysterically pant "we might not be able to find out where a hidden nuclear device is!" First, apart from this season of '24,' that scenario doesn't happen. Period. Second, if it actually did, anyone can make the judgment that it is better to go to prison for abuse of a prisoner than to have New York go sky-high. Third, no jury in America would convict under those conditions. Such an exception can only be intended for much wider use.
Torture is an embarrassment to the United States that destroys one of the strongest bases of our power: our ability to inspire. A recent State Department report on China decried the "torture and mistreatment of prisoners, leading to numerous deaths in custody; coerced confessions; arbitrary arrest and detention; and incommunicado detention" that take place there. Do those abuses sound familiar? Thuggish governments world round are laughing all the way to the rack; it's not that we don't have a moral leg to stand on anymore; we cut it off and are busily bludgeoning ourselves with it.
Under George Bush's watch, America has destroyed the moral credibility that has made the nation a role model for world. One might wonder why, if torture wasn't an embarrassment, we aren't proudly stating what we're doing to those damn SOBs. If it's so effective, why not use it in domestic law enforcement? Shouldn't we withdraw from treaties such as the Convention Against Torture? Make new branding irons that proudly state USA? The reason is that, apart from toadies to the Imperial Presidency, we all know torture is indefensible.
But don't just take my word for it; ask some people who know something about torture, like John McCain. The US Senate voted 90-9 on Oct. 5th to make sure that no branch of the US government was subjected people in their custody to "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment." This ain't some anti-war free-love peaceniks Code Pink book club, folks; no one would mistake most Senators for Michael Moore (usually equally fat, but better groomed).
Fifty years from now when all the records are out the American people will be ashamed of the shocking abuses that took place under this administration. Beat the rush- there's plenty to be ashamed of now. According to the Department of State, "The United States condemns unequivocally the despicable practice of torture" That's good news. Now we just have to convince the Republicans in power to make sure it is not occurring at our own hands.


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Sask. Party pushing for more public sell-offs
Posted by Doyle Fox on March 16, 2018
Despite promises to protect Saskatchewan's crowns and respect Saskatchewan people's ownership, the Sask. Party have shown again that their plans to sell off everything from SaskTel to government buildings are far from over.
"Whether it's refusing to scrap all of Bill 40 – their proposed law to let them sell off our Crowns without asking the owners, the people of Saskatchewan, – selling off STC and our grain cars, or having meetings to sell SGI and SaskTel, it's clear that the Sask. Party has an itch to put everything that isn't bolted to the ground on auction block," said NDP Deputy Leader Carla Beck. "They already called in the auctioneers for the STC and now want to go for more. Next thing you know, the Minister will be posting public buildings on Kijiji."
In the SARM bear pit session today, Minister of Central Services Ken Cheveldayoff said "there are 660 government buildings across Saskatchewan. That's something I became aware of when I became minister. I think that's too many. I've ask that if you see a government building in your community that you think can be better run by the private sector, let us know, and we're certainly open to doing that."
"For a government Minister to stand in front of community leaders and media from across the province and invite bids on every public building is incredibly reckless and deeply concerning. It's clear that they have no plan except to sell whatever they can to cover up for their own bad management," Beck said. "They either don't understand or don't care about the impact that these sell-offs will have on the communities they're in, the people who work there, and on our whole province's economy."


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    private static Socket server = null;
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    public static ObjectInputStream entrada;

    public static void connect(String servidor, int porta, Heroi hero) throws Exception {
        server = new Socket(servidor, porta);
        new Thread(new GameCliente(server, hero)).start();
    }
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Afghanistan Websites and the fall of the regime in August 2021
September 26, 2022 September 11, 2022 by Ricardo Basílio
Afghanistan Ministry of Economy website with Karima Faryabi (recorded August 17, 2021)
On August 15, 2021 the presidential palace in Kabul was taken over by the Taliban, consummating the fall of the regime that had been in place for 20 years, following the 9/11 attacks on the United States.
The community of Web archivists, through the Content Development Working Group – International Internet Preservation Consortium, was challenged to record the Afghan sites, given the risk that they would disappear with the new regime.
No time to lose when it comes to preserving the Web
Arquivo.pt reacted quickly, launching an automatic content search focused on .af domain sites and on international media news about the ongoing events.
On August 17, the websites began to be recorded.
1800 website addresses from Afghanistan (ending in .af) and 500 media news stories from around the world were used.
The addresses, URLs or "seeds" were obtained through automated search using the Bing Search API and immediately put into recording.
Content available to know Afghanistan's history
As a result of the collection carried out, more than 400 Gigabytes of information became available at Arquivo.pt, which anyone can use for research in the most diverse areas.
The main contribution of Arquivo.pt to the community of Web archivists was the use of the automatic search that allows a quick reaction in the recording of Web contents in imminent risk of being lost.
Arquivo.pt open data set (Dados.gov)
Content collected by the Content Development Working Group of the International Internet Preservation Consortium available at the Archive-it service
Categories News Tags collaborative collections, digital preservation, Web Archiving, web crawls
Portuguese municipal elections 2021 preserved by Arquivo.pt
July 15, 2022 December 16, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio
Last updated on July 15th, 2022 at 11:42 am
Thousands of pages about the elections to preserve before they disappear
On 26 September 2021 the local elections were held in Portugal, an event marked by the Covid-19 pandemic. The communication of the candidates was mainly based on the media and publications through the Web.
Electoral websites are of manifest historical importance. However, they are difficult to identify because they appear and disappear quickly. In the case of municipal elections, the number of candidates and the variety of channels used makes the task even more challenging.
Arquivo.pt, as in previous elections, launched a special collection to preserve contents concerning the municipal elections.
How was the electoral content published on the Web identified
The first step was the manual identification of election-related content by municipality and parish. For this purpose help was requested from people and organisations with the following initiatives:
collaborative list "Municipal Elections 2021: we need your help!"
request for collaboration from the archive services of the 308 municipalities in the identification of electoral sites and candidates of the respective municipality;
request to the Parties to send the names of their lead candidates.
The Eyedata – Social Data Lab site was used, which made the names of candidates from all over the country available on the Web. The Wikipedia page Eleições autárquicas portuguesas de 2021 was also used as a source of information.
The list with names of candidates by county, party or coalition was used to create automatic searches in Bing that identified the most relevant electoral contents.
For instance, by combining the term "autárquicas 2021" with the name of a candidate and the respective municipality, one obtains results related to that candidate, such as news, initiatives of his/her campaign or the official page of his/her electoral campaign.
This methodology was applied in the Presidential Elections 2021 and in the Europeia Elections 2019. The technical report A transnational crawl of the European Parliamentary Elections 2019 details the applied methodology.
Content collection and availability in Arquivo.pt
Between 22nd August and 8th October 2021, the Arquivo.pt gathered, in an exhaustive manner, pages related to the Local Government Elections 2021.
The resulting collection called Municipal Elections 2021″ (EAWP39) gathers 31 million files that total 2.7 TeraBytes of information and will be available one year later.
Researchers who want to make a study on the 2021 Local Elections and need early access to the collected contents can contact Arquivo.pt.
Notícia: Eleições Autárquicas de 2021: precisamos da sua ajuda!
Lista colaborativa
Lista de sites e redes sociais do Partidos
1st crawl – search terms and seeds, August 2021 (ZIP, 12 MB)
2nd crawl – search terms and seeds, September 2021, pre-elections (ficheiro ZIP, 2 MB)
3rd crawl – search terms and seeds, September 2021, post-elections (ZIP, 8 MB)
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Memory of events and festivals of art: PARA SEMPRE
February 8, 2022 December 16, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio
Last updated on February 8th, 2022 at 10:57 am
The exhibition Memória de festivais e eventos de arte proposes a look at the Portuguese art scene present on the Web and includes a chronology of these events.
This online information product is a presentation of the results in a systematic and structured way of the PARA SEMPRE project.
Online exhibition – arteparasempre.wordpress.com
The project's second online product will be a directory of references of artists, galleries and projects in the area of contemporary Portuguese art to be made available during 2022, at the Gulbenkian Art Library webpage.
Cycle of Webinars "Art forever on the web"
A cycle of Webinars entitled "Art forever on the web" was held, between April and July 2021, oriented to artists, curators, gallerists and event producers, among others.
The average number of participants was 58 per session, who evaluated their satisfaction, on a scale from 1 to 5, with an average score of 4.6. The three sessions aimed at disseminating knowledge about digital preservation of information on the web and requirements for publishing preservable information.
Identification of artists, galleries and projects
The first step was to identify relevant artists, galleries and projects in the contemporary Portuguese art scene. We started from an initial set of 63 agents (artists, galleries and projects), to which 573 artists belonging to the Modern Collection of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation and the BAA – FCG Collection of Artist Books and Independent Publishing were added.
Throughout these months, 636 elements were thus identified (social networks and websites active in 2020), which were subsequently analysed.
The conclusions of the analysis carried out within the project were presented in the last webinar, held on July 1, 2021 :
Open data set
Special feature on art websites and blogs
In April 2021, Arquivo.pt made a special collection based on the initial identification of artists, galleries and projects and obtained 2.8 terabytes of preserved information.
New contents about art websites were recorded, using tools that allow higher quality collections, such as Brozzler and Webrecorder.
A collaborative project of digital curation
"PARA SEMPRE" (forever) is a digital curatorial project applied to the information made available on the web by the several agents of the contemporary Portuguese art scene (artists, galleries and hybrid sites).
Its main purpose is to contribute to the preservation/reuse of past and future pages, to ensure the preservation of the digital memory of current Portuguese art available at Arquivo.pt, and to promote knowledge on this theme by presenting it in a systematized and structured way.
Its creation results from the encounter of the missions of two organizations: one that aims to ensure the preservation of the Portuguese web, Arquivo.pt, and another that assumes itself as an agent in the development of knowledge about contemporary Portuguese art, the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation Art Library. This is part of the ROSSIO (Research Infrastructure in the Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities).
Categories News Tags collaborative collections, digital curation
Arquivo.pt certified as an open data provider
August 17, 2022 August 2, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio
Arquivo.pt has been collaborating with Agência Modernização Administrativa (AMA) with the aim of improving the preservation of Public Administration websites.
Collaboration is based on three action points:
identification and collection of all Public Administration websites;
integration of end-of-life websites into the Arquivo.pt Memorial service (eg. OTAN Medical Conference 2009);
training in preserving open data published online.
AMA is the public organisation responsible for promoting digital means in Public Administration and aims to modernise and simplify citizens' access to State services.
Arquivo.pt is a service operated by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia I.P. that preserves data published on the Web between 1996 and the present day, making them accessible to any citizen for memory and research purposes.
EU open data directive includes documents on websites
The Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information stipulates the following:
"(30) This Directive lays down the definition of the term 'document' and that definition should include any part of a document. The term 'document' should cover any representation of acts, facts or information — and any compilation of such acts, facts or information — whatever its medium (paper, or electronic form or as a sound, visual or audiovisual recording.
(34) To facilitate re-use, public sector bodies should, where possible and appropriate, make documents, including those published on websites, available through an open and machine-readable format and together with their metadata, at the best level of precision and granularity, in a format that ensures interoperability
(35) A document should be considered to be in a machine-readable format if it is in a file format that is structured in such a way that software applications can easily identify, recognise and extract specific data from it. Data encoded in files that are structured in a machine-readable format should be considered to be machine-readable data. A machine-readable format can be open or proprietary. They can be formal standards or not.
(60) The Commission should facilitate the cooperation among Member States and support the design, testing, implementation and deployment of interoperable electronic interfaces that enable more efficient and secure public services.
Arquivo.pt is a public service that has the mission of preserving documents published on Internet sites to enable their long-term open access and provides interoperable electronic interfaces (APIs) for their automatic processing.
The Portuguese Law No. 68/2021 of 2021-08-26 approves the general principles on open data and transposes the European Directive.
Arquivo.pt was certified as a Public Administration open data provider
The AMA recognized Arquivo.pt as a public service and open data provider and awarded its certification seal on the Open Data Portal.
Arquivo.pt collects general information published on the Web of interest to the Portuguese community. However, it is also responsible for the preservation of Public Administration websites, such as the Portal do Governo, in collaboration with the Management Center for the Government Electronic Network (CEGER).
Any citizen can access the open data resulting from these historical archives and, for example, search for official information published on the websites of successive governments.
In 2021, Arquivo.pt provided open access to over 10 billion files (721 TB) from 27 million websites. The open data preserved by Arquivo.pt can be explored through the search interface, automatically through API (https://arquivo.pt/api) or by reusing derived datasets.
Derived datasets available on the Open Data Portal
Besides the original web artefacts preserved at Arquivo.pt, this service has generated open datasets derived from its activities, which are now available in open access so that they can be reused:
Directive (EU) 2019/1024 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 June 2019 on open data and the re-use of public sector information
Arquivo.pt page on the open data portal Dados.gov.pt
Arquivo.pt APIs
Video presentation at the IIPC Web Archiving Conference 2022
Categories News Tags collaborative collections, digital curation, digital preservation, open data, Web Archiving
Special collection of Portuguese Presidential Elections
January 5, 2021 January 5, 2021 by Ricardo Basílio
Form to suggest a web page, a web site or other web content
Arquivo.pt invites all citizens to suggest web pages related to the 2021 Presidential Elections to be preserved for the future.
The Presidential Elections will take place in Portugal on January 24, 2021.
Your suggestions are important so that Arquivo.pt can keep a more complete memory of this important electoral event.
To suggest web pages use this form (https://tinyurl.com/presidenciais-sugerir)
Categories News Tags collaborative collections, Web Archiving, web crawls
Cross-lingual collection about the 2019 European Elections is available
August 30, 2022 September 4, 2020 by Ricardo Basílio
Print from an archived page on Arquivo.pt: https://www.european-elections.eu
The special collection of web pages about the 2019 European Elections is available for search at Arquivo.pt.
To compile this collection, pages written in 24 European languages were identified through automatic searches on the Bing search engine and suggestions from 17 European countries.
We emphasize the collaboration of the Publications Office of the European Union, which reviewed the list of search terms in the different languages of the European Union.
Between May and July 2019, Arquivo.pt exhaustively collected pages related to the European Elections in several countries.
The resulting collection named "European Elections 2019" comprises 99 million web files that sum 4.8 Terabytes of information.
The technical report "A transnational crawl of the European Parliamentary Elections 2019 " details the applied methodology. This methodology has been applied to generate other thematic collections such as about Covid-19.
We invited all citizens, especially the researchers, to try this service especially created to search the 2019 European Elections cross-lingual and international collection: https://arquivo.pt/ee2019
Video "A transnational and cross-lingual crawl of the European Parliamentary Elections 2019"
To know more:
Video of presentation during #WeMissiPres (slides)
News: European elections 2019: we need your help!
Collaborative list prior to the European Elections 2019
Collaborative list after the European elections 2019
Search terms and web addresses before the European Elections 2019
Search terms and web addresses after the European Elections 2019
Collection logs about the European Elections 2019 (22 GB)
Open data set (Dados.gov)
Categories News Tags collaborative collections, cross-lingual, digital preservation, elections, European elections, European Union, Events, international, Web Archiving, web crawls
We preserved the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017
August 30, 2022 January 19, 2018 by admin
Arquivo.pt performed 2 web crawls of information related with the Portuguese Local Elections of 2017.
We appealed the community to contribute with suggestions of relevant Web pages so that we could preserve them.
The 2 crawls occurred during and after the campaign period, using the list of 410 Web pages suggested by the community and 13 887 web pages found automatically using search engines.
The result was an archive of 2 265 887 Web resources (360 GB).
Among the preserved web pages are the official sites of the candidates, news, blogs and articles with personal opinions about the elections.
The Arquivo.pt respects an embargo period of 1 year, and for that reason this collection will only be available by the end of 2018.
Meanwhile, you can consult the preserved pages about the previous elections of 2013, such as:
Diário Digital: PS, PSD e CDS-PP perdem mais de 800 mil votos
Candidato Independente: Nuno Cardoso
RTP – Resultados Autárquicas 2013
We would like to thank all the volunteers that collaborated with this initiative.
Categories News, Sem categoria Tags collaborative collections, elections, web crawls
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Shakespeare's Memorable 'Sonnet 18'
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English 200 Dr. Donna Johnson Shakespeare's Memorable Sonnet Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day is one of Shakespeare's most famous sonnets. Howard Moss' revised version of Shakespeare's sonnet shares the same message about the speaker's lover being more beautiful than a summer's day. It is because the poem is immortal that the beauty of the speaker's lover is timeless. However, Shakespeare's original sonnet is more memorable because of his use metaphors and personification, tone, and diction. Shakespeare's uses of poetic devices portray the lover's beauty and gentleness through vivid imagery that is unforgettable. Shakespeare's Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day uses figures of speech, such as metaphors and personification, to help the reader understand that the speaker's lover is more beautiful than the summer. The speaker personifies the sun as being the "eye of heaven," which is "sometimes too hot and oft' is his golden complexion dimm'd" (Line 5-6). The personification of the sun creates a tactile image; also, the image helps the reader to understand that the sun sometimes makes the summer uncomfortable and dimmed because of the clouds; furthermore, the speaker compares the sun to the lover as being "more lovely and more temperate" (Line 2). The speaker is saying that the lover is gentler and more tolerable than the harshness of a summer's day. Moss' version of the poem uses metaphors, but they are not as deep as Shakespeare's. Shakespeare's use of metaphors and personification in his sonnet, Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day, helps explain the tone shift. The metaphors, "Summer's lease hath all too short to date" (Line 4) and "fair sometimes decline" (Line 7) show the speaker's tone is negative towards the summer because it is too short and will soon lose its beauty. The speaker claims that the summer's beauty declines when he says, "By
Appreciation of Shall I Compare Thee
Critical Appreciation of the sonnet no.18 "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day":This is one of best sonnets of Shakespeare. It is addressed to a young friend of the poet. Here the poet celebrates the beauty of his friend. The tradition of praising masculine beauty in verse was derived from Greek and Latin poetry and it became a fashion in English poetry after 'The Renaissance'. The poet contrasts the ideal beauty of platonic conception embodied in his friend with the transient beauty of nature.
Comparing the Nights Tale and the Millers Tale
Furthermore, elements of superficial love are also in The Millers Tale, as Absolon loves Alisoun due to her "goddess corpus". Both poems therefore illustrate superficial love as men become captivated with women due to them having physical beauty. However, additionally this could be interpreted as not being superficial love and demonstrates how society in the past had different values which made women desirable. Furthermore, feminine beauty within the two poems is compared to nature portraying a stereotypical type of love. The Knights Tale compares Emelye to flowers frequently as she is "fressher than the may with floures newe".
Compare the Presentation of the Poems' Subjects in Sonnets 18 and 130
Compare the presentation of the poems' subjects in sonnets 18 and 130. One way Shakespeare presents the subject on the sonnet is the use of nature. Sonnet 18 is all about how the subject is 'more lovely' than even the most beautiful of things – 'a summer's day'. The subject is compared to nature in a different way, but still in a good light. 'By chance or by nature's changing course untrimm'd; / But thy eternal summer shall not fade', this basically means that summer will come to an end but their beauty will not.
Comparson of Sonnet18 and Oz
The lands that he once dominated have become a deserted land of sand and desolation. And in Sonnet 18, Herbert is compared to a summer's day as a way to highlight his incomparable beauty in the mind of the reader. The author wants to make clear the difference between Herbert and a summer's day; he describes Herbert as being "more lovely and more temperate" while summer is "too short" and "too hot". For the themes of the two poems, the subject matter is completely different. Ozymandias has an ironic tone.
How Does Shakespeare Present the Realities of Love in Sonnets 18 and 130
How does Shakespeare present the realities of love in Sonnet 18? On the surface, in Sonnet 18, Shakespeare expresses his everlasting love for a beautiful, goddess-like woman. However, there is a deeper, underlying meaning in sonnet 18 when analyzed. Sonnet 18 observes the significance of how the way someone looks physically, which could be perceived as superficial. For instance, in line 10, Shakespeare says, "Nor lose possession of that fair thou owest", which implies that it is important that she retains her beauty.
Summer's Day (Don't Use This,Just For Log In)
Analysis of Shall I Compare Thee to a Summers Day, Shall I compare thee to a summer's day is written by William Shakespeare and it is about him describing a person. It is most likely to be a lover because he is using language which is more generally associated with love. In the first two lines he say's that "Shall I compare thee to a summers day?" He also says you are lovelier and more temperate. He is saying that you are even nicer than a summer's day and a nice person who is evenly tempered.
Comparig Sonnets 116 and 43
I will prove this is true in the following paragraphs Shakespeare uses a large variety of metaphors and similes. A metaphor found in Sonnet 116," Loves not Times fool, though rosy lips and cheeks" is a symbol of outer beauty that changes with time. Sonnet 138 shows a similar image, "When my love swears that she is made of truth, I do believe her, though I know she lies," paints the picture of love in a similar way. Both the poems are depicting a love that has been through good and bad that have developed over time. For instance beauty fading with time and also trust fading.
How Love Is Depicted In Romeo & Juliet
The depiction of love is shown as true. Shakespeare has used religious imagery to show how Romeo and Juliet's love is pure and that Romeo worships Juliet as a relic or a saint. The play also explores true love in act two, scene two where Romeo and Juliet exchange love vows. They show quick progression in their relationship because in this scene they get married. The poem 'Valentine' depicts love in a more truthful way, though it seems harsh and almost cynical.
Comparative Work on Sonnet 18 & 116
SONNETS: ACHIEVED ESSAY Describe at least ONE idea that was worth learning about in EACH text. Explain how the writer showed you this idea was worth learning about in EACH text. An idea that was worth learning about in sonnets 18 and 116 by William Shakespeare, is the idea of love. Shakespeare made this idea worth learning about through his use of the sonnet as a poetic form. In sonnet 18 Shakespeare tries to immortalise the beauty of his love by writing the sonnet about them.
My Favourite Artwork By Van Gogh
This is one of my favourite pieces of artwork because its shows the simplicity of Van Gogh's lifestyle, even though he created some of the most beautiful paintings in the world. The reason I love Van Gogh's work is because he uses such vibrant colours such as the different hues and shades of blue, the red of the bed cover, the green of the seat of the chair, and the yellow in the window, and he also has his own unique style of texture. The combination of texture and colour makes this painting very interesting to examine. Another characteristic of this painting is that Van Gogh has created the scene without it looking like a photograph. The way in which Van Gogh paints using perspective,
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The Amish Paste (purchased from Baker Creek Seeds) have produced beyond our wildest dreams. The variety of shapes that have come from them has been a little surprising...from slim, typical looking Roma tomatoes (what I expected) to huge red balloons that somewhat resemble Romas, to perfectly round, unRoma looking little guys. It's okay, we will take them all, no matter what shape or size. Roma-type tomatoes are the very best tomatoes for preserving, because they contain much more flesh than they do seeds or juice.
We have had three tomato processing sessions, one per week in the month of August. While I have all the stuff for canning, I just don't have the guts to set it all up yet. I feel confident that we would be able to, after last fall's applesauce and this summer's jam, but for now I just feel more comfortable with freezing. We have plenty of freezer space in the garage right now, so it works out well.
Following are the picture stories of our three separate tomato processing sessions! We are getting quite a stash for winter!
Note: The food mill you see in our saucing pictures is one of the best contraptions ever. We used it to make applesauce last fall. It is a magical little machine that screens all the seeds and skin off the fruit, leaving you with sauce. The kids LOVE turning the crank and watching the slurpy, squirty demise of the tomatoes! It is one of my favorite preservation tools at the moment, and though it set me back about 40.00, I won't be without one from now on.
Squish!! I can't emphasize enough how enjoyable this food press is for little hands to operate!
The always-goofy brother and sister pair, Rylee and Brady!
The leftover guts are spilling into our big white bowl. We send the guts through again, sometimes even yet again after that, to get all the juice we possibly can.
We simmered our juicy sauce down for quite some time, until it was reduced by half. We wanted a nice, thick sauce.
Can't forget to feed the leftover seeds and skin to the compost!
Since I've skinned tomatoes before, I had a plan this time. It's so much easier if everything is set up in order; your tomatoes, a boiling pot, a compost pot for the skins, a bowl of ice water, cutting board, and large bowl for newly skinned tomatoes. A knife and slotted spoon are essential.
Make an X with your knife on the bottom of the tomato.
Put into the boiling water. I am way too distracted to time it...but usually a minute or so will do. The skin will start to peel as it boils, usually.
...and the skin will peel right off.
Rylee helped make this a very quick, efficient job! I HIGHLY recommend that two people work together on tomato peeling. It is much quicker and less messy if you both have designated jobs.
Some of the tomatoes we left whole, and some we diced.
Rylee assured me that her mother was ok with her using a knife!
Dividing our skinless tomatoes up; whole and diced.
Justin came to check out the fun!
We used a scale to get about 15 ounces in each freezer container; the size we use most in recipes.
Near the end, Rylee snuck a lot of bites. How awesome is it that she became famished for tomatoes while skinning and chopping them?!
I like to use scotch tape for a label, with one side folded over so it's easy to remove later.
We will be enjoying these all winter! AND, we still are being bombarded by tomatoes, so we will be freezing even more--maybe even filling the whole top section of the freezer!