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The European Parliament may seem an unlikely launch pad for a radio station, but two members of this elected body, who are committed to a free and fair press as one of the cornerstones of democracy, have set up Radio Espoir (Radio Hope) in Burundi with backing of the European Community Humanitarian Office (ECHO).
Parliamentarians, Pierre Pradier (ERA-F) and Bernard Kouchner (PSE-F) are co-founders of Radio Espoir (Radio Umwizero, in Kirundi) which brings together a French association and a local Burundi radio station. Three expatriates are working on the Bujumbura-based project; an editor, a radio technician and an administrator. They have teamed up with local journalists who, for the moment, are providing their services free of charge.
The station, which broadcasts in Kirundi, is targeted at an audience in the 15-25 age group. In a country with an 80% illiteracy rate, radio is the only way of reaching the population. 'The idea came to us in 1994, with Rwanda and Radio Libre des Mille Collines' says Pierre Pradier. 'If so much harm could be done with radio, then why equally could good not be achieved.' RLMC was the radio set up in July 1993 on the eve of the genocide in Rwanda. It became a mouthpiece for the Akazu, a clan of Hutu extremists grouped around the then President's wife, Agathe Habyarimana, and it undermined the Arusha agreements by whipping up ethnic conflict in Rwanda.
Mr Pradier explains that Radio Hope journalists intentionally avoid speaking about Hutus and Tutsis. He also highlights the problems encountered in providing news coverage when local conditions are so difficult. As he points out; 'When you speak about the situation of a woman who has lost her husband in Burundi, you are talking politics.' Security considerations are important too while the MEP stresses that a proper analysis of events can only come with time: 'At the moment we are limited to reporting the facts. And it is only when the facts are verified that one can begin to interpret them.' The news items broadcast by the station rely on agency dispatches confirmed by a network of local people who call in.
Because of such sensitivities and in an effort to find as much common ground as possible, the radio station gives music top billing. This has the added advantage of helping to attract listeners. It also offers general programmes on African roots, sport, culture and educational themes, in addition to its news items. It is currently broadcasting for six hours a day.
Pierre Pradier says he would like to see an end to the 'navel gazing' of Burundi's population. 'We want to show that peace is possible, by showing how it is progressing elsewhere: in Haiti, for example, where there is a legitimate President now, and amongst the Chiapas in Mexico.'
But, like many fledgling stations, finding enough funds from donors to guarantee its future is a worry. The station's current ECHO grant runs out in September 1996. Indeed, the project, classified under emergency aid, was atypical for the humanitarian aid office. But Mr Pradier is hoping that continued support will come from one of the EU's budget lines. He believes that the Union is a particularly suitable donor because it tends to be less 'colonialistic' than some others. He also raises the possibility of seeking funds from private donors such as the Fondation de France.
Looking to the future of the station, Pierre Pradier argues that they cannot let the project 'drop' and hopes eventually to see it being handed over to local broadcasters, assuming 'they are people we can depend on'. The signs so far are encouraging. He would also like to see Radio Hope's programme content broadened to include game shows, with radios offered as prizes for the winners. As far as he is concerned, the more people who tune in, the better! _
Joint Assembly resolution
The ACP/Ku Joint Assembly is pushing for EC institutions and Lomignatories to be more supportive of media issues. A resolution on the role of communications media in the development and consolidation of democracy in ACP states. passed by the Assembly in March, contained the following points:
- freedom of expression and free communications and media are vital to the development of a democratic society;
- more ACP countries should give opposition parties access to the media' notably where this is controlled by the state;
- all candidates and political parties should be given access to the media in a 'balanced and fair manner';
- laws which restrict press freedom and the electoral process should be repealed;
- any threat of physical attack against media organisations or their employees should be investigated by the authorities, with those responsible being brought to justice;
- the media should be impartial, providing accurate information during elections, helping to educate the electorate, explaining the importance of elections, giving information on where, when and how to vote, and explaining the secret ballot;
- EU assistance for free and a fair elections - and a free media sector in ACP countries - should be increased.


Staff End User Computing Architect, VMware. Andreano has extensive experience across VMWare EUC portfolio, having led some of VMware's largest scale Digital Workspace deployments in the financial sector. His current focus as Staff Architect on our EUC Technical Marketing Team is on Workspace ONE Intelligence, Unified Access Gateway (UAG) and security across VMware EUC stack.
VMware Unified Access Gateway (UAG) is the security gateway for VMware Workspace ONE. It provides secure edge services and access to defined resources that reside in the internal network. This access allows authorized external users to access internally located resources in a secure manner. Today's post covers the updates and features in the Unified Access Gateway 3.3 release.
For more information about Unified Access Gateway Architecture, see VMware Workspace ONE and VMware Horizon 7 Enterprise Edition On-premises Reference Architecture.
Device Certificate Authentication support now includes Web Reverse Proxy. Certificate Authentication secures internal websites such as SharePoint, Outlook OWA, etc being accessed by external devices.
Upload Root and Intermediate Certificate for each particular domain on the UAG Appliance.
Set certificate-auth as Authentication Method to the Reverse Proxy instance.
Install User Client and Root Certificate on client device.
To help organizations fulfill record-keeping requirements for compliance purposes, all admin user operations are now stored in the audit.log. These operations are also included on the Log Archive file download, allowing IT Administrators to monitor changes.
Prior to Unified Access Gateway 3.3, vSphere Network Protocol Profile or IP Pool must be associated with every referenced network name, the Network Protocol Profile specifies network settings such as IPv4 subnet mask, gateway etc.
To improve vSphere deployment flexibility, Unified Access Gateway 3.3 no longer uses vSphere Network Protocol Profiles or IP Pools for network settings. Instead, IT Administrators provide IPv4 netmask, IPv6 prefix and default gateway (as required) configurations.
TLS port sharing minimizes the number of non-standard ports open on DMZ and decreases the risk of exposure to cyber-attacks. Now, new UAG deployments with multiple edge service configured to use TCP port 443, have TLS port sharing enabled by default. Supported edge services include Horizon Blast, Per-App Tunnel, Content Gateway and Web reverse proxy.
Additionally, when Content Gateway and Per-App Tunnel are enabled, the Appliance Agent automatically sets TLS SNI rule.
To further encourage TLS port sharing, vSphere OVF Wizard deployments can no longer disable this setting. However, PowerShell deployments can still disable port sharing by setting tlsPortSharingEnabled to false.
The diagram shows what happens when an end user accesses internal resources from Content Locker or an app that uses Per App Tunnel. First, the app reaches out on 443 to UAG front-end (DMZ). Then, UAG front-end redirects the request to UAG back-end on 8443 for Per App Tunnel requests and 10443 for Content Gateway requests.
To support real-world scenarios that require the use of IPv4 and IPv6 addresses, Unified Access Gateway now provides dual mode support for Horizon. The Unified Access Gateway Internet NIC operates in dual mode, bridging IPv4 and IPv6 Horizon Client connections to the IPv4 backend NIC.
IT Administrators can now edit the network settings (IPv4 and IP allocation mode) for each NIC of the UAG Appliance through the Admin UI.
To simplify the deployment of the UAG appliance as the Workspace ONE security gateway, sizing options were added to the appliance's deployment configurations. Previously, the Unified Access Gateway appliance came in a single, standard size which could only be altered post-deployment. Now, the new deployment configuration offers a choice between a Standard or a Large virtual machine.
Standard – Remains recommended for Horizon deployment supporting up to 2.000 Horizon connections, aligned with the Connection Server capacity. Also recommended for Workspace ONE UEM Deployments (mobile use cases) up to 10.000 concurrent connections.
Large – Recommended for Workspace ONE UEM Deployments, where UAG needs to support over 10.000 concurrent connections. This size allows Content Gateway, Per App Tunnel & Proxy, and Reverse Proxy to use the same UAG appliance.


Health care commissioning has begun to establish itself in a new form in England and through the structure of Clinical Commissioning Groups is aimed at purchasing health services. CCG's are tasked with challenging services to radically improve the outcomes of health care at a population level, and this dramatic change in focus demands a strategic commitment to innovation and improvement across the health care system and a shift in emphasis along the clinical pathway towards primary and secondary prevention. This is nowhere more evident than in the management of long-term conditions, where patients in primary care have complex and sometimes unmet needs that lead to unnecessary hospital admissions and unscheduled care.
The Intelligent Commissioning Theme began in 2008 and initially offered a structured learning set programme for five or more commissioning teams drawn from PCTs and Practice based commissioning consortia across South Yorkshire. Each team will work closely with a research theme within the CLAHRC to produce a research based commissioning specification for the future provision of services for people with COPD, Stroke, CHD, Depression and Diabetes. When in 2010 there was a radical re-organisation of health care commissioning and a high level of turbulence in the commissioning workforce the theme closed and was re-designed to provide a more bespoke level of knowledge exchange.
The Innovation in Commissioning Theme was re-launched in March 2011 and recruited 6 projects that sought to re-design services against the backdrop of a critical strategic priority for the commissioning organisation. In all cases the goal remained the improvement in the quality of services, more efficient use of resources, improvements in access to services, improvements in health, reduction in health inequalities, and financial balance. Working with 6 clinical/service managers and commissioner, the Innovation in Commissioning Theme has incorporated expert advice from the South Yorkshire CLAHRC in relation to health economics, knowledge translation and process and systems re-design using whole systems methodologies.
In addition to the proactive use of knowledge and leadership facilitation in the CLAHRC, the theme has included some evaluation of existing and innovative services which have been re-designed to improve patient outcomes and make productivity gains. The learning from these projects has been included in the work of the theme and shared across all projects.


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Vendée Globe: Hunter Now the Hunted
Published on December 24th, 2016
(December 24, 2016; Day 49, 22:00 FR) – Due to the light westerly winds which have been with him since he rounded Cape Horn, the Vendée Globe leader Armel Le Cléac'h has taken a passage close to some of the small islands of Tierra del Fuego and this morning was passing just seven miles to the east of Isla de los Estados (Staten Island from the Dutch Stateneiland).
The pacemaker has bleeding miles to the pack, covering just 190.2 nm in the past 24 hours. He has decided to pass east of the island and not through the Le Maire Straits. Meantime British challenger Alex Thomson (Hugo Boss) is on his favoured starboard gybe, since tacking yesterday afternoon, and is now in 20kts of S'ly becoming SW'ly breeze and has been averaging 17kts. Consequently Thomson has made back 60 miles or so on Le Cléac'h overnight and should continue to gain. He is still on schedule to pass Cape Horn during the afternoon of the 25th.
Four sailors are expected to round the Horn by next Friday. 1600 miles behind Armel Le Cléac'h, Jérémie Beyou (3rd on Maître CoQ) is sailing in a nortehrly wind, which is pushing him along at almost twenty knots. Jérémie should continue to take advantage of fine conditions in the days ahead. There will be a gybe to do on Sunday evening or Sunday night and he is expected to pass Cape Horn at midday on Tuesday. Still in fourth place Jean-Pierre Dick (StMichelVirbac) can see Yann Eliès (Quéguiner Leucémie Espoir) and Jean Le Cam (Finistère Mer Vent) catching him. All three were becalmed in a wind hole last night. Jean-Pierre should be the first to pick up some more wind, while Yann and Jean will have to wait until this evening to get going again. The gap is therefore likely to open up again. Dick is expected to reach Cape Horn on Thursday with Eliès and Le Cam there the following day…
Louis Burton (Bureau Vallée) is continuing to race well in the middle of the Pacific. It is however going to be a tricky day with an area of low pressure moving down towards him. This morning he is likely to feel the effects of a N/NE'ly air stream blowing up to 40 knots… In the middle of this low, Nandor Fa (Spirit of Hungary) will be in calm conditions all day. He will cross the International Date Line today at around 0900hrs UTC. In fact that means the Hungarian skipper will miss out on having Christmas twice only by a matter of two or three hours. Conditions are set to become rougher for the Hungarian in around 36 hours with a windy end to Christmas Day.
Life is great for Conrad Colman (Foresight Natural Energy), the fastest in the fleet over the past 24 hours (sailing 351.5 miles). He will be passing to the south of New Zealand, where he was born. Further back, six skippers are about to enter the Pacific and cross the halfway point. Arnaud Boissières (La Mie Câline), Eric Bellion (CommeUnSeulHomme) and Alan Roura (La Fabrique) are within twenty miles of each other. Eric Bellion has made up for his penalty of one hour after breaking the seal on his mooring chain. Boissières, Bellion and Roura are making the most of a manageable NW'ly wind. But as Eric Bellion explained this morning, they will be slowing down to let the worst of a low-pressure system go by between New Zealand and the Antarctic Exclusion Zone. These three, as well as Irishman, Enda O'Coineen (Kilcullen Voyager Team Ireland) will be entering the Pacific this afternoon. Slightly further back than the others, Rich Wilson (Great American IV) and Fabrice Amedeo (NewrestMatmut) will be leaving the Indian tomorrow. There has been a slight change at the rear of the fleet, as Didac Costa (One Planet One Ocean) has overtaken Pieter Heerema (No Way Back). The Spaniard and Dutchman are in strong winds on heavy seas less than 200 miles from Cape Leeuwin. Romain Attanasio (Famille Mary Etamine du Lys) and Sébastien Destremau (TechnoFirstfaceOcean) are more than 500 miles further back.
Conrad Colman (Foresight Natural Energy): "The weather will continue to be comfortable, at least on the southern ocean scale of possibility, until after I am clear of the sunny summer holiday celebrations going on in my birth country of New Zealand but as Kiwis will be digesting on the beach I'll be gearing up for another battle royale with a huge big depression on the 28th. With 45 knots forecasted in the middle and gusts that can be 20% over that, it looks like a nasty piece of work. However I have plenty of time to prepare and position myself out of the firing line. Now that I've come to enjoy 30kts of wind I don't need give myself occasion to get used to 50!"
Nandor Fa (Spirit of Hungary): "I was just thinking about how one learns to live much more economically out here. You only move as much as you have to and you use just enough of everything, only the amount necessary. This relates to everything including water, toilet paper, tissues, sometimes I even limit my thoughts so that I don't over-think for no reason. I decided to take down the broken reacher. I fought with the task, it took serious energies from me. The major issue is that its structure is coming apart because it's a very old sail. This is the second one of my sails, whose career has come to an end. I was hoisting the A3, when I saw that we were about to pass Campbell island. Tactically, the coming days are going to be difficult, and we are going to go slower until the 27th. Then I'm supposed to have another train to get on. Until then: patience and a lot of work."
Eric Bellion (CommeUnSeulHomme): "Taking part in the Vendée Globe was with the aim of finding harmony between three elements: me, the boat and the sea. That harmony is gradually being achieved. I didn't decide at any one point to go faster. It just happened naturally. I feel more and more at ease on my boat. Gradually I don't feel as apprehensive. I'm more relaxed and that means I can accelerate. My boat didn't suffer any damage in the first half, although I remain cautious. I'm slowing down for now, as there is a nasty low coming down from Tasmania."
Attrition: Four days after announcing damage to his SMA, Paul Meilhat officially informed the Race Directors at 1439 UTC this afternoon that he is retiring. Paul contacted his team on December 20 to inform them of damage to his keel ram, when he was in third place in the rankings. He is now heading for French Polynesia and is expected to reach the islands on 28th or 29th December. Also retiring is Stéphane Le Diraison, a result of a dismasting yesterday on his Compagnie du Lit – Boulogne Billancourt.
Ranking (Top 5 of 29 as of 22:00 FR)
1. Banque Populaire VIII, Armel Le Cléac'h (FRA), 6740 nm to finish
2. Hugo Boss, Alex Thomson (GBR), 576.57 nm to leader
3. Maître CoQ, Jérémie Beyou (FRA), 1312.92 nm
4. StMichel-Virbac, Jean-Pierre Dick (FRA), 2033.78 nm
5. Quéguiner – Leucémie Espoir, Yann Eliès (FRA), 2258.12 nm
Race details – Tracker – Ranking – Facebook – VendeeGlobe TV
The eighth Vendée Globe, which began November 6 from Les Sables d'Olonn, France, is the only non-stop solo round the world race without assistance. Twenty-nine skippers representing four continents and ten nations set sail on IMOCA 60s in pursuit of the record time set by François Gabart in the 2012-13 race of 78 days, 2 hours and 16 minutes.
For the first time in the history of the event, seven skippers will set sail on IMOCA 60s fitted with foils: six new boats (Banque Populaire VIII, Edmond de Rothschild, Hugo Boss, No Way Back, Safran, and StMichel-Virbac) and one older generation boat (Maitre Coq). The foils allow the boat to reduce displacement for speed gains in certain conditions. It will be a test to see if the gains can topple the traditional daggerboard configuration during the long and demanding race.
Retirements (10):
November 12, Day 7 – Tanguy de Lamotte, Initiatives Coeur, masthead crane failure
November 19, Day 14 – Bertrand de Broc, MACSF, UFO collision
November 22, Day 17 – Vincent Riou, PRB, UFO collision
November 24, Day 19 – Morgan Lagravière, Safran, UFO collision
December 4, Day 29 – Kojiro Shiraishi, Spirit of Yukoh, dismasted
December 6, Day 31 – Kito de Pavant, Bastide Otio, UFO collision
December 7, Day 32 – Sébastien Josse, Edmond de Rothschild, foil damage
December 18, Day 43 – Thomas Ruyant, Le Souffle du Nord, UFO collision
December 24, Day 49 – Stéphane Le Diraison, Compagnie du Lit – Boulogne Billancourt, dismasted
December 24, Day 49 – Paul Meilhat, SMA, keel ram failure
Source: Vendee Globe
Tags: Vendee Globe
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With our focus this week on alternatives to going public, and with Renaud Laplanche potentially engaging in a (ex) Management Buy Out, we turn our attention to the private equity industry.
A recent ruling in the case of Dell judged that the consortium put together by founder Michael Dell in his 2013 buyback of the firm stated that it left investors short-changed, and that Dell was therefore on the hook for making them whole.
That a judge took it upon himself to do a DCF analysis aside, the ruling creates a potentially worrying precedent for later stage investors (though Andrew Ross Sorkin at the NYT argues that the Dell case is highly unique and not broadly applicable).
The fair value generated by the DCF methodology comports with the evidence regarding the outcome of the sale process. The sale process functioned imperfectly as a price discovery tool, both during the pre-signing and post-signing phases. Its structure and result are sufficiently credible to exclude an outlier valuation for the Company like the one the petitioners advanced, but sufficient pricing anomalies and dis-incentives to bid existed to create the possibility that the sale process permitted an undervaluation of several dollars per share. Financial sponsors using an LBO model could not have bid close to $18 per share because of their IRR requirements and the Company's inability to support the necessary levels of leverage. Assuming the $17.62 figure is right, then a strategic acquirer that perceived the Company's value could have gotten the Company for what was approximately a 25% discount.


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Unter Heimtierbedarf ist ein Marktsegment mit einer breit gefächerten Palette von Produkten und Dienstleistungen für Heimtiere zusammengefasst.

Marktpotential
Die volkswirtschaftliche Bedeutung des Heimtierbedarfs wurde bis Anfang des 21. Jh. in Deutschland kaum beachtet. Dabei handelt es sich um einen stark wachsenden Markt, wie die wachsende Zahl von Heimtieren erahnen lässt. Lebten 1992 erst 4,1 Millionen Hunde in deutschen Haushalten, so waren es laut Schätzungen des Industrieverband Heimtierbedarf (IVH) 2004 bereits 5,3 Millionen. Im selben Zeitraum wuchs danach die Zahl der Katzen von 6 Millionen auf 7,5 Millionen an. Bei den Aquarien und den Hamstern, Kaninchen und anderen Kleintieren zusammen genommen wurde sogar mehr als eine Verdoppelung – nämlich von 0,9 Millionen auf 1,95 Millionen bei den Aquarien und bei den Kleintieren von ca. 3 Millionen auf 6 Millionen – angegeben. Aktuell (für 2019) schätzen IVH und der Zentralverband Zoologischer Fachbetriebe(ZZF)in einer gemeinsamen Erhebung die Anzahl der Hunde auf 10,1 Millionen und der Katzen auf 14,7 Millionen. Die Schätzungen beruhen auf einer Stichprobe von 7000 Befragten (Tierhaltern und Nichttierhaltern) und werden auf die Gesamtbevölkerung hochgerechnet. Die Zahlen erscheinen allerdings etwas hochgegriffen, da sie fast eine Verdoppelung der Hunde- und Katzenhaltung in den letzten 15 Jahren bedeuten würde.

Während Haustiere noch vor einigen Jahrzehnten vor allem von Essensresten aus dem Haushalt der gastgebenden Familie gefüttert wurden werden deutsche Hunde und Katzen heute zu 90 % mit industriell gefertigtem Fertigfutter ernährt. Die Produktpalette hat sich auf "punktgenaue" Abstimmung für das Tier ausdifferenziert. So gibt es rassen- und altersspezifisches Futter, "Indoor"- und "Outdoor"-Futter für Katzen, Spezialfutter für Hunde mit Verdauungsstörungen usw. Der führende Fachdiscounter bietet über 10.000 verschiedene Artikel an. Die Umsätze für Heimtier-Fertignahrung lagen 2009 bei 2,69 Milliarden Euro, für Zubehör wie Hundekauknochen, Katzenstreu und Kratzbäume wurden 909 Millionen Euro ausgegeben. Für 2019 werden vom IVH(im stationären Handel) Umsätze von 3.308 Mio. € für Heimtier-Fertignahrung und 1.017 Mio. € für Zubehör ausgewiesen. Hinzu kommen Umsätze aus dem Onlinehandel mit Heimtierbedarf in Höhe von geschätzt 705 Mio. €. Damit liegen die Deutschen laut Angaben des ZZF mit den Briten und Franzosen im europäischen Vergleich in der Spitzengruppe.

Volkswirtschaftlicher Nutzen
Genauere Aufschlüsse über den "Wirtschaftsfaktor Heimtier" geben österreichische Studien. In der Alpenrepublik sichert alleine die Hundehaltung 5.600 Arbeitsplätze. Jährlich werden 150 Millionen Euro durch die öffentlichen Kassen eingenommen, die Beseitigung von Kot und Krankenhauskosten durch Hundebisse sind hierbei schon abgezogen. Für Deutschland können diese Werte etwa durch Multiplikation mit dem Faktor 10 abgeschätzt werden. In einer weiteren österreichischen Studie wurde errechnet, dass Hundehalter von Geburt bis zum Tod ihres Vierbeiners durchschnittlich 14.000 Euro ausgeben. Von diesen Ausgaben profitiert selbst noch die Automobilindustrie, da Hundehalter oft Kombis anstatt der billigeren Limousinen kaufen.

Nach einer Schätzung des Deutschen Instituts für Wirtschaftsforschung sparen die deutschen Krankenkassen durch das Halten von Haustieren 5,6 Milliarden Euro jährlich. Wer ein Haustier hat, geht im Schnitt seltener zum Arzt als Menschen ohne Haustier.

Im Jahr 2014 ist zum ersten Mal eine Studie erschienen, die die gesamtwirtschaftlichen Effekte der Heimtierhaltung für Deutschland umfassend abbildet und quantifiziert. Die von Renate Ohr, Universität Göttingen, angefertigte Heimtierstudie "Wirtschaftsfaktor Heimtierhaltung" bezieht nicht nur Umsatzzahlen zu Heimtierernährung oder Zubehör ein, sondern auch die Ausgaben und Umsätze für die Heimtiergesundheit, Zucht, Tierversicherungen, Tierpensionen, Tierbestattungen, Hundeschulen, Tierheime, Tierbücher und vieles mehr – jeweils getrennt nach Hunden, Katzen, Ziervögeln, Zierfischen, Kleintieren. Nach dieser Studie wurde für Deutschlands Heimtierhaltung insgesamt ein jährlicher Umsatz von über 9,1 Mrd. Euro geschätzt, womit ca. 185.000 – 200.000 Arbeitsplätze verbunden sind. Neben dieser messbaren Wertschöpfung gibt es nach Ohr auch noch ökonomische und soziale Erträge, die nicht oder nicht vollständig in das Sozialprodukt eingehen, wie die Dienstleistungen der "Gebrauchshunde" oder die Auswirkungen der Heimtierhaltung auf Gesundheit und Lebensqualität.

2019 erfolgte eine Aktualisierung und Erweiterung der Studie zur "Heimtierstudie 2019: Ökonomische und soziale Bedeutung der Heimtierhaltung in Deutschland",. Nimmt man alle betroffenen Wirtschaftsbereiche zusammen, bewirkt Deutschlands Heimtierhaltung danach schätzungsweise jährliche Ausgaben/Umsätze und damit gesamtwirtschaftliche Nachfrage in Höhe von über 10,7 Mrd. €, davon durch Hundehaltung ca. 5,6 Mrd. € und durch Katzenhaltung knapp 3,9 Mrd. €. Damit verbunden sind ca. 210.000 Arbeitsplätze (Vollzeitäquivalente).

Marktentwicklung
Das Trendtier, das Umsatzwachstum verspricht ist die Katze. In der tiefenpsychologischen Analyse von Rheingold – einem Marktforschungsunternehmen – wurde die Katze als "Kuschel-Katalysator", "erhabene Spiegelung" oder einfach als "Stück natürlicher Überlebenskunst" symbolisiert: "Durch diese Rückbesinnung auf die Natur hofft man, sich auch selbst ein Stück mit der widerstandsfähigen Überlebenskunst der Katze ausrüsten zu können und sich auf diese Weise selbst gegen härter werdende Zeiten und den Großstadtdschungel zu wappnen."

Das Argument, kein Geld zu haben, spielt nach Umfragen bei der Entscheidung für oder gegen ein Haustier so gut wie keine Rolle. Nach Branchenbeobachtungen hat sich die Rolle der Haustiere dahingehend verändert, dass sie wie Familienmitglieder und manchmal wie Kinder behandelt werden.

Entsprechende Verschiebungen sind auch bei den Preiskategorien der Heimtierprodukte festzustellen: Hunde- und Katzenhalter kaufen zunehmend Noname-Produkte und somit besonders billig oder aber besonders teuer ein. Das mittlere Preissegment, in dem sich die klassische Markenware bewegt, gerät in Bedrängnis. Discounter wie Aldi und Lidl haben sich bereits einen Marktanteil von rund 30 Prozent erkämpft.

Unter dem Druck des Discounthandels suchen die Markenanbieter nach neuen Verwöhn-Produkten. Im Waltham Centre for Pet Care & Nutrition, 150 km nördlich von London werden von ca. 50 Wissenschaftlern an tausend Labortieren neue Produkte erprobt.

Einzelnachweise

Handel mit zoologischem Bedarf
Haustierhaltung
Heimtierhaltung

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On 19 January 2017, during the New Year's reception of the NRK (the Dutch Plastic and Rubber Branch) and Plastics Europe Netherlands, Acceleratio was asked to hold up a mirror to the plastics branch and create the sense of urgency and motivation for renewed action in the sector.
Later the "Rethink" plan was launched: a fresh look at plastic and rubber in response to mounting political and social criticism and controversy of how these materials are managed in the chain.
The presentation has lead to a number of articles explaining why business-as-usual is no longer an option for the plastics branch – and why there is a need for a proactive industry that "Rethinks" and "Reinvents".


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We resolutely condemn this heinous terrorist attack which caused civilian casualties. Obviously, this deadly attack by extremists, along with the previous ones, aims to destabilise the situation in Somalia.
Turkey-Libya agreement 'arbitrary and illegal'
Turkish and Libyan governments have signed a Memorandum of Understanding on maritime boundaries in the Mediterranean Sea as well as a deal on expanded security and military cooperation. This memorandum is arbitrary and illegal since it completely ignores the International Law of the Sea and the legitimate rights of other states in the region.
We condemn Turkey's growing provocative actions in...
Rwanda : An occasional French memory
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A longtime 'top-secret' document is disputing the theory of large sections of French political and judicial authorities regarding the attack on then Rwandan President, Juvénal Habyarimana on 6th April 1994.
On April 7th 1994, the Rwandan capital began to lose control of the genocide. One million martyrs in one hundred days and some twenty-five years later, many questions remain unanswered...
FCC Speech (on signing the agreement) – August 17th, 2019
Category: Sudan
Dear Guests,
Ladies and gentlemen, families of the martyrs, the injured and the missing.
Ladies and gentlemen, representatives of the various groups that represent the nation of the Sudan.
Chairman and members of the Transitional Military Council.
Allow me, on your behalf and on behalf of the Forces of Freedom and Change (FFC) to welcome our distinguished guests:
His Excellency, the Prime...
Freedom for Western Sahara! End to Repression!
Category: West Sahara
This text was promoted by the Portuguese Council for Peace and Cooperation, subscribed by Portuguese organizations, and sent, this August, to the Portuguese Authorities and the General Secretary of the United Nations.
The undersigned organizations, reaffirming their consistent solidarity with the Saharawi people, condemn and demand the immediate end to the violence and repression of the...
Press release on the progress of the investigation of the murder of Russian journalists in the Central African Republic
Category: Central African Republic
The Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation, in cooperation with the relevant Central African agencies, continues to investigate the murder of Russian journalists Kirill Radchenko, Orkhan Dzhemal and Alexander Rastorguev in the Central African Republic (CAR) a year ago. Criminal proceedings were initiated under Article 105 (item "a," part 2) of the Criminal Code of the Russian...
Schedule for grassroots revolutionary action
We resume our march together with this – week agenda:
• Night demonstrations in nearby neighborhoods
• Visits to the wounded in hospitals and to offer condolences to the families of martyrs
• Protests by professionals and employees with private and public companies, in the name of civil authority and justice for the martyrs
• Signing of the...
IOM and UNHCR Condemn Attack on Tajoura Detention Centre in Libya
The appalling toll in injuries and lives from Tuesday night's attack east of Tripoli at the Tajoura Detention Centre speaks to the deep concerns, expressed repeatedly¸ by the International Organization for Migration (IOM) and UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, over the safety of people in detention centres. This latest violence also speaks to the danger both IOM and UNHCR have warned over returning...
SPA: Press Release
Security forces belonging to the Transitional Military Council (TMC) raided the Sudanese Professionals Association (SPA) premises and prevented the press conference, due to start earlier today- 29th of June- at 7:00 pm. We strongly condemn this repressive behavior which reflects the awe of the TMC from the SPA communicating with the people of Sudan, resorting to extreme suppression of...
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This topic describes how to configure linker settings within LPCXpresso.
An application may need to be placed at a different address within the device. The address can be changed within the project properties dialog. Select 'Project' from the main menu, or right-click on the project folder then select Properties (or Alt + Enter). On the left side of the dialog, under Select the C/C++ build node, select MCU Settings. dialog. Edit the flash memory space for the project. For this example, the default location was address 0x1A000000 and the application is being moved to address 0x1A008000, which is an offset of 0x8000 from the default. Notice that the size must be adjusted as well.


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Q: Holding down a key in lua Is it possible to hold down a key in lua, for example 'a'? I don't mean pressing the key with doKeyPress(VK_A) and then looping it but actually holding it for a certain amount of time.

A: What you want is keyDown() instead.
https://wiki.cheatengine.org/index.php?title=Lua:keyDown
You'll eventually want to do a keyUp() command to release it.
https://wiki.cheatengine.org/index.php?title=Lua:keyUp
Either by triggering an event (a key or mouse click of your own)
or by using a timer to keyUp() after a specified time.
Edit:
https://wiki.cheatengine.org/index.php?title=Lua:sleep
keyDown( VK_A )
Sleep( 5000 )
keyUp( VK_A )

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Question: I was convicted of a DUI in Los Angeles County, CA, but I am moving to NV and haven't done my 3 month alcohol course. What can I do?
Answer: Have your DUI Attorney see if they can get your alcohol class transferred to NV. There will still be issues with the DMV, but that can be dealt with as well (and takes a longer conversation). Call me to discuss further.


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Trump Administration Axes Project to Generate Power from Plutonium
May 13, 2018, by Timothy Gardner
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Trump administration plans to kill a project it says would have cost tens of billions of dollars to convert plutonium from Cold War-era nuclear bombs and burn it to generate electricity, according to a document it sent to Congress last week.
The Department of Energy submitted a document on May 10 to Senate and House of Representative committees saying that the Mixed Oxide (MOX) project at the Savannah River Site in South Carolina would cost about $48 billion more than $7.6 billion already spent on it. The United States has never built a MOX plant.
Instead of completing MOX, the administration, like the Obama administration before it, wants to blend the 34 tonnes of deadly plutonium – enough to make about 8,000 nuclear weapons – with an inert substance and bury it underground in a New Mexico's Waste Isolation Pilot Plant (WIPP). Burying the plutonium would cost about $19.9 billion, according to the document, a copy of which was seen by Reuters.
"We are currently processing plutonium in South Carolina for shipment (to WIPP) … and intend to continue to do so," Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a letter sent to committee leaders.
Legislation passed in February allows the Energy Department to advance burying the plutonium if it showed that the cost would be less than half of completing MOX.
South Carolina politicians, including Senator Lindsey Graham, have defended the MOX plant, saying it is about 70 percent complete, would help keep plutonium out of the hands of militants, and provide up to 600 direct jobs.
South Carolina's Governor Henry McMaster complained to Perry in a letter earlier this month that the Energy Department's dilution plan is at best "conceptual." South Carolina, which has already sued the department over the MOX plant, will "use all legal recourses available" to continue the program, McMaster said.
The Energy Department has deemed the Savannah site could be used to manufacture new plutonium pits, or triggers, for nuclear weapons, an idea McMaster said was an attempt to pacify South Carolina, but would not provide jobs for many years.
The Energy Department document estimated that diluting the plutonium would require 400 jobs at Savannah River through the late 2040s.
Edwin Lyman, a physicist at science advisory group the Union of Concerned Scientists concerned about plutonium getting into the wrong hands, said Perry had made a sensible decision. "MOX was a slow-motion train wreck, and throwing good money after bad simply wasn't an option."
Reporting by Timothy Gardner; Editing by Lisa Shumaker
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German: variant of Land 1.
Where is the Landt family from?
You can see how Landt families moved over time by selecting different census years. The Landt family name was found in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Scotland between 1840 and 1920. The most Landt families were found in the USA in 1920. In 1891 there were 9 Landt families living in London. This was about 64% of all the recorded Landt's in the UK. London had the highest population of Landt families in 1891.
Use census records and voter lists to see where families with the Landt surname lived. Within census records, you can often find information like name of household members, ages, birthplaces, residences, and occupations.
What did your Landt ancestors do for a living?
In 1881, the most common Landt occupation in the UK was Solicitors General Clerk. 100% of Landt's were Solicitors General Clerks.
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There are 3,000 census records available for the last name Landt. Like a window into their day-to-day life, Landt census records can tell you where and how your ancestors worked, their level of education, veteran status, and more.
There are 642 immigration records available for the last name Landt. Passenger lists are your ticket to knowing when your ancestors arrived in the UK, and how they made the journey - from the ship name to ports of arrival and departure.
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You've only scratched the surface of Landt family history.
What is the average Landt lifespan?
Between 1960 and 2003, in the United States, Landt life expectancy was at its lowest point in 1960, and highest in 1993. The average life expectancy for Landt in 1960 was 54, and 80 in 2003.
An unusually short lifespan might indicate that your Landt ancestors lived in harsh conditions. A short lifespan might also indicate health problems that were once prevalent in your family. The SSDI is a searchable database of more than 70 million names. You can find birthdates, death dates, addresses and more.


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Ferdinand Spohr (* 1792 in Seesen; † 1831 in Kassel) war ein Violinist und Kammermusiker in Wien und Kassel.

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Ferdinand Spohr war ein jüngerer Bruder von Louis Spohr. Sein Vater war Karl Heinrich Spohr, Medizinalrat (1756–1843), seine Mutter Ernestine Henke (1763–1840). Ferdinand war der erste von zahlreichen Schülern seines weit bekannteren Bruders Louis. Ferdinand verfertigte für Louis eine Reihe Klavierauszüge unter anderem zu den Opern Jessonda, Der Berggeist, Pietro von Abano, Faust und zu dem Oratorium Die letzten Dinge. Ferdinand Spohr heiratete 1825 Karoline Robert (1806–1854) und hatte mit ihr die Kinder Ludwig und Emma Spohr. Nach seinem frühen Tod kümmerte sich sein Bruder Louis um die Familie.

Literatur

 Louis Spohr: Louis Spohr's Selbstbiographie. Band 1. Kassel / Göttingen 1860; .

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Background: The present study aimed to quantitatively determine polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons in pastas consumed in Nigeria with the view of estimating the daily intake amount and the possible risks to consumers.
Methods: Sixteen polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) were determined in locally produced and imported pasta using a GC-Mass Spectrometer. Estimation of daily intake was done on generally exposed (low) and typically exposed (high) consumers. The margin of exposure was used to assess the risk to consumers.
Results: The concentration of Σ 16 PAHs in Nigerian and imported brands were in the range of 9 to 800µg/kg and 2 to 7µg/kg, respectively. The benzo[a]pyrene (BaP) concentrations in 25% of Nigerian samples were above the maximum allowable level in processed cereal-based food. The concentrations of Σ8 carcinogenic PAHs in the Nigerian and imported brands ranged from 1 to 10µg/kg and 1 to 4µg/kg respectively. The Margin of Exposure (MOE) based on PAH8 for generally exposed children was less than 10,000 in 25% of Nigerian brands while it was 38% for typically exposed children. For imported brands of pastas, the MOE values were far higher than 10,000 for generally and typically exposed children and adults.
Conclusions: The MOE values indicate serious concern particularly for children who are the major consumers of Nigerian pastas. This study is the first of its kind in Nigeria and can serve as a useful baseline for continuous monitoring of PAHs in the Nigerian pastas in order to ensure protection of human health in the country.


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May Sumbwanyambe is an award-winning playwright who is currently writing new stage plays, radio plays, operas and musicals on commission to The National Theatre of Scotland, Theatre Royal Stratford East, Scottish Opera and the BBC. In 2015 he was the winner of the BBC PAF's £10k Legacy Award and in 2013 he was the inaugural Papatango Resident Playwright and winner of the £10k BBC Performing Arts Fellowship. Other award recognition includes being shortlisted for the Channel 4/Oran Mor Comedy Drama Award (2012), the Papatango New Writing Prize (2012), the Alfred Fagon Award (2011, 2012, 2015), the BBC'S Alfred Bradley Award (2011) and OffWestEnd's Adopt a Playwright Award (2010 and 2009). He also reached the final round of Soho Theatre's Verity Bargate Award (2011) and won the BBC's inaugural Scriptroom competition (2012). In 2016 he was shortlisted for the Old Vic 12 award and named a finalist for the Perfect Pitch £12k musical award. Outside of dramatic writing, he has worked extensively as a script reader and as a freelance tutor (for children and adults) in new writing for performance. He was recently appointed as a trustee on the board of Arts Council England's national portfolio organization, The Writing Squad.


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Yale's hugely popular happiness course is revamped for teens
The class focuses on things teens can do to feel happier — making social connections, maintaining a sense of free time and being more 'other' oriented
By Lindsey Bever
January 23, 2023 at 11:27 a.m. EST
A widely popular course at Yale University about the psychology of happiness has been retooled for teens. It teaches them how to better manage stress and feel happier as they navigate their high school years.
The free, six-week course, the Science of Well-Being for Teens, launched Jan. 16 on the online platform Coursera as short TikTok-length videos on the misconceptions about happiness; the behaviors, feelings and thoughts that lead to mental well-being; and how to obtain it. By Monday, more than 13,000 people had enrolled.
"We're not taking care of our young people today if we're not giving them strategies to navigate all the complex societal pressures that they face," said Laurie Santos, a professor of psychology at Yale University who taught the original happiness course and filmed the online version for teens. "We're really letting our young people down."
Responding to a teen mental health crisis
Teenagers are in the midst of a mental health crisis — one that began years before the pandemic but has been exacerbated by it, mental health professionals say.
Therapists who treat youths say that they are seeing higher rates of anxiety, depression, loneliness, isolation, self-injury and suicidal ideation. There is a critical need, they say, for better resources to help address the problem.
There seems to be "some decreases in health risk behaviors like substance use," said Mitch Prinstein, chief science officer of the American Psychological Association. "Those are still very concerning, of course, but we're seeing a little bit more of an increase in what we call internalizing symptoms — some of these kinds of emotional distress types of symptoms."
More than 37 percent of high school students reported poor mental health during the pandemic, according to a survey from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. And in the year leading up to the pandemic, 44 percent experienced persistent sadness or hopelessness; nearly 20 percent considered suicide; and 9 percent attempted suicide, the survey showed.
Lessons from the longest study of happiness: Robert Waldinger, director of the study and co-author of "The Good Life," talks with The Post's Well+Being editor Tara Parker-Pope on Thursday at 3 p.m. Eastern. Register here.
Teaching teens how to cope
"I think when people hear about classes about happiness, they think, 'Oh, it's another person telling teenagers they need to be happy all the time,'" Santos said.
Santos said negative emotions can be important signals that there may be a problem.
"But we need to know the appropriate ways to listen to them and to react to them," she said, "so that we can understand the message that things like sadness or anxiety or anger might be sending and then channel them in an appropriate direction."
The course for teens was born from Santos's college course Psychology and the Good Life, which turned out to be the university's largest class with more than 1,200 students enrolled in 2018. The next time it was taught on campus, in 2022, it was capped at 485 students because of the pandemic.
Also in 2018, a version of the course was released on Coursera, where more than 4 million people have enrolled in it. Santos was a co-author on a study that showed that people who took the online course experienced improved well-being.
Some teens enrolled in the online course for adults, Santos said. But she started receiving requests from parents to develop content focused on issues more relevant to younger learners.
Going about happiness in the wrong way
Santos filmed her lectures for her new course before a group of high school students in summer 2022, giving them the opportunity to engage in discussions and ask questions that students watching online may have, too. Here are some of the lessons found in the course:
Rethinking what happiness means: In the first section, Santos explains how the human mind lies to people about what will make them happy — a significant other, money, perfect grades, getting into the best colleges, social media. She says that oftentimes, these things will not make teens as happy as they think and may, in fact, distract from other things that could improve their mental well-being.
"A lot of teenagers are trying to be happy," she said, "but sometimes they're going about it the wrong way or putting effort into the wrong things."
Becoming "other" oriented: The course focuses on things teens can do to feel happier — for example, making social connections, maintaining time affluence (a sense of free time) and being more "other" oriented than selfish, Santos said. She tells teens that one of the most important behaviors that can make them happier is doing nice things for others — volunteering their time, donating their money or other things, or even doing random acts of kindness such as opening a door for someone else.
Learning self-compassion: The course for teens goes beyond her course for college students. It teaches teens ways to change their thought processes to feel happier.
Teens learn, for instance, to tune out their inner critic, which may cause them to feel inferior and lead to self-sabotaging behaviors such as procrastination, and instead think in more self-compassionate ways.
Breaking anxiety cycles: Another section gives them tools to regulate their emotions, such as engaging the senses to break the cycle of anxiety.
"What are five things you can see right now? What are four things you can hear right now? What are three things you can feel right now?" Santos said. "The act of doing these exercises focuses your attention in a different way and can slow down that anxious voice in your head."
Santos, who also hosts the Happiness Lab podcast, said, "The examples we use for adults can feel kind of far away from teenagers." She said she developed this course to make teens feel that there are "pieces of advice and strategies that really matter for them in their lives now."
The videos will be released on YouTube later, Santos said.
Mental health professionals who work with teens say such resources are vital, particularly now.
During a critical time for socialization, teens missed out on parties, homecoming dances and graduation ceremonies because of the pandemic. "The rites of passage for teenage-hood were disrupted," said Mary Alvord, a psychologist and co-author of "Conquer Negative Thinking for Teens."
"If we can teach children and teens and adults to try to make changes to things they can control, they feel more empowered," she said. "If they feel more empowered, they feel more in control of their life. And if they feel more in control of their life, they're not feeling helpless. Then they don't tend to be as depressed."
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Italian Serie A giants Juventus will always be in the mix of transfer speculations as long as the transfer window is either open or approaching. The Old Lady are currently in a re-griuping phase and are trying to re-assemble a team that is capable of bringing back the Italian Serie A title to Turin. After missing out on winning the League title last season and seeing Inter Milan win it instead, they believe that they need to do everything they can in order to clinch the title once again. Inter's title triumph ended Juve's streak of always winning the title and the man who led the Nerazzurri to it, Antonio Conte, was the one who started the streak at Juventus.
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Juventus started their operation bring back the title with shuffling their transfer plans and have been working behind the scenes to replace a fee players with soke others. They have since sanctioned the exit of some stars from the club, including Kulusevski and Ramsey to Tottenham and Rangers respectively, and it is believed that more players are likely to be allowed to leave the club when the summer transfer window opens for business in the next coming months.
One of the players who has been linked with an exit from the club is central defender Matthijs de Ligt. The Netherlands international star has not been in fine form in recent times and after giving him enough time to get back to his best shape, the club are now fed up and out of patience with the former Ajax man. Reports are claiming that they will sell him this summer and look for a befitting replacement for him as well.
They have been linked with Chelsea's Antonio Rudiger but the German central defender's wage demands could serve as a constraint to get the deal over the line.
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I'm clearly behind on posting, so I'm going to try to play catch up.
On New Year's Day, I went out for lunch with my Aunt Susanna, Uncle Robert, and my cousin Vincent. We went for Vietnamese food. After that, I went shopping with Vincent in Mong Kok. We had a bunch of street food (separate post coming) and then I met up with Alfred and Lucy for sushi at Itamae sushi! It was a fun day. Here are a few of the photos that I took.
Not exactly sure what was in this, but I think it was scallop and salmon and fish roe.
This was a whole fish! I think it was mackerel.
Fatty tuna, my favourite. It's also very expensive: it was probably because of these three pieces that my total bill ended up being forty bucks, CAD. It was worth it though!
This past weekend in Hong Kong was a blast. I did a lot of damage on the shopping front AND I got to go to one of my favourite restaurants. Janice and I went to Sai Kung for some Thai food at a restaurant called Sawaddee Thailand. BEST THAI FOOD I'VE EVER HAD (I have yet to make it to Thailand). I've been to this restaurant several times now; I've been able to visit it each time I've come to HK. My favourite dish here is the pork neck. After we ate dinner, we wandered around the shops for a bit (I bought a new hat, thank you for asking,) and then we went to Sweetheart Desserts for some fried ice cream!
Pork neck-this is my favourite dish here. The beef skewers are a close second (not pictured in this post).
Fried ice cream. This was really well done, it was crispy on the outside and not greasy at all. Vanilla ice cream on the inside.
I really enjoyed spending Saturday with Janice! Thanks, girl!
This pho party has been a couple of months in the making. It started on Facebook when I mentioned I wanted to make pho and needed a good recipe. Thanh gave me his, and after some discussion about pho on his wall, party planning started. I *think* it was Jodie who suggested that he cook for us, and the plans sprung into being.
Jodie and I arrived at Thanh's at the same time last night, and we were both really excited to eat. The pho was amazing-I really need to keep practicing to improve mine! After two bowls of pho, we had creme caramel for dessert!
Garnishes: Thai basil, lime, chili peppers, hot sauce, and hoisin sauce.
Thanh's recipe for pho can be found here. He used this recipe for the creme caramel.
Thanks for a great dinner, Thanh! It was a lot of fun!
So what is pho? Well, it's one of my Asian comfort foods. It's generally an inexpensive dish to order, is filling, and is very tasty (if done properly.) It's a rice noodle dish that is served in broth; it can be beef or chicken. Pho is usually served with bean sprouts, lime, chili peppers, cilantro, and Thai basil. Hot sauce, such as sriracha, and hoisin sauce are common accompaniments as well.
I have always wanted to learn how to make pho, but I never knew what recipe to use-there are so many on the web. A couple of weeks ago, a friend of mine, Thanh, gave me his recipe to try-for which I am very thankful!
I was actually quite pleased with the result. The trickiest things about making pho are tinkering with the spices and making sure you have patience. Pho needs to simmer for at least 8 hours. It's definitely worth the wait.
First, soak the soup bones and short ribs in warm water for 1 hour to leech the blood out. Discard all the water. Prepare 2 large pots of boiling water (about 5 L each.) Add the soup bones and short ribs to the first pot and boil on high heat for 5 minutes. Transfer the soup bones and short ribs to the 2nd pot and add enough boiling water to cover the meat. Boil gently on medium heat for 30 minutes while skimming the froth from the soup every 10 minutes. Reduce to medium heat. I used a HUGE pot for this. I had 4 lbs of soup bones plus 2 lbs of short ribs, so you can imagine that I needed a lot of water too.
Next, wash and peel the ginger. I just eyed it: I used 2 big chunks of ginger that I had in the fridge. When you slice it, slice it thick and slice it so you get a large surface area-this will enable release of more flavour. I sliced my onions into slices. Grill the ginger and onion slices directly on a stove element on high heat. You want them slightly charred. Put the ginger, onions, and daikon radish in the broth. Season the broth with your pho soup base or pho spice bag.
Using tightly woven cheesecloth, wrap and tie up the star anise, anise seeds, cinnamon stick, cloves, and black cardamom to form a teabag. Drop this into the broth.
After simmering for 6 hours, remove the short ribs and set aside to cool. You can discard the bones at this point (I was lazy and left them in there.) You can also discard the ginger, onion, and daikon radish with a strainer at this point. Again, I was lazy and left it in there-plus I like daikon so I was intent on eating it. You'll want to add the fish sauce here and taste. When I tasted the broth, it tasted bland at this point. Just add some salt-this can really help bring out the flavour of the spices. If you find that your broth is too salty, add some water.
Continue simmering the broth for another hour (I told patience is needed!) In the meantime, take the meat from the short ribs and slice them thinly across the grain. Again, I was lazy and just left it as is and just used chopsticks to separate the meat from the bones. You'll also want to prepare the beef sirloin at this point. You need to slice this paper-thin so that it cooks on contact with the hot broth. This is actually not that hard to do. Freeze the beef for a couple of hours and then slice when it's partially frozen (so think about when you're serving this meal so you can time it all properly.) You can prepare the rest of the ingredients for toppings. Soak the rice noodles for 20 minutes, and then bring a pot of water to a gentle boil. Boil the noodles briefly until cooked and then put them into individual bowls for serving. Layer on the cooked beef and then the raw beef. Ladle boiling broth over everything. Top with whatever you prefer.
Note: After having some taste-tasters try my pho, I have concluded that doubling the spices wouldn't hurt (and Thanh told me he does the same thing.) I prefer my broth to have a stronger flavour, so next time I'll double the spices.
It's fairly straightforward to make, but again, don't be afraid to adjust the spices to your taste. Thanh also told me it's important to add the fish sauce near the end, so you can adjust the amount to your taste.
Enjoy! Thanks again Thanh! This will now be a staple in my cooking repertoire!
Time to blog about something I love to eat-instant noodles. I know it's not healthy and that it's junk food, but I can't help it. It's comfort food to me, not to mention a quick and easy meal when I don't have time to cook. I'm a student, cut me some slack.
The thing I love about instant noodles is the sheer variety that's available. Japanese, Chinese, Korean noodles; spicy, not spicy; beef, shrimp, chicken. It's all very yummy. Just don't look at the nutritional content.
When I make instant noodles, I try to make it a better meal by adding extras to it. Generally, I'll throw in some veggies and an egg. Sometimes, I'll throw in a hot dog if I have it on hand (this is a very Hong Kong cafe-style way of eating instant noodles.) Of course, you can add in whatever you like, but I favour lots of veggies and an egg. But you have to be careful if you're going to use an egg-it can end up breaking in the pot and then you just have egg pieces floating around, and that is not as tasty. I'm telling you, cooking instant noodles is an art form.
I start by putting the flavour and oil packets in the water. Bring the water to a boil. Toss the noodles in. Let the noodles soften for a bit, but don't pull them apart. Let it stay in a square form. Carefully crack an egg on top of the noodles. This way the egg will cook on top of the noodles. Sometimes it'll slip off the noodles, but if you haven't broken the yolk, the egg should cook properly in one piece (which is what I aim for.) I let the egg cook for a few minutes and then toss in my veggies. You can cook the noodles as long as you like; this just depends on how soft you like them. Also think about how well done you like the egg. I always add a bit of hot sauce to my noodles too!
One of my favourite brands and flavour of instant noodles: beef!
I had lunch with my friend Jen the other day. She took me to a place called Kenzo Ramen. Ramen is a noodle dish that is served in a broth and can be topped with various things, such as seaweed, pork or beef, and eggs. Kenzo Ramen makes their own noodles, and it was quite tasty! I had a bowl of ramen with pork and Jen got yakisoba, stir-fried noodles, which was served on a hot iron plate. I enjoyed the ramen, but the best ramen I've had comes from a little restaurant in Vancouver off Robson Street. Kenzo was still pretty good though, and wasn't too expensive, so it made for a great lunch.
Every time I visit my sister M, we have to go for Vietnamese food in Chinatown. We are in love with the restaurant Anh Dao. They have THE best pho, a traditional Vietnamese soup noodle dish served with beef. We ordered a bowl of pho and also this AMAZING rice wrapper dish. You make your own wraps with noodles, veggies, and grilled beef-covered shrimp. It comes with a sweet peanut dipping sauce.
Platter of noodles, veggies and beef-wrapped shrimp to make rice wraps.
It was delicious and a lot of fun!


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Ignaz Grossmann (July 30, 1825 – March 19, 1897) was a Hungarian-born rabbi who ministered in Moravia, Croatia, and America.

Life
Grossmann was born on July 30, 1825 in Trencsen, Hungary. Three of his sons, Louis Grossmann of Cincinnati, Ohio, Rudolph Grossman of New York City, New York, and Julius Grossmann of Ipolysagh, Hungary, were rabbis.

Grossmann attended the Pressburg Yeshiva. He served as rabbi of Koritschan, Moravia from 1863 to 1866 and of Warasdin, Croatia from 1866 to 1873. In the latter year, he immigrated to America and became rabbi of Congregation Beth Elohim in Brooklyn, New York. He then became rabbi of Congregation B'nai Abraham in Chicago, Illinois in 1876. He also served as rabbi in Kansas City, Missouri. He retired as rabbi when his wife died, at which point he began writing translations of the Talmud and Midrash that were published in the Deborah, which he was a frequent contributor to. He also wrote "Drei Predigten" in 1868, "Die Sprache der Wahrheit" in 1870, and "Miḳraot Ḳeṭannot" (a presentation on the 613 commandments) in 1892.

Grossmann died at his son Rudolph's home in New York City on March 19, 1897. His funeral was held in his son's congregation, Congregation Rodeph Sholom, and was officiated by Rabbi Kaufmann Kohler and Rabbi Joseph Silverman. His body was then sent to Detroit, Michigan to be buried, with Rabbi E. K. Fischer of Kalamazoo officiated the service. He was buried in Woodmere Cemetery next to his wife.

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This prototype pistol has been developed during early nineties under the US SOCOM OHWS - Offensive Handgun Weapon System program. It combined features from several other Colt designs, such as M1911 (manual safety), Double Eagle (double action trigger with decocker) and All American 2000 (rotating barrel locking). There also were few indigenous features, but overall weapon was heavy and bulky, and it eventually lost to the other OHWS candidate, HK Mk.23 mod.0 from the German company Heckler & Koch.
One interesting feature of Colt OHWS was the usage of various muzzle attachments (including the silencer, as required by OHWS documents, and muzzle compensator) through the frame mountings. As the rotating barrel action is quite sensitive to the weight of the moving parts, Colt engineers decided to attach heavy parts like silencer to the frame instead of the moving barrel. For this reason the frame under the barrel has been fitted with special rails, which could accept a special mount for muzzle compensator of silencer; in turn, the bottom of this mount has been provided with its own mounting points to attach tactical lights or laser aiming modules.
Colt OHWS is short recoil operated, locked breech pistol made almost entirely from stainless steel. It uses the rotating barrel locking, similar to that found in All American 2000 pistol described above. Trigger is of double action type, with exposed hammer and separate manual safety and decoking levers. Sights were fixed, with the rear sight dovetailed into the slide and front sight mounted on the muzzle device, which was attached to the frame. Magazines were single stack, and as required minimum magazine capacity was 10 rounds, the grip length was significant to say the least. Magazine release button was located at the base of the trigger guard.


The Ambassador Perforated Rectangle Accessible Column Table brings together a fun hole punched pattern and a strong, angled frame. This picnic table set comes with up to 2 bench seats and a table that is ADA accessible. The Ambassador Perforated Rectangle Accessible Column Table is the ultimate picnic table for sports parks and traditional parks. Our Ambassador design features 1/2" small hole punched steel inside of a 2" x 2" iron frame.


The ShCT Photography Group (PG) is a group organized by Housing, Student Activities & Graduation Department with membership of students in the college.
The PG aims to help students in improving their skills in photography and videography. The group also assists the college in all major activities and provides training/workshop/exhibition on photography and videography to students.
For students, this will be a good rendezvous for meeting people who share the same interests. It will also open a great opportunity to form new friendships and have fun while learning new things about a craft that you love.


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King Christian II of Denmark: the Exhibition, the Historical Context, and the Portraits
Hanne Kolind Poulsen
SMK National Gallery of Denmark
King Christian II of Denmark in Portraits : A Portrait by Joos van Cleve Rediscovered
Micha Leeflang
[Helmond]
Institute of Old Master Research
Christian II, king of Denmark
Magt og afmagt. Christian II's billedpolitik // Pictures and Power. The Visual Politics of Christian II.
Kolind Poulsen, H.
Kolind Poulsen, H. (2017). King Christian II of Denmark: the Exhibition, the Historical Context, and the Portraits. In M. Leeflang (Ed.), King Christian II of Denmark in Portraits: A Portrait by Joos van Cleve Rediscovered (pp. 16-27). Institute of Old Master Research .
Kolind Poulsen, Hanne. / King Christian II of Denmark : the Exhibition, the Historical Context, and the Portraits. King Christian II of Denmark in Portraits: A Portrait by Joos van Cleve Rediscovered. editor / Micha Leeflang. [Helmond] : Institute of Old Master Research , 2017. pp. 16-27
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New Music: The Wild Feathers, Front Country and Johnny Cash Forever Words
WMOT | By Cory Martin
Courtesty of the Artist
The Wild Feathers
This week's new releases include Hard Working Americans, Shawn Camp, Ana Carter Cash, Elvis Costello & The Imposters all inspired by the poetry of Johnny Cash, and new rarities album from The Wild Feathers, and a genre-expanding album from Front Country.
Johnny Cash was a prolific writer, most of which was never published in any form. In 2016 a collection of Johnny Cash's unpublished writings were released as a book of poetry under the title Forever Words: The Unknown Poems. Cash's voice bellowed from every page, filled with longing, lament, and love. His words sparked inspiration in musicians across the country who put them to music. Kacey Musgraves, Ruston Kelly, Brad Paisley, Jewel, Rosanne Cash, former Highwaymen Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, and many more all created striking music from the poems of Johnny Cash. In 2018 a collection of music using the poetry of Johnny Cash as lyrics was released under the title Johnny Cash: Forever Words. The album was a hit reaching the ninth spot on the Billboard Country Album chart.
It was recently announced that we are getting a new version entitled Johnny Cash: Forever Words Expanded. The special edition of the album will include 18 new songs, which will be released in four tranches. The first batch of songs was just released. Hard Working Americans perform a fuzzy guitar riff and organ humming "Big Hearted Girl." Shawn Camp sings a trucker ballad galloping over riveted roads named "I'm Comin' Honey." Ana Cristina Cash croons a tongue and cheek Christmas classic to be titled "Brand New Pair of Shoes." Elvis Costello & The Imposters bang, clash, and jangle through "If You Love Me." All four of the songs are thrilling because they diverge stylistically, but are underpinned by the craftsmanship of Johnny Cash. The album and the new batch of songs feel unencumbered by the weight of performing a cover of a Johnny Cash song but are inspired by the uncovering of never-before seen lyrics by one of America's greatest artists.
Over ten years The Wild Feathers have gone from hustling to get booked by small dive bars, to opening for Bob Dylan and Willie Nelson, and headlining big venues. At the same time churning out number one albums heaped with critical acclaim. The Wild Feathers have never lost a sense of who they are and why they formed as a band. Sounding like a mixture of The Band, The Replacements, and Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers, The Wild Feathers would have been rock radio juggernauts before Clear Channel (now iHeartRadio) and Infinity Broadcasting caused radio homogenization.
To celebrate ten years of hard work The Wild Feathers are releasing Medium Rarities, a career-spanning album of unreleased material. Medium Rarities opens with a cover of The Jayhawks classic "Blue." Soaring vocals, a southern tinged guitar, a lurking organ, all create a song that perfectly incapsulates The Wild Feathers sensibilities as a band. Lead single "Fire" rains down shimmering cymbals all over a bright musical tapestry, as flecks of mandolin cut through the gorgeous chorus. The new song "My Truth" finds The Wild Feathers pulling out the Aqua Net and doing their best interpretation of a hair metal ballad, as they invoke Bon Jovi's "Bed Of Roses." It is exciting to see a band maintain a sense of style while they explore varying genres in American rock n' roll.
Front Country's new album Impossible World is a breath of fresh air as they merge UK garage with traditional Americana instrumentation. From song-to-song Front Country will fluidly mix Haim, Fleetwood Mac, Sade, Jessie Ware, and Rhye. Opening song "Miracle" has the tightly coiled bounce of a Haim song and has the layered vocal style of Jessie Ware. Lead single "Broken Record" is a fizzy dance number built around a punchy acoustic guitar funk rhythm and explodes like Carly Rae Jepsen's "Emotion" during the chorus. On "Real Love Potion" Front Country pounds out a steamy love song, that is pure pop ecstasy. "Mother Nature" is the perfect mixture Rhye and Fleetwood Mac. Front Country will blindside many of their fans as they have skewed towards a bluegrass version of Americana.
Front Country is doing something entirely original in the Americana genre by integrating new sounds from genres that seem divergent. Front Country's new album Impossible World is a daring expansion of the Americana sound.
Cory Martin is a freelance writer in Nashville, Tenn., writing about movies, music and pop culture.
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