Unprecedented attention has been directed at the confrontation provoked by three major US network airlines, the biggest in the world, as they allege the three major Gulf carriers are unfairly subsidised.
And dialogues both in Washington and Brussels (and Berlin and Paris) are littered with "fair competition", "level playing field" and any number of similar pie in the sky concepts of aviation competition.
The archaicly – some say anarchically – regulated airline business has never been fair or levelly balanced. And never will be.
However, the most "unfairly" treated airlines in this story are not even part of the argument…..
- yet when a handful of the world's biggest and most profitable airlines complain so loudly that something is unfair, it's hard to believe they are really on the losing end of this contorted business.
It almost gives cause to think there is a much larger issue to be addressed than is occurring in the present "yah-boo" slanging match.
That something is of course the shackles of national ownership and control – and the uniquely silly bilateral air services agreement system. But few among the combatants - at least among the haves - are serious about wanting to change that. In fact the real goal of the "fair competition" supporters is to retain the status quo.
This is where Alice in Wonderland, a much loved English tale written in the 19th century, becomes so compelling. Especially when it is applied to the causes most vehemently espoused by Delta and Lufthansa, for a "fair" world.
That assessment might sound a little biased; but that bias is not towards supporting or opposing anything of which the Gulf airlines are accused.
Instead it could be argued – in fact it is surely an immutable argument – that the real loser at the wrong end of what is truly an unfair and unlevel playing field is: Air India and other Indian airlines.
The notorious US "White Paper" doesn't directly give away the secret, but is found clearly implying what most of the noise is about: access to Indian – mostly sixth freedom – passenger traffic. This accounts for "22% of all US-Asia bookings", according to the White Paper.
In arguing the core issues which give the Gulf carriers such an unfair advantage, the White Paper notes: "It is no coincidence that over this same period, the Gulf carriers' share of US-Indian Subcontinent bookings more than tripled (from 12.0% to 39.8%), while US carriers and their JV partners lost nearly 800 bookings per day".
Under the "fairness" terms of the original bilateral system, all of this end to end Indian traffic actually "belongs" to India's airlines and the airlines at the other end of each route.
It took decades of foolish, misplaced Indian government protectionism to shut Air India out of being a serious international player, as sixth freedom carriage (at first most strongly opposed by Europe's major airlines as being "unfair competition") intervened in long-haul markets.
This provided intermediate country airlines a bilateral loophole – carrying "everyone else's traffic" over their own geographically well-placed national hubs.
competition from State-owned airlines in Qatar and the UAE"
The bulk of these (potential) "losses" are in other words sixth freedom traffic carried on the metal of the big three European airlines, then funnelled into the closed trans-Atlantic JVs that are operated like a single airline.
The importance of anti-trust immunised, metal neutral joint ventures on the North Atlantic cannot be understated. They are extremely valuable in allowing European and North American airlines alike the ability to provide a much better range of product. The European Commission and the US DoT have authorised them because of the resulting consumer benefits.
But it is hard to believe that either US or EU authorities intended these JVs to be made bullet-proof from external competition, especially when it comes to protecting sixth freedom traffic – as the White Paper implies should be the case. This is not a North Atlantic market per se (genuine "North Atlantic" routes cannot be affected by Gulf carrier operations unless passengers are prepared to make massive backhaul detours). They actually relate to markets from beyond Europe into America.
These sixth freedom traffic flows, even in the archaic regulatory structure, do not create any supposed "entitlement" in the same way as third and fourth freedom flows. They have always fair game for any intermediate airline.
For the big three US airlines in these cases it is not merely a matter of solidarity in supporting their European counterparts; necessarily some of the benefits flow through to the US JV partners – but undoubtedly there is a substantial coalition of interest in opposing any threat to the status quo.
If it were not so sad, the most delightful part of the "stolen" traffic syndrome (stolen from the "US carriers and their JV partners") is that it is largely inspired by the diversion of Indian traffic over the Gulf.
The one airline that has every right to feel aggrieved at the lumpy playing field is Air India. While the world's biggest airlines squabble over what used to be Air India's birthright (Indian source traffic), the languishing Indian flag carrier is far from being in a position to capitalise on the growing flows to the US, instead being very much out in the cold in this debate.
At least Air India supposedly has the "right" in principle to compete on fair and equal terms with most of the major airlines in Asia and North America. (That is hardly an "equal" contest in itself – but such is the new world.
More importantly though, Air India is locked out of the powerful Atlantic immunised joint ventures that are feeding on its national traffic. Although it is now a Star Alliance member airline, it has to sit on the sidelines as the bigger European and North American airlines privately divide up its India traffic between them, funnelling it over their European hubs.
Here Alice makes another appearance: even more ironically, at least some of that traffic over the Gulf "diverted" away from the "US carriers and their JV partners" is now actually being carried by another Indian airline, Jet Airways. But it is doing that under codeshare with Etihad.
To suggest that Jet Airways, an Indian airline can be stealing its "own" traffic from foreign sixth freedom airlines which have grown used to feeding on the Indian market is surely a little north of cynicism. Yet it does reinforce the obscurity of this whole Alice in Wonderland regulatory argument.
The White Paper and the two big continental airlines seek a fair marketplace, a "level playing field".
Such a simple concept as "fair" should seemingly be open to objective analysis. But far from it; fairness is a highly subjective notion; and its definition oscillates.
In the network of bilateral air services agreements – where "open skies" is a relatively recent development – the original use of "fair" was originally contained in the template wording that required giving all airlines a "fair and equal opportunity to operate". This was the original "level playing field" that has since proved so elusive to pin down.
What that effectively did was to handicap the more powerful airlines. Obviously, in this reading, it was considered "unfair" for the relatively massive US airlines, made powerful by access to a large home travelling market, to go head to head with a small airline from Ireland or the Netherlands, or Australia, or even the UK. The fear was US airlines would quickly have prevailed all over the world, just as so many other brands have succeeded in unregulated markets.
So, fares were fixed by the government-backed airline cartel IATA, and capacity, frequency and gateway access were all fiercely controlled. And it became "fair".
The turning point in aviation regulation has been the ascendance of consumer interests. Gradually, as consumers started to gain relevance in government thinking around the world, the US began to persuade its aviation partners – with a combination of carrot and stick – to change the phrase to "fair and equal opportunity to compete", meaning that the size handicap was gradually removed. Now the US airlines received the opportunity to compete "fairly", while still holding the key to their domestic market.
This then gave way to a variety of more liberal agreements, promoted mostly by the US, until full open skies – itself with many shades of meaning – became widely acceptable. A couple of hundred bilateral agreements (out of some 3,000), mostly involving the US, are now open skies to a greater or lesser extent. In this evolutionary process, the pre-eminence of national airline interests gradually gave way to a spectrum of other public interest priorities.
Even those bilateral agreements that are not open have moved towards much greater acceptance of new foreign access, including allowing third country codeshare.
Finally, as a postscript, one of the substantial beneficiaries of the superior Indian network that the Gulf airlines operate is no less than American Airlines – one of the leading proponents of the unfairness of the market. American is progressively expanding its codeshare with Etihad, on-carrying increasingly large numbers of Etihad Airways passengers domestically in the US.
"Curiouser and curiouser", as Alice might have exclaimed.


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Cousins, 1994
This is me with my cousin Oscar at the Margo School Reunion 16 years ago, when everyone who'd ever attended any Margo school came home for the weekend. Festivities were held in the rink— meals, dance, so on, so forth. Hundreds of former students showed up.
Oscar's dad and my grandfather were brothers, so Dad and Oscar are actually cousins and Oscar and I, as I understand it, are first cousins once-removed. He's only a few years older than me and we grew up in the village of Margo, and of course when a little girl like I was has a slightly older boy in the family who happens to be sweet-natured and kind, she follows him around like a puppy and pesters him mercilessly. Some of my fond childhood memories are of checkers played in the afternoons at Oscar's house — he must have had so much patience! — and of being dragged around the floor by the leg, probably because I wouldn't leave the poor lad alone. (Nowadays when I see my niece Jordan, who is in Grade 3, with my son Everett, who is 18, I think it's much the same dynamic.)
As teenagers we often went out driving around the countryside together, having a few drinks and laughing pretty much constantly. That was social life in rural Saskatchewan back then, for teenagers. It's probably the same today, although I like to think that drinking and driving has fallen out of favour. For us, there was nowhere else to go when you wanted to escape your parents' home. You got into a vehicle and went out to see who else was out and around, and then you hung out on the back roads somewhere.
Oscar married his high school sweetheart and they set up on a farm north of town and had three fine boys who are grown now; one works with Oscar in the family business and two of the three have started their own young families.
Not long before Christmas, Oscar had a mole on his neck removed and the diagnosis that came back from the lab was melanoma. His doctor got him into the operating room right away and exploratory surgery showed two out of three lymph nodes on one side were cancerous. So back into the hospital he went for radical surgery, removing lymph nodes from neck, chest and back. The next day they kicked him out and sent him home, which is a three-hour drive from the city where the surgery was performed. He spent several days in a lot of pain and discomfort but when I called him on New Year's Day he was, though still sore, starting to feel himself again.
Today he and Barb are in the city, getting the results of tests done after the surgery. With luck, the operation removed all the cancer. It HAS TO have.

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The Thingfully Club, aka the Oakland Chapter of littleBits Electronics, holds events for educators of all stripes—formal, informal, parents, peer-to-peer (i.e., youth), and lifelong learners. Most Meetups of the Thingfully Club will be conducted using Design Thinking methods that encourage collaboration, creativity, problem solving and iteration in a hands-on workshop setting.
I co-created (with Julie Joslin, a veteran English language educator based in North Carolina) an open online course to introduce students at the top of the K-12 ladder to the concept of Design Thinking via Common Core Literacy Standards. Students learn about IDEO's process for eliciting creative action and apply that knowledge to a the issue of bullying.
I taught this graduate level course that created opportunities for collaboration between students at ITP and a variety of people in East Africa.
The course also introduces students to development theory, particularly the idea of expanding human rights, capabilities and freedoms. Such ideas are shaping international development; they are relevant for thinking about how to design and distribute innovative, suitable, and desirable products and services for low-income people around the world.
I worked in the context of a large university in 2005 when I was hired to spend six months as part of a team developing curriculum to teach lecturers how to repurpose and migrate their learning resources from ad hoc websites for a campus-wide rollout of the Blackboard LMS (learning management system) for the University of New South Wales in Sydney.
In addition to writing and editing documents, I taught face-to-face classes to faculty members.
In consultation with professors, I designed and developed concepts, wrote budgets and timelines, and supervised staff to create effective digital courseware. Additionally, I monitored and reported project status, assisted faculty to develop pedagogically sound online and blended learning course materials, and researched and recommended instructional approaches for students with head injuries.


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Q: How to install the Selenium IDE in Windows Firefox? I use the Selenium IDE a lot in firefox when on my mac or Ubuntu machine.
How can I get the add-on working in Firefox on Windows?   I go through firefox add-ons and I find a lot of Selenium related stuff.  But not the actual IDE itself.

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Legends Show Recap, 10/10/20
Posted on December 8, 2020 December 14, 2020 by IHSS
Summit Auto Group Best of the Week: When the SU women's volleyball team started with back-to-back victories over Pittsburgh on September 25 and 26, the first of these matches went the full five sets. Ultimately winning the final set 15-9 after an exchange of close third and fourth sets, the Orange was led up front by Polina Shemanova, whose power was responsible for more than a full set's worth of points as Shemanova ultimately produced 20 kills and five blocks.
SOS Rewind and Archive: In this 30-year anniversary of Dick MacPherson's final season on the SU sideline, it's important to note where it all turned around. When the Orange faced Vanderbilt on October 6 of that year, it had tied its previous two games against Michigan State and Vanderbilt and still didn't know what it had with Marvin Graves at quarterback – but after the Orange defeated the Commodores 49-14, it would win five out of seven games to lock up a bowl bid.
AFLAC Trivia Tidbit: It was Sean Tucker's 112 receiving yards and two touchdowns that helped key SU's 37-20 win over Georgia Tech on September 26. Who is the all-time leading receiver in program history? Not Art Monk or Marvin Harrison, but Ervin Phillips, who caught a total of 223 passes over his career from 2014 to 2017, which included a school-record 17 catches in a single game, achieved in his senior year when the Orange faced North Carolina State.
Atlas Fence Community Corner: It's here that we can acknowledge the continued gifts of Tim Green, one of SU's all-time greats before he went on to a prolific career as an author, TV commentator and coach. Of course, Green is waging a very public battle with ALS, also known as Lou Gehrig's Disease, but with the full support and help from his wife and children, Green continues to author books and make count every day of his life with obstacles few of us have to face.
U.S. Army Weekly Recap: While SU football had the week off, other teams on campus sprang to life. The women's volleyball Orange already had a couple of matches (both wins) in the books when it traveled to no. 6-ranked Notre Dame for a pair of matches where it only managed to get a single set from the Fighting Irish. Also there was men's soccer, which began with an epic battle against Pittsburgh on October 6 that went to overtime before SU lost 3-2 to the Panthers.
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Oxford es una ciudad bellísima a una hora de Londres. Lo mires por donde lo mires, es el estereotipo de romanticismo inglés, con prados verdes, edificios con agujas y universitarios en bicicleta.
Oxford it's a gorgeous city about an hour from London. Whatever way you look at it, it's the stereotype of English Romanticism, with green meadows, the buildings with spires and university cycling.
Es el escenario típico de El club de los poetas muertos o Harry Potter y con total facilidad te imaginas al escritor J. R. R. Tolkien paseando por sus calles o fumando su pipa en The flag and the Lamb.
It's the typical stage of the film Dead Poets Society or Harry Potter. Its easy to imagine the writter J. R. R. Tolkien walking the streets or smoking his pipe int the pub The flag and the lamb.
Guai la referencia a Tolkien y su pipa!


Houston has a professional football team called the Houston Texans. A lot of people like them; some are rappers.
Like many weeks before, Rocks Off perused Twitter during Sunday's ulcer-inducing game against the unlikeliest of titans -- the goddamn 1-8 Jacksonville Jaguars -- and grabbed the ten best tweets from the aforementioned rappers on the aforementioned social-media platform.
Saturday night, my sons came home from their grandparents' house. Boy B came in, said hello, sat down on the couch, then threw up an almost unfathomable number of chocolate Goldfish crackers on the couch. That's how I spent my Saturday night. So yeah, Slim Thug's life, pretty nice.
Maybe the best tweet of my whole entire life.
Jack Freeman might be the MVP of the Rap Twitter NFL Fantasy League. His numbers are astounding.
This tweet has it all.


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Coastal cities take broader view of disaster preparedness
Local // Bay Area & State
J.K. Dineen Aug. 22, 2015 Updated: Aug. 22, 2015 9:06 p.m.
Alberto Jimenez works on a soft-story apartment building on Lake Street in San Francisco to strengthen it for seismic safety.
Photo: Paul Chinn / Paul Chinn / The Chronicle
For Patrick Otellini, the sky is always about to fall.
As San Francisco's first "chief resilience officer," Otellini inhabits a worst-case scenario world of catastrophic floods, earthquakes, tsunamis, fire, famine and rising sea levels.
When he looks at old "soft story" apartment buildings, he thinks of the thousands of tenants that will be displaced when a major earthquake hits. When he walks along the Embarcadero, he worries about a storm surge breaching the city's crumbling seawalls.
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"Our seawall system is San Francisco's Achilles heel," he said. "The seawall is not ready for seawater rise, and it's not ready for a major seismic event."
Ten years after Hurricane Katrina ravaged the Gulf Coast, taking 1,833 lives and doing $150 billion in damage, coastal cities across the globe have stepped up disaster planning efforts. San Francisco is among the worldwide cities the Rockefeller Foundation has targeted as part of its "100 resilient cities" program.
The program, which pays Otellini's salary, maintains a broad view of disaster preparedness, taking into account not only shocks brought by earthquakes, fires and floods, but also the societal stresses that follow an event like Katrina. Those include poverty, high unemployment, poor public transportation, and chronic food and water shortages.
"We learn from disasters that happen around the world," Otellini said. "San Francisco is not immune from climate-related threats."
One of the lessons learned from Katrina was the importance of keeping as many residents as possible in the city after a disaster, Otellini said. By August of 2006, a year after Katrina struck, New Orleans had regained only half its population. By July 2014 the population was up to 384,320 — 79 percent of what it was prior to the storm. The slow population recovery hampered the city's ability to rebuild, he said.
"You want to keep people in their homes. If not their homes, in their neighborhood. If not their neighborhood, then in their city," he said. "When people are relocated, and they don't move back, it slows the recovery."
Left: Parts of the nearly 100-year-old O'Shaugh nessy Seawall at Ocean Beach, shown in March, are deteriorating. Right: Alberto Jimenez works on a soft-story apartment building on Lake Street to strengthen it for seismic safety.
Photo: Liz Hafalia / Liz Hafalia / The Chronicle
It is particularly important to get low-income residents back home, he said.
"Look at our affordability crisis — people are barely holding on as it is," he said. "You have the stresses of the affordability crisis that can be compounded by a disaster and hamper our ability to recover. We do response pretty well in our major cities, but there is a gap as we transition from response to recovery."
San Francisco is working on a disaster preparedness plan that will analyze, on a neighborhood-by-neighborhood basis, the impacts of scenarios like sea levels rising and earthquakes. It will also take into account things like the city's affordable housing crisis and food insecurity.
Otellini said Super Storm Sandy, which hit New York and New Jersey in November 2012, showed the effectiveness of "rapid repair" programs aimed at getting residents back into their homes as quickly as possible, even if it means resorting to temporary fixes such as using plywood, rather than glass, to cover up broken windows.
Getting families back into their homes reduces post-traumatic stress syndrome issues for families, he said, as does reopening schools as quickly as possible.
"You think about what these schools mean to the city — how can I go to work if I can't put my kids in school?" he said.
For earthquake preparedness, San Francisco is in the midst of an ambitious soft-story retrofitting program targeting 5,009 residential buildings with five or more units. The deadline to complete the program is 2020 — so far about 500 have been completed. The soft-story buildings house 120,000 residents, about 15 percent of the city's population.
Seismologists predict a 63 percent probability that the Bay Area will experience a magnitude 6.7 earthquake in the next 30 years. Gabriel Metcalf, executive director of the urban think tank SPUR, said, "We have made a ton of progress in San Francisco in retrofitting our oldest buildings, but we have a long way to go."
"It's human nature to want to put natural disaster out of our minds, but San Francisco is vulnerable and our ability to survive earthquakes, floods and sea level rise depends on the planning work we do up front," Metcalf said. "I think Katrina was somewhat of a national wake-up call for the vulnerabilities that coastal cities face."
David Lewis, executive director of Save the Bay, said Sandy and Katrina pointed to the importance of restoring wetlands as a way to protect low-lying areas from flash floods and intense storms. Lewis is pushing to restore 30,000 acres of publicly owned salt ponds and diked shoreline areas, which would improve flood protection for adjacent homes, businesses, roads, railways and sewage treatment plants in places such as Redwood City, Alviso, Hayward and Novato.
J.K. Dineen is a San Francisco Chronicle staff writer. E-mail: jdineen@sfchronicle.com Twitter: @sfjkdineen
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He is the author of two books: Here Tomorrow, about historic preservation in California (Heyday, 2013); and the forthcoming High Spirits (Heyday 2015), a book of essays about legacy bars of San Francisco.
A graduate of Macalester College, Dineen was a member of Teach For America's inaugural class and taught sixth grade in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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Q: Diagnostic output of the Oracle Query Optimizer There are many instances where we are not happy with the decisions that Oracle's cost-based-optimizer makes regarding the query execution plan. Using hints, less-than-straightforward query transformations, index reorganization and instance parameters we then try to coax it into doing what we think makes more sense. It is very much taking stabs in the dark, and the results can vary widely between the development, staging and production servers (no matter how hard we try to synchronize statistics and such).
Is there a way to get diagnostic output from the Oracle server to illustrate what alternatives the CBO has looked at, and why they have been discarded?
I am thinking of a feature like EXPLAIN PLAN, except that it enumerates all possible (or at least many) execution plans and their associated costs.

A: You can better understand how the Oracle optimizer is making its decisions by collecting 10053 trace event dumps.
I have found that the optimizer rarely makes "wrong" decisions (well, excluding distributed queries across db links), but is usually being misled by statistics that don't accurately represent the nature and distribution of your data.  Check resources like http://optimizermagic.blogspot.com and http://www.jlcomp.demon.co.uk  for a look into optimizer internals.
You can also use the Oracle SQL Analyzer utility (extra cost) to have the optimizer consider alternative paths and if a better one is found it will at least produce the old and new EXPLAIN PLANS for your comparison. Sometimes you can reverse-engineer the cause for the sub-optimal plans from this information (and more often or not you'll find it is a statistics problem)


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University of Zurich Department of Informatics News Assistant Professor for Interaction Design
Board of the University
Appointments April 5, 2016
Media Release (in German)
Assistant Professor for Interaction Design
11 Apr 2016 Assistant Professor for Interaction Design
As per June 1, 2016, the Board of the University has appointed Dr. Chat Wacharamanotham as Assistant Professor for Interaction Design. Chat Wacharamanotham has joined IfI in November 2015 as senior researcher in the People and Computing Lab of Prof. Dr. Elaine M. Huang. In a former position at the Media Computing Group at RWTH Aachen University he contributed to research in input technologies and interaction designs, especially for touch and near-surface input. His current research interest is in the area of interactive statistical analysis.
The Department Management and everybody at IfI congratulate Chat on his appointment and cordially welcome him as new Assistant Professor.


As more areas in Syria slip from control of the Syrian military, the United States is training local opposition members how to run a local government free from the grip of the Assad regime.
The State Department says it is running "training programs" for the members of opposition local coordinating councils in "liberated" areas who are beginning to re-establish civilian authority. The programs help them on issues of civil administration, human-rights training and other services.
The council members are learning "the kinds of things that they might need from the international community as they begin to rebuild their towns," State Department spokeswoman Victoria Nuland said in her Wednesday briefing.
"They're asking for help in how to budget. They're asking for help in how to keep utilities running. How to ensure that the institutions of the state that, you know, provide services to the population, come back up and running. So we are open to supporting all of those kinds of needs," she explained.
Military requests for absentee ballots are remarkably low this year, according to a recent report from a military voting advocacy group that faults the Defense Department with not providing mandated voter assistance to service members.
"The absentee ballot data for 2012 paints a bleak picture for military voters," a report from the Military Voting Participation Project says.
In Virginia, North Carolina, and Ohio less than 2% of all active-duty military members and their spouses have requested absentee ballots for the November election. And between 5% and 8% of military voters in Illinois, Colorado, Nevada and Alaska have made the request.
The report also cites less extreme examples, as in Florida where almost 16% of those eligible have requested ballots.
States profiled were those that had the most accurate and up-to-date information, according to the group.
The report estimates roughly two-thirds of all military voters would need an absentee ballot to vote because of their location at the time of the election.
The publisher of a firsthand account of the raid that killed al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden said Tuesday it was moving up its release date by one week to September 4.
Dutton, a subsidiary of Penguin Group USA, said the book will come out early because of "overwhelming excitement in the marketplace."


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Here comes the wet and miserable season
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Rain. Photo: Pixabay.com
Posted By: Pieter Wijnen 17. October 2018
Here comes the wet and miserable late autumn
After a short spell of summer has snuck in between the autumn showers in early October, there will be a noticeable drop in temperature across Norway next week. The wet and miserable part of the year is upon us.
Precipitation will vary next week, but throughout Norway, it is forecast higher temperatures into the weekend. Up to 15 degrees Centigrade and sunny weather can be expected in some places in southern Norway. Then it will come to an end. The next week will be marked by a drop on the thermometer from the south to the north of Norway.
Few places one can expect to see the quicksilver creeping below the freezing point during the daytime, but stable temperatures of between two and eight degrees Centigrade coupled with northerly winds will affect the whole country, according to the long-term forecasts from the Norwegian Meteorological Institute.
Even in the interior around the Mjøsa lake, it will be relatively warm this weekend. Light clouds and periods of sun will provide daytime temperatures of ten degrees Centigrade or more. A little further south and off the coast, the meteorologists forecast up to 15 degrees Celsius in Skien and Porsgrunn. In the far north, around Hammerfest, it is forecast about five degrees centigrade this weekend and further east in Finnmark, the daytime temperature will stay just above the freezing point of water.
Not necessarily winter, yet
– It is not necessarily the winter that is approaching, but it is not unusual for such a change to happen in October, says on-duty Meteorologist at the Meteorological Institute, Eldbjørg Moxnes to NTB.
She says that people across Norway will notice colder air coming in from the north as of the start of next week. Apart from a noticeable fall in temperature across the country, the wind direction will lead to different weather according to where you are.
.- It will be a lot of clear skies with night frost and morning mist, with little or no precipitation over large tracts of Eastern Norway, Moxnes continues.
Still wet in Stavanger and Bergen
Western Norway from Rogaland to the south and past Stad, on the other hand, can, as per usual, expect wet weather. Although the wind changes direction and it gets colder, the rain will continue to pour down over Western Norway, and the city between the seven mountains (Bergen) in particular.
On Wednesday, the Meteorological Institute published an overview showing that so far in November, 380 millimetres has come down at the (ironically named) measurement station, Florida in Bergen. That is nearly 200 millimetres more than at the same time in the record year, 1983.
– 200 millimetres is needed before the end of the month to beat that record, but it is not impossible. It will still be very wet in Bergen, according to Moxnes.
Extreme warning in Nordland
Nordland county can expect unusually heavy rainfall before the weekend. Wednesday there was issued a warning about extreme rainfall with a hazard level of yellow as of Thursday night. The warning states that people must be prepared for between 30 and 50 millimetres of precipitation over a period of just 12 hours.
– There will be heavy winds with copious rain, but the rainfall will decrease in this area during Friday, the meteorologist rounds off.
Brrrr… Idet klarværet inntar deler av #SørNorge blir det med ett kjøligere om natta! Vi venter nattefrost i innlandet ❄ Og i morgen tidlig blir det betydelig kaldere enn det var i morges. pic.twitter.com/abnlzFkjJ6
— Meteorologene (@Meteorologene) October 17, 2018
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Last time I wrote, I said there were some album updates coming soon, and they were definitely on their way, but life kinda got in the way – uni exams and essays, jobs, appearances at Mullumbimby Folk Festival, Black Gully Music Festival & Dorrigo Folk & Bluegrass Festival, supporting Martin Pearson and playing alongside John Broomhall! If you were chasing regular updates, Facebook was definitely the way to go. Sorry.
But in the meantime… Our EP is ready!
There's been plenty of tears, sweat, all-nighters, PhotoShop crashes, computer reboots, frantic phone calls, and even some actual bloodshed, but it's all come together and we're incredibly excited. And proud. And EXCITED!
The official release date is Friday December 1st, and we're holding a "virtual launch party" that night to celebrate the digital drop. You can RSVP here if you want to get in on the action, ask us questions about our travels, music or the making of the CD, and listen through the whole EP for free (for the duration of the party).
Then, we're kicking off on a tour of the east coast of Australia to share our baby with the world. We start in Nambour on QLD's Sunshine Coast and head all the way to Melbourne via Brisbane, Bellingen, Sydney, the Blue Mountains, Canberra and a few little places in between, and then back over east to Bulli for the Illawarra Folk Festival. We're being joined on stage at different places by some great musical friends and mentors who helped make us who we are today. We'll have our shiny new EPs plus a limited run of lovingly hand-screen-printed t-shirts (on fairtrade cotton tees, in TWO whole designs) if you want to wear your love of folk new and old on your sleeve!
We'll be doing some ABC Local Radio interviews along the way, visiting with friends and local cheese factories, busking here and there, and stopping at the National Library in Canberra for a little research time (almost as exciting as the EP – we are folk nerds, after all), so if you want to see us in your town, shoot us a message and we'll do our best to swing by.
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Team Europe secured a second victory on US soil as they clinched a 15-13 win over Team USA in the 2021 Solheim Cup at Inverness Club in Toledo, Ohio.
Heading into the final day, Europe had a two-point lead over the counterparts and only needed five points to retain the coveted trophy.
It was Matilda Castren's point which ensured Europe would be heading back across the Atlantic with trophy in hand while Emily Kristine Pedersen, in the final match of the day, sealed the victory.
"I'm so proud of this team. At the end of the day, I don't hit any golf shots. It is really up to them. They are the ones that won it. They deserve all the credit, so thank you, team. You made me look good," explained Matthew, who becomes the first European captain to win the competition twice and to defend the trophy.
"It was really nerve-wracking watching those final matches. When you're on the sidelines you can't do anything about it. Matilda made a fantastic up-and-down from kind of a plugged lie in the bunker and then holed about an 18-footer to win her match. That tide had been kind of turning towards the Americans, and I think it just turned it back towards us, and then Emily finished it off with her victory on the last hole."
Europe started the day brightly and got on the board early when rookie Leona Maguire produced a fantastic match against Jennifer Kupcho which saw her win 5&4.
The Irishwoman has had a phenomenal Solheim Cup debut winning 4.5 out of the 5 points available to her.
"I have given my absolute all this week. I couldn't have given it anything more and I couldn't have asked for a better week," said Maguire. "I had two phenomenal partners in Mel and Georgia as well, who just let me do my thing and I'm so proud of getting those points."
Another point soon went on the board for Europe when Madelene Sagstrom recorded a 3&2 victory over Ally Ewing.
Minutes later Celine Boutier clinched a 5&4 win over Mina Harigae to put Europe into pole position with only two more points needed to retain the trophy.
"It has been such an amazing week. I just didn't make a mistake today, I played really solid from the start and that definitely helped me get the win," said Boutier. "The team chemistry has been unbelievable, we all got along so well, and I think the fact we're secluded here amongst all the Americans has brought us closer together because we have to stick with and play for each other."
Read the full recap of Monday's singles matches here.
On a week when so many matches made it to the 18th green, the final day was no exception and the first match saw Anna Nordqvist and Lexi Thompson each earn half a point for their teams.
The start of a Team USA fightback had begun as Nelly Korda pulled a point back with a 1 up win over Georgia Hall, while next up saw Nanna Koerstz Madsen and Austin Ernst halve their match.
The Americans gained two more points when Megan Khang and Brittany Altomare beat Sophia Popov and Carlota Ciganda to bring the scores to 13-11.
Retaining the trophy came down to Castren, who headed down the 18th fairway 1 up in her match against Lizette Salas.
The Finn made an excellent up-and-down from the bunker to seal that all-important 14th point and ensure Europe would not leave empty-handed.
"It was so cool having the whole team there and just seeing those blue and yellow colours on the sidelines and people cheering," said the Gant Ladies Open champion. "I knew that putt was important, but I didn't exactly know what the score was at that time. I just knew I had to make it. Me and Mikey picked a good line, and I picked the right pace, and it went straight in."
With Europe leading 14-11, the Americans claimed another two points to close the gap as Yealimi Noh and Jessica Korda defeated Mel Reid and Charley Hull.
In the last match, Pedersen was 3 up with three holes to play but her opponent Danielle Kang fought back to take it to 18.
But, in a rematch of the final contest in 2017, it was the 2020 Race to Costa del Sol champion who got the better of the American this time around, burying her birdie putt to seal an outright European victory.
"It was a bit of a fight because after 15, I knew we'd won and just wanted to celebrate with everyone, so I just really had to collect myself. Felt really good to hole that last putt," Pedersen said. "I was so happy for Matilda. I think all our rookies did so well and Leona just smashing it. It was so crucial for us. I just really had to collect myself on the last three because I could see them and I could hear the 'olés.' It was nice to get it done."
Team Europe win the 2021 PING Junior Solheim Cup


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Gary M. Grossman, associate professor in the School for the Future of Innovation in Society at Arizona State University, offers more than three decades of experience in the management of social, education, technology, and employment and training projects in the United States and abroad.
Experienced in the administration of World Bank, U.S. Government and privately funded projects, Professor Grossman also led the development of and directed a unique transdisciplinary, transnational major in ASU's Master of Science in Technology program. This degree concentration, entitled 'Global Technology and Development' (GTD), features the combined perspectives of social science research and emerging technological models and is aimed at providing students an opportunity to explore the critical questions of globalization, commerce, sustainable development, information technology, transportation, education, and biotechnology which affect all nations. The program is designed to empower students to help guide and direct those impacts. Classes in the GTD program began in 2001, became a stand-alone Master's program in 2012, and transitioned to the School for the Future of Innovation in Society in 2015.
Professor Grossman is internationally recognized for leadership in his areas of interest and has built his career on the mutuality of interests between higher education and the needs of the society of which it is a part, both in his native country and around the world. Professor Grossman was awarded two consecutive Fulbright Grants (2002-2004) and spent that period engaged in research and teaching at Middle East Technical University in Ankara, Turkey. He is currently on sabbatical stationed in Rome, Italy and working as an International Programme Consultant with the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (UN FAO). His current research concerns the implementation efficacy of the UN Sustainable Devlopment Goals (SDGs) globally, with a particular focus in the nations of Central Asia.
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Characterizing Benthic Habitats in Haputo Ecological Reserve Area, Guam
Research Area(s): Marine Spatial Ecology / Coral, Habitat Mapping
Primary Contact(s): Edward.Sweeney@noaa.gov; Bryan.Costa@noaa.gov; Tim.Battista@noaa.gov
This project began in July 2020 and will be completed in July 2023
In 2012, the US Naval Facilities Engineering Command (NAVFAC) Marianas developed an Integrated Natural Resource Management Plan (INRMP) for the Joint Region Marianas (JRM). The purpose of this plan is to mitigate impacts of the US Navy's mission on submerged lands under their control and develop functioning, sustainable ecological communities. Local staff from NAVFAC Marianas requested that NCCOS develop an updated habitat map for the Haputo Ecological Reserve Area, Guam to help inform their resource decisions and execute plan recommendations.
Why We Care
Figure 1. Preliminary Area of Interest (AOI – in green hatched area) for the upcoming habitat mapping effort within Haputo Ecological Reserve Area (ERA), Guam
The Haputo Ecological Reserve Area (ERA) is located on the northwest coast of Guam, roughly 15 miles northeast from Apra Harbor and the Guam Naval Base (Figure 1). The ERA was designated in 1984 and covers roughly 1.25 km2 of limestone forest, sandy beach, coral reef, and known archeological sites. In addition to being a cultural heritage site, the reserve provides an important ecosystem for the Guam coast because it has remained mostly undeveloped, and can be seen as a baseline for comparing other nearshore habitats for both submerged and exposed environments.
What We Will Do
The goal of this project is to produce marine, estuarine and terrestrial habitat maps in Haputo ERA, Guam to better support the ecosystem sustainability goals of the INRMP in the JRM. These maps will depict the distribution of key biological and geomorphological habitats within the ERA, tailored to meet NAVFAC's informational needs and the coastal and marine ecological classification standard (CMECs). They will be developed using existing, readily available remote-sensing data, including multispectral satellite imagery and Light Detection and Ranging (LiDAR) data (and potentially small Unmanned Aircraft Systems (sUAS) data). Underwater georeferenced videos and photos will also be collected as 'ground-truth' information to inform habitat map development of field observation habitat data points and evaluate the performance and accuracy of habitat models. The final deliverables will include Geographic Information Systems (GIS) habitat maps, underwater videos, an online web map, and a final report describing the methods used for map development. These data and the final report will be made publicly available for download and online-viewing at the end of the project (see Data Collections below).
Benefits of Our Work
The habitat products developed during this project will provide a critical spatial framework to mitigate potential impacts of the U.S. Navy's mission and determine an ecosystem baseline within the Haputo ERA. Future projects or management actions in these lands will benefit greatly from the updated imagery, habitat map products, and underwater photos and videos compiled during this project. These data sets will inform decisions about mission training activities, resource monitoring, protected species, land-based sources of pollution and scientific research moving forward. This project and resulting products will also help support other marine management efforts by the Guam territorial government and other local federal agencies.
This work was funded by NAVFAC Marianas and will be conducted in partnership with NAVFAC, Guam territorial government, NOAA National Marine Fisheries Services, NOAA Office of Coastal Management and the University of Guam.
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CAMBRIDGE, Mass.— Feburary 21, 2012— InterSystems Corporation today announced that Hunterdon Healthcare is rolling out a comprehensive business intelligence application that is setting new standards for real-time decision support. Developed by Cognizant Technology Solutions Corporation, the new Hospital Performance Management (HPM) system at Hunterdon utilizes InterSystems DeepSee™ embedded real-time analytics technology. The implementation was highlighted at the HIMSS12 Annual Conference and Exhibition.
Hunterdon selected Cognizant to develop and deploy a new application that would provide accurate, complete information on key performance indicators (KPIs) in real-time. Cognizant leveraged Hunterdon's existing investment in the InterSystems CACHÉ® high-performance database system and InterSystems Ensemble® rapid development and integration platform to deliver a new HPM solution that facilitates a seamless flow of information from multiple systems and data repositories. "The new application is CACHÉ-based and uses both Ensemble and DeepSee to provide rapid, efficient access to all of the information we need. As a result, we can use dashboards to monitor real-time data and it's totally transparent to our users that the information is coming from multiple systems," said Mamary.
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Adding parmesan to roast potatoes is nothing new, but every time I've made roast potatoes with cheese I've been too stingy, so the result makes me question out loud where the cheese went. Turns out the solution is to go totally overboard, to the point where you get a nice tailcoat of properly, noisily crunchy cheese layer that clings to each chunk of potato, promising pure rapturous joy with every bite. These do require some patience, so I'd suggest a pretty simple, light salad to help offset the crazy richness.
You start off with good fluffy roasting potatoes*. Wash and cut them into nice large chunks about 4-5cm (that's over an inch). Pop them into a saucepan and cover the bottom 3cmish (about an inch) with water. Pop the lid on (a nice fitting one to maximise steam). Preheat oven to 200C (400F), with a rack arranged at the top. If you're baking two trays you'll need to swap them around half way through.
Bring potatoes to a rapid boil from cold on max heat, then reduce head to low to let simmer for about 10-15 minutes or until a knife slides in to a piece of potato easy.
While the potatoes simmer, finely grate more parmesan than you think you'll reasonably need (enough to completely coat each piece of potato remember). Prepare a few cubes of butter or ghee too. Drain completely, pop back into the dry pot, sprinkle over the cheese, a nice few grinds of black pepper or pinch or herbs, and the butter cubes (I also added salt but felt this was probably overkill with all the cheese). Cover and shake the pan almost like a cocktail (so, holding on the lid for dear life), but circular-ly so the bottom potatoes get some cheesy action. Tip the potatoes onto your baking tray and arrange them as spread out as possible – the potatoes must be on a single layer and have around 1cm between pieces or they won't crisp.
Bake for 30-40 mins until golden brown. Let cool for 5 minutes to let the cheese fully crispen and to avoid sad burnage.
*My favourite in Sydney so far are the blue moon/royal blue potatoes. They have an amplified potato flavour, and even the crappy supermarket version turn out beautifully every time. Plus they're definitely sort of floury but not mealy, and form a nice crisp layer when boiled first, with or without copious amounts of cheese.
Sometimes the simplest cakes, made with careful love and attention to detail, work best. The base for this cake was adapted from Will's Gran's beloved coffee cake recipe, which I've used several times now and am just in love with. It's fluffy and soft, but deeply fragrant of buttery richness, with the fruit keeping it moist for a few days after. I used plums and blueberries, but pears in winter would be lovely for example, or apples in autumn. Admittedly blueberry season has passed, but I had 2 kilos (yes, you read that correctly) carefully squirreled in my freezer after a gorgeous morning of blueberry picking.
I'm even more keen on buttery cakes like this now that I've figured out a few sneaky ways around the "room temperature" ingredients rule, without butter splattering your microwave. I basically pop some chopped butter in the oven for 5-7 minutes while it's preheating, so it's half melted. Then I beat in the sugar and the cold eggs from the fridge one at a time, which kind of brings the butter back to a slightly firmer temperature, to help incorporate plenty of air. Then I don't have to worry about melting the butter entirely either. Voila!
Chop fruit and set aside. Preheat oven to 175C (350F), arranging a rack in the middle of your oven. Grease your baking tin with plenty of butter (I brush some of the melted butter into the tin), then dust it with flour.
If you have fridge-temp butter and eggs, leave your mixing bowl with the butter in the oven for the first 5-7 minutes until it's half melted (don't panic if you end up going too far). Beat (on high speed) in the sugar and one cold egg (or room temperature egg if your butter is softened butter) until fully incorporated and paled. Beat in second egg and vanilla. Sift over flour and baking powder and fold through (low speed) until just barely incorporated – if there is a fleck or two of flour, that's fine. Scrape into cake pan, pop fruit on top (scattering is fine – no need to carefully place because it all sinks in anyway), and bake for about 25 minutes. Reduce temperature to 150C (300F) and continue baking until centre also takes on a golden brown colour and a skewer inserted in the middle comes out clean (around another 15 -20 mins).
Cool to room temperature before inverting onto a plate. Super yummy with 100% natural yogurt, diluted with a little milk if it's the super tart stuff.
If storing, bring back to warm room temperature before serving for maximum deliciousness.
Bottled passata is my go-to base for just about any tomato-y sauce, soup, or stew, mostly because it's so versatile. However I'd never really appreciated how much work it takes just to get to the bottle. Last year, I joined the Youth Food Movement Sydney crew to cook, de-skin and de-peel countless local tomatoes to turn into one of my favourite pantry staples. This year you can either host your own passata day, or if you're in Sydney, crank out some of your own and join other foodies for hand made pasta with the very passata you make on the day! Can't get much fresher than that!
So when would you use passata instead of any other tomato goop? Well personally I reach for it when I don't want the distractions of the seed and skins, or I only want to add a background tomato richness to something like a stew or a mushroomy sauce. If I want it chunkier because the tomato is the central element, sometimes I'll go for a mixture of passata and some chopped tomato, so the sauce both covers and has body. I also use passata instead of tomato paste on pizzas, as I find it dries out less when you're going for the minimalist approach on a good homemade base. Speaking of minimalist, passata is usually just made of tomatoes and salt, so you don't have to search for questionable ingredients in a long list (you choose the sweetness too, not the manufacturer). The other reason I like to choose passata is that it never takes on the taste of the can (usually because it's in glass bottles), and you can quickly see the thickness and quality by tilting the bottle and seeing how liquidy it is. Plus ya know, Sydney doesn't appear to have very plentiful access to these san marzano tomatoes that every reputable food blog seems to wax lyrical about!
Have you ever tried making your own tomato goop of some kind, and what kind do you generally use the most and why?
Making copious amounts of amazing homemade dip for the holidays seems to be turning into a very handy habit, despite my fickleness with food. Every now and then I get this niggly feeling like I should be overthinking my next meal just like everyone else seems to around this time of year…but then I remember I have a zillion dips in the fridge.
With a few homemade dips in the fridge, you're just a loaf of bread, bottle of passata, or bowl of potatoes/pasta away from a delicious, effortless lunch or dinner, that seems like you've slaved away, when actually you practically just mixed some stuff in a bowl. As a bonus for those of us enjoying summer Christmasses, you've also always got options in the fridge for an impromptu picnic. Then there is the very awesome feeling you get when several people at a potluck dinner ask who made this dip, and you get to shyly put your hand up (ok who am I kidding, I totally owned that shizz).
If you're planning to serve these up for New Years, you can give this super quick cheat's ciabatta a roll too, using other racks in the oven for dip components while it bakes (note you want a warmish kitchen for that bread). This way everything can be done in advance so when your friends arrive you can be ready to mingle while everyone asks what the amazing aroma in the air is. Of course you could also do some crackers or something (salt and vinegar kettle chips/crisps are pretty outrageously amazing with these dips, as I discovered).
makes 2-3 cups, and you can do more florets than specified below and reserve some for pasta or to mix into a salad.
measures very approximate – let your taste buds guide you!
Brush florets with plenty of oil, sprinkle with salt, and roast at 200C (400F) on a single layer until plenty of brown splotches appear and the cauliflower is easily pierced with a fork (about 20 minutes in a preheated oven, but you can start these from a cold oven). Blitz with everything else in a blender, food processor or with an immersion/stick blender. Taste and adjust seasonings as desired.
measures very approximate – let your tastebuds guide you!
Brush mushrooms, onion, and garlic with oil, and arrange on a baking tray, not too spaced apart – you don't want them to dry out too much in the oven. In fact I even washed my mushrooms in water (yeah, this is technically a no no in the culinary world, but in this case it resulted in a moister end product). Dot with small slices of butter, and season with salt and pepper. Bake at 200C (400F) until the mushrooms are golden brown, the onions are soft, and there's some juicy stuff lingering about. Pop your herbs in and mix things up on your tray to coat everything in the juices. Lightly cover with tinfoil (or in my case, I just folded over my reusable nonstick sheet a bit to partially cover the mushies), and turn off the oven, but leave the mushrooms in for the next hour.
Remove garlic skins, and herbs, and blitz in a blender, food processor or with an immersion/stick blender. Taste and adjust seasonings as desired.
It's not even Christmas yet, but all I want is some salad and water. Actually, that's something I overhead at my work Christmas party from the suspiciously blonde girls looking at their champagne as though it was a form of slow torture. I'm secretly reveling in all the deep fried nibbly things that inevitably get passed around at this time of year. But then at some point, I do start craving veges – nothing so airy as salad though. No, I'm talking about dense vegetable maximisation. A plate consisting of nothing but vegetables, that you dig in to with gusto.
Essentially, the roasted veges lie in a creamy, smoky, herbaceous smattering of aubergine dip, that resembles a lighter version of baba ganoush. A light dusting of sumac, some fresh herb leaves and a drizzle of olive oil make things look a little less spartan, but to be honest, this is wonderfully vegetably comfort food that doesn't need to be pretty past the first bite. Thankfully, because would you check out the colour of that dip? It does have many virtues – deliciousness, versatility, relative simplicity – but prettiness is probably not one of them. When you use veges as your dip delivery mechanism, you can eat as much as you like without wishing for "some salad and a water," while still feeling like you've indulged in many of life's greatest pleasures. Also, you can have cake for breakfast (tick) and still easily get in your five plus a day. If you do go the veges dipped in veges route, I'd highly recommend getting really fresh veges, or things are going to taste pretty mellow. There is a noticeable difference between real basil and wispy supermarket basil especially. Lastly, of course feel free to use other herbs and spices. Oregano, coriander/cilantro if you're a fan ,and tarragon would all be lovely. I just happen to love the way dill and basil turn roast veges into something summery.
Wondering what to serve this with, other than veges? It's phenomenal with toast, eggs, crunchy raw veges, lightly crushed lentils or beans, and seafood. A little crumbled feta wouldn't hurt, especially the creamy stuff. It can be served warm or cold, but I prefer room temperature. This makes it fairly versatile, to say the least. I'm wishing I made more to be honest!
Thanks to Simon Said for the inspiration The first time I tried some of his dip at the farmers market I bought two containers and they were gone in two days.
Makes about a cup and a half. Measurements very much approximate, so taste and adjust as you go!
Over a naked flame with a fork, blister the skins of each of your aubergines. If you don't have a gas burner, you might be able to do this under a grill, or over a BBQ, or just proceed to the next step.
Cut each aubergine into 2 inch chunks, and place on an oiled baking tray. Brush generously with oil and sprinkle with salt, and cook for 20-25 minutes until golden brown splodges appear and a fork goes through with no resistance (the insides should be mostly translucent. Let cool slightly to help unstick the pieces better, then blitz with a stick blender with all the other ingredients. Taste and adjust seasonings until you're satisfied.
With Christmas coming up, most of us will be preparing for some serious feasting. Unfortunately it's also when we collectively generate the most waste. The surprisingly huge environmental consequences of food waste are hard to brush aside. Around one third of the world's agricultural land is used to produce food that is subsequently not eaten. This land is often "created" by displacing forests, the animals that live in those forests, and the valuable ecosystem services they provide. Furthermore, growing, processing and distributing food racks up a lot of emissions. In Australia, the food supply chain is the next highest generator of greenhouse emissions, after power stations. After all that, 222 million tonnes of food is then thrown out each year in wealthy nations (in Australia, it's 4.5 tonnes).
While "nose to tail" animal eating has become a pretty well established concept, most of us still readily depart with our broccoli stalks, potato peels and carrot tops, unnecessarily binning perfectly delicious ingredients in their own right. If you don't believe me, check out Root to Stalk Cooking by award winning food writer Tara Duggan, or this New York Times article from 2011. If you grow your own veges, you get even more bonus ingredients that most foodies would pay through the nose for (or not even be able to buy at all!). Younger broccoli leaves for example are basically like kale, and snow pea shoots are already enjoyed in many Asian dishes. If you're ever unsure, a quick Google will often give you some ideas and fresh takes on your usual favourite dishes.
If you come home from your leisurely trip to the farmers market only to realise you're never going to get through those three bulky items that need to be eaten super fresh – don't panic just yet. Spring onions (scallions/"shallots" in Australia) are a classic for going wilty and slimy in the bottom of the fridge. Ensure they never die a slow death ever again – slice up the green parts when you get home and pop them in a freezable container. They separate easily even when frozen and are super handy to throw in when you've got them pre-cut. Spinach and many other cooking greens can be pre-cooked and frozen in ziplock bags too, making your meals down the track that much quicker too. Those pricier artisan style breads can be sliced and frozen too for easy breakfasts (simply toast your slices to bring them back to their original glory).
At first when I followed the conventional advice to "plan my meals" and "shop with a list" too stringently, I found myself spending more, not less. I was missing out on specials, and often resorting to take-out when the meal that day just wasn't what I felt like eating. It was also incredibly boring. If you also suffer from these setbacks, I've found it really helpful to learn roughly how many "bags" you'll eat in a week and bring that many bags with you when shopping. Then fill only the bags you've brought with appealing, seasonal, "on special" items. Aim to get less than 2-3 items that can't be frozen and will go sad in less than 2-3 days (eg. lettuce). When you get home, pop all fresh ingredients into a spreadsheet (I use Drive so everything is on my phone and sharable), and then roughly plan a "menu" for the week. You can then pick what you want the most that day or is realistic to cook if you get home late. With the available ingredients in a list beside your menu items, it's easy to re-configure a menu item. It can sometimes be handy to leave one day free that week for surprise social outings, or for using whatever you have left over in a bit of a lucky dip stir fry, salad, soup or stew. I've enjoyed a lot of surprisingly delicious new combos this way! Of course this approach might not work for everyone – so keep adapting until you find a sweet spot.
Use your food scraps to create compost for your garden (or someone else's). I'll add that if you're in an apartment, try a worm farm.
Skip and swap ingredients in a recipe based on what you already have and save time shopping too!
Buy only what you need. I'll also add here that I try and impose a "1 treat limit" per weekly shop since I'm only human – but this way I get the thing that I really want, rather than something I just bought on impulse.
What have you found works well to reduce your food waste?
Merry Christmas! Here's our tree made of previous years' cards, that's both reusable and recyclable.


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Q: Localized Date Validator Is there a way to use user's culture to localize the Range Validator for date? I am looking for a good way to validate date and avoiding to provide a fix format (e.g.: do a dd/mm/yyyy using Regular Expression Validator)

A: Use the Date.TryParseExact() method, consulting the documentation.
Use members of the returned My.Application.Culture.CurrentCulture.DateTimeFormat object, which is of class System.Globalization.DateTimeFormatInfo, to retrieve the date formats for the current culture (there are several formats for every culture, such as long format and short format...).

A: This will be something closest to what I want actually.
Getting user's language preference based on language settings:
userLanguage = Request.UserLanguages[0];

Get ShortDatePattern base on language:
new CultureInfo(userLanguage).DateTimeFormat.ShortDatePattern;

From here I will use the pattern to validate user's input and to display the required format on the page.