Since last year Dani and I are members of a farming cooperative, that aims to feed several hundreds households in Munich with sustainable, organic and fair self produced fruits and vegetables. The Kartoffelkombinat is (hopefully) about to move to its first own farm next year, so the summerfest this year was probably the last one in the leased market garden of Schönbrunn.
We have been to Schönbrunn a couple of times to help with some farm work or boil down tons of tomatoes to fill hundreds of glasses with delicious Sugo tomato sauce. Anyway we took the chance at this year's 'Sommerfest' to discover the market garden once more and get explained, how our weekly box of vegetables is produced and what future plans the cooperative has with its own farm (fingers crossed!).
About 750 boxes with fruits and vegetables are packed every week to be transported to several pick-up points throughout Munich. Today about 45 % of the crop is produced by the cooperative itself in Schönbrunn, the other 55 % are bought from a handful of organic partner farms. The goal is at least 80 % self-supply – so a year of growing and harvesting should be well planned.
The Kartoffelkombinat is not just a cooperative agricultural project, but aims for a bigger social impact. So there is also a non-profit organisation or Verein, that combines activities such as education for children or integration of refuees under its roof. The new shirts (for members of all shapes and sizes ;)) are the first hands-on product of the integration project.
The cooperative also keeps some honey bees in Schönbrunn – more as an interest in ecology and natural science than in producing tons of honey. If you are interested: The beekeepers do also blog about their work.
There might be easier ways of getting to Schönbrunn and back – the suburban train for example – but definitely no more beautiful way than taking the bike! And if the Kartoffelkombinat caught your interest: check out its website for more information about this amazing Community Supported Agriculture project!


There has been a consistent theme drummed out by the Blitzboks in Singapore this week' where they are preparing for the eighth leg of the 2017/18 World Sevens Series – 'focus and process'.
Coach Neil Powell believes the side veered from their usual script of staying in the moment at the recent Commonwealth Games.
Their lacklustre performance on the Gold Coast was put down to a team too fixated on outcomes rather than focused on the minutiae within a game.
By thinking of end results' the Blitzboks' standards dropped as minds were not fully engaged with immediate tasks. Powell has been driving the message of 'process' home all week.
The players have taken up the script as they look to maintain and even build on their slender three-point lead over Fiji at the top of the standings.
"Follow the process and the result will look after itself'" forward Dylan Sage said.
South Africa face Samoa in game one on Saturday followed by Canada and Argentina in Pool C.
"This is without doubt a very competitive series and teams such as Fiji and New Zealand are playing fantastic sevens at the moment'" said Sage.
Captain Kyle Brown was on script too: "We often said one game will not define us or what we stand for as a Springbok Sevens team' yet that second half performance against England in the Commonwealth Games in Gold Coast was one that did show some shortcomings in our attitude'" said Brown.
"We were in fact defined by that one game as it also knocked us off the podium and we left Australia without a medal' disappointing many' including ourselves."
To help with sharpen minds and re-energise the squad Powell included six youngsters from the SA Sevens Academy in the squad for Singapore.
They did duty in round seven in Hong Kong and earned third – a superb result considering their inexperience.
"There can be no doubt that some of the new guys in the squad brought some energy and excitement and reminded some of the more established players what if felt like.
"It impacted on all of us'" said Brown' now South Africa's second most experienced player ever.
"Good performances in Hong Kong were rewarded and those guys can again show what they are capable of.
"There is little sense in trying to shackle their energy and the way they play as that was what delivered them a medal in Hong Kong' so the senior heads in the team will provide the composure and sense of structure where needed.


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Vestager: No bias against American companies
"I have no grudge against any company … Any business no matter the flag, no matter the ownership is warmly welcome if they play by the rules," says commissioner.
By Nicholas Hirst
When Margrethe Vestager took office, the European commissioner for competition was so concerned about accusations that her department was unfairly persecuting American companies that she ordered an internal investigation.
"I was afraid that there could be a bias," she acknowledged Thursday, speaking as part of the opening panel at "European Divides: A Make or Break Year for the Union," the launch event for POLITICO in Europe. "So I asked my services to look into our recent history."
The verdict, she said: no evidence of partiality. But the move highlights concerns at the highest level of the Commission about perceptions of an anti-US bias.
Her decision to formally accuse Google of breaching EU antitrust rules last week added further fuel to the fire in the United States.
Vestager insisted: "I have no grudge against any company … Any business no matter the flag, no matter the ownership is warmly welcome if they play by the rules."
That would contradict accusations made by Gazprom, the dominant gas supplier in much of central and eastern Europe and majority-owned by the Russian state, charged by Vestager on Wednesday.
"Even though it may sound like a very banal thing to say, we are not going after Gazprom or the Russian state," the commissioner said.
Vestager has been keen to portray her investigation into Gazprom as a legal procedure, although it risks inflaming European relations with Russia, which have become increasingly fraught as a result of its role in the civil war in Ukraine.
Sources close to Gazprom have suggested that the probe is a politically-motivated intervention by the Commission to try to set gas prices.
That is an impression that Vestager is determined to avoid.
"One of the true jewels of our project is the internal market," she told the audience. "We cannot use competition law politically: we would completely undermine what we have done and the way forward."
Vestager deferred to her predecessor, the Spaniard Joaquín Almunia, when asked why the Google case has dragged on so long.
Almunia announced on three occasions that he had struck a satisfactory deal with Google, only to row back on each occasion in the face of opposition from rivals and politicians.
"It is difficult for me to answer [why the settlement talks failed]," she said. "It was his work. He engaged a lot in the negotiations and unfortunately he could not bring the case to an end."
The two major decisions of Vestager's tenure thus far – on Google and Gazprom — mark a clean break with Almunia.
He sought to settle the probe into Google and held off from escalating proceedings against Gazprom, given the geopolitical tensions between Europe and Russia over Ukraine.
Vestager is well known for her frequent tweeting and explained that she began tweeting in Denmark as a politician from a poor political party with little money for advertising.
"One of the great things about Twitter is that I don't have to rely on you," she told POLITICO Managing Editor Carrie Budoff Brown.
Vestager said that she had enjoyed her job so far, despite the media intensity, and joked that she would consider pursuing a second mandate. "I don't think it makes sense to close any doors."
More from ... Nicholas Hirst
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G20 leaders vow 'whatever it takes' to fight virus and rescue economy
EU Confidential #137: Margrethe Vestager interview — Macron in Poland — Revisiting enlargement

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Finish: Wooded and reassuringly heavy.
Overall: A unique gin, that is crying out to be made into a Martini. It'll need an equally robust vermouth though.


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Home » Blogs » Poultry Around the World » CP Foods enters alternative meat sector, eyeing leadership
Mark Clements' view of the world poultry industry with a British twist.
Business & Markets / Consumer Trends / Asia
CP Foods enters alternative meat sector, eyeing leadership
Thai actor Naphat Siangsomboon has endorsed Meat Zero, which is being marketed with the slogan "start now to change the world." | CP Foods
Rolled out across continents, CP Foods is aiming for category leadership for its new plant-based meat.
Mark Clements
Thailand's CP Foods has entered the alternative meat market and done so with high levels of ambition and its sights set on being a category leader.
Already one of Asia's leading broiler producers and strongly placed in other animal protein sectors, CP Foods is aiming to make its new plant-based meat range the best selling range of its kind in Asia by 2022, and a top three offering globally within the next 3-5 years.
CP's range of ready-to-cook and ready-to-eat products is being marketed under the Meat Zero brand name and has come about following significant research and development over the last few years.
The company worked with experts in the U.S. and Japan, along with Thai universities the develop its own production technology which it calls Plant-Tech.
CP Foods has noted that demand for meatless food has been "rocketing" but that consumer options are too often pricey and difficult to find. Meat Zero, it says, is the answer to these difficulties, being priced at a level similar to that of real meat.
The product range is already available though 7-Eleven and other trade outlets across Thailand and will be simultaneously rolled out in markets across Asia, Europe and the U.S.
Meat Zero contains "high-fiber plant-base protein, which is good for the intestine and bowel and is low in cholesterol". CP Foods Chief Executive Officer, Mr Prasit Boondougrasert, notes that the new range is as tasty as real meat and consumers are barely able to tell if they are eating plants or real meats.
That CP Foods is entering the alternative proteins market should not come as such a surprise. It already offers in excess of over 2,500 products, so the addition of plant-based chicken nuggets or crispy pork, or plant-based stir-fried rice, could be seen as a simple extension of its already broad product range.
Global branch-out
The company expects its new plant-based range to generate in excess of US$30 million within the next couple of years, but will it reach a top three position worldwide?
With operations and investments in at lease 14 countries and exporting to 40 markets around the world, CP would appear to have the infrastructure in place to make Meat Zero a success. Additionally, it announced expansion plans for 17 countries in late 2019.
And it's new plant-based offering, launched with the slogan "Start now to change the world", already has young celebrity endorsement in its home market, aligning the products with just the right demographic.
For anyone thinking of entering the plant-based market, this might be a range to keep an eye on.
Mark Clements is the editor of Poultry International. To contact Clements, email mclements@wattglobal.com.


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Someone landed on my blog yesterday by googling "what is the physiologic reason for wrapping an ACE bandage from the bottom to the top?" Good question, here's the answer. There's gravity ok? So because of gravity all the fluid in your body goes down. Let's use the example of a sprained ankle. If you sprain your ankle, it will swell as a result of the body doing its thing as the first step of the healing process. So you wrap up the ankle and the proper way to do this is tighter at the bottom and getting looser as you continue to wrap up the leg. The reason for that is this…..you want to direct all that inflammatory fluid towards the heart so that you encourage it to get back into the circulatory system and be processed. You know the acronym RICE? That stands for rest, ice, compression, elevation. Rest – self-explanatory. Ice – cool down the area and it slows down the arteries and other vessels and stuff and cuts down on swelling. Compression – also cuts down on swelling but make sure it's not compressed too much so that it cuts off blood supply. Elevation – same reason that you wrap something "from the bottom to the top" – you want to direct fluid towards the heart and encourage it to get back into the circulatory system.
My grandfather was insanely stubborn and for the reason above he was repeatedly told that he needed to elevate his legs at home, to direct fluid towards the heart. But he wouldn't do it. So finally one day his health care practitioner person was fed up and told him "if you don't start elevating your legs I'm gonna have to amputate them." I have no idea if he then started to elevate his legs at home.
Another way to direct fluid towards the heart is through exercise. Ever been told to do ankle pumps on an airplane and get up and walk a few times during the flight? Exercise gets the muscles moving which manually makes the veins move and moves blood so that it doesn't pool at the bottom of your legs.
As someone who wears compression hoses daily, It also relieves the ache accompanied by swelling too.
Oh good, I'm glad it helps with the pain. Swelling can be very painful.
So can compression hose, but it's a small price to pay. It keeps the fluid out of my lungs and away from my heart.
You really do need to become a professor Dr. Shissler. You explain stuff so clearly even brain-damaged me can understand.
When I get to the point that people don't say to me every other sentence "what, can you repeat that?" I'll look into teaching.


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"The Tourniquet Leash is the world's only leash that is also a tourniquet. In the event of life threatening bleeding a surfer can rapidly apply a tourniquet to save their life or limb."
Smart: This surf leash could save your life!
Shark hits pal? Now you can staunch the bleeding with special leg-rope…
A few days ago, a real polite man called Carson Henderson (a former US marine who served in Afghanistan and Iraq according to his bio) emailed with details of his company's leashes. Special, 'cause they also double as a tourniquet so when your pal gets hit by a shark you can wrap his stump in your cord and maybe save his life.
"Since there were two more shark attack yesterday it seems that a story about my veteran owned business would be good for all parties," he wrote, referring to a hit in Florida and a hit in South Carolina.
'Cause it was Friday and Friday afternoons are reserved for Campari and sodas, maybe gin if there's cucumber in the house, and not the continuing indignity of work, I didn't reply.
The next day a bodyboarder was hit five hours drive north of where I live.
"And now there's this," he wrote, including a link about the attack on 38-year-old bodyboarder Dale Carr at Port Macquarie. "This is why I am trying to get the word out about my surf leash and other water sports tourniquets."
What can I say? Here's a little Q and A he has on the press release he sent.
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Having a tourniquet integrated in your leash enables you to quickly mitigate extremity life threatening bleeding on yourself or others.
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Has no mechanical advantage for tightening.
Cannot be secured in place.
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A person can bleed to death in as little as 3 minutes.
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A tourniquet can be worn for roughly 3 hours, with 2 hours being the optimum time to not exceed.
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Tourniquets that have been properly applied and have been worn within the range of 1-3 hours have a low risk of complications.
If I use a tourniquet won't I lose my arm or leg?
Not necessarily, if you do lose a limb it is likely that you would have lost the limb due to the trauma that caused the injury, and not because you applied a tourniquet. What the tourniquet does is ensure you won't die from blood loss caused by the trauma.
I'm not an accessories kinda gal and I'm also pretty sure if a pal was hit I'd either faint or sprint for shore, so it's not my scene, but maybe you like? Fifty bucks does seem a small price to pay.
Maybe if you live in Byron Bay, Reunion Island, South Africa, Western Australia etc, you might wanna sling for one.
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This, as y'can see, is part of the reason What Youth is such a compelling and important stop on the ol internet carousel. The mag and movie house is tight with the most photogenic surfers in the world (see: Craig Anderson) and their staff photographer Nate Lawrence can turn a simple land angle on its head with his subtle, but interesting as hell, composition. | Photo: Nate Lawrence
Objective: The Seven Surf Websites that Matter!
Like, besides us! Wait, do we matter?
Was it really only a handful of years ago that we'd wait a month for the latest surf news? A surf contest would go down and it wouldn't be until a journalist had written a story, the photographer had developed all his shots, the story had been submitted to a magazine and then edited, the photos had been scanned into a digital format, the magazine had been designed, printed and then distributed that we'd actually hear and see what had happened.
What a mockery of… everything!
Now, the good surf websites will have a photo gallery of the day's action along with an analysis within a couple of hours. Shark attack? Yeah, the inside story is up. Someone loses their sponsor of 20 years? You'll read about it in five different ways. There's plenty of dross out there, however, so let's point you in the direction of the sites that matter.
Most surprisingly edgy site: Matt Warshaw's Encylopedia of Surfing isn't what you'd expect, at least if you're unfamiliar with Warshaw's work. Sure, he's a historian now, and that's the genre of this one-stop shop of everything to do with surfing history, but the former editor of Surfer and pro surfer is the sport's most underrated writer. Combine an ability to write with his enyclopediac knowledge of surfing (hence his current gig) and a fearlessness of opinion unheard of in modern surf writers and you have a site that entertains…and…informs.
(Try this!)
Most complete website: With its formidable arsenal of surf cams and surf forecasting team, the foundation upon which the site was built, Surfline is the one-stop shop. The overwhelming taste of vanilla can be a little disheartening (Hello dull!) as can its obvious sexual proclivities, but, if it happened, it's on surfline.
The overwhelming taste of vanilla can be a little disheartening (Hello dull!) as can its obvious sexual proclivities, but, if it happened, it's on surfline.
Best photography: Despite its lack of any breaking news, Surfing presents the bests online photo features in the biz, a result of it having too many staff shooters, and therefore having to disperse its myriad of brilliant imagery… somewhere. The flipbook here (click!) from this year's Fiji event, is typical. Any other print magazine in the world would kill for what are supposedly Surfing's outs.
Best original clips and most interesting photos: What Youth is part-owned by the filmmaker Kai Neville and counts the Indonesia-based photographer Nate Lawrence. So what do you expect when they follow and film some hot young thing for a week in their Fairly Normal series or, as is evidenced in the main photo here, follow Craig Anderson to Desert Point? You don't wanna miss.
Best aggregator: Boardistan. From surf to snow to skate, Boardistan trawls the net and press releases from all the PR companies, provides a very readable synopsis of the event, with links to the original source.
Best architecture: Surfermag.com. The design of the site (and the magazine) is so simply perfect it'll move an aesthete to the happiest of tears. It ain't breaking ground in any other sense but… to look at… superb.
Most interesting insight into a surfer: Marinelayerproductions is the website of Dane Reynolds, the 28 year old from Ventura and, currently, Quiksilver's most highly paid surfer. What makes the site is it's the musings and photography of Dane and not the work of a media minder. Like this, as he posted a collection of his outs from the movie Cluster.
"i emailed a friend of mine a link to 'SAMPLER' the other day to see what he thought and he texted me back that it was 'pretty cool.' i said 'that doesn't sound very enthusiastic.' and he wrote back that it was 'a little too b sidey for me.' then the next day he sent a long winded explanation saying he just expected more. i wrote back 'that text leaves me more confused than before, so your saying you were just disappointed? i don't really care i like it… it's b sides whatever i'm not gonna force people to watch it or pay for it so if they're disappointed then fuck em'
man… expectations, what a stoke killer. every time you do something, the expectation is that whatever you do next has to be better. do you understand how unsustainable that is? the pressure caused by this principle has stressed me out, burned me out, i eventually cracked, hid out, dropped out, turned away… but then it get's to a point where you're just like 'fuck it.' that's when i've done my best surfing. when there is a complete absence of consideration for what people expect.
so here's SAMPLER, which is a collection of surfing i've done the past year that didn't make it into 'cluster.' so yeah, it is 'b sidey' but that is not a disclaimer, i'm proud of it. every moment can't be your best, the waves aren't always perfect, the more you expect the more your disappointed, do what you can with what you've got, surfing's an art, there's no winner and no loser, no right or wrong way to do it, there's a big difference between saying 'fuck it' and genuinely feeling it, and as much as i wish it did, writing it on my boards doesn't really make me feel it, and i have to say that for the most part, while filming the past year, i was aware that i was one of the oldest guys in the movie with a reputation to defend, and that is not the right frame of mind to surf your best. or feel your best, or be yourself… but seriously… fuck it, forget what your sponsors expect, what viewers expect, expect nothing, do your best, clear your mind, be present, turn off, tune out, drop in.
or as ethan fowler says it 'do what you want, do it well, or, if you don't want to do it well, don't do it well, just do it how you do it, and that shit shines through a thousand times brighter'"
Jack Black in Orange County, a movie the reviewer Roger Ebert describes thus: "Orange County" has the form of a teenage movie, the spirit of an independent comedy, and the subversive zeal of Jack Black, whose grin is the least reassuring since Jack Nicholson. It's one of those movies like "Ghost World" and "Legally Blonde" where the description can't do justice to the experience. It will sound like the kind of movie that, if you are over 17, you don't usually go to see. But it isn't."
Laughs: Five Classic Hollywood Surf Films!
Quirky, funny, even…subversive!
There's not a whole lot going on in the surf world today, but I've gotta do my daily deal, so I'm just gonna toss a lay-up and write about surf movies. But I'm not going to go on about Point Break or North Shore or Zalman King's tour de force, In God's Hands. Those have been covered, we've all seen them, and they have their redeeming features.
Instead, here's some other stuff.
This movie does it right, in the same way North Shore did. It's utterly ridiculous, fun to watch, and doesn't attempt to moralize. And so does a pretty good job of actually capturing the essence of surfing. Plus, it features some of the best surf CGI ever employed in film making, a kick-ass musical number, and Lori Loughlin, who was an amazing piece of ass back in the eighties.
So much effort goes into making a movie, it always blows my mind when the result is a nonsensical abortion. But this movie has Harland Williams, whom I think is hilarious, and features my favorite trope of all time, when the ugly nerd girl turns out to be hot and also the best surfer in the world. Plus, for some reason, she dresses like a geisha the entire movie, which really works for the secret weeaboo living inside me.
Starring Scott Eastwood, The Perfect Wave is another film that tries to shoehorn Jesus into surfing. It's based on the "true" story of Ian McCormack, some dude who claims to have seen god after being stung by a jellyfish, then spun that experience into a successful career swindling trusting morons.
Another surf film featuring Clint Eastwood's less talented son, Dawn Patrol is a tale of racism and rape and revenge and guilt and terrible acting and even worse writing. It's one redeeming feature is a lack of phony baloney Christian posturing.
A pretty damn funny movie, Jack Black's performance is especially hilarious. But instead of going into that, I'd like to talk about how this movie made for my brief brush with Hollywood.
One day, while I was in college, I heard that they were holding an open casting call a few blocks away from where I lived. They wanted surfer types, I am one of those, and I really didn't have anything more important to do.
So I got drunk, very drunk, and showed up to toss my hat in the ring.
Being in a room full of wannabe actors trying to look like surfers is pretty funny. Un-ironic aloha shirts, strappy sandals, and those terrible trunks with a mesh liner filled the room. We were all handed lines and set to waiting in a weird little office in Marina Del Rey.
I'd brought a couple tall boys with me so I whiled away the time trying to suck them down before they got warm and fucking with the guys around me who were trying to "learn their lines." Serious stuff for them, make or break dream time. Not so much for me.
My audition approach consisted of drunkenly screaming my lines at the casting lady, making fun of the actor nerds in the other room, then vomiting in a trash can on my way out of the building. Some straight Daniel Day-Lewis type method actor shit. Always in character. Always!
A few weeks later I actually got a call back. They asked for my agent's fax number, I gave them the one at the Italian restaurant where I was employed as an especially surly waiter and I was on my way to stardom!
But it wasn't to be.
Apparently, smoking a huge joint in your car, strolling in red-eyed and reeking of weed, then spending twenty minutes making fun of the script, isn't the best way to land an acting gig. Who knew?
History: How Charlie learned to surf
The Philippines and a glorious discovery.
Surf travels around the world on the backs of wonderful ambassadors. A man, or woman, travels to a foreign shore and walks on water and the local people shriek with delight and emulate. Duke Kahanamoku, for example, or Bruce Brown. But the man who brought surf to the Philippines is none other than Francis Ford Coppola.
That's right! The acclaimed film director from Detroit, Michigan brought the Sport of Kings to a small fishing village named Baler to film his epic Flight of the Valkyries soaked scene. You remember it, don't you? Robert Duvall, as Col. Kilgore, screaming at his men to either fight or surf? Beautiful!
Well, those men who surfed left behind a board and a child named Edwin Namoro grabbed it and bang! Surfing in the Philippines. Read Edwin's story here and watch that gorgeous Col. below. What a man!
Shark attack: Surfer hit! Beaches Closed!
Surfer hit at Lighthouse Beach, Port Macquarie, life-threatening injuries…
A little under two hours ago, a bodyboarder was hit by a shark at Lighthouse Beach at Port Macquarie, a five-hour drive north of Sydney.
According to police,
"About 5.10pm (Saturday 22 August 2015), a 38-year-old man was body boarding in the water with a friend about 400m south of the club house, when he was attacked by what is believed is a shark. The man was assisted out of the water and treated at the scene by Ambulance Paramedics to stomach and back injuries. All beaches in the area remain closed until further notice."
A few weeks ago, a surfer was knocked off his board and mauled at Evans Head, a little north of Port. A week or so before that, a bodyboarder suffered serious injuries to his legs when he was hit at Ballina further north and in February the Japanese surfer Tadashi Nakahara died when he was attacked by a great white shark, also at Ballina.
Obviously, public opinion around those parts has shifted and "cull" isn't seen as such a dirty word anymore. It's instructive to compare the Gold Coast an hour north of Byron, with its shark nets and drum lines, with the NSW mid and North Coast.
Last year, 621 sharks were pulled off the lines and out of the nets: eight great whites, 251 tigers, 111 bulls and 173 whalers.
In the 53 years of netting, and with the biggest surfing population in the world, and one that'll hit the Supa Bank in the middle of the night, there hasn't been one fatal hit.


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On Wednesday, a man was arrested by UK police after eggs were thrown at King Charles III and Camilla, his wife and queen consort, during an engagement in northern England.
Four eggs flew past the British monarch and his wife as they arrived for a traditional ceremony in York, according to social media footage. They appeared unaffected by the incident and continued with their engagement.
According to Reuters, police officers rushed in to drag away a protester who was shouting slogans. Others in the crowd, however, jeered him and chanted, "God save the king."
"A 23-year-old man was arrested on a suspicion of a public order offence following an incident on Micklegate in York," police said in a statement. "He currently remains in police custody."
Charles is on a two-day tour of northern England after ascending to the throne in September following the death of his mother, Queen Elizabeth. Later, he unveiled a statue of his late mother in York, which had been planned to commemorate her 70th year as Queen.
"Now, as we have witnessed, with great sadness, the passing of that reign, it is unveiled in her memory, as a tribute to a life of extraordinary service and devotion," he said.
The incident in York was not the first time the royals faced such opposition. When Elizabeth visited Nottingham, central England, in 2022, eggs were thrown at her royal car, and anti-British protesters threw eggs at Charles during a walkabout in central Dublin in 1995.
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Singapore North-East Line C 706
The first Herrenknecht reference project on the booming metro market in Singapore: the two EPB Shields S-134 and S-135 for the sections "Farrer Park – Boon Keng" and "Dhoby Ghant – Kandang Kerbau" on the North-East Line. This third line of Singapore's MRT (Mass Rapid Transit) has a total length of 20 kilometers and connects downtown Singapore with the northeastern part of the island.
Expecting heterogeneous ground conditions, the Herrenknecht engineers equipped the EPB Shields' cutting wheels with hardrock cutter tools. The machines excavated up to 140 meters per week of new metro tunnel between start of tunnelling in October 1998 and February 1999, respectively and the arrival in the target shaft in November and December 1999, respectively.
The North-East Line was put into operation in 2003. It is the longest metro line worldwide that is operated fully automatically without a driver.
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Alluvium, clay, sandstone, claystone
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Five Best Thursday Columns
Republican health care, Facebook felonies, the HPV vaccine, and fleeing China
Dissident Liao Yiwu recounts his flight from China Liao Yiwu was jailed for four years after speaking out against the government's crackdown at Tiananmen Square. The government has denied him permission to leave China 16 times. Yunnan Province in southwestern China provides easy exit points to those who want to sneak out of the country, and the simplicity of sneaking out via Yunan tempted him. But Liao writes in The New York Times, "Instead, I chose to stay in China, continuing to document the lives of those occupying the bottom rung of society." When the Arab Spring broke out, the government began censoring references to the "jasmine revolution" in text messages and on the Internet and beefed up security with patrolling plainclothes officers. "When public security officers learned that my books would be published in Germany, Taiwan and the United States, they began phoning and visiting me frequently," Liao writes. They told him he would face legal consequences if he continued to publish in the West. When Salman Rushdie invited him to a conference in New York, he applied for a visa to leave, but the government rejected him. "For a writer, especially one who aspires to bear witness to what is happening in China, freedom of speech and publication mean more than life itself," he says. "I had no intention of going back to prison." He decided to leave and tell the world about the "simmering resentment" hidden beneath China's economic success. He journeyed to Yunan but instead of sneaking across the river, he decided to use his passport with his legitimate visas to Germany, the United States, and Vietnam, and walk through an exit point. "A miracle occurred," and the guard did not stop him, so he quickly boarded a plane for Germany. "Outside the airport," he says, "the air was fresh and I felt free."
Jacob Weisberg on Republican health care options At this week's Republican debate, moderator Wolf Blitzer asked Ron Paul whether the government should allow an uninsured "catastrophically ill" 30 year old to die untreated. "At that point, the rabble erupted in cheers and whoops of 'Yeah!'" writes Slate's Jacob Weisberg. The moment showed a "medieval" "mob-mentality" among the Tea Partiers in the crowd, Weisberg says. "What it clarified, however, was less the cruelty of the Tea Party crowd than the absurdity of the health-care positions of all of the Republican candidates." The candidates oppose the individual mandate in "Obamacare," leaving them with two options: the current "arguably more socialized system" or one that allows Blitzer's hypothetical 30-year-old man to die. Under an individual mandate system, like Obama's or the one Romney signed into law in Massachusetts, if people don't insure themselves, "they pay money, which you can call a fine or a tax, as you prefer. Under this alternative, the costs incurred by Blitzer's young man are not broadly socialized because they are covered by the fine on those who avoid signing up for insurance." Under the current system, hospitals are required to treat the 30-year-old man. "But the costs of his treatment are not absorbed by the hospitals. They are passed on to consumers, employers, and the government in the form of higher insurance premiums." This makes the system "more socialized" than Obama's, Weisberg says. "The third option is that of the Tampa Tea Party mob: Let the young man go to the devil." While Romney has supported the individual mandate system, he now says states should decide for themselves, which Weisberg argues would only complicate things. Meanwhile, Michele Bachmann and Rick Perry seem to support the option favored by the debate crowd. "Details remain to be worked out around the disposal of corpses and the distribution of orphans," Weisberg quips. "But, say what you will, theirs is not a socialist approach."
Orin Kerr on Facebook felonies "Imagine you could be jailed for lying about your age or weight on an Internet dating site," writes GWU law professor Orin Kerr in The Wall Street Journal. Such a hypothetical could become reality under a proposed strengthening of the 1986 Computer Fraud and Abuse Act. "The law now criminalizes computer use that 'exceeds authorized access' to any computer. Today that violation is a misdemeanor, but the Senate Judiciary Committee is set to meet this morning to vote on making it a felony," Kerr says. Courts haven't settled on just what "authorized access" means, but some want it to extend all the way to "workplace computer-use policies." "If interpreted this way, the law gives computer owners the power to criminalize any computer use they don't like." Kerr imagines a host of abuses of the law. The Democratic Party could set up a site that forbids Republicans from viewing it, then Republicans who do so anyway could be prosecuted. "In 2010, the Justice Department charged a defendant with unauthorized access for using a computer to buy tickets from Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster's website lets anyone visit. But its 'terms of use' only permitted non-automated purchases, and the defendant used a computer script to make the purchases." The law also allows for civil suits, leading to even more abuses. In one case, "a company posted 'terms of use' on its website declaring that no competitors could visit—and then promptly sued a competitor that did." "Real threats to cybersecurity must be prosecuted," Kerr says. "Penalties should be stiff. But Congress must narrow the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act before enhancing its penalties."
Megan McArdle on Rick Perry's motivations for mandating HPV vaccines People are quick to accuse Rick Perry of mandating vaccination against HPV only because his former chief of staff worked for the pharmaceutical company that manufactures it, an explanation that confused The Atlantic's Megan McArdle. "Can we really categorically rule out the possibility that Rick Perry thought that mandating Gardasil was a good way to fight cervical cancer, which claims the life of around 4,000 women every year?" she asks. Former staffers, she points out, must ask Rick Perry for favors all the time. "Being a former staffer gets you a meeting. It does not get you a politically costly decision that your former boss thinks is an objectively bad idea." She lists the reasons mandating the vaccine is a good idea: The vaccine guards against strains of HPV that cause about 70 percent of cervical cancers in the country. "The CDC estimates that at least half of all people who ever have sex will get [HPV]. You cannot protect your children from it by ensuring that they have strong moral foundations--unless you plan to also guarantee that the person they marry has never had sexual contact with another person." HPV is increasingly linked to head, neck, and anal cancers, she writes. Vaccines, she notes, don't always protect the individual, but when communities of enough vaccinated people live together, it makes it difficult for a virus to find a host and creates a "herd immunity." And finally, she says, "The vaccine is extremely effective, and the reported side effects incredibly low... Frankly if this wasn't an STD, no one would even be questioning whether we should vaccinate for a disease that kills at least 3,000 people a year." Even if you disagree, she says, she still doesn't see evidence that the only reason Rick Perry would mandate vaccination is corporate interest. "I'm not saying that drug companies are always solid citizens... but they do, in fact, occasionally invent things that save peoples lives," she writes.
Bing West on today's Medal of Honor recipient President Obama is awarding the Medal of Honor to Marine Corporal Dakota Meyer. "In attendance will be a handful of soldiers and Marines who, one day in September 2009, were abandoned by their chain of command and relied on their own initiative to dislodge a fierce enemy," writes Bing West in The Wall Street Journal. Elders in a remote Afghanistan village asked for aid repairing a mosque. But when U.S.-trained Afghan soldiers arrived, they found a setup. Sixty jihadists "opened fire with machine guns, mortars and rockets." When 21-year-old Corporal Meyer heard officers rejecting calls for artillery fire, he took a Humvee straight into battle. He began putting injured Afghan soldiers into the back of the vehicle while firing at the enemies from his machine gun turret. "Rocket-propelled grenades and machine-gun bullets followed Cpl. Meyer as he repeatedly left his armored turret to load the truck with wounded Afghan soldiers." Three times he and Sergeant Juan Rodriguez-Chavez returned for more bodies, all while higher ups continued to deny backup requests. "Capt. Will Swenson, an Army adviser who remained in the valley to fight, calling repeatedly for artillery fire, only to be rebuffed by headquarters... Over the following months, two investigations resulted in three letters of reprimand for the unit commanders' failure to provide fire support. Bitterness about the battle and its aftermath lingered among the families of the five dead Americans," West writes. Corporal Meyer protested the overlooking of Captain Swenson, who resigned quietly from the army. Two years later, a general recommended Swenson for the medal of honor. Now Meyer, too, will be recognized for his obvious bravery. "Today's ceremony should be a source of pride for all Americans, because Ganjigal wasn't about one warrior," West writes. "Inside that village on the Pakistan border, the defining values of America—individual initiative, comradeship, valor and determination to prevail despite any odds—were on display."
Eric Randall is an associate digital editor at Boston Magazine and a former staff writer for The Atlantic Wire.