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Thirteen Turkish citizens who were arrested in Georgia were released Sunday following a series of diplomatic initiatives by Ankara, Turkish officials told the Hurriyet Daily News yesterday. "The Georgian prime minister signed the papers required to release Turkish nationals. They have been released from Rustavi Prison and have been given their documents to travel to Turkey. Some of them have already gone back to Turkey," one official said. The 13 Turks had been arrested over a period of months on different accusations, sources said. Foreign Minister Ahmet Davutoglu held a couple of phone conversations with his Georgian counterpart in order to free the Turkish nationals. Yusuf Kılıç, Ozgür Namlı, Zeynel Ali Çetinkaya, Kemal Oncer, Hayati Naldemirci, Kemal Aydin, Hasan Avci, Hamza Kaputoglu, Musa Alev, Yusuf Yalçın, Sabri Gaz and Sinan Ciftci were among the Turkish citizens who were released.


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Sri Lanka participates in 16th China International Small and Medium Enterprises Fair
2019-07-03/ http://www.ft.lk/business/Sri-Lanka-participates-in-16th-China-International-Small-and-Medium-Enterprises-Fair/34-681129
Sri Lanka Export Development Board, in coordination with the Consulate General of Sri Lanka in Guangzhou, participated in the 16th China International Small and Medium Fair (CISMEF) from 24-27 June.
Sri Lanka has been continuously participating in the CISMEF, since 2014, showcasing and promoting her products in China.
CISMEF inaugurated in 2004, gives a platform to display, trade, exchange and cooperate with small and medium enterprises at home and abroad to increase understanding, and strengthen cooperation for common development of trade between China and other countries.
30 companies from Sri Lanka, representing prominent sectors, including gem and jewellery, tea, spices, handicrafts, coconut products participated in the fair.
At the 'Promotional Session for Products of Sri Lanka' organised by CISMEF for Sri Lankan exhibitors to introduce their products to the local enterprises, the Consul General Priyangika Dharmasena, in her speech, thanked the organisers for facilitating the segment, giving an opportunity for Sri Lankan companies to have face to face interactions with their counterparts, and bringing in avenues for trade partnerships.
Deputy Director General of the Guangdong Small and Medium Enterprises Bureau, Wang Fuxiu, in her address, explained about the fair, as well as about China Sri Lanka trade relations.
Deputy Director of the Sri Lanka Export Development Board, D.M.P. Dissanayake and Assistant Director of the Coconut Development Authority, V.U. Egodawattage conducted two presentations on Sri Lanka's trade products, trade potential and coconut items.
Several Sri Lankan exhibitors explained to the local buyers about different export sectors in Sri Lanka, as well as, about their companies. The matchmaking session assisted the Sri Lankan companies to interact with local companies, and also the exhibitors were able to secure several buyers for their products.
Source at: Daily FT
Source at: http://www.ft.lk/business/Sri-Lanka-participates-in-16th-China-International-Small-and-Medium-Enterprises-Fair/34-681129
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Two wonderful 'Hotel' films
Ryan Wilder
We've all gotten that spark of wanderlust, a wanton desire to travel abroad, to let loose the shackles of our everyday lives in favor of an exciting adventure to another part of the world.
"The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel" features an ensemble cast consisting of stars Judi Dench, Maggie Smith, Bill Nighy, Celia Imrie, Penelope Wilton, Ronald Pickup, Diana Hardcastle, Tamsin Greig, Tena Desae, Dev Patel, Lillete Dubey, David Strathairn and Richard Gere. Fox Searchlight Pictures
We've all gotten that spark of wanderlust, a wanton desire to travel abroad, to let loose the shackles of our everyday lives in favor of an exciting adventure to another part of the world. If you're feeling that way, but are stuck, the duo of "Exotic Marigold Hotel" films just might help.
The films follow a handful of previously unconnected characters who all conquer a yearning for travel, each venturing to a resort hotel in India for myriad reasons. It is through their journeys that the characters meet, intermingle and develop strong bonds with one another, all tied together by the thread that is "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel."
The first film, "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," features a fantastic cast that includes Evelyn (Judi Dench), an aging widow forced into selling her home in England to cover her deceased husband's debts; Graham (Tom Wilson), a retired high court judge who relocates to India to track down a lost love; Jean and Douglas (Penelope Wilton and Bill Nighy), a married couple seeking affordable retirement; Madge (Celia Imrie), a single woman using a vacation in India as an effort to rekindle her love life; Norman (Ronald Pickup), a man seeking to reclaim his youth; and Muriel (Dame Maggie Smith), a somewhat embittered woman forced into relocating to India for hip replacement surgery.
The characters make their separate ways to India, meeting at "The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," advertised as a splendid resort for "the elderly and beautiful." Owned by Sonny (Dev Patel), the establishment turns out to be somewhat less than described. That said, Sonny wants to expand the hotel into a five-star venture, ideally through the revenue that guests bring in, along with outside investments. Joining Sonny is his girlfriend, Sunaina (Tena Desae), and his mother, Mrs. Kapoor (Lillete Dubey). The interactions between these characters, and Sonny's endeavors with the hotel, make up some of the interconnected narratives in the inaugural film.
As the narrative develops, each character experiences India in his or her own way. Evelyn takes her first job; Graham embarks on a quest to seek out his lost love; Douglas explores the area and intermingles with the locals; Jean lounges about the hotel; Madge and Norman try their separate hands at romance via the Viceroy Club; and Muriel completes her operation, replacing her outlook as well as her hip.
While they all have their own stories, their paths are woven together like a web as they form unique bonds, become friends, experience loss, triumph and self-discovery, and immerse themselves in the powerful experience that is India.
The second film, "The Second Best Exotic Marigold Hotel," continues their stories, now as full-time guests at the hotel. The Marigold has reached full capacity, forcing Sonny to seek expansion into a second building, hence the film's title. Muriel, who has become the hotel's accounts keeper and general manager, travels to the United States alongside Sonny to pitch the expansion to a large hotel corporation, meeting executive Ty Burley (David Strathairn), who agrees to consider their offer, but only after they send an inspector to the hotel in the guise of a guest. The identity of this inspector is kept largely secret for the majority of the film, joining the spiderweb narrative as another string pulling the film along, setting the stage for an entertaining experience.
Nearly all of the actors from the first film reprise their roles for the sequel, and are joined by aspiring novelist Guy Chambers (Richard Gere), visiting the hotel for inspiration and a place to write, and Lavinia Beach (Tamsin Grieg), a new guest scouting the hotel for her aging mother.
The film's narrative directly follows the events of its predecessor film, continuing the stories of these characters as they continue to adapt to their new home, tighten their bonds and live their new lives.
Taken separately, the films feel like pieces of a puzzle, but when watched together, they feel like two halves of a whole -- complementary segments that connect to form a heartwarming story that encourages viewers of all ages to live life to the fullest and always look forward to better horizons.
The filmmakers display not only the stunning electricity and vivacity of India but also effectively convey the idea that it's possible to grow older and still remain dynamic, with much to live for. While each focuses on a central cast of aging characters, there is a wonderful juxtaposition between old and young, thanks to the relationships Sonny forms with his guests, who ultimately find what they need in their new home, even if they didn't know they needed it.
Perhaps most refreshing were two movies with no special effects, no huge explosions, no gunfire and no gratuitous sex scenes, that were both immensely entertaining. The films also shine a spotlight on not only up-and-coming actors such as Patel and Desae, but also on actors who paved the way brilliantly and have still got it going on.
If you're experiencing wanderlust and are looking for an uplifting adventure, consider spending time at the Exotic Marigold Hotel. You might just find what you need, even if you didn't know you needed it.


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Asbel Kiprop: Banned ex-Olympic champion quits athletics to become rally driver
Monday, February 24, 2020 at 4:26 PM by Fred Kennedy
- Asbel Kiprop's athletics career took a nosedive after the IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal slapped him with a four-year ban
- This was after he tested positive for EPO, a banned substance in sports
- Apart from doping, the 30-year-old's glittering career was littered with unending controversies
- The 2008 Olympic 1,500m champion has now resolved to switch to rallying
Controversial Kenyan runner Asbel Kiprop has announced he is quitting athletics to give motorsport a shot.
Kiprop, a former 1,500m Olympic and World Champion, was slapped with a four-year ban from the track back in April 2019 for doping.
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Asbel Kiprop competes in the Men's 1500m semi finals during day eight of the 16th IAAF World Athletics Championships in London. Photo: Getty Images.
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The IAAF Disciplinary Tribunal handed Kiprop the ban after the athlete tested positive for EPO in an out-of-competition test in Kenya late 2017.
Despite publicly declaring his innocence, the 30-year-old's suspension from athletics still stood.
And close to a year later, Kiprop appears to have chosen to move on after taking to Facebook to announce he is switching sports.
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"I am ready to begin again in a sport that doesn't have doping conspiracy. I will be patient again to be able to be champion. I will be climbing the ladder hoping to learn the next game," he posted.
His new move was confirmed by legendary rally driver Abdul Side.
"The former world and Olympic 1,500m champion is looking at the Abdul Sidi Rally Advisor (ASRA) to help change his famous career to become the next rally driver," Sidi divulged on Facebook.
Kiprop was a household name in the world of athletics during his prime before his career took a nosedive in subsequent years.
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This initiative started in May 2003 with five members: Piet Hut, Sukanya Chakrabarti, Rajesh Kasturirangan, Jon Lindsay and Leonore Wigger. It began with an e-mail that Piet sent to the four others. He asked if we were interested in forming a group that explored experience in a quasi-scientific way, or as he put it, to think of life as a lab. We all agreed to a six-month "experiment". During this period, every week or so all of us performed a simple experiential exercise (like the subject-object reversal outlined here) and then wrote our reports based on these exercises, along with any meta-reflections.
At the end of this period, in late October 2003, the five of us met in Princeton, and we decided to extend our project for another six months. We also felt that more viewpoints would be welcome, so four people were invited to join our group, of whom two are with us today, Veronique Foti and Jeff Thompson. We also felt that our group needed more structure than we had imposed on ourselves so far and so we decided to read Time, Space and Knowledge (henceforth TSK) by Tarthang Tulku, a Tibetan Teacher based in Berkeley. The views expressed in TSK were closest to our own vision of a non-dogmatic approach to existential questions. Our goal was to read a chapter of TSK every week. We also created a structured format where each person would write a lab report according to our guidelines and then one person would summarize that week's output to the rest of the group.
The discussion of the exercises in TSK provoked many interesting questions, some philosophical, some scientific, and others more metaphysical. TSK's vision questions all of the normal assumptions that we make about reality, and in its radical version, it challenges the reality of everything we take for granted, even something as seemingly solid as a rock. After all, a rock is a rock, right? If you kick it, you get hurt, what could be more certain than that? While one can, at an intellectual level, agree that the rock is "empty", to use a Buddhist phrase, how can we see the emptiness of the rock directly? Such questions kept us busy for another six months. We did not arrive at a consensus, but it was clear that the questions were getting more and more interesting. On the flip side, the lab report format we had developed turned out to be too constrictive at this stage of our exploration and it was discontinued.
After reading TSK, we met again in Princeton in April 2004. At that time we felt that the group had a better grasp of the core problems, but more work was needed before we could see the issues concretely. There was still the question of a universal methodology that was clearly science-like in its structure. At that time Piet said that he would be happy to take a shot at delineating a science-like method and that he would write a book if the rest of us were willing to read it. We agreed to read it and comment on it for the next six months and also invited another person to join us: Edita Zlatic.
During the summer and early fall of 2004, we read Piet's book chapter by chapter, giving him feedback, while reflecting upon how to conduct an open-ended inquiry into reality. In his book Piet started with science as we know it now (which is driven by the science of matter) and ended with what science might look like after many centuries. His book (available here) illustrates our ongoing effort to develop a science-like approach to fundamental existential questions.
When we met in Princeton in early November 2004, we agreed that our collective understanding had reached a stage that was communicable to others and the Yamaneko Project was born. For the background of the name, click here Why Yamaneko?. These pages summarize the consensus view as we see it. We hope that the combined effort of people asking questions worldwide in a transparent and open format will help us accelerate the process of discovering the principles underlying reality.


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A domestic partnership is terminated when 1) one partner dies or is married, 2) the partners no longer have a common residence, or 3) one partner gives written notice by certified mail of termination. Upon the occurrence of such event, at least one former partner shall file with the City Clerk a statement of termination of domestic partnership.
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The research will be mainly focused on the relationship between the stock returns and the fluctuation of foreign exchange rate exposure in Taiwan listed corporations. Due to the environmental limitations and in sufficient resources, if Taiwan inclines to develop international trade, the exchange market plays an important role in the advances of Taiwan's economy. Therefore, the fluctuations of foreign exchange rate must have a substantially impact on the profitability of industries in Taiwan.


Sedum rubrotinctum 'Aurora' is an especially pink cultivar of the stonecrop succulent known as pork and beans or jelly bean plant. This attractive ground-cover form should stay to about 6 inches high but it can spread to about 3 feet, in part because it roots easily from stems and leaves.
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There is an acute and increasing capacity shortage in the UK power market. The UK capacity market was implemented to address this problem in 2014 but has instead contributed to it. As a result the UK is increasingly falling back on a temporary emergency reserve mechanism to prop up UK security of supply.
There is an acute and increasing capacity shortage in the UK power market caused by the retirement of older gas and coal plants. This is being driven by ongoing weakness in thermal generation margins, due in part to increasing volumes of renewable output.
In response to security of supply concerns, the UK government introduced a capacity market in 2014. The aim of this intervention was to provide a reliable stream of income to support the flexible thermal capacity required to backup intermittent renewable output. But so far the capacity market has had the opposite effect.
Low capacity prices have contributed to the closure of existing thermal plants. At the same time the capacity market has incentivised delivery of very little in the way of new capacity. So the UK's system reserve margin, rather than stabilising, continues to fall.
Security of supply is instead being maintained by a stop gap secondary 'market' for capacity known as Supplemental Balancing Reserve (SBR). SBR was designed as a temporary measure for the system operator to acquire emergency reserve while the government implemented a real capacity market. But SBR is increasingly becoming the real UK capacity market, by default rather than design.
In the client briefing pack we published before the 2nd auction, we set out our expectations for the price to clear in the 10-15 £/kW range. We also set out a 20 £/kW upper bound driven by CCGT fixed costs and 5 £/kW lower bound driven by the risk adjusted value of waiting to the T-1 auction. The auction cleared at 18 £/kW towards our upper bound (as shown in Chart 1), driven by the bidding behaviour of older CCGTs. This was marginally below the 2014 auction but broadly in line with market expectations.
5.1 GW of older existing capacity was unsuccessful in getting capacity agreements. This consisted of 2GW CCGT and 3.1 GW coal plants. In many ways this is the most important outcome of the auction. Without capacity payments, the economics of these older plants is unviable, in the absence of other regulatory support.
Genuine new build capacity consisted of 1.1 GW of smaller scale peakers, with 0.5GW of DSR. A significant volume of this was in the form of diesel generator sets, causing the government some embarrassment from an emissions perspective. The 810MW Carrington CCGT was also successful in bidding for a one year 'new build' agreement, although this plant was only new build in a technical sense, given it is already close to completion.
A relatively high volume of capacity (around 8GW) exited the auction above 50 £/kW as can be seen in Chart 1. This included the larger scale new build CCGT projects in an indication that under the current market rules, the capacity price will need to rise significantly to incentivise CCGT new build. The new UK-Belgium NEMO Link interconnector project also failed to secure an agreement. This was unexpected given that the link will presumably be developed anyway given healthy economics & other regulatory support.
In summary there were no real surprises from the auction outcome. Much more interesting will be what happens to the 5GW of existing plants that exited the auction. This capacity joins a growing list of older coal and CCGT plants that are queueing up for life support from the SBR mechanism.
In 2015 around 5GW of capacity announced its intention to close, after failing to secure a capacity agreement in the first auction. Another 5GW of capacity has now been added to the endangered list after the second auction. That leaves a cloud of uncertainty hanging over security of supply in the UK power market.
The UK cannot afford to lose 10GW of capacity. This would send the system reserve margin deep into negative territory.
Neither the capacity nor the energy market is currently incentivising older flexible plants to remain open.
This is where the UK's unofficial secondary capacity market comes in. The results of National Grid's procurement of SBR capacity for Winter 2016-17 were released just before the T-4 capacity auction. These show Grid paying an average of 34 £/kW for 3.6GW of capacity, close to double the clearing price in the last two T-4 capacity auctions. In fact one large unit (500MW+) appears to have been paid an 88 £/kW capability price (higher than the price cap of the T-4 auction). In addition to these costs, Grid must also pay utilisation fees if the units are called on to run.
Can the status quo really continue?
A cynic could be forgiven for questioning the logic of these dual capacity markets. The main T-4 capacity auctions have been incentivising capacity to close, given clearing price levels below the fixed costs of thermal assets. But at the same time, the SBR mechanism is paying a substantial premium to ensure that the same plants remain open once they have failed to secure an agreement in the T-4 auction.
The inconsistencies and distortions that have plagued the UK power market since the implementation of the Electricity Market Reform (EMR) policies continue. The UK government seems to be wandering along an expensive path towards an increasingly centrally planned capacity mix. There has to be a smarter way to run a power market!
We suspect that the fallout from the 2015 capacity auction and SBR procurement will cause the government to step in with further policy interventions in 2016. We will come back shortly with our thoughts on how this may impact the UK power market going forward. But the winners from a changing rule book are likely to be the developers of larger CCGT assets, with the losers likely to be high emissions diesel and coal generators.


Arnold Schoenberg invented his twelve-tone method to replace normative conceptions of melody. In so doing, he discarded or otherwise obscured the most attractive and enduring elements of music: repetition, anticipation, and predictability. Musical satisfaction derives from our ability to identify phrases, discern tensions, predict resolutions, detect climaxes, perceive suspensions, and recognize other structural features. We are pleased when these expectations are fulfilled and surprised when anticipations are foiled or delayed. The relative unpredictability of Schoenberg's system tosses all of this out.
According to the rules of twelve-tone technique, the chromatic scale must be organized in a tone row wherein no note is sounded more often than another. This eliminates intuitive patterns, annihilates key signatures, and contradicts millennia-old musical tendencies. When the row occurs again, as it does with mathematical regularity, its wide intervals, variation, and turbulent character do little to please the pattern-hungry ears of the average auditor.
Despite its novelty and intellectual intrigue, Schoenberg's method has been called "senseless," "unbearable," "torturous," and worse. In 1930 the Musical Times of London declared, "The name of Schoenberg is, as far as the British public is concerned, mud." Two decades later the Boston Herald published this invective: "The case of Arnold Schoenberg vs. the people (or vice versa, as the situation may be) is one of the most singular things in the history of music. For here is a composer . . . who operates on the theory that if you know how to put a bunch of notes on a piece of score paper you are, presto, a composer" (Rudolph Elie, November 11, 1950).
Witty attacks like these are far too numerous to begin listing here. But are charges of misanthropy warranted? According to psychologist David Huron, Schoenberg's system is less atonal (without a tonal center) than it is contratonal: it deliberately circumvents tonal implications. If the twelve notes were put into a randomizing computer program, they would occasionally occur in sequences resembling melody as we know it. But Schoenberg and his twentieth-century disciples meticulously avoided even hints of such patterns. As such, they expunged from their music precisely that which human ears have evolved to enjoy.
Lest this seem an overstatement, Huron and his colleague Joy Ollen found that roughly ninety-four percent of music contains clear and verbatim repetition within the first few seconds. This figure derives from examples spanning five continents and inclusive of styles ranging from Navajo war songs to Estonian bagpipes to Punjabi pop. It is probable that Schoenberg's music wouldn't even be recognized as music in many of these cultures.
This entry was posted in analysis, composition, criticism, ethnomusicology, evolution, invention, listening, music, perception, psychology, taste and tagged A Survivor from Warsaw, Arnold Schoenberg, Atonal, Boston Herald, Cantratonal, Criticism, David Huron, Ethnomusicololgy, Evolution, Joy Ollen, melody, Moses und Aron, Musical Times, Rudolph Elie, Taste, Twelve-Tone Music on April 17, 2014 by jlfriedmann.
Thank you for opening this window into the music of Arnold Schoenberg. I enjoy following your blog.
The history of the unresolved tonic (suspended tonality) is a long one, and to overly simplify, it culminated with the Twelve-Tone System or Pantonalism.
Now, if I may open another window, I believe I understand how you feel from the title of this blog entry, and how you felt when you wrote this sentence: "The unpredictability of Schoenberg's system tosses all of this out." However, I feel differently for many reasons. Here are two.
1. After the twelve tones are played, the twelve tones are repeated. in other words, the Twelve-Tone System is based on repetition. Schoenberg did not eliminate repetition, he just changed the concept of what and how repetition occurs.
2. Since Schoenberg did not write Aleatoric Music, but rather, music organized around a "System of Intention," I'm in agreement with Webern: "One can also take the view that even with us there is still a tonic present. I certainly think so, but over the course of the whole piece, this didn't interest us any more." , page 38.
Thank you, Mike. I realize that I failed to mention a few things. The problem, as Huron sees it, is that in most music cross-culturally, repetition occurs within a few seconds of piece. This is evidentally what the average listener longs for. (I'm a fan of Schoenberg and this post was my attempt to understand why most people are not.) I appreciate your feedback and will amend accordingly.
You make a good point that in a truly random situation repetitive patterns would arise anyway (the monkeys on the typewriters).
Most of all, Schoenberg was attempting to use a purely musical form where the music is driven from 'within' by the shaping forces that emerge as we write. We've been here before, of course, in a sense, in our discussions regarding the 'universality' of music. It's also worth bearing in mind the way that 'conventional' music evolved over the centuries into the comfortable, recognizable form we are familiar with. It didn't happen overnight. The unfamiliar requires effort to assimilate.
At least, Schoenberg was attempting to be more objective in his methods, not relying on subjective habits (complexes) of half-remembered elements. Of course, you don't have to write serial music to achieve that. Personally, I've never rushed home thinking 'I must put that 12 tone piece on when I get back'.
Another point, often overlooked by critics, is that a composer doesn't have to adopt serial methods to 'free' his music. There are ways of assembling harmonies and melodies that owe no allegiance to tradition or even tonal centres as we usually know them (See: Joseph Schillinger).
which (kind of) illustrates what I mean. I must apologize for the sound font on some of these samples. It's along story. Some of the brass pieces were recorded live by the Championship Staffordshire Band who were virtually sight-reading.
Regards to you, John Morton.
Thanks for that, John. An argument can be made that Schoenberg's attempt to make "pure" music, in which the notes of a piece have meaning only in relationship to other notes in that piece, he effectively distanced it from the human experience. As we've discussed, most people listen to music because of what it does rather than what it is. Since Schoenberg's system breaks ties with the evolutionarily developed musical experience, it basically does nothing.
I don't believe it achieves nothing. Melody, for example, is a trajectory with time in the horizontal axis (usually the vertical axis, of course, in spacetime graphs) and pitch in the vertical. It can emulate our physical experience by the way it behaves and, in so doing, produce a similar human response. Having said that, the end result in serial composition becomes very difficult to assimilate. It is not pleasant to most ears. I've always felt that it is written by and listened to by the cognoscenti. Also, because of the up-down sense of orientation we all experience, attempts to deny a ground-base will, at least in the foreseeable future, produce an effect that will be perceived to be unnatural.
I have used serial techniques briefly, in otherwise 'conventional' settings, where I wish to take the music to a new level of dissonance and confusion; a feeling of chaos. This has worked well.
I suppose the lesson here is not to disregard any principle categorically.
I agree with you. I only meant that serialism is at a severe disadvantage when it comes to the relational aspect of music, which I have argued is its most important function. Because it is so difficult to relate to (without rigorous assimilation), it is "abstract music" in the truest sense of the term. That does not mean that it cannot be put to good use or be interesting (I've got an assortment of Schoenberg, et al. in my library); but for the average listener, it does not have much of an impact other than confusion.


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Sandrine Billiet, née le  à Bruges, est une judokate belge et cap-verdienne.

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Sandrine Billiet remporte le Championnat de Belgique de judo en 2012 dans la catégorie des moins de 63 kg ainsi que les Jeux de la Francophonie de 2013 à Nice dans la même catégorie.

En raison de ses études et de son métier, elle fait des recherches sur les fédérations sportives dans le monde et est amenée à aller au Cap-Vert, dont elle prend la nationalité sportive.

Elle dispute le match pour la médaille de bronze des championnats d'Afrique de judo 2020 à Antananarivo dans la catégorie des moins de 63 kg, qu'elle perd face à la Nigériane Enku Ekuta.

Elle est médaillée d'argent des championnats d'Afrique de judo 2021 à Dakar, perdant en finale de la catégorie des moins de 63 kg contre la Marocaine Sarah Harachi.

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Étudiant de l'université de Gand

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Second suspected bird flu case in Hungary
Thousands of goslings have been culled at a farm in Hungary close to where the EU's first outbreak of the deadly form of bird flu since the summer
US report indicates Israeli broke cluster bomb rules
The US may take punitive measures against Israel over the suspected mis-use of American-made cluster bombs during last summer's war in southern
Video shows terror of Eilat attack
Terror in Israel – just four days before mediators are to meet in a bid to revive Middle East peace talks. Video footage has been released of the
Ceasefire deal in Gaza amid spiralling violence
Rival Palestinian factions Fatah and Hamas have agreed a ceasefire deal. It is aimed at ending the worst cycle of violence in Gaza for over a year
Protestors unite against US radar plans
Demonstrators have marched through the centre of Prague in protest at US plans for an anti-missile radar base in the country. They claim the base
Date set for new elections for N.Ireland assembly
There is confirmation that new elections for a regional assembly in Northern Ireland will be held on March 7. This from the British and Irish leaders
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European Union finance ministers have formally agreed to end disciplinary measures against France, now that its budget deficit is below the three per
NATO and Paris welcome UN plan for Kosovo
NATO and France have welcomed UN diplomat Martti Ahtisaari's roadmap for the future of Kosovo after he unveiled a draft version in Vienna. The
Manchester to host Britain's first "supercasino"
Manchester has hit the jackpot. It has beaten off a string of other cities to win the right to host Britain's first "supercasino." Although the
Microsoft launches new "Vista" operating system
It has been a very long time in coming but Microsoft has finally launched "Vista", its new Windows operating system for home users. More than 100
France Telecom loses appeal against EU competition fine
A European Union Court has upheld a 10 million euro anti-competition fine against France Telecom's internet arm Wanadoo. It said the company had
Commission stokes EU smoking ban debate
The European Union has urged the member countries to forbid smoking in public places. The Commission in Brussels has published a discussion paper
Bulgaria probes death row medics' torture claims in Libya
Claims that five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were tortured in Libya are to be investigated by authorities in Sofia. A Libyan court
MG Rover plant ready to start making cars again
Almost two years after the collapse of British car maker MG Rover, its factory at Longbridge in central England is about to start making cars again
Retirement age protests in Germany
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Ceasefire holds in Gaza
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The climax of the Ashura Shi'ite festival in Iraq has been marred by violent attacks
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Israeli forces have destroyed a tunnel near Gaza's Karni crossing after yesterday's suicide bombing in the Red Sea resort of Eilat.
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This British 3-year-old wears hearing aids, and now her doll does too.
Dixie Harris-Sandstrom, of London, is enamored by her custom-made doll that sports a bright blue hearing aid just like she does.
Her mom, Amy Harris-Sandstrom, said she made the special purchase to help her daughter feel like she fit in.
"I wanted to show Dixie that other children are like her too," Harris-Sandstrom told Caters News. "I didn't want her to think she was abnormal for having hearing aids, and I felt it was important to challenge the stereotype of how a normal doll should look."
In addition, Harris-Sandstrom picked a doll with darker skin to help her daughter realize that not all little girls look alike.
Dixie was born with severe hearing loss in both ears, and will always have to wear hearing aids. She communicates using a combination of sign language and speaking.
She also has a chromosome condition that affects her growth and motor skills.
"I try to portray Dixie's disability as super powers, not a disability, and I'm hoping she'll think the same once she fully understands," her mom said.
Harris-Sandstrom said she shares her daughter's photos and videos online, hoping to help others see her for who she really is.
"She has just a great personality and it's important for people to see that she's just a typical 3-year-old," her mom said.


Sometime this past year I read a suggestion that workers forget about "to-do" lists for managing time and focus their attention on "done" lists. Since I spend time each December doing something similar for my whole year, this seems like a good opportunity to consider this time management option.
If I've written about "done" lists before, I can't find it now. Nor can I find the original article that included this material. Getting a handle on that sort of thing seems as if it would be good for time management, doesn't it? Another post.
The theory behind preferring "done lists" to "to-do" lists is that much that goes onto "to-do" lists is never done and will often just be dropped. In fact, I can also recall reading decades ago about prioritizing "to-do" lists into A, B, and C categories, planning to eventually drop the Cs altogether at some point, if they lingered on the list too long. Which kind of raises the question, What's the point?
"Done" lists, on the other hand, can become motivators, particularly if you create real lists and you're the kind of person who gets a kick out of some kind of visual reward.
First off, let's look at an easy application from my personal life. I have no trouble exercising each day. I'm a bit of a plodder, but I'm happy to walk, sit on a stationary bike with a book, use an aerobics DVD, do some resistance training while watching TV, some yoga, go biking. What is more difficult for me is to organize exercise around specific goals--maintaining strength, improving flexibility, or any of the other functional fitness things we're supposed to be doing. I'm a bit of a binge exerciser. I've tried planning to do X number of minutes of some activity Y times a week, but I doubt I've ever made it through seven days with that kind of thinking. I always went back to running with whatever felt good at the moment. Except not running, of course. I've never been a runner.
Soon after I read about "done" lists, though, I came up with the idea of keeping track of what I've done for types of exercise instead of planning what I had to do. Yes, there are four types of exercise I should be doing each week, and I should be doing each one of them a certain number of times. But instead of assigning days, I jot down what I did with a number, the number designating that it is the 1st, 2nd, or whatever time I've done something in a week-long period. I'm getting a lot more success with this system, in large part because I see that I've done something once, and I'm motivated to do it again so I can see that I've done it twice.
Having done something, motivates me to do more. I've been doing this with exercise for two or three months now. That's far longer than I've ever made it with planning out what and when I'm going to do ahead of time.
A second, more professional example involves what I'm calling my Submission Boards, which you'll see to your right.Technically, this is a very poor way of keeping track of manuscript submissions. What you should do...well, I won't go into that, because, though I've kept track of submissions a variety of ways over the years, in all likelihood none of them were "what you should do."
National Novel Writing Month might also be described as a "done" list. If you're doing well, having written for fourteen days in a row is a big motivator to write for the fifteenth day. And if you've been not only writing every day but meeting your word goal, you're going to feel good about continuing to work.
Remember the What the Hell Effect? It describes how we often give up on a goal when our self-esteem is low because we feel we've failed at doing something we wanted to do, so what the hell? We might as well drop the whole thing. "Done" lists are the opposite of that. We see we've done something, and we're so encouraged that we keep working.
"Done" lists are also a pretty powerful example (at least in my experience) of an external support for willpower. Workers are ""offloading" some of their mental work/working memory to their environment."
Katie Fitzgerald at Read-at-Home Mom plans to run an Old School Kidlit Reading Challenge next year. For her purposes, "old school" will be defined as books "published in the decade of your birth or before." The challenge will have a different focus each month.
What's my interest here? Do I have a nostalgic thing for nineteenth century improving juvenile fiction? Ah, noooo. But I do feel everyone should know about the history of their field. Writers are no different.
I don't plan to take part every month, but by following #oldschoolkidlit2017 on Twitter, I'll be able to benefit from the reading and reviewing of other participants. So that's happening next year.
The end of the year is here, meaning I'm thinking about recapitulating. Yeah, I'll be explaining what that is later this month. What I will say now is that when people look back at what they've been doing with their time, they're not always going to be pleased. Is being miserable about what happened in the past the best use of time in the present?
You don't have to be very Zenny to know the answer to that is "no."
While on vacation in September, I came upon How to Fail Up (called 5 Steps to Cope with Failure on-line) in a back issue of Yoga Journal. (I mention the date because I want credit for having held on to this thing for three months.) It describes steps to take to make the best use of failure. Remember, failure can bring you closer to success because it narrows the number of things to try. What you don't want to do is just take the attitude that you failed, and it's over.
"Sit with the misery." Or, to put it another way, wait. "We don't make our best decisions when we are reactive," says Ashley Good, founder and CEO of Fail Forward, a Canadian company that helps people and organizations learn to "fail up." You want to start getting over your disappointment before you decide what to do next. Personally, I like to get past it and pumped up (delusional?) again before I do anything.
"Decouple your ego from your action." It's not you, it's what you did. Or didn't do. Focus on action and not what's wrong with you.
"...crystalize what you've learned and...formulate your next plan of action." Focusing on the failure, itself, and not the failer means you really ought to do something about that failed action. The YJ article has a couple of steps at this point involving talking to others about your failure that I was going to blow-off because they were a little touchy feely for my taste, dealing with making people feel better about themselves instead of what they could be doing for that failed project. However, for writers whose failed goals involve rejected submissions, talking with others about the failure can have a big part in formulating that next plan of action.
Did the agents/editors provide any feedback for their decision to pass on your submission? Beyond, you know, this isn't right for me? If so, consider how many of their comments could be valid and what changes you can make to address their issues. Consider this even if the agent didn't show any interest in seeing your project again. The next agent you submit to can have the benefit of the first agent's assessment.
If you're in a writers' group, address the issue at a meeting. What could you do differently? If you have feedback from agents/editors, discuss with your group colleagues what these people could possibly be talking about and whether or not it's worth taking their comments seriously.
"Take risks." I would put this another way. "Try again." But try again after you've done some assessment and, possibly, correction.
Taking some time now to assess this year's goal failures will help you plan goals for next year.


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Virgil Abloh Is Releasing 20 New Off-White Nike Dunks
We recently talked about the success of Virgil Abloh and his Off-White collaborations but it seems that Virgil and Nike are about to take things to a whole new level of hype. In case you don't know, Virgil's original collaborations with Nike were called "The Ten" and included 10 different sneaker releases. With the success of the original releases, Virgil and Nike kept pouring fuel on the fire with release after release, well beyond the original ten.
Now, according to Py_Rates, Virgil Abloh and Nike are teaming up for "The Twenty," a series of new colorways applied to the popular Off-White x Nike Dunks that released in 2019. While collabs are a dime a dozen these days, seeing a list of twenty colorways of one model makes you wonder if keeping up the hype is possible or if this could send the trend in a different direction.
Seeing a collaborator release countless colorways isn't something new. We've seen Pharrell and Kanye do it repeatedly with their adidas collaborations. The thing that makes this a little more unusual is that it's being done with Nike. Nike isn't typically a brand that just hands the keys over for such big projects. Remember, they only allowed Kanye, a proven success, just a handful of colorways of his Air Yeezy line. Collaborators like Hiroshi Fujiwara of fragment design has been working with The Swoosh almost exclusively for decades, and even his capsule collections, which are designed in much safer color palettes, are limited to just handful of colorways.
While under normal circumstances, this big of a partnership seems out of character for Nike, the timing couldn't be better to test the limits of hype. The Nike Dunk has seen a resurgence in the past couple of years like no other sneaker ever has. Over that same time period, Virgil Abloh has somehow kept his name and his Off-White brand at the top of the "hot list" for both resellers and trendsetters alike. Releasing TWENTY colorways of the Off-White x Nike Dunk will rope in the collectors looking to complete the set as well.
While we have no official release date, the retail price is rumored to be $180 and The Twenty is set to roll out later this year. Are you ready to spend $3600 on this set of Off-Whites or will this be the end of the hype for the Nike Dunk?
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February 18, 2019 February 19, 2019 by leonieelizabeth, posted in Food Environments, Food History
In tracing the food of my great-great-great-grandparents I returned to the land of my ancestors – England – and life in the middle ages. Knowledge of food customs and eating habits before that era is limited, incomplete or ambiguous due to reliance on accounts written after-the-fact with uncertain translations. The year 1066, a significant year when many small kingdoms joined into one larger Kingdom (England), seemed a logical time-period to start.1,2
In the middle ages England had a largely agricultural economy with an estimated 90% of the population living in rural areas. There were marked social inequalities ranging from wealthy aristocrats and the clergy, through to peasants living in poverty. Society operated under a feudal system, with land held by the ruling elite and communities structured around manors. Peasants in surrounding villages worked the land for the Lord of the manor or church and were allotted strips of land to cultivate for themselves. Markets were held in towns and villages for exchange of foods and goods.3-7
The Food System
Foods eaten varied over different time periods and from the wealthy to the poor. The food system in the middle ages was based on grains and vegetables. Barley, rye, oats and millet were eaten by the poor. Wheat, requiring expensive manure, was grown only by wealthy farmers, gradually spreading to lower classes and becoming a staple food. Bread was a staple for all classes, cooked in public ovens or over embers. It was course, heavy and unleavened. Peas and beans were included if grain was in short supply. Vegetables were dependent on those grown or bartered, with underground types considered unfit for noble classes and only eaten by the poor. Vegetables were cooked as raw forms were considered the cause of disease. Fruit was cooked, served in pies, or candied.8-13
All classes consumed 'pottage' a thick soup or porridge made with pease, oats, bran, grains, vegetables; and meat if available. Pottage was eaten with bread and cooked in a large pot over an open fire. Bread was used as plates (trenchers) for serving of food, soaking up juices and then consumed.10-12,14
Upper classes dined on meat, game meat, fish and fowl. Feasts and banquets were held by the aristocracy and clergy. Gluttony was common. The main meat for peasants was pigs. They were cheap, ran free in forests and were available year-round. Other animals required slaughtering in autumn to save on winter-feeding. Fish was available for those who lived near the sea, rivers or lakes. Mutton and poultry were also eaten. While dairy foods, especially cheese, were consumed all over Europe, milk drinking was confined to cooler regions due to spoilage in warm temperatures. In England, milk was drunk in farming areas although often reserved for the young. Meat and fish were preserved by pickling in brine or vinegar, gelatinised, dry-salting or smoking; cereal grains, meat and fruit were preserved by drying; and butter by salting.9-12,15-18
With water often unclean, and milk difficult to keep fresh, the commonest beverage was ale made from barley, mead or cider. The wealthy also drank wine.10,11,16
The late middle ages
In the 12th-13th century England had sporadic involvement in the Crusades, a doubling of its population and a growth in towns. Biscuits, of bread baked twice, were developed by the crusaders, and found useful on long voyagers as it kept well. The crusaders brought back spices, raisins, dates, figs and sugar from the middle east. The first large shipment of sugar to England was recorded in 1319. Spices and sugar were expensive and only consumed by the wealthy.9,11,19,20,
In 1314-1317 the Great Famine struck after two cold wet summers with crop shortages, harvest failures, starved livestock and climbing food prices. In the winter of 1315/16 to stave off starvation peasants were forced to eat seeds intended for planting with disastrous consequences the following year. There was a large death rate and the population declined. The Black Death swept through beginning in 1348 reducing the population by 23-45%. This led to a labour shortage and a shrinking agricultural sector (with less food required) throwing the economy into chaos, although ironically with temporarily more food available for lower classes. Now in high demand, workers began pushing for higher wages. Resistance by ruling classes culminated in the Peasant's Revolt (also called the Great Rising) of 1381. Subsequently, the system of peasants in tenure-by-service to Lords was gradually replaced by paid services and tenure by paid rent.11,21-23
In the 15th century, the growth of the cloth industry, ship-building and metalworking, and the emergence of a new 'middle' class of merchants based primarily in London and the south, brought the rural economy dominance to an end.20,24 The death of Henry VII in 1509 marked the start of the early modern period.1,24
Food … moving from the land to the market
In the middle ages there would have been a deep connection with food and the land from whence it came. The daily existence of life on the manor revolved around its production. Food included fresh, cooked and preserved (salted, smoked, dried, pickled, candied) foods; bread and cheese. Later, 'convenience' foods of biscuits and Ploughman's lunch were available. For the wealthy, there were sugar and spices.6,8-19,25
In his closing chapter of 'One Continuous Picnic'. Michael Symons explores the loss of the true free-market system when people bartered and exchanged foods. He claims the term market has been misused in 'super-markets' and food corporations where the driving force is not food-sharing but profit-making. However, the evidence is that in the middle ages there was no such thing as a "free" market; with weekly markets being the property of the local Lord; each one having precise rules on quality, prices and terms of payment. There were already brokers acting as an intermediary between trades, and peasants never had the capacity to make a profit – so it wasn't an equal playing field.7,26
Nevertheless, markets per se were local on the scale of an individual household, manor or village. Over the next centuries this would move on to a broader world-wide market-place … as England (later Great Britain) sought to expand its empire …
This is the second post in my theme: Food History in Australia.
# 1: Introduction: "eat what your great-great-great-grandparents ate …"
# 2: English food history in the middle ages.
# 3: The relevance of food in the rise of the British Empire.
# 4: To Australia: The Hungry Years. 1777 – 1800.
# 5: Australian Food History: Greener Pastures. 1800 to 1850.
# 6: Australian Food History: The Gold Rush Years. 1850 to 1900.
# 7: Australian Food History: Federation and WW1. 1900 to 1920.
# 8: Australian Food History: Nutritionism begins. 1920 to 1950
# 9: Living through History: 1950s to 1970s
# 10: Living through history: 1980s to 2000s
Disclaimer: Nothing in this article or on this website should be taken as medical or dietary advice. Anyone reading any information provided within should seek advice from their own medical practitioner for any issue, disease, illness or health-related problem they may have. Always seek your own advice from a medical practitioner or dietitian before changing your own diet.
1. The middle ages is the period of time between The Antiquity and The Modern Period. It spans the era from the fall of the Roman Empire in 476 to the end of the 15th century. Early middle ages is 476 – 1066, high middle ages 1066 – 1250 and late middle ages 1250-1509. The year 1066 is significant is it was the date of the Battle of Hastings and the last time Britain was successfully invaded by a foreign power. Subsequently smaller kingdoms were joined into one Kingdom (England) over which King William I ruled. It marked the beginning of the high middle ages era. I note historians are not in agreement as to dates of the middle ages, the splitting into or dates of the three sub-periods.
2. Harold McGee. On Food and Cooking- The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. Page 127. Harper Collins. 1991. London.
3. Various estimates of population of England and proportion in rural areas are given throughout historical accounts and books, and approximately 90% rural is often stated. In The Black Death (22) Zeigler estimates less than 12% lived in cities and towns at the time of the Black death in the mid 14th century.
4. Elizabeth Brown. Feudalism. Encyclopaedia Britannica. Online version. retrieved 14 Feb 2019. < E Brown, Emeritus Professor of History, University of New York.>
I note that the term feudalism is controversial, may have predated the Norman conquest, and some academics refrain from using the term altogether.
5. Social classes in England considered the ruling elite in the Middle Ages were: Royalty, Nobles (Dukes, Marquess, Earls, Viscounts, Barons); and below them Knights, Baronets, and Landed Gentry. Clergy had a separate hierarchy of Bishops, Priests, Deacons, Abbots and Monks.
6. Manors were the administrative centre of the territorial organization in the feudal system. Land had three classes: (1) Demesne which was land for the Lord and his household; (2) Dependant land that the peasants worked in service to the Lord; and (3) land the peasants were able to work for themselves. Manorial structures and economies were not all uniform nor contained all three types of holdings. castlesandmanorhouses.com
After the Norman conquest land of the English was given to Norman Nobles and Knights and a substantial portion retained by the King. The land was divided between the Lord of the manor's 'demesne' and the remainder of the land in strips plus a house in the village surrounding the manor allotted to peasants who worked his land. (11)
7. (a) Boerner, Lars* and Quint, Daniel#, Medieval Matching Markets (December 10, 2010). Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=1727700 or http://dx.doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.1727700 Paper drawing on literature from legal and economic historians. * Humboldt University, Berlin; #Stanford University.
7. (b) Arnoux, Mathieux. Medieval markets: economic institutions and social implication.
University of Paris-7. EHESS. Institute University of France.
8. The term 'vegetable' was not used in England until the early 15th century. Prior to that edible plants were referred to as 'herbs'. (9, 11) Vegetables in middle ages include: onion, garlic, parsnips, fennel, parsley, shallot, watercress, endive, lettuce, beetroot, cabbage, leeks, carrots, artichokes, long beans, broad beans, peas, lentils, asparagus, cabbages. Fresh Herbs were used by noble's for medicinal purposes and in cooked food. (11,12)
9. Harold McGee. On Food and Cooking- The Science and Lore of the Kitchen. Harper Collins. 1991. London.
10. C N Trueman "Food and Drink in Medieval England" http://www.historylearningsite.co.uk. The History Learning Site, 5 Mar 2015. Update 14 Jan 2019. Retrieved 14 February, 2019.
11. Lords and Ladies. Middle Ages Food. www.lordsandladies.org Retrieved 14 February, 2019.
12. Alixie Bovey. The Middle Ages. The medieval diet. British Library. www.bl.uk/the-middle-ages/articles/the-medieval-diet. Creative Commons License (CC BY 4.0) Retrieved 14 February 2019. <Alixie Bovey, medievalist British Library. Head of Research Courtauld Institute of Art>
13.Some sources state yeast-leavened bread was not introduced until 16th century (11). McGee states fermentation by chance and then promoted by old dough developed much earlier and by 300 BC yeast making was a specialty in Egypt, although later north of the Mediterranean. The early breads used in middle ages made from rye, barley and oats made course heavy breads; than later breads when wheat was used. He notes a 14th century recipe using 'Warme Berme' with Berme being the yeast produced by fermentation of ale. (9, pge 275-6)
In 18th century sodium bicarbonate developed in New York. (crystalhills.com).
The mixture of an acid with an alkali to produce a reaction carbon dioxide gas that aerates for leavening dough mixtures was developed in England in 1835 and commercially produced from about 1850. (9, pge 282).
14. Pease is a middle English term for peas. Pease pudding was a dish made from dried peas and appears in the nursery rhyme 'Pease pudding hot".
15. Meat The term 'meat' previously meant solid food in general. In the 14th century it meat flesh of animals and later meat from cattle, pigs and sheep distinct from poultry and fish. (9) Upper classes ate more venison, beef, pork, goat, lamb, rabbit, hare, mutton; game including deer, boar, hares, rabbits; and birds swans, herons, geese, ducks, pheasant, pea-fowl, turkey, crane, crow, stork, thrush, black-birds, quail, cuckoo, and partridge. (9,11) Easter was a feast with much meat consumed. (11)
16. (a) Rebecca Slitt. What's for dinner? Ultimate history project <Rebecca Slitt. Historian on 12th Century England.>
16. (b) Food and Drink In The Medieval Village www.medievaltime.com Retrieved 14 February 2019
17. Feasts who dined on venison, beef, pork, goat, lamb, rabbit, hare, mutton, game meats, fish and fowl. (9,11) Gluttony Feasts The wealthy ate a larger amount of meat and game, as well as white bread, spices and rich sauces. (16,b) Great feasts were adorned with speculator dishes of jellies, pies fritters and stews; magnificent animal foods, jellies and custards, and sugar sculptures. (12) Noblemen had access to more meat, game, fish, spices, sugar and almonds. (11) Lower Classes ate fruit herbs nuts and honey (11, 16,a). Bowls and spoons were the main implements used. (11) Royalty ate from silverware or gold dishes, lower classes from wooden or horn. (11) Liquids, including soup, were drunk from cups. Knives had been long used whereas forks were introduced only from the 14th century. (11) Recipes exist from the middle ages, although most would have been from Noblemens' households. (12) In certain religious periods and on some days during the week, the eating of meat was banned.
18. Food Processing techniques in the middle ages: Salt was used as a preservative by dry-salting or soaking is salted water (brine). Meat and fish were preserved by pickling in brine or vinegar, gelatin, or smoking; cereal grains, meat and fruit by drying; fruit and nuts were candied in honey or fruit puree. (11) Ham, sausages, and black puddings (made from from pig's blood) were processed meats in the middle ages. (10) Biscuits were made by baking bread twice which kept well. Developed by the Crusaders.
19. In the 12th-13th century England had sporadic involvement in the Crusades. Biscuits, of bread baked twice, were developed by the crusaders, and found useful on long voyagers as it kept well. The crusaders brought back spices, raisins, dates, figs and sugar from the middle east. (11) Spices included Pepper, Cinnamon, Cloves, Nutmeg, Ginger, Saffron, Cardamom, Coriander, Cumin, Garlic, Turmeric, Mace, Anise, Caraway and Mustard as well as sugar, dates, figs and raisins. (11,12)
20. Growth in towns and cities occurred in the later centuries of the middle ages and by 1500 has been estimated to be approximately 20% of the population compared to 10% at the start of high-middle ages. (Ref)
21. Kathryn Warner. The Great Famine, 1315-1317. edwardthesecond.blogspot.com retrieved 19 February, 2019.
22. Ziegler, Phillip. The Black Death. 1991. Alan Sutton Publishing Limited. Gloucestershire. Digital edition via Internet Archive Library. Retrieved 18 February 2019.
The Black Death (not called that until later centuries) was a plague, a highly contagious and deadly disease, that swept Europe in the 14th century and entered England in 1348. Ziegler describes the difficulty and differences in methodologies used by historians in estimating population prior to and deaths due to the Black Death. He claims an exact figure is not possible. Nevertheless from accurate records that were kept (on clergy and in some manors) and extrapolation to the rest of the population, he estimates the range to have been a 23-45% death rate.
23. White, Ian. The Black Death, Economic and Social Change and the Great Rising of 1381 in Hertfordshire. Birkbeck University of London.
24. Hodgett, Gerald (2006). A Social and Economic History of Medieval Europe. Abingdon, UK: Routledge.
25. Ploughmans lunch 'Pierce the Ploughman's Crede' < > electronic edition. Print Source Rev Walter W Skeat, Ma.A., ed English Text Society, 1867.
26. Symons, Michael. One Continuous Picnic. A Gastronomic History of Australia. Second edition. 2007. Melbourne University Press.
27. Image courtesy <zirconicusso>@freedigitalphotos.net; adapted excluding items from later eras.
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February 6, 2019 February 21, 2019 by leonieelizabeth, posted in Biochemistry
Energy from food is one of our prime needs for survival. As well as oxygen and water, without energy from food we would die. Every cell in the body requires a continuous supply. The macro-nutrients carbohydrates, fats, and protein are the sources for energy. When the body uses these for energy, the bonds between the atoms break and energy is released. Energy is expended within the body as electrical energy such as in nerve impulses, kinetic energy such as muscle movement, chemical reactions such as synthesis of new molecules; or the energy can be liberated as heat. (1,2)
Units of measuring the food energy supplied are the joule (amount of work performed when a mass of one kilogram is moved one metre by a force of one newton) or the calorie (heat required to raise temperature of one gram of water one degree Celsius). Being small units kilojoules (kJ) or kilocalories (kcal) are more commonly used. The standard measurement in Australia is kilojoules. One kcal is approximately 4.18 kJ. The energy supplied by each macro-nutrient differs. Fat averages 37 kJ (9kcal) per gram, protein 17 kJ (4 kcal); carbohydrates 17 kJ (4 kcal) and alcohol (in adults) 29 kJ (7kcal). (1)
The macro-nutrients are broken down into smaller units during digestion after a meal; carbohydrates into sugars, fats into fatty acids and protein into amino acids; which allows their absorption from the gut into the blood stream. They are then transported by the blood around the body for immediate use or converted into storage forms for later use. It is these storage forms of macro-nutrients that allows a continual supply of energy to each cell, between meals. (1,2)
In summary, in simple terms nutrients digested from food are absorbed into the blood stream and from there fluctuate within three main states.
The Fed State
After a meal (called post-prandial), the absorbed macro-nutrients flood into the blood stream. The influx of these nutrients are considered to be obtained exogenously which means from 'outside the body', or in other words – from food. The level of these nutrients rise in the blood in the fed state.
Carbohydrates are stored as glycogen in the liver and muscles. Fat is stored in adipose tissue. Protein does not have a storage form as such and there is a continual cycle of protein synthesis, breakdown, and replenishment. However, breakdown substrates can be used for fuel; and muscle and other tissue are considered protein reservoirs that can be broken down and used as fuel in an emergency. (1,2)
The Fasting State
Between meals, over-night or in periods of food deprivation; nutrients are considered to be obtained endogenously or from 'inside the body'. This is when nutrients are drawn from storage or synthesised from other substrates to ensure adequate supply to every cell.
Nutrient Balance
The body has an amazing capacity to keep essential nutrients, including macro-nutrients, within a narrow range in the blood stream to ensure a constant supply. One of the main nutrients and a prime need of the body is glucose …
Disclaimer: Nothing in this article or website should be taken as medical or dietary advice. Anyone reading any information provided within should seek advice from their own medical practitioner for any issue, disease, illness or health-related issue they may have. Always seek advice from a medical practitioner or dietitian before changing your own diet.
(1) E Whitney, S R Rolfes, T Crowe, D Cameron-Smith, A Walsh. Understanding Nutrition. Australia and New Zealand Edition. 2nd Edition. Cengate Learning. 2014.
(2) M L Wahlqvist. Ed. Food and Nutrition in Australia. Methuen Australia. 1982.
(3) Image courtesy [Grant.Cochrane]/Freedigitalphotos.net
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On 15 August 2018, information was released regarding three new Intel CPU vulnerabilities that may be exploited to steal data from computers.
Much like the Meltdown and Spectre vulnerabilities revealed earlier in the year, these new vulnerabilities take advantage of performance optimisation techniques to bypass security mechanisms built into the chips. The Foreshadow vulnerabilities target a different optimisation technique, potentially allowing access to a broader scope of data than Meltdown and Spectre, including data from other virtual machines in a virtualised environment.
Successful exploitation of these vulnerabilities would require an attacker to run malicious code on a targeted system. There are currently no known exploits being used against these vulnerabilities and researches have not yet released proof of concept code for the vulnerabilities.
We recommend that all clients assess their risk and appropriately patch systems to protect their environments against these vulnerabilities. Care should be taken to read all patching instructions and release notes as well as perform thorough testing to avoid unexpected outages or performance impacts. Vendors have indicated that some performance impact should be expected for certain workloads.
Mitigation steps may involve processor microcode updates in addition to OS and virtualisation vendor updates, and in some cases may involve configuration options, including enabling new technologies and disabling HyperThreading. Please refer to vendor guidance around opt-in steps, which will include guidance around scenarios where it is recommended and not recommended to disable HyperThreading, for example.
Processor microcode previously released by Intel in Q2 includes updates that address these new vulnerabilities. We recommend that clients test and apply the latest microcode updates to all affected systems.
CCL is programmatically addressing the identified vulnerabilities at the hypervisor levels. Clients are responsible for patching their Operating Systems residing on the platform unless these are managed by CCL. Additional information will be provided through standard change control notifications or directly from your Client Relationship Manager.
For dedicated virtualisation platforms, patching may be required at the hardware microcode and operating system level in addition to the hypervisor and may also require additional configuration changes depending on what features and products are being used. Please refer to applicable vendor guidance for detailed mitigation requirements. Links for the major vendors are included below.
In some cases, mitigation steps may have performance impacts. We recommend thorough testing as part of the standard patching process.
If you have any questions or concerns, please do not hesitate to contact your Client Relationship Manager or the CCL Service Desk on 0800 225 737 or support@concepts.co.nz.


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Rosa Elena Tránsito Amaguaña Alba, född den 10 september 1909, död den 10 maj 2009 var en ecuadoriansk aktivist för urprungsfolks rättigheter.

Amaguaña, föddes i en familj som ägdes av en lokal markägare. Hon hjälpte sina föräldrar på deras lilla mark. Familjen arbetade sju dagar i veckan utan lön och fick i gengäld odla mat till sig själva. Hennes mor, Mercedes Alba, var politiskt engagerad.

Under 40-talet grundade Amaguaña organisationen Federación Ecuatoriana de Indios (FEI) tillsammans med Dolores Cacuango.

Hon tilldelades Premio Eugenio Espejo 2003 av president Lucio Gutiérrez för sitt politiska arbete.

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