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Crazy delicious vegan waffles that require 15 minutes from start to finish to make! These waffles are like a cross between a crispy waffles and warm banana bread. Super satisfying and absolutely delicious.
Waffles are definitely the breakfast item of choice in our house… enter: these waffles that actually melt in your mouth, or these strawberry cornbread waffles that are sweet and savory heaven, or these browned butter blueberry waffles. Yeah. We like our waffles.
Lately I've been experimenting with vegan waffles and oh my gosh these waffles are so light and fluffy I can barely stand it. So much so that I had these waffles as my last meal before I moved into college. Yes. You read that right… I am officially a college student!! Class starts tomorrow and I am kind of freaking out. But I am also so overly excited for this new chapter in my life… everything right now seems so new and foreign, but I know in these next couple of weeks I will get in my groove.
These are the kind of waffles you could make and eat with friends for brunch on the weekend, or make and eat before school. There's only 15 minutes needed to make these waffles.
These waffles are also super customizable. The banana in the waffles aren't mashed up, only diced, so if bananas aren't your thing, throw in some other fruit or even chocolate chips.
These waffles are like a cross between crisp waffles and warm banana bread. I like my waffles crispy and the amount of coconut oil in this batter gives these wonderful waffles the perfect amount of crispness on the outside, with a soft fluffy inside.
I love making a double batch on the weekends and freezing the leftovers for breakfast during the week. Even though they are so quick to make… they are just as yummy reheated in the microwave, so why not kill two birds with one stone. Right?
For these waffles, we used Blue Diamond Unsweetened Vanilla Almond Coconut Milk… the almond milk keeps the waffles vegan, and also adds a super yummy layer of texture that regular almond milk doesn't have!
Preheat waffle iron according to manufacturer's directions and preheat oven to 225F degrees.
In a small skillet, toast pecans over medium heat until you can smell the nuts. Be careful not to burn them.
In a large mixing bowl, whisk flour, almond meal, baking powder and salt. In a small bowl, whisk together almond milk, melted coconut oil, applesauce, sugar, and brown sugar. Slowly stir the liquid ingredients into the dry ingredients just until moistened – lumps are okay. Fold the banana pieces and pecans into the batter.
Spray the waffle iron with nonstick spray. Pour 1/3 cup batter onto each section of the grid rather than placing it in the middle. The grids should be full but not overflowing, or the batter will seep out the sides of the iron when the top is closed. Bake until the waffle is golden, about 6 minutes, depending on the iron. Carefully lift the lid; if the waffles resist at all, they need a bit more cooking time. Transfer the waffle to an oven rack to keep warm. Repeat process with remaining batter. Don't forget to degrease waffle iron in between each batch.
Keep waffles warm in preheated oven. Serve with the extra toasted pecans, banana slices and warmed maple syrup.
These waffles look like the perfect way to start the day! Love the coconut almond milk in here and yay that they're vegan! They look so fluffy and delicious!
These waffles sound absolutely amazing! I haven't made waffles in such a long time, so I definitely need to change that. Love how fluffy and full of flavor these are!
Banana pecan waffles?? I love how unique it is! Plus it sounds amazing!
Wow, I wish I had a big stack of these waffles to start my day. In fact, I think I will be thinking about them all day so I might need to make them for dinner!
Oh my goodness these look marvelous! I love banana bread and waffles so I'm sure to love these babies!
Wow these waffles sound fantastic!! I love that you added almond coconut milk! Yum!


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Types of African Flowers
By Garrett Daun Updated July 21, 2017
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Africa contains thousands of species of exotic flowers, many of which have yet to be discovered, named and categorized. In South Africa's Namaqualand, native daises grow wild to cover vast fields with their brilliant orange blossoms. Tourists and botanists could spend their entire lifetimes exploring the vast world of flowering flora native to the African continent.
Devil's Thorn
Devil's thorn or Dicerocaryum zanguebarium are small herbaceous plants with trailing stems. The plant's trumpet-shaped flowers are pinkish to mauve with darker spots on the lower lip and inner petal surfaces. Devil's thorn grows wild in Malawi, Botswana, Mozambique, Zimbabwe and the northern province of South Africa. Devil's thorn prefers bare ground and does well in suboptimal soils. It also prevents soil erosion.
Starfish Flower
The starfish flower or Stapelia gigantea has the appearance and odor of a piece of rotting flesh in the shape of a starfish. The plant's stink attracts maggots and flies to its center where the male and female parts of the plant can be fertilized by the movement of the insects and their larvae. Starfish flowers grow native in South Africa and are sometimes grown in southern California.
Flame Lily
Flame lilies or Gloriosa superba are climbing herbaceous plants. Their leaves grow long thin tips that twist onto other plants for support. After the plant blossoms, it dies off completely except for the tubers underground. The petals of the flame lily curl in along the edges and tips to form a cup-like shape with stamen that stick out below and beyond the petals. Flame lilies grow in the northern province of South Africa, Zimbabwe and Mozambique. The plants bear flame-looking blossoms in a range of colors from bright yellow to dark red.
Leopard Orchid
Leopard orchids or Ansellia gigantea grow in Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania and in other tropical locales in Africa. These yellow orchids, with brown spots on their petals, grow with their roots hugging the branches of trees. Leopard orchids have a distinctive and pleasant fragrance.
River Crinum
River crinum or Crinum macowanii is an African flower in the lily family. Its bell-shaped flowers appear in white and pale pink colorations. Crinum grows from bulbs in the wilds of East Africa all the way through South Africa. The species name macowanii comes from the botanist Peter MacOwan who took a great interest in river crinum.
Wild Hibiscus
Wild hibiscus or Hibiscus engleri grow as small shrubs or trees and have rough branches and leaves. The flowers of the wild yellow or pink hibiscus are extremely fragile and last for just one day before wilting. They grow in thickets and savanna areas in South Africa and other tropical zones across the rest of the continent. Hibiscus engleri's species name was inspired by Dr. Prof Heinrich Gistav Adolf Engler, the director of the Royal Botanical Gardens in Berlin.
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Garrett Daun started writing professionally in 1993. Daun has extensive training in meditation, rock climbing, yoga, martial arts, exercise and massage therapy. His work has appeared in "The Squealor," the "Earth First! Journal" and on numerous websites. Daun earned a Bachelor of Arts in religious studies and creative writing from the University of Oregon. He is a yoga and Radical Undoing trainer.
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1 How to Grow Healthy Flowers Indoors
2 Corpse Lily Facts
3 Different Kinds of Spider Lily Plants
4 The Difference Between Orchids & Lilies

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Months After His Conviction, Grooverider Still Hopes To Be Released From Prison
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Grooverider is included on a list of possible pardons which will be dealt with during Ramadan, which falls in September. Dubai's ruler, Sheikh Mohammed, traditionally pardons foreigners caught with small amounts of narcotics during religious holidays. The pardon would have come during a period which coincided with the birthday of the prophet Mohammed.
Last November, Grooverider was arrested at Dubai International Airport after a customs search revealed he was in possession of two grams cannabis and a pornographic DVD. Though he had hoped for an early release, some speculate that the government is using him as an example of their zero-tolerance against those who attempt to bring drugs and pornography into the country.
Nearly 17,000 people have signed an online petition asking th government of Dubai to pardon English drum 'n' bass DJ/producer Grooverider.
A spokesman for the DJ's management said: "He's bearing up but desperate to get out."
In 2007, 59 Britons were arrested for drug related offenses in Dubai. In a related story, an English woman is facing six years in prison for allegedly having sex on a Dubai beach.
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First Nations peoples everywhere operate according to their own system of laws. Because these systems are derived from nature instead of being drawn up by human experts, they are sometimes called "Nature's Laws" These systems and laws serve indigenous peoples and their communities, just as European peoples have their own system. Neither system is superior to the other – each people make their own system "work". This indicates that laws match the values held by each people.
In this essay, we can only skim the surface of indigenous values, but there is enough here to give a rough idea about "nature's law".
Generally, Indigenous Peoples have certain principles about life and the natural world which determine their approach to law. First and foremost, society, law and culture are held to be a seamless system, each integral to the whole. Current jargon calls this "holistic", but one must be wary in applying this term to all indigenous cultures. What is clearly essential for the First Nations is what the Cree call tipasta-ywin, the notion of balance. Balance among First Nations peoples is a very complex notion. Balance is primarily applied in relationships between humans and the plant and animal worlds, and between the living world and the spirit world.
Indigenous perceptions are not "romantic" about these relationships – it is accepted that animals and plants are being sacrificed for human survival. They also believe in and adhere to an ecosystem in which only what is needed should be appropriated, and then only with due respect and responsibility. This heightened notion of balance also can be distinguished from the yin/yang system of Chinese tradition, for not all indigenous peoples of North America think in terms of this simple duality.
There was no concept of comparing one individual with others, or one species with others. Each had his or her own "gift" to contribute. In a community, it was "nature's law" that some may have the gift of hunting, others the gift of ceremonialist, others the gift of art, or being a good parent. Individuals could not then be compared, for their role was defined by their own private myths, their special talents, and in some cases, responsibilities from their ancestors.
Differentiation also marked the plant and animal worlds from the human—since the latter relied on the former, the former were more powerful in the scheme of things. The sickness of a powerful animal might be cured by a tiny fragile plant with medicinal qualities. What indigenous peoples saw in "nature's law" was a balance within the whole system, not merely of one element of the system with another.
To understand nature's laws, indigenous peoples look beyond their own locale to take into account the earth, and beyond the earth, into the cosmos. The basic processes of the world and indeed the cosmos are always moving, so that the notion there are permanent physical structures in the universe, such as Western notions of time, atoms and "persons," has no real equivalence and are irrelevant to the question of "nature's laws".
To translate this idea into Western thinking, indigenous peoples generally see everything as being comprised of an unknown (perhaps unknowable) kind of energy. One result of this belief is that, generally speaking among First Nations, no "personhood" was attributable to the power that had brought things to be. Even when the power was named, or, as one finds today the use of the word "Creator" or some other "deity," no personhood is necessarily implied by that designation. Personhood suggests permanency, and it was evident to everyone that there was no permanency to personhood in this world.
Sometime elders will instruct the people, "Do not try to picture the face of the Creator. You will only be making a great mistake. Whatever it is that made the trees, the air, those mountains in the distance, the waters and this earth, that is what we call "Creator". Whatever that is. In the same way that you may know something about an artist by studying his paintings, you may know more about the Creator by studying the Creation."
It follows, then, that the only laws that indigenous peoples conceive as permanent and supreme are Nature's Laws, for these are the laws one sees exemplified in the world around oneself. What is around oneself is the only record one has of reality – knowing more about this reality is the only "revelation" available to indigenous people. It provides the ability to interpret the environment in which they live. Reading and revealing the truths of Nature's Laws is an enterprise that every thinking individual engages in, and it is explicitly and symbolically articulated in rituals that acknowledge the powers of the Creation.
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welcome to my first instructable, English breakfast muffins..
There really is no finer accompaniment to a cooked breakfast than these muffins, we have them every Sunday and as they freeze and toast brilliantly from frozen they are very convenient.
first things first, the ingredients, this should make 8 to 9 muffins.
Add the ingredients to the mixing bowl in the order their listed, adding the milk slowly while the mixer is running on a fairly slow speed.
You may not need all the milk or you may need more, it all depends on the flour your using. Your looking to form a smooth soft dough that's stretchy and elastic when pulled..
Of course you don't need a mixer to do this, it can be done just as well by hand.
Now it's time to prove the dough, this is the process of allowing the dough to rise and develop its aeration and structure.
Place the dough in a plastic bowl and cover with cling film, leave it to at least double in size. This can take two to three hours depending on the room temperature. Now this isn't very convenient if you don't want your breakfast muffins to become lunch time muffins so I mix mine the night before and leave it in the fridge until the morning. This slows down the yeast but doesn't stop it.
Now the morning has come, you've made yourself a coffee and taken the dough from the fridge, it should of risen appreciably.
Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and roll Flat to about 7mm thick then cut out the rounds using a 10cm circular dough/biscuit cutter. You can gather up all the off cuts and reform them, I don't waist any.
Lay them on Brown paper, dust lightly with corn meal and cover with cling film. Leave them for a half hour to an hour, they should rise by about half there height.
Have another coffee while you wait.
Its time to cook your muffins, this part is critical, or at least the temperature of your pan is. Too hot and the muffins will be doughy and under cooked in the middle, too low and they won't rise.
You need a medium to large non stick frying pan, we're going to fry them dry on a low to medium heat, cook one to start with to gage the heat of the pan it should take around four minutes a side and you should be able to see it rise, gently lift up one side and peep underneath, if it's lightly browned turn it over and cook the other side.
Hoorah it time to eat muffins, how is up to you, I like mine warm with butter and Claire my wife likes hers toasted.
We both like lots of bacon, sausage, egg and mushrooms with them.
If you slice your muffins then freeze them they can be popped in the toaster an cooked from frozen, not quite as Good as fresh but still very tasty.
I hope you try these muffins and enjoy eating them as much as we do.
Just made my first batch today. They were excellent! Much better than store bought. They are much lighter. Thank you so much for sharing.
If you ever go to Newfoundland, you may hear of or see on a menu something they call Toutons. They are similar to english muffins but without the cornmeal and they are usually fried in fat and then drizzled with corn syrup or molasses.
Once I ate those in Ireland and enjoyed it. We can't find them in my country so I gave your recipe a try. It worked out pretty well.
Do you cook these with a lid on the pan, or uncovered?
I use a laser thermometer to check pan temperatures. What temperature should the frying pan be to cook these properly?
Thanks. Would you kindly post the temp? I'm hoping to make these Monday!
Thanks so much I'm going to make them tomorrow! I'll be using a gluten free 1 to 1 flour and so it will be a double experiment for me!
Do these taste as sour as the originals? Not to say English muffins taste bad—they're delicious—but I'd like to know how this version tastes.
Most baking experts agree that a slow overnight rise in the icebox results in better flavor and better-handling dough.Better than store-bought? I'll have to try and see.
of the many brands avble Thomas's is the gold standard--no other comes close and most are travesties.
if you want to make a double batch, does the recipe scale accordingly or do some ingredient quantities need to be adjusted?
Hi, yes, just double the ingredients to double the batch, you can vary the suger and salt to suit your own taste.


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JOCKEY Opens December 29 at the Royal.
December 27, 2021 by Jordan Deglise Moore
Updated: The 12/29 Q&A with JOCKEY star Clifton Collins Jr. and Laemmle Theatres president Greg Laemmle has been cancelled.
The highlight of the poignant new drama Jockey is the performance by Clifton Collins Jr., the prolific character actor here in the title role as an aging jockey training for a final championship. At Sundance earlier this year he earned the U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for acting. We open the film Wednesday at the Royal, January 21 at the Playhouse and Town Center, and February 4 at the Claremont, Glendale, Newhall and NoHo.
"An evocative study of American life on the fringes that unfolds alongside the grand mysticism of stallions. Clifton Collins Jr. delivers a haunting, profoundly poignant performance." ~ Tomris Laffly, Harper's Bazaar
"Bentley's intimate character study shows a man coming to terms with his vulnerability, resting on a career-best performance from Clifton Collins Jr, who navigates the role of athlete and father with subtle but striking conviction." ~ Emily Maskell, Little White Lies
"Jockey is a modest, intimate film, to be sure, but an impressively assured one. It finds a lovely, low-key groove early on and maintains it, and draws performances from its key players that are terrific and true." Todd McCarthy, Deadline Hollywood Daily
"You've certainly seen [Collins Jr.] before, but never quite like this." ~ Carlos Aguilar, TheWrap
"Somewhere between swagger and selflessness, win and lose, Jockey takes the home stretch." ~ Sheri Linden, Hollywood Reporter
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WRITING WITH FIRE Q&A with the filmmakers and Kenneth Turan.
November 29, 2021 by Jordan Deglise Moore
Rintu Thomas and Sushmit Ghosh, co-directors of the double Sundance-winning film WRITING WITH FIRE, will participate in a Q&A at the Royal following the 7:20 PM screening on Thursday, December 2. Film critic Kenneth Turan will moderate.
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THE FIRST WAVE Director in Person for Q&As in Santa Monica.
THE FIRST WAVE director Matt Heineman will participate in Q&As at the Monica Film Center after the 7:30 PM screening on Saturday, November 20 and after the 4:40 screening on Sunday, November 21. Joining him will be Covid survivor Ahmed Ellis and his wife Alexis, Dr. Nathalie Dougė, and physical therapist Karl Arabian.
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Q&A with the 'Kurt Vonnegut' Filmmaker Opening Night at the Royal.
KURT VONNEGUT: UNSTUCK IN TIME director Robert B. Weide will participate in a Q&A after the 7:10 PM screening at the Royal on Friday, November 19. Michael Sragow will moderate.
A triple award winner at Sundance, the Albanian drama HIVE opens at the Royal and Playhouse this Friday, November 12. The filmmaker and lead actress will attend two Royal screenings for Q&As.
Winner of the Audience, Directing and Grand Jury Prize for World Cinema at Sundance earlier this year, HIVE is an intense, beautifully wrought drama based on the true story of Fahrije, an Albanian war widow coping with poverty and patriarchy. New York cinephiles turned out in force at the Film Forum last weekend following Manohla Dargis' rave review in the Times. Headlined "In the Aftermath of War, a Survivor Finds Herself: In a tough, taut drama, the director Blerta Basholli explores the lives of women whose husbands went missing in the Kosovo War," here's an excerpt: "The spare, tightly wound drama HIVE opens with the movie equivalent of a hand grabbing your throat. An unsmiling woman with a hard, monumental profile stands alone next to a truck. People mill around nearby, murmuring indistinctly. Abruptly, the woman ducks under some police tape and into the truck, where she hastily begins unzipping one white body bag after another and just as quickly scanning their contents, her nose wrinkling at the exposed bundles of tattered clothing, remnants of missing persons. She's soon ejected by a worker, but her search continues.
Photo by Alexander Bloom.
"The woman, Fahrije (Yllka Gashi), is looking for her husband, one of the missing, who disappeared years ago during the Kosovo War. Now, with her two children and a disabled father-in-law, she struggles to keep the family going. She labors with the beehives that her husband once managed, selling jars of honey at a local market. Sales are modest and sometimes close to nonexistent, but the bees are her only means of scraping together a meager living. Every so often, she meets up with a women's collective whose members face the same hurdles under the unhelpful watch of the town's men. And she keeps looking for her husband — a haunting, troubling phantom.
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"A liberation story told with easy naturalism and broad political strokes, HIVE tracks Fahrije on her path to independence. (It's based on the experiences of an Albanian Kosovo woman of the same name.) Like its protagonist, the movie is stern, direct and attentive to ordinary life. The writer-director Blerta Basholli doesn't bludgeon you with the character's miseries, or hold your emotions hostage. Fahrije isn't lovable; sometimes she's scarcely likable, which means she's more of a human being than an emblem of virtuous suffering. She has her charms, though these tend to emerge in the intimacies she shares with her family and female friends like Naza (a piquant Kumrije Hoxha)…HIVE seizes and holds your interest simply through the drama created by sympathetic characters trying to surmount awful, unfair hurdles. Mostly, though, what holds you rapt is Gashi's powerful, physically grounded performance, which lyrically articulates her taciturn character's inner workings. Together, the performer and her director reveal the arc of a life through Fahrije's gestures and in the hard lines of her jaw, in her unsmiling lips and in her quickly lowered gaze. And while the character's stoicism seems like an unbreachable wall, these two women dismantle — and rebuild it — to stirring effect."
HIVE writer-director Blerta Basholi, producer Yll Uka, and lead actress Yllka Gashi will participate in Q&As at the Royal after the 7:30 PM screenings on Friday and Saturday, November 12 and 13. Clayton Davis, President of the Latino Entertainment Journalists Association, will moderate the Friday Q&A.
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Filmmaker in Person Saturday for SUNKEN ROADS: THREE GENERATIONS AFTER D-DAY.
SUNKEN ROADS filmmaker Charlotte Juergens will participate in a Q&A at the Royal on Saturday, November 6, after the 7:30 PM show.
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Q&A with FINDING KENDRICK JOHNSON director Jason Pollock & EP Jenifer Lewis Friday at the NoHo.
October 25, 2021 by Jordan Deglise Moore
FINDING KENDRICK JOHNSON director Jason Pollock and executive producer Jenifer Lewis will participate in a Q&A at the NoHo following the 7:15 PM screening on Friday, October 29.
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Team Captains Kapil Soorma, left, for the Layton Bashers, and Krishna Kamojjala for the Hawks hold the Intermountain Cricket League Championship Trophy before squaring in the championship game at 11th Ave Park on Sunday, September 22, 2013.
After the most successful cricket season the state of Utah has ever seen, league founder Nasir Kahn sees an even better season on the horizon.
The second season of the Intermountain Cricket League saw the Vincent Hawks top the Layton Bashers in a closely-contested match at 11th Avenue in the league's first-ever championship tilt.
The annual Memorial Day-turned-Labor Day Tournament was a success with the Salt Lake County Sabrecats coming of top in the six-team, three-state, three-day festival of cricket.
The league was not only featured in this blog, but also in the Deseret News and the Salt Lake Tribune.
"Honestly, this was my ultimate dream come true," Kahn said in a interview before the ICL title game.
The third season of the ICL — if all goes as planned — will take a big step forward in 2014. Kahn hopes to add a sixth team, giving the ICL enough teams to get registered in the United States of America Cricket Association. That development will allow top league players to get recognized by USACA as candidates for the national team programs. Registering the league also fits in with USACA's new focus.
With growth comes some happy challenges. The league is looking for a new ground. Just two pitches for six teams isn't enough. Kahn said they're looking at a few grounds in the southern half of the valley and in Utah County to help the Utah Lions' travel situation.


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Dirtiest Cities in the World 2023
Around 55% of the world's population lives in cities, up from just 47% in 2000. This number is expected to rise to 68% by the year 2050 and continue to trend in the upward direction for the foreseeable future. While there are many advantages to living in condensed urban areas, they have the potential to cause serious long-term harm to the environment without the proper sustainable infrastructure in place. Unfortunately, such infrastructure is something of a novelty, and while the technology continues to develop, many cities around the world are beginning to experience the adverse effects of pollution first hand.
As of the end of 2019, Ghaziabad, India was the most dangerously polluted city in the world based on the Air Quality Index (AQI). AQI is a metric that determines the toxicity of a city's air. As a city's AQI increases, it becomes increasingly inhospitable for human breathability. The AQI takes five factors into consideration: ground-level ozone, particle pollution, carbon monoxide, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen dioxide.
Ghaziabad, India has an AQI of 110.2. It's air is considered "unhealthy" or even "hazardous" for most of the year. Six of the world's top ten most polluted cities, according to the AQI, are located in India, where poor air quality leads to the premature deaths of up to 2 million residents each year. Part of the issue stems from India's density and the concentrated volume of vehicle emissions and biomass burnoff from cooking and agriculture. Additionally, zoning is relatively arbitrary in many Indian cities and expansive industrial complexes have the tendency to infringe upon residential districts.
The list of the ten cities with the most severe air pollution according to the AQI:
Ghaziabad, India (110.2)
Hotan, China (110.1)
Gujranwala, Pakistan (105.3)
Faisalabad, Pakistan (104.6)
Delhi, India (98.6)
Noida, India (97.7)
Gurugram, India (93.1)
Raiwind, Pakistan (92.2)
Greater Noida, India (91.3)
Bandhware, India (90.5)
While air pollution is most hazardous to the average person, one could argue that it doesn't necessarily exemplify the world's "dirtiest" city. In the defense of many of the top cities on the previous list, AQI isn't based purely on human intervention. Topography, climate, and natural disasters (forest fires) all have a considerable effect on a region's air quality.
If we choose, instead, to evaluate "dirtiness" by the sheer volume of solid waste a city produces, then New York City is the dirtiest city in the world and it's not even remotely close. Annually, the New York City Metropolitan area produces some 33.2 million metric tons of waste. With close to 19 million residents, that's about 1.75 metric tons of waste per capita, over 3,800 pounds. The majority of New York's waste is generated by businesses and industries who have begun to ship their garbage upstate or even several states over as the landfills reach capacity. While private households are not the bulk of the issue, they are not entirely absolved from the blame. The United States has consistently ranked above the 90th percentile for the amount of municipal waste generated per capita. As of 2019, the average American citizen produced 4.4 lbs of waste each day.
The cities in second and third place, Mexico City and Tokyo respectively, produce barely a third as much solid waste as New York City despite having higher populations.
The top ten most wasteful cities in the world, measured in millions of metric tons:
New York City, United States (33.20)
Mexico City, Mexico (12.20)
Tokyo, Japan (11.90)
Los Angeles, United States (11.10)
Mumbai, India (10.03)
Istanbul, Turkey (9.30)
Jakarta, Indonesia (8.64)
Cairo, Egypt (7.09)
Osaka, Japan (6.70)
Sao Paulo, Brazil (6.15)


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Welcome to Iraq
South London Gallery, Camberwell
15 March – 1 June 2014
by MK PALOMAR
The South London Gallery presents a restaging of the group exhibition Welcome to Iraq, originally shown as part of the National Pavilion of Iraq at the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013.1
"This is an exhibition which is very easy going with art," the curator Jonathan Watkins tells us, then adds: "We are playing fast and loose with conventional definitions of art in this show."2 Ostensibly a collection of cultural artefacts from Iraq, Welcome to Iraq is, I propose, more a series of installations than an exhibition. The reconstructed Iraqi spaces comprise comfortable sofas (covered in brightly woven rugs), richly patterned carpets, piles of old and new books to browse through on low tables, films playing on laptops, wall-displayed artworks to view – with tea and cakes on offer to visitors – all contributing to an enjoyable, yet somehow dislocated, experience of a very distant place. And while the gap between the here and there seems evident throughout this exhibition, there also seems to be a call from across this divide from a people who are letting us know: "We are still here – this is how we are, and this is what we get up to."
Most of us visitors to the South London Gallery will not physically experience the distant landscape of Iraq, where the ancient Sumerian culture thrived more than 5,000 years ago, Islam arrived around 700AD, the royal family was assassinated by revolutionaries in 1958, and then came recent history, war, oil, genocide and more war. And most of us continue to have a fixed and clichéd idea about what Iraq is. We know the Garden of Eden is sited there, we know its reputation as the birthplace of culture, and we know that, today, the land is scarred by the ravages of war. Tamara Chalabi of Ruya, the Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq (they commissioned this work for the Venice Biennale 2013), explained: "I was last in Iraq a couple of months ago – it's terrible because of the Syrian war and the elections – it's hard to take."3
Still Iraq is a mysterious land and very far away from most of our western understandings. Seeing and being in this south London refiguring of Iraqi cultural spaces, we are witness to the marvellous, yet also desperate, determination of a people to survive in the face of ongoing adversity. While the necessity they are experiencing nurtures a recycling inventiveness (note the wonderful bench made from a bicycle, and the seat from a generator stand), in this dislocation of these artefacts from their place, there is also a resonance of tragedy and loss. I was reminded of the 1942 poem The Naming of Parts by Henry Reed,4 in which a young soldier, while arranging and ordering the parts of his gun, is preparing for battle, and at the same time observing how spring, with early bees and almond blossom, has arrived in the garden around him. When one world rubs up against another, calamity is often palpable in the air. Yet as Watkins explains in his catalogue text: "Normally, for the vast majority [of people living in Iraq], the daily round is a question of making do and getting by in difficult circumstances."
So perhaps we should listen more to the people's call, "We are still here" rather than dwelling on the perceived calamity of loss in this arrangement and ordering of things. Yet as I sat on a comfortable sofa – "We wanted [in this exhibition] to defy the expectations of being uncomfortable, which is what you'd expect if you visited Iraq," Watkins told us – I looked through a large book titled The Treasures of the Iraqi Museum 1972 and glanced to another titled The Looting of the Iraqi Museum 2005. Iraq is a very bookish culture, Chalabi explained: "There is a saying: Cairo wrote, Beirut prints and Baghdad reads." The books are next to a laptop playing what appears to be a daytime soap opera. This, Watkins says, is how films are made in Iraq today – "They are moral tales or parables adopting the conventions of soap opera in order to suggest better ways of living."5
He continues: "Since the 1980s, there has been very little cultural exchange – it's difficult to go in, and even harder to get out. We wanted the work of artists who are living in Iraq. We had to go along in a very haphazard way – led around by word of mouth."6 The paintings are very diverse in content and genre (hence Watkins declaring: "We are playing fast and loose with conventional definitions of art in this show"). There are nostalgic images of marsh Arabs – cartoon-like drawings of everyday struggles, Twombly-like layerings of pigments, signs and letters, photographs of performed poses with Sadam Hussein portraits, sculptures of found objects and recycled cardboard. The cover of the catalogue shows graffiti painted on to a cement wall. The wall (for those of us who don't understand life in a war zone) is a blast wall, built to protect civilians from bomb blasts. These, Watkins explains, are all over Baghdad. The graffiti image appears almost biblical – figures standing by water, a man in a boat, an animal drinking, clouds above – and Arabic script scrawled across the sea. The text, Chalabi explains, is an advertisement for a man offering his services as a crane driver. This wonderful example of determination of spirit – for those who continue to live in that city so heaped in ancient and contemporary his and herstories – showing how imposed structures can be employed not only as spaces for imagined dreams to flourish, but also as advertising billboards for work opportunities, sums up what Watkins explained to us is the ever present idea of recycling in the culture of Iraq today. Through recycling is the possibility of change, in change [there is life], and where there's life there's hope. Welcome to Iraq is a remarkable glimpse of another world in South London.
1. Text from South London Gallery online exhibition information.
2. Curator Jonathan Watkins presenting Welcome to Iraq at the South London Gallery press view, 14 March 2014.
3. Tamara Chalabi of Ruya at the press view of Welcome to Iraq.
4. Naming of Parts by Henry Reed, first published in New Statesman and Nation, 8 August 1942, http://www.solearabiantree.net/namingofparts/namingofparts.html.
5. Text from the catalogue Welcome to Iraq, published by Ruya Foundation for Contemporary Culture in Iraq, 2013.
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Cybersecurity: The Role for Data Analytics
by Dr. Ramon Barquin, Silka Gonzalez
Being an information security manager today is no mean feat! Organizations live and breathe interconnectivity and one-click transactions. Increased pressure on information security managers means that they need to demonstrate and emerge flawless on key metrics and business drivers almost every day. These IT professionals are usually the "go to" persons for answers to mission-critical questions that demand quick analyses and flawless decision making. The chief information security officer (CISO) has become a key position in the IT shop, just under the CIO.
In the federal world, the term information security has now become "cybersecurity," and it is one of the top priorities in all of government. President Obama is on record as having said that the "cyber threat is one of the most serious economic and national security challenges we face as a nation," and FBI Director Robert Mueller believes it will surpass terrorism as the country's number one threat. Furthermore, there is now a national cybersecurity strategy and a cybersecurity czar. Many federal agencies have followed suit with their own plans. There is a now a Cyber Command at the Department of Defense, a Cyber Division at the FBI, a National Cyber Security Division at the Department of Homeland Security, and Congress is in the process of preparing cybersecurity legislation.
The vocabulary has followed suit as we have morphed from information security to cybersecurity. The emergence of parallel terminology in the press such as cyberwarfare, cybercrime or cyberattacks has been an important factor. Its meaning is still the same, but the level of attention it receives when "cyber" is prefixed seems to be much greater.
Definitions are often useful for grounding a discussion. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) sits astride the world's communications networks and is an authoritative source in this domain. Following is their definition for cybersecurity: "The collection of tools, policies, security concepts, security safeguards, guidelines, risk management approaches, actions, training, best practices, assurance and technologies that can be used to protect the cyber environment and organization and user's assets."
The fact is that these are trying times for organizations, especially for government agencies. Information technology and the Internet have brought about remarkable growth, but they have also exposed enterprises to new risks – risks that change every day in form and severity and could essentially originate from any place on the globe. The problem is further exacerbated due to the fact that the world is dotted with countries, states, cities and counties, each having its own set of laws and regulations. What might be a crime in one part of the globe might not be a crime in another. Furthermore, the federal government must be very concerned with what other nation states or criminal gangs might be doing on the cyber front, especially if they are not friendly states, as well as the current activities of hacker activists such as WikiLeaks or Anonymous. When speaking about cybersecurity or information security, certainly there is a lot of truth to the statement that "a good defense is truly the best offense."
Given these conditions, making quick, accurate, and timely cybersecurity decisions at the enterprise level is not an easy task. However, the combination of data analytics and cybersecurity can generate business intelligence useful for mitigating the risks and moving toward a solution.
Data analytics helps streamline and channel large amounts of information and allows the creation of a single-screen dashboard that can provide an organization with a concise and meaningful view of the state of enterprise-wide information security. Think of a dashboard as a real-time snapshot of the organization's key cybersecurity indicators.
The biggest advantage offered by an information security dashboard is that it is simple and can be tailored to display information in a form that is concise and easy to understand. A cybersecurity manager's task becomes a lot easier with such a tool because the dashboard does most of the "talking" in the boardroom and can effectively guide top management decisions in the organization.
When dealing in the cybersecurity domain, it is necessary to keep tabs on the basics: who, what, when, where, how, and why. This translates, at the very least, to keeping statistics on the types of attacks (e.g., eavesdropping, phishing, data modification, spoofing, denial of service), the malware (e.g., viruses, worms, root kits, backdoors, key loggers, etc.) and the categories of hackers (e.g., governments, criminal gangs, script kiddies or hacker activists).
Capturing the URLs of both the attackers and the attacked, time stamping the incidents and enriching each with other relevant available background information will allow analysis on this data to obtain useful business intelligence.
The true power of information security dashboards is that their design is limited only by an organization's specific requirements and the dashboard designer's imagination. Let's take a look at some of the ways these dashboards can change how information security decision making is handled.
What Are We Spending and Where?
Organizations spend large amounts of money on cybersecurity each year, and federal expenditures in this area are not going down in spite of the cuts to government budgets. Tracking information security investments and their performance can be quite a hassle, and a CISO is often questioned by management about where the information security budget is being spent and how successfully. A customized cybersecurity dashboard can effectively perform this task and provide additional information to assist decision support on the cyber front. Such a dashboard can highlight spending by area, the impact on specific objectives, budget spent vis-à-vis risk priorities identified in recent assessments, and to what extent regulatory compliance goals have been achieved as a result of the spending. This dashboard essentially analyzes how well the money was spent and measures the cybersecurity program's performance in a given time period.
Where Is My Information?
One of the most basic steps to take to secure an agency's sensitive information is to closely examine and enumerate exactly where this information dwells, where it originates, where it goes, and where it gets destroyed when no longer needed. Data analytics helps create dashboards for precisely this task. What is more, once a dashboard is designed, the process is essentially automated, and the only requirement from the organization is to view and monitor the dashboard. All new information is updated in the dashboard while all information that is destroyed can be logged and presented on the dashboard as required. Information in transit, once difficult to track, can be easily monitored using a single dashboard.
That said, the dashboard will be populated from one or more data stores architected specifically for that purpose. Having these sources of historical cybersecurity data will also provide additional opportunities for analysis and the extraction of business intelligence.
Real-Time Decision Making
The cybersecurity scene witnesses new vulnerabilities every day, and patches to address these vulnerabilities become available every week. These are provided primarily by the software vendors who own the source code that runs our operating systems, our networks, and most of our applications. With the rise of mobile computing, we are seeing these vulnerabilities – and hence additional patches – also appear on the mobile front. A customized information security dashboard can provide an enterprise with a real-time snapshot of the most significant exposures that impact the organization specific to the types of platforms, software, and technical infrastructure that it employs. This is important because having a sea of information on all the vulnerabilities that exist in cyberspace is not really helpful for making quick and efficient organization-specific decisions. Tweak the dashboard a step further, and it can essentially automate the decision-making process for patches and upgrades. It can report trends in cybersecurity incidents being faced by an agency, and that information can be used for effective incident response.
The same dashboard could be further enhanced to help the organization make decisions on new technical infrastructure purchases and the retirement of old/legacy infrastructure. This dashboard can, in effect, combine the knowledge of published vulnerabilities, the nature of transactions performed, and the technical requirements of the organization for efficient functioning to help make decisions on the precise kind of technical infrastructure necessary for optimal performance and security.
What Would Happen If We…?
Organizations are faced with many "what if" questions on a daily basis, especially when it comes to cybersecurity. These questions could be about increasing or decreasing the budget, the cybersecurity implications of a reorganization, or altering the size and composition of the cybersecurity workforce. Tailored dashboards can be equipped with "policy levers" – policies designed to move or encourage action in a particular direction – that can be increased or decreased. With this new information, the dashboard can perform real-time analyses based on its understanding of the agency and its dynamics in order to depict a possible outcome and provide some answers to the many "what if" questions that the organization faces.
A customized cybersecurity dashboard can actually be used to train non-technical staff, senior and top management on cybersecurity and how it holistically impacts their organization. These specialized dashboards contain various policy levers for basic information security aspects such as regularly changing passwords, the amount of information to disclose to an outsider, shredding sensitive documentation, and so on. By changing their weights and simulating behaviors, the dashboard can be used in a security awareness program to demonstrate to an audience the impact these policy levers can have. Trainees can, and should be encouraged to, even shift the policy levers themselves to see how they affect the organization. To learn something theoretically may have an impact on trainees, but learning through simulation is usually more effective.
The partnership of data analytics and cybersecurity has proven to be a success in the many private sector organizations that have incorporated such dashboards into their boardroom meetings. They can also be an important tool for government agencies and their CISOs by providing business intelligence to enable decision support.
Every enterprise is a unique entity with its own significant metrics and indicators. Thus, customizing and tailoring cybersecurity dashboards is the key to data analytics and business intelligence in this high priority battlefield.
Dr. Ramon Barquin
Dr. Barquin is the President of Barquin International, a consulting firm, since 1994. He specializes in developing information systems strategies, particularly data warehousing, customer relationship management, business intelligence and knowledge management, for public and private sector enterprises. He has consulted for the U.S. Military, many government agencies and international governments and corporations.
He had a long career in IBM with over 20 years covering both technical assignments and corporate management, including overseas postings and responsibilities. Afterwards he served as president of the Washington Consulting Group, where he had direct oversight for major U.S. Federal Government contracts.
Dr. Barquin was elected a National Academy of Public Administration (NAPA) Fellow in 2012. He serves on the Cybersecurity Subcommittee of the Department of Homeland Security's Data Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee; is a Board Member of the Center for Internet Security and a member of the Steering Committee for the American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council's (ACT-IAC) Quadrennial Government Technology Review Committee. He was also the co-founder and first president of The Data Warehousing Institute, and president of the Computer Ethics Institute. His PhD is from MIT.
Dr. Barquin can be reached at rbarquin@barquin.com.
Editor's note: More articles from Dr. Barquin are available in the BeyeNETWORK's Government Channel.
Silka Gonzalez
Silka is the president and founder of Enterprise Risk Management, an information security consulting company established in 1998. She has more than 20 years of experience in IT security and IT auditing and holds expertise in best practices in business continuity planning. Prior to founding ERM, she was a consultant with Price Waterhouse, where she was a manager of IT and business services. Her undergraduate degrees are from Xavier University (Cincinnati, OH) and her Master's degree in Accounting Information Systems is from Florida International University (Miami, FL) where she also teaches graduate courses in IT Audit. Silka holds the following certifications: CISSP, CISM, CISA, CPA, CRISC, PCI-QSA and CITP.
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