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Kids are game changers. You go from being responsible only for the survival of yourself to putting the needs of this new little being first. Yes, it is stressful. Yes, it changes a marriage. Yes, it changes who we are and how we operate. And yes, it changes how we feel about almost everything. There are no doubts that kids bring challenges no one can anticipate before having them. But they also bring so much joy, love and growth that I believe can make a marriage stronger.
Facing a long day with a fussy newborn was a tough task. I really looked forward to weekends when Dilip was home so we could clean up projectile baby spit up together. Yes, it was gross. But we were a team and that made it a little more manageable.
Sometimes you just have to lower your standards. The house may not be perfect and you and your partner are probably walking around with some dark under-eye circles that are the honourable badges of sleep deprivation. That's ok. At this point you and your partner should give each other a free pass and talk about what you can't be flexible about.
For example, I knew that I wouldn't feel human if I went a day without showering…so I never did. I may have changed back into the same pyjamas after the shower…but I had a shower and that was what mattered (side benefit: my husband would tell me I looked nice when I dressed up in sweats). My husband's ask was simple: five minutes a day, completely alone to scan the news and the scores. So we made those priorities and got comfortable with the rest.
3. Spend some time together every day.
Sure that time may be sitting on the couch together like sleep-deprived zombies, but you are still together. Don't put pressure to make this time "high-quality" – just make it a priority to find the time. It provides some space for the important things to come out on their own. Dilip and I also use the time spent in the car as a great opportunity to chat and catch up.
4. Take advantage of family and be sure to head out on date night.
Acceptable date nights include: watching an entire season of a show you used to watch pre-baby, going grocery shopping and paying the bills together online. They don't have to be the expensive, glamorous dates of days gone by. Sometimes simple is better.
5. Take time to laugh together.
This is still one of our biggest priorities. Laughing helps ease stress, it increases bonding and allows you to experience the joys. It also means that Syona laughs a lot because that's what we model. We're also pretty open and honest when things are hard because we think that's part of life. But life is good…and that deserves to be celebrated.
One of the pieces of advice my parents gave me before I got married was to be sure to always give our love space so it could grow and we could enjoy that growth together over the years. It's a beautiful way to look at a relationship and I think my dedication to this approach has only grown stronger after having Syona. We have lots of love in our lives and we make active choices to fuel that love and enjoy it.
What are your tips to keeping your marriage strong after kids?


There have been clear successes in Salyan, Nepal. The number of undernourished children has fallen, harvests have increased, and family incomes have grown. But that is not all that the Welthungerhilfe project has achieved. It teaches people about their rights, particularly considering members of lower castes in the caste system of Nepal.
Rabin Shrestha has to take off his shoes, because the mountain river in the Salyan region is flowing much more strongly than usual. The Welthungerhilfe employee and his colleague, Uma Thapa, wade through the ice-cold water. They are on their way to a remote village in the Kalimat Rampur district. Welthungerhilfe has been organising nutrition and farming training here for three years.
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Marching across the fertile hills and valleys, it is hard to imagine that many people in Nepal suffer from hunger or malnutrition. "Climate change is becoming increasingly extreme", explains Rabin. Periods of drought are followed by floods, and it is often impossible to calculate harvest time. Nepal is one of the poorest countries in the world, and incomes in rural areas here are barely enough to survive on. However much the farmers grow, there are many daily essentials that they must buy from the neighbouring town.
After an hour, Rabin and Uma reach their destination. Kalsari Sijali's family is waiting for them. Kalsari and her husband have built their house on a small plateau, and behind it they have their own vegetable garden, cabbage fields, and terraces for growing cereals. Are there problems in this little paradise? "Oh yes, we had big problems", says Kalsari.
This is because the crops they grew used to only last for half the year, and then it was hard to make ends meet. They had few vegetables apart from the staple food, rice. Many children, including Kalsari's, were malnourished. These are not good conditions for a ten-year-old who has an hour's walk down the valley to school every day.
Nutrition training covers the basics. How can I prepare the land so that I can harvest several times a year? How can I grow different types of vegetables to have a more varied diet and enrich my food with vitamins and nutrients? The trainers from three local Welthungerhilfe partners – Rural Reconstruction Nepal (RRN), Local Initiatives for Biodiversity, Research and Development (Li-Bird), and Aasaman Nepal – find that people are open to hearing about better nutrition. Concerned parents are very interested in their children's health – and their own.
So now there are also tomatoes, ginger, pomegranates and citrus fruits growing in these fields. For some time now, Kalsari and her family have not just been growing to meet their own needs. Once a week they sell their produce at the local market, and they have doubled their income over recent years. They will soon add honey and the spicy local "timur" pepper to their range.
Welthungerhilfe takes a holistic approach in Nepal. In addition to nutrition, the organisation also focuses on education, health, and raising awareness of their rights among marginalised groups. The traditional caste system excludes a lot of people from improvements in society and denies them their rights. Welthungerhilfe and its local partners want to change that.
A few valleys and a lot of mountains away, Parbati Bishwakarma has a visitor. Once a week, an advisor from the local partner organisation makes the long journey to remote villages. Parbati's family belongs to the dalit caste, the lowest group in the Nepalese caste system. Her son is looking for a job in India, and she works with her husband to help her four other children get by.
We have to know our rights and demand them. Then we ourselves can ensure that our life improves.
The land is fertile but hilly. No rainwater remains on the fields – it all washes down into the valley. For many years there was no money for a water channel. Welthungerhilfe's awareness-raising work showed the inhabitants that they had many more rights than they actually thought, and that the regional government had to spend 15 percent of its annual budget on agriculture, including in Parbati's region.
In the early evening it is time to return to Kalimat Rampur, where Kalsari is starting to produce biological pesticides. Cow's urine mixed with different plants creates a pesticide that is just as effective as chemical pesticides. However, it is a lot cheaper and healthier in nutrition terms. This is something else that Kalsari has learnt in nutrition training, and since then child malnutrition has become a thing of the past for her.
Ralph Weihermann is a filmmaker based in Cologne who visited the project in February 2018.
One year after the devistating earthquake in Nepal, Matthias Mogge visited the area.
Flooding threatened Rekha and her family. Today her livelihoods are secured. Welthungerhilfe supports smallholders in Nepal.
Modern Kenya offers a mixed picture: poverty reduction, population growth, extreme weather. How does this affect the nutritional situation?


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In the same way that everyone has physical health, we all have mental health. We have to look after our mental health in the same way as our physical health. Like our bodies, our minds can become unwell.
Mental health problems are very common. One in four people in the UK are affected my mental health problems each year. This means that it's likely that you are working with, or know someone, experiencing a mental health problem at the moment.
Mental disorders are more than just going through life's ups and downs. They are debilitating experiences that need intervention and support.
- psychotic disorders (e.g schizophrenia). Click here for a short BBC film which explores what it is like to hear voices.
For more information on mental health, there is more information on the Mind website, a mental health charity; and on the Time To Change website, a mental health awareness campaign. We found the information really accessible!
Need to talk? Concerned about a friend or relative? Please see our resources page for more information on organisations that offer help and advice on mental health.


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Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales travels to Boston
- A collaboration between the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation and Museum of Fine Arts, Boston-
March 19 - July 13, 2014
MIAMI, FL (February 27, 2014)— The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) and the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), join forces on the exhibition Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, featuring contemporary works by artists from across Latin America. Drawn from the holdings of Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, founder and president of CIFO, the exhibition premieres during Art Basel Miami Beach (December 4-8, 2013) and then travels to the MFA in March of 2014. Incorporating sculpture, painting, photography, video, installation and performance art from 1960 to the present, Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales features 61 artists from Central and South America and the Caribbean. Together their works explore what it means "to be global," when free and equal cultural exchange is still limited by the power dynamics of globalization. After years of underrepresentation at home and abroad, many of these artists are now leading the discourse about contemporary art's reach across international borders, while still reflecting social and political issues at home. At CIFO, the exhibition will feature more than 80 works, while visitors to the MFA will experience 60 works in the Museum's first-ever exhibition dedicated to contemporary Latin American art. Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globalesshowcases many artists never before seen in New England, along with new installations and performances inspired by the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection. Permission to be Global/Prácticas Globales is curated by the MFA's Jen Mergel, Robert L. Beal, Enid L. Beal and Bruce A. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art and Liz Munsell, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & MFA Programs, in consultation with Jesús Fuenmayor, Director and Chief Curator of CIFO. The exhibition will be on display at the CIFO Art Space in Miami through February 23, 2014 and on view in the Henry and Lois Foster Gallery at the MFA from March 19 through July 13, 2014.
"The MFA is grateful to Ella Fontanals-Cisneros for sharing works from her renowned collection with our audiences—she is an extraordinary woman whose foundation has been connecting audiences in the U.S and Europe with seminal art from across Latin America for over a decade," said Malcolm Rogers, Ann and Graham Gund Director of the MFA. "This is an exciting moment, as increased attention to international contemporary art spurs artists and scholars to new heights. We hope that this collaboration will further the MFA's efforts to represent the diverse influences of art from across all of the Americas."
Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales focuses not only on the creation of art from Latin America, but also on its reception, locally and internationally. In the early 1960s, many Latin American artists' work addressed social causes in climates of great hostility and repression by military governments that swept the region in the second half of the 20th century. And as the Cold War was fought globally, both the U.S. and U.S.S.R. vied for influence and power in Latin America. However, with the collapse of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the struggle between the two world powers abated and neo-liberal capitalism took hold. The ensuing decades saw the extreme acceleration of globalization, with contemporary artists––including those from across Latin America––creating a new brand of art that reacted to shifting international power dynamics and exposed issues that had previously not been represented on an international stage.
"Since its founding over ten years ago, CIFO has showcased Latin American art with its yearly exhibitions, promoting and representing artists from this region" said Ella Fontanals-Cisneros, founder and president of CIFO. "This year we are excited to be collaborating with the MFA on this year's exhibition and to later present these works in Boston, bringing Latin American art to a new broader audience."
León Ferrari illustrates the global nature of the exhibition with his La Jaula (The Cage) (1979), which he created while in exile from an oppressive regime in his native Argentina. Ferrari's imagined cage works as a metaphorical prison cell for the military officers who tortured and executed thousands, including his son, during Argentina's "Dirty War" in the 1970s. Ferrari's use of abstraction to speak to political issues has been extremely influential for upcoming generations of artists. Emerging Cuban artist Wilfredo Prieto parodies the "smallness" of the global world in Untitled (Globe of the World) (2002), which inks the seven continents onto a tiny dried pea—a gesture that reduces the massive idea of globalism onto a food many Cubans have grown tired of. In her sculpture Dialogue with Him (1998), Argentinean born, U.S.-based artist Liliana Porter displays a familiar figurine of Mickey Mouse in a faceoff with José Gregorio Hernández, the legendary Venezuelan doctor memorialized in public monuments and mementos for his saintly healing powers. Both figurines are symbols of differing belief systems that coexist in a globalized world.
As many artists became part of the larger global network, they were no longer able to identify with their culture alone––this left many asking what it means to be Latin American. Brazilian art legend Nelson Leirner illustrates this idea through his work Untitled (from the series Assim é… se lhe parece… (Right You Are if You Think You Are)) (2003). Leirner uses cartoons to interrogate the relationship between North and South America by pairing two maps of the continents collaged with stickers of Day of the Dead (a traditional Mexican holiday), dancing skeletons and Mickey and Minnie Mouse. The accumulation of skeletons evoke the dead, and perhaps the "disappeared" victims of repression in Latin America, while the grinning characters of Disney threaten an impending homogenous culture. Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta's self-portrait Untitled (1975), morphs her human form into an abstraction of a childhood memory, before her 1961 departure from Cuba as part of the Peter Pan Operation that brought Cuban children to the U.S. While she could no longer physically visit her homeland, the geometries of her recording revisit her roots.
"Since the mid-20th century until now there has been an increased interest in Latin American art production, but it has been only during the last 10 years that the presence of artists from Latin America has become widespread in every single important international event including biennials, museums and private collections, magazines and galleries," said Jesús Fuenmayor, CIFO Director and Chief Curator. "For CIFO, this is our most ambitious exhibition project to date in contributing to the promotion and knowledge of the art of this region."
Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales is organized into four sections: "Power Parodied," "Borders Redefined," "Occupied Geometries" and "Absence Accumulated." Through these themes, the exhibition considers artists' distinct strategies for communication in both local and international contexts. Their unique visual languages undermine the status quo, defy boundaries, humanize art's abstractions and revisit forgotten histories. Together, they offer an alternative understanding of what it means "to be global" today.
Power Parodied
"Power Parodied" explores how artists call attention to unjust social realities through exaggerations of scale, extreme repetition, ironic references to the status quo and outlandish ideas for escaping social ills. Cuban artist Yoan Capote's two-channel video Afterwords/Epílogo (2011) presents an absurd yet poetically evocative commentary on an unnamed story. The image—a young and elderly man both with sewage plungers at their ears—suggests how certain information blocks clear hearing (or thinking) and must be extracted. In Argentinean Sergio Vega's piece Structuralist Study of Poverty (Potato, Onion, Garlic)(2002), Vega tops model-size shacks with a potato, onion and garlic (nutritional staples in the Americas) on pedestals of varied heights to evoke economic bar graphs that measure poverty levels. Costa Rican Priscilla Monge suggests an institutionally mandated detention and the forced repetition of a lesson in her chalkboard drawing No debo perder la cordura (I Should Not Lose my Sanity) (1999).
Borders Redefined
"Borders Redefined" investigates how artists use frames, surface and physical borders––like themend bars of a fence or jail––to highlight ways of disrupting divides and categories. Venezuelan artist Daniel Medina's Reja Naranja (Orange Bars) from the series Deispositivo Cinético/Social (Kinetic/Social Device)(2012), echoes linear abstractions by generations of Venezuelan artists, but also features a security gate, hinged to the gallery wall, signaling an exclusive barrier to private property. Mexican artist Mathias Goeritz disrupted the metal surfaces of his sculptures by driving nails through them, as seen in Mensaje: Decoratión Mural (Message: Wall Decoration) (1970). Goeritz has expressed that constructed spaces should elicit a response from the bodies that experience them. León Ferrari's La Jaula (The Cage) (1979), simultaneously rigid and porous, also speaks to the theme of redefining borders.
Occupied Geometries
"Occupied Geometries" illustrates how artists resist passive forms of spectatorship with pronounced imagery of active bodies in public space or with objects that prompt participation. Brazilian artist Ernesto Neto'sinstallation O Tempo Oco (The Empty Time) (2004), which suspends the soft organic geometries of flesh-colored fabric like weighty body parts, invites viewers to slow down and interact with the limbs with a suspended sense of time. In Magdalena Fernández's animated video 1pm006'Ara Ararauna' (1pm006 'Macaw') from the series Pinturas móviles (Mobile Paintings) (2006), viewers see the stretch and strain of colored rectangles as the voice of a blue-and-yellow macaw squawks––a common sound in her native Venezuela.
Absence Accumulated
"Absence Accumulated" demonstrates how many Latin American artists have refused to let history be erased. Through the accumulation of material and the layering of ideas, they draw attention to events beyond the narrow focus of officially sanctioned history. In Argentinean Horacio Zabala's Revisar/Censurar (Revise/Censor)(1974), the official stamps of state bureaucrats culminate in an ultimate block of expression, illustrating how history is revised when countless facts are redacted. Eugenio Dittborn of Chile disseminates historical events as coded messages about the present in his Neo Transand Airmail Painting No. 41 (1985). Dittborn combines poetry, military photography and a drawing of an indigenous boy sacrificed in ancient times as a metaphor for young lives lost to Augusto Pinochet's dictatorship. In Sedimentaciones (Sedimentations) (2011) Colombian artist Oscar Muñoz demonstrates how a lone hand shapes history, as it sequences photographs of world events and figures. He addresses how personal or collective memory contrasts with overriding narratives from mass media or "official" national history. Regina José Galindo commemorates victims of Guatemala's civil war (1960-1996) in her 2003 performance and video, ¿Quién puede borrar las huellas? (Who Can Erase the Traces?). By dipping her bare feet in a basin of human blood and walking from Guatamala City's constitutional court to the National Palace, she imprinted a visceral symbol of mass violence onto her capitol, and the internationally distributed video footage raised global awareness of the country's nearly forgotten history. She will present a new performance in Boston in conjunction with the exhibition.
Permission to be Global/Prácticas Globales: Latin American Art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collectionis accompanied by a fully illustrated catalogue, published by CIFO, with entries on all featured works and an introductory conversation by exhibition MFA curators Jen Mergel (Robert L. Beal, Bruce A. Beal, and Enid L. Beal Senior Curator of Contemporary Art) and Liz Munsell (Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art & MFA Programs), in consultation with Jésus Fuenmayor, Director and Chief Curator of CIFO.
About Ella Fontanals-Cisneros
Ella Fontanals-Cisneros is a philanthropist, entrepreneur and art collector whose vision has made a lasting impact on the Miami arts community and global arts organizations. Born in Cuba and raised in Venezuela, Fontanals-Cisneros began collecting works by artists from Latin America in 1970 and has grown her collection over the years to include video, photography, geometric abstraction and contemporary art by artists from around the world. Fontanals-Cisneros has lent pieces from her collection to institutions worldwide including the Tate Modern (London) and the Reina Sofia Museum (Madrid). In 2002, Fontanals-Cisneros founded the Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) to foster a better understanding and appreciation of contemporary artists from Latin America.
About CIFO
The Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation (CIFO) is a non-profit organization established in 2002 by Ella Fontanals-Cisneros and her family to support artists who are exploring new directions in contemporary art. CIFO fosters cultural understanding and educational exchange through three primary initiatives: a Grants and Commissions Program for emerging and mid-career visual artists from Latin America; an exhibitions program showcasing work by Latin American artists and international contemporary art from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection at the CIFO Art Space; and foundation-initiated support for other arts and culture projects.For more information, visit cifo.org, email to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. or call 305.415.6343. The CIFO Art Space is located at 1018 North Miami Avenue, Miami, FL 33136.
About MFA, Boston
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA), is recognized for the quality and scope of its encyclopedic collection, which includes an estimated 450,000 objects. The Museum's collection is made up of: Art of the Americas; Art of Europe; Contemporary Art; Art of Asia, Oceania, and Africa; Art of the Ancient World; Prints, Drawings, and Photographs; Textile and Fashion Arts; and Musical Instruments. The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (SMFA), is a division of the MFA offering undergraduate and graduate degree programs. Open seven days a week, the MFA's hours are Saturday through Tuesday, 10 a.m.–4:45 p.m.; and Wednesday through Friday, 10 a.m.–9:45 p.m. Admission (which includes one repeat visit within 10 days) is $25 for adults and $23 for seniors and students age 18 and older, and includes entry to all galleries and special exhibitions, including Permission To Be Global/Prácticas Globales. Admission is free for University Members and children age 17 and younger on weekdays after 3 p.m., weekends, and Boston Public Schools holidays; otherwise $10. Wednesday nights after 4 p.m. admission is by voluntary contribution (suggested donation $25). MFA Members are always admitted for free. The MFA's multi-media guide is available at ticket desks and the Sharf Visitor Center for $5, members; $6, non-members; and $4, youths. The Museum is closed on New Year's Day, Patriots' Day, Independence Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas. For more information, visit mfa.org or call 617.267.9300. The MFA is located on the Avenue of the Arts at 465 Huntington Avenue, Boston, MA 02115.
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Biography – AINSLIE, GEORGE ROBERT – Volume VII (1836-1850) – Dictionary of Canadian Biography
AINSLIE, GEORGE ROBERT, army officer and colonial administrator; b. 1776 near Edinburgh, eldest son of Philip Ainslie and Elizabeth Gray, daughter of Lord Gray; m. 17 Dec. 1802 Sophia Charlotte Nevile, niece of the 4th Earl of Gainsborough, and they had two sons and three daughters; d. 16 April 1839 in Edinburgh.
George Robert Ainslie entered the army as an ensign in the 19th Foot in 1793 and then served in Flanders. That same year he joined the 85th Foot as a lieutenant, and he was given a company on 15 April 1794. He served in the Netherlands, initially on Walcheren and after September 1794 on the Waal River, fighting against the French in these areas until 1799, when he was promoted major. Ainslie failed to distinguish himself in the expedition to northern Holland that year, and in January 1800 he was given the position of lieutenant-colonel in the Birmingham Fencibles, a non-regular unit. Despite his family connections his career did not advance until 1807, when he was reappointed to the regular army as a lieutenant-colonel, first in the 5th Garrison Battalion and then in the 25th Foot. On 25 July 1810 Ainslie was promoted brevet colonel.
Though Ainslie had no administrative experience, he used his family influence to obtain in 1812 the governorship of St Eustatius, in the Leeward Islands; two months after his appointment he became lieutenant governor of Grenada. Made brigadier-general the same year, he was named governor of Dominica in April 1813. The appointment to Dominica proved unfortunate. Ainslie had an excitable temperament which did not fit him for civil administration, and he was reprimanded for suspending the secretary and registrar of the colony. More serious, he reacted with undue violence towards a maroon uprising by beheading one of the leaders and threatening to kill all runaway men, women, and children. There was an outcry in parliament, and Whitehall recalled him within a year of his appointment. In retribution he was forced to accept an inferior post, lieutenant governor of Cape Breton.
Though he was the tenth head of the colony, which had been founded in 1784, Ainslie was only the third lieutenant governor; his predecessor as lieutenant governor, William Macarmick*, had held the office in absentia from his departure in 1795 until his death in 1815, a succession of administrators taking his place. Ainslie was deeply disappointed by the posting, and he had had to accept a drastic reduction in pay. Moreover, his liver was in poor condition and he had amaurosis, a partial blindness – ailments which he blamed on over-exposure to the tropical sun. Since snow glare exacerbated his eye complaint, Cape Breton can hardly have appealed to him. Though he was offered the lieutenant governorship in December 1815 he did not reach Sydney until 4 Nov. 1816, having found his own passage via Paris, Amsterdam, and Halifax. His tardy arrival allowed a crisis to develop which would eventually destroy the colony.
In September 1815 Colonel Jonas Fitzherbert, the commander of the garrison, had become administrator. A former attorney general, Richard Collier Bernard DesBarres Marshall Gibbons, took advantage of Fitzherbert's lack of administrative experience to circulate a petition which demanded that a house of assembly be called. The colony had been granted an assembly at its inception, but none had ever been called because most of the island's administrators considered it could not draw upon sufficient financial resources or educated electors. The result was that no taxes had been collected until a duty on imported rum was imposed by John Despard* in 1801. The colonial élite continued to be divided over the legality of this tax, opposition to it being headed by Gibbons. In 1813 Hugh Swayne, the administrator, had forced Gibbons to resign as attorney general, thus putting a temporary end to the debate. Unlike Swayne, Fitzherbert was not concerned by the pro-assembly movement, and he treated Gibbons's petition lightly. Since he had suffered no reprisals, Gibbons went further and persuaded his ally Ranna Cossit, the assistant collector of the rum tax, to cease collections in June 1816. Fitzherbert realized that matters were out of hand and in August threatened Cossit with removal. Cossit backed down and began collecting taxes again, including those unpaid in the interim. The operators of the island's coal mines, Ritchie and Leaver, refused to pay the back taxes, and Fitzherbert had no alternative but to take the firm to court. There the chief justice, Archibald Charles Dodd*, agreed with the firm's lawyer, Gibbons, that taxes were illegal in Cape Breton because they had not been authorized by an assembly.
Ainslie, arriving in the midst of this crisis, found that the collection of revenues had been halted by Dodd's decision just when money was badly needed to assist destitute settlers because of the "summerless year" of 1816, when snow and frost had struck during the growing season. He could only beg the Colonial Office for assistance, which was not forthcoming. When in 1817 he began to collect a duty on exports of gypsum in order to raise funds, Gibbons protested. Ainslie's temper flared, and he asserted his authority by decreeing that Executive Council meetings would be rigidly structured and the powers of councillors limited. He dismissed from office and council, as in Dominica, those who questioned his decisions, including Thomas H. Crawley, the long-serving surveyor general, and Richard Stout*, the colony's most important merchant. There was soon warfare between Ainslie and almost all local officials, who, despite political differences, banded together against their common enemy. Ainslie could thus accomplish very little, and by 1818 he was complaining that the colonials were "linked together by . . . Roguery." Cape Bretoners also complained, probably hoping that Ainslie's reputation would lend credence to their arguments.
In the mean time, in April 1818 Gibbons had presented to parliament a petition for an assembly which claimed that all ordinances of the Executive Council were illegal since an assembly had never been called to approve them. The colonial secretary, Lord Bathurst, asked the English law officers to determine if Gibbons's position was justified, and was told it was. Ainslie, however, had previously asserted that the people of Cape Breton were too poor and illiterate to support an assembly. It was therefore decided that the colony would receive representative government by being reannexed to Nova Scotia.
When he was secretly informed of the plan early in 1819, Ainslie reacted with delight. He deeply disliked the islanders, seeing them as "the refuse of the 3 Kingdoms," and hoped that reannexation would lessen their "petty importance." His existence must have been miserable when word of the impending takeover was made public in Sydney, but permission for him to leave came too late in 1819 and he did not depart until June 1820. On 16 Oct. 1820 Lieutenant Governor Sir James Kempt* of Nova Scotia officially proclaimed the end of Cape Breton as a separate colony
After arriving in England, Ainslie sought a retirement allowance of £500 out of the revenue from the Cape Breton coal mines, but the pension was refused because of official disapproval of his conduct in the colony. His failures haunted him for the rest of his life, and though he was promoted lieutenant-general in May 1825 he obtained no further employment. He used his leisure to pursue his hobby of numismatics, and published in 1830 a magnificent quarto volume entitled Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage.
It is obvious that Ainslie was better suited to learned pursuits than to military life or to colonial administration. The industry and zeal he displayed in his study of coins soured to impatience, irascibility, and vituperation when he was dealing with people. In Dominica this attribute brought on a public outcry, and in Cape Breton it precipitated the long-delayed decision on the political fate of the island. His tenure represented a bitter end to Cape Breton's existence as a separate colony.
R. J. Morgan
George Robert Ainslie is the author of Illustrations of the Anglo-French coinage: taken from the cabinet of a fellow of the antiquarian societies of London, and Scotland; of the royal societies of France, Normandy, and many others, British as well as foreign . . . (London, 1830).
PRO, CO 217/134–36, 217/138–39. Annual reg. (London), 1839: 333. Gentleman's Magazine, January–June 1814: 509. DNB. The royal military calendar, containing the service of every general officer in the British army, from the date of their first commission . . . , ed. John Philippart (3v., London, 1815–[16]), vols.2–3.
Office Holders – Administrators
Armed Forces – British – Army: officers
Europe – United Kingdom – Scotland
North America – Canada – Nova Scotia – Cape Breton Island
DODD, ARCHIBALD CHARLES (Vol. 6)KEMPT, Sir JAMES (Vol. 8)STOUT, RICHARD (Vol. 5)DESPARD, JOHN (Vol. 6)MACARMICK, WILLIAM (Vol. 5)
MACARMICK, WILLIAM
KEMPT, Sir JAMES
R. J. Morgan, "AINSLIE, GEORGE ROBERT," in Dictionary of Canadian Biography, vol. 7, University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2003–, accessed July 18, 2019, http://www.biographi.ca/en/bio/ainslie_george_robert_7E.html.
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import java.util.Map;
import java.util.concurrent.ConcurrentMap;

import javax.enterprise.context.ApplicationScoped;

@ApplicationScoped
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    // simple - but enough - protection against too much entries in the cache
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    public <A, B> void evictIfNeeded(final ConcurrentMap<A, B> cache, final int maxSize) {
        if (maxSize < 0) {
            cache.clear();
            return;
        }
        while (cache.size() > maxSize) {
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Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung pays pre-Tet visits to Ca Mau
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Deputy Minister of Public Security Lieutenant General Le Quoc Hung visited and worked with leaders of the Ca Mau Provincial Police Department, on January 16, 2023.
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung attends year-end conference of Department of Criminal Records and Archives
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung visits seriously injured police officer in Dong Nai
Reporting at the meeting, Director of the Ca Mau Provincial Police Department Senior Colonel Pham Thanh Sy said that the political security situation in Ca Mau province was maintained stable last year.
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung grants gifts and extends Tet wishes to local police officers and soldiers.
The crime rate related to social order decreased by over 6.5% compared to 2019 while the clearance rate was high.
The traffic police deployed various patrol teams to ensure traffic order and safety around the clock and suppressed hundreds of cases of disturbances, robberies, illicit drug trafficking and traffic violations.
Speaking at the meeting, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung highly appreciated the results achieved by the Ca Mau provincial police in 2022, and wished all officers and soldiers of the provincial police would have good healthy and successfully complete the tasks entrusted by the Party, State and people.
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung joins local police officers and soldiers in group photo.
In the coming time, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung suggested that the Ca Mau Provincial Police Department should strictly implement Resolution 12-NQ/TW issued on March 16, 2022,by the Politburo on enhancing the building of pure, strong, regular, elite and modern People's Public Security Forces to meet the task requirements in the new situation while thoroughly grasping the situation, defeating all plots and sabotage acts by hostile forces.
* On the same day, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung visited the Cai Tau Detention Center in U Minh district, Ca Mau province.
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung offers gifts to officers and soldiers at Cai Tau Detention Center.
The Deputy Minister praised the staff of the prison for their efforts and achievements in the past time, and asked the unit to implement synchronously basic professional work measures, proactively prevented and promptly handled cases of inmates violating prison rules, but create favorable conditions for inmates to serve their sentences.
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung asked police officers and soldiers at Cai Tau Prison to pay attention to the regimes of food, clothing, accommodation, medical treatment, and vocational training for prisoners while strengthening the relationships with local Party committees, authorities and people to ensure security and order in the prison and locality as a whole..
Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung presents Tet gifts to the Ca Mau Provincial Party Committee.
*Previously, Deputy Minister Le Quoc Hung visited and worked at the Provincial Party Committee, People's Council, People's Committee of Ca Mau province.
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Q: getting unhashable type: 'list' while using .split() I am using python 3 to begin with. I am trying to split the input from the console to match a key in my dictionary and the display the value of said key on the console. I've been trying things for hours and have decided to break down and ask for help. Here's some of the code.
enter = input("test  ").split()
names1 = {8410:"A", 8422:"B", 8450:"C", 8386:"D", 8394:"E", 8395:"F", 8318:"G", 8451:"H", 8348:"I", 8294:"J", 8349:"K"}
if enter in names1:
    print(names1[enter])

I have 16 dictionaries with 7000+ names in them with employee ids. My main goal here is to be able to type in a URL that has an ID in it, ex: www.domain.com/8450 and have the console only grab the 8450 and then display C.
Thanks in advance.

A: If you know your URLs are going to be like that use rsplit('/') like so:
>>> enter = int(input('test: ').rsplit('/')[-1])
test: www.domain.com/8450
>>> enter
8450
>>> names1[enter]
'C'

Also your keys are stored as ints so convert the input to int using int().

A: split() returns a list
Eg:
>>> input('test:').split()
test:hello
>>>  ['hello']

You are checking if any of the keys in the dict are a list, like this:
>>> if ['input'] in {'input': 'sample data'}

Which will not work.
You need to sanitize your inputs. There's many ways to do this. One example might be:
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Стен Бергман (; 20 октября 1895 — 19 февраля 1975) — шведский зоолог, путешественник, натуралист, этнограф, фотограф и педагог, совершивший путешествия и проводивший исследования в Корее (1935—1936), Камчатке (1920—1923), Папуа-Новой Гвинее (1948—1950) и других регионах.

Биография
Стен Бергман родился в Рансетере в семье Юхана Бергмана, переводчика и профессора классической филологии, и Черстин Хенриксон, учительницы. Когда ему было 13 лет, семья переехала в Брюнинг, пригород Стокгольма. В 1914 году Бергман начал изучать зоологию, ботанику и педагогику в университете Стокгольма. Он женился на девушке по имени Линда в 1920 году, и они вместе они отправились в научную экспедицию на Дальний Восток. Бергман получил кандидатскую степень спустя два года после возвращения из своей первой экспедиции на Камчатку, в 1925 году.

Путешествия
Бергман начал свою научную деятельность на Камчатке (1920—1923) в РСФСР. Большую часть оборудования, собранного до этой поездки, он потерял в начале пути, когда корабль, перевозивший его, затонул. В ходе этой экспедиции он нашёл образцы меха необычного медведя, позже названного его именем (хотя существование этого медведя не доказано до сих пор). С 1925 по 1929 год он несколько раз возвращался в Швецию, чтобы передать собранные им коллекции птиц Национальному музею естественной истории Швеции. Затем он совершил путешествия на Курильские острова, в то время принадлежавшие Японии (1929—1930). Между 1936 в 1937 годами он посетил Корею, где вновь собрал различные образцы дикой природы для различных музеев в Швеции. Своё путешествие в Корею он подробно описал в документальной книге, написанной в 1938 году. Во время Второй мировой войны он был вынужден прервать свои путешествия и занимался написанием книг и чтением лекций. После войны Бергман вернулся к своим путешествиям по Дальнему Востоку. Он совершил три длительных поездки в современную Папуа-Новую Гвинею, которая в то время была британским владением (1948—1950, 1952—1953 и 1956—1959). В этих экспедициях, помимо сбора богатых коллекций чучел животных в джунглях, Бергман также серьёзно изучал местные традиции, и в своей очередной книге он подробно описал каннибализм, практиковавшийся среди местных племён не только в ритуальных целях. После автомобильной аварии в 1964 году он получил серьёзные травмы и был вынужден прекратить свои путешествия.

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Литература
Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis by Sten Bergman (Seeley, Service & Co., Ltd., 1927), ISBN 978-1-135-48149-0.
Sport and exploration in the far east by Sten Bergman (Methuen & Co. 1933)
In Korean Wilds And Villages by Sten Bergman (1938), Translated by F. Whyte.
My Father Is A Cannibal by Sten Bergman (Robert Hale, 1961)

Ссылки
 Bergman, Sten; Sport And Exploration In The Far East
 Powell's Books - Through Kamchatka by Dog-Sled and Skis by Sten Bergman
Зоологи Швеции
Умершие в Швеции
Почётные доктора Стокгольмского университета

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What's the Difference between iPhone X and iPhone 8?
Last updated on October 18, 2017 by Edward Harper
Recently, Apple disclosed their new models of iPhone to the public which are the 8 and X. The iPhone 8 was issued following the iPhone 7 while the iPhone X (read as ten) was to celebrate their 10th year in the business. Since it's the first time for Apple to unveil two models at once, you're probably wondering what's the difference between the iPhones. Aside from the price, there are many unique features that you can discover on both the iPhone 8 and X. So, it's quite hard to choose what to purchase. If you want to know more about these two, scroll down for the comprehensive analysis.
We might assume that because the iPhone 8 and X were released on the same day, they will have more similarities than differences. If we are going to take a closer look, we can notice that only a few are identical between the two. One example of this is their operating system. The 8 and X will both utilize the latest iOS (11). This means that the internals of the phones will look the same. Another commonality is their processor. Apple still used their A11 Bionic to ensure that both will exhibit excellent and smooth performance. Moreover, the two phones support wireless charging. Now, how about their differences?
How Do They Look Different?
The biggest distinction of the iPhone X to 8 is its display. Let's start by checking the screen. First off, both phones have the True Tone Technology that automatically regulates the brightness of your device depending on the environment. Furthermore, iPhone 8 and X set their maximum brightness to 625 cd/m2 which is typical for smartphones. The iPhone X, however, departs on 8 with its HDR and Dolby Vision. This additional element gives you more realistic color and authentic graphics when playing videos using your phone.
The two iPhones also differ in screen size. While the former has a 5.8-inch screen display, the latter has a 4.7-inch screen. In terms of aspect ratio, the iPhone 8 comes on the 16:9 standard whereas the iPhone X supports the 19:9. On the other side, the iPhone X is the first in the flagship that has a bezel-less screen. So, the next time you get your iPhone in your pocket, you will be seeing an all-screen device. Though iPhone X is bigger, we can't still see if it's good or not.
There is no doubt that the iPhone X has more advantage when it comes to screen quality. Because of its screen size and style, the X is designed with OLED screen which the company called Super Retina Display. This provides vivid images and clear display on your devices. Meanwhile, the 8 has only Retina Display. The resolution which the phones can support is different too. iPhone X has 2436×1125 pixel resolution with 1,000,000:1 contrast ratio but the iPhone 8 has only 1334×750 pixel resolution with a 1400:1 contrast ratio.
How Do They Work Different?
The Home Button
The difference between iPhone X and iPhone 8 boils down not only on display but also on its operation. As mentioned in the first part, the iPhone X goes with the trendy edge-to-edge style. Thus, expect that you will not see any home button when you purchase the model. Abandoning the home button might become problematic for you have to find alternative ways to navigate through your phone. For the iPhone 8, Apple retained the home button and its functionality is still the same.
Face ID vs Touch ID
Over the years, iPhone comes with the Touch ID that allows its users to conveniently unlock and operate their phones. The iPhone 8 still uses this tech but seeing that there is no more home button on the iPhone X, Touch ID will be replaced by the Face ID. The Face ID scans your face and unlocks your phone once it verifies that you're the owner. This said tech causes worry to users as they are not sure how reliable it is. With this, Apple stated that the Face ID is more secure than the Touch ID.
As for a camera, iPhone X has more advanced features than the 8. While they both have a 12-megapixel rear camera, the X has two cameras on the back. One camera has a wide-angle sensor with an aperture of f/1.8 and the other one has a telephoto sensor with an aperture of f/2.8. These two cameras are responsible for shooting portraits with a blurry background. In addition to that, it has dual OIS or optical image stabilization with an optical and digital zoom of up to 10x. The iPhone 8 has only one camera with a f/1.8 aperture, OIS, and a digital zoom of up to 5x. For the front camera, iPhone 8 has 7MP with Retina Flash that is similar to what the iPhone Plus offers. Likewise, iPhone X has a 7MP front camera with TruDepth tech and Portrait mode and lighting. This allows users to take the same portrait photos with Bokeh effect like the back camera. If you're not a fan of optical zoom and Portrait Mode, then it won't matter whether you buy the X or 8.
In the attempt to provide its users more space on their device, Apple expands their storage. Now, you can purchase the X and 8 with 64/256GB. But as usual, neither of which supports microSD card. The RAM wasn't revealed though it's rumored that iPhone 8 has 2GB while the X has 3GB.
Regarding the battery life, it is reported that the iPhone X will last longer than the 8. This is for the reason that the iPhone 8 still utilizes the same as iPhone 7. Meanwhile, the iPhone X upgrades its battery. Thus, it can withstand two hours longer.
It's still difficult to judge who's going to be the winner on the iPhone X vs iPhone 8 battle. Needless to say, the two models perform equally because they have the same processor. If you want a bigger phone with an edge-to-edge screen, you can purchase the iPhone X. Just keep in mind that there's no more home button and Touch ID on this one. Plus, it's quite expensive. But in case you're satisfied with conventional iPhones, the 8 model is the choice for you. This is pretty similar to iPhone 7 except for the fact that it has a wireless charger and some improvements on-screen display.
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How will we remember David Haines?
This is the sort of am-dram collect photograph that most picture editors would give their eye teeth for when tragedy strikes. It's attractive, sharp and a variation on the wedding shot that most often accompanies stories about people who come into the public eye only through their deaths.
But this isn't the image our papers have chosen to project today in reporting the murder of David Haines. Instead we once again have a parade of front pages dominated by a video still of an unidentifiable man in black standing over a kneeling man in orange robes.
In this case, the kneeling man is holding himself upright, showing no signs of flinching from the knife in his killer's hand. We can read into that an element of courage, defiance even, but no more. The photograph of David Haines about to meet his death adds nothing to our knowledge of the man or his killer - whom we have charmingly nicknamed "Jihadi John".
But it will add greatly to the distress of his wife, Dragana, who has for 19 months kept her counsel about the fact that he had been kidnapped, who has shielded her four-year-old daughter from the truth about her father's fate.
When he was identified after appearing in the video of the murder of Steven Sotloff, Mrs Haines said that she could not bear to tell her little girl what had happened and was holding on to the hope that her husband would be freed:
He's everything to us. He's our life. He's a fantastic man and father. Nobody can understand how we are feeling. My daughter keeps asking about him every day. She hasn't seen her father for a year and a half. She has gone through so much. She sees me crying all the time.
Haines also has a 17-year-old daughter from an earlier marriage. Just imagine how she must have been feeling this past year and a half at the most pressured time in anyone's school career.
How are these people meant to cope not only with the loss of their husband and father, but also with the knowledge that a video of his death is whizzing round the world, that people are clamouring to see it?
When James Foley was murdered last month, his family asked people not to watch or share the video of his death, but to post pictures of him alive and active before his kidnapping. It was a wise approach, but one that our papers don't seem able to grasp.
Over the following week, the Sun printed a still from the video on five days out of seven, often as a drop-in single - just in case we'd forgotten what it was all about. There is little danger of that.
Last week SubScribe noted that the Mirror and Sun each used seven video stills, the Star six and the Mail five in the space of two days after the Sotloff murder.
SubScribe shows all the front pages every day, but has resolutely not published the inside coverage of this running story. Today, however, I wonder how the conversation on the Mirror backbench went last night as this spread was being put together:
Five orange robe pictures? Five. Three from the previous videos and two from the latest atrocity. And the irony of the top single heading: "Such blatant attempt to shock world". Well, why do their work for them?
Until last month most of us had never heard of David Haines. From now on he will be remembered by the world as the third hostage - and the first Briton - to be murdered as part of the Isis propaganda campaign.
If he is remembered, that is. What are the odds that many of us will have to rack our brains to recall his name when he crops up in the Christmas quizzes?
Yes, that sounds callous. It is. David Haines was, by all accounts, a good man, but he was not a public figure. He has entered briefly into our consciousness because he was used as a weapon in a propaganda war.
His family and friends will always remember, however. And they deserve better than to see him presented to the world as a brave but helpless victim.
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2013 has started on a high note for me professionally; my travel story about a small Himalayan town got published across four glossy pages of the January issue of the National Geographic Traveller India magazine, and New Woman India magazine ran a page-long feature on my journey from a cubicle to the road in their first issue of the new year! I haven't yet set out of Delhi (for good reason, you'll see in the updates below), but I shall soon be announcing my very first (and very exciting) travel adventure of the year, fingers crossed.
This is the 1st post of my Travel Secrets series. If you don't know me personally, you've probably wondered how I afford my travels, where I find the time, the company or the inspiration to travel, and whether my parents are okay with it (it is safe to assume that most Indian parents won't be). I have hereby decided to come clean with my secrets in a new series that I'm not very creatively calling 'Travel Secrets', and I hope to inspire you to follow your dream to travel the world.
Wanderlust in Words: Travel Writing Picks of The Week.
Of late, I've been reading so many thought-provoking, eye-popping, jaw-dropping, smile-evoking travel posts from around the Blogosphere, that I've decided to start this 'Wanderlust in Words' bi-monthly travel section to collect the best of the lot, and keep myself from losing my sanity (and hopefully yours too). If all goes well, each alternate Monday, you can come back here to find inspiration for your first solo trip, go on a visual journey somewhere across the globe, open up to the idea of long-term travel, indulge in a minute or two of someone else's reality, and read something stirring on Incredible India, which seems to be on everyone's travel list these days.
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It's been a big weekend for me as a travel blogger, this time not for travelling somewhere daringly off the beaten track, but for having one such of my adventures published in India's most widely read daily publications – The Times of India. It is perhaps every travel blogger's starry-eyed dream to see their work in print, and in print that is so widely read. As I watched that dream unfold on Saturday's paper (literally), I couldn't help but think of the rungs I've climbed and skipped to get here.


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![PromoImage](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/null-dev/ChromeSkype/master/promo.jpg)
## About
ChromeSkype was created as a platform-independent alternative to the desktop Skype client. It comes as an easy to install Chrome extension and works out of the box. It's really just a wrapper around Skype Web.
## Features
- Notification support (using the Chrome API)
- Runs in background invisibly (even while Chrome is closed!)
- Instant startup
- Resizable native window
- Uses the familiar Skype Web interface
- Lightweight (~100mb of RAM usage)

## Installation
### From the Chrome Web Store (recommended method):
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### From Source (for the pros):
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2. Open the Chrome "extensions" page by copying and pasting this into the navigation bar: `chrome://extensions/`
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Jellyfish is an intriguing marine creature that is found all over the world's oceans. The word jellyfish, instantly conjures in the mind, a dome-shaped form with hanging tentacles. Many have seen the body of a jellyfish marooned on the beach, and touched it to feel the gelatinous mass that is its body. The jellyfish is a weird creature which has no brain, or a skeletal structure. It immediately collapses when taken out of the water, as the currents of the ocean and pressure in the water keeps its body intact. The tentacles are packed with stinging cells which it uses to capture its prey. The carnivorous jellyfish feeds on a variety of small marine creatures, including the zooplankton, crustaceans, larvae and eggs, mollusks and small fishes.
The jellyfish is fast becoming an accepted dish around the world and in places like China, Japan, Vietnam and Korea, it is regarded as a popular delicacy and people consume it in huge quantities. The jellyfish spoils very quickly, once its taken out of the water, and so a process, is there to preserve it for a longer period. The jellyfish is dehydrated and salt and alum is used in the processing.
The jellyfish is never sold fresh and the processed ones are the ones that you get in the market. The traditional method of processing a jellyfish is usually over a 20 to 40 day period. The gonads and the mucous membranes of the jellyfish are removed and then a mixture of salt and alum is rubbed into the body and the oral arms. The salted jellyfish is then compressed under a weight, so that all excess water drains away. This will make the jellyfish drier and it will get a crisp texture. This process will remove 90% of the original weight. The processed jellyfish has a white creamy color, which will turn yellow to brown with prolonged storage.
Cooking a jellyfish is pretty simple compared to the process other marine creatures require. Firstly you are saved the botheration of cleaning it, as it comes in pieces which are already processed. Initially you wash the jellyfish in cold water to get the salt off and then you have to soak it overnight in the refrigerator. Then you can cut them in thin strips and put them in boiling water. Immediately after this you have to immerse them in chilled water. After this blanching process the jellyfish will curl up a little, and is ready to be marinated or to be put in any dish that you choose. For different types of salads the jellyfish does not need any marination and can be used directly into the salad as one of the ingredients. For a gravy dish you can marintae it in different seasonings, like vinegar, soy sauce and so on. The jellyfish has a bland taste and will take on the predominant flavour of the dish you are making.
In China the processed jellyfish are desalted and soaked overnight, and even eaten raw without blanching. In Japan the processed jellyfish is rinsed and cut into strips, and served with vinegar as an appetizer.