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Ethical Peter Rabbit
]> The first socially responsible licensed character? In what must be a first for the licensing industry, Frederick Warne and Copyrights have launched
The first socially responsible licensed character?
In what must be a first for the licensing industry, Frederick Warne and Copyrights have launched an initiative which places Peter Rabbit licensing into the context of a rounded Social Responsibility Charter. Products will be marketed under the 'Peter Rabbit . . . Naturally Better' banner with an accompanying seal-of-approval symbol and will be identified to the consumer clearly on packaging.
For Warne this has been a logical move; Peter Rabbit is a much-trusted property and Potter herself was a champion of the natural environment (she worked hard to maintain the Lake District's Herdwick Sheep breed and left thousands of acres of land to the National Trust, for example). But like most companies that have pledged to embrace the ethical agenda, Warne stresses that setting out the charter is just the start. 'There is a lot for everyone to learn and we have to view this whole initiative over the long term,' says Gill Thomas. 'We won't be issuing instant edicts to licensees, rather working with them to see what's possible and building on that over time.' Significantly, there will be no special creative or design because this charter applies to the entire whole brand and all its applications. The only change will be in labelling.
To draw up the social responsibility charter Warne worked with specialist consultancy, SustainAbility, which helped identify the main sustainability issues for each Peter Rabbit product category. Under the new standards, Warne and its partners will work to improve different aspects of product and production. First steps, for example, might include inks and recyclable materials being used in packaging. Ethical trading practices including the use of child or slave labour, animal testing and use of fair trade raw materials will come under the spotlight. Health and safety concerns such as chemicals in products, organic ingredients and new technologies such as GM foodstuffs will be addressed, as will issues associated with the environment, such as reducing pollution, energy consumption, renewable resources and protecting biodiversity. The work will have a UK focus initially and then the standards will be developed as a principle for overseas markets, where different issues may be relevant.
Does it all sound very ambitious? Yes, admits Gill. 'But you have to start somewhere and build. Realistically, what you can best hope for is to produce something better, or less harmful than you do currently,' she says. The step by step approach will also prevent Peter Rabbit products being forced into a high price niche.
Some Peter Rabbit licensees will be able to adopt the new labelling immediately. Goodacre Carpets (based in the Lake District), which uses a percentage of otherwise wasted Herdwick wool in its carpets, and Buxton Foods, whose products are Soil Association approved and contain no added salt, sugar or fat, for example. With other licensees the move will come step by step.
Warne is pleased to be putting its head over the parapet as a leading voice within the licensing industry in the development of socially responsible licensing activities. SustainAbility's Oliver Dudok van Heel admits this is a bold move. 'You have to state your parameters and then take things slowly because everyone still has to make money,' he says. 'But Warne wanted to be part of the changing agenda and to work with partners in the same way.'
Is this the first time a major licensed property has pledged to radically change its activity to meet the ethical agenda? Last year, BBC Worldwide broke new ground by publishing its food charter, scrapping all but special occasion confectionery, for example. Disney has recently created a specific style guide for Winnie the Pooh for use with products that are sensitive to the environment. But putting all the activity of a brand into the context of a rounded corporate social responsibility charter is a first.
What are the commercial implications likely to be? The BBC acknowledged that it would lose significant revenue in the short term by shedding some food licensees but is confident it will win revenue back in other areas. Warne and Copyrights feel the same. 'These are slower builds but they do return good revenues in the end,' says Gill. There are also issues to address internally, which will have more impact than just having fair trade coffee in the kitchens at Copyrights and at Warne.
With eco-chic predicted as a hot fashion trend for autumn, is the ethical consumer driving a bandwagon or a long term trend? Every day we read more reports about brands, fashion labels and supermarkets making efforts in an ethical direction. For cynics out there, Oliver says we should encourage the smallest changes, even if they are responding to a market opportunity at first because eventually these things will make a difference. He suggests that brands in particular understand that brand identity is in part defined by consumers according to their commitment to the ethical agenda. Gill Thomas adds, 'fashion won't impact the fact these issues are here to stay'. In the main, the drivers to changing practise are a combination of consumer demand, a sense of personal responsibility and the commercial equation beginning to add up. Peter Rabbit has set out his stall. It remains to be seen how the rest of the licensing industry will tackle these burgeoning issues.


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Appetite: So What Do You Want to Eat Today?
By Nigel Slater
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A Feast for the Vicarious Foodie: On Michelle Wildgen's Bread and Butter
Anne K. Yoder - 2.21.2014 | 9
Michelle Wildgen had established her reputation as the resident gourmand in Tin House's New York office, where she was then managing editor, long before I set foot there in the mid-aughts. In need of obscure spices, olive oil, fresh mozzarella? Michelle would promptly send you up to 125th Street, down to Vinegar Hill, off to an Italian neighborhood in the Bronx. She regaled the office with English toffee before the winter holidays, showing her behind-the scenes-mastery of the candy thermometer. Rumor of an enigmatic past as a cheese reporter in Wisconsin trailed her. It became obvious, quickly, that for Michelle, food was central as a medium, as a subject, as a way of life. She gave me recipes for dishes I loved to eat but didn't know the first thing about how to approach. Chana masala, for example, which at that point I ordered from an Indian joint in my neighborhood at least twice a week. Upon request, she also supplied me with a list of must-have cookbooks, which included Nigel Slater's Appetite, the perennial classic Joy of Cooking, and Rick Bayless's Mexican Kitchen. Part of me still holds on to the idea of becoming a culinary goddess, but with each passing bout of inspiration I've learned that this desire to up the ante in the kitchen only lasts until I'm confronted by my own knives and cutting board and sink. This doesn't diminish the pleasure I take in dining, of course, or overhearing an explicit description of a lavish feast. And so, for a while I lived vicariously while working with Michelle and listening to her mastery and enthusiasm for food, her robustness of detail. Those were hopeful years for me.
Food plays a central, steady, and rather predictable role in most of our lives. Three meals a day, coffee with breakfast, nightcap before bed. Or, if that's not right, perhaps it's coffee for breakfast, tuna salad for lunch, dinner out, and a nip of dark chocolate after? To each her own. Continuing to consume is necessary to continue living but this ongoing cycle of hunger and feeding doesn't usually incite a predicament in the way that narrative fiction requires.
And just how many meals do characters prepare? How many do they eat? Oh, there are significant meals. There are wedding banquets and funeral meats. The tears of longing that fall into the wedding cake batter in Laura Esquivel's Like Water For Chocolate afflicts each wedding guest who has a piece. Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus ends with a banquet where the guests are served a pie filled with meat cut from the bodies of Titus's daughter's assailants. Marcel Proust's Swann's Way is forever linked to the madeleine because of an ecstatic memory of a morsel of that small French cake. And that's not Proust's only paean to food in Swann's Way. His description of the kitchen scullions at work and the rows of all things vegetables sent me into a deep hunger the first time I read it:
I would stop by the table, where the kitchen-maid had shelled them, to inspect the platoons of peas, drawn up in ranks and numbered, like little green marbles, ready for a game; but what most enraptured me were the asparagus, tinged with ultramarine and pink which shaded off from their heads, finely stippled in mauve and azure, through a series of imperceptible gradations of their white feet — still stained a little by the soil of their garden-bed — with an iridescence that was not of this world.
Proust's peas and asparagus evoke the 19th-century still lives of Édouard Manet, whose numerous depictions of kitchen stock and cuisine include a hare hung by the legs and a platter of raw oysters accompanied by lemon wedges. Consider also Gertrude Stein's Tender Buttons and its portraits of food. The rhythm and sound come together to convey the object's essence, making Stein's "Asparagus" a different stripe than Proust's. But Stein's cubist rendering also aspires to art: "Asparagus in a lean in a lean to hot. This makes it art and it is wet wet weather wet weather wet."
Main Course:
A chef knows how to stiffen the egg whites so that the soufflé stands; a fiction writer develops a sense of how to craft sentences and paragraphs to support the narrative and its central characters. There are prescriptive recipes for many types of writing just as there are for all kinds of dishes, and yet the ability to follow directions is more skill than art. It's only after the procedures are internalized and diverged from that both cook and writer can pull off an original concoction.
Perhaps in this way, writing a novel is similar to planning a feast.
Wildgen's depictions of food hew closer to Proust's than Stein's in that they are indulgent and languorous. And she's as skilled at the mechanics of whipping up a well-crafted story as she is describing how to make a béarnaise. In her essay "Ode to an Egg" Wildgen confronts the egg, a character that is both pliable and stubborn: "Faced with gracelessness, an egg asserts itself…Just try skipping the tempering of beaten yolks with warm liquid before adding them to a béarnaise and watch the egg clench its proteins like fists. You will be no more successful with a chilly egg yanked from the fridge than you will with a date you have shoved into a swimming pool." And yes, her fiction contains an abundance of edibles, too. In her first novel, You're Not You, the narrator, Bec, is a young college student who takes a job as a caretaker for a woman afflicted with Lou Gehrig's disease. The novel is peppered with vivid scenes of shopping in Madison's farmer's market, among the cascades of vegetables, cheeses, and meats. Wildgen's second novel, But Not for Long, is set within a food co-op, and now, her latest, Bread and Butter, is nestled firmly in the restaurant industry as it follows three restaurateur brothers. Leo, the businessman, works in partnership with Britt, the charmer who oversees the front end of their well-established restaurant Winesap; and Harry, their upstart younger brother who wants to make his mark decides to open his own, edgier place, Stray.
Food is the true currency of Bread and Butter. Food is an art, a language of affection, of consolation, a way of life. The culinary imperative is present from the opening scene, where a young Harry buys a lamb's tongue with his allowance. The long, lingering pass over the butcher's case establishes the narrative eye as unflinching and artful:
Inside a butcher's case, denuded rabbits curled pink and trusting in white bins, while the sheep's heads appeared chagrined and surprised by the depth of their eyeballs, the narrow clamp of their own teeth. The display of calves' brains and kidneys, livers and tripe, repulsed Britt, struck Leo as regrettable but unavoidable, and entranced Harry who was six.
The brothers' reactions foretell much about their future adult selves, from Leo with the rational mind to Harry the adventure seeker. Their lives are defined in relation to food. This is true whether Leo and Brit worry about whether their warm chocolate cake has become outdated, or when the Harry argues for keeping a provocative dish on his menu: "you've also gotta give people something they haven't tasted, something they can't imagine and have to come in and try." And, well, this scene also provides fair warning for readers who find so much meat unsavory, much like Momofuku's Ssäm Bar whose the menu of which announces, "We do not serve vegetarian-friendly items."
Human behavior is observed within the context of the rules of the trade (and the rules that are broken): don't date coworkers; the staff is young, desirable, and often temperamental; key players in the kitchen will be lured and poached by other establishments; extreme focus is required during rushes, when on a good day the kitchen and wait staff merge into complimentary sides of a well-oiled machine. And the food! If nothing else (and there is plenty else), the novel revels in its cuisine. Sentences are peppered with exquisite dishes throughout and take detailed note of the textures and presentation and garnishes, allowing reader gorge. Dishes served include pig's ear, hard salami, putty-colored lambs tongue, rabbit ragù with pappardelle, salted brittle, and sardines. An entire hog has been butchered and transformed into barbeque and charcuterie for a staff party. This physicality grounds the brothers' struggles, caught up in assuring Winesap's relevance as Stray establishes its name. When Britt first tastes Harry's signature dish of lamb's neck with Jerusalem artichokes he's concerned that it's too adventurous to lure small town diners. The same dish dazzles Leo and makes him worry he's become too complacent. It's the kind of conundrum that plagues the brothers, as well as all forms of art and commerce — the inspired dish won't lure diners despite its brilliance, while the reliable dishes that sell are often staid.
Bread and Butter is a tremendous feast of a novel. Like a meal served at the streamlined Winesap, it adheres to a more classic ideal of what makes a book worth reading. It doesn't aspire to rework the novel as form, nor does it attempt to. Instead, it achieves with excellence what it sets out to do, with its well-crafted characters and the subtle development of their entanglements, as it offers an insider's view view of the restaurant industry, including the struggle to balance business and creativity, the intermingling of family and business, and of course, the cuisine. The food's physicality is so palpable and inviting, and is rendered with precision and balance — this too is art. I'll leave you with a morsel to whet your appetite, as Harry serves the lamb's neck: "He drew something meaty and brown, dripping, from a braising pot and set it on a metal dish and slid it into the oven. Then he arranged some crisp root vegetables and broccoli rabe on a round white plate, placed the meat at the center, and scattered the whole thing with something golden and green and finely chopped. He placed this before Britt with the air of a cat delivering a freshly killed gopher."


Following a hugely successful year 2015 that saw them play to over 300.000 people around the world in support of their latest release Revolución, including a week-long stint in Cuba (a first for an American Rock Band), coveted slots at major festivals, shows with KISS, WHITESNAKE and JUDAS PRIEST in Europe, the US and Australia as well as their own, sold-out headline club tour through the UK and a celebrated headline show in Paris, THE DEAD DAISIES have signed an exclusive, global distribution deal with SPV Records.
The Hanover, Germany based company looks back on 35 years of experience in bringing high-quality rock music to audiences worldwide, as evidenced recently in the highly successful reissues by the SCORPIONS.
On top of this exciting announcement, THE DEAD DAISIES have also been confirmed as "SPECIAL GUEST" to Musikmesse Frankfurt, Europe's biggest Music Trade Show. The band will perform on the Center Stage of the fairgrounds every day from April 7 – April 10, 2016 as well as a club performance during the show in Frankfurt.
THE DEAD DAISIES, the biggest new name in Classic Rock, have just recently announced the addition of Doug Aldrich (WHITESNAKE, DIO) as their new lead guitar player. He completes a powerhouse lineup that features John Corabi(MOTLEY CRUE, THE SCREAM), Marco Mendoza (THIN LIZZY, WHITESNAKE), Brian Tichy (OZZY OSBOURNE, FOREIGNER) and David Lowy (RED PHOENIX, MINK).
The band just began recording their new studio album with mega-producer Marti Frederiksen (AEROSMITH, DEF LEPPARD, MOTLEY CRUE, BUCKCHERRY) in Nashville. They will then embark on a massive world tour in support of this, yet untitled effort.
The video for "Devil Out Of Time" was filmed on the European leg of the Revolución Tour and shows what THE DEAD DAISIES are all about: Classic Rock at it's finest! Check out the video on KNAC.COM right HERE.


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In British Columbia, There's a Good News Story about the News
A digital news ecology is flowering through 'coopetition' — as Media Democracy Day will showcase Nov. 18.
By David Beers 10 Nov 2017 | TheTyee.ca
David Beers, an adjunct professor of Communication at Simon Fraser University and of Journalism at the University of British Columbia, is a co-organizer of Media Democracy Day 2017, and founding editor of The Tyee.
'In British Columbia, you say?' The news is out: BC is home to a growing new ecosystem of online journalism.
Hidden by gloomy tales of the decline of North America's news media is a success story in southwestern British Columbia.
Here, a cluster of digital outlets have flowered by paying for top notch investigative and solutions-focused reporting. They are forging new business models and training the next wave of journalists.
Taken together, they form a news media ecosystem in which surviving means competing but also collaborating. Yes, each vies to break stories and attract money. But they also sometimes republish each other's pieces, pool resources or team up.
"Coopetition" is one way to describe this style of ecology.
Who are its creatures? They include: The Tyee founded in 2003 in Vancouver; Megaphone Magazine, Vancouver's street paper and website founded in 2006; DeSmog Canada, founded in 2013 in Victoria; Discourse Media, founded in 2013 in Vancouver; Hakai Magazine, founded in 2015 in Victoria; The National Observer founded in 2015 as an arm of the 2006 Vancouver Observer; The Global Reporting Centre founded in 2016, a non-profit growing out of the International Reporting Program at UBC's Graduate School of Journalism.
It's a remarkable list, representing millions of dollars in journalism budgets, a combined staff larger than the Vancouver Sun-Province reporter pool, numerous major awards, a steady stream of high-impact work, and millions of page views per month.
Some of the big ground broken in this little region:
The Tyee launched the 100-Mile Diet, helping spark the local food movement, and has reported early and continuously on fixing the housing affordability crisis. With no paywall, it's nearly majority reader supported, with some philanthropic funding plus investment from a labour-tied fund.
The National Observer's energy sector investigations have rocked Ottawa and forced resignations. It mixes revenues from paywall subscribers, philanthropies and other sources.
Discourse Media, which specializes in deeply reported projects it terms "collaborative," is now offering its readers a chance to co-own the company as it aggressively pursues growth.
The non-profit Global Reporting Centre, whose mission is to innovate how global journalism is practised and cover neglected issues worldwide, has crowdsourced storytellers to document the rise of xenophobia.
Hakai Magazine, backed by the Tula Foundation and tied to Hakai Institute, covers coastal science, ecology and communities. It pays top rates for stories from around the world, and has an in-house team producing frequently viral videos.
A single video interview about Site C dam published by non-profit DeSmog Canada drew 1.6 million views. It mixes funding from readers and philanthropies.
While these orgs aren't muscling aside B.C. megafauna like the CBC, Globe and Mail, Postmedia and Huffington Post, they serve as "tip sheets" for those newsrooms, who often pick up their stories and run their own versions. In this way the smaller fry contribute to the public conversation by means rarely highlighted.
Increasingly, too, B.C.'s small independents are collaborating directly with traditional media:
The Tyee has partnered with the CBC on series about Indigenous education best practices, and affordable homes;
The National Observer is producing with the Toronto Star, Global News and others a major project tracking oil industry influence, in partnership with investigative journalism students from across the country;
Discourse Media helped research a Maclean's feature on Indigenous overrepresentation in prisons;
DeSmog Canada worked closely with Aboriginal People's Television Network Investigates on a Site C piece;
And Megaphone is joining with the CBC on a series about preventing overdoses.
What is emerging here is a good news story about the future of news, one worth paying attention to across Canada and beyond.
As the collapse of advertising revenues is threatening to kill Canada's major newspaper chain, B.C.'s indies are far less dependent on ad dollars for their survival.
At a moment when trivial click-bait is said to rule, experiments in B.C. are instead pumping out in-depth, public interest journalism.
And the net result is a more fully informed citizenry, a healthier democracy.
Why did B.C. become home to Canada's most vibrant news ecosystem? Credit the wellspring of creativity here — the province's beauty and potential has long attracted change makers.
Credit, as well, a backlash empowered by digital tech. For decades, corporations headquartered in Central Canada have owned this province's news giants and their content reflected it. The pent-up appetite for home grown media spawned upstarts rooted in B.C. culture and interests. That can irritate some outsiders. Alberta Oil magazine fretted that the "The Vancouver School" of journalism was too effectively making the case against pipelines connecting the oil sands to B.C.'s coast.
A more detailed map of media innovators in this province could include people behind many projects based elsewhere. British Columbians helped start, for example, the political site Ricochet, the foreign policy site OpenCanada, and The Conversation Canada, where academics share their findings in opinion pieces.
Fold in, too, B.C.'s advocates using media to mobilize and educate, groups including The Dogwood Initiative (environment), Karmik Opioid Crisis Response (drug harm reduction), Affinity Bridge (digital democracy), Fresh Voices (vulnerable youth), OpenMedia (Internet freedom) and many more.
For anyone interested in diving into this region's dynamic scene, Vancouver Media Democracy Day offers a perfect opportunity on Nov. 18 at the public library's central branch downtown. Most of the entities mentioned above, and many more, will be on hand. Some will showcase their work. There will be workshops, roundtables, networking.
B.C. is home to an expanding media sector needing people to help it grow. If that's news to you, Media Democracy Day is the place to plug in.


It doesn't sound that momentous. And it's not as if showering with the girls is difficult – they sit in the bath, I pass them the occasional toy and they play together. But last weekend I got quite a bit of me-time while sewing the shirred dress, even if it was in 10 minute blocks! So when my husband offered to distract the girls so I could shower by myself, my first instinct was to say that's fine, I'm OK.
But is OK enough? Why don't I deserve the time to be good, great, fantastic? Unfortunately it comes down to one word – guilt.
I've managed to convince myself I have to be a perfect parent or I'm hurting my kids. This is wrong and I know it intellectually. I know that there is no such thing as a perfect parent. I know that kids have done very well over the years in less than ideal conditions and they're pretty tough. I even know that something like books and reading (for example) are incredibly new and people have learnt to use them without being read to for an hour a day from birth. When it's an individual example like that I'm perfectly rational. But in my day to day emotions there's always something I should be doing, or doing better, or worst of all not doing.
And in the rare cases where something goes wrong! I'm extremely lucky and I know it, I have two healthy, happy little girls. But between their sleep (or lack thereof) and their speech (big girl had a moderate delay which seems to be resolved, little girl is following in her footsteps) it seems that at least once a day I ask what on earth I'm doing wrong. How did I create this sleep problem? What have I neglected that has stopped them from talking? How (why!) did I make them so clingy?
You can see the problem right there in that paragraph – the good things are due to luck, the bad things are all my fault. And that turns into guilt.
I don't know how I developed this attitude. Probably a lot of things contributed, I'm a bit of an overachiever and a lot of a control freak, and there's just so much information out there! I'm not going to write a list because I don't want to scare anyone else, but I managed to turn all sorts of things from extra bonuses into needs. Rather than thinking how 'lucky' my kids are because they get so many extras on top of being happy, healthy and secure, or even (shock!) what a good job I might be doing, I've turned it around to say I'm doing a lousy job because they're missing out.
It's irrational. I know it, but I can't seem to help it. And it's not doing me or my kids any good as I stumble along near the edge. Isn't that sad – I'm realising I have to stop chasing unattainable perfection not because it's impacting on me, but on my parenting. Just shows how trapped I am. So this is the first step. When my husband offers me a shower all on my own, I'm going to take it even if I've had some me-time. I'm going to keep track of me-time to make sure I actually get it and know that I get it. And I'm writing it down so I can see how silly it is, and maybe start to believe it.
I just want to stand up and applaud you!
Everything you said speaks straight to me. I tell people how lucky I am to have a happy, content little guy instead of telling them the truth- I have a happy, content child because of the choices I have made!
I too am trying to realise that we don't get any 'bonus points' for running on empty. Ironically, I can convince myself to have downtime and me time by telling myself that it teaches my son to see that I am a person with needs and interests too.


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Twitter mobile restored in Cameroon
Last week, in a move that echoed social media censorship in Cameroon, the government ordered MTN - a major mobile phone operator in Cameroon - to suspend Twitter mobile - locally known as Twitter SMS. The suspension of Twitter mobile was widely criticized by Twitter users at home and abroad. One week after the suspension, Twitter mobile has been restored in the sub-Saharan country.
The restoration of the service in Cameroon was announced on 18 March 2011 on Twitter, when the official Twitter page of Twitter Mobile was updated with the following tweet:
"Twitter SMS service on MTN Cameroon is live once again! New users should send START to 8711 to sign up."
In closed totalitarian and highly censored societies, Twitter is instrumental in sending out information. In Egypt for example, during the recent pro-democracy demonstrations, twitter was widely used by protesters to organize and share information and pictures with the rest of the world.
In countries where press censorship is the order of the day, Twitter is a cherished service which gives oppressed people a unique opportunity to freely express themselves and share uncensored information with the rest of the world.
Over the years, the 28-year-old regime of Cameroon has been widely criticized for press censorship and imprisonment of journalists, hence the suspension of twitter mobile was perceived by many as another attempt by the regime to stifle free expression and any possible attempt by the growing number of anti-government activists to organize online.
It is worth mentioning that Twitter SMS was suspended two weeks after government forces brutally quashed peaceful anti-governmnent demonstrations in Cameroon's economic capital. A Cameroonian blogger described the suspension as a government bid to "insulate itself against digital activists."
The restoration of Twitter mobile in Cameroon is welcomed. People have the right to freely express themselves or peacefully organize through any available means - without government interference.
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Salt-cured sea bass tostadas, shrimp and masa dumplings in a tomato broth: these are the vibrant dishes of Mexico's nearly 6,000 miles of coastline, where tropical fruit and fresh seafood rule. Javier Cabral and Paola Briseño González show us how to bring the coastal classics home.
This bowl from the Gulf state of Veracruz stands with the great seafood stews of the world. The broth, fortified with shrimp shells, draws its deeply satisfying flavors from charred tomatoes and smoky chipotle chiles. Adding chochoyotes, chewy masa dumplings, rounds out the dish.
Something beautiful happens when protein is smeared with citrusy achiote paste, wrapped in banana leaves, and roasted. Cochinita pibil is famously prepared this way, and throughout Quintana Roo and Yucatán, fish gets the same treatment. Tikin xic translates to "dry fish" in Mayan—the dish used to be made with dried fish. Today's versions are anything but dry, especially when you use fish with a high oil content, like black cod.
Local lore has it that this ceviche variation from Sinaloa, in northwest Mexico, was originally adapted by inland communities that loved scallops but couldn't always get them. Applying a salt-and-ice brine to the more plentiful sea bass gives the fish a creamy texture that mimics the sweet flesh of scallops. But the secret sauce here is Sinaloa's utterly addicting salsa negra, made with soy sauce and fresh lime juice. You'll want to pour it over everything.
While hanging in the muggy, tropical heat of Colima, Mexico's coconut capital, nothing will refresh you faster than a cup of chilled tuba. It is the official beverage of the state and is made from the sap of the coconut palm tree. And when it sits out and ferments, it turns into vinegar, which locals blend with dried chiles and use to braise pork. Enter Colima's famous tatemado de cerdo, which is so good that it just might dethrone your love for cochinita pibil. It makes for an excellent special-occasion dish to make for a big group and, like many other Mexican braises, tastes even better the next day.
What's better than sipping a good paloma while relaxing to the sound of sapphire-blue waves on a secluded beach only reachable by boat? How about a freshly baked pie made with fruit gathered just a few hundred feet away? Yelapa, a tiny beach community about 45 minutes away from Puerto Vallarta via water taxi, is known for its tropical pies. The sturdy crust is salted and shortbread-like because the pie has always been eaten while sunbathing, with no utensils around. Take big bites—it'll taste better.


This page will eventually be a discussion about the causes of the White Halo, and what can be done about it. At the moment, since the site is still undergoing revision, it's just the old tutorial, transplanted without frames.
If you'd like to see a movie of all of this in action, go to Easy Alpha Channels.
If you'd like to see a blow-by-blow explaining it all, keep reading.
In this method, I use a free third party plug-in, available from Flaming Pear. Links are included in the text, or you can just download it by clicking the link above. (It's in the Free Plugins pack, a bit more than 2/3 of the way down the page.) They will work with any program that supports Photoshop plugins.
Also included in this tutorial is a set of Photoshop Actions that will automate the entire process for you. (A link is also provided within the Tutorial.) I'm afraid that these will only work if you have Photoshop.
In Second Life, we upload Targa (.tga) files to use as textures.
Targa files don't support layers; but they do support a single Alpha Channel, which shows as transparency in Second Life. Areas that are white in the Alpha Channel are opaque in SL. Areas that are black are completely transparent. Areas that are shades of gray are partially transparent, depending on how light the shade.
This tutorial assumes that you are working with layers on a transparent background. In other words, this will only work if you have already extracted the image, and there is no background left. If you have a background, you need to extract the picture you want to bring into SL first.There are dozens of ways to do that, and I haven't written a tutoral about it yet. Please Search the web, using the keywords Extract Photoshop and Tutorial to find one.
You can edit Alpha Channels manually in Photoshop (although not in Photoshop Elements,) and you might want to do that sometimes. But it's usually not necessary.
But, if you upload this image into SL, you'll notice what we call the dreaded White Halo. If you have semi-transparent areas, you'll also notice that they appear washed out. The higher the transparency, the lighter they will be.
Click here to go to the next page, and see how to fix the problem.


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Chamaecyparis formosensis, auch Rote Taiwanzypresse oder Formosa-Scheinzypresse, ist eine Pflanzenart aus der Familie der Zypressengewächse (Cupressaceae). Sie kommt auf der Insel Taiwan endemisch vor.

Beschreibung
Chamaecyparis formosensis wächst als immergrüner Baum der Wuchshöhen von bis zu 65 Meter und Brusthöhendurchmesser bis zu 6,5 Meter erreichen kann. Die Borke ist mehr oder weniger rotbraun gefärbt. Die Äste gehen gerade oder hängend vom Stamm ab. Die Zweige stehen gerade von den Ästen ab.

Die schuppenartigen Blätter sind bei einer Länge von 1 bis 3 Millimeter dreieckig bis rautenförmig geformt. Blätter die an der Oberseite der Zweige stehen haben eine grüne, Blätter an der Zweigunterseite eine blaugrüne Oberfläche. Die Blattunterseite ist weißlich gefärbt. Die Spitze der Blätter ist spitz zulaufend bis zurückgebogen. Wenn die Blätter verletzt werden, verströmen sie einen an verrottenden Seetang erinnernden Duft.

Die braunen Zapfen sind bei einer Länge von 6 bis 12 Millimeter und einer Dicke von 5 bis 9 Millimeter eiförmig bis länglich-eiförmig geformt. Zur Reife sind sie braun gefärbt. Jeder Zapfen besteht aus acht bis 14 Zapfenschuppen von denen jeder zwei Samenkörner trägt. Die flachen, braunen bis rötlich braunen Samen sind geflügelt. Sie sind bei einem Durchmesser von 1,5 bis 2,5 Millimeter eiförmig-kugelig geformt.

Der Baum ist außerordentlich langlebig. Es wird geschätzt, dass er ein Alter von über 3.000 Jahren erreichen kann.

Die Chromosomenzahl beträgt 2n = 22.

Verbreitung und Standort

Das natürliche Verbreitungsgebiet von Chamaecyparis formosensis liegt in Nord- und Zentral-Taiwan. Sie kommt dort in der Nähe des Yuenyang Lake sowie des Lala Mountain vor.

Chamaecyparis formosensis gedeiht in Höhenlagen von 1000 bis 3000 Metern. Man findet die Art vor allem in den Gebirgen wo sie in Nadel- und immergrünen Mischwäldern wächst. Häufig werden Reinbestände gebildet, es kommt jedoch auch zur Mischbestandsbildung mit der Hinoki-Scheinzypresse (Chamaecyparis obtusa).

Systematik
Die Erstbeschreibung als Chamaecyparis formosensis erfolgte 1901 durch Jinzô Matsumura in Botanical Magazine, 15(177), S. 137–138. Synonyme für Chamaecyparis formosensis Matsum. sind Cupressus formosensis (Matsum.) A. Henry und Cupressus formosensis (Matsum.) Silba.

Die Art ist sehr eng mit der Sawara-Scheinzypresse (Chamaecyparis pisifera) verwandt.

Gefährdung und Schutz
Chamaecyparis formosensis wird in der Roten Liste der IUCN als "stark gefährdet" geführt. Früher wurden viele größere Bäume zur Holzgewinnung geschlagen. Die natürliche Verjüngung ist jedoch gut, sofern der Nachwuchs nicht vom Unterwuchs verdrängt wird.

Quellen

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

Zypressengewächse
Cupressaceae
Baum

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A game drive with a ranger is always a fantastic way to gain insight into animal behaviour as well as learn more about the flora and fauna of the bush. As you'll be in an open-top vehicle, you'll get the feeling of being part of your surroundings – it's a thrilling experience! The habitat in the southern section of Kruger around Pretoriuskop Camp – tall grassland and open woodland – is particularly well suited to the regal sable antelope; there's also a chance you'll see giraffe browsing the treetops. Zebra, impala, kudu and buffalo are found in this area too, as is a relatively small population of elephant. There aren't that many lions here so you'll be really lucky if you see (or hear) one – but the absence of these cats makes the area a favourable one for cheetah and wild dog.


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227 – Chloe Brown: The Designer's Art Connect
July 24, 2018 Grant Stringer	0:31:40
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Welcome back! Today in The Lounge, Nick sits down with Chloe Brown of Fresh Paint Art Advisors! She's an art consultant who has a tremendous amount of experience working with interior designers, and today she shares her wisdom on the niche role of art advisors in the residential, commercial, hospitality and healthcare design world.
Getting to Know Chloe
Chloe is based in LA with Fresh Paint Art Advisors. The firm curates art collections for residential, hospitality, commercial, and healthcare projects, which means coordinating between clients and a roster of about 500 artists – from sculptors, to painters and illustrators — as well as interior designers. The goal is to curate an art collection that fits the narrative established by the designers in the space, and to make sure that the clients are able to enjoy an inspired interior.
The Fresh Paint Process
Although the brick and mortar HQ of Fresh Paint Art Advisors is in LA, they've done work in Australia, China, and the U.S. Chloe says the business was started 38 years ago, not by her, but by Josetta Sbeglia, and Chloe says the firm is a big family — even though they aren't all technically related!
Fresh Paint will work in-depth with their clients to understand exactly what they are looking for. However, she says there is a lot of variability with her clients: some are very specific and involved in the process of choosing art, while others aren't at all. On the hospitality side, for example, Fresh Paint really hopes to expedite the process of choosing art. With a private home or residence, though, the process is much more intimate and protracted.
Working With Your Budget
One of the great things that Chloe is able to do as an art consultant is to work with budgets. Clients can go through the whole process to acquire the right art for the project and then be given a high-end or low-end project estimate, but still have art provided that is right for the design aesthetic. Chloe says their biggest budget on a project is currently around $1 million! The project is a resort with about 750 rooms. Not including corridors, that means about 3,500 pieces of art are required for the project: whether reproductions, originals, sculptures, paintings, installations, and beyond. For residential, their biggest project is currently about $350,000 for approximately 45 pieces.
Chloe gives a tip: a series of small, intimate pieces with one major "statement piece" is a better bet for the budget-concerned client, rather that several big, feature pieces. On the topic of client requests, Chloe says that Fresh Paint gets strange requests all the time, and that working with clients to pin down those exact requests is a really important part of what they do. In fact, those strange requests force the consultants to go looking for new fabrics or perhaps even new artists to provide the best pieces.
"You want the client to enjoy their space and love their space. And at the end, when it comes together…and there's a flow to the space in the home, it is exciting. That's really what we love to do."
Learn more about Chloe and Fresh Paint Art Advisors at their website, on Instagram @chloeatfreshpaintart and on Facebook! Also, Chloe would love to hear from you via email at Chloe@freshpaintart.com. Any questions are free!
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This 316L stainless steel part originally started as a raw stock of steel. With the customer specification to hold flatness within 0.001" and most of the material removed in an odd shape we had to go through our two stage roughing process on both sides. After that we were able to finish this part to perfection. Some holes had to be reamed to customer specs at +0.0002/ -0.0000.


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If We Want Justice For Survivors Of Trafficking, We're Going To Need Guts
Guest Writer x May 22, 2017
Decriminalizing prostitution is the only way to secure justice for survivors of trafficking.
By Laura LeMoon
The word "trafficking" elicits a lot of strong feelings. Many people also have strong feelings about the causes of trafficking and the ways in which this issue needs to be addressed. Maybe you've heard of the closing of Backpage's escort section back in January amid pressures to "address" the issue of global sex trafficking through the close observation of internet sites where advertisement of sexual services occurs. This approach presupposes that prostitution in and of itself is the problem here, and thusly the answer to the problem of sex trafficking is simply to eradicate all potential for profitable sexual exchanges to occur on the internet.
This approach is ineffective, inhumane and actually facilitates further harm for victims of trafficking. Recently in March, an amendment to section 230 of the Communications Decency Act was purposed as draft bill "No immunity for Sex traffickers Online Act, or what it is now known as "Allow States and Victims to Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act of 2017 (H.R. 1865). The bill was introduced by Rep. Ann Wagner, R-MO, who had pushed other recent anti-trafficking legislation such as the SAVE Act of 2015 (Stop Advertising Victims of Exploitation Act; H.R. 285).
Related: Using Art To End Sex Trafficking and #KillTheSilence
In May of 2015, the SAVE ACT was passed into law as an amendment to the Justice for Victims of Trafficking Act of 2015. Essentially the SAVE act was the lynchpin in the beginning of a battle against online ads for sex and made a felony crime out of running ads that support sex trafficking.
The bill being currently proposed is essentially a small extension under the larger umbrella of the SAVE act, intending to hold websites responsible for what a third party individual may publish (for example an ad posted on Backpage that turns out to be a minor child). This is essentially in response to current commotion by anti-trafficking allies that Backpage, and other sites like it, are hotbeds for child exploitation. The thinking, then, is that by eliminating the venue for sex trade to occur, you will eliminate any potential for child exploitation.
The reality that I would like to make clear, as someone who is both a survivor of trafficking and a sex worker, is that the whack-a-mole approach to a social justice problem does not work. We can see this with the way law enforcement and the penal system have handled drug addiction and illicit drug sales since Regan's war on drugs began in the 1980's.
The harm of this bill to sex workers, or consenting adults who choose to engage in erotic services, can be seen in exactly what happened with the shutdown of Backpage. With increased government intervention into sites where sex workers advertise their services, many sex workers may feel it is of greater risk to post an ad and also more uncertain that there will be income derived from that post. Additionally, the sex workers who are most disproportionately effected by these website shutdowns are sex workers of color, Queer and Trans identifying sex workers, and low income, homeless or unstably housed sex workers. For the general (non-sex working/survivor) community, this bill is an obvious push to further control free speech in the Trump era. Everyone wants safety and security, but it should not be at the cost of individual freedom and autonomy.
As Americans, especially since the age of George W. Bush and the Patriot act, it is important to always question our political representatives when they ask us to sacrifice personal and collective freedoms in the name of some nebulous "safety."
For survivors of trafficking, the abolition of prostitution (which is essentially what all the aforementioned laws indirectly advocate for) is not an effective means of getting rid of trafficking. The reason that anti-trafficking allies and politicians lean towards this model is that what is actually effective is also highly controversial. That is, the decriminalization of prostitution.
Decriminalization differs from legalization in that within the legalization model, there is high government involvement and even interference with ones job as a sex worker. Whereas in the decriminalization model, the penalty for the act (prostitution) has been removed, however the autonomy of the worker is maintained in the ways by which they choose to do their work.
To truly tackle trafficking is to advocate for this model because stigma and violence are much less likely to effect people in the sex industry when the law has officially recognized and validated the profession. After this point, public opinion and societal beliefs can begin to follow suit and real change can begin to unfold. However, the removal of these laws that actually reinforce human trafficking requires that government acknowledge that stigma and oppression do occur in sex working communities due to government systems.
When asked what she would recommend as an alternative to this bill, Maxine Doogan, President of the Erotic Service Provider legal, educational and research project said, "Decriminalize prostitution and defund the police and reallocate those funds to real social services instead of the ambulance chasing rescue industry." Maxine is correct in that Sex trafficking survivors can feel shame by an approach that is largely based on the supposition that the sex trade and the people in it are inherently bad. When politicians and so-called allies disparage the sex industry and the people within that industry, they are also disparaging sex trafficking survivors.
When similarly asked how voters can work to challenge the passing of this bill, Maxine replied, "They need to hold elected officials accountable of which no one has done yet regarding all the politicians who have used these bad laws as means to further their political career." This becomes especially true for trafficking survivors ourselves and the fact that it is really incumbent upon us to call out politicians, allies, etc. who are using our space to leverage their own privilege.
Everyone has the right to make their opinions known to their elected officials and to oppose those bills that harm marginalized communities. We don't need to settle for this bill and others like it as an answer to human trafficking because it isn't. And that's what American freedom is really all about.
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Which electronic music artists were most searched for on Google in 2018?
Global online search giant Google has announced its annual year in search list that unveils the most popular names and events searched in 2018.
In the category of electronic dance music, the entire list consists (in chronologic order) of Swedish House Mafia, David Guetta, Armin van Buuren, Fatboy Slim, Benny Benassi, Carl Cox, Paul Oakenfold, Laidback Luke, Steve Angello, and Marshmello.
It's no surprise to Swedish House Mafia on the list, after their stunning reunion that took place at ULTRA Miami 2018, earlier this year.
With more than 41 million listeners tuning in each week to his SiriusXM radio show "A State of Trance", trance giant Armin van Buuren is considered one of the top DJs and music producers in the world, having been voted as the #1 DJ worldwide five times and hence is someone we probably expected to see on the list.
Marshmello has had a phenomenal year as well, with some huge hits like 'Happier'. His music has proven to be extremely popular this year, and hence it's not a surprise to see him on the list.
Other names include Techno king – Carl Cox, 1/3 of Swedish House Mafia – Steve Angello, Benny Benassi, Paul Oakenfold, and Laidback Luke.
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Abuja Online Publishers Unite for Professionalism, Inaugurate Steering Committee
By Shola Akinhboye, 21 January 2023.
No less than thirty online news publishers operating in the Federal Capital Territory, Abuja, under the aegis of Abuja Online Publishers (AOP), came together on Friday, to form a common ground with a firm resolve to unite for truth, accuracy, and professionalism in the discharge of their duties as members of the fourth realm of the estate, the media.
The inaugural meeting which was held at the National Union of Journalists, NUJ-FCT Secretariat today, Friday January 20, 2023, had in attendance Publishers drawn from across news genres operating primarily online.
According to a press statement signed by the Acting Secretary of the Association, Sola Akingboye, on Friday, Abuja Online Publishers aim to advocate the importance of verifiable and trusted online news media in a democratic society and to encourage diversity and inclusion as a reference point for high editorial standards.
"The Association intends to serve its members and the wider industry through lobbying, campaigning, and facilitating professional development through events and activities that meet the emerging needs of the media industry in Nigeria.
"To steer the Association in the interim, a five-member committee chaired by Martins Odiete, Publisher Ajasa Media; to be assisted by Ignatius Ushie, Publisher of Peaknews Online; Sola Akingboye, Publisher of RegentAfrica Times, as the Secretary of the Association; while Gift Olivia, Publisher of The Sight News; and Mrs Khadijat Oluwatoyin Ameen, Publisher TeeTv News, were appointed as Treasurer and Financial Secretary, respectively.
"Two ad-hoc committees for drafting the guilds Constitution and Finance were equally constituted, with the latter expected to conclude its terms of reference and report within two weeks.
"All the Publishers in attendance were unanimous in their resolve to work together professionally and pragmatically in order to lay an enduring foundation for the online genre of journalism, which is the future of the pen profession." The statement reads.
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Family, Community and Nature the Apples Education way.
We value the time whānau spend with their tamariki in our centre. We believe that vital learning takes places at home. Tamariki are a taonga (treasure) and the parents are entrusting their most prized taonga in to our care. We have an open door policy and whānau are welcome to pop in for a visit at any time. Our staff are always available to talk to and parents receive ongoing emails updates about their childs learning and they are also invited to join our closed Facebook groups. This allows them the chance to see more of the day to day moments.
We keep tamariki grounded with the Papatūānuku by using the environment as a third teacher. As we venture out into the community, the tamariki are seeing more of the natural world around us and are able to learn of the many aspects that mother nature provides us. We also provide the tamariki the opportunity, in centre, to grow and care for various gardens we have and use nature as a play resource.
We believe that for the tamariki to feel they belong in the community, they need to develop a connection to it. This can be done in many different ways. This connection will help them later in life to care and nurture the environment we live in. For those in centres, we like to get out in to the community through regular walks and trips to nearby parks and fields. Within the Homebased setting, the children are often experience getting out in to the community. We also participate in community events like santa parades and fundraiser walks.
It is through these events that we believe our tamariki will develop a connection to the world around us. It is this connection that will help them to care for the world we live in.


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The event was attended by the Ambassador of India, and Daw Cho Thet Mu, Deputy Director, Department of Trade, Ministry of Commerce. A presentation on the " Wholesale and Retail Trading by Foreign Companies " was given by Mr. Minn Naing Oo, Managing Director, Allen and Gledhill Myanmar.


KATY, Texas — A female bicyclist was killed early Tuesday after being hit by a truck in Katy. The Harris County Sheriff's Office reports the driver kept going and is now wanted by authorities.
The victim was riding her bicycle around midnight in the 2300 block of Elrod Road near Capitol Landing Lane when she was struck from behind by a dark-colored Dodge Ram pickup truck, according to investigators.
She was knocked off the bicycle and died at the scene, deputies said.
Investigators are awaiting verification of the victim's identity. She's believed to be an African-American woman her late 30s to early 40s.
The incident was captured in surveillance video at a nearby convenience store, deputies said.
Anyone with information regarding the case should call the HCSO Vehicular Crimes Division at 713-274-7400.


A contemporary three storey eco house being built in place of an existing single storey prefabricated building. We set the new house down into the ground to gain additional height and designed it with a series of terraces that will provide private outdoor space and views across the town and estuary. The terraces were specifically designed to maximise views over the town whilst simultaneously preventing occupants from being able to look down into the private garden or windows of the neighbouring houses.
Noteworthy features of the design are the large glazed windows and sliding doors and the semi-circular stair tower with glazed roof, which takes its inspiration from the tower to the adjacent fire station.
The completed house will include various renewable energy features to create a more sustainable building, including solar panels for hot water heating, underfloor heating run by a heat pump, a rainwater recycling system and a heat recovery ventilation system. Energy efficiency is improved with a highly insulated steel and timber frame structure and precast concrete beam and block floors at all levels. The floors provide thermal mass, storing heat to help keep the indoor temperature at a stable, comfortable level.
The lower ground floor also features a swimming pool for hydrotherapy use by the clients.
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After having a glamorous wedding in Italy. The couple hosted a first wedding reception in Deepika's hometown Bengaluru on 21 November.
Now, Ranveer Singh and Deepika Padukone hosted a 2nd wedding reception on November 28 in Mumbai.
The couple were seen pairing in gold and white outfit.
Deepika was wearing a beautiful white and gold chikankari saree by Abu Jani and Sandeep Khosla.
She completed her look with a heavy round pearl and gold necklace with a matching pair of diamond earrings.
Deepika rounded her beautiful look with red chooda and red sindoor.