In the talk I gave at Agila Sverige in June, I brought up misconceptions about UX I've encountered during my years in the IT business. One of these is that it's only the UX people (and possibly the PO) who need to meet the users. In this post I'll discuss why this not true, but also how meeting the users can make a real difference in focus and motivation for the team.
In June I gave a talk at a conference about things that I, as a UX professional, find obvious that I have noticed that others don't. After giving the talk, I decided to also put it down in writing as a series of blog posts. This is part 2 of that series and talks about that even if you hire usability experts, they still need to meet the users.
Jag läste en artikel om User Experience (användarens upplevelse av en produkt) häromdagen. En person hade kommenterat texten med den väldigt vanliga kommentaren om UX. Han sa att "allt vi behöver göra är att låtsas vara en användare och utvärdera vad vi har byggt ur den synvinkeln". Detta håller jag tyvärr inte med om. Vi är alltför partiska som produktdesigners och utvecklare, vi känner till för mycket om hur produkten fungerar. Dessutom tillhör vi troligast inte den avsedda målgruppen, vi kommer inte att använda produkten i en faktisk situation för att lösa ett faktiskt behov, så det kommer bli mycket svårt för oss att låtsas tillräckligt.
On the Wicket user's mailing list there was a question about modal windows and it set me off. Since my excellent wisdom 😉 is larger than just modal windows and Wicket, I thought that it would be of interest to all of you, dear readers.
I have discovered that the modal windows that was gone when web applications started to spread, are starting to come back. And they are bad, even if they are not as bad as the goto statement that was accused the same way as I just did: harmful.
A modal window is something that pops up in the face of the user, screaming its importance by not letting the user touch anything else until the modal window had its way.
We have a back office application written in Swing that use modal windows a lot and it is just getting worse by each feature added.
Modal windows are really a last resort and should not be used at all, if you can avoid it. What I have seen is that they tend to grow in functionality over time and suddenly you are faced with the question: "should I put a modal window here, oh, I am already in a modal window".
(Ranting further), modal windows are primarily for non-expert users that need guidance when you wish to be certain that they know the implications of what they do.
There should be nothing but some information and a yes/no question.
If the users are pushing you around demanding modal windows and customer is always right, so what to do? I suggest take a step back and present a complete new style of interaction that would give users a much better flow in the interaction than now.
Having said that on the list, the following question was fired at me.
I see what you're saying and I have a question.
How would you implement (UI concern) a setting page?
What I mean is, suppose I have a page that shows some statistics.
The statistics can be set by the user.
How would you do it?"
Oh, that is a good one.
You could make it a modal window. After a while that window (I assume) would get to contain more and more settings. Then all of a sudden, the last setting you added will really make statistics take a very long time. Since the user probably can't foresee that, you wish to confirm that the user have understood the implications. So you need a modal window that … oops … you are already in a modal window.
The first thing is to think about as an alternative is to start with direct manipulation. Is there any way you could change the settings right when you are looking at the statistics?
Typical example is the familiar "click on column heading to sort table on contents of that column". Consider drag-n-drop objects if that is natural.
Second is to have the modal window inline on the page in panel. After all, selected settings and the result in the same window feels better than switching to another window, modal or not and then back.
But there may not be room for that. Can you split the settings in groups to inline on several places on the page?
Next thing to consider is to have it on another page and here comes another concern in regarding the concept of settings, life cycle. Do all settings have the same life cycle?
Which ones are per request, per session, per user, per application? Side point? Well, it sure controls presentation since settings with different life cycle should not be presented together.
If the selection of statistics is a very separate activity, maybe it should be on separate page before the page that presents the result? Changing settings would be reached by pressing the back button.
Save modal windows for that yes/no confirmation. You will need it eventually.
As a product owner, you should be highly aware that usability will cost you money, regardless if you ignore it or not.
But let us start with the classical observation made by Anna, a product owner. She knows her product well and has observed that users cope with bugs that make the system "unpredictable". When she asks the users what they think, they say it is annoying but "take it for granted". Hum.
I have heard other, similar stories about users coping with ridicolously bad user interfaces.
My view is that users will stand on their head if they have to, to get their job done. So they cope with it.
This would fine if it were not for another aspect, they make mistakes due to the low usability. Making mistakes, depending on the system, may kill people (e.g. an X-Ray machine, airplane), or just slow users down.
I find it interesting that users not always complain about, or even mention, how awkward the system is. Instead they blame themselves for not remembering that the Return key is different from the Enter key, to take an example.
So, we can't trust on getting feedback from the users, despite us doing really bad in the usability department. What shall we do, then?
As a product owner, I am responsible for prioritizing the quality attributes of the product.
As an architect, I am responsible for delivering those qualitites. Well, it is the team that is responsible and their are no architects in Scrum since all they do is sit in ivory towers and philosophise. Not. People have different skills, don't forget. Oops, a rant.
You have two options, either ignore or score. If you ignore it, in the worst case people get killed or your product fails to get market acceptance. No business, no money. But if the risks were that high you wouldn't even consider ignoring it, right?
It is worse when your users belong to the same organisation and there is hardly any comptetion that can kill you. Worst case, people see you as mediocre. Not!
Even then there is money to make. So consider the other option: score.
To score, you have to commit. It will take time, money and focus or you might as well skip it.
However, the bottom line is that if you look, there is money to find from usability. There may be a yearn for more functions but at some point, you have enough functions to satisfy most of your users need. They may have to use paper and pen in some less frequent cases, but most of the time they will do fine with what the system got.
Against that yearn for functions, you should weigh the possibilty of making the users life easier with less mistakes and better flow in their work. They like flow, too, you know.
So start from where you can go. If the mistakes were less than ten percent of today, how much would that increase the value of the product?
To score that value, where do you find the changes that take your product?
I am no expert in the field, but I know that if you could measure how many mistakes users do, that can be great. Also, you could video tape the users in daily action. The third option is to observe a user's actions when asked to perform a task. Especially good when your homing in on a specific problem area.
So, what will it be – ignore or score?


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A Response to President Obama's Gun Control Proposal
President Obama today signed 23 "Gun Violence Reduction Executive Actions." The list included the following:
"Provide incentives for schools to hire school resource officers."
"Propose rulemaking to give law enforcement the ability to run a full background check on an individual before returning a seized gun."
"Provide law enforcement, first responders, and school officials with proper training for active shooter situations."
"Issue a Presidential Memorandum to require federal law enforcement to trace guns recovered in criminal investigations."
What these action items have in common is that they are not the proper role of the federal government, which lacks the constitutional authority to legitimately implement them. The president's use of executive orders to bypass Congress just adds to the trampling of the Constitution.
Law enforcement falls under the purview of the states and their political subdivisions. States should therefore bear the responsibility of training, equipping, and regulating law enforcement officials. As James Madison noted in Federalist 45:
The powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined. Those which are to remain in the State governments are numerous and indefinite. The former will be exercised principally on external objects, as war, peace, negotiation, and foreign commerce; with which last the power of taxation will, for the most part, be connected. The powers reserved to the several States will extend to all the objects which, in the ordinary course of affairs, concern the lives, liberties, and properties of the people, and the internal order, improvement, and prosperity of the State.
Some of the action items proposed by Obama are admirable but should be handled by private organizations and/or citizens. Reviewing safety standards for gun locks and safes is a great idea, but should be done by the manufacturers themselves, the consumers, the media, or consumer protection organizations. And society could surely benefit from a "safe and responsible gun ownership campaign," which is already happening through private organizations like the NRA. Government should not be the answer to every problem that arises. In fact, more often than not, government involvement either makes the problem worse or creates an entirely new set of problems.
Obama's plan included policy recommendations for congressional action, with the intent of restricting an individual's ability to procure the defensive tool of his choosing. While President Obama didn't sign an executive order banning high capacity magazines and so-called "assault rifles," he did ask Congress to ban them. He also asked Congress to require background checks on all gun sales.
In light of this plan, states can and should interpose themselves between the federal government and their citizens to defend their right to keep and bear arms. Legislators in Wyoming, Missouri, Texas, and South Carolina have already proposed bills to nullify federal gun laws. Wyoming's bill, co-sponsored by eight Republican representatives and two Republican senators, would nullify any new federal gun laws, require penalties for any federal official attempting to enforce new federal gun laws, and offer legal protection from the attorney general for any citizens of Wyoming prosecuted by the U.S. government.
Utah should step up and offer legislation similar to Wyoming to protect its citizens from the overreach of the federal government and maintain our right to bear arms.
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Everything you need to know about Walmart's new Connected Content Partner Program
Amber Sinicrope | October 10, 2018
Late last week, Walmart announced their new Connected Content Partner Program, which features Salsify and 11 other technology partners. While the program doesn't launch until January 2019, we wanted to give brands the inside scoop on what happened, why, and what it means for Walmart suppliers.
In April, Walmart issued a Request For Proposal (RFP) to all of its Content Service Providers (CSPs). As part of the process, Walmart spoke to more than 650 of its suppliers and identified product content delivery as a key source of friction in its digital commerce strategy. Following extensive meetings with over 30 CSPs, Walmart cut the original CSP list by about 30% and released their newly termed "Connected Content Partners" that includes Salsify, one of the only two pure syndication providers invited into the program.
Here's Walmart's new list of Connected Content Partners:
Why the new partner program?
The Connected Content Program aims to provide Walmart suppliers with the technical experts who can help scale digital product content to Walmart's catalog and other retailers at a lower cost. Ultimately, Walmart's goal is to help suppliers better navigate the product content syndication process faster and more efficiently.
Six years ago, Walmart founded their Content Service Provide program. Since its inception, the number of Walmart CSPs has grown quickly, leaving Walmart with a large number of service providers, with varying functions and standards. In order to streamline the delivery of product content from suppliers and give them more flexibility. Walmart looked to invest more deeply in their partner program. To facilitate this goal, Walmart decided to re-evaluate their existing CSP program, reduce the number of partners serving suppliers, re-organize the vetted partners into functional disciplines (syndication, enrichment, rich media, and user-generated content), and roll out a program focused on maximizing supplier-technology partner relationships.
What does this mean for Walmart suppliers?
When you get down to brass tacks, not much has changed for suppliers, today... Any CSPs that were providing content to Walmart under an existing arrangement will still continue to operate under that same agreement. Continuing with Walmart's agnostic, open ecosystem philosophy, their API will remain open source, however, going forward Connected Content Partners will have exclusive privileges and access to Walmart. Salsify will have extended resources and visibility into Walmart processes, as well an on-site presence at Walmart to ensure our customers have expedited support in resolving any issues.
Salsify is one of two pure syndication providers in the program-- and the only Product Experience Management platform. Salsify's selection is a testament to our industry leadership and the strength of relationship with Walmart, as well as Walmart's belief in peer-to-peer software solutions as the future of ecommerce. "This program is the evolution of our Content Service Provider (CSP) program to provide harmony between retailers, suppliers and content," said Frank Ogura, Staff Product Manager at Walmart. "With our syndication partners, we believe they will help suppliers deliver content with speed and agility."
To learn more, check out the press release on the announcement here.
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Hughes Aircraft Co. v. United States ex rel. Schumer, 520 U.S. 939 (1997)
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HUGHES AIRCRAFT CO. v. UNITED STATES ex rel. SCHUMER
certiorari to the united states court of appeals for the ninth circuit
No. 95-1340. Argued February 25, 1997—Decided June 16, 1997
In 1989, respondent Schumer filed an action against petitioner Hughes
Aircraft Company under the qui tam provision of the False Claims Act (FCA), which permits, in certain circumstances, suits by private parties on behalf of the United States against anyone submitting a false claim to the Government. Hughes' allegedly false claims were submitted between 1982 and 1984. Prior to 1986, qui tam suits were barred if the information on which they were based was already in the Government's possession. A 1986 amendment, however, permits qui tam suits based on information in the Government's possession, except where the suit is based on publicly disclosed information and was not brought by an original source of the information. Hughes moved to dismiss, contending, inter alia, that the 1986 amendment was not retroactive, and that the qui tam provision in effect when Hughes engaged in its allegedly wrongful conduct precluded the suit because it was based on information that Hughes had already disclosed to the Government. The District Court denied the motion, but ultimately granted Hughes summary judgment on the merits. Schumer appealed that judgment, and Hughes cross-appealed from the denial of the motion to dismiss. The Ninth Circuit rejected the cross-appeal, holding that the 1986 amendment should be applied retroactively to suits based on pre-1986 conduct because the amendment involved only the courts' subject-matter jurisdiction to hear qui tam claims and did not affect qui tam defendants' substantive liability. Finding, further, that the action was not barred under the 1986 amendment, the court reversed in part and remanded for further consideration on the merits.
Held: Because the 1986 amendment does not apply retroactively to qui tam suits regarding allegedly false claims submitted prior to its enactment, this action should have been dismissed, as required by the pre-1986 version of the FCA. Pp. 945-952. (a) This Court applies the time-honored presumption against retroactive legislation unless Congress has clearly manifested its intent to the contrary. Landgraf v. USI Film Products, 511 U. S. 244, 268. Nothing in the 1986 amendment evidences a clear intent by Congress that it be applied retroactively. Thus, under Landgraf's analysis, if the
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Seven Dials: A London Mystery Solved
by Guest Contributor on December 15, 2011
Seven Dials is a mystery. It's a strange name for a district of London. Even when you think you've solved the puzzle – the name refers to the sundials on the pillar at the junction of seven streets – another mystery raises its head – why Seven Dials when there are only six? And why this strange junction, where instead of a typical London crossroads seven roads meet at a column.
That second question has logical answer. When Thomas Neale developed the area in the 1690s, he used a star-shaped plan to maximize the number of houses he could build on the site. By creating the strange junctions of roads, it gave him more roads, more frontages and more properties than the square plots of land which were being built upon elsewhere in London.
The column with its sundials was set up as a public utility, in the same way that Victorian and Edwardian buildings hosted clocks on their façades. In the Restoration you could walk from Seven Dials to Westminster and pass 20 sundials on your way – though not all of them kept perfect time, and if it was cloudy – which it usually is in London – they'd be no use at all!.
Neale's idea was to create another fashionable residential area like Covent Garden or St James's. But Seven Dials never really took off and in Charles Dickens's day it was a notorious slum.
That's not the case today. Now Seven Dials houses a quirky mix of businesses, from astrologers to coffee shops, from boutiques to cheese mongers. Monmouth Coffee Company, for instance, sells a remarkable range of fine coffees, and though they don't roast it here any more, the shop is still an olfactory treat. It's an architectural gem too, with its fine shop front – many of the houses in Monmouth Street still date from Neale's original development.
Even the charity shops here are funkier than elsewhere. Oxfam Originals in Earlham Street offers designer gear and the occasional great vintage piece. There is Beadworks in Tower Street if you want to make your own jewelry – a handful of sparkling murano glass or tiny silver beads can provide inexpensive happiness.
Then there are one-off shops like Mysteries, with its mix of astrology, tarot readings, crystals and books on paganism. And the Dover Bookshop in Earlham Street, with its cheap paperback books on graphic arts. And some really good stalls in the street outside selling food and fruit juices.
Probably my favorite place in the whole area though is Neal's Yard. Named after the original developer of the area, it's a tiny courtyard hemmed in between tall buildings, with its own dairy and salad bar. Neal's Yard Dairy was set up in 1979 and now sells a huge selection of British cheeses. There's almost always something new to taste, and the wonderful creamy, slightly astringent smell of cheese in the air never fails to prickle my nose whenever I drop in.
Now back to those sundials.
The one you see in the area now is a replacement for the original, and was put up in the 1980s as part of the revitalization of the area. And as to the mystery of why the area is called Seven Dials when there are only six? In addition to the six dials easily seen, you also have to count the column itself – it serves as the gnomon of a huge sundial made on the ground by the seven streets running into the junction.
Mystery solved.
Where to stay in Seven Dials? That's easy – it would have to be the Radisson Edwardian Mercer Street (a recently-renovated Covent Garden boutique hotel) which overlooks the sundial column.
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Author bio: Andrea Kirkby is a freelance travel writer based in the UK who has travelled extensively in India and counts Bundi, Rajasthan as one of her all-time favorite destinations.
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"They Want To Come Back, That's How They Deceived Obi When He Left "Okokorokoo" – Tinubu Tells Igbos
Ahead of the next month's presidential election, the presidential candidate of the ruling All Progressives Congress, APC, Bola Ahmed Tinubu, has claimed that some unknown members of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, deceived Mr Peter Obi to exit "Kokorokoo"(APGA) and join PDP and later the Labour Party to contest for president.
Speaking further, the APC presidential candidate claimed that those individuals who deceived Peter Obi when he left the All Progressives Grand Alliance, APGA, now want to come back to power.
Bola Tinubu made this disclosure during the APC presidential campaign rally in Enugu on Wednesday, Premium Times Nigeria reported.
Furthermore, the APC presidential candidate urged the residents of the south east not to listen former president Olusegun Obasanjo and the candidate of the Peoples Democratic Party, PDP, Atiku Abubakar, on who they should vote for, in February.
Tinubu said:
"They feel they want to vote Obi. They want to come back (to power). That's how they deceived your brother(Peter Obi) when he left Okokorokoo and joined Labour (Party)……."
In addition, Bola Tinubu urged the Igbos not to listen to the PDP presidential candidate, claiming that members of the PDP have fooled them several times since 1999.
Mr Tinubu also reminded Ndi Igbo that the PDP failed to build the second Niger bridge for 16 years and ate the money, abused themselves, reminding them that it was the APC government that completed the bridge.
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What is solar power system?
The mechanism of converting energy from sunlight into electrical energy is called solar per system. It is being done either directly using the photovoltaic or indirectly with the use of concentrated solar power. The indirect ways of energy production use the lenses or mirrors to with tracking system to focus on the large beam of sunlight through the tracking system. The direct way uses photovoltaic cells for the conversion of sunlight into electric current.
How solar power system beneficial
It is the production of energy which uses pure energy from the sun thus the system drives clean energy. Installing a solar panel on your house will help you in combat the emission of greenhouse gas and helps in reducing the dependence on fossil fuels for energy production.
The major advantage of installing solar power panels is the reduction of electricity cost. Solar panel installation reduces the electricity bills, the energy from the sun can be used to generate electricity that can be used to run different household appliances, also if you are able to produce excess energy than it can provide to the public grid of your area.
On per the second basis, the sun is able to send around 42 trillion kilocalories of sunlight energy to our planet. if we are able to convert the entire 100% of this energy than we can produce one year's worth of electricity for our entire planet with just one hour of energy conversion. It is the most powerful form of renewable energy resource.
Solar panel angle for Kerala
The correct placement of solar panel is the most important thing to consider before installing one. Before installing a solar panel it is important to find the right direction for the placement of solar panel. This is a very important step to consider as the direction varies from country to country.
India is the country which lies in the southern hemisphere which makes the sun to travel in an elliptical trajectory moving from east to west inclined towards the south. Hence, in order to get the maximum amount of sunlight, the solar panels have to be placed accordingly.
The right direction for Cochin Kerala is decided according to the latitude of the position of your house. Based on the latitude of Kerala it is being determined that the tilt angle for the solar panel shall be approximately 10 to 12 degrees.
What is solar pathfinder?
The solar pathfinder is used to provide a panoramic view of the entire site to be covered; it is being done by using highly polished transparent dome of convex plastic. The surface of the dome helps in finding all the obstacles to the sunlight, the obstacles can be in the form trees, buildings, house etc. these obstacles come as the reflection on the dome's surface. The diagram of sun path is being displayed on the transparent dome simultaneously.
The solar pathfinder works on the principle of reflection thus it can use during any time of the day, year disregarded of the weather conditions.
How to find the true north for solar panel installation
The magnetic compass does not normally point towards the true North Pole, in fact usually points towards the angle of east or west of true north (geographic). The direction at which the needle of the compass points us called the magnetic north so the angle that lies between the magnetic north and the true north is known as the magnetic declination.
So the direction of the needle clearly explains the true north for solar panel installation.
What is a solar inverter?
Solar inverters play a very vital role in the solar energy system and are known to be the brains of the project. Disregarded of the size of the power plant inverter has equal importance in both the residential and utility plants. The inverter is placed to invert the DC output (direct current) into the alternating current. The alternating current is used by all the commercial appliances; therefore, inverters are viewed as the gateway between the PV system and the off-taker of energy.
Different types of solar panels in India
The increase in the electricity cost and the fall in solar panels price supported by the government policies have made the solar panels system very famous in different parts of India.
Below is describes the major companies producing different types of solar panels in India.
Tata BP Solar; It is a joint venture between BP Solar and the Tata power company. Tata Company is the biggest and the oldest manufacturer of solar panels in India. The company has 84 MW solar cell manufacturing facility which is capable of 125mm2 and 156mm2 mono and multi-crystalline processing. This company has a 125 MW module manufacturing facility and it is the largest facility in Asia. This company offers major range LED and LED lights of Solar lighting solutions.
Moser Baer; it is one of the leading technology companies of India. This company established the photovoltaic manufacturing business in 2005 which has the goal of providing solar power as the reliable and competitive source of energy. Thin film modules and multi-crystalline modules and cells are the main products of this company.
Solar Semiconductor; It is an international organization offering PV solutions, services and products around the globe. It is the manufacturer of PV modules and cells, this company has 195 MW manufacturing capacity. It has a range of complete system kits, PV solutions, products, modusles, and cells for grid connected and for off-grid applications. It also has a capacity to generate silicon-based solar cells in India.
Indo-solar; it is one of the leading manufacturer PV cells in India. It has a capacity of 360 MW. It also has the ability to produce multi and monocrystalline cells.
Top sun solar; it is the solar power solutions manufacturer in India as well as around international markets .it has a latest technology manufacturing unit established created through research and development facilities in solar solutions.
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Overall, I'd say the III is quite an accomplishment at the price. It gives one a taste of the detail, openness, and drive of the higher priced spread (and bears more than a passing resemblance to its older sib), at a reasonable (in these days of $4K headphones) price.
The Xiaomi Mi Headphones offer very solid value for money with punchy, energetic sound, convertible on/over-ear design, and superb build quality.
Not having tried any of HiFiMan's previous full-size cans, the HE-560 impressed me more than I had anticipated, going so far as to replace the Sennheiser HD600 as my full-size reference headphone thanks to the outstanding bass performance and clarity.
The Denon DN-HP1000 retains the slightly sub-par ergonomics of the lower-end DN-HP700 model and manages to lose a chunk of the audio quality of the cheaper headphone.
The ADL H118 is a semi-portable headphone with a closed, circumaural form factor and warm, somewhat treble-shy sound with plentiful bass.
With their sharp looks and innovative case, the Panasonic RP-HX50 provides more than enough utility to warrant a purchase.


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ECDPMBlogMigration, mobility and COVID-19 – A tale of many tales
Anna Knoll and Amanda Bisong, ECDPM blog, 30 March 2020
The crisis sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed existing migration debates in Europe, yet is inextricably linked with mobility and movement and its governance within the EU and globally. The current situation reveals the complexities of migration debates, pushing aside current, unearthing old and raising new questions.
The crisis that displaced the other
Only some weeks ago it seemed that the refugee situation at the Greek-Turkish border resulting from a failing EU-Turkey deal would have a strong influence on discussions about European solidarity and border management. Little did we anticipate that the media would be busy reporting on European border closures in a different context, allowing the (virtual) discussions between Merkel, Erdogan and Macron on renewing the EU-Turkey Refugee Deal to happen outside the main spotlight. While Merkel declared the deal to still be intact, EU member states have suspended any relocation, return and resettlement provisions due to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The persisting standoff between refugees and police at the Greek border and renewed tensions and pushback should have given impetus to resolve the European gap in solidarity and its direct manifestations in the form of refugee camps, such the Moria camp in Greece. Yet, with the world facing a serious health crisis and the Greek border situations calming down for now, the devastating situation of refugees in Europe – and elsewhere in the world – seems to have lost the little political attention it may still have had. The recent fire outbreak, the ever-worsening conditions and the fear of the virus affecting the camp itself have become a side-note in the current debates about borders, migration and health.
In Europe, the initial response to the COVID-19 outbreak took a familiar sequence and is connected to broader mobility and migration governance of the EU. Reversion to border closures, first by EU member states in an uncoordinated fashion, then followed by the EU closing the external ones to safeguard Schengen and to catch up on coordination, resembled to what followed the 2015 'refugee situation'.
It also brought to the fore some well-known challenges in times of crisis: a lack of coordinated EU approaches to managing borders and balancing solidarity with strong interests of individual member states. Under pressure, a borderless and coordinated Europe, in which each member state can rely on the EU and on joint approaches to manage mobility, does not necessarily exist.
If this leads to a further erosion of trust, it will become more difficult to reach an agreement in the current negotiations on the internal dimension of the new Pact on Migration and Asylum, to be presented by Ylva Johansson in the coming months. And even with a new pact, the trust that an agreement on sharing responsibilities for refugees and migrants will hold in practice may be in question, since it is precisely this type of coordination and European solidarity that needs to be in effect if there are serious migration dynamics to respond to.
Using COVID-19 for political gain
In Europe and globally, the COVID-19 health crisis has altered a number of parameters in the discussion on migration and mobility. But it has also led to familiar approaches. Populist attempts are made to exploit the crisis for political gain, using migration, globalisation and migrants as scapegoats. Italy's Salvini was an early candidate blaming it on African migrants, Hungary's Orban followed suit making Iranian migrants responsible, and Trump (in desperate need of turning this invisible enemy into one easier to grasp for its electorate) termed it the 'China virus' on social media.
This follows a long tradition of 'blaming' diseases that spread across borders on other nations – remember the 'Irish Disease' (Cholera) or the 'Spanish flu'? But in the turn of events, racism has also spread more against Europeans and Chinese in African countries, where some citizens perceive them to be responsible for the spread of the virus. Attacks on Europeans and Asians have happened in Kenya and more incidents of harassment, stone attacks or foot chases are being reported in Ethiopia.
While right-wing populists have generally found it difficult to capitalise on the situation through their usual strategies so far, a post-corona sentiment could make it easier for politicians to argue against globalisation and existing types and levels of migration. The feeling of suspicion against foreigners may stay or get worse depending on how events turn out, and once they exist, they are harder to reverse.
Governments have made strong use of migration and mobility policies for managing the outbreak. Many of such measures may well be warranted, although discussions are ongoing on the effectiveness of some measures. But some governments are taking these border- and migration-related steps also under the cover of the novel coronavirus to reach objectives that go beyond strictly managing the health situation.
Examples exist across the globe: Trump wanting to close the Mexican-US border for Mexican entries (while at the time there were little reported cases), Greek authorities noting that border closures and a stop of asylum processing are due to the coronavirus, or South Africa announcing to build a fence along the border with Zimbabwe to prevent undocumented migrants from crossing the border and spreading the coronavirus.
What about migrants?
The coronavirus has brought difficult situations for citizens across the world. For some however, the effects may be more severe than for others. Vulnerable migrants (refugees or irregular migrants who find themselves in precarious situations), belong to the former, and their desperate situation may well further deteriorate.
First, the measures of 'social distancing' for them mean less support, less access to necessities or services (a number of projects in Italy providing migrants with food and other essentials for instance have come to a halt, while in Libya refugees are cut off from aid). Second, they themselves are not in a position to follow much of the good advice given. Hands cannot be washed properly without access to soap or water, and social distancing is a concept that does not squarely apply to the reality of refugee camps or other cramped places.
Third, not that it was easy to begin with, but the ability to cross borders and seek protection has become even more difficult. UNHCR has been quick to remind governments of the rights of refugees for accessing protection amid the COVID-19 travel restrictions. Fourth, access to resettlement has also been stopped amid the travel restrictions – meaning more persons will stay in camps and temporary settlements outside Europe, where there are increased health risks and heightened psychological pressure of having hopes crushed after years of waiting uncertainty and processing.
The fear of refugees in crowded places is fully justified and an outbreak in the context of little functioning health care will be devastating. The calls to clear camps or find alternative solutions are gaining in relevance now. Yet they are unlikely to take priority in a moment in which governments are mobilising all resources to care for their citizens. Vulnerable migrants, such as asylum seekers and refugees, are vulnerable precisely because they lack the governments that take care of them in such situations.
Less vulnerable workers, such as migrant workers earning income in mid-level or lower-income jobs, have been losing work and income and many have returned home since the COVID-19 outbreak (some also because they were afraid of getting infected). Negative effects have been felt by migrant workers across a number of sectors, ranging from tourism to factory work, but this may not be different from other workers hit by the pandemic economically.
Yet, migrant workers are often the biggest losers when economic crises occur – because of their short-term contracts, their vulnerable statuses or the sectors they are likely working in, amongst other things. Similar effects took place during the 2007-2008 financial crisis. So as the world economy comes to a gradual halt, and more migrants return or are prevented from going abroad for work, we will likely see a decline in remittances being sent, leading to cutting of vital support to communities. African migrants residing in countries of the North or African trade hubs such as Kenya, Nigeria and South Africa, will feel the impact, especially if they work in goods and services that are location-based.
At the same time, the COVID-19 crisis shows how reliant economies are on migrant workers – many of which are in key occupations. The crisis is also revealing more quickly what is already known: that certain segments of the labour market need workers urgently, and that includes the health sector.
Europe is currently learning this lesson fast. Medical workers from China, Cuba and Russia are supporting the Italian Lombardy region in fighting the virus. Calls are being made to speed up the recognition of skills of foreign care workers so they can quickly help increase capacities in hospitals. We may be able to find more pragmatic solutions for processes that have dragged on for long. The debate about 'ethical recruitment' and skills and migration will, as a result, likely gain in prominence again, especially with the pandemic affecting all countries and with health care systems being under strain everywhere.
Some industries in Europe, such as agriculture, currently fear further economic losses due to travel restrictions resulting in few migrants coming. Germany's agriculture sector being dependent on migrant workers from Bulgaria, Poland or Romania fear that this year's harvest is in danger due to border closures and health-related fears. Other migrants are being considered to come to the rescue: Germany's agricultural minister suggested that asylum seekers could be given temporary work permits to fill in.
Last, some international students – if they didn't return home and postponed their studies – face additional pressures. Visa rules may stipulate physical presence or are linked to meeting financial requirements. With classes being moved online and opportunities for hourly jobs increasingly shut down, they may not be able to meet the requirements for their visa student and slip into irregularity. Beyond provisions for 'suspension of studies', academic institutions, private sector actors and governments will need to work together to find solutions to cushion effects.
And the longer term?
Mobility and migration will continue also in a post-COVID-19 world, but the crisis will leave its imprints. Economic needs for migrants to earn money or for jobs to be filled will persist. So will the needs of the most vulnerable migrants.
Many questions will still need to be answered. How will financial stability, commodity prices or remittances affect lower-income countries? What will this mean for potential migrants and migration opportunities? How quickly will migrant hubs recover and in which sectors will workers be needed? How hard will remittance-reliant households be hit and what can be done to cushion effects? How do social relations and access to health care shape migration decisions in times of pandemics and beyond? And how humane will our approach to refugees have been?
Many decisions taken now (and quickly) will have consequences in the longer term. We may see more caution and hesitation in the future concerning openness, mobility and migration. At the same time, we will have recognised how essential migration and mobility is for exchange, wealth and opportunities. And as events unfold, we will see opportunities to explore scenarios, improve policies and fast-track policy options for migrants that have already been discussed for some time.
The views are those of the authors and not necessarily those of ECDPM.
Photo courtesy of Anouk Delafortrie / 2018 European Union / EU Civil Protection and Humanitarian Aid via Flickr.
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Narendra M Apte
1. I am from India. Though some of our issues related to migration and migrant workers are similar to those in the EU, we have some peculiar issues too. Hence I am writing about them here. 2. I think once we are out of coronavirus threat, and once our economy gets back on path of revival, we need to do unbiased reexamination/research of all issues related to migration of landless workers and their rights. 3. I believe various issues are as follows: (a) how many and why landless workers are migrating, (b) how political leadership of States, particularly Bihar, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand, Odisha, Rajasthan, etc., from where migration is taking place, has never been held accountable for poor management of the available natural resources and human capital, (c) what should be responsibility of the States which while providing opportunities of employment to migrant workers, show hardly any concern about issues relating to workers' welfare, particularly about their housing requirements, healthcare needs, etc. ,(d) what kind of laws are required to regulate employment of the migrant workers and how to implement them effectively once they are enacted, (e) urbanization related growth of slums in many metros which has a direct connection with increase in number of migrant workers.
Chioma Joyce Onukogu
Nice piece, Amanda and Anna. The article raises a lot of issues for future research.
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Ten years after four Mounties were gunned down in the line of duty in Mayerthorpe, Alta., residents will gather to remember the victims with a candlelight vigil.
Leo Johnston, Anthony Gordon, Brock Myrol and Peter Schiemann were killed March 3, 2005 by James Roszko after they were called to execute a property seizure on Roszko's farm.
They were shot down with high-powered bullets from a semi-automatic assault rifle. Roszko then turned the gun on himself, but not before being wounded by an officer.
It is the worst multiple-officer killing in modern Canadian history, and to this day no single event has taken the lives of more officers.
On Tuesday at 6:30 p.m. Albertans are invited to gather at the Fallen Four Memorial Park to honour their sacrifice.
Margaret Thibault with the Fallen Four Memorial Society told Global News the park was created in memory of the officers, to balance out the negative with something positive.
"We ask that when you blow out your candle, you transfer the flame of love, faith, memory, courage and hope to your heart, mind and soul to carry with you at all times," Thibault told The Edmonton Sun.
As well, an annual memorial marathon to honour the officers will go ahead this year on June 7 in Mayerthorpe. The Fallen Four Memorial Society says this year's run will be marked by an f-18 flyover and a weekend airshow.


(ANNAPOLIS, Md. – Nov. 25, 2014), The Maryland Judiciary wants to warn the public about "court" scams that are going on in the state. The most recent reports have been about a telephone jury duty fraud operating in Allegany and Howard County, but other courts have reported issues in recent months, as well.
In this most recent scam, the caller claims to work for a court, tells the person he or she has been charged with contempt or has been fined for not reporting for jury duty, and demands payment over the phone, typically with a pre-paid card. The caller sometimes refers to a judge by name, and says that if payment is not made, an arrest warrant will be issued.
This phone call is a scam. If you get a call like this, simply hang up. Maryland courts do not call citizens to get payment over the phone for a fine for missing jury duty.
This computer virus comes in an email claiming to be about a court case. The email is a scam, and opening any attachment or clicking on any link in the message triggers a malicious program that infects the recipient's computer. The email is not from the courts nor is it about a court case.
A juror scam email, which fraudulently seeks personal information that could aid identity theft, has been reported in at least 14 federal court districts. The email is fraudulent and has no connection to either the federal courts or to eJuror, an online registration program used in about 80 U.S. court districts.
More information about juror scams is available on the U.S. Courts web page and this video.
Contact information for federal courts can be found through the U.S. Courts' court locator.


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DHR Home > Historic Registers > Spotsylvania (County)
088-0061 St. Julien
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VLR Listing Date 03/18/1975
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NRHP Reference Number 75002038
St. Julien was the Spotsylvania County home of Francis Taliaferro Brooke (1763-1851), who was appointed to the Virginia General Court in 1804 and later served as president of Virginia's Supreme Court of Appeals. Brooke served in the General Assembly in 1794 and 1795. In 1796 he transferred his law practice to Fredericksburg and purchased a nearby farm, which he named St. Julien. He described the dwelling that he constructed here in 1804 as a "small brick house with a shed to it." Although compact in scale, Brooke's house stands as one of the area's most refined examples of rural Federal architecture. Its two-level recessed entry capped by a pediment is an imaginative and effective façade treatment. The refinements of the building include its Flemish bond brickwork, carved stone lintels and keystones, and finely detailed interior woodwork. Among St. Julien's several historic outbuildings is an early board-and-batten office.
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NHL: National Historic Landmark


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Q: Server Frequently gets Read-Only File System This server has RAID-1 configured. It get readonly file system everyday. if i reboot it, it gets back with a read-write file system. but after a short while, readonly again...
Any idea please? Thanks.

# dmesg |grep error
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
VFS: cannot write quota structure on device cciss/c0d0p8 (error -30). Quota may get out of sync!
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927230 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927273 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927333 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927712 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929238 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929464 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929704 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929805 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71930367 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71931281 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927230 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927273 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927333 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927712 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929238 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929464 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929704 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71929805 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71930367 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71931281 in dir #71927229
EXT3-fs error (device cciss/c0d0p8): ext3_lookup: unlinked inode 71927230 in dir #71927229

A: This is a cciss controller, so the server is probably an HP ProLiant system. I would suspect an issue with the drive array in the form of a failed or failing disk. In addition to the normal Linux-level disk check (fsck), try to see if you can get any information on the drive array's health.
Do you have physical access to the server? Can you see any error lights on the drives?
Which Linux distribution is this?
If you have root access give us the output of cat /proc/driver/cciss/cciss0. Check to see if the HP management agents are installed. Try hplog -v to print the system's IML log to check for error messages. If you have the hpacucli utility installed, you may be able to get the specifics of the array's health with hpacucli ctrl all show config detail.
If none of those HP utilities are installed, there are other ways to get basic array info.
You could install the HP Management Agents for your distribution
or check this utility to get quick array status.

A: Looks like your disk needs a cleanup. You should force a fsck on it to clean up all these errors before it craps out on you totally.
There are a lot of switches available with fsck, but to get you started you can do one of the following:
This will check all mounts in your /etc/fstab file:
fsck -A

This will check the particular disk that is throwing those warnings:
fsck -t ext3 /dev/<device name>

You should be aware that an fsck can take a LONG time so this is not something you want to do in the middle of the day on a production server.

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Dec 17, 2021 eBay Foundation
Connecting Communities: Refugee Entrepreneurs
Jennifer Mattson, eBay News Team
Our Global Give Grantee TERN is helping refugees thrive by giving them the business support they need.
Charlie Fraser is optimistic about the future of entrepreneurship for refugees.
When Charlie co-founded The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network in the U.K. in 2016, he and his partner had one question: How can we enable refugees to thrive through the power of their own ideas?
"This is a community that has a lot of business potential and business experience," explained Charlie, co-founder and partnerships director at TERN. "But when they come to new communities they don't get a level playing field to succeed and rebuild their own enterprise ambitions and through that their own livelihoods. We are focused on putting them at the center of their own futures."
2019 TERN Marketing "Jam" with 30 refugee founders matched with marketing experts.
Barriers to Support
As they looked at why so many refugee entrepreneurs face disproportionate challenges, TERN found that they struggled to access the networks, the finance and the knowledge they needed to succeed in a new market. Today, TERN opens the door to all three, helping these entrepreneurs from the very early stages of a business idea to scaling those enterprises.
"Very few organizations specifically target this community of entrepreneurs," Charlie said. "If you look at a whole range of issues, whether it be homelessness, unemployment, underemployment, refugees have some of the highest rates in the U.K.," said Charlie. "That's because the set of barriers they face is uniquely different from other newcomer populations."
Those interventions come through TERN's mentorship, workshops and co-working space which are all tailored specifically to be inclusive and representative of the barriers refugees face.
In the past five years, TERN has worked with over 450 refugee entrepreneurs in the U.K. and aims to launch over 2,000 refugee-led businesses across the U.K., U.S. and Canada by 2025.
"The narrative around refugees is often focused on crisis, on poverty and deprivation," Charlie said. "And we really wanted to reframe that and say 'actually this is a community that brings with it a huge amount of opportunity.'"
According to TERN, creating 2,000 refugee-led businesses will not only create change for all of those founders but a catalytic effect where they're hiring members of their community, bringing new value to their local communities and ultimately changing the public discourse.
"We want people to see them as value creators; as people that bring new ideas and new economies to communities," added Charlie. "And I think that one of the greatest strengths is that people underestimate the diversity of these entrepreneurs. The community that we work with has over 50 nationalities in it and is working across 20 different sectors. If you embrace that diversity of ideas, then you create new value and that really is what we want to see in destination communities."
Our purpose at eBay is to connect people and build communities to create economic opportunity for all. The eBay Foundation and eBay employees worldwide are proud that The Entrepreneurial Refugee Network is one of our 49 Global Give 2021 grant winners.
The eBay Foundation remains committed to supporting inclusive entrepreneurship for historically marginalized communities. Learn more about Global Give and the eBay Foundation at ebayinc.com/impact/ebay-foundation.
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The Oklahoma Center for the Humanities at The University of Tulsa is pleased to continue its series of blog posts from the fellows of the 2018-19 academic year. The fellows are engaged in wide-ranging creative and research activities surrounding the idea of memory – a topic the center will explore through lectures, symposia, public debates, readings, writing, films and exhibitions.
This post was composed by Liz Blood, a freelance journalist and writer whose work focuses on place, contemporary art, indigenous peoples, immigrant issues, and the environment.
I have a recurring memory: Our cohort of ten Oklahoma Center for Humanities fellows are circled around a large wooden conference table in the University of Tulsa's Tyrell Hall. It is dark outside and we are deep in discussion. Someone in our group uses the phrase "collective memory." Some of us nod. Others—myself included—furrow our brows and puzzle.
"Collective memory" is a term that engages and confuses me. And for the last nine weeks or so that we have been studying memory, I can't seem to let it go. It makes sense that a group, the collective, shares a memory—say, a family's memory of the birth of the first grandchild—and individuals in the group can each recall it. On the other hand, I am concerned that collective memory is only possible for the living. The ancestors of that family can't recall this memory and those born after this first grandchild won't be able to recall it, either.
And what about a larger group, like the citizens of an entire state, or country? Are they able to recall things through which they did not live?
As I've been reading Halbwachs and tripping over these ideas, I was happy to see my colleague, Dr. Jennie Ikuta from TU's political science department, discuss collective memory on a national scale, as it pertains to Monticello and its remembrance (or not) of slavery.
"If there exists such a thing as an American collective memory, then Monticello—the estate of Thomas Jefferson—is presumably part of it," Ikuta writes. "In visiting Monticello, we as Americans are invited to remember something about our national past. But what exactly are we remembering?" She goes on to explore how, when the keepers of a place like Monticello cause its visitors to recall only pieces of that history—such as the good and not the bad, the remembrance is incomplete.
If history is a break in the continuity of memory—in other words, those learning the history were not those who experienced it happening—then the collective cannot truly recall what it did not directly experience. So what is the experience Ikuta describes? She begins her post with a built in question: "If there exists such a thing as an American collective memory." I believe it does exist, I'm just not sure about the mechanics of it.
Historical places like Monticello, or memorials like the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C., require of their visitors a more imaginative kind of remembering—learning and recalling the facts of history, imagining experiences through which they did not live, and then potentially engaging with a kind of prospective memory, or memory focused on the future and what might be done differently in times to come.
That how seems to have everything to do with making collective memories not only accurate, but also complete, as in a kind of repair or re-build. As a nonfiction writer, I'm interested in how my own work and that of others—whether visual, literary, performative, etc.—might influence the way a culture remembers by reconstructing in the present fixed memories of the past. Halbwachs believed the living continuously did this, based on their present needs and desires.
In our current situtation, it is no wonder that public spaces of remembering–like Monticello, the former Robert E. Lee Elementary here in Tulsa, and various institutions, monuments, and memorials around the country–are being publicly (you might say collectively) reevaluated in new ways.
I think of the collective memory Ikuta writes of as something always in the making. Individuals do the living, experiencing, and remembering. How we are taught history, what we are taught, what we teach, and what we remember becomes just one facet of collective memory.
Halbwachs, Maurice. The Collective Memory. Translated by Francis J. Ditter and Vida Yazdi Ditter, Harper & Row, 1980.


The dalmation is a grapefruit cocktail, made with either gin or vodka, and black pepper syrup. Forgo the black pepper and you have a traditional grayhound cocktail. I chose to go with gin, and specifically Uncle Val's botanical gin, as I thought it would complement the flavor profile of the other ingredients.
For whatever reason, I have a metric jigger, and honestly, I think metric is the way to go anyway. This recipe makes about 2 cocktails. You can adjust the alcohol and simple syrup levels for personal preference. I made it a little sweeter and a bit less boozy so it would work for breakfast (don't judge).
Add all ingredients to a cocktail shaker, fill with ice and stir until chilled. Strain into a rocks glass filled with ice, or a chilled coupe.
The drink is initially sweet and tart, with that hint of bitterness that you get from grapefruit. You don't notice the heat from the long pepper at all. It's only after you finish your sip that it starts to become noticeable. Then the warmth lingers for some time, or at least until you take another sip.
Some people aren't a big fan of grapefruit because of the bitterness, but I think it cuts through the sweetness of the drink. It just wouldn't be the same with another citrus fruit as a substitute.
I've had spicy margaritas before, and I have some "seedless" (read more seeds than normal) lemons, so I decided to give it a go with the long pepper syrup. I tried the drink both with triple sec and without and decided that I prefer to skip the triple sec in this case, both to highlight the flavor profile of the drink and to avoid it being overly sweet.
I used about 6cl blanco tequila (Corazón is my preferred brand), 2cl simple syrup, 4 cl lemon juice, and a splash of Grand Marnier. For the rim of the glass, I went with a combination of salt and grains of paradise (also available from Amazon), another once popular spice that doesn't get enough attention these days.
This one is a work in progress I think. Maybe I just need to make more margaritas. Overall not bad, but it wasn't as refreshing as I wanted it to be. I think next time I'll use some fresh orange juice and skip the Grand Marnier which can be a bit overpowering.
Calvados, for those poor souls who are not familiar with the product, is a brandy made from apples, which has been produced in Calvados France. In some ways, it's the cognac of the apple world. Calvados makes a fine autumn substitute for whiskey in an old fashioned, and seeing as I had some on hand, and wanted to see how the long pepper syrup would go with the recipe, I decided to give it a try.
Add Calvados, syrup, and bitters to a cocktail mixer, add ice, and stir until chilled (do not shake). Strain into an ice filled rocks glass.
It works, but admittedly the long pepper is harder to find in this cocktail than in some of the others. The Calvados Old Fashioned is rather boozy, and that masks some of the peppery quality, but it is there. The apple profile is quite apparent however, and I might relist this eventually under a Calvados article. You can also find out a lot about Calvados from Calvados: The Spirit of Normandy.


The fairy lights have come up and the house smells of freshly washed curtains and cushion covers. A sporadic burst of crackers can be heard now and then. The cracker shops can be spotted at every clearing with the crowds thronging them seeming to be rather oblivious to the fact that it is all about perfectly good money up in smoke. Something we could do without in cities that already have their lungs choked with smoke and pollution.
Personally, I have resolved to skip bursting crackers to celebrate Diwali and instead use the money to spread a few cheers. A rocket worth five hundred bucks may not make you smile for more than five seconds but imagine the joy of your maid/driver/watchman when they get a few hundred extra bucks to celebrate this festival. It may translate into that new t-shirt that their kid has been demanding or the high school textbook that their child score better marks in the board/entrance examination. Small gestures can make a lot of difference.
And I am really one to believe in the power of small changes. That is why I ended up buying a lot more clay lamps this year to support the potters who earn the lion's share of their living during this season. Even as I enjoy the faint sizzle and the earthy smell as these lamps soak a tub of water, it is time to add the most awaited post for the ongoing Diwali collaboration.
Giving the perfect twist to the traditional Malpuas, I baked them in the shape of earthen lamps and filled them with lightly chilled Khira (or chenna payas ) just before serving.
For the Malpua - Add the butter to the wheat flour and rub it in so that it resembles bread crumbs.
Take the banana in a mixing bowl and mash it nicely using a fork. Add the remaining ingredients and mix everything into a tight dough. Pop it into the fridge for 30 mins.
Dust a working surface. Take out the dough and roll it into a sheet about 3 mm thick. Cut out circles from the rolled dough, pierce them with a fork and place them into the cavities of a muffin tray. Using slightly wet fingers shape the edges to resemble earthen lamps.
Pre heat oven to 180 degrees for 10 mins. Put in the tray and bake for 12-14 mins till the tarts start browning a bit. Remove from the oven and allow to stand outside till completely cooled down.
Dilute the vinegar with 2 tbsp water.
Boil 1/2 litre of milk in a pan. When it comes to full boil, add the diluted vinegar. Boil for another 4-5 minutes so that the chenna/ricotta cheese ( solid portion of the milk) clearly separates from the remaining liquid. Drain the liquid. Wash the chenna/ricotta cheese under running water to remove traces of vinegar. Squeeze out the remaining liquid from the chenna/ricotta cheese. Allow it to cool down.
Heat a little ghee on a pan. Fry the cashews to a golden shade. Remove from pan and keep aside.
Add the raisins to the same pan and lightly fry for 30 seconds. Remove from pan.
Heat a thick bottomed wok. Add the remaining milk and bring to a boil. Put a slit in the vanilla bean and toss it into the wok. Allow milk to reduce to half the original volume.
Then add condensed milk, sugar and fried cashews. Let it simmer for 10 mins before you add the chenna/ricotta cheese.
Keep stirring at regular intervals till the mixture becomes thick ( 'rabdi' like consistency ), Add the pistachio flakes, remove from the flame and keep aside.
Allow it to chill in the refrigerator for 1 hour before serving.
Take the Baked Malpua tarts and fill them with the slightly chilled and delicious creamy khira . Serve to your guests and brace yourself for the deluge of compliments.
And do check out these fabulous recipes by my fellow bloggers !!!
Saswati's luscious Mawa Cupcakes with Kesar Pista Malai Frosting !
Parinaaz's tantalizing Paan Pops !!
Happy Diwali ! Let the lights guide you !!
What a beautiful and thoughtful gesture to spread smiles...even I am against crackers...such a innovative dessert Sweta....Odia flavours in a western avatar.
How very creative. So very salivating!


Happy first day of Summer to you, too! Truthfully, I'm baffled how we got to June 21st so fast this year!!
I read your tweets. Yay for a happy weekend!
It'll be practically impossible to have a bad time in California!
I'm meant to be going to an event run by a drama group a friend of my Dad is in next week, but other than that I have no other special plans for this next month.
Yes, this summer got a head start beginning around the first of May like it did!


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This publication unites George Herbert Mead and Maurice Merleau-Ponty in a shared rejection of substance philosophy in addition to spectator concept of data, in want of a spotlight at the ultimacy of temporal approach and the constitutive functionality of social praxis. either Mead and Merleau-Ponty go back to the richness of lived adventure inside of nature, and either bring about appreciably new, insightful visions of the character of selfhood, language, freedom, and time itself, in addition to of the character of the relation among the so-called "tensions" of visual appeal and fact, sensation and item, the person and the group, freedom and constraint, and continuity and creativity.
Greater than thirty eminent students from 9 various nations have contributed to The Cambridge historical past of Eighteenth-Century Philosophy - the main finished and updated historical past of the topic to be had in English. For the eighteenth century the dominant notion in philosophy used to be human nature and so it really is round this idea that the paintings is headquartered.
A complete heritage of global philosophy, this ebook is usually a social background of worldwide highbrow existence. Eschewing polemics, it offers a cosmopolitan view of the a number of cultures of worldwide historical past, disintegrates stereotypes of neighborhood cultures, and divulges how creativity is pushed via more than a few conflicting positions in every one neighborhood.
This ebook is the 1st designated research of Kant's approach to 'transcendental mirrored image' and its use within the Critique of natural cause to spot our easy human cognitive capacities, and to justify Kant's transcendental proofs of the mandatory a priori stipulations for the potential of self-conscious human event.
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Mead's understanding of the emergence of the field of objects in terms of the stages of the act will be seen to further deepen the implicit but pervasive phenomenological dimension to his pragmatism, while Merleau-Ponty's phenomenological account of the perceptual field in terms of the primacy of perception will be seen implicitly to contain elements of Mead's pragmatic understanding of the stages of the act. Thus each philosopher implicitly incorporates features of the other's position in a way that complements and enriches the understanding of both.
For perception of resisting objects and one's organism arise together from an undifferentiated field, and, as in- Page 20 dicated above, social objects are also resisting objects. As Mead states, social individuals or selves exist in their "efforts and tensions in social conduct. .. " 66 And, though it will be seen that awareness of meanings emerges only through the beginnings of communicative action, such action, involving as it does the resistance and efforts of organisms, is permeated with the instrumental activity that gives rise to the insides of objects as centers of resistance.


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Twenty of the Friends took part in the annual pilgrimage to St George's Church, the Ypres Salient and the Somme over the May Day Bank Holiday. The Pilgrimage supports the church, shows fellowship to its members and enables the Friends to visit war graves, memorials and other sites with special, often family, meaning for them.
As usual, the Pilgrimage was spread over five days based in Ieper but with a day visit to the Somme. Whilst all Commonwealth war cemeteries and memorials are superbly maintained and share common design features they nevertheless vary incredibly in size and character; something which our varied itinerary allowed us to appreciate. At one end of scale is the huge Poelcapelle British Cemetery with it thousands of graves gathered together in this concentration cemetery after the war. The soldiers here were brought in from many small battlefield cemeteries or from the shell holes, ditches and fields where they had fallen without proper burial. The graves at Poelcapelle are laid out in long ordered rows and columns like many battalions drawn up on the parade ground. Sadly the majority of the soldiers here are unknown and bear inscriptions such as, "a soldier of the Great War" or "a corporal of the Royal Berkshire Regiment". In complete contrast there are the small battlefield cemeteries such as the tiny Le Fermont near the Somme village of Riviere. Le Fermont contains barely a couple of dozen graves and is situated in a narrow tree-lined lane opposite a wide babbling stream.
Our visits to graves and memorials were given added poignancy and meaning by the sounding of the Last Post and recitation of the Exhortation by Pete and Kim Burgess respectively. We feel that this is a special mark of our respect and we are very grateful to Pete and Kim.
The names of the thousands of unknown soldiers of the Ypres Salient are recorded on the Menin Gate and at Tyne Cot, both of which we visited. We attended the sounding of the Last Post at the Menin Gate on Sunday when we also laid two wreaths; one on behalf the Friends and one for the Royal West Kent Regiment (the regiment in which the grandfather of one our group served).
The Pilgrimage began at Dover where we took the ferry to Calais. On the way to Ieper we stopped at Dozinghem Military Cemetery set in the woods near St Sixtus Abbey north of Poperinge. This cemetery was established in 1917 to serve three casualty clearing stations receiving wounded from the Third Battle of Ypres (Paschendaele) . We visited the grave of Capt Wilfred Dashwood of 1st Battalion Grenadier Guards who died on 2 August 1917. His brother, also a captain, served in the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry and was killed in action in Plugstreet woods in May 1915. He is buried there in Rifle House Cemetery and we visited his grave later in the Pilgrimage.
18th Division Memorial at Thiepval. This distinguished division was formed from volunteers from the east and south east of England, including the grandfather of one of our number.
Highland Light Infantry Memorial at Authuille church. This has special meaning for Pete and Kim Burgess, members of the Boys Brigade, as the 16th Battalion was formed in Glasgow from BB members.
Pozieres British Memorial. Here we visited the memorial to Lance Corporal Edmund Wale of the Royal Berkshire Regiment who was killed in action in 1918 near Hangard Wood during the April retreat. His body was never identified. Edmund was the organiser`s great uncle.
Guillemont Road Cemetery. Here we visited the grave of Alfred Divers of The Buffs, a cousin of the organiser`s grandfather. Alfred came from Stelling Minnis in Kent and died on 15 September 1916, the first day that tanks went into action. The Buffs` objective was a strongpoint known as the "Quadrilateral". Unfortunately their single supporting tank failed on the day and Alfred was one of many infantrymen to be killed.
Lunch was taken at the Ocean Villas Tea Rooms at Auchonvillers. This former farm was a stretcher bearers post during the war.
On Sunday we attended morning service in St George's Church, followed by lunch with members of the church in the church hall. That afternoon we visited Westhof Farm Cemetery in the hilly country south of Ieper. We moved on to the aptly named Woods Cemetery which stands in woodland closer to Ieper. Here we visited the grave of Richard Howard of the Duke of Wellington`s Regiment. He was a musician and violin maker from Leeds. When he departed for the war he left behind the parts for a fiddle which he had not had time to assemble. Howard died in the Battle of Messines in 1917. 90 years later the fiddle came to light and was completed. Sam Sweeney, fiddle player with the group Bellowhead bought the fiddle and researched its story. This inspired him to create a show in tribute to Richard Howard and his fiddle. Returning to Ieper we visited Essex Farm Cemetery, famous for the Canadian dressing station where John McCrae wrote the poem" In Flanders Fields". That evening we attended the Last Post at the Menin Gate where Edward Crofton, our Chairman, escorted by Richard and Stephen Divers laid wreaths on our behalf.
On Monday morning we walked through Plugstreet Woods from Prowse Point Cemetery and the adjacent memorial to the Christmas Day 1914 football match to Rifle House visiting Mud Corner, Toronto Avenue and Ploegsteert Wood cemeteries on the way. Today the woods are an attractive place alive with birdsong, flowers and red squirrels. Rifle House and Ploegsteert cemeteries are set in woodland glades, a huge contrast to the shattered trees and swampy land of the war where it was so wet that trenches could not be dug. The final visit of the morning was to nearby Chester Farm and the grave of Lieutenant Ernest Carlos of The Buffs. Carlos was a distinguished artist and friend of Robert Baden Powell and worked closely with him to establish the Boy Scouts; the visit was at the request of members of the Scouts.
Monday afternoon saw visits to Tyne Cot (the largest British cemetery in the world with 11908 graves) and Poelcapelle British Cemetery where several pilgrims visited relatives` graves and memorials. The last visit of the day was to the Black Watch Memorial at the request of Joe Hubble who served with the regiment in later years.
That evening we had dinner together in a restaurant appropriately situated in the casemates set in Ieper`s city wall. It was here in these casemates that the famous wartime humorous and satirical magazine "The Wipers Times" was printed.
We returned to Calais and the UK on Tuesday visiting Godwaersvelde Cemetery on the way. This rural cemetery is just across the Belgian border in French Flanders.


Artist Statement Inspiration for my artwork comes from my love of animals. A love I have always had as far back as I can remember. And it's my connection to them, my relationship with them and my understanding of them that has become the focus and drive to create the work. I usually work in oil pastel and occasionally with watercolors. Oil pastel is a challenging medium; dense, thick, with a waxy base which usually cannot be applied to a surface with a brush, unless thinned down. Without brushwork to rely on for application and texture, I have to use and often devise other methods to apply pigment and move it around. For the watercolor work I like to use the translucent Yupo brand paper for me it brings a soft looseness and brilliancy to my work.
I have attained both BFA and MFA art degrees. But went on to develope another career. In past couple of years I have found that I missed being creative. and could not stay away from the arts. so I started painting my own pet's portraits. That got me going and I starting painting wildlife as well.
I have always had a love for animals my entire life so it seemed to be the right decision to use them as subject matter. My choosen medium is oil pastel because I find it to be a very versitile and challenging medium. I can work in thin watery washes, blend, build up layers, and scraffito through layers to reveil colors beneath: all of which allows me to capture the look and personality of the animal I am painting.