Sorry long time no blog. Since my last post I passed my driving test, yay, and spent four days in Paris with my brother and the kids. We walked our legs off and ate, a lot. The great thing about Paris, and there is many, is that you walk so much that all the bread, cheese and pastry you eat just disappears.
Here's a few photos from the trip. This is how I imagine I will look if I lived in Paris, a few years down the road! With my sons in the foreign legion! I had to stop these guys for a photo, it couldn't be any more Parisian, and on Bastille day.
This is Saoirse enjoying a crepe on the Rue St Paul. There are so many eateries here that we dedicated a whole day to eating at as many of them as possible, sushi, bread and cheese and ice cream for dinner, yummy.
And this is a cake made like a chess board, sigh.
I'm off to Biarritz and San Sebastian on Monday for a week, sans kids so there will be more bites from abroad next after that.
Since I last was here, it's been my youngest son's birthday. We had 14 kids under 10 in the front room where they ate, played PS, danced while I did my best to keep them from beating each other to a pulp. I made brownies, cupcakes and a chocolate malteser cake, it was so good I had nothing left for a photo. I have to put up the recipe though, it's from Nigellas Domestic Goddess Book. The kids queued up down the hall and ate every bit. Who says that kids don't eat birthday cake? The main reason for that is that it's nasty shop bought dried up cake.
There's no arguing that having birthday parties at home is exhausting though. Having a mad house full and trashed is great but I don't want to cook for a week after. When I did get the urge again I made these bad babies from stuff in the cupboard. If you are a baking novice try make them, it's easier than easy and so yummy. Plus they look impressive too.
I've also been one of those idiots who has been driving for years on a provisional licence and my driving test is on Monday. I've been getting lessons, though driving for years, to help me out of some bad habits. Brake first then clutch, not the other way, sigh. So fingers crossed I get my test......nervous, I am.
With half a jar of smooth peanut butter, half a bag of icing sugar and some light muscovado sugar I had, I just made these. I usually have a few bags of chocolate in the house that I stock up on for baking from one of the cheaper supermarkets. If you go out and buy everything to make these it will cost a bit, but the results are yummy and not really baking at all. You won't need a mixer.
Stir all the ingredients for the base together until smooth a bowl and a wooden spoon will do the job fine. You will find, either way, that some of the dark muscovado sugar stays in rubbly, though very small, lumps, but don't worry about that. Press the sandy mixture into the lined brownie tin and make the surface as even as possible.
On another, more interesting note, here's a link to my Leon's film, he won second place in the Fresh Film Festival with this back in March.
I've been reading about a new breed of blogs that deal with the fascination of what people eat. Not what they're cooking, as in recipes, but what they cook and when and how often they eat, and how much they eat. Interesting. As a food blogger, and as other food bloggers will tell you, we can be wildly mis-understood as being food snobs who only eat organic free-range everything that falls off trees at it's own free will after a fulfilling life surfing in Cornwall. This is not the case. I don't blog the times I eat nothing bit toast and jam, or fish-fingers from lidl. Like most humans, I like to boast, and show off, and take fancy food photos of stuff and lie about things. Sooooooo, I've decided that I'm going to bore you with a food diary. I think that when you write down what you eat you become a lot more conscious of it. Given that I have two big small boys in my change I'll write down what they eat too. It will reassure worried parents and probably amaze some, that you're family and they're mad eating habits are, in fact, ok.
I figure that most woman have some kind of mad relationship with food. Often at kids birthday parties when I wheel out my marriage-break-up-brownies, the women will moan that they will have to walk for a week to work off the chocolate etc etc. Men don't do this, men go around in summer in big bellies with their shirts rolled up or off, while perfectly healthy woman with great bodies fret about an inch of flesh or hairy legs. The result can be eating disorders which are very serious and life threatening and not at all good and I feel for anyone who suffers in this way. My question is..........must we do this? Can't we just eat and enjoy our food in a healthy, normal way. In a world where we have everything it's too ironic that a statement of ultimate wealth is skininess to the point of starvation. When millions of people dream of simply eating. I'll stop now, I'm on my soap box.
In keeping with my food diary, I'm going to try and throw out nothing, unless it walks out of it's own accord. We do too much of that too. Now I'm off to Lidl to do my shopping.
The photo is one I took of a boy in Vietnam where I was lucky to meet the amazing Irish woman Christina Noble who works with street kids and who has changed and saved the lives of so many. I'm using the pic as it shows what food is, a gift to be enjoyed.
To me mackerel is like the steak of the fish world. It's robust, meaty, filling and full of flavour. It's also insanely cheap, if you buy them whole which I do. These 3 cost just Euro 2.78 all together. if you're hanging around the coast in the summer you will probably get mackerel given to you as they are abundant in Irish waters, that's why we should be eating more of them.
You can get mackerel fillets from fish shops but I find filleted fish to be lacking in something, bones probably! It's easy to eat a whole fish, just lift the meat off one side, lift out the skeleton, Tom and Jerry style, and then eat the other side, pretty much bone free.
Mackerel can take big flavours like Indian spices so I tandooried these boys. I get the tandoori mix from my local Asian shop Global Foods in Baker Place, the brand is Shan and it's quite cheeky but yummy. I cooked these on the frying pan which didn't work out too good as they stuck to it. So I would grill or roast them next time.
For the bones of three weeks I found myself at home chained to the kitchen sink as a chain of illness took hold in our house. First the small fella had a chest infection, so off to the doctor with him, closely followed by the big fella. Then after a weekend of partying at the Riverfest I was totally knocked out with a chest, sinus and throat infection. Fun and games. During my cabin fever, when the lads were not so well but I was fine, I made bread with them. This was the first time I ever made bread by hand, other than soda bread, so I was chuffed with then results. The kids got to beat something up and then we got to eat our wares.
Our local Milk Market has stalls that do a roaring trade in so-called Artisan breads, while yummy, some of these breads cost as much as €6.00 per loaf. Has bread become a luxury item? I myself often buy these specialist breads and they are great but they are a treat, costing more than the average sliced pan. One particularly yummy loaf was a cheese and onion number, a small loaf that cost €4.00. Of course the baker deserves the bread, I mean the money for putting in the effort, but at €4.00 a pop I couldn't spend this much on bread every day.
Having owned a bread machine for years, I know how much bread you can make, for very little money, from a bag of Strong White Flour. This flour has extra gluten so stands up better to kneading and makes better bread than standard white flour we use for cakes. One large bag of this costs €2.80 from a supermarket and makes 3-4 large loaves of bread. If you factor in yeast and other little things like salt and sugar, that brings the price of making your own loaf to €0.90. Bear in mind that your own bread has no additives or preservatives and you get the satisfaction of making it yourself. Bread machine bread is fine, it's great that you can set the machine to make bread while you sleep so you get to wake up to a fresh hot loaf first thing in the morning. However, bread machine bread is always the same shape and has quite a robust crust on it, it gets a bit samey.
1 Dissolve the yeast and honey or sugar in half the tepid water.
3 Roll, push and fold the dough over and over for five minutes, to develop the gluten and structure of the dough. If any of the dough sticks to your hands, just rub them together with a little flour.
4 Flour both your hands well, and lightly flour the top of the dough. Make it into a roundish shape, and place on a baking tray. Deeply score the dough with a knife, allowing it to relax and prove with ease. Leave it to prove until it's doubled in size. Ideally you want a warm, moist, draught-free place for the quickest prove, for example near a warm cooker, in the airing cupboard or just in a warmish room, and you can even cover it with clingfilm, if you want to speed things up. This proving process improves the flavour and texture of the dough, and should take around 40 minutes, depending on the conditions.
5 When the dough has doubled in size, you need to knock the air out of it by bashing it around for a minute. Shape it into whatever shape you want - round, flat, filled, or tinned - and leave it to prove for a second time until it doubles in size again. Make some deep cuts across the dough to allow it to expand. Don't feel a need to rush through this, because the second proving time will give it a lovely, delicate soft texture.
6 Preheat the oven to 200ºC Now you want to keep all the air inside the loaf, so don't knock it. Gently place it in the preheat oven and don't slam the door. Bake the bread for about 40mins, depending on the shape of your loaf. You can tell if your bread is cooked by tapping its bottom (take it out of the tin first!) If it sounds hollow, it's cooked. If not, put it back in the oven for a little longer. Place on a rack to cool.
1.Take half or a quarter of the dough at stage 5 of the above recipe.
2. I used leftover parmesan, gorgonzola and cheddar, cut up into small pieces and mixed it into the dough with the white part of a spring onion, sliced up.
BBQ time, eating pants on!
It's time for Riverfest again, when the city is full to bursting with outdoor parties, music and of course, the highlight, the International BBQ Competition. Every May Bank Holiday Weekend Limerick embraces the River Fest, an event that attracts people from all over the country to come to the city and experience a carnival of events including Dragon Boating, Music Gigs and, of course, the main attraction the World BBQ Cook-Off, River Feast in association with the Irish BBQ Association, a non-profit organisation. This unique event incorporates teams from every corner of the world. Growing from strength to strength each year this culinary competition has made its mark as being the worlds largest international BBQ cook-off.
I might be judging and they need judges people. So e-mail kennethswitzer@yahoo.co.uk if you're interested, happy foodie lovers need only apply. I got tickets to see the Zutons at Dolan's Marquee on Saturday night and hope to take it the curragh racing on the Shannon too.
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was recently celebrated with a bottle of champers and baking at midnight ensued. The first time I'd made these chessey muffins, she who-shall-remain-nameless ate six of then in one go, so I made sure I'd have the ingredients here when she arrived. I wasn't expecting her munchies at midnight but muffins take no time to fling together and fling them I did, they were all eaten again by 10am the next day. The recipe is from one of my much loved cook books, Nigella Bites, a book full of ballsy recipes and fun, experimental grub. Though Nigella got it from the adorable Joy of Muffins, yes that's a real book. The stronger the cheddar you use, the better, and the Worchestershire sauce turns them from just cheese into Welsh rarebit. My Mum used to make us Welsh rarebit and I loved the obscurity of cheesy sauce on slabs of toast and then burned, intentionally, under the grill. Yum. My eldest son now loves it, but it is pure glue in your veins. The recipe calls for 50g rye flour, something I rarely have in the cupboard, so I replace it with two crumbled up Weetabix, something I always have in the cupboard as my son No.2 eats four for breakfast every day. Enjoy these with a coffee, a glass of red wine and, most importantly, a good friend.
P.P.S A huge congratulations to the amazing Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova who won Best Song for a movie at the Oscars. Fans of his band The Frames will know they kept working away for years and never broke out of the Irish market where they have a big and loyal following. Great to see a tiny film make an impact, and great to see the Irish on the Oscar stage. Watch the clip and see if you don't cry, sniff!


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What is the future of kit sponsorships?
A conversation with a friend from the sports industry, and the trends that we saw this year made me think about the future of kit sponsorships. In this article, I will try to share my view on this topic, and it would be great to hear yours as well.
In recent history, only two brands dressed the top European football clubs – Nike and Adidas. But this year could be the turning point in the entire industry, and it's not only because of these famous sports manufacturers, but because clubs obviously need more money.
Almost all TOP flight clubs had contracts with Adidas and Nike, and the biggest sponsorship was below €30M per year. But then, without explanation, Adidas snatched Manchester United from Nike with an unbelievable offer of €98M per year for 11 long years.
"Most soccer historians credit Peñarol, a Uruguayan club team, with introducing the concept of jersey sponsorship to the sports world during the 1950s." – Scott Allen, Mentalfloss
million euros is the value of TOP 4 kit contracts in the football world
million euros Real Madrid gets from Adidas every year
At that moment, Nike refused to compete with such amount of money. After a 13-year relationship with United, they said: "…at the time that the partnership no longer represented "good value" for the company's shareholders."
When you know that United sold more than one million shirts, the Adidas investment might make a little more sense than it did at first. Nike took a big hit by losing a 13-year partner to his biggest rival…
This contract also made some other clubs very unhappy, especially Real Madrid. The Spanish giant wanted a better contract than United, and this could only mean more than €100M per year. And they managed to do so as they negotiated a crazy €140M per year! For 10 years!!!
We cannot forget about Bundesliga's Bayern Munich, a "must have" player for Adidas. The agreement between these two is worth €900M, and it will last until 2030, which will ensure €80M per year for the Bavarian club. And if you add Chelsea FC's contract with Adidas worth €39M per year for 10 years, you can see that Adidas has the TOP 4 kit contracts in the football World, spending over €357M every year.
On the other hand, you can see that United's Premier league rival Chelsea gets €59M less per year They wanted to negotiate a new contract with Adidas, but they couldn't reach an agreement, and Nike took advantage of this.
That same Nike, that said doesn't want to spend ridiculous amounts of money on sponsorships, decided to play this crazy game with Adidas. Nike reached a €70M sponsorship agreement with Chelsea, for the duration of 10 years. The club even agreed to pay Adidas €45M for penalties due to early termination (6 years) of their contract.
And where is Barcelona? They had a contract with Nike till 2018., with around €32M per year. Of course, Nike didn't want to lose this mega club, and they also offered them a new contract:
"FC Barcelona and NIKE, Inc. have extended their current sponsorship deal, which was due to end on 30 June 2018. The long-term agreement is a landmark in global football and builds upon a highly successful partnership. The details of the agreement will be reported and will have to be ratified at the next Club General Assembly." – Barcelona PR
Some Spanish media reported that new deal is expected to run until 2026., and that Nike will pay Barcelona €158M per year. If this is true, this is the biggest contract in football industry.
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"A new age in jersey sponsorship began in 1973, when Günter Mast, the nephew of Jagermeister creator Curt Mast, had the brilliant idea of placing the German liqueur's stag and glowing cross logo on German Bundesliga squad Eintracht Braunschweig's uniforms. Mast had previously launched a Jagermeister-sponsored motor racing team, but saw an incredible opportunity in the world's top sport." – Scott Allen, Mentalfloss
Opportunity for other brands
As you can see, the war between Adidas and Nike allowed for other brands to enter the battlefield These brands spend big money on TOP clubs, and the sponsorship budget for other clubs is minor.
Under Armour, Puma, New Balance, Macron and others seized the opportunity, and offered more money to clubs like Arsenal, Southampton, Tottenham, Lazio, Liverpool, Aston Villa, LOSC… This is a chance for them, to steal a piece of pie with high quality equipment, but equipment itself won't be enough. They need to give fans more content, and they need better ads, as well as better design, since there is a significant creativity gap between Nike/Adidas and other brands.
In sports business, everything is possible. Adidas, found in 1964, had a 15-year head start on Nike, but that didn't stop the American sports apparel manufacturer. Nike worked their way to the top with creativity, great content, athletes and sponsorships, and they are at this moment the top sports brand in the world.
I think that this big change in sponsorship policy of Adidas and Nike opened up a whole new market for other brands such as Under Armour (who is ahead of Adidas in the US sportswear market), New Balance, Macron, Joma, Jako, Kelme or others.
But they must improve their efforts, especially in marketing and storytelling. It's not enough to have great players or products, they have to communicate with fans. A good example can be seen looking at the Spanish brand Kelme. They have a great product and sponsor some Primera clubs, but they still communicate in Spanish language (they don't care about the international perception of their brand), their social media is focused on the Spanish market and they don't have marketing materials or instructions for retailers.
Another example is Under Armour, a brand that is very strong in the US, but they don't have a strong retail network in Europe, and they cannot guarantee worldwide sales for the European clubs they sponsor, which is something Adidas and Nike can.
These so-called smaller brands need some time, but I believe some of them will succeed. Whichever brand manages to get to clubs that Adidas and Nike are not interested in, especially if those clubs have a big fanbase, can step onto "the big boys" territory and take a piece of their pie.
Sponsors vs Kit Sponsors
Before I get into conclusion of this article, I would like to discuss another sponsorship issue. Top European clubs have more income from kit suppliers than from sponsors on the kit. This is something that separates them from other clubs, and also a reason why Chelsea decided to part ways with Adidas.
This is probably the reason behind similar decisions made by Juventus (23 million Euros – Adidas), PSG (€22M – Nike), Manchester City (€17M – Nike)…
As I already said, United signed a kit sponsorship deal worth around €98M per year, and their sponsor Chevrolet (front of the kit) gives them €55M per year. Chelsea had a €39M deal with Adidas, and €46M from their sponsor Yokohama, which resulted in a new, €70M Euros kit sponsorship deal with Nike.
Manchester City is below them on the list, with "only" €17M Nike kit deal, and €46M Etihad sponsorship. All these clubs will try to find kit suppliers that will pay them more than sponsors on their kit.
Future?
In my opinion, future will be turbulent. Adidas entered a bidding war with Nike that could create more space for other brands, which could change the sponsorship game quite a bit.
Nike will probably never forget this Manchester United 'takeover', and some reports even suggest that they will go to Adidas' backyard to hit them where it hurts the most. German Football Association reportedly received an offer from Nike they cannot refuse. Losing this battle would be a huge blow for Adidas.
Future? Focus will be on design, content and players. Players and their strength on social media will be crucial, and you can see that Nike (Ronaldo) and Adidas (Messi) have the main football influencers on their side.
Better marketing support for retailers is crucial, in a sense that retailers should get promo materials, education and visuals from the supplier. Nike and Adidas have developed online platforms for this purpose to ensure all their retailers get all the necessary support. This might seem irrelevant, but it is very important and increases their sales.
What do you think? Do you agree with me?
@marijanpalic @Nike @adidas @UnderArmour add @NBFootball – huge expansion over last 2 years and I bet they are targeting some major club
— Damian Podawca (@damian_podawca) July 9, 2016
"Three years after the Jagermeister logo, Kettering Town of the English Southern League signed a sponsorship deal with Kettering Tyres and took the field with its sponsor's name emblazoned across the front of its shirt. When league officials ordered the club to remove the name, Kettering responded by removing the last four letters in "TYRES" and claimed that "KETTERING T" stood for Kettering Town." – Scott Allen, Mentalfloss
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Toxic Positivity: It's okay not to be okay
"In the midst of the pandemic, reminders to stay upbeat are everywhere. Mottos, memes and maxims along with Twitter hashtags and Instagram accounts are devoted to preaching optimism as an approach to manage the epic uncertainty. But for some people, the relentless focus on the bright side can go too far."
This is a quote from an article entitled "It's OK not to be OK" by Kevyn Burger of the Star Tribune in Minnesota. At the Virtual FA Family Meeting, Dr. Megan Voss shared Burger's article and shared how the current cultural pressure to maintain an upbeat and positive outlook in the face of a health crisis is 1) nothing new to FA families; and 2) can actually be detrimental to one's wellbeing. This phenomenon is known as toxic positivity.
What is toxic positivity?
Toxic positivity is the excess and ineffective overgeneralization of a happy, optimistic state across all situations. This results in denial, minimization, and invalidation of the authentic human emotional experience.
We see manifestations of toxic positivity around us all the time. #Blessed. #Thankful. #Grateful. It's the oversimplified message that it will all be okay if we just put on a smile and get through another day. As individuals who face challenges every day, these messages – even if well-intentioned – are rarely ever helpful.
Messages of toxic positivity
How do you know if you are experiencing toxic positivity?
You feel that you have to hide or mask your true feelings
You try to just 'get on with it' by dismissing an emotion
You feel guilty about what you feel
Your experiences are minimized with 'feel good' quotes or statements
Perspectives like 'it could be worse' are embraced, instead of validating an emotional experience
You feel shamed or chastised for expressing frustration or anything other than positivity
Things that bother you are brushed off with an "it is what it is" type attitude
What are the consequences of toxic positivity?
When in shame, you feel like you have two choices: to be brave or to pretend everything is great all the time. According to leading shame researcher Brené Brown, shame is defined as the intensely painful feeling or experience of believing that we are flawed and therefore unworthy of love and belonging – something we've experienced, done, or failed to do makes us unworthy of connection. Brown asserts that shame is neither helpful nor productive, and in fact, is much more likely to be the source of destructive, hurtful behavior than the solution or cure. Guilt and shame are often confused, but unlike guilt, which can be reflective and suggest a change in behavior, shame does not result in positive change.
Suppressed emotions
Studies have shown that people experience less of the physiological signs of stress in the body when they are allowed to outwardly express their emotions. This can happen through words, facial expressions, or tears. If you cry or yell or express what feels bad or sad in a situation, you're doing your body good by getting that stress out of the body. On the contrary, if you don't express what you're truly feeling, and you're holding back words or tears, you're housing that stress in your body body, which can lead to negative effects on your health.
Isolation and other relationship problems
If you aren't free to express yourself, to be seen, to be heard, it's impossible to relate to others. Research has shown that isolation is detrimental to health and wellbeing. There is an increased risk of developing coronary heart disease and stroke, dementia, and depression.
So, how can we safely combat isolation, especially now when many of us are in lockdown?
Find safe ways to connect using technology, barriers, and distance. In areas where it's safe to socially distance outside, connect with people in. your community.
Reach out to your health care team.
Utilize telehealth. It's come a long way and your healthcare providers are here for you.
Find meaning and purpose in this time of increased isolation. It doesn't have to be a new hobby or job; it could be spending more time cooking or playing games with your family.
What can I do for myself and my family?
Dr. Voss' advice for FA families during this time is to:
Work with your health care team
Seek support for not only your physical health, but your mental and emotional wellbeing
Recalibrate, reassess, refocus. Listening to your body and emotions is the most important part of taking care of yourself.
Speak up when something doesn't feel right
Seek support within your communities that "get it". The rest of the world may not be able to understand what it's like to live with FA and now a global pandemic, but other FA families share similar experiences. Reach out in the FA Family Support Group on Facebook (or we can post your concern or question anonymously) or contact FARF Family Services Director Jordan Deines to talk about ways to get connected.
Remember: positivity needn't be toxic
Cultivating a positive outlook can boost immunity, decrease stress, and even lengthen life spans (Burger). So, how do we embrace positivity but not end up spreading it in a toxic way to others or to ourselves?
Cultivate real and genuine reasons to feel positive.
Find the good in the situation. Finding positivity does not have to be this outward expression of joy, like jumping up and down. Everyone has different ways of feeling joy or 'good'. Remember that the labels of good and bad are subjective, so find what feels right for you.
Cultivate gratitude and have an active gratitude practice. Our brains are hardwired for negativity, and gratitude is the antidote to that. It takes about 3-4 'gratitudes' or good things to combat a negative thought in our brains. You could do this by going around the dinner table each night, writing them down on slips of paper and into a gratitude jar then sharing them later, keeping a gratitude journal, or even just typing it into the notes tab on your phone. There's no right or wrong way to keep track of your gratitude, but the key is to be consistent in your practice.
DO NOT deny yourself negative feelings. Cultivating a positive outlook should never involve denying negative feelings. If you're feeling anger, sadness or grief, it's often hard to sit still with those feelings. Sometimes doing something movement-based (exercise, gardening, etc) or creativity-based (art, music, etc.) helps us to express those feelings and allows them to pass.
Notice any feeling you have and allow it, listen to it, working with it, and through it. Part of mindfulness is simply noticing a feeling, without placing judgment (good or bad) on that feeling.
You're not expected to not feel sad or to just bounce out of an off mood. As Mary Jo Kreitzer, University of Minnesota, Bakken Center for Spirituality & Healing, reminds us: "Someone who is experiencing overwhelming feelings of sadness can't flip a switch or jolly their own way out of it. Toxic positivity refuses to acknowledge their challenges. If we ask others to be inauthentic, that doesn't build resiliency and relationships."
How to reframe messages to avoid toxic positivity
Tips on what to say & avoiding toxic positivity
If you or someone you know is struggling, looking on the bright side may not be helpful. Trying to reason away negative feelings or demanding that you "Snap out of it!" likely won't do any good and may, in fact, be harmful.
Instead, when someone expresses their emotions, listen, then acknowledge and validate their feelings. Instead of assuring them that everything will be OK, say, "I'm here for you, I care for you," and ask how you can support them.
If someone feels overwhelmed, give them space to talk about their experience without judgment. You can say, "That sounds hard for you, tell me more about that." Don't tell them what you would do or feel in their place. Instead, ask them if they just need to vent or want advice.
If the negative feelings deepen or linger, don't play therapist. People with persistent depressive feelings should be encouraged to see a physician and a mental health professional.
Watch Dr. Voss' presentation on Toxic Positivity from the 2020 FA Family Meeting 'It's OK not to be OK': Minnesota psychologists push back on 'toxic positivity' Center for Spirituality and Wellbeing at the University of Minnesota
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Finnair must approve all pets before travel, so contact the Customer Service Team at 877-757-7143 and inform them you are traveling with Fido. Make sure you have the dimensions of your pet transportation container to hand, as well as the total weight of the pet and the container. If your ticket includes flights operated by other airlines, you should check their regulations before your travel date.
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Animals that do not fit the requirements for the cabin may be transported as checked baggage in the hold instead. Pets weighing over 88 lbs (40 kg) must be transported in a strong transportation box in the hold. Pets are charged different rates depending on your destination. Pets traveling on short haul flights have fees of 75 EUR and long haul flights have fees of 300 EUR.
If the total weight of your pet and carrier exceeds 110 lbs (50 kg), the pet must be shipped as cargo instead. Finnair Cargo provides safe and quick animal transport services to most direct Finnair destinations. You can call their contact center in Finland at (+358) 9-818-501 to find out more details on conditions.
For pets traveling in the cabin, soft pet carriers can have similar dimensions as regular carry-on baggage. The maximum dimensions should be 21" x 15" x 8" (55 cm x 40 cm x 20 cm). Rodents must always be transported in a hard case. The maximum dimensions for a hard case are 14" x 12" x 8" (35 cm x 30 cm x 20 cm). Your carrier should be flexible enough to fit under the seat in front of you and your pet should be able to stand up and lay down comfortably inside. For pets traveling in the hold, carriers must allow the animal to stand, turn, and lie down in a natural manner. Carriers must comply with IATA standards and be large enough to allow pets to stand up straight. They can be made of Fiberglass, metal, rigid plastics, weld metal mesh, solid wood or plywood. The specifics for carriers in the hold depend on the animal you are transporting and their size. You can call the Customer Service Team at 877-757-7143 to find out more details.
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Nikkei Voice: Why Is Marie Kondo So Popular?
By P.C. Editor April 5, 2019 April 15th, 2019 No Comments
Gil Asakawa
I've been following the worldwide career of Marie Kondo with bemusement since her first book, "The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up," was published in the U.S. in 2014. I've watched from a distance as friends have embraced Kondo's single-minded prescription for people to clean up their lives, physically and therefore emotionally, by focusing not on what to toss out but instead what to keep that "sparks joy" for them.
I've followed this fad sweep the world from afar because, frankly, I'm not a tidy person.
Recently, I've gotten a better introduction to Kondo as a personality and her somewhat complicated relationship to Americans through her Netflix series "Tidying Up With Marie Kondo."
In the series, she visits the home of people in the Los Angeles area, where she now lives, ranging from a Japanese American couple of empty-nesters to an African-American family, a gay couple, a lesbian couple, a widow awash in her late husband's presence — a veritable cornucopia of diversity, equity and inclusion. Each episode tugs at the heart and gives lots of tips and ideas for viewers to tidy up their homes … and lives.
The series has led to Kondo becoming a fulcrum for racial and anti-Japanese sentiment in the past few weeks because of a controversial tweet (now-deleted) by American social justice, feminist and socialist author and intellectual Barbara Ehrenreich. "I will be convinced that America is not in decline only when our decluttering guru Marie Kondo learns to speak English," she wrote.
After a torrent of criticism calling out the inherent racism in her comment, Ehrenreich took down her tweet and posted a nonapology: "I confess: I hate Marie Kondo because, aesthetically speaking, I'm on the side of clutter. As for her language: It's OK with me that she doesn't speak English to her huge American audience, but it does suggest that America is in decline as a superpower."
That view of diminishing American "power" is as old school as the Cold War, a shocking and disappointing backward worldview coming from someone who's supposedly progressive, liberal and forward-looking. And, it reveals that the ugly racist underside of the "politically correct" façade can still fester just beneath the surface of not just white supremacists but also people who should know better.
The fact that Netflix chose to have an interpreter on the show and have Kondo speak much of the time in Japanese (she can speak English, but is probably shy about using English — a typical Japanese trait of self-effacement) is a great sign that America is becoming more tolerant and not slipping in stature in the world.
The show has gotten positive reviews outside of Ehrenreich's dumb comment, so her language isn't hurting Kondo's celebrity brand. Her Japanese is either interpreted by Marie Iishi, who is awesome at converting Kondo's rapid-fire Japanese into unstilted conversational English or translated into captions on the screen. Anyone who's watched a Japanese movie or anime with subtitles would not think this is a sign of the decline of Western Civilization, by any means.
Kondo's a perfect package for Western television: She's almost pixielike in her tiny physical presence, but she commands a powerful, confident space as a personality. She has mastered her processes and can show people worldwide with or without language barriers how to fold clothes or use small boxes to organize the flotsam and jetsam of an unruly kitchen pantry shelf.
Her "KonMari" method — short for her proper name in Japanese, Kondo Mariko (family name first) — is a brilliant marketing distillation of the compulsive obsessions that caused her as a child to toss out half of her mother's things when she went on vacation, or caused her to straighten out her elementary school bookshelves, mixed with traditional Japanese cultural values. Or, at least, Shinto spiritual traditions, which demand cleanliness.
Kondo worked for five years at a Shinto shrine and was also inspired by the religion's animist traditions (hence, Kondo greets the homes she enters, and urges clients to thank the items they're not going to keep).
Her method makes perfect sense if you're interested in cutting clutter in your environment. Instead of tossing out as much as you can stand, Kondo's brilliant perspective is to decide what you want to keep — by seeing if those items, books, photos or clothes "spark joy" in you. It's a positive affirmation of embracing the things in your life that matter, not a guilt-tripping need to cut away stuff willy-nilly.
But the KonMari method isn't for everyone.
For instance, I've never known a single journalist — including myself — whose desk didn't look like the aftermath of a natural disaster. We like it that way. My surroundings would probably give Kondo a heart attack.
So, I appreciate her stardom and am glad for Kondo's growing empire of tidy people. She's bringing Japanese values — and her quirky take on them — to America. But I'm happy to watch her from amidst my papers, cables, gadgets and stacks of stuff, thank you very much.
Gil Asakawa is former chair of the Pacific Citizen Editorial Board and author of "Being Japanese American" (Second Edition, Stone Bridge Press, 2015). He blogs at www.nikkeiview.com.


Water oxidation is pivotal in the 'ab-initio' synthesis of H2 and carbon-based non-fossil fuels. In biological photosynthesis, water oxidation is efficiently catalyzed by a Mn4CaO5 cluster bound to the photosystem-II (PSII) pigment-protein complex of plants, alga and cyanobacteria. In recent years, synthetic catalysts based on amorphous oxides of first-row transition metals came into focus. Aside from the redox-active metal (Mn, Fe, Co, Ni), these oxides may contain additional redox-inert cations (K, Na, Ca, ..) and anions that could act as a proton acceptor (phosphate, borate, ..), as well as intercalated water molecules. We investigate these amorphous oxides using a combination of electrochemical and spectroscopic methods; synchrotron-based X-ray spectroscopy is the primary structural tool.
Starting with a summary of crucial mechanistic features of the biological catalyst, recent findings for amorphous oxides are described, suggesting surprising structural and functional analogies between the biological catalyst and the synthetic oxides. The location of catalytic sites is discussed and the question is raised whether surface amorphisation may be essential for catalysis by initially crystalline catalyst materials. A conceptual approach is outlined for description of the mode of water oxidation in the heterogeneous oxide catalysts with (some) molecular properties.


EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. (AP) Robert Nunn has a special relationship with injured New York Giants defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.
Nunn has been the team's defensive line coach since 2010, the same year New York drafted Pierre-Paul in the first round. They have worked together the past six years, so it should come as no surprise that Nunn probably has had more contact with him than anyone in the organization since the defensive end suffered a serious hand injury in a July 4 fireworks accident.
Nunn doesn't go into much detail about what the two have said on the telephone or exchanged in texts. Most of it is not about football. He is concerned about Pierre-Paul, who now has missed the opening week of training camp.
Nunn has no idea about the extent of the injuries to JPP's right hand or when he will report.
Pierre-Paul has yet to sign his $14.8 million franchise tender, so he is not under contract. His concern obviously is that the Giants will put him on the non-football injury list until he is ready to play. It would take away the team's responsibility to pay him.
Nunn isn't interested in talking about that. In his mind, Pierre-Paul has been through a lot.
Nunn received a text from Pierre-Paul on Friday, saying he was doing well.
Nunn talks with general manager Jerry Reese almost daily and shares information about his contact with Pierre-Paul. However, if JPP tells him something in confidence, it does not get shared.
For now, Nunn is preparing the defensive line to play without Pierre-Paul, who led the team with 12 1/2 sacks last season. The two have talked about Steve Spagnuolo's new defense and Pierre-Paul has been updated. When he comes to camp, the talks will get more intense.
Robert Ayers, George Selvie, Cullen Jenkins, Damontre Moore and Kerry Wynn have been getting most of the practice time at the defensive ends. Nunn said the preseason would determine his starters.
Giants coach Tom Coughlin hopes to talk to Pierre-Paul this weekend for the first time since the accident.
NOTES: Offensive line coach Pat Flaherty also is short-handed with center Weston Richburg (knee), LT Ereck Flowers (hip), G Geoff Schwartz (ankle) and T Will Beatty (pectoral) all out this week. Beatty is probably going to miss the first half of the season. Flaherty refused to comment about retired center Shaun O'Hara's tweet questioning the toughness of the line because three players missed practice after a day off. ... The Giants signed rookie S Justin Halley and waived/injured WR Chris Harper. ... WR Odell Beckham Jr. admits he was caught off-guard when a section of the temporary stands buckled as he was signing autographs last week. ''... I see legs in between the bleachers and stuff like that. It's just crazy. I don't like to see anybody, any kids or anything like that, in harm's way. Hopefully, there's not another incident like that or getting put in those situations again.'' The Giants changed their autograph policy after the incident, limiting them to children 12 and under.


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Soles: skate shoes have either vulcanized soles or cupsoles. The former are slimmer and more flexible for ultimate maneuverability. Cupsoles, on the other hand, offer more cushioning, which is preferable for skaters who perform jumps and other tricks with hard impact.
Grip and padding: you'll most likely want to opt for skate shoes with soles made of sticky rubber to help you grip the board. Padding within the shoe offers added comfort in places like the tongue and heel pads.
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The Vans Authentic is a classic skate shoe with a thin, vulcanized sole that offers good grip and easy movement for longboarders and downhill skateboarders. Another popular brand is Nike SB, which brings its well-known quality to skate shoes with cupsoles, extra padding and other features that are perfect for everyone from street skaters to more daring ones.


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