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Holy leapin' sturgeon!
Scientists suggest sturgeon leap to communicate with each other
Wanda Curtis
Almost 20 years after a coast-wide fishing moratorium on Atlantic sturgeon was instituted, the giant, monstrous creatures of the deep are growing in numbers.
Atlantic sturgeon live most of their lives in salt water, but hatch and spawn in fresh water. The species was once abundant, especially during colonial times.
From the late 19th century through the mid-20th century, sturgeon caviar was in high demand. But the commercial fishery collapsed in the early 1900s, when landings dropped off dramatically. In the years that followed, the landings continued to decline until moratoria on landings were established, the most recent initiated by the Atlantic Marine Fisheries Commission.
Maine's sturgeon population is now increasing, said Gail Wippelhauser, a state Department of Marine Resources research scientist. Wippelhauser said both Atlantic and Shortnose sturgeon have been tagged for a number of years to determine where they travel and where they spawn. The appearance and capture of Atlantic sturgeon in Maine rivers during the past decade indicates both species have increased in abundance.
A Shortnose sturgeon caught in the Kennebec River near Augusta.
According to Wippelhauser, an article in the July 21, 1875 Daily Kennebec Journal reported under "Farmingdale Notes" that 65 sturgeon was the largest haul for Maine fishermen in one night. Given the date, the haul would have been spawning or pre-spawning Atlantic sturgeon.
The number of Shortnose sturgeon spotted in Maine during recent years has also been increasing, Wippelhauser said. Two "mark and recapture" studies showed the adult Shortnose sturgeon population in the Kennebec system almost doubled between 1977 and 2000.
DMR, the University of Maine, University of New England and the U.S. Geological Survey recently applied for a $626,182 species recovery grant for research of Atlantic and Shortnose sturgeon. Wippelhauser said the funds would be used to learn more about the fish "as they relate to specific challenges facing their management in the Gulf of Maine."
Wippelhauser explained that DMR is frequently contacted by the state's Department of Transportation and U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to provide an environmental review for proposed waterfront construction and repair and dredging projects. The data collected includes information on the species in the project area and recommends when the work should be done to protect impacted fish. Funding would help to cover a new technology to learn where sturgeon go when they're in the ocean which could also help reduce them being the victims of bycatch.
Atlantic sturgeon are known for their large size and for their ability to leap as high as seven feet above the water. They emerge from the water with great force and can damage anything they come in contact with, including people, when they land. The fish make a loud splash when landing which can be heard many yards away on the surface and possibly farther away under water.
Scientists have been intrigued for years by the leaping behavior of sturgeon. They've suggested a number of reasons why the fish may leap, such as catching airborne prey, gulping for or expelling air, escaping predators, helping to shed eggs during spawning, and courtship behavior.
A group of U.S. Geological Survey researchers in Florida offered yet another theory. They suggested that sturgeon leap to communicate with each other. The researchers noted that sturgeon in the Suwannee River jumped frequently in the summer while staying in cool-water refuges. They confirmed that the leaps had a recognizable sound which could be heard more than a half mile away and probably farther under water.
The sturgeon leap to communicate with one another to help provide a cohesiveness among the species, which are often separated by dark and turbid water.
An Atlantic sturgeon that measured 7 feet was caught in Merrymeeting Bay.
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The new draft counter-terrorism strategy, US President, Donald trump suggests we begin to demand from the allies more responsibility in the fight against militants. It follows from the text of a government document seen by Reuters.
In the 11-page draft strategy States that the United States should begin to avoid costly military commitments.
"We need to intensify operations against global jihadist groups and reduces the price that the US pay for the human and material costs in achieving its anti-terror goals", — quotes Agency the extract from the document which can be published in the coming months.
While the strategy States that terrorism cannot be defeated completely.
"We will strive to avoid costly large-scale US military operations to achieve the objectives in the fight against terrorism, and we hope that our partners will also share responsibility for combating terrorist groups", — the document says.
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Reuters underlines that in the case of publications and legislative approval this will be the first official document of the United States over the past six years outlining methods of dealing with Islamic extremism.
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Hope Street and beyond
by Michael Egan Comments
"A strange, intricate, haunting book – a confronting and otherworldly story about care and dependence, growing up and searching for home." Jenn Ashworth
Even though the majority of Circles a Clover is set on an island that doesn't really exist called Selny, part of it is set in Liverpool. I grew up in Liverpool and the city has always been something that pulled on me, told me to make it a character in my writing. To be honest, I resisted that for a long time. I didn't want to be a writer of a place and I certainly didn't want to be a writer of Liverpool. There was something that worried me about being a writer associated with the city, with my accent, that maybe it was too easy to pigeonhole Liverpool writers and the stories they tell. But as I got older and moved away from Liverpool, I found myself setting more and more of my stories in the city. The docks became the backdrop for a crime novel I started but never finished – the murderer being chased by my detective through the Albert Dock, and finally meeting his well-deserved end in the water of the Mersey with a bullet in his back. The streets of Huyton, where I grew up, became the backdrops for strange stories of creepy angels hiding beneath schools; of first love as pipistrelles circled St Michael's church on Blue Bell Lane; the drunken tragedy of a man riding the 10A bus into Liverpool after losing everything. I wrote stories about Anfield, the Gormley statues further north on Crosby beach, Knowsley Safari, which always seemed so close to my childhood home but far away, and I set a novel about a great flood that devastates the world in the city – the Metropolitan Cathedral poking up through the water like the crown on the head of a drowned giant. The city started to work its way back into my psyche and my writing. Every poem I wrote seemed to wind towards the river, the Mersey flowing through everything despite my best efforts to be a poet not of place but of a freer language. It's strange that I did this for so long – now all my writing is about Liverpool, the North West, so much so that even when I push my writing into sci-fi and fantasy, I see the city in the broken future and in the imagined other. And then I started writing Circles a Clover.
As Kyle leaves Liverpool, leaves her old life, the city offers itself as some kind of harbinger of strangeness, of darkness, of ambiguity."
Kyle, the girl whose life is upturned by her father's belief that the world is ending, has grandparents who live in the centre of Liverpool on Hope Street. Hope Street runs from the Catholic cathedral all the way to the Anglican, from the brutalist awe of 'Paddy's Wigwam' to the precocious Giles Gilbert Scott's vast gothic immensity. That setting, the space between the cathedrals, the affluence of the road with its townhouses and ornate iron railings, has often come into my writing, and whenever it does it's also with a hint of magical realism. When Kyle visits her grandparents in Liverpool it's with the knowledge that she's leaving her life, her friends, and going somewhere she doesn't really want to go. She loves her grandparents, but have they ever really been there for her? Childhood is gone and the outside world seems strange and dark, full of troubling possibility. As Kyle stands outside her rich grandparents' house, she has a vision of a Shadow Liverpool that maybe digs into to the shadow life she's living and the shadow island she's about to go to. As Kyle leaves Liverpool, leaves her old life, the city offers itself as some kind of harbinger of strangeness, of darkness, of ambiguity. I'm glad that my city appears in this way in the book, because for me I've pushed Liverpool away too many times, told it not to butt into my head, but at this transition point for Kyle I like that it's my city that offers the reader a glimpse into the fantastical world, and that it's Liverpool that sets Kyle on her way to a place where the hinterland between reality and fable is foggy and full of uncertainty.
Circles a Clover is as much about place as it is about Kyle. The story begins in Hartford, Cheshire. A comfortable, middle-class village where no one admits that their life might be a bit messy. It jumps into an imagined place: Selny, a rabbit-shaped island near the Isle of Man, inspired by seeing a map of Sodor, the land of Thomas the Tank Engine, and another map of imagined places from literature. Fake Britain. But for a moment, just a chapter, it pauses in Liverpool and I'm able to bring my city into the story, into Kyle's consciousness. Crows circle the cathedral. Kyle imagines them as the servants of a demon, maybe the demon that's making her dad ill. She imagines the possibility of wolves howling, coming for her through the ruined city. She imagines that there will be no one to save her if the wolves come, and then she turns away and steps back into the inevitability of her story…
IT WAS LATE BY THE TIME they reached the bridge, the traffic blocked up all the way back along the expressway, every lane feeding in full of stuck cars as the sun set a brilliant red in the clear winter sky. There was no snow today and not a single cloud. The sky was like a lake of ice, coldest blue, and the world looked like it went on and on, unending. The huge chimneys of the power plant let out plumes of smoke, tinged with fire by the sun so it seemed like four squat dragons, mouths gaping, breathed their fire into the sky. She pulled her coat close about herself and tried not to feel so small, but as their car crawled closer to the bridge and she saw that the river too was alive with oranges and reds, she couldn't stop looking at the sun, hanging there, gradually fading and colouring the world as it left the day. From the east there were purples and blurred blues reaching out, bringing evening, and the vapour trails of planes crisscrossed the sky like scratches on a perfect face. She closed her eyes and tried to imagine that their car was all there was in the world but it was no good; no matter how much she tried to make herself feel small and believe that, she could still feel the vastness of the world, the wide open sky, the jet streams that told the stories of other lives being lived, movement and motion, hear the radio, a woman's voice, her dad's fingers tapping. She opened her eyes and gave in. By the time they drove into Liverpool and along Hope Street, parking beside the cathedral just opposite her grandparents' house, it was evening and dark.
The door was opened by the time they were at the steps and there were her grandparents, her mother's parents, as old as they ever looked."
She hadn't seen her grandparents for nearly a year but the house was the same as always. A grand townhouse, high steps leading to a black door, freshly coated judging from the sheen of gloss, the lion knocker in its centre, the lion fiercely biting down on an iron ring. There was a basement they sublet to students from the university, fresh flowers in the low windows, and the attic was where she and Skan would always sleep, high up with the sash window overlooking the graveyard in the hollow beside the cathedral. The curtains, thick and red, were all drawn to keep out the night, but as her dad opened the wrought iron gate it set a little bell to ring and a light came on in the hall. The door was opened by the time they were at the steps and there were her grandparents, her mother's parents, as old as they ever looked. Her gran was smiling, eyes moist so Kyle wondered if she had been crying or if that was just what happened to your eyes when you got old.
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, a.k.a. 'Paddy's Wigwam', at dusk. 'Chowells'/Wikimedia Commons
"My, you're a sight for sore eyes," said her gran, taking Kyle's hand. Her hand felt so fragile, small, and Kyle tried to remember if it had always felt like that. Yes, her mum's hands had been like that too. Fragile, the skin rice-paper thin, the light blue of veins almost shining out. Now her gran's hand was scattered with liver spots and as she hugged Kyle, there was the old scent of Estée Lauder perfume. Kyle pushed her head close to her cardigan.
"We've missed you so very much," said her gran.
"I've missed you too." It wasn't true, not really. There were some days when she knew she should call them, or worse than that when they would ring her phone and she would ignore it. She was never sure why. It wasn't like she blamed them for her mum going; that happened long ago and they had been forever in her and Skan's lives after that. It was only really since Skan had left that Kyle had stopped visiting them, stopped knowing with the certainty she had in childhood that she should love them. There had been a day, a week after Skan had phoned to say he had found a place in Brixton, when her grandad came to the house and for an hour there was shouting. She had heard something break and bad words, words she never thought her grandad could say. Now he stood with his arms out and she let him hug her.
"Where've you been, lass?" he said, his voice still tinged and layered with the soft lyrical tones of the Western Isles. He moved back and looked at her, his brow furrowed, his puffy lips dry and chapped. "You're well, aren't you?" And then he looked past her to her dad and his frown turned to a scowl.
She knew what he meant. Do you really want to go with him?
"I'm fine, Grandad."
"Aye, well maybe we can all have a wee chat and catch up. We've supper in the oven if you're hungry."
Her gran's hand was on hers again, china fingers curling about it. "You're staying the night, aren't you?"
"The ferry is first thing in the morning, Moira," said her dad. He was calm, almost robotic. Like there was nothing wrong with him at all, like in his mind somewhere there wasn't this tumour of a thought that everything was about to end. "I thought you'd like to see Kyle before we left."
Her grandad's scowl deepened. "Aye, you did. Well come on in inside, it's a dire night."
The hall was long, chequered black and white tiles running its length, and there were some of her gran's paintings on the walls as well as a framed letter written to her grandad from Stephen Hawking and another picture of her grandad with a tall, bald man who Kyle guessed was another famous physicist. There was a picture of her mum and uncles when they were little beside that. It had always been in that same spot, like Jesus and his burning heart, but she wouldn't look at it.
They ate pastitsio and her grandparents asked her about school.
"Science, is it?" said her grandad, happy. "I always hoped your mother had my scientific leanings; maybe they skipped a generation."
Her gran touched her hand again. She had been doing it all through dinner, reaching out to her as if she was checking she was real, solid and actually there. Or maybe it was to hold on to her, thought Kyle. Maybe the next time she touched her hand she would hold it hard and refuse to let go, anchor her to them.
She patted Kyle's hand tenderly. "There's more to the world than atoms and quarks, Alistair."
Her grandad pushed his fork into his salad and lifted up a slither of balsamic-drenched radish. "Aye there is, but nothing quite as grand as knowing why every little thing came to be."
"What about the bigger things?" put in her dad. "You don't need a microscope to see what the world is made up of."
Her grandad sighed and laid his fork calmly on his plate. "I prefer to look a little deeper than what's right in front of me to find my answers."
Her dad had hardly eaten. "You can't just ignore what's going on around you, Alistair. That's the problem with this world, too many people closing their eyes."
Kyle looked to her dad. Even in his best shirt, even without the stubble and stained T- shirt, she could see the truth of him in his eyes. They were so tired, so sad. He couldn't hide that from her no matter how hard he tried."
Her grandad picked up his water and sipped it. He only ever drank water, not even tea or coffee, just water. "Jon, I can only hope that one day, for Kyle's sake if not your own, you start to see that it does no good at all to imagine all the monsters of the world coming to your doorstep. If that happens, it happens. In the meantime, all we can do is look closer at our own lives and keep hold of what good we have. You have so much good, you always have."
No one spoke. She could hear the clock on the mantelpiece ticking and a cat crying in the alleyway behind the house.
Her grandad looked at her. "Are you sure you want to go, Kyle? You can stay with us if you want, focus on your schoolwork. Surely, you've too much on to miss a day, let alone a week."
Kyle looked to her dad. Even in his best shirt, even without the stubble and stained T- shirt, she could see the truth of him in his eyes. They were so tired, so sad. He couldn't hide that from her no matter how hard he tried to hide it from her grandparents, it was the him that had been around for too many years now to suddenly just vanish.
"It was my idea," she said quickly, looking from her gran to grandad. "I asked Dad could we go, you know, back to Selny because of all the holidays we used to have. We haven't been anywhere for ages and I've got all the work I need with me. I haven't had a day off since Year Seven; it's hardly going to make me fail my GCSEs missing a week at the end of term is it? Besides, the doctor says Dad needs a break and I want us to have a nice Christmas, I want him to be better. All we're doing is going away for a week, there's no harm in that."
Her grandad went to say something but her gran cut him off. "Listen to the girl, Alistair. She knows her own mind. I think she's right, maybe the two of us should follow her example and have ourselves a wee holiday."
Liverpool Anglican Cathedral. 'calflier001'/Wikimedia Commons
Nothing more was said about Kyle staying. They ate a lemon tart her gran had made, the pastry as delicate as her hands, and the cream flavoured with whisky. The tart seemed to calm them all down and by the time their plates were empty it was like she was sat around a table with a normal family who did this all the time. No frowns, no scowls, no stubbornness. Just tea and words. It felt strange, out of place and false, and soon her feet began to jitter and shift beneath the table, desperate for a cigarette. She looked at her dad, smiling and talking about football, about Hibernian getting knocked out of the cup, as if everything was really normal, as if they had all only seen each other just yesterday, and her grandparents smiling politely back because they were nice people, good people, and this was how good people behaved. Even though there was more than a gap of years between them all. There was a hole, something missing, and not one of them mentioned it, not one of them mentioned her mother's name.
"I might go for a walk," she said. She wanted to smoke but that was only to get away and leave the falseness of them. It wasn't really the need to smoke that made her leg shake. It was that they had no right to pretend there wasn't a chunk of all of them missing.
"Ah, but do you not think it's late, Kyle?" said her gran. "Wouldn't you prefer me to show you your room? I bought you some new bedding, just in case. We couldn't have you sleeping in a Power Rangers bed at your age could we?"
"She'll be fine," said her dad. "Just don't be too long, Kyle. I need to talk to your grandparents in private anyway."
She wondered if they were going to talk about her mum but then she realised the idea was ridiculous. Why all of a sudden talk about something you had refused to even acknowledge for over a decade? She could guess what her dad wanted to talk about. Money. Her grandparents had lots of it and they had so little. The end of the world was probably an expensive thing to run away from.
Her gran touched her hand one last time and looked at her so deep in her eyes that she wanted to turn away. "Don't go too far," she said and she kissed Kyle softly on her forehead.
Liverpool never seemed like an old city to her, everything was too new, even in the streets around her grandparents' house. But the cathedral was like some fantastical castle, towering and gothic, imposingly dark against the black sky."
Kyle lit a cigarette as soon as the little bell on the gate had rung behind her. The pavement was slippery with ice so she walked slowly along Hope Street, looking up at the townhouses and wondering what types of people lived there. One house had shutters instead of curtains and another had a huge terracotta Buddha in the drive. Another had eight different buzzers on the intercom and every window had different curtains. The house at the end was shabby, an old Saab rusting out front. At the end of the street she saw a group of tourists standing around a woman who was dressed all in black with a tall hat and white, ghostly face, her hands waving dramatically as she ushered them along the street towards the Catholic cathedral. She crossed to the Anglican and leaning on the railings she looked up at it. It was so high, so out of place. Liverpool never seemed like an old city to her, everything was too new, even in the streets around her grandparents' house. But the cathedral was like some fantastical castle, towering and gothic, imposingly dark against the black sky. She blew out smoke between the railings. There were no birds flying above the high central tower but she imagined there should be crows circling it, a whole murder of them just whirling and whirling about the tower, ever circling. It didn't look a good place, not like a church should look. It looked a bad and secret place where anything might be happening. She looked down into the graveyard, little tombs dotted about, forgotten, uncherished, grey obelisks and squat plinths, graves leaning into each other with names too weathered to know.
This wasn't Liverpool, she told herself, this was another place, a shadow world, a Shadow Liverpool. She looked up at the cathedral. There were crows, hundreds of them circling the tower. They were a demon's servants and if she were foolish enough to drop her cigarette and let herself be lured down into the graveyard there would be monsters waiting and the dead would want her to join them. She turned around and leaned back against the railings, looked at the posh town houses and imagined that they were all ruins, shells of what they had once been, like the old church down the hill; hollows, broken and useless. The whole city was that: a ruined place of too much evil, and she was alone, vulnerable. At any moment there might be howling and when the wolves came out of the alleys and ginnels she would have no one to save her but herself.
She dropped her cigarette and kicked it into the street. She took out her phone and took a photograph of the shabby house and uploaded it to her Instagram, tagging it with "My Hero", wondering if Spencer would get that.
Her grandparents' front door was unlocked so she let herself in. She could hear the three of them talking, her dad's voice loudest but still calm. She climbed the stairs all the way to the attic and opened the door to her bedroom. All of her and Skan's old toys were gone, the board games and even the Xbox. There was a new brown rug and her bedding was Cath Kidston. She undressed to her underwear and got into the warm bed. There was a small table beside it, different to the one that used to be there, and as she reached to turn the bedside lamp off she noticed there was a book with a folded piece of paper on top.
Kyle, I thought this might remind you of your mum and us. Love always, Granny xxx
It was an old edition. The corners were frayed and a little dog-eared. The cover showed a Roman soldier wearing some kind of animal as a cloak and holding a staff with a gold eagle at its top and a small sword in his other hand. The Eagle of the Ninth.
"Skan maybe," she said quietly. It was Skan who had always read the book to her, not her mum. She didn't have that memory like her gran thought she did, no memory of songs to lull her to sleep even. Her mum had left and with her had gone anything to fasten those memories too, so that as the years passed, whatever memory she had left of her became a ghost, fainter and fainter, until Kyle was unsure of what was a memory and what was a dream, made up to fill the gaps.
She opened the first page and there at its top was perfectly neat and scrolling writing in green pen. Paisley Smith, Liverpool, July 15th 1984. She switched off the light and turned on to her side, holding the book close to her body.
From Circles a Clover (Everything With Words, £14.99)
Michael Egan grew up on a council estate in Liverpool. He teaches English in Cheshire and is currently completing an MA in Prose Fiction at UEA as the recipient of a Booker Prize Foundation Scholarship. His poems have appeared recently in Glasgow Review, Prototype and The Fortnightly Review. He is the author of the poetry collections Steak & Stations (Penned in the Margins, 2011) and New Blasphemies (Contraband, 2022). Circles a Clover, his debut novel, is published by Everything With Words.
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A number of other medical conditions are also required to be notified under the Public Health Act 2010. See Schedule 1 Scheduled medical conditions and Schedule 2 Notifiable diseases for the full list of notifiable conditions.
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James D. Watson is a Nobel Prize-winning biophysicist and researcher recognized with co-discovering the double-helix structure of DNA.
James Dewey Watson was born in Chicago, Illinois, on April 6, 1928, and spent his childhood there, attending Horace Mann Grammar School and South Shore High School before earning a scholarship to the University of Chicago and registering at age 15.
he completed a Bachelor of Science degree in zoology and then went on to attend Indiana University in Bloomington, where he received his Ph.D. in zoology in 1950. He enhanced interested in the work of scientists working at the University of Cambridge with photographic patterns made by X-rays.
In 1950, Watson began his postdoctoral studies in Copenhagen as a Merck Fellow of the National Research Council. During this time, he worked with biochemist Herman Kalckar, and later microbiologist Ole Maaloe, and studied bacterial viruses to investigate the structure of DNA.
Crick's and Watson's first serious effort toward learning the structure of DNA came up short, but their second attempt concluded in the spring of 1953 and resulted in the pair putting forth the double-helical configuration, which resembles a twisting ladder.
James D. Watson has been honored numerous times, taking home the John Collins Warren Prize of the Massachusetts General Hospital (1959, with Crick), the Lasker Award (1960, with Crick and Maurice Wilkins) and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1962, with Crick and Wilkins), among others.
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Q: How to know the listView viewCell whose contextAction menuItem is clicked? I have a listView created in xaml (using the xamarin online cross-platform dev guide) like so:
<ListView x:Name="AccountsList" ItemSelected="AccountSelected">
    <ListView.ItemTemplate>
      <DataTemplate>
        <ViewCell>
        <ViewCell.ContextActions>
            <MenuItem Clicked="OnEdit"
               Text="Edit" />
            <MenuItem Clicked="OnDelete"
               Text="Delete" IsDestructive="True" />
         </ViewCell.ContextActions>
          <ViewCell.View>
              <StackLayout Orientation="Vertical"
                           HorizontalOptions="StartAndExpand">

                <Label Text="{Binding DeviceName}"
                       HorizontalOptions="CenterAndExpand"/>
              </StackLayout>
          </ViewCell.View>
        </ViewCell>
      </DataTemplate>
    </ListView.ItemTemplate>
  </ListView>

I'm assigning the ItemSource programmatically like so: AccountsList.ItemsSource = App.Database.GetAccounts ();
And here's my 'onDelete' method:
public void OnDelete (object sender, EventArgs e) {
    var mi = ((MenuItem)sender);
    DisplayAlert("Delete Context Action", mi.Command + " delete context action", "OK");
}

I want to be able to know the specific viewCell whose menuItem was clicked, i.e. to reference the 'DeviceName' of the object from the above 'onDelete' method. I know I can do this with the 'ItemSelected' method of a listView like this:
void AccountSelected(object sender, SelectedItemChangedEventArgs e)
{
    var _account = (Account)e.SelectedItem;
    // And access the account here.
}

But the 'Clicked' method doesn't allow a 'void OnDelete (object sender, SelectedItemChangedEventArgs e)' signature (and I doubt it would work anyways).
How can I accomplish this?

A: You can bind record id of the row similar to the below example,
<MenuItem Clicked="OnDelete" Text="Delete" IsDestructive="True" CommandParameter="{Binding RecordIdentifier}"/>

And on your OnDelete event handler, you can get the record id we bind earlier from the CommandParameter similar to the below example,
public void OnDelete (object sender, EventArgs e)
 {
      var mi = ((MenuItem)sender);
      DisplayAlert("Delete Context Action", mi.CommandParameter + " delete context action", "OK");
 }

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Researcher in the A2K program and adjunct coordinator for the Center for Technology and Society at Fundação Getúlio Vargas (FGV) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro. Mr. Pereira de Souza is professor of law at FGV Law School and a lecturer in FGV's continuing education and specialization departments. He also lectures in the graduate and post-graduate departments at Pontifical Catholic University (PUC-Rio) School of Law in Rio de Janeiro, and at the Law School of the State University of Rio de Janeiro (UERJ). He is a member of the Copyright and Entertainment Law Commission of the Rio de Janeiro Bar Association (OAB-RJ), and earned his Masters in Law from Rio de Janeiro State University (UERJ), where he is currently a LL.D. candidate. He is co-author of the books Comentários: Lei de Imprensa (Forense/2004), and Código Civil Interpretado Conforme a Constituição da República (Renovar/2004).
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Christopher Wheeldon presents his own take of the romantic encounter between a brash American painter and a lovely young Parisienne in this ballet. A large ensemble ballet interspersed with pas de deux; this sweeping panoramic piece is filled with the vibrant sounds, rhythms, and colors of urban Paris life. The cast of 31 includes beatniks, fashion models, tourists, schoolgirls, gendarmes, and even a Tour de France bicyclist in a yellow jersey. Set designer Adrienne Lobel has created backdrops inspired by Picasso and Braque that provide a skewed Cubist perspective of a "postcard" City of Lights, including stone bridges and picturesque streets, the banks of the Seine and the Eiffel Tower.


The Oscar-winning director of 'Snowden' opens up about allegations of Russian hacking against the U.S., 'evil Hillary,' and how Obama can prove he's 'human' by pardoning Snowden.
ZURICH — Oliver Stone knows how to wind a woman up.
Just ask Laura Poitras, whose Oscar-winning documentary about NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden, Citizenfour, came out two years ago to an Oscar win and critical raves while Stone's new $40 million biopic Snowden, starring Joseph Gordon-Levitt, has gotten mixed reviews and been bested by Sully and Bridget Jones' Baby at the box office.
Cut to the release of Snowden last week. Melissa Leo, 56, plays the still fresh-faced Poitras, who is 52. Yet Leo is lit and styled so badly in the film that she looks 10 years older than either herself in real life or Poitras.
On the eve of the high-stakes presidential debate in the U.S., Stone, 70, is seated alone, like a restive pasha, in a chair at the far side of the football field-sized lawn at the Hotel Baur au Lac overlooking shimmering Lake Zurich.
It's the same place Richard Wagner read his The Ring in public in 1853. But today it resembles a scene out of a 1970s thriller like Three Days of the Condor, where tension and danger lie just under the pastoral surface.
But the film's release coincided with The Washington Post, recipient of a Pulitzer for stories based on information Snowden gave them, saying he shouldn't be pardoned.
Nor is there much indication that the general public or the presidential candidates are heeding Snowden's warnings about the consequences of mass surveillance. One of the best things about Snowden is showing how chilling they can be. In one scene, Gordon-Levitt instructs his girlfriend, played by Shailene Woodley, to put a Band-Aid over her laptop camera because it can be so easily accessed.
Maybe the absence of drama following the release of Snowden is why Stone's studio entourage, ostensibly there to herd reporters, instead roams the hotel grounds like a counterintelligence detail sweeping the place for spies.
One of them abruptly comes over to me. I've been waiting on the lawn to speak to Stone as scheduled in advance.
He asks, frowning, if I can tell him what The Daily Beast is—and keep in mind Oliver Stone has written for the site more than once.
Several minutes later, without further explanation, I'm escorted on the long walk across the lawn to Stone. It's true. He did look tired.
But after that? We might as well have both been back on the grassy knoll in JFK, because the conspiracy theories Stone is so famous for in his films were already flying in regards to what just transpired—and we hadn't even gotten to Snowden, Trump, Clinton, Obama, or the NSA yet.
Also, I was told I had only six minutes.
"I understand you've never heard of The Daily Beast," I began.
"Oh, no, of course I know it very well," said Stone.
"I'm not sure what you're talking about," said Stone, looking aggrieved before launching into a lengthy synopsis of a film I told him I'd seen and liked very much.
"It was very complicated to get this down accurately," said Stone of the movie, which ends with a scene of the real Snowden shot in a dacha outside Moscow where Snowden has been living since fleeing Hong Kong in 2013.
The same could be said of talking to Stone himself, who tells me he's a "truth seeker" but in person seems like more of an old-school Hollywood hard guy, more intent in keeping you off-guard than keeping it real—even if it means not fully selling his film.
Is there a part of him that wishes Trump would win just to blow up the whole system?
"Oh God no," he said. At the same time he dismisses a recent report that federal investigators are looking into possible ties between Trump adviser Carter Page, who has extensive business interests in Russia, and senior Kremlin officials.
Speaking of conspiracy theory movies, does Stone know that some 9/11 "truthers" believe his 2006 World Trade Center film secretly goes along with the idea that the attacks were an inside job—and is he a truther as well?
Stone said he doesn't consider himself a true truther.


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Bartonia ist eine Pflanzengattung in der Familie der Enziangewächse (Gentianaceae). Die nur drei Arten sind in Nordamerika heimisch.

Beschreibung

Die Arten Bartonia-Arten wachsen als ein- bis zweijährige krautige Pflanzen. Die Laubblätter sind zu paarig angeordneten, kleinen, eng anliegenden Schuppen reduziert.

Die radiärsymmetrischen Blüten sind vierzählig. Es sind vier grüne Kelchblätter und vier Kronblätter vorhanden. Es wird eine kleine, einkammerige Kapselfrucht gebildet.

Verbreitung
Die Bartonia-Arten sind im östlichen bis südlichen Nordamerika heimisch. Während sich das Verbreitungsgebiet der beiden Arten Bartonia paniculata und Bartonia virginica über weite Teile des östlichen Nordamerikas erstreckt, sind innerhalb der USA die Vorkommen von Bartonia verna auf die östlichen Südstaaten und die von Bartonia paniculata subsp. texana sogar auf Texas beschränkt.

Systematik
Die Gattung Bartonia wurde 1801 vom amerikanischen Botaniker Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg in Carl Ludwig Willdenow: Der Gesellschaft Naturforschender Freunde zu Berlin, neue Schriften, 3, S. 444–445 aufgestellt. Der botanische Gattungsname Bartonia ehrt den amerikanischen Botaniker Benjamin Smith Barton (1766–1815).

In der Gattung Bartonia  nom. cons. gibt es drei Arten, von denen eine drei Unterarten aufweist:
 Bartonia paniculata , Syn.: Centaurella paniculata : Sie kommt in den zentralen und den östlichen Vereinigten Staaten vor. Es gibt drei Unterarten:
 Bartonia paniculata  subsp. paniculata
 Bartonia paniculata subsp. iodandra : Sie kommt vom südöstlichen Kanada bis Virginia vor.
 Bartonia paniculata subsp. texana , Syn.: Bartonia texana : Sie kommt vom östlichen Texas bis zum nordöstlichen Louisiana vor.
 Bartonia verna : Sie kommt von den südöstlichen Vereinigten Staaten bis ins östliche Texas vor.
 Bartonia virginica : Sie kommt vom südöstlichen Kanada bis zu den nördlich-zentralen und den östlichen Vereinigten Staaten vor.

Der Gattungsname Bartonia wurde 1812 durch die Beschreibung von Bartonia  in Bot. Mag., 36, 1812, t. 1487 des deutsch-kanadischen Botanikers Frederick Traugott Pursh für eine Gattung aus der Familie der Blumennesselgewächse (Loasaceae) nochmals vergeben. Da diese Beschreibung später veröffentlicht wurde, stellt sie gemäß dem ICBN (Vienna Code, Artikel 53) ein jüngeres Homonym dar, das nicht verwendet werden darf (Nomen illegitimum). Die unter diese Beschreibung fallenden Pflanzenarten werden in die Gattung Mentzelia gestellt.

Quellen
 Katherine G. Mathews, Niall Dunne, Emily York, Lena Struwe: A phylogenetic analysis and taxonomic revision of Bartonia (Gentianaceae): Gentianeae, based on molecular and morphological evidence. In: Systematic Botany, Volume 34, Issue 1, 2009, S. 162–172.

Einzelnachweise

Weblinks

 Eintrag in der Flora of Missouri. (engl.)
 Eintrag bei USDA. (engl.)
 Eintrag bei hortiplex.gardenweb.com. (engl.)
 Beschreibung von Bartonia virginica bei vplants.org. (engl.)

Enziangewächse
Gentianaceae

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Q: Can not compress video from ALASSET URL in iOS? I got video URL from ALASSET thenconvertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL function to compress video but it can not work. I saw after compress, size of video always is 0.
This is function to get video URL from ALASSET:
ALAsset *alasset = [allVideos objectAtIndex:i];
            ALAssetRepresentation *rep = [alasset defaultRepresentation];
            NSString * videoName = [rep filename];

            //compress video data before uploading
            NSURL  *videoURL = [rep url];
            NSLog(@"videoURL is %@",videoURL);

            NSURL *uploadURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[[NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:videoName] stringByAppendingString:@".mov"]];
            NSLog(@"uploadURL temp is %@",uploadURL);

            // Compress movie first
            [self convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL:videoURL outputURL:uploadURL handler:^(AVAssetExportSession *session)
             {
                 if (session.status == AVAssetExportSessionStatusCompleted)
                 {
                     // Success
                 }
                 else
                 {
                     // Error Handing

                 }
             }];

            NSString *path = [uploadURL path];
            NSData *data = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsAtPath:path];
            NSLog(@"size after compress video is %d",data.length);
        }

Function compress video :
- (void)convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL:(NSURL*)inputURL
                                   outputURL:(NSURL*)outputURL
                                     handler:(void (^)(AVAssetExportSession*))handler
{
    [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtURL:outputURL error:nil];
    AVURLAsset *urlAsset = [AVURLAsset URLAssetWithURL:inputURL options:nil];
    AVAssetExportSession *session = [[AVAssetExportSession alloc] initWithAsset: urlAsset presetName:AVAssetExportPresetLowQuality];
    session.outputURL = outputURL;
    session.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie;
    [session exportAsynchronouslyWithCompletionHandler:^(void)
     {
         handler(session);

     }];
}

When I called convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL function, i didn't see it trigger to handler(session); .
And NSLog(@"size after compress video is %d",data.length); always print "size is 0".
Where i went wrong? Please give me some advice. Thanks in advance.

A: convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL is an asynchronous method, that is why it takes a completion handler block. Your current logging code is not in the completion handler block, but is after the call to convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL - this will run before convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL completes so you will never have a result then.
Move your logging (and usage) of the compressed video into the completion block.

A: ALAssetRepresentation* representation = [asset defaultRepresentation];
NSString *fileName =  [NSString stringWithFormat:@"VGA_%@",representation.filename]; //prepend with _VGA to avoid overwriting original.
NSURL *TempLowerQualityFileURL = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:[NSTemporaryDirectory() stringByAppendingPathComponent:fileName] ];
NSURL *gallery_url = representation.url;
NSLog(@" \r\n PRE-CONVERSION FILE %@ Size =%lld ; URL=%@\r\n",fileName,  representation.size,representation.url );
[self convertVideoToLowQuailtyWithInputURL:representation.url outputURL:TempLowerQualityFileURL handler:^(AVAssetExportSession *session)
{
      if (session.status == AVAssetExportSessionStatusCompleted)
      {
           NSLog(@"\r\n CONVERSION SUCCESS \r\n");
           NSString *path = [TempLowerQualityFileURL path];
           NSData *data = [[NSFileManager defaultManager] contentsAtPath:path];
           NSLog(@" \r\n POST-CONVERSION TEMP FILE %@ Size =%d ; URL=%@\r\n",fileName,  data.length, path );

           ALAssetsLibrary* library = [[ALAssetsLibrary alloc] init];
             [library writeVideoAtPathToSavedPhotosAlbum:TempLowerQualityFileURL completionBlock:^(NSURL *assetURL, NSError *error)
            {
                 if (error)
                 {
                     NSLog(@"Error Saving low quality video to Camera Roll%@", error);
                 }

                 NSLog(@"\r\n temp low quality file exists before = %d", [self fileExistsAtPath:path] );
                 [[NSFileManager defaultManager] removeItemAtURL:TempLowerQualityFileURL error:nil];
                 NSLog(@"\r\n temp low quality file exists after = %d", [self fileExistsAtPath:path] );

                 NSURL *NewAssetUrlInCameraRoll = assetURL;
                 [[VideoThumbManager sharedInstance] replaceLink:representation.url withNewLink:NewAssetUrlInCameraRoll];

              }];//end writeVideoAtPathToSavedPhotosAlbum completion block.

      }
      else
      {
           // Error Handing
           NSLog(@"\r\n CONVERSION ERROR \r\n");

      }
}];//end convert completion block

A: SWIFT 3   MP4 Video Compression
100 % Worked For Me
This code compress the video with URL(Document Directory) of 12 MB to 2 MB.
I have captured video with .mp4 format and compressed code returns video in same format.
Function where compress held
func compressVideo(inputURL: URL, outputURL: URL, handler:@escaping (_ exportSession: AVAssetExportSession?)-> Void) {
        let urlAsset = AVURLAsset(url: inputURL, options: nil)
        guard let exportSession = AVAssetExportSession(asset: urlAsset, presetName: AVAssetExportPresetMediumQuality) else {
            handler(nil)
            return
        }

        exportSession.outputURL = outputURL
        exportSession.outputFileType = AVFileTypeQuickTimeMovie // Don't change it to .mp4 format
        exportSession.shouldOptimizeForNetworkUse = false
        exportSession.exportAsynchronously { () -> Void in
            handler(exportSession)
        }
    }

Code for Destination URL for Compressed Video
let filePath = URL(fileURLWithPath: strVideoPath)
        var compressedURL : URL!
        let fileManager = FileManager.default
        do {
            let documentDirectory = try fileManager.url(for: .documentDirectory, in: .userDomainMask, appropriateFor:nil, create:true)
            compressedURL = documentDirectory.appendingPathComponent("Video.mp4")
        } catch {
            print(error)
        }
    //It is compulsory to remove previous item at same URL. Otherwise it is unable to save file at same URL.
        do {
            try   fileManager.removeItem(at: compressedURL)
            print("Removed")
        } catch {
            print(error)
        }

Code For Calling
  compressVideo(inputURL: filePath , outputURL: compressedURL) { (exportSession) in
                guard let session = exportSession else {
                    return
                }

                switch session.status {
                case .unknown:
                    break
                case .waiting:
                    break
                case .exporting:
                    break
                case .completed:
                    print(compressedURL)
                    let newData : Data!
                    do {
                        newData = try Data(contentsOf: compressedURL) as Data?
                        print("File size after compression: \(Double((newData?.count)! / 1048576)) mb")
                    } catch {
                        return
                    }

                case .failed:
                    print(exportSession?.error.debugDescription)
                    break
                case .cancelled:
                    break
                }
            }


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import { NgModule } from '@angular/core';
import { IonicPageModule } from 'ionic-angular';
import { DetailsPage } from './details';

@NgModule({
  declarations: [
    DetailsPage,
  ],
  imports: [
    IonicPageModule.forChild(DetailsPage),
  ],
  exports: [
    DetailsPage
  ]
})
export class DetailsPageModule {}

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Warming Up For Carnival 2014 In Rio De Janeiro
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — The holiday season is picking up steam which means plans are already coming together for the 2014 Carnival festivities, with the official dates of February 28th to March 4th this year. The major samba schools have announced their Enredo (Theme) as well as named their Rainha de Bateria (Queen of the Drums), and music and…
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Rio's Sambaodromo's Is Celebrating It's 30th Anniversary By Hosting A Mini Carnival
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — All are welcome to celebrate the 30th anniversary of the historic Marquês de Sapucaí or Sambodromo Rio de Janeiro's temple of samba, tomorrow, Sunday, February 24th at 7PM. Admission is free and partygoers are sure to experience a beautiful commemorative and religious procession by religious leaders and members of all samba schools of the Special Group and Group A.…
Samba City: Historical Landmark And Carnival Attraction
RIO DE JANEIRO, BRAZIL — Cidade do Samba (Samba City) located near the Port Zone in Rio, brings together the samba schools from the Grupo Especial (Special Group) division and is home to the schools' Carnival preparations and float building. Normally there are daily events for visitors to enjoy a preview of Carnival, but due to construction work the site is temporarily closed to the public.…
Dhoti Dance And Bois Move Fiesta Crowd
High winds and the cool breeze lent itself to the creation of a beautiful day for kaiso in south Trinidad yesterday as fans flocked to Skinner Park, San Fernando for Calypso Fiesta 2014, the semi-finals of the National Calypso Monarch competition.
The show saw veterans battle it out with newcomers and others with just a few years' experience behind their belts. Out of 40 contestants in yesterday's…
Soca Star Farmer Nappy Releases New Album - Big People Party
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Mighty Sparrow To Get Trinidad's Highest National Award
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Machel ventures into fashion and chocolate
The limited edition range of hats produced for Machel Montano by New Era.
Soca star Machel Montano has partnered with New Era, a global lifestyle brand, to launch five exclusive caps that will be sold during 2014 Carnival.
A limited-edition collection, only 100…
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4 mas bands get own route for TRINI carnival
Four large Carnival mas bands—Harts, Tribe, Yuma and Bliss—have been given approval by the National Carnival Commission (NCC) to parade along an extended route on Carnival Tuesday. The route will not take the masqueraders to the traditional main stage at the Queen's Park Savannah, Port-of-Spain, but further west through Woodbrook and to the…
Soca Singer Benjai Labeled 'SEX SYMBOL' Post Soca Monarch Semifinal Performance... (Video Below)
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When asked about the attention he's received from women now that he's been…
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Valentine's Ladies Night Out draws 'largest' crowd
'Queen of Bakanal': Destra Garcia performs for patrons on Friday night.
One of the largest crowds within recent times for a show of this kind attended the Ladies Night Out concert held on Friday evening at the Hasely Crawford Stadium.
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Machel talks Mambazo, Boyz II Men collaboration (Song Below)
In his continued bid to push soca music beyond the West Indian diaspora, Machel Montano has teamed up with two major international entities for his 2013 album.
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A Decade Of TRIBE...
After nine years of mas, mayhem and a multitude of colour, Tribe has sought to incite revellers yet again with its 2014 presentation, Tribe 10, in celebration of its tenth anniversary.
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Kris KI Persad Crowned Chutney Soca Monarch AGAIN..... (Video Below)
Kris "KI" Persad created history as the youngest artiste to be crowned Chutney Soca Monarch in 2012.
And he has done it again.
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Performing in 19th position the lead vocalist of JMC 3Veni band delivered what was…
Carnival Copyright War Brews
The TT Copyright Collection Organisation (TTCO) is accusing the National Carnival Commission (NCC) of owing it millions of dollars as copyright royalties for three years.
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SPARROW THRILS
The show was billed "Doctors on Call" featuring the Mighty Sparrow (Dr Slinger Francisco), the Mighty Chalkdust (Dr Hollis Liverpool) and the Black Stalin (Dr Leroy Calliste), and for one hour, the man who a packed De Nu Pub came out to see, had them fully entertained.
Sparrow, 78, dressed in a dark blue suit and sitting on a stool, opened with a moving rendition of "The Lord's Prayer" that he ended…
EYES ON THE MAS
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Most of the cameras are in an area which is the venue for many Carnival events including the Parade of the Bands on March 3 and 4.
"The security of masqueraders,…
SEYCHELLES CARNIVAL MOZAMBIQUE JUMPS UP AS MAURITIUS BREAKS DOWN
Mozambique has become the latest country to sign up for Seychelles' Carnaval International de Victoria.
The east African country's tourism minister, Carvalho Muaria, agreed on 4 February to send a group to the Indian Ocean's premier tourist spectacle, which has established itself as the 'Carnival of Carnivals'.
Mozambique, a former Portuguese colony, has indoor events…
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MAS DOMNIK 2014 {VIDEO+PICS}
Dominica's annual carnival Mas Dominik got underway with its 2014 launch on Wednesday 8th January followed by its official press conference on Wednesday 15th January. This year's theme is 'Nou Konnet Viv' (We Know How to Live) and the Dominica Festivals Committee, who hosted the press conference, also launched this year's concomitant theme song featuring Rah of the original WCK Band.
Body Art for Carnival 2014
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Bunji Garlin releases Carnival Tabanca Videomentary
Despite releasing a music video for Carnival Tabanca back in August 2013, Bunji Garlin teamed up with Beach House Entertainment to produce a follow up 'Videomentary' for the track. The video was shot on the Brian Lara Promenade downtown Port of Spain, where Bunji serenades the onlookers. He even took time to sign autographs and mingle with his fans during the shoot. Check out the video below!


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The shops have started putting their Christmas displays out so it must be at least July. We've been talking about the best spicy gift ideas for friends and family with a spicy tooth and here's the rundown of the best.
If you want to get all arts and craft this is a great idea. Basically all you do is leave some chillies in vodka for 2 weeks and boom! Spicy vodka. Give it a shot with some Carolina Reapers or other super-hots if your recipient is of a maniacal disposition.
These guys demonstrate how to do a pretty tame jalapeño version while pissed (which is the best way to do anything really).
You can chuck in pretty much anything too, this guy took it a step further and added BACON!
Vokda… Chilli… & Bacon?… Win.
This thing is insane, pack it full of your favourite chillies and automatically grind fresh heat into anything at the twist of a wrist!
You can pick one up here .
There's a ton of really inventive British made Chilli Chocolates available at the moment. Angus & Oink have just bought out their Smoked Bacon, Salted Caramel and Chilli Chocolate, Dr Burnorium does 3 flavours of fudge and popping candy encrusted naga chocolates, and there's a pretty sweet Honeycomb Chilli Chocolate from South Devon Chilli farm that made an appearance in our September box.
Go all Blue Peter on it again and spice up your own.
You could pour some chocolate into a mould and sprinkle it with chillies, fudge, sea salt and stuff.
We did this with some Bacon, Fudge and Naga Flakes. If someone made this for us we would most likely hand over a first born or something.
These kits come complete with seeds, expandable compost disks and starter pots. Just add water and wait for chillies to occur!
The best thing about this – December is the ideal time to plant Chillies in order for them to germinate, grow and fruit in the summer next year.
Take it one step further with a make-your-own-sauce kit. These kits contain all of the above to grow the chillies and eventually brew it into something dangerous.
This is awesome because again it lasts all year. And if you're lucky when they get around to making the Hot Sauce they might even send you a bottle!
These retail at around £15 squid for a decent one.
Buy British! We have some of the best new Hot Sauce makers in the world and as much as we have in the past been shadowed by our american compadres British Hot Sauce is on the up!
Leave your Tabasco and Nandos Piri Piri at the door, Hot Sauce is the new Craft Beer and by buying a selection as a Christmas gift you're opening your recipient's horizons to a whole world of flavours, experiences and eyebrow raising mealtimes.
A word to the wise – Hot Sauce on Christmas Dinner = winning.
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