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airBaltic's A220-300 fleet grows to 12 aircraft
Posted on September 25th, 2018 by ES in Air Transport, Latvia
Most popular A220 flights are to Moscow, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Barcelona (airBaltic)
On its way to reaching a total of 14 Airbus A220-300 aircraft in its fleet by the end of 2018, Latvian hybrid airline airBaltic has taken delivery of its twelfth A220-300 jet, registered as YL-CSN.
Thus far, airBaltic has carried more than 1.6 million passengers on the A220-300 (formerly the Bombardier CSeries 300) aircraft, meaning that every third airBaltic passenger has used the aircraft. Airbus A220-300s have completed more than 15,000 flights and flown over 41,000 block hours.
Since the launch of operations on December 14, 2016, airBaltic's A220-300s have been to 35 countries and landed at 70 airports. Most often, airBaltic flies its A220-300s to Moscow, Amsterdam, Paris, London and Barcelona.
The Riga-based carrier has launched an improved cabin, with new seats on its latest three A220-300 aircraft. All airBaltic aircraft of the type will eventually offer the improved cabin.
In late May, airBaltic announced a long-term firm purchase agreement for 30 of the aircraft, with options for an additional 30. The order complements the existing order of 20 A220-300s and forms the backbone of airBaltic's future business.
The airline, which serves more than 70 destinations from the Baltic countries' three capital cities of Riga, Tallinn and Vilnius, is a joint stock company established in 1995. For the summer of 2019, airBaltic is introducing three new destinations: from Tallinn to Malaga, Brussels and Copenhagen. In addition, next summer airBaltic is to launch a new direct route connecting Riga with Stuttgart.
airBaltic's primary shareholder is the Latvian state, which holds 80.05 per cent of the stock, while Danish businessman Lars Thuesen holds around 20 per cent of the airline, whose fleet consists of 35 aircraft: Bombardier CS300s, Boeing 737s and Bombardier Q400NG turpobrops.
A220 (CSeries)
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Ural Airlines to bring A320-family fleet up to 50 in 2018
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airBaltic dedicates special A220-300 livery to the centenary of Latvia


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On the ninth of the Twelve Days of Christmas at The Restaurant at Meadowood, Christopher Kostow gave to me Nick Anderer, the chef at Danny Meyers's restaurant Maialino in the Gramercy Park Hotel in New York City.
Anderer and Kostow's friendship reaches back to the days before either of them was a cook. Anderer was an art history major at Columbia University, and Kostow was a philosophy major at Hamilton College. The two met on a study abroad program in Rome.
On the ninth night of the Twelve Days of Christmas, Kostow and Anderer cooked a seven-course dinner paired with wines from Bryant Family Vineyards.
Anderer's cooking at Maialino is inspired by the rustic food of Roman trattorias in Italy. So, for his dinner at the Restaurant at Meadowood, he brought a taste of Rome in the dishes he presented at the Twelve Days of Christmas.
Mortadella, bagna cauda (served with baby vegetables from the Restaurant at Meadowood's garden at the St. Helena Montessori school), and homemade sausages all appeared on Anderer's list of canapés and dishes.
My two favorite courses from Anderer's side of the menu included his pasta dish, lumaconi (large, snail shell pasta) stuffed with kale and sausages, and coated in a creamy sauce. Servers shaved black truffles over the pasta. It was hearty and comforting.
I also loved Anderer's roasted Four Story Hill guinea fowl, which he served with melted leeks and salsa verde. The Four Story Hill guinea fowl are aged uneviscerated (chef Anderer receives them completely whole, with all of the organs intact), making the meat extremely flavorful.
Kostow echoed Anderer with a few Italian-inspired dishes.
Kostow started the dinner with a delicate sformato over which he shaved white truffles and dotted with rosemary flowers, lavender-colored crêpe paper blossoms that not only added a touch of color, but a wonderfully fragrant, woodsy scent.
Walnut was the theme of Kostow's cheese course, which put candied walnuts together with black truffle purée, walnut gastrique, shaved walnuts, and pecorino nocino (the cheese is wrapped in walnut leaves). It was rich. It was beautiful. I loved it.
For dessert, Daniel Ryan, the pastry chef at the Restaurant at Meadowood, presented a whimsical take on the holiday cake, "bûche de noëls" His cross-section of the "log" was a festive spiral-swirl of butternut squash and chocolate cakes coated in burnt winter spices. The bûche de noël sat on a velvety carpet of crème fraîche and was decorated with bright, cheery cranberries.
You'll find the entire menu from last night's Twelve Days of Christmas dinner with Nick Anderer, and a slideshow of the dinner below.
Kale, sausage, black winter truffles.
Four Story Hill guinea fowl, leeks, salsa verde and matsutake.
Butternut squash, cranberries, crème fraîche.
~ by ulterior epicure on December 21, 2012.


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Weekend reading: Caribeños' Comida
Melissa Fuster. Caribeños at the Table: How Migration, Health, and Race Intersect in New York City. University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
My former NYU colleague, Melissa Fuster, now at Tulane, has written a book length report on her research investigating the eating preferences of immigrants to New York from Puerto Rico, the Domincan Republic, and Cuba.
She used qualitative methods—interviews—to come to some reality-based conclusions about immigrant foodways. She did not find deep longings for traditional Caribbean diets. Instead, she also identified class, race, and gender as major influences on dietary preferences.
Hence, with this work I aim to change ongoing scholarly conversations on the immigrant food experience and health outcomes in the United States, which tend to overemphasize the importance of culture when addressing immigrant communities. This overemphasis on culture dimishes the role of the structural factors (class, race, gender) that intersect to shape the experiences of these communities, overstates the uniqueness of specific cultural groups, and risks blaming culture for the health inequities observed in these communities. (p. 5)
She has interesting things to say about how dietitians view the traditional diets of the Caribbean—as unhealthy and unsophisticated.
These racialized descriptions of comidas, including those made in nutri-speak [talking about foods strictly in terms of nutrient content]…are laden with meanings that reflect the cuisines roots in slavery and colonization—institutions that are built on oppression through racialization. Despite the stigma attached to foods that emerged out of slave and colonial foodways, these foods traveled with their communities from the Caribbean to the United States. (p. 96)
And she urges us to think about migrant eating patterns in the broader context of everyone's eating patterns:
The prevalent focus on culture in the food and migration scholarship minimizes the struggles immigrants face in the home-making process and the political forces surrounding such processes…Moreover, this emphasis often carries an implicit assumption that traditional foods are important for immigrant or ethnic communities, and that these foods are always healthier than the "new' American foods. We must also rethink this dichotomy. All diets have a range of healthfulness, and in migration contexts, this depends on the interpretation of what traditional comidas are, and how frequently they are consumed. As found in other studies, migrant communities engage in both healthful and unhealthful dietary practices upon moving. (p. 128)
Tags: Books, Diets, International
Weekend reading: in defense of eating beef
Nicolette Hahn Niman. Defending Beef: The Ecological and Nutritional Case for Meat (revized and expanded second edition). Chelsea Green, 2021.
This is an updated edition of Hahn Niman's 2014 book, which I wrote about in October that year. Then, it was titled Defending Beef: The Case for Sustainable Meat Production.
I did a blurb for the book when it first came out and it still holds for this new edition:
Issues related to the long-term health effects of red meat, saturated fat, sugar, and grains are complex and I see the jury as still out on many of them. While waiting for the science to be resolved, Hahn Niman's book is well worth reading for its forceful defense of the role of ruminant animals in sustainable food systems.
In my 2014 post, I said:
The subtitle says it all: "The Manifesto of an Environmental Lawyer and Vegetarian Turned Cattle Rancher."
Really. She's not kidding.
As [my blurb] might suggest, I have a more cautious interpretation of the science she summarizes, but there are plenty of reasons why eating meat can help improve human nutrition, especially when the animals are raised as humanely and sustainably as possible, which the Nimans most definitely do on their beautiful Bolinas ranch. [Photos are here]
Vegetarians: does she convince you?
Let the debates begin.
Well, 7 years later the new edition focuses much more on arguments about the effects of beef production on climate change and whether plant-based meat alternatives are worth the trouble.
The big news: Hahn Niman is no longer a vegetarian.
I may once have believed that if I followed a vegetarian diet, nothing would have to die for my meals. I now see how wrong I was…My primary mission these past two decades has been helping, in whatever ways I can, build a more environmentally sound, nourishing and humane food system. We have a long way to go. I don't urge people to eat meat. But I certainly don't urge refraining from it, either. I encourage omnivorous eaters to seek well-raised meat. Abandoning meat will not positively affect the food system and may diminish one's health. The greatest consumer impact will come from people who eat meat actually buying it from good sources. (p.244)
I am with her on all of that.
That meat has nutritional and ecological benefits is beyond dispute. This books lays out her point of view about the reasons for these benefits in an especially thoughtful way that carefully considers the counter-arguments.
Whether you agree with her views or not, this is the book to read about these issues.
Tags: Books, Climate change, Meat
Weekend reading: Food and Inequality
Priya Fielding-Singh. How the Other Half Eats: The Untold Story of Food and Inequality in America. Little, Brown Spark, 2021.
I did a blurb for this book (some of it ended up on the cover)
How the Other Half Eats is a must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why Americans don't eat more healthfully. Fielding-Singh achieved something remarkable in gaining the trust of families who then let her observe their daily food choices. Her book is a thoughtful, riveting, compassionate, and utterly compelling account of why eating healthfully is so difficult, especially for the poor. What's more, she offers a superb example of why on-the-ground field research is invaluable for gaining a deep and nuanced understanding of the ways that our industry-driven and highly inequitable food environment affects real people on a daily basis.
What I found so amazing about this book was that Fielding-Singh actually talked to people about how they feel about their diets—and listened. Her analysis is exceptionally thoughtful. Some examples:
From page 253
It is one thing to be able to find and afford a head of cauliflower. But it is another to want to buy that cauliflower, to choose to spend one's money on that cauliflower (at the expense of other purchases), to have the time and tradition to cook that cauliflower, and to possess the patience to weather one'd child's complaints and pleas for macaroni and cheese and soldier on to feed that cauliflower to one's child. Only a handful of parents I met had all of these things.
Personal responsibility has never solved a public health problem or remedied an inequity. Food is no exception…Many of the families I met had either done so or were trying to figure out how to eat more nutritiously with the resources they had. But, largely due to the structures implemented by the food industry and federal government, most felt like they were fighting an uphill battle—and losing.
Banning marketing to kids would give moms a fighting chance of being able to feed their kids what they want rather than what corporations push on them. Currently, only those families with the most money, time, and bandwidth have a shot at prevailing against the industry—and even those families often struggle and even fail. Protection from the food industry should be right granted to all families, not a privilege reserved for the few.
Tags: Books, Food-access
Weekend reading: Leonard Barkan's Hungry Eye
Leonard Barkan. The Hungry Eye: Eating, Drinking, and European Culture from Rome to the Renaissance. Princeton University Press, 2021.
What a treasure.
I still get asked all the time: "What is Food Studies?"
Leonard Barkan, Professor of English and Art, and my esteemed NYU colleague until he was seduced away by Princeton, directly answers that question in this book.
…food and drink can scarcely enter cultural discourse without forming either the center or the outer periphery of an argument." (p. 142)
Food, he insists, inserts itself into everything human. The tension between its material (earthy) and metaphorical (symbolical) meanings makes food impossible to ignore.
Barkan reads for the food. In doing so, he invents a new term,"fooding" (analagous to "queering" as an analytic technique), to explore and interpret art and literature.
This book does for food in art and literature what Sidney Mintz did for food and global politics in Sweetness and Power: The Place of Sugar in Modern History. It should be right up there with Mintz's book as a foundational text of Food Studies.
Hungry Eye illustrates the concepts with hundreds (literally) of images of mosaics, drawings, and paintings—in full color.
One, to which Barkan often refers, is of a mosaic now in the Vatican, "Unswept Floor," which depicts the detritus of a sumptuous dinner party. It's material meaning? Garbage. "…the Unswept Floor is a monument to the possibilities of rendering edibles as art" (p. 33). Its metaphorical meanings? Take your pick: wealth; power; disgust; eat or be eaten; here today, gone tomorrow. [And see Digression below at **]
The book's them is illustrated with an etching from this painting of a bucolic scene titled "Pensent-ils au raisin?"
Barkan explains,
The cigar in this case is not just a cigar; it fact, it's scarcely a cigar at all. With this image in front of us and the question, "Are they thinking about the grapes?" having been posed, we know the answer: Hell, no! Who would think of food at a time like this?
Clearly, I would. (p. 14)
Because he is reading for the food.
In this example, you might not pay attention to the old woman with a basket of eggs to the right of all the action in this painting by Titian.
But Barkan does.
But sometimes—and this will continue to be a recurrent theme of this book—food places a demand on the viewer that it be read as the thing itself. What is utterly distinctive about Titian's egg seller is her extraordinary frontal position in the painting…For me, this is not so ambiguous, nor it is merely an implication…What Titian was offering on behalf of his employers was, along with the representation of a sacred scene, some very familiar nourishment. (p. 93-94)
He reads for food in the Bible,
I would argue that the Bible, and the traditions of representation that follow from it, display an interest in eating and drinking that is more constant than might have been noticed, and furthermore that there are ways in which those instances, taken together, can be seen as systematic rather than merely accidental or marginal. (p. 95)
Eating and drinking, along with the practices that make them possible, are not exclusively metaphors, of course. The New Testament never lets us forget that hunger and thirst are real. Miracles like the filling of the disciples' nets with fish or the feeding of the five thousand or the four thousand out of a diminutive supply of loaves and fishes, not to mention the rather less solemn instance of producing wine in water jugs when the booze has run out during the wedding at Cana, are significant because the functions of gaining nourishment and experiencing commensality are eminently worthy of the divide efforts undertaken by the Son of God. (p. 99)
You are interested in botanical science or the Columbian Exchange? See what he says about depictions of fruit and vegetables in early 16th Century Italian wall paintings.
The range of species is astonishing: five types of grains, five types of legumes, eight forms of nuts, seven forms of drupes, nineteen forms of berries, six varieties of apple, and four types of aggregate fruits…What is even more remarkable is that we are able to identify each of these species…Up to date, it turns out, in the most radical way, as is clear from the presence of several species from the New World, including multiple types of squash or gourds…and, most astonishing to inhabitants of the Western Hemisphere, zea mays…or corn on the cob. As these representations appeared just over two decades from the date of Columbus's first voyage, it seems that gastronomic news has traveled quite fast. (p. 192)
The book shows many different representations of The Last Supper. What were the artists trying to tell us about the relationship of the food on the table to Christian symbolism?
What kind of relation, then, might we postulate, in regard to food and wine, between the literal and the metaphorical? There are, after all, seven sacraments, at least in the Catholic church. None of them has undergone the wars of interpretation that the Eucharist has: that, I believes, is because it involves eating and drinking, because it consists of literal ingestion. Once again, it's the sign at the entrance to the gullet that reads, "The metaphor stops here." (p. 241.)
As for the literal and metaphorical meanings of the Eucharist itself?
Let us bring this discourse radically down to earth, from theology to experience and from medieval debate to twenty-first-century cyberspace, One has only to google the question "Should I chew the host? To discover that hundreds, possibly thousands of Christians—mostly Catholics, it seems—have spent their time at the altar rail in a desperate state of uncertainty, not about the transcendental meaning of the sacrament or the precise reality of the real presence but about what they should be doing with their teeth and tongue. The answer to this question (spoiler alert) is that is to raise the question whether I am eating Jesus or eating dinner. And the church is silent on this point. (p. 246).
I could go on and on but everyone interested in Food Studies as a discipline, food in art, and anything having to do with food and culture will want to read this book—for its ideas, its gorgeousness, and for sheer pleasure.
I will never again ignore depictions of food in paintings or look at them in the same way.
Thanks Leonard.
**And here's the digression: When I saw the photos of Unswept Floor, I thought immediately of the bronzed garbage embedded in the road at the site of Boston's old Haymarket, which I just loved and went to admire every time I went to Boston. But the last time I looked for the pieces, they were gone. I just looked it up—they will be resinstalled at some point—but the best part is that the entire installation was inspired by Unswept Floor, as described here.
Tags: Books, Food-art
Weekend reading: The demise of the Ogallala Aquifer
Lucas Bessire. Running Out: In Search of Water on the High Plains. Princeton University Press, 2021.
The website blurb for this book says it is "An intimate reckoning with aquifer depletion in America's heartland."
Yes, but it's more than that. It's a deeply personal account of the author's attempt to make sense of and come to terms with his family's history on land on the plains of Western Kansas. This land was once occupied—and not all that long ago—by Native American tribes since murdered or driven out by white settlers. This same land was once watered by rivers from an ancient underground source, but now so depleted by irrigation that it—like the Indians—is threatened by extinction.
The author, an anthropologist at the University of Oklahoma, grapples with his family's role in this depletion and his own complicity while coming to terms with his relationship with his long estranged father. I read this book as a history of the great plains viewed through a personal and familial memoir that reads like a novel.
If you are even remotely interested in why farmers on the great plains are not doing more to preserve this essential water source, start here. It's revelatory.
…corporate profits are a key part of the aquifer depletion puzzle. It should have come as no surprise. The scale of industrial farming is staggering. Southwest Kansas is home to some of the nation's largest corporate feeders, beef- and poultry-packing plants, slaughterhouses, dairies, milk-drying plants and hog farms. More than 2.5 million beef cattle live there in feedlots that handle tens of thousands of animals. Just across the Oklahoma line, one company processes 5.6 million hogs per year in its plant…Multinational meat-packing companies operhoe slaughterhouses that process several thousand cattle each day. All are billion-dollar businesses. They drive farmers' choices to produce corn, silage, sorghum, or alfalfa. Their profits depend on aquifer depletion. In other words, there is a multbillion-dollar corporate interest to prevent regulation and to pump the water until its gone [p. 78].
He documents goverment collusion with absentee corporate landowners who could care less about what happens to real farming communities. Near his family's home, "at least 60 percent of the farmland is owned by nonresidents' [p. 80].
In the 1940s, the supply of water seemed endless and the opportunity to preserve the aquifer was lost. "Faith in the abundance of these waters put an end to the more sustainable farming techniques tht were beginning to be adopted by the end of the 1930s, as well as the progressive policies that accompanied them. One historic opening was lost with them" [p. 89]
Nobody talked about what settlers did to the Indians.
We confined the horrors of eradication [of the Indians] to a cartoonish lost world; one that we thought was entirely disconnected from our own. We did not relate past events to the banal activities of irrigation farming or the way we grew up or the pumping of the subterranean aquifers. Like the extermination of buffalo and the toxid fogs and the torturous confinement of defiant voices, these events were not openly discussed and their remnants were never tied to the present. Cordoning them off from conversation meant that their significance was largely blocked from our memories, too [p. 130].
He struggles with these questions:
So where can a true reckoning with depletion begin and where does it end? With a strategy to update management practices through more precise forms of modeling and expertise? With the innovation of more-efficient irrigation technology and crop varieties that require more water? With a sociology that details how agrarian capitalism drains water and wealth from the Plains to enrich investors elsewhere? With a diagnosis of how this case illustrates White supremacy, toxic masculinity, or the sentiments and logics of settler colonialism? With a chart of the ways aquifer losss combines with climate chage to make ours an era of planetary ends? With an optimism that things aren't really as bad as they seem? [p. 168].
Why care about the Ogallala Aquifer? "…depletion comes back into focus as one of the wider movements that erode democracy, divide us from one another, and threaten to make exiles of us all" [p. 173].
Bessire points out that everyone knows what could be done, and right now, to reverse the depletion and conserve what remains. "Examples of success can be found across the Ogallala region, whree farmers from Nebraska to Texas are organizing and leading related efforts to slow decline" [p. 174].
His book is a call for citizen action. It would be good to take him up on it.
Tags: Books, Food-systems, Water
Weekend reading: Technically Food
Larissa Zimberoff. Technically Food: Inside Silicon Valley's Mission to Change What We Eat. Abrams Press, 2021.
This is Zimberoff's account of her personal conversations, meetings, visits, and observations of the people and venture capitalists behind today's versions of techno-foods constructed from algae, fungi, peas, plants, and cell cultures.
She comes at these foods from a skeptical standpoint, but gamely tastes everything, judging some of the products delicious despite concerns about their greater meaning for health, the environment, and humanity.
Almost everyone she meets in this business is mission-driven, convinced that their products will help feed the world's growing population at less cost to health and the environment.
But, as she puts it, "The tension of my health being tied to capitalistic companies that want to make a profit is growing" (p. 3). Mine too, even after reading her book.
One concern is lack of transparency. Nobody she met wanted to tell her what's in the products they are producing or give details on how they are made.
Zimberoff likes some of what she sees, but not all. She finishes up her discussion with a call for continued skepticism: "Like me, think before you eat. Don't believe the hype" (p. 190).
She ends the book in an odd way. She asked a bunch of people to speculate on what we will all be eating in 20 years. I was one of the people who commented, and I wish I had been given the opportunity to read my section before it got printed: some of it seems incoherent and I would have appreciated the chance to edit it. [I just checked, which I should have done earlier. I was given that opportunity and OK'd it. My bad. Culpa mea].
More careful editing would have helped throughout. For example, I was startled to read this statement about the effects of climate change on algae:
This increase in CO2 leads to a rise in pH levels called ocean acidification, which can harm many creatures in the water. Algae, on the other hand, may benefit from increased levels, and there are studies looking into whether growing seaweed can slow this rise in pH levels (p. 10).
Oops. Rising CO2 levels reduce pH. Lower pH levels are acidic. Algae do better at neutral or lower pH levels.
Tags: Books, Techno-foods
Weekend reading: Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet?
Jessica Fanzo. Can Fixing Dinner Fix the Planet? Johns Hopkins University Press, 2021.
This is a small book, 4′ x 6″ format, 214 pages. I did a blurb for its back cover:
Jessica Fanzo argues that dinner not only can fix the planet, but must. The cutting edge of nutrition policy today is to promote diets that simultaneously achieve three goals–reduce hunger, prevent chronic disease, and protect the environment—and this means those lower in meat and higher in vegetables and other plant foods. Read Fanzo's book. It is beautifully written, authoritative, and utterly convincing—essential reading for anyone interested in food system approaches to world food problems.
A couple of excerpts:
The foods we eat are much more than just a source of sustenance. They have direct and substantial impacts on the nutrition and health of individuals and populations, the planet's natural resources and climate change, and structural equity and social justice challenges of societies. Food connects us to the world. It also dictates (to a degree most people don't realize) the kind of world we live in today and the kind of world we will occupy in the future (p. 3)
Do animal-source foods support or harm sustainability and health outcomes? In reality, they do a bit of both. Climate change is not the only measure of sustainability. Sustainability also describes human and animal health outcomes and well-being, equity, and security. Often, discussion about the sustainability of animal-source foods neglect to include the effect that low consumption of animal-source foods has on the lives and futures of nutritionally vulnerable populations, women, and children. Moving forward, we'll have to combine more sustainable livestock production practices with increased access and moderate consumption (p. 108).
Tags: Books, Food-systems

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On the 22 March 2016 World Water Day will be celebrated across the globe, a chance to highlight all issues related to fresh water. The theme of this year's World Water Day is "Water and Jobs" since water stress and the lack of decent work can exacerbate security challenges, force migration and undo the progress made in the fight to eradicate poverty.
This year´s World Water Day links SDG 6 (Clean Water and Sanitation) and SDG 8 (Decent Work and Economic Growth). The implications, responsibility and competences of local and regional governments with regard to clean water and sanitation are far reaching. United Cities and Local Governments reaffirm that water is a fundamental right. These two goals are inherently interlinked and political decision-makers should prioritize investment for resilient urban settlements to tackle water scarcity, access to safe drinking water and sanitation, protect communities from water-related disasters, and the effects of climate change.
Extract from Issue Paper 6-Urban Governance for Habitat III.
This statement applies perfectly to the theme of water and sanitation which remains, in parts of the world, the main topic for local governments that can directly impact other sectors such as education, health, development and environmental protection.
It's these actions that can strengthen and translate into local action plans towards Habitat III and on World Water Day UCLG calls on its members to implement the commitments contained in the Declaration of Daegu-Gyeongbuk adopted in April 2015 to ensure implementation and sustainable water management at a local level (click here).
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The Islamic Information & Services Network of Australasia (IISNA) also known as MyCentre (Multicultural Youth Centre), is an independent Islamic organisation based in Broadmeadows, Victoria. The organisation is led by Samir Mohtadi, better known by his kunya, Abu Hamza. It is a non-profit organisation, and holds regular Islamic educational classes, and larger lecture events biannually. The organisation is reported as being more politically moderate than other Australian Wahhabi-Salafi groups.

History
IISNA grew out of an earlier organisation which was called IISCA (Islamic Information & Support Centre of Australia). IISCA was founded by Abu Hamza (who later went on to establish and lead IISNA). IISCA was originally based in the Melbourne CBD and later relocated to Brunswick. The organisation's members became split along political lines with some of them promoting a takfeeri ideology and attempting to oust Abu Hamza and to replace him with Mohammed Omran, the other members did not support this ideology and supported Abu Hamza as the president of the organisation. When reconciliation between the two factions was shown to be impossible Abu Hamza withdrew from the organisation and brought his followers with him in founding IISNA.

In 2004 IISNA hosted a presentation by Zakir Naik.

In 2007, Mohammed Omran was said to be the spiritual leader of the IISNA and with IISCA (in 2009) being linked with the Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association.

IISNA (MyCentre) today
IISNA has held events in all major cities of Australia and also many cities in New Zealand and Fiji. IISNA recently became involved with organisations in Indonesia, after giving support following the December 26, 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami. IISNA through support from the Muslim community of Australia raised funds to build an orphanage in the nation for Tsunami orphans.

IISNA has taken part in the Unity Cup  since its inception. The Unity Cup is hosted by the Australian Federal Police and the Essendon Football Club. IISNA has competed over the last 3 years and has fielded a team which won the competition on all three occasions.

In early 2010 it was announced that IISNA would build a new youth centre (MyCentre) based in Broadmeadows, Victoria in the heart of Melbourne's Muslim community.

Abu Hamza
Abu Hamza, also known as Samir Mohtadi has led IISNA since its beginning. His family background is Lebanese, however he was raised in Australia. Abu Hamza's grandfather was originally a Maronite Christian from Zgharta who embraced Islam at a young age.

He gives talks at IISNA every Sunday, which are all broadcast online on Paltalk.
Some of Abu Hamza's most popular talks which he has given are:

 Jinns & Magic
 The Neglected Rights of the Parents
 Who Wants to Be a Billionaire?
 The Meaning of Surat al-'Asr
 The Keys to a Successful Marriage

He has said that it is permissible to hit your wife as a, "last resort" but, "you are not allowed to bruise them . . . or to make them bleed".  These recommendations have been condemned by both the Muslim community and the public at large. Then Prime Minister Kevin Rudd demanded an apology for the comments, saying "Australia will not tolerate these sorts of remarks. They don't belong in modern Australia, and he should stand up, repudiate them and apologise".

Abu Hamza was one of the guest speakers who took part in the Peace Conference in 2007 which was held in Mumbai, India and was hosted by the Islamic Research Foundation and was broadcast on Peace TV. Along with Abu Hamza, Musa Cerantonio also took part in co-hosting the events at the conference.

See also
Ahlus Sunnah Wal Jamaah Association (Australia)
Islam in Australia
Islamic organisations in Australia
Islamic schools and branches

References

External links
www.iisna.com MyCentre website

Islamic organisations based in Australia
Educational organisations based in Australia


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Something happened to game engines, they became tools for world building all by themselves. They are used by movies and tv productions now. This idea of all this processing power and real-time combines with films need for tools that let them build quick. We might just get the VR tools all of us are waiting for?
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Bringing New and Old Together.
I recently watched this amazing video from the makers of Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse and Wired, and it made me remember a demo video produced at Disney called Paperman. Paperman was a technical excercise trying to bring traditional drawing into the 3d process. I see a lot of similarities and wonder if there was any cross contact.
The Black Noodle
I first came into contact with fountain pens late high school or early college. I was doing a lot of pen and ink work, and the idea of not having to dip into the ink each time seemed appealing. I think I started with a Rotring Art Pen, and I never thought of it as anything but an inking tool. It wasn't until I inherited a Parker51 a few years later that the whole world of fountain pens was revealed and I've been a regular user ever since.
So when an artist I follow named Drewscape decided to make his own art fountain pen based on a dip nib, I was excited. I think about making or designing a pen every now and then. But to really set up shop and make one – that's really impressive. He calls it the Black Noodle and he has a blog post about it. He has made a few of them by hand and a friend of his has made a video review shown above. Check it out, and if anyone wants to teach me how to do this I'm interested!
Keeping the Flame
This is a talk from my college professor Dennis Nolan at the exhibit he curated in the Norman Rockwell Museum.
The Art of being David Sylvian
I have been a fan of the work of musician David Sylvian for a long time. From his early days as part of Japan to his current solo collaborations.
I recently came across a review of one of his recent projects. The review goes into detail about how people's reactions and expectations of his work where mixed. The actual review itself isn't important, what it did was reinforce for me, something Sylvian himself has stated: that all the music he has created was out there, available to people to choose from. So if your idea of his work is Voice of the Beehive then you can own it and listen to it all you want. It does not mean he owes you Voice of the Beehive2.
Thinking about creative work and expectations. Saying you are a 'fan' implies that you really like what someone has produced, and you feel a connection to the whole body of their creative work. But do you have to love all the work produced? I don't think so, if the work is broad and experimental than how could you? It is an unreasonable goal.
For an artist the work leads to the work, and the criteria may be joy or release or satisfaction, or learning from failure, it all comes from the work process and the results. In the end the work may take you away from what you have already done and this is a good thing. But it may cost you the support of those who see your future work as your previous work. Even those who are able to travel with you may not be the best source of internal guidance, they are still rooted in what you have already done.
When I apply this to myself, it has made me realize that right now I am outside my own work process. Which is why I feel lost. I'm looking outward for direction like a fan instead of as the creator moving through a series of challenges and discoveries to get somewhere.
So thank-you to the Ghost of David Sylvian, for having this internal dialog with me.
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If you can deal with his language, this is a great talk about design.
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Take time to do a home inventory of all of your personal property now, rather than later. A home inventory is a comprehensive report detailing your personal property with descriptions and photos. Not only will it give you a good chance to clean out some clutter but it is considered a key component to settling and documenting insurance claims in case of emergencies where loss is incurred. This ultimately saves you a ton of hassle in that instance and is valuable for estate and financial planning.
Can you provide a detailed list of everything you own, when you purchased those items, the cost, make, model, and serial numbers? If not, a home inventory helps ensure you are sufficiently prepared to deal with potential losses and that your insurance covers you appropriately. In order to file an insurance claim for lost, damaged, stolen, or destroyed items, a detailed list of those items is required for a smooth and maximized reimbursement. Remember that documented proof of ownership to receive a settlement is the responsibility of the policy holder.
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Verify the value and condition of your assets before placing them in storage in case of loss, damage or theft.
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Valpolicella, the valleys with many cellars
ppagani• 13 February 2014
The origins of the name Valpolicella are still uncertain. There have been many interpretations throughout the centuries. The name 'Val Polesela' appears for the first time in an official document of the 12th century: it is a decree dated 24 August 1177 and carries the seal of a famous historical personality: Federico Barbarossa. Humanists looked for meaning in the Greek language: some translated the name "Policella" into "of many fruits"; others opted for the "very splendid" or "very blessed". Any of these interpretations describe the characteristics of this area. More recent studies connect the origin of the name to the terminology 'pollone' ("pollus" in Latin), which describes fertile, sandy deposits, rich in seeds and vegetation. According to some reliable hypothesis the name Valpolicella originates from a contraction of the toponym "Valleys (vallis) – with many (polys) – cellars (cellae)". Hence a territory where history and tradition are not meaningless words, as a matter of facts they are the true social structure of a reality nowadays evolving but still well-rooted in the people, in the places they have been living in and in the land they have been working for centuries.
The production zones
Considering the Valpolicella as a wine-growing region we have to speak about a territory that covers practically the entire area at the foot of the hills in the Verona province.
The production area of the Valpolicella DOC covers the three valleys of Fumane, Marano e Negrar and the Valpantena, the Val Squaranto and the Illasi and Tramigna. To be precise, the Production Specification divides the Valpolicella into three distinct zones: the Classic Zone; the Valpantena Zone with the Squaranto and Mezzane Valleys; the East Verona Zone with the Illasi and Tramigna Valleys.
Sustainable viticulture in the Valpolicella
"Reduce, Save, Respect", three key words that summarize the efforts of the Consortium for the Tutelage of Valpolicella DOC Wines to increase the eco-sustainability of wine-production in the area in order to protect the intrinsic prestige association with the Valpolicella wines. The Consorzio's project is both a precursor of the European directive and a step towards meeting growing consumer awareness of such issues.
DOC Valpolicella wines
They are characterized by the use of local native varieties. The ampeloghrapic basis is mainly given by Corvina, Corvinone, Rondinella and other native varieties.
If Rondinella proves to be particularly important for the shades of colour it gives to the wine, Corvina and Corvinone, rich in polyphenols and tannins, express their best in the structure.
Valpolicella and Valpolicella Superiore
Valpolicella of the harvest year is therefore a fine youthful ruby-red wine with a winy, light perfume with hints of nougat, cherry and rose; the palate is fresh, dry and rather soft, pleasantly tannic, bitter and lively. "Superiore" is made from selected grapes grown in suitable locations and it ages for a year minimum thus obtaining its characteristic ruby-red colour with garnet shades; the nose is slightly ethereal and with hints of vanilla; the flavour is fine, harmonious, dry and velvety.
Valpolicella Ripasso DOC is obtained from the contact between basic Valpolicella and residual Amarone lees for about 15/20 days. It is characterized by a heavier structure and longevity. If compared to basic Valpolicella the alcohol content is higher, the acidity lower, the roundness more marked and the values of the phenolic substances and extracts are higher.
Ruby-red in colour with garnet shades, it offers a slightly ethereal perfume of red fruits with notes of vanilla. The palate is fine, harmonious, dry and velvety.
For its pleasant characteristics it perfectly pairs with winter first courses, main courses, cold cuts and medium-seasoned cheese. Wrongly considered a lower rank product compared to Amarone, Valpolicella Ripasso has recently been subject to an exponential increase in consumers' liking. This is surely due to its high quality/price ratio, in part also due to market trends (linked to a name which currently is a registered trade mark) and to the fascination of a wine appreciated by the younger generations.
Valpolicella Ripasso has had a big success abroad as well and this has boosted the Veronese oenology.
Recioto della Valpolicella
It is obtained from dried grapes left in grape-drying buildings for 100/200 days. Its fermentation is stopped to preserve the sugar percentage necessary to grant the typical structure of this wine. The colour is intense dark ruby-red, at times impenetrable; distinct perfume of dried fruits and cherries in alcohol that continues in the harmonious and bold flavour with an austere tone and a good total acidity.
It perfectly pairs with desserts and blue cheese.
Obtained from grapes dried in fruttaio (grape-drying building) for 100/120 days where the sugar fermentation is completed, Amarone is one of the most enduring wines among the great Italian wines.
It has a very intense red colour with garnet shades and a perfume that reminds of dried fruits, tobacco and spices due to the noble rot which develops during the drying process. The flavour is very fruity and fragrant, dry but highly soft, with a full body, warm, invigorating and robust; it has a strong personality and can be stored for more than twenty years.
For its characteristics it pairs meat-based main courses, game, seasoned cheese but can also be enjoyed on its own, as a meditation wine.
A new logo for the Consortium
A new logo for the Consortium for the Tutelage of Valpolicella DOC Wines encapsulating the irreproducible link between the area, production of wine and uniqueness of the products. The logo will benefit from protection in 28 European countries starting from this year. The reference to the Valpolicella is essential as it portrays the ancient origins of the indigenous grape varieties used in the Valpolicella wines. The new logo also associates the concepts of grapes, work and wine linking them with a detailed image to reflect the meticulous work needed to make the wines of the Valpolicella.
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Stanford engineers show how to make semiconductors just three atoms thick in order to one day do things silicon chips can't. Credit: Stefani Billings.
For more than 50 years, silicon chipmakers have developed innovative methods to switch electricity off and on, by producing the digital zeroes and ones to encode pictures, words, movies and other forms of data.
However, researchers have started to look for new materials beyond silicon that only occur in single layers only three atoms thick - much thinner than modern silicon chips - but they are able to control electricity more efficiently to create those digital ones and zeroes.
A research group led by Eric Pop, Stanford electrical engineering Associate Professor, has showed the way in which such atomically thin materials and electronics can be mass-produced. Will such materials be useful? Yes, due to the flexible and transparent nature of such thin materials, there is a high probability to produce electronic devices that cannot normally be produced using silicon.
"What if your window was also a television, or you could have a heads-up display on the windshield of your car?" questioned Kirby Smithe, a graduate student on Pop's group, talking about the electronic applications that the new materials might make way for.
Smithe, Pop, as well as co-authors Chris English and Saurabh Suryavanshi, who are graduate students in Pop's lab, have published their research in 2D Materials, which is a journal devoted to research on atomically thin, two-dimensional devices.
The main aim of the research team was to develop a fabrication process to turn single-layer chips into practical. The first atomically thin material was discovered in the year 2004 when a team of researchers noticed that graphene (a material associated with the "lead" used in pencils) could be separated into layers with a single carbon atom thickness. This discovery led the scientists to win the 2010 Nobel Prize in Physics.
However, the process used to make the discovery - lifting graphene layers off a rock using sticky tape - cannot be employed to fabricate next-generation electronics from ultrathin crystals.
Following the discovery of graphene, engineers set out to discover similar materials and, specifically, practical methods to design atomically thin switches into circuits.
Members of the Stanford research team made a huge progress due to its manufacturability. To begin with, they formed a single layer of material known as molybdenum disulfide, the name itself describing its sandwich-like structure, i.e. a sheet of molybdenum atoms packed between two sulfur layers. Prior research had demonstrated that molybdenum disulfide acted as a better switch by regulating electricity to produce digital zeroes and ones.
The challenge was whether a molybdenum disulfide crystal that is large enough to form a chip could be manufactured. For this, a crystal approximately the size of a thumbnail should be produced, which may not seem very strenuous until the aspect ratio of the crystal is taken into account: a chip with a thickness of just three atoms but with the size of a thumbnail is similar to a single sheet of paper large enough to cover whole of the Stanford campus.
In order to produce such a sheet, the Stanford research team deposited three layers of atoms into a crystalline structure whose width is 25 million times greater than its thickness. Smithe accomplished this with ingenious fine-tuning of a manufacturing process known as chemical vapor deposition. This process essentially involves incineration of small amounts of molybdenum and sulfur until the atoms vaporize into soot. The atoms then get deposited on a "handle" substrate (i.e. glass or even silicon) as an ultra-thin crystalline layer.
Still, the research team's work was not over as they were yet to design the material into electrical switches and perceive their operation. For this purpose, they used a recent advance led by English, who found out that exceptionally clean deposition conditions are mandatory to form better metallic contacts using the molybdenum disulfide layers.
The abundant new experimental data now accessible from the lab have also allowed Suryavanshi to develop precise computer models for the new materials and to start estimating the collective behavior of the materials when used as circuit components.
We have a lot of work ahead to scale this process into circuits with larger scales and better performance, but we now have all the building blocks.
While manufacturing chips, circuits are to be etched into the material. In order to exhibit the way in which a large-scale, single-layer chip manufacturing procedure might perform in the future, the research team employed standard etching tools to form the Stanford logo into their prototype. Furthermore, to have a little fun with a project they finished during a national election campaign, the team carved nanoscale portraits of the candidates of the two major parties into the atomically thin canvas.
Pop said the Stanford research team got an inspiration to do this from the researchers who created "nanobama," - nanoscopic portraits of then President-elect Barack Obama - during the 2008 election cycle, using carbon nanotubes. Nanotubes promise to be another potential next-generation chip technology; the researchers who worked on that project made use of nanobama to establish the ability of technologists to produce unimaginably tiny objects.
Many people are interested in electronics because the technology is useful. But we hope nanotrump and nanoclinton can broaden the interest in research. Perhaps seeing portraits etched into a three-atom-thick canvas will inspire future researchers in ways we can't even imagine yet.
Eric Pop is also a member of the Precourt Institute for Energy.
This work was partially supported by the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, the National Science Foundation, the Semiconductor Research Corporation and the Stanford SystemX Alliance.


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We're pleased that you're considering becoming a part of the LU community. We recognize that attending university in another country can be both thrilling and intimidating, so we want to do everything we can to guide you through the application process. Please see below a list of most frequently asked questions from our previous applicants:
1. What are the entry requirements for applying to Undergraduate programs?
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A grade point average (GPA) of 2.0 (C) or better on the scale of 4.0 on the high school graduation transcripts or on the GED test or an equivalent test is required for admission to the undergraduate-level programs.
A one-page essay to explain the applicant's interest in a Lincoln University program
English proficiency for international students, see number 12.
Additional requirements for BS-DI:
The Scholastic Level Examination (SLE) with a passing score above 21 (this requirement is waived for applicants with a bachelor's degree)
Interview with the Program Director.
2. What are the entry requirements for applying to Graduate programs?
High school graduation or its equivalent with a minimum GPA of 2.0 on the scale
of 4.0.
A bachelor's degree or its equivalent with a GPA of 2.7 or better on the scale of
4.0. Conditional admission to the program may be granted to applicants with
GPA. 2.0 – 2.6.
A resume with summary of all work, extracurricular activities, and educational history of the applicant.
A one-page essay to explain the applicant's interest in a Lincoln University program.
For MS:
a GMAT score of at least 500 or an equivalent GRE score.
Two letters of Recommendation.
For DBA:
a bachelor's or master's degree with a cumulative grade point average of 3.0 or above on the scale of 4.0;
a GMAT score of 550 or GRE score of 1000, and three letters of recommendation.
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The application for admission form and one passport-size photograph.
A non-refundable application fee of $95.
Original high school diploma, or an equivalency certificate for a secondary education attestation accompanied with the official transcripts; or their notarized copies; or other documentation to prove high school graduation or its equivalent.
Official transcripts from each postsecondary program from which applicants wish to transfer credit (for applicants who attended other postsecondary educational programs).
A resume with summary of all work, extracurricular activities, and educational history of the applicant (graduate degrees only):
A photocopy of an identification document* and a social security card (if it exists).
A photocopy of passport (International applicants only).
Two letters of recommendation, and proof of GMAT/GRE (MS program only).
Three letters of recommendation, and proof of GMAT/GRE (DBA program only).
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Apply online at: https://apply.lincolnuca.edu/
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Local/Transfer – in students
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Fall 2023 July 26, 2023 August 6, 2023
Spring 2024 November 24, 2023 January 8, 2024
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Pay by credit card during the online application.
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GMAT/GRE
Undergraduate No
MBA No
MS GMAT 500 OR GRE equivalent
(this requirement is waived for applicants having a master's degree with a GPA of 3.2 or above).
DBA A GMAT 550 OR GRE 1000
(this requirement is waived for applicants having a master's degree with a GPA 3.3 or above).
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We are familiar with the system and we will assign appropriate weight to your exam results. Please submit your predicted results as a well.
9. My GPA does not meet the requirement. Do you offer conditional admission?
Conditional admissions to the programs may be granted to MBA and MS applicants with a GPA between 2.0 and 2.6. The decision is also based on the students' personal statement, letters of recommendation, and detailed review of his/her prior academic transcripts.
10. How and when will I find out if I have been accepted?
You can use your reference number to check your application status. Admission decisions usually take up to 10 business days.
11. Do I need to provide the financial support documents?
International applicants are required to submit an applicant's declaration of finances or sponsor's affidavit of support with a bank statement or a verification letter from an officer of the bank or other financial institution giving the present balance, which must equal or exceed the amount required for one year of study ($20,065).
12. Is proof of English proficiency required? If so, can this requirement be waived?
Proof of English proficiency is required for all International applicants from countries or schools where English is not the educational language. Applicants should provide results of a recognized test equivalent to at least the following levels of TOEFL scores:
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This requirement may be waived if the applicant submit a letter of English proficiency from the most recent school/university attended.
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All documents must be accompanied by notarized English translation, if not issued in English originally.
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Your acceptance package contains an acceptance letter, an I-20 and other related documents. It will be sent by Express Courier Service within 5 days of acceptance. Number of days for the delivery of documents depends on the Courier service.
15. When can I enter the U.S. after I obtain my visa?
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Within 3 days of your arrival in the U.S.
17. Can I defer my enrollment after I am accepted in the program?
If you are unable to begin study and have not arrived in the U.S. yet you may defer your admission to the next upcoming semester.
18. What is the estimated tuition fee?
Undergraduate program: $5,460 per semester
Graduate program: $4,680 per semester
19. Do you have scholarships for international students?
Continuing students with superior academic records are eligible to apply for a Board of Trustees Scholarship. This scholarship is awarded from funds provided by the University. The Board of Trustees Scholarship is credited to the student's account covering up to two semesters' full-time tuition. Miscellaneous fees for these semesters will be borne by the student. The application procedure involves submission of transcripts, a Board of Trustees Scholarship Application Form, which can be obtained from the Admissions Office, two letters of recommendation, and a brief essay. The awards will be given based on academic excellence and potential to become an outstanding student at Lincoln University. Students must submit a completed application form and all required documentation at least one month before the beginning of a semester. The Lincoln University Scholarship Committee will interview applicants, select winners and announce them before the semester begins.
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On Tuesday, President-elect Donald Trump unexpectedly spoke to reporters in his namesake hotel's lobby about the company that manufactures Air Force One. Mr. Trump asserted that the Boeing Company is overcharging the government for two new versions of the plane. He also met with potential candidates for several positions within his administration -- among them, Rex Tillerson and Laura Ingraham.
He is spending most of his time since the election out of public view, but, today, President-elect Trump was suddenly much more visible.
Items on his agenda: the cost of new presidential aircraft and prospects for new jobs in the telecommunications industry.
The day started with a surprise appearance in the lobby of Trump Tower in New York. Mr. Trump lit into the Boeing company over its contract to build two new versions of Air Force One.
DONALD TRUMP (R), President-Elect: It's going to be over $4 billion for the Air Force One program. And I think it's ridiculous. I think Boeing is doing a little bit of a number. We want Boeing to make a lot of money, but not that much money.
Earlier, on Twitter, he had gone further, saying the government should cancel the order with Boeing. Boeing's initial contract was for roughly $3 billion, but costs have been rising. Still, the White House said today it has no idea where the president-elect got his $4 billion figure.
Boeing said in a statement that it hopes to deliver the best planes for the president at the best value for the American taxpayer.
Later, another sudden appearance, this time with Japanese billionaire Masayoshi Son, CEO of SoftBank, a Japanese tech and telecom company.
And he's just agreed to invest $50 billion in the United States and 50,000 jobs. And he's one of the great men of industry, so I just want to thank you very much.
There was also news that the president-elect has divested himself of his entire stock portfolio. His transition team said he sold it off back in June. The statement gave no details, amounts or documentation for the stock sales, all of this as meetings with potential staff and Cabinet nominees continued, including the CEO of ExxonMobil, Rex Tillerson, said to be a candidate for secretary of state, talk radio host Laura Ingraham, a possibility for White House press secretary, and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, who could be up for a diplomatic post.
Mr. Trump will visit Iowa later this week as part of a thank you tour that began last week in Ohio. The tour also carried him to Fayetteville, North Carolina, for a rally this evening.


The 500-hectare Vesuvio Estates in the Paarl region of the Western Cape consists of three farms named Sorrento, Positano and Amalfi. Quality starts from the preparation and care provided for our soil and trees, and is carried through the production process, packaging and distribution. Olive groves, consisting mostly of Frantoio and Leccino cultivars (ideal for oil production), thrive over 90% of the cultivated land. Our olive trees are grown with love and care. An integrated pest management system ensures limited use of chemicals.
We prune and harvest mechanically, ensuring there is no human contact with the Olives from tree to consumer. This gentle treatment ensures top quality and preserves the integrity of the fruit, which is transported to our state of the art oil extraction facility and processed within 12 hours of picking. Only our home-grown Olives from the Estate are used to produce our award-winning Vesuvio Extra Virgin Olive Oil. Our fast, fresh state of the art "high tech" processing plant ensures that we can moderate acidity levels optimally, uphold the perfect taste of the fruit and retain the incredible health benefits inherent in olives.
Each season, our Master Oil Maker expertly gauges the ratios and delicately mixes Frantoio and Leccino cultivars to craft the outstanding taste of Vesuvio Extra Virgin Olive Oil – a perfect balance of fruitiness, a hint of appropriately attractive bitterness and optimal pungency. Our attention to detail and commitment to the integrity of superior quality Extra Virgin Olive Oil production has resulted in Vesuvio Estates consistently winning awards at prestigious international competitions.
South African soils and climate lend themselves to the growth of a number of olive cultivars. Mission, Kalamata and Manzanilla are amongst the commonly grown table olive varieties. Vesuvio Estates focuses primarily on the cultivation of Frantoio and Leccino olives which yield superior oils and into the mix are Mission and Coratina.
Each year, harvest time depends on the weather as variations in temperature influence the ripening of the fruit. It is a time when our Master oil maker carefully observes the trees to gauge the ratio of ripe, half ripe and green olives to be picked to produce the specific style of olive oil that is true to Vesuvio Estates. Harvesting usually begins in March and may continue until July, depending on the size of the crop. Our olives are carefully selected and harvested by machine. The olives are transported from grove to production facility where they are again graded for quality before processing.
Vesuvio Estates has invested in a large, continuous and progressive HACCP olive oil production plant with sophisticated equipment that enables swift cold extraction under quality-controlled conditions. We are able to process 5 tones of olives per hour using state of the art machinery that manufactured in Italy.
The olives move from large hoppers to washers, where leaves and stalks are removed and the olives are thoroughly cleaned. The fruit is conveyed to crushers, where the whole olive, with skin, flesh and stone, is crushed to a pulp. The pulp is kneaded for a certain period of time so the oil collates in readiness for extraction through a centrifuge. During this kneading process it is of utmost importance to keep the pulp at temperatures below 30ºC to guarantee that the olive oil is labelled Cold extracted Extra Virgin Olive Oil.
Oil and water are first separated from stones and skins, at the centrifugal stage, The oil is pumped through separators dividing the oil from the water. The oil is pumped into storage tanks in a controlled environment and bottled only on order. This way, Vesuvio Estates ensures that the oil is stored in optimal conditions for as long as possible.
Highly mechanised bottling and packaging takes place in a strictly controlled and enclosed environment to ensure the complete integrity of the oil. Vesuvio Estates' capacity for fast, fresh production – just 12 hours from picking to processing – ensures the great taste of our superior quality olives bearing all the fantastic health benefits of Extra Virgin Olive Oil. No human contact from tree to consumer.


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