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Find the hidden gems of Italy with Sapori e Saperi – Erica's fact-finding mission in Pescia
By Alison Goldberger
You're in Italy and would absolutely love to find a local farmer to ask questions about what on earth they are doing in the field. Where can you pick up the best local olive oil? Or you just need to ask what that local dish is…and perhaps the secret recipe? But you don't speak Italian, you know no one and an internet browse is the best you can do to find the answers.
This is one of the reasons people love to travel with Erica, she knows everyone (really, no hyperbole here, it's unbelievable) and her fluent Italian allows her to respectfully ask locals those burning questions guests have.
She's always out exploring and meeting new people, suppliers, restauranteurs and has been at it again. She headed just over the mountain from her home, to Pescia and met lots of wonderful and interesting people, as well as eating some truly delicious food. Here's some of the things she saw. Maybe they will appear on one of the tour programmes, or for private travellers one day soon…
Perterra agricultural cooperative
This inspiring project was formed by young people – the oldest is 32 – who had no background in farming. In Italian the word Perterra means 'for the land' but can also mean to be down to earth, or to have your feet on the ground. That gives you the vibe these guys are going for. With a grant from the Tuscan region, three years ago they bought 40 hectares of abandoned farmland, including a lake, some woodland and a few crumbling farm houses. They are gradually restoring its productivity and already have organic certification. They raise sheep to make pecorino, pigs to sell to a norcino who turns them into delicious salumi, olives for olive oil, Trebbiano grapes which they give to a Slow Food guide vineyard which makes the wine they sell in their shop, and they grow their own hay. They're not only making an agricultural difference, but also a social difference. They were asked by their environmental health officer whether they could find work for an unemployed, slightly autistic young man. He's now their shepherd, spending contented days walking with the sheep.
Experiences to offer
At Agriturismo Albero e Foglia (Tree and Leaf) Stefano Natali creates dreamy experiences for his visitors! For instance, you can be a shepherd for a day and spend the morning with him and the sheep before coming back for a picnic and then make some delicious pecorino. It's a life he had to build. His grandparents were from Medicina, where he now lives but had left. He came back and met his wife, who had a job elsewhere but lost it. It didn't make sense to live in remote Medicina and travel for work so they decided to carve out a living for themselves using the land his grandparents had farmed before them as well as land from his wife's family too.
Biodiversity in olive cultivation
Pietro Barachini is the third generation to propagate olives in Pescia. He propagates olive varieties from all over Italy (400 different ones!) with the aim of maintaining biodiversity of olive cultivation. He will be part of our brand-new olive oil course, where he will give us a tour of the nursery and lead an olive oil tasting. Find out more about the Olive Oil: Tree to Table course here.
Celebrations in Pescia
Erica also made sure she signed up for a local celebration. It was a dinner for the San Francesco quarter of Pescia preliminary to the Palio di Pescia which took place the following Sunday. The Palio is an archery competition (not a horse race like the one at Siena), in which the quarters of the city compete. Each one hosts a propitiatory dinner on a different night prior to the big event. She described it as 'magical'. The setting, the food, the musicians and flag wavers – sounds amazing and certainly an experience that would be difficult to find without local knowledge and great language skills.
Take a look at our website to browse the tours and courses offered at Sapori e Saperi, which all offer wonderful insights into life in Italy.
By Alison Goldberger
While Erica is off making sure the participants on the Advanced Salumi Course have the best time—I'm updating her blog. I'm Alison—a former participant on the Advanced Salumi Course, journalist and organic pig farmer. I'm originally from Scotland but have been living in Austria for five years. I absolutely loved taking part in the salumi course, so much so I asked Erica if I could work with her. Introductions over, I'm now going to delve into the world of Celebrating Sardinia and tell you why this should be your go to destination for your 2019 holiday!
Island life with Italian flair
Sardinia is an island in the Mediterranean Sea—not to be confused with Sicily which is at the toe of Italy - Sardinia sits somewhere out from the shin of Italy (think of the boot!). The country is a mixture of rugged hillside, beautiful sandy beaches with sparkling blue waters and incredible prehistoric sites. The trip takes place in May—one of the best times to see Sardinia as it turns out! You'll be met with warm weather and clear skies.
Unforgettable food – in restaurants and local homes
The gastronomic delights on this tour don't disappoint. You will be spoiled with a tasting menu at Sa Piola restaurant cooked with local, seasonal ingredients. A special lunch on the tour comes from shepherd Giulio as he welcomes tour participants around his farmhouse table. A chilled out, wonderful moment you can only experience when travelling with Erica, who searches for unusual people and places away from the normal tourist trails. There's also wine, seafood, pecorino and the famed roast suckling pig along the way – you definitely won't go home hungry!
Learn from local artisans
Shepherd Giulio also makes the famous pecorino sardo and you can watch this whole process! You will leave with an appreciation of how liquid milk turns into hard cheese—it really is a spectacle to behold! You also meet a potter to see how she creates traditional clay objects—as well as making something yourself to show off back home! A bread lesson is also on the agenda, from Rita Fois who learned how to make it from her grandmother and mother. After your visit to the luminescent white salt pans, you'll understand all about where that essential culinary ingredient comes from. A fantastic wine tasting from a sommelier can't be forgotten – the indulgence continues!
A unique boat tour and seafood lunch
It would be impossible to spend time on an island without hopping onto a boat and taking in the turquoise blue waters as they're supposed to be seen! Mauro Pintus and his family take you aboard his fishing boat. You'll learn about fish in the region and can have a go at drawing up the nets. You can feel the excitement and trepidation of a fisherman as you wait to see what you've caught! Lunch is cooked from the very fish you catch—can't get any fresher than that! Mauro and Roberta will also serenade you as they play guitar and sing Sardinian songs.
Learn about the real Sardinia away from the guidebook-wielding tourists
Sardinia is an island rich in history and this tour really makes the most of it. You can watch traditional processions of people from across Sardinia—they're part solemn religious festival, part social gathering, part fashion show of regional dress, part performance of traditional music! The tournament of incredible cavalieri performing daredevil tricks on horseback is also a sight to behold! The final procession sees villagers travel in colourfully decorated ox carts, with a fireworks display to end. You'll always have a guide and local people to chat to and ask questions—so you can learn everything about the area and these fantastic traditions!
Read more about the Celebrating Sardinia tour here!
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Christmas in Italy demands panettone. By now this seasonal sweet bread has travelled round the world and can be found piled mountain-high in fine food shops and supermarkets everywhere. But my panettone is different from all of them. It's a present from Mirko Tognetti of Cremeria Opera Lucca, who teaches our gelato course.
If you have a gelateria in a climate with cold winters, the challenge is to find a winter product. An even bigger challenge for Mirko was to make a panettone that could hold its head up proudly in the company of his superlative natural gelato.
He started using lievito madre (sourdough starter) last year to make Sicilian brioche, the traditional accompaniment to granita. There's a good historical case for making panettone solely with lievito madre. Legend attributes its invention to the Visconti court of Milan in the 1300s, long before yeast began to be manufactured industrially.
But it isn't easy to achieve good results with lievito madre in the presence of eggs and sugar. On Friday 8 December, the last day of our gelato course, Mirko still wasn't entirely satisfied with his trial panettoni. Production was to start on Tuesday the 12th. On Saturday morning he set off for Reggio Emilia at 5 am to spend three days with an expert at working with lievito madre to improve his skills at handling the starter dough. The results are dramatic.
I wish you could be here to share Mirko's panettone and the love he's put into his creation.
Details of our Gelato Course
The Happy Goatherd
Enea is one of the cheesemakers to whom I take my guests.
He lives on a farm at the end of a dirt road that runs along the top of a ridge. At the point where the tarmac runs out, there's a vineyard. Bumping slowly along the rutted road you pass a house, then nothing for 10 minutes. As the nose of the ridge begins to dip toward the valley, you spy a ramshackle house with solar panels on the roof. If you come in July, you'll think you've arrived at a farm machine museum until you see Enea putting his heritage wheat through the vintage thresher.
Enea and his wife Valeria are nearly self-sufficient. They have a herd of goats, two cows, a few chickens, a couple of horses, a vegetable garden, an olive grove and fields of cereals and hay. They're hoping for another cow.
During the spring and summer Enea milks the goats every morning, makes cheese with their milk and then, with the help of his working dogs, takes them out to graze. The dogs are tri-lingual. I don't think the goats are. On days when we're there and he doesn't go out with them in the morning, their complaints are perfectly comprehensible nonetheless.
On Wednesdays he makes sourdough bread. His bread shed contains a wood-fired oven and a tiny mill where he grinds enough of his heritage wheat for the week's batch of bread. On Wednesday evenings he goes to town to deliver his produce to a group of friends who buy collectively
They're self-sufficient for art and music too. Valeria paints and Enea plays the guitar. The solar panels and batteries keep them in touch with the outside world via their cell phones, computer and internet connection.
One of the guests in the last group I took there asked Enea why he chose to make cheese. He told us this story:
'When I finished school, I knew I didn't want to go to university, but I didn't know what I wanted to do. I enjoyed helping a friend pick his olives. Then I rented an apartment from a cheesemaker with goats. He was French and made French-style soft goat cheese. I watched him and began to help him. I saw he was always smiling, and I decided that was the life I wanted.'
Enea is one of the cheesemakers who teaches our course Theory and Practice of Italian Cheese. Details at: http://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/courses_with_artisan/theory-practice-of-italian-cheese/.
'Relax!' is a command to me as a tour organiser and to you as a traveller. There's no way you can see everything, so we may as well leave time to rest, absorb and enjoy. My favourite way to wind down is to go to a village festival, called a sagra. It's impossible not to relax, while at the same time soaking in the local culture.
The village of Cascio is top of my list for an experience without deadlines. I've already written about its wood-fired oven sagra in spring (http://slowtraveltours.com/blog/a-feast-from-wood-fired-ovens/). At the end of July and early August the village puts on its equally relaxing Sagra delle Crisciolette. See below for a note about the criscioletta. Right now, we're going to the sagra.
Just click here to take you to the Slow Travel Tours website for your anti-stress therapy (and to find out what a criscioletta is): http://slowtraveltours.com/blog/relax/
Angels, transhumance and pecorino
This is a true story about how cheese, history and a mountain village are inextricably entwined. It's a long story because it goes back to Roman times. It has taken me 12 years even to begin to understand it.
You probably know that pecorino is an Italian cheese made from sheep's milk, derived from the word for sheep: pecora. On the contrary, it's the rare person outside Italy who knows that transhumance refers to the seasonal rotation of flocks and herds between different pastures. Even more obscure is the connection between transhumance and Saint Michael Archangel.
On 18 June a group of about 15 hikers, including me, stand expectantly in front of the church in the mountain village of Raggiolo, one of 'The most beautiful towns in Italy' (http://borghipiubelliditalia.it/project/raggiolo/).
We aren't waiting for the Archangel, but for our guide Paolo Schiatti to lead us along an ancient transhumance route to a former shepherd's hut on the crest of the mountain above Raggiolo where we get to watch pecorino and ricotta making and have a shepherd's lunch. I've watched many shepherds make cheese, and I wonder whether here near Pratomagno in the Casentino (east of Florence) they make it in the same way as in the Garfagnana.
We learn from Paolo that the patron saint of shepherds is Saint Michael Archangel, but in Roman times the half-god, half-human Hercules was the favourite of pastoralists. According to Roman mythology he slew the fire-breathing monster Cacus who stole some of the cattle which he himself had stolen and was pasturing near Cacus's cave. By one of those frequent transpositions of early Christianity, Hercules became the Archangel. In the New Testament Saint Michael defeats Satan to become a protector against the forces of evil.
Two feast days a year are devoted to the Archangel: 8 May and 29 September. In early May the shepherds took their flocks up to the alpine pastures. At the end of September they brought them down. From early mediaeval times they built shrines to Saint Michael along the transhumance routes. In the days when they wintered on the Maremma, the coastal plain of Tuscany, it took a whole week to walk to the alpine pastures above Raggiolo. We're lucky we only have a 3-hour walk ahead of us, and no sheep.
The conversation about the Archangel might seem a distraction to a secular cheese lover wanting to know how Tuscan pecorino is made. Yet in Italy food and history are two facets of a common culture. The past spices the cuisine of today, and you can taste the difference between an industrial product made according to scientific principles and a traditional product made according to practices handed down through the generations.
Paolo's way of encouraging us is to say, 'Siamo arrivati' (we've arrived) when we still have over an hour of the steepest part of the trail to go. At around 1000 m (3280 ft) we pass suddenly from the chestnut wood into a beech forest. The muffled silence might remind you of a sanctuary. To me it seems dead compared to the luxuriant undergrowth of a chestnut wood.
Casetta di Bùite
I always tell my guests that cheese waits for no man or woman. We've dallied too long. The cheesemakers, Angelo and Dino Luddi, have already added the rennet to coagulate the curd. Nowadays they use veal rennet which they buy from the pharmacy. They don't lament the change from lamb's rennet which they prepared themselves from a lamb's stomach, even though the pecorino is less piquant.
They cut the curd using a wooden spino, an implement of the past. They use it not out of nostalgia but because it works well for the type of hard paste cheese they're making. If there's something modern that works better or is more convenient, they're quick to adopt it, like the veal rennet. The past isn't a prison.
Dino's job is pressing as much whey as possible from the curd.
As we explain during our cheese course, in Italy where it was born, ricotta is NOT cheese. That's official. It's a dairy product. The casein proteins and much of the fat in the milk go into the cheese. The main protein left in the whey is albumin. The protein in egg white is also albumin. When you cook egg white, it solidifies, and that's what happens to the albumin in whey when it gets to about 90˚C (194˚F).
With two large pots of whey to heat, this is going to take a little while. We suddenly realise we're starving, and wander off to find some lunch. The courses are ready in random order stretched out over three hours. Actually, most Tuscan Sunday lunches last this long. What I take to be antipasto consists of panini of prosciutto and salami with two wedges of pecorino on the side, all excellent. The pecorino has been supplied by Modesto Giovannuzzi. He tells me the sheep are at Castel Focognano (near Bibbiena), but doesn't volunteer who made the cheese.
I buy a wheel for the pecorino tournament at the end of our cheese course.
I check in with the ricotta. It hasn't begun forming yet, but Angelo is adding some milk to the pot. I object that traditional ricotta shouldn't have milk added. He agrees. He's doing it to increase the yield for the big crowd today. He adds quietly,'The ricotta is much finer and smoother with nothing added to the whey.' He moves over to salt the upper side of the pecorino.
Besides adding flavour, the salt slows down the lactic acid bacteria so the cheese doesn't become too acidic and also helps draw whey out of the cheese—essential if you want to mature it for several months.
Around the corner of the hut, Modesto and his son Andrea are now busy making polenta dolce, a porridge made with chestnut flour instead of cornmeal. It saved the people of the mountains, the Garfagnana as well Pratomagno, from starvation during the Second World War. Some people never want to eat it again, but for most it's the ultimate comfort food.
Drying the chestnuts, shelling them, sorting them and milling them is a winter occupation. You collect them after you've made your wine and before you begin harvesting your olives. In the days when the olive harvest took place at the end of November or even in December, your chestnut flour was already safely stowed in its chestnut-wood chests.
A sudden commotion back around the corner signals that the ricotta strands are forming.
Someone asks what the yield of ricotta is. Angelo doesn't know, and I reply that for sheep's milk it's about 1.5%, but only half that for cow's milk. Angelo says to me, almost accusingly, 'You know the science, but we know the practice.' He's right. You could read every book about cheese and still not be able to make good cheese and ricotta. It's the experience that counts, going back to your mother, uncle, grandmother, great-grandfather, and right back to your Roman ancestors and Hercules.
You could fill a small cookbook with the Tuscan recipes for stale bread: zuppa, panzanella, pappa al pomodoro, aqua cotta to name just a few; and scottina, a shepherd's dish. After skimming off the ricotta, the remaining liquid is called scotta. Around me it's mostly fed to the farm animals, although some people say it's a refreshing drink and a good broth for soup. To make scottina, you leave some of the ricotta in the scotta and ladle it over the bread.
As we descend Paolo has an answer to every question I can throw at him and more. He tells me about how they preserved the chestnut flour by packing it into chestnut-wood chests to exclude the air. It was so tightly packed that you could cut it into blocks with a knife to take out the amount you needed. By summer it was a bit tired. To refresh it, they put it in a wood-fired oven until it turned dark brown and had an entirely different flavour. The conversation wanders to art history, politics, the problem of depopulation of rural villages like theirs and mine. Most people in the group have something to contribute. They own their history in a way I've never encountered outside Italy. Thank you Raggiolo for a thoroughly enjoyable and illuminating day.
You can learn about Tuscan cheese and experience for yourself our cheesemakers' strong sense of their history on our Theory & Practice of Italian Cheese course: https://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/theory--practice-of-italian-cheese.html
Gone Fishin'
Sant'Antioco is a small island off the southwest coast of the large island of Sardinia, an island squared you might say. It's afflicted by two winds: the maestrale from the northwest and the levante from the east. One or the other blows nearly every day, but since they take turns, there's always a calm sea for fishermen (and us) on the leeward side of the island.
On a bright spring morning the fishing boats are tied up to the quay, squeezed in side by side. Too many fishermen chasing too few fish. Many of them augment their income by offering pescaturismo, fishing excursions for tourists. I'm excited. For years I've wanted to learn about fishing in the Mediterranean, but it took a long time to find the right place and fisherman.
We arrive at our boat the 'Alessandro P.' and the live Alessandro, son of fisherman Mauro Pintus with whom we're going fishing. Soon Mauro, his wife Roberta and their 14-year-old daughter arrive all lugging groceries. We climb aboard…
Read more about our idyllic day at sea at http://slowtraveltours.com/blog/gone-fishin/
Join us next April for more adventures on our Celebrating Sardinia tour: http://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/small_group_tours/celebrating-sardinia/
Cross-dressing in Sardinia
It was martedì grasso, Fat Tuesday, the last day of Carnival before Lent, and I was in Oristano in Sardinia. Oristano has celebrated this day for a long time, 552 years to be precise, as the festival Sa Sartiglia. You can imagine that in over more than half a millennium it has accumulated many meanings and observances.
At its most basic and obvious it's a giostra, a joust like the one at Arezzo with a feat to perform at the end of a charge on horseback. At Sa Sartiglia the horseman (with one or two exceptions they are all men) attempts to insert his lance in a small hole in a star dangling by a thread while galloping at full speed.
At a more fundamental level is the idea of trasvestire. Although our noun 'transvestite' derives ultimately from the same Latin root as this Italian verb, don't be fooled. In Italian the word means simply 'to disguise' or 'to dress up as' anyone or anything. For Sa Sartiglia, farmers and craftsmen dress up as knights and joust with fate. In the past it was their day of glory in which to display their horsemanship and affirm their equality with the nobility. Wearing their eerie, expressionless white masks, they disguise their wrinkled, bronzed peasant faces.
Still curious about dressing up? Read the rest of the blog at: http://slowtraveltours.com/blog/cross-dressing-in-sardinia/
Even more curious and want to see for yourself? Come with me to Sardinia on my Celebrating Sardinia tour: http://www.sapori-e-saperi.com/small_group_tours/celebrating-sardinia/(click on the tabs below the introduction to see all the details). There's one place left on this year's tour from 28 April to 7 May, and in case you like to plan further ahead, dates for 2018 are already there too.
Olive Juice
Did you know that olive oil is the only common cooking oil that is the juice of a fruit? All the other oils we use in our kitchen come from seeds: sunflower, rapeseed (canola), peanut and grapeseed. This realisation leads directly to another question. Would you cut an orange, leave it on the counter for a week and then squeeze and drink the juice? Would you step on an apple, leave it on the table for three days and then eat it? Yet that's what happens to many olives before they're pressed to extract olive juice.
I've tasted and written a lot about olive oil, but this idea had completely escaped me until I met Elisabetta Sebastio last year. She's a professional olive oil taster both for Italian Chambers of Commerce and international olive oil competitions. We ran our first full-day olive oil class during my Autumn in Tuscany tour in November. It was a revelation for all of us.
Learn more on the Slow Travel Tours website: http://slowtraveltours.com/blog/olive-juice/
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September 2019


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Ran the Knysna Half Marathon for the first time in quite a while on Saturday. The past few years I have been in Europe on training camps this time of year, and I was really excited to finally be in town for the event. It was my first ever half marathon way back in my student days. Even though I haven't really been training since my car accident, and have not run over 10km's in over a year, I ran my second fastest half! I did 1:42:30, which is great for me, the non-runner! Caught a taxi to the start so that I could really get into the Festival vibe, and had the very important post-race pancake (to support the charity that sells them… 🙂 🙂 well of course to replace all that energy I burnt up). The new route was great, more time in the forest, and less time on the road. The killer downhill from Simola into town did it's evil thing to my quads, and they are hating me now.
Spent some time in Knysna with my mom and then hit the Heineken after-party, which had my favourite band-The Parlotones and Flat Stanley. Very cool.
This morning I woke up to freezing cold, wind and rain, and rather stiff legs! Paddled the Knysna Lagoon Challenge, presented by Ristorante Enrico and Manja Kwa. Besides the hail (yes, HAIL!) and ten degrees I had a fun race. And everyone thinks winter is Africa is mild! I paddled with PE legend Marc Bosch in his Nelo Vanquish 3 K2 (what a boat!). We had a bad start as Marc got caught in the buoy rope, but we managed to catch up to the front bunch after about 20 minutes. The portages were terrible because I had to take off my splash cover and let in the cold air! Unfortunately for Marc my end sprint is only as good as a woman's so all the boys beat us, but at least we were in the mix and were 5th overall and 1st Mixed Doubles. Trevor and Jenny Niksch, and Rob Hyde and the guys at Knysna Canoe Club put on a super event, well run despite the bad luck with the weather.
Test drove a car on Saturday, hoping to get it sorted out on Monday. Hating not having wheels (without roof racks too).
That's all for now. Hope it warms up:)


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Safe entry crypto sites for newbies!
For those just getting into cryptocurrency there are a few places that are safe and have provided some great information to get going.
There are 3 major tools one needs; (1) cryptocurrency exchange to buy & sell and store currency, a web site that is designed to educate and answer your questions, and a media outlet for cryptocurrency news to base your activities if your considering investing.
Here are the three major Internet web sites designed for newbies that offer a clean and secure environment to do so.
BitcoinMorningNews.com, a free community service, offers multiple world crypto headlines from 30 Independent direct news sources. Three to five minutes to see the news at a glance then you have your life back. They operate via donations. Love their "Mission Statement."
99bitcoins.com built an extensive website that offers free help, outstanding guides, how to's, product reviews and podcasts. Their site is easy to navigate and safe for visitors. This is a great portal to the crypto world community,
Coinbase.com is the largest entry way into exchanges simplifying the purchase and sales with a built in wallet for newbies and yet allowing for expansion with GDAX. Located in San Francisco, California.
This article was written by Bruce Harris; bitcoineveningnews.com / bitcoinmorningnews.com
Thanking crypto volunteers
In todays crypto community we find a lot of excitement for the development of the blockchain and many for the use of various kinds of cryptocurrency such as with the well know pseudonymous Satoshi Nakamoto's Bitcoin.
Many of good people have understood that even just their promoting or giving good praise for this helps spread the word and give strength in this direction. That also means the value of your cryptocurrency would also be affected with growth and become more valuable. Some have volunteered to do this in many ways through their social media and help promote this new world digital cryptocurrency and it has helped spread this to the far corners of this world.
Others have not only volunteered, but have created portals to the various crypto world and built crypto youtube channels or simply posted very helpful how-to's and made them available. Many I have seen are posted with a voluntary BCH (public wallet?) Wallet for donations. Others like "99bitcoins.com" have built extensive online web sites, to help with guides, how to's, product reviews. They offer their info even through apps built for iOS devices that can be downloaded at the Google play & Apple store.
Today I want to talk about another community service. This one is in the news community and gets straight to the point and purpose of your visit. BitcoinMorningNews.com.
"Bitcoin headline news from around the world. We offer a clean and secure environment to view the world news that effects the cryptocurrency market and your investment in Bitcoin every 12 hours. We offer a clear view of 30 Independent direct source news agency web sites."
All feeds are gathered and hand posted by volunteers. Clean and easy to read with no distractions. No tracking to clean up, no ad blockers needed to visit. Three to five minutes and you have your life back. They also operate under the BCH (public wallet?) Wallet for donations. Love their "Mission Statement."
We have a world to educate and the Independent news agencies provide the needed information and analysis to make good judgments. The crypto world is here to stay, but it will take a few more years to educate and this can be overwhelming to anyone joining our crypto community.
Just wanted to give heart to those crypto volunteers out there and the many more to come. Volunteering your time, money or helping support an evolution from flat currency to virtual crypto for a safer world is a good thing.
This article was written by Bruce Harris; bitcoineveningnews.com / bitcoinmorningnews.com
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Too much talking and not enough listening
The page below looks nice enough, doesn't it? But read the text closely and you'll see it's a great example of how not to talk to your customers.
Here are the comments I feel like writing in the box.
Dear Tesco
Phew! I couldn't find you on Twitter so I'm using this website to talk to you. It took me a while to find, actually, because I started off going to the website where I do all of my shopping. Luckily, my daughter, who works in something called "communications" told me to try something called your "corporate" website. I've no idea what that means but I followed her advice. When I got to this site, I just happened to click on the "Talking Tesco" button and, well, here I am!
I'm glad that you believe passionately that customers have benefited in so many ways from the intense competitive rivalry in this industry.
I'm also glad that you know from the feedback you get on a daily basis that many customers like the products, prices and service in your stores. It's great, too, to know that customers also tell you when you don't get it right - but you do listen and respond to concerns.
So thank you for asking me for my views!
It's great that this is my chance to have my voice heard because I wanted to have a word with someone about your new range of ready meals. Sorry, I was talking about ready meals – why are you banging on at me about some Commission?
Oh, I see, it's something called the Competition Commission. Who are they, then? Apparently my email will go direct to them too – do they make ready meals? And do they capitalize their name or not?
Oh, don't worry, I've just spotted the "Contact Customer Services" button at the bottom of the page. I'll email them and hopefully they'll get back to me in a week or two.
In the meantime, I've also just spotted the link marked "Listening" at the top of the page, so I'm going to take a closer look at that page, which is all about how your success is based on listening to your customers. I'm looking forward to reading all 1,017 words about how your strategy of listening and responding has been successful.
Toodle pip!
A loyal Tesco customer
p.s. Elsewhere, your website kept offering to help me find the content I need. What does this mean? Content of what?
Or I might just spell it out to them by saying the following:
You want customers to get in touch with you, do you? Then for gawd's sake make it easy for them. Your average shopper doesn't even know that you've got a corporate website. This stuff should be on your main retail page.
If you really care about people's views, ask for them straight up. Don't make them plough through two paragraphs of self-referential waffle telling them what to think. There are six examples of the first person plural pronoun in those first two paragraphs. You should be ashamed of yourselves.
If you're trying to gather feedback specifically for the Competition Commission, then label the page as such first - and explain what it's all about. Don't hit your reader with this bemusing bombshell out of the blue and only after you've made them plough through those two paragraphs of self-referential waffle.
Telling people how much you listen to them is not the same as listening to them. Save the chest-beating about your successful listening for your internal comms, OK?
The word "content" means nothing to people outside the communications industry. Please use "information" when talking to customers.


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Chapter 8. Restoring the Earth: Planting Trees to Sequester Carbon
In recent years the shrinkage of forests in tropical regions has released 2.2 billion tons of carbon into the atmosphere annually. Meanwhile, expanding forests in the temperate regions are absorbing close to 700 million tons of carbon. On balance, therefore, some 1.5 billion tons of carbon are being released into the atmosphere each year from forest loss, contributing to climate change. 22
Tropical deforestation in Asia is driven primarily by the fast-growing demand for timber and, increasingly, by the soaring use of palm oil for fuel. In Latin America, by contrast, the growing market for soybeans, beef, and sugarcane ethanol is deforesting the Amazon. In Africa, it is mostly the gathering of fuelwood and the clearing of new land for agriculture as existing cropland is degraded and abandoned. Two countries, Indonesia and Brazil, account for more than half of all deforestation and thus have the highest potential for avoiding emissions from clearing forests. The Democratic Republic of the Congo, also high on the list, is considered a failing state, making forest management there particularly difficult. 23
The Plan B goals are to end net deforestation worldwide and to sequester carbon through a variety of tree planting initiatives and the adoption of improved agricultural land management practices. Today, because the earth's forests are shrinking, they are a major source of carbon dioxide (CO2). The goal is to expand the earth's tree cover, growing more trees to soak up CO2.
Although banning deforestation may seem farfetched, environmental reasons have pushed three countries—Thailand, the Philippines, and China—to implement complete or partial bans on logging. All three bans were imposed following devastating floods and mudslides resulting from the loss of forest cover. The Philippines, for example, has banned logging in most remaining old-growth and virgin forests largely because the country has become so vulnerable to flooding, erosion, and landslides. The country was once covered by rich stands of tropical hardwood forests, but after years of massive clearcutting, it lost the forest's products as well as its services and became a net importer of forest products. 24
In China, after suffering record losses from several weeks of nonstop flooding in the Yangtze River basin in 1998, the government noted that when forest policy was viewed not through the eyes of the individual logger but through those of society as a whole, it simply did not make economic sense to continue deforesting. The flood control service of trees standing, they said, was three times as valuable as the timber from trees cut. With this in mind, Beijing then took the unusual step of paying the loggers to become tree planters—to reforest instead of deforest. 25
Other countries cutting down large areas of trees will also face the environmental effects of deforestation, including flooding. If Brazil's Amazon rainforest continues to shrink, it may also continue to dry out, becoming vulnerable to fire. If the Amazon rainforest were to disappear, it would be replaced largely by desert and scrub forestland. The capacity of the rainforest to cycle water to the interior of the continent, including to the agricultural areas in the west and to the south, would be lost. At this point, a fast-unfolding local environmental calamity would become a global economic disaster, and, because the burning Amazon would release billions of tons of carbon into the atmosphere, it would become a global climate disaster. 26
Just as national concerns about the effects of continuing deforestation eventually eclipsed local interests, deforestation has become a global challenge. It is no longer just a matter of local flooding. Because it drives climate change, deforestation is a matter of melting mountain glaciers, crop-shrinking heat waves, rising seas, and the many other effects of climate change worldwide. Nature has just raised the ante on protecting forests.
Reaching a goal of zero net deforestation will require reducing the pressures that come from population growth, rising affluence, growing biofuel consumption, and the fast-growing use of paper and wood products. Protecting the earth's forests means halting population growth as soon as possible. And for the earth's affluent residents who are responsible for the growing demand for beef and soybeans that is deforesting the Amazon basin, it means moving down the food chain and eating less meat. Ending deforestation may require a ban on the construction of additional biodiesel refineries and ethanol distilleries.
Because of the importance of forests in modulating climate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has examined the potential for tree planting and improved forest management to sequester CO2. Since every newly planted tree seedling in the tropics removes an average of 50 kilograms of CO2 from the atmosphere each year during its growth period of 20–50 years, compared with 13 kilograms of CO2 per year for a tree in the temperate regions, much of the afforestation and reforestation opportunity is found in tropical countries. 27
Estimates vary widely on the full potential for tree planting to sequester carbon. Looking at global models, the IPCC notes that on the high end, tree planting and improved forest management could sequester some 2.7 billion tons of carbon (9.8 billion tons CO2) per year by 2030 at a carbon price of less than $367 per ton ($100 per ton of CO2). Nearly two thirds of that potential—or roughly 1.7 billion tons per year—is thought to be achievable at half that carbon price. Plan B, with its 2020 timeline, cuts the IPCC sequestration figure in half, to get 860 million tons of carbon sequestered per year by 2020 at a carbon price below $200 per ton. 28
To achieve this goal, billions of trees would need to be planted on millions of hectares of degraded lands that had lost their tree cover and on marginal cropland and pastureland that was no longer productive. Spread over a decade, to reach annual sequestration rates of 860 million tons of carbon by 2020, this would mean investing $17 billion a year to give climate stabilization a large and potentially decisive boost.
This global forestation plan to remove atmospheric CO2, most of it put there by industrial countries, would need to be funded by them. In comparison with other mitigation strategies, stopping deforestation and planting trees are relatively inexpensive. They pay for themselves many times over. An independent body could be set up to administer and monitor the vast tree planting initiative. The key is moving quickly to stabilize climate before temperature rises too high, thus giving these trees the best possible chance of survival. 29
There are already many tree planting initiatives proposed or under way that are driven by a range of concerns, from climate change and desert expansion to soil conservation and making cities more habitable.
Kenyan Nobel laureate Wangari Maathai, who years ago organized women in Kenya and several nearby countries to plant 30 million trees, inspired the Billion Tree Campaign that is managed by the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The initial goal was to plant 1 billion trees in 2007. If half of those survive, they will sequester 5.6 million tons of carbon per year. As soon as this goal was reached, UNEP set a new goal of planting 7 billion trees by the end of 2009—which would mean planting a tree for every person on earth in three years. As of July 2009, pledges toward the 7 billion plantings had passed 6.2 billion, with 4.1 billion trees already in the ground. 30
Among the leaders in this initiative are Ethiopia and Turkey, each with over 700 million trees planted. Mexico is a strong third, with some 537 million trees. Kenya, Cuba, and Indonesia have each planted 100 million or more seedlings. Some state and provincial governments have also joined in. In Brazil, the state of Paraná, which launched an effort to plant 90 million trees in 2003 to restore its riparian zones, committed to planting 20 million trees in 2007. Uttar Pradesh, India's most populous state, mobilized 600,000 people to plant 10.5 million trees in a single day in July 2007, putting the trees on farmland, in state forests, and on school grounds. 31
Many of the world's cities are also planting trees. Tokyo, for example, has been planting trees and shrubs on the rooftops of buildings to help offset the urban heat island effect and cool the city. Washington, D.C., is in the early stages of an ambitious campaign to restore its tree canopy. 32
An analysis of the value of planting trees on the streets and in the parks of five western U.S. cities—from Cheyenne in Wyoming to Berkeley in California—concluded that for every $1 spent on planting and caring for trees, the benefits to the community exceeded $2. A mature tree canopy in a city shades buildings and can reduce air temperatures by 5–10 degrees Fahrenheit, thus reducing the energy needed for air conditioning. In cities with severe winters like Cheyenne, the reduction of winter wind speed by evergreen trees cuts heating costs. Real estate values on tree-lined streets are typically 3–6 percent higher than where there are few or no trees. 33
Planting trees is just one of many activities that will remove meaningful quantities of carbon from the atmosphere. Improved grazing practices and land management practices that increase the organic matter content in soil also sequester carbon.
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The Council manages a number of pitches and open spaces that are available for football, commercial and community events, they are as follows:
- Ayscoughfee Hall Museum and Gardens, Churchgate, Spalding, Lincs PE11 2RA
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The Spirit of Learning
Lately I have been reflecting on where I got my yearning for learning. I can't seem to stop soaking up knowledge in certain areas of my life: faith, blogging, photography and self-improvement. There is so much information on the Internet, and I would guess you could gain more than a novice level of skills in nearly any hobby that fancies your interest. There are two phrases that come to mind when I think about the idea of continued learning:
"Knowledge is power."
"You can do anything you put your mind to."
For some reason the first phrase didn't really sink in when I was watching School House Rock growing up. But I get it now. Knowlegde gives us the power to dream big and take the nessasary steps to get closer to those dreams. And I truely believe that if I spend time learning about something that I am passionate about, I can do anything. Ask Kels, I tell her all the time that I could be an Olympic ski jumper if I wanted to be...but somewhere along the line I missed my calling...
I think the No. 1 excuse people have about not following their dreams or having a hobby they really enjoy is "I don't have any time." Is that really the case? Or is it that you spend too much time doing other things? How much TV do you watch a day? Video games? Although it's nessasary to have some downtime once in awhile, our lives can get consumed with these time-suckers and keep us from doing something greater.
I was telling a friend the other day that a couple years ago, when I knew I had a free hour, I would plan out in my mind that I had just enough time to play one game of NCAA football on my Xbox. I would be so excited that I could play and build my dynasty to a national powerhouse. Looking back, this was the biggest waste of time, and looking at what's really important in life, a fictional football dynasty doesn't even come close to making the list.
What does make the list is community. I'm so glad that we started this blog and have made the connections we have with all of our readers. Now when I have a free hour, I usually spend it blogging. Sure, I still watch TV sometimes and enjoy life, but I don't let the things that don't matter steal my time. In fact, I created more time for the things I love. I get up an hour earlier than necessary every day to work on this blog. It's my selfish time before Kels gets up to get the things done that I want to. Then we have time to spend together in the evenings.
So keep learning, keep dreaming, read a book, dig deep to find that one thing that you have wanted to do but keep putting off. Research that subject and learn from those who have been through the struggles of starting that hobby. Seek the knowledge required to do something greater with your time.
Do what you can to keep that spirit of learning alive.
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I couldn't resist getting this Penmanship poster at City Luxe yesterday. This was similar to the guide we had growing up. My handwriting was so awful until I discovered calligraphy in high school and decided to put some effort in writing.
Although I don't have a house yet, I'm slowly collecting things to decorate my future home. I'll be hanging this in my future library / studio.


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Coming out of World War II, African Americans were better employed and better paid, and many carried expectations of better lives and better treatment rooted in their sacrifices to the war effort. In other words, black consumers represented an underdeveloped, but extremely promising, revenue source to corporate America. Kendrix understood this.
Eventually, he convinced Coca-Cola's higher-ups as well, who hired him to be the central architect of the company's postwar campaign to target the "Negro market."
The cornerstone of Kendrix's campaign was advertising. Before the Second World War, merchandisers and advertisers, generally, did not recognize or respect African-Americans as consumers, and black marketplace images reflected this. If African-Americans appeared in advertisements at all, it was often in the form of offensive, minstrel-like characters or as the servant. Black "mammy" or "Uncle Tom" figures became successful marketing devices in the form of "Aunt Jemima," "Uncle Ben" and "Uncle Rastus," representing a class that produced or served, but did not buy consumer goods.
These advertising practices denied African-Americans a cultural identity as consumers, which was of no small consequence in the early Cold War context. At the time, U.S. media institutions, politicians and business leaders all claimed mass consumption was essential to the nation's recovery, strength and security, which, as historian Lizabeth Cohen argues, helped established consumerism as central to notions of what it meant to be American after World War II.
Moss Kendrix directed
So it was that, in October 1953, EBONY readers flipping through the magazine came across a full-page, four-color print ad featuring the popular basketball player, Harlem Globetrotter Reese "Goose" Tatum. Founded immediately after the war by John Johnson, EBONY was the most widely circulated black publication, by far. Kendrix offered up the magazine to
The black celebrity Coke ads were successful and achieved desired inroads into the black market, but Kendrix viewed this campaign as a half measure. In the mid-1950s, he and another Coca-Cola special markets representative he helped bring onboard went to work producing a campaign that depicted African-Americans as "everyday" people.
Seeking these "everyday people," Kendrix visited the Atlanta-based Clark and Morehouse colleges, where he recruited black college students to appear in Coke's first non-celebrity "Negro market" ads. Beginning in 1955, these young black men and women appeared in advertisements that featured portraits of black women shopping teaching and typing; black men wielding golf clubs or relaxing in a "favorite chair" after work; a dungaree-wearing black boy playing leapfrog or bicycling; young women gossiping, playing tennis and dressed for prom; and young couples flirting, picnicking and studying.
These marketplace images of blackness circulated widely. They appeared in the black print media, including EBONY magazine, black newspapers and trade journals, as well as in primarily (but not exclusively) black business establishments as point-of-sale displays, and out in the open as billboards and subway placards.
In presenting blacks as "everyday" Americans, these non-celebrity black advertisements mirrored precisely the company's so-called "general market" advertisements. The Kendrix-inspired ads, for example, featured his amateur black models wearing the same clothing and striking the same poses as the professional white models appearing in
As reactions to the Brown decision made it painfully, and violently clear, however, much of white America was not ready to accept integration as a concept. It followed, then, that visuals of racial integration might also be unpopular. Equally true, by featuring only black models, the non-celebrity black ads responded to a desire among African- Americans for recognition as the "normal" consumer in addition to, if not instead of, the typically-sought-after white consumer.
And herein lies the larger significance of the non-celebrity
With a doggedness that his contemporaries noted and admired, Moss Kendrix managed to work his way into the executive offices and boardrooms of
Brenna Wynn Greer is a historian of race, gender and culture who received her doctorate from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Formerly an Erskine Peters Fellow at the University of Notre Dame, she is now an assistant professor in the Department of History at Wellesley College, where she teaches topics in 20th century U.S. history, African-American history, consumerism and visual culture. When not teaching, she is at work on her current book project concerning marketplace images of blackness and post-World War II civil rights efforts.
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Social justice guides Brian Gonzales, both personally and professionally. An educator, trainer, and consultant, Gonzales is a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and Licensed Addiction Counselor (LAC) dedicated to the growth and development of helping professionals, inclusive learning and community partnerships, and best practices for client and worker success. As Clinical Assistant Professor and Assistant Dean for Academic Affairs at the Graduate School of Social Work, Gonzales supports student services, academic services, teaches courses in clinical practice and power, privilege, and oppression, and sits on various internal and external boards and committees. Prior to GSSW, Gonzales served his community in various capacities, including: family therapist, clinical supervisor, and executive director of a non-profit that provided mental health and substance use treatment for clients in community corrections, county jails, and outpatient settings throughout the state of Colorado.
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The 6 Ugly Mistakes Coaches Make That De-Motivates Their Athletes And How To Avoid Them
Here are the 6 ugly mistakes most coaches make that de-motivates their athletes – and how to avoid them. MISTAKE #1: Being Too Nice To Athletes Have you ever noticed that most athletes don't respond that well to the 'super-nice' coaches? I'm sure you have. …Read More
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Learn 3 Easy Steps for Building Confidence in Youth Athletes So They Can Become Winning, Peak Performers Today Building confidence in youth athletes seems like it should be simple…but most people (including athletes themselves) have no clue how to do it right. And here's the …Read More
3 Deadly Mental Mistakes Athletes Make That Cause Them To Lose Confidence and Fail
Any guesses about why you can perform like a superstar one day, yet be totally mediocre the next? You got it. It's because of your confidence. If you're like most athletes, your confidence goes up and down like a yo-yo, yet you have no idea …Read More
3 Ways to Increase Your Mental Toughness in Sports
Learn the 3 Reasons Why You Get So Nervous in Sport and How to Avoid Being the 'Goat' in Your Next Competition by Lisa Lane Brown Mental toughness in sports SEEMS like something you should have automatically because you are an athlete. In fact, pretty …Read More
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Nov 9, 2006 5:00 am |Summary:
Today we visited ABIT and they showed us their upcoming IN9 32X-MAX motherboard based on the nForce 680i SLI chipset. Read the article.
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Next up is the ASUS P5N32-SLI Premium motherboard which comes with the old yet redefined "C19" nForce 590 SLI chipset. Read the review.
Sep 28, 2006 4:00 am |Summary:
DFI's LANParty UT NF590 SLI-M2R/G Socket AM2 motherboard is under the microscope today against boards from ASUS and MSI. Read the review.
Jul 25, 2006 4:00 am |Summary:
We can now confirm ATI's RD600 chipset for Conroe will go ahead. We also have photos of DFI's nForce 590 SLI IE board. Read the article.
Jun 19, 2006 4:00 am |Summary:
Foxconn is back with a look at the 6150K8MD motherboard. Based on the GeForce 6150 chipset, can it make into your HTPC? Read the review.
May 2, 2006 4:00 am |Summary:
Another motherboard review and this time we spend time with the K8N Diamond Plus based on the nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset. Read the review.
Feb 13, 2006 5:00 am |Summary:
Today we spend some time looking at the 8N-SLI Royal, the little brother of the Quad Royal we looked at recently. Read the review.
Feb 6, 2006 5:00 am |Summary:
What happens when you combine Socket 754 and SLI? Affordable gaming performance! Read on and see what EPoX has to offer. Read the review.
Jan 25, 2006 5:00 am |Summary:
We have discussed the possibilities of the Gigabyte 8N-SLI Quad Royal in the past but today we see how it performs. Read the review.
Jan 11, 2006 5:00 am |Summary:
Today we're looking at the ASUS P5N32-SLI motherboard based on nVidia's nForce 4 Intel Edition x16 chipset. Read the review.
Dec 19, 2005 5:00 am |Summary:
Foxconn are massive, make no mistake but when it comes to retail, they are new. Read on for our opinion. Read the review.
Nov 8, 2005 5:00 am |Summary:
On the market for Socket 939 mobo with onboard GPU for a media center PC? The Biostar GeForce 6100-M9 might be for you! Read the review.
Oct 24, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
If you're looking for AMD64 and SLI on a budget, the Albatron K8SLI motherboard might be just what the doctor ordered. Read the review.
Sep 29, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
For a little while now we've known about Gigabyte's upcoming 8N-SLI QUAD motherboard and quite frankly, we're a little excited about it. We've been on the backs of our friends from the Gigabyte marketing... Read the article.
Sep 27, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
When nVidia first launched their dual graphics platform, it initially come under some scrutiny for only offering two 8x PCI-E ports. Many months later nVidia announced their nForce 4 SLI X16 chipset which... Read the article.
May 15, 2005 4:00 am |Summary:
EPoX sent us one of their newest motherboards recently, the 9NPA+ Ultra, which is based on nVidia's new nForce 4 Ultra chipset for the AMD Athlon Socket 939 processor platform. We've compared the motherboard... Read the review.
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Mike takes a close look at the EPoX 9NDA3+ Socket 939 motherboard today which is based around nVidia's nForce3 Ultra chipset. The motherboard makes use of an AGP port instead of the newer PCI-Express... Read the review.
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We first looked at Gigabyte's 8GPXNP Duo motherboard (which is based on Intel's 915 chipset for Pentium 4 processors) a little while back in our Intel I925 and I915 Mega Roundup, we found the performance... Read the article.
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We have rounded up four of the most popular AMD Athlon 64 Socket 754 motherboards from Gigabyte, MSI, ASUS and Shuttle which are based on nVidia's nForce 3 250 and 250GB chipsets and compared their packages... Read the article.
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Today we have taken a look at the Gigabyte 8KNXP Ultra 64 workstation and entry level server motherboard which is packed full of onboard features to make both gamers and system admins grin. Cameron checks... Read the review.
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Sure, the AMD64 series of 64-bit mainstream processors are starting to become a hit among enthusiasts around the world before its official worldwide launch later this month. For the time being though... Read the review.


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Facts About C.I.D
1. The series which premiered on 21 January 1998, is the longest running television series in India, having completed seventeen years in 2015. (And you thought FRIENDS and ONE TREE HILL had the longest runs)
2. Abhijeet was introduced in the show as a criminal but was later added into the C.I.D. team. (He has also been shown to be missing a few memories before he joined the force)
3. C.I.D. set a record on 7 November 2004, when it entered the Guinness Book of World Records and Limca Book of Recordsfor having shot the longest SINGLE SHOT WITHOUT A CUT of 111 minutes. (ALL HAIL BP SINGH)
4. It has had crossover episodes with Aahat, Adaalat and Taarak Mehta ka Ooltah Chasmah.
5. The crew has traveled internationally to France, Switzerland and London to shoot the show.
6. ACP Pradyuman is known to make very good LASSI, and when in the mood he makes it for everyone on the set.
7. The pilot episode of the show was shot 21 years back in 1992, five years before the show launched in 1997. (read the line again to let it sink in)
8. The show has been dubbed in various Indian languages including Telugu , Tamil, Bengali. If that's not all, CID also airs in Pakistan on Apna Channel, A-Plus Entertainment and on Geo Kahani.
9. In one of the episodes which was shot near the snow covered Indo-Tibetian border, ACP Pradyuman aka Shivaji Satam sank into the snow and was pulled just in time by the crew members.
10. CID officer Fredricks (played by Dinesh Phadnis) and Daya (played by Dayanand Shetty) have also written a few episodes for the show.
Now Some Serious Facts....
11. C.I.D bureau has a huge building but only one team of people who solve all the cases, one at a time. While, Dr Salunke's forensics department is run by only two people - him and an assistant.
12. Dr Salunkhe can get the finger prints tested by just pressing Ctrl+Alt on his computer.
13. They have only one Toyota Qualis since the very beginning.
14. No one in the CID team ever got married.
15. Daya has died almost five times in CID and he has reincarnated every time. What's more, one time the entire CID team was killed but they survived the attack. Even Abhijeet was hit with a bullet right in the middle of his forehead , but he is still alive!
16. Everyone gets a 'faasi ki saza'.
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April 7, 2006
SPOKANE, Wash. - This weekend's series in the Pacific Northwest did not get off to a favorable start for the Santa Clara University baseball team Friday afternoon as it dropped a 5-1 decision to the Gonzaga Bulldogs in the series opener.
The Broncos (18-14, 1-3 WCC) managed only five hits off of five pitchers for the Bulldogs (22-10, 4-0 WCC), with only one of those hits coming after the fifth inning. The two teams will return to Avista Stadium tomorrow afternoon at 1 p.m. as SCU will try to even the series at one game apiece.
Sean O'Neill, whose record fell to 2-4 with the loss, went seven-plus innings on the hill for Santa Clara, keeping the Broncos in the game until running into trouble in the eighth. The freshman from Tucson, Ariz. allowed only six hits but could not get any offensive support as the quintet of Gonzaga pitchers kept the Bronco offense at bay.
The Bulldogs struck first, as Dustin Colclough doubled to start the second inning and was brought home on consecutive groundouts to second. Aaron McGuinness' two-out RBI single in the fifth and Scott Campbell's home run in the sixth pushed the Zag advantage to 3-0.
In the eighth, Darin Holcomb's single followed by a walk to Campbell ended O'Neill's night. With reliever Jeff Lombard on the mound, Colclough and Ryan Wiegand slapped back-to-back RBI singles to put the Broncos in a 5-0 hole.
Santa Clara managed their lone run in the final frame, as Daniel Nava doubled home Eric Newton with two away. Nava was 3-for-4 in the game while Kris Watts and Brady Fuerst accounted for the other two SCU hits.


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Sterilization - Sterilization of herbal extract (Nov/17/2009 )
I have been assigned a task to extract a ethanolic fraction from various herbs. I have to freeze dry it and then dissolve the residue in water along with DMSO of PVP (to increasse the solubility of non-polar constituents). I have to use this in cell culture experiment.
My question is
How can i sterilize this herbal preperation........autoclaving wont be suitable as it degrade heat labile constituents and I am not sure about filtration of emulsions.
can you filter sterilize??!!! wait for more opinions!!
thanks for the paper
its informative
but my extract would be in emulsion form and it is difficult to sterilize by filtration
i m thinking of sterilizing it by sonication (water bath)
any suggestion on that
well that can be fine but check if your protein will still be active in those conditions!!!
z0z on Nov 18 2009, 06:59 PM said:
i m thinking of sterilizing it by sonication (water bath)
any suggestion on that
I wouldn't rely on sonication for sterilisation, even the high intensity sonication probes are unlikely to be completely effective.
How clean is your freeze drier? The solvent extraction tends to do a good job of sterilizing plant material. As long as you can get samples on and off the freeze drier without introducing contaminants (I use cotton wool in the top of the vessel to help) you should be fine. Once or twice we've put samples through an autoclave to make doubly sure of sterilisation but this always makes me nervous about losing activity.
If you want to confirm that you have got it right, or want to check out a number of options, a micro test isn't that expensive c.a.$100.
Good luck.