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Perkunas, god of thunder. One of the most worshiped gods of Baltic pantheon.
tiistai 28. helmikuuta 2017
maanantai 27. helmikuuta 2017
Finnish Pagan Holidays: Kynttilänpäivä (video)
Find out how ancient Finns celebrated Imbolc
sunnuntai 26. helmikuuta 2017
National Sami Day (Video)
National Sami Day was celebrated on February 6th. I have Sami roots both in Finland and in Sweden. In this video I talk about the situation of the Sami people and their culture in Finland.
lauantai 25. helmikuuta 2017
Laima Baltic goddess of destiny (video)
Laima, Baltic goddess of destiny and abundance
perjantai 24. helmikuuta 2017
Tolkien, Finnish language and Mythology
I've been a Tolkienist as long as I can remember. Hear what Tolkien thought about Finnish language and mythology and how it inspired him.
torstai 23. helmikuuta 2017
Estonian Earth Belief (video)
Chatting about Estonian earth belief. One of the coolest pagan folk belief systems in the world.
keskiviikko 22. helmikuuta 2017
Finnish Pagan Holidays: Nuutti (video)
Nuutti was already in January but I just recently managed to make the video. Better late than never. Feel free to share if you enjoy it.
Finnish Mythology: Cats
My Noki boy has puppy eyes
In Finland we've had cats since the Iron Age. For the past few thousand years we've had great privilege to enjoy the company of our mysterious feline friends.
In Middle Ages in Europe during the early witch hunts thousands of cats were burnt and killed because they were considered to be witches animals and sometimes devil's worshipers in disguise. Witch hunts were dark mark in the history of mankind. Killing cats lead into lots of troubles such massive increase of rat population and eventually to black death.
This never happened in Finland. Christianity arrived to northern Europe quite late and first witch hunts took place in Finland and in Sweden in the middle of 17th century. Which was time when witch hunts were slowing down in the rest of Europe. Witch hunts were also the time when the idea of "western witch" was first time introduced to Finland and Sweden. Stereotypical witch (usually a woman) who rode a broomstick and owned a black cat. Before arrival of Christianity and centuries that followed folk magic was extremely common in northern Europe. Traditional idea of a witch was connected to shamanism and in the shamanic culture both men and women could Noita part of the Magi, cunning folk. Fortunately killing cats never reached to northern Europe. Number of witches killed were also quite small in Finland and Sweden compared to many other countries.
Railway Cat I met in Llangollen
Finland in the past was very much an agricultural society. Cats were seen as very important animals because they killed rats and rodents. Many families kept so called lyylieläin which means domesticated wild animal that lived in the farm but not in the same sense as we have pets now days in our homes. People fed these animals and took care of them. It was believed that they brought good luck for the farm and the family. Lyylieläin could be for example a cat or a snake or even a wild deer.
Cats were some of the most popular lyylieläin luck bringer animals. There was also very common belief for spirits in nature and among animals. It was believed that an elf tonttu could appear in the shape of a white cat. Also ghosts and restless spirits could easily take the form of a white cat.
In Finnish pagan practice and mythology idea of a cat being the most popular witche's animal is a concept that has arrived from other western countries. Finnish pagan tradition was originally shamanistic and most animals connected to shamans were birds. However among several Finnish pagans now days you can find many people with cats as their familiar.
In Finnish mythology every animal and plant specie has their own Emuu. Emuu is the parental spirit of the specie.
Cats Emuu is in fact an elf.
Of course I know the cat's origin
The incubation of "grey beard"
On as stone was obtained
the cat with a nose of a girl
with the head of a hare
with a tail of Hiisi's plait of hair
with the claws of a viper snake
with feet of cloudberries
from a wolf the rest of it's body comes
This is Finnish pagan birth myth "the Origin of the cat". What it tells us is that cat's Emuu was Elf the Grey Beard. He created the cat from several different ingredients and threw them to the stones of the sauna. Cat is related to humans (girls nose), hares (head of a hare), snakes (claws). It also has tail of Hiisi's plait of hair. Hiisi in Finnish mythology can refer to a giant but hiisi is also a word used from a pagan worshiping place and sacred places in nature. This can also reflect the wild nature of a cat. Rest of cat's body comes from the wolf and if you look at cats paws they do look like cloud berries.
yammy cloud berries
Birth of the cat is one of my favorite myths in all Finnish mythology. Idea of cat being born in the sauna is very fitting for the cat's nature. The way it's always tries to find the most warm (and often the most quiet) spot in the house. Also the way they always look for those warm spots could it be subconscious need to look the warm place where they were born? In shamanism sauna's were many times used as metaphors for wombs. No wonder in Finn-Ugrian cultures going to sauna is related to birth, death and transition phases of life.
Another interesting idea behind this myth is the fact that cats were created by an elf. In Finnish mythology elves are often connected to different buildings. Common myths tells that first person who took a bath in the sauna became the sauna elf after they passed away. Also the first person who lived in the house they build became the house elf. Elf in Finnish context especially means a protector spirit. Some scholars have suggested that maybe this birth myth of the cat tells us how elf simply wanted to create an animal companions to protect the homes and farms with them.
Cats being domesticated animals they easily get attached to humans but even more often cats become attached to different places. Finnish mythology and folk poems often are more intertwined to reality than we even realize. Cats they are foremost protective spirits of the home.
My artist's cat
Pumpuli passed away few years ago. I had her for 13 years. What funny creature she was.
maanantai 13. helmikuuta 2017
History of Valentine's Day
Since Valentine's Day is approaching I thought I would write about the history of Valentine's Day and also the way Valentine's Day is celebrated in my home country, Finland.
Statue of Romulus and Remus and their wolf mother Lupa in Rome
Origins of western Valentine's Day reach all the way back to ancient Rome the the festival of wolves called Lupercalia. Whole Roman Empire was well-known of it's different wolf legends. One of the most famous legends was the story of the founders of Rome. Twin Brothers Romulus and Remus. Story tells that boys mother was Rhea Silvia, who was one of Vesta's Virgins. Their father was the Roman god of war, Mars. Being one of the Vesta's Virgins. Rhea Silvia had to give birth boys in secret. She put them into a weaved basked and laid basket to the river Tiber where it was taken by the current. Twins were found by Roman wolf goddess Lupa. Lupa took the baby brother's to her cave called Lupercal. Where she fed them.
Story continues that Roman god of shepherds Lupercus lead one of the nearby Sheppard's to Lupa's cave. When he saw two baby boys being fed by the wolves he decided to adopt them with his wife. Later one two boys became the founders of the city of Rome.
Lupercus was portrayed both in animal and in human form. In his human form he was a man who wore wolf furs and goat skins. In ancient Rome wolf was not seen directly as an evil creature. Wolf was very much worshiped the same way as bears were worshiped as gods in ancient Finland. Power and speed of wolf was respected yet it was also feared.
As you can probably guess around 300-400 AC. Christians didn't like the holiday where animal was worshiped as a god. In 350 Catholic church converted Lupercalia into a Christian holiday called St. Valentine's Day.
Valentine's Day
For me personally the story of St. Valentine is very similar to other stories about Catholic saints. People add different miracle works to their names and their reputation grows. It is possible that later on Catholic church combined several different legends together creating the stories about St. Valentine. Also the story of gifts brought to prison feels quite far-stretched. Reminds me a story of another saint connected to gift giving. St.Nicholas to which our modern image of Santa Claus/ Father Christmas is partially based.
First Valentine's Day cards were printed in England in the 19th century. Celebration was loosing it's popularity when it arrived to America. In US largely because industrialism Valentine's Day became very commercial holiday. Red heart became it's symbol. Valentine's Day colors were pink and red. Some American customs related to Valentine's Day are skating and different superstitions. One belief is that the first person you'll come across in the morning of Valentine's Day is your true love. We can still find pagan element also from "western" Valentine's Day. One of the symbols is the Roman love god Cupid. Unfortunately during Victorian times Cupid was "prettinized" to chubby baby angel who shoots arrows of love. Soon after that Valentine's Day in all its commercialism arrived back to Europe
Friendship Day
In Finland we celebrate Ystävänpäivä Friendship Day. Friendship Day is bit similar to Valentine's Day but it approaches love from way more broad point of view. This can include remembering friends, spouses, co-workers, teachers and family members. Celebration was introduced to Finland in 1987 but the idea of a day only marketed for romantic love felt very limited for people. So in Finland Ystävänpäivä is dedicated to all loved ones
Happy Friendship Day to all my readers
torstai 2. helmikuuta 2017
Sárahkká Painting
(c) Niina Niskanen
Watercolors and acrylics on watercolor paper
Here is my newest painting Sárahkká. In the mythology of the Sami people Sárahkká is the protec
tor goddess of girls, women and giving birth. Her sacred bird is the willow grouse.
In the Sami culture the child's sleeping basket is called komsio. If the baby was a girl parents hanged feathers of the willow grouse to the komsio and sometimes also beaks and legs of willow grouse. If baby was a boy they would hang bows and arrows to komsio.
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Facebook users have been through a lot lately: privacy changes, new Friend lists and new a pile of new settings to sort through. And the general reaction has been a strong one—people hate it.
And the changes aren't over yet. Facebook yesterday started rolling out "Timeline", an updated version of the social network's profile page, and the modifications are significant. Your profile will have an entirely new design that's more graphic, and you'll be able to easily search for posts from the past—even from the first day you joined Facebook.
As Facebook activates the new Timeline, another revolt will undoubtedly take place. But like every other change Facebook has made, many people will grieve the old profiles, then eventually move on.
Here's a quick breakdown the five stages of Facebook grief.
Step 1: Denial
"Facebook's changing my profile again? Nah, I don't think they'll do that. They've changed so much already, and everyone is still upset. They've surely learned by now that we don't like change. There's no way they'd do that again. At least, I don't think they'd do that to me...right?
Step 2: Anger
"WHY WOULD FACEBOOK DO THIS TO ME?!? There was nothing wrong with my old profile! NOW Facebook thinks I'm going to spend even MORE time than I already have figuring out how things work? WHAT ABOUT MY PRIVACY?! I don't want people reading my old posts! WHY, FACEBOOK, WHY?!?!"
Step 3: Bargaining
"Alright, Zuck, listen. I really, really don't need this change right now. I've got a lot going on. You know that meme circulating last week about you charging us for a Facebook account? I'd almost be willing to pony up a few bucks a month if you promise you'll keep my profile the way it is. I'll consider it, at least, if you consider keeping things the way they are. Whadayasay? Deal?"
Step 4: Depression
"Facebook, I can't believe you actually did this to me. I really just miss the way things were. I miss knowing exactly where my 'Likes' were. I miss guessing what songs my friends were listening to. I miss the old you. All I ever wanted was for things to stay the same. But you've disappointed me, Facebook.
Step 5: Acceptance
"Wait, Facebook changed something?"

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Churchill Downs: Hard to look beyond Royal Delta in Fleur de Lis
LOUISVILLE, Ky. – Horse races can be complicated affairs, whereby handicappers can envision a number of scenarios unfolding that could lead different outcomes.
But Saturday's night's Grade 2, $175,000 Fleur de Lis Handicap on the Stephen Foster undercard isn't one of those races. Champion mare Royal Delta, winner of the past two Breeders' Cup Ladies' Classics, towers over four rivals, and anything other than a runaway victory is improbable.
Royal Delta is easily the most accomplished mare in the short field, as well as the fastest. She is trained by a Hall of Famer in Bill Mott, who notes she is training well for her first start since a 10th-place finish in the Dubai World Cup. And she is perfectly drawn on the far outside, leaving her well positioned to stay clear of traffic.
Even as the highweight at 125 pounds, spotting the field 10 to 11 pounds apiece under handicap conditions, if Royal Delta runs her race, she wins at 1-5 odds.
Mott said Thursday he attributes Royal Delta's poor performance in Dubai to a deep track she disliked, and is pleased with how she is coming up to the race.
"She is working for me as well as she ever had," he said.
She's also proven over the Churchill Downs strip, having won the Ladies' Classic when the race was run here in 2011, and last year's Fleur de Lis, which like this year, came following a trip to Dubai.
Regular rider Mike Smith returns in the irons on Royal Delta, a 5-year-old daughter of Empire Maker owned by Besilu Stables.
Wine Princess seems the most likely candidate to complete the exacta beneath Royal Delta, or register an upset if by some chance Royal Delta returns off her game. Last year's Grade 3 Monmouth Oaks winner, Wine Princess is Churchill-based and 3 for 3 locally – a record that includes a seven-length score in a third-level allowance April 27.
"She gets a lot out of her training, so we've spaced her works out," said trainer Steve Margolis. "She's not one you have to put on the fence every six or seven days."
Leading jockey Shaun Bridgmohan rides.
Completing the five-horse field are Funny Proposition, a second-level allowance winner at Churchill on May 17; Doubledogdare winner Ice Cream Silence, seventh in the Arlington Matron on May 25; and veteran She's All In, who hasn't raced since finishing sixth of seven in the Apple Blossom at Oaklawn on April 12.


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On 2002-04-11 13:22, "ext Jeremy Carroll" <firstname.lastname@example.com> wrote: > As for non-monotonicity the datatyping conceptual layer that we are > discussing is non-monotonic in its own right. > > e.g. > > <Jane> <age> "25" . > > delivers the unicode string "25", i.e. <xsd:string,"25">. > > <film> <title> "25" . > > similarly delivers <xsd:string,"25">. Well, I consider both, in the absence of an rdfd:range assertion, to be underdefined. I.e. the pairings are actually <???, "25"> and <???, "25"> respectively > > At this datatyping conceptual level > > <Jane> <age> "25" . > <film> <title> "25" . > > allows us to conclude that Jane's age and the film's title are the same. We would not be able to make this comparison, as incomplete datatyped literal pairings have no meaning, and thus cannot be compared. They are like variables that have no value assigned. Either we say that the comparison operation cannot be performed, or it fails if either or both pairings are incomplete (undefined). > Then we add the range constraint on <title> > > <Jane> <age> "25" . > <film> <title> "25" . > <title> <range> <xsd:string> . > > I take it that the range constraint changes nothing, we are still having the > value > <xsd:string,"25"> delivered in both cases, and so we are still concluding > that Jane's age and the film's title are the same. No. The information does change. Now we know that the latter pairing <???, "25"> is really <xsd:string, "25"> and any comparison as above will still fail because the <age> pairing is still incomplete. > Now we add the range constraint on <age> > > <Jane> <age> "25" . > <film> <title> "25" . > <title> <range> <xsd:string> . > <age> <range> <xsd:integer> . > > We now have the film's title delivered as <xsd:string,"25"> the woman's age > delivered as <xsd:integer,"25"> and they are different. Yes and no. Now we have the complete pairing for <age> which is <xsd:integer, "25"> and now we can make the comparision and know for certain that the pairings are in fact different. BUT, we can't know for certain that the values themselves are different, insofar as the conceptual level of datatyped literal pairings are concerned. It may in fact be the case that xsd:string is an identical datatype to xsd:integer and the name is just misleading, and in fact, the two values actually are identical. We can't know that at this level. We'd need to go up a level, to that highest extra-RDF level where the datatypes are fully understood. So this isn't non-monotonic. It is just a matter of going from incomplete to complete knowledge about datatyped literal pairings. > Hence we see defeasible reasoning: in the light of new information we revise > our knowledge that Jane's age is <xsd:string,"25">, which in turn causes us > to revise our conclusion that Jane's age and the film's title are the same. Well, the comparison should IMO fail in all of the above cases, firstly for incompleteness, and secondly for inequality -- but in the latter case you have to understand what it is you are comparing, and just as two URIs may not be string equal but resolve to the same representation, two datatyped literal pairings may not be equal yet identify the same value. This is a *very* important point to grasp. Even when you have the datatyped literal pairings you still can't be sure if the values they represent are not equal. You can only be sure if they are equal, insofar as the pairings themselves are concerned.. > This is non-mononotonic, and the WG cannot escape that by simply saying that > it is not in the MT. The only escape route is to acknowledge that in the > absence of type information, the datatype is unknown (e.g. xsd:anyType or > maybe xsd:anySimpleType). If we stay aware that > <xsd:anyType,"25"> != <xsd:anyType,"25"> > because anyType does define a mapping, then the problem begins to disappear. I would not assign any datatype if it is not known. There is *no* default datatype (I should state that in the WD somewhere...) A literal node, all by itself, always denotes itself, i.e. a string. But an incomplete datatype pairing, where the datatype is not known, does *not* default to any string datatype. Its datatyping interpretation is simply incomplete. > Unfortunately this is bringing untidiness back into the datatyping layer. We > now are reading > > <Jane> <age> "25" . > > not as 'Jane's age is "25"' but as 'Jane's age can be written as "25"'. That > is rather than having a 'tidy' reading of the triple, we are having an > 'untidy' reading. Correct. > If we are going to allow untidiness anywhere, it seems to me to be more > consistent and less of a intellectual somersault to allow untidiness at the > lower levels of the analysis (such as in the syntactic graph, or perhaps > only in the first level of interpretation in the model theory) rather than > sneak it in at the last moment in the final less formal layer. I am sympathetic to that view, but I also think the present approach is quite workable. > I am sorry that my critique seems to jump all over the place. Fundamentally > the decision by the WG for tidiness was critically wrong. > abstained since it felt that we were going to get a samll fudge where we had > syntactic tidiness but untidiness from there on. > > As is, now any place where I attack any of the consequences of that decision > I am told that the problem is fixed elsewhere - but IMO the complete > end-to-end picture does not fix the problem. > > Fixing the tidiness problem in the datatyping layer is firstly not in the > current proposal, secondly would need to be explicit and examples showing > how these critically conflict with the MT interpretation should be given, > and thirdly it is unnecessarily complicated. > > The simplest fix is to allow untidy graphs (in the graph syntax). There is ugliness there too, as I pointed out elsewhere, such that in the inline idiom the literal would denote the value but in the other idioms it either does not or does so redundantly. Yuck. The ideal scenario, IMO, which is not going to happen, is for literals to be untidy, literals to be subjects, literals to denote the value and bear the lexical form as their label, and the local idiom be based on a property such as rdf:type that associates the datatype with the literal. I.e. ex:age rdfs:range xsd:integer . Jane ex:age _1:"10" . or MyBook ex:title _2:"10" . _2:"10" rdf:type xsd:string . but, cest la vie, we work within very many constraints... > The next simplest fix is Pat's simpleDatatypes2, which is a very elegant > fudge. There is very clear and strong demand for the inline idiom. I don't see this as an option. We need to make the inline idiom work. > The next simplest fix is to allow an untidy interpretation of tidy graphs as > the first step in the model theory ('Jane's age can be written as "25"'). I would be very happy to see the conceptual model of datatyped literal pairings get a more complete treatment in the MT. But... I think the present proposal is reasonable and workable, all things considered (and that last qualification is very important to embrace ;-) Cheers, Patrick -- Patrick Stickler Phone: +358 50 483 9453 Senior Research Scientist Fax: +358 7180 35409 Nokia Research Center Email: email@example.com on Thursday, 11 April 2002 07:49:54 UTC
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|Community Home-Based Care in Resource-Limited Settings - A Framework for Action (WHO - OMS, 2002, 100 p.)
|Essential elements of CHBC
|Financing and sustainability
Obtaining funding for CHBC from NGOs, faith-based organizations and other sources usually requires writing proposals and preparing a budget. Members of the CHBC team might be required to write these proposals. However, such skills are usually beyond the scope of most members of the CHBC team. Technical support and assistance from other community agencies and local government programmes are therefore necessary.


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Facebook Working on iPad App and "Project Spartan"
According to The New York Times Facebook is finally setting up to launch a native iPad app for the hugely popular social networking site. To put this news in perspective, Apple's tablet has been out for over a year and Facebook has yet to introduce an application, but it's finally arriving and iPad users would certainly be happy. Facebook has over 600 million users worldwide and is continuing to expand to other devices and major platforms.
People briefed on Facebook's plans say that in coming weeks the company plans to introduce a free iPad application that has been carefully designed and optimized for the tablet. The app has been in production at Facebook for almost a year, going through several design iterations, and is now in the final stages of testing, according to these people, who declined to be named because they were discussing confidential product plans.
Last November, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg revealed that the company was still trying to figure out how to utilize the iPad and also mentioned that the he was heavily involved in the developing of the iPad optimized Facebook application. Facebook's iPad app announcement comes just days after TechCrunch reported that the social giant is allegedly developing a new HTML5-based mobile platform codenamed "Project Spartan", that would use iOS to it's full advantage by running within the mobile Safari browser. "Project Spartan" is rumored to integrate the Facebook Credits payment system that would allow developers to offer paid apps and in-app purchases directly through the web-based (Safari in iOS) platform.
As of right now, there are believed to be 80 or so outside developers working with Facebook on Project Spartan. These teams are working on apps for the platform that range from games to news-reading apps. Some of the names should be familiar: Zynga and Huffington Post (owned by our parent AOL), for example. The goal is to have these apps ready to roll in the next few weeks for a formal unveiling shortly thereafter.
Considering the fact that many Facebook apps for iPad have become top grossing apps on the App Store it will be interesting to see if the official app can offer unique features to outshine the paid versions.
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I cant watt till an iPad one is released!!!!!!!
I cant watt till an iPad one is released!!!!!!!


text: I know what's going up on my website's homepage! OMG this family is beautiful and literally the nicest people. On our day mom was beautiful in blue while the boys rocked beach casual! The little girls were wearing the most AMAZING Tutu Du Monde dresses that were perfect for our beach session. We were blessed with amazing skies on a beautiful day that complimented a tropical sunset. I can't wait to photograph them next year! Enjoy the sneak peek.


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Kings…princesses…castles. The Hawk of the Castle appeals to all of those fairy tale elements, but it's full of nonfiction content. It uses a fictional narrator ("This is me. This is my father.") to explain how falcons and hawks were used in medieval times for hunting. The text is in verse reminiscent of "This is the House that Jack Built":
This is our hawk: a sight to behold,
a master of flight, graceful and bold.
My father trains this bird of prey
who lives with us at the castle.
In every stanza, the first two lines rhyme, and the last line ends with a preposition and then "…the castle." (In fact, I could imagine using this book for a lesson on prepositions, finding the different preopositions at the end of every stanza.) Every spread also has a text box with nonfiction information about hunting birds and how they were trained and used. The real pleasure of the book, though, is in reading it aloud. Of course, that read aloud may well prompt passionate interest that can be met with the text boxes.
In the back matter, Danna Smith describes her own experience with falconry, describing learning from her own father.
The art, by Bagram Ibatoulline, is rich and luscious with detailed settings for every spread.
The Hawk of the Castle: A Story of Medieval Falconry by Danna Smith, illustrated by Bagram Ibatoulline. Candlewick: 2017.


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Huawei's chairman in the USA has written an open letter to anyone who cares to read it, where, acting as spokesman for a company part-funded by the oppressive Chinese Communist Party, attempts a gushing appraisal for democracy in the United States.
"Character is like a tree and reputation like its shadow," Ken Hu quotes Abraham Lincoln as saying. Perhaps a more appropriate or apt line to pick would have been Lincoln's: "If I were two-faced, would I be wearing this one?" Or even: "Those who deny freedom to others deserve it not for themselves."
Untrue rumours and allegations, he begins, in a letter trying to quell fear that Huawei has acted shadily behind the back of US senators on an acquisition bid for 3Leaf. "Futurewei, Huawei's US subsidiary, purchased certain assets from 3Leaf, an insolvent technology start-up located in Santa Clara, in May and July 2010."
It was "when 3Leaf was ceasing its operations and no other buyers for its intellectual property were forthcoming," Hu says. He continues: "Huawei submitted a timely request to the Bureau of Industry and Security at the Department of Commerce in advance of completing the purchase." Hu claims the Department of Commerce was not shaky and no licence was required to export technology.
The inter-agency Committee on Foreign Investment in the United States thought it smelled something fishy and stuck its nose in. Originally, Huawei intended to decline the CFIUS decision to withdraw: to "reveal the truth about Huawei". Later on it realised it was causing a lot of hubbub and withdrew its 3Leaf acquisition application this February.
Later, in the open letter addressed to all of the United States, Hu attempts to dispel what he calls rumours about Huawei's involvement with the Chinese military. It sheds some light on CEO Ren Zhengfei, claiming that the military allegation ties are simply because the top dog served in the People's Liberation Army in 1974, in civil engineering. In 1982, he was invited to the National Congress of the Communist Party of China because of his "outstanding performance" – so no ties there, then. As deputy director, Hu underlines that Ren had no military rank.
Throughout the entire letter, Hu bangs on about how much Huawei values the freedom that US democracy brings. It is gushing with references and even quotes Barack Obama on his hope speech. It must be noted that Huawei is, as a privately owned company, certainly part-funded by the Chinese government and the Bank of China. And speaking of openness and transparency – why has Huawei stayed so quiet until it accidentally became high profile for all the wrong reasons? Hu says simply that money from Chinese banks are part of a credit line to its customers, rather than directly to Huawei.
"As of today, US$10 billion has been loaned to our customers from the China Development Bank," Hu says.
Concluding, Hu and Huawei invite the United States to openly voice its concerns about security so that they can answer them. "We remain open to any investigation deemed necessary by American authorities and we will continue to cooperate transparently with all government agencies."


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Regional Reviews: Cincinnati
The producers of the national tour of Rodgers and Hammerstein's South Pacific have obviously decided that the show needs an infusion of new blood and star power, and now, six months into the production, they have it. New lead performers, a visually stunning design, and some well-known showtunes make the musical currently playing at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati a pleasantly entertaining one.
South Pacific is a love story set against the backdrop of World War II. Stationed on an island not far from where Japanese fighters are located, Ensign Nellie Forbush meets French plantation owner Emile de Becque and a romance is kindled. In addition, Lt. Joe Cable has recently arrived to initiate a plan to monitor the activities of the Japanese on a nearby island. Cable is soon torn between his duty and his feelings for a young native girl he meets. Meanwhile, Nellie ponders a marriage proposal from the Frenchman, but soon must address her prejudices when she learns that Emile is widowed and has two young Polynesian children. Due to his knowledge of the islands, Emile is recruited to help Cable with the reconnaissance mission, and the unknown fate of the two men brings everyone, especially Nellie, great worry and anxiety.
For most of the first six months of the tour, Nellie and Emile were portrayed by Erin Dilly and Michael Nouri. However, starting with this tour stop, Amanda Watkins and the legendary Robert Goulet take over as the leads. The two had only two preview performances to settle into the roles before members of the press were invited. Even though he is twenty to thirty years older than the "middle-aged" Emile, Mr. Goulet displays a great deal of charm and warmth, and is quite effective in the role. He has lost very little in the singing department and his rich baritone is well suited to songs such as "Some Enchanted Evening" and "This Nearly Was Mine." This is not his first time in the role, having toured with the show in the late 1980s, and Mr. Goulet seemed at ease with the part despite limited rehearsal time for this tour.
As Nellie, the largest role in the musical, Ms. Watkins is extremely endearing, funny, and appropriately "corny as Kansas." She possesses an expressive, character-filled singing voice and it is likewise difficult to imagine that she has just started in the role. Tony Award winner Gretha Boston, who only joined the cast a few weeks ago herself, is vocally impressive and delightfully humorous as Bloody Mary. Lewis Cleale shows off a strong and attractive singing voice as Lt. Cable, and David Warshofsky's Luther Billis provides additional comic relief.
The score for South Pacific is by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, whose musicals have impacted the world like those of no other writers. Classic songs such as the aforementioned "Some Enchanted Evening", "I'm Gonna Wash That Man Right Out-a My Hair", and "Younger Than Springtime" make this score one of their best known. Rodgers' lush melodies and Hammerstein's efficient and descriptive lyrics are supported here by the original orchestrations by Robert Russell Bennett.
The book for this show is much less successful. Credited to Hammerstein and original director Joshua Logan, the script (written in 1949) does succeed in creating an emotionally engaging story and must be recognized for its stand against prejudice well before it was "safe" to do so. However, there are glaring weaknesses as well. The opening scenes between Emile and Nellie lack impact due to insufficient back story. Also, when Emile states that a woman he hardly knows is the most important thing in his life, even more than his children, it seems in great contrast to his otherwise sympathetic character. In addition, there is little motivation to support the speed to which Lt. Cable establishes his relationship with Liat.
The direction by Scott Faris is generally praiseworthy, with the show possessing an appropriate pace and smooth transitions. Mr. Faris has maximized the humor within the script much to the benefit to the show. One quibble, however, is the choice to have the male ensemble play "There Is Nothing Like A Dame" directly to the audience rather than to each other. At no other point does this happen in the show, so the song's staging seems incongruous with the rest of the piece. Limited choreography by Gary Chryst is interesting and fun.
The scenic design by Derek McLane effectively transports the audience to the islands of the Pacific. Bright colors are used throughout, and Emile's Plantation Home is especially beautiful (with the exception of the distracting, large flowers surrounding the set). The lighting by Ken Billington and costumes provided by Gregg Barnes are capably rendered. Unfortunately, on press night, there were a number of problems with the sound.
South Pacific is a classic musical due to its wonderful score, which generally overcomes the major weaknesses in the show's book. Thanks to some effective new lead performers and an attractive design, the current national tour is a mostly satisfying production. South Pacific continues at the Aronoff Center in Cincinnati through March 31, 2002.


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The Winston County Board of Supervisors will hold a public hearing for fiscal year 2012-2013 on September 4, at 9 am in Winston County Courthouse.
The supervisors reviewed portions of the budget in their August 20 meeting and set the hearing for Sept. 4.
At the next regular meeting on Sept. 4, the proposed 2012-2013 budget will be considered. Winston County is now operating with projected total budget revenue of $12,404,119.00.
Twenty-three percent, or $2,870,935.00, of such revenue is obtained through Ad Valorem taxes. For the next fiscal year, the proposed budget has a total projected revenue of $11,563,492.00. Of that amount, 34.4 percent, or $3,976,290.00 is proposed to be financed through Ad Valorem tax levy.
With the proposed budget the supervisors plan to have no increase in millage.
All citizens of Winston County are invited to attend this public.
In other matters, the supervisors: • Discussed delinquent tax sale after a person paid another person's taxes believing that if a person paid someone's else taxes for three years that they would own the property. Chancery Clerk Julie Cunningham noted that the process was to purchase the delinquent taxes at the tax sale for three years and in this case the person only paid someone else's taxes for three years. • Opened bids for roof repair on the Teters building. Only one bid was received for $47,5000. The bid was taken under advisement since only one bid was received and wanted to verify that solicitation bids could be taken with just one bid. • Approved Dean Park Sixteen Section lease for almost $1100 a year with the school district. Also approved another residential lease. Board president Michael Peterson recused himself from voting on any further Sixteen Section leases since he does have some sixteen Section leases. • Approved $15,000 payment for yearly audit. • Discussed West Nile Virus alert. See articles inside today's edition. • Approved District 4 supervisor Gloria Turnipseed to advertise to purchase a new truck. • Accepted bids for Yellow Creek Bridge Repair. • Discussed funding of future state aid projects. • Requested that inventory deletions and transfers have full explanation with the item on why being deleted.


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A Palestinian Life
Sari Nusseibeh traces his family tree in Jerusalem back some 1,300 years to an ancestor entrusted with the keys to the Church of the Holy Sepulchre. Such deep roots, however, hardly imply a parochial worldview. This former confidante of Yassir Arafat, Oxford- and Harvard-educated philosopher, admirer of Israeli writer (and boyhood neighbor) Amos Oz, former PLO representative, and president of Al-Quds University in Jerusalem examines the ongoing conflict between Palestinians and Israelis, as well as the internal struggles among his own people. Nusseibeh passionately protects his heritage while simultaneously understanding the necessity of resolution. His stance is unpopular even with many Palestinians: a "two-state solution" whose success, Nusseibeh understands too well, could be undermined at any point by politics, religion, and terrorism.
Farrar, Straus & Giroux. 560 pages. $27.50. ISBN: 0374299501
New York Times
"[F]ascinating and deeply intelligent. … Refreshing self-deprecation—rare in Arab public writing—runs throughout this memoir, one of the best personal accounts of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict ever written." Ethan Bronner
NY Times Book Review
"Nusseibeh's book is written out of a refreshingly candid awareness that the reasons for the persistence of the Palestinians in their stateless misery are multiple and complicated. … [His] formidable achievement—his articulation of a liberal nationalism, his championship of nonviolence in the midst of savagery, his humane understanding of an inhumane predicament—leaves a drop of despair, because of how exceptional it is." Leon Wieseltier
Los Angeles Times
"Once Upon a Country is a big-hearted, admirable and exceptionally interesting account of Nusseibeh's struggle for an equitable peace in a conflict in which compromise is often interpreted as treason. This is a rare book, one written by a partisan in the struggle over Palestine who nevertheless recognizes—and bravely records—the moral and political failures of his own people." Jeffrey Goldberg
Washington Post
"Nusseibeh's eloquent and compassionate book no doubt will stir yet another round of polemics; his actions usually do. … Once Upon a Country is a magnificent study of hope under siege." Robert Malley
San Francisco Chronicle
"Nusseibeh has a cause to promote, and he's skillful at shaping his life story to that end. But it's a story worth hearing, and this complicated man—shrewd idealist, pragmatic dreamer, peaceful warrior—is very much worth knowing." Charles Matthews
Critical Summary
Sari Nusseibeh is the ultimate insider, and he draws on that vast experience to shed light on the prospects for peace in the Middle East. He patiently examines complex issues and offers enough nuances to please readers who want to understand the ongoing conflict on a deeper level. The author's relatively evenhanded stance (despite a less-than-flattering portrayal of former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon, as well as some contested historical details) distinguishes Once Upon a Country from other, more agenda-driven efforts, as does its call for nonviolent resolution and compromise. Nusseibeh, echoing Voltaire's notion that "the wisest course of action is surely to tend to your own garden," casts a critical eye on both sides. The result is "a deeply admirable book by a deeply admirable man" (New York Times Book Review).


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Accompanied by an updated Windows release, last week id Software had released its Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.4 update for Linux. We have previously shared most of the details surrounding this major ET: Quake Wars update with the same changes as the Windows build. One of the most interesting features, however, is the new threaded renderer for improved multi-core performance.
The Enemy Territory: Quake Wars v1.4 Linux update contains this new threaded renderer, which depends upon a modified SDL library. According to id Software, this threaded renderer will shine on systems with more than two cores, so really just quad-core and octal-core systems (for now).
Like Quake 4, which shipped with separate quake4 and quake4-smp binaries, the same is done for ET: Quake Wars with this new renderer. There is the conventional etqw.x86 binary, but in Quake Wars v1.4 is now etqw-rthread.x86.
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You may have heard of the Liebster Award before. It is an informal award that is awarded by newbie bloggers to other newbie bloggers.
It is not an official award, but is an attempt at recognising new blogs that have less than 200 followers and that the awarder feels are good but are passed over. My blog was nominated thanks to Tommy Shaw Travels.
The rules of the Liebster Award can vary as the award tends to evolve. For my nomination the rules are:
1. Post the award on your site
2. Link back to the site that nominated you
3. Nominate other blogs for the award
4. Answer the 7 questions that your nominator posed for you.
5. Pose 7 questions for the bloggers you nominate.
The questions posed to me were:
Why did you first get into blogging?
Multiple reasons. It sounded fun. I liked the idea of writing all the tips I found in many places in one place to make it easier for others to travel. It might help me become location independent in the future as well. Either directly from the blog, or from practise and experience for freelancing.
If you could live anywhere on the planet, where would it be?
In a 'house' located in a separate dimension. It would have a special door, and when I went through that door it would transport me anywhere on the planet, saving me airfares.
What is the Craziest thing you have done while travelling?
Bungee jumping maybe? Hitchhiking?
What is the best experience you have had while travelling?
To date? Err Ummm. Maybe Swimming with Humpback Whales in Tonga? It is kind of hard to pick one.
What is you're preferred type of travel – luxury and relaxation or camping and adventure (or a mix of the 2)?
Out of those two options mostly camping and adventure (although I don't actually camp much I'm more of a couchsurfing/hostel person). It is always good to find somewhere occasionally to relax after travelling a while (I loved chilling out in Dahab in Egypt at the end of my three-month trip around Italy and Egypt), but mostly, as nice as more expensive places are, they often feel too sanitized and removed to me. I prefer to be in the middle of things.
What is you're favourite facet of travel?
Hard to say. I love visiting places like the Colosseum; they are well-known for a reason, but what I really love though is exploring places that aren't on every tourist's list. I love exploring cities and finding abandoned court yards and alley ways. I love getting 'off the beaten track' to use that cliché.
What is the tastiest dish you have had while travelling and where did you have it?
Hard to say again. I love food and I've had a lot of great food. I possibly loved Truffle flavoured pasta the most. I tried this in Verona and in Cortona in Italy.
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If you could visit one place with no restrictions and everything taken care of – where would you go?
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Zoe Byrne is a real life escapee from New Zealand who loves to travel, explore off the beaten track, scuba dive, hike and try new things. She feels really odd writing about herself in third person - so hi! I'm Zoe and this is my blog about my favourite obsession - Travel and all things related. Click here to read more


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John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John Reunite in Grease-Inspired Christmas Video
Danny and Sandy do the holidays!
Nearly 35 years after their smash hit Grease, John Travolta and his on-screen love interest Olivia Newton-John are coming together just like they did in the flick for a new Christmas-themed music video, "I Think You Might Like It."
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"We're driving in a '55 T-Bird and we're dressed kind of like we were then. . . at the end of the video we are going off in the car like we did in Grease," Newton-John, 64, tells Extra's Jerry Penacoli of her reunion with Travolta, 58, who played Danny opposite Newton-John's Sandy. (Watch the clip above now!)
Joined by music heavyweights like Barbra Streisand and Tony Bennett on their new album, This Christmas, released in November, Travolta tells Extra collaborating for their latest project was a no-brainer. "We were friends for all this time, and I think that speaks for itself. There's nothing more magical than feeling bonded together," he confirmed.
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All proceeds from their album sales will go to The Jett Travolta Foundation -- in memory of Travolta and Kelly Preston's son, who died in 2009 at age 16 -- and the Olivia Newton-John Cancer and Wellness Centre in Melbourne, Australia. (2012 marks Newton-John's 20th year cancer-free.)
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"Every time I heard [our guest vocalists'] voices with our voices I cried," Travolta said. "Their sentiment toward my son and toward Olivia's hospital -- the whole thing meant so much to me."
Watch their new music video above now!
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John Reunite in Grease-Inspired Christmas Video
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The Obama administration announced Wednesday that 3.3 million people had signed up for Obamacare by Feb. 1, still short of original projections but an uptick in enrollment over the past month.
In January, 1.1 million people signed up for a new health plan through the federal and state exchanges. Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius said that enrollment in January had increased by 53 percent compared to the past three months.
However, that figure reflects just how dismal sign-ups were in the wake of the botched rollout of healthcare.gov on Oct. 1. The administration originally estimated roughly 4.4 million people would enroll in Obamacare by the end of January.
"These encouraging trends show that more Americans are enrolling every day, and finding quality, affordable coverage in the Marketplace," Sebelius said. "There is still plenty of time for you and your family to sign up in a private plan of your choice, so visit healthcare.gov to learn more and sign up. Open enrollment ends March 31."
The administration said that 27 percent of January enrollees were between the ages of 18 and 34. That's a slight increase compared to previous months — however, the youngest age group still accounts for just a quarter of all sign-ups.
For Obamacare to work, the White House needs younger, healthier people to sign up at higher rates to keep down premium costs for older, sicker patients.
The administration originally projected that 40 percent of all enrollments would come from the youngest demographic.
And Republicans were not impressed with the latest figures.
"With embarrassing failures, broken promises, shifting deadlines and miserable enrollment numbers, the last few months have been a rolling catastrophe," said Brendan Buck, a spokesman for Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio. "Under penalty of higher taxes, Americans are mandated by law to have a plan, but they're still resisting Obamacare."
The administration was unable to outline how many of the enrollees were previously uninsured or what percentage of people had actually paid for new health plans.
Republicans contend that most people now signing up for Obamacare already had health insurance. A recent survey from McKinsey & Co. estimated that just 11 percent of those enrolling in Obamacare plans were uninsured.


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Catania Coach Rolando Maran revisits his past in Verona when visiting Chievo this weekend. "They represent my football life."
Maran played for the Flying Donkeys from 1986 to 1995, then worked as assistant manager there in 1997-98.
"Chievo represent my football life and I had a wonderful time there," he said.
"When I retired as a player, I then started my coaching career there too. I had all I could've wanted from Chievo.
"However, we must set my past aside and go to Verona with more belief, as it is an important step in terms of our reaction to recent results."
The Elefantini are still in the running for a place in Europe, although they have lost momentum lately.
"Europe is a dream and we have to continue believing in it," Maran told Tuttosport.
"If the gap does grow, then it's not as if our entire season is worth throwing in the bin. At the start we were tipped for relegation, so to forget what we have achieved would be a terrible shame."
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I am an experienced CRA working in Russia based in Saint-Petersburg. Saint-Petersburg is the best place to travel to every part of Russia in the shortest way in order to spend at the sites as many hours as possible. My experience in clinical research started in June 2008. I continued my career in PAREXEL as Clinical Research Associate II in March 2010, following 1 year and 9 months as CRA I/CRA II in WWCT. My therapeutic experience includes phases II and III adult trials. Since March 2010, I've been responsible for monitoring activities in more than 30 international clinical trials, conducting different types of activities, including site qualification, initiation, monitoring, termination and quality control visits in Moscow, St-Petersburg and regional sites in Russian Federation.
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Senior Clinical Research Associate, PAREXEL International RUS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, November 2011 - April 2016
- Perform the clinical monitoring aspect of designated projects in accordance with applicable SOPs. Responsibilities include performing clinical on-site monitoring activities (drive patient recruitment, source data verification, drug accountability, data collection), collecting regulatory documentation, performing qualification, initiation, monitoring and termination of investigational sites in accordance with ICH GCP guidelines. Responsible for coordinating a moderate to large team or multiple small size protocols as the CRA Coordinator, with minimal to no supervision. Alternatively, take on the role of a CRA Coordinator on smaller projects.
Clinical Research Associate II, PAREXEL International RUS, Saint-Petersburg, Russia, March 2010 – November 2011
- Perform all clinical monitoring/site management activities for assigned projects in accordance with PAREXEL and Sponsor's Standard Operating Procedures (SOPs).
- Responsible for achieving and maintaining high site performance, managing clinical monitoring activities which include the ownership of investigator sites, the selection of investigator/sites, collecting Regulatory Documentation, selecting, initiating and monitoring of sites, performing site documentation verification, data collection and drug accountability in accordance with ICH GCP guidelines.
Clinical Research Associate I-II, Worldwide Clinical Trials (Note: Previous to acquisition in March 2008, company was operated as Evidence CPR), Saint-Petersburg, Russia, June 2008 – March 2010
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The table explodes from a six dot braille pattern / footprint creating the unusual leg formations which spell out the hidden mantra/word 'OM' resulting in a 3D structural representation of the universal sound vibration. The welding and fabrication was an experiment in meditative (improvised) making, using intuition to guide the building process.
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The action kicks and fans witness 300 miles of racing excitement that will help determine the 2017 NASCAR XFINITY Series champion during the closing 10-race stretch. The NXS Visit Myrtle Beach 300 is part of a September double header weekend taking place at Kentucky Speedway.
NASCAR has one of the most loyal fan bases in the country, and, at more than 75 million strong, also one of the largest. This passion for racing is passed down through the generations, as more young children are exposed to the sport through family and friends.
Like NASCAR fans, the more than 16 million annual visitors who vacation in the Myrtle Beach area also share the same values of fun, family and great memories. For decades, many of the area's guests have been NASCAR faithful from Kentucky and surrounding areas who have traveled to these 60 miles of beautiful, sandy beaches to make even more memories together. They've found not only picturesque ocean views and wonderful weather, but a wealth of family-friendly attractions and affordable accommodations.
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- Topic: Medical Abortion
- Type: Staff Publication
- Author: Clark, W., Bracken, H., Tanenhaus, J., Schweikert, S., Lichtenberg, E.S., Winikoff, B.
- Published: February 2010
Alternatives to Routine Follow-Up for Early Medical Abortion
This article reports on a study that evaluated the ability of women and their providers to assess abortion outcome without the routine use of ultrasonography. The results demonstrate that women and providers can accurately assess whether follow-up care is required after medical abortion without routine ultrasonography by reliance on women's observations, a low-sensitivity pregnancy test, and clinical examination.
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Our ongoing programs are a core component of JUFJ's identity and a source of strength for our organization.
JUFJ's annual Heschel Vision Awards honor local leaders who fuse activism with deep moral commitments. These leaders inspire and empower people from all walks of life.
Through the Jeremiah Fellowship, young Jewish leaders from a wide array of fields develop community organizing skills, and engage with Jewish teachings on economic justice.
Our annual DC Labor Seder brings together people from different backgrounds to reflect on the relevance of the eternal themes of slavery and liberation to our present day.
In Baltimore, JUFJ engages with our community to retell the story of Passover in the context of a local social justice campaign. As the story reminds us that it is our duty to side with the oppressed, the Social Justice Seder gives our community an opportunity to take action.
Tikkun Leil Shabbat is a songful, soulful Friday night service, with a short presentation on a pressing social justice issue.
JUFJ's handbook of responsible buying, The Green and Just Celebrations Guide, works to ensure that Jewish simchas (celebrations) reflect Jewish ethics and values.


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Take a stroll through Singapore's bustling hawker centres and you'll find this sight: stir-fried egg noodles tossed above a flaming fire with moist shrimp and succulent pork, served with a sliver of lime and sambal chili. The next time you order this dish at a hawker centre in Singapore, it may very well be prepared by one of many vulnerable people trained in the kitchen.
Hawker centres remain popular for providing inexpensive food conveniently located near bus interchanges and train stations. In response to rising food costs, the Government of Singapore announced in October 2011 that it will be building 10 new hawker centres in under-served areas over the next 10 years to provide affordable food.
In November, the Public Consultation Panel on Hawker Centres was formed, comprising of 18 representatives from different social enterprises and industries. The Panel provides ideas on the new hawker centres with a focus on ensuring food prices remain affordable.
In building a new generation of hawker centres, the Panel recommends that the hawker centres would be run by social enterprises sustainably using a management model that would allow:
1) The community to derive maximum benefit from the centre,
2) The centre to serve as an employment opportunity, especially for individuals in the lower income groups and the less privileged, and
3) The centre to provide a platform for individuals who aspire to be part of the food industry.
Already, there are institutions providing disadvantaged and disabled individuals with skills training that could support project goal #2. Dignity Kitchen began in 2010 with a mission to build and return the dignity to the disadvantaged and disabled. They run a six-week Hawker Training Program designed to train students in basic food hygiene, food preparation, kitchen safety, and simple cooking, with work placement upon program completion. Students range from ex-offenders to those with physical and mental disabilities.
A Recommendation Report by the Panel indicates a number of suggestions for building these new hawker centres: definition of roles (such as government responsibility of ensuring the management model is practical and sustainable while meeting food affordability goals), design that promotes environmental sustainability, as well as street busking and cooking demonstrations to build vibrancy around these centres.
In another part of Asia, food is also the centre of attention when it comes to employment opportunities for disadvantaged people. Established in 2001, WeCan is a social enterprise in South Korea that sells cookies and provides employment for people with mental disabilities. Though prejudice against disabled people preparing cookies made it initially difficult to establish the company, sales last year total roughly KRW 580 million (USD 500,000) – an encouraging achievement for a company still in the red.
"I feel great when people eat the cookie I made and they appreciate it. I would like to live as an independent person, not [as someone with] disability who should get care from the society," said one employee.
Heading west to the UK, a similar picture is painted. The Beyond Food Foundation offers a six-month apprenticeship program called United Kitchen to people who have been at risk of or have experienced homelessness. The opportunity is aimed at providing the skills toward future sustainable employment.
While each of these programs differ in size and region, they all have a common goal of providing meaningful employment and inclusion for the most vulnerable people through food, operating on the belief that there is opportunity for all.
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Wrapping and Storing Wrapped Camemberts
January 06, 2009, 08:51:52 PM »
having finally made some decent (looking) camemberts, I do not want to go down the wrong track in wrapping and aging them further. I have 2 batches that are very bloomy after about 12 days and I plan on wrapping them in propper cheese paper this time. I assume that you wrap with the shiny side out (correct??) and then I need to store them in my cheese cave. What is the optimum temp and humidity for storing them and how closely can you store them once wrapped? I assume I cannot stack them on top of each other, but this would save a lot of room. Any advice on how best to age these once wrapped would be much appreciated.
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Re: Wrapping and Storing Wrapped Camemberts
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January 07, 2009, 02:34:09 PM »
Hi Gerrit, I haven't used those wrappers, but from what I understand, yes the shiny side out.
I was reading the other day, that once the bloom is complete, the cheeses could be stored in a regular fridge and should be ready to eat between 4-6 weeks. My book says that storage temps of between 11-15 C, but I have also read of temps between 9-11 C, and from my experiences I think the colder temps work better than warmer. Also air exchange seems also to be inportant, so I agree, I wouldn't stack them.
Hope your cheeses age well. Keep us posted.
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January 07, 2009, 09:33:51 PM »
I agree 100% with the advice that Tea just gave you. I am yet to turn out a proper Camembert, but I recently got advice from a person that has had success (goes by the name FineWino...I'm sure you recognize the "nick") and this was the exact same advice he gave me.
Right now I have four cheeses in the regular household fridge, aging at 39 degrees F.
Within another two weeks I'll begin opening them up and testing at various ages.
I really want this cheese to turn out since I will then try John's recipe for Cambozola.
I pretty much agree with him that this is the "holy grail" of cheese.
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January 09, 2009, 03:29:41 AM »
Gerrit, let us know once you figure out for sure about "shiny side out". Also I wouldn't think you would want to stack because the point of the wrapper is to pull unecessary moisture away from the cheese and if they were stacked...you get the point. I would just store them in your regular frig.
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January 12, 2009, 02:09:08 AM »
After making several batches of white spotted hockey pucks, I do not want to screw this up. The ones I wrapped last week are looking nice. I have 4 batches to be wrapped in the coming days (blue camemberts and regular camemberts using Ezal M4001 and Ezal M11 for starters). THey are comming along well. and hate throwing away and/or eating Camempucks.
Another quick question - I made a batch of Talleggio this weekend and the recipe calls for "Cheeses are wrapped in sulfur-coated paper and stored at 38 F until ready for sale at 60 days of age". Is the standard cheese paper that we purchase through the internet (e.g., NE cheesemaking or thecheesemaker.com), sulfur coated?
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January 12, 2009, 01:07:14 PM »
If it is the paper for wash rind cheese then yes, if it's the paper for camenbert then no.
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January 18, 2009, 07:43:31 AM »
Opend the first of the Camemberts that seem to be aging properly at 3 weeks (one week in wraps). Looks pretty, but still young. soft but firm paste still, and quite chalky. Still better than my Cam hockey pucks. how long from this stage to really soft inside. Aging in 45f cave.
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January 18, 2009, 02:54:43 PM »
Well Sing I have to say that your's look much better than mine did at that stage. Optimum ripening age is supposed to be somewhere between 4-6 weeks. That of course is if you have done everything else right before then.
Good luck, they look very encouraging.
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January 21, 2009, 09:47:16 PM »
Hi guys...
I made another batch of Camembert this past weekend and I have high hopes for this cheese...
I started to notice fuzz starting at the three day mark and today....day four.... there is a nice layer on probably 3/4 of the surface.
Things I did differently with this batch:
1. got a great curd (see my post on warming the milk slowly).
2. Left the cheese at room temperature for 24 hours AFTER salting (a suggestion from another cheesemaker that specializes in surface ripened cheese).
3. Doing the initial ripening at a slightly higher temperature (approx. 55 degrees F) from a post by Tea, that gave me the idea.
Once I wrap this cheese (quite possibly by the weekend if the mold contines to grow at this rate) I will then place it in our household fridge and keep it at approx. 38 degrees F for 4 to 6 weeks.
I've decided that this is a cheese that is made correctly through trial and error.
This batch might not turn out perfectly but there's no doubt that I will learn something else in the process.
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January 22, 2009, 02:34:25 PM »
Great work Dave, and best of luck with this batch. Did you add any Geo that has been talked about in some of the posts?
Keep the pics coming, I want to see this one.
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Re: Wrapping and Storing Wrapped Camemberts
Reply #10 on:
January 22, 2009, 05:51:35 PM »
Yes, I did add Geo but then I've been adding it from my very first batch.
I think my main problems have been associtated with not ripening at a warm enough temp to get the mold growing well, and then ripening at too warm of a temp which caused the uneven ripening.
Only time will tell but at least this is a cheese where you don't have to wait too awfully long to see the results.
I'll snap a couple of photos before I wrap this batch. I haven't checked them yet tonight, but hopefully they've continued to fill in with fuzz.
If this does turn out well, I'm giving Cambozola a try next.
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January 22, 2009, 07:16:01 PM »
Dave, my
5th Camembert Batch
has also not worke, no significant white mold coat which I put down to incorrect humidity and temperature. My second and another batch had like Tea good coats in 4 days.
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January 22, 2009, 08:28:07 PM »
Just wondering, do you still have this cheese in your crisper?
If so, do you think it would be possible to put it in a "cool room" for a few days, just to see what happens?
I have mine ripening in an unheated closet (off of our master bath of all places) where the temp stays pretty much at 55 degrees during the winter months.
I'm just wondering if the mold might take off if introduced to a bit of a higher temp.
I don't really think your mold has died.....has probably just gone dormant from the cool temps. Maybe a change of climate would get it going.
From what I have been reading, the P. Cad. needs warmer temps to get started and then immediately it needs to go into a cold environment to keep it from ripening the chesse too quickly. Of course this all sounds really good in theory but I'm yet to turn out a proper example.
As an update, nearly the entire surface of my latest batch is now covered with mold.
I plan on wrapping it on Sunday as long as things continue to look good.
One thing I didn't mention is is the moisture content of this particular batch.
Even though the curd was as perfect as I've ever gotten, it was WET when going into the mold.
Not only was it wet going it, it was WET after over 24 hours.
When I lifted the mold off of the cheese, I was afraid to even touch it in fear of it falling apart.
Even while salting, it was nearly impossible to turn the cheese without small pieces breaking off.
Within a few hours of being in the cool room it did firm up nicely. I can now do pretty much everything but juggle the wheels with no fear of them breaking apart.
This is the first time that I've cut the curd while making a Camembert. Before I always ladeled the curd from the vat, with no cutting whatsoever.
The reason that I cut the curd this time was because I always felt that the cheese turned out of the mold too soft from not expelling any whey. The surprise was that it was even softer and more moist than any batch that I've done before.
From here on out, I don't think I will do any cutting of the curd, unless of course this batch turns out perfectly. If that's the case then I'm not doing ANYTHING differently.
John, let me know if you are able to revive the cheese by moving it to a warmer temperature. I'd like to know if this is something that works.
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January 22, 2009, 08:51:19 PM »
I decided to post the recipe I have been using for Camembert. This is from Schmidling.com.
I have made a few changes to the recipe, over time, but even by following it exactly I have gotten fair results (as far as taste is concerned).
The main changes I have made:
1. I don't add b. linens.
2. I do add whipping cream (16 oz. per two gallons of whole milk)
3. I don't salt NEARLY as heavily as he recommends. I pretty much salt it as I would a plate of tomatoes. I basically just sprinkle it on and then rub it into the surface with my fingers.
4. I leave the cheese at room temp. for 24 hours after salting.
5. I normally don't cut the curd but instead ladle the curd mass directly into the mold.
6. I don't use foil to wrap the cheese...I instead use a proper Camembert wrapping paper that I bought from Leeners.com
After wrapping the cheese I really haven't been concerned at all with the humidity.
I simply place the cheese in the crisper of my fridge and turn it every couple of days. According to my temp/humidity gauge I'm running in the high 30% range.
I did crack one of the wheels a few days ago and I was somewhat happy with the results.
The cheese has been ripening nicely but I still had some very "thin" cheese at the edges. Not a milk like substance (like my first attempt) but more like a very thick yogurt or thin cream cheese.
I'm sure this happened because I left the cheese for a little over a week in a 48 degree environment. It was at that point that I received advice to age the cheese in a very cool environment after wrapping.
By that time I could feel that the cheese out by the edges had already softened.
Anyway, my fingers have gotten away from me, yet again.
Here's the recipe. If you get the chance to give it a try, let me know what you think.
Camembert/Brie from Schmidling.com
This one gallon batch will make two, 4" cheeses about 1.5" thick when ripe. The recipe is for the cultures I use but you can substitute whatever mesophylic starter you normally use and you need at least one of the camembert cultures.
1 Gallon Homo Milk
1/2 tsp Calcium Chloride
Heat to 90F then add:
1/8 tsp of EZAL Meso culture
1/8 tsp of P. camembert
1/8 tsp of G. camembert
One drop of B. linnens
Ripen for one hour, then add:
1/8 tsp rennet then rest for 2 hrs.
Cut gently and dip the curds into perforated molds about 4" diameter and 8" high, resting on a small plate. A one gallon batch will fill two such molds.
Every few hours, put another plate on top and flip the moulds. In time, they will shrink down to less than 2" thick. By the next day, they should slide freely in the mold and retain their shape when the mold is lifted off.
Measure out 1/4 cup of salt onto a small plate and set a cheese in the salt. Turn the cheese over and put the clean side in the salt. Roll the edges in the salt and then wipe off excess salt and set the cheese on a draining matt and do the same to the other cheese. Handle the cheese gently at this point or it will fall apart and you have a mess. Continue this procedure until most of the salt has been rubbed into the two cheeses.
You now put the cheeses on a plastic or bamboo draining matt cut to fit into a plastic shoebox. Put the lid on the box and leave about a half inch opening and keep in a cool place. Ideally, around 55F and 85% humidity. The shoebox will maintain the humidity as described.
In a week or so they will start to grow the surface mold and after about 10 days will look like white furry hockey pucks. At this point you remove them from this environment and wrap them in foil and put in the fridge for about 20 more days. From here on, you can taste the cheese as it ripens to determine the best time schedule for your taste. By 60 days it will be a shell with white soupe inside so you have to sample it every week or so until you find what works best for you.
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Re: Wrapping and Storing Wrapped Camemberts
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January 23, 2009, 05:24:42 AM »
Thanks Likesspace/Dave, good point, obviously my fridge drawer is not working as a good Camembert "Cheese Cave", here in Houston we have no real cool part of the house other as 24x7 AC or heat. Except as now winter here, if we have a cool period, the garage can get cooler, I'll put them in Tupperware there this morning. Once I get a good coat, for longer term aging I either need to find a better cheese cave or order some papers.
I don't add cream, just use cold milk and no problem as you can see with strength of formed cheese, thanks for ideas.
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Happens so fast that you really DON"T know how it happens. Question 1, you using the blade guard?
Back in the 80's..it happened to me. The culpret was:
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B. Someone changed out my good blade, I did not inspect it.
C. I was in a hurry.
D. I was tired, it was late.
E. The workspace was not tidy, lot of sawdust everywhere making certainty of what I was doing 'questionable" at best.
I ended up losing the tip of my index finger on my left hand and 1/8th inch of the middle finger. nice solid Whack to the hand. yes, left hand here as well. It was SO VERY quick..just WHACk...and the next words were "Why did this have to happen to me"
the Doctor took considerable time to smooth the bone so as to not have any tender spots on the healed fingers and I tell you..it was some SERIOUS pain. I have had pain before but fingers are truly a different level of pain. Even 20+ years later, I dont feel temperature in those fingers as I can the others.
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Think of other ways to cut wood when it is that small of a rip. Put the wide side of the board to the right of the blade and take off the sliver not close to the fence. the wood between the fence and the blade IS the danger zone. A wider board is always safer. I have a policy..if it is more narrow than 5 inches between fence and blade, I leave the cut for another method.
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