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Growth Of Semiconductor, Solar And Other Green Technology Industries Creates Need For Tomorrow's High Tech Workforce
PHOENIX, Ariz., June 1, 2011 - The SEMI Foundation presents the 119th High Tech U program in Phoenix, June 7-9, 2011 to support education and career awareness in the fields of high technology. The program, principally sponsored by the Fab Owners Association, is being hosted by ASML, EV Group, and ON Semiconductor. During the three-day program, 36 students from Greater Phoenix area high schools will attend classes taught by volunteer industry professionals at the campuses of the EVG Group and ON Semiconductor. Students will be introduced to the technologies used to create microchips that power virtually every electronic device made today, and explain the educational pathways that lead to rewarding careers in the high-tech industry.
While the national economic picture remains challenging, here in the Greater Phoenix area industries like semiconductor chip manufacturing, solar, and biofuels are expanding, creating an opportunity for local students who are academically prepared to enter the growing high tech workforce. In order to meet this long term need, local partnerships between industry and the education community have developed the SEMI High Tech U program to reach out to high school students to both educate and excite them about high tech careers.
"Our association's vision is to work together to make our members more globally competitive, so it makes perfect sense for us to support SEMI High Tech U," says FOA Executive Director L.T. Guttadauro. "It's never too early in the education process to make young people aware of the many career paths in high tech. Hopefully some of these students will eventually enjoy rewarding careers at association member companies. We're proud to sponsor this program, and to also fund one of the student scholarships being granted at the conclusion of the program."
"The continuing turnaround in the semiconductor industry locally, and more recent developments related to a growing presence by solar and other renewable energy companies, creates terrific opportunities for local young people currently in high school and college," says Michael Lesiecki, executive director of Maricopa Advanced Technology Education Center (MATEC) at the Maricopa Community Colleges. "We are very fortunate here in the Greater Phoenix area to have this dynamic partnership between high tech industries and the education community, that is focused on helping make local students aware of high tech career possibilities, and preparing them for rewarding careers in the workforce."
"Young people today are fully engaged in technology through their smartphones, video games and various social media activities. Yet their familiarity with the science and engineering behind the technology is limited," said Ann Jenkins, President, ASML US. "ASML is proud to partner with The Maricopa Community Colleges and some of our Valley peers in supporting SEMI's High Tech U. We believe creating awareness of the science and math behind today's technology will open student's eyes to potential fields of study and possible careers in high-tech."
Steven Dwyer, Vice President and General Manager, EV Group North America, noted, "SEMI's High Tech U program offers a unique opportunity for young people, who represent our future, to not only get excited about math and science, but to experience real-world applications in the high-tech industry so that they truly understand the 'why' behind learning. EV Group is thrilled to be a part of this program. We hope our participation will help to instill in students the same passion we have for technology that is critical to keep innovation in our industry moving forward."
"Encouraging students to pursue science and technology education is essential to building a future high tech workforce", said Mike Iannitti, Senior Director Organizational Excellence at ON Semiconductor. "ON Semiconductor is proud to participate in the High Tech U program as a great way to get students excited about careers in technology."
SEMI High Tech U was created a decade ago by industry association SEMI to get more students interested in science, math, and high tech careers. It is supported and presented by the non-profit SEMI Foundation. Since 2001 the program has been presented to over 3,100 high school students and 604 high school teachers in the US, Austria, France, Japan, Singapore, the Netherlands, and the United Arab Emirates. Program sponsors for 2011 High Tech U - Phoenix are ASML, EVG Group, and ON Semiconductor. BEST VISUAL/INTERVIEW OPPORTUNITIES:
TUE, June 7 - All Tuesday events at On Semiconductor, 5005 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ 85008.
10:15-11:30 am - Hacky Sack Catapult: The air is filled with hacky sacks as kids learn how medieval technology relates to modern day chip making in a math and statistics exercise called "Statapult".
10:15-11:30 am - VIP program (simultaneous with above). Industry representatives, educators and community leaders join SEMI to learn about High Tech U, observe students engaging in Statapult activity.
WED, June 8 - All Wednesday events at EV Group, 7700 South River Parkway, Tempe, AZ 85284, WP Carey Room.
10-11:15 am - Human Calculator: Using a "feet on" exercise, like the game "Twister", students try not to get tangled up as they simulate electron microprocessor flow.
1:30-2:15 pm - Students "Bunny Up", learn clean room protocol. Students don clean room bunny suits, followed by tour of EV Group's state-of-the-art applications lab.
THUR, June 9 - All Thursday events at ON Semiconductor, 5005 East McDowell Road, Phoenix, AZ 85008.
2:45-3:45 pm - Mock Job Interviews: Students prepare for the "real world" by practicing job interview techniques.
4:30-5 pm - Graduation and Awarding of Scholarships: Family and friends gather as students receive graduation certificates, and a $1000 scholarship is awarded to two of the students.
About the Fab Owners AssociationThe Fab Owners Association (FOA) is an international, nonprofit, mutual benefit corporation composed of semiconductor and MEMS manufacturers, along with industry suppliers. The FOA consists of member companies and senior industry professionals who are experienced semiconductor-manufacturing experts from around the world. The association meets regularly with its members to discuss and act on common manufacturing issues, and strives to facilitate and provide cost-effective solutions on issues related to the semiconductor manufacturing industry.
Founded in 2004, the Fab Owners Association is headquartered in Cupertino, CA. For more information, visit: www.waferfabs.org .
About ASMLASML is the world's leading provider of lithography systems for the semiconductor industry, manufacturing complex machines that are critical to the production of integrated circuits or chips. Headquartered in Veldhoven, the Netherlands, ASML is traded on Euronext Amsterdam and NASDAQ under the symbol ASML. ASML has more than 7,400 employees on payroll (expressed in full time equivalents), serving chip manufacturers in more than 55 locations in 16 countries. More information about our company, our products and technology, and career opportunities is available on our website: www.asml.com
About EV GroupEV Group (EVG) is a world leader in wafer-processing solutions for semiconductor, MEMS and nanotechnology applications. Through close collaboration with its global customers, the company implements its flexible manufacturing model to develop reliable, high-quality, low-cost-of-ownership systems that are easily integrated into customers' fab lines. Key products include wafer bonding, lithography/nanoimprint lithography (NIL) and metrology equipment, as well as photoresist coaters, cleaners and inspection systems. In addition to its dominant share of the market for wafer bonders, EVG holds a leading position in NIL and lithography for advanced packaging and MEMS. Along these lines, the company co-founded the EMC-3D consortium in 2006 to create and help drive implementation of a cost-effective through-silicon via (TSV) process for major ICs and MEMS/sensors. Other target semiconductor-related markets include silicon-on-insulator (SOI), compound semiconductor and silicon-based power-device solutions.
Founded in 1980, EVG is headquartered in St. Florian, Austria, and operates via a global customer support network, with subsidiaries in Tempe, Ariz.; Albany, N.Y.; Yokohama and Fukuoka, Japan; Seoul, Korea and Chung-Li, Taiwan. The company's unique Triple i-approach (invent - innovate - implement) is supported by a vertical integration, allowing EVG to respond quickly to new technology developments, apply the technology to manufacturing challenges and expedite device manufacturing in high volume. More information is available at www.EVGroup.com.
About ON SemiconductorON Semiconductor (Nasdaq: ONNN) is a premier supplier of high performance silicon solutions for energy efficient electronics. The company's broad portfolio of power and signal management, logic, discrete and custom devices helps customers efficiently solve their design challenges in automotive, communications, computing, consumer, industrial, LED lighting, medical, military/aerospace and power applications. ON Semiconductor operates a world-class, value-added supply chain and a network of manufacturing facilities, sales offices and design centers in key markets throughout North America, Europe, and the Asia Pacific regions. For more information, visit www.onsemi.com .
About the Maricopa Community Colleges The Maricopa Community Colleges comprise ten colleges and two skill centers. Each college is individually accredited, yet part of a larger system - the Maricopa County Community College District. For more information, visit www.maricopa.edu .
About SEMISEMI is the global industry association serving the manufacturing supply chains for the microelectronic, display and photovoltaic industries. SEMI member companies are the engine of the future, enabling smarter, faster and more economical products that improve our lives. Since 1970, SEMI has been committed to helping members grow more profitably, create new markets and meet common industry challenges. SEMI maintains offices in Beijing, Bengaluru, Berlin, Brussels, Grenoble, Hsinchu, Moscow, San Jose, Seoul, Shanghai, Singapore, Tokyo, and Washington, D.C. For more information, visit www.semi.org .
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Takuya needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 34 designs submitted by 17 freelance designers.
SociaLoop is our new brand name for social media services for change makers around the world.
SociaLoop is our new brand name for social media services for change makers around the world. SociaLoop, which is combined from Social and Loop means connecting socially minded people and information via social bookmarkings, social networks, and other typs of Web 2.0 and social media.
We hope SociaLoop to be a hub to various sites/information/people who are trying to make this world better.
We haven't really decided colors, but I think earth colors (sky, water, green, etc) are comfortable with our brand name. For most cases, the logo will be used on websites (especailly on headers). The logo's background should be transparent (background-free).
The logo should be softies, as described as "A clear trend in new identities is the use of soft, rounded typefaces dominated by VAG Rounded (AKA Rundschrift), but also including Helvetica Rounded, Arial Rounded, Bryant, and FF Cocon."
The logo should have the word, SociaLoop.
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Recipe Roundup: 20 Super-Simple Cocktails for 4th of July Straight Up Cocktails and Spirits
Looking for a cocktail to cool off with over the Fourth of July weekend? Something simple and not too fussy that can help max out your chillaxing time? Here are 20 quick-and-easy ones from our archives, each made from no more than three simple ingredients. Perfect for these lusciously lazy days of summer.
Fizzy Free-Pours
Just a shot of spirit, a couple of glugs of soda, and a squeeze of citrus - these brightly bubbly combos can be thrown together in a snap. Exact measurements optional. No shaking or straining required.
- Dark and Stormy - rich, dark rum, spicy ginger beer, lime
- Gin and Tonic - crisp gin, tingly tonic, and a tart squeeze of lime
- Moscow Mule - vodka, ginger beer (or ginger ale), lime
- Campari and Soda - bitter, grapefruity Campari, fizzy water, and a slice of citrus
- Cuba Libre - a classic rum, cola, and lime combo recently featured in the Washington Post
- Paloma - tequila, grapefruit soda, lime (and, okay, just one more ingredient - a dash of salt)
Brilliantly Brunchable
Sleep in, then fix yourself one of these.
- Greyhound/Salty Dog - gin/vodka and grapefruit juice. Add a salt garnish for a Salty Dog
- Bloody Mary - vodka and Bloody Mary mix (or tomato juice plus seasonings)
Blended with Beer
Beer lends some light, bubbly booziness to these summertime coolers.
- Margaritas Made with Beer - frozen limeade blended with tequila and light beer
- Campari and IPA - a grapefruity, hoppy "offhand work of genius" recently featured in the NYTimes
- Shandy - mix equal parts beer and lemonade for a thirst-quenching, low-alcohol refresher
Sippable Sours
These beautifully balanced 3-ingredient combos feature a base spirit, fresh-squeezed citrus, and a dash of something sweet, and can be served straight up in a cocktail glass.
- Whiskey Sour - bourbon or rye, fresh lemon juice, and simple syrup
- Daiquiri - rum, fresh lime juice, and simple syrup
- Margarita - tequila, fresh lime juice, and triple sec
- Gimlet - gin or vodka and sweetened lime juice (use the bottled stuff, Rose's Lime for an authentic old-school version, or go the more modern route with fresh-squeezed juice and sugar)
Short and Strong
In the mood for something a little more bracing? These potent classics are the perfect finish to a day.
- Dubonnet Cocktail - gin mixed with Dubonnet
- Gin and It - gin and Italian (aka red or sweet) vermouth
- Negroni - Equal parts gin, sweet vermouth, and Campari
- Manhattan - rye or bourbon and sweet vermouth
- Martini - gin or vodka and dry vermouth
What will you be drinking this holiday weekend?
Nora Maynard is a longtime home mixologist and an occasional instructor at NYC's Astor Center. She is a contributor to The Business of Food: Encyclopedia of the Food and Drink Industries and is the recipient of the American Egg Board Fellowship in culinary writing at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow. She previously covered food and drink in film at The Kitchn in her weekly column, The Celluloid Pantry.
Related: Summer Entertaining: How to Build a Basic Bar
(Images: Paloma, Elizabeth Passarella; Campari and IPA, Anjali Prasertong; all others, Nora Maynard)


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Earthlings had scored moon rocks before 1970. NASA's Apollo 11 and 12 missions successfully hauled them back to study—immense scientific accomplishments, of course. One problem. It cost $142 billion in today's dollars. Russia's solution? Send a robot instead.
The Soviets were the first to realize that sending a human to pick up dust is incredibly expensive, and, if you're the guy in the pod—maybe just a bit too dangerous to be worth it. Their response was the Luna 16 space probe, history's first robotic craft to successfully bring back an extraterrestrial sample.
The stakes were high. To call the space race anything but a, well, race, is to state the obvious. But Luna 16's predecessor had lost a literal race, in an almost comically embarrassing moment of Space Age failure—the Luna 15 unmanned probe crashed itself into lunar oblivion, smashed on the surface of the moon, just hours before Apollo 11 began the trip back to Earth.
So for Russia, it was time to get serious—and fast.
A successful robo-drilling effort would require a craft that could land itself gently without damaging the sensitive drilling equipment inside. The craft itself—a byzantine mound of pods and landing apparatuses that still look like science fiction compared to today's sterilized space affairs—gracefully maneuvered onto the surface of the moon's Sea of Fertility, using a delicate pair of descent engines that stopped firing only 20 meters above the surface, before it clamped down and wasted no time drilling. Luna 16, unlike her older sister, landed softly. Seven minutes later, the Russian digger was done, having sucked up a sample of basalt rock 35 mm deep into the moon's surface, where it would be stored and analyzed back on earth.
A day later, its top section blasted off, dusty cargo inside, leaving the other half behind to record and broadcast data from the moon's surface. Luna 16's cap, carrying a scant 101 grams of lunar rock, crashed safely into the Kazakhstani steppes, carrying what was described as a "grayish brown" dust. That might sound dull, but this dust was later sold for $442,500 at auction (though not before a bit was exchanged for some NASA moon rock as a gesture of goodwill).
The mission was modest, perhaps, as was the cargo. But Luna 16's legacy isn't just its onetime ability to scrape powder off the moon and scoot back to earth, but its proof that robots can do some seriously cool stuff for us. Sending robots to work in space in the 70s put mitigated the romanticized (and, during that era, heavily-politicized) dream notion of the Man In Space. Where our hands (and heads) were needed, increasingly, were on the ground, where brilliant engineers and scientists of all shades on both sides of the Iron Curtain worked to realize the fact that sometimes it's a matter of finding the right bot for the job.
The incredible success of the Mars Rovers? At least in part (and in principle), thanks Luna 16—and happy 40th birthday.


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- MIT Media Lab: Feedback from our SXSW party: Followup on the wristband thing.
- Computer Coding – It's Not Just for Boys | NYTimes.com: "Little Miss Geek runs school workshops and gets women from the industry to talk to students. Ms. Parmar hopes to secure corporate sponsorship to expand the effort with coding clubs for girls and more classroom sessions. For International Women's Day, her team is going to two London schools with iPads, BlackBerrys and female role models."
- #include – Computer Science for All: "We are a group of teachers who are passionate about giving ALL students the opportunity to study Computing."
- Men who spy on women through their webcams | Hacker News: Comments are very "Shit Hacker News Says". RE: Meet the men who spy on women through their webcams | Ars Technica
- Saying What You Mean to Say | Athene Donald's Blog: On the genderedness of letters of recommendation in science.
- New Study Exposes Gender Bias in Tech Job Listings | Wired.com: "According to a paper recently published in Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, there could be a subtle gender bias in the way companies word job listings in such fields as engineering and programming. Although the Civil Rights Act effectively bans companies from explicitly requesting workers of a particular gender, the language in these listings may discourage many women from applying."
- [Trigger warning] Cops Arrest Tech Whiz Marlin Pohlman For Allegedly Drugging, Assaulting Women: FYI for Portland hacker/maker peeps
- An Open Letter To the Nashville Tech Community – Martha Kelly: Developer's response to blowback ("horrible", "punitive", "hijack" etc. over her and others pointing out male=default language in tech editorial that was supposedly a community bridge-building reachout): new Nashville STEAM group, an encouraging, women-friendly tech space.
- Superheroes are for girls, too!: Adorable girls dressed as superheroes!
- Geek Speak | DORK TOWER 12.04.13: Why it sometimes seems like geek girls can't win…
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As we come ever closer to 2012, I thought I would examine Africa's recent struggles on its path to unity and a more prosperous region.
Certainly, with 2011's cataclysmic changes taking place in North Africa, most of the African Union's attention has been heavily turned towards the Arab Spring and its aftermath. Nevertheless, the organisation has not been without its own crises to manage in the sub-Saharan region.
The Western-backed referendum for self-determination in the South Sudan, finding its roots in the comprehensive peace deal of 2005, put an end to the decades-long civil war between Omar el Bachir's north and the late John Garang's (now ruled by Salve Kir) South. Underlying this conflict is a dispute over borders, respect for human rights and, more importantly, the re-partition of Sudan's petroleum wealth, located primarily in the South but thoroughly sapped by the North. Continue reading What Next for the African Union in 2012?


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A Consumer Reports lab analysis of ground-turkey products purchased nationwide found that 90 percent had potentially disease-causing bacteria, some of which were antibiotic-resistant.
The consumer watchdog organization said its first investigation of this kind on ground turkey also showed that turkeys raised without antibiotics had much less antibiotic-resistant bacteria than did turkeys raised with antibiotics.
The new report follows a February analysis of store-bought meat by Food and Drug Administration scientists that found antibiotic-resistant bacteria in 81 percent of raw ground turkey, 69 percent of raw pork chops, 55 percent of raw ground beef and 39 percent of raw chicken parts.
The practice of feeding drugs to animals to boost their growth and weight is contributing to the spread of drug-resistant superbugs, the group said. People who get sick from these bacteria might need to try several antibiotics before finding one that's effective against their illness.
"It's very concerning that antibiotics fed to turkeys are creating resistance to antibiotics used in human medicine," Urvashi Rangan, Ph.D., director of the food safety and sustainability group at Consumer Reports, said in a statement. "Humans don't consume antibiotics every day to prevent disease and neither should healthy animals."
The complete report can be found in the June 2013 issue of Consumer Reports magazine and online at www.ConsumerReports.org/turkey0613.
Consumer Reports' researchers tested 257 kinds of raw ground turkey meat and patties, including products from major retailers and store brands. The samples were tested for the presence of five kinds of bacteria: enterococcus, Escherichia coli (E. coli), staphylococcus aureus, salmonella and campylobacter. All of these can cause illness and be fatal in some cases.
The report also showed:
- 90 percent of the samples tested had at least one of the five bacteria.
- 69 percent of the products had enterococcus, which can cause an infection of the digestive or urinary tract; 60 percent had E. coli, a major cause of severe food-borne illness. Both bugs are associated with fecal contamination.
- Bacteria on ground-turkey products labeled "no antibiotics," "organic" or "raised without antibiotics" were much less likely to be antibiotic-resistant superbugs.
- 80 percent of the enterococcus bacteria were resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics; so was more than half of the E. coli.
What you can do to protect yourself:
Although the bacteria found are killed by thorough cooking, they can produce toxins that may not be destroyed by heat, Consumer Reports and other food safety experts note.
Your best bet is to buy turkey labeled "organic" or "no antibiotics," especially if it additionally has a "USDA Process Verified" label, which means that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has confirmed that the producer is doing what it says.
Cook meat to 165 degrees F (use a meat thermometer to be sure). Wash your hands and all surfaces with soap and water after handling raw turkey, and use a clean plate, not the one that held the raw meat, for cooked meat.
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SAN JOSE, Calif., April 17 (UPI) -- Raffi Torres scored the deciding shootout goal in San Jose's 3-2 victory over the visiting Los Angeles Kings Tuesday.
Torres' backhander through the five-hole was the only score of the shootout and was enough to move the Sharks into a tie with the Kings for the No. 4 slot in the Western Conference playoff grid.
Brent Burns had a goal and an assist in regulation for the Sharks, who won their second consecutive game. TJ Galiardi accounted for San Jose's other goal.
All of the scoring in regulation occurred in the second period. After Galiardi staked San Jose to a 2-0 advantage, the Kings came back with a power-play goal by Jake Muzin at 13:59 and the tying tally at 18:41 on a slap shot by Dustin Brown.
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A. Administrative Expenses »From: Redfern and Hunter on International Arbitration (5th Edition)
Nigel Blackaby, Constantine Partasides, Alan Redfern, Martin Hunter
A Comparison of the 2004 and 1994 US Model BITs »
Kenneth Vandevelde
In November 2004 the United States adopted a new model negotiating text for its bilateral investment treaties (BITs). The 2004 model was the first comprehensive revision of the model BIT since 1994 and the most comprehensive revision since the program's inception. This article compares the 2004 model with its 1994 predecessor.
Part III Procedural Issues, Ch.30 A Doctrine of Precedent? »
Christoph Schreuer, Matthew WeinigerFrom: The Oxford Handbook of International Investment Law
Edited By: Peter T Muchlinski, Federico Ortino, Christoph Schreuer
This chapter begins with a discussion of precedent in international law. It then discusses the practice of investment treaty tribunals, inconsistent decisions, interpretative statements by states, and institutionalized mechanisms.
1 A Global Regime for Investment »From: The Law of Investment Treaties (2nd Edition)
Jeswald W. Salacuse
This chapter begins with an introduction to investment treaties, often referred to as international investment agreements (IIAs), and the building of a global regime for investment since the end of World War II through the negotiation of such treaties. It sets out the definition and types of IIAs. It then discusses the significance of investment treaties; the application of regime theory to investment treaties; regime challenges and prospects; and factors that will foster the stability and continued growth of the investment regime. The chapter also describes the aim and scope of the book and gives a brief summary of the contents of following chapters.
4 A History of International Investment Treaties »From: The Law of Investment Treaties (2nd Edition)
Jeswald W. Salacuse
Since the inception of international investment, foreign investors have sought assurances from the sovereigns in whose territory they invest that their interests will be protected from negative actions by the sovereign and local individuals. This chapter begins with a historical background of the treatification process, which came about due to the perceived weaknesses of customary international law applying to foreign investments. It then discusses the objectives of the movement to negotiate investment treaties; the primary and secondary objectives of investment treaties; long-term goals of investment treaties; the treaty negotiation process; and the consequences of investment treaties, including the growth in investor–state arbitration cases to settle investment disputes.
A New Approach to the Law of Foreign Investments : The South African Case »
Christian Vidal-León
This chapter analyzes South Africa's decision to terminate its investment treaties and the underlying objectives of South Africa's new investment regime, namely: (1) reinforcing the 'sovereign right to regulate in the public interest'; (2) doing away with international investment arbitration; and (3) placing foreign and domestic investments on an equal footing. It examines the standards of investment protection not explicitly laid down in the Promotion and Protection of Investment Bill 2013 and inquires whether these standards are otherwise protected by the constitution or other laws. The chapter concludes that whilst South Africa's policy decision on its investment protection regime is open to debate, the government has followed a comprehensive, transparent, and inclusive process, in which relevant stakeholders have been heard and with which they have engaged.
Part VI The Post-Award Phase, 30 A Practical Guide: Research Tools in International Investment Law »
Julien FouretFrom: Arbitration Under International Investment Agreements: A Guide to the Key Issues (2nd Edition)
Edited By: Katia Yannaca-Small
This chapter aims to help the new investment arbitration practitioner identify and find the main legal sources for dealing with international investment law issues. Three different topics need to be addressed in order to cover, as extensively as possible, the legal issues generally raised during an arbitration based on an international investment agreement. First, even though the stare decisis rule does not exist in international arbitration, including investment arbitration, previous rulings are often used and analyzed by arbitrators. Second, when dealing with investment arbitration, it is likely that the claim will be treaty based. Finally, and most importantly, in international investment disputes, arbitral tribunals rely on all the sources of public international law identified in Article 38(1) of the Statute of the International Court of Justice, which provides for the Court to apply.
Appendix 3 A Tabular Comparison of the 1976–2010 UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules »From: The UNCITRAL Arbitration Rules: A Commentary (2nd Edition)
David D Caron, Lee M Caplan
Part I Transnational Corruption and International Efforts at its Control, 3 A Typology of Corruption in Foreign Investment »From: Corruption in International Investment Arbitration
Aloysius P Llamzon
This chapter categorizes the many modalities of transnational corruption within two groups — transactional and variance bribery. Transaction bribes are payments routinely and often impersonally made to a public official to secure or accelerate the performance of that official's duties. The payment is not made in order to secure the public official's divergence from a substantive norm. Instead, the payment is made simply to ensure that the public official performs his duty more efficiently, hence the term 'grease money' or the euphemism 'facilitation payment'. Variance bribes involve payments made in order to obtain a favourable result through a deviation from the proper application of a norm. The bribe might be paid in order to suspend the operation of a legal prescription, or in order to have a public official exercise his discretion in a manner favourable to the payer.
A Uniform, Internationally Oriented Legal Framework for the Recognition and Enforcement of Foreign Arbitral Awards in Mainland China, Hong Kong and Taiwan? »
José Alejandro Carballo Leyda
The growth in commercial transactions with Mainland China, Hong Kong Special Administrative Region and the Taiwan region (Taiwan) as well as the economic integration in the entire area have lead to an increase in disputes. Considering the importance of arbitration as a mechanism for resolving commercial disputes in the area, the paper discusses whether a substantial 'clash' between their legal frameworks for the recognition and enforcement of foreign arbitral awards can be observed. After a critical analysis, the paper concludes that these frameworks are either subject to or modelled on the New York Convention. Yet, each has a distinct approach to the implementation, and dissimilarities arise. Furthermore, the specific legal framework for the recognition and enforcement of Mainland China awards in Hong Kong and Taiwan, and vice versa, still raises some concerns and is not fully reliable.


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.comment: The Weakest Link
Watching the Asteroid ApproachIt was amusing, terrifying, interesting, and irritating, all at once.
Last Thursday afternoon I sat here and watched the cable modem go wild, as if thousands of machines were trying to do port scans all at once. That's because thousands of machines were trying to do port scans all at once.
I think I keep my machines here buttoned up pretty tightly, safe behind their firewall and running, really, no services. But just as the diver in his cage must as the sharks approach, I had the tiniest bit of doubt. I knew the system was as tight as I could make it, but I didn't entirely believe it.
Last Thursday, in case you didn't follow the industry press closely (there having been unforgivably little coverage in the mainstream media), was when the chief effects of what is known as the Code Red worm were felt.
Code Red is a worm that exploits a known security flaw in Microsoft's web hosting software. The flaws in Microsoft's web hosting software have been so legendary that a couple months ago a well-known industry web site retracted a report of one, thinking it was repeating a story many months old. An easy mistake to make, but it was the retraction that was wrong: Microsoft had discovered that its earlier fix hadn't secured the product. Now, said Microsoft, here was the patch that would cover the hole. Everyone, said Microsoft, should apply it. Not everyone did; there are nearly a quarter-million known infected servers. (Among those who didn't apply the patch was Microsoft Corp., as many who rushed to windowsupdate.com for the patch last week discovered. A lot of those disappointed visitors made screenshots of what they found.)
What they found was a defaced web page with the URL of a site that had nothing to do with the attack and a claim that the Chinese were responsible, something that has not, best I can tell, been either confirmed or disproved.
If that had been all that Code Red did, it would certainly have been criminal but there would at least have been the knowledge that the only people affected were those who should have known better. (Here there might be disagreement as to what knowing better would have comprised. Certainly it would at least have involved applying the patch. But there's a good argument to be made that knowing better requires not running any Microsoft Internet-related software on any machine that is connected to any other machine or group thereof, and that is the argument that I shall champion as our story unfolds.)
This worm had more on its squirmy little mind, though, than screwing up a bunch of web pages. It also spun off a hundred threads, each looking for other machines to infect. These, in turn, sent their own hundred feelers. And so on.
The idea, based on dissection of the thing, was to propagate as widely as it could until Friday. At that point it would begin sending 4.1-meg globs of data to the IP address that had been occupied by www.whitehouse.gov, every four hours or so, for a week. Then it would start sending itself all over creation again.
(I oversimplify here a little -- for instance, it defaced the web pages only where it found English language versions of the web server; elsewhere, it would infect but leave the pages intact. There are some additional fine points -- duration and frequency of the attack on the IP address, for instance -- that I have approximated.)
What I was watching Thursday was the frenzied attempt of this monster to propagate, as a hundred discrete threads from each of at least a quarter of a million machines -- 25,000,000 would-be worm infections -- were going just as fast as they could, trying to find a machine to infect. We're talking, in effect, an impressive denial-of-service attack here. If the worm's construction is to be taken as a statement of intent -- something of which we cannot be sure -- then the DOS was merely a side-effect, an overture before the real show began. The White House runs Linux for portions of its web operations, but when you have 25,000,000 attempts by Windows machines to send you 4.1-meg packages, it doesn't much matter what you're running.
We cannot know what the worm's authors had in mind because of a couple of seemingly stupid things that were done. One was to hard code the IP address of whitehouse.gov. This meant that all that was necessary for the White House to do was to change the IP address of its site, which the White House did. The other was to require a connection before any data were sent. The White House black holed the hard-coded IP address, so beyond the initial feelers, the worm did nothing. (Imagine 4.1 megabytes times 25,000,000 threads, every four hours, if the coders had done DNS lookup instead of hard coding the address. That's a pretty decent bandwidth suck, don't you think? And those are just the machines we know about.) But the worm was otherwise fairly sophisticated, I'm told by people who know a lot more than I do about such things. Hard to imagine its programmers would make such simple and obvious mistakes.
It has since been learned that there was apparently a variation of Code Red that appeared on Thursday morning, after which the rate of propagation greatly increased. There is a body of evidence suggesting that the code in Code Red can be changed remotely -- the reason, perhaps, for the variant? Worse, a harbinger of things to come? For, you see, it appears that after it is done not attacking the White House's website, it will start spreading itself around again, perhaps with modifications made on the fly.
Do you suppose everyone who uses Microsoft's web hosting software will have applied the patch by then?
(The thing also was capable of shutting down certain unpatched Cisco routers and -- I don't know why I think this is funny, but I do -- Hewlett-Packard network printers that aren't hidden away behind a serious firewall.)
There is also the possibility that this was some kind of proof of concept. That the whitehouse.gov business was a red herring, coming as it did during the G-8 meeting, and the evil bastards who cooked up this thing have something entirely different in mind. Imagine, a friend mentioned to me this week, if the target had been root nameservers. Add the denial-of-service implications on the Internet in general, and this could be the general mess that people have been predicting for years.
And if that happens, it doesn't really much matter what operating system you are using, if the Internet plays a part in what you do. It would be an order of magnitude increase in what I watched here last Thursday, when my poor little cable modem struggled just to stay alive, let alone actually transfer any data.
We can smugly say that we're not running Microsoftware, but that scarcely means we're immune to the effects of its being used by others who are connected to the Internet.
Just as I was getting set to write this, I checked my mail. In it were two "messages," each of more than 900k, claiming to contain a file that ended in .zip.bat. They were from no one I'd ever heard of, and they had a little message up front suggesting that I would welcome the attached. A little poking around in the usual places produced the news that there was yet another Outlook Express macro virus on the loose. This one performs a variety of tasks, from filling your hard drive to sending your documents to people in your addressbook. I'd apparently acquired one of the latter, because the macro itself was a little over 300k. It got spread far and wide -- if sysadmins at Microsoft shops can't rub their two brain cells together and download patches for known exploits, how can mere users be expected to know about, let alone do anything about, the obscenely corrupt behavior of the userspace mail program? (Hell, you get an argument on Linux lists when you point out that HTML mail is not secure.)
Point is, nothing here is unfamiliar or unexpected. How long does it take before there's general recognition that Microsoft software has no business on the Internet?
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By now, most farmers have heard the story of Norman E. Borlaug, the scientist who saved millions of people from starvation by developing higher-yielding wheat varieties that could be planted in third-world countries.
Borlaug, who died in September at age 95, received the Nobel Peace Prize, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Congressional Gold Medal and countless other awards for his contributions to the fight against hunger.
What most may not know is how close his story came to not happening. Throughout his career, as related in Noel Vietmeyer's biographical series, Borlaug, the scientist received helping hands that put him in a position to make a difference in the lives of millions.
Borlaug was born at a time when life on the Iowa prairie and in much of the United States was tenuous. When it entered World War I, three years after Borlaug was born, no one was sure the country would have enough food because black stem rust had wiped out the predominant wheat variety grown in the U.S. in 1916.
Borlaug's parents, Vietmeyer writes, were basically subsistence farmers whose livelihoods depended on the success of their corn crop. Borlaug, himself, could have followed that life if a cousin who was the local school teacher hadn't persuaded his parents to allow him to leave the farm and go to high school.
In his freshman year at the University of Minnesota in 1933, Borlaug was on the brink of having to return to Iowa when a benefactor found him a job cleaning the professors' labs. That allowed him to pay his tuition and, more importantly, to buy food. (Borlaug's future wife, Margaret, dropped out of the university in 1935 to become a proofreader because she was "tired of being hungry.")
In 1936, when Borlaug again faced the prospect of leaving school because he was broke, he got a job with the Civilian Conservation Corps that paid him $100 a month. (Borlaug hitchhiked from Minnesota to New Haven, Conn., to get to the job.)
Although it was much criticized at the time, the CCC gave thousands of young men an opportunity to earn money and to make a difference through conservation projects. A side effect, not frequently noted in the history books, is that it also helped prepare America's youth for World War II.
Such programs allowed Borlaug to complete his degree at Minnesota and to become a research scientist with DuPont. From there, with the encouragement of a former professor, he joined an agricultural research program being conducted by the Rockefeller Foundation in Mexico.
Borlaug spent 13 years planting two crops per year developing wheat varieties that could double Mexican farmers' yields and later increase production in India and Pakistan to levels unseen before. But most of the world now knows that story.
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
Every Day is a Blessing
I have learned to find beauty in the details because I know God notices the details, however small or mundane they may seem.
What I treasure most is that every day gets to begin and end in this little house. It's not big, it's not fancy...it's perfect for us.
Mornings hopefully start with the Word and a cup of coffee. I am still not completely consistent with doing it first thing in the morning but I'm getting better. And Cheerios are a staple. All my kids love them, plain old boring cheerios. Clearly they are not foodies.
By mid morning we are in full play mode. We are obviously working on potty training so there are many pairs of underwear in my ever day life. Baby C loves to play the piano, J loves to organize things {not sure where she got that} and there is a lot of casting spells. Oh yeah people, we are in a full Harry Potter obsession. Mommy included.
Ahhhhh, nap time. There will definitely be some cucumber chips and edamame humus involved. On a good day there will be some relaxing while trying to ignore the laundry and various other chores that need to be done. Never fear, they all get done eventually but it's the only quiet time I have, sue me.
On most days you will see a lot of these activities... crafting for J, reading for W, legos with his big bro for N{no you are not mistaken...these legos are Harry Potter and Lucius Malfoy in an epic battle to save Dobby. I wasn't kidding about the obsession.}and hopefully some card making for Mommy.
And of course we all eagerly await Daddy coming home so we can climb all over him and interrupt his phone calls.
It's a beautiful thing!
27 comments:
- katie said...
Harry Potter Legos are all the rage here. Good luck with the potty training!!
- August 4, 2011 at 1:02 AM
- Melissa M. said...
My husband is obsessed with harry potter too! I got him a little harry potter lego set for christmas as a gag gift, but he actually liked it! Oh, and your house is so pretty! No need for a crazy mansion, not my style. :-)
- August 4, 2011 at 3:00 AM
- Kathryn said...
yep. the Harry Potter Legos are just awesome. these pics are perfect!
- August 4, 2011 at 6:00 AM
- theolivetree said...
so sweet! Love your big front window!! I have never read harry potter!? Potty training will be the end of me...and I love love love hummus...have you ever made it at home...super super easy!
- August 4, 2011 at 6:49 AM
- Alyss said...
Dude... Harry Pottering it up! Haha love it. Looks like a VERY blessed home.
- August 4, 2011 at 7:15 AM
- elizabeth said...
love it! a perfect day!
- August 4, 2011 at 8:05 AM
- Sarah B. said...
A beautiful life indeed! I love your house - so charming! And of course your kiddos are adorable :)
- August 4, 2011 at 8:11 AM
- hannah singer said...
harry potter!!!!!!!!!!!
your life is lovely.
and you have cute feet.
love you.
- August 4, 2011 at 8:27 AM
- Katie said...
Your house looks super cute! Sounds like you guys have a lot of fun :)
- August 4, 2011 at 8:51 AM
- Krista said...
What a beautiful life! Not to mention family and house ;)
- August 4, 2011 at 8:52 AM
- {cuppakim} said...
this post is so fun.
love the sneak peek.
your house is adorable. i love it.
and love all the wood stacked up.
makes me ready for cool winter days.
my days start in a similar way.
and cucumber chips.
i think that is a fun idea too! :)
- August 4, 2011 at 8:58 AM
- heartland farmhouse said...
Yes! Love the lives God gave us!
The good the bad. The boring the exciting. Everything!
- August 4, 2011 at 9:05 AM
- Heather from wearetheholdens.blogspot.com said...
Jami I heart your house..so much character. Looks like a great little life.. and oh my, I have wanted a Keurig for forever. Maybe for Christmas..:)
- August 4, 2011 at 9:51 AM
- girl willow said...
Loved getting this peek into your home! Sounds very similar to my days :)
- August 4, 2011 at 10:54 AM
- Amanda said...
beautiful house! :)
- August 4, 2011 at 11:24 AM
- Ashley said...
aw jami your house is what i think of when i think of a "HOME". Me and my husband are starting to look for a bigger place and I want a place that looks like a real little house. What a blessing to walk up to that everyday :)
- August 4, 2011 at 12:08 PM
- Laurie J said...
ahhh, the potty training days and taking the relaxing when you can. i hear ya on that one! laundry can be done when the kiddos are wildly running around the house. peacefulness of naptime is only a momentary window to enjoy ;)
- August 4, 2011 at 1:14 PM
- Cat said...
I loved this post! Thanks for sharing your life with us. :) oh, and got your DM on twitter and don't think I'm going to have everything set up in time to advertise this month :( unless I can join in when I'm done setting it all up in the 'cdm designs' part of my blog ??? Maybe next time.
- August 4, 2011 at 1:37 PM
- Laura said...
I want to live somewhere where I have to have a stack of logs outside my door. It's just so warm and cozy and inviting looking. Boo Texas and your heat!
- August 4, 2011 at 1:44 PM
- Heather said...
Love your blog! Your family is adorable!
- August 4, 2011 at 5:29 PM
- Mrs. T said...
I love you and your family and your perfect little house!
- August 4, 2011 at 5:47 PM
- Amanda said...
you were nominated on my post today for the versatile blogger award because ur blog is amazing to me and i really enjoy reading it! xoxo
- August 4, 2011 at 7:37 PM
- Kelly said...
THE GOOD LIFE! what could be better?
- August 4, 2011 at 8:15 PM
- gratefulmama said...
A perfectly blessed life! Love it!
- August 4, 2011 at 10:44 PM
- Meredith said...
Looks like a good well-rounded day to me....especially if we have "visit" time together added to the mix!
- August 4, 2011 at 10:57 PM
- Roberta said...
Like you, we love our home...be it ever so humble! All 687 sq.ft. of our Love Shack we are grateful for and we are living our dream life here...who would have thought that? Love seeing your family and how you are enjoying the everyday, ordinary things that make our lives ours. Have a wonderful week. Fondly, Roberta
- August 5, 2011 at 6:32 AM
- Cassie said...
Hey! I'm stopping by from Gussy's inspiration workshop link party!! Sounds like a good day and great pictures! =D
- August 5, 2011 at 9:04 PM


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Activist brings diversity to green orgs
Marcelo Bonta helps color the environmental movement
NAME Marcelo Bonta
HOMETOWN Sacramento, California
VOCATION Environmental leader
HE SAYS "Today's lack of diversity in the environmental movement is no one's fault -- but it is everyone's responsibility."
On a misty June day, Marcelo Bonta, a handsome man with black hair and lively brown eyes, stands at the door of an unusual reception hall. He's welcoming guests into a lichen-draped grove of cedars in Oregon's Mount Hood Wilderness -- a place already rich in biodiversity but sorely lacking in cultural and racial diversity.
Bonta wants to bring people of color into the woods as well as into the environmental movement. He hopes this grove with its towering trees, lush summer ferns and blooming trilliums will help inspire connections not just with wilderness, but between different kinds of people.
Bonta is executive director of the Center for Diversity & the Environment, a nonprofit that works with environmental leaders and organizations to diversify their operations. The participants at today's retreat, "Exploring Power, Privilege, and Tools for Change," represent a wide range of nonprofits, land trusts, foundations and government agencies.
Today, just 11 percent of natural resource organization staffers and 9 percent of board members are people of color. One-third of environmental organizations have no people of color at all on staff. That disparity troubles Bonta and other minority leaders, especially given that by the year 2042, the U.S. Census Bureau projects that half the nation's population will be people of color.
"This significant demographic shift gives us a vision of how the environmental movement will need to operate to be successful," says Bonta, whose group will host the Environment 2042 Retreat this January. "They'll need to embrace a diverse society, or they'll lose relevance as they put themselves into a smaller and smaller box."
Bonta, one-half Filipino American, one-half white, grew up in Sacramento's white suburbia. His parents were active in the Filipino community and the civil rights and farmworkers' movements, but it wasn't until Bonta got to Yale University and experienced its multicultural milieu that he fully embraced his identity. That further solidified when he married his college sweetheart, Micia, a Jamaican.
He majored in psychology, but a lifelong affinity for nature and wildlife led him to intern at the Sacramento Zoo. At Tufts University, he worked at the Massachusetts Audubon Society and National Park Service while earning a master's degree in biology and environmental policy.
After graduation, Bonta landed what initially looked like a dream job on the conservation staff of a national wildlife organization, coordinating efforts to create state and regional conservation strategies and develop a diversity council. But Bonta -- the only person of color on the group's professional staff -- felt increasingly isolated among the white, mostly affluent conservationists. He had the education and the expertise, he says, but higher-ups refused to listen to what he was saying until his second-in-command -- who was white -- repeated it.
"Working on biodiversity issues was my dream," says Bonta, "but working for a predominately white organization and homogeneous movement was stifling and distracting." He felt unable to reach his full potential -- a common feeling, he says, "for people of color working for mainstream environmental organizations." He left that job in 2004.
Three events led him to decide, in 2005, to create an organization specifically designed to address the environmental movement's lack of diversity. He'd recently completed an environmental leadership program fellowship through the University of Michigan and co-authored Diversifying the American Environmental Movement with Charles Jordan. And then the first of his two daughters was born. Bonta did not want her to experience the same frustrations he had.
The fledgling Center for Diversity & the Environment provided resources and fostered connections to people and organizations. A grant in 2008 made it possible for Bonta to begin holding leadership development retreats. He invented an organizational assessment tool called an "equity audit," which analyzes what environmental organizations are doing -- and not doing -- to achieve diversity. To date, Bonta's group has audited four organizations, including the Columbia Land Trust, the Audubon Society of Portland and the Sightline Institute; three more are on his group's planning board. He also founded the Environmental Professionals of Color network, which today has nearly 200 participants.
Bonta has high hopes for his efforts. "Mainstream environmental groups say 'people of color don't work for our organization, so they don't care about it.' People of color say, 'I don't go on hikes. That's a white thing,' " he says. "I see CDE as the organization that's helping with the shifts the environmental movement needs to make to really be successful."
This story was funded by a grant from the David and Lucile Packard Foundation.


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Wednesday, 7 July 2010
Confit doesn't like me - Cellar Gascon, Clerkenwell
I ruddy love macarons. And my favourite so far are the prune and Armagnac ones from Comptoir Gascon, which have shimmering gold dust sprinkled on top (thus making me feel like P Diddy).
But despite frequent visits to satisfy my blingtastic cravings, until the other day, I'd never been to the other outposts in the Gascon empire ie Club Gascon and Cellar Gascon.
The Grubworm, Chris from Cheese and Biscuits and I had planned a rendezvous at Cellar Gascon. I turned up last to find G and C sitting on leather banks either side of a high table with a precarious-looking stool left for me. I took a look at the stool and thought, "That's not happening", but thankfully Chris gallantly offered his seat to me.
We were there for the express lunch menu comprising the dish of the day and a glass of wine for £10.
As you may already know, I don't really do wine, so I asked for a soft alternative only to get roundly mocked by the waitress, who then brought me a glass of cranberry and orange juice mixed with a dose of Gallic scorn.
Dish of the day was confit rabbit on polenta which Grubworm and I went for. Chris chose foie gras and some squiddy venture, and we decided to share a plate of charcuterie, flippantly named "Piggy Treats" on the menu.
Chris's foie gras looked rather delectable - though, perhaps in return for the Walter Raleigh moment, I refrained from helping myself. Not so with the squid, which the Grubworm and I fell upon, and our greed was rewarded by sweet and tender meat balanced by juicy, sharp chunks of orange.
The Piggy Treats were equally pleasing and perhaps the most attractive plate I have seen in a while, resembling a meaty flurry and actually living up to its whimsical moniker.
Then came the wabbit. Two fat pieces sat on a bed of soft, squooshy, deliciously rich polenta. It looked quite normal, and tasted rather lovely, but the texture - oh, the texture.
The first forkful went in my mouth, then headed north and smeared itself over the roof of my mouth. I tried to push it around with my tongue in an attempt to swallow, but it steadfastly refused to budge. There's a phobia called arachibutyrophobia - "fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth" - I was experiencing the leporine version in spades.
So I blenched, but I tried another forkful, as if the second might hurry along the first, but no joy - the rabbit didn't seem to be dissipating in volume or tenacity. It seemed more like food coming up than going down, and I suddenly said quietly, "It's like it's been pre-chewed".
We ended our meal with a shared cheese platter - a small but perfectly-formed French selection including nudibranchine shavings of a delicate semi-soft sheep's cheese which I failed to make a note of. But I know you can get them all at Comptoir Gascon if that helps at all.
Did I enjoy it? Yes, yes, I did. I'd avoid the rabbit confit in future, but I rather liked the rest of it, patronization and all. I'll definitely swing by again.
Cellar Gascon
57 West Smithfield
London EC1A 9DS
020 7796 0600
16 comments:
that looks bloody nice though, the Piggy Treats looked amazing, the Gascons are firmly on the list of places to visit!ReplyDelete
I think that's a problem more with rabbit than confit. I've always found the texture a bit difficult - even slow cooking makes it stringy rather than moist - and I know what you mean about it feeling as though it was pre chewed - it's one of those things that always have fibres that offer resistance in the mouth, no matter how tenderised (if that makes sense).ReplyDelete
The rabbit even looks pre-chewed; oddly enough, I have the same problem with lettuce - there's always one piece that seems to come pre-loaded with glue and sticks to the roof of my mouth.ReplyDelete
And what is it with places that expect you to perch uncomfortably on a stool while trying to digest food? - bleugh. And a mark taken away for the attitude of the waitress.
But the rest of it looks great; the Piggy Treats looks spectacular and I would definitely have contemplated encompassing it solo!
Yum. I love Piggy Treats - such a fun sharer (though I'd always rather not..) You must go to the restos too, M Aussignac does amazing things with foie gras.ReplyDelete
Those lumps of rabbit look pretty gross, to say the least.ReplyDelete
The piggy treats though... ooooh....
A fine nudibranch reference, definitely the first mention of the creatures I've ever seen on a food blog.ReplyDelete
Actually, those rabbit nuggets did bear some sort of passing resemblance to Foie Gras. In terms of texture at least. I still have no idea how they managed to do that to them. Never-the-less I was doing fine until Meemalee brought up the pre-chewed food analogy... And then the clagginess did start to get a little much.ReplyDelete
Goodness me the polenta and piggy treats were good though. It's made me want to head to Comptoir more than ever.
@Paul aka Pavel Le Bouche - Get a shorter username, man.ReplyDelete
@Catherine - C'est possible, I have had problems with rabbit in the past.
@chumbles - Yeah, the piggy treats were brilliant. There was some rillettes as well which you can't see in the picture.
@BSG - I will, I will!
@Lizzie - The visuals should have been a warning really.
@Joshua - Why thank you, kind sir.
@The Grubworm - Give it up, dude. They were nothing like Foie Gras.
Namist! (Point taken)ReplyDelete
@Pavel - Thass more like it.ReplyDelete
@Meemalee, i only meant texture wise, and that is not necessarily a good thing...ReplyDelete
Hmm I think its always better to have rabbit in small pieces.ReplyDelete
The Piggy Treats look lush and there looks a LOT OF THEM!
Oof, quite a judgmental waitress no? She can go stuff it. What you drink shouldn't be her business.ReplyDelete
I'm seriously envious of the Clerkenwell lunch club! If only I still worked in Holborn I'd be right there with you - although possibly not here.ReplyDelete
I wouldn't want to sit on a stool either.
Wow that is an excellent lunch deal for £10! I have been to Club Gascon many years ago, but never to Cellar Gascon but will definitely go there now after reading your review.ReplyDelete
Luiz @ The London Foodie
@The Grubworm - Like pre-chewed foie gras.ReplyDelete
@Northern Snippet - You could tackle that porky platter - I know it :)
@Su-Lin - Hear hear!
@Sarah, Maison Cupcake - If you ever find yourself in the area again, please join us!
@Luiz, the London Foodie - Oh, I'd definitely go again :)


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Citation: During an engagement at Guayacanas on 3 July 1916, Cpl. Glowin participated in action against a considerable force of rebels on the line of march.
Citation: In action against hostile forces at San Francisco de Macoris, Dominican Republic, 29 November 1916. With only a dozen men available, 1st Lt. Williams rushed the gate of the fortress. With 8 of his party wounded by rifle fire of the defenders, he pressed on with the 4 remaining men, threw himself against the door just as it was being closed by the Dominicans and forced an entry. Despite a narrow escape from death at the hands of a rifleman, he and his men disposed of the guards and within a few minutes had gained control of the fort and the hundred prisoners confined there.
Citation: During an engagement at Guavacanas on 3 July 1916, 1st Sgt. Winans participated in action against a considerable force of rebels on the line of march. During a running fight of 1,200 yards, our forces reached the enemy entrenchments and Cpl. Joseph A. Gowin, U.S.M.C., placed the machinegun, of which he had charge, behind a large log across the road and immediately opened fire on the trenches. He was struck once but continued firing his gun, but a moment later he was again struck and had to be dragged out of the position into cover. 1st Sgt. Winans, U.S.M.C., then arrived with a Colt's gun which he placed in a most exposed position, coolly opened fire on the trenches and when the gun jammed, stood up and repaired it under fire. All the time Glowin and Winans were handling their guns they were exposed to a very heavy fire which was striking into the logs and around the men, 7 men being wounded and 1 killed within 20 feet. 1st Sgt. Winans continued flring his gun until the enemy had abandoned the trenches.


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CHICAGO—Obesity is dangerous, but it may not be as life threatening as health professionals once thought.
Compared with normal weight, a person who is overweight or underweight has an increased risk of death, although that risk appears to have decreased in recent years for obesity, according to a study by researchers at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health. Published in the April 20 issue of Journal of the American Medical Association, the researchers found that relative to the normal weight category (a BMI of 25 to 18.5), obesity (a BMI 30 or greater) was associated with 111,909 excess deaths and underweight (a BMI less than 18.5) with 33,746 excess deaths. Overweight was not associated with excess mortality. This data is much lower than the highly publicized figure released in March 2004 when other CDC researchers estimated that about 400,000 deaths were associated with obesity, poor diet and inactivity. Later, that number was lowered to 365,000 when problems with calculations were found. Authors say the numbers are lower because data was different and more recent.
"The differences between NHANES I (National Health and Nutrition Examination Surveys) and the later surveys suggest that the association of obesity with total mortality may have decreased over time, perhaps because of improvements in public health or medical care for obesity-related conditions. However, such speculation should be tempered by the awareness that these differences between surveys may simply represent chance variation and that small differences in relative risk translate into large differences in the numbers of deaths," the authors conclude.
Lead author Katherine M. Flegal of the CDC and colleagues conducted the study to estimate deaths associated with underweight, overweight and obesity in the United States in 2000 by using all available mortality data from the NHANES. Researchers estimated the relative risks of mortality associated with different levels of BMI from the nationally representative data from the first NHANES from 1971 to 1975 and the second NHANES from 1976 to 1980, with follow-up through 1992, and lastly from the third NHANES from 1988 to 1994, with follow-up through 2000. The researchers then applied those relative risks to the NHANES 1999-2002 data to estimate excess mortality in 2000.


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Sean Xavier, back from scene one, is always ready to fuck a tight bunghole. Devin Franco loves nothing more than to get stuffed and stretched. When Sean takes out his throbbing, ten-inch anaconda, Devin's eyes just about pop out of his head and his mouth starts to water immediately. The oral action is frantic, as if they can't decide if they want to savor it or if they want to jump right into the fucking. But they take time to enjoy sucking before fucking, as Sean hungrily plants his face on Devin's cock. Sean is the dominant one here as the top, but Devin is an active participant, pushing back against Sean's thrusts.
Lucas Entertainment Exclusive Dylan James is at his alpha-male best when he's matched up with Josh Rider, thanks to a natural attraction and chemistry between the two. Josh admires Dylan as he does some strength training, and finds him on Cock Huntr, where he follows him. After Dylan hits the shower, Josh joins him and offers his hungry hole for Dylan to pound raw with his thick, nine-inch dick. The sight of their well-honed muscles moving and flexing under the water is pure sexual art. Josh has never been fucked harder or to a more cum-splashing result.


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Last year at Sundance, documentarian Lee Hirsch's latest feature The Bully Project drew notice for its unflinching look at the peer-to-peer bullying problem that has overtaken American schools. Many adults write off bullying as an unfortunate but unavoidable part of growing up, dismissing it with the thoughtless cliché "kids will be kids." However, Hirsch's doc explores how this kind of parental neglect is leading to a whole new level of kid-on-kid cruelty. With the emergence of cyber-bullying, the kids who are being harassed are often relentlessly tormented. It's a crisis that's leading to attacks, trauma, and suicide nationwide, and Hirsch and the Weinstein Company, which is distributing the doc, are looking to draw focus to the issue of bullying with the film's impending release, and a promo poster that unveils a new name: Bully.
Coming Soon, shared the poster and Hirsch's thoughts on the abridged title:
"Bullying is not only a problem present in our classrooms, on our playgrounds, and online; it's a ubiquitous and harrowing component to everyday life for millions of American children and adolescents. We feel that simplifying the title to BULLY allows us to underline the fact that the film addresses a universal crisis that effects us all."
It's a pretty sharp image, both graphically and metaphorically, alluding to the various signs around schools meant to protect children from catastrophe. Still, the names scrawled into the word "BULLY" seem pretty mild compared to the insults I remember being thrown around the playground, or those I overhear students spout on public transit. Basically, I don't think this is a proper reflection of the kind of abuse the film reveals, but that doesn't lessen my interest in this buzzed about doc.
Bully follows five families over the course of one year to reveal how the children of these families are affected by bullying. Shocking footage reveals not only the bullying itself but the harrowing repercussions it wreaks on its victims. Two of the featured families have lost their children to suicide, while another mother awaits news of what will become of her 14-year-old daughter, who brought a gun aboard her school bus after being repeatedly threatened and harassed.
More than a movie, Bully is meant to be part of a movement that will combat the problem of rampant bullying. To learn more, check out The Bully Project website.
Bully opens in limited release March 9th.


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Definitely feeling good! The past few years have been a nightmare and I think I've woken up now! First I "had heartburn," then I "was lactose intolerant", and finally I "had IBS" and suffered as the doctors picked and chose my next "diagnosis. But now, here I am, happy as can be and gluten free!
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Having gluten-free Food Brought Over Postpartum
Sweetfudge replied to Sweetfudge's topic in PregnancyThank you all so much for your feedback! This has given me some great ideas. I don't think we have the money or room for an extra freezer right now, but I'm sure my in-laws, who live nearby, would be willing to share some freezer space! Great idea, I will plan on making some meals for them to store. I have also heard of people preparing food to throw into the crock-pot, and freezing it in a gallon ziplock bag. I think I am going to try a few of those meals as well. For those questioning the regional food-giving thing, yes, out here in Utah it is twofold - we've got a lot of Mormon neighbors and friends, and that is a common thing. The church also organizes things like this that help out families going through diffulties, and for many people, making an extra plate of whatever they're preparing for their own family's dinner is quite common. It also seemed pretty common when I was growing up in Portland, OR. I think that for those who do insist on bringing something over, I will have a little list of our favorite fruits/fresh food, gluten-free pre-packaged goods, and favorite restaurants for gift cards. Thanks again! You are all great! I feel SO much better about this now
Having gluten-free Food Brought Over Postpartum
Sweetfudge posted a topic in PregnancyHi all, I'm expecting my first baby in January. I do all the cooking in our household (my husband is in grad school, and has very little time these days. Plus, he kinda sucks at cooking...). I know I'm looking a bit far into the future, but I am worrying about how to deal w/ people bringing food/offering to bring food over once I have my baby. We don't have a lot of freezer space, otherwise I would just pre-make a million meals to reheat and eat. I do plan on doing as much of that as I can. But I'm assuming most of the food we eat once our baby gets here will either have to be freshly prepared, or provided by others. I have a decent network of people (church community, family, friends) who I'm sure will offer to bring stuff over. My question is, how do I ensure that I am not getting food that's going to make me sick? #1 - How do I deal w/ cross contamination issues from those not familiar w/ gluten-free cooking?! #2 - I have multiple foods I am intolerant to, so even if they get the gluten-free concept, how do I convey that I ALSO can't eat any dairy, beans, potatoes, onions, etc. I don't know if I should just make some sort of blanket statement (post on FB/my blog/make handouts for anyone who offers food) saying, "These are the things I can't eat, and these are some ways to avoid making me sick." I suppose I could provide a list of ideas of things that we like/can eat that are simple enough to prepare... Or should I just gratefully accept the meals, and if I feel like it's trustworthy, eat it, otherwise, let my hubby take care of it? The main issue w/ that is, he's slightly picky...so if it's not something that fits into his "comfort" zone, he won't eat it, and it will just go to waste. Or do I just plan on making all of our food once the baby arrives? I don't want to seem ungrateful or entitled by asking so much of people. I don't want to offend anyone who is obviously trying to help me out. But I also don't want their efforts to be wasted, if I can provide a way to make it beneficial for both them and my family. Any suggestions, advice, and/or comfort would be much appreciated Thanks!!
Leaky Gut/elimination Diet Thoughts/help
Sweetfudge replied to Sweetfudge's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutOn the paleo diet, I have eliminated red meat, pork, coconut and broccoli (the last two I was already avoiding, but lots of paelo people eat them a lot). Basically, I'm eating fish, chicken, turkey, eggs, veggies, and a little bit of fruit. Occasionally will have some dark chocolate (dairy free).
Leaky Gut/elimination Diet Thoughts/help
Sweetfudge posted a topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutHi all, Been awhile since I visited the forum. But I need some help. My history in a nutshell: I've been gluten-free 5 1/2 years, DF on and off for the past few years (and off for good the past month), following a paleo diet for the past 6 months, also avoiding a few other foods (see my signature). I feel like the paleo is working for me in some ways - I feel stronger, I'm slimming down a bit (not exercising much, and I know that would help). However, I feel like I have been having some sort of stomach pain/cramping/bloating/constipation/diarrhea (and possibly related occasional joint pain/headaches) every day for the past month or two. I've tried eliminating suspect foods, but nothing seems to work. The more I read about leaky gut, the more I think I need to explore it. My husband also keeps telling me I need to do an elimination diet to figure out what's bothering me. The problem is, I don't think I'm eating any one thing consistently enough to pinpoint it as a source. Hence the need for a very restricted diet. Does anyone have any ideas or advice? Any good websites that detail an elimination diet for leaky gut? Also, is a cleanse/detox something I should look at prior to starting the diet? Thanks so much!
Leaky Gut Diet
Sweetfudge replied to Salax's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutLisa, When you did this elimination diet, did you follow a specific plan (ie, a book or website?) or did you just go based off of your reactions to foods? I've been looking into leaky gut and an elimination diet, but am a little lost on where to turn exactly. Thanks!
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Which Diet/lifestyle To Follow To Feel Better?
Sweetfudge replied to Sweetfudge's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutI've been doing a lot of research over the last few weeks, and really like the concept of the paleo diet, even if I don't end up following it 100%. I've mostly been eating leaner foods (meat, dairy free, etc) lately, so worry about adding back in all that red meat, bacon, and butter. Tried a few paleo recipes so far, and really enjoyed them. Interesting that you mention the FODMAP diet. I've had a couple of other people strongly recommend it to me. I think it really makes sense, and am leaning toward trying this one. Sounds kind of like an elimination diet, but with a bit more structure, imo. Did you purchase any books about the diet, or just try it using online sources? I have kind of done the same thing with all the different diets I've tried/researched. I think it works best to incorporate what you find works best for your body. Thanks for sharing what's helped you. P.S. I'm curious, what grains are you still able to tolerate?
Do Probiotics And Enzymes Help You For The Most Part?
Sweetfudge replied to sweeeeet's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutWhen I started taking Align, my GI warned me it can cause some bloating/flare up of symptoms, which I noticed for probably the first week. Definitely nothing as bad as what you experienced. That's horrible. I hope you find something that works for you.
Which Diet/lifestyle To Follow To Feel Better?
Sweetfudge replied to Sweetfudge's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutLol @ the chocolate thing. Have you tried dairy free chocolate/dark chocolate too? I think I would die without that I do need to start keeping a food diary again, good call on that one! Thanks for sharing your experience on the lifestyle. I've ordered the primal blueprint, and have read through the blog. It is the best one I've found! You know, I'm not really worried about my weight right now, just feeling better. But if it helps me lose those last 10 lbs, I wouldn't complain I've done a couple of tests on my supplements, and definitely come up worse for wear when I don't take the probiotic. It's Align, designed specifically for "IBS-symptoms" so I'm pretty sure it's not causing my problem. I take acacia fiber, made by a company who specializes in "IBS-friendly" products, that don't cause the same problems as most supplemental fiber. I've tested it, and it definitely makes a positive difference when I'm using it. Good point though Current symptoms are almost constant gas, quite often stinky. Almost daily I notice cramps, and usually have some constipation, as well as urgency when my body does decide it's ready for me to go. Occasional diarrhea and bloating (once a week or so). Haven't done any challenges on recent food items, just supplements. Feeling like symptoms are so random, that I'm not sure where to start. Thanks all for your help
Which Diet/lifestyle To Follow To Feel Better?
Sweetfudge replied to Sweetfudge's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gutp.s. I am not looking to lose any weight, I am just looking for a fix to whatever is ailing me. I eat relatively healthy, avoid all the foods listed in my signature, don't eat a lot of red meat or fatty foods, don't eat out, rarely eat processed foods, pretty much just drink water and teas (and definitely drink enough in a day), take fiber and probiotics, as well as occasionally remembering to take vitamins/minerals.
I'm trying to figure out what to do here. I'm having pretty regular symptoms the last few months, and really can't pinpoint the cause. The paleo diet, lectin intolerance and elimination diet have all been recommended to me by people. But I don't know what to do. Any suggestions/experience with any of these, or recommended resources? Thanks all!
Elimination Diet - Making Me Sick?!?
Sweetfudge replied to lucia's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutThis sounds a lot like what I'm going through. Eliminating just about everything, and still getting sick. It sucks! I would suggest looking into the IBS diet guidelines. I am not so sure I believe in 'IBS' but I do pretty well when I follow the diet (as was recommended by my doctor, when celiac dx/dairy free wasn't enough). It's helped, and though I'm not feeling 100% it may be something to look into, at least. There's a great website - google "Help For IBS" and you'll find it. I also suggest a couple of the supplemental items recommended on the site - I drink fennel tea at least 1-2 times a day, and take the acacia fiber supplement before each meal. Both have been tremendous help for alleviating my symptoms. The best thing to do is to listen to your body, and try and figure out what trends happen when you eat certain foods. I hope you're able to get on top of all this and start feeling better soon.
Need Help Going Lectin-Free
Sweetfudge replied to masterjen's topic in Alternative DietsI'm having similar frustrations with additional foods I'm sure are causing me problems, but I haven't pinpointed them yet. I'm debating whether to try a lectin-free diet, or elimination diet (which I don't really wanna do lol) or paleo-diet. It all feels so confusing
Potato Intolerance
Sweetfudge replied to tennisman's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky Gut3/4 times when I ate potatoes (sneaking my husband's fries, mashed potatoes, etc) I reacted. So I determined that I am potato intolerant. I did a test to be sure I was, by not eating any potatoes for a couple of weeks, then eating some very simple, bland foods (rice, bananas, gluten-free bread, etc) for a couple days to calm my system down. Then I threw some potatoes into the mix. I just used plain, skinned, boiled potatoes, mashed up, and definitely reacted to them! It sucks to give them up, and while this is not really a "substitute" for potatoes, I have discovered that I really enjoy sweet potatoes. They don't taste much like regular ol' spuds, but they're a good sub in some dishes. I think I might have a lectin intolerance...looking into that next. I think for most of us, we've had to do the detective work on our own. Doctors just want to diagnose what they recognize, and if it's too hard to figure out, they pin a label on it that makes no sense. My philosophy is to listen to your body, it knows what it can and can't handle better than any doctor.
Do Probiotics And Enzymes Help You For The Most Part?
Sweetfudge replied to sweeeeet's topic in Food Intolerance & Leaky GutI have been gluten-free for 4 years, and dairy free mostly for 2. I have gone through phases where I feel better, and then don't. But I definitely notice a difference taking probiotics. I was recommended Align by my GI. It's a probiotic specifically for people with IBS-like symptoms - gas, bloating, cramps, etc. Lately I was wondering if it was working, so I stopped taking it for a couple weeks. Boy, did I notice a difference! Definitely helping! I would look into Align, see if it sounds like it would help you. It has a minute amount of dairy in it, but that really hasn't bothered me.
How Do You Get More Fiber
Sweetfudge replied to Kathleen Smith's topic in Coping with Celiac DiseaseI take a fiber supplement in addition to eating lots of whole grains and veggies. I take acacia fiber, which is made specifically for help with GI problems (bloating, gas, etc), and easy to digest. You can google "Heather's Tummy Fiber" for more info. I buy mine in 1 lb bags at the HFS, and it lasts me a good month and a half. I take 9-12 grams a day (1 1/2 - 2 tbsp). I definitely notice a difference when I'm not taking it.


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MELBOURNE Heart's home record may be what can sneak it into the A-League finals, and it did its play-off chances good on Sunday when it saw off a star-studded Sydney FC side, winning 3-1, the visitors down to 10 men after defender Seb Ryall's dismissal with 35 minutes to play.
A bumper crowd of 13,752 - the biggest Heart has attracted at AAMI Park outside its derby clashes with Melbourne Victory - would have left on good terms after watching the inexpensively assembled side overcome the A-League's moneybags club in convincing-enough style.
Coach John Aloisi was upbeat after the match. ''It was a must-win game for us and it will lift the mood. We knew a big crowd would turn up and there were a lot of people through the week saying how important it was for us to put on a good performance and create a lot of chances. I am really disappointed that we didn't kill them off and score more. We had three one-on-ones and could have won more easily.''
The win lifts Heart into fifth spot on the league ladder, with 27 points, the same as Newcastle and Sydney, but with a superior goal difference.
Aloisi knows that if his side is to make the finals for the second year in a row it has to start picking up points on the road. He pledged that his side would do so, starting next weekend against Wellington.
''It's an away game for them too, it's in Dunedin,'' he joked. ''We will put this away record to bed next week.''
It was a rather cagey opening 30 minutes, although Richard Garcia's run and shot from a Jeremy Walker pass signalled Heart's intent early, while goalkeeper Andrew Redmayne had to dive to stop an Alessandro Del Piero effort from the edge of the penalty area.
Nick Kalmar showed good skill to win a free kick on the edge of the Sydney area before bending the ball around the Sky Blues wall to force a diving save from Vedran Janjetovic.
Heart lifted a gear on the half-hour mark to take control of a game it rarely looked like relinquishing once it got its nose in front.
Kalmar got on the scoresheet for the second home game in succession. He pounced on a lay back from teammate Jonathan Germano, after the Sydney defence failed to deal with a Garcia cross in the 31st minute, shooting past Janjetovic.
Heart doubled its advantage in the 36th minute when the Argentinian Germano, more often a provider, became the finisher.
As Eli Babalj worked higher up the pitch the midfielder ran through the centre and on to the striker's through ball, calmly finishing with a shot across the Sydney goalkeeper.
The complexion of the contest changed irrevocably 10 minutes after the interval, and once again Kalmar played a major role.
His pass found Heart winger David Williams, whose run towards goal was only ended with a foul by Ryall. Referee Alan Milliner quickly reached for a red card, pointed to the spot, and Ryall trudged off with little complaint. Williams stepped up to slam the spot kick home.
Sydney's Joel Griffiths would have given the home crowd a scare. He made space for himself by getting between Heart's defenders and shot home on the turn in the 58th minute. But in the end the home team held firm and had the chances to make the win even more convincing.
Michael Lynch is The Age's chief soccer reporter and also reports on motor sport and horseracing