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Italy has borne the brunt of this migrant flow for two decades, and it has responded with one of Europe's most repressive laws on illegal immigration.
But now the Italian parliament is trying to scrap a law that has made migrants vulnerable to exploitation and human rights abuses. The existing law has also produced detention camps where undocumented migrants are held in harsh conditions.
One example is the Ponte Galeria camp, which is near Rome's international airport, surrounded by open fields. But inside it's grim and gray.
Detainees are locked behind bars in what look like cages. At the sight of visitors, they shout their various laments.
The camp has been in the media spotlight since late January when more than a dozen Moroccan migrants staged a demonstration.
The men had been working in Libya. When they asked to be paid, they say, their employer forced them onto a rickety vessel headed for Italy where they landed in October.
Three months later, detainee Hicham Marrach said, they resorted to a desperate form of protest: With fishing wire and sewing needles, they kept their lips stitched together for a week.
"We ended up in a place where we don't speak the language. We have no idea what will happen to us. We committed no crime and yet we end up in jail," he said. "Sewing our mouths shut was the only way to make ourselves heard."
Evans Omeo and his wife fled interreligious conflict in their native Nigeria. They were brought to Ponte Galeria after landing in Sicily in December, and were placed in segregated male-female sections of the camp.
If they are sent back home, he fears, his father-in-law will kill them because they are of different religions.
"I asked for asylum," he said, adding that he is Catholic while his wife is Muslim.
In a nearby caged area, 10 men live in a barracks-like room, including Bafouday Ceesay, 29, who's from Gambia and has lived in Italy for seven years. But when he lost his job, he also lost his permit to stay.
"Conditions here are very, very bad," he said. "Sometimes you don't get hot water; the heater, it doesn't go on sometimes. So it is cold. There's no nothing here. You don't go to school, you don't get work. You just sleep, eat."
Undocumented immigrants who end up in detention can by law be held for up to 18 months before being expelled. Those who say they are fleeing persecution complain that they're offered little or no assistance in navigating Italy's complex asylum legislation.
Doctors for Human Rights has visited all of Italy's 13 detention camps and issued a scathing report.
"These centers are places generating violence," said Alberto Barbieri, who headed the group's task force. "These centers are useless places of human suffering."
Barbieri said there were an estimated 340,000 undocumented immigrants in Italy in 2012. Of those, some 80,000 were detained, but only 4,000 were actually deported.
"Only 1 percent is actually expelled every year of total migrants, undocumented migrants, so what is the utility? It is like emptying the sea with a spoon," he said.
Khalid Chaouki, a lawmaker of the governing Democratic Party, is Italian-born of Moroccan parents.
"We are trying to reduce the detention period from 18 to two months and radically change management of the centers by establishing specific guidelines," he said.
But Chaouki says steps like demoting illegal immigration from a crime to an administrative violation is only a partial solution.
The real challenge, he said, is to legally recognize the many immigrants who work in agriculture, in factories and as caregivers. Many have formed families, put down roots and contribute to Italian society, he added.
As for the continuing wave of migrants, hundreds of thousands of people in Syria and sub-Saharan Africa are still trying to escape conflict.
When Italy takes over the EU's rotating chairmanship in June, Chaouki said, it will propose a European Union-wide agreement granting temporary humanitarian visas so that each member state can take in its share of asylum seekers.
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If you already have a new business or want to make a business, there are two basic types of business, namely business to business (B2B) and business to customer (B2C). Both B2B and B2C have very different types of effective content strategy, business models, ranging from the customer segment, marketing strategy, capital, to how your business plans in the future. For example, an online shop Ever Pretty, selling chinese bridesmaids dresses and we found it is not only a B2C company, they also have the wholesale website,a prom dress wholesalers, which can offer dresses to various kinds of retailers as well.
Now we will try to explain first what is the difference between B2B and B2C, then we will discuss how different marketing strategies are. In addition, we will also discuss how B2B and B2C marketing tips are then how to sell the business to the company. But before that, in order, the Writer team will invite you to know what B2B and B2C really are.
What is business to business or B2B?
Business to business or B2B are transactions that are carried out electronically or physically and occur between business entities one to another. When you see what is thick, B2B is the sale of the product or service provided by the business and is intended for other businesses, not the customer.
For example, you have a culinary company engaged in catering. Then because the business you have is a large enough catering business, so you have a target market for the company. So your catering service is for companies that have quite a lot of employees, this is called B2B because your business or service is for other companies. If your catering business is for individuals or groups, that means your business is business to customer, not B2B.
What about business to customer or B2C?
The opposite of B2B, business to customer or B2C is a business that performs services or sales of goods or services to individual customers or groups directly. In other words, the business that you do is directly related to consumers, not companies or other businesses.
For example, suppose you have a basic food business. When you sell goods to individual consumers, that means your business is B2C aka business to customer. But if you sell large quantities of groceries to other businesses, that means your business is B2B, not B2C anymore.
Broadly speaking, almost all B2C products can become B2B products, but B2B products are very little used by individual consumers directly. For example, your catering business cannot be sold individually, but you can sell basic food businesses with fellow businessmen.
Now about the differences between B2C and B2B marketing strategies
After knowing the fundamental differences between B2C and B2B, we will now discuss how different marketing strategies are. Marketing strategies have significant factors to business continuity because when you make a marketing strategy wrong, your business can lose a lot.
If you look at risk, a business or product from B2B has a greater risk than B2C. Because the product you produce must be in sufficiently large quantities, the maintenance and manufacturing costs that you have to spend are also slightly larger.
We will take the example of a catering business (B2B), the amount of risk of experiencing a loss is greater than the staple business (B2C). But the benefits gained are far greater than the catering business.
What is the marketing strategy in B2C?
Now we will discuss one by one how the marketing strategy of B2C and B2B. Marketing B2C or business to the customer is the key to how you can play customers' emotions, create attractive advertisements, competitive prices, and good product quality. Once again we will say that customer trust in the business world is number 1, just how you can do some marketing strategies to get that trust.
We will exemplify marketing strategies in B2C in the food business. The simple strategy is that you can make very competitive prices. For this reason, it is very important that you know some of your competitors. When other businesses have cheaper rice prices, you have to have a strategy on how to make rice at a cheaper price but the same or even better quality.
Besides that, you can make an eye-catching ad and if possible it is very interesting. Customers will be very interested in advertisements that are unusual and a bit odd.
Then what about marketing on B2B?
B2B marketing strategy is how you can make your prospective customers believe in the quality of your brand. Your customers who are business owners will certainly compare how strong your brand is with other brands, and whether your brand can be trusted.
Therefore you must strengthen the quality of your business. How is the quality of your product, the quality of your service until communication with your customers must be continuously improved. When your customer is a business/company, you must build strong relationships in this business sector.
"The fundamental difference from B2B marketing targets is service, product quality, and trust. Whereas in B2C you must prioritize more on customer satisfaction with products and competitive prices. "
B2B and B2C businesses have very different marketing targets
B2B and B2C businesses clearly have very different marketing targets, for B2C you have individual or group marketing targets. Then for B2B, your marketing target is the business/company. As well as the difference again is the ability to purchase between B2C and B2B is very different, for B2C you cannot predict the purchasing power of your prospective customers. But for B2B you can have prospective customers who have very high purchasing power because your marketing target is a company/business that is already large and certainly has a lot of money.
In B2C you can make promotions on social media and create websites because that's where you should have a lot of potential customers. On social media, you can interact with customers and create your own "fans". In addition to social media and websites, you can also create advertising marketing strategies in print or brochures. This method can be useful when you will enter a new market.
Whereas B2B marketing targets are certainly very different. Business people or companies will not be directly interested in the products you advertise on the internet or in brochures. When the volume of purchases made is very high, the businessman or company will see in detail what products and brands you have, how the track record is, how other customers testimonials and other details.
Although B2B marketing targets look quite difficult because approaching a company/business is different from employees, it turns out to be one of the advantages of B2B. You have a very segmented or categorized target, that means you can do a focused marketing strategy.
That's the basic difference in marketing, how to market strategy and marketing targets on B2B and B2C. Usually, business people ignore these things and just make a business without making a marketing strategy and see who the marketing target is. Hopefully by reading this article from Writer you can compare and create new marketing strategies for your business.


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"Fighting raged near a military base in Syria's north as a ceasefire in the bloody civil war was supposed to go into effect Friday at dawn," activists tell The Associated Press, which says the news illustrates "the difficulty of enforcing even a limited truce coinciding with a Muslim holiday."
Still, the AP adds, "elsewhere violence appeared to die down, and thousands of protesters took advantage of the lull to mount some of the largest anti-regime demonstrations in months."
From Beirut, correspondent Rasha Elass tells the NPR Newscast Desk that:
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"But, the activists add, today there were incidents of live fire on the ground that killed several civilians."
As we've reported, U.N.-Arab League envoy Lakhdar Brahimi brokered what he said is a 4-day truce during the Eid al-Adh holiday that Muslims began observing today. But earlier ceasefire deals have quickly fallen apart in Syria this year.
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Cyberpunk in Asia: Reflections on Dystopia in a Time of Coronavirus
Virtual exhibition created by the students in "English 217: Cyberpunk in Asia" taught by Jerrine Tan, Visiting Lecturer in Global Anglophone Literature, Spring 2020
In collaboration with Ellen Alvord
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In my English course titled, "Cyberpunk in Asia," we examine why the modern genre of cyberpunk dystopias has often been associated with Asian cities, neon signs, and crowded bustling streets. Viewing films such as Blade Runner and reading novels including Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep, we interrogate how historical and economic forces have shaped the way the future is imagined and why the place of that reckoning resonates with Asia today. Given that visual imagery is central to the themes of our course—which even has its own Instagram account—it seemed natural to collaborate with the Art Museum on campus.
Due to the unexpected circumstances of COVID-19, we were not able to visit the Museum in person, so instead, I collaborated with Museum staff to plan a two-part remote museum activity for my students. The first involved a close-looking activity with four artworks from the MHCAM collection selected for the way they resonated with our course themes, including works by Wayne Thiebaud, Michael Jacobson-Hardy, Livia Corona, and Jane Hammond. Students studied the images online, shared responses, and then reflected on each others' insights. I highlight their astute observations in two video conversations (part I and part II) with Ellen Alvord, as part of the MHCAM in Conversation series.
I titled the second remote assignment "Pick One; Recommend One" and gave them more autonomy to select their own images. Students were given access to the Five College museum collections database and told to select an artwork that reflected the theme "Cyberpunk in Asia" or "Present Dystopias," as a way to think about our present moment. They were to write a 100-word label for their selected piece, offering description, analysis, and explanation on how it related to either theme. They then had to recommend a complementary piece of artwork. This could be from the internet, from Instagram, or a piece of art of their own creation such as a photograph, haiku, short poem, or drawing, for which they would also add a short write-up explaining how this piece connects to the first.
I was impressed by their insightful analyses and amazed at how creative and imaginative they were with the assignment. I hope you enjoy their selections and thoughtful commentary below.
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The Cityscape and Vaporwave/Future Funk
by Haenah Lee '20
Diorama Map Tokyo by Sohei Noshino (SCMA) is an impossible cityscape made up of collaged photographs of various elements: skyscrapers, pedestrians, boats, trains, and roads. While the artwork title suggests that this is a depiction of Tokyo, many of the elements appear to be repeated or spliced from another city entirely. Various buildings have a surrounding sky that looks out of place amongst the rest of the cityscape. This artwork encapsulates the cyberpunk city aesthetic because of its cramped busyness, which is filled to the brim with people and metal.
My recommended image is a typical representation of music covers for Vaporwave/Future Funk, with aesthetics rooted in gridlike cyberpunk abstraction. It is a subgenre of music that utilizes synths, pop drums, and other electrical instruments. Vaporwave/Future Funk often "samples" or takes inspiration from 1970's and 1980's music from both the west and Japan, which gives it a certain urban "nostalgia" and lighthearted atmosphere. These subgenres of music try to achieve what Diorama Map Tokyo accomplishes, an aural aesthetic of a cyberpunk-esque cityscape.
(Video) Games
by Allegra Wu '20
Made of mother-of-pearl, this object is a gaming counter (Historic Deerfield) that was used to keep score. Wealthy English families ordered these from Chinese artists, often with their family motto in script, which became a sort of rallying cry before a game began. This particular work is engraved with "VIXI LIBER ET MORIAR," which translates to "I have lived free, and will die so." Although it is a historic piece, I believe it serves as the inspiration for the intricate animations and graphics of video games in the Asian cyberpunk genre.
My recommended piece is a scene from the video game Detroit: Become Human where a player controls three androids, who are essentially slaves to their human owners with the goal of escaping bondage. The character on the right is an android named Markus, who takes care of a very famous elderly artist (left). The artist is one of the few humans who believes that androids are not just machines, but keys to a successful and bright future. When he asks Markus to paint something, Markus creates a perfect copy of the artist's work hanging in the studio. The artist then asks Markus to paint something original, allowing him to be creative, even though that is not in an android's program. This image depicts the moment that Markus realizes that despite being an android, he can live free, and would rather die so—connecting to the family motto from the gaming counter: "I have lived free and will die so."
Human in Posthuman Colors
by Sarah Cavar '20
In Ely Kim's digital print Paleo (Mead Art Museum), the artist reinvents a nineteenth-century artwork—Kikugawa Eizan's Untitled (sumo parade)—by inverting colors in order to transform the traditional into the super-modern. The use of hyperpigmented and cyberpunk-associated colors, especially blue and green, carry the work from its sepia-origin to a near-posthuman space. Greenlit identical men sit meditatively accompanied by bright pink, unidentifiable organisms. The artist's use of color and shadow defamiliarize the figures. By inverting the colors of sumo parade, Kim suggests the "future" and "past" are not opposites, but mirror images produced by a consistent body of social relations and ethical concerns.
My recommended piece is Lace Shell (2016) by Lisa Wright. A heavy figure stands head bowed against a black background, with a black mask covering all but their eyes. The figure appears to be clothed but is covered entirely in glowing green lacework that looks like computer static. The lace covering the black mask contrasts with their eyes, which are looking at something out of frame. Like Ely Kim, Wright defamiliarizes the human body, taking an antiquated medium (lace) and catapulting it to a glowing, green future. The green-covered bow in the figure's hair suggests simultaneous anachronism and futurism, reimagining the human form in posthuman hues.
Homes Devoid of Humans
by Jia Hong '20
This photograph by David Goldblatt (UMCA) depicts an unfinished municipal housing project in the Lady Grey village of South Africa. The rows of identical clay houses are abandoned and are missing their rooftops and doors. The region looks arid and unforgiving and there are no traces of human habitation. The landscape's ghost-town like qualities remind me of a dystopia because it illustrates the great injustice done to the people of the Lady Grey village by the government—who failed them in seeing the project through. I'm thinking of the people that were meant to live in these homes. Now that we are in a time of quarantine—where do they go for shelter and security?
My recommended piece is a watercolor painting by Hong Kong based artist, Leung Yun Charm. The title, Serene Moment No. 3 is inspired by a local village in the inland Chinese province of Anhui. Charm's work connects to the theme of "Present Dystopias" because it shows a similar stillness and eerie feeling as Goldblatt's photograph. Given that this painting is of a Chinese village, I'm reminded of the different struggles countries are facing while combating COVID-19. At the moment, China's mandatory shelter-in-place is slowly being lifted, while the United States is ramping up restrictions. These artworks are like glimpses into the future for the rest of the world just starting to feel the effects of this pandemic.
City in the Rain
by Eun Young Kim '20
City in the Rain by Benton Spruance (MHCAM) illustrates the moment rain in a city has stopped, leaving the remaining puddles, which creates a glossy texture to the piece. Most of the buildings appear to be at a similar height, however, there are a few taller, more distinct buildings that might be historical landmarks or useful for referencing directions. There is a mixture of neon pink and yellow sheens that stretch across the buildings, extending in the distance that create an overall warm tone to the city. These colors also suggest a "cyberpunk aesthetic." When I first saw this piece, I immediately thought of the movie Ghost in the Shell and how shots of rain in the city were often used as transitional scenes.
My recommendation for a complimentary artwork is a photograph I took last summer in Seoul. The sunset creates a pink and yellow hue enveloping the city, typical for a warm summer evening. At night, Seoul delivers a "cyberpunk aesthetic" with all of the flashing lights, crowds, and music. Although it wasn't raining on this particular day, if it was raining in the evening, it would have had the same visual effects as in City in the Rain. However, there is similarity in the scale of buildings in each image and although it is not pictured in my photo, there was a subway station on the far left corner that was a perfect reference point to meet friends.
Present Day Dystopia
by Lindsay Burcz '20
In Fate Descends Towards the River Leading Two Innocent Children by Jan Saudek (Mead Art Museum), a woman clothed in a slightly tattered white dress is walking with two unclothed children down a muddy path. The path is lined by transmission towers and in the distance there is a faint city skyline. The uncertainty and loneliness of the present day is reflected in the children. Although the three figures are standing together, they are isolated from the city that they are walking towards, much like we are while quarantining. The children are seemingly unaware of their destination, holding onto the woman's hand to guide them into an uncertain future. Their lack of clothing and resources, is reminicent of the situation many find themselves today in our current dystopian-like world.
My artwork recommendation is Nocturno by Otto Piene which is part of a larger collection, entitled Fire Paintings, made between 1965 and 2009. Nocturno and Saudek's photograph have many similarities, despite being of two different mediums. The works share a monochromatic color palette that lends a melancholy tone. Both have a white focal point in the center of the composition that draws the eye. Like Saudek's photograph, Nocturno can be interpreted as a representation of the dystopian conditions created by the current pandemic. The smudge in the middle of the painting is contained by black rings with only little smatterings of white that spread towards the top of the piece, resembling our current patterns of being stuck indoors and leaving only for small errands.
Up Up Up
by Jaey Yim '20
Utagawa Kunimasa IV's woodblock print "Pavilion Above the Clouds" (Ryounkaku kikai sugoroku) (Mead Art Museum), depicts Japan's first skyscraper which had electric lights on every floor and Japan's first elevator. The second to seventh floors were filled with shops selling imported goods from all around the world. The eighth floor had a musical hall where western concerts were showcased. The tenth to twelfth floors were dedicated to an observatory where one could see the entirety of a new modern Japan forming during the Meiji period—a time where the exchange of trade and ideas with the west molded Japan.
Ryounkaku was touted as a symbol of modernity for tourists and visitors. It was described as a magical structure that continued into the clouds; the Korean name literally means that the building is so high that it exceeds the clouds. For people living in Tokyo, however, Ryounkaku was only slightly taller than their buildings. After many people had visited Ryounkaku and the hype died down, it was referred to instead as Junikai, meaning "twelve steps."
Technology enables us to reach unimaginable heights, which is why I recommend this photograph of a model using cables to stay suspended in the air. This photo makes me think of the elevators in Ryounkaku which employed gears, metal ropes, and pulleys to individually elevate people to higher floors. In the photograph, it looks as though she is climbing the building, which captures the continued desire to ascend to an elevated place while relying on technology.
Separation Anxieties As Urban Dystopia
by Bethany Powell '22
In Elliott Erwitt's photograph Lost Persons/Pasadena, 1963 (Mead Art Museum), a handwritten sign is posted on the chain-link fence that reads "Lost Persons Area." Underneath it, two women are standing on a bench with postures of frustration or impatience. Between them, a woman sits on the bench holding an infant. There's a feeling of isolation even though they're in close proximity. The lost sense of time and place in this photo comments on the contemporary realities of urban life. As cities become more populated and overdeveloped it's easy to lose one's indivuality or sense of self.
My recommended piece is the music video for the song "Sing" by the rock band My Chemical Romance. In the video, the band of protagonists are leaving the post-apocalyptic wastelands to rescue a child who has been kidnapped by an evil corporation. Dressed in bright clothes, the child contrasts with the sleek corporate environment, and remains curious and playful while the corporate workers wait tensely for the arrival of something sinister. When the child is finally reunited with the chaotic wasteland adventurers, the child's connection to humanity is restored.
A special thanks to our Five College Museum partners (the Mead Art Museum at Amherst College, the Smith College Museum of Art, and the University Museum of Contemporary Art at UMass Amherst) as well as Historic Deerfield for access to their remarkable collections, which are represented in this virtual exhibition.


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(BPT) – Our bodies naturally crave salt, a necessary nutrient, and research shows that we gravitate to the amount we need for our bodies to function properly. Salt deficiency has been linked to a host of health concerns, including insulin resistance, increased risk of heart attacks and reduced cognition. But what if eating less salt also increases your weight by making you eat more?
"Over the past 30 years, an interesting phenomenon has occurred: the rates of obesity have dramatically gone up but the amount of salt we consume has remained fairly stable," says Mort Satin of the Salt Institute. "Food producers have been lowering the amount of salt they use, under pressure from the government and consumer activists, so we are either eating a lot more food to get the salt we need or have drastically lowered our activity levels, or both."
In the U.S., research shows that people have been consuming about the same amount of salt on a daily basis for 50 years. And around the world most people eat about the same amount of salt – about 3,500 mg/day, according to the World Health Organization. It appears that we all, when free to choose, eat enough to keep us in a "safe range" between 2,300 mg/day and 4,600/mg a day, according to medical researcher Bjorn Folkow.
"It stands to reason that if the amount of salt in food is lowered, we will eat more to get to our safe range," Satin says. "More food equals more calories and that means more weight gain, unless we increased our physical activity to burn off the extra calories."
This isn't news to those who raise livestock. According to Dr. Rick Rasby, professor of animal science at the University of Nebraska, cattlemen intentionally control the amount of salt in cattle feed to either reduce the cost of feed or to fatten cows up before sale. If they add more salt to the feed, the cows naturally eat less. If they reduce the amount of salt, then the cows will eat more.
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The irony is that for most of us there is no need to reduce the amount of salt we consume, Satin says. Years of scientific evidence, including recent research by Canadian scientists published in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), shows that eating the levels of salt recommended by the American Heart Association or the U.S. government would actually cause harm. Current recommendations from the American Heart Association are as low as 1,500 mg/day, an amount so low that European researchers, also writing in JAMA, found it would increase the risk of heart attacks and early death.
"The unintended consequence of the ongoing salt reduction experiment may be an increase in obesity," Satin says. "More research is needed, but meanwhile, individuals may want to focus on a balanced diet and regular exercise and remember that lowering the salt in food may make you want to eat more."


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Sunday, June 28, 2009
Blue Corn Muffins - Blue Monday
From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...Adventurers climb mountains because they are there, folks who love good food experiment with ingredients for the same reason. My first encounter with blue cornmeal was a dirty looking chip with no cache. It looked terrible but the flavor wasn't bad. While it was grainier than its yellow or white cousins, it was sweet and hearty and had the lingering taste of earth about it. The Native Americans of the Southwest call blue corn Hopi corn and it has spiritual importance to them. It represents the rising sun and the beginning of life, wisdom and understanding. Blue cornmeal comes from the dried blue kernels of corn grown on plateaus and mesas in New Mexico and Arizona. It's not always a true blue and when it's on the cob it has a hue more purple than blue. When ground it appears to be a very pale, almost white, lavender that on close inspection is flecked with grains of blue that are photochromic. The picture to the left has not been doctored in any way. It was taken at noon on a very sunny day and this is what the camera saw. I've been working on Southwestern-style meals for a family gathering planned for later this summer, so it was a natural progression to begin experimenting with blue corn. When I found an old Bobby Flay recipe for blue corn muffins I was hooked and this is what my first foray into the world of blue corn produced. I can't tell you how much I enjoyed these. I will make them any time I can - even for breakfast. They are packed with flavor and have a wonderful moist crumb that's hard to resist. I really hope you'll try these. They are down-home wonderful.
Blue Corn Muffins...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite
2 ounces (1/2 stick) unsalted butter
3 tablespoons onion, finely diced
1 clove garlic, finely chopped
1/2 cup milk
2 large eggs
1/4 cup red bell pepper, finely diced
1 jalapeno peppers, finely diced
1/4 cup fresh or frozen corn, thawed
1 tablespoon finely chopped cilantro leaves
3/4 cup blue cornmeal (can substitute yellow)
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon granulated sugar
1) Adjust a rack to middle-third of oven and preheat to 400 degrees F. Grease a 6 slot muffin pan with non-stick vegetable spray. Set aside.
2) Melt butter in a small saucepan; add onions and garlic and cook until soft. Set aside to cool.
3) In a large mixing bowl, combine milk, eggs, bell pepper, jalapeno, corn and cilantro. Whisk in butter mixture. Set aside.
4)In a separate bowl, combine cornmeal, flour, baking powder, soda, salt and sugar. Whisk to combine. Mix into the liquid mixture.
5) Divide batter evenly among the 6 muffins slots and bake for 16 minutes or until set, turning pan once for even baking. Yield: 6 muffins
I'm send this to Smiling Sally for her Blue Monday event.
43 comments :
- Martha said...
These look wonderful -- I've never used blue cornmeal either! I'll have to give it a try!
- June 28, 2009 at 1:56 PM
- Katy said...
This is a unique and fascinating food to me. I must try this! I think this is just awesome!
- June 28, 2009 at 2:14 PM
- theUngourmet said...
Oh my goodness, I just have to find some blue corn! These are beautiful, I love all of the wonderful colors inside! I know my husband would love these too.
Wonderful choice for Blue Monday! - June 28, 2009 at 2:24 PM
- Heather S-G said...
These are so comforting, Mary! My roots are Native American and I love that you gave a little blue corn history with your recipe! Absolutely gorgeous :)
- June 28, 2009 at 2:31 PM
- Schnitzel and the Trout said...
Did you find the blue corn and where? I suppose the blue corn meal can be purchased over the internet? I wish I could taste right now.
- June 28, 2009 at 2:41 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Susan, we have a small bodega in our area that carries blue corn in the late summer. Very little of it makes it to market because most of it is raised to make masa. The internet is a great source for blue cornmeal but you can buy it in Spanish/Mexican markets, Whole Foods of Market of Choice.
- June 28, 2009 at 2:56 PM
- Karen said...
I love how it looks inside... the red of the bell ppr, the yellow corn, it's a beautiful muffin and I'm sure it's delish!
- June 28, 2009 at 3:00 PM
- NKP said...
So cool! I have never baked with blue corn. What striking colour!
- June 28, 2009 at 4:56 PM
- LK- Healthy Delicious said...
these are so awesome! I love the color of the blue corn... and the jalapenio in there? winderful
- June 28, 2009 at 5:23 PM
- Cathy said...
Your blue muffins look so delicious and will be fun for a family gathering. They would spark a lot of conversation at my house.
I might add a little dab of pepper jelly along with the butter. Yum. - June 28, 2009 at 7:33 PM
wOW!!! That looks FANTASTIC! And the nutritional info is superb, I'll bet, compared to regular cornmeal!
- June 28, 2009 at 8:11 PM
- Martha@A Sense of Humor is Essential said...
My favorite color, one of my favorite foods, FABULOUS!!
- June 28, 2009 at 8:18 PM
- Joyce said...
I am going to see if I can find some blue corn meal at Whole Foods because these look amazing. Thanks for adding the interesting blue corn comments as I found the history so interesting. My cooking light club would love these muffins.
Joyce - June 28, 2009 at 8:20 PM
- Unknown said...
Those would make a pretty addition to the table! They sound delicious. :)
- June 28, 2009 at 8:58 PM
- Deb in Hawaii said...
Your muffins look delicious. I just bought blue cornmeal for an enchilada casserole and I think I now know what I will be doing with the extra!
- June 28, 2009 at 9:02 PM
- koralee said...
oh what a lovely blog you have!!! i am going to take some time and look at all your yummy yummy images from your past post...these blue cornmeal muffins look amazing!!! Thanks for leaving such nice words on my blog!
- June 28, 2009 at 10:29 PM
- My Little Space said...
I wonder how it taste like??
- June 28, 2009 at 10:57 PM
- chow and chatter said...
these look great never heard of blue corn is it easy to find?
- June 28, 2009 at 11:16 PM
- Creative Classroom Core said...
How fun these are!
- June 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM
- Lyndas recipe box said...
I love the sound of these, Mary- I don't know if I can find blue cornmeal here, but I'm sure going to look! I'd love to try these!
- June 28, 2009 at 11:37 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
Gals, Whole Foods and Market of Choice both carry blue corn in their bulk sections. It can also be ordered on line. As to its taste - a bit like yellow cornmeal but with an earthier flavor. Trust me...I'm not into strange stuff. You will really like this.
- June 29, 2009 at 12:19 AM
- Mary | Deep South Dish said...
They are so colorful and pretty! I'd have to mail order blue cornmeal because I have never seen it anywhere around here. Actually, I've never seen blue corn either!
- June 29, 2009 at 9:45 AM
- Ann said...
That is awesome and looks totally tempting. I just the love that color.
- June 29, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- The Cooking Photographer said...
Ooo Mary these are beautiful! I can't wait to try them, and that corn shot is stunning.
Laura - June 29, 2009 at 11:21 AM
- Olga said...
ooh, I've never seen blue corn in "person"...these are so colorful!
- June 29, 2009 at 11:23 AM
- Fifi Flowers said...
I bet those are DELICIOUS!!! Your blog makes me hungry.. breakfast time!
- June 29, 2009 at 11:40 AM
- Carrie said...
I love corn muffins and those look scrumptious!
- June 29, 2009 at 2:13 PM
- Nicole Feliciano said...
Perfect for a 4th picnic. Thanks for the idea.
- June 29, 2009 at 3:26 PM
- Chef Fresco said...
By far, the coolest corn muffin ever!
- June 29, 2009 at 3:36 PM
- Sandi@ Rose Chintz Cottage said...
What a yummy-looking muffin! I've never seen such a pretty head of blue corn before! Thanks for sharing and have a Happy Blue Monday.
- June 29, 2009 at 4:12 PM
- The Quintessential Magpie said...
Mary, I always like to drop by to see you and see what you might be cooking. You never disappoint. I love blue corn chips, but I have never had blue corn muffins. These look GREAT!
I hope you're having a very happy Blue Monday...
Sheila :-) - June 29, 2009 at 4:21 PM
- Knitty said...
I can only think of one possible source near me. I've bookmarked your recipe in case I am successful!
- June 29, 2009 at 6:57 PM
- Lori said...
I think they mix it with ash as well.
Several years ago I purchased some blue corn meal and made a type of cornbread with pine nuts in it. We all loved it and I have been thinking of making it again. Now I am inspired! Thanks Mary. - June 29, 2009 at 6:59 PM
This looks like a fun recipe. I've had blue cornmeal chips... so next corn muffins!
Kathy b - June 29, 2009 at 7:48 PM
- bj said...
I've not seen the blue corn before.
We lived on the Navajo reservation in Tuba City, AZ for about a year, a long time ago. The Hopi reservation was just across the highway. Almost everything is spiritual to the Indians, it seems. We really enjoyed our time there..I spent most of my days, driving around looking for rugs, pottery, jewelry..Had such fun.
I really want to try these muffins and think I will go right in and make some for our dinner tonight.
Thanks for the recipe..
Oh and have you ever had Navajo Tacos ? O, Honey !! - June 29, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- bj said...
oops, meant to say I would have to use regular corn for these muffins..hope they will be good, anyway!!?
- June 29, 2009 at 8:23 PM
- Mary Bergfeld said...
bj, the muffins are delicious when made with white or yellow cornmeal, but the blue corn adds an earthiness that is missing from muffins made with white or yellow meal.
- June 29, 2009 at 8:33 PM
What a great blue post. The blue cornmeal is sooooo COOL!!!!
- June 29, 2009 at 9:25 PM
- Printersdevil said...
This sound wonderful.
- June 29, 2009 at 10:15 PM
- Printersdevil said...
Beautiful. I have an aunt who lived in California and she used a lot of blue cornmeal. I love Mexican cornbread. I have to try out your recipe.
- June 29, 2009 at 10:25 PM
- MyKitchenInHalfCups said...
I've been enjoying blue corn meal for years now. I think my very favorite recipe is for blue corn waffle chips - spicy chipotle pepper and made in the thinner heart shaped waffle make I have.
Love the blue corn muffin look - I think they're beautiful. - June 29, 2009 at 11:05 PM
- Regina said...
It's really great.
- June 30, 2009 at 1:08 AM
- Jennsmere said...
Enjoyed visiting...love blue corn muffins! Thanks for stopping by my place...
Susan - June 30, 2009 at 1:51 AM


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When he wasn t flying, Bean always enjoyed painting as a hobby. Attending night classes at St. Mary s College in Maryland in 1962, Alan experimented with landscapes. During training and between missions as a test pilot and astronaut, he continued private art lessons. On space voyages, his artist s eye and talent enabled him to document impressions of the Moon and space to be preserved later on canvas. His art reflects the attention to detail of the aeronautical engineer, the respect for the unknown of the astronaut and the unabashed appreciation of a skilled painter.
The space program has seen unprecedented achievements and Bean realized that most of those who participated actively in this adventure would be gone in forty years. He knew that if any credible artistic impressions were to remain for future generations, he must paint them now. "My decision to resign from NASA in 1981 was based on the fact that I am fortunate enough to have seen sights no other artist ever has," Bean said, "and I hope to communicate these experiences through art."
Bean s book Apollo: An Eyewitness Account which chronicles his first-person experience as an Apollo astronaut in words and paintings was received with critical and popular acclaim upon its publication in 1998.


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Senior Professional in Human Resources Exam Prep: Workforce Planning and Employment
- Introduction
- Workforce Planning and Employment Law
- Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity
- Gender Discrimination
- Workforce Planning
- Job Analysis
- Recruitment
- Contingent Workforce
- Selection
- Post-Offer Employment Practices
- Organizational Exit
- Management of Employment Records
- Strategic Considerations for the SPHR
- Chapter Summary
- Apply Your Knowledge
- Exam Questions
This chapter helps you prepare for the SPHR examination by covering concepts and strategies associated with workforce planning and employment. This section composes 16% of the SPHR examination.
Gain a Strategic Understanding of Workforce Planning and Employment
- Understand the importance of workforce planning and employment to organizational success
Gain an Understanding of Workforce Planning and Employment Law
- Understand the implications of these laws, regulations, and precedent cases in the design of workforce planning and employment programs
Gain an Understanding of Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity
- Understand affirmative action plans
- Understand the EEO complaint process
Gain an Understanding of Gender Discrimination
- Understand the two types of sexual discrimination
- Understand the broad scope of hostile environment
- Understand how to develop effective harassment prevention programs
Gain an Understanding of Workforce Planning
- Understand how to forecast workforce needs
- Understand how to forecast workforce supply
Gain an Understanding of Job Analysis
- Understand the job analysis process
- Understand how to collect data needed for job analysis
- Understand how to write job descriptions and job specifications
- Understand job analysis using competencies
Gain an Understanding of Recruitment
- Understand internal recruitment methods
- Understand external recruitment methods
- Understand how to evaluate recruitment program effectiveness
Gain an Understanding of the Contingent Workforce
Gain an Understanding of Selection
- Understand the development of selection criteria
- Understand the selection process
- Understand the evaluation of the selection process
Gain an Understanding of Post-Offer Employment Practices
- Understand employment offers
- Understand employment contracts
- Under employer practices with respect to relocation benefits and requirements for medical tests
Gain an Understanding of Organizational Exit
- Understand concepts associated with organizational exit such as layoffs, exit interviews, and wrongful terminations
Gain an Understanding of the Management of Employment Records
- Understand legal requirements for the retention of employment and payroll related records
- Introduction
- Workforce Planning and Employment Law
- Civil Rights Act of 1866
- United States Constitution
- Equal Pay Act (1963)
- Civil Rights Act of 1964
- Executive Orders 11246 (1965), 11375 (1967), and 11478 (1969)
- Age Discrimination in Employment Act of 1967
- Consumer Credit Protection Act (1968)
- Fair Credit Reporting Act (1970)
- Rehabilitation Act of 1973
- Vietnam Era Veterans' Readjustment Assistance Act (1974)
- Privacy Act of 1974
- Pregnancy Discrimination Act (1978)
- Uniform Guidelines on Employee Selection Procedures (1978)
- No Disparate Impact
- Internal Analysis of Employment Practices
- Analysis of the Workforce Against the External Labor Market
- Job Relatedness / Business Necessity
- Immigration Reform and Control Act (1986)
- Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification Act (1988)
- Employee Polygraph Protection Act (1988)
- Americans with Disabilities Act (1990)
- What Is a Disability?
- What Is a Qualified Individual?
- What Is Reasonable Accommodation?
- Civil Rights Act of 1991
- Uniformed Services Employment and Reemployment Act (1994)
- Congressional Accountability Act (1995)
- Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (2003)
- Precedent Case Law
- Griggs v. Duke Power (1971)
- McDonnell-Douglas Corp. v. Green (1973)
- Abermarle Paper Company v. Moody (1975)
- Chandler v. Roudebush (1976)
- Washington v. Davis (1976)
- Regents of the University of California v. Bakke (1978)
- United Steelworkers v. Weber (1979)
- Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson (1986)
- Johnson v. Santa Clara County Transportation Agency (1987)
- Martin v. Wilks (1988)
- City of Richmond v. J. A. Croson Company (1989)
- Taxman v. Board of Education of Piscataway (1993)
- Harris v. Forklift Systems, Inc. (1993)
- Hopwood v. State of Texas (1996)
- Ocale v. Sundowner Offshore Services, Inc. (1998)
- Faragher v. City of Boca Raton (1998)
- Ellerth v. Burlington Northern (1998)
- Grutter v. Bollinger et al. (2003)
- Gratz et al. v. Bollinger et al. (2003)
- General Dynamics Land Systems, Inc. v. Cline (2004)
- Affirmative Action and Equal Employment Opportunity
- Affirmative Action
- Organizational Profile
- Job Group Analysis
- Availability Analysis
- Utilization Analysis
- Goals and Actions
- Judicial Issues and Affirmative Action
- EEOC Complaint Process
- Employer Response to a Complaint
- Gender Discrimination
- Sexual Harassment
- Quid Pro Quo
- Hostile Environment
- The Broad Scope of Hostile Environment
- Harassment Prevention Programs and Affirmative Defense
- Sexual Orientation Issues
- Workforce Planning
- Forecasting Workforce Needs
- Trend Analysis
- Ratio Analysis
- Turnover
- Nominal Group Technique
- Delphi Technique
- Managerial Judgment
- Statistical Forecasts
- Computer Modeling
- Multiple Methods
- Determining Internal and External Supply of Employees
- Internal Supply
- External Supply
- Determination of Strategies
- Job Analysis
- The Job Analysis Process
- Job Analysis Information Requirements
- Data Collection Methods
- Writing Job Descriptions and Job Specifications
- Competencies and the Future of Job Analysis
- Competencies
- Recruitment
- Internal Recruiting
- Human Resource Management Information System
- Job Posting
- Job Bidding
- Former Employees
- Former Applicants
- Employee Referrals
- External Recruiting
- Media Advertising
- College and School Recruiting
- Labor Unions
- Employment Agencies
- Temporary Employment Agencies
- Customers
- Suppliers and Competitors
- Professional and Trade Associations
- Walk-Ins
- Job Fairs and Special Events
- Internet
- Outplacement Firms
- Evaluating Recruitment Effectiveness
- Contingent Workforce
- Selection
- Development of Selection Criteria
- The Selection Process
- Initial Applicant Contact
- Prescreening
- Application Forms
- Applicant Testing
- Interviews
- Background Investigations
- Conditional Job Offers, Medical Exams / Drug Testing, and Offers and Acceptance
- Evaluation of the Selection Process
- Post-Offer Employment Practices
- Employment Offers
- Employment Contracts
- Medical Tests
- Relocation
- Organizational Exit
- Layoffs
- Strategies to Avoid Layoffs
- Strategies to Minimize the Impact of Layoffs on Individuals
- Exit Interviews
- Wrongful Termination
- Terminations That Violate Law
- Constructive Discharge
- Retaliatory Discharge
- Management of Employment Records
- Strategic Considerations for the SPHR
- Chapter Summary
- Key Terms
- Apply Your Knowledge
- Exercises
- Review Questions
- Exam Questions
- Answers to Exercises
- Answers to Review Questions
- Answers to Exam Questions
- Suggested Readings and Resources
Study Strategies
As with all chapters in this book, the objective is to understand the strategic implications of HR programmatic activities through grounding in the law, concepts, and practices associated with them. In this case, you should begin with the strategic plan of the organization and understand how the various employment practices facilitate its achievement. It is not enough to know the basics of recruitment or job analysis or workforce planning in isolation. The SPHR must approach the study of these and other concepts through an integrative approach understanding the interdependencies. You should attempt to understand how workforce planning, EEO strategies, recruitment, selection, organizational exit, and so forth are must be integrated into one comprehensive strategy that support the organizational goals and mission. You should also approach the study of this material by attempting to understand the interdependency of the various sections and the practices discussed in them. For example, how does workforce planning affect recruitment strategies, affirmative action plans, and exit strategies?
Objective: Gain a Strategic Understanding of Workforce Planning and Employment
There are a number of dynamics that increasingly make workforce planning and employment critical components of the organization's strategic plan. The United States economy has transitioned from a manufacturing base to a service base and is in the process of transitioning to a knowledge base. As the economy moves along this continuum, the success of the organization is increasingly based on the quality of its human capital, which is defined as the total current and potential capabilities of the organization's workforce. As this transition occurs, organizational strategies increasingly must be developed to develop the organization's primary resource: people. The quality of its human capital will allow an organization to differentiate itself in the market place, much as innovative products and services now do. In fact, for many organizations, human capital will become their core competency—the unique capability that distinguishes them from their competitors. To create this competency, an organization must be able to attract the right kinds of people in the right place at the right time.
The nature of competition has changed and is global. Markets and environments are frequently dynamic and volatile, and organizations have been downsized and right-sized to improve cost efficiencies. Globalization requires the organization to understand multiple cultures and how to attract, retain, and motivate persons from those cultures. The dynamics of the environment often require flexibility and adaptation at the lower levels of the organization. All this affects the workforce planning and employment practices.
Technology has not only changed the way work is done, it has also changed the knowledge, skills, and abilities needed to do the work. Organizations must plan to either attract those with the right skills to the organization or to develop those skills internally. The latter requires hiring individuals who have the capacity to learn and to grow.
Workforce demographics in the United States are changing. The workforce is aging and contains an increasing percentage of both women and members of minority groups. In addition, workers often come to the organization with deficient skill sets. The organization must plan how to replace the impending retirement of the "Baby Boomers" while developing the skills of those that follow.
The organization must be actively engaged in planning to determine how to react to the dynamics just discussed to develop an internal workforce that is capable of accomplishing the organization's strategic goals. That is the essence of workforce planning and employment.


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In Address at MIIS, UN Secretary-General Urges Support for Nonproliferation Education
In a major policy address delivered at the Monterey Institute of International Studies on January 18, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon spoke passionately about his vision of a more peaceful future and lauded the role played by the Institute in promoting disarmament and nonproliferation education. He gave special recognition to the innovative and effective teaching methods of Dr. William Potter, founding director of the Institute's James Martin Center for Nonproliferation Studies (CNS).
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In his address at the Monterey Institute he gave a status report on the five-point plan on nuclear disarmament and nonproliferation he launched early in his tenure - accountability; the rule of law; partnerships; the role of the Security Council; and education. He stressed that every nation has a vital role to play and that there are "no right hands for wrong weapons."
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Before addressing a packed Irvine Auditorium on Friday morning, the Secretary-General met privately with President Ramaswamy and Dr. Potter and posed for a photo with students in the Nonproliferation and Terrorism Studies program. The Secretary-General also extended a formal welcome to the Institute on its joining the United Nations Academic Impact Initiative.
In his public welcome for the Secretary-General, President Ramaswamy noted the Institute's "long history of close collaboration with the United Nations," adding that it is "difficult to walk the halls of the UN for any length of time without becoming acquainted with one of our alumni," including interpreters, translators, diplomats, nonproliferation experts, NGO representatives and others.
The address was interpreted by Monterey Institute Conference Interpretation students in four languages; Russian, Chinese, Spanish and Korean.
The full text of the Secretary-General's remarks is available on the UN website. View the slideshow of the day.
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