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The recent death (a suspected suicide) of a prisoner at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay has helped reignite the debate over whether the facility should be closed. It's a complex issue. However, I think Guantanamo should remain open.
As I see it, there are two major considerations that should drive the debate about Guantanamo's future. The first is whether keeping the facility open is the best way for the U.S. government to protect the American people.
I think it is. It offers several compelling advantages over the alternatives. For one, the detainees are guarded by well-trained MPs, isolated from support and held in a place from which escape would be nearly impossible. Remember, many Guantanamo detainees are resourceful, ideologically committed enemies of the United States who have stated that they want to maim and kill Americans, so it's important that they're kept in a facility that's as secure as possible.
Closing the Guantanamo facility and opening a new detention facility in the U.S. would pose profound security risks. The new facility would become a beacon for extremists and an expensive, highly complex challenge to secure. Just look at what happened when the Obama administration attempted to try Khalid Sheik Mohammed in New York City (an effort which it has since abandoned). And while many politicians love the idea of a domestic detention facility, few want one in their backyard.
Moreover, over the years the government has invested an enormous amount of money in expanding the Guantanamo facility's support base. Inmates now have access to a well-stocked library, gym and soccer field. These outlets don't simply provide humane incarceration conditions and encourage rehabilitation; they also directly serve our national security interests. If the detainees were transferred out of Guantanamo, the benefit of these outlets would be lost.
The second consideration that should drive the Guantanamo debate is whether keeping the facility open is the best way to ensure justice for the detainees as well as the victims of terrorism.
At the core here is a critical legal question: Are the Guantanamo detainees suspected illegal combatants subject to military authority, or are they suspected criminals and thus subject to the civilian criminal court system? I support the prior understanding. The Guantanamo detainees were captured while engaged in armed hostilities against the United States. Their objectives in fighting the United States were manifestly political — and their chosen mechanisms of action were undoubtedly military. Indeed, as criminal-approach advocates often neglect to mention, a substantial number of former Guantanamo detainees have returned to the battlefield. Put simply, operating as part of organized groups like al Qaida, these detainees were at war. From my perspective, if the Guantanamo detainees are criminal suspects, laws of war cannot exist in a compatible reality.
Next, let's consider Guantanamo's procedural justice. In the past, many Guantanamo detainees haven't been given speedy trials. However, with President Obama having finally re-authorized the military commission process, more progress toward bringing detainees to trial will be made. That progress will illustrate America's commitment to the rule of law and undercut negative perceptions about Guantanamo. Contrary to popular opinion, anger toward Guantanamo amongst Islamic populations is not driven by an inherent discomfort with military commissions, but rather by the perception that Guantanamo is a black hole of permanent, un-reviewed detention.
Ultimately, the detention facility at Guantanamo Bay provides an imperfect solution to a highly complex problem. While 82% of all Guantanamo detainees have already been released, wherever possible the U.S. government should expedite this process, repatriating those who are no longer believed to pose a substantial threat. At the same time, the accused should face military commissions. In the end, though, considering the many interests at stake and absence of good alternatives, I believe that the Guantanamo detention facility must remain open for the foreseeable future.
Tom Rogan is an American blogger and writer currently living in London, England. He recently completed a law course and holds a BA in War Studies from King's College London and an MSc in Middle East Politics from SOAS, London. His blog can be found at TomRoganThinks.com. Follow him on Twitter.

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classic beef shepherds pie
- 1 pound Ground Beef (93% lean or leaner)
- 1 1/2 cups Classic Beef Gravy (recipe follows)
- 1 1/2 cups chopped onions
- 1/ 1/2 cup frozen peas and carrots blend
- 1/2 teaspoon pepper
- 2 1/2 to 3 cups prepared mashed potatoes, warmed
- 2 tablespoons shredded Parmesan or Cheddar cheese (optional)
- 1/4 cup unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 cups reduced-sodium beef broth
- 1 teaspoon beef bouillon granules
- 1/4 teaspoon pepper
- Prepare Classic Beef Gravy
Classic Beef Gravy: Melt 1/4 cup butter in large nonstick skillet over medium heat until melted. Stir in 1/4 cup all-purpose flour; cook 5 to 7 minutes until mixture is deep brown, stirring often. Whisk in 2 cups reduced-sodium beef broth until smooth; simmer 3 minutes, stirring often. Reduce heat to medium-low heat; cook 2 to 3 minutes until thickened. Stir in 1 teaspoon beef bouillon granules and 1/4 teaspoon pepper. Season with salt, as desired. - Preheat oven to 450°F. Heat 10 to 12 inch cast iron or nonstick skillet over medium heat until hot. Add Ground Beef and onions; cook 8 to 10 minutes, breaking into 3/4-inch crumbles and stirring occasionally. Stir in gravy, frozen vegetables and pepper.
- Top beef mixture with potatoes, spreading evenly; sprinkle with cheese, if desired. Bake in 450°F oven 20 to 25 minutes or until bubbly and cheese begins to brown. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.
Test Kitchen Tips
Cooking times are for fresh or thoroughly thawed Ground Beef. Ground Beef should be cooked to an internal temperature of 160°F. Color is not a reliable indicator of Ground Beef doneness.
Shepherd's Pie can also be baked in a 2-quart baking dish. Following step 1, transfer meat mixture to baking dish and top with potatoes and cheese. Baking times are the same.
Nutrition information per serving: 408 calories; 19 g fat (10 g saturated fat; 6 g monounsaturated fat); 112 mg cholesterol; 690 mg sodium; 30 g carbohydrate; 4.7 g fiber; 31 g protein; 7.7 mg niacin; 0.6 mg vitamin B6; 2.8 mcg vitamin B12; 4.1 mg iron; 23.7 mcg selenium; 7.1 mg zinc; 101.9 mg choline.
This recipe is an excellent source of protein, niacin, vitamin B6, vitamin B12, iron, selenium and zinc; and a good source of fiber and choline.


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Halfway through April and I'm finally getting to write up some thoughts on March's reading. In this post I've only included books I've finished. There were quite a few other books that I picked up and put down and made no headway on. I have nothing to say about them at this time, so I'm ignoring them for now.
1. A Candle for St. Jude by Rumer Godden
St Jude is the patron of hopeless causes. The Holbein ballet company certainly seems a hopeless cause. Everything is going wrong. An interesting look at the inside of the ballet world. Not as much one of my favorites among Godden's works because it seems very unfocused. Can't quite decide which story to tell and flits from one to another. But it's the kind of story that will stick with me and that I'll want to re-read.
2. Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, an online fanfic by Eliezer Yudkowsky
Some of my friends kept mentioning this book on Facebook. I'm really not at all interested in reading fanfic, but my curiosity finally got the better of me. I was at first drawn in by the concept: what if Harry had been raised by a loving aunt and uncle? In this alternate reality Lily Evans cast a spell on her sister Petunia that made Petunia beautiful. Then Petunia married a scientist and they adopted Harry and raised him as a nerd. Next, I enjoyed the way the author addresses the many inconsistencies in the original HP novels. The critique of Quiddich, for example, was spot on:
"So let me get this straight," Harry said as it seemed that Ron's explanation (with associated hand gestures) was winding down. "Catching the Snitch is worth one hundred and fifty points? "
"Yeah -"
"How many ten-point goals does one side usually score not counting the Snitch?"
"Um, maybe fifteen or twenty in professional games -"
"That's just wrong. That violates every possible rule of game design. Look, the rest of this game sounds like it might make sense, sort of, for a sport I mean, but you're basically saying that catching the Snitch overwhelms almost any ordinary point spread. The two Seekers are up there flying around looking for the Snitch and usually not interacting with anyone else, spotting the Snitch first is going to be mostly luck -"
"It's not luck!" protested Ron. "You've got to keep your eyes moving in the right pattern -"
"That's not interactive, there's no back-and-forth with the other player and how much fun is it to watch someone incredibly good at moving their eyes? And then whichever Seeker gets lucky swoops in and grabs the Snitch and makes everyone else's work moot. It's like someone took a real game and grafted on this pointless extra position so that you could be the Most Important Player without needing to really get involved or learn the rest of it. Who was the first Seeker, the King's idiot son who wanted to play Quidditch but couldn't understand the rules?" Actually, now that Harry thought about it, that seemed like a surprisingly good hypothesis. Put him on a broomstick and tell him to catch the shiny thing…
Ron's face pulled into a scowl. "If you don't like Quidditch, you don't have to make fun of it!"
"If you can't criticise, you can't optimise. I'm suggesting how to improve the game. And it's very simple. Get rid of the Snitch."
Even though at times the emphasis on rationality was a little annoying, especially the materialist rejection of the idea of an afterlife, I didn't feel that the author excluded the possibility that his Harry is wrong. I mean it seems pretty clear the author believes as Harry does, but so do plenty of other people. Nonetheless Dumbledore and other characters in the novel do believe in an afterlife.
The last enemy to be defeated is death. The character of Harry James Potter-Evans-Verres shares the modernist materialist secularist view that death is the ultimate enemy. Death not sin. So it's wrong as much as it is right. Death is surely an enemy and yet Harry can never be the messiah who will overcome death. But the character is limited by reality and the shortcomings of his worldview are apparent. And yet I think the critique of Rowling's world is a good one. Especially the critique of a society that accepts Azkaban and Dementors as a necessary evil.
I read this novel obsessively for the better part of two weeks. To be honest, it really ate into my Lenten discipline. I never could settle on a spiritual reading that I liked and so I drifted off to reading this fiction that I couldn't put down.
It's a book I feel I still want to process. I'd love to find people to chat about it with.
3. The Game of Kings by Dorothy Dunnett
The first in the Lymond Chronicles, my favorite historical fiction. Dunnett is a master story teller and Francis Crawford of Lymond is a brilliant creation, one of my favorite literary figures of all time.
I first read the Lymond Chronicles when I was home sick recuperating from a job so stressful that I decided to just call and quit because I couldn't face going back to work. Was my decision fueled in part by my inability to put down the books? Perhaps. I certainly didn't do anything to look for a job until I'd finished the series. Just lay in bed reading all day and late into the night with breaks for meals and hanging out with the roommates.
In this first novel, set during the childhood of Mary, Queen of Scots, when England is ruled by the boy-king Edward, the son of Henry VIII, Scotland is at war with England because the English want to seize the Scottish queen and forcibly marry her off to their king and thus unite the two realms. The Scots, however, aren't thrilled with the idea. At least some of them aren't. Some of them are quite willing to play both sides and some are actively working for the English. The question is, what is the ultimate loyalty of our hero, Francis Crawford, the Master of Culter, the second son of a minor Scots noble? He's been accused of treason against the Scottish crown. He's also accused of terrible war crimes. Is he a hero or an anti-hero? It's easy to spend most of the novel on the fence about that question.
One of the things I love best about these books is that our omniscient narrator almost never gives us a peek into Lymond's head. We see him instead through the kaleidoscope view of all the people around him, whose understanding of him might be limited by personal history, by strong emotions, by incomplete information, and perhaps by not being quite as smart as Lymond is.
For Lymond is brilliant. A genius. A true Renaissance man, in both senses of the word. First, he is an accomplished musician, a brilliant swordsman, a charismatic leader of men, a polyglot. Very well educated, he constantly quotes poetry and literature in many different tongues. Dunnett provides no translation or glosses for these snippets. (Though there is a Dorothy Dunnett Companion which will provide those if you want to invest in it.) Don't worry, he's far from flawless and he's not insufferably insipid as this list might imply. Second, Lymond is also a political mover and shaker in the world of Renaissance Europe. He might have the power to influence the fate of more than one nation. Will he use that power for good or ill? If you want to immerse yourself in Renaissance politics and culture, these books are delightful. This is a delightful romp through history, but Dunnett is not a storyteller who coddles her reader. Important details are often hidden in plain view. On almost every page I have a nagging feeling I'm missing an important subtext, even on this my third re-read. These aren't easy books, but they are so very, very worth the effort.
These are the kind of books I want to go back and re-read immediately when I finish the series because now I finally see how it all fits together. Or perhaps I could see if I re-read them because I think I missed a few things the first go round. Or the second. But they're pretty massive, so that re-read is also a daunting task. I've been planning this re-read for several years, waiting until I didn't have a nursing infant waking me up at all hours of the night.
I feel like the grandfather in The Princess Bride. This book has everything: archery, fencing, disguises, amnesia, drunken carousing, wild midnight border skirmishes, cattle raids, fair maidens in distress, brilliant double and triple crosses, true love, blackmail, all-night card games where death is on the line.


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The programme, 'Life after waste', was very well conducted, very well thought out and planned. The students were very engaged in the activities and the message has gone home and it has provoked a lot of thought and reflection which I think is the beginning of a long term change for them. It it was a good programme, well structured and well planned.
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BADRAN Tamer
Supervision : Hassan ABOUSHADY
Spectrum Sensing Using RF Software Defined Radio Receivers
Spectrum sensing applications cover a wide variety, such as efficient utilization of the frequency spectrum in wireless communication or measurement of the Radio-Frequency Electromagnetic-Field (RF-EMF) in medical applications.
A popular technique used for Spectrum sensing is Energy Detection. The current implementations of this technique suffer from several drawbacks. Wide-band spectrum sensing circuits consume a large power and are not suitable for portable devices. Furthermore they suffer from I/Q imbalance. The choice of the detection threshold has a large impact on the Spectrum sensing performance, namely the probability of detection and the probability of false alarm.
In this thesis, we propose a power-efficient highly digitized RF receiver suitable for portable devices.
The proposed circuit does not suffer from I/Q imbalance. The performance of this circuit has been validated by measurement results from a chip fabricated in a 65 nm CMOS technology. A general methodology has been proposed to determine the detection threshold. The proposed method has been validated by simulation and it has been used to study the impact of non-linearity on the spectrum sensing performance. A circuit implementation of a digital backend of the proposed system is presented. This implementation comprises an efficient down-conversion mixer, decimation filter, custom FFT block, and energy detection module. The implementation was validated on FPGA using the on-chip logic analyzer.
In this work, we also present the first hardware measurement of the I/Q imbalance on spectrum sensing performance using a conventional Software Defined Radio receiver.
In the medical field, we also present for the first time a study of the effect of RF-EMF exposure on newborns by performing simultaneous acquisitions of RF-EMF signals and neonates physiological parameters.
Defence : 06/02/2020
Jury members :
Lirida Naviner, Professeur, Télécom Paris, France, [rapporteur]
Khaled Salama, Professeur, King Abdullah University of Science and Technology, KSA, [rapporteur]
Ramon Parra, Professeur, Center for Research and Advanced Studies of the National Polytechnic Inst., Mexico
Mostafa Hussein, Professeur, Arab Academy of Science and Technology, Egypt
Bryce Minger, Ingénieur de recherche, Thales, France
Haralampos Stratigopoulos, Chargé de recherche CNRS HDR, Sorbonne Université, France
Naceur Malouch, Maître de conférences HDR, Sorbonne Université, France
Thi Mai Trang Nguyen, Maître de conférences HDR, Sorbonne Université, France
Hassan Aboushady, Maître de conférences HDR, Sorbonne Université, France
2020 Publications
- T. Badran : "Balayage de spectre utilisant des récepteurs RF radio logicielle", thesis, defence 06/02/2020, supervision Aboushady, Hassan (2020)
- A. Sayed, T. Badran, M.‑M. Louërat, H. Aboushady : "A 1.5-to-3.0GHz Tunable RF Sigma-Delta ADC With a Fixed Set of Coefficients and a Programmable Loop Delay", IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems II: Express Briefs, vol. 67 (9), pp. 1559-1563, (Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers) (2020)


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By Jonathan Greenberg
As we wait, with dread, for this year's fire season, it is astonishing that not a single dollar of California's immense $76 billion budget surplus is being allocated for the only means of preventing wildfires from starting, which is burying overhead power lines.
Since 2017, four of the six most destructive fires in the state—three of them here in Norcal—were sparked by overhead power lines. Burying those overhead power lines that pose the highest risk of fires is by far the most important preventive measure that our government can take to protect us from wildfire. It would also eliminate the expanding number of crippling power shutdowns that PG&E orders because of the fire risks that overhead—but not underground—power lines pose.
Senator Mike McGuire and the Wildfire Working Group recently announced a package of new bills to legislatively complement the $2 billion that Gov. Newscom plans to spend on CAL FIRE to prepare for, remediate and fight wildfires after they start.
Yet none of this funding will go toward burying power lines or slowing power shutdowns. That's why the Sonoma Independent and the Davis Community Vision Alliance formed a grassroots Bury Fire-Causing Power Lines Now! Campaign and a Change.org petition to "Use 2% of California's Budget Surplus to Bury Highest Risk Fire-Causing Power Lines."
Please join us in calling on Sen. McGuire and the Senate Natural Resources Committee Chair Henry Stern to ask them to introduce an emergency trailer bill allocation of $1.5 billion to bury the 500 riskiest miles of overhead power lines.
Our proposed bill and related information can be read at SonomaIndependent.org. It requires utility companies to match every $2 of state funding with $1 of their own, and will quadruple the number of risky overhead power lines that are being buried currently.
The legislature will vote on this to append our tax dollars by the end of the month. Let's make sure that it protects us all with effective fire prevention, and not just preparation and response.


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Let us hope and pray to God that the Chinese do not attack before 2027. Guess the price for a hope of temporary security is the humiliating subservience that we must offer to our not-so-friendly neighbours.
Perfectly summarises the pusillanimous attitude towards strategic policy by our government. Also, this attitude and repeated starvation of funds to the armed forces, has lead us into this situation:How low will our PM bow?
Bharat Karnad
First Published : 23 Nov 2009 12:54:18 AM IST
Barack Obama's deep bow to the Japanese emperor Akihito in Tokyo was hugely resented by many Americans. US presidents apparently never do that. It is, however, the norm as far as the current Indian Prime Minister is concerned. Manmohan Singh, who finds nothing offensive in bending low especially before Chinese and Western leaders will, by force of habit, bow and scrape in Washington. Not that anybody will notice. With the ministry of external affairs and the Washington embassy scheduling his state visit over the four day 'Thanksgiving' holiday weekend, what little media attention this occasion would have otherwise attracted will be missing.
This analyst has frequently pointed to the difference in how China and India are treated by the United States. This is attributable to China's emerging as both a military rival and America's banker — Beijing holds some $2 trillion in US debt, while India remains only an inexhaustible Third World source of intellectual coolies-cum-economic refugees, who are needed to upkeep the American software industry and to man the country's scientific, technological, and financial infrastructure. While a magisterial Hu Jintao is difficult to deal with and has to be heeded, a supplicating Manmohan Singh is a pleasant diversion and can be fobbed off with some chaps in period costume playing pipe and drums and marching to the tune of Yankee Doodle Dandy on the White House lawn.
The nearness in time between Obama's largely unsuccessful tour of China where he failed to gain much — Beijing reportedly cold-shouldered the president on every troubling issue he raised — from human rights to floating the yuan, and Manmohan Singh's trip, permits a comparative analysis.
Obama prepared for his meeting with Hu by ensuring that nothing was said or done that would give the least offence to Beijing. Hence, Obama refused, for instance, to meet with the Dalai Lama prior to his China trip. In contrast to the US preparations for the Beijing summit, as curtain-raiser to the PM's sojourn a deliberate provocation was offered India. The under-secretary of state for non-proliferation Ellen Tauscher was dispatched to Delhi to lay down a tough line. Tauscher, who has made divesting India (and Pakistan) of nuclear weapons her priority, advised the Congress party coalition regime that Manmohan Singh's grand plans to import expensive light water nuclear reactors as a way of kick-starting the near comatose Indian-US nuclear deal hung in the balance. That, notwithstanding the 123 Agreement India had signed and Delhi lays much store by, the US department of energy 'Part 810' regulations, she informed her counterpart, required the Indian government to give further non-proliferation 'assurances' before any commercial transactions could get underway. The nature of these additional assurances-qua-demands can only be guessed, but they are unlikely to be other than onerous.
As a few of us had warned, Washington had all along thought of the 123 Agreement as a means of putting the Indian government on a slippery non-proliferation slope, compelling it to cede more and more ground on the nuclear weapons front until the country is reduced to a notional and shambolic nuclear weapon state. Moreover, such an outcome, however realised, will help burnish Obama's disarmament credentials. That this will be at the expense of India's vital national security interests seems to bother the Indian government not at all. Given Prime Minister Manmohan Singh's record of accommodating Washington, this development may be evidenced sooner than even the most die-hard pessimists apprehend.
For example, if Manmohan Singh even hints in any manner or form at his willingness to sign the Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) — doubtless the sort of assurances being sought, then it is logical to conclude, in light of the coordinator of the Shakti series of tests K Santhanam's revelations about the dud thermonuclear device tested in 1998, that the Indian government is satisfied with the country making do with unreliable fusion weapons and, hence, a nuclear deterrent lacking credibility. In the circumstances, the negative outcome in any of the looming strategic crises with a tested megaton thermonuclear weapon-armed China will be a foregone conclusion. So, what's new? Indian rulers have historically a record of disabling their own forces, throwing in the towel, and turning tail.
More egregiously, Obama and Hu mentioned the joint interest of the United States and China in resolving the Kashmir dispute. This was what Beijing desired. China has been trying to insinuate itself into the India-Pakistan tangle for a long time, and now it has secured a certain legitimation of its role as the main political and military prop for Islamabad — something the US does not want anymore to be — and, therefore, with a say in the affairs of the subcontinent. Senior US state department officials have been at pains to dismiss this reference as a bit of diplomatic fluff. In which case, Manmohan Singh should explore the possibility of including a similarly innocuous aside about the Indian and US interest in peaceful resolution of the Taiwan crisis and respect for human rights of the beleaguered Tibetans. Of course, Obama will demur for the good reason that Washington desperately needs Beijing's help in corralling North Korea and slowing down the pace of Iran's nuclearisation and, more generally, it needs Beijing not to pull the carpet from under an economically unsteady America.
While New Delhi has always been quick to take umbrage and react in kind to a weak and floundering Pakistan, it has been over-careful to not upset Beijing. Fear is so manifest in India's China policy, its making might as well have been outsourced to the zhongnanhai (the Chinese foreign office). Whenever, more by mischance than design, Delhi does adopt a strong stance, the result invariably is that Beijing backs down. This happened recently when despite China's vociferous protest, the Dalai Lama was allowed to tour Tawang. Beijing responded by silence. It resumed its diplomatic belligerence only after the nervy Indian government barred the Indian and international press from accompanying the Dalai Lama to Bomdila for specious reasons of 'inner line' permits. Talk of shooting oneself in the foot after having bagged a rogue panda!
Let us hope and pray to God that the Chinese do not attack before 2027. Guess the price for a hope of temporary security is the humiliating subservience that we must offer to our not-so-friendly neighbours.


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If you want a precious morsel of "lacquered" foie gras with bee pollen, go to Clio in Boston. If you want to be fed voluptuous Southern cooking and plenty of it, to be served with cheerfulness, to be surrounded by happy-looking fellow diners of varied stripes and ages without a necktie among them, and to sit at a copper-clad table in a lively but not-too-noisy
On the table will be two kinds of hot sauce and a tuberose. To the table will come warm corn bread and pecan muffins, with no little saucer of virgin olive oil, but quantities of butter. One could make a meal of the appetizers. "Cajun popcorn": light, fried, baby shrimp with a sherry-scallion dipping sauce ($6.95). Fried green tomatoes, with tomatillo salsa ($4.95). Maryland crab cakes, with a chipotle tartar sauce ($7.95). Fried oysters over seared, gingered spinach with a lemon-pepper dressing ($7.95). All lip-smacking good.
You might try to work into your evening a side order of crisp-fried sweet-potato strings with crumbled blue cheese ($3.95). Or the black-eyed peas and cheese grits, surmounted by garlicky tomatoes, proof of the fundamental goodness of grits, in case you, like my cousin Vinnie, have yet to discover it ($3.95). Chef John Silberman has his grits ground to order at a mill in northern Georgia. He is fussy about all his ingredients and has his crawfish and softshell crab and coffee (with chicory) jetted in from Dixie.
Silberman grew up in Scarsdale, New York, would you believe it, but he went to Tulane to study history. While in New Orleans, he persuaded the masterful Paul Prudhomme to teach him to cook. After various apprenticeships--on one of which he met a waitress named Amelia Broome, his future wife, who now manages the dining room--in 1984 he opened the popular Cajun Yankee. In 1993 he broadened his focus and changed the restaurant's décor and name. Thus, Magnolia's.
All right, down to business. Try the jambalaya: rice consorting with spicy andouille sausage, chicken, shrimp, oysters, and crawfish ($14.95). Or the buttery catfish, served with mashed sweet and new potatoes (skins on) and appealing mixed vegetables, including the seldom-seen lima bean ($15.95). Or the formidable sautéed veal, topped with artichokes, mushrooms, crab, and hollandaise ($18.95.) Finally: pecan pie, flanked by homemade vanilla ice cream and a great dollop of whipped cream laced with bourbon. Get off your diet and go.


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- 4 June 2020
- Posted by: eyath-news
- Category: All News
The big project of the maintenance of the Aravissos pipeline started today, more than 40 years after its construction. The works concern a part of the pipeline within the Industrial Area of Thessaloniki, which has presented the most failures in the past, with the largest being that of 2018.
The framework agreement, with a budget of 3.4m euros, includes work to strengthen and repair the pipeline to a length of about 600m, where serious oxidation of the reinforcement has been found. Today, on the first day of the operation, the Deputy Minister of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace), Theodoros Karaoglou, the management of EYATH and the professor emeritus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, George Penelis, who was a static technical consultant for the initial study of 2004 for the pipeline, were present at the site and they have been cooperating with EYATH on the issue since 1986.
"With the work that begins today, Thessaloniki will not risk being thirsty again! A chronic problem, which has preoccupied the city with serious water supply interruptions in the past, is over! I feel very happy that EYATH, a body overseen by the Ministry of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace Sector), is launching a major project. A work of inspiration, life and upgrading the quality of the daily life of the people of Thessaloniki ", pointed out the Deputy Minister of Interior (Macedonia and Thrace), Theodoros Karaoglou.
"The Aravissos pipeline, supplies water to Thessaloniki for 40 years with continuous, 24-hour operation. Unfortunately, to date this project has not been maintained, while in the past it has failed. Five of these failures have caused serious water supply problems in Thessaloniki. The technical works must be maintained, the damages must be repaired, in order to fulfill the purpose they serve in a safe and sustainable way. Our goal is the methodical and careful execution of the project. This will be done with the pipeline in full operation and, in combination with the interconnection project of the Aliakmonas and Aravissos aqueducts, will ensure the uninterrupted water supply of Thessaloniki, through alternative routes in case of failure ", pointed out the CEO of EYATH, Anthimos Amanatidis.
"Today begins a very important project for Thessaloniki, which is technically delicate and complex, but also absolutely necessary. Like all infrastructure projects, the aqueduct requires regular maintenance and repair work, which, due to its uninterrupted operation and the special conditions of its environment, always involves a degree of risk. From the side of EYATH SA All the provisions have been taken at a technical level, so that the annoyance of our consumers is as little as possible, so the work will be done with the pipeline in full operation. With the completion of the works, we will be able to say that we have minimized the chances of a serious problem in the water supply of our city ", added the president of EYATH, Agis M. Papadopoulos.
"This project signals a minimization of the risk that Thessaloniki will be thirsty again. And in fact, as the framework agreement has been made with the possibility of extensions to other critical areas that may be identified, I believe that there will be no problem again ", pointed out the professor emeritus of AUTh, George Penelis.
The project will take a year and will include excavating and revealing the pipeline in sections, initially 600 m long. The excavation will be extended to sections beyond 600 m for inspection. The maintenance and reinforcement of the pipeline will be done by external gluing of carbon fiber plates, after the consolidation of the pipeline has been preceded.
The aqueduct, built between 1975-1978, carries water from the springs of Aravissos to the central pumping station of Dendropotamos and from there to the city's internal network. It is a reinforced concrete pipeline, with an internal diameter of 1.65 m and a total length of about 56 km (at the site of the operation it is located at a depth greater than 3 m). It currently carries 80,000 – 110,000 sq. m. water per day, 30% -40% of the total daily amount of water needed by the Thessaloniki Urban Complex, as the rest of the supply is provided by Aliakmonas after been processed in the Thessaloniki Water Treatment Plant.


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The meat consumption arrow in recent years had been consistently pointing upward as a growing global middle class was choosing to spend a portion of its increased income on "luxury" food items such as beef, chicken, pork and fish.
Just when it seemed like nothing could derail this surge in meat-based protein demand, along came COVID-19 and with it a much bleaker outlook for the worldwide meat industry and, consequently, the animal feed sector.
While the grain-based foods industry has seen an uptick in demand for its products during the now 11-month-old pandemic, global meat consumption is heading in the opposite direction.
In the United States, for instance, meat consumption is projected to drop for the first time since 2014. The United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates global meat production will fall by nearly 2% in 2020, due to animal diseases, COVID-19-related market disruptions, and the lingering effects of droughts.
Don Close, a veteran animal protein analyst for Rabobank, recently described the consequences facing the meat and feed industries from the worst global pandemic in 100 years during a presentation sponsored by the American Feed Industry Association.
"I venture to say this has been the most dynamic year and we have seen more ground-breaking changes in global meat trade than I recall in my career," he said. "I think the fallout from this one is going to last a long time."
While no one knows how long, it's safe to say a full recovery to "normal" will likely take years rather than months. Close said analysts at various banks believe it will take eight full quarters (two years) for the restaurant business in the United States to be restored to its pre-COVID-19 levels. As of September, about 100,000 US restaurants had permanently closed due to the pandemic, according to the National Restaurant Association, and the Independent Restaurant Association estimates that up to 85% of independent restaurants, which comprise 70% of all US restaurants, could close by the end of 2020 if Congress fails to pass a second economic stimulus package.
Even if the restaurant business hadn't been negatively impacted, the unparalleled spike in unemployment and lost wages worldwide has meant a loss in spending power for more expensive food items such as steak and fish.
Alltech's annual feed survey, which estimates global feed output and breaks it down by country and region, will be released in late January and it will be interesting to see how the pandemic — not to mention African swine fever, which has ravaged hog populations in several dozen countries — has impacted worldwide output. Last year's survey revealed the first decline in global feed production (-1.07%) in nine years, and a bigger slide in output in 2020 is almost certain. A hint of what the Alltech numbers may reveal was provided by the European Compound Feed Manufacturers Federation in early November when it estimated EU feed production had fallen by 2.2% in 2020.
Thankfully, two vaccines are now available, hopefully bringing an end to this devastating pandemic that has infected more than 56 million people and killed nearly 1.4 million worldwide. Even so, it appears the road back to "normal" for the animal protein and feed industries will be neither short nor smooth.


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Los Angeles-based brand Warren Lotas made headlines late last month when it revealed that it had teamed up with noted Nike collaborator Jeff Staple for what both parties have characterized as a "reinterpretation" of the cult-classic shoe that is said to have "catapulted sneaker culture to the masses" when Staple released it with Nike back in February 2005 to intense fan fare and what has since been characterized as a full-blown "riot." Consisting of Nike's classic Dunk silhouette and adorned with a stylized version of the Beaverton-based titan's swoosh on the side, the "unexpected" announcement of the $300 Staple Pigeon x Warren Lotas Reinterpreted OG Shoes put die-hard sneaker fans and the sneaker media, alike, on high alert.
Also on high alert? Nike, which asserts in a new "trademark and anti-dilution" lawsuit that it is not in any way involved in the reintroduction of the sneaker, and has not authorized the release. In the complaint that it filed on Wednesday in a California federal court, Nike claims that it "protects its iconic sneaker designs, and its intellectual property in those designs, by rooting-out bad actors that undermine the DNA of sneaker culture by promoting and selling fakes." According to Nike, "Warren Lotas is one those bad actors," as Lotas and his corporate entity are "currently promoting and selling fakes of coveted Nike Dunks," the sneaker that it launched "over 30 years ago, [and which] is now recognized as one of the most iconic and influential sneakers of all time."
While "Warren Lotas only recently announced these sneakers," Nike claims that "there is already confusion in the marketplace regarding whether they are legitimate customizations or illegal fakes," as indicated by commentary on social media. Hardly a coincidence, such alleged confusion about the nature of the lookalike sneakers has been "intentionally created" by Warren Lotas, per Nike, which argues that Lotas "is attempting to capitalize on it." (Likelihood of confusion among consumers as to the source of a product is important, as it is the critical element in a trademark and/or trade dress infringement claim).
Such confusion – which comes in the form of "initial interest confusion, post-sale confusion, and confusion in the secondary sneakers markets," per Nike – is heightened by the fact that Lotas' sneakers "travel in the identical channels of trades and are sold to identical consumers as Nike's genuine products," including authentic limited-edition collaborations Nike Dunk sneakers." The latter of which "are coveted by sneakerheads throughout the world" and "currently sell for tens-of-thousands of dollars in the secondary sneaker market," according to Nike.
With the foregoing in mind, Nike asserts that Lotas is running afoul of federal trademark law "by, among other things, using Nike's registered DUNK word mark, Nike's registered Dunk trade dress, and a mark that is confusingly similar to Nike's famous Swoosh design to promote and sell his fakes." To be exact, his use of Nike's trademarks is "likely to confuse, mislead, or deceive customers, purchasers, and members of the general public as to the origin, source, sponsorship, or affiliation of [Warren Lotas] or [his] infringing products with Nike or Nike's products," and more than that, "is likely to cause such people to believe in error that [his] infringing products have been authorized, sponsored, approved, endorsed, or licensed by Nike or that [Warren Lotas] is in some way affiliated with Nike" when Nike has given no such authorization or approval.
As a result, Nike says that it has filed suit "to protect its intellectual property and to clear the confusion in the marketplace by setting the record straight—not a single component of Warren Lotas's fake sneakers comes from an original Nike Dunk," and more than that, "Warren Lotas's 'Dunk' sneakers are not legitimate customizations, they are illegal fakes."
In setting forth claims of trademark infringement and dilution, unfair competition, and false designation of origin, Nike claims that it "has suffered, continues to suffer, and/or is likely to suffer damage to its trademarks, business reputation, and goodwill that money cannot compensate." While money may not be able to remedy the alleged harm caused to its $160.6 billion brand by Lotas, Nike is, nonetheless, seeking monetary damages in a sum to be determined at trial. Maybe more importantly, Nike is seeking immediate and permanent injunctive relief in order to: 1) prevent the actual release of Lotas' footwear to consumers since the allegedly infringing sneakers were sold on a pre-order basis last month, after all, and are slated to be shipped to consumers in December, something that a preliminary injunction could certainly stop, and 2) ultimately, enjoin the brand from pulling such a stunt again in the future.
The interesting twist in the case is that the Staple Pigeon x Warren Lotas Reinterpreted OG Shoes appear to be something of a joint effort between Lotas and Staple based on the marketing of the "new" shoes. In a Instagram post on September 27, for example, Lotas thanked Staple for "giving [him] an opportunity to be a part of your legacy," suggesting that the brand had gotten authorization from Staple to recreate the design. Staple further implied a formal tie-up when he helped to promote the pre-sale drop of the sneakers on his personal Instagram page, writing, "The OG. Official. Reinterpreted by Warren Lotas. Sept 27th. 3pm EST / 12pm PST warrenlotas.com."
Interestingly, despite the seeming collaboration, Nike's complaint exclusively names Warren Lotas LLC and Lotas in his personal capacity as defendants, meaning that Staple – who has an ongoing collaborative relationship with Nike, while maintaining his own Staple Pigeon brand (in connection with which he holds a registered trademark for the pigeon graphic that appears on the Lotas sneaker) – is not a party to the suit.
Looking beyond holy-grail Nike sneakers and the impact that such a case could inevitably have on the sizable market of unauthorized "custom" Nike sneakers, the issue of customization and the role of confusion the secondary market, which Nike mentions more than once in the case at hand, joins a larger trend in litigation that center on alteration/modification and customization concerns. Nike's case against Lotas comes as a number of other cases – such as the currently-pending ones that Chanel has filed against resale sites, like The RealReal and What Goes Around Comes Around, and a bootleg-centric case filed by Ralph Lauren, as well as watch-centric lawsuits, including the since-settled Rolex v. La Californienne case and the Hamilton Watch case – put these issues under the microscope due, in no small number of situations, to the rise and the role of the resale market.
*The case is Nike, Inc. v. Warren Lotas and Warren Lotas LLC, 2:20-cv-09431 (C.D.Cal.).


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This edition of The Health Wrap is compiled by Barry Dunning, Media and Communications Manager at the Sax Institute. Enjoy the wrap and don't forget to tweet us @SaxInstitute if you have any ideas you'd like to share.
Budgets, budgets everywhere
The Federal Treasurer Scott Morrison will hand down the Federal Budget on Tuesday 9 May and across the health, medical and research sectors, speculation is rife as to what it will contain. The Australian reports that the Government has:
Quarantined healthcare from sweeping cuts, part of a wider budget plan to end a divisive freeze on Medicare rebates, as Malcolm Turnbull tries to shake off the ghosts of an unpopular $80 billion saving in the 2014 budget…. The savings in some parts of the health portfolio, such as an increase in the use of generic pills to save spending on proprietary medicines, will be ploughed back into the portfolio to assure voters there is no threat to healthcare.
Easing of the Medicare rebate freeze has been heavily signalled in recent weeks, with News.com.au reporting that "rebates for general practitioner visits for concession patients, including pensioners and children, will rise from July this year… for general patients there will be a wait until July 2018 before their $37 Medicare rebate is adjusted for inflation after being frozen at 2014 levels for four years." The Grattan Institute's Stephen Duckett has called for reform of GP services as quid pro quo for ending the Medicare rebate freeze, in an article for The Conversation (an issue also covered by Croakey here):
General practice in Australia needs reform. In late 2015, the government's own primary care advisory group called for change. Last year, a Grattan Institute report, Chronic failure in primary care, identified numerous potential improvements, notably updating the payment to GPs from fee-for-service to a system that will encourage better care of the increasing number of Australians who suffer from chronic conditions.
All will be revealed on Tuesday night, but if the Federal Health Department was looking for ways to reduce costs whilst keeping services at the same level, this Croakey article about Gold Coast Health's success in reducing unnecessary pathology testing has some suggestions. Elsewhere on Croakey, Jennifer Doggett described the Australian Healthcare Reform Alliance's campaign for reform of the private health insurance rebate, highlighting many options from across the healthcare sector on how to spend the $7 billion per year in direct subsidies in this article.
Daniel Andrews' Victorian Labor Government handed down its State Budget on Tuesday 2 May. While an extra $2.9bn was announced for healthcare including for hospital upgrades, the unprecedented investment in tackling family violence was the headline grabber. Treasurer Tim Pallas announced a $1.9 billion allocated over four years to implement the recommendations of the Victorian Royal Commission into Family Violence. The ABC reported that this money will be used to fund key features of the blueprint laid out by the Royal Commission including:
- $448.1 million to establish 17 one-stop-shop Support and Safety Hubs
- More than $270 million for victim assistance, support and counselling
- $269.4 million to introduce specialist Family Violence Courts and expand legal assistance for victims.
Reactions to this have been positive. Fiona McCormack, the CEO of peak body Domestic Violence Victoria commented:
To be honest I think today is a day for Victoria to be proud. God knows we've had enough days to be ashamed of.
According to the ABC, the Victorian coroner reported 24 family violence deaths last year — 15 women and nine children.
In the Northern Territory, the Labor Government of Michael Gunner handed down its first budget. The ABC reports that health services were a big winner, and while $27 million was committed to fund the hearings of the Royal Commission into Youth Detention, no extra money has been allocated for future recommendations.
Finally on politics, Sydney University Adjunct Professor Bill Bellew wrote about political disruption, and the ongoing challenges for public health and the CEO of the Public Health Association of Australia Michael Moore reflected on populism politics and global public health, both for Croakey.
Reforming mental health care
Issues with Australia's mental health care system continued to make headlines. In the latest edition of Public Health Research & Practice (PHRP), guest editor Professor Ian Hickie, a commissioner on the National Mental Health Commission, wrote:
Increased funding for expanded mental health services is crucial, but unless we overhaul the system and have the courage to defund ineffective programs, we will be throwing good money after bad.
Elsewhere in the current edition of PHRP, consumer advocate and Australian Mental Health Commissioner Jackie Crowe wrote that consumers and their families are demanding changes to Australia's mental health care system:
In recent times there has been a noticeable unrest stirring within our [mental health consumer] communities, a budding revolution. People, advocates and communities are expecting more. They are demanding an open, transparent and seamless enabled system of care and support.
Still on the topic of mental health, researchers have criticised the Australian healthcare system for 'failing' patients with eating disorders. They found anorexia nervosa to have the highest mortality of all mental illnesses, with one in five patients with the condition likely to die by suicide. The ABC's Sophie Scott reported on three families who lost loved ones with anorexia nervosa to suicide, who "all struggled to get doctors to take their concerns seriously". The families spoke about the fragmented care available and their experiences of being "bounced in and out of hospitals as their weight went up and down…but none were offered holistic care to treat their physical and mental illness".
The Federal Health Minister Greg Hunt, who has spoken about his family experience with mental health and his commitment to improving services, responded to the ABC with a pledge to take action:
We have to do more for mental health, but specifically for anorexia, which has been such a tragic condition and so it has been, to a degree, overlooked and it's time to put the spotlight firmly on eating disorders… It [The Medicare Review committee] will look at whether new approaches should be made available under Medicare specifically for eating disorders, and particularly for anorexia.
Finally, The Huffington Post has been running a series of articles over recent weeks as part of their support for the #StopSuicide campaign. This short documentary, asking why men are 3 times more likely to die by suicide than women, tells a powerful story.
If you need help in a crisis, call Lifeline on 13 11 14. For further information about depression contact beyondblue on 1300224636 or talk to your GP.
Rural health challenges
The 14th National Rural Health Conference was held in Cairns from 26 to 29 April. Dr Lesley Russell made the case that investing in rural health not only improves health outcomes but brings dollar returns to local economies, in this curtain raiser piece, published originally on The Conversation. The ABC reported that safety remains a major factor in the challenge to recruit and retain remote area nurses and midwives.
Croakey editor Melissa Sweet was at the conference and even managed to take some snaps and selfies. She also reported on the challenge laid down by leading Australian health administrator Mick Reid to the rural health sector; the impact on rural Australia of the changes to the 457 visa; and what impact artificial intelligence might have on rural health.
Another presentation at the conference, covered here by Croakey, focused on the 'triple whammy' leading to higher risks from antibiotic resistance for rural communities.
One of the biggest responses at the conference was prompted by a speech by Janine Mohamed, CEO of the Congress of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Nurses and Midwives (CATSINaM), who asked delegates to join her on a journey forward to 2037: a year where Australia has closed the gap in health outcomes for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and non-Indigenous Australians, where cultural safety doesn't begin in the health system but in our homes and schools and public discourse, and where recognition of the urgency of climate change has prompted a profound sea change in the way we live and do business. Read the full speech or watch it here.
Staying safe – in the hospital
The need to address patient safety in healthcare has been clear for almost two decades. While major efforts have been made globally and in Australia to address patient safety in hospitals and reduce harm to patients, research still shows about one in 10 episodes of hospital care result in harm. Despite the best of intentions, global efforts to tackle the problem have not resulted in widespread improvement. A recent seminar hosted by the Sax Institute, the Australian Institute of Health Innovation at Macquarie University and the Clinical Excellence Commission in Sydney brought together leading experts in the field of patient safety, including WHO Envoy for Patient Safety Professor Sir Liam Donaldson, to explore ways forward to ensure patients remain safe when they undergo care in our hospitals and healthcare institutions. Croakey has a full write up of the event, written by my colleague Megan Howe, which is available here.
Sticking with the issue of safety in our health services, a recent joint report issued by the Australian Nursing and Midwifery Federation and The Australia Institute documents mounting evidence of labour and human rights abuses in the overseas production of goods such as gloves, surgical instruments, clothing, footwear and electronics. The report is available here or you can read a Croakey post on the issue here.
Triple J's Hack reports that the first legal, commercial medicinal cannabis shipment is now available in Australia. Hack reports that until now, medicinal cannabis was imported into Australia on a case-by-case basis, whereas now pharmacists are able to stockpile the drug for anyone with a prescription. If you are unsure of what the science says on the benefits of medical cannabis, this excellent explainer from The Conversation US sets out the good and the bad.
Marching for Science
In terms of sheer weight of numbers, the biggest story of the past few weeks was undoubtedly the March for Science. As the Australian branch of this global movement states on their website, "the March for Science celebrates the public discovery, distribution, and understanding of scientific knowledge as crucial to the freedom, success, health, and safety of life on this planet."
The Guardian asked readers worldwide working in or involved in science to tell us why they were taking action, The New Yorker opined as to the Usefulness of a March for Science and the indefatigable Simon Chapman explained on Croakey why he was marching for science – as well as for planetary and public health.
If marching for science has reinvigorated your fondness for exercise and activism, read up on #CroakeyGo walk and talk, which takes place on 27 May.
Listen up to 'Bad medicine'
Thanks to shows like Serial, S-Town and This American Life, podcasting has become an enormously popular publishing medium in recent years.
There are a variety of podcasts covering health, medicine, and research that are worth checking out, including RadioLab, The Health Report with Norman Swan and the RACP's Pomegranate podcast. In this edition of The Health Wrap, I'd like to recommend Freakonomics Radio's three-part series Bad Medicine. As the show's presenter describes it:
We tend to think of medicine as a science, but for most of human history it has been scientific-ish at best. In the first episode of a three-part series, we look at the grotesque mistakes produced by centuries of trial-and-error, and ask whether the new era of evidence-based medicine is the solution.
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DIW Weekly Report 3/4 / 2017, S. 33-43
Stefan Bach, Herbert Brücker, Peter Haan, Agnese Romiti, Kristina van Deuverden, Enzo Weber
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The initial fiscal costs associated with refugee integration are quite high—but as more and more refugees join the labor force, a reduction in ongoing welfare costs and an increase in government revenue will result. Against this background, the Institute for Employment Research (IAB) in Nuremberg and DIW Berlin conducted a joint investigation (funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs) into the overall economic and fiscal impacts of investing in the labor market integration of the refugees who arrived in Germany in 2015. The results show that investing in refugees' language skills and educational qualifications promises high returns.
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From Meghalaya to Jharkhand, how India is ensuring agri supply chains are not disrupted
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From Meghalaya to Jharkhand, how India is ensuring agri supply chains are not disrupted
Estimated reading time: 4 minutesIn a world living with Covid-19, it is clear that supply chains and logistics should be simple and easy to manage. And that's what several Indian states are doing.
When India initiated the world's largest lockdown in March, it was difficult to predict its impact on essential supply chains and logistics. These supply chains form the backbone of the agriculture economy, which 58 per cent of Indians depend on for their livelihoods. In many parts of India, April and May are primary harvest months for winter crops and many summer fruits and vegetables. Uncertainty gripped both farmers and consumers in the immediate aftermath of the lockdown. But two months on, we can see an emerging 'new normal' in agri-supply chains.
In a world living with Covid-19, it is clear that supply chains and logistics should be simple and easy to manage. The hygiene and sanitation standards along supply chains should be such that consumers can be confident of their safety, and health risks for all supply chain actors must be minimised. These imperatives present an opportunity to improve agri marketing, move from fragmented value chains, especially for perishables, to shorter and more integrated ones. It is also a chance to revamp supply chain logistics and management to incorporate critical hygiene and safety measures.
Some models that worked in India feature shorter farm-to-fork supply chains that connect farmers to urban, semi-urban and institutional markets. This has helped reduce waste and prevent distress sales by farmers. It has also ensured an adequate supply of fresh produce through this unprecedented emergency.
Here are some early lessons that could be applied in other constrained environments.
Shorter supply chains using digital platforms are efficient
When the lockdown was imposed, farmers worried that their fresh fruit and vegetables would rot while city-based consumers were concerned that they wouldn't get regular supplies. But both the government and the private sector, including ag-tech companies, rose to the occasion.
Farmers were linked to consumers through revamped value chains that followed the shortest possible route. Field-level packaging and home deliveries started incorporating Covid-19 compliant practices. Same-day packaging and supply ensure freshness without extra effort. In many parts of Uttarakhand, Maharashtra and Haryana, farmers supplied fresh vegetables direct from their fields to consumers in Mumbai, Dehradun, Gurgaon and other smaller towns. Consumers are more confident, because they have some idea about the source of their produce.
The central government recently launched Kisan Rath app to connect farmers and traders to more than 500,000 trucks and 20,000 tractors through transport aggregators.
Several programmes supported by the International Fund for Agricultural Development (IFAD, the UN's rural development agency) have embraced new and existing digital platforms to link farmers directly with consumers. In Jharkhand, for example, farmers are selling vegetables and fruits through the Aajeevika Farm Fresh app, developed by the Jharkhand State Livelihood Promotion Society. In Maharashtra, self-help groups (SHGs) are selling fresh produce through WhatsApp groups.
Institutional markets as source of sustainable income
Institutional markets play an essential role in aggregating produce at the local level and ensuring structured demand, especially for smallholder farmers. For instance, in Madhya Pradesh, women SHGs and federations are active intermediaries in aggregating and supplying millet (kodo/ kutki) products, vegetables and spices to primary health centres, guesthouses, hotels and government hostels.
Livelihood collectives in Uttarakhand have been supplying poultry to the Central Armed Police Forces in the state by participating in their tender process. In the past, only a few such cases achieved scale, but today there is an opportunity and a need to ensure that they become viable long-term solutions. This could be done by ensuring that institutions such as hospitals, canteens, prisons and offices are directly linked to farmers' groups. Aggregators, local ag-tech companies and private sector partners could be involved to ensure seamless on-time end-to-end supply of desired quality and quantity.
Mini mandis, atomised warehouses, and contract farming
Wholesale markets, or mandis, have emerged as major risk spots during the coronavirus pandemic. They are often crowded because farmers have few alternatives and lack information. To address this challenge, alternative local models are emerging all over India.
These include mini/online mandis, farmer-consumer direct marketing outlets, and using different sites to auction produce. In Jhalawar, Rajasthan, for instance, an agri start-up opened alternative collection centres to help farmers safely sell their crops to institutional off-takers. It redrafted standard operating procedures to comply with Covid-19 precautionary norms, deploying staff, testing and handling equipment and conducting quality checks at farm gates. Meghalaya also tried a risk-proofed alternative delivery system that could serve as a sustainable supply chain in the long term. It is a three-tier supply chain network that includes producers (farmers), government agencies and consumers.
The Meghalaya government is mapping demand, facilitating logistics, maintaining a database and undertaking monitoring and quality assurance. Contract farming is also a tried and tested way to reduce the burden on farmers to use mandis or other market places to sell produce. While the Centre has been promoting this extensively, farmers and the private sector need more confidence in the practice. Covid-19 may have well provided that impetus.
The central government's recent economic package of Rs 21 lakh crore for a self-reliant India includes a stimulus of around Rs 500 crore for perishable commodities, through the existing Operation Greens, which, incidentally, embraces some of the models outlined above while aiming to improve transport and storage (including cold storage), reduce waste, and provide better price realisation to farmers.
India also plans to invest Rs 1.5 lakh crore in farm-gate infrastructure, among other agriculture marketing reforms. At the heart of these models and the success of the new schemes of the government lies the need for strong farmers' organisations. The future of agriculture transformation in India, and perhaps the world, will depend significantly on these building blocks. Covid-19 has given us the opportunity to prioritise it.
Originally published on ThePrint, India
Publication date: 08 June 2020


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Mushroom Empanadas
Empanadas are stuffed pastries that are hugely popular in South America. The filling can be anything from beef and chicken to vegetarian or vegan-friendly choices of cheese and mushrooms.
This mushroom empanadas recipe has an Argentinian flair to it as it's provided by Chef Stephen Clark, who runs the kitchen of a great Argentinian restaurant in Melbourne.
Mushroom Empanadas
Mushroom, silverbeet and bechamel empanada:
- 1 leeks
- 1 garlic clove
- 500 grams swiss brown mushrooms
- 1 silverbeet white stem
- 500 millilitres bechamel sauce
- 125 grams manchego cheese
- salt
- pepper
Bechamel sauce:
- 50 grams butter
- 50 grams flour
- 500 millilitres milk
- 1 pinch nutmeg
- 125 grams grated manchego cheese
- salt to taste
How to Make the Bechamel Sauce:
- In a medium saucepan, heat the butter over medium-low heat until melted. Add the flour and stir until smooth. Over medium heat, cook, until the mixture turns a light, golden sandy color, about 5 minutes.
- Add the milk to the mixture 1 cup at a time, whisking continuously until very smooth. Bring to a boil. Cook 10 – 20 minutes, stirring constantly, then add the manchego cheese and continue to stir until all melted. Season with salt and nutmeg, and set aside until ready to use.
How to Make the Empanada Filling:
- Sweat leeks and minced garlic in butter and oil for 10 minutes then set aside. Roast mushrooms on a baking tray in oven at 225 degrees C ( 437 ℉) for about 10 minutes with butter, salt and pepper.
- Meanwhile cook out diced silver beet until soft, add chopped green leaves until wilted. Add the leek and garlic mixture, and then the roasted mushrooms chopped roughly.
- Drain excess liquid, if any. Stir in Bechamel sauce and add salt and pepper to taste. See Empanada Dough recipe for assembly and frying methods.
Tried this recipe?Let us know how it was!
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Graduate Formulation Chemist, Hampshire
Our client is looking for a graduate with a minimum 2:1 degree in chemistry or a similar subject. This is a great opportunity to improve your skills in the lab and develop into a formulation scientist.
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