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After Trump's speech and the continued police violence against protesters, we call for a #GeneralStrike on Friday, June 5. This time has to be different.
Buy Nothing.
Do no work.
#BlackLivesMatter #JusticeForGeorgeFloyd #justicenow #strike #resist#resistance #nojusticenopeace #boycott #resigntrump
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A number of years ago, I heard a sermon that sticks with me to this day. Like all good sermons, the message from the pulpit offered a loving challenge to my thinking and perhaps more importantly to behaviorally put my faith in action. This sermon delivered a number of years ago at my home church of Christ Church in Philadelphia by our incredible preacher, Rev. Tim Safford, went a little something like this:
Jesus called his disciples as he was beginning his ministry. Folks from different walks of life were each confronted with the person that our faith considers the messiah. His challenge was plain: drop everything and follow me. Leave the fishing nets where they are. Leave your family and friends and all that you know. Your mission is now to follow God in a total and complete way.
The sermon asked us to put ourselves in the shoes of those disciples and asked what we would do? Would we not only leave our friends and family, but also subjugate ourselves to their scorn for pursuing this radical new way of approaching life? Would we give up our livelihoods to face the uncertainty of not knowing where the next meal may come? Would we take the risk with Jesus right in front of us his extended hand to us?
This wasn't a more typical call to being an adherent to the faith, but rather a challenge to following God through action. Are we pursuing justice in a complete way through our advocacy? Are we tolerating or ignoring some of the problems that seem almost too big for us to truly make a difference like poverty or racism or guns and violence? What risks are we taking to pursue the justice that God seeks for God's people.
The pastor posited that indeed none of us take up the cross to follow God completely, but rather we make compromises, and ideally we do so as compromises of integrity. A compromise of integrity means that you fall short of making an ultimate commitment to what God expects to pursue justice and peace, because you instead are doing something of value like taking care of your children or an elderly parent. The pastor in some ways gives us a pass in making the complete commitment of the disciples to the degree you are pursuing some other comparable good.
I don't know that the teachings of Jesus contain that hall pass and so I've aways struggled with two questions:
- On a daily basis, are the choices that I'm making that take me away from a full and complete commitment to pursing justice and peace compromises of integrity? Am I balancing risk with my comfort and the comfort of my family? Do I have too much? Am I in action enough on the issues I believe I've been called to address: racial justice, climate and inequality?
- Is the compromise of integrity a concept I should accept? It would appear that great changes are made by women and men who are willing to risk everything in order to bend the arc of the universe towards justice. Will I at some point need to step out more completely? Will I trust in the universe and God?
As I've observed and participated in the Resistance Movement, these types of questions are increasingly relevant and worthy of our deep contemplation and discussion. The Resistance Movement started almost a little tongue in cheek, with Princess Leia memes and such, though it was a real response by the majority of the electorate that did not vote for Donald Trump. The ethos of the movement is that we will fight tooth and nail to not allow him to pursue the racism and xenophobia, nor the destruction of our environment and our basic democratic norms.
There were some early wins, but the news we receive on a daily basis ranges from terrible to catastrophic. In this environment, we need to start asking ourselves a series of questions in the vein of the challenge of the sermon:
- How far am I willing to resist the evil of Trump and those who support him? Beyond voting, am I willing to go to the next protest? Am I willing to risk arrest in pursuit of the civil disobedience that Rev. William Barber and the Poor People's Campaign's are asking of us to pursue economic justice?
- What red lines do we have? What is too egregious that we will absolutely not stand for? Have we already passed that point? Are we pushing ourselves to be more creative in our actions? How do we do a better job of standing with marginalized brothers and sisters, whether they are immigrants subject to ICE action, transgender folks wanting to serve in the military, or black and brown movements of liberation against a system that incarcerates far too many and subjects folks to the continuing threat of racialized violence and policing?
- How do we turn resistance to a positivist movement with an agenda collectively pursued? Even in the dark times, we have hope that we can bring about a new political reality? Will we push the system to finally demand universal health care, real action on climate, and gun control? Are we ready to stand fully on the side of justice? Will we be no longer be willing to tolerate practical politics that compromises basic human rights of certain peoples or the survival of our planet?
Let's challenge ourselves both in our individual meditations and corporately in our organizations and activism and social circles. Resist with more creativity and risk; plan with more connectedness, and act with more love.
The calling is clear: Risk more.
#happynewyear #newyearresolutions:
1. #takecareofyourself
2. #resist #injustice
3. win the #midterms
.#grow your #activism and #community on the #civicaction center.
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This is post 1000 for #civicdirect. Thanks to all of our #followers for liking and commenting. Thanks for #resisting and building a more #justworld. #2017bestnine #protestsigns #lockhimup #resist #resistance
#happy #independenceday from #civicdirect. Thanks to all of you who #resist, #vote, #organize, #runforoffice, #volunteer, #blog, #protest to make this country a #more #perfectunion.
#trumprussia #specialprosecutor announced! Thanks to all who signed #petition and put pressure demanding such a move by deputy #attorneygeneral. Former #FBI director Robert Mueller will now take over the investigation. #win #resistance #resistanceworks #resist #keepfighting
#civicaction alert!. With the firing of #JamesComey as Director of the #FBI, the #President must not be allowed to appoint his own investigator of Trump campaign ties with #Russia.
We demand that an #Independent #SpecialProsecutor be appointed now to conduct to the investigation. #trumprussia #resist
The March of Science was held today in over 600 cities and towns across the country and globe. I saw protest signs and friends decrying the need to have such a march. Unfortunately, we live in times in which it is necessary to demonstrate, loudly and clearly, that facts are indeed facts and that truth is both real and reveals itself through scientific discovery.
This isn't new. We are all familiar with the story of Galileo. His use of new technology, the telescope, clearly demonstrated that the Earth was not the center of the universe. The Middle Age power brokers, primarily the church, had a lot vested in the Earth being the center of the universe. God's chosen people extended not just to ethno-religious boundaries, but indeed humankind special relationship with God was intertwined with us being the center of the universe. The power brokers imprisoned truth-seekers in order to maintain the order of the world they constructed and from which they benefited. However, if they would have been open to the discovery it would have at least temporarily put God on a much larger creation stage. As so often happens, being open though to these newly discovered truths, we experience the universe in a more awe-inspiring manner. Galileo's universe was more magnificent than the simplistic Earth-centered universe prevalent since antiquity and perhaps since our species first started to conceive of itself under the stars.
Similar forces are at work today. Entrenched interests in our capitalist system are hanging onto their worldview that human activity is not affecting the planet in profound ways that we may not be able to undo and which will likely make the Earth a lot less hospitable to life, including human life. The short term monetary gains of a few in the continued pursuit of fossil fuels is driving the planet off, in a gas chugging car, off the proverbial cliff. They refute the clear science through flat out ignoring it or attempting to delegitimize. Various elements of the Trump administration have whitewashed climate change from their communications and removed from their decision making. The single biggest threat to life on the planet is swept under the rug of ignorance.
Such activities by big oil and their allies are supported by perhaps a more pernicious sentiment endemic to elements to our culture, an embrace of ignorance as a positive character trait rather than a quality to oppose. There are two strains to this ignorance, one religious and one proudly ignorant. The religious ignorance is held by fundamentalist Christians who force themselves into the intellectual box of a literal translation of the Bible. These fundamentalists refuse to accept even the most basic facts of science fighting against evolution (the basis of understanding biology) and the Big Bang (the basis of understanding the universe in astronomy and physics) and claim that the age of the Earth is 6,000-20,000 years old (eliminating any need for geology).
There are other proudly ignorant folks who are happy to not believe basic scientific facts that would somehow cloud their worldview. The Atlantic covered this phenomenon recently here (https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/this-article-wont-change-your-mind/519093/) in which the research demonstrates that people may ignore facts that cause cognitive dissonance to a worldview. If you don't care to understand how the world works and are content to not know, this bias becomes exacerbated. In a social media world in which we can control what content we receive with greater precision, we can indeed bask in our own ignorance and be supported by memes, friends and content which affirm our ignorance.
The truth is that almost all of us have the basic intelligence to be consumers if not creators of the science. Science requires the humility to test your hypothesis in order to provide it wrong. What a different mindset from holding a belief, dismissing any facts that may conflict with that worldview and looking for any shred of evidence that may support that belief. The March for Science is an affirmation of those who choose to take the plunge in deepening their understanding of the world and more importantly of being open to that worldview changing. For example, Pluto was discovered through painstaking astronomy as a planet. Generations of students were taught that our solar system had nine planets. When we fine-tuned our instrumentation, we realized our beloved tiny Pluto wasn't so unique at all. There are scores of dwarf planets in the Kepler belt, many yet to be discovered. There were even scientists who emotionally held onto Pluto as planet, but discovery led to new truths that science, and humans who practice science, incorporate new facts that lead to new truths.
The questions than that the March for Science demands of those Americans who have turned away from a pursuit of truth, facts, and the scientific method is do you have the moral courage to face inconvenient truths that the science tells us? Do you have an open mind that allows new facts to be incorporated and shift your understanding of the universe? Are you willing to let go of some interest you have in maintaining the status quo to walk into a more magnificent world in which the pursuit of knowledge creates awe-inspiring discoveries that often create as many questions as they answer?
The March on Science was intended to create such dissonance. Instead of turning away, my hope is that folks re-embrace the values that led to the great shifts our thinking: The Enlightenment and the Industrial and Technological Revolutions.
Stupidity isn't a virtue. A mind open to discovery, facts, and truth is.
#marchforscience #march #science #Climate #climateaction #resist
Elect a clown, expect a circus. This circus though is inflicting real pain on our #environment, #immigrants and #refugees and others, not to mention #trumprussia. Keep #resisting. #resist #resistance #maga #trumpdoesntcareaboutyou #trump


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When the fascinating feature of complete integrity in apply of professions is missed, the use of data technologies could be abused and the knowledge turns into a pursuit of wealth and vanities. offers instantaneous entry to huge quantities of language knowledge, an unprecedented useful resource that linguists are only beginning to make use of.
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By 2010, 22 p.c of the world's population had access to computers with 1 billion Google searches daily, 300 million Internet users reading blogs, and a couple of billion movies viewed day by day on YouTube. In 2014 the world's Internet users surpassed 3 billion or 43.6 p.c of world population, however two-thirds of the users came from richest nations, with 78.0 % of Europe international locations population using the Internet, adopted by 57.four p.c of the Americas.


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Top 7 Steps to Creating a Foolproof Hiring Policy
A hiring policy should cover the steps in the hiring process, right from the first requisition for an open job position to the final onboarding of the candidate. A comprehensive hiring policy with a proper process will create a solid framework for all the hiring decisions in your organization.
The process of recruiting the right candidate is very time consuming and costly. It entails taking a lot of small and big decisions that impact the overall recruitment process for the hiring policy. Nevertheless, it is a collaborative effort wherein, all stakeholders arrive at a consensus before making the hiring decisions.
Having a proper hiring policy can bring some structure to your hiring process and make it more effective. Moreover, it helps you to channelize your resources to find the best candidate from the talent pool.
Different companies have different types of recruitment policy. Most organizations design their policy or hire a recruitment agency to suit the unique job requirements or the hiring needs of their organization. However, a good recruitment policy helps you to:
- Promote consistency within the organization
- Speed up the decision-making process with proper guidelines
- Instil belief in the company's hiring process
- Trains the hiring managers for making better hiring decisions
- Reaffirms the commitment to fair equal employment opportunities
If you already have an in-house hiring policy but it is ineffective, here are the top tips to help you improve your hiring process.
Steps to improve the hiring process
Here are the steps to create an effective hiring process:
- Involve all stakeholders
The first and foremost thing that you should do is, create a team by including the people that are involved in all aspects of employment law compliance and recruitment at the company.
Your team should include:
1. HR team: A team of HR executives and recruiters who would scout and screen the candidates.
2. Hiring managers: These managers are people who would oversee the entire recruitment porches and take interviews.
3. Legal counsel or staff: The legal counsel will take care of all the laws and legal matters associated with recruitment.
You need to ensure that the representatives of every stakeholder who are part of the recruiting team, work in tandem and collaborate effectively to plan a strategic recruitment strategy for the organization, right from sourcing to the final induction.
- Use applicant tracking software
Select the appropriate software tools that would help you manage various job applications. You could opt for the best applicant tracking software that will perfectly suit the distinct needs of your recruitment processes.
The applicant tracking system or ATS enables the electronic handling of hiring and recruitment needs. The ATS is similar to the CRM systems but is mainly designed for recruitment tracking purposes.
A good ATS system is web-based and customizable as per your unique hiring needs and is capable of managing your entire recruitment process. This includes the job posting, sourcing candidates, screening of candidates, and effective reporting to the hiring managers. The applicant tracking software would ensure that you do not miss out on any process during the recruitment process.
- Create a purpose
Establish a clear purpose for the hiring process. A clear purpose gives direction to the recruitment process. After you have identified the key collaborators and selected the right applicant tracking system for the recruitment process, you need to establish proper reasons or the purpose of the hiring policy.
Here are a few questions that you can ask your team in order to establish the right purpose for the recruitment policy.
- What are your objectives or goals for the new hired?
- How do you view your employees, their roles and contributions to your success?
- Which values of the company should be reflected in the hiring process?
Seeking answers to these questions will help you establish the right purpose for the recruitment policy.
- Believe in talent
We may become biased subconsciously towards a particular type or category of candidates during the sourcing and agreeing possess. This could limit our horizons and may deprive us of getting some of the best talents for the job role.
Therefore, try to steer clear of any subconscious bias during the recruitment process. A new hire could bring many innovative ideas to the table which could be immensely beneficial for the organization. Therefore, do not be wary of atypical candidate profiles; they might become the during force in shaping the outlook of the existing processes in your organization.
Some candidates bring in dynamism, while others bring in critical thinking and creativity. Therefore, you should be open to accommodate all kinds of talent, provided their credentials fit into the requirements of the job role.
- Create an overview
A proper outline or an overview of the recruitment process will help you plan the process to achieve the desired hiring objective. The main objective is to create a rough, sequential draft of your hiring process, and identifying the key people who would be responsible for the successful completion of each task in the process.
Here are a few questions you must consider while developing the hiring process:
- What type of job interviews would you need?
- What number of rounds of interview is required?
- How many personnel should get involved at different stages of the interview?
- What should be done in the pre-recruitment process (example: background checks)?
- Would you include skill assessment or drug screening?
- What are the circumstances or conditions for rehiring former employees?
These questions are essential and seeking appropriate answers will help you create a daft overview of the hiring process.
- Assign responsibility
In general, it is the responsibility of HR professionals to implement the hiring policy. However, depending on the approach your company takes to manage human capital, your professionals could include your in-house HR staff along with other torrid party professionals and the upper management.
- Establish the scope
The scope of your hiring policy should be precise and clear, and it should apply to all the employees of the company. Whether you plan to recruit a top executive, manager or an entry-level employee, your hiring process must follow the exact procedures as mentioned in the hiring policy.
Therefore, you need to precisely explain the scope of your hiring policy to all the stakeholders involved in its formation and document the policy appropriately.
Enforcing the hiring policy
Advertise your hiring policy documents on the internal portal of the company, and make the policy accessible to every employee, including :
- Executives
- Recruiters and HR staff
- Hiring managers and supervisors
Make it compulsory for the supervisors to undergo thorough training in your hiring process. They should understand and follow the hiring process so that they can effectively hire new professionals for the company.
Inclusions in the hiring policy
Your hiring policy handbook should have a proper purpose, i.e. the reasons or the philosophy for the existence of your hiring policy. Your purpose will give a direction to your hiring policy.
Statement on inclusion and equal employment opportunities:
It must contain the statement on your commitment to inclusion and providing fair and equal employment opportunities to all. This statement will reflect your values and company culture.
Policies on former employees and related employees:
Your hiring policy should comprehensively explain the guidelines on hiring former employees and relatives of former or existing employees to minimize any conflict of interest at the workplace.
Hiring procedures:
Finally, the hiring policy should cover the steps in the hiring process, right from the first requisition for an open job position to the final onboarding of the candidate.
A comprehensive hiring policy and a proper hiring process will create a solid framework for all the hiring decisions in your organization across different channels and verticals.
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by JMac for BISMumbai
The oratory football tournament for the children of the daily oratory at Don Bosco Youth Centre Koregaon Road was held on 29 February 2020, with 70 youngsters, registered and daily oratory comers, in the age bracket of 09-27 years.
Father Briston Britto -Director Diocesan Catechetical Centre, along with Fathers Ivan deSouza and Richard D'Silva welcomed the youngsters and informed them about the need to always be with Don Bosco and to make good choices for life.
With 03 categories - U14, U17 and Open, the boys played in a team spirit wearing similar jerseys, displaying their unity by practising together, and playing with disciplined skill. There was a good coordination that was a welcome sight to witness on the ground.
The sponsors St. Joseph's Youth Ghorpuri were present through the day cheering the youngsters and sharing time with them. The day saw a good level of sportsmanship while the winners rallied with trophies and the runners up cheered them for their skilful play.
Saket an oratory boy remarked, " Thanks brothers for making this day such a memorable one....we enjoyed it!"
The fiesta ended with a scrumptious meal and ice cream that was shared along with the youth of Ghorpuri parish. It was a beautiful witness value and the rapport of the Salesian's in their Don Bosco jerseys with the youngsters, that was the highlight of the day.


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Printemps Francais, which was first held in 2004, showcases creative talents from both France and Indonesia, encouraging various forms of collaborations, residencies and concerts. This year's event is very special since it is being held in ten big cities across the archipelago, namely Jakarta, Bandung, Surabaya, Yogyakarta, Bali, Medan, Balikpapan, Semarang, Malang, and Makassar.
With this expansion, Printemps Francais 2016 is expected to engage a wider audience with lots of new artistic activities that can hopefully strengthen the relationship between the two countries, specifically in the cultural sphere. In total, there are twenty artistic events being held during the festival, and apart from highlighting the beauty of French art, Printemps Francais also offers an opportunity for Indonesian artists to share their experiences and collaborate with French artists in several joint projects. The festival started with an enchanting performance entitled L'Oiseau (the Bird) by Les Rémouleurs, the renowned French contemporary puppet company. Collaborating with Indonesian puppeteers, they wowed audiences with their extravagant acts, focusing on the figure of a giant bird made of a marionette spanning eight metres across, sitting on helium-filled balloons controlled by the puppeteers. The bird moved, soared and danced to the eclectic music of the Senyawa group.
Another collaborative performance that deserves big recognition this year was a classical music concert by Ensemble Doulce Mémoire titled "Music of the Lost Country". Doulce Mémoire was founded almost 25 years ago by flutist Denis Raisin Dadre and now consists of numeorus passionate singers and musicians who aspire to bring evocative Renaissance music back to the modern age. Since it was established, the ensemble group has appeared at national theatres, opera houses and festivals all over France as well as in many major cities around the world. On this occasion, Doulce Mémoire collaborated with traditional Sundanese musician Yoyon Darsono and singers Hendrawati Ashworth and Dede Suparwan, who invited audiences to explore the richness of classical Sundanese and French music.
Furthermore, Ensemble Trielen returned this year to perform a number of compositions from their repertoire. Trielen, a musical trio consisting of a clarinetist, an oboist and a bassoonist, worked together with students from the music department of the Indonesian Institute of the Arts in Jogjakarta and String Orchestra of Surabaya. Printemps Francais also invited popular band M83 who is widely known for their psychedelic electric pop with distinctive style of lyricism. The band has released seven albums and two soundtracks, including the Grammy Award-nominated Hurry Up, We're Dreaming. M83 performed in Jakarta on May 21 and attracted hundreds of spectators who were bewitched by their energetic performance.
In the photography sphere, journalist and photographer Christophe Loviny presented an exhibition titled "Aung San Suu Kyi: A Portrait in Words and Pictures," which told the story of Suu Kyi, the Nobel Prize winner and an iconic figure in Burma who is struggling for democracy and peace in her country. These moving photos were produced while Loviny served as a correspondent in Burma in 1983.
IFI also collaborated with Rujak Center for Urban Studies to organise an architecture exhibition and public discussion entitled "The Future of Architecture: Ecology Design for Ecology City" at IFI Jakarta auditorium. The exhibition displays the artwork of French young architects and landscape experts who won an AJAP (Albums de Jeunes Architects et des Paysagistes), a prize awarded every two years to young international professionals in architecture, urban planning and landscape. The display exposes cutting edge developments in architecture and landscape, through innovative scenography. Alongside the exhibition are forums for the discussion of how architecture and urban planning can and should respond to the challenges of our societies.
The festival will end with the 38th Bali Art festival. This year, France will be the guest of honour in this festival and will be prominently represented in the opening parade, which will unveil a number of Balinese and Indonesian groups to an audience, which includes the President of the Republic of Indonesia along with a number of senior officials.
Upcoming Events:
Ensemble Trielen Surabaya, June 2nd
Jean-Louis Haguenauer Medan, June 1st & Jakarta, June 5th
Bottlesmoker Jakarta, June 3rd
The Future of Architecture Jakarta, May 18 – June 5th
Elizabeth D. Inandiak Yogyakarta, June 1st & Jakarta, June 4th
Bali Art Festival Bali, June 11
For further details regarding the schedule, please visit www.ifi-id.com/printemps


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Phase two of reopening will begin in most Florida counties on Friday, Governor DeSantis announces
ORLANDO, Fla. - Governor Ron DeSantis announced on Wednesday that 64 Florida counties will enter phase two of reopening on Friday.
Governor DeSantis made the announcement from Universal Orlando Resort, which opened on Wednesday to resort hotel guests and annual passholders. They will open to the public on Friday, June 5th with enhanced safety measures in place.
"Amusement parks — we're here right now — we wanted them to work with their local governments to submit plans," DeSantis said. "Universal did a great job, had a great plan, and I think as you've seen, they're taking safety very seriously to keep their guests safe."
In phase two, businesses like bars, nightclubs, tattoo shops, sporting venues, other large venues, and movie theaters can reopen with capacity limits as long as they take precautions to slow the spread of COVID-19.
RELATED: Over 1,300 more cases of COVID-19 reported in last 24 hours by Florida health officials
Restaurants can now allow bar-top seating with appropriate social distancing. Bars and pubs can now operate with 50 percent capacity indoors and full capacity outside as long as appropriate social distancing is followed. Only seated patrons can receive service.
Retail stores, which could operate with limited capacity in phase one, can now operate at full capacity with responsible social distancing and sanitization protocols.
"You're seated to get served. People go, enjoy, have a drink, that's fine, We want to kind of not have huge crowds piling in," DeSantis added.
Gyms, which did not reopen initially in phase one but was given approval by May 18th, can now operate at full capacity as well with appropriate social distancing and frequent sanitization.
Entertainment businesses, like movie theaters, concert houses, auditoriums, playhouses, bowling alleys and arcades, can operate at 50 percent with appropriate social distancing and sanitization protocols.
RELATED: NBA presents players with plan for season restart in Orlando, source says
Personal services businesses, including but not limited to tattoo parlors, acupuncture establishments, tanning salons, and massage establishments, may operate with guidance from the Florida Department of Health.
Pari-mutuel betting facilities can submit a request to reopen to the Department of Business and Professional Regulation. The request must include an endorsement from their county mayor or county administrator if there is no mayor.
Florida state universities have developed a task force to create a framework to reopen campuses in the fall. Universities will present their plans on June 23, 2020.
RELATED: Infectious disease specialists call for an end to tear gas during COVID-19 pandemic
With phase two starting on Friday, the state is offering guidance to keep vulnerable individuals safe from coronavirus.
They said individuals over age 65 and or with underlying medical conditions are strongly encouraged to avoid crowds and take measures to limit the risk of exposure.
In addition, all individuals that work in long-term care facilities should be tested for COVID-19 on a routine basis.
All persons are encouraged to avoid congregating in groups larger than 50 as well.
RELATED: Epidemiologists call for widespread contact tracing 'as soon as possible' amid COVID-19 pandemic
Miami-Dade, Broward, and Palm Beach -- which are the counties that got hit the heaviest by coronavirus in Florida -- will remain in phase one for the time being. When ready, they can seek approval from their county mayor or county administrator to enter phase two.
Florida has reported a total of 58,764 known COVID-19 cases. The latest increase, 1,317 new cases in one day, was the largest single-day increase of reported coronavirus cases in the last 30 days and one of the largest since the pandemic began. The number of deaths, though, is on the decline.
Watch Governor DeSantis announce phase two from Universal Orlando Resort.


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§ 86 Breach of duties in respect of statutory audits
Whoever, in their capacity as member of a supervisory board or member of an audit committee of a company which is a public-interest entity within the meaning of section 316a sentence 2 no. 1 or no. 2 of the Commercial Code,
- 1. carries out one of the acts referred to in section 87 (1), (2) or (3) and receives a pecuniary advantage therefor or allows such a pecuniary advantage to be promised to him or her, or
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This is the time of the year when I write that the Union County Tournament is the oldest boys county tournament in the state when presenting the news of the seeding meeting. It adds a certain amount of weight to the history.
What does that mean, though, exactly? For sure there have been plenty of great teams, coaches and players over the course of the last 80-plus years.
Rahway won the first UCT in 1937 and its fifth and final in 1957. However, will the Indians ever win it again in our lifetime?
Cranford won for the only time in 1964. Johnson Regional won for the only time in 1981, coached by present Elizabeth assistant Steve Petruzzelli.
Will the Cougars or Crusaders ever hoist the trophy any time soon?
Since 1982 these are the schools that have won the tournament: St. Patrick/Patrick School 18 times, Elizabeth 11 times, Linden six times, Roselle Catholic twice and Plainfield once. That's it. Roselle Catholic did not capture the event until two years ago.
On Tuesday morning at the Linden fieldhouse the 84th annual UCT will be constructed.
You could have seeded the tournament any day last summer. Just put Patrick School, Roselle Catholic, Elizabeth and Linden at the top and go from there.
Seeding those four teams is especially easy this year. Patrick School swept Roselle Catholic in two out-of-conference games since Patrick School opted not to play in the Union County Conference this year.
In UCC-Watchung Division play, Roselle Catholic swept Elizabeth and Elizabeth swept Linden. RC won the division title at 4-0, also sweeping Linden.
So if you go based on head-to-head it's a natural: 1-Patrick School, 2-Roselle Catholic, 3-Elizabeth and 4-Linden. Plus, not one team from any of the three divisions below defeated Patrick School, Roselle Catholic, Elizabeth or Linden.
However, there are plenty of quality basketball teams in Union County that don't reside in the Watchung Conference. How about a separate county tournament just for them?
Instead of putting Patrick School, RC, Elizabeth and Linden right into the quarterfinals, put them into their own semifinals and final four-team tournament. The championship game can still be played at Kean University on the Saturday night two days before state tournament play commences.
On a separate grid we can seed the teams from the other three UCC divisions and have them battle it out to a championship game that can be played right before the other title contest.
Say if that was the case this year we could have back-to-back UCT championship games at Kean on Saturday, Feb. 29. The first one could be called, let's say, the UCT Challenge Final and played at 4 p.m. and the second one billed, let's say, as the UCT Premier Final and played at 7 p.m., leaving plenty of time in between to recognize the efforts of the teams from the first game played.
As of today on the eve of the 2020 seeding meeting as many as 15 of the 22 Union County schools have at least 10 wins, with all of them over .500. That includes 11 that don't reside in the Watchung Conference.
Summit is 17-2, has won 14 straight and just captured the Valley Division title at 9-1.
Westfield is 13-4, is 11-2 in its last 13 and won the Mountain Division perfect at 8-0.
Summit and Westfield clashed in the season-opener for both back on Dec. 19 in the St. Jude Classic at Union, with the Hilltoppers winning by five, 50-45.
Hillside is 17-4 and is the Sky Division champion, also perfect there at 12-0.
Rahway is 14-3 and has won 11 of its last 13 games, the only setbacks coming to Summit.
Union (10-8) began its season 7-0 for the first time since the 1998-1999 campaign.
Johnson, under first-year head coach Mike Pozyc, is 11-6. Oratory Prep is 10-7 and split with Summit in Valley Division play.
Union Catholic is 11-7 and owns a win over Hudson Catholic. Plainfield, Roselle and even Brearley are in the discussion of 10-win teams who have won more than they have lost. The Brearley Bears have done a fine job so far this year.
We could have a second Final Four of, say, Summit, Westfield, Union and Hillside. On what could be billed "Championship Saturday" at Kean we could have a Summit-Westfield championship game followed by the more predictable Patrick School-Roselle Catholic matchup most people expect.
Substantial food for thought or not? You can be the judge.
The UCC is set up for schools to be as evenly matched up size-wise so that they can play for a division championship. However, division titles are as invisible as Claude Rains was nearly 100 years ago.
Having two county tournaments adds another trophy for certain teams to look forward to obtaining. Say Roselle Park one year makes the other Final Four? What an achievement, and a noteworthy one, that could be for the Group 1 Panthers.
Perhaps it's time to shake up boys basketball in Union County a bit so that it isn't as predictable anymore.


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Jeff Bezos' $500 million yacht was a hot news item back in February. The ship was so large that in order to move it from a Dutch shipyard a bridge in Rotterdam would have to be disassembled.
That obscene display of wealth by the union-busting Amazon boss could easily have built housing for over a thousand homeless families. Yet the media is now silent about Bezos' yacht.
Instead the internet is buzzing about yachts belonging to Russian billionaires being seized. Why are rich Russian scoundrels called "oligarchs" while U.S. billionaires are treated like movie stars?
The different treatment even extends to dictionaries. The Oxford dictionary featured by the Google search engine gives this definition for oligarch: "(especially in Russia) a very rich business leader with a great deal of political influence."
Who has more political influence than U.S. billionaires? They control the U.S. government from the top to bottom.
They often run for office themselves like the former money bags mayor of New York City, Michael Bloomberg. Supreme Court justices are groomed in their corporate law firms and Ivy League law schools.
The wealthy and powerful have been running the U.S. since before 1776. Nearly three out of four signers of the Declaration of Independence owned enslaved Africans.
The U.S. Constitution was largely written by those who had a financial interest in the government taking over the debts of the states. This was shown by historian Charles Beard in "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States."
Red, white and blue oligarchs are immensely richer than the Russian variety. The 400 richest U.S. billionaires last year had a total wealth of $4.5 trillion.
That's 12 times as much as the $375 billion stash of Russia's billionaires.
Wall Street's empire controls vast areas that the Roman emperors never even knew existed. The U.S. Navy's Seventh Fleet threatens China while throttling the Pacific Ocean like it's Lake Michigan.
Fortunes are theft
The French novelist Balzac allegedly wrote that "behind every great fortune lies a great crime." Gustavus Myers wanted to see if that was true.
Apologists for the super rich claimed that they got their dough honestly by hard work and smarts. Myers found otherwise in his "History of the Great American Fortunes," published a century ago.
U.S. tycoons got to the top of the heap not only from slavery, child labor, low wages, broken strikes and dangerous working conditions. Myers' investigation proved that just as crucial for the captains of industry was breaking laws and stealing from other capitalists.
John D. Rockefeller ― the founder of Big Oil who became the world's first billionaire ― had his brother bomb a rival oil refinery in Buffalo, New York.
The Astors become the hemisphere's biggest slumlords by taking the profits stolen from Indigenous nations in the fur trade and investing it in New York City real estate. Also necessary was bribing Michigan territorial governor Lewis Cass. New York city council members were paid off in a waterfront land grab.
A whole series of U.S. billionaires are war profiteers. The Du Ponts' fortune hit the big time with World War I. They used the profits to buy up General Motors.
In the years leading up to his presidency, Donald Trump was so tied in to organized crime that the state of New Jersey refused at first to give him a gambling license.
The Hearst family's media fortune includes the San Francisco Chronicle, 23 other newspapers, dozens of TV stations and ESPN, which is jointly owned with Disney. These outlets attack Russia and ignore the neo-Nazi gangs in Ukraine that function like a Ku Klux Klan.
According to "Citizen Hearst," by W. A. Swanberg, the Hearst riches began before the U.S. Civil War in a Missouri lead mine. George Hearst didn't hire miners; he bought miners who were enslaved Africans.
If an honest title search was conducted into the origins of the biggest fortunes it would find that they were based on theft. It's tens of millions of unpaid and underpaid workers who actually produced their wealth.
Birth of the oligarchs
Karl Marx pointed out that it was the African Holocaust and the genocide of Indigenous peoples in the Americas that jumpstarted the capitalist world market. He described capitalism's birth as "dripping from head to foot, from every pore, with blood and dirt."
The origin of the Russian billionaires is much more recent. It was the U.S. capitalist government that's responsible. The Pentagon spent at least $5.5 trillion on nuclear weapons aimed at the Soviet Union.
Under this unrelenting pressure, Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev threw in the towel. The door was open for overthrowing socialism. The World Bank and International Monetary Fund demanded the privatization of the industries that had been built by the working class.
Russian oligarchs never would have been able to steal trillions of dollars of socialist property without Boris Yeltsin's assault on the Congress of People's Deputies. Hundreds of people were killed there in October 1993.
The U.S. media either applauded the massacre or were silent about it. Their attitude was much the same about the bloody U.S. wars against Panama, Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan and Yemen.
Yet we're supposed to believe them when they tell us the Russian Federation is committing war crimes in Ukraine.
The 1993 massacre allowed a fire sale of Soviet assets that were gobbled up by the new Russian tycoons. One of the reasons the wealthy hate Belarus is that it was the only former Soviet Republic that didn't give away the bulk of its nationalized property.
The Russian billionaires have invested hundreds of billions in London and New York City money markets. This flight of capital helped prop up the U.S. dollar and British pound.
The oligarchs in the former Soviet Republics are justly hated by the poor and working people there. The working class there will have to deal with them like the workers did in the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.
We have our own oligarchs to deal with. They own half the earth and are the enemies of humankind.
Don't let our struggle against racism and poverty be derailed by a war drive against Russia.
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Mega-Mergers: 3 giant corporations controlling South Africa's Food and Farming systems
Amidst the deepening political crisis in which South Africa is mired, another slow-burning crisis is playing out in our food and farming systems as three mega mergers are being sewn up. According to a report released by the African Centre for Biodiversity, titled, "The three agricultural input mega-mergers: Grim reapers of South Africa's food and farming systems" the current oligopolistic situation where 6 multinational companies control the seed and agrochemical sectors is about to get a lot worse. US chemical giants, Dow Chemical and DuPont are set to merge, China National Chemical Corporation (ChemChina) is to acquire Syngenta and Bayer is to acquire Monsanto. The proposed Bayer-Monsanto merger will give control of almost 30% of the world's commercial seed market and almost 25% of the world's commercial pesticide and herbicide (agrochemical) markets to just one company.
The Competition Commission of South Africa (CCSA) has already ruled in favour of the ChemChina acquisition of Syngenta and has completed its investigation of the Dow Chemical-DuPont merger, for which it is awaiting remedies by the parties before it concludes the matter. The CCSA is set to make a finding on the Bayer Monsanto merger at the end of April 2017.
South African laws, including on competition, continue to favour corporations and the expansion of their power. The CCSA is not likely to consider the extent to which these mergers will exacerbate social inequities and ecological crises caused by industrial farming. What will not bear on decision-making is the effect of the dominance of a cartel-like technological platform in biotechnology traits, seed production and patented agrochemicals that lock out competition from alternative technologies and production systems. This dominant technological platform is constructed around genetically engineered and hybrid seed, and integrated with particular chemicals that cannot be 'uncoupled'; the traits, seed and chemicals form indivisible packages. These mergers will entrench this platform, as future research and development will be structured to seek ways of taking advantage of new combinations of intellectual property, seed and chemicals available in the enlarged technology pool of the merged entities.
The central issue though is that these mergers expand and intensify an extractivist economic model. They also reveal an insidious and deep penetration of food production systems by finance capital. The world's two largest investment and asset management firms, BlackRock and the Vanguard Group are among the top 5 equity holders in all the merging companies. The Vanguard Group is Monsanto's biggest shareholder, Bayer's second biggest shareholder and the third largest shareholder of Dow Chemical and DuPont stocks, followed by BlackRock. BlackRock is Syngenta's major shareholder, Monsanto's second most important shareholder and also holds 7% of Bayer's shares. The mega-mergers bring a new spin on the "financialisation of food", a trend that has been a hot potato since the 2008 food crisis.
While we demand clean and accountable government, we must also contest the consolidation of the hegemony of large-scale commercial farming and corporate agri-business within agricultural value chains that these mergers will entrench. We must demand the end of systems that seek profits from nature and undervalue human effort; which systematically destroy the environment and have serious negative effects on social and community structures and which overvalues wealth concentration and sidelines equality.
We urge government to act on the following as agricultural priorities:
- Land redistribution and tenure security to promote diverse smallholder agriculture;
- To carry out programmes that build the capability of black smallholder farmers to increase their share of national agricultural production;
- To develop programmes that support smallholder farmers to strengthen their capacity to revive and use indigenous seed varieties, maintain and enhance agricultural biodiversity, a role that smallholders are uniquely positioned to play;
- To take a political decision to stop these mergers in South Africa;
- To review competition and investment policies to restrict further multinational expansion in our agro-food system, including in agricultural input supply;
- To focus attention on systematically breaking up corporate power and identify solutions, together with smallholder farmers, unions, farm workers, consumers and mass-based organisations for an effective transition towards a more diverse, inclusive, social just and ecologically sustainable agro-food system.
For more information contact:
Mariam Mayet firstname.lastname@example.com
Ilham Rawoot firstname.lastname@example.com
Source: The African Centre for Biodiversity
PO Box 29170, Melville 2109 South Africa
Tel: +27 (0)11 486 1156


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The Labour Court, in its recent decision in the case of DHL Express (Ireland) Limited v Michael Coughlan, has held that the summary dismissal by DHL Express (Ireland) Limited ("DHL") of its employee, Mr Coughlan, was disproportionate and unwarranted.
Mr Coughlan, a courier/van driver for DHL, was dismissed without notice for gross misconduct where his driving was said to have caused €2,500 worth of damage to a DHL van.
At the initial hearing of the case, the Adjudication Officer (AO) found that the sanction applied to Mr Coughlan was disproportionate having regard to all the circumstances and directed Mr Coughlan's reinstatement.
On appeal, the Labour Court agreed with the AO and found Mr Coughlan's dismissal to be unfair within the meaning of the Unfair Dismissals Acts 1977-2015 (the "UD Acts"). The Labour Court varied the award of the AO and granted Mr Coughlan the maximum compensation available under the UD Acts of 104 weeks' compensation, amounting to €72,054.88.
In reaching its decision, the Labour Court highlighted the following shortcomings in the disciplinary process applied to Mr Coughlan's dismissal:
1. Gross Misconduct
The Labour Court stated that the law takes a very strict view as to what constitutes gross misconduct justifying summary dismissal. It referred to the decision of Lennon v Bredin in which the Employment Appeals Tribunal (EAT) found that dismissal, without notice, for misconduct "applies only to cases of very bad behaviour of such a kind that no reasonable employer could be expected to tolerate the continuance of the employment relationship for a minute longer". The EAT cited violent assault or larceny as examples of such behaviour.
The Labour Court held the basis for which the disciplinary hearing was established – the failure to protect and safeguard company property – did not meet the threshold for misconduct. The Labour Court took note of the fact that Mr Coughlan was permitted to continue driving for DHL for a number of weeks after the incident for which he was later summarily dismissed.
2. Grounds for Dismissal
The Labour Court found that Mr Coughlan was confronted with a number of additional grounds for his dismissal at the disciplinary hearing which he had not previously been advised of either during the investigation stage or in the letter inviting him to the hearing.
These grounds included protection of Mr Coughlan and others against any further lapses of judgement of Mr Coughlan in carrying out his duties as well as the previous warnings he received in respect of damage caused to company and customer property resulting from his driving.
DHL also referred to its duty of care to the public, other staff and Mr Coughlan himself when setting out the basis for upholding the finding of dismissal during the internal appeal of the Respondent's decision.
The Labour Court found that DHL had based its decision to summarily dismiss Mr Coughlan in part on these additional grounds.
3. Proportionality of Sanction
Having concluded that the behaviour of Mr Coughlan could not be considered gross misconduct justifying summary dismissal, the Labour Court found that DHL's decision to summarily dismiss him was disproportionate and unwarranted in all the circumstances.
4. Failure to Consider Alternative Sanctions
The Labour Court found that DHL had failed to consider alternative sanctions before summarily dismissing Mr Coughlan. It noted in particular that Mr Coughlan was not given the opportunity to contribute to the cost of repairs to the company van and the evidence provided by witnesses for DHL made it clear that no lesser sanction was considered. It was noted that the DHL manager, who had conducted the disciplinary hearing, was not aware that the option of dismissal on notice was available to him.
5. Consideration of Previous Warnings
The Labour Court considered that undue weight was given to previous incidents involving Mr Coughlan's driving which had resulted in damage to DHL's company vehicle. Mr Coughlan received a written warning in 2012 and a final written warning in 2013. Both warnings expired 12 months from the date they were applied to Mr Coughlan.
The Labour Court found that the decision of DHL to dismiss Mr Coughlan was informed to a significant degree by these previous incidents when in fact the warnings should have been expunged upon their expiry.
The threshold for gross misconduct is extremely high and so summary dismissal will only be justified in instances of extreme conduct. In most cases, dismissal on notice should be the preferred route.
Employers should ensure that all the issues which the employer will consider during the disciplinary process are notified to the employee in advance of a disciplinary hearing.
Employers should also be mindful of relying on expired warnings in a subsequent disciplinary process.
Contributed by Emma Lavin
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2kg jersey royal potatoes
40g Essential Cuisine Spicy Persian Seasoning
40g Essential Cuisine Zesty Chermoula Seasoning
10 garlic cloves
Juice of 3 lemons
5 shallots, peeled and chopped
1kg kale
4 avocado, peeled and stoned
2tbsp dijon mustard
125g feta
Chilli flakes to taste
100g pumpkin seeds, toasted
1. Boil the potatoes until tender. Drain, cut in half and mix with the Essential Cuisine Spicy Persian and Zesty Chermoula Seasonings, the garlic and a drop of olive oil. Roast for 20 minutes.
2. Squeeze half the lemon juice over the shallot and half the kale mixed together. Season and set aside.
3. Remove the garlic cloves from the oven. Put the rest of the kale on the potatoes, drizzle with more olive oil then return to the oven for 5 minutes until crisp.
4. Blitz the garlic, avocado, mustard and remaining lemon juice together. add all the above together and tip onto a platter. Top with the feta, chilli flakes and pumpkin seeds.


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Black Jamun Apple Smoothie is a purely diabetic recipe. Black jamun comes only in June, July and August. It is good for diabetes. Don't throw away the seed. You can dry in the sun and powder it. Regular intake of this powder will control the blood sugar level.
- Black Jamun – 10
- Apple – 1
- Lime – ½
- Low fat curd – ¼ cup
Deseed Black jamun. Peel and cut the apple. Add black jamun, apple in a mixie.
Add lime juice and grind it well.
Then add curd and blend few seconds.
Serve chill.
Without sugar also the smoothie will be very tasty.


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Monday, August 30th, 2021
Drake University's College of Business and Public Administration is rolling out a new program to recognize students who take the initiative to make their communities a priority through service. Dubbed the Dean's Honor Roll for Social Impact, it will lift up the importance of community involvement and encourage business and public administration students to participate in volunteer activities. Students who perform and record at least 20 hours of individual community service in a given semester and who submit a reflection paper or attend a reflection session at the end of the semester will be placed on this honor roll in recognition of their commitment to make a positive societal impact.
"The Honor Roll for Social Impact is evidence that a business education can be a force for good, contributing to the global economy and to society," said Alejandro Hernandez, dean of the College of Business and Public Administration. "This platform will recognize the service that many of our students are already performing and inspire others to experience the transformational value of volunteering."
Underpinning the Honor Roll for Social Impact is an online technology platform from NobleHour, which is being launched for students to record their hours and provide information about their service using either a web browser or mobile app. The platform will also allow students to build out a volunteer profile and provide them with community engagement opportunities available at the more than 90 recognized non-profit partner agencies through Drake's Office of Community Engaged Learning.
"This new business school program builds on Drake's long history of service and our students' commitment to making a difference in the community," said Renee Sedlacek Lee, director of the Office of Community Engaged Learning. "The CPBA Dean's Honor Roll for Social Impact is a forerunner of our plans to measure the impact of our service activities across the entire campus community."


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A Pa-O militia dismissed reports that the armed group forced members from the National League for Democracy (NLD) to resign at gunpoint last month during a press conference on Monday.
According to the NLD, 57 party members in Shan state's Satthay village resigned after they were threatened by the militia. The opposition party also accused the armed group of surrounding its office in Mauksan village on 16 May.
However, the militias' leader claims the NLD members rescinded their party membership on their own.
"We didn't force them – they actually quit on their own accord – they were in the press conference today along with local village leaders and took questions from journalists," said Colonel Khun La during an interview with DVB yesterday.
The militia leader added that his troops had not surrounded the NLD office in Mauksan but were on a routine patrol in area and had detained local villagers who had said 'inappropriate' things.
"It was only a guard patrol for security reasons. If we are to surround a house or an office, we'd go in the building afterward, but our troops didn't even step foot inside the office's interior," said the militia leader.
"We only briefly detained the villagers and we immediately handed them back to their village administrators."
However, the NLD's district chair in Taunggyi, Tin Maung Toe, maintains that NLD members were tied up and forced to resign by the militia.
"They were tied up for two-three days and forced to sign resignation letters. We have filed a complaint concerning this [incident] to the Union Election Commission," said Tin Maung Toe.
According to a local who attended the press conference on Monday, the individuals presented at the press event by the armed group were village leaders, not the NLD members who were forced to resign.
Both the NLD and the militia have said they would file separate complaints to the UEC regarding the incident.
The militia – formerly the PaO National Army – and the NLD are reportedly at odds after the political party began working with local farmers who are trying to reclaim land that had been confiscated by the armed group.


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Potato fig tarte flambée is a delicious and quick dish that you can easily prepare yourself. If you don't want to prepare the tarte flambee dough yourself, you can use the ready-made dough from the refrigerated section for the tarte flambée. This base is perfect for then serving up a great tasting and looking meal in about 30 to 40 minutes. Flammkuchen is a specialty of the historic regions around the German-French border. It is made from yeast dough that is rolled out very thinly in the shape of a rectangle or oval and topped with crème fraîche or sour cream, thinly sliced red onions and ham/bacon. However, you can change the toppings as you wish. The tarte flambée is a bit reminiscent of a pizza, but the base is rolled out much thinner. I chose fresh figs, boiled potatoes and red onions for my vegetarian version of a flammkuchen. Deliciously fresh rosemary and a hint of honey provide that certain extra aroma.
The traditional German pizza, tarte flambee or Alsatian pizza, as the tarte flambée is also often called, should be rolled out and topped directly on the baking sheet or on baking paper, because otherwise transporting this wafer-thin crust and its toppings will be very difficult.
The tarte flambée is perfect as a small party appetizer. Bake the potato and fig tarte flambée and cut into small squares or strips. Arrange it on a serving tray and watch people devour it. Or keep it all to yourself for dinner for two with a nice glass of wine.
Flammkuchen are also very versatile. You are welcome to top the wafer-thin, crispy bases with a topping of your choice. You can use wild garlic, spring onions or leeks instead of onions. Try pear, pumpkin, apple slices, goat cheese and maple syrup. Only let your fantasies be the limit.
if you like our Potato fig tarte flambée, you might also be interested in these drink recipes:
- Pizza di pasta sfoglia
- Eggplant mini pizza with cashew cheese
- Ricotta cheese cake with fresh figs
- gooseberry cake
- even more from the oven
Potato fig tarte flambée with honey and rosemary
- food processor*
- Rolling Pin
- Knife*
- cutting board*
for the Flammkuchen dough:
- 600 G flour
- 20 G Yeast
- 6 tbsp. native olive oil*
- 1 prize kosher salt*
- 1 prize sugar
Tarte flambée topping:
- 200 G potatoes sticky
- 3-4 figs
- 1 Red onion
- 250 G Creme fraiche Cheese or sour cream
- 1 small Bunch of rosemary
- Sea-salt*
- Black pepper*
- 2 tbsp. honey
- 2 spring onions
Prepare the Flammkuchen dough:
- Mix 300 ml of water with the pinches of salt and sugar. Crumble the yeast and dissolve in the water.
- Knead the flour with olive oil and the yeast water to form a smooth dough.
- Place the dough in a bowl, cover with a tea towel and let rise in a warm place for about 30 minutes.
For covering:
- Wash the potatoes and boil them in their skins until soft. Then drain and let cool.
- Peel the onion and cut into thin rings.
- Wash and slice the figs.
- Peel the potatoes and also cut into slices.
- Rinse the rosemary and pluck the needles from the stems.
topping and baking.
- Preheat the oven to 250°C.
- Divide the flammkuchen dough into four parts.
- Roll out each portion of dough very thinly and spread with crème fraîche.
- Now cover with potatoes, figs, onions and rosemary.
- Season with sea salt and ground pepper.
- Drizzle some honey over it.
- Bake in the oven for about 7 to 8 minutes. (successively)
- Serve with finely chopped spring onion rings.


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Teaching by Tag: Fruit of the Spirit
The Holy Spirit, Part 5: Keep in Step
Our job is to move through life in tandem with the Holy Spirit, being able to follow His lead on every turn. We keep in step with the Spirit by renewing our minds in the Word every day, but learning to discern, and by seeking wise counsel.
Watch / ListenThe Fruit of the Spirit, Part 3
When we accept Jesus as our Savior, we must set aside performance and the works of the law as our operating principle. We receive the Holy Spirit, who empowers us to live a life that is consistent with Him. As we pursue this relationship, fruit begins to grow.
Watch / ListenThe Fruit of the Spirit, Part 2
After accepting Jesus Christ, receiving the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, and pursuing God passionately, do you find yourself growing into a warmhearted, considerate, gentle, and sympathetic person?
Watch / ListenThe Fruit of the Spirit, Part 1
Because of my faith in Jesus, and my pursuit of Him in the power of His indwelling Holy Spirit, does love grow out of me toward others regardless of their behavior toward me?
Watch / Listen2 Peter: Growing in Grace and Knowledge, Part 1
In living the Christian life, we must remember how great is God's grace toward us. We should be content in everything except for our spiritual growth. True knowledge is not purely theoretical but experiential, so we must practice the fundamentals.
Watch / ListenFaith, Hope, and Love – Part 3
Love is an action that gives birth to emotion. The ultimate love is the ultimate sacrifice of Christ giving His life.
Watch / ListenThe Principle of Sowing and Reaping
We are all sowing seed. It is not a matter of whether or not you sow. It is matter of exactly what you are sowing.
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Two upsets tonight, count 'em:
No. 14 Ohio State knocked off No. 7 Maryland, 88-86.
No. 22 Georgia upended No. 19 Arkansas, 75-73.
More results:
Oklahoma State rallied late to outpace Kansas State, 69-55.
Minnesota ran past Penn State, 85-76.
Nebraska 57, Illinois 53
Villanova 81, St. John's 78
College team news:
In this week's AP top 25 poll, Syracuse and Iowa State drop out, while West Virginia and South Dakota State find their way in.
Oregon State is excited to get back on the court tomorrow.
Syracuse is showing something, even in a losing streak.
South Dakota is looking outside the Summit League for games.
Rutgers postponed their seventh game.
Xavier has paused activities due to COVID issues.
Why Vermont decided to close down the season.
College player news:
Five players who could be X factors in March.
Chloe Bibby has gone from Australian netball to Maryland hoops.
How tragedy shaped Arizona State's Eboni Walker.
The Gophers are a different team when Gadiva Hubbard's shot is on.
USA Basketball news:
USA Basketball will host a mini-camp Feb. 4-7 in South Carolina, with 19 athletes.
WNBA news:
Natasha Cloud discusses her coming out journey.


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R.I.P. Haskell Wexler
He shot some of my favourite films – Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Next. He also shot and directed the amazing, mostly under-seen Medium Cool. Haskell Wexler died at the ripe old age of 93 yesterday. Here's a nice article on his many talents.


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SAARC : No Agreements Signed After Pakistan's Objections
KATHMANDU: When Prime Minister Narendra Modi addressed the SAARC summit this morning, his assessment of the group's accomplishments was frank. "As SAARC we have failed to move with the speed that our people expect and want. Nowhere in the world are collective efforts more urgent than in South Asia; and, nowhere else is it so modest," Mr Modi said.
Barely an hour later, his concerns proved warranted. Pakistan blocked key proposals pitched by India to integrate energy grids and free up road and rail movement, seen as crucial for improving cross-border trade, which remains minimal between SAARC countries.
It was decided that no agreements would be signed, ensuring the first SAARC summit in three years has turned out to be a whopping non-achiever.
Three agreements had been prepared ahead of the summit, two on improving road and rail connections and one on making it easier for countries in the power-starved region to trade in electricity. None will proceed because of Pakistan's objections. In its 30 years, the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) has delivered negligible results for economic ties and development among its eight members – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
Despite a free trade pact since 2006, South Asian nations conduct only 5 per cent of their total trade with each other, and there are few transport and power links among them.
Experts agree that cooperation between New Delhi and Islamabad is key to the success of SAARC. This gathering comes just weeks after some of the worst cross-border violence in Kashmir – 20 civilians were killed last month. Mr Modi is holding meetings on the sidelines of the summit with all SAARC leaders except Mr Sharif.
The Pakistani Prime Minister has said the ball is in India's court because Delhi cancelled talks earlier this year after the Pakistani envoy consulted Kashmiri separatists ahead of a scheduled dialogue between the Foreign Secretaries of both countries.


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