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As the pandemic has progressed, from a business standpoint it's becoming apparent that those who will survive will be those who have been flexible, nimble, ready to change at a moment's notice, ready to pivot and anticipate customers' needs like never before. In the foodservice world, that means menus, service styles and ordering options must be up-to-the-minute.
And the day starts with breakfast.
Inspiration from the Golden Arches
McDonald's Egg McMuffin is one of the most iconic breakfast items in existence. And with good reason. But there was a time when it was met with skepticism, from the very top. Back in 1972, a McDonald's franchise owner in Southern California named Herb Peterson pitched his "crazy" breakfast sandwich idea to skeptical McDonald's founder Ray Kroc.
In Kroc's autobiography, he recalls meeting the McMuffin for the first time: "He didn't want me to reject it out of hand, which I might have done, because it was a crazy idea—a breakfast sandwich," Kroc writes. "It consisted of an egg that had been formed in a Teflon circle, with the yolk broken, and was dressed with a slice of cheese and a slice of grilled Canadian bacon. This was served open-faced on a toasted and buttered English muffin. I boggled a bit at the presentation. But then I tasted it, and I was sold. Wow!"
Flash-forward to present-day Minneapolis, and school chefs are building on that same "wow" moment. Rebecca Polson, C.C., SNS, culinary trainer with Culinary and Wellness Services at Minneapolis Public Schools (MPS) has been making videos to show families receiving meal boxes during the summer what they can do with the ingredients.
Her breakfast sandwich was one of those creations, and as MPS moves into the next step of bringing students back to the classroom, the simplicity and portability of that sandwich will inform the new breakfast menus.
Bertrand Weber, MPS director of Culinary and Wellness Services at MPS, began planning with a few scenarios in mind pending decisions from district, but "with that being said, all of our breakfast will be snacky grab-and-go-able (to use your new term!) regardless of the scenarios," Weber says.
A two-week cycle might include a rotation of snack breads, the muffin sandwiches, oatmeal bars, waffles, bagels with cream cheese, French toast sticks, pancakes, yogurts, string cheese, fresh fruit cups, fresh whole fruits and hard-boiled eggs.
Waking up to new trends
"We're looking at breakfast completely differently," says Ian Christopher, one of the founders of San Diego startup Galley Solutions, a technology platform for back of the house that powers ghost kitchens and campus kitchens, too. "The only viable breakfast concepts are diversifying their offerings and being really creative. Breakfast has never been optimized for delivery…Eggs are the main staple; you have to think about your menu. Are you really going to send Eggs Benedict with soggy muffins and bechamel everywhere? You have to get strategic with the 'last mile' of delivery with items like breakfast burritos or sandwiches. People are tweaking their core offering and cross-utilizing breakfast ingredients. It's also a gold mine because you have such an incredible margin with breakfast; it's really where you can make up a lot of your loss on the rest of the menu."
Jamal Rasoully, a SUNY alum who founded fast-casual halal chicken concept The Halal Shack, has been weathering the pandemic and even opening new college and university locations. He's also looking to push beyond the norm as things get back up and running.
Breakfast has never been the backbone of The Halal Shack in terms of menu items but seeing a need for halal breakfast options on several campuses where The Halal Shack does business, Rasoully introduced some cool new options, a brunch bowl and a brunch wrap. Both basically add eggs and hash browns to existing menu ingredients—naan, lettuce and the signature Spin sauces, in hot and white.
Portability and convenience for customers are both areas of focus for Rasoully as he navigates the college market.
"The meals we serve have to able to fit the time constraints of the students, faculty and staff," he says. "Most of the time where they eat breakfast and how they eat it is never the same."
Ghost of breakfast future?
Ghost kitchens have been making waves as the pandemic continues, offering several things customers crave: convenience, customization and a have-it-your-way vibe. Galley Solutions is a productivity platform for back of the house that helps operators optimize their menu items and keep all the info organized.
"Ghost kitchens are optimized to be hyper agile to respond to the market's needs," Christopher says. "In San Diego, the Broken Yolk Café has optimized their offerings with a family-style Mexican breakfast with burritos, chilaquiles and all the trappings to feed a family of four for less than $20."
Christopher thinks the college foodservice market could really take advantage of breakfast, too.
"College and universities are at this point where everything was on fire and now, we're waiting to see how schools will reopen," he says. "It's going to be really interesting. To see a school like Duke converting their catering kitchen to a ghost kitchen …They're thinking so progressively as to what their foodservice model needs to be. I think it's a super exciting time."
Versatility is the key component appealing to Sodexo operators when it comes to breakfast ideas, says Lynn Browning, head of retail excellence for Sodexo North America. The contract company's Simply to Go breakfast sandwiches and bowls "both can be held hot or cold and they can be reheated."
The chicken and waffle breakfast bowl fits the need to offer the "comfort food they crave," Browning says, adding that these items are designed with recyclable packaging with options for compostable packaging.
What are Americans ordering for breakfast delivery?
Food delivery giant DoorDash gathered data from a national survey on which breakfast items people have most ordered in the last few months, by region:
- East Coast: Iced coffee, donuts, Belgian waffles
- West Coast: Breakfast burritos, bacon, French toast
- Midwest: Oatmeal, strawberry-banana smoothies, biscuits
- South: Sausage biscuits, hash brown burritos, orange juice
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Aakar Patel | Nehru a model of modernity Why his vision & legacy endures
Deccan Chronicle.| Aakar Patel
The problem is that nobody in the world of Hindutva has any vision good, bad or indifferent when compared to Nehru
I was being interviewed for my book and was asked a question unrelated to it — Why does Hindutva hate Jawaharlal Nehru so much? It is an interesting question and has two parts to the answer. To know it, we must first understand what Nehru was and what he wanted.
Before Independence, Nehru wrote a series of works through which he aligned himself to India as a civilisational entity of the sort that the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh also approves of. He traces the modern nation to its origins in the Indus Valley Civilisation (discovered only a few years before he wrote Glimpses of World History and only 15 or so years before he wrote The Discovery of India) to the periods of the first and second millennia after Jesus Christ.
But having acknowledged that India was ancient, Nehru sought also to align it to the modern world and the era he was a part of and the future that he saw for all mankind. To that end he used the State as an instrument to modernise the country. Nehru based his strategy on two things — heavy industry and higher education. India had limited resources but these two would get priority.
You could argue about whether the strategy was good, bad or indifferent, but it would be difficult to say that he did not execute what he sought out to do. Having determined that he was going to modernise this civilisational entity he set about doing it because Nehru was not only a man of vision (you could argue with him about whether your vision was better) but also a man of action.
He began building institutions, including some which are today called "navratnas", but were then nothing and needed to be built. Some such examples are Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (1964), Oil and Natural Gas Corporation (1956), Steel Authority of India (1954), Hindustan Aeronautics Ltd (1964), Indian Oil Corporation (1959), Isro (formerly INCOSPAR) 1962, Department of Atomic Energy (1954), Bhabha Atomic Research Centre (1954). And then Nehru set up the Indian Institutes of Technology (1951), the Indian Institutes of Management (1961), the National Institute of Design (1961), and the Sahitya Akademi (1954).
The list goes on and on. Why were all these set up? They were set up because they were the means through which Nehru determined India would be modernised. He inherited a pre-modern economy, where the vast majority of production lay in agriculture and that agriculture was being largely managed by farmers whose means of farming had changed very little for over a thousand years.
Nehru did not inherit a trillion-dollar economy. He had to figure out how to get India there.
The problem is that nobody in the world of Hindutva has any vision — good, bad or indifferent — when compared to Nehru, and that includes our Prime Minister. He can offer us statements like "$5 trillion economy" but he does not say, because he does not himself know, what needs to be done to get us there. More important, he does not know what the State needs to do differently to get there. You can only build institutions if you can think of what to do with them. The reason that Narendra Modi has not built institutions while Jawaharlal Nehru was so prolific is because Mr Modi does not have even Nehru's starting point.
Nehru had said: Heavy industry and higher education! What does Narendra Modi say? If the answer to that is difficult for you to come up with, it is because there is no answer. This is the first reason that the BJP and Hindutva adherents hates Nehru: Jealousy.
The second reason is that Nehru was not a fraud nationalist. He was a real one. He did not only name China, he fought against it. Nehru lost because Nehru fought. And he fought because he could not bear the thought of surrendering any land of his precious India.
External affairs minister S. Jaishankar said at the Ramnath Goenka Lecture on November 14, 2019 that Nehru should have accepted Zhou Enlai's offer on the border dispute during Zhou's 1960 visit to India. What was that offer? That India should accept the Karakoram range as the Sino-Indian boundary. This is where the Line of Actual Control exists today. But this was not acceptable to Nehru. He wanted the border much further into Tibet. And he was willing to fight for it. He may have lost, yes, but he did not give up India's claim.
This is unlike Mr Modi, who has not only given up the claim, but is also unwilling even to name the opponent for fear of what China might do. This is the second reason that the BJP and Hindutva hate Nehru. He was a nationalist who exposed thoroughly their own fraudulent nationalist credentials.
The name Nehru is used far too loosely in today's times without much understanding of what he really stood for because we have not explained his thinking in simplified terms.
He is not only much superior to whatever came after him, particularly as we see now in a period of economic collapse and national security failures, but he is a model for modernity. He died more than 55 years ago but is still spoken about and his legacy is all around us today. Of how many Prime Ministers, and that includes this current one, will we be able to say that?
Aakar Patel is a senior journalist and columnist

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Arun Kumar Jain assumed charge as Additional General Manager, South Central Railway, yesterday (Monday, 2nd November 2020). Jain belongs to the Indian Railways Service of Signal Engineers (IRSSE), 1986 batch of Indian Engineering Services.
Prior to the new assignment, he was serving as Principal Chief Signal and Telecommunications Engineer (PCSTE) on SCR. During his tenure as PCSTE, the implementation of Train Collision Avoidance System has been given him highest priority, a press release said.
On SCR, he has worked as Divisional Railway Manager of Hyderabad Division. During his tenure as DRM, he was instrumental in augmenting passenger facilities at several stations and the division obtained four performance efficiency shields in various spheres including safety, security and transformation.
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Joining the Windows Phone 7 Club
Yesterday, my new Windows Phone 7 arrived. I ordered a HTC HD7 from eBay, since it's like $350 cheaper than buying it from an Australian retailer. Not only that it seems carriers aren't supporting WP7 too much yet, as two shopped that I enquired about the phone, both tried to talk me out of getting a WP7.
(Photos from http://www.gsmarena.com/htc_hd7-pictures-3338.php)
It's definitely far superior to my iPhone4, after spending a night playing around with it, pretty much everything is better, in my opinion. (I will NEVER hand over money for an Apple product ever again.)
The one flaw that Windows Phone 7 does have, is it's contact. Microsoft really dropped the ball on the contact, or 'People' as they call them. The idea is great, but it lacks the ability to sync contact with outlook with ease. Contact's are synced to... everything else.
At first I thought outlook contact's could only be synced with exchange, but it turns out you can do it... but you need to sync your contacts to your windows live account,and then to your phone. http://support.microsoft.com/kb/2454811#21method
Google Mail contact's is a pain to sync to since it has a habit of adding people to 'My Contact' without asking, and Facebook contacts are included when they don't even include contact details like a mobile number, or email. Which means if you have a lot of friends 'random people' on your friends list, your 'People' section becomes bloated.
The other thing that's rather annoying about contact's is they aren't filtered for certain applications. If I create an email, and add a contact. It shows all contacts and not contacts that have an email.
Or if I create a call, or text, it doesn't filter contacts to only those who have a mobile/telephone number.
I'll get over the usability issues around 'People' but for now I find it annoying.
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Phantasy Star Online 2 requires an update in order to continue playing the game. When you open the launcher, the game will automatically update both the game and launcher if necessary.
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Police: Teen daughter, boyfriend arrested after father found stabbed to death
LINCOLN, Neb. (KOLN/Gray News) - Authorities in Nebraska say a 15-year-old girl was arrested after her father was found stabbed to death inside an apartment.
The Lincoln Police Department reports officers responded to The Lodge Apartments, south of downtown Lincoln, after 15-year-old Sallie Gilmer called 911 saying she came home from school and found her father stabbed on Monday.
According to KOLN, officers found 70-year-old Jesse Gilmer dead inside the apartment with stab wounds.
Lincoln police said Sallie was arrested for first-degree murder after they conducted interviews and collected evidence. Sallie's boyfriend, 16-year-old Isaac Honigschmidt, was also arrested and charged with aiding and abetting.
The two teens were booked into the Lancaster County Youth Services Center. Lincoln Police Chief Teresa Ewins said they would be tried as adults due to the nature of the crime.
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Preserving Tomatoes: How to Make Herb Sun-Dried Tomatoes in 5 Easy Steps
Last Updated on September 21, 2023
Do you have a garden full of tomatoes that need to be preserved? Were you gifted some from friends or family? Or, perhaps you simply want to take full advantage of tomato season – and snag some local tomatoes from the farmers market while they're at their prime to save for later? Then making sun-dried tomatoes is a perfect solution!
Read along to see how simple it is to make your own herb sun-dried tomatoes using a dehydrator or oven, in five easy steps! The resulting dried tomatoes are packed with intense flavors of summer, which you can literally bottle to enjoy now – or well into winter! That is, if you can resist eating them all right away… They do taste a lot like pizza, after all. We love to use these chewy, savory herb sun-dried tomatoes in many meals, especially in homemade sourdough bread, frittata, or pesto zoodles! So. Much. Yum.
One of the best things about this recipe is how much it condenses your tomatoes, both in size and flavor! If you have never dehydrated tomatoes before, you may be surprised by how much they shrink. Several pounds of tomatoes can suddenly fit in one modest glass jar! But don't let this disappoint you. While the size decreases, that wonderful tomato flavor exponentially increases! And I don't know about you, but any method of preserving a garden harvest that takes up as little space as possible is a winner in my book!
So where does the actual Sun come into play – if they're "sun-dried" – you ask?
Okay, you're right… these aren't truly sun-dried. But it is all good! Did you know that the majority of the "sun-dried" tomatoes you can buy in stores are actually dried in commercial dehydrators, not under the sun? Drying tomatoes in the sun is fairly challenging for most people to do, since it requires really specific conditions (very hot and arid) to be successful.
Here, with our cool, foggy, misty summers, drying tomatoes in the sun simply isn't an option. They would mold in a heartbeat. Even if you have a hotter climate than we do, any humidity or summer rain would kill the sun-drying process. So let's hack it, shall we?
- Fresh tomatoes. Small to medium tomatoes are usually best for drying, but any can be used! In this example, we used about 4 pounds of various tomatoes from the garden. The end result was just under one quart of sun-dried tomatoes.
- Fresh herbs. We use a combination of thyme, oregano, and sage from the garden. If you are purchasing them, a small bunch or a few sprigs of each will do. You could skip some or all of the herbs all together, but we personally love when they're included.
- A large mixing bowl. The more wide and shallow, the better!
- A food dehydrator, or oven. Personally, we prefer to make sun-dried tomatoes in our food dehydrator, rather than hijacking the oven and heating up the house for an entire day, but make do with what you have! We currently have this Excalibur dehydrator, but have used a more basic Nesco model in the past as well.
Step 1) Prepare the Tomatoes
Rinse your tomatoes, then proceed to cut them into smaller portions. If you have cherry or grape tomatoes, cut them in half. That can then serve as your target thickness for the following pieces. As the size of your tomatoes increase, cut them smaller as needed, such as into quarters, sixths, or even into eight pieces. Cut away and compost the tough stem portion. If there are big globs of guts and seeds that naturally detach, leave them aside to compost too.
The goal is to have relatively consistent pieces to promote even drying As opposed to cutting them down their equator, try to cut the tomatoes in a way that leaves a portion of skin on each piece, like you may cut apple slices.
As you go, add the cut tomatoes into a large mixing bowl. If possible, weigh your tomatoes (minus the bowl) so you know about how much you're working with. This will come in handy when we add the herbs. If you don't have a kitchen scale, no biggie. It is okay to eyeball it too.
Step 2) Gently Toss with Herbs
Wash your fresh herbs, and remove any woody stems. Allow them to drip dry in a strainer, or gently pat dry. Next, finely chop or mince the herbs. Our choice mixture is oregano, thyme, and sage, but basil would be an excellent addition as well! We like to add about 1 heaping tablespoon of finely chopped herbs for every 2 pounds of tomatoes. Again, this doesn't need to be exact. Feel free to scale up or down to your liking. I just wanted to give you a ballpark!
Now we are going to add the herbs to the tomatoes. However, I don't like to simply dump them in all at once! When we toss and mix the tomatoes and herbs, it is best to minimize the amount of mixing that needs to be done, to avoid smashing the tomatoes to smithereens. Therefore, to promote even distribution of the herbs and reduce mixing, I suggest sprinkling half of your herbs over the tomatoes first. Gently toss them – I do so with clean hands. Now add the rest of the herbs and give the tomatoes one more light mix.
This process accomplishes two things. Obviously, it gets our herbs and tomatoes combined. Additionally, the gentle mixing helps to dislodge excess liquid, loose guts, and seeds into your bowl – which helps in the dehydrating process!
Step 3) Dehydrate
It is time to get the tomatoes laid out onto trays to dry. If you are using a food dehydrator, you can either put the herb tomato pieces directly on your slotted trays, or use tray liners if you have them for your machine. We use these silicone tray liners, simply to reduce the mess in the dehydrator. The tomatoes can get a bit sticky, and some of the herbs may get frisky and wander!
Place the tomato pieces skin-down on the tray if possible. To make the most efficient use of space, feel free to squeeze the tomatoes quite close together, but not touching or overlapping. If you are drying your tomatoes in the oven, follow the same process – but on baking sheets lined with parchment paper instead.
Drying sun-dried tomatoes in a food dehydrator:
Load up your dehydrator, and turn it on to 125 to 130°F. The time it takes to dry will vary depending on the dehydrator you use, the moisture content of your tomatoes, and the size of your cuts. This particular batch took around 18-20 hours to dry, but you may find yours dry more quickly! I have a theory that while handy, using tray liners may increase our drying time, since there is a slight reduction in airflow.
Drying sun-dried tomatoes in the oven:
I have to admit, because we've had a dehydrator in the house for as long as we've been into homesteading and gardening, we have never dried our tomatoes in the oven. Yet I did a little research so I could still provide you some tips on how!
Use a low temperature setting, such as 200 to 225°F. On this heat, folks say that they should theoretically be "done" in about 4 to 5 hours (see notes about assessing doneness below). If your tomatoes are large and juicy, I also saw a recommendation to carefully squish the tomatoes with a spatula about halfway through baking, to expel excess juices and promote further drying. Also, flipping them over halfway through may help.
If you try this variation, please report back and let me know how it goes. Or, if you already dry your tomatoes in the oven and have any additional tips or tricks, please let us all know in the comments!
Step 4) Assess Doneness
As with all dehydrated foods, the more moisture that is removed from the sun-dried tomatoes, the better and longer they'll last in storage. Therefore, we prefer our finished sun-dried tomatoes to be fairly dry. On the other hand, we don't want them totally dried to a crisp, like garlic or onions that we intend to grind into powder! We consider our tomatoes "done" and ready for storage when they're no longer wet or squishy, yet are still chewy and slightly flexible.
After about 12 hours of drying, I start assessing the tomatoes on their progress. This year, I found that the cherry tomatoes (still full of seeds and guts) took longer to dry than the larger sliced tomatoes. In that case, I will often pull the finished ones and leave the wet ones to continue to dry.
If your tomatoes end up a little more crispy than you were expecting, do not fret! Depending on how you use them, sun-dried tomatoes do an excellent job at reabsorbing moisture and plumping back up later. For example, if you add them to sauces, bread dough, quiche, sauteed vegetables, or other meals that have some moisture to spare. That is another reason we err on the drier side for ours.
Step 5) Store
Once the tomatoes have dried to the desired level, transfer them into a container for storage. It is best to store sun-dried tomatoes in an air-tight container, such as a mason jar with a tight-fitting lid. For enhanced freshness, consider using a glass container with a flip-top lid that clamps to seal. We love and use these stainless steel mason jar lids that have an internal silicone gasket, which provides a much better seal than a traditional mason jar lid.
Next, decide where you want to keep that jar or container. Most often, we store our sun-dried tomatoes in the pantry cabinet at room temperature. They have held up for over 6 months (until we ran out!) and we have never experienced any issues with mold or spoilage! However, if you want to play it extra-safe and prolong their shelf life, you could also choose to store them in the fridge. I especially suggest this if your finished tomatoes are more on the wet side. Even more, you could freeze them! To create extra luscious and plump sun-dried tomatoes, pour olive oil over them – but keep that in the refrigerator too.
Step 6) Enjoy!
Well, that was simple, wasn't it? Now you have your very own homemade sun-dried tomatoes to enjoy for months to come. These babies will bring a bright punch of savory flavor and a welcome chewy (dare I say… "meaty"?) bite to just about any meal.
Try adding your sun-dried tomatoes to pasta (or zoodles!), frittata, quiche, quesadillas, sandwiches, scrambled eggs or omelettes, with sautéed vegetables, on top of pizza, or tucked inside your sourdough bread. To do that last one, simply follow our basic sourdough loaf recipe, and add a handful of sun-dried tomatoes during the first or second "stretch and fold". Boom. These tomatoes are also killer in a variety of salads, including on top of green salads or in other cold salads – like quinoa, rice, pasta, or potato salad. The options are limitless!
So, how do YOU like to eat your sun-dried tomatoes?
Making sun-dried tomatoes is only one excellent way to preserve your harvest. Another favorite summer tomato recipe of ours is this Simple & Delicious Roasted Tomato Sauce Recipe – which you can easily freeze or can!
If you need a few great recipes to use these with, or are looking for other tutorials for dehydrating your harvests, check out these articles:
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Herb Sun-Dried Tomatoes, using a dehydrator or oven
- Food Dehydrator, or Oven
- Tomatoes of choice
- Fresh herbs of choice, such as sage, oregano, thyme, and/or rosemary
- Wash and cut the tomatoes into halves, quarters, sixths, or even eighths depending on size, aiming to get similar-sized pieces so the tomatoes will dry evenly.
- Wash and finely chop the fresh herbs. Approximately 1 heaping tablespoon of chopped herbs for every 2 pounds of prepped tomatoes.
- Add cut tomatoes and fresh herbs into a mixing bowl, and lightly mix to thoroughly combine the ingredients.
- Place cut tomatoes skin side down on dehydrator drying racks (or on oven baking sheet). Do not allow the tomato pieces to overlap.
- Using a food dehydrator, dry the tomatoes on 120 to 130 degrees F for about 18-20 hours OR for 4-5 hours in 200 degree oven. Soft, chewy roasted tomatoes are delicious but may not last as long in storage as those more dry and crisp.
- Once dried to your liking, store in an airtight container in the refrigerator for optimum freshness. They should last for several months to a year.
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I'm making several in my oven . For storing long term, if I put them in airtight ziploc bag in my freezer will that work. If I put some in canning jars in my refrigerator or pantry do I need to add olive oil . Best recommendations for longest storage please?
Aaron (Mr. DeannaCat)
Hi Beverly, if they are completely dried, storing them in air tight glass containers (canning jars) in the refrigerator or freezer will likely hold the best (maybe 12-18 months maximum). If you want to cover some of the tomatoes in olive oil, they need to be stored in the refrigerator and they likely won't hold up as long compared to the sun dried tomatoes by themselves. Hope that helps and good luck!
Sarah Hoffman
I havent tried this with tomatoes but have used my oven for drying flowers from my garden. My bunnies love snacking on them all year long. I usually leave them in the oven for 2-3 hours on a low temp (around 200-225). When I turn the oven off, I leave the oven door shut for the rest of the day or overnight. The oven will stay hot and continue to dry out whatever is in there.
Aaron (Mr. DeannaCat)
Thanks for sharing!
Pawan Kr Kanda
Thanks for such an elaborate recipy for dehydrating tomatoes for later use.
I triad this recipy and found that my dried tomatoes are starting to ferment during storage.
Can you please help me know the reason and possible action to prevent this.
your help will be much appreciated.
Aaron (Mr. DeannaCat)
Hello Pawan, if your tomatoes are indeed fermenting or going bad, they may have not been dried long enough to ensure that there was no moisture remaining in your dried tomatoes. Moisture will make the product spoil more quickly and will make it difficult for long term storage. We usually keep our dried tomatoes in the refrigerator just to ensure the quality remains throughout their storage life. Hope that helps and good luck!
We slice the tomato 🍅 and sprinkle the crushed herbs over the top. The end pices (top an bottom) slices we dry and grind up as powder to use in sauces and gravy. If we have too many to fit in jars we vacuum pack them as it takes up very little space.
Aaron (Mr. DeannaCat)
Sounds delicious Pat! That is something we will definitely have to try!


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Park City future seen as being driven by development, climate change, ski industry volatility
People who were heavily involved in Park City's efforts to craft a vision for the community's future saw the possibility of major developments as being one of the key drivers of coming years, an acknowledgment that concern about growth remains the defining issue decades after the start of the boom years.
The visioning efforts covered a broad range of topics over the months of the work as Park City leaders and rank-and-file Parkites gathered to consider alternatives for the future. The efforts showed there is concern about growth, traffic and affordability, some of the issues that leaders over the years have attempted to address with varying degrees of success.
The work unfolded months before the spread of the novel coronavirus upended the community, but the results appear to retain relevance even after the sickness struck and seem to help chart a course of sorts for the recovery.
The key drivers outlined in a report were based on a think-tank workshop held in July. The presence of major developments on a list of key drivers is likely not a surprise since growth and related topics like traffic and the environment have been the crucial issues in Park City for so long. Key drivers are defined in the report as "events, trends, developments, catalysts or forces; that actively influence or cause change."
But the placement of major developments on the list of key drivers also comes at a time when there is a dwindling amount of land available in the Park City limits that can accommodate large projects. The base areas at Park City Mountain Resort and Deer Valley Resort each hold significant development rights approved long ago. Other than the resort base areas, though, there is expected to be a limited amount of major development pursued inside the city.
The placement could signal a concern among Parkites about the possibility of large projects outside of Park City, where City Hall's influence is finite, such as in surrounding Summit County and Wasatch County. There is the possibility of significant development in those jurisdictions, such as in the Snyderville Basin in Summit County and the area of the Jordanelle Reservoir in Wasatch County. Park City leaders remain worried about the long-term impacts of outside growth on the community since the city is seen as such an important economic catalyst for the Wasatch Back.
One of the other key drivers, labeled as "surrounding growth," addresses the issue, noting the "impact of unmanaged growth around Park City and the intrusion of this growth on Park City."
Other key drivers identified in the visioning efforts highlight issues that are widely discussed as part of the public discourse in Park City, from the halls of the Marsac Building to the campaign trail. They provide a list of some of the highlights of the long-running political, economic and social discussions that have unfolded throughout the modern era of Park City.
Major developments, loss of affordability, surrounding growth, transportation and climate change were identified as having the most importance.
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• losing socioeconomic diversity, which notes the idea of "the loss of a wide diversity of socio-economic groups in Park City."
• losing affordability, described as the "impact of lack of affordability relating to housing and livability on the middle and working classes."
• the perpetuation of Park City's lifestyle values, noted as "retaining the lifestyle and 'quality of life' that attracted people to live in Park City."
• impact of a community that is aging, meaning "youth out-migration and lack of affordability resulting in an aging community and the impact of this on health care and housing options."
• danger of the idea of over tourism, explained as the "impact of too many tourists on infrastructure and quality of life for residents."
• transportation, summarized as the "impact of traffic congestion and parking and need for innovative multi-modal transportation systems."
• the effects a second Winter Olympics in the state would have on Park City, such as the impact on the community's infrastructure and road network.
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Friday, June 4, 2010
Photographer #045: Joni Sternbach
Joni Sternbach, USA, 1953, uses a technique in photography that has been around since the 1850's but not seen very often these days. She makes tintypes of 8x10" and 14x17". One of a kind positives on blackened metal, shot in camera on location and then processed in a portable dark box. (see video) Her book Surfland was released in 2009. Images of surfers along the coastline.
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Sternbach work is stunning -
Lovely here as featured but even more so when seeing one of her 11 x 14 plate in person.
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very nice work, great subject for wet plate !
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The Constitution of India mandates equality before the law, yet informal practices of exclusion and inequality continue to plague our legal systems....
Dasra's report, Good to Great, highlights key challenges and solutions to creating governance that is open, accountable, participatory, inclusive and responsive to the needs of all Indians, from policymaking to the delivery of services on the ground.
Good to Great covers key themes to build a strong and enabling eco-system for good governance in India.
First, it outlines how the media needs to come into its role as a stakeholder, since an independent, inclusive and accessible media can have a tremendous impact on governance and accountability. The report also covers how local governance and direct citizen participation and engagement are integral to lasting participation beyond the act of casting a vote every few years. Another recommendation is to involve and improve women's participation and leadership in governance structures, which is shown to lower corruption, improve policy outcomes, and increase attention to urgent social issues.
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The Aultmore distillery was founded in 1895 by Alexander Edward, then-owner of the Benrinnes distillery. Situated in Keith Banffshire, this Speyside distillery gets its name from the phrase An t-Allt Mr, which is Gaelic for big burn, referring to its water source, the Auchinderran burn.Originally powered by a waterwheel, the facility quickly evolved to incorporate a steam engine, which ran 24 hours a day for seven decades. After being expanded in 1899, and experiencing a brief meteoric rise, the distillery abruptly went bankrupt and was eventually shut down. Aultmore reopened around 1904, only to be closed down once more during World War I due to barley shortages.In 1923, after the war, Aultmore was acquired by John Dewar and Sons, it changed hands again in 1930, to Scottish Malt Distillers, then back to Dewars and Sons subsidiary Bacardi in 1998. Aultmore has a history of forward thinking and innovation, being the first to use the draff (a waste product of whisky production) to use as animal feed. After their malting floors closed in 1968, the distillery was rebuilt in 1970, and a new additional wash and spirit still were incorporated.Aultmore has large scale production -- reaching over 2 million liters per year. Their whiskies, generally being produced for blends, made single malts production fairly rare, other than the intermittent independent bottling. After experimenting with an in-house single malt offering they released their first official bottling in in 2004; a 12-year old. Since then they have released several age statement expressions, a flora and fauna release, and rare malts release. This 18-year-old Speyside single malt is aged for 18 years in American white oak casks. With its honeyed and herbaceous notes, this summery spirit won a Double Gold medal at the 2016 San Francisco World Spirits Competition. Bottled at 46 percent ABV.Get your bottle today!
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You are invited to a free community screening of The Bleeding Edge and a panel discussion and Q&A session about medical device injury. The event is organised by Health Consumers NSW and the Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts.
When: Thursday, 14 March from 10am to 1pm
Where: Sydney Mechanics' School of Arts, 280 Pitt St, Sydney CBD, Mitchell Theatre Level 1
Following the screening, there will be a panel discussion and Q&As. Confirmed members of the panel are:
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- Justine Watson (Co-founder of Mesh Injured Australia)
- Joanne McCarthy (Journalist reporting on the topic)
- Professor Anand Deva (Macquarie University)
- Carmen Huckel Schneider (Menzies Centre for Health Policy)
The screening will end with a light lunch, giving attendees the chance to talk to the panel members and each other.
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In The Bleeding Edge, Academy Award-nominated investigative filmmakers Kirby Dick and Amy Ziering turn their sights on the $400 billion medical device industry; examining lax regulations, corporate cover-ups, and profit-driven incentives that put patients at risk in the US context. Weaving emotionally powerful stories of people whose lives have been irrevocably harmed, the film asks: what life-saving technologies may actually be killing us? The documentary explores Bayer's permanent birth control device Essure, vaginal mesh, the Da Vinci Surgical System, and chrome-cobalt hip-replacements.
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Four Russian-speaking men who were filmed beheading, dismembering and setting fire to a Syrian man in 2017 are believed to be private mercenaries for the Kremlin-linked Wagner Group, the investigative Novaya Gazeta newspaper reported Wednesday.
Novaya Gazeta said it has identified one of the fighters involved in the torture after new footage appeared on social media this month. The first video showing the men striking the victim with a sledgehammer and dismembering him appeared online on June 30, 2017, it reported Wednesday.
The Wagner Group is believed to be owned by Yevgeny Prigozhin, a businessman with close links to Russian President Vladimir Putin often referred to as "Putin's Chef" because of his catering business. Russia does not officially recognize the role of private contractors like Wagner, which has been reported to be fighting in Libya and various other African countries.
"Cut him harder, come on! Just break his spine! Use a shovel," the men are reportedly heard saying as the footage shows one of the fighters cutting the unresponsive body.
"Keep the legs, we'll hang him by the legs," Novaya Gazeta quotes them as saying. Another leaked video shows the masked men dousing an upside-down body with fuel and lighting it on fire.
Syrian and British outlets this week identified the victim as Muhammad "Hamadi" Abdullah al-Ismail from the eastern Syrian province of Deir Ezzor. He reportedly fled to Lebanon during Syria's civil war and was arrested and forcibly conscripted into President Bashar al-Assad's army upon his return.
The outlets cited open-source intelligence that geolocated the torture site at the al-Shaer oil fields in Homs, central Syria. Al-Shaer was named in an Associated Press report about a deal between a Syrian state oil company and a Russian military contractor to share profits from oil refineries liberated from the Islamic State.
The Russian military contractor, Evro Polis, was linked to Prigozhin, and said to be a front for Wagner's operations in Syria.
"Hide your face… Forget it, this video won't appear anywhere," one of the men filming the violence appeared to tell others, according to Novaya Gazeta.
The newspaper said it used face-recognition technology to name one of the perpetrators as Stanislav D. and corroborated his identity through a copy of his passport and a Wagner questionnaire.
Stanislav D. reportedly served as a Wagner reconnaissance gunner. Large writing on the victim's upside-down body said "for VDV [paratroopers] and reconnaissance" before the men burned it.
Novaya Gazeta said it withheld the fighter's last name to protect the safety of his family. The newspaper said it approached his wife and friends, all of whom have either not answered or denied knowing him.
The publication said it is ready to provide its materials to Russian law enforcement authorities if they want to investigate the torture. A photograph showing the four fighters posing with unmasked faces at the scene of the incident appeared online while Novaya Gazeta was reporting this story, it said.
Other online sleuths have identified Stanislav D. as a different man and claimed to have found the identity of a second man who appears in the video.
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Junior and Hen are a quiet married couple. They live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with surprising news: Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Hen won't have a chance to miss him at all, because she won't be left alone—not even for a moment. Hen will have company. Familiar company.
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In 2016, due to the severe refugee crisis experienced by Europe, the first YMCA Europe conference on immigration was organized in the Netherlands, with the participation of 16 countries and 70 YMCA leaders.
As a result of this conference, we now have a database of projects that various YMCAs are doing with refugees, a statement of principles has been published on how our organization approaches the refugee issue, and cooperation between YMCAs has been strengthened.
The YMCA Europe Refugee Committee has been meeting regularly since then. It is considered that, far from being solved, the challenge of the inclusion of refugees is still at the forefront today. For this reason, it was decided to hold a second conference on the same subject. Given the constraints imposed by the pandemic, in this case the conference would be online.
On February 19, 2021, with about 80 people watching the conference via the zoom platform and almost a thousand watching it live via Facebook, the second YMCA Europe conference on immigration took place. Although the conference was organized by Europe, the audience came from many countries and time zones, also from outside Europe, from the United States, Canada or Mexico to Hong Kong or Lebanon.
We had the honor to have the presence of:
- Mr. Margaritis Schinas – Vice President of the European Commission, responsible for coordinating the European Union Immigration and Asylum Pact (September 2020)
- Mr. Antonio Vitorino – Director-General of IOM (United Nations International Organization for Migration).
- Mr. Carlos Sanvee – Secretary General of the YMCA World,
The YMCA Thessaloniki was very present at the conference, not only for the presentation of Dolores Tarrafeta entitled "Best Practices with integration programs for Refugees", but also for the kind words that Mr. Schinas dedicated to us, remembering his experience in the summer camps. In addition, one of the 5 videos that was shown was about employees from the YMCA Thessaloniki that have the status of refugees, emphasizing the necessary integration in the workplace.
There was a great exchange of ideas, good practices and a lot of inspiration to keep working harder than ever in the pursuit of social justice.
From here we want to thank Ed Eggink, Juan Simoes, Marius Pop and the whole team for organizing this conference.


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In the last issue, we briefly announced the winners of this year's Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) awards. Here's some more background on them all:
Alicia Carriquiry to deliver the 2021 Florence Nightingale David Award Lecture
Nancy Gordon (Chair of the Award Committee) and Daniel Nettleton (Iowa State University) write:
The Committee of Presidents of Statistical Societies (COPSS) has selected Alicia Carriquiry, President's Chair in Statistics at Iowa State University, to be the 2021 COPSS Florence Nightingale David Award and Lectureship. Professor Carriquiry will receive the award during the 2021 Joint Statistical Meeting, where she will also deliver the F.N. David Lecture titled "Statistics in the Pursuit of Justice: A More Principled Strategy to Analyze Forensic Evidence." The F.N. David Award, sponsored jointly by COPSS and the Caucus for Women in Statistics, recognizes Carriquiry for her contributions to the profession that have spanned over 30 years.
Carriquiry researches applications of statistics in human nutrition, bioinformatics, forensic sciences and traffic safety and has published over 140 peer-reviewed articles in academic journals. Carriquiry's research has been used to make a difference in the world. She has worked with various government and health agencies around the world to improve health and nutrition, including the National Center for Health Statistics, the National Institutes of Health, the European Union and the World Health Organization.
For the past six years, Carriquiry has been the director of the Center for Statistics and Applications in Forensic Evidence (CSAFE), a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Center for Excellence. With more than 80 researchers from across six universities, CSAFE is developing statistically sound and scientifically solid methods to analyze and interpret evidence, providing the forensic community with accessible tools, open-source databases and educational opportunities.
Carriquiry has published cutting-edge work on source matching for bullet markings, glass fragments, footwear impressions and handwriting analysis. Her work potentially could have a significant and beneficial impact on the U.S. criminal justice system.
Carriquiry received a master's degree in animal science from the University of Illinois and a master's and doctoral degree in statistics and animal genetics from Iowa State University. She joined the Iowa State faculty in 1990 and has held various leadership roles at the university.
As the first female faculty member promoted to full professor in the Department of Statistics at Iowa State University, Carriquiry continues to advocate for female and early-career faculty by providing them with opportunities for success. The Department now has 15 other female faculty members who have benefited from the path Dr. Carriquiry blazed before them and from her subsequent advocacy and support.
Carriquiry is a fellow of several statistical associations, including the ASA, ISI, IMS and ISBA. She is an elected member of the National Academy of Medicine and a fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science. She joined the Intelligence Science and Technology Experts Group of the US National Academies. In 2018, Carriquiry became a technical advisor for the Association of Firearm and Tool Mark Examiners, and in 2020 was elected an associate member of the American Academy of Forensic Sciences.
Wing Hung Wong to deliver the 2021 COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award Lecture
Daniela Witten (University of Washington, Chair of the Award Committee) writes:
COPSS has selected Professor Wing Hung Wong to be the recipient of the 2021 COPSS Distinguished Achievement Award and Lectureship (DAAL). Professor Wong will give the COPSS Distinguished Lecture at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings.
Professor Wong serves on the faculty of Stanford University, where he is currently Professor of Statistics, Professor of Biomedical Data Science, and holder of the Stephen R. Pierce Family Goldman Sachs Professorship in Science & Human Health. Before joining the Stanford faculty in 2004, he held teaching positions at the University of Chicago, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, UCLA, and Harvard University. He chaired the Stanford Department of Statistics from 2009 to 2012.
His research contributions include mathematical statistics, where he clarified the large sample properties of sieve maximum likelihood estimates in general spaces; Bayesian statistics, where he introduced sampling-based algorithms into Bayesian computational inference; and computational biology, where he developed tools for the analysis of microarrays and sequencing data, and applied them to study gene regulatory systems.
Professor Wong was the winner of the COPSS Presidents' Award in 1993. He was elected to the National Academy of Sciences in 2009 and the Academia Sinica in 2010. He was a founding member of the Hong Kong Academy of Sciences in 2015.
As the recipient of the 2021 COPSS DAAL, Professor Wong will give a talk at the 2021 Joint Statistical Meetings titled "Understanding human trait variation from the gene regulatory systems perspective." Genome-wide association studies have shown great success in identifying genetic loci relevant to a number of human traits, such as disease susceptibility and anthropometric features. However, such direct statistical associations provide limited information on the underlying biological processes relevant to the trait. Professor Wong will argue that the integration of gene regulatory information is critical to achieving a better understanding of these genotype-phenotype relations. He will review research by his lab and others on the inference of context-specific gene regulatory relations based on bulk or single cell data from diverse cell types, tissue types, and developmental contexts. He will also describe his lab's ongoing efforts to exploit this information to build multi-layer statistical models capable of providing a more mechanistic understanding of human trait variation.
COPSS George W. Snedecor Award Winner: David Dunson
Kerrie Mengersen (Queensland University of Technology, Chair of the Award Committee) and Sudipto Banerjee (University of California, Los Angeles) write:
COPSS has selected Professor David B. Dunson, currently Arts & Sciences Distinguished Professor in the Department of Statistical Sciences at Duke University, to be the recipient of the 2021 George W. Snedecor Award.
This award, established in 1976, honors an individual who was instrumental in the development of statistical theory in biometry and recognizes a noteworthy publication within three years of the date of the award. The award, given biennially (odd years) since 1991, consists of a plaque and a cash honorarium of $2,000 and is presented at the Joint Statistical Meetings. The recognized publication is: Miller, J.W. and Dunson, D.B. (2019). Robust Bayesian inference via coarsening. Journal of the American Statistical Association, 114, 1113–1125. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/01621459.2018.1469995
David Dunson has maintained an astounding research portfolio throughout his career with over 400 peer-reviewed scholarly manuscripts appearing in leading journals, and co-authored a leading textbook on Bayesian statistical science. Interpreting the field of biometry in the broader sense as that of quantitative methods in biological and health sciences, about 120 of David's papers in the top echelon of journals in our profession have been directly instrumental in advancing statistical theory related to biometry. His scholarly manuscripts, without exception, tackle the many challenging curiosities in modern science by developing theoretically rigorous statistical frameworks, stochastic process models, and computational algorithms for the complex and high-dimensional data generated in scientific laboratories across a variety of scientific disciplines.
In the recognized publication, Miller and Dunson (2019) offer a very innovative and fundamentally different approach to Bayesian inference that is based upon the idea of "coarsening" and is referred to as "c-Bayes''. Briefly, rather than conducting inference based upon the usual posterior distribution of the parameters conditional on the event that the data has been generated from a posited model, c-Bayes conditions on the model-generated data being a sufficiently close approximation to the observed data. Miller and Dunson's c-Bayes approach has proven particularly potent in consolidating robustness of inference against perturbations from misspecified and dubious modeling assumptions. The manuscript adeptly elucidates the underlying theoretical issues surrounding bias, calibration, measurement error, over-dispersion, and over-fitting. Miller and Dunson offer impressive novelty in theory, methods, and computation.
A particularly appealing example in biometry that is presented in the paper applies c-Bayes for robust clustering in flow cytometry — a high-throughput technology for detecting and measuring physical and chemical characteristics of a population of cells or particles. Traditionally, this clustering is performed manually by defining piecewise linear boundaries between regions using one of several automated clustering algorithms. One key challenge here is that the populations are not well-approximated by any parametric distribution, and further, the number of populations is not known in advance. Miller and Dunson (2019) cogently demonstrate the substantial inferential advantages of c-Bayes over nonparametric Bayesian models such as mixtures of Gaussian distributions and other alternatives. It is worth pointing out that the manuscript has already garnered close to 100 citations in just two years since its publication. This is a remarkable achievement for an article focusing on statistical theory and methods and is a further testament to the impact and relevance of this research. Several papers primarily authored by biologists and scientists engaged in a variety of data-intensive health-oriented research are also taking note of c-Bayes.
Based upon David's overall career contributions to the advancement of statistical theory in biometry and, more specifically, this stimulating and highly innovative research manuscript, the conferral of the 2021 George W. Snedecor Award on this outstanding scholar is richly deserved.


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PARIS — Centrist newcomer Emmanuel Macron and far-right leader Marine Le Pen will contest a runoff vote for the French presidency on May 7 after coming first and second respectively in the election's first round on Sunday.
The duel will present France with a stark choice — between Macron's liberal, pro-EU platform and Le Pen's nationalist vision, which would include a crackdown on immigration and a rejection of European integration. Macron is the clear favorite to clinch the presidency in the runoff — an opinion poll on Sunday night predicted he would win by 62 to 38 percent.
"I want to be your president in two weeks' time — the president of all the people of France, the president of the patriots against the threat of the nationalists," Macron, 39, told supporters at a rally in Paris after the results became clear. "In your name, I will take into the second round the optimism that we need and follow the path of hope that we want for our country and for Europe."
At a rally in northern France, Le Pen, 48, told supporters: "The choice now is between wild globalization, a world in which terrorists can travel freely, and a France with strong borders."
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She said: "It is time to free the French people from the arrogant elite. I am the candidate of the people. I call all patriots wherever they come from, whatever their origin, to join me. What's at stake is France's survival."
The first-round result represented a huge failure for France's traditional major parties, the Socialists and the conservative Les Républicains, as neither of their candidates qualified for the second round. Senior figures from both big parties called on their supporters to unite behind Macron to ensure Le Pen's National Front is defeated.
With all votes now counted, Macron — a former economy minister who formed his own independent political movement last year — won 24.01 percent. Le Pen had 21.30 percent, with conservative former Prime Minister François Fillon on 20.01 percent and far-left candidate Jean-Luc Mélenchon on 19.58 percent. Socialist Party candidate Benoît Hamon came a distant fifth on 6.36 percent.
Fillon had been favorite to be France's next president before he was hit by allegations he funneled public cash to his wife and children by hiring them for parliamentary work they did not do. At a gathering of his supporters in Paris, he assumed responsibility for his defeat and called on them to support Macron.
"There is no other choice but to vote against the National Front," he said. "I will vote in favor of Emmanuel Macron."
Socialist Hamon issued a similar appeal. "I call for a fight against the National Front and call for a vote for Emanuel Macron," he said.
Either Macron or Le Pen will succeed deeply unpopular socialist President François Hollande, who decided not to run for another term.
Pollsters proved right
Final opinion polls published two days before the first round had suggested support for both Macron and Le Pen was at around 22 to 24 percent, with Fillon and Mélenchon just a few points behind.
However, the end of the election campaign was overshadowed by the fatal shooting of a police officer on the Champs Elysées on Thursday night which appeared to be the latest in a string of attacks by Islamic terrorists in France in recent years.
Sunday's result was a stunning achievement for Macron, a former civil servant and investment banker who was virtually unknown to the public until he was appointed economy minister in 2014. He quit the post last August after forming his political movement, En Marche.
Macron has pledged to give new energy to the European project following Britain's vote last year to leave the bloc. His has also promised fiscal discipline in line with Eurozone rules, partly in the hope of convincing Germany to agree to a common investment budget and joint finance minister for the zone.
The euro rose against the U.S. dollar on the news that Macron was now in pole position to become France's next president and mainstream Continental leaders including European Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker congratulated him on his win.
Le Pen's score is the best ever result for her National Front party in a presidential election, beating the 17.9 percent of the vote she won in 2012. This will be the second time the National Front has made it to a presidential runoff; Le Pen's father, Jean-Marie Le Pen, staged an upset in the first round in 2002 but was heavily defeated by Jacques Chirac in the runoff.
Le Pen proposes renegotiating France's relationship with the EU to give Paris far greater control over borders and economic policy. Le Pen would call a referendum on France's membership of the EU after concluding talks with Brussels and would back withdrawal from the bloc if — as seems almost certain — she did not get the changes she wanted.
Marion Solletty and Carmen Paun in Brussels contributed to this article, which has been updated with final results.