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Here in London, a handful of different languages ask the same question "How do we clearly and compellingly articulate the value of cloud computing and cloud management to our customers?"
At the same time, back in the US, Cisco's Giuliano Di Vitantonio, Vice -President of Data Center and Switching Marketing is announcing Unified Data Center as part of the CloudVerse story. Cisco's CTO, Padmasree Warrior talks about the CloudVerse in her post on The World of Many Clouds.
Where does Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud fit into the Unified Data Center picture?
Cisco is renowned for its Unified Fabric story, the market leader in network infrastructure and integrated network services that are fast, secure, and highly available. Cisco's Unified Computing System (UCS) and solutions have grown in the last couple of years to be the #2 blade server in the US by market share, and #3 worldwide. Now, with Unified Management the automation and lifecycle management framework simplifies both deployment and operations in the data center, significantly accelerating cloud enablement and business transformation. Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud is best-of-breed solution — including a self-service portal, service catalog, workflow automated provisioning, and lifecycle management — that makes it possible to stand up a cloud infrastructure efficiently and effectively. Wayne Greene talks about the history behind this compelling software solution at his blog discussing how it connects to Cisco's UCS Manager. You can learn more about Cisco Intelligent Automation for Cloud here.
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The advice I'm giving myself is to be prepared for anything, to learn from the Jews who left Germany in 1938. Lives and the bonds of family are infinitely more important than wealth and property. Change can come suddenly, violently and unpredictably and we will need one another, will need to rediscover the benefits of mutual assistance, once the realisation comes that governments will be as powerless and insecure as a fishing shack before a Tsunami.
There's also been a shakeout going on around the world in which the division is marked not by politics or ideology but but by morality. Those who would follow the Archangel Michael and take a spear to the Devil, who would oppose sleaze, peculation, jobbery, corruption, fraud, deception, nepotism, inequity, selfishness and the compassionless exploitation and use of others please line up this side. We're going to be fighting hard against a determined enemy in 2012.
As for currencies and economies, the Euro will collapse in 2012 of course, as will the economies of Greece, Italy, Japan, Ireland, Spain, Belgium, Portugal and probably France. Yes, Japan. And intergenerational conflict will loom large - and not as simple as generations X and Y versus the boomers. We boomers must really learn that life is about quality, not quantity, and that sucking in the resources of the planet to extend our lives by another quarter-year really isn't the most equitable use of resources. Frankly, we need to start dying in larger numbers. Then X and Y can have our stuff whilst they're young enough to enjoy it.
There will be destruction and disorder; our traditions, our honour, our kinships will be thrown down as much as our churches and our council halls. We must rebuild. We must make an alliance between the generations that uses the strength of the young and the wisdom of the old together to build anew our communities and culture.
Over Christmas a memory has returned of something I've forgotten for forty years - the late-night service of Compline we used to celebrate in the school chapel. It's always been my favourite text in the breviary (well, the pre-1974 version, anyway) not least because my Latin at the time was good enough to realise that
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Ne polluántur córpora
Didn't quite mean the same as the sanitised version sung by the monks;
Our ghostly enemy restrain,
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Are Water Wars a Myth or an Imminent Threat to Global Security? Our Panel Responds:
- Mark Zeitoun, environmental engineer
- David Hatton, Australia's "water czar"
- Fred Pearce, environmental journalist
- Tobias Siegfried, environmental physicist and international relations scholar
- Michael E. Campana, hydrogeologist
- Sandra Postel, water analyst and author
- Peter Gleick, scientist and global water security expert
It's often been said that the next resource wars will be fought not over oil but over water.
In 2007 an 18-month study of Sudan by the UN Environment Program concluded that the conflict in Darfur had its roots in climate change and water shortages. According to the report, disappearing pasture and evaporating water holes—rainfall is down 30 percent over 40 years in some parts of the Sahel—had sparked dispute between herders and farmers and threatened to trigger a succession of new wars across Africa.
Months later, the British nonprofit International Alert released a study identifying 46 countries—home to 2.7 billion people—where water and climate stresses could ignite violent conflict by 2025, prompting UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon to say, "The consequences for humanity are grave. Water scarcity threatens economic and social gains and is a potent fuel for wars and conflict."
Those remarks came just as David Zhang of Hong Kong University published a study linking water shortages to violence throughout history. Analyzing half a millennium's worth of human conflict—more than 8,000 wars—Zhang concluded that climate change and resulting water shortages had been a far greater trigger than previously imagined. "We are on alert, because this gives us the indication that resource shortage is the main cause of war," Zhang told the London Times.
Now, in UNESCO's third major World Water Development Report, released in March at the World Water Forum in Istanbul, the threat is again plainly stated: "As climate change and adverse water impacts increase in politically charged areas, conflicts will likely intensify, requiring new and rapid adaptive security strategies."
Not everyone, however, is convinced that "water wars" are all they're chalked up to be. In a March 19 essay in Nature, Wendy Barnaby contends, "Countries do not go to war over water, they solve their water shortages through trade and international agreements."
According to Barnaby, global trade in "virtual water"—the water embedded in food products—allows arid countries like those in the Middle East to meet their water requirements without resorting to conflict.
Barnaby cites the 1999 Nile Basin Initiative, a multilateral agreement among nine nations, including Egypt, Ethiopia, and Sudan, as a prime example of countries opting to cooperate rather than compete over access to water. Even the much cited "water war" between West Bank Palestinians and Israelis, according to Barnaby, is little more than a myth:
"Power struggles and politics have led to overt and institutionalized conflict over water—but no armed conflict, as there is over borders and statehood. Instead, Palestinian and Israeli water professionals interact on a Joint Water Committee, established by the Oslo II Accords in 1995. It is not an equal partnership: Israel has de facto veto power on the committee. But they continue to meet and issue official expressions of cooperation even in the face of military action. Inequitable access to water resources is a result of the broader conflict and power dynamics: It does not itself cause war."
The issue of "water wars"? Are they an imminent threat or, as Barnaby suggests, a fabrication unsupported by the facts and perpetuated by the media?
All Is Not Quiet on the Waterfront
Mark Zeitoun is a senior lecturer in the School of International Development, University of East Anglia and author of Power and Water in the Middle East: The Hidden Politics of the Palestinian-Israeli Water Conflict.
Those who warn us of looming water wars usually base their arguments on an appeal to emotion, rather than on fact. Wendy Barnaby's piece is a welcome counter to the mainstream media hype. But all is not quiet on the waterfront, and the need to establish objective and fair water-sharing principles is growing increasingly urgent.
Barnaby's factual analysis of the relief-valve that food—and thus "virtual water"—imports provide is backed up by ample evidence, including from my own work. She may have added another reason for the lack of water wars: power asymmetry. One could hardly imagine Addis Ababa or Dhaka sending fighter jets to Cairo or New Delhi, no matter the extent to which these river-basin hegemons control the Nile or Ganges (and regardless of rising global food prices or sea levels). The "cost" of war would be much greater than the import of food or maintenance of flood defense, at least for the politicians in the capitals.
It matters little, however, if we are not likely to see bona fide water wars. After all, the absence of war does not mean the absence of conflict. Barnaby's assertion that "countries do not go to war over water, they solve their water shortages through trade and international agreements" is a narrow take on an increasingly broad problem. Water conflicts are prevalent and causing suffering throughout the world.
Southern Iraqi farmers are being forced into overcrowded urban centers, as multiple dams on the Tigris River within Iraq, Syria, and Turkey reduce the river flows to the ebb and tide of Gulf seawater. Palestinian farmers eke out a living based on highly variable rain-fed farming, right beside the industrial farms of Israeli settlers who receive their irrigation water at state-subsidized rates. The inequitable allocation of transboundary waters in Israel's favor has only been rendered worse by the once-heralded Joint Water Committee, according to an April 2009 World Bank report. The Ganges' flood and drought cycles would not inundate thousands of farmers in downstream Bangladesh if adequate concern were given to the river beyond India's sovereign borders.
Attempts to reconcile the mockery that such a fluid resource makes of our static political borders is well underway. The call to establish fair water-sharing principles is gaining momentum, with France committing to ratify the 1997 UN Watercourses Convention, and Spain and Tunis signalling their intent to do so. Though the US, the UK, and many other governments are resisting efforts by the WWF and others to push them to ratify the Convention, increasing demographic and anticipated climate change pressures dilute their excuses for non-ratification. Fair water-sharing principles will help establish the multilateral action required to replace the destruction wrought by an imbalance of power. Water conflicts (not wars) are a clear and present danger for millions—and deserve our full collective diplomatic, scientific, and financial attention.
History Is Rife With Water Wars, But History Needn't Dictate the Future
Tom Hatton directs the Water for a Healthy Country Flagship Research Program on behalf of the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization (CSIRO). The Flagship is Australia's largest water R&D effort, employing 400 scientists across the nation.
There is an emerging historical perspective that relates climate change and water shortages to war, and I have no reason to doubt this analysis. But just as our historical rainfall record is no longer a reliable guide to the future, perhaps our social and political responses to environmental challenges in the 21st century may differ from those of the past. I have reason for optimism in this regard.
A number of institutions or institutional arrangements have emerged over the past 100 years that attempt to deal with multinational issues around water resources. Notable examples for international river basins include:
- The Mekong River Committee (1957–1978) and later the Mekong River Commission, established in 1995 among Laos, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia.
- The 1922 Colorado River Commission and the 1945 Water Treaty between the US and Mexico.Convention for the Sustainable Managementof Lake Tanganyika among four nations, 2003
- A long history of negotiated agreements for the Nile dating back to at least 1925 (now working toward establishing a nine-country commission)
Even the drought-ridden states of Australia have managed to cooperatively manage their most important and stressed river basin through the Murray-Darling Basin Authority.
Are these arrangements imperfect? Absolutely. Their struggles to establish fair, equitable, secure, and healthy water-sharing arrangements are far from over. Their memberships are often incomplete. Increased prospects of drought and flood, and increasing demand for water, add to the pressures on what is often already limited technical or institutional capacity.
In my view, the very emergence of these institutional arrangements and a discourse on water sharing that increasingly employs the concepts of equity, fairness, market-based instruments, compensation, cultural values, and human rights, indicates a growing awareness that access to water is so fundamental to international relations and sustainability that governments will continue to—as we say in Australia—"grasp nettles" rather than guns. I am optimistic.
A Common Source of Grievance
Fred Pearce is an environmental journalist and author of numerous books, including When the River Runs Dry: Water—The Defining Crisis of the 21st Century.
People cause wars. Often bone-headed, illiberal, venal, and self-important people. In that sense, water no more causes wars than land or any other vital resource. The question is whether, like the others, water contributes to the reason people sometimes go to war. The answer is that it does. Ariel Sharon, in his memoirs, said the Six-Day War between Israel and its neighbors in 1967 was as much about water as anything—and it certainly led to Israel gaining control of the waters of the River Jordan, on which it depends heavily to this day. The Jordan is today diverted into Israel's National Water Carrier and little of it reaches the nation that bears its name.
Water, unlike land, is hard to "capture." It flows. As Barnaby points out, countries have a lot of reasons for cooperating over water that flows between nations. And many do. She's also right in acknowledging the importance of trade in thirsty products like food—often termed "virtual water." There would have been many more wars in the Middle East in the past 30 years but for this trade, which keeps Egypt, Jordan, and others fed.
But that approach will not always work. There are serious potential conflicts around the world where upstream countries can withhold water from arid downstream countries that need or want it. India and Pakistan constantly bicker over the Indus. How long will a fully functioning Iraqi state settle for Turkey controlling the flow of the Tigris and Euphrates with large dams? Meanwhile Egypt's insistence on its prior right to the majority of the flow of the Nile is an unresolved tension afflicting a quarter of a continent.
If wars arise over grievances, then water is a common source of grievances between nations. Israeli and Palestinian technocrats may cooperate over day-to-day water management, but that does not stop an absolute ban, imposed by Israel, on West Bank Palestinians sinking new wells to tap water beneath their feet. Water is a major grievance there. And as water shortages become more intense in much of the world over the coming decades, the potential for conflicts will grow.
It is dangerous to "blame" a resource like water for wars. It can too easily become an excuse for failing to resolve conflicts. To "blame" water for genocide in Sudan is obscene. But to go to the other extreme and deny water as a potential factor in wars is equally foolish.
Yes, management of water can become a meeting point for nations as well as a source of conflict. But many rivers and other sources of water that cross international boundaries are today not subject to treaties for sharing. That is dangerous. If we are to avoid water wars, there is an urgent need for more water diplomacy.
War20: Three Reasons that Violence Could Erupt
Tobias Siegfried is an associate research scientist at the Earth Institute's Columbia Water Center, and an adjunct assistant professor at the School of International and Public Affairs (SIPA).
On our planet freshwater resources are unevenly distributed, in space and time. Especially in the drylands, where demand chronically outstrips renewable supply, management is a challenge. And it will certainly remain one in the future, given increasing population pressure and large future climate uncertainty, as well as ongoing freshwater resources depletion and degradation due to misallocation. The truth is that conflicts over water resources abound even nowadays. So the relevant questions become: Under which circumstances can those conflicts, if at all, spill over into armed violence? Could water wars eventually emerge as a defining feature of the geography of conflict?
First, environments of absolute physical scarcity increase the propensity for conflict—even more so if alternative means of overcoming the freshwater supply-demand gap are limited or even entirely absent. This is true for many underdeveloped, semi-arid to arid regions, such as the Sahel and parts of Central Asia. These regions are likely to experience increasing water stress given our current understanding of climate change.
Second, man-made scarcity fosters competition and dispute. We see this in cases where a powerful elite controls the availability and access to freshwater—for example, in watersheds where upstream riparian states deprive downstream people of access to water in sufficient quantity and quality at the right time. If not adequately dealt with, increasing freshwater scarcity could induce large-scale population migration and trigger war, especially if displacement occurs across rigid territorial boundaries.
Third and finally, water might become a leading cause of mass migration for another reason: out of overabundance. Average global temperature is projected to rise significantly over the next decades, bringing with it a rise in sea levels and an uptick in coastal hazards. This poses a great threat for low-lying areas such as the densely populated Bangladesh and Myanmar—where hundreds of millions of people live along the coasts.
If land can no longer be tilled and subsistence farming is no longer an option due to lack of water—or if land is simply washed away by rising tides—populations will experience problems at unprecedented scale. What is needed are accurate early-warning systems and effective response- and risk-management mechanisms. Ideally they should be well rooted in sound national institutions and supported by the larger international community.
At the same time, we should acknowledge that violent, armed conflicts are complex phenomena. Simple slogans and buzzwords based on reductionist reasoning are not paying justice to the complex societal and environmental challenges that our planet faces in the future. They will certainly not help the poorest of the poor, who have little coping strategies at their disposal to begin with.
We Won't Let Each Other Go Thirsty
Michael E. Campana is the director of the Institute for Water and Watershedsand a professor of geosciences at Oregon State University. He maintains the blog WaterWired.
"I think water hits us at a profoundly different level than other resources. People are willing to do horrible things to each other. What they seem not willing to do is turn off each other's water." —Aaron Wolf
Water wars. How many times has some expert portrayed a future with nations waging war over that most precious of resources, water? There have even been suggestions of intranational water wars, as in Andrew Wice's novel, To The Last Drop, in which Texas and New Mexico fight over water. As someone who spent 17 years in the Land of Enchantment, I do not find that premise too much of a stretch. With 263 international river basins and 273 international aquifers, it would seem that water wars are a virtual certainty.
If anything, however, history tells us that cooperation over water exceeds conflict. The Indus River Commission survived two major wars between India and Pakistan. During one of the wars, India continued to make payments to Pakistan as part of its treaty obligations. Since the mid-1950s Israel and Jordan held secret "picnic table" talks on managing the Jordan River even though they were technically at war from 1948 to 1994. The US, Mexico, and Canada have effective institutions to resolve water disputes before they escalate. My colleague Aaron Wolf found that in the 50 years since the late 1940s water cooperative events outnumbered conflictive events by 2.5 to 1. He noted that the only "water war" between nations on record occurred more than 4,500 years ago between the city-states of Lagash and Umma in the Tigris-Euphrates basin.
The aforementioned events afford some measure of optimism, but will the past predict the future? We face an uncertain and potentially calamitous future. World population is approaching 7 billion people. Climate change and its effect on water resources loom ominously. Watershed boundaries may change. Water supplies may increase in some areas and decrease in others. And since water does more than quench thirst—it grows food, maintains ecosystems and fisheries, dilutes waste, provides recreation, facilitates navigation and trade, and generates power—I can foresee situations where nations, or even states, cities, or provinces, wage war over water and the services it provides.
Can we take preventive measures? Definitely. Rapid changes in international basins in the absence of institutional capacity (e.g., treaties) tend to increase "hydrovulnerability," the risk of dispute over a shared water resource. We must ensure that all involved have sufficient institutional capacity to enhance "hydroresilience," the ability to absorb change without negative consequences. River basins receive most of the attention, but so should transnational aquifers. Make no mistake: Implementing these measures will be daunting.
Aaron Wolf is correct: Water does hit us at a profoundly different level. For that reason, I believe that, despite the perilous road ahead, in 100 years "Lagash and Umma" will be the answer to a trivia question.
But Who Will Export Tomorrow's Virtual Water?
Sandra Postel directs the independent Global Water Policy Project and lectures, writes, and consults on international water issues. She is author of Last Oasis andPillar of Sand: Can the Irrigation Miracle Last?
The colloquial term "water wars" has come to encompass a spectrum of conflicts over water. In many ways, the preoccupation with whether an outright war (i.e., military conflict) between nations will erupt over water has overshadowed the larger threats to social stability and human well-being posed by mounting water stress worldwide.
Water is renewable, but finite. As demands increase against this finite supply, competition for water is intensifying not just between countries, but also within countries—between farms and cities, states and provinces, ethnic groups, and economic interests. The escalation of these tensions poses much greater threats of civil unrest, humanitarian crises, and loss of life than do international wars over water. The most destabilizing global water-related threat is rising food prices and increased hunger, and on this score, Ms. Barnaby's assertion that countries will solve their water problems through trade is misguided.
Globally, less water will be available for food production in the years ahead, even as world population climbs by 1.2 billion by 2025 and as at least that many people strive to move toward water-intensive North American–style diets. Already, we are using tomorrow's water to meet today's food demands: at least 10 percent of global food production depends on the unsustainable use of water. In India, where this figure may be closer to 15 to 20 percent, millions of tubewells have already gone dry. In China, which has 20 percent of the world's population but only 8 percent of its renewable fresh water, falling water tables, the overtapped Yellow River, and the reallocation of water from agriculture to urban-industrial uses will soon force the nation to enter the ranks of net grain importers. Indeed, China's wheat harvest (the world's largest) has declined some 8 percent since its 1997 peak. Meanwhile, this year about a quarter of the US grain harvest will be used not for food or feed, but to fuel automobiles.
So, who will export the "virtual water" in the form of grain that water-stressed countries will need to import in order to feed themselves? And, just as important, at what price? The food riots that erupted in Haiti, Senegal, Mauritania, Bangladesh, and some half dozen other countries as grain prices climbed in 2007 and 2008 are a harbinger of what is to come. Without action now to confront the water-food dilemma head on—most importantly, by adapting global agriculture to a warming, water-stressed world, and expanding affordable, small-farm irrigation to alleviate food insecurity—the real water wars will play out through the global grain trade, and the risks of civil unrest and state collapse will mount.
The Question Is Irrelevant
Peter Gleick is co-founder and president of the Pacific Institute in Oakland, California, and a member of the World Economic Forum Global Agenda Council on Water Security and the UN's Expert Group on Policy Relevance of the World Water Assessment Program. He is editor of the biennial book The World's Waterand has recently begun blogging at Water By the Numbers.
"Water wars." How euphoniously alliterative. The phrase makes for a great, eye-catching headline, but it also leads to debate and controversy. I think this debate is misleading and misguided. The argument should not be whether or not fresh water problems lead to "war"—academics have been arguing for centuries about the nature and causes of war, not to mention the very definition. Are there "wars" over water? The answer depends on what definitions of these things you choose. In the end, I think it's irrelevant.
Far more important, and far easier to answer, is the question: Is there any connection between fresh water and conflict, including violent conflict? And the answer has to be an unambiguous "yes." History going back 5,000 years is rife with examples where water has been a goal of violence, a target or tool of conflict, or a source of disputes and political strife. Our Water Conflict Chronology, at worldwater.org, lists hundreds of these examples.
And if there is a strong connection between water and conflicts, two new questions come up: Are the risks of these conflicts growing, and how can we reduce them? I think the answer to the first is, yes, the risks of water-related conflicts appears to be growing. Perhaps not between countries, where we have pretty well-developed mechanisms of diplomacy and negotiation that we use to reduce the risks of conflict. But I see more evidence of sub-national disputes and conflicts over economic development policies that change or affect who has access to safe and adequate fresh water. As a result, the debate about water and conflict needs to shift away from international relations theorists and international security academics and toward those who are concerned with a far broader set of issues around human security. From a practical point of view, this means we can stop arguing about whether the conflict in Darfur is "about" water—water is only one of many factors in that particular dispute—and instead work to reduce the role that water plays so that there is one less thing for the peacemakers to deal with.
And this leads to the second question: How can the risks of water-related conflicts be reduced? Here are three examples: (i) meet basic human needs for water as a way to ensure, if not absolute justice, at least some semblance of equity; (ii) develop effective peace-keeping operations at the United Nations that can intervene when resource disputes cannot be resolved locally; and (iii) give diplomats a better understanding of the connections between water and conflict so that the tools they apply in other conflict situations can be applied successfully to reduce water disputes. Let's stop arguing about whether there are wars over water and work to reduce the very real risks of water-related conflicts.
Originally published May 14, 2009
Source : http://seedmagazine.com/content/article/the_truth_about_water_wars


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I was pretty gobsmacked when almost the entire first leg was spoiled right in front of our eyes, and I now feel that I've seen the entire first episode of TAR18. What's the point of watching it on tv now that I pretty much know most of what happened?
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Quote from: Coutzy on November 26, 2010, 08:10:15 PMI never got spoken to by security, for the record.Because you are not a stalker but a RFF detective.
Personally I like doing my best to investigate the locations and tasks, but leave myself not knowing (as far as possible) how far each team makes. Best of both worlds!
When Twitter made it possible to tweet photographs, that really changed the spoilering game. We like having photos because of their certainty, but it also means you get spoiled on team performance; it's become a necessary evil.
Peach and team LOVE the race as much as anyone can love the race. They don't want to harm production. They keep a close watch on things and know when detectives are crossing the line.
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Just came across this detailed relevant talk by Reinertsen - the author I reference for silo reduction and batch size reduction.
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Slides, with notes
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Continuous delivery and devops have gone mainstream, at least in terms of mindshare. As a result, a lot of vendors have jumped onto the bandwagon. Most products that have anything to do with deployment now try to associate themselves with devops and continuous delivery. In this webinar, Sriram will try to clear the air in a product independent manner. He will also cover common devops anti-patterns and explain the idea of infrastructure as code.


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(1) The county commission shall publish a notice of its intent to designate community voting location at least thirty days prior to the designation. Notice shall be by publication as a Class II-0 legal advertisement in compliance with provisions of article three, chapter fifty-nine of this code. The publication area is the county in which the community voting locations are designated;
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(3) The county executive committees of the two major political parties may nominate sites to be used as community voting locations during the early voting period;
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(5) Voting shall be conducted at each designated community voting site for a period of not less than five consecutive days during early in-person voting authorized by section three of this article, but need not be conducted at each location for the entire period of early in-person voting;
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Taiwanese three cup chicken and smashed cucumber salad
Frederick Sy cooks pan-Asian for Nicky Pellegrino. The name "three cup chicken" comes from the three key ingredients: sesame oil, Chinese rice wine, and soy sauce. "Cups" refer to the equal ratio of the three instead of a literal measurement.
|1 bunch
|Spring onion
|5 cloves
|Garlic, peeled and lightly crushed
|1 piece
|Ginger, thumb-size, peeled and sliced
|2 Tbsp
|Sesame oil
|300 g
|Boneless chicken thighs, cut into medium pieces
|2 Tbsp
|Shaoxing wine
|2 Tbsp
|Soy sauce, dark
|10 g
|Chinese rock sugar, or palm sugar (brown sugar can be used as a substitute)
|1 cup
|Thai basil leaves
|Lebanese cucumber
|2 tsp
|3 tsp
|3 cloves
|Garlic, peeled and chopped
|2 Tbsp
|Rice vinegar
|1 Tbsp
|Sesame oil
|3 Tbsp
|Soy sauce, light
|Red chillies, sliced
Three cup chicken
- Wash and dry spring onions and trim, separating the green leaves and white stalks. Cut the green leaves diagonally and reserve as garnish. Cut the stalks in half lengthwise.
- Using a large frying pan or wok stir fry garlic, ginger, and spring onion stalks in 1 Tbsp of the sesame oil over medium high heat for 1-2 minutes.
- Add chicken pieces and brown both sides of the meat.
- Add shao xing, soy sauce, remaining sesame oil, and sugar. Bring to a boil over low-medium heat and simmer, uncovered, for about 10 minutes, slowly reducing most of the liquid. The resulting sauce should be thick enough that it glazes the chicken pieces.
- Add basil and spring onion leaves and toss until basil wilts (approximately 20 seconds)
- Serve hot with steamed white rice and smashed cucumber salad
Smashed cucumber salad
- Trim off ends of cucumber. Using a mallet or something similar, carefully smash the cucumber then break the pieces by hand, discarding any clumps of seed.
- Put the smashed cucumber pieces in a bowl and add salt and sugar. Transfer to a colander and leave for a minimum of one hour to cure and drain.
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Welcome to Greenberg and Hammer. A web resource for sewing, costumes and notions. This website is meant to be a resource for notions and dressmakers supplies to theatre and wardrobe rooms, department stores, costume shops, home sewers, dry cleaners, dressmakers, institutions, designers, tailors…. and you!
Wikipedia defines sewing as the process of attaching or fastening objects using stitches made with thread and needle. Sewing is a member of the textile arts and is considered one of the oldest forms – believed to have originated in the Paleolithic Era. Scholars believe that sewing came before yarn spinning and fabric weaving. It is thought that Stone Age people from parts of Asia and Europe "sewed" skin and fur clothing using rudimentary tools made out of bone, antler and ivory. The thread for their sewing consisted of animal parts such as catgut, veins, and sinew.
Sewing is widely used across a variety of industries much broader than clothing and household linens. These industries include upholstery, shoemaking, athletic goods, sailmaking, bookbinding and others. Sewing is considered a foundational process that is useful for many textile arts such as embroidery, quilting, appliqué, patchwork and tapestry.
Early sewing was performed all by hand. Hand sewing lasted for thousands of years. In the 19th century the sewing machine was invented. In the 20th century, computerization dramatically altered the sewing landscape. Despite these changes, hand sewing is still an art form practiced throughout the world. Hand sewing is often seen as a sign of creative and artistic expression and is used extensively in high end tailoring, designer fashion and custom dressmaking.
Costuming refers to the design, creation and wearing of costumes. To create costumes, a variety of hard to find parts and notions are required. The word costume sometimes refers to dress and wardrobe in general but may also refer to a style of clothing or dress belonging to a specific people or time period. Sometimes a costume also refers to an artistic arrangement of accessories in a play, poem or picture. This arrangement is typically appropriate to a specific time period, place or circumstance that is being portrayed.
Costumes are heavily used in movies, theater, and TV. Costumes are often instrumental in helping actors portray their characters' age, gender, profession, and personality. Costumes are also critical for relaying information about the character's historical period, location, season and other factors. Uniforms, such as those used in post office jobs, are considered a specialized form of a costume. Theatrical costumes can also exaggerate specific aspects of a character's personality for dramatic effect.
Costumes are also used extensively in national or regional roles to emphasize some unique attributes of a culture (such as a Scotsman's kilt or a Japanese Kimono). Many holidays and festivals have costumes associated with them. Christmas, Easter and Mardi Gras all have costumes which help define the events. Children also make extensive use of costumes in the games and role play. Many times these costumes are inspired by shows and movies they see or professions that intrigue them.
You don't need to take an IQ Test to understand notions! The collection of small objects and accessories associated with sewing and haberdashery is referred to as notions. Notions can refer to both small tools used in sewing as well as articles that are sewn on to finished articles. Notions can refer to buttons, snaps and collar stays as well as thread, pins, and seam rippers. The word notions is always used in the plural and is mainly used in the United States (sometimes referred to as Yankee notions). Notions can include items such as:
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MILPITAS, Calif., Apr 07, 2009 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- SanDisk Corporation (NASDAQ:SNDK) will host a conference call on Tuesday, April 21, 2009 at 2:00 PM, Pacific Time, to discuss its first quarter financial results. To listen to the conference call, please dial 913-312-0643 at least 10 minutes before the call commences. The dial-in password is 9477878.
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SanDisk is the original inventor of flash storage cards and is the world's largest supplier of flash data storage card products using its patented, high-density flash memory and controller technology. SanDisk is headquartered in Milpitas, CA and has operations worldwide, with more than half its revenues outside the U.S.
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Department of Revenue News Release
July 25, 2013Back-to-school savings available in Missouri during sales tax holiday Aug. 2-4
JEFFERSON CITY - Missouri's annual sales tax holiday begins on Friday, Aug. 2 and runs through Sunday, Aug. 4. During this time, the state sales tax will not be assessed on certain purchases, including school supplies, personal computers and some clothing. Local governments can also participate in the holiday and increase the savings for shoppers during the holiday.
"The annual sales tax holiday is a perfect opportunity to get some or all of your back-to-school shopping under way and save some money," said John Mollenkamp, acting director of the Missouri Department of Revenue. "When local governments participate in the holiday, the savings can add up to as much as 8 or 9 percent."
The state sales tax will not be charged on the following items during the holiday:
- Clothing that does not have a value of more than $100. Eligible clothing includes standard items of apparel worn on or about the body, and includes footwear. It also includes material to make school uniforms or other school clothing. It does not include accessories such as watches, jewelry, handbags, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, scarves, ties, headbands and belt buckles.
- School supplies, not exceeding $50 per purchase, that are used in a standard classroom for educational purposes. School supplies include textbooks, notebooks, paper, pens, pencils, crayons, art supplies, rulers, book bags, backpacks, handheld calculators, chalk, maps and globes. School supplies do not include CD players, headphones, sporting equipment, portable telephones, copiers or other office equipment.
- Personal computers that don't cost more than $3,500 and computer peripheral devices that don't exceed $3,500. A personal computer can be a laptop, desktop or tower computer system which consists of a central processing unit, random access memory, a storage drive, display monitor, keyboard and other related devices. Peripheral devices include items such as a disk drive, memory module, CD drive, microphone, modem, motherboard, mouse, speakers, printer, scanner, sound card or video card. Computer software is considered a school supply and is free from sales tax if its value is less than $350.
The sales tax exemption is commonly referred to as the Back-to-School Sales Tax holiday because it occurs near the beginning of the traditional school year for most students. Any person -- including those who live outside of the state of Missouri - who makes a qualified purchase may participate in the holiday. An individual does not have to be a student or be purchasing for a student to participate.
More information and a list of cities, counties and districts that have opted out of the holiday can be accessed at Missouri Back-to-School Sales Tax Holiday 2013.
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Chicago, Ill. — Even here, in a town where politics is a blood sport — and they've seen it all — Democrats are biting their nails.
With just hours until election day, thousands — including media from the world over — descended on the Windy City Monday in preparation for what President Barack Obama's Democratic supporters hope will be festivities celebrating his second term.
Obama's 2012 election night events Tuesday will be held inside in the McCormick Place convention center, and arriving in town for the events are a crowd of prominent Californians, many of whom donated big checks to the campaign of Barack Obama.
Some of them, members of Obama's National Finance Committee, gathered Monday night at the Waldorf Hotel in anticipation of the Tuesday event. Many — like Wade Randlett, the founder of Bay Area Democrats, and his wife Lorna Randlett, two of Obama's biggest California fundraisers — will spend Tuesday working at the Obama headquarters here on get-out-the-vote efforts.
The mood among Democrats is one of nervous anticipation regarding the outcome of a long, expensive and often emotionally draining presidential campaign. Especially since after months of work and fundraising, the national and swing state polls still show a dead heat with Republican former Gov. Mitt Romney.
"To me, it's like going to the World Series," said Obama donor and supporter Gywnn Vitello, president of San Francisco-based High Speed Productions, which publishes the iconic skateboard magazine, Thrasher, who says she was determined to be here.
"It's for fun, but it's also to show solidarity and cheer him on," she said. But she admits that the final months of this race have taken a toll — especially the weeks since the first Denver debate. "I have been nervous," she said. "(Romney) says things that people want to hear…the first debate, I'm looking at him thinking his jaw is so damned squared, and he has a bright tie..and I was sick."
But she said that by the close of the contest, she has felt reassured by Obama's comeback — especially his response to a national tragedy, Hurricane Sandy.
"Sandy was horrible….and I thought, "There goes the early votes," she said. "But he has stepped up. He is someone who deliberates. I believe in government, and I'm a businessperson. People need assistance, and this is an example where the president has been so responsive and so hands on."
Vitello isn't alone among Obama's biggest California backers, who have said that — for good or bad — they travelled here to be present Tuesday for what wold be a historic, high stakes moment for their party.
"My mood has changed from a month and a half go…I was pretty worried," admits Bay Area philanthropist Elizabeth Pang Fullerton, a former tech marketing manager who has been a major donor to Obama's cause.
But that changed in recent weeks, she said, as Obama got our his message and got his mojo back. And she wants to be there Tuesday night for the win, she said.
"I feel like I poured my heart and soul into it, and Romney was a huge threat," said the mother of three kids, including an infant, a 4 1/2-year-old and a 7-year-old. "I wanted to be there and celebrate. I want to see history be made again. That's what it means to me. And the fact my children can see it."
Lorna Randlett, who is SF-based McKinsey's & Co's. external relations manager as well as a working mom and busy activist on state and local issues — city library commisioner, board member of the city's Boys and Girls Club, and mentor to many — says Tuesday will mean something to all of those Dems who are present.
Whatever happens.
"The last time I saw the President, i looked into his eyes, and said, "How are you doing?" Randlett said, recalling a fundraiser in San Francisco last month. "What you see with the president is what you get. He did his best — and he delivered."


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Wyatt played a fundamental role in preserving Temple's (22-5, 11-2) top spot in the Atlantic 10 Conference this week. The Owls rolled over Duquesne (15-12) in a 19-point victory and then managed to win on-the-road against La Salle (18-10) in a contest that needed overtime to decide the winner. Against Duquesne, Wyatt finished with 24 points, 5 rebounds, 3 assists and shot 11-17 from the field and 1-4 from three-point land. Against La Salle, Wyatt posted 25 points, 2 rebounds, 3 assists, 1 block, 2 steals, and shot 7-11 from the field and 4-5 from three-point land. Temple has won 11 consecutive games and has developed a strong case to receive a #5 or #6 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Wyatt and fellow swingman, Ramone Moore, are pivotal parts to the Owls potential to make a run in March. For the season, Wyatt is averaging 17.3 PPG, 3.2 RPG, 3.2 APG, 2.1 SPG, and 48.8 FG%, 40.3 3P%, 84.1 FT%.
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Google's Newest Commuter Chariot Declares Dominion Over the Sea
There's been a lot of talk about easing tensions in San Francisco of late. Ron Conway wants to squash it, Mayor Ed Lee begged it hush up. Now Google is giving it a shot . . . in the most socially awkward way possible: a private employees-only ferry named The Triumphant.
Because nothing says sorry we usurped your public infrastructure like a triumphal escape to the high seas. In a statement provided to Valleywag and Re/code, Google said:
"We certainly don't want to cause any inconvenience to SF residents and we're trying alternative ways to get Googlers to work."
For this tentative pilot program, which kicked off this week, Google hired a privately operated catamaran to ferry as many as 150 employees from San Francisco to Redwood City twice each morning and evening.
Google is presenting this scenic labor cruise as a water-logged olive branch to community activists who object to the use of private use of bus stops that delays public transit riders. However Twitter investor Chris Sacca, who worked as Google's former head of special initiatives, let it slip on Twitter that the life aquatic has been a long-held dream.
At the behest of my then employer, I spent time in '06 researching the feasibility of using hydrofoil ferries for the SF/MtnView commute.
— Chris Sacca (@sacca) January 8, 2014
Traveling the highways and waterways of San Francisco like King Joffrey through Flea Bottom might not sound neighborly. But the Maritime director for the Port of San Francisco told KPIX 5, the local CBS affiliate which broke the news, that the Bay is underutilized as a means of transportation.
The program is being tested to make sure it doesn't impede other vehicles, and Google pays a per landing fee of "around $50 per call" to dock at the gates of the Ferry Building, $49 more than buses are being charged.
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Analysts: Hillary Clinton's record as top U.S. diplomat falls far short of greatness
When Hillary Clinton joined the Obama administration's famed "team of rivals," political observers were abuzz with the possibilities of a secretary of state who was already a powerful global celebrity, a former first lady and a hardened presidential candidate.
Despite the star power and political savvy, however, analysts say four years later that they can't identify an enduring diplomatic approach that would add her to the list of the all-time greatest secretaries of state.
Beyond Clinton's far-reaching popularity and well-documented dedication to the job, there's simply no standout moment or stance that would define her tenure, the analysts say. And there are important missteps involving Pakistan, Russia and Syria.
Steve Coll, a prize-winning investigative journalist and author who serves as the president of the New America Foundation research center in Washington, said a secretary of state should be judged on three main criteria: as a crisis manager, as the public face of an administration and as an innovator of ways to keep the State Department relevant in a digital world.
Coll said Clinton deserved high marks on the latter two, but that she was hamstrung on crisis management by a controlling White House that was singularly focused on a second term and therefore risk-averse when it came to foreign policy. When the administration finally did cede some ground, offering a bigger State Department role in Afghanistan, he said, the Pentagon was frustrated to find that the State Department simply didn't have the capacity to deliver.
"While she was a very strong voice in the war Cabinet and decision-making on foreign policy, she was not an example of a secretary who wrote the president's foreign policy, either by delegation or by force of will," Coll said.
Clinton, often as polarizing as she is popular, is sure to face debates about her legacy long after Friday, when she ends her term and leaves the State Department to the incoming secretary, John Kerry, the veteran Democratic senator from Massachusetts. The topic is sure to come up if she enters the 2016 Democratic contest to succeed Obama.
Her supporters credit her with no small number of diplomatic feats. She worked tirelessly to bring attention to the rights of women and girls worldwide, calling such issues "the cause of my life." She orchestrated a historic warming of relations with longtime pariah state Myanmar as part of a bolstered American presence in the Asia-Pacific region to counterbalance Chinese influence.
And wisely, analysts say, Clinton didn't try to save allied Arab rulers from popular uprisings, although those revolts ended up presenting the thorniest policy questions of her time in office.
Fans also note that Clinton was a strong proponent of "digital diplomacy," shaking up the calcified State Department by putting young people in charge of online initiatives and giving diplomats in the field unprecedented autonomy in social media. That move allowed the embassy in Cairo, for example, to publicly challenge the Muslim Brotherhood's statements before thousands of followers on Twitter in a way that obviously wasn't scripted in Washington.
Clinton also won praise for handling the public diplomacy surrounding the covert U.S. raid that killed terrorist mastermind Osama bin Laden. She was forthright once the mission came to light, analysts said, and firm in her defense of the decision not to tell the Pakistanis in advance.
Individually, such accomplishments are the fruits of a hardworking secretary who surrounded herself with smart advisers and held her own in Obama's war Cabinet.
But taken as a whole, the successes just don't add up to an overarching doctrine that will shape the department for years to come.
"Even an admirer, such as myself, must acknowledge that few big problems were solved on her watch, few big victories achieved," Michael O'Hanlon, a defense and foreign policy analyst at the Brookings Institution research center, wrote in a recent assessment.
Clinton's performance, he said, doesn't compare with Henry Kissinger's work on the opening to China, George Kennan's containment policy or even the successes of Richard Nixon, Jimmy Carter or Ronald Reagan in their stints as president. O'Hanlon added that Clinton has "one of the most solid track records of any modern secretary of state. But you do not yet have a historic legacy."
Clinton suffered her share of embarrassments, missteps and outright policy failures, first and foremost in the Middle East, but also in other parts of the world.
Christine Fair, a Pakistan expert and assistant professor at Georgetown University in Washington, gave kudos to Clinton for her role in the bin Laden raid and for being among the first U.S. officials to publicly call out Pakistan for supporting militant groups.
However, Fair said, Clinton also made some "vexing and appalling" decisions in her Central Asia policy, such as refusing to apologize for a U.S. airstrike that killed 24 Pakistani soldiers or "throwing Cameron Munter under the bus," a reference to the former U.S. ambassador to Pakistan who went into early retirement after a public fallout with Washington over the intensity of the administration's drone program.
Even worse, Fair said, was Clinton's finding in March 2011 that Pakistan was in compliance with five criteria – such as uprooting al Qaida and cracking down on terrorism financing – that made the country eligible for continued U.S. security assistance. Fair said that any close observer of the region would know that the opposite was true – that Pakistan was quietly fueling the Taliban insurgency.
"They thought they could win in Afghanistan by placating the Pakistanis. And the Pakistanis, of course, are driving the Taliban," Fair said.
Another embarrassment was the collapse of the administration's much-touted "Russia reset," which was designed to warm relations with Moscow but instead has seen the Russian government terminate three bilateral agreements with the United States in the past year. The most-publicized rupture was Moscow's decision to stop American families from adopting Russian orphans, a huge blow to up to 1,000 families that were already waiting for children.
The chilly relations with Russia have only made it harder to reach an agreement on a political solution to the bloody Syrian civil war, which was one of many unintended consequences of the Arab Spring uprisings that have bedeviled Clinton for the past two years.
Some of Clinton's stances that were praised initially were later cause for hand-wringing, most notably the U.S. support for NATO's military intervention in Libya, which some claim saved thousands of lives, but which also ended up giving wide berth to extremists and causing a ripple effect that includes the current French-led war on Islamist militants in northern Mali.
Analysts say Syria represents a far more egregious U.S. policy failure.
The bloodshed is just shy of the two-year mark, and many are turning against the United States for its reluctance to give rebels the direct military assistance they claim could've spared countless lives by hastening the fall of Bashar Assad's regime.
The bigger problem is that Clinton didn't use her stature in the administration to push back against the national security specialists who've dominated foreign policy crafting for years, said Leila Hilal, the head of the Middle East Task Force for the New American Foundation research center.
She and other analysts described Clinton and her team of "liberal interventionists" as bigger risk-takers than the defense community, which was pushing a more hands-off approach to the Arab Spring conflicts, especially for Syria.
"She didn't take on how national security dominates policy toward the region," Hilal said. "She ended up concentrating more on women's and girls' programs and other initiatives instead of trying to pull back more power for the State Department."
The Obama administration, after seeming to encourage the anti-Assad revolt, left building Syria's rebels to Persian Gulf allies, and soon Saudis and Qataris were arming allies of the Muslim Brotherhood and, more disturbingly, al Qaida-linked Islamist extremists.
One of those groups, the Nusra Front, performed extraordinarily well on the battlefield and soared in popularity, creating yet another Syria policy conundrum for Clinton's State Department: how to support Syrian rebels when the most skilled among them turned out to be jihadists.
The State Department decided the answer was to blacklist Nusra by declaring it part of al Qaida in Iraq, a designation that only rallied support for the fighters among Syrians, who charged that the United States had no right to decide the makeup of rebel forces when it was refusing to help in the fight.
"At the end of the day, if you're going to align with the opposition against a brutal dictatorship, and then do little to ensure that the opposition succeeds, then you should stop talking about the righteousness of the cause," said Coll, the journalist and author.


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