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How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
- Emily Dickinson
In 1967 Roland Barthes claimed that to give a text an author was an imposition to that text. This view was presented in his essay The Death of the Author in which he argued that it was the reader, not the writer, who gave the text its unity and that the writer was a thing of literatures past. Barthes also parenthetically reprimanded the earlier school of New Criticism for not having done away with the author, despire the school's focus on studying the text itself. This idea of a divorce between author and text has recently become very pertinent due to a relatively new literary trend, the autobiographical novel, or - should you prefer - the fictionalised autobiography. The emergence of such novels have caused reviewers and critics to prophesise that the border between fiction and non-fiction will not just be blurred but eventually completely erased.
My personal go-to figurehead of this trend is John Maxwell Coetzee whose autobiographical trilogy - comprising Boyhood, Youth and Summer - chronicles the life of John Maxwell Coetzee told through the voices of a handful of narrators. Although the books are autobiographical in the sense that they are written by the (living) author John Maxwell Coetzee, none of the narrators are Coetzee himself despite John Maxwell Coetzee being the protagonist of all the three novels, although he, interestingly, is dead in the last novel, Summer. In the first two books the narrator is an impersonal, third-person presence that reduces the protagonist to "him", while the last book features a range of narrators, most importantly fictionalised versions of persons who have been important figures in John Maxwell Coetzee's life.
Lately I have become increasingly fascinated with this particulary literary fiction: the creation of an eponymous protagonist who remains separate from the author. This in itself is of course not new. Marcel Proust's Remeberance of Things Past (or, should you prefer, In Search of Lost Time), is perhaps the most monumental work in the umbrella category under which "autobiography", "memoir", "pseudo-autobiography" and "fictionalised autobiography" all may be heaped, and naturally Proust has served as a point of comparison for this recent surge of fictionalised autobiography.
In this genre the author is proved to be very much alive, for the author lends not only his hand but also his name to the narrator or the protagonist. Consequently, however, it has become increasingly difficult to distinguish between the author/writer and the narrator/protagonist as his or her persona, and despite the expressed independence between the two figures the exact nature of this independence remains elusive.
In addition to the resurrection of the author there is also another interesting consequence to be found in the wake of the fictionalised autobiography, namely that all pretension of anonymity - which is a natural consequence of the author's death - has been utterly abandoned. By writing books whose protagonists are eponymous the author can be more certain of being remembered by readers, reviewers and literary canonists, and their fame may have a greater duration than had their protagonists had more inventive names. It is not to say that this is the desired consequence of the authors - the reasons for writing such novels are as diverse as the novels themselves - but it is nonetheless a natural, if not sought after, consequence. To ensure one's fame in this very public manner is emblematic of our day and age when various forms of social media allows an individual to expose him- or herself to the chosen extent and claim a small spotlight somewhere in cyberspace, not entirely unlike Emily Dickinson's poetic frogs.
There is, however, another kind of fame, a kind of fame that has not taken up arms against the mutability of the world and the inexorable passing of the flesh, a kind of fame that requires dead authors and that to some minds is the preferable alternative. This is the anonymous fame. It may at first sound like a contradiction in terms but anonymity does not preclude a person from becoming famous, sometimes perhaps quite the opposite. To be anonymous means that you present your work and your work alone to be judged, leaving no embarrassing details from one's personal life to hamper the praise of peers contemporary or of ages hence. Anonymity also lends an air of venerability and age to a work since it can not be traced, and this is summed up very beautifully in a poem by Manuel Machado (1874-1947), translated by J. M. Cohen for Penguin Book of Spanish Verse:
Tal es la gloria, Guillén, Such is the glory, Guillén,
de los que escriben cantares: Of those who write songs:
oír decir a la gente To hear the people say
que no los ha escrito nadie. That no one wrote these.
- Coplas by Manuel Machado
There is a glory to be found in anonymity, perhaps a satisfaction derived from the fact that your work has endured without your name to aid it along, or that your work endures without you, that your shadow extends further than yourself. This line of thought is perhaps alien to our times where a name means quite a lot, whether it is your original name or one you have assumed. Interestingly enough, however, we find the same line of thought pursued by Machado in the dedication of a well-known Medieval historiography, namely Geoffrey of Monmouth's The History of the Kings of Britain finished in 1136. In his dedication to the Earl of Gloucester, Henry I's illegitimate son, Geoffrey asks him to correct and embellish the work to the effect that "it must no longer be considered as the product of Geoffrey of Monmouth's small talent" (translated by Lewis Thorpe). Here, too, we see that what Geoffrey considers crucial is the fruit of his labours, not his own personal glory (at least that's what he states). For the benefit of his work Geoffrey is more than happy to relinquish the claim of authorship and recede into oblivion. As history turned out this did not happen, but it is nonetheless interesting to see that an author's zeal makes him willing to do away with himself as author, an end much in the vein of Roland Barthes' dictum.
What, then, is the favourable, most honourable course of action? To retain one's name or to pursue one's own oblivion? It is of course very tempting to praise the idea of receding "into the common being", to paraphrase Sir Thomas Browne, but as a historian I prefer very much to have a name - if only a fake one - to attach to a literary corpus. Personally I feel that a writer, artist, architect, musician or any other craftsman has an obligation to posterity to reveal his name, but in this day of self-exposure I would not mind if people were at least somewhat more conscious of anonymity as an alternative.


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Blog Post
On 2 November 2017 the United States government announced that it was discontinuing EITI implementation. The EITI Chair, Fredrik Reinfeldt, issued the following statement:
Ken Salazar hosts inaugural meeting of USEITI multi-stakeholder group.
Secretary Jewell: proud to lead US EITI, building on existing transparency and accountability reforms.
The United States government has launched a public comment period to collect suggestions for the formation of a USEITI multi-stakeholder group.

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Sicario (2015)
Directed by Denis Villenevue
Starring Emily Blunt, Benicio Del Toro, Josh Brolin
Not a Hit…Man
By Mason Manuel
Are my puns getting tiresome? If you have to ask I guess… yeah. You know what else is getting tiresome? Underdeveloped female characters. Especially when they have so much potential by being played by talented actresses. Unfortunately this plus some drastic pacing issues makes mediocrity of what would otherwise be a rather entertaining movie.
Sicario is all about the grey area that is the war on drug cartels. How can the U.S. lay down enforcement on drug activity that happens outside our borders? What can DEA and FBI agents do within the walls of legality that can really make a dent in cartel business except clean up the mess that happens when drugs get over the border? This is the dilemma that FBI agent Kate Macer (Emily Blunt) finds herself in. When a charismatic Josh Brolin shows up offering her a spot on a shady hush-hush group that he guarantees will do some real damage against the Mexican cartels, Kate instantly agrees. And that's about all we learn of her motivations. She doesn't like cartels for obvious reasons, so she joins a black ops team. We are told little to nothing about her personal life, her fears, her dreams, anything that really constitutes her as a human being. She has plenty of screen time but spends most of it either being told to cower behind her co-stars or ask questions that are infuriatingly never answered until the final 15 minutes of the 2 hour film. Emily Blunt does the most she can here, but she is given next to nothing to go on. Her character is meant to be reserved; fine. But with the limited depth of her character, she comes off more robotic than anything else.
What makes this all the more infuriating is that most of her co-stars are written incredibly well and performed with equal vigor. Josh Brolin plays Matt Graver, a CIA agent with each word he speaks dripping with nefarious intent. And yet the character is really quite charming. The first time we run into him, he is vigorously engaged in an official meeting… in flip flops and a Hawaii shirt. He constantly wears a goofy grin that reminds me of my brother when he knows he's pissing me off but I can't prove anything.
Then of course there is Alejandro Gillik played by the stellar Benicio del Toro. Quiet in times of heart stopping action, loud in moments of silence, his character is easily the main reason to see this film. There are simple frames of him simply staring into space or at another agent and I have to fall back into my seat because of how intense his gaze is. He also has a very engaging yet mysterious backstory.
He attempts to bounce this off of Blunt's performance, being a mentoring father figure to her at times, comforting one moment and violent the next. Their relationship does not really begin to work until it's two thirds of the way through the film. When they do connect, that is when the film truly begins to shine. It's too bad that these moments are far and few between.
In an attempt to make the border look dangerous, Sicario spends a great deal of time on slow panning establishing shots of barren desert. Seriously, just desert. When the camera moves more into the cities, this effect is more, well effective. There is one particularly exciting scene where Kate is accompanying a legion of other agents in the black op squad just sitting in a car, but her surroundings are hellish. People are being hung from makeshift gallows near a train station, gunshots being heard within distance of a children's playground and more are all about while Kate looks on in horror from her car. This scene is a genius reflection of Kate's safe American world being flipped upside down, now seeing her homeland as one little car in a world of chaos. The scene ends in a climactic result that I won't spoil but is definitely tense and one of the better moments so keep your eyes peeled.
Overall, Sicario suffers from pacing issues. Too much time is lost on Kate asking questions she gets no answers for. When action finally rolls around, it doesn't feel as jarring as it should because we have spent the last 30 minutes watching debates in conference rooms. However, the third act is stellar when we FINALLY get some information as to the purpose of the squad and what Kate's place is in all of it. There is also an excellent final scene between Blunt and del Toro that has to be seen to be believed. I just wish the film had set it up better. By the time all of these climatic events drop on us they feel shoddily executed and unearned. What could have been an awesome movie with a kickass female character ends up being slightly better than a Michael Bay film with Blunt being overshadowed by her much more detailed male co-star's characters. RDR gives this shoddy piece of work a 5.5 out of 10.


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Marathon Fitness and the dudes of Dude Perfect hosted a functional fitness training event at their corporate headquarters and training center.
Various customers were invited to attend a one day training event, showcasing the new fitness facility at the Dude Perfect headquarters and featuring equipment from Precor and Escape Fitness.
In addition to the fitness training, the attendees also learned about what was happening in the world of Social Media and how it can play a part in their businesses! More on that to come!
Park Towers in Uptown Houston new fitness facility brings multiple work out options to their employees, upping the game on corporate amenities. Featured in the Houston Business Journal:
Feb 10, 2017
HOUSTON – Park Towers, a 545,242-sf two-building office complex in the Uptown area, has completed its $16 million renovation.
According to an article in JLL Realviews , "State-of-the-art office gyms, locker rooms and lunchtime fitness classes are becoming key amenities for helping attract and retain workers—particularly the fitness-focused Millennial generation. Landlords also recognize that onsite fitness amenities can differentiate a property in a competitive market, bring in the tenants and increase the property price when it's time to sell."
Marathon Fitness wants to take this time to congratulate Park Towers, they have done a fantastic job at providing a variety of fitness options in a beautifully updated and modern space.
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Desingner Soapmaking, Marie Browning
Make an assortment of colorful, fragrant soaps right at home. It's simple and fun with melt-and-pour soap bases, plus easily purchased molds, tools, essential oils, and natural dyes. The delightful boutique-quality options include molded and loaf-style picture soaps; embedded and embossed soaps; fossil soaps (great for kids); and basic carved designs. There are also creative techniques for wrapping and displaying the soaps, plus numerous photographs, instructions, recipes, and patterns.
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Beautiful Handmade Natural Soaps, Marie Browning
This book starts with recipes for 20 hand-milled soaps and then moves on with recipes for bath salts, bath oils, bubble baths, massage oils, facial scrubs and bath tea bags.
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Totally cool Soapmaking, Marie Browning
Time for some good, clean fun with dozens of safe soap projects for kids ages 8-12. Using safe, readily-available ingredients in melt-and-pour recipes, along with a variety of tantalizing fragrances, additives, and colorants, kids will have a blast making molded bar and liquid soap, bath fizzies and salts, bubble baths, body powders, lip glosses, and more. Work with yummy scents such as chocolate, bubble gum, strawberry, watermelon, and coconut, and create sparkled, marbled, and confetti effects. Make adorable pie soaps that smell... [Lire la suite]


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Related video: Watch KCRA 3 report on Steffanie Kramer
Steffanie Kramer's life has been a Cinderella story, complete with wicked foster parents (a foster mom forced her to clean floors on her hands and knees, and banished her to the garage, where she slept on sofa cushions for weeks, as punishment for having "an attitude") – and a fairy tale ending.
She finally found her "forever family," Ellen and Bob Kramer and their brood, in 2011. The couple adopted her four years later, just before she turned 23.
She will graduate from Sacramento State on May 21 with a bachelor's degree in social work. Dean Fred Baldini chose her from among 1,268 eligible graduates from the College of Health and Human Services to deliver the Commencement address.
She was a finalist for this year's Dean's Awards for Outstanding Graduates, and her outstanding academic achievements have consistently landed her on the Dean's Honor List.
"Steffanie is an exceptional student. Her courage and tenacity exhibit all that is good at Sac State," says President Robert S. Nelsen.
Kramer plans to attend graduate school at Sac State and earn a master's in social work (MSW). And then she wants to change the world for foster kids.
"I hope that other kids in the system can find one person in their life who can help them strip away the labels and find who they are," she says. "The child who is being mistreated is going to grow up to be an adult, and I just hope they're able to know that they are loved, wanted, chosen, and that they're good people."
Kramer, who grew up as Steffanie Eisenga, went into the foster care system at age 9, along with her older brother and three younger siblings. Their mother was a drug addict who lost her children when Child Protective Services learned that she was using drugs while pregnant.
Separated from her brothers and sisters, Kramer was shuffled from foster home to foster home and lived a nightmare with one family for five years before being placed with the Kramers, she says.
"I've gone from being alone and separated from my siblings to going through sexual abuse, emotional abuse, mental abuse, financial abuse, to joining a family of 12," she says. "The love is what changed my life. I will never be the same. I know I am loved, and I have a family now."
She has reconnected with her birth mother, who is clean and working, and she has a relationship with her younger siblings. She was the sixth foster child adopted by the Kramers, who also have four biological children. The Kramer offspring range in age from 4 to 29, along with a growing number of nieces and nephews.
While at Sac State, Kramer has been active in Guardian Scholars, a support group for students who are former foster youth or homeless, and in the New Student Orientation program.
"She worked for me for four summers and was the student coordinator, the highest position you can have. She was wonderful," says Mary Shepherd, assistant director of Academic Advising and coordinator of New Student Orientation. "I know that she'll go out and do amazing things when she's done with her education."
Last December, shortly before her adoption was finalized, Kramer and other former foster youth were invited by Today host Natalie Morales to talk on national television about their experiences growing up in the foster care system. They also made a public service announcement for Children's Rights, a national organization that advocates for abused and neglected kids.
"I hope every foster kid gets the opportunity to finally see their real selves in the mirror and say, 'I'm good. I'm loved. I'm able.' That's my hope," Kramer says. "When I get to the place that I get married and have a family of my own, I will be adopting and fostering children, and doing the hard work so many people don't want to do and that these children deserve."


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By Peter Moorman, Staff Writer
Hollywood is perplexed.
Traditionally, summertime has been a high point in box office receipts for Hollywood. However, this summer, moviegoers have been served a disappointing number of box-office flops.
Here's a list of four tips to ensure that your Hollywood summer blockbuster movie bombs at the box office.
1. Fill the Dialogue with Excessive Profanity
Filmmaker Guillermo Del Toro spent a reported $200 million on PACIFIC RIM, only to see it pull in just under $37.3 million in its opening weekend. The movie garnered a PG-13 rating from the MPAA, thanks in large part to the 27 obscenities and profanities. Money was left on the table of this otherwise fun film due to the strong foul language. Sitting next to your child while actors take the Lord's name in vain isn't the ideal that most American parents envision for their Saturday afternoons. According to MOVIEGUIDE®'s annual box office stats, movies with no foul language bring in more than $22 million more on average than movies with heavy foul language. The family movie DESPICABLE ME 2, with no foul language, brought in $83.5 million in its opening weekend compared to PACIFIC RIM'S $37.3 million.
2. Promote a Pagan Worldview and Sprinkle in Elements of Political Correctness
THE LONE RANGER has been the most publicized box-office disaster of the summer so far. With two big name actors Johnny Depp and Armie Hammer, critics thought this movie would surely do well. Hollywood forgot that there's a large portion of America that attends church weekly and salutes the American flag. They don't want to spend money on movies like LONE RANGER that promote pagan mysticism and politically correct, Anti-American values. DESPICABLE ME 2, which promoted the traditional definition of family included no politically correct ideology or revisionist history, opened the same day as THE LONE RANGER but brought in $54 million more over the July 4th weekend and cost half as much to make!
3. Push Anti-Americanism and Depict Patriotism in a Bad Light
Movies promoting a strong Anti-American and/or anti-patriotic (APAP plus APAPAP) viewpoint averaged only $22.6 million at the box office in 2012, but movies with strong Pro-American and/or patriotic content (PP plus PPP) averaged $104 million at the box office. Who would have thought Americans prefer movies that don't tarnish their country's image? Sony's most expensive film of the summer, WHITE HOUSE DOWN, had a production budget of over $150 million but only brought in $24 million on its opening weekend. However, Warner Bros. Pictures' Superman hit, MAN OF STEEL, with its very Pro-American view of American life, made more than $116.6 million in its first weekend!!!
4. Avoid Any Mention of Christianity or Jesus Christ
RIPD and AFTER EARTH were two of the biggest bombs this summer. RIPD brought in $12 million on its opening weekend and had a $130 million production budget while AFTER EARTH brought in a dismal $27 million on its opening weekend and had a $130 million production budget as well. In addition to the millions in losses these movies provided for their respective studios, AFTER EARTH and RIPD also shared the commonality of avoiding any reference to the Christian faith, but instead promoted a humanist worldview (AFTER EARTH) and a pagan worldview (RIPD). Last year's faith-filled movie LES MISÉRABLES brought in over $400 million worldwide and History Channel's THE BIBLE miniseries was the most watched entertainment show on Cable TV this year. America's 239 million self-identified Christians prefer movies or entertainment that's spiritually uplifting and that affirms their basic Christian values.
Sadly, mistakes like THE LONE RANGER are made year after year, but there is a manual explaining how to make a movie people actually want to see. MOVIEGUIDE® Publisher Dr. Ted Baehr's filmmaking book, HOW TO SUCCEED IN HOLLYWOOD (WITHOUT LOSING YOUR SOUL) is a great resource for anybody trying to make it in Hollywood. It contains documented evidence from MOVIEGUIDE®'s Annual Economic Report to the Entertainment Industry along with practical tips and advice from seasoned producers, directors, and writers. Dr. Baehr also offers a five-day day intensive quarterly filmmaking workshop to help moviemakers avoid the mistakes listed above.
Note: MOVIEGUIDE® Editor Tom Snyder, Ph.D. contributed some research to this article.


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Oxford University Meeting 2017
2017.09.10, FCTCMP Council and advisors visited Oxford University. Prof. Ma Yuling, the chief scientist of the Institute of Physiology of the Department in Oxford University, who represents the highest level of research in Chinese medicine in the United Kingdom, has given a detailed introduction to the process, ideas and current achievements of her research on the creation of traditional Chinese medicine compound in Oxford University.\r\n\r\nAt the beginning of the meeting, FTCMP Chairman Prof. Ma Boying made a passionate speech and reviewed the development history of Chinese medicine ups and downs in the UK. He pointed out that the road opened by Prof. Ma was a great significance and was a milestone in the development of Chinese medicine in the UK. FTCMP Present Chen Zanyu presented the gift to Prof. Ma, his handwritten "Wuhua Tianbao".\r\n\r\nDuring the one-day visit and meeting, our consultants and directors exchange views, share experiences, and gain full satisfaction in the atmosphere of fraternity and promise. They are full of confidence in the future of Chinese medicine study in the UK.\r\n\r\n


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Canadian Chocolate Bars
There are some chocolate bars in Canada that I didn't realize how much I liked until I couldn't get them here. When you live in Canada, you're totally oblivious that these things are unique to Canada. Two in particular that I like are Aero and Coffee Crisp, which are made by Nestle. Nestle is a Swiss company that does business everywhere, even in the US. It's odd how the Canadian branch makes their own products just for Canada. I once saw the 7-11 next door with some Aero, but it was gone when that one box was gone.
Whenever family or friends come to visit, I try to get them to bring me some.
Aero and Coffee Crisp are both regular stock in England and probably most of Europe as well.
You can get Coffee Crisp (and maybe Aero too) any old day at Gene's Fine Foods in Saratoga.
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I made my first valentine card for the new year. I love Echo Park's Be Mine papers. It was hard deciding which ones to use for this card, so I used a bunch of them - lol! This card is also the first time I've used my scallop die from Papertrey Ink. I just love the texture it adds to the card.
I used another Papertrey die to cut out the pretty little felt heart. I'm going to make a few more of these to sell at work.
Cardstock: PTI Smokey Shadow
Patterned Paper: Echo Park Be Mine Collection
Stamps: PTI Love Birds
Ink: a la mode pink (Hampton Art)
Other: PTI scallop die, PTI Limitless Layers die, EK Success large heart punch, PTI Hibiscus Burst ribbon, PTI Raspberry Fizz felt, pearls from my stash
Size: 4.25" x 5.5"
January 13, 2011
Be Mine Valentine!
Posted by Linda Suarez at Thursday, January 13, 2011
Labels: Valentine
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Super lovely!!! I love all those scalloped edges...they are perfect for this card!ReplyDelete
How gorgeous!! Love the PP scallops. Very pretty card!ReplyDelete
Linda this is BEAUTIFUL!! I LOVE the PP you used!!!ReplyDelete
Have a GREAT weekend!
Linda, I love all those ruffles and the musical background!ReplyDelete
Oh, this is so pretty! I can see why it's a favorite.ReplyDelete
What a wonderful card! Love the scallops and the dimension that they add! So pretty! :)ReplyDelete
gorgeous...love those scallops!ReplyDelete
Very pretty, I am sure you will sell a lot of them at work if you make more.ReplyDelete
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Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
November 30th, 2016
By: Parag Khanna, Author of Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization
This excerpt has been reprinted from Connectography: Mapping the Future of Global Civilization (2016), with permission from the author
The combination of urbanization and immigration has made Toronto –alongside London, New York, Dubai, and Singapore– one of the world's most diluted* cities with as many or more foreign-born residents as native populations. Because cities must be open to trade (and traders) to survive, they are what the political theorist Benjamin Barber calls "naturally networked", evolving from the ancient homogenous polis to the connected and diverse cosmopolis of today. A world that looks less like Iceland and more like Toronto, less Tokyo and more Dubai, needs a new political frame. Countries will have to hold themselves together through common laws and post-racial identities. When David Cameron was pressured by church groups in 2014 to declare that Britain should be a proud "Christian country," he faced a backlash from many who cling to Britain as a multi-faith or nonreligious society- something Londoners take for granted. A better articulation came from Tony Blair a decade earlier after the July 2005 Islamist terrorist attack in London, when he declared that there is a "British way of life" that would not bend to cultural enclaves seeking to impose their practices on other or create parallel systems of justice. The former sought an unrealistic exclusivity, while the latter suggested a progressive and inclusive civic pluralism.
Societies built on immigrant assimilation strive toward common identity despite racial differences. Singapore became a cosmopolitan hub through historical migrations from China and Indians circulating across the British Empire and then by design as Lee Kuan Yew insisted on multiethnic public housing to prevent any ghettos from forming. Today Singapore ranks as one of the world's most religiously diverse cities, with a surfeit of monuments for each religion. Only half of Singapore's population is citizens, and more than 20 percent of marriages are mixed race, mostly Chinese-Indian- creating a growing number of "Chindians" each generation. As Indian and Filipino migrant workers mingle in Singapore and Dubai, an "Indipino" race is emerging as well. The more mixed-race families become the social norm, the weaker pleas for ethnically based politics become. One of Lee Kuan Yew's longest-serving ministers, S. Rajaratnam, rightly said that to be Singaporean "is not a condition but a conviction."
Such city-states are the incubators of the new mongrel global civilization because they can succeed only though inclusive rather than exclusive policies. For most cities, it is too late to prevent ethnic ghettos, but it is not too late for pragmatic mayors to promote place-based rights rather than identity politics. We have to think less in terms of ideal-type multiethnic states governed through mostly liberal parliamentary factions and more in terms of technocratic tool kits for dense cities, some highly ethnically mixed and others with Balkanized neighborhoods. Either way, the notion of "citizenship" seems a quaint anachronism as foreigners become permanent stakeholders. Jaime Lerner, the Brazilian architect who became a pioneering mayor of the southern city of Curitiba, calls cities "the last refuge of solidarity," places where many people must build and provide for themselves and thus cannot afford to tear themselves apart. Building common identity requires strategies to promote cohesion amid economic inequality. It is in this context that global cities have become crucibles for experiments such as Toronto's non-citizens voting in municipal referenda and New York's ID cards for half a million undocumented immigrants. The rapid feedback loops possible at small scale compensate for any deficit in cultural trust; indeed, they are the agents of building trust amidst diversity.
Even as global cities embody centrifugal cultural forces, they are also the incubators of multiple identities. Their density and diversity allow individuals to explore and adopt multiple identities based on neighborhood and community, ethnicity and race, professional class or other association. In this way, cities do not trap but liberate. It is in geographies that lack choice where the only option is national identity, whereas in cities identity can be cumulative.
Nationalism is viewed as either a powerful human impulse to be celebrated or a dangerous force to be defeated. The former makes it seem immutable to change, and the latter creates a false antagonism between identity and accommodation. The spectrum of nationalist phenomena today spans European-style ethnic nativism against immigrant influxes as well as Asian geopolitical patriotism against historical rivals. That these forces continue to exist does not mean they will prevail.
Indeed, taken together, the surging trends of migration, urbanization, and proliferating identities present global cities as a major alternative to nations and nationalism as the foundations of global social order. The more cities make all residents meaningful participants by virtue of their contributions and obligations rather than differentiating by citizenship or ethnicity, the more loyalty to the city supersedes that to the nation. The Canadian scholar Daniel Bell calls this rising urban pride "civicism," a twenty-first century rival to nationalism. Civicism harks back to the ancient world of Athens and other Mediterranean societies where politics was open to all residents.
For today's mobile and itinerant youth, civicism seems a more fitting ethos than nationalism. Nobody would have believed in the early 1990s that Berlin would emerge as the world's coolest city, with ultramodern architecture, a buzzing tech scene, and productive cultural collisions unseen elsewhere on the Continent. I've been traveling and living in Germany off and on since the Berlin Wall fell. In the 1990s, integration was difficult: Only by learning to speak German like a German did I differentiate myself from the large Turkish population whom I resembled to the native German eye. Today it seems everyone is a foreigner fumbling his way through German- or just defaulting to English. In the 1990s, I had to commute an hour on various trains, trams, and buses to find a good Indian restaurant; today there are several in every neighborhood. In addition to the Turks, Russians, and Poles, Berlin has close to 100,000 Chinese, Vietnamese, and other East Asians.
Berlin thus emerges as Europe's most future-ready city, not just technologically, but demographically. Situated on the vast northern European plain with ample space to expand in all directions, Berlin has become an urban geography so vast that with only 3.5 million people it would feel vacant with double the population. This accounts for why its property prices have barely nudged in a decade and why it is in such deep debt. Its flamboyant former mayor Klaus Wowereit rightly boasted that his city is "poor but sexy," but it is not financially sustainable without more people. Officially, most European countries are cynical about the benefits of immigration, but in reality Africans, Arabs, and Asians are streaming in to study, work, and settle in livable cities like Berlin. Berlin's magic formula has been affordable rent, openness to immigrants and lots of babies: It has the highest birthrate in Germany, especially the trendy areas of East Berlin, where students came in the 1990s and have stayed to raise families. The rest of Europe must learn from Berlin: Exclusive thinking is a recipe for suicide.
*Dilution: the genetic blending of populations through mass migrations
Parag Khanna is a leading global strategist, world traveler, and best-selling author. He is a CNN Global Contributor and Senior Research Fellow in the Centre on Asia and Globalisation at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy at the National University of Singapore. His previous books include The Second World and How to Run the World. He is also Managing Partner of Hybrid Reality, a boutique geostrategic advisory firm, and is a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
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The South African government and Eskom have revised the contracting and funding models for the mass roll-out of solar water heaters (SWHs). In future, the programme will be funded by the taxpayer, rather than the electricity consumer, and will focus heavily on stimulating local manufacture and supporting small and medium-sized installers.
Currently, the deployment is incentivised through a rebate programme, funded from electricity tariffs. This rebate support has facilitated the deployment of 285 000 SWHs, which Eskom claims have delivered power savings equivalent to 46 MW.
But the utility's Andrew Etzinger reports that changes will be made when the rebate expires at the end of the year.
The objective of installing one-million such geysers by 2014 remains intact. However, the redesigned programme will seek to integrate government's economic objectives of building a larger-scale domestic SWH manufacturing industry, while also supporting smaller installation and maintenance companies.
A total of R4.7-billion will need to be secured from the National Treasury to meet the target and Etzinger has indicated that the first R1-billion should be transferred to Eskom "shortly", in line with an agreement between the utility and the Department of Energy (DoE).
"The reason for the change is driven by a new contracting model that places greater emphasis on the local production of SWHs," he explains, adding that the new approach is supported not only by the DoE, but also the Departments of Trade and Industry and Public Enterprises.
Under the proposed arrangement, Eskom will procure the units from domestic manufacturers and offer these on a "free-issue basis" to installers.
Government and Eskom say the model should provide demand security for manufacturers, while transferring the financial burden from small and medium-sized installers to Eskom.
Tenders have been issued for the supply of the SWHs and Eskom is in the process of evaluating the submissions received. "We will be communicating back to the market soon," Etzinger says.
Eskom says the SWH roll-out, together with its other residential demand-side interventions, have achieved a saving of 181 MW to date. During the second phase, a savings target of 190 MW has been set.
A range of products have been developed in support of further business, industrial and residential power savings and these will be "aggressively driven" over the coming months and years.
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LAKEWOOD, Ohio
After the makeover of St. Sebastian, the arrows that pierce the martyr's torso look newly received. After the touch-up of St. Thérèse of Lisieux, the mystic seems even more serene. Now it is St. Barbara's turn, and Lord knows she can use some cosmetic attention.
"I just got her a month ago," Lou McClung says, as he dabs a paintbrush to a faded life-size statue of the patron saint of those who work in explosives. Nearby, a tired St. Anthony of Padua, patron of lost things, awaits his own appointment, as does a worn St. Rose of Lima, once known for her beauty but now, in the estimation of Mr. McClung, "a big hot mess."
His words convey affection, not irreverence. Mr. McClung, a makeup artist by trade, has become a sort of patron saint of religious statues left behind. He gathers them in a shuttered Catholic church that he owns, then restores them to their former ethereal state — to when people seeking intervention gazed with hope into their glass eyes.
"It's a calling," says Mr. McClung, whose rescue mission provides one answer to an awkward question: Where do the religious statues go once their churches close?
Like other urban dioceses around the country, the Roman Catholic Diocese of Cleveland has been grappling with the reality that things are not as they were — and not only because of the recent priest scandals that have caused so much pain and disenchantment.Continue reading the main story
Many urban Catholics have moved to the far suburbs. Many parishes have fallen into arrears. And many priests — actually, that is part of the problem: there are not many priests. Those "Going My Way" days, when every parish with an aged pastor seemed to have an energetic young replacement waiting in the sacristy, exist mostly on celluloid now. In 1970, the diocese had 565 priests available for ministry; by 2010, the number had plummeted by more than half.
In 2009, after nearly a decade of evaluation, the diocese announced a "reconfiguration," a pleasant term for the closing and merging of dozens of parishes. (Last week, though, critics of the reconfiguration announced that the Vatican had ordered the bishop of Cleveland, Richard Lennon, to reopen 13 of the closed parishes after determining that he had not followed proper procedure.)
So began a series of farewell Masses in old churches that were once the beating hearts of ethnic communities — Polish, Slavic, Hungarian — in Cleveland and Akron, Lorain and Elyria.
The moment that the consecrated Eucharist, called the Blessed Sacrament, was removed from the premises, these churches effectively became mere buildings, albeit ones in which generations had been baptized, married and eulogized. But what about all the statues, stained glass and other religious items bought with money earned in the mills and factories of north-central Ohio? The disposition of these items was entrusted to Henninger's, a local religious supply company acting as an agent of the diocese. If they were not placed with a neighboring parish, or one with the same ethnicity, these "used church goods from closed churches" were displayed for sale to other churches on a Web site, www.church-inventory.com.
Here they are, the holy detritus: used chalices and baptismal fonts, altars of repose and altars of sacrifice, small crucifixes and a crucifix 18 feet tall. Stained-glass windows. A Yamaha organ. A wall plaque in loving memory of a certain monsignor. And statues, from St. Aloysius to a figure identified only as a "female saint."
This is where Mr. McClung, savior of statues, comes in. A graduate of the Catholic school system, he is 39 and large, with a Celtic tattoo on his left bicep, though he is more Italian than Irish. He manufactures his own line of cosmetics, and has spent the last 20 years "teaching women how to look their very best," according to the Web site for his company, Lusso Cosmetics.
Mr. McClung had dabbled in statue restoration. (The first was a damaged St. Clare of Assisi that he bought "from some old crazy lady in an antique store.") But when the diocese announced the reconfiguration, he imagined many statues leaving the Cleveland area or being buried in storage, and thought of all the prayers whispered before them in various languages, uttered in thanks and in grief. Mr. McClung presented a plan to the diocese: a not-for-profit museum for the statues of closed churches. "And after a while," he says, "they realized I wasn't a flake."
The first purchase he made from the Henninger's inventory was a statue of Our Lady of Grace, from the closed Holy Trinity Church in Barberton. Soon after came St. Therese, from the closed St. Hyacinth Church in Cleveland; St. Francis of Assisi, from the closed St. Ladislaus Church in Lorain; St. Stephen, from the closed St. Margaret of Hungary Church in Chagrin Falls.
It got crowded in his home, but not any louder.
Some of the statues were missing limbs or had been repainted with Benjamin Moore — "often by janitors or parishioners who mean well," he says, recalling a Pieta's Jesus with orange hair.
Mr. McClung then added to his religious acquisitions an entire church: the closed St. Hedwig's in Lakewood ($150,000, rectory and school buildings included). He moved into the rectory, made one of the classrooms his skin-care studio and — with financial help from an anonymous benefactor — began to create a museum.
Helping out was his father, Jim, a Vietnam War-haunted mechanic with whom he had a trying relationship. The father complained at first that the statues "freaked him out," Mr. McClung recalls, but he gradually adapted to the glass-eye stares, and the two men grew closer as they demolished and painted. When Jim McClung, 63, died of heart problems on Christmas Day in 2010, the memorial service for this nonpracticing Catholic was held in his son's desanctified church.
The doors of the Museum of Divine Statues opened last April to reveal an entirely reimagined space that still evoked a Catholic church — and not only because of the whiff of incense or the Gregorian chants playing in the background.
An all-star lineup of saints along the side walls. Stained-glass windows from a closed church in Slavic Village. Dozens of first-class relics — pieces of saints, literally — under glass. A collection of rescued Marian statues. Even a gift shop, operated by Mr. McLung's mother, Lucy, and guarded by St. Joan of Arc.
The museum is nothing if not emotional, Mr. McClung says. Most visitors thank him, with many gladly making donations to underwrite the cost of the statue restorations. Others "are still hurting," he says, and direct their anger at him; he usually suffers in martyr-like silence.
Then there are those who respond by dropping off worn statues in need of a home — even leaving abandoned statues at his doorstep. Now, in the basement of the old school, a ragtag gaggle of the beatific: St. Jude, patron saint of lost causes; St. Florian, patron of firefighters; Our Lady of Lourdes; an angel from a Cleveland homeless shelter.
"Her wings are around here somewhere," Mr. McClung says.
A group of two dozen women from St. Raphael parish in Bay Village arrives for a late-morning tour. Eddie Schwertner, Mr. McClung's stepfather and a retired wastewater treatment plant worker, leads the women to the center of the room, where the museum's burly founder awaits his audience. "Can you just tell us whatever made you do this?" one of the women asks. "We're very grateful."
Mr. McClung once again explains his desire to keep the statues here, where they belong. He reminds his visitors that they are welcome to make a donation or sponsor the restoration of a statue. Then he turns their attention back to the wonder of the saints that surround them.
"If you want to see a great set of eyes," he says, "check out St. Vincent de Paul."Continue reading the main story


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'The Flash' Review (S1E9): 'The Man in the Yellow Suit'
The Flash mid-season finale gave us some answers, more questions and a better look at 'The Man in the Yellow Suit.' The packed episode even gave us the introduction of Ronnie Raymond who was nice enough to provide his own moniker (sorry, Cisco) as Firestorm. And Barry revealed his true feelings to Iris as she'd already decided to take the next step with Eddie and move-in together. Even with all the action going on the show it was still anchored by the compassion and emotions of its characters.
Despite the serious threat of the "yellow blur" or maybe because of it Barry was set on an emotional rollercoaster. The rage within him when the man that killed his mother reveals himself only to taunt him, beat him, and toy with him. The heartbreak of Iris getting more serious with Eddie and moving in together leads him to finally shed his soul to her. The guilt he expresses to his father about letting the man that framed him get away. The utter frustration being unable to capture the man in the yellow suit. Thanks to his father figures he gets the emotional support that helps transcend the show from just a comic book series.
A teary eyed Barry confessing to his dad how he failed to get his mom's killer was wrenching but Papa Allen helped soothed his son. It's scenes like this the show doesn't have to have but the showrunners are as concerned about the character development as they are about the next set piece if not more so. And there's even a more poignant scene with surrogate dad Joe, where Jesse L. Martin as usual shines, reassuring Barry with words like, "the world might need the Flash, but I need my Barry Allen." The feels were in overdrive Tuesday night.
Not even Caitlin could escape the emotional tsunami as she encounters her formerly dead fiance in a parking structure only to be rejected by the jerky Ronnie Raymond who now flames up as Firestorm. She confides in Cisco leading to another tender scene. Good tidings this holiday season are in low supply.
Complicating things further Cisco suggests that the red and yellow blurs of lightning young Barry saw means there may have been two "speedsters" in his home when his mother was killed. Or does it mean Barry was time traveling trying to prevent the murder in the first place?
The return of Amanda Pays, from the 1990 Flash series, as Dr. Tina Magee and her company Mercury Labs provide the tachyon device to try and trap the Reverse Flash. As a rival of Wells we only get to see a couple of contentious scenes with her but it was nice seeing Shipp and Pays again on the same show although not in the same scene. We'll get another guest from the past as Mark Hamill will reprise his villainous role of the Trickster next year. Can Alex Desert be far behind?
With the trap in place Reverse Flash bites and now we have Wells, Eddie and Joe at STAR Labs in a stand-off of sorts as Caitlin and Cisco try to contain the yellow speedster. It should be a theory-shattering moment. The shady Wells has been suspected of being Reverse Flash and in the comics it's Eddie but they're all in the same room. Was Wells manipulating time in order to be in two places at once? Is Eddie the Reverse Flash of the future coming back to taunt Barry? The teaser at the end revealed that Wells had the yellow suit and now the tachyon device where he used it to juice up the suit or something. But how...what...when...?
This carefully crafted mid-season finale tied up some storylines while creating brand new ones. With the Iris unrequited love thing now in the open and less of a distraction there's still a ton of things to look forward to. The battle against Reverse Flash will continue, Captain Cold still assembling the rogues, the emergence of Firestorm and what about Grodd?
The Flash has brought so much fun and action in a short time giving fans all they can handle with surprises still in store. The CW has another superhero show that is first rate, accessible and a joy to behold. Grade so far at the midway point is A+.


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Chicago Loud 9 assembles with the Just Once EP
There's no set limit of how little or how many members you should have in your band, and with the case of Chicago Loud 9, the band is more like a party between different musical acts. That's because back in 2012, nine musical acts came together for a Friday-night winter showcase in the Chicago-based House of Blues, and soon became a collaborative group, fixing to release albums.
This sizeable ensemble is made up of emcee Dhan Dee, vocalist Aya Smith, cellist Geoff Kartes who also lends his voice, guitarist Chad Wynes (aka Bumptious Q. Bangwhistle), Kyle Voivodas on percussion, Jasen Brown with an array of percussions, keys, guitar, and "backflips," Paulie G on the trumpet, Kennytime on the alto saxophone, and bass guitarist James Hatten.
Chicago Loud 9 describe their music as "a true party mashup mixture – reminiscent of the Black Keys, Outkast, and a Tarantino movie soundtrack on steroids". I don't know about you, but I'm intrigued. Especially when this description comes in the form of an Avengers-like ragtag crew of musical hopefuls.
There's a playful harmony on this EP that ranges greatly between the various talents on the team, but often resting on rap, gospel, and funk. A satisfying change of pace comes with "Time (Is of the Essence)" where they maintain the triumvirate of their style, but experiment with a harder rock style by shredding the guitar harder.
While it's not a new trend to blend rap with rock, Chicago Loud 9 does a pretty damn good job with it. You also get a vibe with more soul, blues, and ska intertwined to create variety. It branches out with its style, and the odds are that you'll probably end up liking at least one of the track on the Just Once EP.
Need a sound system overload? Of course you do! Look them up on their official website to hear more about their story and music. For more updates on the nonet known as Chicago Loud 9, go through their Facebook page and follow them on Twitter @chicagoloud9.


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Marisa Parham is Professor of English at Amherst College, and directs the Immersive Reality Lab for the Humanities, which is an independent workgroup for digital and experimental humanities (irLh). irLh develops and incubates digital projects for AR, VR, and screen, and supports the work of digital scholars. Parham also serves as a faculty diversity and inclusion officer (FDIO) at Amherst College. As FDIO, Parham is an advocate and innovator for diversity and inclusion in the college's overall academic program, while especially supporting both individual faculty success and the expansion of academic departments.
Marisa Parham holds a PhD in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University, and is the author of Haunting and Displacement in African-American Literature and Culture, The African-American Student's Guide to College, and is co-editor of Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations. Her current teaching and research projects focus on texts and technologies that problematize assumptions about time, space, and bodily materiality. She is particularly interested in how such terms share a history of increasing complexity in literary and cultural texts produced by African Americans, and how they also offer ways of thinking about intersectional approaches to digital humanities and technology studies.
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quick easy way to add flavor and texture to baked potatoes.
|mediumn potatoe
|stips of bacon
|mediumn onion
peel your favorite, onion, red, yellow, then slice into thin slices. cut in half across the center of the onion slice.
Take a medium potato, slice in 1/4 inch increments- 2/3 to 3/4 of the way through the potato.
Take 1/2 slices of onion and place into each slice of the potatoe.
Cut one slice of bacon into small section and inset into each slice in potato.
With remaining slice of bacon wrap around potatoes - starting from one end and wrapping to other end, stretch the bacon as needed, complete coverage is not necessary.
wrap potato in tin foil and bake on barbeque for 3/4 of an hour on high, turning every 8 min. potato may be microwaved for 1-3 min to shorten time on the barbeque. cool potato before slicing, if microwaving.
result will be crispy bacon flavored baked potatoes.
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So what's new?
First of all, we are glad to present you features that reached the daylight after numerous requests – tracked time progress bar on tasks according to estimated hours or storypoints and the same in task details. Now each user will be able to see the progress of a task even if it was performed for some time and put back into backlog. Take a sneak peak:
What is more, bunch of annoying stuff is gone… "Remember me" for numerous servers instead of the last one. Drag and drop emails from outlook directly. Finally, there are numerous improvements and new features under reporting section – so go ahead, fetch the update and experience brand new Eylean. Full changelog as follows:
• Features:
o Progress bar for tracked hours on task items with estimation
o Tooltip for total tracked time on tasks with progress bar or estimations
o Drag and drop email from outlook
o Export time sheets to excel
o Multiple remember me support
o Window drag for task details
• Bug fixes:
o Reports filter dates bugged on particular time periods for intersecting weeks
o +1 multi click fix
o Dashboard bigger estimation values not visible in team member summaries
o Add subtasks bug – add new task text not focused
o Scroll bug with big number of boards
o Single row select bug for monthly reports
• Improvements:
o File directory opened after the export to excel
o Hours converter in reporting will not show days anymore only full hour value
o Eylean automatic reconnect on loss of connection


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Coram Cambridgeshire National Adoption Week Drop-In (Bedford)
If you are interested in understanding more about adoption and hearing about the experiences of adoptive parents, please come along to our Adoption drop-in information session.
These drop-in sessions are informal and are designed to give you general information about adoption and concurrent planning to help you decide whether adopting a child will be right for you and your family, learn more about the process of becoming an adoptive parent, and talk to you about the children who need a forever family. The drop-in sessions are informal with the opportunity to ask questions.
The adoption information sessions provide an opportunity to learn more about Coram Cambridgeshire Adoption as an organisation, including our Adoption Support Service where we hold support groups and play days for the children, you can also meet others who have also started thinking about adoption and be introduced to members of the social work team.
If you are a couple, it is helpful for both partners to attend. Single applicants are welcome to bring a family member or close friend.
For more information please contact us on 0300 123 1093 or email email@example.com


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Industrial connectors manufacturer
In more than 50 years of experience in connectivity solutions. ALFA'R has developed, day after day, its wide range of standard products: industrial connectors, cables and jumpers, antennas and other passive components in Radiofrequency and industrial Multicontact connecting.
Design, manufacture and distribution of our products and services using the most modern technology in our facilities in Barcelona (Premià de Dalt).
ALFA'R industrial connectors and the other products are used in different industries, such as:
- COMMUNICATION: general Telecommunications, Broadcasting, Signal Processing, etc.
- TRANSPORT: Rail, Aerospace, Marine, etc.
- INDUSTRIAL: Energy, Instrumentation, Automatisms, Electromedicine, Security, Military, Robotics, Scene lighting, etc.
In addition, several products have been developed in close cooperation with our customers to solve specifics requeriments. In this way, we are committed to provide customized solutions for each application.
To achive our targets, our team of specialized professionals in the field of industrial connectors design and manufacture, have got all know-how necessary to ensure the highest professional standards, giving solutions to almost any individual need.
Our history
- We were born in 1965 with the manufacture of audio connectors.
- In 80's, we moved away from audio connectors and gradually focus on RF coaxial connectors for professional telecommunications: UHF, F, BNC, TNC, N series…
- In 90's came the consolidation of RF connectors with new series. Power connectors as 7/16 series or microwave and microcoaxial series, as well as RF devices. At the beginning of this decade, we participated in the birth of private television in Spain and its expansion.
- In second half of 90's, our company was involved in GSM link stations developing, providing to the main mobile telephone operators.
- In 2000's, ALFA'R is committed to improving in production means, quality issues, security and internationalization policies. ALFA'R, also, participates in DTT development, providing connectors and wiring to the main operators.
- In 2010's, section of RF coaxial connectors is reinforced, introducing new products and section of multicontact connectors begins to develop. In this way, the connectivity offer is widely expanded. Now, besides, in electric industry.
- And we continue thinking and developing new products to make a connectivity easier, more versatile and more reliable.
Our philosophy
- Quality in product and service is our target.
- We are attentive to the new technological changes in a fast changing world to give a quick answer to all needs of our clients. We prioritize large resources to our enginnering department.
- We encourage the customization of our products and the active participation of the customer in the design.
- Wide investment of resources in internationalization.
- We allocate resources to be updated in production means in order to reach quality standards required by our most demanding clients.
- The human team of our company believe in their work and they are passionated about it.


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This morning, my son had to wake up at 5.30am for his school attachment and since I had a few very ripe bananas in my kitchen, and I had some time before my gym class, I decided to bake banana bread! Sorry I forgot to take photos except for these.
One recipe yielded 3 small loaves as seen here. I can't believe the bread is SO light, it feels like chiffon cake!! I've tried many recipes before and some were better than others, but this one must be the best. Since last week I've been using Elle & Vire or President butter for all my baking, and so far the cakes and breads have turned out much nicer, more tender, tastes so much better and not so oily.
You can see the lighter colour bits are the bananas. I added raisins too.
2 eggs
1 cup Muscovado sugar
3 very ripe bananas, mashed
1/2 cup unsalted butter
1 tsp vanilla extract
1/2 cup sour cream
1 1/2 cups cake flour
1 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1/2 cup nuts or raisins (optional)
Pre-heat oven to 350 deg F and use a 9x5 inch loaf tin.
Use the creaming in method. Bake for an hour or so.
I am presuming you know how to bake so am not adding the method here.
For my friends out there who love to bake a great cake, I challenge you to know more about your ingredients before choosing a recipe or even changing anything in the recipe. I learned so much in the past few weeks, especially about butter (there are different grades with diffferent percentages of fat), cheese, sugars, leavening and flours. There's lots of information on the internet so take advantage of that.
Meanwhile, I'll continue my research and will post recipes when I feel that I've found a great one. If you know of great recipes, share them with me too!


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In just a few hours the month of October begins. The Gothic Tea Society is participating in three 'blog walks' and we are very excited about it. As any visitor might see from our regular postings we tend toward spooky and bizarre on a daily basis, but the fun is in posting extra spooky, morbid and dark topics to delight our visitors and hopefully they will stay for tea, and then visit often!
Check the buttons over there------> and please do visit the blogs who were kind enough to organize the blog walks. There are lots of other fun blogs to visit as well. And while you are here- please do take a peek at the personal blogs of The Gothic Tea authors- Visitors always welcome!
Sweet Screams!


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Thermal control system
Argotec offers custom solutions for thermal management both for ground and space applications. These thermal control systems are based on passive thermal exchange in which heat transfer is efficiently promoted by means of the evaporation/condensation of a working fluid.
Passive thermal devices are able to efficiently transfer heat once they are mechanically and thermally connected to a hot source on one end and to a heat sink (e.g. a finned structure, a cold plate, or a radiator) on the other end.
The major advantages with respect to traditional single-phase heat transfer devices are the ability to transfer heat with a very small temperature drop and to create a nearly isothermal surface for temperature stabilization. Moreover the use of passive devices avoids the need of active components such as valves and pumps, with advantages in terms of mass and cost reduction, design simplification and improved reliability.
Argotec heritage in the field of two-phase heat transfer devices includes the design, development and qualification of heat pipes, loop heat pipes, and pulsating heat pipes.
The Axially Grooved Heat Pipes are passive thermal devices. They require no external power other than the heat they transfer. They have no moving parts, like mechanical pumps and fans used to circulate the working fluid in traditional systems, which makes them more reliable, free of vibration and completely silent.
The amount of heat that can be transported is typically several orders of magnitude larger than single phase devices for a geometrically equivalent system. Thanks to the two-phase approach the temperature difference between hot and cold parts is lower than the single-phase systems.
Argotec heritage on heat pipes includes several tests performed on-board the International Space Station, confirming the performances of these systems also in microgravity conditions. Moreover long-term repeatability has been demonstrated by means of ground test campaign and on-orbit tests.
The Loop Heat Pipes are passive thermal devices. They require no external power other than the heat they transfer. They have no moving parts, like mechanical pumps and fans used to circulate the working fluid in traditional systems, which makes them more reliable, free of vibration and completely silent.
The Loop Heat Pipes are essentially composed of two main parts, the evaporator and the condenser.
The evaporator zone is devoted to the evaporation of the working fluid thanks to the heat input. This zone includes a solid case and a porous part, called wick, usually made by means of powder sintering.
The condenser zone consists of a meandering tube covering a wide surface used to reject the heat transported by the working fluid.
Argotec developed several loop heat pipes with different dimensions in order to cover a power range between 20 and 400 Watts. Moreover Argotec tested different fluids able to work in a temperature range between -80°C and 150°C.
These systems are more suitable when the heat needs to be transferred across longer distances with respect to axial heat pipe applications. A particular application of the Loop Heat Pipes is the heat rejection on surfaces, as an example in the radiative thermal panels of spacecraft.
The Pulsating Heat Pipes are passive thermal devices. They require no external power other than the heat they transfer. They have no moving parts, like mechanical pumps and fans used to circulate the working fluid in traditional systems, which makes them more reliable, free of vibration and completely silent.
Pulsating Heat Pipes are generally put in direct contact with surfaces where multiple hot and cold areas can be present.
Pulsating Heat Pipes can be directly embedded in structures by means of Direct Metal Additive Manufacturing. This approach allows to develop light structures with enhanced thermal performance and with higher relative stiffness.
Argotec developed and tested different Pulsating Heat Pipes embedded in mechanical structures. This solution is very appealing in applications where lightness and thermal performance are crucial, as example in CubeSat.
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