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A U.S. Navy researcher announced today that her lab has produced "significant" new results that indicate cold fusion-like reactions. If the work by analytical chemist Pamela Mosier-Boss and her colleagues is confirmed, it could open the door to a cheap, near-limitless reservoir of energy. Devising a fusion-based source of energy on Earth has long been a "clean-energy" holy grail of physicists. A small group of scientists has [tried] to produce fusion reactions at low temperatures. If such experiments did produce fusion reactions, they would generate highly energetic neutrons as a byproduct. These are what Mosier-Boss says her San Diego-based group has found. "If you have fusion going on, then you have to have neutrons," she said. "But we do not know if fusion is actually occurring. It could be some other nuclear reaction." Today's announcement is based partly on research published by Mosier-Boss' group last year in the journal Naturwissenschaften. The announcement may turn heads, given its stage at the American Chemical Society's big meeting and the fact that the organization promoted it to science journalists in advance. "It's big," said Steven Krivit, founder of the New Energy Times publication, which has tracked cold fusion developments for two decades. "What we're talking about may be more than anybody actually expected," he said. "We're talking about a new field of science that's a hybrid between chemistry and physics."
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In the world of higher education, summer is usually the off-season. But for some students, this summer was the culmination of years of hard work in a 2,400-mile solar car race from Plano, Texas to Calgary, Alberta. Fifteen teams of students drove photovoltaic-powered cars across the North American Solar Challenge finish line in Calgary Tuesday, led by the University of Michigan Solar Car Team and its vehicle, Continuum. Michigan's victory, which took about 51 hours and 42 minutes on the road, is its fifth NASC championship. The school also won the last NASC, in 2005. Jeff Ferman, the race manager for Michigan, talked about how rewarding it was to enter Calgary and be greeted by 40,000 people."The streets were lined with people," he said. "There were people on overpasses with tripods taking pictures." The Michigan team led almost the entire race from Texas, trailing only on the first day of driving when it had to stop to fix a minor electrical problem. But that 20-minute stop was the only time it had to pull over to make repairs, which team members said was one reason they did so well.
Note: If you do the math, this amazing solar powered car built by college students averaged 46.5 mph over a 2,400 mile course! Why didn't this make news headlines? Try doing a Google search on "Solar Challenge" (the annual solar car race). You will find that almost no major media cover this amazing event at all. The few who have (including this CNN article) usually fail to mention anything about the speeds attained by these cars. Why is the media not giving better coverage to these incredible breakthroughs? For a possible answer, click here.
"Ten years ago I could never have imagined I'd be doing this," says Greg Pal, 33, a former software executive. "I mean, this is essentially agriculture, right? But ... this is the one hot area everyone wants to get into." He means bugs. To be more precise: the genetic alteration of bugs – very, very small ones – so that when they feed on agricultural waste such as woodchips or wheat straw, they do something extraordinary. They excrete crude oil. Unbelievably, this is not science fiction. Mr Pal holds up a small beaker of bug excretion that could, theoretically, be poured into the tank of the giant Lexus SUV next to us. Not that Mr Pal is willing to risk it just yet. He gives it a month before the first vehicle is filled up on what he calls "renewable petroleum". After that, he grins, "it's a brave new world". Mr Pal is a senior director of LS9, one of several companies in or near Silicon Valley that have ... embarked ... on an extraordinary race to make $140-a-barrel oil (Ł70) from Saudi Arabia obsolete. "All of us here – everyone in this company and in this industry, are aware of the urgency," Mr Pal says. What is most remarkable about what they are doing is that instead of trying to reengineer the global economy – as is required, for example, for the use of hydrogen fuel – they are trying to make a product that is interchangeable with oil. The company claims that this "Oil 2.0" will not only be renewable but also carbon negative – meaning that the carbon it emits will be less than that sucked from the atmosphere by the raw materials from which it is made.
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Tired of petrol prices rising daily at the pump? A Japanese company has invented an electric-powered, and environmentally friendly, car that it says runs solely on water. Genepax unveiled the car in the western city of Osaka, saying that a liter (2.1 pints) of any kind of water -- rain, river or sea -- was all you needed to get the engine going for about an hour at a speed of 80 km (50 miles). "The car will continue to run as long as you have a bottle of water to top up from time to time," Genepax CEO Kiyoshi Hirasawa told local broadcaster TV Tokyo. "It does not require you to build up an infrastructure to recharge your batteries, which is usually the case for most electric cars," he added. Once the water is poured into the tank at the back of the car, the a generator breaks it down and uses it to create electrical power, TV Tokyo said. Whether the car makes it into showrooms remains to be seen. Genepax said it had just applied for a patent and is hoping to collaborate with Japanese auto manufacturers in the future. Most big automakers, meanwhile, are working on fuel-cell cars that run on hydrogen and emit -- not consume -- water.
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Texas may be best known for "Big Oil." But the oil that could some day make a dent in the country's use of fossil fuels is small. Microscopic, in fact: algae. Literally and figuratively, this is green fuel. "Algae is the ultimate in renewable energy," Glen Kertz, president and CEO of Valcent Products, told CNN while conducting a tour of his algae greenhouse on the outskirts of El Paso. "We are a giant solar collecting system. We get the bulk of our energy from the sunshine," said Kertz. Algae are among the fastest growing plants in the world, and about 50 percent of their weight is oil. That lipid oil can be used to make biodiesel for cars, trucks, and airplanes. Most people know algae as "pond scum." And until recently, most energy research and development projects used ponds to grow it. But instead of ponds, Valcent uses a closed, vertical system, growing the algae in long rows of moving plastic bags. The patented system is called Vertigro, a joint venture with Canadian alternative energy company Global Green Solutions. The companies have invested about $5 million in the Texas facility. "A pond has a limited amount of surface area for solar absorption," said Kertz. "By going vertical, you can get a lot more surface area to expose cells to the sunlight. It keeps the algae hanging in the sunlight just long enough to pick up the solar energy they need to produce, to go through photosynthesis," he said. Kertz said he can produce about 100,000 gallons of algae oil a year per acre, compared to about 30 gallons per acre from corn; 50 gallons from soybeans. Valcent research scientist Aga Pinowska said there are about 65,000 known algae species, with perhaps hundreds of thousands more still to be identified. A big part of the research at the west Texas facility involves determining what type of algae produces what type of fuel.
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A Florida man may have accidentally invented a machine that could solve the gasoline and energy crisis plaguing the U.S.. [John] Kanzius, 63, invented a machine that emits radio waves in an attempt to kill cancerous cells while leaving normal cells intact. While testing his machine, he noticed that his invention had other unexpected abilities. Filling a test tube with salt water from a canal in his back yard, Kanzius placed the tube and a paper towel in the machine and turned it on. Suddenly, the paper towel ignited. Kanzius performed the experiment without the paper towel and got the same result -- the saltwater was actually burning. [He] said he showed the experiment to a handful of scientists across the country who claim they are baffled at watching salt water ignite. Kanzius said the flame created from his machine reaches a temperature of around 3,000 [°F]. He said a chemist told him that the immense heat created from the machine breaks down the hydrogen-oxygen bond in the water, igniting the hydrogen. "You could take plain salt water out of the sea, put it in containers and produce a violent flame that could heat generators that make electricity, or provide other forms of energy," Kanzius said. He said engineers are currently experimenting with him in Erie, Pa. in an attempt to harness the energy. They've built an engine that, when placed on top of the flame, chugged along for two minutes. Kanzius admits all the excitement surrounding a new possible energy source was a stroke of luck. Someone who witnessed his work on the cancer front asked him if perhaps the machine could be used for desalinization. "This was an experiment to see if I could heat salt water, and instead of heat, I got fire," Kanzius said.
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We couldn't pass up mention of the winner of last week's Eco-marathon Americas, a fuel-economy challenge sponsored by Shell Oil Co. A team from Cal Poly San Luis Obispo won the $10,000 grand prize by achieving the equivalent of 1,902.7 miles per gallon on regular gasoline in a student-built vehicle. Granted, the students didn't win in someone's mom's Dodge minivan. Their "car" is a one-occupant streamliner built of carbon fiber composite. At a measly 98 pounds, it weighed less than the driver. And that was 98 pounds including the car's 50-cubic-centimeter Honda engine. "The main reason we do this is because it's a way to encourage students to focus on technical innovation for potential future careers," said David Sexton, president of Shell Oil Products. But there is a practical side to the competition, said Cal Poly team manager Tom Heckel, a junior mechanical engineering major. "Any publicity we can get makes people aware that the 20 mpg or so they're averaging in their cars can be improved on — a lot." The event, held April 14 at the California Speedway in Fontana, was the first time that Shell had brought its 25-year-old Eco-marathon competition to the U.S. The event drew 20 university, college and high school teams from around the U.S. and Canada. Rules called for each vehicle to complete seven 1.45-mile laps around the speedway's inner track, averaging at least 15 mph. Fuel consumption was measured after each attempt and adjusted for ambient temperature and other factors in a complex formula that ends up giving an extrapolation of miles per gallon.
Note: Why would the president of Shell Oil Products state the main reason for this competition is about careers and not finding ways to improve gas mileage? The world record is over 10,000 mpg. How is it that the average car gets only 22 mpg when the Ford Model T got 25 mpg almost 100 years ago? For more, click here.
The planet's most pressing environmental problems ... may seem just too big to be solved with today's technology. But don't despair: A lot of bright minds are working on futuristic projects that promise to make the world greener. It's save-the-world stuff like toxic-waste-eating trees, smart electricity grids, oceangoing robots, and floating environmental sensors. This technology may seem far out - but it will probably be here a lot sooner than you think. 1. Try a solar-powered hydrogen fueling station in your garage. It's about the size of a filing cabinet and runs on electricity generated by standard-issue rooftop solar panels. The first version of the home fueling station is expected to produce enough hydrogen to give your runabout a range of some 100 miles without emitting a molecule of planet-warming greenhouse gas. 2. Environmental sensor networks [provide] real-time data on a variety of phenomena that affect the economy and society - climate change, hurricanes, air and water pollution. 3. Toxin-eating trees ... a technology that uses vegetation to absorb hazardous waste from industrial plants and other polluters. 4. Nuclear waste neutralizer ... a chemical technology called Urex+ that extracts reusable uranium and separates out cesium, allowing four times as much waste to be packed into nuclear burial grounds. 5. Autonomous ocean robots. 6. Sonic water purifier ... a sci-fi solution for an age-old problem that leaves 1.1 billion people without access to clean water: 7. Endangered-species tracker. 8. The interactive, renewable smart power grid ... the electricity grid of the future ... will look more like the Internet - distributed, interactive, open-source - than the dumb, one-way network of today.
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Though the 100 mpg car sounds like a myth, it turns out that such vehicles do exist -- only they're built in your neighbor's garage, not a giant production plant. Known as plug-in hybrid-electric vehicles ... they're basically Priuses or similar hybrids that have been equipped with extra batteries, so that they rarely use their gasoline engines at all. "People are salivating for plug-ins," says Bradley Berman, editor of the site HybridCars.com. A hybrid vehicle today like a Prius has both a gasoline engine and a battery, which is fed by the braking energy produced by the car. It can't be plugged in. A plug-in hybrid keeps those components, but essentially gets an extra fuel tank, in the form of an added battery bank ... that allows the car to run exclusively off battery power for most driving. Felix Kramer, founder of the California Cars Initiative, a nonprofit group that promotes the use of high-efficiency, low-emission cars, owns the first consumer plug-in in North America. Not surprisingly, he loves it. "Many days I use no gasoline, because I go at neighborhood speeds for under 30 miles, and I'm just all-electric all day," he says. And the mileage? "At highway speeds, you can easily get over 100 mpg." Other plug-in owners offer up similar results. "I used to fill up every 400 miles or so," he says ... "and now I fill up every 800 miles or so." Advocates estimate that it costs less than $1 per gallon to replenish a plug-in hybrid. "Our goal is to have a $3,000 kit," CalCars' Kramer says. (That number, coincidentally, is also what many plug-in evangelists think that the technology would cost for Toyota to add to its hybrids.)
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Iceland wants to make a full conversion and plans to modify its cars, buses and trucks to run on renewable energy -- with no dependence on oil. Iceland has already started by turning water into fuel -- hydrogen fuel. Here's how it works: Electrodes split the water into hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Hydrogen electrons pass through a conductor that creates the current to power an electric engine. Hydrogen fuel now costs two to three times as much as gasoline, but gets up to three times the mileage of gas, making the overall cost about the same. As an added benefit, there are no carbon emissions -- only water vapor. By the middle of this century, all Icelanders will be required to run their cars only on hydrogen fuel, meaning no more gasoline. Icelanders say they're committed to showing the world that by making fuel from water, it is possible to kick the oil habit.
Note: This is mind-blowing information! Why isn't this amazing news of economical, non-polluting energy sources making top headlines? A video clip of the above ABC News story is available on the ABC website at the link above. A friend of mine invented a similar device only to have it ruthlessly suppressed. For lots more on all this, click here.
One of the more controversial topics involving Nikola Tesla is what became of many of his technical and scientific papers after he died in 1943. Just before his death at the height of World War II, he claimed that he had perfected his so-called "death beam." So it was natural that the FBI and other U.S. Government agencies would be interested in any scientific ideas involving weaponry. The morning after the inventor's death, his nephew Sava Kosanovic hurried to his uncle's room at the Hotel New Yorker. By the time he arrived, Tesla's body had already been removed, and Kosanovic suspected that someone had already gone through his uncle's effects. Technical papers were missing as well as a black notebook he knew Tesla kept — a notebook with several hundred pages, some of which were marked "Government." Just after World War II, there was a renewed interest in beam weapons. Copies of Tesla's papers on particle beam weaponry were sent to Patterson Air Force Base in Dayton, Ohio. An operation code-named "Project Nick" was heavily funded and placed under the command of Brigadier General L. C. Craigie to test the feasibility of Tesla's concept. Details of the experiments were never published, and the project was apparently discontinued. But something peculiar happened. The copies of Tesla's papers disappeared and nobody knows what happened to them.
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Rudolf W. Gunnerman has a tiger by the tail--the Exxon tiger. If the technology that the 66-year-old inventor has spent $6 million and the past seven years developing lives up to his claims, cars and trucks could one day be running on a fraction of the gasoline and diesel fuel they now use. Ditto for buses, planes, trains, and anything else powered by an internal-combustion engine--from lawn mowers to huge electrical generators. Gunnerman claims to have a technology that enables engines to burn a mixture of half fuel, half water. Yes, water. What's more, he says, the mixture gets 40% better mileage from the gasoline it contains and emits significantly less pollution because engines run cooler. In particular, tailpipes emit virtually no nitrogen oxides--the principal source of smog. Caterpillar Inc. is so intrigued that in early July it formed a joint venture with A-55 LP, Gunnerman's tiny, nine-person company in Reno, Nev. A-55 is short for aqueous 55%, the amount of water by weight in the patented fuels. But the key ingredient is 0.5% of a secret emulsifier that enables fuel and water to mix--and stay mixed. Gunnerman financed his work with royalties from other patents, especially those covering the making of pellets for woodstoves.
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A miraculous device that can generate electricity seemingly out of thin air has been developed by engineers. Called a thermal resonator, it relies on fluctuations in temperature between day and night to produce electricity. It can be used without the need for sunlight, batteries or wind, making it ideal for situations where these resources can't be relied upon. The technology has the potential to power sensors and communications devices for years without the need for batteries. Experts at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's (MIT) department of chemical engineering are behind the find. Their gadget is a twist on a thermoelectric generator, which creates power when one side of the device is a different temperature from the other. Researchers say that the power levels generated by the new system so far are modest. However, it outperformed a commercially available pyroelectric material - an existing method for converting temperature fluctuations to electricity - by 300 per cent. Professor Michael Strano, who led the study, said: 'We basically invented this concept out of whole cloth. 'It's something that can sit on a desk and generate energy out of what seems like nothing. 'We are surrounded by temperature fluctuations of all different frequencies all of the time. These are an untapped source of energy.' Such systems could provide low-power but long-lasting energy sources for landers or rovers exploring remote locations, including other moons and planets, says Volodymyr Koman, an MIT postdoc and co-author of the new study.
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Is Steorn's Orbo technology a non-polluting, supercheap source of power? Steorn emerged at the turn of the century and to date it claims to have attracted €23 million in private investment. Put at its simplest, the "Orbo" technology is a non-polluting, almost cost-free source of power. It is not a battery but offers the same function. At the Steorn premises a table displays rows of heavy crimson skull-shaped boxes, known as power cubes. Each, according to the claims, holds numerous small "batteries" which recharge themselves allowing for a permanent supply of energy. Cube units retail at €1,200 and the first orders are due to arrive with buyers this month. However, the cube is not seen by the company as a mass-market product. They are simply a showcase for the technology. The real focus is on the mobile phone that never needs to be recharged. Explaining his own technology, [company founder Sean] McCarthy dismisses previous suggestions they are claiming to have developed a perpetual motion machine (a hypothetical device that works indefinitely without an apparent energy source) as there [are] no moving parts. "Technically it isn't a battery at all; you'd call it a battery substitute technology. It's something that replaces the function of the battery. It is really a generator rather than a storage device," he says.
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Imagine making the 19-hour, 1,800-kilometre drive from Toronto to Halifax in an electric car without having to stop for a recharge. That's theoretically possible with a special kind of battery being demonstrated this week in Montreal. The battery ... consists of panels made mostly of aluminum. The battery can extend the range of an electric car by 1,600 kilometres when used in conjunction with the vehicle's regular lithium-ion battery. "We hope that this will increase the penetration of electric cars with zero emissions," said Aviv Tzidon, CEO of Phinergy, ... adding that it should put an end to "range anxiety." That kind of anxiety about how far an electric car can go before needing a recharge has often been cited as a reason the market for electric cars is still relatively small. The regular battery range of electric cars now on the market is a few hundred kilometres at most — 135 kilometres for the Nissan Leaf and 480 kilometres for the more expensive version of the Tesla Model S. That makes those cars unsuitable for extended road trips, unless high-voltage fast-charging stations, which are still relatively uncommon, are available along the way.
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PSA Peugeot Citroen [has] unveiled a pioneering hybrid vehicle concept combining a conventional engine with compressed nitrogen propulsion which it said would halve the cost of cutting emissions compared with current gasoline-electric hybrids. The French carmaker said the so-called "Hybrid Air" system developed with auto parts supplier Robert Bosch would be lighter than a hybrid running on petrol and battery power. Peugeot, which is cutting more than 10,000 jobs as it struggles to stem losses and expand overseas, said the technology would be launched around 2016, with vehicles priced below 20,000 euros ($26,600). Unlike Toyota's Prius hybrid, which supplements a conventional engine with an electric motor, the new Peugeot will use a separate hydraulic motor driven by nitrogen compressed by energy from braking and deceleration. In city driving conditions, the vehicles can travel on the compressed gas power as much as 80 percent of the time with the 3-cylinder gasoline engine cut. Peugeot said a prototype Hybrid Air subcompact emitted 72 grams of CO2 per km, compared with 104 grams for a Peugeot 208 model with the same combustion engine.
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Four teenage African girls have come up with a urine-powered generator ... which they claim generates one hour of electricity from one liter (about a quart) of urine. The pee-powered product made its debut at Maker Faire Africa in Lagos, Nigeria. Urine is put into an electrolytic cell, which separates out the hydrogen. The gas cylinder pushes hydrogen into a cylinder of liquid borax, which is used to remove the moisture from the hydrogen gas. This purified hydrogen gas is pushed into the generator. The girls will probably be famous chemists one day, in any case, but they aren't the first to propose urine (or more solid human and animal waste) as a possible alternative fuel. Last year, in one example, researchers from Ohio University came up with their own technology for extracting hydrogen from urine. Doing so, they say, requires less power than plucking it from water, as hydrogen can be separated more easily from the ammonia and urea chemical compounds present in pee. The four African teens likely are the youngest researchers yet to dabble in pee as power. Skepticism aside, can we all just agree that the foursome should be lauded for their efforts to find alternative power sources on a continent that could really use them?
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Tesla Motors Inc. unveiled a solar-powered charging station ... that it said will make refueling electric vehicles on long trips about as fast as stopping for gas and a bathroom break in a conventional car. CEO Elon Musk said ... that the company's roadside Supercharger has been installed at six highway rest stops in California. The free stations are designed to fully charge Tesla's new Model S sedan in about an hour, and a half-hour-long charge can produce enough energy for a 150-mile trip, he said. The first six, which were developed and deployed in secret, are in Barstow, Hawthorne, Lebec, Coalinga, Gilroy and Folsom. Tesla spokeswoman Christina Ra said they are open only to company employees, but would be available to the public in early October. Musk said his Palo Alto-based company planned to have more stations running throughout California and in parts of Nevada and Oregon by the end of the year, and expected to blanket â€â€almost the entire United States'' within two years. Tesla unveiled the Model S, its first mass-market vehicle, in June. The base model costs sells for $49,900 after a federal tax credit. Along with persuading consumers that electric vehicles are practical, the charging stations were developed with an eye toward alleviating doubts about their environmental effects. Musk said the solar-powered stations in California would produce more clean energy than is needed to keep cars running.
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An electric sportscar finished a remarkable road trip [on November 16] on the Panamerican Highway, traveling from near the Arctic Circle in Alaska to the world's southernmost city without a single blast of carbon dioxide emissions. Developed by engineers from Imperial College London, the SRZero sportscar ran on lithium iron phosphate batteries powering two electric motors with a peak output of 400 horsepower during its 16,000-mile (26,000-kilometer) journey. Powering up was a joy at times, the team said — such as in Chena Hot Springs, Alaska, where they started their trip July 3 after charging the batteries using geothermal energy. "The SRZero was literally being charged from energy taken straight out of the earth with absolutely zero CO2 emissions," Alex Schey, a mechanical engineer who organized the trip, wrote in his blog that day. Finding places to plug in along the way became a major challenge as the team passed through 14 countries in 70 days of driving. But every time the driver hit the brakes — and there was plenty of that as the team made its way through the Rocky Mountains, Mexico and Central America and then through South America — the car recovered kinetic energy, extending its capacity to drive as much as six hours and more than 400 kilometers (250 miles) on a single charge. This was no clunky science project — all that horsepower enabled the car to reach 60 mph (96 kph) in just seven seconds and reach top controlled speeds of 124 mph (200 kph), the team said.
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An electric car made of hemp is being developed by a group of Canadian companies in collaboration with [the Alberta provincial government]. The Kestrel will be prototyped and tested later in August by Calgary-based Motive Industries Inc. The compact car, which will hold a driver and up to three passengers, will have a top speed of 90 kilometres per hour and a range of 40 to 160 kilometres before needing to be recharged, depending on the type of battery. The car's body will be made of an impact-resistant composite material produced from mats of hemp, a plant from the cannabis family. The material is being supplied by Alberta Innovates-Technology Futures, a provincial Crown corporation that provides technical services and funding to help commercialize new technologies. The Kestrel is one of five electric vehicles being developed by Project Eve, an automotive industry collaboration founded by Motive and Toronto Electric, an Ontario material handling and electric motor company, to boost the production of electric vehicles and electric vehicle components in Canada. The Kestrel cars will be built with the help of polytechnic schools in Alberta, Quebec and Toronto, and the first 20 cars are scheduled to be delivered next year to EnMax, a Calgary-based energy distribution, supply and service company that is taking part in Project Eve. Automotive pioneer Henry Ford first built a car made of hemp fibre and resin more than half a century ago.
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I made this a few weeks before the Christmas Pot luck. It consists of pumpkin, fennel, pomegranate seeds, spinach, parmesan and a lemon vinaigrette. Much more ingredients tho. As for during the pot luck, I still remained the same dressing but just used pumpkin, spinach, mixed salad leaves and homemade croutons. Kinda forgot about the parmesan, but really no one complained about it.
Roasted pumpkin is probably my only favourite way of cooking / eating pumpkin. I usually leave the skin on and slice them thinly so the flesh is soft and the skin is crispy. Plus, the cooking time is shorter!!
I remember one of my very first pumpkin salad (Yes I've made ALOT of pumpkin salads in my cooking life) I roasted pumpkin and orange sweet potato, then added sliced beetroot (those from the can, cause its crunchy and yet tender to eat) with some spinach and scattered some ricotta cheese on top. There are alot of ways you can make your salad interesting. I mean, salad doesn't have to be just greens and leaves. Even just by adding a vibrant colour to it, it makes it more appetizing already. I'm not a salad person. Or rather I should say, I'm not a salad leaves / lettuce person. I need different textures and colours in a salad, otherwise I won't be interested in it at all.
For the pot luck, I didn't had to buy any herbs from the supermarket at all. All sage, rosemary and thyme were cut from my garden. It was a moment of self satisfaction, a proud moment, especially when everything I tried to plant in my old house all died before I could even use it. So for the pumpkin salad, I used rosemary and thyme as an aromatic.
Roasted Pumpkin and Spinach Salad
(serves 6)
1/2 of a Japanese or local Pumpkin
2 sprigs of fresh rosemary
a couple sprigs of fresh thyme
salt, black pepper, olive oil
A bag of baby spinach leaves. (you can use any other lettuce / salad leaves)
1 fennel
seeds from 1/2 a pomegranate
1/2 cup parmesan shavings
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
4 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
1/2 a lemon,zested
juice from 1/2 a pomegranate
salt and black pepper to taste
1. Clean the skin of the pumpkin, remove the seeds (or you can leave them) and slice thinly.
2. Arrange on a tray and scatter rosemary and thyme over it. Drizzle some olive oil to coat and some salt and pepper. Toss around to coat.
3. Roast in a 180 C oven for 15-20 minutes or until soft. This depends on how thick or thin you cut them.
4. To make the salad, remove the green parts of the fennel. thinly shave the white part of the fennel. In a big salad serving bowl, add in salad leaves, in my case spinach, then add shaved fennel on top.
5. Top with roasted pumpkin, herbs and some shaved parmesan cheese. For the pomegranate, squeeze it over a strainer / sieve. Toss in the seeds and save the juice to make the vinaigrette.
6. Combine all ingredients to make the vinaigrette. Season well.
7. Pour the vinaigrette on top only when serving. You don't want a soggy salad!

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Austrian Federal Railways (ÖBB), is completely reformating its sales system at present – the end result will be consistent in terms of design and structure across all customer contact points. In Wirecard, ÖBB has a strong partner by its side as it seeks to integrate innovative payment systems and develop new, customised solutions together. The partnership will ensure that payments are made even simpler and quicker for passengers travelling with ÖBB – across all payment channels and with the usual high level of security guaranteed.
Klaus Leven, Manager Marketing & Sales, ÖBB-Personenverkehr AG: "Our goal is to satisfy the new service and mobility requirements of our customers. This includes making it possible for customers to pay using their preferred method – at all times and for all sales channels. In Wirecard, we have found a strong partner, with whom we can work to develop new payment and service options and adapt technological standards."
Jörg Moller, Executive Vice President Travel & Mobility at Wirecard: "Our partnership with the ÖBB Group is an important step towards the future of rail travel in Europe: payment processes in public transport systems are rapidly evolving. Fast, flexible payment processing and offering passengers additional services relating to their rail travel are key elements of this. We are looking forward to taking this step alongside ÖBB."


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Ever since the advent of talkies there has been a continuing debate on the nature and function of film music. For many it should be heard but not noticed. It should induce certain emotions but not obtrude on the consciousness of the audience. Yet it should be able to invest a scene with a variety of feelings, terror, grandeur, misery or gaiety. To understand what good film music can do for a film there is a simple test. If scenes from a film are shown with and without music, it will immediately be clear that good music can affect the feelings of an audience, without their being conscious of it.
If the function of film music has been the subject of debate, there can, nevertheless, be no doubt that the nature of this music has changed very considerably over the years. Before the advent of talkies all cinemas had their own house pianists to provide music at every performance, illustrating the action on the screen. In the heyday of Hollywood film music was big business, with major studios turning out hundreds of films a year and having under full-time contract large orchestras. There were also many composers, orchestrators and song-writers attached to each studio. These were the golden thirties, forties and, to an extent, the fifties, with names like Max Steiner, Erich Wolfgang Korngold and Alfred Newman, all with a European background, writing big scores for a string of Errol Flynn pictures and for films like The Mark of Zorro and The Prisoner of Zenda.
Steiner, Korngold and Newman were followed by a succession of American composers like Henry Mancini, the composer of the Pink Panther music, Elmer Bernstein, Jerry Goldsmith and John Williams. Gradually, however, the really ambitious scores vanished or were reserved for multi-million-dollar projects. More and more films had to make do with loosely strung together pop tunes, or, in an increasing number of cases, more or less well chosen themes from classical music. In some cases the use of a piece of music in a film had a very considerable effect, as, for example, the use of Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 21, now popularly known as the Elvira Madigan Concerto.
In the Naxos Classics at the Movies series we have gathered together many classical themes used in popular films. All of these well deserve a hearing in their own right, but they may also remind the listener of a favourite film or two.
Director: James Cameron
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Jack Dawson), Kate Winslett (Rose DeWitt Bukater), Billy Zane (Cal Hockley), Kathy Bates (Molly Brown), Frances Fisher (Ruth DeWitt Bukater), Bernard Hill (Captain Smith), Jonathan Hyde (Bruce Ismay), Danny Nucci (Fabrizio)
The film begins in the present with a search amongst the ruins of the Titanic for a 56-carat blue diamond necklace. News of the search is broadcast throughout America and reaches the 101-year old Rose DeWitt Bukater, herself a survivor of the sinking of the liner in 1912. Rose, with her grand-daughter, is flown to the ship of the explorers and it is there that she relates the story of the Titanic, but also of her love affair with Jack Dawson, an American painter who won his passage on the boat in a poker game. Their liaison defies the class system of the time: Rose is also engaged to the wealthy heir, Cal Hockley, while Jack is a penniless artist accommodated in a third class berth. Their love is continually threatened by Hockley and, ultimately, by the collision of the liner with an iceberg.
There is much classical music in the film mostly heard in the dining-room for the first class passengers. The Blue Danube Waltz appears when Jack Dawson attends dinner at the invitation of Cal Hockley as a "reward" for saving the life of Rose who had threatened to jump off the ship the previous evening. The Can-Can from Offenbachs light-hearted operetta Orpheus in the Underworld is one of the pieces played by the orchestra on deck, as the ship is sinking.
Director: Anthony Minghella
Cast: Ralph Fiennes (Almásy), Juliette Binoche (Hana), Willem Dafoe (Caravaggio), Kristin Scott Thomas (Katharine Clifton), Naveen Andrews (Kip), Colin Firth (Geoffrey Clifton), Julian Wadham (Madox), Kevin Whately (Hardy), Jürgen Prochnow (Müller)
The action takes place in two time zones, flitting back and forth effortlessly. The film opens with a plane, apparently carrying two passengers, shot down in the North African desert by the Germans. However, from the wreckage only one terribly burned body is salvaged and this is taken to a hospital convoy. When the man, the English Patient of the title, becomes too ill to be moved, Hana , having just lost her best friend in a mine blast, volunteers to nurse him and, for this purpose, establishes a temporary hospital in an old monastery. Several other characters find their way to the monastery Caravaggio and two bomb disposal experts from the British Army.
At first the English patient can remember nothing - not even his name, but little by little he recovers his memory with the help of a beloved volume of Herodotus, full of letters and drawings hidden inside. He is actually not English at all, but a Hungarian count called Almásy who was working for the Royal Geographic Society (drawing maps of the desert). He then met the newly-married Katharine Clifton and, after a series of events, started a romance with her.
It is this romance that causes the sequence of events which culminates in the two people in the plane we saw at the beginning of the film, indirectly involving Caravaggio whose thumbs were severed by the Nazis due to a probable betrayal by the Count. Back to the present and Hana has an affair with Kip, the Sikh bomb disposal expert, before he is posted to Florence. The film ends on an upbeat note. After Almásy has died, Hana makes the bold step to follow Kip to Florence - she is perhaps the only character in the film who can ever realise happiness in love.
Early in the film Hana discovers a piano in the disused monastery. She plays J.S.Bachs Aria from the Goldberg Variations before being interrupted by Kip who tells her to stop playing - the piano has probably been booby-trapped by the Germans. The Aria is redeveloped throughout the film in various musical permutations.
Academy Award Winner: Best Film, Best Director, Best Supporting Actress (Juliette Binoche), Best Cinematography, Best Art Direction, Best Costume Design, Best Film Editing, Best Original Dramatic Score, Best Sound.
Academy Award Nominations: Best Actor (Ralph Fiennes), Best Actress (Kristin Scott Thomas), Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published (based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje)
Director: Lars von Trier
Cast: Emily Watson (Bess), Stellan Skarsgård (Jan), Katrin Cartlidge (Dodo),
Jean-Marc Barr (Terry), Udo Kier (Man on the Trawler), Adrian Rawlins (Dr. Richardson), Jonathan Hackett (The Minister)
Set in the early 1970s in a remote village in northern Scotland Breaking the Waves begins with the marriage, despite opposition to the "outsider" from the puritanical "elders" of the community, of the innocent and trusting Bess and the world-wise Jan who works on a North Sea oil rig. Bess love for her husband becomes even more intense after their wedding night and she becomes hysterical when the time comes for Jan to return to work. Jan, injured in an accident on the rig, is brought back to Bess who is told that he may never walk again.
One day Jan asks Bess to find another lover and to tell him him about their love-making. Bess, convinced that she has a direct communication with God (we see many conversations between her and God throughout the film in which Bess speaks both voices), is sure that, in doing so, she can bring about his recovery. However, Jans condition worsens and Bess becomes increasingly desperate to save her husband. This she does by going out to a trawler in the harbour, home to two sailors, where none of the local prostitutes dare go. The first time she escapes from the ship after being badly treated only to be "cast out" by her own family and stoned by the village children. The only way she can save her husband is to go back to the trawler - this is the ultimate sacrifice. On the second visit she is injured so badly that she eventually dies after being taken to hospital. In the final scene of the film, while Bess corpse is being buried at sea, we see Jan, well on the way to recovery, and witness a miracle which leads us to reconsider Bess behaviour and character.
Academy Award Nomination: Best Actress (Emily Watson)
Director: Stephen Frears
Cast: Glenn Close (Marquise de Merteuil), John Malkovich (Vicomte de Valmont), Michelle Pfeiffer (Madame de Tourvel), Swoosie Kurtz (Madame de Volanges), Keanu Reeves (Chevalier Danceny)
France in the later part of the 18th century. Former lovers Marquise de Merteuil and Vicomte de Valmont treat love as a game and other people as their pawns. She is out for revenge, and he has set himself an impossible task, to seduce the virtuous, religious and happily married Madame de Tourvel. He succeeds in due course, but for the first time his deeper emotions are really involved. In order, however, to win the favour of Marquise de Merteuil, he breaks off his love affair with Madame de Tourvel. Too late he realizes that he still loves her and lets himself be killed in a duel, but not before he has told the truth about his machinations.
In the first part of the film the Allegro from Handels Organ Concerto No. 13 in F major marks every twist and turn of the intrigue.
Directors: Victor Fleming, George Cukor & Sam Wood
Cast: Clark Gable (Rhett Butler), Vivien Leigh (Scarlett OHara), Leslie Howard (Ashley Wilkes), Olivia de Havilland (Melanie Hamilton), Hattie McDaniel (Mammy), Thomas Mitchell (Gerald OHara)
The Most Magnificent Picture Ever! read the tagline for this film, based on Margaret Mitchells famous novel. No doubt many people would agree even today.
Georgia in 1861, when the American Civil War is about to begin. At a charity ball for the war effort Scarlett OHara is attracted to Rhett Butler but she still thinks she is in love with Ashley who has now married Melanie Hamilton. When General Sherman attacks Atlanta and it burns, Rhett arrives in time to save Scarlett. She marries a local lumber merchant for money, but he is killed and later, giving in to much persuasion, she marries Rhett. They could have been happy if it had not been for her attachment to Ashley. When she realises he only ever loved Melanie it is too late and Rhett leaves her.
Max Steiner (1888-1971) is one of the real stalwarts among Hollywood composers, having penned more than 200 scores, mostly for Warners and RKO. He received Academy Awards for his scores for Now, Voyager, The Informer and Since You Went Away and was nominated for 15 more. Heard here is the theme associated with Tara, the mansion where Scarlett grew up.
Director: Bo Widerberg
Cast: Pia Degermark (Elvira), Thommy Berggren (Sixten Sparre), Lennart Malmer (Friend), Nina Widerberg (Little Girl), Cleo Jensen (Cook)
In the 1890s Swedish Lieutenant Sixten Sparre falls desperately in love with Elvira Madigan, a tight-rope performer at a travelling circus. He leaves his wife and children and they elope to Denmark. They have a brief time of happiness together, but money runs out, they are both social outcasts, and finally there is only one way out, suicide.
This is the film that gave Mozarts Piano Concerto No. 21 a new nick-name.
Director: Baz Luhrmann
Cast: Leonardo DiCaprio (Romeo Montague), Claire Danes (Juliet Capulet), Harold Perrineau (Mercutio), Pete Postlethwaite (Father Laurence), Paul Sorvino (Fulgencio Capulet), Brian Dennehey (Ted Montague), Diane Venora (Gloria Capulet)
This is the Shakespeare drama updated to modern times and located in a city called Verona Beach with the two rival families, the Montagues and the Capulets, turned into two battling gangs, the Montague Boys and the Capulet Boys. The film begins with a newsreader on TV reporting the death of Romeo and Juliet and goes on to tell their story. Swords are replaced with guns, the local newspaper is called Verona Today, the city dominated by two skyscrapers with neon signs reading Montague and Capulet, and so on.
The soundtrack has a lot of rock music, but the first movement of the Mozart Symphony No.25 is used to illustrate the hectic goings-on at a party at the Capulets, using the recording heard on this CD. Towards the end there is also an excerpt from Isoldes Love Death (Liebestod) from Richard Wagners opera Tristan und Isolde.
Academy Award Nomination: Best Art Direction
Director: Luchino Visconti
Cast: Dirk Bogarde (Gustav von Aschenbach), Bjørn Andresen (Tadzio), Silvana Mangano (Tadzios Mother), Marisa Berenson (Frau von Aschenbach), Mark Burns (Alfred)
The last few months in the life of composer Gustav von Aschenbach. He is haunted by premonitions of death, but also by his love for a beautiful young boy, Tadzio, whom he worships silently and at a distance.
For this film Dirk Bogarde was made up to resemble Gustav Mahler and it is music by this composer Visconti chose, particularly the Adagietto from the Fifth Symphony. This made the name of Mahler familiar far beyond the circles where he had been known before.
Director: Neil Jordan
Cast: Bob Hoskins (George), Cathy Tyson (Simone), Michael Caine (Mortwell), Clarke Peters (Anderson), Kate Hardie (Cathy)
George, a small-time crook, is released from jail, where he has served a sentence for his boss, Mortwell. As a recompense he gets an easy job as a private chauffeur for a high-class prostitute, Simone. At first they hate each other, but eventually a strange kind of companionship develops between them. He also realises, little by little, that his boss is into crime in a big way. The suspense builds up and the ending is violent.
The music is the love duet from Puccinis opera Madama Butterfly.
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I love rhubarb! I'm the only one in the house that does, but I really do love it. So I've been looking forward to the start of rhubarb season with anticipation.
Early rhubarb tends to be even sharper than its more mature relations, and typically requires a hefty dose of sugar to make it palatable. I think this is one of the reasons DH doesn't like it. Although he does like other tart fruit, like those apples that set your teeth on edge with their sourness. Eeuch.
Anyway, rhubarb season is here – hurrah! – and it's time to get cooking. You can, apparently, eat rhubarb raw, but I'm not sure I'd fancy it. Although this recipe is sort of raw. Read on, and you'll see.
I should admit that I dreamed this jelly up not only as a way to make a rhubarb dessert without any identifiable pieces of rhubarb in it (sneaky, eh?) but also as a means of using up some of the jelly stockpile that seems to be accumulating in my cupboard. You see, we had my in-laws here for 10 days over Pesach, and I bought a few packets of sugar-free, vegetarian jelly powder, to make quick low-carb desserts during their visit. We used one, so I was left with two, and when I went to put them away I found another two packets already in the cupboard. Oops. Time for some jelly, I think.
I decided to pair my rhubarb with a packet of raspberry jelly (as I didn't think it would go so well with lemon or lime) and I added some fresh ginger for a bit of va va voom. To be honest, although the flavours all went together brilliantly, it was a bit fiercely gingery. Kipper ate half of hers and then decided it was just too gingery to continue. Given how much she likes a wibbly-wobbly jelly, that's saying something. Being a ginger fiend myself, I loved it! Even with the punchy ginger, you could still taste the rhubarb, and the raspberry jelly added sweetness and a lovely pink colour. Marvellous.
Obviously making this is slightly more work than just pouring boiling water onto a packet of jelly, but not very much more. It probably took 15 minutes (plus chilling) and created something seasonally gorgeous. We ate ours with some fresh raspberries. Perfect.
Made four little jellies. Yum.
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- 300g rhubarb
- 10g (or less) fresh root ginger
- Packet of raspberry jelly (to make 500ml)
- Cut the rhubarb into 1-2cm chunks. Peel the root ginger and cut into a few pieces.
- Put the rhubarb and ginger into a food processor and whizz thoroughly for a few minutes, scraping down a couple of times, to give a fine pulp.
- Pour the pulp and any liquid into a sieve suspended over a bowl or jug. Press and squeeze the pulp to extract the juice. I got around 250ml of juice.
- Make up the rhubarb juice to 500ml - or however much you need for your packet of jelly. Then use this liquid instead of water and follow the directions on the jelly packet.
- Pour into individual bowls or ramekins and place in the fridge to set.
- Serve with fresh raspberries (optional).
I'm linking up this recipe to the Great British Rhubarb Recipe Roundup, organised by Karen at Lavender and Lovage and Janice at Farmersgirl Kitchen.
Also, to Treat Petite, organised by Cakeyboi and The Baking Explorer (who also hosts this month).
And naturally, to Simple & In Season organised by Ren Behan and hosted by Helen at Fuss Free Flavours.


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why is my lemon tree losing leaves
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we move from outside to inside as the weather gets colder
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~Probably the change of temperature and lack of moisture has been too sudden~could you put it somewhere less warm for a while and maybe spray it?
Hopefully the leaves will return over time~mine did!
26 Oct, 2009
it is usal for peepal to not water the pot well, so leef drop. chek erth in pot
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When I meet someone new, I dread the inevitable question: "What do you do?" It has been hard to answer this question in a way that doesn't result in blank stares or a confused "Oh, um, that sounds nice."
In the past, I have tried to come up with more exciting titles and then fake my way through the subsequent 10 minutes. "What do I do? Well, I am a [puppeteer, bike courier, nail polish namer, or a handful of other jobs that will result in more interesting conversation with the individual for the next several minutes]."
Because the proposal team is responsible for creating and producing the proposals, a proposal writer … is in a unique situation to gain face time with management.
Instead of dreading this question and the blank stares that tend to follow, I've realized that I should use this opportunity to proudly say, "I am a proposal writer, and you should want to be one, too. Here are the reasons why:"
- Become an instant expert. When a new RFP comes into my company, it provides me with the opportunity to research the potential client and learn about its culture, products, history, and needs. Over a period of days, I need to become an "expert" on its pain points and what makes it unique. As someone who enjoys research and learning new things, I like that this keeps my job interesting and constantly changing.
- Work closely with company leadership. The decision to pursue a potential client is made by a company's leadership. Because the proposal team is responsible for creating and producing the proposals, a proposal writer—even one who is relatively new to a company—is in a unique position to present to and advise management. In most other roles within a company, an individual probably would not have this type of opportunity with leadership until he or she is several years into the position.
- Gain a valuable skill set. A good proposal writer must be adept in numerous areas—serving as a good communicator and team player, implementing extensive planning and coordinating, and being attentive to details. Being a proposal writer provides you with a valuable and marketable skill set that lends itself well to future endeavors.
- Be a matchmaker. At the heart of it, I am a matchmaker connecting my service-providing company with clients who need those services. A question I always ask myself is, "What kind of relationship is this company looking for—an adviser or a service provider?" Based on this and other questions I ask the RFP author, I then draft a message to connect the two companies. By controlling the message, proposal writers also are the gatekeepers of the image their companies present to potential clients. If successful, two companies will have been brought together, and everyone enjoys being a matchmaker.
A good proposal writer must be adept in numerous areas—serving as a good communicator and team player, implementing extensive planning and coordinating, and being attentive to details.
Being a proposal writer means I learn new things every day. I develop relationships with the leadership of the firm. I show clients how we can meet their needs. I help the company grow. And I do it with skills that are valuable in many roles beyond that of a proposal writer. The next time I am asked, "What do you do?" these statements will be part of my answer. And they should be part of yours, too.
Nicole A. Shaffer, CF APMP, is the marketing manager at Baker Newman Noyes, a top 100 accounting firm with offices throughout New England. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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When is a new hairstyle not just a new hairstyle? When it's the hairstyle for the most obsessed about former fictional lesbian hairstylist in all of the universe.
New promo shots of Kate Moennig were released with the artist formerly known as Shane is sporting long, lovely locks.
Kate's new medical drama Three Rivers, about a team of elite surgeons who perform organ transplants and the patients they work with, has undergone several changes since its pilot.
Julia Ormond played Dr. Sophia Jordan, the head of surgery at Three Rivers Hospital, originally. But four-time Emmy winner Alfre Woodard has stepped into the role since the series was picked up. The first shots of her in the cast were also released.
Another noticeable change will be the doctors' scrubs. In the pilot they were quite snug and form fitting. But for the series the clothing has become looser and more professional.
Series star Alex O'Loughlin (Moonlight), who plays lead surgeon Dr. Andy Yablonski, says the change was intentional: "Thank God, that was one of my problems with the pilot. We looked like an episode of Star Trek from back in the '70s…. They've changed now, they're more normal scrubby."
Alex wasn't joking about those old scrubs.
Of course, that also means we're robbed of seeing those tight scrubs on Kate as Dr. Miranda Foster, a surgeon with a rebellious streak and fiery temper. But she looks pretty good in her doctor's coat.
Bonus points for putting pockets in the new scrubs, too.
In case you were wondering, she uses those pockets a lot. No, really, a lot.
Oh, and while Dr. Foster sports long hair now, her ID proves that she was looking very Shane whenever her photo was taken.
Three Rivers premieres Oct. 4 on CBS. So what do you think of Kate's and the show's new looks?


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From the Pope to President Vladimir Putin, from Queen Elizabeth II to the President of Rwanda, theres no visiting dignitary who doesnt get treated like royalty at Hyderabad House, the palatial home that the Nizam built in Lutyenss Delhi for his wife, who, in a whimsical moment, decided not to live there because she didnt like the place.
Today, theres no one who wouldnt love to be in it. Nothing establishes your place in the Capitals pecking order more firmly than an invitation to Hyderabad House, tucked away since 1930 in one corner of the road that circles India Gate. State banquets, undoubtedly, are stuffy formalities where the food is bland because chillies and spices have to be toned down in deference to the palate of the guest of honour (like in the case of the President of Rwanda, who came and went unnoticed), and the conversation can be a pain if the guest next to you knows only his mother tongue. But all that notwithstanding, if you arent one of the 68 notables invited by the Prime Minister to join him and the VVIP visitor on the Long Table in the Banquet Hall occupying a part of the first floor of Hyderabad House, you might as well not exist .
Like Prince Arthurs Round Table, the Long Table is where the countrys new nobility converges off and on to be greeted by a 500-kilo statue of a five-headed Karthikeyan dating back to the Vijayanagara Empire; to eat out of fine bone china plates with sterling silver cutlery imported from England, to drink fruit juices out of crystal stemware, and to be served by white-gloved waiters dressed in black bandhgalas and trousers with gold lining (white is the dress code for the summer); and to re-assert the exclusivity of Indias most exclusive dining club.
For the Hyderabad House staff, drawn from the India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) and the Central Public Works Department (CPWD), and supervised by the Chief of Protocol at Ministry of External Affairs, theres never a dull moment (there are even occasional rewards, like the rosaries that the Pope gifted each one of them as tokens of appreciation). They recall how Indira Gandhi overruled the chefs of Ashok, the ITDC hotel catering for Hyderabad House banquets, and insisted on serving mutton biryani with roasted turkey and chestnuts to the 103 heads of state or government attending the Non-Aligned Movements 1983 summit.
The combination, which pre-dated fusion cuisine much before it became fashionable, would have made culinary school deans choke on their soup, but the visitors loved it. Coincidentally, the MEA under Yashwant Sinha has asked ITDC to work out a fusion menu that integrates Indian spices into Western dishes. History does have a tendency to repeat itself.
Mrs G deviated from the norm once more by allowing alcohol (at state banquets you only get fresh fruit juices pomegranate and orange being the favourites) only for flambs so that her favourite, Baked Alaska, which was re-christened the Himalayan Surprise, could figure on the menu.
Rajiv Gandhi carried forward this tradition of innovation by insisting that chicken liver pat, the starter he liked most, be served with naan and not with garlic bread. That was the genesis of the baby naan, which is as much a cocktail-circuit regular today as the Page 3 fixtures you wake up to every morning.
Ashok chefs remember him very fondly for this invention, as much as they like to recall how he would succumb to his sweet tooth and ask for two or three helpings of dessert when Sonia Gandhi, who was very concerned about his weight, wasnt around. Rajiv Gandhi, in fact, broke the previously cast-iron rule of no guest asking for a second helping at state banquets, a rule his mother scrupulously followed.
Good banqueting, says former prime minister Inder Kumar Gujral, is an essential part of foreign policy, but getting a good banquet going can be logistical nightmare. Before disinvestments became the flavour of the season, the kitchens of Ashok used to be agog with stories like that of a chefs wife whod keep a candle burning at the family altar on state banquet days. Theres also the story of Roger Moncourt, the Frenchman who was Indira Gandhis favourite chef, losing his ITDC job because of a slip at one of the state banquets. Still, Hyderabad House its guardian angel is Rajiv Makin, who joined ITDC in 1972, opened the Delhi restaurant for it in Moscow in 1987 and even trained the staff at Jaypee Palace for the Agra Summit, remains the best advertisement for the discredited corporation. It shows the depth of talent that still exists within ITDC.
Nothing can go wrong at a state banquet, which explains why Ashoks Senior Executive Chef M S Gupta (who earned himself an invitation to the White House after cooking for President Bill Clinton) tastes each dish, making sure that the chillies dont dominate the spices, before clearing it for Hyderabad House. No wonder, he puts on a couple of kilos before each banquet (there were over 40 last year, so you can imagine his constant battle against the bulge), which is why he insists on going for a jog on the morning after, even though his wife keeps telling him that it may harm his knees. But the jog doesnt keep away the suspense and the agony Gupta has to endure for three additional days, till the Prime Ministers security staff disposes of the food samples that are lifted and sealed before each banquet.
The groundwork for a state banquet, were told by Chef Sudhir Sibal, who was posted at Hyderabad House from 1981 to 1997, begins with two menus, each taking into account the visiting dignitarys food habits and diet restrictions, being sent to the Prime Ministers Office for approval. Indira Gandhi micro-managed her banquets to the extent of deciding the seating plan and the colour scheme of the table linen and napkins (during spring, the Banquet Hall would come alive with the bright yellow of amaltas flowers in full bloom). Rajiv Gandhi made sure the visiting dignitary was greeted by his favourite flowers on the Long Table.
P V Narasimha Rao, besides green-lighting jal jeera as a pre-banquet drink, introduced the flavours of South India to the Hyderabad House menu baby dosas and utthapams regularly appeared on the Long Table, as did Kanjeevaram idlis stuffed with pickles. And when Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee decided to entertain Putin, a confirmed kebab lover, with North-West Frontier cuisine at the Panchavati at his official residence on 7, Race Course Road, he personally cleared the table layout a day before the December 3 dinner. No Prime Minister, however, has chosen to depart from the no-alcohol tradition, although G Parthasarathy, who as Rajiv Gandhis aide and as High Commissioner to Pakistan, has seen many state banquets, insists good diplomacy is a judicious mix of protocol and alcohol.
The beefless menu (and care is taken never to repeat a menu) is planned in five courses, starting with a cold melon or cucumber soup in the summer, or an almond and saffron soup, without a spot of flour used as thickening agent, in the winter.
Then come the entre, which without exception are two kinds of grilled fish or chicken from the more predictable chicken tikka and tangri kebab to the definitely more exotic patthar kebab, to the innovative til and zimikand kebab for the vegetarians; Vajpayees favourite, though, is fried fish with tartar sauce.
The main course, too, comes as a twosome one mutton and one chicken curry, both made with boneless meats, and vegetarians also get two dishes. The Hyderabad House repertoire encompasses delicacies like Chicken Rehana (boneless chicken cooked in a tomato and cashew gravy) and Mutton Hussainabadi (mutton and small potatoes cooked in a gravy of browned and raw onions) served with gilafi kulcha baked in an iron tandoor (a lot of milk and ghee goes into the kulchas dough, Gupta informs us).
The desserts follow, and they range from gajar halwa and jalebi accompanied by rabri to mango kulfi, served to President Bill Clinton in honour of his love for mangoes. Finally, theres tea or coffee to wash down this royal repast, the entire meal taking about an hour to 75 minutes to complete.
As soon as one of the two menus sent to the PMO gets the go-ahead (the current practice is to showcase the best of Indian cuisine in five courses; the PMO, in fact, is toying with the idea of introducing thalis at state banquets), the hotel purchases the raw material Sibal remembers how he sourced broccoli from Bangalore and Ooty, and orchids from Kerala for garnishes to go with desserts, during Rajiv Gandhis tenure. Then these are sent for clearance to the Central Forensic Science Laboratory (CFSL). Even the water used for cooking and washing salads has to be CFSL-certified.
Once the approvals come, the ingredients and the water are sealed by Delhi Police, who are around when the food is cooked and then accompany the sealed hot containers an hour before the banquet either to Hyderabad House, or to 7, Race Course Road, where Rajiv Gandhi had started hosting thematic meals for visiting VVIPs, a practice continued by Vajpayee with Bukhara and Dumpukht food from the ITC Maurya Sheraton.
Once they reach Hyderabad House or 7, Race Course Road the containers are opened at the serving kitchen, and their contents arranged course-wise in identical portions. The kebabs, which are brought in marinated, are grilled or tandoor-cooked at the venue so that they can be served piping hot; the naans and rotis are also made fresh.
Each course is presented with clockwork precision, with all the guests being served and the crockery and silver being removed at the same time with nanosecond accuracy by 35 waiters whore trained in the very delicate art of noiseless service. Their arrivals and exits are coordinated by a Hyderabad House staffer who has perfected the art of giving guests enough time to eat and sit back for a chat between courses. And if conversation gets stuck because of language barriers, he makes sure the intervals between courses are reduced to minimise awkward spells of silence. A state banquet, after all, is hardly a party.


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As my days at GAPW come to a close, I've been doing a lot of reflecting about what I've gained here, how my projects fared, and if I've made an impression on the UN system (or at least convinced ODA that their outreach is b-o-r-i-n-g). Of course, I've spent a great deal of time working on our social media and disarmament project (I remember that meeting waaay back in November when I explained to ya'all what Tumblr was…)
I think it's undeniable that social media is going to continue to play an important role in the future of almost every field–from corporations to NGOs–but the shape it has taken with regard to disarmament has continued to amaze me. Perhaps I was naive, but I was never particularly interested in disarmament–it's just something I fell into. I was convinced I would end up working in something human rights related–in my undergrad, you were either interested in human rights (woo, Amnesty International) or security. I think my experience in school reflects a huge problem that we have (of course, I can only speak for my time at an American undergrad university)–students, who will inevitably become future diplomats/NGO & UN staff, are simply not growing up making these connections. On the other hand, those of us on the other side of the equation (the actual staff at these organizations) have been doing a poor job reaching out and engaging with the younger generation.
I'm always amazed by how terrible UNODA's outreach is–I would bet that 4 out of 5 people on the street wouldn't know of their existence. However, the problem starts to become apparent when 4 out of 5 future policy-makers are unclear about the work of ODA, as well as the field of disarmament.
Enter social media. I remain convinced that social media is the answer to these problems, and in particular,disarmament. The vast majority of users are young, ready to talk, and love to share/exchange information. And that is exactly what we need in the field of disarmament–an exchange of ideas–and an actual conversation. Rather than "educating" the "unenlightened," we need to continue to ask difficult questions.
However, simply creating a Twitter or Facebook is not enough. As we've seen from our experience with DisarmDialogues, it is far too easy to engage with a small social circle of "insiders"–@Katherine–it's easy to fall into the trap of tweeting for a few people. I've definitely seen this to be true during Arms Trade Treaty negotiations–there are a few "star" tweeters who actually care what the Fiji delegation has to say, and then there is the rest of the internet. We still need to figure out a way to engage with the rest of the internet.
That's not to say DisarmDialogues hasn't proved to be a useful tool for diplomats and NGOs, but I'd like to see even more engagement in the future. I think DisarmDialogues has the potential to be both a tool for diplomats/"insiders" as well as students (in particular, non-westerners), teachers, and just people, no matter what their professions. Disarmament is a somewhat exclusive club–there is certainly little transparency, and where there is transparency, there are not clear, reliable resources that are current.
Although posting on social media is often a task assigned to interns, it requires a lot of thought to write meaningful sentences in less than 140 characters. While links and facts are always appreciated, the success of DisarmDialogues will be contingent upon posting meaningful information. Hopefully, we will be able to continue the DisarmDialogues project through not just social media, but youth conferences and outreach. I can honestly say that as someone who is skeptical of A LOT of the work of the UN, I see DisarmDialogues as having a place in the future of disarmament.
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Spence & Partners latest blog for Pension Funds Online –
There was a welcome intervention into the murky world of pensions last week, from a source that will be a surprise to many.
It could be that he's about to reach age 65 and so is worried about his retirement income, or that he's concerned about being whacked by the bedroom-tax on Clarence House, or that he's now a grandpa. But whatever the motivation, Prince Charles spoke out – demonstrating his knowledge and understanding of some of our current pensions problems.
On the same day teachers in England and Wales were staging another strike in protest at proposed changes to their contracts, including their pension arrangements.
The apparent contrast in attitudes was, to me, striking. The often-maligned, out of touch Royal was talking much sense about the predicament in which the pensions industry finds itself, calling for some long-term thinking and for some reality checks on the challenges that face his mum's millions of subjects. However, a reported £3.9m hole in the Duchy of Cornwall accounts may also have grabbed his attention.
On the other hand, our schoolteachers were up in arms. There is talk of average-earnings pension schemes replacing final-salary schemes and an increase in contribution rates. Although it's understandable that people, including teachers, are concerned about any diminution of their eventual pension, it's sometimes useful to look at the bigger picture. The vast majority of private sector workers would gladly accept the new pension conditions being proposed for teachers and the prospect of accruing any kind of salary-related pension is now a distant dream for most private sector workers.
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