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HITS & MISSES: Yesterday, Today & Tomorrow on TCM
By Bogie56,
May 12, 2015 in General Discussions
Bogie56
Prof. Knucklehead
LocationTralfamadore
6 minutes ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
I get the feeling that, as with JOHN HUSTON, the LESS I KNOW ABOUT JOHN FORD, the better. He made some terrific, timeless and very honest movies, but in real life...I think he was very likely a horrible, horrible person.
Maybe so but he was well liked and admired by most who worked with him. I didn't come away with a bad impression of him after reading McBride's great book but he defiantly hardened as he got older.
LornaHansonForbes
Gaga > maga
LocationDark City, USA
4 minutes ago, Bogie56 said:
interesting. i've read blurbs here and there that he was prone to berating actors who worked with him, that was a closeted homosexual and even that (seriously) his films were a front for financing WHITE SUPREMACY ORGANIZATIONS- so I never know what to believe.
kingrat
3 hours ago, LornaHansonForbes said:
OSCAR MONTH INSISTS ON CONTINUING.
If anyone wants to check out one of the LEAST IMPRESSIVE PERFORMANCES to ever garner a lead nomination for acting, MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954) is on this morning.
Boy, ROCK sure looks comfortable in this publicity shot, huh?
Rock is actually thinking: "What was the name of that guy last night . . . Ben? Bill? Biff?"
In Maureen O'Hara memoirs she mentions walking into his office and seeing Ford in an embrace with a well known actor. She didn't name the actor. Can't picture anyone going for Ford, unless it was to curry favor.....
8 hours ago, Hibi said:
In context it seems pretty clear that the actor was Tyrone Power.
8 p.m. To Be or Not to Be (1942). When Paul Gross of Due South fame played Hamlet at Stratford Ontario I was sorely tempted to take a middle seat and like Robert Stack get up at the start of his soliloquy and slowly and painfully exit the theatre. In in the end I was perhaps too cheap to fork out for a ticket. I love the prompter gag too.
12 hours ago, kingrat said:
LOL. Possibly.
lavenderblue19
On 2/10/2020 at 12:43 PM, kingrat said:
LOL Best Laugh of the Day, Thanks!
6 p.m. Commandos Strike at Dawn (1942). With Paul Muni
2 p.m. Summer Wishes, Winter Dreams (1973). I thought Martin Balsam was great in this one. And Sylvia Sydney proved she still had it.
Bethluvsfilms
7 hours ago, Bogie56 said:
Agreed, they were both brilliant in it.
Hey, the Oscars are old news now.
4 p.m. The Third Man (1949). Fantastic film by Carol Reed. In Canada this is replaced by Jack of Diamonds (1967). Not so fantastic.
Been awhile since I caught THE THIRD MAN, so this is happy news for me.
I'm excited. A movie theater in Portland is going to be showing The Third Man at the end of the month!
6 p.m. The Philadelphia Story (1940). Enjoyable George Cukor film. James Stewart won the Best Actor Oscar. My vote would have gone to Charlie Chaplin for The Great Dictator.
I would give Chaplin the Oscar. I thought Stewart deserved it for "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington." I actually would have given Chaplin the Oscar for "City Lights." I just saw it in the theater (35mm) a month ago. It's so cute! I'd seen it before on TCM.
6 minutes ago, speedracer5 said:
I agree about Mr. Washington. That's great that you saw City Lights with an audience. It really makes a difference.
I love THE PHILADELPHIA STORY, but I agree with the majority that Stewart's Oscar for this film was a make up award for losing out for MR. SMITH GOES TO WASHINGTON the previous year.
However, my vote would have gone to Henry Fonda in THE GRAPES OF WRATH. Not that Chaplin wasn't good in THE GREAT DICTATOR, but Fonda just impressed me a wee bit more.
10:15 p.m. One Hour With You (1932). Ernst Lubitsch film with Maurice Chevalier and Jeanette MacDonald. I'm not that much of a fan of either star but with the right project and director it's a different story.
Fedya
Crotchety blankety-blank
LocationCatskill Mtns., NY, USA
You're not a fan of creepy Maurice singing "Thank Heaven for Little Girls" in Gigi?
10 minutes ago, Fedya said:
That post was meant for Bogie but just wanted to say that Gigi is the only performance of Maurice's that I like. I always found him "creepy" and I pass on watching a film when I see he's in it but since Bogie recommends One Hour with You, I'll give it a try but only because it's a Lubitsch film.
Life isn't like in the movies. Life... is much harder.
Location:The gateway to the northern mines, CA
I like Maurice, as long as he's NOT singing! I thought he was very good as Audrey Hepburn's father in LOVE IN THE AFTERNOON (Gary Cooper was kind of the creeper in that one, Yes?)
I also thought his marriage to Leslie Caron in FANNY was surprisingly sweet.
TomJH
I know what gold does to men's souls.
1 hour ago, lavenderblue19 said:
Lavenderblue, please do NOT let your aversion to Chevalier stop you from seeing director Rouben Mamoulian's delightful LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932), also co-starring Jeanette MacDonald. It's a musical comedy of inventiveness and great infectious charm that first brought, among other songs, Rodgers and Hart's "Isn't It Romantic?" to the world. In another scene, we see Sir C. Aubrey Smith (in a night gown) singing some of the lyrics to "Mimi" and looking like he's having a great time!
And the film is also clever funny. Myrna Loy, in a supporting role, plays a man hungry woman. At one point Charlie Ruggles asks her, "Could you go for a doctor?" to which Myrna replies, "Sure, bring him in!"
This film is clearly Lubitsch-inspired but many think that Mamoulian out-Lubitsched Lubitsch here.
TCM has shown this gem in the past but, since it's a Paramount film, you may also want to check out your library as KINO released it on DVD a few years ago, as well as a release from the Universal Vault Series.
I still like that opening in which Maurice, standing in the doorway of his tailor shop, watches marathon runners trot by and suddenly one separates from the group and runs into his store. Turns out it's an acquaintance of his in need of a suit of clothes in a hurry, having had to leave his behind when the husband of his paramour came home earlier than expected, and he dodged out a window with a number hurriedly scrawled on the back of his undershirt in order to be undetected in the crowd of marathon runners.
All the arcane and overwrought singing aside, it's a fun watch.
I find Jeanette McDonald's singing to be very grating on the ears. But I like Ernst Lubitsch, so I may record this film and give it a try.


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Home » Measurement of the Margins of Partial-Coverage Tooth Preparations for CAD/CAM
Measurement of the Margins of Partial-Coverage Tooth Preparations for CAD/CAM
Denissen, Harry W.; van der Zel, Jef M.; van Waas, Marinus A. J.
International Journal of Prosthodontics;Sep/Oct1999, Vol. 12 Issue 5, p395
Purpose: This study tested the hypothesis that a scanning laser 3-dimensional digitizer is a precise and accurate instrument to measure chamfered and beveled margins of partial-coverage tooth preparations for computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing (CAD/CAM). Materials and Methods: The margins were measured by the digitizer on stone dies and calculated by triangulation into a 3-D representation. Instrument precision was defined as the ability to reproduce the same margin in repeated measurements and expressed as the coefficient of variation as a percentage. Instrument accuracy for chamfered and beveled margins was estimated by correlating their measurements to the measurement of the margin of a spherical calibration "phantom" with known dimensions. Accuracy was expressed as the standard deviation. Results: The precision errors for the box- and cusp-chamfered margins and cusp-beveled margins were 3.9%, 3.4%, and 2.4%, respectively. With regard to accuracy the standard deviations of the measurements of the box- and cusp-chamfered margins and cusp-beveled margins were 19 μm, 21 μm, and 24 μm, respectively, compared to 15 μm for the phantom. Conclusion: Measurements of chamfered and beveled margins by a scanning laser 3-D digitizer for CAD/CAM are (1) precise (error < 4%) and (2) accurate, with a standard deviation of less than 9 μm compared to optimal measurements of the spherical margin of the phantom.

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Q: get stacktrace of all threads I would like to log the stack trace of all threads in my c# application (UI). I can get the stack trace of all managed threads using WinDbg with the following commands.
.loadby sos mscorwks
~* e !clrstack
Is there any other easy methods to get the callstack of all threads in my c# application? This is because I want to get the callstack when the application is running in the customer machine and the customer is not a technical person
Please help me.
Thanks!

A: Here's a suggestion try to grab a user dump of application using either Adplus+WinDbg or DebugDiag. And do a postmortem debugging using the userdump
Here's a good article about capturing user dumps automatically on process crashes
Good Reads
Tess Fernandez's blog on msdn
http://debuggingblog.com/wp/2008/10/31/beginner-guide-to-windbg-part-1/

A: Yes you can do it in a live process as well if you do deploy Windbg to the customer machine as well and then use WMemoryProfiler to execute a debugger command. It sounds strange but you can actually debug yourself with a debugger automaticaly.
See here:
private static void SelfDebug()
{
    using (var debugger = new MdbEng())
    {
        string[] output = debugger.Execute("~*e!ClrStack");
        Console.WriteLine(String.Join(Environment.NewLine, output));
    }
}

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MEMPHIS, Tenn. — A Downtown civil rights mural isn't going anywhere.
Mayor Strickland made the decision Monday afternoon after the city considered painting over it.
Towering high above the corner of MLK Avenue and South Main, the civil rights mural depicts icons like Ida B. Wells.
Painted in 2016, the mural includes a number of different images - including a fatherless black family and a 'Black Lives Matter' inscription.
The city reportedly got complaints about both.
"It seems like most of the critiques are coming from a very small group of people,"
Artist Michael Roy took to social media to post about the possibility of the city painting over the mural.
Hundreds of comments posted were in support of keeping it up.
"The response I've gotten has been really positive," Roy said.
Roy and fellow artist Derrick Dent say they followed a sketch approved by housing and community development and made a number of changes the city requested along the way.
"We were willing to listen," Roy said.
The artists were happy to hear that the mural was here to stay, but are willing to let the public decide if need be.
"I definitely don't want a piece of public art up that the public doesn't like," Roy said. "It it's an unloved mural, or if it poorly represents Memphis or the community which it was supposed to portray, it should go."


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There are 32 luxurious bures and residences in total at Vomo Island Resort. Choose between a range of stunning settings including between the swaying coconut palms and fragrant frangipani flowers on the beachfront or hidden away in the lush hillside enjoying panoramic views of the Pacific Ocean. Accommodation at Vomo is stylish & well-appointed with the quality furnishings and authentic Fijian touches to make your stay a Vomo an experience to remember.
Vomo Island Resort has a range of facilities, just right for the Fijian holidaymaker including snorkelling, sailing, windsurfing, fishing, a 9-hole golf course and an onsite day spa. The resort also has a private day tour island, Vomo Lailai ('little' Vomo), which makes for an intimate romantic getaway or unique island dining adventure. For the ultimate in exclusive island accommodation you can't go past Vomo Island Resort.
Vomo Island Resort has 28 luxurious bures. Fully refurbished, these villa's are private, spacious and air-conditioned. All villas feature an long sun deck with recline lounge chairs and al fresco table and chairs.
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Kumar, James Ranjith R and Rao, Nagendra PS (2014) A New Successive Displacement Type Load Flow Algorithm and its Application to Radial Systems. In: IEEE 2nd International Conference on Electrical Energy Systems (ICEES), JAN 07-09, 2014, Chennai, INDIA, pp. 15-19.
A new successive displacement type load flow method is developed in this paper. This algorithm differs from the conventional Y-Bus based Gauss Seidel load flow in that the voltages at each bus is updated in every iteration based on the exact solution of the power balance equation at that node instead of an approximate solution used by the Gauss Seidel method. It turns out that this modified implementation translates into only a marginal improvement in convergence behaviour for obtaining load flow solutions of interconnected systems. However it is demonstrated that the new approach can be adapted with some additional refinements in order to develop an effective load flow solution technique for radial systems. Numerical results considering a number of systems-both interconnected and radial, are provided to validate the proposed approach.


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Q: How to run command line with admin right in C# I have referenced some other topics and it comes up the following coding, yet it doesn't work. I allow it creates command window and use "/k" argument keeping the window opened so that I can trace its output.
However, I can see the warning from the window that the command needs admin rights to execute. How can I execute it in admin rights?
public void ClearArpCache () {
        ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", "/user:Administrator \" cmd /k arp -d \""); // same as "netsh interface ip delete arpcache"
        processStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        //processStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        //processStartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
        processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        processStartInfo.StandardOutputEncoding = Encoding.Default;
        processStartInfo.Verb = "runas";

        Process.Start (processStartInfo);
        UnityEngine.Debug.Log ("ARP table cache cleared.");
    }

EDITED:
Try changing from "cmd.exe" to "runas.exe"
public void ClearArpCache () {
        ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("runas.exe", "/user:Administrator \" cmd /k arp -d \""); // same as "netsh interface ip delete arpcache"
        processStartInfo.RedirectStandardOutput = true;
        //processStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        //processStartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
        processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = false;
        processStartInfo.StandardOutputEncoding = Encoding.Default;

        Process.Start (processStartInfo);
        UnityEngine.Debug.Log ("ARP table cache cleared.");
    }

A: Just clarified why it failed using "runas". In order to use "runas" in Verb, UseShellExecute must be firstly turned true.
When executing following function, it will pop a window asking for admin rights, just click 'Yes' to begin the execution. Though it is beyond the scope, if possible I want to skip the pop-up window as well.
public void ClearArpCache () {
        ProcessStartInfo processStartInfo = new ProcessStartInfo("cmd.exe", "/k arp -d"); // same as "netsh interface ip delete arpcache"
        processStartInfo.CreateNoWindow = true;
        processStartInfo.WindowStyle = ProcessWindowStyle.Hidden;
        processStartInfo.UseShellExecute = true;
        processStartInfo.Verb = "runas";

        Process.Start (processStartInfo);
        UnityEngine.Debug.Log ("ARP table cache cleared.");
    }


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#ifndef FilterOperations_h
#define FilterOperations_h

#include "platform/PlatformExport.h"
#include "platform/geometry/IntRectOutsets.h"
#include "platform/graphics/filters/FilterOperation.h"
#include "wtf/RefPtr.h"
#include "wtf/Vector.h"

namespace blink {

class PLATFORM_EXPORT FilterOperations {
    DISALLOW_NEW();
public:
    FilterOperations();
    FilterOperations(const FilterOperations& other) { *this = other; }

    FilterOperations& operator=(const FilterOperations&);

    bool operator==(const FilterOperations&) const;
    bool operator!=(const FilterOperations& o) const
    {
        return !(*this == o);
    }

    void clear()
    {
        m_operations.clear();
    }

    typedef HeapVector<Member<FilterOperation>> FilterOperationVector;

    FilterOperationVector& operations() { return m_operations; }
    const FilterOperationVector& operations() const { return m_operations; }

    bool isEmpty() const { return !m_operations.size(); }
    size_t size() const { return m_operations.size(); }
    const FilterOperation* at(size_t index) const { return index < m_operations.size() ? m_operations.at(index).get() : 0; }

    bool canInterpolateWith(const FilterOperations&) const;

    // Maps "forward" to determine which pixels in a destination rect are
    // affected by pixels in the source rect.
    // See also FilterEffect::mapRect.
    FloatRect mapRect(const FloatRect&) const;

    bool hasFilterThatAffectsOpacity() const;
    bool hasFilterThatMovesPixels() const;

    bool hasReferenceFilter() const;

    DECLARE_TRACE();

private:
    FilterOperationVector m_operations;
};

// Wrapper object for the FilterOperations part object.
class FilterOperationsWrapper : public GarbageCollected<FilterOperationsWrapper> {
public:
    static FilterOperationsWrapper* create()
    {
        return new FilterOperationsWrapper();
    }

    static FilterOperationsWrapper* create(const FilterOperations& operations)
    {
        return new FilterOperationsWrapper(operations);
    }

    const FilterOperations& operations() const { return m_operations; }

    DEFINE_INLINE_TRACE() { visitor->trace(m_operations); }

private:
    FilterOperationsWrapper()
    {
    }

    explicit FilterOperationsWrapper(const FilterOperations& operations)
        : m_operations(operations)
    {
    }

    FilterOperations m_operations;
};

} // namespace blink

#endif // FilterOperations_h

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man musste sein alter bestätigen und es wurd viel mit PED`s gearbeitet.
hat vielleicht noch irgendwer diese map? is ne DM Map.
You had to confirm your age and it was worked a lot with PED`s.
Maybe someone has this map? Is ne DM Map.


[PD] setuid root problem: "failed to map segment from shared object: Resource temporarily unavailable"
Previous message: [PD] setuid root problem: "failed to map segment from shared object: Resource temporarily unavailable"
Next message: [PD] setuid root problem: "failed to map segment from shared object: Resource temporarily unavailable"
does anyone already have a solution for this?
for single externals like bonk~.
> suid-binary and as normal user.


It is possible some of those heart failure cases reflect "broken-heart" syndrome, said Dr. Salim Virani, a cardiologist at Baylor College of Medicine and the DeBakey VA Medical Center, in Houston.
"This study did not account for substance abuse," he said. "So, it's not clear whether that played a role."
The stress of dealing with a particularly rough patch in life or trauma might also strain the heart for some people, according to a large new study.


London, U.K., 29 January 2018 – London-based business law firm, Howard Kennedy, has awarded the contract for iManage Work Product Management system support services to Ascertus Limited, a provider of document and information lifecycle management solutions to law firms and corporate legal departments. Ascertus has also been contracted to upgrade Howard Kennedy's 400 plus iManage Work users in the firm's London Bridge office to the latest version of this next generation document and email management system, in 2018.
Howard Kennedy's realisation of its strategic IT roadmap is critical to its competitive edge. The firm's vision includes adopting technologies that will enable the firm to become more agile in order to meet the fast-evolving needs of its clients and respond to wider changes in the legal market. Providing employees with mobile working benefits is also a central tenet of the firm's vision for technology adoption. The iManage Work upgrade that Ascertus will deliver to the firm next year is instrumental to this strategic technology adoption initiative at Howard Kennedy.
The firm chose Ascertus for the team's knowledge across the document management ecosystem, demonstrable understanding of Howard Kennedy's requirements, personable and approachable account management team and focus on delivering high quality support, regardless of the size of the customer organisation.
Ascertus is continuously investing in its support organisation. Its London-based support desk comprises highly experienced and technically sound engineers, all of whom have previously worked either within law firm IT departments or in professional services firms providing support to law firms. They understand the pressures that knowledge workers face, are excellent at problem solving and proficient in inter-personal communications.
The company is gaining considerable recognition for its approach to delivering support services to customers. In 2017, Ascertus has seen an exponential increase in new customer wins for support services alone.


PRIOR TO the band's sold-out headline show in Paris on September 27th, Killing Joke vocalist Jaz Coleman was presented with a prestigious award at the Casino de Paris.
In the presence of friends, family and local dignitaries, Jaz was formally honoured as 'Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres' in a ceremony that saw music from new Killing Joke album 'Absolute Dissent' played alongside poetry readings and classical music pieces.
'ABSOLUTE DISSENT', released on September 27th via Spinefarm Records UK, features 12 brand new tracks, and is the first time the original KJ line-up has played together in almost 30 years.
A new single/video, 'European Super State', is currently being scheduled for release, and the band has two UK headline shows confirmed for October.


Cotton season during last Kharif season was good and the country harvested about 17.0 million bales from approximately 7.8 million hectares. The fibre productivity jumped from 322 kg/ha to 374 kg/ha. The farmers of all the ten cotton-growing states were patronized by high market sentiments that kept the price of seed cotton very good. The encouragement that was received from both suitable agro-climatic conditions gave a morale boosting production. So 2004 in effect is a "cotton year" although shades of various intensity droughts pervaded the country's peninsular region in different intensities. All the cotton-growing states have contributed in this productivity enhancement. The northern states, once again, produced high fibre yield in the absence of serious bollworm outbreak. In central zone, although the western parts such as parts of Gujarat and Maharashtra had excess and extended rainfall, the rest of the season proved good for the crop and produced good fibre yield.
Analysis of the good effects of research and development in this fibre crop, especially through the synergised Mini Mission-I programmes of Technology Mission on Cotton has led us to believe that the new breeding materials that are developed and tested country-wide could result in predictive enhancement of fibre quality with better yield and concomitant pest and disease tolerance. The accent to reduce cost of cultivation has been ingrained in the research efforts and results of these have yielded such technologies that can offer cost reduction. When the new world trade order is to augur from next year, this factor only can prove to be the advantage in global competitions. The current demand from Textile industry for raw material of specific qualities is fairly satiated from our cotton farms. Market-driven production system has come into vogue in different parts of the country, where contract farming is highlighted as a route to achieve satiation of textile units. This approach of captive production system would enable harnessing of quality raw material at reasonable cost. However, the farmer, the lowest link of the chain shall be honoured in the terms of contract for supporting risks through which farming for cotton production has to proceed.
Dry land agriculture (65% of cultivated area) with the resilience for facing climatic vagaries has been fully used for optimized land utilization with cotton as the hub crop and cereals such as millets as well as pulses and lentils supporting the farmers for both nutritional and economic security. Hybrid cotton technology has been the mainstay to reap better harvest in dry land. Huge presence of private R & D system in this region helped to sustain dry land cotton productivity. This year saw the large-scale cultivation of hybrids in Punjab, to the extent of more than 10% of cotton area. Farmers of other states such as Haryana and Rajasthan have become enthusiastic about hybrids, mainly due to the awareness created about the Bollgard hybrids. Resource-rich states shall reap advantage if they take to cotton hybrids for stabilizing quality fibre production.
Basic research in male sterility from ICAR system has enabled these companies to bring out good hybrids having suitable fibre quality. Diploid cotton hybrids, having good fibre quality, have come to stay and this shall be tapped for the north zone. The pro-active Breeders' Conclave of 2003 February gave the thrust for planning of various experiments in order to harness genetic diversity as well as high hybrid vigour. These action plans are proceeding in the right direction to bring out the right hybrids for the country's cotton growing zones.
Extensive cultivation of Bollgard I cotton hybrid happened during last season. Cotton farmers have gone in with enthusiasm for their cultivation. More than 0.80 lakh ha area was under MECH Bt cotton hybrids.
The opening stock 24 lakh bales of this year, the mill consumption of last year being 136 lakh bales. Import of 17.67 lakh bales was done. A crop production of 168 lakh bales for mill and SSI consumption as well as others was estimated by Cotton Advisory Board (CAB) as on 10th March 2003. This year's area has been finalized at 7.614 million hectares and the production is estimated to be 16.75 million bales. Thus the productivity is estimated to be 374 kg lint/ha, which has increased by about 16.7%. There is a marked boost in the productivity of many states during this year.
In general, the country had a moderate bollworm incidence and damage. The situation in northern states was never alarming. Punjab had moderate population of American bollworm while the Spotted bollworm was seen in the mid to late season, while no appreciable damage due to Pink bollworm was observed. AICCIP and CICR through one NATP Project operating on pest forewarning issued an outbreak warning in central zone, particularly, in Vidarbha and Gujarat as well as in Andhra Pradesh. Although the population was seen to build up in 45-65 days old crop, the climatic conditions did not favour their further build up. There was, however, the high build up of Pink bollworm in this zone. In South zone, the Pink bollworm dominated the crop fields although spotted bollworm had spurts of population build up in 1-3 peaks in dry lands as well as in coastal area.
2. Resistant hirsutum genotypes have reduced the disease incidence.
3. G.arboreum remained immune to this disease.
4. Whitefly population observed on leaves and disease severity/incidence had no correlation.
1. Molecular variability of CLCuV in northern states.
2. Contribution of alternate and collateral hosts in the infection cycle of this virus.
There has been a reduction in cost of cultivation, mainly due to the reduction in pest incidence and damage during 2003 season. The cotton cultivators have taken advantage of the dry conditions to harvest good quality cotton. The late season aphid infestation did not adversely affect the quality of crop harvest. The pest load in the crop was not alarming to warrant high investment on plant protection. Most states had ended up with a maximum average spray of 6-8 numbers against various pests.
The country emerged as a major yarn exporter during 2003 and has utilized the cotton stocks for this purpose. The current quality of cotton that was harvested in this season is able to meet the existing demands of processors. Meanwhile, the AICCIP centres have followed the fibre quality norms provided Central Institute for Research on Cotton Technology (CIRCOT), Mumbai. This was followed rigidly in the selection of new breeding materials as well as genetic materials for further breeding. The country's need of the hour is a maximum quantity for 40s and 50s count cotton with specified micronaire, elongation percent and Uniformity ratio that would reduce under-spinning and effective raw materials utilization by the industry. The synergy of research work in AICCIP that has been attained to achieve cotton varieties and hybrids with such quality standards through Mini Mission I programmes of Technology Mission on Cotton and NATP projects for hybrids has led to rich materials in all AICCIP centers. In and industry-research interaction meeting at CICR, these products were showcased and received appreciation of the industry. AICCIP is expected to bring out new cultivars only under these guidelines.
More than 45 private seed companies, that have recognition of the Department of Science and Industrial Research under Ministry of Science and Technology, have been offering their hybrids for national trials and those that are qualifying to be forwarded are entering the respective AICCIP trials. These companies also have now to take cognizance of the CIRCOT norms, while entering in the AICCIP trials in order to unify process of development of raw material for the industry in addition to tolerance/resistance to pests and diseases that are prevalent in each zone to which they target their genotypes. The opening up for the AICCIP participation by private R & D houses has led to awareness about the raw material's quality requirement. It also encouraged them to weed out those untested hybrids t6hat were widely marketed. They could maintain a good vigil on the marketing of spurious seeds and F2s by taking recourse of appropriate measures, available in the country.
During the year, the following cotton/hybrids have been recommended for release and notification at the 37th Central Sub-committee on Notification and Release of Varieties of Agricultural Crops (CSN&RVAC).
The same committee has also recommended the following varieties hybrids for notification.
The 2003 season witnessed the testing of the following Bollgard I & II hybrids from M/S. Maharashtra Hybrid Seed Company, M/S. Rasi Seed Company & M/S. Ankur Seeds Private Limited, Nagpur. During 2003 season, eight Bollgard I hybrids in North zone, 12 H x H Bollgard I hybrids and three Bollgard II hybrids in Central zone as well as eight H x H Bollgard I hybrids, two H x B hybrids and three Bollgard II hybrids in South zone (of two R&D houses) were evaluated. Some of these hybrids were also tested in the second year.
The country emerged as a major yarn exporter during 2003 and has utilized the cotton stocks for this purpose. The current quality of cotton that was harvested in this season is able to meet the existing demands of processors. Meanwhile, the AICCIP centres have followed the fibre quality norms provided Central Institute for Cotton Research.
During the year 2003-04, 34 varieties and nine hybrids were taken up for seed production. Eleven Universities Centres and two ICAR Institutes participated into programme. As against a total indent of 75.4 quintals, as much as 261.8 quintal of breeder seeds were produced. The breeder seed indents and production matched in respect of most of the varieties and hybrids, except perhaps a marginal mismatch in respect of varieties like F.846, BN, RG 18,Pusa 8-6 and AKA 84635 (TC) under TMC-MM II, Rs.1.00 lakh was distributed to all the AICCIP Centres and ICAR Institutes which participated in the breeder seed production as Incentive for Maintenance of Nucleus and Breeder Seeds.
The Mini Mission-I of Technology Mission on Cotton operated 23 projects across 8 programmes during last year in the 28 centres. During last year, under NATP, there were 4 Mission-Mode Projects, seven projects for Production System Research under irrigated ecosystem, 13 projects under Rainfed Cotton Production System, one under Coastal agro-ecosystem and one Competitive Grant project. In addition, some ICAR Ad-hoc Projects were also being pursued (given elsewhere). The following information on Breeders Seed Production and Frontline Demonstration provides the active involvement of AICCIP in channelising TMC-Mini Mission II funds of the Department of Agriculture and Co-operation, Ministry of Agriculture.
The All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project (AICCIP) acts as the nodal agency for conducting the cotton Front Line Demonstration (FLD) programme in the country. The Project Coordinator (Cotton) coordinates and monitors the implementation of the FLD programme with Headquarters at the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Regional Station, Coimbatore. For the year 2003-04, the FLDs are allotted to sixteen AICCIP centres.
To demonstrate the usefulness of the latest improved crop production and protection technologies to the farmers as well as extension workers with a view to reduce the time gap between technology generation and its adoption.
To enable Scientists obtain direct feed back from cotton farmers and suitably reorient their research programmes and develop appropriate technology packages.
To create effective linkage among Scientists, Extension Personnel and Farmers.
The All India Coordinated Cotton Improvement Project (AICCIP) acts as the Nodal Agency for conducting the cotton Front Line Demonstration (FLD) programme in the country. The Project Coordinator (Cotton Improvement) coordinates and monitors the implementation of the FLD Programme with Headquarters at the Central Institute for Cotton Research, Regional Station, and Coimbatore. The FLDs are organized through sixteen centres of the AICCIP network spread over ten cotton-growing states. Besides, Central Institute for Cotton Research, Nagpur and its regional station at Sirsa also participated actively in the programme.
The Ministry of Agriculture and Cooperation, Government of India has sanctioned Rs.20 lakh for conducting 380 FLDs for the year 2003-04.
The FLDs offer a good opportunity for closer interaction between Scientists of different disciplines and the extension officials of cotton growing states. The coordinating centres organize Krishi Melas during the cropping season for highlighting the major achievements, packages of practices and newer technologies ready for transfer to farmers' fields. This has facilitated better feedback from the farmers to the scientists.
Each demonstration is held in an area of 1 ha. The farmers involved in this programme are provided with a subsidy of Rs. 2,500/- per demonstration towards purchase of inputs required for effective implementation of the technologies. Such selected farmers serve as 'Lead Farmers' and guide other farmers in the neighbouring areas for quicker adoption of the improved technologies.
The participating centres have the mandate to conduct one or two Krishi Mela at selected demonstration fields to enable the farming community to have first hand experience of the new technology working under field conditions. An amount of Rs. 1000/- per demonstration has been allotted for arranging Krishi Mela. An amount of Rs. 1500/- per demonstration has been provided for P.O.L. charges and TA for effective monitoring of demonstrations in the organizing centres.
During the year 2003-04, a total of 380 Front Line Demonstrations were allotted to sixteen AICCIP network centers all over the country. Only 350 demonstrations were conducted.
The AICCIP has taken a policy issue in regard to the denotification of varieties and hybrids that are out of Breeders seed Production chain. Accordingly, 99 varieties and hybrids have been recommended to be denotified to Central varietal release Committee. Some of the state governments have sent recommendations to this effect.
Accordingly, the cotton cultivars AK.277, AK.255, AKH.5, CJ.73, Gaorani-22, Rohini (NA.48), Godavari (NHH.1), Purnima (NHH.239), Nagnath, Namdeo (PA.141), NHH.302, PHA.46, Jyoti ((CC-1-1-3), NIMBKAR-1, have now been officially denotified vide Gazette of India No. 132 dated 4th February, 2004.
There is also a decision regarding the Breeding for fibre quality norms in which CIRCOT norms have to be rigidly followed.


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The nominees for the 2011 Eisner Awards were announced recently, and as I made my way through the list of comics and creators in the running, I realized there were a number of books included that were in my sights for reviews. I don't plan on reviewing every Eisner-nominated comic — and couldn't, given time and financial constraints — but I thought it would be nice to publish the occasional Eisner-related review leading up to the presentation of the awards at this year's Comic-Con International San Diego in late July. First up for my "Eye on the Eisners" series of reviews is an English translation of a French work — Salvatore Vol. 1: Transports of Love — nominated in the Best U.S. Edition of International Material category.
Salvatore Vol. 1: Transports of Love softcover graphic novel
Writer/Artist/Cover artist: Nicolas De Crecy
Colors: Ruby & Walter
Letters: Ortho
Translation: Joe Johnson
Publisher: NBM Publishing
Price: $14.99 US
Salvatore isn't the sort of graphic novel that would normally catch my eye in the store, and it made its way into my review pile because the publisher sent along a copy. As I made my way through the first few pages in this book, I was befuddled by the creators visual style, choice to use anthropomorphized animal characters and oddball motives, and I began to dismiss the book as something I wouldn't appreciate due to some cultural divide. But as I stuck with it, I found myself oddly drawn in by the criss-crossing plotlines, the title character's ethical (or unethical) journey, and the surreal and energetic artwork. I found De Crecy's writing overall to be challenging, thought-provoking and well worth reading, but the scattered, random approach to plotting and the lack of resolution of those plot threads disappointed a little as well.
A canine mechanic named Salvatore has carved out a satisfying career as one of the most sought-after mechanics in his small French village, but he's hidden the real purpose of his mountain top garage from all but the little man who serves as his watchman. In truth, he's been stealing auto parts from his clients' cars — not vital ones, mind you — in his mission to build an all-purpose vehicle that will carry him across the globe to South America, to where the woman he loves moved with her family years before. Salvatore's plans inadvertently cause ripples in the lives of several people he's encountered, such as Amandine, the pregnant pig whose alternator he's stolen, and the bovine wife of a Bentley owner who possesses the rare part that will finally complete the mechanic's master work.
De Crecy's artistic style and sense of design are exaggerated in tone, but in a manner that's quite unlike what North American comics readers might expect. The level of detail is almost overwhelming, and the designs of vehicles, buildings and other elements are quite over the top. But at the same time, some characters — notably the title character — are incredibly simple in appearance and design. I suppose that simpler look is meant to reflect Salvatore's single-minded motivation. De Crecy's vision of the sow Amandine is quite grotesque, which makes for a sharp contrast with her seemingly genteel demeanor. Of course, I see that character as the creator's commentary on the poor state of parenting in the world.
One has to give De Crecy credit for conveying action, distance and scale so effectively throughout the book. There's a key sequence that seems clearly inspired by slapstick, American cartoons, a la Road Runner and Mister Magoo. Amandine's bizarre trip after leaving Salvatore's garage is quite amusing, as De Crecy keeps trying to top the previous impossible scenario with an even more ludicrous circumstance. It's a fun scene, but it also seems like padding.
The main conflict in this book is the title character's ethical trials in the name of the long-delayed reunion with his one true love. At first, he steals inconsequential car parts from rich clients, never placing those people at risk or truly diminishing the value and operation of their vehicles. But over the course of the book, Salvatore begins to slide down a slippery slope, justifying worse crimes in the name of his heart's desire. He overtly steals something a property owner would miss; he toys with two women's affections, lying to them; he considers abandoning a loyal servant whose discovery placed him in a position to achieve his dream; and then he plans an art heist. It's only when Salvatore is exposed and his desire for an elusive motor part is laid bare that he attains it (albeit painfully). De Crecy's message comes through loud and clear: even the most soulful, heartwarming goal can't justify dishonest deeds.
I found the creator's depiction of Julie to be rather interesting and possibly telling. The reader's perspective of Salvatore's long, lost love is through that character's alone, so presumably, we see her as he sees her, not as she actually is. I couldn't help but notice that save for a single word balloon, Julie's dialogue is presented only as illegible scribbles, suggesting that Salvatore hears only what he wants to hear from her. His relationship with her and the future he's imagined for them might be just that: imaginary. Given the cynicism that arises throughout the book, I can't help but suspect that's where the writer/artist is headed.
Despite the use of cute (and not-so cute) animal characters, there's no denying that Salvatore is a cerebral story meant to challenge the reader with its social commentary — though given the scene featuring the art critic, I'm he wouldn't appreciate the analysis. The more I read, the more I enjoyed discovery that commentary, uncovering the symbolism. But at the end of the book, everything felt so unresolved. I realize there's more in come, in other books, but some conflict resolution, some effort to offer a shorter story within the larger plot needed to be included here. Reading this first volume of Salvatore is a bit like a weird hitchhiking experience. It's like I got to ride along with this cool guy who shared all of these amazing, wild and weird stories, but the same guy drops me off on a back road in the middle of nowhere in the dead of night. Later on, I'll see it as a great experience to share with others, but at the moment, I felt stranded and a bit lost. 7/10
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La diocesi di Mostene (in latino: Dioecesis Mostenensis) è una sede soppressa del patriarcato di Costantinopoli e una sede titolare della Chiesa cattolica.

Storia
Mostene, identificabile con Asartepe nell'odierna Turchia, è un'antica sede episcopale della provincia romana della Lidia nella diocesi civile di Asia. Faceva parte del patriarcato di Costantinopoli ed era suffraganea dell'arcidiocesi di Sardi.

La diocesi è documentata nelle Notitiae Episcopatuum del patriarcato di Costantinopoli fino al XII secolo.

A questa antica diocesi Michel Le Quien attribuisce con certezza un solo vescovo. Giuliano prese parte al sinodo permanente di Costantinopoli celebrato nel mese di novembre 448 dal patriarca Flaviano, dove fu condannato per eresia l'archimandrita Eutiche. Assente al concilio di Efeso del 449 e a quello di Calcedonia del 451, Giuliano fu tra i firmatari della lettera che i vescovi della Lidia inviarono nel 458 all'imperatore Leone I dopo la morte del patriarca Proterio di Alessandria.

Le Quien aggiunge, ma con il beneficio del dubbio, il vescovo Eutimio che partecipò al concilio dell'869 che condannò il patriarca Fozio di Costantinopoli; lo stesso erudita infatti chiarisce che questo vescovo potrebbe anche appartenere alla diocesi di Mossina.

Dal 1933 Mostene è annoverata tra le sedi vescovili titolari della Chiesa cattolica; la sede è vacante dal 26 novembre 1964.

Cronotassi

Vescovi greci
 Giuliano † (prima del 448 - dopo il 458)
 Eutimio ? † (menzionato nell'869)

Vescovi titolari
 Leo Isidore Scharmach, M.S.C. † (13 giugno 1939 - 26 novembre 1964 deceduto)

Note

Bibliografia
 Pius Bonifacius Gams, Series episcoporum Ecclesiae Catholicae, Graz, 1957, p. 447
 Michel Le Quien, Oriens christianus in quatuor Patriarchatus digestus, Parigi, 1740, Tomo I, coll. 885-886

Collegamenti esterni
 La sede titolare nel sito di www.catholic-hierarchy.org
 La sede titolare nel sito di www.gcatholic.org

Mostene
Mostene
Mostene

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Avi Lipkin: Mystery Mailman Knows Obama Is A Communist Muslim Plant
By Brian Tashman | August 3, 2015 3:10 pm
On Saturday's edition of "Understanding the Times," End Times radio broadcaster Jan Markell spoke to Avi Lipkin, the far-right conspiracy theorist who believes that President Obama is working for Saudi Arabia and the Illuminati to bring 100 million Muslims to America and to spark nuclear war. Thanks to such incredible insights, Lipkin has now emerged as the preferred Middle East expert among Religious Right activists like Markell, who asked him about his meeting with a former postman of Bill Ayers' parents.
This postman told the birther website WorldNetDaily that the parents of Bill Ayers, the former Weather Underground member who later became a University of Illinois professor with a passing acquaintance to the future president, regularly hosted a "black foreign-exchange student" who was "from either Kenya or Indonesia" with a "strange name" back in the late 1980s and early 1990s.
"He told me he had taken the train out from Chicago and had come to thank the Ayers family personally for having helped him with his education," the mailman recalled. "He looked right at me and told me he was going to be president of the United States…. It came across as if this young black male was telling me he was going to be president, almost as if it were the statement of a scientific fact that had already been determined, as if his being president had been already pre-arranged."
As it turned out, Lipkin met the very same postman: "He said to me, he was there every day and he saw this black man there every day. 'Who are you?' 'Oh, I am going to be president of the United States.'" Lipkin cited this postman's story as proof that Obama is part of a greater "agenda" to "socialize America" and "make it a Muslim country."
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As BP continues their intensive and expensive public relations campaign designed to sway potential participants from being evaluated under the Deepwater Horizon Settlement Program, the general realization that BP is trying to back out of a fair and just agreement is becoming more evident. Even if the conservative media is falling for BP's tactics, it has not swayed all business owners, attorneys, and government officials who know better.
One attorney, the father of Gordon Jones, one of 11 workers killed in the BP rig explosion, has spoken out against BP's efforts to not only shift the blame but shut out the very people the company publicly claims it wants to help.
It has been proven that the mishandling and improper maintenance of the Macondo oil rig, drilling out of BP's Macondo well located off the shore of Louisiana, led to the fatal April 20, 2010 explosion that sparked one of the worst environmental disasters in U.S. History. Gordon Jones, only 28, arrived the day before the explosion, just days before his wedding anniversary, and sadly, just three weeks before his wife bore their first son Max.
Louisiana based attorney Keith Jones had this to say: "It's as though BP is now trying to use our resilience against us and pervert it into passivity. It seems that BP expects our community to sit idly by while the company shamelessly attempts to intimidate the people and businesses of the Gulf out of filing claims they have every right to make." This, and other comments regarding his son, reiterate and confirm the seriousness of the tragedy, and the aftermath that continues to linger in Gulf coast counties.


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Public-private partnership in Bay Area seeks to make chemicals from hard-to-recycle plastics
By David Louie
MENLO PARK, Calif. (KGO) -- Despite the state's single-use plastic bag ban, recycling of plastics remains a challenge. Soiled plastic bags, for example, usually end up going to landfills. That could change.
It's estimated that Americans take home about 1,500 plastic bags each year. And in our area, here's many of them end up at the GreenWaste Recovery center in San Jose. Film plastics, as they're known, can be difficult to recycle.
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"Dirty film plastics, as soon as it's covered in food waste or what we call putresible waste, there isn't a market for those materials, so that segment of the film plastic has always gone to landfill," said Emily Finn, director of business development and communications at GreenWaste Recovery.
However, a laboratory in Menlo Park aims to change that. BioCellection is a startup that has developed a process that turns polyethylene into chemicals. The chemicals are then sold to companies that use them to make a wide range of products, from padded jackets and auto parts to perfume. Despite efforts to ban plastic bags, there is more plastic entering the waste stream.
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"A lot of packagers are moving away from glass and cardboard and moving to plastics, which is much cheaper," said Miranda Wang, co-founder & CEO of BioCellection. "So we're actually seeing an increase in polyethylene."
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Developing a common results framework for nutrition in Somalia
Somalia, in the Horn of Africa, has experienced changes and shifts in governance, security, development and the humanitarian environment over the past two decades. The estimated population is around 12.3 million, with 2.8 Somalis living in rural areas and 5.2 million (about 42 per cent of the total population) living in urban areas. Around a quarter of the population are nomadic. Estimates from the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) indicate that over 1.1 million Somalis are internally displaced.
The country has been on a humanitarian crisis footing since the 1990s when war broke out and is one of the most complex and long-standing emergencies in the world. It is characterised by sustained high rates of mortality, child malnutrition, severe basic services shortfalls and large-scale population movement. The prevalence of acute malnutrition in children under five years old (CU5) is over 15 per cent, which is above the emergency threshold, and the prevalence of stunting is estimated at 23.5per cent. The health status of Somalis is critical, with the country registering among the poorest health and mortality indicators globally, including mortality rates of 136 per 1,000 live births and maternal mortality at 732 per 100,000 live births.
There have been very large humanitarian investments and actions in the country, but these have not been matched by investments in more resilience-building and development efforts, resulting in a recurring pattern of annual crises response. Efforts to establish a Common Results Framework (CRF) for nutrition aim to 'shift the dial' towards more sustainable developmental approaches.
Somalia joined the SUN Movement in 2014. At that time, it had developed a National Nutrition Strategy, Micronutrient Strategy and Infant and Young Child Feeding (IYCF) Strategy. It was decided that a costed plan of action for nutrition – to act as a CRF – was needed as an over-arching strategic document to improve the nutritional status of the population through the strengthening and building of multi-sector and integrated systems (workforce, supplies, finance and governance) and by bringing multi-disciplinary ideas into actionable programmes.
Stakeholder mapping
The first step was to map key stakeholders who would significantly contribute to the development and implementation of the CRF. Between 30 to 40 government, private sector, development and humanitarian partners participated in a sensitisation event held in Kenya in May 2018. The process is being supported by MQSUN+, so more than five international consultants and four national experts were involved in the technical development of the CRF. Prior to this, there had been three state-level consultation forums held in Jubaland state, South West state and Puntland, and sector-level interviews were conducted with different government, agency and institutional stakeholders. SUN networks for Academia, Business and Civil Society were also established in this period as these will have a role in the implementation of the CRF. Under the CRF implementation plan, it is expected that the existing UN-led platforms; i.e. national and regional Nutrition Clusters, will be used for advocacy, development and validation of assessments, and support in collating indicators.
Results-based approach
The CRF structure was developed using a results-based approach whereby intermediate results feed into strategic results. The overall objective of the CRF is to contribute to the reduction of malnutrition by 30% in the next five years in Somalia, as well as to control the fluctuating rates, establishing a more predictable and stable pattern of nutritional status. The plan has seven strategic objectives, including: building an enabling environment; multi-sector coordination; development of human resources; comprehensive package of nutrition interventions; optimal use of nutrition-sensitive programmes; and addressing social and cultural issues that hinder equity.
Building nutrition resilience
The vision of the CRF is an entire paradigm shift in the interpretation, implementation and integration of both nutrition-sensitive and nutrition-specific programmes. In Somalia nutrition-specific programmes and projects have over many years underutilised opportunities such as funding and training presented by integrating with longer-term, sustainable, nutrition-sensitive programming. There are existing efforts to increase the levels of integration of activities through the humanitarian response plan, which ensures no funding is provided to nutrition actors if they do not demonstrate a minimum level of health, nutrition and water, sanitation and hygiene (WASH) integration. The largest hoped-for impact of the CRF is the activation of the entire nutrition causal framework (i.e. immediate, underlying and basic causes of malnutrition), with an intentional approach to ensure convergence of policies, sector plans and execution of programmes at scale.
Multi-sector and multi-stakeholder collaborations have their share of challenges. One of these is the lack of a common understanding on nutrition, which was addressed to some extent by developing consensus among participants by conveying key nutrition information while at the same time introducing the idea of integrating nutrition concerns into their sectoral systems. As the CRF covers all casual factors of malnutrition, the process of agreeing new indicators, including baseline figures and targets, was a challenge and involved much discussion, particularly on the use of data that is more than five years old for some of the key indicators.
Key among the lessons learned during the process was recognising that, although the importance and concept of a CRF has existed for some time, it had not been converted into a standard approach and enshrined in the national system of nutrition coordination. Individual sectors now feel the need to adopt the common approach, giving an indication of commitment for the process. Political commitment from the Office of the Prime Minister and clarity of objectives has provided the process of developing the CRF with much-needed support from various sectors.
The final costed CRF document will be launched at a high-level meeting that brings together key stakeholders and actors to secure commitment to implementation.
Dr Mohamed Abdi Farah is the Special Adviser on Health and National Nutrition coordinator (SUN focal point) for the Scaling Up Nutrition Movement.
Mohamed Abdi Hasan is the Social and Human Development advisor at the Office of the Prime Minister in the Federal Government of Somalia.
Job Gichuki is a Public Health Nutritionist specialising in emergency nutrition, surveillance and research, currently working with the Horn Population Research and Development (HPRD).
This blog originated from ENN Online – Nutrition Exchange 11 – on technical support provided under MQSUN+.


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Going Local: An Expat Guide to Azerbaijani Produce
Clotho Spinner Hasebe is an American expat who's been living in Azerbaijan for seven years spread over two postings between 2008 and 2019. Since 2011 she's been leading fellow expats on familiarization tours of where to find the best Azerbaijani produce in Baku. Visions joined one of Clotho's "Going Local!" tours in early September 2018 and then sat down with her to tease out her best bits of advice for newly arrived expats struggling to get to grips with their local food shopping, options for which have grown significantly over the last few years. The following is an edited and abridged version of our conversation...
Clotho Spinner Hasebe with her husband
VoA – Why did you start offering the familiarization tours?
CSH – I heard a lot of expats expressing their disappointment in the quality and variety of fresh produce available in Azerbaijan. I was surprised to hear them saying this until I realised that people just didn't know where to find fresh fruits and vegetables. When we originally moved here in 2008, the bazaars and neighbourhood produce stands were the only places to get fresh food, so that's where everyone shopped. As the years passed, grocery stores began to open. New waves of expats arrived and they naturally gravitated towards the grocery stores because that's what they are familiar with in the European and North and South American places where they were generally from. But the produce in the grocery stores wasn't as fresh as it was in the bazaars, and expats mistakenly believed this was all that was available to them.
So how did you discover Baku's bazaars?
When we arrived in 2008, this is where everyone shopped. Fellow expats showed me their favourite places and I, in turn, showed other expats when they arrived. Over time the bigger grocery stores came in, and I realised the expats didn't know about the bazaars anymore. Very few people speak English in the bazaars, and this language difference can be a barrier to entry for foreigners who don't speak Azerbaijani. I thought that if I could just show them the bazaars, translate some common food names, explain how it works (like it's okay to taste things before you buy them or it's okay to ask for less than a kilo... all the little things that can be overwhelming if you can't communicate well), then it would help expats feel comfortable going to the bazaars and exploring.
But here in Azerbaijan, if it's not in season it's not here
When you first started exploring the bazaars, did you find it quite overwhelming?
No, really, I love food and I love cooking and I loved the abundance of fresh and seasonal ingredients. In the US, where I'm from, it's a popular thing now to eat only seasonally. But you have to work hard to figure out what's in season because you have everything all the time. The only way you might know that the raspberries are in season is because they are a little bit cheaper than when they're not in season. But here in Azerbaijan, if it's not in season it's not here.
Plumbs at Yashil Bazaar. Photo: Tom Marsden
What are the major challenges faced by expats when they come to baku and need to do their shopping?
They can't find the fresh fruits and vegetables that they're looking for. Because they haven't visited the bazaars, they think that what they see on the shelves in the grocery stores is all that is available. They're missing the quality appearance of the fresh produce that they are used to finding in the farmers markets and natural foods markets of their home countries. Finding meat with the texture, taste and cut that they're used to is also a challenge for new expats.
What kind of feedback have you received from people after your tours, have you found that they have made a difference?
Because I give my tours during the workday, most of the people who come along are stay-at-home parents or work-from-home spouses. When one of your roles is to provide food for your family that is both comforting and familiar, it's a hinderance when you can't find the necessary ingredients. This is especially so for newcomers. The comfort of a familiar meal can go a long way towards helping your family settle in to their new environment. The emails I get are invariably – I feel so much better... thank you so much... this helps me...my kids will be so happy.
Have you got any plans to do anything on a bigger scale?
I'm thinking about doing a cooking class, along the lines of learning how to cook from scratch with the ingredients that you find here. I think people have the mistaken impression that cooking from scratch is complicated and that you have to be an experienced cook to be successful. But it's not complicated and you don't have to be experienced. I want to help people, again, to feel comfortable doing this. The first time we moved here everyone cooked everything from scratch because there were no prepared foods available, not even pre-sliced bread. Of course the beautiful, delicious tandir bread was available – which is amazing, please don't get me wrong! These days there are a lot more things available including all kinds of bread, even gluten-free baked fresh right here. Still, I think it's liberating to know how to make things from scratch, and so I'd like to share this knowledge. Making hummus from scratch, making salsa from scratch, chips (crisps) – how to make those from scratch, salad dressings, a big, fresh salad, how do you do that if it the salad greens don't come pre-washed and ready? Things like that.
Vendors at Yashil Bazaar. Photo: Tom Marsden
What are your thoughts in general on Azerbaijani produce?
I think it's amazing, and I love it. I especially like that it's seasonal. The produce isn't picked green, but at the peak of freshness. You quickly learn what a real peach tastes like, or what really sweet grapes taste like because they're not travelling far from the farms to the market here. It's a whole other level of freshness. And the same with the dried fruit and nuts. My son is six and he loves the Azerbaijani raisins. When we were back in the States in the summer, I bought him a little box of raisins for his lunch box and he refused to eat them because they weren't big and plump and sweet and fresh like they are in Azerbaijan.
It's a whole other level of freshness
So what are the main differences between what you get in America and what you get in Azerbaijan?
The food here is seasonal and harvested at just the right time. I think the taste of tomatoes is unlike any other place I've ever been. I'd say the same about the small Persian cucumbers, which are so common here, but hard to find in the US. As far as the fruits are concerned, I love the varieties of apples and pears in fall, and the strawberries I think are incredible. The figs and the pomegranates are without equal.
Clotho's advice for visiting Baku's bazaars:
1. Taste what's on offer, don't be shy to taste.
2. Definitely go with somebody who speaks Azerbaijani or Russian— It's really good to go with somebody who's comfortable speaking the language. I don't want to imply that if you can't speak Azerbaijani or Russian then you should't go at all. It just makes things easier.
3. Find vendors you trust if you're going repeatedly— I spend some time watching the vendors and their interactions with me. Is he looking me in the eye? Is she patient with me? Do I get a gut feeling that he's trustworthy or not?
In Azerbaijan, every region is known for different produce. Have you travelled around and got to know the produce from each region?
I've explored the regions but not for the produce. I like to know where things come from, so I often ask that question in the bazaar. That's how I've learned that the citrus, for example, is from Lenkeran and that pecans are also grown in the south while other nuts are from the north and west.
Jams in all shapes and colours at Yashil Bazaar. Photo: Tom Marsden
Dried fruit at Yashil Bazaar. Photo: Tom Marsden
When you travel and see something by the side of the road, do you make a point to stop and try it?
Not usually for fresh produce because I haven't always had good luck with quality and freshness on the side of the road. I will say that the cheeses have been a wow for me in the villages. And the honey! I have a favourite honey guy in the Talysh Mountains and he sends jars of honey to me in a taxi. I had a granola bar business in the US, and I continue to bake them here for friends and family. The quality of honey is fundamental to the flavour and texture of the granola bars, and my favourite Azerbaijani beekeeper delivers a beautiful product.
Can you explain some of the produce in the bazaar that you've found ways of using creatively?
I use doshab, a local molasses that's made from mulberries or dates, to make brown sugar. I love to share this technique with other expats because brown sugar is an important ingredient in baking and grilling, and making it yourself costs a fraction of what it does in the store. I also like to use lavash to make chips. When we moved here 11 years ago, there were no chips. Now you can find many varieties at the grocery stores, but I still prefer to make my own. It's easy, I know exactly what's in them, and it's fun to customise them for my guests. I use the zoghal (Cornelian cherries – Ed.) as an alternative to fresh cranberries and dried barberries as an alternative to dried cranberries.
What about haggling, is that something people should do?
It's minimal. If I hear a price that's not in line with what I know it should be, then I haggle. Or I may ask for a discount if I'm buying a lot. But in all reality the price of fruits and vegetables is so inexpensive here. The people at the bazaar are working hard to make a living and if I feel like they're treating me honestly then haggling to get a slight price reduction doesn't leave me with a good feeling.
Herbs and spices at Yashil Bazaar. Photo: Tom Marsden
Which products spring to mind that people should definitely buy during each season?
This could be a big list! In the late summer to early autumn don't miss the stone fruits like peaches, plums and nectarines, fresh berries like raspberries, blackberries, strawberries, and figs too. Apples and pears arrive in the autumn, as do persimmons and pomegranates. In the wintertime the citrus arrives in full force: mandarin, naval oranges, blood oranges, kumquat. In the spring the asparagus arrives along with enormous bouquets of fresh lilacs. You have to be in the bazaars regularly or you'll miss asparagus, it's there for three weeks and then it's gone. Truffles also come in the spring, along with so many varieties of potatoes. In late spring and early summer, the strawberries and the cherries start coming in, followed by several varieties of melons in the heart of summer. Tomatoes and cucumbers are available year round, but I find them tastiest in the warmer months. Alternately, the fresh herbs and other greens are at their peak in the cooler months even though they're available year round.
What is it about Azerbaijan that makes you feel so at home here?
I've always found the rhythm of the streets and the city fascinating, especially in the older parts of Baku. The Azerbaijani countryside is gorgeous. The richness and variety of the landscapes are remarkable given the relatively small size of the country. I like biking and hiking and camping, and there's a wonderful feeling of freedom when doing that here. And the food, of course!
A variety of seasonal vegetables at Yashil Bazaar. Photo: Tom Marsden
Where to shop:
Yashil Bazaar (Khatai Avenue) – this is the centrepiece of the Going Local! food tour because it's home to Baku's biggest selection of fresh fruit and vegetables, as well as huge quantities of nuts and spices, dried fruits and jams.
Teze Bazaar (Samed Vurghun Street) – operating for over 80 years, Teze Bazaar today has a smaller selection of fruit and veg than Yashil Bazaar but is still worth visiting for its fish (including sturgeon and caviar) and to experi- ence the general hubbub of an Eastern bazaar.
Ivanovka (15 Nakhchivani Street) – named after the Russian Molokan village famed for its farm products, Clotho recommends this for its wide selection of meats. It's especially good for pork but also sells beef and lamb, and even rabbit and pheasant. This is also where I direct people looking for wheat and oat bran, Clotho said.
Brothaus (opposite Ivanovka) – this German bakery is included on the tour for its gluten-free bread options, but you'll also find here a decent selection of croissants, donuts and cakes.
Gastronomy (57 Narimanov Avenue) – an excellent source of seafood, ingredients for Asian cuisine, Belgian chocolate and frozen meat (turkey, Brazilian beef, pork, loin and bacon).
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Qaddafi's Son Reportedly Escapes From Rebel Custody
The rebels are still encountering pockets of resistance in Tripoli
1:30 pm - Al Jazeera is reporting that Muammar Qaddafi's son, Mohammad, has escaped from rebel custody after with the help of "Qaddafi loyalists." If the report is accurate, it would represent a blow to the rebels as they continue to face heavy fighting in Tripoli after entering Tripoli with relative ease over the weekend. Meanwhile, Al Jazeera is also reporting that two bodies have been found that may be those of Qaddafi's son, Khamis, a military commander, and Libya's intelligence chief, Abdullah al-Senussi. These reports have not yet been confirmed.
11:00 - Al-Arabiya television, citing rebel leaders, is reporting that the opposition--which has already detained Muammar Qaddafi's son Saif and Mohammed--how now captured a third son, Saadi. Back in March, we noted how Hollywood was spurning a film production company supported financially by Saadi, a former professional soccer player, in light of the Libyan uprising. On Twitter, the Libyan Youth Movement claims Saadi also ordered mercenaries to fire at unarmed protesters in Benghazi on February 17, helping spark the Libyan revolution. As for their father's whereabouts? He's still at large, but the Pentagon believes he hasn't left Libya, according to Reuters. If you're having trouble keeping track of Qaddafi's family members, the BBC has put together a very helpful family tree.
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The Libyan rebels are continuing their rapid advance into the heart of Tripoli, as Muammar Qaddafi stations tanks near his Bab Azaziya compound in a defiant last stand. Al-Jazeera is reporting that central Tripoli is still very dangerous because of "pockets of pro-Qaddafi resistance and the presence of snipers and artillery fire," with loyalists still controlling about 20 percent of the city. But the rebels are increasingly taking control of state institutions, including, most recently, Libyan state television, which was still carrying pro-Qaddafi programs on Monday. BBC reporter Rupert Wingfield-Hayes captured the intense fighting still raging in the capital when the convoy of rebels he was accompanying was ambushed by pro-Qaddafi forces this morning.
While Al-Arabiya is reporting that Qaddafi's son, Mutassim, is spearheading combat from the Bab Azaziya compound, Qaddafi's whereabouts remain a mystery. A rebel spokesman in London suggested that the Libyan leader had fled to neighboring Algeria, while AFP cited an unnamed diplomat as saying Qaddafi remained in Tripoli and "could be" in his compound, which The Guardian describes as "a rabbit-warren of tunnels and rooms." An unnamed reporter from Tripoli tells Al-Arabiya television that Qaddafi is in the Tajura-Cardiac hospital in Tripoli, though he didn't specify whether the ruler was undergoing treatment in the hospital or simply hiding from rebel forces there.
With the fall of Tripoli seemingly imminent, speculation is growing about whether Qaddafi will flee Libya or be captured by rebel forces. A Libyan rebel representative in London told reporters today that the opposition would "look under every stone" for Qaddafi so that he could be brought to trial, which The New York Times wrote was a reference to the International Criminal Court's arrest warrants for Qaddafi, his son Saif al-Islam, and his intelligence chief issued in June. (The ICC is currently in talks with the rebels about transferring Saif, who is reportedly in rebel custody along with his brother Mohammed, to the Hague.) In a press conference on Monday morning, South Africa's foreign minister denied that his country was helping Qaddafi flee Libya. Al -Jazeera cites Angola and Zimbabwe as the most likely destinations for Qaddafi.


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Centre To Set Up Three GACs To Handle Social Media Users' Complaints: Report
These panels will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter which are able to overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests
By Teena Jose • Dec 12, 2022 Originally published Dec 12, 2022
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The ministry of electronics and information technology (IT), citing sources, said that the government is considering three grievance appellate committees (GACs) to look into complaints by users against decisions of social media platforms and consultations on various modalities of these panels will start in January, according to a PTI report.
Information Technology (IT) rules had been strengthened in October to pave the way for formation of the centre-appointed panels to settle often-ignored user grievances against the way social media platforms addressed their complaints regarding content and other matters, as per the report.
In a nutshell, the report noted that, these panels will be able to review content moderation decisions by social media companies like Meta and Twitter which are able to overrule decisions of the big tech firms on takedown or blocking requests. On this, the government had reportedly said that the move was necessitated due to the casual and tokenism approach of digital platforms towards user complaints.
Sources quoted in the PTI report said that there will be three grievance appellate panels which will be assigned different types of appeals based on the categories of harmful content mentioned in the recently-amended IT rules. Broadly, these appeals could be around complaints regarding sexually explicit content, misinformation, or religious incitement.
IT ministry sources, according to the report, said that the appeals pertaining to areas other than those listed out in the amended IT rules will be directed to the relevant authority or tribunal. In such cases, the GACs will act as a signpost, redirecting the complaints to the authority and tribunal concerned, while informing the complainant that their grievance has been forwarded to the relevant agency.
The sources further reportedly said that while the IT ministry has time and again told social media companies that it is open to industry proposing an effective self-regulatory model and, in fact, still remains open to the option, in the interim GACs will be put in place. If the industry can, indeed, propose a better solution, the IT ministry is open to considering the same.
As per the earlier reports, in October, Minister of State for IT Rajeev Chandrasekhar, while elaborating on the changes to IT rules, had pointed out that lakhs of messages around unresolved user complaints reflected the broken grievance redressal mechanism being offered by platforms.
Teena Jose
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Teena is a post graduate in financial journalism. She has an avid interest in content creation, digital media and fashion.
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