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Graham Heath Equestrian Structures (GHE) manufacture premium quality steel framed equestrian buildings, stables and indoor arenas for livery yards, equestrian centres and individual enthusiasts.
The business is based in the heart of Cheshire, but has a strong and growing national presence, with the team designing and building their structures for clients across the whole of the UK. The Heath family themselves have owned horses for many years and as such, the buildings that they construct reflect their personal knowledge, understanding and experience of the industry. Their experience of caring for horses and ponies enables them to understand and to cater for the specific needs of each individual customer.
Throughout their 18 year-long history, Graham Heath Equestrian has had the privilege of building equestrian structures for some of the highest profile showjumping yards in the UK. Having constructed over 7000 equestrian structures, Graham Heath Equestrian has built a strong reputation based on the quality of their craftsmanship and products along with their high level of service and excellent value.
The team at Graham Heath Equestrian are extremely passionate about creating an excellent environment for both horse and owner. Their success in the sector has also allowed them to sponsor young rider classes and partner with numerous equestrian organisations, including British Showjumping.


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Why Fintech Is Growing So Fast and How to Break Into This White-Hot Industry
By: Derek Loosvelt
Topics: Finance Job Search Remote Work Salary & Benefits Technology
Brian Hamilton is the founder and CEO of One, a fintech startup that provides digital banking services to the shrinking U.S. middle class. Hamilton began his career at Wells Fargo, then led product and strategy at one of the first fintech firms before becoming a serial fintech entrepreneur. Hamilton sold one of his fintech startups to Capital One, founded others, and launched his latest just before the pandemic. Already, hundreds of thousands of customers have left big banks and moved to One, making it one of the fastest-growing digital banks—and one of the fastest-growing fintech employers. One is now hiring for several full-time roles and offering several internships.
Recently, we spoke with Hamilton about why fintech is such a highly desirable and growing sector, the openings at One, and his advice for students, young professionals, and entrepreneurs looking to break into fintech. Below is an excerpt of that conversation.
Vault: First of all, how have you and the One team been dealing with all the uncertainty and change of the past 15 months?
Hamilton: The last 15 months have been both galvanizing and exhausting—to me and to our team at One. When we started One, our mission was to build a banking service that genuinely helps middle-class Americans and families get ahead. The pandemic, social unrest, and everything else in the world that turned upside down in the last year further fueled the fire and solidified One's purpose. In the past year, many of us had a variety of personal and professional challenges that we worked to overcome. But, in a way, it was an ideal time to double down on what we're building because the need for the product in the middle class became even more pronounced, as many people realized how much they'd taken economic security for granted. It's helped us to attract and retain fantastic talent because we're building something with real value and purpose in a time when people need it most.
Could you speak a little about your background and your early fintech career?
I'm originally from Southern Oregon but have lived in the Bay Area for almost 20 years. Now I split time primarily between Sacramento, where the One headquarters is located, and Incline Village in Nevada, where I moved during the pandemic for more space (and snow). I graduated cum laude from Oregon State University as part of its pre-law program and began my career at Wells Fargo as a commercial loan officer in its graduate commercial banking program. Later, as VP of product development for the WF foreign exchange desk, I developed a taste for technology and banking systems (later to be named "fintech") and left to lead product and strategy for Clear2Pay, a global payments technology provider, before founding my first company.
What led you to found One?
At this point, I guess I'm a serial entrepreneur, which is just a fancy way of saying I don't know when to quit and have a high-risk tolerance—and probably need to relax more! I've been in fintech—across credit, payments, digital product, and executive leadership—for almost 25 years now, and the idea for One has been a work in progress across all my experiences. I co-founded Pushpoint, a location-based offer-redemption platform acquired by Capital One, where I then led its digital small business division for a number of years. I also ran a technology incubator in San Francisco that helped develop a number of different projects, including one we later sold to Verifone to help them compete with Square in the very early days.
More recently, I founded and led Azlo, a challenger bank for small business owners and freelancers, which helped crystallize the need in my mind for a very different way to look at credit for those with uneven or non-traditional income. This eventually culminated in the founding of One. I realized that applying cash flow-based underwriting to the incredibly inefficient world of credit for middle-class consumers (where most pay 25 to 29 percent APR on credit card balances as their primary unsecured borrowing vehicles) could have a much bigger impact on society as a whole and return more value to those who deserve it most. Along with the coming wave of consolidation and 'rebundling' in fintech, the concept of One makes perfect sense at a time when it solves a real problem for even more people.
How would you describe the current state of fintech, and which firms are leading the way in the industry?
I see fintech beginning its third wave of innovation. The first was big, traditional banks going digital in the 1990s and early 2000s, bringing brick-and-mortar banking to the web and then expanding to mobile. The second wave was technology coming together with financial services. We saw stand-alone vertical businesses like Lending Club or Sofi focused on a single slice of the whole consumer banking pie. Today, I think the third wave is starting. We see some of the same early vertical players trying to expand their footprints into broader banking services. There's been a race to re-bundle and re-make the traditional bank into a modern, full suite, digital-first experience.
How does One fit into this?
One better aligns what's good for the customer, across a broader set of services, than traditional banks or incumbents do. We believe consumers don't want to have fractured financial lives. Maintaining an average of five to seven accounts across various players is time-consuming and overly complicated. People have to put a lot of calories into making sure their money goes where it needs to be and doing what it needs to do. I think consumers today are looking for integration of services, automation that supports their goals and desired outcomes, and some of that good old-fashioned customer service.
Why are so many students and young job seekers so interested in joining the fintech industry, and which roles are needed and available?
My experience is that Gen Z wants to work somewhere with purpose. So, they're actively seeking out industries and jobs that support fundamental needs and are solving impactful problems and some of society's most pressing issues—equality and inclusion, and access to basic services such as banking, healthcare, and education—while not exacerbating the climate crisis. We're seeing a shift to purpose from profit. Tech also has higher paying jobs and more compelling opportunities than traditional finance.
As for roles, at One we're currently looking for a Data Scientist Lead, Software Engineer, Product Designer, UI Designer, Consumer Compliance Analyst, Customer Experience Specialist, and a variety of Internships. If you don't see an opening in your field, send us your resume anyway! We're always looking for talented people to join the One team.
How are the larger banking firms dealing with the talent exodus to fintech?
Larger traditional banks are striving to be aggressive with benefits, but their benefit offerings and cultures are outdated—like their product capabilities. Larger banks tend to spend countless hours (and dollars) on culture overhauls and organizational mindset shifts. They're trying to catch up to new methodologies and approaches to development, such as kanban. Fintech companies tend to focus on people over process and agility, whereas banks are much more of a rigid process-driven organization.
Would you say traditional banking firms are experiencing talent droughts?
Traditional banks aren't experiencing talent droughts, per se, but securing the type of talent required to remain competitive in a hotly contested space is proving to be a hindrance. The biggest issue is traditional banks often don't see the talent that already resides within their 'walls,' because their growth paths are rigid and they lose talent they didn't realize they already had.
Although large traditional banks will always attract top-tier talent, their outdated systems don't allow much room for customization at scale. The agility and receptiveness to new ideas tend to attract talent to fintech companies. When people join a company focused on innovation versus 'this is how we've always done it,' they can solve long-standing problems faster and in new ways. And that's where the fun is!
What do you recommend to students, job seekers, and entrepreneurs who want to break into fintech? Are there certain skills and backgrounds needed?
Allow yourself to be vulnerable. Know that you have what it takes to succeed as long as you're honest with yourself and others about what skills you bring to the table, your gaps, and your areas for growth. If you're a risk-taker who enjoys being at the front of the pack and solving complex problems, then the fintech sector is for you. However, even the most adventurous have to comply with the regulations that protect consumers and their hard-earned money.
The skills you'll need all depend on the role you're looking for. But, in general, it's best to understand that we're all learning and have a collective passion for leaving customers' financial lives better than we found them. In a fast-paced environment like fintech, clear communication and seeking clarity is vital, as is accountability. We're all in this together, and learning is the best way to win.
And, for future fintech entrepreneurs, I would suggest to fail fast and learn faster. Secondly, listen to your team—beyond meetings. Take the time to gather insights from employee engagement and satisfaction surveys and seek more input when crafting solutions to drive your business forward.
Is there anything else important about fintech that students and job seekers should know?
Financial services is a complex industry. Allow yourself and your colleagues to have the grace to learn, humility to ask questions, and humor to get through the most challenging days. Be sure to follow industry trends and innovations, stay in the know of industry-breaking news, and don't be afraid to start in a basic position. In today's fintech companies, you'll be surprised how quickly talent is recognized and responsibilities expand.
How AI Is Transforming Fintech—Plus, Where to Find the Great AI Roles
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After four full quarters of Covid-19, some sectors have withered, while others have expanded. One sector that was growing before Covid and is still expanding is fintech.
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Q&A with the CEO of Ocrolus, a Fintech Firm Disrupting Document Analysis—and Hiring
Vault recently spoke with Sam Bobley, the founder and CEO of Ocrolus, a fintech firm whose technology quickly analyzes financial documents of any format or image quality with near-perfect accuracy. Vault recently spoke with Bobley about his firm, trends in fintech, the types of jobs available in the industry, and what job seekers can do to position themselves to get those jobs.
How and Where to Find a Fintech Job in 2020
Vault recently spoke with Amy Zimmerman, Head of People Operations at Kabbage, a fintech firm that's disrupting the small business loan industry. We asked Zimmerman about the current state of fintech and the prospects for job seekers in the industry in the coming year.

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Introduced in late 2017, the Ascent is the biggest vehicle in the Subaru lineup. The large SUV offers three rows of room, standard all-wheel drive, and the systems you need to keep your family safe on every adventure.
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As the NBA lottery ping-pong balls dance on Tuesday night in Midtown, the Knicks and Nets will sadly be sitting out despite also sitting out the playoffs.
The only solace for the Knicks is even if they owned their first-round pick, they would not have been able to keep it if their ping-pong ball combination won Tuesday's lottery.
If the Knicks had shot up into the top 3, with a chance at LSU's Ben Simmons or Duke's Brandon Ingram, Phil Jackson likely would have had to hand it over to Denver.
Here's why: The Knicks traded their 2016 first-rounder to Toronto in the Andrea Bargnani disaster in 2014. However, under the terms of the semi-disaster Carmelo Anthony trade with the Nuggets, Denver has the right to swap for the Knicks' pick, which is now controlled by the Raptors.
As it stands, Toronto is seeded No. 7, based on the Knicks' seventh-worst record (32-50), with a 4.3 percent chance at the No. 1 pick. Denver is seeded ninth. If Toronto shoots to No. 1, Denver snatches it and the Raptors get the Nuggets' position. Hence, if the Knicks had their pick, the most likely scenario was Jackson choosing at No. 9 in a relatively modest draft. Still, it would've been a lot better than nothing.
Nets owner Mikhail Prokhorov, however, could have his heart sink one day after introducing Kenny Atkinson as head coach. Boston has the Nets' seed at No. 3 with a 15.6 percent chance of the top pick. Boston grabbed the Nets' 2016 first-rounder in the Kevin Garnett/Paul Pierce full-blown disaster.
The Knicks also don't have a second-round pick, but multiple sources told The Post they are being aggressive as usual in looking to buy at least one, if not two, second-round picks.
Last June, the Knicks purchased the Sixers' 35th pick and selected Spanish stash center Willy Hernangomez, who could be on the club next season. He is a former teammate of Kristaps Porzingis, who finished second Monday in the league's rookie of the year balloting to Minnesota's Karl-Anthony Towns, the unanimous winner.
Denver's Nikola Jokic was third.
The 7-foot Towns received all 130 first-place votes from a panel of sports writers and broadcasters in the United States and Canada, joining fellow unanimous winners Damian Lillard (2013), Blake Griffin (2011), David Robinson (1990) and Ralph Sampson (1984).


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Texas A&M guard Andre Gordon (20) and Mark French (12) celebrate as they leave the court after an NCAA college basketball game against Vanderbilt Saturday, Jan. 11, 2020, in Nashville, Tenn. Texas A&M won 69-50. (AP Photo/Mark Humphrey)
Aggie men aim to continue string of strong starts against LSU
By TRAVIS L. BROWN travis.brown@theeagle.com
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As Texas A&M entered the first media timeout in its Southeastern Conference men's basketball matchup with Vanderbilt on Saturday, the Aggies found themselves in new territory. They were leading early on the road.
Williams said he used the timeout as an opportunity to recognize the improvement his team had made through the first three games of SEC play.
"It's another rep for them to have a comprehension level of the storyline of the game," he said Monday on his weekly radio show. "Now, can we take the next step, relative to the opportunity, of how we handle that."
When A&M welcomes LSU (11-4, 3-0) to Reed Arena on Tuesday for a 6 p.m. tip, the Aggies (8-6, 2-1) have a chance to continue on a recent trend of successful starts.
Through A&Ms' 14 games this season, they've only held a lead heading into halftime four times, including Saturday. A 29-25 lead over Fairfield in the Orlando Invitational was the only other first-half lead away from Reed Arena. The Aggies would go on to lose that game 67-62.
"We're better in the second half because we're embarrassed of the first half," Williams said. "How many times do we have to be embarrassed the first half, before we go, 'Oh, we don't look very good?'"
Saturday, the Aggies took a 36-20 lead into halftime and never wavered through the second half. Halftime adjustments have been limited this season as Williams has just emphasized continuing to work through the fundamentals that have been taught since Williams arrived in Aggieland in the spring.
"We're not good enough to make those seismic adjustments," Williams said. "What we need to do is a continuation of the practice."
What will help the Aggies on Tuesday and moving forward is if they can shoot 53% from the field, as they did in Vanderbilt. A 56% mark against Northwestern State in the season opener is the Aggies' only better shooting performance.
On the other hand, LSU enters Tuesday's contest as the SEC leader in field goal percentage and ranks 13th in the nation. Sophomore forward Emmitt Williams leads the Tigers and is second in the SEC in field goal percentage at 62.6%.
However, if the Aggies could bring its SEC win streak to three games with a win over LSU, the A&M squad who continually struggled from the beginning could find itself in third place in the SEC.
"We're redoing it, and can we redo it and can we figure out a way to just get a little bit better relative to these things?" Williams said.
NOTES — Texas A&M moved up to 118 in the most recent NET rankings Monday, having previously sat at No. 124. This week is the first this season the Aggies have not been the lowest-ranked Power 5 team in the country, now ranked higher than South Carolina, Washington State, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, UCLA, Cal and Nebraska.
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• Matchup: LSU at Texas A&M
• When: 6 p.m. Tuesday
• Where: Reed Arena
• Records: A&M (8-6, 2-1); LSU (11-4, 3-0)
• Rankings: LSU receiving votes
• TV: SEC Network, Ch. 40
• Radio: WTAW 1620 AM, 94.5 FM
• Line: LSU by 6
• Next: South Carolina at A&M, noon Saturday
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Soto Zen Buddhism is a Japanese variation on the religion centering around the spiritual enlightenment and subsequent teachings of Siddhārtha Gautama, otherwise known as Buddha, or "Enlightened One," who walked the earth over 2,000 years ago in his native India. Translated as "meditation," the term Zen refers to the mindful practice of sitting silently, referred to as zazen ("sitting meditation"), as a means by which to enter into the present moment — a process that often leads to self-discovery. At the Arcata Zen Group, founded in 1999 by Buddhist priest Maylie Scott (1935-2001) and located at 740 Park Avenue, free sitting meditation sessions are offered to help incorporate this practice into everyday life. In addition to meditation sessions the AZG offers lectures and study groups, volunteer opportunities and fellowship for anyone wishing to participate.
Now under the direction of lead teacher Eugene Bush, who came to Arcata in 2013 from the Santa Cruz Zen Center (where he still teaches), the AZG is comprised of 50 members of varying degrees of involvement. It fashions itself as an inclusive and welcoming spiritual community that challenges practitioners to become aware of privilege in all forms so as to remove competition and comparison. The AZG makes community outreach a primary mode of engaged practice, offering meditation sessions for women at the Humboldt County jail and a twice-monthly meditation program at Pelican Bay in Crescent City in addition to providing meals for the Arcata House Partnership.
Rob Peach: What do you wish to cultivate in practitioners?
Eugene Bush: Generosity, patience, ethical behavior, approaching life with some vigor, cultivating meditative practices like the ability to become still and pay attention, and wisdom. And then of course for me personally it's very important that it's not left on the temple grounds; it's carried out into life. Are we generous and kind with our family and our co-workers? With the people we meet in the grocery store? In my opinion this is a useless practice if it stays self-centered.
RP: What are some of the challenges for new practitioners?
EB: For new, new people, people might come in with an idea that this is peaceful, calm, because the environment looks that way. Kind of the stereotype of Zen is "I'm gonna go chill out. I'm gonna Zen out." It's used as an adjective, adverb. And so people are surprised when they sit down and become still at how busy the mind can be and how many distractions there are. Quite often when we, it happens to me too, still, when we remove all of the extra things like phones and computer screens and books and conversation, we're kind of left with the things that we've been trying to avoid. And sometimes that's painful. One of the things that's hardest for people is that it's not instantly calm and peaceful. There are steps and stages to go through before the calm and peaceful begins to express itself.
RP: How does program of sitting work here?
RP: What has your incorporation of these teachings (into your own life) provided you personally?
EB: More than anything these days, what I feel is a sense of stability and even with the suffering of the world, the chaos that we are sometimes in, the divisiveness that occurs to people, the marginalization that occurs with people, more than anything, I feel I have a sense of being able to return to a stable place. I think there's another aspect. A recent book published that is a collection of talks by my teacher Katherine (Thanas) is called "The Truth of this Life" and Buddhist practice allows us to kind of drop preconceived notions, constructs that we might hold, judgments, evaluations and actually see truth. Or fairly accurately see truth as much as our minds can stand. The stability goes along with being able to drop judgment and evaluation and kind of get out of my own way.
RP: What would you say to someone who is considering coming to the center for the first time?
EB: At the very practical level to request some instruction in forms of practice, to request minimum instruction in the protocols of the meditation hall so that they feel comfortable, at ease. The forms look like they're rigid, but they're not. They're really just a gentle container. And then secondly to sit down with a sense of inquiry — open, lighthearted inquiry. Often people come and experience some benefit right away actually and then become very, very enthusiastic … and soon they burn out. So some advice would be to start slowly and let it build gradually and organically to match the conditions of their life. It's not necessarily true that more is better. … There's a lot about Zen practice that's counter-intuitive.
RP: You had mentioned seeing the truth. How would you explain that?
RP: So in some ways … truth is that which we observe without judgment?
EB: Yeah. But … it's not to denigrate the value of thinking and judging. Part of the function of the mind is to evaluate, analyze, predict. And a human tendency is to go, "Now that I have analyzed it or now that I have judged it, this is the only possibility." So it kind of closes off the whole picture and you can only see the narrow picture that you've chosen. So not denigrating judgment and evaluation but just not giving them more weight than they should have.
RP: When you speak of pain that may arise in the process of sitting, what kind of pain are you talking about?
EB: Sometimes it's physical pain. In the West we're not so accustomed to sitting on the cushion on the floor so it's like holding a yoga posture for a very, very long time. So sometimes it's physical. In the West we're not accustomed to sitting still for a very long time so it takes a while to figure out that we can let the skeleton do the work of sitting and the muscles don't have to work so much. But for some people there's a lot of muscular effort involved at first and that becomes painful, fatiguing. So sometimes it's physical pain. Or if we're working with an athletic injury or a disability we have to figure out how to let this body become still. So physical pain. I would say psychological or emotional pain. Sometimes a sense of grief or loss. That said, in equal measure a sense of stability, a sense of joy, a sense of connectedness are equally as likely to occur.
RP: That was my next question. In what ways does joy factor into the equation?
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Red Monarch is a 1983 British television film starring Colin Blakely as Joseph Stalin. It is directed by Jack Gold and features David Suchet as Lavrentiy Beria and David Threlfall as Stalin's son Vasily.

Red Monarch is a comedy based on The Red Monarch: Scenes From the Life of Stalin, a collection of short critical essays by the Russian dissident and former KGB agent Yuri Krotkov. The film depicts Soviet politics and the interplay between Stalin and his lieutenants, particularly Beria, during the last years of Stalin's rule. The reading of Yevgeny Yevtushenko's "The Heirs of Stalin" in the final scene supposedly warns that the threat of totalitarianism is constantly present.

Cast
 Colin Blakely as Stalin
 David Suchet as Beria
 Carroll Baker as Brown
 Ian Hogg as Shaposhnikov
 David Threlfall as Vasily
 Nigel Stock as Molotov
 Lee Montague as Lee
 David Kelly as Sergo
 Glynn Edwards as Vlasek
 Peter Woodthorpe as Malenkov
 Brian Glover as Khrushchev
 Oscar Quitak as Mekhlis
 Wensley Pithey as Voroshilov
 George A. Cooper as Kaganovitch

Box office
Goldcrest Films invested £553,000 in the film and earned £292,000 making them a loss of £261,000.

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1983 films
British black comedy films
1980s black comedy films
Films directed by Jack Gold
Films about Joseph Stalin
Cultural depictions of Lavrentiy Beria
1983 comedy films
1980s English-language films
1980s British films
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Tomb for Boris Davidovich
by Danilo Kis and Danilo Kies and Duska Mikic-Mitchell
Composed of seven dark tales, A Tomb for Boris Davidovich presents variations on the theme of political and social self-destruction throughout Eastern Europe in the first half of the twentieth century. The characters in these stories are caught in a world of political hypocrisy, which ultimately leads to death, their common fate. Although the stories Kis tells are based on historical events, the beauty and precision of his prose elevates these ostensibly true stories into works of literary art that transcend the politics of their time.
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More About Tomb for Boris Davidovich by Danilo Kis; Danilo Kies; Duska Mikic-Mitchell
Publisher: Dalkey Archive Press
Publish Date: June 2001
Series: Eastern European Studies (Paperback)


As the southernmost region of mainland Italy, Calabria forms the tip of the "boot." A narrow strip of water separates Calabria from the island of Sicily. The close proximity has allowed centuries of invading cultures to shape the food and agriculture of both regions. The methods of preserving food with salt and oil harken back to Roman antiquity; Saracen invaders brought artichokes and bergamot oranges and the Spanish conquistadors forever changed Italian cuisine by introducing tomatoes and chili peppers from the new world.
Today, the agricultural production of Calabria boasts a rich tapestry of tomatoes, eggplant, melons, peppers, artichokes, figs, Tropean red onions and bergamot oranges. The food is elegant in its simplicity, and is based on a foundation of great ingredients grown and preserved at home. Calabrian cuisine has a reputation for heat, and if it's not spicy enough, every table has a jar of oil-packed pepperoncini to add as you see fit. If you've never tried Calabrian chili peppers, you are in for a treat. These small round peppers are little cherry bombs of flavor; all at once salty, fruity, smoky, and spicy with a nice meaty texture.
Our Calabrian Peppers come by way of Tutto Calabria, a small company founded in 1970 by Antonio Celli. Today the company is run by Antonio's children: Giampaolo, Fiorella and Irene Celli, who are equally committed to sharing traditional Calabrian foods with the rest of the world.
We love to eat them straight out of the jar; the seeds add a nice crunch. But they are also delicious stuffed with good oil-packed tuna or anchovies as antipasti. They add a delightful piquancy to a traditional Arrabbiata sauce, and also serve as a great pantry staple for a weeknight meal of bucatini tossed with diced pepperoncini, anchovies, toasted breadcrumbs and olive oil.
We also have Tropean Lampascioni: sweet red onions, grilled, pickled and packed in olive oil. The red onions from the resort town of Tropea are celebrated with an annual festival where they are used to flavor everything from foccacia to gelato. As with the peppers, we like them best straight out of the jar.
paradigm shift, and even though we have many canned tomatoes that we cherish, La Catedral's version are the best we've ever had.
La Catedral de Navarra is a family owned company located in the Navarra region's fertile Ebro valley. Spain has a reputation for putting their best foods into tins and jars. Today, these foods are considered delicacies, but historically they come from the humblest of origins. During the Spanish civil war, soldier's mothers preserved vegetables to sustain their children while they were off fighting. After the Civil War ended, continued food shortages made it essential to store as much seasonal food as possible to feed their families year round. Petra Lopez started her small canning business in Mendavia in the 1920s. By the late 1940s, La Catedral had grown to support the farmers from around their village community, and had a reputation for canning the best artichokes, tomatoes, peppers, white asparagus and leeks in the region.
La Catedral works closely with their farmers; crops are always harvested at their peak of flavor, and are preserved immediately on arrival from the field. This picture shows P.D.O. White Asparagus of Navarra being harvested at night to prevent any photosynthesis from occurring. Once they are brought to the canning facility the asparagus is scalded before peeling, and each jar is packed by hand. The texture is delicate and soft without any fibrous strands, the flavor buttery with just a touch of characteristic bitterness.
La Catedral's Organic, P.D.O. Piquillo peppers are hands down the best any of the Great Ciao-ers have ever eaten. Piquillo peppers are harvested between September and November, charred over open fires, and hand peeled. The whole peppers are then dry packed into jars, so that the intensity of their flavor is preserved as they marinate in their own juices. The texture maintains a bit of crisp snap (something absent in other Piquillo peppers) and you can taste a pleasant hint of fire-licked flavor.
Summer is here and it is time to snack on olives, garnish with olives and celebrate the harvest and curing from last years harvest. The olive tree boasts two prizes—the olive itself and the precious oil pressed from the fruit's flesh. A product like olives and olive oil is so unique and odd when you think about the magical process by which it becomes edible. The trees need a lot of attention; they take a tremendous amount of time before they produce substantive fruit, and the process of converting the fruit into an edible product is complex. Still, it is safe to say we are all thankful for the process and its product. If you want know more about specific olives, check out the product page.
The olive tree has been given the Latin name Olea europaea and is from the botanical family called Oleaceae. It is an evergreen that typically grows from 10-40 ft (3-12 m) tall. The branches are fine and many, and the leathery leaves are spear-shaped and dark green on their tops and silver on their undersides. The trees bloom in the late spring and produce clusters of small, white flowers. Olives grow erratically (unless the trees are cultivated and irrigated) and tend to either produce in alternate years or bear heavy crops and light ones alternately. Seedlings do not produce the best trees. Instead, seedlings are grafted to existing tree trunks or trees are grown from cuttings. Olives are first seen on trees within eight years, but the trees must grow for 15-20 years before they produce worthwhile crops, which they will do until they are about 80 years old. Once established, the trees are enduring and will live for several hundred years.
Olives mature on the tree and can be harvested for green table olives when the fruit is immature or left on the tree to ripen, with a range from green, to brown and to black. The ripe olives are also harvested for processing as food but are left on the trees still longer if they are to be used for oil. Six to eight months after the flowers bloomed, the fruit will reach its greatest weight; and 20-30% of that weight (excluding the pit) is oil. In order to produce edible olives, harvested olives are cleaned, most often treated with a caustic soda (lye) solution which is rinsed away, and then cured in brine made of salt, oil, and flavorings.
· For brined green olives, the salinity begins at 12%-14% and is increased by 2% every two to three weeks until a maximum solution of 22-24% is reached.
· For brined black olives, the curing begins at 8-9% salinity; this is increased by 1-2% every two weeks until a maximum solution of 22-24% is reached.
· For dry cured olives, the dry curing approach starts with ripe, soft olives and results in salty, chewy varieties of dried or oil cured olives. Before curing, the olives are gently "smashed" to allow moisture to permeate their skins. Then the fruit is layered and covered with salt for four weeks. After curing, the olives are immersed in hot water to remove the salt, rinsed in cold water, and spread out to dry. The olives are then coated with olive oil (which is why they are sometimes called "oil cured") before being packed and sterilized.
There are three determining factors to the flavor color and texture of an olive: the most important is the raw material (type of olive), next the color as determined by the timing of the harvest, and finally the texture and flavors as determined by the curing method. The fruit can be harvested when it is green and unripe, fully ripened to black or any stage in between. Older fruit can be salt-cured or dry cured to produce a salty, wrinkled product. Damaged fruit can still be used by pressing it into oil. It is the combination of the harvest, the cure, and any added flavors that yield the characteristics sought by the producer and consumer.
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WHY WON'T TRADER JOE'S SIGN AN AGREEMENT NOT TO SELL SLAVE LABOR TOMATOES?
The company's letter passes responsibility onto its wholesalers, who buy tomatoes from growers and sell them to Trader Joe's (and have less to fear from public embarrassment). In a point-by-point rebuttal to the letter, CIW retorts that "Apparently, Trader Joe's is better at innuendo than math." CIW notes that when it began discussions with the wholesalers — several separate competing companies — the wholesalers said they needed to talk to Trader Joe's before moving forward, but then stopped returning CIW's calls.
My piece also shares reports from tomato growers who've worked in Florida's fields before and after their employers entered Fair Food agreements. Check it out.
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12/10/2014 · How to Clean Violin Strings. Cleaning your violin strings is an important part of being a violinist, as the build-up of rosin and finger oils from routine playing can negatively affect your sound. A damaged violin or broken …... 24/09/2010 · [DEL]I got a second hand 1/4 size violin for my daughter. Genuine Nagoya Suzuki brand, with plastic pegs and all. It was just covered in tape goo. There were tapes on top of tapes on the fingerboard, and on the bow. There was a huge mass of moleskin surrounding the chinrest.
22/10/2015 · Re: what oil do you use to clean fingerboard Originally Posted by WW52 I wouldn't use linseed oil on the fingerboards of my stringed instruments as it's too slow in drying and will polymerize and get sticky unless you add a drier to it, but driers for linseed oil contain very toxic stuff.... And Keep It Clean! I don't know about you, but I hate having a dirty chin rest. I get makeup all over my chin rest, and it looks terrible. I am never 100% sure how to clean my violin, so I decided to call Peter Prier Violins in Salt Lake City, to ask how we should be dealing with dirty chin rests.
How to Clean a Violin Bow. The bow is a very important part of the violin; without it, you would need to play pizzicato all the time. Here are some ways to keep The bow is a very important part of the violin; without it, you would need to play pizzicato all the time. how to clean pandora polishing cloth The gap between the nut and the fingerboard on a violin needs to be the thickness of a business card (approximately. it is an easy guideline) and a little bit more on a viola. If it is much higher, playing in the lower positions can be difficult.
14/03/2012 · Fiddlestix said If it's a true Ebony fingerboard, alcohol won't harm it at all. I use it all the time to clean my string's and the fingerboard.
26/01/2007 · I hate to say it, but it may be too late to clean the fingerboard. I don't know of any safe substance to use to clean it. Try wiping your violin off with a clean dry cloth after you play it.
How to Clean Your Violin Let's clean your violin!! by Kat Hausmann. 224 Views. 4 Likes 1 Comment Between the Fingerboard and the chords. 0 Comment Comment. 9. On the Tailpiece and the Fine Tuners. 0 Comment Comment 10. Do all very soft and slow, and you are going to have a clean violin!!
One way is to place your finger on the string as softly as possible and to use very little tension. The downside of this way is that the finger placement becomes very insecure, vage and you don't hear a good articulation coming from your lef hand.


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University of Cambridge > Talks.cam > Cambridge Philosophical Society > On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere
On the origin of animals, and the invention of the modern biosphere
Professor Nick Butterfield, Department of Earth Sciences
Animals pervade the modern biosphere and control how it works. Their unique combination of organ-grade multicellularity, motility and heterotrophic habit makes them powerful geobiological agents, imposing myriad feedbacks on nutrient cycling, productivity and environment. Most significantly, animals have 'engineered' the biosphere over evolutionary time, forcing the diversification of other organisms, of themselves, and indeed of the evolutionary process itself. This distinctively metazoan dynamic is readily recognizable in the Phanerozoic fossil record, but rapidly dissipates between 500 and 600 million years ago. The relatively belated appearance of animals is the focus of much speculation, with the effects of limited oxygen availability currently dominating most research agendas. I will argue here that such 'permissive environment' hypotheses fail to recognize the uniquely disruptive effects of even the simplest animals on environment, and that the evolution of multicellularity fundamentally enhanced oxygen availability to marine organisms through the invention of biologically mediated fluid flow – large-scale pumping, filtering and swimming. By extension, the convulsive biogeochemical and climatic perturbations of the late Proterozoic are more likely to be the consequences than the causes of early animal evolution.
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At 20 weeks, Meghan is ready to upgrade to a maternity and nursing wardrobe.
Birth day buddies! Both Meghan and Rachel are due in late February – can you guess who is having what?
A cozy and sun-lit space that is full of great, nurturing energy, Fuse is a nesters haven! Owner Roxanna has given birth to a warm and welcoming world for expectant mothers This spot has the cool urban vibe of a resotred townhouse with the pure, exacting goodness of reofrmer based pilates. The one class to be for any DC Mom to be is Fuse's Push Prep. This is a course designed for all levels of moms-to-be. What I adore is how doula and instructor, Randi prepares her students for a combination of strengh and relaxation that the body requires to deliver a baby while at the same time – keeping a real connection and encouraging new friendships along the way.
When Megan shared her pregnancy cravings with me, the choice to super-sate her cinamon and brown sugar Pop-tarts urges was immediately clear. We made a b-line for Ted's Bulitten on 14th street. We were greeted by Ashlie who introduced us to owner Mike (a new dad himself) who had some fun with us – tempting Meghan with a new universe of flavors to choose from (classic strawberry, blueberry cheesecake, salted caramel and the over-the top peanutbutter and bacon). We did not stop there — we were offred the chance to design our own milkshake (I went with strawberry S'more) and sip our way into an indulgent afternoon. Ted's menu also features a wide selection for those in the salty craving world as well (grilled cheese and tomato soup anyone?!?) – and will quickly become your crave-out go-to!
Ted's Bulletin custom milkshakes to toast our guest of honor.
Thank you Debbie for sharing some shots of London-town. Here, shop-windows fill with the only news of the day, Royal Baby Fever!
Today in the Land of Forty Weeks!
Ilissa really knows how to celebrate Jules Galpin style — that would be a chocolate passport (to go with the USA shot glass and American Flag cookie) to mark the moment! Congratulations to Jules on your citizenship and just in time for Independence Day too!
All Kinds of Amazing – and Coming Soon!
Here is a little look inside of the Oscar de la Renta Spring/Summer 2013 Collection. The line is lovely, cleanly chic and in all ways as good as it gets. The whole of the room was filled with smiles (no moody fashionistas, not a one) as the most precious models brought their youthful exuberance and innocent beauty (plus some well placed junior swagger) to the runway. Their fresh-faced, fun-filled energy made for the perfect complement to fashions that were not only terribly elegant but also refreshingly age appropriate. Well done!
I am more than thrilled and cheering (from the sidelines) for this stunning line (wishing I could gift some of those ikat party dresses and pique trapeze dresses to the young beauties in my life Nadia's girls, Jessica's sweet Zoe and of course Lauren's dynamic duo)- and also for new find, George&Ruby – kindred souls must stick together!
Enjoy the view from the sweet side of Fashion Week – I know I did!
Well sure we are busy - September is just days away… and with that will come a wild roller coaster ride of things we hold dear. What's the best part? All of this amazing action is connected to philanthropy and all the result of a lot of hard work, love and commitment. Look forward to hearing more about our launch on September 24 of the Rebecca Minkoff for Bravado Designs Limited Edition Nursing Tank Collection to benefit Baby Buggy as well as the first Fashion Forward Conference featuring a panel led my me on that most magical of topics — Brands, Bloggers and the Bigger Picture. Whew!
Who says we don't have range?
Welcome Sh*tty Mom to the world of Forty Weeks!
I have never been in the Country for BlogHer — it has just never worked out. This year, the planets aligned. Not only did I make it back in time for a quick "drive by" I made it back in time to celebrate and support my friends and their amazing endeavors. I was so over-the-moon to see Audrey and Vera's Getting Gorgeous come to life (having been there on paper since the start, it was a real thrill) and see the careful perfection of Nicole's Land's End BACK TO SCHOOL event – watching the grace with which she hosted no-less than four events — a major coup and shining moment (did I mention all three women looked stunning as can be?).
I had just enough time to do a little entertaining Julia style. This included a small dinner at Casa Nona followed by the newly named (by us!), Cheese Suite at the W Hotel, Union Square. There we simply hung – sipped champagne, nibbled on macaroons, cupcakes and a glorious selection of cheeses (thank you Bedford Cheese Shop – you are my hero) and basked in the glow of friendship, mentorship, laughter and good fortune. It felt all kinds of wonderful.
And that was the Suite Part – all WOW (thank you too to the W, Union Square's Maria, Gerald and Mickey for making this last minute gathering a reality) and all worthwhile!
And now Monday has hit hard, I am a bit road worn and certainly sleepy – but happy for the memories!
Pregnancy rates have decreased over the past two decades among all races, ethnicities and age groups — except for women in their 30s and early 40s.
And then they go on to slice, dice and otherwise make gazpacho of the numbers. I say good (and not just because I adore gazpacho). WHY?
Simply put – pregnant women of all races and ethnicities in their 30s and early 40s are our sweet spot, our goddess our muse here at Forty Weeks. We adore pregnant women of all races and ethnicities in their 30s and early 40s. That amazing maternal mark is unique too in that she is pregnant with intention, education, income and excitement. She wants in on the pregnancy experience and she is an eager participant (as are her family, friends and partner) in Forty Week journey.


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