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#Pudding Pouding Chômeur During the Great Depression, Canadian women made “unemployed-person pudding.”
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Québec
OTHER NAMES: Pudding of the Unemployed, Unemployed-Person Pudding
Thirty percent of Canada’s labor force was unemployed during the Great Depression. In the French-speaking province of Québec, women had many mouths to feed and few ingredients to work with. Legend has it that pouding chômeur (“unemployed-person pudding”) was created by female factory workers relying on the inexpensive staples they had on hand, much like other desperation-inspired dishes such as sugar cream pie.
During tough times, Canadian women made the pudding from stale bread and brown sugar sauce. Then, they baked the syrup-soaked, bubbling casserole until a golden, caramelized crust formed on top. Despite its belittling name, pouding chômeur provided comfort and energy for those who needed it most. After 1939, bakers replaced the leftover bread with a buttery dollop of thick batter. Fresh maple syrup and heavy cream became the accoutrements of choice.
Locals still consider the melding of Canadian ingredients and French techniques an example of quintessentially Québécois cuisine. Today, restaurants and home chefs prepare the baked pudding with walnuts, citrus, and other ingredients reflective of economic stability. During the chilly saison des sucres (sugar season) in early spring, pouding chômeur keeps diners cozy and content, employed and unemployed alike.
Where to Try It: Le Lapin Sauté 52 Rue du Petit-Champlain, Quebec City, Quebec, G1K 4H4, Canada This French eatery specializes in rabbit and serves a maple gratin pouding chômeur
This is part of the reason I feel so hopeless. We have a #Conservative government of dishonourable charlatans and spivs, filling their allies’ pockets, led by a cousin of the Queen. We have the official #Opposition (that’s supposedly #Labour in case one was wondering) who are led by a knight of the realm. Then there are the #FibDems, who knows who’s leading them at the moment, and given they are even less reliable than the incumbents, one probably should ignore them. If I could, I’d vote #SNP, at least I have some kind of Scottish connection. But all I am left with are the #Greens. Here is one example (2016), of the redoubtable Caroline attempting to hold the government to account, and, notice, all on her ownsome. What a load of toadies lead us! I am trying hard not to despair...
#SeasonalEats Agua de Agrillo This tart, rare flavor of agua fresca comes from Mexican skunkbush berries.
PLACE OF ORIGIN: Mexico
When crushed, the leaves of Rhus trilobata give off a smell so intense it has earned the plant the nickname “skunkbush.” Despite its less-than-agreeable aroma, the people of Arandas, a city in the Mexican state of Jalisco, have been using its fruit, called agrillo, for centuries.
The shrub, from the sumac family, produces hairy, sticky red berries. Edible and sour, they are the perfect fit for ice cream, popsicles, and agua fresca, a typical Mexican drink made of fruit, water, sugar, and a combination of flowers, cereals, and spices.
Agua de agrillo, as this type of agua fresca is known, is a refreshingly tart drink served in Mexican restaurants and homes primarily in the early spring. In the dry, mountainous area surrounding Arandas, the plant gives fruit only once a year, in late February or March, when temperatures begin to rise and the climate becomes more arid. Exports of agrillo-based products are low, making them unique cultural mainstays in the city.
Since agrillo is difficult to come by when it’s not in season, plan a trip to Arandas around this time of year. Agua de agrillo is a welcome complement to the region’s famous carnitas and particular style of tacos al pastor.
Need to Know Agrillo berries grow in late February or March, so agua de agrillo will typically be available at the very beginning of spring. Though the skunkbush is native to the Western half of North America, from Canada to Mexico, you'll likely find agua de agrillo only in the area around Arandas
#Bees. (5 photos and 1 video) The Zen Beekeeper Returning Hives to the Wild By handling bees with his bare hands, Michael Joshin Thiele seeks to better understand them.
oh good man, he. Fuck em off, say i (tongue in cheek) - although the honeybee is important to oz agriculture and horticulture, they are an import and we tend to not do well with imports. We have squillions of types of native bee - the varroa scare opened up a whole new world of beekeeping (inc the export of queens) and awareness of how little we know about our own bees. Sugarbag and other stingless native bees are now being explored somewhat successfully as an alternative, although this is only on a small scale as yet. A most interesting article, thanks Stuart 😀
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#Fruit. (4 photos) How India’s ‘Mango Man’ Grew a Tree With 300 Flavors Kalimullah Khan was inspired by a crossbred rose bush.
[ photo description Three varieties from Khan’s famous tree: The Tommy Atkins mango (left) that became popular in Florida, the Suvarnarekha (middle) whose name means color or streak of gold, and the Husn-e-Ara (right), which means adorned in beauty ]
We have about 85 different varieties of mango that grow on my home Caribbean island of St Croix US Virgin Islands. Some people are allergic to them, I'm not but just never cared for the taste of tem
NE LA TUEZ PAS !!! Il s’agit bien d’une abeille qui est présente en ce moment dans les jardins. Elle s'appelle l'abeille Xylocope. C'est la plus grosse abeille d'Europe (2.5 à 3 cm). Elle ne pique pas (si on ne la chasse pas bien-sûr). Le Xylocope est une abeille dite "solitaire". Mais elle peut vivre en colonies, c'est à dire côte à côte. Noire avec des ailes bleutées... elle est très belle mais peut faire peur, son vol est rapide et très bruyant, mais elle n'est pas agressive et pique rarement. Elle est à protéger parce que rare et très utile....certaines personnes la confondant avec le frelon asiatique !!! Merci à vous de faire circuler....😊 Source: Bruno Deleuze
Here's your reminder that the whole idea of a personal carbon footprint was a targeted BP media campaign in 2005 and it worked so well that it seems like we've all forgotten this
Astronomy Picture of the Day 2021 April 6 Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill Image Credit & Copyright: Kristine Richer Explanation: Is this just a lonely tree on an empty hill? To start, perhaps, but look beyond. There, a busy universe may wait to be discovered. First, physically, to the left of the tree, is the planet Mars. The red planet, which is the new home to NASA's Perseverance rover, remains visible this month at sunset above the western horizon. To the tree's right is the Pleiades, a bright cluster of stars dominated by several bright blue stars. The featured picture is a composite of several separate foreground and background images taken within a few hours of each other, early last month, from the same location on Vinegar Hill in Milford, Nova Scotia, Canada. At that time, Mars was passing slowly, night after night, nearly in front of the distant Seven Sisters star cluster. The next time Mars will pass angularly as close to the Pleiades as it did in March will be in 2038.
Astronomy Picture of the Day 2021 April 6 Mars and the Pleiades Beyond Vinegar Hill Image Credit & Copyright: Kristine Richer Explanation: Is this just a lonely tree on an empty hill? To start, perhaps, but look beyond. There, a busy universe may wait to be discovered. First, physically, to the left of the tree, is the planet Mars. The red planet, which is the new home to NASA's Perseverance rover, remains visible this month at sunset above the western horizon. To the tree's right is the Pleiades, a bright cluster of stars dominated by several bright blue stars. The featured picture is a composite of several separate foreground and background images taken within a few hours of each other, early last month, from the same location on Vinegar Hill in Milford, Nova Scotia, Canada. At that time, Mars was passing slowly, night after night, nearly in front of the distant Seven Sisters star cluster. The next time Mars will pass angularly as close to the Pleiades as it did in March will be in 2038.
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#Technology Can we make ourselves more empathetic? 100 years of research still has psychologists stumped. Polygraphs and other emotional sensors are still imperfect after a century of practice.
P.J. Risdon slides into an armchair in University of London’s physiological laboratory, where a small army of vacuum tubes surround the room, their hot coils humming and glowing in the shadows. “Compose yourself and smoke,” the doctor tells Risdon.
A lab assistant moves towards him holding an aluminum disk tethered to a wire. Risdon notices the assistant’s hands are badly scarred. The doctor’s doing, the assistant confirms with an affirmative nod. He dips a swatch of blotting paper in saltwater and places it on Risdon’s left hand. The wires connect to a sprawling tabletop apparatus centered around a galvanometer—a machine to detect current.
Electricity surges through the electrodes, and a bead of light jumps across a graduated scale on the meter. The scale indicates the strength of the current passing through Risdon’s hand, establishing a baseline for his conductive activity. Without warning, the doctor grabs a pin about four inches long and lunges at Risdon’s right hand but pulls back just before jabbing it. Risdon recoils. The white light spikes. “The passage of an electric current varies according to the emotional condition of a subject,” the doctor explains. The more aroused, the higher the current.
The man behind the pin is the University of London’s physiological laboratory’s director, Augustus Desiré Waller, who’d recently invented the first practical electrocardiogram (Willem Einthoven later won the 1924 Nobel prize for perfecting the ECG, also EKG). Risdon subjected himself to these experiments voluntarily while reporting an article for the February 1921 issue of Popular Science (“such is the duty to one’s editor”) to see firsthand how Waller’s latest machine accomplished the feat of quantifying human emotions. In his account, he noted that the device was not sophisticated enough to tell the difference between “anger, sorrow, and fright,” but that it could measure their presence and intensity, even if the subject tried to conceal them.
Over the course of this experiment, Risdon would also suffer being startled by a loud horn, burned with a match, and threatened with a “red-hot poker.” He was even asked to “think of something (other than red-hot pokers) which had been a cause of worry and anxiety.” Naturally, Risdon “began to wonder what the editor would think of [his] adventure, and the bead of light traveled out of sight.”
Waller’s unwieldy emotion-measuring apparatus marked the beginning of a wave of technological advances that, in 2021, transects a growing appeal for the encouragement of empathy. “I can learn about emotions by using my sensors as a lens,” says Elliott Hedman, founder of mPath, a design consulting firm that applies biosensors in classrooms, shopping centers, and other real-world settings to measure everything from student engagement to consumer reactions. “But what the sensors are better at doing is communicating people’s emotions to other people.” By quantifying emotions, his sensors encourage empathy.
We find ourselves a century after Waller’s first emotion-tracking attempts faced with a confluence of crises—novel pandemic, social unrest, economic distress, widespread disinformation, and climate devastation—whose successful resolutions clamor for us to set aside our differences, gather our resources, and work together. Accomplishing that, however, requires something that’s been increasingly hard to come by: an ability to share one another’s emotions, feel one another’s “anger, sorrow, and fright,” and act on one another’s behalf, especially in times of duress.
A few years after Risdon’s encounter with Waller, American inventor Leonarde Keeler first developed what he called an Emotograph, a machine designed to detect deception. By 1935 the Keeler Polygraph, which monitored blood pressure, pulse, and respiratory rate, secured its legacy in a criminal court case in Portage, Wisconsin, the first time the results were used to obtain a conviction. By the 1950s, it had been enhanced to incorporate skin conductance, a phenomenon in which the dermal layer becomes a better conductor of electricity whenever external or internal stimuli trigger physiological arousal. (Chalk one up for Risdon.)
The polygraph represents perhaps the most widely used application of biosensors designed to detect an emotional state, specifically deception. But its track record has been controversial. According to a 2003 study conducted by the National Academy of Sciences and the National Research Council, “overall, the evidence is scanty and scientifically weak” to support the use of polygraph tests for “security uses.” They based their conclusion on the findings that “the physiological responses measured by the polygraph are not uniquely related to deception.”
Hedman agrees—mostly. “Lie detectors do not detect lies,” he explains, “that is a misnomer, but that doesn’t mean they don’t work.” Emotions are complex, making it nearly impossible for devices like a polygraph to isolate a discrete emotion. Rather, they detect physiological arousal, or what Hedman calls “your reptilian response.”
Today’s emotion sensors—made by companies like mPath, Empatica, and Emotiv—measure everything a traditional polygraph did and more: sweat gland output, body movement, speech patterns, facial expressions, and neurological activity. Plus, they’ve been packed into wearables like wristbands, gloves, glasses, headbands, and jewelry. Companies often apply machine learning to interpret the data and make predictions. Empatica probes the feelings of autistic children, mPath quantifies student engagement, and Emotiv measures employee levels of stress.
Yet despite their compelling emotional insights, the gadgets remain imprecise. The problem is that physiological arousal alone is not a clear-cut indicator. Anger will elevate heart rate but so will fear. When monitoring someone remotely, how do researchers tell the difference? “Context matters,” Hedman says. “Video plus skin conductance tells a much deeper story.” In fact, emotion-sensing researchers rely on multiple inputs in an approach called emototyping. For his work, Hedman employs a combination of video, eye-tracking glasses, skin conductance—and people.
But if humans are still needed to establish context, then what value does an array of biosensors really add when it comes to measuring emotions? It would seem that even after a century nothing beats the uniquely human ability to determine the mental states of others based on subtle biological cues and their context. Daniel Goleman’s 1995 book, Emotional Intelligence, promoted the decades-old notion that people who readily discern between emotions have a heightened sense of empathy. That enables them to connect with the experiences of others, making them better partners, parents, coworkers, leaders, and friends.
Through his research, Hedman has demonstrated that when he shows a person’s skin conductance results to other people, they are seven times more likely to believe that the person is having a strong emotional reaction and to empathize with that person.
“If you see the data of someone else’s stress, it is so much more potent. You really believe it when you put emotions into a quantitative measurement. It actually creates a sense of empathy in people.” But does Hedman believe there’s an opportunity to deploy emotion sensors widely, at a level that our shared crises demand? “These sensors,” he admits, “are bumping into a culture that isn’t really ready to have emotions first and foremost at every piece of the conversation.”
When Risdon eased himself into Waller’s laboratory chair in 1921, he could not have foreseen how the unwieldy apparatus sitting on the table beside him would help inspire an entire emotion-sensing industry a century later. Nor could he have guessed that the most compelling case of all for emotion-sensing devices might be to heighten our collective sense of empathy at a time when it seems in short supply.
The problem is that Only the production fo goods and services can guarantee a person sufficient resources to live at even a modest level and those are not incentivized by basic income or welfare, whatever name you want to give it. If you pay people to sit on their asses then that's exactly what they do, nothing is produced and everyone is poor and starving as a result.
Sure, people won't work at Amazon, or plow the fields. You could say this is a problem. What I see is a bigger problem: 'cementing' the absolute authority of The State, turning The State into a 'cradle-to-grave' definition of a replacement of society as such. UBI would legitimize this complete overtaking of society, which is always the agenda of humans such as those who created, own and control The State.
Production is a purely practical concern. The problem, so to say, in Brave New World was not a lack of physical resources. Once they've cut the population down to these 500 million, all kinds of automation and robots will probably be more than able to provide food, clothes, technology and drugs to cover all needs, but humanity will then be barn animals or pets...
@Ulf Ayirtahsk Berg One ought to be concerned with "purely practical concerns", like having food to eat, clothes to wear, and a place to stay, none of which communism provides reliably.
Communism is the anti-reality agenda of making up a society on paper, literally on paper, that conforms to 1) some ideological notion of how the world ‘should’ be, and 2) is created, owned and controlled by the Communists. The prominent part of Communism is that it’s anti-reality. Its failure to make a functioning society, is simply a consequence of that, and not any ‘defining trait’ of Communism. Give these people enough time, and they’ll diligently find ways to solve the problems they come across. You can look at how they rigged the U.S. Election, how they own academia, media, that is both news and entertainment, Internet, religion, and so on…
Failure is not a necessary part of anti-realityism, and in the long run, people can figure out a lot of things. Being a Communist is about a particular social attitude, not about being an otherwise normal human but just low in IQ. When I say ‘purely practical concerns’ I don’t mean practical concerns as such but concerns that are nothing but practical. That would mean for example that on a purely practical level, cannibalism is ‘expedient’, and so is killing one’s own offspring. Purely practical concerns is amoral utilitarianism. Again, the book Brave New World is about this one, single topic.
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