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Illustrative image of an avocado.(photo credit: PIXABAY)
Unlike other fruits that grow on trees, avocadoes do not ripen until harvest. An unripe avocado retains a light color, even after picking, and is quite firm when pressed and touched.
The clear sign that the avocado
is ripe is a darker-colored skin and it becomes softer. Sometimes it
happens that it overripens when the avocado is very dark and the fruit
is overly pulpy after being pressed.
In that case, you need to grab the knife and enjoy the avocado while you still can.
How to Quickly Ripen a Hard Avocado - With This Simple Trick
What can you do?
So here is a sure and quick way to make the avocado ripen in no time:
Put the unripe avocado in a brown paper bag with an apple or a banana for two to three days until ripe.
Avocados
are pictured as volunteers from a culinary school attempt to set a new
Guinness World Record for the largest serving of guacamole in Concepcion
de Buenos Aires, Jalisco, Mexico September 3, 2017 (credit: FERNANDO
CARRANZA / REUTERS)
This technique is made possible by
ethylene, a plant hormone that affects processes such as fruit ripening,
and is found in apples and bananas.
Combining the fruits in a brown paper bag will speed up the ripening process.
Fastest Way to Ripen Avocados - 5 Hacks Tested & Reviewed
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RECIPE AND INGREDIENTS:
1 onion.
30 grams of butter. Fry until golden brown.
1 carrot. Fry for 3-5 minutes.
Potatoes 350 gr.
add to the vegetables. Boil 5 minutes.
Broccoli 2 small or 1 large.
water 1.5 liters.
salt 1 tablespoon.
nut meg Bring to a boil and cook for 30 minutes.
The sauce is a must! ;-)
Yoghurt 150 gr.
Garlic.
It will be delicious!
Chives.
Dill.
Salt.
Black pepper.
mixing
bread
Salt.
garlic powder.
olive oil
Fry for 5-7 minutes.
Stir occasionally!
Enjoy your meal!
For more directions watch the video
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Iranian Navy Sahand warship sails along the Persian Gulf, April 2019. Photo: Morteza Nikoubazl/NurPhoto via REUTERS
Iran’s maritime ambitions have led it to develop, over the past two decades, two separate navies.
The first is the Revolutionary Guards’ naval forces, which mostly operates at the Straits of Hormuz, the Persian Gulf and the Gulf of Oman. Its main goal is to protect Iran’s maritime assets and infrastructure from military actions taken by the US Navy.
Iran’s second navy is its regular naval forces, which began building its strength over the past five years. It is designed to operate far from Iranian shores in commando operations, intelligence gathering, and maintaining the free movement of Iranian merchant ships. It is also meant to form the first line of defense against US Navy vessels.
The regular navy, which has been fighting for its honor and missions vis-à-vis the Revolutionary Guards’ navy (which enjoys a large budget), has begun in recent years to carry out missions of “presence demonstration” far from Iran, including a sailing display to Syria and to the Atlantic.
The Iranian Navy has been developing the concept of positioning itself as a direct threat on the US, by signaling that actions are not one-sided: it is not only the US that has the capabilities to operate against Iran, but also vise-versa, and on a regular basis.
Iran Navy to Station WARSHIPS In Panama Canal; Direct Threat to U.S.?
Under this framework, the Iranian Navy is planning on operating a permanent base in the Panama Canal, right in the US back yard. Iran’s Navy Commander, Rear Admiral Shahram Irani, announced last week that over the coming year, the navy is expected to hold its maiden voyage to the Pacific Ocean, and anchoring in the Panama Canal area.
This is not the first step Iran’s navy has taken in the region. For the past three years or so, it has been operating in Venezuela, aiding Maduro’s regime by supplying, oil, money and weapons. It also operates in Nicaragua, Brazil and Bolivia.
Iran has been gaining political and military power thanks to Chinese support and to assisting Russian in the war on Ukraine. Given that, Tehran has become more daring, and has been acting more forcefully in the region close to the US.
For its part, the US has is not taking any action to stop Iran. It has been scattering threats through the media, but in actually – is not doing anything.
Iran sent warships to Panama Canal: US is silent
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Biden's climate envoy John Kerry says an 'extra terrestrial' force brought people to Davos to 'save the planet' in bizarre World Economic Forum speech
'I'm convinced we will get to a low-carbon, no-carbon economy — we're going to get there because we have to,' John Kerry said
'I am not convinced we're going to get there in time to do what the scientists said, which is avoid the worst consequences of the crisis,' he added
'You look at what's happening with species, half the species of the planet been already killed,' Kerry added
U.S. climate envoy John Kerry told a group of attendees Tuesday at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland that they were part of a 'select group of human beings' brought together by an 'extra-terrestrial' force to save the planet.
The climate czar opened by thanking Børge Brende, president of the World Economic Forum in Geneva for getting him the 'best room I ever had here in 35 years.'
Kerry then launched into a diatribe warning attendees that 'time is running out' to avoid climate change's 'worst consequences.'
'When you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,' Kerry mused.
'When you stop and think about it, it's pretty extraordinary that we select group of human beings because of whatever touched us at some point in our lives, are able to sit in a room and come together and actually talk about saving the planet,' climate envoy John Kerry said
'It's so... almost extra-terrestrial to think about, "saving the planet." If you say that to most people most people, they think you're just a crazy tree hugging and lefty liberal, you know, do-gooder, whatever.'
Kerry — who delivered the speech during a WEF session titled Philanthropy: A Catalyst for Protecting Our Planet -- decried that 'allegedly wise adult human beings' still ignored the science, mathematics and physics of climate change.
'I'm convinced we will get to a low-carbon, no-carbon economy — we're going to get there because we have to,' he said.
'I am not convinced we're going to get there in time to do what the scientists said, which is avoid the worst consequences of the crisis,' he added.
'And those worst consequences are going to affect millions of people all around the world, [in] Africa and other places. Of the 20 most affected countries in the world from [the] climate crisis, 17 are in Africa.'
Kerry spoke about the goal of keeping climate warming under 1.5 degrees Celsius.
As to how to get there, he said: 'the lesson I've learned in the last years and I learned it as secretary [of State] and I've learned it since, reinforced in spades, is: money, money, money, money, money, money, money. And I'm sorry to say that.'
Kerry said governments would need to ramp up their investments as would philanthropists to keep the climate from warming 1.5 C
Kerry said governments would need to ramp up their investments as would philanthropists.
Funding in clean energy would need to more than triple its current levels by 2030 to around $4 trillion, according to the International Energy Agency.
The 1.5 degree goal originated in the 2015 Paris Climate Agreement that aims to 'limit global warming to well below 2, preferably to 1.5 degrees Celsius, compared to pre-industrial levels.'
'You look at what's happening with species, half the species of the planet been already killed,' Kerry added.
Kerry also complained that companies often publicly commit to a path towards zero emissions but don't disclose how they plan to get there.
'Let's face it, [a] whole bunch of companies in the world have chosen to say, 'I'm going to be net zero by 2050',' he said.
'And you and I, we know they don't have a clue how they're going to get there. And most of them are not on track to get there.'
Republicans have mocked Kerry for criss-crossing the globe on emissions-heavy planes while trying to underscore a sense of urgency about the climate.
Over around 15 months, Kerry flew more than 180,000 miles on flights that emitted more than 9.5 million pounds of carbon, roughly 300 times an American’s average annual carbon footprint, according to a Washington Free Beacon analysis.
Prostitutes gather in Davos for annual meeting of global elite - where demand for sexual services rockets during economic summit
Prostitutes report a surge in business during the annual gathering of leaders
Escorts are booked into delegates' hotels alongside business executives
Sex workers dress in business attire and rub shoulders with the global elite
The global elite tackling the world's problems at the Davos summit including gender inequality are fuelling a surge in prostitution in the Swiss resort.
Demand for sex work skyrockets each year at the meeting of world leaders and business tycoons who jet in from all around the world to rub shoulders with each other.
Escorts are booked into the same hotels as high-powered bosses and their employees during the five-day summit.
One sex worker named Liana said she dresses in business attire so she doesn't stand out among the executives, despite prostitution being legal in Switzerland.
Salome Balthus (pictured), a sex worker and public intellectual, is staying at a hotel near Davos during the summit
She told Bild she regularly sees an American who visits Switzerland multiple times a year, and is among the 2,700 conference attendees.
Liana charges around 700 euros for an hour and 2,300 euros for the whole night, plus travel expenses.
The manager of one escort service in Aargau, 100 miles away from the summit, says she has already received 11 bookings and 25 enquiries and expects many more to follow this week.
She told 20 Minuten: 'Some also book escorts for themselves and their employees to party in the hotel suite.'
Salome Balthus, a sex worker and public intellectual, posted on Twitter: 'Date in Switzerland during #WWF means looking at the gun muzzles of security guards in the hotel corridor at 2 a.m. - and then sharing the giveaway chocolates from the restaurant with them and gossiping about the rich... #Davos #WEF.'
Demand for sex work skyrockets each year at the meeting of world leaders and business tycoons
The 36-year-old is staying at a hotel near Davos throughout the summit but refused to reveal who the influential clients are.
She cautioned: 'Believe me, you don't want to get into litigation with them.'
In 2020, an investigation by The Times found at least 100 prostitutes travel to Davos for the summit, a Swiss police officer said.
One official driver for the forum said he picked up one sex worker who claimed she had been forced by her 'boss' to sleep with an older client at a delegates' hotel.
Among the topics up for discussion at this year's summit are the Ukraine war, global inflation rates, climate change and inequality.
Ukraine's first lady Olena Zelenska will give a rare international address today at the annual gathering.
The Covid-19 pandemic torpedoed the snow-covered event each of the last two years but a springtime version was held eight months ago.
Alain Berset, President of the Switzerland, Olena Zelenska, First Lady of Ukraine, Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission and World Economic Forum founder Klaus Schwab, pose together today
Dozens of sessions on Tuesday will take up issues as diverse as gender parity, the return of manufacturing, the green transition, efforts to end tuberculosis and the intersection of food, water and energy, which will feature actor Idris Elba.
European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen and Chinese Vice Premier Liu He are also among the speakers.
Nearly 600 chief executives and more than 50 heads of state or government are expected, but it is never clear how much concrete action emerges from the elite event.
The elite gathering is regularly skewered by critics who argue that attendees are too out-of-touch or profit- or power-minded to address the needs of common people and the planet.
Throughout the week, critics and activists will be waiting outside the Davos conference centre to try to hold decision-makers and business leaders to account.
It started on Sunday, when dozens of climate activists, some with clown makeup, braved snowfall to wave banners and chant slogans at the end of the Davos Promenade, a thoroughfare now lined with storefront logos of corporate titans like Accenture, Microsoft, Salesforce, Meta, as well as country 'houses' that promote national interests.
Greenpeace International also blasted use of corporate jets that ferry in bigwigs, saying such carbon-spewing transportation smacks of hypocrisy for an event touting its push for a greener world.
It said over 1,000 private-jet flights arrived and departed airports serving Davos in May.
Forum President Borge Brende acknowledged on Sunday that some government leaders and chief executives fly in that way.
'I think what is more important than that is to make sure we have agreements on how we, overall, move and push the envelope when it comes to the green agenda,' he said.
A Russian officer (R) and soldiers stand next to a special military truck at the Russian northern military base on Kotelny island, beyond the Arctic Circle on April 3, 2019. (Photo credit should read Maxime Popov/AFP via Getty Images)
MILAN, Italy — Unmanned technologies could offer the West an opening to catch up with Russia, bogged down in Ukraine, in establishing a foothold in the warming Arctic, according to issue experts.
The sea ice covering the Arctic ocean is melting at an alarming rate of 13% per decade due to climate change, according to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA). This has created for Arctic states – the United States, Canada, Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Russia and Sweden – as well as non-Arctic countries a renewed land of opportunity to assert military and commercial control over this recently accessible territory as greater natural resource extraction and new shipping lanes have emerged.
The only issue? The West is fairly late to the game against Russia’s long-standing presence in the region, where experts agree it has succeeded in maintaining military superiority over the last decade.
“Moscow considers the Arctic key to its national security and economic development – this was enshrined in its government statements, policies and especially in its Maritime Doctrines since the early 1990s,” said Samuel Bendett, research analyst at the Center for Naval Analyses’ Russian Studies Program. “Its overall approach to the development of the region today builds on its Cold War legacy, when the country inherited massive technical and knowledge base after 1992 and extended it.”
The Kremlin has secured its Arctic military capability primarily by banking on a “superior number of ice-breakers, its pioneering of Arctic-capable military drones, upgrading off-shore bases, missiles, runways and radar systems,” says James Rogers, associate professor in war studies at the Danish Institute for Advanced Study. It is important to note that the region is also an integral part of Russia’s Northern Fleet operational environment, which houses the country’s most powerful nuclear submarines.
According to data from the American Security Project, in 2020 the number of Russian military bases in use or being modernized in the Arctic was at least 16, of which 12 are air bases, three submarine bases and one drone-aerial reconnaissance base.
Jussi Kangasoja, unmanned aircraft specialist at the Arctic Drone Labs collective in Finland, explains that Moscow has been known to have several operational Arctic-capable drones for years.
“In 2018, Kalashnikov presented the dual-purpose Zala Arctic drone series [including the Zala 421-08M and Zala 421-16E] suited for the region’s conditions,” he said. “In 2019, state sources announced the existence of another UAV able to remain in-flight for four days in the Arctic without the need to rely on jammable satellite-based navigation. In 2021, Radar MMS introduced a heavy lift cargo drone capable of working at -70 degree celsius. It is also documented that Russia is using underwater unmanned drones (UUVs), with some, such as the nuclear-powered Poseidon, developed particularly for Arctic waters.”
To this list, Bendett adds that the following are reported to be in development for the region: tiltrotor and helicopter type drones (VRT-300), the Sarma deep-water autonomous UUV undergoing final tests, and the Shadow-2 UUV. Russia has also initiated its “Project Iceberg” consisting of deep-water drilling and maintenance stations that involve robotic and autonomous UUVs, which he says is “likely the country’s largest and most ambitious project of its kind.”
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War in Ukraine
Experts have mixed reviews about whether Russia’s war on Ukraine is detracting attention from Arctic expansion. While Rogers and Kangasoja are of the similar view that Moscow’s offensive in Ukraine “has taken a toll on both Russian Arctic readiness and its deployable assets,” Bendett states that he has not necessarily seen it lessen the pace of its regional development.
On the contrary, he says, “the Russian government kept announcing more resources for the Arctic in 2022, such as the construction of more icebreakers and military submarines, as well as calling for greater attention there in 2023.”
Nonetheless, specialists warn that although the Kremlin appears to have highly advanced Arctic technology, the equipment has yet to see much real use. Kangasoja said that “Russia’s military capabilities, including the performance of its equipment, have been quite generally overestimated prior to the war.” In his opinion, it is clear that the conflict has pulled plenty, if not the majority, of Russian resources in terms of manpower and weapons from Arctic bases, leaving behind minimum crew. “It is also a fact that its production has slowed down because of international sanctions and that the war is consuming its supplies heavily,” he said.
Rogers concurs that in the past Moscow has been known to embellish and overstate the capacity and readiness of its military weapons. However, he emphasizes that he would not “conclude in any way that Russia is weak when it comes to Arctic defense.” In fact, Moscow could very well “be holding back some of its more high-tech systems or Arctic ready drones.”
Where the West stands
The U.S. and Western allies have a number of operational Arctic capabilities gaps to close if they want to catch up or outpace Russian development in the region. Washington currently struggles with many of its drones losing network and communication capabilities when operating above the 77th parallel north, which U.S. Northern Command chief Gen. Glen VanHerck has said hinders the military’s “day-to-day” competitiveness in the region. Additionally, the country lacks sufficient functional infrastructure to support the operation of such systems. Its primary Arctic territory is concentrated along Alaska’s 34,000 miles coastline, where it has five military bases with only one other, Thule Air Base, located in Greenland.
Kangasoja is optimistic that the current state of Russian forces in Ukraine is giving “an almost unprecedented opportunity for the West to not only catch up but also take a strong lead with unmanned technologies within the Arctic context.”
Several Western countries seem to be prioritizing the development of Arctic-capable drones. An example of this is the IDG consortium, a multinational cooperation project among six Arctic-Antarctic nations consisting of Andøya Space Center (Norway), Boeing’s drone company Insitu, C-Core (Canada), Karl Osen (Switzerland), MDSI (Denmark), Scott Polar Research Institute (UK), Viasat (US) and VTT (Finland). Together they have created the Integrated Remote Sensing for the Arctic (IRSA) architecture, a system for monitoring and reconnaissance with four different types of drones, satellites, aircraft and underwater vehicles. The system was first showcased in 2021 in Denmark.
The U.S. possesses the Arctic Shark, designed for beyond-line-of-sight operations in polar regions, which can carry a payload up to 70 pounds (32kg). The U.S. Navy has also been developing a wide-area underwater surveillance system including UUVs, while General Atomics successfully tested the MQ-9A Reaper in the Canadian Arctic in 2021.
“We demonstrated a new capability for effective ISR operations by performing a loiter at 78.31° North (using Inmarsat’s L-band Airborne ISR Service) during a 25.5 hours flight that covered 4,550 miles and reached temperatures at times below -50 degrees Celsius,” General Atomics spokesman Mark Brinkley wrote in an email to Defense News. He added that in recent months, the company has been operating the MQ-9B from snow-covered runways in northern Japan in significantly cold conditions as well.
Among the European countries leading the way is Denmark with its political prioritization of the region, realizing in 2021 an Arctic capability package. Within this, the country has pledged to spend $108 million on fielding several long-endurance surveillance drones, in line with a NATO request for the Faroe Islands, and $8.6 million on ship-based tactical drones.
Another state making strides is Finland, where Arctic Drone Labs is based.
Kangasoja, the UAS Specialist there, explains “we operate a fleet of 20-plus drones and various sensors in the North and are as we speak in the middle of planning new investments. As we are based just below the Arctic circle, our systems are tested in highly challenging conditions.” He says the fleet acts as a training platform for pilots and researchers and they help manufacturers to trial their vehicles in specific test areas throughout Finland.
For his part, Bendett is not as optimistic that the West can match Russian superiority in the region. He emphasizes that Russia has in its possession a dedicated number of financial, technical and human resources for the continuation of Arctic exploration, which include of developing more uncrewed technologies.
“Even if the West develops more uncrewed systems, that is not enough to have a significant presence in the Arctic, which requires [more] icebreakers and manned stations,” Bendett argues.
One thing is clear, says Rogers: Regardless of the conflict in Ukraine, Moscow’s robust rhetoric about the high-priority defense of the Russian Arctic remains unchanged.
World powers compete to dominate the Arctic
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