Preparation time
less than 30 mins
Cooking time
30 mins to 1 hour
Serves
Serves 4
An unusual seafood salad topped with a creamy anchovy dressing and crisp croûtons.
Equipment and preparation: for this recipe you will need a deep-fat fryer and a food processor.
For the mussels, kumquats and rosemary. Heat the vegetable oil in a deep-fat fryer or a deep-sided, heavy-bottomed pan to 180C, or until a breadcrumb sizzles and turns golden-brown when dropped into it. (CAUTION: hot oil can be dangerous. Do not over-fill the pan or leave unattended).
Pick the top heads off the rosemary sprigs and put in the hot oil, remove straight away with a slotted spoon and drain on kitchen paper. Set aside.
Mix the semolina and polenta. Pat the mussel meat dry and toss in the semolina and polenta mix to coat, shake off any excess.
Increase the deep-fat fryer temperature to 190C. Put the mussels in the deep-fat fryer, fry for 1-2 minutes, or until crispy. Remove and drain on kitchen paper. Season with fine salt and toss with the kumquats and rosemary.
For the anchovy dressing, put all the ingredients in a food processor and blend.
For the purple sprouting broccoli, remove the woody ends and leaves, reserve the leaves. Slice the stems vertically, taking care to keep the florets attached. Put under a damp cloth and set aside.
Put the capers, reserving a few for garnish, the Parmesan, rosemary and a pinch of salt in a bowl and mix.
Put the butter in a saucepan, melt until it bubbles and turns nutty brown. Keeping on a low heat, add the focaccia and toss every so often until the bread is evenly dark-brown. Remove the bread with a slotted spoon and put on a tray. Sprinkle the capers and Parmesan mix over the bread while it is still hot so that it sticks to the bread.
Put the broccoli in a large bowl, spoon over a little dressing to coat the florets and leaves. Fold through the capers, torn anchovies, croûtons and a couple of shaves of Parmesan. I crush a little extra bread to garnish and a few more Parmesan shavings and finish with extra virgin olive oil.
Serve the fried mussels on a serving platter and season. On a separate plate, serve the coated broccoli garnished with the reserved capers.


The future is about Understanding. Science is a tool for that, more than it's a body of Knowledge. Exploring the broken bridge between data, facts and society.
Facts don't change the world. People do. Especially in complex situations, facts -and Science- are only part of the mix. There could be other reasons, like implementation, economics, politics, strategy… Science is an important anchor, but is only part of the equation; and definitely is not only about pushing the facts by publishing the facts.
What is Science if it's not academia? Is that Data Science? How is that useful? How do we get there? What skills are needed? Who are the success stories? What are the risks? What is the role of Data, Facts and Science in today's Society? How is this related to the 4.0 Industrial Revolution, migrations, populism, climate change or social media?
As a scientist, your credentials, funding, and job, depends on publications and their citations. This constricts the expectation of unbounded inquisitiviness, since there's basically only time to do proposals, and what ends up in a paper.
According to a 2016 poll of 1,500 scientists, 70% of them failed to reproduce another scientist's experiments (50% failed to reproduce their own experiment).
As science evolves we have gone deeper and deeper into fields that need increasing specialization. We have built and endured science into silos, and silos within silos: silos of peers, silos of tools, silos of knowledge.
When we train scientists, not only we expect the best ones to go into Academia, but also not getting an academic position is a sign of not being "good enough".
Shifting from Science as body of Knowledge towards a practical toolset for the World.
Data Science exploded because the private sector started to generate a lot of data, and wanted to make better decisions, leveraging best tools from Science. Roughly 50% of Data Scientists are former academic researchers.
Virtually all STEM education shares various degrees of the same logical, mathematical and abstracted tools. From linear regressions, to waves, statistics and the scientific method of falsable hypothesis via experimentation. These are very transferrable assets.
If it were about facts, Climate Change would not be a debate. There's much more in how people and societies act on facts. There's implementation, politics, economy, strategy, common sense, culture ... Facts, and Science, are a fundamental part of multi-disciplinar approaches.
The digital world, enabled by Science and Tecnology can help provide wellbeing, livelyhoods and resilient societies. Potentially Everywhere, but in practice economically, demographically and geographically unevenly distributed.


UN calls for action as Somalia floods affect 200,0000 children
UN delivers vital supplies as 370,000 people displaced by floods around the Horn of Africa nation.
At least 200,000 children are among more than half a million people affected by flooding in Somalia, the United Nations children agency said, calling for decisive action to help those at risk of malnutrition and disease outbreak.
In a statement on Tuesday, UNICEF said thousands of families are living in makeshift camps or in the open and are in dire need of clean water, sanitation, safe shelter, health and food supplies.
The UN humanitarian agency said on Wednesday heavy rains have affected 547,000 people in Somalia and displaced 370,000 people.
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"Children are very vulnerable in times of emergency," said UNICEF Somalia Representative Werner Schultink.
"If we do not act decisively, the impact of these floods will be felt in Somalia long after the water levels recede," he added.
The rains and flooding have destroyed infrastructure and livelihoods in the Horn of Africa nation, according to the UN, which on Monday began delivering vital food packages and supplies to thousands of displaced people.
In the town of Beledweyne, in central Somalia, a river overflowed and at least 10 people died when a boat capsized trying to rescue stranded residents, locals said.
Schools have been forced to shut their doors due to flooding, while the rising waters also caused damage to buildings and widespread disruption.
Education officials said students and teachers have been forced to flee to higher ground where aid agencies are providing life-saving assistance, including shelter, to a quarter of a million people.
"A total of 86 schools have been affected by the floods. Around 700 teachers are also out of work as locals flee to higher ground due to floods in Beledweyne City and surrounding regions,'' said Mohamed Osman Elmi, education head of Hiran region.
It is the second flood to affect Beledweyne in less than a year. In 2018, floods forced the Ministry of Education to postpone national examinations.
Somali President Mohamed Abdullahi Farmajo toured the hardest-hit areas earlier this week and promised government support to end recurrent floods such as those that have hit Beledweyne.
''Last year, we witnessed a similar tragedy, we hope this will be the last kind of floods witnessed in Beledweyne. We will work with neighbouring countries and all relevant authorities to mitigate the crisis and ensure our people don't have to suffer again,'' the president said.
Weeks of flooding have destroyed basic infrastructure in the city. Roads have been turned into rivers and farmlands have been destroyed.
The threat of waterborne diseases remains the biggest fear for aid agencies and local authorities. Humanitarian aid has arrived in the town from aid agencies, government and local communities.
East Africa has been experiencing torrential rains which have been exacerbated by a weather phenomenon known as the Indian Ocean Dipole.
This is the Indian Ocean equivalent of the Pacific Ocean-based El Nino. It is currently at its strongest since 2006, according to the regional trade bloc of eight East African nations known as the Intergovernmental Authority on Development.


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A collection of hosts files for domain blocking. If you find something in a list that you believe is a mistake or breaks functionality, please open a ticket and I'll consider removing it. Also, if you find a unblocked subdomain of a blocked root domain, please let me know so I can add it to a list.
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| Ads & Tracking | A programmatically expanded list of hosts I've found to not be on other lists. This list is very reliable and I recommend using it. | link |
| Tracking Aggressive | A very aggressive block list for tracking, geo-targeting, & ads. This list will likely break functionality, so do not use it unless you are willing to maintain your own whitelist. If you find something in this list that you think is a mistake, please open a ticket a and we can discuss it. Keep in mind that this is an aggressive list. | link |
| AMP Hosts | Google's Accelerated Mobile Pages (AMP) are taking over the web. Block AMP pages with this list. Since I use DuckDuckGo, this list is pretty sparse and suggestions are welcome! | link |


Cardinal Seresin:
Humans have committed the grandest mistakes of all races. Known sins... Unknown sins. I, Cardinal Seresin, think that humankind should apologize to other races and recover the trust. We should all work to combine our forces against evil before it becomes too powerful...
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