How to Eat Gluten-Free Food in Spain

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Worrying about how to eat gluten-free food in Spain? Don?t be. In fact, finding food that is gluten-free on any Spanish vacation is easy to do.

First, Spanish supermarkets have ?sin gluten? (without gluten) labels on just about every packaged product. That makes it easy to find food that doesn?t have gluten in it. You?ll find packaged or canned meats or fish, soups, sauces, rice, already-made meals, certain packaged pastas with sauces, frozen foods, yoghurts, potato chips, chocolate ? just about anything you want in versions that don?t include gluten.

Mercadona, the Spanish supermarket chain, has a particularly good selection of gluten-free products. Read more about them here if you can speak Spanish.

At many of the hotels too, there will be signs at the buffet above the food saying ?sin gluten?, so you?ll know those are the foods you can eat. If not, you can ask the chef as most will know which of the dishes they have just prepared have any gluten product in them.

As for types of food that are gluten-free in Spain, you are usually safe with rice dishes, anything with potatoes unless they?ve been made with some kind of floury sauce, plain fish dishes ie: not in sauces, grilled meats and chicken and, of course, most things on the enormous Spanish salad bars. Use the delicious Spanish olive oil with a sprinkling of vinegar as a salad dressing.

Many Spanish meats, fish and chicken dishes are served with bread as an accompaniment instead of vegetables, so you?ll want to avoid those. You can always ask for a side order of boiled potatoes (un ra?on de patatas hervidas) or French fries (patatas fritas) instead of the bread and most restaurants will be happy to oblige.

Avoid most dishes in Spain that have a sauce, unless the sign says ?sin gluten? (gluten-free), as they are made with flour and be careful with soups as bread is usually used as a thickener. Also avoid Spanish croquettes (commonly known as a bola, as they too are made with flour.

Source: http://seriouslyspain.com/how-to-eat-gluten-free-food-in-spain

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Quiet clean-out on Solid Energy board begins - sharechat.co.nz

A quiet clean-out of the Solid Energy board has begun, with two resignations by directors filed with the Companies Office this week and the appointment of an experienced Australian mining expert, Neville Sneddon, to the board.

Deputy chairman John Fletcher, who has served on the Solid Energy board since May 2007, has resigned with six months still to run on his directorship, which was scheduled to expire next April, while Michelle Smith has left a year early after serving on the Solid Energy board since November 2010.

The resignations and appointments have yet to be announced publicly by State-Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall, who has released a swag of other state-owned enterprise board appointments this week.

The moves follow the scheduled departure of Solid Energy's long-serving chairman John Palmer earlier this year, coinciding with a massive restructuring as the company announced it was facing a $200 million revenue shortfall in the current financial year.

It has moved to cut 25 percent of its workforce, has put the Spring Creek underground coal mine in "care and maintenance", has put expansion of the Huntly East coal mine on hold, and announced writedowns and disposals on several failed initiatives to diversify beyond coal mining into renewable energy and bio-fuels.

The company reported a $40.2 million loss after writedowns in the year to June 30, with chief executive Don Elder describing the deterioration in global coking coal prices as an "extreme" and sudden downturn which caught the company by surprise.

Solid Energy was to have been one of the four state-owned energy companies to be partially privatised, but has now been taken off the "for sale" list pending a commercial turnaround.

In a statement to BusinessDesk, State-Owned Enterprises Minister Tony Ryall said "a new chair has recently been appointed to Solid Energy and the company is moving into a new phase."

"As has been previously indicated, there would be some changes at Solid Energy, and a number of directors' terms were coming to an end in the next few months."

Auckland's Watercare Services chief executive, Mark Ford, who led the government's Auckland super-city merger, was appointed to replace Palmer.

Other Solid Energy directors have served for longer than Fletcher and Smith, but sources say their early resignations indicate dissatisfaction with the state-owned company's expansion into areas that did not produce significant new earnings.

Sources pointed to basic metrics such as the fact that Solid Energy had produced around 4 million tonnes of coal annually for some years, but that its workforce had expanded from around 400 to nearer 1,500.

It is unclear whether other sitting directors are also in the gun. They are David Patterson, a Wellington solicitor with National Party links whose first term on the Solid Energy board expires next April; Australian metallurgist Alan Broome, who has been a director since May 2006 and whose term expires in April 2014; Air New Zealand director and former Fletcher Challenge stalwart John McDonald, whose term expires next April; and Auckland-based business broker and former china clays industry executive Simon Marsters, who joined the board in 2008 and whose current term runs to April 2014.

Departing deputy chairman Fletcher is a professional director with a background in the oil industry, while Smith's background is in financial services. She is also a director of Heartland, the NZX-listed building society seeking to become a registered bank.

The newly appointed director, Neville Sneddon, is a mining engineer listed as non-executive chairman of Sydney-based CSM Energy, a specialist firm consulting to mining companies seeking to reduce costs, improve profitability and manage mines over their full life cycle.

Sneddon's career includes senior management of the mines inspectorate in New South Wales, chief operating officer of Shell Coal, later the Australian coal arm of Anglo American, and adviser to state and federal governments on mine safety.

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Nanocrystals and nickel catalyst substantially improve light-based hydrogen production

ScienceDaily (Nov. 8, 2012) ? Hydrogen is an attractive fuel source because it can easily be converted into electric energy and gives off no greenhouse emissions. A group of chemists at the University of Rochester is adding to its appeal by increasing the output and lowering the cost of current light-driven hydrogen-production systems.

The work was done by graduate students Zhiji Han and Fen Qiu, as part of a collaboration between chemistry professors Richard Eisenberg, Todd Krauss, and Patrick Holland, which is funded by the U.S. Department of Energy. Their paper will be published later this month in the journal Science.

The chemists say their work advances what is sometimes considered the "holy grail" of energy science -- efficiently using sunlight to provide clean, carbon-free energy for vehicles and anything that requires electricity.

One disadvantage of current methods of hydrogen production has been the lack of durability in the light-absorbing material, but the Rochester scientists were able to overcome that problem by incorporating nanocrystals. "Organic molecules are typically used to capture light in photocatalytic systems," said Krauss, who has been working in the field of nanocrystals for over 20 years. "The problem is they only last hours, or, if you're lucky, a day. These nanocrystals performed without any sign of deterioration for at least two weeks."

Richard Eisenberg, the Tracy H. Harris Professor of Chemistry, has spent two decades working on solar energy systems. During that time, his systems have typically generated 10,000 instances -- called turnovers -- of hydrogen atoms being formed without having to replace any components. With the nanocrystals, Eisenberg and his colleagues witnessed turnovers in excess of 600,000.

The researchers managed to overcome other disadvantages of traditional photocatalytic systems. "People have typically used catalysts made from platinum and other expensive metals," Holland said. "It would be much more sustainable if we used metals that were more easily found on the Earth, more affordable, and lower in toxicity. That would include metals, such as nickel."

Holland said their work is still in the "basic research stage," making it impossible to provide cost comparisons with other energy production systems. But he points out that nickel currently sells for about $8 per pound, while the cost of platinum is $24,000 per pound.

While all three researchers say the commercial implementation of their work is years off, Holland points out that an efficient, low-cost system would have uses beyond energy. "Any industry that requires large amounts of hydrogen would benefit, including pharmaceuticals and fertilizers," said Holland.

The process developed by Holland, Eisenberg, and Krauss is similar to other photocatalytic systems; they needed a chromophore (the light-absorbing material), a catalyst to combine protons and electrons, and a solution, which in this case is water. Krauss, an expert in nanocrystals, provided cadmium selenide (CdSe) quantum dots (nanocrystals) as the chromophore. Holland, whose expertise lies in catalysis and nickel research, supplied a nickel catalyst (nickel nitrate). The nanocrystals were capped with DHLA (dihydrolipoic acid) to make them soluble, and ascorbic acid was added to the water as an electron donor.

Photons from a light source excite electrons in the nanocrystals and transfer them to the nickel catalyst. When two electrons are available, they combine on the catalyst with protons from water, to form a hydrogen molecule (H2).

This system was so robust that it kept producing hydrogen until the source of electrons was removed after two weeks. "Presumably, it could continue even longer, but we ran out of patience!" said Holland.

One of the next steps will be to look at the nature of the nanocrystal. "Some nanocrystals are like M&Ms -- they have a core with a shell around it," said Eisenberg. "Ours is just like the core. So we need to consider if they would they work better if they were enclosed in shells."

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Adelman Travel Group agreed to buy Great Southern Travel

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Posting photo of your ballot online? Why it's a crime in some states

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Suzanne Choney , NBC News

No matter how enthusiastic you are?about your candidate or your right to vote, before you put a photo of your ballot online, check to make sure what you're doing is not illegal.

That's right; illegal. That means tweeting a photo of your ballot, showing it on Instagram or Facebook or on other sites could lead to your being prosecuted. That hasn't stopped?scads of voters from doing it anyway Tuesday.?

The?Citizen Media Law Project at Harvard University's Berkman Center for Internet & Society posted a chart showing how all 50 states handle this kind of activity, as outdated as it may seem in the age of social media and oversharing.

"We did not publish this information to discourage anyone from trying to exercise their First Amendment rights," Jeff Hermes, attorney and?director of the Citizen Media Law Project, told NBC News.

"But there are special rules that apply in the very unique environment of the polling place, and activities that are generally allowed elsewhere, even involving political speech, run into special limitations when you're talking about voting."

The reasoning behind it is to "prevent bribery and vote purchasing," Hermes said. "When you think of it in that context, the reasons might be more clear to people."

Pete Williams,?NBC News?Justice Department?correspondent, reported that the laws banning and restricting photography are?"from a bygone era before the ubiquity of cellphone cameras and social media," and that they were passed?"to prevent employers or union bosses from pressuring people to vote in a certain way and demanding proof of it."

Also read:?Fox News? Sean Hannity may have broken law with ballot tweet

Around the country Tuesday, secretaries of state in several?states issued?statements warning voters to knock off the social media photos of ballots.

In Florida, a?spokesman?for the Secretary of State's office there took to Twitter to warn voters not to post photos of their completed ballots. Among them, Chris Cate, spokesman for the Florida Secretary of State, who urged voters to "resist your social media urges."

Kay Stimson, communications and special projects director?of the?National Association of Secretaries of State, a professional organization for?secretaries of states around the country,?told NBC News, it's not just about photographing ballots; it's about displaying them.

"Note that the (Citizen Media Law Project) chart?documenting one's vote shows that while most states do not expressly prohibit recording/photography inside of polling sites, the majority of states do prohibit the public display of marked ballots," she said. "The states that do have such laws have adopted them to prevent vote buying and voter coercion."

Additionally, she said, "it is important to respect the integrity of the voting process. States generally prohibit any form of conduct that serves to intimidate voters, interferes with their right to exercise their vote, or disrupts voting."

One thing that will not???and we emphasize not???happen if you post a ballot photo online is that your vote will be invalidated. Some troublemakers or, at best, well-meaning but misinformed types, are posting that?on Twitter and other sites. Again, you may be prosecuted, but your vote will still count.

How likely is it that someone would be prosecuted for slapping up a photo of their ballot?

Hermes, of the Citizen Media Law Project, said that in states where disclosing, or photographing, your own ballot is a misdemeanor, "it?is possible, albeit unlikely, that a person could be arrested. This is a situation where enforcement would be at the discretion of the police and public prosecutors. I hope that those enforcing the law would be reasonable, and not prosecute those engaged in mere discussion of their voting experience."

Hermes thinks the laws could evolve. He hopes?"today's?discussion of these laws would encourage state legislatures to reconsider statutes that, by their terms, could be interpreted to the mere sharing of photos online," he told NBC News.

"We have seen certain ballot disclosure laws that are limited to disclosures within the polling place or disclosures prior to deposit of a ballot in the ballot box. These kinds of laws seem more reasonably tailored to the interests at stake, and do not implicate a broad array of basically innocent activity."

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