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Bread Street Kitchen
- Address:
10 Bread Street
London, EC4M 9ABNeighbourhood:
St Paul's
- Cuisine:
Modern EuropeanPrice: £26 to £40
Bread Street Kitchen
- Dining Style: Casual Dining
- Website: http://www.gordonramsay.com/bread-street/
- Phone: 02030304050x
- Hours of Operation:
Monday to Friday: 7am – 11pm (last sitting)
Saturday: 11.30am – 11pm (last sitting)
Sunday: 11.00am - 8pm (last sitting)
Monday to Friday: 10am – 12 midnight
Saturday: 11.30am - 12 midnight
Sunday: 11.00am - 10pm
- Payment Options: AMEX,Diners Club,MasterCard,Visa
- Cuisine: Mediterranean, Modern European, Tapas / Small Plates
- Executive Chef: Erion Karaj
- Dress Code: Casual Dress
- Accepts Walk-Ins: Yes
- Additional Details: Bar Dining, Bar/Lounge, Counter Seating
A word from Bread Street Kitchen
A lively and exciting new restaurant and bar from the team at Gordon Ramsay restaurants and the home to a relaxed dining experience set in a large warehouse style space, drawing inspiration from the East London aesthetic that surrounds it. At the heart of the Bread Street Kitchen offering is an informal approach to dining. Guests can meet, eat and drink from early morning until late at night. Underpinned by great service and a menu that includes a raw bar, a wood burning oven and dishes from the lively open kitchen. Guests will also be able to take in the incredible wine balcony which will stretch along the walls of the kitchen holding no less than 2000 bottles of wine. Open from breakfast the all day restaurant offers an extensive wine and bespoke cocktail list alongside a seasonal menu. Diners can enjoy a lazy sit down over a cider braised pork collar and king crab cocktail or grab a quick ceviche of salmon with grapefruit, jalapeño lime and coriander at the more relaxed Raw Bar.Continued
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Awards voted by OpenTable diners
- Diners' Choice WinnerModern European
- Diners' Choice WinnerMost Booked
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1040 reviews since 26 October 2013
- Food4Service3.8
- Ambience4Value3.4
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- Gordon is God!Harpo911Dined on 24/10/2014The restaurant, in a word; BUSY! The food, every mouthful was just as excellent as the previous. If I had a little nag it was one of the guys in a suit who was French and was a little bit rude to me when I used the toilets. The guy ahead of me kept the toilet door open for me & so I didn't see the "Out Of Order" sign. He snapped at me as to why I didn't see the sign. That annoyed me about 2%. I would dine here again & I will. Hmmm, which of Gordon's restaurants should I try now? Again, Gordon, I'm a huge fan and always will be. You and your staff are amazing!Special Features:
- Lovely experienceloveeatingoutDined on 22/10/2014The restaurant was beautifully decorated, the staff were exceedingly friendly and try hard to please, good service. Food very good, well presented. Loved the upstairs bar and relaxed but chic ambience of the whole restaurant and bars.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Never Fails to Please!PompeiaVIPDined on 22/10/2014Bread Street Kitchen is an ideal place for both serious and social dining. The whole layout gives a sense of light and airiness which means that no matter how many people dining, it never seems crowded. Busy and buzzy, it feels like the "in" place to be. Arranged a late lunch for 4, and my guests were impressed with the wide range of menu choices. BSK must have one of the best starter menus in London. The service, on this occasion, was outstanding, with friendly outgoing staff, who did everything with a smile. Little wonder, then, that this is a favourite haunt!Special Features:
- Gr8TriciaDined on 20/10/2014We spend a bery nice evening there. Service was profesional and very kind. We saw as well Gordon Ramsay himself, who had s buissness meeting at the same time, so it was a special atraction for us!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Tasty food but expensiveFood4thoughtDined on 19/10/2014Food quality of mains was very good. Service was friendly but mistakes were made one orders either due to noise levels in place or technology. Lovely live music and singer although a little loud. Wine was expensive for a Sunday lunch.Special Features:
- Something differentCessDined on 19/10/2014First the decor is very original and i loved the industrial style. I was there Sunday for lunch and they had a singer and guitarist playing in the background it was lovely. The menu is different there is a good variety of fish, vegetarian and meat options. I ordered the heritage tomato and burrata tart and the crispy duck salad which were both lush! Plus they have real freshly squeezed orange juice!!! Rare thing these days in London. Lovely experience overall, thank you.Special Features:
- Sunday lunch with familyIsaBDined on 19/10/2014I had been to this restaurant for a business lunch before and had a good memory. This time I book for Sunday lunch with friends and their 10 years old son. We had a very good meal the Sunday roast was excellent and the staff was flexible in accomodating a request for different pizza toppings. Service was kind atmosphere relaxed the live music guitar + singer was high quality and not intrusive/ too loud. Another plus is the distance between tables which is not that common in London.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not as personableMisstruttDined on 17/10/2014Other Gordon's restaurants have exceeded my expectations, this being bigger than the others, I felt the personal touch had gone, but food still excellent!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Not in the Gordon Ramsey classMoodybhaiDined on 17/10/2014I took my family for dinner after an event at St. Paul's. It was a belated birthday outing for my wife and seeing that this was a Gordon Ramsey restaurant and having been to Maze and Gordon Ramsey at Claridges previously we had high hopes for a good meal. The ambience is nice, very New York but the food and service were disappointing. They got our starters mixed up and we had to wait for one to arrive by which time others had already finished- starters were good though. We all had the short rib burger which was decent but very heavy and rich - the brioche bun and the sirracha mayonnaise masked the taste of the patty. Overall at about £32 per head not good value considering we didn't have deserts or drinks.Special Features:
- ConsistentDiner24Dined on 16/10/2014I frequently meet people here for a pre-work breakfast and it never fails to deliver. Once again did not disappoint.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Lovely mash potatoLovetodineDined on 11/10/2014Great place to go; service is good, good is delicious and the atmosphere is welcoming. Mash potato incredibly nice and creamy, ceviche very disappointing and white wine gave us three a terrible headache the next day.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Always Amazing!OpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 11/10/2014Bread Street is our favorite restaurant in London! We eat there every time and we are always blown away. If you are planning a trip to London be sure to book a reservation at Bread Street. Be sure to book early because they are always packed.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Amazing foodDoctorbecDined on 10/10/2014Great food. Fantastic service. Good atmosphere. Food was good value but a shame about the compulsary 12.5% service charge AND a cover charge per person.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Five star experienceIOnceHadAndouilletteDined on 10/10/2014I do have to begin with the only flaw, the first thing we noticed upon arrival to our booked table was the noise. Loud music combined with a lot of guests equals trouble to talk around the table and/or with the staff. The "industrial" -look and feeling of the restaurant is fantastic, but it does not have a lot of noise-cancelling properties. Adding dividing walls clad with metal "chainmail", as I've seen in my university, would fix this problem to some extent. While going well with the industrial look. That put aside, food, service and overall experience was worth five stars. I would recommend this restaurant to my friends! Extremely priceworthy looking at food quality and size of portions.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- pre theatre mealCountrybumpkins89Dined on 10/10/2014very impressive dining experience, good service, food and choice excellent. will return.Special Features:
- Higher expectationsPhillyfoodie50Dined on 7/10/2014Food overall in London is consistently good, so i expected more of this place. There was nothing wrond with the meal per se, just had highr expectations
- DisappointingJamesJVIPDined on 6/10/2014I've been to Bread Street three or four times since it opened in both big and small groups. It's not Ramsey fine-dining but previously the food has always been good (although the place is always noisy). This time the food really disappointed. Four of the main courses on the menu were unavailable (it was only 8:30pm). We had pork belly which was dry and slow-roasted lamb which was also too dry and was presented badly - just three lumps of meat with a thick sauce. Spiced honey carrots were good. Service average - had to ask for salt and pepper on the table and when they (eventually) brought it the salt cellar had no salt in it. Compared to previous experiences here the food was poor.
- Lovely Sunday lunchTouristDined on 5/10/2014Food was great and value for money (we had lunch the day before at Oblix). But between the starter and main course, service was slow. Kids were hungry. Overall, great place for family and couples.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Great place to meet for breakfastRamsayfanDined on 5/10/2014My husband and I flew to London to do a Gordon Ramsay restaurant weekend. This was the third of four booked restaurants. The atmosphere of the Bread Street Kitchen is brilliant. When we were leaving, we saw that there was live music about to start. My husband absolutely loved his steak and eggs. My lobster roll was pretty good.Special Features:
- Very goodDavidCuveasDined on 4/10/2014Excelent environment, excelent food, the waitress could be a little more nicer, but it was completely professional. In general, the menu doesn't seem to be extraordinarily expensive, but its not cheap :)Special Features:
- ServiceOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 4/10/2014the restaurant itself, decor, ambience etc and food was excellent - the service is some of the worst i have ever experienced.Special Features:
- Fantastic food, as expected.JamesDined on 4/10/2014Personally I am a fan of all the Gordon Ramsay restaurants in London, and I really enjoy the Bread Street Kitchen in particular, the food is always great and the atmosphere is much more casual than the maze etc. Perfect for pre/post theatre.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- BrunchanteaterDined on 4/10/2014We were looking forward to trying this restaurant. Liked; decor, menu choice, relaxed atmosphere. Not so good; steak and egg breakfast. Some of the order was mixed up. Some guests steaks were not cooked as requested (more rare than medium, although mine was correct). Some steaks were too fatty. I don't mind paying for food of good quality, but, this was not of the standard expected here. A little fat adds to the flavour, but, tough fat is unpleasant and makes for awkward dining. It was therefore a little disappointing. However, I hope this was a one off, as I am willing to give this restaurant another go. I would like to try another dish from the fairly extensive menu. The staff were polite.Special Features:
- servicemackDined on 3/10/2014When i was at BSK in 2013 the service was outstanding and the food exellent. Unfortunately this time the waitress seemed tired and uninspired. The food was ok but not more than that.
- OverpricedDined on 3/10/2014The wine list is ridiculously expensive and the somelier tried to up-sell us from our £30 bracket to a £68 bottle because it was "quite nice". I dont think he actually knew anything about the wine, especially after asking us if we might prefer white with our beef. Adding a cover charge as well as service charge is pushing it - our bill was about £150 for 1 shared starter, 2 mains and a bottle of wine and although the food was nice I think Bread Street Kitchen is overpriced.
- Bread st kitchenStevieVIPDined on 3/10/2014Dined here twice in a week and was delighted both times. Real good place with food to match the ambience.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- EnjoyableMichaelDined on 3/10/2014This was my second visit. The first with friends and second with my partner. We both enjoyed our starter and mains. I had the cured meat platter and my partner had the salmon ceviche. Both very nice. For mains I had the pork and fennel sausages with lentils and she had the goosnargh duck breast. Again, both very nice and also quite generous filling portions. The cocktails are great too. The only minor thing worth mentioning is we asked for some more bread and had to ask twice before we actually got it and by the time we did get it the moment had passed really. The bread is lovely though! Cost £113 for 2 people, 2 courses, 1 side, 2 cocktails (1 of them a mocktail) and a small caraffe of wine. Definitely recommend giving it a try.Special Features:
- Underwhelmed!WozzaH72Dined on 3/10/2014Ate here for my wife's birthday opted for a late lunch. The restaurant has an industrial feel and the attention to detail is very good. Food was not as good as I would expect for the price although portions were decent size. The burger was average but wife's cod was very good. Service was average majority of waiting staff were not very attentive. Cocktails are very good but not many to chose from. Think that charging £2 per person cover is very cheeky especially when our bill for 2 was over £150 then 12.5% service charge as well!! Overall an enjoyable experience but not really a high end restaurant experience although seeing Gordon himself was good!Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- It's not just about...POCODined on 3/10/2014...the wrapping paper... the present has to be excellent too. Quality of food was surprisingly poor. Double cooked chips should be excellent, right. They were soft. The grey mullet was dry, stodddgy and flavourless... everything seems unfresh, pre made and warmed up. The service was great but that's a given anywhere except Paris, right. In a phrase, standards are dropping... really Gordon we expect the earth but just to have nice present wrapping doesn't make the present great.Special Features:
- Nice socializing and meeting pointfoodloveDined on 1/10/2014High ceilings, good food, really good location to socialize after workSpecial Features:
- lunchNatBVIPDined on 1/10/2014good buzzy vibe for a weekday lunch, solid menu, hard not to like and have a good timeSpecial Features:
- fabulousmetropolitanDined on 29/9/2014We had a lovely meal varied menu to choose from. Help with wine selection, and fantastic desert. Great service, would go again and definitely recommendSpecial Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Typical London ExperienceFloyd1973Dined on 27/9/2014A great place for a special occasion where you want to impress a special person. Relaxed and informal but you know you are in a top class restaurant. Staff are pleasant and attentive without the fuss. Would recommend it to anyone.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- outstandingOpenTable Diner Since 2014Dined on 27/9/2014Great place with a relaxed feel. Food was high quality with great service.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
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- Very solid dining experience.CanadianFoodieDined on 27/9/2014We are visiting from Canada and wanted to try a Ramseys restaurant. The service and knowledge of the staff/servers was excellent. Service speed and attention to customers was also excellent. Appetizers/starters were exceptional - loved the scallops! Main course dishes were prepared perfectly. We were expecting the menu to be more complicated but menu was more simple dishes with enough flair to make them upscale. Was a very good dining experience.Special Features:
- Better than the ivy! :-)GrubmasterDined on 26/9/2014Service fantastic, food amazing... Even bumped into Gordon on the stairs. Would definitely go again. :-)Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.
- Bread St KitchenorganiserDined on 26/9/2014Went with a group of friends, everyone enjoyed themselves and rated the menu highly - an excellent choice of meals. Atmosphere was good, design of the restaurant was unusual, but funky. enjoyed ourselves and would come back again.Special Features:
- Bread St KitchenStevieVIPDined on 26/9/2014First time and won't be the last. Everything you would expect from Mr Ramsay. Nailed the venue, the food, the service and the ambience.Special Features:
- Team breakfastEvaMDined on 26/9/2014Had team breakfast and was not as as good as expected (or prev visit). Tea was not hot enough, none of the 4 separate pots we ordered since only one small cup size in each! Food options were good though my colleague would have preferred to have the option of smoked / unsmoked bacon. Huge bowl of yoghurt came with tiny pot of granola. Little but important things. Previous visit everything just seemed better, whereas this time it did not meet my expectations.Special Features:I would recommend this to a friend.


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Schwarzenegger, Lambda Legal, an advocacy group, had been conducting a careful campaign in state legislatures and courts. (Same-sex couples can now marry in five states and Washington, D.C., and public opinion has shifted markedly.) As Margaret Talbot wrote in this magazine, many activists were wary of the federal case and of the lead lawyers, Theodore Olson and David Boies. If they got to the Supreme Court before the ground was prepared, might there be a precedent-setting loss? Would a victory premised on a judge throwing out a referendum feel legitimate—especially if the opposition didn't even get to appeal? But the technicality presented by standing isn't just technical. It raises a larger issue. If Prop. 8's proponents don't have standing to sue, then who does? Who is hurt by gay marriage? Walker kept asking that question during the trial, and never really got an answer, despite encouraging both sides to call witnesses. (The plaintiffs called seventeen, the defenders of Prop. 8 two.) In the referendum campaign, Walker wrote, Prop. 8's advocates had focussed on "fear-inducing messages" about "protecting children from inchoate threats vaguely associated with gays and lesbians." One reason for the vagueness may have been that they didn't have much to go on. At the trial, their main witness cited studies showing that children do better with married parents than with single ones. But there was no evidence that this advantage depended on the married parents being of different genders. Some eighteen per cent of gay and lesbian couples in California are already raising kids, and even a witness for Prop. 8 conceded that it would be helpful for those children if their parents were married. Some benefits derived from marriage can be secured through domestic partnerships, adoptions, insurance policies, and well-written proxies, directives, and wills (how much tuition could be paid for with the legal fees for all that?), but not all of them. The Defense of Marriage Act prevents federal spousal benefits from going to same-sex couples. More than a thousand federal statutes rely on marriage to define one's status. If you are a widow of any age caring for a child, and your income falls below a certain level, you may qualify for Social Security benefits based on your late spouse's earnings (beyond what the child might receive). An unmarried parent would not. You don't need to be married to be a good parent, but marriage equality protects children by giving parents more tools with which to protect them. Say that the practical issues could all be worked out, and domestic partnerships could be made more or less equitable. Would that do the trick? This was one of the central questions of Perry v. Schwarzenegger: whether being almost married, but not quite, is good enough. Sandra Stier, one of the plaintiffs, testified about her frustration filling out forms that asked if she was "single, married or divorced": she found herself "scratching something out . . . making sure I explain to folks what that is." On an ordinary day, you can explain the complexities of a relationship, or simply elide them. But if someone goes to the hospital, or a child gets in trouble at school, then who everyone is, with respect to one another and in the eyes of the law, matters a great deal. Even a stepmother calling a school has less explaining to do than a child's mother's girlfriend. More than that, Stier's domestic partner, Kristin Perry—they have four children—testified that there was nothing in their legal agreements that conveyed "the love and commitment that are inherent in marriage." Judge Walker used the word "honor." A wedding has a transformative power. Perry had standing to sue less because of any single benefit she was denied than because Prop. 8 prevented her from becoming a wife. It's hard to see how heterosexual wives would be injured if Perry and Stier joined them. Marriage is not a scarce resource that has to be rationed. (Nor is love.) When Walker pressed a lawyer for Prop. 8, who had been talking about marriage existing for procreation, to say in what way, exactly, marriage equality would harm the institution, the answer was "I don't know." Ross Douthat, a columnist for the Times, wrote that a "marital ideal" would be lost—but he admitted that this ideal was disconnected from reality. The shattering of an illusion, or the grip of a prejudice, is not enough to give someone standing in court. What might undermine marriage is pushing fully loaded domestic partnerships—marriage-lite, lacking the constricting, exalting, maddening qualities of the real thing—as an alternative, another box to check. This might become an attractive option for everyone. If such contractual arrangements are really just as good as marriage, then what is a wedding good for, other than cake? As for other potential victims, Judge Walker found that the State of California, far from suffering, would benefit from having more citizens in stable households. The Circuit Court could still let someone appeal—Prop. 8's advocates, who have come this far, or some government official. (Imperial County, where Prop. 8 got seventy per cent of the vote, as opposed to fifty-two per cent in the entire state, has asked for standing.) But the view from where those potential appellants stand, and from where couples like Perry and Stier are living their lives, is very different. 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On 03/05/2008 16:56, Kris Katterjohn wrote:
Hey everyone,
I've attached an incredibly simple patch to add IPv6 support on
Windows. The only other thing you need to do to make it work is to
actually install IPv6 (details are in the "Installation,
Configuration, and Use" section here[1]). Vista users have IPv6
installed by default.
I got this working easily with same basic development environment I
have always used, which is described here[2] (Windows XP, VC++ 2005
Express w/Platform SDK, etc.).
Please test and let me know how it goes; I'll commit it once I get a
few yays :) Hopefully it'll be as simple for you as it was for me!
Hi all.
I've got IPv6 installed on two directly connected XP machines (this
didn't need a download, it is already present and just requires
installing). My router does not support IPv6, but I guess for directly
connected hosts, the magic happens at layer 2.
I can ping each machine from the other and capture ICMPv6 (Echo request
and reply and Neighbor solicitation and advertisement) traffic with
wireshark. In order to do this, I have to append the link-local
interface number (so-called Zone ID) [1] to the address like so:
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If I run nmap like so:
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I get a Reason "host-unreach" - as I do if I don't append the %6 to the
nmap command.
I stepped my way through the code and confirmed that I get 10065
WSAEHOSTUNREACH "No route to host". And I found that the %6 is lost
during Target::GenerateIPString() in Target.cc and this seems to be down
to the code in inet_ntop.c - bit vague, I know.
So, have I missed something or is this something that needs doing to
nbase? Has anyone else managed to use IPv6 on directly connected targets?
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In perusing the Session records of Edmondson Presbyterian Church, I found some fascinating history and commentary on how the church really got into people's personal business way back then. This church was founded in Whitehaven, Tenn., in the 1800s.
If you think your church pays too much attention to your personal life now, you should have lived then. The Session was judge, jury and executioner.
There was this poor fellow, Felix Davis, whom the Session called before them for intemperance, use of profane language and keeping and retailing of intoxicating liquor! In those days, one got a letter from the Session clerk to appear before the Session to explain the offending behavior, or sometimes a visit at home (shiver!) from one or more Session members for the same purpose.
Now, Felix finally admitted he'd had a little nip here and there and that he might have let slip a cussword or two, but he had a liquor license from the State of Tennessee and he might give up selling liquor when his license expired. Well, a trial by Session was held without him (by his wish, as he had said all he was going to) and, by gum, he was suspended from church membership until he "gives signs of repentance and reformation." Phew!
Some months later, Felix obtained an audience with the Session, said he'd given up liquor sales (expect his license had expired) and would try to live a Christian life. Session voted Felix back into the church. Time passed, and about nine years later, poor Felix was suspended from church membership again because he apparently had fallen into his old ways and had failed to answer two summons from the Session to appear before them and justify himself. Alas, poor Felix!
Part of the Session minutes contains this statement: "The sin of intemperance being a crying sin of the day, our ministry are requested to preach upon it at their discretion before the next meeting of Presbytery." Well, the preachers had their orders.
Nippers and sippers were in the cross-hairs. Some guys got drunk "on the cars from Memphis" (railroad train cars). Couldn't the guys just get blitzed at night in the privacy of their own barns instead of roaring around the countryside and getting ratted on? Not to speak of keeping their potty-mouths shut. Some people just beg for punishment.
There were several other men who were hounded over a number of months for swearing and having a nip once in a while. Some satisfied the Session that they had repented of their sinful ways and were allowed to remain church members. (Lying gets the Session off your case). However, Daniel Campbell, who had appeared before the Session several times, appeared a final time and pled guilty to intemperance and profanity and, at his own request, was excommunicated from the church. Guess Daniel was fed up with the harassment and ready to risk going you-know-where just to get shed of the Session watchdogs.
One quaint note was that a Session member was appointed to talk with a young man about his dancing and to a young lady about the same sin. No record of how the young man reacted but the young lady, having been cited for this sin and invited to appear before the Session, failed to appear and was cut off for contumacy (insolent defiance, insubordination). There were some free spirits among those delicate Victorian women! Further into the records, she was listed as excommunicated! (Oh, she'd also been heard cussing. Sometimes, ladies were also potty-mouths.)
An incident was recorded in 1875 that would shock us even today. A man, in the presence of four Session members, said he hated God, considered himself totally unfit for church membership, and to relieve the church of the disgrace of his conduct he wanted his name stricken from the roll. This was to be announced from the pulpit the next day! I was left breathless at the man's blatant statement and this breach of privacy! However, it seems everyone's personal business with the Session and its decisions was announced from the pulpit!
Hair-shirt perfectionism seemed to be a fad in the church of the 1870s and 1880s. It appears from this record that it lost Edmonson Presbyterian Church a lot of members who left to join Memphis and out-of-county churches which weren't so judgmental. However, this little church weathered the storm, became Whitehaven Presbyterian Church, where this writer spent some of the most joyful years of her life.
I expect this sort of thing was common among the various denominations during that time and probably the free spirits jumped from one church to another, trying to find one that would leave them alone. This Big Brother practice seems to have died out after several decades.
We certainly don't want this kind of thing to rise up again as it went way too far. However, maybe a touch of it here and there might improve this wicked old world.
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The US Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (FDA/CDER) is charged with assuring that safe and effective drugs are available to the American people. The safety of drugs is assessed using in vitro and in vivo animal toxicology studies, and with human volunteers in clinical trials conducted by pharmaceutical industry and evaluated by FDA scientists. The clinical trials are conducted to identify efficacy and the potential adverse effects of pharmaceuticals in patients. Toxicology studies are used to assess three broad categories of chemical toxicities that cannot be appropriately assessed in humans, genetic toxicity (genetox), reproductive and developmental toxicity (reprotox), and carcinogenicity. Reprotox and carcinogenicity are assessed in standard rodent studies; genetox is assessed using a standard battery of in vitro and in vivo tests that identify potential chemical induced gene mutations, clastogenic damage, and direct DNA damage.
We have published a research article (Matthews, E.J., Kruhlak, N.L., Cimino, M.C., Benz, R.D., and Contrera, J.F. An Analysis of Genetic Toxicity, Reproductive and Developmental Toxicity, and Carcinogenicity Data: I. Identification of Carcinogens Using Surrogate Endpoints. Regulatory and Toxicology and Pharmacology, 2006 (in press)) describing research designed to see how well a very large database of genetic toxicity and reproductive and developmental toxicity study results predict the results of rodent bioassays. The abstract for this article is as follows:
A retrospective analysis of standard genetic toxicity (genetox) tests, reproductive and developmental toxicity (reprotox) studies, and rodent carcinogenicity bioassays (rcbioassay) was performed to identify the genetox and reprotox endpoints whose results best correlate with rcbioassay observations. A database of 7205 chemicals with genetox (n=4961), reprotox (n=2173), and rcbioassay (n=1442) toxicity data was constructed; 1112 of the chemicals have both genetox and rcbioassay data and 721 chemicals have both reprotox and rcbioassay data. This study differed from previous studies by using conservative weight of evidence criteria to classify chemical carcinogens, data from 63 genetox and reprotox toxicological endpoints, and a new statistical parameter of correlation indicator (CI, the average of specificity and positive predictivity) to identify good surrogate endpoints for predicting carcinogenicity. Among 63 endpoints, results revealed that carcinogenicity was well correlated with certain tests for gene mutation (n=8), in vivo clastogenicity (n=2), unscheduled DNA synthesis assay (n=1), and reprotox (n=3). The current FDA regulatory battery of four genetox tests used to predict carcinogenicity includes two tests with good correlation (gene mutation in Salmonella and in vivo micronucleus) and two tests with poor correlation (mouse lymphoma gene mutation and in vitro chromosome aberrations) by our criteria.
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By Neil McPhie
Office pools: A bigger gamble than you think
March 10th, 2014 | Federal Workplace
With the National Collegiate Athletic Association's March Madness basketball tournament around the corner, federal employees will again face the temptation of participating in office pools and betting a few dollars. It never ceases to amaze me how many federal employees, especially office pool organizers, consider brackets to be a benign game. They are, however, gambling much more than they realize, and during my first year as chairman of the Merit Systems Protection Board, the Board made clear that the stakes, indeed, are high.
The Standards of Conduct prohibit federal employees from participating in any gambling activity "[w]hile on Government-owned or leased property or on duty for the Government." NASA's Table for Disciplinary Offenses and Penalties, for example, calls for anything from a reprimand to a three-day suspension for a first-time violation of this regulation. A third-time violation could result in anything from a seven-day suspension to removal.
Sometimes agencies may not punish employees who participate in such pools or supervisors who fail to report such activity so long as they cooperate with an investigation that focuses on the operators of the gambling operation. That was what happened in Howard v. U.S. Postal Service (1984). The employee in this case had been the operator of a numbers game. Even though the employee had 18 years of service with the agency, the Board affirmed his removal. The Board said "[t]he offense with which appellant was charged was serious and directly related to his ability to perform his duties since it was conducted on the job site and during the work day. Moreover, it is clear that appellant's gambling activity affected the work of others too, because it occurred when they should have been performing their duties."
More recently in Anderson v. Smithsonian Institution (2013), a probationary employee claimed his agency removed him for gambling while on agency premises. He claimed an agency supervisor had asked him to administer a football poll. The Board affirmed an MSPB judge's dismissal of the employee's appeal for lack of jurisdiction. And in Whitemore v. Department of Labor (2009), the MSPB found an employee's disclosure to his agency's inspector general about his supervisor conducting an "illegal gambling pool for the NCAA Men's Basketball tournament" was protected under the Whistleblower Protection Act. The agency later confiscated the supervisor's computer, and the illegal activity was reported to an administrator for action.
In Hunt v. Department of Health and Human Services (1985) an employee had argued that anti-gambling regulation violations were not serious offenses and that office gambling was "passively if not actively encouraged by management." The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit rejected this view and declared, "a violation of the anti-gambling regulation, even for a first-time offense, is punishable by removal for the efficiency of the service where the evidence to support the charge is substantial and credible, and the decision is not arbitrary, capricious, or unlawful."
On at least one occasion, in Luna v. Department of the Army (1988), the Board had allowed an employee charged with operating and promoting an illegal gambling operation to avoid removal and instead receive a 90-day suspension. However, in Jones v. Department of the Interior (2004), the Board, while I was chairman, noted that Luna was a unique case because the employee "did not profit from the gambling operation, and he had rehabilitative potential because he was remorseful, accepted full responsibility for his conduct, and alerted the agency to continuing gambling activities." Additionally, there were no indications that the employee in Luna was convicted on his conspiracy and illegal gambling charges. Ultimately, the Board maintained that "removal is appropriate for on-duty gambling offenses" and held that "Luna does not mandate mitigation."
They don't call it "March Madness" for nothing. Basketball fans can lose their heads, and federal employees can lose their jobs.
reasonable Says:
March 10th, 2014 at 8:40 pm
this is what your worried about? Carriers in Westchester NY District were forced to deliver mail in the worst storm in 40 years, under ridiculous weather conditions, the manager of delivery and the pooms said it was ok to put our lives at risk, while they didn't even show up for work. But you are worried about some emplyees putting a few dollars in a pool, really???
Fatima Says:
March 11th, 2014 at 6:38 am
There should definitely be some sort of threshold for this sort of stuff! I can understand the need to discipline more serious forms of gambling but harmless office bets that are little more than a wager to kill boredom, get a few laughs and maybe bond with coworkers can only improve staff morale–and that's good for productivity, even if you're the federal government. In fact, ESPECIALLY if you're the federal government.
Rcd Says:
March 11th, 2014 at 6:58 am
Does that go for fantasy baseball and football leagues that, are done on the clock? I would like to know. Since a lot of supervisors and craft people do this on a daily basis.


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Edited To Add: After the first couple of responses, I decided that naming the merchant without giving them one more chance was not quite right, so I sent a second response to their first note (my first response wimpily accepted that it was in fact my fault) telling them how I really felt.
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And yet...
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Over the years this has grown. By the one step back, two steps forward method. Now, in my 50's, I feel more in control of my destiny, and less afraid. What may be surprising is that each time I have gone through the exercise of getting fitter I have discovered something about the fit me that I like. I may have slipped backwards, given up for weeks, months, even years on end, but never completely... motivation always returned eventually, if I was patient.
Building Block: Consistency and Momentum
During each of my successful periods, this has been the wind beneath my wings. Only when something relatively big got in the way did I lose my focus. Big? Yeah, injury that I'd have trouble coming back from. Job changes adding to stress, subtracting from time. Marriage falling apart... now wait, that was the beginning of a successful program. I did not deal well with the sea changes of life, in general, though.
But each time, I have got a little better at dealing with my own flaws... accepting my humanity makes the lapses shorter, and the restart quicker.
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Health is more than physical... it's mental and emotional, too. And that's where the fun comes in. Can never let the fun go out of the motivation picture!
What sets your motivation on fire?
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This was one of the things I was going to do in 2010 - find the ice skates and use them!
I took a whole week to read and ponder, a bit at a time. My reaction to much in this chapter was "yes, I've learned that... the hard way... over the decades".
The four building blocks to this cornerstone are stated as: exercise, nutrition, stress management, and sleep. It's not ALL about exercise. It's not ALL about diet.
Seriously. It makes sense. The only point on which I might differ from Chris on this is a minor detail. And it is related to "how much sleep is enough". I have learned that sleep is important to my well-being. I know that I need to get adequate sleep to be at my best. I'm convinced (again, over the decades, learning the hard way) that not everybody has the SAME sleep needs.
My own natural need for sleep appears to be somewhere between 7 and 8 hours. If I go to bed and don't put on the alarm, and I'm not super sleep deprived already, I will awaken after seven and feel rested.
Other than that, some nice thoughts to ponder, and my favorite two bits: Never give up. Avoid "stupid" stress. Both things I have internalized through decades of the battle.
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I am happiest when I am working on my life, thus the "never give up". Don't you just feel better when you try? Succeeding is not required. If at first you don't succeed, fail again. Fail better next time! (That's not original, I lifted it from a co-worker's motivational clip.)
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A is for Age: 57. I call myself a "little old lady in training", which can have such lovely double meanings!
B is for Booze: Not at all. I was raised in a tee-totaling faith, and once I left it, I had already spent a half century booze free... why start now? I tried a mouthful of wine, and decided, naw... not my addiction.
C is for Career: lol... telephone operator & professional student, computer programmer, analyst, application developer and team lead... to name the general high points. Workaholic, in recovery, one day at a time.
D is for Dad�s name: Kenneth, deceased 1999, R.I.P., at only age 71. That sounds so young to me. I admired and adored him.
E is for Essential items to bring to a party: Not much of a party-er... so for ME to bring... a good attitude.
F is for Favorite song or music: wide variety, from classical to the rock of my youth, to even country western at times. Like the off beat on occasion, like ragtime piano or marching bands.
G is for Goof off thing to do: Silly games on the web... seriously, gaming can be an addiction. I had to take myself off the Nintendo when my kid was in grade school.
H is for Hometown: I'm going to say Lincoln, NE, as it is where I mostly lived during my growing and developing years, and where I moved back to after careering away for about 15 years.
I is for Instrument you play: Recorder, violin. I specify "play at", because I don't practice, but I do love getting them out around the holidays and making music with the more serious musicians in the family.
J is for Jam or Jelly you like: Strawberry, cherry, grape, raspberry, apricot...
K is for Kids: One son, thus the moniker, which I've been wearing around the web for over a decade.
L is for Living arrangement: House in the suburbs, with my 14 year old German shorthaired pointer. She's my son's dog, but she's my baby, and I'm hoping she stays healthy to greet him when he comes home from overseas.
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N is for Name of best friend: This one's tough. I could come up with several names, but the one that stands above the others in my heart of hearts would be Marilyn.
O is for Overnight Stay in a Hospital: Birth of my son. That's the only time.
P is for Phobias: Railroad crossings. Traumatized by a movie they showed us in Kindergarten. It was supposed to get us to not play around the rail yards in the little town we then lived in. It took me to very dark places and my mom couldn't get me to board the train to go visit grandma the next time we went, short of picking me up, kicking and screaming. I was sure we would be killed or have our legs cut off or something.
Q is for Quote you like: Let us not look back in anger, or forward with fear, but around in awareness - James Thurber
R is for Relationship that lasted longest: I suppose with my son, and he is now older than the length of my marriage. Marriage lasted 21 years 11 months.
S is for Siblings: 3 sisters, one older, two younger, and our brother in the middle spot.
T is for Texas, ever been?: Drove to Dallas and stayed for a couple of days once.
U is for Unique trait: Sheesh... I don't think I'm terribly unique. Except when you combine a lot of normal-ish things together, you end up with a unique combination.
V if for vegetable you love: Big veggie fan here... today I'll say cauliflower, because I found it particularly yummy this week.
W is for Worst traits: Obsessive, perfectionist, anxious, think everything is my fault and I don't deserve the good I've got (but not every day or all the time)... that general vein.
X- is for X-rays you�ve had: Just the standard screening ones: mammo & bone density.
Y is for Yummy food you make: There's this really decadent baked cheese puff with an olive inside, and my lasagna is pretty decent.
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