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Tuesday, January 22, 2008
No More Apologies - Just Moaning!
So, what's been going on at Food Place?
Well, since I haven't been blogging about Food Place matters for some time, it would be very difficult now to explain everything in retrospect. So, I think the best place to begin is to set the scene by quickly running through some of the recent events that have led to such a bitter state of affairs.
- Much loathed grocery department manager, Robert, suddenly disappeared in mid-December. He failed to turn up for work one day and nobody has seen him since. He could be dead for all we know.
- To cover his sudden absence, our Customer Services Manager, Lorraine, was shunted into his role and dairy supervisor Suzanne was hastily promoted to Lorraine's old job - making Suzanne my new line manager.
- I'm very happy with Suzanne's appointment as I think she's perfect for the job. However, she has little experience of the front-line nature of the Services department and requires full training in checkouts, checkout supervision, kiosk and cash office - as well as all the back-office tasks such as staff schedules and attendance management.
- I set about freeing up time to take her through these things, supporting her as much as I can. Wendy, my co-supervisor on Services (remember, the one who's obsessed with cash office and thinks that's her only job) doesn't support at all. She leaves all the gritty tasks to Suzanne and expects her to automatically know everything.
- Suzanne eventually finds her feet and, taking one look at the current supervisor schedules, decides that Wendy isn't pulling her weight. She has shifts that suit her, and she refuses to work weekends and late nights, leaving these undesirable shifts to be covered by me and other supervisor trained (but not paid) store staff.
- Suzanne changes Wendy's hours. Nothing drastic. She is now expected to work just one late-finish and one weekend in four.
- Wendy reacts bitterly and launches a campaign of hatred against everybody. She takes great delight in telling anybody who will listen that she's been wronged and is going to any extremes to try and get out of working these new shifts.
- Suzanne and myself become fed up of getting the cold shoulder and a meeting is called to talk the problems through.
- Wendy says Suzanne and me have formed a little clique and have turned against her. We reassure her this is not the case, and point out that we've spent a lot of time together through Suzanne's training. Things seem to be partially resolved...
- But it doesn't take long for it to become clear that Wendy is still not calmed. She continues to be cold and distant when spoken to and goes out of her way to cause problems. For instance, granting four holiday requents on the week she's on holiday without making arrangements to cover it, leaving Suzanne and me struggling.
- Wendy returns from holiday and moans to Terry (the boss, lest anybody has forgotten) that the place fell apart without her. Terry retorts: "Well maybe that's what you had in mind when you let all those staff have holidays? Suzanne coped extremely well under the circumstances you left her in." Wendy is not amused.
- The hate campaign deepens. Wendy rips down some photographs I had pinned up in the cash office. Doesn't sound like much, but it really, really bothered me. What justification did she have to do that? The only good thing it did was banish my suspicion that it was 'all in my mind'.
Stupid isn't it? All this ill-feeling and resentment over something relatively minor that could have been settled so easily. But the result of it all is that Suzanne has been left doubting whether or not she wants to keep this job. She's brilliant at it and has so much respect from her team (with the obvious notable exception) and she shouldn't be made to feel like this over a bitter old sow who doesn't like it when things don't go her own way.
And just what am I supposed to have done to deserve what I'm getting at the moment. Wendy is refusing to alter her hours to cover my forthcoming holidays - which has led to me having to agree to work part of them. She can't even be bothered to say hello or goodbye to me.
The only consolation I have is that the Services team are, in general, supportive of me. They kindly report back to me the things that Wendy has been saying behind my back. They stubbornly refuse to co-operate when she tried to get them to bitch about me.
All in all, the atmosphere has been terrible recently. Absolutely nothing on the relaxed, casual and fun way of working we had only a short while ago. Everybody got along, even if we did get on each other's nerves from time to time, and work wasn't really such a bad place to be. Now that Wendy has almost totally withdrawn from speaking to anybody, I can't see that she'll last much longer - she's a reasonably proud woman and I doubt she'll stick around when people are beginning to laugh at her. No doubt she'll claim constructive dismissal though.
Other Issues
This hasn't been the only saga going on at Food Place. A huge fuss-and-nonsense errupted just after New Year when it became common-knowledge on the shop-floor that extra-marital shananigans were going on between two married colleagues - one of whom's wife also works in Food Place. I've well and truly kept my distance from this one, but things get complicated. You aren't quite sure who is on who's side and every conversation in the canteen is frought with politics.
A long-serving colleague was suddenly dismissed last week when it transpired that they'd been passing boxes of high-value stock through the back gates. It's reckoned that the losses the store incurred because of it run into the tens of thousands of pounds. It's left us all completely shocked because nobody had even the slightest notion that they were the type to do something like this - it only came to light because a customer who lives back-to-back with the service yard passed comment on what they'd observed to one of the cashiers.
So, that's the miserable post done. I've actually sat down and attempted to write something about it all several times, but I get depressed just thinking about it. The next post, I promise, will be about the customers!
3 comments:
- pooky225 said...
Its good to see you back, hang in there cos Wendy will not last, i can't see her staying, she should be told that if she is not willing to do late shifts like everyone else then she should go.I don't think that one late shift and one weekend in 4 is too much to ask for.
- 24 January 2008 at 16:56
- AggressiveAdmin said...
Hi :)
There's also a lot of further back story to all this, that's vaguely mentioned in posts between late August and now.
It just feels awful because it's all so pathetic. Suzanne is so fed up of it all she's holding herself back from dealing with it in a way she'd come to regret.
Anyhoo, like you say, shouldn't be too long until something gives.
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- Created by: Luke Bartholomew
- Created on: 10-01-13 14:39
Issues With The Law
Inconsitency Between Offences
- S47 has the same mens rea for assault or battery
- A small cut would have to be charged with S20 because this is the lowest offence which talks about wounding
- Somebody who resists arresst would be charged with S18
- Assault and Battery = 6 months and S47 = 5 years. Despite having same level of mens rea
- S47 = 5 years and S20 = 5 years despite harm being much higher in S20
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More Issues With The Law
Modern Understanding of Bodily Harm
- When the act was passed there was no understanding of psychiatric harm
- Judges have had to decide if transmisson of disease can count
Old Fashioned Language
- Words such as malciously had to be interpreted by judges
- Cunnigham said malciously meant recklessly
Other Issues
- Law Commission- "obscure and erratic"
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Potential Reforms
- S47 would become "intentionally or recklessly causing injury" max 5 years
- S20 would become "recklessly causing serious injury" max 7 years
- S18 would become intentionally causing serious injury max life
- Why have 2 mens rea for serious harm but just one for some harm?
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The Heart Goes Last by Margaret Atwood
Fiction (Adult)
320 pgs.
The Heart Goes Last, Margaret Atwood's latest, carries all the hallmarks of her recent excellent works, especially the Oryx and Crake trilogy. Dystopian situation? Check. Strange, surreal hybrid animals? Check. Sharp social feminist commentary? Check.
Stan and Charmaine are a married couple forced to live in their car after a nationwide economic collapse. One day, at the dive bar where she scrapes in a menial income, Charmaine sees a TV ad that promises a new life, complete with a desirable job, comfortable house, and stylish clothes, to anyone who signs up. The catch? Every other month must be spent in a prison facility. Even with this caveat, the deal is a no-brainer to Charmaine. Soon, she and Stan are beginning their new lives in the town of "Consilience," next door to Positron prison. How bad could it be? Famous last words of a dystopia, right?
Actually, not that bad, as it turns out. To me, the book almost felt like Atwood-lite. Where were the unsettling implications? The tone starts changing halfway through the book, becoming both more farcical, and almost exclusively fixated on sex and desire. If the book had begun with a "chilling" premise, the reader becomes decidedly un-chilled as the book goes on and the narrative becomes amusing instead of troubling. It even ends relatively happily.
Still, Atwood's imaginative and darkly humorous prose and aforementioned sharp social commentary make pretty much anything by her worth reading, in my opinion. Lovers of either dystopian books or dark comedy should check this one out. So should die-hard Atwood fans, even if it leaves a little something to be desired.
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
Pub Date: July 2015
Fiction (Adult)
288 pgs.
The case of Go Set a Watchman is a unique one to be sure, and the controversy surrounding its publication is intriguing. Written before Lee's classic To Kill a Mockingbird, but chronicling events set after the events of Mockingbird, Watchman re-introduces readers to Mockingbird's iconic characters, except with a decidedly bleaker, more cynical tone. In other words, the rose-colored glasses of childhood are gone.
That said, I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed Watchman. Then again, I had never connected with Mockingbird all that much, and do not have much use for hero worship. As a reader, I always like the characters in my novels to be realistic and flawed. Also, I listened to the audiobook which featured Reese Witherspoon's superb narration. In Watchman, we meet a grown-up Scout as she travels home to Maycomb Alabama from New York City, where she has been living. It is the mid-1950s, and the Civil Rights Movement is starting to gain momentum. Scout's –Jean Louise's–visit home to Alabama occurs shortly after the Brown v. the Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954. During her visit home, Jean Louise encounters her father at a meeting of segregationists who are disturbed by the growing influence of the NAACP in Maycomb and the rest of the South. The notion that Atticus Finch could be racist comes as a shock to Jean Louise, much as it will to loyal fans Mockingbird's Atticus, who famously promoted Thomas Jefferson's slogan "Equal rights for all, special privileges for none!"
Watchman hinges on Jean Louise's realization about and growing disillusionment with her father and conditions in the South, the North, and the country as a whole. Again, the chance to defend a black man arises, and Atticus wants to take the case – but his reasons in 1954 at age 72 are much more complicated than promotion of "equal rights." Through many arguments with her father; her beau Henry, a local Maycomb boy; her aunt Alexandra and her uncle Jack, Jean Louise is forced to dismantle the idyllic vision of Atticus that she has kept close to her into adulthood, and replace him with the older, more complicated version who nonetheless is a piece of her own soul. She confronts what, at some point, every child must: realizing that her memory of Atticus is really a memory of her childhood self.
Watchman is a shorter, tauter book than Mockingbird, with more nuance and a better reflection of reality. It is a product of its time, and Scout herself is not without her own racial prejudices, of course. The bulk of the book is the aforementioned discussions, arguments and struggles Jean Louise has with her family and herself, but happily, readers will also find anecdotes of the childhood Scout, Jem, and Dill, alive and well in Jean Louise's memory.
I would recommend Go Set a Watchman to readers who are open to another side of a beloved story.
The Boston Girl by Anita Diamant
Fiction (Adult)
336 pgs.
The Boston Girl is the newest offering from local favorite Anita Diamant, author of the bestselling The Red Tent. Here, Diamant serves up another fascinating slice of historical fiction, her preferred genre.
In 1988, Addie Baum, born in 1900, has been asked by her granddaughter how she became the woman she is today. Through this simple and somewhat contrived but effective framing device, readers of The Boston Girl are treated to a tour of early-twentieth-century Boston through Addie's eyes. Addie, spunky and intelligent, tells stories of growing up as a first-generation Jewish girl in Boston's North End; of summer adventures at Rockport Lodge in Rockport, MA; of friendship, falling in love, and familial tribulations of her youth and young adulthood. The book is laid out in a straightforward fashion: Addie's stories more than carry the narrative and are satisfying throughout.
We were lucky enough last month to welcome Ms. Diamant to speak here at the library. She addressed a crowd of 150 as she answered questions about the book and offered interesting facts about the history behind the fictional story, such as the background of the real Rockport Lodge, and of real conditions in the North End in the early 1900s. Diamant's comments added more layers to Addie's story. All in all, The Boston Girl is a mild, mostly sweet, yet still intriguing, inspiring and emotionally satisfying coming of age story that has massive appeal to many different kinds of readers.
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
Fiction (Adult)
362 pgs.
In the midst of this bleak, gray winter wasteland, I decided to read…a novel set in the post-apocalypse. Am I a masochist? Possibly, but hear me out. Was this a relentlessly bleak and depressing reading experience? Actually, not at all.
Station Eleven, the debut novel by Emily St. John Mandel that was a National Book Award finalist, seemingly does the impossible: it's a beautiful, plausibly-rendered and yes, uplifting novel about the end of life as we know it due to a flu pandemic. But this novel is also about relationships, acting and theater, celebrity and the specter of fame…you know, our everyday concerns in our mundane, pre-apocalyptic world.
In the novel's opening scene, we meet Arthur, a famous actor currently appearing onstage in Toronto in a production of King Lear. Suddenly, Arthur collapses onstage, suffering a heart attack. An audience member hurries onstage to administer CPR, but it's too late – Arthur has died. Coincidentally, that same night, a Russian plane carrying passengers infected with a deadly flu virus lands in North America. Soon, 99% of the theater-goers in Toronto and the rest of the world that night will have something in common with Arthur – they'll be dead.
Station Eleven is about various people connected to Arthur in the years before and after the flu pandemic. The audience member who lept to Arthur's rescue is Jeevan, an ex-paparazzo-turned-EMT who shares a history with Arthur. He manages to barricade himself in an apartment after being warned by a friend. Kirsten, a child actress onstage with Arthur in the King Lear production, also manages to survive. Twenty years later, Kirsten is a member of the Traveling Symphony, a nomadic theater troupe traveling landscape that has been drastically altered by the flu pandemic.
The novel jumps back and forth in time, and I appreciated this framing device. Large portions of the book focus on Arthur's life, his prior marriages, how he became interested in acting. Woven in with those portions is the story of Kirsten's life with the Traveling Symphony, and the challenges presented to them. It was almost like reading two different books, except that Mandel kept enough threads running between the two different worlds that it worked beautifully. And, I found it realistic – after all, if a flu were to befall us next month, that does not mean celebrity gossip, social media, and all the petty things that sustain us day-to-day never existed. Mandel does an excellent job bridging those two worlds.
One of the things that I found most refreshing about Station Eleven is its lack of judgement regarding the flu pandemic and the collapse of society. Mandel does not spend her time dwelling on what society may have done to cause the pandemic, how it may have been prevented, etc. The flu–and subsequent wipeout of 99% of humanity world-wide–simply happens, and the lives of a few people are examined decades after, and decades before, this event.
Fans of dystopian, post-apocalyptic and futuristic fiction will undoubtedly enjoy Mandel's debut, but even if this type of fiction is not your usual thing, check this one out. Mandel has created a world that is at once chilling, hopeful, and above all, recognizable.
Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult
Fiction (Adult)
416 pgs.
Jodi Picoult is an extremely popular author here at the library, and, well, pretty much everywhere else. She is one of those authors that has cranked out one book per year for the last fifteen years or so. I started reading her a couple of years ago; the audio versions of her books hooked me because they are all brilliantly performed by a full cast. Her books do follow a bit of a "form:" told from multiple first-person perspectives, about current controversial or hot-button issues, and usually involving legal situations. Picoult fans, used to her books coming out in the Spring of each year, had to wait a bit longer for this latest book, which was released this Fall. But…was it ever worth the wait!
Like most of Picoult's books, Leaving Time is intricately plotted and emotionally wrought. It deals with a very specific subject many of us know little about: animal behavioral science, specifically of elephants. If nothing else, reading this book will give you great insight into the emotional lives of elephants. What sets this Picoult book apart from others, though, is a delicate balance of science and supernatural. At its core, Leaving Time is a ghost story.
Alice Metcalf, a scientist who studies elephant behavior, has been missing for ten years. One night when Alice's daughter, Jenna, was a toddler, a late-night altercation at the family elephant sanctuary left one person dead (presumed to be trampled to death by an elephant) and one person – presumed to be Alice – missing. Now thirteen, and still searching for her missing mother, Jenna enlists help in the form of Serenity Jones, a washed-up former celebrity psychic, and Virgil Stanhope, the detective who worked on her mother's case. As Jenna, Serenity, and Virgil navigate the past, they finds things to be less and less as they appear.
The spooky story winds its way through tales of infidelity, police cover-up, fiercely protective elephants, and the mind of Jenna's brilliant but mentally-ill scientist father who is languishing in an institution. Picoult keeps us guessing until the end, and I was impressed by the way she tied the story together. If you're new to Picoult, this would be a good one to pick up, and if you're a long-time fan, you won't be disappointed. Leaving Time is a striking book that is not quite like anything out there.
Kiss me First by Lottie Moggach
Fiction (Adult)
320 pgs
As Freddie Mercury once sang, "Is this the real life? Is this just fantasy?" For some, the physical "real world" is supplanted by another world, the virtual world. Property is purchased, relationships are formed, and lives are lived mainly online. In Lottie Moggach's fascinating first novel, we meet twenty-something Leila, who lives in a depressing London flat, works a data-entry job and spends most of her time caring for her ailing mother. After her mother passes away, reclusive Leila goes from spending most to all of her time online. As Leila withers away in her apartment, she blossoms online. In online forums, she finds she is more comfortable participating in discussions and expressing her opinions than she's ever been in so-called real life.
When Leila discovers a debate forum called Red Pill, she quickly makes a name for herself as one of the top commenters, and gains the attention of the site's founder, the mysterious Adrien. When Leila and Adrien meet in person, Adrien offers Leila an intriguing opportunity to change her identity. Leila is asked, essentially, to become another person.
Tess is a beautiful, charismatic, troubled woman. She is preparing to commit suicide but wants to spare her friends and family pain. After her death, Leila will assume her online identity. This requires lots of intense research on Leila's part, which she throws herself into whole-heartedly. Before long, Leila becomes consumed with details of Tess's past and present. But what actually happened to Tess?
Moggach's novel could be considered a psychological thriller. It's an intense study of "reality" versus "illusion," complete with an unreliable narrator. Although the subject matter is very current, Kiss Me First is an old-fashioned mystery at its core. It is not a warm-and-fuzzy book, but a shrewd, meticulous, and intriguing read with twists and turns to keep mystery fans happy. Give this unique novel a try.
Big Brother by Lionel Shriver
Fiction (Adult)
384 pgs.
Say what you want about Lionel Shriver's novels–they may not be universally liked, but they always provoke reactions. She is skilled at attacking timely topics and writing complicated books complete with prickly characters dealing with said topics. Her latest, Big Brother, focuses on obesity, health, and the diet industry and how these things play out in the context of a typical Midwestern family.
Pandora is a successful middle-aged entrepreneur married to Fletcher, a health nut, and stepmother to his two teenage kids. One day, her brother Edison, a down-on-his-luck New York jazz pianist, contacts Pandora and proposes a visit after a few years with little contact. When Pandora arrives at the airport to meet her brother, she is shocked to discover he has become so obese that he doesn't recognize him. Of course, Edison starts wreaking havoc on Pandora and Fletcher's orderly household, and gives no indication of leaving. Soon, Fletcher gives his wife an ultimatium–"him or me"–and Pandora chooses her brother, moves in with him, and vows to help him lose weight.
For the most part, I really enjoyed this novel, especially Shriver's descriptions of living with obesity, the prevailing culture of thinness, the struggle to lose weight, the definition of true hunger, and the uneasy distinction between being healthy and simply being thin. Shriver is an expert at portraying the interplay between family members, and gives all of her characters detailed, interesting backstories. (She delves into the worlds of New York jazz musicians, washed-up Los Angeles television stars, and Iowan caterers, to name a few.) Her characters' internal monologues are always rich and fully-realized, even if dialogue between characters was at times a little too pretentious and not entirely believable. (Also, Shriver has a penchant, one that this reader found off-putting, for giving all of her characters very odd, unwieldy names–Pandora Halfdanarson? Fletcher Feuerbach? Edison Appaloosa? Really?) There is a twist ending that some readers may find enlightening; others may find it somewhat unsatisfying. Despite this, I found this book to be a wholly "worth it" read, and eagerly look forward to her next offering.


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Arsenal star Bacary Sagna has brought back the big hair, flares and disco dancing for a Saturday Night Fever inspired advert for the new Range Rover.
The French full-back, who is known around the world for his bleach blonde hair extensions, is widely considered Mr Stylish in the Arsenal dressing room, and that's exactly what Range Rover have bought into for their latest advert.
Sagna is seen washing down his perfect white car while performing a mixture of spins, twirls and classic 1970s moves for the camera.
On a few occasions, the 29-year-old nearly loses his balance and slips, while a number of the moves are extremely dodgy to say the least.
Still, he is then seen showing off his swagger by climbing into the car and kissing a silver medallion, before attempting to pull away in style, only to stall the car and look embarrassed.
All in all, Metro Sport can't help but think that Sagna suits the Marouane Fellaini-style afro, and should perhaps make it a permanent fixture.
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Yahoo! launches new Search Direct feature in the UK
November 24, 2011
Reveals search results as you type
Yahoo! has announced its new Search Direct feature in the UK and has made improvements to its image and video search.
The new Yahoo! feature predicts search results as the person types each character. It will also show the person's correct answer before the search button is clicked.
Search Direct has been created to get answers faster and to make it easier for people to search what they are looking for. Revealing the top search trends as a person types will be popular with users and has already been a success on other search engine sites like Google.
Yahoo! image search
Yahoo! has also released a new image search feature that allows a person to look through galleries, view full-size images quickly and look at the latest or most-viewed images.
Yahoo! image search also allows people to look for images on Facebook but this only works if Yahoo! is connected to the Facebook account. A Facebook option will appear on the screen if the person's search term matches their Facebook friends' name, album title or album description.
The image search will also have a flex layout feature that will automatically adapt to a users screen. Whether it is on a tablet device or desktop computer, the user will be able to swipe or view slideshows of images.
Changes made to Yahoo! video search
Yahoo has slightly changed its video search feature. It now has filters on the left hand side of the screen and a fresh, simplistic look. The video search page now features videos from various Yahoo! properties and videos from elsewhere on the Internet.
Web search engines like Yahoo!, Google and Bing are competing to get search results for users as fast as possible.
People now want news instantly, whether it is from a desktop computer or a mobile phone. Search engines are now picking up the pace to attract more people to use their site and it is interesting to witness all their new ideas.
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Hiring the services of the right traffic offense attorney Charleston SC is often able to make the difference between receiving a warning, having to pay a heavy fine, or even having the driver's license suspended. An important factor in hiring a skilled attorney is the rates which might be involved. Dependent on the particular attorney practice, the costs might be based on a flat fee, a per hour fee, or based on the contingency scheme. You will find experts in these cases on most injury lawyer Charleston SC law firm staff rosters.
If you are looking for the payment model where you pay nothing up front, then you might want to find the attorney that lets you pay only after winning. If the attorney accepts the contingency payment scheme as a payment model, you only need to pay their fees on the satisfactory conclusion of a case. In general the attorney will expect a percentage of the amount awarded to be paid to them at the end of the trial. Fees paid to the attorney often vary, which is based on the amount of work involved and the time it took to complete the case.
Some of the traffic violation attorneys will prefer to work for an hourly rate, which means you will cover the lawyers expenses for each hour they work on your case. A further option is the flat fee, which means that you would be paying a one-time fee that covers the attorney's fees and expenses for the duration of the proceedings, irrespective of how long it might take. Depending on a particular attorney, it might be necessary to pay the fee at the time of the first consultation or at a later date to be agreed. In some cases, a retainer might be required by some of the attorneys as an up front payment to make sure they will receive their fee.
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The Big Picture - The Third Challenge: Unconventional Warfare
CREATED BY Department of Defense. Department of the Army. Office of the Deputy Chief of Staff for Operations. U.S. Army Audiovisual Center. (ca. 1974 - 05/15/1984 ) USE RESTRICTIONS NOTE: Some or all of this material may be restricted by copyright or other intellectual property right restrictions. ONLINE RESOURCES: http://www.amazon.com/dp/B0018C8L1Y NOTE: A DVD of this film can be ordered from our partner, Amazon.com/NATIONALARCHIVES. A DVD of this film is ALSO available for viewing and copying free of charge in the NARA Research Room in the Motion Picture, Sound, and Video Records Section, National Archives at College Park, 8601 Adelphi Road, College Park, MD. The original release sheet reads: The world has long been familiar with two military challenges posed by the forces of world communism - the challenge of nuclear war and the challenge of large-scale conventional war. The United States and the free world meet these challenges by maintaining the ability to fight both kinds of war-an ability so powerful it has deterred Communists from starting either kind. Today, we are seeing with increasing frequency evidence of another technique the Communists use whenever they consider the occasion appropriate...the technique of unconventional warfare -"The Third Challenge." This challenge involves conspiracy, underground organization and terror. It encourages guerrilla warfare and avoids open conflict and risks by the oblique method of conquering other countries from within. This week's THE BIG PICTURE, narrated by Alexander Scourby, deals with that third challenge and depicts the United States capability to fight this type of war in the far flung reaches of the globe. FOR MORE INFORMATION http://arcweb.archives.gov/arc/action/ExternalDOSearch?searchExpression=2569809
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what a night to be alive.
life ain't perfect, but there are perfect moments.
like when she handed me her phone and it was one of my favorite songs.
"listen" she says.
we yell at each other over the wind
in joy of happy discovery of the mutual love.
the sun is a glowing red and orange smushed circle,
moving fast but not so fast we can see it.
we leave the group and sit together
at the base of the cliff on soft, powder rocks.
there are a few other unknown people around, scattered on the cliff and hillside.
everything is quiet, but the comfortable kind, content.
the older couple stands and smiles at a phone, trying to selfie
(it is the cutest thing, his hands at her waist)
a man appears against the sky on the ground above.
he is round and jolly and makes a picture for them.
they thank, he leaves.
the light slowly glows dimmer.
and some moments are to beautiful to explain.
(first official set of images with my new camera!
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I was looking for a dish to go with some shrimp we were cooking on the grill. We have some big eaters in the family and the shrimp was just not going to be enough. We all love cheese. This Cheese Potato & Smoked Sausage Casserole Recipe really appealed to me. After asking the rest of the Family what they thought. I decided to give this simple recipe a try. The blend of cheese with the smoked sausage is delicious. Give this recipe a try. You'll Love IT!
Cheese Potato & Smoked Sausage Casserole Recipe
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Author: Larry
Recipe type: Main
Serves: 6-8
- 3 cups red potatoes, peeled, boiled and cut into cubes ( about 1 pound )
- 4 tablespoons butter or margarine
- 4 tablespoons flour
- 2 cups milk
- ½ teaspoon salt
- ¼ teaspoon pepper
- ½ lb Velveeta cheese- cut into chunks
- ½ cup sharp cheddar cheese, shredded
- 1 lb skinless smoked sausage – I used natural casing hotdogs
- ¼ teaspoon paprika
- Cut smoked sausage in half, lengthwise, and then chop into ½ to 1 to inch pieces.
- Cook in a frying pan for about 15 minutes, turning frequently to lightly brown.
- Place cooked diced potatoes in 2 quart casserole.
- Add the smoked sausage and gently mix it.
- Mix all remaining ingredients (except for shredded cheddar cheese & the paprika) in a saucepan over medium heat until warm, melted and smooth. Stirring constantly.
- Pour white/cheese sauce over potatoes and meat. Sprinkle shredded sharp cheddar cheese on top, and then sprinkle paprika evenly over the top.
- Bake in preheated oven at 350°F for 35-45 minutes until golden brown.
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The Tic Tac Toe challenge this week was a perfect opportunity to use up some more of my paper scraps. I've opted to use the left hand column - rectangle, circle, square.
I've chosen more masculine colours to add to my male birthday card stash which is always running on low. Lots of squares punched out and mounted onto a rectangular card and finished off with a sentiment in a circle.


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WPP Group's Ogilvy & Mather is looking to hire seven planners in Los Angeles, Publicis Groupe's Saatchi & Saatchi has signed on two high-level planning executives and Publicis' Fallon named a new director of account planning.
"Since early March, I've seen a lot of activity," said Terri Feuerstein, who specializes in planners as a senior recruiter at Howard Sloan Koller, New York.
The movement toward planners is credited to agencies looking for a new-business edge in a soft ad environment and the increasing need for integrated-marketing solutions. The surge in direct-to-consumer TV advertising in the health category, which has a natural research bent, is cited as another reason.
Expanding L.A., Chicago
Tony Wright, chief planning and strategy officer for Ogilvy North America, is building or expanding planning departments in Los Angeles and Chicago in addition to its already sizable New York staff. The new planners will work under the shop's newly appointed director of planning, Alasdair Lloyd-Jones, nabbed from Interpublic Group of Cos.' Deustch last month. Mr. Wright is also doubling the number of planners in Chicago to just under 20.
Mr. Wright said with all the research clients now have at their fingertips, they're looking for someone to make sense of it. He said planners are increasingly the people who can explain return on investment, and added that planners are taking over the role of account managers.
Scott Gilbert, managing partner at Saatchi & Saatchi, New York, said it is essential to have good planners, especially at new-business pitches. "Everyone looks to the planner to say. `What does all this mean, what does it all add up to?" he said.
Saatchi's Claire Hassid, exec VP-director of strategic planning, has doubled the number of staff in the New York planning department to 32 over the past three years. She confirmed hiring two new senior VPs in New York last month.
Likewise, Fallon, named Adrian Ho as director of account planning in Minneapolis, and one of his predecessors is Anne Bologna is now president of Fallon, New York (see story at left and Player, P. 20). In addition to hiring two account planners, Fallon promoted both Dan Sutton and Ullrich Appelbaum, to worldwide planning directors on Citibank and Nestle Purina, respectively. "We are one of the few agencies worldwide to have this caliber of planning leadership," said Minneapolis President Rob White in a statement.
Omnicom Group's BBDO Worldwide, New York, has also added planning staff. Cultural anthropologist Tim Malefyt and Tracy Lovatt, a former president of McCann Erickson's Momentum, New York. Both joined in April.
One agency chief who didn't wish to be named offered yet another reason for the boom in planning. "Since creative is your most expensive asset, you need planners to think through the strategy before you start executing creative."


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Is it going to be OK? Last words of missing surfer
"IS IT going to be okay? Is help coming?"
These were the last words Michael Fuller heard from his mate Stuart Butler before he was swept away by waves described as "extreme", "treacherous" and "terrifying" during a coronial inquest yesterday.
Stuart Butler is presumed drowned after being caught in a rip on July 19, 2014, at Cosy Corner, below Cape Byron, with his body and surfboard never recovered despite extensive air, land and sea searches.
The inquest into the disappearance of the 20-year-old Irish tourist heard that the surf was so dangerous at Tallow Beach that day that even the most experienced local surfers refused to paddle out while searches were twice cut short out of fear for the safety of rescuers.
Without those warnings, and with no knowledge of the notoriously dangerous rip that sweeps from Tallow Beach around Cape Byron, within minutes of paddling the trio were being swept towards the rocks below the Cape, State Coroner Michael Barnes was told.
The tourists had met while camping at the Mojo surf camp at Arrawarra, near Coffs Harbour, however, Mr Butler had never had a formal surf lesson and was described as a beginner surfer and not a strong swimmer.
"The rip was stronger than we could manage," Mr Fuller told the inquest.
"A wave took me and snapped my board in two. Stu seemed pretty panicky; pretty scared.
"He looked really tired; he was struggling to take control of his board."
While Mr Fuller clamoured onto a rock platform, Stuart Butler lost his grip as he attempted to undo his leg rope.
Levi Fahrenholtz, who managed to drift with the rip to safety at Wategos, said the three friends would never have entered the water had they been alerted to the dangers caused by the swell.
"I had no idea. I had only been (in Byron Bay) for two days," he said.
"Maybe a flashing light or a siren is needed to warn people if the surf is very dangerous."
Neither Mr Fahrenholtz nor Mr Fuller had noticed permanent signage at Tallow Beach carpark, the Coroner heard, while Snr Constable Colin Jones of Byron Bay police told the court the signage was "inadequate".
People don't notice the first sign when driving into the carpark and the second sign was too small and hidden behind the paid parking ticket station, he said.
After hearing evidence, counsel assisting the State Coroner, Sasha Harding's suggested recommendations were that more surf lifesaving services be allocated for Tallow Beach and that accommodation providers in Byron Bay give daily updates on weather conditions to travellers.


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miFon makes Intex smartphones smarter, safer, unlosable
DUBAI , 07, Feb 2017. Concerned about personal data breaches or losing or misplacing your mobile phone? Indian mobile phone major Intex is coming up with a new mobile security app embedded in a clutch of its top-end new models that can fully protect your data and device and much more.
The smartphone, since its true advent 10 years ago in 2007, has become the fastest selling gadget in history. By 2020, 80 per cent of the world population will be using Smartphones.
As smartphones have penetrated every aspect of daily life, be it communication, information, entertainment, and digital payments, smartphone security has become of paramount importance. Statistics indicate a third of smartphone users experience loss every year. An estimated 20 million phones are lost every month in India alone and only about 2 per cent of them are recovered.
However, miFon, a new app developed by an Indian led company, ensures that you don't have to worry about most of these.
miFon provides best in class powerful anti-theft measures like Thiefie, Siren, Lock, SOS Panic button to discretely seek help in emergencies, smX to locate your misplaced or lost phone even if the phone loses internet, miVac anti-malware protection, xFIT to keep your phone fit and as good as new, miBkup auto-magically back up your precious data.
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"At a time when women's security is of paramount concern, the app can also help women and children in distress", he added
miFon's founder, Abhijit Barua, a telecom and IT veteran born at Dibrugarh in the northeast Indian state of Assam, who has over 20 years of experience with global tech companies like AT&T, BT, Hewlett-Packard, SIFY, TATA VSNL, Vodafone and Wipro, ventured on his own to create a best in class mobile platform.
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Why is Kinetic Art Disconnected from Art History?
Several months ago, Vik Muniz came by the MIT Museum as part of his stint as a Visiting Artist on campus. I was pleased to help show him around our exhibits, and delighted to discover that Vik is a long-standing fan of Arthur Ganson. Arthur's work has been on exhibit here for almost 20 years, and our Exhibits Manager has collected dozens of comment books that attest to the huge number of visitors who fall in love with Arthur's work, and the many visitors who travel great distances to see it.
Although Arthur has been recognized widely - he's given a TED talk and he's spoken for the Long Now Foundation - his work hasn't taken off in the contemporary art world in ways that I might have imagined it would. On our Museum tour, Muniz, whose work is frequently covered by the contemporary art press, began talking about how kinetic art is pretty much ignored in art history. Muniz speculated that the reason is that the critics aren't necessary to its interpretation. Almost anyone can "get" a kinetic work right away, with or without an advanced degree in art history.
As I've begun to work on 5000 Moving Parts, I've started to think there's more to the story. The easy answer is that there's a lot of pretty minor kinetic art out there. But that's too easy. There's negligible work in every art form. Then there's the troublesome issue of maintenance. The Tinguely Museum in Basel employs two fulltime conservators to keep Tinguely's hulking, spewing works hulking and spewing. Arthur Ganson once told me that selling a work can mean a lifelong relationship with the buyer, making himself available to repair and tweak.
When Martha Buskirk wrote The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art several years ago, she looked at how the relationship between artists and museums was changing, especially in works made of materials that were designed to deteriorate rapidly. Her cover image is of a Janine Antoni lard sculpture that's in a late stage of collapse.
I was teaching from Buskirk's book when it came out, and I was so intrigued by her observations that I began trying to learn more about working in a museum. What, I wondered, was behind those decisions that were radically changing how artists and museums would work together? Who was making them and what was being considered?
For the next several months, I'll be trying to answer those questions and a few more as we develop the MIT Museum's new kinetic art exhibition. Why make a kinetic art exhibition? What is it about this form that creates a condition in which the work is simultaneously adored by the public and ignored in the critical discourse?My aims for this exhibition are to show work that has all the depth and richness of the best work in any medium, and to give our visitors an experience that they will (a) never forget and (b) value.


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Bulldogs! Fate Classic Edition
- Character Sheet
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- Pre-Gen Character Kit: for convention or quickstart play.
- TransGalaxy Crew Contract
- The Crew Manifest: a list of our Kickstarter backers. Thanks, everyone!
How We Came to Live Here
- Official Character Sheet: Female
- Official Character Sheet: Male
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Mortal Coil
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As a little incentive to encourage people to pledge oodles of undies they have invited a variety of creative people to donate something to use as prizes. When the lovely Indi contacted me and asked if I'd make a softie with an undie theme to add to the loot I jumped at the chance. To think of little ones lacking the bare necessities when they make such a huge transition to foster care is heart breaking and I am thrilled to be able to help in some way.
I decided on a bikini doll as a French Mademoiselle swanning around in her undies seemed more fitting for the latest Moulin Rouge spectacular rather than a prize for a wee kidlet. She may very well be jetting your way shortly if you are a lucky winner. All you have to do is pledge some brand new undies, briefs, pants, grunges, gruds....whatever you call them....underpants!!
Add undies to your shopping list, tell all your friends about the campaign, share it on your blog, get your Mother's group or work place involved and then package up your undies and make your pledge by the 30th September.
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Today we invited one of our many sexy girl friends to hang out. All three of us where on the hunt for some nookie and we found it in the form of Puma. She is a tall dd or maybe more swedish blond who was as freaky and horny as we were. We got her to leave her job for a few hours and spend some quality clit sucking time. The four of us really had a wild time to remember.
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Wiley CMAexcel Learning System Exam Review 2018
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Ive been a fan of Community for many years now, I started watching when I was just 14 years old, I'm 17 now. I have to say Community is the best show in the world. It not only features great storylines, it includes these awesome characters that you easily full in love with. In this post I'm telling you guys my favourite seasons and episodes to date.
Best Season Right Now: Season One...
My Least Favourite Seasons:
1. Season 2
2. Season 4
Best Episode of S1: Advanced Criminal Law.
Worst Episode of S1: Contemporary American Poultry
Best Episode of S2: Paradigms of Human Memory
Worst Episode of S2: Messianic Myths and Ancient Peoples
Best Episode of S3: Documentary Filmmaking: Redux
Worst Episode of S3: Digital Estate Planning
Best Episode of S4: Paranormal Parentage
Worst Episode of S4: Conventions Of Space And Time.
And Intro To Felt Surrogacy.
Sorry for picking on Season 4 more than the other seasons, but there were only a few episodes, if that, I really enjoyed.
I Want to mention Season 5 and 6 were highlights of the whole show. I haven't really got anything to say about those 2 because they were just fantastic.
So I hope you guys agree on my choices, look forward to reading your comments. What are your favourite episodes of Community?


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National Egg Month- January
Eggs, the perfect food. Eggs make amazing meals by themselves, or when added to other ingredients. They can be used in sweet and savory foods, baked goods, beverages. How can you go wrong with eggs? When I was in culinary school, we covered eggs over the coarse of a few days. I had never had … Continue reading


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Java 3D is a full-featured 3D graphics API that has been evolving over the past five years. Resources provides a link to Sun Microsystems' Website, where download and installation notes can be found. Java 3D supports a range of applications, including computer-aided design, Web advertising, motion picture special effects, and, of course, computer games. Java 3D uses conventions resembling OpenGL, but is actually a layer that sits atop low-level graphics APIs such as OpenGL and DirectX. Java 3D, like Java, is platform independent.
Geographic information system (GIS) developers wishing to expand into the 3D world and game developers looking for an alternative to virtual world representation appreciate the difficulty in creating virtual worlds that accurately portray the real world and can be navigated by interactive programs. Java 3D provides powerful and efficient mechanisms to display virtual worlds and convenient user interfaces to manipulate the worlds' views. In this article, I describe how to load and display data available from the US Geological Survey (USGS) in DEM (digital elevation model) format and how to create a user interface that allows keyboard and mouse controls to navigate through the virtual world. Figure 1 presents an aerial view of the Grand Canyon created by the application. The application's complete source code and Javadoc HTML files are available in Resources, as is a link to the USGS Website where the data resides.
To display a virtual world, a data file containing the coordinates of the hills, valleys, rivers, and oceans is necessary. You can either create this yourself or use an existing one. The USGS has such files available for download in DEM format. A digital elevation model consists of a sampled array of ground elevations (in meters) for positions at regularly spaced intervals. The basic elevation model is produced for the Defense Mapping Agency (DMA) and is distributed by the USGS and EROS (Earth Resources Observation System) Data Center in the DEM data record format. The 1-Degree DEM (3-by-3 arc-second data spacing) provides coverage in 1-by-1 degree blocks (about 68 miles by 68 miles) for the entire continental United States, Hawaii, and parts of Alaska. The 3-by-3 arc-second spacing results in a 1,201-by-1,201 array of elevations for each 1-degree block, or roughly one elevation measurement every 92 meters or 100 yards.
A newer STDS (Spatial Data Transfer Standard) format is also available. These elevation readings can be used to create 3D representations of the landscape, referred to as terrain modeling. When combined with other data types, such as stream locations and weather data, these readings can also be used to assist in forest fire control, determine the volume of proposed reservoirs, calculate the amount of cut-and-fill materials, and assist in determining landslide probability. Along with these useful applications, DEM data can make for realistic virtual worlds for gaming.
Application architecture
Computer games and 3D graphical information systems typically allow the user to change what is displayed on the screen by either manipulating the location of objects in a scene or by moving through the scene, often refereed to as flying through the scene.
To support fly-through and other real-time screen update sequences, developers must implement the most efficient data structures and scene-rendering techniques. One scene-rendering technique used to display virtual worlds is called level-of-detail (LOD) optimizations. This technique draws objects close to the viewer in fine detail, and objects farther away in less detail. For example, when viewing a person's face up close, all the details of nose, eyes, mouth, teeth, and so on, would display on the screen. A simple oval may represent the same person viewed from afar. This can save much processor time, especially if you are depicting a stadium full of people!
Some graphics programmers have shunned Java for its perceived inefficiency and overhead in allocating objects. Java 3D gives the programmer numerous ways to represent a scene's geometry. For example, a coordinate with x, y, z values can be stored as 3
ints, 3
floats, 3
doubles, a
Vector3f object, a
Point3f object, or a
Tuple3f object, to name just a few. A
TriangleArray, or
TriangleStripArray can represent a triangle whose attributes are passed by value or by reference, indexed or nonindexed, and interleaved (where coordinate, color, and texture data are stored in the same array) or noninterleaved (where coordinate, color, and texture data are stored in separate arrays).
Knowing I would be programming many data points, I tested the Java 3D geometric primitives to see which were the most efficient. I tested several different configurations comparing
TriangleArrays versus
TriangleStripArrays, interleaved versus noninterleaved attributes, and indexed versus nonindexed attributes. I found that the combination of using
TriangleStripArrays (explained more in the section below) with interleaved arrays of floating point data was by far the fastest configuration for rendering the screen and consumed the least space. This means not using low-level objects such as
Point3f, and
Vector3f to store data. Instead, I use arrays of
floats. I describe these arrays' formats in more detail later. Since I scaled the scene such that 1 unit equals 1 meter,
floats gives me more than enough precision; also, using
doubles serves no point, as the documentation indicates that Java 3D converts everything to
floats anyway.
To demonstrate the fly-through, terrain-modeling, and level-of-detail optimizations, I created an application capable of reading in a DEM file and allowing the user to navigate through the world. The examples shown in this article use the Grand Canyon East dataset. Figure 2 presents the application's structure. The shaded ovals represent objects I created.
Object responsibilities
This section briefly overviews the functions performed by each of the high-level objects that make up my demonstration application.
Main:based on
JFrame, creates the application's framework
InstructionPanel:based on
JPanel, displays mouse and keyboard commands available to the user
View3DPanel:based on
JPanel, responsible for creating the Java 3D environment (lights and view platforms) and terrain data
DemFile:based on
ElevationFile, responsible for parsing and loading DEM data into memory
ElevationModel:based on
BranchGroup, divides the terrain data into segments and creates a
LODSegmentfor each
LODSegment:based on
BranchGroup, responsible for creating
ElevationSegments at various resolutions and setting up the level-of-detail optimization
ElevationSegment:based on
Shape3D, creates the geometry for a given segment of the terrain data at a given resolution
InterleavedTriangleStripArray:based on
TriangleStripArray, provides in-place generation of normal vectors
Implementation notes
The following sections describe how critical aspects of these objects were implemented and factors related to their design. In particular, I detail DEM data parsing, creation of Java 3D geometry objects, and user viewpoint manipulation.
Decoding the DEM files
DEM files are available from the USGS as compressed text files. Resources provides links for downloading these files and file format specifications. Each file is composed of 1,024 byte records with fixed-length fields. The first record is referred to as a type "A" record and contains header information, including the quadrangle name, maximum and minimum elevations, latitude and longitude coordinates, and the number of data rows and data columns. One "B" record also exists for each column of data. B records hold the actual elevations (in meters). As a rule, the DEM files contain 1,201 rows by 1,201 columns of data. The specification also mentions an optional type "C" record that has information about data accuracy. Double precision numbers are stored in the old FORTRAN format using a "D" record instead of an "E" record, e.g., 0.1404000000000D+06. Therefore, as the code reads and parses the data, the D must be changed to an E.
I created two classes to handle terrain data.
ElevationFile is an abstract class used as a basis for creating format-specific files.
ElevationFile defines the minimum common fields needed for constructing 3D images from terrain data, including the minimum and maximum elevations, latitude and longitude of the ground coordinates being mapped, number of rows and columns of data, and a 2D array of elevations (row-column order). By generalizing the file's common aspects, I can more easily modify my application in the future to support other file formats. The source for
ElevationFile is shown below:
/** * ElevationFile is an abstract base class used to define the interface * between files holding terrain data and the Java 3D classes that * convert the terrain data into geometric primitives. * * @author Mark Pendergast * @version 1.0 February 2003 * Known subclasses @see DemFile */ public abstract class ElevationFile{ /** Data file name. */ public String fileName; /** Geographic name or title of the data. */ public String quadrangleName = ""; /** Minimum elevation in meters. */ public int minElevation = 0; /** Maximum elevation in meters. */ public int maxElevation = 0; /** Two-dimensional array of elevation data in meters, array represents equally spaced data points across the groundCoordinates. The first dimension is the row, the second, the column.*/ public int elevations[][] = null; // array of raw elevation data /** Number of data rows. */ public int nRows; /** Number of data columns. */ public int nColumns; /** Holds ground coordinates of the four corners in arc seconds. */ public GroundCoordinates groundCoordinates = new GroundCoordinates(); public ElevationFile() { } }
The second class I created,
DemFile, inherits
ElevationFile and provides code to handle DEM file format specifics. The constructor is passed a filename, which it opens as a
BufferedReader. The entire A record is then read into a character array, and the desired fields parsed out and stored in appropriate class variables. I wrote the
parseDemDouble() method to parse the old FORTRAN double precision format. Once the A record is read in and processed, the code can read in and parse each B record. To ease this job, I converted
BufferedReader into a
StreamTokenizer. Since the A record is read in its entirety, the stream is already positioned at the beginning of the first B record.
Now it is just a matter of using a set of nested
for loops to read in the B records one at a time (each representing one column of data), and the row data itself. When the process is complete, the streams close. All elevation data is now stored in the 2D
elevations array. The
elevations array is an integer array since each elevation is to the nearest meter. The source for
DemFile is shown below:


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Vista Ramen (2609 Cherokee Street; 314-797-8520), the acclaimed Cherokee Street hot spot, will be adding Sunday brunch service, beginning on March 19th.
"There's always a demand for brunch, and people want options," says executive chef Chris Bork. "There's nothing wrong with bacon and toast. We just feel like we can fill a gap by being different."Indeed, Vista's brunch menu strays far from the traditional eggs Benedict and mimosa template. With items like chawanmushi, a Japanese custard with shrimp and pickled mushrooms, and shiro dashi grits with poached eggs and bacon, brunch service will mirror the Asian-inflected dinner offerings that put the restaurant on the map.
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Pix: Actor Yasho Sagar's (Bharath) last moments with Sneha Ullal
20 December 2012
Actor Yasho Sagar attended the birthday party of his debut film heroine Sneha Ullal on 18 of December. Sneha has posted the pix of her last moments with Bharath (Yasho Sagar). The boy in yellow shirt is Viswanath Reddy who was driving the car when accident happened. He died too along with Yasho Sagar.


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Poor Record of Political Punditry
Ethics Daily ran my latest piece today. It is entitled "SBC Leader Holds Poor Record of Political Punditry" and offers an analysis of some of the political claims of Richard Land. Despite claiming to know who evangelicals were supporting during this past election cycle, Land's political predictions were often highly inaccurate. His predictions often seem to be less about what is really happening politically and more about what he hopes is happening.


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Personal Genomics: A Safety Study Assessing the Effects of Receiving Genome Sequencing Results
Observational Model: Family-Based, Time Perspective: Prospective
Psychological distress
of receiving incidentally identified disease risk results from whole genome/exome sequencing. Safety is defined as no more than 20% of participants experiencing clinically meaningful levels of distress at 1 week follow-up, as measured by the Hospital Anxiety & Depression Scale (HADS; score > or = to 8 on the anxiety sub-scale). Patients will be considered evaluable for the primary outcome if they are not distressed at baseline and have completed the 1 week follow-up assessment.
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Mark Robson, MD
Principal Investigator
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
United States: Institutional Review Board
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As we do the big sort I am contemplating re-homing quilts.
The kids do not want them all and I do want to give some to friends.
A few years ago I started simplifying my labels.
It is really hard to give away a quilt that has "for my darling daughter on her 14th birthday" written on the back. The recipient may think I decided my daughter was not so darling after all.
So, now it is just my name and Chicago and the year.
No baggage of sentiment.
Thursday, March 16, 2017
tip #38--simplify your labels
Posted by Lynn Dykstra at Thursday, March 16, 2017
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2 comments:
- Paula, the quilter said...
That is what I do, because who know if the quilt is going to end up in a thrift shop.
- Chantal L. said...
Hmmm! Food for thoughts here. I have to go check what I wrote on older quilts. Thanks for sharing. ;^)
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CORNELL (US) — Worm compost is not only an ideal fertilizer, it may also prove to be an organic way to protect seeds from a pathogen that has been a scourge to farmers.
By teaming up with a New York composting business, researchers believe they have found an organic way to raise healthier plants with less environmental impact.
The beneficial microbes in vermicompost—the product if composting using various species of worms—can colonize a seed's surface and protect it from infection by releasing a substance that interferes with the chemical signaling between the host and the pathogen, says Allison Jack, a doctoral student at Cornell University, whose work builds on previous research by Eric Nelson, professor of plant pathology and plant-microbe biology.
"We know the microbes are actually adding something the zoospores don't like," Jack says. "Now we just have to find out what it is."
Eric Carr, a master's student in Nelson's lab, is focusing on the suppressive qualities of vermicompost on a different stage of the life cycle of Pythium aphanidermatum, a pathogen whose mobile spores infect seedlings, causing them to "damp off," or wither, shortly after germination.
The research helps contribute to opportunities to turn waste products like manure into important disease-suppressive soil amendments.
"At some point in our lives, we're going to have to start using these types of natural resources and use them more efficiently; when that time comes, we'll have a better idea of how it works," Carr says.
Certain composts can suppress diseases, research has shown, but what is still unknown is which of the thousands of undescribed microbes in healthy compost are responsible for suppressing which diseases.
Another challenge in identifying suppressors and harnessing them is the variability of different composts.
To overcome this issue, Jack has teamed up with Tom Herlihy, who produces 2.5 million pounds of vermicompost a year through his Avon, NY, company, Worm Power. Because his dairy manure feedstock is regular and the process controlled, Herlihy's end product is highly consistent, a quality that's good for growers and for scientists.
Most seeds are treated in this country with chemicals," Herlihy says. "If we know our vermicompost can suppress Pythium, wouldn't it be nice if we could come up with a vermicompost-based solution, rather than a chemical one?"
There could also be economic benefit if the Environmental Protection Agency, for example, allows Herlihy to market his product as a biopesticide.
A related project focuses on vermicompost's organic fertilizing capability. Horticulture assistant professor Neil Mattson will study how organic growers can incorporate vermicompost into their potting mixes for better nutrient management. That three-year research project, supported by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, will begin this spring
"What a lot of these growers tell us is fertility issues are the hardest to solve organically," says Mattson. "This is a community that is doing a lot of great things. We want to make their production systems even more profitable. We want to promote production systems that promote healthy environments."
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In the midst of one of the darkest era in the modern history of ancient Greece, a guiding light to remind the people of what is great about their country was lit on Thursday morning, as the London 2012 Olympic torch relay began. The flame was ignited from a sun-powered source at the 2600-year-old Temple of Hera in Athens by actress Ino Menegak, portraying a high-priestess in an elaborate, choreographed ceremony.
The first bearers of the torch signified the unity between Greece and the United Kingdom hosts of the Olympics, as the Liverpool native Spyros Gianniotis, who represents Greece as a sporting citizen, received the torch for its first leg.
Gianniotis is an open water superstar, and by way of winning the World Championship in last year's Olympic 10km swim is the defacto favorite at the London Games; this is his 4th-straight Olympic Games representing Greece.
The torch will now make its way to the United Kingdom, where on May 18th it will begin at the main-island's southernmost point at Land's End. In order to avoid the protests that plagued past torch runs, the flame will remain in the UK, aside from a one-day stop through Dublin, for the duration until it is used to light the main cauldron in the Olympic Stadium on July 27th.


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Denmark's Soren Kjeldsen moved into pole position to claim his first European Tour title for six years, despite a poor finish to his third round in the Dubai Duty Free Irish Open.
Kjeldsen enjoyed a four-shot lead after playing his first 13 holes in six under par at Royal County Down, but bogeyed the 17th and 18th to finish two ahead of Spain's Rafael Cabrera-Bello and Germany's Max Kieffer.
Kieffer carded seven birdies and one bogey to set a new course record of 65, despite cold and blustery winds which meant only 11 players were under par at the end of the day.
"If you had given me 67 stood on the first tee I would have been very happy," said Kjeldsen, whose last win came in the Open de Andalucia in 2009. "I played terrific all day and didn't think I did too much wrong on the last two holes, so I will focus on the first 16.
"Competition is pretty hard out here. It's not easy to win and it's not like I have played poorly for six years, but it's nice to have a chance and it would mean everything to win this event.
"It's a fantastic tournament this year, maybe better than ever, and on a wonderful golf course. But it's too early to think about that. There are a lot of great players behind me and I need to play well (on Sunday) to have a chance. It's still that open."
Kieffer made the most of some local knowledge to move into contention for his first European Tour title, his friend Stephen Sweeney having been an assistant professional at Royal County Down for four years.
"He showed us around in the practice round and this is definitely a course where local knowledge helps a lot," said the 24-year-old, who lost a record nine-hole play-off in the Spanish Open in his rookie season in 2013. "I played very well today and holed a lot of putts, but I also had some luck when I hit a bad shot, which you are going to do in these conditions.
"I am looking forward to (Sunday). The crowds are great and it's fun to play in front of such big crowds. There are a lot of benefits which would come with a victory and it would mean a lot.
"My game is ready and I feel I am mentally ready, but we will have to wait and see."
England's Tyrrell Hatton, Scotland's Richie Ramsay and Austria's Bernd Wiesberger were all three shots off the lead after matching rounds of 70, with former world number one Luke Donald six off the pace after a costly double-bogey on the 15th in his 72.
Donald at least fared better than Players Championship winner Rickie Fowler, who looked to have got back into contention by chipping in for an eagle two on the 16th, only to take 16 more shots to play the last two holes.
Fowler, who needed just 11 shots to play the final four holes of regulation at Sawgrass in five under, lost a ball off the tee on the 17th and ran up a quadruple-bogey eight, before driving out of bounds on the par-five 18th to card another eight and a round of 76.
That left the world number nine on five over par alongside home favourite and 2007 champion Padraig Harrington, who came home in 40 for a 78.