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Case Study: Glovo Pursues Growth and Scalability
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Glovo, a Barcelona-based startup with food at the core of its business, delivers any product within your city at any time of day. Currently delivering over 100M+ annual orders and operating in 22 countries and 876+ cities, Glovo's mission is to give everyone easy access to anything within a city.
Due to rapid growth and today's customers expecting 24/7 service and support, Glovo needed a contact centre solution that could grow with them and help navigate the complexities of a delivery platform highly dependent on variables like weather, traffic and product availability across thousands of partners.
A cloud-based contact centre solution was needed, that was able to scale and grow with the company. Operating in 22 countries and 876+ cities, the company sought to find a solution that had the ability to connect with local providers and partners, and could connect to the local infrastructure.
Glovo chose Talkdesk because of its ability to be a partner that could scale quickly, provide a 360 degree look at the customer experience and understood the importance of constant innovation amid a fast-paced, competitive market.
With Talkdesk, Glovo saw a reduction of 15% of AVHT for inbound calls due to the successful integration and the ability to provide valuable customer context for the agent when handling inbound calls. Glovo is now armed with insight and intelligent reporting capabilities to help identify any gaps and areas of improvement for accurate call routing.
In cities across the world, on-demand delivery is part of everyday life as consumers are more than willing to pay for faster, more convenient delivery. The fast-moving technology companies competing in this arena are constantly developing new and innovative ways to transform the market.
Founded in 2015, Glovo is one of those market leaders. The company has experienced rapid growth and continues to expand its global footprint as consumer habits shift toward increased demand for same-day and instant delivery.
To get a better handle on this increase in demand and to satisfy the needs of today's consumer in a cost-effective, scalable and efficient manner, Ludovic Magnier, Live Operations Platform Manager at Glovo sought to identify a contact centre solution to form a partnership for growth.
Meeting the Moment with the On-Demand Economy
The on-demand economy is revolutionizing consumer behavior and the list of companies aiming to fulfill this demand is getting longer every day. Over the years, Glovo has made its mark as a global leader in the delivery app market.
Due to rapid growth and today's customers expecting 24/7 service and support, they needed a contact centre solution that could grow with them and help navigate the complexities of a delivery platform highly dependent on variables like weather, traffic and product availability across thousands of partners.
Ludovic was tasked to find a solution that was not only able to help scale the company but would also work together on finding ways to build trust with customers. For Glovo, supporting customers with a superior level of customer service is the backbone of any forward-thinking company.
"In the long term, we believe that the companies that will be successful are the ones that bring value for the customer and build trust." Ludovic Magnier, Live Operations Platform Manager, Glovo
With that philosophy in mind, Ludovic zeroed in on finding a contact centre solution that had the capabilities to constantly adapt to Glovo's fluctuating business requirements due to the nature of the on-demand delivery market and could handle the growing volume of calls — approximately 210K inbound calls and 700K outbound call per month.
Having a cloud-based system with a solid infrastructure was vital here to supporting agents during peak hours.
Glovo Asked, Talkdesk Delivered
Since working with Talkdesk, Glovo saw a reduction of 15% of AVHT (average handle time) for inbound calls. This extraordinary reduction in handle time is due to their strong integration with Talkdesk, enabling the company to provide agents with valuable context when handling inbound calls.
In addition, the number of calls transferred has been reduced significantly by 25% thanks to the available features that enable better call routing to the appropriate agent, thus reducing handle time. Glovo has also benefited from Talkdesk's advanced reporting capabilities.
Now, they can capture and analyze customer service interaction insights to identify areas of opportunity and improvement to better optimize accuracy and efficiency.
Many of the features have significantly improved Glovo's business efficiency. For example, with Talkdesk Studio, they now have the capabilities to configure, design and manage even the most complex call flows.
Additionally, Glovo has recently begun implementing Talkdesk Guardian to help mitigate risk and detect any suspicious activity on the platform. Finally, Talkdesk Studio has been instrumental in building IVR flows to help manage calls to ensure customers feel supported and valued.
At the beginning of his search, Ludovic wanted a solution that could provide a 360-degree view of customers' activities, not just the contact centre and customer service. As a customer-first company, being able to see the complete picture — from acquisition through the entire customer journey — was critical.
To do this, Talkdesk enabled Glovo to extract data from different systems and consolidate into one dashboard in order to finally see the complete picture. As a delivery service that supports millions of customers across multiple channels and platforms, the ability to capture a 360-degree view of the customer experience has proved to be invaluable.
A Partnership Built for Innovation
Through Talkdesk's cloud-based platform capabilities and best-in-class infrastructure, Glovo plans to continue finding new ways to personalize the customer experience, whether through call, text or virtual agent.
The first step was participating in a Talkdesk Optimization Assessment to maximize their Talkdesk operations and discover opportunities to enhance business value.
For example, Glovo has optimized some flow configurations and started testing other products like Talkdesk's Virtual Agent that would allow them to build even more self-service features, improve efficiencies and reduce the number of agents.
Today, Glovo has no plans to slow down and expects continuous growth and increased demand among consumers. Their partnership with Talkdesk will put these plans into action and help Glovo meet their goals today, tomorrow and beyond.
"Not only is the product great but the Talkdesk team has the capability to adapt to each customer, understand the business and think of ways for improvement. That was the most important thing for me." Ludovic Magnier, Live Operations Platform Manager, Glovo
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Q: decode string "2A4CT2A2C..." into "AACCCCTAACC..." from a text file to another I have a doc.txt which is like "2A4CT2A2C..." and i want to get "AACCCCTAACC..." and then write it to another doc1.txt
I have tried:
(origin and destination are the paths of the docs)
def decode_txt(origin, destination):
    h = open(destination, "w")
    f = open(origin, "r")
    for character in f:
        h.write()

and couldn't think how to continue

A: The only way I can really think of doing it is to break it up, Iterate through and have, if key of list[whatever] is character type int, append the next key x-1 times at list[key + 1]. You could then just Iterate using a for I in range list and delete character type integers.

A: You have a pattern of zero or more digits followed by a single character. A regular expression can handle it. (\d*) will group zero or more digits followed by a ([^\d]) - a single non-digit character to repeat.
import re

def decode_txt(origin, destination):
    with open (origin) as infile:
        text = infile.read()
    with open(destination, "w") as outfile:
        for cnt, char in re.findall(r"(\d*)([^d])", text):
            outfile.write(char * (int(cnt) if cnt else 1))

test = "2A4CT2A2C"
open("origin", "w").write(test)
decode_txt("origin", "destination")
print(open("destination").read())
assert open("destination").read() == "AACCCCTAACC"

Suppose you just wanted string input and output. This could reduce to
import re

text = "2A4CT2A2C"
out = []
for cnt, char in re.findall(r"(\d*)([^d])", text):
    out.extend(char * (int(cnt) if cnt else 1))
out = "".join(out)

If you have a lot of text, the out list will be large. You could use io.StringIO() to create a file-like buffer instead.

A: A solution without re package
This solution did not use regex to split the text. And it also has good performance. As its operations are all in memory, and it has O(n) time complexity and O(n) space complexity (n with respect to string length).
def deco(s : str) -> str:
  L, j = [], len(s)
  for i in range(len(s)):
    if s[i].isdigit():    # update the current number's first dig position.
      j = min(j,i)
    else:
      if j == len(s): L.append(s[i])   # char without number
      else:
          L.append(s[i]*int(s[j:i]))   # char with number s[j:i] ahead
          j = len(s)
  return "".join(L);

*

*Demo
print(deco("2A4CT2A2C"))
print(deco("12A4CT2A2C"))

*Output
AACCCCTAACC
AAAAAAAAAAAACCCCTAACC

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Catherine Cavendish
The Darkest Veil
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Ghosts Galore at The Ancient Ram
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Built on the site of an ancient Pagan burial ground, The Ancient Ram Inn, situated in the village of Wotton-under Edge in Gloucestershire, England has something for every ghost and lover of all things devilish – although if you want a pint, you'll need to find a local hostelry. It last functioned as a public house in 1968 when the brewery sold it to John Humphries for £2600. He has made it his mission to save the building (dating from 1145) from rack and ruin. Today, in his 90s, he is still there and maintains his enthusiasm for both the building and its spirit inhabitants.
He claims he is regularly visited – and even attacked – by the spectral co-habitees and there have been sightings of previous owners of the inn, including a former innkeeper and his daughters. There is also the ghost of a woman known as Elizabeth who is believed to have been murdered and buried beneath the bar.
John welcomes ghost hunters and organised overnight ghost hunts. He is happy to share the wealth of information he has amassed about the legends and stories connected to the Inn. Child sacrifices, devil worship, witchcraft and even a link to Stonehenge are just some of the links that make this ancient place so fascinating.
There is a room in the Inn known as the 'Witch's Room' for very good reason. It would appear that during the 1500s, a woman accused of witchcraft took refuge there but was eventually captured and burned at the stake. She is said to return to her former place of sanctuary.
Another legend has it that, at some time in its history, the water course was redirected, causing a portal to open. Unfortunately this was not a desirable turn of events as it allowed some pretty nasty demons to pass through. John Humphries recalls that, on his first night in the property he was forcibly dragged from his bed by a demon and flung across the room.
The present owner also found evidence of devil worship and the skeletons of a woman and child buried under the stairs. Broken daggers were found embedded in them.
The 'Bishop's Room' is reputedly haunted by a woman hanging from the ceiling and by monks, who terrified guests when the Inn was a Bed and Breakfast establishment. Many would refuse to stay in that room. Others would flee in the middle of the night.
Outside, the old barn has played host to unexplained dark shadows which have frightened guests rigid.
In the second half of the twentieth century, the former Bishop of Gloucester – Rt. Rev. John Yates – is reported to have attempted to exorcise the Inn, but failed. He called it, "the most evil place I have ever had the misfortune to visit" (Western Daily Mail).
The Inn was used many centuries ago as a keeping house for slaves and workers who built nearby St Mary's Parish Church. No doubt their spirits add to the general melee. A high priestess has been seen sitting on a bed and a young girl's screams have chilled unwary visitors. Add to this a ghostly centurion on horseback and a succubus who scares the life out of guests by pinioning them down on their beds, and you can see that the Ancient Ram Inn serves up a heady cocktail of supernatural fare.
As for the Stonehenge connection: This depends a lot on whether you are a believer in the power/ phenomenon of ley lines. Those who do state that the Inn is built on the intersection of two of them which connect directly with the centre of Stonehenge some seventy (or so) miles away. Legend has it that the power from Stonehenge floods into the Inn making it the conduit for supernatural activity that has given the Ancient Ram its unparalleled reputation.
A number of operators hold haunted nights at the Ancient Ram and these are usually booked up well in advance. One of these is Haunted Happenings.
I'll leave you with the incomparable Yvette Fielding and the Most Haunted team who held a vigil there. Enjoy - and a very merry Christmas/Festive season of your choice to you all
Posted by Catherine Cavendish at 16:56
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I remember seeing this on one if the dozen ghost hunter shows we have over here! Very interesting place! As an American living in a very young country, it boggles the mind to think of buildings still existing from the twelfth century!
Catherine Cavendish 20 December 2016 at 17:13
We're tripping over them here, Somer! Thanks for commenting :)
Well Cat, what a place. It even has a look about it on that first photograph. A great post my darling. One I am well glad to come by and catch up on after the Christmas madness xxxxx
Thanks, Shey. i love these sorts of places too
Yeah, nothing beats a scary place.
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Exhibition visit: Young In Hong – The Moon's Trick
by Philip Gowman posted 5 Jan 2018 21 Dec 2019 updated 21 Dec 2019
The Moon's Trick, a multi-faceted show featuring recent work of Young In Hong, was the 2017 KCC's Artist of the Year exhibition.
Hong's work is multi-disciplinary. For a long while it has involved embroidery: LKL's first encounter with her work was as part of the KCC's opening exhibition curated by Jiyoon Lee back in 2008, in which she presented pieces which combined photography and embroidery. Subsequent work exhibited at Rokeby Gallery, I-MYU Projects and Saatchi Gallery (for Korean Eye) were large-scale embroidery pieces.
Young In Hong: Partition (2016). Viscose rayon threads, cotton, 60 x 160 cm
But her body of work also includes documentary film (Miners' Orange, addressing the economic decline of a mining town in Gangwon province) and performance (ICA, Royal Academy) which often dealing with social and political issues.
Young In Hong: Prayer (2017). Embroidered lines on cotton, 42 x 47 x 4cm
Young In Hong: Prayers (2017) – installation view
The current exhibition combined many of these strands. Taking documentary photographs as a starting point – often photographs highlighting particular social issues or momentous political events – Hong creates abstract impressions of the photos, highlighting selected features of the image which she then embroiders: for example, the buses emblematic of the 1980 Gwangju massacre are reduced simply to the outlines of two windscreens and simple parallel lines representing the roofs. Over twenty of these simple embroideries, entitled Prayers, were displayed around the gallery space; also dotted around the gallery were speakers playing musical fragments related to the embroideries.
Looking Down from the Sky (2017). Embroidered lines on hanbok fabric (water silk) stretched on wooden frames (42 . 160 cm each
Young In Hong: Musical score for Looking Down from the Sky (2017)
These abstract embroideries are then combined into an aleatoric musical score, given to performers to interpret as they see fit.
In the performance that opened The Moons Trick, instrumentalists performing on daegeum, trumpet and violin joined with two vocalists and Hong herself playing on sewing machine. In the performance space were large-scale embroideries focusing on key moments in contemporary Korean history – of which the most striking was the 2008 candle-light protests against Lee Myung-bak relating to the import of American beef during the mad cow disease scare.
Burning Love, 2014, viscose rayon threads, cotton, 290 x 360 cm
Burning Love, 2014,(detail)
Young in Hong: Shadow of Us (2016). Viscose rayon threads, cotton, 73 x 100 x 4.5 cm
Young in Hong: The Square Saddened (2016). Viscose rayon threads, cotton, 65 x 97.5 x 4.5 cm
Other embroideries interpreted the protests over the death of two teenagers struck by an American military vehicle in 2002 (The Square Saddened); or a traditional ritual – now discontinued in times of modernisation – to welcome the first full moon of the New Year by making a bonfire of brushwood (Burning with Triadic Harmony).
Altogether this was a thought-provoking and rewarding exhibition, and one only regrets that the show was not on for longer, to enable the viewer to absorb and reconcile better the different artistic elements that were woven together in this project.
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Southern California quartet MOVEMENTS — Patrick Miranda [vocals], Ira George [guitar], Spencer York [drums], and Austin Cressey [bass] — have released their second album No Good Left To Give today, September, 18 via Fearless Records.
Tune in for a stripped down, livestream performance on Twitch this evening at 9pm ET/6pm PT. There will be a Q+A, giveaways, and more. Go here to watch.
Movements shared the visually stunning animated video for the first single "Don't Give Up Your Ghost." They followed with the video for "Skin to Skin" and a lyric video for "Tunnel Vision"
Check out Cressey's playthough over at Guitar World. Movements are also featured in the November 2020 issue of INKED and in the pandemic side gig feature at Outburn. The band was also profiled at The Alternative.
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Movements formed in 2015. Following the 2016 EP Outgrown Things, the group cemented a singular sound on their 2017 full-length debut, Feel Something. Eclipsing 40 million total streams by 2020, it immediately connected by way of "Daylilly" [11.1 million Spotify streams], "Full Circle" [6.1 million Spotify streams], and "Colorblind" [5.5 million Spotify streams]. Along the way, the four-piece received acclaim from Brooklyn Vegan, AXS, Rock Sound, Culture Collide, and more. In between packing shows worldwide, they joined forces with Alzheimer's Association for the "Deadly Dull" video and covered "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. for the Songs that Saved My Life compilation. During 2019, Movements entered the studio with longtime producer and frequent collaborator Will Yip [Title Fight, Turnover] to record No Good Left To Give. Movements spent the most time they ever had in the studio, which resulted in the most collaborative effort to date with Yip, adding another dimension to their music.
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Q: SQLAlchemy cascading deletes to many to many table I have a situation where i want to upon deletion of a Key (Parent) delete all it's Values (children), and the related rows in a MTM association between Children and Foo.
The models are as follows (some attribs removed):

class Key(Model):
   ...
   values = relationship('Value', back_populates='key', cascade='all, delete-orphan')

class Value(Model):

   value = Column(Text, nullable=False)
   key = relationship("Key", back_populates="values")
   key_id = Column(Integer, ForeignKey("keys.id"))

class Foo(Model):

   ...
   taglist = db.relationship("Value",
                               order_by="desc(Value.created)",
                               secondary=association_table,
                               lazy='dynamic')

And the association_table is just a classic FK<-->FK table:
Table("association_table",
   Model.metadata,
   Column("foo.id", Integer, ForeignKey("foos.id"),
   Column("value.id", Integer, ForeignKey("values.id"),)

With this setup, using postgres, when Im trying to delete a Key, I get the following:
(psycopg2.errors.ForeignKeyViolation) update or delete on table "values" violates foreign key constraint "association_table_value_id_fkey" on table "association_table"
Now, reading through the https://docs.sqlalchemy.org/en/14/orm/basic_relationships.html#relationships-many-to-many-deletion documentation I've tried the examples there which mostly seem to say put an ondelete="CASCADE" on your association table, however this results in the same issue.
Is there a way I can do what I want, e.g. "unlink" the foo objects from the MTM table (without deleting them) ?
Thanks in advance for any help

A: If you are using postgres, it would be useful to know wich version you are running. There are some similar issues which might be related if you are using a version lower than 12.2.
However, from your code, where did you try ondelete="CASCADE"?
This is working for me:
association = Table("association_table",
   PkModel.metadata,
   Column("foo.id", ForeignKey("foos.id")),
   Column("value.id", ForeignKey("values.id", ondelete="CASCADE"))
   )

class Key(PkModel):
    __tablename__ = "keys"
    values = relationship('Value', back_populates='key', cascade='all, delete-orphan')

class Value(PkModel):
    __tablename__ = "values"
    created = Column(DateTime, nullable=False, default=dt.utcnow)
    value = Column(Text, nullable=False)
    key = relationship("Key", back_populates="values")
    key_id = Column(ForeignKey("keys.id"))

class Foo(PkModel):
    __tablename__ = "foos"
    taglist = relationship(
       "Value",
        order_by="desc(Value.created)",
        secondary=association,
        lazy='dynamic'
)

Then I can run (using postgres 12.2):
>>>f1 = models.Foo.create()
>>>f1.taglist.all()
[]
>>>k1 = models.Key.create(values=[models.Value(value="bar")])
>>>k1.values
[<Value 54a7c726-acc9...b8c87e590>]
>>>models.Value.query.all()
[<Value 54a7c726-acc9...b8c87e590>]

>>>f1.update(taglist=[v1])
<Foo 8a1b6701-384e-4bc0-8e29-9ac4e64a4fdf>
>>>f1 = models.Foo.query.all()[0]
>>>f1.taglist.all()
[<Value 54a7c726-acc9...b8c87e590>]

>>>k1.delete()
None
>>>f1.taglist.all()
[]

>>>models.Key.query.all()
[]
>>>models.Value.query.all()
[]
>>>models.Foo.query.all()
[<Foo 8a1b6701-384e-4...4e64a4fdf>]

I tried after without ondelete="CASCADE" and I could reproduce your error.
ForeignKeyViolation: update or delete on table "values" violates foreign key constraint "association_table_value.id_fkey" on table "association_table"

From your code, for future readers, note the following:

*

*Missing the __tablename__, I suppose from your code is set adding 's'.

*On the association table, missing a ) on Column("foo.id").

*Value does not have a mapped column named 'created'.


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AMANA/CLEAR CREEK
Henry's Smokehouse: Keeping tradition alive
Melinda Wichmann
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After more than a decade, the smokehouse at Henry's Village Market, formerly the Homestead Meat Market, has come back to life.
Jerry and Melissa Schlesselman, rural Homestead, owners of Henry's, and Melissa's uncle, Ron Heaverlo, Cedar Rapids, fired up the smokehouse several weeks ago after making a few repairs. The smokehouse tower, which dates to 1869, had been used continuously to cure meats for residents of the Amana Colonies, during both the communal era and after the Great Change in 1932. The structure, which is part of Henry's, had not been used since the winter of 2004-2005, when the building was still operating as the Homestead Meat Market.
It all started on a whim.
Ron had been helping Jerry and Melissa clean up around the building after they purchased it in 2015. The Schlesselmans opened the business about a year ago, specializing in locally produced items, seasonal garden produce, eggs, honey, tea blends, herbs and crafts.
While working on the building, they explored the smokehouse tower and discovered it was still in great condition. It looked exactly as it had been the last time it was used.
"They left everything there, including the ashes on the floor and the creosote on the walls," Jerry noted, joking about "seasoning" that had accumulated during the 150 years of use.
The only trouble spot was the corroded steel smokehouse door in the basement. Ron works in the field of commercial steel doors and installed a new door and frame. Jerry did some minor repairs in the surrounding foundation and the men decided to fire it up.
"We thought, let's see what happens," Jerry said.
Several weeks ago, they did a test run to see if the draft and vent system would pull the smoke up through the tower, curing meat hung inside.
"We wanted to see if it worked or if it would fill the store with smoke," Jerry recalled. "It went flawlessly."
A small fire built in the basement of the smokehouse allows smoke to drift upward around cuts of meat hanging in the tower. This type of smoking is called "cold smoking" and is traditionally done between November and April. Cold smoking not only imparts flavor but helps dry out the meat to preserve it. Cold-smoked meats must be cooked before being eaten.
"Hot smoking," which is popular today, is done at temperatures above 120 degrees and results in a cooked product.
As an avid hunter, Ron had hot smoked turkey and deer before, but had not used the cold method. He was intrigued by the process because it was the way meat had been handled for hundreds of years, before modern refrigeration greatly reduced the need for preservation.
Jerry hadn't done it either.
"A barbecue grill is about the closest I'd come," he said. The two men launched their experiment, to see if the smokehouse still performed and to see what kinds of products they could create.
Ron explained before meat can be cold smoked it needs to be prepared in advance with a brine or rub that is applied to the cut of meat and allowed to sit, refrigerated, for several days. He uses a combination of kosher salt, brown sugar, coarse ground pepper and maple syrup. This allows a pellicle or natural protein skin to form over the meat. This acts as a protective barrier for the food and also allows the smoke to penetrate it better once it is hung in the smokehouse.
The amount of time needed to impart the smoky flavor and partially dry the meat varies from a matter of hours to several days.
Jerry and Ron used apple wood in the smoking process, since a neighbor had given Jerry wood from an old apple tree. Although the wood had been cut and stored outdoors, it still had enough moisture in it to produce fragrant smoke. To keep the process going, the fire had to be fed about every two hours.
Homestead resident and former long-time employee of the Homestead Meat Market, Charles Hoehnle remembered the process for making sausages, along with bacon for retail sale at the Market.
"Monday, we took the meat out of the freezer. Tuesday, we would grind, season and stuff the sausages in casings. Wednesday, they would hang in the a cooler for 48 hours to cure. Thursday, Friday and Saturday, it hung in the smokehouse," Hoehnle recalled.
In its heyday, they made up to 600 pounds of sausage a day.
In those days, hickory wood was used in the smokehouse. It was cut in the fall so it was still green, allowing for plentiful smoke.
Jerry notes he has been using fruit woods – apple, cherry and peach – because that is what he's got on hand.
"We're experimenting now," he said.
Cheeses, vegetables and fruits can be cold smoked for an extra, unique flavor. Typically a very small measure of smoke is best for these foods, just enough to produce a subtle change in the food's color and flavor.
Jerry and Ron have a variety of seasonings and cuts of meat, as well as varying the smoking times to produce the best flavor. To date, they have smoked several different cuts of meat, as well as Swiss and Colby jack cheese. One project involved cooking a beef arm roast, then seasoning and smoking it for jerky. While Jerry admitted the seasoning was a little strong, it was a successful experiment.
He notes the items they are producing are for their own personal use, not for retail sale, as that would require the facility to be inspected and licensed. That was done when the smokehouse was being operated by the Homestead Meat Market.


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Having this type of floor sign in place is also important because it will let people know what they should be putting in the cans located on or near the sign. Since many facilities have different containers for general trash, scrap items, hazardous trash and more, having floor signs near the bins will make throwing things away much safer and more efficient. It can also help to prevent cross-contamination with trash and recycling, which is very important for limiting the overall environmental impact of the facility.


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Best book: Probably "The Flying Troutmans". I devoured it in less than a full day, and it was absolutely hilarious. The characters were vivid, normal and real–and there were a few parallels with my own! What's not to love about a woman leaving her boyfriend in France to come back to Canada to take care of her sister's two children while she's put away in a mental hospital and all of the troubles and hijinks that follow after leaving Canada on a roadtrip to Mexico to find the kids' father? Too fun!
I did enjoy "The Lacuna", but I wasn't as attached or endeared to it. I felt it drug on in a few spots and I found that I wasn't fully invested in the story until the last 200 pages or so.
I really, really did want to like Mantel's "Wolf Hall". I went into the thick book not even a day after finishing the massive "Lacuna", and maybe that was my problem. Too many heavy reads all at once. Whatever the case may be, I read nearly 50 pages of WH, but in the end I quit for one simple reason–pronouns and Mantel's abuse of them. And after digging around online, I found I wasn't alone in my vexation. Mantel loves her "he's she's and its" and hardly ever uses names. It got to the point where I was rereading pages because I had no clue who was saying and doing what. I really wanted to like it… and I may try and revisit it another time.
I wanted to put this in last month, but completely forgot. 35 books! That's an average of 5 books per month. Not bad! My goal was 50, so I think I'll be way over that mark before the end of the year. Hurrah!


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Structural basis for the modular recognition of single-stranded RNA by PPR proteins
Ping Yin, Quanxiu Li, Chuangye Yan, Ying Liu, Junjie Liu, Feng Yu, Zheng Wang, Jiafu Long, Jianhua He, Hong Wei Wang, Jiawei Wang, Jian Kang Zhu, Yigong Shi, Nieng Yan
Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins represent a large family of sequence-specific RNA-binding proteins that are involved in multiple aspects of RNA metabolism. PPR proteins, which are found in exceptionally large numbers in the mitochondria and chloroplasts of terrestrial plants, recognize single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) in a modular fashion. The maize chloroplast protein PPR10 binds to two similar RNA sequences from the ATPI-ATPH and PSAJ-RPL33 intergenic regions, referred to as ATPH and PSAJ, respectively. By protecting the target RNA elements from 5′ or 3′ exonucleases, PPR10 defines the corresponding 5′ and 3′ messenger RNA termini. Despite rigorous functional characterizations, the structural basis of sequence-specific ssRNA recognition by PPR proteins remains to be elucidated. Here we report the crystal structures of PPR10 in RNA-free and RNA-bound states at resolutions of 2.85 and 2.45 Å, respectively. In the absence of RNA binding, the nineteen repeats of PPR10 are assembled into a right-handed superhelical spiral. PPR10 forms an antiparallel, intertwined homodimer and exhibits considerable conformational changes upon binding to its target ssRNA, an 18-nucleotide PSAJ element. Six nucleotides of PSAJ are specifically recognized by six corresponding PPR10 repeats following the predicted code. The molecular basis for the specific and modular recognition of RNA bases A, G and U is revealed. The structural elucidation of RNA recognition by PPR proteins provides an important framework for potential biotechnological applications of PPR proteins in RNA-related research areas.
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Yin, P., Li, Q., Yan, C., Liu, Y., Liu, J., Yu, F., Wang, Z., Long, J., He, J., Wang, H. W., Wang, J., Zhu, J. K., Shi, Y., & Yan, N. (2013). Structural basis for the modular recognition of single-stranded RNA by PPR proteins. Nature, 504(7478), 168-171. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature12651
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And – cars in France in the priority of domestic – brands Peugeot, Citroen and Renault.
B – Bastille, the day of the capture of this prison fortress built in 1370 – July 14, 1889 – is considered one of the most important national holidays. In fact, the main reason for the storming of the Bastille was the seizure of weapons stored there, and not the release of prisoners, who at the time were not more than ten people.
B – the street in each city is named after Victor Hugo in France.
G – Gothic as the original art in architecture originated in France.Interestingly, the early Gothic cathedrals were brightly painted and decorated. The characteristic gray color of the walls became a distinctive feature of this style later.
D – the villages of France are unusually picturesque, beautiful and original, and their inhabitants are happy people.
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W – castles and fortresses in France 4 969, in other countries – less.
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Y – Yer – the southernmost city of the French Riviera, which has everything for the best in the world of rest: the Mediterranean Sea with clean beaches, coral reefs, the medieval citadel on the hill, art galleries and the true paradise of Hyères.
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L – Lutetia – this is the first name of Paris when it was a Roman village.
M – men in France live on average 80 years, which is the third longest indicator in Europe.
N – Nobel laureates in France more than in any other country in the world.
A – The Olympic Games in the winter were first organized in France, in the ski resort of Chamonix.
P – Galya's cock – a recognizable animal of France, a symbol of the National Olympic Committee of the country. General Charles de Gaulle recommended minting the image of a rooster on military medals as a sign of the morale of the French.
P – Religions in France – this is Catholicism, Christianity and Islam. But in the country, 27% are atheists, which makes the Republic one of the most non-religious countries in the world.
C – "Freedom, equality, fraternity" – this motto of the French Revolution spread throughout the world.
T – The Arc de Triomphe on the Place Charles de Gaulle in Paris, built in the antique style – one of the symbols of France – was built in 1806 as a monument to Napoleon's victories.
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2019: Campaigns will be based on character, integrity of candidate – Oshiomhole
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National Chairman of the All Progressives Congress (APC), Adams Oshiomhole, has declared that the 2019 general election campaigns will be based on issues around characters of candidates.
Oshiomhole, who stated this while briefing State House Correspondents on Friday, after meeting with President Muhamamdu Buhari, said the issues of ethnicity and religion will have no roles to play.
"This elections will be about what the two main candidates who are very familiar with the Presidency will have to offer the electorate.
"It will focus on character and integrity of the key candidates.
"This edition is going to be focusing on character, integrity of those who want to govern us".
While President Muhammadu Buhari is flying the flag of the APC, the main opposition Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) is presenting former Vice-President Atiku Abubakar as its candidate.
The APC Chairman disclosed that the party was fully ready to flag off the campaigns soon, but did not indicate the exact date for the flag off of the campaigns.
"We are fully ready, we are done with our primaries and filled our nominations. As you know, INEC still has a window between now and First week of January to deal with issues of substitution. But as for the campaigns, we are ready," he said.
He assured that the party will announce the date for the flag off soon.
His words: "The date and programme for our campaigns will be announced soon and we will speak to the issues. My idea of kick-off will be the day we will do our first presidential rally where Mr. President as our candidate and other candidates and party leaders will assemble at a venue that will be agreeable to all of us.
"There will be two sets of messages. One, on what we have done in the past, without failing to remind people of where we were before, what we are going to do in the next three years, and a couple of things we believe we will be doing differently.
"We will also tell why we are a better choice. President Buhari if compared to the rest of the aspirants, there is no basis to compare day and night.
"The real issue in this election is not going to be religion. It is not going to be about political party, central to the issue and given our past experience as a country, we know that what makes a difference is the character, the issue of integrity of the candidates.
"All those issues of character, especially looking at the past, the key candidates in the election are not strangers to governance.
They are not even strangers to this villa, so we will be able to ask a couple of questions about what do they know now that they didn't know then when they had power.
"As they have reunited with their old master, we will remind them of their pasts".
Oshiomhole, while dismissing the allegations of corruption leveled against him by some of his party members, noted that such allegations were baseless, as they were unsubstantiated.
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Announcing the Winner of The 2020 Orison Fiction Prize!
Orison Books is pleased to announce that Samrat Upadhyay has selected The Distortions, stories by Christopher Linforth, as the winner of The 2020 Orison Fiction Prize from among anonymous finalist manuscripts. Linforth will receive a $1,500 cash award as well as publication of his book by Orison Books.
We're also happy to announce the excellent finalist pool:
"Paradise Undone: Stories of Jonestown" by Annie Dawid
"On Earth as It Is in Heaven" by Vishwas Gaitonde
"The Last of the Light" by Alexander Joseph
"Senior Skip Day" by Phong Nguyen
"They Kept Running" by Michelle Ross
About the winning manuscript, Upadhyay writes: "The Distortions takes us deep into the transgenerational trauma of the Croatian-Serbian war, but it does so with skill and nuance that make each story shine as a well-crafted gem. The characters in this collection feel real, and their personal urgencies—loyalty, migration, family, identity—pierce through to illuminate the larger history of ethnic cleansing that terrorized the Balkans in the '90s. This book is a perfect example of how art can be a vehicle for remembrance, understanding, and most importantly, healing."
After living in Croatia in the early 2000s, Christopher Linforth now lives in the U.S. He has published two story collections: Directory (Otis Books, 2020) and When You Find Us We Will Be Gone (Lamar University Press, 2014). His stories have appeared in Notre Dame Review, Fiction International, Denver Quarterly, Grain, Epiphany, Meridian, The Dalhousie Review, and other magazines.
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Random statue 8: Victor Hugo
Best-known for his books The Hunchback of Notre Dame and Les Miserables, Victor Hugo also had strong interests in politics and interior design. Both are evident in Guernsey, where this statue stands in Candie Gardens looking out to sea.
Hugo opposed Napoleon III, and as a result had to leave France in 1851. He and his family moved to Brussels and then Jersey before settling in Guernsey, where he remained until 1870. His family home was in Hauteville, St Peter Port; his mistress Juliette Drouet lived nearby.
The interior of Hauteville House is very much Hugo's creation, its design quirky and dramatic. Guided tours reveal the contrasts of light and shade, distinctive woodwork (often reusing table legs, chest panels and beds to create new and dramatic pieces), rich decor, integral political statements and, finally, the simpler rooms at the top of the house where Hugo actually slept and wrote.
Hugo kept the house even after his return to France. He had completed works including Les Miserables here, and Toilers of the Sea is partly set on the island. His family later gave the house to the City of Paris, who now operate it as a museum. The garden has been recently restored and, like the house, has impressive views across the harbour and sea: views which his rather dashing statue is no doubt happy to share.
Images and panorama views of the interior of Hauteville House are here.
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Hels said...
Thanks for that. Hauteville House is terrific, and I think it is a shame that people don't know about Hugo's connection with Guernsey.
If his family gave the house to the City of Paris for a museum, how do the French run it on a British protectorate?
It is a little odd. I was surprised that you can only pay for admission in sterling, but the sign very firmly stated no euros!
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