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Thanks, Brad!
The L.A. Times is reporting that Brad Pitt has donated $100,000 to the campaign to defeat Proposition 8 (the proposed California constitutional amendment that would write marriage discrimination into the state constitution after the state supreme court declared such discrimination unconstitutional).
From the L.A. Times article:
Brad Pitt announced Wednesday that he's donating $100,000 to fight California's Proposition 8, a November ballot initiative that would eliminate same-sex couples' right to marry.
"Because no one has the right to deny another their life, even though they disagree with it, because everyone has the right to live the life they so desire if it doesn't harm another and because discrimination has no place in America, my vote will be for equality and against Proposition 8," the actor said in a statement. READ IT ALL HERE
The campaign for marriage equality has been interesting to follow. Just last week, the bishops of the Episcopal dioceses in California stood together to oppose Proposition 8 and in support of marriage equality. Though the bishops presented different opinions on how the church should be involved in same-sex marriage, they stood in unison declaring that civil discrimination must be opposed by the church.
Read the L.A. Times article about the bishops' event HERE
The songs of woe that tug at the strings of our he...
Why I attend the General Theological Seminary
More politics as usual from the "Good ol' Boys"


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Norbert Szendrei (born 27 March 2000) is a Hungarian football player who plays for Zalaegerszeg.

Career

Honvéd
On 27 May 2018, Szendrei played his first match for Budapest Honvéd in a 0-2 loss against Videoton in the Hungarian League.

Fehérvár
On 19 July 2021, after 10 years at Budapest Honvéd, Szendrei was transferred to Fehérvár.

Zalaegerszeg
On 1 July 2022, Szendrei joined Zalaegerszeg on a four-year contract.

Club statistics

Updated to games played as of 15 May 2022.

Honours
Honvéd
Hungarian Cup: 2019-20

References

External links

2000 births
People from Nyíregyháza
Sportspeople from Szabolcs-Szatmár-Bereg County
Living people
Hungarian footballers
Hungary youth international footballers
Hungary under-21 international footballers
Association football forwards
Budapest Honvéd FC players
Fehérvár FC players
Zalaegerszegi TE players
Nemzeti Bajnokság I players

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Q: Is it possible to pass a numpy array by reference into a cpdef function? Is it possible to write a Cython function where a numpy array is passed by reference (perhaps a memory view?) and can I use such function in Python?
I tried:
cpdef void my_function(bytes line, int& counter, np.ndarray[np.uint32_t, ndim=2]& sums):
    ...
    ...

Here counter and sums would be passed by reference. I am interested in the latter (but will happily accept critics and suggestions regarding both).
The compiler throws:
Reference base type cannot be a Python object

I get the same message with cdef either and I don't understand the full etiology of the problem.

A: Yes - sort of.
A Numpy array is a Python object. All Python objects are passed "by reference" anyway (i.e. if you change the contents of a Numpy array inside the function you change it outside).
Therefore you just do
cpdef void my_function(bytes line, int& counter, np.ndarray[np.uint32_t, ndim=2] sums):

Specifying it as a C++ reference doesn't really make much sense. For a Python object there's quite a bit of detail that Cython hides from you.

However, cpdef functions are designed to be callable from Python and Cython. Python ints (and other numeric types) are immutable. Therefore changing counter will not work as you think when called from Python, and if it did what you hoped it'd potentially break the interpreter.
I'd therefore avoid using references in cpdef functions (and probably mostly avoid cpdef functions completely - it's usually better just to decide on def or cdef)

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Category Archives: general interest
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The Literary Underground in the 1660s: Andrew Marvell, George Wither, Ralph Wallis, and the World of Restoration Satire and Pamphleteering
by Stephen Bardle
It is hard to follow the religious and political disputes of seventeenth century England: the time of the Civil Wars; the execution of Charles I … the time of Cromwell; persecuted dissenters such as John Bunyan and George Fox; the Restoration; retribution against regicides; disputes between religious sects.
Nevertheless, read these two scurrilous poems* and ask yourself, can anyone top our forebears for published invective?
*In Bardle, The Literary Underground in the 1660s, pp. 15-17.
When Cuckoo Presbyter first rob'd the Nest
Of th' Harmless Dove, the smaller birds addrest
Themselves to it, and having learnt by rote,
Found 'twas a harsh, rigid and untun'd Note.
But yet complied, while rub'd with Cuckoos mange,
They took their Conscience-liberty to range;
So they divide the spoyl, and their lewd itch
Fell scratching of the RUMP (in English) Britch;
Whose blasts the Cuckoo'd borrowed Feathers ruggled,
But since Halcyon, both together shuffled.
No Cuckoo now, but Pyebald Sir Jolhn Daw;
Do you kaw me, and Ile you likewise Kaw.
— Anon., A Dialogue between the Two Giants in Guildhall** (London, 1661, pp. 5-6
**The allegory (A Dialogue) relates Presbyterian control over the Church — the dove – during the Revolution, but also implies anti-monarchical principles, since by representing chem as a 'cuckoo', the Presbyterians are associated with attacking the oak of the royal family. (Bardle, pg. 16)
Tis News to me, that, creatures of their frame,
To any purpose, should repeat my name,
Since, probably, they do not know their own,
But, are the greatest Block-heads in the Town,
Except it be those foolish Pamphleteers
That, use to write such Dialogues as theirs;
(Or, base Invectives tending to th'increase
Of Discord, by the breach of civil peace)
— George Wither, Joco-Serio. Strange News of a Discourse, Between Two dead Giants*** (London, 1661), pg. 3
***Wither's reply to A Dialogue between the Two Giants in Guildhall — entitled Joco-Serio. Strange News of a Discourse, Between Two dead Giants, expressed in an Epigram, to one Inquisitive for News (1661) — highlights the uncomfortable position the writers of A Dialogue had created for themselves. By attacking Wither in a popular, polemical style, the authors of A Dialogue had inadvertently made themselves vulnerable to the common Anglican Royalist argument that linked the disputations of the public sphere with civil strife. (Bardle, pg. 17)
This entry was posted in general interest and tagged George Wither, political invective, Roger Smith, Roger W. Smith, Stephen Bardle The Literary Underground in the 1660s: Andrew Marvell George Wither Ralph Wallis and the World of Restoration Satire and Pamphleteering on January 17, 2021 by Roger W. Smith.
new vocabulary IV
new vocabulary words – December 2020
See attached downloadable Word document, above. It is my ongoing "diary" of words looked up during the past year. It shows that new vocabulary is acquired solely by READING.
See also my posts:
new vocabulary III
https://rogersgleanings.com/2019/11/17/new-vocabulary/
vocabulary redux
https://rogersgleanings.com/2018/02/10/vocabulary-redux/
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Meister Eckhart's "golden rule"
You must love all men equally, respect and regard them equally, and whatever happens to another, whether good or bad, must be the same as if it happened to you.
— Meister Eckhart, "in hoc apparuit caritas dei in nobis, quoniam filium suum unigenitum misit deus in mundum ut vivamus per eum" (1 John 4:9); Predigt Dreizehn (Sermon Thirteen) (a); in The Complete Mystical Works of Meister Eckhart, translated by Maurice O'C. Walshe (New York: Crossroad, 2009), pg. 105
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Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra
Whitey Ford and Yogi Berra in front of Yankee Stadium, 1956
This photograph from yesterday's New York Times spoke to me.
A great photo. It took me back. To my boyhood days. When the Yankees had such a great team, when New York was the capital of the baseball world; and yet, I hated the Yankees (while admiring them); they always won; my Red Sox always finished third or lower.
Back to the 1950s and my parents' generation. There was a confidence about that generation and a sense that things were as they should be. That hard work and ambition would bring success. It was a time of rising prosperity and social cohesion (from the perspective, at least, of my world, environment). Of course, I wasn't looking at things analytically then. I was in the fifth grade.
Mostly I remember this time not from the vantage point of myself, or not entirely so, but from that of my parents and their generation, and what wonderful people they were. I miss them and their times. And, by the way, New York City in the 1950's was at its zenith, an exciting, livable (and affordable) place. I have read about it. My friend Bill Dalzell told me so.
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Found! A "worthy successor" to Mayor Shinn.
Mayor Shinn (Paul Ford in "The Music Man")
"You know, the thing about the Voting Rights Act it's, you know ? there's a lot of different things you can look at it as, you know, who's it going to help? What direction do we need to go with it? I think it's important that everything we do we keep secure. We keep an eye on it. It's run by our government. And it's run to the, to the point that we, it's got structure to it. It's like education. I mean, it's got to have structure. Now for some reason, we look at things to change, to think we're gonna make it better, but we better do a lot of work on it before we make a change."
— former Auburn University head football coach Tommy Tuberville, responding to a question from a caller about his support for the John R. Lewis Voting Rights Act of 2020
Tuberville, a Republican, is running against Alabama Democratic Senator Doug Jones for election to the US Senate. He was asked his view on the Voting Rights Act during a Zoom meeting with the Birmingham Rotary Club on September 1, 2020.
The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey. The story takes place in River City, Iowa.
The town's Mayor, George Shinn (played by Paul Ford in an unforgettable performance in the movie version), is a pompous local politician given to making rambling speeches that go nowhere.
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The approach of actual want was such an insidious thing that I really did not perceive how far I was getting into the depths before I was fairly caught and unable to extricate myself. I had always been accustomed in the past to make some arrangement with a magazine or publishing house to do some work which would pay me fairly well and this hope was now all the time acting like a will-a' -the-wisp leading me thoughtlessly over the meadows of idleness and meditation to the slough of despond. Day after day I would get up and sit at my desk a little while feeling that this morning surely some ray of inspiration would arrive, but finding that it did not I would get up and go out, wandering around and saying to myself that if I could but rest a bit it would all come back to me. I was not really sick in the sense that anyone is prostrate in bed. I could walk and run and laugh and read, but I could not write, and worst of all I could not sleep. This latter difficulty was gradually undermining me though it did not seem as bad at first as it did later. I used to go down to the water's edge of the East River, which was only a few blocks below me, and there in the neighborhood of the Brooklyn Navy Yard and the Wallabout Bay sit and enjoy the wonderful panorama which the river invariably presented. It seemed to me that when I came within the vicinity of these great warehouses and factories, with their tall black stacks that gave the water's edge so varied and picturesque an aspect, I could lounge and dream forever. Not to worry, not to haste, not to be caught in the great turmoil of the city beyond from whose distant shore came subdued echoes of the clangor and strife that was always there–that seemed heaven to me. I sat and looked into the soft green waters gurgling and sipping about the docks and the stanchions below me and listened to the crying of the boats, until my heart was full to overflowing with it, but alas my purse was empty. And that was where the love of beauty undid me.
The approach of actual want was such a terrible thing however that whenever I thought of it distinctly I would get up and return to my room, or would hurry out into the streets almost in a cold sweat, saying, "I must do something." Frequently I would start out and after walking the streets trying to think of some business that would likely offer me a means of making a living I would fix my eye on some distant shop and say to myself that when l came to it l would go in there. I would walk toward it, my feeling about life and labor wonderfully heightened for the moment, but as I drew near a cold fear of inability would lay hold of me. What would they think, I would begin to ask myself. What could I do in there? Sometimes I would see someone looking at me from one of the windows, a man or girl, or from the houses about and I would say to myself, "Pshaw, they see me coming. They think I am someone who is above that kind of work. They will not believe that I need it and tum me away. And how will I look to them anyhow?" And I would turn away carrying myself as if the thought of that sort of labor was the farthest thing from me imaginable. Or I would stand about and parley with myself, weighing the pros and cons until I had harrowed myself into the belief that I would not be acceptable. Always I would think of my own work, and hard as it was, would contrast my appropriateness to that with my inappropriateness to this and then I would weaken and hurry away. Dozens upon dozens of times have I stood outside of all sorts of institutions wondering, debating, saying that I was unsuited to it or the business was unsuited to me and in the end turning back disconsolately to my room, there to brood and worry over my fate.
The remembrance of this weakness has proved a great wonder to me since. I am not naturally afraid to face people and these sentiments do not as a rule rule me, but I was so rundown nervously that I did not have my usual feeling about things. Sickness had apparently made a coward of me.
As these reflections did not relieve my situation any I would after a night of sleepless tossing usually pull myself together again and make another effort. Once in these early days I went to a great sugar refinery far down on the water's edge where many a day I had stood looking at the wagons and the men and the evidence of industry inside and wondering at the complicatedness of it all. (What a mystery the life we lead is. How strangely we divide this problem of sustenance, how narrowly some of us work in small dark comers all our days and never think or at least never attain to the heights of our thinking.) On this day however my mind did not busy itself with this larger spectacle. I was anxious to get something to do there and I was wondering how I could persuade the foreman or the management to accept me. Once I had read a long account of the labor struggles of another writer who had dressed himself to look the part of a laborer and I had always wondered how he would have fared if he had gone in his own natural garb. Now I was determined or rather compelled to find out for myself and I had no heart for it. I realized instinctively that there was a far cry between doing anything in disguise and as an experiment and doing it as a grim necessity.
However I went in after hanging about for some time and asked for the manager. As I expected he was busy but a clerk who came over to me wished to know what my business was. I cold him I wanted work. He looked at me in a quizzical way as much as to say, "You?"
"What kind of work is it you wish to do?" he asked.
I tried to explain as quickly as I could that I wished to do any kind of work, manual or mental, but he did not seem to understand me. "You couldn't do the physical work here," he said. "All our clerical positions are filled. We don't change very often."
"Is there something you could give me to do out there?" I said, motioning with my hand toward the great dark mass behind.
"Nothing at present," he said. "We are not taking on men at this time of year. I'm quite positive you couldn't do the work if you had it. It's very hard."'
He turned with a brusque manner to his work again and I fell back abashed. His loud voice had attracted the attention of others, who looked at me curiously. I felt as if he might have been a little more quiet and a little more considerate, but I found here as everywhere what seemed to me the old indifference to the underdog. People do not see–I said–they have not the faculty to grasp what it means to be the other man. Otherwise they would never do such things.
My next effort was in search of a motorman's or conductor's position, a place I had long had in mind as I was sure it was something that I could do. It was not a thing that I could get quickly, for I knew that unless I had a "pull" or could bring some extraordinary pressure to bear I would have to go through the usual formality of enrolling my name somewhere and then waiting patiently for my turn to be called. I had vivid dreams of forcing my way into the office of the president, who I conceived to be a man who could tell by my appearance that I was not exactly of the ordinary run of men, and who on my putting the matter before him would understand and give me something to do. I went down to the section where this great railroad building was located but as usual when I reached there my heart failed me. It was an hour before I raked up courage enough to go in.
This building was a mass of little offices devoted to different phases of the street railway and when I looked over the immense directory painted on the wall I could scarcely tell which office it was at which I wished to inquire. I saw the name of the president posted as being in room one hundred and something, on the fourth floor, but now my idea of going in and talking to him looked awfully foolish and hopeless to me. The idea of intruding on a man with endless affairs weighing on him and the financial end only of the great company before his gaze struck me as exceedingly useless. He would have nothing to do with me. All he would do would be to refer me to the department which handled such cases as mine and they would not dare to make an exception. It seemed impossible and yet I went up.
In an ante-chamber I was met by a clerk. As I expected he told me the president was busy and asked me my business. When I explained to him, he looked at me curiously also and said the president never attended to such details–that I would have to go to the regular department, mentioning the number. I saw how hopeless it was of making a boy see–an inexperienced youth who knew nothing of the world, and went away. I could have written an essay that morning on how nature meets want with inexperience and pain with those who cannot see. Blind! Blind! Blind!
The office of the Superintendent of Something, who hired men, was on the floor below and there I went. It was a small room filled with motormen and conductors who were there being measured for new suits or answering to complaints of various kinds. All of them looked at me with curious eyes as I came in, for I was still comparatively well-dressed, and some of them stood aside in so deferential a way that I felt that I was sailing under false colors. I went up to the counter where the official was standing and stated my business. When I had come in he had looked at me with so much consideration that I felt he mistook me for someone who had important business with him. When I finally explained that I wished to know where applications for positions were made his face changed immediately and he told me in brusque tones where to go. I felt like an imposter slinking out for it seemed to me I had in some indefinable way misrepresented myself to him. I had not turned out to be what he took me for.
This phase of my reception discouraged me greatly but I went down to the little office on a side street near the East River, in a one-story red brick building, where I found a room containing a few old benches and an inner door marked "Applicants" but no persons. A sign hung up over a window informed me that those who wished to register should come between the hours of seven and nine A. M. on Tuesdays and Fridays, which I confess was a great relief to me. I had anticipated another such ordeal as I had just gone through and the mere fact that it was postponed was something. I turned on my heel, temporarily relieved from the ache that inquiring under such conditions gave me, and promised myself that I would come back on Tuesday. I then wandered about saying that I must look for something elsewhere but, being out and moving, I did nothing. It was the old story of the previous days. I could not find the heart to go in.
That such a quest would soon prove disastrous I was constantly seeing and yet I could not get anything. I went back to the newspapers–they had nothing. I came over to New York and thought to put an application in over there, but I did nothing but walk the streets. On Tuesday I returned to this little office again, desperately clinging to the fatuous belief that having managed to go so far, something would come of it. I had dressed myself carefully to make as good an impression as possible but when I got there, or rather in the vicinity of it, I was sorry that I had done so. At a distance of three blocks I saw quite a crowd standing around so early as seven o'clock and in the vicinity, at distances of from one to two blocks, other individual stragglers, who impressed me at once as people who like myself were anxious to register but were ashamed to go up. They were a little better dressed than those who were gathered about the door–not so strong-looking and not so coarse. They pretended to be doing anything but heading for this particular institution though one could see by their averted glances that that was just the thing they were trying to do. I encountered two or three of them three or four times in a radius of as many blocks and each time they exchanged that shamed look of understanding with me, which convicts one of ulterior designs. It was all very painful.
What interested me on this occasion was my own wretched attitude. For the life of me I could not summon up sufficient courage to join that crowd. Three or four times I went toward it, getting as close as the corner, but each time I would see some of those at the door looking up toward me and I would say to myself, "They see what I am coming for," and would turn off. Once I did go down absolutely determined to stop and take my place among them, but the keen conception of the difference between them and me which flared up in my mind as I approached drove me on by. They were so young, most of them, so raw and so inexperienced. They looked at me as though they thought I was some critical business man or other citizen merely passing on my way to my office. They had such sharp eyes which seemed to say, "Now let us see what he does," that I could not bring myself to stop.
For this feeling–vanity or weakness as it may seem to some, I have now no excuse to offer. I will say that the difference I felt was not based on a sense of superiority–far from it. I was only conscious that I was out of place and they knew it. It was more like the case of an old man who would like to play with children on their own basis, but who has lost the how of it.
My first visit to this registering room was a failure as was my second, but on the third time I managed to go in and put down my name, which brought me nothing. I left my address, the chain of which has never been broken, but I have never heard a word.
— Theodore Dreiser, An Amateur Laborer (1904, published in 1983)
It is customary to blame everything on the war. I say the war had nothing to do with me, with my life. At a time when others were getting themselves comfortable berths I was taking one miserable job after another, and never enough in it to keep body and soul together. Almost as quickly as I was hired I was fired. I had plenty of intelligence but I inspired distrust. Where ever I went I fomented discord–not because I was idealistic but because I was like a searchlight exposing the stupidity and futility of everything. Besides, I wasn't a good ass-licker. That marked me, no doubt. People could tell at once when I asked for a job that I really didn't give a damn whether I got it or not. And of course I generally didn't get it. But after a time the mere looking for a job became an activity, a pastime, so to speak. I would go in and ask for most anything. It was a way of killing time – now worse, as far as I could see than work itself. I was my own boss and I had my own hours, but unlike other bosses I entrained only my own ruin, my own bankruptcy. I was not a corporation or a trust or a state or a federation or a polity of nations–I was more like God, if anything.
This went on from about the middle of the war until … well, until one day I was trapped. Finally the day came when I did desperately want a job. I needed it. Not having another minute to lose, I decided that I would take the last job on earth, that of messenger boy. I walked into the employment bureau of the telegraph company–the Cosmodemonic Telegraph Company of North America–towards the close of the day, prepared to go through with it. I had just come from the public library and I had under my arm some fat books on economics and metaphysics. To my great amazement I was refused the job.
The guy who turned me down was a little runt who ran the switchboard. He seemed to take me for a college student, though it was clear enough from my application that I had long left school. I had even honoured myself on the application with a Ph.D. degree from Columbia University. Apparently that passed unnoticed, or else was suspiciously regarded by this runt who had turned me down. I was furious, the more so because for once in my life I was in earnest. Not only that, but I had swallowed my pride, which in certain peculiar ways is rather large. My wife of course gave me the usual leer and sneer. I had done it as a gesture, she said. I went to bed thinking about it, still smarting, getting angrier and angrier as the night wore on. The fact that I had a wife and child to support didn't bother me so much; people didn't offer you jobs because you had a family to support, that much I understood only too well. No, what rankled was that they had rejected me, Henry V. Miller, a competent, superior individual who had asked for the lowest job in the world. That burned me up. I couldn't get over it. In the morning I was up bright and early, shaved, put on my best clothes and hot-footed it to the subway. I went immediately to the main offices of the telegraph company … up to the 25th floor or wherever it was that the president and the vice-presidents had their cubicles. I asked to see the president. Of course the president was either out of town or too busy to see me, but wouldn't I care to see the vice-president, or his secretary rather. I saw the vice-president's secretary, an intelligent, considerate sort of chap, and I gave him an earful. I did it adroitly, without too much heat, but letting him understand all the while that I wasn't to be put out of the way so easily.
When he picked up the telephone and demanded the general manager I thought it was just a gag, that they were going to pass me around like that from one to the other until I'd get fed up. But the moment I heard him talk I changed my opinion. When I got to the general manager's office, which was in another building uptown, they were waiting for me. I sat down in a comfortable leather chair and accepted one of the big cigars that were thrust forward. This individual seemed at once to be vitally concerned about the matter. He wanted me to tell him all about it, down to the last detail, his big hairy ears cocked to catch the least crumb of information which would justify something or other which was formulating itself inside bis dome. I realized that by some accident I had really been instrumental in doing him a service. I let him wheedle it out of me to suit his fancy, observing all the time which way the wind was blowing. And as the talk progressed I noticed that he was warming up to me more and more. At last some one was showing a little confidence in me! That was all I required to get started on one of my favourite lines. For, after years of job hunting I had naturally become quite adept; I knew not only what not to say, but I knew also what to imply, what to insinuate. Soon the assistant general manager was called in and asked to listen to my story. By this time I knew what the story was. I understood that Hymie–"that little kike", as the general manager called him–had no business pretending that he was the employment manager. Hymie had usurped his prerogative, that much was clear. It was also clear that Hymie was a Jew and that Jews were not in good odour with the general manager, nor with Mr. Twilliger, the vice-president, who was a thorn in the general manager's side.
Perhaps it was Hymie, … who was responsible for the high percentage of Jews on the Messenger force. Perhaps Hymie was really the one who was doing the hiring at the employment office–at Sunset Place, they called it. It was an excellent opportunity, I gathered, for Mr. Clancy, the general manager, to take down a certain Mr. Burns who, he informed me, had been the employment manager for some thirty years now and who was evidently getting lazy on the job.
The conference lasted several hours. Before it was terminated Mr. Clancy took me aside and informed me that he was going to make me the boss of the Works. Before putting me into office, however, he was going to ask me as a special favour, and also as a sort of apprenticeship which would stand me in good stead, to work as a special messenger. I would receive the salary of employment manager, but it would be paid me out of a separate account. In short I was to float from office to office and observe the way affairs were conducted by all and sundry. I was to make a little report from time to time as to how things were going. And once in a while, so he suggested, I was to visit him at his home on the q.t. and have a little chat about the conditions in the hundred and one branches of the modernistic Telegraph Company in New York City. In other words I was to be a spy for a few months and after that I was to have the run of the joint. Maybe they'd make me a general manager too one day, or a vice-president. It was a tempting offer, even if it was wrapped up in a lot of horse shit. I said Yes.
In a few months I was sitting at Sunset Place hiring and firing like a demon. It was a slaughter-house, so help me God. The thing was senseless from the bottom up. A waste of men, material and effort. A hideous farce against a backdrop of sweat and misery. But just as I had accepted the spying so I accepted the hiring and firing and all that went with it. I said Yes to everything. If the vice-president decreed that no cripples were to be hired I hired no cripples. If the vice-president said that all messengers over forty-five were to be fired without notice I fired them without notice. I did everything they instructed me to do, but in such a way that they had to pay for it. When there was a strike I folded my arms and waited for it to blow over. But I first saw to it that it cost them a good penny. The whole system was so rotten, so inhuman, so lousy, so hopelessly corrupt and complicated, that it would have taken a genius to put any sense or order into it, to say nothing of human kindness or consideration. I was up against the whole rotten system of American labour, which is rotten at both ends. I was the fifth wheel on the wagon and neither side bad any use for me, except to exploit me. In met, everybody was being exploited– the president and his gang by the unseen powers, the employees by the officials, and so on and around, in and out and through the whole works. From my little perch at "Sunset Place" I had a bird's eye view of the whole American society. It was like a page out of the telephone book. Alphabetically, numerically, statistically, it made sense. But when you looked at it up close, when you examined the pages separately, or the parts separately, when you examined one lone individual and what constituted him, examined the air he breathed, the life he led, the chances he risked, you saw something so foul and degrading, so low, so miserable, so utterly hopeless and senseless, that it was worse than looking into a volcano. You could see the whole American life–economically, politically, morally, spiritually, artistically, statistically, pathologically. It looked like a grand chancre on a worn-out cock. It looked worse than that, really, because you couldn't even see anything resembling a cock any more. Maybe in the past this thing had life, did produce something, did at least give a moment's pleasure, a moment's thrill. But looking at it from where I sat it looked rottener than the wormiest cheese. The wonder was that the stench of it didn't carry'em off … I'm using the past tense all the time, but of course it's the same now, maybe even a bit worse. At least now we're getting it full stink.
— Henry Miller, Tropic of Capricorn (1939)
See also my post:
"Henry Miller and Dreiser"
https://dreiseronlinecom.wordpress.com/2016/07/03/henry-miller-and-dreiser/
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Edward T. Hall, "Distances in Man"
Hall, 'The Hidden Dimension,' Chapter X
Chapter X from Edward T. Hall, The Hidden Dimension (New York: Anchor Books, 1969)
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prosateur (prose writer)
prosateur
A French word meaning prose writer.
We have no equivalent word. I ran across it this evening in a quote from Sartre.
Prosateur. Something I aspire to. (It's good to have ideals. What famous writer said this?)
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the bloviator
to talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way
Real speech comes, on average, in packets of 10 or so words at a time, rather sloppily juxtaposed. Rapid, spontaneous talk makes more use of parataxis — the stringing of simple clauses together, such as in this segment:
Look, having nuclear — my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at M.I.T.; good genes, very good genes, O.K., very smart, the Wharton School of finance, very good, very smart — you know, if you're a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I'm one of the smartest people anywhere in the world – it's true! – but when you're a conservative Republican they try – oh, they do a number – that's why I always start off: "Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune"– you know I have to give my life credentials all the time, because we're a little disadvantaged – but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me … (speech by Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, Sun City Hilton Head, South Carolina, July 19, 2016)
In writing, this would likely be rendered using hypotaxis, which entails clearer subordinate clauses. The same sentence would be written as: "My uncle Dr. John Trump, who was a professor at M.I.T., had very good genes, which lent him considerable intelligence."
Donald Trump, press conference, September 7, 2020:
The story is a hoax, written by a guy who has got a tremendously bad history. The magazine itself — which I don't read, but I hear it's just totally anti-Trump; he's a big Obama person, he's a big Clinton person. And he made up the story. It's a totally made-up story.
In fact, I was very happy to see Zach Fuentes came out and said now he's — that's — I think that's number 15 — and these are people that were there. That's the 15th person. General Kellogg, everybody that was there knew what happened. And so I was happy to see that Zach came out and said it's not true. He just came out.
And it's a disgrace. Who would say a thing like that? Only an animal would say a thing like that. There is nobody that has more respect for not only our military, but for people that gave their lives in the military. There's nobody — and I think John Kelly knows that. I think he would know that. I think he knows that from me.
But Zach Fuentes, as you know, worked for John. And I think they both know that. But Zach came out, as you know, today or yesterday, last night, and said very strongly that he didn't hear anything like that. Even John Bolton came out and said that was untrue.
Now, what was true is that we had the worst weather. I think it was as bad a rain as I've just about ever seen. And it was a fog you — you literally couldn't see. I walked out, and I didn't have — I didn't need somebody to tell me. I walked out and I said, "There's no way we can take helicopters in this." I understand helicopters very well. And they said, "No, sir, that's been cancelled."
They would have had to go — Secret Service, I have the whole list — they would have had through a very, very busy section, during the day, of Paris. They would have had to go through the city. The Paris police were asking us, "Please don't do it," because they're not ready. When you do that, you need a lot of time. They take days and days and days to prepare for that.
I wanted to do it very badly. I was willing to sit in the car for two hours, three hours, four hours. I didn't care. It didn't matter. And I had nothing else to do. I went there for that; I had nothing else to do. It was ended because of the terrible weather, and nobody was prepared to go through, in terms of Paris, the police, the military, and the Secret Service. And they came out very strongly and said, "Sir, we can't allow you to make this trip." If I wanted to: "Sir, we can't allow you, from a safety standpoint."
It was a phony story, just like the dirty dossier — the fake, dirty dossier; just like the Russia collusion; just like all of the other phony stories. And there'll be more phony stories.
But I do appreciate Zach coming out. But Zach now is the 15th person that's denied it. Zach now, I think, also talked about the weather aspect of it. And he's probably the 14th or 15th person that blamed it on weather. So that's enough of that.
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the trouble with …
'The Trouble With Empathy'
Therefore, all such things as you wish men might do to you, so do to them as well: for this is the Law and the prophets.
And just as you wish men should do to you, do likewise to them.
— The New Testament: A Translation, by David Bentley Hart
No man is an Iland, intire of itselfe; every man
is a peece of the Continent, a part of the maine;
if a Clod bee washed away by the Sea, Europe
is the lesse, as well as if a Promontorie were, as
well as if a Manor of thy friends or of thine
owne were; any mans death diminishes me,
because I am involved in Mankinde;
And therefore never send to know for whom
the bell tolls; It tolls for thee.
— MEDITATION XVII, Devotions Upon Emergent Occasions, and severall steps in my Sicknes, by John Donne
No man stands alone
Each man's joy is joy to me
Each man's grief is my own
— Joan Baez, "No Man Is An Island" (lyrics)
Re;
"The Trouble With Empathy: Can we really be taught to feel each other's pain?"
By Molly Worthen
The trouble with this 1,990-word essay is that it attempts to dissect a topic that needs no more analysis or exposition other than perhaps to state the obvious. See the quotations above. There is such a thing as cumulative or received wisdom. The wisdom of the ages.
Statements from the op-ed follow, in ITALICS. My "commentary" is in ALL CAPS.
[I]n recent years, empathy — whether we can achieve it; whether it does the good we think — has become a vexed topic.
WHY? TOO BAD JESUS LACKED THE REQUISITE EMOTIONAL INTELLIGENCE TO BE ABLE TO DISCUSS IT OTHER THAN SIMPLISTICALLY.
When we attempt to step into the shoes of those very different from us, do we do more harm than good?
… skeptics say that what seems like empathy often may be another form of presumption, condescension or domination.
NOT TRUE, IF ONE IS TALKING ABOUT GENUINE EMPATHY, WHICH REQUIRES CONNECTING WITH AN OTHER (SOMEONE WHO IS NOT YOU).
OBVIOUSLY, THIS TAKES EFFORT ON THE EMPATHIZER'S PART.
If an author of European descent writes a novel from the perspective of Indigenous people, is it an empathic journey, or an imperialist incursion?
IT'S A NOVEL.
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How many prime numbers between 1000-10000 (inclusive) that if you take the sum of their digits, that number is divisible by 8?
Every year I attempt to compete in math competitions at my school and I encounter problems such as...
How many prime numbers between 1000-10000 (inclusive) that if you take the sum of their digits, that number is divisible by 8. For example 17, 1+7=8. Which is divisible by 8.
We have to show our work. Does anyone have a solutions for these types of problems and how I could solve the problem above.
elementary-number-theory prime-numbers decimal-expansion
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$\begingroup$ Are you allowed to use a computer? $\endgroup$ – user49640 Mar 9 '17 at 1:57
$\begingroup$ No, If was allowed I would just write a for loop to do it for me. $\endgroup$ – coderhk Mar 9 '17 at 2:00
$\begingroup$ Does "such as" mean you just made this one up? Or is this actually literally a question that was asked? Can you add a source if this is indeed the exact question? $\endgroup$ – TMM Mar 9 '17 at 2:34
$\begingroup$ The sum of digits must be $8,16,24$ or $32$. Suppose it's $32$. Then the digits are $9,9,9,5$ or $9,9,8,6$ or three other possibilities. If we rule out "obvious" composites (numbers divisible by $2,5$ or $11$), there remain $18$ four-digit numbers which you have to test... and that's the easy case. I seriously doubt that there is going to be any simple computer-free solution. $\endgroup$ – David Mar 9 '17 at 2:55
You know the maximum possible digit sum (ignoring the prime condition for a moment) is $36$, due to the digitsum from $9999$ within your range.
The possible digitsums under that barrier that are divisible by $8$ (ignoring $0$) are $8, 16, 24, 32$.
How many ways can you write each of these as a sum of $4$ digits where each digit falls within $0 \leq d \leq 9$?
If you were working in a team and had to do this by hand, you could probably divide-and-conquer and have each person tackle a different digitsum in order to enumerate all the cases more quickly.
However, you already know the $24$ digitsum is a waste of time, since any number whose digitsum is divisible by $24$ will also be divisible by $3$, which means the number itself will be divisible by $3$ and therefore not prime.
Then you can eliminate the cases that can't possibly be rearranged to form a prime number (such as those missing a $1, 3, 7$, or $9$ to form the last digit of the prime).
This leaves you with the following cases:
$8 = [[0, 0, 1, 7], [0, 0, 3, 5], [0, 1, 1, 6], [0, 1, 2, 5], [0, 1, 3, 4], [0, 2, 3, 3], [1, 1, 1, 5], [1, 1, 2, 4], [1, 1, 3, 3], [1, 2, 2, 3]]$
$16 = [[0, 0, 7, 9], [0, 1, 6, 9], [0, 1, 7, 8], [0, 2, 5, 9], [0, 2, 7, 7], [0, 3, 4, 9], [0, 3, 5, 8], [0, 3, 6, 7], [0, 4, 5, 7], [1, 1, 5, 9], [1, 1, 6, 8], [1, 1, 7, 7], [1, 2, 4, 9], [1, 2, 5, 8], [1, 2, 6, 7], [1, 3, 3, 9], [1, 3, 4, 8], [1, 3, 5, 7], [1, 3, 6, 6], [1, 4, 4, 7], [1, 4, 5, 6], [1, 5, 5, 5], [2, 2, 3, 9], [2, 2, 5, 7], [2, 3, 3, 8], [2, 3, 4, 7], [2, 3, 5, 6], [3, 3, 3, 7], [3, 3, 4, 6], [3, 3, 5, 5], [3, 4, 4, 5]]$
$32 = [[5, 9, 9, 9], [6, 8, 9, 9], [7, 7, 9, 9], [7, 8, 8, 9]]$
Then for each unique permutation of each case that falls within your acceptable range (also ending in $1, 3, 7$, or $9$), test if the number is actually prime. There are only $276$ numbers to test.
One way you can do this is by listing the (relevant) primes under $\sqrt{10000} = 100$:
$7, 11, 13, 17, 19, 23, 29, 31, 37, 41, 43, 47, 53, 59, 61, 67, 71, 73, 79, 83, 89, 97$
Then you test each one for divisibility into your candidate number. If they all fail the test, then the candidate number is prime.
I assume you can at least use a calculator for this step, because otherwise this is probably too tedious a problem to do by hand. The size of your team would need to be large enough to be able to perform all the primality-check calculations in the time allotted.
Another approach (assuming you had a large enough team) is to divide the $1000-10000$ range up into chunks and have each person enumerate their section of the range and then use the segmented Sieve of Eratosthenes approach using the primes under $100$ to cross out the composite numbers. Then you can check the digitsums of the resulting primes directly.
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Another approach is to start with all the three-digit numbers from $100$ to $999$. You append a units digit to each one to make the total digital sum $8$, $16$, or $32$ (not $24$ as this would imply a multiple of $3$). Each four-digit number is then tested for primality.
You do not really need to keep all the three-digit starting numbers. Those where the sum of the three digits is even are rejected because the units digit would have to be even, which is a problem. We also find:
Three-digit sums of $17$, $19$, and $21$ fail because we can't get the four-digit sum to $32$.
Three-digit sums of $3$, $11$, and $27$ fail because the appended units digit is $5$.
A three-digit sum of $7$ allows two candidates with $1$ or $9$ as a units digit, but other surviving three-digit sums give only one candidate per three-digit seed.
With these properties you drop your trials to a few hundred. Here is the beginning of the list of candidates:
1007 1043 1061 1069 1087 1133 1151 1159 1177 1223 1241 1249 1267 1313 1331 1339 1357 1393 1403 1421 1429 1447 1483 1511 1519 1537 1573 1591 1601 1609 1627 1663 1681 1717 1753 1771 1807 1843 1861 1933 1951 etc.
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The ABC has revealed its Canberra television and radio lineup for 2017.
From January 16 the flagship ABC TV 7pm News bulletin will have a new presenting team, with Dan Bourchier joining the ABC as Monday to Thursday presenter and Craig Allen presenting Friday to Sunday.
Bourchier will also host the Breakfast radio program on 666 ABC Canberra. Most recently Bourchier was political reporter and national indigenous affairs correspondent for Sky News based in Canberra.
Also from January 16, Laura Tchilinguirian will take over as presenter of the 666 Afternoons program, following the announcement of Alex Sloan's retirement earlier this month.
Director of News Gaven Morris said: "We're delighted to have Dan joining ABC News and thrilled to have him leading our flagship 7pm News in the nation's capital with Craig, who is already well known to ACT audiences.


We're getting to that point in September where the summer holidays are becoming a mere memory. That rush of optimism you had when you sat back at your desk after a week chilling in the sun reading potboilers and sipping mojitos is now waning, seemingly in direct correlation to the rain streaking down the window panes of your office. And your employees seem to have lost their mojo too.
How to motivate yourself and your employees after the summer break can be a real issue. Many people initially hit the ground running after a rest in the sunshine, but as the nights draw in and the weather deteriorates, people's enthusiasm can flag quickly. So what can be done to tackle this?
Here are five top tips to fire up your employees and beat the post-summer holiday blues.
1. Set manageable goals. It can be really hard to get back into the swing of things after time off. By setting important but smaller goals for yourself and your employees in the first week or two back, you can help reignite that sense of purpose and achievement you all gain from simply "getting stuff done". Once you're getting people to feel positive and productive again, then you can extend the scope of their objectives and increase the challenges.
2. Practice, practice, practice. We all remember that feeling when we came back to school after the summer holidays and thought that we'd forgotten everything we knew. Just because we're adults, that feeling doesn't necessarily go away. People often lose their confidence when they haven't been doing something regularly for a while. So give your employees a chance to have a few rehearsals before they get back on the phones or on the shop floor, particularly if they are in a service environment, just to make sure they aren't out of practice and they can "get their eye back in". It's a huge confidence builder and can make a massive difference to their performance. And it also reduces the chances of their making mistakes after time off.
3. Break down projects into smaller chunks. It can feel quite daunting to be faced with a huge project when you've been out of the game for a few weeks. So by breaking down projects into clear, smaller, bite-sized chunks, your employees (and you) don't feel overwhelmed and have more confidence when getting back into the swing of things.
4. Create a pleasant atmosphere. One of the reasons people enjoy their holidays so much is because they're spending time in a nice location with people they care about. OK, admittedly you can't make the workplace into Ibiza, nor would you want to. But you can make it reasonably comfortable, bright and welcoming so that people want to be there and enjoy the space they work in rather than dread coming into work in the morning. You can try to create a culture which respects people who are collaborative and supportive rather than building up people who undermine others and spread negativity and fear. Never underestimate the power of your surroundings and the people who surround you when looking at what makes a difference in terms of staff motivation and demotivation.
5. Recognition and rewards. People love to be recognised and rewarded for their efforts. A pat on the back or an email to the firm acknowledging someone's achievements can be hugely motivational and inspirational. After the break, when people may be feeling lower than normal, it's important as an employer to focus on recognising the efforts of those who are achieving the most and to recognise their achievements publically. This can quickly bring a positive energy and sense of momentum back into the workplace and make the hardest workers and those who contribute the most to the workplace feel immediately valued.


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Facts About The 9/11 Memorial
19 years after the worst terrorist attack in American history, the National September 11 Memorial Museum — which opened in 2013 — remains one of the most visited destinations in New York City. Designed by architect Davis Brody Bond with an iconic entry pavilion by Norwegian architecture firm Snøhetta, the building sits in between the two roaring pools of Michael Arad's 9/11 Memorial. It is part of a larger master plan that includes the 1,776-foot-tall Freedom Tower.
The museum is more than just a collection; it incorporates some of the original World Trade Center structures and is one of the deepest buildings of its kind, both physically and metaphorically. Here are 10 facts about the building that are sure to make a lasting impression.
Image courtesy Snøhetta
The majority of the building is underground. An entrance ramp leads 70 feet down to a large hall in the footprint of the North Tower, meant to evoke emptiness and absence.
Foundation Hall is a huge, towering space. The "slurry wall," a retaining wall that survived the attacks, is incorporated into the design and is meant to represent survival and determination. This space houses the "Last Column," a 36-foot-high piece of steel that was the last to be taken from the site during cleanup in May 2002.
The museum holds 10,000 artifacts, including wrecked emergency vehicles, 911 phone calls and emergency response recordings, pictures of all of the victims and media of the entire event from crash to cleanup. There are also more than 2,000 recordings of firsthand oral history.
The entry pavilion is designed to look like the image of a partially collapsed building with a striated facade reminiscent of the Twin Towers.
Interactive tables display information about victims, including photographs, testimonies by family and friends, personal artifacts and the location of individual names on the Memorial plaza.
The building cost $700 million to build and requires around $52 million per year to run. Security alone costs an estimated $10 million a year.
Image via The Daily Mail
The museum building is on the former site of the Sphere, a globe sculpture that was located between the twin towers, was damaged in the collapse and is now displayed in nearby Battery Park City.
Original plans included a nearby International Freedom Center that was focused on battles for freedom throughout history. It was scrapped as it could potentially criticize American policies.
The Memorial and Memorial Museum are just two of many tributes across the country. The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey has distributed more than 1,000 pieces of World Trade Center steel to these locations.
On Tuesday evenings from 5 p.m. to two hours prior to closing, admission is free on a first-come, first-served basis (ticket distribution begins at 4 p.m.). Otherwise the museum is open daily, 9 a.m. to 8 p.m., and costs $24 for adults.
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DRIVER PROUD OF YOUNGSTERS
Coach on Youth Cup exit
Hatters Under-18s boss Paul Driver was proud of his side's efforts despite exiting the FA Youth Cup following a 3-1 defeat at Huddersfield.
The Town youngsters led in extra-time thanks to Zane Banton's cool finish but the Terriers hit back to score three times in the closing stages to seal a place in the fourth round.
"It's frustrating to have lost given we had the lead but we acquitted ourselves well," Driver told lutontown.co.uk.
"Not one single player of ours looked out of their depth. Huddersfield are at Premier League level in youth team terms so we're pleased in what we've done.
"It's been a decent run in the competition and we've gone out with a lot of pride. What we have to do is dust ourselves down and the aim now is to win the league [the Youth Alliance South East Division]."
Driver admitted the most disappointing aspect was Huddersfield's equaliser, which came seconds after the Town had taken the lead.
"It was an outstanding finish from Zane but we switched off after the restart," said Driver. "It's frustrating but it's a lesson the boys will have to learn. You're always at your most vulnerable when you score and their lad has run through and been fouled and they score from the penalty.
"You go from being in front with 13 minutes left to being level with 12 to go and then before you know it you're behind and chasing the game."
The Town lie fourth in the Youth Alliance, three points behind leaders Colchester but with two games in hand.
"I'm happy with the run we've had in the Youth Cup and I'm disappointed we couldn't go further, but we've now got to go and win the league and I think we're capable of doing that," added Driver.
The disappointment was shared by the players, who took to their Twitter accounts after the defeat.
"Great team performance and so unlucky with the result. Gutted!" said captain Charlie Smith.
"Heartbroken. Knocked out by Huddersfield in the FA Youth Cup," added Tinashe Chabata.
Goalkeeper Ben Barnes tweeted: "Unfortunately lost but so proud to be a part of this team with these players, just gotta work hard and go forward from here on."
"Great effort lads, couldn't have done any more, did everyone proud," tweeted defender Harry Tamplin.


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Usually, when we unveil a recipe, what you see is the (hopefully) beautiful and tasty end result. But sometimes, the process of recipe development and testing can be so disastrous that it's funny. Witness my bread bomb in the photo above. Call it the ugly side of recipe testing no one ever gets to see…until now. I couldn't resist sharing this flop.
Versions 1.0 and 2.0 were steps in the right direction. When tweaking a new recipe, we'll typically adjust only one or two variables in a recipe at a time, so that we have a clear understanding of how that change affected the final outcome. But for version 3.0, pictured above, I decided to throw caution to the wind. I changed 3 or 4 major variables, and not by just a little bit. Curious to see what would happen, I basically pushed them to the opposite extreme of where they had been.
My intention was to create a very wet, loose bread dough that would rise easily and be light and airy once baked. Well, it rose too easily, basically exploding over the top of the bread loaf pan. After the photo was taken, it then completely collapsed back in on itself. So in a sense, version 3.0 both exploded and imploded (no small accomplishment). All I can say is, thank goodness I had the foresight to put a cookie sheet in the oven under the loaf pan.
Version 5.0 is now complete, and as you can see, it's a huge improvement. It was essentially a rush to the middle – a compromise between versions 1.0 and 2.0, and versions 3.0 and 4.o. At this point, it's very close to being ready to share. Version 6.0, and at the very latest, version 7.0 should be the final version posted here on NGNP. Stay tuned!
I'm totally excited about this! All I can think about is a fluffy slice of bread that can be made into a lovely sandwich! Thanks for all your hard work, and the ensuing clean up!
Thanks for sharing the pic of Version 3.0 – it's good to see that good, tastey recipes have works and flops in their history.
I just got your cookbook and have loved it so far, and I'm eager to try out the new recipe when you share it.
Excellent foresight with the cookie sheet.
This reminds me of the accident I had once that my kids nick-named Elephant Bread. This was back in the gluten baking days. The bread rose so far, it hung over the edges. But being glutinous, it didn't fall all over, just hung and held on. Not wanting to waste the ingredients, I baked it anyway.
The finished product when sliced, from the minds' eye of my children, looked like the profile of an elephant. The tail was the dough hanging off one side of the pan; the other side, being a bit thicker, represented the trunk.
I can't wait to read about the final product.
I swear I'm not laughing! My first attempt at gluten free baking looked a lot like that.
Hi Wookie… Glad to hear you've enjoyed the cookbook! I think that gluten-free baking has more "flops" than any other kind of cooking. But once you sort it out, oh boy it's tasty.
Hi BakingBarb… Feel free to laugh away! We certainly did!
Thanks for posting your recipes. I wonder if you have any bread recipes that substitute baking soda for yeast?
Hi Deanna… Are you taking pleasure in our pain? =) Glad you enjoyed the Snafu!
Hi Anonymous… Off the top of my head, I don't think we do. But I'll double check with Kelli. If it turns out we don't, I'll add it to our list of recipes to develop!
How did you get this picture of my oven? I share your pain & am looking forward to the recipe!
Hi Marilyn… It's the funniest thing. My oven door is apparently an inter-dimensional portal that leads to the kitchens of other gluten-free foodies! =) Glad you love the cookbook!
I laughed when I read this and even more when I saw the photos (pictures never show up in my feed, even when I hit display images). Thanks for sharing! Brilliant on placing that cookie sheet below … you must have had a sense of foreboding to do that.
I've made this bread recipe a number of times now since you posted it and it has turned into a family favorite. I love how easy it is to make and the short rising time. Even the non-gluten-free eaters like it! When's the next cookbook coming out?
Hi Pat… So glad you've enjoyed the bread recipe! An announcement about the next cookbook should be coming in the next several weeks.
Oh my. Be glad you had that pan underneath! That always happens to our apple pies.
This was a wonderful post! Thanks for sharing. It helps me not to get too stressed when trying new recipes. I am not the best cook, so I am bound to make mistakes. I will definitely remember to have something under my bread pans, just in case! Haha.
Can I use whole milk instead of 2%? I'm wanting to make it today. Thanks!
Hi LiveSimply… Whole milk should be just fine!
The other question is, we do not have potato flour. Only potato starch. Can I use chick pea, soya or tapioca flour instead? I am desperate to bake a bread, because you cannot buy any gluten free stuff here. We are years behind the rest of the world….


The Como-Harriet Streetcar Line will be up and running any day now, and my kids know who will be up and running toward it.
I love the trolley with a strange and powerful passion. I make no apologies.
Every summer, I check off my seasonal bucket list. I must eat Minnesota sweet corn, throw down a blanket pretty much anywhere to see awe-inspiring July 4th fireworks, and wander along Thomas Beach at Minneapolis' Lake Calhoun to view the whimsical Aquatennial sandcastles.
And I must ride the $2 trolley, preferably not alone.
My children know this, which possibly is why two of the three now live on the West and East coasts, respectively.
I love riding the trolley at noon and at dusk, and during Halloween when the volunteer conductors dress in ghoulish costumes. I've been known to borrow friends' children, or drag my 25-pound dog onboard, or sit next to people who sort of look like me.
I've joked that we had a third child simply because I needed a new trolley companion.
But that third child is nearly 14 now and she owes me no apology. Last summer, the newly minted teenager sensed crisp air moving in and a new school year just days away, and her mother's pathetic face.
She boarded with me, riding graciously along the tree-lined path from Lake Harriet to Lake Calhoun, the two of us surrounded by toddlers and grandparents, knowing full well that her friends might pop up at any minute and spot her.
There may have been an ice cream bribe included, but who cares? She did it for me.
I sometimes wonder about my powerful pull toward a one-mile, 15-minute round-trip ride (half of it backward). It may have something to do with a lifelong love of tracks.
As a child, I rode the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge Train with my parents and two brothers and still remember the awe-inspiring views and gentle churning motion as we curved through Colorado's mountain passes.
In my 20s, I spent a year jumping on and off clean, efficient trains throughout Europe, including the high-speed "bullet train" from Paris to Toulouse.
But I'm just as happy riding a stinky, grafitti-covered subway car in New York City. They all take me somewhere.
The trolley only takes me to Lake Calhoun and back. Or at least it may seem that way to those who haven't had the good fortune to ride it.
For me, the trolley is a sweet and simple way to escape this life briefly, to be transported in a beautifully appointed car along a route I otherwise would not travel.
In this life now, it's more than enough.


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Ever since the 50's and 60's when Frank Sinatra and the rest of the Rat Pack or the King himself Elvis Presley played nightly, Las Vegas has been known as the party capital of the world. Ask most people to pick a dream holiday and Vegas will be high on most lists, although its not cheap, most Vegas holidays cost at least £1,000. But now you can pack your bags and head to Las Vegas for free.
Product Testing is looking for holiday product testers and they want to buy you a Las Vegas holiday for you to review.
Laura Johnson, 22, from Park Dale, Wolverhampton, was given a 5 night stay in Las Vegas with returning flights by Product Testing.
"I was in shock." Laura told UK Evening News. "I couldn't believe it when Product Testing told me I had been selected. This is a dream holiday and I got it for free. It was an incredible 5 nights, the best week of my life. I took my best friend and we had an amazing time. I saved so much money and had a brilliant time."
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UK Evening News spoke to the head of Product Testing and he told us why they want to send people to Las Vegas.
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Public Input Sought for Potential Rail Service Along Front Range
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Front Range Passenger Rail project designing railroad line from Fort Collins to Pueblo
DENVER - Coloradans along the Front Range are invited to give their input on a plan to develop passenger rail service along a 173-mile corridor from Fort Collins to Pueblo.
This online meeting is being held at frontrangepassengerrailmeeting.com and launched Monday, running through the end of July. Front Range residents will be able to weigh in on important questions such as how they might use the rail service and whether they would want trains to go faster or have more stops. The website also has useful information on the design options for the rail service, such as potential routes.
The online meeting is being put on by the Front Range Passenger Rail project, which is drawing up plans for the rail service. Funding to complete the rail service has not been identified yet and could include a variety of options.
The project is being overseen by the Southwest Chief and Front Range Passenger Rail Commission, the Colorado Department of Transportation (CDOT) and a consultant team. The project's mission is "to provide a safe, efficient, and reliable transportation option for travel between major population centers and destinations along the Front Range and create a backbone for connecting and expanding rail and transit options in the state and region."
It's estimated that by year 2050, an additional 3 million people will be living and commuting along the Front Range, where four-fifths of Colorado's population already lives. The Front Range Passenger Rail project is intended to provide sustainable and reliable travel options to meet the rapidly growing needs of the state while supporting multiple transportation, economic and environmental goals.
Though there have been previous studies of developing Front Range rail, the current project team is working to create an actual, tangible plan to bring the Front Range Passenger Rail to life. The online meeting expands on that work, including the evaluation of potential routes and operations.
Once the team evaluates service needs and wants, it can move on to more specific environmental and engineering planning. At a later point, with a better understanding of costs, funding streams could be identified for the project.
The Front Range Passenger Rail team is committed to a transparent and fully collaborative approach with the public, interest groups, and local jurisdictions. This effort is aimed at moving Front Range Passenger Rail from vision to implementation in support of sustainable, alternative mobility options for the growing Front Range.
To learn more about the project history, please visit frontrangepassengerrail.com.
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Barmah (Red Gum) Forest
In the early 1960s a young graduate forester, Barrie Dexter, was tasked by the FCV to investigate the relationship between cattle grazing and the regeneration of Red Gum eucalypts in the Barmah Forest, on the Murray River in north-central Victoria. That request was to result in Barrie, over subsequent decades, becoming internationally renowned in terms of the ecology of one of Australia's most iconic eucalypts.
Opened in 2011, the 'Barmah Forest Heritage and Education Centre', in nearby Nathalia, portrays the long period of human occupation of the Barmah Forest. In 2016/2018 the Centre, and the local Moira Shire Council, commissioned the production of two DVDs that feature selected recollections of people who were closely associated with the forest. ('If Only the Trees Could Talk'- Parts 1 & 2).
Prior to the compilation of the two DVDs, each of the participants was separately interviewed, on camera. These individual DVDs are available for viewing by visitors to the Nathalia Centre. The audio on this page - Barmah Red Gum) Forest - is taken from the 30 minute interview Barrie did as part of his contribution to the 'If Only the Trees Could Talk' DVD project.
And at this link is Part 2 of 'If Only the Trees Could Talk. As well as Barrie this DVD, which focuses on resource and ecosystem management in the Barmah Forest, also features, among others, the recollections of former District Forester Herb Caldwell, and his son Mick. Mick was to work in and around the forest for much of his career.
The DVD and audio appear on this site with the permission of the Heritage Centre and Moira Shire.


The elegant Meghan Rio dress is made of a soft fabric and is comfortable. The dress has short sleeves. Falls just above the knee.
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RONALD KAUFFMAN > BLOG > Equitable Distribution > Can your Spouse Secretly Sell your House?
Can your Spouse Secretly Sell your House?
Posted by Ron Kauffman on November 26, 2018 with 0 Comment
Real Housewives of New Jersey star Danielle Staub is claiming her estranged husband Marty Caffrey listed their Englewood, N.J. home for sale without telling her. Can that happen in an equitable distribution state?
Real Listing?
According to People:
"Danielle did not know her home, where she lives, was listed for sale until she saw a story about it online," the rep says. "This is yet another example of the blatant disrespect and emotional abuse she has endured in this relationship."
Caffrey, 66, filed for divorce from the reality star in August—just four months after their wedding, and Staub, 56, has been vocal about how hurt she was by how public their split was.
In July, Caffrey posted a negative rant about Staub on social media. The pair took out restraining orders against each other that same month following a domestic dispute at the New Jersey home that is now on the market. The restraining orders were both later dropped.
The six-bedroom, seven-bathroom house features a gourmet kitchen, high ceilings, a media room, and a sauna. The property is listed for $2.195 million with Frances Aaron and Miriam Finkel of Prominent Properties Sotheby's International Realty.
When asked about the sale of their home, Caffrey tells People, "Danielle's version is untrue and other than that I have no comment."
Real Equitable Distribution
I've written about the equitable distribution of houses before. New Jersey, like Florida, is an equitable distribution state. California, and many other western states, are community property states.
In Florida, in every divorce the family court will set apart to each spouse that spouse's nonmarital assets and liabilities, and in distributing the marital assets and liabilities between the parties, the court must begin with the premise that the distribution should be equal.
All real property held by the parties as tenants by the entireties, whether acquired prior to or during the marriage, is presumed to be a marital asset in Florida. If a spouse makes a claim to the contrary, the burden of proof shall be on the party asserting the claim that the property is nonmarital.
It is unclear whether Staub and Caffrey have joint title to the New Jersey house, or it is titled in one of their names alone, or even a holding company. Generally, it's a good idea to have all title owners sign a contract, or it may not be enforceable against the owner who did not sign.
Real Troubles
Back in New Jersey, although Staub claims she was unaware of her home being put on the market, she recently told People that she considers herself a "warrior," and her experience with this divorce has been no different.
Prior to their public problems, the two had trouble agreeing over many things in their relationship, Staub said. Tense dynamics with their blended family (Caffrey has three adult children from a previous relationship) also came into play.
"He doesn't like me and he doesn't like my children," Staub claimed. "My kids have never been anything but respectful and lovely towards him even though he hasn't been the same towards their mom.
Caffrey, in a statement to People at the time, said, "This is not my world nor do I have any further interest in it. These are manufactured celebrities in manufactured lives who manufacture their own truths. I look forward to getting back to my reality among real people. My loving family and vast amount of friends."
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It should be noted that Davidson earned $35 USD for her original designs – but received considerate stock options in the company once the brand was more established.
The original three-stripes mark was created by founder Adi Dassler and first used on footwear in 1949 and born out of Dassler's attempt to paint his endeavor as "the three stripe company." Over the years it has seen two additional shifts. In August 1971 the adidas Trefoil was born out of the company's expanded reach into the apparel and leisure field whose geometric execution with a triple intersection symbolized the diversity of the adidas brand. In 1997, then Creative Director Peter Moore (who created the Jumpman) introduced a three-bar shape shape that also represents a mountain – indicating the challenge to be faced and the goals to be achieved.
Frenchman René Lacoste was a superstar tennis player – earning himself the number one ranking in the world in 1926 and 1927 – and a nickname from the American press, "The Alligator" after placing a wager with the French Davis Cup captain for an alligator skin suitcase. When he returned to France, alligator became crocodile, and Lacoste was known forever after as "the Crocodile." When a friend drew a crocodile for him, Lacoste had it embroidered on the blazer he wore on the court. As Smithsonian Magazine put it, "He found the attire associated with the sport restrictive. Tennis whites, as they were called, consisted of a white, long-sleeved button-down shirt, long pants and a tie. It was a lot of clothing to wear when racing to the net to make an overhead shot." Thus, we now have the crocodile polo shirt.


Maybe a stupid question but I googled a lot and did not find a way to make HTTPS works with Hudson.
But it does not seems as Hudson is taking the parameters (still working on port 8080).
I also added in the <arguments> field of the hudson.xml but it does not seem to take it in account. Any suggestions?
Finally, it worked correctly. I add an issue with the path of the winstone.ks.
Frederic, thanks for the notes. I believe this is for Hudson 2.x not for 3.x right?
could you please give me the steps i need to follow for hudson with HTTPS for ver 3.2.
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In a report so full of jargon that you lose the will to live ploughing your way through it, the World Health Organisation (WHO) made its position clear this week on e-cigarettes - and it's not positive, although that is not entirely unexpected. To increase its jargon usage, not only do we have ENDS (Electronic Nicotine Delivery Systems), we also have a new acronym, ENNDS (Electronic Non-Nicotine Delivery Systems). As I wrote on 23 August, WHO would rather people continue to smoke than admit the free market was more effective in tobacco harm reduction than it was. It's about saving face, not saving lives. This report will now be considered at the seventh session of the Conference of the Parties (COP7) in Delhi in November Even though the UK's Royal College of Physicians states that "the hazard to health arising from long-term vapour inhalation from the e-cigarettes available today is unlikely to exceed 5% of the harm from smoking tobacco" and that "e-cigarettes appear to be effective when used by smokers as an aid to quitting smoking", WHO wants to restrict anyone from saying that ENDS are safer than tobacco, and still say there isn't enough evidence to say ENDS are successful in getting smokers to quit. And as you would expect from WHO, it proposes more draconian regulations in what can only be described as an all out assault on vapers and vaping. Continue reading
Another vaping scare story care of The Sun
Last week, the front page of The Sun exclaimed that vaping was as bad as smoking. Vaping damages key blood vessels, the newspaper said. The fact that consuming caffeine has the same effect, didn't seem to matter. Watching your favourite team play sport also has the same effect, but of course no-one would say that drinking tea and coffee or getting excited at a football match is as bad for your health as lighting up a cigarette. Today, The Sun is warning of the dangers of e-cigarette advertising. "A new study suggests the adverts make occasional tobacco smoking more appealing." Naturally, this has an expert worried. Cue Dr. Milica Vasiljevic from Cambridge University, who said: "While we can be optimistic that the adverts don't seem to make tobacco smoking more appealing to young people, they do appear to make occasional smoking seem less harmful. "This is worrying, as we know that even occasional tobacco smoking is bad for your health, and young people who smoke occasionally believe they are somehow immune to its effects and do not feel the need to quit." Continue reading
Here we go again - another vaping scare story from the U.S.
An article published on the Huffington Post website yesterday grabbed my attention. The headline was "3 Things To Know About E-Cigarettes And Your Kids". It was written by Diane L. Danois who describes herself as an "Attorney, Author, Stepmom, Co-Parent, Blended Families Expert". As her article was specifically about vaping and children, perhaps I should describe myself as a "Political Campaigner, Journalist, Dad, Stepdad, and Jack of all Trades". I know I am being a little frivolous, but when you have children of your own you really don't like being lectured to by a know it all lawyer who enjoys playing fast and loose with the facts in order to get as many hits as they can for a scare story. Because that's exactly what this article is: a scare story. Continue reading
Indian authorities try to destroy vaping before they host the World Health Organisation's COP7 Conference
"E-cigarettes can help eliminate smoking in 30 years: Research", says the headline at the top of the page on the website of The Indian Express. The research it cites is from the Reason Foundation - something I wrote about earlier this week. The article goes on to say: 'In India, the authors estimated that "within a few years perhaps 10 per cent of smokers could switch to vaping. If that happened, close to 11 million people would experience a multitude of benefits, including a substantial reduction in the risk of death from tobacco-related diseases."' I mention this article because the Indian Government is hostile towards vaping and vapers. A minority of Indian states ban import, distribution and sale of electronic nicotine delivery systems. E-cigarettes are regarded as unapproved drugs and the penalty of vaping is very severe. Take this case of a Punjab man who faces three years behind bars for vaping and allegedly selling vaping products. Vini Mahajan, Punjab's principal health secretary of the state's Family Welfare Department, said: Continue reading
How the Vaping Bottom-Up Innovation Is Saving Lives
An excellent new report has just been published by the Reason Foundation. Entitled "The Vapour Revolution: How Bottom-Up Innovation Is Saving Lives", it charts the innovation that has taken place since the first cigalikes were invented and marketed in China, to the devices that we have today. Amongst other things, it also looks at the effectiveness of e-cigarettes as a means of giving up smoking, concludes that "while some youths probably do take up smoking after experimenting with vaping, considerably more youths are vaping instead of smoking", and looks at the approach to regulation by governments and the role of the World Health Organisation (WHO). It really is a report well worth reading. I want to highlight this paragraph, though - a message to WHO, one that it should take on board, however, I don't have any faith that it will: Continue reading


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FoodNotify (aus englisch food "Nahrungsmittel" und to notify "benachrichtigen") ist ein cloudbasierter Onlinedienst für Gastronomie, Hotellerie und Catering mit Sitz in Wien. Das Unternehmen bietet eine Software für Rezeptmanagement, Bestellungen bei Lieferanten und Großhändlern, Warenwirtschaft und die Erstellung verordnungskonformer Speisekarten. Die Software erfüllt die EU-Lebensmittel-Informationsverordnung und deckt die gesetzliche Regelung für Deutschland, Österreich und die Schweiz ab. Die gesamten administrativen Abläufe der Gastronomie, Hotellerie und Gemeinschaftsverpflegung wie Bestellung, Lagerverwaltung, Rezepterfassung und Kalkulation werden durch FoodNotify digitalisiert und so vereinfacht. FoodNotify wurde bereits in mehreren Tages- und Fachzeitungen sowie Magazinen vorgestellt (Die Presse, Rolling Pin).

Funktionen
 Zugangskonto:
FoodNotify ist eine Cloudlösung, bei der Nutzer zuerst ein FoodNotify-Konto anlegen müssen, um den Dienst verwenden zu können. Das Konto kann von beliebig vielen Endgeräten genutzt werden.
Unabhängige Bestellplattform:
Mit der Software von FoodNotify kann der User seinen Warenbedarf bestellen. Dabei fungiert FoodNotify als unabhängige Bestellplattform, auf der der Nutzer die Zugangskonten seiner unterschiedlichen Großhändler bei FoodNotify hinterlegt und seine Produkte direkt im System, zu seinen persönlichen Konditionen und ohne Aufschlag, bestellen kann. Möglich ist das bei allen Großhändlern und regionalen Spezialitätenanbietern, die einen Kooperationsvertrag mit FoodNotify haben. Für Ketten- und Kantinenbetriebe gibt es darüber hinaus noch die Möglichkeit, mehrere Bestellkonten mit unterschiedlichen Berechtigungen zu erstellen. So können Kettenbetriebe ihr Bestellmanagement mit FoodNotify organisieren.
 Rezeptmanagement inkl. Allergen-, Nährwert- und Zusatzstoffkennzeichnung:
Über FoodNotify können Nutzer ihre Rezepte digital verwalten. Neben bereits vorhandenen Rezepten können auch eigene Rezepte vom Nutzer angelegt werden. Dafür steht dem Nutzer eine Artikeldatenbank zur Verfügung, die sich aus den Daten der Gastronomiegroßhändler speist. FoodNotify arbeitet bereits mit über 1200 Lieferanten zusammen, die an das System angebunden sind und täglich ihre Artikeldaten übertragen und aktualisieren. Auf Basis dieser Daten werden die Rezepte des Nutzers auf Allergene, Nährwerte und Zusatzstoffe geprüft und gekennzeichnet. Das, dem Gesetz nach, verpflichtende Produktblatt wird bei der Erfassung des Rezeptes automatisch erstellt.
Neben der Allergen-, Nährwert- und Zusatzstoffkennzeichnung beinhaltet das Rezeptmanagement eine Funktion, mit der die CO2-Werte der Rezepte und Zutaten automatisch ermittelt werden.
 Speisenkalkulation und Mengenrechner:
Der Nutzer kann mit FoodNotify seinen Wareneinsatz sowie seinen Deckungsbeitrag automatisch errechnen. Das geschieht ebenfalls auf Basis des direkten Datenaustausches der Preise und Artikel mit den Großhändlern. Neben der Speisenkalkulation besteht die Möglichkeit, die Mengen der Zutaten auf die gewünschte Portionsmenge aufzurechnen. Die benötigen Zutatenmengen können dann über die Bestellplattform direkt geordert werden.
 Speisekartendesigner:
Schließlich kann der User aus seinen erfassten Rezepten Speise- und Wochenkarten erstellen. Diese Menükarten weisen Allergene, Nährwerte und alle anderen gesetzlich geforderten Informationen der Speisen automatisch aus. Für die Erstellung der Speise- und Wochenkarten bietet FoodNotify mehrere Designvorlagen, die der User nach Wunsch individualisieren kann.
Warenwirtschaft:
Im Jänner 2018 hat FoodNotify ein Modul zum Automatisieren der Warenwirtschaft vorgestellt. Der Warenfluss eines Restaurants wird dabei mit Hilfe der Anbindung an ein elektronisches Kassensystem einerseits und den Lieferanten andererseits stark digitalisiert. Der Nutzer kann so den Echtzeit-Lagerstand abfragen und neu eingetroffene Ware automatisch verbuchen. Weiters besteht für den Nutzer die Möglichkeit, Inventuren durchzuführen und tagesaktuelle Kennzahlen seines Betriebes auf einen Blick einzusehen.
Catering-Management:
Mit dem erweiterbaren Catering-Modul haben Nutzer die Möglichkeit, Veranstaltungen zu planen und zu verwalten. Das Modul ist mit der Bestellplattform, dem Rezeptmanagement und der Warenwirtschaft verknüpft, wodurch den Usern mehrere Funktionen zur Verfügung stehen. Dazu gehören zum Beispiel: Wareneinsatz auf Event- oder Gast-Basis berechnen, Zuständigkeiten für das Personal vergeben, Informationen zum benötigten Equipment definieren oder automatische Bestellvorschläge nach Eventbedarf erhalten.
Gastro-Analytics:
Im erweiterbaren Modul Gastro-Analytics erhält der Nutzer individuelle Analysen, Auswertungen und Berichte zu den für ihn relevanten Kennzahlen. Basis dafür bilden die gesammelten Daten aus den Rezepten, Bestellungen und warenbezogenen Prozessen.
 Erweiterungen zu anderen Systemen:
Darüber hinaus können Nutzer über Schnittstellen andere Systeme an FoodNotify anbinden, wie Kassensysteme, Performance Management Systeme oder Kreditorenmanagementsysteme. Die Software verfügt ebenfalls über eine offene Schnittstelle, an die weitere Systeme angebunden werden können.

Programme

Webbrowser
Im November 2014 veröffentlichte FoodNotify die webbasierte Software.

Mobile Geräte
Es existieren Apps für Android und iOS.

Geschichte
Die eigentliche Idee des im April 2014 gegründeten Unternehmens war es, eine Rezeptplattform für Endkunden zu entwickeln. Dieses Projekt scheiterte jedoch an einer nicht erhaltenen Förderung im Juni 2014. Im Anschluss richtete sich das Start-Up strategisch neu aus und fokussierte sich auf die digitale Erfüllung der Lebensmittelinformationsverordnung [(Nr. 1169/2011 – LMIV)]. Diese Neuausrichtung entsprach den Zeichen der Zeit und löste ein damals aktuelles und bis dahin ungelöstes Problem der Gastronomie: die Lebensmittelinformationsverordnung. Mit dem neuen Fokus des Unternehmens funktionierte es auch mit der Förderung: INiTS, ein universitärer Inkubator, unterstützte "FoodNotify".

Ab November 2014 bot FoodNotify den Gastronomen online die zu diesem Zeitpunkt innovative und einzigartige Möglichkeit Allergene, Zusatzstoffe und Nährwerte ihrer Speisen auszuweisen. Mit diesem Angebot konnten die Gastronomen einfacher der von der Europäischen Union erlassenen "Allergenkennzeichnungs-Pflicht"[(Nr. 1169/2011 – LMIV)] entsprechen. Dieses Lösungsangebot machte FoodNotify rasch in einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit bekannt. Große Aufmerksamkeit erlangte das Unternehmen, indem es bereits im Jahr 2015 einen Kooperationsvertrag mit dem ebenfalls auf das Wiener Start-Up aufmerksam gewordene Großhandelsunternehmen Metro Cash & Carry unterzeichnete. Aufgrund des Erfolges in Österreich wurde das Konzept 2016 auch von METRO Deutschland übernommen. Im November 2016 konnte mit dem C&C Großhändler AGM ein weiterer großer Partner gewonnen werden. 2017 sind weitere Lieferantenpartner wie Eurogast, Kröswang, Wedl etc. dazugekommen. Heute deckt FoodNotify mit seinem Kooperationsnetz den Großteil des Handelsangebots der österreichischen, deutschen und schweizerischen Gastronomie ab.

Das Forbes-Magazin Österreich berichtete in einem vierseitigen Artikel detailliert über den Werdegang und die Ausrichtung des Unternehmens.

Gemeinsam mit der Kreditorenmanagement-Software billbox, dem Personalverwaltungssystem E2N und dem Performance-Management-System sell & pick erarbeitete FoodNotify das digitale Gastronomiekonzept Cosmo Burger. Dieses zeigt die Möglichkeiten und Vorteile der Digitalisierung in der Gastronomie, die durch systemübergreifende Verknüpfungen zustande kommen.

Im Jahr 2020 wurde FoodNotify gemeinsam mit 15 anderen Start-ups aus Österreich ausgewählt, an der GoSiliconValley-Initiative der Wirtschaftskammer Österreich teilzunehmen. Es handelt sich dabei um ein Accelerator-Programm, bei dem österreichische Start-ups ihre Geschäftsmodelle Investoren im Silicon Valley präsentieren.

Im September 2021 startete das Innovationsnetzwerk Foodservice Digital Hub, das von der Universität Leipzig koordiniert wird und an dem FoodNotify als einer der 16 Partner beteiligt ist. Das Ziel ist es, digitale Lösungen und Konzepte für die Gastronomiebranche zu erarbeiten.

Unternehmensinformationen
FoodNotify ist ein Start-up-Unternehmen, das 2014 in Wien von Thomas Primus, Christina Primus, Mirza Muharemagic und Adnan Hanic gegründet wurde. Initiator Thomas Primus ist seit Anfang Geschäftsführer des Unternehmens. Im Juli 2016 wurde dem Unternehmen der Titel Austria's Born Global Champions, einer Auszeichnung der Wirtschaftskammer Österreich in der Kategorie Food & Drink verliehen. Im Jahr 2020 erhielt FoodNotify den österreichischen IT-Wirtschaftspreis eAward in der Kategorie Gewerbe & Tourismus.

Weblinks
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Einzelnachweise

Informationstechnikunternehmen (Wien)
Onlinedienst
Gegründet 2014