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Cameron's Nudge that knocked democracy down: mind the Mindspace.
There is an extremely anti-democratic design becoming increasingly evident in policies being formulated by the Coalition, which is aimed at protecting the interests of the very wealthy; at stifling debate, challenges and opposition; permitting political and corporate corruption whilst obscuring it; restricting access to justice for victims of government and corporate corruption and oppression; removing accountability and transparency. There is a detachment of policies from wider public needs and interests. Instead, policies are all about instructing us how to behave.
It's only a matter of time before the new behavioural economics and so-called science of nudging decision-making is applied to influencing the population's voting behaviour as well.
Free-will, determinism and bounded rationality in decision-making: implications for democracy
One of our fundamental freedoms, as human beings, is that of decision-making regarding our own lives and experiences. To be responsible for our own thoughts, reflections, intentions and actions is generally felt to be an essential part of what it means to be human.
Of course there are social and legal constraints on some intentions and actions, especially those that may result in harming others, and quite rightly so.
There are other constraints which limit choices, too, insofar that choices are context-bound. We don't act in an infinite space of opportunities, alternatives, time, information, nor do we have limitless cognitive abilities, for example.
In other words, there are always some limitations on what we can choose to do, and we are further limited because our rationality is bounded. Most people accept this with few problems, because we are still left ultimately with the liberty to operate within those outlined parameters, some of which may be extended to a degree – rationality, for example. But our thoughts, reflections, decisions and actions are our own, held within the realm of our own individual, unique experiences.
However, the government have employed a group of behavioural economists and "decision-making psychologists" who claim to have found a "practical" and (somehow) "objective way" from the (impossible) perspective of an "outside observer" – in this case, the government – to define our best interests and to prompt us to act in ways that conform to their views. Without our consent.
But democracy is based on a process of dialogue between the public and government, ensuring that the public are represented: that governments are responsive, shaping policies that address identified social needs. However, Coalition policies are no longer about reflecting citizen's needs: they are all about telling us how to be.
The ideas of libertarian paternalism were popularised around five years ago by the legal theorist Cass Sunstein and the behavioral economist Richard Thaler, in their bestselling book Nudge. Sunstein and Thaler argue that policymakers can preserve an individual's liberty whilst still nudging a person towards choices that are supposedly in their best interests.
But who nudges the nudgers? Who decides what is in our "best interests"?
That would be the government, of course. Thaler, who studied the psychology of decision-making, drawing on the exploitation of "cognitive bias" and techniques of persuasion that have until now been used only by the advertising industry, claims that we are fundamentally irrational. But according to Professor Thaler, we would "all invest in the stock market if we were rational." That's a rather unique and remarkably narrow definition.
I wonder if he bothered asking everyone about that. I imagine that if he gets his way, university entrance criteria will change forever. Mind you, so will ideas about human diversity. There seems to be a lot of emphasis on social conformity, directed from the Conservative Cabinet office.
Nudge has become a prop for neoliberal hegemony and New Right Conservative ideology. It's become a technocratic fix – pseudo-psychology that doubles up as "common sense", aimed at maintaining the socioeconomic order.
Another phrase the authors introduced was "choice architecture", a concept implying that the State can be the architect that arranges personal choice in way that nudges consumers in the right direction. It seems that even policies have been commodified. Poor people get bargain basement "incentives" to work harder by having their income reduced, while millionaires get the deluxe model incentives, entailing massive tax cuts and exemptions, all handed out from public funds.
The "right" direction is towards a small State, with nothing but behavioural "incentives" to justify forcing citizens who have needs to be "responsible" and "self-sufficient," achieving this presumably by paying taxes and then pulling themselves up strictly by their own invisible bootstraps. It's the government's new nothing for something culture, specifically for those who fall on hard times.
The pseudo-psychological framework
Behavioural Economics is actually founded in part on crude operant conditioning: it marks the return of a psychopolitical theory that arose in the mid-20th century, which was linked to behaviourism. Advocates of this perspective generalised that all human behaviour may be explained and described by a very simple reductive process: that of Stimulus–Response. There is no need, according to behaviourists, to inquire into human thoughts, feelings, beliefs or values, because we simply respond to external stimuli, and change our automatic responses accordingly, like automatons or rats in a laboratory.
In the Coalition agreement, there is mention of "finding intelligent ways to encourage people to make better choices for themselves. David Halpern, an apparently adaptable, very pro-business behavioural economist, also plays a role in David Cameron's Big Society project. In 2010, the entire Cabinet were impressed with Nudge, and it quickly became required reading for ministers and civil servants.
The Guardian casually reported that Nick Clegg said he believed the new Behavioural Insights Team could "change the way citizens think." What is particularly shocking is that the comment elicited no shock whatsoever. (The very idea of a group of right-wing authoritarians that recognise human worth only in terms of money, covertly influencing my behaviour, and that of everyone else, quite frankly appalls me.)
Formally instituted by Cameron in September 2010, the Behavioural Insights Team, which is a part of the Cabinet Office, is made up of people such as David Halpern, who co-authored the Cabinet Office report: Mindspace: Influencing Behaviour Through Public Policy, which comes complete with a cover illustration of the human brain, with an accompanying psychobabble of decontextualised words such as "incentives", "habit', "priming" and "ego." It's a lot of inane managementspeak. However, the ideas behind the corporate jargon are providing a framework of experimental and often controversial policy-making on an unsuspecting public.
The report addresses the needs of policy-makers. Not the public. The behaviourist educational function made patronisingly explicit through the Nudge Unit is now operating on many levels, including through policy programmes, forms of "expertise", and through the State's influence on the mass media, other cultural systems and at a subliminal level: it's embedded in the very language that is being used in political narratives.
Tory ideology is extended under the misleading label of libertarian paternalism, which is all about shaping our behaviour, by offering "choice architecture", that reduces public choices to "Choice." At the heart of every Coalition welfare policy is a behaviour modification attempt, promoted by the influential Nudge Unit and founded on the discredited, pseudoscientific behaviourism, which is basically just about making people do what you want them to do, using a system of punishments and reinforcements. Once you see it, you can't unsee it.
At the same time, as well as shaping behaviour, the psychopolitical messages being disseminated are all-pervasive, entirely ideological and not remotely rational: they reflect and are shaping an anti-welfarism that sits with Conservative agendas for welfare "reform", austerity, the "efficient"small State (minarchism) and also legitimizes them. (I've written at length elsewhere about the fact that austerity isn't an economic necessity, but rather, it's a Tory ideological preference.)
The Conservatives are traditional, they are creatures of habit, rather than being responsive and rational. Coalition narratives, amplified via the media, have framed our reality, stifled alternatives, and justified Tory policies that extend psychological coercion, including through workfare; benefit sanctions; in stigmatizing the behaviour and experiences of poor citizens, and they endorse the loss of autonomy for citizens who were disempowered to begin with.
Nudge theory has made Tory ideology seem credible, and the Behavioural Insights Team have condoned, justified and supported punitive, authoritarian policies, with bogus claims about "objectivity" and by using inane, meaningless acronyms to spell out a pseudoscientific neuroliberalism and to peddle made-up nonsense founded on the whopping, extensive cognitive biases of paternalist libertarians. Most of the nudge unit is comprised of behavioural economists, who are basically peddling the kind of techniques of persuasion that were usually reserved for the dubious end of the advertising industry. This is not "social psychology", nor is it in any way related to any legitimate social science discipline. However, the creep of behaviourism into nudge based "interventions" is cause for considerable concern.
This government's policies have contravened the human rights of women, children and disabled people, to date. Nudge is hardly in our "best interests," then.
The Coalition aren't engaging with us democratically, they are simply nudging us into compliance with how they think the UK ought to be. We need to ask, in a democracy, where do behavioural economists, policymakers and Tories gain the moral authority to manipulate people's behaviour? Governments ought to be about supporting people in realising their aspirations, not about changing those aspirations so that they correspond to the worldview of the "choice architects."
Nudge application: irrationality and ideological justification
Here's a recent example of choice architecture being "rearranged." Iain Duncan Smith said recently that limiting child benefit to the first two children in a family is well worth considering and could save a significant amount of money. The idea is being examined by the Conservatives, despite previously being vetoed by Downing Street because of fears that it could alienate parents. Asked about the idea on the BBC's Sunday Politics programme, Duncan Smith said:
"I think it's well worth looking at," he said. "It's something if we decide to do it we'll announce out. But it does save significant money and also it helps behavioural change."
Firstly, this is a clear indication of the Tories' underpinning eugenicist designs – exercising control over the reproduction of the poor, albeit by stealth. It also reflects the underpinning belief that poverty somehow arises because of faulty individual choices, (as opposed to faulty political decision-making and ideologically driven socioeconomic policies), that those choices are non-rational, stereotypical, and that reducing cost to the State involves making people change their faulty, stereotypical behaviours.
Secondly, the very casual use of the phrase behavioural change is an indication of just how influential the Behavioural Insights Team (Cameron's pet project, the Nudge Unit) has become in Tory policy-making and justification narratives. The new "behavioural theories" are all-pervasive.
On the Institute for Government website, the section called MINDSPACE Behavioural Economics mentions "behaviour change theory" and "influencing behaviour through public policy." A lot. But surely, in democracies, public policies are supposed to reflect and serve identified public needs, rather than being about the public meeting specific policy outcomes and government needs.
And how many of us have consented to allow this government to experiment on us via policy with what is, after all, simply a set of pet theories? And that's what nudge theory applications via policy amounts to.
Again, the Nudge Unit simply reflects a pseudoscientific platform for extension of the government's ideological reach, reflecting and legitimizing Tory dogmas, such as minarchism (small state, reduced or no public services and support). It's aim is to persuade the public, using an old and discredited theory – behaviourism – that austerity, cuts to welfare and a massive reduction and mass privatisation of our remaining public services are the only option we have.
From the Mindspace site: "New insights from science and behaviour change could lead to significantly improved outcomes, and at a lower cost, than the way many conventional policy tools are used."
The welfare "reforms" were hailed by the Conservatives as a system of help and incentives – to "nudge" people into changing their behaviour so that they try harder to find work – but they are in fact eroding people's motivation. In other words, the reforms have deincentivised and hindered people looking for employment, achieving the very opposite to the intent claimed by the Conservative-led Coalition.
But given that the "reforms" are extremely punitive – cutting people's lifeline benefits at a time when the cost of living is rocketing, unemployment and underemployment is high, jobs are insecure, wages are at an all time low, and at the time of the reforms bill being drafted and passed through parliament (it was very opposed by many, including the House of Lords – but it was forced through into law only because Cameron invoked "financial privilege"), we were in a deep recession – it's inconceivable that the Coalition didn't realise that the "reforms" would push people into utter desperation.
How can anyone claim that forcing people to struggle to meet basic survival needs "incentivises" or helps people into finding almost non-existent work that actually pays sufficiently to meet the cost of living? It's impossible for people to be motivated to do anything but survive when they can't meet their most fundamental needs. (See Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs.)
Sanctions are used – involving the complete removal of lifeline benefits for periods of up to 3 years – when jobseekers "don't try hard enough" to find work. However, the existence of sanction targets in job centres indicates clearly that sanctions are being used by the government simply to remove people's benefits and reduce the numbers of people registered as unemployed.
Gathered evidence shows that the sanctions are rarely connected to the actual behaviours of people who are looking for work. People are being punished for simply being poor, vulnerable and claiming benefits. The recent Just about Surviving report, for example, describes a culture of fear, especially among those with serious disability or illness, who were unable to work and so felt powerless to escape or offset the financial losses causes by welfare cuts.
Disabled people are also sanctioned, despite being deemed unfit for work by Doctors and by Atos. The report says: The sheer scale and speed of the cuts to State support left interviewees with "almost no flexibility to live with any comfort". It meant some of those interviewed were: "Barely surviving."
Most people who were interviewed told researchers they both wanted to work and saw benefit in working. The report calls on ministers to provide more help in getting people into work, and criticises the "lack of compassion" in the implementation of the reforms.
It is probable that the Department for Work and Pensions will dismiss the findings of the report as "anecdotal," drawing attention to the small size and geographical reach of the research and suggest that it is not a representative analysis. But the researchers quite rightly point out: "In the absence of an official cumulative impact assessment, this report makes a crucial contribution to our understanding of the impacts of the Coalition's welfare reforms".
I believe there are very good reasons to employ qualitative methodology, not least, to counter the Tory preference for the quantitative, where human experience is excluded, lives are reduced in worth by referring to accounts of them as merely "anecdotal", social groups are marginalised, dehumanised and re-defined as Others, and the Tory statistical justificationisms – a dressed-up, dogmatic pseudopositivism – end up earning them yet another toothless rebuke from Andrew Dilnot.
I've said elsewhere that the Tories certainly have a problem confronting human needs as well as observing and upholding concomitant human rights. It's almost as if they assume there is an ideal, unidimensional, default-type citizen that has no needs at all. Conservatives seem to think that a person who is responsible is part of an ideally invisible, non-demanding, compliant public, who simply get on quietly with working hard for Tory corporate sponsors to make rich people profits, whilst accepting insultingly low pay and poor working conditions. If you can't or won't do that, then you will be nudged into compliance.
And back into the 19th century. This is not only oppression at a political level – for example, material inequality has grown because of Conservative-led policies that punish the poor and reward the wealthy – people are also being repressed existentially: emotionally, psychologically and cognitively, to ensure conformity to the prevailing elite's idea of (Social Darwinist) norms and values.
That's why the bankers and financial institutions that caused the global recession through behaving "irrationally" aren't included in Cameron's nudge social conditioning experiment. It's largely aimed at the poor, curiously enough. Though apparently, the Conservatives believe that the wealthy are incentivised differently from the rest of us: they need rewards of even more money, tax breaks and large bonuses, rather than financial punishments to ensure they are "responsible citizens."
The Conservatives and a largely complicit media, convey the message that poor people suffer from some sort of character flaw – a poverty of aspiration, a deviance from the decent, hard-working norm. That's untrue, of course: poor people simply suffer from material poverty which steals motivation and aspiration from any and every person that is reduced to struggling for basic survival.
However, the Conservatives have decided that in addition to bearing the burden of your poverty, you now have to work at improving your behaviour.
Mind the Mindspace:
A summary of the main influences outlined in the MINDSPACE acronym framework
All of these basic ideas are being utilised to prop up Conservative ideology, to shape Conservative policies and to justify them; to deploy justification narratives through the mass media, in schools and throughout all of our social institutions.
For example, incentives being linked to the mental "shortcut" of strongly avoiding losses (a "cognitive bias" called loss aversion) shows us precisely where the Tories imported their justification narrative for the welfare cuts and benefit sanctions from. What the government calls incentivising people, by using systematic punishments, translates from Orwellian Doublespeak to "state coercion" in plain language.
"We act in ways that make us feel better about ourselves" – norms, committments, affect, ego – "behavioural insights" are manipulations of a neoliberal, paternalist ideological grammar, contributing to Tory rhetoric, lexical semantics and media justification narratives that send both subliminal and less subtle, overt messages about how poor and disabled people ought to behave. And it establishs a "default setting" regarding how the public ought to behave towards poor and disabled people.
The night-watchman who looks the other way from those who need looking out for
This is political micro-management and control, and has nothing to do with alleviating poverty. Nor can this ever be defined as being our "best interests." There's an identifiable psychocratic approach embedded in Conservative policies aimed at the poorest. Whilst on the one hand, the Tories ascribe deleterious intrinsic motives to rational behaviours that simply express unmet needs, such as claiming benefit when out of work, and pathologise these by deploying a narrative with subtextual personality disorder labels, such as scrounger, skiver and the resurrected Nazi catch-all category for deemed miscreants: "workshy," the Tories are not at all interested in your motivations, attitudes, thoughts, hopes and dreams. They are interested only in how your expectations and behaviour fits in with their intent to reduce the State to that of night-watchman proportions – one that is only watching out for the privileged and propertied class.
Poor people are not culpable, regarding their predicament. No-one would choose to be poor. They don't formulate the policies that create rising inequality and poverty: the Tories do. Conservatives are very good at laying out the price of everything, they even go to the trouble of sending out a grossly inaccurate statement to try to persuade the public that their taxes are paying for a projected, shameful, disproportionately costly and wasteful welfare system supporting free riders – a "bad investment" for a mythological, discrete class of taxpayers that needs to be dismantled by a thousand more Tory cuts, but they never once reflect the value and worth of anyone who has been or is going to be destroyed in the wake of their dystopic, Social Darwinist, ideologically driven meddling and propaganda peddling.
And they also fail to mention that although Conservatives are claiming they don't agree with state interventions, they do an awful lot of those anyway, just to ensure that virtually all of our public wealth is privatised, whilst the debt, risks and pain of this is carried by those people who are the very least able to bear the burden, and actually, the least expensive to society.
The Tory market place harbours no democracy, or sentiment for rights to temper our responsibilities, unless you are rich: everyone else has to content themselves with only responsibilities, the weight of which are inversely proportional to your wealth, of course.
The link between nudge and totalitarianism
As a psychology student, I remember wondering why few psychologists had commented on the political ramifications of B.F. Skinner and behaviourism. After all, he was clearly a totalitarian thinker, and behaviour modification techniques are the delight of authoritarians.
To recap, behaviourism is basically the theory that human and animal behaviour can be explained in terms of conditioning, without appeal to consciousness, character, traits, personality, internal states, intentions, purpose, thoughts or feelings, and that psychological disorders and "undesirable" behaviours are best treated by using a system of reinforcement and punishment to alter behaviour "patterns."
Skinner and the behaviourists casually removed the person from people. There's no-one in the "driving seat." We are being remotely controlled.
Behaviourism was discredited and labelled "pseudoscience" many decades ago, (very memorably by Noam Chomsky, amongst others). Most psychologists and cognitive scientists don't accept that myriad, complex human behaviours are determined by and reducible to nothing more than an empty stimulus/response relationship; our deeds and words merely a soulless, heartless and mindless cause and effect circuit.
How can behaviourists claim objectivity when they are active participants within the (intersubjective) social environment, sharing the same context that allegedly shapes everyone else's behaviour? And how does behaviourism itself miraculously transcend the deterministic confines of stimulus-response? If all behaviours are determined, then so are psychological theories.
The Behavioural Insights Team are charlatans that are propping up the policies of an authoritarian government. Hannah Arendt wrote extensively about totalitarian regimes, in particular Nazism and Stalinism. She says that Hitler and Stalin sought to eliminate all restraints upon the power of the State and furthermore, they sought to dominate every aspect of everyone's life. This domination tends to happen in stages – incrementally.
In Skinner's best-selling book Beyond Freedom and Dignity, 1971, he argued that freedom and dignity are illusions that hinder the science of behaviour modification, which he claimed could create a better-organised and happier society, where no-one is autonomous, because we have no autonomy. (See also Walden Two: 1948: Skinner's "Utopian" antidemocratic novel).
There is, of course, no doubt that behaviour can be controlled, for example, by threat of violence, actual violence or a pattern of deprivation and reward. Freedom and dignity are values that are intrinsic to human rights. And all tyrants and bullies are behaviourists.
The insidiousness of "libertarian paternalism" is not only due to a slippery slope from the implicit "non-coercive nudge" to explicitly coercive limits on individual autonomy and liberty.
There is also a problem with the very term, as an example of Orwellian language-use, "libertarian paternalism" renders difficult the ability to conceive of a principled distinction between policy that respects individual autonomy and policy that violates it. But there is a distinction, and the ability to defend our liberty depends on ensuring it is maintained.
Democracy involves governments that shape themselves in response to what people need and want, it's not about people who reshape their lifestyles in response to what the government wants. Democracy is meant to involve the formulation of a government that reflects and meets public needs.
Under the nudge tyranny, that is turned totally on its head: instead the government is devising more and more ways to put pressure on us to change. We elect governments to represent us, not to manipulate us covertly.
Nudge is actually about bypassing rationality, reason, political accountability and transparency – democratic process, critical debate. The government is substituting those with manipulation, coercion, and an all-pervasive social operant conditioning experiment. The irony is that there is no scope offered with nudging for engaging with rational processes and stimulating critical thinking, in fact nudge bypasses rational and deliberative processes and therefore presents no opportunities whatsoever for people to learn and develop new cognitive skills.
The Nudge Unit has been part-privatised, protected from public scrutiny. It is no longer subject to the Freedom of Information Act. It can sue for libel.
Another application of "behavioural insights": How to demonise and demoralise jobseekers in one meaningless test. Psychometric tests always tell us more about the designers than about the people who fill them in. And at best, they can only ever indicate that a person is capable of completing a psychometric test. The whole approach of "working" on jobseekers' "self-esteem" is complete nonsense. It assumes that unemployment is an individual failing that may be fixed at a personal level, rather than a problem of arithmetic where there are fewer jobs than the number of people who want them.
The just world fallacy
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Girard, René. (1972) La violence et le Sacré trad. it. La violenza e il sacro, Adelphi, Milano 1980.
Hamerton-Kelly, Robert G. (ed.) (1987) Violent Origins: Walter Burkert, René Girard and Jonathan Z. Smith on Ritual Killing and Cultural Formation. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Juergensmeyer, Mark. (2000) Terror in the Mind of God: The Global Rise of Religious Violence. Berkley: University of California Press.
Pedahzur, Ami and Weinberg, Leonard (eds.)  (2004)  Religious Fundamentalism and Political Extremism.  New York: Routledge.
Selengut, C. (2003) Sacred Fury: Understanding Religious Violence.  Walnut Creek, CA: Altamira
Steffen, Lloyd. (2007) Holy War, Just War: Exploring the Moral Meaning of Religious Violence.  Lanham, MD: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers.
Nelson-Pallmeyer, Jack (2003) Is Religion Killing Us? Harrisburg:Trinity Press International ISBN 1-56338-408-6
Stern, Jessica. (2004) Terror in the Name of God: Why Religious Militants Kill.  New York: Harper Perennial.

Voci correlate
 Conflitto nordirlandese
 Crociate
 Fanatismo religioso
 Fondamentalismo
 Guerra santa
 Guerre di religione
 Guerre jugoslave
 Massacro del monte Meadows
 Persecuzione religiosa
 Terrorismo religioso
 Estremismo sikh
 Terrorismo cristiano
 Terrorismo ebraico
 Terrorismo islamico

Religione
Violenza

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If you are passionate about cycling, at Hotel Meridional you will be able to keep enjoying it during your holidays. We will provide you with maps, itineraries, services and premises specifically designed for cycling.
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Neil Gaiman , Terry Pratchett
Martin Jarvis
Fantasy, Comedy
12 hours, 30 minutes
Rent ItFrom $19.98/month
The Bancroft Strategy
by Robert Ludlum
The Great Influenza: The Epic Story of the Deadliest Plague in History
by John M. Barry
Winner of the Audiophile Magazine Earphones Award.
The classic collaboration from the internationally bestselling authors Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, soon to be an original series starring Michael Sheen and David Tennant.
'Good Omens . . . is something like what would have happened if Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and Don DeLillo had collaborated. Lots of literary inventiveness in the plotting and chunks of very good writing and characterization. It's a wow. It would make one hell of a movie. Or a heavenly one. Take your pick.'—Washington Post
According to The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (the world's only completely accurate book of prophecies, written in 1655, before she exploded), the world will end on a Saturday. Next Saturday, in fact. Just before dinner.
So the armies of Good and Evil are amassing, Atlantis is rising, frogs are falling, tempers are flaring. Everything appears to be going according to Divine Plan. Except a somewhat fussy angel and a fast-living demon—both of whom have lived amongst Earth's mortals since The Beginning and have grown rather fond of the lifestyle—are not actually looking forward to the coming Rapture.
And someone seems to have misplaced the Antichrist . . .
Selected Reviews
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Written by nab6215	from Altoona, PA on July 13th, 2019
I was so glued to the story that I could not stop listening to it until the end. The end was so Neil Gaiman weird that I don\'t know what to say. I loved everything except for the end. I feel like something was missing. I bet the TV show will clear things up. It did with American Gods. I understood the book much better after watching the show.
Written by Anonymous on June 10th, 2019
Another amazing story by Gaiman. The narrator brings life to the characters.
Written by Anonymous on June 6th, 2019
a great story...engulfing and enticing
Written by Robin H. on April 12th, 2019
Great book and the gentleman who read it did a great job with the voices. Really enjoyed this audiobook.
Written by John D. on April 10th, 2019
Talk about random and can't make up its mind on telling a coherent tale. Story is all over the place, and constantly inserts inane and completely uninteresting side notes and frequently devolves into what they think are funny sudo facts thrown in, but are in fact, a complete waste of time, totally unfunny, and have nothing to add to the story. Good authors, big miss.
Written by Becca E on April 2nd, 2018
Beautiful! This book walks a very careful line between sassy and sweet.
Written by Hillary N on January 7th, 2018
I have tried to listen to Terry pratchett before and didn't enjoy it very much, I did understand more of what was happen in this book ,but still think this style of book is not for me.
Written by Charles C on August 27th, 2017
Enjoyable story. The person reading was fantastic. The characters really came to life.
Written by Bonnie Church on January 7th, 2016
Wonderful book! I would highly recommend this book!
Written by Holly on June 2nd, 2014
I love Neil Gaiman and although he is known to be an established children's author, I would always read his stories prior to letting a young reader venture in. This book is no exception. It is a bit difficult to follow in places and it is always a shame when Gaiman does not read his own work as he is exceptional at conveying he characters personalities, it was still well read and entertaining.
Neil Gaiman grew up in England and, although Jewish, attended Church of England schools, including Ardingly College, a boarding school in West Sussex (South of England). During the early 1980s he worked as a journalist and book reviewer. His first book was a biography of the band Duran Duran. He moved from England to his wife's hometown in the American midwest several years ago. He and his family now live in a renovated Victorian farmhouse where (he says) his hobbies are writing things down, hiding, and talking about himself in the third person. More about him and his books below.
A professional writer for more than twenty years, Neil Gaiman has been one of the top writers in modern comics, and is now a bestselling novelist. His work has appeared in translation in more than nineteen countries, and nearly all of his novels, graphic and otherwise, have been optioned for films. He is listed in the Dictionary of Literary Biography as one of the top ten living post-modern writers.
Gaiman was the creator/writer of the monthly cult DC Comics series, "Sandman," which won him nine Will Eisner Comic Industry Awards, including the award for best writer four times, and three Harvey Awards. "Sandman #19" took the 1991 World Fantasy Award for best short story, making it the first comic ever to be awarded a literary award.
His six-part fantastical TV series for the BBC, "Neverwhere," was broadcast in 1996. His novel, also called "Neverwhere," and set in the same strange underground world as the television series, was released in 1997; it appeared on a number of bestseller lists, including those of the Los Angeles Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Locus.
Stardust, an illustrated prose novel in four parts, began to appear from DC Comics in 1997. In 1999 Avon released the all-prose unillustrated version, which appeared on a number of bestseller lists, was selected by Publishers Weekly as one of the best books of the year, and was awarded the prestigious Mythopoeic Award as best novel for adults.
American Gods, a novel for adults, was published in 2001 and appeared on many best-of- the-year lists, was a New York Times bestseller in both hardcover and paperback, and won the Hugo, Nebula, SFX, Bram Stoker, and Locus Awards.
Coraline (2002), his first novel for children, was a New York Times and international bestseller, was nominated for the Prix Tam Tam, and won the Elizabeth Burr/Worzalla Award, the BSFA Award, the HUgo, the Nebula and the Bram Stoker Award.
2003 saw the publication of bestseller The Wolves in the Walls, a children's picture book, illustrated by Gaiman's longtime collaborator Dave McKean, which the New York Times named as one of the best illustrated books of the year; and the first Sandman graphic novel in seven years, Endless Nights, the first graphic novel to make the New York Times bestseller list.
In 2004, Gaiman published the a new graphic novel for Marvel called 1602, which was the best-selling comic of 2004, and 2005 saw the Sundance Film Festival premiere of "MirrorMask," a Jim Henson Company Production written by Gaiman and directed by McKean. A lavishly designed book containing the complete script, black and white storyboards, and full-color art from the film will be published by William Morrow in early 2005; a picture book for younger readers, also written by Gaiman and illustrated with art from the movie, will be published by HarperCollins Children's Books at a later date.
In Fall 2005, Anansi Boys, the follow-up to American Gods, was published.
Sir Terry Pratchett, the author of more than three dozen novels, is one of the world's best-selling and best-loved novelists writing in the English language. He wrote his first published story when he was 13 and his first novel, THE CARPET PEOPLE, when he was 17. His books have sold more than 85 million copies worldwide. In addition to his phenomenal--and phenomenally popular--Discworld series for adults, Terry is the multi-award-winning author several children's books. These include the books of the BROMELIAD TRILOGY (HarperCollins, 2003), as well as THE WEE FREE MEN (HarperCollins, 2003), A HAT FULL OF SKY (HarperCollins, 2004), WINTERSMITH (HarperCollins, 2006), I SHALL WEAR MIDNIGHT (HarperCollins, 2010), NATION (HarperCollins,2008)--a Michael L. Printz Honor Book, Boston Globe-Horn Book Award winner, and LA Times Book Prize for YA Literature winner--and DODGER (HarperCollins, 2012), for which he won his second Michael L. Printz Honor. He was awarded Britain's highest honor for a children's novel, the Carnegie Medal, for THE AMAZING MAURICE AND HIS EDUCATED RODENTS (HarperCollins, 2001). The recipient of several honorary doctorates, Sir Terry was knighted by Queen Elizabeth II in 2008 for his services to literature. And in 2011, he received the Margaret A. Edwards Award for Lasting Contributions to Young Adult Literature from the American Library Association. He passed away in 2015 from Alzheimer's Disease. Find out more about Terry at terrypratchettbooks.com and the Facebook page https//www.facebook.com/pratchett (610K fans).


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NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Melinda A. Kuykendall a/k/a Melinda Kuykendall; Board of Managers for the Hampshire...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Melinda A. Kuykendall a/k/a Melinda Kuykendall; Board of Managers for the Hampshire House Condominium c/o Hudson North Management; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 3, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Courtroom 200, White Plains, NY, 10601 on February 10, 2022 at 3:30PM, premises known as 30 Greenridge Avenue Unit 4F, White Plains, NY 10605. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of White Plains, County of Westchester, State of NY, Section 130.36 Block 1 Lots 2-34. Approximate amount of judgment $48,951.47 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 59768/2014. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Ninth Judicial District. Robert D. Ryan, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 22, 2021
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., Plaintiff, vs. ANDREA D'ACOSTA, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee's Report and Judgment of Fo...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER, MTGLQ INVESTORS, L.P., Plaintiff, vs. ANDREA D'ACOSTA, ET AL., Defendant(s). Pursuant to an Order Confirming Referee's Report and Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly filed on March 16, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Westchester County Courthouse, Courtroom 200, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, White Plains, NY on February 10, 2022 at 2:30 p.m., premises known as 213 Valentine Lane, Yonkers, NY 10705. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements thereon erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Yonkers, County of Westchester and State of New York, Section 1, Block 124 and Lot 77. Approximate amount of judgment is $632,946.82 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index # 67951/2018. Cash will not be accepted. COVID-19 safety protocols will be followed at the foreclosure sale. Jo-Ann Cambareri, Esq., Referee Knuckles, Komosinski & Manfro, LLP, 565 Taxter Road, Suite 590, Elmsford, NY 10523, Attorneys for Plaintiff 5055354
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Citibank, N.A., as owner trustee of New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2015-2, Plaintiff AGAINST Westchester County Public Administrator, as the Li...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Citibank, N.A., as owner trustee of New Residential Mortgage Loan Trust 2015-2, Plaintiff AGAINST Westchester County Public Administrator, as the Limited Administrator of the Estate of Gail Sahadeo a/k/a Gail M. Sahadeo; Omar Sahadeo; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated January 24, 2020 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Courtroom 200, White Plains, NY, 10601 on February 18, 2022 at 9:30AM, premises known as 468 South 4th Avenue Unit 104, Mount Vernon, NY 10550. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of Mount Vernon, County of Westchester, State of NY, Section 169.39 Block 3091 Lot 20.4. Approximate amount of judgment $132,900.22 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 50161/2018. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Ninth Judicial District. Michele L. Bermel, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: December 1, 2021
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT OF WESTCHESTER JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Melinda A. Kuykendall a/k/a Melinda Kuykendall; Board of Managers for the Hampshire House ...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT OF WESTCHESTER JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Melinda A. Kuykendall a/k/a Melinda Kuykendall; Board of Managers for the Hampshire House Condominium c/o Hudson North Management; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated October 3, 2016 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd., Courtroom 200, White Plains, NY, 10601 on February 10, 2022 at 3:30PM, premises known as 30 Greenridge Avenue Unit 4F, White Plains, NY 10605. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the City of White Plains, County of Westchester, State of NY, Section 130.36 Block 1 Lots 2-34. Approximate amount of judgment $48,951.47 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 59768/2014. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Ninth Judicial District. Robert D. Ryan, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 22, 2021 For sale information, please visit www.Auction.com or call (800) 280-2832 5067043
NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ROCKLAND DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, Plaintiff, v. SOKHOM SUM, et al, Defendant. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judg...
NOTICE OF SALE IN FORECLOSURE SUPREME COURT OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK COUNTY OF ROCKLAND DITECH FINANCIAL LLC, Plaintiff, v. SOKHOM SUM, et al, Defendant. PLEASE TAKE NOTICE THAT In pursuance of a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale entered in the office of the County Clerk of Rockland County on October 15, 2021, I, David Castagna, Esq. the Referee named in said Judgment, will sell in one parcel at public auction on February 15, 2022 at The Rockland County Courthouse in the Landing above the Vestibule between Courtrooms One and Two, 1 S. Main Street, New City, County of Rockland, State of New York, at 11:30 AM the premises described as follows: 407 Willow Grove Road Stony Point, NY 10980 SBL No.: 19.01-2-23 ALL THAT TRACT OR PARCEL OF LAND situate in Willow Grove, Town of Stony Point, County of Rockland, State of New York. The premises are sold subject to the provisions of the filed judgment, Index No. 031863/2018 in the amount of $316,815.39 plus interest and costs. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the Court System's COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Brettanie L. Hart Saxton Woods Oviatt Gilman LLP Plaintiff's Attorney 500 Bausch & Lomb Place Rochester, NY 14604 Tel.: 855-227-5072 70459 0005079102
NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, WESTCHESTER County. KONDAUR CAPITAL CORPORATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE OF MATAWIN VENTU...
NOTICE OF SALE PUBLIC AUCTION Supreme Court of New York, WESTCHESTER County. KONDAUR CAPITAL CORPORATION, NOT IN ITS INDIVIDUAL CAPACITY BUT SOLELY IN ITS CAPACITY AS SEPARATE TRUSTEE OF MATAWIN VENTURES TRUST SERIES 2019-4, Plaintiff, -against- JANISEE MACK; HORACE MACK; BARBARA MACK; JARED YOUNG; JALA YOUNG; JOSEPH YOUNG, Index No. 65275/2019. Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated November 9, 2021 and entered with the Westchester County Clerk on November 16, 2021, Linda Markowitz, Esq., the Appointed Referee, will sell the premises known as 157 West 2nd Street, Mount Vernon, New York 10550 at public auction at the Westchester County Supreme Court, Courtroom 200, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, White Plains, New York 10601, on February 10, 2022 at 11:30 A.M. All that certain plot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being in the City of Mount Vernon, County of Westchester and State of New York known as Section: 165.77; Block: 3022; Lot: 20 will be sold subject to the provisions of filed Judgment, Index No. 65275/2019. The approximate amount of judgment is $429,184.75 plus interest and costs. FRIEDMAN VARTOLO LLP 85 Broad Street, Suite 501, New York, New York 10004, Attorneys for Plaintiff. 0005030275
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ROCKLAND JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Thomas Newcomb a/k/a Thomas C. Newcomb; Gail Newcomb a/k/a Gail S. Newcomb, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judg...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ROCKLAND JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Plaintiff AGAINST Thomas Newcomb a/k/a Thomas C. Newcomb; Gail Newcomb a/k/a Gail S. Newcomb, Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated June 24, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the landing above the vestibule between Courtrooms One and Two, in the Rockland County Courthouse, 1 S. Main St, New City, NY 10956 on February 15, 2022 at 10:30AM, premises known as 20 Brewster Avenue, Stony Point, NY 10980. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Stony Point, County of Rockland, State of New York, Section 15.20 Block 1 Lot 38 fka Section 23/ Block 121 Lot 1.1. Approximate amount of judgment $190,028.54 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 033107/2017. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Ninth Judicial District. Mitchell Canter, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: November 18, 2021 70283 0005078804
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ROCKLAND JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Giuseppe Colucci a/k/a Guiseppe Colucci; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of For...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF ROCKLAND JPMorgan Chase Bank, National Association, Plaintiff AGAINST Giuseppe Colucci a/k/a Guiseppe Colucci; et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 1, 2021 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Rockland County Courthouse in the landing above the vestibule between Courtrooms One and Two, 1 South Main Street, New City, NY10956 on February 7, 2022 at 9:30AM, premises known as 17 Dale Road, Airmont, NY 10952. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of Airmont, Town of Ramapo, County of Rockland, State of New York, Section 61.12 Block 2 Lot 76. Approximate amount of judgment $164,941.15 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index# 035558/2019. The auction will be conducted pursuant to the COVID-19 Policies Concerning Public Auctions of Foreclosed Property established by the Ninth Judicial District. Steven L. Abel, Esq., Referee LOGS Legal Group LLP f/k/a Shapiro, DiCaro & Barak, LLC Attorney(s) for the Plaintiff 175 Mile Crossing Boulevard Rochester, New York 14624 (877) 430-4792 Dated: December 17, 2021 70463 5066656
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR CMLTI ASSET TRUST, Plaintiff AGAINST JOHN D. ROESSER, ALLISON M. ROESSER AKA ALLISON ROESSER, et al., Defendant(s) Pur...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER CITIBANK, N.A., AS TRUSTEE FOR CMLTI ASSET TRUST, Plaintiff AGAINST JOHN D. ROESSER, ALLISON M. ROESSER AKA ALLISON ROESSER, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly dated December 19, 2019 I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the County Courthouse, Courtroom 200, 111 Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard, City of White Plains, on February 04, 2022 at 2:30PM, premises known as 7 LOOKOUT AVENUE, BRONXVILLE, NY 10708. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Village of BRONXVILLE, Town of Eastchester, County of Westchester and State of New York, Section 12, Block 3, Lot 8b/8c. Approximate amount of judgment $1,405,728.94 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment for Index# 51623/2019. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the Court System's COVID-19 mitigation protocols and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. JODI ANN MOSIELLO, Referee Gross Polowy, LLC Attorney for Plaintiff 1775 Wehrle Drive, Suite 100 Williamsville, NY 14221 70234 0005067837
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company, Plaintiff AGAINST The Estate of Alfonso Orr, Jr a/k/a Alfonso Orr, et al., Defendant(s) Purs...
NOTICE OF SALE SUPREME COURT COUNTY OF WESTCHESTER Nationstar Mortgage LLC d/b/a Champion Mortgage Company, Plaintiff AGAINST The Estate of Alfonso Orr, Jr a/k/a Alfonso Orr, et al., Defendant(s) Pursuant to a Judgment of Foreclosure and Sale duly entered February 04, 2020, I, the undersigned Referee will sell at public auction at the Westchester County Courthouse, 111 Dr. Martin Luther Kings, Jr., Blvd, Courtroom 200, White Plains, NY 10601 on February 18, 2022 at 11:30AM, premises known as 2 North Road, White Plains, NY 10603. All that certain plot piece or parcel of land, with the buildings and improvements erected, situate, lying and being in the Town of Greenburgh, County of Westchester and State of New York, SECTION: 7.280, BLOCK: 137, LOT: 1. Approximate amount of judgment $561,975.37 plus interest and costs. Premises will be sold subject to provisions of filed Judgment Index #51479/2018. The aforementioned auction will be conducted in accordance with the WESTCHESTER County COVID-19 Protocols located on the Office of Court Administration (OCA) website (https://ww2.nycourts.gov/Admin/oca.shtml) and as such all persons must comply with social distancing, wearing masks and screening practices in effect at the time of this foreclosure sale. Barry Salman, Esq., Referee Frenkel Lambert Weiss Weisman & Gordon, LLP 53 Gibson Street Bay Shore, NY 11706 01-081978-F00 70358


Pressure cooking has come a long way since the days of intimidating pots with noisy, steaming gaskets sputtering away on the lid. Today's pressure cookers are safer, quieter and more versatile than the vintage models of yesteryear. Braised Ribs in an hour? Yes, it's possible with a pressure cooker!
Pressure cooking is cooking food in a specialized sealed vessel with liquid. As the foods and liquid are heated inside the sealed pressure cooker, steam builds up and creates pressure inside the pot. Because the pot is closed, the temperature of the steam can rise (in an open pot steam never gets hotter than 212°F.) which, in turn, causes foods to cook more quickly.
Pressure cookers range in size from 6-qt. to 8-qt. Our recommendation is one that's on the larger side—you can't cook large amounts of food in a small pot, but you can cook small amounts in a large pot.
When buying a pressure cooker, pay attention to the thickness and width of the heavy metal plate at the base of the pot. Thicker plates will conduct heat better and more quickly, and help to maintain pressure inside the pot. This disk also makes the cooker heavier than a typical stovetop pot.
Look for pressure cookers that have an easy-to-latch lid with gauges that are accessible and readable when the pot is at high pressure. Designs vary from manufacturer, but the best include pressure valves on top of the lid that pop out and are visible from several feet away.
Season the beef with salt and pepper. Heat 1 Tbsp. oil in the pot of the pressure cooker over medium-high heat.
Add the roast and brown well on both sides – the metal disk on the bottom of the pressure cooker pot will heat quickly and will stay hot, so keep an eye on the roast to prevent scorching. Once the roast is brown, remove it from the pot.
Bring the pot to high pressure over medium-high heat. When at high pressure, reduce the heat to medium or medium-low (stovetop burners vary in intensity) and cook for the time recommended in the recipe – a 3-lb. beef roast will require 45 to 55 min. of cooking. Begin timing once the pot reaches high pressure.
Check the meat for doneness. If it requires more cooking, return the pot to the stove and let it simmer until it's done to your liking. If the meat is cooked properly, carefully transfer it to a serving platter. Taste the sauce – if it seems watery in texture and flavor, reduce it over high heat to concentrate its flavors.
If you're new to pressure cooking you'll undoubtedly run into some questions as you get accustomed to the appliance and the procedure. Here are some tips and troubleshooting techniques that may help.
Familiarize yourself with all the parts and pieces of your pressure cooker by reading the manufacturer's instructions before cooking anything.
Be prepared to adjust your stove's burners as needed in order to maintain the adequate temperature. All stoves and pressure cookers vary in their performance which will affect how each performs.
Clean the cooker's vents and valves well after each use – they can often become coated with cooking residue and affect the functionality of your cooker.


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package fi.csc.microarray.databeans.features;

import java.util.Iterator;

import fi.csc.microarray.exception.MicroarrayException;

public abstract class FeatureBase implements Feature {

	public String asString() throws MicroarrayException {
		Iterator<String> strings = asStrings().iterator();
		String string = strings.next();
		if (strings.hasNext()) {
			throw new IllegalStateException("more than one string was returned");
		}
		return string;
	}

	public Float asFloat() throws MicroarrayException {
		Iterator<Float> floats = asFloats().iterator();
		Float floatValue = floats.next();
		if (floats.hasNext()) {
			throw new IllegalStateException("more than one float was returned");
		}
		return floatValue;
	}

}

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How Old is America?
The question, "How old is America?" could have several answers. The first answer refers back to when the indigenous people first settled the land that is now known as America. The second answer refers to when America gained its freedom from the British and became known as the United States of America. The United States of America was founded in 1776, making the country 243 years old as of 2019.
The earliest history of what is now America occurred when the land was settled by indigenous people before 15,000 B.C. It is not known exactly when it was first settled, but it is believed that people migrated rom Eurasia through the Beringia land bridge before settling throughout the Americas. It is believed that this settlement could have begun as many as 30,000 years ago. Migration is thought to have continued through the land bridge until about 10,000 years ago when it was submerged by rising sea levels.
The original inhabitants were known as Paleoamericans and were part of hundreds of nations and tribes. As time passed, the Native Americans continued to inhabitant the land and many distinct cultures were formed. This continued through the 15th century, which brought Christopher Columbus to the land and marked the beginning of European colonization.
However, it wasn't until after European exploration when the first English settlement was established in the early 17th century. During this time, Europeans brought over many things to the Americas, including horses and cattle. They also brought back goods from America including potatoes, tobacco and other crops. Early settlers and explorers died after being exposed to diseases of the Americas. However, things were worse for the Native Americans, who were exposed to Eurasian diseases and died in large numbers.
The first successful colony was Jamestown, which was established in what is now Virginia. Throughout these early years, the thirteen colonies were established. The Georgia Colony was the last to be established in 1733.
It was in the last 18th century when the colonies launched the American Revolution. This was a rebellion against the British. Prior to the American Revolution, tensions were growing between the colonists and the British, primarily over the British's imposition of more taxes and exercising more control. One year after the rebellion began, the colonies declared themselves independent of Britain and named themselves the United States of America. The Revolutionary War continued on through 1783. However, the adoption of the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776 was the day that the United States of America came to be. This is why Independence Day is celebrated every year on July 4, in celebration of the birth of America.


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Vote! Vote! Vote! As a way of democratizing sports, the All-Star Game voting has been layered into a Primary - Finalist setup, giving MLB an actual Election Day.
As part of a series of rule changes jointly announced by Major League Baseball and the MLB Players' Association on Thursday, the All-Star Game fan voting process will be overhauled, beginning this year. The traditional process of fans choosing from a ballot of club-nominated players at each position will now be a Primary Round. The top three vote-getters at each position from that round (top six for outfielders) will then advance to an single-day vote that will determine the All-Star Game starters.
That day will take place in late June or early July for a prescribed time period.
Because nothing says "the thrill of victory, the agony of defeat" like ballot box stuffing. Of course, we're certainly hopeful that Buster Posey is able to make it past the Primary Round. Major League Baseball and the MLBPA also want you to know that they value your time — beginning with this year's All-Star Game, the new runner at second base to begin an extra inning rule will take effect.
I don't think I've ever read anywhere Rob Manfred's preferred version of a Major League Baseball game. I'm sure if he was forced to give a five minute statement describing how he'd like to see a game play out — including his preferred length of time — we would be reacting as though we were witnessing a snuff film.
It's not a stretch to assume that the people who own and manage the things we like don't actually like the things they own and manage in the way that we like them. They like them because the thing(s) furnishes their lifestyles — the thing is a part of ours.
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GONDAN DELIVERS ADVANCED TRAWLER TO NORWAY
Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondan has handed over its latest newbuild, a freezing stern trawler, to Norwegian company Engenes Fiskeriselskap, for whom it will operate in Northern Atlantic and Arctic waters.
This new vessel, designed by Kongsberg Maritime – in charge also of supplying the main equipment – has a length of 69.9m and a beam of 16m. Built in steel with aluminium superstructure, the stern trawler, named Magne Arvesen, will operate mainly in Northern Atlantic, Barents Sea and Svalbard waters. With accommodation for 29 people, the trawler will be equipped with automated fish processing equipment and a freezing hold capacity of 1400m3. The vessel is classified by the DNV and is Ice class certified.
The global situation generated as a result of the Covid-19 pandemic has represented a challenge for the company, which managed to successfully achieve the fulfilment of the contract, and moving forward in compliance with all regulations, despite the difficulties.
After the delivery of the Sunderøy, Magne Arvesen is the second freezer trawler that Gondan has delivered in the last six months, thus positioning itself as a reference in advanced vessels for the Norwegian fishing industry.
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Poundworld to disappear from High Street
Administrators Deloitte announce final set of store closures
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Poundworld fells into administration on June 11 (Image: David Powell)
Poundworld will disappear from the high street next month after its administrators announced the chain's final set of store closures.
Deloitte has said all of Poundworld's stores will likely close by August 10, affecting 2,339 staff.
Poundworld to close a further 40 stores
The budget retailer is also closing its warehouse and distribution network, the Press Association understands, alongside its head office in Normanton, West Yorkshire, leading to the loss of 300 jobs.
Administrators have announced the closure of 145 Poundworld stores already.
Poundworld fell into administration on June 11, putting more than 5,100 jobs at risk across its 335-store portfolio.
Deloitte has been announcing tranches of store closures over the past two weeks after failing to find a buyer for the whole business.
Clare Boardman, joint administrator at Deloitte, said: "We would like to thank all the employees for their continued support and commitment during this difficult time. We are keeping staff appraised of developments as they happen."
The administrators are still in talks with some interested parties about selling parts of the remaining business, but hopes of saving a significant number of jobs has faded.
Deloitte has turned down a bid from company founder Chris Edwards, who was looking to save a raft of stores and safeguard around 3,000 jobs.
The founder of rival Poundland, Steven Smith, has also been linked to a bid to salvage part of Poundworld out of administration.
The collapse came amid decreasing footfall, rising costs and weak consumer confidence.
The budget retail chain, formerly owned by TPG Capital, is one of a number of retailers to call in administrators this year, with Toys R Us and Maplin disappearing from UK high streets.
Poundworld 'set to go into administration'
The Gaucho restaurant group also fell into administration on Thursday, with the Cau chain being closed immediately, leading to the loss of 540 jobs.


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VP of Allegro MicroSystems
Christopher E. Brown has served as our Senior Vice President, General Counsel and Assistant Secretary since he joined Allegro in May 2020. Prior to joining Allegro, he served as Executive Vice President and Chief Counsel of Finisar Corp., a manufacturer of components for optical networking and consumer 3D sensing applications. Mr. Brown also served as the General Counsel of Optium Corporation and a partner at the law firms of Goodwin Procter LLP and McDermott Will & Emery LLP. Chris received a B.A. in Economics from the University of Massachusetts-Amherst and a J.D. from Boston College Law School.
What is Christopher Brown's net worth?
The estimated net worth of Christopher Brown is at least $4.68 million as of May 27th, 2021. Mr. Brown owns 173,370 shares of Allegro MicroSystems stock worth more than $4,679,256 as of January 20th. This net worth evaluation does not reflect any other assets that Mr. Brown may own. Learn More.
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Mr. Brown is currently 54 years old. There are 7 older executives and no younger executives at Allegro MicroSystems. The oldest executive at Allegro MicroSystems is Mr. Steven Miles, VP of Technology Devel., who is 73 years old. Learn More.
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Has Christopher Brown been buying or selling shares of Allegro MicroSystems?
Christopher Brown has not been actively trading shares of Allegro MicroSystems over the course of the past ninety days. Most recently, Christopher Brown sold 26,250 shares of the business's stock in a transaction on Thursday, May 27th. The shares were sold at an average price of $26.63, for a transaction totalling $699,037.50. Following the completion of the sale, the vice president now directly owns 173,370 shares of the company's stock, valued at $4,616,843.10.
Who are Allegro MicroSystems' active insiders?
Allegro MicroSystems' insider roster includes Christopher Brown (VP), Michael Doogue (SVP), Noriharu Fujita (Director), Richard Lury (Director), Joseph Martin (Director), Thomas Teebagy Jr. (SVP), Ravi Vig (CEO), Paul Walsh Jr (CFO), and Paul Walsh, Jr. (CFO).
Are insiders buying or selling shares of Allegro MicroSystems?
In the last year, insiders at the sold shares 48 times. They sold a total of 23,582,998 shares worth more than $697,926,318.09. The most recent insider tranaction occured on December, 27th when SVP Thomas C Jr. Teebagy sold 5,000 shares worth more than $173,050.00. Insiders at Allegro MicroSystems own 26.9 % of the company.
Christopher Brown Insider Trading History at Allegro MicroSystems
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Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. designs, develops, manufactures, and markets sensor integrated circuits (ICs) and application-specific analog power ICs for motion control and energy-efficient systems. Its products include magnetic sensor ICs, such as position, speed, and current sensor ICs; and power ICs comprising motor driver ICs, and regulator and LED driver ICs, as well as photonic and 3D sensing components, including photodiodes, eye-safe lasers and rangefinders, and readout ICs for LiDAR applications. The company sells its products to original equipment manufacturers and suppliers primarily in the automotive and industrial markets through its direct sales force, third party distributors, independent sales representatives, and consignment. It operates in the United States, rest of the Americas, Europe, Japan, Greater China, South Korea, and other Asian markets. The company was incorporated in 1990 and is headquartered in Manchester, New Hampshire. Allegro MicroSystems, Inc. is a subsidiary of Sanken Electric Co., Ltd.


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City council toughens rules for landlords
By Emily MathieuInvestigative News reporter
Wed., Dec. 14, 2016timer5 min. read
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Tougher rules for landlords and better protections for tenants could be in place by next summer, following the approval of a new bylaw for rental apartments.
The new rules, accepted by city council on Wednesday, will require property owners to register with the city, have a comprehensive pest management plan that includes licensed professionals, use licensed contractors for all repairs and have a state of good repair capital plan.
It will also result in a process to track tenant complaints and the creation of hard targets for city staff and landlords to ensure issues are identified and resolved.
City staff will collect information from 3,500 buildings — or all buildings with three or more stories and ten or more units — and containing roughly 350,000 rental units. In Toronto, council heard, roughly half of the city lives in rental homes.
"This demonstrates that Toronto councillors as a whole recognize that tenants need us to take substantive action to make sure that they are better protected," Councillor Josh Matlow told the Star after the vote.
"For far too long, too many landlords have been able to keep their buildings in disrepair, leaving renters in shameful conditions without as much accountability and consequences as we need. We have taken a stand today."
The program is expected to cost about $5 million, with 53 per cent of the money expected to be recovered from an annual landlord registration fee, costing $10.60 for each unit, 12 per cent from enforcement action, and 35 per cent from property taxes.
The protections will extend to all Toronto Community Housing buildings, but the money will come from privately owned properties.
If the funding plan is adopted through the upcoming budget process it would also mean 12 new full-time staff members working in inspection and bylaw enforcement, on top of a staff of 24.
The proposal includes the potential creation of a ranking system for rental buildings. The ratings could be similar to the city's DineSafe program, and consist of a colour-graded sign with a rank, for example, A through F, Pass or Fail, to be posted in the lobby.
City staff will have until March to craft a draft bylaw, and aim to include the recommended staffing levels and program costs as part of 2017 budget discussions and then launch the program by next summer.
The number of new hires and the direction to city staff to move forward with the exploration on the feasibility of the ranking system came in the form of two motions introduced during debate and represent substantial victories both for councillors pressing for strict and swift enforcement and for tenants groups who had long called for more accountability for landlords.
The original proposal presented to council recommended six new hires and examining whether a ranking system was feasible, but only after the program had launched. It had also proposed a slightly lower cost to landlords, or an annual fee of $8 per unit. The amended program, council heard, will still result in a net savings in staff's 2017 budget and most of the costs will be recovered through enforcement.
Tenant advocacy group ACORN had also pushed for the city to boost the number of new hires and move quickly towards the visible ranking system.
"We are thrilled that city councillors are on our side and we look forward to being able to show the condition of all apartment buildings in Toronto," said spokesperson and Weston chairperson Laurie Simpson, following the vote.
ACORN has also called for more tenant outreach, or public education. The new regime requires landlords to install a notification board in a central area.
Part of the process will involve staff reporting back on proposed policies and procedures that could give city staff stronger tools to track and penalize bad landlords.
Councillor Janet Davis, speaking to the Star, called the creation of a new bylaw "groundbreaking" and said the regulations will be a "framework for a very comprehensive approach to improving the quality, maintenance and cleanliness of buildings in the city of Toronto."
Davis said the biggest complaint she hears from tenants is that landlords are ordered to make repairs, but the process drags on and on with no guaranteed result.
"What this program does is it puts in place a number of pieces and a number of approaches to put a full court press on to a landlord that is not keeping their building in good repair," she said.
Council will also request that the province amend the building code act, or any other relevant legislation, to authorize the city to establish a penalty system for property standards violations and introduce regulations that would exempt the fee from eligibility for an above-guideline rent increase.
During the debate Councillor Stephen Holyday introduced a motion recommending that council not ask the province to craft regulations that would exempt the fee or, as he clarified when questioned, would allow landlords to pass the cost on to tenants. The motion didn't pass.
A considerable part of the long debate leading up to Wednesday's decision was whether the cost would be passed on to tenants, or if it was misleading to describe the fee as a tax.
At a meeting before the city's Licensing and Standards Committee in late November, Daryl Chong, president and chief executive officer of the Greater Toronto Apartment Association, maintained that the city's existing inspection tools, coupled with provincial legislation are sufficient to hold landlords accountable. He also said the fee would be passed on to tenants.
Councillor Matlow slammed Chong for "misleading rhetoric" and pushed him to acknowledge that ultimately landlords, not the city, would decide if the fee is passed on.
When asked to weigh in, the city's lawyer agreed there are "limited avenues" for the fee, which he clarified is not a tax, to be passed on to tenants and that the provincial rules surrounding that are very clear.
When the discussions over the new regulations began, city staff had been tasked to evaluate the value of a licensing system, but determined tougher regulations would be enough to protect renters.


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Defaulting to Grace
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January 3, 2020 January 22, 2020 / mrsloomisPhD
He stands at the window, looking as far in the distance as his aging eyes can see. The roads twists away to his left, toward a trade route that branches out in all the directions of the wind. As always, the road is empty in this early morning hour, just before the sun breaks the horizon behind him and long shadows begin to darken the road as he looks on. He bows his head and whispers, "blessed is he who is the true judge" before turning away from the view of the empty road and beginning the work of the day.
The story of the Prodigal Son (Luke 15:11-32) may be one of the most familiar of Jesus' parables. It has been represented in art, film, stage, music, television, and literature. Some scholars have argued that Rambrant's "Return of the Prodigal Son" may be the greatest painting of all time (Gregory, 2019; Welton, 2018), not just because it is a technical masterpiece, but also because it evokes feelings of grace and forgiveness like few other paintings do. The story is consistently listed in "top ten" parables on both sacred and secular websites. It is a story about a father, his two sons, and the consequences of repentance and forgiveness.
As literature, the younger son is the most fleshed out of the characters, which is why we know the story as The Prodigal Son. He is young, reckless, demanding, and spoiled, but he learns that his life choices lead to disaster, and he humbly returns home, willing to be a slave to his father. The elder son is also rounded out enough to be recognizable as the person who dutifully checks all the boxes of expectation. His flaw is in his assumption that checking all the boxes is enough to earn his father's love. When the prodigal returns home, this elder brother is aghast at how the father receives the younger. He is indignant, and even envious of the father's lavish forgiveness.
The father is humanized in his response to the sons: rejoicing at the return of the younger, and reasoning against the anger of the elder. There is no doubt that he loves both sons and wants his family to be unified.
What is missing from the story is the father's life between the prodigal's leaving and his return. The younger son's exploits are described by Jesus as reckless living and extravagance until the money ran out, the friends disappeared, and the only job for which the son was qualified was maintaining pens of pigs. The elder son tells his own story, reminding his father that he had worked hard the whole time the younger was gone and that he had foregone even the smallest entertainment in order to ensure all the work was done. The father, however, has no such explication of his activities, thoughts, or worries during the time his younger son was absent.
When I was rereading the story, one verse jumped out at me: " 20 And he arose and came to his father. But while he was still a long way off, his father saw him and felt compassion, and ran and embraced him and kissed him." I've read and heard this parable dozens of times, but when thinking about how the Church can respond to parents, I stopped at the phrase, "while he was still a long way off." The only way the father could have seen the son from a distance was if he had been watching for him.
Watching and waiting. Like so many people whose children have wandered away from the principles their parents instilled in them, this father continued to watch the road for his son's return long after everyone else had given him up for dead. There's no indication exactly how long the son had been gone, but it was multiple years (verse 29). Still, the father watched for his son's return, ever hopeful that his prayers would be answered.
This is the challenge for parents who live with children who leave the faith. They cling to the promises that God will redeem those who placed their trust in Him, and that those whom they had trained in the path of God's will will ultimately return to it. As the year pass, the prayers for restoration get lonelier. It becomes harder and harder to share with other believers the grief of a child who is absent in spirit because there is no quick answer or visible return-on-investment for the prayer of reconciliation. Over time, the friends who prayed fervently when the child first left the faith family stop talking about the subject, partly because they run out of platitudes and they don't know what to say or do. Other times parents are judged for the wandering of the children; they must have done something wrong for the child to walk away from the faith. The solitary father in the parable watched and waited for years. There is no mention of a wife, friend, or even another child to share the pain of watching an empty road. Likewise, parents of modern prodigals face a lonely vigil as the years pass without a joyful reconciliation. The question for our time is this: how can the community of believers come alongside the lonely without judgement, pity, or unsolicited advice?
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I am an accidental artist.
I am an on-purpose teacher.
I was terrible at art when I was in school. and I said more times than I can count, "I will NEVER be a teacher." God, in His divine sense of humor, has made sure I am now both artist and teacher.
Thirty years after earning my first teaching credential I earned a Ph.D. in teaching and learning, majoring in language and literacy. I still work to creatively merge art as text into my research.
I am passionate about my Lord, my family, my dogs, music, and naps. I love photography, digital art, running, and just BEING. God is good, and I am blessed.