Well not really but kind of; he writes, "I suppose this question comes from observations and experiences attending coffee events, festivals, workshops, panel discussions and competitions in the past. These events seemingly try to involve public participation and interest but are often self-serving, insular, solipsistic, fraught with industry jargon and/or issues that concern only the specialty coffee community. Consequently, coffee events tend to, in my discussions with non-industry people, have the opposite effect in that they perpetuate a public perception of our industry as pretentious and obscure while reducing our community involvement." So coffee, you jerk, what is wrong with you?
There is no shortage of stereotypes when it comes to the third-wave coffee shops: too-cool customers glaring at you for encroaching on their turf, feeling rushed as you order from an intimidating and opaque menu of drinks, and dude-heavy staff making you feel outside of their seemingly closed, personal worlds. It is sadly out-of-step with the history of cafes as social community hubs and dynamic public spaces. And I think that Derek describes a tension originating in this rift: third wave shops want that sense of vitality and outreach, yet there is ghostly specter obstructing the way and always chilling the connection to a non-specialty public.
To borrow from a previous dispatch, the first-wave is functional consumption (caffeine), the second is enjoyment of a drink (java house whipped toppings), and the third is about appreciation of the coffee from bean to cup (specialty). This progression relies on a value proposition: you pay more for coffee. Farmers, producers, as well as the work-force behind picking, processing, and shipping get higher wages for their labour. Because quality increases, roasters can purposely roast lighter. By way of precision and technique, roasters unlock the unique and sweet tastes inherent to the green, rather than using char or scorch to cover crummy flavours. The cafe then becomes the stage to showcase the possibilities for the cup with no bit players: well-sourced milk, steamed for sweetness and proper density, served in beautiful ceramics, beside artisanal pastries, and – sometimes – with a classic hip-hop soundtrack.
All great things, right? So how does this fall apart into the "self-serving, insular, solipsistic" mess described by Derek? I would argue the value proposition is a difficult sell. On one hand, there is a 'welcome home' sign that offers a massive cup (with built-in rollable lottery ticket) that mixes a familiar medley of bitter, creamy, and sweet; on the other hand, there is a sterile mix of white subway tile and reclaimed wood, which demands five dollars for a lukewarm milk swan drowning in grassy and pithy espresso. I exaggerate but the reason coffee should be expensive is a mouthful and our model for service certainly does little to translate or communicate it to guests. Somewhere in the breaking crests of the third wave, the core message message is lost at sea.
To make matter worse, the precarious nature of a quality-based up-sell often means low margins and unstable work. To be a successful barista one must out-perform their team. Pull better shots, pour more intricate art, or know more about coffee. We have to fight to gain prominence to ensure tips, shifts, and ultimately a living wage. The battle is internal and systemic: the lone individual who cultivates visibility ensures their employment.
This is the Janus-faced monster mask that we all wear. On one side, we become self-righteous and indignant to coffee-drinkers who should pay more because the intuitions we work for fail to do so. We continually make technical and design advancements but do little refocus our spaces and places around the environmental, social, and political stakes of origin. Then on the other side, this mask bares its teeth and takes aim at our colleagues with the hopes of garnering a living wage and, gasp, some kind of future in a purported growth industry. We act and operate in constant direct competition. No wonder we socialize through latte throw downs, barista competitions, and ruthless cuppings. We rank and judge, rather than organize and cooperate.
Ultimately, what Derek has identified is one of the many ugly consequences of inequality. No philosophical or literary affirmations here, just a call to do better, support each other more, and to never lose sight of the value of coffee – at each and every link in the chain. Oh! And if you are not the industry, come to more events. They are super fun, I swear 😉.
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Fighting over a stolen herd by Frederic Remington.
The image was included in an August 1895 Harper's magazine article entitled, "Cracker Cowboys of Florida."
Presenter: Dave Southall
With the removal of the aboriginal population and later the Seminole people, vast herds of cattle, descendants of the Andalusian breeds brought by the Spanish in the 16th century, roamed wild across central Florida. These cattle herds provided an important contribution to the Confederate cause during the Civil War feeding both the Southern Army and many Southern Cities after the fall of Vicksburg in 1863. Once the war was over, "Cow Hunting" was one of the few ways to survive on the frontier. Reconstruction era Florida offered few opportunities to returning Confederate veterans. Former cattlemen and ranchers tried to resume their operations despite the upheaval created by "Yankee Reconstruction." Open range, unclaimed herds of long-horn cattle, and the lawless frontier created Cattle Barons, Carpet Baggers, wide-open cow towns, rustlers, and a new breed of tough cow-men who weren't afraid to use a gun to settle disagreements. Learn about the characters and times that rivaled Dodge City and the "wild west."
David Southall is a graduate of Paul Smiths College of Forestry and the State University of New York at Buffalo with degrees in Science and Education. Following a tour of duty in Vietnam, he obtained his MS in Plant Biology from Cornell University. In his early career Southall was founder/CEO of a nursery, landscape, greenhouse operation and a natural areas management company specializing in wetlands restoration and mitigation, wildlife management, and invasive species control. He retired after 14 years with the Collier County Museums where he was responsible for museum programs and living history events.


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Why Killing Vampire Bats Doesn't Stop Rabies
By Denise Chow 2013-12-02T20:44:36Z
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Controlling the population of vampire bats by using poison or even explosives has been a decades-old way of trying to curb the spread of rabies in Latin America, but new research suggests culling these bat colonies does little to stem the deadly virus.
Scientists from the University of Michigan, in Ann Arbor, and the University of Georgia, in Athens, combined results from a long-term vampire bat field study, research on captive vampire bats and computer models of rabies transmission, and found that culling bat populations does not stop the rabies virus. In some cases, the researchers found, controlling bat colonies may actually increase the spread of rabies by provoking infected bats to seek refuge in other, nearby colonies.
Last year, the researchers published findings from their field study that demonstrated the size of bat colonies did not predict the prevalence of rabies, indicating efforts to cull these populations of bats had not reduced transmission of the viral disease. [10 Deadly Diseases That Hopped Across Species]
"In the current paper […] we fit models that encompass alternative assumptions regarding this system, and we identify an important role of movement between colonies," the study's senior author Pejman Rohani, an ecologist and epidemiologist at the University of Michigan, said in a statement.
Vampire bat bites
Vampire bats, which are native to Central and South America, are known to carry the rabies virus. Each year, these bats cause thousands of livestock deaths, and occasionally a few human fatalities. In 2010, for instance, vampire bat bites killed four children in a remote Amazonian region of Peru.
Worldwide, more than 55,000 humans succumb to rabies infections each year, according to the World Health Organization. More than 95 percent of human deaths from rabies occur in Asia and Africa, where dogs are the primary source of the infections.
Since the 1960s, bats have been killed in order to slow the spread of the virus, but these efforts have largely failed, the researchers said.
Interconnected bat colonies
To develop more effective ways of controlling the spread of rabies, Rohani and colleagues created four mathematical models of rabies transmission, each representing a different hypothesis for the biology of the rabies infection in a bat colony.
The models were tested using data from a field study of rabies exposures in wild bats across Peru. The study tracked transmission rates in a common type of vampire bat, Desmodus rotundus, from 17 colonies in four regions of Peru from 2007 to 2010.
After running thousands of computer simulations, the researchers observed that in most cases, it was the frequent movement of infected bats between neighboring colonies — rather than a single, isolated colony of vampire bats harboring the virus — that could account for the level of rabies transmissions seen in the field study.
These results suggest current culling practices, which are largely reactive and nondiscriminatory, likely do little to stop the spread of rabies, the researchers said. Rather, controlling populations of vampire bats and rabies spread in Latin America requires meticulous geographic coordination, particularly because bat colonies that appeared to be isolated turned out to be more interconnected than was previously thought, the researchers said.
"While programs targeting specific colonies may limit local spillover from bats to humans or domestic animals, regional viral persistence will likely remain unaffected due to high connectivity between bat colonies," Rohani said in a statement. "Moreover, if culling increases movement due to freeing up space or disturbance-mediated dispersal, culling could, perversely, have the opposite of the intended effect on rabies transmission."
The detailed findings of the study were published today (Dec. 2) in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
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Roku to lay off 200 US employees as consumer and ad spending wanes
News Analysis Jeff Baumgartner, Senior Editor, Light Reading 11/17/2022
Roku is the latest company in the tech sector to spark layoffs, announcing Thursday that it will cut about 200 jobs in the US, or about 5% of its workforce.
"Due to the current economic conditions in our industry, we have made the difficult decision to reduce Roku's headcount expenses by a projected 5%, to slow down our OpEx growth rate," the company said in a statement. "This will affect approximately 200 employee positions in the US."
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Roku estimates that the decision will incur non-recurring charges of $28 million to $31 million, with most of them to be incurred in Q4 2022, according to an SEC filing.
The reduction, Roku added, will enable it to invest in "key strategic priorities to drive future growth and enhance our leadership position."
Roku didn't elaborate on what those priorities entail. But the company, known for its platform for smart TVs and streaming players and its ad-supported The Roku Channel, recently launched a smart home product line that includes security cameras, video doorbells and connected lights. In addition to selling the hardware, Roku is also selling monthly and annual subscription options for its smart home lineup.
Sluggish ad market
The job reduction at Roku enters the picture as the company faces slowing growth amid warnings from the financial community that Roku is facing headwinds in its distribution business.
Roku's Platform business, which focuses on advertising, content and OS licensing, generated Q3 2022 revenues of $670 million, up 15% year-over-year (YoY), but down from the $673.2 million on a sequential basis. Player revenues came in at $91 million, down 7% YoY. Roku added 2.3 million active accounts in Q3, ending the period with 65.4 million, 16% versus the year-ago quarter.
In its Q3 2022 shareholder letter (PDF), Roku warned: "As we enter the holiday season, we expect the macro environment to further pressure consumer discretionary spend and degrade advertising budgets, especially the TV scatter market." The scatter market refers to TV ads not bought during the TV ad industry's annual "upfront" season.
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(Source: Aggregated ad scatter spend, using SMI Core data/Roku Q3 2022 investor letter)
Roku expects those conditions to be temporary, but said it couldn't predict when they'll stabilize. As such, Roku warned that it expects Q4 Player and Platform revenues to be lower YoY. Roku now expects total Q4 net revenue of $800 million, down from the $865.3 million generated in Q4 2021.
Roku isn't alone in its plight. Speaking at this week's RBC Capital Markets Global Technology, Internet, Media and Telecommunications Conference, Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav characterized the current ad market as "very weak," and weaker than it was during the earlier stages of the COVID-19 pandemic.
"That could change quite quickly," he added, but stressed that "this is a pretty big miss of the whole Christmas season."
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While finalizing the delicious details of our Culinary Adventure next October to Tuscany, we got invited to get a taste of Italy in our own backyard at Paese Ristorante in Toronto. Read on to see what we ate.
Paese (which literally translates to 'country') is a Toronto institution, serving classic Italian fare to the downtown community for over 25 years. The place itself is elegant yet laid-back, with an easy-going staff that made us feel welcome and relaxed. With menu items including ingredients from locally grown produce to house-ground meats, it's clear the team takes pride in ensuring the quality of everything that comes out of their kitchen.
Our server explained that when he was first hired, he was tasked with learning to prepare one dish in an effort to intimately familiarize himself with the Paese menu. Since he so intricately described how he learned to make the highly-regarded stuffed green olives with veal, pecornio and tomato aioli, we had to have it.
We were intrigued by the idea of Italian pizza made with gluten free dough. Could it really be as great as the gourmet pizza we'll be making in Tuscany? To our surprise, it was outstanding. We had the Laabroni, with generous amounts of tasty sausage, spinach, sweet caramelized onions and fresh goat cheese.
downside to this dish was that it was too small for sharing! Perhaps for the best, as we needed room for our mains.
The evening's special was a whole grilled branzino stuffed with rosemary and lemon. Our friendly server de-boned the fish table-side as we chatted about food-tripping we enjoy doing in our hometown. Toronto certainly has some incredible Italian restaurants, but what we know as travelling foodies is that authentic Italian cooking is a purist's endeavour, and oftentimes international interpretations of Italian dishes can be overly contrived. But that certainly wasn't the case with this fish! The simple bone-in style left the cooked meat soft and salty, with a nice crispness on the skin. With a hint of herb seasoning from the rosemary and lemon, the natural flavours were enough to make this fish sing.
We also enjoyed the Cornish hen, which leapt of the menu with its effortless olive oil and rosemary description. Paese's hen came out perfectly moist, with a deliciously delicate skin.
We couldn't pass up dessert, which is perhaps an affliction that comes with the territory when you're also planning a Sweet Trip to Paris in the autumn of 2017 as well. The dolce selection was great, including classics like affogato and amoretti, but we went with the more intriguing sounding butterscotch pudding. The beautiful display in a mini mason jar was layered with cloud-like butterscotch mousse, thick caramel, delicate whipped cream and topped with a burnt rosemary pine nut brittle that was just heavenly!
After this incredible meal, we couldn't be more ready to get going to Tuscany next October 3rd – 7th, 2017. The warm, inviting atmosphere at Paese speaks to its genuine embrace of Italian hospitality, and we loved our experience there!
Paese is located at 3827 Bathurst Street in Toronto. For more details on eating with us in Italy, check out the details of our Tuscan Culinary Adventure.
Book with us by contacting our designated travel agent Clara Power at 416.996.6849 or cpower@tpi.ca.
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How To Communicate Effectively With Your Fans: Tips From Trent Reznor, Songkick, PledgeMusic And More
In today's music world, the artist/fan connection matters more than ever, but with so many avenues of communication, artists must be able to effectively find ways to engage with fans in settings ranging from social media to backstage at a show.
Guest Post by Oliver Cox on PledgeMusic
Let's start with a premise: your time and attention comes at a premium. Time spent crafting a truly knockout social post, hours honing a music newsletter worthy of Hunter S. Thompson, is time spent away from your audience and studio.
But, a moment's attention from a musician whom they really appreciate will make a fan's day, encouraging them to come to more shows, buy more music and be an evangelist of greater fervor. A second of your time, well-spent on communicating with your fans, will multiply the power of the time spent at the mixing desk.
Put it this way: if I 'like' Deadmau5's tweet, this is nothing special in anyone's mind. If he likes my tweet? Now that could potentially make my day. You can see, now, how powerful a few minutes of social media can be in looking after the fans that matter the most. Fact is: your fans want you and, whether it's in person or over Facebook, every moment you spend with them will nurture your relationship and, hence, your career.
Superfan Social Media: Show the Love
You'll find articles out there doing to death how to nail your social channels as a musician. To keep it fresh, let's look at superfans in particular: these are the fans that go above and beyond for you, and always have your back.
Many musicians' social channels are deluged with attention, making it impossible to respond to it all. Some producers, quite clearly, have no social appetite, or at least don't look forward to spending time on networks and away from their craft. As I mentioned above, you have to understand how valuable your attention will be to your fans.
Why not take, say, 30 minutes per day to sit at your comp and like, retweet, pin, share, etc. the social interactions that you get from your fans. That fan who has bothered to write a comment on your artist Facebook page on how much they like your new track is already on your side—show them the love and they'll be onto their buddies about how great you are. Job done.
You can take this as far as you like. If you see that a few social users are very active on your Facebook or SoundCloud, bring them into the loop. Invite them to a private page where they can chat to you. Shoot them a raw preview mix of some new music/experiments: this will get leaked and put on YouTube, of course, but that's the point. These superfans will introduce it to their music-obsessive networks, building excitement and interest.
Remember to keep the conversation going. Don't set all this up, wipe your hands then forget about it: the party will last as long as the music and the excitement, keep up your own inputs (social and musical) and the superfans will stay behind you. If your interest drops off, so will your superfans' interest.
Songkick & Superfans
When it comes to gig promotion via superfans, the more innovative the better. SongKick relates how its live music crowdfunding system 'Detour' helped the band Hot Chip to achieve viral promotion by motivating their superfans. Here's how they did it: choosing three cities that often lost out on touring bands, Detour set up a crowdfunding campaign wherein the city with the most pledges would get a Hot Chip concert. In Folkstone, one of the chosen cities, the superfans sprang into action, using word of mouth, the local newspaper and radio station to publicize the tour. Interest (and pledges) for Folkestone grew exponentially.
Artists can achieve next-level results by letting their superfans own the situation. Give them the tools, and they'll be tenacious allies and savvy viral promoters.
Dealing with Feedback
Accepting and responding to appreciative feedback should be pretty easy. Please leave a comment if you've ever come unstuck while responding to a happy comment. So how do you talk to people when you've just put out material that they consider to be awful, when they're disappointed in the artist/band/producer (you) that they've supported for years?
Now's the time for balance: too much contrition, too much falling on your sword and no one will respect you. Too much pride and doubling down and your fans will feel like you're abandoning them. Bring Me the Horizon's (BMTH) response to intense criticism is the way to go (read the full confession on Alt Press). The first sentence is the most important:
We appreciate the level of passion both good and bad for DLD. We are really proud of what we created, but at the same time, we understand people's confusion and panic after hearing the track.
What more do you need to hear? BMTH accept your criticism, but they stand by what they created; they understand that fans might be a little scared to imagine that this is what their favorite group will sound like in the future. This is to say that BMTH expressed the extent to which they care about what their fans think, but they won't just flop under pressure.
The band's statement went on to explain how the song was created for a special project (the Drive rescore), and that the fans might enjoy it better in context. Bases: covered. You can't please all the people all the time but, when you displease some of the people, it pays to look after them.
Trent Reznor: Superfans and Gigs
How do you check in with your superfans at gigs? Signing autographs is a start. For some master advice, let's pay a visit to Trent Reznor:
Here he is, hanging with fans backstage at Sasquatch festival for a meet-and-greet. He's cool, talkative, approachable, and clearly didn't mind the camera. Remember: these days, everything that happens that is of any interest will be on the internet within minutes—this includes you being impatient (or being an angel) backstage. Maybe the fans who know every piece of music you've made won't stop talking when you just want to relax. That's part of the bargain.
Here's another Trent Reznor example: during the tour for Year Zero, Nine Inch Nails and accomplices left USB drives in venue bathrooms, containing a single with a secret message encoded into the music's spectrogram. This message brought fans into a virtual reality-game, created by 42 Entertainment, themed on the album. Nine Inch Nails and 42 Entertainment gave superfans all they could ever want, turning a regular music gig into a gateway into a world that they created.
When it comes to the fans that matter most to you, it's not just about the music, something to put on in the car or play during breakfast. It's about the experience. This is to say that you need to create something holistic, employing multiple media, something that will stay with them. The greater the impact, the better they'll represent you.
Writing Newsletters that Don't Suck
Newsletters are usually garbage. Why? Possibly because the people who write them aren't interested, put too much in there and don't like writing.
I hate to be the one to admit this, but I actually look forward to the Friday newsletter at the company for which I work, and I think most of us do. This is because, if you printed the thing and picked it up, the irony would drip to the floor—we even have a dedicated GIF and meme section.
OK, producers—maybe you're not writers, but if don't want to employ someone to create a newsletter for you, why not infuse your newsletter with your craft? Structure that thing like you would a song, or maybe arrange and describe the stories like the tracks of an EP. People follow your newsletter for you, and if, when they read it, it turns out to be nothing like you, why would they keep reading?
Here's some inspiration: Sisters of Mercy's drummer, a drum-machine going by the name 'Doktor Avalanche', used to run an advice column on the Sisters' site. This has all the absurdity characterized by the Sisters of Mercy's sense of humor. Put something uniquely you into that newsletter, and the superfans will be happy to read it.
In conclusion, the modern musician has to be something of a media Renaissance man: a social, writing, mediation, meet-and-greet genius. Hopefully you'll have time to make some music as well. The thing to remember is that your superfans tune in for you, so pour as much of yourself into them and your loyal fans will return the favor
By Oliver Cox, contributing writer for Soundudes. Soundudes was a platform for musicians to grow their audience and monetize their music, by connecting them with their SoundCloud Superfans. Regrettably, SoundCloud decided it's not good for them and shut them down. Read more about it here.
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Rhothonemys is an extinct genus of bothremydid pleurodiran turtle that was discovered in the Paleogene of Morocco. The genus consists solely of type species R. brinkmani.

Rhothonemys was discovered in the Ouled Abdoun Basin of Morocco, in deposits dated to the Paleogene. It is known from a partial skull, lacking the palate and basicranium, and a lower jaw, stored in the American Museum of Natural History.
The genus name is derived from the Greek word ῥώθων (rhothon) "nose" and alludes to the huge nasal opening. The species name R. brinkmani honors the paleontologist Donald Brinkman.

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Prehistoric turtle genera
Paleogene turtles
Bothremydidae
Paleogene reptiles of Africa
Fossil taxa described in 2006

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Q: Square wave inverter
I would like to have an idea for a square wave inverter I am making.It would be a 48V to 415V in the final product, but initially I am trying it with a 24V to 207V with the same transformer.
I am implementing this with a PIC uC which will generate the 50Hz square wave,which will be used to switch the MOSFETs of a center tapped transformer in the push pull mode.
My query is how to get the feedback from the output to make a closed loop system.I am planning to wind an auxiliary winding for the feedback and assume the aux. winding will replicate the load winding.
The specific question is: Would it work if I calculate the RMS value of the output and then vary the input PWM to get the required RMS at the feedback winding?
Or would there be any simpler way to do this ?

A: Yes, at this input voltage a center tapped primary with low side switches on the ends seems like the way to go.  For feedback, I'd look at opto-isolators first.  Put something on the output side that can detect whether the voltage is above or below the regulation threshold and drive the opto accordingly.  On the primary side, a simple control method is to simply stop the oscillations when the opto signal indicates the output is high.  If you can live with some ripple, this should be effective, simple, and efficient.

A: It isn't at all clear why you need feedback in this application. (For one thing, you haven't said what parameter you want to feed back — everyone seems to be assuming it's voltage.)
Unless your transformer has really poor coupling, its output voltage will be directly proportional to its input voltage. If it has the correct turns ratio to convert from 48V to 415V, why do you think the ouput voltage would be anything different?
The VFD probably does not require really tight regulation of its input voltage anyway; it's designed to be powered from mains, right? And it's going to be directly controlling the voltage/current in the motor. But if you do need to make adjustments, I think it would be easier to measure and/or regulate the 48V DC bus upstream of the transformer driver.
A 4kW transformer @ 50 Hz is going to be enormous. (Well, maybe not as big as the motor :-) If you really need isolation, it would probably be better to use a much higher switching frequency. If you don't really need isolation, a multiphase non-isolated DC-DC converter will probably end up being much more efficient. (There's a good chance the VFD will be perfectly happy with DC input.) Remember, you're going to be switching upwards of 80A on the primary side.

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Evaluating the Effects of Fatigue on Police Patrol Officers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington County, Virginia, 1997-1998 (ICPSR 2974)
Version Date: Mar 30, 2006 View help for published
Kenney, Dennis Jay. Evaluating the Effects of Fatigue on Police Patrol Officers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington County, Virginia, 1997-1998. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2006-03-30. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02974.v1
Dennis Jay Kenney, Police Executive Research Forum
This study was undertaken to assess the connections between administratively controllable sources of fatigue among police patrol officers and problems such as diminished performance, accidents, and illness. The study sought to answer: (1) What is the prevalence of officer fatigue, and what are officers' attitudes toward it? (2) What are the causes or correlates of officer fatigue? (3) How does fatigue affect officer safety, health, and job performance? and (4) Can officer fatigue be measured objectively? The final sample was comprised of all sworn, nonsupervisory police officers assigned full-time to patrol and/or community policing functions on the day that data collection began at each of four selected sites: Lowell, Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington County, Virginia. Part 1, Fatigue Survey Data, includes demographic data and officers' responses from the initial self-report survey. Variables include the extent to which the respondent felt hot or cold, experienced uncomfortable breathing, bad dreams, or pain while sleeping, the time the respondent usually went to bed, number of hours slept each night, quality of sleep, whether medicine was taken as a sleep aid, estimated hours worked in a one-, two-, seven-, and thirty-day period, how overtime affected income, family relationships, and social activities, and reasons for feeling tired. Part 2, Demographic and Fatigue Survey Data, is comprised of data obtained from administrative records and demographic data forms. Several measures from the initial self-report survey are also included in Part 2. Variables focus on respondents' age, sex, race, marital status, global score on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scale, total years as a police officer assigned to any agency and current agency, and total years worked in current shift. Data for Part 3, FIT and Administrative Data, were obtained from administrative records and from the fitness-for-duty (FIT) workplace screener test. Variables include a pupilometry index score and the dates, time, and particular shift (days, evenings, or midnight) the officer started working when the pupilometry test was administered. Part 3 also includes the number of hours worked by the officer in a regular shift or in association with overtime, the number of sick leave hours taken by the officer, and whether the officer was involved in an on-duty accident, injured on duty, or commended by his/her department during a particular shift.
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United States Department of Justice. Office of Justice Programs. National Institute of Justice (96-IJ-CX-0046)
community policing demographic characteristics family work relationship fatigue police officers police patrol police performance police safety sleep disorders working hours
Oregon United States Lowell Massachusetts Portland (Oregon) Florida Virginia
Restrictions View help for Restrictions
Access to these data is restricted. Users interested in obtaining these data must complete a Restricted Data Use Agreement, specify the reasons for the request, and obtain IRB approval or notice of exemption for their research.
Distributor(s) View help for Distributor(s)
Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
1997 -- 1998
1997-07 -- 1998-06
Study Purpose View help for Study Purpose
The effects of fatigue on human behavior, performance, and physiology are well understood and widely known. Excess fatigue arising from sleep loss, circadian disruption, and other factors tends to decrease alertness, impair performance, and worsen mood. As such, it is reasonable to expect that the performance, health, and safety of patrol officers, as well as police-community relations, are adversely affected by the fatigue an officer may experience. This study was undertaken to assess the connections between administratively controllable sources of fatigue among police patrol officers and problems such as diminished performance, accidents, and illness. The study sought to answer: (1) What is the prevalence of officer fatigue, and what are officers' attitudes toward it? (2) What are the causes or correlates of officer fatigue? (3) How does fatigue affect officer safety, health, and job performance? and (4) Can officer fatigue be measured objectively?
Study Design View help for Study Design
Four police agencies were recruited to participate in the study. Once the officers meeting the selection criteria were identified and the purpose of the study was explained during the officers' roll call sessions, officers were asked to volunteer to participate in the study. All participating officers were assigned identification numbers and given initial self-report surveys to complete during a roll call briefing. The survey instrument included all 19 items from the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI), combined with additional questions designed to capture information on officer demographics, experience, attitudes regarding fatigue held by respondents themselves and their peers, and perceptions regarding the causes and effects of fatigue, particularly on professional performance and physical and emotional well-being. The PSQI was scored as a global index as well as on seven sub-scales. These included sleep quality, sleep latency, sleep duration, habitual sleep efficiency, sleep disturbances, use of sleeping medication, and daytime dysfunction. Demographic information was also collected later from either demographic data forms placed in officers' mailboxes (with instructions to complete and return to the on-site study coordinator) in Polk and Arlington counties, or from administrative records for officers in Portland and Lowell. In addition to the subjective measures of fatigue, all officers were asked to take a non-invasive eye-reduction test throughout the study period at the beginning of each on-duty shift. This objective test, referred to as the fitness-for-duty (FIT) workplace screener test, produces a pupilometry reading that indicates changes in the central nervous system that result from the influence of fatigue. The tester itself was a self-contained, tabletop unit that required the test subject to look into a view port and visually follow a lighted target for approximately 30 seconds. The test was completely safe and caused no discomfort to the participant. Each time an officer's pupilometry reading fell in the top 10 percent of measures (the most tired), he or she was asked to complete a brief questionnaire designed to gather additional information to help explain his or her current fatigue level. Administrative data were also collected from each participating agency through a review of administrative files, including personnel files and payroll records. Among the data gathered were the number of work and leave hours taken by each participating officer during the study period, the shifts each officer worked, and the number and type of accidents, complaints, and commendations each officer incurred during the study period.
Convenience sampling.
All sworn, nonsupervisory police officers assigned full-time to patrol and/or community policing functions at each of four sites: Lowell, Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington County, Virginia.
Unit(s) of Observation View help for Unit(s) of Observation
Parts 1-3: Individuals
self-enumerated questionnaires, Fitness-For-Duty (FIT) Workplace Safety Screener Test, and official records
administrative records data, clinical data, medical records, survey data
Description of Variables View help for Description of Variables
Part 1, Fatigue Survey Data, includes demographic data and officers' responses from the initial self-report survey. Variables include the extent to which the respondent felt hot or cold, experienced uncomfortable breathing, bad dreams, or pain while sleeping, the time the respondent usually went to bed, number of hours slept each night, quality of sleep, whether medicine was taken as a sleep aid, estimated hours worked in a one-, two-, seven-, and thirty-day period, how overtime affected income, family relationships, and social activities, and reasons for feeling tired. Part 2, Demographic and Fatigue Survey Data, is comprised of data obtained from administrative records and demographic data forms. Several measures from the initial self-report survey are also included in Part 2. Variables focus on respondents' age, sex, race, marital status, global score on the Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index scale, total years as a police officer assigned to any agency and current agency, and total years worked in current shift. Data for Part 3, FIT and Administrative Data, were obtained from administrative records and from the fitness-for-duty (FIT) workplace screener test workplace screener test. Variables include a pupilometry index score and the dates, time, and particular shift (days, evenings, or midnight) the officer started working when the pupilometry test was administered. Part 3 also includes the number of hours worked by the officer in a regular shift or in association with overtime, the number of sick leave hours taken by the officer, and whether the officer was involved in an on-duty accident, injured on duty, or commended by his/her department during a particular shift.
Response Rates View help for Response Rates
Presence of Common Scales View help for Presence of Common Scales
Several Likert-type scales were used.
Kenney, Dennis Jay. Evaluating the Effects of Fatigue on Police Patrol Officers in Lowell, Massachusetts, Polk County, Florida, Portland, Oregon, and Arlington County, Virginia, 1997-1998. ICPSR02974-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2001. http://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR02974.v1
2006-03-30 File UG2974.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2006-03-30 File CB2974.ALL.PDF was removed from any previous datasets and flagged as a study-level file, so that it will accompany all downloads.
2001-12-14 ICPSR data undergo a confidentiality review and are altered when necessary to limit the risk of disclosure. ICPSR also routinely creates ready-to-go data files along with setups in the major statistical software formats as well as standard codebooks to accompany the data. In addition to these procedures, ICPSR performed the following processing steps for this data collection:
Standardized missing values.
Checked for undocumented or out-of-range codes.
The public-use data files in this collection are available for access by the general public. Access does not require affiliation with an ICPSR member institution.
One or more files in this data collection have special restrictions. Restricted data files are not available for direct download from the website; click on the Restricted Data button to learn more.
This dataset is maintained and distributed by the National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD), the criminal justice archive within ICPSR. NACJD is primarily sponsored by three agencies within the U.S. Department of Justice: the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice, and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention.
This website is funded through Inter-agency agreements through the Bureau of Justice Statistics, the National Institute of Justice and the Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention of the Office of Justice Programs, U.S. Department of Justice. Neither the U.S. Department of Justice nor any of its components operate, control, are responsible for, or necessarily endorse, this website (including, without limitation, its content, technical infrastructure, and policies, and any services or tools provided).


Top 5 Colleges of Du in Delhi for Arts, Commerce & Science: Hey guys welcome to my new article. Delhi University is also known as DU. It is well known for undergraduate and postgraduate programs that it offers in arts, science and commerce. Delhi University is one of the renowned universities in India. Many students want to seek admission in this university for its quality and best education system. Here in the following article I will be describing Top 5 Colleges of Du in Delhi for Arts, Commerce & Science.
One of the best colleges in Delhi that functions under the affiliation of Delhi University. It offers arts, science and commerce courses. This college is well known for many reasons like good and experienced faculty, large playground (where common wealth games also took place), good auditorium, library with new and unique reference books, nice canteen (where shooting of rock star movie was done),and many more other reasons also. There is also good hostel facility for both boys and girls with mess facility. Other than extra curriculum activities the college is also know for high cutoff and good education.
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Pope Francis' peace prayer for Ukraine recalls prophecy 105 years ago about Russia
Peter Kenny | Sunday, March 27 2022
(Photo: Vatican News)Pope Francis prays at the feet of Our Lady of Fatima in Portugal
Pope Francis prayed for peace in Ukraine at a ceremony that looked to a prophecy about peace and Russia that stems back more than a century to purported visions of the Virgin Mary to three peasant children in Fatima, Portugal, in 1917.
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The Pope on March 25 consecrated Russia and Ukraine to the Immaculate Heart of Mary with a prayer asking for peace in the world, Catholic News Agency reported.
At the end of a penitential service in St. Peter's Basilica, Francis carried out the act, saying: "Mother of God and our Mother, to your Immaculate Heart we solemnly entrust and consecrate ourselves, the Church and all humanity, especially Russia and Ukraine.
"Accept this act that we carry out with confidence and love. Grant that war may end and peace spread throughout the world."
Francis invited bishops, priests and ordinary faithful around the world to join him in the consecration prayer, which opened with the pontiff entering St. Peter's Basilica before an estimated 3,500 people, The Associated Press reported.
'FREE US FROM WAR'
"Free us from war, protect our world from the menace of nuclear weapons," the Pope prayed.
It ended with Francis sitting alone before a statue of the Madonna.
There, he solemnly asked forgiveness that humanity had "forgotten the lessons learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two World Wars."
In his homily, Francis said that the consecration "is no magic formula but a spiritual act."
"It is an act of complete trust on the part of children who, amid the tribulation of this cruel and senseless war that threatens our world, turn to their Mother, reposing all their fears and pain in her heart and abandoning themselves to her," he said.
Since Russia invaded its neighbor on Feb. 24 in what it calls a "special military operation", the Pope has implicitly criticised Moscow, Reuters reported.
He has strongly condemning what he has called an "unjustified aggression" and denouncing "atrocities," but he had not mentioned Russia by name.
He used the words Russia and Russians on March 25, although as part of a prayer and a homily.
FORGOTTEN LESSONS
"We have forgotten the lesson learned from the tragedies of the last century, the sacrifice of the millions who fell in two world wars ... we have closed ourselves in nationalist interests," Francis said in the prayer, whose formal title was "An Act of Consecration to the Immaculate Heart of Mary."
Archbishop Visvaldas Kulbokas, the Vatican envoy who has remained in Ukraine since Russia launched the invasion last month, said before the service, he would read the prayer from an improvised altar in a kitchen in a safe room in the embassy in the capital Kyiv.
In the Portuguese town of Fatima, papal ambassador Cardinal Konrad Krajewski, a close aide of the Pope, read the same prayer near the spot where Mary is said to have appeared repeatedly in 1917 to three shepherd children.
The Fatima story dates to 1917, when according to tradition, siblings Francisco and Jacinta Marto and cousin Lucia said the Virgin Mary appeared to them six times and confided three secrets, AP's Nicole Winfield reported.
The first two described an apocalyptic image of hell, foretold the end of World War I and the start of World War II, and the rise and fall of Soviet communism
The link with Fatima is essential to understanding the religious and political significance of Friday's consecration Reuters reported.
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Similar acts of consecration of the world were performed by past popes in 1942, 1952, 1964, 1981, 1982 and 1984.
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The Viking Deception
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CENTURIES AGO, THE VIKINGS AND THE ISLAMIC CALIPHATE NEARLY WENT TO WAR.
AND TODAY, MORE INNOCENT BLOOD WILL SPILL.
In 989 AD, when informed of her impending arranged marriage, Fatima takes drastic action with her forbidden lover, Viking Prince Magnus, actions that not only have immediate consequences for her entire family, but reverberate a millennium later.
When Archaeology Professor James Acton receives an invitation from a friend to visit a new dig site where an unusual artifact has been discovered linking the Vikings to the Islamic Caliphate, he and his wife eagerly accept.
But upon arriving in Stockholm, Sweden, their friend is nowhere to be found, last seen entering the Saudi embassy and not heard from since. Before they can notify the authorities, Acton receives a disturbing phone call, and is forced into action to save his friend.
Becoming a criminal in the process.
Award winning and USA Today bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy once again twists history and today's headlines to his own ends, delivering an action-packed thriller sure to leave you burning through the pages. If you enjoy fast-paced adventures in the style of Dan Brown, Clive Cussler, and James Rollins, then you'll love this thrilling tale of archaeological intrigue.
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With over one million books sold, award winning and USA Today bestselling author J. Robert Kennedy has been ranked by Amazon as the #1 Bestselling Action Adventure novelist based upon combined sales. He is a full-time writer and the author of over forty international bestsellers including the smash hit James Acton Thrillers. He's married, has an adult daughter, and is likely hard at work on his next book.
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This book as the other books in the series by J R Kennedy kept me interested and wanting to read more. The action of the James Acton series is always full of action and suspense, just like the other books by J R Kennedy is great reading. Kevin
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What a great tale
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Miscategorized with a fraction of good and mostly hot garbage thriller
This book was absolutely not literature as it was categorized. Very deceptive. It was a mystery/thriller/hot garbage. The only part that was decent was the historical fiction part which sadly only lasted part of the book. The rest of it was action/adventure drivel that was poorly written and hard to read. I ended up having to skip a ton of bravado strong man crap from law enforcement "tough guys" as it was impossible to read it was so bad. This would have got only one star had it not been for the part that took place in the past which was interesting.
I wish it would have been in the proper category so I would have never had to read it.
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The Manila Deception
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Embassy of the Empire


> > > haven't heared anything by then.
> > Consensus means agreement. I want seconds, not objections.
> to see more "positive feedback" too, but I'm afraid we won't get much.
>   bugs against concerning Debian CD images and assorted other related things.
"poll" like this in the future.


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At that time King Herod heard the rumors about Jesus,
and he said, "John the Baptist has been raised from the dead,
and because of this the powers are at work in him."
But others said, "He is Elijah;"
and others said, "He is a prophet like one of the prophets."
But Herod having heard said,
"John whom I beheaded, this is him raised."
For Herod himself having sent out
seized John and bound him in prison,
because he had married Herodias,
the wife of his brother Philip,
and John had said to Herod, "It is not permitted
for you to have your brother's wife."
So Herodias resented him and wished to kill him,
and she could not; for the crowd held him as a prophet,
and Herod feared John, knowing him to be a just and holy man.
He protected him, and having heard him much he was in doubt;
yet he listened to him gladly.
An opportune day occurring
when Herod produced his birthday banquet for his courtiers
and local rulers and the foremost of Galilee,
the daughter of Herodias entered and danced in the middle,
pleasing Herod and the guests.
So the king said to the girl,
"Ask me for whatever you wish,
and I will give it to you;"
and he swore to her, "Whatever you request I will give you,
up to half my kingdom."
Having gone out she asked her mother,
"What should I ask for?"
She said, "The head of John the baptizer."
Going in immediately with haste to the king
she requested, "I wish that at once you may give me
on a platter the head of John the Baptist."
The king, grieved
because of the oaths and the dinner guests,
did not wish to refuse her.
Sending out immediately,
the king ordered an executioner to bring his head.
Going away he beheaded him in the prison
and brought his head on a platter and gave it to the girl,
and the girl gave it to her mother.
His disciples having heard
came and took his corpse and buried it,
and going they reported to Jesus.
41. Death of John the Baptist Harmony 41 * Interpretation 41
42. Feeding the Five Thousand Harmony 42 * Synthesis 42 * Interpretation 42


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Q: Angularjs click row if the data is available I'm new to JavaScript so I am not sure what is possible. I am using AngularJS as my frontend application.
I've a clickable table(rows) its pretty much a table inside a table (collapisble table)
I'm trying to click the first row of the table if the data is available so I wrote this function
 $scope.clicker = function(){
    if (!$scope.first || !$scope.second){
         setTimeout($scope.clicker, 500)
       }
    $(".clickableRow").first().click()
  }

This pretty much checks if the values first and second is not null, if not then click the first row. This WOULD work sometimes but almost every time I get this error '
Error: [$rootScope:inprog] $digest already in progress

http://errors.angularjs.org/1.4.3/$rootScope/inprog?p0=%24digest
I am not sure what this means. Any help would be nice.

A: Using $q.all you can pass in multiple $http requests in an array.
You can use .then on the q.all() method and get a callback when they're all done.
$scope.$watch(
    function() {
        return $route.current;
    },
    function(newValue) {
        if (newValue) {
            $scope.url = newValue.$$route.originalPath;

            if($scope.url == '/loadTestForm') return;

            $scope.neustaridParam = newValue.params.neustarid;
            $q.all([
                $http.get('/corecase/browserKPI/'+$scope.neustaridParam).success(function(response){
                    $scope.browserKPI = response;
                }),
                $http.get('/corecase/serverKPI/'+$scope.neustaridParam).success(function(response){
                        $scope.serverKPI = response;
                }),
                $http.get('/corecase/info/'+$scope.neustaridParam).success(function(response){
                        $scope.corecaseinfo = response;
                })
            ]).then(function(){
                $scope.selectTableRow(0, 1000); //I'd advise not hardcoding the first row's data here. You can do something like this instead: $scope.storeDataModel.storedata[0].id, scope.storeDataModel.storedata[0].storeId
            });
        }
    }
);

A: If the only purpose behind the click event is to show or hide then you can potentially skip the click event all together.  Put a "ng-show" in your tr (or any other element you want to show) and simply set a scoped variable equal to whatever is referencing your data.  If you have data then your ng-show will be true and it will show. This is also assuming that your data is undefined or null until it is available, if not just set it to false.
     In view:

    In controller:
    $scope.checkData = data;


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What's the difference between tomato sauce and ketchup?
IT SHOULD be a simple question. But when we set out to discover the difference between these two condiments, we didn't know what we were up against.
@MattYoung
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FOR the last few months, I have set about answering what I thought was a fairly simple question: What is the difference between tomato sauce and ketchup?
Simple, right? Wrong.
If you're as much a fan of the delicious condiments as me, you would surely notice a difference in the taste and texture of the products. Ketchup seems thicker, while tomato sauce is thinner in consistency. One is also a classic Australian condiment, while the other is American.
Back in the '80s, then President Ronald Reagan's administration proposed counting ketchup as a vegetable in school lunches. But the plan was pulled after public outcry, because we all know both varieties of condiment are anything but a vegetable, in fact ketchup contains 25 per cent sugar.
As I began my search for answers online I found all sorts of hypothesis; most experts claimed there is a key difference in the ingredients, which makes sense.
"I've found that tomato sauce is bitter tasting and ketchup is slightly sweeter. Certainly is difficult to describe but it's a definite difference," wrote one user on a Whirlpool forum earlier this year.
"The ketchup seems a bit thicker in consistency than the sauce. It also tastes, well, different. Not just a straight out tomato flavour, but, maybe a little bit more of a spicy flavour to it — hard to describe the actual taste difference," wrote another.
In a 2010 piece on The Times of India, a man by the name of Manish Goyal stated that in the US, ketchup is prepared using tomatoes, vinegar, sugar and spices while tomato sauce is made sans spice.
Other experts online suggest more tomatoes are used in one than the other, while some believe one is sweeter than the other.
Some hypothesised there was no difference at all.
Confused, I decided to take my question to the experts — and they all seemed to fall rather flat.
I thought it was the perfect timing; Heinz had released a new campaign urging Aussies to make the switch to ketchup. "Thicker is tastier," read the campaign's slogan.
Heinz used celebrity chef Ben O'Donoghue to make the case that Heinz tomato ketchup was "packed full of tomatoes, which makes it thick".
But that was it. Despite Ben describing his "surprise" that people didn't know the difference, he failed to really tell us what the actual difference was. He is yet to answer my tweet.
When I asked Heinz to comment, I never got an answer. Same goes for Masterfoods. Masterchef's Matt Preston is overseas and even the CSIRO told me to Google it.
A couple of nutritionists were also disappointingly dull.
So where does that leave us? In a minefield of confusion over whether we've just given into clever marketing gimmicks, or if there really is something unique about both.
A look online at the ingredient list for both Heinz's ketchup and tomato sauce gives us a telling answer.
The ingredient list on a bottle of regular Heinz ketchup is as follows: Concentrated Tomatoes (Contains 206g of Tomatoes per 100mL), Sugar, Salt, Concentrated White Vinegar, Food Acid (Citric Acid), Natural Flavours (Contain Garlic), Spice. Contains 77% Concentrated Tomatoes.
The ingredient list on a bottle of regular Heinz tomato sauce is as follows: Tomatoes (148g per 100g Tomato Ketchup), Spirit Vinegar, Sugar, Salt, Spice and Herb Extracts (Contain Celery), Spice.
Looking at the two, it seems the only difference is the fact there are more tomatoes, 58g extra to be precise, in ketchup than tomato sauce. Otherwise they both use sugar, salt and vinegar.
Perhaps a slight difference in spices?
Comparing Heinz's tomato sauce to Masterfoods' tomato sauce the only difference stems from added water and onion spice.
The ingredient list on a bottle of regular Masterfoods tomato sauce is as follows: Tomatoes 76% (from Paste), Sugar, Salt, Food Acid (Acetic), water, Onion Powder, Spice Extract.
So which is the better choice? It's hard to say. Perhaps in the end it is all about personal taste.
According to The Telegraph, despite the amount of sugar contained in both there are apparent health benefits — for men at least.
A 2002 Harvard study revealed eating tomato sauce more than two times a week can reduce the risk of prostate cancer by up to 20 per cent.
A 2007 study by Finnish scientists found that ketchup, on the other hand, can potentially cut out "bad cholesterol".
Meanwhile a 2014 study by the Asian Journal of Andrology showed that Lycopene, the pigment that makes tomatoes red, boosts male fertility by up to 70 per cent.
According to Heinz, research showed 70 per cent of Australians don't know the difference between the pair and "either believe that sauce and ketchup are one and the same thing" but instead of making an irritating ad for it, they could have simply explained why.
Failing that, here's how you can make your own from home, thanks to Best Recipes.
Continue the precise conversation with Matt Young via Facebook or Twitter.
UPDATE: Masterchef's Matt Preston tweeted overnight with a telling answer:
Ketchup is thicker and sweeter. Sauce is more vinegary.
— Matt Preston (@MattsCravat) December 19, 2017
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These cupcakes are best enjoyed with friends and loved ones. (They are especially popular among little kids.) Bake up a batch of chocolate cupcakes, whip up some chocolate buttercream for frosting and make 'em happy.
For these cupcakes, instead of unsweetened chocolate as the recipe calls for, I used semi-sweet chocolate since that was all I had on hand. Works just fine.
2.Line two 12-cup muffin tins with cupcake papers. Set aside.
3.In a small bowl, sift together the flour and baking soda. Set aside.
4.In a large bowl, on the medium speed of an electric mixer, cream the butter until smooth. Add the sugars and beat until fluffy, about 3 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Add the chocolate, mixing until well incorporated. Add the dry ingredients in three parts, alternating with the buttermilk and vanilla. With each addition, beat until the ingredients are incorporated, but do not overbeat. Using a rubber spatula, scrape down the batter in the bowl to make sure the ingredients are well blended and the batter is smooth. Carefully spoon the batter into the cupcake liners, filling them about three-quarters full. Bake for 20–25 minutes, or until a cake tester inserted in the center of the cupcake comes out clean.
5.Cool the cupcakes in the tins for 15 minutes. Remove from the tins and cool completely on a wire rack before icing. At the bakery we ice the cupcakes with either Vanilla Buttercream or Chocolate Buttercream.
1. Note: to melt the chocolate, place in a double boiler over simmering water on low heat for 5-10 minutes; stir occasionally until the chocolate is completely smooth and no pieces remain; remove from heat and let cool 5-15 minutes or until lukewarm.
7. **For icing a 3-layer cake use the following measurements: 2 cups unsalted butter, 3 tablespoons milk, 12 ounces semisweet chocolate, 1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract, 3 cups sifted powdered sugar.


For all of our Club Policies and Procedures we have aligned them with the 7 Pillars of the England Hockey Club Strategy. This link into Good Practice as identified within the ClubsFirst accreditation.
- Five-year development plan that covers the period of accreditation; see the "Latest 5 Year Development Plan"
- A Copy of the Club's Constitution can be found by reviewing the attached document below "Club Constitution and Rules"
- The club has adopted the England Hockey standards and has a Club Welfare Officer; all details around the Club's Welfare processes can be found by visiting the Club's Welfare Page.
- The Club offers various Standard Membership options, all of which can be found by reviewing "Membership Form 2016-17 (PDF)" document below. We are also happy to discuss more flexible playing arrangements as well.
- Refer to the Club Development Plan ("Latest 5 Year Development Plan") to see the plans that the club has for meeting the needs of the local community's demographic and what the relevant recruitment policy is. You can also see the various options for all players in the document "Playing Opportunities Framework"
- The club offers a range of opportunities for Adults, including both introductory programmes and regular training. These can be viewed by reading the "Adult Opportunities Framework" document below.
- The club has adopted the England Hockey standards around Safeguarding and providing a Safe Environment in which to play hockey. All of this information can be found on the Club Safeguarding and Welfare policy page.
- OSHC holds Public Liability Insurance for all of its activities with the England Hockey official supplier Perkins Slade. A number of the Coaches also hold their own private Insurance as well.
- The club is a member of the Midlands Region Hockey Association (MRHA); with the men playing league hockey in the MRHA Men's League, and the Ladies in the Warwickshire Women's Hockey League.
The club committee is structured based on the requirements, skills and diversity of the club. At last 3 members are unrelated or non-cohabiting and conflicts of interests are recognised & managed by the chair and recorded.
The club is governed by a committee who face regular election, following which they meet regularly, with decision making recorded and communicated to members.
The club has a specific bank account with two independent signatories or suitable online banking requirements. Accounts are independently reviewed annually and made available to members.
- The Accounts are reviewed at the Monthly Committee Meetings and presented to the Membership at the AGM (held in September). Minutes of which can be found here.


Arsenal's Olivier Giroud has made a huge impact for the Gunners coming off the bench in recent weeks. The Frenchman set up their third goal against Bournemouth on Sunday, crossing low for Alexis Sanchez to tap into an empty net. This key assist helped secure a much-needed three points for Arsene Wenger's men. Giroud also scored late at Old Trafford and the Stadium of Light in recent times, showing us how important it is to have a game changer on the bench in the title race. This begs the question, what other game changers have played second fiddle?
Javier "Chicharito" Hernandez arrived in Manchester in 2010 for £6million, touted as the next star. The young Mexican made a name for himself straight away, coming off the bench to score in a 3-1 defeat of Chelsea in the Community Shield in 2010. This was to become a recurring theme for the nippy forward who made a name for himself as Wayne Rooney's understudy.
In his debut campaign he came off the bench to score against West Brom, Valencia and Wolves, which helped the Red Devils to the Champions League final as well as the Premier League title. He scored in the English top flight once every 130 minutes, bettered only by greats Thierry Henry, Sergio Aguero and Ruud van Nistelrooy.
He went on to score 59 goals in all competitions for the club, helping them to a further league title. Hitting the back of the net on 37 occasions for United in the league, he frequently scored late on, netting 12 times after the 75th minute. This means 32% of his goals for the Reds occurred in the last 15 minutes, showing us he really was the perfect Plan B.
Manchester City won their first ever Premier League title in the 2011/12 season. Many credit Sergio Aguero for their success, after his iconic 94th minute goal gave the "Citizens" the lead in an enthralling final day showdown against QPR. However a goal just as vital was the equaliser scored by Edin Dzeko three minutes prior to Aguero's memorable strike.
The Bosnian striker came on in the 69th minute, hoping to inspire City to a comeback, and inspire he did. His towering header squared the game at 2-2, building late momentum for the team. This finish was critical for City as his contribution injected hope into a deflated side.
In his City career he scored 50 times, 21 of these coming in the last half an hour. At the beginning of the 2012/13 campaign he scored five goals coming off the bench in City's first 10 games, winning them nine points in the process, which earned him the "Supersub" tag.
Manchester United great Ole Gunnar Solskjær is probably the most famous Plan B of all time. His pace, flair and killer instinct in front of goal saved the Red Devils countless times.
He is best known for his stoppage time winner against Bayern Munich in the 1999 Champions League final but he bailed Alex Ferguson's side out on many more occasions. In the same year he came off the bench to score four times in the space of 19 minutes against Nottingham Forest, an impressive feat.
He ended up netting 28 times in 84 substitute appearances, a remarkable return. He had a knack of snatching late winners in "Fergie Time" helping him earn him the nickname "the Baby-faced Assassin" for his boyish looks combined with his deadly finishing.
Any player described by Brazilian great Ronaldinho as his "idol" is obviously an extremely talented player and that's exactly what Larsson was. A legend at Celtic and Barcelona he was known more as being the main man rather than a backup.
At times he carried Celtic on his back, scoring a staggering 242 goals in just 313 appearances for the Scottish outfit. However, it was at Barcelona where he made a name for himself as the Plan B when Frank Rijkaard's side were in need of a goal.
In the 2006 Champions League final the Catalan side trailed Arsenal by one goal going into the last quarter of an hour. Larsson was introduced late on and turned provider, assisting both Samuel Eto'o and Juliano Belletti as Barca clinched the trophy late on. While he may not be known as a regular sub, the Swede's 2006 Champions League final cameo appearance more than warrants him a place on this list.


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