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Culinary innovation on display at MenuMasters gala
Annual awards honor industry's most creative menu moves
Alan Snel | May 22, 2011
Nation's Restaurant News celebrated culinary excellence Saturday night at its annual MenuMasters Awards gala, which featured some of the industry's biggest names and brands.
The spirited MenuMasters party, held at Chicago's Drake Hotel, showcased celebrity chef Tom Colicchio, who was inducted into the MenuMasters Hall of Fame, as well as Scott Davis, Panera Bread Co.'s chief concept officer, who picked up the Innovator Award. In addition, five restaurant chains and a university food service operation were honored for forward-thinking menu excellence.
SLIDE SHOW: See photos of the winners from Saturday night's celebration
The MenuMasters Awards are produced by Nation's Restaurant News and sponsored by Ventura Foods LLC.
"It's about teamwork. It's about innovation," said Chris Keating, Nation's Restaurant News's associate publisher, who served as emcee at the celebration. "It's all about the food."
This year's winners — Subway, Panda Express, Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen, Old Chicago, Shari's and UMass Dining — offered samples of their award-winning dishes at the celebration.
RELATED: Read all about this year's winners
Panda Express won the Best New Menu Item award for its honey walnut shrimp. Andy Kao, Panda Express executive chef, oversaw the dish's addition to the chain's menu. It proved to be a huge hit as Panda Express expects to sell nearly 9 million pounds of shrimp at its 1,400 units in 38 states.
Popeyes Louisiana Kitchen won the honor of Best Limited Time Offer with its Wicked Chicken, which is sliced thinner than the brand's traditional tenders.
"It's humbling and gives credibility to what we do," said Amy Alarcon, director of culinary innovation for the 1,900-unit chain.
While the chain may be known for its "Louisiana fast" cuisine, Popeyes slow-marinates the Wicked Chicken in hot sauce.
"We take our time," she said before the ceremony began.
The Menu Trendsetter award went to the University of Massachusetts Dining, which on Saturday doled out shrimp, salmon and scallops, with a mango salad and carrot cake muffins. Ken Toong, executive director of auxiliary services for UMass, called it the "Stealth Health program."
UMass bought 25 percent of its produce from local farmers, cut sodium 30 percent, served lobster on Halloween as part of an "All Treat No Tricks" celebration and included flaxseed in its carrot cake muffins.
"College dining is not what it used to be," Toong told the packed room at The Drake.
Old Chicago Restaurant, the 100-unit casual pizza and pasta chain, drew Best Menu Revamp honors for a streamlined menu that debuted last year. The sweeping menu changes involved removing 22 items, revising 13 and adding 17 new items.
Mike Thom, culinary/research and development director for the Louisville, Colo.-based chain, dished out plates of steak salad at the MenuMasters party. He said three calzones added in May 2010 highlighted the menu facelift.
Shari's, a Northwestern chain of 104 units based in Beaverton, Ore., won the Best Menu/Line Extension award for celebrating Oregon's famous fresh blackberry season by using blackberries in its whole blackberry cobbler pie, blackberry cream cheese pie, fresh blackberry lemonade and fresh blackberry pie milk shakes.
"Blackberries are a real popular seasonal fruit in Oregon," said Kevin Bechtel, Shari's vice president of menu development. July and August are the premier blackberry months in Oregon, he added.
The Healthful Innovations award went to Subway for its breakfast menu, which rolled out nationwide last year after 15 years of development. The Build Your Better Breakfast program allows customers to customize their breakfast sandwiches with more healthful options, such as egg whites and light wheat English muffins.
"We strive for quality. We strive for a healthy breakfast," said Chris Martone, corporate executive chef for the 34,601-unit chain.
The Innovator award went to Davis, Panera Bread's chief concept officer who spearheaded the prototype bakery-café model in 1996 for Saint Louis Bread Co., which became Panera Bread. Davis, 47, is a 24-year industry veteran who began as a store manager before he helped build the template for the fast-casual bakery-café. The first Panera debuted in Chicago in 1996.
"We created a model that could work in the rest of the country," he said before the ceremony.
Davis said the combination of creating a great guest experience in its restaurants with touches like fireplaces and leather chairs while offering innovative food, like sandwiches made with fresh basil, propelled Panera to become an industry leader.
"We organized around the philosophy of putting the customer first," he said.
As Colicchio was inducted into the MenuMasters Hall of Fame, he joked that when someone gets inducted into a Hall of Fame, they're usually retired. However, with two small kids, Colicchio said would not be retiring any time soon.
Colicchio has a rich and long history of innovative culinary work on his resume, which included making a kitchen debut at age 17 at Evelyn's Seafood Restaurant in his native Elizabeth, N.J.; opening Gramercy Tavern in New York City; serving as chef and owner of the Craft family of restaurants; and being the head judge of Bravo's Top Chef.
In an interview with Nation's Restaurant News before the ceremony, Colicchio said, "It's a culmination of my career. These awards are like a scorecard. But it's all about giving back to the industry."
Indeed, after he received his Hall of Fame honor, Colicchio told the crowd that he loved working on a team toward a common cause and that, at the end, it was all about "making people happy."
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Discovering Unique Microbes Made Easy with DOE Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase)
Overview of Metagenome-Assembled Genome Extraction data and analysis workflow using KBase apps.
Image courtesy of Chivian, D. et al. Metagenome-assembled genome extraction and analysis from microbiomes using KBase. Nature Protocols 18 (2022).
Microbes are foundational for life on Earth. These tiny organisms play a major role in everything from transforming sunlight into the fundamental molecules of life. They help to produce much of the oxygen in our atmosphere. They even cycle nutrients between air and soil. Scientists are constantly finding interactions between microbes and plants, animals, and other macroscopic lifeforms. As genomic sequencing has advanced, researchers can investigate not only isolated microbes, but also whole communities of microorganisms – known as microbiomes – based on DNA found in an environment. The genomes extracted from these communities (metagenomic sequences) can identify the organisms that carry out biogeochemical processes, contribute to health or disease in human gastrointestinal microbiomes, or interact with plant roots in the rhizosphere. The Department of Energy Systems Biology Knowledgebase (KBase) recently released a suite of features and a protocol for performing sophisticated microbiome analysis that can accelerate research in microbial ecology.
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A sea campion in its natural habitat on the coast.
Photo Credit: Bangor University
The humble sea campion flower can show us how species adapt.
The speed of environmental change is very challenging for wild organisms. When exposed to a new environment individual plants and animals can potentially adjust their biology to better cope with new pressures they are exposed to - this is known as phenotypic plasticity.
Plasticity is likely to be important in the early stages of colonizing new places or when exposed to toxic substances in the environment. New research published in Nature Ecology & Evolution, shows that early plasticity can influence the ability to subsequently evolve genetic adaptations to conquer new habitats.
Labels: Biology, Earth Science, Environmental
A.I. used to predict space weather like Coronal Mass Ejections
Dr Andy Smith of Northumbria University
Photo Credit: Northumbria University/Simon Veit-Wilson.
A physicist from Northumbria University has received over £500,000 to create AI that will safeguard the Earth from destructive space storms.
Coronal Mass Ejections, which are solar eruptions from the Sun, can send plasma hurtling towards Earth at high speeds. These space storms can cause severe disruptions to power grids and communication systems.
With our increasing reliance on technology, solar storms pose a serious threat to our everyday lives, leading to severe space weather being added to the UK National Risk Assessment for the first time in 2011.
Researcher and his team analyzed huge amounts of data from satellites and space missions over the last 20 years to gain a better understanding of the conditions under which storms are likely to occur.
Labels: Artificial Intelligence, Space Weather
Patients with brain cancer may benefit from treatment to boost white blood cells
A new study led by Washington University School of Medicine reveals at least one cause of low white blood cell counts in patients treated for glioblastoma and demonstrates a potential treatment strategy that improves survival in mice.
Photo Credit: Tima Miroshnichenko
Patients with glioblastoma, a devastating brain cancer, receive treatment that frequently leads to the unfortunate side effect of low white blood cell counts that lasts six months to a year. The low numbers of white blood cells are associated with shorter survival — but the specific reason for the prolonged drop in white blood cells and the link with shorter survival has vexed scientists.
A new study led by Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis reveals at least one cause of low white blood cell counts in patients treated for glioblastoma and demonstrates a potential treatment strategy that improves survival in mice.
The study is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
Patients with this cancer typically do not survive longer than 18 months. The standard treatment is radiation and chemotherapy, after which many patients develop severely low numbers of lymphocytes — a type of white blood cell — in the bloodstream. The cause of these low lymphocyte counts has been something of a mystery because the therapy does not target the bone marrow, where these cells originate, and not all patients experience the problem.
Labels: Medical
An artist's impression of a magnetar eruption.
Illustration Credit: NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Thanks to timely measurements from specialized orbiting telescopes, Rice University astrophysicist Matthew Baring and colleagues were able to test a new theory about a possible cause for the rare slowdown, or "anti-glitch," of SGR 1935+2154, a highly magnetic type of neutron star known as a magnetar.
In a study published this month in Nature Astronomy, Baring and co-authors used X-ray data from the European Space Agency's X-ray Multi-Mirror Mission ( XMM-Newton) and NASA's Neutron Star Interior Composition Explorer ( NICER) to analyze the magnetar's rotation. They showed the sudden slowdown could have been caused by a volcano-like rupture on the surface of the star that spewed a "wind" of massive particles into space. The research identified how such a wind could alter the star's magnetic fields, seeding conditions that would be likely to switch on the radio emissions that were subsequently measured by China's Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope ( FAST).
Labels: Astronomy, Space Science
Not just mood swings but premenstrual depression
The scientists took images of the womens' brain with positron emission tomography (PET) at different cycle times.
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Researchers find serotonin transporter in the brain increased
Scientists led by Julia Sacher from Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences and Osama Sabri from the Leipzig University Hospital have discovered in an elaborate patient study that the transport of the neurotransmitter serotonin in the brain increases in women with premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD) shortly before menstruation. Their findings provide the basis for a more targeted therapy of this specific mood disorder, in which patients only have to take antidepressants for a few days.
PMS, or premenstrual syndrome, is now a familiar term to many - about 50 per cent of all women experience these symptoms a few days before onset of their menstruation. The more severe form, called premenstrual dysphoric disorder (PMDD), affects eight percent of women of childbearing age and is associated with physical symptoms such as sleep disturbances or breast pain as well as psycho-emotional symptoms, including depression, loss of control, irritability, aggressiveness and concentration problems. As a result, many women with PMDD experience disruptions in their personal and professional lives.
Labels: Neuroscience, Psychiatry
New method to control electron spin paves the way for efficient quantum computers
Researchers at the University of Rochester developed a new method for manipulating information in quantum systems by controlling the spin of electrons in silicon quantum dots. Electrons in silicon experience a phenomenon called spin-valley coupling between their spin (up and down arrows) and valley states (blue and red orbitals). When researchers apply a voltage (blue glow) to electrons in silicon, they harness the spin-valley coupling effect and can manipulate the spin and valley states, controlling the electron spin.
Illustration Credit: Michael Osadciw / University of Rochester
The method, developed by Rochester scientists, overcomes the limitations of electron spin resonance.
Quantum science has the potential to revolutionize modern technology with more efficient computers, communication, and sensing devices. Challenges remain in achieving these technological goals, however, including how to precisely manipulate information in quantum systems.
In a paper published in Nature Physics, a group of researchers from the University of Rochester, including John Nichol, an associate professor of physics, outlines a new method for controlling electron spin in silicon quantum dots—tiny, nanoscale semiconductors with remarkable properties—as a way to manipulate information in a quantum system.
"The results of the study provide a promising new mechanism for coherent control of qubits based on electron spin in semiconductor quantum dots, which could pave the way for the development of a practical silicon-based quantum computer," Nichol says.
Labels: Physics, Quantum Science
The coupling of two quantum dots was successful for the first time
Arne Ludwig was responsible for the design and manufacture of the semiconductor structures for the experiment.
Photo Credit: RUB, Kramer
This means a big step towards the technical applicability of quantum technology, for example for arithmetic operations.
A tiny change means a big breakthrough in quantum physics: an international research team from Bochum and Copenhagen has managed to couple two quantum dots in one nanochip. After exciting a quantum point using a laser, a signal is sent out, the origin of which can no longer be related to one of the quantum points, as if both had each sent half of the signal in the form of a single photon. "At first that sounds like a little success, but this signal entanglement, which sits on a single photon, is more than the sum of its parts," says Dr. Arne Ludwig from the Chair of Solid-State Physics at the Ruhr University Bochum. "It represents a big step towards the usability of quantum technology for computer operations. "Together with researchers from the Niels Bohr Institute at the University of Copenhagen, the Bochum team published the results in the journal Science from 27. Published January 2023.
Machine learning identifies drugs that could potentially help smokers quit
Penn State College of Medicine researchers helped identify eight medications that may be repurposed to help people quit smoking. A team of more than 70 researchers contributed to the analysis of genetic and smoking behavior data from more than 1.3 million people.
Image Credit: Scientific Frontline
Medications like dextromethorphan, used to treat coughs caused by cold and flu, could potentially be repurposed to help people quit smoking cigarettes, according to a study by Penn State College of Medicine and University of Minnesota researchers. They developed a novel machine learning method, where computer programs analyze data sets for patterns and trends, to identify the drugs and said that some of them are already being tested in clinical trials.
Cigarette smoking is risk factor for cardiovascular disease, cancer and respiratory diseases and accounts for nearly half a million deaths in the United States each year. While smoking behaviors can be learned and unlearned, genetics also plays a role in a person's risk for engaging in those behaviors. The researchers found in a prior study that people with certain genes are more likely to become addicted to tobacco.
Using genetic data from more than 1.3 million people, Dajiang Liu, Ph.D., professor of public health sciences, and of biochemistry and molecular biology and Bibo Jiang, Ph.D., assistant professor of public health sciences, co-led a large multi-institution study that used machine learning to study these large data sets — which include specific data about a person's genetics and their self-reported smoking behaviors.
Labels: Artificial Intelligence, Biology, Medical
Targeting cancer with a multidrug nanoparticle
MIT chemists designed a bottlebrush-shaped nanoparticle that can be loaded with multiple drugs, in ratios that can be easily controlled.
Illustration Credit: Courtesy of the researchers. Edited by MIT News.
Treating cancer with combinations of drugs can be more effective than using a single drug. However, figuring out the optimal combination of drugs, and making sure that all of the drugs reach the right place, can be challenging.
To help address those challenges, MIT chemists have designed a bottlebrush-shaped nanoparticle that can be loaded with multiple drugs, in ratios that can be easily controlled. Using these particles, the researchers were able to calculate and then deliver the optimal ratio of three cancer drugs used to treat multiple myeloma.
"There's a lot of interest in finding synergistic combination therapies for cancer, meaning that they leverage some underlying mechanism of the cancer cell that allows them to kill more effectively, but oftentimes we don't know what that right ratio will be," says Jeremiah Johnson, an MIT professor of chemistry and one of the senior authors of the study.
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Biografia
Il nome Moncey deriva dal borgo proprietà di famiglia, acquistato dal marchese di Cheylard. All'interno della Grande Armée, il maresciallo Moncey ebbe il soprannome di Fabius.

Ancien Régime

Il padre era avvocato a Besançon. Contrariamente al volere della famiglia, all'età di 15 anni Moncey scappò dal collegio e si arruolò in fanteria, dove servì fra i granatieri sino al 1773. Congedatosi due volte, si impegnò nello studio del diritto. Nel 1774 entrò nella gendarmeria della Guardia dove restò sino al 1778. L'anno dopo divenne sottotenente nel corpo di fanteria di Nassau-Siegen; nel 1782 tenente in seconda e nel 1785 tenente in prima; il 1º aprile 1791 divenne capitano.

Guerre rivoluzionarie
Nel 1793 si unì all'Armata dei Pirenei occidentali impegnata contro gli spagnoli, assegnato al 5º Battaglione di fanteria leggera. Il 26 giugno 1793 divenne chef de bataillon e si mise alla testa della 5ª demi-brigade di fanteria leggera. Si distinse, il 5 febbraio 1794, alla difesa del campo dei sanculotti presso Hendaye. Il 18 febbraio venne nominato a titolo provvisorio generale di brigata, a causa della mancanza di ufficiali superiori. Fu anche uno dei quattro militari destinati a diventare marescialli dell'Impero che saltarono il grado di chef de brigade (colonnello) istituito dal decreto del 21 febbraio 1793. Nel giugno 1794 divenne generale di divisione.

Si impadronì dei passi pirenaici, respinse una controffensiva spagnola e calò per le valli spagnole in giugno. Il 30 agosto fu nominato comandante in capo dell'Armata dei Pirenei e riportò una serie di vittorie, respingendo gli spagnoli dietro l'Ebro e conquistando Bilbao il 17 luglio 1795.

Divenne comandante dell'11ª divisione militare nel 1796. Accusato di sostenere la monarchia, fu congedato il 26 ottobre 1797. Riabilitato e divenuto comandante di un corpo d'armata dell'Armata d'Italia nel 1799, contribuì alla vittoria di Marengo e il 25 dicembre 1800 comandò l'ala sinistra dello schieramento francese nella battaglia di Pozzolo.

Guerre dell'Impero
Prestò servizio in Svizzera con l'Armata d'Italia nel 1801. Nello stesso anno, il 3 dicembre, Napoleone istituì l'ispettorato generale della gendarmeria e la affidò a Moncey, il quale divenne così omologo al ministro della Polizia. Conservò il posto durante tutto il Primo Impero e la Restaurazione.

Divenne maresciallo dell'Impero nel 1804, e comandante dell'armata di riserva del Nord, col grado di maggior generale, quindi comandante dei corpi d'armata di osservazione delle coste dell'oceano (21 dicembre 1807), destinati all'invasione della Spagna.

Entrò in Spagna nel marzo 1808 riportando alcune vittorie e diventando ufficialmente duca di Conegliano il 25 luglio. Dal 1809 al 1813 comandò varie armate di riserva.

Nel 1814 divenne comandante della Guardia nazionale parigina, e il 30 marzo, durante la battaglia alle porte della città, diede mostra di fermezza di carattere e presenza di spirito non comuni difendendo la porta di Clicy contro i russi.

Fu nominato pari di Francia da Luigi XVIII alla prima Restaurazione e anche da Napoleone  nei Cento Giorni, durante i quali peraltro si tenne in disparte.

Restaurazione
Alla Restaurazione ebbe l'audacia di rifiutare di presiedere il consiglio di guerra incaricato di giudicare il maresciallo Ney, il che gli valse tre mesi di prigione alla fortezza di Ham. Il 3 luglio 1816 fu reintegrato da Luigi XVIII nel suo grado e nella sua dignità, nuovamente nominato pari di Francia nel 1819.

Dal 1820 al 1830 comandò la 9ª divisione militare. Durante la Spedizione di Spagna conquistò nel 1823, alla testa del IV Corpo d'armata, la Catalogna, impadronendosi di Barcellona, Tarragona e Hostalric.

Monarchia di luglio
Nel 1833 fu nominato governatore dell'Hôtel des Invalides e accolse il 15 dicembre 1840 le spoglie di Napoleone riportate in patria da Sant'Elena. Già gravemente malato, si racconta che abbia detto al suo medico: «Dottore, fatemi vivere ancora un po', voglio ricevere l'Imperatore». Per la cerimonia si fece trasportare su una sedia sino al feretro, accarezzò l'impugnatura della spada di Napoleone e dichiarò infine: «Adesso andiamo a morire».

Morì il 20 aprile del 1842, e il maresciallo Soult ne pronunciò il discorso funebre. Il decano dei marescialli non viene citato che una volta nel Memoriale di Sant'Elena redatto da Emmanuel de Las Cases, con le parole: «Moncey è stato un onest'uomo».

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Bibliografia
  «Bon Adrien Jeannot de Moncey», in Charles Mullié, Biographie des célébrités militaires des armées de terre et de mer de 1789 à 1850, 1852
  Arnaud Chaffanjon, Napoléon et l'Univers Impérial. Éditeur Serg (1969) ISBN B0000DQ7Z5
  Emmanuel de Las Cases, Le Mémorial de Sainte-Helène. Éditions Seuil (1999) ISBN 2-02-035797-6
  Louis Chardigny, Les Maréchaux de Napoléon. Éditions Tallandier (2003) ISBN 2-84734-087-4
  Jacques Jourquin, Dictionnaire des maréchaux du Premier Empire, 1986.
  Joseph Valynseele, Les maréchaux du Premier Empire, 1957.

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Akufo-Addo knows he must slash oversized government – IEA Founder
Posted on October 6, 2018 by Josephine Nettey in Politics
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is very much aware that the size of his government is too big and he will soon take steps to slash the number, the founder of the Institute of Economic Affairs has said.
Dr Charles Mensa told Joy News' Kojo Yankson that the President has realised the burden of having a big sized government but the timing of making the changes is important.
"How do you appoint more than 100 people [Ministers] with cars and other benefits that come with being a Minister on this meagre revenue we have. It's not going to work. I believe he knows that," Dr Mensa said.
Responding to why Mr Akufo-Addo would appoint up to 110 Ministers, Dr Mensa excused the President, saying that he [Mensa] believes "it was to please some of the old politicians…and I believe in his mind it is temporary."
The former President of the Ghana Employers Association (GEA), however, advised that the cut in the number of ministers should come soon because "the longer it takes the more difficult it would be."
"If you had 100 ministers and they all drawing salaries the deficit will rise," he said, adding that the government can tax the people only up to a certain point. "Some ministers will have to go."
Dr Mensa said the practice of employing many people in the ministry to run the business of government will not help Ghana to win the economic competition in the world. "We need to change that pattern," he urged.
"We won't achieve much in this country if that continues," he said in the exclusive interview, which aired on the AM Show Thursday.
However, the last time President Akufo-Addo spoke on the huge size of his government, he was unrepentant it would go down.
When Joy News' Kojo Yankson asked him at the "Meet the Press" earlier this year about whether 110 was still the "magic number", Mr Akufo-Addo noted that all the ministers were delivering on their mandate.
Other government spokespersons have also argued that most of Akufo-Addo's ministers are from Parliament and therefore do not draw salary as Ministers.
But the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and some analysts are not convinced. They argue that although MPs do not take double salaries when they take up Ministerial positions, they still take extra allowances for the extra duties.
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Steak 'n Shake on its way to MH?
Scott Liles
The Baxter Bulletin
The Mountain Home City Council approved the annexation of several parcels of unincorporated land along U.S. Highway 62 Business into the city on Thursday night, possibly paving the way for a Steak 'n Shake restaurant to be built in town.
Ted Sanders, the Mountain Home attorney handling the annexation of the properties into the city for the landowners involved, told the City Council on Thursday night that a parcel on the corner of Highway 62 Business and Oak Drive/County Road 28 would be the site of a yet-to-be constructed Steak 'n Shake.
"When it comes to new stores and restaurants, I don't believe it until it comes up out of the ground," said Sanders, who stressed to The Bulletin on Friday that he did not represent the Steak 'n Shake chain or its prospective franchisee.
Steak 'n Shake is a casual restaurant chain whose signature items include premium hamburgers and hand-dipped milkshakes. It has more than 600 locations, with the closest to Mountain Home including restaurants in Branson, Poplar Bluff and Jonesboro.
The property mentioned by Sanders is owned by Glory MTH Properties, a limited liability company registered with the Arkansas Secretary of State's Office. According to paperwork filed with the state on April 8, Glory MTH Properties has a west Little Rock mailing address and lists Sadia Ali as the business' registered agent and incorporator/organizer.
City officials The Bulletin contacted Friday regarding Glory MTH Properties could not confirm that the LLC was connected to the Steak 'n Shake restaurant corporation. While the officials said they had never directly spoken to Glory MTH Properties representatives, they nonetheless referred to the parcel as "the Steak 'n Shake property" while discussing that piece of land Friday.
The Glory MTH Properties parcel is located on the northern side of Highway 62 Business, across Oak Drive from D&D Safe Storage.The Glory MTH property was one of 18 parcels that had petitioned the Council to annex them into the city. The annexed property begins east of Bobby Sue's restaurant and continues along Highway 62 Business until Buzzard Roost Cutoff, with the Hale's Galaxy of Fireworks building being excluded.
The largest business included in the annexation is Warehouse Liquor, located on the corner of Highway 62 Business and Meadow View Terrace. The annexation adds one additional resident to the city's population.
The annexed land also includes two large undeveloped parcels, one located on the north side of Highway 62 and the other located south of the highway.
The properties being annexed into the city will be connected to the City of Mountain Home's municipal sewer system. Water and Sewer Director Alma Clark said Friday that it would take the city about six months to build out sewer lines to the Glory MTH Properties parcel. Rocky conditions could prolong the time the city needs to complete the expansion, she said.
The annexed properties are responsible for the materials used in the sewer lines' expansion; the City of Mountain Home will provide the labor for the project.


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A "headless chicken monster" was spotted swimming in the Antarctic Ocean, Australian researchers announced Sunday.
The bizarre creature that does indeed look like it's missing a head is actually a sea cucumber scientifically known as Enypniastes eximia. As if looking like a headless chicken wasn't enough, it also has a webbed veil and a transparent body that shows its internal organs. The "monster" is also extremely active for a deep sea creature, and can measure up to 9 inches, past research has shown.
Meet the Enypniastes eximia, also known as a "headless chicken monster."
It was previously filmed in the Gulf of Mexico, and now the Australian Government announced researchers with the Australian Antarctic Division captured clear video of this odd sea cucumber flapping its veil and appearing to feed or crawl using its tentacles across the ocean floor.
This is the first time the headless chicken monster has been sighted in southern ocean waters, the Australian government noted in a release.
"The Southern Ocean is home to an incredible abundance and variety of marine life, including commercially sought-after species, the harvesting of which must be carefully managed for future generations," Gillian Slocum, Australia's Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources Commissioner, said in a statement.
Australian researchers were able to capture the rare sight using new technology attached to toothfish longlines.
"Some of the footage we are getting back from the cameras is breathtaking, including species we have never seen in this part of the world," said Dirk Welsford, Australian Antarctic Division Program Leader.
The collected images and data, which will be presented at the annual CCAMLR meeting this week, will also show what areas of the ocean might be adversely affected by fishing, Welsford said.


The Supreme Court does not have jurisdiction in a residence dispute concerning a boy born in Eastern Europe, Justices have declared.
The child in question was born in Romania in 2006. His parents, both Romanian nationals, had met while working in England, and they travelled back here following the birth. But within a year the relationship had broken down and the couple went their separate ways. Since then, the child, referred to as 'DD', has lived with his mother.
The father returned to Romania but maintained a close relationship with his son. Back in his home country, he launched divorce proceedings and applied for primary care of DD. He was eventually granted a ruling his favour by a court in Bucharest that the boy should come and live with him but not until November 2013, after lengthy delays.
The father then applied to the English courts for the Romanian residence order to be recognised and enforced over here. But he was refused, on the grounds of Brussels II Bis (or 'Revised'), an EU regulation which defines jurisdiction in international disputes. Section 23(b) states that a judgement issued in another member state should not be recognised "if it was given, except in a case of urgency, without the child having been given an opportunity to be heard…".
The Romanian court had not made any attempt to ascertain DD's wishes or view of the dispute. The father pursued his case to the Court of Appeal but lost – and has now lost again at the Supreme Court.
Brussels II is supposed to operate in a speedy and fundamentally administrative way, the Supreme Court explained, with only one level of appeal available in England and Wales. This restriction was intended to encourage recognition of rulings made in other member states without excessive challenge.
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September 1, 2014 · 10:50 am
Mean Business on Ganson Street: A Novel by S. Craig Zahler (Thomas Dunne Books/St. Martin's Press, $25.99, 304 pages)
An opening chapter filled with violence is standard fare for writers such as Lisa Unger, Deborah Crombie and Lee Child. Thereafter, the story settles into an exploration of the characters and their motivations that eventually link back to that initial shock. The reader is provided red herring possibilities for the solution to the mystery – who dunnit?
Author S. Craig Zahler has penned a "novel" that is, in fact, a snuff movie on paper. Sadly, the Warner Brothers studio has optioned the book and the author is working on the screen adaptation. His vision may spring to life. My hope is that it will be X rated. Anything less will mean that the gore and violence splattered on most of its pages has been insinuated and a younger audience will be admitted for viewing.
The contrasts set up between Detective Jules Bettinger, formerly of Arizona, and the sworn officers in Victory, Missouri are punctuated by crude epithets hurled every which way. Bettinger is exiled after being less than helpful when the former son-in-law of the mayor comes to the police station to secure assistance in locating his missing would-be bride.
Bettinger is alternatively a well-spoken man with an education, a loving husband and father and a guy out for revenge. Regardless of his role, he's only marginally likeable. Zahler is sadly lacking in his female character development. Each of the women in his tale is one-dimensional. Even Bettinger's wife fails to experience authentic feelings.
If trash talk and gory, sadistic and gratuitous violence are your preferred criterion for selecting a book, have at it. Everyone else should steer clear! To be clear, this book is not recommended; far from it.
A review copy was provided by the publisher.
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If you follow me on Instagram. Wait, you mean you are not following @dooneyskitchen on Instagram? Oya, face the wall!!!!! Lol, seriously, you should. That is how you will just be missing all the new and exciting stuff about Nigerian food. Don't be the latecomer among your friends and family. @dooneyskitchen on Instagram, is where it is happening. Anyways, I've talked about my puff puff woes a couple of times, with hilarious stories. Seriously, anything involving flour is my Achilles heel, but puff puff is where the knife really digs deep. The number of times this tiny ball of goodness has made me almost cry, or wring my hands in annoyance. I already have a recipe on the blog for puff puff, and even at that, it is sometimes hit and miss. I swear there were days i used to pray over the flour that i bought, because at first i thought maybe it was the flour, and after buying it at several supermarkets, i had to concede defeat. The commonality in all my trials was ME, and not the flour or the sugar or the yeast, or the temperature i was leaving the mix to rise. Sigh!!!!!
My puff puff woes came to a head one day when someone requested for a tray of puff puff alongside other dishes. The puff puff was for her children. Like me, she has never gotten it right and her children love puff puff when they eat it outside the home. I saw puff puff on the list and started getting palpitations and bouts of self doubt. So, I decided to try a recipe who always seemed to have beautiful pictures of puff puff. Epic fail, and I mean eeeeeepic fail. I remember looking at the ingredients and wondering what some things were doing there, heaven knows i was like hmmmmmn, but i am not one to call a recipe in doubt, heck I am the poster child for re-inventing Nigerian cooking. So, imagine by shock and severe disappointment with the turn out. Those poor little children who had been told they were getting puff puff that evening. With trepidation in my voice, i called the woman and she was laughing and so understanding. She said and I quote. "Dunni, if you of all people can get puff puff wrong, then i am going to stop feeling guilty and terrible about my puff puff skills, because that thing can disgrace someone". She said she fried it once and even her 3 year old rejected it and said mummy this is not puff puff". I promised to come back to her house with the tray of puff puff, and i just told myself, you better call Kemi, she is the Queen of puff puff.
On my way back home, mortified after dropping off the food without puff puff, I called Kemi to wail about my experience. She said which recipe did you use, I told her and she read it and was like huh, say what now. Who adds …… to puff puff? I know you guys love to experiment o, but that puff puff will be heavy and not light and airy and chewy like small chops puff puff. She was so sure, she called our Baking Queen to testify and that one said yup, remember our conversation weeks ago about how the addition of so so ingredient can make cake heavy. I remember slapping my forehead when i flashed back to that conversation. Of course, of course, I should have known, but anyways, if it didn't happen, i wouldn't have gotten this sure fire recipe that DOES NOT fail. Kemi is such a pro at puff puff, like legendary, so i told her to please measure the next time she made puff puff. Of course she forgot the next time she did and i was wailing and threatening to drive 45mins to her house and force her to make puff puff again. My threat must have worked, because she did measure shortly after and sent me a whatsapp message with what i am going to call puff puff gold in print. This time, i respected myself and brought out the weighing scale, and Tribe, the rest is history. Well except when i had to drive back to the woman's house to drop off only puff puff. It was a very painful 2 hour drive combined, but i was happy to be returning with stellar puff puff and the feedback was her children loved it and asked for that aunty to always bring them puff puff. This recipe I have tried TEN TIMES, since last year, yes TEN times. It has not failed yet, like never ever.
Even when i got the idea from shopping for drinks for easter sunday lunch, to use cocktails to replace water in puff puff, it worked. I was stoked silly, and started dancing around my kitchen. I tried making puff puff with margarita, zobo daiquiri and pina colada. The flavour was so different and yum. I threw in a spirnkling on yaji and a teaspoon of vanilla essence and geez, i wanted sit down with a spoon and consume the batter raw, imagine how amazing it tasted when fried. With the Zobo Daiquiri, the pink colour while it was frying was such a delight, and when it fried and gave off this rose tinge colour with a pretty pink inside, I knew i was unto something. Then I decided to marble it, i just started smiling. Imagine how surprised your guests would be to see a pink coloured puff puff after biting into it.
Again, measure 400ml of your choice of liquid and ensure it is slightly warm to touch.
Combine with the dry ingredients and mix with a spoon until all the flour has been well mixed. Watch out for the bottom of the bowl, because a common mistake is to mix in a hurry with patches of flour at the bottom. That is a recipe for disaster.
Turn on your oven or microwave for 2 and half minutes, switch it off and place the bowl inside with the door shut. Leave to rise for an hour.
Use the spoon to work the dough after it has risen. A common mistake you may have made in the past it to fry once it has risen. What will happen is very oil puff puff, because of all the air. So, you need to beat the dough and work out all the air. The other benefit of beating the dough will be stretchy chewy puff puff like the one in parties, because when you beat the dough, you are working the gluten particles in the flour which will make it more elastic.
Heat up enough oil to deep fry. Another common mistake is not frying with enough oil. Puff puff needs deep frying so that when it sinks for like 3 seconds, it floats to the top. if there isn't enough volume of oil to cause that flotation, you will end up with a heavy oily mess.
Scoop the mix with your hand towards you, forming a boat, take your hand out of the bowl, with the mix in your palm, then turn your hand such that you let the dough fall into the oil with the 'O' formed between your index finger and thumb. This will take quite some practice to get, but i have two videos on my Instagram page @dooneyskitchen for you to watch and practice.
I not only love your recipes, I love your play with words.. You're very witty. My friend in my head. Thank you in advance. I quit attempting to make puff puff after my last attempt.. My guests thought they were being served pancakes. I kuku brought out Aunt Jemima syrup. Oya, dey chop dey go. So I thank you in advance and I'm sure I'll be sending my prayers your way real soon.
I've never tried puff puff before. But I will with this recipe and posy it and tag you ?
Can I use self raising flour?
Okay. Thanks. Off to buy flour then. What can I use the self raising flour for?
Great job dunni thanks for sharing, i know i will probably mess up the first time because of the measurements, seeing as im making just a little for about four people, but just like you i won't stop trying till i get it right.
It's always a delight coming to your site to check new recipes. I am making about 52 qt cooler of puff puff and intend on using this recipe by doubling up on it although will try a small batch first. The last puff puff I made was an epic fail, it wasn't fluffy, it was hard and no one ate it although I added nutmeg and cayenne pepper. These are ingredients not listed in yours, should I stay away from them and what is the key to making fluffy puff puff? This recipe calls for 2 cups of flour and more than 1 1/2 cups of water. Wont it be too watery? Please help as I HAVE to get this one right.
Ah you're a legend ??????
Tried this yesterday and again today and went perfectly. Saving my wife material for a long time, thank you !! ??
Could you pls clarify if you dilute the Ribena before adding it to the mixture?
You say turn on the oven…to anything? Just as long as it is warm?


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Save the Children says 130 children die every day in Yemen
FILE - In this Jan. 24, 2016 file photo, a malnourished child lies in a bed waiting to receive treatment at a therapeutic feeding center in a hospital in Sanaa, Yemen. Save the Children, an international aid group said late Wednesday, Nov. 15, 2017, that an estimated 130 children or more die every day in war-torn Yemen from extreme hunger and disease. It said a continuing blockade by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels is likely to further increase the death rate and that over 50,000 children are believed to have died in 2017. (AP Photo/Hani Mohammed, File)
CAIRO (AP) — An international aid group says an estimated 130 children or more die every day in war-torn Yemen from extreme hunger and disease.
Save the Children said late on Wednesday that a continuing blockade by the Saudi-led coalition fighting Yemen's Shiite rebels is likely to further increase the death rate. It says over 50,000 children are believed to have died in 2017.
Saudi Arabia blocked Yemen's ports after a rebel missile attack near Riyadh earlier in November. It said Monday the coalition would lift the blockade after widespread international criticism.
On Thursday, the leaders of the World Health Organization, the U.N. children's agency and the World Food Program issued a joint appeal for the easing of the blockade.
"While the Saudi-led military coalition has partially lifted the recent blockade of Yemen, closure of much of the country's air, sea and land ports is making an already catastrophic situation far worse," they said.
"The space and access we need to deliver humanitarian assistance is being choked off, threatening the lives of millions of vulnerable children and families."
The Saudi-led coalition went to war against the rebels, known as Houthis, in March 2015 on behalf of Yemen's internationally recognized government. But the coalition has made little progress, and the rebels still control much of northern Yemen, including the capital, Sanaa.
The war has killed more than 10,000 people and displaced 3 million. Yemen was the Arab world's poorest country even before the conflict began.
The U.N. officials said more than 20 million people, including 11 million children, are in need of urgent assistance, with 7 million totally dependent on food assistance. The U.N. has called it the "worst humanitarian crisis in the world."
"Even with a partial lifting of the blockade, the World Food Program estimates that an additional 3.2 million people will be pushed into hunger. If left untreated, 150,000 malnourished children could die within the coming months," the officials said.
Later Thursday, the U.N. spokesman said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres has written to Saudi Arabia's U.N. ambassador, saying the kingdom's failure to reopen key airports and sea ports in Yemen is already reversing humanitarian efforts to tackle the crisis in the impoverished country.
Stephane Dujarric said Guterres welcomes the reopening of the port in the city of Aden but that this "will not meet the needs of 28 million Yemenis."
Dujarric said the United Nations is urging the Saudi-led coalition to resume U.N. humanitarian flights to Aden and Sanaa, and to reopen the ports of Hodeida and Salif for food and medical deliveries.
Like the capital, Sanaa, Hodeida and Salif are in rebel-held territory.


许飞, 贺尔铭. 飞机环控管道阀门气动噪声产生机理及其影响因素分析[J]. 西北工业大学学报, 2017, 35(4): 608-614.
Xu Fei, He Erming. Simulation of Flow-Induced Noise Generation on Orifice Plates in an Aircraft Climate Control System[J]. Journal of Northwestern Polytechnical University, 2017, 35(4): 608-614.
 刘翠伟, 李玉星. 基于CFD模拟的输气管道阀门流噪声仿真[J]. 油气储运, 2012, 31(9): 657-662.
 刘翠伟, 李玉星. 输气管道气体流经阀门气动噪声产生机理分析[J]. 振动与冲击, 2014, 33(2): 152-157.
 孟令雅, 刘翠伟, 李玉星. 输气管道气动噪声产生机制及其分析方法[J]. 中国石油大学学报, 2012, 36(6): 128-136.
 Ffowcs-Williams J, Hawkings D L. Sound Generation by Turbulence and Surfaces in Arbitrary Motion[J]. Proc Roy Soc London, 1969, A264: 321-342.
Abstract: The noise generated by a valve placed in the pipeline of an aircraft climate control system was investigated with two approaches based on Lighthill's analogy, one is the variational formulation of the Lighthill's analogy implemented in a Finite Element framework, the other is the so-called porous Ffowcs Williams-Hawkings (KFW-H) formulation. The finite volume method is used to obtain the fluctuating pressure data, the radiation noise of the valve is obtained by integrating the FW-H equation method and the acoustic finite element hybrid method.The effects of flow velocity, valve opening, valve position, pipe diameter and temperature on the sound pressure lever were studied respectively.The result show: air flowing produced a pressure difference between the front and rear valve, which generate vortex and produces strong aerodynamic noise. the calculation results of the KFW-H on the whole frequency are less than CFD mixed acoustic finite element method Because miss of the influence of structure on the noise.The valve opening and flow speed will significantly affect the aerodynamic noise of the pipeline.The use of circular arc valve plate instead of butterfly valve plate can achieve good noise reduction effect.
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This essay was written by me and originally posted by Sakura Bloom here.
"Do you know how I love you?"
Our three-year old, Behr, chirped out that misconstructed question one morning last week and followed it up with an unprompted hug.
Have you ever beheld a tree crowned with blossoms after Springtime kisses it? That's what my heart felt like in that moment. Soft. Fluttering. Alive.
Some days when I look at him all I can see is how much we've been through together, how much we've changed together.
He was the first baby to know the welcome of my womb, the first body to curl, small and warm, into the nest of my shaking arms. This boy and I, we've adventured the unknowns of breastfeeding and sleep training and solids and carseats. We've navigated tantrums (yes, from both of us) and boundaries and personality differences.
Each day I get to spend with Behr--and his sister that joined us last June--shows me how different I am because of him, my first. I hardly recognize the woman I was nearly four years ago.
You can't experience love like this and remain unaffected.
I thought I knew before I met him, but our boy is the person who showed me what it is to live unconditional love out in the everyday. I won't say it's been effortless. There have been many weary, sleep deprived moments where I've had thoughts of, what have I gotten myself into? And on my worst days, mourned the lifestyle I had before he was born.
Although I still struggle in the frustrating moments to find the joy in my role, I've since learned this truth: I can label motherhood as a loss of freedom, or I can see it as a catalyst freeing me to become the best version of myself.
There's a verse in the Bible that speaks to this vein of transformation, it says: "But God, being rich in mercy, because of the great love with which He loved us, even when we were dead in our trespasses, made us alive together with Christ--by grace you have been saved--" -Ephesians 2:4. We were dead until God's love entered the scene and brought us to life.
I read that and realize what Scripture is saying: if love doesn't transform us, it's not love.
So when he asked, "Do you know how I love you?" I can answer, yes. I know how he loves me, how I love him. It's not unlike Spring coming to Winter, how it sits quietly with the brittle earth until all is gently brought to life.
The gift of a bond like this, adorning my heart like sunlight on snowfall.
A thought that often flits, hummingbird-like, through my mind as we go about our days.
He won't remember how I helped him get dressed; the threading of his ever growing limbs through tiny pant legs and flopping sleeves as if I were weaving a baby into a boy a little more every day.
She won't recall what it feels like to press her pillowed cheeks against the skin on my chest. That feeling of being safely slung next to mama's heart; a mirror of the womb-home I feel like she was just living in yesterday.
I'm of the belief that memories, whether we can recall them with original sharpness or not, still play a vital role in who we grow to be. As I write this, my son is three and my daughter is heart-wrenchingly shy of six months old. It's her first Christmas with us earthside and his first as a big brother.
I already miss them at this age.
The clarity of the Little Years will inevitably dim as they grow older but that doesn't mean the magic of it will be lost on them. The memories of all their "firsts" will always reside deep inside them, the soft flickerings of a love, a warmth that's always been present.
Oh Jesus, let me remember this.
Let me remember her eyes, his laugh. The slow rise of her chest while she sleeps. The way his fingers dance when he tells stories. Her chubby hands reaching to cup my face. His hair catching in the light. Let me recall the rhythm, the poetry of our days when they were this young, when I was this young. Let me be the Memory Keeper, the one who tends to these ember-moments that quietly warm the cores of their growing hearts.
And so, in each moment and day and long night and moment spent under the arching sun, I'll guard this flame. I'll sing over them. They might not remember when they first heard the song but their hearts will know the familiar hum from deep inside calling out: You are important and beautiful. You were made in His image and born for great purpose.
All these notes that spark and burn away the doubts that they were ever anything but loved and wanted.
It was the first time we'd seen the sun in days.
We live in the very northern tip of Kentucky which means that the late Fall/Winter season brings with it a grey curtain that hangs thick from one edge of the horizon to the other. There can be whole weeks before we see clear sunlight.
But not today. Today, we were making good on our plans to take the hour drive to visit a dear friend and finally meet her two month old daughter. It seemed as though the sun was blessing the endeavour with it's bright presence.
We arrive in Louisville, parking under a tree decked in flickering yellow leaves. My friend Shawna and her husband greet us from their apartment door with their tiny daughter tucked in the crook of Shawna's arm. We embrace. The world instantly becomes brighter.
The last time we'd seen one another, our daughters were there too. We just hadn't met them yet. Both of us rubbed our rounding tummies and talked about how the best birth plan is the one that you hold loosely too. We parted ways then knowing that, most likely, the next time we met would after we both became mothers of girls for the first time.
Shawna has been my friend for nearly a decade. It's rare thing when I can feel safe enough to be completely myself around someone else. She's one of the very, very few people I have that sort of kinship with. We first connected over our love of thought churning conversations and the ability to weave stories with ink, pages and fingers tapping on keyboards. I find it to be a beautiful turn of events that God saw fit for us to birth our daughters within months of each other in the same year.
After grabbing burgers at a local joint, we return to our vehicles for a short drive to a park for a walk. As I'm loading my littlest into the van, Shawna walks over and suggests I ride with her for the 20 minute drive.
Isn't that all friendship ever is? An invitation to connect.
Our car conversation ranges from bottle and breastfeeding to the pain of unfilled dreams to the spiritual struggle of living out the gospel of Christ for our families. She confesses slight insecurities about navigating life with a two month old, I tell her to rest easy; no one is scoring the way she mothers that baby. I share about how my husband's job is draining our family's spirit and she assures me that she will pray for God to open up new opportunities for us.
We both smile and laugh a lot. It's good to feel known.
The wind is sharp, cold and playful at the park. The sun leaks through a watery layer of thin clouds. We bundle up our babies and breathe in the openness that comes from connecting with kindred spirits.
My three year old plays loudly with Jonathan (my husband) and Chris (her husband). I keep remarking about how thankful I am to see the sun; to have had the world full of light for at least one afternoon. These days feel sparse in the season of life we're living.
When I first saw that I was to be writing about the subject of kinship my chest caved in a little. Friendship isn't something that's always a happy subject for me to touch on. Yes, I have close friends but every one of them is long-distance. Which means that I go long, aching seasons without any sort of local "village". I don't have a regular girl's night out or playdates with fellow moms and their kids. I've never had friends just pop over for coffee or a movie night.
The friendships I do have must be maintained over random text messages, occasional care packages and even rarer phone calls. It's not ideal, but it's what we have and I try my best to make it work.
Our time in the park winds down. The babies have flushed cheeks and nipped-red noses. My hands are cold from the stiff breeze but my heart a bit warmer--kindled by the spark of sweet fellowship with my friend.
By the time we arrive back home, it's well after dark. The sky has unfurled in black velvet and I'm quietly mourning the fact Shawna doesn't live closer. I happen to glance up as we we're unloading the kids from the van to our home.
Thick, glittering bands of stars from one corner of the sky to other. I see where God Himself has taken fistfuls of the bright things and scattered them across the fathomless black.
They're always there, you know. The stars sit quietly, lighting both the day and night. Unlike the sun or moon, the stars are the only celestials constant to our sky----whether we see them every day or not.
In that way, I think later, they're a lot like Shawna.


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Godzilla vs. Kong Trailer
January 26, 2021 January 26, 2021 / DBreitenbeck
The number of films coming out that I'm actually considering paying money to see might be counted on one hand. These are mostly because they are continuations of stories I'm already invested in somehow, or because they seem to be the very odd exceptions to the usual rules of trash Hollywood that somehow slipped through the cracks.
Godzilla vs. Kong is one of those, entirely because I'm a massive Godzilla fan.
I'll be honest: I don't think it'll be good (and it's liable to be the last new film I ever bother to see as a new film), but I do hope that it will at least provide some satisfying kaiju moments. That's really how I think of these things at this point: a two-and-a-half-hour fan-art slideshow.
In any case, the trailer finally dropped, confirming that this film is in fact still coming out despite the lackluster box office of every previous film in the Legendary 'Monsterverse' series (for the record: I liked Godzilla quite a lot, thought King of the Monsters was extremely stupid in unnecessary ways, but at least paid most of the monsters their due, and found Skull Island alternately delightful and annoying).
First thought: must every trailer for every action movie open with an explosion and that ominous hum?
So, Kong's on a barge in chains. That's a good note to start on: very fitting for Kong.
Kong is friends with a little girl. Eh, that seems off to me. Kong's story is 'beauty and the beast,' not 'innocence and the beast'. That's a very different tone and I don't care for the change. Even Skull Island got that right with Bored Larson (the 'innocence' connection more fits with Gamera than Kong).
The story seems to be the Godzilla has suddenly started attacking people for an unknown reason, casting him as the heavy in this film. I will say, I'm glad that they're pulling back from the overtly heroic role they had him playing in the previous two films. Godzilla in my mind needs to have that air of danger and wildness to him: he's noble and can be heroic, but he should never seem safe. The essence of his character is to be the embodiment of things that man cannot control: the unexpected consequences that can't be shoved back into the box. He is a reminder that mankind is not an absolute ruler of the world, but subject to higher laws that we cannot evade or overrule. So I'm all on board with him actually attacking people this time around. The dialogue implies there's some larger threat at work that will serve as a common enemy to both Kong and Godzilla, which I'm also onboard with (I remember reading a fan-fiction version of Kong vs. Godzilla many years ago where Gigan was the villain. It's probably too much to hope for that here, but it's not impossible I suppose. Though I can't help thinking Kong wouldn't last long against him).
As for what actually goes on in the trailer, well, Kong seems to be getting the better of things much more than I like to see (is it me, or do filmmakers have trouble showing balanced fights these days?). The action is way over the top to the point of being ridiculous (Godzilla and Kong both actually stand on a ship and fight? Yeah, that's not happening). I like Kong making crude weapons for himself, but that shot at the end of Kong leaping at Godzilla and 'catching' his ray on the ax…well, one, the ax should melt, and two, all Godzilla has to do is adjust his aim a little bit, so…yikes. Not a good sign.
I really don't like the music either. Rap (or whatever this is) doesn't fit kaiju at all in my mind. It's too American and it's too undignified. The kaiju are warriors, not thugs (well, a character like Gigan might work with rap), especially Godzilla and Kong. Plus, come on: every action trailer has this kind of music in it. Kong and Godzilla want lush, heavy orchestral scores, or maybe metal guitar riffs, not generic gangster tunes.
My biggest worry going in, however, is that I strongly suspect they're going to give the fight to Kong on the grounds that he's the underdog. The issue I have with this is very much the same as in Batman v Superman (well, one of many, many issues I have with that film): strong as the meta-fictional rivalry is, the logic of the characters themselves dictates that the fight can only end one way. But instead of following that out, we give it to the 'favored' character, thereby cheapening them both and blatantly showing the writer's hand.
Yes, Kong won in the original King Kong vs. Godzilla. But the thing with that is that Godzilla was still a pretty new character at that point and a solid villain, while Kong was a well-established and fairly beloved figure. The Godzilla 'rules' hadn't been quite worked out yet, and even then it was a close fight that ended on an ambiguous note. That's not the case anymore: Godzilla is at least as well-established as Kong, and his 'rules' have become pretty well set. It's similar to the difference between Fleischer Superman and modern Superman. And those rules dictate that he should win any fight with Kong hands down.
(Another reason I like Freddy vs. Jason: the writers followed through on this and gave the fight – as far as it went – to the logical winner, even though he was the less prestigious character).
But that still remains to be seen. All signs seem to point to the filmmakers giving it to Kong, but maybe they'll surprise me.
In any case, I'll be seeing it, but I'm not recommending it to anyone not already interested. It looks like a big, stupid blockbuster employing characters I love, and my hope is that they at least pay them their due respects.
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Q: Need some advice to get a commercial xmpp application developed I have a business idea which I want to materialize for sometime .. I recently shared my idea with 2 close friends who also found it very interesting, new and doable plus the cost included for the project to start is reasonable and they have planned to invest in it. Much of the success of this project app depends on the proper marketing  element out of which most of the time, you have to personally meet up with clients/vendor and make them use your application.
The idea is to connect  local ecommerce (retail shops, businesses, vendors, etc.) with users/customers through a messaging app mostly similar to whatsapp. I have already started to look for a xmpp/jabber developer who can accomplish our requirements. We are expecting him to develop the app and also set-up the server requirements. Our budget lies within $3000-4000 range for the project to initiate.
I want the app to have the following aspects:
a) user friendly GUI
b) highly scalable (planning to start within my city located in south asia)
c) location sharing (want users to navigate nearby shops/vendor offering their type of goods/services)
d) have a user review feedback against vendors and an additional page for vendor profile/rating system
e) only customer - vendor chats with functionalities like camera snaps, audio recording (just like whatsapp).
f) both for ios and android
Now the whole idea outlaid, after reading lots of articles, discussion and tutorials, I  have some questions (I am a non-technical person btw):
1- I believe ejabberd is the best option as compared to tigase or prosody due to high scability. Is this ok to go with or should I look at other xmpp servers?
2- Currently, I am planning to launch this application within my city (rated as worldwide no.2 as per population stats of above 25m people), should I set-up a local server with high internet bandwith and a powerful machine or should I outsource it to some xmpp hosted server in the US (as their technological infrastructure has always provided quality service).
3- Should I be worried about the developer stealing the source code or is there any effective way to minimize this risk?
4- Any ideas what other things I am missing. This is dead serious for me and I am willing to do anything to get this project on the road.
(P.S.: The idea for this app is similar to the existing app called Lookup but I am planning to add some variations to it)
Thanks and sorry for being a bit lengthy ..
Regards,
Ahmed

A: ejabberd is indeed likely your best bet. However, be careful about the budget. To launch a quality service in an highly competitive area you have to have a significant budget, both development and marketing, if you expect your project to succeed.


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LONGCROFT FOUNDER SHORTLISTED FOR SME NATIONAL BUSINESS AWARD
Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel founder, Abi Purser, is delighted to have been shortlisted in the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' category for the SME National Business Awards 2019. SME stands for Small Medium Enterprise, and the prestigious national awards aim to raise the profile of 'industrious, hardworking and enterprising SME's Nationally'. Abi, who is thrilled to be shortlisted for the awards, will attend the glittering awards ceremony at Wembley Stadium on 6 December 2019 along with other members of the Longcroft team.
Abi's nomination for the SME National Award follows her winning the 'Entrepreneur of the Year' Award at this year's illustrious SME Hertfordshire Business Awards. This award was presented to Abi at the Awards Final on Thursday 20 June 2019 at Hunton Park Hotel, Hertfordshire.
Abi said: "We were hugely proud to win the Entrepreneur of the Year SME Hertfordshire Business Award. It meant a great deal to me and all of the team working at Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotel Group to be recognised in this way. It reflects our focus on excellence throughout all of our five-star cat hotels and our drive to be the best in all that we do. Being nominated for the National Award is incredibly exciting, as it recognises how we have grown Longcroft from a Hertfordshire based business, to a successful national proposition in just a few short years."
Abi opened the very first cat hotel in Welwyn Garden City, Hertfordshire, in 2010, in response to the poor standard of feline accommodation and care offered across the UK. Longcroft won the SME Hertfordshire 'Best New Business' award back in 2014, following the phenomenal success of this founding hotel in Welwyn Garden City and subsequent opening of a second hotel in St Albans. Then, as now, the award was testament to Longcroft's unique vision and provision of a state of the art, immaculate, safe, homely environment for feline guests to enjoy while their owners are away. And as of June this year, with the opening of Longcroft Orpington, there are now 20 Longcroft Luxury Cat Hotels in the country, with more in the pipeline for this year and next – a reflection of the ever growing demand for the group's level or service and expertise.


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2 Men Shared The Same Name & Looked Identical Sparked The Need For Fingerprint Identification
They looked identical and even shared the same name, but the two prisoners pictured were actually different people and their remarkable case helped bring in the era of fingerprint identification.
The man above was called Will West, the man below William West, and they were both sentenced to jail at Leavenworth Penitentiary in Kansas over 100 years ago.
The arrival of Will West in 1903 caused the records clerk at the prison considerable confusion, because he was convinced he'd processed him two years previously.
Will West arrived at Leavenworth, In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. West said no.
The clerk took some measurements, went to the file, and produced this record, bearing the name William West:
In 1903, a prisoner named Will West arrived at Leavenworth. The record clerk took the photographs above and, thinking he remembered West, asked whether he had been there before. West said no.
The clerk, M.W. McClaughry, asked Will West if he'd ever been to the prison before.
West said he hadn't.
McClaughry then set about taking his Bertillon measurements – named after the French policeman Alphonse Bertillon – which was the usual method of identifying people and involved recording the dimensions of key physical features.
HOW FINGERPRINTING WORKS
There are three different types of fingerprint – patent, plastic and latent.
The first type occurs when the skin of a finger contaminated with something makes contact with the surface of an object, leaving a 'ridge impression' that can be seen with the naked eye.
Plastic prints are also visible to the naked eye and occur when finger leaves an indentation in a soft material.
The third type is a latent print, which can normally only be seen with enhancement – a special powder, for instance. Latent prints come about from the finger secreting sweat onto an object, which leaves an invisible pattern on it.
Every finger has a different pattern of ridges on it that investigators analyse and so far no two fingerprints among the billions recorded have ever been found to be the same.
McClaughry, still convinced the man before him had already been to the prison, looked up his name in his filing system and found one William West – who looked identical to Will West in the photographs in every respect.
They even shared the same Bertillon measurements.
But Will West insisted to McClaughry that it was not him: 'That's my picture, but I don't know where you got it, for I know I have never been here before.'
To McClaughry's shock, he was absolutely right, too. William West was a different person altogether and in fact had been admitted to the prison two years previously for murder.
The case highlighted the flaws in the Bertillon method and it wasn't long before the U.S authorities turned to fingerprinting.
Its pioneer was Scotland Yard's Sgt. John K. Ferrier, who met McClaughry at the St Louis World Fair in 1904 while he was guarding the Crown Jewels, which were on tour.
He told the U.S prison officer how Scotland Yard had been using fingerprinting for the past three years and evangelised its accuracy.
McClaughry was sold, and after being instructed on the technique he introduced it to Leavenworth Prison. America's first national fingerprint repository was established shortly afterwards.
The use of fingerprints had actually begun in 1858 with Sir William James Herschel, Chief Magistrate of the Hooghly district in Jungipoor, India, who asked locals to stamp their business contracts with their palms. However, he did this on a hunch that it would be a good way of identifying someone, not because he knew the science behind it.
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