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Best Kitchen Renovation
With help from HGTV star Leanne Ford, former NFL player Gus Frerotte and his wife, Ann, created a cozy, timeless kitchen in their century-old Oakmont home.
Melissa Rayworth,
photos by alexandra ribar
From the enormous table to the crackling fireplace, Ann and Gus Frerotte's kitchen is surely welcoming. But what makes it the winner of the Best Kitchen Renovation award is the delicate balance it strikes: The room is designed with some of today's most popular kitchen trends, and yet it has timeless appeal and a vintage style that will never look dated.
The Frerottes, collaborating with interior designer Leanne Ford, one of the stars of HGTV's "Restored by the Fords," and architect Greg Dutton of Midland Architecture, which has offices in Lawrenceville and Columbus, Ohio, chose items that are fresh and popular right now — large ceramic farmhouse sinks, classic white subway tile, a reclaimed wood table, exposed shelving and a white color palette with touches of black and wood tones.
While each of these elements are trending, their popularity stretches back to the era when the Frerottes' century-old home originally was built. The space also is layered with modern touches — mid-century wire chairs at the reclaimed wood farmhouse table and two stunning industrial light fixtures over the table — so that it's not pinned to any one era or style.
The result is timeless without being overly historical, according to Dutton. Ford adds the approach is a central part of her design work.
"I am very passionate about timeless design, which I think comes from mixing styles, genres and eras," she says. "You never want to see a project of a home and be able to pinpoint exactly when that was designed. Interiors are meant to stand the test of time, especially kitchens."
REALIZING THEIR DREAM.
After moving around the country numerous times during Gus' NFL career — which took them everywhere from Denver to Miami to St. Louis — the family was seeking a permanent home in Pittsburgh; the Frerottes both grew up north of the city and loved the area. They wanted a place where childhood friends and family would drop in for dinner and good friends from around the country could come for long, relaxing visits.
At the heart of this vision: A warm, comfortable and down-to-earth kitchen that felt more like the downstairs servants quarters on "Downton Abbey" than anything the upstairs aristocracy would ever choose.
When the Frerottes discovered a century-old caretaker's cottage in Oakmont, they knew it could be a perfectly cozy home base — but that it was going to require serious renovation: The original kitchen was about the size of a walk-in closet. The floorplan of the house also needed updating, according to Dutton.
The family dove in, working with Dutton, Ford and contractor Mark Patsey to realize their dream.
"They wanted this kitchen and the entire home to be warm,
welcoming and inviting" Leanne Ford
PLANNING AND RECLAIMING.
Once they'd committed to a full-scale renovation, the Frerottes were able to create a space for socializing and serious cooking.
"Ann is an amazing chef," says Ford, so the planning included plenty of counter space and ample storage, plus two full sinks. "A barebones remodel of a kitchen is such a different thing than just redecorating because you can really consider how you cook and what you need."
One priority was saving as many materials from the original house as possible, which required some thoughtful, and creative, planning. At Gus' suggestion, the old wooden floorboards became the ceiling, hung upside down so that the rough underside was exposed, holes and all.
While the couple used Ford's help to buy many items, much of the kitchen was custom built.
"Annie found a table she really liked online," which they then used as inspiration to make their own table using reclaimed wood from the house, Gus says. They also enlisted the help of Gus' childhood friend, Ed Reitler, a woodworking teacher at the Otto-Eldred School District in McKean County near Pennsylvania's border with New York.
"I told Ed, 'Take our wood. Can you make us a table?'" Gus recalls.
When they couldn't find the right metal brackets for the sturdy opened shelving they wanted, they turned to mechanic and craftsman Kenny Ellwood, owner of Krazy Kennyz Kustomz in Armstrong County, who built the brackets they needed.
The kitchen's custom cabinets were made from alder wood with imperfections "that already feel like it has character to it," Dutton says.
The cabinets were painted white, but they don't have a perfect sheen or flawless finish. As the paint naturally gets worn over time, the cabinets will only look better. Like the informal subway tile and the exposed beams, those real-life imperfections only add to the beauty, according to Dutton.
Tying it all together is Ford's luxurious, yet accessible, design sensibility.
"We used all very clean, simple and timeless elements in here," Ford says. "But adding fun touches like the amazing double chandeliers over the kitchen table or the mid-century chairs with the farm table keeps things fresh and fun."
FAVORITE DETAILS.
Along with the stunning ceiling and large double sinks, the Frerottes also love their fireplace, which is open to both the kitchen and the living room. "When we opened the fireplace, we realized it wasn't venting the right way," Gus says.
The couple added specially tempered glass on the kitchen side that sends smoke up the chimney but keeps the fire visible and allows its warmth to be felt in the room.
"They wanted this kitchen and the entire home to be warm, welcoming and inviting," says Ford. The final design is luxurious, dramatic and definitely an award winner, and yet "nothing is too precious."
Contractor: Mark Patsey
Cabinetry: Mullet Cabinet
Appliances: Don's Appliances
Flooring: Ceramiche Tile & Stone
Countertops: Dente Classic Stone
Countertops Installation: East Coast Countertops
Lighting: Restoration Hardware
This article appears in the March 2018 issue of Home & Garden.
Categories: Best of Design


Social inequalities have always shaped news consumption, and as we move from a relatively low choice offline media environment to a high choice online media environment with more intense competition for attention, social inequalities in news consumption may increase.
Previous studies have shown that the expansion of media choice often results in the (information) rich getting richer while the (information) poor get poorer as those who are most interested consume more news, whereas those who are less interested increasingly tune out of news (Prior, 2005). Research has also found that the choices individual news users make are related to their social status (Lindell, 2017).
News consumption is more unequally distributed in the UK than income is, measured on the basis of the number of news sources used on a weekly basis. According to the OECD, the Gini coefficient for income in the UK was .36 in 2015. For offline news consumption, we calculate it at .42, and for online news consumption an even higher .55.
Online news consumption is more unequally distributed than offline news consumption. One in four individuals do not consume any news online (25%), while only 13% of respondents do not consume any news offline.
There is greater social inequality in online news consumption than in offline news consumption. Whereas higher social grade individuals and lower social grade individuals use the same number of sources offline on average, lower social grade individuals use significantly fewer online sources on average.
A key difference between how higher social grade and lower social grade individuals access news online is in terms of direct discovery (going to the websites or apps of news organisations). Lower social grade individuals are significantly less likely to go direct to news providers, whereas lower and higher social grade individuals are equally likely to rely on distributed forms of discovery (relying on social media, search engines, and the like).
Comparing the reach of individual brands offline and online across different social grades, a number of UK news organisations, including tabloid newspapers and some television channels, have significantly higher reach offline with lower social grade individuals than with higher social grade individuals, just as others, like up-market newspapers, have higher reach amongst higher social grade individuals than lower social grade individuals. Strikingly, however, none of the brands we analyse here have higher reach online with lower social grade individuals, while many have much wider reach with higher social grade individuals.
Our analysis suggests that social inequality in news consumption is already high, that it is likely to increase as we continue to move to a more digital media environment, and that distributed forms of discovery are currently particularly important for news discovery amongst lower social grade individuals, whereas going directly to news organisations online is more the province of higher social grade individuals. Even as there is growing attention to the increasingly visible political polarisation in some people's news use, we would suggest it is at least as important to pay attention to the less visible but at least as important growing social inequality in news use.
To examine social inequality in news consumption online and offline, we focus on the number of news sources respondents say they use on a weekly basis, as an indicator of the volume and variety of their news use, and on respondents' social grade. We focus on the UK as an example of a media environment historically characterised by a combination of strong private publishers and widely-used independent public service media, and as a market with several prominent digital-born news providers with significant reach. The social dimensions of news use will differ from country to country, but we would suggest social inequality may be even greater in countries with less of a tradition of popular tabloid newspapers and less widely used public service media (previous research has suggested especially the latter can reduce information inequality, see e.g. Aalberg and Curran (2012)).
For news consumption, we created two variables measuring the number of news sources used online and offline. For the UK, there are questions for the use of 28 offline news brands, and two questions about 'other local/regional newspapers', as well as 'other newspapers or foreign brands'. For the online environment, we use questions on 32 online news brands in the UK, as well as two broader questions about 'other local news websites', or 'other online sites from outside the UK'. Respondents also had the opportunity to write-in offline and online news sources that were not on the list.
For social grade, survey respondents from YouGov's panel are classified based on the Market Research Society (MRS)2. Social grade is a widely used classification in market research and social science research in the UK. The classification is based on the occupation level. Respondents were asked approxinately 15 questions about the occupation of the chief income earner in their household. Based on these answers, respondents were classified to A – E categories, where A classification is 'higher managerial, administrative and professional' and E classification denotes 'state pensioners, casual and lowest grade workers, unemployed with state benefits only'. For the purposes of this study, we grouped respondents into two classifications, denoting 'higher' (ABC1) and 'lower' (C2DE) social grade.
It should be noted that while social grade is an important classification on the socio-economic level, it only reflects some aspects of social inequality. Beyond occupation and its relation to status and income, we hope further research will examine inequalities associated with, for example, age, gender, or ethnicity.
To provide an overall estimate of social inequalities in offline and online news consumption, we use the Gini coefficient, a measure of statistical dispersion which is typically used to measure income inequalities in a population. Higher Gini coefficient denotes higher inequalities. A Gini of 1 denotes maximum inequality (e.g. an individual having all the resources in a country while the rest have none) while a Gini coefficient of 0 denotes equality to the point where all subjects have the same values (e.g. the same income for everyone).
Using the Gini coefficient to measure inequalities in the number of sources UK news users consumed, we calculate it at .55 for the number of the online sources and .42 for the number of offline news sources3. These findings suggest that the online news environment is more unequal than the offline one, and that news consumption is more unequally distributed in the UK than income is. (The Gini coefficient for income inequality in the UK in 2015 was .36 while in the US it was estimated at .394.) While the analogy to income inequality is imperfect (it is easier for an individual to choose to use more sources of news than it is to make more money) we, in line with other researchers (e.g. Hindman, 2008), find it a useful measure for capturing the overall distribution.
As with income, overall distributions and averages summarise a situation characterised by considerable variation. The differences in the number of sources UK news users use offline and online are illustrated in Figure 1 below. More than half of online news users in the UK use zero or one news source online, while offline it is most common to use two or three news sources per week. The median number of sources used online in the UK is 1, whereas offline it is 2. Around a fourth of UK news users do not get news online, while 87% of news users consume news from at least one offline news source per week.
Differences in how many sources of news people use online are based on individuals' interest in news, but also clearly associated with their social grade. While there are no significant differences between the number of news brands consumed by higher social grade individuals and lower social grade ones offline, we find much greater differences online, as illustrated in Figure 2 (see p.4). Higher social grade individuals use significantly more online news sources (2.11) than lower social grade respondents (1.6)5.
Differences in news consumption along social grade lines are also clear at the brand level, both offline and online.
As can be seen from Figure 4, there are brands in the UK offline news media landscape that are more popular among higher social grade individuals (e.g. BBC Radio News or upmarket newspapers like The Times), brands that are more popular among lower social grade individuals (e.g. ITV News, tabloid newspapers like the Sun), and brands are that have similar reach across the two social grade groups (e.g. BBC TV News, the Daily Mail).
However, when turning to online news consumption (Figure 5, see p.6), we find that there was no online news brand among the 32 included in the survey that had significantly more users from lower social grades. Some outlets are more popular among higher social grade individuals (BBC News Online, Guardian online) and that others have a similar reach among higher and lower social grade individuals (Sun online, Mail Online). But we find no online equivalent to those offline television channels or tabloid newspapers who have successfully built a wider reach amongst lower social grades than amongst higher social grades.
In this factsheet, we have documented significant inequality in how much news people in the UK consume, and identified pronounced social inequality in online news consumption specifically. Lower social grade individuals on average use fewer sources of online news, are less likely to go directly to news organisations for news online, and are consequently more reliant on distributed discovery of news via social media and search engines.
Whereas widely used television channels and popular tabloid newspapers with greater reach amongst lower social grade individuals are amongst the factors that help reduce information inequality offline (Aalberg and Curran 2012), we have found no similar patterns online, where no brands have greater reach amongst lower social grade users than amongst higher social grade users. As competition for attention intensifies, scale-based, advertising-funded business models oriented towards a wide audience are under pressure. In response, some publishers increasingly focus on building subscription- or membership-based models primarily based on higher social grade users, and many public service media have more limited reach online with lower social grade users than higher social grade users. These developments mean that the role of platforms like social media and search engines that demonstrably drive 'incidental exposure' to news, leading people to more and more diverse news (see e.g. Fletcher and Nielsen 2018) is becoming increasingly important for ensuring that all online news users see at least some news.
As we move towards an increasingly digital media environment, the social inequality documented here is likely to increase. While less visible than the political polarisation of some people's news use, we would suggest that such social inequalities in news use – here analysed in terms of social grade, but also potentially pronounced in terms of, for example, age, gender, or ethnicity – is at least as important as the question of how highly motivated and often vocal and hence visible partisans use news. In principle, most journalists would like news to reach everybody more or less equally, irrespective of social grade. Despite the ease of accessing news online, today, that is clearly not happening.
Aalberg, Toril, and James Curran, eds. 2012. How Media Inform Democracy: A Comparative Approach. Routledge New Developments in Communication and Society. New York: Routledge.
Fletcher, R., & Nielsen, R. K. (2018). Are People Incidentally Exposed to News on Social Media? A Comparative Analysis. New Media & Society, 20(7), 2450-2468.
Lindell, J. (2017). Distinction recapped: Digital News Repertoires in The Class Structure. New Media & Society, 1461444817739622.
Newman, N., Fletcher, R., Kalogeropoulos, A., Levy, D. A. L., & Nielsen, R. K. (2018). Reuters Institute Digital News Report 2018. Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
Toff, B., & Nielsen, R. K. (2018). "I Just Google It": Folk Theories of Distributed Discovery. Journal of Communication, 68(3), 636-657.
The authors would like to thank the Reuters Institute's research team for their constructive comments during the course of their research, and in particular Richard Fletcher for his feedback during the data analysis.
1 It should be noted that the Digital News Report survey screens out people who say that they have not consumed any news online or offline during the past month. In the UK, the share of respondents that were screened out was 7.7%. Given that news avoiders tend to be disadvantaged individuals from lower social grades (Toff & Nielsen, 2018), inequalities in news consumption based on social grade are likely to be even larger if these individuals are taken into account.
3 The Gini coefficients were calculated using the ineqdec0 STATA package by Prof. Stephen Jenkins.
5 t = -5.27, p < .001.
6 Social difference carry over to other aspects of news use too. Whereas one in ten higher social grade respondents (10%) say they have paid for digital news content during the past year, only 3% of respondents of a lower social grade have.
Q5a. Which of the following brands have you used to access news offline in the last week (via TV, radio, print, and other traditional media)? Please select all that apply. Q5b. Which of the following brands have you used to access news online in the last week (via websites, apps, social media, and other forms of Internet access)? Please select all that apply. Base: Total Sample in the UK (2117).
Q5a. Which of the following brands have you used to access news offline in the last week (via TV, radio, print, and other traditional media)? Please select all that apply. Q5b. Which of the following brands have you used to access news online in the last week (via websites, apps, social media, and other forms of Internet access)? Please select all that apply. Base: higher social grade (ABC1): 1292 / lower social grade (C2DE) 759.
Q10. Thinking about how you got news online (via computer, mobile or any device) in the last week, which were the ways in which you came across news stories? Please select all that apply. Base: higher social grade (ABC1): 1292 / lower social grade (C2DE) 759.
Q5a. Which of the following brands have you used to access news offline in the last week (via TV, radio, print, and other traditional media)? Please select all that apply. Base: higher social grade (ABC1): 1292 / lower social grade (C2DE) 759.
Q5b. Which of the following brands have you used to access news online in the last week (via websites, apps, social media, and other forms of Internet access)? Please select all that apply Base: higher social grade (ABC1): 1292 / lower social grade (C2DE) 759.


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Richard will begin his role with effect from 12 June, so please refer all archidiaconal matters to Richard with effect from that date. Richard will begin to take over some of the archdeacon's functions during June. Please begin now to refer to him (rather than Paul Ferguson) any new matters which are likely to involve the archdeacon's role into July and beyond.
Richard's contact details are: The Rectory, Cemetery Road, Thirsk YO7 1PR; richardrowling@dunelm.org.uk; 01845 523183.
Richard will be supported in this work by the archdeacon's PA, Wendy Shaw, who will continue to work on Mondays and Thursdays, on archdeacon.of.cleveland@yorkdiocese.org / 01642 706095.
The Ven Peter Harrison has been appointed as Acting Archdeacon of the East Riding with effect from 24 June 2014, again until a permanent appointment has been made. Peter previously served as Archdeacon of the East Riding from 1998 to 2006.
In the first instance, Peter can be contacted via Ruth Bannister, the PA to the Archdeacon of the East Riding, who works in the office at Brimley Lodge on Mondays, Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9.30am until 3.00pm, on 01482 881659 or ruth.bannister@yorkdiocese.org.
The appointments follow the nomination of the Ven Paul Ferguson to the vacant See of Whitby and the appointment of the Ven David Butterfield as Archdeacon for Generous Giving and Stewardship.


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Sweet Tooth Candy & Ice Cream owners are retiring. But don't worry, the shop is here to stay
Madeline Mitchell
After 48 years of making and selling treats out of their Newport shop, Bob and Norma Schneider are retiring and selling Sweet Tooth Candy & Ice Cream to the owners of Pompilios Italian Restaurant.
The candy store will stay open in its historic location at 125 West 11th Street, according to a Monday news release.
The Schneiders started exploring retirement options last September.
"I'd like to do it for the rest of my life, but there comes a time where you have to take a step back," Bob Schneider told The Enquirer at the time.
Read previous coverage: 'We haven't quit yet': Sweet Tooth Candies owners say they plan to retire, explore business' future
When word got out about their desire to retire, Pompilios owners and lifelong Newport residents Joe Bristow and Larry Geiger decided to purchase the local shop.
"We would both go and get Sweet Tooth's famous ice balls in the summer, caramel apples in the fall and Valentine's Day chocolates. It was just a part of our lives and we had to secure its future," Bristow said.
Bristow and Geiger will be making some branding changes, the release states. But Schneider's recipes are here to stay.
"You may notice updates to the Sweet Tooth logo and a fresh coat of paint at the store but we are happy to announce that Bob will still be making all of the delicious candy and ice cream that you know and love," the shop posted on its Facebook page Monday.
Although he's retiring, Schneider will stick around the factory for the foreseeable future to ensure a smooth transition.
The new owners are celebrating with a sweet deal later this month. On Dec. 12 and 13 customers will get a free opera cream with any purchase, according to the release.

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William the Conqueror and Wessex
Abstract : This article is written in honour of a scholar whose many distinguished contributions include a history of Wessex that is the indispensable foundation for this analysis of how William the Conqueror (1066–87) shaped his Wessex inheritance. While adopting the standard definition of Wessex as consisting of the six historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, Wiltshire, Berkshire, and Hampshire, I only occasionally refer to Devon, since, although the Domesday record of that shire does contain typically 'Wessex' features, as far as we know William did not visit it after early 1068 when he besieged Exeter and then marched his army into Cornwall, before returning to Winchester to celebrate Easter.2 The article is also intended as a contribution to how different regions of England experienced the so-called Norman Conquest.
DOI : 10.1163/9789004421899_026
David Bates. William the Conqueror and Wessex. Langlands, Alexander James; Lavelle, Ryan. The Land of the English Kin : Studies in Wessex and Anglo-Saxon England in Honour of Professor Barbara Yorke, Brill, pp.517-537, 2020, Brill's Series on the Early Middle Ages, 26, 978 90 04 34949 0. ⟨10.1163/9789004421899_026⟩. ⟨hal-02612010⟩


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Q: epydoc hide some class functions? I have some methods in my class which are only meant to be used by other methods of the class. I've prefixed their names with '_'. Can I hide those functions from epydoc? Is it a good idea?
Should I use '_' or double underscore? To be honest I didn't get the difference after reading about them in some places. Should this naming convention be used only on module/class (instance) functions? Or also variables?

A: If you want to hide all private methods and private variables, pass option '--no-private' to epydoc.
Note that - for epydoc - a method or variable is private if:

*

*its name starts with an underscore '_' and

*its name does not end with an underscore '_' and

*you did not include its name in the special all dictionary.

Alternatively you can use the 'undocumented' tag to force epydoc to completely ignore certain methods or variables.
For instance (and here I assume a ReStructured Text kind of formatting):
class MyClass:
  """Some neat description

  :undocumented: x
  """

  def _y(self): pass
  def x(self): pass
  def z(self): pass

will result in the documentation to contain only _y (unless you used the '--no-private' option) and z. There will be nothing about x even if it is not private.
Whether private methods should be visible at all or not in the final documentation is a matter of taste. To me, documentation is read by people who don't or should not have any interest in the internal implementation. Private methods are best hidden completely.

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What kind of flour is being recalled? |
A flour supplier has been recalling some of its products. Food safety experts want consumers to be aware that the recalled product may contain listeria monocytogenes, which can cause serious illness or death if it is consumed.
The "flour recalls 2021" is a recall that has been issued by the Food and Drug Administration. The flour is being recalled due to possible contamination with Listeria monocytogenes.
Because of the probable presence of E. coli, King Arthur Flour, in collaboration with ADM Milling Company, has issued a voluntary countrywide recall of specified lots of its Unbleached All-Purpose Flour in 5-pound and 25-pound bags. The recall is a follow-up to one that was first announced in June.
In such case, which flour is being recalled?
On September 16, 2019, General Mills issued a voluntary nationwide recall of five-pound bags of Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour with an if used by date of September 6, 2020.
Also, what is the best flour to purchase? The following flours were also tasted:
Bob's Red Mill Organic All-Purpose Flour, Unbleached
Unbleached All-Purpose Flour from Heckers.
Unbleached All-Purpose Flour from King Arthur.
All-Purpose Flour from Pillsbury.
Also, which Pillsbury flour has been recalled?
According to the Food and Drug Administration, E. coli is a pathogen. Pillsbury Best 5-pound Bread Flour, which was delivered in Connecticut, Delaware, Maryland, Maine, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, is being recalled. Hometown Food Co. was the seller of the flour.
Is King Arthur Flour safe for the time being?
To far, no documented complaints of sickness linked to this product have been received by King Arthur Flour. After coming into touch with raw dough products or flour, consumers should wash their hands, work surfaces, and utensils completely, and never ingest raw dough or batter.
Is flour a raw material?
Flour is a raw agricultural product that hasn't been treated with antimicrobials. When flour-based foods are cooked, bacteria are destroyed. As a result, you should never eat or drink uncooked dough or batter.
Is it true that frying kills E. coli in flour?
Flour may not seem to be a raw food, yet it is. This implies it hasn't been treated to eliminate pathogens like E. coli (E. Bacteria are only destroyed when flour-based foods are cooked. This is why, whether prepared with recalled wheat or any other flour, you should never taste or consume raw dough or batter.
How long does flour last?
If kept at ambient temperature, white flour should last approximately a year, and two years if chilled in the refrigerator or freezer. Whole wheat flour, as previously said, is more volatile and will only keep its quality for roughly three months, six months if refrigerated, and a year if frozen.
Is flour still edible after it has passed its expiry date?
Yes, it's a short narrative. The first thing to remember is that it will keep for a long time after the "best by" or "better if used by" date on the original container has passed. Regular flour has a shelf life of 6-8 months after it is printed, but whole wheat flour has a shelf life of just 4-6 months.
Is a gold medal worth more than a King Arthur Flour?
For All Your Baking Needs, Two All-Purpose Flours
We suggest Gold Medal, which has 10.5 percent protein, for a moderate-protein all-purpose flour, and King Arthur, which has 11.7 percent protein, for a high-protein option. In most baking recipes, we utilize a moderate-protein all-purpose flour.
Is there a recall on Gold Medal flour?
General Mills has issued a voluntary nationwide recall for five-pound bags of their Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour with an expiration date of September 6, 2020. A probable presence of E. coli O26 was identified during analysis of the five-pound bag product, prompting the recall.
What is the process of bleaching flour?
Bleached flour employs bleaching chemicals (such as benzoyl peroxide and chlorine gas) to accelerate the aging process of the flour. This produces a flour that is whiter, finer-grained, and has a softer texture. The bleaching procedure softens the flour, and the results may be seen in the baked foods.
What causes E. coli to be found in flour?
coli is present in the intestines of animals, and food contamination is often caused through contact with excrement. Feces may enter processed dry-food items by contamination in the processing facility, or, in the case of wheat flour, from the presence of feces in the grain's growing fields.
Is Pillsbury flour safe to consume?
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention advises against eating uncooked dough. Any flour or raw eggs used in the preparation of raw dough or batter might be contaminated, and even a tiny bit of raw dough could make you ill. Pillsbury flour bags may be returned to stores and Hometown Food.
Is there a recall on Pillsbury all-purpose flour?
Pillsbury Unbleached All Purpose Flour in 5-pound bags with lot numbers 8 292 and 8 293, with a best-if-used-by date of April 19, 2020 or April 20, 2020 have been recalled. The issue: Salmonella might be present in the flour.
Is it true that King Arthur Flour is being recalled?
What is the 2019 King Arthur Flour recall?
In association with ADM Milling Company, King Arthur Flour, Inc., announced today a voluntary national recall of specific lots of its Unbleached All-Purpose Flour (5 lb. & 25 lb.) We are taking this voluntary precautionary step because of the potential presence of E. coli 026 which was discovered through sampling.
General Mills issued a voluntary recall of its Gold Medal Unbleached All Purpose Flour on Monday due to the possibility of E. coli O26 contamination. The recall is for five-pound bags with a "best if used by" date of September 6, 2020 imprinted on them.
How can you remove E coli out of flour?
Several bacteria strains are considered to be killed when food is heated to 160 degrees Fahrenheit. Place the raw flour in a microwave-safe basin and heat for up to one minute. Place a candy thermometer in the middle of the basin to ensure the flour has reached the appropriate temperature.
On King Arthur Flour, where is the lot code?
To far, there have been no documented complaints of sickness linked to this product from King Arthur Flour. On the bottom of the ingredient side panel of the 5 lb. bag, you'll find the Best Used By and Lot Code information.
On flour, where is the lot number?
Six particular lot numbers and three "Best Used by" dates are associated with the recalled flour. The dates and lot numbers are shown underneath the nutrition information panel on the bottom of the side panel.
What is the best way to get rid of flour?
Reuse the flour by freezing it to kill the creepy crawlies, then using it to create salt dough or paper glue. Flour may be composted; however, do not throw it all into the bin in one big layer, since this would obstruct ventilation. Instead, run it through the other stuff using a fork.
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Fair Work Changes to Support Employees and Employers During the Coronavirus Pandemic
The Fair Work Commission has advised of the following changes to workplace laws to support employees and employers during the coronavirus pandemic. JobKeeper Scheme The Fair Work Act has been amended to support the implementation and operation of the JobKeeper wage...
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Update to JobKeeper Payment rulesTo ensure the integrity and the efficient operation of the JobKeeper Payment scheme, the Government is clarifying the operation of some rules. This information will be available as soon as possible.Extension of time to enrol for the...
COVID-19 Update Recent Announcements
Additional information regarding the Australian Government's COVID-19 measures and support packages is now available.Updates from the Department of Education, Skills and EmploymentThe Department of Education, Skills and Employment has provided information about the...
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Relief Package for Early Childhood Education
Around one million families are set to receive free child care during the coronavirus pandemic under a plan from the Morrison Government that will help deliver hip pocket relief and help the early childhood education and care sector make it through to the other side...
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The National Cabinet has agreed that a mandatory code of conduct, guided by certain principles, will be developed and subsequently legislated by State and Territory Governments to apply for tenancies where the tenant is eligible for the Commonwealth Government's...
JobKeeper Payment provides $1500 per fortnight
JobKeeper Payment provides $1500 per fortnight per eligible employee including sole traders The Australian Government has introduced a JobKeeper Payment of $1,500 per fortnight, per eligible employee, for up to 6 months as part of a $130 billion package to support the...


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Smart Phone Meets Haute Couture: This 18-Karat Diamond-Encrusted Beauty Will Set You Back $250,000
A smart phone deserves to be elevated to the level of haute couture because it has become such a visible and essential part of our lives, according to the CEO of Geneva-based luxury brand Savelli.
In an interview with CNN, Alessandro Savelli argued that, since the smart phone is with us all the time, in our hands, our pockets, next to us when we sleep, and because we touch it 100 times a day, the device should be treated like fine jewelry.
"Everyone has one," he told CNN. "So we thought, 'Why not elevate it to the sphere of luxury? What if we make it a beautiful object?'"
And a beautifully impressive fashion statement it is, with the company employing the same techniques and materials used in jewelry production to make the phones.
Savelli's latest smartphone model — the $250,000 Diamond Night — features an 18-karat gold casing emblazoned with 395 brilliant-cut white diamonds weighing 3.99 carats.
Diamond Insane showcases more than 70 baguette-cut diamonds set in 18-karat white gold. Savelli noted that the baguette diamonds had to be specially set to match the contour of Savelli's signature curve called the "Line of Grace." The price tag for the Insane model is 100,000 British pounds, or about $160,000.
The phones are powered by the Google Android operating system, feature an Ultra-Bombé "unscratchable" sapphire crystal screen and are adorned with exotic materials, such as ostrich, python and iguana leather.
The Diamond Night and Diamond Insane models have companions that feature either round or baguette emeralds. These models are appropriately called Emerald Night and Emerald Insane.
Emerald Night is trimmed in 18-karat rose gold and set with 400 brilliant-cut emeralds weighing about 3 carats.
Emerald Insane is encrusted with 75 baguette-cut emeralds weighing about 4.5 carats and interlaced with 900 brilliant-cut diamonds weighing nearly 12.5 carats.


The whole of George Osborne's economic policy is based upon his determination to remove the government deficit. Because he also hates all forms of taxation he is determined to do this by cutting government spending and not by increasing taxation in any significant way.
In 2010 Osborne claimed that there was a logic to his policy: he said at that time that we would end up like Greece if we did not cut government spending and tackle our deficit. He was wrong then: Greece was (and is) a country with a desperate shortage of tax revenue because of massive tax fraud and a tax gap that exceeds a quarter of all expected tax revenues and it is also a country with massive economic difficulties from being on the poorer margins of Europe, and a small economy as well, with all that being compounded by being in the Eurozone meaning it had little, or no, effective control over its economic future.
The UK, in contrast, was, and is, the sixth largest economy in the world, has its own currency, is the epicentre of the world's financial trade, has a large tax gap but one that is at least half that of Greece in relative terms, and has the ability to issue its its own bonds in its own currency with there being a strong demand for both, then and now. To compare the UK to Greece was absurd in 2010: now, five years later it makes no sense at all because it is apparent that Greece is surviving, as is the Eurozone despite all its problems, and there is no threat whatsoever to the U.K.'s economic credibility from the current level of its budget deficit.
In that case, because the bond market is posing no threat to the UK, and because the interest rate that we pay on our bonds is now so low that the government can effectively borrow costlessly after normal levels of inflation over the period during which the borrowing is likely to continue is taken into account, there is absolutely no pressure whatsoever to close the government deficit at this point of time.
What is particularly galling is that it is very clear that George Osborne knows this. He imposed significant austerity from 2010 2012 but when it became obvious in that year that the pain that this was imposing was too great he took his foot very strongly off the austerity pedal and the reality is that for the last two years he has let the deficit continue virtually unchanged. The consequence has been that there has been modest growth, even if it has been fuelled by house price increases, and there has been some growth in employment as a consequnce, even if much of it is in lowly paid, part time, zero hour contract work or self-employment, which may pay less. The evidence must be of clear to George Osborne that it has been his willingness to let the deficit run that has created any prospect of growth, at all.
So why in that case is he now adamant that the deficit will be closed?
Firstly, most obviously, he wants to get re-elected. In 2010 he created an economic myth that any Chancellor's ability must be appraised upon their willingness to balance the government's books, even if that means that they abandon any responsibility for governing the country in the interests of all its people as a result. Having created the myth, and having got the Daily Mail and the Daily Telegraph to believe it, he now has no choice but perpetuate it when seeking re-election, even if he has not followed the mantra himself because right now he will be borrowing more than £90 billion this year when he forecast a sum no more than a third of that in 2010.
Second, there is a very clear political agenda to this issue. Osborne does believe that it is wrong for the state to support people when they are in need, whatever the cause of that need might be: there can be no other explanation for his welfare cuts that have hit the disabled, the young, the sick and those out of work through no fault of their own so hard. His desire to cut the benefits cap to £23,000 is further indication of this.
Third, George Osborne is a neoliberal: he hates the state and its intervention in markets even when that intervention is designed to correct market failure to the benefit of everybody in a society. Osborne would appear to have it that such failure does not exist, seeming to instead believe that it is government intervention that creates the problem in the first place. His desire to hit at the size of the state is, therefore, dogmatic.
That desire is also pragmatic: Osborne and the other members of the government are part of what is an undoubted ruling elite that has very clearly run out of ideas as to how to invest the capital that they own to increase their financial well-being and that has also realised that there is a limit to the ability of speculative activity to provide returns on their money without creating substantial economic imbalances which threaten their own prosperity. They have as a consequence turned to the dogma of privatisation and outsourcing to pass the security of the government's own ability to create an income stream in the form of tax to the private sector from which the owners of companies can benefit. Since those company owners do, in no small part, come from the same elite of which Osborne is a member, and the directors very definitely do, then the pragmatism in this policy is one of ensuring that Osborne is feathering the nest of his friends so that in due course they might return the favour to him. I have little doubt at all that this is a major motive for what is happening.
And there is a final reason for the current policy worth noting now, and that is that Osborne wants to destroy the power of government to reverse the cuts in its economic role that he is imposing because he, like many neoliberals, believes that the power of democracy can be used to impose taxation on wealth to redistribute it to those who have greater use for it and he deeply resents this based upon a fundamental class hatred. This is why he is seeking to pass law to ban deficit funding in the future. And it is why he is seeking to destroy the effectiveness of democracy at Westminster by exploiting the Scottish devolution debate and it is why he is to seeking to destroy the effectiveness of the UK taxation system by devolving parts of it to regional governments in the hope that they will compete rates down so that yields can never be restored in future, especially when it comes to corporation tax and wealth taxes. This is why he has also has sought to undermine the power of democracy by creating fixed term elections and (even if he failed on this one) by recasting electoral boundaries.
The desire for austerity can, then, only be explained by a political dogma and not by any rational decision-making process. That dogma is, as is the whole neoliberal dream, based upon a libertarian view of the individual as being of paramount importance, and all other issues, including relationships, society and community well being as not just being secondary but of no importance at all. The measure of success is the accumulation of property rights: their concentration in the hands of a few is not just considered acceptable but as desirable: then the countervailing pressure of government can be resisted.
It is very clear that George Osborne and this government share that view. As a consequence austerity, destruction of the role of government and the undermining democracy all suit their purpose. The totally unnecessary aim of a balanced budget delivered through austerity suits this agenda perfectly, but do not for one minute think that that means austerity is necessary. It is not.
It is essential for the survival of democracy in this country, and for the sake of the survival of our life and society as we have known it, that this political creed be opposed, and that is easy to do. It can be shown that austerity does not work: to some degree current growth is the evidence of that. It can be argued that there is no problem with running a deficit: the financial markets are more than willing to tolerate it. It is obvious that the funding for investment is available: quantitative easing has proven that and inflation has not resulted. If there is a shortage of tax revenue than serious attempts to close the tax gap could be made and, heaven forbid, rates could be raised, starting with corporation tax for large companies. Let no one say alternatives are not available when they are.
What is lacking is political will, at least amongst our mainstream political parties. But if it is not then there is no doubt that alternatives will be sought. UKIP is one response, and a wholly inappropriate one. The Greens are another. And if massive cuts are imposed I cannot see how as the structure of government will, literally, begin to collapse in some areas (as Newcastle has already warned is possible in that City) then protest will not follow and change with it.
Osborne is pursuing a giant political experiment based on class hatred. It is dependent on those of goodwill to promote the alternative.
Just catching up on your blogs for the day, as I've had not time to read them until now. I note a comment from you about having to pull out of an event because you've overdone it a bit. Well, Richard, that may be so physically, but intellectually this blog and the earlier one, "Osborne is planning to destroy society as we know it" (which has 36 comments so far and over 1000 tweets) are vintage Murphy: concise, forensic in their analysis and strongly argued. Cracking stuff!
By the way, by now you'll be aware of the onslaught unleashed on the BBC for the 'book and doom' and Road to Wigan Pier comments. I was driving down to Milton Keynes and heard Osborn on the Today programme getting very aggressive on this. I don't generally have much time for John Humphries, but pointing out to Osborne that asking him questions is not attacking him was spot on. It's good to see that as of 6.30 pm this evening the BBC are defending the actions of their reporter. I don't suppose that will last though.
I believe austerity to cure economic problems (which were caused by the banks, NOT the government) is merely the fact a fig leaf in order to roll back the hard won gains of the working class, particularly the post-war consensus.
They are out to finish the job that Thatcher started. Sadly, it seems the coalition is more trusted by the public to run the economy despite the fact that the deficit is rising and they have borrowed more money than all previous Labour governments put together.
The government must invest if business refuses to.
NB: Richard – if this still causes problems by bouncing back to your email box, let me know and I will try to contact BT and find out why my email address isn't working properly.
No, that's wrong. For right-wing 'libertarians', 'private property' (or their weird conception of private property) is more important than the individual.
Enjoyable to read; analytical and compact analysis – clearly identifying Osborne in his 'break' to be the front man, the actor and the visionary for the 'libertarian' neoliberal movement. Unfortunately he's gone to the dark side, Osborne was a student in Magdalen College, Oxford (2.1 BA, History) and would have regularly dined under the portraits of King Henry and the libertarian Jeremy Bentham. Bentham's wisdom spawned famous alumni such as, Robert Owen; this would have not been lost on an ambitious young man to plot his political mark. Most of us do not have these privileges [nay rights] to savour the path to glory. He clearly sees himself as the 'Saviour' of British capitalism and identified the state [and citizens] as the burden to be cast aside, regardless of human cost and suffering. From my experience he shows little empathy with the civilians and will bulldoze on with 'reform', as the Saviour.
1.	If all pubic services become privatised – would it be sensible to commit a business to Austerity, by reducing its cash flow? Services generate GDP.
2.	One part of this lot's cost-cutting vision is that there should be no limit to the degree one can de-man. People are part of our capital though, put the capital to use? We are on notice – "Computers and automation can do everything ". Note their ideas on future criminal justice; greatly reduced policing, limited access to justice, slot machine justice, little investigation of fraud (financial and otherwise), destruction of probation, insouciance to caring, etc. What will the armies of unemployed do and what will the future generation do – bloggers here suggest they will man the Orwellian 'battery farms' and the streets?
3.	What are Osborne and his co-actors real thoughts and agenda, if only? The weakness of opposition i.e. not to confront these policies is exacerbating this extraordinary situation. It is not enough for Labour to sit quietly you must probe, examine, injure your opponent – note Osborne recent hurt to being challenged by the timid BBC, but less timid John Humphreys meekly asking 'questions'. More power to the Greens.
4.	If money = labour (let's assume a rough equivalence) then the deficit £1.4 trillion would be equivalent to roughly 100 billion hours of labour. Put Britain's out of work (assume 10 million) into work it would still take 10 years minimum of [hard] labour to offset this sum. It's logical to find the right work and wage to employ our citizens – too difficult for this lot [I'm told I'm an Utopian]. I thought Utopia where you do not need to labour hard.
5.	Investment. If real investment in the economy does not happen, once the state has been bought out, with zero cost money that the few have access to, what is there left for them to invest in; they'll already have bought back stock? Capital not put to work = ?
Basically – move elsewhere, live a shorter life, and don't come round near where I live or you'll be shot on sight.
For "3" – if you don't even kick at the open door it simply won't open. Exposing the positions held by Osbourne and his ilk requires only the breadth of ideas and the courage of and conviction in their truth: which no Labour politician has had to the expense of career for generations.
I like "4" – Only solutions that won't work are Utopian ones. All the others are real possibilities.
"5" I refer you to the song above – "It's all over" is my take on this. I return to Marx's oeuvre for inspiration, although he clearly did not write the lyrics.
Capital gets destroyed – usually by bankruptcy or in wars of conquest, or whatever they decide to call them -"humanitarian intervention", perhaps these days. It's happened twice in the last 100 years on a mass scale, as we know.
I think this of all your posts is one of the most impressive of all. It lays out in a nutshell what is at stake in our country where re-engineering is taking place before our very eyes. I am convinced that they intend to put policies in place that cannot be reversed and to drive the role of the state to the margins. It was a golden chance for Labour to take to the media and declare what sort of country we want to live in and build a campaign to defeat this elite clique so hell bent on reversing all the gains made for working people in this land.
Now is the time to make this distinction between the Tory elite and the rest of us absolutely clear and offer a viable clearly defined future that will create a more equal society worthy of the age. Thank you for your insightful piece that maintains hope for those of us ranting at the paucity of the response to Osborne et al.
It's not that I don't have sympathy and interest in some of your ideas stated here.
responsibility to implement them. If you suggested and promoted pilot projects that could be tested I think there would be more mileage. Get a few more industrialists on your side, and I would be more convinced, rather than the usual arm chair critics.
@Stephen Griffiths. "Armchair critics"? I recognise some visitors to this website, many are very active in politics etc, myself for over forty odd years. I for one have been an 'industrialist', run a Ltd company – managed and responsible for delivering multi million £ projects.
2) However, his second argument was that it would prove disastrous, as indeed turned out to be the case – without North Sea oil the UK really WOULD have approached bankruptcy with her policies, and even with it, she left a HUGE government debt to her successor.
Indeed, neo-liberalism has similarly proved an unmitigated disaster (for thecordinary 99%, though not for the feudal elite, hence their support for its lunacy) wherever it has been tried – think Pinochet's Chile, which had to reinstate Allende's policies to prevent economic collapse.
So let's not have this tired criticism – on a par with "don't frighten the horses" – of economic thinkers who are seeking to back us out of the societal, economic and humanitarian cul de sac into which neo-liberalism has marooned us.
Bravo and hear, hear. Not the first, but the most, passionate blog you've written in my opinion.
Perhaps a speech for the Eds based on this blog should be drafted and sent to them (and the press?) because they very clearly don't have a clue what to say to the electorate. Perhaps some of the regulars on here could help with you as editor-in chief (so that you don't have to take on more than your health/strength tells you should).
70% done but late now….
How is recasting electoral boundries to iron out a current inbuilt bias towards one party undermining democracy? No doubt you are only stamping your feet about this because it would favour the Tories.
And no doubt you would be stamping your feet had the coalition NOT adopted fixed term parliaments and then called a snap election at some piont favourable to them.
Any true supporter of democracy would put party aside and accept that a recasting is needed to make the system fairer.
In 2010 the Tories got over 1,000,000 more votes than Labour got in 2005 yet did not get anywhere near the number of seats. How is that good for democracy?
@Geoff – cannot help noticing how you sedulously skate over the other half of Richard's quote, concerning fixed-term Parliaments, and concentrate only on the boundaries issue.
Well, in my view, the fixed-term Parliament was both the greater, and the clverer, gerrymandering stitch-up of our Constitution.
It was cleverer, in that it could be so wonderfully presented as an extension of democracy – taking away the quasi a monarchical power of the Prime Minister to call an election when he or she judged it electorally best suited to his or her Party's needs. This "democratic enhancement" was further "enhanced" by giving the Commons the right to decide on dissolution.
And here is where is is a GREATER stitch-up: for the Commons have ALWAYS had the right to decide on dissolution, which they did by a vote of No Confidence. The loss of such a vote meant a Prime Minister was forced to resign, and was expected also to call a General Election, though the Queen could, on the outgoing PM's advice, call someone else to the Palace, and ask them to form a Government.
The first option, loss of a No Confidence vote and a General Election, was that followed by Jim Callaghan in 1979. The second, that of calling someone else yo form a Government, was followed by the Queen after the February 1974 General Election.
Things are now RADICALLY changed by the Fixed Term Parliament Act, in that the vote of No Confidence only acts to remove the Government and NOT the Parliament, which must vote BY A 66% MAJORITY for dissolution!!!
Imagine this had been in place in 1979: Jim Callaghan could have sought to fettle up a different coalition of support, and have carried on till October 1980 – and perhaps then have won a General Election (If only – "vae victis" (Lucan's Civil Wars "woe to the conquered").
Equally, imagine Cameron had lost a vote of No Confidence now: would the LibDems vote for dissolution? Do turkeys vote for Christmas? So Cameron would just fettle together yet another malodorous coalition, SURELY bringing in the two turncoat UKIP MP's into the Cabinet, with a massive lurch to the Fascist Right, something clean COUNTER to the wishes of Parliament, and probably also the country.
The Fixed Term Parliament Act actually REDUCES democracy – something I had to explain to a Facebook site calling for a Vote of No Confidence – the page seems now to have vanished, once the instigator understood that a lostcNo Confidence vote would NOT necessarily lead to Cameron's resignation.
Truth to tell, the Fixed Term Parliament Act should really be called The Zombie Act, since it permits the living dead to carry on functioning at will!
Nice analysis, and phrased in an accessible way that I can explain it to others.
The 'soundbite' I'd take from it is that fixed terms permit the existence of an ineffective Parliament.
The only criticism I would offer is that you look upon an ineffective Parliament from within the walls of Westminster: chaotic instability and policy paralysis, hijack by repellent minorities, odious coalitions that operate without electoral mandate.
What of the world outside? A chaotic Parliament of unstable coalitions cannot formulate a consensus of core policies and implement them as a government. But it can and does respond to 'policy initiatives' from any wealthy individual or company who can influence a third or more of the MPs.
Further, whatever status quo exists – however damaging it may be – is locked in place: it's always easier to block legislation that to enact it. And there are always monopolists and wealthy individuals (and, these days, the security services) who benefit from the status quo, no matter how pressing the need for reform or democratic scrutiny.
That's the visible danger of an ineffective Parliament.
But what of the hidden world of workarounds and fixers and words-in-right-ear of people who get things done?
A country still runs, and it's never true to say that 'no-one' is running the country.
Thus, monopolists come to dominate the economy, and monopsonist cartels grind down the small suppliers of goods and services and labour; and, when no-one's looking, basic freeedoms are eroded by pervasive surveillance, blacklisting, and the wholesale misuse of personal data for profit.
An ineffective Parliament is an effective 'Do as thou wilt shall be the whole of the law' to those who can exercise power without the walls.
The FT recently described George as "the last whig" in a positive article.
I don't think that begins to describe him. He believes, economically, in absolute license. anyone can do anything.
I don't think many people, going back over 3000 years, have advocated that approach to life. The only ones I can think of are Ayn Rand, William Burroughs & Aleister Crowley.
Now, by any reckoning, they were head cases. I mean I like & admire some of Burroughs' work, phenomenally disturbing though it be, but he really wasn't sane & his best friends (Ginsberg & Kerouac) accepted that.
When a horrified Kerouac asked why his work kept coming back to pre-pubescent boys being hanged in limestone caves, Burroughs explained that he was only channeling the thoughts of his inter-terrestrial masters but admitted the signals kept getting mixed up.
Rand wrote books that, unlike those of Burroughs, were of applying quality & ended up going certifiably mad.
Crowley claimed to have become an 'adept' but, like Burroughs, was never able to conquer smack addiction. He claimed to have turned a, rather low grade, futurist poet, into a camel. The futurist poet was subsequently seen around Pall Mall in recognisably human, non-cameliford, guise.
So, George, if you are serious about this whole libertarian schtick, who are your guides on this journey your plunging us all into eh?


This includes (as needed): Dental exam, removal of minor hooks and or ramps, minor incisor work, removal of sharp enamel points, reduction/buffing of canines (if present) and any other minor corrections as needed. If the horse is ridden/driven, it is desired or will help with a correction, bit seats will also be done.
Maintenance floats are what a majority of the horses SRED works on receive, especially if they have had great dental work in the past. The maintenance float is easily performed with hand tools.
Some corrections may be completed the best with power tools. SRED is equipped with power and it will be at the same float cost.
This includes checking for sharp points, movement of the jaw, inspection of the incisors, looking inside the mouth with speculum and headlight.
This fee will be included as part of the float price if the exam turns into a float ($65).
SRED has had some experience working on the mouths of goats as well. So, if you have a goat that is having any issues, please don't hesitate to contact us. Additional charges for goats will need to be case by case for now, but a basic corrective float will be $40.
Other animals considered on a case by case basis. Prices may vary and will depend on the animal, difficulty or equipment needed.
Right now SRED is available for Evening and Weekend appointments only. Evenings during the week may be limited to certain distances or number of horses due to scheduling conflicts being a higher possibility.
We will ALWAYS do our best to accommodate our client's schedules the best we can.
Weekends will be open too any and all types of appointments and for any barns/facilities that may have inadequate light to work after dark during the winter months.
We currently we are servicing Maryland, Pennsylvania, West Virginia and Delaware. Our main service range is within 2.5 hours of Felton PA 17322. Other areas considered on case by case basis and as scheduling may allow.
A farm call fee or travel fees may be charged for locations outside of the 2.5 hour service area. But please, please, please inquire about your situation as SRED happily offers a waiving of the farm call fee for many situations!
Farm Call Fee is $25 and is an individual charge for the location itself (not per animal).
SRED is also happy to offer discounted rates to 501C3 Organizations, as well as lowered float rates and other service costs to non-profits, therapy centers and of course sanctuaries. There will never be a farm call fee for these types of locations.
All corrections and work will be discussed with the client prior to the work being done. All questions are welcome before, during and after your appointment! Education is a very important part of the experience.
Tooth extractions must be performed under the supervision of a Veterinarian per Pennsylvania and Maryland State Laws.
Also, please be aware that the Veterinarian will also charge for their services and that SRED is not in control of that cost to the client when providing sedation of any kind. The cost is between the client and the Veterinarian's office, so please discuss those charges with them prior to the appointment.
Payment is expected on the day services are rendered unless other arrangements have been made. Fees and payment method may vary and will be discussed with the client before services begin.
I hold myself to a higher standard do my best to insure a horse's comfort and health with any of the dental procedures performed.


as ever, to greet New Year!
This poem is for my mum and was written in response to Carpe Diem #617, "delight in company," another great prompt hosted by Chèvrefeuille at Carpe Diem Haiku Kai. All of the poems in the link-up can be read here. The soundtrack chooses itself.
Sláinte, cheers, and na dzrowie!


Opponents of eminent domain finally have something to celebrate. After a public campaign, Target Corp. has decided not to build a store on condemned property in Arlington Heights, Ill.
Five years ago, the Village trustees declared the International Plaza shopping center and other properties blighted, setting the stage for condemnation under eminent domain. The business owners who were to lose their stores fought the "blight" designation in court but failed.
Yet they didn't give up. They and their supporters held protests at trustee meetings. They were aided by the Sam Adams Alliance and Foundation, which launched a letter, telephone and flyer campaign that threatened to boycott Target if the company went through with its plan to occupy property seized by the government.
In late May, the Alliance triumphantly announced, "Target backed out of their contract with the Village. International Plaza tenants have saved the property from eminent domain abuse, at least for the time being".
The Village attorney said pending lawsuits by tenants of the shopping center were one reason for Target's decision.
It's only a reprieve. The trustees smell big bucks, so they may try to find another major chain to be the principal retailer in the 35-acre development area. In the past, several retailers have been more than willing to build on stolen property. So the residents of Arlington Heights and the Sam Adams Alliance may need to launch another campaign.
Nevertheless, Target's announcement is good news indeed.
The "takings" clause in the Constitution's Fifth Amendment says government cannot take private property "for public use without just compensation." I object to anyone having his property taken by force, but at least traditionally, this power of eminent domain ("superior ownership") was limited to the building of highways, bridges and parks -- things meant for general public benefit. But over the last 40 years, governments have redefined "public use" to include private use that they argue has public benefit. Towns began to condemn properties said to be "blighted" and hand them over to private developers, who promised higher tax revenues and jobs.
In 2005, the U.S. Supreme Court blessed this outrageous argument in the infamous Kelo v. New London case. Fortunately, a public backlash followed the ruling, and 41 states have put restrictions on eminent domain for private development. But many of these laws have loopholes for "blighted" property.
Blight is in the eye of the beholder. The Institute for Justice, a libertarian public-interest law firm, says that "the definition of 'blight' has become so broad and unprincipled that governments regularly target perfectly fine homes in ordinary neighborhoods for the wrecking ball."
The use of eminent domain for private profit is the tip of the iceberg of an unappreciated threat to individual freedom. States and municipalities routinely engage in economic planning that would make the old Soviet Union blush. State and local planning boards manipulate the tax laws and hand out cash subsidies to favored retailers and manufacturers, while those without political connections bear the full tax burden or are shut out altogether. The favoritism escalates when governments feverishly compete with one another to attract an auto-assembly plant or a big-box store. Private businesses play each government off against the others to get the most corporate welfare possible.
Who pays? The taxpayers and property owners who are forced to sacrifice for the "common good."
Why do we assume that politicians and bureaucrats know better what's good for the community than people themselves? Competition within free markets benefits everyone. Voluntary exchange is always win-win. Political schemes -- which always require force -- benefit some at the expense of others.
Many uninformed people think there can't be economic development without planning. That's another myth. Most of America's astounding economic growth occurred without government guidance.
The Arlington Heights story shows that big companies respond to public protests. There is a lesson in that. Governments will stop stealing private property from the powerless when businesses refuse to cooperate in this larceny. So the next time one of those giants signs on to a development project made possible by eminent domain, give them an earful.


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World Environment Day: COVID-19 crisis demands fundamental rethink
The COVID-19 health crisis should be seen as a clarion call to "fundamentally rethink our relationship" with natural ecosystems and shrinking biodiversity, the UN cultural agency chief said on Friday, World Environment Day.
Against the backdrop of bushfires in Brazil, the United States and Australia; locust infestations across East Africa; and a global pandemic, the theme for this year's commemoration, biodiversity, points out the interdependence of humans and the webs of life in which they exist.
"The pandemic has allowed us to observe what scientists the world over have been saying for years: the interdependence between humanity and biodiversity is so profound that the latter's vulnerabilities are our own", said Audrey Azoulay, Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in her message for the day.
Over the past year, the environmental crisis has revealed itself in a spectacular and disturbing manner.
"While wildfires ravaged tropical rainforests as if they were arid savannah, dramatically highlighting the effects climate change, the COVID-19 pandemic has cast yet another harsh light on the crisis affecting biodiversity", she stated, urging people around the globe to forge a broad consensus – both technical and ethical – to "construct a new pact with the living world".
Pillars of climate change
Every year, in late May and early June, the world spotlights three major international days that can be considered the systemic pillars of climate change: biodiversity, climate, and the oceans.
The UNESCO chief urged everyone to reflect upon how World Environment Day is "a whole, a complex system wherein, climate the oceans and the diversity of living organisms and their surroundings interact sometimes in ways that are beyond our ability to anticipate".
"This year", she concluded, "as the world struggles with an unprecedented pandemic, these days resonate more urgently than ever".
Meanwhile, in his video message, the Director-General of the International Organization for Migration (IOM), António Vitorino, flagged that the environment has always prompted people to move.
He spelled out that disasters displace millions every year and that climate change affects migration patterns the world over.
"Even when societies are slowed down by COVID-19, nothing stops cyclones and floods, the climate continues to change, the environment keeps degrading, and many people are forced out of their homes", stressed the IOM chief, also noting that other people are "trapped in environmentally fragile regions or cannot resort to usual seasonal agriculture activities".
He encouraged everyone, "even while battling the global pandemic", to stay focused on climate change and biodiversity throughout.
"Let's take action now for people and for nature", underscored Mr. Vitorino.
COVID-19 and biodiversity
COVID-19 has revealed the vulnerability of global systems to protect the environment, health, and economy, the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) said in a compelling video that illustrates how nature can protect us from pandemics.
It explains that zoonotic diseases are transferred from animals to humans, including in all likelihood the COVID-19 coronavirus. UNEP explains that keeping the diversity of nature and animal species intact, protects us against global health crises.
And while a high host species diversity can also reduce disease risk, if in some cases those hosts are removed, a resulting monoculture of animals is created, that is likely to increase their role as disease transmitters.
"We need to invest in a better scientific understanding of how human activity can affect potential future zoonoses", upheld UN Environment.
"Now is the time to appreciate the vital role of the health of our planet and to take immediate action to conserve nature".
This post was originally published by the UN News Centre. Click here to read.


President Donald Trump brushed off criticism from retired Adm. William McRaven Friday on the lifting of security clearances of administration opponents.
"I don't know McRaven," Trump said of the former Navy SEAL who organized the 2011 raid that killed Osama Bin Laden.
A day earlier, McRaven, who retired in 2015, wrote a scathing open letter to Trump published by the Washington Post in which he ripped Trump for lifting the security clearance of former CIA Director John Brennan.
McRaven called Brennan "one of the finest public servants I have ever known" and called on Trump to lift his own top secret clearance to show solidarity with Brennan.
"Therefore, I would consider it an honor if you would revoke my security clearance as well, so I can add my name to the list of men and women who have spoken up against your presidency," McRaven said.
"I know that I've gotten tremendous response from having done that because security clearances are very important to me -- very, very important," Trump said in a brief session with reporters on the White House lawn.
Trump denied attempting to muzzle Brennan. "There's no silencing. If anything, I'm giving him a bigger voice. Many people don't even know who he is, and now he's a bigger voice, and that's okay with me, because I like taking on voices like that. I've never respected him," Trump said.
In an op-ed for the New York Times, Brennan renewed his charges that Trump and his aides may have known about and cooperated with Russian attempts to influence the 2016 presidential election. "Mr. Trump's claims of no collusion are, in a word, hogwash," Brennan said.


UK— Alex Batchelor, the former chief marketing officer of sat nav maker TomTom, has joined BrainJuicer as chief operating officer, in a move designed to free up agency boss John Kearon to pursue global expansion opportunities.
Batchelor (pictured) has close ties with the online research business, having been an investor in the company since it floated on the Alternative Investment Market in 2006.
He began his career at Unilever – which is where CEO Kearon also cut his teeth – before moving to Saatchi & Saatchi as a planning director. Next, he ran Interbrand's Brand Valuation team before moving up to MD.
Switching back to the clientside, Batchelor became vice president of global brand at mobile phone company Orange and then took the role of marketing director at Royal Mail. He left TomTom in July 2009 after a year as CMO.
Batchelor will be based in London with responsibility for running offices in Europe and America, as well as the company's operations – allowing Kearon to focus on building up the business geographically.
Kearon is particularly keen to establish the firm in China. In an interview last year he said BrainJuicer had identified a Chinese national to run the business while attempts were being made to secure the firm a licence to do business in the country.
Last month the firm reported 2009 revenue up 26% to £11.7m, while operating profit was up 25% to more than £1.6m.
Aside from new offices, the firm expects growth in 2010 to be driven by the introduction of new research products and by increasing its market share with major multinational clients. It boasts of already working with 11 of the world's 20 largest buyers of market research – up from nine in 2008 – while sales of its 'Juicy' suite of products now account for 60% of revenue, compared to 46% in 2008.
BrainJuicer recently hired former Ipsos ASI director Will Goodhand as Juicy evangelist.


Khammouane or Khammouan is a province of Laos, located in the center of the country. Its capital lies at Thakhek. Khammouane Province covers an area of 16,315 square kilometres and is mostly of forested mountainous terrain.


I can't believe I wrote 'Dead John' instead of 'Dear John' to my customer.
Have you ever made a mistake like this?
My seminar participant was embarrassed about the mistake, which is one of the lesser costs of having errors in your emails. Others can be loss of business, alienated clients, or a damaged reputation. You don't want any of these consequences affecting you and your career.
Misspelling someone's name. Many people are offended if you spell their name incorrectly in the salutation. Check for the correct spelling in the person's signature block. Copy and paste the name to make sure you are spelling it correctly. Checking the "To" line also can be helpful, as people's first and/or last names are often in their addresses.
Sending an email to the wrong person. When you start to type an address in the "To" box, your device may suggest names from your contact list. Make sure you pay attention when using this feature (Auto-Complete List). It's easy to click on the wrong person when names are similar.
Not proofing the subject line. Errors in the subject line really stand out, yet it is easy to forget to check this section of an email because it's not part of your message.
Typing numbers incorrectly. Misplacing a decimal point or transposing numbers can be very costly. In addition to double-checking any numbers, you need to check any phone numbers you have included in the body of the email.
Accidentally sending an email before you have finished checking the document.Remember my acronym AIL. AIL stands for Address In Last. You put the recipient's address in the "To" box after you have finished writing and proofing the message. You can't send an email without an address.


One of the many things that I love about the holidays is the gift of spending time together as a family! When all four of us get together, I am the annoying one in the family, that forces everyone to take photos. I believe that photos are great ways to document moments and capture the joy of all being together. Therefore, I also love collecting all of the memories and photos into family photo albums. It is so fun to be able to pick up a photo book from the coffee table and be reminded of the wonderful times and trips we have taken over the years. Last year I made a photo book through Pinhole Press to give to my family for Christmas. This year with being busy with school, making a photo book for the family slipped my mind. Now, even though Christmas has come and gone, I think it may still be nice to make a book to document the past year. The other day I was reading a blog post over on A Blog Named Scout and she posted about how they printed photo postcards from Artifact Uprising to send as Christmas cards. I clicked on over to Artifact Uprising, a company I had never previously heard of, and was very intrigued by their various products. I'm drawn to the soft, simple and understated nature of their pieces. Their products range from hardcover and softcover photo books, personalized simplistic calendars, square photo prints and more.


Notes: CUT is the definitive Battle mixer.
It's a solid mixer with 2 channel switchable Phono/line inputs and an independent MIC input with dedicated EQ. The XLR Main output allows easy mobile or club install.
The CUT mixer also includes features like cross-fader curve adjustment and reverse switch, Master Cue, Record Output, 6.35mm & 3.5mm headphones output and Kallisto fader.
This is not a Mixer, it's a Mini-Tank!


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Craft in America Center is pleased to present the opening of Service: Selected Highlights from the Episode. This exhibition is inspired by our newest episode on craft and the military, and will include objects from the featured artists and organizations who are profiled.Service: Highlights offers a unique chance to see the work in person, from the dynamic pots of Peter Voulkos to pages from the Paper Doll Project, a collaboration between paper maker Pam DeLuco and women veterans.
Please join us for a screening of Service at 4:00 pm that will be followed by the opening reception at 5:00 pm.
Service: Selected Highlights will be on view at the Center through November 29, 2014.


SALT is a group for youth ages 11-18 which runs on Sunday nights during term time, 6.30-8.30pm.
Each week we share food, have fun and discuss real life. We want to inspire our young people to live out their faith, to equip them to be confident Christians and to learn from each other's experiences. Join our facebook group for updates.
CU is a place where Young people can get together to discuss and explore the Christian faith. This is a place for anyone to come and voice their thoughts and opinions whatever they may be, it's also a time for fun with regular games and video slots.


Our voting system is open and global, and to ensure that every cast vote represents your honest view we have set up the real-time monitoring. Our systems are secure and we don't tolerate attempts of vote manufacturing whose express aim is often time to tamper opinion. Individuals as well as companies who attempt to pull off such fraud will be expelled from participating. Fraud isn't what blockchain stands for and two companies have so far paid a huge price.
In the meantime, voting is in progress, while on March 26 the super exciting and interesting Market Challenge has begun. It is important that you participate. By voting not only do you stand to win any of the 100 prizes more so if you guess the winning company. That's not all. Whenever you cast your vote, you influence the market and directly help propel your favorite company to success — financially and from a marketing perspective. Remember, even after the forum, winners and ratings will be published at our global Newconomy platform.
Voting is on, and yesterday we saw five experts evaluating the top 10 companies in each category. Later, the winners of each category will be announced. However, what is interesting -- and this is why you really need to participate—live stream if you can't attend in person—is the number of speakers ready to dispense everything they know about Blockchain.
Our platform is graced by Andrew Bull, the founder and CEO of Bull Blockchain Law, William Cartmell—a Lawyer, attorney, legal advisor on blockchain matter as well as Joël Valenzuela who is Partner, Public Outreach Director at Dash Force. We also have Marcus R. Brown, a blockchain architect and game developer, Adam Kling, Kerry Pridgen, Eddie Li and Dr. Mark Baker of MediChain. And you know what? We will be getting started. There will be more experts, and by tomorrow you can walk one with any of the 100 prizes with invaluable knowledge up your sleeves on matters blockchain business model, company evaluation, investment styles and many more.


A developer is looking for residents in Warwick to have their say on emerging proposals that would see 150 homes built in the town.
Developer Crest Nicholson is anticipating that it will be submitting plans for homes in Montague Way in the near future.
The proposals for 150 homes in Warwick. Image by Crest Nicholson.
Crest Nicholson is holding the public consultation prior to formally submitting plans to Warwick District Council.
The site, which is located between Montague Road and the Grand Union Canal, is made up of land and buildings that were part of the former Ridgeway School and buildings that are currently used by Warwickshire County Council as a depot.
Crest Nicholson has said that it will be working with the county council – as it owns the site – for the application.
The website also says that planned access to the development would be through two points off Montague Road in similar locations to the existing ones.
It also says that there will be a dedicated pedestrian and cycle access.
Crest Nicholson said that there would be an 'open space link' running through the centre of the site, which would connect Montague Road to the canal towpath.
The 'open space link' would feature a mix of plants and trees.
Residents are being asked for their comments on the proposals and anyone wishing to submit views should send them to montagueroad.warwick@gva.co.uk before the consultation deadline on noon on Monday, January 21.
Alternatively comments on the proposals can be submitted to the developer by post. The address to post comments to is: Montague Road Consultation, c/o GVA Planning Department, 3 Brindley Place, Birmingham, B1 2JB.
It is not yet known when the plans will be submitted.


The other day, I went exploring around the city a bit more and came across a few health food shops as well as an oriental supermarket - I picked up a few ingredients that looked interesting and let the inspiration shine through.
This next recipe is an Asian-fusion dish, focused around the beautiful black garlic I found in a health food shop - I'd read about it online and some people have described it as a mash-up of balsamic vinegar, dates and sweet roasted garlic. I thought it smelled a little sweet, slightly savoury and a bit oniony too - for the British folk - not unlike Walkers' caramelised onion and balsamic vinegar crisps. Black garlic is fermented and the whole process actually turns the regular garlic cloves black in colour.
I cubed the tofu and crisped it up a little in a pan, before adding that wonderful black garlic sauce I made in the blender, reduced slightly, it coats the tofu, going a little sticky and it tastes utterly fantastic. I served the tofu up with some tenderstem broccoli, jasmine rice and quick-pickled chili cucumber - finished off with a sprinkling of toasted sesame seeds and a pinch of red chili flakes.
This bowl is so decadent, yet super simple, coming together in under half an hour. The contrast of the tangy, slightly spiced cucumber, with the sweet, intense tofu, juicy broccoli and sticky jasmine rice - a delightful lunch or dinner for two, that's incredibly delicious and packed with flavour.
Cut the cucumber in half and run a spoon down the middle to remove the seeds. Thinly slice and add to a bowl with rice vinegar, date syrup, chili flakes and a good pinch of salt. Stir and leave whilst you prep the rest of the dish.
Rinse rice until water runs clear, cover with 1.5-2 cups lightly salted water and boil for 12-15 minutes, until the water has absorbed and the rice is tender - top up with water if needed.
Boil or steam the broccoli for 3-4 minutes, toast the sesame seeds in a dry pan and thinly slice a spring onion.
Add the ginger, black garlic, soy sauce, date syrup and water to the blender and blitz until smooth. Cube the tofu, heat up the oil in a non-stick frying pan or wok and add the tofu, cook until golden brown and slightly crispy. Reduce the heat, then pour in the sauce, stir and let it reduce slightly.
Arrange the bowl with the rice, broccoli and tofu and sprinkle over the spring onion, sesame seeds and chili flakes.


Hills: Team gold for Ireland at World Masters. M45 title for Des Kennedy.
O'Hanlon and Curley win Longford Marathon. Rogers, Sinha tops at Dublin City Triathlon.
Roads: GR8 wins for Mansfield and Tuohy in Mitchelstown!
EYOF: GOLD for Healy; bronze for relay four!
Euro U20 T-F: Gold for Gina Akpe Moses. Plus Irish results.
Round-Up: Records fall at final day of All Ireland Juvenile T-F. Plus roads (and Snowdon!).
Dublin Marathon – entry is closed!
T-F League Round 1- who is where?
Round-Up: English qualifies for Worlds. Record for Michaela Walsh (updated).
Round-up: Barr 49.39 secs in Geneva. Mageean 2:07.40 for 800m at NI Championships.
Strong runs from Mark English, Paul Robinson and Brian Gregan.
Last call for The Relay!
Midweek: Connick wins 10,000m at Graded Meet.
Dublin Marathon – is it a fast course?
Schools: Fast runs in sleety Santry!
Masters Indoors: Hat tricks for Gough and Bechtina.


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