Air plants are a low maintenance, sleek and stylish way (for even the biggest plant killers) to invite some green into any indoor space. Air plants don't require soil so you can use a wide variety of planters to display them and they're easy to care for, as long as you are sure to give them the basics.
Here are the care details you need to know to keep your cute air plants healthy and happy. Treat them right and they might even bloom!
Air plants are the common name for Tillandsias, a type of Bromeliad. Air plants are epiphytic, meaning that don't need potting soil or dirt to grow and do not absorb water and nutrients like earthbound plants.
Air plants absorb water and nutrients directly from the air while the "roots" attach themselves to rocks, trees, shrubs, or the ground, and are native to the southern United States, Mexico, Central America, and South America.
Where to Purchase Air Plants?
Air plants can be purchased from many retailers in-store or online that offer several different varieties to choose from. We recommend starting with a multi-pack that has a few different kinds and sizes of plants to vary the look of your terrarium or planter.
What Should I Do With My New Air Plants?
When you get your air plants, you'll want to soak them in water for about 30 minutes in the sink or in a container large enough to fully submerge them.
Then gently shake the excess water off your plants and put them upside down on a towel in a bright location. It is important that they're able to fully dry out before you place them in their new homes, otherwise, your new air plants may rot and die.
Speaking of new homes, because air plants get their nutrients through their leaves, not through their roots, you'll want to give your plant a moisture-free environment and ensure you don't allow your air plants sit in water or soil for extended periods of time.
As the name indicates, the key to air plant survival is constant air circulation. We know — glass terrariums are absolutely adorable, but glass encourages wet, stagnant conditions and air plants need air circulation!
Like we just mentioned above, deciding WHERE to place your air plant is just as important as how you care for it. You'll want to make sure that it's not sealed up in a closed container so that fresh air can circulate freely around the plant. That means you'll want to double-check to ensure that you choose a vessel with a wide hole or opening to allow as much air circulation as possible.
If you simply must go with a glass container, choose a vessel with as wide a hole as possible, and be sure to let plants dry fully before you place them inside.
In order to thrive, air plants need bright, indirect light. That means they should definitely be exposed to light (not shoved in a dark corner) with temperatures between 50-90 degrees Fahrenheit (or 10-32 degrees Celsius).
A bright, indirect light like next to an east-facing window is optimal, just make sure to check that the light isn't too intense that it's burning or scorching the leaves.
How do I Water Air Plants?
Despite the name, air plants need regular watering in addition to air. How often you need to water will vary depending on the temperature, light, and humidity, which will likely change throughout the year. As with most plants, it is easier to kill by over-watering than under-watering.
When it comes to watering, many folks will tell you it's perfectly fine to simply spritz your air-plants a few times a week. Unfortunately, these simple instructions are often the main reason many people struggle to keep air plants alive. We've managed to keep a few of our air plant friends alive for a few seasons now and we swear by the "dunking" method.
Dunking or submerging your plants will follow the same exact steps you took when you first brought your air plants home. We usually bathe our air plants in the morning, once a week by filling up the sink with enough water to give 'em a nice soak for anywhere from 30 minutes up to several hours.
A 30-minute to several hour dunking once a week in the summer and once every two weeks in the winter has worked well with our little plants so far. In the winter, if we have the heater on at home, it also tends to dry them out much faster, so we simply mist them with water using a spray bottle (concentrating on the base of the plant) every few days to keep them looking fresh.
You should gauge your watering by the season, temperature, and humidity of your environment and keep an eye on them to determine what exactly your plant needs.
How do I know if I'm properly caring for my air plant?
Like most plants, if they don't look right, you can probably guess something is wrong. If the leaf tips of your plants are turning brown or becoming "crispy," it's probably an indication that they're not getting enough water.
You may need to soak more often, add misting into your routine, or move them to a humid location like a steamy bathroom.
If some of the lower leaves of your plant have dried out, you can gently pull off those withered stems. You can also snip any tips of leaves that have dried out as well. Don't worry, the leaves will grow back!
If you notice the base of your plant turning black or brown and leaves are falling out, it has probably been overwatered and is rotting. At this point, it is unfortunately beyond saving and should be discarded.
Did you know that air plants flower once in their life? Depending on the species, these blossoms last from a few days to a few months and can be a whole variety of beautiful bright colors, like pink, red and purple. Flowering is the peak of the air plant life cycle, but also marks the beginning of the plant's old age - after it flowers, the plant will eventually die.
But don't despair — you're hard work is not lost! Another awesome piece of air plant advice is that you can actually create new plants from this mama plant!!!
Just before, during or after flowering (depending on the species) your air plant will eventually produce 2-8 little sprouts, or "pups," from their base. When a pup reaches 1/3 of the size of the adult plant, you can gently separate it by pulling it apart from the parent plant. Cool, right? Just be careful not to remove them too early, as they're actually receiving nutrients from the mother air plant.
We hope you try out these tips and see that air plants are one of the easiest and most versatile indoor plants to take care of.
Have any questions or your own best practices for air plant care? Share with us in the comments!


Wasn't sure to post this in Animations or Artwork, so I guess I will post it here.
My Oc/RHG was drawn by my girlfriend and I decided to manipulate/animate it and such.
Was a pain editing it and using this program for the first time, but heres the results!
Wow hott! Ya gf has talent, I like the paint or tattoo stripes going down her face. That shine ya put in the eyes is awesome, although the hair could have been a little smoother movement. Other than that its amazing.


The Tub grey spun bamboo table lamp has a beautiful bright grey high gloss dip detail lacquered to perfection and contrasts beautifully with the natural bamboo.
Surprisingly lightweight yet sturdy, the lamp includes a co-ordinated white fabric lampshade and is ideal for a side table.
Part of the Tub collection available in various colours.
Recommended bulb (sold separately): E27 11W GLS (sku no: 414205).
Grey spun bamboo table lamp with fabric shade is rated 4.5 out of 5 by 33.
Rated 5 out of 5 by DecorEnthusiast from Delighted with these lamps I love the simple contemporary lines and refreshing combination of cooler ceramic and warm bamboo. Bought two to use on bedside tables.
Rated 4 out of 5 by abracadabra from A lovely addition to the lounge This is a beautiful lamp, the design is fantastic and the quality is great too.
Rated 5 out of 5 by harses789 from spun bamboo table lamp This product is stylish and gives a warm glow to my dining room. The look is great and the product works really well.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Debra in the Alps from Beautiful bamboo The lamp base is well made, the texture of the bamboo is attractive.The shade is good quality.
Rated 4 out of 5 by Terry B from Bamboo Lamp This was a good buy. Strong design, sleek looks, a little bit unusual and great value. Service was good too - prompt and lamp was well-packaged. I'd recommend this product.
Rated 5 out of 5 by JB5400 from Lovely lamp Great lamp, no faults. Only negative is the bulb Habitat suggest you buy with it, it's a bit bright with that lamp. Great if you want a lot of light. But we have used this lamp as a bedside lamp and wanted a warmer cosey light.
Rated 5 out of 5 by jaineinchina from gorgeous bought two of these for our living room- great size as our room is only small so they don't take over the side tables on which they live. Nice neutral colourings but a lovely design makes them a bit special.


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Q: Authorize a directory for anonymous users IIS 7.5? I'm trying to add a directory for anon access in IIS 7.5. It works under Web Dev but not IIS 7.5
I'm currently using this web.config in the directory. This is a directory with style sheets:
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    Note: As an alternative to hand editing this file you can use the
    web admin tool to configure settings for your application. Use
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    A full list of settings and comments can be found in
    machine.config.comments usually located in
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                <allow users="*" />

            </authorization>

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Update:
I've went to the folder and under Authentication, I've changed anonymous authentication from IIS_USR to pool. This seems to have correct it.
I will reward anyone who provides a very good explanation and resources for understanding this setting. Also, how to apply it globally would be good to know -- for all folders.

A: Since you answered your own question, here is the explanation that might help
Authorization deals with who IIS will offer resources to.  Those resources, however, have their own security as they are just files on a file system.
The Authentication element in the config assists in determining how IIS will identify a user's requests after its accepted and as it accesses resources beyond/external to IIS.
This is set at the site level, typically in the applicationHost.config file for your server.  It can, if properly setup, be overridden at the site level.
IIS.net pages about this:
http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/security/authorization/add
http://www.iis.net/ConfigReference/system.webServer/security/authentication/anonymousAuthentication
The .config version of what you did in the UI is:
<location path="/yourSite">
   <system.webServer>
      <security>
         <authentication>
            <anonymousAuthentication enabled="true" username="" />
          </authentication>
      </security>
   </system.webServer>
</location>

On the anon. auth method, the username field is who IIS will impersonate when resources are accessed.  When you don't specify one, it defaults to use the identity of the apppool.
Now, as to why this mattered ... check the actual file on disk (the .css).  If this fixed the problem that would mean IUSR doesn't have access to read that file.

A: You don't have a location defined for your authorization. You also don't specify what sort of authentication you're using within the web.config (if any).
<location path="/">
    <system.web>
    <authorization>
        <allow users="*"/>
        </authorization>
    </system.web>
</location>

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Most Nintendo fans after this year's E3 were left with mixed emotions. Smash Bros was the game that got the most stage time. For people who don't enjoy the Smash franchise was there enough for them to look forward to. I have some good news for them. I have a strong feeling that there will be a Nintendo direct in the first half of September. The last two years Nintendo has had a direct in September. In 2016 there was one on the 1st of September. Then in 2017 there was another Nintendo direct on the 13th of September. Nintendo really likes this time slot to give themselves a big boost before the holiday season. Also during the tree house we were assured that Nintendo has lots more surprises before the end of the year.
This week I sit down with Tim Aulph, the Community Manager for Nintendo Dads!! We talk all the major highlights of E3!!! Take a listen for our analysis of the weekend's hottest news to come out of the biggest games and electronics expo in the country!!
E3 2018. Nintendo. Xbox. PlayStation.
Today during the EA conference there was a new Star Wars game announced. It will take place in the dark times. When the remaing Jedi were hunted down by Darth Vader between episode 3 and 4.


Discover more about what to visit in Alassio thanks Top Trends on social Networks! What to see in Alassio? Top place to visit this week according to social Networks trend on YAMGU has been: Muretto di Alassio!


We are often blown away by the generosity and engagement of our corporate partners. It's thanks to them that we are able to do so much for service members and veterans. One example of that is Home Depot. They have pledged stockings for our Holiday Community Partner Program for three years in a row. Each year, they increase the number of stockings donated. Read Volume 3 of our annual series here.


DURHAM, N.C. – The Florida State swimming and diving teams set two pool records this weekend at the Taishoff Aquatics Pavilion at Duke University while facing the Blue Devils and Virginia Tech.
After the women's 400 medley relay set a new record on Friday, Saturday's session was capped off with a pool record by the men's 400 free relay with the team of junior Kanoa Kalealoha, sophomores Vladimir Stefanik and Felipe Ribeiro de Souza along with junior Emir Muratovic at 2:58.25.
Once again, sophomore Ayla Bonniwell was victorious, this time winning 1-meter with a score of 284.40, over 13 points ahead of the second place finisher.
Senior Natalie Pierce also won her second individual on the weekend, holding on to win the 200 breast with a time of 2:17.80.
The Seminoles got a huge boost from the men's 100 fly with a sweep led by Kaleoaloha at 47.53, lowering his career best he set last week. Stefanik came in second clocking 49.43 and junior Will Pisani finished third at 49.88.
Senior Chad Mylin picked up his second win in the 50 free this season, touching at 20.12.
The men's team moves to 2-1 on the year after defeating Duke 208-145, while suffering the loss to No.19 Virginia Tech 194.50-158.50. The women (0-3) fell to both Virginia Tech (223.50-129.50), and No. 20 Duke (192.50-160.50).
The women also had top performances from senior Alexi Smith in the 50 free as she took second in the with a time of 23.29. Also, rookie Madeline Cohen finished third in the 100 back at 55.26.
Both women's relays placed second, starting with the 200 medley at 1:41.66 before closing out the weekend with the 400 free relay at 3:24.84.
The men had three second place finishers, as senior Connor Kalisz was the runner up in the 100 back at 49.26 and freshman Ryan Telford followed in the 200 breast at 2:02.80.
Sophomore Rudo Loock and Ribeiro de Souza were second and third respectively in the 200 free, touching with times of 1:39.03 and 1:39.62.
On the boards, senior Tyler Roberge led the Noles, scoring a total of 350.20.
Florida State will be on the road to face Arizona State at 11 a.m. on Oct. 28.


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A Map Is Not A Territory
April 10, 2021 by Vishakha SIngh
"I have seas but no sharks, rivers but no water; forests but no birds; cities but no people. Who am I?"
My daughter nagged me with a riddle while I was busy taking pictures of the sky outside the plane window. The simple joy of flying after a long time enhanced with a beautiful setting of the sun outside the window had my attention. She nagged again and then she blurted the answer, "a map." A map, the word, took my husband seated next to her, to the GPS in his car and how the car starts beeping at every point where he crosses the defined speed limit. His frustration came out animatedly especially when he talked about the speed limit of 30km/hr.
Cars are getting designed with behavioural controls like alarm beeps if you cross a certain speed limit. These frameworks exist to guide and maneuver human behaviour. Google Maps and other inbuilt GPS systems work as useful guides through their easy, nearly accurate navigation systems unless they start beeping. At that moment, to get away with the annoyance, you remind yourself, a map is not the territory!
"A map is not the territory" is a statement coined by Alfred Korzybski. The mathematician presented this in a paper in 1931 in New Orleans. He used it to convey the fact that people often confuse models of reality with reality itself. In Korzybski's words,
"A map may have a structure similar or dissimilar to the structure of the territory."
He meant that people in general do not have access to absolute knowledge of reality, but merely possess a subset of that knowledge that is then adapted through the lenses of their own experience. In today's Habits for Thinking column, I want to bring your attention to a way of thinking which hinges around this concept that, 'a map is not the territory.'
The map here means the tool to understand reality like theories and models. Like a physical map helps us to understand a space, similarly a mental map, is an abstract way of understanding things that our mind adapts to. To understand the complexity of a subject, the human mind creates a map or a model internally. It is just an understanding in a short form. What we have in our mind may be flawed because it is just a version of the actual explanation. Secondly, it may be incomplete, as one can miss out on a point. Also, it may not be interpreted in totality as the reality. These understandings, that a model can be flawed or incomplete or under-interpreted reflects the understanding of the statement that the territory, the reality, can be different from the model.
Let me explain to you how it impacts our lives:
Several models of explanations that are in our head and in our workflows and decision making are just models. These are not realities. When we repeatedly get into the habit of using that model, without questioning or analysing them, we may not be able to identify the problem in our decision making and therefore may end up in a failed outcome. This stands true for both personal life and work life.
An illustration in a personal life:
In architecture and urban planning, there is a term called desire lines. What are desire lines?
"Desire lines" are paths & tracks made over time by the wishes & feet of walkers, especially those paths that run contrary to design or planning. Free-will ways. Aka "cow-paths" & "Olifantenpad" (elephant trails) says Robert Macfarlane.
These are essentially short cuts or paths made away from the actual path, or in absence of a path by walking through a hedge, or a sharp corner of green patch as the shortcut etc. Despite well laid walking paths, these human footprints made paths sprout in areas where they are not designed to be, all created by a certain human behaviour. People create desire paths for three primary reasons: time efficiency, experience, and resistance, in the sense that why would I do 'X', if I could do 'Y', as quoted in an article. Some places are left marked with desire-paths, but some well maintained urban places like manicured green lawns prevent pedestrian behavior crossing by creating a series of design elements like rope fences or some extra pots and plants as vertical hindrances.
Our mental models are also like that. We know we have to behave in a certain way but we find routes as shortcuts, like desire-lines. Because why not? And, sometimes that shortcut becomes a habit which gets difficult to change later. Take an example of a mother reprimanding his child for a misdeed and cancelling his screen time as a lesson and the other parent, the father, quietly letting the child watch the screen, because he is just a child. The map here is a discipline model and the child with his misdeed creates his desire-line. The mother aims to mend that desire-line created by the child by cancelling his screen time, but the other parent allows it. This leads to an altered model of discipline and ethics in the child's mind. Small example, but it compounds over the years.
At workplaces:
At work places, in management, in education, models or frameworks are extensively used. These are great reference tools. However, these are not end goals but just tools to aid decision making. Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of Black Swan, Fooled by Randomness and other books does not believe in the entirety of a model.
'A model might show you some risks, but not the risks of using it. Moreover, models are built on a finite set of parameters, while reality affords us infinite sources of risks.'
He talks about a specific model used in investing called as VAR and how the model is limiting in its capacity. "It summarizes the expected maximum loss (or worst loss) over a target horizon within a given confidence interval. It is the uniqueness, precision and misplaced concreteness of the measure that bother me. I would rather hear risk managers make statements like -'at such price in such security A and at such price in security B, we will be down $150,000.' They should present a list of such associated crisis scenarios without unduly attaching probabilities to the array of events." He continues, "If financial engineering means the creation of financial instruments that improve risk allocation, then I am in favor of it. If it means using engineering methods to quantify the immeasurable with great precision, then I am against it."
Immeasurable is the keyword here. Many models that work on risk analysis do not have the capacity to measure the risk in entirety. However people still use and accept such models. Sometimes these inadequacies in the models cause failure.
#Ideastoaction: A map is not a territory is a concept that needs to be used in the decision making process.
Models, as explained, are maps that are not territories.
Through varied and unique experiences, these models develop desire-lines, which may lead to a good decision or a bad decision.
When making decisions based on models, one must step back and understand if there could be flaws or incomplete interpretation. This will help in better decision making.
Google Maps has introduced a few new features this March where it allows you to draw a missing lane or to share actual photos as updates of a place. Maps evolve to be flawless, so should decision making models.
Leaving you with Nicholas Taleb's statement:
"Never cross a river because it is on average 4 feet deep."
For Continued Success, Focus On Lead Measures
3 simple traits of responsible self-leadership

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SU in the Media
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SU Races to Zero Waste in National Recycling Competition January 29-March 25
SALISBURY, MD---Salisbury University kicks off its spring semester in a race against other campuses across North America. The finish line is zero waste.
The National Wildlife Federation's Campus Race to Zero Waste, formerly RecycleMania, helps colleges and universities across the U.S. and Canada find pathways toward zero waste, 90% or more diverted from trash, on their campuses.
"SU is no stranger to sustainability and recycling," said Rachael Faust, SU recycling coordinator. "Having competed in this competition previously, but not since we transitioned to single-stream recycling, I know our campus community can bring in more recyclables now than ever before. I encourage all students, faculty, and staff to help us reach our goal."
The campus will be competing in the per capita category, submitting weekly reports of weight of recyclables in relation to campus population.
SU's Recycling Department and University Dining Services also are partnering efforts in reducing post-consumer food waste for the competition's case study category.
The eight-week contest, from January 29-March 25, includes items gathered from any SU interior or exterior recycling bins or recycling dumpsters.
Materials accepted (all must be clean and dry):
• PET (plastic No. 1) bottles, containers, tubs and jars
• HDPE (plastic No. 2) bottles, containers, tubs and jars
• metal cans
• glass bottles and jars
• paper, flattened cardboard, magazines, pamphlets and books
SU's recycling program began in 1990, and since then, campus efforts have remained on the cutting edge of sustainable practices, including the Eastern Shore's first U.S. Green Building Council Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design (LEED) certified new construction project, the region's first publicly available electric vehicle charging stations, 10 additional LEED certified buildings, Bird and Bee Campus USA designations, a trayless dining hall, a solar parking canopy producing enough electricity annually to power three campus buildings; and the "green roof" atop the Patricia R. Guerrieri Academic Commons.
For 13 consecutive years, The Princeton Review, in partnership with the U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC), has named SU one of the nation's most environmentally responsible colleges. This year, the University is among the publication's top 50 "Green Colleges" in the U.S.
For more information email Faust or visit the SU recycling webpage.
Learn more about SU and opportunities to Make Tomorrow Yours at www.salisbury.edu.
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Memory Man by David Baldacci (2015)
May 11, 2017 Jenniferfiction, suspense/thrillerCurrent Picks
David Baldacci's latest hero is quirky and troubled Amos Decker: he can't forget anything thanks to a head injury in his first (and last) NFL game, and he abandons his career as a police detective following the murder of his wife and daughter. Sixteen months after the tragedy, a man unexpectedly confesses to that crime—but is he guilty?
In Memory Man, an introspective antihero is drawn back into police work by a school shooting. Is it somehow connected to his family's murder? A gripping story and a memorable character. Intrigued? Check out The Last Mile and The Fix (just released last month) for more Amos Decker action.
The Thing About Love by Julie James (2017)
April 20, 2017 Jenniferfiction, romanceCurrent Picks
FBI agents Jessica Harlow and John Shepherd didn't exactly bond during their training six years ago. When they're paired together for an undercover assignment, sparks fly and banter ensues. With charming characters and witty dialogue, Julie James pens another smart contemporary romance. If you enjoy Susan Elizabeth Phillips, try The Thing About Love.
On Turpentine Lane by Elinor Lipman (2017)
March 27, 2017 Jenniferchick lit, fiction, romanceCurrent Picks
In this charming romantic comedy, author Elinor Lipman writes lovable characters, smart dialogue, and zany situations. Thirty-something Faith Frankel returned to her small Massachusetts hometown after a stint in New York City. She spends her days writing thank you notes as a fundraiser for a local private school while her fiancé "finds himself" on a walk across America. Faith impulsively buys a semi-decrepit cottage, setting off a hilariously bizarre series of events (including a mystery). On Turpentine Lane is a gem, deserving of a read or listen (narrated beautifully by Mia Barron). I can't wait to read more by Lipman.
My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella (2017)
February 9, 2017 Jenniferchick lit, fiction, romanceCurrent Picks
Sophie Kinsella introduces another delightful character in Katie Brenner. In My Not So Perfect Life, country girl Katie is fulfilling her lifelong dream of living and working in London. According to her Instagram account, life is rosy. And yet, reality is quite different.
In this fast-paced witty novel, Kinsella covers workplace culture, social media "truth" vs. reality, and making assumptions/being quick to judge people. A fun yet thought-provoking look at life in the 21st century.
Doomsday Book by Connie Willis (1992)
December 22, 2016 Jenniferfiction, historical fiction, science fictionCurrent Picks
This book hit all the right notes: likable, interesting characters; gripping story told from multiple perspectives; and historical fiction blended with believable time travel. In 2048 England, students and professors at Oxford have mastered the art of time travel as a means to fill in the gaps in the historical record. Budding historian Kivrin plans to visit 1320 Oxford to learn more about everyday life in the Middle Ages; instead, she ends up in 1348 at the height of the Black Death. A mysterious epidemic in 2048 also creates chaos, preventing Dunworthy (Kivrin's mentor) from bringing her home.
A compelling narrative, Doomsday Book will propel you forward, frantically turning to pages to discover the fate of those in past and future. My first foray into Connie Willis' novels—but it won't be my last!
The Muse by Jessie Burton (2016)
November 21, 2016 Jenniferfiction, historical fiction, mysteryCurrent Picks
Alternating between 1930s Spain and 1960s London, The Muse is a compelling story with its threads tied together by a painting and its artist. In the months leading up to the Spanish Civil War, teenager Olive Schloss struggles with identity, relationships, and artistry. In 1967 England, Trinidadian writer Odelle faces similar challenges. Early on in Jessie Burton's sophomore novel (after The Miniaturist), it's obvious that a mystery in the plots of the parallel narratives will be resolved; the surprise (and joy) is in how Burton accomplishes it.
This novel is for fans of historical fiction and art-related novels such as The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes, The Art Forger by B. A. Shapiro, and That Summer by Lauren Willig. Plus, check out our book list featuring Art & Artists.
The Boy is Back by Meg Cabot (2016)
October 20, 2016 Jenniferchick lit, fiction, romanceCurrent Picks
Take one part Meg Cabot's (of The Princess Diaries fame) brand of romantic comedy and one part modern epistolary novel and you get a delightfully endearing story. Told through phone chats, social media messages, journals, and emails, The Boy is Back follows high school sweethearts Becky and Reed as they reconnect after a decade apart. Mix in a wacky family, small town shenanigans, and a few misunderstandings for a sweet and breezy read.
And if you're a fan of epistolary novels, check out our list.
Spotlight: Recent Foodie Fiction
September 29, 2016 Jenniferfiction, foodCurrent Picks
Each of these novels has an enticing blend of food, relationships, and quirky women coming of age, no matter their age. And just a warning: you'll be hungry after you finish reading!
The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller (2016)
After her fancy dessert goes up in flames (as does her fancy workplace), Olivia escapes to Vermont to bake for a small inn. In the process, she meets a delightful cast of characters and discovers what's really important in life. Check out Mary P.'s review for more about the story.
Kitchens of the Great Midwest by J. Ryan Stradal (2015)
It's all about Eva. Told from multiple points of view and through a series of short stories, the novel unfolds to share different parts of the renowned chef's personality.
Delicious! by Ruth Reichl (2014)
After Billie gets a job at a food magazine, she encounters engaging characters, describes mouth-watering food, and explores the foodie side of New York. Read a full review of the book here.
Did you know? We've got a whole list of Foodie Fiction!
Nine Women, One Dress by Jane L. Rosen (2016)
August 18, 2016 Jenniferchick lit, fiction, romanceCurrent Picks
In this charming romantic comedy, the central character is this season's hottest little black dress. Told from various points of view, Nine Women, One Dress shares the stories of an ensemble of New Yorkers whose lives are touched by the "it" dress. Despite jumping from character to character (men and women), the engaging story flows smoothly and keeps you invested in all of the lives we visit. Jane L. Rosen's debut is a delightfully lighthearted read.
The Singles Game by Lauren Weisberger (2016)
July 14, 2016 Jenniferchick lit, fiction, women's fictionCurrent Picks
After a devastating injury at Wimbledon, 24-year-old Charlotte "Charlie" Silver questions her coach and her sedate lifestyle, but not her future in the sport of tennis. How far is she willing to go to make it to the top? In this delightfully snarky fast-paced coming of age tale, Lauren Weisberger provides a fascinating glimpse into the world of competitive tennis. Perfect for the beach!
The Singles Game is the latest novel from the author of The Devil Wears Prada.
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Rated 5 out of 5 by MGS9 from Perfect actvity to keep little one busy My almost 4 year old grandaughter thoroughly enjoyed these. She got them in her Christmas stocking and was very excited. We ave her some recycled paper to use and she created several winter snowmen scenes. Enough to play twice, and still have some left for her next visit.
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Does each roll contain 50 snowmen, 50 hats, etc. or 50 stickers in total?
The roll will contain 50 snowmen stickers.
Description in catalog states 100 stickers per roll....online states 50 stickers per roll. Which is correct?
We apologize for the misprinted information. There are 50 stickers per roll.


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Thomas Protheroe, age 77, passed away Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton. Tom was born in Neenah on October 15, 1934, son of the late Gordon and Mildred (Kuntz) Protheroe. He was a 1954 graduate of the Menasha High School, and on November 28, 1958 married the former Audrey Miller in Oshkosh; she survives. Tom served his county in the United States Marine Corps from 1953 until 1956, and worked as a sheet metal work all over the country until his retirement in 1997. He had been a member of the Sheet Metal Workers International Association #18 for forty years. He was a generous man who was always willing and able to help his friends and neighbors with any projects they had going on. Tom loved being outdoors. He enjoyed fishing, trapping, and waterfowl hunting. He was an expert marksman!
Survivors include his wife of fifty-three years: Audrey Protheroe of Menasha; four children: Scott, Lori (Dean), Kathy, and Jan; his grandchildren: Jessica, William, Christopher, Rachel, Michelle, Joel, Sara, and Eli; his great-grandchildren: Ella, Emily, Chase, and Irelynn; five brothers and sisters: Mary Ann (Al) Mills, John (Jackie) Protheroe, Carol Block, William (Jeanie) Protheroe, and Judy (Doug) Kuchenbecker; and a sister-in-law: Betty Protheroe. He was preceded in death by his parents and brothers Harold Palmer and Duane Protheroe; a sister-in-law Shirley Palmer; and a brother-in-law Jerry Block.
A memorial service for Tom will be held at 7:00 PM on Monday, January 2, 2012 at the funeral home chapel at 3212 S. Oneida Street in Menasha, with Rev. Judy Deckert officiating. Friends may call directly at the funeral home on Monday from 4:00 PM until the hour of the service. A memorial fund is being established.
The family would like to thank everyone at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton for the wonderful care, compassion, and love that was shown to the entire family. We will never forget your kindness.
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Thomas Protheroe, age 77, passed away Wednesday, December 28, 2011, at St. Elizabeth Hospital in Appleton. Tom was born in Neenah on October 15, 1934, son of the late Gordon and Mildred (Kuntz) Protheroe. He was a 1954 graduate of the Menasha High School, and on November 28, 1958 married the former Audrey Miller in…


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California sues the Trump Administration over citizenship question on Census
Progressives, states and civil rights advocates are preparing a flurry of legal challenges to the Trump administration's decision to add a question about citizenship to the next census, saying the move will penalize immigrants and threaten civil rights.
"The citizenship question is the latest attempt by President Trump to stoke the fires of anti-immigrant hostility," California Secretary of State Alex Padilla said in a statement."
The question has not been on the census since the 1950s, and the Commerce Department said the decision came after a "thorough review" of the request from the Justice Department. The priority, Commerce said, was "obtaining complete and accurate data."
The state of California immediately challenged the plan in federal court. Former Obama administration Attorney General Eric Holder also blasted the move and said his organization, which focuses on voting enfranchisement and redistricting, would also pursue litigation against what he called an "irresponsible decision."
Critics of the move say that including such a question on a government survey will scare non-citizens and vulnerable immigrant communities into under-reporting. Wendy Weiser, director of the Brennan Center's Democracy Program, a nonprofit that works on issues of justice and civil rights, said the question had no place in the Census.
"Our Constitution requires a complete and accurate count of everyone living in the country, no matter her or his citizenship status. The administration's decision to add a citizenship question is at best a dramatic misstep, and at worst a politically-motivated move that will undermine a fair and accurate census," Weiser said. "This question is a dangerous move that could lead to a serious skewing of the final census results, which would have a deleterious effect on our system of representative democracy. We urge the administration to reconsider."
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Not Even Not Zen 248: Biomythography - Note 24, When My Boss Set Our Building on Fire
When My Boss Set Our Building on Fire
I was in the kitchen of a family restaurant in Hadley, Massachusetts when it started. Yeah, even though I had graduated from college, I was working as a short order cook. That's how it works with non-STEM degrees.
The grill area was small with room for at most two cooks at a time. It smelled like clean but ancient grease. I had been a good cook and I got a raise within three weeks of starting. I knew I was better than they'd had before. That's why I'd asked for more money. The manager was way too pleased to get a cook who didn't show up drunk. He could leave me alone, too, and I'd keep on working without being reminded every fifteen minutes. As an added bonus, the customers liked my food. Even the manager liked my food.
But as a restaurant, we specialized in blandness. Our loyal following consisted of retirees.
"They don't like a lot of seasoning," my boss explained during the second or third time he showed me around the grill. I had been following some of the standard recipes the other cooks had posted on the walls. He had to tell me to cut it out. Fortunately, he didn't have to explain about the food prep area or service window. I had plenty of questions about the ticket system, early on, but those were with good reason. One of the waitresses had been working for a decade and she simply followed her own system based on a concept that was nine years old and different from everyone else.
"You don't even add pepper?" I eyed the row of prepared spice jars on the left of the grill.
"Definitely not. I know some recipes call for it but eliminate the pepper unless it's part of a packaged mix."
"Okay." That was the opposite of how I'd been taught but it was no problem. In a way, I approved. Using no spices meant the quality of the basic ingredients and the grill became that much more important.
A few weeks into the job, though, I noticed the grill area never got fully cleaned. It got wiped down, sure. The place was neat in its way, stacked high with all sorts of paper records, recipes, jars, boxes, and receipt print-outs, but it never got mopped. No one ever moved a machine to clean up a spill. After a month, I scraped the grill before my shift one morning and noticed the same burnt flecks of potatoes that had been sitting at the edge of the spill guard since I'd started.
I pulled out the front grate cover and peered underneath. There was no room. Ten minutes later, I waved down the manager.
"The grease catcher is full," I complained. That was the night cook's job. It had been, like other things, written down as a procedure but ignored.
"That's what the bucket is for."
I did a double-take. Sure enough, there was a once-white grease bucket on the floor underneath to catch the spillover. Yeah, the grill hadn't been scoured in a few weeks. Or months. Or years, maybe. But they had a system. I was still the new guy. Besides, in the back of my mind I knew the manager was pretty often the night shift cook. If I complained, he wouldn't make that guy do it. That guy was him. He'd try to make me clean up two year's worth of grease under the stove.
Come the weekend, our Saturday morning rush hit and the manager strode in to work the grill next to me. I was keeping up with the orders and the grill surface was maxed out for space, so his help was more irritating than useful. It was normal, though. Sometimes the manager came to cook with me just because nothing else was going on in the restaurant. He liked to make food. He had been, in fact, the head cook for years before he got a promotion.
He seemed to know everybody, all the regular customers, the health inspector, the fire inspector, every police officer who stopped in, pretty nearly every local citizen in Hadley. That was probably handy at times. In contrast, I was a transient who didn't know any locals. Really, I mostly knew bartenders, cooks, and wait staff. A lot of those were college students, so they were transients like me.
"Oh, I see someone," the manager said as he waved through the service window. Whoever it was didn't notice him. He waved again.
"Eggs dry and bacon," he yelled as he plated a batch of scrambled eggs. Across the carpet and with many tables between, a man in a dark jacket caught a glimpse of us and waved back to the manager.
"Where's my pancakes?" A waitress swept in to take the plate.
"Whoops, they're getting crispy," he said. He glanced down to his line of three cakes. He had laid them out vertically. The top two were light brown. The closest, sizzling at the near corner of the grill, had gone black on one side. He decided to leave it. He flipped the good ones onto a plate for the waitress.
The crispy one caught fire while he talked to his staff through the service window. He laughed.
"Damn." After the waitress strolled away, he used his steel spatula to chop up the wasted pancake. One chunk of it burned yellow and orange. Other fragments burned blue. The sections that were mostly okay, steaming and smoking but no worse, he scooped up and dropped into the trash can to his right.
"Don't toss the burning stuff yet," I said. I was eyeing his plastic trash basket, stacked high with dry paper.
"I was just about to tell you that." He chopped up the remaining pancake coals until they were a dark pile of rubble. "I'm going to go out front. Don't worry about the fire. It'll burn out."
He dragged the glowing embers into the spill guard, where they sputtered into blue flames. Then he tugged at the bow knot on his apron, whipped it off, and marched out.
For twenty minutes or so, the rush continued. Middle aged and elderly couples filed in. They found their tables. They ordered plain eggs and black coffee. I cooked five or six breakfast orders at a time but probably only twenty orders total. Mostly, I forgot about the burnt pancake next to me. Every now and then, I couldn't avoid seeing the remains. The grill was double-sized, two stovetops screwed together with a half-gutter down the middle, but it still wasn't more than eight feet wide. The cinders continued to pop and sputter with yellow flames next to me.
The problem was the spill guard, I thought. It was pretty much a gutter filled with grease, like a horizontal candle. The pancake bits were the wick.
When my boss poked his head through the service window to grab an order that a waitress had put in late, he gawked at the smoke.
"That's still burning?" His voice rose in pitch like a kid protesting unfairness at school.
"There really is a lot of grease here." I gestured to the trough of it. He wasn't at the right angle to see how deep it was but he knew.
"Does it bother you?"
"Nah, I guess not." The smoke had been making my eyes water but I didn't feel like complaining. "We should put it out at the end of the shift, though."
"Ugh."
He wandered off into the front of the restaurant with his food. It took forty minutes or so for the rush to slow. The manager substitued for the hostess and made the hostess bus tables. She stopped by to complain to me even though she knew I couldn't do anything about it. She ran food out to the tables, too, until the waitresses objected. The tables had filled to their limit. Most customers had plates on the white tablecloths in front of them.
"Still?" the manager strolled by. He gazed at the kitchen ceiling. A haze of smoke hung there, about four inches thick.
He disappeared for a while but, as a line started to develop at the hosting stand again, he marched back in. He stopped into the grill area to shake his head.
"All right," he said, hands on hips. "If we let this go too long, the customers are going to complain. The waitresses are already telling me they smell smoke."
"Can you bring me a bucket of water?" I figured I could dump the burning rubbish into one. Like I'd learned in Boy Scouts, you couldn't put out grease fire with water but at least the water itself wouldn't burn. As a solution, it wasn't elegant. But with the embers in a bucket, the manager could carry them out back and they would stop stinking up the place.
"Where would I get an empty bucket? I'd have to dump something out."
I shrugged. If he didn't know where something was in this place, no one did. He shuffled his feet for a moment in the kitchen doorway, dithering about what to do. Then, while I was plating another round of food, he disappeared.
A minute later, he returned with a glass of water. He had taken it from one of the tables out front.
"What are you doing?" I asked.
"You wanted water."
"I wanted a bucket."
"Well, I don't have a bucket."
We were standing near a dozen big, plastic buckets, plus another six in the walk-in freezer and about twenty more blocking the rear of the store, which is why the dishwasher and manager had to carry trash out through the front doors at the end of the night.
"You can't put out a grease fire with water," I insisted. That was a scouting rule and I believed in it although I had never put it to a test. Maybe enough water could work.
"Then why did you ask for it?"
"To put the burning pancake bits into it. I don't think I can make them fit in that glass. They're too big."
In answer, he tossed the glass of water into the spill gaurd. There was a hiss and a cloud of steam. For a moment, I couldn't see the grill. I thought, just maybe, that put out the fire. But when the billow wafted up to the ceiling and I could see the grill, I noticed flames in three places. There were embers on the floor, up the spill guard by my left hand, and back on the grill as if the pancake had never left.
My boss stomped on floor to extinguish the sputtering flames there. Along the grill, the flames burned cooler, yellower, and bigger. The cup of water washed the burning bits around but those bits found new puddles of oil. The fire got more fuel. In another few seconds, the grease in the spill area started floating on top of the slick of water. It began to drift.
"God dammit," the manager complained. But he wasn't frustrated with me, just at his bad luck.
While I plated another round of eggs and Canadian bacon, amazed for the hundredth time that anyone liked Canadian bacon, he grabbed the steel grill scraper and started pushing the burning oil around.
"You keep cooking," he said. "But not on this half. I'm going to make sure this dies out."
"Okay."
Even now, with the fire doubled in size, it was small. The flames burned cooler, too. We could go home, I thought, and it wouldn't hurt anything. It looked like it might still be burning when we got back in the morning, but no worse than that.
A waitress came over and gave me a dirty look. She turned her scowl on the manager, too, but she jumped back in surprise a second later when she saw the fire had spread. She retreated.
As I read her spiked order, I saw my boss scraping together a big pile of grease. He had collected the burning bits and the fuel, too, so it looked worse than ever.
"Hey, you're pushing it into the grease trap?" I realized that was what he had to be doing. All of the gutters around the grill and the narrower one running down the center led into the trap.
"That's where it belongs," he grunted.
"But, I mean, it's all grease in there. And it's a grease fire." If there was anything we could do to make the situation worse, I thought that would be it. We would start a fire in the five-gallon metal bin and in the bucket beneath it.
But my boss lowered his head stubbornly and kept scraping. He pushed the burning puddle closer and closer to the gutter mouth of the trap. Abruptly, the flames turned blue again. At a guess, the grill's hot surface had steamed off the last of the water. My manager hesitated while he thought about pushing a flame into the solid lump of fat and oil below.
"Right." He set down the scraper. "I'm going out front."
He took time to chat with the regulars and, from a snippet of conversation I overheard at the table closest to me, to apologize for the smoke. Not a single customer seemed to mind. Only the waitresses cared and that was mostly because their tickets were backing up. I laid out two orders at once, which was all I had room for on the left half of the grill, and got back to work.
Ten minutes later, I pushed the burning puddle to the far right of the cooking surface. There was a spill guard there, too, but I couldn't use it because the far end of it lay underneath a wooden shelf that held recipe books and stacks of old orders and receipts, most of those lumped into paper bags or wrapped with rubber bands for record-keeping. I didn't want to put the fire there. I only needed to push it far enough out of my way so I could get back to cooking three orders together.
While I worked, the puddle crept toward the near end of the stove as if the fire wanted to return to where it had started life as a pancake.
"Okay, that's got to go," my boss said as he strode back into the front kitchen. In this hands was a red, metal canister. "I found a fire extinguisher. I thought we'd gotten rid of them all but we kept this one."
"Great!"
He pulled the pin on it. With a grin, he squeezed the handle. A hiss of air came out.
"What?" He shook the fire extinguisher like a can of hairspray. He pushed the handle again. "Come on!"
For a minute, he kept trying to coax retardant out of the extinguisher. In the end, he hovered over the fire and tried to dribble flecks of foam onto it without much success. He tossed the useless cannister into the trash can. It didn't fit. He grabbed it and stalked away.
When he returned, he put his hands on his hips and studied the flames.
"What's good for grease fires, then?" he said.
"According to the boy scouts, dirt or ashes."
"Oh right, you told me you were in scouts. Good." He scratched his head. "You mean to smother it?"
"Yeah." He hadn't mentioned being a scout himself but he got that part perfectly right.
The scouts teach teenagers that there are different types of fires and so there are different ways to extinguish them. As a tenderfoot, I had to learn a list, now long forgotten. But the key principle behind all their methods of putting out fires was to deny them oxygen or fuel for the oxygen or both.
My boss swept around behind me and rummaged through the shelves of ingredients. After poking his nose into a few tins, he grabbed one of the biggest ones, sniffed, and made an approving grunt. He stuck in his hand and emerged with a fistful of dry pancake batter.
"Hey!" I raised my spatula to stop him.
He tossed the flour onto the grease fire over my half-hearted attempt to block him. I remembered something about flour not being good to put out fires but it was a vague memory.
There was a brief puff of blue flame next to my right hand. That was probably the flour dust in the air as it ignited. Then something special happened. The mushy pile of flour absorbed half of the puddle of grease. The grease flame sputtered. And then rose higher. Much, much higher. My memory from scouts got clearer. Flour was fuel. Pouring fuel onto the fire had failed to put it out.
The greasy lump on the right side of the stovetop burned hotter and hotter with billows of smoke and orange flame. We watched it for a while. It kept growing. Flames on the right side started to lick the shelf of papers.
"Uh, I'm going to take a second to move stuff," I ventured. I handed him my spatula.
"Yeah, okay."
When I hesitated about where to put the bags of papers, my manager stopped cooking to help. I pulled stacks off the shelves and he carried stacks of stacks, three at a time, to his office in the back rooms. After a handful of trips, he glanced at the food on the grill.
"You've got to get back to cooking." His lips pressed tight in a grim expression. "And I've got to fix that fire."
While I plated food, he grabbed the scraper. Instead of pushing the fire towards the spill guards or the grease catcher, he pushed it as far away from our cooking as he could. He was taller than I am, with long arms, so he could push it to the end of the stovetop.
In a second or two, I saw the problem with that. He did, too.
"Shit." He batted at the puddle of flour and oil. But it was too late. He had pushed the fire up against the wall right beneath the service window. That was a wall that hadn't been cleaned in years. Right then was when I realized how greasy it was. I'd never touched the surface of it but it always looked off-white, like wax, and that was because it pretty much was. He swatted at the four inches of space above the grill that had caught flame.
"Hey, uh, I think maybe we should call the fire department." I started eyeing the exits of the building. The back door was blocked by buckets of supplies and boxes of trash.
"Crap!" My boss reached out to save a piece of paper from burning. He singed his fingers. "Goddamn it."
"Do you want me to tell the hostess to call them?"
"No. It's better if I do it." He stopped sucking on his fingertips. He stood straighter. "I'm friends with the fire inspector. And a couple of the firemen. You get out front. Tell the guests to leave."
"Can they take the food?"
"Yeah, sure. Absolutely! Get them packing up their food and apologize to them."
"Right."
"Don't make them pay!" he waved at me urgently. "Give them the food for free."
Even as I nodded, I was already gone. I left the kitchen stepping sideways, eyes on the grill debacle but with vague, good intentions. Within a few feet, I bumped into a waitress, who wanted me to explain. She had noticed the brightness of the fire. When I told her we had to close, she marched with me to the hostess stand. It took a moment to get the young woman there on our side.
"Some of the waitresses will want customers to pay. They want tips."
"Well, he said what he said."
"Anyway, why aren't we hearing any fire alarms?" she asked.
"Huh." It hadn't occurred to me to look for smoke detectors. I was pretty sure we had one or two around, though, and obviously they weren't in working order.
Our lack of detectors was just one of the things that I learned about in the weeks after. My manager, it seemed, was such good friends with the fire inspector that his buddy didn't even look at our violations. When the fire crew arrived, though, they came with the chief. The chief tried to park near a hydrant, found it blocked, and immediately got pissed. That was only the beginning.
The restaurant had in reality failed inspections for years without getting written up. Our emergency exits were blocked. The fire crew had to come through the front like everyone else, which meant they had to jostle with elderly customers on their way out. Our smoke detectors had no batteries. Our kitchen walls were covered with a eighth-inch of grease. The rest of our walls had pyramids of buckets or heaps of boxes partially blocking them. The sprinkler heads were covered by the stacks of boxes underneath. Our fire extinguishers were missing.
The fire chief wrote a long, angry list for us. But that day, I only knew that the chief saw me heading back into the building and said no, I couldn't keep working.
"Can I help the rest of the folks out of the restaurant?" I asked.
"Yeah." He leaned back and folded his arms. "You're restricted to the dining area."
For a while, I strolled from table to table inside. Oddly, I found our customers to be calm and pleasant about the fire, even the ones who could see parts of it through the service window. They thought the firemen were a bit rude and they couldn't stop complaining to me about it. I nodded and told them we were all leaving anyway.
"Ma'am, you don't have to steal that. You are allowed to take it," I insisted. At about half of the tables, our customers reacted by pocketing their biscuits. "I can get you a box."
No matter what I said, though, they continued to take everything around them. It was as if they thought they were going to set up restaurant tables at home.
"I want salt," said the woman I had been talking with. She grabbed shakers from the table and put them in her purse.
"Okay, fine." Everyone else was ignoring me and taking what they pleased anyway.
Even as I helped them pack, I was impressed by how my manager had expected exactly this behavior from our customers. It wasn't like the place had a history of fires. It didn't. But he knew the locals anyway, right down into the cores of their souls. When I had headed back in, he had predicted they would take flatware. They did. He said, "We'll be lucky if they don't take the napkins" and, as I watched, a woman grabbed her flatware, cloth napkin and also the clean, unused napkins from the empty settings around her table.
"The place is on fire?" the next woman complained to me as she ate. She made a show of glancing around. "Well, I don't see it."
"I'm sorry, ma'am, but I'll have to insist. The fire department is here." As I spoke, a large man in fire safety gear stomped through. I pointed him out.
"Well, can't they put out the fire and leave us in peace?"
She continued to cut her breakfast steak. Across from her, a man who had to be her husband set down his steak and nodded. He tried to speak but she waved her knife at him and he closed his mouth. He gave me a helpless shrug.
"Look, I'll leave," she said after she chewed, "but I'm taking these plates."
"Okay." Everything I did was on automatic. I would have agreed to anything. I would have robbed the register to pay her to leave.
"And you have to help Mayme." She pointed with her knife to a woman eating by herself next to the south wall. She was so small and quiet that I hadn't noticed her. "She can barely walk."
"Yes, ma'am."
So it went for me from table to table - our elderly, loyal patrons packing up their dining sets including two tablecloths, carefully wrapping and stacking everything, not upset by the fire or smoke - until I reached Mayme, a woman so old and so nearsighted that I'm not sure she registered my presence for a minute.
After I introduced myself to her twice, Mayme smiled. It was an expression of joy that shocked me into grinning back.
"Are you here to help?" she asked.
"Of course." I stood up straighter.
"I can't walk very well." She cleared her throat. "But I can drive my car. If you can help me carry things."
The hostess tapped me on the shoulder to announce that we had no more to-go boxes left. We had given out every one. So for Mayme, I stacked a clean plate on top of her regular plate. I wrapped it and loosely tied the pair of plates with a cloth napkin. It was the best I could do. It might spill a bit but, just possibly, it might not if she didn't take corners hard or stop too fast.
Then I stood next to her with my arm out. She grabbed me by the elbow and pulled herself up.
"Oh my." She leaned against me. "Thank you."
She took a step. She remarked on how young I was. She took another two steps. I was strong, too. Another few steps. Her eggs had been perfect, thank you.
"Good to see you, Mayme," the hostess said to us as we passed by.
"Thank you, dear."
At the door, a gust of fresh air hit us. The difference made me feel better.
"Come back soon!" Mayme's waitress called to her. Mayme smiled. She didn't turn her head but, with a thin, shaky arm, she waved like a movie star to her adoring fans.
In the parking lot, even as I walked Mayme to her car, the fire chief sent me home.
"That's it," he announced. "And no more waitresses, either."
I glanced at my manager, who was standing with his arms folded and his ears turning red. He gave me a grim nod.
At her car, I helped Mayme put the food on the floor where it couldn't spill. She told me she would have a neighbor help her get it into her house. I strolled around to the driver's side so she could grab my arm again and lower herself into the driver's seat.
"Don't feel bad," she said. She pressed down the hem of her dress below her knee. "The food was very nice. And today it was perfect for my budget."
Phil and Juliet March 28, 2022 at 7:14 PM
So a pancake burned with a blue flame for, what, thirty minutes or more? It's like Hanukkah! I guess it was acting like a wick, and wicking up the oil around it without being consumed itself?
The manager sounds like an idiot.
Secret Hippie March 29, 2022 at 1:50 PM
I don't think my manager was an idiot. He was an average guy. It's true that he did almost everything wrong about the fire, though.
As far as the fire burning for so long, it didn't seem unusual to me then. But that's because I was next to it and it was simply how it was. Maybe I should be questioning my sense of time, though. There was no clock.
A concern I have now that I'm older is Mayme driving. But for Hadley at the time, for a local, it was probably not unusual


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Have you ever wanted a Superpower? Well, find out which Superpower would be yours with this fun Quiz!
What profession do you think sounds fun?
How do you choose which chocolate to eat in a box of chocolates?
I choose one and guess what it is. I always guess right.
I just eat them all. They're gone in seconds.
I don't like chocolate, but YOU like the caramel don't you?
I choose the chewy or crunchy one.
Some dude gets in your face and challenges you to a fight. What do you do?
I run and hide. I don't want to fight!
I figure out his weakness and use it against him.
Well he's wearing tightie whities so I give him a wedgie and walk away.
You forgot your key. How do you get back into your house?
I break down the door.
I sneak around back and crawl in through a window.
I think someone is inside...so I just know and they can let me in.
I have a feeling that someone will be coming home soon. So I wait.
Any kind that I can put on my iPod and get immersed in. It's like I disappear for a while and the world doesn't exist.
I like music thats easy to understand. Simple, transparent lyrics.
Hard rock, with lots of screaming.
The kind I can relate to. The lyrics talk to me...it's like they KNOW my thoughts.
Which of the Cullens are you?
Which House of Night Character are you?


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As part of the ongoing East Midlands Police and Crime Research and Development Plan http://www.empac.org.uk/east-midlands-police-crime-research-development/, EMPAC is pleased to announce a roundtable exploring approaches to mental health. Early discussions between Dr Claire Davis (University of Leicester) and Detective Chief Superintendent Chris Davison (Lincolnshire Police) have developed into a full roundtable to explore who does what and what is the role of policing.
In addition to Claire and Chris, fellow organisers are Michael Brown (College of Policing), Dr Laura Knight (University of Northampton), Dr Melanie Jordan (University of Nottingham) and A/Professor Kerry Clamp (University of Nottingham). This important roundtable brings together police professionals, partner agencies and academics from a range of disciplines to ask fundamental questions about the nature of police legitimacy, ethics and effectiveness of the current response to mental health. The aim of the event is to develop alternative ways of thinking about the role of the police in mental health and seek to influence policy and practice.
The event will take place on Wednesday 5th September 2018, between 10 am and 12.30, with a networking lunch between 12.30-1.30. Refreshments and lunch are free. Parking is available at a nearby pay and display car park.
This EMPAC event will be hosted by the University of Nottingham. Since delegate places are limited, this is an invite only roundtable. If you are interested in the event please contact melanie.jordan@nottingham.ac.uk.
STOP PRESS! here is the Roundtable post event report that highlights the key points and next steps, for those who were unable to attend. Even if you were unable to attend the initial event please get involved in continuing work on this key topic. See the EMPAC web for future events.


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Life on board the Aquarius migrant rescue ship
Spain has said it will take in the Aquarius migrant rescue ship carrying 629 people, after Italy and Malta both refused to let the ship dock.
BBC Producer Alva White spent six months on the same vessel in 2016, as part of a secondment to Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF), which runs the ship jointly with SOS Méditerranée.
She describes conditions with hundreds of people crammed on board, many of them traumatised and in medical need.


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Petra Roettig (* 1957 in Stuttgart) ist eine deutsche Kunsthistorikerin und Ausstellungskuratorin.

Leben und Werk

Roettig studierte von 1976 bis 1985 Kunstgeschichte, Geschichte, Romanistik und Volkskunde in Freiburg und Hamburg, sowie von 1985 bis 1988 am Warburg Institute in London. 1989 wurde sie an der Universität Hamburg über ein Thema zur Grafik der Reformationszeit promoviert. Anschließend arbeitete sie als Antiquarin und Mitarbeiterin eines Auktionshauses in Hamburg.  Von 1991 bis 1996 war sie wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin der Forschungsstelle Politische Ikonographie am Kunstgeschichtlichen Seminar der Universität Hamburg im Warburg-Haus.

Seit 1997 war sie zunächst wissenschaftliche Mitarbeiterin an der Hamburger Kunsthalle. 2001 wurde sie dort Kustodin im Kupferstichkabinett für Fotografie und Grafik von 1900 bis zur Gegenwart. Seit 2007 leitet sie die Galerie der Gegenwart an der Hamburger Kunsthalle, zunächst zusammen mit Sabrina van der Ley und seit 2012 zusammen mit Brigitte Kölle. und ist für den Bereich Grafik, Zeichnung und Fotografie zuständig.

In der Kunsthalle kuratierte sie Ausstellungen unter anderen von Marc Brandenburg,  Thomas Demand, Horst Janssen, Heribert C. Ottersbach und Roni Horn. Petra Roettig ist Mitglied der Kunstkommission der Hamburger Kulturbehörde und Verfasserin und Herausgeberin zahlreicher Schriften zur zeitgenössischen Kunst.

Schriften
 Reformation als Apokalypse – Die Holzschnitte von Matthias Gerung im Codex Germanicus 6592 der Bayerischen Staatsbibliothek in München, Lang, Frankfurt am Main, 1991 ISBN 3-261-04359-8
 Zeichen und Wunder: Weissagungen um 1500, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 1999 ISBN 978-3-92290948-4
 Horst Janssen und sein Drucker Hartmut Frielinghaus (zur Ausstellung in der Hamburger Kunsthalle), St. Gertrude, Hamburg, 2002 ISBN 978-3-93585505-1
 Heribert C. Ottersbach: Arkadia Block (mit Hubertus Gaßner) Kehrer, Heidelberg, 2008 ISBN 978-3-86828048-7
 Roni Horn: Photographien, Hamburger Kunsthalle, 2011 (deutsch, englisch) ISBN 978-3-93800235-3

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Frauen in der Kunst, aber bitte ohne Quote. In: Hamburger Abendblatt vom 30. April 2011

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This August, the Disney Fantasy will embark on a special three-night Bahamian cruise out of Port Canaveral. Typically the Disney Fantasy sails 7-night or longer voyages, so this is your one chance in 2019 to enjoy all the advantages of a three-night cruise with the unique offerings onboard the Disney Fantasy. Keep reading to find out why this is one itinerary you don't want to miss.
An opportunity to experience a Bahamian short escape onboard the Disney Fantasy doesn't come around often. Here is your chance to explore Disney's very own private island, Castaway Cay, plus Nassau, Bahamas, and then return to the world-class entertainment aboard the Disney Fantasy each night. From snorkeling and swimming with dolphins or stingrays to relaxing on soft sandy beaches, there is fun in the sun for everyone on this sailing.
Did you know that each Disney Cruise Line ship offers a different selection of live shows and entertainment? In fact, the Disney Fantasy is the only vessel in our fleet where you can see Disney's Aladdin – A Musical Spectacular and Disney Wishes while onboard!
Mickey and Minnie's Surprise Party at Sea is a celebration exclusively aboard the Disney Fantasy – only taking place on select sailings this summer – including this three-night Bahamian cruise in August. The high-energy afternoon deck party is an absolute must for Disney fans!
Only on the Disney Fantasy, the old-fashioned ice cream parlor, Sweet on You, serves up everything from hand-crafted gelato and ice cream to decadent treats and specialty sundaes. More than just a paradise for foodies, this ice cream shop themed after the iconic Mickey Mouse cartoon shorts is also an adorable backdrop for Instagram worthy photographs with your family and friends.
Unique to the Disney Fantasy, Europa is a dedicated adult-only destination with themed lounges and nightclubs, including three exclusive venues you won't find on any other Disney ship. Each offering a distinct atmosphere; try out Ooh La La for elegant décor and intimate conversations or go to The Tube to dance the night away! Planning a date-night? Stop by the romantic couple's booths at La Piazza. If you're like me, you'll love the European inspiration at these venues.
It's easy to see why this special sailing is the perfect end-of-summer getaway for your family! Learn more about our three-night Bahamian itinerary on the Disney Fantasy at disneycruise.com.
That sounds awesome!! My husband and I have been wanting to take our children. They are dying to go on a Disney Cruise and I think 3 days is the perfect length for young first time cruisers!! How do I get information on prices for 2 cabins? Also will there be any cabins set aside for military rates?
I would love to be able to go! If you guys are looking for a blogger or a Disney writer, to share photos of the experience and what not, my fiancé and I will gladly offer up our service! We are dedicated Disney fans. Being Disneyland pass holders and avid travelers once a year to Disney world, Disney is life!!


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Business Process Re-engineering and Information Security Planning: Opportunities for integration
Brian D. Fritz, Dakota State University
Business process re-engineering (BPR) has come to recognize a need for the adoption of socio-technical methodologies and capabilities for knowledge representation of qualitative concerns. Security planning and decision-making has a similar need, and furthermore socio-technical methods common to BPR can be usefully applied in this capacity. The introduction of security models like Defense-in- Depth and similar efforts to recognize the organizational impact of security planning in operational security management serve as an initial step in educating security personnel and provide a more comprehensive view, but unfortunately, security decision-making has traditionally relied almost solely upon quantitative risk assessment, cost/benefit mechanisms, and related, functionalistic methodologies. This greatly limits the representational capacity of the decision process, and with it the possible dimensions of analysis in which to consider security issues. Within this paper, we briefly examine security planning and the relevant techniques of BPR and Socio-technical design, and present a framework for their integration within the context of information security. It is our contention that such methodologies can be utilized in the security decision process to facilitate representation of subjective concerns and broadly-defined issues germane to security policy, within an organizational context.
El-Gayar, O. F., & Brian, F. (2004). Business Process Re-engineering and Information Security Planning: Opportunities for integration. 8th World Multi-Conference on Systemics, Cybernetics and Informatics.


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EFF Discusses the Future of Internet Privacy at UN Internet Governance Forum
News Update by Katitza Rodriguez
EFF recently participated in the UN Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Vilnius, Lithuania, advocating for the respect of citizens' fundamental rights online. The IGF is an experimental and influential multi-stakeholder policy forum convened by the United Nations Secretary General in 2006, where civil society, industry, the technical community, and decision makers discuss key aspects of Internet governance issues on an equal footing. The informal nature of the IGF is designed to promote the full and frank exchange of ideas on important Internet policy issues without the knock-down-and-dragged-out conflicts that characterize other international fora where recommendations or binding treaties are made. This year, IGF brought together over 1,400 participants from around the world. Videos and transcripts of all the official meetings are now online and make for interesting viewing.
EFF participated in several panels and co-organized a workshop on The Future of Privacy together with the Internet Society. The speakers included representatives from the US Federal Trade Commission, the Spanish Data Protection Authority, the Council of Europe Consultative Committee of Convention 108, Oracle Corporation, the European Data Protection Supervisor, AT&T, Google, the Internet Society, and EFF. All of them expressed their views on existing laws and international frameworks on privacy, and helped to identify some of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead.
In the workshop, EFF focused on several key areas where governments will be able to play a vital role in protecting their citizens' privacy both now and increasingly so in the future, including setting the right standards for government access to citizens' private communications and related communications records. Here are a few of the points we highlighted:
• The law should protect the privacy of your data stored for you by a provider in the same way that it protects your data stored by you on your home or in your office. In an age where countless millions are trusting web-based email services such as Microsoft's Hotmail to store years worth of private correspondence, and cloud services such as Google Docs to store their most private documents, it is time for privacy law to treat online storage as an extension of your own home or office. Privacy law has typically provided strong protections against government intrusion into information that you store offline personally. It should also provide strong safeguards for the data you store for a similar purpose with an online third party provider.
• The law should include better protections for your traffic data. Typically, the contents of communications are strongly protected by privacy law whereas non-content transactional data, traffic data, or "meta-data" is typically given much less protection, even though it can be just as revealing. Monitoring of other data that is arguably transactional and not content -- such as the location of your cell phone, clickstream data revealing the web sites you visit, and search logs indicating what you searched for using Google or another search engine -- is just as invasive as reading your email or listening to your phone calls.
EFF called on government officials to focus their analysis on the invasiveness of the surveillance techniques at issue, rather than deciding the appropriate level of privacy protection based on where the data is stored, or whether it is characterized as content or traffic data. Communications are communications, whether telephone conversations or e-mail messages. The mere fact that Internet communications leave more detailed traces should not entail less privacy protection vis-à-vis governments. We believe that mandatory data retention regimes that compels ISPs and telcos to retain innocent citizens' Internet traffic data should be repealed.
The panel also discussed the revision of the EU Data Protection Directive, the Council of Europe's Privacy Convention 108—the first legally binding international privacy instrument, the harmonization and interoperability of privacy regimes in different countries, as well as the insights of the technical community. The comprehensive report produced jointly by EFF and ISOC contains more detailed information about the workshop participants' presentations and fascinating exchange of views on these subjects.
The IGF has provided a very useful venue for discussing these important global issues with key government and non-governmental stakeholders, but whether it will continue to do so in the future is currently unclear. At the end of this year, the United Nations' General Assembly will decide if it should extend the IGF's initial five-year mandate. The UN Commission on Science and Technology for Development (CSTD) is currently carrying out an open consultation on the ways in which to improve the Internet Governance Forum (IGF). A road map of the future CSTD work on IGF is now posted here. Stay tuned to Deeplinks for news and our thoughts on these breaking developments.
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EU Lawmakers Must Reject This Proposal To Scan Private Chats
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Spanish ISPs Fall Short of Robust Commitments to User Privacy in New Eticas' Report
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علاء عبد الفتاح يتجاوز 200 يوم من الإضراب عن الطعام مع اقتراب قمة المناخ "كوب 27"
ما زلنا قلقين للغاية بشأن تدهور صحة علاء عبد الفتاح، الناشط الإلكتروني البريطاني المصري، الحائز على جائزة مؤسسة الجبهة الإلكترونية 2022، وسجين الرأي حسب منظمة العفو الدولية. ويضرب علاء الآن عن الطعام في سجن وادي النطرون في مصر منذ أكثر من 200 يوم، وذكرت صحيفة الإندبندنت البريطانية...
Stop the Persecution: Iranian Authorities Must Immediately Release Technologists and Digital Rights Defenders
Update, November 9, 2022: We are happy to announce that Aryan Eqbal has been released along with other digital rights defenders. Jadi Mirmirani remains wrongfully detained. We will continue to monitor the situation.We, the undersigned human rights organizations, strongly condemn the Iranian authorities' ruthless persecution, harassment, and arrest of technologists...


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I'm a straight guy, but this guy could say anything and I'd be down. The writing in this podcast is great and, again, well-delivered by their anonymous host. You can tell the production quality is high. The content and audio quality is excellent. Their social media is clean and organized. You can tell they have a crack team. If I had a suggestion, it would actually be related to their writing. While really good, there are sometimes where it's not clear to me WHEN things are happening. Sometimes they present their timeline in a weird manner, and it can get confusing. That's actually really minor though. True crime podcasts are HUGE now, but this one definitely stands out as one of the best.