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Money Moral Dilemma: Should Janet pay John's tip?
Should Janet pay John's tip?
John's asked Janet on a first date, they go to a nice restaurant and have wonderful service, the waiter being especially helpful. At the end, following the typical dance, Janet offers to split the bill, John refuses and pays. Yet Janet notices service wasn't included and John hasn't tipped, and thinks the waiter deserves a tip but is worried it'll look like she's criticising John.
Last edited by Former MSE Penelope; 15-03-2010 at 10:14 AM.
A simple ' as you've been so kind getting the bill at least let me cover the tip' should do the trick!
Whose respect does Janet wish to curry, John's or the waiter's?
Perhaps the waiter has offended John, unbeknown to Janet and John has pointedly omitted the tip or perhaps John objects to tipping, on principle.
Don't rock the boat, Janet and enjoy your night out.
John has demonstrated that he's no tight-wad - although, perhaps, a closet chauvinist.
Unless, of course, Janet wishes to test the fragility of John's masculine ego.
Yes and then refuse his offer of a second date for being cheap!
I am a waitress so I may be biased but before I did this job I always tipped for the service if it meritted it. The food may have been awful but if the server was obviously working hard and going out of their way to do everything they could then they would get a tip and the chef would get a complaint!
Last edited by scoobydoobydoo; 23-03-2010 at 11:42 PM.
Luleene is spot on. Offer to cover the tip, as he has kindly paid for the meal. Shouldn't be an issue really unless he feels cheap by not tipping; which is his problem anyway!
A good little tester early on for Janet and John, good luck to them.
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to add to above, I always checked that the tip was kept by the person it was given to.
It could simply be a mistake on John's part, I've forgotten more important things at restaurants because I've been having such a good time and chatting. So I agree with Luleene, if John then makes a comment after that it could justify not leaving a tip, or maybe it was a mistake, alternatively he may not tip on principle.
I don't tip at certain chains because I know that the person I've tipped then has to put that into a jar for all the staff to benefit and that means picking up on the people who don't do a good job..
As a gentleman (I use the word carefully!) who has been in this situation, I would be offended when paying for a meal if my companion did this.
It is the responsibility of the person paying. Leave it there!!!
And to all the ultra-feminists who want to pay (not that I have EVER met any...) then you pay next time and tip - or not - at your discretion.
Just to add - I have met and dated plenty of 'feminists' who are perfectly happy for the man to always pick up the bill.... How does that work out? And I've only ever been bought flowers once... I love flowers!!! Equal rights for men I say!!!
Last edited by PoorPennilessMe; 24-03-2010 at 12:28 AM.
its all in the wording- careful to say "let me do this" rather then "you forgot to tip".
And if theres a problem from the person paying the bill feeling less of a man/women, then maybe you wanna question if its the righ person for you- a disagreement over something minor like a tip to me is an alarm bell ringing- there are bigger things to worry about, this should not disrupt a relationship at worse would lead to a "discussion".
If she wants to, then she should. A quick smile and "Can I leave a tip, then?" would do.
She should also ensure that she always tips cash rather than card - there's far more chance of the waiter actually receiving it that way.
I think Janet should speak up, offering to leave the tip. Most likely John will then point out that his intention is to pay by card, but tip in cash.
I've noticed that tips can be added to the total and also paid by card - but I'm never sure about where it goes then.
Really? So you don't consider other serving staff who may have been to your table, or the chef's in the kitchen, who actually produced your food, worthy of tipping?
Janet should say that she would like to leave the tip. John has been kind enough to pay the bill, so it is fair enough that Janet should leave the tip. If John is offended, then that's an issue that needs to be discussed - perhaps he does not believe in tipping?
No. The waiter is doing the job he/she is paid to do. They knew the rate of pay when they took on the job. How can you get "exceptional" service? the waiter brings the menu, writes down what you order, brings the food, clears the table...that's what he's paid to do.
Jimbo - I'm sure the waiter is fully aware of the terms and conditions, as well as the restaurant's tips policy. Like City bankers (don't get me started) tips are considered part of the package, and it's churlish to avoid tipping. The first respondent got this absolutely right.
i agree with Lurleene - offer to pay the tip as John's been so kind in paying the bill. although i've never met a man yet who offered to pay the whole bill, and i'd probably feel really uncomfortable if he did. i'd also want to investigate further as to why john hadn't tipped - if it was anything other than a mere oversight, i'd have to think about whether he was the sort of man i wanted to have a relationship with.
He should let her pay the tip if she wants.
Why should you leave a tip??
I don't get paid any tips for doing my job, so why should anyone else!
Will she expect him to tip the person that gives them their food through the window?


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secondary sources to contextualize and support arguments.
First up, I want to remind you what an academic essay isn't.
It isn't of course a personal response to a topic.
to back up the claims that you make.
but rather, you're building on the works of others.
we see further by standing on the shoulders of giants.
So, firstly, why do we need to refer to other people's ideas?
you are demonstrating that you have knowledge of your subject area.
where your own ideas deviate.
But you can't just use any sources to back up your claims.
which are not relevant won't help your argument.
of your knowledge and expertise.
But what then is a reliable source?
And what is a relevant source?
All we have to do is type some search terms into Google.
the sheer volume of material out there actually makes your task much harder.
Google search will be inappropriate.
Would you consider a blog entry an appropriate source?
and there's no guarantee that it is anything more than opinion.
it doesn't necessarily make it reliable.
which have been through an editorial, and preferably a peer review process.
like your own essay will themselves be backed up with reliable evidence.
Your university library home page will be a good place to begin your search.
Start by tracking down databases which are relevant to your field of study.
And this leads me nicely on to the issue of relevance.
Just because you found a reliable source does not mean that it's relevant.
in the 1950s is probably not a good idea.
A relevant source is one that speaks the language of your discipline.
A relevant source is also one that's appropriate to the level at which you are writing.
level courses, but not nearly specific enough at more advanced levels.
So, you've chosen sources you're happy with, but what now?
How can you use them in your essay?
bolts of how to integrate sources into your writing.
Instead, I'm concerned with the bigger picture.
How can you use someone else's essay to support your own argument?
an argument is convincing if you show you have knowledge of your subject area.
this will involve some sort of positioning.
is the place where you'll provide a survey of relevant research.
a background section in which you can develop it further.
look at how these can help you to support the claims that you make.
In order to have a stand point you need to have some foundations to stand on.
then you have some choices to make.
do you want to indicate a gap or a problem with previous research?
is very different from saying that Smith proves this to be the case.
then you yourself are clearly convinced of Smith's claims.
Note here the present tense.
in terms of how you position yourself in relation to the source.
Using the present tense can be a way of aligning yourself with the study.
You are highlighting the nowness and the continued relevance of the findings.
Smith proved that, the past tense might indicate that this is no longer the case.
perhaps more recent evidence has undermined the original claims.
instead of writing something like Smith's study was utter rubbish.
insights into current trends but failed to recognize the significance of the problem.
the findings of a previous study.
dismissing the work in its entirely.
it's vitally important to explain exactly how it supports your argument.
In other words it's not enough to let the evidence speaks for itself.
Avoid leaving your argument open to misinterpretation.


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A personal blog from Nominet's CTO on where technology is taking us and how we might get there
Israel – Innovation Nation
Tel Aviv is an incredible city – perched on the edge of a beautiful strip of the Mediterranean Sea. When you look down the sea front you could be forgiven for thinking that you are in Copa Cabana or Miami Beach. All the major hotel chains are here, cheek to jowl along the sand. Look inland and the skyline is dotted with high rise buildings, adorned with logos from Microsoft, Google, Hewlett Packard and others. To the North, there's the modernity of the Technion University campus dotted with 'future buildings' and green spaces. This is a true modern high-tech city in nearly every sense of the word.
Yet all of this is perched on some of the most contested and war-torn land on the planet. Israel is a young country, formally created as a nation state in 1948. Plunged straight into war the day after declaration – conflict has continued to the current day. On the face of it, it's not clear why: the land is arid, there's little in the way of water or natural resources. There's certainly no oil and neither is the land in a particularly strategic location. This territory, claimed, reclaimed and divided has been the home of the Jewish people for the last 100 years. Embattled and embittered, they have arrived from across the world, bringing together a diaspora that has known nothing but challenge and persecution.
To this day, every youngster, whether male or female must perform compulsory national service in the Israeli Defence Force. And it is here that the innovation story begins. The brightest scientists, engineers and mathematicians are singled out during schooling at the age of 16 for inclusion in the '8200' unit of the army. This unit is Israel's equivalent of the NSA or GCHQ and trains its new recruits in Cyber warfare and intelligence gathering. They foster a culture within the unit of questioning the status quo, trying new ideas and trying to outwit Israel's enemies in an attempt to protect their tiny strip of land and stack the odds in their favour.
When these youngsters leave the unit 3 to 5 years later – they've been trained as some of the best cyber and technical minds in the country if not the world. In addition, they've been given a crash course in entrepreneurism and how to look at existing problems and solve them with novel new methods. Unsurprisingly they emerge, not seeking a nice steady job with a big technology firm, but with the self-belief that they can take what they have learned to create a new business from the spark of an idea.
I was lucky to recently visit the city on a fact-finding mission to meet some of these fledgling technology companies. Thrown into a hectic schedule, we taxied back and forth across the city, visiting both high-tech offices and ageing tenement buildings, each filled with small teams of engineers and whiteboards. It quickly became apparent that there's some great ideas here, backed with an strong belief that any business had the potential to be huge. We met the head of PayPal's Israel headquarters, Matan Bar, a young guy in skinny jeans whose business had been acquired. He had an idea around group-payments and started a tiny business to service that need. When approached by PayPal, he was asked if his three-man firm could handle 20 million users per day. His response was 'sure…why not!' and deliver it he did. Their solution is now part of the global PayPal platform.
It was that self-belief we encountered time and again throughout the visit. Attending a technology fair one evening, we met a small company manufacturing city-bikes from cardboard. Cheap to make and fully functional – the owner's belief was that he could sell them to every city in the world and then with the addition of some interesting new materials, he would be manufacturing cars from paper within the near future.
Looking beyond the start-ups, an entire ecosystem has formed around this hotbed of activity. American and Israeli money has poured into the capital looking to invest or acquire. There's a whole group of venture-capital and private equity firms supporting portfolios of entrepreneurs: One estimate suggests that there are over 400 funded cyber-security startups in Tel Aviv alone. As our visit to PayPal showed, the big American technology firms are here too – looking to acquire into the market. From this base they are now building Research and Development centres. Some of them, such as CocaCola are creating incubators where they support startups to grow, getting a six month exclusive head start on any new product or service, but not taking an equity stake in the business.
What's less clear is how sustainable this model is long-term. Success in the Tel Aviv market is currently defined by how quickly your startup can be acquired by one of the big tech firms. There are a few, but not many, really big Israeli tech businesses and the current model could potentially drain Tel Aviv of a lot of its talent, taking it and the technology overseas. During our visit, at a discussion with Israel's former Chief Science Officer, Yehoshua Gleitman, a question was posed from an audience member: 'How do you feel about the big American technology firms hiring many of the Israeli professors involved with artificial intelligence and deep learning – thus preventing them from nurturing new talent?'. He admitted that it was a big concern.
So it remains to be seen whether this current environment is sustainable in the long term and whether the foreign money that is so heavily invested into the startup scene will eventually kill the golden goose. Having said that, I was hugely impressed by the energy, positivity and enthusiasm by all who I met. It's hard not to be both impressed and inspired by the level of talent and commitment. In a country that has been so troubled in the past, these green shoots of something genuinely new and exciting seem to be just what Israel needs.
Cover photo – Tel Aviv's Azrieli Sarona Tower: Simon McCalla
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I'm a technology guy - fascinated by the potential that the internet and modern technology brings to the way in which we live our lives and run our businesses. I work as the CTO for Nominet UK - the organisation that manages and runs the Domain Name System behind the 10.5 million .UK domains and provides registry and technology services to over 40 generic top level domains, UK government and large global enterprises.	View all posts by Simon McCalla
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Irish business confidence slumped in run-up to UK vote
Business confidence across the island dropped "dramatically" in the first half of the year, as firms awaited the outcome of the UK referendum, a survey shows.
The latest Global Economic Conditions Survey for the second quarter, from the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, shows a dip in confidence across the OECD linked to the Brexit referendum.
In Ireland, around 100 firms were surveyed from both Northern Ireland and the Republic. But the survey was carried out in the first three weeks of June, ahead of the referendum in the UK on June 23.
"There has been a dramatic drop in business confidence in Ireland over the past two quarters, even though its economy continues to grow at a breakneck pace," the report states.
"Ireland's trade links with the UK are stronger than those of any other Eurozone economy. The report noted that any downturn in the UK will be felt heavily in Ireland.
Liz Hughes, head of ACCA mainland Europe and Ireland, said the UK's decision to leave the European Union will be felt globally for the foreseeable future with Ireland being at the forefront of those implications.
"It is our expectation that business sentiment will fall again in Q3 and depending on policy responses and other factors such as leadership and EU decisions, potentially extend into the fourth quarter," Ms Hughes said.
"The potential for long-term uncertainty as the UK negotiates its complex departure from the European Union could weigh down on global confidence for some time to come."
Globally, the survey found that business confidence picked up in the second quarter compared with the four-year low in the first three months of the year. The number of firms that said their prospects had deteriorated over the past three months fell to 43pc in the second quarter, from 48pc in the early part of the year.
Meanwhile polls by Reuters showed that confidence in prospects for the global economy has been dented following the Brexit vote.
And there is a growing view that monetary policy is a fading force and many governments now need to borrow and spend.


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John Coyle, właśc. John Cohen Coyle (ur. 28 września 1932, zm. 14 maja 2016) – szkocki piłkarz występujący na pozycji napastnika.

Kariera klubowa
Jako junior Coyle grał w zespole Dundee St. Joseph's, zaś jako senior był zawodnikiem klubów Dundee United, Brechin City, Clyde oraz Cambridge City. W 1958 roku wraz z Clyde zdobył Puchar Szkocji.

Kariera reprezentacyjna
W 1958 roku Coyle został powołany do reprezentacji Szkocji na mistrzostwa świata. Nie zagrał jednak na nich w żadnym spotkaniu, a Szkocja zakończyła turniej na fazie grupowej.

Bibliografia
 Profil na Worldfootball

Szkoccy piłkarze
Piłkarze Dundee United F.C.
Piłkarze Clyde F.C.
Uczestnicy Mistrzostw Świata w Piłce Nożnej 1958
Urodzeni w 1932
Zmarli w 2016

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Internationally respected Australian teacher and educator, Joan Dalton is acknowledged for her expertise in learning, leadership and facilitation, and her long-term work with schools for transformational change.
Fellow of the Australian Council for Educational Leaders (ACEL), holder of the Inaugural Tasmania Award for distinguished services to teaching, and former Director of Professional Learning Services for a non-profit organization in the USA, Joan's consultancy expertise has been sought by schools and educational organizations across more than ten different countries.
Recognized in 2012 by Microsoft as a global hero in education, Joan currently designs and co-facilitates their Australian Innovative Schools Forums, Asia-Pacific Forums, and Worldwide Innovation in Education Forums.


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Alejandra told detectives that on April 23, 2014, she was found using a school computer without authorization or supervision. She was escorted to her teacher's classroom and explained to her what she had been doing. Her teacher then scolded her, and then told Alejandra to apologize to several other teachers.
Alejandra told detectives that at that point she feared that she would be in further trouble once her mother was notified. She then walked out of Sunset High School at approximately 1:30pm and described walking across the Margaret Hunt Bridge.
Alejandra was not sure where she was going but she walked along railroad tracks by night, and slept by day so that she would not be noticed. She said that she encountered very few people while she traveled, and said that she had not had anything to eat or drink during her absence. Alejandra did not provide much further information other. She was tired and hungry, but otherwise in good condition.
Alejandra was reunited with her mother and sister after being interviewed. The three of them spent approximately 15 minutes in private in an interview room and stated that they wanted to go home when they came out. Alejandra was very quiet and reserved and her mother did not want further exposure to the media so Youth detectives escorted the complainant and her sister out of headquarters and met her mother at a different location.
Crisis Intervention caseworkers interviewed the family and will be following up with Metrocare and Sunset High School to ensure that the Alejandra's needs are met.
UPDATE: May 1, 2014 @12:00pm
Critical missing person Alejandra Gonzalez has been found safe in Denton, Texas.
At about 11:30am a resident in the 800 block of Orchid Lane in Copper Canyon, Tx – near Denton, Tx – called the Denton County Sheriff's Office to report a suspicious person wearing a hoodie, standing in their backyard. When Sheriff's deputies arrived they discovered that it was Alejandra Gonzalez, missing since April 23, 2014.
They called an ambulance to give her a precautionary examination and noted that she said that she was a little hungry. Otherwise she appeared to be physically fine considering the circumstances.
Dallas police missing persons detectives were dispatched to Denton to retrieve Alejandra. She was brought back to Dallas Police Department Headquarters where she will undergo a follow up interview in an effort to determine where she's been and what has happened to her over the course of her disappearance.
Alejandra's family expressed their thanks to the assembled media and to the police agencies involved in the investigation of her disappearance and in her recovery. Alejandra's sister said that the first thing she would do when she saw her sister was to give her a hug.
April 28, 2014 @ 9:39am The Dallas Police Department is asking for the public's assistance in locating a critically missing person.
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Customers are at the heart of any brand, whether making their first purchase or a life-long advocate; without them a business simply wouldn't exist. For an online retailer, this means creating an engaging, relevant online experience is an absolute priority, to both convert and retain customers.
In the early days of online retailing, brands could significantly improve conversion and revenue growth through relatively simple A/B testing and site optimisation. Fast forward to the present day and the gains that can be achieved with these methods are diminishing, and coupled with a slowing e-commerce growth rate, many brands are in the position that they could be optimising a 'one size fits all' website until the cows come home, and still not achieve the business growth they want.
Marketers and e-commerce directors believe the key to achieving growth is personalisation. According to a survey by Deloitte and Salesforce, adoption of personalisation is key, with 92% of brands either already using it or planning to in the future. But what exactly is personalisation and how should brands be measuring the value it brings?
I view personalisation as knowing every consumer as an individual and delivering a unique and relevant experience across all channels. What this looks like in practice can differ from brand to brand, depending on what they want to achieve. For example, as brands start out with personalisation, one may prioritise the delivery of personalised experiences that take into account regional preferences and local weather conditions, whereas another may choose to focus on segmenting loyal VIP customers from new visitors or target mobile customers with a more relevant experience, helping them find their favourite products quicker. Wherever you start, using personalisation to generate a seamless multichannel experience regardless of device or channel, ensures customers' preferences remain at the heart of the shopping journey.
One of the more traditional approaches to quantify the success of personalisation is the return on investment (ROI) of the personalisation platform as a whole. By taking a look at the overall return delivered by personalisation technologies, a brand can see solid evidence of the impact of personalisation and evaluate the investment against individual business goals. Forrester Consulting recently undertook a 'whole life' analysis of the returns from incremental revenues and cost savings of personalisation for a large office supplies retailer. In this instance, they recorded an overall ROI of 595%, with payback on the initial investment of one month.
But it's no longer just as simple as monitoring ROI; for many brands the return on experience (ROE) can offer a more compelling and relevant metric that enables a business to gauge the effectiveness of personalising the customer experience much more swiftly. Why? ROE gives laser focus to measuring the individual results that changes to the customer experience bring to positively impact customer lifetime value and ultimately the financial well-being of the brand.
Where brands are using personalisation to segment and target (e.g. via region, customer persona, gender, device etc.), or to differentiate experiences between multiple customer types (e.g. new/returning/lapsed/VIP), measuring the return on experience allows to individually measure and improve the experience for each segment. Typical results we observe from this include decreasing bounce rates, increased conversions as well as increased average order values, and repeat purchases, all of which in turn generate revenue and contribute to ROI.
For example Missguided, a leading fast fashion online retailer, has been using personalisation to target specific market segments and geographical regions with specific experiences. This multi-faceted approach saw an increase in conversion rates of 34% and a total increase in revenues of 33%.
As competition between retailers remains fierce, the customer experience has quickly become a key battleground, with success or failure the difference between purchase and an abandoned basket. Personalisation is proving itself to be a game-changing solution for retailers to create an individual journey for each customer. Brands can differentiate themselves from the herd and build a lasting relationship with the consumer that sees both a return on experience, and an overall return on investment.
Mike is VP EMEA at Monetate, a company powering multi-channel personalisation for brands.


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'Inadequate' care home slammed after patient suffers more than 20 falls
Published: 6:00 AM December 9, 2021
Updated: 8:28 AM December 10, 2021
Vanda Thorpe's (inset) family say the 95-year-old has suffered 26 unwitnessed falls at the Norwich care home - Credit: Submitted/Getty
Families are desperate to pull elderly relatives out of a care home downgraded to 'inadequate' after inspectors uncovered problems with medication and PPE.
Care Quality Commission (CQ) inspectors have raised safeguarding concerns with Norfolk County Council after the unannounced inspection at Mayflower Court in Ladysmock Way, Bowthorpe, between June 1 and June 11 this year.
A Mayflower Court care home corridor when it opened around 2016 - Credit: Copyright: Archant 2016
The 80-bed home, which specialises in dementia care and is run by NorseCare, was previously rated as 'good' in July 2018.
After the summer inspection it was deemed 'inadequate' in areas including safety and leadership.
Findings in the report included:
1. People did not always receive their medicines safely, and systems and oversight measures for medicines were not effective. This placed people at the risk of harm.
2. Where people did not take their medicines as prescribed, this was not always escalated and communicated effectively.
3. Personal protective equipment (PPE) was not stored safely or correctly, with loose aprons and exposed gloves stored in communal bathrooms, on top of lockers and near soiled laundry baskets.
4. Some relatives described a poor standard of cleanliness when visiting people.
5. While some relatives had no concerns, others disclosed serious shortfalls in the care provided.
This included the number and frequency of falls, poor reporting and communications, unsanitary environment, personal items going missing, laundry completed to a poor standard, insufficient staff numbers to support people to the toilet in a timely way.
Former nurser, Sandra Colville, 64, from New Costessey, whose 95-year-old mother Vanda Thorpe has vascular dementia, said: "Everybody needs to be treated with care, dignity and respect. It upsets me."
Vanda Thorpe, 95, who lives at Mayflower Court care home in Bowthorpe - Credit: Sandra Colville
She claimed her mother, who has been in the home since August last year, has had about 26 unwitnessed falls since her stay there.
The 64-year-old also raised concerns about how well her mother's personal hygiene is maintained by staff and criticised the lack of personalised care.
Tracey Blazey (right) with her mother Lilian Bradford a few years ago on holiday in Santorini, Greece. - Credit: Tracey Blazey - Credit: Tracey Blazey
Another former nurse, Tracey Blazey, 63, from Old Catton, whose 92-year-old mother Lilian Bradford has been in the home for six years, said: "I don't trust them. I have been trying to move mum."
Ms Blazey, who said was not surprised by the report, added the home was too big.
NorseCare was contacted for comment.


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Florida Dairy Workers Seen Beating And Kicking Cows In Undercover Video
By Hilary Hanson
A Florida dairy farm is under criminal investigation after an undercover video from an animal rights group revealed workers kicking cows in the head and beating them with metal rods.
Warning: The following video includes footage that viewers may find disturbing.
The video was shot by a member of Animal Recovery Mission who went undercover in August as a farm worker at Larson Dairy in Okeechobee County. The footage shows men brutally abusing cows as the bovines cower and duck their heads. In some cases, the cows are unable to get away because they are confined by bars meant to restrain them for the milking process.
Larson Dairy was a supplier of Publix Super Markets, which has announced it suspended deliveries from the farm in the wake of the video, the Associated Press reports. Okeechobee County Sheriff Noel Stephen announced Thursday that he had launched a criminal investigation into the farm.
Farm owner Jacob Larson said in a Thursday statement, cited by multiple media outlets, that one employee seen in the video has been fired.
"We are deeply saddened and appalled by the actions witnessed in this video, which first came to our attention this morning," read the statement. "The unusual use of force is simply unacceptable on our dairy or on any other farm."
Animal Recovery Mission
In a screenshot from an undercover video, a worker is seen kicking a dairy cow in the head.
Sheriff Stephen told TC Palm on Friday that two other workers, in addition to the man fired, had been placed on suspension.
Though Larson's statement asserts the violence seen in the video was an anomaly, Animal Recovery Mission alleges that abuse was rampant at the farm. The group's website states that the cows were regularly "beaten over the head" and otherwise abused "during daily milk collections."
Larson has questioned why the undercover worker didn't simply report the abuse as soon as it happened, instead of waiting to release a video and report.
"I think they have an agenda," Larson told local news station WPBF. "They want to put farms out of business."
Animal Recovery Mission founder Richard Couto told the Sun-Sentinel that his group had no special reason to target Larson Dairy, but wanted to see what "was happening in a typical, larger scale dairy setting in the state of Florida."
Hilary Hanson Editor, The Huffington Post
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I recently changed jobs and have much more to do with maintaining SSRS native mode servers and configuring Subscriptions -- both Data Driven and regular.
We will be cleaning up the Data Driven subscriptions with the goal of making them more consistent, easier to deploy, and more conducive to being updated. One idea, that will be expanded in later posts, is creating a function that can deliver values for Subject, To, Body, etc.
A question quickly arose. Can the provided parameters, @ReportName and @ExecutionTime be used with Data Driven subscriptions? The short answer is, Yes!
For example, returning a string from the Data Driven query for Subject, for example, with @ReportName in it, will cause SSRS to substitute the report name. Likewise for @ExecutionTIme.
This should mean a little more direct reuse between subscriptions.
The answer is to check for a Trigger that is coded to only handle a single record. There will be a query in the code looking up the key (for the single record) from Inserted or Deleted in a subquery (Question of the Day?).
The Trigger was usually written as part of an application and the developer knows, "We only Insert or Update a single record at a time." That is, until a one-off data load is needed, or an application integration initiative changes the rules.
My general principle is that a Trigger should be written to operate on a set of records, no matter what the primary use case is. A corollary is that, in the case where the Trigger must be restricted to a single record, that it should validate that it only has one record, or raise a meaningful error when there are more. And do not forget there can be no records!
This month of poetry is ending more with a whimper than a bang, but The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost still seems like a fitting poem on which to end. This exercise is clearly not on my beaten path, but I have enjoyed it and gotten some good feedback.
Putting these together made me think about other aspects of oral tradition. Punch lines of jokes and movie quotes are often part of a team's culture at work. Many of the better organizations have shared stories, of adversity, success, or special behaviors. One of my employers had a number of corporate stories that helped focus my efforts.
Think about the poems that influence your life. Ones that make you happy, help you to weather tough times, or remind you of special people.
If you applauded today's title, then I must quote Karnak, "May a weird holyman recite dirty limmericks to your sister."
Today's poem is the famous Trees by Joyce Kilmer. This poem possibly understates the grandeur and beauty of trees -- particularly the larger and older ones. This poem has always struck me as something that should be sung like a minstral tune.
As a kid I climbed my fair share of trees. In the last few years, I've heard of Recreational tree climbing and thought I'd like to give it a try. It has not seemed to caught on in Texas, but I might get a chance when visiting Georgia.
We could not have a National Poetry Month without including The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe. It is one of his most famous works and often studied in schools for its imagery and alliteration. Even young kids can enjoy a little scare from this poem.
During my 90's poetry kick this is one I committed to memory, for a number of reasons. I even goaded my cube-mate (we stared at each other all day) to learn it with me. We often started our day with a recitation and discussed unfamiliar words or the meaning of a stanza. The line "Respite, respite and nepenthe" has come in handy in a crossword puzzle or two.
I had forgotten that we studied this in school, until I remembered my teacher's antics. After reading a very dramatic and ominous "Nevermore" he said, "Actually, it was probably more like 'Nevermore, nevermore'" adopting a Polly Parrot voice.
Today's poem is another selection from "A Children's Garden of Verses", Where Go the Boats by Robert Louis Stevenson. This poem makes me think of my favorite "Curious George" book where he folds newspapers into boats. I read the book and folded a paper for each of my daughter's classes as "mother reader".
Here is a fun link with Bullwinkle reciting the poem, with just a few problems.
Today's poem was also shared with me, by a colleague, back in 1998. It is a piece of ancient Chinese poetry called Drinking Alone with the Moon by Li Bai. She learned it as part of applying to school in mainland China. It provided a differentiator besides grades and test scores.
are famous and she taught me how to pronounce them in Mandarin. I searched for good links and was thrilled with the one above. It has a pronunciation guide for each character -- read right to left and the title is included. My time in Taiwan equiped me to recognize the characters for 1, 3, and people (ren). This link gives a number of possible translations.
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Revolution, abolition of slavery, public well-being care, welfare, violence opposed to girls, battle and militarism — such concerns were debated for hundreds of years. yet a lot paintings performed through girls theorists on those conventional social and political subject matters is little identified or tricky to procure. This new anthology includes major excerpts now not quite often integrated in ordinary collections.
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Introductions to the fabric, biographical history and secondary assets improve this significant assortment. Women Theorists on Society and Politics presents crucial conception on ordinary themes and a stability to the anthologies of feminist writing now on the whole to be had.
In fresh a long time the realm has skilled the increase of so-called 'low depth conflicts'. not like traditional wars those very bloody armed conflicts are not any longer the affair of country governments and their armies. of their position seem police-like armed devices, safeguard companies and mystery prone, teams and organisations of spiritual, political and social fans able to hotel to violence, 'militias', bands of mercenaries, or simply gangs of thugs, led by means of the condottiere of the twenty first century, inclusive of militant charismatics, military 'generals', 'drug barons', and 'warlords' of assorted types.
This publication examines the idea that of legitimacy because it can be utilized to provide an explanation for the luck, or failure, of key balance operations because the finish of the chilly battle. within the good fortune of balance operations, legitimacy is vital. with the intention to be successful, the intervening strength needs to create a feeling of legitimacy of the challenge one of the a variety of constituencies fascinated by and excited about the enterprise.
Christians are members one of another—therefore the good of my neighbour is not to be separated from my own good but to be estimated with it. From all which it follows, first, in reference to superiors, it is better that I endure the unreasonableness, injustice or oppression of a parent, a master etc. than that the established rule of order and good government should be superseded on my account. It is better that my just pretensions should be thrown out, and my merit, if I have any, should be disregarded, than that I or any other private person should be our own carvers, and forced rewards from our superiors.
The only difference is that one can fool hens more easily than women. The excessive love of certain mothers for their children very often has been harmful to the infants, and if it was useful to them in infancy, it corrupts them often in the end. Maternal tenderness has brought more than one to the gallows. The passions can sometimes make for good, but there is no virtue to surmount them. If modesty were a virtue by itself it would not have the same power over us that our action be unknown or known, which most assuredly is not the case.
Therefore it is not reasonable, and consequently not best, that my neighbour should endure an evil to procure to me a good not equal in degree to that evil or that I should refuse pain or loss to procure for another a good that outweighs it. Much more am I obliged to deny myself a little good in order to obtain a great one for my neighbour and also to suffer a less evil to keep him from a greater. Nor will I in the main, and taking the future into computation, be a loser for giving my neighbour in these cases, and for the present, the preference.


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Dear Members, Colleagues, and Friends,
On behalf of the new Board of Trustees of the Heritage Conservation Society, I wish you all a Happy Valentine's Day and a Happy Arts Month!
We were elected in November last year, and began our terms on the first of January this year. Throughout that period, we had been working to identify how best to serve you and the advocacy for conserving our nation's built heritage.
First, we need to refocus our work on the core advocacy. We feel that there exists a crucial need to truly empower our members to be effective champions for heritage. We will devote much of our resources on training and education, particularly on stakeholder skills development. We look forward to the day when communities themselves will organize and take the initiative to value and protect their heritage.
Second, we needed to streamline our organization in order to bring the organization closer together, while more effectively dealing with the challenges of our advocacy. Beginning this month, we will have only three working committees, specifically:
Internal Affairs, responsible for membership, secretariat and finance
External Affairs, responsible for training and education, and for building networks with other organizations
Institutional Partnerships, responsible for working with government agencies on policy, legislation and reform
A special mention goes out to the Youth Committee members who, in past years, have done much to get young individuals involved in the advocacy. However, in reorienting our organization's focus and in becoming more effective heritage champions, we will need to gather our people and our resources for now into just these three committees. It will also create opportunities for our younger members to work closely with more experienced members to learn more about the advocacy at a technical and professional level.
Third, each of these committees will have very specific deliverables this year, and we ask each member to sign up for their committees once the website has been relaunched:
Internal Affairs will focus on strengthening our membership and building our financial base. Our organization needs resources to conduct its campaigns, and we call on our members to contribute their share of dues, even as the organization searches out for other funding sources.
External Affairs will take the lead in developing and implementing, in Luzon, Visayas and Mindanao, a program that equips our members and other stakeholders to be effective champions of heritage.
Institutional Partnerships will work with the cultural agencies and both houses of Congress in pushing for policies and laws that more effectively protect heritage.
Fourth, crucial to moving forward is overhauling our website and Facebook presence, so that members can easily pay their dues through the website, and we can effectively share information though these platforms. We intend to have a revamped website operational by March, at www.heritage.org.ph , and to gradually upload information, materials and resources for members throughout the first quarter of 2017. Stay tuned for more announcements on our Facebook page.
Finally, and crucially, even during the month of December, as our organization transitioned from one Board to another, the urgency of our advocacy was emphasized as we received word of the planned "redevelopment" of Rizal Memorial Sports Center. During the Christmas season, both the old Board and the new collaborated in drafting a comprehensive statement against the redevelopment, emphasizing other public values - the need for open space, for health and exercise, for the environment - beyond the architectural, historical or cultural. Following this, we look forward to consulting closely with our members and stakeholders in formulating arguments, gathering ideas and developing strategies to better conserve our nation's built heritage.
On behalf of the 2017-2018 Board of Trustees, we look forward to working with all of you in articulating an idea of national development that is rooted in our culture, history and identity, as embodied by the conservation of our built heritage.
Mark Richard Evidente


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# https://github.com/jekyll/jekyll-help/issues/209
sudo gem install jekyll bundler
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## Create a new post

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```

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rake page title="about"
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```

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Misc. Heritage News – February 2016
— March 3, 2016
Community street art – The public was invited to contribute to a mural painting in Kai Joo lane, Kuching on Feb. 3. It was a Kuching North City Commission (DBKU) initiative, part of the 'Kuching Clean, Beautiful and Safe' (CBS) project, in collaboration with For Art (F'Art), an Australian non-profit. Source: "Opportunity to leave your mark in Kai Joo Lane" Borneo Post online, 04 Feb. 2016.
Brooke legacy – The director of the Brooke Trust (a UK-based non profit organisation dedicated to the preservation and sharing of the history of the Brooke family) was on visit in Sarawak in February. He said that the Brooke Gallery being set up at Fort Margherita in collaboration with the Sarawak Museum is scheduled to open around May this year. He also held discussions on the Rajah Brooke adventure movie project and recalled the project to rebuild James Brooke's ship, The Royalist, in the UK. The Trust has also progressed in its e-archive project, planned to be opened to the public. It was also announced that a special committee comprising of departments and agencies in Sri Aman, and NGOs is to be formed under the Sarawak Museum Department to enrich the museum at the recently restored Fort Alice, Sri Aman. [Press: "Preserving 175 years of Brooke history", New Sarawak Tribune, 04 Feb. 2016, "Heritage museum to have committee to improve its facilities" Borneo Post online, 04 Feb. 2016, and "Sharing a unique heritage" Borneo Post, 14 Feb. 2016.]
Renewed call to restore Long Akah Fort. An ex-Baram district councillor reissued a call to restore the Brooke era fort located in Long San, Baram (Borneo highlands), downstream of Lio Matu Fort. He recalled that the fort, built in 1929, served as an administrative centre during Vyner Brooke's era and acted as a defense post during the Japanese occupation. "It saddens me when locals, especially the children, are not aware of the history of this fort. I believe if the government does something about this, the fort would also become a national treasure and tourism attraction", a local resident was quoted saying. [Media: "Turn Long Akah Fort into a cultural attraction, urges ex-councillor", Borneo Post online, 15 Feb. 2016. You may also have a look at 2009 post by a local blogger, entitled "Long Akah Fort, the forgotten heritage"]
[Long Akah Fort was part of a list of assets that were officially proposed to be registered as heritage sites in 2008. These sites have not been gazetted up to now. The fort thus remains unprotected. In 2015, the Sarawak Government announced an initiative to conserve 14 Brooke era forts but the detailed plan has not been made public. As there are quite a number of Brooke era Forts in Sarawak in various states of conservation, there is a need for prioritization according to solid criteria. In this respect, the information provided Dr John Ting's (University of Canberra) current in-depth research, still to be published, on the forts is probably of precious guidance.]
Tree of Life Exhibition, Kuching – this exhibition by Society Atelier Sarawak (SAS), World Crafts Council Asia Pacific (WCCAP) and World Crafts Council (WCC) took place from 30 January to 21 February in the 'Japanese Building' of the old Court House complex, Kuching. The symbolism of the tree of life is found wordwide and for millenia across most cultures, and can be seen as an universal concept. The exhibition showcased this common thread through pieces, mostly textiles, from across the globe, including from Sarawak where the tree of life features in native culture, for example in the 'pua kumbu' textiles. A guided tour was given on 13 Feb. by the exhibition curator to Friends of the Sarawak Museum members. After Kuching, the exhibition will move to India. [Press: "Tree of Life exhibition launched", Borneo Post online, 31 Jan. 2016; ' 'Tree of Life' brings world art to Kuching", Borneo Post online, 15 Feb. 2016.]
Call for papers – The Institute of Borneo Studies (formerly Institute of East Asian Studies), Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) called for papers for the second issue of its Borneo Kalimantan Journal. The BKJ is a new multidisciplinary, peer reviewed, open access publication. Being a publication platform for diverse topics related to Borneo, we understand that it welcomes papers on cultural heritage. [Source: "Call for papers for Sept 2016 issue", BKJ Facebook, 05 Feb. 2016 and Journal of Borneo Kalimantan webpage.]
MALAYSIA-WIDE AND BEYOND (a look at news on heritage management beyond Sarawak, as food for thought for Sarawak
Good news from Kuala Lumpur…
Vivekananda Ashram heritage building and its setting definitely saved? – The High Court striked out the bid by the owners, to repeal the decision of the National Heritage Department to gazette the building and its surrounding land. A victory for heritage conservation. [Sources: "Vivekananda Ashram owner fails to strike out National Heritage Dept's decision", MalayMail online, 12 Feb. 2016; "High Court dismisses application to revoke Vivekananda Ashram heritage status" The Malaysian Insider, 13 Feb. 2016.]
… And not so good news from George Town, Penang:
'Runnymede bungalow' no more. A old brick bungalow, part of the ex-Runnymede hotel complex along the seafront on Jalan Sultan Ahmad Shah, and several other constructions, were demolished during the Chinese New Year holiday to make way for a major real estate development. The demolition sparked an outcry by conservation lovers and heritage conservation groups. They said that the bungalow was Stanford Raffles' residence during his Penang times, a claim refuted by the authorities and presumably by the owners. The building was not listed as a heritage item. [Sources: "Historian raps Penang over demolition of Stamford Raffles' last standing home in Asia" Malay Mail O nline, 12 Feb. 2016; "Netizens too decry Runnymede ancillary buildings demolition", The Star online, 13 Feb. 2016; "If old buildings could talk…" , column, The Star online, 14 Feb. 2016;"After Runnymede, watchdog fears more heritage buildings will suffer same fate", The Malay Mail online, 20 Feb. 2016; "Demolition was a grave tragedy", column, The Star online, 22 Feb. 2016; "Penang govt's lack of will led to loss of Runnymede bungalow", New Straights Times online, 23 Feb. 2016.]
There were also new and more general calls to strengthen heritage management rules and their enforcement : see for example "Party wing and groups voice concerns about heritage issues" in The Star Online, 2 Feb. 2016 (Penang's heritage management seems to be getting increasingly politicized); or "Destruction of Penang heritage getting worse, says activist", in FMT News, 27 Feb. 2016.
Sky-rocketing shophouse rents – "A drastic increase in rentals has forced 34 tenants to move out of the 55 pre-war properties along Penang Road, Kimberley Steet and Lim Chwee Leong Road. (…) Some of the monthly rentals have gone up to RM14,000 from RM2,000 (up by 700%), while others have increased to RM2,000 from RM700 (up by 285%)" reported The Star online. "I believe the properties here are owned by investors from Hong Kong, who bought them up in 1960s for a shopping mall project" a shopkeeper is quoted saying. Inflating rentals to get tenants to leave? This is reminder of the double edged impacts in areas which gained popular heritage status, and therefore of the need for agile heritage management frameworks to mitigate the risk of 'loss of soul'. [Source: "Pre-war shop rent too high", The Star online, 20 Feb. 2016.]
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I am listening on 4m WSPR again today, RX only. Using my old Yaesu Converter and home brew Vertical Dipole antenna.
Results in the evenings last week were encouraging with Spots of G6AVK, 127km, 5Watts to his Vertical only 2.5m off the ground.
On a magic night, January 20th 2010 propagation conditions were just a little better than normal and the QRP stations on 500KHz WSPR were Spotted in the Czech Republic. First G3XBM with 1mW ERP then G3ZJO with 20uW ERP were logged by OK2BVG.
For me this is a distance of 1310Km or 814miles, just out of interest I worked out the Km and Miles per Watt of ERP - 6.55 Million Km or 4.07 Million Miles.
This prompted a comment from someone that his 1924 Admiralty Radio Handbook stated that, using 1KW on 500KHz the maximum range over an ideal salt water path is 1500Km. Well then, I told you WSPR is useful.
Over the next couple of days, something must have bugged us both, without consultation, G3XBM and me went into ERP checking mode, re-calibrating our Antenna Current meters, recalculating, and computer modelling our antennas. We both use small less 'gain' yet efficient antennas.
Exact figures are difficult but we both consider we are accurate to + or - 3dB.
Here is my WSPR Countries List on 500KHz 200 micro-watts or less. England, Scotland, France, Belgium, Netherlands, Germany, Czech Republic, Norway.
Most QRPp'ers will know of my method of timing in my PC-less WSPR Keyers. (look at that I am being PC and saying PC-less).
I had query the other day regarding the XORgan 'have I considered adding GPS timing as a facility on my system'.
I smile at the huge power used by PC generated WSPR and a Transceiver to produce the few mW needed to span the globe. Why in a PC-less system then, add GPS timing to put the current consumption back up? Not to mention the complexity, QRPp'ers like to KISS.
Just because a Windows computer is a lousy time keeper why should we consider it impossible to keep time as accurate as the needs of WSPR. Heavens I had a fully mechanical wrist watch 40 odd years ago which kept perfectly adequate time for the purpose. Does the Quartz watch on your wrist deviate more than a second in a Month? We QRPp'ers have got to be able to do better than resorting to GPS, MSF etc.
Many of us have a Multiband TX/RX which can run QRP but for WSPR a computer is needed in TX only mode which makes a mockery of the term QRP as applied to Station power consumption.
We have produced PIC based MEPT's for Multi Modes and WSPR.
Some have recorded WSPR audio on MP3 and re-played that for Computer-less operation.
I think Computerless is a well understood term in all walks of life. Well this uses a lot less Computer than most. This uses a small PIC processor with no external memory, sound card, hard drive, video card, monitor, keyboard or mouse and has never had relations with Microsoft or Monica Lewinsky.
For the purists I shall say PCless in future, if I remember.
I have now produced the KISS WSPR Organ.
The name stems from my original idea of using a musical tone generator to produce the WSPR tone frequencies. Talking to an Organ engineer yesterday morning soon proved that approach to be far too complex and my simpler KISS idea was implemented.
The Output can be applied to any HF/VHF SSB Transceiver or better, a simple home brew SSB TX.
I have set up my DDS MEPT with WSPR Ident on 50.294395MHz and it is running on test ready for tomorrows 6m activity day.
Despite running just 100mW this MEPT has been copied at C.150Km in the past. It will be interesting to see how it does with the added activity.
Note:- as it runs continuously and with several modes it is just outside (at the bottom) the WSPR slot.
In the last few weeks I have operated from some places in France using my call and giving the QRA Locator of the spot.
So no I haven't lost my marbles and been giving wrong Locs.
Unfortunately WSPR does not send the full Locator or accept F/G3ZJO so often it appears that I did not move.
Some recent comments have been made regarding false info, I tend to agree that the whole system could be improved, as it is being slowly. At least reports of spots into the future are no longer accepted.
For reference operation was from.
The results from my Home Brew DDS Multimode test on 28MHz using 300mW have been truly amazing. The time has come for it to be switched off shortly. Many thanks for all those who looked just below the WSPR band for my signal and particularly for the Visual Mode Screen Grabs.
Next test in the future may be with approximately 50mW as 28MHz opens up.
In addition to my MEPT on 10.140073MHz which has 8 Unit, QRSS, Hell and WSPR modulation and a Power Out of 37mW. I have been running a DDS controlled MEPT which can virtually go anywhere, 1.8 to 50MHz.
Currently this TX is just below the 28MHz WSPR Window on 28.125995MHz, Power Out 300mW. It uses 5 Unit modulation to produce QRSS, Hell and WSPR. Even the better commercial rigs can easily be almost 100Hz out on the dial reading, consequently I am decoded by some stations as I appear in their passband and missed by others who are out in the other direction.
Looking at the Activity page on here I see I am listed as active together with G8JNJ. How does the site know that I thought as I have had no Spot reports or reported any. Of course, I am checking my own signal and WSPR is uploading, no magic involved at all.
'Beacon' ON 24/7 18 March 18.00 Reports welcome.
My MEPT with WSPR is off air from 11.00GMT today. My current MEPT on the frequency uses a simple 'G' ident.
Has anyone tried Debian 5.0 I wonder.
WSJT from the repository does not run - complains of python numpy errors.
WSJT / WSPR previous compiles on Debian 4.0 do not run on Debian 5.0.
WSPR does not run when compiled on Debian 5.0 - a whole catalogue of errors not previously seen.
Just prior to 11.00Z my Multimode MEPT was off air for a few minutes for an Antenna change from the 6m Vertical whip to the low, sloping 10MHz 1/2Wave Dipole.
With apologies to DG0OPK if you were doing any tests.
I have changed my current set up for WSPR (other than my Multimode on 10.140073 MHz) in order to reduce power consumption, noise and to utilise Solar Power as much as possible. This will of course help considerably with Portable operation.
The Radio in use is the Yaesu FT-897. The computer the Samsung NC10 Netbook.