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CMP Group Ltd, a leading manufacturer and distributor of marine products, announced that they have reached an agreement to acquire Grant Rope Inc. based in Trenton, ON, Canada. Grant Rope is a long-standing manufacturer of high-quality marine cordage and rope products. The deal closed on October 1st, 2021.
Grant Rope continues CMP's strategy to grow its North American domestic manufacturing presence and strengthen its position in the recreational marine industry.
"We are very excited about the strategic fit between Grant Rope and CMP and believe there are many advantages and opportunities for our customers, supply partners and our team" states Don Hambly, President & CEO, CMP. "Grant Rope's manufacturing expertise supports our plan to develop and launch domestically made premium rope products under the new 'CMP Cordage' brand that complement our existing rope products and support our growing marine business."
Norm Grant, founder and owner of Grant Rope will remain with the combined entity to help ensure a smooth transition and support CMP's growth plans. He commented, "This is a tremendous opportunity for Grant Rope and our customers. By joining forces with CMP, we will leverage the expertise and resources of CMP to take Grant Rope to the next level."
About CMP Group Ltd.
CMP Group, headquartered in Vancouver, BC, creates products and services for the marine industry that allow people to enjoy time on and around the water. The Company has manufacturing operations in Vancouver & Toronto, Canada; Genoa, Italy; Suffolk, VA and Vadnais Heights, MN, USA and Ningbo, China. CMP's product range extends from marine corrosion, dock products, ground tackle solutions to steering and controls. CMP's respected brands include Martyr™ anodes, Dock Edge +® dock & boating accessories, Rocna® & Vulcan® anchors, Titan® Marine Products, Octopus® Autopilot Drive Systems, Intellisteer® Remote Steering Systems, Panther™, TROLLMaster™, and EZ-Steer® boating accessories and Seaguard® corrosion protection systems. In 2018, Ironbridge Equity Partners, Toronto, ON, acquired majority control of CMP Group. For more information, please visit www.cmpgroup.net.
About Grant Rope Ltd.
In 2008, after more than 20 years as a leader in the rope industry, Norm Grant founded Grant Ropes to manufacture and sell high-quality marine cordage products to cater to a more discerning consumer. Over the years, Grant Rope has established itself as a highly flexible and responsive provider of a wide range of top-quality marine cordage and related products.


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Recall: Firm Press Release
Big Dog Natural Recalls Chicken and Fish Supreme Dog Food Due to Possible Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes Health Risk
FDA posts press releases and other notices of recalls and market withdrawals from the firms involved as a service to consumers, the media, and other interested parties. FDA does not endorse either the product or the company.
For Immediate Release
For Immediate Release
January 4, 2016
Firm Press Release
Big Dog Natural of Brick, NJ is voluntary recalling a select production lot of Big Dog Natural raw dehydrated dog food Chicken Supreme potentially contaminated with Salmonella and Fish Supreme potentially contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes that was shipped in the week of 10/31/2015 to 11/13/2015 to online customers. Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes can affect animals eating the products and there is risk to humans from handling contaminated pet products, especially if they have not thoroughly washed their hands after having contact with the products or any surfaces exposed to these products.
Healthy people infected with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes should monitor themselves for some or all of the following symptoms: nausea, vomiting, diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, abdominal cramping and fever. Rarely, Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes can result in more serious ailments, including arterial infections, endocarditis, arthritis, muscle pain, eye irritation, and urinary tract symptoms. Consumers exhibiting these signs after having contact with this product should contact their healthcare providers.
Pets with Salmonella and Listeria monocytogenes infections may be lethargic and have diarrhea or bloody diarrhea, fever, and vomiting. Some pets will have only decreased appetite, fever and abdominal pain. Infected but otherwise healthy pets can be carriers and infect other animals or humans. If your pet has consumed the recalled product and has these symptoms, please contact your veterinarian.
These products were sold directly to consumers through the company's online website and in the US. The voluntarily recalled product include all weight volumes of the Big Dog Natural Chicken and Fish Supreme. No additional products are affected by this recall.
Big Dog Natural became aware of a potential issue after receiving notification from the FDA that an investigational sample of Chicken Supreme tested positive for Salmonella and an investigational sample of Fish Supreme for Listeria monocytogenes.
Consumers should discontinue feeding the affected product and monitor their pet's health, and contact their veterinarian if they have concerns. Consumers who purchased the product can obtain a full refund or exchange by returning the product in its original packaging.
Consumers with questions should contact Big Dog Natural https://www.bigdognatural.com or by calling 1-732-785-2600 (from 9am till 4pm EST).

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We think of invaders taking over their worlds in a fairly uniform way.
But in some places, they move like Genghis Khan. In other places it's more like a gradual resettlement.
In the Housatonic River, zebra mussels -- non-native bivalves that can move into a water body and just dominate it -- were found in 2009 in Massachusetts and in 2010 in Connecticut at Lake Lillinonah and Lake Zoar.
They're moving slowly down the river itself, ever further south. But their numbers in the river aren't overwhelming.
There's some evidence that the population might be accelerating in Lillinonah and Zoar, where people found hundreds of the small striped shellfish attached to their docks and boats last year. The worry is that at year's end, it will be hundreds of thousands.
But just over the border, at the Hudson river, the zebra mussel did to the river what the Vikings did to the monastery at Lindisfarne -- they just overran the place.
David Strayer of the Cary Institute of Ecosystems Studies in Millbrook, N.Y. has studied the zebra mussel takeover in the Hudson. He's now finding something unexpected: The takeover is changing, and diminishing.
Strayer said that zebra mussels first appeared in the Hudson in 1991. In less than two years, he said, the weight of the zebra mussels in the river was greater than the combined weight of all the fish, all the water birds, all the invertebrates, all the other bivalves, all the eels, all the insects in the river.
Every day or two, all those mussels filtered out a volume of water equivalent to all the water in the river.
"Each female can have 1 million eggs a year,'' Strayer said. "They can really take off.''
And, he said, the Hudson has a rocky bottom -- good for a mussel to latch onto -- and a high-enough level of calcium in the water to feed the mussels as they develop.
As a result, the Hudson was reordered. The mussels filtered out the phytoplankton and the zooplankton in the river that other species depend on for food. The water became unnaturally clear. Fish populations were damaged.
But there's been an interesting turn.
Strayer said the mussels are still there in the Hudson. Millions and millions of them. It's not correct to say they're in decline.
But, he said, his research is finding that gradually, the population of the mussels in the Hudson is getting younger. It's rare to find large, older zebra mussels there. Right now, he said, there is less than a 1 percent chance in the Hudson that a zebra mussel will survive beyond its first year.
One reason for this -- and one that Connecticut can't rely on -- are blue crabs. They live in the Hudson as far north as Albany, Strayer said, and they like to eat mussels.
But that's not the only reason. Strayer's not sure what the others are -- maybe it's rising water temperatures. Maybe other factors.
"There are several theories,'' he said.
Because the zebra mussels in the Hudson are much younger than they used to be, they are on the whole, much smaller and thus filter much less water. While phytoplankton levels remain low, zooplankton levels have recovered to pre-invasion levels.
And fish are returning. Numbers of shad and striped bass -- which depend on the zooplankton for food -- are rebounding. Sunfish and blackfish are growing faster.
Strayer said it's not probable that the zebra mussels will disappear little by little. But things are changing.
But even if they decline in numbers, not just size, the zebra mussels have altered the Hudson in ways unimaginable 20 years ago.
The mark of the invader lingers.
"They've just completely transformed the ecology of the river,'' Strayer said.


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Restaurant: Lukshon
Location: 3239 Helms Ave, Culver City, CA 90034. 310.202.6808
Date: October 20, 2011
Cuisine: New Asian
Rating: Pretty damn tasty
A couple of years ago my office was in Culver City, and the restaurant revolution there was already well under way. But the trend continues apace with Lukshon, a sort of re-imagined southern Asian (vaguely Chinese — sort of) joint opened by the same owners as adjacent Father's Office. I've been itching to try it for better on six months and we finally got the Foodie Club together for an impromptu meeting.
The modern interior space. There is also a generous and attractive patio.
The menu. We ordered about two thirds of it, for eight people, all family style.
"atlantic fluke pickled watermelon, black sesame, cucumber, kinh gioi." Light flavored, but tasty. The black sesame lent it a pleasant gritty texture.
Lukshon does not allow corkage. I didn't know that and Foodie Club co-president EP and I hauled four bottles to the table. I was skeptical at first of the small wine list too, as it's devoid of big name offerings. But with some help from the Sommelier we put together what turned out to be a very enjoyable trio.
We had the 2010, but the 2009 got 92 from parker, "Ollivier's 2009 Muscadet de Sevre et Maine Sur Lie Clos des Briords is as perfumed and lusciously-fruited a wine of its genre as you are likely to encounter, though that by no means precludes depth of mineral character. Scents of pear, clover, Persian melon, and fennel inform the nose and migrate to a buoyant yet expansive, mouthwateringly juicy palate tinged with a shimmering crystalline sense of minerality characteristic for this cuvee. This sensational value finishes with an uncanny combination of soothing refreshment and vibrancy. It is apt to be even more ravishing in another year or so and be worth following for at least 3-4."
"shrimp toast rock shrimp, cilantro, chiles, tiny croutons." These are little fried balls with a sweet and spicy sauce. They tasted pretty fried, with an understated flavor.
"baby monterey squid!! chiang mai pork sausage, candlenut, mint, rau ram." Really tasty. The fried tentacles in the center were pretty straight up calimari. The bodies were stuffed with the yummy sausage.
"duck popiah. cilantro stems, pickled jicama, hoisin chile sauce." With the texture of a Saigon Roll, these duck rolls were packed with meaty flavor inside. Plus, being a sauce guy, I love hoison. One of my favorite dishes.
"spicy chicken pops!! shelton farms' drumettes, garlic, kecap manis, spicy sichuan salt." Nice little "wings" with a lot of flavor and a bit of heat. A kind of BBQ sweet heat.
This was a very interesting wine. Old fashioned — like 2,000 years old fashioned. Evidently, it's kept in amphorae, large greek/roman style terra-cotta vessels. While a white, it was so unfiltered as to be almost cloudy. But damn good.
"kurobuta pork ribs. spicy chicory coffee bbq sauce." The meat just fell of the bones. A bit of char. Seriously good ribs, what cheap Chinese restaurant ribs aspire to be.
"rib eye steak yam neua. gem lettuce, radish, carrot, tomato, herbs, spicy lime vinaigrette." This was fine, but just kinda beefy.
"foie gras ganache!! carob, ceylon cinnamon, tamarind gastrique, almond, puffed rice." These were more a dessert than a savory. The creamy foie texture and richness leant them the character of some kind of ultra rich mousse.
"lamb belly roti. canai chana dal, cumin, mint, raita, pickled cauliflower." Another of my favorite dishes. A kind of vaguely middle eastern, vaguely Asian pizza. The little sour marinated crunchy cauliflower was good too.
"garlic pork belly do ban jian, rice cakes, cabbage, garlic chives." Probably my favorite dish. This had some good heat and that rich fermented bean paste flavor. The meat was rich, but not too fatty, and under the sauce you could only tell it from the rice cakes by texture. They added a chewiness to complement the some pork.
"short rib rendang!! malay spices, red chile lemongrass rempah, coconut cream." More meat. I liked the sauce better on this one.
Parker gives this very solid Riesling 90 points. "Pepper-laced pears and apples are found in the nose of the zesty, vivacious 2002 Riesling Eiswein Oberemmeler Hutte. This molasses, brown sugar and white fruit-flavored offering sports eye-popping acidity, loads of depth, and a long, sweet finish. Anticipated maturity: 2007-2025."
"heirloom black rice lap cheong, onion, roasted garlic, lilly's farm fried egg."
Mixed up. This was pleasant, rich, sweet, and ricey.
"gai lan aged ham, shaoxing wine, garlic." Nice stir fried greens. But I wanted more ham flavor.
"chiang mai curry noodles chile, tumeric, lemongrass, chicken, prawn, yu choy, rice noodles." A curry with noodles. Nothing wrong with that, as I love curry.
"dandan noodles!! kurobuta pork, sesame, preserved mustard greens, sichuan peppercorns, peanuts." I really liked this too. Noodles with a pretty spicy Chinese pork ragu. I had a better version in western China, but this was pretty damn good. Decently hot, but not nearly real Szechuan hot. I guess the sauce isn't so different than Pocked Marked Old Ladies Tofu (yes, that is a real dish).
Dessert is "free" (as Matt Groning said, "at no additional perceivable cost"). They bring out one per person, but three types. I would've liked to try each, but I had the leftmost, which was a delicious form of deconstructed pina colada. Some kind of pana cotta with coconut and pineapple. The middle was chocolate, the rightmost more fruity.
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text: Share February 21, 2018 | SAN DIEGO Teradata recognized as a Leader for the 16th consecutive time Teradata (NYSE: TDC), the leading data and analytics company, has again been positioned in the Gartner, Inc. 2018 Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics1 issued February 13, 2018, by Gartner analysts Adam M. Ronthal, Roxane Edjlali, and Rick Greenwald. Vendors are evaluated by Gartner on completeness of vision and ability to execute following detailed research. As one of 22 vendors evaluated in the 2018 report, Teradata was recognized as a Leader for the 16th consecutive time. Gartner's report describes the state of the market: "Although the traditional data warehousing use case remains foundational to most organizations' analytics initiatives, there is also interest in the ability to manage and process increasingly diverse formats for both internal and external data." The report also states: "A complete DMSA must therefore be able to accommodate a diverse range of data types. These may include interaction and observational data — from Internet of Things (IoT) sensors, for example — as well as nonrelational data, such as text, image, audio and video data." "Teradata's continued leadership in this industry validates our strategy to offer customers unprecedented analytics at scale, data management, license flexibility and deployment choices," said Oliver Ratzesberger, Chief Operating Officer, Teradata. "I am delighted to see that our public cloud partners, Microsoft and Amazon Web Services, also appear in the leaders' quadrant, confirming that Teradata customers, regardless of where they deploy our software, are receiving the very best products and services available." To ensure customers can make the most of their data and analytic assets, Teradata introduced Teradata Everywhere, a flexible, agile and scalable way to ensure high return on analytic investments, while limiting the risk in making those investments. Teradata Everywhere makes analytics available where and when they are needed – in the cloud, on-premises or both – coupled with license tiers that provide flexibility in how the Teradata Analytics Platform is purchased and deployed. For this Magic Quadrant, Gartner defines a data management solution for analytics as "a complete software system that supports and manages data in one or more file management systems (usually databases). DMSAs include specific optimizations to support analytical processing. This includes, but is not limited to, support for relational processing, nonrelational processing (such as graph processing), and machine learning and programming languages such as Python and R. Data is not necessarily stored in a relational structure, and multiple models can be used — for example, relational, XML, JSON, key-value, text, graph and geospatial." 1 Gartner, Inc., Magic Quadrant for Data Management Solutions for Analytics, Analysts Adam M. Ronthal, Roxane Edjlali, Rick Greenwald, February 13, 2018. *Former report titles include "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse and Data Management Solutions for Analytics" and "Magic Quadrant for Data Warehouse Database Management Systems." Gartner Disclaimer Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in its research publications, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors with the highest ratings or other designation. Gartner research publications consist of the opinions of Gartner's research organization and should not be construed as statements of fact. Gartner disclaims all warranties, expressed or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.


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Letter IV. To the Same, on His Wisdom and Gentleness.
The faithful exponent of our holy religion so arranges all things that no place be found in future for transgressors: for what else do you, for instance, promise us by so great sanctity of character, than that, all errors being laid aside, we should lead a blessed life?In this matter, I see that the greatest praise befits thy virtues, because you have changed even an uninstructed mind by your exhortations, and drown it over to an excellent condition. But it would not seem so wonderful, if you had simply strengthened educated minds by instilling wisdom into them for intelligent men have a sort of relationship to devotion, but rustic natures are not easily won over to the side of severity.1 Just as those who shape the forms of animals out of stone, undertake a business of a pretty difficult kind, when they strike very hard rocks with their chisels, while those who make their attempts on substances of a softer nature feel that their hands are aided by the ease of fashioning these materials, and it is deemed proper that the labor of the workman; when difficult, should be held in the highest honor, so, Sir, singular commendation ought so be given to you, because you have made unpolished and rustic minds, set free from the darkness of sin, both to think what is human, and to understand what is divine.
No less is Xenocrates, by far the most learned of the philosophers, held in estimation, who succeeded by severe exhortations in having luxury conquered. For when a certain Polemo, heavy with wine, staggered openly out of a nocturnal revel at the time when his hearers were flocking to the school of Xenocrates, he, too, entered the place, and impudently took his seat among the crowd of disciples, in that dress in which he had come forth from the banquet. A chaplet of flowers covered his head, and yet he did not feel ashamed that he would seem unlike all the others, because, in truth, indulgence in a long drinking-bout had upset his brains, which are the seat of reason. As the rest of those there present began to murmur grievously, because so unsuitable a hearer had found his way in among a multitude of men of letters, the master himself was not in the slightest degree disturbed, but, on the contrary, began to discourse on the science of morals, and the laws of moderation. And so powerful proved the influence of the teacher that the mind of that impudent intruder was persuaded to the love of modesty. First of all, then, Polemo, in utter confusion, took off the chaplet from his head, and professed himself a disciple. And in course of time he conformed himself so thoroughly to the duties implied in dignity, and surrendered himself so entirely to the exhibition of modesty, that a glorious amendment of character threw a cloak over the habits of his former life. Now we admire this very thing in your instructions, that, without the use of any threats, and without having recourse to terrors of any kind, you have turned infatuated minds to the worship of God; so that even a badly ordered intellect should believe it preferable2 to live well and happily with all, rather than to hold unrighteous opinions with a few.


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Through days of unrest, dozens of American cities — from Minneapolis to Atlanta, from New York to Grand Rapids, Mich. — have been wracked by violent protests.
Racial wounds have been ripped open following the death of George Floyd, an unarmed black man in police custody in Minneapolis. The chaotic demonstrations and looting across the country have been blamed on outsiders of various political stripes, particularly "radical-left" groups like antifa, which is short for "anti-fascist."
But the country is at an especially explosive moment, coming in the midst of a pandemic that has already killed more than 100,000 and an economic crisis with more than 40 million Americans unemployed — and in an election year no less.
There's no telling how this plays out politically in November, with the election now five months away. Anything can happen. Five months ago, after all, the coronavirus was just a "pneumonia of unknown cause."
President Trump calledFloyd's death a "grave tragedy" that "should never have happened." Those remarks were made at the first launching of American astronauts into space from U.S. soil in almost a decade — what was one of the hopeful bright spots in this country, though it was overshadowed by the violent demonstrations.
But once Trump was back on his favorite platform, Twitter, he again inflamed tensions, with machismo and politics at the forefront. He criticized local Democratic officials, saying Minneapolis's mayor, for example, was no "General Douglas McArthur [sic] or great fighter General George Patton."
He has called demonstrators "THUGS" and warned that "when the looting starts, the shooting starts" — though he later said he didn't use that phrase as a threat. And he has employed violent, tough-guy imagery, alluding to the potential use of "unlimited" military power, "vicious dogs, and most ominous weapons."
Even some Republicans criticized the president's language.
Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, the only black Republican in the Senate, called the president's tweets "not constructive" on Fox News Sunday. And Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan told CNN that Trump is "continuing to escalate the temperature," which is the "opposite" of what a leader should be doing right now.
Meanwhile, Trump's national security adviser, Robert O'Brien, on Sunday waded into a crucial debate — whether there's "systemic racism" in police forces or whether there are just a few "bad apples."
"I don't think there's systemic racism" in law enforcement, O'Brien said on CNN, "but, you know what, there are some bad apples in there. ... There's no doubt there are some racist police" but, he said, they're the minority.
Americans are divided on their views of police. Back in mid-2017, Gallupfound that 54% of Americans have a great deal or quite a lot of confidence in the police. But there were very different views by race. While 61% of whites had that level of confidence in police, just 45% of Hispanics and 30% of blacks did.
Confidence in police nosedived among minorities and liberals after the rash of high-profile incidents of black men killed at the hands of police in 2014 and 2015, such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., Eric Garner in New York and Freddie Gray in Baltimore.
Views of the police and law enforcement have become a sharp dividing line by race and party. In 2016, Trump declared himself the "law and order candidate." Expect him to try to exploit that again as a wedge issue in an effort to win over moderate whites upset by the video of Floyd's death but disapproving of the violent demonstrations.
He said as much Sunday. He called for "Law & Order in Philadelphia, NOW!" and announced that the United States would be designating antifa a terrorist organization.
Expect presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden and other Democrats now to have to answer if they agree or disagree with the antifa designation.
Of course, it's also possible that Trump went too far already, something some advisers are privately concerned about, and that his rhetoric could hurt him with independents and suburban women.
5 things to watch this week
1. Trump's response to unrest: How Trump responds this week to the violent demonstrations and race relations in America could be consequential. Will it be Teleprompter Trump or Twitter Trump, or both at the same time once again?
Florida Rep. Val Demings, who's on the shortlist to be Joe Biden's presidential running mate, said on NBC's Meet the Press on Sunday: "If there ever was a time we need leadership in the White House, it is now, to help heal our nation, but I don't know why I would expect this president to do something that he has never done before."
2. The great American coronavirus experiment: It's the first day of June, and with it, many states are making continued steps into phased reopenings.
April and May saw more than 100,000 people die in the U.S. from the coronavirus. Some health experts have warned that a resurgence in cases could take place if Americans don't adhere to strict social distancing, or take other precautions like wear masks.
The White House has also said that cases could go down in the warmer summer months. Does that happen? And if so, do Americans get too comfortable and lapse into a false sense of security — only to see a spike in the fall? None of it's clear, but the U.S. is heading into a period of pandemic experimentation with no vaccine or cure for the coronavirus as yet.
3. Could Steve King lose? Steny Hoyer faces challenge: It's hard to believe, but there are elections on Tuesday.
Two of the marquee races deal with well-known — and very different — political figures. Controversial Rep. Steve King, with a history of making racist remarks, is in a fight for his political life with state Sen. Randy Feenstra in Iowa's Republican primary. Conservative groups have lined up against King, but he can't be counted out. This district has a long history of voting for him, despite his pariah status within the party.
In Maryland, Steny Hoyer, No. 2 in House Democratic leadership, is facing a primary challenge from the left in 29-year-old McKayla Wilkes, inspired by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's unlikely win in New York over Joe Crowley, a former congressional Democratic leader.
Iowa, Maryland and several other states, plus Washington, D.C., hold primaries Tuesday.
4. Biden to get closer to officially clinching nomination: Biden, the presumptive Democratic nominee, is on the ballot Tuesday, too.
Remember, he still hasn't acquired the delegates needed to officially put him over the top for the nomination. He is 425 delegates short of doing that. With 500 at stake Tuesday, Biden needs 85% of them Tuesday to clinch.
That's unlikely, so look at next week, June 9, when Georgia and West Virginia vote — with their 133 delegates up for grabs — for Biden to hit the magic number of 1,991. (Follow all the math here with the NPR delegate tracker.)
5. Origins of Trump campaign investigation to be probed: In Congress, former Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein will testify Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee, which is looking into the origins of the FBI's investigation into members of the 2016 Trump campaign.
The Senate is also expected to vote on nominations, including for the Treasury Department's inspector general for the pandemic response.
And action is possible on changes to the Paycheck Protection Program, or PPP. Last week, the House, nearly unanimously, passed a bill that reduces the percentage of the loans that businesses have to use toward payroll and gives businesses more time to spend the money and to pay the loans back.
Flashback quotation:
"When you see these thugs being thrown into the back of a paddy wagon, you just seen them thrown in, rough. I said, 'Please don't be too nice.' When you guys put somebody in the car and you're protecting their head you know, the way you put their hand over [their head]. Like, 'Don't hit their head, and they've just killed somebody, don't hit their head.' I said, 'You can take the hand away, OK?' "
— Trump, on July 28, 2017, speaking to law enforcement officers in Long Island, N.Y.
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Book Title: Cake
Author: Jove Belle
Release Date: February 20, 2016
Hosted by: Book Enthusiast Promotions
A sexy romance about two women, one inconvenient wedding, and a shared love of Cake!
Kelly and Elana's relationship is a recipe for disaster. First, they meet at a wedding, and that never works. Second, Kelly's older brother is marrying Elana's ex-lover. And third, Elana is still painfully, undeniably in love with said ex.
When it comes to other people's lives, Elana Verdad is an expert. As a licensed psychologist and life coach, she helps people overcome obstacles. Her own life, on the other hand, is a disaster. Her lover left her for a man, so she drove over his mailbox accidentally on purpose. Now, not only did the judge take away her driver's license, he also assigned her to community service at the local women's prison. In what may be her worst idea ever, Elana decides to crash their wedding.
Kelly Miller may not understand her brother's rush to marry his girlfriend, but when he asks her to bake his wedding cake, it's not as if she can refuse. She's in the catering business after all. At the wedding, she meets a beautiful, complicated, and seriously damaged woman. Although Kelly knows it's crazy, she's drawn to her nonetheless.
Despite the reasons they shouldn't be together, there's still an undeniable something between them. All they need is a chance to enjoy their slice of the cake.
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Responsibilities of the Local Authority to Former Looked After Children and Young People in Custody
This chapter is based on statutory guidance for local authorities on children who lose their looked-after status when remanded or sentenced to custody. See: Children Act 1989: former looked-after children in custody.
Looked After Children and Young People In Contact With Youth Justice Services Procedure
This chapter was updated in September 2020.1. Introduction
Some young people may cease to be looked after when they are convicted and receive a custodial sentence (See Annex 8: Changes to Care Status as a Result of Criminal Justice Decisions of the Children Act 1989 Guidance and Regulations: Volume 2: Care Planning, Placement and Case Review).
This may be because, once sentenced to custody, they are no longer voluntarily accommodated under section 20 of the Children Act 1989, or because they became Looked After solely by virtue of being remanded to local authority accommodation or Youth Detention Accommodation.
Local authorities still have responsibilities towards these children and young people, however these responsibilities will differ depending on whether or not the young person is relevant and entitled to support as a care leaver.
2. 'Relevant' Young People in Custody
If the young person is a 'relevant child' and entitled to support and services as a care leaver, this status remains unchanged while they are serving a custodial sentence, and the local authority that looked after the young person retains responsibility for providing support during their time in custody and on release.
Some young people, including young people who become looked after as a result of being remanded, will become 'relevant children' if they are in custody on their 16th birthday. This would include young people who have spent at least 13 weeks looked after since the age of 14 and were either subject to a care order or who were accommodated or remanded to local authority accommodation immediately prior to entering custody on sentence.
The authority must keep in touch with relevant young people in custody throughout their sentence, allocate a personal adviser and work with the young person to prepare a pathway plan. This should cover arrangements for the support that they will be provided with on release, including arranging for their accommodation and maintenance if they will be under 18. The young person's social worker should ensure that the relevant YOT case manager is made aware of their status as Relevant.
For further information, see Leaving Care and Transition Procedure.3. Young People in Custody who are not 'Relevant'
Local authorities also have a duty to young people who, upon being sentenced, cease to be Looked After, but who are not Relevant and so not entitled to support as care leavers. This may be because they were, prior to detention, Accommodated (under section 20 of the Children Act 1989) and will leave custody before their 16th birthday, or they are aged 16 or 17 but have been Looked After for less than 13 weeks since the age of 14 (perhaps because they only became looked after when remanded into local authority accommodation immediately prior to sentence).
In this situation, the responsible local authority must appoint a representative to visit the young person to assess their needs.
The representative must make recommendations about any appropriate advice, support and assistance needed by the young person, including where necessary, arranging for their accommodation on release, which might involve planning for them to be Looked After again.
There may be other ongoing duties towards this group of young people. Where they are aged 16 or 17, they may be entitled to advice and assistance as qualifying young people under section 24(1B) of the Children Act 1989. All young people who may be in need are entitled to an assessment under Section 17 of the 1989 Act.3.1 Notification and Visiting
If the social worker has not attended Court, the responsible YOT should notify the local authority about the details of the young person's sentence, and about where they have been detained.
The local authority must appoint a representative to visit the young person. This should be a qualified social worker employed by the authority, usually the social worker or Personal Adviser who was allocated to the young person's case and was responsible for maintaining the care plan /Pathway Plan or Detention Placement Plan before they were sentenced. There may be circumstances where it would be appropriate for a residential care worker or a foster carer familiar to the young person to carry out this role. (The term 'social worker' is used here). The role must not be fulfilled by a YOT worker.
The local authority should also inform the young person's independent reviewing officer (IRO) of their placement in custody and the name of the appointed representative.
Within five working days of the young person being sentenced, the local authority should provide information to the custodial establishment by contacting the offender supervisor based in the YOI, or equivalent post in the Secure Training Centre or Secure Children's Home, to inform them of:
- The young person's previous care status;
- Persons with parental responsibility for the young person;
- The name and contact details of the social worker and team manager;
- Any immediate information necessary to ensure the young person's safety;
- Relevant information about the young person's family/carers and contact arrangements;
- Relevant information about the young person's needs that will enhance the establishment's ability to care for the young person, especially in responding to the young person's health and education needs;
- The date when the social worker will be visiting the young person.
They should seek information from the secure establishment about how the young person has settled in and agree arrangements for them to visit the young person.
3.2 Timing of visits
The social worker must visit the young person within 10 working days of their entering custody, unless this is not reasonably practicable. This may be coordinated with arrangements for the initial planning meeting (see timetable in Appendix A of the statutory guidance (Local Authority Responsibilities towards Former Looked After Children in Custody).
On each visit, the social worker must speak to the young person in private unless the young person, being of sufficient age and understanding to do so, refuses; or the social worker is unable to do so, or considers it inappropriate to do so, having regard to the young person's age and understanding.
The social worker must also visit when reasonably requested to do so by the young person; a member of staff of the establishment where the young person is detained; the young person's parent(s) or person with Parental Responsibility; or the relevant YOT case manager.
3.3 Assessment and planning process
The purpose of the initial visit is to complete an assessment of the young person's needs whilst in custody and on release. This will take into account previous assessments that have informed the young person's Care Plan or Detention Placement Plan and any new information from the assessments undertaken by the YOT or custodial establishment. The assessment should be based on the format for Assessments provided in Working Together to Safeguard Children.
The assessment should consider the following issues:
- Is there a risk of self harm?
- What is the young person's emotional state?
- Does the young person need money, clothes, books or other practical support?
- Are education staff aware of, and able to meet, the young person's educational needs, including any special needs or abilities?
- Are the health unit and wing staff aware of, and able to meet, the young person's health needs?
- Are staff aware of, and able to meet, the young person's religious and cultural needs?
- Is the young person worried about anything? If so, what? Does the young person understand how they can access advocacy and other services to express any concerns and make their views known?
- Are the young person's parents able to fulfil their Parental Responsibility to the young person whilst in custody?
- Has there been a change in the parents' capacity to enable them to resume care of the young person on his release in a way that will meet the young person's needs? If not, might additional support be provided to enable the parents be able to resume care of the young person?
- If it is not appropriate for the young person to return home or to become Looked After again, what alternative arrangements need to be made?
The young person's wishes and feelings on these matters must be sought. The assessment must also take into account the views of the young person's parents (or any other person with Parental Responsibility) and appropriate members of staff in the custodial establishment (including pastoral care, education and health staff). The views of the young person's previous carers and the IRO should also be sought. If the appointed representative is not the social worker who was previously allocated to the young person's case, that social worker's views should also be sought.
The assessment should be completed within 20 working days of the young person entering custody and should conclude with an analysis that sets out clearly the social worker's recommendations about the advice, assistance and support that the young person will need whilst in custody and on release.
The following information must be included in the assessment:
- Is the young person's welfare being adequately safeguarded and promoted (taking account of the young person's wishes and feelings)?
- Are further visits required?
- Who will keep in touch with the young person whilst they are detained? Does there need to be help with contact arrangements?
- Will it be in the young person's best interests to become Looked After again by the local authority on release?
- Might the young person and their family require other services provided by the local authority formerly responsible for looking after the young person, or from another local authority?
The recommendations should include proposals as to the future involvement of the local authority, for example whether visits should be maintained whilst the young person remains in custody and on release. If parents are unavailable or otherwise unable to exercise their Parental Responsibility by providing the young person with support whilst in custody, the young person will require ongoing visits, support and practical help from the local authority whilst in custody as a child in need.
Options for the young person on release will be as follows:
- The young person's parents or wider family will be able to resume care of the young person on release from custody, with support from the local authority under section 17 of the Children Act 1989 and with continuing supervision from the YOT;
- The young person's parents or wider family will be able to resume care of the young person on release from custody, solely with supervision from the YOT for as long as any order continues;
- The young person will need to become Looked After again on release;
- The young person will not be able to return home to parents but it will be inappropriate for them to become Looked After again because of their age or particular circumstances, in which case the YOT and local authority will need to meet with housing and other relevant services well before the planned release date to determine the arrangements that will be necessary in order to provide them with suitable accommodation and support in the community.
A copy of the report must be given to:
- The young person;
- His or her parents or those with Parental Responsibility, unless this would not be in the young person's interests;
- The governor or director or registered manager of the establishment where the young person is detained;
- The relevant YOT case manager;
- The local authority where the young person is being detained (if different from the authority that formerly looked after the young person); and
- Any other person the responsible authority considers should receive a copy of the report.
3.4 Decision-making
The social worker's assessment must be sent to the manager who has been appointed as designated manager to receive reports and decide how to act on their recommendations. This should be an officer with responsibility for allocating any resources necessary to provide support to the young person in future.
The designated manager must confirm that the assessment and recommended plan have been received and the steps that will be taken to implement its recommendations.
Where the designated manager does not accept the recommendations about ongoing support to be provided to the young person, it will be necessary to consult the YOT case manager and YOT manager; and also desirable to consult with the young person's former IRO and their former social worker (if not the appointed representative), before the designated manager confirms this decision.
Each local authority should have a protocol setting out the process for resolving disputes in cases where the local authority designated manager rejects the social worker's assessment or recommendations. This process must enable a decision to be reached about whether or not the formerly responsible authority will contribute to the young person's future support well before they are due to be resettled into the community, and no later than 28 days prior to their potential release date.
Details of the plan confirming how the authority will contribute to the young person's support in future should be sent to:
- The young person, their parents and others with Parental Responsibility;
- The young person's case manager in the YOT;
- The Governor or manager of the custodial establishment;
- Any other agencies that would be responsible for implementing the recommendations relating to the young person, such as a provider of supported housing;
- Other relevant parties, with the young person's consent.
Where the local authority has decided that it will not be providing any continuing support, the designated manager must inform the young person, their parents and others with Parental Responsibility; the young person's case manager in the YOT; and the Governor or manager of the custodial establishment.
Where it has been agreed that the young person will need ongoing support from the local authority, either whilst they are in custody or following release, or that the young person will need to become Looked After again, arrangements should be made to maintain contact with the young person whilst they remain in custody.
3.5 Visits
Whilst the young person remains in custody, where appropriate, they should be visited in the same way as any other Looked After young person. That is, visits taking place at intervals of not more than six weeks for the first year and not more than three months after that. Additional visits should also take place if reasonably requested by the young person, the establishment or the YOT case manager or if there are particular circumstances that require a visit. For example, it will be good practice for the appointed representative to attend the young person's sentence planning meetings. Where the child is serving their sentence in a SCH or STC, a visit should also take place if there has been a notification by the Ofsted Chief Inspector of the underperformance of a placement provider (under section 30A of the Care Standards Act 2000 or under Section 47 of the Criminal Justice and Public Order Act 1994) or, where the child is placed in a YOI, concerns about the welfare or safety of children are raised by Her Majesty's Inspectorate of Prisons.
3.6 Young people serving long sentences
Where young people are serving long sentences, this may involve the formerly responsible authority negotiating with the YOT and National Probation Service about the young person's release plan in adulthood. These services will need to be advised about whether in future the young person will be eligible for leaving care services. The Youth Custody Service (YCS) Placement Team has additional responsibility for planning for young people on long sentences and the local authority should inform them of their involvement and intentions.
If young people reach the age of 18 whilst in custody, they may be moved to an adult prison. Responsibility for their supervision will then transfer from the YOT to the National Probation Service.
3.7 Action to be taken if there are concerns about the young person's safety or welfare
Where there are concerns that the young person is not being safeguarded or their welfare promoted (for example, relating to the quality of care the young person is receiving, the suitability of the type of placement or concerns around bullying, self harm, violence or intimidation), in the first instance it may be possible to resolve the concerns by agreement with the establishment itself.
Where issues cannot be resolved at establishment level, and if the responsible authority is of the view that the young person needs to be moved to another establishment, see Section 3.8, How to Request a Transfer or Placement Review.
The Local Authority should inform the establishment and Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service Young People's Team that they have decided to take this course of action.
3.8 How to Request a Transfer or Placement Review
The Youth Custody Service (YCS) carries out placement reviews to decide whether a transfer is required for a child or young person.
YOTs can ask for one if they are responsible for a child or young person and:
- Their circumstances change;
- There is a risk or issue with their current placement.
To request a transfer, the YOT should read the Placement Review Guidance and then:
- Convene a multi-disciplinary meeting to establish how risk can be managed or reduced;
- Complete the Placement Review Form (Refer to the Guidance and Tips document for support on completing this form);
- E-mail it to the Placement Review team at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Other people can ask for a transfer but only the YOT and/or staff at the establishment where the child is placed should contact the YCS Placement Team.
The YCS Placement Team makes the final decision in the best interests of the child or young person after carefully considering all of the information available and opinions stated.
3.9 Planning for release
The local authority must be involved in plans for release where the plan is for the young person to be Looked After again or for them to be provided with support in the community from Children's Social Care, and if the young person is being considered for early release or home curfew detention, particularly with regard to the young person's ability to cope with any additional supervision requirements, such as electronic monitoring or an Intensive Supervision and Surveillance Programme (ISSP); or any MAPPA arrangements that have been set on release.
Wherever possible, arrangements should be made for young people to visit prospective placements and employment or educational facilities and to meet relevant practitioners before their release. There are facilities for a young person to be granted Release on Temporary Licence (ROTL) or Mobility to allow outside visits to take place, subject to relevant agreements.
As soon as possible and, ideally, no later than 14 days before release, the young person must know:- Who is collecting them;
- Where they will be living;
- The reporting arrangements;
- Sources of support - including out of hours;
- The arrangements for education or employment;
- Arrangements for meeting continuing health needs;
- How and when they will receive financial support;
- When they will be seeing their social worker;
- The roles and responsibilities of the respective practitioners.
It is essential that there is clarity about who is responsible for each element of the young person's plan and the arrangements for communication and enforcement. The local authority should record this plan and make copies available to the young person, the supervising YOT officer, IRO, the establishment, other agencies that will be involved with supporting the young person after release and the young person's family, if appropriate.
3.10 Support in the community
Sentenced young people returning to the community will continue to be supervised by the YOT. Where the local authority has agreed to support the young person on release, the social worker will work alongside the YOT case manager during the period of supervision. The function of the social worker is to plan for the young person's care or for their support in the community and is different and more extensive than that of the YOT case manager.
It is good practice to have some joint appointments with the young person, supervising YOT officer and social worker, so that information is shared. The YOT should consult the local authority over enforcement issues, particularly if there is a possibility of the young person being returned to custody for breach of the conditions of their Notice of Supervision/Licence. Where the young person is having difficulty in complying with their conditions, the local authority should work with the YOT to put additional support in place. The social worker and supervising YOT officer should keep each other informed of significant events, including any changes in service delivery or plans.
Where the young person becomes Looked After, their Care Plan must be reinstated and the Placement Plan agreed with their placement provider should include information about the support that the placement will provide to minimise the likelihood of the young person committing further offences in future.


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In the wireless industry, understand that phones are often times planned years in advance. That also means that contracts or agreements have been made between phone manufacturers and carriers…years in advance. With that in mind, take today's tip from @evleaks, which suggests that Motorola and Verizon have teamed up once again to continue the DROID RAZR line, as evidence of that idea. According to a Tweet sent out by the famed leaker, Verizon and Motorola will release new phones called the DROID RAZR Ultra and RAZR M Ultra.
No other details were provided, but @evleaks has been spot on with pre-release info enough times in the past that we tend to listen when he speaks. And if you think about it, a new line of RAZR products isn't necessarily out of the question, especially after the success of last year's RAZR HD and RAZR M devices on Big Red.
We're a bit confused, though, because we were supposed to see the "new" Motorola in 2013, yet a continuation of the RAZR line seems like nothing but old news. Then again, remember what we mentioned at the beginning. These phones could have been a part of an agreement with Verizon long before Google decided to change Motorola for the better.
We should point out that sources of ours recently tipped us to this new Ultra line of phones, but didn't use the "RAZR" name, and instead referred to them as the DROID Ultra, DROID Ultra Maxx, and DROID Ultra Mini. One thing is certain, the "Ultra" tag will be a part of this new DROID line headed to Verizon. As a bonus, our sources suggested that we may also see a MAXX, which is Moto's nickname for phones with insanely long battery life.
Now the question is, will we see these new DROIDs alongside Verizon's Moto X (XT1060) variant? If we look at last year's timeline, we saw the RAZR HD and RAZR M arrive in the fall. The Moto X is expected to arrive at any moment as a cross-carrier device without special branding, so maybe we'll see the Moto X first, and these new Ultra devices a few months down the road. That of course is just speculation.
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Book Title: Have a Bite ( The Vampires of Brooklyn Chronicles)
Author: R.G. Emanuelle
Genre: Paranormal/Urban Fantasy
Release Date: May 13, 2016
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The world of vampires is, by nature, one of darkness, secrecy, and covertness. Vampires are invincible. No one can hurt them. Except vampire hunters.
Delphine Bouchard is a celebrity chef and owner of a world-renowned restaurant in Brooklyn, NY, where the chic and bespoke crowd mingle with neighborhood denizens. She enjoys fame, money, and women, and lives life by her own rules. She also happens to be a vampire.
Del's life and the local vampire community are rocked when a vampire hunter begins picking them off, and Del has reason to believe that she might be next. Del is also being watched and criticized by the vampire hive council and persecuted by a coven of witches, who are the enforcers of behavior for the supernatural set. In the midst of all this turmoil, Del meets and unexpectedly falls hard for Jocelyn, who she soon discovers is holding back a disturbing secret. Del must decide whether or not to put aside her feelings of betrayal and pursue the relationship.
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Set against a backdrop of elaborate meals and passionate cooking, Have a Bite is book one in the novella series The Vampires of Brooklyn Chronicles. The world of vampires and hunters meets the world of restaurants, foodies, and celebrity chefs—a recipe for paranormal mystery seasoned with suspense, peppered with romance, and flavored with a dash of humor.
Flames shot up, threatening to set the ceiling ablaze. Metal against metal sounded a rhythm as white-coated women and men dashed around in a mad panic, trying to keep everything to an organized chaos. Papers fluttered as they passed between hands, water splashed as used utensils landed in the sink, and more than a few collisions nearly resulted in people being sent to the hospital with head injuries or stab wounds.
The crew shouted out what they needed as the orders kept coming in at regular clips, and finished plates went out with the kind of speed that comes with experience.
"Lamb rack, fire up!"
"How long on the potatoes Dauphinoise?
"I need more sorrel!"
Delphine expedited, checking the plates before they went out of the kitchen to the patrons. "Pay attention, people. The plates are getting sloppy."
Nervous glances from the crew went in Delphine's direction. No one wanted to piss off the boss. Ramona, the sous chef, eyeballed the other cookson the line,as she as tossedcaramelized onions in a pan.
One by one, waitstaffrushed in and out andshouted out customers' orders, cutting through the kitchen noise.
"I need one gluten-free manicotti, pronto."
"Two roast chicken, sauce on the side."
"One pork paillard, no mushrooms! One duck, no garlic!"
"Please, make sure I have that porterhouse black and blue!"
"I need a refire on thiswagyu. Customer wants it rare, not mooing!"
"We got an Elaine Benes!"
The Seinfeld reference, the staff's code for someone requesting a big salad, which was not on the menu, always made Del chuckle.
Tracy, the head server came bustling in and handed Del two more tickets. "Eight salmon, all day!" Del shouted.
"Eight? Shit," said Ramona. "We're running low on the salmon."
"All right, don't panic." Delphine ran into the walk-in to check on the inventory. She re-emerged and pressed the button on the intercomthat went to the offices. "Ophelia, go out and assess the room. How many people look like they haven't ordered yet?"
"Okay," came the crackled response from her restaurant manager.
"Gluten-free manicotti at the pass!" the pasta cook shouted a few moments later.
Ramona reached into an oven and pulled out a sheet pan of thin, ruddy beet chips. "Hot behind!" She quickly walked behind the others with the pan in her hands and set it down on a work table just as Ophelia came into the kitchen.
"Chef, it looks like a few more guests came in. But according to Mariel, most of the people invited are here. Maybe a few more are going to come."
"Okay, thanks," Delphinereplied. To her kitchen crew she said, "Let's pump it out, guys. We're heading into the home stretch."
Ramona, back at her station, lifted the lid off a pot, pulled what looked like a clean spoon from the arm pocket of her jacket, and dipped it into the pot. From where she stood, Delphine could see that it was the chestnut-celery root bisque, recently added to the menu to accompany the Arctic char in a ramekin. With a satisfied look, she replaced the lid and wiped her hands. "Fire up the char!" she called out.
Del loved the rhythm and energy of a kitchen, especially hers. Every sense was engaged, every single day. The sounds of pots and pans hitting the burners, utensils scraping against stainless steel, oil sizzling, smoke spitting, and voices and music from the dining room filled the kitchen. With minimal banter, the staff performed their duties, chopping, roasting, braising, frying, boiling, steaming, or otherwise preparing what they were responsible for.
It was all magic. The smell of the kitchen—an intoxicating blend of spices, roasting meats, vegetables being transformed into nectarous edible jewels, and sauces stirred into a magical essence. The intense reds of paprika and cayenne, the glitter of sea salt, the gray fog of smoke rising from a hot pan, or the swirling verdant green of cilantro being puréed for salsa verde. The sensation of flour sifting through your fingers, or the ache in your knuckles after shucking dozens of oysters. The slow burn on your skin after chopping chiles. Or the numbness of your fingertips after rinsing lettuce in ice-cold water. She almost missed the last two—they were pleasurable pains.
She thrived on it all and couldn't imagine doing anything else. She'd fought against the efforts over the years to take her restaurants down by egotistical reviewers, jealous competitors, and others with more personal agendas, and she always came back strong. And she knew that her crew felt the same way, particularly here at Vie Sang. But nights like this were trying.
Sasha Ziegler, the Grammy-winning singer, had booked the entire restaurant for three hundred guests and requested that the menu, in its entirety, remain available throughout the night as guests came and went and ate at their leisure. This was in addition to the hors d'oeuvres and cocktails that the celebrity had ordered. For the amount of money Delphine was charging, she'd agreed. But in exchange, she and her staff had hell to pay. Just managing the extra seating was a nightmare.
Tracy came rushing back in. "Where's my tofu teriyaki? I needed it yesterday."
Delphine looked toward Leslie, who was handling the vegetarian and vegan meals. Leslie was new and had to build up her pace. "Leslie, speed it up. Let's get that tofu up. I want to see it at the pass in three. Please."
"Yes, Chef!" Leslie swiftly moved around her station and began squirting soy sauce and rice vinegar from squeeze bottles into a bowl.
The roar of flames hit Del's ears and she looked toward the grill station. The grillardin, the grill cook, jumped back suddenly as another huge burst of flame shot up. A skillet slammed against the wall, sending pan sauce splattering across the floor and wall. The cook fell to the floor screaming, his hand on his face.
Delphine ran to him. "Stu! Are you all right? Let me see your face." As she kneeled down beside him, Ramona ran to the grill and salted the blazing burner until it was doused.
Stu writhed on the floor while Delphine tried to move his hand from his face. The other cooks looked on with worried expressions, but continued to cook. Stopping for any amount of time would be disastrous.
Ophelia came running in. "Holy shit! What happened?" She dropped to her knees near Stu's head.
"Get me the first aid kit," Delphine said, with a hand on Ophelia's forearm.
Ophelia jumped up and returned in seconds with the kit. Delphine opened it up and pulled out the burn ointment. "Somebody get me a glove." A latex glove appeared near her face, although who had proffered it, she didn't know. She grabbed it and smeared some ointment on Stu's cheek, which seemed to have taken the brunt of the fiery assault.
Stu cringed with the touch. "Ow! Ow!"
"Shit," she muttered. "I should have had that stove looked at. Do you want to go to the ER?"
Stu stopped squirming and began to sit up. "No. I'm okay. It just hurt for a few minutes. But I'm fine." His cheek was a mottled, angry crimson, a bit swollen, and already blistering in one spot.
"Are you sure?"
Delphine helped him get up and step back to the stove, where he paused briefly to take a few deep breaths. He lowered his head, seemingly to regroup and calm the beat of his heart, which must have been racing. He checked the food on the other burners and plucked a clean pan from the wall to replace the one he'd dropped.
Ophelia looked stricken and stood frozen. "Ophelia. You okay?" Delphine asked.
"Um, yeah. That was just…God."
"I know." Delphine sighed heavily. "Listen, get back out there and see what's happening, okay?"
"Yeah, okay." Ophelia made her way toward the door, a lingering gaze on Stu's back.
Delphine grabbed her apron and tied it on. Things were getting out of control, and she needed to jump into the fray to help. "Ramona, get over here and expedite. I'm going in."
Ramona stepped up to the front of the kitchen, where the dishes came to rest on the counter—the "pass"—just before being transported out to the dining room by the waitstaff.
"Okay, listen up, everybody," Delphine said, "We're in the weeds here, but we're going to get through this. I just want everyone to take a deep breath and relax. Don't stop, just relax."
The pace and intensity remained high as the orders kept coming in. Unlike the usual controllable private party, this was a free-for-all.
To make things more stressful, the Council had also taken this opportunity to spy on her. She spotted a few agents among the partygoers. They were enjoying themselves, but observed everything. Tough job.
By one a.m., the food orders had stopped coming in. Del wiped her hands on her towel and stepped outside of the kitchen for a breather, taking the opportunity to assess the dining room.
The partiers were having a great time, if the cacophony of laughter, chatter, and clinking glasses were any indication. Sasha Ziegler held court at the center table and smiled brightly as people stooped next to her to take selfies with her. Despite the insanity, there was a pleasant hum throughout the restaurant that told Del people were enjoying the food. She could always tell when a crowd of people didn't like what she'd offered up that night—there would be a pall that would pervade the air. Not that it happened often.
She was enjoying her usual game of spotting the insecure sycophant or the nose-in-the-air celebrity who feigned boredom when something made her stop. On the left side of the room was a gorgeous woman in a black halter cocktail dress, her dark hair slicked back, holding a martini glass. The golden flecks of salt and shards of caramel that adorned the rim of the glass told Del that it was one of her bartender's signature salted-caramel martinis. The woman's neckline plunged low and Del found herself staring at the flesh peeking out of the material. She looked up and discovered the woman looking back at her. Too busy to get involved in the art of seduction, she returned to the kitchen.
On her way there, she noticed a man with his back turned toward her. Nothing really stood out about him, but that was precisely why she noticed him. He didn't seem to fit in with the ultrachic, bespoke celeb crowd. He wore baggy-in-the-butt, faded-looking slacks, a wrinkled half-tucked shirt, and a well-worn denim jacket that looked as if it could use a good washing. He stooped slightly, as if life had beaten him down. It was then that she realized that he actually had a small hump on his back. He stood alone and very still, as if afraid to turn around. The only part of him that moved was his thumb, which rubbed nervously over what Del could see was a lighter, an old-school kind with a flip-top.
Del's hackles stood up. Although she couldn't see his face, he seemed familiar somehow. She was about to move into the crowd to try and find out who he was, when Ramona stuck her head out of the kitchen.
"Chef, we're gonna start breaking down the stations," Ramona said. "Chantel's almost ready to roll out dessert."
Dell nodded and went back into the kitchen, taking one last look at the man. He turned his head slightly, then quickly turned it back, as if surreptitiouslychecking to see who was behind him.
Del went to the basement kitchen to check on her pastry chef, Chantel, who was calmly slicing her opera cake. With agonizing precision, she positioned a long, sharp knife over the cake and sliced straight down, apparently using some imaginary guides to cut down the length of the twenty-four-inch, seven-layer cake. Delphine waited until Chantel had finished the slice and had pulled the knife out of the sheet, bits of almond sponge cake, coffee buttercream, and chocolate ganache clinging to the razor-sharp blade.
"Hey, Chantel."
Chantel looked up and smiled. "Hey. How's it going up there? I heard you got in the weeds."
"Yeah, but we got through it. It's almost over. How's it going down here?"
Chantel's face was coated in sweat. "Fine. Everything's ready. God, I hope we don't run out of anything." Finished with cutting, she gazed one more time at her creation, then put her knife into a stainless steel hotel pan filled with water.
"Don't worry." Delphine looked at the list hanging on the refrigerator with the desserts and quantities. "I think you made plenty.How did the sugar cage turn out this time?" She referred to one aspect of Chantel's latest signature dessert that she had been trying to perfect, a complicated affair that also featured chocolate foam, white chocolate-covered rose petals, and caramel-pistachio brittle.
Chantel smiled bashfully. "Really good."
Del smiled as well and patted Chantel on the back.
Upstairs, the bustling continued but was slowing down. Her garde-manger, who handled appetizers and salads, was standing with her back against her work station, hands perched on the counter. The bussers were coming in with tubs of dirty dishes, as Chantel turned the corner of the staircase with a sheet pan of plated opera cake. The crew oohed and aahed at the plates of perfectly cut slices, a squirt of cappuccino cream atop each and flanked on one side by a rectangular piece of chocolate with a white design on it, along with a pool of vanilla sauce, dotted with raspberry coulis.
After the servers had served all the guests, the crew each got a piece of cake as well—the throwaways—and toasted each other with their forks.
"Thank you for working so hard tonight, guys," Del said. "I really appreciate it." They all beamed before taking huge bites of their cake.
When the partiers had left and the kitchen was cleaned up, the crew began filing out, all ready to meet up at one of their favorite post-dinner hangouts. A beer at three in the morning helped take the edge off a crazy dinner service.
"Night, Boss." Chantel was the last one to leave.
"Thanks, Chantel. Good work tonight."
Chantel chuckled. "Did you expect anything else?"
"No." Chantel was an artist, which was why Delphine had hired her, and probably what had enticed her when they'd had their brief fling. That and her smooth, dark skin and startlingly blue eyes, the legacy of her African-Dutch-Curaçaoan heritage. The clincher was her accent, a sensuous combination of Dutch, Spanish, and African languages. Delphine had made her whisper things in her native Papiamento during the night, when the best thing they could think to do was explore each other's bodies.
"You are perfection," Delphine said.
Chantel smiled. "You always were bright." After a moment, she added, "It was a rough night. Are you all right?"
"Yes, I'm fine. Go on home."
"All right. Good night, then." She put a reassuring hand on Del's shoulder as she walked past her.
When Chantel was out the door, Delphine locked up, went into her office and grabbed her jacket. Everything else could wait until tomorrow. As she shrugged on the jacket, she remembered the strange man at the party. Unfortunately, it was too late to ask anyone about him. Damn. She shut out the lights and walked out the back door to the small parking lot.
It had been a brutally hot day for Brooklyn. But that heat had given way to a cool evening with a breeze coming off the Upper New York Bay and down the East River. When she was human, she would have shivered on a night like this.
Right next to the door was her Kawasaki Cruiser. About to settle herself on the motorcycle's seat, she stopped.
She smelled it right away. The heady aroma of desire, need, and surrender filled the air, and she knew it was close. But she waited until the source chose to reveal itself. A woman stepped out of the shadows and into the floodlight of the parking lot. She approached the doorway where Del stood.
"Do you desire anything, madam?"
Delphine turned to face the woman. She was young, maybe about twenty-five, slender, with blond hair down to her shoulders and edged with blue. Her skin was pale, and her eyes halfopen with the promise of seduction. This was nothing new for Delphine. Many pretty young things had waited for her outside the restaurant, ready to offer themselves to her. They were like groupies.
Delphine moved a little closer. "What's your name?"
"Roxanne," the young woman responded, taking a deep breath, obviously so that her bosom would rise closer to Delphine's face. Delphine obliged her with a direct stare down herlow-cut blouse, which Delphine was sure had been selected just for the purpose. "Well, Roxanne, I do find myself in need of a little something."
New York native R.G. Emanuelle spent more than 20 years as an editor, writer, and typesetter. When she was child, a neighbor called her a vampire because she only came out after dark, so it's fitting that she writes about creatures of the night, which includes her first novel, Twice Bitten. She is co-editor of the Lambda Literary Finalist anthology All You Can Eat: A Buffet of Lesbian Erotica & Romance, and the Golden Crown winner Unwrap These Presents, as well as Skulls and Crossbones: Tales of Women Pirates. She is also a culinary school graduate, which is what inspired her to write her romantic novella, Add Spice to Taste, and Have a Bite, the first of The Vampires of Brooklyn Chronicles novella series. Her short stories can be found in numerous anthologies.


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You can use the Gitlab CI cloud or local service to automatically build and test your project in Linux/MacOS/Windows environments. It is free for OSS projects, and offers an easy integration with Gitlab, so builds can be automatically fired in Gitlab CI after a git push to Gitlab.
You can use Gitlab CI both for:
Building and testing your project, which manages dependencies with Conan, and probably a conanfile.txt file
Building and testing Conan binary packages for a given Conan package recipe (with a conanfile.py)
Building and testing your project
We are going to use an example with GTest package, with Gitlab CI support to run the tests.
Clone the project from github:
$ git clone https://github.com/lasote/conan-gtest-example
Create a .gitlab-ci.yml
file and paste this code in it:
image: conanio/gcc63
# Upgrade Conan version
- sudo pip install --upgrade conan
# Automatic detection of your arch, compiler, etc.
- conan user
# Download dependencies, build, test and create package
- conan create . user/channel
Gitlab CI will install the conan tool and will execute the conan install command. Then, the script section creates the build folder, compiles the project with cmake and runs the tests.
On Windows the Gitlab runner may be running as a service and not have a home directory, in which case you need to set a custom value for CONAN_USER_HOME
Creating, testing and uploading Conan binary packages
You can use Gitlab CI to automate the building of binary packages, which will be created in the
cloud after pushing to Gitlab. You can probably setup your own way, but Conan has some utilities to help in the process.
The command conan new has arguments to create a default working .gitlab-ci.yml
Other setups might be possible, but for this example we are assuming that you are using github and also uploading your final packages to Bintray.
You could follow these steps:
First, create an empty gitlab repository, let's call it "hello", for creating a "hello world" package. Gitlab allows to create it with a Readme, license and .gitignore.
Get the credentials User and API Key (remember, Bintray uses the API key as "password", not your main Bintray account password)
Create a Conan repository in Bintray under your user or organization, and get its URL ("Set me up"). We will call it
Under your project page, Settings -> Pipelines -> Add a variable, add the
environment variable with the Bintray API Key. If your Bintray user is different from the package user, you can also define your Bintray username, defining the environment variableCONAN_LOGIN_USERNAME
Clone the repo: git clone <your_repo/hello> && cd hello.
Create the package: conan new Hello/0.1@<user>/testing -t -s -ciglg -ciglc -cis -ciu=UPLOAD_URL where user is your Bintray username.
You can inspect the created files: both .gitlab-ci.yml and the build.py script, that is used by conan-package-tools utility to split different builds with different configurations in different GitLab CI jobs.
You can test locally, before pushing, with conan create or by GitLab Runner.
Add the changes, commit and push: git add . && git commit -m "first commit" && git push.
Go to Pipelines page and see the pipeline, with the different jobs.
When it has finished, go to your Bintray repository, you should see there the uploaded packages for different configurations.
Check locally, searching in Bintray: conan search Hello/0.1@<user>/testing -r=mybintray.
If something fails, please report an issue in the conan-package-tools github repository: https://github.com/conan-io/conan-package-tools


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When you're among the top players in your field, you need every advantage to help you stay competitive: Not just the best equipment, but anything else that relieves pain and stress, and allows you to play better. For top-seeded Canadian tennis player Milos Raonic, that extra help came in a somewhat unexpected form: a custom made mouthguard that he wears on the court and off. "[It helps] to not grind my teeth while I play," said the 25-year-old up-and-coming ace. "It just causes stress and headaches sometimes."
Mouthguards are often worn by athletes engaged in sports that carry the risk of dental injuries — such as basketball, football, hockey, and some two dozen others; wearing one is a great way to keep your teeth from being seriously injured. But Raonic's mouthguard isn't primarily for safety; it's actually designed to help him solve the problem of teeth grinding, or bruxism. This habitual behavior causes him to unconsciously tense up his jaw, potentially leading to problems with muscles and teeth.
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Saddle-node bifurcation
Yuri A. Kuznetsov (2006), Scholarpedia, 1(10):1859. | doi:10.4249/scholarpedia.1859 | revision #151865 [link to/cite this article] |
A saddle-node bifurcation is a collision and disappearance of two equilibria in dynamical systems. In systems generated by autonomous ODEs, this occurs when the critical equilibrium has one zero eigenvalue. This phenomenon is also called fold or limit point bifurcation. A discrete version of this bifurcation is considered in the article "Saddle-node bifurcation for maps".
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Consider an autonomous system of ordinary differential equations (ODEs) \[ \dot{x}=f(x,\alpha),\ \ \ x \in {\mathbb R}^n \] depending on a parameter \(\alpha \in {\mathbb R}\ ,\) where \(f\) is smooth.
- Suppose that at \(\alpha=0\) the system has an equilibrium \(x^0=0\ .\)
- Further assume that its Jacobian matrix \(A_0=f_x(0,0)\) has a simple eigenvalue \(\lambda_{1}=0 \ .\)
Then, generically, as \(\alpha\) passes through \(\alpha=0\ ,\) two equilibria collide, form a critical saddle-node equilibrium (case \(\beta=0\) in Figure 1), and disappear. This bifurcation is characterized by a single bifurcation condition \(\lambda_1=0\) (has codimension one) and appears generically in one-parameter families of smooth ODEs. The critical equilibrium \( x^0 \) is a multiple (double) root of the equation \( f(x,0)=0 \ .\)
One-dimensional Case
To describe the bifurcation analytically, consider the system above with \(n=1\ ,\)\[ \dot{x} = f(x,\alpha), \ \ \ x \in {\mathbb R} \ .\] If the following nondegeneracy conditions hold:
- (SN.1) \(a(0)=\frac{1}{2}f_{xx}(0,0) \neq 0\ ,\)
- (SN.2) \(f_{\alpha}(0,0) \neq 0\ ,\)
then this system is locally topologically equivalent near the origin to the normal form \[ \dot{y} = \beta + \sigma y^2 \ ,\] where \(y \in {\mathbb R},\ \beta \in {\mathbb R}\ ,\) and \(\sigma= {\rm sign}\ a(0) = \pm 1\ .\)
The normal form has two equilibria (one stable and one unstable) \(y^{1,2}=\pm \sqrt{-\sigma \beta}\) for \(\sigma \beta<0\) and no equilibria for \(\sigma \beta > 0\ .\) At \(\beta=0\ ,\) there is one critical equilibrium \(y^0=0\) with zero eigenvalue.
Multidimensional Case
In the \(n\)-dimensional case with \(n \geq 2\ ,\) the Jacobian matrix \(A_0\) at the saddle-node bifurcation has
- a simple zero eigenvalue \(\lambda_{1}=0\ ,\) as well as
- \(n_s\) eigenvalues with \({\rm Re}\ \lambda_j < 0\ ,\) and
- \(n_u\) eigenvalues with \({\rm Re}\ \lambda_j > 0\ ,\)
with \(n_s+n_u+1=n\ .\) According to the Center Manifold Theorem, there is a family of smooth one-dimensional invariant manifolds \(W^c_{\alpha}\) near the origin. The \(n\)-dimensional system restricted on \(W^c_{\alpha}\) is one-dimensional, hence has the normal form above.
Moreover, under the non-degeneracy conditions (SN.1) and (SN.2), the \(n\)-dimensional system is locally topologically equivalent near the origin to the suspension of the normal form by the standard saddle, i.e. \[ \dot{y} = \beta + \sigma y^2 \ ,\] \[ \dot{y}^s = -y^s \ ,\] \[ \dot{y}^u = +y^u \ ,\] where \(y \in {\mathbb R}\ ,\) \(y^s \in {\mathbb R}^{n_s}, \ y^u \in {\mathbb R}^{n_u}\ .\) Figure 1 shows the phase portraits of the normal form suspension when \(n=2\ ,\) \(n_s=1\ ,\) \(n_u=0\ ,\) and \(\sigma=+1\ .\)
Quadratic Coefficient
The quadratic coefficient \(a(0)\ ,\) which is involved in the nondegeneracy condition (SN.1), can be computed for \(n \geq 1\) as follows. Write the Taylor expansion of \(f(x,0)\) at \(x=0\) as \[ f(x,0)=A_0x + \frac{1}{2}B(x,x) + O(\|x\|^3) \ ,\] where \(B(x,y)\) is the bilinear function with components \[ \ \ B_j(x,y) =\sum_{k,l=1}^n \left. \frac{\partial^2 f_j(\xi,0)}{\partial \xi_k \partial \xi_l}\right|_{\xi=0} x_k y_l \ ,\] where \(j=1,2,\ldots,n\ .\) Let \(q\in {\mathbb R}^n\) be a null-vector of \(A_0\ :\) \(A_0q=0, \ \langle q, q \rangle =1\ ,\) where \(\langle p, q \rangle = p^Tq\) is the standard inner product in \({\mathbb R}^n\ .\) Introduce also the adjoint null-vector \(p \in {\mathbb R}^n\ :\) \(A_0^T p = 0, \ \langle p, q \rangle =1\ .\) Then (see, for example, Kuznetsov (2004)) \[ a(0)= \frac{1}{2} \langle p, B(q,q))\rangle = \left.\frac{1}{2} \frac{d^2}{d\tau^2} \langle p, f(\tau q,0) \rangle \right|_{\tau=0} \ .\] Standard bifurcation software (e.g. MATCONT) computes \(a(0)\) automatically.
Other Cases
Saddle-node bifurcation occurs also in infinitely-dimensional ODEs generated by PDEs and DDEs, to which the Center Manifold Theorem applies. Saddle-node bifurcations occur also for dynamical systems with discrete time (iterated maps).
Saddle-Node Homoclinic Bifurcation
An important case of saddle-node bifurcation in planar ODEs is when the center manifold makes a homoclinic loop, as in the Figure 3. Such a saddle-node homoclinic bifurcation results in the birth of a limit cycle when the saddle-node disappears. The period of this cycle tends to infinity as the parameter approaches its bifurcation value. In ODEs with \( n \geq 3 \ ,\) a saddle-node with \( n_sn_u >0 \) can have more than one homoclinic orbit simultaneously. Disappearance of such a saddle-node, called a saddle-saddle or a Shilnikov saddle-node, generates an infinite number of saddle periodic orbits.
- A.A. Andronov, E.A. Leontovich, I.I. Gordon, and A.G. Maier (1971) Theory of Bifurcations of Dynamical Systems on a Plane. Israel Program Sci. Transl.
- L.P. Shilnikov, On a new type of bifurcation in multidimensional dynamical systems (1969) Sov Math Dokl. 10, 1368-1371.
- V.I. Arnold (1983) Geometrical Methods in the Theory of Ordinary Differential Equations. Grundlehren Math. Wiss., 250, Springer
- J. Guckenheimer and P. Holmes (1983) Nonlinear Oscillations, Dynamical systems and Bifurcations of Vector Fields. Springer
- Yu.A. Kuznetsov (2004) Elements of Applied Bifurcation Theory, Springer, 3rd edition.
- S. Newhouse, J. Palis and F. Takens (1983) Bifurcations and stability of families of diffeomorphisms. Inst. Hautes Études Sci. Publ. Math. 57, 5-71.
- L.P. Shilnikov, A.L. Shilnikov, D.V. Turaev, and L.O. Chua (2001) Methods of Qualitative Theory in Nonlinear Dynamics. Part II, World Scientific.
Internal references
- Yuri A. Kuznetsov (2006) Andronov-Hopf bifurcation. Scholarpedia, 1(10):1858.
- Jack Carr (2006) Center manifold. Scholarpedia, 1(12):1826.
- Willy Govaerts, Yuri A. Kuznetsov, Bart Sautois (2006) MATCONT. Scholarpedia, 1(9):1375.
- James Murdock (2006) Normal forms. Scholarpedia, 1(10):1902.
- Jeff Moehlis, Kresimir Josic, Eric T. Shea-Brown (2006) Periodic orbit. Scholarpedia, 1(7):1358.
- Philip Holmes and Eric T. Shea-Brown (2006) Stability. Scholarpedia, 1(10):1838.
External Links
See Also
Andronov-Hopf bifurcation, Bifurcations, Center manifold theorem, Dynamical systems, Equilibria, MATCONT, Ordinary differential equations, Saddle-node bifurcation for maps, Saddle-node homoclinic bifurcation, XPPAUT


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VIDEO 8. Recap – What have we learned so far?
Before continue with new subjects we take a recap from earlier episodes with Customer Experience advice and takeaways.
Before continue with new subjects we take a recap from earlier episodes with Customer Experience advice and takeaways.
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