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Noyce Scholar Profile
Sherry West
Undergraduate major or graduate field of study: Math Education
Subject area(s) and grade level teaching focus: Mathematics, grades 9-12
Category of scholarship/fellowship:
Master Teaching Fellow
Name of Noyce institution:
University of Nebraska-Lincoln
Current academic or teaching status:
21 years teaching
School and school district:
Lincoln Southeast High School, Lincoln Public Schools
My hometown is Lincoln, NE. I received my bachelor's degree and master's degree at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. I have been teaching for 21 years and am currently teaching at Lincoln Southeast High School. I enjoy playing games and cards with friends.
Why do you want to teach:
I love working with kids of all ages. My desire to help others and my love for learning make teaching a natural fit. I honestly can't think of anything I'd rather do.
Describe a memorable teaching experience:
Last year my geometry students were supposed to learn the equation of a circle. We were starting with equations, tables, and graphs of lines and noticing how the line was translated as the equation was strategically changed. We then moved to parabolas (both y=x2 and x=y2) and their translations. By the time we got to equations of circles, the students were predicting their graphs and hypothesizing what would need to change to make an ellipse – what would happen if x2-y2= r2, etc. All of them were so excited and engaged about what they were learning. They left the room talking about math and all the possibilities. One even said, "Today made me love math." It was exactly the way you'd hope a lesson would go and more. I can't describe it in a way that does it justice, but it was very memorable.
What does the Noyce program mean to you:
My goal has always been to be the best teacher I can be, not only within my classroom, but also within my department and the district. I make an effort to keep up with current research, I take classes almost every summer, and I serve in a variety of leadership roles. The Master Teaching Fellow coursework will support my goal in that it will allow me the opportunity to learn from and work with others who share my vision for improving math instruction; it will increase my networking base and provide further opportunities to get involved.

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Bigg Boss Season 4 was started on 6th September 2020. Akkineni Nagarjuna is the anchor of the show who previously hosted for season 3 of the same show. Bigg Boss 3 was a successful show of Telugu states which led to the season 4. Though most of the rules are the same as the previous seasons, few changes were made in the conduction of the show. Let's get to know the changes made in the show.
On day 1, two of the expected comedians have not entered the show. Those two contestants are Muku Avinash and Sai Kumar. There were many rumors that these two persons are among the 16 contestants.
Muku Avinash Wild Card Entry
Mukku Avinash was rumored to be the contestant of the main 16 members but he had not entered on day 1 of the show. Few audiences were depressed with his absence. Now, it is expected that the comedian would be a wild card entry for the season.
Sai Kumar Wild Card Entry
Another person who is also expected to be a wild card entry is Sai Kumar Pampanga. He has worked in a few films as a comedian. He was also rumored to be one of the main contestants who entered the house on day 1.
All the participants entered the house on day 1 and few people were also sent to a secret house which is beside Bigg Boss house. Syed Sohel Ryan and Ariyana Glory had entered a separate house as instructed by the anchor Nagarjuna. Further details about the secret house are yet to be revealed by Nagarjuna in the coming episodes.
All the 14 participants who entered the Bigg Boss House were divided into 7 pairs. The host of the show has given gifts to every participant. Then the participants were asked to open their gift boxes after entering the house. And then asked them to join with the persons who have objects which were connected to their objects.


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After many questions arose about Rolling Stone's article last fall about a brutal rape at a fraternity at the University of Virginia, the magazine hired the Dean of Columbia's school of Journalism, Steve Coll, to investigate their report and what went wrong. The magazine has now retracted the story and printed Coll's report here. [read_more]
The author of the magazine's article about the rape, Sabrina Rubin Erdely, issued this statement,
"The past few months, since my Rolling Stone article "A Rape on Campus" was first called into question, have been among the most painful of my life. Reading the Columbia account of the mistakes and misjudgments in my reporting was a brutal and humbling experience. I want to offer my deepest apologies: to Rolling Stone's readers, to my Rolling Stone editors and colleagues, to the U.V.A.(sic) community, and to any victims of sexual assault who may feel fearful as a result of my article.
"Over my 20 years of working as an investigative journalist — including at Rolling Stone, a magazine I grew up loving and am honored to work for — I have often dealt with sensitive topics and sources. In writing each of these stories I must weigh my compassion against my journalistic duty to find the truth. However, in the case of Jackie and her account of her traumatic rape, I did not go far enough to verify her story. I allowed my concern for Jackie's well-being, my fear of re-traumatizing her, and my confidence in her credibility to take the place of more questioning and more facts. These are mistakes I will not make again.
"Reporting on rape has unique challenges, but the journalist still has the responsibility to get it right. I hope that my mistakes in reporting this story do not silence the voices of victims that need to be heard."
The President of UVA owes an apology to fraternities and students for her overreaction to the story. President Teresa A. Sullivan immediately suspended fraternities on the UVA campus when she read the fake story. She was quick to think the worst about UVA fraternities. Now President Sullivan has issued another statement about the phony article,
"Rolling Stone's story, 'A Rape on Campus,' did nothing to combat sexual violence, and it damaged serious efforts to address the issue. Irresponsible journalism unjustly damaged the reputations of many innocent individuals and the University of Virginia. Rolling Stone falsely accused some University of Virginia students of heinous, criminal acts, and falsely depicted others as indifferent to the suffering of their classmate. The story portrayed university staff members as manipulative and callous toward victims of sexual assault. Such false depictions reinforce the reluctance sexual assault victims already feel about reporting their experience, lest they be doubted or ignored.
"The Charlottesville Police Department investigation confirms that far from being callous, our staff members are diligent and devoted in supporting and caring for students. I offer our community's genuine gratitude for their devotion and perseverance in their service.
"Sexual violence is a serious issue for our society, and it requires the focus and attention of all in our communities. Long before Rolling Stone published its article, the University of Virginia was working to confront sexual violence. And we will continue to implement substantive reforms to improve culture, prevent violence and respond to acts of violence when they occur. Our highest priority is to ensure the safety of our students so they can learn and achieve their personal potential in an environment of trust and security. We will continue to work tirelessly in pursuit of that goal."
More here, here, here, and here.
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Cadres Do Not Solve Everything
I often hear about the incompetence of many HR professionals nowadays. It is usually said about those who are responsible for hiring. Or, to be more accurate, those who decide if a candidate is suitable or not. As a rule, they are young and female.
The main cause of complaint is the lack of skills in proper evaluation of professional candidates and arrogant style of interviewing.
I think I will confirm these opinions because I have witnessed similar situations many times. One of them took place during a job interview many years ago when I was a young professional with an impressive experience. Afterward, I did get the job but not with the help of the HR manager who conducted. Instead, I got it by accident.
After I arrived at the appointed time, I was kept near the door for about one and a half hours on purpose. When my inner peace and endurance gave way to more vigorous negative feelings, I decided to wait. I wondered how this will end. Exactly one hour thirty minutes later supercilious female voice invited me into the office. Human Resources Director closed Solitaire window on her computer and gestured me to a chair. Then she pulled out my three-sheet resume and studied it as if she saw it for the first time. After that, she asked me a few general questions, which had nothing to do with my skills or job requirements: where I studied, where I was born, what was my previous job. The position I was interviewed for required the knowledge of two foreign languages. So I was asked how well I can speak them. I said "well" and the interview was over. She wanted to say goodbye, but I asked if she would like to test my language skills. To which she answered that she was confident in my competence. "Thank you, we'll call you", and thus she ended the meeting.
On my way out I met my future supervisor who was, in fact, the one looking for the expert with the knowledge in two foreign languages. I slowed down a little and saw him looking in the HR department's door, asking how the interviews were going. "Not one suitable candidate," said the supercilious female voice. At that moment I was standing near the door and handed my resume to the man offering to talk to me. In this company I worked for many years, reached great career heights, bringing great professional and commercial benefits to the company and to myself.
Reasons of inefficiency
Unfortunately, today the situation is not any different. In my opinion, there are two reasons. First one is the tradition. Despite the fact that "cadres decide everything" the Human Resources department has always been one of the most inefficient ones in any company. Therefore, professionalism of the staff is limited to filling various forms and documents and track working time. It does not require too much skill and knowledge and is not paid well. That's why HR staff's motivation is not excellent and, consequently, the same goes for their professionalism and experience. Because of this, they may not have sufficient competence to properly evaluate the candidates. They cannot verify the knowledge of foreign languages, as they themselves do not know any (if they did, they probably would not be working in HR). They cannot assess skills and competence, as they themselves do not possess them. And most importantly, they do not have the proper experience and psychological education, to see the potential of a candidate and to be able to reveal it during the interview, or at least help the candidate to speak freely and easily given the level of stress job interviews are associated with.
The second reason, which partly derives from the first one is the lack of internal maturity, wisdom, and self-sufficiency. This leads to the desire to assert oneself, to feel the power and importance, to bring to life internal unrealized ambitions. This leads to haughty conversations, embarrassing questions, and other actions masquerading as the parts of a "stress interview".
Possible solutions
So you might ask what to do. I can only hope that this situation will change. It has already begun to change. HR departments are being given due attention.
Professionals who work in human resources are now appreciated more and are seen as one of the main company's components. After all, it's people who do business. In most leading companies of today, there are professionals with extensive experience in business and management who have a degree in psychology. They can see the candidates in a professional light, are able to reveal the best qualities of their personality during the interview, and see their potential and future opportunities. And if were unlucky enough to meet HR manager "from the past", here there are some real solutions:
Look for opportunities to meet your immediate supervisor. He or she will most likely to be able to appreciate your skills and professionalism. Otherwise, the company is likely to remain without a good professional, and expert.
And if you cannot break through to the supervisor then try to still pass the first stage – the interview. Do not bore HR managers with your knowledge and impressive experience. Try to look modest. Set yourself a goal to just get them to like you. Then there is a chance that you will pass to the second round.
You can also try to "adapt" to your interviewer and create a rapport. Try to find the leading motivation, most likely it will be recognition of the authority. So a couple of compliments to demonstrate the importance of the recruiter will not go amiss. But the main thing here is not to overdo it.
At the interview competent HR manager should ask questions which reveal your professional competence. If you feel that a specialist is not quite versed in the subject, there are two recommendations: talk about your achievements in a previous job, using the STAR technique (Situation, Task, Action, Result), but try to use simple and easy-to-understand terms. The second option is to politely ask to invite to the interview an employee who can evaluate your competencies. This, of course, is a very risky and extreme step but if you feel that the situation is hopeless you can try this.


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Date of Award
Summer 2019
Degree Type
Degree Name
Master of Science (MS)
Environmental Engineering
Committee Chair
Xufei Yang
First Advisor
Katherine Zodrow
Second Advisor
Liping Jiang
Third Advisor
Kim Snodgrass
Electrokinetic remediation was accessed as a viable remediation technology for heavy metal contamination modeled after contamination present in Butte, MT caused by over a century of hard rock mining. The remediation technology was assessed at a laboratory scale using copper sulfate (CuSO4) as a model compound of mine tailing contamination, and an artificial soil to control for variables outside the scope of work. This thesis designed a laboratory scale experiment that produced consistent results and could be easily repeated. The system design also included a method for managing the waste material produced during experiments. Following the experimental design, this thesis evaluated the effect of several complexing agents on the transport rates of copper ions (Cu2+) in an electrokinetic system. Chloride (Cl-), bromide (Br-), ammonia (NH3), and ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid (EDTA) were used to complex copper ions, originally hydrated with water molecules. A total of 17 experiments were conducted during this thesis. Transport rates were calculated using real-time direct current measurements and inductively coupled plasma (ICP) analysis data. Previous studies suggested that the transport of the complexed ions was directly proportional to their complex radii. However, in this thesis, the size to transport rate relationship was not observed, and depletion/enrichment rates varied within experiments. Depletion and enrichment were defined as the percent change of copper mass in the electrode compartment from initial to final conditions. The largest enrichment rates were observed in the CuSO4 experiments at 0.082 mg s-1 while the largest depletion rates were observed in the EDTA experiments at 0.093 mg s-1. Changes in pH caused by the electrolysis of the electrodes is a likely underlying factor behind the mixed results, as these pH changes play a large role in altering the solubility of the metals in solution.
A thesis submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Masters of Science: Environmental Engineering
Recommended Citation
Driscoll, Timothy, "ENHANCING THE EFFICIENCY OF ELECTROKINETIC REMEDIATION THROUGH THE USE OF COMPLEXING AGENTS" (2019). Graduate Theses & Non-Theses. 220.


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Use Xbar Chart to monitor the mean of your process when you have continuous data in subgroups. Use this control chart to monitor process stability over time so that you can identify and correct instabilities in a process.
The process variation must be in control before you assess the process center using a Xbar chart because the control limits for the Xbar chart are calculated using the within-subgroup variation. If the process variation is not in control, then the Xbar chart control limits are not reliable and Minitab might produce a false out-of-control signal. Use an R or S chart to assess whether the process variation is in control.
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One of the greatest rabbis of the medieval period in England was Rabbi Berachiah (Benedict) of Lincoln[1]. He was born in the first half of the 13th century in Oxford to Rabbi Moses of London, son of Rabbi Yom Tov, and was brother of Rabbi Elijah Menachem of London, considered, according to Oxford historian Cecil Roth, the most illustrious English Jew of the Middle Ages[2]. This essay will look at the difficult life of Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln, including the challenges of being Rabbi in Lincoln at the time of the Lincoln blood libel in 1255. I will then look at a selection of his teachings, through which I will present the family of Berachiah, including his distinguished father Moses of London and brother Elijah Menachem of London, not merely as individuals disparately making their impact pertaining to Jewish life and law in their respective cities, but as a family of scholars who had great respect for each other's scholarship and rulings, serving as a dominant force in the formulation and preservation of Jewish law and life in 13th century England. In addition, we will contend that Berachiah stands out among medieval rabbis in England in that his teachings are quoted in major commentaries on Jewish law as late as the 16th century.
Berachiah, son of Moses of London, was born around 1225[3] and would have most likely been born in the Oxford Jewry at 13 Pembroke Street, formerly Pennyfarthing Lane, at Moyses Hall, where his father Rabbi Moses lived before moving to London. Berachiah appears in the records as living in Lincoln from 1268 though he most likely lived there also prior to that date. As a sign of Berachiah's stature as a scholar of the Torah, he was known by his Latin name, Magister Benedict f. Magister Mossei and, in Hebrew deeds, as "Rav', implying he was a chief rabbi of the city where he resided[4].
We will proceed to give an outline of his life that is intricately connected to medieval Jewish history of Lincoln during the 13th century, one of the most prominent Jewries in the Middle Ages. Jews of Lincoln are first mentioned in 1159 and were one of the ten Jewries subject to tax, along with Norwich and London. One of the wealthiest Jews of medieval England was Aaron of Lincoln (1125-1186), who lived on a house in the Jewry on Steep Hill. His financial activities extended to 25 counties, in 19 of which he maintained his own agents. He was so wealthy that when he died in 1186, Henry II established a special branch of the Exchequer – Scarrarium Aaronis – to deal with his estate, which became the property of the Crown upon his death[5].
As Aaron of Lincoln stands out as the central figure in Jewish life in Lincoln during the 12th century, Berachiah of Lincoln stands out as a key figure of the 13th century. His life reflects Lincoln as one of the most illustrious Jewish communities of the medieval period after London, and also one in which occurs one of the most tragic episodes of medieval Jewry in England: the blood libel of Little Hugh of Lincoln, that had a lasting impact up until the 20th century.
Berachiah's family
Berachiah was part of a large, distinguished family. According to a family tree that survived the expulsion of the Jews from England in 1290[6], his great great grandfather was Rabbi Shimon the Great of Mainz, Germany, brother in law of Rabbi Shlomo Yitzchaki, known as Rashi. The first member of the family to move to England was Moses of Bristol, who moved to Oxford around the turn of the 12th century. His son was Rabbi Yom Tov, who had a son called Rabbi Moses of London. Moses had five children: Elijah Menachem of London, one of the most learned Jews of 13th century England; Jacob, who lived in the Jewry in Oxford, renowned for having sold his property to Walton de Merton that became the founding building for the establishment of Oxford oldest college, Merton College[7]; Cresse, who lived in London, whose son Isaac was chief rabbi of England before the expulsion; Vives or Chaim, who died in London in 1274; Hagin, who lived in Lincoln and served as the treasurer for Richard of Cornwall. He also served for a brief period as the chief rabbi of England until he died in 1280; Berachiah or Benedict of Lincoln.
Berachiah (as his brother Hagin) lived in Lincoln and married the daughter of a Lincoln financier Yosef ben Aaron. Berachia and his wife had four children: Shlomo, who appears in the records to have been financially active between 1275 and 1277; Chaim or Vives or Hagin; Menachem, known as Manser, who was one of the Jewish chirographers in Lincoln[8]; Belaset or Rachel[9]. Belaset married Chaim son of Yosef[10] and had a daughter Yehudit. Yehudit married Aaron son of Benjamin fil' Josce Jechiel in the end of February 1275[11]. As a dowry for the marriage, a wedding gift was promised by Belaset to the young couple, in a deed of 1271, consisting of 20 marks sterling and 'a precious volume containing the whole 24 books of the Hebrew bible, written on calf skin, properly provided with punctuation, Targum, Haphtaroth, and Masora[12]'.
It is difficult to understand why Belaset is mentioned alone without any mention of her husband. A possible reason may be that he was killed in the Lincoln Blood Libel in 1255 shortly after they were married. While she gave birth to his child, he didn't live to see Yehudit marry, and therefore is not mentioned in the dowry. Alternatively, he may have been killed in the rebel riots of 1267 in which Jews of Lincoln were massacred[13]. The fact that she did not remarry would have been based on the stipulation in Jewish law that a wife of a martyr should not remarry 'out of honour of G-d and respect for the martyred husband'[14]. Another possibility is simply that the dowry included a precious Hebrew work of the Torah that was her personal possession and gift to the new couple upon their intended marriage.
Berachiah's home
Berachiah lived in a prominent house in Lincoln Jewry and we know that he sold his house to his son Chaim in 1267. The money for the sale was given as a loan from Berachiah's father in law, Yosef ben Aaron, the grandfather of the young Chaim. The deed of this sale is found in Hebrew Deeds of English Jews[15]:
Minutes of evidence, taken by witnesses in Lincoln, on Wednesday, 29th Ellul, 5027. Day preceding New Year. The 'Rav' Rabbi Berachiah (Benedict), son of the " Rav" Rabbi Moses, testifies that he has sold to his son Hayyim the house he resides in in the parish of St. Benedict, originally acquired by purchase from William Badde. The money for the house, amounting to £60, was given for this purpose by the vendor's father-in-law, Joseph ben Aaron, to his grandson. With the house goes a courtyard contiguous, with appurtenances belonging thereto, which Berachiah had formerly bought from William de Newerk. The agreement thus effected is to be borne out under a lien on the father's chattels, and other legal precautions are taken so as to maintain Hayyim in his newly-acquired rights. LINCOLN, 1267. Westminster.
Jews House
While we know that Berachiah sold his home to his son Chaim, the deed of this sale does not indicate which house it was that he sold. It is thought that the house of Berachiah was the building that today is called 'Jews House', one of five original buildings that are still standing today, belonging to the Jews of the medieval period. According to Sir Francis Hill's Medieval Lincoln, the owner of 'Jews House' in 1287 was Belaset of Wallingford who was recorded to have owned £4 13s 4d and the house was said to be worth 19s 6d per annum. On 20 March 1291, after the expulsion of the Jews from England, King Edward I gave the houses that had belonged to Belaset of Wallingford to Walter le Foure of Fulletby. It would appear that, as Canon Venables of Lincoln concludes[16], Belaset of Wallington who owned 'Jews House' in 1287 was the Belaset daughter of Berachiah of Lincoln - mentioned in the dowry deed of 1271 pertaining to the wedding of Belaset's daughter Yehudit. The same house appears to be connected to Belaset's own wedding in 1255, during which the tragic blood libel of Little Hugh of Lincoln took place.
According to historians, it was the convergence of many Jews from around England for this wedding of an important family of Lincoln that gave rise to the allegation that not just Lincoln's Jews but all the Jews of England[17] were complicit in the death of Little Hugh of Lincoln[18]. This wedding was in fact the wedding celebration of Belaset, daughter of Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln[19]. While there is no record of who attended the wedding, it is probable that Berachiah's brother Rabbi Elijah Menachem of London, amongst other distinguished family members, such as his father Rabbi Moses of London, were present for the week of the wedding celebration, thus presenting the wedding as not just a private local affair but a celebration for the Jews of England as a whole.
Blood Libel
In 1255 the tragic blood libel of Little Hugh of Lincoln broke out, when nine-year-old Hugh, son of a widow Beatrice, disappeared on 31 July. Little Hugh accidentally fell into a cesspool attached to a Jew's house. The body went missing for some twenty six days and then rose to the surface to the dismay of the Jewish community who had assembled from all over England to celebrate a marriage in an important Lincoln Jewish family. They subsequently surreptitiously dropped the body in a well away from their houses where it was discovered on 29 August. Among the crowd that collected was a canon of the cathedral, John of Lexington, and the body was forthwith buried in the cathedral with the honours due to a martyr. John of Lexington then extracted a confession from a Jew, Copin, that there had been a ritual murder; and when Henry III arrived in Lincoln some time later, despite a pledge of clemency, he had Copin executed. Over ninety Jews were imprisoned in London, eighteen were executed for refusing to throw themselves on the verdict of a Christian jury. The remainder were liberated in 1256.
This version is largely based on the account of the English 13th century historian Matthew Paris (c. 1200-1259), who is one of the four principle sources for the Little Hugh of Lincoln Blood Libel. According to the Burton annals, Hugh disappeared on 31 July, but was kept alive for twenty six days, and killed on 27 August when there was a large gathering of Jews from all over England in Lincoln for a prominent wedding. His body was discovered on Sunday, 29 August and the king arrived in Lincoln on 29 September.
According to both accounts of the story, there was a large gathering of Jews from around England present for a prominent wedding that was taking place in the Jewry. Anglo Jewish historian Joseph Jacobs (1854-1916) claims that it was the wedding celebration of Belesat, daughter of Rabbi Berachiah, when the body of Hugh was discovered. The accusation of ritual murder was thus compounded by the fact many Jews from around England were present for the wedding celebration of the daughter of one of England's greatest scholars[20].
Berachiah imprisoned
Among the ninety Jews rounded up and taken to the Tower of London was the father of the bride, Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln. Berachia was however instructed by the king to be released on 9th December, 1255, with the return of all his property, following the intervention of Hugh's mother who declared his innocence, as well as of Don Gracia Martinez, the representation of the king of Castille in England. In a document in Rymer's Foedera, dated 7 January 1256, it declares the release of Magister Benedict fil. Mosse de Londre from the Tower and his innocence of the alleged crucifixion[21]. It is possible that the convincing argument for the innocence and release of Berachiah, as well as his fellow surviving Jews, was the fact that the family was able to demonstrate to the grieving mother that the gathering was in fact for the purpose of Berachiah's daughter's wedding celebration, causing her to intervene to saves Berachiah and subsequently the remaining Jews held in the Tower[22].
Joseph Jacobs suggests that the fact that Belaset owns 'Jews House' in 1287 is most likely due to the fact that Berachiah gave her the house as a dowry at her wedding in 1255 or left it for her at her father's death[23]. The problem with this is that, as mentioned, Berachiah sold his house to his son Chaim in 1267. The chronology of the ownership of the property 'Jews House' would most likely be that the property was owned by Berachiah, sold to his son Chaim in 1267 and then at some point acquired by Belaset by 1287.
A further tragedy occurred following the Second Barons' War of 1263-1264 when Simon De Montfort was killed by forces loyal to the King in August 1265. The rebels ransacked the Jewish quarter and the synagogue was set on fire. Berachiah was injured in this attack and as compensation he was given special permission to benefit from the deposits given to him for his loans, copies of which were held in the Archaea until repayment.
The building 'Jews House' still stands today located on Steep Hill in Lincoln, immediately below Jew's Court. It is the oldest building in Lincoln, still called 'Jews House', and currently houses a restaurant by that name. The building is an exceptional stone house of the mid-late 12th-century with a rich ornamental doorway and chimney. It originally had three segmental arches for shop fronts, since replaced by modern insertions. The upper storey would have been a large hall, but has been divided into smaller rooms.
As mentioned, it is immediately below the Jew's Court, which is a three-storey limestone building with rear range, essentially dating to the 17th and/or 18th centuries. It is a recognized tradition that this was a 12th-century synagogue, with a niche in the east wall considered to be the ark. According to the above research, three members of Berachiah's family, up until the expulsion of the Jews in 1290, are thought to have had ownership of and lived in 'Jews House' on Steep Hill in the heart of the Lincoln Jewry, next to the synagogue.
Berachiah's Teachings
From the titles attributed to Berachiah, both in Jewish and non-Jewish records, he was clearly a respected rabbi of the medieval period, regarded as possibly the greatest rabbinic scholar of 13th century England[24]. While he does not appear to have been a known financier and leader of communal affairs, like his brother Elijah Menachem of London, his title Magister Benedict f. Magister Mossei implies he was recognized as a man of professional knowledge of Jewish law and in the Jewish records, the title Rav of Lincoln implies, as mentioned, that he was regarded as chief rabbi of Lincoln[25].
We will aim to outline some of the teachings of Berachiah that not only reflect aspects of Jewish life in 13th century England but also provide insight into the development of Jewish law in England in relation to other places in Europe, as well as in relation to its later development, as it is known today.
His teachings can be found in four sources in Jewish law: The work of Rabbi Mordechai ben Hilel (c. 1250-1298); a reference in a commentary to the Tanach found in Northern France; reference by his brother Elijah Menachem in his work on Jewish law; and marginal notes on a copy of the Sefer Mitzvot Katan, known also as Amudei Hagolah, or by the acronym Semak, authored in 1277 by Rabbi Isaac of Corbel, son in law of Rabbi Yechiel of Paris. An early copy was made in 1290 by Ezriel ben Ezriel for his brother in law. In the margins of this copy, found at the Bodleian library[26], there are notes in three different handwritings from different periods. The earliest of these writings are teachings from rabbis of England, in particular Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln and his father Rabbi Moses of London. There are thirteen references in these notes belonging to teachings by Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln, some of which are from Rabbi Berachiah as received from his father Rabbi Moses of London, implying that his father Rabbi Moses of London was one of his principal teachers.
We will look at two of his teachings that reflect his unique desire to find ways for Jewish life in England in the 13th century to be somewhat easier within the structures of Jewish law. The subjects that we will look at are how a horse may go out on the Shabbat and his view of the liturgy in the Amidah prayer.
Teaching I
There is a dispute in Jewish law how an animal may go out on Shabbat. The Talmud states[27]:
With what may an animal go out and with what may it not go out? A camel may go out with a halter (afsar) and a horse with a collar. All animals that wear a collar may go out with a collar and may be pulled by a collar[28]. Rav Huna said[29]: Animals may go out either with the leash of the collar wrapped around their neck or pulled by the leash. Shmuel said: An animal may go out pulled by a leash but not wrapped around their neck. A Tanna taught in a Beraisa: They may go out with the leash wrapped around their neck to be pulled by the leash. Rav Yosef says: I saw the calves of Rav Huna's household go out with their halters wrapped around their neck on the Shabbat. When Rav Dimi came from Israel, he said in the name of Rabbi Chanina: The mules of Rebbi's household go out with their halters on the Shabbat. When Rav Shmuel ben Yehuda came from Israel, he said in the name of Rabbi Chanina: The mules of Rebbi's household go out with their halters wrapped on the Shabbat. Rabbi Yishmael the son of Rabbi Yosi said before Rebbi: Thus said my father: Four animals may go out with a halter on the Shabbat: the horse, mule, camel and donkey (Rebbe did not reply to this testimony).
(Shabbat 51b-52a)
Conclusion of the Talmud is that the three testimonies are necessary: An animal may go out with a halter, may be pulled by the halter and also may go out with halter just wrapped round their neck.
The Tosafist comments[30] that since the Mishnaic teaching of the Beraisa is that an animal may go out only with the halter that may be pulled for its restraint but not wrapped, the opinion of Rav Huna would be that an animal may go out with a wrapped halter only if the halter is loose so that one may put one's hand in between the halter and the neck to restrain the animal if necessary. Shmuel would argue however that an actual leash is needed. Maimonides appears to follow the view of Shmuel[31].
In Jewish law[32] both views are brought: the first view is that an animal may go with the halter wrapped even tightly round the animal's neck. The reason is as Rashi explains because this is also how it is worn during the week as an ornament. The second view follows the Tosafist that it must be loose. The recommendation in Jewish law is to follow the Tosafist's view in a public domain and when there is no necessity to be lenient.
Rabbi Berachia writes[33] categorically that an animal may go out with the halter wrapped as per the testimony of the animals of Rav Huna and Rebbi. He does not give any qualification to the law that it must be left loose, as the Tosafist stipulates, but rather even wrapped tightly is also permitted on the Shabbat[34].
Teaching II
The Rabbi's Modim
There is a single reference to the relationship between the two brothers Elijah Menachem of London and Berachiah of Lincoln pertaining to the liturgy of the prayers. This is regarding the recitation of the Modim (praise) prayer during the repetition of the Amidah (standing prayer of the eighteen blessings). The Jerusalemite Talmud states[35]: Rabbi Chalafta ben Shaul taught in a Beraisa: All members of the congregation bow with the emissary of the congregation upon his recitation of Modim when he repeats the Amidah.
The Talmudic custom is that the congregation not only bow at the beginning of the thanksgiving prayer recited by the emissary of the congregation but they recite their own accompanying thanksgiving prayer of praise of G-d, called 'Modim d'Rabanan' or the 'Rabbi's Modim', which is a collection of praises to G-d instituted by various Talmudic rabbis[36]. This 'Modim' prayer is different to the one recited by the emissary of the congregation and read in response to the emissary's praise of G-d in his 'Modim' (praise) prayer. The rationale is that it is inappropriate for the congregation to be seen as subcontracting praising G-d to an emissary.
The text of the 'Modim d'Rabanan' according to the Babylonian Talmud is[37]:
We are grateful to you our G-d, G-d of our ancestors, G-d of life, who creates us and all that lives. Blessing and gratitude are due Your ineffable name for giving us life and sustaining us. Continue to enliven and sustain us, gather our exiled to your Holy Place, there to consummate Your commandments, do Your will, and serve You with a whole heart. For all this we are grateful to You.
Talmudic dispute between Jerusalem and Babylon
This text of the 'Modim d'Rabanan' is different to the prayer as found in the Jerusalemite Talmud[38]. A possible reason for the difference in liturgy is since the nature of the text is praise of G-d by the congregation in response to the emissary's praise of G-d, thus the precise wording of this expression of praise is not as important as the very fact that a personal expression of praise is being recited, whatever the version is, as opposed to being subcontracted to an emissary. There is however an additional key difference between the Babylonian Talmud and the Jerusalemite Talmud regarding this text: the Babylonian Talmud omits a closing blessing, while the Jerusalemite Talmud includes 'Blessed are You, G-d, the G-d of thanksgivings'.
Dispute about the closing blessing
It is interesting that although Jews outside Israel generally followed the Babylonian Talmud, there is dispute whether a closing blessing for the 'Modim d'Rabonon' should be included. Rabbi Jacob ben Asher, also known as Ba'al ha-Turim (c. 1269-1343), testifies that his father, Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel (1250 or 1259 – 1327), would recite a closing blessing, as per the Jerusalemite Talmud[39]. Spanish Rabbi Shlomo ben Aderet, known as the Rashba (1235-1310), would not recite a closing blessing, as per the Babylonian Talmud[40]. Similarly, Maimonides omits a closing blessing in his legal work Mishneh Torah. He writes[41]:
When the leader of the congregation reaches Modim and bows, everyone should also bow - but not bow exceedingly - and say: We give thanks to You, God, our Lord, and Lord of all flesh, our Creator and the Creator of all existence. [We offer] blessings and thanks to Your great and holy name, for You have granted us life and sustained us. So may You continue to grant us life and sustain us, and gather our exiles into the courtyards of Your Sanctuary [so that we may] keep Your laws, serve You in truth, and fulfill Your will with a perfect heart, for we thankfully acknowledge You.
This question regarding the correct version of the 'Modim d'Rabonon' appears to have been a matter of dispute also in 13th century England: does one follow the view of the Spanish rabbis, as Maimonides and Rashba, in following the Babylonian Talmud or the view of the Germanic sages, as Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel, who included the closing blessing, as per the Jerusalemite Talmud?
Berachiah's view
In the midst of this debate, Rabbi Elijah Menachem of London writes in his Commentary to the Mishnah[42]: "My brother the 'Rav' Rabbi Berachiah said to me that one should not recite a closing blessing". Berachiah's rationale is that since the Babylonian Talmud stipulates that in the case of the blessing upon rainfall[43] one should recite it with the closing: 'Blessed is the G-d of thanksgiving' one may deduce from the blessing on rain that in the case of 'Modim d'Rabonon', where the Babylonian Talmud omits the closing blessing, it is deliberate. One should therefore not follow the Jerusalemite Talmud in this regard[44].
Brotherly dispute
It is interesting that Rabbi Elijah Menachem himself records the text of the 'Modim d'Rabonon' with the closing blessing, as Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel. He qualifies this by pointing out that his brother Rabbi Berachiah says that it should not be recited. This would suggest an argument between Rabbi Elijah Menachem of London and his brother Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln regarding the correct version of this prayer pertaining to the closing blessing of the 'Modim d'Rabonon'. With all likelihood, taking into consideration the esteem of both these rabbis in their respective cities, one may assume that the Jews of Lincoln recited the 'Modim d'Rabonon' without the closing blessing, whereas the Jews of London included the closing blessing in their prayers.
16th century quotation of the Lincoln – London Rabbinical dispute
This dispute between the two distinguished rabbinical brothers in England is quoted as fifth hand testimony in the 16th century legal work Bayit Chadash, known as the Bach[45], by Rabbi Joel ben Samuel Sirkis (1561-1640). Rabbi Joel ben Samuel first documents the opposing views of Rabbi Asher ben Yechiel and Maimonides and then proceeds to bring a comment of Rabbi Solomon Luria (1510-1573), known as the Maharshal, in his work Hagohat Maharshal, who copied a marginal note of Rabbi Joshua Folk (1555-1614) in his copy of the important 13th century legal work Sefer Mitzvot Gadol, known as Semag, by French Tosafist Rabbi Moses ben Jacob of Coucy. Here is it states that Rabbi Elijah Menachem of London mentions the view of his brother Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln that the closing blessing in the 'Modim d'Rabonon' should not be recited.
The dispute ended in the 16th century in the form of a compromise mentioned by Rabbi Joseph Karo (1488-1575)[46]. He suggests that the correct view is that the closing blessing should be recited but without G-d's name. Instead of the full blessing: 'Blessed are You, G-d, the G-d of thanksgiving', one should say 'Blessed is the G-d of thanksgiving'. This compromise is in fact the prevalent view of the liturgy of the 'Modim d'Rabonon' prayer today.
In conclusion, we presented a comprehensive portrait of a great rabbi, who has been largely overshadowed by the turbulent events in the city where he lived - notably the great tragedy of the Little Hugh of Lincoln blood libel - and a brother, Rabbi Elijah Menachem of London, who Cecil Roth calls the most illustrious English Jew of the Middle Ages. This essay has aimed to put this Oxford born towering scholar and personality in the centre of the events that unfolded in Lincoln, one of the major Jewish communities of England in the13th century, as evidenced in part by the hugely consequential wedding of his daughter. Further indication of his influence is the fact that he was a determining factor in Jewish law in the 13th century. In light of the above, Rabbi Berachiah of Lincoln should be recognised among the major rabbis – and possibly as the most distinguished rabbinical scholar, as described by 19th century historian Joseph Jacobs - of 13th century England.
[1] The name of the city in medieval records, both Jewish and non-Jewish, was the Norman-French name Nicole or Lincoln.
[2] Title of Presidential Address by Cecil Roth Delivered Before The Jewish Historical Society, December 12, 1943.
[3] The Jewish Heritage of Lincoln Cathedral, Marcus R. Roberts, p. 2
[4] Hebrew Deeds of English Jews, Introduction xiv
[5] Jews of England: A Portrait of Anglo-Jewry Through Original Sources and Illustrations, Jonathan A. Romain (p. 32)
[6] Shocken Library Machzor
[7] The deed survives today in Merton College archives.
[8] Hebrew Deeds of English Jews p. 303
[9] Possibly named after Belaset, wife of Moses of Bristol, Berachiah's great grandmother (Toldos Rabeinu Eliyahu of Londre by Cecil Roth).
[10] Hebrew Deeds of English Jews p. 300 & p. 309. In the first deed, p. 300, it presents the intended marriage of Belaset's daughter Yehudit as daughter of Chaim, indicating the wife of Belaset was Chaim. On p. 309, it presents a Chaim ben Yosef, as son in law of Rabbi Berachiah son of Rabbi Moshe (of London).
[11] Hebrew Deeds of English Jews p. 298; 299
[12] Hebrew Deeds of English Jews p. 298
[13] Trials of the Diaspora, Medieval English Anti-Semitism by Anthony Julius, p. 122
[14] Sha'alot U'tshuvot Chaim Ohr Zerua 14. Pub. Leipzig 1860
[15] p. 293-296
[16] The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore, ed. Alan Dundes, p. 56
[17] A Social and Religious History of the Jews, SW Baron, vol. 10, p. 107
[18] Toward a Definition of Antisemitism, Gavin I. Langmuir, p. 239
[19] The Blood Libel Legend: A Casebook in Anti-Semitic Folklore, ed. Alan Dundes, p. 56
[20] ibid p. 55
[21] ibid p. 55
[22] ibid p. 55
[23] ibid p. 56
[24] ibid p. 56
[25] Hebrew Deeds of English Jews, Introduction xiv
[26] Michael collection MS 502
[27] Shabbat 51b-52a
[28] Talmud Shabbat 51b
[29] Talmud Shabbat 52a
[30] Talmud Shabbat 52a
[31] Mishneh Torah, Laws of Shabbat 20:8
[32] Shulchan Aruch Harav Shabbat 305
[33] Oxford Manuscript, Michael collection, MS 502
[34] The Writings of Rabbi Elijah of London, MJL Sacks, p. 162
[35] Berachot 14b
[36] Beit Yosef, Tur Orach Chaim 127
[37] Sotah 40a
[38] Jerusalemite Talmud Berachot 14b-14a records four versions of the prayer – all different to the Babylonian version.
[39] Tur Orach Chaim 127, Laws of Prayer
[40] Beit Yosef, Tur Orach Chaim, 127, Laws of Prayer
[41] Mishneh Torah , Laws of Prayer, 9:4
[42] The Writings of Rabbi Elijah of London, Commentary to the Mishnah, tractate Berachot 5:3 (MJL Sacks)
[43] Talmud Ta'anit 6b, Berachot 59b: We thank You, Hashem, our G-d, for every single drop that You have bought down for us. And Rabbi Yochanan concludes the blessing as follows: Were our mouths as full of song as the sea, and our tongues as full of joyous songs as its multitude of waves, etc. until, Let not Your mercy forsake us, G-d, our Lord, as it has not forsaken us. Blessed are You with most thanksgivings. This is also recorded in Maimonides (Mishneh Torah, laws of Blessings 10:5): The following rules govern the recitation of blessings for abundant rainfall: If one owns a field [individually], he should recite the blessing shehecheyanu. If one owns it in partnership with others, he should recite the blessing hatov v'hameitiv. If one does not own a field, he should recite the following blessing: We thankfully acknowledge You, G-d, our Lord, for each and every drop that you have caused to descend for us. If our mouths were filled.... They shall all give thanks, praise, and bless Your name, our King. Blessed are You, G-d, the Almighty, who is worthy of manifold thanksgiving and praise.
[44] There is a rule that Jewish law follows the Babylonian Talmud that came after the Jerusalemite Talmud. In this case the dispute is merely based on an omission in the Babylonian Talmud, suggesting that it may be valid to follow the Babylonian Talmud regarding the closing blessing, even though the general text of the Modim is as the Babylonian Talmud. Berachiah, then, appears to be arguing that the omission of the closing blessing is not just an omission but deliberate and therefore should be followed.
[45] Laws of Prayer 127
[46] Beit Yosef commentary on the Tur Shulchan Aruch, Laws of Prayer: 127


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This has been a recurring theme. It is fitting that it should be addressed in its very own post. What honour.
Life has changed to the point that the future has little meaning. People are always telling me that we do not know when we are going to die. This should make it easier to survive my plight. It is true that our death is pretty much out of our hands, unless we are going for the Darwin Awards. Short of that we really have no idea when the idea is coming.
What a privilege to know that your life will be shortened by whatever the number of years. Imagine my disappointment if it is not. Going through this journey and reconciling oneself to the inevitability of a shortened life only to find it will last longer than expected. How to deal with all that extra time? Won't I live with the expectation of impending doom past a certain point?
I am not sure what the future has in hand. How long my life will be, and I do not dwell on the subject very often. The thoughts do linger though. I have learned one thing through this very short journey, everyone is different and no two conditions are the same. I hear stories all the time about people surviving beyond the expected time frame. Everyone is careful not to talk about the people who did not, of course. Not one person has said, "you have what? Oh my God, I just heard of a guy just like that, he was gone in two years!"
No one would ever say that. Not even as a joke. People are very sensitive to one's plight and say whatever they say in order t encourage and make the condition appear to be less dire that it appears. Much appreciated. Have I told you lately about the bag that is taped to my stomach?
People mean well and comments are taken at face value. The conversations are always appreciated. Each and everyone contain glimmers of wisdom and thought provoking statements that I would not miss for the world.
One of the comments most mentioned is the one that one is now forced to live on a day to day basis. There is certainly a measure of truth in that. One of the reasons is that you have little energy to think about anything past a reasonable amount of time, say Monday when you are going for a very telling CT-Scan. But you do not tend to dwell on things too far into the future. Your condition in some ways forces you to remain very much in the present, even during the good week in between treatments.
An unclear future , either in length or any other measure you care to discuss can get very depressing. There is a distinct danger of wallowing in self pity. Yet at some point, you have to start thinking about what you are going to do with yourself. I do have some time in front of me. The chemo treatments will end at some point, and I will recover. Leaving thoughts of what to do with oneself to the last minute is too much procrastination, even for me.
Your thought and comments are appreciated.
There will be another post on this topic. It is inevitable. See, already thinking past today.
6 Responses to "Living for Today"
Good morning Farokh,
I have been thinking about you and praying for you. I just finished reading a book called "Tuesdays with Morrie". It is not a new book but new to me. My cousin was talking about it the last time we met so I thought I would read it. It is a biography in which a former student interviews his favourite college professor who he reconnects with after he learns from TV that the professor is dying . It was very insightful for me and while I read I thought of you and your blog and how brave and truthful you are in it like Morrie.
I am glad you do not have any criticism of what your friends say and understand we care so they are brave enough to chat and not be afraid of saying the unforgiveable. As you know I am not one of the brave ones, lucky you have so many others. Maybe I will grow.
Hugs, Sue
Be brave, girl, be brave. It takes little once you start the journey.
Thanks for visiting, and commenting.
on the large topics of being present, depression and self pity –
I figure we each do the best we can to meet and accept what is in front of us… joy, sorrow, challenge, pain, humour, fear, pleasure, anger, shock…. some days we may be better at the task than others. we each find the ways that allow us to meet the complexities… for me, I have to feel everything. and then speak about it, or write about it. that's how I figure out what's going on, and find how to move with and through it.
from my experience, depression isn't apt to take hold and hang on when I am truthful with myself. it's when I try to avoid where I am and what I feel, that everything is muted and dark, (i.e. depressing). grief actually isn't so bad when it is allowed. even helplessness is ok, and sometimes a relief, if I'm not pretending otherwise.
Farokh, I don't think you need worry about self-pity. you'll keep meeting your circumstances because that's the kind of person you are. and I expect you'll meet each day with whatever is there at the time. a dose of 'shit, why me?', a sweep of faith, a sprinkle of 'what now?', a tremor, a cry, a held fist, a joke…. certainly you are entitled to it all.
mostly that's what I'm trying to say… likely you're having some of it all.
am keeping you in my heart and prayers, and am thinking of you and the ct scan.
Sharon -
Well there are different kinds of time and even different kinds of "today", all socially conditioned and people deal with them very differently. My wife has had a long interaction with a population of young men with Duchennes Muscular Distrophy – they are basically told as children that they will never live to be adults so how do they live now that it is commonplace for them to be well into adulthood? It seems that only some of them do well, those with a very healthy notion of 'living for today', while others live a sort of limbo, in a nasty form of 'today' time. Clearly we create our own time usually defined by rhythms of accomplishments, tasks, career advancement and other markers of ordinary life. When these things are removed we realize the arbitrariness of time and that, as in your case, you realize a new way of looking at it is required. Farokh – while much of your 'living for today' is forced upon you by the rhythms of treatment, I submit to you that you have already turned that corner in a most positive way. Evidence? Your "seeing in pictures again". Surely attending to the visual world in an artistic way, exploring the patterns of light and shadow that serendipity puts in our path, seeing the connections and resonances before us qualifies as 'living in the moment'. It nourishes and enriches us. Long winded point but there it is.
Also – I reject the notion of 'the danger of wallowing in self pity'. I think its a bit like the whole 'battle' metaphor. What pig doesn't enjoy a good roll in the muck? Its healthy. I think a good wallow is somehow part of healing.
So true, Rick and Sharon. I had breast cancer and am now as I say 6 years a "cancer dancer". I also found out about homeopathy. In this field of healing there are certain predispositions to disease called miasms. The cancer miasm person typically is the person who will do everything for everyone else, who is the super Mom or super Dad, who swallows everything, always keeps that nice smile on even if you are angry inside or you want to cry. Moral of the story , through my journey and also this new healing science and art that I have grown so fond of, I now understand that a good "wallow in the muck" or an honest "shit why me" can go a long way as cancer prevention and surely as a healer. Sometimes we become so good at being "strong and staunch" that we need something like cancer to beat the honest crap out of us, then we learn to enjoy life with all the different flavors of happy, sad, mad, funny…
Hi Farokh. Haven't had the chance to tell you how wonderful your blog is…you have an amazing gift of writing so honestly and beautifully — it takes great courage to share your inner most thoughts and I've learned so much from reading these posts. This post is so true…no one knows how long we are here so it's important to make the most of our journey…how easy we lose sight of this. Know that I am always thinking of you and am constantly inspired by you.
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Fiction. "In this stunning collection Michael Gessner pays full attention to the marginal and the marginalized—whether unwashed, rejected, condemned, or simply unusual—and brilliantly inhabits them, evoking their passions, their yearnings, and also the rare strands of hope that sustain and illuminate."—Grace Dane Mazur"THE WRITERS' CIRCLE AND OTHER STORIES by Michael Gessner is a celebration of life's texture of existence. Through profound empathy, each story has radiance, a voice that is alive, a language in bloom, which enunciates a ferocious intelligence, which is both strange and familiar in a way that is entirely compassionate, examining, and inspiring. Gessner's post-noir writing is adroit, sophisticated, and at times astounding."—Geoffrey Gatza
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Michael Gessner has authored 11 books of poetry and prose including ANALECTS (BlazeVOX [books], 2019), THE WRITER'S CIRCLE AND OTHER STORIES (BlazeVox [books], 2016), TRANSVERSALES (BlaeVox [books], 2013), and BEAST BOOK (BlazeVox [books], 2010). The Poetry Foundation selected several for its digital archives in 2017. He has been a finalist in several competitions including "Discovery/The Nation," The Pablo Neruda Award, and North American Review's James Hearst Poetry Prize. His work appears in The American Journal of Poetry, American Letters & Commentary, American Literary Review, The French Literary Review, Journal of the American Medical Association, Kenyon Review, North American Review, Oxford Review, Verse Daily, The Yale Journal of Humanities and others. He is a voting member of the National Book Critics Circle. Gessner is married to Jane Catherine Rassicotte, a watercolorist, and has one son, Christopher, who writes for screen. Author City: TUCSON, AZ USA


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At the end of last week's Agents of SHIELD, we met Larelei who stole one half of a newlywed couple so that he could do her bidding. In this opening clip from the upcoming episode Yes Men airing Tuesday, Lorelei takes over a biker gang.
Lorelei is an Asgardian from the comics, but since I'm more into the cinematic universe and not the comics I don't know much about her except that she's sort of not a "good guy".
Agents of SHIELD has sort of been like a snowball, continuing to build as it rolls along. I have loved the show since day one but it's been getting better and better.


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The cow is between us and the summit, blocking the path. It doesn't look scary in the least, but we have been warned. Much like a wanted poster, trimmed in bright red tape, a picture of a very cute cow, topped by the words: "DANGER, vaches sauvages" (wild cows). It seems almost humorous. The doe-eyed creature in front of us looks non-plussed ... but a warning is a warning.
Reluctantly, we leave the path and scramble between Laricia pines and through shrubs and undergrowth to continue our route up Pic d'Orella, a summit in the Albères massif in the Pyrenean foothills of Roussillon, south-west France, emerging trimmed with bracken ... and sighing in admiration. On the last day of our holiday, it seems appropriate to be standing at the very top of the world in which we have spent the last two weeks.
There's Canigou, the Catalonian's sacred mountain that dominates the skyline to the west, its shoulder sweeping down towards the Tet valley and beyond, a speck on the horizon, Cathar castle Quéribus, clinging to a ridge top. Unravelling to the south, the plains of Roussillon, peppered with dusty terracotta-coloured villages, sweep towards the Cote Vermeille, a stretch of gold and turquoise.
We've been staying at Villa Abrial, a salmon-pink affair with a pool, somewhere far below us. The apartment is in dire need of TLC, but its setting amid Holm oaks halfway up the massif - so still you can hear the wings of birds in flight - has been a tonic. Even further below, at the end of a helter-skelter track, is Laroque des Albères, a quaint labyrinth of historic facades arranged around a castle. En-route into town is La Maison de l'Amande, an almond farm that makes its own almond butter - yum.
We spent one sunny evening enjoying tapas at Le Catalan, a bar-restaurant on a secluded square in the village; Spain is minutes away, and the Catalonian identity in the area, tangible. The village has been a nice base, with its own boulangerie (where Tim bought eclairs daily) and butcher, as well as a lovely little market on Wednesdays. There's a market somewhere in the area every day of the week, selling delicious locally grown produce - the peaches in particular were great, but we also enjoyed the figs, courgettes, and of course, the array of breads.
Our favourite market was in Ceret, the cherry capital of France: here, we rummaged through second-hand CDs, sampled handmade raw chocolates, and treated ourselves to a stripy hand-painted salad bowl made with local clay. We sat on the main square to eat cherry tart and people watch: everyone was wearing a smile.
Of course we have had lots of time at the beach, too - Paulilles being our coastal stretch of choice. Thanks to a now-disused dynamite factory, the beaches here were never developed. On the edge of an undulating landscape laced with vivid green vineyards dripping juicy red grapes like a rich lady might wear pearls (the wine made here is regarded as among the best in France) are secluded rocky coves. The water appears to be deepest turquoise, but once in it, it's so translucent you can see your toes.
One day, we did a beautiful coastal walk from Paulilles to Cap Béar, a lighthouse on a gnarled peninsula. A strong wind whipped the waves against the knobbly coastline, which stretches further to Port Vendres, where we had a disappointing fish lunch, and Collioure, the loveliest of fishing villages, where Henri Matisse once lived and painted. It's not hard to see how he was inspired by the clutch of orange- and pink-tinged cottages squashed into a cove and protected by mighty forts.
The landscapes in Roussillon are nothing short of spectacular.
Another day took us to Les Orgues, eerie columns of white rock shooting up towards the sky, like a turreted castle crafted in piped icing. A white moonscape amid lush greenery, the work of erosion and one day to be no more. These rock formations are known as hoodoos, apparently. Then there was 'Les Gorges de la Fou', said to be the world's narrowest discovered gorge. There's a metal walkway strung up between the walls of rock, which feel like they could close in on you as you make your way from the romantic moss-clad entrance into caves where waterfalls rage in the darkness.
And more gorges - the Caranca, a real "will I or won't I" situation. Between mighty walls of rock, a corniche path cuts a vertiginous line. I lost all sensation in my knees; we were up there as if in flight with the Alpine swifts that were tossing and tumbling through the air. A dip at the nearby sulphurous thermal (35 degrees) baths, Les Bains de St.Thomas, a forgotten little world where Tim had to hire Speedos because swim shorts were banned (haha!), was a suitable reward.
We drove back via Villefranche, which is set between the stony bounds of a fortress built in the 11th-century. As we passed tumbledown facades housing all manner of businesses, scents lingered in the air: home cooking, leather and flowers. We bought some honey-infused spice bread and settled beside the city walls to enjoy it.
There have been moments I wish I could bottle: munching crepes topped with melted chocolate by the sea as the light fell over characterful resort Banyuls; feeling the sea air on my face as I shut my eyes and listened to the crinkling waves; basking in the sun on the pontoon just off shore. The pace of life here has been frustratingly slow - especially the supermarket queues - but I'll miss it. I wish I could take the food back, too, and this view over the mountains, plains and sea... Now, I wonder if the savage cow has moved on so I can make my descent ...


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It's appropriate that I'm writing this 'swan song' column on deadline.
The CUJ is supposed to be out the door on its way to a press in Caldwell, Idaho, in a couple of hours so I'm penning this thing at the last minute.
But I've always thrived on deadlines. I like the pressure of deadlines.
And by now, after 46 years working as a newspaperman, I'm used to deadlines.
What am I going to do when I retire?
Working at the Confederated Umatilla Journal and with all the people over the last 24+ years has been so rewarding and gratifying that I can't imagine anything better.
The people I work with and the people I work for have become friends that I don't take for granted. I want to remain a friendly face out here when the time is right.
The CUJ is my eighth newspaper. I worked at six weeklies in Oregon, Wyoming and Montana, plus a daily – The East Oregonian, and finally at this fun monthly tabloid.
I've worked full time since January of 1975 with just a couple of stints off for a broken neck in Wyoming, and three months off for some weird body movement disorder and then an unpleasant few weeks when I went cold-turkey and stopped taking a certain migraine medicine. Doctors at the University of Washington headache and pain clinic told me if I continued to over-use sumatriptan I'd have a stroke, so I obliged and stopped.
I'm finishing here with 285 CUJ editions under my belt. That record should stand for a while. Because of those three months off for health reasons, I'd have to work through next August to reach 300, but who's counting.
It's not a hard bet for me to say that, with the exception of Helen Morrison, I've been to more Monday morning Board of Trustees meetings than anyone else alive. I've been through a dozen Boards, starting in 1996 with Don Sampson at the helm of the BOT and Antone leading the General Council. Since then BOT Chairs have included Antone, Gary Burke, Elwood Patawa and Les Minthorn.
Now Kat Brigham. Isn't it cool to have a woman as BOT Chair with four other women on the Board?
Women should rule the world. Just saying.
The CUJ has given me opportunities beyond my wildest dreams. The Native American Journalists Association conferences have taken me across the country, from Buffalo, N.Y., to San Diego. In between were confabs in Minneapolis, New Orleans, Seattle and Washington, D.C.
Each city was great. I believe I lost a Nike shoe to some Grande Ronde newspaperboys in San Diego. They made some dumb plaque out of it, but I've only seen it in photos.
Washington, D.C., was outstanding. I took the time to visit as many places as I could, from the Vietnam War Memorial Wall to the Smithsonian's Museum of the Native American, and from the monuments of Martin Luther King and Abraham Lincoln to Arlington National Cemetery.
I was honored to attend two Democratic National Conventions with Antone Minthorn, who was an Oregon delegate at the time. Antone is a visionary unappreciated at home, otherwise lauded across Indian Country.
At the DNC in Boston, we heard Barack Obama's first prime-time speech.
We also did some walking. Antone wore cowboy boots as we marched through the old city all the way to Fenway Park. It was closed but I flagged down a worker and explained to him that Antone was an important chief who would like nothing more than to see the Big Green Monster. The guy let us in. Besides a handful of groundskeepers, Antone and I were the only people in that stadium. We walked from home plate down the first base line all the way around the park and back again. We were sitting in the stands behind home plate when I got a wild hair and marched down to the field, hopped the railing and stood in the batter's box.
Then as if those trips weren't cool enough, I was sent on a mission to New Zealand with Tribal leaders from Umatilla, Warm Springs and Yakama. We were feted by members of the Maori tribe with exhibition dancing and crazy dinners. You should see the size of the eels in New Zealand. Several in our group paid for and waited for Maori tattoos and I kind of regret not having a little ink on my shoulder to remember the trip. We were all inside the museum in Christchurch, only across a park, when a gunman massacred more than 50 people in a mosque.
The skulls of three Native Americans, which were buried and then dug up off an island in the Columbia River, were repatriated to the three tribes after being stored in a Christchurch museum for more than 100 years.
Just as significant in my mind was the long-time-coming reburial of the Ancient One, aka Kennewick Man. Each of the five claimant tribes had the opportunity to send a reporter, but only the CTUIR did so. It was a privilege to be the only reporter at that historic event. The fact that I'm English and Scotch and Scandanavian (according to MyHeritage.com), which makes me very white, made me feel even more proud. It was Armand Minthorn who gave me the nod to attend the sacred ceremony.
When I first arrived at the CUJ in May of 1996, my life was in a bit of a whirlwind. I was banging up against the advancement ceiling at the EO and didn't know what to do with my career. (I was going to say I was banging up against the ceiling like a spring chinook hitting a ladderless irrigation dam, but I couldn't do it.)
During a four week span, from the first week of May to the first week of June, Carrie, my wife, and I did things that sometimes cause arguments and/or divorce. We moved to a new house with two daughters, I started a new job after 11 years at the EO, and in early June our third daughter arrived. If not for those people – Carrie, Sara, Becca and Rachel – I would have gone mad long ago.
This "until we meet again" column was initially going to be a mass of names because it's the people I've been around who have made the last quarter century so great for me. I compiled a list several weeks ago that grew exponentially (like a smolt after two years in the ocean) so it was clear from the start I'd never be able to name all the people who I admire and respect and, I guess, love.
Of course I have to mention the people I've worked with at the CUJ, starting with Deb Croswell, who hired me back in the 20th Century. I came to work with an X-acto blade, border tape and a roller to build pages. Now, of course, we cut and paste with technology that mostly baffles me. I'm good at asking for help.
Also on my CUJ list is Marcus Luke, who is still among my choices of pall bearers, should he put down his guitar long enough to lug me forward. And there were, among others, Kaeleen McGuire and Tara Burnside who worked as reporters. The three of us had some fun times during the Pendleton Round-Up over the years and I hope to always know them as friends.
Since those early days I've had the opportunity to work with Chuck Sams, the smartest man I know; Jane Hill, the finest of human beings; Jill-Marie Gavin, who will more than likely end up at the CUJ when she gets tired of all the politics; Miranda Rector and Dallas Dick, who just needs to get out and shoot.
And I can't forget my friend Lisa Ganuelas.
At this point, perhaps I should provide a caveat about this list of people. Those not included were either inadvertently omitted (that's the one I would select), you just didn't impress me that much, or I just didn't like you.
There are four people who need to be mentioned – Ronnie Crane, Leland Wilson, Albertson White, Dina Brown and Irma Totus. Those guys have kept the West Wing spotless for the last several years. I see Albertson and Irma here on nights when I get to stay late.
There are so many people I would like to recognize but I can't make a complete list. I'd like to list more than Dave Tovey, Bobbie Conner, Carl Scheeler, Gary George, Bill Burke, Mildred Quaempts, Wus Gone, Fred Hill, Lindsey Watchman, Linda Jones, Bill Quaempts, Magi Moses, Elijah Bevis, John Bevis, Teara Farrow-Ferman, John Barkley, Thomas Morning Owl, Margie Waheneka, Julie Taylor, Dana Quaempts, Toby and
Susie Patrick, Paul Rabb, Raven Manta, Wilbur Oatman, Robby Bill, Theresa Crane, Jim Lavadour, Dionne Bronson, Andi Scott, the Minthorn sisters, Cece Sheoships, and Mugga Alexander, but the page is getting full and I want to get that photo of me and a John Day River steelhead on the page.
Maybe I'll find more time to go fishing. Maybe I'll try to hit a golf ball again.
My suggestion to come back and write a feature on an elder every month or two has been well received, and I'd like to shoot more basketball. I've watched more ball games from under the basket than I can count. For a long time it was difficult to hold my tongue when the ref missed an obvious call in the paint.
So this column, which should have been written a couple of weeks ago, is going to find its way onto Page 6A. The printers are calling and texting asking for the pages.
After this December paper, my name will no longer be listed as editor on the Page 2 masthead.
I'm torn here because I love my job, I'm just tired of working.
– Wil Phinney is on his way out as editor of the Confederated Umatilla Journal. His last official day is Dec. 30.


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On 64-bit Windows 10 and IIS 10, I am trying to develop and test a native HTTP module that will act as a WebSockets handler mapping for a specific set of script files. This is all in native C++ starting with RegisterModule(). I am not using any part of ASP.NET.
When I access a URL that should invoke the handler, I receive this response:
HTTP Error 500.21 - Internal Server Error
Handler "QuadooWebSocket" has a bad module "WebSocketModule" in its module list
Detailed Error Information:
Module IIS Web Core
Notification ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler QuadooWebSocket
Error Code 0x8007000dMore Information:
IIS core does not recognize the module.
I used the IIS Manager to setup the handler mapping, and it created an entry in the applicationHost.config file.
<handlers accessPolicy="Read, Script">
<other_modules />
<add name="QuadooWebSocket" path="*.qws" verb="*" modules="WebSocketModule" scriptProcessor="E:\dev\projects\trunk\target\debug\ActiveQuadoo.dll" resourceType="File" preCondition="bitness32" />
Before that, I installed support for WebSockets using the "Windows Features" control panel, and it also added a line to the applicationHost.config file.
<other_modules />
<add name="WebSocketModule" image="%windir%\System32\inetsrv\iiswsock.dll" />
When I attach Visual Studio to w3wp.exe, none of the breakpoints in my code are resolved. RegisterModule() is not being called. DllMain() isn't even being called. My module also implements IActiveScript, and IIS does load my module for classic ASP requests.
My code is being built into a 32-bit module, and I have enable32BitAppOnWin64="true" in the applicationHost.config file. This works for the Classic ActiveScript/ASP environment, but does this setting also work when using code that is expected to be loaded via the RegisterModule() export? If that's not the issue, then are there other steps needed to enable a native HTTP module for WebSockets?
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Sacrifice Has Thousands Of Names
As I reflect on our speaker today I am reminded of the fabulous Counrty we are privileged to live in and "rub elbows" daily with our wonderful keepers of the peace of our great Nation and thank them for their sacrifices and their service. Our service men and women are a huge part of the fabric of our Escondido Community, both retired and active duty and I often marvel at their commitment even after retirement.
Our own Mac is a perfect example of that commitment as he takes on the mantel of leadership for our club. Not only Mac but our other members who have served in most branches of the service – I love when we honor our veterans and see Army, Navy, Air Force, and Marines (sorry Coast Guard) proudly standing to represent their branch. It is also exciting to see that both men and women members of our club have sacrificed to keep us safe.
I realize it is not November and Veteran's Day and a little early for Memorial Day; however, in honor of Armed Forces Day on May 20th, I wanted to take this opportunity to say a huge THANK YOU to all in our club who have served both then and now – we are all grateful!
Jan Jones, RN, BSN, President/CEO, The Elizabeth Hospice


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It's haute harlequins and ringmaster chic at Moschino's circus-themed Burbank runway show
Jeremy Scott cemented his reputation as fashion's clown prince Friday night with the presentation of Moschino's men's spring and summer 2019 and women's resort 2019 collections under a big top tent at the L.A. Equestrian Center in Burbank. It was a circus-themed affair complete with trapeze artists, stilt-walkers, balloon animals and a pratfall of clowns that could be seen as pure escapist fun or pithy social commentary on the state of world affairs — or perhaps both.
Scott, the L.A.-based creative director for the Italian luxury label, was definitely emphasizing the former backstage before the show. "I think we need fun, and that's kind of my role in fashion — bringing the fun," he said. "And I thought, 'How much more fun could you have than the circus?' And the circus really has every kind of look you really want: suiting elements, sparkly stage costumes and party dresses. And I loved the idea that [people] could take away elements like maybe the big bow or the giant tie or the little top hat …"
What followed was, indeed, fashion-show fun at its finest; from the opening moments that saw Scott (as the top-hatted ringmaster, naturally) promising "death-defying acts of glamour" to the fluttering fish-scale embroidered dress and towering feathered headdress of the final look.
As a designer who has always leaned a bit toward the carnival aesthetic (and we mean this in the best possible way), the circus theme afforded Scott the opportunity to incorporate many of his signature design elements. Animal prints, for example, came by way of one-shouldered zebra-stripe dresses for women and double-breasted suits for men; leopard spots dotted tuxedos and dresses; and sparkly multicolored tiger stripes prowled the runway on mini-dresses and over-the-knee boots.
Trippy '70s-era florals and riotous all-over prints turned up on luxe clown clothes. The standout looks here — peony pink ruched tulle dresses with giant daisy appliqués and trompe l'oeil tops — offered an elevated take on the tuxedo-and-bow-tie T-shirt. Clown-appropriate accessories included sparkly shoulder-width bow ties, cheery polka-dotted purses and parasols, and ties knotted at the neck but hanging nearly to the floor.
A slightly more subtle reference to the theme came by way of riffs on the harlequin print that included leather skirts, trousers and motorcycle jackets covered in large, color-blocked triangles and Lurex brocade suits, dresses and bubble skirts in a smaller multicolored version of the diamond pattern. Its inclusion here was appropriate not only because the harlequin was a mischievous clown character in Italy's 16th to 18th century commedia dell'arte, but also because it's a callback to earlier Moschino collections that employed the varicolored harlequin pattern on handbags and apparel in the '80s and '90s.
Also in the mix was a range of pieces that might be called ringmaster chic. Men's and women's looks referenced the tailcoat and top hat traditionally worn by that circus performer. For women that meant tailcoat bodysuits worn with fishnet stockings and and for men that meant tuxedos with cutaway jackets accessorized with floppy bow ties. And for both it meant red jackets trimmed in gold braid.
The ringmaster look also meant seeing multiple variations of the top hat, with full-sized toppers on some models and pint-sized versions on others in a variety of fabrications, including, but not limited to, gold metallics, florals and stripes. Other headgear in the mix included conical clown caps and slouchy sparkly beanies. And if that wasn't enough, a range of colorful, eye-catching footwear took the idea of clown shoes in a whole new direction.
Despite all the frivolity afoot, there was definitely an undercurrent of something darker and more sinister too. The gold-cord soutache embroidery that, at first glance, gave tuxedos, track suits and jumpsuits a bold, bandleader feel created skeleton-like outlines on their wearers. Blood-red beading across a nude tulle gown evoked the notion of an open wound. Also, a haunting — and nearly show-stealing — look consisted of a blue bodysuit festooned with a half-dozen doves frozen in mid-flight. Whether it was a momentary meditation on mortality, a snide aside at the state of politics — or fashion — or something else entirely, it came and went from the tent as quickly as a clown shot from a cannon, all but forgotten by the runway finale.
High-profile FOJ (Friends of Jeremy) and supporters of the brand under the big-top included Gwen Stefani (who told The Times that Scott was going to create the finale look for her soon-to-start Las Vegas residency), Billy Idol, Kris Jenner, January Jones, Aubrey Plaza, Jaime King and Emma Roberts, many of whom decamped to the other side of the Hollywood Hills for the official after-party, which doubled as the opening party for the Houston Brothers' new nightspot Madame Siam Sideshow Emporium.
This marks the third year in a row that Scott has presented his men's spring and summer and women's resort collections together in Los Angeles. (The first two years, the show was part of Made LA, the short-lived WME/IMG fashion, music and art partnership with AEG).
"What I love about having my show in L.A. is that it's just so light and fun, and we feel the love [here]," Scott said. "It's not like Milan or Paris or New York where people are kind of jaded and over it.… I was originally tempted to do the circus in Milan but I wanted to do it at home where I could really have grass and a tent and a little Ferris wheel and all [that] my heart desires."
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Schingers Burger – Introducing – Schlinger Name Meaning
Schingers Burger Historically, surnames evolved to sort people into groups – by occupation, place of origin, clan affiliation, patronage, parentage, adoption, and even physical characteristics. As a result, many of the modern surnames in the dictionary can be traced back to Britain and Ireland.
A Schinger Burger is KFC's original fried chicken recipe with a spicy twist. Hot fried chicken is a sandwich between a sesame bun with lettuce and a creamy dressing for a classic chicken burger with a hint of spice.
Chicken burgers are continuously a favourite food for everybody. Schingers burger introduces in Pakistan from western countries. Some rare people do not like to eat schingers burgers; otherwise, people love to eat them.
Schingers Meaning, Pronunciation, and Origin
For example, the Inger burger is a famous chicken burger sold by KFC. The burger patty with a spicy chicken breast or thigh piece that is breaded and fried for a crunchy taste. It with lettuce, tomatoes, and mayo.
Talent Analysis of Schingers by Expression Number
"You are hopeful, inspiring, outgoing, and expressive. People see you as cheerful, positive, and charming; your personality has a certain bounce and verve that so powerfully affects others that you can inspire people without effort. All of this rising energy is a symptom of your tremendous creativity. Your oral skills may well lead you into the fields of writing, comedy, theatre, and music."
It goes costly if you dine in a restaurant or take away. In such a situation, you can make it at home to please your family, especially kids. Moreover, homemade burgers are healthy because you know what is in them.
This is an authentic Zinger Burger Recipe by Chef Zakir Qureshi. Try it, and you will love the taste because this is very near in preference to the KFC-style zinger burger. It goes great with French fries and Coleslaw.
Inner Analysis of Schingers Burger by Heart Number
"Freedom is essential for your pleasure. You love change, new experiences, conferences, new people, adventure, and travel. You love exotic, faraway places. Variety is more than a mere life interest – you bloom on it. You are a born communicator, clear, easy, and creative in every area that interests you – many!"
The burger was half-balanced in that there was an excellent bread to patty to vegetable ratio, but a little more cheese/sauce would be nice. In addition to being half-balanced, the burger was easy to grasp, and you did not have to squeeze the life out of it while opening a lion-sized mouth to take a bite. Buns remained dry throughout eating.
However, there were several issues with the burger's overall taste.
First, we would have liked the patty to be cooked a little darker on the outside. While I realize soy is not equal to meat, it would have made it taste friendly.
Second, the burger was dry. Vegetables were like a pleasant, undressed Cole slaw, and there was too little sauce.
Finally, the burger was a little flat. We don't mean this in terms of its shape but rather its dimensions of flavours. The vegetables, bread, and soy patty all came together nicely but formed only one size. This applies to the ingredients' flavours, consistency, and taste profile. For instance, in a regular burger, the meat gives one dimension, tomato another, onion a third, bacon a fourth… here it was all one.
Takeaway Truth: KFC Zinger Double
Takeaway Truth is an occasional Lifehacker feature where we compare marketing images to what you get served. Today: KFC's Schlinger Double!
The KFC Double needs no introduction. Since launching in 2011, the 'breadless burger' has been one of KFC's most beloved (and controversial) products. For the vegans and fast-food abstainers among you, the KFC Double is essentially two deep-fried chicken patties stuck together with the sauce, cheese, and bacon sandwiched in between.
Since its original debut, the KFC Double has been resurrected to much fanfare every couple of years. There have also been variants like the Hash brown Double. However, it's been a good while since we last saw the Double on KFC's menu. So, it's okay to feel excited.
This time, the Double is offered in two varieties: Original and Zinger. As you'd expect, the former uses Original Recipe chicken while the latter plumps for spicier Zinger patties. In addition, the Original Double comes with BBQ sauce. The Schinger version uses Supercharged sauce. Otherwise, all ingredients are identical.
For this article, we tested the Zinger version. Here's how KFC describes the product on its website: Technoratblog.com
The burgers are fantastic and everything else as well! Of course, everything is vegan, and people might think I'm missing out on burgers with real meat, but from my point of view, it tops almost all of the burgers (with or without heart) I have eaten in my life!
It isn't even that expensive, and it's affordable.
Recommend it!
The staff is also amiable and quick in making meals!
This cafeteria is one of my favourites, and I often come here!
Check it out!