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This month in the Daring Kitchen we were challenged to make Piroshki by Sara at Sassy Suppers.
Sara tells us that …"according to Anne Volokh in her book The Art of Russian Cuisine, pirozhki have been sold as street food since Peter the Great's time. They have also been served during elaborate banquets both in Russia and Paris. At the turn of the century, one could find fabulous pirozhki at the Filippov Bakery. The hand-held fried pies would be stuffed with all sorts of things . . . meat, mushrooms, rice, eggs, cheese and jam. Pirozhki are still sold on the street in Russian cities today and many a home baker has a favorite recipe."
I have also been waiting to try a couple of piroshki recipes from that great book by Greg Patent "A Baker's Odyssey" so I thought this was the perfect opportunity to try baking and frying piroshki in a Piroshki Fest! This is adds to my personal challenge of baking through A Baker's Odyssey with recipe #45 and #46.
A Baker's Odyssey provides two fried piroshki recipes one of beef and the other mushroom. A yeast dough is generally used for fried piroshki. In this case the dough for the mushroom piroshki was sweetened with a little sugar.
I used the gorgeous sour cream pastry provided by Sara in our Daring Kitchen challenge to bake Beef Piroshki using the beef filling in A Baker's Odyssey. With the remaining beef filling I made fried piroshki. And to complete the Piroshki Fest, Lithuanian Mushroom Piroshki from A Baker's Odyssey completed the meal!
Yep, I was all piroshki-ed out by the end. The verdict – Beef Piroshki filling from A Baker's Odyssey is moist and delicious and is a perfect combination with the sour cream pastry or fried in yeast pastry.
For the sour cream pastry recipe please click here but this time I won't provide the two recipes from A Baker's Odyssey…just a little incentive to buy a copy for yourself! If you would like to join us next month in the Daring Kitchen check it out here for yourself
The yeast dough was soft and tender and easy to work with.
Little pillows of goodness encased in sour cream pastry were crimped around the edges.
My fried piroshki browned very quickly due to the sugar content in the yeast dough but the tender dough was cooked through. This minced beef filling was moist and flavorful with hints of thyme and dill.
These baked piroshki were deliciously moreish with golden, flaky pastry.
With a dab of sour cream they were perfect.

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Ribamontán al Mar
Beach: Langre I
In order to enter this beach, it is necessary to use the stairs for Langre II and cross until Langre I. Its waves are highly valued by surfers. It is well-protected by cliffs and the sand is white and fine. You will find the visit charming.
Type of beach
- Seafront promenade:
- Composition: Sand
- Type of sand: Golden
- Conditions: Strong waves,Windy
- Mooring berths:
- Vegetation:
- Protected space:
- Length: 800 (m)
- Width: 60 (m)
Occupancy rate:
- Degree of urban development: Isolated
- Marina: Santander
- Distance to beach: 30 km
- Litter bin
- Cleaning service
- Surf practice area
Accesses and safety
- Marina: Santander
- Distance to beach: 30 km


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Luminescence dating of Chinese loess beyond 130 ka using the non-fading signal from K-feldspar
Publication Details
Li, B. & Li, S. (2012). Luminescence dating of Chinese loess beyond 130 ka using the non-fading signal from K-feldspar. Quaternary Geochronology, 10 24-31.
A multi-elevated-temperature post-IR IRSL (MET-pIRIR) protocol, which utilizes the IRSL signals measured by progressively increasing the stimulation temperature from 50 to 300 ℃ in a step of 50 ℃, was applied to date the potassium-rich feldspar (K-feldspar) extracts from loess samples at the Luochuan section of the Chinese Loess Plateau. It was observed that the MET-pIRIR ages obtained at elevatedtemperatures (250 and 300 ℃) are consistent with independent chronological control for the samples from the first loess layer (L1) to the third paleosol layer (S3), which correspond to the marine isotope stages (MIS) 2e9. Our results indicate that the MET-pIRIR protocol can provide reliable ages for the Chinese loess up to ͂300 ka. The results suggest that the MET-pIRIR signal measured at 250 and 300 ℃ gives the most reliable ages for older samples (>130 ka). For samples below L3, the natural MET-pIRIR signals measured at high temperatures reach the saturation level in dose response curves, suggesting a dating limit of ͂300 ka for the Luochuan loess section.
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Significant Scots
Peter Bissat
Bissat appears to have been a man of
general accomplishment – a poet, an orator, and a philosopher; but his
forte lay in the Canon Law. His various writings were published at Venice
in 1565, in quarto, under the title, "Patricii Bissarti Opera Omnia, viz.,
Poemata, Orationes, Lectiones Feriales, et Liber de Irregularitate."
The last of these compositions was a commentary on that part of the Canon
Law which gives the reasons assigned by the Church of Rome for excluding
certain laymen from the clergy.
[Of these, as detailed by Bissat, an
abstract may be interesting to the British reader, now happily so little
familiar with the systems of the Catholic Church. The primitive
Christians, in admitting the clergy, observed exactly the rules laid down
by St Paul in the first epistle to Timothy. Yet sometimes, as we learn
from St Cyprian, at the pressing instance of the people, persons of noted
merit, who refused through humility, were compelled to enter. By the
canons, however, a man required to be a deacon before he could be a
priest, and a priest before he could be a bishop. It was a general
principle of the church, that the clergy should be chosen from the most
holy of the laity, and, therefore, all liable to any reproach in their
lives and conversations, were excluded. Agreeably to this principle, which
agreed with the injunction of St. Paul, that they should be blameless and
without reproach, the first council of Nice excluded all those,
specifically, who, after baptism, had been guilty of any sort of crime,
such as heresy, homicide, or adultery; nor was penance any palliative,
seeing that the memory of the offence always remained; while it was to be
expected that those whose lives were without stain should be preferred to
those who had fallen. Thus all persons who had performed penance were
excluded. Those also were deemed irregular, and not entitled to
admittance, who had killed any person, by accident or in self-defence, or
who had borne arms even in a just war; who had twice married or married a
widow; or who engaged much in worldly affairs; all of which circumstances
were held as derogating in some degree from the necessary purity of the
individual. The only other moral disqualification was ignorance: the
physical disqualifications were almost equally numerous. All deaf, dumb,
or blind persons were excluded, as unable to perform their functions in a
proper manner. All persons who were lame, or had any deformity calculated
to create an aversion in the people, were declared unfit for orders.
Madness and self-mutilation were disqualifications. All persons born out
of wedlock were excluded, because, however innocent the individual in his
own person, the associations which the sight of them was calculated to
awaken, were not favourable to virtue. Slaves, servants, children, and
monastic clergy without the consent of the superiors, were
Bissat died in the latter part of the year
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Science and Know-how have all the time been an integral a part of Indian tradition. All of the sectors of human activities are instantly influenced by science and expertise. The Sport Science program will probably be providing a field college in Switzerland in 2017. Early British scholars documented Indian thought and its exterior manifestations as systems competing with their very own and thus facilitated the switch of technology into what grew to become referred to as Britain's Industrial Revolution.
Human progress utterly is determined by the discoveries of science and technology. Star Wars was a swashbuckling house fantasy that inspired among the know-how we see at present, 4 decades after the film's release. STA engages in strategic partnerships, holds national occasions, and offers members with a set of advantages – all for the betterment of Australian science and expertise.
This normal describes a number of the integrative schemes that can bring collectively students' many experiences in science education across grades K-12. In a broader sense, know-how affects societies in the improvement of superior economies, making life more convenient to more those that have entry to such technology.
Moreover the above examples of Indian contributions to the origins of the so-referred to as �Western� science, there's another category of conventional knowledge known as non-literate people science. New science and technology affords breakthroughs in our life occasions and our kids's lifetimes that can significantly affect the world in which we live.
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October #Horror Frenzy – Day Twenty Nine
The Handmaid's Tale is a novel of such power that the reader will be unable to forget its images and its forecast. Set in the near future, it describes life in what was once the United States and is now called the Republic of Gilead, a monotheocracy that has reacted to social unrest and a sharply declining birthrate by reverting to, and going beyond, the repressive intolerance of the original Puritans. The regime takes the Book of Genesis absolutely at its word, with bizarre consequences for the women and men in its population.
The story is told through the eyes of Offred, one of the unfortunate Handmaids under the new social order. In condensed but eloquent prose, by turns cool-eyed, tender, despairing, passionate, and wry, she reveals to us the dark corners behind the establishment's calm facade, as certain tendencies now in existence are carried to their logical conclusions. The Handmaid's Tale is funny, unexpected, horrifying, and altogether convincing. It is at once scathing satire, dire warning, and a tour de force. It is Margaret Atwood at her best!
The birth of a devil in the 18th century resonates in today's world. A storm hits a small mountain town and the resident must evacuate, where will they go? Visit a zoo unlike any you have experienced. The sins of the past haunt the present in a once thriving industrial town. Discover what lies beneath the boardwalk. Take a walk down memory lane as a woman is haunted by that thing she most loved. Escaping from a zombie hoard may not be the worst danger you face. What does it really mean to "Keep it Jersey"?
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The United States is being torn apart by the Civil War. Brother fights brother and the country's rivers run red with the blood of the dead. But the Confederates have lost their most important general, Jonathan 'Stonewall' Jackson and the South's hopes of winning the war have dimmed…
During the South's darkest hour, a letter arrives giving General Robert E. Lee instructions on a path to vengeance for Jackson's death and a way to halt the Union army in the south. Now, something else has arisen and is hungry for revenge. The corpses of dead rebels are returning to life and they want to chew through the Northern war machine. Only in victory can their curse be ended and they can return to the ground for their final rest.
The Southern Devils are loose and the Civil War will never be the same.
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Belligerent SOB, All-grain
Belligerent SOB, All-grain
Jan 4 2005, 02:53 AM
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The Belligerent SOB (all-grain) kit is fantastic! I picked one up last year when I was in the States and everyone who tried it was extremely happy -- even more so after downing a few. (IMG:style_emoticons/brewboard/wink.gif) I've only had a real Arrogant Bastard a couple times, so I can't compare it directly with the beer from this kit, but from what I've heard from others, it's real close. Either way, though, it's a great kit if you like strong beers with full in-your-face flavor. (IMG:style_emoticons/brewboard/cool.gif)
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It is really good. We did have a double blind tasting at one of my Homebrew meetings. They thought it was really close, but HBA's (brewed by me), was better than the original.
Jan 4 2005, 11:52 PM
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I brought a ton of this stuff up to the last Phish show up in Vermont this summer and gave out a ton of it (good karma, bad rationing:) Everyone thought it was excellent and I actually got offered a job at a new location of a brewpub as a brewer because of this beer by the owner/master brewer. And it was only the extract version! Ill be ordering the AG version soon. How about a Double Bastard kit Ale? Hey man, gotta keep you on your toes! Keep up the great work.
Jan 11 2005, 11:52 PM
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This was my first HBA kit. Was a hit with everyone. My brother had one in the firdge for about 10 months and said it was better aged than when we first opened the first few bottles last spring.
Mar 10 2005, 02:50 PM
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Firing this up tomorrow right after work tomorrow! (IMG:style_emoticons/brewboard/beerchug.gif)
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QUOTE(RedVR6 @ Jan 11 2005, 11:53 PM)
This was my first HBA kit. Was a hit with everyone. My brother had one in the firdge for about 10 months and said it was better aged than when we first opened the first few bottles last spring.
I've brewed it a few times and I will generally drink about half when it is done and age the other half 6+ months. After the hop bitterness dies down a little, you can really taste the different flavors. Great recipe.
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I agree with DeeJayDan. I've done side-by-side tastings, and SOB (extract version) is dead-on accurate despite the ingredients being almost completely different from Stone's web site. Taste is what counts and this recipe has it!
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This is one recipe I keep going back to. I've made it a few times now, and it's a huge hit with the Beer Geeks among us.
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CJ how would you rank it against Arrogant Bastard (What it's designed after?)
Feb 16 2006, 05:09 PM
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I only did a semi-side-by-side tasting -- the real thing one night at a brewpub and mine the next night. Mine seemed a little sweeter and with more body, as I remember. Bitterness and hop flavor/aroma was very similar. Mine was a fairly new bottle, though, and the AB was a several months old, so that might have played a roll. I'd say similar but not the same, if I had to be nailed down.
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This beer is pretty damn good! The SOB I made tasted almost the same as the original AB but the smell was a little different. Stone's AB smelled better but the SOB tasted better for sure. Don't get me wrong, I love Arragant Bastard (always have, always will) but the SOB is a great beer and I highly recommend.
Brewed this on 01/15/2006 and it was all gone by May (three months after bottled). I did save six bottles of this stuff and I cant wait to see how it ages. I know the last one I drank in May tasted better than the first one I drank in February. I made 10 gallons, dry hopped 5 gallons with 1oz of centennial and left 5 gallons not dry hopped (not by choice). Definitely dry hop this puppy and dont be afraid to use two or three ounces of dry hopps, trust me. Also dont be afraid to hop it up a little more than the recipe calls for but if you choose not to you won't be sorry, just make sure to dry hop it and dont drink it as fast as I did. I'll be tasting this again in August, six months after the bottling date and I can't wait. I am sure I'll be wishing I would have saved all of it. I'll be making this one again for sure!
Edit: Oh yeah I made the AG version.
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My friend and I have brewed this beer about three times and have won numerous gold, silver & best of show medals in the Southeastern US. With a few minor tweaks, this is an absolutely wonderful tasting [all grain] recipe. We usually brew 10gal at a time. Our last brew session was 15gal and we dry-hopped each 5gal carboy with different hops; one with Cascade, one with Centennial and the last carboy with Columbus. Each one had its own complexities.
Last year I took this beer to the 2006 National Homebrew Conference in Orlando, FL. I kept one in my cooler at our table and eagerly awaited Greg Koch CEO of Stone Brewing to stop by. When he did, I poured him and his wife a taste. They were both very pleased with the accuracy of the beer. His wife actually made the comment "I like this better". You should've seen the look she got from Greg...Priceless.
This beer continues to be a favorite at our brew club.
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Yeah, my friends absolutely love my version of this beer, but I only brew it a couple times a year to keep them on their toes. It is a wonderfully complex beer -- as it should be.
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I brewed this about two months ago. I dryhopped as suggested. In the mean time, my brother really wanted to oak something. I knew that Stone was releasing their Oaked Arrogant Bastard in a few weeks, so I figured why not. The finished beer is nothing short of fantastic, if I do say so myself! A deep amber color, a very similar hop profile to AB. I will be ordering this kit again and again.
Oh...it was 1.5 ounces of steamed French Oak MED toast chips for 6 days.
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Did they remove this from the store? I can't find it anymore.
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Data Protection Management (DFPM) has limits. What are they? Where are they moving to? We have talked with Bocada and WysDM about this. Now we have the benefit of APTARE CEO Rick Clark's views on the questions we have asked the other suppliers.
What is your view of the data protection reporting/management needs of your customers now and going forward?
In the past there were no or very little regulations or accountability around protecting the digital assets of a corporation. Backup and Recovery was viewed as the "plumbing" and little attention was paid to the true effectiveness of systems implemented to protect the crown jewels of the enterprise. Now corporate governance, regulations, and data audits are some of the key market drivers that force IT organizations to be accountable and to quantify their protection of the digital assets of their corporation.
Over the past thirteen years, APTARE has met with hundreds of IT professionals and storage management specialists and discussed their key problems around Data Protection Management. The continuous theme from these meetings has been the ever increasing need for enterprise software products that address the four components of what we call the Data Protection Management Lifecycle, namely: Exposure Analysis, Capacity Planning and Forecasting, Performance Optimization, and Compliance. Most importantly with the centralization of storage, they need a centralized portal where every storage team member from the administrator to the CIO can login to see what's happening in their environment.
We often refer to it as the "bubble in the carpet" because of the fluid and dynamic changes that are always happening within the IT environment. Our customers use APTARE StorageConsole to easily quantify their exposure analysis and stop the bleeding. They then launch our dashboards to provide predictive analysis and forecasting so they can better plan capacity for growth in the midst of continuous changes within their storage environment. The next stage in the lifecycle is to identify bottlenecks and drive to optimal throughput for every component of the data protection environment. The last phase of the lifecycle is around compliance. To minimize the pain and related expense associated with internal and external storage audits from both regulatory bodies like Sarbanes-Oxley (SOX) and internal SLAs. This is a significant pain with real and large costs associated, particularly for large public companies.
Should a DPM reporter cover all data protection operations? E.g.
- Snapshots,
- Mirrors
- Replication (async and sync)
- Fixed content reference storage (like EMC Centera, HP RISS)
- backup to virtual tape libraries
- backup - all backup software products
- backup to tape autoloaders
- backup to tape libraries
- off-site electronic vaulting
- archive to optical media and devices - e.g. UDO
- file archiving
- e-mail archiving
- database archiving
- encrypting data
- fixed content data to a content-addressed store or similar.
Ultimately Data Protection Management products should strive to cover all management and reporting on the meta data digital assets (associated with core business applications) are moved from disk-to-disk-to-tape or any combination thereof. At the simplest level, all of the technologies and storage segments mentioned boil down to data replication, archiving, security, and content-aware storage. And just as data moves from one domain to another, DPM products should track the meta data through exposure analysis, capacity planning, performance optimization, and compliance.
Our focus has always been on backup & recovery systems where the APIs and underlying vendor products are very mature. Our goal is to provide rich functionality for every product we support. APTARE StorageConsole provides the greatest depth and breadth of feature functionality by focusing on our customer's pain points, and seeing it from the eyes of the administrator all the way up to the CIO. It's very important that we create products that people can use out-of-the-box with no training or professional services required.
As standards emerge around replication, VTL's etc, similar to SNIA's SMI-S, APTARE will embrace and continue our philosophy of standards based, customer deployable portal solutions for complex storage infrastructures. If you try to do too much, you'll end up covering many different storage domains, but with no substance or expertise in any one. The problem with the lack of standards and trying to cover all of the technologies you mentioned is that you can never do a thorough job in any one area. You're trying to boil the ocean.
Does your software product do this?
APTARE StorageConsole provides the greatest depth of functionality for the top three enterprise backup and recovery products, namely: VERITAS NetBackup, EMC Legato NetWorker, and IBM Tivoli Storage Manager. Our software provides visibility for virtual tape libraries, backup software products from Symantec, EMC, and IBM, backup to tape autoloaders, backup to tape libraries, off-site electronic vaulting, archive to optical media and devices.
APTARE has taken a very different approach from many of the other DPM vendors. Leveraging our background in deploying massively scalable database transaction systems and mission critical web-portals, APTARE has applied fundamental principles of web portals to storage management. A great example of this is our context sensitive navigation in APTARE StorageConsole.
It's a web-based interface that provides a global view of your environment that is agnostic to the underlying backup products. As users drill-down through the web-based dashboards, the report parameters displayed are unique to the underlying backup software data that is being presented. This style of user interface presents data and nomenclature consistent with what the users are familiar with. The net result is drillable dashboards with enormous amounts of actionable data at your fingertips with no additional training or new terminology to learn.
What is the product development strategy for your DPM product?
APTARE will continue to expand our coverage of enterprise backup and recovery products with support for CommVault Galaxy and HP Data Protector early in 2007. In addition, APTARE will continue to enhance and deliver dashboards and notification around predictive monitoring and early warning of imminent events that, if no action is taken, would otherwise threaten the storage utility's ability to recover data.
Will it evolve to cover more of these categories?
APTARE StorageConsole is a platform that layers on top of backup and recovery software including VERITAS NetBackup, Tivoli Storage Manager, or EMC Legato NetWorker. There is a great deal of convergence occurring in the market around replication, backup, and disk-to-disk based technologies. Core technologies in the StorageConsole platform, such as the web-based portal, predictive and root-cause analysis, and our patented methods for agent less capture and transmission of storage meta data via HTTP(s) will be applied to new products to be launched in 2007 around replication and primary storage reporting. As standards start to emerge in the VTL and replication space, APTARE will embrace and release product offerings focused on key customer pain points unique to replication and managing VTLs.
Does it have a roadmap to evolve to cover all of them?
APTARE has roadmap plans to cover most of the technologies listed above. Our focus is on managing the meta data as it moves across data domains, from primary storage to secondary, backup, and replication.
Are there specific problems in these various data protection operations that hinder your DPM product reporting on them?
The biggest challenge is the lack of standards and the lack of adoption of the standards that do exist. When we port to a new backup product, our engineering discovery process will always look for well defined APIs, then CLIs, and always fall back on log scrapping. The challenge is that these interfaces change with every new release. Most of the backup vendors support CLIs but this requires string parsing that is always prone to error, especially when dealing with different international locales.
The next greatest challenge is not over-using the interface. For example, many products support polling of the CLIs to extract information, but too much polling can impact the performance and stability of the underlying backup system. It's a very fine line between gathering the detail that the customer needs, and not over taxing the API/CLI.
Does DPM have to evolve into uDPM (universal DPM) so as to cover all the electronic data protection activities of an enterprise?
That's a simple question to a complex problem. I think everyone would love that one magic pill that would solve all of their problems across their storage infrastructure. Storage architectures are already very complex with companies solving different problems at different levels using multiple technologies across multiple vendors. Trying to create a broad-based solution that solves everyone's problem is an impossible task.
What is possible is creating a solution that addresses the problems within specific areas of the storage environment and doing it well. The reason for APTARE's success is that we have been very deliberate about focusing on one aspect of the storage environment (backup and recovery) and delivering rich functionality to solve our customer's pains.
Does it need an enterprise-wide data protection policy?
I would view this by looking at your fundamental principles of business and defining your application data into tiers. Then you measure your data protection policies against each tier. What starts to get complex with this approach is that tier classification of data is fluid and changes over the lifespan of your data. So the key is illumination and visualization of your data protection policies using software that simplifies and provides the "big picture". APTARE StorageConsole has always focused on visualizing the storage environment with intuitive and simple to use dashboards for all levels of the storage organization.
Does it need a standard interface (APPI) to all data protection hardware and software products rather than product-specific interfaces?
A single unified and well published API adopted and embraced by all data protection hardware and software vendors is Nirvana, but realistically, will not materialize in the short to medium term. Take a look at what happened in the SRM space where storage hardware vendors via SNIA set out to define a unified standard API called SMI-S. Many storage analysts will tell you that SMI-S is dead. After four years of introduction, it is still not embraced by many of the major SAN hardware vendors. And those vendors that do embrace the standard are holding close to their chests (via their proprietary APIs) the core functionality required to manage and report on the device. I would say we can learn a great deal from the adoption of SMI-S in the DPM space. The standards will eventually develop and be embraced and adopted by the major vendors, but this process will be extremely slow.
If it does should this interface be the SNIA's SMI-S? Why? If not then what other interface could be used?
As a member of SNIA we think it's absolutely the right place to help drive a grass root initiative standard. SMI-S grew out of the requirement for hardware vendors to interoperate in largely a SAN environment. The initial design was focused on hardware. Software products and storage related applications were not a key focus. If SMI-S could adapt to an application, software, and hardware focus, then it has potential. DPM solutions should embrace standards in data collection and at the same time open their interfaces to integrate into the enterprise management systems framework of the IT data center.
What's interesting in the DPM space is many vendors are focusing on data collection and data analytics. The problem is not what you collect but how you present it. The key is not to lose sight of your customers and to give them the solutions that help them intuitively manage increasingly complex storage environments with less manual intervention.
This story, "The limits of DPM - Aptare's view" was originally published by Techworld.com.


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By Jennie Rees for NTRA.com
LAS VEGAS — Based on this week's $2.77 million DRF/NTRA National Handicapping Championship, the family that plays together, stays together.
At least three married couples have both qualified, along with others who came up short in making the world's biggest competition for horse players but are at Treasure Island Casino to cheer on their spouse — and maybe serve as a sounding board for picks.
The family with the most representatives might be the Richards family of Pembroke Pines in south Florida. Karen and Mark Richards both qualified, and Mark's twin, Myles, also is playing as well as Myles' son Dylan McIntosh, who at 23 is one of the youngest competitors in the tournament.
That leaves Traci, Myles' wife and Dylan's mother with the distinction of being the odd-player out. But Traci, like all the Richardses' armed with a laptop at their table, is plenty happy pulling for her family, especially Dylan, who started the day in an outstanding 24th place.
"I'm keeping them organized," Traci said, adding, "I feel more pressure. I'm the backup for everybody. "
Dylan qualified through NHCqualify.com on Jan. 9, his birthday. Not surprisingly with two playing parents, he says he's been handicapping horses as long as he can remember, though his official betting at the track couldn't start until he turned 18. Players must be 21 to participate in the NHC.
Qualifying was a rite of passage, said Dylan, whose dad, aunt and uncle have qualified nine times apiece, while Traci is a three-time contestant.
"Some people play their whole life and never qualify," Traci said. "He's only two years into it being able to do it, and he did it. And he's in 24th! (Myles) has finished in the top five twice, so he taught Dylan well. But everybody does their own thing."
"It's something we can do together," said Mark, an engineer, said of the contests. "We're so busy working and we don't get a chance to get away. She (Karen) needed points for the NHC Tour to qualify, so there was a contest in Texas and it makes it a nice little time together and to get away."
Asked about intrafamily competition come post time, the Richards don't call it Family Feud but do suggest a reporter with a recorder might need a bleep button.
Richard Goodall of Las Vegas is the 2008 NHC winner and a veteran of more than 50 years betting horses, while wife Sally has been playing "only" 20 years. Still, Richard estimates Sally has qualified 15 times for NHC. "Whatever the most is, she has," he said. "I'm one behind her."
Both are double qualified this year.
"She plays her plays, and I play my plays, but we do consult," Richard said. "Because there would be times when we we want to avoid the competition (with each other), we want to be smart. If we have the same horse and it makes sense, fine. If not, I usually defer to her and I'll take another horse.
"I am not getting better," he said of being a handicapper. "I am what I am. She's getting better, so if you have a future bet on the races, bet on her. She's still on the improve."
Besides betting horses, the Goodalls' passion is trying to visit every thoroughbred track in the United States, with only six tracks they haven't been to. "But in that, we're including bush tracks," Richard said. "She's been to places where we had to drive through cornfields to get to tracks. We have a track in Missoula we haven't been to."
Lee Geraghty of Mission Viejo, Calif., began betting horses on her first date with husband Kevin, who took her to Los Alamitos for harness racing 23 years ago.
"I got hooked from there," she said.
The Geraghtys also have two entries apiece at the championship. They also stage an NHC qualifier in Sioux Falls, S.D., that sent six people to Vegas.
"It's a pretty big part of our marriage, our lives," Lee said of betting horses and contest play. "My sister plays, so it's a family thing. Our styles are pretty similar, because he taught me how to handicap. I do turf-to-dirt, and I play different things. I love superfectas and trifectas. He can pick the horse that wins more, and I'm better at picking second place and third place."
Lee says they make their own picks but do consult each other, like handicappers everywhere.
"We talk about what we like, talk the horses out and the jockeys and trainers, the breeding," Lee said, adding with a laugh, "He's definitely the better handicapper, but we won't tell anyone that. I have a reputation to maintain."
While Lisa Blevins is playing in the NHC for the first time, husband Jobby is a prior qualifier. Now living in Brookings, Ore., the couple met in high school in Kentucky and regularly went to the races at nearby Latonia Race Course and Cincinnati's River Downs.
Since both retired from Toyota in Georgetown, Ky., racing has become an even bigger part of their life. Would they have gotten married had both not loved horse racing?
"That's a good question. I think so," Jobby said, quipping, "I'd still like her."
Said Lisa: "But it's been the greatest source of the most fun we've had, other than some of the traveling we've done. Some of our best memories are from the track.
"There's no 'I want to go play golf. Or I want to do this or that.' We both love the horses…. We're very competitive. We root for one another's horses, of course. But if we have two different horses in the same race, all bets are off."


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NYT issues clarification on new allegation against Kavanaugh
Deborah Ramirez's claims against Brett Kavanaugh about an incident that happened while the two were at Yale University has been echoed in a previously unreported allegation about Kavanaugh shared by another classmate.
New York Times reporters Robin Pogrebin and Kate Kelly have written a book regarding the allegations against the current Supreme Court justice, titled "The Education of Brett Kavanaugh: An Investigation." An essay from the book was published by the Times on Saturday.
Ramirez, who grew up in Shelton, claimed Kavanugh pulled down his pants and thrust his penis at her at a party during her freshman year, according to the Times. When that happened, the Times reported, Ramirez tried to swat him away and inadvertently touched his penis.
The essay also mentions the allegations brought against Kavanaugh by Dr. Christine Blasey Ford, who went to a Washington-area high school near his. During their 10-month investigation, Pogrebin and Kelly wrote in the essay, although they found Ford's allegations to be credible, Ramirez's story was more fully corroborated.
During his Senate testimony, Kavanaught said if the incident described by Ramirez happened, it would've been the talk of the campus. Pogrebin and Kelly said their investigation suggested it had been.
"At least seven people, including Ms. Ramirez's mother, heard about the Yale incident long before Mr. Kavanaugh was a federal judge," the essay states. "Two of those people were classmates who learned of it just days after the party occurred, suggesting that it was discussed among students at the time."
Poerebin and Kelly said they also uncovered a previously unreported story about Kavanaugh from his freshman year that "echoes Ms. Ramirez's allegation."
According to the essay, a classmate named Max Stier saw Kavanaugh with his pants down at a different drunken dorm party where friends pushed his penis into the hand of a female student. He alleged that he told senators and the FBI, but the FBI never investigated the claim. Although the NYT reporters said they did not communicate directly with Stier, they spoke with two officials who have communicated with him to corroborate the claim.
Despite this new allegation surfacing, the female student who was allegeding involved in it has no recolleciton of the incident, according to an editor's note added to the New York Times report on Sunday — one day after the essay was published.
"An earlier version of this article, which was adapted from a forthcoming book, did not include one element of the book's account regarding an assertion by a Yale classmate that friends of Brett Kavanaugh pushed his penis into the hand of a female student at a drunken dorm party. The book reports that the female student declined to be interviewed and friends say that she does not recall the incident. That information has been added to the article," the editor's note reads.
The reporters said in the essay that Kavanaugh did not speak to them because "we could not agree on terms for an interview." Still, the reporters made it clear that Kavanaugh has denied the allegations brought against him by Ford and Ramirez. The reporters said he declined to answer questions about Stier's claims.
Ramirez was never asked to testify at Kavanaugh's confirmation hearings.
"Her efforts to backstop her recollections with friends would later be cited as evidence that her memory was unreliable or that she was trying to construct a story rather than confirm one," the essay states.
Ramirez's legal team apparently gave the FBI a list of at least 25 people who might have had corroborating evidence for her allegations. But, despite many of those potential witnesses trying to reach the FBI on their own, none of them were interviewed.
According to the essay, two FBI agents interview Ramirez and told her they found her to be "credible."
During her time at Yale, Ramirez told the reporters, she felt she never properly fit in with her classmates. But after her allegations against Kavanaugh were brought to light, the Yale community's support for her came rushing in.
More than 3,000 Yale women signed an open letter to her, praising her courage for coming forward with her allegations. Two days latter, more than 1,500 Yale men issued a similar letter.
Kavanaugh was confirmed as a Supreme Court justice on Oct. 6, 2018. The Senate confirmation vote was 50-48.
EDITOR'S NOTE: This story has been updated to include an editor's note published at the bottom of the New York Times story on Sunday, Sept. 15, 2019. This story now includes information provided by the NYT that indicates the female student linked to the new allegation did not want to be interviewed and apparently has no memory of the incident.


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If you follow my blog, you know that getting chickens changed me in a pretty profound way. I had been told growing up that farm animals, including animals like cows and chickens, were "dumb animals." Of course, as I grew older, read more, and observed the world more, I realized this wasn't true, but I didn't know just how intelligent animals were until I really started looking at the most current research, which began when we got our first flock of chickens.
Our chickens were so much more intelligent than I could have imagined, and they were full of personality. In the flock, it's hard to tell personalities apart, but if you get close to the chickens or have to separate one for health or broody reasons, you start to see just how much of an individual each chicken is.
They are social, funny, quirky, grumpy, sweet, patient, busy, and so much more. For years, science told us not to assign human characteristics to animal behavior, but as we begin to see some real research on animal intelligence, we are learning that we're all not that different. After all, humans are animals too.
And the more I learned, the more I shared with my husband and sons. One morning, I had just read an article on chicken intelligence and was sharing with my husband that scientists now estimate chicken intelligence to be that of a six or seven year old human, and he stopped me.
"Please don't tell me any more."
I realized in that moment how hard it must be on my husband because, when we process chickens for our meat a couple of times a year, he bears the brunt of the responsibility. He is kind, respectful, quick, and clean, but he is still killing those chickens for our food. It's hard on him.
It made me wonder: How much do we need to know about animal intelligence?
I've been thinking about this for many months and have come to just one conclusion—maybe we just need to know enough that we start treating our animals better.
Maybe we need to know that scientists think pigs are as intelligent as the great apes, so we don't put them in cages and keep them isolated. Maybe we need to know that chickens are highly social and suffer greatly under stress, so we give them enough space and access to clean water and good food.
I'm not arguing here that we shouldn't eat meat. I've tried a few times in my life to become a vegetarian, and I just failed miserably. I grew up in Texas, after all. Meat is like at the bottom of the food pyramid down there.
What I'm thinking is we need to demand that our food industry to do better in the only way we can—with the way we shop for food.
Maybe we don't need to know the problem solving skills of chickens, but we do need to know that they need space, light, dark, fresh water, and some respect.
I know there are those who may read this who just don't care about the quality of life for an animal. I've had people say that to me, and though I don't understand this way of thinking, I understand it's a reality for many in our culture.
So I present this additional argument: When farm animals are raised in better conditions, they taste better, and some science suggests the food is even more nutritious. Eggs are a perfect example of this. And the chicken we buy in the grocery store doesn't even taste like chicken. It tastes like nothing that we then season to taste like something.
I think we have to figure out a way to do better, and many people in Maine I know are doing better. Let's keep it going and remember that farm animals are not "dumb animals," and really do deserve our respect and gratitude. Our factory farming methods are most certainly a crime against humanity, so we, as a culture, need to know enough about animal intelligence that we demand better.
It feels good to write about this. I'm probably going to lay low with my husband, however, on the research showing chickens can solve math problems. He definitely knows enough. I think this post he wrote last year says it all.


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Dishcloth Pattern-a-Day Countdown to Christmas!
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Images via MattCusick.com. Click images to view in a larger size.
Imagine if you asked me for directions and I pulled out a suitcase-sized paper map. You'd be all, "Huh?"
It's all about the internet these days, and as a result, many a map of the land are headed to the landfill. Artist Matthew Cusick, though, is saving a lucky few paper maps from a dump doomsday by using them to create crafty, cool collages!


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Won't the answer depend a lot on what device your trying to play Pandora? For example, playing Pandora on a Roku is a simple one-line Lua script using the REST interface.
Or are you trying to play Pandora on your Android? There might be better places for an answer on that.http://www.droidforums.net/threads/how-to-start-play-pause-and-kill-pandora-with-tasker.111771/


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- Reuters
The world should not treat North Korea leader Kim Jong Un with scepticism and instead learn from his new attitude towards bringing about peace, urged Prime Minister Tun Dr Mahathir Mohamad.
After delivering his keynote address at the 24th Nikkei Conference on the Future of Asia in Tokyo on Monday (Jun 11), Dr Mahathir said people used to deem North Korea a belligerent country which lacked any semblance of care for other nations, reported The Star.
"But now that he has made this kind of effort, we shouldn't be cynical and should take advantage of this new attitude," he said.
Dr Mahathir added Malaysia is keen to see developments in Kim's changed attitude which could bode well for the easing of tensions in East Asia and the South China Sea.
His statement was a response to Nikkei Asian Review editor-in-chief Sonoko Watanabe's question regarding Malaysia's view on the US-North Korea Summit and the assassination of Kim's estranged half-brother Kim Jong Nam on Feb 13, 2017, in Malaysia.
Dr Mahathir pointed out that North Korea was not the only country which practised assassinations as many other countries had done the same.
"If we condemn them, then we will be unfriendly to many countries."
At another dialogue with foreign correspondents at the Japan National Press Club, Dr Mahathir noted that although there would be groups who find Kim's attitude shift and intentions dubious, what remains most crucial is the contact that would be established between the US and North Korea, according to The New Straits Times.
He said: "Any contact between people who are in conflict with each other is something that we should welcome."
"There is a Malay saying – 'if you do not know, then you cannot love' – so if you know each other, it is always good for improving relations between people and between countries."
US President Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un met at the Capella Hotel on Sentosa island in Singapore on Tuesday (Jun 12).
Read also: LIVE: Trump and Kim Jong Un meet for the first time in historic Singapore summit


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Lesser Life
Suppressive Fire
Shitty Boots
Solar Halos
Hopscotch was this past weekend in Raleigh, and even though the line up was really good, I ended up not seeing as many shows as I originally intended to see. I did manage to see the killer MAKE, Vattnet Viskar, Locrian lineup at the Metal Lunchbox day show at Neptune's on Saturday, as well as the Primitive Ways day show at the Pour House on Thursday. My favorite show may well have been Nuggets-style psych rockers Shitty Boots on Friday at Slim's. It was also cool to catch free day party sets by Guardian Alien, The Bronzed Chorus and Nest Egg (Krautrockers from Asheville).
One big thing did happen for me over the weekend: My camera's hot shoe was destroyed when it fell off a monitor while I was capturing video of Vattnet Viskar. That was pretty upsetting, but I've been contemplating upgrading for a while, so I think it's going to happen sooner than later.


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Coating glacage on Sachertorte cake
Gong Xi Fa Cai!
I hope you had a wonderful Chinese New Year holidays with your family and friends! As for my family, we went back to my husband's hometown Ipoh to see our relatives. It was just a one night trip but my children and I really enjoyed the tradition and culture during our family gatherings…!
So it's February already! Thanks for waiting long~ I am finally posting February 2017 class schedule today. Saint Valentine's Day is coming soon, so I would like to introduce you traditional Austrian moist chocolate cake, Sachertorte, as well as some traditional French desserts and cookies^^.
Kindly find the schedule below; (For your easy reference, please to our Class Calendar.)
1. Sachertorte & Apricot Sable – Basic Class –
Traditional Austrian (Vienna) moist Chocolate Cake
sandwiched with Apricot jam
Traditional French style biscuit
sandwiched with Apricot jam
DATE: February 12th (Sun.) 11:00am-2:30pm – FULL
February 18th (Sat.) 11:00am-2:30pm – FULL
FEE: RM200 (RM159 for members)
2. Saint Marc & Galette Nante *Request*– Premier Class –
Traditional French pastry with vanilla & chocolate mousse
sandwiched with fluffy almond cake.
Caramelised sugar on top.
French style crispy sable
DATE: February 19th (Sun.) 11:00am-3:00pm
February 25th (Sat.) 11:00am-3:00pm
FEE: RM210 (RM169 for members)
3. Love Rose Macaron: CNY & Valentine Special!*Repeat*- Season Special Class –
Big and small heart shape macarons
with framboise and rose flavour buttercream
*Macarons are made by Swiss Meringue (New recipe)!
DATE: February 26th (Sun.) 11:00am-3:00pm
FEE: RM250 (RM195 for members)
4. Strawberry & Pistachio Tart *Request* – Basic Class –
Strawberry tart with pistachio creme d'amande!
For details of this class, kindly refer to my previous blog Strawberry Tart.
DATE: February 11th (Sat.) 11:00am-2:30pm – FULL
FEE: RM200 (RM159 for members)
For registration, kindly contact me at firstname.lastname@example.com (Tomoko).
Thank you so much and I am looking forward to hearing from you!!!


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A risk factor is something that increases your likelihood of getting a disease or condition.
It is possible to develop OCD with or without the risk factors listed below. However, the more risk factors you have, the greater your likelihood of developing OCD. If you have a number of risk factors, ask your doctor what you can do to reduce your risk.
Risk factors may include:
OCD tends to develop in late adolescence or early adulthood. However, it can begin as early as preschool age and as late as age 40 years.
Research suggests that genes may play a role in the development of OCD in some cases. The condition tends to run in families. A person who has OCD has a 25% chance of having a blood relative who has it.
One study found that children have inherited OCD symptoms in 45% to 60% of cases, while adults have inherited symptoms in 27% to 47% of cases.
OCD often occurs in people who have other anxiety disorders, depression, Tourette syndrome, attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), substance abuse, eating disorders, and certain personality disorders.
PANDAS, which refers to Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders associated with Streptococcal Infections, is a term that refers to a group of children who have OCD and/or a tic disorder, which gets worse or is related to strep throat. Researchers are studying what causes this. One theory is that antibodies in the body may interact with the brain.
OCD symptoms often occur during stress from major life changes, such as the loss of a loved one, divorce, relationship difficulties, problems in school, or abuse.
OCD symptoms may worsen during and immediately after pregnancy. In this case, fluctuating hormones can trigger symptoms. Postpartum OCD is characterized by disturbing thoughts and compulsions regarding the baby's well-being.
About OCD. International OCD Foundation website. Available at: https://iocdf.org/about-ocd. Accessed January 13, 2017.
Moretti G, Pasquini M, et al. What every psychiatrist should know about PANDAS: a review. Clin Pract Epidemol Ment Health. 2008;4:13.
Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD). EBSCO DynaMed website. Available at:https://www.dynamed.com/condition/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd. Updated June 13, 2016. Accessed January 13, 2017.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). National Institute of Mental Health website. Available at: https://www.nimh.nih.gov/health/topics/obsessive-compulsive-disorder-ocd/index.shtml. Updated January 2016. Accessed January 13, 2017.
van Groothest DS, Cath DC, et al. Twin studies on obsessive-compulsive disorder: a review. Twin Res Hum Genet. 2005;8(5):450-458.
Last reviewed December 2016 by Adrian Preda, MD Last Updated: 10/11/2019


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Rekha and Big B.
Rekha had provided memorable performances over the years in huge number of bollywood films. Whenever she had acted with Big B, the performance of both the stars had impressed the audience.
Rekha was sublime in her performance in the film Silsila, where Big B had also done well. The songs composed by Shiv Hari were extraordinary. Lata's song "yeh kaha a gaye hum" made everyone spellbound. Big B had sung songs in his own voice including songs like "neela aasman so gaya", "rang barse", etc.
Rekha had complimented Big B in the film Khoon Pasina. Although it was an action-pact film where Big B faced Vinod Khanna who had given strong performance in the film, Rekha had played her part very well. The film depicted corruption existing in Indian society in the mid-70s.
Rekha and Big B had done well in Muqaddar ka Sikandar. Although Big B loved Rakhee in the film, Rakhee never appreciated his weakness and admired Vinod Khanna. Rekha played the role of a tawaif, yet she had been loyal to Big B and helped him whenever required.
Both of them were sublime in the film Suhaag. Big B was a drunkard at the beginning of the film, but after Shashi Kapoor, the police officer, lost his eyes, Big B joined the police force. He took revenge against Amzad Khan who caused harm to their entire family and the people at large. Rekha did well in her portion.
The other successful films of Rekha and Big B include Do Anjane, Mr. Natwarlal, etc. All these films should be restored for their immense filmic value.


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Tuesday, 5 May 2015
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year- Nadolig Llawen a Blwyddyn Newydd Dda
A 8x8in easel card. The top of the card is partly embossed using a holly folder by Embossalicious and partly matt and layered with red card and white card. The wreath is made from a Sizzix die. I have cut out the matching die a few times to build up the wreath. The poinsettia are made using a Tattered Lace die. The card is embellished with green satin ribbon with the sentiment Nadolig Llawen (Merry Christmas in Welsh), this is one of the few things I have found over the years specifically for Welsh crafting. The card is also also embellished with flat backed pearls. the base of the card is matt and layered with red card and the personalised sentiment is cut out using Tonic dies. I have layered this with foam pads for depth to act as the stopper.
Challenges I would like to enter:
craftingfromtheheart - anything goes
craftyourpassion - anything goes
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Very cute!!! Thank you for joining us at Crafting from the Heart, good luck!!! Amy DTReplyDelete
So pretty!!! Thank you for joining us at Clear It Out, good luck!!! Amy DTReplyDelete
Such a great card, I love the gorgeous wreath. Thank you for entering the Crafts Galore Encore Challenge , "Anything Goes". We hope to see you back again soon! Karola, DT, InvisiblePinkCardsReplyDelete
Such pretty embossed holly with the colored berries, Beckie! Love that die cut wreath too! Thanks for sharing this with us at Merry Monday!ReplyDelete
Lovely Christmas card using such beautiful die cuts. How wonderful you found a ribbon with Merry Christmas in Welsh. My grandmother was Welsh but sadly we were never taught the beautiful language of Wales. Thank you for playing along with us at Fab'n'Funky this week. Pat K xReplyDelete
Such an elegant card Beckkie and I am always partial to an easel card.ReplyDelete
Thanks so much for sharing with us at Penny Black and More challenge.
B x
Lovely wreath and I like the coloured berries on the embossed holly. Thanks for playing at Merry Monday.ReplyDelete
Beautiful Christmas wreath and easel card .Thanks for sharing on Christmas Card ChallengesReplyDelete
Lovely easel card and a pretty design. Thanks for joining us at Winter Wonderland. Carol S. DTReplyDelete
Very pretty easel card! Thank you for joining us at Merry Monday!ReplyDelete
such a pretty easel christmas card in traditional colours! thank you so much for playing along with us this month at penny black and more.ReplyDelete
Beautiful card. Love that wreath. Thanks so much for joining us at Christmas Card Challenges.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous7 May 2015, 11:51:00
Very pretty card. The red and green really pop on that white background.ReplyDelete
Thanks for joining our sketch challenge at Die Cuttin' Divas this week!
Very striking with the red a green combination on the white back ground, it makes it look very classy - thanks for sharing with us at TTCRD this week and good luckReplyDelete
Andrea x
- Anonymous7 May 2015, 14:14:00
Hello, A lovely project, I love the image and the colour choice. A lovely style. Thank you for joining us this fortnight. Simply Papercrafts Good luck. We would love to see you again for our next challenge.ReplyDelete
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So pretty! Thanks for joining us at Die Cuttin' Divas this week.ReplyDelete
lovely card :)ReplyDelete
Thanks for playing along in the Sister Act Card Challenge.
Thanks for joining us at Crafts 4 Eternity this week :) Fabulous card! hugs xReplyDelete
What a lovely easel card you have created here. Love the wreath and colours you have used. Thanks for joining in with our 'Clean and Simple' challenge at Winter Wonderland this week. Hope you join us againReplyDelete
Eileen x
Great easel card Beckie and I love your creative use of all those dies.ReplyDelete
Thanks for sharing with us at Christmas Card Challenges.
Carol x
What a very pretty card!! Thanks for joining us at DCD this week!ReplyDelete
Lovely Christmas card!!! Thank you for sharing with us at Fussy and Fancy and good luck!ReplyDelete
Hugs, Sandra F&F DT


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Needoo Grill
Time Out says
In the great battle of the Whitechapel lamb chop – an unofficial war being waged between Needoo and its nearby neighbours Tayyabs and Lahore Kebab House – it's hard to pick a winner. The sizzling plates of succulent lamb that you get here aren't cooked to pink excellence like at Lahore, and aren't as pungent as at Tayyabs, but they are spiced to absolute perfection. Opened in 2009 by a former Tayyabs manager, this squashed space doesn't suffer from the same problem of endless queues (though you will usually have a wait), but it is just as gaudy. Bright red walls, leather benches and blaring flatscreen TVs are the order of the day, yet with curries this good, the decor just fades into the background. What you get are succulent karahi dishes and specials that include nihari (lamb on the bone) and a very passable biriani. Pakoras and other pre-prepared snacks can often be disappointingly stale, but service is swift and friendly, and it's hard to argue with the appeal of BYOB and curries of such high standard.
87 New Road
|Tube: Aldgate East or Whitechapel tube
|Do you own this business?
Users say (39)
Average User Rating
3.3 / 5
Rating Breakdown
- 5 star:17
- 4 star:4
- 3 star:1
- 2 star:5
- 1 star:11
9 of us dined on Tuesday at 7pm. Starters were ok, mixed grill was quite nice, but the whole night was spoilt by what can only be described as a Mace like invisible fog which filled the whole of the upstairs restaurant. There was no air circulating so all customers were coughing chilli all night (very unpleasant) we received a number of wrong dishes, much of which was swimming in oil. We ordered the chicken ticks biriyani. The meat in this dish was so spicy it was inedible - this is supposed to be a MILD dish! And two days later, my insides are still on fire and let's just say that the food has been memorable for all the wrong reasons! Won't be returning
This is not a restaurant. I would like to call this as a Fish and Chips shop. Last week i went to dine with my friend, we have been given a small table, which was really squeezy. Then we decided not to order much as we used to. We just ordered the Thursday Special Chicken Biryani. When they brought the food it was really difficult to put them on the table as they have to move plates and other things. Well..we were okay until there. We were eating the guy came with the "Bill" which we didn't even requested. They keep a piece of half tomato and a provide separate chicken curry with biryani, i was thinking to eat those at the end but the guy didn't even asked if i finished. He just took away my food. I was very upset and embarrassed and they thought as we may leave without paying or dont have money..what ever.
We too wanted to order some drinks at the end but since they gave us a bill we thought not to stay anymore.
This was our last visit, i will never ever go there. They were so rude, how could someone bring the bill and take your food while you are eating. I too recommended my friends not to use this restaurant any more.
Absolute rubbish! Generic Indian food not even done that well. Avoid and go to Tayyabs!
Every-single-time it is a delicious treat! There is not one time I went there or ordered for take-away and they didn't deliver. My all-time favorite is the Mix grill starter
One word for the food served here - revolting! And yes, there is smoke and its really not very clean. Steer clear.
Best lamb, hands-down.
We had a wonderful meal in the Needoo Grill. The food was absolutely stunning. We had a variety of dishes, all excellent. The waiter was very friendly and helpful and it was excellent value for money..
Easily some of the best authentic Asian cooking we've had. A delightful restaurant with attentive staff, equally good for a quick delicious meal or dress up and make it a special occasion. A real find.
This place is massive and always busy. The food is amazing and the choice is endless. Highly recommended
Excellent food, excellent service & excellent atmosphere. A great place to spend quality time with family and friends. One should book the table before going there to avoid waiting in queue.
If u want a good cheap curry with no frills this is the best place to go. The guys are gun fun who will have a laugh and joke with u. Good value for money. Highly recommended
Really really poor quality.
Food swimming in oil, complained the manager agreed, said no charge, but that is not the point I wanted to eat a nice meal not leave hungry because food was inedible.
The place was buzzing with very drunk people.
Such a shame I used to eat here almost monthly, then quarterly, then yearly, now never again! why? because the place is bigger and bigger in size and the quality has declined to such a level its inedible.
The breads are dry.
The meat very chewy.
The portions tiny and the wait staff very rude.
Have eaten here before a few times and the food has been great, with a nice buzzy atmosphere. Went tonight though and the place had filled up with large drunk party groups and the service had ground to a halt. Waited 30 mins for a table (located right next to a toilet) and a further 45 mins for starters. Gave up waiting for main course.... Staff did not seem too bothered and did not appear to want to resolve the situation.
Had a Xmas party there and food was delicious and really authentic Punjabi food. Everybody enjoyed the party as food arrived in time with good waiter service.
Went to this restaurant last week with my friends. The place was very quite at the time only 3 table where full. It took us 20mins to get the waiters attention, he took our order and left for another half hour or so, he then comes back to take our order again. I had to calm down my friend when the guy took the order again, so after that little drama we ordered our usual stuff like grill chicken and Briyani and naan bread etc. Only that the order took another 1hr 30mins. while were waiting the place got quite pack out. However the annoying part was that the customers that came in 45mins or so after us, got some high class service, with not one but two waiters for 3 people and the food came before ours. which really ticked everyone off.
After a long wait, we finally got our food (yay). We tried bits of everything. But the half grill chicken is something, which we will never forget. I nearly choked to my death upon the table, I started having ideas that the waiters tried to poison me or something, or they forgot what a chicken was. The chicken was sooo dry, it was as if they marinated a sand block, I chewed and chewed but it wasn't having it. The piece of chicken seemed like it was rebelling against me, fighting for its freedom. I then finally managed to gulp it down only to have it stuck to my throat. I got up moving around jumping up and down, the waiter just looked at me for a sec then looked away like nothing happened. Then all my friends jumped up and slapped my back red. Then the piece of chicken flew out of my mouth screaming "freedom!".
Straight after that incident I couldn't eat anymore, contemplating on how I would have missed my mom, if I were to be chocked to death by a piece of chicken. And how they would have announced my death on the obituary. The bit that i knew that they don't care about customer service is when I pulled out my money they cleaned up our table faster than the service it's self, smiling at us like nothing happened.
I don't recommend this place to anyone at all. It seems like they know what they are doing but all they care about is money and not customer service.
Live 5 minutes away and have been visiting for last 4 years. After tonight, don;t think I will go again. Charged £1.90 for 2 poppadoms already on table, 4.95 for a large rice that was of regular size, asked my curry to have a kick. Was in fact served the usual, bland generic curry sauce dripping in ghee/oil scooped from a school canteen style container and quickly heated. Not fresh or made to order. Service was indifferent and that is being generous. I finished my curry in about 5 minutes as the portions were very small. Don't bother.
Advice: do not get complacent, London is a fickle place and trends can change very quickly.
I really don't see any good in this place any more, the food are over spiced- I mean really over spiced. Every single item on the menus is sooooo oily, the kebabs don't taste like meat, the Tikkas are under cooked. What really burns me is, people think it's great. Ok if you want to be diabetic or want heart desease - WELCOME. Ok finally what makes food taste delicious, ITS BUTTER, and what makes it taste even more better ITS MORE BUTTER and in Needoos and Tayabs there's plenty of it.
If I had to rate the indian / asian restaurants that I have been to in London so far (not only east London) , Needoo would get the lowest score among them all. 1. Service: Condescending and incompetent 2. Food: Didn't taste much and it was challenging to eat and digest it. The only edible dish was the grilled cheese squares. 3. Atmosphere: Tacky and no taste 4. Mango lassi: should be called sugar-overload mango coloured lassi. 5. Price: One should be paid to eat such foot. Not recommended. At all.
It was a trip with my (ten) office colleagues, since we pre-booked so no long wait in a queue. It was my frist visit to this place so looked all nice, until we started ordering. I speak Urdu/Hindi fluently so I asked few things about the dish (Nargasi Koftay) I was ordering since it was not a regular dish & it was a speciality cooked on certain days of week and thursday evening was the day when its served, I felt lucky, Oh God I was so wrong. When food started to come, they messed up all starters, and majority just accepted what they didnt order, apart from four lucky ones (including me) who actually got what they ordered. One guy didnt even get the lamb chops (Starter) at all & we had to cancel it. Same practice was repeated with main dishes, eight orders out of ten were correct two were onl accepted because there was no point waiting, but since I am a little fussy about food, I told them I am waiting for "Nargasi Koftay", then I was told "Sir we have to check if they are being served today or not". I was like, hey its thursday evening and your menu says they are served & the guy who took the order also said and took the order of "Nargasi Koftay" an hour ago. So he said sure, came back saying, 15 more minutes & your dish will be here. I thought yep, worth the wait. After about 10 minutes they placed a dish infront of me, "Two small mini meat balls, One over boiled egg cut in half & plate full of Potatoes", and I was "SHOCKED" I called the person who took the order & asked him, "What dish is it?" His reply was, "What did you order sir?" I said "Nargasi Koftay" and he said, Yes Sir, these are Nargasi Koftay. I am of Indo-Pak origin, professionally trained cook and he told me it was Nargasi Koftay so my obvious reply was, "Do you know how to do cooking?" This is "Koftay Aloo" not even near Nargasi Koftay. But he insisted no these are Nagasi koftay. Their friendliness vanished after I complained, most of them ran away from our table and We Ordered 14 Naan (bread) we only got 11 and in the end we got a Bill of £165 that I was unable to make sense of because no itemised bill was given, it was just a paper with £165 written on it. (We didn't order any drinks from restaurant). Some dishes were good as I tasted my colleagues dishes, but being a chef myself I would say, they can Rob the people who are not Asian by feeding them Indian like dishes but its definitely not an authentic indian/pakistani food. I will not recommend it to any Asian at least since they will mostly come out disappointed like me, however it may be good for other European nationalities since they wont know the difference. But I am not going there again
Brilliant. I love this place, and come at least once every two weeks. Occasionally I still visit Tayyabs, but the staff here are more pleasant and the queues less painful. The food is great. Is it as good as Tayyabs?...Probably, yes, and sometimes better - though Tayyabs may just still be king of the lamb chop, and the food at Needoo is potentially slightly spicier - but I wouldn't keep coming back if I thought I could have a better experience round the corner. I see that some are complaining about the service - seriously?! It's a super busy, packed restaurant, and I think they're pretty good. They maybe curt, or impatient, but you'll eat like a king and pay very little. If you want a waiter to fawn over you, tell you his name and ask how your day was go to TGI Fridays, and free up a table for someone else.
Rude staff oily food, do not recommend!
This place has lost it. Used to be a regular, and when I say that I mean free dishes everything kind of regular. But then after a couple of shameful experiences where I took guests there and the food was disgusting and I did not complain because I did not want to make a fuss with a guest with me. i decided to give it one more try on my own and all I can say is I never paid the bill. Really don't bother, unless it goes back to its past standards of large portions, low prices and about 2 thirds less ghee
Food is pretty much the same as Tayyabs (I believe Needoo was opened by a previous chef) but without the ridiculous queues. There is a reason for those queues though - the food is amazing and Needoo is no different - infinitely better than the Brick Lane restaurants which have now all lowered in quality to fight for tourists and groups from outside London, with 'free drinks and 30% off'. I agree that the standard slipped in Tayyabs a little (It would have to slip along way to not be good though) and I personally think Needoo is as good as Tayyabs used to be. People moaning about the service - I think it is quick and attentive. Obviously if you are being quick sometimes the friendliness suffers but I would much prefer my dinner than small talk. Lamb chops are a must. Mmmmm hungry now.
We went to Needo's yesterday -Friday 9 Nov- .We hadnt been for a year or so & thought the standard had gone down; the service was quick, waiters pleasant but my fish masala was swimming in oil, my husband's mutton masala was tough & very hot without fragrance.Next time we'll try another place.
Experienced curry lover here...went to Needoo after seeing it was in the top five curry houses in london (The Guardian). Arrived and didn't land a good table but the waiter was friendly and service seemed quick. Popadom's came without asking, although we would later be charged...the starters came, , samosas were stale, mutton tikka was tougher than expected and was knocked onto my lap by a clumsy waiter half way through...jeans ruined and i had to fight to get it taken off the bill. Now for the mains...both mains came 3 minutes into the starters and were at a low takeaway standard at best, seriously! Portions were small and large rice was a in fact a normal amount not really for two people. The service was fast and although the waiters floated a little and my jeans are stained with turmeric, I cant say they were much different from the norm.....Food was a big let down end of story.
Please don't think this is just another review from somebody who has not visited Needoos Grill before and Tayyabs, Lahore, Mirch Masala, Miran Masala, I am not! Moreover I was a regular here until this place went the way of all the rest of the 'discovered' restaurants: 1) Smaller portions, 2) Grossly increased prices, 3) Decline in quality of meat used, 4) Lack of finesse in spicing to reflect the the change of clientele, 5) Sinful decline in service, and I could go on but let me suggest you go there and make your own mind up. I for one am totally disappointed and frustrated that this restaurant has 'fallen'.
Try the Behari mutton Tikka! Didn't take to the poppadoms...
Amazing restaurant - looking forward to another visit soon! Food is reasonable and tasty - so tasty we had to take our leftovers home in a takeaway box, which the waiter whisked out as though it was a regular request. Despite it being a busy evening, staff were incredibly friendly and obliging and we didn't have to wait long for food. Try the dry meat curry, yum - and of course a mango lassi ; )
Excellent place to eat! There lamb chops were 100% better then Tayyabs and so was their fish. Their quality of food was wonderful and so much better then Tayyabs. I think Tayyabs are losing their quality because they are so busy, so they are lacking this, but Needo' food is so fresh and totally awesome! I will be going there now and I will be letting my family know that this is a better place to go.
Brilliant Place! Jugs of water on every table without having to ask. I always just have a starter in there as the Needoo Mixed Grill (£10) on the starter menu contains 2 kebabs, 4 Lamb Chops and 5 pieces of chicken - all beautifully prepared and spiced. And do try a jug of Mango Lassi which is so light and tasty. The Kulfi comes on sticks which are actually chopsticks - how clever. Hot towels and mints are standard and where else can you get a Cappucino for £1.30?
Amazing food, great service, superb value for money. The staff could not do enough for us. From the outside it does look a bit like a chicken shop but inside you are treated to delicious food and great service. Well worth a visit....I'll be going back very soon!
Best indo-pak food in the london.