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Exactly which sausage ingredients are haram - lips, eyelids or aholes?
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Was Abraham supplying the sausages? Why did the other inmate punch him and not the cook or the prison authorities for the sausages? And were they discussing sausages in general, or do sausages feature in the jail menu?
I guess a common theme of discussion between a Jew and a Muslim could be food ingredients considering how similar kosher and halal/haram laws are, but I have no idea how such an exchange of ideas could lead to an exchange of blows.
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I guess a common theme of discussion between a Jew and a Muslim could be food ingredients considering how similar kosher and halal/haram laws are, but I have no idea how such an exchange of ideas could lead to an exchange of blows.
So many questions
The reason he was roughed up by other inmates was likely that he didn't fit the profile. Originally he tried to avoid being held, by arguing (this was later dismissed) that his dad's immunity as a member of the diplomatic mission to the US applied to him too.
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he wasn't alone ! It involved Irish Wild Geese , Anglophobe French , a cowboy from New Orleans , too .
turks when abroad can feel safe in eating in Jewish restaurants because kosher meets most of Islamic requirements for food . Can't tell if it meets all .
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turks when abroad can feel safe in eating in Jewish restaurants because kosher meets most of Islamic requirements for food . Can't tell if it meets all .
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German patient vaccinated against Covid 217 times
A 62-year-old man from Germany has, against medical advice, been vaccinated 217 times against Covid, doctors report.The bizarre case is documented in The Lancet Infectious Diseases journal.
The shots were bought and given privately within the space of 29 months.
The man appears to have suffered no ill effects, researchers from the University of Erlangen-Nuremberg say.
'Very interested'
"We learned about his case via newspaper articles," Dr Kilian Schober, from the university's microbiology department, said."We then contacted him and invited him to undergo various tests in Erlangen. He was very interested in doing so."
The man provided fresh blood and saliva samples.
The researchers also tested some frozen blood samples of his that had been stored in recent years.
Dr Schober said: "We were able to take blood samples ourselves when the man received a further vaccination during the study at his own insistence.
"We were able to use these samples to determine exactly how the immune system reacts to the vaccination."
Evidence for 130 of the jabs was collected by the public prosecutor of the city of Magdeburg, who opened an investigation with the allegation of fraud, but no criminal charges were brought.
Covid vaccines cannot cause infection but can teach the body how to fight the disease.
Immune system
Messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA) vaccines work by showing the body's cells a bit of genetic code from the virus.The immune system should then recognise and know how to fight Covid should they encounter it for real.
Dr Schober worried hyper-stimulating the immune system with repeated doses might have fatigued certain cells.
But the researchers found no evidence of this in the 62-year-old.
And there was no sign that he had ever been infected with Covid.
'Favoured approach'
The researchers said: "Importantly, we do not endorse hyper-vaccination as a strategy to enhance adaptive immunity."And the results of their tests on the 62-year-old were insufficient for making far-reaching conclusions, let alone recommendations for the general public.
"Current research indicates that a three-dose vaccination, coupled with regular top-up vaccines for vulnerable groups, remains the favoured approach," they say on the university's website.
"There is no indication that more vaccines are required."
The NHS says Covid vaccines are normally given seasonally but some people with a severely weakened immune system may need additional protection at other times - and it will contact those whose NHS record suggests may be eligible.
Covid vaccines can have side effects. A common one is a sore arm from the injection.
https://www.bbc.com/news/health-68477735
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Don't give the anti-vaxxers more ammo!
Diagnosis: A sore arm.
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Is Italy ready for cricket-powder pizza?
Cricket farmers tout environmental benefits, chefs praise 'elasticity' and nutty taste
At the seafront pizzeria La Rambla in Maccarese, Italy, a short drive from Rome, chef Carlo Del Buono stood at the kitchen counter, throwing a few fistfuls of cricket powder into a bowl of pizza dough made with wheat flour."It adds elasticity," he said, as he mixed the dough. "Makes it easier to work with."
Del Buono is one of a number of chefs throughout Italy keen to introduce insect products — high in protein and sustainably farmed — into their restaurant menu.
"Crickets fall completely within the range of Italian tastes," he said, biting into a slice of his cricket powder pizza fresh from the oven. "It's a nutty taste, with a hint of anchovies. Perfect for a vegetable-covered pizza."
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The European Union authorized the adoption of powdered domestic crickets for human consumption in early 2023, but Italy's right-wing government dragged its heels in approving its sale, doing so only in late December.
Agricultural Minister Francesco Lollobrigida and others argued insect flour would contaminate Italian culinary traditions, with fake news circulating that bakeries would be mandated to bake with cricket flour.
The right-wing League party tried to pass a measure that would ban cricket flour from school cafeterias. And protesting farmers on tractors last month including insect products on their list of complaints against the EU.
Benefits of (cricket) farm to table
Jose Cianni and Fabrizio Lunazzi say they are unfazed by the resistance."I think of it like sushi a decade or so ago," said Lunazzi.
Cianni and Lunazzi, co-founders of Nutrinsect, a cricket-farming startup in the Italian region of Marche, have ambitious plans to introduce insects into the culinary offerings of a country known for its adherence to tradition.
They, along with other investors, are the first in Italy to venture into cricket production for human consumption, launching their startup 2020, spending the last four years fine-tuning production.
Their cricket farm, a low warehouse off a rural road, houses small hot and humid rooms smelling slightly briny and that are lined with plastic bins teeming with crickets. Ringing out all around is the thick trill of 45-day-old males at their sexual peak.
"This is their mating cry," said Cianni.
Crickets contain 70 per cent protein compared to meat, which has at most 23 per cent. Farming crickets uses a fraction of the land and just 15 litres of water for one kilogram of flour compared to meat, which requires 15,000 litres, according to Cianni.
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Lobsters of the insect world
But breeding crickets is no simple endeavour, requiring precisely calibrated conditions and a cap on density. Over-exposure to humans who tend them (more than 1.5 hours a week) raises their stress levels, putting them at risk of outbreaks of viruses, similar to stress-induced herpes in humans, say the producers.With no chemicals or antibiotics involved, disease almost inevitably leads to death. Cianni says, through experimentation and careful study, the company has managed to reduce mortality to 0.1 per cent.
"Crickets are called the lobsters of the insect world because they taste so good," said Cianni, listing off its hazelnut and pistachio notes, as well as a shrimp-like taste they have. "But they are extremely fragile creatures, which is why so few companies have launched so far."
Challenges of scaling up
Most of the orders for the cricket powder have come so far from chefs. For now, price remains the major barrier to wider use.A kilogram of cricket powder costs 40-70 euros, compared to a kilogram of chicken (with the same amount of protein), costing just 50 euro cents per kilogram.
To bring price down by half through economies of scale, Nutrinsect plans to up its production tenfold by the end of the year.
The company has been in touch with the Aspire Food Group, the world's biggest cricket producer in London, Ont., and says future collaboration isn't out of the question.
"The market has so much potential that companies will need to cooperate in creating networks," said Lunazzi. "It's not competition we're worried about, but meeting demand."
https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/cricket-powder-food-italy-1.7136422
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"A kilogram of cricket powder costs 40-70 euros, compared to a kilogram of chicken (with the same amount of protein), costing just 50 euro cents per kilogram."
What does that sentence mean? If it was meant to compare price per x of protein, it wasn't parsed well at all.
"A kilogram of cricket powder costs 40-70 euros, compared to a kilogram of chicken (with the same amount of protein), costing just 50 euro cents per kilogram."
What does that sentence mean? If it was meant to compare price per x of protein, it wasn't parsed well at all.
The aliens are back planting monoliths
“When I first saw it, I was a bit taken aback as it looked like some sort of a UFO,” said Muir, a builder who lives in Hay-on-Wye nearby. “It seemed like a very fine metallic [material], almost like a surgical steel. The steel structure was almost 10ft long and looked perfectly levelled and steady, despite the weather being windy.”
Since there is no way to drive up to the top of the Hay Bluff hill, Muir suggested it could have been taken by a group of people or dropped off by the helicopter on its spot.
“It didn’t seem like it was chucked in there, instead it has been accurately put in the ground,” he told PA Media. “However, there were no obvious tracks around it and one would think that there would be a lot of mess around it, but there wasn’t.”
“When I first saw it, I was a bit taken aback as it looked like some sort of a UFO,” said Muir, a builder who lives in Hay-on-Wye nearby. “It seemed like a very fine metallic [material], almost like a surgical steel. The steel structure was almost 10ft long and looked perfectly levelled and steady, despite the weather being windy.”
Since there is no way to drive up to the top of the Hay Bluff hill, Muir suggested it could have been taken by a group of people or dropped off by the helicopter on its spot.
“It didn’t seem like it was chucked in there, instead it has been accurately put in the ground,” he told PA Media. “However, there were no obvious tracks around it and one would think that there would be a lot of mess around it, but there wasn’t.”
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it is an American thing to attract attention to how they are the only civilized civilization on earth that can detect alien civilizations thus we should roll over and die and accept anything from a pallette of seperatists to ISIL . This one first appeared in world famous Göbeklitepe (12000 BC and all) taken away by Jandarma who had planted it in the first place and re-appeared in Diyarbakır in a prospective UNESCO site that would host an astronomy meet on moon observation . Says in runic letters Göktürk style , look at the sky , see the moon . And as you can see the aliens can not do proper welding at the edges .
so , ı hear some British noble has been suicided as the father of a child of Kate Middleton on the 25th of February this year and she refuses to serve or whatever in the usual PR work while the Prince of Wales keeps cheating on her and aliens are allies of London , too ?
so , ı hear some British noble has been suicided as the father of a child of Kate Middleton on the 25th of February this year and she refuses to serve or whatever in the usual PR work while the Prince of Wales keeps cheating on her and aliens are allies of London , too ?
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Nova Scotia's Hope For Wildlife welcomes 'completely bald' raccoon
Hope For Wildlife, a wildlife rehabilitation centre in Seaforth, N.S., has recently taken an animal into its care and its appearance may have some people doing a double take.
The centre posted photos of a northern raccoon with what is believed to be alopecia – otherwise known as hair loss – on its Facebook page(opens in a new tab) Wednesday morning.
The animal is described as “completely bald" in addition to being “not friendly” and “feisty.”
The post says the animal is a female, though Hope Swinimer, the founder and director of Hope for Wildlife, later referred to it as a male.
She says the centre received a call from people in Cape Breton who discovered the animal, but they weren’t sure what it was at first.
“Once we got a live trap and were able to bring him in, it was clear that he was a raccoon, but he’s a bald raccoon," Swinimer says.
Swinimer says she has only see two bald raccoons in the 25 years she has been doing wildlife work.
“We don’t see it very often, but in every species we do get cases in where the animals come in bald, but it might happen once a year,” she says.
Hope For Wildlife says the critter could have an autoimmune disorder, though it hasn’t been fully diagnosed yet.
“We’re going to sedate him over the next couple of days, there’s no big hurry because he’s healthy, and just do some skin scraping, maybe a biopsy just to be sure it’s something genetic, like alopecia, something like that,” says Swinimer.
The wildlife rehabilitation centre says it is “amazed” the animal was able to live through the winter without any injuries -- or fur.
“How this little guy lived through the whole winter without any fur, I don’t know," Swinimer says. "He would of succumbed to the temperatures if he wasn’t probably sleeping away a lot of the winter and not coming out very often, but he looks really healthy.”
But can the animal go back to the wild without fur? Swinimer says it’s hard to say.
“I think the long-term prognosis is good,” she says. “However, he may not be able to have a typical life in the wild.”
For now, the raccoon has been given the name "Rufus" by one of Hope For Wildlife's staff members after the naked mole-rat character on Kim Possible, a Disney TV series.
Hope For Wildlife is no stranger to interesting raccoons – they’ve previously welcomed several albino ones(opens in a new tab).
https://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/nova-sc...fe-welcomes-completely-bald-raccoon-1.6805741
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Dates on works of art mean the date they thought about doing it, rather than the date your staff actually made it?
Three Damien Hirst sculptures that were made by preserving animals in formaldehyde were dated by his company to the 1990s even though they were made in 2017, an investigation by the Guardian has found.
The trio of works, made by preserving a dove, a shark and two calves, have in recent years been exhibited in galleries in Hong Kong, New York, Munich, London and Oxford as examples of works from the 1990s, his Turner prize-winning period.
However, all three were made by Hirst’s employees at a workshop in Dudbridge, Gloucestershire in 2017. The artworks first appeared at an exhibition at Gagosian’s Hong Kong art gallery that same year. The show, Visual Candy and Natural History, was billed as an exhibition of the artist’s works “from the early to mid-1990s”.
Among the artworks on show were three formaldehyde sculptures that had never been seen in public before. They included Cain and Abel, 1994, which consisted of twin calves that appeared side-by-side in white boxes, and Dove, 1999, which featured a bird, wings outstretched as if in flight, set in a single liquid-filled acrylic box.
In response to questions from the Guardian, Hirst’s company Science Ltd said the date that the artist assigns to his formaldehyde works does not represent the date they were made.
It said: “Formaldehyde works are conceptual artworks and the date Damien Hirst assigns to them is the date of the conception of the work. He has been clear over the years when asked what is important in conceptual art; it is not the physical making of the object or the renewal of its parts, but rather the intention and the idea behind the artwork.”
The Gagosian Hong Kong exhibition where the dove, dissected shark and twin calves made their debut was a useful opportunity for Hirst to showcase his older works to a new market in east Asia. In an interview with the South China Morning Post to coincide with the 2017 exhibition, Hirst remarked: “I prefer them now to when I made them.” The same article observed some of the artworks were “showing their age”.
That may accord with a suggestion – denied by Hirst – that there was a concerted effort by his company to give the sculptures the appearance of artworks that had suffered from years of wear and tear. Sources told the Guardian that Science instructed employees to artificially age the sculptures, making them look as if they were made in the 1990s.
Cain and Abel, 1994 consists of twin calves side-by-side in white boxes.
Three Damien Hirst sculptures that were made by preserving animals in formaldehyde were dated by his company to the 1990s even though they were made in 2017, an investigation by the Guardian has found.
The trio of works, made by preserving a dove, a shark and two calves, have in recent years been exhibited in galleries in Hong Kong, New York, Munich, London and Oxford as examples of works from the 1990s, his Turner prize-winning period.
However, all three were made by Hirst’s employees at a workshop in Dudbridge, Gloucestershire in 2017. The artworks first appeared at an exhibition at Gagosian’s Hong Kong art gallery that same year. The show, Visual Candy and Natural History, was billed as an exhibition of the artist’s works “from the early to mid-1990s”.
Among the artworks on show were three formaldehyde sculptures that had never been seen in public before. They included Cain and Abel, 1994, which consisted of twin calves that appeared side-by-side in white boxes, and Dove, 1999, which featured a bird, wings outstretched as if in flight, set in a single liquid-filled acrylic box.
In response to questions from the Guardian, Hirst’s company Science Ltd said the date that the artist assigns to his formaldehyde works does not represent the date they were made.
It said: “Formaldehyde works are conceptual artworks and the date Damien Hirst assigns to them is the date of the conception of the work. He has been clear over the years when asked what is important in conceptual art; it is not the physical making of the object or the renewal of its parts, but rather the intention and the idea behind the artwork.”
The Gagosian Hong Kong exhibition where the dove, dissected shark and twin calves made their debut was a useful opportunity for Hirst to showcase his older works to a new market in east Asia. In an interview with the South China Morning Post to coincide with the 2017 exhibition, Hirst remarked: “I prefer them now to when I made them.” The same article observed some of the artworks were “showing their age”.
That may accord with a suggestion – denied by Hirst – that there was a concerted effort by his company to give the sculptures the appearance of artworks that had suffered from years of wear and tear. Sources told the Guardian that Science instructed employees to artificially age the sculptures, making them look as if they were made in the 1990s.
Cain and Abel, 1994 consists of twin calves side-by-side in white boxes.
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Stop assuming that we're all sheeple and that we're going to fall for another of your cleverly constructed philosophical traps, K.!
Space is not empty.
Vacuum energy is an underlying background energy that exists in space throughout the entire Universe.
Vacuum energy is a special case of zero-point energy that relates to the quantum vacuum.
Lamb shift is caused by interactions between the virtual photons created through vacuum energy fluctuations.
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