Circle of cat

The door creaked open and the cat slipped between the doorpost and the door and padded across the room, then up on the windowsill. “Hey,” he said to the cat. “I did shut that door. I know I shut that door.” She looked at him, interested. Her eyes were dark yellow, the colour of amber. Then she jumped down from the sill, onto the bed, where she wrapped herself into a curl of fur and went back to sleep, a circle of cat upon the old counterpane.

An encounter between Shadow and Bast in American Gods by Neil Gaiman.

How Does Bias Affect Forensics Experts?

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Pacific Standard Bettina Chang June 5, 2014

You’re familiar with the scene: A skeleton lies, inscrutable, on a table in a dimly lit medical examiner’s office. The M.E. pokes around a bit, the camera zooms in dramatically on the clavicle, then she rattles off a few implausibly detailed observations as detectives take notes.
The typical crime procedural depicts this as a well-honed process, but the reality is rarely so simple. A new study published in Science and Justice examines how the complex nature of forensic analysis and pressures on forensics experts could lead them to incorrect conclusions.

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It’s not about what you’re wearing.

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word: aphorism

A pithy observation which contains a general truth.

Examples of aphorisms include the precepts which Python is designed on: beautiful is better than ugly; explicit is better than implicit; simple is better than complex; complex is better than complicated; readability counts.

word: sedulous

showing dedication and diligence

word: synecdoche

figure of speech in which a part is made to represent the whole and vice versa. e.g. using ‘England’ to represent ‘the English cricket team’.

word: syncretic

amalgamation or attempted amalgamation of different religions, cultures or schools of thought

Fantasy in G minor for handbell choir

Fantasy in G minor by Arnold Sherman, for handbell choir.

Our church played this for offertory on Easter Sunday; it was well-received. I still feel this recording should have taken the piece at a much more relaxed pace to give it more space to breathe. Also wish there was a equaliser function in (free) Spotify.

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Bánh mì in New York City: Bánh Mì Saigon

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I went on the road for close on two weeks a month ago, and I figure I owe it to both of my readers to follow bánh mì in cities I visit. Hartford does not appear to have much in the way of bánh mì (Hartford, apparently, barely has food at all, at least in the downtown). In Boston, alas, I didn’t have time to visit reader-recommended Ba Le. But in between was a fantastic visit with my brother and sister-in-law which afforded an opportunity for a day trip into the city, wherein I supplemented my gawking and sightseeing with a flyby to a well-regarded bánh mì place out near the Little Italy/Chinatown area. And I stated writing this there, but it kind of fell by the wayside, so I’m finishing it up now.

Bánh Mì Saigon (198 Grand Street) is a venue widely regarded among the collective wisdom of…

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