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Thursday, 27 May 2010
Sunday, 23 May 2010
Beware the Office Refrigerator!
One great way to save money is to bring your own lunch to work, and more people are doing so in these tough times. Unfortunately, that means tangling with that workplace battlefield known as the office fridge ... and the lunch thieves ...
Do not, as many suggest, consider adding unpleasant substances to your lunch to trap the thief. If you actually like sardine, marshmallow and jalapeno sandwiches, it’s the thief’s problem if she gets nauseated. If a thief with a peanut allergy goes into anaphylactic shock after munching on your chicken satay, you’re not responsible, either. But if a lunch thief becomes ill after a meal that you yourself would not eat, you will not only get fired, you will face criminal charges. In the 1990s, The Press-Enterprise reported on a California nurse who was charged with a felony after she spiked her own water bottle with formalin, sending her thirsty, thieving co-worker to the hospital for two days.
See full article at http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/way-to-work/Beware-the-Office-Refrigerator.html
Thursday, 20 May 2010
Jury Tampering
Jury tampering is the crime of unduly attempting to influence the composition and/or decisions of a jury during the course of a trial.
The means by which this crime could be perpetrated can include attempting to discredit potential jurors to ensure they will not be selected for duty. Once selected, jurors could be bribed or intimidated to act in a certain manner on duty. It could also involve making unauthorized contact with them for the purpose of introducing prohibited outside information and then arguing for a mistrial.
Friday, 14 May 2010
Jury Rig
Jury rigging refers to makeshift repairs or temporary contrivances, made with only the tools and materials that happen to be on hand.
Originally a nautical term, on sailing ships a jury rig is a replacement mast and yards improvised in case of damage or loss of the original mast.
Monday, 10 May 2010
Types of forks
- Beef fork
- A fork used for picking up very thin slices of meat. This fork is shaped like a regular fork, but it is slightly bigger and the tines are curved outward. The curves are used for piercing the thin sliced beef.
- Berry fork
- Carving fork
- A two-pronged fork used to hold meat steady while it is being carved. They are often sold with carving knives or slicers as part of a carving set.
- Cheese fork
- Chip fork
- A two-pronged disposable fork, usually made out of sterile wood (though increasingly of plastic), specifically designed for the eating of chips (known as french fries in North America).
- Cocktail fork
- A small fork resembling a trident, used for spearing cocktail garnishes such as olives.
- Cold meat fork
- Crab fork
- A short, sharp and narrow three-pronged or two-pronged fork designed to easily extract meat when consuming cooked crab.
- Dessert fork (or Pudding fork in Great Britain)
- Any of several different special types of forks designed to eat desserts, such as a pastry fork. They usually have only three tines and are smaller than standard dinner forks.
- Dinner fork
- Fish fork
- Fondue fork
- A narrow fork, usually having two tines, long shaft and an insulating handle, typically of wood, for dipping bread into a pot containing sauce
- A utensil combining characteristics of a knife and a fork
- Meat fork
- Olive fork
- Oyster fork
- Pastry fork
- Pickle fork
- A long handled fork used for extracting pickles from a jar
- Pie fork
- Relish fork
- Salad fork
- Sporf
- A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon, a fork and a knife
- A utensil combining characteristics of a spoon and a fork
- Tea fork
- Toasting fork
- A fork, usually having two tines, very long metal shaft and sometimes an insulating handle, for toasting food over coals or an open flame
Novelty forks
- Spaghetti fork
- A fork with a metal shaft loosely fitted inside a hollow plastic handle. The shaft protrudes through the top of the handle, ending in a bend that allows the metal part of the fork to be easily rotated with one hand while the other hand is holding the plastic handle. This supposedly allows spaghetti to be easily wound onto the tines.
See also
Friday, 7 May 2010
Tuesday, 4 May 2010
Which words are pronounced differently when capitalized?
polish and Polish
nice and Nice
job and Job
reading and Reading
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