New York, Sep 6: A school in Birmingham, England, was forced to apologise after they accidently served sandwiches, made with bacon, to Muslim students.
Under Islamic law, Muslims are strictly forbidden from eating pork.
According to a UK publication, the incident came to light when a Muslim teacher took a bite of a sandwich, which was supposed to contain halal chicken and sweet corn, and realized that that the smoky thing she was tasting was actually pork, the New York Daily News reported.
Later, the principal of Ninestiles School, Chris Quinn, blamed the blunder on "human error" and called it an "unfortunate mistake."
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Under Islamic law, Muslims are strictly forbidden from eating pork.
According to a UK publication, the incident came to light when a Muslim teacher took a bite of a sandwich, which was supposed to contain halal chicken and sweet corn, and realized that that the smoky thing she was tasting was actually pork, the New York Daily News reported.
Later, the principal of Ninestiles School, Chris Quinn, blamed the blunder on "human error" and called it an "unfortunate mistake."
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- 9/6/2013
- by Smith Cox
- RealBollywood.com
Using online opinions to help predict results, The Daily Beast's Election Oracle nailed almost every major race last week. Randall Lane on whether this is the future of polling.
George Gallup described polling simply as the science of reflecting public opinion, and like any science, it's only as good as the technology driving it. The first "modern" election polls, launched between the World Wars by Literary Digest, leveraged a new innovation, air mail, but failed famously in 1936, as the disproportionately wealthy audience forecast an Alf Landon landslide over Fdr. Telephone surveys proved better, but also favored the rich at first (when phones were a luxury) and the old more recently (since younger voters tend to be cell-only, unreachable by pollsters). Exit polls, demographic modeling, prediction markets-all have been deployed to varied results.
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George Gallup described polling simply as the science of reflecting public opinion, and like any science, it's only as good as the technology driving it. The first "modern" election polls, launched between the World Wars by Literary Digest, leveraged a new innovation, air mail, but failed famously in 1936, as the disproportionately wealthy audience forecast an Alf Landon landslide over Fdr. Telephone surveys proved better, but also favored the rich at first (when phones were a luxury) and the old more recently (since younger voters tend to be cell-only, unreachable by pollsters). Exit polls, demographic modeling, prediction markets-all have been deployed to varied results.
Related story on The Daily Beast: The Mama Grizzly Scorecard
Which brings us to the Internet, the most...
- 11/8/2010
- by Randall Lane
- The Daily Beast
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