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SUMMIT's SBC490BI7FR is a commercially approved full-sized portable beer dispenser designed for built-in use under counters and capable of being customized to match other cabinetry.
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Up early and headed down the road to the Espinosa del Diablo, Spine of the Devil, the government is building a new toll road to take the traffic off this road but it won't be open this year. The highest bridge in the world is being built right now, it's just visible from the old road. The reason it's called The Espinosa is because it is 300 km of winding twisting road with corners that semis can't get around without taking 3/4 of your lane as well. In comparison with the Tail of the Dragon, TTOTD is a more technical piece of road but the EDD is much more of a challenge. You have to stay alert constantly for hours. Enough chit chat, the sky is blue, the sun is shining and the air is cool, on with the ride
Espinoza Del Diablo
There is no such thing as a guard rail for 300 km
One of the major landmarks of the trip encountered here
One thing I forgot to add, about 5 minutes after taking the picture I came around a corner there was a tour bus which hadn't made the turn. It's nose was stuck down a ravine and all you could see was the rear of the bus showing out of the bushes. The police were on the scene and things looked like they were under control so I kept on going. No I wasn't going to stop and take pictures!!
This is what happens when you tire and don't pay enough attention
I pulled off to get a picture and didn't look where my foot was going, the ground was a long way down and with all the weight up top over it went, the sad part was I had to unpack the bike pick it up and then repack the whole thing
Once you reach the turnoff for Tepic the road has become a jungle road but that's a story for another day
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|Paneer Kheer
Prep time - under 10 mins
Cook time - under 15 mins
Serves - 2
Ingredients needed
Milk -2 1/4 cup ( I used full fat milk)
Condensed milk - 1/4 cup
Paneer (Indian cottage cheese or chenna) grated - 3/4 cup
Saffron - 4-5 strands (soak it in a tbsp of warm milk)
Cardamom powder -1/4 tsp
Almonds - 5-6
Pistachios -6-7
Cashew nuts - 4-5
Roast nuts and chop it into small pieces.
Grate paneer and keep it aside.
Mix condensed milk with a tbsp of milk and keep it aside.
Boil milk in a pan until it reduces a little and becomes slightly thick.
Add condensed milk, saffron, cardamom powder and grated paneer and cook for another 2-3 minutes.
Switch it off and garnish with nuts. Allow it to cool.
Feel free to adjust sweetness according to your preference.
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Welcome to Holworthy Farm
Welcome to Holworthy Farm a 200-acre livestock farm on the banks of Wimbleball Lake, situated in the heart of Somerset This peaceful valley was flooded in 1977 to create one of the most scenic reservoirs ever. Idyllic for walking, fishing, exploring nature trails and the pretty villages and escape from the pressures of life.
Exmoor National Park has been designated the first International Dark Skies Reserve. If you are interested in seeing the stars then Holworthy Farm on Exmoor is a splendid location.
Guests may come and go as they please and if I am around there is always a complimentary tray of tea or coffee and homemade biscuits available.
Dinner is optional but needs to be ordered the night before. I use local produce wherever possible and all meals are freshly prepared and the homemade desserts are complimented with clotted cream. Tea, coffee and mints are served afterwards in the sitting room If guests have special diets please let me know in advance. Guests are welcome to bring wine or spirits to the table.
We have AA accreditation of: Dinner Exceeds Quality requirements Star/Diamond rating.
January 2008 Country Wide Films Productions made a film in the area called The Brendon Hills in January, Country Ways. We were one of the 5 local businesses featured on it. It was shown on ITV. For the past 6 years Ironman 70.3 has been held at Wimbleball, an amazing event!
Children of all ages are welcome we have a cot and high chair.
We do not allow dogs in the house accept guide dogs. But you may leave them in the car.
The parish is called Brompton Regis or King's Brompton as it was known as because the manor belonged to the king in Doomsday times, when it was called Brunetone. The name may, however, derive from a visit by King Stephen. Brompton may mean town near broom.
Wimbleball OPEN WATER SWIM CLUB- First date 24th May coached by Beth French-channel swimmer.
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Professor Alan Jenkins
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Alan Jenkins is the Deputy Director of the Centre for Ecology & Hydrology and Director for Water and Pollution Science at CEH.
He is Chair of the UK Committee for National and International Hydrology, Head of the UK Delegation to the UNESCO International Hydrology Programme, Hydrological Adviser to the UK Government with the World Meteorological Organization, a member of the UK UNESCO Committee for Natural Sciences and UK representative to the European Network of Water Research Centres (EurAqua). Alan is also Chairman of the UN-ECE Joint Expert Group on Dynamic Modelling of Air Pollution Impacts within the Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollution, a Leader of the Pilot Programme on Extreme Hydro-climatic Events in the EU Water Supply and Sanitation Technology Programme and a member of the UK CIWEM Panel on Water Resources.
Alan is a Visiting Professor in the Department of Geography, University College London and an Honorary Research Fellow of the Macaulay Land Use Research Institute, Aberdeen.
Research Interests
Alan's research focus is hydrochemical modelling, in particular the development of models for predicting the impact of air pollution on soils and surface waters. He worked for many years to develop and improve the MAGIC model and this now forms a focus for the assessment of the efficacy of international agreements on emission reductions. His wider interests include diffuse pollution and the transport of chemicals from soils to surface waters.
In his PhD on "The effects of fluvial processes on the dynamics of sanitary bacteria in upland streams", Alan developed a dynamic simulation model for sanitary indicator bacteria in rivers, a field in which he maintains a research interest. He also maintains an interest in large-scale ecosystem manipulation experiments. Alan coordinated the CLIMEX project which, largely with funding under EU FP4, was a major experiment to enclose a whole forested catchment in southern Norway within a greenhouse to increase the CO2 and temperature. He has also helped to establish major experimental and monitoring studies, both in the UK and further afield (Nepal and India) to assess and quantify hydrochemical pathways in relation to anthropogenic influences.
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WEBSITE OF THE DAY: Letters of Note
There is perhaps something slightly ironic about a website that celebrates actual, paper letters, but that's exactly what www.lettersofnote.com does. Hence the name, you might say.
But those of us who remember the birth of email will recall that some of the earliest virals to clutter our inboxes were those hastily scanned and forwarded copies of letters, memos, postcards, job applications and faxes, which brought the weird and the wacky to our places of work. The ability to share humorous correspondence was a revelation to many of us, and it's something that this site has embraced and developed into a useful and entertaining online resource.
It collates good old-fashioned written communications that are worthy of a wider audience. They might be amusing certainly, but often they are also thoughtful, insightful and inspiring.
There are notes from the great and the good, as well as simple missives from the little people who make this world of ours the unique place that it is.
If you're into words, you'll enjoy this one.
If you have a useful, funny, or just plain weird website that you want to tell us about, drop us a line using our feedback form.


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I can't stomach the violence in any kind of Mafia movie or war movie or fight movie but for some reason I am crazy for women-gone-loony black-and-white sixties flicks: Whatever Happened to Baby Jane, Hush, Hush, Sweet Charlotte, The Nanny. ..
If you have any bent in this direction at all, you have got to check out this insanely over-the-top William Castle double feature (available on netflix).
Here's Joan Crawford in STRAIT-JACKET (1964), fresh out of the asylum for the axe murders she committed twenty years before.
Another super weird 1961 creepfest starring Joan Marshall/Jean Arless: HOMICIDAL.
At the climactic moment, Castle breaks the fourth wall and introduces a "Fright Break!"
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
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After I (admiringly) posted a video on FB re the "hardy, nutcase" Plum Islanders, out with their cameras in what looked like the eye of the storm, reader Lee Atker opined: "I think a distinction should be made about New Englanders vs. New Englanders who live by the sea. The latter seem a hardier-more-daring breed. I am more of an inlander, and not daring. I am right now thanking God that our lights are still on, and staying clear of large windows in my house, *just in case*"...
She could be right. Truth be told, I'm more of the staying-clear-of-large-window-in-a-storm type myself, and I have always loved looking at boats more than actually going out on them. Still, growing up by the sea does instill a certain wildness of heart. So from my safe (for now) perch on the West Coast, and with all sympathy to all who died and all who have been affected/are being affected by Sandy--
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Exultation is the going
Of an inland soul to sea,
Past the houses -- past the headlands --
Into deep Eternity --
Bred as we, among the mountains,
Can the sailor understand
The divine intoxication
Of the first league out from land?
--Emily Dickinson
Of the first league out from land?
--Emily Dickinson
Sunday, October 28, 2012
Br. Rex Anthony Norris
Little Portion Hermitage
Diocese of Portland, ME
Br. Rex had read, and liked, Redeemed. I thanked him--I'm always extra glad to hear from a fellow native New Englander--and I kept thinking Oh how nice there's a monastery near Portland. I also meant to more fully check out Little Portion Hermitage, but with one thing and another, I hadn't gotten around to it till yesterday. That was when I discovered Br. Rex maintains a hermitage of one:
Little Portion Hermitage is a place of Christ-centered solitude, sacred silence, and intercessory prayer. Founded for the glory of God and inspired by the example of St Francis of Assisi, the hermitage is faithful to the teachings of Jesus Christ found in their fullness among Churches in full communion with the See of Peter. The hermit residing at Little Portion is a person in Consecrated Life in accord with Canon 603, under the jurisdiction of the bishop of the Diocese of Portland, ME...
I am a hermit under the canonical jurisdiction of the Roman Catholic Bishop of the Diocese of Portland, Maine, in accordance with Canon #603 of the Code of Canon Law. The moments of my day are consecrated to God's Glory and the salvation of the world. My prayers and penance are offered in a particular way for the many women and men in recovery from or still struggling to overcome addiction to alcohol, other drugs or other destructive behaviors. As I practice opening myself to love God with all my heart, I pray that you may receive the grace to do the same. Each of us is called to love God above all, and to love each other as we love ourselves. Please send your prayer requests and allow me the privilege of joining you in prayer before the Lord. By allowing me the opportunity to pray for you and with you, you stir into flame the call God has placed in my heart; a call given to me for His glory and the good of all the world. Holding you in my heart, I pray you peace and all good.
So if you have any booze/drug addicts in your life, as who doesn't, feel free to offer up their intentions. And I'm hoping Br. Rex is praying for the whole eastern seaboard--I hope we all are--as this giant storm approaches.
photo: my dear friend Ellen Mugar of Cape Elizabeth, Maine
Friday, October 26, 2012
I thought I had hit upon a point of view that probably nobody else in the world had ever held before. It was a purifying, beautiful, joyous sensation of anger that I felt, and I knew for the first time that I could feel passionately about an idea. Something had blazed in me, and from the blaze I discovered a new element in myself, a combustible something that would always blaze again in defense of the mystery and sacredness in things, and against the queer, blind, blaspheming streak in human nature which instead of adoring, must vulgarize and exploit and insult life.
--Katharine Butler Hathaway, The Little Locksmith
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
Dana Point and the folks at St. Edward the Confessor were...I refuse to use the word awesome so I'll say delightful instead.
I felt quite proud to be bridging the gap not between believers and non-believers, or Democrats and Republicans, or the East Coast and the West Coast or any other such negligible distinction, but between a far more significant divide: L.A. and Orange County.
When I checked into my hotel, the desk clerk handed me about a 20-pound gift basket. It turned out to be from sprightly parishioner and faithful supporter Pat Arndt, who is in her 80's, does yoga, and was the catalyst for getting me down there in the first place.
Here are just some of the items the basket contained: a bottle of water, a tall can of coconut water, two candy bars (Caramello and Heath), a giant fresh pomegranate, a red candle, an amber glass candlestick holder fashioned from part of an old lamp, a St. Raphael pamphlet, a peacock card with twine cord (in homage to Flannery O'Connor), and a book called The Wabi-Sabi House: The Japanese Art of Imperfect Beauty, by Robyn Griggs Lawrence. All overlain with several boughs of wild oak from the tree in Pat's backyard. I mean how thoughtful is that?
I immediately grabbed a coffee and set out for a walk, taking note of the vegetation, light, seagulls, surfers, and spinnakers (is that the right word?). Very different scene from the NH coast of my youth but the ocean, or an ocean, just the same.
Now I'm home and last night I got a chance to read a bit of my wabi-sabi book. "Simply put, wabi-sabi is the marriage of the Japanese wabi, meaning humble, and sabi, which connotes beauty in the natural progression of time. Together, the phrase invites us to set aside our pursuit of perfection and learn to appreciate the simply, unaffected beauty of things as they are."
Well, I am totally on board with that and as I read on, I find I have way been practicing wabi-sabi forever. E.g., "As is so often the case with wabi-sabi, the first step in appreciation building is to simply take a walk. Walk slowly, and allow yourself to take in the gifts that are available to you. Look at the the broad horizons, then narrow your gaze to a pebble"...
I not only like to narrow my gaze, I like to then take a blurry photo of the thing and post it on my blog. That's humble, right? (or lazy, but let's not quibble). Heck, I drive a Toyota, I was even eating rice rolls from Trader Joe's the other night, plus I have a sister-in-law, my brother Joe's wife Mimi, who actually comes from Japan.
Maybe they have some Catholics over there who would like me to come speak. But for now, I'm going to lie down amidst my worn wood floorboards, frayed tapestries, and warped home-made scarves, and eat that Caramello bar.
|the folks at St. Edwards gave me
fruit salad and flowers to take home with me!
|Live oak from Pat's back yard,
imperfectly twined about a window latch
Monday, October 22, 2012
Oh wow, seems like moments ago I was sitting by the Atlantic Ocean in Newcastle, NH with my sister "Little Meddy" aka Meredith (now 47, forever in my mind 8) looking at the moon and doing the post-mortem no pun intended on Mom's memorial, and now I'm in Dana Point, CA looking out as the sun sets over the Pacific. I really do think air travel...I'm not sure human beings were meant to travel that fast and that far in a single day.
Anyway, immediately on checking into my hotel I set out for a lengthy walk, coffee in hand, and took some halfway decent photos but it transpires I neglected to pack my USB cable or whatever it's called so I just had a Brown Rice Surimi Combo from Trader Joe's, cutting open the pickled ginger, soy sauce and wasabi packets with a pair of nail clippers, and now I'm eating a whole bunch of candy preparatory to figuring out what I'm going to talk about tomorrow to the good folks at St. Edward the Confessor who have hired me on to speak at their 9 to noon "Serenity Day." I mean I know the names of the talks, as I came up with them myself, but I'm kind of extemporaneous when it comes to speaking and so usually wait until the eve or day of and ponder and some kind of through line presents itself.
I have been overcome with waves of extreme sadness ever since leaving my beloved New England and have been traveling a lot and basically my mind is mush. Here's a delightful photo album or possibly slide show, I think you can watch either way, that my brother Roscoe compiled of my mother and our family. I mean I am really reaching here, obviously. The memorial was at the church across the street from the house where we grew up: a gorgeous fall day, with the maple trees on the town common, visible from the upstairs sanctuary, ablaze with color.
I saw so many old neighbors, old friends, friends of our family: dear, loyal, salt-of-the-earth people, many of whom had come long distances to pay their respects. Everyone, it seemed, had something: a sister who had just fallen down the stairs (again), drunk; a cancer diagnosis, a troubled kid, their own sick mother or father, a shattered heart. And then I came back, feeling like my own heart had been ripped from my chest and shredded. This is the way of the world and it's no use pretending otherwise.
The Cross is an ancient symbol. Expressed lyrically, there is cruciform structure to every pain, difficulty, and sadness. In this sense, the Cross is not an external object that belongs far away on a hill in Jerusalem. Rather, the shape of the Cross is internal to the human heart. Every heart has a cruciform shape.
When you look at the different conflicts in your life, you find that they are placed where the contradictions cross each other. At the nerve of contradiction, you have the centre of the Cross, the nail of pain where two intimate but conflicting realities criss-cross. To view the standing Cross is to see how it embraces all directions. The vertical beam reaches from the lowest depth of clay to the highest zenith of divinity, the horizontal beam stretches the breadth of the world.
The promise to each of us is that we will never be called to walk the lonely path of suffering without seeing the footprints ahead of us which lead eventually over the brow of the hill where Resurrection awaits us. Behind the darkness of suffering, a subtle brightening often manifests itself. Two lines in a poem by Philippe Jaccottet echo this: "Love, like fire, can only reveal its brightness / on the failure and the beauty of burnt wood." There is consolation and transfiguration here. The fires of suffering are disclosures of love. It is the nature of the lover to suffer. The marks and wounds that suffering leave on us are eventually places of beauty. This is the deep beauty of soul where limitation and damage, rather than remaining forces that cripple, are revealed as transfiguration.
--John O'Donohue
Here's one of the songs we sang for Mom.
Saturday, October 20, 2012
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Thursday, October 18, 2012
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Sunday, October 14, 2012
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From the story, by Laylan Connelly, in The Orange County Register.
He had rules when he set out. He'd only accept help from complete strangers, and he never took help from the thousands of followers who would eventually end up tracking his journey on Twitter. The only solicit he had was a cardboard sign that read "food," which he would use if he was really hungry. But he never verbally asked anybody for anything.
In Mississippi – the poorest state in America – he was overwhelmed with kindness.
"I had so much food, I couldn't carry it. I had so much money, I was worried carrying that much money around. They're just nice people," he said.
"It just hit me that I needed to give back."
So he'd give away what he didn't use or need to other people on the streets. He started handing out granola bars tied with rubber bands to a $5 McDonald's gift card and a $5 bill.
Soon, he started hearing from people wanting to send him stuff. He'd tell them to give to homeless in their area instead...
I don't know Nick Kleckner's religious affiliation, if any, but he made me think of a woman, a staunch Catholic, who approached me after one of my talks recently and demanded, "Would you vote for Obama?"
I replied, "Let's not talk politics; it's divisive."
"Would you vote for Obama?" she pressed. "Yes or no?"
I thought, Well let's see, if there were a runoff between Hitler and Goebbels and Hitler were promoting some rudimentary kind of national health care, I suppose, if I had to vote, I could consider voting for Hitler. So I said, "Well, I guess I might."
She jabbed her finger in my face and hissed, "You have had abortions and you would vote for Obama? You call yourself a woman of faith? You call yourself a Catholic..."
Oh folks, I was pissed. I had come halfway across the country; I had given this woman, and everyone else there, everything I had. My voice was shaking. I said, in no particular order, "Please do not jab your finger in my face, please do not tell me how I live out my faith, that is not the way to convert hearts, that is not how Christ converted hearts, and I'm against the violence of war, too, so that doesn't leave me anyone to vote for, does it?"
"The poor you will always have with you," she crowed [in a rather startling scriptural non sequitur]. "If you vote for Obama, you have no right to call yourself a Catholic..."
Somehow this points up what makes me uneasy about a certain sector of the "new evangelization": namely, the effort to evangelize people not to Christ, but to a bipartisan political party. To me, the elephant, or one huge elephant, in the room of U.S. Catholics is that our power-hungry leaders, our greed-based economy, and our entire violence-based culture are so utterly, egregiously devoid of Christ that to even speak of them in the same breath is ludicrous. We torture, we assassinate, we execute, by the most conservative estimates we spend a third of our national budget on defense, which is to say on figuring out how to murder people and destroy property. And we're worried about which party we vote for? We are looking to our executive, legislative, or judicial system in any way to help us live out our lives in Christ?
If people aren't flocking to the doors of the Church, maybe we should consider that to conduct business as usual and tack the word "God" onto it is not terribly inspiring, nor terribly honest, nor remotely true to Jesus--who, as The Misfit in Flannery O'Connor's "A Good Man is Hard to Find" observed, "thrown everything off balance." That would be a good way to start the "new evangelization." I mean let's have THAT conversation.
Christ, too, lived under a corrupt government. He seems to have paid approximately zero attention to it. The point is not to be anti-government, the point is to be for Christ and to realize that those are often, if not always, very different things. "Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's," the implication being there's generally not a whole lot of overlap.
Christ didn't call the power-mongers and the pollsters; he called sick people and sinners. The follower of Christ doesn't "win"; the follower of Christ suffers, for love. The mark of a follower of Christ is not that he's willing to kill for "freedom"; it's that he already lives in total freedom because he's given everything away.
Which brings me back to the walker. If anyone is going to be authentically evangelized, it will be by people like this: a stray voice crying in the wilderness; a pilgrim who, like Christ, serves a very different Master than the world.
I second-guessed myself to kingdom come, as I always do with conflict, after my exchange with the Obama woman. I hoped I wasn't harsh. I hoped I wasn't proud. And I kept thinking of a book I read recently by another priest who walked the Camino. He said the difference between a spiritual tourist and a spiritual pilgrim is this: Tourists demand; pilgrims thank.
Saturday, October 13, 2012
Check out my piece, "I Had Hoped For More" in the Autumn 2012 issue of Notre Dame Magazine.
And this is a Hazelnut-Brown Butter Cake with Caramelized Pears I whipped up last night.
That's all I have right now!
And this is a Hazelnut-Brown Butter Cake with Caramelized Pears I whipped up last night.
|notice that big bowl of whipped cream in the back
That's all I have right now!
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Kandinsky described his paints as:
"jubilant, sumptuous, reflective, dreamy, absorbed in themselves, with deep seriousness or a mischievous sparkle…those strange beings we call colors came out one after another, living in and for themselves, autonomous, endowed with all the qualities need for their future autonomous life….At times it seemed to me that whenever the paintbrush…tore away part of that living being which is a color, it gave birth to a musical sound."
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
I have never claimed to be a scientist. But walking in the desert last week, gazing out over the horizon, I suddenly thought, Isn't true north a couple of degrees off 'actual' north?
Christ is counter, but he's never counter 180 degrees. He's counter two degrees. He takes our desire for happiness; our notions of justice, mercy, finance, romance, politics, and he tweaks them two degrees and the result is infinitely more radical than if the turn were 180. He doesn't take our desire for happiness and say, You need to make that into a desire for misery. He doesn't take our desire for security and say, You need to be something other than human and no longer care in any way about security.
Christ is counter, but he's never counter 180 degrees. He's counter two degrees. He takes our desire for happiness; our notions of justice, mercy, finance, romance, politics, and he tweaks them two degrees and the result is infinitely more radical than if the turn were 180. He doesn't take our desire for happiness and say, You need to make that into a desire for misery. He doesn't take our desire for security and say, You need to be something other than human and no longer care in any way about security.
I thought of my friend Fr. Terry's observation about the ever-receding promise, for the alcoholic, of booze: "Drinking never made me happy, but it made me feel like I was going to be happy in fifteen minutes." Nothing wrong with shooting for happiness; it's just that happiness is going to be found a hair right, or left, of center. Your gaze is going to be trained just slightly to the side, and upward.
Back from my walk, just before Mass Sr. Mary Fidelis stopped by my pew and whispered, "Holy Hour today is from 10 to 11."
All during Mass, I thought about Happy Hour, and Holy Hour, and true north. I thought about how I once described a morning at the dive bar in Boston's North Station where I used to drink, my companions washed-up cab drivers and broken-down racetrack touts:
It was like coming together each morning for the administration of a communal anaesthetic. Our fingers shook with the effort of lighting cigarettes. Our hands shook as we raised the glasses to our lips. Our heads shook when we lowered them to sip. We drank silently, methodically, the pace as steady as an IV drip. I was almost always the only woman at the bar, not that it mattered: we Sullivan's regulars were way past sex. We were like monks or eunuchs, our lives stripped down to a single all-consuming, self-annihilating passion, our focus on the bartender mixing our morning drinks as pure as the gaze of the faithful as the priest raises the consecrated Host.
Back from my walk, just before Mass Sr. Mary Fidelis stopped by my pew and whispered, "Holy Hour today is from 10 to 11."
All during Mass, I thought about Happy Hour, and Holy Hour, and true north. I thought about how I once described a morning at the dive bar in Boston's North Station where I used to drink, my companions washed-up cab drivers and broken-down racetrack touts:
It was like coming together each morning for the administration of a communal anaesthetic. Our fingers shook with the effort of lighting cigarettes. Our hands shook as we raised the glasses to our lips. Our heads shook when we lowered them to sip. We drank silently, methodically, the pace as steady as an IV drip. I was almost always the only woman at the bar, not that it mattered: we Sullivan's regulars were way past sex. We were like monks or eunuchs, our lives stripped down to a single all-consuming, self-annihilating passion, our focus on the bartender mixing our morning drinks as pure as the gaze of the faithful as the priest raises the consecrated Host.
Gazing at the monstrance later—at the actual consecrated Host—I thought about how to miss by a hair is still to miss completely. I thought of how, for all my wounds, they have shaped me for Christ. Does that make me "happy?" I don't know. Can you be happy as you weep? I don't know. I only know that my focus was slightly off center and upward. I only know that my eyes were trained on True North.
|details, MARY MAGDALENE,
DONATELLO, c. 1453-55
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Head of a Woman
The shape of this statue's headdress, though fragmentary, indicates that the subject is a non-royal woman. Her image has considerable delicacy and charm, but figure is not a portrait. Her tapered face, large eyes, slightly raised eyebrows, and wide, upcurved mouth are all stylistic hallmarks of sculptures made under Hatshepsut and Thutmose III.
- Medium: Limestone
- Place Made: Egypt
- Dates: ca. 1479-1425 B.C.E.
- Dynasty: XVIII Dynasty
- Period: New Kingdom
- Dimensions: 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (6.4 x 7 cm) (show scale)
- Collections:Egyptian, Classical, Ancient Near Eastern Art
- Museum Location: This item is on view in Egypt Reborn: Art for Eternity, Egyptian Orientation Gallery, 3rd Floor
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- Accession Number: 86.226.36
- Credit Line: Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc.
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Head of a Woman, ca. 1479-1425 B.C.E. Limestone, 2 1/2 x 2 3/4 in. (6.4 x 7 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Gift of the Ernest Erickson Foundation, Inc., 86.226.36. Creative Commons-BY
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An ecosystem has been discovered, quite by accident, thriving under the Antarctic ice.
Scientists had been videoing glacial features in the water beneath the collapsed Larsen ice shelf. "We suddenly saw evidence of these organisms that nobody had reported before," says Scott Ishman from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale.
Ishman and his team discovered mud volcanoes, a thin bacterial mat and a thriving clam community. Hidden from the sun for 12,000 years by the ice sheet, the ecosystem is fed by subterranean chemical energy rather than by photosynthesis. This is the only such system found flourishing in such extreme cold.
But Ishman warns that the life-forms will change as they adapt to their new-found exposure. "The ice shelf collapse has opened the system to debris that is rich in organic carbon, and soon the organisms will start using it. Changes are happening rapidly."
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text: The House passed a 694-million-dollar funding bill Friday night to provide increased security along the southwest border. A second measure passed looks to speed up the deportation of migrants flooding the border. However, the bills aren't going anywhere since the Senate has adjourned for summer recess. 8th District Indiana Republican Congressman Larry Bucshon voted for the measures. Bucshon says what's happening at our Southern border is a humanitarian crisis that requires an immediate solution. He says doing nothing puts the well being of innocent children and our national security at risk, and aggravates the problem with our already broken immigration system.


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Meet our people
Our graduates make a real difference, growing into leadership roles across our society, from championing Aboriginal rights to improving quality of life and creating an artistic masterpiece.
For example, graduates from our Graduate Diploma in Health Promotion are working with their communities to improve Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people's health, and showing strong leadership that shapes the future.
Our current students join us through many different pathways, from the Cadigal Alternative Entry Program to mature-age entry, going through TAFE, making use of scholarships and moving from regional and remote areas.
Here are just a few of their inspirational stories, which may help you to make decisions about studying at university.
Emily and Alicia Johnson
Sisters Emily and Alicia Johnson joined the University community through the Cadigal Alternative Entry Program. Emily has started a Bachelor of Arts degree, following in the footsteps of her big sister Alicia, a second-year Arts student.
They're not the first in their family to study here. Their mother Priscilla graduated with a Bachelor of Health Sciences (Aboriginal Health and Community Development) in 2008.
"Mum was over the moon when she found out I got into Sydney Uni because she knew I would be with Alicia at the university she studied at," says Emily. "The Cadigal Program not only helped me get an offer but gave me a head start in academic skills," she adds. "It really got me familiar with the University community before my studies began."
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Adam Ridgeway
Adam Ridgeway (BVA 2008) studied Visual Arts here, graduating with honours, and is a ceramicist based in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney. He was supported during his studies under the Indigenous Tutorial Assistance Scheme, and says tutoring helps "people who want to achieve and perform at a higher level". In 2009 he designed the 'Sea of Hands' installation for Reconciliation Week at the University.
Dr Reuben Bolt
Dr Reuben Bolt was the first Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander student to graduate with a doctorate degree from the Faculty of Health Sciences.
He says the most enjoyable part of his research was "studying a topic that I was very passionate about. This provided me with the motivation and determination to succeed.
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Too Much Thermal Mass?
The Oven has been on the back burner for a while but I'm back on track this season and plan to finish it up. I have decided to pour the slab out an alumina castable concrete. I'm going to insulate it from the bottom via stick pins and ceramic blanket. So 2" of the 5 inch slab became "thermal mass" instead of the vermiculite concrete. Is this too much thermal mass? I will be setting a premio 120 oven floor on top of 5 full inches of aluminate concrete.
Thermal mass in the hearth
Welcome aboard Sailfish,
Let me make sure I have this right. You are thinking of putting the Premio cooking floor on 5" aluminate concrete, with blanket insuation below that? Is that right?
I think that could be too much mass below the cooking floor, and it could make it more difficult to keep the oven floot heat at the high temp you want for pizza and other high heat cooking. It would also slow down heat up time. Basically, you would be trying to heat up the entire 7" of mass (the Premio floor and the aluminate concrete) -- which would take a long time. It could also impact the "responsiveness" of your floor; how easy it is to keep at high heat, or bring back up to high heat.
What advantages are you looking to gain from the extra mass?
Also, if you are going to put your vermiculite layer under the concrete thermal layer, it is easier to either pour vermiculite, or use rigid board. I think a blanket would get squashed. Also, you need to go pretty thick with that insulating layer, to make sure you don't loose heat out the bottom.
After a lot of experiementing (and the advise of our producers), we've found that putting the cooking floor directly on the vermiculite layer works great for pizza and high heat cooking, and that it still retains the heat you want for baking and roasting, and cooking lager volumes of food.
If you want more mass under the floor, you could consider the "island hearth" where you set a layer of thermal mass under the floor, but fully surrounded by vermiculite concrete. For example, in a 7 1/2" hearth, you could pour 3" standard concrete at the bottom, 2-3" vermiculite concrete next, then set 1-2" aluminate concrete or firebricks under the cooking floor (with vermiculite concrete around it).
That's what we did at the demo kitchen here in Healsburg, and it's working great.
Still, most backyard pizza ovens really don't need that extra layer under the floor. Most commercial pizza ovens have 3"-4" cooking floors.
I hope this makes sense and is helpful.
Let me know what you think.
Thanks James. Good advice at a critical time. I'm doing the slab this holiday weekend. I really wasn't looking for extra mass, It's just how things worked out designing the round stand. I can reduce the aluminate concrete under the floor to 3 or 3 1/2". I read a little about the heat leaching away from the floor to the slab at this site somewhere and became concerned. The ceramic blanket is installed under the slab after the suport form is stripped away. It will be held in place with stick pins and clam washers. It should remain thick and fluffy. I'm thinking about using 2" blanket. Do you think it would need more? Here's a pic of the project I abandoned for a year,... But I'm back at it!
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Now that's beautiful. Wow. It's time to get cooking!
I think the standard installation, with 3 1/2" of standard concrete with rebar for structural support underneath, and 4" of vermiculite concrete on top is the right way to go. 4" of insulating concrete will definitely stop heat from leaching south into your stand, and it will keep the heat where you want it (in the oven).
It's easy to do, and cost-effective. You don't have to mess with blanket insulation if you don't want to.
It doesn't look like you are going to be starting a commercial bakery from your back garden, so I think it will work great.
Here is the drawing for the hearth design. Also, do you have the Premio installation guide? That will be very useful.
This is a great outdoor kitchen. Have fun.
Wow! That thumbnail is totaly oposite of the insulating hearths I have been reading about. But it makes a lot of sense. The oven is 100% surrounded by insulation. I downloaded the PFD's that show the insulating layer on the bottom.
I guess I'll scrap the blanket idea and go with the integral layer.
Circular Stand
Great looking start to what I know will be a fantastic oven etc. Can you tell me how you built the stand? Forms or blocks?
Re: Too Much Thermal Mass?
That is striking! It looks so clean. I admire the organic look of the surrounding pad as well. It is a work of art my friend. I look forward to seeing more pictures. I would like to see more detailed pics of the slab and the oven base. It looks very cool!
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Uh oh someone is sifting through old threads - Think we could get our Admin to reach out and touch Sailfish for an update - just in case they aren't on-line here?
Re: Too Much Thermal Mass?
I'll give it shot.
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Nothing beats New York on New Year's Eve.
That's the line from the recently released holiday movie, aptly named New Year's Eve, which is centred around the famous ball-drop in New Yorks Times Square.
But how good is it really?
Is wearing adult diapers really the best way to ring in 2012?
That's no joke.
A woman, a friend I was talking to, was buying some so she wouldn't have to leave the spot she was planning on getting.
You see when a million people descend on a section of street, things get a little strange.
Organisers section off Times Square and the surrounding streets into pens. Crazy people start arriving from early afternoon to get the best spot to see the illuminated ball lowered a few metres over 60 seconds.
But there's a catch. Once you're in you can't leave. So if you arrive at 4pm thats eight hours without food, drink or toilets. Yep - you're stuck. Well you can leave but you can't get back in, meaning all that early effort is wasted. Hence why some people decide to go back to infancy for the night.
Friends of mine accidentally became those crazy people, sans nappies. While checking out the bright lights of the crossroads of the world at 1pm this group found themselves in a pen right smack bang in the centre of the action. They decided to stay, and what a decision that turned out to be. Ryan Seacrest, who was hosting a TV special, was stationed right in front of them, as was the magical ball.
But was 11 hours of no food, booze or toilets worth it? They say yes.
The group I was with had heard the horror stories so we decided
to spend a bit of cash on a ticket to a party at a bar just off the
It was hideously overpriced but the music was good and it did include an open-bar. I'm not sure they're even legal at a licensed establishment in New Zealand!
The only catch was that it said on the bar's website we would be just steps away from seeing the ball drop and suggested we would be able to see it happen. It was a deciding factor in choosing this event for the night. Despite being just off Times Square the New York Police Department barriers meant we didn't see the ball drop with our own eyes.
We did, though, get to experience the packed crowd, the tonnes of confetti that fell from the sky and some midnight street karaoke with a million other people. It was still special and our view was no worse than the one the people who had arrived at 8 or 9pm would have experienced blocks and blocks away from the party.
So while I'm glad I can say I've spent a New Year's Eve in Times Square, I'm not sure it would be worth soiling yourself for.
Paul Stenhouse is a former ONE News reporter


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A Least Half a Million Raspberry Pis Sold 212 212
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from the obsesity-epidemic-spreads dept.
from the obsesity-epidemic-spreads dept.
hypnosec writes "The Raspberry Pi Foundation has announced that it could have sold over a million units of its credit-card-sized computer, the Raspberry Pi. Announcing the achievement, the foundation wrote that one of its distributors, Element14, has sold over half a million units of the Raspberry Pi, and even though the foundation doesn't have up-to-date figures from its other distributor, RS Components, it is expecting to have sold its millionth unit of the computer."


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I am reposting this for new Scoop members who may not be aware of this email list and to UPDATE the email address.
We have had so many success stories with the wonderful group of people who have chosen yo join our alert!
Here is my original posting, please join the list, it is so helpful to have so many pairs of open eyes out in our community!
In 2010, I started up a lost pet alert for Santa Fe. The email address to join the list…Continue
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For The New Mexican | Posted: Thursday, November 14, 2013 8:00 pm
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Friday Morning:
The mastiff went into the trap last night set by Animal Control and is now safely back in the hands of the Animal Shelter.
Thank you for everyone's concern on behalf of this dog.
If you have any further questions or concerns, please contact the Animal Shelter at:
983-4309 ex 201 or 470-8940
The Santa Fe Animal Shelter is offering a $1,000 reward for the…Continue
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Thank you Claudia for all you do in helping reunite owners with their pets. Eldorado Animal Clinic is always happy to help!
My pleasure. There are so many awful things in rescue and a lost animal is one of them. One lays awake all night thinking the worst possible things that could have happened. I hope I can make a difference.
Hi Claudia -- am so happy to be a member of Santa Fe Scoop -- what a great service this is! Thank you for your help in my search for Zen, the missing Maltese. Just keeping my fingers crossed and praying he turns up somewhere...
HI Claudia! I think I posted a message last night about a dog I found. Did it go through? He's such a sweet guy, I'm sure he belongs to someone. No collar but I will get him scanned today. A black lab/border collie type, maybe 40 lbs, with a white chest and speckled front left paw. He was sitting in the round about at Siler and W. Alameda at 10pm last night.
Her name is Pam Schaffer, a FB friend of Cindy's who had seen a picture of Gracie and wanted to paint her. She is an artist who does this for a living, in Florida, I think. She has done some for Cindy of Ginger, Nova, and Murphy. She really captures their personalities!
Thanks for the welcome, Claudia! Can't believe its taken me this long to get it together to get on The Scoop! :)
Just dropping in to say hi Claudia
Hi Claudia! Yup! its me!
Yes, guess I was too upset...should have put email or something...I will fix that, thanks - phone is 474-1475.
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If this veto of reserves were enforced, it would saddle the industry with losses of trillions of dollars on untapped assets.
All of this underscores the fundamental weakness of the IEA approach. Combating global warming may be possible at no net economic cost, but meaningful change inevitably creates winners and losers. And the main losers must be the fossil energy companies, which cannot possibly coexist, at least in their current form, with a target of even 2 °C. The industry must be supremely confident, however, that no meaningful action is imminent, since it continues to invest some $700 billion per year developing coal, oil and gas reserves.
About this the IEA plan has nothing to say. To be fair, it is intended only as a sticking plaster until a tough new treaty can be agreed and enforced. We had better pray that negotiators at the next big climate summit in Paris in 2015 tackle the real issues.
This article appeared in print under the headline "Reasons to be fearful"
David Strahan is an energy journalist and author of The Last Oil Shock
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'Divorce Court': Judge Lynn Toler tells couples like it is
There are several courtroom shows on the air right now, no doubt. But in our humble opinion, none are as entertaining as "Divorce Court" with Judge Lynn Toler.
Hats off to the casting directors of this series. It's a straight-up comedy as far as we're concerned.
After watching a few of the clips below, we think you'll agree.
Zap2it recently spoke with The Honorable Judge Toler -- a graduate of Harvard University and the University of Pennsylvania Law School -- who says the show looks for people who aren't fragile, people who are willing to own up to who they are and what they've done.
Toler tells us she hears about 160 divorce court cases per year, but still, there are certain couples that stand out. At the top of that list? The wife who slept with her groom's best man on the wedding night.
"She was mad at him," Toler says. "And I understand why. He was drunk and playing cards on their wedding night. You know, I'm sure there was a fair amount of alcohol involved -- on both parts -- but she was like, well, I'll show him. And, in fact, did. Their marriage lasted 90 days, which I think was a feat in and of itself."
A few other standouts?
See for yourself...
Toler, who has been married 21 years as of this month, says people are always asking her for marriage advice.
Is there a secret?
"One, you've got to be committed," Toler says. "You cannot expect to be happy all the time. When you argue, you must stay on topic. You have to remember that men and women are different. You have to satisfy needs that you, yourself, don't have. And once you get behind that, you got a shot at it."
"Divorce Court" is syndicated nationally. For local tune-in information, click here.
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It's time to once more check in with our start-up entrepreneur, Robin Thomas, who left his day job to start the social venture Really Great Freaking Things (- Invent really great things. Reinvent really great people).
This week he has sent us a series of images around how to become an entrepreneur:
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Fine dining is best achieved with well-placed tableware and a pile of parking tickets to feast on. Charge appetites with today's Groupon from Haozhan. Choose from the following options:• £25 for two courses of Chinese fine dining for two with side of rice and glass of wine each (Up to 54% Off)
• £50 for two courses of Chinese fine dining for four with side of rice and glass of wine each
Seamlessly blending traditional Cantonese cuisine with modern culinary prowess, Haozhan extends a Far East welcome to West End wayfarers, serving up fine dining classics and innovative dishes from the heart of Chinatown. A stylish cove between Theatreland and Leicester Square, the restaurant's contemporary interior offering an ambient atmosphere, while a well-stocked bar quenches parched palates. Haozhan's fresh approach to Chinese dining encourages guests to try something a little different during their visit, and this attitude has helped it earn a top twenty spot in the 2011 Tsingtao Legacy of Taste awards.
As taste buds enjoy a culinary journey, pairs or fours can wield chopsticks against a starter and main from a set menu. Appetites can be tickled with starters including chilli soft shell crab (£8) and grilled dumplings (£5.90), before moving on to main attractions including Mongolian beef (£11.20) and wasabi prawns (£12). A side of egg fried (£2.90) or Thai fragrant (£2.30) rice soaks up succulent juices and a glass of house red or white wine (up to £4) helps diners sink into their relaxing setting.
Set Menu
Aromatic crispy duck roll
Lamb rolls
Black cod siu mai
Chilli soft shell crab
Curry soft shell crab
Chilli veg prawn
Satay veg chicken
Vegetable spring roll
Grilled dumplings
Prawn baguette
Any soup from the a la carte menu
Beef rib eye
Mongolian beef
Sanpei chicken
Thai curry chicken
Lemon grass chicken
Szechaun duck
Wasabi prawn
Haozhan scallops
Balsamic ribs
Ling chi mushroom
Haozhan tofu
Egg fried rice
Thai fragrant rice
Glass of red or white house wine
Haozhan received a mouth-watering 4/5 from TripAdvisors as well as Qype and Google users. Diners praised the efficient service, and special attention was reserved for the quality of the modern Asian menu itself.
Instead of the usual Chinese menu, this offered a lot of different choices (as well as all the favourites). I had the lemongrass chicken which was delicious and my husband had crispy beef. The starters were also excellent - chilli crab and a prawn baguette. Presentation was fantastic and the staff were all really helpful and friendly. Service was quick.
– Gill A, TripAdvisor, Mar 2012
We ordered spring rolls which were super fresh and crunchy, a beef rib eye and a sweet sour chicken accompanied with fried rice. Quite classic food. Let me tell you that the quality of the meat and the tenderness, as well as how well it was cooked just amazed me. You can really feel all the different ingredients and spices in the dish. Great taste balance in every dish.
– elena, Google, Jan 2012


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Through the years of research into my family's history, there are certain individuals who stand out from the rest; sometimes due to a particularly interesting life story, or simply because a greater amount of records are to be found for them, giving a fuller picture of their life. For both reasons, one such person has …Read More
Friend of Friends Friday – Will of Samuel Fisher 0
Keeping myself busy today while riding out the blizzard had me browsing through the collections at FamilySearch.org. I found the will of Samuel Fisher, my 5th great grand uncle, who came from Londonderry, Northern Ireland as an early Scotch-Irish settler of Nutfield (now Derry and Londonderry) New Hampshire. He was born on 29 Jul 1722 …Read More
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William Cargill Burnett, (b. 18 Sep 1863-d. bef. 1924), son of my 2nd great grandparents William Burnett and Susan Hill Kent, had arrived in Lowell MA in the 1880′s from his hometown of Upper Musquodoboit, Nova Scotia, Canada. On 13 Dec 1884 he married Margaret M. Murtagh in Lowell with a son, Walter V. Burnett, …Read More
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When I was a kid the famed Boston Marathon held a personal touch for me and my family. For several years my 1st cousin (1x removed) Arthur "Frank" Annis ran the marathon, which made Patriot's Day in Boston a day for the family to gather at my aunt's house on Newbury Street, where we …Read More
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Molasses disaster? It doesn't seem possible that the words "molasses" and "disaster" could coexist in the same sentence! But on January 15, 1919, the city of Boston was rocked by an explosion that would send 2.3 million gallons of thick, sticky molasses coursing through the streets of Boston's North End in a wave up to …Read More
Wedding Wednesday – Jean Kidby Murphy 0
We were first cousins but she was much older than me, already a young woman when I was born. I spent a lot of time at her mother's house (my mother's oldest sister, Aunt Flossie) when I was growing up. Jean was my idol, from my very earliest memories. She was beautiful, smart and charming. …Read More
Talented Tuesday – Uncle Faltin's Violin 0
It's been very exciting in the course of my family research journey to uncover a few ancestors considered by their contemporaries to be "colorful characters". Probably the most colorful and intriguing has been my 3rd great-grandfather in my maternal line, Valentine Mink (1778-1832), as vividly described (and undoubtedly written with much embellishment!) in the following …Read More
Maritime Monday – "Uncle Eddie" Stewart 2
At last I have some time to work with my family research after a few weeks of a very busy schedule! I had kept a little list over the past few weeks with the names of a few family members with mysterious stories attached to them that I wanted to work on as soon as …Read More
Sentimental Sunday – Edmond et Jeanne 9
This "Sentimental Sunday" post is not of an ancestor but rather a part of my own history, and something that is of great sentimental value to me. It was my first visit to Paris when I first met my future husband. One day during my visit we decided to go to "Les Puces", a most …Read More
Sunday's Obituary – The Untimely Death of Engineer Burnett 2
Again I must thank GeneaBloggers, and not only for the prompts that spur me on with great ideas to keep me writing! I just made a fantastic discovery and all because I had dropped by GeneaBloggers to look through today's blogging prompts. I read through some great posts written by bloggers in the "Sunday's Obituary" …Read More


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clique in a sentence
Example sentences for clique
He even had his clique of dog-friends that he played with.
But there is little agreement on whether the group was a genuinely sinister collection of officers or merely a peculiar clique.
His team now gets together regularly for fun, as if they were a clique of college friends.
The larger a group of immigrants is the more likely they are to form their own clique within society.
It's not simply that different students are in cliques because they fit in with others in the clique.
Decisions are made by clique rather than by shared governance.
They say that such barriers benefit a clique of scholars at the expense of the fossils themselves.
Whenever any clique member made a reproduction error, the result was one of the other two peers.
These ideals were not invented by some aesthetic clique.
The committee is only checking to see if the applicant is part of the popular clique.
Absolute power corrupts those who wield it, because inevitably a clique forms around them.
Why, no one has bashed the clique that's not a clique for a long time.
Even military leaders two decades ago chose to share power with a clique.
Each of these actions might again be communicated instantly to the news feeds of their clique.
It can be tricky to befriend them while not joining their clique.
We're talking about a single clique of criminals here.
Everybody seems to belong to their own little clique.
Members of abusive clique need to be disciplined, ritual.
The second generation forms a clique intellectually and socially, but not politically.
Nor is its wealth monopolised by a well-connected clique.
The hypocrisy of the clique or troika is beyond belief.
All the ruling elite suffers from it and they deny any attempt of smart people to rise and be part of the ruling clique.
The largest maximal clique is sometimes called the maximum clique.
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CHARLES DARWIN's theory of evolution has been the source of much controversy since its publication in 1859, most recently involving the intelligent design (ID) lobby in the US. Now the theory is fuelling another debate, although for once the battle lines have nothing to do with religion.
Instead of pitting God against science, the emerging spat centres on evolutionary algorithms (EAs), which mimic the processes of natural selection and random mutation by "breeding", selecting and re-breeding possible designs to produce the fittest ones.
EAs take two parent designs - for a boat hull, say - and blend components of each, perhaps taking the surface area of one and the curvature of another, to produce multiple hull offspring that combine the features of the parents in different ways. Then the algorithm selects those offspring it considers are worth re-breeding - in this case those with the right combination of parameters to ...
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Aloaha Secure Stick
The Aloaha Secure Stick[1] virtualizes Applications and the Aloaha Smartcard Middleware so that no Admin rights are required to run the Application. One example is the AloahaID Web[2].
In the context of the Aloaha Secure Stick there is always the topic "Zero Footprint" popping up. The understanding of "Zero Footprint" if different in every organisation. We as Aloaha would be very interested in YOUR understanding of "Zero Footprint".
Zero Footprint
"Zero Footprint" is currently quite a fancy wording in IT. But there are many definitions of "Zero Footprint". What is your definition of "Zero Footprint"?
- No Admin rights required to run the installation.
- "XCopy Deployment[3]" – there is no specific installer required to run an application.
- Nothing is left behind on the host machine after stopping the application. Internet Coffee Shop usage is a must.
- We do not care. It just has to work. Similar to option 2.
SSL VPN Tunnel
For many virtual Applications it is essential that they are able to access their host via SSL VPN. Unfortunately the term "SSL VPN" is used for several totally different technologies. What do you understand when you use the term "SSL VPN"?
- SSL Security for Websites starting with https.
- SSL Security wrapped around standard protocols such as RDP v6, Citrix SSL or FTPs.
- Real VPN with VPN Network Adapter since 2/3 are not an option.
RDP / Citrix
Above we mentioned RDP/Critrix. Those applications are the most important uses cases for our customers. In case you are using RDP and/or Citrix – how are you using it?
- I use RDP/Citrix unsecured via the standard applications/protocol.
- I use RDP/Citrix secured via the standard, but SSL secured, applications/protocol.
- I am calling the remote Desktop via secured SSL (https) web connection.
- To be able to use RDP/Citrix the user first has to establish a VPN to our Gateway. 2/3 are not an option.
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text: I've seen the work of Mike Kus on countless beautiful websites and not known he had a hand in it. I was delighted to discover his site and his amazing body of work. Hailing from a print background Mike Kus brings a print sensibility to the digital age. All the sites he works on are rather special. Go and have a look.


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Jewish camp fuses the program, friendships
and communal life of traditional camps
with the Jewish values, role models and culture
of our shared heritage.
Make it possible for all children
to be part of and enjoy the JORI family
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We are proud to offer a transformative experience in Israel
for teens who have completed their camper years at JORI.
Participants return to camp for the last two weeks as CITs
where they will learn how to be future counselors.
Do you know someone who thinks they want to come to camp
but are hesitant about sleeping away from home?
Our weekend-long camp experience allows prospective campers
to get a taste of camp without committing to an entire session.
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On today's show, Khail and Ashley discuss lab-grown meat and why one designer wants future food to look crazy, watch two guys jetpack around in the skies above Dubai and explain why autonomous 18-wheelers could be a boon for personal self-driving cars someday.
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Posted by clerpau1988 February 12, 2013
Smartboard: The best real-time collaboration apps have just arrived!
Happy Lunar New Year!
It's a coincidence that Valentine's Day and the Lunar New Year have come at about the same time for the past few years. This year, the Greengar team is pleased to have a big celebration.
Today, we're very excited to announce our newest application: Smartboard, the best real-time collaboration app for mobile devices. During many sleepless nights in our Ho Chi Minh City development lab, we completely re-designed the drawing and connectivity functions of Whiteboard, our most successful application.
Whiteboard has set a track record that few other productivity apps can beat:
- Achieved 1 million downloads after only 2 months on the App Store
- Featured over 500 times by Apple
- Over half a million monthly active users worldwide
- Over 8 million downloads to date
However, we decided to take the challenge of beating ourselves! In 2013, the Greengar team committed to build Smartboard into the best collaboration app for our users. We appreciate their support over the past several years. The new Smartboard app arrives to the iOS App Store and Android Google Play today with many awesome features:
Connect 5 smartphones and tablets with Smartboard over the same Wi-Fi network. Join a canvas and collaborate in real-time. When people draw on their device, Smartboard instantly transfers their strokes to the other collaboratorsÂ' devices. Smartboard enables people to draw together in real-time, with changes reflected on all collaboratorsÂ' screens.
SKETCHING ON THE GO – iCLOUD, EVERNOTE, GOOGLE DRIVE
Smartboard also features a simple, intuitive UI and fast, smooth drawing. It includes a lot of nice design features, like undo and redo, the ability to quickly Start Over on a new canvas, and an amazing color picker with adjustable opacity and width for each stroke.
Smartboard can save your drawings to multiple cloud storage services including iCloud, Box, Evernote, and Google Drive!
? Special iPad Features ?
· Text Tool: Enhance your photos and drawings with many special fonts, plus rotate and resize your text!
· Layers (not available when collaborating): Import photos from Facebook, Photo Albums, and iCloud on different layers, merge them together and enhance them with your awesome artistic skills.
Share your awesome artwork with the world:
· Submit to Smartboard Gallery
· Save to the Facebook Album of your choice
· Twitter and more!
Smartboard is also selected as a finalist for the Women 2.0 SF PITCH COMPETITION. Greengar's Co-Founder Thuy Truong will be presenting Smartboard at the Women 2.0 Conference on February 14, 2013. This event will feature successful women entrepreneurs who reached milestones of billions, including a Facebook case study, and best practice presentations from some of the most successful female startup founders and executives in the technology industry.
We hope you like Smartboard. We look forward to your feedback!
By Thuy Truong -Â Co-Founder
February 12, 2013 – a sunny afternoon in San Francisco at Philz Coffee on Berry Street


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Recently, I told you about the awesome air rocket launcher I built. Here are the instructions for the actual rocket that you'll launch with your rocket launcher!
When the rocket lands, it may crumple a bit, but you can smooth it out and use it again. We were able to shoot off a rocket about 10 or so times before the paper tore, and it had to be discarded.
One of the things I love about this rocket is that it's made mostly from recycled materials–old magazines and cereal boxes. Using resources wisely is a great lesson for our Cub Scouts to learn.
What you'll need:
- 2′ piece of PVC pipe
- Duct tape
- Old magazine (the kind that's stapled in the middle)
- Cereal box cardboard
- Tape
- Plastic wrap (such as Saran Wrap)
- Scissors
- Ruler
- Fin pattern
Here's what you do:
- Tear off a piece of duct tape about as long as the PVC pipe.
- Lay the PVC pipe on the duct tape near the middle.
- Carefully wrap the tape around the pipe trying to avoid air bubbles.
- Use another piece of duct tape to cover the part of the pipe that isn't already taped and set aside. This is your rocket former.
- Carefully remove the staples from the middle of the magazine.
- Stack two magazine pages evenly together and roll them tightly around the rocket former. If they seem loose, unroll them and start again. The pages should be placed so that they'll make the longer rockets.
- Tape along the seam.
- Carefully slide the rocket until it is about 1/2″ beyond the end of the rocket former.
- Take a 1″ piece of tape, and fold it over the end of the rocket to secure the inside seam.
- Leave the rocket on the former, and set aside for now.
- Print the fin pattern. You'll need 2 fins.
- Cut around two of the fins, and tape them to the cardboard.
- Cut the fins from the cardboard. Cut the three short solid lines, but don't go past the dotted line.
- Fold on the dotted lines. The easiest way to do this is by using a ruler as a straight-edge and pulling the tabs up.
- Bend the first and third tabs in the opposite direction.
- Tape one of the fins onto the end of the rocket that you taped earlier. Tape two tabs on one side of the fin, and two tabs on the other side.
- Repeat with the other fin onto the other side of the rocket.
- Slightly bend the edge of the fin.
- Carefully slide the rocket toward the other end of the former until about 1/2″ of paper is exposed.
- Fold one side of the exposed paper over the top of the former. Continue folding until the paper covers the end of the former.
- Using 4 – 3″ pieces of tape, tape down the top so that it is well sealed.
- Tear a 6″ piece of the plastic wrap and crumple it up. Tape it onto the secured end of the rocket.
- Carefully slide the rocket all the way off of the former.
Now, you're ready to launch!
Place the rocket on the top of the launcher. Stomp hard in the middle of the soft drink bottle, and watch your rocket blast off!
After each launch, you'll need to reinflate the soft drink bottle. Start by squeezing the middle of the bottle so that the plastic pops out a bit. Then, wrap your hand around the top of the vertical pipe, make a fist and blow into the top of your fist.
Let me know what your Scouts think!
Yours in Scouting,
P.S. If this activity was fun for your Cub Scouts, sign up below for more cool ideas! And by doing so, you'll be entered into my monthly drawing for a $25 Amazon gift card. The winner will be randomly selected from all of my subscribers.