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Mount softball dazzled by Jems
Following Tuesday's 5-0 setback at the hands of undefeated league leader St. Basil's, Mount St. Joseph Academy's softball team was looking to rebound with a home-field win last Thursday in another Athletic Association of Catholic Academies contest.
However, visiting pitcher Jamie Kloss and the Jems of Villa Joseph Marie had other ideas. Kloss hurled a no-hitter with two strike-outs and just one walk, and the Jems jolted the Magic defense with 15 hits. They built up an 11-0 lead that brought the ten-run-lead rule into effect to end the game after six innings. For the Mount, sophomore pitcher Alyssa Drummy finished with one strike-out and no walks, while yielding 15 hits.
In the battle for the middle ground in the AACA, Villa Joe improved to 5-3, and the Magic leveled off at 4-4. Back at the beginning of April, the Jems had defeated the Mount in a much closer game, 2-1.
Hard work really does pay off. At least that was the case for CHA leftfielder Zach Lehrbaum on Tuesday afternoon after he hit a two-RBI single to give the CHA Blue Devils a 10-9 lead in the bottom of the sixth inning against visiting Penn Charter. That hit proved to be the difference as the Blue Devils found a way to win the hotly contested match
GFS sticksters beat Bambies for first win
The host Tigers of Germantown Friends broke out of a halftime tie in last Monday's non-league lacrosse match, outscoring St. Hubert Catholic High School 5-1 during the second period to claim their first victory of 2008 by a score of 10-6.
CHA, Mount & Springside finish Flick series
For various reasons, not all rowers from the Chestnut Hill Academy, Mount St. Joseph, and Springside School crews were at the top of their game last Sunday in the fifth (and final) Manny Flick race, and they'll be looking to bring it up a couple of notches as the medal racing season gets underway.


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When I visit Johannesburg, Gauteng (South Africa) one of the birds I most look forward to seeing is the Long-tailed Widowbird Euplectes progne, a member of the Bishop family. Sexually dimorphic, female widowbirds are all rather similar and tricky to separate (though Long-taileds are the largest widowbirds) and outside of the breeding season male Long-tailed Widowbirds are large, streaky, but relatively unspectacular birds. Come late October though and this is a species that – in the (almost) avian equivalent of the metamorphosis of a caterpillar to a butterfly – transforms into a spectacularly well-endowed sexual show-off with a most unlikely bundle of tail plumes…
Non-breeding male Long-tailed Widowbird, September
Female Long-tailed Widowbird, September
Male Long-tailed Widowbirds, October
Interesting enough when they're perched, Long-tailed Widowbirds really become one of the most enchanting species in southern Africa when they take off and display. Males flutter slowly over the grasslands where they're typically found like huge black butterflies, their tails trailing behind them like banners blowing in the wind. Also known as the 'Sakabula', this display flight can last several minutes and at the height of the breeding season when males are busily trying to attract females some favoured sites can be dotted in all directions with widowbirds rising up and down before dropping back out of sight into the long grass. It really is the most fantastic sight, and one well worth getting to see if you ever get the chance.
Displaying male Long-tailed Widowbirds
There are three forms of E. progne and southern African birds extend from the eastern Cape Province north through the Free State, Lesotho, KZN, and western Swaziland into the central highveld where it is most common. It occurs up to 2750m in the Drakensberg Mountains, and is found especially in mixed grasslands typical of the highveld. While not totally a grassland obligate it's likely that continued (rapid) development of the grasslands in eastern South Africa may well see the species decline, though as yet it's still considered to be of Least Concern by Birdlife International.
Typical Long-tailed Widowbird grassland habitat, Suikerbosrand Nature Reserve
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Charging seniors: The right policy for state parks
New Hampshire has a user-supported parks system. To keep general taxes low, the state charges a modest entry fee at the state parks and at many historic sites. The individual entry fee for state parks is only $4. That is an entire day at a place like Bear Brook State Park for less than the price of one movie ticket.
The senior exception is generally thought of as a kindness. In reality, it is a cross-subsidy. Every other user subsidizes the "free" access for senior citizens. If the general admission price is to stay low, the exception cannot continue. The parks system cannot afford to let so many people in for free. (The politician exception is inexcusable and never should have been passed in the first place.)
Sen. Nancy Stiles, R-Hampton, has proposed legislation to offer seniors a $20 parks pass. For less than the price of a dinner for two, senior citizens could purchase a pass that would let them into every state park and historic site - and Cannon Mountain - for the year. On Thursday, the Senate passed the bill by a vote of 17-7.
Stiles says that by charging seniors and the political class, the state parks will see about $300,000 a year in increased revenue. That money will go directly to the parks system, which has struggled financially in recent years even after some reforms that have improved revenues.
It is understandable that seniors would be annoyed by this change, and that Democrats (every senator to vote against the bill was a Democrat) would oppose it for purely self-interested political reasons. But really the current policy is indefensible. State parks fees are modest. Stiles' $20 pass is modestly priced (too modestly) as well. (The bill should include a separate, higher-priced pass for Cannon Mountain.) It is neither cruel nor unreasonable to ask seniors to contribute a tiny bit to the upkeep of the state parks if they want to use them.
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The Premier League is blessed with some of the best strikers in the world including Euro 2008 match winner Fernando Torres as well as the likes of Emmanuel Adebayor and Dimitar Berbatov. These stars are likely to be joined by a host of new forwards in the coming weeks such as Roman Pavlyuchenko, David Villa and Klaas Jan Huntelaar if the press are to be believed.
Already we've seen big money strikers Jo (Man City) and Johan Elmander (Bolton) join English clubs which begs the question who is the best of the best when it comes to strikers in the Premier League?
Do you prefer the homegrown talent of Wayne Rooney and Michael Owen above the likes of Roque Santa Cruz? Do you consider promoted golden oldies Kevin Phillips and Dean Windass to be the best in their position or do you consider proven Premier League foreign stars like Yakubu or Didier Drogba?
Tottenham's Bulgarian forward Berbatov was voted the best London has to offer in a poll earlier this week (38%) amongst fans of London clubs but we want to hear if the fans off all the Premier League sides think differently.
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Today. This entire week.
In light of how completely and hopelessly useless they are, Internet petitions are an extraordinarily popular way of having feelings all over the place. The list of websites to leave tears and snot on the shoulder of are seemingly endless; OnlinePetition, iPetitions, Change.org, Petition Spot……
So I learnt something today. I guess I can start drinking to forget now.
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Blake Fall-Conroy, "Minimum Wage Machine," 2008-2010
This machine allows anyone to work for minimum wage for as long as they like. Turning the crank on the side releases one penny every 4.97 seconds, for a total of $7.25 per hour. This corresponds to minimum wage for a person in New York.
This piece is brilliant on multiple levels, particularly as social commentary. Without a doubt, most people who started operating the machine for fun would quickly grow disheartened and stop when realizing just how little they're earning by turning this mindless crank. A person would then conceivably realize that this is what nearly two million people in the United States do every day…at much harder jobs than turning a crank. This turns the piece into a simple, yet effective argument for raising the minimum wage.
While you're trying to decide what to have for lunch, I'm explaining to myself, once again, why the world would not be a better place without me in it.
While you're trying to make Microsoft Word's margins work the way you would expect they should work, I'm sitting here trying to make my brain realise that suicide is a ridiculous, over-the-top reaction to a cloud of unremitting anxiety.
While you're jumping on Facebook to like the latest photo the George Takei posted, I'm fighting the desire to go and walk into oncoming traffic.
And while you're trying to decide to who to call to hang out with tonight, I'm wondering who I could call to tell "Hey, I feel like killing myself. Yeah, again."
There's no-one I can call.
I won't kill myself. I'm just so very tired of having to fight with the idea.
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I guess people obey certain rules of the Internet without even intentionally trying! This is a very interesting and well made picture. It's strongest points are that the colors and shading are really well done. It's also great to see all the detail put into making a feminine version of the Joker. I always kind of thought of Harley Quinn as being a female Joker. This is of course a more literal example and I can understand why this character is so popular.
People love male characters, so they'd probably also love female versions too. I like how this chick has such a long body and she's a Joker adjusted to have curves. Shotguns are probably the coolest kinds of guns out there. It's great to see all the different kinds of colors used. Granted, the Joker looked like that, but it's great to see it recreated.


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Thanks for the post. I'm an NM at a school in the south of the borough (Hillingdon) which was going to be directly affected by the BSF programme.
I have mixed feelings about the news. Although the programme itself seemed flawed it represented a real opportunity at ICT investment in schools that badly need it. If it is simply a case of the Tories saving cash then so be it. My concern is that it may not end there. If (as the article says) they were prepeared to close a school in 2008 then what is to stop them attempting to do so again?
It's going to be an ineteresting year ahead...


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Campaign-sign debate continues
Date: March 18, 2013
by: Kurt Schultheis | Managing Editor
The election might be over, but Larry Grossman isn't ready to let one campaign issue rest just yet.
Grossman, who ran and lost to Mayor Jim Brown in last week's election, wrote Brown an email March 14 to express his displeasure with Vice Mayor David Brenner. Brenner took some campaign signs belonging to Grossman and Gene Jaleski out of a Sarasota right of way last month.
"So now that the election is over, I'm going to have to say that there is still unfinished business that needs to be resolved so that for the next election cycle we don't have a repetition of the petty thefts that occurred during this campaign," Grossman wrote. "I'm not going to allow Commissioner Brenner to evade and self dismiss his illegal actions to remove our signs, and I'm going to pursue this matter relentlessly until justice is done."
Grossman and Jaleski reported on the disappearance of at least 10 of their signs during the public comments section of the Monday, March 4 Longboat Key Town Commission meeting.
Jaleski said before the Longboat Observer/Longboat Key Public Interest Committee candidate forum in February that Vice Mayor David Brenner had handed him two of his signs and said they were on private property and the property owner didn't give Jaleski permission to place them there.
Later, Jaleski discovered Brenner took them from the outskirts of the Lido Shores neighborhood, within city of Sarasota limits.
"No responsible public official would remove or steal signs," Grossman wrote. "He should provide an explanation of his actions in conjunction with this incident of sign stealing and should resign from his office. He is not above the law and is answerable to the people of Longboat Key."
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Ancelotti happy to see PSG join European giants in Champions League quarterfinals
3/6/13 in Soccer | JamesSmith23 | 1413 respect
Paris Saint-Germain manager Carlo Ancelotti hailed the efforts of his men as they ousted Valencia to join the best teams in Europe in the quarterfinals of the Champions League. The quarterfinal qualification ended Paris Saint-Germain's 18-year curse to get past the Group Stages of the tournament.
A 2-1 lead from the first-leg of Round of 16 made Paris Saint-Germain favorites to qualify for the quarterfinals, but a goal from Jonas put Valencia in front. It took an equalizer from Ezequiel Lavezzi to ensure Paris Saint-Germain were the ones who the victor's at Parc des Princes on Wednesday night.
Paris Saint-Germain will now have to test their metal against the heavyweights of Europe; such as Real Madrid, Barcelona, Juventus, AC Milan, Bayern Munich or Borussia Dortmund.
Carlo Ancelotti has won the Champions League three times with AC Milan, twice as a manager and once as player, therefore the Italian knows what it takes to win the coveted trophy. The former Chelsea manager admits he might not have a squad like he used to at AC Milan, but he is pleased with the performance of his newly-strung team.
"Nobody knows how far we can go," Carlo Ancelotti said refusing to put bars on Paris Saint-Germain's progress in the Champions League. "Up to this point we have done very well but this is our first year in the competition for a lot of the players.
"They have been fantastic so far, and now we will need to see what the draw brings."
The Ligue 1 leaders, who are through to the quarterfinals of the French Cup, are among just a couple of European clubs still left with the chance of recording a treble. Carlo Ancelotti has his fingers crossed for the three major trophies. The Italian admits he is pleased at his team's performance, although it has attracted its fair share of criticism as well.
"We can't put all of our energy into Europe, because we are still fighting on three fronts," Carlo Ancelotti said. "Porto, Juventus and Bayern Munich are the only other teams in Europe still fighting on three fronts, so I am very happy with the team and I want to say thanks to all of the players."
Paris Saint-Germain needed a hero at home on Wednesday night. With striker Zlatan Ibrahimovic benched due to suspension and David Beckham placed permanently on the bench, Carlo Ancelotti put his faith in Kevin Gameiro. The midfielder reignited Paris Saint-Germain and setup Ezequiel Lavezzi for the crucial equalizer.
"Gameiro did very well," Carlo Ancelotti continued. "I wanted an extra midfielder initially, which is why he didn't start, but when he came on he did well and was the key to getting the equalizer."
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The NFL doesn't endorse gambling, well outside of Las Vegas and behind the scenes…maybe. That does not stop anyone from gathering the odds of who will do what and earn what from year to year.
I don't post gambling stuff on this site but this is a little different as it's more about performance odds rather than over/under game odds. What you do with the information is entirely up to you. The numbers are courtesy of Bovada. Since I can't link to a betting site, if you wish to learn more, please Google their name.
2012 NFL MVP – Odds to Win
Aaron Rodgers (GB) QB 11/2
Tom Brady (NE) QB
Drew Brees (NO) QB
Michael Vick (PHI) QB 10/1
Peyton Maninng (IND) QB 10/1
Matthew Stafford (DET) QB 12/1
Arian Foster (HOU) RB 15/1
Calvin Johnson (DET) WR 15/1
Ben Roethlisberger (PIT) QB 18/1
Eli Manning (NYG) QB 18/1
Cam Newton (CAR) QB 22/1
Matt Ryan (ATL) QB
Tony Romo (DAL) QB 22/1
Alex Smith (SF) QB
Chris Johnson (TEN) RB 25/1
LeSean McCoy (PHI) RB 25/1
Ray Rice (BAL) RB
Jay Cutler (CHI) QB
Jimmy Graham (NO) TE 35/1
Matt Forte (CHI) RB
Rob Gronkowski (NE) TE 40/1
Andre Johnson (HOU) WR 50/1
Andrew Luck (IND) QB 50/1
Andy Dalton (CIN) QB 50/1
Jared Allen (MIN) DE
Robert Griffin III (WSH) QB 50/1
Wes Welker (NE) WR 50/1
Larry Fitzgerald (ARI) WR 75/1
Tim Tebow (NYJ) QB
2012 NFL Offensive Rookie of the Year – Odds to Win
Andrew Luck (IND) QB 5/2
Robert Griffin III (WSH) QB 9/2
Trent Richardson (CLE) RB 11/2
Brandon Weeden (CLE) QB 15/2
Justin Blackmon (JAC) WR 15/2
Ryan Tannehill (MIA) QB 10/1
Michael Floyd (ARI) WR 12/1
Doug Martin (TB) RB
Alshon Jeffery (CHI) WR 20/1
David Wilson (NYG) RB 25/1
LaMichael James (SF) RB 25/1
Rueben Randle (NYG) WR 25/1
Ryan Broyles (DET) WR 25/1
Coby Fleener (IND) TE 30/1
Kendall Wright (TEN) WR 30/1
Stephen Hill (NYJ) WR 30/1
A.J. Jenkins (SF) WR 35/1
2012 NFL 2012 NFL Defensive Rookie of the Year – Odds to Win
Luke Kuechly (CAR) LB 4/1
Morris Claiborne (DAL) DB 6/1
Chandler Jones (NE) DE 9/1
Melvin Ingram (SD) DE 10/1
Mark Barron (TB) DB
Fletcher Cox (PHI) DT 10/1
Courtney Upshaw (BAL) LB 12/1
Dont'a Hightower (NE) LB 12/1
Dre Kirkpatrick (CIN) DB 12/1
Harrison Smith (MIN) DB 12/1
Mychal Kendricks (PHI) LB 14/1
2012 NFL Regular Season – Who will lead the league in Passing Yards?
Drew Brees (NO) QB
Tom Brady (NE) QB
Aaron Rodgers (GB) QB 11/2
Matthew Stafford (DET) QB 13/2
Philip Rivers (SD) QB 10/1
Peyton Maninng (IND) QB 10/1
Eli Manning (NYG) QB 12/1
Tony Romo (DAL) QB 18/1
Ben Roethlisberger (PIT) QB 18/1
Jay Cutler (CHI) QB
Matt Ryan (ATL) QB
Matt Schaub (HOU) QB 20/1
Carson Palmer (CIN) QB 25/1
Cam Newton (CAR) QB 25/1
Andrew Luck (IND) QB 30/1
Michael Vick (PHI) QB 30/1
Joe Flacco (BAL) QB 40/1
Andy Dalton (CIN) QB 40/1
Robert Griffin III (WAS) QB 50/1
Josh Freeman (TB) QB 50/1
Sam Bradford (STL) QB 66/1
Matt Cassel (KC) QB 66/1
2012 NFL Regular Season – Who will lead the league in Rushing Yards?
Arian Foster (HOU) RB 9/2
Ray Rice (BAL) RB
Maurice Jones-Drew (JAC) RB 15/2
Chris Johnson (TEN) RB 15/2
LeSean McCoy (PHI) RB 12/1
Jamaal Charles (KC) RB 12/1
Darren McFadden (OAK) RB 14/1
Matt Forte (CHI) RB
Marshawn Lynch (BUF) RB 15/1
Adrian Peterson (MIN) RB 18/1
Ryan Mathews (SD) RB 18/1
Michael Turner (ATL) RB 18/1
DeMarco Murray (DAL) RB 18/1
Frank Gore (SF) RB
Trent Richardson (CLE) RB 20/1
Steven Jackson (STL) RB 20/1
Shonn Greene (NYJ) RB 25/1
Ahmad Bradshaw (NYG) RB 30/1
Fred Jackson (BUF) RB 35/1
BenJarvus Green-Ellis (CIN) RB 50/1
2012 NFL Regular Season – Who will lead the league in Receiving Yards?
Calvin Johnson (DET) WR 7/2
Larry Fitzgerald (ARI) WR 15/2
Andre Johnson (HOU) WR 10/1
Julio Jones (WR) ATL
Victor Cruz (NYG) WR 12/1
Hakeem Nicks (NYG) WR 14/1
A.J. Green (CIN) WR
Roddy White (ATL) WR 15/1
Brandon Marshall (CHI) WR 15/1
Jimmy Graham (NO) TE 16/1
Mike Wallace (PIT) WR 16/1
Rob Gronkowski (NE) TE 18/1
Wes Welker (NE) WR 18/1
Greg Jennings (GB) WR 20/1
Steve Smith (CAR) WR 20/1
Jordy Nelson (GB) WR 22/1
Vincent Jackson (TB) WR 25/1
Demaryius Thomas (DEN) WR 28/1
Eric Decker (DEN) WR 28/1
Miles Austin (DAL) WR 30/1
Marques Colston (NO) WR 30/1
Dez Bryant (DAL) WR 30/1
DeSean Jackson (PHI) WR 35/1
Randy Moss (SF) WR 100/1
Terrell Owens (SEA) WR 100/1
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Captured in battle, warrior Remak is held in a cell, waiting to die. He chose the life of a soldier and accepts that he's left no one to grieve his life. But then the goddess Gillan D'Amatah, lady of the harvest and promoter of family and love, appears in his cell. She once offered him a different lifeone of marriage and familybut thinking it was too late for him, he turned it down.
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PROVIDENCE, R.I. — So this is what it's like to wander into a tornado. All manner of chaos and wreckage and nonsense swirling around, which is basically how Providence plays basketball, and Notre Dame got sucked into that vortex of insanity Wednesday night.
Yet after the relentless wind-burn, and after the Friars' Marshon Brooks ground their defense down to the marrow like no player ever before, the result was a 94-93 victory for the No. 9 Irish at the Dunkin' Donuts Center and a sweet, merciful escape.
Big East) was subsumed quickly in Brooks' supernova outing, a 52-point detonation that set a Big East record and is the most points scored by anyone, ever, against an Irish men's basketball team.
"I don't know if I've ever seen a performance like that," Irish coach Mike Brey said. "That was staggering. I'm just thrilled we escaped because that was what it was going to be when he got going."
In fact, it took superlative nights from two Irish players — plus accommodating Providence (14-14, 3-12) defense — to keep pace for a double-bye in the Big East tournament. Ben Hansbrough scored a career-best 32 points on 10 of 13 shooting and Tim Abromaitis added a season-high 28 points, every last bit of it needed.
The Irish got the requisite quick start, up 13 early, shot 56.1 percent overall and still led by double-digits with four minutes left. But they hung on by fingernails with Brooks exploding for a mind-boggling 35 second-half points, neither man-to-man nor zone nor gimmick defenses slowing him even a half-step.
"There was no way to stop him," Abromaitis said. "He scored pretty much every way you can score, on pretty much all of us, pretty much throughout the whole game."
But again: Notre Dame won. The lead dwindled to 92-90 with 7.4 seconds left, but freshman Eric Atkins calmly drained two free throws to leave little room for drama. A heave at the buzzer from Brooks didn't come close and was probably tardy, anyway.
"It really hasn't hit me yet," Brooks said of his 20 of 28 shooting night. "When I get home, I'll sit down and say, I scored 52 on Notre Dame. Against the No. 9 team in the nation, it's incredible."
Incredible, sure. But the Irish's own linchpin guard hastened to apply a very crucial asterisk.
"He got hot," Hansbrough said. "He made some really tough shots against us. At the end of the day, it wasn't enough."
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Sun-Dried Tomato Bruschetta
Yield: 4 appetizers.
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Nutritional Information
Amount per serving
- Calories: 122
- Calories from fat: 19%
- Fat: 2.6g
- Saturated fat: 0.6g
- Monounsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Polyunsaturated fat: 0.0g
- Protein: 4g
- Carbohydrate: 20.9g
- Fiber: 0.0g
- Cholesterol: 2mg
- Iron: 0.0mg
- Sodium: 285mg
- Calcium: 0.0mg
- 4 (1-ounce) slices French bread (1/2 inch thick)
- 1/4 cup sun-dried tomatoes
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
- 1 tablespoon minced onion
- 1 tablespoon minced green pepper
- 2 tablespoons water
- 1 tablespoon dry white wine
- 1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
- 1/4 teaspoon dried basil
- Dash of ground red pepper
- 2 teaspoons freshly grated Parmesan cheese, divided
- Place bread slices on an ungreased baking sheet. Bake at 450° for 5 minutes or until lightly browned.
- Place tomatoes in a small saucepan; cover with water. Bring to a boil; cook, uncovered, 2 minutes. Drain well. Cut tomatoes into very thin slices; set aside.
- Add oil to pan; place over medium-high heat until hot. Add onion and green pepper; saute until tender. Stir in sliced tomato, water, and next 4 ingredients. Bring to a boil; reduce heat, and simmer, uncovered, 5 minutes or until liquid is absorbed. Spread tomato mixture evenly over toasted bread slices. Sprinkle 1/2 teaspoon cheese on each slice.
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- CONVENIENCE: Entertaining
- MAIN INGREDIENT: Vegetables
- DIETARY CONSIDERATION: Diabetic
- COOKING METHOD: Bake
- PUBLICATION: Oxmoor House
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The hammam ritual: after changing, the usual path through a hammam is:
(1) Warm room. Here, you get your body accustomed to the heat in the hammam and fill two of the many available large buckets, one with cold water and one with warm water. You use some of the water to clean the floor of the space you'll be sitting on. Then you wash a first time, but just superficially, to get rid of the basic dirt on your skin and in your hair.
(2) Hot room. The heat in the hot room allows your pores to open wide and let your sweat out. This brings all the dirt out that's hidden in your pores and does wonders for your skin. How much time you spend in this room, depends on your tolerance for heat. You can use the water in your buckets to refresh from time to time, although most Moroccans leave their buckets in the warm room.
(3) Warm room. You return to the warm room for a more thorough washing. This is when you soap in completely, using the water from one bucket in the process. A fellow bather may offer to wash your back for you. This is a courtesy, don't misinterpret it for anything else. After you wash your skin and hair, you use the water from the second bucket to rinse the soap and dirt off your body. When your bath is done, you carefully empty the remaining water from your buckets along the walls of the warm room.
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Recipe: Creamy Watercress Soup with Lemon-Goat Cheese Dumplings
Recipes from The Kitchn
When Cambria asked Faith and myself for some help coming up with a main course for her Spring Vegetarian Dinner Party for Six, at first we couldn't decide. Faith thought it should be creamy and green. Cambria wanted a vegetarian dish that wasn't just another platter of pasta. I advocated for something satisfying and hearty, but still light enough for a spring meal. The final vote was unanimous: a pureed soup of peppery spring watercress served with warm goat cheese dumplings. Done and done. This recipe is a winner.
This is the kind of dish we love serving at dinner parties. It's so pretty on the table — soft green soup, brilliant white dumplings — and it feels like something you'd order in a restaurant. I love the way the earthy spiciness of the watercress plays against the richness of the goat cheese in the dumplings. Lemon juice in the soup and lemon zest in the dumplings ties the whole dish together and makes it taste bright and sunny.
This is also a great soup for dinner parties because is very easy to make and many of the components can be prepared ahead. The soup a straightforward affair of simmered and pureed vegetables. It can be made the day before and warmed just before dinner. The dumplings are best if made the same day of the party, but they can be refrigerated for a few hours before being simmered in boiling water and served with the soup.
Whether you're throwing a spring dinner party of your own or just want something easy for a special night at home, put this creamy watercress soup on the menu. Vibrantly colored and tasty enough for seconds, this dish won't let you down.
A Few Notes and Addendums:
When we first discussed this recipe, the idea of spinach-goat cheese dumplings sounded mighty fine. But back in the kitchen, it felt like a little too much green, both in color and in substance, so we left it out. The menu for Cambria's party was written from an old copy of the menu that still included the spinach.
If the idea of spinach dumplings sounds good to you, however, you can certainly add it in! Blanch about 10 ounces of spinach in boiling salted water until wilted. Wring the spinach as dry as you can and then chop it up. Add the spinach to the dumpling mix. You may need to use a little extra flour to bring the dough together.
Also, I made an copying error when I gave the recipe to Cambria, so she used twice the amount of milk than necessary. Woops! My fault. This is why her dumplings look a bit billowy and less neatly dumpling-shaped than normal. The recipe below calls for the corrected amount of milk.
Enjoy! ~Emma
Creamy Watercress Soup with Lemon-Goat Cheese Dumplings
Combine 2 cups of flour, baking powder, salt, and lemon zest in a medium mixing bowl, and whisk thoroughly. Whisk together the milk and eggs in a separate bowl and pour over the flour mixture. Stir with a stiff spoon or spatula until the ingredients come together into a shaggy dough. It will be floury at first, but keep working the dough and mashing it against the sides of the bowl until the flour is incorporated.
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i like how white "wHine" is an ingredient :) oops
Yum. Saved to try this weekend.
This looks delicious! Any idea if the dumplings would still work with almond milk rather than whole/2%?
@parcels - Yes, actually! I think the dumplings would work just as well with almond milk. If you try it, please let us know!
Worked great with almond milk for both the soup and dumplings. In place of goat cheese, I used herb Tofutti cream cheese.
I've been saving this one since it was posted and I finally tried this recipe last night but came up utterly frustrated. Was I only supposed to keep the watercress leaves? I chopped the white parts off and some of the stem, leaving only little sprigs of watercress. They got tangled around my immersion blender and I had to keep pulling them out and out and out until finally I got so tired of pulling watercress from around the blender that I had goat cheese dumplings and wine for dinner instead.
Is it common for things to get wrapped around immersion blenders? I recently purchased it, so I'm new to using the blender, but hopefully someone can give me a tip.
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LAST NIGHT A CLICHE SAVED MY LIFE (by TheReaper4441)
slow toner (by indr)
some techno pete's been fukkin with recently. check the skratchin too!
stills from some vdmx work.
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"Ends of the Earth" Pila [ http://omnimusic.bandcamp.com/album/pila-ends-of-the-earth-ep-omnizero12 ]
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Midwest Week for 11/8/13
November 08, 2013
Midwest Week for 11/8/13
This week on Midwest Week, the latest installment on "public art" from the River Cities Reader - this time are in local cemeteries.
Herb Trix's guest this week is Bruce Walters, occasional writer for the River Cities Reader, and a professor of art at Western Illinois University.
(photo of the Cable Monument in Chippiannock Cemetery by Bruce Walters. Two more of his photos are on the WVIK Facebook page.)


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As I learned long, long ago (in what seems like a Galaxy far, far away) during my [first] career;
When troubleshooting a communications system walk the ISO model.
The comments page looks so...
I wonder how many comments will there be already when I finish posting this.
this sounds like SOP for the mid 80's.
That's a great one!
So... multiple phone lines for each PC, plus all the hardware was more efficient than the leased lines, just so they could run 3270's?
It's very possible that this setup was a reasonable thing to do. Leased lines were quite expensive.
I hope he kept a sharp ear out for banjos in those backwoods.
Squeal like a pig, computer boy!
CAPTCHA: gravis, which are what I like on my grits
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 09:42 • by 3rd Ferguson (unregistered)
It's a more efficient use of the company's money for sure. The PCs are a one-time sunk cost or perhaps a depreciating three-year lease, same as the terminals would've been and probably not much more expensive.
POTS lines are cheap compared to leased lines where you're (in principle) paying the phone company to set up and maintain a piece of copper between two points that exists solely for you.
That 8087 was inappropriate for its purported purpose. Apparently nobody told management that accounting should be done in exact integer/decimal arithmetic, not floating point. Unless somebody was also doing a little Superman-style penny-shaving.
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 09:42 • by William (unregistered)
That should have been "squeal like a 300 baud modem!"
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 09:44 • by Fake Nagesh (unregistered)
I worked at Coney Island Hospital in NYC at the time when they were rolling out their "upgrade". They switched from dumb terminals to windows 98 running terminal emulators.
Support calls went from a dead terminal once every week or so, to "My Computer is frozen" several times a day.
They couldn't at least go to NT 4? I mean seriously "Windows 98"?
Surely a multiplexer and a single modem line would be enough to replicate all of the dumb terms. What's the point of having a very expensive modem (damn, in those 80s even a 300 baud was an arm and a leg) for each PC?
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 09:47 • by emaN ruoY (unregistered)
As if NT4 was any more usable. Sure, it may not have crashed as much, but user training would have been crazy.
In other news today, a $25 computer is emulating not just a 3270 terminal, but the whole darned mainframe: http://www.designspark.com/content/my-raspberry-pi-thinks-its-mainframe
If it was truly that back woods, how were they technologically-advanced enough that they could use touch-tone to reach the long-distance operator?
Greetings from Alabama
That's called progress. Now let me do some actual work at the VT100 emulation I run on a virtual manchine in my 8GB of RAM six core PC.
Um, wouldn't an acoustic coupler work in that situation?
Then again, training might have been a nightmare.
"When the computer attempted to dial out, he heard the sound of touchtone bleeps followed by a crackly voice saying, "Number please.""
I pity those poor telephone operators who got prank-called a hundred times with strange beep noises while they tried to get this to work.
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 10:45 • by Gomer Pyle (unregistered)
Still kinda slow down there, eh Lyle?
CAPTCHA: causa - what came before effecta?
I once was sent to install an IVR system in a city that didn't support touch-tone dialing ...
In a phone system without direct-dial long distance, it seems unlikely that they'd support touch-tone dialing.
They probably didn't.
There ain't such thing as promotion coments anymores. :(
My clue is Alex is being lazing around now everyday. He ain't caring about this website for now.
Re: Why install an 8087 for accounting?
2012-05-15 11:37 • by Ted (unregistered)
Not to mention that all of the accounting was being done on the mainframe. I doubt the terminal emulator was even touching the 8087.
Or have a leased line?
Re: Why install an 8087 for accounting?
2012-05-15 11:49 • by Maurits
Adding up debits and credits should be materialized into whole pennies, absolutely. But if you're calculating a monthly payment on a loan, or if you want to do some forecasting, floating point is appropriate.
Whether this is "accounting" or "finance" is an open question, though.
Here in Hyderabad, leasing ain't being option for mose servises, because it must being aproved by Dehli government.
Re: Why install an 8087 for accounting?
2012-05-15 12:01 • by Nagesh (unregistered)
You ain't should be using floating point for dolar amaunts. Using string is preserving consistancy without loss of presicion. Are they ofering numerical analysis in american colege coarses?
You are probably thinking that the phone company was AT&T. I can imagine that back then, AT&T made it difficult to connect a relatively modern independent local phone system to their long distance service.
Can't be true. Windows has never had any problems. Ask any MS astroturfer fanboi.
(Cue "it used to be bad, but the latest version..." in 3... 2... 1...)
Dumb bitch couldn't figure out it was a computer calling and interpret the beeps? See, that's why we had to fire them all and replace them with machines.
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 12:46 • by FedITGeek (unregistered)
Part of the phone system easily could have moved over to tone dialing, yet still had some outdated infrastructure. I lived in NC in the early 80's, and while we had people using modems for BBS connections, and yet we still occasionally ended up on shared "party line" calls depending on the area of the county, who you were calling, etc.
Re: Why install an 8087 for accounting?
2012-05-15 12:48 • by James (unregistered)
Sting? Are you DAFT? Hope I don't have to submit a DailyWTF based on your code! I would just love to debug code that performed dollar amount calculations in strings, that would be just lovely!
Of course they teach numerical analysis in American College Courses! But obviously, you failed "English"...
I'm the OP. Actually the computers were 8 Bit CP/M machines. They were custom built for our company (a WTF in itself). There were only 4 per plant so they just shared a dial-up phone line. It was very slow because with every screen it waited for the line to be free, dialed the mainframe, connected, submitted the request, received the data, and hung up.
My boss called in some favors so we were able to give some of the users two computers. That way they could type into screens on one PC while the other one was waiting for the other to connect and transmit.
The users hated the new setup but it did save a *LOT* of money by eliminating the leased lines with 3275 terminals. Leased lines were very expensive then. I wasn't privy to the figures on whether we were paying more for overtime than we saved on leased line costs.
Most of the towns where we had plants did support touch tone dialing and direct dial, but one didn't. The phone company there was very small with only a couple of counties as it's franchise. We could configure the modem to dial using clicks instead of tones, but it wasn't possible at that location to make long distance calls or calls to toll free numbers without operator assistance.
Prior to installation we contacted the phone company to make sure they supported direct dial and they said that they did. Of course, when we pressed them on that point they said that they meant that they "planned" to support it.
Cripes. Yet another case of Remy anonymizing stories almost to the point of being pure fiction.
Could you have done some sort of proxy thing where the one backwater town calls one of the other towns locally, and the second town calls long-distance to wherever the first one wanted to connect to?
Re: Long Distance
2012-05-15 13:24 • by ronintoronto (unregistered)
Modems always have supported Pulse dialing for "Alabama-level" telephone systems.
Wondering if it would have been feasible to have an acoustic coupling type modem and a handset, call the operator on the handset, give them the number to call long-distance and when they connect the call put the handset in the modem coupler and get the connection going. I've had to use similar workarounds to make long-distance/international fax calls with a calling card, dialing manually then hitting "start" when the ring-tone comes through.
Having to do that every time you needed to make a connection would have gotten real old, real fast though.
On that note I guess the "drop the connection after every screen" feature was at least partly inspired by the need to avoid racking up long distance charges while reading the contents of a screen. I used to live somewhere that had per-minute local call charges and when I first had dial-up internet I would connect, transfer mail and newsgroups messages, pull up any web pages I wanted to read, then disconnect while I read them. I do NOT miss those days.
I can actually imagine modems incorporating a "workaround" for these situations: the digits 0 to 9 prerecorded, played back in the necessary combination when they find a human.
That might be too advanced for a little 1980s modem. You'd need to incorporate a cassette player and all that.
Didn't musical greeting cards exist in the '80s? They could have used something like that. It doesn't have to be especially clear, since none of the digits' pronunciations are that close.
In 1988 at univarsity, I need to write workaround for java.net.URL because it ain't working whilthout physical conection for destination.
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2012-05-15 14:27 • by Gunslinger (unregistered)
Dammit, that was what I was going to say.
And when I read that, my mind immediately said, "Sure, AT DP". I'm sure glad I remember Hayes modem commands, even though I haven't coded commands to a modem in about 20 years. Acoustic couplers are coming back, you know. This broadband thing is just a passing fad.
RE dialing by hand: This is exactly how we did it when I was in high school. We had to call the school operator, get an outside line, dial in, wait for the carrier tone, and then put the handset into the acoustic coupler. It was awkward but it worked fine. But yes, if you had to do that for every screen, that would get real tedious.
RE long distance charges: That's why there were WATS lines, which stands for "Wide Area Telephone Service" or something ilke that. You paid a flat monthly fee for unlimited long-distance calls. I guess incoming WATS is still around: that's what an 800 number is. I don't know if there's still outgoing WATS. Cell phones these days tend to charge the same rate for local or long distance, it looks like that distinction is going away.
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This year I am very excited to introduce my kiddle to the advent calendar. With just shy of 2 years under his belt, time is still a concept slightly out of reach. The day by day countdown will probably help both ignite and contain his excitement.
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mem there is no sync program in the zip file that users can use to send through their serial port to the arduino. I'm new to hardware programming and I assumed that the Arduino program would request it from the port itself instead of the computer being required to send it.
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E. From the near side- Close up of the head, jaw, neck, shoulder, forearm, knee, cannon, fetlock, pastern, hoof (showing size of hoof, shape and angle ). Proceed to withers, length of back, topline, bottomline, length of croup to hip, stifle, hock, cannon, fetlock, pastern and hoof. Shoot video of each site separately and then zoom out to show entire section being viewed.
F. From the near side- With camera 20 ft. from horse- Turn horse to the right and walk directly away from the camera 35 paces. Camera to slowly zoom to keep horse fully in frame. Turn horse right to face camera squarely. Trot horse directly toward camera, stopping 20 ft. from camera. Camera to zoom out as horse approaches.
G. For the purpose of viewing the horse in motion- From the near side with camera 40 ft. away- Trot horse 25 paces forward, keeping horse fully in frame. Stop and turn left, to show off side of horse. Trot 50 paces past original point of origin and stop. Zoom to keep horse fully in frame as needed.
Section 2. With horse in a safe enclosed area, of 100 ft. minimum, but not so large as make viewing the horse difficult, remove bridle or halter completely, setting the horse at liberty.
A. Encourage the horse to move at the trot and canter, changing directions several times.Film at least 3 minutes of the horse in motion, and finish with horse being caught and rebridled or haltered. Attempt to capture the motion from several different angles and views.
Please Download and Print the following forms and submit with video to:
American Sporthorse Registry
314 Hack Brown Road
Franklin, KY 42134
Email To Equine Enterprises
Sandra Placco
Franklin, KY
*Make Check Paypable to: Equine Enterprises / ASR
A one time charge for registration of $60.00 is required.
*Please allow 45 days for processing of videos and issuance of registration certificates. All registration fees must be included with the application form unless prior arrangements are made.
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Homemade DIY EVAP Smoke Machine
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going to the store and getting one. Not familiar with diesels.
thewibb: LOL @ burnin' the baby fluid. Nice work man, very simple, best and easiest one I've come across. Thanks for sharing.
MoK86: Ever thought of making an extra one and selling it for $100?
Jake Johns: will this work with checking the fuel hoses? like the purge evaporator tube, etc.
mdrus03: @sympatheticsun
theshadowfexx: its just a standard aluminum pressure bottle for coffee or tea and cold beverages
mdrus03: Glad everyone's working it out.
Randy Fuchs: Interesting but I'm confused why you need TWO sources of air ?? I mean just the "bubbler" line will pressurize the bottle, no ? How full to you fill it when you use ?
hardrockau: gud vid bro, could you tell me what bottle you used? I am getting bit confused with the choice of the container or the bottle. And if you want to run the machine for long one go , then How long can it run without any interruption?
mdrus03: @sympatheticsun yes, it's just an aluminum drinking bottle and it will run as long as there is fluid and a power source.
rb26dett32: Did you say you are using baby oil? Is that what you would recommend or would using something else work better? The way you have it works perfectly. The only thing I don't "see" is a regulator. But you did mention to regulate it at 2 psi. Are you doing that with an actual regulator or are you controlling it my modulating the air gun?
freddy warcliffe: made mine out of a big monster can works like a charm ty
john fin: There have been some concerns about introducing oxygen (air) into fuel vapors. Some claim it could be creating bomb. Have you come across this issue? I would think a check valve to prevent the fumes from hitting the ignition source (glow plug) might be a good safety feature.
yung408: Is that room still open?
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Screen Play: Sundance 2013 "Very Good Girls"
The Gist: Two girls, one boy, no clothes.
Photo: Jessica Miglio / Courtesy of Sundance.org
Photo: Jessica Miglio / Courtesy of Sundance.org
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Photo: Courtesy of Sundance.org
The Buzz: Ha. Buzz. (Sorry.) Sarsgaard tried to turn the role down, said he's not that guy (referring to Chuck Traynor, the monster who bullied Lovelace into the porn industry). Seyfried admitted to watching Lovelace's one-and-only porno, Deep Throat, many times — to get the "bad acting" down pat. You know, research.
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The Stars: Roy Abramsohn; Elena Schuber; little bitties Katelynn Rodriguez and Jack Dalton; and two impossible-to-cast, giggling French girls.
The Buzz: Word is, it'll never see a theater. The movie was shot on site without the theme park's permission. So if it hits a film festival near you, see it before it's put on ice like WD himself.
Photo Credit: Mankurt Media / Courtesy of Sundance.org
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It was nominated for the Palme d'Or at Cannes 2012, claims several critics' No. 1 spot this year, and tops our list of upcoming screenings. The third in Jeff Nichols impressive slate of thrillers stars Reese Witherspoon, Matthew McConaughey, and, of course, Michael Shannon. So go on, get dirty — sneak peek the trailer here.
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"Heaven And All," by Robert Levon Been, Dave Grohl, Peter Hayes
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