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One of my favourite bites is cashew nut cookies and I must say it's on my baking list every CNY. Rich, flavoursome and full of nutty goodness, it's definitely a must-have!
Cashew Nut Cookies
250g butter
180g icing sugar
400g plain flour
1 tsp baking powder
180g ground cashew nuts
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla extract
100g cashew nut halves, for garnishing
Egg wash
1 egg yolk, lightly beaten
1) Preheat oven to 150C.
2) Sift plain flour and baking powder together.
3) Cream butter and icing sugar together. Add in egg yolk and vanilla extract.
4) Add in the flour and ground cashew nuts. Mix well until dough forms.
5) Roll dough to 1/4 inch thickness and cut into desired shapes using cookie cutter.
6) Press a cashew nut on top of each cookie and brush with egg wash.
7) Bake at 150C for 20-25 minutes or until golden brown.
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The Le Baigneur Tonifiant soap has a herbaceous aroma, spiced with black pepper and clove.
Active ingredients:
Camelina oil (min content 5%):
Camelina is traditionally used in Central Europe as an oilseed crop. Rich in antioxidants such as vitamin E, camelina oil has regenerative properties perfect for sensitive or combination skin.
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Aside from smelling incredibly warm, black pepper also helps to tone, and blended with clove this spicy combo stimulates the skin.
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Memories of an Old Friend
It's funny how the Universe works.
Yesterday I posted an NPR article on Facebook about this weekend's 50 year anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival. I was there, and it was a life-changing event for me. I went with my friend, Christine. Chris and I went to nursing school together; we shared our first-ever apartment. She taught me how to cook. Actually I kind of knew how to cook, but had no idea how to put a meal together and on the table at the same time. Chris, having cooked for years for her family, showed me how to time things so everything was ready at once. She moved to San Diego after I did and worked for me in the medical intensive care unit at University Hospital. She married, moved to Texas, and when that didn't work out, came back to San Diego and lived with Skip and me until she could get her life back together. We loaned her some money, so she could buy a car. But as these things do, we drifted apart as I became more focused on marriage and my new baby, and she became more focused on her career. We lost touch.
Over the past 50 years, I've occasionally thought about her. Last week while thinking about my life right out of nursing school, she came to mind. Then yesterday as I posted about the Festival, I thought about her again. I searched FB, but had no luck finding her. This morning I tried googling her name and came up with this...
It looks like Chris never remarried and spent her 40 year nursing career in the San Diego area.
She died on May 27 of this year.
Funny how the Universe works.
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Work in Progress
Chateau de Bournazel in the Aveyron. While fascinating in its own right, we didn't visit the Chateau itself; what we wanted to see this day was the Renaissance garden. Check out this video for a brief overview in English of the Chateau. A visit will definitely be a future goal!
Last year the first phase of the garden was completed which included this large pond and nine parterres, square garden plots, planted with shrubs, flowers, and trees symbolic of the stages of a Renaissance prince's life and education.
This square anchored by a large rock feature surrounded by water and snowy white daisies symbolizes the mountains and geography necessary to be an educated man.
I love how box hedge is used to border individual planting areas. All the plants used are those that would have been present either in the wild or cultivated during the mid-to-late 1500s.
This square depicts the solar system and heavenly bodies.
There is the beginning of a labyrinth.
This is a well dating from the time of the original garden.
There's a lot more to see, of course, and since this is only the first year of the garden, the entire site is a work in progress. A visit every year will reveal even more of its beauty as the entire plan is completed. In the meantime, have a look at this video about building the garden from the Chateau's website (in French, but with English subtitles.)
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Does Queensland Want Daylight Saving?
New Poll Suggests Yes
The great daylight saving debate has fired up again in Queensland.
A new Galaxy poll has found 55 per cent of us are in favour of joining NSW and Victoria in turning our clocks forward a hour over summer.
It's led to renewed calls for another public vote on the issue, with Gold Coast Mayor Tom Tate admitting to News Corp that he believes everyone should get a say.
The last referendum was held back in 1992 with the majority of Queenslanders voting against the change.


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Pig Roast at the Middletons
A little chilly but still a good turnout on Saturday, January 28 for a club social. A hearty group gathered at Mike and Lynn Middleton's home in Hilton Head Plantation around 6:00 in the morning to start the roaster and get on with the task of cooking a 130 +/- pound porker. The diners arrived at 4:00 in the afternoon. It was nice seeing old friend and member Lee Wood who once again did a great job cooking the beast. Special thanks to Mike & Lynn, John Farrenkopf and others for making the arrangements.
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A gate is usually attached to hinges that are properly secured to the wall of the fence. Whenever you try to open or close the gate, you will notice movement on these devices. Aside from this function, they also carry the whole weight of the material in order to properly mount it on the fence. However, through many years of use, the hinges get stuck due to the changes in the weather as well as the poor maintenance done by the homeowner.
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I thought it might be good to share some more on the first book of the Bible, specifically Genesis 1 and the themes of structure and order. Sandra Richter explains this text from an Ancient Near Eastern perspective. Each video is less than 8 minutes long.
You may also enjoy John H. Walton's talk on Genesis 1 (23 min):
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Baby Cows Saved From a Pharmaceutical Lab Are Learning to Love. In today's society, babies, at least human ones, are given utmost priority. Mothers are given maternity leave so that babies can start their lives with as much attention and care as possible. Babies are raised and heralded as "the future," part of a group who will hopefully be wiser, kinder, and better for the world than the generation before them. And of course, they are given all of the care they need to grow up strong and healthy. Sadly, the reality for babies born into the world of animal agriculture is much, much different. Take calves for example. In the dairy industry, these animals are ripped away from their mothers soon after birth so that they do not consume any of their mother's precious milk (that's for humans, after all). From here, if the calf is a female, she is moved and set up to follow the footsteps of her mother and become a dairy cow. If the calf is a male, he is transported to the meat industry where he will either be sold as veal or raised for a few more weeks and killed for beef.
Not every single calf lives out one of these two scenarios, though. Two three-day-old calves who were recently rescued by New Life Animal Sanctuary, for example, were actually transferred to pharmaceutical laboratories shortly after birth. They were going to be used for their blood and then discarded promptly after. Thankfully, these calves were rescued and taken to New Life Animal Sanctuary through the "Life After Labs" program.
When the two calves, now named Zeus and Hayden, arrived at the sanctuary, they were in major need of medical attention. Zeus arrived very weak with diarrhea and was having difficulty breathing.
- Twenty-five monkeys shipped from Cambodia to Houston sustained "multiple organ failure caused by dehydration and hypoglycemia." They died or were euthanized after they were trucked to Washington without veterinary care, in spite of being weak, thin, and in poor health.
- A 6-week-old monkey became trapped while trying to escape through a fence. Monkeys on the other side tried unsuccessfully to pull him through, and he died from trauma and hypothermia.
- Six monkeys died when improperly trained and unqualified personnel conducted liver biopsies on them.
- Multiple monkeys suffered from trauma, hyperthermia, and seizures and ultimately died after being pursued by net-wielding workers.
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Breaking —The Nonhuman Rights Project's legal team just filed a new appeal for Tommy—our first ever chimpanzee plaintiff—with the Appellate Division, First Department of New York.
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The Nato attack on Libya, with the UN Security Council assigned to mandate a bogus "no fly zone" to "protect civilians", is strikingly similar to the final destruction of Yugoslavia in 1999. There was no UN cover for the bombing of Serbia and the "rescue" of Kosovo, yet the propaganda echoes today. Like Slobodan Milosevic, Muammar Gaddafi is a "new Hitler", plotting "genocide" against his people. There is no evidence of this, as there was no genocide in Kosovo. In Libya there is a tribal civil war; and the armed uprising against Gaddafi has long been appropriated by the Americans, French and British, their planes attacking residential Tripoli with uranium-tipped missiles and the submarine HMS Triumph firing Tomahawk missiles, a repeat of the "shock and awe" in Iraq that left thousands of civilians dead and maimed. As in Iraq, the victims, which include countless incinerated Libyan army conscripts, are media unpeople.
In the "rebel" east, the terrorising and killing of black African immigrants is not news. On 22 May, a rare piece in the Washington Post described the repression, lawlessness and death squads in the "liberated zones" just as visiting EU foreign policy chief, Catherine Ashton, declared she had found only "great aspirations" and "leadership qualities". In demonstrating these qualities, Mustafa Abdel Jalil, the "rebel leader" and Gaddafi's justice minister until February, pledged, "Our friends… will have the best opportunity in future contracts with Libya." The east holds most of Libya's oil, the greatest reserves in Africa. In March the rebels, with expert foreign guidance, "transferred" to Benghazi the Libyan Central Bank, a wholly owned state institution. This is unprecedented. Meanwhile, the US and the EU "froze" almost US$100 billion in Libyan funds, "the largest sum ever blocked", according to official statements. It is the biggest bank robbery in history.
John Pilger (26 May 2011). "Welcome to the violent world of Mr. Hopey Changey".


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I have to imagine a meeting with the client, I have to role play with the objectives of this fictitious brand in order to make the final decisions. I feel confident that many of the directions I've sketched out can push forward and become attractive graphics. However, I need to find the graphic that is just right for Hot Stuff. This is where Monthly Brand, as a concept, is weak. There is no real client, there is no one in charge who will ultimately make the decision from compositions. There is only me. I suppose therein also lies the strength to Monthly Brand. I'm the one who gets to decide which direction is strongest.
The following are more sketches and comps at the fork in the road. You can see that several concepts fell through upon exploration. The route of the blocky thick characters ends up appearing like a cheap Mexican restaurant logo, or even something like Scooby Doo or The Brady Bunch. The diamonds and the zagging ideas come off as either too ordinary or too outlandish (after all my thoughts about Charlie Brown and his beloved zig zag shirt it turns out to be not unique enough for the brand).
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I started thinking more about Heinz 57 sauce, and even about Altoids, from which this brand idea sprouted. Hot Stuff wants something that really makes them stand apart, something that is in a division of its own. Sure it's still mustard, but it's a strange sauce at the same time. I'm feeling like one of the words I appropriated to its qualifiers at the beginning isn't quite right: stimulating. The product might very well be stimulating, but that's a strange word choice, and I think we could use something that provides more character. I think the brand would rather be bizarre, or curious—that they offer something that is a bit off the normal course for their product. I think Altoids has the corner on "curiously strong," and I don't think of Hot Stuff as weird or bizarre, but maybe something like mysterious. Okay, there it is, mysterious. It's like a secret recipe or something. Every sauce they put out is a new twist on something classic. But I don't see Heinz 57 or Altoids or Nutella or Lea & Perrins having any real distinction to their visual branding. The creators of Hot Stuff think their recipe is from outer space, and they want it to look that way. They're banking on it esoteric. You might say that the Heinz 57 sauce can speak for itself, but if it looks like all the other sauces it'll be considered the same way. Despite the success of that recipe, Hot Stuff would rather appear distinct as well as taste distinct.
With that said, I've decided to travel down the route of the illustrative skate egg form, as mentioned in the previous entry. The weekend has been concentrating on that, and some development has occurred. After committing to a general form I brought it into Illustrator and traced it, cleaning up a lot of curves and making the shapes consistent. The two t's and the f's were building so similarly that I duplicated their forms and altered them judiciously. The logo began to take a more controlled structure than the first few drafts, and I can't help but use a double f ligature for Stuff. The alien articulations began to creep out with consistency. I suppose I'm a bit inspired by the Lovecraft I've been reading lately, but the motif certainly seems applicable and lines up with some of the inspirations I had from the beginning. Finally, the awkwardness of the H was really the only form that had the serpentine terminals, so I felt they could be represented at the final strokes of the ligature adding a bit of symmetry to the piece, while giving us a very peculiar set of characters.
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This is where I'm at after the end of the weekend, and technically the end of the month. I always want to give a good sleep on a final design. The morning could bring a different light. Not that I have a choice since I need to get on with the next brand. I definitely know I would have liked more time to polish this up. Definitely taking notes for next month.


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i want to integrate SSO in Sharepoint and provide automatic login to asite, say yahoo.I knw how to enable SSo in sharepoint and how to retrieve credentials,but how do i use them to provide login to yahoo??
That's really not a SharePoint question per se - you'll need to find somedocumentation (if it exists) on this from Yahoo or someone who's tried to dothis in the past...
For sharepoint portal server, you can use passport authentication forSSO. This would make your task easier for all passport-enabled websites when it's related to SSO and seamless accessFor yahoo! (it does not provide MS passport authentication. forsure!!)i guess it's difficult but if your purpose it to get some data fromyahoo! Services, like latest news, or weather updates based on userlogon, then you may use Yahoo! Web Services .Please review this article to know basics of Yahoo! Webservice.www.oreillynet.com/.../yahoo.htmlI don't know whether it integrates with .NET or not neither I have noexperience with Yahoo! Web Service but i guess it's worthtrying because the amount of data Yahoo! has, it definitely, SoundsGood!!!!
Could you provide me more insight on PASSPORT and how do I use it withsharepoint.
You can enable Passport Authentication for SPS 2003 on IIS 6.0 by selecting .NetPassport Authentication from Authentication Methods under Directory Security.Excerpts from IIS Help File:Select to enable .NET Passport authentication services on your Web site. NETPassport allows users of your site to create a single sign-in name and passwordfor easy, secure access to all .NET Passport-enabled Web sites and services..NET Passport-enabled sites rely on the .NET Passport central server toauthenticate users rather than hosting and maintaining their own proprietaryauthentication systems. However, the .NET Passport central server does notauthorize or deny a specific users' access to individual .NET Passport-enabledsites. It is the responsibility of the Web site to control user permissions.Using .NET Passport authentication requires that a Default domain be defined.Review the following information / URLs for more information. this is theinformation we collected from various online sources.Microsoft Article:SharePoint Products and Technologies does not fully support Microsoft Passportauthentication.msdn.microsoft.com/.../SP\PTOverview_SV01072196.aspOther references:www.theserverside.net/.../showarticle.tssfrom MSDRD.comSharePoint v2 needs to run on IIS 6 (because it uses the new application poolingfeature). Since IIS 6 supports a new form of authentication, namely PassportAuthentication, does this mean SharePoint v2 supports passport authentication aswell? The first thing you need to keep in mind is that passport accounts aremapped to windows accounts. This might prove to be confusing to end users sincethey log in using their passport account but as far as SharePoint is concernedonly the windows account context is known (which for example could be an entiredifferent username). The second thing to keep in mind is probably worse.SharePoint offers the possibility to reset user passwords. Thus breaking themapping between passport accounts and windows accounts. So concluding, you couldsay that it's relatively easy to use passport in conjunction with SharePoint butyou should make sure you understand the consequences first.What we Have done:----------------------Enable Authentication using .Net Passport (basic authentication support, mappingpassport users to our AD accounts)We did not have the expertise to write our own Authorization modules / securitymanager modules to perform additional talks (not supported by Microsoft). Due tothis reason our document collaboration application did not work becauseauthorization was always as an issue.
I enabled Passport authentication under Directory Security in IIS butafter that the Central Admin of SPS became unavailable...what do I do?thanx beforehand n also for the info before..
the problem could be due to non-mapping of Windows User Accounts /AD Account topassport accounts. The sharepoint only understands windows accounts.this could well be the reason why you are not able to access the Central Adminof SPS because authentication is not successful.Follow this link for more information:http://www.mcsemag.info/solution/w2k09.htmFollowing suggestion from MS SharePoint Team on your problem;- the windows account is mapped to a passport account, andthe only context which is known within sharepoint is thewindows context. This might be a little confusing for theend user, e.g. if he checks in a document the author willbe the windows user name instead of the passport user name.- When the user password is reset remember that themapping in IIS 6 breaks.
just wondering, did you ever try something as simple as this:www.codeproject.com/.../...__account__via_http.aspyou know how to retrievecredentials,then why don't you give the above code a try?
thanx for the article link........but there is something in the article which i can't figure out how todo........how do I provide reference to1.Microsoft HTML Object library.2.Microsoft Internet Explorer.I jst can't figure tht out.
as per my understanding of this code, you need to provide references to thefollowing COM components:MSHTML.TLB # Microsoft HTML Object Libraryshdocvw.dll # Microsoft Internet Controlsadd references from your asp.net solution to these COM Components (Project >>Add Reference >> COM >> Select two components as above) . then you need to findyou way through interops created, finding equivalent class / interfaces andmake sure your code works.since this is a VB 6.0 desktop app, in asp.net we MAY use equivalent classes toperform the same operation.I am not sure whether the same coding / classes will work in asp.net but still,you may give it a try / code this in asp.net - the BEST solution.


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USJ Tanamera
Property Insight
USJ Tanamera is an exclusive gated and guarded residential estate located on the southern tip of the affluent township UEP Subang Jaya just next to Sri Hijauan and USJ 16. It was developed by Tan & Tan Development in 2004 on 15 acres of prestigious freehold land.
USJ Tanamera comprises of double-storeys, two and a half-storey town house terrace / link units, semi-detached and bungalow houses. Each unit is equipped with a wide range of modern facilities, plus also spacious interior rooms. The terrace unit comes with built-up areas that ranges from 2,030 sf up to 2,630 sf along with 4 + 1 or 5 + 1 bedroom for each unit.
In addition, USJ Tanamera provides safety for its resident with its exclusive gated and guarded neighbourhood. For leisure and shopping, USJ Tanamera is within proximity to shopping malls such as One City, The Main Place, Empire Subang, Subang Parade, First Subang, Citta Mall, Oasis Ara Damansara and The Summit.
For groceries, there are plenty of hypermarkets surrounding the area of USJ Tanamera such as Aeon Big Subang, Mydin USJ and Giant USJ. In terms of education, there are plenty of primary, secondary schools and tertiary institutions nearby. For healthcare, there are QHC Medical Centre, Subang Jaya Medical Centre and Sunway Medical Centre.
For accessibility, USH Tanamera is connected to a large network of highways and easily accessible through highways like the Shah Alam Expressway (KESAS), North - South Expressway Central Link (ELITE), New Klang Valley Expressway (NKVE), Lebuhraya Damansara - Puchong Highway (LDP), Federal Highway, and Subang - Kelana Link.
Property Details
Type A: 2,366 - 2,396 sf
Type B: 2,030 - 2,231 sf
Type C: 2,612 - 2,630 sf
Market Trends
USJ Tanamera is one of the most exclusive and affluent neighbourhoods located in UEP Subang Jaya. The residential development has a quiet environment, serene surroundings and a landscaped pathway. However, accessibility is slightly on the inconvenient side because it is located near Shah Alam. Residents heading to USJ have to use to Hicom Highway (Persiaran Klang). In which, the Hicom Highway is usually very congested during rush hours.
Communal living is the concept of USJ Tanamera. The developer has ensured a residential sanctuary where the residents can bond while picnicking at the park and taking leisurely stroll around the neighbourhood.
USJ Tanamera, despite the developer's best attempt to create a serene environment, is located right next to the PLUS Highway. On a bright side, it is located quite near to two entertainment centres; Main Place Residence and The 19 USJ City Mall. Therefore, residents can head over to those places for retail therapy when needed.


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The regional innovation network "Model Region for Innovative and Sustainable Material Flow" (RIN Stoffströme) was established to improve the utilisation of side and waste streams in industry, agriculture or forestry in the Rhineland (the region around the cities of Cologne and Düsseldorf).
In order to achieve a better utilisation of these feedstocks, a cascading approach is promoted, that involves all relevant stakeholders from society, science and industry in a transdisciplinary dialogue. This approach describes a strategy for using raw materials or the products made from them in sequential steps as long, often and efficiently as possible for materials, chemicals and fuels. An energetic usage should always be at the end of the product-life cycle. The implementation of cascading use also involves the formation of new unusual value chains across different industries. Technologies utilizing off-gases from steel production or side streams from food production will bring those industries into a circular economy with the chemical industry. A further objective is to ensure that the new technologies involved, as well as the new materials created from conversion of what is currently considered waste, will be accepted by the consumers and the public.
By this approach the RIN addresses the grand societal challenges resource scarcity and climate change. A multitude of potential partners has already been approached, and the network is also open to additional partners.
RIN Stoffströme
CLIB2021 e.V.
Dennis Herzberg
Project Leader
E-mail: [email protected]
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Abfallwirtschaft e.V.
Gabi Schock
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Italian/German Invasion
of Greece
On 28 October 1940, Italy invaded Greece from
Albania. The intention was a lightning campaign which would lead
to the Italian domination of the southern Balkans and the Aegean
Sea. The invasion was a failure with the ill-equipped but
high-spirited Greek infantry successfully fighting on familiar
ground to defeat the more numerous and heavily armed invader. The
Italians were forced back into Albania.
Five RAF squadrons were soon operating from Greek airfields against the
Italians in Albania and a small infantry group was landed in Crete.
General Sir Archibald Wavell, the Middle East Commander-in-Chief went to
Athens to offer the Greek dictator, General Metaxas, immediate
reinforcements. These were declined on the grounds that they would not
effectively reinforce the Greek Army and might provide the Germans with
the pretext for attacking Greece. However, it is now known that Hitler had
ordered his staff on 12 November 1940 to plan for the occupation of
northern Greece, with the objective being enlarged later in the month to
include the whole of Greece.
Germany's aim was to secure its southern
flank in preparation for Operation Barbarossa, the invasion of Russia,
timed to begin some time after the 15 May 1941. The German operation,
code-named Marita, was to be launched by the 12th Army of 13 divisions
attacking northern Yugoslavia and the 2nd Army of 15 divisions attacking
southern Yugoslavia and Greece. These forces were supported by air units
of the Luftwaffe.
On 29 January 1941 General Metaxas died. The new Greek Prime Minister,
Alexander Koryzis sent a note to the British Government reaffirming
Greece's determination to resist a German attack, repeating that a British
force should not be sent to Macedonia unless the German Army entered
Bulgaria, but suggesting that the size and composition of the proposed
force should be determined. On 24 February at a meeting of British and
Greek political and military leaders, British Foreign Secretary, Anthony
Eden, said Britain could offer three infantry divisions, the Polish
Brigade and an armoured brigade, a total of 100,000 men.
By 6 April 1941,
the date Germany attacked Yugoslavia and Greece, 50,000 British and
Commonwealth troops had arrived in Greece. These forces included the
Australian Division
commanded by Major General Ivan Mackay, the
2nd New
Zealand Division commanded by Major General Sir Bernard Freyberg VC and
the British 1st Armoured Brigade. These formations comprised 38 armour,
infantry and artillery units, including 16 New Zealand, 14 Australian and
8 British battalions and regiments.
The Greek Army consisted of 21 divisions, 15 of which were on the
Albania front and 3 on the Metaxas line along the Greek/Bulgarian border
in eastern Macedonia and Thrace. The remaining three divisions were part
of a joint Greek-British force on the Olympus-Aliakmon line in central
Macedonia which stretched from Mount Olympus to the Yugoslav border. On 5
April, General Maitland Wilson formally took command of the forces in
central Macedonia with his advanced headquarters at the foot of Mt Olympus
on the main Larisa-Florina road.
The 1st Australian Corps commanded by
General Thomas Blamey was situated from the sea to the Veria Pass. The
Greek forces, two divisions called the Central Macedonian Army were in the
Vernion mountains, north of Veria.
The ill-prepared Yugoslav Army and the Greeks on the Bulgarian border
took the shock of the German attack on 6 April. However the Luftwaffe
delivered a heavy blow to the British expedition on the night of 6/7 April
when German bombers seriously damaged Piraeus, the port of Athens sinking
seven merchant ships, sixty lighters and 25 caiques. The port was closed
for 2 days and when it reopened, it was with a much reduced capacity to
handle the ships needed to reinforce and maintain the British expedition.
The Greek forces on the Bulgarian border yielded very little territory in
the first three days of fighting but the Germans outflanked the Greek
forces by attacking through Yugoslavia down the Axios plain to Salonica.
The Greek commander in eastern Macedonia capitulated his isolated army on
9 April.
The danger to the Olympus-Aliakmon line was also an outflanking move
from Yugoslavia through the Monastir Gap. Wilson decided to create a
blocking force in the Florina valley directly under his command. The 1st
Armoured Brigade and the 19th Australian Brigade were detached from
Blamey's 1st Australian Corps and placed under command of General Mackay.
As a result of the German success in eastern Macedonia, the Greek military
decided to withdraw from the Albanian front and central Macedonia to a new
defence line which would on the east include the Olympus-Aliakmon position
but would omit the passes west of the Florina Valley. A rear defensive
line from Mt Olympus along the south bank of the Aliakmon River was also
planned for a protracted defence.
Mackay's force deployed on 9 April at Vevi where the Monastir valley
narrows to 100 to 500 yards and followed a winding course through a defile
flanked by steep rock-strewn hills with few trees. Next day, German and
British guns exchanged fire in the valley and Mackay was ordered to hold
until the night of 12 April before withdrawing. Mackay's infantry was
commanded by Brigadier Vasey who had 3 battalions spread across ten miles
of front much of which was covered with snow; the 2/8th Australian
Battalion on the east, the 1st Rangers in the centre and the 2/4th
Australian Battalion on the hills to the west.
On 12 April the Germans
thrust back the Rangers but the Royal Horse Artillery and Australian
anti-tank gunners held back German infantry and tanks. By dusk German
tanks were among the forward posts of the 2/8th and it was out of touch
with Brigade Headquarters. It withdrew but the men reached the vehicles
further south and on the west the 2/4th withdrew except for a company
which walked into the German lines and was captured. After two successful
rearguard actions by the armoured brigade the force was extricated and the
infantry reached the Olympus-Aliakmon Line.
The 16th Australian Brigade was hurried forward to the Veria Pass on 8
April where it began to take up its positions. The brigade was astride a
mountain road some 3000 feet above the sea and troops had to carry their
gear, ammunition and rations either by hand or on the backs of donkeys.
Snow and rain fell on the mountains and for shelter each platoon had a
tent-fly which sagged under the weight of the snow. However, having
established itself, the brigade was ordered on 10 April to march back
through the snow covered mountains to fill a gap in the New Zealand front
west of Servia.
With Australian and New Zealand units fighting side by side, Blamey as
commander of 1 Australian Corps renamed it the Anzac Corps on 12 April.
The following day, Wilson, aware that he would receive no substantial
reinforcements from Egypt and concluding that the Greek divisions on his
west could not be relied on, informed Blamey that he had decided to
withdraw about 100 miles to a shorter line from Thermopylae to the Gulf of
Corinth. The order for retirement was issued on 15 April with conduct the
withdrawal to be commanded by Blamey. The same day, Wavell and other
senior British Middle East commanders met and decided that the evacuation
of all forces from the Greek mainland was unavoidable.
Blamey's orders for the withdrawal provided that the 6th NZ Brigade
would occupy a rearguard position astride the roads near Elasson through
which the two forward New Zealand Brigades would withdraw; the 16th
Australian Brigade would occupy a position west of Larisa through which
the 17th Australian Brigade would withdraw and the 19th Australian Brigade
would form a final rearguard at Domokos. Meanwhile German divisions were
rushing south and west over muddy cratered roads. Blamey ordered Brigadier
Allen's 16th Brigade to the Pinios Gorge to halt the German thrust towards
the main road at Larisa, a bottle-neck which was the only escape road for
the Anzac Corps. By midnight of 17 April, the Anzac Corps' four forward
brigades had west their positions, embussed and driven south, leaving the
6th NZ and the 16th and 17th Australian Brigades astride the 3 main roads
converging on Larisa.
Throughout daylight on 18 April the Germans attacked the 16th Brigade
in the Pinios Gorge and the 6th NZ Brigade at Elasson. The 16th Brigade
held the road until late that night but the German tanks forced the two
battalion of the 16th brigade into the hills. From the air, the Luftwaffe
attacked the long lines of vehicles along the 70 miles escape route to
Lamia. Although the air attacks continued all day and were noisy and nerve
wracking, the Luftwaffe failed to exploit its superiority and was unable
to halt the retreating column and did remarkably little damage to men and
vehicles. By dawn on 19 April, all units except parts of battalion in the
Pinios Gap were south of Larisa and the Anzac Corps was deploying in the
Thermopylae positions. It took the Germans five full days to cover the
distance to Thermopylae and prepare for their next attack.
On 18 April, Koryzis, the Greek Prime Minister committed suicide and
two days later, without authority from Athens, the Greek Army which had
fallen back from Albania, surrendered to the Germans. The plans for the
evacuation were brought forward and the night of 24/25 April was scheduled
for the withdrawal from the Thermopylae line and also for the first
large-scale embarkation. The embarkation was from various beaches in the
Athens area or in the Peloponnese. To lift the troops there were 6
cruisers, 24 destroyers and escort vessels, 2 Landing Ships Infantry, 14
troopships and a number of landing craft.
On 24 April, the Germans attacked the Thermopylae line which was held
by the 6th NZ Brigade on the east and the 19th Australian Brigade on the
west. German tanks tried to break through the New Zealanders while
mountain troops attacked the high pass held by the Australians. The New
Zealanders destroyed twelve tanks and together with the Australians held
their ground. The 5th NZ Brigade and 6000 corps and base troops embarked
on the night of 24/25 April. The 19th Australian Brigade embarked from the
Peloponnese beaches the following night.
On 26 April, German paratroops
cut the only road linking the two parts of the British force. That night
troops of the armoured brigade were embarked from Athens beaches and 8000
troops including the 16th and 17th Brigades from Kalamata. The 4th NZ
Brigade fought off the Germans on the 27 April and embarked that night but
some groups at Kalamata and Navplion were captured.
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1/365 Happy New Year Salt Lake City
This is a 21 shot pano taken from right below the H along the Bonneville Shoreline trail on the east side of Salt Lake City. Sadly, it was shot just a bit to early in the morning (about 7:30 or so) so it's really blue and the inversion on the valley was really bad, so everything was a bit murky. On the plus side I know where I'm going next time we have a clear day. You can essentially see everything from North Salt Lake to almost Utah County.
The original version of this is super big, but the download is probably worth it. You can pick out a lot of individual buildings.
Salt Lake City, UT


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WebDAV for Mac
The "Yandex.Disk" app is the simplest and most secure way to manage your Disk files. If you cannot or do not want to use the app, you can connect Disk to Mac OS using WebDAV.
Clickin the Finder menu.
Enter the Yandex.Disk address
https://webdav.yandex.comthen click Connect.
Enter the username and password of your account on Yandex (or app password if you enabled two-factor authentication) and click Connect.
Finder will now display all your files and folders.


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Penny Drossos-Karagiorgis is writing her first blog after appearing on The Real Housewives of New Jersey. Penny was having drinks with Teresa, Kim D and Jan DeDolce, when Jan revealed Melissa Gorga had cheated on Joe. Penny shares her first blog, exclusively, with Faux Reality Entertainment and she isn't holding back! She explains how she knows Melissa and reveals that what airs on Bravo isn't exactly the way things happened! Click here to read Penny's entire blog entry.
Penny writes, "I met Kim D years ago while shopping at her store. We became friends instantly and she in turn started coming to my hair salon. Soon after, Kim D hired me to style the models for her shows. That is how I met the ladies from The Real Housewives of New Jersey.
Before I ever heard of Kim D or Teresa Giudice, before I ever heard of Bravo TV or The Real Housewives of New Jersey, I was friends with Jan – a friendship we maintain to this day. I also knew Melissa Marco (now Gorga). Melissa and I shared mutual friends – friendships I continue to maintain. Melissa frequented the salon I eventually bought. She came into the salon regularly and even had her bridal party styled by my girlfriends and staff. I was puzzled when Melissa claimed she never met me. Then again, Melissa seems to deny knowing a lot of people from her past. Just wait and see who else she denies knowing.
But I digress. . .
I have styled TV personalities since 1992 so I felt comfortable with the ladies from the Real Housewives, the Mobwives and Jerseylicious. When an opportunity presented itself to film on Real Housewives of New Jersey to advance my business, I took it – who wouldn't want free advertising for their business? Right?
All I can say is hindsight is 20/20.
It is unfortunate that some must say and do things that they should never be asked to do "to put food on the table." Fortunately, feeding my children is not tied to selling my soul to a TV show. There is a huge disconnect from the truth, what is filmed and the edited version of the show.
During Season 5 filming, I was "invited" by producers AND the person hosting each event I attended. By invited I mean asked / told to attend the event, either verbally, in writing or both.
Even though I was present during the events, the edited versions that have been aired to date are deceiving (whether intentionally or unintentionally).
For instance, drinks with Teresa, Kim D, Jennifer Dalton, Jan and me at Bellissimo's: I was told to bring my friend Jan to the filming to discuss Melissa Gorga (a continuation of the discussion started at Kim D's holiday party), not Milania Hair Care Products. Filming lasted close to 4 hours. The edited version does not accurately reflect the theme of the conversations. Teresa did leave the table when she became uncomfortable with the conversation.
There is so much more but I will wait to see what is shown to give you behind the scenes look at the Real Housewives of New Jersey. I cannot stress enough that what you are being shown is not necessarily reality or even what was filmed – so pay close attention and ask questions!"
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A couple years ago when YouTube was young, I posted a US Army training video, "Depleted Uranium Hazard Awareness." It has received far more traffic than I expected -- over 50,000 views -- and I am very happy to report that a good chunk of those viewings are from troops in the field.
I found the video at Information Clearinghouse. Because the original file has such a small screen, the video quality is terrible. Fortunately the most valuable information is in the audio track. The video was originally made in the mid-90's but at the time of posting it still sat on the shelf. The video is now available at a number of sites. The YouTube video alone goes out to dozens of links.
In one respect I am pleased that anything I posted drew the attention of 50,000. But more important, I am thrilled that thorough, non-controversial and vital information is reaching the people who need it most.
There are edited version of this video that have higher quality images, but are remixed and edited with lefty agitprop. While I'm sympathetic with some of those messages, they ultimately dilute the value of the video.
Moderating the comments for the video has been its own story. Every few months, there will be a wave of comments which try to dismiss the content of the video. Other times, there is the occasional hate speech. (A lot of anti-Arab bigotry and one commenter who wished cancer on the children of service members, calling it "karma." If wishing cancer on someone's children isn't hate speech, I don't know what is.) So I've been applying rules for moderating the comments. They have to be either about DU or the video itself, and no hate speech. I haven't had to delete many comments lately.
For something that took me less than a half-hour, I'm glad it's been put to such good use.
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
DU Video Hits 50,000 Views
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This video is one long take of a girl in a ride at a theme park. The video attempts to capture the beauty and complexity of movement, colors and abundance through slow motion and silence.
Carolin Koss
LEERLAUF embodies an idle state, a continuous loop. It consists of footage I filmed in an Italian textile factory and the sound of a handmade LP which has one single circular track only.
This video emerged from a repetitive recurring sound, a journey of embracing and getting rid of it and a dream which made me visualize it.
Under water time seems to slow down. We get reminded that breathing is an essential force for living and that our life is deflating from the moment we are born.


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Barielle Shades Date Night12:42:00 AM
Hi, guys! I am taking advantage of the time change and doing some midnight blogging :) I have a really great shade to show you today, so get ready!
Barielle was kind enough to send me a few polishes to try out. I recently wore Date Night for the first time, which was one of the colors I was most excited for. Date Night is a deep green polish with lots of shimmer. It borders on being a bit frosty, but not so much that it bothers me. I think the slight brushstrokes actually add depth and interest to this polish.
Here it is a 2 coats.
So pretty, right?! I think the name of this polish is fitting -- I would definitely wear this stunner on a date with DBF. In fact, I did some stamping over this mani (and forgot to take pictures...oops) and he said it looked like a dragon. I think that is a pretty good compliment coming from a guy ;)
So there ya have it! Another beauty by Barielle. I am really liking the shade and the shimmer.
What do you think?
- Aly
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Pretty color!ReplyDelete
- AlyLovesNovember 4, 2012 at 1:58 PM
Thanks, I love it so much!ReplyDelete


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KIEV (Reuters) - Ukraine said on Monday it needed $35 billion in foreign assistance over the next two years and appealed for urgent aid following the overthrow of its president.
The Finance Ministry said it had called for a donor's conference and needed the first aid in the next week or two.
Acting President Oleksander Turchinov, appointed after Viktor Yanukovich was stripped of his powers by parliament on Saturday, said on Sunday Ukraine was near default and the economy was falling into an abyss.
"Over the past two days, we have had consultations and meetings with the EU and U.S. ambassadors and other countries and financial institutions on the urgent delivery of macro-financial assistance for Ukraine," Acting Finance Minister Yuri Kolobov said in a statement.
He said the international donor conference should involve representatives of the European Union, the United States and the International Monetary Fund.
Ukraine faces state debt payments of around $6 billion in the remainder of this year.
In an address to the nation, Turchinov on Sunday spelled out the enormity of the task facing Ukraine's new leadership, and identified stabilizing the economy as a priority.
"Against the background of global economic recovery, the Ukrainian economy is heading into the abyss and is in a pre-default state," he said.
"The task of the new government is to stop the country's slide into the abyss, to stabilize the exchange rate, guarantee the timely payment of salaries, pensions and stipends, and to regain the confidence of investors, promote the development of enterprises and the creation of new jobs."
The Ukrainian currency, the hyrvnia, fell about 2.4 percent against the U.S. dollar in early trading on Monday.
(Reporting By Pavel Polityuk, Editing by Timothy Heritage)


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Brodie's beer festival at the King William in Leyton. Over 20 ales brewed on site. And now the folk music starts. One of the best pubs in London.
Going in to doing a pre-record with Malcolm Hopkins and Nick Hamilton for their show on Resonance fm on Monday. I'll be talking about this blog and some of the things that have inspired it and arisen from ideas that I first noted down here. Below are a collection of tags that I'll mostly focus on – probably
caledonian park, claybury, derive, finsbury, gordon s. maxwell, iain sinclair, ian bourn, islington, john smith, landscape film, leyton, leyton marshes, leytonstone art scene, locative arts, marsh lane, michael bentine, moblog, patrick keiller, penton, placeblogging, pleasure gardens, psychogeography, river fleet, situationism, spa green, spb mais, topographical film, topographics, urbanism, video blog, virgin of aldermanbury, claybury, derive, gordon s. maxwell, iain sinclair, caledonian park, finsbury, leyton, leytonstone art scene, marsh lane, michael bentine, leyton marshes, patrick keiller, penton, psychogeography, river fleet, situationism, spa green, spb mais, pleasure gardens, topographical film, topographics, urbanism, video blog, virgin of aldermanbury, walking, walthamstow, walthamstow marshes, wanstead, wanstead flats, will self, william kent, william margrie,


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CommerceBank in Newport Beach reported Tuesday a record net income of $1.1 million for 1985, a 7.8% increase over net income of $1.02 million the prior year.
The bank's board of directors also declared a 5% stock dividend and a 10-cents-a-share cash dividend. The dividends are payable to all shareholders of record as of Feb. 6 and will be distributed within a week, officials said.
Net income for the fourth quarter rose 6.7% to $378,000 from $354,000 in the same quarter a year earlier.
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I redid this layout totally. I had used a orange paper with different color swirlies. After I finished the layout, I was not very happy. So I changed the whole layout and took Anurag's help:) He did it gladly! I gave him a white sheet of cardstock and asked him to color it, which I used as my background paper.I did the photostrip on pazzles! I love the photostrip! It was very easy to resize and cut! Used my new Fiskars Notebook Border Punch for the journaling note, which I won at the US of Texas Crop last weekend! I love this border punch, it is so cool.
I hope the crayola will not fade or spoil the photos. I am so happy with the way this layout turned. Now I have Anurag's art saved forever in his scrapbook :)!


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Posted: Wed Oct 21, 2009 5:51 pm
Post subject: 5.25" / 5 1/4" floppy drive-USB?
Yes, seriously. I have discussed this topic at length with some of my nerdier friends, have used The Google dozens of times, and have generally continually come up with nothing--has anyone anywhere ever made a USB 5.25" floppy drive? Yes, I realize all I have to do is find an old computer that has both kinds of floppy drives on it and copy all these hundreds of disks I have not been able to access in like 15 years, but it would really be a whole lot easier if one of these actually existed.
So, anyone? Did they overlap in any way? I know 5.25" drives were obsolete years before 3.5" were (if 3.5" are, in fact, even now obsolete), but it still blows my mind to imagine that nobody in the world would have ever created a USB version of an obsolete drive. I mean, I was still able to have a 3.5" drive put into the computer Dell made me in 2007, yet I do not think you have been able to get 5.25" drives installed in new systems for 15 years--did the architecture somehow change substantially to make them incompatible?
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Posted: Thu Nov 12, 2009 2:29 pm
Post subject: haha. I totally agree
So I came across a bunch of old 5 'n 1/4 floppy disks and have long since gotten rid of any drives i had stockpiled. Not that there would be a HUGE demand for USB drives of this form factor, but I sure thought of it today!
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Posted: Fri Nov 13, 2009 7:31 pm
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Modern BIOSs and OSs still support 5.25" drives so you could just buy one and hook it up on the regular floppy connection. Why not? If you're only going to use it once....
You can get combo drives that have both a 3.5" and 5.25" in the same unit. That would be fun to have in your modern machine to "show off". Maybe paint it a wicked flat black or some such.
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Posted: Thu Dec 24, 2009 7:37 am
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hopefully those old 5.25" discs you have are still in working order... dont they have a 20 year shelf life or something like that before they begin to "forget" their content?
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Posted: Fri Jan 01, 2010 4:35 pm
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All my 5.25" media still works, even ones I got that looked a bit moldy from somebodies basement. Can't say the same for 3.5" media that is much newer.
I have never seen a USB 5.25" drive, USB and 3.5" overlapped for years but 5.25" was dead an burried before USB came out.
Find an old junker PC and install a 5.25" drive in it. You can use Winimage to back up the disks and to dump them to 720K DD (for the 360K) or 1.44MB HD (for the 1.2MB) 3.5" disks if you still want to use them.
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Posted: Sun Jan 03, 2010 5:23 pm
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If the 5.25" drives have a similar interface to 3.5" drives then it shouldn't really be that hard for someone in the know to hack the usb interface for a 3.5" drive to a 5.25" one.
Unfortunately its been a good five years since I did things like that so I would be no good.
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Posted: Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:55 am
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I have just been through floppy hell to recover some old source code. The 5.25" disks had been in the loft for 22 years, and were very dusty. Some read fairly easily. For others, I used ddrescue on Linux to work on the bad sectors, but one set, the really important set, these were basket case.
I ended up using a card called "Catweasel", which is designed for reading Amiga and/or protected disk, to pull the raw data into some files. I then wrote some Python to pull out any good sectors, and merge these with good ones from other pass with different postcomp etc. settings, and finally, after 12 weeks of work, I had every sector.
After running Fastback (obsolete, proprietary and fussy!) in a VM I got back every file.
As a result, I now have all of the source code for Carrier Command on ST, Amiga, Mac and PC. I have rebuilt the latter from source and it works fine on dosbox.
I'd now like to add some good audio to the latter, but I don't have much time. I guess I need to wander into other topics here and start asking stupid questions.
P.S. The machine I built just for this job now has 2x5.25 and 1x3.5 fitted - that's pretty retro!
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Posted: Mon Aug 22, 2011 10:59 pm
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For anyone looking for this kind of thing, I got one of these
as a read-only solution to hook a 5 1/4" disk via USB. Worked great for copying files, though I never tried to run Copy Protected games off it.
The usb w/ standard "high quality" 5.25 drive is much more convenient than hooking up an old 5.25 to a computer like I used to. Doing that "worked" but usually gave me trouble. Best things I found for that were the "2-in-1" 5.25 + 3.5 in a single unit (like the Epson Dual Floppy Drive,
, since it used the "new" floppy cable with header rather than edge connect, but your mileage may vary...
In my old research I found a few more potential options, but this was the only one ready to go. I've forgotten the others, but someone was making a "full" raw magnetic reader for historical disk archival purposes - that was pretty cool. (
So, this solution works great if you are just reading disks, and isn't too pricy or complicated.
Other links that might help searching for similar options or more data:
(And I also got an expensive and not very useful yet
to use a USB flash drive to replace a floppy drive for older computers. (It has at least one
.) Apparently embroidery machines used standard floppy drives, so when the floppy died there was money in making a USB drop-in upgrade. Works ok, but eh. I use it in a "no moving parts" silent dos machine I built a while back - solid state flash-card ide drive, this for a floppy, "fanless" power supply - stealth dos! For when I write my novel, of course, and don't want the noisy window-y distractions! Pbbb. Hm - prices were cheaper, but maybe that's because previously I could only find them for sale in Europe and shipping was prohibitive to USA. I always envisioned putting that in an XT I've still got and geeking out.)
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Posted: Fri Nov 11, 2011 3:44 pm
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Another (not cheap/hobby) approach is full SSD emulation.
Pro: emulates any R/W floppy density or geometry
Con: SSD hw is expensive
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I was sad when I couldn't find a way to hack a usb floppy to control one of those combo drives - or even just the 5.25 directly.
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Waiters Arms and Lee Mount won the two Premier Division games to go ahead in The Ziggy's Metro Cars Halifax Sunday League at the weekend.
Waiters made it four wins from six this season but were made to work hard for a 2-1 win over bottom side Old Pond at Trinity Academy.
Waiters controlled possession for much of the match but looked destined not to break down a determined Pond rear-guard.
The nearest they got in a goal-less first period was a shot clawed off the line by the outstanding Dan Barnes in the Pond net amidst protestations that the ball had crossed the line.
With Pond down to the bare bones squad-wise, it was Waiters' strength from the bench that ultimately ground down a tiring Pond defence.
Dave Lawrence and Richard Dawson at centre half were strong throughout alongside Andy Dawson and James Symonds but the breakthrough came with 15 minutes remaining.
A ball delivered from the right flank following a quickly taken corner was deftly nudged past Barnes at the near post by substitute Lee Wood.
When substitute David Chappell broke clear and netted a second it looked done and dusted but Pond fired back.
A fine ball from Sean Suttle was expertly taken down in the air by James Broadbent, who matched his touch with a neat volleyed finish.
Lee Mount and their visitors Ryburn United had registered only one league win each prior to Sunday.
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The eagerly-anticipated cup game between FC Bowling Green and Carrington at Beechwood Park was one of Sunday's postponed games.
Feathers FC, look well set for an immediate return to the Premier Division after relegation last season.
They went seven points clear at the top of Division One when they beat North Bridge 3-1 away and second-placed Barge's form slump continued with defeat by the same score at Ryburn Valley.
It also finished 3-1 in the game between Triangle and Queens Head. The visitors took the spoils to shoot up to third place.
Bottom side Bradshaw picked up only their fourth point of the season in a 2-2 draw away to Oddfellows.
Halifax Amateurs returned from a three week break to inflict a first Division Two defeat of the season on Halifax Rangers, winning 3-1 away.
Already without three key players, their prospects didn't look too bright when Rangers started strongly and went a goal up after 19 minutes.
'Keeper Damo Parry's clearance was flicked on by Mike Kellett for Sean Byrne to shrug off his marker and slip the ball past the advancing keeper.
Rangers, who lost influential midfielder Howard Metcalfe and forward Kellett through injury during the game, were pegged back when Stefan Drakes hammered home an equaliser.
Both sides had chances in the second half, but the visitors got the lift they needed on the hour mark when Drakes fired home from all of 35 yards.
At the other end David Oakes' speculative effort with the keeper out of his goal hit the foot of a post.
Amateurs sealed the game 15 minutes from time on the break when Rais Malik had time to pick his spot and fired low into the left hand corner.
Rangers' misery was complete when Andy Bowe was sent off 10 minutes from time.
Crown FC made it four wins on the bounce in Division Two, but only after being given a tough match by St Columbas at Rastrick High School.
Michael Drennan was Crown's man of the match and also struck the only goal of the game from the penalty spot.
Dave Phelan had already seen a spot kick saved by the Saints 'keeper, but he and central defensive partner Craig Gabbitas were star performers as quick and younger opponents were kept out.
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After three seasons together, Outlander stars Caitriona Balfe and Sam Heughan are practically an old married couple in public, not unlike their characters on the show. (Well, minus the whole being married part.) But before the hit Starz series launched in 2014, the two actors had to prove that they could generate enough fire between them to play the story's red-hot, time-traveling lovers, Claire and Jamie Fraser. A previously unreleased screen test included amongst the bonus features for the Outlander Season 3 Blu-ray, due in stores on April 10, provides a glimpse at the heat that the show's creative team — including its executive producer, Ronald D. Moore — felt when the duo met for the first time on camera.
"This was a very important step before we cast Caitriona, because we had already cast Sam," Moore explains in an intro preceding the screen test. "We were looking for chemistry between the two characters. We really felt that Cait was probably going to be the one, but this was the final moment when she literally sealed the deal and got the show." (Watch the clip above.)
It's worth noting that this scene is more sad than steamy, with Jamie confessing feelings of wounded pride to a teary-eyed Claire. But there's a natural ease in the way they talk and hold each other that suggests these two have known each other for much longer than the length of the screen test. That ease continues when the scene is over, and the camera continues to run, capturing Heughan and Balfe as they decompress. "I lost my ring doing that as well," Heughan confesses with a chuckle, while Balfe apologizes for accidentally punching him in the face. The two go their separate ways as the clip ends, but the happily-ever-after epilogue, of course, is that they meet again on set and in costume, as production for the first season of Outlander begins.
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Milton Erickson was born at the turn of the century in a dirt-floor log cabin in no-longer existing Nevada mining town. Over the next eight decades, he transformed medical hypnosis and redefined much of psychotherapy.
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On a quiet residential street in Oonojou City, Mr. Nagano devotes at least eight hours a day to creating dolls in his workshop. Mr. Nagano's best-known work is an elegant figure skater called Queen. The electric-powered doll spins around. Nagano was inspired to make Queen after seeing figure skaters performing the "doughnut spin" on television. With the flip of a switch the doll begins rotating, displaying beautifully slender arms and legs and capturing the essence of a figure skater performing a doughnut spin. The idea for a doll using the power of movement is due to Nagano's scientific background. In fact, Nagano is probably the only person who has ever made an electric-powered spinning Hakata Doll.
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What's your favorite flavor?
We're talking baking now; answers like cilantro, umami, and Kettle Chip Spicy Thai are off limits.
We posed this question on our Facebook page several months ago, and the results were surprising – at least to me.
So, what's everyone's favorite flavor?
Chocolate, by the merest whisker; a single vote separated it from vanilla, the runner-up.
And what's surprising about that, you say?
Nothing. It was the third-place choice that caught me by surprise:
Lemon? Not caramel or butterscotch, mocha or strawberry or coconut?
Nope. Lemon was a very strong third, far ahead of almond, which checked in at #4.
I decided to double-check my results with an internal poll.
Hear ye, hear ye, workers in the King Arthur kingdom: what's your favorite flavor?
Chocolate, by a country mile. Guess we're just dyed-in-the-wool chocoholics here.
But lemon was actually a strong second, right up there with vanilla; in fact, lemon was just slightly ahead.
Again, I was a bit surprised; I just never think of lemon as a "favorite flavor."
Still… Lemon Bliss Cake is the cake I make most often, after my standby Favorite Fudge Birthday Cake.
And the biscotti I make most often? Lemon-almond.
I love lemon meringue pie – that tart-sweet filling, the perfect complement of lightly sweet meringue – yet I seldom make it. Dealing with the meringue is one step too many. Will it brown? Will it weep? Meringue can be SO needy… Thus my delight at discovering this meringue-less lemon pie: Lemon Chess.
Chess pie? No one seems certain where the name for this pie comes from. A simple combination of eggs, sugar, and butter, with the tiniest bit of flour or cornmeal for thickening, chess pies appeared in print as early as the late 19th century.
Some food historians say "chess" is a takeoff on "cheese," as in English cheese pies, as in American cheesecake – whose filing is of a consistency similar to chess pie.
Others say chess refers to the chest in which pies used to be kept; due to the high degree of sugar, chess pies didn't need to be refrigerated (though in these days of heightened awareness of food safety, we do recommend refrigeration).
One final theory holds that chess refers to the simplicity of the pie itself. "What kind of pie is that?" "Jes' pie." Chess pie.
Whatever its provenance, this pie is perfect for those of you who love lemon, but don't like the somewhat "gluey" texture (or "needy" meringue) of a classic lemon meringue pie. This humble pie has no meringue to hide beneath; it's just lemon at its simple best.
Let's start with the crust. Feel free to use your own favorite pastry for a 9″, single-crust pie. Here's one of our go-to pie crust recipes.
Place the following in a mixing bowl:
1 1/2 cups King Arthur Unbleached All-Purpose Flour or Perfect Pastry Blend
1 tablespoon buttermilk powder (optional, for tenderness and flavor)
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon baking powder (optional, for flakiness)
Whisk everything together. Set aside about 3 tablespoons of the mixture; you'll use it in a minute.
Add 1/4 cup vegetable shortening, working it in until it's well combined with the dry ingredients.
Can you use butter in place of shortening? Sure; your crust will be less flaky, more sandy/crumbly. All good.
Place the reserved flour mixture on a clean work surface. Add 1/4 cup (4 tablespoons) cold butter, and coat it in the flour.
Use a rolling pin or the heel of your hand to flatten the butter to about 1/4″ thick.
Break the flour-coated butter into 1″ pieces, and mix it into the dough, just until it's evenly distributed; some of it will break into smaller pieces.
Sprinkle 1 teaspoon white or cider vinegar atop the dry ingredients; this will help tenderize the gluten in the flour.
Add 3 tablespoons ice water while tossing with a fork, or mixing slowly.
Just as soon as the dough becomes cohesive (i.e., you can squeeze it into a ball easily), stop mixing; there should still be visible pieces of fat in the dough.
Add up to 2 additional tablespoons water, if necessary, to make the dough come together.
Flatten the dough into a disk and wrap it in plastic wrap. Refrigerate for 30 minutes or longer; this resting period allows the flour to absorb the water and the gluten to relax, making the dough easier to roll out.
Place the chilled dough on your floured work surface.
I'm using a silicone rolling mat here; it makes cleanup SO easy.
Shape the dough into a rough rectangle…
…then roll it into a 12″ x 9″ (approximately) rectangle/oval.
If it isn't holding together well, sprinkle it lightly with a couple of teaspoons of water.
Fold the dough into thirds (like a letter). Fold one end into the center…
…and the other end over the first.
What's up with all this? We're creating layers of dough, which should translate to flaky pastry.
Fold the dough into thirds the opposite way…
…to form a rough square. Wrap it well and refrigerate again.
When you're "ready to roll," remove the dough from the fridge. Dough made with a combination of butter and shortening should rest for about 5 minutes at room temperature before rolling; dough made with all butter will need a 15-minute rest.
Next, select your pie pan. I'll use a 9″ pan. Choose a pan that's 1 1/2″ deep, or shallower; you don't want the crust to appear half-empty, as it would in a deep-dish pan.
I like to spray my pie pan with non-stick spray, just in case.
Doesn't pastry have enough fat that this isn't necessary? Yes; but if any of the filling leaks out, the spray helps to prevent it from acting as glue between crust and pan.
Roll the dough into a 12″ to 13″ circle. I'm at barely 12″ here; it needs to be a bit larger than this, in order for there to be enough crust for a nice crimped edge.
Pick up the crust; a giant spatula works well here.
Yeah, it definitely needed a bit more overhang.
When you find yourself without much crust to spare, make a simple "crimp" by pressing all around the crust with the tines of a fork.
When you've got crust to spare, you can be fancier. Here's a typical crimp.
How about combining the two?
Nice, eh?
Place the crust in the refrigerator (no need to cover it) while you make the filling.
Start preheating the oven to 375°F.
Place the following in a bowl:
6 tablespoons melted butter
3/4 cup fresh lemon juice; the juice from about 3 lemons
1/2 teaspoon salt
1 2/3 cups sugar
1 tablespoon cornmeal
1 1/2 tablespoons cornstarch
5 large eggs
Whisk until well combined.
Pour the filling into the chilled pie shell.
See what I mean about not using a pie pan that's too deep? This amount of filling is just right for a 1 1/2″-deep pan, or one slightly shallower.
Bake the pie on the bottom shelf of the preheated 375°F oven for 45 to 50 minutes, or until the center is set.
I like to add a pie crust shield about 25 minutes in, or when the edges of the crust are a light, golden brown. The shield will allow the crust to gradually brown without burning, as the filling continues to bake through.
When done, the top of the pie will be golden brown.
Like this.
Remove the pie from the oven.
Its internal temperature, a couple of inches in from the edge, should be around 210°F or so.
Allow the pie to cool before cutting and serving.
You can just barely begin to see the pie's interesting texture in this photo; imagine a very moist cheesecake… Its flavor, though, is far from cheesecake-y; it's untempered, unabashed lemon, perfect for all your lemon-loving friends and colleagues.
Read, bake, and review (please) our recipe for Lemon Chess Pie.
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