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This is the newest of the Stamper-Kurn group experiments. Building on our group's work on cavity opto-dynamics on E3 and many-body physics on E4 and E5, we plan to study cavity control of quantum few- and many-body systems.
We are working with Rubidium and have built a 3D MOT loaded from a 2D MOT. We are in the process of building and testing an optical transport system using tunable focus lenses which will be used to deliver atoms into an optical cavity in our science chamber where we will explore cavity-based feedback and control, cavity-mediated interactions between quantum systems, and nondestructive measurement of quantum many-body dynamics. We welcome ideas and discussion about other cool things we should consider looking into with this flexible system!


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I feel like these past two weeks of trying to settle/move/start classes have been quite stressful and exhausting. I didn't finish unpacking until this afternoon. I still have a list of to-dos for the apartment (we don't have anything in our living room STILL and I'm starting to get frustrated) but I'm crossing things off each and every day. I absolutely love decorating and living on my own. My roommates are always on the go so at times I feel like I'm the only one who lives here. The quiet is so nice and I have a lot of time to do the extraordinary amounts of reading I have for class. A while ago I saw one of those "day in the life of" posts and I think it'd be a lot of fun to do one of my days. Expect it soon :).
I keep SERIOUSLY slacking on my Renegade posts so instead of doing one big post I decided to break it up. The first purchase I want to feature is this sweet little print I bought from Raw Toast Design.
I was sucked in by the pretty colors and the great layout of this booth. I spent some time pouring over all his prints. I posted some of my favorites below. It was really difficult to decide which to buy.
In the end, I decided to get this guy. I can't resist that chunky little peach fishing with kites. I put it up on my print wall in my bedroom (which has changed quite a bit since the last time I showed you).
Be sure to check out the Raw Toast site and give it a little love :).
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A bar themed like the library of a 17th century explorer, a menu of multicultural hot dogs, a wine list by a Hubert sommelier – all on the main street of Penrith. It's not often we can say "no one's done this before". Chefs Rod Parbery (The Ledbury) and Wayne Jenkins (Lochiel House, Merivale), and businessman Nicholas Siafakas are behind this venue, Mr Watkins.
The restaurant-bar is inspired by the character of Captain Watkins Tench, a First Fleet explorer who journeyed through the area. "We wanted to tie the idea to Penrith so we looked at the history, some of the explorers and characters who were around back then, and [the] captain came up," says Parbery, who was born and raised in Penrith.
Juicy Design has been working with the trio to create a space that looks like their idea of Watkins' study and library. "We'll have some nice Chesterfield lounges, we've got shelves with old books, a little bit of taxidermy stuff, some cool old lights. We've got it all from Lunatiques and Mitchell Road," says Parbery.
It sounds fancy but Parbery assures us the vibe and menu will be casual. From behind the bar, expect a good selection of craft beers (many tinned), a range of classically inspired cocktails, and a wine list designed by Dennis Roman (Hubert, former Café Paci and Marque). Meanwhile the kitchen will be churning out small plates, snacks (no clues yet as to what) and five hot dogs designed around five different cuisines: South African, Spanish, Dutch, American and Australian.
"The rest of the menu will be eclectic. We won't be pigeonholing ourselves on any cuisine. At the end of the day I'm a chef and if I got to the markets and feel like cooking Japanese food, I will." As the trio says: "Proper good food by some not so proper chaps."
Mr Watkins will open later this year.


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Dude look at those chips.", "Feel how nice these chips are…" these lines sums up what nearly every person says about this game upon first impression. Then we play the game and people love it.
Splendor is a game of chip-collecting and card development. Players are merchants of the Renaissance trying to buy gem mines, means of transportation, shops—all in order to acquire the most prestige points. If you're wealthy enough, you might even receive a visit from a noble at some point, which of course will further increase your prestige.
On your turn, you may (1) collect chips (gems), or (2) buy and build a card, or (3) reserve one card. If you collect chips, you take either three different kinds of chips or two chips of the same kind. If you buy a card, you pay its price in chips and add it to your playing area. To reserve a card – in order to make sure you get it, or, why not, your opponents don't get it—you place it in front of you face down for later building; this costs you a round, but you also get gold in the form of a joker chip, which you can use as any gem.
All of the cards you buy increase your wealth as they give you a permanent gem bonus for later buys; some of the cards also give you prestige points. In order to win the game, you must reach 15 prestige points before your opponents do.
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I lose at splendor… a lot. But still I love it, and will play anytime someone asks. I have never had a bad game of Splendor, and I don't think I know own anyone who has. I recommend this game as an introductory game for any family looking to get their kids into gaming, or to game groups who would like a little competitive fun. The flavor of the game is unimportant; the mechanics are really what make it shine. I can say with confidence this is a game that should be in every collection.


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Friday, September 2, 2016
Affordable Group Break Idea
This Affordable Group Break will be happening!! I've listened and added a mystery box of a 2016 Topps product to add more diversity. This box will add $2 to each two team slot, however if you were interested before at the $15 price tag just talk to me. Otherwise the price will be $17 plus $5 shipping for each two team slot. You pick the first team and Random.org will choose your second team from the teams that are unclaimed. Boxes will arrive on Friday, 09/09/16 and we'll go live on my blog's Facebook page Friday night. Time TBD. If you have already chimed in I'll pul you down for that team. A new signup post will occur later today so if you want to jump in leave a comment here or wait for the official sign up post. If you've ever participated in one of my previous breaks, you should know that I do my best to make sure no one leaves empty handed. Thank you and I look forward to getting this started next week!
It's been awhile since I've hosted a group break and I'm kind itching to open something new, specifically something I'd normally not purchase. I got an email this evening from Dave and Adam and they are having a labor day sale so it got me thinking of hosting a break.
I was looking at 2 boxes of 2016 Topps Strata. That would give us 4 guaranteed hits, 2 autographs and 2 relics. The relics remind me of Topps Unique from a few years ago. I think it could be fun.
If we do a two team slot system where one team is chosen and the other is randomized, slots would only be $10 each plus $5 shipping. Discounts available for purchases of 2 or more slots.
Boxes could be ripped live on my Facebook page for this blog, along with the randomization of the 2nd teams. Results would be summed up in a post or two on the blog for those who are anti-Facebook.
As the host and resident Braves fan, my team would be off the table, though all the others would be up for grabs. So, if I can find at least 8 others that would be willing to participate I think we can pull this off.
Not ready to start sign-ups now as I'm try to gauge interest. If this sounds like something you be up for let me know ASAP as the sale ends the day after Labor Day.
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I'd be in for the Mariners...ReplyDeleteReplies
Thank you, I have you down for the Mariners. Will you please remit payment as soon as you can? Please check out the latest post for the PayPal address. Thanks!Delete
I'd be in for Cubs.ReplyDeleteReplies
In for 2 boxes. Also like the idea of adding something for diversity.Delete
I'm in for the Royals. Are there any other cheap boxes or blasters of another product we could add to add a little more volume to the break?ReplyDelete
I would be in for the two box deal as long as someone doesn't beat me to the CardinalsReplyDeleteReplies
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Count me in for the Jays Colbey!ReplyDelete
Looks like it would be a fun little break, unfortunately it looks really lite for Phillies so I'd have to say no.ReplyDelete
The other boxes on sale didn't grab my attention, unless we went with a Panini product from 2014. But I could grab a blaster of something and toss it in to give it a little diversity.ReplyDelete
You got it! I've got a 3rd box ordered for the break and it only increases the price for a two team slot by $2!ReplyDeleteReplies
All sounds great! I'm in for 2 slots, Cubs and random commandosDelete
If nobody else bites, I would buy the Dodgers, too, but don't want to steal that from a true Dodgers fan.ReplyDeleteReplies
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Valdosta is Georgia's Azalea City. Many years ago, then parks superintendent, R. J. Drexel, planted azaleas along cty streets, on government property, and on church grounds. Mr. Drexel also gave azaleas to local citizens to plant. Today, the city has an abundance of flowering azaleas that bloom during the spring and summer seasons and Drexel park is a tribute to the former parks superintendent's contribution. There is also an abundance of azalea gardens. The Garden Club uses azalea liners to fund the Crescent, home of the Garden Club.
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Peach State Theater, Georgia's official theater is located in Valdosta on the campus of Valdosta State University. Moody Air Force Base, home of the 34th Rescue Wind, is also located in Valdosta.


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text: The Brewer High School Grizzly Club meets the first Friday of every month at Soda Springs BarBQ on Clifford Street in White Settlement at 11a.m. Those in attendance this month were Mike Arnold, Johnny Townley, Walter Wade, Jerry Speers, Jack Presley, Joey Barger, Mitch Smith, Steve Moore, Mike Hatley, Oliver Dyer, Gary Cox, Jerry Hawk, Cleo Lowrance, Pat Sullivan, Benny Benningfield, David Walker, and Jimmy Ingram. They represent the Classes of BHS from 1968 and 1969.


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St. Augustine Chamber Singers Concert
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September 29, 2017
38 Cathedral Place
St. Augustine, FL 32084
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The St. Augustine Chamber Singers will present a concert in the Cathedral Basilica of St. Augustine at 7 p.m. The concert, titled A Patchwork Quilt of American Music, will trace the arrival of unique musical expressions to the shores of America as immigrants from many countries brought their music with them. The program will begin with several Native American chants and then follow the various patterns of people arriving in America, including songs from England, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Cuba, Africa, Israel and the Middle East. This concert is presented in memory of Jack Page. Admission is free. There will be a free-will offering.
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Poor raccoon passed on in the middle of an empty field. Big bad buzzard found him, but I scared him away when I shoved my camera out the car window.
Hope you had a wonderful Monday!
you got some beautiful photos of the turkey vulture!
Check out that amazing wingspan!
Wow! Cool shots! Nice wingspread!
I think those vultures are the ugliest things but your pictures have made me rethink this, BJ. Love the wingspread!
If you ever have more bird images to share, you should consider adding a link to these posts at my birding photo blog [opens each and every Saturday at noon CST/CDT]...I know others would really enjoy your addition to the links!!
Loved your barred owl in the previous post and I really like the action of this vulture. Well done.
The buzzard will be back. They don't forget a tasty meal. :)
Those pics are wonderful - they capture the movement of flight (and pouncing!!) so well. I am trying to get back into blogging mode, a lot has changed since I last blogged, including the uploading of pics, so need some time to get my old head around it all. J xx


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A fluorescence imaging technique was used to monitor intracellular localization of protein kinase C (PKC) in U-87 MG human glioma cells in the presence of hypericin (Hyp) and phorbol 12-myristate-13-acetate (PMA). It is shown that PKC localization, which reflects its activity, is influenced by Hyp and this influence is different from that observed for PMA which acts as PKC activator. Fluorescence binding experiments were used to determine the binding constants of Hyp to several isoforms of PKC. The obtained values of K(d)s (similar to 100 nM) suggest that Hyp binds with high affinity to PKC.


text: Today I got to sleep in and did some shopping with my brother and dad for some last minute gifts! I thought that the malls would be more crowded then they were...I am sure they will be on Christmas eve! It was fun to run around the city though. And we got to stop by Ornamentea and see mom at work! We finished mailing out all our Christmas cards today as well. Tonight still to come is Home Alone 2 as Kirby and I try and watch one Christmas movie a night....tonight we are also waiting up for Daniel who will arrive any minute! I just love Christmas!


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A Gold Medal winning exhibition from David Austin at the RHS Hampton Court Flower Show, which finished yesterday.
By far the most exuberant staging from any of the rose nurseries, dominating the Rose Marquee.
If only there was a 'scent' button on your keyboard..
A comprehensive selection of their English Roses, displayed enclosed within a white picket fence and divided into four beds set around an arbour with table set for a traditional English afternoon tea, complete with vase of roses.
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This beginner tutorial will focus more on Linux users; the installation instructions assume you are using Linux OS, PHP and MySQL in Apache web server. SSH (Secure Shell) also must be enabled in your hosting account. For details, you need to contact your hosting support.
Updating Modules and Running Cron Manually
This step assumes you have completed your Drupal website development in Ubuntu XAMPP. But before you upload it to your hosting server, you need to make sure that you are using the latest modules, and that you have run the cron manually.
Installing modules is best done through a development server, so that it won't interrupt your visitors in a production environment.
To do this:
- Log in to your Drupal website as administrator.
- Click "Administer" – "Reports" – "Status Reports."
- If all items under "Status Report" have green check marks, then you can skip this section and move on to next section.
- If not all items have green check marks, or some items are NOT up to date, click "run cron manually" first.
- After seeing the message "Cron ran successfully," click "Available updates."
- Make sure all of those items are "Up to date" before uploading the website to your server.
To upgrade an outdated module, go through the following steps.
- For modules that are not updated under "Available updates," click the "Download" link. This will download the package to your Ubuntu download directory.
- Go to your Drupal module directory (/opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal/modules) in XAMPP and delete the old module folder.
- Right click on the module tar.gz package and click "Extract here." Copy the extracted folder to the Drupal module directory in XAMPP. This is now the new/updated module.
- Make sure you are still logged in as administrator to your Drupal website. In the browser address bar, run update.php e.g. entering the URL below and pressing enter: http://localhost/drupal/update.php
- Follow the procedure stated in update.php. This will perform any necessary updating to your Drupal database because of updated modules. You need to ensure that you have no errors during this update before uploading your website.
You can browse your website after update.php and see if everything operates normally, as it did before. If you are using an outdated Drupal core, you should update it also, before uploading to the server. You can follow the tutorial here: http://drupal.org/upgrade/tutorial-introduction
The objective of this section is to make sure all of your modules and the Drupal core are up to date before uploading to the server.
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Since you need to upload your Drupal website to your hosting account, you need to assign a domain or sub-domain name to it. To do this, log in to your hosting account and add a domain name. For details on adding a domain name to your hosting account, you need to refer to your hosting support manual/tutorials.
It can take some time for the DNS propagation to complete. To test that your domain or sub-domain is ready for uploading, you need to do the following:
1. At the Linux terminal, log in to your SSH server:
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:~$ ssh yourusername@your_ssh_hostname.com
2. Enter your SSH password.
3. Most websites are placed in the www folder (or some using public_html), but that depends on how the hosting company configures your hosting account, so you need to look for it.
After logging in, try viewing all files and directories using the ls command:
-bash-2.08b$ ls
logs/ mail/ sys/ temporary/ tmp/ www/
4. Go into the www folder (using the CD command) and view the files again until you see your domain added in your hosting account:
-bash-2.08b$ cd www
-bash-2.08b$ ls
codexdrupal.php-developer.org/ dotnetdevelopment.net/
codexjoomla.php-developer.org/ php-developer.org/
Suppose that, in this example, a sub-domain is used for the Drupal installation in the remote server (you can also use the domain name, not a sub-domain). And the sub-domain is codexdrupal.php-developer.org. Go to this sub-domain:
-bash-2.08b$ cd codexdrupal.php-developer.org
You are now in the root directory of your future Drupal website. Delete all unnecessary files created by your hosting company:
-bash-2.08b$ rm *
5. In the bash prompt, type:
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In the editor type this script:
echo $_SERVER['SCRIPT_FILENAME'];
To save, press Control- O then press Enter key. To exit, press Control-X. View the full server path of your root directory in the browser by entering:
It will return, for example, something like this:
This means the full server path to the root directory is:
You can safely delete fullserverpath.php after this. If your SSH server does not have the PICO command, you can manually create the PHP script in your Ubuntu desktop with the code shown above. Then you can upload it to your Drupal website root directory using an SSH client and view the return path in the browser.
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To import a Drupal database from your XAMPP, go through the following steps.
Step 1. Create a MySQL database first in your remote server. This will be used for your Drupal website. You can go to your hosting control panel and create the database. For details, you need to refer to your hosting support for creating MySQL databases. Take note of the following MySQL login credentials created:
- Username
- Password
- Database name
- Hostname
Step 2. Using a Linux terminal, navigate to your Ubuntu XAMPP bin folder.
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:/$ cd /
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:/$ cd opt
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:/opt$ cd lampp
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:/opt/lampp$ cd bin
Step 3. Execute the MySQL dump command to copy the Drupal database from your XAMPP to your remote hosting MySQL database server (do not forget the "." dot sign before the forward slash):
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:/opt/lampp/bin$ ./mysqldump -uROOT -pXAMPP_MYSQL_ROOT_PASSWORD -hLOCALHOST NAME_OF_YOUR_DRUPAL_DATABASE_IN_XAMPP | ssh YOUR_USERNAME@YOUR_SSH_HOSTNAME.COM mysql -uDRUPAL_DATABASE_USERNAME -pDRUPAL_DATABASE_PASSWORD -hDRUPAL_DATABASE_HOSTNAME DRUPAL_DATABASE_NAME_IN_REMOTE_SERVER
Note: The credentials: Drupal_database_username, Drupal_database_password, Drupal_database_hostname and Drupal_database_name_in_remote_server are the MySQL login credentials for your Drupal website in the remote server, which you created in the first step.
If you want to see a screen shot of the command prompt, go here: http://www.php-developer.org/screenshot/mysqldumptoremotehostingserver.jpg
Important: Do not close the terminal while the copying is going on; wait until it is completed.
Copy All Drupal Files in Your XAMPP to a Remote Server
Execute the SCP (secure copy command using Terminal/SSH) command that will copy all files (including folders and hidden files such as .htaccess) from your Drupal XAMPP localhost folder to your Drupal website hosting root directory.
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:~$ scp -r /opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal/. firstname.lastname@example.com:/home/www/codexdrupal.php-developer.org/
If you would like to see this in a command prompt screenshot: http://www.php-developer.org/screenshot/scpcommandrupaltoremote.jpg
- Do NOT forget to place a "." dot sign after /drupal/ as this will make it possible to copy all hidden files, such as .htaccess.
- /home/www/codexdrupal.php-developer.org/ is the full server path to your root directory, as determined already in the previous sections (using fullserverpath.php script).
- You are required to enter your SSH password to proceed with the file uploading.
- The path to your local Drupal installation in XAMPP is: /opt/lampp/htdocs/drupal/
The drupal folder name can change depending on what you are using.
- The uploading process can take a very long time. Do not close the terminal while the copying is going on; wait until it is done.
Configure Settings.php for database, base URL and .htaccess
To make your website work in the new hosting server, you need to make some adjustments in settings.php, base URL and the .htaccess. Follow the steps below:
1. Log in to your SSH server:
codex-m@codex-m-desktop:~$ ssh yourusername@your_ssh_hostname.com
2. Go to your Drupal website root directory:
-bash-2.08b$ cd www
-bash-2.08b$ cd codexdrupal.php-developer.org
3. Go to the sites directory and then to the default directory:
-bash-2.08b$ cd sites
-bash-2.08b$ cd default
4. Change the file permission of settings.php to 644.
-bash-2.08b$ chmod 644 settings.php
5. Edit settings.php
-bash-2.08b$ pico settings.php
6. Define the MySQL connection string of your remote Drupal website. Look for the $db_url variable and assign updated/correct values:
$db_url = 'mysqli://mysqluser_name:mysql_password@firstname.lastname@example.com/mysqldatabase_name';
See the screen shot here:
In the screen shot the MySQL username is codex_m, the MySQL password is cutegirls999, the MySQL hostname is firstname.lastname@example.com and the name of the MySQL database is drupaldatabase.
7. Define the base URL. Find the $base_url variable. It should be set to your Drupal home page URL (depending on whether you are using a sub-domain or main domain).
$base_url = 'http://codexdrupal.php-developer.org'; // NO trailing slash!
In the above base URL, the home page of the Drupal website in the remote hosting server is http://codexdrupal.php-developer.org/.
8. Save the changes in settings.php by pressing Control- O and then press the Enter key. Exit the editor by pressing Control-X.
You might notice that at this time, when you view your website in the browser, the home page is working, but other pages in the website return "Internal Server Error."
This is because you need to make some adjustments in your .htaccess. To edit:
1. Go to your root directory using the SSH command line. You might need to type cd ..
-bash-2.08b$ cd ..
to go back to the root directory. You will know when you are in the root directory when you type:
-bash-2.08b$ pwd
Then it will return, for example:
2. Edit .htaccess:
-bash-2.08b$ pico .htaccess
Simply change:
# RewriteBase /
RewriteBase /
You will just remove the # before RewriteBase. Save the changes (Control-O – Enter key, then Press Control X to exit).
Finishing Touches for Drupal Deployment to Your Hosting Server
You can also do the following to complete your Drupal deployment:
1. Secure your Cron.php, and add the following lines in your .htaccess:
<Files "cron.php">
Order allow,deny
Allow from 123.456.789.123
Change the IP address 123.456.789.123 to use your own IP address. You can get your IP address here: http://www.whatismyip.com/
The above .htaccess lines will prevent public access to your cron.
2. Enable cron in your hosting account to automatically run cron.php. For some hosting accounts, you may have problems executing your cron, so you might change the file permission of cron.php to 755.
A sample configuration in Agilityhoster.com that will run the cron.php once a day can be found here: http://www.php-developer.org/screenshot/cronsetupdrupal.jpg. This method might not be the same for other hosting companies. In this case, you need to consult with your hosting support.
After completing all of these steps, try to browse to your website and log in as administrator. You can change your password if you like. Make sure everything is working properly, as it was on the XAMPP local host.


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Two large sections of the 'Ruapehu - Whanganui - Nga Ara Tuhono' trail, which runs south from Ruapehu in the central North Island through the Whanganui region to the western coast, was opened at a launch ceremony at the Ohakune Railway Station.
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"Once all the trails are completed, there will be a series of Great Rides throughout the country for New Zealanders and overseas visitors alike to experience," said Prime Minister John Key.
Lead by the Ministry of Tourism, the Government's New Zealand Cycle Trail (NZCT) project was developed to help retain jobs during the economic crisis. It was also created to be a long-term national asset, both for New Zealanders and to enhance New Zealand's reputation as a premium tourist destination.
It is estimated that the Nga Ara Tuhono trail will bring up to NZD3 million per year for the local economy.
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I'm definitely no cook, but the bake off challenge at work has been a great way for me to dip my toe into the baking world – and so far, so good! Wahey!
So here it is, my easy peasy rather cheesey biscuit recipe along with the sour cream and chive dip I made to go along with it.
This recipe makes around 20 biscuits.
120g plain flour
120g margarine
120g of cheese (I used mature cheddar and red Leicester)
Here's what to do…it's super easy!
1) Pop all the ingredients into a mixing bowl and mix them together with your hands until they form a dough.
2) Roll out the dough until it's around 5mm thick.
3) Using a cutter cut out the biscuits from the dough. (If like me you don't have one or can't find one, use a glass upside down!)
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5) Place the biscuits on floured baking trays and bake in the oven for around 10-15 minutes or until they look lovely and golden brown.
Top tip: I did a test run before making the main batch. I put a couple of biscuits into the oven and checked them at various points to see when they would be cooked all the way through. This helped me to find the optimum time for the main batch.
Ingredients for the dip:
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Dip process…
1) Simply pour the required amount of sour cream into a bowl.
2) Then finely chop up some chives and add as many as suits to the sour cream.
3) Mix the sour cream and chives together in the bowl – et voilà! A lovely sour cream & chive dip!
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The most dominant female racer in XTERRA is returning to Jervis Bay in New South Wales, Australia next month.
Flora Duffy, from Bermuda in the Caribbean, will defend her title at the 2nd annual XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship race on April 18, 2015.
"The area is gorgeous," said Duffy after winning last year's inaugural event. "Growing up in Bermuda I'm kind of a beach snob, so it takes a lot for a beach to impress me and I can tell you it is gorgeous here, that white sand and water is beautiful."
The 27-year-old, two-time Olympian won the first two XTERRA majors of 2015 in the Philippines and South Africa and has now won nine of the last 10 she's entered including the XTERRA USA, Asia-Pacific, and World Championship.
As the most prestigious event in the Asia-Pacific series that includes championship races in Australia, New Zealand, Malaysia, the Philippines, Japan, Guam, Tahiti, and Saipan – the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship will offer $50,000 in prize money to the sport's top professional athletes and produce a television show for international distribution.
The main event combines a 1.5-kilometer ocean swim at Callala Beach, approximately two and a half hours south on Sydney, with 30-kilometers of mountain biking followed by 10-kilometers of trail running.
Last year Duffy edged 2013 XTERRA World Champion Nicky Samuels from New Zealand to win the women's title while Dan Hugo from South Africa held off a hard-charging Courtney Atkinson from Australia to win the men's race.
The event lures amateur and professional athletes from around the world to New South Wales, and locals flock to the event in pursuit of XTERRA Australia Championship honours.
The off-road sports festival weekend also includes a sprint distance off-road triathlon, trail runs, and relay team competitions attracting more than 500 competitors of all ages.
For more information and links to registration for the XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship visit www.xterraasiapacific.com. For more information on the XTERRA brand and worldwide event
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The XTERRA Asia-Pacific Championship is proudly supported by the NSW Government through its tourism and major events agency, Destination NSW. Presenting sponsors include John Paul Mitchell Systems, the world's largest privately owned professional salon hair care company, Outrigger Resorts - one of the largest and fastest growing privately-held leisure lodging, retail and hospitality companies in the Asia-Pacific and Oceania regions, and XTERRA Wetsuits & Boards Australia - the official swim sponsor.


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By: Pasha Cook| Author| Speaker| Coach | CHAMPS U
I haven't opened a book in years! Said no one that was seriously hungry for success. If you're reading this, I'm assuming you're an athlete, and most of us athletes have been participating in sports for the majority of our lives. I started playing basketball at age seven. It's safe to say that if you have made it to the collegiate level, you know a lot about your sport, your position, and your opponents. However, how much do you know about life looks like beyond your collegiate career?
Champions are lifelong learners and are always seeking to learn more. When it comes to transitioning, you must evaluate your values, strengths, and your interests, outside sports participation. Herein lies the challenge. Even if you have other passions or other interests, you have spent many waking hours dedicated to your sport. You have a steep learning curve to overcome if your other passions are vastly different from participating sports. Before you can learn more about your passions, you must LEARN what your passions are, to focus your energy in the right direction. Once you have narrowed down and listed your interests, it's time to go to work.
Say it with me. RESEARCH, RESEARCH, RESEARCH! You have to be a student of the game, and that game is now your life (no pun intended). What field, industry, or career path do you have interest? How do you break into that industry? Where can you gather more information? Who are the thought-leaders in your perspective field of interest? Whom do you know that can assist you in learning more? All valid questions that are up to you to answer.
"In order to be in position to win the game, you must become a student of the game."
Why is being a student of the game necessary?
Remember that time when you were up against your rival school, and you had to read the scouting report, watch tons of game film, and went over simulations for hours during practice? That preparation allowed you to understand the other team's game plan and positioned you for success. Success, after all, is preparation meeting opportunity. You know what most people are doing? They are sitting around waiting on the sidelines of their lives instead, of preparing for the moment when opportunity knocks.
When you have a hunger for learning, something seemingly magical happens to your mind. You can appreciate viewing life through a different lens, therefore, expanding your worldview. Those things are important when interacting with people outside your usual sphere of influence. Also, when you are researching and learning more about your passions, values, and goals you can clarify what career path best aligns with them. When I was transitioning, because I didn't do my homework, I transitioned and engaged in several different careers, and often became bored when they didn't light that fire that basketball had. When you do your homework, you learn more and can identify if what the career path you are seeking is worth focusing your energies towards.
Ultimately the choice is yours. Being a lifelong student doesn't have to mean you return to "school." There are many ways to engage in educational content these days; you have TED talks, informative blogs, online certification programs, conferences, workshops, Career Guides like Champs U Workbook. The point is to get out there and to get started. Once you do, your life is going to expand beyond your wildest dreams. You've got this CHAMP! It's worth it, and so are you.
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A Non-Typical Buck from Indiana
Indiana deer hunter Scott Perkins sent this to me in an email.
My name is Scott Perkins I harvested this 16 pointer on Nov 18th with my muzzle loader it green scores 1675/8 I shot in southern brown county Indiana. I was actually after a bigger one but this one had a lot of character so I went ahead an took him. The buck was so old he had no teeth at all.


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Following the release of their debut album 'Vultures', issued May 11th through One Little Indian Records, Wolverhampton based heavy-weights God Damn will follow a week later with a single release of the title track.
"The song 'Vultures' is both blatant and subliminal in its attacks, two fingers up and a twisted journey," states guitarist and vocalist Thom Edward by way of explaining the tracks psychotic and schizophrenic moods. Pounding in with the ferocity and heaviness of a sledgehammer to the cranium, it quickly pulls back into a moody, swaggering stagger that takes the listener down before lifting them up again and removing the top of their head. It's a heavy journey. Tread carefully.
God Damn's debut album 'Vultures' follows on May 11th through One Little Indian Records.
'Vultures' is available to pre-order now on CD / Vinyl / DL with instant downloads of 'Horus' and 'Maladie Melodie'.
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1st The Sugarmill, Stoke on Trent
2nd Handmade Festival, Leicester (w/ Slaves, Blood Red Shoes & Bo Ningen)
5th The Craufurd Arms, Milton Keynes
6th Shacklewell Arms, London
9th Chameleon, Nottingham
13th The Louisiana, Bristol
16th Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
18th Norwich Arts Centre, Norwich
20th A Nation Of Shopkeepers, Leeds
21st Picture House Social, Sheffield
23rd Liverpool Sound City, Evol Stage
30th Camden Rocks Festival, London
12th Download Festival, Derby
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Sunday, 15 November 2009
Where All That Tax Goes.....
Being no longer idle, I fall behind on my discretionary reading, so it was only last night in the bath that I read Rod Liddle's piece on Jeanie Lynch from last week's Speccie. Jeanie is 'Lead Officer for Equality in Children and Young People's Services for Devon County Council'.
I can't think of any other example which illustrates quite so clearly why we have a national debt of £1.3 trillion, unfunded liabilities of another £2 trillion on top of that, and a government that consumes 50% of GDP.
Jeanie's week: Monday - Value the Difference course; Tuesday - "Building resilience for our Gypsy, Roma Traveller Achievement Services"; Wednesday - Day Off; Thursday - "Children and Sex" speech; Friday - "pulling together diversity data".
Liddle: "'Building resilience for our Gypsy, Roma Traveller Achievement Services'. What does that mean? God knows, but she concludes, in her diary, that gypsies and Roma and travellers need to improve their 'resilience skills'. You wonder for a moment if this cheerful middle-aged woman is teaching gypsies how to fight. 'Grandmother' and 'sucking eggs' is the first response which comes to mind. You wonder also if the people of Devon wished that their local council was instead teaching gypsies to be a bit less resilient, all things considered, or perhaps to have the requisite resilience to pack up their caravans and move to Cornwall or Somerset or Dorset. But Jeanie has only contempt for the people who pay her salary (let's be honest — the gypsies don't, do they?): she says the travellers face horrible discrimination from ordinary people in the wider world. Those awful people in the wider world."
Liddle discovers that there is a veritable platoon of Acts of Parliament (that would be Westminster AND the European one, natch) that makes all this worthless guff a requirement. It is not so much a matter of choice as the Law of the Land. Jeanie probably pulls in around £30,000 for this stunt. But Devon is a big old area, so she'll need a car. Call it another £3,000 on autolease. There will be expenses of course, and petrol, and oodles of stationery costs as Jeanie publishes all those glossy handouts on anal sex for 8 year olds and pamphlets telling the policemen of Tavistock not to be beastly to pikeys. And, when Jeanie finally retires to her cottage by the sea, aged 60, there will be her pension. For ever. And it's unfunded. The children she teaches anal sex to next week will be paying Devon County Council's taxes in ten years' time, partly to fund Jeanie's final salary, index-linked pension scheme. Come to think of it, a good few of them will be employed by the Council, too. Outreach Co-ordinators, probably. Or Clotted-Cream Safety Standards Invigilators.
Devon County Council is run by the Conservatives. Liddle concludes that even if they wanted to, they are buggered:
"And so, if you're the newly elected ruling group of Devon County Council you may well be tempted just to sigh and let Jeanie go about her work.
This stuff, this ludicrous nonsense, has become unavoidable. We cannot get rid of it. And my guess is there's a Jeanie doing her business for every county and borough council up and down the land and a Gypsy, Roma, Traveller Achievement Service in every relevant council up and down the land and a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans (sic) History Month coming to a school near you very soon. They want kids, incidentally, to celebrate the life of a famous LGBT person from history and suggest computer science would be a good place to start. Poor Alan Turing, once known as a brilliant mathematician. Now known as an unhappy homosexual."
Read the whole thing. You'll laugh and cry.
9 comments:
- Philipa said...
It seems the only thing left to do is move abroad. There are so many of these non-jobs. I'm amazed the people have the front to do them and so little self-awareness and intellect to realise what they are in fact doing. What is worse - people like this or those that actually know they are robbing the tax payer blind?
- 15 November 2009 at 12:23
- apricotfox said...
Moving abroad, sadly, is not an option. If you think our bureaucracy and political correctness is bad, just live in Europe for a while..espec France. The only places where you might seem free to do as you please are probably not places you would ever, ever want to live. We have to stay and fight!
- 15 November 2009 at 14:00
- electro-kevin said...
Have you heard of the Nottingham Declaration ?
Binds all signatory councils to a green agenda - including those elected after it was signed.
(H/T to E-K Snr who found it.)
- 15 November 2009 at 17:14
"Lead Officer for Equality in Children and Young People's Services for Devon County Council"
That answer to "and what do you do for a living?" is 14 words long.
I have a theory about this.
It is:
"the value to society of the job you do is in inverse proportion to the number of words in your job title."
The longer the title, the more it sounds like someone trying to justify their existence.
- 15 November 2009 at 17:18
- Scrobs... said...
Perhaps Jeannie can tell me what happened to the pikeys who nicked our holly last year about now...
Oooops, sorry, pricks just don't chase other prick nickers, it's just not an outreach subject for working on. We just shouldn't be growing such a dangerous tree, 'elfun soifty' will be down on us like a ton of bricks - that's if they realise I'm not wearing steel toecaps and wearing a hard hat, but it will be a yellow one, (not many Chinese here so far), but there may be, so I'll paint it black, that way I might get a discount on my poll tax - don't say 'poll' it rhymes with 'boll' which is what cotton looks like before it's picked, but I can't talk about that either, so all the wasters in Tunbridge Wells BC can sit and piddle around on their new computers, reading emails from their mates while they while away the hours until 4.30 pm, and have to stop ordering Argos bling...
'Nuff said...
- 15 November 2009 at 17:29
- Philipa said...
Not many chinese, Scrobs? I can't make a joke of paying Pikeys to leave after I heard of the case of Agnes Wong. I heard (on the wireless) that money was being made available by the government to resettle offenders in their home country, it was to pay for training and accomodation and £4500 was mentioned. Anyway, I came across this conversation but please be warned: These LINKS CONTAIN UPSETTING DETAIL.
- 15 November 2009 at 20:47
- Thud said...
Moving abroad does not as apricotfox has already stated make a bit of a difference...I just get to live with two different sets of insane social tinkerers.
- 16 November 2009 at 05:24
- Tuscan Tony said...
Well said. I dream of the day when we are all accepting of each others difference to the extent that no funding is require=d of any particular group. But that'll never happen, because that is not the purpose of the exercise. Managed failure keeps Jeannie in work. Success is an anathema to her, and to the wider world of socialism.
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Update, 7:45 p.m. Sunday: Two people swept away by the floodwaters in Ellicott City lost their lives Saturday night. For the latest, see: Two dead after severe flash flood in Maryland
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The scene in Ellicott City Saturday night was scary, surreal and downright dangerous.
Intense thunderstorms unloaded as many as eight inches of rain in three hours. The resulting flooding was devastating.
Ellicott City's Main Street was transformed into a raging river that swept away cars and inundated homes and businesses. Howard County first responders assisted 120 people in swift-water rescues.
Video shot from the second floor of Portalli's Restaurant on Main Street at the height of the flooding is shocking. Diners huddle near the window watching in disbelief. "Oh, my God!" is the most frequent reaction as cars float down the street, some with people inside (watch especially from 3:55 on).
(Video: Nezacant via YouTube)
"[This is] just a disaster," said Evan Brown, the owner of Portalli's, which was heavily damaged by the flood.
Much of the city is now wrecked.
"Video and photos shot in the flood's aftermath depict a ruined downtown: bricks torn from sidewalks, cars overturned, windows smashed, storefronts ripped opened," reports The Washington Post's John Woodrow Cox and Martin Weil.
(Howard County React)
Ronald McCandless, a Capital Weather Gang reader who lives three miles from downtown Ellicott City, called the experience "worse than a hurricane."
"We have two sump pumps that did little good for the basement since water came in over the foundation in three places," McCandless said.
One woman in Baltimore County drowned as the Patapsco River surged to historic levels in a matter of minutes:
Major flood stage reached on Patapsco River at I-95 @capitalweather https://t.co/ERl7ks6cby pic.twitter.com/fUTaLTOtH4
— danieldbunn (@danieldbunn) July 31, 2016
Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan (R) has declared a state of emergency Sunday in the flood's aftermath.
Below I've compiled photos and videos of the scene, which tell the story of this horrible event better than words:
During the flooding
During the height of the #ellicottcity #flashflood event from Sat night. Video by Dan Somers https://t.co/48b1xW7APM pic.twitter.com/E9x4YOVRmS
— Tim Ballisty (@IrishEagle) July 31, 2016
#ellicottcity flash flood.. A view from inside pic.twitter.com/x1VtuwVb0e
— Framethestory (@Framethestory) July 31, 2016
Video footage from this evening's flooding in Old Ellicott City. #HoCoMD pic.twitter.com/fsbpWAyLnY
— Allan H. Kittleman (@HoCoGovExec) July 31, 2016
(Justin Berk via YouTube)
(Nezacant via YouTube. Caution: Strong language)
During the flooding
Wow! Major #flooding in Ellicott City MD. Photos from Scott Weaver pic.twitter.com/QuZE6BLcfG
— Justin Berk (@JustinWeather) July 31, 2016
A picture of flooding on Main Street Ellicott City. #HoCoMD pic.twitter.com/3AYg3MJNit
— Allan H. Kittleman (@HoCoGovExec) July 31, 2016
This is just insane! #EllicottCity flooding! @HCDFRS responded to several water rescues. #Maryland @FOXBALTIMORE pic.twitter.com/zVIrgan1QK
— Jeremy Harris (@jeremykharris) July 31, 2016
After the flooding
Aerial shots #flooding aftermath in #ellicottcity, Howard County, MD.@weatherchannel @capitalweather @FOXBaltimore pic.twitter.com/hxNjDnKiao
— midatlanticaerial (@midatlaerial) July 31, 2016
Storm damage in Ellicott City https://t.co/BEugzRP5SD pic.twitter.com/NWfE6DEGHP
— WUSA9 (@wusa9) July 31, 2016
.@RectorSun is in #ellicottcity + dramatic photos from Baltimore flooding via @fotoj https://t.co/MG6AhbWTMg pic.twitter.com/R0UWI9DYwj
— Sean Welsh (@SeanJWelsh) July 31, 2016
One fatality from the floods in Ellicott City last night. Body was found in the Patapsco River in Baltimore Co. pic.twitter.com/43QePafFR3
— Paul Gessler (@PaulGessler) July 31, 2016
In #EllicottCity– where flash flooding caused devastating damage to downtown. 1 woman dead. @wusa9 pic.twitter.com/9cLxYeiIGU
— Nikki Burdine (@NikkiBurdine) July 31, 2016
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THE SNP may be ahead in the polls but the Fairer Scotland survey shows posturing is much more important to the party than actually delivering anything worthwhile:
By Moan McVulpine – putting the rhetoric into rhetorical
WITH ALMOST two thirds of sovereign Scots set to vote for Saint Nicola of Sturgeon next year, the average voter could be forgiven for thinking the SNP had delivered a better Scotland over their eight year tenure.
Nothing could be further from the truth.
The 62 per cent backing for the SNP in yet another opinion poll makes you wonder if we haven't lost our collective heads to faith, fallacy and fervor.
More than a worry given that Nationalists have such an embedded hold on the country.
As the abdicated King, Alex of Salmond, said: "If the parliament succeeds in running education and health then the natural conclusion that people will come to is that we should be running the economy and macro policy as well."
Maybe we should – in fact I'm sure we could run our own affairs well. But, on the abdicated King's own criteria, the natural conclusion is simple – the Nationalists shouldn't be running a sweety shop, never mind the economy and macro policy.
The fundamental bedrock on which all education is served and successfully delivered is numeracy and literacy.
On that record the SNP have unequivocally failed the sovereign Scots. Their 'Social Justice' mantra is as empty as their gesture politics. Perhaps we should all wear a little white South African rose as a mark of our capitulation to Nationalistic empty promises.
It's on education – our children's hope for the future – that the SNP are found most wanting. Witness the shambles of the variance in pass marks for different secondaray school subjects: or try and explain their rampant anti-Englishness where the English are the only people in the whole of the European Union whom the SNP will not pay tuition fees for if they attend a Scottish university.
Or what about the axeing of 140,000 college places in order to maintain the integrity of some "rocks in the sun?"
As for the Social Justice mantra. Where was the social justice when Mike Russell robbed cohorts of the least well off college students in order to maintain middle class tuition fee subsidies?
Education IS the fundamental bedrock on which a society and a nation, should judge itself.
It represents the hopes and aspirations of our children and our children's children.
Is it any surprise that neither the abdicated king or the current saint ruling our country in the name of 'not enough powers' should have no children of their own to care or worry about?
Their children are their party members. They have no real conception of what it's like to care and worry over the future direction of their own flesh and blood's life.
Like Kirsty, the SNP's hypothetical poor little IndyRef Scots girl, the idea of having her very own child is an abstract concept to Saint Nicola of Sturgeon.
And that's why her political children by proxy are herded like cats and gagged like petulant teenagers. 'Mummy' Sturgeon and 'Daddy' Salmond know best.
According to blogging victim and Daily Redcoat whiner, Joan McAlpine, "One of the great successes of the SNP in government is giving Scotland its pride back."
Unlike the Nationalists, the idea of pride in the nation is an abstract concept in the face of almost wholesale failure in education.
Joan paid for her kids education at private school. So she's hardly one to talk about pride when it comes to the education of her own children.
They say actions speak louder than words.
Judge the SNP by their actions and not by their rhetoric and, like Joanie's pride in Scotland, it will be found wanting.


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So I'll show you some of the corners of my house, and let me tell you, this is not all! So far my house looks like we are going to have a party soon, but we aren't, and everyone seems OK about it.
These are japanese postcards that I got here.
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