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How to Make a Woman Happy

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 15:45:37 GMT

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To all Clippers

Wed, 09 Apr 2008 23:28:43 GMT

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clipper's remarks: If I knew where you all were, I'd send a postcard with a Joan Armatrading lyric.

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Hello

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Clippers

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I Am

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Off

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on My

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Holiday

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But

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Douglas MacArthur

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Said,

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I shall return

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Lips That Touch Liquor Shall Not Touch Ours

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:06:00 GMT

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Quicksort Algorithm

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 23:52:36 GMT

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An animation of the quicksort algorithm sorting an array of randomized values

The red bars mark the pivot element; at the start of the animation, the element farthest to the right hand side is chosen as the pivot. Created with: Ruby 1.8.4, RMagick

Tags: totally beyond my comprehension

Squirreling away fitness tips

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:25:28 GMT

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Clip Source: latimesblogs.latimes.com

Mirror, mirror on the wall, who’s the fittest of them all? Squirrels that had lots of sunshine and nuts when they were growing up, say researchers at Michigan State University, as well as investigators in Canada and France

Ferreting through 15 years of data on the North American red squirrel population, the researchers concluded that female squirrels lucky enough to be born in the lap of luxury, with plenty of food, warm weather and ample space, produced more offspring than their less-privileged cohorts. In short, they were fitter and healthier

"Our study shows that some individuals get a real head start on their colleagues simply by being born in a good year," says Stan Boutin, co-author of the study and professor of biological sciences at the University of Alberta, Canada. "On the other hand," he says in a news release, "those having the bad luck of being born in a bad year may never get a taste of that silver spoon."

Lessons learned: Move to Arizona and eat plenty of nuts.

Tags: more tips from secret squirrel

Top 25 Guitar Riffs 1-13

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 17:46:58 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Just seven songs penned in the last two decades have made it on to a list of the greatest guitar riffs of all time.
British rock band Deep Purple top the list with their 1973 hit Smoke on the Water.

Among the more recent riffs is Nirvana's Smells Like Teen Spirit (1991), in second place, and Wake Up by Rage Against the Machine (1992) in 16th.

The Red Hot Chilli Peppers have two entries, Under The Bridge (1992) at 9 and Give it Away (1991) at 21.

However, not one song written since 2003 made the short list.

Songs by American writers claimed the majority of places in the top 25, but seven of the songs on the list were written by British artists.

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Top 25 guitar riffs of all time - click the song to play the video

1. Smoke On The Water - Deep Purple (1973)

2. Smells Like Teen Spirit - Nirvana (1991)

3. Walk This Way - Aerosmith (1975)

4. Purple Haze - Jimi Hendrix (1967)

5. Sweet Child O Mine - Guns N Roses (1987)

6. Paradise City - Guns N Roses (1987)

7. Ace Of Spades - Motorhead (1980)

8. Enter Sandman - Metallica (1991)

9. Under The Bridge - Red Hot Chilli Peppers (1992)

10. Welcome To The Jungle - Guns N Roses (1987)

11. Run To The Hills - Iron Maiden (1982)

12. Walk - Pantera (1992)

13. Johnny Be Goode - Chuck Berry (1958)

Tags: rock music

A Dove for Michelle

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:59:11 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Know you've seen it before but it is always worth another look.

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Tags: beautiful [dove] by carol deutsch

Great Train Journeys of the World

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:35:04 GMT

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Switzerland: The Bernina Express

This takes you over the highest rail summit in the Alps – 7,405 feet up

Canada: Rocky Mountaineer Vacations

South Africa: Rovos Rail

Now regarded as superior to the Blue Train for quality and service

Observation cars allow unrivalled views across the bush

Russia: Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express

The world’s longest train journey at nearly 6,000 miles

provides comfort unknown since Tsarist times

South East Asia: Eastern & Oriental Express

1,262-mile journey from Bangkok to Singapore

North America: California Zephyr

The Amtrak trip on the California Zephyr runs through the heart of the Rocky Mountains

Great Britain: Northern Belle

The Flying Scotsman used to be the way to see the Scottish Highlands. Now there's another – the Northern Belle

Europe: Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

Japan: The Shinkansen

The Bullet Train, as it is better known, is closer to a rocket than a train

On the Tokyo to Kyoto Bullet Train trip, the adrenaline rush is the train itself

Tags: trains and travelling

Art of the Doomed.

Tue, 08 Apr 2008 01:42:06 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Many of the artists of these clipped works perished in the camps of the Nazis.

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The Sowers by Thomas Hart Benton, 1942

Threesome (1944), by Felix Nussbaum (1904-1944)

Children as well as adults documented events of the Holocaust through art

Laufen (undated), by Josef Nassy (1904-1976), a Black expatriate of Jewish descent
who was one of 2,000 internees with American passports held prisoner in
Germany during WWII

1942. Esther Lurie

described here new deportees arriving
in the ghetto

Unable to Work by David Olère

Inability to work was often an immediate death sentence

By Felix Nussbaum. Born in 1904, he died at Auschwitz in 1944

The Food of the Dead for the Living

Jews in the Hospital, by Aldo Carpi, 1945

"Forced Labor - Building a Tunnel" by David Olere, 1945.
Given severely limited food rations, prisoners
were exploited in hard labor, such as the digging
of a tunnel, depicted here in watercolor and
charcoal. Those unable to work were killed.
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Kommando, by Fernand Van Horen

a Belgian survivor

Normal Life in Flossenburg

Gassing

"Zyclon B cans"

Arrival of a Convoy

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Great Train Journeys of the World

Mon, 07 Apr 2008 16:28:36 GMT

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Clip Source: www.telegraph.co.uk

Switzerland: The Bernina Express

This takes you over the highest rail summit in the Alps – 7,405 feet up

Canada: Rocky Mountaineer Vacations

South Africa: Rovos Rail

Now regarded as superior to the Blue Train

Observation cars allow unrivalled views across the bush

Russia: Golden Eagle Trans-Siberian Express

The world’s longest train journey at nearly 6,000 miles

provides comfort unknown since Tsarist times

South East Asia: Eastern & Oriental Express

1,262-mile journey from Bangkok to Singapore

North America: California Zephyr

The Amtrak trip on the California Zephyr runs through the heart of the Rocky Mountains

Great Britain: Northern Belle

The Flying Scotsman used to be the way to see the Scottish Highlands. Now there's another – the Northern Belle

Europe: Venice Simplon-Orient-Express

Japan: The Shinkansen

The Bullet Train

Tags: tra

Brian Dettmer: Book Autopsies

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:28:55 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Fascinating artworks

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Brian Dettmer carves into books revealing the artwork inside, creating complex layered three-dimensional sculptures.

Tags: art

Bad Day in the Office

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:09:08 GMT

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The Keys to Life

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:30:12 GMT

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Illustrated Nursery Rhymes

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 08:00:41 GMT

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clipper's remarks: Mary had a little lamb,
Its fleece was white as snow;
And everywhere that Mary went,
The lamb was sure to go.
He followed her to school one day;
That was against the rule;
It made the children laugh and play;
To see a lamb at school.
And so the teacher turned it out,
But still it lingered near,
And waited patiently about
Till Mary did appear.
"Why does the lamb love Mary so?"
The eager children cry;
"Why, Mary loves the lamb, you know,"
The teacher did reply.

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Hickety Dickety Dock, illustrated by William Wallace Denslow, from a 1901 Mother Goose collection

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Hickety Dickety Dock, illustrated by Denslow

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American advertisement; premium was Baum's book, 1900

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A page from a late 17th century handwritten and illustrated version of Charles Perrault's Contes de ma mère l'Oye, depicting Puss in Boots

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"Hey Diddle Diddle" is a popular nursery rhyme.

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Walter Crane's illustration of the maid hanging out the clothes

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illustrations for Jack and Jill

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Jack & Jill in the act of tumbling down, according to Denslow

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illustrations for Mary had a little lamb, from a 1901 edition

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Mary and lamb at school, according to Denslow

The Redstone School, now in Sudbury, Massachusetts, is believed to be the schoolhouse mentioned in the nursery rhyme.

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Kate Greenaway's Mother Goose illustration of children playing the game (from Project Gutenberg).

Tags: one, two, buckle my shoe

Masai warriors and the London Marathon

Thu, 03 Apr 2008 04:51:22 GMT

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clipper's remarks: The warriors, who arrive in Britain next week for the race on Sunday April 13, have also been advised not to be too offended by the brief running attire of their fellow competitors in the marathon.

"You will see many people who are wearing only small clothes and you will wonder why they are cold and may think they are being disrespectful.

"This is normal for England, especially when it is sunny or in the evening. However, it is illegal to show certain parts of the body and for this reason it is important that you wear underpants if you are wearing your blankets."

The guide provides a tour of a typical home, complete with description of what happens in a bathroom and at meal times.

"People in England eat with knives, forks and spoons. If you want to use just a spoon or fork or hands then it is not a worry.

"Many people drink alcohol in England. They do so at bars, at homes or at clubs - the English equivalent to a Masai party.

"When people drink they [seem] sillier or

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Six Masai warriors, who are so fierce they kill male lions with their bare hands,

are leaving their remote Tanzanian village to run in the London Marathon, have been given a detailed four-page guide

The visiting Masai will run the London marathon to raise money for water supplies back home

"Visiting England: A Cultural Briefing for the Warriors"

You may be surprised by the number of people that there are and they all seem to be rushing around everywhere

Even though some may look like they have a frown on their face, they are very friendly people

The warriors, who are leaving their village of Eluai in northern Tanzania for the first time, will run the 26.2-mile course in their traditional red robes, complete with shields and sticks

While the guide praises the warmth of the English people, the Masai are warned not to take their hosts' generosity for granted.

"If you see something that someone else has, like a bracelet,

then the person will find it very unusual if you were to take it and wear it."

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