SPECTACULAR OVERREACTION

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///////////////Aculeate (adjective)
Pronunciation: [ê-'kyu-lee-yêt]
Definition: Having a stinger, like a bee or wasp, or sharp prickles, like a rose or thistle.
Usage: Today's term is another begging to be liberated from the arcane confines of scientific jargon. It is used to refer to insects like bees and wasps in zoology and, in botany, to plants like cacti and roses.
Suggested Usage: Let us begin with an ordinary use of today's word in its basic, biological sense: "The party was pretty dull and boring until some aculeate creature slipped into Belinda's shorts and her reaction sparked a dance fever that quickly ignited the listless company." If you know someone with a prickly personality, you will find today's word handy, "Otto Mattick has aculeate tongue capable of inflicting considerable mental pain if roiled." You could also call Otto's barbed words 'aculeate.'



//////////////////A 2004 study at the University of Nottingham showed women who eat sporadically burn fewer calories than those who eat on a regular schedule.

Women who ate three meals some days and nine mini-meals others burned fewer calories while at rest than women who ate six mini-meals a day all with the same caloric content.

The moral of the story? Stick to a consistent meal and snack schedule and you could find losing weight a little easier.



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I know a number of Mahantas in the district of Balasore in Odisa state, but don't know their origin--Bengal or Orissa.
The name may have stuck from the word "mahanta," the proprietor of a matha (part of the Gaudiya Vaishnav tradition of asceticism), which would mean the name is a title rather than a generic Brahmin surname. Both Bengal and Odisa have rich history of this tradition. On the other hand, it could be a corrupt form of the Odia Mahanti (who are not brahmins).



/////////////////The brook would lose its song if we removed the rocks.
—Wallace Stegner



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Life may not be the party we hoped for,
but while we are here we might as well dance.
God is in the sadness and the laughter,
in the bitter and the sweet.
There is a divine purpose behind everything
and therefore a divine presence in everything.



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