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High-tech kitchen app: Just how fresh is that coffee?

Screen shot 2014-06-13 at 1.33.56 PMKitchen manager Myles Louis Dakan created this fancy when-the-coffee-was-brewed app based on a suggestion from a friend who’d seen something like it on Pinterest. Useful in a house of 21 people, where the first pot is often brewed before 6 a.m. Just twist the top cup to indicate the time. No batteries required.

June 13, 2014 by Bill Mitchell | Image | Leave a comment

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Bill Mitchell

Bill Mitchell

Bill lived with Carol and about 20 other people at Beacon Hill Friends House in Boston from June 2013 until August 2015. After six years living acrossthehall.org from from daughter Kate and her family, we all moved in July 2021 to a two-family in West Roxbury, where I work remotely as the CEO and Publisher of the National Catholic Reporter (ncronline.org).

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Carol Mitchell

Carol Mitchell

Carol lived at Beacon Hill Friends House, an intentional community in Boston, from June 2013 to August 2015. She now lives in Brookline, MA, across the hall from her favorite teachers, two-year-old Leila and six-month-old Mateo. A former clinical psychologist, she now works as a retreat leader, spiritual guide and consultant.

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