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In the early seventeenth century, several European countries began to implement the longest, and most sustained, forced migration in history: the slave trade. In colonial America, Spanish and Portuguese explorers had arrived expecting to discover gold, only to instead find tobacco which became a booming market. Poor Europeans who signed up as indentured servants were established as the main source of labour, but they could not satisfy the demand for tobacco with their temporary contracts. In need for a workforce, the colonists set their sights on the coasts of Africa. While it is argued that some slaves may have arrived before the discovery of Jamestown, the first recorded arrival of slaves to the Americas came in 161; thereafter the slave trade rapidly expanded. As African men, women and children were being taken from their homes, they forcibly became part of a growing workforce which would strengthen colonial America's economy. While the self-sustaining slave population grew, the market for slaves developed exponentially with the success of the tobacco harvest and the introduction of slave fortresses.
It has been argued that racism did not exist in the early stages of slavery and that the introduction of discriminatory laws to subjugate slaves developed ideas of white superiority. Lines between the colonists and the enslaved were drawn by the creation of acts which purposely held the slaves to their conditions permanently, making escape extremely difficult. It was decreed that the children of enslaved women would automatically become slaves and that baptised slaves could no longer use their Christianisation to secure freedom. These laws allowed the colonists to successfully continue the slave trade throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries and push the enslaved to the bottom of society using mental and physical abuse. As slavery developed into an economic institution, small resistances were carried out by the enslaved, which ranged from breaking tools to organising large rebellions. Most attempts were quashed, however, and resulted in the prosecution or execution of those involved.
By the early nineteenth century, slavery had been abandoned in the American north while enduring in the South due to the thriving market for cotton. Since the cotton gin's invention, cotton production multiplied fifty times over and prompted the mass migration of slaves from the north to the south to propagate the trade. This further entrenched the white ideals of slavery south of the Mason-Dixon line; to be a slave in nineteenth-century American South was to know that you were a commodity. Along with the diminishing of the slave population in the northern states came the cause for abolition, which was mainly circulated by free blacks and white sympathisers alike. Although slaves had been escaping since slavery began, systems such as the Underground Railroad were implemented across the American South to methodically free slaves and get them to the north and into Canada as quickly as possible. While the cause took on speed and became a national outcry, seven slave-holding states suddenly announced their decision to secede from America in February 1861; the American Civil War thus broke out two months later. The conflict was the deadliest in American history, with a horrifically high death-toll on both sides.
The main reason for the outbreak of this war was the Unionists' desire to end slavery in all American states. Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, which granted freedom to all slaves, though not to those still trapped in the American South during the war. Once the Confederacy had collapsed in 1865, all slaves were immediately declared free and a period of reconstruction began to rebuild southern states and to enact hugely significant changes to the American Constitution. The thirteenth, fourteenth and fifteenth Constitutional Amendments abolished all forms of slavery, gave African-Americans the right to vote and granted them American citizenship; this was the first time in which black people were recognised as equal to white people by American law.
Prior to the Civil Rights Movement in the late twentieth century, all black Americans were given access to education through the formation of black schools and colleges across the nation. Black intellectualism began to spread through the circulation of newspapers and literature which solidified the collective African-American identity by propagating the need to keep fighting for equality. The momentous abolition of slavery thus gave all black Americans a platform for their voices to be heard, which would grow stronger in the years leading up to the Civil Rights Movement and beyond.


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This is one of the best looking and functional Web sites I've seen in a while.
Official Information
From the services page, there is a separate post office page with a picture of the post office in question. It's in Terminal F, on the first floor in the main hall pre-security.
Clicking on the link at the right-hand side of the page takes you to a terminal map which identifies the post office. It is located next to an elevator and stairs, by the following shops: Beeline, Hleb & Sol, and a Minimarket.
Last updated 24 December 2018


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The Care and
Feeding of Spacemen
To support human life in a space vehicle, we must provide the type of biological cycle prevalent on earth. Here's one way we may be able to do it.
by James A. Lockhart
A Portfolio
of Faculty Portraits...VI
by Harvey
Building from
the Ground Down
Thanks to the science of soil machines, what happens from the ground down is no longer a complete mystery.
by Ronald Scott
Campus News:
The Month at Caltech
Student Life
Making the Big Spring Scene.
by Martin Carnoy, '60
Alumni News


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USFS assessing possibility of moving facility
By Ann McCreary
Alarmed by the possibility that the historic North Cascades Smokejumper Base (NCSB) could be shut down in the future, local elected officials and economic leaders are mustering forces to keep the base open.
The U.S. Forest Service, which owns and operates the smokejumper base at the Methow Valley State Airport, is assessing the condition of facilities at the 77-year-old base to determine whether it would make sense to close the base and move smokejumper operations to Wenatchee or Yakima.
The analysis of NCSB should be completed this spring, according to Thomas Tidwell, chief of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the Forest Service.
"The Forest Service plans to continue smokejumper operations at NCSB in 2017 and into the foreseeable future. There has been no decision to relocate the NCSB facility," Tidwell said in a letter sent earlier this month to Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Sunnyside.
Local officials are unhappy that they haven't been included in the assessment process that got underway last year, and will determine whether the smokejumper base stays in the Methow Valley.
Several local officials met last Thursday (Feb. 9) in a strategy session that included Mayors Soo Ing-Moody of Twisp and Anne Acheson of Winthrop, Okanogan County Commissioners Jim DeTro and Andy Hover, and Sandy Moody and David Gottula, presidents of the Twisp and Winthrop chambers of commerce.
Hannah McIntosh, healthy economy program manager at TwispWorks, facilitated the meeting at TwispWorks and offered to support local officials in advocating for keeping the base in the Methow Valley.
"How is it that they are in the scoping process and we didn't know about it?" asked Hover.
"We invoke coordination on other issues. They went behind our backs," DeTro said.
The Forest Service's regional headquarters in Portland is leading the assessment, which is being conducted by a multidisciplinary team of fire and aviation staff, according to the letter from Tidwell.
The assessment is called a "preliminary project analysis (PPA)." That analysis is required whenever the Forest Service is considering a substantial change in its facilities.
"We believe good communication is essential and we're continuing to work with folks to share information at this very early stage of the facility management process," said Holly Krake, public affairs officer for the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest.
"However … there is not a formal comment or objection process with a PPA," she said. The process, she added, "requires that all viable alternatives be evaluated."
Obstacle-free zone
One of the key concerns about the base is the location of three buildings next to the airport runway within a designated "obstacle-free zone," which violates Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) standards. The structures include a parachute loft, where parachutes are sewed and stored, an administration building and a saw maintenance building.
The Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT), which oversees the airport, could require — but hasn't yet — that those buildings be relocated to comply with FAA requirements.
"The most recent FAA-approved Airport Layout Plan for the Methow Valley State Airport, recommends removal of (the) three agency buildings," said Krake.
"Washington State DOT could ask the agency (Forest Service) to remove these buildings as runway obstructions within the obstacle-free zone, but has not yet made this request," she said.
In his letter to Newhouse, Tidwell said the evaluation of NCSB will determine "the nature and extent of improvements needed to bring current NCSB facilities into compliance with Federal Aviation Administration requirements … We will use this opportunity to also assess facility conditions, associated maintenance needs, and opportunities to improve fire management effectiveness."
The assessment team is evaluating whether to maintain the smokejumper base at its current location, or whether it would be better to move operations to Pangborn Airport in Wenatchee or Macalister Field in Yakima, Tidwell said.
Preparing for a fight
Local officials made it clear last week that they don't intend to let the base be moved out of the Methow Valley without a fight.
"They are using the obstruction-free zone at the airport as an excuse. Neither the FAA or WSDOT have requested that (the smokejumper base buildings be moved)," said DeTro.
"They would have to do that at every airport in the state," DeTro added. "There are buildings and obstructions at every single airport in Washington State."
Closing the base would have significant impacts on the Methow Valley and Okanogan County, local officials said.
"We're already a distressed county," Hover said.
Twisp Mayor Ing-Moody said the smokejumper base plays an important role in the economy of the Methow Valley.
"To move this base to Yakima or Wenatchee, the significance to us is immeasurable. But they won't even notice the impact either positive or negative," Ing-Moody said.
The base has a crew of about 30 smokejumpers in summer, according to Forest Service officials.
It employs about a dozen permanent employees, who have homes and families in the Methow Valley, said Bill Moody of Twisp, who was a smokejumper for 33 years at NCSB and was the base manager from 1972-1989.
Moody prepared a list of potential impacts associated with relocating the base, which he said has an operating budget of about $800,000 per year.
The base is known as the "birthplace of smokejumping" because the first experimental jumps were conducted there in 1939. It has historical and cultural significance for the valley, said Moody, who wrote a history about NCSB called "Spittin' in the Wind."
"NCSB gives base tours to approximately 3,000-plus visitors annually. This is a major positive public relations impact," Moody said. It is included as a tourist destination on the North Cascade scenic loop route, he said.
"It has historical value, it has emotional value," said DeTro, a former smokejumper. "I spent six years of my life there. It's how I got through college."
Local officials want to keep the rapid initial attack capability provided by NSCB, particularly after devastating wildfires swept through Okanogan, Chelan and Ferry counties in 2014 and 2015.
"After two years of wildfires, we need those resources," Ing-Moody said.
Officials also cited the value of having the base located near steep mountain terrain that smokejumpers use for training.
"If they have to travel to do training, it doesn't make sense," Ing-Moody said.
The current location also allows fast delivery of smokejumpers to other parts of the state, DeTro said.
"From here we can have chutes in the air and boots on the ground anywhere in Washington in one hour," DeTro said.
Officials were also concerned that if the smokejumper base were relocated, the state might be less inclined to maintain the state-owned airport.
"There is a reason for WSDOT to keep the tarmac up — because the base is there," Hover said.
Costly renovations
Each year the Forest Service reviews conditions at one or two smokejumper bases around the nation, and NCSB was one of the bases reviewed last year, said Mike Williams, Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest supervisor, in a recent interview.
Problems at NCSB were outlined in an October 2016 memorandum from the Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest. In addition to the buildings in the obstacle free zone, the Forest Service said other buildings at the base are deteriorating and need renovation.
The main bunkhouse was built in 1950 and has had "no substantial improvements since. It does not currently meet basic health and safety standards," the memo said.
A study conducted in 2015 by Design West Architects of Pullman put the cost of demolishing and rebuilding the three structures in the obstacle-free zone at $3.5-$3.7 million.
Facilities engineers estimate it would cost $10 million to address all the deficiencies at the base, including moving the structures by the runway and renovating other buildings, according to the Forest Service memo.
Moving the base to either Yakima or Wenatchee would require a lease with those airports, estimated to cost about $400,000 per year for a 10-15 year lease, the memo said.
In their meeting last week, local officials questioned how the cost of leasing property would compare with rehabilitating the existing smokejumper base buildings, which are located on 19 acres of Forest Service property adjacent to the airport.
"The Forest Service owns what's underneath the buildings of the smokejumper base. They would have to rebuild those buildings wherever they go," said DeTro. Among the buildings is a tower with a cable system used for smokejumper training, he said.
The analysis of the existing base and potential new locations would consider criteria including fire occurrences and response times, socioeconomic factors, impacts to employees, implementation time, and cost, according to the Forest Service memo.
Krake said no decisions have been made by the Forest Service beyond the commitment to complete the analysis of the smokejumper base.
"The Forest Service will continue operations at the North Cascades Smokejumper Base in 2017 and is committed to continuing to provide aerially delivered firefighters in North Central Washington and throughout the United States," she said.


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a film by DTJ
About the Lord's Resistance Army
The LRA has led a campaign of terror for over 25 years throughout four countries in central Africa. Tens of thousands of children have been abducted and forced to fight for the notorious rebel leader Joseph Kony, wanted by the International Criminal Court for crimes against humanity. Once abducted, indoctrinated and taught to kill, young LRA soldiers become trapped in a convoluted world filled with witchcraft, superstition and fear. With no stated political agenda and no public face, the LRA survives by pillaging Zande communities and then disappearing into the dense bush, moving across enormous geographical areas to evade capture. When abducted Zande children escape and return home they face stigma, trauma and a myriad of challenges. DTJ research revealed that communities wanted to be equipped to welcome these children home. This film is a response to their request.
About the film
"Kadu" was shot in Dungu, northeastern Democratic Republic of Congo in Zande, the local language. The film was shot exclusively with first-time actors affected by the war during a short 6-day production schedule. This film is the result of a long-term collaboration with those living in the middle of war, and created for those living in war. We had a diverse production team of Congolese and Americans, running the shoot in four languages. Special thanks to SAIPED for their collaboration to make this film possible and especially all of the actors, their families and the community of Dungu for their collaboration and partnership. Their commitment to using their personal experience to change their own communities is the driving force behind this story.
Executive Producer: DTJ
Director: Ricky Norris, Producer: Lindsay Branham, Cinematography: Ricky Norris, Editor: Ricky Norris, Written by: Lindsay Branham, Story by: Lindsay Branham, Ernest Sugule


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Theory of a Deadman and Alter Bridge to co-headline the Carnival of Madness Tour 2011
Let the madness begin! After its wildly successful inaugural run, the highly anticipated Carnival of Madness Tour returns this summer! Joining the Carnival will be Theory of a Deadman, Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, Adelitas Way and Emphatic.
Fueled by Monster Energy Drink, the Carnival of Madness Tour will tear through North America for 25+ dates set to launch August 13 in Twin Lakes, WI.
VIP ticket pre-sales for the first 15 events will be available for those belonging to Theory of a Deadman's Deadfan Club beginning Tuesday, May 31, followed by those signed up for the Carnival of Madness mailing list at www.carnivalofmadness.com, beginning Wednesday, June 1. VIP bundles with exclusive merchandise, content, and an enhanced Carnival experience will be available for purchase through Artist Arena.
The public on-sale for the first round of shows will be Friday, June 3. All of the ticket on-sale info can be found at www.carnivalofmadness.com. The "Carnival" ticket price acknowledges the current state of the economy offering an "affordable" ticket that will be in the $25 – $35 range.
Bill McGathy, the owner of the Carnival of Madness brand proclaims, "After the incredible energy generated in the inaugural event last year, the 2011 edition combines a fantastic Rock package with a ticket price that is actually affordable in these economically challenged times".
"Theory of a Deadman is totally stoked to be doing the Carnival of Madness Tour this year," says singer/guitarist Tyler Connolly. "It's great to be joined by Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, Adelitas Way and newcomers Emphatic – who all have songs rocking at radio and awesome live shows. It's gonna be a fuckin' great show from beginning to end and definitely something you don't wanna miss! See you there!!!"
Continues Alter Bridge singer/guitarist Myles Kennedy: "Alter Bridge is pleased to be taking part of the Carnival of Madness Tour later this summer with Theory Of A Deadman, Black Stone Cherry, Adelitas Way and Emphatic. It will be great to be back in the U.S. playing on our home turf with these bands. If you dig straight up, no frills Rock…then this tour is for you. Hope to see everyone there!"
One of Vancouver's greatest exports, Theory of a Deadman, is returning to give rock music a much needed reality check with their fourth studio release, The Truth Is… The album is slated for release on July 12 via Roadrunner/604 Records and the first single, "Lowlife," is already storming its way up the rock charts. The Truth Is…, the follow up to the band's previous Platinum-selling Scars And Souvenirs, was produced by Howard Benson (My Chemical Romance, 3 Doors Down). The band recently wrapped playing the inaugural Avalanche tour alongside Stone Sour, Skillet, Halestorm and Art of Dying, and will be playing select festivals before heading out on the Carnival of Madness Tour. Theory of a Deadman is Tyler Connolly (vocals, guitar), David Brenner (guitar), Dean Back (bass) and Joey Dandeneau (drums).
Alter Bridge has been making their mark on the rock world for years through their three studio releases and non-stop touring. The band is currently haunting the Top 20 of the Rock charts with their latest single, "Ghost of Days Gone By." The single, the follow-up their #1 rock smash "Isolation," is from their Alter Bridge Recordings via EMI Label Services release ABIII, which debuted at #17 on Billboard's "Top 200 Albums" chart when it was released last November. In preparation for the Carnival of Madness Tour, the band just wrapped up a successful headline run with Black Stone Cherry and Like a Storm. Alter Bridge has also made successful national TV appearances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Jimmy Kimmel Live in support of ABIII. Alter Bridge is Myles Kennedy (vocals, guitar), Mark Tremonti (guitar, vocals), Brian Marshall (bass) and Scott Phillips (drums).
Kentucky's Black Stone Cherry–vocalist Chris Robertson, guitarist Ben Wells, bassist Jon Lawhon and drummer John Fred Young–is a band adept at creating both timeless rock 'n roll and new, innovative sounds. The band have recently released their third album for Roadrunner Records, Between The Devil & The Deep Blue Sea, which is the summation of a year in the life of the band—every emotion, triumph, loss, romance and everything in between—it's all here on this album. The first single, "White Trash Millionaire," is currently approaching sitting at #15 on the Active Rock charts and climbing.
Las Vegas-based rockers Adelitas Way will release their sophomore album, Home School Valedictorian, June 7 on Virgin Records. The album, produced by Dave Bassett (Shinedown), showcases the band's lyrical and musical growth. The band has spent the past couple of years on the road and is excited to be part of this year's Carnival.
Hard rock band Emphatic will release Damage, their Atlantic Records debut, on July 12. Led by vocalist Patrick Wilson and lead guitarist Justin McCain, Emphatic has spent years honing their edge on the road, headlining clubs and theaters along with supporting such like-minded artists as Stone Temple Pilots, Buckcherry, and Papa Roach. Damage, produced by Howard Benson (Daughtry, My Chemical Romance, Flyleaf), features the song "Bounce," which is currently climbing the Active Rock charts.
The Carnival of Madness Tour made its inaugural launch in 2010 with Shinedown, Sevendust, Chevelle, Puddle Of Mudd and 10 Years, which proved to be one of the biggest Rock shows of the summer as a Top 50 tour.
For up-to-the minute news and information, please visit www.carnivalofmadness.com.
Carnival Of Madness 2011 Tour Dates
Saturday, August 13 – Twin Lakes, IL Shadow Hill Ranch
Friday, August 19 – Council Bluffs, IA Harrah's Casino
Saturday, August 20 -Sedalia, MO Missouri State Fairgrounds
Friday, August 26 -Louisville, KY KY State Fair/Cardinal Stadium
Saturday, August 27 – Waterloo, IA McElroy Auditorium (outdoors)
Sunday, August 28 -St. Paul, MN Minnesota State Fair
Thursday, September 1 -Allentown, PA The Great Allentown Fair
Saturday, September 3 -Hampton Beach, NH Hampton Beach Casino
Wednesday, September 7- Baltimore, MD Pier Six Concert Pavilion
Saturday, September 10 -Atlantic City, NJ House of Blues
Sunday, September 11 -Huntington, WV Harris Riverfront Park
Tuesday, September 13 -Charlotte, NC Time Warner Cable Uptown Amp.
Wednesday, September 14 – Fayetteville, NC Crown Coliseum
Friday, September 16 – Tulsa, OK Osage Million Dollar Elm Casino
Saturday, September 17 -Poplar Bluff, MO Black River Coliseum
Note: More dates will be announced in the coming weeks.


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The White House announced its plan to pursue research and development efforts in order to mine big data at the end of March.
Six agencies said they planned to invest in R&D initiatives, including the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the U.S. Geological Survey, the White House"™s Office and Science and Technology Policy, the Defense Department and the Energy Department.
While the Pentagon said it planned to invest in big data efforts to apply to autonomous systems, the Energy Department is planning to develop big data sifting tools to make scientific research easier.
DOE's Argonne National Laboratory recently announced it received part of a $25 million grant from the Energy Office of Science in order to pursue data extracting methods.
Researchers in Argonne"™s mathematics and computing science division will receive $3.4 million over five years to research computing methods to make the tsunami of data related to scientific research more manageable.
Robert Ross, Argonne computer scientist and deputy director of DOE's Scalable Data Management, Analysis, and Visualization Institute, said his newly created SDAV team will develop data sifting tools and software.
Ross said his team wants to give scientists the tools to use their time for the department's scientific discovery and investigation.
The institute will focus on developing methods to manage, analyze and visualize multi-scale data sets.
Argonne said the big data research team will collaborate with the National Energy Research Scientific Computing Center and the Oak Ridge Leadership Computing Facility at Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
SDAV will tap those three supercomputing facilities, industry, agencies and universities for aid and also hold educational sessions for other researchers, according to the announcement.


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Day Thirty-Three: Tuesday, December 17, 2019
Kohen left home the previous Tuesday morning for what was supposed to be three or four days of chemo. After fracturing his femur, he did not return home until tonight, one full week later. He left on crutches and in good spirits, he returned home in a brace, in a wheelchair, and in pain.
Day Thirty-Seven: Saturday, December 21, 2019
Kohen went to sleep early today, around 4:30 PM. Later in the evening Courtney checked his temperature: he was running a fever. As you may or may not know, during chemotherapy a fever is a bad thing. It is a signal that Kohen's body is dealing with an illness or sickness that he's no longer equipped to battle with due to his white blood cells being decimated by the poisons of chemo.
All night long Courtney stayed in contact with the doctor as she monitored Kohen every hour, taking his vitals and checking his fever. We were on the other side of 2 AM before we finally went to sleep.
Day Thirty-Eight: Sunday, December 22, 2019
This morning Kohen's fever still persisted and he was on his 16th hour of sleep (he never sleeps that long). It was decided that Kohen needed to get to the hospital.
We were supposed to have the family together for two weeks between the first and second chemo treatments. However, after breaking his leg, those two weeks got trimmed down. And now, with his return to the hospital for a fever, that time is even shorter.
Kohen was admitted to ICU and will remain in the hospital for two days, unless more complications arise.
Day Thirty-Nine: Monday, December 23, 2019
The report from Courtney at the hospital is that Kohen is doing better today. His fever is down and he has a good appetite.
Day Forty: Tuesday, December 24, 2019
Kohen returned from the hospital this afternoon.
Day Forty-One: Wednesday, December 25, 2019
Kohen's aunt and uncle prepared a full banquet of food for us, and had it delivered so we could enjoy a great meal.
The kids were also blessed with gifts from family, friends, and strangers, all of whom provided encouragement and support for the battle Kohen is enduring and the stress his siblings are living with during this trying time.
One of the gifts our children received was survival kits. Each kit contained a Leatherman-type tool, a combined knife-spoon-fork utensil, a fire starter, a knife, and other items you'd expect to find in a survival kit.
It wasn't long before Kohen was trying to open a package with that knife when he cut his finger. Fortunately, it wasn't too bad and after a little mending, he was back to enjoying the day.
However, not even twenty minutes later, Phoebe started crying as blood began running from her hand. She too, had done the exact same thing as Kohen, but her cut was far worse than his.
I now expected to be spending Christmas at the ER while Phoebe got sutures for her cut, but Courtney was able to get it taped up well enough to close the wound. She then wrapped up Phoebe's finger to better secure it.
Before long Phoebe was back to playing as if nothing happened.
Day Forty-Seven: Tuesday, December 31, 2019
Kohen and mommy left for Reno before sunrise this morning.
Today began the second round of chemotherapy. It's expected they will be gone for five days for treatment, then they will be home for only two days before they go back for another five days. January will already be depressing enough, but not having my wife and son around will only exacerbate that depression.
Day Forty-Eight: Wednesday, January 01, 2020
After eleven and a half months of a good year, 2019 ended on a horrible note. We expect most of 2020 to be miserable as well as we face more chemo and major amputation surgery of Kohen's leg. I am hopeful, however, that a year from now I can sit here and pen a New Year's Eve 2020 post with much better news and much better hope heading into 2021.
Happy New Year, everyone.
(Oh, and for those wondering, Phoebe's finger is doing much better today. She's nearly all healed up.)


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How to Tell If Your Child Has a Learning Disability
Sometimes learning disabilities in children is not so obvious. We have to also remember that even the brightest children sometimes have some learning difficulties. So if it's not obvious, here's some of the things to look for if you suspect your child might have some struggle with aspects of learning.
First of all, sometimes children can read, but they have trouble with decoding. Sometimes your child reads beautifully, but they have difficulty with comprehension and understanding the main idea or concepts that they're reading. Or, we can consider math, where a child who can solve even the most complex math problems, but they work very slowly, and sometimes they may miscalculate or make careless errors.
There are other types of learning disabilities other than reading and math. For instance, disorders of written expression. Sometimes children have a disconnect between their ability to share their creative ideas verbally and get them down on paper. If you see any discrepancies in your child's potential and their performance and some subtle difficulties in the areas of reading, math or writing, please contact your teacher. And sit down and have a meeting and openly discuss your concerns.
If it is determined that there are some discrepancies in your child's performance and their potential, contact your child's school psychologist or guidance counselor, and let them guide you through the necessary steps to have your child evaluated or tested. It's only through the proper evaluation and thorough and comprehension assessment of your child's abilities can we determine if your child has a learning disability.
These are just a few of the steps to take to determine if your child has a learning disability.


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It's not typical for a restaurant to be reviewed based on its takeout offerings, but this year is anything but typical.
Top Rated Takeout
Here are four notable takeout choices for a Michelin-inspired dinner at home:
When Chef Eric Tran opened what could rightly be called Falansai 2.0 in November — replacing the original Vietnamese-American restaurant Falansai -- he didn't know that takeout would be his lifeline. In fact, he was surprised to see a review of his takeout items, a critique of a type that hadn't been done before. With no mention of décor and service, the unusual review went beyond descriptions of food, composition and menus to discuss Falansai's smart packaging system, the compostable cartons that were clearly marked with their contents and usage suggestions.
This care and effort has garnered quick popularity for the Falansai "reboot," building awareness of the Bushwick restaurant and using takeout as a teaser for the full-on restaurant opening this spring. Tran's elevated Vietnamese is a skillful blend of flavors, ingredients and preparation. Chef Tran practices whole animal butchery, serving nose-to-tail dishes like "blazed and glazed" pork shoulder and confit duck necks. Two of the popular small plates, Dad's egg rolls and broken rice, pay homage to recipes from Tran's father from Saigon. Well-priced wine, Vietnamese beer or Mexican cider can be added to all takeout.
Pecking House
Fried chicken from a star chef isn't something you usually think of when it comes to takeout. Popeye's and KFC probably come to mind first. But Eric Huang, former sous-chef at Eleven Madison Park, will change any notion you've had about fried chicken only coming in a bucket with paper napkins and salt and pepper packs. The chili fried chicken from his ghost kitchen Pecking House is fine dining, done casual.
There's a level of online mastery required to partake of Huang's mastery of the bird. You need to know the secret code to place an order but that only comes once you've cleared the waiting list, currently up to eight weeks. Once you succeed, you're blessed with a three-piece fried chicken dinner with three seasonally changing sides like dirty rice, crushed new potatoes with green garlic or butter bean salad with cilantro and sesame. The Tianjin-Szechuan-spiced chicken is crispy on the outside, tender on the inside and definitely finger-licking' worthy. It also packs some serious heat, especially if you dip it into Huang's Fresno chili hot sauce. The secret to the crispy texture? A three-step process of brining, coating and frying and a bit of star-chef magic called EverCrisp. Be sure to order some Tsingtao lager – you'll thank me.
If you can manage to get an order, for either takeout or delivery, you will have joined the ranks of an elite group of foodie insiders. Huang's Queens kitchen has proven so popular that he's now searching for permanent space for a restaurant.
Designed to be an informal Chinese restaurant with counter seating, Milu is the brainchild of a trio of colleagues who had worked in various capacities at Eleven Madison Park, NoMad and Opposite House in Beijing. Opened at a time when indoor dining was verboten, Milu never lost a beat and immediately began takeout service. No retrenching was required – they were ready from the start.
In much the same way that Pecking House has turned takeout fried chicken on its head, Milu will break any preconceptions you might have about takeout Chinese. The Flatiron restaurant offers a culinary tour of China with regionally influenced rice bowls topped with the likes of Mandarin duck, Sichuan spiced cauliflower and Yunnan brisket. Vegetable-forward options include tofu seaweed salad and charred broccoli with cilantro and yuzu. And, if you haven't had the egg tart soft-serve, you truly haven't lived. If you prefer, family-style set meals incorporating a range of dishes are also available along with milk tea, sake and beer.
EMP at Home
Eleven Madison Park, named the "World's Best Restaurant" in 2017, has an enviable legacy with a summer pop-up in the Hamptons in addition to the hard-to-book Manhattan restaurant. So a jump from pop-up to takeout wasn't as unlikely as it might seem for a restaurant of this caliber. Eleven Madison Park's EMP at Home model satisfies the gap left when both locations closed their doors, offering complete-meal options that enrich our home dining and make our dining table look that much smarter. Plus, it's much easier to get a reservation.
Chef Daniel Humm's meal sets require minimal reheating and include a main and dessert, accompanied by a range of sides. Up to four diners can enjoy the set with four choices available: EMP's acclaimed black truffle & foie gras-stuffed roasted chicken, marrow-crusted beef tenderloin, and for non-meat eaters, Montauk fluke en papillote or roasted whole cauliflower. Sides reflect the season. For spring, you'll find snow peas with pecorino and pancetta, and spring garlic custard with peas, asparagus, favas and leeks. The double dessert is a strawberry tart and a jar of EMP granola for the next-morning breakfast. You can add wine to your meal or large-format cocktails including two EMP favorites, English milk punch and the sherry-vermouth-bitters Bamboo.
Much care has been put into the EMP at Home recipe design, preparation and packaging, From the bag to the personal letter that's included, this is probably as close as you'd get to having a three-Michelin star experience at home without needing a personal chef. An extra kudo to Chef Humm and his team: EMP is a strong proponent of giving back, and with the purchase of any dinner, they provide 10 meals to food-insecure New Yorkers through a partnership with Rethink Food.


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On this page are various blogs and videos that administrators and trustees of faith-based schools have found useful. These can be viewed for free and used as needed by your school. We welcome your feedback and suggestion on these documents or other tools you'd like to see.
Discernment for Boards – Introduction
Applying the principles of discernment developed by Ignatius of Loyola to the decision-making process of boards, and particularly those of faith-based schools
The Spirit of Discernment
The spirituality that underlies Ignatian Discernment and how boards and other groups can embrace that spirit in their decision-making.
The Habit of Discernment
Four habits that will strengthen decision-making in our personal and professional lives, as well as our work on the board.
The 6 Components of Discernment
Six components that must be present in one way or another in every group discernment.
The 4 Core Tools of Discernment
Four practices which the board can adopt to have an immediate impact on the depth of its discernment.


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After a year of watching your neighbors remodel their homes with state-of-the-art gyms and your coworkers mention their intense cycling course, it's your time to join the ride. Enter MYX II Plus, the new addition to your home that doesn't require knocking down a wall.
When MYX Fitness reached out with details on their new bike and upcoming BODi platform (Beachbody On Demand Interactive, a premium content platform that offers live, immersive connected fitness classes) I was instantly curious. Riding a bike indoors can feel pretty dreary sans the upbeat instructor, loud music, and pulsing lights. And if that sounds like a headache, finding a solo scenic experience didn't sound possible. Would it actually feel like I was in a class? Sure enough, testing out the beta app on my phone and through the MYX II Plus bike my questions, were answered!
To make your experience even more customizable, the bike includes Openfit, a unique digital fitness platform. If you're looking for interaction when you work out or peace and quiet, this bike and accompanying platforms deliver without you leaving your home. You can choose through live and on-demand heart rate-based workouts customized to your personal heart-rate zone or boutique-style training group classes. The positive coaching to keep you motivated and on track towards your goal setting is a special bonus.
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Retailing for $1,599, the bike is available in two colors, white or charcoal, with an option to go the Plus route. The upgrade makes your home look better! This feature includes a sleek (sweatproof) swivel touchscreen tablet, yoga mat, stabilizing mat, a large exercise mat, EVA Foam roller, a heart rate monitor, resistance band, 20W speakers, and a beautiful powder blue six-piece weight set. For $29 per month, one membership makes room for five profiles. What's even better? (Unlike with some competitors) You don't need cycling shoes! Quickly maneuver off the bike for a short HIIT workout giving your roommates or family members time to take the bike for a spin.
My favorite feature about the MYX Bike Plus, besides its sleek design, is that it meets you where you are. As someone who likes to jog to start my morning routine, I find on my busiest days I don't have the time to head do so. Heading to my designated workout area gives me the opportunity to focus on the journey ahead and answer a few emails while sings out of the speakers.
Whether you're a pedaling beginner or skilled spin-class extraordinaire, here's a true home gym that you won't regret making room for. The MYX Plus has everything you need and then some.
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Let us remember what had caused the 13th May 1969 riot. Malay must not forget. The culprit behind it wants the Malays to forget so that they can do it all over again. E mail me any info about DAP, PAS and PKR at: firstname.lastname@example.com
Sunday, October 10, 2010
Learn the art of war to beat your enemies
In Sun Tzu's The Art of War, there is a topic on Know your enemy. Remember the saying, keep your friends close but your enemies closer.
We must know our enemy, do not trust them and learn about them the cheapskate way instead of giving our money away to them to know what they are thinking.
Boycott the Malaysiakini because they generate their income from their subscribers, don't buy the books written to applaud the opposition for example the book "The march to Putrajaya" when you can get it for free by downloading it, reading it and analysing the crap by reading the pdf version for free instead of wasting your money when you can buy more important things with that hard earned money.
Read the march to Putrajaya crap here.
Another thought is don't click on that site because it's like I am promoting that book for free. Wait for me to download the pdf version and upload it here tomorrow. I promise I will do it.
The chapter "SODOMY NEVER TOOK PLACE" on page 185 is a real funny and hysterical piece. If sodomy never took place, I wonder why known homosexual clubs and individual from overseas are so excited to defend Anwar Ibrahim.
They say birds of a feather flock together. The latest was a gay festival in Indonesia which coincidentally Anwar went to Indonesia at the week of the event.
We should know there are no coincidences in this world. Wait for the next article for I will upload the pdf for the laughable book "The March to Putrajaya".
The march to Sungai Buloh prison is more likely to be the fate of a serial sodomiser who would dare to question "Siapa rogol siapa?"
If it were me who is being accused to be doing something that I did not do, I will fight nail and tooth to prove it instead of finding every excuse in the book to be let off the hook by postponing the sodomy case for two years now.
But maybe the rumours that Anwar can be forced to be a CIA agent because the CIA had a videotape of him sodomising away happily in the USA is true? What do you think?
The Malay saying said "Kalau tak ada api, masakan ada asap". And the smoke coming out from the Saiful Bukhari Azlan as a victim of a forced sodomy by Anwar Ibrahim is too much to be ignored.
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5. Cometh - Speedily and in due season.
7. Mountain - My kingdom: kingdoms are usually called mountains in prophetical writings.
9. Profit - What wilt thou gain by it? The dust - Shall they that are dead celebrate thy goodness in the land of the living? Or, shall my dust praise thee?
11. Sackcloth - Given me occasion to put off that sackcloth, which they used to wear in times of mourning, Esth iv, 1 chap. xxxv, 13 Isaiah xxxii, 11 Joel i, 13. Girded - With joy, as with a garment, surrounding me on every side.
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Liverpool hopes of signing FC Schalke 04 defender increase after Gelsenkirchen club bring in likely replacement.
FC Schalke 04 have signed Borussia Dortmund central defender Felipe Santana on a three year contract after triggering the release clause in the 27 year-old's contract.
"We are delighted that Santana has chosen Schalke 04. He excels with his aggressive one-on-one play and reliability, he can also score goals. Moreover he has been in the Bundesliga for five years," Schalke general manager Horst Heldt told ESPN.
Santana's move will heighten press speculation that Liverpool are set to sign Schalke centre back Kyriakos Papadopoulos this summer, with Daily Mirror journalist John Cross telling Life's A Pitch that "there's a real chance of [the deal] happening."
Papadoupolos is just 21 years of age, and has enormous potential.
He has performed admirably in both Bundesliga and UEFA Champions League fixtures, and was the youngest ever player to appear in the Greek Superleague, having made his Olympiacos debut whilst just 15 years of age.
Liverpool manager Brendan Rodgers has some recruitment to do at centre back, with Reds legend Jamie Carragher retiring for a career in punditry, Martin Skrtel out of favour and contemplating a transfer, and Sebastian Coates also potentially exiting after failing to break into the first team at Anfield.
That leaves Liverpool with just a single senior centre back in Daniel Agger, though the club have been strongly linked with the signings of Papadopoulos, Manchester City defender Kolo Toure and Ashley Williams of Swansea City.


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Merge Games has announced that they have teamed up with Team Crimson to bring Crimson Keep to the Nintendo Switch. The First-Person rogue-like action RPG is set to launch next week on November 29th, 2018. It will priced at £14.99 / €19.99. An introductory 20% discount is also available between November 22nd and December 6th. If you would like to know more about this procedually generated dungeon crawler, you can find the official Press Release below along with a trailer.
Descend into the depths of Crimson Keep, a rogue-like, first-person, action RPG.
Thursday November 22nd, 2018, Manchester, UK – Merge Games together with developers, Team Crimson, is proud to announce the imminent release of Crimson Keep, a rogue-like, first-person, action RPG. The game is set to launch on Nintendo Switch on Thursday November 29, 2018.
Thirty years ago, a curse destroyed the entire village of Larkstead. Banished to the dungeons below, your only hope is to explore, scavenge, and fight for survival. Will you find the mysterious Crimson Keep? Will you escape this terrible place? Or will you be food for the innumerable beasts and horrors that lurk in the depths below?
Crimson Keep's a game about exploration, combat and survival. The team have combined RPG progression, rogue-like gameplay and first-person action to make something very rewarding and fun. Descend into an ever-changing labyrinth full of monsters, traps, and treasure. Locate the sunken remains of an ancient castle and cleanse it. The great power you find within could be your only hope of escape. Every drop of XP, every piece of loot, and every bit of damage you take could determine whether you survive, or succumb to The Keep's dark power. You will die… often.
Crimson keep features procedurally generated dungeon layouts meaning enemies never appear in the same spot and objects such as traps and shrines move every time the player dies. Crimson Keep challenges players with perma-death, cursed items, hunger and deities. If you die you lose everything. On the plus side, if you manage to complete a zone, you'll begin from its start point when you respawn.
Crimson Keep is available to pre-order from the Nintendo eShop from November 22nd and is set for a Nintendo Switch release on Thursday November 29th, 2019. Crimson Keep will carry a price tag of £14.99 / €19.99. All purchases made between November 22 and December 6th will receive a 20% discount as part of an introductory offer.
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Strategic Intent is the leveraging of a firm's internal resources capabilities and core competencies to accomplish the firm's vision, mission and objectives in a competitive environment. It is all about winning competitive battles and gaining leadership position by putting organizational resources to best use. When established effectively a strategic intent can cause people to turn out excellent performance. Strategic intent is said to exist when all employees and levels of a firm are committed to the pursuit of a specific but significant performance target. The intent can take the form of a broad vision or mission statement or a focused route covering specific objectives and goals (Richards). In a way thus, strategic intent tries to establish the parameters that shape the values motives and actions of people throughout their organization.
The Hierarchy of strategic Intent:
We will discuss these parameters as a hierarchy of strategic intent. As illustrated in Figure the hierarchy of strategic intent includes the following elements (Miller).
1) a broad vision of what the organizations should be.
2) The organization's mission.
3) The strategies objectives and specific goals to be pursued relentlessly
4) The plans that are develop to accomplished the intentions of management in a concrete
5) The plans that are developed to accomplish the intentions of management in a concrete way.
The elements of the above hierarchy specify the pious intentions, Lofty ideals and clear cut ideas that serve to unify the energy and forces scattered throughout an organization. They are beginning points for any formal planning process, but they also provide the sense of direction necessary to assure that incremental behavior culminates in overall progress. Strategic intent is said to have been expressed effectively when people believe fervently in their product and industry and when they are focused totally on their firm's ability to outperform its competitions.
The world over, backwards and forwards in history, just one thing has fired the imaginations of the people a vision of future that promises to right today's wrongs, a graphic image of a time when injustice, impoverishment and imprisonment will have disappeared. Moses used the vision of land of milk and honey to motivate his people to set off for the Promised Land. India's freedom fighters used the vision of a country free of its colonial rulers to wrest independence (Sen). In the corporate context, vision refers to an inspirational picture of a future that can be created offering clarity amidst confusion hope against despair and unity of purpose amidst diversity of personal causes.
Basic elements of a vision statement
Vision is simply a combination of 3 basic elements.
1) An organization' fundamental reason for existence beyond just making money.
2) Its timeless unchanging core values. The core values define that enduring character of an organization that remains unchanged as it experiences changes in technology , competition management styles etc.
3) Huge and audacious but achievable aspirations for its future ( Big Hairy Audacious Goals or simply BHAGs)
Let's examine this more closely. Vision vividly is a descriptive image of what a company wants to be or wants to be known for in future. Of course the projected future is not something that can be reached in normal course, it requires a quantum leap.
Reachable achievable:
There is certain amount of controversy on this issue. Some Chief executives (CEOs) feel that vision should be abstract, inspirational and should be reachable. A difficult target will stretch people to the extreme and compel them to scale new heights every year. Others feel that there is no use chasing a pie in the sky. Vision must be clear and within a reasonable distance so that people do not get frustrated after repeated attempts result in failures.


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Today I am preparing a talk at "ComunicareFisica 2012", a conference which is taking place in Torino this week, and I took on the issue of powers and limits of the analogy in the explanation of fundamental physics. So I found it natural to revisit Mangano's analogy, and in so doing I realized that it could be significantly improved. Before I discuss the improvement, let me state in short what the naturalness problem is.
The mass of the Higgs boson is known today: 125 GeV. Even before we measured it, however, we knew it had to be in that ballpark - indirect proof was already around. From a theoretical standpoint, however, it is hard to understand why it is not orders and orders of magnitude larger. There are, in fact, quantum corrections to the Higgs boson mass that arise from diagrams involving loops of virtual particles. It is as if the Higgs "dresses up" by continuously emitting and reabsorbing virtual particles, and this occupation affects its mass.
Now, the magnitude of these corrections (there are a dozen of them, both positive and negative) must be enormous, if we allow the virtual particles in the quantum loops to have any value of momentum, up to the Planck mass scale (an energy scale of quadrillions of TeV). But their combined effect magically cancels to very high accuracy, leaving the Higgs mass at a "mere" 125 GeV. This fact has been taken to imply that there must exist a cut-off in the available range of momenta of the virtual particles in the quantum loops. The logical explanation of the physical origin of such a maximum value is the fact that at those very high energies some unknown new physics turns on.
Mangano thus cooked up the following analogy:
"Imagine to ask ten friends to give you each a irrational real number in the range ]-1,1[. You take the ten numbers and compute their sum, discovering that the result differs from zero only at the thirtifourth decimal place (0.00000....00001).
What do you conclude ? Are you willing to believe it a chance, or you take it as evidence that your friends conspired somehow for that result to come up ?"
If we examine this analogy we notice that it is not clear what is its deductive power. What is there in the target (the ten friends and the summing game) that is known, and which is unknown in the source (the quantum corrections) ? The tiny probability that the sum of large numbers gives a small result is not a concept requiring an analogy to be absorbed. The listener is certainly capable of considering the game of 10 numbers, but that system has nothing in common with quantum corrections to the Higgs mass which is easier to comprehend there. Moreover, taking a ]-1,1[ interval may be elegant, but gets us farther from the idea of the enormity of the cut-off at the Planck mass.
By virtue of having identified the shortcomings of Mangano's analogy, we can improve it by constructing a target which have as a parameter the dimension of the ten numbers: from the smallness of their sum we can then deduce the dimensions of the parameter, and the need of a small cut-off. Here is my bid, then:
"Imagine that Bob, a friend of yours, plays no-limits roulette, betting sums on red ten times. Each amount is determined at random, but all are smaller of a pre-determined maximum number M; Bob does not tell you what M is though.[If you need a precise stipulation: The ten amounts can be thought to be given by a call to the root function gRandom->Uniform(0,1): that is each of them is x_i = y_i*M, with y_i a random number chosen with a flat probability distribution between zero and one.]
After the ten bets Bob has one less dollar than he originally had in his pocket. What can we deduce on the maximum M ? May we believe it was M= a quadrillion dollars ? Of course not! We are led to believe that M was equal to just a few dollars."
This analogy is better than the original one because it allows us to understand more quickly how theoretical physicists deduce that there must exist a cut-off, new physics at an energy scale not so much higher than the mass of the Higgs boson itself. The focus of the analogy is here not so much in the paradox of large numbers canceling each other -which is easy to explain even just considering the source- but on the inference we can draw on the magnitude of M.


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This paper analyzes students' experience with Cogent, a virtual economy system used throughout the 4 years of a B.S. degree in a Technology major. The case study explains the rules of the Cogent system and investigates its effectiveness to motivate students to learn. Using focus groups and interviews, we collected qualitative data from students about their experience and perceptions of Cogent. The results indicate that Cogent played an encouraging and motivational role for these students and suggest potential for the successful design and implementation of meaningful gamification systems to promote student motivation and engagement within an educational context. (…)
Article first published in "iJET – International Journal of Emerging Technologies in Learning", V. 10 (2015), n. 1, as open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License 3.0 (//creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/at/deed.en)


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Bulgari is the official jewelry partner for the Tribeca Film festival that is currently running at New York until the 29th of the month. And to kick-start its exclusive three-year association with the coveted film festival, the brand is all set to premier two exclusive films, each inspired by 'Female Resilience'. The marquee has enlisted filmmakers Nina Meredith and Bella Monticelli to create the two films, both of which are now showing successfully at the Tribeca.
The first film called "Conducting a Revolution" is the story of a conductor and pianist Speranza Scappucci, as she returns to Rome to conduct the Bellini opera at the Teatro dell'Opera di Roma, while the second called "The Litas" shows three women from different walks of life, all part of a global network of female motorcyclists. As per Bulgari CEO Jean-Christophe Babin, "Bulgari is a brand that celebrates and caters to strong independent women who blaze their own paths. Therefore, it was only natural to highlight stories of extraordinary women doing exactly that. We wanted to tell stories that would not only deliver a strong and powerful message, but also resonate globally. Although these stories shine a light on Italian women, we hope these stories serve as inspiration for women everywhere to define their own paths and inspire others to do the same, sometimes going against the grain."
As remarked by Babin, both films extremely inspiring and are a perfect ode to what feminism is today's time should mean. They will be screened via privately, followed by a grand cocktail reception at the Tribeca festival.


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How to Deal with a Knocked-Out Tooth
A childhood visit from the tooth fairy is one thing, but having a permanent tooth knocked out is another, distinctly less enjoyable affair. Act fast and it could be a temporary one.
- Step 1: Find tooth Find your tooth—or piece of tooth—as quickly as possible.
- Step 2: Pick up by tip Pick it up by the tip only—not the roots.
- Step 3: Apply gauze Apply sterile gauze to the socket where the tooth was knocked out to staunch the bleeding.
- Step 4: Gently rinse tooth Gently rinse the tooth in a cup of water.
- TIP: Move fast—a dentist has the best chance of reimplanting a tooth within 30 minutes—but very gently. Don't try to wipe the tooth clean or hold it under running water.
- Step 5: Place tooth in socket Place the tooth back into its socket.
- TIP: Do this for adults only—children may swallow the tooth.
- Step 6: Place gauze pad Place a gauze pad or a moistened tea bag over the tooth, between the bottom and upper teeth, and very gently close your mouth to hold it in place.
- TIP: If you are unable to place the tooth back in the socket, submerge it in a cup of whole milk or your own saliva—not water—until you can get to the dentist. Transporting the tooth dry can cause permanent nerve damage to the tooth within a few minutes.
- Step 7: Seek emergency care Seek emergency care immediately. If you cannot get to a dentist right away, go to a hospital emergency room—and don't forget the tooth!
- FACT: No one's sure exactly how the tooth fairy myth started, but its modern version—a fairy that replaces a shed baby tooth under a pillow with money or candy—didn't show up until the early 1900s.
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An upgrade note on going from Migrate 6.x-2.0-beta2 to 6.x-2.0-beta3
I'm currently in the midst of setting up a migration from a pretty huge MS SQL database to Drupal, in D6. This migration not only involves Microsoft SQL Server, as I mentioned, but it also involves using mongodb, so we're basically touching three different databases here.
So, I've been using the 2.0 branch of Migrate for 6.x, because I was curious about seeing it again, and I know it worked quite well for Examiner. (Yes, they were doing Drupal 7, but it was still the same basic idea.) It's been going very well.
Today I updated to the 6.x-2.0-beta3 version of the code, and I had to make a couple small changes to my existing module. I'm reproducing them here, in hopes that it can prevent others from having trouble like I did.
Put the following code in your module file:
function migrate_example_migrate_api() {
$api = array(
'api' => 2,
return $api;
Yes, I copied that out of the migrate_example.module file from the migrate_example directory you get with the migrate module. You might as well do the same thing, only you'll naturally need to change the code name, as this is an implementation of hook_migrate_api().
Find all of the references to the Migrate class names and remove Migration from them.
In this case I'm talking about all the places where you pass the class name as a string to a function. Two places where you're likely to do this is with setting dependencies or softDependencies for a migration, or where you're specifying a source migration for a field mapping. Just search for all of your UserMigration or FooMigration and replace them with User or Foo.
You may need to fix migrate_status table
I found that when I went to admin/content/migrate, I would see errors that getInstance was throwing that it was being passed a boolean instead of an array. I tracked this down to the migrate_status table, which now has a class_name field and an arguments field. If your arguments field is empty, edit it to contain this string:
(which is a serialized empty array). The error will then be gone.


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Lisa Haydon's upcoming movie the Shaukeens is all set for release in this November 7. Have a look at Lisa Haydon in Movie the Shaukeens. Lisa Haydon is an Indian model and actress, best known for her work in the Bollywood comedy-drama film Queen. The movie will be a remake of the 1982 film Shaukeen. In movie the Shaukeens, lead hero is Akshay Kumar along with Lisa Haydon. So lets check more about her look in movie The Shaukeens.
Lisa is always known for skin show girl and her tanned color body compliments her look. Tan color beauty looks very sexy in minimum outfit. Lisa also has a great body to show after all Kingfisher winner girl na…. this proves that yes she deserved that. In this movie The Shaukeens she again showing her body maximum time. even You can observe on this movies poster where she flouting bikini bra with jeans shorts. Overall this poster says alot about her movie character. I am super excited to see her in this new movie.
Lisa Hydon has a great bouncy layered hair which looks amazing on her. In this movie we will see her open hair hairstyle only. what can I say for her outfit may be you notice that minimum clothes Lisa wearing as she is known for.
Makeup wise nothing new in her look like only bronze eyes, lots of coat of mascara with coral or nude lips and little blush with highlighter cheeks. Overall makeup look is normal but still looking amazing on her. I really like her minimal makeup look with glowing skin.
Overall I am happy with Lisa Hydon looks. She is really looking dam hot in this movie The shaukeens. I am super excited to see her hot look what do you think about Lisa Hydon look let me know 🙂


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"The evil here always follows you, doesn't it? The evil here never stops."
As today's episode begins, eccentric millionaire Barnabas Collins emerges from the basement, and wouldn't you know it, the gypsy's on the fritz again.
"You should leave tonight," she mutters. "Tch, I am not permitted to tell you what to do, am I? What do I care what you do?"
She sighs, and throws her hands in the air. "I should not have said that, I should go and talk to Sandor, and say, let us hitch up the wagon and go! But you have taken Sandor from me. When they find you in your coffin down in the cellar…"
See? This is what happens when you leave your gypsy running all day. He needs to get an EnergySaver or something.
But you have to admit, she's got a point. The mundanes over at the big house have noticed that Charity Trask has a bite mark on her neck, and you know how people get about their whole "top of the food chain" paranoia.
Magda says, "You wanted them to know, didn't you?" and earns herself one of Barnabas' pouty expressions.
"You think I did this by choice?" he barks, and then moves center stage for a strange interlude. "I don't expect you to understand… No one could. My only mistake is my unwillingness to give up what life I have. Can I be blamed for that?"
Magda narrows her eyes, thinking, Yes, of course you can. What are you even talking about?
But Magda is the Jiminy Cricket these days, a thankless role that's often played by the Grayson Halls, Thayer Davids and John Karlens of the world. It's a losing proposition with Barnabas, but somebody has to stand there and try to talk sense to the man.
"If you continue to see Charity Trask," she snarls, "other people will be 'summoned' to your coffin. And they will come with a stake and a hammer."
He says, "You're right. We must act quickly. Go to Laura Collins, make some excuse, but spend the evening with her."
This is how you can tell that Magda's a seasoned professional: she doesn't blink and say, What does that have to do with anything? If you're going to spend time with Barnabas, you learn to cope with these sudden hairpin turns in the conversation.
It's no use; Barnabas Collins is absolutely determined to make life difficult for himself. Last evening, he was introduced to Laura Collins, and he took one look at her and decided that she's a dangerous enemy who must be neutralized immediately. But I suppose everybody has that reaction to Laura, she's not big on making friends.
His issue is that he recognizes Laura as the woman who married his uncle Jeremiah back in the late 18th, and she died in a fire. So he makes the same deductive leap that Quentin did on seeing Laura: Hello, you're dead, I must instantly plot your destruction.
I'm not sure what Barnabas is getting so worked up about. He knows lots of people who have been dead for a hundred years, it's practically his entire social circle.
So he's pulled an old portrait out of the attic, which proves that the Laura he knew then is the Laura they know now. Or they just look alike or it was a lousy artist or it's a coincidence, it's hard to say. This is why you don't see a lot of murder trials where they bring in an oil painting as evidence.
"I must know the truth about Laura Collins," he declares. "I have this fear that she will defeat me, unless I find out."
The obvious response is: Why? She has exactly nothing to do with you. So far you've spent thirty-five seconds in her presence, and I don't think she even remembers who you are.
Barnabas doesn't know about her plans to lure the children into a blazing inferno and destroy the Collins family. He just wants to kill her because he wants to kill her.
This is why normal soap operas don't usually have a main character, so there can be separate story tracks that only intersect occasionally. But on Dark Shadows, Barnabas has to participate in every story, and in a plot-stocked period, it's like following a kitten around. He's got a long list of top priorities.
So then guess what he goes and does? He heads straight for Laura's, to show her the only thing that's guaranteed to raise her suspicions and make Barnabas her target — the portrait!
And she blushes and stammers, obviously, and says, "Why, I might have sat for this myself."
"Yes, you might have!" Barnabas smirks. "You must have had a near-relative living in these parts, a hundred years ago." His dialogue is studded with these "never drink wine" moments, where he's winking at the audience so broadly that you have to believe that the other characters can tell. Magda was right, he really does want to get caught.
But Laura does seem rattled, so hooray, that's one point for Hamlet, I suppose. "The Murder of Gonzago" made King Claudius uneasy, well done. Now what?
Brightening, Laura declares, "I shall take this as an omen."
This doesn't leave Barnabas with a lot of conversational options. What do you say when someone tells you they're taking something as an omen? So he just kind of wanders off to see what Sandor's up to. The end.
Monday: Lunch Date with Destiny.
Dark Shadows bloopers to watch out for:
They must be having a ball in the booth for the beginning of act 1; they keep putting Barnabas and Magda in super-tight close-ups that they aren't expecting. At one point, they zoom in on Barnabas' eyes for a while, and then zoom out for a blurry two-shot with Magda. Then Barnabas takes a step forward, completely out of his light, and does the next line in darkness.
Barnabas has an Elmer Fudd moment when he's talking to Sandor in act 1: "Wait a minute. If I'm correct, they buwied her in the crypt underneath the old meeting house."
When Laura and Magda talk about the tarot cards, something is heard bumping around in the studio.
Monday: Lunch Date with Destiny.
— Danny Horn


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A Post-Nuclear Deal Iran Prepares For Elections – Analysis
By Observer Research Foundation
The Iranian political landscape is multilayered, with a juxtaposition of conservatives, moderates, liberals, the military, intelligence and others fighting to build influence zones within the polity.
By Kabir Taneja
Iran has kicked-off its month long election campaign with the announcement of the finalists approved by the supreme leader of the Islamic republic, Ayatollah Khamenei, after a vetting process orchestrated by the Guardian Council which works under his ambit. Current president, Hasan Rouhani, will be joined by competitors Mostafa Aqa-Mirsalim, Mostafa Hashemi-Taba, Es'haq Jahangiri, Mohammed-Baqer Qalibaf and Seyyed Ebrahim Raeisi to lead Iran in an era of uncertainty, specifically with President Donald Trump at the helm in Washington DC.
The run-up to these elections have already been filled with drama, with former president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, despite saying he is not running for the polls, surprising the Iranian electorate by submitting his candidacy during the final minutes of the application process. In total, more than 1,600 candidates applied to contest the elections, including 137 female candidates, none of whom made the final cut.
President Rouhani, under whose guidance Iran agreed to the critical nuclear agreement with Western nations (all United Nations Security Council members plus Germany), according to analysts, will have competition from quarters of Tehran politics that he is very familiar with. His competitors can be divided into two groups, the reformists and the conservatives. First Vice President Jahangiri and former minister of mines, Hashemi-Taba along with Rouhani are from the former grouping. The conservatives are represented by the Mayor of Tehran Ghalibaf, former minister of culture and Islamic guidance Mirsalim and the odd candidacy of Raeisi, who is the custodian of the holy shrine of the eighth Shiite imam, but more importantly, touted to be a potential replacement for the now ageing Ayatollah Khamenei himself.
Popular expectations are that Rouhani, Ghalibaf and Raeisi are to be the electoral leaders in a race that is going to reflect both the political and economic outcomes of the post-nuclear deal Iran. According to a recent poll conducted by Canada based consultancy IranPoll, the economy and jobs are the foremost areas of concern that the people of Iran want their leaders to address, the same issues that were flagged before the previous elections and the subsequent swearing in of Rouhani as president. According to the poll, 52% of the participants of the modest 1,005 Iranians who took part in the study said that the economic situation in the country under the leadership of Rouhani was getting worse, while 31% agreed that it had gotten better. On a narrower question, when asked whether the economic situation of ordinary people had improved due to the successful negotiation of the nuclear deal, 72% replied in a negative tone saying that it had not improved.
The nuclear deal's effect on the elections may be a red herring. Similar to the situation prior to the election of Rouhani in 2013 that ousted Ahmadinejad, under whom Iran's ties with the West hit a new low, joblessness amongst the youth and lack of economic upliftment became the key political issue in Iran. Years of Western sanctions had rendered the Iranian economy severely strained, which in return gained public support in the country for its governance to thaw relations with the West. This was used by the moderate and reformist political circles in Tehran against the conservatives who, throughout the negotiation process, criticised Rouhani and Foreign Minister Javad Zarif for giving too many concessions to the West in return for Iran's basic rights to develop civil nuclear energy resources. Even Ayatollah Khamenei often took to Twitter; the social media site banned for common Iranian citizens, to threaten the US even as Iranian delegations were in Vienna, Austria, negotiating the agreements.
The Iranian political landscape is multilayered, with a juxtaposition of conservatives, moderates, liberals, the military, intelligence and others fighting to build influence zones within the polity. The premiere example to illustrate this is decoding the role of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard's Corps (IRGC), a highly trained military structure directly under the command of the Ayatollah, tasked with protecting the Islamic revolution itself from foreign interventions and internal dissent.
However, the IRGC is now also heavily involved in the Iranian economy and is known to have ownership of various companies and state enterprises in fields such as construction, telecom, mining and so on. In January this year, the Iranian government along with entities closed to the IRGC signed commercial deals with the Syrian government for assisting the Bashar al-Assad regime in the Syrian war. As much as the conservative or reformist power blocks, including former presidents, matter in the outcome of the elections, the extension of the military/intelligence apparatus into electoral posturing has perhaps grown in Iran over the past few years it was under Western sanctions.
This also gives Raeisi a good chance at the presidency. Despite popular understanding seems to point towards the re-election of Rouhani, the conservative lobby along with the intelligence sector, made few qualms about its reservations over the nuclear deal known. This in effect could give the likes of Raeisi a well-orchestrated and strong bogey against the reformists club that backs Rouhani, which now includes the likes of former president Mohammad Khatami, a pro-reforms leader himself who led the Iranian government from 1997 until 2005. Such an endorsement could be of pivotal importance, as Khatami, like many of his predecessors and successor Ahmadinejad, had a falling out with the Ayatollah in his post-president years and was banished from politics.
India, one of Iran's largest buyers of oil across the Arabian Sea, has had a relationship with the country that has been both fruitful and fractured simultaneously. Oil and gas has featured as the top most priority of the Iranian economy, and by extension, critical to political stability of the country. India and Iran are home to civilisational ties spanning thousands of years, and despite the relationship being cordial and consequential; it has more than often found it hard to develop an all-encompassing working diplomatic understanding between the two. Despite India voting against Iran at the UN over the latter's nuclear program in 2009, predominantly under US pressure, New Delhi pushed for Washington to give it concessions from international sanctions against Iran on order to continue buying oil from the country. Along with this trade, India also committed more than $1 billion in Iran's Farzad B oil and gas field, which has been embroiled in traditional bureaucratic entanglements that have become definitive of the bilateral dynamics between the two countries.
Beyond oil and gas, the possibility of greater strategic engagement between the two countries relies on the Chabahar port project. During previous high-level ministerial visits by Iran to India and Prime Minister Narendra Modi's visit to Tehran last year, the mirage of the Chabahar project's strategic importance to India has been even more elevated despite the fact that the entire dance between the two countries to develop it has been an excruciating display of bureaucratic red tape. Attempts to push forward the development of Chabahar is today an excellent, systematic and step-by-step guide on how to fail at diplomacy where both parties stand to gain significantly on their respective interests, yet fail to establish the same. India's interests span a far-searching policy attempt, with Iran also being crucial for stability in Afghanistan and providing access to Central Asia, while Iran is perhaps yet to recognise that most of its markets for hydrocarbons for the next three decades lie towards the East.
From an Indian perspective, re-election of Rouhani could perhaps see a continuation of the stalemate between the two countries over critical issues, which now includes a war of words over the Farzad B oil and gas field as well. However, it is in India's interest that Tehran remains on a reformist path, and the Iranian economy continues its movement towards an open market attached to global trade. While it is true that the election of Donald Trump as president of America has thrown many uncertainties over investing in Iran, the fact that the nuclear agreement is a multi-dimension one involving five other powers could be seen as both a balm and safety net over fears of an American withdrawal from the agreement.


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Tuesday, May 15, 2012
A few quick things...
- Playing without Alfredo Morales, Hertha Berlin were relegated to the 2.Bundesliga tonight by Fortuna Düsseldorf.
- Hapoel Tel Aviv took the State Cup final in the 90th minute, meaning Leo Krupnik and Maccabi Netanya are in the Europa League.
- Ahead of their Europa League playoff tie, Gent loan midfielder Mikkel Diskerud has publicly stated his desire to have his move made permanent this summer.
It's about that time again, so there may be goodies coming soon.
- Greg Seltzer
4 comments:
- Tom said...
What do you think of Mix's loan? He hasn't seen very much time of late, has he? I think very highly of the Belgian league, so it'd be a good thing for him to stay--if he plays!
- May 15, 2012 at 7:29 PM
- Greg Seltzer said...
He was in and out of the line-up for a while, even won Man of the Match once, but usually hasn't played much the last 7-8 games. Obviously, the Olympic qualifying absence affected things, as he was just getting to the line-up when he left for U.S. duty.
And yeah, I'd also like to see him stay, mostly because that's what he wishes to do.
- May 15, 2012 at 8:06 PM
- Tom said...
See, there's your problem right there! These people are too human to you! You're forgetting the vast sea of fans is filled with delusions that the players suffer false consciousness and etc. (I'm obviously no exception, at times).
- May 15, 2012 at 8:20 PM
- Sanjit said...
How ironic would it be if Staebak recalled Mix, then turned right around and loaned him to Genk.
- May 16, 2012 at 9:29 PM


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The Paull family, of the United Kingdom and California, have dedicated a Mother's Milk Room in Shaare Zedek Medical Center's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) to honor the memory of their late mother, Ruth bat Zvi z"l. Several months ago, one of the brothers, Jonathan, of England, actually sailed from the Canary Islands to the West Indies to raise money for the project. The trip would take most people a little more than 12 hours by air, but his voyage across the Atlantic with a
crew of three — over 2800 nautical miles — took three weeks. With the "Great Atlantic Challenge" behind him, Jonathan, and his brother Gideon, of Northridge, CA, and their families, including their mother's brother, recently gathered at the NICU for the dedication.
"To save a life is to save the world," Jonathan shared, and "nowhere is this clearer every day so many times a day then at Shaare Zedek, a hospital not just with a heart but with a soul that makes the world a better place. Shaare Zedek Hospital in Jerusalem is a very special place, but until I experienced it first-hand I had little idea of just how incredible and special a hospital can be."
When their mother arrived at Shaare Zedek in 2013 she had late stage Parkinson's disease and was suffering from severe pneumonia and complications of Parkinson's. Jonathan was amazed by the treatment his mother received. "You see, Shaare Zedek treats every patient of whatever age, color or creed from across Israel, the West Bank, Gaza and elsewhere in the Middle East, on the basis that every single life is valuable," he said. "No distinction is made between the patient who is young with years ahead and one that is old with a lifetime behind them. It took very little time for me to realize this and understand that my mother was probably receiving the best care available in the world."
Dena Yael, the NICU lactation consultant, and Dr. Alona Bin-Nun, a senior doctor in the NICU, explained the importance of the Mother's Milk Room and how it helps mothers provide their newborns with their own mother's milk, which has been shown to have significant impact on children who are born early and with low birth weights.
The dedication also marked the Bat Mitzvah celebration of Jonathan's daughter, Eli. Her parents, siblings, and aunt toured the Lincoln David Abraham Paediatric Educational Institute and paid a special visit to the animal therapy program.
The group also distributed gifts to patients in the Nagel Family Pediatric Inpatient Pavilion and Lesley and Leon Berman Paediatric Dialysis unit.
On his last night at sea, Jonathan shared his thoughts on Facebook:
As the sun begins to go down on our final night before our planned arrival in St. Lucia early tomorrow morning I would like to thank you all for your kind and generous support.
The Great Atlantic Challenge for Shaare Zedek was conceived whilst I sat by my mother's bedside in the geriatric ward during her final days back in 2013. I saw the care and attention she was receiving — I saw the care for life she was given by the incredible staff. She was treated to the best as if she had years ahead of her and was many decades younger.
As I wandered the corridors of the hospitals 6th and then 8th floor all I could be was impressed with the level of care and compassion. I knew I had to do something to support Shaare Zedek.
To say thank you, thank you for looking after our Mother so well in her dying days. Thank you for being a beacon of care and compassion thank you for valuing life as if the very being of the world rested upon it. Thank you for showing the world that Israel is a light unto the nations and that care and the value of life transcends culture race and religion. Just thank you Shaare Zedek.
Many thanks to Jonathan Paull and Gideon Paull and their extended family for this wonderful contribution to Shaare Zedek Medical Center.


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I hate it when I can't figure out what something is!
When I came across this oddity, I proceeded to ask those around me what they thought it might be.
Several thought it was handmade but I don't think so...
It looks too well done to have been made by an amateur.
It definitely looks to have a purpose.
I find the hole in the top of the head intriguing.
It's driving me crazy!!!
I need to know!
Come on... help me figure it out
I appreciate all your guesses!!!
Thank you
Dimensions: 12" high
The inside diameter is 3"
The opening is 2" across x 6.5" high


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Chocolate and Black Beans – Original or Common?Posted: February 12, 2012 Filed under: Baking, Brownies | Tags: Black Beans, Chocolate, Flourless, Moist, Toronto, Victor Restaurant 20 Comments
You may be starting to sense a chocolate theme in my recent posts. Well, this fascination with chocolate all started two weeks ago when my husband Kevin and I went to dinner at Victor Restaurant here in Toronto. The restaurant offers an Iron Chef dinner option, where you select a feature ingredient and they prepare a five-course dinner battle around that ingredient. Each chef or cook in the Victor Kitchen prepares a different course and you rank each of the courses based on four criteria. At the end of the meal, you tally up your scores and the chef or cook's dish with the highest ranking wins. Doesn't that sound fun?
So it'll come as no surprise that we chose chocolate as our theme ingredient. That's right—five glorious courses each prepared with chocolate in some shape or fashion. I'm going to summarize each of the dishes at the end of this post, but I want to start by telling you about our first course and how it inspired today's recipe.
We started with: Chocolate Soup with Black Bean Salsa, topped with Crispy Pumpkin Seeds, Cilantro and Crispy Pork Belly and Tortilla Strips. As we tasted the delicious soup, Kevin started to work on his rankings and I have to say he was taking it all very seriously. When he got to the "how original or authentic was the dish" category, he started to talk about how the flavours were the same as my chili (which has a bit of chocolate in it) so he felt it wasn't that original. I countered that it was in fact original for a savory chocolate soup to have those same flavours. Out came his BlackBerry, followed by a Google search on "chocolate and beans." Well, this resulted in hundreds of black bean brownie recipes—but no chocolate and black bean soup recipes. In the end, Kevin still felt it wasn't that original because obviously the chocolate and black bean combination was pretty popular in the form of brownies. So tell me, what do you think? Was this an authentic/original dish—or a common one? Which one of us was right?
I decided on the spot that I would make a Black Bean Brownie recipe for you as a tribute to this amazing dinner and our lively dinner debate. I whipped up a batch right away, altering the recipe a bit as I went along. The brownies were super easy to make and surprisingly tasty. The ponytails didn't suspect for a minute that the brownies were made with beans. There you have it—flourless Chocolate Black Bean Brownies! Who knew? (Apparently the hundreds of people who have blogged about black bean brownies…)
Black Bean Brownies
Adapted from Allrecipies.com (Canada) by Elizabeth
- 1 15.5 ounce can black beans, rinsed and drained
- 3 eggs
- 3 tbsp canola oil
- 1/3 cup cocoa powder, sifted
- Pinch salt
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- ¾ cup white sugar
- 1 tsp instant coffee (optional)
- ½ cup chocolate chips (I used milk and white chocolate swirl chips)
1. Preheat oven to 350°.
2. Lightly grease an 8" x 8" square baking dish.
3. Combine all ingredients except chocolate chips in a blender and blend until smooth.
4. Pour mixture into prepared baking dish.
5. Sprinkle chocolate chips evenly over the top of dish.
6. Bake in preheated oven until top is dry and edges start to pull away from the sides of the pan, about 30 minutes.
Victor Restaurant (at Hotel Le Germain, Toronto)
Iron Chef Dinner — Theme Ingredient: Chocolate
Dish 1: Chocolate Soup with Black Bean Salsa, topped with Crispy Pumpkin Seeds, Cilantro and Crispy Pork Belly and Tortilla Strips (Total score 34 out of 40; each of us could award up to 20 points, with up to 5 points in 4 categories)
Dish 2: Lobster and Scallops with White Chocolate Velouté in Puff Pastry (Total score 40 out of 40; THE WINNER of the Challenge; prepared by the Salad Cook and apparently his 1st win!)
Dish 3: Duck and Soba Noodles, with Chocolate, Mushrooms and Bacon in a Cocoa Butter Sauce (Total score 33 out of 40)
Dish 4: Organic Beef Tenderloin, White Chocolate Potatoes Purée, Spinach, Pickled Onion and Beets, with Cocoa Sauce drizzled on the side (Total score 38 out of 40)
Dish 5: Flourless Chocolate Cake, Brandied Cherries, Chocolate Ice Cream, and Chocolate Truffles with Crushed Praline (Total score 33 out of 40)
Essentially Victor's five chefs/cooks created this menu just for us, as we were the only ones in the restaurant participating in the Iron Chef dinner that night. It was an absolutely unique and delicious dining experience that we both LOVED. I highly recommend the Iron Chef Dinner Challenge at Victor Restaurant. However, you must book your Iron Chef dinner well in advance when you provide them with your theme ingredient. It was $80 per person for the meal, and $40 per person for the wine pairings.
20 Comments on "Chocolate and Black Beans – Original or Common?"
Love the idea of black bean brownies. I will definitely try this one out. Did you know that yesterday was National Have a Brownie Day? http://foodimentary.com/2012/02/10/national-have-a-brownie-day. I think the world would be a happier place if that was everyday.
Barb, maybe I'm completely ignorant, but since I have never tasted or made black beans with chocolate (in any form), I find this combination extremely original and it sounds really appetising (which is not the case of all the crazy combinations chefs come out with), so congratulations for these brownies! They might be the first recipe I make with black beans (I haven't mentioned actually I have never cooked black beans, which are however widely available here).
I envy you so much this dinner! I wish any of the restaurants here organised something like this. I have no idea what I would choose though.
I have to say the black beans in brownies is something I've heard of….but not black bean soup! I would go with a split decision on that one.
The idea of the meal is FABULOUS! I would LOVE to go to something like that and the price (for what you get) is terrific!
If you go again – I'd LOVE to see pictures of what they made! What a delightful, FUN post! Happy Valentines Day!
"It was $80 per person for the meal"
Wow – bargain… I was thinking it would be significantly more expensive than that – the menu in the restaurant sounds fantastic – I bet you felt nicely chocolated out afterwards! Must be a lot of fun partaking in that – I'd like to give them something really "fun", like cucumber as a theme 😀
Loving the look of your brownies Barb – so rich!
That does sound like enormous fun but I sure wouldn't want to be one of those chefs – imagine the pressure!


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Editor's note: This story was edited to clarify hospitalization numbers in Denton County. Currently 40 of its 588 patients are attributed to the coronavirus.
Texas Gov. Greg Abbott says the state is facing a "massive outbreak" in the coronavirus pandemic. He says some new local restrictions may be needed to protect hospital space for new patients.
In a series of interviews Wednesday with television stations, Abbott said Texas would again pass 5,000 new coronavirus cases and more than 4,000 hospital patients. Texas passed both thresholds for the first time Tuesday.
RELATED: COVID-19 updates: Texas hospitalizations hit new peak 12th day in a row with nearly 4,100 patients reported
Abbott aggressively pushed to reopen the state in May. He acknowledges that state officials are now closely watching hospital space. Abbott did not detail what "localized" restrictions might be put in place.
Wednesday afternoon, Dallas County reported an increase of 72 patients within the past 24 hours, bringing the total to 542 people hospitalized due to COVID-19.
Tarrant County reported 460 new cases Wednesday, which set a record-high for daily cases. There are also 321 countywide coronavirus-related hospitalizations, according to data released by health officials.
Denton County reported that 58% of its hospital beds are occupied, including 40 by COVID-19 patients, and Collin County currently has 136 patients.
In a news conference earlier this week, the governor said businesses could be shut down again if more Texans do not begin to wear masks and take other preventative measures.
"If we do not start wearing masks to slow the spread of COVID-19, it could result in [businesses] actually having to close back down," said Gov. Abbott. "Our goal is to keep businesses open, to keep society engaged, and one of the most effective tools that we can do that is by people wearing masks."
Judge Clay Jenkins suggested on Twitter that Abbott implement statewide rules in efforts to fight the spread of the disease.
In Dallas County, a new order went into effect on Saturday requiring residents and all employees to wear a face mask. The order is in effect through Aug. 4.
Surrounding counties in North Texas such as Collin, Denton, and Tarrant counties have not mandated face-covering orders.