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Rory McIlroy survived a mid-round wobble, then vowed to chase down Phil Mickelson for Open glory.
The American has a one stroke lead over Henrik Stenson on 10 under par after adding a 69 to his opening 63 at Royal Troon.
McIlroy is eight behind but despite dropping four shots in a five-hole stretch as wind and rain lashed the afternoon starters, he chiseled out a level par 71 that might have been an 80 for the fairweather McIlroy of a few years ago.
"I've made it a goal of mine to play better in bad conditions, and I feel like I've gotten a little bit better at it," McIlroy said. "And that round out there today was probably one of the better rounds I've played in bad conditions."
Refusing to surrender, McIlroy addd: "I feel like I've played very well and that gives me optimism going into the weekend.
"I played the front nine well especially so if I can get off to a similar start tomorrow and get a little closer to the leaders, play the back nine a little better, you never know.
"Depending on what direction it comes from, again, you've seen guys shoot four, five, six-under par on the front nine.
"I feel like it's possible. There are 36 holes to go. Obviously the guys at the top of the leaderboard are playing very well.
"I had a chance to watch Phil yesterday afternoon and this morning, and it's the best I've seen him play in a long, long time.
"His swing's good. He's got his ball flight under control. He seems like he's putting well.
"And obviously Henrik and the guys that are up there as well, they're going to be tough to beat.
"But I've given people head starts before and been able to win, and I'm just going to try to draw on those memories."
The four-time major winner started brilliantly and birdies at the second, sixth and seventh leaving him just five off the pace.
But as the wind got up and the rain fell harder, he missed two par putts inside three feet at the ninth and 10th, then bogeyed the 12th and 13th in the middle of a vicious squall.
A birdie four from 18 feet at the 16th gave him a new lease of life and he was able to par the last two holes in howling winds and slanting rain to end the day tied for 15th.
If McIlroy was upbeat, Pádraig Harrington reckons he needs a Phil Mickelson style 63 to have any chance of contending for his third Open title.
As Shane Lowry missed the cut by three and insisted he played "more like Hulk Hogan than Ben Hogan," Harrington's battling 72 left him 10 shots behind.
"A 62? That would be a story alright," Harrington said after starting and finishing with bogeys to finish his day inside the top 30 on level par .
"The problem is the 10 shots," Harrington said of the deficit with Mickelson. "I am not six hours earlier in the tee time that Phil.
"If i was first out you might get the weather beautiful and go out there and shoot 64, 63 and then they could get this weather.
"Unfortunately I am not that far behind in terms of time. If I play well I might catch up two or three shots. But it is hard to see me catching up six, seven or eight shots."
Harrington is not ruling out a weekend run but in general, he's more optimistic about his chances of winning the US PGA or Olympic golf.
He said: "I came in with a plan for summer. I came in with three big tournaments for me, I just want to approach them the right way.
"If I do that I will get a chance hopefully of winning one of the three.
Darren Clarke had four three-putts, then almost holed his approach to the 18th, tapping in from two inches for a 72 to make the cut with two shots to spare on two over
"I wanted to play well this weekend, but it will be interesting to see how some of the Ryder Cup contenders get on," Clarke said, referring to the likes of Stenson, who shot a 65 to get to nine under.
"My Ryder Cup duties are more important than my own golf right now.
Shane Lowry finished on seven over after a level par 71 that was one of the best rounds of the afternoon.
Playing in a tee-shirt, he birdied the first and second and was within a shot of the cut mark with six holes to go before the weather turned nasty and he bogeyed the 13th and the par-five 16th to miss out by three shots.
Joking, he said: "I was like Hulk Hogan yesterday and Ben Hogan today."
He added: "I gave it a go. I birdied the first two and I got off to a good start and hit some really good shots early on.
"I feel just for the lads that are making the cut on our side that are five shots behind.
"I just got in my own way around the course yesterday. I was expecting quite a lot coming in here. I was hitting poor shots and mentally I was just not there.
"With the conditions like they were today, I just had to go out and play golf. I said to (my coach) Neil before, I'm just going to go play like I'm with the lads at home.
"Hopefully there will be some nice weather over in New Jersey in a couple of weeks."
As for last year's hero Paul Dunne, he added a 78 to his 77 to miss out on 13 over.
The Greystones man could make the trip to the King's Cup in Thailand in a fortnight or take six weeks to recharge his batteries before he plays again on the Czech Masters.
At 117th in the Race to Dubai, he needs a big cheque soon to take the pressure off and keep his tour card.


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Did you know that the rainforest of the Amazon River basin in South America is home to more than half of the Earth's living species, including more than 3,000 potentially beneficial fruits and plants?
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Famed author Joyce Carol Oates is now trying her hand at the moral relativism of the left, attempting to gloss over the actions of a younger Senator Kennedy many Americans never knew. In case America wasn't getting the picture, that liberals really do not see anything morally objectionable in Uncle Teddy's actions (and lack of action) at Chappaquiddick in 1969 that left a woman dead, E.J. Dionne did his part with his aptly titled article "Ted Kennedy's Humanity".
You really must forgive me, dear reader, but I will not be participating in the maddening, hysterical race to hoist Ted Kennedy upon the altar of political heroism. Leaving a young woman to drown in his car at the bottom of a lake while never - never - acknowledging the inherent inhumanity of his actions that night deserves neither praise nor honor. And he shall be receiving none from The Tusk.


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Although the housing industry has been hit hard by the recent downturn in the economy, the past few months have seen a turn towards the positive. With this up tick in building permits, residential construction loan approvals and other new residential home building activities, the lumber yards and other building supply companies are starting to see shortages in inventory as well as an increase in pricing to replace their inventories. The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reports that since October of 2012 the price for framing lumber (per 1000 board feet) has risen from $319 per thousand to over $400 per thousand in January 2013. In addition the Wood Markets web page (www.woodmarkets.com) also is predicting an increase in lumber prices through 2015 due to several factors including the reduction of available lumber for production and the increase in demand.
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The more I read of Žižek, the more ambivalent I am towards his work. Although I love his ideas (and believe that Lacanian ontology is probably the only acceptable basis for understanding how we actually live our lives), the biggest problem with his books is that they are, in essence,
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is that it masquerades as a different book - as a rigorous critique of five specific misuses of the notion of 'totalitarianism' in contemporary liberal democratic discourse. But what it ends up being is just another one of Žižek's books, following the standard model: take a starting point, and then just rant off in the tracks of your favorite theoretical arguments. In other words, it's yet another 'stream-of-consciousness' book that just happens to be designated as being about totalitarianism... but isn't necessarily (it's as much about totalitarianism as about Kantian ethics, or Hollywood movies, or whatever).
Sticking up a preface and dedication to a Romanian secret police agent and a picture of Stalin reading
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Perceptions of susceptibility to cancer or its severity are in part governed by beliefs about personal actions that mitigate or increase cancer risk. Ronis (1992) characterized conditional health threat as the perception of threat under some behavior specification, that is, if the individual were to take a specific protective health action versus to take no health action (see also Rogers, 1983). Ronis (1992) and van der Pligt (1998) argued that the measurement of conditional health threat would provide better understanding of protective health behavior because such conditional measures untangle the influence of current protective behavior on perceived vulnerability. Weinstein and Nicolich (1993) theorized that the discrepancy in level of perceived risk associated with participation versus nonparticipation in a health protective behavior reflected perceived effectiveness of the health precaution.
It is proposed that the components of conditional health threat-that is, conditional susceptibility versus conditional severity-will have differential associations with preventive versus screening behavior. For preventive behavior, high perceived susceptibility given inaction coupled with high perceived benefits of the health action is expected to produce preventive behavior, with a subsequent reduction in perceived susceptibility. For screening, the matter is different because susceptibility is not reduced by screening; rather, the argument for screening is that consequences (severity) of cancer will be reduced with early detection, so that the appropriate conditional characterizations of perceived severity are "severity if treated early" versus "severity if treated late" (Ronis & Hare& 1989). Ronis and Hare1 (1989) applied this dual conception of perceived severity to BSE performance and showed a link of these severity measures, but not conditional susceptibility, to BSE, yielding new insight into the potential role of perceived severity in screening. Jackson (1997) applied conditional perceived susceptibility and severity to skin cancer preventive behaviors and found the opposite effect-that conditional measures of perceived susceptibility, but not severity, predicted skin protection. Measures of conditional threat may provide help to clarify the links of perceived susceptibility and severity to cancer protective behaviors.
The impact of perceptions of risk on decisions concerning health behavior is strongly affected by the manner in which risks are framed. As specified in prospect theory (Kahneman & Tversky, 1979), individuals respond differently to information presented as gains (e.g., the number of breast cancer deaths averted by regular mammography screening) versus as losses (e.g., the number of breast cancer deaths associated with failures to be screened). Thus considerations of perceived risk in relation to cancer-related behavior must take into account message framing as a moderator of the perceived risk-behavior link. Rothman and Salovey (199'7) provided an extensive review of the impact of message framing on health behavior. Meyerowitz and Chaiken (1987), Rothman, Salovey, Antone, Keough, and Martin (1993), and Banks et al. (1995) provided examples of the impact of message framing on BSE, skin protection, and mammography utilization, respectively.
Variables like demographics, personality, and barriers to health action may moderate (change) the relation of perceived vulnerability to protective health behavior. High perceived barriers nullified the effect of susceptibility on mammography compliance (Aiken, West, Woodward, & Reno, 1994). Conscientiousness as a personality trait moderated the relation of cancer distress to mammography screening among FDRs of breast cancer victims (Schwartz, Taylor, et al., 1999). Moderation of the perceived susceptibility-behavior link by demographic, medical system, personality, and other psychosocial variables should be explored.
Our conception of perceived susceptibility is that it stands at the outset of a causal chain that flows through other constructs to health behavior. Consideration of mediational chains from perceived susceptibility through other variables to behavior is critical for advancing an understanding of the way health behaviors accrue. To reiterate, examination of both the direct effect and the indirect effects of susceptibility through other variables on behavior is required to estimate accurately the total effect of perceived susceptibility on health protective behavior.
The understanding of whether, how, and to what extent individual variables such as perceived susceptibility operate in determining health protective behavior is best advanced through the evaluation of model-based interventions, with research structured so that mediational analysis of the effects of putative determinants of behavior can be accomplished (West & Aiken, 1997). A distinguishing feature of psychology as a discipline is the strength in theory and experimentation. Thus, health psychologists may entertain a special role in health behavior research, providing careful theory testing in controlled settings, and the refinement of models of health behavior on a strong empirical base.
Aiken, L. S., Fenaughty, A. M., West, S. G., Johnson, J. J., & Luckett, T. L. (1995). Perceived determinants of risk for breast cancer and the relations among objective risk, perceived risk, and screening behavior over time. Women's Health: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy, 1, 27–50.
Aiken, L. S., Jackson, K. M., & Lapin, A. (1998). Mammography screening for women under 50: Women's response to medical controversy and changing practice guidelines. Women's He&h: Research on Gender, Behavior, and Policy, 4, 169–197.
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Do we really know who our founding fathers really were?
In 1998, during an excavation under Benjamin Franklin's former home at 36 Craven Street near Trafalgar Square in London, the remains of ten bodies (six of them children) were discovered. It has been proposed that Franklin and his house mate may have been acquiring bodies for medical research and not for occult purposes.
The Sunday Times | February 11, 1998 – Currently archived at TheForbiddenKnowledge.com
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"Papers of John Adams" Volume 12-reveals pp 480; reveals the name Lemarchand. But, it seems some were omitted. Such as these:
Seems the name LeMarchand is intertwined with John Adams!
How in the world does the Rockefeller fit into all of this? Well, they do, and they are part of the secret societies which founded this nation we call, "America". This is but ONE of these wicked boxes under the spotlight!
In a document from "THE ROCKERFELLER FOUNDATION:
July 1782
The Order of the Illuminati joins forces with Freemasonry at the Congress of Wilhelmsbad.
The Comte de Virieu, an attendee at the conference, comes away visibly shaken. When questioned about the "tragic secrets" he brought back with him, he replies: "I will not confide them to you. I can only tell you that all this is very much more serious than you think." From this time on, according to his biographer, "the Comte de Virieu could only speak of Freemasonry with horror."
Also in attendance were such (il)luminaries as Cagliostro, Comte Saint Germain, Louis Claude De St. Martin, Thomas Paine, Anton Mesmer and Adam Weishaupt. In 1785 they met again at the Paris convention.
Within this Rockefeller document reveals some interesting notes! Quite obvious are the details are they elude to mysterious events which take place surrounding these boxed but upon the inspecting the information given about the extended entry submetted to Dr. Stulak, this is revealed:
First Entry—-
Paul Arnauld
1. St. Germain-I believe this place was named in honor of St. Germain. The Ascended Master.
2. It is believed that the box which is highlighted within this privately researched project, "INNOCENCE", was a gift…yes a GIFT from none other than prominent CATHOLIC CLERIC! Possible of power and influence.
Look at this!
(UN warns Britain over child voodoo rituals and sex tourists
"We're concerned about reports that hundreds of children have been abducted from their families in Africa and trafficked to the UK, especially London, for religious rituals,"
http://www.straitstimes.com/news/world/europe/story/un-warns-britain-over-child-voodoo-rituals-and-sex-tourists-20140620 )
Second Entry—-
Gilles Simard-Catholic Priest
1. Given to him by the SAME SOURCE! Not only was this Catholic priest defrocked, but the orphanage which he began had ALL of the children come up missing with a three month period!
This reminds me of the current investigations pertaining to the Pope and many others which coincide with children pedophelia rings!
Not only were these disappearances not investigated but they were forbidden. Again, sounds like the current situations. People who are confronting the powers that be, are ending up DEAD!
Third Entry—-
Henri Gagnone (Deputy Mayor)
1. He inherited the property of Mr Simard in lieu of back rent, it seems.
2. His son was found dead. It reveals "again" the dermis totalis was missing. I researched this to find it must be body hair. It states the boy must have solved the box but his death had to do with an eviction of land owned by the family. This seems strange.
3. The box was lost until 1903.
Fourth Entry—-
Christophe & Didier Bernier (Brothers)-Toymakers
1. They owned and operated a toy making business, only it seems they incorporated the Innocense puzzle into the main stand of the zoetrope machine.
2. This material suggests they escaped any effects of this configuration, but considering the incorporated it into their designs and also the very existence of the ZOETROPE MACHINE was odd. It is the precursor to the MOTION PICTURE industry and also television.
THIS PROJECT was suspended! Odd, don't you think? The test subject was to place it into a room with a videotape machine and a camera. Then, manipulate the box until progress was achieved.
It states there were 'concerns' raised as to the subject's inclination to participate in the experiment.
I've came across a picture with Aleister Crowley wearing what I believe to be a black shirt with the design of a box.
"Don Jesus Medina, a descendant of the great duke of Armada fame, and one of the highest chiefs of Scottish Rite free-masonry. My cabbalistic knowledge being already profound by current standards, he thought me worthy of the highest initiation in his power to confer; special powers were obtained in view of my limited sojourn, and I was pushed rapidly through and admitted to the thirty-third and last degree before I left the country." The Confessions of Aleister Crowley pp. 202–203.
What does the Masonry say about the cube?
Amazing how we see so many connections to the cube. Transformers, Jewish priests wear a cube on their forehead, Saturn, Kabbalah, Muslim Kaaba Cube worship, ancient Japanese/Chinese puzzle boxes, Satan's opps..I means Santa's presents come in a box! Etc….
More here on ancient Puzzle Boxes: http://www.indiana.edu/~liblilly/collections/overview/puzzle_docs/early_japanese_puzzles.pdf
It is said that LeMarchand's final 'exit' was at the ripe age of 94, when he checked into L'Hotel D'Armais but was never seen checking out. His belongings remained in the room along with his own boxes which sat on the floor with a great deal of blood surrounding it.
The fact that the CUBE is center-point in major religions around the world is mysterious, no doubt.
How does it all tie into the end days?
More on LeMarchand's Mysterious Boxes:
(1) http://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/sociopolitica/sociopol_whitebrotherhood03.htm
(2) http://www.wnd.com/2014/10/popular-muslim-personality-jesus-christ-is-among-us/
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VPOTUS and Yushchenko were seated a table in the back of the pub with their two translators, the mayor and vice mayor of Kiev, and the head of the presidential secretariat. Pool joined conversation in the middle, but Yushchenko was talking about Ukrainian churches. VPOTUS overheard saying: "I cannot believe that a Frenchman visiting Kiev went back home and told his colleagues he discovered something and didn't say he discovered the most beautiful women in the world. That's my observation." Unclear who Frenchman VPOTUS was referring to. "It's certain you have so many beautiful women."
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Tuesday, April 18, 2006Netherlands
After some preparations yesterday, we set off to find the cache with three people. When arriving at the target point, we thought, we were done. But there was nothing. Reading the cache description again, it became clear that we have to search a bit further. The instructions led us easily to the cache box.
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When they wheeled me off the elevator on the Labor and Delivery floor, I started having a contraction. I was holding my stomach with one hand and gripping the wheelchair with the other while taking short, fast breaths. I remember thinking that it felt like how labor is always depicted in the movies. We wheeled past the nurse who had checked me that morning. Bryan told me later that she expressed her disappointment as we were passing that her shift was ending right as we arrived. Very sweet. We really felt the whole time like the nurses taking care of us loved their jobs. Their attitudes had a positive impact on our experience, and I was so grateful for each of them. They got us settled in the room and hooked me up to IV antibiotics because I had tested positive for strep B (not a big deal, apparently, but they want you to have antibiotics to protect the baby as a precaution).
My parents and sister arrived, and we all sat around in the room chatting. We were excited that the wait was almost over, and I felt so much love and support from everyone. Our nurse told Bryan that she noticed I was tensing up my shoulders during contractions and encouraged him to help me relax those muscles while I breathed. I tried to focus on relaxing my muscles, and the contractions continued steadily about 4 minutes apart. About 3am, I decided to go for a walk with Bryan and my IV pole. I knew I would probably want an epidural at some point, and I wanted to be mobile while I still could. We made two laps around the L&D floor, and the intensity of the contractions really kicked up. I was HURTING! At this point I had been laboring for more than twelve hours with no pain relief. I decided I was ready for the epidural.
Our family left the room, and the nurse anesthitist was there within 10 or 15 minutes. I remembered what to expect from our "prepared childbirth" class, and that helped me to be mentally at ease during the process. Everything went smoothly and the three parents and my sister came back in. I was dilated to a 5 or 6 by then. They decided to go get some sleep at our house since it was close to the hospital. Bryan and I tried to rest. The epidural started wearing off on my right side around 10am, so they gave me more medicine. Suddenly, it was like my body realized how exhausted it was after weeks of not sleeping well, carrying around this huge belly, and then 12+ hours of labor. I got more relaxed than I'd been since…well, before I was pregnant, probably, and fell into a deep, deep sleep. It was indescribably glorious. My friend Julie told me that she experienced something similar, which made me feel less crazy, because, really—what a weird time for a great nap.
At some point, my doctor came in to check me and broke my water. Bryan told me that our family was back and hanging out in the waiting room area. My brother was on his way. It worked out well that the next day was Good Friday, so he would have left that day to come home from college for Easter anyway.
The waiting room crew had grown by the afternoon.
The next thing I remember is hearing the nurse call my OB and seeing someone wheel an incubator into the room. They were getting ready. It was about to be go time! "I must wake up and give birth!" I thought.
Apparently this is going to be a three parter. 🙂


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L.B.'s new mother lived at 971 Hope Street on the East Side of Providence. He had written it down on a slip of paper in his pocket, in case he forgot. But for the first time in months, he found it practical to remember his home address, and even his telephone number. Without thinking about it, he started to memorize other details: the date of his arrival; his sixth grade class schedule; Ms. Gray's license plate number; her cel phone; email. She was beginning to imprint herself on his memory, the way he had never let the others do.
So when Ms. Gray saw L.B. actually open the refrigerator, take out some bread, cheese, deli meat, and condiments to make himself a sandwich, she joked, "Don't get too comfortable— you never know when I'm gonna get tired of you." For some reason, the ease of her threat made him feel even more settled there.
Anila Gray didn't carry herself like other moms: her figure was bony and sharp; her expressions were puppy-like and exaggerated; her sweater was always two sizes too large in the winter, as though she wished someone bigger than her could fill it; and in the summer, she wore a paint-splattered noodle-strap blouse that didn't fully cover her midriff, with fringy cut-off jeans.
She didn't carry herself like other moms, and in fact Ms. Gray was a single girl who spent half the year taking care of stray cats, lost dogs, and other kids just like L.B., and the other half working as a travelling nurse. L.B. thought she didn't act much like a nurse either.
"Hey," she called out to L.B., snapping her fingers in front of his face. From anyone else, this would have been rude, but coming from her, it was only further evidence of their familiarity. To him, it meant that she saw him as imaginative, almost other-worldly. "Spaced out," is the word she used over the phone. "Hello-o? Don't you have school today?"
L.B. popped to attention, after a delay sufficient enough to establish his remoteness from the world. "I think I should stay home again," he said, "I mean, all we're doing today is this assembly meeting, and I could just sit around and study all day instead."
Ms. Gray laughed in a way that looked like she'd lose her cereal. "The weird thing about you is you're serious," she said. "You would sit around and study all day."
She shook her head, laughed again. L.B. waited.
"Sorry," she said, "I have to go over to Paul's house and watch TV today, and I can't have you here in the house by yourself. You'll just have to live through another day of school."
"Duh, we have TV. Why doesn't Paul come over here, and I'll stay in my room?" L.B. suggested.
"I thought you didn't like Paul," she said, with half a smile on her face.
"No, he doesn't like me," he replied with a pleading look. She wasn't like the other moms in this way either: he could always persuade her with an argument. With Ms. Gray, there was never a because I said so.
L.B. was a big kid with loose brown hair and cheeks that looked like they'd just been slapped. He wore shirts with collars, pants with pleats, and a belt with a horn-buckle. Paul complained that Ms. Gray's new son dressed like a Waldo. Ms. Gray thought his look was more ironic: a remark on 1950s reruns.
L.B. watched Paul pull up in his cream-colored Jetta, and grab a worn-out backpack from the passenger side, yanking the door open with a squeak, slamming it, and jogging up to the door. L.B. had never seen someone that age with a backpack, with the exception of Paul. The dogs barked at him from behind the garage door.
Paul walked in before L.B. had a chance to duck into his room. He was sitting on the sofa with his biology textbook.
"Hey, L.B.," Paul said, with a glossy smile, "Your mom said you were sick."
"Um… yeah," he said, not wanting to be inconsistent, but not wanting to commit to a lie either.
"You look about fit enough to go ten rounds with Tyson," Paul said. Kids like L.B. are always getting groomed for boxing or football by men like Paul, who look at children and see only the potential for physical prowess.
L.B. mumbled incoherently. Paul didn't notice. He was listening to the sound of the shower running.
"That your mom in the bathroom?" he asked. L.B. nodded, and went back to his reading.
Paul stared hard. "Don't people talk in this house?"
"Yes," L.B. said, startling himself to attention. "Sorry. I was reading about photosynthesis and stuff."
Paul smiled. "Smart kid."
L.B. thought that, the way Paul said it, smart sounded like something you did not want to be. He suddenly wished that he had Ms. Gray all to himself today. She would revel in his distraction.
"I'm gonna go to my room," L.B. announced. Closing the door behind him, L.B. sat against the window. The walls were blank except for spots of glue and tacky— remnants of the room's past occupants. In the garage, the dogs' aggressive snarls subsided into a whimper, and their paws scraped gently on the heavy aluminum door.
From his room, he heard the TV shriek to life on the other side of the wall. Talk show bedlam ensued. But over the volume, L.B. could still hear the creak of Ms. Gray's bed, and Paul's low moans of pleasure or triumph through the plaster.
She and Paul were three years in when Anila felt easy enough with their relationship to make demands. For longer than she cared to admit, Paul represented the kind of man that had always snubbed her in her youth: bold to the point of recklessness, charming to the point of deviousness, and irrepressibly sexual. Like a Kennedy, she thought. Though Anila could never cast herself as the trophy wife, sitting atop a float with the other bluebloods in a campaign season parade, her hand waving as on a turnstile. So she met his presence in her life with equal measures of wariness and gratitude, and alternately hoarded his company and spurned it.
She found that six months was the perfect length of time for this kind of indulgence, after which she would fly away to Nevada, to treat victims of brush fire, or to Florida, for hurricane relief. Most jobs were not so dramatic, but each one had, in a small way, its own nobility.
When she began to ask Paul, tentatively, to water her plants every week and dust every month she was gone, he was relieved. He had no time to take on extra assignments, but Anila's hesitation to oblige him in anything had always seemed to suggest her lack of debt to him; while the thousands of hot meals and clean dishes and laundry loads that passed from her hands to his could have been so many silver dollars accumulating over the years into bagsfull of change, whose weight he had now begun to feel.
They lay together in the bed watching People's Court, a show that neither of them cared for particularly. Paul grabbed a pack of cigarettes from the nightstand. As he lit one up and sat there leaning on the headboard, Anila was a little disappointed with him for being so cliché. "What time do you have to be back?" Anila asked, turning toward him slowly.
Paul looked out on the room through a haze. He looked more serious than usual, more human in his nakedness. "One," he said absently.
"Do you want lunch or something?" she asked, but he was in a thinking mood, and did not reply. Men, Anila noticed, stagger in their lives between depletion and renewal, like housecats. Now he was enervated, but if they stayed in bed together long enough, he would be invigorated soon and want to start up again. "I'll make you a sandwich," she said, hopping to her feet and out the door.
Paul worked in local news, and he raced cars on weekends. He was a town personality, and most people around Providence knew and liked him. He didn't know what it was with L.B. Foster kids always came a little bit screwed up, he figured.
He blamed her neighbors for planting the seeds. They'd adopted kids from all over the place, and seemed to be growing their own little United Nations over there. They had a girl from Ghana, and one from China; they had boys from Romania, Cambodia, and Peru. Paul was a man who believed in charity, but taking strangers into your house to appease your sense of guilt made you a sucker in his book. There were better ways to give to the community that are harmonious with personal gain, which do not involve sacrificing one's own time or sanity.
Broadcasting was Paul's way of giving back. Whenever his team broke open a political scandal (which Rhode Island was full of), or exposed some so-called business for the fraud it perpetrated on the public, he felt a rush of adrenaline that he came to associate with civic pride. The two were coincident. So he never felt the need to drain himself with unnecessary burdens, as did Ms. Gray. Yet he always found himself having to deal with the consequences of her wide open heart, such as those stray dogs she kept, which she insisted he care for when she took off for three months to work as a travelling nurse. And then there were the kids.
This weekend Paul was charged with taking L.B. to the Red Sox game in Boston. He'd agreed to it because some months ago the thought of playing father—complete with matching baseball caps, cute conversation, and stadium philosophy— appealed to him. They hopped an afternoon train and spent an hour bumming around the shops near Fenway before the event. Now he and L.B. were sitting only a sprint away from the action on game day; the younger watching with quiet veneration, the older with patient restraint, broken only occasionally by the mania of the crowd when a line drive would leave the fate of the game in doubt, or an unexpected bunt would cause a mad rush for the ball, and Paul would let out an idle cheer, out of nothing more stirring than home-team feeling.
Instead of sports talk, Paul engaged L.B. in a Q&A about his new mom. What did he think of her? Did she go anywhere during the day? Does she get a lot of phone calls? Do other men ever come to the house? Not wanting to be inaccurate, L.B. said that sometimes Ms. Gray did talk on the phone, and that he saw other people at the door sometimes, even if they never came inside. Sensing that the kid was getting uncomfortable, Paul quit asking questions, and seethed quietly until the game went into a tenth inning.
"She's gonna leave, you know," he said finally.
L.B. nodded his head as though he already knew. He wanted Paul to believe that Ms. Gray told him everything.
"Yup," he said, affecting a southern drawl, with a fake-funny curl in his lip, "She gonna fly the coop. Kick up the dust. Get the hell out of Dodge… It's gonna be just you and me here for a while. This whole baseball thing is a test. She wants to see if we can get along together… and we do, right?"
L.B. got the distinct feeling that Paul meant the opposite of what he was saying. A few years before, L.B. was at a school where they played the opposite game every Friday. One kid broke out crying when he asked to go to the bathroom, and the teacher kept saying "No, you may not." In opposite world, she was really saying "yes, go ahead," but he couldn't get over the word "no," so he just sat there until a dark spot began to form on the leg of his corduroys.
On Monday afternoon, in the middle of eighth period math, L.B. screamed. When Mrs. Jenkins went over to see what was wrong, he screamed again— a shrill, agonizing sound, nothing like an animal howl. The bell rang by the time they got him calmed down and out of the classroom, and Mrs. Jenkins sat down with Ms. Willis, the guidance counselor. Once they decided to get his mother involved, L.B. began to scream again, and wouldn't stop until Ms. Willis promised to talk with him alone.
In private session, Ms. Willis didn't learn much about L.B. except that, if she tried to contact Ms. Gray, he would get uneasy. She could see in his file that he was a new student, and a foster, and she suspected from his behavior that it was some kind of abuse— a situation potentially beyond the scope of her experience, and probably a case for state social workers. Luckily, Mrs. Jenkins had the presence of mind to call Ms. Gray anyway and get her to the school before L.B. knew about it. Anila walked into the room looking like a girl being sent to the principal's office, and gave L.B. a quick hug. She got the story three different times from three different people, then brought L.B. home.
Ms. Willis did manage to get a couple words out of him before he left though. She had asked him where he slept at night, and he said "I live at 971 Hope Street on the East Side of Providence."
On the way home, Anila shook her head, adjusting the driver's side window every now and then with nervous intensity. Then she started making digs at the teachers and administrators of Providence Public School. How could they make such a big stink about a kid letting off a little steam? Anila sure as hell felt like crying out at the end of a twelve-hour shift, and the more she thought about it, the more she admired L.B. for not giving a shit what other people might think about a boy who screams his head off in school.
Paul felt pathetic following his girlfriend around in the middle of the day. It introduced all kinds of uncomfortable questions about the direction his life was taking. In general, he preferred being in the field, making news, but Anila's recent distance from him, and her choice to take a six-month break to go work on an Indian reservation in South Dakota, was maddening. Then, when he was pulling up for a lunch visit and saw her drive away in the old Volkswagon, he had to know where she was going. Still, he felt like the bad guy on daytime soaps who followed women from a distance, rather than the guy who took her in his arms and owned her, the way he'd always thought of himself.
Anila only left after Paul promised he'd get the kid off to school in the mornings, and pick him up in the afternoon. Other than that, she said, he was pretty self-sufficient. He was the most independent kid she'd ever known, and as long as he had plenty to eat, and got outside every now and then, he could withstand a nuclear blast. "Like a cockroach," Paul said, earning him a scowl from under her hair.
Two hours earlier, she sat in the parking lot of the school, explaining to L.B. how much the Lakota tribes needed good nursing help, and what a good thing it would be for her to answer the call. She didn't want to send him back to the foster home, she said. He was too old now to keep shuttling from home to home, and if he only stuck around while she was doing her job, then he could be adopted officially. Paul would take good care of him in the meantime. She'd be home by the summer.
L.B. scoffed. "Pff… Paul," he said.
"Honey," she said, laying her hand protectively over his knee. "Honey," she repeated, "Paul is not the enemy."
L.B. could not stay focused on his book, Of Mice and Men. There was a character, Lennie, who was real big and strong, but simple-minded. All he wanted to do in the world was tend rabbits, but whenever he got a hold of one, he'd wind up killing it, or hurting it badly. At one point he breaks a woman's neck by accident, and the rest of the men try and hunt him down. With only a couple pages left, L.B. couldn't concentrate; eyes tired, ears distracted by dogs scratching on the door.
Outside, he saw Gian and Paco, his neighbors, switching pitches and at-bats. Whenever Paco made a hit— because he was the better player— he'd run at full speed, as if it were a true game, and after landing on a base he'd call out, "ghost man on first," or "ghost man on third." The sun was setting over the forest, shared by their backyards. After watching for almost an hour, L.B. began to see what they saw: a sandy field; a team of men, serious about play, standing at the ready, or cheering them on from the stands. Then, as the light waned, and it was no longer possible to track the ball as it flew at you, Gian and Paco took their bat, ball, and glove inside with them where, L.B. imagined, a full table awaited them.
The dogs had gone missing. Paul had heard them barking into the night, then they suddenly went quiet, but he was already halfway asleep and hadn't thought much of it. But in the morning, when he found the garage empty except for the bags of dog food and stacks of bottled water, he started cursing himself for his negligence. He hated to give Anila another reason not to trust him.
Paul went next door and pounded. Don, the serial adopter, answered in his robe. "What's the occasion, Paul?" Don asked.
"Our dogs are missing," he said.
"I'm sorry to hear it," Don replied. "Should I have the boys help you look for 'em?"
Paul gave a bitter smile— a smile that said, you wish it were that easy. "I think it was your boys that did it," he ventured, prodding the lapel of his robe with an accusatory finger.
"Excuse me?" Don said. "The kids were in bed long before your dogs were. We could hear them barking all night, practically."
"Well, apparently someone over here thought they'd have a little fun with my noisy dogs, eh?" Paul said. He had a residual feeling that a cameraman was filming the encounter from over his shoulder.
"I think you'd better calm down, and then come talk to me, okay Paul? Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to get the kids ready for church." Don tried shutting the door, but Paul's experienced foot came between it and the doorjamb.
He put his best game face on. "Look. Don. I know you want to think the best of your kids and all, but you've got people here who come from places where dog is on the menu, am I wrong?"
"If you don't take your foot out of this door, Paul, I swear I'll call the police," Don said.
Paul knew where a confrontation ended. He used the P.A.L. system: Police, Assault, or Lawsuit. Anything short of being arrested, attacked, or sued, was just another fence to be hurdled.
From his bedroom window, L.B. watched Paul storm back toward the house, slamming the screen door. Winter had started to show on the eaves: frost edged inward on the tile, and the gutter-drip froze in mid-leak. Outside, a light snow dusted everything, settling into the fallen leaves like milk in cups.
There was a rule of thumb that Paul used to determine whether a story went to press, or died in development: " 'Dog Bites Man' is not a story. 'Man Bites Dog' is a story." This simple equation helped him dodge all the marshmallow stories that other outlets were covering, and focus on the protein-rich items that put muscle into the daily news. That Monday he was covering an abuse story at the senior citizen's center, which involved several employees on the government dole. They'd shot the bit early in the morning, and finished cutting it, and were about to send the clip out to the network, when he got a call from the school. It seemed that a student had broken into the school last night and let loose three dogs in the guidance counsellor's office.
A part of Paul wanted to punish L.B. for being so screwed up in the head that he would do that. The sick part of him was impressed that an eleven-year old could carry off such a project on his own; though he thought it would have worked better if it weren't his dogs. But the part that won out was denial.
"Why are you calling me to tell me you picked up a few stray dogs?" Paul said.
"I think you know, Mr. Gray," the principal said.
"The name's Tibbets. There is no Mr. Gray," he said, "and no I don't know why you're calling me at work to tell me this."
"Can you guess?"
A silence ensued. Telephone silence.
"I dunno. You're lonely?" he said.
Anila came home early when she learned she was pregnant, a couple of weeks after L.B. freed their dogs and quit the school. The administration agreed not to inform the police— which would have put a blot on his record for the rest of his juvenile years— as long as he did not continue to attend PPS. The first thing Anila said when she got home was, "Looks like you get to stay home and study all the time now, huh L.B.?" He smiled and shrugged. Paul's expression was flat as a skipping stone.
At home in bed, Paul and Anila celebrated the coming of the baby with Chinese food delivery. She hadn't begun to feel the full-on cravings yet, but Anila wanted to establish the pattern of unorthodox eating— it was one of the strange charms of burgeoning life. They talked as they ate, about Anila's time in South Dakota, about Paul's last assignment, about the baby-to-be, and about L.B. When Anila thought she sensed Paul hinting at sending him back to foster care, she dropped her chopsticks into the mu-shu delivery box.
"You can't be serious, Paul," she said. "Just because he mucks up a little bit now and then? From what you tell me, you weren't always mister do-right in your adolescence."
"He's eleven," Paul emphasized, "eleven. If a kid tortures cute little animals at eleven years old, what do you think he's gonna be up to at seventeen?"
"You don't know that he tortured them, Paul; you're exaggerating. Besides, here's a kid who has been without real parental guidance for most of his life. If you want him to do something dangerous, send him back to foster care." They shared a pained silence.
"I'm not talking about foster care," Paul said, "I'm talking about Don and Rebecca next door. Those guys will take in anybody, and they haven't heard about the dogs yet… At least, they don't know L.B. is responsible."
Anila had been ready to leap at any foolish suggestion and deflect it with her practiced indignity and overweening sense of righteousness. But she paused, surprised at how appealing the idea seemed at first— to have L.B. live so near by, a friend and neighbor, without having to be his constant ward and master.
"It's a tough choice to make, I know," Paul said, putting his hand on the slight curve of her belly, "but…"
At that, he let the nobility of her imagined sacrifice insinuate itself.
The thin walls leaked only this much intelligence into L.B.'s bedroom: that he could be sent back. It did not matter whether or not a decision had been made; if the topic were open, it was only a matter of time. He felt no particular remorse upon having this revelation, only a calm resolve to do what needed to be done. And as soon as he felt it, his body submitted to sleep.
The next morning, a Tuesday, L.B. left the house in his usual button-down and pleated pants, his pocket stuffed with a wad of cash from Ms. Gray's top drawer. He walked down College Hill to the canal, then crossed the bridge downtown, passing the public library on his way to Power street. At the corner of Washington, there was a streetlight, a newspaper dispenser, a post office mailbox, and a two-headed parking meter, all bolted to the sidewalk. Across the street was a gun store called, simply, "Guns N' Ammo," and next to it, a tattoo parlor with a busy front-window display with a neon sign reading "Voodoo Tattoo."
In his fantasy, he saw himself walking into the gun store, putting all the cash down on the counter, and walking away with a hand-sized pistol. Of course he knew that fantasy was no good, so as an alternative he imagined walking in as soon as the clerk was away from the front register, and running behind the counter to grab one of the display pieces, and hopping the desk to make his escape. But every scenario he imagined had consequences that he couldn't quite stomach. Inwardly, he abused himself for having the ability to see the eventual outcome of things. If only he could act, without anticipation, without consideration, he would make things right again for him and Ms. Gray.
The streetlight winked its red eye, and the walking-man symbol appeared below it. L.B. shuffled slowly across the street, his shoes feeling suddenly tight in their laces. When he reached the curb, he had the inexplicable feeling of having undergone some severe trial, like flood, or famine. He stood there while the traffic light turned from green to yellow to red to green again, then walked through the jangling door of the tattoo parlor.
MEMORY SICKNESS is Phong Nguyen's first collection of short stories. His work has appeared in such publications as Agni, Boulevard, Iowa Review, Mississippi Review, North American Review, and Massachusetts Review. He is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Missouri, where he teaches fiction writing and edits the journal Pleiades. His newest collection is Pages from the Textbook of Alternate History. He lives in Warrensburg with his wife—the artist Sarah Nguyen—and their three children.
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Dr. Amy Bishop, PhD 2015
Since finishing my PhD as part of the Twiss behaviour lab, I have packed up my life and moved across the world.
Which is why you can now find me bundled up in September muttering 'winter is coming'.
I hear American accents everyday, not just in passing.
I have had 'moose and bear safety training'.
I'm in Alaska.
No, I can't see Russia from my house.
Alaska is a unique place. It is 13x the size of England, but only has a population similar to the City of Leeds (~700,000). Because of the scale, the harsh winters, the rapidly changing climate, and the general ruggedness that is required to live up here, managers and scientists have to be creative and collaborative to monitor the environment.
Which leads me to my new job: I am currently a post-doctoral fellow with Dr. Jennifer Burns and Dr. Eric Bortz at the University of Alaska Anchorage; in partnership with the Alaska Native Harbor Seal Commission. The ANHSC is a non-profit, co-management group that represents Alaska Natives who rely on harbor seals for subsistence nutrition and for cultural traditions. After travelling to some of the remote villages, and seeing for myself that a single loaf of bread can cost upwards of $8 (£6!) it is clear why many of these villages rely on traditional hunting and natural resources.
Since 1996, partnerships between Alaska Native hunters and researchers have been developed to help monitor the health of harbor seal populations in Alaska. As the Biosample Project Manager, my role is to work with Native Hunters and train them on the protocols for collecting scientific measurements and tissue samples from harvested seals. I then facilitate the scientific research assessing the health of seals (stress hormones, disease screening, stable isotopes etc.), specifically seals in the Aleutian Islands. So far, I've travelled to the Aleutians Islands of Atka and Unalaska and have spent a lot of time remembering from my undergraduate days how to run a PCR analysis. This does mean that for the time being I've traded watching seals, identifying individuals, and pouring over videos of behaviours and instead find myself driving around seal carcasses (investing in car air-fresheners), dissecting bits of tissues, or pipetting carefully in fume hoods.
The skills I learned during my time with the Twiss lab have been excellent preparation for my current work: learning to keenly and quietly observe, managing fieldwork, organizing large databases, working with researchers and people with vastly different backgrounds, and investigating biology of seals—all of it has prepared me for this new adventure. But what I'm most happy about, is that my 'learning' hasn't ended with the conference of my degree. Taking on a postdoc that was just an extension of my PhD didn't really ever appeal to me. Being curious and excited about new directions in science is why I got into the 'biz' in the first place. I've lucked out in that I was able to find a position where I had plenty to learn, and amazing mentors to help guide me. In return, what I learn here will hopefully open more doors in the future, and help me continue to pursue interdisciplinary projects that incorporate these new molecular techniques with the behavioural ecology skills I developed during my time with the Twiss Lab!
One last quick note: During my PhD, not only was I learning new skills as a researcher, but at the time I was the only American in the Twiss behaviour lab, so a big part of my PhD was learning a new culture too. It might have taken the full four years, but I was eventually conditioned to spelling it 'behaviour' and not 'behavior'. I no longer needed to do mental math whenever someone told me it was 12°C outside. I took my tea with milk, and I cheered during the Six Nations instead of the Super Bowl. I learned to drive on the left side of the road, and got 'better' at dealing with roundabouts. I complained about the weather. I queued like a pro. That is why I would encourage any students considering graduate studies to MOVE. Yes, staying at your undergraduate university might be 'convenient', but the life experiences you gain by hauling your life around the globe, meeting new people, and being exposed to new ways of thinking is just as much a transferable skill as database management. It's life management!
If you have any questions or want to get in touch feel free to email me at: email@example.com


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Dim sum, while sometimes used to refer to Chinese dumplings, actually refers to a type of meal, consisting of small plates of dumplings, pastries, or other small portions of food. Traditionally, dumplings were a part of Dim Sum teahouse snacks.
Siu Mai and Wonton are types of dumplings. They can be steamed, baked, fried or pan fried.
Momo's – Steamed or fried, is the Tibetan version of a dumpling, which appeals to the Indian palate.
Potsticker is actually a method of cooking. Legend has it that a chef, intending to boil dumplings in a wok, left them on the heat for too long resulting in the pot boiling dry. With no water in sight, the bottom of the dumpling crisped up and stuck to the wok. And potstickers, as we know it, were born.
Dating back to World War II, Japanese soldiers who were stationed in Northern China were exposed to Zhao Ji viz potstickers. Upon their return home, they tried to recreate the dumplings they had eaten. Calling them Gyoza – the Japanese Kanji pronunciation of the Chinese characters for zhao ji.
Now that you know the difference between the various terms, you can sound a little more knowledgeable than your friends when ordering at a restaurant. 🙂
Whether it's sui mai or wonton or momos or potstickers, I ❤ them all
I encourage you to make your own wrappers as the homemade ones are softer. But I'm lazy and buy mine ready made. Although post eating these little dumplings, I made a mental promise to make the wrappers next time. But then laziness kicks in and this promise is soon forgotten.
Anyway enough of my ramblings and onto the recipe
Sui Mai/ Wanton/ Dumpling Wrapper recipe
Chicken Sui Mai Recipe
Mix the boneless chicken, egg white, cornflour, oyster sauce, veg seasoning and sesame oil (preferably roasted) into a mixer and pulse to a paste.
Chop the white part of the spring onion into fine pieces. Finely dice the carrots. Add both these ingredients at the end as it helps to give a little bite to the sui mais.
Use round wrappers as they are easier to fold. If you have square wrappers, don't stress, just use a small bowl and cut them into the desired circular shapes
Set the production line with wrappers, water (to seal) and the meat mixture.
Take the wrapper and dollop a spoonful of the mixture into the center and fold. This is one of the easiest ways I learned as the instructions are pretty clear and easy to follow.
See how pretty these look and with practice I could made multiple folds.
Steam/ fry and serve with your favourite dipping sauce
You can also freeze a batch of sui mai/ dumplings and take out as necessary to satisfy that evening snack craving. Or if you have unexpected guests, just whip out these babies and they will be super impressed.
Will share the dipping sauces recipe very soon. Enjoy for now 🙂


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People struggling with debt may turn to avenues such as taking on a second job or bringing in a renter to help with the bills. Sometimes, these approaches pay off. Other times, though, they can be risky or unnecessary. For example, an improperly vetted renter could cause significant property damage.
Think twice before dipping into your 401(k) to pay debt
Efforts to raise debt limits have support
If one judge had his way, Michigan residents and others would not face debt limits when filing for Chapter 13 bankruptcy. He and others shared this sentiment at an October meeting of the American Bankruptcy Institute Commission on Consumer Bankruptcy. This may help those who don't qualify for Chapter 13 bankruptcy but don't find Chapter 11 to be a realistic alternative.
The possible benefits of debt consolidation
Michigan residents who are looking for ways to better handle their high-interest debts may want to look into debt consolidation. This may allow them and others to make one payment each month at a lower interest rate than what is currently being paid. Debt consolidation may be best for those who have total debts that are less than 50 percent of their income.
Pitfalls to avoid when trying to escape credit card debt
Consumers in Michigan and around the country often turn to credit cards following an unexpected financial setback such as a layoff or illness. Paying revolving debt off can be difficult for people who are struggling to make ends meet because minimum monthly payments are made up almost entirely of interest, and other options to pay down debt, such as selling assets or borrowing at more attractive rates, are often not available to those with unmanageable financial situations.
When your adult child causes you unsurmountable debt
Although each bankruptcy case is unique, there are many common financial issues. A job loss, divorce or injury can put you in enough distress to declare bankruptcy. However, another common reason for financial turmoil is providing financial assistance to a child.
Americans may carry credit card debt for years
Roughly half of Americans in Michigan and elsewhere who hold credit card debt carry a balance for at least two years. Of those who admitted to carrying a balance for at least two years, half said that they have had it for five years. This was according to a study of 2,000 adults conducted by Creditcards.com. Baby boomers and those in the Silent Generation were the most likely to carry such debt.
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October is here, which means it is almost time for Halloween. If you recently divorced and have a parenting plan, you might be wondering how to handle this holiday. Holidays come with unique challenges for divorced parents. Who will take the kids trick or treating?


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Coconut Chocolate Bark
March 30, 2014 | Makes 12 Servings
- 2 Tablespoons of Desiccated Coconut
- 3 Tablespoons of Coconut Flakes
- 200g of Cacao Butter
- 1/4 Cup of Maple Syrup (60ml)
- 1/4 Cup of Cacao Powder (25g)
I love having different flavours of chocolate bark hiding at the back of the fridge as an after dinner treat. Usually when I'm making it I throw in every nut/seed I can find, but today I wanted something simple and I had some gorgeous leftover toasted coconut flakes. The different textures of coconut, both chewy and crunchy make this bark so delicious and flavourful! Also try out my usual bark recipe- Superfood Chocolate Bark. If you're short on time, melt down 70%+ dark chocolate and skip a few steps!
To make your chocolate, melt the cacao butter, slowly on low heat. Then stir in your cacao powder and sweetener. When everything is melted together give it a really good whisk and take it off the heat. If you're using regular dark chocolate instead, simply melt it.
Line your baking tin with parchment paper and get all your toppings out so you have them ready.
Pour all of the silky chocolate in to the baking tin and spread it evenly.
Sprinkle the coconut evenly over the chocolate and then freeze for about 30 minutes until it sets.
Then take it out and snap it into chunks and enjoy! Store it in the fridge to keep it nice and cold.
3 Comments to Coconut Chocolate Bark
lloooooooooove this idea 🙂
Hi, just wondering where you buy your cacao butter? Really excited to make this, but would like to avoid being ripped off in health food shops! Thanks! 🙂


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In 1672, it was discovered that sunlight (white light) is a combination of light of various colors, and Newton made the famous conclusion that monochromatic light is simpler in nature than white light. The use of dichroic prism on the sun (white light) is broken down into red, orange, yellow, green, blue, purple and other monochromatic light.
In 1800, British physicist F. W. Heusl discovered infrared light when studying various colored lights from a hot point of view. While studying the heat of various colors, he deliberately blocked the only window in the darkroom with a darker panel and opened a rectangular hole in the panel with a dichroic prism inside. When the sunlight passes through the prism, it is broken down into colored bands and the thermometer is used to measure the amount of heat in the different bands in the band. In order to compare with the ambient temperature, Husserl used several thermometers near the colored light bands to measure the ambient temperature. During the experiment, he stumbled upon a curious phenomenon: a thermometer placed outside of the red band of light, higher than the indication of any other temperature in the room. After repeated testing, the so-called high-temperature high-temperature zone, always at the edge of the light outside the red light. So he announced that in addition to the visible light emitted by the sun, there is a kind of invisible "hot line", which can not be seen. The invisible "hot line" is located outside the red light and is called infrared light. Infrared is an electromagnetic wave with the same nature as radio waves and visible light. The discovery of infrared ray is a great leap forward in understanding of nature and opens up a brand new broad field in the research, utilization and development of infrared technology.
Infrared wavelengths between 0.76 ~ 100μm, according to the wavelength range can be divided into near-infrared, mid-infrared, far-infrared, far infrared four categories, its electromagnetic spectrum in the continuous spectrum of radio waves in the region between the visible and light . Infrared radiation is one of the most widespread electromagnetic radiation in nature. It is based on the random movement of molecules and atoms in any object under normal circumstances, and continuously radiates the thermal infrared energy, the movement of molecules and atoms The more intense, the greater the energy of the radiation, on the contrary, the smaller the radiation energy.
Objects whose temperature is above absolute zero will radiate infrared light due to their own molecular motion. After converting the power signal radiated by the object into the electrical signal through the infrared detector, the output signal of the imaging device can completely simulate the spatial distribution of the temperature of the surface of the scanned object, which is processed by the electronic system to be transmitted to the display screen to obtain the Corresponding thermal profile of the object surface thermal image. Using this method, we can achieve long-range thermal imaging of the target image and temperature measurement and analysis to determine.
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DETROIT, MI, (November 19, 2007) — Toyota recently announced a $2 million contribution to the Detroit Science Center for construction of the new Toyota Engineering Theater. In the spirit of Toyota's commitment to education programs nationwide, the contribution will help transform the center into America's premier engineering-focused museum. TMMK's President Steve St. Angelo made the announcement at the recent Youth Engineering and Science Expo in Detroit.
The donation will produce 300 unique and interactive exhibits. The Toyota Engineering Theater will offer a multi-media experience for visitors. It will be the only venue in Michigan focused completely on engineering and related careers. The high tech theater will feature live hosts as well as 3-D presenters to profile stories of real engineers from across the state. The Toyota Engineering Theater is scheduled to open in December 2008.
"As Michigan continues to move towards becoming a knowledge-based economy, the enhancements to the Detroit Science Center will help inspire young visitors to pursue careers in engineering and other science-based fields," said Kevin Prihod, president and CEO of the Detroit Science Center. "We're thrilled to have Toyota's support as we work towards making the Science Center a science museum of national stature."
"The Detroit Science Center's mission to inspire the next generation of Michigan's engineers is vitally important," said Steve St. Angelo, senior vice president of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America, Inc. "Toyota is proud to join our industry colleagues in demonstrating our ongoing commitment to the Science Center's efforts."
This year, Toyota is celebrating its 50th anniversary in the United States. Among its U.S. operations, Toyota Technical Center, a division of Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing, North America, Inc, is located in Ann Arbor, Michigan. Employing over 900 people, it is the company's largest technical center outside of Japan. The technical center is expanding, with the construction of a new engineering design facility and a safety test facility in nearby York Township, which will add an additional 400 new jobs by 2010. The company's investment in the state exceeds $850 million.
About Toyota
Toyota (NYSE:TM) established operations in North America in 1957 and will operate 15 manufacturing plants in North America by 2010. There are more than 1,700 Toyota, Lexus and Scion dealerships in North America which sold more than 2.8 million vehicles in 2006. Toyota directly employs over 42,000 in North America and its investment here is currently valued at more than $19 billion, including sales and manufacturing operations, research and development, financial services and design. Toyota's annual purchasing of parts, materials, goods and services from North American suppliers totals more than $30 billion. According to a 2005 Center For Automotive Research study, Toyota, along with its dealers and suppliers, has generated nearly 400,000 U.S. jobs, including jobs created through spending by direct, dealer and suppliers employees. For more information about Toyota, visit www.toyota.com.
About the Detroit Science Center
The Detroit Science Center is a hands-on museum that inspires its visitors to pursue and support careers in engineering, technology and science. The Science Center features Michigan's only IMAX® Dome Theatre; the Dassault Systèmes Planetarium; the Ford Learning Resource Center; the DTE Energy Sparks Theater; the Chrysler Science Stage; an 8,700 square-foot Science Hall for traveling exhibits; hands-on exhibit galleries focusing on space, life and physical science; the United States Steel Fun Factory; a children's gallery for pint-size scientists; and a Special Events Lobby. The Science Center has served more than 1.8 million visitors since its grand re-opening on July 28, 2001. For more information, please call 313-577-8400 or visit the website, www.detroitsciencecenter.org
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The First Commandment
"Thou shalt have no other gods before me"
Question: If there is only one God, and He is everywhere, where does man fit in?
Answer: Think about how a ray of sunshine stretches forth from the sun. It isn't the sun, but it has the same qualities of the sun, such as warmth and light. In a similar way, man expresses God's nature through spiritual qualities. You simply cannot be separated from Him at any time or any way! Mrs. Eddy explains:
"As a drop of water is one with the ocean, a ray of light one with the sun, even so God and man, Father and son, are one in being . . . 'For in Him we live, and move, and have our being.'" (S&H 361)
"Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe." (S&H 465-466)
"Do religionists believe that God is One and All? Then whatever is real must proceed from God, from Mind, and is His reflection and Science. Man and the universe coexist with God in Science, and they reflect God and nothing else. In divine Science, divine Love includes and reflects all that really is, all personality and individuality. St. Paul beautifully enunciates this fundamental fact of
Deity as the 'Father of all, who is above all, and through all, and in you all.' This scientific statement of the origin, nature, and government of all things coincides with the First Commandment of the
Decalogue, and leaves no opportunity for idolatry or aught besides God, good." ('00 4)
Practice: Today, try being that ray of sunshine. Feel God's Love shining through you to light up your day!
(Excerpted from "First Lessons in Christian Science, Volume One: The Ten Commandments"
Copyright 2001)
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