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Mini Persimmon Chocolate Cakes – The In Thing
If you like the idea of a fruity fudgy little chocolate cake then these mini persimmon chocolate cakes may be for you. They're made with milk chocolate so as not to overwhelm the fragrant mango-like notes of the persimmon. But best of all, they're finished with a white chocolate mascarpone topping.
The In Thing
The nights are drawing in, it's cold, it's damp, it's dreary and it's November. To defy this and to raise much needed funds, Cancer Research UK has a new initiative for this very month of November – do The In Thing and have a great night in with the girls. There are plenty of ideas for hosting a great night in with friends, colleagues and neighbours: embarrass yourself with karaoke, watch a film, feast your way through a dinner party or just have a good old chin wag. More ideas can be found on The In Thing web pages.
Cancer is a pernicious and devastating disease and I doubt there is a single family who has not been touched by cancer in some way or other. Cancer Research UK is the world's leading cancer charity dedicated to saving lives through research and it is funded entirely by the public. Raising money for a worthwhile cause and having fun whilst you're can be a win-win situation. Oh and by the way, there is still time to take part.
So this was the idea I had for a girl's night in:
A games night. I love a good games night but haven't had one of those in a very long time. Time to dust off that cupboard full of games. What fun. No night in is complete without some sort of food and drink, however. Snacks and gaming are a natural combination. Olives, nibbles and some chocolate cake!
Mini Persimmon Chocolate Cakes
I was sent some Dr Oetker goodies to help me on my way. Dark chocolate, milk chocolate and white chocolate were included along with some chocolate hearts; I was going to use them all.
Still experimenting with persimmons, I wanted to try this newly-discovered fruit in cake form. With its sweet mango-like flavour, I thought the persimmon would be best paired with milk chocolate rather than dark. I modelled the recipe on my rhubarb muffins and then took it up a notch by adding icing. For this, I envisaged a mascarpone and vanilla white chocolate ganache using the vanilla paste I recently reviewed.
These mini persimmon chocolate cakes had a pleasant, fudgy, pudding-like consistency. In fact, they tasted a bit like fudge too. Put another way, they tasted grand: sweet and fruity with the aforementioned fudgy notes, which I guess came from the chocolate. And the mascarpone and white chocolate topping was equally grand, with those tell-tale flecks of fragrant vanilla which combined splendidly with the cake beneath. I was glad I'd opted for mini cakes as these might have been a bit too rich for a large cupcake, plus you can have a second one without feeling too guilty.
Extra Indulgence
For some real indulgence, I also made a chocolate Amaretto biscuit cake which will feature soon in an upcoming post. Let's just say it's good.
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Mini Persimmon Chocolate Cakes – The Recipe
Mini Chocolate Persimmon Cakes
- 85 g unsalted butter
- 100 g golden caster sugar
- 100 g milk chocolate (I used 35% cocoa content)
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
- 2 eggs - large (I used duck eggs)
- 225 g flour (half wholemeal, half white)
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 100 g Greek yogurt
- 1 soft ripe persimmon
- 80 g white chocolate
- 150 g mascarpone
- 1 tsp vanilla bean paste
- Melt the chocolate in a bowl over hot water.
- Cream the butter and sugar together until very pale in colour and fluffy in texture.
- Beat in the vanilla extract and chocolate.
- Beat in the eggs one by one.
- Sieve in the flour and stir in alternately with the yogurt.
- Cut the persimmon in half and scoop out the flesh. Stir into the cake batter.
- Divide the mixture between two 12 hole mini muffin tins or cases. Bake at 180°C for 15-20 minutes, when the cakes should be risen and a skewer inserted comes out clean. Turn out onto a wire rack to cool.
- Melt the white chocolate in a bowl over hot water.
- Stir the vanilla paste into the mascarpone, then mix in the chocolate.
- Spread the topping over the cakes and decorate as you wish (I used chocolate hearts).
I'm submitting these mini persimmon chocolate cakes to Let's Party, a new blogging challenge from lovely Alida of My Little Italian Kitchen.
And as this was a bit of a Bake Fest, I'm submitting this to the challenge of the same name hosted over at Cook's Joy.
25 Comments
Amie17th November 2013 at 6:02 pm
Finally found a recipe with persimmon. Such a beautiful fruit that pairs so well with chocolate.
Thanks for the recipe.
Choclette17th November 2013 at 6:51 pm
Thanks for visiting and commenting Amie. This is the second recipe I've come up with. Both were good and I'm not sure which is my favourite.
belleau kitchen17th November 2013 at 7:34 pm
games night with cupcakes… could there be anything better… I doubt it!… love those cupcakes, still not crazy about the persimmon but i'm prepared to give them a go just for you!
Choclette17th November 2013 at 8:44 pm
Dom, if you keep coming up with such wonders as prune and chocolate shortbread, I'm happy for you to forego the persimmon 😀
Torviewtoronto17th November 2013 at 8:42 pm
wonderfully done desserts looks wonderful
Choclette17th November 2013 at 8:44 pm
Thank you Torview
Alida18th November 2013 at 9:59 am
Dear Choclette,
I love these chocolate treats. You have been very inventive here! I grew up with Persimmons (they are so addictive!) but I have never managed to make a proper cake/dessert with them. I love what you have done here. They are perfect for entertaining!
Thank you so much for entering your recipe in Let's Party ( I am so excited about my first challenge!) X
Choclette20th November 2013 at 7:57 am
Thank you Alida, I'm glad these are acceptable for your first party – looking forward to it 🙂
Jane Sarchet18th November 2013 at 11:01 pm
Not sure I should admit this, but I've so much as sniffed a persimmon. They are officially on my bucket list 🙂
Janie x
Choclette20th November 2013 at 7:56 am
A bucket of persimmons would be good 😉
Angie Schneider19th November 2013 at 7:37 pm
Love persimmons! Those cupcakes are so beautiful. Love Dr. Oetker's products.
Choclette20th November 2013 at 7:58 am
Thanks Angie. These persimmons have opened up a whole new world to me.
David Shams21st November 2013 at 2:09 pm
Chocolate Amaretto biscuit looks really delicious – chocolate, nuts & biscuit cake great combination 🙂 Looking forward to your upcoming post 🙂
Choclette21st November 2013 at 3:03 pm
Thanks David. I'm a sucker for biscuit cakes, so try not to make them too often. This one was up there with the best.
Heather24th November 2013 at 12:54 pm
They look great, very cute x
Heather | Of Beauty & Nothingness
Choclette26th November 2013 at 8:37 pm
Thank you Heather
Anne Szadorska28th November 2013 at 9:26 pm
I kept meaning to come back and say whilst your mini cakes look fab, yesterday I baked for the first time with persimmons' inspired by spotting this float onto my facebook page! I did an upside down cake with amaretti biscuits and was delicious! Thanks for the inspiration! 🙂
Choclette22nd March 2014 at 6:43 pm
Sorry Anne, only just spotted this. Am intrigued by your persimmon upside down cake – wow!
Dave Jackson7th December 2013 at 6:04 am
looks really good cannot wait to try to make them
Choclette22nd March 2014 at 6:44 pm
Thank you Dave
Teresa20th November 2019 at 4:02 pm
These looked so inspiring and, as I had bought some persimmons on offer, I really looked forward to making them. What a bad idea! Firstly, there was a huge amount of mix for 'mini'muffin tins, so I had to use large cupcake size. Secondly, not sure if oven temperature was correct, as my cakes cracked, shrank away from the sides and were really heavy. I rarely have a culinary disaster and this was a major one. My boyfriend who is very appreciative tasted half a cake and wrinkled his face in disgust. I have had to put them in the food recycling bin and am hugely disappointed. Oddly enough, when I tasted the mix, before adding the yogurt and persimmon, it tasted like a delicious chocolate cake mix. I regret not sticking with a regular chocolate cupcake recipe. Any suggestions as to what went wrong? I bake frequently so am quite puzzled..
Teresa21st November 2019 at 8:58 am
Hello thanks for replying. Yes, I let the persimmons ripen first. Did you use a fan oven? I have followed other recipes by Nigella/Dan Lepard and 160 is usually the recommended temperature. Anyway, perhaps they are an acquired taste!


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Parenthood has an uncanny way of making one painfully aware of the speed at which life travels while simultaneously pointing out the snail's pace required by some developmental processes. In other words, one minute you're like, "How in the hell did you outgrow the pants I bought two weeks ago?" while in the next breath you're uttering, "Sweet Jesus child, are you ever going to wipe your own butt?" It's a balance.
Thanks to his special needs and health issues, I've spent the past year oooing and ahhhing over Nugget's developmental strides like him finally saying "Om!" (Mom) while we prepare for Developmental Preschool. Nugget's strides don't make me feel old; they make me feel elated. But Number One Son, on the other hand, his made recent developments that make me feel like screaming "NO! Stop! SOMEBODY SLOW THIS CRAP DOWN!"
A week from now Number One is starting 3rd grade and while it's not as traumatic as that almighty kindergarten start that haunts a mother for months prior, it's still a reminder of how freakin' fast this whole childhood thing goes. (And, if you're old like me, how much closer you are to the end. Ew.)
To further confirm my suspicion that Number One Son was growing up way faster than I am prepared for, we had a week of events to prove it. It started with a sleepover invite.
"We'd like Richard's best buds to come for a sleep over to celebrate his birthday!"
Richard? When did they become best buds? Why don't I know they are best buds? What is this secrecy?
I did my best Nancy Drewing and was met with, "Duh Mom, he was at my birthday party and we played basketball every day at lunch." Clearly in the world of mini-men, that is all it takes to catapult one into BFF status. (Just another way life is easier for the male species.) But the real issue is, why did he withhold this information from his beloved Smother?
I'm not a sleepover fan. They make me nervous and kick my doom and gloom anxiety into overdrive. Because of this, to date; we've had one…just one, sleepover…and we knew those people pretty well and I was still nervous. We did meet Richard's father and Richard's dog when they dropped him off at Number One's B-day, and while he seemed like a nice enough guy with a seemingly well-behaved K-9, I had some reservations. In hindsight, I probably should not have shared those reservations with the kid though.
"I don't know Number One, I don't think you can stay over. We don't know these people."
"Mom, it will be fine. They're nice."
"You don't know that. What if they have a gun in the house? Or worse, what if they have an entire semi-automatic arsenal and shooting range in their basement. This is Indiana, you know."
"You always say that Mom. I'm sure they don't."
"You say that now but you won't be saying that when you come home with a hand shot off."
*massive 8 year old eyeroll* "MOM!"
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"Well, it's a rough time for Turks right now and maybe these people are undercover operatives working for Erdogan planning to take you hostage under the suspicion of being a Gulenist, and they will then extradite you back to your birth place where you will be subjected to life in prison with no chance of a fair trail. Did you ever think of that?"
"Was that even English Mom? You watch too much Turkish news."
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I will look at that website - I am still amazed that I cant simply select one option that makes all contacts that have a company field filled in --- a Company -- I have to do them all manually ???
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The Manx is tender and lively. It is not strange to discover he loves playing fetch or taking his possessions around. He is also intelligent and dexterous, effective at using his paws to get into cupboards or doors. Fond of the individual company, he'll continue dialogue at a candy trilling voice. Many Manx give all their love into one person while some are affectionate toward the whole family, including kids.
He may lack a tail, but the Manx includes an active rear end and is a superb jumper, even with no natural counterweight to help his equilibrium. When you see him quicken through the home and make sharp turns and quick stops, you are going to think he is a miniature sports car in the form of a cat.
The Manx is ideal for any home with those who will love him and provide his stunning coat with a weekly combing.
The Manx is famous because of his round shapes, out of his curved head to his curved rear end. Large round eyes are set at a small angle toward the nose together with the outer corners somewhat higher compared to inside edges.
The Manx coat comes in several colours and designs together with the exceptions of lavender, chocolate, pointed, or one or more one of these colours or patterns with white.
The Annals of the Manx
There are plenty of myths about the way these cats dropped their tails. Another is the fact that Viking or Irish raiders would sneak kittens since their tails were regarded as good luck charms, or so the mama cats only little off the tails. More probable, taillessness is the result of a genetic mutation, improved by centuries of inbreeding on the Isle of Man, in which the cats suffer from. Voila!
Manx Temperament and Character
The Manx is tender and lively. It is not strange to discover he loves playing fetch or taking his possessions around. He is also smart and dexterous, effective at using his paws to get into cupboards or doors. Fond of an individual company, he'll continue dialogue at a candy trilling voice. Many Manx give all their love into one person while some are affectionate toward the whole family, including kids. The Manx is brilliant.
Always select a kitten from a breeder who raises litters at the house and manages them from a young age. Meet at least one and both of their parents to make sure they have excellent temperaments.
All cats can come up with hereditary health issues, as all individuals can inherit ailments. Run, do not walk from any breeder who doesn't provide a health guarantee on kittens or that informs you her kittens are isolated from the central area of the home for health reasons.
Some have spinal flaws that lead to neurological indications such as issues defecating or urinating. Many Manx kittens with such problems are recognized by six weeks old and have to be euthanized. It does not hurt to wait to take your kitten home till you are sure he does not suffer from any one of these issues. Prevent kittens that have difficulty walking or walk with a stiff or hopping gait, nor buy from a breeder who doesn't supply a written health guarantee.
Bear in mind that once you have chosen a new kitten to your house, you can shield him from among the most frequent health issues: obesity. Maintaining a Manx for a suitable burden is among the most straightforward methods to safeguard his general wellbeing. Make the most of your preventative skills to make sure a healthy kitty for a lifetime.
The Fundamentals of Manx Grooming
Comb or brush once or twice a week to remove dead hair. You will want to touch him often throughout the spring and autumn shedding seasons. Reduce the nails each week and wash out the ears sometimes should they seem dirty. Brush the teeth using a vet-approved pet toothpaste for general good health and fresh breath.
Selecting a Manx Breeder
You would like your Manx to become healthy and happy so that you can enjoy your time together with him do your homework before you bring him home.
A respectable breeder will abide by a code of ethics which prohibits sales to pet shops and wholesalers and summarizes the breeder's duties to their cats and also to buyers. Opt for a breeder that has completed the health certifications required to screen out genetic health issues to the extent that's possible, even as one who increases kittens in the house. Kittens that are isolated may become scared and invisibly and might be hard to interact later in life.
Tons of reputable breeders have sites, so how do you tell who is right and who is not? Red flags include kittens regularly available, multiple litters on the assumptions, getting your selection of any kitty, and also the capability to pay online using the credit card. These things are suitable, but they're almost never connected with reliable breeders.
Whether you are likely to receive your feline buddy from a breeder, a pet shop, or a different source, remember that adage" let the buyer beware." Disreputable breeders and unhealthy catteries can be strict to differentiate from reputable operations. There is no 100% guaranteed way to ensure you will not ever buy a sick kitty, but exploring the strain (so you understand exactly what to expect), checking out the center (to determine unhealthy conditions or ill animals), and asking the ideal questions can cut the odds of heading to a catastrophic situation. And do not forget to request your vet, who will often consult with a respectable breeder, breed rescue organization, or other trusted resource for healthy kittens.
Place at least just as much effort into exploring your kitty as you'd into selecting a new automobile or expensive appliance. It will help save you money in the long term.
Be patient. Based on what you're searching for, you might need to wait six weeks or longer for the correct kitty to be accessible.
Before you get a kitten, think about whether a grownup Manx could be a better option for your lifestyle. Kittens are plenty of fun, but they are also a great deal of work and may be harmful until they attain a somewhat more sedate adulthood. Having an adult, you learn more about what you are getting concerning character and health. If you're thinking about acquiring a grownup cat rather than a kitty, ask breeders about buying retired from breeding or show cat or should they are aware of an adult cat that needs a new house.
The Manx is an odd and rare breed. It's improbable you will locate one in a refuge or via a rescue team, but it does not hurt to appear. Occasionally pedigreed cats wind up in the shelter after dropping their house into an owner's death, divorce or change in economic circumstance.
Wherever you get your Manx, be sure you've got a fantastic contract with the vendor, shelter or rescue team that spells out duties on either side. In nations with"pet lemon laws," make sure you and the individual who you have the cat out of understanding your rights and recourses.
Kitten or grownup, take your Manx to a vet soon after arrival. Your vet will have the ability to identify issues, also will work together with you to prepare a preventative regimen which can allow you to prevent many health problems.


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Please don't judge me. But I may have just searched the above video in youtube and was immediately transported to my childhood while listening and watching. Remember that friend I mentioned yesterday who is PREGNANT? Well, confession: her sisters and I would recreate music videos by the Spice Girls all the time. And we'd fight over who got to be Ginger and Baby Spice. Just like we used to fight over who got to be the pink power ranger. Why we played power rangers when we were kids I'll never know. We were a little old for that. But really? Whose too old to choreograph "fight scenes" on the trampoline? Apparently not us!
I'd probably be embarrassed by the number of VHS videos at my parents house of home recordings of us doing songs like the above. Or Wannabe. Or plays we would put on. Or best yet: we once video taped an entire sleep over. Yes, we were that cool! We used to have the awesome rock out sleepovers in my parent's basement. They were two floors up from us so we could stay up as late as we wanted and be as loud as we could ever dream and not get in trouble! We seriously had the best childhood ever. Really.
It really makes me miss those girls. Theres a line in the above song "always be together." And we would sing that line with such gusto because we just believed that would be true. Nothing in the world could come between our friendship. Their parents used to say they had four daughters because I basically lived at their house. But they moved across town when we entered high school. We weren't driving yet so that seemed so far away. And we all know what happens in high school: we change. We build friendships with people around us and forget our childhood. Well, I never ever forgot my childhood, but we did move on from the days of playing dolls and riding our bikes to Burger King.
But those girls? They'll always be my friends. And maybe some day we'll have a reunion tour of our Spice Girl days and show our future children what geeks we really were.


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There is some explanation in this article for people who aren't familiar with the story of WoW, which inevitably contains some spoilers concerning all the pre-patch events before Battle for Azeroth. Don't read if you've not yet played through the Siege of Lordaeron and don't want the surprises ruined.
Here we are at the eve of a new World of Warcraft expansion. Launch nights are always, for my guild mates and me, an exciting time. It happens once every two years or so and you really feel you're off to discover new landscapes and races and adventures. All good. Battle for Azeroth will take us to breath-taking new lands and, having been in the Beta for it, (albeit not doing much as I don't want to spoil the story), I can't wait.
However, the run up to this particular expansion has been more melodramatic than usual. This is down to how the story is developing within the game. Azeroth is a huge world, with an immense amount of lore attached to it, which could give Lord of the Rings a run for its money in terms of complexity and fully realised histories of multiple nations and continents.
When you've played an MMO for getting on for twelve years or so, its native people feel more like friends than bunches of pixels. When I began playing WoW, back in Classic, I didn't even notice the story and only started to become interested in it during the second expansion, Wrath of the Lich King. The story within The Burning Crusade, the first expansion that led WoW out of Classic into a new age in a lot of respects, didn't engage me as much, not because it wasn't compelling but because so much of it was hidden inside raids, and at the time my guild could only access the 10-person Karazhan and Zul Aman. The bigger raids, for hardcore players only, held the meat of the story within them. But in Wrath, you occasionally ran into the Big Bad, Arthas the Lich King, as you were doing quests and levelling, as well as in the 5-person dungeons. There were dramatic cinematics to further the story – and not this time hidden in raids that were simply for the hardcore elite. Raids – often the most spectacular part of the game – also became accessible to more players, specifically for guilds with smaller teams. Our guild loved this. Everyone felt involved.
WoW has built on this type of story-telling ever since, so that players can engage with what's going on. You feel like you're in a book or a film, and it's not just a case of mindlessly killing 10 of this or collecting 10 of that for quests. What you do has more purpose. You're busy helping oppressed races or fighting enemies that threaten the whole world. Through the story, players have changed the world of Azeroth, for better or worse.
In Battle for Azeroth, Blizzard is (initially) taking the story back to the faction divide. If anyone's reading this who isn't a WoW devotee, I'll just explain that when players join the game, they choose either Alliance or Horde and begin playing their first character in that faction. Eventually, we might make characters on the other faction in order to see the story from both sides, and I imagine very few players don't do that nowadays.
In the build up to BfA, Horde and Alliance are at each other's throats again, in a tit for tat war. For the uninitiated, here is a very simple precis of a quite complicated story: Horde Warchief, Sylvanas Windrunner, nuked the World Tree Teldrassil, which was home of the Alliance Night Elves. A great many civilians perished, burned alive. In retaliation, the boy king Anduin Wrynn led Alliance forces against the Horde at the occupied city of Lordaeron. Here, Sylvanas decided to release the Blight, a hideous, fleshing-eating disease that killed both her own troops as well as Alliance soldiers, all of which she then raised gleefully as undead to fight for her. Despite this, she still didn't win, thanks to the timely intervention of Jaina Proudmoore, a somewhat conflicted character herself (to put it mildly), and a very powerful Alliance mage. The leaders of both sides escaped the devastation, thus setting the stage for the launch of BfA.
Sylvanas's actions at Lordaeron following the slaughter of civilians in Teldrassil has left a lot of Horde players feeling pretty angry. They disagree with their leader's tactics and decisions – and it seems several non-player characters in the game feel the same, as shown in the movie-quality cinematic Blizzard released last week – The Old Soldier. In this, the veteran Orc general, Varok Saurfang, is so disgusted with the ways things are going – including perhaps how his world has changed since he was young – that he's prepared to take off his armour and go to face the Alliance troops alone and unarmoured on the morning before the final battle. Sure suicide. But to Saurfang, honour is everything, and he feels the war he's caught up in is dishonourable. He's only dissuaded by a young Troll shaman who, as the dawn breaks over the mighty war engines of the Alliance surrounding Lordaeron, brings a degree of hope back to the grizzled old fighter. It was well-written, well-directed and beautifully depicted, and I found it profoundly moving. But the cinematic only highlighted the discord within the Horde itself.
I like the drama of this, and it makes me eager to discover how the story is going to play out. It's clear Blizzard wants everyone to feel furious with Sylvanas and worried for the future, regardless of their faction, but I think the developers have got more story surprises up their sleeves. Some players are suggesting this plot is a precursor to doing away with faction divide completely – something I'd personally welcome, although a lot of players (perhaps even 50%?) would hate that. To me, faction divide is annoying in many ways. Story-wise, we've been teaming up to fight a common foe for over a decade. Everyone (player and fictional character alike) is older and wiser, yet even so, Horde and Alliance are now back to scrapping like school kids. It doesn't make sense to me. Surely, a type of Cold War plot would be more convincing? I'm mainly an Alliance player, but I do have a lot of Horde characters I love just as much. Unfortunately, I can't do end game group content with them, because all my friends play Alliance exclusively at top level. My Hordies are paupers in comparison to my rich Alliance characters, and because they're on opposite sides, I can't mail my Horde gold or resources, which is really galling when my Alliance have far more than they can use. Removing the divide, so that the factions could group for high level content, and otherwise communicate in all sorts of ways, would mean my Horde characters might even see a bit of raid and dungeon action, which I'd be really pleased about. But… if Blizzard does decide to sow permanent harmony between Horde and Alliance, a large proportion of the player base might have tantrums about it. We'll have to see whether Blizzard wants to risk that. I have no gut feeling either way, because so much is up in the air story-wise at present.
There are many predictions about how the narrative will go and I enjoy being tantalised by this. It's like beginning to read a novel in which anything could happen. But… I can't help thinking that some of the narrative decisions that have been made since the beginning of the recent (brilliant) Legion expansion have their roots in what has become popular in genre fiction as a whole – whether in books, comics or film. I don't think anyone can dispute that Game of Thrones has been a huge influence on story-telling. It was this show (and books) that popularised the idea of provoking (and perhaps displeasing) the audience by killing off major characters en masse, characters who normally readers/viewers would expect to be comfortably invested in. It seems a cold-hearted act, almost breaking the contract between writer and reader, to exterminate too many characters simply for the sake of being shocking. The Grimdark genre truly deserves its name. I hate the brutality of this story-telling fashion in fantasy fiction, the attention to gory detail, the gloating over torture and torment, and the constant soft porn, which is just boring. The way I see it, if someone wants to watch porn, they can go and watch it on a channel or DVD devoted to erotic titillation. I don't see its place in mainstream entertainment. But there it is, and it's probably not going to go away now. The demons are out of the bag, which means that me, and people like me, just can't watch some shows, even if we otherwise like the story and setting. (For the record, I can stomach the soft porn, even if it's dull and wastes screen time when some actual story-telling could be going on, but I simply cannot and will not watch drawn out torture, dismemberment, graphic executions and rape. What kind of person enjoys such scenes?)
I think WoW has been infected by this trend, which began in Legion with the slaughter of the human High King, Varian Wrynn, one of his veteran generals, Tyrion Fordring, the Horde Warchief Vol'jin (a much-loved Troll leader), and several others. The fact that WoW lead developer Ion Hazzikostas recently compared the Burning of Teldrassil with the Red Wedding in Game of Thrones speaks volumes. You can see it must've been an influence, however unconsciously and if only for its shock value. OK, the upsetting moments at the start of Legion moved the story along and created high impact drama. It set the scene for the amoral Sylvanas to become Warchief of the Horde and the young and inexperienced (and pleasingly pretty) Anduin to become the human High King. New stories to be told, new characters to invest in. And now we are facing its legacy in BfA. But I do think Blizzard might have gone a bit too far with the 'realism' in a game that's essentially an escapist fantasy. I'm not sure I trust the creators (who are primarily game developers rather than fiction writers) to handle the story skilfully and convincingly. And the players want to be convinced by the story. The professional writers Blizzard do employ undoubtedly have to work to a predefined script, so can't be held responsible, and certainly don't deserve the threatening vitriol that's been directed at them on social media, but quite honestly the current writers are not that great. I would like to read the WoW novels to discover all the story detail that doesn't happen 'in game' but I can't bear the hackneyed writing. I did try, I really did… But it just hurt my eyes, never mind my own creative sensibilities, to read it. As an editor as well as a writer, I couldn't stop editing the prose in my head as I was reading. But anyway, those people are just employees, and it's some committee, somewhere deep inside Blizzard, that calls the shots.
The good side of all this is that story has become very important – nowadays, people expect their entertainment, even in games, to have complex, mature themes, realistic characters and situations, and convincing dramatic tension. I'm delighted I'm sitting here writing about all this, because it means story-telling is alive and well, and that modern obsessions with technology, plus short attention spans, haven't damaged it past repair. Quite the opposite, even if fiction has expanded far beyond the pages of books.
Part of The Old Soldier showed Saurfaung morosely removing his shoulder armour and throwing it to the ground. In an act of defiance against Sylvanas, (or solidarity with Saurfang, who is currently in the custody of the Alliance), some Horde players are currently choosing not to display their shoulder armour on their characters. I read that on some servers, (perhaps those devoted solely to role-playing, sadly I can't remember), players congregated in the Horde capital of Orgrimmar to demonstrate, in a 'Not in my Name' kind of way. That shows how the story is affecting people, so Blizzard are doing something right. WoW is a game, yet its narrative touches people deeply. As a writer of fiction, I applaud this – and of course this is why WoW has held my attention for so long.
This evening, as midnight strikes in Europe, the islands of Kul'Tiras and Zandalar will open, and the conflict of the Horde and Alliance will be taken there. I've already seen the landscape, and it's incredibly beautiful. The artwork has come on a long way since Classic WoW. One zone in particular – Drustvar – is a haunted land of dark witchcraft and supernatural strangeness. That's the area I'm heading to as soon as I reach Kul'Tiras. From what I've seen it's entirely my kind of place. I'm crossing my fingers that the story as it unfolds will be grand and surprising, and ultimately satisfying for all players. Sylvanas will definitely not be Warchief by the end of this expansion, I'm quite sure of that, but even though Saurfang seems the obvious replacement, I'm not so sure about that. Anduin will grow and change, perhaps pick up a wife along the way (the Wrynn dynasty needs continuance and Anduin could do with a strong partner to support him. There are several compelling female characters who'd make outstanding queens) – or… maybe the boy king won't survive the story. Whatever happens, it begins tonight, like a two-year long movie or novel. I loved Legion, its story, its landscapes and its characters. But now we're moving on to new horizons. I'm more than ready to be part of that.


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A couple of days ago I wrote my draft resignation letter. For those of you that have been paying attention, you know I don't like what I do. I've been trying to shake things up with multiple career switches. But apparently didn't shake this up hard enough….
I Wrote My Resignation Letter
It is time to take the plunge. It's time to try the biggest shake up I've done in my working life: stop working. I've talked about my work ethics before and my lack of motivation, and it's (finally….. according to Mrs. CF) gotten to the point I don't want to continue. It simply does not feel right. It's simply not worth it anymore (not even financially!). It's time for a change.
There will be a lot of change once I quit and on the other side, not much is going to change. Huh? Allow me to elaborate a bit. On the changes front, I'm going to try to be multiple things at the same time:
- part-time stay-at-home dad (Miss CF goes to school and will go to after-school care for one or two days per week);
- being a contractor (for our own house to both upgrade and rebuild into two rental units – multi year plan!);
- entrepreneur (starting my own little side business, fingers crossed & wish me luck!); and,
- work out more (a lot more! Still want to try an Olympic distance triathlon at some point).
Keep It Steady
But there are also lots of things that won't really change. Some of the key things that came to mind:
- we will still try to work out ways to become FIRE (it will just take a bit longer);
- I'll continue to blog (perhaps even up the frequency, subject to how the above items will develop); and,
- the way we live life won't change either. The way we cook, do holidays (except for the major upcoming one) and how we spend our leisure time are expected to continue unchanged. In short, our expense should not really change much, they should in fact go down a bit due to lower after school care expenses.
So when is all of this supposed to happen, I hear you ask. The plan is to hand in the resignation letter somewhere in March. Considering we already arranged time off for April-June, and a replacement will be arranged at work, the timing will be right before we take off. Should be smooth sailing for the guys at work anyways.
Why then and not now? We are low on cash and need money for the long trip, upcoming renovation works at two of our properties and a general buffer. By having paid work until April, we should be in a good position. This also will mean that my life as an unemployed (but not early retired yet) will commence late June.
Am I mad? No idea, but I'm sure looking forward to it!
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" Let those go there who have money, always money, but no taste, no perception, no feeling for a true combination. – Prisoners of Poverty Abroad by Helen Campbell
Where others only receive a vague impression, he must have a clear perception, to which his feeling must respond, and the value of which he must be able to estimate. – Émile Verhaeren by Stefan Zweig
The wild creatures of the waste were, he knew, always alert, and their perception of an approaching danger was wonderful. – Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Harold Bindloss


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I love scrolling through my phone at night to fall asleep, but I hate that my charger is always just a little bit too short and I have to lean off the side of the bed to use my phone. So I bought a reaaaaaaally long cord off amazon. But of course I trip over it almost every morning, so I knew I needed to go wireless.
- Wirelessly charge your phone
- No more worries about cord length
The Packaging
Everything was very chic and packaged to the nines. You can tell they are really going for the "Apple Feel" where the packaging is almost as important as the product itself.
The Products
1. Wireless Charging Pad
The Pros
- It can charge ANY phone that is Qi-enabled, if your phone isn't, Bezalel has a phone case that is. My husband has the Galaxy Note 8 and it was able to charge on there as well!
- It is magnetized so if your phone is bumped for any reason, it won't fly off the surface.
- Phones don't get hot because the pad dissipates the heat easily.
The Cons
- The port that connects the cord to the charging pad is extremely difficult to plug in.
- It doesn't come with a wall charger, just the usb cord.
- It's sometimes a little finicky to get the phone on properly for it to start charging, you can't just place it on there and leave, you need to double check it's working.
2. Wireless Car Charger
The Pros
- The surface is magnetized and holds phones securely.
The Cons
- It attaches to the vent which isn't necessarily a problem in the summer, but in the winter with the heat on, you don't want your phone overheating.
3. Wireless Phone Case
The Pros
- Very modern, nice to hold, made with polycarbonate, easy access to earphone jack.
The Cons
- I personally like it when the lock button protrudes to make it easier to press, usually higher priced phone cases have this, this one does not.
The Results
I wasn't a huge fan of the wireless car charger, but I did like the super chic wireless phone case and charging pad. There are definitely lots of pros and lots of cons to each product, but overall, anything that is wireless, I'm a fan of!
Where To Get It
Currently they have a few sales going on; see below for coupon codes!
- 5% OFF all Wireless Charging Products for your iPhone or Android Phone. Use GOWIRELESS on checkout.
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- FAST Wireless Charging for any QI and PMA enabled phone – 5% OFF the Futura X Turbo wireless charging pad
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From residuals to biogas to green electricity
At the heart of our business is a process called anaerobic fermentation. At our facility in Son, the Netherlands, we subject a mixture of organic residuals from farms, restaurants and food processors to fermentation. These raw materials include manure, drain fats, sludge, skimmings from water purification plants and kitchen waste. The fermentation process produces biogas – a sustainable energy resource, as it is produced from natural raw materials that would otherwise have to be landfilled or destroyed. We then feed the biogas into our own Combined Heat and Power (CHP) units to generate green electricity.
Powering our own plant – and 1,700 Dutch households
Our own fermentation plant operates entirely on self-produced green gas and power – a perfect illustration of how at Darling Ingredients we like to close the loops in everything we do. On top of that, the redundant electricity and gas are fed back to the grid. The volume of certified green energy we thus supply is equivalent to the energy needed by around 1,700 Dutch households – another example of sustainability in action.
What about the materials leftover after biogas production? Find out here


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The set-top box market is an interesting one. While there are some interesting solutions out there, getting consumers to go Android and get the Google experience for their TVs, just hasn't caught on. This could be for a number of reasons, but things are definitely getting closer.
Several manufacturers, instead of relying off of Google to do something, have started work on their own set-top boxes. Xiaomi who is best known for MIUI, a custom ROM for a slew of different Android devices, is working on a set-top box that will not only run MIUI, but also cost just $64.
Simply called the Xiaomi Box, on the software side, it'll be running MIUI 4 which is based on Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich. As far as the size, it will be very small and able to fit in your hand at just 105 mm in diameter and 21 mm thick.
Specs are pretty much unknown at this point, but it's rumored that the Xiaomi Box could have an ARM Cortex-A9 on board which would give it solid performance. Either way, it'll be making its way to China first and has already went on sale, but only to a select few who can help test the device.
Once the testing phase is over, Xiaomi will release it to the general public. In China. The chances of it coming over to the states is incredibly thin, but through some ingenuity and determination, I'm sure some of you can find a way to get your hands on it.


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Mu Cephei
|Observation data
Epoch J2000.0 Equinox J2000.0
|Right ascension
|21h 43m 30.4609s[1]
|+58° 46′ 48.166″[1]
|Apparent magnitude (V)
|+4.08[2] (3.43 - 5.1[3])
|Spectral type
|M2e Ia[4]
|U−B color index
|B−V color index
|Variable type
|Radial velocity (Rv)
|+20.63[5] km/s
|Proper motion (μ)
| RA: 2.740±0.884[6] mas/yr
Dec.: −5.941±0.922[6] mas/yr
|Parallax (π)
|0.4778 ± 0.4677[6] mas
−469[7] ly
−144 pc)
|Absolute magnitude (MV)
|Surface gravity (log g)
|−0.36[10] cgs
|10.0 ± 0.1[9] Myr
|Other designations
|Database references
Coordinates: 21h 43m 30.46s, +58° 46′ 48.2″ Mu Cephei (μ Cep, μ Cephei), also known as Herschel's Garnet Star, is a red supergiant[13] star in the constellation Cepheus. It appears garnet red and is located at the edge of the IC 1396 nebula. Since 1943, the spectrum of this star has served as the M2 Ia standard by which other stars are classified.[14]
Mu Cephei is visually nearly 100,000 times brighter than the Sun, with an absolute visual magnitude of −7.6. It is also one of the largest known stars with a radius around 1,000 times that of the sun (R☉), and were it placed in the Sun's position it would engulf the orbit of Mars and possibly Jupiter.
The deep red color of Mu Cephei was noted by William Herschel, who described it as "a very fine deep garnet colour, such as the periodical star ο Ceti".[15] It is thus commonly known as Herschel's "Garnet Star".[16] Mu Cephei was called Garnet sidus by Giuseppe Piazzi in his catalogue.[17][18] An alternative name, Erakis, used in Antonín Bečvář's star catalogue, is probably due to confusion with Mu Draconis, which was previously called al-Rāqis [arˈraːqis] in Arabic.[19]
In 1848, English astronomer John Russell Hind discovered that Mu Cephei was variable. This variability was quickly confirmed by German astronomer Friedrich Wilhelm Argelander. Almost continual records of the star's variability have been maintained since 1881.[20]
The angular diameter of μ Cephei has been measured interferometrically. One of the most recent measurements gives a diameter of 18.672±0.435 mas at 800 μm, modelled as a limb-darkened disk 20.584±0.480 mas across.[21]
Mu Cephei is a variable star and the prototype of the obsolete class of the Mu Cephei variables. It is now considered to be a semiregular variable of type SRc. Its apparent brightness varies erratically between magnitude 3.4 and 5.1. Many different periods have been reported, but they are consistently near 860 days or 4,400 days.[22]
A very luminous red supergiant, Mu Cephei is among the largest stars visible to the naked eye, and one of the largest known. It has been described as a hypergiant.[13]
This is a runaway star with a peculiar velocity of 80.7 ± 17.7 km/s.[9] The distance to Mu Cephei is not very well known. The Hipparcos satellite was used to measure a parallax of 0.55 ± 0.20 milliarcseconds, which corresponds to an estimated distance of 1,333–2,857 parsecs. However, this value is close to the margin of error. A determination of the distance based upon a size comparison with Betelgeuse gives an estimate of 390 ± 140 parsecs,[12] so it is clear that Mu Cephei is either a much larger star than Betelgeuse or much closer (and smaller and less luminous) than expected.[23]
The bolometric luminosity, summed over all wavelengths, is calculated from integrating the spectral energy distribution to be 283,000 L☉, making μ Cephei one of the most luminous red supergiants in the Milky Way. Its effective temperature of 3,750 K, determined from colour index relations, implies a radius of 1,260 R☉.[10] Other recent publications give similar effective temperatures. Calculation of the luminosity from a visual and infrared colour relation give 340,000 L☉ and a corresponding radius of 1,420 R☉.[8] An estimate made based on its angular diameter and an assumed distance of 2,400 light years gives it a radius of 1,650 R☉.[24]
More recent measurement based on a distance of 641+148
−144 pc gives the star a lower luminosity below 140,000 L☉ and a correspondingly lower radius of 972±228 R☉, and as well as a lower temperature of 3,551 K. These parameters are all consistent with those estimated for Betelgeuse.[7]
The initial mass of Mu Cephei has been estimated from its position relative to theoretical stellar evolutionary tracks to be between 15 M☉ and 25 M☉.[7][10]
Mu Cephei is surrounded by a shell extending out to a distance at least equal to 0.33 times the star's radius with a temperature of 2,055 ± 25 K. This outer shell appears to contain molecular gases such as CO, H2O, and SiO.[12]
Infrared observations suggest the presence of a wide ring of dust and water with an inner radius about twice that of the star itself, extending to about four times the radius of the star.[25]
The star is surrounded by a spherical shell of ejected material that extends outward to an angular distance of 6″ with an expansion velocity of 10 km s−1. This indicates an age of about 2,000–3,000 years for the shell. Closer to the star, this material shows a pronounced asymmetry, which may be shaped as a torus. The star currently has a mass loss rate of (4.9±1.0)×10−7 M☉ per year.[7]
Mu Cephei is nearing death. It has begun to fuse helium into carbon, whereas a main sequence star fuses hydrogen into helium. When a supergiant star has converted elements in its core to iron, the core collapses to produce a supernova and the star is destroyed, leaving behind a vast gaseous cloud and a small, dense remnant. For a star as massive as Mu Cephei the remnant is likely to be a black hole. The most massive red supergiants will evolve back to blue supergiants, Luminous blue variables, or Wolf-Rayet stars before their cores collapse, and Mu Cephei appears to be massive enough for this to happen. A post-red supergiant will produce a type IIn or type II-b supernova, while a Wolf Rayet star will produce a type Ib or Ic supernova.[26]
|Right ascension
|Apparent magnitude (V)
|Spectral type
|Database references
|μ Cep B (CCDM J21435+5847B)
|21h 43m 27.8s
|+58° 46′ 45″
|μ Cep C (CCDM J21435+5847C)
|21h 43m 25.6s
|+58° 47′ 08″
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External links[edit]
- "mu. Cep". SIMBAD. Centre de données astronomiques de Strasbourg. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
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- "Mu Cephei". AAVSO: Variable Star of the Season Archive. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- "IC 1396". Matt Ben Daniel: Starmatt Astrophotography. Retrieved 15 December 2013.
- "Garnet Star". Jumk.de Webprojects: Big and Giant Stars. Retrieved 15 December 2013.


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Saw this recipe in SOC's Food & Wine magazine (Japanese-style home cooking issue, June 2009 or thereabouts), and it looked delicious (as recipes in glossy magazines often are). I've been wanting to use wasabi in cooking, because I like the way wasabi feels on the sinuses (note: a study showed that wasabi is actually not a decongestant, even if it feels that way – it might actually cause more congestation). Also, I already had a large jug of michiu and a package of miso from making the Miso-Glazed Sea Bass, so I thought I'd leverage ingredients that I already had.
-2 tablespoons wasabi powder
-2 tablespoons water
-2 tablespoons drained horseradish (I substituted the same amount of Dijon mustard instead)
-1 teaspoon low-sodium soy sauce
-4 teaspoons canola oil (I eyeballed it, didn't bother to measure)
-Salt and freshly ground pepper
-1 2-pound flank steak
-1 pound fingerling potatoes
-1 tablespoon miso
-1 tablespoon michiu or mirin
-1 bunch watercress, stemmed (didn't use this)
Preheat the oven to 450 degrees and preheat a cast-iron grill pan (the one I used is from Cuisinart). Also, begin boiling a pot of water for the potatoes.
In a bowl, combine the wasabi powder and water, and then stir in the horseradish and soy sauce. Rub the steak with oil, and season with salt and pepper. Grill the steak over high heat until the bottom side is lightly charred (about 5 minutes), and then flip over. Spread the wasabi sauce over the charred side and let the other side cook for another 3 minutes or so. Transfer the steak to a roasting pan and then roast for about 10 minutes, until an instant-read thermometer reads about 135 degrees (medium-rare) at the thickest part. Transfer to a wooden cutting board and let it cool about 5-10 minutes before cutting.
Toss the potatoes into the boiling water and cook for 15 minutes (to soften the inside). Drain and let the potatoes cool. Meanwhile, heat up a sauce pan, add oil and add the potatoes, cooking for about 5 minutes. Then, add the michiu and miso mixture to the potatoes, cooking until the potatoes are coated, about 2 minutes.
Cooking Notes:
Can substitute Dijon mustard for the horseradish. I read that some people buy the horseradish root to freshly grate, while others buy the horseradish prepared. There actually was a small jar of prepared horseradish in the fridge, but I had no idea when it was bought (must've been over a year ago, if not five), and didn't want to take my chances. Besides, prepared horseradish loses its zing after about 3-6 months in the fridge.
Another good idea is to perhaps double the amount of wasabi sauce and reserve half as a sauce to be used on the side, per people's tastes. Can also add cream to the side sauce.
For the potato miso-mixture, I also added some white sugar. Would've preferred brown sugar, but I didn't have any on-hand at the time.
Previously Made:
-April 4, 2011: Purchased 1.75 pounds of flank steak from Trader Joes, for $7.49/lb. For three people, ended up with perhaps a quarter-pound leftover, so 1.50 pounds might've been sufficient. Picked up the potatoes ($2.99 for 2 pounds of the "White Delights" from Fresh & Easy, on the way back from Montara). I also added beech mushrooms to the potatoes. Served with steamed baby broccoli from TJ (no seasoning) and white rice. Cooking-wise, should've left the steak in the oven longer (ended up being on the very rare side when I took it out of the oven the first time, after a little less than 10 minutes). In the end, though, it turned out great!
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WEST POINT — As soon as the 66th Sweet Corn Festival Queen contest was over Thursday night, Erin Leasure rushed to the front of the outdoor stage.
She held her phone up to her face, snapping pics of the freshly crowned Sweet Corn Queen and the festival's Little Princess. Her daughter, Lilee Leasure, 8, of Keokuk, was the new princess.
"You guys are so sparkly," she said, commenting on the sequins decorating the dresses of the new West Point royalty.
Indeed they were. The sun shone directly on the stage and into the competitors' eyes, reflecting brightly off the outfits. Despite the uncomfortably muggy air and unrelenting sun, the bleachers on the opposite side of the stage were stuffed with local and out-of-town visitors.
"I'm very happy and excited," Lilee said a few minutes after winning her crown.
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Mom was even more excited.
"I had mom tears out there," she said with a laugh. "I'm very proud of her. She's already my princess, though."
While the Sweet Corn Queen is obligated to help out at the festival, the Little Princess is under no obligation, considering some of the competitors were as young as 5 years old. Lilee will be in the Sweet Corn parade Sunday, as well as the Labor Day Parade in Keokuk next month.
Otherwise, she's just expected to be a kid.
"I'm just going to ride rides with my brothers, and hopefully my best friend, hopefully she comes," Lilee said.
Mya Lawlor, 17, West Point, took home the queen crown following a whirlwind of six contestant interviews by emcee Joe Loving.
Lawlor, beat out Taylor Boeding, 17, Sarah Schierbrock, 18, Eryn Anderon,17, Emily Box, 16 and Anaka Sanders, 17 for the crown.
"It feels pretty good," she said.
A Sweet Corn Festival regular, Lawlor had dreamed of becoming the Sweet Corn Queen since she was a little girl. She had never run in any kind of queen contest or beauty pageant before. But for her hometown, she was more than willing to get gussied up.
"I feel like I would make a good advocate for West Point,' she said.
Lawlor will continue to be a regular presence at the festival, but this time, a crown will rest above her already familiar face. She'll help out any way she can, which isn't surprising, given her passion for team sports and team bonding.
"I'm ready to represent," she said.
Once the queen contest concluded, the Holy Trinity Dance team performed for the crowd. The four-day festival will continue through Sunday, and that includes bathtub races at 2:30 p.m. Saturday and a parade at noon Sunday.
For a full schedule of events, visit www.westpointsweetcornfestival.com


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Entry for January 04, 2007
Tomorrow is the big day. Here's an article I found on the importance of B6:
By Dr. James Howenstine, MD.
September 29, 2004
Dr. Kilmer McCully, who discerned the importance of homocysteine in producing arteriosclerosis, believes that B6 (pyridoxine) has unique anti-oxidant properties that cause the human body to be protected from damage from sugar loaded diets by blocking the infectious problems usually caused by excess sugar. Studies have shown that individuals consuming Western diets are more depleted of B6 than other vitamins. Fats, which constitute 30 to 40 % of the calories in the Western diet, are lacking in water soluble B vitamins. Additionally, foods grown in soils fertilized for decades by NPK fertilizer (USA) are low in micronutrients including B6 even if grown organically. In addition to both these problems Vitamin B6 is fragile so much of the B6 found in western food is lost in food processing, storage, transport and cooking.
To compound this problem sugar intake depletes B6 from the body. The air we inhale, our food and medicines are full of substances that destroy B6 in our bodies and thus increase our need for it. Stress, which is high and rising, depletes the body of B6 as does the new sources of electromagnetic radiation according to Dr. Robert Becker.
Knowing the value of pyridoxine, Dr. John Marion Ellis, of Mount Pleasant, Texas gave thousands of people in East Texas 50 to 300 mg. of B6 daily. These patients made no changes in their diets, exercise, or smoking habits. Over a 10 year period Dr. Ellis's patients had 73 % less heart attacks and anginal problems than persons living in the same region not taking B6.
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