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I know that's a big statement, but I fully stand behind it. To this point in my life, I haven't been that big a fan of chocolate cookies. I'm sure that makes me sound like a freak, but the reason is pretty simple. People overbake chocolate cookies because they can't tell from their appearance if they're done or not, since most recipes say to bake until golden brown. And chocolate cookies are already brown - well, black, actually. And even when they're not overbaked, for whatever reason, they tend to be a little more dry than say a soft chocolate chip cookie.
But not these. These are without a doubt the softest, most delicious, most luscious chocolate cookies I've ever made AND tasted.
And I think I can say without a doubt that I'll never make another chocolate cookie other than these. Because when you find something this amazing, there's no reason to keep looking.
Over the weekend, I was reading February's issue of Food and Wine, and there was a feature on healthy chocolate desserts by Joy the Baker. A recipe for chocolate waffle cookies caught my eye, because making a cookie in a waffle maker just sounded like a lot of fun, and Jamie's been asking me to make cookies for him. Her recipe called for pepper, which sounded interesting, but I just added a pinch of salt instead since I love salt with chocolate. Then I added a few spices, nutmeg and orange zest, and bittersweet chocolate chunks. In my recipe below, I included chopped candied orange peel in the ingredient list - although I didn't have any when I made these, I'll be including it in them next time, because I think it would make the cookies even more incredible.
I "baked" a few in our waffle iron like her recipe said to, and they were amazingly good - basically like little soft and cakey chocolate waffles. A waffle iron was such a cute and clever idea, but I also wanted to make them into traditional cookies and see how those turned out. So I scooped the rest of the dough into mounds on a Silpat and chilled them for 30 minutes in the freezer. And when I took the cookies out of the oven, I knew I had made the last chocolate cookie recipe I would ever make.
Gooey, soft, luscious chocolate deliciousness in a cookie.
And how amazing would these chocolate waffles be for a special Valentine's breakfast?
The cookie recipe only makes 20 cookies, but for people who have little self-control, that's a good thing, right? Because you just might eat all of them.
Another recipe of Joy's featured in the magazine was her Chocolate Frozen Yogurt with Caramelized Bananas. Since we got the ice cream maker attachment for our Kitchen Aid mixer for Christmas, I've made one thing so far - eggnog ice cream.
I've been looking for a healthy ice cream recipe, and this looked like it might be it, since it's made with 2% milk and nonfat Greek yogurt. The frozen yogurt was smooth and creamy and delicious, and since the yogurt is so thick, it doesn't taste like a low-fat dessert. It just tastes yummy.
Jamie wasn't that crazy about the tangy-ness of the yogurt in an ice cream (sort of like when I made avocado hummus, and he was disappointed that it tasted more like hummus than guacamole). I, however, loved the tang of it. I thought it went really well with the banana and chocolate. Being a chocolate person, though, I did want a little more chocolate in it. So I've adjusted the recipe with more cocoa powder, as well as chocolate chunks. Because as I was eating a scoop of the frozen yogurt with one of the chocolate cookies, I thought how amazing the frozen yogurt would be with chunks of the cookie mixed in.
And for next summer, this frozen yogurt would make wonderful popsicles for an easy and healthy treat, with a few fresh sliced bananas frozen in the popsicle molds with the yogurt for a pretty presentation.
Please check out Joy's original recipes in Food and Wine as well as her amazing blog. Thank you, Joy, for your inspiring recipes!
Double Chocolate Orange Cookies
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- 1/2 cup (1 stick) unsalted butter, softened to room temperature
- 3/4 cup light brown sugar
- 1 egg, plus 1 egg white
- 2 teaspoons vanilla
- 1 cup all-purpose flour
- 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 1/4 teaspoon baking soda
- 1/2 teaspoon salt
- 1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
- 1/2 teaspoon dried grated orange zest
- 2 tablespoons buttermilk
- 1 cup coarsely chopped bittersweet chocolate or chocolate chips
- 1/4 cup dried candied orange peel, chopped (optional)
In the bowl of your stand mixer fitted with the paddle attachment, beat the butter and brown sugar on medium speed until fluffy, about 4 minutes. Scrape the bowl down and beat in the egg, egg white, and vanilla until combined.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the flour, cocoa, baking soda, salt, nutmeg and orange zest. Add by spoonfuls to the mixing bowl, mixing on low until moistened. Beat in the buttermilk, then stir in the chocolate and candied orange peel. Batter will be thick.
Place rounded spoonfuls on a baking sheet lined with parchment or a Silpat. Chill in the freezer for 30 minutes.
Preheat the oven to 350 and bake the chilled cookies for 9 minutes - they will appear underdone, but will finish setting up out of the oven. Let cool for 2 minutes on the baking sheet, then transfer to a wire rack to cool completely.
For waffle cookies, or chocolate waffles, scoop 2-3 tablespoons into each grid of your preheated, greased waffle iron. Close the iron and "bake" the cookies for about 2 minutes. They will be very soft - carefully remove from the waffle iron with a fork and dust with powdered sugar.
Yields about 20 cookies.
Try other various with white chocolate chips, chopped nuts, dried cherries or cranberries, etc...
Adapted from Cocoa-Pepper Waffle Cookies by Joy the Baker, via Food and Wine, February 2012.
Caramelized Banana Chocolate Chunk Frozen Yogurt
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- 2 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 large or 3 medium bananas, peeled and sliced into 1-inch thick slices
- 2 tablespoons brown sugar
- 1 tablespoon Captain Morgan Original Spiced Rum
- 2 ounces bittersweet chocolate, chopped
- 1/2 cup, plus 3 tablespoons 2% milk
- 6 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- 1 teaspoon vanilla
- 1 1/4 cups nonfat Greek yogurt
- 1 cup soft chocolate cookies or brownies, chopped into chunks
Melt the butter in a large saucepan over medium heat. Place the banana slices in the pan in a single layer and sprinkle with the brown sugar. Cook the bananas for 4 minutes on each side. Remove from the heat and add the rum, swirling it around. Scrape the bananas and rum into a food processor. Add the chopped bittersweet chocolate and 3 tablespoons milk. Puree until smooth. Spread mixture on a baking sheet and freeze until well chilled, about 30 minutes.
In a separate bowl, whisk together the remaining 1/2 cup milk, cocoa powder, sugar, salt, vanilla and yogurt. Whisk in the chilled banana puree.
Freeze mixture according to your ice cream maker's instructions (using a Kitchen aid ice cream maker, pour mixture into the pre-frozen mixing bowl and churn for 20-30 minutes. Stir in the chopped cookies or brownies. Place in a container and freeze until firm, about 6 hours.
Yields about 1 quart.
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PVM Alumna to Work with EPA as Newly Named AAAS Fellow
May 31, 2013
Dr. Rachel Cumberbatch (PU DVM 2011) has been selected as a 2013 American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) Fellow. Election as a Fellow is an honor bestowed on AAAS members by their peers, in recognition of the nominees' meritorious efforts to advance science or its applications. As a newly named Fellow, Dr. Cumberbatch accepted a placement with the EPA Indoor Air Quality Division and will begin working in Washington, D.C., in September.
Since earning her Purdue DVM degree two years ago, Dr. Cumberbatch has been working as an associate at the Connecticut Veterinary Center in West Hartford. But as reported in the June 1 issue of the Journal of the American Veterinary Medical Association (JAVMA), in a story about the AVMA's Compass Mentoring Program, Dr. Cumberbatch also is interested in opportunities outside of private practice to improve human and animal health on a broad scale. She says her work as an AAAS Fellow will largely center on efforts to improve air conditions in multi-family housing units and schools. Along with her division, she will be working across federal agencies, with not for profit groups and with architects.
Dr. Cumberbatch also will be involved with a flood emergency response group that is charged with creating guidance for mold control and clean up. She says that since this department in the EPA produces guidance recommendations, and not regulatory policy, she will help communicate with constituents about the science behind the guidelines and explain why action is important. She emphasizes that a veterinarian is uniquely qualified to fill that role. For more information about the AAAS Fellows program, click here.
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The Government of Barbados and the Government of the Republic of Kosovo on, Friday, March 9th, 2018, have signed a Joint Communiqué establishing diplomatic relations between their two countries.
The Chargé d'Affaires, Permanent Mission of Barbados to the United Nations, Ms. Juliette Babb-Riley and the Consul General of the Republic of Kosovo in New York, H.E. Mrs. Teuta Sahatqija, signed the Joint Communiqué on behalf of their respective governments.
The Governments of Barbados and the Republic of Kosovo reaffirmed their commitment to the principles of International Law, including mutual respect for national sovereignty, territorial integrity and non-interference in the internal affairs of another state. The two Governments have agreed to promote the ties of friendship and widen cooperation between the two countries.


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A campaign called "Good to Know" is the first online-safety initiative from the company, and it's being promoted in the United Kingdom.
Best practices around safe password adoption, logging off after online sessions and making sign-ins more elaborate are all part of the promotion, The Telegraph reports. Google is pairing with the Citizens Advice Bureau, an independent charity in England.
The campaign -- notably touting something other than a Google product -- will include newspaper advertisements, on public transit and, of course, online.
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There's a booklet availalbe here, and the site itself is google.co.uk/goodtoknow.
Some tips:
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2. Keep your financial stuff to yourself in emails.
3. Check the https:// URLs for added security.
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Steven Spielberg's War of the Worlds is a movie at once authentically unsettling and deeply nostalgic. The nostalgia is for scary, long-cherished fantasias concerning alien invasions and men from Mars as filtered through boyhood comic books and drive-in movies and tattered paperbacks, a whole century of cheap thrills summed up and transfigured in a return to their primal source, H.G. Wells's 1898 novel. But Spielberg doesn't try to reproduce the camp goofiness of Mars Attacks! or the video game hijinks of Independence Day: he wants us to care about what is happening in front of us, as if we were contemplating this scenario for the first time.
That would require a return to childhood, a return to the childhood of the genre to which he has devoted so much of his energy and to whose historical permutations he can (and in this movie does) allude almost reflexively. (In passing I registered fleeting, virtually subliminal hints of The Birds, Alien, Night of the Living Dead, The Day of the Triffids, Panic in Year Zero, Quartermass and the Pit, and The Poseidon Adventure, not to mention Spielberg's own Jurassic Park, whose raptor in the kitchen is paralleled here by aliens in the basement.) We would need to feel again how much our nostalgia is imbued with real terror, even if it was a terror at one remove, just distant enough that we were able to play inside it. War of the Worlds aspires to be a compendium of Wells and all that sprang from Wells, an all-in-one package that might serve as something like a child's introduction to cosmic fear. It feels inevitable that the movie should come to revolve around the haunted face of a child, the inscrutably traumatized ten-year-old played (with an intensity in itself rather disturbing) by Dakota Fanning.
The world seems particularly expendable in Spielberg's opening scenes when we see it from the vantage point of Tom Cruise's Ray Ferrier, a New Jersey dockworker living in disordered solitude since his wife left him, and brimming with hostility at the prospect of being dumped with the kids while his ex goes off for the weekend with her new partner. (Cruise, in a performance more restrained than he has been giving on television lately, manages capably his character's journey out of sullenness into the sustained urgency that the rest of the picture requires of him, but it is not a role that calls on much range.) Spielberg's foray into kitchen-sink realism conjures up a mood of dead ends, of life as a continual round of taunting and bickering in prefab houses. Imagine the movie continuing in this vein without the arrival of the aliens. In the event—no surprise—the extraterrestrial invasion will provide a chance for some real quality time enabling Ray to discover that he does actually care whether his children live or die.
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Michael Hastings, 'Rolling Stone' Contributor, Dead At 33
" Michael Hastings, the fearless journalist whose reporting brought down the career of General Stanley McChrystal, has died in a car accident in Los Angeles, Rolling Stone has learned. He was 33.
Hastings' unvarnished 2010 profile of McChrystal in the pages of Rolling Stone, "The Runaway General," captured the then-supreme commander of the U.S.-led war effort in Afghanistan openly mocking his civilian commanders in the White House. The maelstrom sparked by its publication concluded with President Obama recalling McChrystal to Washington and the general resigning his post. "The conduct represented in the recently published article does not meet the standard that should be met by – set by a commanding general," Obama said, announcing McChrystal's departure. "It undermines the civilian control of the military that is at the core of our democratic system." "
" A contributing editor to Rolling Stone, Hastings leaves behind a remarkable legacy of reporting, including an exposé of America's drone war, an exclusive interview with WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange at his hideout in the English countryside, an investigation into the Army's illicit use of "psychological operations" to influence sitting Senators and a profile of Taliban captive Bowe Bergdahl, "America's Last Prisoner of War." "
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FX trade was uneventful in N.Y. on Monday, as the year wound down, and as desks stayed out of harms way. Conditions were thin, and the dollar did ease lower fairly broadly. EUR-USD reclaimed the 1.3800 handle, as USD-JPY faded, but found support into 105.00. Cable moved back over 1.6500, as USD-CAD slipped toward support at 1.0650. On the economic front, November pending home sales inched up, though missed forecasts, while the Dallas Fed index improved. Equities were on either side of flat through the session, while Treasury yields softened a touch.
EUR-USD crawled steadily higher in very thin trade, opening the session near 1.3775, and eventually peaking just under 1.3820. The dollar's broad move lower was largely put down to year-end position squaring, though we continue to look for the euro to soften once the New Year kicks off. The slowly changing course of the Fed, and seemingly improving U.S. economy, along with a still dovish ECB should come to the USD's aid early in 2014.
USD-JPY made a fresh trend high of 105.41 for a fourth consecutive day during the last business day of the year in Tokyo. There were reports of Japanese exporters on the offer, which helped cap the dollar ahead of the 105.50 level. Japanese markets will be closed from tomorrow until next Monday. After opening near 105.25 in N.Y., the pairing followed the dollar's general path lower as well, though managed to find support into 105.00 in light afternoon dealings.
There remains a strong fundamental case in favor of sterling. Hometrack house prices data today showed fresh acceleration, and U.K. yields have recently been rising quicker than other G7 yields. N.Y. dealings saw cable rebound over 1.6525, with gains coming in concert with the dollar's broadly softer tone. Volumes were very light overall, though sterling continues to look like an out-performer. The big test for cable will come next week, as the New Year kicks off in earnest.
USD-CHF got caught up in the EUR-USD centered, thin market volatility on Friday, but EUR-CHF has remained comfortably above 1.2200. EUR-CHF had breached above 1.2200 ahead of the Christmas/new year holiday period, recovering from pre-Fed tapering decision low of 1.2166, which was the lowest level seen in eight months. The gain in the cross had reflected an unwinding in the Swiss currency's safe haven premium as the period of Fed policy uncertainty ended.
USD-CAD gave back the 1.07 handle, after ranging between 1.0703 and 1.0727 during the overnight session. The pairing touched 1.0685 lows early on, as domestic names were seen on the offer. Initial support was expected at 1.0650, which was tested into the London close. The December 20 peak of 1.0737 was never really in the market's sights overnight, and it appeared position paring into year-end was behind the CAD strength on Monday.


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Candia is a town in Rockingham county, New Hampshire. It was formed in and has gone by the following other name/s: Chester. For more information, contact the county at 74 High St., Candia 03034. On the attached map, Candia is shown as 4 in Rockingham.
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They both are claiming that the election is rigged:
#IfTheMediaRiggedTheElection people would barely see their options for president on TV.— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 19, 2016
The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 16, 2016
They both parrot Putin's line that electing Clinton will start WWIII.
Funny, that's what the Kremlin says too. Another Putinesque coincidence...https://t.co/t8gVmetBWI— John Schindler (@20committee) October 25, 2016
Hillary Clinton wants to declare a no-fly zone in Syria which means declaring an air war against Russia. She is dangerous. #debatenight— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 20, 2016
They both do Putin's saber-rattling for him:
Russia is sending a fleet of ships to the Mediterranean. Obama's war in Syria has the potential to widen into a worldwide conflict.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 5, 2013
— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) July 29, 2016Clinton's saber-rattling against Russia, a nuclear power, is an existential threat to human survival. She is dangerous. #DemsInPhilly
The situation with Russia is much more dangerous than most people may think - and could lead to World War III. WE NEED GREAT LEADERSHIP FAST— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 22, 2014
Under Hillary Clinton, we could very quickly slide into nuclear war with her declared policy in Syria. I call for a #PeaceOffensive.— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 14, 2016
Hillary Clinton's foreign policy is much scarier than Donald Trump's, who does not want to go to war with Russia. #PeaceOffensive— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 14, 2016
Crooked Hillary Clintons foreign interventions unleashed ISIS in Syria, Iraq and Libya. She is reckless and dangerous!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) May 21, 2016
Clinton's right: Trump's rhetoric strengthens ISIS. Trump's right: Clinton's wars created ISIS. We must stop these warmongers. #NoMoreWar— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) August 13, 2016
I hope people are looking at the disgraceful behavior of Hillary Clinton as exposed by WikiLeaks. She is unfit to run.— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 11, 2016
So the #OctoberSurprise is that @HillaryClinton's public positions are different than the private ones she shares with Wall Street. #Podesta— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 8, 2016
17 October, they both say Wikileaks has proven that Hillary Clinton should be in prison:
WikiLeaks proves even the Clinton campaign knew Crooked mishandled classified info, but no one gets charged? RIGGED! https://t.co/FgGxDsS0a1— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2016
#PodestaEmails10 show HRC kept 55K emails from Congress. How much more evidence does the govt need to press charges? pic.twitter.com/5Xdd1YYJKx— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 18, 2016
They are both more than happy to use the hacked emails just the way Putin and Assange would want, as a partisan tool to get Donald Trump elected:
Voter fraud! Crooked Hillary Clinton even got the questions to a debate, and nobody says a word. Can you imagine if I got the questions?— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2016
Invest your vote in a movement party, not in more crooked behavior from the Democrats! PodestaEmails4 https://t.co/oST6YiMYmu— Dr. Jill Stein (@DrJillStein) October 12, 2016
Donald Trump and Jill Stein have been together for years, for example after Bashar al Assad killed over 1400 Syrians with sarin, and it looked like Barack Obama might actually carry out this red-line promise, they both came to Assad's defense:
Don't attack Syria - an attack that will bring nothing but trouble for the U.S. Focus on making our country strong and great again!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 9, 2013
Since Dr. Jill Stein protested in front of Assad's flag in September 2013, hundreds of thousands of Syrians have been murdered by those marching behind it. Those deaths she has not protested.
Don't attack Syria
As you can see, Jill Stein has had a lot in common with Donald Trump for a long time. This year she has become the Green Party presidential candidate so she can protect his left flank, that is draw progressive votes that might otherwise count towards keeping the Atl-Right gang out of the White House. Since she got only 0.38% of the vote in 2012 after showing 4% in the pre-election polls she knows she won't even get to the 5% necessary to get gov't money let alone win the presidency. Only thing she is going this year is driving voters away from the Left and helping to elect Donald Trump president.
My other recent posts relating to this unique election cycle:
Will Wikileaks "salt" the Clinton-Podesta emails before the election?
Trump Super Predator behavior is Workplace Sexual Harassment writ large
Is US Green Party's Jill Stein a holocaust denier?
Jill Stein now claiming Donald Trump is less of two evils
Did Dishonest Jill Stein change her Syria statement on the sly?
Republican support for Green Party @DrJillStein is emerging
Why "Jill not Hill" is a pro-Trump slogan
Donald Trump can only win if Jill Stein stays in
Syria is the Paris Commune of the 21st Century!


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By Peggy Aulisio
By Peggy Aulisio
FAIRHAVEN — Commercial scalloping can resume in waters off Fairhaven for the first time in about nine years. The scallop beds were closed after the Bouchard oil spill in 2003.
Shellfish Warden Timothy Cox told selectmen Dec. 17 the reopening was delayed by a sewer pipe on the New Bedford side of the harbor that became contaminated.
"It's been awhile since Fairhaven has been productive as far as bay scallops," Mr. Cox said, adding that he wants to keep the resource from being depleted.
Selectmen approved the new scallop regulations Mr. Cox recommended, including a limit of four bushels a day, five days a week, from Monday to Friday, beginning no earlier than 8 a.m.
The board set a commercial scallop license fee of $200, limited to 25 licenses, during a season running from Nov.1 to March 31. The license is not transferable and is limited to Fairhaven residents.
Mr. Cox said, "It takes a good day's work to get four bushels." He asked that the number of bushels be left flexible in the regulations, however, so the limit can be changed as conditions change.
"For two years we had hardly any scallops in town and it's starting to rebuild," Mr. Cox said.
Despite keeping a firm limit on bushels allowed, Mr. Cox said there could be "quite a few out there" because Taylor Seafood gave the town 100,000 seedlings to transplant earlier this year.
Mr. Cox said he planted half in one location and half in another.


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WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is embarking on an ambitious and potentially risky plan to help the new government in Yemen overhaul its military to combat the Qaeda franchise that has exploited the political turmoil there to seize control of large swaths of the country's south.
The plan's two-pronged strategy calls for the United States and Yemen to work together to kill or capture about two dozen of Al Qaeda's most dangerous operatives, who are focused on attacking America and its interests.
At the same time, the administration will work with Saudi Arabia and other Persian Gulf allies to train and equip Yemeni security forces to counter the organization's wider threat to destabilize the country and the government of its newly installed president, Abdu Rabbu Mansour Hadi.
This approach mirrors the White House's global counterterrorism strategy in the wake of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan: to employ small numbers of Special Operations troops, Central Intelligence Agency paramilitary teams and drones against elements of Al Qaeda that are committed to striking the United States, while arming and advising indigenous security forces to tackle costlier long-term counterinsurgency campaigns.
John O. Brennan, President Obama's chief counterterrorism adviser, spelled out the new plan in a visit to Sana, the Yemeni capital, before last week's elections, as well as in telephone interviews. One main proposal, he said, is to pay Yemeni troops directly rather than through their commanders. The current system has spawned corruption and shifted soldiers' loyalty to individual commanders rather than to the government.
"We're trying to ensure that the aid is very tailored, so it goes to those units that are professional, that fall within a command and control structure that reports to Hadi, that are addressing Al Qaeda and domestic threats to Yemen, and are not engaged in any political shenanigans," Mr. Brennan said by telephone after making his seventh trip to Yemen in the last three years.
Senior American officials say the Qaeda group in Yemen poses the most immediate threat to the United States and its allies. It was responsible for failed plots to blow up a commercial airliner as it approached Detroit on Dec. 25, 2009, and for planting printer cartridges packed with explosives on cargo planes bound for Chicago in October 2010.
The American-backed campaign against the group has had mixed results in the past year. An American drone strike last September killed Anwar al-Awlaki, an American-born cleric who was one of the group's top operatives, and Samir Khan, another American who edited the group's English-language online magazine. Their deaths deprived the group of its two most skilled operatives focused on attacking America.
But in the political tumult that surrounded Yemen's former president, Ali Abdullah Saleh, many Yemeni troops in the past year abandoned their posts or were summoned to Sana to help support the tottering government. The United States pulled out about 75 Special Forces trainers and support personnel in Yemen, and counterterrorism training ground to a halt.
Al Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula — the group's formal name — stepped in to fill the vacuum. In response, the C.I.A. and Special Operations forces have carried out nearly a dozen drone strikes against Qaeda operatives in Yemen since last May, according to The Long War Journal, a Web site that tracks the attacks.
With Mr. Hadi now in power and pledging to work closely with the administration to fight Al Qaeda, Mr. Brennan said the administration would slowly start resuming security aid that was suspended last year.
Mohammed Albasha, a spokesman for the Yemeni Embassy here, reiterated on Sunday that "the fight against Al Qaeda is a national and religious duty."
One major unanswered question is how much influence Mr. Saleh's son and nephews will retain over the security forces, including the Republican Guard and the Central Security Forces, some of whose members have been trained and equipped by the United States. It is a practical and ethical dilemma for the administration, given that many Yemeni security forces used scorched-earth tactics to suppress pro-democracy protesters.
"The Yemeni people who for one year stayed at demonstrations, they didn't do this just for Saleh to leave, but for his whole regime, and that especially means those who are leaders in the armed forces," said Ali al-Mamari, a Yemeni member of Parliament who quit the ruling party last spring after violence was used against protesters.
"After the past year, the Yemeni people now are thinking that America is helping them, and the American role is respected," he said. "If the Americans continue to support the son and nephews of Saleh in the same way, the stance of the Yemeni people will change toward America."
Some independent analysts also warned that the administration's approach amounted to picking and choosing favorite Yemeni generals, which could backfire over time. "Any time the U.S. gets into where it's favoring certain generals or trying to play generals off each other, it is a very dangerous game," said Gregory Johnsen, a Princeton scholar who closely tracks militants in Yemen.
The United States has allocated $53.8 million in security assistance for Yemen this year, up from $30.1 million last year, according to State Department figures.
American officials, including Mr. Brennan and Gerald M. Feierstein, the American ambassador to Yemen, say the administration will consider Yemen's requests for security assistance case by case once Yemen submits a long-term strategic plan for how it plans to address threats from Al Qaeda.
A high-level Yemeni military delegation is expected in Washington next month, the first of a series of reciprocal visits.
American officials say they envision sending trucks, troop carriers and transport helicopters, to give Yemeni forces greater mobility to attack militant fighters in their desolate redoubts. Ammunition, spare parts and other logistical support is also likely, the officials said.
"There are some things we couldn't do last year because of the political crisis," Mr. Feierstein said. "There has been a hiatus. We have not done training because the Yemeni units were not in a position to continue with the training. They had other priorities."


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Social-networking websites may have started out as online cliques where friends could swap opinions on music, pop culture and other bits of innocuous personal trivia. But as the conflict in Gaza has unfolded, it's becoming evident that sites like Facebook are increasingly being used to express political views, adding an acrimonious, even menacing undertone to what were once lighthearted online forums.
While Hamas rockets pummel southern Israel and Israeli bombs decimate Gaza, a parallel war is being fought in virtual communities. On Dec. 27, two hours after Israel began its military operation, Joel Leyden created a Facebook group called "I Support the Israel Defense Forces in Preventing Terror Attacks from Gaza." Leyden, an American who served with the Israeli military, says he has since received dozens of death threats via his Facebook inbox. "People were not just saying 'I hope you die!' but also asking, 'How do you want to die?' " says Leyden, who uses Facebook to alert people about potential attacks on synagogues. Meanwhile, Hamzeh Abu-Abed, who created a Facebook group titled "Let's Collect 500,000 Signatures to Support the Palestinians in Gaza," says he has received similar hate mail. "They said I am a terrorist who should die," says Abu-Abed, an accountant from Jordan. "We have been harassed by Zionists who hacked our group and called themselves the Jewish Internet Defense Force." (See pictures of chaos in the Middle East.)
Of course, Internet users have complained for years that the anonymity of electronic communication breeds incivility. But some say the Gaza conflict is a lightning rod for particularly vitriolic exchanges. For example, one contributor to a forum on Facebook wrote, "Israel = killers," which drew this response from another user: "Maybe I'll wrap a towel around my head and beat my wife for peace in the name of Allah." Rahel Aima, an undergraduate student at Columbia University who frequents several social-networking sites, says she has been "shocked by some of the hyper-distilled hatred and racism that I've seen in the past few days. I've only really seen such a flurry of polarizing sentiments with this current Gaza situation."
The online debate reflects real-world hostilities and passions. The Gaza conflict has sparked heated and sometimes violent demonstrations around the world. But for website operators, the war of words is raising fresh questions about free speech and censorship online. Facebook, which has 150 million active users, does not remove members or groups that speak out against countries, political entities or ideas. "Our goal is to strike a very delicate balance between giving Facebook users the freedom to express their opinions and beliefs, while also ensuring that individuals and groups of people do not feel threatened or endangered," says Facebook spokeswoman Elizabeth Linder. "We've taken action on groups promoting both sides of the current conflict, but do not typically provide details on such instances." (See the 50 best websites of 2008.)
Rita King, who studies online communities as a senior fellow at the Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, says the heightened level of hostility since Israel began its military operation is troubling. "Learning how to navigate this potentially dangerous new twist in human interaction is complicated, particularly with regard to issues of security," King says. According to Lea Bishop Shaver, a lecturer at Yale Law School, threatening to kill someone through an online forum "can land you in jail for assault, even if you never touch the person." But she added that making empty threats over the Internet rarely results in prosecution. "To trigger criminal prosecution, the threat has to be a serious one," Shaver says.
In fact, because online forum participants rarely know one another and often live on different continents, threats are rarely serious. Partly for that reason, King maintains that online exchanges even ugly ones facilitate communication and understanding. "The Internet removes the threat of physical harm and thus offers an unprecedented opportunity for the development of new ideas for conflict mediation," she says.
Certainly governments see value in talking directly to the public through online communities. On Dec. 30, the Israeli consulate in New York hosted a press conference on Twitter, a social-messaging service, to respond to questions from the public about Gaza. For Facebook and other social networks, "the struggle ... is to find ways to create an environment that encourages truly meaningful dialogue," says Amy Bruckman, an associate professor at the College of Computing at Georgia Tech. Until that happens, a cease-fire is not likely in the virtual world.
Read "A Brief History of the Gaza Strip."
See pictures of Israeli soldiers sweeping into Gaza.


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Am I missing a checkbox or preference that would put a gray background behind the text when I'm using the editor? On my view the gray background is missing from the text area, and it is almost impossible to read the white text on top of the background image.
I'm using Firefox on a PC but the same thing seems to happen on Chrome and IE.
It is an unfortunate bug with the visual editor. You can switch to source mode using the tab in the dark red header while editing or by changing your settings in Special:Preferences. Please sign your posts on talk pages with four tildes (~) or the signature button.--Opark 77 19:08, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
The problem with the visual editor stems from the background.--Gonzalo84 19:13, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
I have hated and rejected the "Visual Editor" since the moment it was invented. I exclusively use the Source Mode for editing, its just easier when you can see everything you're doing and not relying on the estimates of Visual Mode.--The Dragon Demands 19:25, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
- I've hated it as well. I had an editor last night stop by and complain about it- so much so, he didn't even bother to edit. It is definitely a problem. --QueenBuffy 19:32, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
Maybe its time to change backgrounds again. I've grown used to black and orange scheme but the previous "wintery" one was more comfortable to the eyes.--Gonzalo84 19:54, June 4, 2012 (UTC)
- Have to concur with Conzalo84. --QueenBuffy 20:05, June 4, 2012 (UTC)


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I picked up a new nickname last week.
Young Bill.
I used to be a Billy, much like the Orioles' Showalter used to be a Bucky, but sixth grade (or winning in Buck's case) denigrated the alphabet's 25th letter.
In the seventh grade, I launched a failed campaign to become known as "The Wiz." The marketing effort lasted a few hours. As with New Coke, no one connected with the product. Plus, buddies thought the moniker was less about my wizardry with all things manly and more about a bladder infection.
Dudes can be cruel.
The newest nickname doesn't come from the Waffle House, aka the Starbucks of the South, since the wait staff calls everyone "young man," "young woman," or "honey" (if they don't know you).
Nicknames can't be manufactured, marketed or manipulated. They evolve organically into a brand that defines personality and authenticates worth. Michael Jordan may be 50, but one dunk made him "Air Jordan" for life while turning sports footwear into a fashion statement.
My new nickname was bestowed by two wise men, who quickly noticed my athletic prowess at putting one foot in front of the other without falling.
Their names are Mike and Bill. Around me, they've become Mike and Old Bill.
Ours is an evolving friendship. Each morning, before the dawn's early light, I put in two-plus miles on the pathways that connect my planned community. More often than not, Mike and Bill are already there.
At first, it was a pleasant, brisk exchange. "Coming up behind you," I'd say, and they'd move.
Each day, though, the conversation expanded until the only polite thing to do was stop, shake hands and shoot the breeze.
That's when I became Young Bill. And that's when the other Bill, he of fashionable fedora, became Old Bill.
I learned they're retired and have been walking together for years.
They learned I'm the executive editor of the Herald-Tribune.
Friday, as we traded quips, Mike yelled: "Put us in the paper. We'd make a good story."
I can't argue with them.
The Sarasota area exudes compelling storylines, from twisted dramas to mushy moments. We're a community in transition that goes beyond the perception of everyone as a rich retiree who plays tennis and goes to the opera.
Oh, there are plenty in the all-of-the-above category. This is an area where winter plus social calendar equals long valet lines.
Here's the "duh" moment in this column: Our area has a high concentration of retirees. The median age is 52.5 in Sarasota County, 55.9 in Charlotte County and 45.7 in Manatee County. Before we earmark Manatee as a Disney detour, realize the U.S. median age is 37.2.
Now look at the numbers differently.
Median means half the population is older and half younger. Sarasota County has nearly 140,000 residents 62 and older, but there are more adults in the 21-62 range.
That's why we should pay attention when downtown entrepreneur Jesse Biter envisions a Sarasota future with affordable rentals (read: housing for young professionals) or Longboat Key residents argue zoning issues (read: updated condos and development projects).
Our communities are changing as the age paradigm reflects an expanding awareness of the Sarasota area as a cocoon for college students, an incubator for young professionals, a landing pad for helicopter parents and a think zone for the elderly.
The Institute for the Ages is based in Sarasota for factors that go beyond jokes about early bird specials. What's happening in this area offers opportunities to learn how an aging society will adapt to technology, urbanization, commerce and greater health/fitness awareness.
Mike and Bill are paradigm shifters -- and a good story. They're active. They're engaged. They don't see retirement as a stereotype.
Their best years aren't behind them. Their best years are happening now.
Bill Church can be contacted at email@example.com or (941) 361-4991. Follow him on Twitter @BillChurchMedia.
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I picked up a new nickname last week.


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At 12:30 p.m. on a Tuesday, the chief executive of Datalogix was spider-crawling across a conference room floor. All around him, account managers and data analysts were thrusting 20-pound medicine balls overhead, while their Spandex-clad co-workers sprinted up and down the lobby's carpeted staircase.
A panting, red-faced software developer rested against a railing as a colleague rushed past.
''Push it, Karin!" she cried in encouragement.
Minutes later, having regained her strength, the developer was back in the conference room, completing her fourth set of jumping squats while a muscle-bound trainer studied her form.
Since the summer of 2010, Datalogix, in Westminster, Colo., has offered these classes, called CrossFit, twice a week for its employees. CrossFit gained early popularity among law enforcement officers and military personnel, but lately, both large and small businesses — judging that fitness programs can bolster employee morale, improve productivity and reduce health insurance premiums — have taken an interest. This fast-growing fitness trend combines weightlifting, gymnastics and endurance training and has attracted more than 10 million practitioners around the world, according to the company, about 60 percent of them women.
''My enthusiasm for CrossFit knows no bounds," said Eric Roza, 45, Datalogix's supremely fit and upbeat chief executive.
In fact, his enthusiasm led him to open with his wife a 10,000-square-foot gym in downtown Boulder, Colo., called CrossFit Sanitas, where he generally works out at 5:30 a.m., five days a week, although he will occasionally join his employees, too.
Roza used to run 100-mile ultramarathons, but he took up CrossFit after an injury in 2008.
''I got hooked instantly," he said after the conference-room workout, his army-green T-shirt damp with sweat. "It was like crack or heroin."
So when some Datalogix employees organized their own weight-loss competition three years ago, to see who could lose the most pounds, Roza began offering CrossFit classes in-house. He hired Pat Burke, the owner of another local CrossFit gym — or "box," as it's often called because of its spare, no-frills design — to teach the classes.
Burke, a former Marine, brings in barbells, gymnastics rings and medicine balls, depending on the day's workout. To vary the routine, he might show up with tractor tires, which Datalogix staff members flip and pound with sledgehammers in the parking lot as their less gung-ho colleagues stare from the windows. Roza estimates that 50 of the 200 employees at Datalogix's headquarters have taken part in the CrossFit classes. The participants, who sign a waiver of liability for injury, have shed around 300 pounds collectively — or at least that is the figure that Roza derived from informal employee interviews.
There are other, less quantifiable benefits. Karin Eisenmenger, 46, Datalogix's director of order management and the woman running up the stairs past her panting colleague, says the classes unite people from different departments who might otherwise never meet.
''If you can sweat and groan and moan with your co-workers," she said, "you'll have no problem working with them in a meeting."
Ben Nelson, 31, an information technology analyst who says he lost 60 pounds after he started CrossFit in 2010, said a lunch hour spent doing squat thrusts and swinging kettlebells enabled him to work longer and with greater focus.
''I used to work for the Dish Network," he said, "and the workouts there were running up and down the stairs on the way to company meetings."
CrossFit is one of many perks at Datalogix, where a range of other options — like self-defense classes and courses in the Java programming language — are available free and in-house. The company's fitness initiatives, called DLX Fit, cost the company around $25,000 a year, Roza said. A majority of that goes toward CrossFit.
''I've been calling CrossFit the new golf," Roza said. "You wouldn't believe how often it comes up in business meetings."
CrossFit was started in 2000 in Santa Cruz, Calif., by Greg Glassman, a former gymnastics coach. Over the next decade, it grew from a single gym to a global workout craze. (There are now 42 CrossFit boxes in South Africa alone.) In 2010, a partnership with Reebok further raised CrossFit's profile. Reebok has built 15 gyms inside or near its offices around the world and plans to open 11 more. In most cases, Reebok employees receive their membership at a discount.
The largest gym — known as Reebok CrossFit One, a cavernous, 12,000-square-foot space with six on-site coaches, 14 climbing ropes and one cargo climbing net, among other equipment — is at Reebok's headquarters in Canton, Mass. According to Chris Froio, Reebok's global head of fitness and training, more than 300 employees visit the gym every day. Like most CrossFit gyms, CrossFit One offers classes for a variety of skill levels, and workouts are scaled according to ability.
So it isn't unusual to find Anne McKay, 74, an accounting clerk, carrying 5-pound sandbags beside Kenneth Gamble, a former running back for the Kansas City Chiefs and a Reebok executive, whose sandbags of choice often exceed 100 pounds.
Such exertions, without appropriate supervision, can lead to injuries. In 2008, Makimba Mimms, a former Navy information systems technician, sued a World Gym, a CrossFit affiliate training company and one of its employees in Manassas, Va., contending that an especially intense CrossFit workout caused a condition in which muscle fibers deteriorate and enter the bloodstream, leading to kidney damage. A jury awarded Mimms $300,000 in damages.
To prevent injuries, Reebok says its coaches at CrossFit One closely monitor all participants, who are also required to sign liability waivers.
''We are invested in taking care of you," its website reads.
Clearly, CrossFit is not for everyone. A vast majority of employees at companies where it's offered do not participate. And the cultish enthusiasm it inspires could make people with no interest in exercising feel excluded in the workplace.
Tim Shea, 26, a data analyst at Datalogix, noted that watching dozens of his co-workers rolling around on a conference room floor can "make you feel like you should be involved."
But he has resisted, preferring to hike and to mountain-bike after work.
''I like some more adventure with my workouts," he said.
Dr. Toni Yancey, a professor of health services at the University of California, Los Angeles, is all for people getting more exercise at work. But she says she thinks that incorporating movement into sedentary office routines makes more sense than pushing something like CrossFit, which is unlikely to engage a large portion of the average workplace.
''Dance breaks, walking to meetings together, sitting on balls — these things integrate physical movement into the daily routine," she said. "And you don't have to shower afterward."
The need to shower hasn't bothered the avid users at Reebok's centers, and other companies have taken notice. ESPN and the sports retailer Finish Line consulted Reebok in designing their own CrossFit boxes. In 2011, Glassman helped put a team of Microsoft senior engineers through a weekend-long Level 1 Certification course.
''There are now 40 CrossFit trainers inside Microsoft," he said, "and they're teaching other people how to do it."
James Letchford, CrossFit's chief marketing officer, said that "a couple hundred" companies in the United States and Europe offered classes and subsidized memberships for their staff.
Perhaps the most ardent of these businesses is HGST, formerly Hitachi Global Storage Technologies, a seller of hard disk drives that was acquired by Western Digital in 2012. Mike Cordano, the president of HGST and an experienced CrossFitter, opened a fully staffed, employees-only CrossFit gym on each of its two campuses in San Jose, Calif., last October, in partnership with a local affiliate called NorCal CrossFit.
Each of HGST's new CrossFit affiliates pays a $3,000 annually renewable fee to use the CrossFit name, and Cordano plans to introduce the program at HGST offices in Minnesota and Colorado in April, then at sites in Asia this summer.
CrossFit's ability to foster camaraderie among co-workers — at least among those motivated to experiment with Olympic-style weightlifting — is especially suited to the life-swallowing rigors of startup culture.
''A battle-hardened Green Beret once told me that CrossFit taught him the recipe for camaraderie, which is agony coupled with laughter," said Glassman, who is 56. "He was talking about combat situations, but I'd expect to hear the same from guys writing code."
Employees of Neverware, a small tech startup company in Manhattan, agree that CrossFit reinforces workplace cooperation.
''When we were spotting each other on squats, we literally had each other's backs," said Daniel Ryan, 22, a software developer and Princeton student who was an intern at the company last year.
Until recently, the Neverware team worked out three times a week at CrossFit NYC. The workouts took place around 3 p.m. — the hour when employees had begun to nod off — and offered a much-needed interruption in 12- to 15-hour workdays. Jonathan Hefter, 27, the CEO, said he expected his staff members, then all men, to participate.
"For us, CrossFit was a major team-building exercise," he said. "If someone didn't join in, it caused problems."
But since January, Neverware, which builds servers that schools can use to make their dated computers run like new, has grown rapidly.
''I'm also traveling more, and spending up to 10 hours a day in meetings," Hefter said. With the growing demand, the team can't afford to leave the office for two hours in the middle of the afternoon.
While a few of Neverware's software engineers continue to go to CrossFit NYC, Hefter has moved to New York Sports Club, which better accommodates his chaotic new schedule.
''I definitely miss working out with the team," he said, a bit wistfully. "But it's not like we can't go back. It'd be a sign of a successful organization if our schedules became predictable enough to keep doing CrossFit together."


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I'm about to say something that's guaranteed to piss some people off. Not that that hasn't happened before. Okay, here goes.
Parents who choose to have only one child are just being selfish.
Let me quickly put up a short disclaimer before everyone jumps down my throat. I understand some people are unable to have more than one kid due to medical or even financial circumstances. I'm not talking about them. I'm talking about the couple who choose to have one kid and then decide it's a lot of work and they like having their freedom, so they stop at one.
Yes, it's your life, so do what you want. But remember this: you're doing a huge disservice to your child by not giving them a sibling. A brother or sister is more than just a 24/7 live-in playdate. It's somebody to literally grow up with and experience going through childhood with. Someone else to share being your child, with all the ups, downs, and inside family jokes that includes.
When you were a kid and your parents came down on you for something or set the most totally unfair rules (9 p.m. bedtime?!?), who could you find comfort in? Yes, your brother or sister. Misery does love company after all.
But my issues with the "only child" go much more deeper than just what you're not giving your kid. It's what happens to these siblingless children. They get pretty obnoxious and selfish. Every single person I've ever met who was an only child had more of a selfish nature than others. I can't blame the kids, though. When you only have one kid, you're going to spoil them rotten and make them think they're the center of the entire universe.
These kids also don't seem to know how to play well with other kids. Yes, they can get along, but there's always something a bit off with them. They tend to relate to adults better than kids at times, which just causes some odd interactions on playdates.
When we had our first son, I was filled with so much love for this cute little guy that I couldn't fathom how I could love another child even close to as much. But somehow, having a second child actually grows your heart so you can indeed share an equal amount of love with them. My wife and I always say that the best thing we ever did for our first born was to give him a brother.
Sure my two boys fight like regular siblings now, but they are constantly playing together, sharing experiences, and completely cracking each other up all the time. A brother or sister just helps round out your childhood.
Of course, some people go the other extreme and pop out seven or eight kids. And that's a different problem altogether.
Do you think siblings make for a more fulfilling life?
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On the surface, this looks like any other external 120GB hard drive designed for the mobile user. Simply plug it in, allow Windows or the Mac OS to locate it and you have a large capacity drive to back up all your files.
However, plug in the second USB lead and the Turbo of the name boots in, with the drive running up to 60 per cent faster in turbo mode, making transferring large files a great deal easier.
The plastic casing has been built with a good degree of shock absorbency to it, so the drive will easily survive in your briefcase.
A supplied CD-ROM comes with a range of back-up and security tools that help keep your data safe and make backing up your laptop's main hard drive so much easier.
This is a great external drive and, as long as you've got the USB ports to spare, it makes an ideal addition.


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It's been a while since I last blogged. I've eaten at so many restaurants and outings but just didn't feel the urge to blog as I've found a new muse, Instagram. I find Instagram to be even more immediate than this blog. I guess Instagram is a bit like Tumblr but you take the computer out of the equation even more. It's very immediate as everyone carries their smart phones everywhere nowadays. I shared all my food adventures there already, so didn't feel as much of a need to share it again on my blog. If you're on Instagram, you can follow me at ieatblog.
For this blog, I have instead decided that I shall keep it simpler and write shorter, sharper posts for most restaurant reviews with less photos. This will reduce the work while still hopefully capturing my feel for a restaurant. I also want to start writing about a brief account of the week like Agnes, which will capture the fun and interesting things I see and eat without the hours and hours of work editing perfect photos. Then I want to write about more about what I cook or products I like to eat.
Anyway, onto the main post, which I can wax lyricals about for hours, durian. I love love love durian. It's my favourite fruit of them all. I actually have some durian in the fridge nearly at all times. I love the really creamy, rich, sweet, smelly durian. We can only get Thai durians in Australia, as a vendor once told me that Thai durians will continue to ripen after picking. Malaysian durians, while some are tastier, apparently don't continue ripening, so hence much harder to ship as there is a shorter timeframe in which to pick and ship them.
As I was talking about durian on Twitter one time, Li from Chillipadi said that she could get some Malaysian durians from her supplier. The thought of being able to some Mao Shan Wong had me salivating, so when Li suggested a Durian Fest, I was in. Other durian lovers in Rebecca, Allan and Bryan also came along. We cooked up a durian storm and it was so amazing.
Here is the mao shan wong durian. It's extremely pungent and has a slight bitter taste, which I love. The colour is a richer yellow than the milky yellow Thai durian. The texture is less creamy than Thai durians. You may be asking why there is mint and spring onions on the durian? That was Li's idea for food styling :-)
After eating the durian by itself, we started off by eating it with fish curry. Yep, you heard right. Durian with curry. Most of you durian haters would already be saying yuck, and to match it with curry, that's like a challenge on Survivor. But for me, the flavour combination really worked, with the sweet and bitter flavours of the durian pairing perfectly with the curry.
Next up, we ate the durian cheesecake with durian ice cream that we made. Yum yum yum. The flavours of the durian really came through the cheesecake and tasted super amazing with the ice cream.
Durian profiteroles have always been a favourite of mine. While the profiteroles themselves were slightly on the tough side, the durian cream patisserie was delicious, albeit super rich.
We were super durianed out by now, but everyone still found room for some snow mooncakes made by Brian. I was hoping they were going to be durian, but alas, they were not. They were still delicious though.
So that wraps up Durian Fest. A huge thanks to Li for generously hosting all of us at her house.
While we cooked up a lot of durian recipes that day, there are still a tonne of other durian recipe ideas that I've tried myself before or have tasted. Below is a list I'm going to start and add to.
*Cheesecake - always a favourite. Use digestive biscuits for a base and you get an amazing dessert.
*Ice cream - the easiest way to make this is just to stir durian into store bought vanilla ice cream.
*Smoothie - just use your favourite smoothie recipe and substitute for durian.
*Profiteroles - just stir blitzed up durian into the cream patisserie.
*Cakes - you can make any combination of flavours. I've done sponges, chocolate cake, butter cakes and syrup cakes.
*Slice - so think Vanilla slice, but with durian in the custard filling.
*Pastries - put durian into different types of pastries. Puff always works well, but shortbreads also can work.
*Chocolates - I was lucky enough to find durian centred chocolates in Malaysia. They were so good and I want to attempt myself.
*Fried durian - cover a durian in a beer batter and fry. Oh. So. Good.
*Cupcakes - like durian cakes, you can let your imagination run wild with durian flavoured cupcakes.
*Macarons - I've made durian macarons before and they are one of the best macarons I've tasted in my life.
*Drink - mix durian, lychees, palm dates in a coconut milk broth and you get the most amazing drink.
*Sticky rice - durian works wonderfully with sticky rice or black sticky rice and some coconut milk.
*Baked custard - I love durian in any type of baked custard. I must attempt a durian creme brulee soon.
*Jelly - I've tried durian in agar agar jelly before and it didn't work so must keep experimenting.
*Asian sweet soups - durian boiled with taro in coconut milk is a nice combination.
*Biscuits - I've eaten durian flavoured biscuits before but they tasted really fake. I have to experiment myself soon.
So these are some ideas I have. If you have any durian recipes that you love, please let me know as I really want to try them.


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BURBANK (CBS) — A 10-year-old boy was arrested Sunday after reportedly pointing a toy gun at a woman who believed it was a real weapon.
The boy knocked on the front door of the woman's house and allegedly pointed the plastic gun at a 67-year-old woman who answered the door, according to the Burbank Leader. The boy picked the house because the woman's grandson reportedly beat up his friend at school, Burbank police Lt. John Dilibert told the paper.
The boy yelled "you suck" at the woman while pointing the gun at her, then running away, Dilibert said.
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Amazing Grace is more than just a song. It is someone's salvation. As you're about to find out, it's a place, too
In terms of historic visits Ireland has known its fair share. Barack Obama made quite a stir in his ancestral home of Moneygall. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II giggled her way through the English Market in Cork, JFK kept it low key with a cup of tea in Wexford's Kennedy homestead while Mr Regan had a pub named after him. Naturally.
The Vikings arrived unannounced, of course, while St Patrick made a rather dramatic return by sailing into Strangford Lough in County Down.
When it comes to arrivals in Ireland, however, few can match that of John Newton.
Who's John Newton? On Donegal's Inishowen Peninsula, he's a household name.
Elvis Presley, Andrea Bocelli, Whitney Houston, Rod Stewart – the big voices take on the big songs and it doesn't get any bigger than Amazing Grace. Along with Auld Lang Syne, Happy Birthday and Jingle Bells, this repentant ode to God and the power of change is a song that spans the globe. In it, a wretch seeks mercy – atonement.
John Newton wasn't only the writer – he was the wretch.
According to any biography of John Newton's early life, and according to Ruth-Garvey Williams of the Inishowen Amazing Grace initiative, he was a scoundrel:
"At 23, John Newton was a foul-mouthed sailor working in the slave trade. Newton had rejected Christianity and delighted in mocking and criticising people of faith."
In fact, during his passage back to England from Africa in 1748, Newton was so unpopular with "his crew that the captain blamed him for the violent storm which so nearly claimed their lives".
And while that storm off Donegal's coast didn't take John's life, it did change it.
During the storm that almost took his and his fellow passengers lives, Newton felt utter and complete fear and turned to God for mercy. That mercy came in the shape of Lough Swilly, a mirror of a lake between Inishowen and Fanad peninsulas in County Donegal. It was in Inishowen that the boat was repaired and the crew housed.
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For Ruth Garvey-Williams, Newton's first thoughts on arriving into Swilly would have been relief. "The tension and fear of the weeks at sea," she says, "washed away as the crew waded ashore."
Happily, that sense of Swilly calm is not confined to the mid-18th Century.
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"I often feel that same sense of peace and "refuge" when I walk along the banks of the lough and gaze out across the water or listen to the waves gently lapping at the shore," Ruth tells us. "No matter how busy I've been, a few moments by Lough Swilly are like taking a deep breath!"
But Newton and crew wouldn't have only been pleased with the surroundings. The care and attention they received at the hands of the locals was something unique. In the intervening years that warmth has not dimmed.
"During this year's Amazing Grace Festival, visitors were blown away by the warmth of the welcome they received in Buncrana. Locals are passionate about the area and go out of their way to show people the rich natural beauty and cultural heritage."
Whether is was Lough Swilly, Inishowen or his salvation from the storm, Newton was a new man. From this point on he renounced his work in the slave trade, became a friend and political ally of the abolitionist William Wilberforce and of course, penned Amazing Grace.
So the next time you sing Amazing Grace, spare a thought for John Newton and remember that neither he, nor the song, would be here without the calm of Lough Swilly and the Inishowen Peninsula.
Now that's a sweet sound.
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Apple Inc Chief Executive Tim Cook's new go-to management team of mostly familiar faces failed to drum up much excitement on Wall Street, driving its shares to a three-month low on Wednesday.
The world's most valuable technology company, which had faced questions about a visionary-leadership vacuum following the death of Steve Jobs, on Monday stunned investors by announcing the ouster of chief mobile software architect Scott Forstall and retail chief John Browett -- the latter after six months on the job.
Cook gave most of Forstall's responsibilities to Macintosh software chief Craig Federighi, while some parts of the job went to Internet chief Eddy Cue and celebrated designer Jony Ive.
But the loss of the 15-year veteran and Jobs's confidant Forstall, and resurgent talk about internal conflicts, exacerbated uncertainty over whether Cook and his lieutenants have what it takes to devise and market the next ground-breaking, industry-disrupting product.
Apple shares ended the day down 1.4 percent at 595.32. They have shed a tenth of their value this month -- the biggest monthly loss since late 2008, and have headed south since touching an all-time high of $705 in September.
For investors, the management upheaval from a company that usually excels at delivering positive surprises represents the latest reason for unease about the future of a company now more valuable than almost any other company in the world.
Apple undershot analysts targets in its fiscal third quarter, the second straight disappointment. Its latest Maps software was met with widespread frustration and ridicule over glaring mistakes. Sources told Reuters that Forstall and Cook disagreed over the need to publicly apologize for its maps service embarrassment.
And this month, Apple entered the small-tablet market with its iPad mini, lagging Amazon.com Inc and Google Inc despite pioneering the tablet market in 2010.
Investor concerns now center around the demand, availability and profitability of new products, including the iPad mini set to hit stores on Friday.
"The sudden departure of Scott Forstall doesn't help," said Shaw Wu, an analyst with Sterne Agee. "Now there's some uncertainty in the management."
"There appears to be some infighting, post-Steve Jobs, and looks like Cook is putting his foot down and unifying the troops."
Apple declined to comment beyond Monday's announcement.
Against that backdrop, Cook's inner circle has some convincing to do. In the wake of Forstall's exit, iTunes maestro Eddy Cue -- dubbed "Mr Fixit", the sources say -- gets his second promotion in a year, taking on an expanded portfolio of all online services, including Siri and Maps.
The affable executive with a tough negotiating streak who, according to documents revealed in court, lobbied Jobs aggressively and finally convinced the late visionary about the need for a smaller-sized tablet, has become a central figure: a versatile problem-solver for the company.
Ive, the British-born award-winning designer credited with pushing the boundaries of engineering with the iPod and iPhone, now extends his skills into the software realm with the lead on user interface.
Marketing guru Schiller continues in his role, while career engineer Mansfield canceled his retirement to stay on and lead wireless and semiconductor teams. Then there's Federighi, the self-effacing software engineer who a source told Reuters joined Apple over Forstall's initial objections, and has the nickname "Hair Force One" on Game Center.
"With a large base of approximately 60,400 full-time employees, it would be easy to conclude that the departures are not important," said Keith Bachman, analyst with BMO Capital Markets. "However, we do believe the departures are a negative, since we think Mr. Forstall in particular added value to Apple."
But despite the success, his style and direction on the software were not without critics, inside and outside.
Forstall often clashed with other executives, said a person familiar with him, adding he sometimes tended to over-promise and under-deliver on features. Now, Federighi, Ive and Cue have the opportunity to develop the look, feel and engineering of the all-important software that runs iPhones and iPads.
Cue, who rose to prominence by building and fostering iTunes and the app store, has the tough job of fixing and improving Maps, unveiled with much fanfare by Forstall in June, but it was found full of missing information and wrongly marked sites.
The Duke University alum and Blue Devils basketball fan -- he has been seen courtside with players -- is deemed the right person to accomplish this, given his track record on fixing services and products that initially don't do well.
The 23-year veteran turned around the short-lived MobileMe storage service after revamping and wrapping it into the reasonably well-received iCloud offering.
"Eddy is certainly a person who gets thrown a lot of stuff to 'go make it work' as he's very used to dealing with partners," said a person familiar with Cue. The person said Cue was suited to fixing Maps given the need to work with partners such as TomTom and business listings provider Yelp.
Cue's affable charm and years of dealing with entertainment companies may come in handy as he also tries to improve voice-enabled digital assistant Siri. He has climbed the ladder rapidly in the past five years and was promoted to senior vice president last September, shortly after Cook took over as CEO.
Both Cue and Cook will work more closely with Federighi, who spent a decade in enterprise software before rejoining Apple in 2009, taking over Mac software after the legendary Bertrand Serlet left the company in March last year
Federighi was instrumental in bringing popular mobile features such as notifications and Facebook integration onto the latest Mac operating system Mountain Lion, which was donwloaded on 3 million machines in four days.
The former CTO of business software company Ariba, now part of SAP, worked with Jobs at NeXT Computer. Federighi is a visionary in software engineering and can be as good as Jobs in strategic decisions for the product he oversees, a person who has worked with him said.
His presentation skills have been called on of late, most recently at Apple annual developers' gathering in the summer.
Then there's Ive, deemed Apple's inspirational force. Among the iconic products he has worked on are multi-hued iMac computers, the iPod music player, the iPhone and the iPad.
Forstall's departure may free Ive of certain constraints, the sources said. His exit brought to the fore a fundamental design issue -- to do or not to do digital skeuomorphic designs. Skeuomorphic designs stay true to and mimic real-life objects, such as the bookshelf in the iBooks icon, green felt in its Game Center app icon, and an analog clock depicting the time.
Forstall, who will stay on as adviser to Cook for another year, strongly believed in these designs, but his philosophy was not shared by all. His chief dissenter was Ive, who is said to prefer a more open approach, which could mean a slightly different design direction on the icons.
"There is no one else who has that kind of (design) focus on the team," the person said of Ive. "He is critical for them."
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