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AT THE MOVIES

It
Director: Andy Muschietti
Starring: Bill Skarsgård, Jaeden Lieberher, Finn Wolfhard, and more...

A group of bullied kids band together when a shapeshifting demon, taking the appearance of a clown, begins hunting children.

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Haylen (Fangs and Fists 4) by Kate Hill $3.99 Sale Price: $3.39
Will Maddy save Haylen's soul, or will he corrupt hers?
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MOMS FOR SAFE FOOD

I had some coconut cream that needed using up and I found a few recipes making homemade Mounds type bars. They were easy and very delicious. You can adjust the sweetener to taste, if you like them more or less sweet.

Ingredients for center:

2 cups organic unsweetened, shredded coconut
1/4 cup sweetener of choice -- I use swerve
1 teaspoon organic vanilla extract
1 cup organic coconut cream (this is different then milk or oil)

Ingredients for the topping:

1/4 cup organic unsweetened cocoa powder
4 oz. organic cocoa butter
1/4 cup sweetener of choice -- I use confectioners swerve

Instructions:

Mix shredded coconut with coconut cream, vanilla extract and sweetener with a spatula or a spoon.

I made little squares and put them in the brownie tray, linked below.

Place in the freezer for 2 hours, until frozen solid.

Prepare the chocolate coating, I melt the cocoa butter in a double boiler until melted. You could also microwave it for a minute at a time until melted.

Add cocoa powder and sweetener and mix until everything is blended.

Let cool to room temperature, but still liquid.

Now dip the bars in the cocoa mixture, and turn to all sides to coat evenly. It helps if the bars are frozen solid, I use a spoon and dip then on all sides.

I put the finished bars on a plate with wax paper on the bottom and between any layers. Once done and cooled you can store them out, but as it’s summer I store them in the fridge. Enjoy!

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INTERVIEW WITH HANS AND PIETRO FROM SAVAGE PROTECTOR BY MEGAN SLAYER

Hans, what kind of job do you have?

I'm a protector. I keep people safe and weed out the dangerous ones. I specialize in shifters.

Hans, describe yourself in three words.

Hardass, Harrowing, Handsome.

Hans, who is your love interest?

Pietro. I couldn't have survived without him. I wanted to kill him at first, but he's not so bad. (grin)

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DID YOU KNOW?

• In 1828 Andrew Jackson was running for president when an opponent called him a "jackass." Jackson turned the insult around by using a donkey on a campaign poster to stress his stubborn refusal to bow to big business interests. In 1840, New York cartoonist Thomas Nast began using the donkey in political cartoons and the donkey has been the symbol of the Democratic Party, formerly called the Democratic Republicans. ever since.
• In 1876 the Republican Rutherford B. Hayes was elected president by a single electoral vote.
• Is it a hurricane or a typhoon? Actually, they're the same thing except for the name. They're both tropical storms or "cyclones." By convention, the cyclone is a hurricane if it occurs in the Atlantic Ocean or a typhoon if it occurs in the western Pacific or Indian oceans.
• An average lightning bolt is only half an inch wide, has a temperature almost five times hotter than the sun, and would take only one second to travel around the equator.
• If you count the chirps of a tree cricket for 15 seconds and then add 37, it will be almost exactly the true temperature in degrees Fahrenheit.
• The golden dart frog is so poisonous that the skin of a single frog can kill up to 1,000 people.
• Frogs live between 4 and 15 years, but one European common toad lived to be 40 years old.

Borrowed by Daheap from Do Fish Drink Water? Bill McLain