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Monday, December 19, 2011
Chimes Orange Ginger Chews
Chimes has always made eye-catching packages. They make a great set of tins for the Indonesian-style ginger chews. But even the bag version is gorgeous. I picked up the Chimes Orange Ginger Chews at the local Korean-run Japanese market in Little Tokyo (but I've also seen these at Cost Plus World Market).
For a sugar candy, they're a little expensive, $2.99 for only five ounces. But they're well packaged to keep the product fresh and the pieces are small so you get a lot of them.
The package says that it's made with Pure Java Ginger. I have no idea what the reputation of ginger from Java is, the only ginger that I've actually noticed I eat a lot of is Australian ginger. (But Wikipedia cites that India grows the most.)
The initial flavor, after the dusting of sweet powdered sugar goes away is orange zest and a bit of orange juice. The chew is stiff at first, but gets pretty sticky as it softens up in the mouth. The dissolve is smooth and then it gets quite warm from the ginger. I didn't get much of the rooty and earthy flavors, because the orange was so strong. But there was a very strong heat from the ginger.
The pieces are small, but pack enough punch for the size. My biggest frustration was with the little sealed wrappers on the pieces. They were devilishly hard to open, and then inside there was a bit of powdered sugar with varied and could be messy. Luckily folks are used to seeing me dusted with confectioners sugar and have never accused me of having a coke habit.
It's a nice hot weather treat, you can really abuse them since they don't melt and won't leak out of the sealed wrappers. Ginger is great for upset tummies as well, and the flavor is fresh and invigorating so good for keeping you up without caffeine. I'm still most fond of the traditional just ginger version, but if you're looking for something that's not quite so gingery, this is a good starter option.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:56 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Chews • Ginger • 7-Worth It • Indonesia •
Friday, December 16, 2011
Ginger People Spicy Apple Ginger Chews
The Ginger People are wild about ginger and make all sorts of ginger products including a nice array of ginger chews.
The package for the Spicy Apple Ginger Chews features The Ginger People's mascot, an anthropomorphic gingerman sitting on a pile of apples, eating a ginger chew. Kind of weird looking as well as creepy when you think of him being cannibalistic.
Soft and spicy apple-ginger candy. Natural, stimulating and delicious.
The candy comes in a small stand up pouch. It has a zipper seal, so it can be closed up. Reclosing is hardly necessary to keep it fresh though, as each piece is maddeningly sealed in un-tearable plastic that says "tear here" with an arrow at one end.
The pieces are about an inch and a half long, rather flat and kind of sticky. There's a powdered starch coating on the outside to keep it from sticking too much.
The chew is smooth, the ingredients have no dairy in them, so I can't call it a caramel. It's made of cane sugar, ginger, tapioca starch, apple flavor, cinnamon oil and allspice oil.
The flavor is first, and foremost ginger. The woodsy and earthy flavors come out loud and clear then create a warming sensation that last for quite a while, some pieces were hotter than others and created a little soft burn. The apple flavor was vague but present only by comparison to their classic Ginger Chews. The cinnamon and allspice did add a bit more dimension to it, like a spiced cider drink.
They're messy and difficult to get out of their wrappers, but they're also simple, vegan and refreshing.
I like them for traveling, as I sometimes get motion sickness. Folks who are prone to upset tummies (especially for morning sickness) may find them both a fun candy and soothing. They're a little expensive for a sugar candy at $2 for 3 ounces but the pieces are small and there are a lot in the package.
Gluten free and vegan but they're processed in a facility that also handles peanuts.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:29 am All Natural • Candy • Review • Roxy Trading Co • The Ginger People • Chews • Ginger • 7-Worth It • Indonesia • Whole Foods •
Tuesday, August 24, 2010
Mandy's Old Fashioned Confections: Butterscotch & Caramel
Ah, Mandy's Old Fashioned Confections. Just look at that charming packaging, how it speaks of artisans stirring a copper kettle of gooey butterscotch with a wooden paddle. Why, I can just picture Mandy herself swooping in to affirm that the mixture was cooked to perfection before it's dumped onto a generations-old marble slab to cool.
In reality Mandy's is distributed by ASA Foods, a 16 year old Southern California importer. They also make candy under the brand Fusion Gourmet, their best known candies are the Bali's Best Coffee and Tea candies. All of their candy (as far as I know) is made in Indonesia ... a place that certainly knows about coffee.
While I may make fun it, the packaging is nice. The Butterscotch Flavored Hard Candy was nicely priced; I picked up this package for a dollar at the 99 Cent Only Store. It says it has 40 individually wrapped pieces and weighs 5 ounces. The ingredients are decent too:
Each piece is individually wrapped. Sealed tight. Yup, no moisture getting in there. They're a little tricky to get open, but having spent some time in high humidity areas recently I can appreciate how that would make these even more appealing.
The candies are cute little disks, they're just shy of one inch around (about the size of a quarter). They're smooth and have a satisfying clink when dropped on a hard surface (and an unsatisfying tendency to split into a bajillion pieces when dropped on a hard surface). The package calls them Rich, Creamy and Buttery and I'm inclined to agree. They are wonderfully smooth. The melt is slow and silky, though not sticky. The butter flavor is good, though artificially flavored it doesn't taste like microwave popcorn. There's a light note of salt and a milky background to it. They're like little toffee pieces, easy to crunch. Far to easy to crunch. That's the way I was eating them, just crunching them up. Sometimes they'd get stuck in my teeth a little bit.
The second flavor I found for Mandy's Old Fashioned Confections was the Caramel Flavored Hard Candy. This package is largely identical to the Butterscotch. This one describes the candy as Rich, Smooth and Creamy and uses browns as the predominant background color.
The description on the back of the package also says that Mandy's makes an Orange Soda variety.
The package depicts the candies as dark brown in color, like coffee and cream. But the reality is not quite that way (though really not disappointing either). I put the caramel and butterscotch ones next to each other. See if you can tell the difference:
I don't remember which is which. The ingredients are pretty much the same, too:
Again, it's ultra smooth. The lightly salty hard caramel is very satisfying, especially when I crunched them up.
Though the flavorings are supposed to be different, they really don't taste much different. Buttery smooth, salty, slick and satisfying.
I enjoyed both quite a bit, especially as it's extraordinary hot this week, I get to enjoy a creamy treat that can take the heat. They're a good deal, a really nicely sized piece and don't have artificial colors in them.
There's no statement about gluten or nuts on the package. They're not Kosher (nor Halal). The freshness date was "best by May 2012." They're pretty diet friendly - even though they have 125 calories per ounce (about the same as toffee or caramel) the little pieces are only 4 grams each and 16 calories each.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:35 pm Candy • Hard Candy & Lollipops • 7-Worth It • Indonesia • 99 Cent Only Store •
Friday, July 9, 2010
Sukoka Soft Coffee Candy
I was cruising the aisles of Cost Plus World Market looking for a pick me up after Christmas and saw this rather generic looking Sukoka Soft Coffee Candy by Unican on the shelf. It said it was made with real milk and apparently real coffee, so I figured it'd have a little caffeinated kick. So I bought it. Then I ate them all, without reviewing them. So I had to buy another bag.
It seemed a bit on the expensive side, 3.2 ounces was $1.99. But it was also only $2 and it might be great, so why not give it a try.
Mostly the package was focused on the nutritional benefits: With 6% daily value Calcium in each serving, which is 5 pieces. So a little more than 1% per piece. There are 30 pieces in the bag, so at least I know if I went wild, I wouldn't overdose on calcium.
Each little piece was individually wrapped and sealed. I've noticed this is common with candy from Indonesia (also Malaysia and Philippines), I'm guessing it's because people buy single pieces and that the weather there is very humid so sugar candy needs to be well sealed to keep from getting sticky.
The description on the back of the package goes on to extol more of the virtues of the candy:
But I don't think that the ingredients are the very best (that that they're terrible):
I don't know what condensed filled milk is, I'm guessing it's sweetened condensed milk.
The pieces are about the size and shape of a cough drop. Just light and creamy brown lozenges. They smell sweet and like black coffee. The flavor is immediately like coffee ice cream: milky and with a soft bitter note of coffee and burnt sugar. The toffee notes are most evident and the coffee has a good mix of bitterness, charcoal and woodsiness. They're firm but have a give to them that's more dense and more dairy than a caramel. The chew is smooth but never quite gets grainy or diluted.
The coffee flavor wasn't intense but it was satisfying and rich. I have no idea if there's a measurable amount of caffeine in them, I didn't notice any effects, and I'm rather sensitive to it. I bought this second bag yesterday and it's already gone, so I must have liked them. I wouldn't eat them for the health benefits though.
These are a great summer candy. They're exceptionally durable, even in the heat they might melt a bit, but are still perfectly edible even if they lose their shape and reform. They're creamy and rich, so it's kind of like chocolate without the sticky mess. The individual wrapping means you can even tuck them in your pocket.
Unican also makes a milk tea version called Suteka and a mint chocolate one called Mint Choka as well as a whole line of fruity milk candies called Milkita (strawberry & melon). The tea one sounds like it would be very good. These are marked Halal and should be suitable for vegetarians (but not vegans, obviously).
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Thursday, June 18, 2009
Ginger Chews: Hot Coffee
There are a lot of confections I call traveling candies. They're candies that both deliver that sweet boost as well as some other function. I often use hot cinnamon for long car rides to keep me focused and of course coffee items like Nips or Coffee Rio are great for a teensy caffeine boost without fluids.
I also tend to get motion sickness, so ginger candies are a great way to feed my sweet tooth and soothe my tummy.
Here's a candy from The Ginger People that combines both the soothing spice of ginger and the kick of coffee: Hot Coffee Ginger Chews.
The chews are just like the other ubiquitous Ginger Chews that are available unbranded at Asian markets or from The Ginger People or Chimes. (They're all made in Indonesia.)
The soft little translucent chew is coated with a tapioca starch & sugar mixture. They still stick to the wrapper and don't really look like much when pulled out. Sometimes I can find one that's still block shaped, but most are smashed.
The scent is rather bland. Just sweet and maybe a little woodsy. But I popped one my mouth and the immediate sweetness gave way to quite a few flavors. There's a strong root & earth component from the ginger then a very strong spicy warm feeling. The coffee kind of kicks in from the background - it's rather weak coffee note but not tamed by any milk here like so many coffee candies do. It's a brewed black coffee flavor.
It makes me wonder why I don't throw sliced ginger into my coffee. It's a really nice combination - the sugar is sweet but more like barley sugar with a mellow malty or toasted flavor to it.
The cumulative effect of these after a half a dozen is a strong and lingering warm sensation. (And a few little bits stuck in my teeth.)
The drawbacks to these are, first, that they're vexing to get out of their wrappers. The plastic/mylar stuff is hard to tear open, and never quite opens the whole way. Not exactly easy to open yourself when driving. (This is what navigators were invented for ... not directing you where to go, but to unwrap & hand you your candy.)
Each piece has about 20 calories and no fat. If there's caffeine in it, it's not enough for them to note on the package (it's a coffee extract so it's not like some candies where you consume the whole bean). Their website says they're gluten free (but the package doesn't). They're made in a facility that processes peanuts. Should be considered vegan, there's no Kosher or Halal certification.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:30 am
Monday, June 16, 2008
Barley Mint Mentos
A few years ago I got an assortment of Malaysian hard candies that included a couple called Barley Mint. I wasn't sure what Barley Mint was, I thought it was barley sugar flavored with mint. It was nice, but not what I'd envisioned and I put it out of my head.
Years later, I spotted a version of Mentos made in Indonesia called Barley Mint and I was again intrigued to taste them. Luckily they were in the latest gaggle of Mentos (yes, that's the term for a large group of Mentos) from Santos of Scent of Green Bananas.
I'll have more on the rest of them later (including Strawberry Yoghurt, Spearmint, Tropical Mix & Black Currant).
The green package features images of the little chewy dragees and mint leaves. The mints themselves were less green, kind of a light celadon.
They didn't smell like much, maybe like a box of TicTacs.
Biting into them is was quite apparent that Barley Mint is not any ordinary mint.
It's like peppermint, cool and fresh, but then there's a lingering flush of something ... something floral or fragrant. Roses? Soft Musk? Whatever it is, it's not a minty flavor. It's not orange blossom or any sort of blossom. It's musk. Like the Australian Musk Sticks. Mixed with mint. And maybe a little touch of mellow and creamy banana. I know, it sounds weird, and it probably is.
It's not that strong, not like the more intense Peppermint Mentos, but it's certainly strange and for anyone who doesn't like soapy flavors, it's sure to be a turnoff. There's a very clear reason that these aren't distributed in the US and this roll is quite lucky to have found me. I'm eating them all.
They felt fresh without being too strong. The mint would linger for a bit, but the musky flavor stayed for at least a half hour after consumption.
I don't know quite what the flavor has to do with barley, but maybe Musk Mint wouldn't have sold as well even in Indonesia.
These are not Halal (or Kosher) but do not contain gelatin so are suitable for vegetarians.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:01 am
Wednesday, November 1, 2006
Mini Mentos
Mmm, more Mentos from the Pacific. These little cuties were also in my package from Santos. It was a mixed bag of miniatures in three flavors. Grape, Apple and Watermelon.
Starting from the left the light yellow-green ones are Apple. It's a mild apple, not very tangy, but floral and sweet and very pleasant. The candies themselves are a little smaller than the normal Mentos, not just small pack like you'd get Lifesavers.
In the middle are little lilac wonders in Grape, these were, to put it mildly, odd. They were kind of concord grapey and completely unlike those malic acid wonders you find in a roll of SweeTarts. These were floral and had a sort of balsam note that reminds me of concord grape skins when you eat them fresh off the vine. At first I was a little put off, but I chalk that up to the whole expectations thing. When I stopped thinking about it, I really like them and now I'm regretting sending a bunch of them off to the Mentos winner last month.
The more vivid green ones are Watermelon which are very sweet and have an odd note of mint to them (which could be a manufacturing problem). The melon flavor is true and has that sort of woodsy note to it, but no tartness to it. Not my fave but not terrible.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:14 am
Tuesday, October 3, 2006
Dalandan & Juicy Ponkan Mentos
You thought Pink Grapefruit and Licorice Mentos were exotic? How about these flavors from the Philippines ... sent to me by Santos of Scent of Green Bananas. They're both citrus flavors: Dalandan Fresh and Juicy Ponkan.
Dalandan Fresh comes in green, yellow and blue wrappers, but the candy itself is a lovely sherbet orange. A dalandan is a citrus commonly known in the Philippines as the Sweet Orange. They're likened to Valencia oranges, but the main difference is in the appearance. A ripe dalandan has a green peel (hence the wrapper is green).
The candy has a nice chew, of course, and a good sweet burst of orange essence with a bit of a tangerine or clementine note and maybe a little pomelo thrown in. It's more sweet than tangy, but the flavor is pretty intense. I miss the sour notes that are in the Pink Grapefruit but this is much better than the plain orange available in the mixed fruit box.
The Juicy Ponkan flavor comes in an intense orange wrapper but the candy inside is a soft orange. Like the dalandan, the ponkan is a citrus but this one is in the tangerine/mandarin family and has an orange rind that's leathery and easy to peel. It's a bit more tangy than the dalandan and has a more robust flavor with floral notes, tartness and a zesty essence that lingers.
I really liked this one, but they're both a great change from plain old orange. Every once in a while one would have a slight minty or menthol taste, which made me wonder about the manufacturing process. Both varieties were manufactured in Indonesia for the Philippino market. (More about ponkan here.)
UPDATE (10/9/2006 - 3:02 PM) - No more entries, please… we have a winner! (To be announced shortly.)
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:00 am
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IDAHO FALLS – The Idaho Distinguished Young Woman (DYW) contest is this Thursday, Friday and Saturday at the Idaho Falls Civic Auditorium. The contest begins each evening at 7 p.m. Tickets are $10 per person per evening or a ticket for each of the three evening performances can be purchased for $25.
Tickets can be purchased at the box office.
Four distinguished young ladies will represent Bingham County in this contest.
· Miko Toussaint represents Blackfoot.
· Malia Saupan represents Snake River.
· Aspen Poulson represents Aberdeen.
· Shannon Christensen represents Firth and Shelley.
Forty participants are seeking the medallion that will be awarded to Miss Distinguished Young Woman Idaho.
The contestants will spend this week preparing for the competitions on Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
All participants are interviewed by the judges on Wednesday. Each participant will compete on stage on Thursday and Friday. On Saturday, the top 10 competitors will perform again.
The Idaho DYW winner will be announced Saturday evening at the conclusion of the program.
The national competition takes place in October.
The Bingham County representatives were all excited about meeting new girls and making new friends.
"I want to thank the community for their support of my service project," said Blackfoot DYW Toussaint.
People donated 2,220 pairs of shoes that will eventually go to Ecuador and Africa.
Toussaint's talent is dance.
"I'm prepared and I'm also nervous," said Snake River DYW Saupan.
Saupan's talent is piano.
"I'm so scared but I'm excited about the interview portion of the competition, being able to talk to the judges," said Aberdeen DYW Poulson.
Poulson will sing "Don't Rain on my Parade" from Funny Girl for her talent.
Firth/Shelley DYW Christensen will present a piano solo for her talent.
Founded in 1958, Distinguished Young Woman (formerly Junior Miss) is the oldest and largest national scholarship program for high school girls.
Many participants leave the program with scholarships to help them with their college educations, but all of them walk away with friendships, life skills and increased self-confidence.
Distinguished Young Women strives to give every young woman the opportunity to further her education and prepare for a successful future.


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April 27, 2012
Aaron Burt Champion and the Cincinnati Red Stockings
Ohio's own Aaron Burt Champion (1842–1895) entered the Preparatory Department of Antioch College in 1856 when Horace Mann was still its president. He left school in 1860 without a degree, though that did not prevent him from becoming a successful Cincinnati attorney in just a few short years. Champion's meteoric rise in the legal world led to a life in baseball, by that time fast developing into the national game. In July 1866, still in his mid 20s, Champion helped establish the Cincinnati Base Ball Club at the law offices of Tilden, Sherman and Moulton on West Third Street (an address long since displaced by Fort Washington Way), and was elected the team's vice president. The "Resolutes" as they were called, were mostly attorneys themselves, and they played their first official game the following September.
Though strictly an amateur pursuit in the mid 1860s, baseball began to professionalize when cricket stars showed interest in the game. Cricketers had been getting paid to play their game for several years, and in 1868, Champion's club offered former star bowler of the New York Cricket Club Harry Wright $1,200 a year to play baseball. That year the team sported new uniforms to go with its new winning attitude that featured an Old English "C" on the shirt and bright red hose that went up to the knees. One story credits Champion with the club's new look, which resulted in its fans (then known as "cranks") referring to them by their now famous name: The Red Stockings.
That year, Champion became president of the Red Stockings, and he resolved to capitalize on their popularity (by then the club was considered a point of Cincinnati pride) and make them competitive with more famous teams in the East where professionals were routinely paid under the table. Champion would have no such dishonesty on his club, however, insisting that all his players would be paid openly as long as they agreed to abide by the high standards that he set for their conduct both on and off the field. He placed Harry Wright in charge of recruitment, and set about organizing games for a national tour that would see them travel over 12,000 miles to both coasts (a trip made possible by the newly completed Transcontinental Railroad), play before more than 200,000 spectators, and dominate the opposition, outscoring their combined opponents 2,395 to 575.
That historic season was supposed to begin in an historic location: Yellow Springs, Ohio, on the grounds of Antioch College where Champion had been a student. Inclement weather is the only reason that it did not, and consequently Mansfield, Ohio—and not Yellow Springs—holds the distinction of site of the first professional baseball game. There the Red Stockings rapped out the first of 57 consecutive victories in an undefeated season and a winning streak that extended all the way to 84 before they finally lost 8–7 in extra innings to the Atlantics of Brooklyn in June 1870.
A smashing success on the field, the Red Stockings could not duplicate the same fortunes in their accounts. Already $15,000 in debt at the start of their extraordinary run, in 1870 they cleared $1.39 after expenses as player salaries consumed what little profit could be made. Champion managed to retire the debt before resigning his position to return to his law practice. Following his tenure, the club purged itself of expensive salaried players in order to remain solvent, yet disbanded in 1871. Champion would live just long enough to see professional baseball finally return to Cincinnati in 1890, but died in England of complications from disease and was buried in London.
The story of the first major league rainout (reprinted below) was told by a reporter for The Cincinnati Commercial assigned to travel with the Red Stockings. "H. M. M." relates several details worth pointing out, including the team's noted base of operations, the elegant Gibson House, a hotel so fine that Rutherford B. Hayes stayed there while President of the United States. The hastily partaken lunch was served to them at the Yellow Springs House hotel where the village's Bryan Center stands today. Crestline, Ohio, where they change trains, is not much bigger than Yellow Springs, but in the mid 19th century it was one of the most important rail junctions in the country. The use of the term "match" in the last paragraph referring to the game in Mansfield is a holdover from cricket. The words to one of the club songs potentially sung on the trip, goes like this:
We are a band of Baseball Players
From Cincinnati City.
We come to toss the ball around
And sing to you our ditty
And if you listen to the song
We are about to sing,
We'll tell you all about baseball
And make the welkin ring.
The ladies want to know
Who are those gallant men in
Stockings Red, they'd like to know.
From The Cincinnati Commercial, Thursday, June 3, 1869:
Correspondence Cincinnati Commercial
The Cincinnati Base Ball Club—Their Voyage Eastward
Mansfield, O June 1.
When the Cincinnati Base Ball Club left the Gibson House, on Monday morning, in good spirits, the air was bracing, and "old Sol" was endeavoring to peep from the corner of an eastern cloud. Breakfasting, and then proceeding to our special car on the Little Miami Railroad, they began singing the club songs, and passing the time in pleasant manner to Yellow Springs. But the predictions of the "oldest inhabitant," whoever he may be, are not always correct, neither were ours, for as we reached Milford "black double-banked clouds promised twenty-four hours moist misery," and as for the sun, it had entirely disappeared. Falling at first in drizzling showers, and steadily increasing, it was falling in bucketfuls by the time we reached Yellow Springs. Notwithstanding this unexpected drawback, the members of the Antioch Club gave us a hearty welcome, but were sorry to inform us that the grounds would not be fit to play upon in case it should cease raining.
The President of the club, after expressing his regrets to the Antiochs, informed them that they would try to meet them soon, and hoped under more favorable auspices. They then telegraphed to Xenia to Mr. CS Rodgers, of the Little Miami Railroad, stationed at Xenia, who promptly dispatched a special train to the Springs, and after hastily partaking of a lunch, spread by EP Johnson Esq., of the Yellow Springs House, we returned to Xenia; and taking the Columbus accommodation, were soon at Columbus, where we were obliged to change cars, and from there to Crestline had gay times. The boys, weary after riding so many miles, with the dampness of the moisty atmosphere coming in at the open windows, and at intervals almost suffocating, and again obliged to turn up coat collars and bind handkerchiefs around the throat to prevent catching a cold, determined to keep warm by hustling about and playing jokes on the members of the Nine. Several of the latter, having traveled a great distance, were enjoying a peaceful "snooze," and one of the members who plays at "short stop," and wears a handsome gold medal, presented him for best playing in the season of 1868, provided himself with a hideous Yankee contrivance, in the shape of a large bug with long legs made of wire, attached to a string. Passing along the car he would gently drop it upon the face of the individual, who would manifest the unpleasant feeling of the "critter" by slapping at it with his hand.
Then ballads would be sung, the whole of our party, numbering thirteen persons, joining in the chorus. In the midst of a drenching rain we once more changed cars, at Crestline, for this place, having but twelve miles to go before we would reach our journey's end for the time being. The cars on the Pittsburg, Fort Wayne, and Chicago road, on which we were placed, were small and dingy—in fact, the meanest road, as far as accommodations are concerned, in the country. This beautiful city we entered about 7 o'clock, and were quickly "bussed" to the Wiler House, where everything is done for our comfort. The hotel is conducted on the country plan, fresh milk and sweet butter being placed on the table in abundance. When nearing this place, the prettiest rainbow we ever saw extended over the heavens, and the sun shone brilliantly.
Last night one of our members distinguished himself by defeating the champion billiardist of Mansfield some hundred odd points in a friendly game. The boys retired early last evening, and this morning are looking splendidly.
The Independent Club of this city have a very strong Nine, and will give the boys all the work to do that they can in the game this afternoon. This is a beautiful day, and a large crowd is expected to be on the grounds at the match.


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Simple data types, simple control flow
Here are some of the basics of the language:
# E sample # Comment on this piece of code def a := 3 var b := a + 2 b += 1 if (a < b) { println("a is less than b") } else { println("Wow, the arithmetic logic unit in this processor is confused") }
Variable declarations in E are made with the var statement. Variables that are only assigned a value once at creation (i.e., constants, or variables declared final) are created with the def statement. In E as in Java, "+=" is shorthand for adding the righthand value to the lefthand variable.
Single-line comments have a "#" at the beginning, and terminate with the end of line. The /**...*/ comment style is used only for writing javadoc-style E comments, discussed later. link here
Assignment uses the ":=" operator. The single equal sign "=" is never legal in E, use ":=" for assignment and "==" for testing equality. The function "println" prints to the console. The "if" statement looks identical to its Java equivalent, but the braces are required.
What is the end-of-statement delineator in E? In Java, you terminate a statement with a semi-colon. In E, the end-of-line is also the end-of-statement unless there is an open operation at the end of the line. In the example, the "if" statement's first line ends with an open brace; E knows the next line must be a continuation line. Some quick examples
This works ? def a := 1 + 2 + 3 + 4 # value: 10 And this works ? def b := 1 + 2 + > 3 + 4 # value: 10 But this does not work, because the first line can and does evaluate without a continuation, so the second line is a syntax error: ? def c := 1 + 2 ? + 3 + 4 # example syntax error: # + 3 + 4 # ^
The end-of-line statement termination of E makes it easy to use E for command lines, as in rune.
If your organization uses a line continuation convention that puts the operator at the beginning of the second line, you can use the explicit continuation character "\" as here:
This also works ? def c := 1 + 2 \ > + 3 + 4 # value: 10
Basic Types and Operators
The basic types in E are int, float, string, char, and boolean. All integer arithmetic is unlimited precision, as if all integers were BigIntegers.
Floats are represented as 64-bit IEEE floating point numbers. The operators +, -, * have their traditional meanings for integers and floats. The normal division operator "/" always gives you a floating point result. The floor divide operator "//" always gives you an integer, truncated towards negative infinity. So (-3.5 // 1) == -4.
E has 2 modulo operations: "%", like the Java modulo operator, returns the remainder of division that truncates towards zero. E also supplies "%%", which returns a remainder of division that truncates towards negative infinity.
Operator precedence is generally the same as in Java. In a few cases E will throw a syntax error and require the use of parentheses.
E's quasi-literals enable the easy processing of complex strings as described in detail later; here is a very simple example:
# E sample def printString := `Value of x is: $x`
wherein the back-ticks denote a quasi-literal, and the dollar sign denotes a variable whose value is to be embedded in the string.
"+" when used with strings is a concatenation operator as in Java. It automatically coerces other types on the right-hand if the left-hand operand is a string, but prints a warning as it does so.
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I ordered some...so now.....how long for dye release?
Celebration henna
Someone correct me if I'm wrong, but the dye release for henna always has the same factors - it depends on temp its kept at and the liquid (and its temp) you use.
You probably know this, but just to share for those who are reading this that may not....
- Lemon: 8 - 12 hours, sometimes 24. Possibly higher. Some folks have reported getting good dye release 3 days later with lemon, though I believe it was for body art not hair. You can cut this time by a few hours if you use mostly water with a splash of lemon.
- Apple: 6 - 8 hours. You can probably get it at 4 or 5 hours if you keep it around 70 - 75 degrees. I think one gal reported getting dye release with apple in 3 hours by placing the henna in her laundry room, covered in several layers of towels. This was during the winter, so the towels may not be needed now.
- Tea (black, green, chamomile, zinger): 2 - 4 hours. I have personally gotten good, solid dye release in about an hour, hour and a half by keeping my henna at about 70 degrees.
There are other options, such as wine, yogurt, and vinegar.... the ones I mentioned are the ones I know best and seem to be most popular right now. Yogurt is good if your hair likes fats because its not only acidic for dye release, but also adds moisture to your hair. I think its dye release time is similar to lemon juice.
And remember that if you cant use it right away after dye release, throw it in the fridge. Or better yet, freeze it if you can. Freezing causes the cells to burst and release even more dye, causing a more intese stain. But only freeze AFTER dye release. Carrie has experimented and found that freezing before hand with stronger acidic liquids that take longer (ie lemon) result in weaker dye stains. Pastes mixed with tea could be frozen before dye release and still get a more intense stain, but that is because it dye releases so quickly and probably dye release before they freeze. But its probably not recommended.
using henna on the hair and on the body is a bit different, I would never mix my body art henna with vinegar- as it makes a gawd awful smelling mess
or yogurt-I can only imagine what this would look like LOL
LIquid type, time and temperature all do contribute to the dye release which is not nearly as crucial for hair use . For the body business you really want maximum dye release to have happened , with a good smelling mix.
Ah, yeah, forgot about that. Sorry!
I'm finding Celebration to be pretty darned quick. I used it after only 10 hours. 1 of those hours was on the stovetop while I was baking, so it got a little warm, but not hot.
So far its looking yummy even though the paste has only been off a few hours. I'll post pics later!
mine seemed to go pretty quick,but I think I might have screwed up somewhere, probably let it sit too long or something. . . I have 2 kilos coming so I can verify what I mucked up in a few days.
I let mine sit overnight as usual, so 8 or 9 hours all told. That's my hand on the Celebration page. It's now day 11 and I had to scrub real hard to budge the stain on my forearm. If I hadn't scrubbed, it would still be full stain. Back of the hand is pretty much gone, but I had to scrub at that too. Why did I scrub instead of just leave it? I want it to go away so I can do more!!
Good to know! I normally let mine sit for 24 hours on top of the fridge, so I'll definitely not let the celebration sit so long. Thanks so much for the info!
Ya, I usually let mine go as much as 48 when the house is cool, and I'm not putting it in a cozy place. That would definitely kill Celebration IMO.
This new henna sounds great. Is it available at the Empire store or just online? I am very anxious to try it. Thanks!
Its online bulk at the shop here ... mehandi ... but I don't think we've sent boxes to Empire yet.
I would reccomend anyone who gets some do a few "road tests" on Celebration before settling down to serious partying.
Its my impression that its a fast dye release, it needs dextrose or fructose, and that it is at its best in places where henna usually whimps out.
I was letting mine go 24 hours in a cool house. It's working great!
i'm just testing some that sat in the fridge after dye release for three days and was out at the park for 4 or 5 hours in 75F weather.
I got my celebration in today. I am doing three test batches on top of my fridge. Rani oil, lemon juice, brown sugar at 75% house.
One for 8 hours
One for 13 hours
One for 24 hours.
I will report back with my results for those of you who use the same conditions I do. I will test all the stains at the same time so there's no time difference in stain development. I've already coned up the 8 hour batch. With the sugar it is SO smooth. Reminds me of jam/raj mix. <3
OK, so after letting the stains rest for a good 48 hours, the 24 hour batch is the darkest stain. The 8 and 13 look very similar, and are only SLIGHTLY darker, and only after the initial 24 hours of stain development could I tell. This is a VERY versatile stain release....LOVE it!
Just out of curiosity, what is the origin of Celebration, i.e. is it Moroccan, Yemeni, Indian, etc?
It came from Abid and Co, but the lab tests show its COMPLETELY different from what I've gotten from them before. Seems like a different strain of henna (different scent and texture), different location (two of the assays show it was grown in a different environment) and waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay different lawsone content. I was certain no two batches were the same, and the lab has snown every batch is different, but I had no idea just how different they could be.
Here's a link to the celebration henna on the back of my hand. The cones were not fresh, but had been left to dye release for 24 hours then sat in the fridge for a few days and then were out in the park in the nice warm weather and just in a cooler all day. I got an A2 on the palm of my hand and a b3 on the back of my hand. In my experience, the henna paste is viable for quite a long time, even without really babysitting it. I noticed that the henna paste feels a little slick and I get some sticky bits as well. Not a clump exactly, but sort of. Anyone else?
This is really a picture of the woad, but you can see the henna'd hand in it.
Where is celebration grown?
Its processed by Abid and Co, but the chemical profile from the lab is completely different from other Abid and Co. henna for the same year. I can't be absolutely certain where the plants were grown, but it looks like they were near fields where tomatoes were ripening, and probably cotton, as well.
Every batch I've gotten from Abid and Co this year has been significantly different from others. No two batches are the same. Anybody who says everything processed under the same name is the same ........... hasn't seen the independent lab analysis!
You know how people always fuss, "I get lousy results from xxxxxxxxx" while another person says "I get great results from xxxxxxxxxxx" and then they get off into a pouting war over recipes? Well .... did anyone test the two batches of xxxxxxxxxxx to see if they had the same dye content? If every batch has different dye content, and nobody has bothered to find out what those comparative dye contents actually are .......
That's the information black hole we've been falling into for years. We didn't know the lawsone content. Now we know ... at least for the batches I've sent to the lab.
It's so awesome of you to do that. See, I had that exact problem with the 09 jamila...I just didn't get as good results as I had with 07, so I bought up more 07 and just called it weird. lol. Maybe I got one of the lower lawsone boxes...who knows.
If every jug of milk had no label ........ how would you know if one was skim, one was 2%, one was 4% and one was cream? The jugs look the same. The sellers could say, "this is is COW MILK" and all our COW MILK is the same. Can you taste the difference between skim milk and 4% fat milk? Can you see the difference in results between 1% lawsone henna and 4% lawsone henna? DUH?
IF you don't test, YOU DON"T KNOW.
I've gotten a huge amount of screaming about this, and I expect lots more. The fact is, the exporters weren't testing, so we had no clue what we're getting. Brand names tell us the quality of processing (usually), but they don't tell us the quality of the raw materials that went into the processing.
Now we have a clue.
If your seller isn't doing independent lab testing from now on ...... you don't know what you're buying. RLY. The tests absolutely must be done with each batch on arrival, or you don't know what you're buying.
It is a seller's decision whether or not to test, and that's an expensive decision. If you're a buyer, you'll have to decide whether or not that information is imprortant to you.
wow thats great to see all this work and analizing done with the henna, makes me feel very assured and confident to buy my henna and indigo from you from now on. Thank you for all your hard work.
A 2008 Jamila sample came up 1.7% Lawsone ... and the leaf sample was only 1% lawsone. Knowing that there's a lot of variation through the year means that other 2008 could have been lower or higher, but the one I did test was .... pretty mediocre.
2009 .... wide range of test results from different batches.
I did just test some 2007 Jamila I found in the warehouse, and it came in at 2.15% Lawsone still in spring 2010. I haven't been testing long enough to know how much things demise over years.
So...weird result. Had my 24 hour celebration henna and it stained awesome on the back of my hand, considering it was only on for about 2 hours tops. So I did my palm night before last, and slept in it like I normally do...and it's only a cherry red. I don't know...but the ONLY differenc eis the cone I used on the back of my hand had not been frozen yet....so maybe freezing it killed it? That will be a first. I'm gonna play with my various batches some...but I'm all confused. lol
When I mix henna I use the HC recipie... I add lemon juice, let it sit for 12 hours, stir, add EO and sugar and let it sit for 12 hours. From what I've read here that would be too long with Celebration... is that correct? CCJ, what are you reccomeding for mixing?
My best Celebration results so far have been:
thick lemon juice mix for 8 hours at 75F
terp for 6 hours
add enough dextrose to make it stringy
henna and seal with Sally Beauty supply Frozen Stiff.
That got me cast iron skillet black on my palms, coffee color on the back of my hands, and dark chocolate on my arm.
Granted, cones left on the table for a week are still giving kickass stain.
This is totally different than anything else I've ever seen from Abid and Co, and the lab tests bear that out. Products from Abid and Co are NOT identical. Not nohow. People may pout and stamp, but the lab tests show that every batch is different.
Have you frozen and thawed, then used it? If so please let me know your results. I'm still not getting super dark...and I don't know if celebration just doesn't like me or if freezing it after making it makes it stain less. For my coming up festival I'm gonna use purity unless I can figure this out, because I'd hate for some people to get killer stains and other to get not so great stains. I got another box ordered, so I'm gonna try your method and see if I get better results.
I think it did better without freezing ........ but one test isn't enough to be sure.
I didn't think it liked me, either. Then I froze it and got the best stain I've ever seen. Actually, I froze it twice. I put the bowl of henna in the freezer for 8 hours after dye release, thawed, thinned, coned and put the cones in the freezer.
Raj is the same way on me, but I never got a stain like this from frozen Raj.
I followed these mixing instructions and so far I've not seen anything special.... its just like regular Jamila to me so far.
I've frozen and thawed it. I thought it helped with the consistency. I'm getting killer stains with this stuff. I got a super dark cocoa color on the forearm that was still solid after a week and had been swimming. I have a picture somewhere. I was shocked at how dark and solid it still was.
ok..i'm confused here...
the 'celebration' henna is actually jamila? is it because it has a higher lawsone content, it has been named differently? so maybe itz just a 2009 batch jamila tht tested 3.4%? ..which would mean tht people who bought jamila 2009 MAY have celebration henna and not be aware of it!! :)),, i'm thinking this way bcoz as far as i know, abid and co. only export jamila BAQ and jamila for hair. they dont have any other brand name except for malika..
please clear my confusion! thanx..
what henna trendz said.
Please do tell :)
I'd like to order a new supply from you soon and this info might help me make up my mind.
Also, if this is actually a higher dye content extra super batch of Jamila is there a chance that next years crops will have consistent high dye content or varying dye content as BAQ Jamila often does?
Thanks for your time and info. Love this site! ~A~
- "so maybe itz just a 2009 batch jamila tht tested 3.4%? ..which would mean tht people who bought jamila 2009 MAY have celebration henna and not be aware of it!! :)),"
I suppose there's a chance that there are other awesome batches out there with unusually high dye content. Unfortunately, you'd never know for sure unless you paid an independent lab to test it. However, no one accidentally has "Celebration" without knowing it. For one, Mehandi buys the WHOLE batch as is was processed together. The name "Celebration" is given to all of that batch and only that batch.
Once upon a time I ran my own web shop selling henna I imported myself. I did occasionally have customers who would insist that "my Jamila" was better than "so-and-so's Jamila" and I laughed it off. I had believed that Jamila was Jamila like Kraft dinner is always Kraft dinner no matter if it comes from Meijer or WalMart. However, being a science minded woman, I'm happy to change my mind when someone can show me hard evidence... Like a report from an independent lab.
Now that I've tried celebration, I can also say from experience that it is special and different. It has a slightly different texture, it releases faster, and its WAY darker on the torso than any other henna I've ever met.
I don't know about all of the Celebration, but the one box I ordered is in fact a foil bag of Jamila in a celebration box. I am assuming that what makes it special is that it was tested as a batch and proves to be 3.4%.
I'm doing a bit of dye release testing too. Will report back. What I have noticed so far is that it is reaching peak stain color a little later than usual. Like around day 4 (I usually hit peak color around day 2.5). Anyone else notice that?
I tried the method Catherine used...and I still am getting less stain from celebration then I'm getting from purity. I don't get it. *pout*
Lemon juice, rani blend terp, brown sugar. Sit for 8 hours, terp, sit for 6 hours, cone. Still...purity is darker. I don't know why celebration hates me...it makes me sad.
beth, I kinda noticed that myself, but I'm hormonal.
Vamp. . . hmmz. Maye try 4 hours instead of 8? I noticed my happy batches didn't seep as much orange onto my paper towel and test patches looked weak but then blossomed like crazy after a while. . .
It took Celebration nearly 48 hours to get dye release for me. I thought I killed it but it finally is staining my hand. Still not as good as Raj or the Purity, but adequate. I'm getting ready to cone some Celebration up and do my foot to see if location on my body is the issue.
I just got some Celebration...hmmm...maybe 3 weeks ago now. I am in a sometimes fairly humid climate (midwest, Wisconsin) but at the time of dye release it was pretty dry and not too hot. I did a few tests and the stuff that sat for 24 hours (terps and sugar included at the beginning using the KISS recipe) definitely came out darkest.
I froze some tubes and found that right after thawing they get a great stain. Not black, but seemingly long lasting. It shows sign of stain after moments (times when I've done something and then quick wiped it off). I have something on my inner arm just above my wrist that I applied on Saturday morning just after thawing- I spritzed my arm with lemon juice, applied the henna and just it dry and flake off after about 40 minutes- no lemon juice over the top. It turned a milk chocolate color and now it's Thursday afternoon and is just starting to show signs of fading in some spots- and that was only after 40 minutes on my skin. Sometimes I was testing for potency and put some on my hand for about 3 minutes and it would last for 3-4 days.
I haven't done an extensive amount of testing but so far it seems best after just being thawed, although still gives a decent stain up until about 3 days after.
Just an fyi, I have been using full fat yogurt as my sole source of dye release for over a year now with the henna here and it works beautifully! I usually let it sit overnight and find that it is much easier to apply and to rinse out than dye released henna mixed with liquids. It also leaves my curls and waves even more soft and bouncy than usual. :)
It might not work for everyone, but after trying the lemon juice, tea, wine, etc I have found this one to be my absolute favorite combo! Just wanted to share the love.


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Whenever the government in the UK decides to charge for something, especially if it was previously free, it is in turn charged with "stealth taxation". I don't know about other countries, but I imagine that the politics are similar. There is often a good reason why the government wants to levy a charge, which often has nothing to do with its overall level of income. An example is the recent proposal to charge by the kilo for domestic refuse collection: the "polluter pays" principle is generally recognised as sound and "free" rubbish collection is increasingly expensive. But not everyone agrees:
Mother-of-five Mandy Price, who has just begun to recycle but still produces an average of nine bin liners of rubbish a week, said the assembly could not justify introducing such a policy in the wake of council tax rises.
She said: "You pay your council tax for the local authority to come and collect your rubbish, so why should we pay more?"
In other words, the charge is perceived primarily as just another source of revenue rather than an attempt to shift the costs onto the people who actually use the service the most. The government response is always to say that this is going to be offset by lower taxes elsewhere (in this case, council tax), but this makes a very unconvincing soundbite.
Gross Domestic Product is a standard way of measuring the overall economic activity in a nation or economic area, and the usual way of measuring the tax burden on an economy is the ratio of taxation to GDP. For instance, Reform points out that the US takes 26.4% of GDP as tax, whereas the UK takes 35.8%. Of course, these figures are almost useless for international comparison because they don't say what the tax pays for. In the UK most health care is paid for by the government out of general taxation whereas in the US it is mostly paid for privately by employer-funded health schemes that get a tax break. The NHS is funded out of taxation, and so is charged to the government's account, but a scheme partly funded by a tax reduction (as in the US) is not. If the US were to eliminate the tax break and subsidise these schemes directly instead then the basic nature of the system would not change one whit, but the proportion of US GDP taken in tax would increase. The US spends around 16% of GDP on health care (compared to about 8% in the UK). From an employer's point of view taxation and healthcare are both just costs of doing business, and the overall burden of general taxation and healthcare in the US is actually higher than in the UK. As always you get what you pay for, but a worrying amount of political debate seems to revolve around which ledger the payment is recorded in.
However one place where such figures would be useful (but never seem to be used) is in domestic political arguments. The Liberal Democrats used to have a policy of adding 1% to the rate of income tax in order to fund improved education. Meanwhile the Tories are struggling with a reputation for aggressive cost-cutting in public services in order to fund tax cuts, and the Labour government has been increasing taxes in order to spend more on public services (with notable lack of effect, but thats another issue).
What I would like to see is for each party to declare a target level of taxation as a percentage of GDP. That gets their macro-economic policy on taxation out in the open, without confusing it with a lot of micro-economic questions over how it is collected. Thats not to say that those micro-economic questions are unimportant, but they need to be separated from the macro-economic debate about the overall level of taxation.


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"Little Dudes" raise funds for animal welfare at hip German art auction
Yet again this was simply a great evening at the Villa Neukölln in Berlin, Germany. Hundreds of curious people were pushing through the crowded room wanting to catch a glimpse of the 100 "Little Dudes". These little dudes were created by artists from 29 countries – with lots of love and imagination. Not easy at all to find just one little guy which one should bid on.
Also on IFAW.org: BBC Radio 6 music guru Marc Riley muses on his love affair with Iceland and whale watching
This was the second time the Australian artist Alexis Bainger, who lives in Berlin these days, organized the Little Dudes auction. She always donates the auction's proceeds to a non-profit organization, this year to IFAW und Save the Children.
This is the idea: artists from all over the world design individual small figures, the "Dudes". They give them names and a personality and send them to Berlin – sometimes from very far away.
After a photo-shoot in town (dudes and sights of the city) the big fundraising event was on: the little saviors of the world were looking for adoptive parents. All this took place at a very hip location, complete with DJs and an auctioneer. A win-win situation for everybody involved: the new owners got an addition to their family, and the proceeds went to a good cause.
After a hesitant beginning, people started bidding more resolutely. The whole event lasted quite late, with people bidding, partying, and dancing. In the end the organizers were exhausted and the customers happy.
The Dudes have a new home and we can help animals with the money donated to IFAW!
Thank you, Alexis! And we are looking forward to many more Dude-missions!
Visit the Little Dude's webpage for photos from the event.


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President For Americans For Limited Government Wants Toure Of BET & MSNBC News Cast Fired For Airing False Racist News! (Claiming The Gun-Toting Protester Was A Racist & They Edited Out A Black Man Who Had A Gun Too)
Pseu reports "Bill Wilson, president of Americans for Limited Government, is now calling on the network to fire those responsible for producing the broadcast, in what he describes as a "nefarious assault on decency." "On behalf of the nearly half million members of Americans for Limited Government — and tens of millions of other equally appalled Americans of all races nationwide — I hereby demand the immediate termination of Contessa Brewer, Toure, Dylan Ratigan and any and all others involved in any way with the fraudulent news that ran in the 10:45AM segment of your August 18 broadcast." Wilson sent the letters to NBC News President Steve Capus and GE / MSNBC president Jeffrey Immelt."
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In the Loge
Mary Stevenson Cassatt (American, 1844–1926)
Catalogue Raisonné
Breeskin 73
81.28 x 66.04 cm (32 x 26 in.)
Accession Number
Medium or Technique
Oil on canvas
On View
Suzanne and Terrence Murray Gallery (Gallery 226)
Mary Stevenson Cassatt, raised near Pittsburgh and first trained as a painter in Philadelphia, became nineteenth-century America's most modern painter. Like many of her contemporaries, Cassatt felt that her artistic education in the United States was inadequate, and she traveled to Europe soon after the Civil War. She studied in both Italy and France, and by 1873 she had made Paris her home. While most of her compatriots were proud of the education they received in the art schools of the French capital, Cassatt soon tired of the conservative approach taught in those academies and perpetuated by the exhibitions they organized. She felt strongly that painting needed to break free of old methods and adapt to the modern world.
Cassatt found the answer to her demand for a new kind of painting in the work of the Impressionists, a small circle of independent French artists. She approved of their disdain for juried exhibitions and soon adopted their experimental techniques and their preference for images of contemporary life. In 1877 Edgar Degas invited her to show her work with the group. Cassatt thus became one of only three women, and the only American, ever to join the French Impressionists.
In the Loge was the first of Cassatt's Impressionist paintings to be displayed in the United States. When it was shown in Boston in 1878, critics described the picture as "striking," adding that Cassatt's painting "surpassed the strength of most men." [1]The canvas, then entitled At the Français—A Sketch, depicts a fashionable lady dressed for an afternoon performance at the Comedie Français, a theater in Paris. Entertainments like the theater, the opera, and the racetrack were extremely popular among Parisians, who enjoyed such diversions not only for the show, but also for the opportunity to see—and to be seen by—their peers. The Impressionists took delight in painting these spectacles of modern life, and the theater, with its dazzling variety of lights and reflections, was an especially appealing subject. Many male artists, including Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Degas, had painted beautiful women in theater boxes, where they appeared as if they were on display in a gilded frame. Cassatt gave her female figure a noticeably more dynamic role, for she peers avidly through her opera glasses at the row of seats across from her. In the background at upper left, a man trains his gaze upon her. The viewer, who sees them both, completes the circle. Cassatt's painting explores the very act of looking, breaking down the traditional boundaries between the observer and the observed, the audience and the performer.
1. "The M.C.M.A. [Massachusetts Charitable Mechanics Association] Exhibition," Daily Evening Transcript (Boston), September 3, 1878, 4.
This text was adapted from Elliot Bostwick Davis et al., American Painting [http://www.mfashop.com/9020398034.html], MFA Highlights (Boston: MFA Publications, 2003).
Lower left: Mary Cassatt.
1892 or 1893, sold by the artist to Martin, Camentron, and Co., Paris; 1893 or 1894, sold by Martin, Camentron, and Co. to Durand-Ruel, Paris and New York. 1909 or 1910, with F.W. Bayley, Boston; 1910, sold by F. W. Bayley to the MFA for $2,000. (Accession Date: February 17, 1910)
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The Hayden Collection—Charles Henry Hayden Fund


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SS Sensabaugh A Favorite Of Campo
Since this off-season began I was predicting my home town player Gerald Sensabaugh to join my other home town player Jason Witten in Dallas my friends were saying theres no way Gerald would be a Dallas Cowboy. I debated and argued all the way until that faithful day when the Cowboys signed him. I though my arguments were over but no everywhere I looked it seemed like every Cowboys fan I talked to was doubting what Gerald could do, so I just said wait and see.
Now according to dallascowboys.com writer Mickey Spagnola Sensabaugh is one of Secondary Coach Dave Campo's favorites. Here is what Mickey's article said.
You might say for the majority of his years with the Cowboys, Dave Campo, first secondary coach, then defensive coordinator and then head coach before returning as secondary coach in 2008, was spoiled at the safety position. During his previous 14 seasons, he mostly had the likes of Ray Horton, James Washington, Thomas Everett, Darren Woodson, Brock Marion and George Teague back there. He even enjoyed a rather nice rookie season out of Roy Williams.
So last season probably was a little bit of a shellshock for Camps, who returned for a 15th season. Heck, even over his three years as head coach, when Woodson remained healthy, he had Woodson and Teague back there. Injuries and performance made last year somewhat of a crap shoot.
That's why I said to him, with the addition of Gerald Sensabaugh and all the young guys brought in, this might be the best the safety position has looked since, well, Woodson was playing.
He laughed, saying it was funny I'd bring up Woodson, "because when I got to Jacksonville (2005) I remember saying Sensabaugh (a rookie then) had the kind of burst Woodson had. Now I'm not saying he's Woodson."
Of course not, and he's probably 10 to 15 pounds lighter. But Campo was trying to make a point about Sensabaugh's ability to cover, not only from the deep safety spot, but also going inside to the weak linebacker spot on the nickel, where Woodson spoiled the Cowboys his entire career with an ability to cover even receivers in the slot.


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The Southern Historical Association announces the second annual competition for the C. Vann Woodward Dissertation Award for the best dissertation in southern history. The award, which carries a stipend of $4,000, will go to a dissertation completed and defended in 2002. Competitors should send by May 1, 2003, three copies of the following: a title page, abstract, and table of contents of the dissertation; a sample chapter; and a letter of support from the dissertation adviser. Full dissertations should not be submitted; based on the materials listed above, the prize committee will decide which candidates will be invited to submit the full dissertation for further consideration. The award will be presented at the SHA's annual meeting in Houston on November 7, 2003. Inquiries regarding the prize and its guidelines should be directed to John C. Inscoe, SHA Secretary-Treasurer, at firstname.lastname@example.com. Send submissions to Inscoe at the Southern Historical Association, Department of History, University of Georgia, Athens, GA 30602-1602.
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Where Does the Term "Victorianism" Come From?
The term "Victorianism" was derived from the reigning monarch of the time, Queen Victoria. The term reflects the heavy British influence on the United States. The growing upper class of the Gilded Age mimicked the high society of their mother country in dress, morality, and mannerisms.


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Thoughts and Research on the Christian Doctrine of God's Providence
About Providence, Divine Action and the Church
In this blog, Terry J. Wright posts thoughts and shares research on the Christian doctrine of providence. This doctrine testifies to God's provision for all things through creation's high priest, the man Christ Jesus. However, the precise meaning and manner of this provision is a perpetually open question, and this blog is a forum for discussion of the many issues relating to providence and the place of the Church within God's action.
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First rookie QB to go 8-0 at home.
Highest passer rating in Seahawks history (100.02).
Single season Seahawk QB rushing record.
Most consecutive completions for a rookie (16).
Tied for TD pass record with Peyton Manning (26).
Most game winning scores in the final 2 minutes/overtime for a rookie.
First QB to rush for 3 TD's and throw for one in a half.
First rookie QB to lead a team to back to back 50 point games.
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'From 2013, on both the ATP World Tour and ATP Challenger Tour, a time violation between points (25 seconds) will be penalised in the first instance with a warning. For the second and all subsequent violations, the penalty will be a fault for the server and a point penalty for the receiver. Currently, the rule is a warning and then point penalty for both the server and receiver.'
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That's still funny!
Has anyone noticed a significant difference at the AO? I know that at the lead up tournaments they enforced the rule. But so far at the AO, I haven't seen many penalties (if any) called.
That's not good Rafa, so i don't think it's good for the ATP, motion denied.
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The G.I. Joe comic book was first published in 1950. It started with issue #10 which was a common practice with Ziff-Davis. When the title became a success the numbering was restarted at issue #1. This means that there are two issues of 10 through to 14. Ziff-Davis carried on publishing the title until June 1957.
Although the stories for the Ziff-Davis G.I. Joe were set during the Korean War, he has his origins further back in time, in a comic strip named 'Private Breger' which was created by the cartoonist David Breger. This humorous strip started its run in 1942 and was syndicated by King Features. Meanwhile David Breger who was drafted into the United States Army was posted to England to work as an artist and photographer for 'Yank, the Army Weekly'. To carry on using his character in the magazine he needed a new name and G.I. Joe was born, the G.I. standing for Government Issue.
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Only because they cuss with such abandon and beauty, a degenerate dirty gossip lover like me can't help but love it.
Oh…and Colin Farrell and Ralph Fiennes together don't hurt either. Why do I love it when Ralph drops the C bomb?
It's the trailer for In Bruges, Colin's new movie that will open Sundance in January. Sundance. Memories. Happy.
Last year was killer. This year promises to be even better as Madge will supposedly be making a royal appearance.
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"Can you believe that love for art and beauty is able to drive people kilometers away, from North to South? Well, so it is. Rodica Dumbrăveanu is a young ambitious artist who comes from Balţi, Moldova, to study architecture. As God endowed her with a special talent in the art of photography, she accepted this gift and made proficiency in the domain. It is not a secret that Rodica won several photo contests. And here she is, at the exhibition dedicated to the International Baby-wearing Week. Once more, her works demonstrate the author's highly-developed feeling for space and graphics location. Rodica's wonderful profound pictures hint to her different world vision, which is possible only for a fine psychologist, a kind-hearted person, a skilled artist. "La distanţa unui pupic..." — "Close enough to kiss…" will astonish you by the extraordinary presentation of the unique moments happening in the mother-and-child intimacy. Such moments as these revealed by Rodica will help you to see the world otherwise, in a special unrepeatable way."


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Laid-back burgers: The beach-themed Islands Fine Burgers & Drinks is now serving up teriyaki burgers, fish tacos, coconut-banana smoothies and mai-tais in Cupertino, the first Bay Area outpost for the Southern California-based chain. The restaurant group was founded 30 years ago by Tony DeGrazier, who wanted to re-create here on the mainland the Oahu meals he enjoyed in the 1960s while in the Navy. Islands has since grown to more than 50 locations. Hamburger choices range from the Hawaiian (teriyaki-pineapple, natch) to the spicy Kilauea (a volcanic creation with chipotle aioli topping a jalapeño- and black pepper-crusted burger) to the cheesy Point Break (Gruyere and blue cheeses, plus caramelized onion-bacon relish). All burgers come with endless fries. Details: Open daily from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. at 20750 Stevens Creek Blvd., Cupertino. 408-865-1992; www.islandsrestaurants.com.
New toque in town: Delicious changes are ahead for the Menlo Grill, the cozy Menlo Park bistro and bar where new exec chef Erik Romme made his debut Christmas Day. Romme's resume includes stints at Michelin-starred Madera, Marche and Left Bank, and he's known for seasonal, farmers-market-inspired fare. "As much as possible, I try to make the ingredients speak for themselves," he says, "and showcase the natural beauty that they provide." Details: www.menlogrill.com.
Stylish chefs: Chefs in Playboy with their clothes ON? What is the world coming to? Playboy magazine is kicking off the new year with a fashion spread on five of New York City's hottest and most stylishly attired chefs. One is actually a San Franciscan, although Danny Bowein has expanded his Mission Chinese Food and its charitable mission — a portion of the proceeds helps feed the homeless — to the Big Apple. The "Hail to the Chef" article also features Frank Castronovo, Frank Falcinelli, Eric Ripert and Marcus Samuelsson, looking fetching in Gucci with a salmon slung over one shoulder. Check it out at www.playboy.com/hailtothechef.
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Rossi earns first World Cup podium
February 2, 2013
Michael Rossi couldn't have stopped smiling if he tried.
In front of his parents, two sets of aunts and uncles, and a younger cousin, the Park City aerial skier found himself on the podium for the first time in his young career on Friday night at the FIS Freestyle World Cup event at Deer Valley, jumping his way to a third-place finish.
This is the 18-year-old skier's first full season on the World Cup tour, so he wasn't expecting to earn a podium finish so quickly.
"I still consider myself a rookie of the sport," he said. "I have a World Cup podium? It still hasn't set in yet."
Rossi moved from Long Valley, N.J., to Park City in 2008 to pursue an aerial career.
"I had a trampoline in my backyard and I used to go out there and just do flips every day, and it's translated so well to aerials," he said. "I came out to Park City in the summer and tried out the water ramps. I ended up loving it and moved out to Park City the next year."
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With his first World Cup medal under his belt, the sky is the limit for the young athlete. Now, Rossi will focus on trying to win his first gold.
"I know what I'm capable of," he said. "I'm just glad I was able to throw it down in front of the home crowd."
Maxim Gustik of Belarus earned first place and Travis Gerrits from Canada won second.
On the women's side, China's Mengtao Xu won first. Laura Peel of Australia and Xin Zhang of China took second and third, respectively.
Rossi's U.S. teammates and fellow Parkites Emily Cook and Dylan Ferguson did not qualify for the superfinal round of four after strong performances in the round of 12.


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LOMBARD – It was déjà vu all over again for St. Francis Friday night in Lombard in a pivotal early-season Suburban Christian Conference matchup against Montini.
St. Francis entered the showdown with Montini with a 3-0 mark just like last time, but the Broncos thoroughly dominated the contest once again.
This time, St. Francis stayed with the highly touted Broncos for a half, but a few big plays proved to be the Spartans' undoing in a 30-7 loss, a similar result to last year's 28-7 game.
"We had a crazy serious week preparing and we had a great week of practice leading up to this game," St. Francis punter Jack Ahern said. "We just didn't play well in the second half. We didn't execute that well today. In the second half, I think we were expecting them to lay over, and they obviously didn't."
A couple of big plays by Montini (4-0, 2-0 SCC Blue) – a Leon Thornton III 83-yard touchdown catch and a 92-yard interception return for a TD from Derrick Curry – put the Broncos up 17-0 despite St. Francis having success on the defensive side of the ball.
The Spartans (3-1, 1-1) got the ball to start the third quarter, but a pair of errant snaps over St. Francis quarterback Zach Prociuk's head pinned the Spartans deep in their own territory.
Montini got the ball back and needed only five plays to go up 23-0 with 9:04 left in the third quarter as Alex Wills found Thornton III for the second of three touchdown catches. Thornton III finished with five catches and 162 receiving yards.
"We were so hyped for this game – our captains came into the locker room and fired us all up," Thornton III said. "Alex and I work on our chemistry together in practice. Ever since he transferred last year, we just had that chemistry."
Offensively, St. Francis had no answer for Montini's enormous defensive front led by Ohio State recruit Dylan Thompson. Thompson helped limit St. Francis running back James Butler to 95 yards on 25 carries.
"They are a really good football team and you just can't spot a team like that 14 points early," St. Francis coach Greg Purnell said. "In the second half, we were just really mistake prone, and we have to clean that up."
Trying to work around the big plays, the St. Francis defense got enough stops to keep the Spartans in the game well into the third quarter. After forcing a Montini three-and-out, Thomas Petrando recovered a fumble on Ahern's punt that gave St. Francis great field position.
But, a trio of Butler runs went nowhere before a Prociuk pass fell incomplete on fourth down, turning the ball back over to Montini.
On the ensuing drive, Wills hit a streaking Thronton III for a 45-yard touchdown strike that was the third hookup between the duo to make it 30-0.
Clint Bobowski scored from five yards out to finally put St. Francis on the board.
Wills finished 15 for 20 for 231 yards and three touchdown tosses.
Montini 7 9 7 7 – 30
St. Francis 0 0 0 7 – 7
First quarter
MO – Thornton III 83 pass from Wills (Weissenhoffer kick), 2:12
Second quarter
MO – Curry 92 INT (kick blocked), 11:45
MO – Weissenhoffer 45 FG 0:00
Third quarter
MO – Thornton III 11 pass from Wills (Weissenhoffer kick), 9:04
Fourth quarter
MO – Thornton III 45 pass from Wills (Weissenhoffer kick), 10:12
SF – Bobowski 5 run (Hart kick), 0:11
RUSHING – Montini: Italia 11-59, Wills 7-24, Savain 5-41, Norgle III 3 minus 7, Pope 1 minus 8. Totals: 27-109. St. Francis: Butler 25-95, Prociuk 10 minus 3, Fassnacht 5-14, Connelly 1 minus 6, Bobowski 2-28. Totals: 44-128.
PASSING – Montini: Wills 15-20-261, Norgle III 1-1-19. St. Francis: Prociuk 4-10-1-53, Bobowski 1-1-4.
RECEIVING – Montini: Tumpane 6-43, Brachmann 3-26, Thornton III 6-162, Pope 1-14. St. Francis: Zito 1-18, Jackson 1-4 Butler 1-28, Dama 1-3, Ahern 1-4.
TOTAL YARDS – Montini 389, St. Francis 185


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Find pleasure in diversity of life
Going Nature's Way
I have to admit that I'm glad for the convenience and connectivity of the internet because it is allowing me to see and hear about the beautiful autumn weather (so far) at home, while we experience the beautiful spring weather in New Zealand. It also allows me to easily share some of my observations of this island nation in the Pacific Ocean.
My husband, Mike, chose this season to come here because he knew it would mean lots of flowers and birds. He was right. Unfortunately, he didn't think about the possibility of spring allergies that would accompany all this profuse flowering. With some meds from the local "chemist" shop, we will carry on.
We are reminded that we are on the other half of the world when we look at our clock (on the computer) and it says 2 a.m. as we are eating our dinner. As I write this, it is noon on October 2 on the North Island, while it's 5 p.m. on October 1 in Minnesota — hard for the mind to comprehend.
We have been staying at a house on Cooper's Beach, which is part of Doubtless Bay, on the northeast coast of the North Island. In front of this house is the Pacific Ocean, but I have to tell you, it looks a lot like Lake Superior on a day with a strong northeasterly wind kicking up waves on a gray surface. When the sun comes out though, the water turns a turquoise not normally seen in the Great Lakes.
As an island nation, New Zealand has been impacted by outside forces for the past six centuries, when people first arrived on its shores. Up until that time, the plants, animals and birds lived in balance and evolved to match the climate and geology of this volcanic land. There are only two native mammals — both bats. Every other mammal that exists here today was introduced by people. Like Hawaii, these introduced species have had an incredibly detrimental impact on the local flora and fauna. We came to this country knowing that history, but also knowing there is much to delight a North American naturalist's heart in the plants and birds that live here.
Even though the climate is considered temperate and not tropical, the forests look like jungles to us. The most famous tree is the Kauri. It is also one of the most endangered. Similar to our redwoods in size and age, the Kauri is a conifer, but it has leaves, rather than needles. Straight trunks could reach up to 180 feet and measure 18 feet in diameter, highly desirable to the European settlers for ship's masts and building timbers. Very few Kauri remain today, three quarters of which are found on the North Island.
We spent some time walking through a Kauri Reserve this week and it was humbling to realize that some of these living giants could be more than a thousand years old. The vegetation surrounding the trees was so thick we couldn't begin to imagine how a human would get through it, without much swinging of a machete.
The other plant form New Zealand is known for are ferns (more than 80 species), including tree ferns. Yes, they take the form of trees, some reaching 60' feet in height. When you look at these prehistoric plants lining the sides of the road, you wouldn't be surprised to see a velociraptor poking its head through the fronds.
Mike loves geology and thought he knew everything about basalt, which is created from volcanic eruptions. Some of the North Shore on Lake Superior is made of the same rock. Basalt is not supposed to erode. That is the understanding among geologists, but there is an exception here on this island. We visited a placed called Wairere Boulders, famous because it has basalt formations unlike anywhere else in the world. Here the black rocks have ridges and flutes. What caused this unheard of and supposedly impossible feature? The leaves of Kauri trees! Yes, these leaves contain an acid that can eat through rock. Sometimes you have to go to the other side of the world to learn something new.
We are very fortunate to have been able to come to this far away land, and all the exotic nature it includes, but when we are in our own country we find surprises and delights await us in other states. The most important component to travel is to be open to new discoveries and ways of interpreting the world we live in. For us, the incredible diversity of life that exists on this planet is a never ending source of pleasure and wonder.