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Dominican hair products and hair stylists are quickly earning an outstanding reputation throughout the United States. I am sure that many wonder if this is just a new fad or if the products and stylists actually deserve their reputation. To determine their credibility lets analyze their hair treatment process.
What hair products do they use?
Dominican stylists like others use the popular name brand products such as, Sebastian, Biolage, Paul Mitchell, Nexus etc. However, they also use the traditional Dominican hair products made out of natural fruits, vegetables, or animal protein.
What is their styling process?
After washing the hair they apply the hair conditioner. Then cover hair with a plastic cap and let you sit under the bonnet dryer for ten to twenty minutes. Later they will rinse it out and do hair rollers. After that you will probably be sitting on the drier anywhere from half an hour to one hour. This depends mostly on your hair type and length. Afterwards, they will move in to styling your hair. If you just want your hair straight this is the time when they will straighten the curls or waves left by rollers with a blow dryer. They rarely like to just blow dry hair without doing the rollers first.
Another Reason why their products and styling process fit everyone is because their main focus is the maintenance and treatment of hair. By deep conditioning it, they diminish the amount of harm that we do to our hair with harsh chemicals such as hair color, relaxers, perms, highlights, etc.. They also control the amount of direct heat to individual strands by limiting or avoiding the use of blow dryers and hot irons.
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The History of Hair Extensions
Hair is big business, particularly in the African American community, where hair types and styles are so versatile: Short, long, curly, wavy, kinky, straight, natural, braided, twisted, locked, color treated, texturized, and relaxed.
Regardless of one's hair type or preferred style; including weaves and extensions, proper basic care is essential for healthy African American hair:
- Strong hair that does not easily break.
- Hair that grows--Hair growth and hair length are not necessarily synonymous. Everyone's hair has different growth cycles. The life span of some individuals' hair is approximately one year, before new hair pushes out the existing. This results in around six inches of length. Other individuals' hair has the life span of several years, resulting in length well over two feet!
- Hair that has sheen.
- A healthy, clean scalp.
To obtain a healthy head of African American hair, as described above, basic care is necessary, and includes:
1. Proper diet and exercise.
2. Thorough shampooing and conditioning.
3. Efficient moisturizing.
Proper Diet and Exercise
As cliched as it sounds, proper diet and exercise are the gateway for many desirable traits, such as proportioned weight, high energy level, nice skin, etc. Proper nutrition and exercise are often over looked when it comes to care of the tresses because so many cosmetic and chemical options are available to obtain a certain look.
Efficient Moisturizing
Most African American hair types do not produce the amount of natural moisturizer found in other hair types. Therefore, it is necessary for many African Americans to regularly moisturize their tresses. Like with shampooing and conditioning, the amount of moisturizer depends on several factors, including hair type and style. Additionally, the type of moisturizer plays a big role in contributing to healthy African American hair. Some African American hair styles and types thrive when an oil moisturizer is used. Other African American styles and types respond better with cream moisturizers. Still, others do better with lotions or pomades. Again, a licensed professional is the best source for recommending a moisturizer for one's particular type and style.
Regardless of how you wear your hair, invest time in exercising, meal planning, and the proper hair care regiment; including a schedule of shampooing, conditioning, and moisturizing. Healthy hair is a reflection of one's overall health, in addition to looking good!


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At Prevent Blindness, our vision is vision – a vision that all children are afforded the benefits of sight as they grow and learn; a vision that all adults are educated about proper eye health care and have access to that same care; a vision that necessary attention is provided to issues surrounding the aging eye; and a vision that no one needlessly loses his or her sight due to unsafe practices.
Prevent Blindness is the nation's leading eye health and safety organization dedicated to preventing blindness and preserving sight across all age spectrums and multiple eye conditions. We focus on improving the nation's vision and eye health by educating the American public on the importance of taking care of their eyes and vision, by promoting advances in public health systems of care that support eye health needs, and by advocating for public policy that emphasizes early detection and access to appropriate eye care.
Whether it is working to prevent potentially blinding eye injuries or sight-threatening conditions in young children or older adults – Prevent Blindness and our partners are here – promoting eye health, safety, early detection, and treatment.
Our mission is to coalesce, inspire and support the Head Start field as a leader in early childhood development and education.
The National Head Start Association is a non-partisan, not-for-profit organization committed to the belief that every child, regardless of circumstances at birth, has the ability to succeed in life. The opportunities offered by Head Start lead to healthier, empowered children and families, and stronger, more vibrant communities.
NHSA is the voice for more than 1 million children, 200,000 staff and 1,600 Head Start grantees in the United States. Since 1974, NHSA has worked diligently for policy changes that ensure all at-risk children have access to the Head Start model of support for the whole child, the family and the community. NHSA offers an impressive portfolio of professional development services and programs for the entire early childhood community. These include the annual National Head Start Conference, the largest national event devoted to the Early Head Start and Head Start community, and the National Parent Conference, the only national event devoted to parents and families.
The American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus (AAPOS) is the largest association of eye physicians and surgeons dedicated to promoting the highest quality medical and surgical eye care worldwide for children and for adults with strabismus. AAPOS's goals are to advance the quality of children's eye care, support the training of pediatric ophthalmologists, support research activities in pediatric ophthalmology, and advance the care of adults with strabismus. AAPOS establishes practice guidelines for pediatric ophthalmology at the highest level of competence and ethics, and fosters concepts that benefit children's eye health through preventive as well as remedial activities. Children deserve eye care that is evidence-based, and the adults who care for children need the 1 necessary information to make informed choices about their care. AAPOS collaborates with groups interested in improving the quality of care that our patients receive.
The Good-Lite Company has manufactured and sold evidence-based eye charts, illuminated cabinets, and other vision screening and testing tools nationally and internationally for 83 years. Good-Lite's commitment to quality is only surpassed by its commitment to customer service. School Health Corporation is a family-owned company that has served the school nurse and early education community for more than 60 years. School Health prides itself on being a respected name in health supplies for schools and athletic associations, and most recently in special education through the acquisition of EnableMart, the #1 source for assistive technology.
Good-Lite and School Health Corporation have worked with Head Start personnel for many years to help ensure front-line screeners have the knowledge and evidence-based tools and methods for conducting appropriate vision screening. Both are honored to collaborate with the National Head Start Association, the National Center for Children's Vision and Eye Health, and the American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus to further this work through the Year of Children's Vision.
The American Academy of Optometry (AAO) is an internationalorganization of more than more than 7,000 optometrists and vision scientists dedicated to promoting the art and science of vision care through lifelong learning. The AAO supports excellence in optometric practice through the dissemination of research and by providing clinical education programs. The AAO also credentials optometrists and vision scientists through its fellowship and Diplomate programs.
Members of the Binocular Vision, Perception, and Pediatric Optometry (BVPPO) Section of the AAO are committed to fostering and conducting clinical, educational, and research activities in binocular vision, visual information processing, and pediatric eye care. A Section goal is to serve as a public resource regarding new clinical developments and research in pediatric eye care. The BVVPO Section is pleased to collaborate with other organizations that share its commitment to improving the quality and delivery of eye care services to children.
CVS Health is dedicated to helping people on their path to better health as the largest integrated pharmacy company in the United States. Through the company's more than 7,600 CVS/pharmacy stores; its leading pharmacy benefit manager serving more than 60 million plan members; and its retail health clinic system – the largest in the nation with more than 750 MinuteClinic locations – CVS Health is a market leader in mail order, retail and specialty pharmacy, retail clinics, and Medicare Part D Prescription Drug Plans. As a pharmacy innovation company with an unmatched breadth of capabilities, CVS Health continually strives to improve health and lower costs by developing new approaches such as its unique Pharmacy Advisor program that helps people with chronic diseases such as diabetes obtain and stay on their medications.
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The Denver Zine Library is proud to be teaming up with Sent(a)Mental Studios to celebrate the DZL's 13th anniversary! Monday, December 5th from 6-9pm at Infinite Monkey Theorem 3200 Larimer Street, Denver CO 80205 Stop by for a few minutes or stay for the evening. It's going to be a laid-back night of fun with the release … Continue reading
2015 Denver Zine Fest Vendors
We're thrilled that the following people will have a table at the 2015 Denver Zine Fest! Vendor tables are currently SOLD OUT! Feel free to e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com if you would like to be added to the waiting list. Adán De La Garza & Christina Battle, Nothing To See Here Amy Moore-Shipley, Denver Food Rescue Andrew … Continue reading
DZL closed until we open in a new location
In bittersweet news, the Denver Zine Library is officially closed until we reopen in a new location. Our two packing days were so smooth that we were able to get everything ready for the big move! No news yet on where we're headed, but we'll be sure to let you know as soon as it's … Continue reading
Packing & inventory parties
Dearest friends of the Denver Zine Library, As you may know, the building where the DZL is housed has been sold! We have until April 1st to move out and are hoping to make this a stress-free and entertaining process. Please join us on February 9 and/or February 16 from 10am-6pm for a packing and … Continue reading
Roll in the Hay and Open House!
Join us for two awesome events! —————————————————————————————————————————————- Roll in the Hay 3 Saturday, 8/25/2012 7pm-midnight 3250 E. 6th Ave, Denver FUNdraiser for the Denver Zine Library $10 suggested donation 7pm-midnight Water, soda and light snacks provided Join us for an evening of two-stepping and (mostly) country/western line dancing. Dance lessons on the half-hour! * 7:30pm … Continue reading
July 2012 Updates
It's been a little while since you've heard from us and we have some exciting news and upcoming events! * Sunday, July 15 – Help us move (to a new space in the same building) * Saturday, July 28 – Secret Café to benefit the 27 Social Centre * Sunday, August 12 – Zine Making … Continue reading
Awesome April Events at the DZL!
We're excited to share awesome news about our recent fundraising campaign and some upcoming events! * Online fundraiser was a HUGE success! * Friday, April 13 – Seasonal Velocities: reading with Ryka Aoki * Saturday, April 21 – Take Flight: reading with Marya Errin Jones * Looking for volunteers! * Visit during open hours! … Continue reading


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Just installed Accordance on my iPod Touch. I checked with Easy Install and a bunch of my downloads are listed. I assume these are the modules that are on my Mac but not my iPod. Now, with the list of those downloads- I selected them all by tapping for a check mark, but then what? There is no tap for Download. How do I actually get them on my iPod?
Update- I actually saw the download icon. It's all happening now. Will the Easy Install get absolutely all the modules I have on my Mac (not including User Modules)? How would I get the User Modules on there?
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Fish Powder with Chili from Mae Sri is good with warm steamed rice. Fish powder can be cooked in Thai curries like Kang Leang or Nam Ya sauce. Fish powder can be sprinkled over salad as well. Made from dried fish without preservative. Ingredients: Dried fish, sugar, salt. Net weight : 3.5 oz. Product of Thailand.
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Power and Pen
September 22, 2007
Power and pen led the way last night.
Power in homers by Ryan Howard (42), Pat Burrell (29) and Jimmy Rollins (29) and pen in the big three closing the door again, J. C. Romero, Tom Gordon and Brett Myers.
Perhaps unnoticed was the contribution of Geoff Geary. He's come on strong in the last couple of weeks and that has been a big plus. He's back to his form of a year ago instead of earlier in the year.
Adam Eaton won his 10th game. There are a lot of Eaton critics out there but 10 wins is more than many other free agent pitchers from last winter, including Barry Zito. Yes, Eaton has a high ERA but the final standings are determined by the most number of wins.
Finally, the Padres have lost a game. Thank you, Colorado. So the Phillies are 1.5 games out of two races, the NL East and NL Wild Card.
J-Roll Milestone
Jimmy Rollins certainly is putting together an MVP-type season. He reached a milestone with his 200th hit last night. It has never been done by a Phillies shortstop. That's right, my good friend, Bobby Wine, never had 200 hits….in a season.
By reaching that number, J-Roll became the first player in baseball history with 200 hits, 15 triples, 25 homers and 25 stolen bases. As Jimmy keeps putting up numbers, he'll be reaching other levels that few have done.
One other note on Jimmy. Everyone knows about his offensive numbers and Gold Glove defense. His durability goes unnoticed. Just think how easy it is on Charlie Manuel….he just writes Rollins into the lineup every day.
MVP Voting
In case you aren't aware, two members of the Baseball Writers Association pf America in each city will vote for the MVP of the respective leagues they cover. The ballots must be filed after the final day of the regular season.
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Thanks for your blog – recently discovered here and very enjoyable.
"That's right, my good friend, Bobby Wine, never had 200 hits…in a season." LOL! Did he ever even bat .200?
Bobby had the arm *and bat* of a pitcher. With him, Mauch might have been justified using Larussa's scheme and batting the pitcher eighth. The Phillies' defense, though, with Wine and Tony Taylor up the middle seemed pretty strong at the time. A lot more going for the Phils these days!
Times have changed!
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Nashville, TN


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If you find closed captions on a TV program is not good – wrong timing, wrong words, missing captions, you as a consumer can file a complaint to FCC.
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Closed captioning displays the audio portion of a television program as text on the TV screen, providing a critical link to news, entertainment and information for individuals who are deaf or hard-of-hearing. Congress requires video programming distributors (VPDs) – cable operators, broadcasters, satellite distributors and other multi-channel video programming distributors – to close caption their TV programs.
FCC closed captioning rules
FCC rules for TV closed captioning ensure that viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing have full access to programming, address captioning quality and provide guidance to video programming distributors and programmers. The rules apply to all television programming with captions, requiring that captions be:
- Accurate: Captions must match the spoken words in the dialogue and convey background noises and other sounds to the fullest extent possible.
- Synchronous: Captions must coincide with their corresponding spoken words and sounds to the greatest extent possible and must be displayed on the screen at a speed that can be read by viewers.
- Complete: Captions must run from the beginning to the end of the program to the fullest extent possible.
- Properly placed: Captions should not block other important visual content on the screen, overlap one another or run off the edge of the video screen.
The rules distinguish between pre-recorded, live, and near-live programming and explain how the standards apply to each type of programming, recognizing the greater hurdles involved with captioning live and near-live programming.
(The FCC does not regulate captioning of home videos, DVDs or video games.)
Exempt programming
Currently, there are two categories of exemptions from the closed captioning rules, self-implementing and economically burdensome:
- Self-implementing exemptions include public service announcements shorter than 10 minutes and not paid for with federal dollars, programming is shown from 2 a.m. to 6 a.m., and programming primarily textual. There is also an exemption for locally produced non-news programming with no repeat value. See a complete list of self-implementing exemptions.
- The FCC has established procedures for petitioning for an exemption from the closed captioning rules when compliance would be economically burdensome. Find out about the economically burdensome exemption.
What if you experience closed captioning problems
You may contact your VPD to report the problem at the time that the problem occurs to see if you can get the problem fixed. You can find your VPD's contact information on your bill, or, if you have broadcast-only TV, the contact information for the TV station should be in the phone directory. Also, you can search the FCC's VPD Registry. VPDs must provide the FCC with contact information for the receipt and handling of immediate closed captioning concerns by consumers, and contact information for written closed captioning complaints. For more information, check the FCC's closed captioning website.
For captioning problems during non-emergency programming, you may file a written complaint with either the FCC or your VPD. If you file your complaint with the FCC, the FCC will forward the complaint to your VPD. FCC rules require that your written complaint must be filed within 60 days of the captioning problem. After receiving a complaint, either directly from you or from the FCC, the VPD has 30 days to respond to the complaint. If you filed your complaint with your VPD and they do not respond within 30 days, or if a dispute remains, you can send your complaint to the FCC.
Filing a complaint
You have multiple options for filing a complaint with the FCC:
- File a complaint online
- By phone: 1-888-CALL-FCC (1-888-225-5322); TTY: 1-888-TELL-FCC (1-888-835-5322); ASL Videophone: 1-844-432-2275
- By mail (please include your name, address, contact information and as much detail about your complaint as possible):
Federal Communications Commission
Consumer and Governmental Affairs Bureau
Consumer Inquiries and Complaints Division
445 12th Street, S.W.
Washington, DC 20554
What to include in your complaint
Your complaint should include the following information:
- The TV channel number, call sign and network
- The name of your subscription service, if you pay to receive TV
- The location of the TV station or subscription service
- The date and time when you experienced the captioning problem
- The name of the program or show with the captioning problem
- A detailed description of the captioning problem, including specifics about the frequency and type of problem (e.g., garbling, captions cut off at certain times or on certain days, captions missing only with HD programming)
- Any additional information that may assist in processing your complaint


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I hate this ad.
I stood waiting for a bus the other day while another bus idled in front of me. It had this ad on the side, bigger than life. I stared at this passive, anonymous woman, done up all '80s-retro so you can pretend she's not even in the present, much less someone with thoughts and desires that might conflict with your own.
There are a lot of reasons to hate American Apparel. So, so many (NSFW on all those links). But for some reason, seeing this image around town — even though the woman in it is more clothed than many others in AA ads — makes me especially sad and especially angry. To me, this looks different from the usual despicable American Apparel visual language for women's clothing, which is of amateur porn; this looks like a woman impersonating a blow-up doll. She's ready for you (and by you, of course, I mean Manly Straight Man You, not Woman Who Might Want to Buy a Pencil Dress You) to climb right on top of her and yank that ponytail to kingdom come. And you don't even have to look her in her stupid eyes — they're conveniently covered up to disguise any trace of personality!
Women are represented as sexual objects so frequently in our culture that it often barely registers for me; I walk past ads with tits and ass galore and just go "hmmph" as I go about my business. But every now and then, some image wakes me up temporarily to just how fucking disposable women are in ads, in songs, in films, in books. I take off my "just make it through your day blinkers" and look around me in horror. I don't know why image in particular jolted me any more than another — it might have just been the amount of time I had to look at it — but I can say unequivocally that seeing this image in public made me feel unsafe. There's no other way to put it.
This ad, like so many others, has a message: women are here for your sexual amusement. Stare at them. Talk to them. Touch them. They're just waiting for you to do it; they put their hair up so you can grab it. They wear heels so you can ogle their legs. They'll do whatever you want, and you don't even have to look them in the eyes.


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It wasn't until Delphi 1.0 arrived back in the mid '90s that I became a serious Windows application developer. I had dabbled with Microsoft C++ (which eventually became Visual C++) and Visual Basic, but neither thrilled me -- C++ required deeper Windows API knowledge and dozens of lines of code just to display a 'Hello, world' window on screen, and Visual Basic at that time was too simple and constrained to write any serious, low-level Windows applications.
I have always had a soft spot for the Pascal language because it was the first structured programming language I truly enjoyed learning (thanks entirely to Doug Cooper's Oh! Pascal! book). This appreciation was further propelled by Borland's release of Turbo Pascal in the late '80s, wonderfully accelerating the DOS application development process with compiled programs that would execute at blazing, nearly assembly language-level speeds. As Windows gained prominence and Microsoft's tools became the dominant way to develop applications for the platform, many erroneously predicted the end of Borland as a Windows programming tools vendor. However, with the release of Object Pascal-based Delphi, Borland was not only back on the map but forcefully redefining the way Windows applications could be written. (For those unfamiliar with Object Pascal, but interested in learning more about it, check out Marco Cantu's helpful free eBook, Essential Pascal).
Delphi's most celebrated personality and main architect, Anders Hejlsberg, was eventually enticed enough to move to Redmond and join Microsoft to create the .NET technology base and the C# language, extracting the best of what Delphi, Java and C++ had to offer at the time. Yet again, this key player departure prompted doomsayers to predict the end of the Borland developer tools. It was around this time that Borland attempted to swim upstream to expensive middleware solutions, changed their name to Inprise yet retain the Borland name for their tools which expanded from Delphi to also include C++ Builder and JBuilder. The Inprise strategy faltered and the company reassumed and re-emphasized its Borland developer tools legacy. However, by this time, Microsoft had captured a majority of Windows-based application and web developer mindshare with its Visual Studio for .NET toolset and Borland eventually recast its prized developer tools assets under CodeGear until the portfolio was acquired earlier this year by database tool vendor Embarcadero Technologies. As such, the RAD Studio 2010 collection is the first Delphi and C++ Builder suite sold under the Embarcadero name.
A Look at Today
So much has changed over the last 15 years, yet Delphi 2010 is still recognizable and as easy to use as Delphi 1 was upon its initial release. While the look of the IDE is certainly busier, new navigation features and smart choices in palette management still make the environment a highly productive, comfortable one to code in. Still, given the wealth of options and the number of views available, I found 1920x1600 the best resolution for my coding projects. Better still, I found adding a second monitor for running and observing the executable to be the optimal RAD Studio 2010 developer experience. And even with all the views activated, the IDE response remained lightning fast throughout my hours of testing it for this review.
Given its nearly 15-year history, Delphi has kept up with the times of supporting each successive release of Windows. For example, Delphi 2010 fully supports Windows 7-specific UI nuances and new technology enhancements via Visual Component Library (VCL) controls and API headers. These also include the Windows Imaging Component for numerous image format reading and manipulation, and Windows 7's new Direct2D API.
Code Audits in the Professional, Enterprise and Architect editions provide extremely helpful code and project health monitoring via an easy to use, information-rich reporting interface. The new IDE Insight makes navigating to all the plethora of options packed into the development environment as easy as a filtered Google search. While I found this new navigation window rather helpful, I would have preferred it to have been enhanced with an optional 'What's New' filter to quickly help me identify the new features and shortcuts specifically created for this release.
RAD Studio 2010 database drivers have also been updated to support the latest well-known name SQL DBMS's including IBM DB2 8, Microsoft SQL Server 2008, MySQL 5.1 and Oracle 11g. Also added to this release is support for the sexy, high-performance, open-source Firebird 1.5 RDBMS, showing that Embarcadero is hip with the times by not standing idle with just supporting updates for the entrenched players. New DSHTTPService and DSHTTPServiceAuthenticationManager components have been added to the DataSnap collection that delivers user-authenticated data connections over the HTTP stateless protocol. This is pretty cool, considering the number of disparate data sources and client access mechanisms scattered throughout a large enterprise. In addition, the Architect edition includes a developer edition of Embarcadero's powerful ER/Studio 8.0 database modeling, documentation/analysis and reverse engineering tool. ER/Studio deserves its own review, though of all the features packed into the 8.0 release, the one I found most exciting was its Visual Data Lineage that allows developers to observer how data flows throughout a data warehouse without necessarily having access to the codebase driving the system. It's a feature that I'm surprised Embarcadero isn't hyping with screencasts and more screenshots on its website.
While not new in RAD Studio 2010, the Delphi Prism language opens the .NET Framework to the Delphi developer. Additionally, it provides developers with the option of leveraging an Aspect Oriented Programming approach and also supports .NET 4.0's dynamic typing capabilities, making it a very powerful, flexible web application option. Perhaps the most notable aspect of Prism is its ability to run under Mono, the open source cross-platform implementation of .NET. This has a lot of potential for Linux-based VPS's like Linode by loading the Mono libraries to run Delphi Prism-based web applications. This effectively puts Delphi into an effective, economical means of executing web applications in a non-Microsoft hosted VM scenario.
Other helpful additions include search across project files, more granular thread debugging (freeze, thaw, isolate and set thread breakpoints), SOAP 1.2 (and REST and JSON via the DataSnap component) support, upgraded ANSI/ISO Boost-supported C++ compiler, a Class Explorer for C++ Builder (finally!), secure C library functions and, remarkably, the ability to import Delphi 1.0 and higher projects into Delphi 2010. I tried this with a fairly complex Delphi application I wrote in 1997 and sure enough, it just worked. Impressive! Minor improvements also abound in the release, from an updated Action property editor to Date properties displaying a Calendar control -- more than 100 new and enhanced features in all. View this feature matrix for a comprehensive list of capabilities available in each of the four RAD Studio flavors.
Of all the new features in this release, the one that captured most of my attention and fascination was the inclusion of Gesture support. This is especially awesome for those few lucky developers who have the opportunity to work with and develop on the new breed of multi-touch monitors. While the new Windows for Touch and Tablet PC features are a big deal in Windows 7, the gesture components in Delphi support Windows XP and Vista operating systems as well. Anyone developing Tablet or multi-touch display kiosk applications will want to take a serious look at how easy it is to bake in gesture support and even create custom gestures for service, support and even gaming applications.
Areas for Improvement
While trying out all these nifty new features, I had to discover most of them on my own due to the lack of sample projects demonstrating how these new capabilities work. Embarcadero needs to better market and support these major new releases with more code samples and screencasts, beyond the amateur marketing videos like this IDE overview and this one on Gestures made by long-time Borland-Inprise-CodeGear-Embarcadero developer evangelist David Intersimone. Even encouraging the Delphi and C++ Builder community to post screencasts on Blip.tv and YouTube would have been a boost in greater visibility and recognition for the product as well as raising awareness of how easy it is to construct such compelling applications on the Windows platform can be.
Also, why is it after all these releases that there still remains no native dbExpress support for PostgreSQL or SQLite data sources? Sure, PostgreSQL data can be accessed via its ODBC driver and both of these database technologies have community-developed VCL's that vary in quality, but they certainly are not anything I would trust running as part of an enterprise application. And while the Firebird DBMS support is welcome, it would have been a really nice surprise to see rising document database star Apache CouchDB on the official support list as well. While I realize CouchDB is not an RDBMS, having a way to access its data outside of the RESTful approach would have been a coup for a commercial IDE. Alas, perhaps some of these databases will receive their own feature bullet points in RAD Studio 2011.
Lastly, the Architect edition is one very expensive product. New Users are expected to pay $4,299.00 US while existing licensees can upgrade for $2,799.00 US. The Professional Edition is a bit more reasonable at $1,399.00 US for new users and $649.00 for the upgrade, but of course that version doesn't include many of the powerful data and modeling features or the E/R Studio developer edition. Nevertheless, such high prices will keep many new developers with constrained budgets from taking a closer look at RAD Studio 2010. That's a shame, given how much productivity potential is packed into this release. While it's a no-brainer that existing RAD Studio customers should upgrade, those Windows developers already wed to Microsoft's Visual Studio environment will be hard-pressed for a compelling reason to make the switch to RAD Studio for new project development. Embarcadero should seriously consider extending offers to long-time Delphi developers, especially those that abandoned Delphi years ago, that entice them to take another look, either via a special two hundred dollar upgrade regardless of version, or a competitive trade-in offer (i.e., show proof of legitimate Visual Studio license ownership and receive a thousand dollars off a new license) could really help to get those both old and new to Delphi reacquainted with a faster, more lightweight way of writing Windows applications.
A Look Toward the Future
While the RAD Studio 2010 release isn't perfect, it does emphasize an ongoing commitment by Embarcadero to stand by its acquired product line and carry forward the tenants of what made Delphi such an outstanding IDE. It also puts to rest the years of concern by tech industry journalists like me questioning the longevity of Delphi and C++ Builder. The financial backing is there. Now its time for Embarcadero to step up the competitive edge by leveraging Delphi across multiple platforms via Prism (Mono runs on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, and even the iPhone and Android smartphones), compare how much faster Windows applications can be constructed in RAD Studio compared to Visual Studio and show how much smaller and tighter Delphi applications are compared to .NET applications.
That last point emphasizes a major consistency throughout Delphi's long life. With Delphi, even a Windows application neophyte can paint a form, compile it into a true executable without a bulky, separate runtime dependency. This is something that existing Delphi developers have taken for granted since its inception, but its still something to remark upon given the weighty overhead that various Java and .NET VM distributions require. The fact that Delphi can span the XP, Vista and Windows 7 family of operating systems, even supporting technologies like gesture support on operating systems that Microsoft won't formally commit to, is a testament to the enduring capabilities that Delphi has carried through all of its corporate incarnations. Anyone interested in Windows application development -- especially timely with the release of Windows 7-- should visit Embarcadero's RAD Studio 2010 website for more details.


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I would like to find an appropriate reference for the following statement:
Statement. Let $M$ be a compact Riemannian manifold with non-negative Ricci curvature. Then $\pi_1(M)$ is virtually abelian.
It seems to me that the statement should follow from the article of Cheeger and Gromoll "The spletting theorem for manifolds of non-negative Ricci curvature" http://intlpress.com/JDG/archive/1972/6-1-119.pdf but since it is not stated explicitly in the article I am not 100% sure.
So, what would be a reference?


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Opinion | | February 6, 2014, 11:10 am
With the Opening Ceremonies just a day away, Olympic organizers are still scrambling to get ready for the 2014 Winter Games in Sochi, Russia. Editorial cartoonist Mike Luckovich wonders just how ready Russia will be, while Steve Sack suggests officials have gone all-out on security.
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Chancellor Angela Merkel led her conservatives to a stunning victory in Germany's election Sunday, a personal triumph that cements her position as Europe's most powerful leader. However, she will need to reach out to center-left rivals to form a new government after her coalition partner crashed out of Parliament.
Merkel's Union bloc scored its best result in 23 years to put her on course for a third term, winning 41.5 percent of the vote and finishing only five seats short of an absolute majority in the lower house.
The 59-year-old benefited from a strong economy and low unemployment that have helped keep her personal popularity sky-high — a contrast with the string of leaders who have lost their jobs in other European countries since the continent's debt crisis erupted three years ago. A new coalition probably won't result in any major shifts in German policy, though it could bring a slightly softer tone to managing the crisis.
Merkel, Germany's chancellor since 2005 and the de facto leader of the European crisis response that has mixed aid with austerity, told supporters it was "a super result." She wouldn't immediately speculate about the shape of the next government, but made clear she plans to serve a full term.
"I see the next four years in front of me and I can promise that we will face many tasks, at home, in Europe and in the world," Merkel said during a television appearance with other party leaders.
Despite the scale of her win, governing isn't likely to get easier for Merkel.
Her partners of choice, the pro-business Free Democrats, won only 4.8 percent of the vote. They fell short of the 5 percent needed to win seats in Parliament for the first time in Germany's post-World War II history, paying the price for frequent governing infighting and their failure to secure tax cuts they pledged before going into government four years ago.
Merkel looks likely to end up leading either a "grand coalition" government with the center-left Social Democrats of defeated challenger Peer Steinbrueck — reviving the alliance that ran Germany in her first term — or, less likely, with the environmentalist Greens.
Either way, several weeks of difficult negotiations are expected.
"The ball is in Merkel's court," said Steinbrueck, a former finance minister under Merkel who has said he won't serve under her again. "She has to get herself a majority."
"Angela Merkel is stronger than ever, also in her party," said Manfred Guellner, the head of the Forsa polling agency. "But governing is going to be odd because she will have to form a 'grand coalition' although she is only a few seats away from an absolute majority."
Merkel's conservatives finished far ahead of Steinbrueck's Social Democrats, who won 25.7 percent of the vote — not much better than the post-war low of 23 percent they hit four years ago.
Their Green allies polled a disappointing 8.4 percent, while the hard-line Left Party scored 8.6 percent. But although the three parties on the left together hold a thin parliamentary majority, there's virtually no chance of them governing together.
The Left Party includes heirs of East Germany's former communist rulers, opposes German military deployments abroad and is the only party that voted against Merkel's policies of bailing out debt-troubled European countries in exchange for reforms. The two center-left parties on Sunday renewed promises not to form an alliance with the Left.
"We did not achieve the result we wanted," Steinbrueck told supporters, insisting he wouldn't engage in "speculation" about the next government.
Merkel's conservatives, the Social Democrats and Greens "have largely similar positions" on Europe, said Oscar Gabriel, a political science professor at Stuttgart University. He noted, however, that "there are a few nuances," with the center-left parties more open to limited pooling of European countries' debt something the chancellor has refused to countenance.
A "grand coalition" might result in a somewhat greater emphasis on bolstering economic growth over the austerity that Germany has insisted on in exchange for bailing out economically weak European countries such as Greece.
During the election campaign, Merkel and Steinbrueck clashed over center-left calls for tax increases on high earners and a mandatory national minimum wage. Merkel rejected both ideas, arguing that they would hurt the economy.
All the same, a "grand coalition" is more likely to be to put together than a conservative-Green alliance, which would face wider cultural and political differences.
Green leader Juergen Trittin said of possible negotiations: "I don't think the probability of anything coming out of it is particularly high."
True to her methodical style, Merkel said Sunday she would proceed "step by step" in working toward a new government.
Still, she beamed earlier in the evening as she was greeted by a cheering crowd chanting "Angie! Angie! Angie!" at her party's headquarters.
Merkel pledged that "we will do everything together in the next four years to make them successful years for Germany."
A new anti-euro party, Alternative for Germany, came close to winning the 5 percent support needed to win seats in Parliament on Sunday. The party, which advocates an "orderly breakup" of the eurozone and appeared to have a wider appeal to protest voters on the right, finished with 4.7 percent.
Its leader, Bernd Lucke, said it had "taught the other parties to be scared" and "strengthened democracy in Germany."
Merkel has pursued a hard-nosed course in the euro crisis, insisting on spending cuts and economic reforms in exchange for bailout struggling countries such as Greece. The bailouts haven't been popular, but Germany has largely escaped the economic fallout from the crisis, and Merkel has won credit for that. Europe played only a very limited role in the campaign.
Still, senior Merkel ally Horst Seehofer, the conservative governor of Bavaria, conceded that the government needed to do a better job of explaining its policies. He told ZDF television he had noticed a "communication deficit" on the campaign trail.
There was shocked silence at the Free Democrats' election event as exit polls showed the party slumping below 5 percent of the vote.
Four years ago, the party won nearly 15 percent, its best-ever result; over the past week, it had pleaded for support from Merkel supporters to keep it afloat. Merkel frequently called the outgoing coalition "the most successful government since reunification" 23 years ago, but her own popularity didn't extend to the coalition.
"It's the bitterest, saddest hour of the Free Democratic Party," the party's leader, Vice Chancellor Philipp Roesler, said.
Gabriel, the political scientist, said conservative voters who voted for the Free Democrats in 2009 "returned in droves" to Merkel. The smaller party, which was long the kingmaker of German politics, "isn't considered competent by the voters anymore," he said.
The conservative result was close to an absolute majority because of the rule requiring parties to win 5 percent support to claim seats in the lower house. Many small parties miss that threshold, meaning their votes don't count in the division of seats.
Sunday's result gives the conservative bloc of Merkel's Christian Democratic Union and its Bavaria-only sister, the Christian Social Union, 311 seats in Parliament. The Social Democrats won 192 seats, the Greens 63 and the Left Party 64.
Turnout edged up to 71.5 percent from 70.8 percent four years ago.


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Manhattan DA: We Can't Have National Reciprocity Because of ISIS
The law-abiding should be denied the rights that criminals forfeit with their illegal actions.
Loesch Blasts WaPo's NRA Attack
"The Washington Post is just mad when the NRA talks."
"I am the NRA. So are millions of other women who are our members."
First ever! All three hours simulcast!
Loesch BLASTS Women's March Organizers Over "Daddy Farrakhan"
Organizers endorsed a notorious racist and anti-semite.
WATCH: I Explain What Linda Sarsour's Jihad Call Really Meant
Women's March Calls For "Jihad" Against Trump
The NRA didn't call for jihad but the Women's March did.
Brushing off the cobwebs
Stop Promoting Violence As Protected Speech
Peaceful protest is not the same as a violent riot.
Eddie "Veder"
GMO pop culture?
Gun Control President Reduces MORE Sentences For Violent Felons Convicted Of Gun Crimes
This week President Obama defended his record of most pardons/commutations of any president in the modern era by issuing 231 pardons and commutations.
Human error administering the NICS system (that the NRA helped to create) allowed Roof to purchase a firearm.
Feminists Attack Trump's Labor Pick, Cry "Sexism!"
You'd think that feminists would take credit for helping to create the society that enabled this sort of advertising.
The Subtle Insult Of Trump's Time Cover
It doesn'It seem that the photographer could resist a subtle jab at the future Commander-in-Chief in its staging


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Wednesday, November 2, 2011
Ischia Hopes to Host 2013 Giro d'Italia Stage
The small island of Ischia at the northern end of the Gulf of Naples has hopes of once again hosting a stage in the Giro d'Italia.
The only time the Giro has visited Ischia was in 1959 for a 31 km time trial stage, Stage 8. It had been anticipated that the winner would be Jacques Anquetil but the surprise winner was Antonino Catalano (Bianchi-Pirelli team) from Palermo, Sicily.
The bid for a stage for 2013 was submitted by the mayor of the comune of Ischia, Giosi Ferrandino and municipal sports representative Gianluca Trani. Trani said, "We know there is the declared intention of the organizer, RCS Sport, to provide maximum visibility to the South. So, it seemed appropriate to present our application well in advance to Mauro Vegni, technical director of the event."
Ischia is roughly trapezoidal in shape. It measures approximately 10 km east to west and 7 km north to south and has about 34 kilometers of coastline. Tourism is the main industry.
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A South Korean YouTube sensation named PSY takes our country by storm with his goofy, giddy-up �Gangnam Style� dance.
Sir Paul McCartney fronts the surviving members of Nirvana and it smells like middle-age desperation.
A two-timing Kristen Stewart drives a stake in the heart of her play-pretend, undead, pretty boy boyfriend and �Twilight� co-star Robert Pattinson, while �Dawson�s Creek� cutie Katie Holmes pulls the plug on her marriage to �Top Gun� Tom Cruise. Pacey Witter, this is your big chance.
Some people might have been wrong about the Mayan calendar meaning the end of days but, figuratively speaking, were they that far off on the cultural wasteland modern-day civilization has become?
Then again, I keep coming up as �Penny� on my �Walking Dead� psychological profile test, so what do I know?
2012 had all the makings of Armageddon. And if the best humanity has to offer is One Direction and Carly Rae Jepsen, better luck next year.
Still, in Worcester and the surrounding area, we had plenty of worthwhile artists to entertain us.
The following are some of the highlights that justified our existence.
Back in the Saddle
It was a rock �n� roll homecoming of the highest rock �n� roll order when The Bad Boys of Boston returned to their old neighborhood to give a free show at the very spot that made and shaped five struggling musicians to become rock juggernauts.
Aerosmith�s mini-concert was killer. Opening with �Walking the Dog� and continuing with such Aerosmith classics as �Mama Kin� �Back in the Saddle� �Sweet Emotion� and �Walk This Way,� the set was heavy with the hard rock and with no saccharine pop. And the tens of thousands stretched out on Commonwealth Avenue didn�t leave disappointed.
On Commonwealth Ave. (and a few months earlier at the TD Garden), Steven Tyler was firing on all cylinders and took center stage with aplomb. �The Demon of Screamin� � flaunted his stuff in the audience�s faces with the same cocksure precision that made us fall in love with him in the first place. Not only was he in fine voice, Tyler hasn�t been this deliciously sleazy in years.
Back in Black
Lewis Black had no problem giving a piece of his troubled (but extremely clever) mind and shoving it straight down the throats of each and every member of the sold-out audience at the Hanover Theatre for the Performing Arts.
The no-holds-barred, shoot-from-the-hip, tell-it-like-it-is comedian lashed out at big oil companies, global warming naysayers, government shortsightedness and society-wide stupidity at breakneck speed. No one was safe of his wrath, not even Anne Frank (although the joke was directed at the Mormons, and Frank merely got caught in the crossfire).
While Black teetered on the thin line that separates funny and foul, he never fell over it.
Blown Away
With her giddy, girl-next-door wholesomeness and eager-to-please enthusiasm in overdrive, Carrie Underwood raised the roof off the DCU Center.
In fact, Underwood seems to be a better singer, a better stage performer and is even better (if that is possible) looking than she was when her �Play On Tour� stopped here two years earlier.
Burning Up
Fresh from her controversial, breast-baring, crowd-mooning, Israeli flag wrapping, swastika-displaying, anti-Pussy Riot prison sentence and pro gay rights pontificating treks of Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Rome Paris, London, Edinburg and St. Petersburg, Madonna performed a pair of salacious, scandalous, unorthodox, unpredictable, inspired, seductive, sexy and spirited concerts at the TD Garden.
Burn It to the Ground
Nickelback certainly gave the sold-out audience its money�s worth during its full-throttle, pedal-to-the-metal set at the DCU Center.
Despite selling 50 million albums worldwide, this Canadian rock combo are not critics� darlings, but have legions of adoring fans. And their fans were treated to one heck of a show from the get-go.
Can�t Run, Can�t Hide
Jimmy D�Angelo was involved in as many bands as the City of Worcester has hills, so �The Bands of Jimmy D�Angelo� rock �n� roll extravaganza back in June at The Hanover Theatre was more than a mere love fest for the event�s namesake. This was a love fest for anyone who had ever been touched by rock �n� roll music.
And you didn�t have to know Jimmy D�Angelo from a hole in the wall to appreciate the undeniable fact that all of these bands (which including reunited versions of the Joneses, Mad Angel, August and Pretty Poison) sounded arena-ready and road-worthy as any rock band out there today.
Maybe, it was because he had a better sound system or was playing at a better venue than he used to. Maybe, it was because he was playing to a crowd of more than 1,500 enthusiastic fans. Or maybe it was because he realized this was a gig of a lifetime. Whatever it was, Jimmy D�Angelo sounded the best he has in years.
Can we talk?
Not only can Joan Rivers talk, the legendary comedian can keep an audience riveted with her witty banter, words of wisdom and life lessons that would make Dr. Phil envious.
Billed as �My Life in Show Business: 135 Years and Counting,� Rivers delivered her A-game to an estimated crowd of 1,600 at the Hanover Theatre. This was despite suffering from a bout of laryngitis, which never slowed her down and only made Rivers� signature raspy voice even raspier.
Comfortably Numb
Breathtaking, eye-popping, jaw-dropping, mind-blowing, pulse-pounding and, quite possibly, even life-altering.
How else can one describe Pink Floyd�s bassist, songwriter and singer Roger Waters taking over Fenway Park to bring his 30-plus-year-old paranoid psychodrama/rock opera �The Wall� to life?
Not only did Waters� performance reach new heights in the elaborate rock �n� roll theater department, it made everything else this summer concert season seem pale in comparison. Well, almost everything.
Gemini Dream
As the �cold-hearted orb� ruled the night, The Moody Blues for one night ruled The Hanover Theatre.
The Moody Blues (now consisting of singer-guitarist Justin Hayward, singer-bassist John Lodge and drummer Graeme Edge) treated a packed house of baby boomers to such timeless symphony-rock classics as �Nights in White Satin� and �Tuesday Afternoon� and �Ride My See-Saw� that had the crowd swaying back and forth and beaming from ear to ear.
Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss
Whether you are a mod, a rocker or even a mocker, The Who�s �Quadrophenia And More� concert at the TD Garden was a rock �n� roll lover�s dream come true.
While drummer Keith Moon died before he got old (at 32 in 1978) and bassist John Entwistle died before his time (at age 57 in 2002), singer Roger Daltrey, 68, and guitarist Pete Townshend, 67, are still alive and kicking (despite being old) and still kick some serious butt.
Mind over matter
His name is synonymous with mind reading. He�s a master of the power of suggestion. He was a favorite guest of Johnny Carson. He�s a pop culture icon. He has used a pendulum as both a lie detector and predictor of the future.
He�s The Amazing Kreskin, and he lived up to his name when he performed at Vive Bene Ristorante, Worcester.
Summer of Springsteen
Combined for over three days (Aug. 14 and 15 at Fenway and Aug. 18 at Gillette), Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band played 58 different songs and ten hours and 19 minutes.
And not a moment was wasted.
Springsteen stirred up the spirits in the night, spirits of the dearly departed and the spirits of the long since dead and forgotten, while people all along Yawkey Way were doing the E Street Shuffle.
Although the set list at the gridiron was a little shorter than either concert at the ball diamond, the Gillette show took some of the best elements of the already historic Fenway shows and was still unique enough to stand on its own. In fact the two days rest between concerts seemed to do wonders for The Boss and the show at Gillette was a continuation of an incredible summer ride.
Well Lit & Amplified
Blake Shelton continued his hot streak with his �Well Lit & Amplified Tour,� which made a triumphant stop in front of a packed crowd at the DCU Center. Shelton�s eclectic, crowd-pleasing covered all the bases of his 10-year country music recording career.
Wichita Lineman
While his mind might not be 100 percent these days, Glen Campbell�s unmistakable voice and legendary guitar prowess certainly were at The Hanover Theatre.
While the concert was not quite a return to �The Glen Campbell Goodtime Hour� (who in June 2011 announced he has been diagnosed with early stage Alzheimer�s disease; which, by the way, the artist has demonstrated incredible strength, grace and dignity in dealing with) this wasn�t any pity party either.
Wicked Game
Chris Isaak gave a sizzling performance at Indian Ranch that, in many ways, was the best of both worlds � one, his very own �Heart Shaped World� of his own creation, and the other, the rich heritage of rock�s roots that inspired him throughout his life.
And, as usual, Isaak�s longtime backing band, Silvertone, was also on fire.
Other Indian Ranch notable shows this year included the Bacon Brothers, Gavin Degraw, Gretchen Wilson, Kellie Pickler, Bret Michaels, Montgomery Gentry, Scotty McCreery, Wynonna and Charlie Daniels.
Worcester�s Answer to The Voice
Local indie-rocker Sam James won the accolades of Maroon 5�s Adam Levine and he did John Lennon proud with his powerful rendition of �Imagine.� And although he didn�t win �The Voice,� James made a big enough impression to make us believe that 2013 is going to be his year.


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(Bloomberg ) Consumption of high-fructose corn syrup, used to sweeten products from Coca-Cola Co. (KO) to HJ Heinz Co. (HNZ) ketchup and linked to obesity, is falling in the U.S. as health-conscious consumers drink less soda.
The amount of corn devoted to the sweetener this year will fall to its lowest level since 1997, according to a Jan. 15 projection by the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
"A lot of attention has been paid to obesity, and that's hurt high-fructose corn syrup," said Marion Nestle, a public- health and nutrition expert at New York University. "Now, if only people weren't making up for it by eating more sugar."
For decades, corn syrup benefited from the relatively low cost of corn compared with sugar. A tripling of corn costs since 2004 has lessened that advantage, while consumer obesity concerns and negative publicity have also eaten into demand, said Lauren Bandy, an ingredients analyst with Euromonitor International Plc in London.
Americans consumed an average of 131 calories of the corn sweetener each day in 2011, down 16 percent since 2007, according to the most recent USDA data. Meanwhile, consumption of sugar, also blamed for weight gain, rose 8.8 percent to 185 calories daily, the data show.
1998 Peak
Even with the increase in sugar use, total U.S. sweetener production remains down 14 percent from a 1999 peak, according to the USDA.
"We're seeing a real decline, and that people aren't just switching to sugar," said Michael Jacobson, executive director of the Center for Science in the Public Interest in Washington. "People consume way too much of both."
He attributes the decline to public-health campaigns.
Concerns that obesity is rising have spurred anti-sweetener measures, including proposals in 30 states to levy soda taxes on the $74 billion U.S. soft-drink industry. Last September, New York City's Board of Health voted to restrict sales of sugary soft drinks to no more than 16 ounces a cup in restaurants, movie theaters and stadiums, acting on a proposal by Mayor Michael Bloomberg. He's the founder and majority owner of Bloomberg News parent Bloomberg LP.
Soft drinks are the major driver of high-fructose corn syrup use. Consumption, which peaked in 1998 at 54 gallons a person, plummeted 21 percent by 2011, as Americans drank more juice, tea and bottled water, according to Beverage Digest.
Rivaled Sugar
High-fructose corn syrup was developed in the 1950s and, for about a decade starting in the mid-1990s, rivaled refined sugar as the top U.S. sweetener.
The liquid sweetener is often used in cereals, yogurts, soups and other foods because it is easier to blend, transport and preserve than sugar. About 4.5 percent of the U.S. corn crop, or 485 million bushels, will be used to make the sweetener in the year ending Aug. 31, according to the USDA.
Archer-Daniels-Midland Co. (ADM) and Cargill Inc. together run more than half of the country's plants where high-fructose corn- syrup is refined from corn.
Growth in exports have more than made up for any decline in domestic sales, said Jackie Anderson, an ADM spokeswoman, in an e-mail. "Our corn mills are designed to be flexible so that we can move production to different products," she said.
Corn-based ethanol, which until 2000 used less of the grain than the sweetener, will account for 4.5 billion bushels this year, almost 10 times as much, USDA data show.
Obesity Fears
Ties to obesity are scaring some consumers away even as trade groups for corn syrup and sugar battle each other in court over allegedly false statements about one another's products, Nestle, the New York University nutritionist, said.
"It's laughable, seeing them fighting one another when they're both awful," Nestle said.
Fructose may contribute to weight gain and obesity because of the way it affects brain regions that control appetite, Yale University researchers found in a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association this month.
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has classified high- fructose corn syrup, a blend of fructose and glucose, as safe. It declined to call it "corn sugar," as requested by the Corn Refiners Association. An article published last September in the International Journal of Obesity concluded that the substance alone doesn't cause obesity or other health problems.
Industry Reaction
"It's important for brands to weigh sweetener decisions carefully and base them on facts," said Martin Concannon, a consultant to the Corn Refiners Association, in an e-mail. "Far more consumers are concerned about the amount of sweetener in a product than even notice what type of sweetener is in it."
The Washington-based association represents manufacturers of high-fructose corn syrup in the U.S., including Cargill, ADM, Ingredion Inc. (INGR) and Tate & Lyle Ingredients Americas Inc.
Sugar remains about 25 percent more expensive than high- fructose corn syrup, Credit Suisse Group AG (CSGN) said in a Jan. 17 report. Mondelez International Inc. (MDLZ), which makes Capri Sun, a juice product, and ConAgra Foods Inc. (CAG), maker of Hunt's ketchup, have both returned to corn syrup after switching to sugar because they didn't gain market share from the change, Credit Suisse said.
"It's a declining industry, but it's not a dying industry," Bandy said. "As long as the big brands keep using it, they'll have business."