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The only thing I know about non-closable operators can be summarised as "they exist, but they're nasty, so let's not talk about them!" This seems to be the case with everyone else I've talked to. I'd appreciate some references or ideas about the following:
What classes of non-closable operators have been studied (if any). For instance have the operators with non-empty, real, positive spectrum been studied? Are there weaker, but similar conditions to closable/symmetric which gaurentee nice properties (e.g. non-empty spectrum, adjoint with non-trivial domain, some form of polar decompostion)?
EDIT: As the comments suggest, the usual definition of spectrum doesn't make sense if the operator's not closable. Is there another way to define it - or is there a similar object which is useful?


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by Tom Utescher
Upper Dublin High School's Lady Cardinals stayed right with Mount St. Joseph Academy through much of the first half of last Wednesday's summer league basketball contest, but late in the period the Magic gained some separation and were ahead 25-18 at the break.
The teams traded points early in the second round, then the Mounties pulled away smartly as sophomore guard Alex Louin posted 11 of her game-high 17 points after the intermission. The 48-31 victory, which included 11-point performances from seniors Bridget Higgins and Cailin Schmeer, lifted the Mount to a 3-0 record. The league is based at Hatboro Horsham High School, although Mount St. Joe actually played its first two games at another location.
Last Wednesday's game commenced with a three-point field goal by Magic senior Maddie Kohler, but Upper Dublin quickly answered in kind, and then went on to lead 9-5. After an MSJ jumper by Schmeer tied it up at 9-9 a few minutes later, the Cardinals forged ahead again, 15-11.
The Mount moved ahead for good with a 10-1 assault, as Louin, Geatens, Monzo and Higgins all found the basket during the spree. A final exchange of field goals set the tally at 25-18 for the interlude. The score seesawed up to 28-21 as the second half got underway, then the Mount ramped up its transition offense and put the Cardinals away with a 13-1 charge that incorporated four field goals by Louin.
The Magic had enjoyed similar opportunities during the first half, but failed to finish on a number of shots. Once things started to click for the Mounties in the second round, they pushed their lead into double figures and kept it there.
With around eight minutes to go the Cardinals canned back-to-back three pointers, but their offense sputtered after that and they never put together a serious comeback. Mount St. Joe led 48-27 before Upper Dublin scored the last two field goals of the night.
In addition to the output of the three double-digit scorers, the Magic received four points from Monzo, three from Kohler, and two from Geatens.


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Unit F: Energy Sources and Motion
The books listed below may be available through publishers, distributors such as bookstores or online retailers, or library systems.
Leveled Independent Science Books
Extra Support
- It's Too Loud
- Summary: Readers learn about sounds that are too loud and can hurt hearing.
On Level
- Making it Go
- Summary: Readers learn what makes different objects move.
- Night Lights
- Summary: Readers explore different sources of light used at night.
- That's Hot!
- Readers learn about forms and sources of heat.
- All About Light
- Readers explore the concept of light through facts and photos.
- Light: Shadows, Mirrors, and Rainbows
- Readers find out about types of light, including sunlight and moonlight.
- All About Sounds
- Readers explore the concept of sound through simple words and photos.
- Energy Makes Things Happen
- Readers learn about different kinds of energy.
- Move It!
- Readers learn the principles of how and why things move.
- Motion: Push and Pull, Fast and Slow
- Readers discover how objects begin moving and what makes them stop.
- Force and Motion
- Simple experiments help readers explore the concept of how things move.


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The influenza epidemic of 1918-1919 killed more people than World War I. It is estimated that it affected a quarter of the population and that 675,000 Americans died from this disease. Between September 1, 1918 and January 16, 1919, 45,000 people died in Massachusetts. The disease entered the country with some sailors that docked in Boston on August 27. Within two weeks, over two thousand men stationed in the Boston area were infected. By October, towns in western Massachusetts were seeing high rates of infection and death. This article reports that the disease had broken out again in December, this time affecting different towns. The October outbreak had mainly affected Greenfield, Millers Falls and Turners Falls, and this December outbreak hit Sunderland, South Deerfield, Conway and Whately. The Board of Health in Deerfield issued an order preventing any public gatherings and closing all public buildings in the village of South Deerfield. This article also discusses the benefits of public health nurses and that, due to a shortage, towns should think about creating public health nurse districts like they had school districts.
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Why 14-year-old-girls everywhere are begging for genealogy lessons
Just in time for the release of yet another Twilight movie, Ancestry.com announced an exciting discovery about heartthrob and leading star Robert Pattinson.
Apparently America's most tweeted vampire is distantly related to Vlad the Impaler, yes, the infamous Romanian Prince who inspired Bram Stoker's Dracula. Meaning Pattison has more than just natural talent for acting sulky, sultry and undead. He does in fact have bloodsucking in his, well, bloodline.
But other than the obvious publicity this announcement gives to the Twilight saga, perhaps it will also act as a catalyst for tweens everywhere to get more involved in genealogy. Along with this revelation came the announcement that the Pattinson-Dracula connection extends to the British royal family as well. Dracula, Prince William and Prince Harry? Be still my heart!
Perhaps it was fate that Pattison accepted a role that runs in the family, or maybe it was just a really lucky break. But either way, we're hoping this creates even more awareness in a younger generation about the "cool" factor of genealogy.
So what about you? Have you found any startling discoveries in your past that explain some of the life choices you've made? Do you think it's just a coincidence, or do you think it runs in your [enter Dracula cackle] blood?


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'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' Renewed, No 'Cleveland Show?'
Let the reign of Seth MacFarlane continue! Where once 'Family Guy' had been cancelled and seemingly gone forever, eight years later FOX announces that the series will indeed return for an 11th season, while its spiritual spin-off 'American Dad' will return for an eighth alongside it. So with Seth MacFarlane's first two series renewed, what's to become of 'The Cleveland Show?'
Deadline was the one to break the news, that at least two of Seth MacFarlane's animated efforts would see additional seasons through 2014, the orders likely for 22 episodes apiece. Interestingly, 'American Dad' recently returned from hiatus in its sixth season, meaning the show has a full seventh season already in the can on top of the current renewal.
Due to the long turnaround of animation series of this style, 'The Cleveland Show' is already in production on a fourth season, currently airing its third, though FOX has yet to make a decision on a fifth alongside the other renewals. The network may wish to see how its options play out, though 'The Cleveland Show' already has a syndication deal with Adult Swim in place for 2013.
Elsewhere, ever-running animation mainstay 'The Simpsons' already has a two-year deal in place, along with 'Bob's Burgers' having negotiated for a third season back in January. Jonah Hill's 'Allen Gregory' has officially been cancelled, leaving the marginally more popular 'Napoleon Dynamite' adaptation on the bubble still.
What say you? are 'Family Guy' and 'American Dad' worth additional seasons, or has the Seth MacFarlane Well run dry? We're more fans of 'American Dad' these days, but what about you? And what of 'The Cleveland Show?' Give us your reactions in the comments!


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Texasslavgerman needed a new t-shirt design and created a contest on 99designs.
3 winners were selected from 114 designs submitted by 18 freelance designers.
Texas Slav & German Boutique has a special interest in creating fashionable and edgy apparel that also displays one's pride in their heritage. We will be launching our online store in the next few weeks. we also have a storefront in Texas(USA) and plan to become a distributor of fashionable clothing and products with emphasis on the Slavic and Germanic cultures.
These tshirts are being designed for those customers with an interest in fashion. They are living in the USA with mostly Polish heritage. We want the shirts to sell because they look great, not simply because someone has pride in their heritage. These people would likely be shopping at Abercrombie, Old Navy, etc... They would likely wear "Ed Hardy" designs also. While we want the shirts to be edgy and trendy, we do NOT want it to simply be a "knock off" of the previously mentioned designs. It is up to the designer to find a way to accomplish this goal.
we would like to see several various designs. There is a strong possibility that more than one design will be chosen as a winner should the designs really stand out. Again, we want the Tshirts to sell themselves. and we really hope to see how creative you can get. we are open to using any part of the shirt (front, back, sleeve, etc...). this design will be used on Tshirts and possibly Jackets.
1)Design one- include both the Polish Eagle/Crest and the American Eagle/Crest with text reading either "Polish American" or " Poland and American or USA" somewhere on the shirt. this design obviously will be geared to Polish americans.
2) Design two- include both the Polish Eagle/Crest and the American Eagle/Crest with NO text (this will allow us to sell it to people who are NOT Polish but simply like the shirt because it looks fashionable.)
we are open to color type: some may try using the national colors while others may simply use completely different colors. We would like to see both options. the focus should be a shirt that looks good more so than using the national colors.
If there ends up being multiple designs that really stand out, than more than one design will likely be chosen. We may then launch another contest similar to this one with emphasis on German or other Slavic nations since our store caters to this market as well.


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Farmingdale State sophomore guard Damien Santana (Brooklyn, NY/Grady) was named to the Skyline Player of the Week Honor Roll for men's basketball on Monday, January 15th. Santana led the team with 22.5 points per game in a 2-0 week, finishing with game-highs in both of the Rams conference wins. At Maritime, he posted a career-high 27 points and went 7-of-9 from downtown before finishing with a game-high 18 points versus Merchant Marine. For the week, he shot 59-percent from behind the arc, while also averaging 3.5 rebounds per game, 2.5 assists and 1.5 steals.
The Skyline Conference Weekly Reports for basketball are announced by the Conference on Mondays. Reports (including players of the week and conference statistics) are available to view on the Skyline website at www.skylineconference.org.
For his play last week, Santana was also named to the Presto Sports/MBWA Player of the Week Honor Roll. The Presto/MBWA Player of the Week Award is granted on a weekly basis by the New York Area Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association. Each week, each of the nearly 75 schools that play college basketball in the Tri-state area have the ability to nominate one male and one female student-athlete, based upon their on-court accomplishments over the previous seven days. An esteemed panel of eight media members vote to select from the nominations the most outstanding player. Any player who receives any votes, but are not named the Player of the Week, are then named to the Honor Roll.
The Met Basketball Weekly List is announced on Monday nights. Past releases are available to view at: http://www.prestosports.com/mbwa/index.


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Inside ASIS&T
Annual Meeting Coverage
While the December/January issue of the Bulletin of the American Society for Information Science and Technology traditionally contains in-depth coverage of the ASIS&T Annual Meeting, this year's late October meeting fell outside the production cycle for this issue. Therefore, the bulk of the Annual Meeting news, such as reports on major technical sessions, photographic and textual coverage of the winners of the ASIS&T awards and news of other relevant activities, will appear in the February/March 2004 issue of the Bulletin.
2003 ASIS&T Award Honorees
The following individuals and groups were among those honored at the 2003 ASIS&T Annual Meeting Awards Luncheon and at other venues during the meeting. Details of these honors will be included in the next issue of the Bulletin.
Award of Merit Nicholas J. (Nick) Belkin
Watson Davis Award Nancy Roderer
Research Award Peter Ingwersen
Best Information Science Book Award Looking for Information: A Survey of Research on Information Seeking, Needs, and Behavior by Donald O. Case
Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award Raya Fidel
John Wiley & Sons Best JASIST Paper Award Gary Marchionini for "Co-evolution of User and Organizational Interfaces: A Longitudinal Case Study of WWW Dissemination of National Statistics"
ISI/ASIST Citation Analysis Research Grant Rong Tang
ISI Doctoral Dissertation Proposal Scholarship Jiangping Chen
ASIST/Proquest Dissertation Award Anne Diekema
James M. Cretsos Leadership Award Amy Wallace
Chapter-of-the-Year Los Angeles Chapter and Southern Ohio Chapter
Student Chapter-of-the-Year University of Washington Student Chapter
Chapter Member-of-the-Year (two winners) Louisa (Toot) Verma and Yin Zhang
Chapter Event-of-the-Year It's Not Just Google Anymore: Blogs and the Latest in Search Engines (New England Chapter)
Chapter Electronic Publication-of-the-Year www.lacasis.org (Los Angeles Chapter)
Chapter Print Publication-of-the-Year OASIS (Los Angeles Chapter)
SIG-of-the-Year SIG/USE
New Officer and Directors Join ASIS&T Board
The start of a new administrative year brings new faces to the ASIS&T Board of Directors. Three new members were welcomed to the Board at the conclusion of the Annual Meeting in Long Beach, while three retiring members were thanked for their service.
Each of the new members will serve the society for three years. Those elected to the Board during the summer balloting are Nicholas J. Belkin, president-elect; and Dietmar Wolfram and Gail Hodge, directors-at-large.
As the new members took their seats, Samantha Hastings, elected last year as president-elect, assumed the presidency from Trudi Bellardo Hahn, who now serves as past president for one year. Former president Donald Kraft and directors-at-large Dudee Chiang and Michael Leach completed their terms of service on the Board.
Samantha Hastings is an associate professor of information science and fellow of the Texas Center for Digital Knowledge at the University of North Texas in Denton. She teaches courses in digital image management, telecommunications, and science and technology reference.
Nick Belkin has been professor of information science in the School of Communication, Information and Library Studies at Rutgers University since 1985. Prior to this appointment he was senior lecturer in information science at The City University, London. He is currently chair of the Department of Library and Information Science at Rutgers, and was previously the director of the Ph.D. program in Communication, Information and Library Studies there. He has held visiting positions at institutions in Canada, Germany, Singapore and Finland. Nick holds the Ph.D. in information studies from the University of London, and the MLS and BA from the University of Washington. He is a recipient of the ASIS&T Outstanding Information Science Teacher Award (1990) and the ASIS&T Research Award (1997).
Dietmar Wolfram is professor at the School of Information Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. He teaches courses in the areas of information science, electronic networking, and database systems and conducts research in information retrieval, applied informetrics and technology education for information professionals. He holds a Ph.D. and MLIS in library and information science and a B.Sc. from the University of Western Ontario. As an ASIS&T member, he has served as faculty advisor to the UW-Milwaukee ASIS&T Student Chapter and as an officer (secretary, vice-chair, chair) of the Wisconsin Chapter; as chair and communication officer for the former SIG/OIS (Office Information Systems); on the Awards and Honors and Education Committees; and he has organized and presented on a number of panels at ASIS&T Annual Meetings.
Gail Hodge is a senior information scientist in the Advanced Information Research and Technologies Group of Information International Associates. She is a consultant and contractor for government and private sector organizations, specializing in database design, metadata, taxonomy and controlled vocabulary development, process reengineering, standards and information policy. Gail has served as chair and program chair for SIG/IFP, developing sessions on intellectual property, public domain and government information policy, and is also a member of SIGs/STI and ALP. She has been a frequent speaker at ASIS&T Annual Meetings and has contributed to the Bulletin on topics such as digital preservation, electronic journals, e-prints and database protection.
News About ASIS&T Chapters
For the program planned in conjunction with its annual business meeting in October, the Potomac Valley Chapter offered a presentation on The ASIST Web Site Redesign Project: Objectives, Stakeholders and Workplan. A Web redesign group in the DC area is looking at the redesign process and all its aspects from identifying users and stakeholders to recognizing the forms, databases and transactions that are typically conducted by Society members. Members of the team shared insights into Web processes and workflows, usability testing, IA and interface design and high-level business requirements.
In September, the Central Ohio ASIS&T Chapter (CO-ASIS&T) offered a program entitled, Current Awareness Services for Librarians, presented by Jay Kegley, Columbus Metropolitan Library. He shared his insights on the best current awareness services for librarians.
For its November program, CO-ASIS&T planned Copyright Catch-Up: What's Happening Now?, featuring Trisha Davis, The Ohio State University Libraries, speaking about copyright and recent events affecting it.
The New England Chapter of ASIS&T (NEASIST) and ASIS&T Special Interest Group/ Scientific and Technical Information Systems (SIG/STI), in cooperation with the Physics-Astronomy-Mathematics Division of SLA, sponsored a "Summit on Digital Archives for Science & Engineering Resources" in late November. The summit included panels and presentations from academia, non-profit organizations, the commercial sector and government initiatives, both in the United States and abroad. Keynote speaker was Clifford Lynch, executive director of the Coalition for Networked Information (CNI).
The Northern Ohio ASIS&T Chapter (NORASIST), in conjunction with Cleveland SLA, presented the Annual George Mandel Technology Lecture in late October. Innovations in Technology: Has the Future Arrived? Experts' Views of Today's Spaces, Technologies for Intuitive Learning & Internet Treasures featured presentations by David Ewing, John Carroll University; James A. Barker, Case Western Reserve University; and Diane K. Kovacs, Kovacs Consulting.
News from an ASIS&T SIG
Sue O'Neill Johnson (current chair of SIG/III) reports that the August 2003 issue of Scientific American contains an update on a project from the SIG's 2001 International Paper Competition. The Gyandoot Digital Library Internet, a project reported by Aashish Sharma and his professor William Yurcik in the April/May 2001 Bulletin, is discussed in a Scientific American article as a major example of a successful model to close the digital divide in India. The article says, "Farmers access the Gyandoot intranet at a community computer facility in central India's Dhar district, where 60 percent of the 1.7 million residents live below the poverty line. The intranet provides crop prices, official application forms and a place to hold village auctions and to air public grievances."
When presenting the paper in 2001, Aashish predicted that this project, just in its initial stages then, would grow and become effective. Indeed it has.
News about ASIS&T Members
Randoph Bias, associate professor in the School of Information at the University of Texas at Austin, has been awarded $100,000 to study the effects of Microsoft ClearType on user performance in programming tasks. ClearType is a font-rendering technology designed to make on-screen text easier to read. Researchers at the School of Information have been examining the usability of this technology, and preliminary results suggest ClearType can significantly improve reading speeds for electronic text. The new grant will extend this research into more complex task domains and explore ClearType's effects on the performance of software programmers.
Henry Small, chief scientist at Thomson ISI, has been named to a four-year term as president of the International Society for Scientometrics and Informetrics (ISSI), a biennial conference of scientometric and informetric scholars from around the world. The members comprise government advisers, librarians, people working in corporations and academic researchers.
News from an ASIS&T Institutional Member
Syracuse University to Create Nationwide Digital Library Tools
The Information Institute of Syracuse (IIS), a research center of Syracuse University's School of Information Studies, has received a $250,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Studies to create a nationwide digital reference education initiative. The grant, led by co-principal investigators and SU assistant professors Abby Goodrum and R. David Lankes, with Joseph Janes of the University of Washington, will help prepare librarians, students and paraprofessionals to deliver high-quality reference service on the Internet.
"The Internet has become an essential tool for libraries to interact with patrons. Digital reference allows the heart of the library, the librarian, to be just as accessible as the online catalog," says Goodrum. "This helps those librarians get to the patrons and makes libraries more central to the communities they serve."
The grant will be used to educate librarians, students and paraprofessionals in digital reference and build a Web portal for them to access training materials, online courses and hands-on experience with digital reference software. The portal will also provide a common place for posting digital reference job and internship opportunities.
The IIS (iis.syr.edu) is the umbrella organization for a number of highly visible and widely successful digital education information services and projects. IIS projects bring together universities, government agencies and private enterprises to promote easy access to high quality educational information for a diverse user population.
Among the schools already brought into the digital reference initiative are Syracuse University, University of Washington, University of Michigan, University of Illinois, University of Maryland, Florida State University, Kent State, Emporia State, UCLA and Drexel. Software providers are OCLC, 24/7 Reference, LSSI and LiveAssistance. Libraries include Washington State Library, Library of Congress, National Library of Canada, Library of the Netherlands, National Library of Australia, Multnomah County Public Library, Alberta Public Library Consortia, Grant MacEwan College and Brigham Young University.
April Bohannan
April Bohannan, cataloging services librarian at the Virginia Beach Public Library, passed away in late August from a cancer that was first diagnosed on Memorial Day weekend. She is survived by her mother, Viola Bohannan, of Reedville, Virginia, and by two sons, Mark and Kevin Schlipper, of Palmyra, Virginia, and Seattle, Washington, respectively.
Before joining Virginia Beach Public Library, April had been coordinator of library automation and technical services for Fairfax County (VA) Public Schools, information resources manager at the School of Library & Information Sciences at North Carolina Central University and an assistant professor in the School of Library and Information Studies at Texas Woman's University. She earned her MS in library science at Catholic University and her Ph.D. in library science at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. She was a presenter and author on topics of information organization throughout her career.
April applied her expertise in organizing information to the creation of a vocabulary of terms designed to assure successful Web access to local government information by Virginia Beach citizens. At the time of her death, she was leading the planning for an expanded virtual library presence in Virginia Beach. She was a treasured colleague, passionate in her work and a source of encouragement for those considering post-graduate studies in library science. Always the optimist with a ready smile, her consistent question was "How can we make it happen?" April made many things happen during her three years in Virginia Beach.
Patrick G. Wilson
Patrick G. Wilson, professor emeritus and former dean of the School of Librarianship at the University of California, Berkeley, died of heart failure in San Francisco on September 12. 2003. He was 75.
Professor Wilson was born in Santa Cruz, California. In an oral history on file with UC Berkeley, Wilson said he graduated from high school in Santa Cruz during World War II with no thought of ever attending college. "It wasn't done," he said. "Children of working-class parents didn't go to college." Wilson went on to earn bachelor's degrees in philosophy and in library science and his Ph.D. in philosophy.
He began working in the general reference service of UC Berkeley's Doe Library after receiving his degree in library science, and later served as a librarian and bibliographer for South Asia Studies.
Wilson taught philosophy at UCLA starting in 1960, but came back to UC Berkeley to join the School of Librarianship faculty in 1965, a tumultuous time on campus just following the emergence of the Free Speech Movement. He served as dean of the school from 1970-1975, a time when the school increasingly turned its attention to computers and automation for libraries and when online searching became a real, practical tool. Wilson also was acting dean from 1989 until his 1991 retirement.
When asked by oral history interviewer Laura McCreery what he thought his lasting contributions would be, Wilson said, "Lasting is not up to me. If anything lasts more than 10 minutes, it may be something that is, as far as you're concerned, entirely irrelevant."
Wilson was the recipient of the ASIS&T Award of Merit in 2001 (Bulletin, December/January 2002) and is perhaps most widely known for his three influential books: Two Kinds of Power: An Essay on Bibliographical Control (1968); Public Knowledge, Private Ignorance: Toward a Library and Information Policy (1977); and Second-Hand Knowledge: An Inquiry into Cognitive Authority (1983).
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Mike Poole: trombone
Mike Poole is a trombonist from Cortland, NY. He received his Bachelor's Degree in Music Education from the Crane School of Music at SUNY Potsdam, and is currently working on a Master's Degree in Music Theory at the University of Buffalo. Mike currently plays in the Cortland Old Timers Band and also organizes instrumental music at St. Mary's Church in Cortland.


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The only possible situation.
(Inexistence doesn't exist. Therefore only existence exists. Therefore we exist)
(Inexistence doesn't exist. Therefore only existence exists. Therefore we exist)
All there is, is existence - everywhere
by Bob October 28, 2003
Existence is pain! -Mr. Meeseeks
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by Imanangrybird April 20, 2018
A very hard word to define. One must pick up the meaning of existence. And existence can only refer to people. Generally, it is better to not exist, but existing is not always a bad thing. Good people exist, and bad people do not. However, people generally like those who do not exist more. The best definition of existence is close to, but not exactly, the combination of how good a person is in any way compared to how much they try. People who try very hard and are very successful often exists, while those who really don't care do not exist. However, that is not the only basis for existence. For more on existence, one must hear examples of who exists and who doesn't. Every person fits into one of the following categories: defines existence, exists, barely exists, barely does not exists, does not exist, defines non-existence.
by MisterPoops January 25, 2009
buy the domain for your travel site
A figment of one's imagination. In simpler terms, it does not exist.
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Bjørn co-founded Norwex in 1994. A former attorney, Bjørn worked with the Norwegian Ministry of Environment and was an associate with the General of Norway. He retired in 2007 to follow his passion for helping others achieve their dreams through Norwex. He now leads the company in shaping the Norwex Core Values, Mission, Goals, branding strategy and overall mission for the future.
"We will all leave a legacy of some kind—good or bad. It's our actions that will determine how we will be remembered and the impact our lives have on others. Only you control the legacy you will leave."
Eivind has held numerous global leadership positions in the consumer goods industry, including Chief Executive Officer of a Fortune 500 multinational company. As a driver of the Norwex Mission, Eivind is passionate about building teams that drive success as well as reducing chemicals in our homes.
"The Norwex Purpose touches all aspects of life … it is the larger picture of the legacy we are creating where our Core Values of Integrity, Trust and Respect align our benefits with our actions."
With 28 years of global direct selling leadership, Peter is a key member of the global team responsible for developing worldwide strategic sales and marketing support for all Norwex markets, including Norway, the Baltics, Australia, New Zealand, U.S., Canada, Germany, UK, Ireland and Sweden, as well as global new market development. Peter is committed to sharing the Mission of Norwex with the world and giving its Consultants the power they need to leave their own lasting legacies.
"It's exciting to see the growth of the Norwex Movement around the world. People everywhere are looking for real solutions to the health and environmental challenges we face … and Norwex promises to deliver them."
Brian works alongside the Norwex teams in Australia and New Zealand in support of promoting the Norwex Mission and providing Norwex Consultants with a highly competitive business opportunity. He is passionate about the personal development of Norwex Consultants and strives to leverage his Direct Sales experience in support of the personal aspirations of Norwex Consultants. In addition Brian is responsible for assisting with the expansion of Norwex into Asia.
"Norwex Consultants are leading the way in defining the new norm when it comes to ensuring homes are Safe Havens. Their passion to radically reduce chemicals in the home and to make headway in protecting the environment is unrivalled. An unstoppable movement has been initiated by Norwex Consultants across the globe and together they will continue to make a significant impact on the world we live in."
Debbie leads sales operations in the U.S. She is also responsible for bringing Norwex to Canada in 1999. With 28 years of experience in the home party industry, Debbie won the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award for the Business to Consumer Division in the Canadian Prairie Region in 2008. Passionate about showing Consultants how to become successful entrepreneurs, Debbie is committed to helping people achieve their true destinies and making the planet a better, healthier place to live.
"For me, our legacy is not about how far we have come … it will be about how far we can go. In Norwex, we are optimists! We believe in a brighter future, and we know that together we can accomplish amazing things!"
Amy is responsible for the marketing operations at Norwex, including public relations, media, creative, branding and product management. Many of the products she's created for direct sales in the natural and organic products industries have been showcased in Oprah's O List. She started the Norwex Movement website in 2013 and maintains a bi-weekly blog highlighting issues related to reducing chemicals in the environment, sustainability, recycling and healthy living.
"As a Mother, I want to protect my children from the harmful effects of chemicals and provide a brighter picture for their future … one where chemicals will be tested for safety before they are put into use, and a world where consumers vote with their purchases to have cleaner, healthier choices."
With over 20 years of experience in information technology, Amelia is an expert in digital efficiency. Her extensive background in field support has built a resolve that technology should embrace and support the mission of field Leaders, their teams and their Customers. Her track record of success at Norwex includes designing compensation plans to supercharge Consultants' incomes and creating user-friendly websites and easy-to-use applications.
"It takes a Team to deliver outstanding results. Norwex is committed to superior Customer Service so you can be confident our systems will support your business and that we are with you every step of the way."


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Schmidt Peterson Motorsports' 2013 Firestone Indy Lights stable has expanded with the signing of Pro Mazda standout Gabby Chaves.
Chaves, from Bogotá, Colombia, will join Jack Hawksworth as a teammate in pursuit of the 2013 Firestone Indy Lights championship.
Nineteen-year-old Chaves will broach the next rung of the Mazda Road to Indy ladder after an encouraging 2012 rookie campaign in Pro Mazda, where he finished second in the championship and scored two wins, 10 podiums and two pole positions
"After a strong season in Pro Mazda, the best way to continue my career is by following the Mazda Road to Indy ladder and stepping up into Firestone Indy Lights," Chaves said. "And there's no better way to make that move than with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports, a championship-winning team."
Schmidt Peterson Motorsports has won the Firestone Indy Lights Championship six times, most recently with Tristan Vautier, who also entered Firestone Indy Lights by way of Pro Mazda.
"Gabby has been successful at every level he has competed in, and in 2013 he should have all the elements required to fully show what he is capable of," said Sam Schmidt, owner of Schmidt Peterson Motorsports
Chaves has tested twice during the off-season with Schmidt Peterson Motorsports.
"What stands out from our initial testing is Gabby's methodical and mature approach to driving," Schmidt said. "He has a very strong desire to get to the top level in racing and understands what it will take to get there. I also think pairing Jack and Gabby as teammates will work well to push both of them to the front of the grid."
After getting a taste of what driving for Schmidt Peterson Motorsports is like during the off-season, Chaves is looking forward to working with the team full-time.
"Working with such a hard working group of individuals during the off-season has been an honor and a great opportunity to take my career to the next level," Chaves said. "I am certain that SPM will provide all the tools I need as a driver to win races and be a championship contender."
Chaves is also eager to hone his race craft in a new car with new challenges.
"Being a rookie in Firestone Indy Lights means I'll have to put my efforts into adapting to the car and fine tuning my driving technique for this particular race car," he said. "Stepping up into a faster car with longer races means I have to put a lot of emphasis on my fitness training so that I can optimize every lap in the car to keep learning as much as possible."
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Wednesday, April 2, 2014
Chuao Orange A Go Go Chocopod
The Chuao Chocopod line is a funny little set of mini versions of their large chocolate bars. It's a great way to try something before committing to 3 ounces.
There's a shop by my office that has very wide inventory of them, so I've been able to try a few Chuao varieties. The Chuao Orange A Go Go Chocopod is a rather standard combination of flavors, orange and dark chocolate.
The little choco pods are shaped like a cocoa pod. It's about 2.75 inches long and only .39 ounces. Not even a full portion of chocolate, but at 50 calories and one dollar, it's a good way to control your portions.
The texture is very smooth, the chocolate is not particularly dark at only 60%, but nicely rich. Even though it's not very dark, Chuao does not use milk fillers in its dark chocolate, so this is considered a vegan bar (though is made in a facility that processes milk, nuts and wheat). The ingredients list orange peel and orange extract along with bergamot extract. There were a few pieces of orange peel that I detected in my portion, but not large pieces. More like tiny coconut flakes would be. The orange flavor, though, was very well moderated. Not so strong as to create an oily or bitter note, but not too subtle to be overpowered by the woodsy and rather coffee notes of the chocolate.
It's pricey if you're picking this up for anything other than a sample before committing to a large bar. The large bars are 2.8 ounces and about $5 retail ($1.79 per ounce) and these work out to about $2.56 per ounce, even when you buy a box of 36 on the Chuao website. However, they're a fun favor, if you're considering something for a shower or wedding, especially since they're rather gender neutral.
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Monday, October 22, 2012
Chuao Honeycomb & Potato Chip Chocolate Bars
I'm quite fond of Chuao Chocolatier's bars, which are made in Southern California. The packaging is spare but eye-catching and distinct. I've come to know the brand well enough to be able to spot a new bar on the shelf easily because of the color-coding. One that I'd been looking forward to finding is the Chuao Honeycomb 60% Cacao. The bar is a Dark Chocolate Bar with Caramelize Honey.
I was excited about this bar because Chuao used to make a fantastic item for local Whole Foods markets. It was a thick bar with large chunks of sponge candy (here they're calling it honeycomb). I haven't seen it in the market for several years, so I was hoping this bar would be a more widely available version.
The back of the package has a more enticing bit of marketing copy: The Honeycomb bar is a sweet bouquet of silky dark chocolate and crunchy, caramelized honey. Its pleasing layers of tropical flavors and contrasting textures seduce chocolate lovers like bees to a flower.
Chuao uses non-GMO ingredients, including the soy lecithin and the corn syrup for the honeycomb. chuao also sourced their chocolate through a project called Aguasanta Growth Initiative in Venezuela.
The bar has a wonderful decorative design for its mold. They're changing their packaging yet again, so keep an eye out for the newer designs. Here's a peek at the ChocoPod version. (Here's what they looked like back in 2006 when I first tried them.) While it's fun to look at, it is a little more problematic for portioning. The bar doesn't break evenly around the "pod" pieces and of course it's harder to tell how much of the bar you have eaten. (Besides all of it. That's easy no matter the shape.)
There were a few little voids at the bottom where the mold didn't fill properly and the same on the bottom of the bar where there were bubbles.
The bar is deep and toasty. The chocolate has a coffee note to it but is complemented by the burnt sugar flavors of the sponge candy. It's a clean toffee note, with no hint of butter, just the scorched honeycomb. There are some hints of minerals and an earthiness to it. The honeycomb provides a little texture, though it has a bit of a crunch, it also dissolves quickly, like shards of cotton candy.
I was hoping for a bit more differentiation between the chocolate and the honeycomb, at least as far as the textures.
It's funny that I had to go all the way to Pennsylvania to find a bar that's made right here in California (and that I've been looking for in local stores). But it makes sense that Pennsylvania would be the target market, they're the folks that make such fantastic pretzels and have innovated so much in the sweet and salty combination. I think I found the Chuao Potato Chips in Chocolate 41% Cacao bar at Wegman's, and it was even on sale.
The package says that it's an Ultra Premium Milk Chocolate Bar with Kettle Cooked Potato Chips.
The bar is made from all natural ingredients, the potato chips are made with sunflower/corn and/or canola oil and this wrapper does not say anything about GMO ingredients.
This is an odd bar. I can't quite put my finger on it. Part of it may be the inclusions. As you can see from the photo, the bits of the potato chips are quite small, I'd call them potato slivers or shards. So the texture doesn't allow for a full bite of potato chip, but more of the flavor without the crunch. The chocolate smells milky and has a wonderful, silky melt. The chips are at once light and dense. They have a strong crunch, even for their small size. They're salty and earthy, with a rooty, potato skin flavor to the that's common to the kettle cooked variety of chips.
In both bars I wanted more of the inclusions ... but it's hard to fault these bars when the chocolate is so good as well. Chuao never disappoints me with their chocolate. I think my favorite bars are still the Chinita Nibs and their Coffee and Anise bars, which are both rather hard for me to find as well.
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Wednesday, January 27, 2010
Chuao Panko
Last November Chuao Chocolatier released a new bar and I was very excited. It's called Panko and it's a very simple bar. It's a Dark Chocolate Bar with Toasted Panko Breadcrumbs and Sea Salt. I've been searching high and low for it in all the usual places, like Whole Foods, Gelson's and Cost Plus World Market, but none of them seemed to have it. So I waited until the Fancy Food Show and snagged one there from the kind Chuao folks.
Panko is the name for a specific kind of Japanese-style breadcrumbs. (Panko means breadcrumbs ... well, it means little bits of bread, so calling them breadcrumb breadcrumbs is redundant ... like pizza pie.) Here is a video that probably tells you more than you wanted to know about panko.
It's been quite a while since I've had a full Chuao bar, I've been eating the ChocoPods instead because I prefer the variety. I didn't realize that the bars had changed so much in the past few years. Here's a peek at the previous iteration. The bars are now packaged in a matte mylar wrapper instead of foil inside a box. The wrapper opens pretty easily and when I tear it at the seams it works pretty well for re-wrapping the uneaten portion (though I still put it into a zip lock bag). The actual bar is stunningly molded. It's a custom design of cacao pods with the Chuao logo on the top third of the bar.
The dark chocolate is sweet but has an overall berry and woodsy note. It's creamy with a good buttery melt and silky texture. That texture is interrupted in a satisfying fashion with the light and crispy panko. It reminded me quite a bit of the Theo 3400 Phinney Bread and Chocolate Bar, which was not as sweet and actually more on the savory side.
The panko texture is a cross between bread and pretzel bits (without the "crust" of the pretzel). The addition of the sea salt in the 60% chocolate keeps it from being too sweet and provides just another little bit of texture.
I give it high marks for munchability ... as long as I can find it. The price is a little steep but it is tasty and pretty to look at. The panko is made from non-genetically modified wheat as well as non-gmo soy lecithin for the chocolate. It's all natural.
Chuao uses all Venezuelan chocolate in their bars and confections. Aguasanta is a growth initiative which is dedicated to preserving the genetic integrity of cacao and helping to build a sustainable future for cacao in Venezuela.
Chuao also debuted a few newer bars at the Fancy Food Show, including Honeycomb (a sponge candy mixed into a chocolate bar - which I've been getting as a thick bulk bark from Whole Foods for a couple of years), Coffee & Anise and CoCo (coconut, coriander and chocolate).
(Yes, I recognize that the package photo up there at the top looks blurry, but it's not. It's some sort of printing problem but since this was a sample that was meant to be broken into pieces and tasted up to the Fancy Food Show for tasting, not a demonstration of the wrapper, I hope you won't hold that against it.)
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Friday, August 14, 2009
Chuao Chocolate Blocks from LEGOLAND
In the last of my vacation candy theme week, I've got something that I didn't actually get on my vacation last week. But it's something that you might.
The Man went to LEGOLAND in Carlsbad, CA yesterday, and I asked him to check in the gift shop while he was there to see if they had anything LEGO-ish to complete my week.
He called me from the store and said, "Guess what chocolate LEGOLAND has?"
He just about dropped the phone when I excitedly said, "Chuao!" (It's not like I actually knew that, but I know his love of Chuao and their proximity to LEGOLAND.)
So he picked up a nice package of the "not quite LEGO branded" blocks. (There's no actual name on the package of the product, it never uses the name LEGO and it's not on Chuao's website, so I'm guessing it's something that's only available at the theme park.)
There were three varieties to chose from: all milk, all white or a half & half mix. Each sleeve holds 16 blocks.
Each little block is sized to approximate real LEGO.
A true LEGO 8 block (two rows of four pegs) is 9.6 mm by 32 mm by 16 mm and are basically hollow.
The Chuao version takes some liberties and is 15 mm by 35 mm by 19 mm - which as far as I'm concerned means more chocolate!
I noticed that the sides are not straight verticals, the block is slightly trapezoidal. This is likely an engineering issue - chocolate is rarely injection molded as plastic LEGO blocks are. In order to get most chocolates out of a stiff mold, a little angle can make all the difference.
Also, injection molding means that the item is molded in three dimensions, in the case of chocolate blocks, the bottom is not molded, just leveled flat by gravity when the chocolate is molten.
Each block weighed 10 grams (.35 ounces) ... see, being solid has its advantages.
As I mentioned before, the packaging was so spare and minimalist it didn't even say what kind of chocolate this is so I'm going to guess. (Hopefully I'll get a response from Chuao soon and can revise this.)
The Milk Chocolate blocks were practically flawless. The molding was excellent with no voids. The color is a deep, milky brown ... so dark that I wasn't sure if this was milk chocolate at first.
I suspect that this is El Rey's beautiful dark milk called Caoba which Chuao is known to favor (though they may have a custom blend done for them).
The chocolate has a beautiful snap. Mine smelled rather milky, but that might be because it was intermingled with the white.
The flavors are dark but the melt is clean and only slightly sweet. There's a wonderful smokiness to it with a slight background bitterness. It's quite smooth and has a thinner melt that keeps it from feeling sticky or milky-cloying. It's good munched up for an immediate bolt of flavor or a lingering melt on the tongue.
Chuao's White Chocolate is dreamy.
The color is a crisp ivory. The molding is precise and the snap is good.
It smells like milky cocoa and pound cake.
The texture is pure, solid silk. It's sweet but has a consistent melt that is neither greasy nor watery. The sugar is ultrafine so the vanilla flavor as well as some of the cocoa-ness comes through. It's cool on the tongue so it feels like a great, refreshing summer version of chocolate.
I suspect that this is El Rey ICOA, which is a premium un-deodorized white chocolate.
The final thing to tell you about these adorable, well made and great-tasting chocolates is the price. It was $14.95 for the sleeve. Yes, that's nearly $1 for each block. At this point I'm just going to buy El Rey or Chuao bars (which are more widely available at grocery and gourmet stores anyway). As it is, these are not kid treats ... they're a grown-up way to revisit a childhood favorite. Since the only place to get them is LEGOLAND, if you've paid $65 just to get in the gate, may as well go for broke (and satisfied).
LEGOLAND - California
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Saturday, May 24, 2008
Short & Sweet All Candy Expo Bites
Here are a few items I sampled, I'm probably not going to do a full review of them but I wanted to show them to you:
The newest addition to the ChocoPod line. I got this one in a simple little cellophane bag, so I didn't think it was fair to give it the full tilt boogie review without final packaging.
It's similar to the classic Spicy Maya ChocoPods, just a little cacao pod shaped disk of 60% dark chocolate, weighing in, I guess, at a little over a third of an ounce, it's about two bites.
The inclusions make it a little bumpy in spots. The chocolate smells more like chili, but a little sweet and smoky. There are a lot of pop rocks in there, they're completely unflavored, just lightly sweet little sugar bits ... that just so happen to pop. Some of the little bits, however, are salt crunches.
Some bites are pretty poppy, some bites are really hot, others are salty. It's a noisy bit of chocolate (and even got a few sneezes out of me).
It's a fun little diversion. I appreciate that it's a small piece, not a huge bar, but I don't think I'd want more.
Rating: 7 out of 10
First, you'll probably note that I don't mention PEZ much on Candy Blog. I don't like it. The candy just isn't very good and the idea of collecting the little dispensers never thrilled me. But I fully applaud those who get into it.
PEZ has brought out a few other flavors of their candy tablets. Last year it was Cola and they have a Sugar Free version as well. This year they're highlighting the Chocolate version.
As you can tell from the photo, they're very light in color, which should give you an indication of the depth of the flavor. It tastes like I've inhaled some Cocoa Pebbles. Not actually eat then, just, you know, been near the Cocoa Pebbles dust. They're sweet but have just a slight cocoa note.
Rating: 3 out of 10
Organic Confections Raspberry & Cream Bar
It's an organic twist on classic tastes.
So just looking at it, with only the name to go off of, I thought, "this is a white chocolate bar with dried raspberry bits in it." Which sounded pretty good in my head, kind of like the Hershey's Limited Edition one a couple of years back ... but organic!
Hmm, somewhere I led myself astray. It's not white chocolate, it's a non-colored confection made of organic sugar, organic whole milk powder and organic fractionated palm kernel oil. And it's crunchy. Those presumed raspberry bits are actually crushed raspberry flavored hard candy.
It took me a while to get used to the texture, but it wasn't creamy enough for me.
Rating: 5 out of 10
Albanese Confectionery Cappuccino Biscotti
These little milk chocolate covered nuggets smell sweet and like a light coffee drink. They're about the size of a garbanzo bean, though some are twinned (not that it keeps me from eating them). The nugget inside isn't quite as hard and crunchy as a biscotti, but they're plenty crunchy. They're almost like graham cracker nuggets.
The combo is quite nice, easy to eat and keep munching.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Albanese Confectionery Dark Chocolate Cranberries
It's not an illusion in the photo, these are very dark, like clumps of tar. The chocolate covered dried cranberries are not as flavorful as I'd hoped. Honestly, I've tried a few products over the years and none of them have really satisfied me. The cranberries, while soft and chewy, they're just not tangy or flavorful. The chocolate is sweet, but not dark and flavorful enough ... though the texture combo of the creamy melt and moist chew is good.
They're probably jam packed with antioxidants, but I'll probably stick with chocolate covered raisins, if only because they're cheaper and provide pretty much the same experience.
Rating: 6 out of 10
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Monday, December 10, 2007
Menu for Hope - Win a $100 Chuao Gift Certificate
Menu for Hope is a fundraiser for the UN World Food Programme. The Menu for Hope III raised almost $63,000 for the WFP. I'd love to see MFH4 top $100K - it shouldn't be hard, there are dozens of wonderful prizes.
I'm donating a gift certificate for Chuao Chocolatier worth $100. This prize can be yours if you win the prize drawing for item UW26. The raffle tickets are $10 each, you can buy as many as you like and select how many go for which prize. There are many other fine prizes as well, please see the master list on Chez Pim, the host of this program and the West Coast prize list on Rasa Malaysia. (Here's a roundup of the candy-related ones.)
The traditional techniques of European chocolatiers combine with pure Venezuelan chocolate and infusions of fresh ingredients and flavors in Chuao Chocolatier's collection. Choose from a huge array of items in their webstore including their hot chocolate mixes, fine bonbons, chocolate bars and highly portable ChocoPods. There's something there for every kind of chocolate lover: those who love the comfort of creamy milk chocolate caramels, those who crave the heat of spicy caramelized cacao nibs and even those adventurers who might want to go for a chevre, pear and black peppercorn bonbon.
The winner can chose a certificate good in the retail stores or on the website (it will not be good in both places).
Chuao Chocolatier is based in Encinitas, California.
If you would like to bid on this item use code UW26.
If you're not interested in bidding, well, here's a review of some items I picked up over the weekend:
Everyone seems to have a cacao nib product these days. Chuao's is quite different. Their Coco Nib Snack may not even be considered candy, it might be a nut product. They start with small nib pieces, caramelize them with a little bit of sugar and toss them with a smidge of salt and chipotle & pasilla chilis. They look kind of like burnt Grape Nuts cereal.
It has a nice toasty flavor, not really spicy and not even that sweet. It does have some coffee and malt tones along with other dark chocolate and charcoal notes. This is nice to put in a little shot glass and tip into your mouth for a snack and would probably go well on ice cream, tossed in salads or maybe in a stuffing.
I love the combination of orange and chocolate. I especially enjoy it when the combination includes real orange peel. There's something wonderfully essential yet complex when using whole ingredients.
These Dark Chocolate Orangettes are made with candied orange sticks dipped in chocolate. The orange is a bit sweet, but nice and soft. It's not at all grainy either, so it's smooth with a strong orange essence.
Ginger is one of those great crossover roots. It works great with savory food because it has such a great earthy spiciness. But it also works as a sweet base for all sorts of candies.
Candied ginger is a wonderful way to experience ginger. It's so simple and uncomplicated. Candied ginger can come in a few different formats. Medallions (slices), cubes, julienne slices and even planks.
In the case of Chuao's Gingerettes, they use little medallions, about the size of a quarter. They're candied until just a the "jellied" stage and don't have any of that crystallized sugar coating on them. So it's all smooth. Then they're dipped in dark chocolate.
The unique selling proposition here is that in addition to the spicy ginger, these have a light dusting of chili powder. It's not a really strong cayenne, just a light spicy burn that goes well with the other light spicy burn that is ginger.
These are nice to simply eat or serve on the side of a piece of apple pie or perhaps some ice cream.
Previous Chuao Reviews: Chuao Chocolatier's BonBon Selection, Chuao ChocoPods, Chuao Filled ChocoPod Collection.
So now that you're drooling you want to buy a raffle ticket or two, right?
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1/11/2008 UPDATE: The winner of the raffle drawing was Melissa Wong! Congratulations!
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Thursday, April 12, 2007
Chuao ChocoPod Collection
I've been a big admirer of Chuao since I found it last year. They use all El Rey chocolate and combine classic and contemporary ingredients for tantalizing and fresh flavor combinations. While you can only get their best items at their shops or online (such as their bon bons) they did introduce their quaint little ChocoPod (review here), which are great little nibbles of chocolate perfect for an accompaniment for your coffee-house fare.
This year they're expanding their ChocoPod line with their new collection of filled ChocoPod.
Chuao gave me a sampler box (sorry, not available to the public) so I could try all the flavors.
Picante - spicy Cabernet caramel. This one had a lovely tangy and fruity flavor that gave my throat quite a burn. (Dark Chocolate)
Passion - passion fruit and caramel. I'm not usually a big fan of passion fruit (or guava or papaya for that matter), but this was fab. It was sweet and grapey and mellow. It makes we want to give passion fruits another try. (Dark Chocolate)
Modena - strawberry & balsamic caramel. I've had this one as a bonbon, it has a great fruity flavor with a very noticeable dark tang to it from the balsamic. What it's missing, for me, is the caramelized/burnt sugar notes that would bring out the deeper flavors. (Dark Chocolate)
Candela - spicy macadmia praline. Ugh, I did not like this one at all. The texture was great, the praline was a little crunchy from the caramelized sugar, but macadamia are just not a good flavor to me. Since this was a macadamia paste, there wasn't even the macadamia texture as a reprieve. Again, totally a personal thing. (Dark Chocolate)
Banana - banana brown sugar caramel. This is the flat version of the Cambur bonbon I love so much. Sweet and salty with a wonderful fresh banana flavor. A little on the sweet side, but this one had more in the chocolate department than the bonbon does. (Milk Chocolate)
Dulce de Leche - milk caramel. Wonderfully milky, rather sticky on the tongue but with a good complex cooked milk and sugar taste. (Milk Chocolate)
Since I was a big fan of the Cambur (the bonbon version of the Banana), I'm enthusiastic about the idea of being able to pick these up at a coffee house. (Might I suggest Chuao's sales staff contact my favorite coffee house, Sabor y Cultura in Hollywood and see about getting them into that cafe?) I know they're a bit more expensive than some treats, but the size and proportion are just right for me.
YumSugar also gave these a try. She didn't like the Banana as much as I did, but gave the set a thumbs up. I haven't seen these in stores yet, but you can order online right now. Banana and Dulce de Leche aren't available yet. (So if you have to order, just get them in the BonBon version!)
POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:02 am
Friday, December 22, 2006
Chuao ChocoPods
In case you haven't figured out already with the irregular posting this week, I'm traveling. But here's something fun you might want to pack (or pick up as a stocking stuffer) when you're on the road. They're called ChocoPods and are made by Chuao, the SoCal based chocolatier. ChocoPods come in two flavors, Nutmeg and Spicy Maya.
Each is a little disk of chocolate shaped like a cocoa pod featuring dark chocolate (60% cacao) and a mix of spices. The idea is you take a little bite of chocolate and a sip of your coffee for an enhanced flavor experience for both. After all, chocolate and coffee both come from beans. (They really are a great match.)
The ChocoPods are intended to be sold at coffee houses where you'd see them right by the register instead of some mints or a croissant. It's not a whole bar size, just 11 grams, which is the perfect complement to a cup of coffee or cappuccino. With only 60 calories in the little portion, it's something you can work into your diet as a little treat every once in a while. The suggested retail of $1.00 to $1.25 makes them cheaper than the actual cup of coffee at most places!
Spicy Maya is pretty bold. Eating it solo, there's a solid cayenne pepper kick to it in addition to some other notable spice notes like cinnamon and cardamom. But where the throat burning is an issue eating it alone a little swig of coffee settles the flavors out considerably. The bars themselves are sweet, but since I take no sugar in my coffee, I found it to be just the right amount to cut through the coffee's strong notes. The bars aren't terribly buttery either, but again, the warmth of the coffee makes a big difference.
Nutmeg is really nice. Very woodsy tasting with lots of earthy notes with not just nutmeg but a touch of eucalyptus, cardamom and sandalwood. This would be great in the evening by a roaring fire.
As chocolate bars to eat solo, they're pretty good, but I think that Chuao has hit on something for the coffee house set. Most of the time I don't feel like a whole hot chocolate, but I do want a little something chocolate. I often bring my own, so it makes sense that the coffee house would also want to sell me that too. The fact that they have the unusual flavors makes the whole thing feel a little more like an indulgence.
For only a buck, I would certainly give these a go every once in a while. I haven't seen them at any coffee houses yet, but maybe soon. You can order them at the Chuao website.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:08 am
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Photo 2: Thor's Hammer and surrounding area, Bryce Canyon National Park.
Promotional materials for the Grand Circle Tour claim, "In the maze of fancied architecture uprising from Bryce's sunken gardens...it is not difficult to find pagodas, mosques, castles, cathedrals, organs, pyramids, suspension bridges, leaning towers, flying buttresses and stairways, colonnades, walls with niches and windows."¹ Some of the names associated with these formations include, the Wall of Windows, Tower Bridge, Queen's Castle, and Thor's Hammer.
Questions for Photo 2
1. Why do you think many of Bryce Canyon's formations are likened to buildings?
2. What kind of shapes do you see in the formations in this photo? What names might you give them?
¹The Union Pacific System, "Zion National Park, Grand Canyon National Park, Bryce Canyon National Park, the Cedar Breaks, Kaibab National Forest" (Omaha, Neb.: no publisher given, 1929), 34.
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Mission to Log the Last of a Vanishing Geocache Series
UPDATED July 5, 2012: Read the comment from Brad Simmons (MonkeyBrad) about his journey to the APE Cache in comments below.
You can track a geocaching team live as they attempt to log a smiley on one of the rarest and most sought after finds in all of geocaching. The team is attempting to find Mission 4: Southern Bowl (GCC67). It's the last of the Project APE Caches.
For some geocachers, Mission 4: Southern Bowl is the most coveted geocache in the entire world. The cache was hidden deep in the Brazilian Jungle in 2001. Only about 50 geocachers have logged it in 11 years.
Four American geocachers accepted the challenge to find Mission 4: Southern Bowl to mark major personal geocaching milestones. The four geocachers combined have accumulated more than 50,000 cache finds. For Monkeybrad, the last APE Cache will mark his 20,000th smiley, Southpaw's geocache tally will reach 18,000 and 6Lindseys and MLRS1996 will each reach 7,000 finds.
The team left the United States on Thursday June 14. They landed in Lima, Peru the following morning. They're planning to make their way to Sao Paulo, Brazil and to the Project APE Cache. You can track their progress by clicking on the map above.
The Mission 4: Southern Bowl Project APE Cache was part of a promotion for the 2001 film Planet of the Apes. Thirteen A.P.E. caches, each with props from the movie and a story that tied into the movie, were hidden all over the world. Those who found the caches received a unique icon. Mission 4: Southern Bowl is the final active cache in the Project A.P.E. series.
Two German geocachers, ZobelMex and TC-Rudi last found the Project APE Cache in early June. The team of American geocachers is expected to land in Sao Paulo on Friday, June 15. They'll begin their 300 km drive into the jungles of Brazil over the weekend, where they hope to log a smiley, receive the rare Project APE Icon, and make a memories that will last a lifetime.
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In The News
The latest print edition of Design NY Magazine, featuring an exquisite article on Global Village written by Karen Marley with images by David Lamb. more
Global Village is an internationally inspired, LEED-certified sustainable residential community and commercial complex located on RIT's campus. Open to both the public and RIT community, RIT's Global Village combines state-of-the-art student living with dining, shopping, learning, and event spaces to create a unified and modern upscale community. Global Village also hosts a number of convenient services including a post office, print center, and salon, as well as Shop One², RIT's acclaimed fine art and original craft gallery.
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Foumban, Cameroon/Queens, New York, USA - The Bamum Scripts and Archives Project is engaged in a variety of initiatives, including collecting and photographing threatened documents, translating and in some cases hand-copying documents, creating a fully usable Bamum computer font for the inventory of documents, and creating a safe environment for the preservation and storage of documents.
In December 2014, His Majesty, Bamum King and Sultan, El Hadj Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya, who initiated the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project in 2005, will formally launch the site at the Nguon Festival in Foumban which will be followed by workshops on learning and using the script, tours of the archives, and a scholarly conference. It is with great pride that the Bamum Scripts and Archives Project will, at this historic festival, unveil on its site the new Bamum computer font freely available to all, a fully searchable 2730 page inventory and guide to the Archives du Palais des Rois Bamum, as well as access to some 13,473 digital images for research and study. The ultimate goal is to turn the Bamum archives into a first-class and fully sustainable archival holding which will actively collaborate with researchers around the world who aim to consult its holdings.
The Royal Palace of Bamum Kings – together in partnerships with the Endangered Archives Programme of the British Library in the UK and St. John's University in the USA – has today established a vastly expanded archives of unparalleled distinction in Central Africa which will preserve for all time the great literate, artistic, and cultural achievements of the Bamum people. The effort of Sultan Ibrahim Mbombo Njoya builds on a long tradition of Bamum intellectualism and welcoming of outsiders interested in discovering the rich heritage of the Bamum people.
Thank you for your patience as we undergo an extensive renovation of our site. Any inquiries can be forwarded to press [at] bamumscript [dot] org.
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Schools Closed Wednesday For Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville And Springdale
School officials in Fayetteville, Rogers, Bentonville and Springdale have canceled school Wednesday in the wake of winter weather that rolled through the area late last week.
Many area schools have been closed since Thursday, after several inches of snow fell in Northwest Arkansas and the River Valley. Since then, roadways have been slick with ice and melted snow.
Click here to see an updated list of school closings.
Click here to see scheduled make-up days in Fayetteville and Bentonville.


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Autoconf system , no TTF, No Game, openal yes
link: Removed, use the new builds
Log: goofster
Object > Copy Attributes menu items crashed my system if there weren't any objects selected and active. found a if(ob=OBACT) block that caused it. aparently assigment in if statements doesn't always go to well.
Log: ianwill
- some fixes for menu and error reporting code.
Log: rwenzlaff
- Separates displace from Var slider. Added Disp Slider to
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slider still controls how Nor channel affects displacement.
- Scaled Nor displacement to make Nor slider more usable.
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with object scale, so scale out of editmode if you want a
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- NMesh.c added support for materials updating while converting a python NMesh to a Mesh object
- Object.c added support for materials updating in Link() and shareFrom() when two objects share a mesh linked to a material
Log: Jandro
Gradient button is back and now there are controls to export bias and
raydepth to yafray. Plus some minor fixes
sorry still problems with dsl
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We live blogged Monday\'s stock-market action, as Ukraine worries roiled markets. Check out Indications for a recap of the day\'s premarket news and Market Snapshot for a concise summary of the trading session.
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- 9:29 am
- Ukraine fears roil markets
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Good morning.
Stock futures are pointing to a lower open as Ukraine worries weigh — which would mean the S&P 500 will retreat from its record close on Friday.
The latest from the Ukraine-Russia conflict:
Russia is massing armored military vehicles on its side of a narrow sea crossing separating eastern Crimea from Russia, the Ukrainian State Border Service said, as part of what the border guards called a significant escalation against their forces.
Read more here.
Photo credit: Reuters
- 9:32 am
- Pulling back
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Stocks are showing sizable losses in the opening minutes, with the Dow off triple digits.
SPX -0.8% or -15 points
Dow -0.8% or -137 points
Nasdaq -1.2% or -51 points
- 9:39 am
- VimpelCom, Yandex
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Russia-connected companies that trade in the U.S. are among today's big losers, as you might expect given the swoon by Russia's main stock index, which has been down about 12%.
VimpelCom /quotes/zigman/21492822/delayed /quotes/nls/vip VIP was last off 8%, meaning the telecom has the worst performance currently among Nasdaq 100 stocks.
Yandex /quotes/zigman/5262665/delayed /quotes/nls/yndx YNDX , a Russian search engine, was last down 13%.
- 9:41 am
- Who isn't selling
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Warren Buffett told CNBC Monday that he wouldn't sell stocks Monday because of the crisis in Ukraine, reports MarketWatch's Silvia Ascarelli.
If anything, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway /quotes/zigman/219651/delayed /quotes/nls/brk.a BRKA /quotes/zigman/583979/delayed /quotes/nls/brk.b BRKB said in an interview, he would be a buyer.
"If we get into a major war, the value of money goes down, so the last thing you'd want to do is hold money," Buffett said. "The stock market is going to advance over time. You are going to be a lot better off holding productive assets over the next 50 years."
Speaking of Buffett, his conglomerate's results beat expectations over the weekend, and he acknowledged mistakes and said America's best days are ahead of it in his annual letter.
Photo credit: Getty Images
- 9:54 am
- ISM ahead
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
While Ukraine likely will dominate headlines today, there is also plenty of U.S. economic news.
At 10 a.m., traders will take in a February reading for the Institute for Supply Management's manufacturing index, with economists polled by MarketWatch expecting 53.5%.
Before the open, the Commerce Department said consumer spending rose 0.4% in January, topping expectations, while personal income gained 0.3%.
In addition, Markit said the final reading for its U.S. manufacturing PMI was 57.1.
- 10:02 am
- Support seen for S&P
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Like the Oracle of Omaha, some other Midwesterners aren't sounding all that fazed about the Ukraine news today.
Here's an excerpt from a note today from Milwaukee-based R.W. Baird:
"The past four years the markets have, except for very brief periods of time, ignored geopolitical trouble. As a result, we anticipate the financial markets will eventually look past the Russian conflict."
They see the S&P 500 /quotes/zigman/3870025/realtime SPX (it's currently around 1850) finding buyers before it gets to 1800:
"Support using the S&P 500 is in the vicinity of 1810 to 1825. Investors should focus on the strongest sectors including health care, information technology and materials."
- 10:13 am
- Fresh session lows
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
That ISM figure was better than expected, but that hasn't provided much of a lift for stocks.
The S&P 500 and Dow are slipping to fresh session lows.
SPX -0.9% or -16 points
Dow -1% or -156 points
Nasdaq -1% or -41 points
- 10:30 am
- Movers & Shakers
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Jos. A. Bank /quotes/zigman/56759/delayed /quotes/nls/josb JOSB is up about 1%, while Men's Wearhouse /quotes/zigman/233713/delayed /quotes/nls/mw MW is down 1% as the two companies reportedly are negotiating for the first time about a potential merger.
Meanwhile, Newmont Mining /quotes/zigman/235723/delayed /quotes/nls/nem NEM is up 4% to lead the S&P 500 on news that Indonesia could reduce its export tax on mineral concentrates for some mining companies that produce metal from the ore in the country.
Read more in our Movers & Shakers column, which is updated throughout the day.
Photo credit: Reuters
- 10:36 am
- S&P's worst: Darden
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Darden Restaurants /quotes/zigman/151942/delayed /quotes/nls/dri DRI was last down 4.4% for the biggest loss among S&P 500 stocks.
Darden offered downbeat guidance for its fiscal third quarter, citing the impact of severe winter weather on sales and costs, says a short story that's available here:
The company also said it remains on track with its plan to spin off its Red Lobster chain, with the sale process "well under way."
Photo credit: Bloomberg
- 10:46 am
- More on Ukraine
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Gold futures have surged higher on Monday as the escalating crisis in the Ukraine spurred a flight to safe assets.
The increased tensions have pushed oil futures to the highest level since September.
Brett Arends, a MarketWatch columnist, writes about red flags that the West ignored about Putin's Russia.
In a separate column, Arends also suggests that investors should not be fleeing emerging markets due to Ukraine worries.
Photo credit: Reuters
- 10:54 am
- Ukraine roundup
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
Monday is shaping up as a classic "risk off" day, with traders fleeing stocks and other assets perceived as risky for the presumed safety of U.S. Treasurys, the Japanese yen and shiny metals, reports MarketWatch's Bill Watts.
The main gold ETF, GLD /quotes/zigman/41663/delayed /quotes/nls/gld GLD , was last up 2.2%. Wheat is getting a boost, but a key emerging markets ETF, EEM /quotes/zigman/322623/delayed /quotes/nls/eem EEM , is down nearly 2%.
Go here for a Ukraine roundup by Bill.
- 11:03 am
- From WSJ Live
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
MarketWatch's Victor Reklaitis joins the News Hub to discuss how the crisis in Ukraine is affecting the markets across the globe. Plus, new economic data today including personal income and consumer spending. Photo: Getty.
- 11:09 am
- Volatility jumps
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
As selling continues, volatility spikes up. The CBOE Vix index, otherwise knows as Wall Street's fear gauge is up 14% to 16.
Nicholas Colas, chief market strategist at ConvergEx Group, a global brokerage company based in New York describes jittery markets as being back to 'old normal', with a lot more volatility than we grew accustomed to during the past year.
- 11:23 am
- Car sales
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Car sales reported this morning were generally better than expected, pointing to an increased appetite after frigid winter months across the U.S. Still, bad weather dented sales in February.
General Motors /quotes/zigman/1466682/delayed /quotes/nls/gm GM and Ford Motor /quotes/zigman/264304/delayed /quotes/nls/f F stocks fell, even as GM sales dropped by far less than expected.
- 11:33 am
- Dow in details
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
The Dow Average is down about 185 points at last check, with all 30 components trading lower.
Visa and Microsoft are leading the losses.
- 11:52 am
- Selling continues
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
More news about escalating situation in Ukraine is sending stocks deeper into red.
Here is from AP:
Ukraine says Russian forces controlling the strategic region of Crimea are demanding that the crew of two Ukrainian warships must surrender.
Ukrainian Defense Ministry spokesman Maksim Prauta said four Russian navy ships were blocking Ukraine's anti-submarine warship Ternopil and the command ship Slavutych in Sevastopol's harbor.
He said the Russians ordered the crew to surrender within the hour or face Russians storming and seizing the ships and crew.
- 12:03 pm
- Dow below 50 DMA
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
The Dow average is down about 235 points or 1.4% and dropped below its 50-day moving average.
The S&P 500, which scored a new record high on Friday, turned negative for the year.
- 12:08 pm
- Biden calls Medvedev to talk Ukraine
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Vice President Joe Biden called Russian Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev to discuss the crisis in Ukraine, a White House spokesman said Monday.
For more on that, read our short news story here.
Meanwhile, stocks set for worst losses in a month.
- 12:29 pm
- Citi gets subpoenas
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
Citigroup Inc. /quotes/zigman/5065548/delayed /quotes/nls/c C said Monday it received subpoenas from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. and the U.S. attorney's office for Massachusetts over alleged fraud at its Mexican unit, Banamex USA.
Shares of Citi lost 1.8%, down for a second session.
- 1:04 pm
- MarketWatch Radio Newscast
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
From MarketWatch Radio Network: Rising tensions in Ukraine have investors fleeing stocks for safer assets. Chairman Hugh Johnson of Hugh Johnson Advisors says although the concerns are real, this may be a buying opportunity for those with a strong stomach.
- 1:08 pm
- Location, location, location
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
Ukraine's economy is the 58th largest in the world, behind countries like Kazakhstan, Czech Republic, and Romania. But the country is expected to dominate financial headlines for the time being, not so much because of its economic importance but because of its strategic location, according to Bill Stone, chief investment strategist at PNC Asset Management Group.
Ukraine will likely be a focus for the markets this week – more as a function of geopolitical worries since it sits in the heart of central Europe rather than its economic weight, as Ukraine accounts for a scant 0.26% of global GDP.
- 1:14 pm
- Stocks off session highs
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Today shaped up to be a risk-off day, writes William Watts – you can read his post here.
Selling is abating somewhat, but it is unclear why. One possible explanation is news coming from Russia's Foreign Affairs Ministry saying 'the Russian Black Sea Fleet has no plans to launch military attacks against Ukrainian troops'.
Stocks are off their session lows, but still firmly in negative territory.
Gold +2.2%
Oil +1.8%
Vix +16%
- 1:26 pm
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Oil prices are up today because of tensions in Ukraine. Gasoline prices will spike too and that won't be solely because of Ukraine, writes Myra Saefong.
Drivers will indeed be paying much more for gasoline at the pump in the weeks to come, but it won't be just because of the events surrounding Ukraine.
- 1:29 pm
- 10-year Treasurys rise
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Treasurys benefited from a global flight to safety Monday as escalating violence in Ukraine added to investor fears, writes Ben Eisen.
Investors fled risky assets and piled into safe investments, with Treasurys rising alongside gold, oil, and the U.S. dollar, while stocks broadly sank.
- 1:40 pm
- U.S.-Russia trade in numbers
- by Sue Chang
- Add a Comment
With tensions flaring on the Crimean Peninsula, the U.S. and its European allies are taking steps to pressure Russia to withdrew its forces from Ukraine, The Wall Street Journal reported.
The Obama administration has already taken steps to cancel joint economic and trade initiatives with Russia, including preparations for the G8 summit which is scheduled to be held in Sochi, Russia in the summer.
Here's a quick look at U.S.-Russia trade and U.S.-Ukraine trade in 2013.
- 2:00 pm
- 'Time to tighten the risk'
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
"The most surprising thing is how little anyone can do about Russia's behavior in Crimea," said John Rutledge, chief investment strategist at Safanad.
Russia is back and flexing its muscles while China emerged as a formidable force globally.
Meanwhile, the US is finding itself powerless and stretched – there is no appetite to get into a full-blown war the Russian Fleet.
This is the time to tighten the risk and stay away from Emerging Markets.
- 2:07 pm
- Lorillard jumps
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
The top performer on the S& P500 is Lorillard, Inc /quotes/zigman/511272/delayed /quotes/nls/lo LO , with shares jumping 8.4%.
Shares rose early morning, but jumped higher after the FT reported that Reynolds American, the US tobacco giant, is exploring a bid for its smaller rival.
Shares in Reynolds American /quotes/zigman/334469/delayed /quotes/nls/rai RAI rose 3.2%.
- 2:30 pm
- Market update
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
A quick update on the main indexes: we are off session lows, but still firmly in red. The sell-off began this morning on worries over escalating tensions in Ukraine, as Russian troops deployed in Crimea.
News about Ukraine overshadowed economic reports today, which were slightly better than expected, though reading were still distorted by weather.
- 3:05 pm
- Obama on Russia
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
The U.S. is examining economic and diplomatic steps to "isolate" Russia if it continues to intervene in Ukraine, President Barack Obama said Monday. Stocks are moving lower, though still off their session lows.
@newsagg No live video of violence or fires. No real news of escalation in Ukraine. No reason for $SPX to stay at lows
— Harry Wanger (@HarryWanger) March 3, 2014
- 3:11 pm
- Where to put/hide money
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
Where should investors put their money if war breaks out? Michael A. Gayed, chief investment strategist and co-portfolio manager at Pension Partners, LLC explored the question in his column.
All things considered, so far the market reaction to Russia's actions in the Ukraine appears better than it could have been. Long-duration Treasurys continue to get bid, but thus far, the buying has not been panicky. Funny how the rising-rate-environment crowd went aggressively silent. To think that bonds won't do well in the face of tapering simply is false and completely disregards history and the reflation disconnect.
- 3:27 pm
- Vix at one-month high
- by Anora Mahmudova
- Add a Comment
We've mentioned Vix earlier – it gained 15% today.
To put that number into perspective, here is a tweet from CBOE:
~37k $VIX Futures trade 2-830a trading, 1st instance world hedged global risk in non-U.S. hrs using VIX futures with global crisis (Ukraine)
— CBOE (@CBOE) March 3, 2014
- 3:29 pm
- Anti-social
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
The Ukraine crisis has in large part hammered ETFs about how you'd expect, with the largest Russia exchange-traded fund, the Market Vectors Russia ETF /quotes/zigman/464082/delayed /quotes/nls/rsx RSX sliding 6%. But there's one casualty that might surprise you.
The Global X Social Media ETF /quotes/zigman/7289836/delayed /quotes/nls/socl SOCL is slumping 2.6% today due in part to its exposure to Yandex /quotes/zigman/5262665/delayed /quotes/nls/yndx YNDX , a search company that's sometimes called the Google of Russia. Kudos to Wall Street Journal reporter Chris Dieterich for pointing out the situation.
Read more here.
Photo credit: Reuters
- 3:39 pm
- Currencies update
- by Saumya Vaishampayan
- Add a Comment
The ICE dollar index /quotes/zigman/1652083/realtime DXY , a gauge of the dollar's strength against six rivals, rose Monday as tensions continued to escalate in Ukraine and after a round of better-than-expected U.S. data.
But the dollar fell to a one-month low against the Japanese yen on Monday, trading at ¥101.39 from ¥101.85 late Friday.
"At this point, seems like there is very little that the U.S. and EU can do to dissuade Russia from taking this sort of action," said Win Thin, global head of emerging-market currency strategy at Brown Brothers Harriman. "I don't think this is going to go away or get resolved any time soon," he added.
- 3:40 pm
- Reduce risk
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
The Well Fargo wagon is heading away from riskier assets, apparently.
"We doubt that a new Cold War is beginning," says Wells Fargo's chief international strategist Paul Christopher, in a note today.
"Nevertheless, Ukraine's choices are a vital security interest to Russia, and we expect Moscow to exert as much influence as possible. Ukraine's problems likely will add to concerns about emerging markets, and we reiterate our advice to reduce risk." [emphasis added by MW]
- 3:52 pm
- Dow: Worst drop in a month
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
The Dow is on pace for its worst drop since Feb. 3, when it fell hard after a dismal ISM number.
Today the ISM figure was better than expected, but Ukraine worries have weighed heavily.
The blue-chip index has picked itself up from its lows and could close right around its 50-day moving average after trading below that level intraday.
The S&P 500 and Nasdaq also are on track for their worst drop since Feb. 3 — point-wise and perecentage-wise.
- 4:01 pm
- The close!
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
SPX -14 points or -0.8%
Dow -154 points or -0.9%
Nasdaq -0.7% or -31 points
That's all according to preliminary FactSet data
- 4:13 pm
- S&P down for year again
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
The S&P 500 and Dow both suffered their worst declines in a month on Monday — both in percent and point terms.
That comes after the S&P scored a record close on Friday. The benchmark index is now slightly negative for the year again, down 0.2%.
The Nasdaq actually managed to avoid that dubious honor, as its drop on Feb. 19 was worse than today's.
Apple /quotes/zigman/68270/delayed /quotes/nls/aapl AAPL helped the tech-heavy index, as the gadgets giant edged up on its CarPlay news.
Photo credit: Bloomberg
- 4:31 pm
- McDermott dives
- by Victor Reklaitis
- Add a Comment
McDermott /quotes/zigman/203905/delayed /quotes/nls/mdr MDR , which works on offshore energy projects, is down about 7% in extended trading after reporting a quarterly loss and suspending its guidance for the foreseeable future.
MarketWatch's After Hours column will have more details shortly.
That's all for this live blog. Thanks for checking it out. Follow today's live bloggers on Twitter @saumvaish @SueChangMW @vicrek and @AnoraJourno
Credit for rig photo: Bloomberg