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George Frideric HandelGerman
Handel's reputation lay for many years with his orchestral works and, more especially, with his English oratorios, a genre he both invented and helped establish. In recent years, however, his dramatic achievements as a composer of opera have been rediscovered, and in contributing to every musical genre of his time, he can be regarded as one of the greatest composers of the Baroque period.
Born in Halle on 23 February 1685, the son of a barber-surgeon, Handel was initially discouraged from studying music. However, the Duke of Saxe-Weissenfels recognised his talent and persuaded his father to allow him a musical education.
After his training was completed, Handel left for the great opera centres of Europe in 1703, beginning with Hamburg. Hamburg contained the only regular opera company outside the royal courts and, learning a great deal from the opera composer Reinhard Keiser, he composed the highly successful Almira.
Handel's tour of operatic centres then took him to Italy, where he completed works for Ferdinando de' Medici in Florence and the Marquess Francesco Maria Ruspoli in Rome. A papal decree had banned public performance of opera in Rome, so Handel turned his hand instead to oratorio and cantatas. It's possible that Handel also formed the only romantic attachment of his life in these years, to the singer Vittoria Tarquini.
Returning to Hanover, he was appointed Kappellmeister to the electoral court in 1710, but almost immediately set off for Düsseldorf and then, in the autumn, arrived in London. Composing the first Italian operas specifically for London, Handel scored a major success with Rinaldo in 1711.
He returned to London again at the end of 1712, composing further operas and obtaining commissions for choral music from the monarch. In providing a Te Deum and Jubilate to celebrate the Treaty of Utrecht in 1713, he incurred the displeasure of the elector and was dismissed from his Hanoverian post, though he was reconciled with the elector when he became George I of England the following year.
London now became Handel's adopted home for the rest of his life; in February 1727 he even applied for naturalized citizenship. Aside from a growing number of operas, he composed keyboard music, Italian cantatas and in 1717, the famous Water Music.
After composing the first English oratorio, Esther, in 1718 Handel embarked on the foundation of an Italian opera company, the Royal Academy of Music. Having secured singers from abroad, the company's first season opened in 1720. It gave seven seasons of performances, including many works by Handel such as Guilio Cesare, until 1728 when it briefly disbanded. 1727 had seen a particularly nasty moment when two rival sopranos, Cuzzoni and Faustina, had come to blows on stage in front of the Prince of Wales.
Handel was also given the honorary appointment of Composer of Music for His Majesty's Chapel Royal in 1723; for the coronation of George II he provided four anthems, including Zadok the Priest, performed at every coronation of a British monarch since.
The Royal Academy reformed in 1729 but was now competing with a rival opera company, the Opera of the Nobility. Nevertheless, Handel produced some of his greatest operas, including Ariodante and Alcina in 1735. Revered as a public figure, the increasing difficulties of staging opera prompted Handel to turn to oratorio, a genre that could combine his mastery of vocal forms with his genius for orchestral music and concertos.
Saul opened a season of 'Oratorios and Odes' at the King's Theatre in January 1739 and by December 1741, Handel had practically abandoned opera. A steady stream of oratorios, including the ever-popular Messiah, issued from the composer's pen and in 1743, he began a regular oratorio season of Lenten concerts at the Covent Garden Theatre.
Despite his failing health, Handel continued to produce masterpieces. His Music for the Royal Fireworks, for example, dates from 1749 and was written to celebrate the Peace of Aix-la-Chappelle. By 1751 his eyesight was failing and by January 1753 he was completely blind, forcing a number of restrictions on his activities as a composer. Handel eventually died on 14 April 1759 and was buried in Westminster Abbey in a service attended by 3,000 people.
Although his fame as a composer was well established by the late 1730s his reputation continued to grow after his death. Based mainly on the oratorios Messiah, Samson and Judas Maccabaeus, which continued to dominate oratorio seasons, he was considered the epitome of musical excellence combined with sacred devotion. Great Handel commemorations were held regularly and the veneration of his oratorios continued throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.
However, Handel's dramatic skills were almost completely forgotten until the mid-twentieth century. Since then, however, the musical community has made amends and by 2000 all of Handel's operas had been given stage revivals. His star, it seems, is once again in the ascendancy.
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If you're a man about town like I am, and that town happens to be San Francisco, you've got better than even odds of walking by someone who's already brandishing an iPhone 5 loaner from Apple.
Today I had my first hands-on with the phone during a meeting at Darwin Cafe in SF. MG "This Is The Greatest Apple Thingy Ever" Siegler had it in his hot little hands and was willing to hand it over, in a supervised, hovering manner, for a good 90 seconds or so.
Physically the phone blows away the iPhone 4. It's lighter, thinner and longer and it fits more naturally in the hand than the 4 does for me.
It's also significantly lighter than the iPhone 4. It just feels cool in your hand. A feeling very much like the first time I held the original iPhone; but I haven't felt that feeling of "happy/peace/power" since then.
Unless you count the feel of my light sabre chainsaw in my leather sheathed hands as I prepare to take on the Zombie Apocalypse. You can see it in my Facebook profile picture. It's perfectness is marred only slightly by the fact that it does not, of course, exist.
But back to this iPhone. If the lightsabre chainsaw actually existed I wouldn't hesitate to call it an iPhone 5 killer. I could then follow up with a literal demonstration if you like.
This phone is lighter, longer, thinner and feels of even higher construction quality than the already impressive iPhone 4S.
Next I'd like to review some of the software updates that come at the same time as the phone is being released. But alas, Siegler swiped it back from me before I was able to touch too many of his precious virtual buttons. It sure did look sparkly, though.
I'll be getting one shortly.


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The 10 best movies of 2012, plus honorable mentions and my worst of the year list.
Top 10:
1. Looper: Writer-director Rian Johnson delivers on the promise of "Brick" with this excitingly original sci-fi mind-bender. An almost unrecognizable Joseph Gordon-Levitt plays an assassin named Joe, who's out to kill his future self, Old Joe (Bruce Willis). Johnson shoots for the moon, making several movies in one. Old Joe's life in Shanghai could have made for a great mob movie (or series of comic books), but it's shown in an operatic five-minute montage. Similarly, we never see the adult version of Johnson's most intriguing character, an unstoppable, supernaturally gifted warlord nicknamed The Rainmaker. Instead, we see The Rainmaker as a small child, and thanks to the remarkable performance of Pierce Gagnon, we know everything we need to know about the man he'll become, a rage-filled maniac who kills because he's been deprived of his mother's love. Willis, more engaged than he's been in years, somehow maintains his action-hero nobility while playing a morally dubious man who's not all that different from Henry Fonda's killer-of-innocents in "Once Upon a Time in the West". I love the wild scenes between Young Joe and Old Joe, as well as the absolutely stunning sequence where an assassin from the future notices parts of his body have started to disappear. "Looper" is an exhilarating ride that never stops finding new ways to surprise you.
2. Django Unchained: Quentin Tarantino's eighth feature film lacks the narrative playfulness of his previous work, so why am I picking what NPR has accurately described as "Quentin's crazy slave movie" as my second favorite movie of 2012? Because only a filmmaker this audacious and untamed could have given us a rip-roaring Spaghetti western that devotes a full hour and a half to the horrors of Chickasaw County in 1858. It's Tarantino's riskiest, most unsettling film to date, and I thought about it for days after. Here's what I had stuck in my head: The murder of a runaway slave on the road to the Candyland plantation, one of many scenes that make a mockery of Hollywood's history of producing polite movies about slavery and the Civil War; a never-better Leonardo DiCaprio as Calvin Candie, one of the more unsavory characters to appear in a Tarantino movie since the pawn shop scene in "Pulp Fiction"; Samuel L. Jackson's shocking performance as Candyland's head house slave; and the immensely charming and wonderful Christoph Waltz, a gift to the world from Quentin that just keeps on giving.
3. Lincoln: Set a few years after Tarantino's pre-Civil War bloodbath, "Lincoln" shows how the process by which Django and his wife could be sold like used cars became illegal. If the movie sounds like a gabfest starring a bunch of white guys, that's because it is. But it's an electrifying gabfest, written by one of America's greatest living writers (Tony Kushner) and directed by none other than Steven Spielberg. It's also completely transporting; you really do feel like you're back in January 1865 with Honest Abe in his stovepipe hat. Folksy, surprisingly funny, and not above pulling a lawyer trick as smoothly as Obi-Wan Kenobi pulls a Jedi mind trick, Lincoln is brought miraculously to life by Daniel Day-Lewis. This isn't so much a performance as it is a resurrection. The closing scene, which shows Lincoln delivering his second inaugural address ("With malice toward none, with charity for all..."), is so stirring you'll be ready to elect Day-Lewis president of the world. Failing that, we'll have to settle for giving him his third Academy Award.
4. The Master: Remember "Magnolia", that multi-layered ensemble drama in which "Quiz Kid" Donnie Smith, Frank T.J. Mackey and most of the other major characters spent much of the film's three hour running time crying their eyes out? "The Master" is made by the same director, and it shows. Take the scene where a damaged war veteran named Freddie Quell (Joaquin Phoenix) sits down for a bizarre therapy session with Lancaster Dodd (Philip Seymour Hoffman), the leader of a new religion called The Cause, who repeats unnerving questions like "do your past failures bother you?" It's the most emotionally explosive scene I saw at the movies all year. For a filmmaker who's often accused of being "chilly," Paul Thomas Anderson's characters remain heartbreakingly vulnerable. This isn't quite the epic statement on American capitalism and religion that was "There Will Be Blood"; "The Master" is more enigmatic, a movie about faith that refuses to offer easy answers (correctly, I think, given the unknowable nature of these things). It left some critics and audiences cold, but I'm in awe of Anderson's virtuosic direction, of Phoenix's open wound of a performance, and of Hoffman, who sounds a bit like Orson Welles in this movie. I agree with Ben Affleck, who compared Anderson to Welles when he accepted his Golden Globe award for directing "Argo".
5. Bernie: "You cannot have grief tragically become comedy," a funeral director named Bernie Tiede says in the opening scene of "Bernie". Oh, but you can, as Richard Linklater proves in this funny and original black comedy based on a real-life Texas murder story. And what a story it is. Bernie (Jack Black), the killer of mean old Mrs. Nugent (Shirley MacLaine), is about as well loved by the people of Carthage as George Bailey is by the people of Bedford Falls in "It's a Wonderful Life". Linklater made an inspired choice by including many of the actual participants, one of whom sums up what happened: "She was just more evil than he was nice." This is my favorite performance by Black, who continues to do his finest work with Linklater (they previously worked together on the equally great "School of Rock"). As the self-serving district attorney who charges Bernie with first-degree murder, Matthew McConaughey adds to the movie's flavor of regional authenticity.
6. The Cabin in the Woods: "The Avengers" made all the big bucks, but the Joss Whedon movie I really loved this year was "The Cabin in the Woods", a long overdue skewering of the torture porn subgenre. It's one of the strangest horror movies I can think of. College kids pile into a van and head for the woods. A familiar set-up to be sure, except the kids are being manipulated by "puppeteers" carrying out a bizarre sacrifice ritual. It could have been ludicrous, but Whedon's tremendous gift for characterization and dialogue make it the wittiest, most savagely funny horror send-up since the original "Scream". Fran Kranz is sublime as the rightfully paranoid stoner Marty; think The Dude but in a horror movie instead of a film noir.
7. The Kid with a Bike: I'd never seen a film by the Dardenne Brothers, the acclaimed Belgian directors of "Rosetta" and "The Child". I'll definitely be doing some catching up after watching the extraordinary "The Kid with a Bike". This is an incredibly affecting French-language drama about a young boy who, after being abandoned by his loutish father, is saved from certain doom by a kind and patient hairdresser. It's a simple story that takes on monumental importance in the hands of the Dardennes, who use Beethoven's haunting "Emperor" concerto to underline key moments. The performances, by Thomas Doret as the kid with a bike and Cecile De France as the heroic woman who tries to put him on the right path, are heartrending.
8. Moonrise Kingdom: Wes Anderson had lost me for awhile there, but his last few movies have been pure magic. Accused of being too "Wes Anderson-y" from the moment its first trailer appeared, "Moonrise Kingdom" is actually a breakthrough because of the way it connects on an emotional level. It's about two kids who run away (he from Camp Ivanhoe, she from what looks like a soon-to-be broken home) and get married, and it's so warm and inviting I listened to the soundtrack every day for weeks as a way of recreating the experience of watching it. Working with material that's often very funny but tinged with melancholy, the actors glow in a movie that sometimes gives you the impression you've just stepped into a Norman Rockwell painting.
9. Cosmopolis: I'm not much of a fan of his acting in the "Twilight" movies, but I loved Robert Pattinson in "Cosmopolis". He plays Eric Packer, a prince of Wall Street who, on the day we meet him, is losing more money than 99% of us could ever dream of. Adapted from Don DeLillo's 2003 novel, the movie is a dark, timely cautionary tale that follows Eric as he takes a limo ride through the city to get a haircut. If that sounds visually unappealing, think again; director David Cronenberg makes the limo in "Cosmopolis" as cool a place to be as the spaceship in Ridley Scott's "Prometheus". Eric's rapid financial downfall and violent outbursts lead him, in the film's delirious final scenes, to a fateful encounter with a would-be assassin (Paul Giamatti).
10. The Perks of Being a Wallflower: Daniel Radcliffe proved there is life beyond Harry Potter with his stellar lead performance in 2011's "The Woman in Black". In 2012, Emma Watson got her chance to shine in a role that didn't require wands or spell books. She co-starred as the troubled Kate in "The Perks of Being a Wallflower", which is destined to become a beloved teen classic like "Rebel Without a Cause" and "The Breakfast Club". Kate and her extroverted brother, Patrick (Ezra Miller), befriend shy freshman Charlie (Logan Lerman). The movie doesn't ignore the pain these characters share, but it's often a joyous celebration of their adolescence, like when they perform at a midnight screening of "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" or when they discover David Bowie's "Heroes" on the radio. Miller deserved an Oscar nomination, as did the screenplay, which Stephen Chbosky adapted from his own novel. Okay, your turn, Rupert Grint.
Honorable mentions:
Flight, Zero Dark Thirty, Damsels in Distress, Compliance, To Rome with Love, Hello I Must Be Going, Seven Psychopaths, ParaNorman, Prometheus, Skyfall, Magic Mike, The Dark Knight Rises, Killer Joe, Ruby Sparks, Premium Rush, The Secret World of Arrietty, The Invisible War, Argo, Kill List, Life of Pi (everything up to "the orangutan was my mom"), The Hobbit (for riddles in the dark)
Movies I haven't seen yet but expect great things from: Holy Motors, Anna Karenina, Amour
Movie lover of the year: Megan Ellison, whose production company, Annapurna Productions, released films by Paul Thomas Anderson ("The Master"), Kathryn Bigelow ("Zero Dark Thirty"), Andrew Dominik ("Killing Them Softly") and John Hillcoat ("Lawless") this year.
Worst list:
The Raid: Redemption, Piranha 3DD, The Expendables 2, Red Dawn, Parental Guidance, Wrath of the Titans, Hyde Park on Hudson, Salmon Fishing in the Yemen, Project X, Total Recall


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FORT LEONARD WOOD, Mo. – Soldiers at Fort Leonard Wood honored women's roles in the U.S. Army's 237-year history, during a Women's History Month observance and luncheon March 28 at the Pershing Community Center.
The theme for this year's observance was "Women Inspiring Innovation through Imagination: Celebrating Women in Science, Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics."
Lt. Col. Mark Rodwell, 1st Engineer Brigade executive officer, who was the master of ceremonies for the event, said it was appropriate for the Army Engineer, Military Police, and Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear schools at Fort Leonard Wood to focus on STEM by encouraging those with talent to pursue the sciences and technology.
Rodwell introduced Dr. Tommie Turner, Institute for Science and Mathematics director for Harris-Stowe State University, one of Missouri's oldest public institutions for higher learning, as the guest speaker for the event.
"Turner comes to us as a leader, a scientist, and an educator," Rodwell said.
Turner, who is a sustaining member of the Association of Women in Science, said that STEM is not only a topic that is near and dear to her heart, it is important in the United States.
It has been projected that employment in professional, scientific and technical services is expected to grow 29 percent by 2020, adding 2.1 million new jobs that are going to require STEM, she said.
"In order for the United States to remain successful, we must incorporate technological innovation to support economic growth and employment, so STEM is here to stay," Turner said.
Currently the U.S. is failing to produce enough workers to supply STEM fields, which represents challenges and opportunities for women, she said.
"It's pretty much equal between males and females in non-STEM related jobs. But then when you look at the percentage of women and men in the STEM-related fields, only 24 percent of women are holding down positions within STEM," Turner said. "The majority of the people who are working in STEM are males."
Turner said factors which contribute to lower female participation in STEM careers include the lack of female role models, gender stereotyping, and less family-friendly flexibility in the STEM field.
"Although we have a limited pipeline, there are several women that are prevailing, that are making contributions, and are educating," Turner said.
Turner cited female contributors to the sciences including Dorothy McClendon, Army microbiologist, Dr. Chien-Shiung Wu, known as the "First Lady of Physics," and Dr. Rita Levi-Montalcini, who lived to be 103 years old and was a Nobel Prize winner for her work in medicine.
Turner recognized the work that is currently underway to mentor young women on the importance of STEM and discussed programs that are being created to prepare them for the future.
"Women are here, we are making contributions, and we are here to stay," she said.


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Dribbling 'free spirit' touches local family before untimely death
Richard Swanson was like a celebrity to local soccer youths
(Ossie Bladine / News Editor) A great story ended tragically on Tuesday when Richard Swanson died after being struck by a car on Highway 101 south of Lincoln City.
The 42-year-old was journeying on foot from Seattle to Brazil, the whole way dribbling a soccer ball made by One World Futbol Project, a Berkeley, Calif.-based organization that donates durable soccer balls to people in developing, often war-stricken countries.
On Saturday, Swanson hustled from Tigard to McMinnville to make a youth soccer game at Joe Dancer Park. Jason and Jennifer Elkins invited Swanson to their son's soccer game on Friday after a blog post about the traveler on the News-Register website. The Elkins invited him to a family barbeque after the game.
"He was like a celebrity to the kids," Jason said. "They didn't leave his side all evening."
"Richard was a blessing to meet," Jennifer said. "He hustled on his Saturday's goal of 28 miles in order to get to Joe Dancer before my son's team was done playing so he could meet everyone and share his story. I thought that was pretty outstanding considering he had never met us before, but wanted to do that for us as if we were long lost friends.
Jason said his daughter, who plays traveling soccer for McMinnville Youth Soccer Association, especially took to Swanson and his story.
"She's a huge soccer fan and her goal right now is to play in the World Cup. She could not get the idea out of her head of what he was doing," he said.
She was so excited by Swanson's visit she woke up Saturday morning and made him a card thanking him for his visit and telling him how inspiring his story it.
While the news of Swanson's death was sad, Jason said they are focusing on what good their new friend provided in a short time.
"He's a great guy, a free spirit. He inspired us to do what you want to do, and it's not all about your career or becoming someone of popularity."


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(Bloomberg) American manufacturer Ingersoll-Rand Co. forged the tools that carved the Panama Canal and shaped Mount Rushmore. When it shifted its legal address to Bermuda in 2001 to reduce taxes, the maneuver sparked bipartisan outrage in Congress.
"These corporations have turned their back on their country," Nevada Democrat Harry Reid fumed from the Senate floor, adding that his father, a hard-rock miner, had wielded an Ingersoll-Rand jackhammer. "There is no reason the U.S. government should reward tax runaways with lucrative government contracts."
Over the next dozen years, Congress passed law after law to prohibit American companies that reincorporate overseas from doing business with the federal government.
Those laws haven't worked. Benefiting from loopholes and a cooperative Obama administration, the companies avoid the ban on federal contracts as effectively as they avoid U.S. taxes.
Ingersoll-Rand continues to score federal work worth hundreds of millions of dollars, touting projects for the Army and Navy in sales brochures. The company's strategies have even included trying to piggyback on the eligibility of other companies, according to two former Ingersoll-Rand employees.
Ingersoll-Rand is one of more than a dozen large U.S. companies that have shifted their tax addresses offshore yet still earn federal business, a Bloomberg News investigation has found. In all, these companies are collecting more than $1 billion a year from the government, even as their tax-avoidance techniques have deprived the Treasury of untold billions of dollars in revenue.
Policing Themselves
Regulators rely on the companies to police themselves for compliance with the prohibition. At least three companies—Xoma Corp., Cooper Industries Plc and Foster Wheeler AG—have acknowledged they were subject to the ban and yet have said in a federal database that they're exempt.
Other firms that reincorporated overseas—a strategy known as "inversion"—qualify for contracts because they don't meet the law's narrow definition of an inverted company. Under the law, a U.S. company that shifts its address to a location abroad isn't eligible for federal contracts, unless it has substantial business in its new home or undergoes a major change in ownership. That means the prohibition doesn't apply, for example, to companies that got a new address through a takeover of a foreign competitor.
"These are bad actors. We should not be rewarding them," said Representative Rosa DeLauro, a Connecticut Democrat who has led the push to keep contracts from the companies. "Let's give it to the companies that stay here, employ people here and pay their taxes here."
Complex Law
Ingersoll-Rand, which now is run from North Carolina, continues to reap the benefits of a low-tax foreign address. The company says it works closely with government contracting officials to ensure compliance with a "complex area of the law."
For several years, said spokeswoman Misty Zelent, Ingersoll-Rand avoided bidding on contracts that were off-limits to companies that shifted their tax address overseas. The company won other sales legally because they were awarded during periods when the prohibition had temporarily lapsed, or that were grandfathered because of earlier contracts, she said. Ingersoll-Rand also warned shareholders and federal customers that it may be ineligible for contracts.
Recently, the company conducted an "exhaustive legal analysis" and concluded that it's not subject to the prohibition after all, Zelent said.
She declined to share the firm's reasoning or say whether the government endorsed this view, citing "competitive reasons."
Corporate Stampede
Representatives for a half-dozen federal agencies said they followed the law in awarding projects to Ingersoll-Rand. Some of the agencies, including the U.S. Forest Service and the U.S. Mint, said they relied on the company's statements in a federal database that it wasn't banned.
The ranks of federal contractors with foreign addresses are likely to grow this year as a new stampede of companies escapes the U.S. tax system. Medtronic Inc., a Minnesota medical device maker with $17 billion in annual sales, announced plans last month to become Irish. Four other American companies are in the process of reincorporating abroad, and Pfizer Inc., Monsanto Co. and Walgreen Co. also have flirted with the idea this year.
Without a change to the tax code, future inversions may cost the government $19.5 billion in forgone revenue over the next decade, a congressional panel estimated this year. That doesn't count the billions avoided by the 36 U.S. companies that already have shifted their address overseas.
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The U.S. has the highest corporate income-tax rate in the developed world, 35 percent. Because the U.S. taxes profits based on the country of the company's legal incorporation, rather than of executives, factories or customers, switching to an address in a lower-tax nation can dramatically reduce a firm's tax bills. Before a tax-law change in 2004, this exercise involved little more than completing some paperwork and renting an office or a mailbox in Bermuda or the Cayman Islands.
That's how Ingersoll-Rand did it. The company was founded by Simon Ingersoll, a Connecticut farmer who invented a steam- powered rock drill in 1871. Its factories have made everything from golf carts to refrigerated boxcars.
Changing its address from New Jersey to Bermuda, an island in the Atlantic with no corporate income tax, was only Ingersoll-Rand's first step in cutting its U.S. tax bills. The company then loaned more than $3 billion to itself, which had the effect of shifting reported profits from its main U.S. unit to Bermuda, according to records in U.S. Tax Court.
IRS Challenge
In part because of this loan, the company's effective tax rate dropped by half to about 16 percent in the years following its change in address. The Internal Revenue Service is challenging aspects of the loan arrangement, demanding $774 million in additional taxes from 2002 through 2006, plus interest and penalties, Ingersoll-Rand said in securities filings. The company says the arrangements were proper and is defending them in Tax Court.
Ingersoll-Rand was one of several companies to take Bermuda addresses in the early 2000s, and by 2002 the trend caught lawmakers' attention. As Congress prepared legislation to set up the Homeland Security Department, DeLauro and others sought a clause prohibiting the new agency from doing business with inverted companies, arguing that their lower tax costs would give them an unfair advantage over domestic contractors.
Congressional Critics
As one of the biggest companies to go offshore, Ingersoll-Rand became a punching bag for Reid and the measure's other advocates. Charles Grassley, the top Republican on the Senate Finance Committee, described the company's move as "immoral" and called for an end to "fat government contracts" for such firms. Representative Richard Neal, a Massachusetts Democrat, called the company and another firm "financial traitors."
A version of the Homeland Security contract ban became law, but it was toothless. It applied only to the inverted companies themselves, not to any subsidiaries they might have. And it applied only to companies that had shifted overseas after November 2002, sparing all those that had already done so, including Ingersoll-Rand.
The ban had so little effect that when Homeland Security awarded its first big contract in 2004, it chose Accenture Ltd., the former consulting arm of the Arthur Andersen accounting firm. Although Accenture had Chicago roots and a Dallas CEO, it had incorporated in Bermuda in 2001. The contract was worth as much as $10 billion.
Closing Loopholes
That summer, a group of Democrats pushed to tighten the law and revoke the Accenture contract. Eventually, Accenture kept the award, though the loopholes for subsidiaries and for pre-November 2002 inversions were closed.
In 2007, Congress extended the ban to all contracts funded by an annual government-wide appropriations bill. Similar one-year bans were approved in four of the following six years.
The law defines an "inverted" company so narrowly that it still doesn't catch Accenture or Tyco International Ltd., another company that took a Bermuda address and was repeatedly cited by legislators as a target. Also exempt is Chicago Bridge & Iron NV, a Texas-run company with a Dutch address. All three companies, as well as Ingersoll-Rand, were included on a list of dozens of inverted companies published yesterday by Democrats on the House Ways and Means Committee, who said the names were furnished by the nonpartisan Congressional Research Service. Accenture got $960 million from federal contracts in 2013, and Chicago Bridge had $734 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Never U.S.-Based
All three companies say they've complied with the law. James McAvoy, a spokesman for Accenture, said the company isn't inverted because it was never a U.S.-based organization. When it first separated from Chicago-based Arthur Andersen in 1989, it was set up as a network of separate partnerships around the world overseen by a Swiss entity. For that reason, the U.S. General Accounting Office concluded in 2002 that Accenture wasn't inverted.
McAvoy said a 2012 legal analysis by the Homeland Security Department confirmed that Accenture isn't covered by the ban.
The most recent U.S. companies seeking foreign addresses also qualify for exceptions to the contracting ban. For instance, Medtronic plans to reincorporate through a foreign takeover. A maker of pacemakers and defibrillators, Medtronic's customers include the Veterans Affairs Department.
One of the few companies to face real consequences is McDermott International Inc., a Houston engineering firm that's been incorporated in Panama since 1982. In 2010, citing the contracting ban, McDermott spun off a division that specializes in government contracts as a separate U.S. company.
Government Contracts
Even as Ingersoll-Rand reaped the tax benefits of its foreign address, it took steps to expand its U.S. government business. In December 2007, two weeks before the first government-wide contracting ban took effect, Ingersoll-Rand agreed to buy Trane Inc., a New Jersey maker of energy-efficient air conditioners and heating and ventilation gear.Part of Trane's sales came from retrofitting buildings—including government facilities—with new equipment to cut fuel and power costs.
Combined with the legislation, the sale to Ingersoll-Rand was greeted with apprehension by Trane employees in the unit that served government customers, according to a former member of the unit who spoke on condition of anonymity. Since the prohibition applied to subsidiaries, would Trane be ineligible for government contracts?
Instead, Ingersoll-Rand has championed Trane's work for the government and used it as a selling point. Marketing materials highlight how the unit is one of an elite group of contractors authorized by the Energy Department to bid on major federal retrofitting projects, including at military bases all over the country.
Valued Customers'
"Trane counts among our valued customers nearly all major government departments and agencies," reads a pamphlet for the company's Federal Sector Team that's posted on the Energy Department's website. There's a photograph of a serviceman in white gloves, snapping a salute.
Since the company agreed to buy Trane in 2007, shares of Ingersoll-Rand have returned 79 percent, including dividends, through July 3, compared with a 56 percent return for the Standard & Poor's 500 Index.
As it pursued government business, Ingersoll-Rand gave different accounts of whether it was subject to the contracting ban. In 2008, it warned shareholders in a securities filing that the company's contracting work may be affected by the ban. The warning was repeated as recently as February. The company as recently as May included boilerplate language in its bids stating that it was restricted from receiving some government funds.
Cautious Statements
Ingersoll-Rand made those statements "out of an abundance of caution," because it wasn't sure until recently whether it was subject to the ban, spokeswoman Zelent said.
Meanwhile, in a federal contracting database known as the System for Award Management, Ingersoll-Rand was taking the position that it was exempt from the ban.
SAM is a central registry for government contractors. Procurement officials can use SAM to check if a company is eligible to receive federal contracts or if it's on a list of firms that are prohibited—for instance, if they're deemed a national security risk. As early as 2011, company employees stated in filings that Ingersoll-Rand was "not an inverted domestic corporation."
For the most part, Ingersoll-Rand has been able to sidestep the question of whether it's inverted or not. Three different gaps in the laws have allowed the company to continue making big sales to government customers.
Military Supermarkets
First, Ingersoll-Rand could garner contracts that aren't funded by annual congressional appropriations. In March 2010, an Ingersoll-Rand unit received a contract to maintain equipment at supermarkets on military bases from Texas to Hawaii. Funded by a 5 percent surcharge on purchases at the stores, the contract has already paid more than $100 million, according to data compiled by Bloomberg.
Second, the company was awarded contracts during periods when the ban had temporarily expired. For example, a few months after Ingersoll-Rand completed the Trane acquisition, the Energy Department selected it as one of 16 contractors allowed to bid on large government retrofitting projects. Signed in December 2008, the contract authorizes Ingersoll-Rand to pursue up to $5 billion in government work, over as much as 10 years.
Congress's first government-wide contracting ban had applied to the 2008 fiscal year, which ended in September 2008. Not until the following March did Congress restore the ban when it passed a funding bill for the 2009 fiscal year. By that time, officials at the Energy Department in Colorado had already signed Ingersoll-Rand's contract. The prohibition didn't apply retroactively.
Grandfathered In
Third, some contracts gave Ingersoll-Rand what spokeswoman Zelent calls a "grandfather clause," allowing the company to bid on new projects for decades without running afoul of the ban. The 2008 contract, and similar ones that Trane had won in earlier years, basically designate the company as an approved vendor that can compete on projects as they become available.
Thus Ingersoll-Rand has bid for and won 10 energy-savings projects since 2008, worth more than $350 million in all, under the authority of Energy Department contracts signed years earlier.
The biggest of these was a $124 million project at Naval Air Station Oceana in Virginia Beach, Virginia, the East Coast home of the Navy's fighter jets. The Trane unit was hired to replace an old steam plant with a more efficient heating system, and get paid back from the Navy's cost savings.
It was Trane's third such project at the base.
Old Contract
Despite being awarded in August 2009, when the ban was technically in effect, the project came under the authority of an old Trane contract from 1999.
"The Navy had no legal basis for not considering Trane's proposal, which the Navy found to be the best value to the government," the Navy said in an e-mailed statement.
Later that year, service members from Oceana and Ingersoll-Rand officials traveled to a ceremony at the Ronald Reagan Building in Washington to accept a presidential award for their work on an earlier energy-savings project at the base. The company has used a photo of the Lucite trophy in its marketing material. The White House didn't respond to a request for comment.
Ingersoll-Rand tried other ways to get around the contracting ban, according to Jose Sanchez, a former senior engineer at the Trane unit that works on federal projects.
Joint Ventures
"In some cases, they do a joint venture with a company that's not inverted," said Sanchez, who left Ingersoll-Rand in 2011 and now works in Texas for a competitor. "They're able to process the application that way." He declined to discuss specific transactions.
Ingersoll-Rand submitted just such a bid in 2010, according to the other former Trane employee.
That year, company officials believed they were well positioned to win a bid on an energy- savings project at a Marine Corps base in Okinawa, Japan, yet were concerned the contracting ban might disqualify them, this person said. So they teamed up with Clark Energy Group LLC, a much smaller Virginia-based company, this person said.
Under the joint proposal, Clark would serve as the Navy's prime contractor at the base in Okinawa and subcontract most of the work to Ingersoll-Rand, this person said.
In a statement, the Navy said the project was ultimately canceled "for reasons unrelated to any company's status" as inverted, adding that "the Navy never formally accepted Clark's proposal or its use of Trane as a subcontractor." Clark confirmed its involvement in the bid and declined to answer specific questions.
Bidding Groups'
"The characterization that Ingersoll-Rand did anything improper is inaccurate," said Zelent, the spokeswoman. She added that forming bidding groups on projects is common and "often encouraged by the acquiring governmental agency."
Inside the Trane unit that catered to government customers, some employees now worried they were being too cautious in avoiding bids where inverted companies were off limits, according to the former Trane employee. Some said the company should just start asserting that it wasn't inverted after all, forcing the government to rebut the claim if it disagreed, this person said.
Advocates of this strategy were emboldened by the company's decision to switch its legal domicile again in 2009 to Ireland from Bermuda, this person said. Although Ireland's tax-friendly policies, like Bermuda's, make it a magnet for U.S. companies looking to avoid taxes, it also has a network of treaties and a strong trading relationship with the U.S.
Zelent declined to say why the company recently decided that it's not banned. It reached that conclusion after a federal rulemaking process that ended in 2011, she said.
Domicile Hopping
If companies could escape the contracting ban by hopping from one foreign domicile to another, it would "eviscerate" the law, said Willard Taylor, a retired corporate tax lawyer and adjunct professor at New York University School of Law.
Congress "would be very annoyed, I'm sure," he said.
DeLauro says she's working on a bill that would expand the definition in the contracting ban to apply to more companies, including most of those that inverted recently.
To bid on federal contracts, companies must attest in the SAM database that they aren't subject to the ban. Three such companies have contradicted their SAM filings by acknowledging elsewhere that the ban did apply to them.
Xoma Contract
Xoma Corp., a California drugmaker, had a Bermuda address when it got contracts worth as much as $93 million from 2008 to 2011 to make an antitoxin for the deadly poison botulinum for the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases.
A Xoma employee submitted a form in the federal SAM database claiming that, as of July 2011, it wasn't inverted, the database shows. The form includes language acknowledging unspecified "penalties" if the information is inaccurate.
The statement was probably an "honest mistake," said spokeswoman Ashleigh Barreto. "The form that he's filling out was all these check, check, check boxes and he probably just checked the wrong box," she said. Both of the contracts were awarded lawfully because of other exceptions to the law, she said.
The institute said in a statement that it was unaware Xoma was inverted. The company switched back to a U.S. domicile in December 2011.
Pentagon Review
Cooper Industries Plc, a Texas-run firm that picked up a Bermuda address in 2002, said in a securities filing in 2009 that it somehow got $8 million in federal contracts that probably should have been prohibited. It said it might face penalties from the Defense Department, which was reviewing the matter. That review continues six years later, according to Maureen Schumann, a department spokeswoman.
Nevertheless, Cooper continued to do work for the government. A SAM filing by an employee at a Cooper division in Sarasota, Florida, effective as of February 2012, stated that the company wasn't inverted after all.
Later that year, Cooper was sold for $11.8 billion to Eaton Corp., a larger Ohio firm that coveted its offshore address. Thanks to the way the contracting ban is worded, the entire combined company, known as Eaton Corp. Plc and incorporated in Ireland, is now qualified to bid on government work, said spokesman Scott Schroeder. He declined to comment on Cooper's conflicting statements about whether it was inverted prior to the takeover.
Swiss Incorporation
Another inverted company that claimed not to be is Foster Wheeler AG, a former New Jersey firm now incorporated in low-tax Switzerland. Scott Lamb, the company's vice president for investor relations, said the division whose name appears on the filing hasn't worked for the government since 2006.
"We recognize that Foster Wheeler is classified as an inverted corporation," he said in an e-mail. "I cannot vouch for the authenticity of that document."
The U.S. General Services Administration, which oversees the SAM database, said in a statement that "submission of false representations or certifications is a very serious matter." It said penalties range from "monetary recoveries" to barring the contractor from future government work.
Ingersoll-Rand's quest for profit from making buildings more efficient dovetails with a priority of the Obama administration, which announced this year a raft of energy conservation initiatives. Among them was the expansion of the Energy Department's program for government buildings that's already worth more than $500 million to Ingersoll-Rand, including its work for the Navy in Virginia.
The president announced the initiatives in May from the aisles of a Wal-Mart store in California equipped with solar panels. Ingersoll-Rand Chief Executive Officer Michael Lamach, 51, was an invited guest.
"Thanks to all the companies who are doing the great work," Obama said as he stepped from the stage. "We appreciate your leadership."
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Steve and I believe there is nothing more fundamental in programming than the ability to efficiently express yourself through typing. Note that I said "efficiently" not "perfectly". This is about reasonable competency at a core programming discipline .
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It's all quite sad. Hopefully your brain has a more efficient task stack than mine. But I don't fault my brain – I fault my body. It can't keep up. If I had arrived faster, I wouldn't have had time to forget.
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- 120 gr (4.3 oz) white chocolate
- 50 gr (3.5 oz) cream
- 50 gr (3.5 oz) chilled cream
- 10 figs
- 2 tsp peanut butter (I've used crunchy)
Melt the chocolate with the 1st part of the cream and peanut butter. Mix well until you have a well blended cream without unmelted pieces of chocolate. Leave to cool. Whip the 2nd part of the cream, the one that's chilled. Carefully mix the whipped cream into the cold white chocolate ganache. Peel the figs and mashed them with a fork. Add the fig puree to the mousse and mix gently. Put into 4 cups or glasses and take to the freezer. It's better to eat after 2 hours in the freezer, but if you left it longer and it's too hard, leave it out for 10-15 m before eating.
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The frustrations along Tim Wakefield's journey to win No. 200
The frustrations along Tim Wakefield's journey to win No. 200
Red Sox pitcher Tim Wakefield finally celebrated his 200th career win yesterday, 51 days after claiming win No. 199. It was an arduous road to the milestone.
No. 199 came July 24. Despite surrendering seven runs on 10 hits over 6 1/3 innings, Wakefield earned the win as the Red Sox won their 17th game out of the previous 20. He also joined Roger Clemens as the only men to strike out 2,000 batters in Red Sox uniforms.
On July 29, Wakefield registered a tough-luck loss in throwing seven innings while allowing just three hits and three runs. "That was the best knuckleball I've seen him throw," Chicago catcher A.J. Pierzynski said
On Aug. 3, the Red Sox failed to provide run support to Wakefield for the second straight start. Wakefield got a no-decision after allowing three runs on five hits over 6 2/3 innings. He entered the seventh with a 3-2 lead, but allowed Cleveland to tie the game when he surrendered back-to-back doubles. The night ended well for the Red Sox when Jacoby Ellsbury blasted a walk-off home run in the ninth inning.
On Aug. 8, Wakefield again had a chance for a win in the late innings when the Red Sox took a 6-5 lead in the top of the eighth. But Alfredo Aceves surrendered a game-tying run in the bottom of the inning before the Red Sox scored two more in the ninth to claim the victory. Wakefield allowed three earned runs on eight hits in seven innings.
On Aug. 14, Wakefield threw a complete game but was again foiled. He surrendered four earned runs on nine hits over eight innings of a 5-3 loss. "I don't care about it," Wakefield said of the lengthening wait. "The first couple, yeah, but I'm just trying to pitch quality starts and quality innings to get us wins."
On Aug. 20, Wakefield cruised into the sixth with a 4-1 lead. But disaster then struck when the Royals exploded for eight runs in the inning to hand Wakefield the loss. He went 6 1/3 innings while surrendering four runs on nine hits.
On Aug. 26, Wakefield was roughed up for the second straight start. He surrendered eight runs (four earned) on eight hits over just four innings of a 15-3 loss to the A's.
On Sept. 2, the wait for No. 200 worsened after Wakefield's spot in the rotation was skipped and the starter was used in mop-up duty during a blowout loss. He pitched the final four innings and allowed three hits in a 10-0 loss to the Rangers.
On Sept. 7, Once again, Wakefield was in line for a win late in the game only to have the Red Sox bullpen blow the lead. Wakefield threw five innings and gave up four earned runs on three hits. The Red Sox led 8-6 in the eighth, when Daniel Bard imploded in five-run inning for the Blue Jays, who won 11-10.
On Sept. 13, the long wait finally ended as the Red Sox' offense busted out of a slump to help Wakefield achieve the milestone. He threw six innings and surrendered five runs on six hits to improve his record to 7-6. The Red Sox scored seven runs in the eighth to clinch the 18-6 win against the Blue Jays.
Up next for Wakefield is the Red Sox' all-time record for wins. He has 186 victories with Boston and trails Roger Clemens and Cy Young, who hold the franchise mark with 192.


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For the second time in Egypt's tumultuous 2 ½ years of upheaval, the powerful army appears to be positioned to remove the country's leader. But this time, it would be ousting a democratically elected president, the first in Egypt's history — making its move potentially explosive.
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Chocolatiers since 1875 Charbonnel et Walker, of London, have long since been patronised by the Royal Family. Today Charbonnel et Walker continues the time honoured tradition of quality, attention to detail and classic ingredients to create a range of ever popular, chocolate gift boxes. Charbonnel et Walker are particularly well known for their popular range of chocolate truffle gift boxes, in particular their pink Champagne truffles infused with strawberry.
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Charbonnel et Walker was founded in 1875 and is one of Britain's earliest chocolatiers. Encouraged by Edward VII, (then the Prince of Wales), Charbonnel et Walker first formed as a partnership between Mrs Walker and Mme. Charbonnel, the latter was persuaded away from the Maison Boissier chocolate house in Paris.
Charbonnel et Walker's original shop opened at 173 New Bond Street in Mayfair and has remained in Bond Street ever since. It is now housed in one of London's elegant arcades, the Royal Arcade on Old Bond Street.
Charbonnel et Walker are endorsed by the Royal Warrant as chocolate manufacturers to Her Majesty The Queen. This great honour allows the Royal Warrant to be stamped on each of their creations and we have heard that Her Majesty The Queen is particularly partial to milk chocolate and each year presented with a selection of Easter eggs to choose as gifts. Charbonnel et Walker Easter eggs are beautifully gift wrapped in ribboned boxes.
Charbonnel et Walker chocolates are hand-made according to traditional recipes and range from plain and flavoured chocolate bars and 'thins' through to selection gift boxes and seasonal chocolate gifts. Charbonnel et Walker's Easter chocolate collection is particularly popular with their attractively boxed Easter eggs being one of the most luxurious Easter eggs on the market. Their drinking chocolate is one of the best selling luxury drinking chocolates on the market too, packed in an attractive tin and in flake form.
Charbonnel et walker is famous for its growing range of chocolate truffles, decadently rich and beautifully packaged in round gift boxes. The most popular being the Pink Marc de Champagne truffles which are made with a milk chocolate ganache centre infused with brandy and encased in a strawberry flavoured, white chocolate shell. Presented in a candy pink box with gold emboss. Charbonnel et Walker now make a wide range of chocolate truffles in various flavours such as mint, Bucks Fizz, ginger, strawberry, vanilla and cappuccino made with milk, dark and white chocolates.
Charbonnel et Walker now have 3 shops, two in London and one in Leeds, showcasing their luxury range of chocolates which can also be found in many higher end department stores and of course ourselves. Their shops exude tradition and are a favourite for traditionalists with London being particularly popular with tourists from all over the world. Charbonnel et Walker is now also found in Japan; This traditional British brand has gone global.
It is often very difficult to decide what chocolate gift to buy someone, particularly if not knowing the recipients tastes. So to assist you; Charbonnel et Walker is considered a luxury chocolate and is certainly of a higher quality than 'chocolate confectionery' and the high street UK brand we have all grown up with. It is not however in the same, superior league as the world's finest chocolatiers such as Valrhona and Michel Cluizel, for example. Charbonnel et Walker, generally speaking, caters to a wide audience, preferring a sweeter tasting chocolate, mostly milk and with additional flavours including alcohol. If you are buying a chocolate gift for a chocolate connoissuer with a taste and budget for the finer things in life then Charbonnel et Walker may not be the right choice. Charbonnel et Walker is suitable however to chocoholics, sweet toothed traditionalists and those taking a first step on the ladder of fine chocolate, in very nice boxes.
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The Lady Hornets (11-1), ranked seventh in the Associated Press' Class D poll, fell 51-47 to Class C's second-ranked Niles-Brandywine (12-0).
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Mendon wasn't intimidated by the Lady Bobcats, taking a 13-11 lead after the first eight minutes.
A 14-7 advantage for Brandywine in the second quarter was costly for Mendon. The Lady Bobcats led 25-20 at the break.
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Brandywine out-scored the Lady Hornets 16-12 in the final quarter.
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Curt Schilling sprayed jubilant fans with champagne after the Red Sox clinched the 2007 AL East title.
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The Red Sox came back from a 3-1 deficit in the ALCS to beat the Indians. That elicited a celebratory dance at Fenway Park from Papelbon.
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Curt Schilling earned the win in Game 2 after throwing 5 1/3 innings and surrendering just four hits.
A disappointed Ramirez reacted to being called out at home plate by umpire Ted Barrett. The Red Sox claimed Game 3 10-5.
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Schilling shared a moment with fellow starter Jon Lester, who led the Red Sox to a 4-3 win in Game 4.
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The Red Sox erupted from the dugout to celebrate on the Coors Field turf.
First-base coach Luis Alicea gave a bear hug to Lowell, who was named the series MVP.
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Lester, just a year removed from a fight against cancer, celebrated with his parents after earning the win in Game 4.
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Lowell received kudos from adoring fans at Fenway Park as the Red Sox prepared for another victory parade.
Once again, tens of thousands of fans came out to celebrate with the Red Sox.
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Two-year-old Marco Carrillo witnessed his first Red Sox championship.
Ortiz presented the Commissioner's Trophy to thousands of adoring fans along Tremont Street.
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Michel Cluizel's latest single estate, dark chocolate bar, created from, organic, fine flavour Trinitario cocoa beans from Mexico. This dark chocolate bar holds notes of dried fruits with a perfumed sweet character. Little acidity or bitterness so a well balanced, mellow chocolate suited to most tastes.
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Often referred to as 'The Goldsmith of Chocolate', Michel Cluizel is one of the finest chocolate makers in the world today. Creating superior quality chocolates since 1947 and as a true 'cacaofevier' (bean to bar maker). Producing single origin chocolate bars & gifts made with only high quality, pure ingredients, without vegetable fats and using only 100% cocoa butter and Bourbon vanilla pod in replace of flavouring.
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Serv size: 0.57 pieces (about 40g), servings per container: 1.75
Calories 229
Fat cal. 17g (24%DV)
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Total Carb 14g (6%DV)
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Sugars 14g
Protein 3g (5%DV)
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Energy (per 100g) 2391.4KJ / 572.1 kCal
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I like my dark chocolate bars to be more 'fruity' than 'bitter' and this new Mokaya bar from Michel Cluizel doesn't disappoint. Like their other single estate bars, the quality is superb and every piece you eat is a sublime experience.I think the Mangaro single estate bar from Cluizel is still possibly my favourite but this runs it a very close second.My order was as always superbly packaged and delivered quickly. Ordering on-line was done with the minimum of fuss and I shall be saving my Loyalty Points for my next impulsive chocolate fix requirements.
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My prescription lenses (-1.0 and -1.75) are exactly as expected and correct my nearsightedness just as well as my regular glasses. They are of course thicker than the non-prescription lenses, but not very much. They were easy to fit to the frame, being grinded thinner along the edge so they match the grooves in my Kudu glasses.
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