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" Brand: Yankee Candle / Type: Scented Candle / Category: Home Fragrance "
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I have tried a few tarts from the Yankee candle range and found the ones I have tried to be nice fragrances. The only problem I have when it comes to buying the tarts is which one to try next because there are lots to choose from, so I just sniff them and choose the one which takes my fancy. I chose this one because I love the smell of Lemon.
The tart comes inside a transparent plastic wrapper which is very easy to remove from the tart. The tart is circular with a ridged edge and I think the tarts from this range are attractive in appearance. The tart is a pale yellow colour and looks really refreshing inside the wrapper.
To use the tart you simply just place it on the top of an oil burner and pop a tea light underneath. The tart begins to slowly melt and eventually becomes a liquid which is fairly oily in appearance. I always place my oil burner on a heat resistant surface so that I don't ruin any of my furniture etc and it is in a safe place and I can keep my eye on it.
As the tart begins to slowly melt, the fragrance is slightly apparent. It doesn't begin to release the fragrance for at least 5 minutes before it becomes a stronger scent. After 5 or so minutes the lemon scent is really apparent and is a beautiful citrus scent and a beautiful fragrance. The smell is really refreshing in the room and the aroma is really nice. The scent is also fairly sweet too but the sweet scent and the lemon work really well together in my opinion and I really love the smell of this wax tart.
I decided to place this one in my dining room because this room isn't very big and the scent circulated in the air perfectly to help the room smell nice and fresh. I first lit this one just after we had eaten dinner and the scent removed the smell of fish we had eaten that evening. I returned to the room after around 15 minutes of lighting it and I could definitely detect the lemon fragrance in the dining room. I left it to melt for another hour or so and after this length of time had lapsed the smell was a little stronger but it wasn't a very strong scent and quite a subtle one but still strong enough to be apparent in the room.
The next day, I decided to move the oil burner to my lounge which is fairly large but I couldn't detect the scent so well and could only slightly smell the aroma compared to my smaller dining room. So from my experience of burning this tart, I would say it is best placed in a smaller room than a larger one to benefit more from the scent.
The tart is designed to burn for up to 8 hours, I think it comes pretty close to this amount of hours but I don't burn my candles for a full 8 hours at a time unless I have visitors staying all day and I want my home to smell as nice as possible. I think this one would be ideal to place in the dining room for maybe when you may be entertaining and having a dinner party. I think the scent is subtle and a nice smell while eating and drinking.
I paid just £1.25 for the tart from a garden centre and I think it is well worth this price, it is extremely good value for the price in my opinion and the quality of the tart is very good. Cheap enough to buy for any budget and a good amount of burning time for this low price.
I highly recommend this tart if you like a lemon scent, I think if you are not so keen I still think you may like it because the scent isn't so strong as you may imagine. I will definitely buy this one again because I like the aroma the tart produces in my room.
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I give this tart 5 stars.
Thank you for reading my review and I hope it has been of some help.
The Brand
The Yankee Candle: gorgeously scented areas of our garden centres. They are like the Jelly Belly Bean merged with the Ronseal of the candle world, smelling exactly like they say on the tin and the scent lasts as long as the candle does.
Yankee candles are the kind of thing you see in random places you don't expect and then take a sharp intake of breath at the price. But each of the candles I have bought after my first wonderful experience have been fantastic. Like an investment in yourself the same as Jelly Belly Beans they are indeed worth that extra few quid. Except this one!
The little versions of these candles are a great intro if you don't want to splash out on the big vases that last several months until you are sure you want to be stuck with it. The only problem with them really is that they are really fiddly to get in to as they are shrink wrapped with quite a strong wrap - probably to keep the scent in so you can savour all of it.
The scent itself, Sicilian Lemon, where perhaps less powerful than the others, is in itself up to the standard of the Yankee candle - in that it smells divine. There is a creamy essence which you can't put your finger on. The lemon is quite acidic; in essence it is less crass than sniffing a real lemon - because of the softened cheesecakey flavour - but it is no less realistic. Which is what drew me to it.
I would normally say that these candles are fantastic and worth every penny if you are looking for something to fill your room - or house - with a particular and quite strong smell for the evening. However the Sicilian Lemon turned out to be quite disappointing. The smell of the wax isn't quite as strong as other 'flavours' which is a bit of a give away and once lit it barely filled the air around it, never mind the room. Often with these candles the smell gradually fills the room, far more than other so-called scented candles, but unfortunately with this particular one the smell barely reached further than the table it was on.
I've rated it 3 because the scent is really lovely, but it's lost marks because:
* Other Yankee Candles perform so much better and
* As much as I understand having to individually wrap them up I don't like the fact that they are shrink-wrapped which leaves you having to use scissors and cutting a tiny corner, if you're lucky enough to find one, and then fiddle about tearing it off, risking breaking the candle or marking it and also getting that awful waxy feeling on your paws!
As a lover of Yankee candles and all things citrus based, it was inevitable that I would start working my way through the lemon/lime fragrances one by one. The Sicilian lemon wax tart was the first I tried, and I have found it to be very subtle but also very pleasant. The wax tart cost me around £1.20 from my local official Yankee shop.
The tart is light yellow in colour, and the packaging has a picture of lemons on the front, in case we are in any doubt as to what "Sicilian Lemon" would smell of! As usual, it's a bit of a battle getting the tart out of the packaging without losing some of it due to it crumbling, but as I tend to break my tarts into two or three this didn't matter too much. With this one I use half each time I burn it, and it melts and starts giving off scent within about ten minutes.
Although I was expecting the fragrance to be lemony, I was quite surprised at how subtle this one was. It's strong enough to fill the room, but isn't so strong that it smells like I've been cooking something involving lemons. It's a very sweet lemon fragrance, which is unusual because I tend to associate lemon scents with being bitter. It reminds me of sherbet which I find uplifting as it takes me back to my childhood. Although I wouldn't describe it as one of the strongest fragrances I've tried from the Yankee range, I quite like the fact it's a subtle background fragrance rather than being overpowering. Some of the Yankee wax tarts can take over my senses a bit, so I end up having to distinguish the tea light to avoid getting a headache. This one, however, is one I can leave burning in the background, and it just gives the living room a lovely fresh citrus fragrance.
Once the tealight is extinguished, the wax tart solidifies, and the scent lingers ever so subtly in the background. The post-burning fragrance isn't as strong as some, which you can still smell the following morning, but it does give the room a slightly fresher smell than it would have had the tart not been used the previous night.
I do love this fragrance, and it's one which I buy repeatedly alongside trying new fragrances. My husband is also a big fan of this one because it's gender-neutral, and he loves citrus fragrances. He also has a heightened sensitivity to smells, and can easily get a headache from overly strong smells, but with this one he's happy for me to leave it burning in the background for a few hours. Five stars from the Holland household.
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Back in late 2012 one of my lovely friends sent me a surprise parcel with a few wax tarts in and one of the ones that she sent me was the Sicilian lemon fragrance. This is my review of my experience with the wax tart.
I think it is fair to say that my favourite scents which come from the Yankee Candle range are generally the fruity scented ones and whilst I have liked most of the fragrances that I have tried it is always the fruity ones that I will go back to as I think they remind me of warm summer months and are quite uplifting no matter what time of year you burn them. One of my favourite scents is the sparkling lemon fragrance and so when I received the Sicilian wax tart from my friend I felt sure I would like it.
The wax tart comes wrapped as all of the other ones do in a tight clear plastic packaging through which you can see the pale yellow colour of the tart. The label features the Yankee candle name as well as the fragrance name and a picture of some lemons as well so that you can easily distinguish what it is going to smell of should you be buying the product in a shop or online for example!
I find it is best to remove the packaging with scissors and then place the tart straight in to the bowl of my tart burner because I often find stray bits of wax come off when I remove the packaging from any tart and then they land all over my kitchen work top which I find frustrating! I lit the tea light under the bowl of the tart burner and went off to do a few chores which is what I always tend to do when burning a tart as I like to come back to the room when it has had chance to melt somewhat and release the fragrance.
I left the tart burning for around half an hour before I returned to the room and as hoped it had filled my living room with the most gorgeous sweet scent. I think that whilst the sparkling lemon is quite sharp and tangy this Sicilian lemon is very sweet and reminded me very much of lemon meringue pie! The sweetness combined with the lemon really was a gorgeous scent and one which I think smelled really welcoming as well.
I burned this tart a few times for around four hours each time and found that the fragrance was still apparent towards the end of the final time I burned it but just that it wasn't as strong. A wax tart is apparently designed to give up to eight hours fragrance and so I felt this one was good value really as it released fragrance for a good bit longer. A wax tart generally costs around £0.90 to £1.20 depending on where you buy it from and I have to say that in this case it is well worth the money. I would like to buy this one in other formats as I enjoyed it so much and would totally recommend you check it out especially if you enjoy sweet, fruity scents.
Thank you for reading my review!
A lemon fragranced wax tart from Yankee Candle. The name is Sicilian Lemon and this is one of Yankee Candles fruit fragrances.
I like this fragrance very much because it is so clean and fresh smelling. It is lemon but there's a sugar smell also that softens it and makes it a lot more pleasing than a plain lemon fragrance. It does not smell like a cleaning product like I thought it would and I think it is a very summery smell that makes my home smell welcoming and fresh. The sweet smell combines with the lemon and I think that makes it very beautiful.
I like the Sicilian Lemon wax tart very much and think it is one of my favourite Yankee Candle fragrances. It is not a very strong fragrance but it is not weak either and I think it is right for my home. It is a soft and delicate fragrance but it travels in the air very well through my home and gives fragrance in the whole of the downstairs level, I can smell it a little bit upstairs as well but it is not very strong there and makes our bedrooms smell fresh instead of giving them a large amount of fragrance.
I think it is very good that the fragrance lasts for so long after the candle underneath the wax tart goes out and it also starts to come through into the air very quickly as soon as the tart starts to melt. This is good because of it being such a soft fragrance because they are usually not so effective.
When I burn this wax tart it lasts for about 10 hours and that is good because on the packet it says 8 hours only. I like that the fragrance does not lessen after it has been burning for a few hours and it is the same beautiful sweet lemon all the way through.
The Sicilian Lemon wax tart costs £1.20 and you can buy it in jars as well but I prefer to use tarts.
5 Dooyoo Stars.
~~~ Sicilian Lemon Wax Tart ~~~
Almost 42 years ago a 17 year old boy melted his crayons, to make a candle to give to his Mother for Christmas. She was overjoyed and showed a neighbour what he had done. This neighbour asked to buy it and placed orders for further candles and so Yankee Candles was born. Since then, they have expanded into different types of home fragrancing, not just candles, and this review features a Pot Pourri Tart, which is a fusion between the two.
~~~ The tart, and how to utilise it ~~~
A tart is a circular disc of highly fragranced wax, which is instantly recognisable by its fluted edges. Saying that though, you usually smell them before you can see them. The fragrance is usually intoxicating.
The Sicilian Lemon is my tartlet of choice at the moment. These have no wick to light, and instead are melted using a tart burner with a lit candle underneath. Although I prefer a candle lit burner in the winter, as it casts off a comforting glow, and makes for a warm and cosy feel to the room. There are electric burners available that you can leave running and not worry about it. I feel these are safer when you have children in your home.
~~~ Lemons ~~~
Yankee are experts of going with a theme and changing it ever slightly. This way they keep things fresh, and their customers hooked, and so they keep coming back for more. There are many fruity scents available to choose from, and even scents which you would think of as being similar, are totally different. This is true of Sicilian Lemon, it should in essence be similar to Sparkling Lemon, another favourite of mine, but it's different too. How Yankee manages to keep coming up with something fresh and new every time absolutely astounds me.
The strong zestiness of this tart can even be detected while still in the plastic coating if the truth be told. After unwrapping, you will see the Yankee embossing on the top of the tart. This looks to add a premium touch, but it's not on every tart I buy, perhaps it's just on the newer fragrances to the range.
~~~ Fragrance ~~~
This tart doesn't take long to melt, and the scent is released immediately. This gives a sudden, intense fragrance straight from the off. The label depicts lemons; they look so fresh and juicy. One would think this would be a sour, crisp fragrance but there's natural sweetness about it. Rather than being the zingy, uplifting lemon of sherbet (like the sparkling lemon variety), this is more a refined lemon meringue, and the scent is good enough to eat. It's a very well balanced aroma - not too sour, and not too sweet. I love it.
There is no artificial sugariness to this one; I can't detect any vanilla notes, which seem to be a theme throughout Yankee branded candles. I'm glad really as I think this would tone down its vibrancy, make it more mellow, and alter the refreshing nature of the citrus fruit.
These tarts usually cost around £1.20 nowadays, so if you see them cheaper, snap them up, they're a bargain. They burn for usually give off scent for around eight hours, and this is true for this particular tart too, although as always, towards the end, the fragrance weakens a little. It becomes a little less dominant, but just as alive.
~~~ In Summary ~~~
Of all the varieties of Yankee products, and I am passionate about them all, my all time favourites are the tarts. This fragrance is zesty yet well rounded, and I wholly recommend it. It would be perfect for summer's days, but also at this time of year to remind us of the summer just gone. This one is most highly recommended by me, and I do hope that you enjoy it as much as I do.
One of my favourite Yankee Candle scents is Sparkling Lemon; the fragrance is beautifully fresh and clean, it's perfect for the summer months but I also love to burn it during the cold dark winter days to lift my mood and fill my house with the scent of summer. I ordered Sicilian Lemon in error and it wasn't until my wax tarts arrived that I realised my mistake, although even through the packaging I could tell that I was going to love this one even though it didn't have such a strong or natural fragrance as the Sparkling variety.
The tart itself is a pale yellow colour, it smells quite powdery before burning but has a sweetened lemon fragrance which is extremely noticeable thanks to the fact that it's pretty much unadulterated - I couldn't wait to burn it and within a few minutes of the postie dropping the tarts through the letter box it was in sitting in my burner with a tealight burning away merrily under it.
It doesn't take too long for the scent to start coming though; roughly twenty minutes after lighting the tealight I could smell a gorgeous lemon around the room, which isn't bad but quite a bit slower than other tarts I've been using recently. Once I started to notice the lemon fragrance however it built in intensity until the whole of the downstairs of my house was scented with this gorgeous aroma, it's a reasonably delicate fragrance so don't expect something 'in yer face' like a lot of Yankee Candle fruit fragrances but it's so soothing and refreshing that it's already become a total favourite of mine despite the fact that I've only burned one tart thus far!
The fragrance is extremely similar to the Body Shop's range of Sweet Lemon products, in fact it's almost identical to their lip butter which I'm currently using. It's a sherbet lemon type of scent, amazingly sweet and fresh with a fragile sweetie smell rather than that of the more tart fresh lemon. It's the type of fragrance which feels comforting and feminine, Sicilian Lemon is so beautifully sweet that if it weren't for a relatively strong lemon tone you could be forgiven for looking upon it as a candied fragrance rather than a fruity/citrus tart. There's nothing sharp or zesty about the fragrance; it's smooth and soft as the tart burns, the fragrance doesn't change at all during the lifespan of the tart and this is good as it means the house is constantly enveloped in this most incredible perfume. I absolutely adore it.
It's a fragrance I'd love to burn in July, I discovered it a couple of months too late to experience a Sicilian Lemon summer but even on a cold and dreary October day like today it was lovely. I was torn actually between the uber strong (and very wintery) Cinnamon Stick or this lighter tart, I'm am glad I went with the lemon one as I was feeling a bit down in the dumps and the sweetness of it really cheered me up! I've put a large Sicilian Lemon on my Christmas list, the proper one which Mark ignores at his peril, so will save half the jar for the summer of 2013 and test my theory out.
I recommend this beautiful fragrance to anyone; it's highly inoffensive in that it simply smells of sweet lemons, it doesn't even smell of real lemons so there's nothing for you citrus haters to get annoyed about. It's simply a stunning delicate aroma; it doesn't linger for long after the tealight blows itself out, the sensation of sweetness lasts for much longer than the tangible fragrance (and that's a shame!) but within half an hour any useful perfume has disappeared - which is fine by me as it's an excuse to light another tealight, but doesn't really represent value for tart!
This gorgeous little yellow disc of sunshine cost a measly £1.20, considering my tart lasted for nine hours (a full hour longer than suggested by Yankee Candle) I think this is a fantastic price. Everyone has commented on it today, and the added advantage is that it didn't make my asthmatic mum cough as Yankee Candles almost always do - she popped in earlier unexpectedly and it wasn't until a cough-free hour had passed that I realised the tart was still burning; the guy who's buying our house arrived and commented on how nice our house always smelled, I've been burning a tart every time he's been and tonight he had me writing names of Yankee Candle down for him to pass on to his wife!
I always like to keep my home smelling nice and often use Yankee Wax Tarts to do this, Yankee in my opinion are one of the best when it comes to scented candles, wax tarts, and reed diffusers, the different fragrances can help create different moods and atmospheres. The wax tart I have just finished using is Sicilian Lemon, I bought mine from Amazon and paid £1.10 for it which is an average price for a Yankee Wax Tart, they usually range from 99p to £1.20 depending on where you buy from.
Yankee Wax Tarts are simply little discs of oily wax infused with natural oils , they have no wick and are designed for melting in an oil burner. Each tart is approximately 5 x 1cm and are sold tightly wrapped in clear cellophane allowing you to see the colour of the wax. There is a label stuck to the top of the tart which always shows a picture depicting the fragrance of the tart, in the case of Sicilian Lemon the wax is yellow and the label shows lemons. Despite being tightly wrapped in cellophane you can still smell the fragrance of the tart giving you an idea of what to expect.
As I mentioned to melt the wax tart you do need an oil burner and an unscented tea light, I personally don't buy expensive unscented tea lights, the big bags of cheaper ones are perfectly alright for use in a burner. Place the unwrapped tart in the dish of the burner and light the tea light underneath, no water needs to be added to the wax. Once the tart starts to melt which is usually quite quick the wax releases its fragrance and the aroma starts to filter around the room. I personally melt the wax tarts whole but you can break them and use a bit at a time.
When I melted my Sicilian Lemon tart I was expecting a strong lemon fragrance, natural and sharp, well I certainly got my lemon smell which was indeed natural and fresh but also there was a sweetness to the aroma which in my personal opinion took the edge of the lemon, I didn't dislike it but it definitely wasn't quite what I was expecting. The fragrance is quite subtle too I could smell it all around my room but it wasn't strong enough to filter upstairs as well like some of the other wax tarts I've used. I would say Sicilian Lemon is more of a daytime fragrance, I wouldn't melt this in the evenings.
I usually melt wax tarts for a couple of hours at a time I find the scent then lingers for a good while once the tea light has been blown out, I just leave the wax to solidify in the dish until I melt it again. Once all the fragrance has gone from the wax I simply let the wax set and remove it from the dish. Yankee do state that their tarts will give on average up to 8 hours fragrance and in the main I would agree
with this, it was certainly the case with Sicilian Lemon all be it a subtle fragrance.
If you like fruity fragrances that are quite subtle and not too strong then I would recommend giving this a try, if you are after something that will give you a stronger, sharper, crisper lemon fragrance then this may not be one for you, I liked this wax tart but its certainly not one of my favourites and I would only buy it again if it was reduced in price.
Sicilian Lemon can be bought not only in wax tart form but also various candles too.
I first started buying Yankee wax tarts around November of last year after reading so many positive reviews on sites such as this, and found myself wanting to purchase some of the delicious scents that were increasingly cropping up in reviews. After buying myself a wax tart burner I then started to purchase wax tarts as frequently as once a week, and having found some reputable online stores on Ebay I purchase whenever I have any funds sitting in my paypal account. I recently bought a mixed bundle of different scented tarts and was greatly looking forward to seeing which had been chosen for me as it was a 'mystery' bundle but as it was free P&P and you got 2 wax tarts free then I wasn't too concerned as to which would be sent as I'd ordered similar sets previously and on the whole been very happy with the choices.
In amongst my bundle was this - Sicilian Lemon - which my review will now focus on.
**How Yankee describe this**
"..A bright and sunny citrus... perfectly ripe, with a naturally sweet and refreshing scent.."
**My experience of using this product**
Yankee wax tarts are reasonably priced in my opinion and if bought singularly they can be picked up from as little as 90p to around £1.30 depending on where you choose to shop. As mentioned I prefer to buy mine online but they can be purchased from several outlets with the most commonest places being card and gift shops. There is a Hallmark factory card shop close to my home which sporadically sells older stock from as little as 60p per wax tart so it's worth sourcing out these sort of places as it's an ideal time to then stock up.
The wax tart comes presented in a transparent sealed cellophane wrapper as do all the Yankee branded wax tarts and features on the top a sticker depicting an image to match the scent. In this instance the picture is that of some lemons which are freshly cut and because of the clearness of the wrapper we can see that the wax tart itself is a coordinating warm sunshiny yellow.
On first seeing this particular fragrance in the bundle I was pleasantly surprised at how sweet it came across as as I presumed it to just have a citrus based aroma. On opening and releasing from the wrapper though the citrus took over and was very dominant, though in a crisp and fresh way and I was looking forward to burning it later that day.
As mentioned before in similar natured reviews I live in a small cottage all based on one floor and I tend to keep my burner situated in my kitchen as it's less likely to cause anyone any harm there and also my kitchen is my most central room in the layout of my house.
I normally break my wax tarts into two pieces to burn on separate occasions but I liked the scent of this so much that I placed the entire 22g wax disc into the pot of my burner and proceeded to light the tea light that was directly beneath. Within a few minutes the rich, luscious lemon aroma started to filter through and grew in intensity as the wax started to melt. I'm not really a fan of citrus based scents and probably wouldn't have gone out of my way to purchase this on its own but after the wax tart started melting and giving out it's delicious crisp aroma I was really glad that this had been included in my bundle.
I left the wax tart to melt and even replaced the tea light with another lit one as the scent Sicilian Lemon offered was clean, fresh and crisp and not overpowering like some fragrances and I was enjoying the ambience it was creating in my home.
I would highly recommend this fragrance of wax tart as I'm not a citrus fan of anything generally speaking but was very pleasantly surprised with how wonderfully comforting this was. The lemon has just the right amount of crispness without it being too tart but there is also a sweeter note that adds softness which ends up making it a well balanced fragrance. Longevity wise I found this gave around the approximate 8 hours it promises though obviously the longer it melts for the lesser the strength over time.
I really loved how this scented my home and will definitely buy this particular fragranced tart again in the nearby future as even when the tea light candle had been extinguished the lemon scent hung in the air for at least 2 hours afterwards. I also found that I could burn this for a number of hours without it being nauseating or causing headaches like some other fragrances can. Because of the clean lemon scent it was perfect for helping to eliminate cooking odours from my kitchen and overall it was just a very pleasant scent to have wafting through each room.
Impressed. 5/5.
If you haven't heard of Yankee Candle by now - where have you been! Originally established in the USA, this popular name is on many candle and scented homeware products.
~Sicilian Lemon~
Spring 2012 - the release of 5 new Yankee Candle scents. Alongside Pink Drago Fruit, Loves Me Loves Me Not, Fruit Fusion and Wild Passionfruit is Sicilian Lemon.
Like many other Yankee scents, Sicilian Lemon can be purchased in different formats to suit your home and budget. The more expensive options include housewarmer jars and tumblers. If you don't wish to splash out on an expensive jar, opt for the votive sampler, wax tart or the tea lights.
I my experience of Sicilian Lemon is by way of the wax tart. A wax tart is a disc of solid wax which has been infused with natural essential oils. Each 22g is designed to give at least 8 hours of fragrance and should be melted in an appropriate tart or oil burner.
Sicilian Lemon is naturally a yellow coloured tart. It is presented shrink wrapped for freshness and features an image label showing juicy lemons. Yankee describe Sicilian Lemon as..
'a bright and sunny citrus...perfectly ripe, with a naturally sweet and refreshing scent'
As this is a new release, it is likely to be stocked in your local Yankee stocked store. Online, it is widely available.
*www.yankeescents4.com - £1.05 (tart) £1.60 (votive) £5.99 (tea lights) and from £7.49 (jars and tumblers)
Other stockists include Amazon, www.collectables.co.uk, eBay UK and www.yankeedirect.com. The average price for the wax tart is around £1.20.
~My Thoughts~
I recently bought the full range of 2012 fragrances that Yankee Candle released - I couldn't resist! I love trying new fragrances around my home as I love my home to smell welcoming and fragrant all the time - and Yankee is my favourite candle brand. I buy the wax tarts to sample a scent before considering splashing out on the jars. A find the tarts to be very appealing due to how strong they are usually.
I like lemon scents but I feel they can be a hit or a miss. Some lemon scents remind me too much of cleaning products and I have a cheap bottle of Cif to make my home smell like this so I want something a bit more natural when it comes to candles. This tart was beautifully presented and I chose to use it during the day as I associate lemon with being fresh and fruity rather than warm and cosy (so evening use was out of the question).
~Lemon Fresh..~
As I removed the wrapped, I was taken in by the gorgeous lemon fragrance from this tart. I popped it in the burner bowl and lit the tea light. The tart melted evenly and formed a pool of pale yellow wax. Having sampled some of the other Yankee lemon based scents before (Country Lemonade and Sparkling Lemon), I noticed some similarities between them and Sicilian Lemon. Sicilian Lemon does have its own character though and isn't identical to the other lemon scents.
I wouldn't say this is the strongest wax tart I have tried before but it isn't watery and weak like some others. It filled my living room with a pleasant level of fragrance and filtered into my kitchen. I could detect a hint of lemon in my hall way but it didn't treat our whole flat to a delightful fragrance.
Sicilian Lemon offers a lovely scent which is fresh and inviting without being in your face. It flows beautifully and is completely natural smelling which I appreciate. The overall scent made my home smell fresh and clean and took over the cleaning product smell from the kitchen. Sicilian Lemon is quite flavoursome and reminds me of being on holiday as it has a Mediterranean feel to it. The lemon is quite zingy without being harsh and is quite like a glass of freshly squeezed lemon juice.
Sicilian Lemon is an airy and pleasantly light scent. The citrussy lemon is complimented by a delicate sweetness which laces it perfectly and layers it slightly. The overall scent is a bright scent which is quite engaging and it is definitely a day time, feel good sort of scent - for me anyway! The scent isn't consistent. I noticed a distinct drop in strength after an hour or each time I melted this tart and this was quite disappointing.
I'm not sure I would choose this over the top of the other lemon scents that Yankee offer. It is pleasant but I didn't seem to get the full 8 hours of consistent strength from it so I did feel a little cheated! I do prefer the intensity and vibrancy of Sparkling Lemon and I had hoped that Sicilian Lemon would be similar so I was a little disappointed that it wasn't as generous in strength.
4 stars.
Thanks for reading :)
*Posted on ciao April 2012.
Sicilian Lemon Wax Tart
Another in the brand new Spring/Summer 2012 range of Yankee Candle fragrances, Sicilian Lemon is a new release which has recently been launched and has started to make an appearance both online and from high street Yankee stockists. I bought mine a few days ago after being impressed with 3 of the other new fragrances and expected this one to live up to my hopes of being a zesty, fresh fragrance that Yankee are usually so good at producing. Deciding to have my wax tart melting in my kitchen to allow the fragrance to work its way round my home I unwrapped it from its plastic confines, placed it into the well of my tart burner, lit a tea light and waited...
Wax tarts are, as many readers will know already, a flat piece of fragranced wax. They have no wicks and aren't burnt like normal candles, instead they are melted on a tart burner from the heat of a tea light and contain around 8 hours of fragrance. They're often the strongest smelling products that Yankee produce and are a cheap and cheerful way of fragrancing a home with literally hundreds of scents being available to buy. Generally split into categories including "Fresh", "Fruity" and "Floral" there should be something to suit anybody looking for a fragrance to have in their home and over the years I've become a big fan of the products on offer. Wax tarts are one of the cheapest ways to experience a Yankee fragrance and tend to cost around £1.20 these days although some retailers will offer some at a reduced price when they're promoted as a selected 'fragrance of the month' or out of season for the Christmas-named ones. The Sicilian Lemon wax tart cost me £1.20 and after a few minutes of gently melting I began to detect the unmistakeable aroma of freshly squeezed lemons and I knew it was going to be a fragrance that I liked.
Yankee have used Lemon in other fragrances in the past and tend to get it just right whenever they use it on its own, as you would imagine it's a fresh, clean scent which I find to be rather uplifting and Sicilian Lemon is a fine addition to the Yankee range. Not too dissimilar to Sparkling Lemon (an older fragrance and now being retired in favour of this one) this is a bright, zesty fragrance full of citrusy highlights and whilst it probably lacks the initial fizziness that its predecessor had its still one that appealed to me and reminded me of the Sherbet Lemon sweeties I had as a child. It's not a harsh Lemon smell that you might associate with kitchen or bathroom cleaners, here it's presented as a slightly sweet and invigorating aroma which is packed with zing and zest and melting mine in my kitchen not only freshened and fragranced the air in there but due to it's strength it also worked its way into my hallway and was noticeable around my home.
All of the 2012 releases up to now have been big hits with me and Sicilian Lemon is yet another fine example of how good Yankee can be in replicating fruity aromas, these are generally my favourites out of all the fragrances that Yankee produce and I would have no hesitation in buying this one again and indeed have already made a repeat order of this and a couple of the other new releases so I can have them in my home again. I do think that this is a fragrance that would suit a kitchen or a bathroom although as a daytime scent I can see how it would work in a living room or conservatory and for me it's an ideal fragrance for this time of the year now that the days are lighter for longer.
I don't think it has the same longevity as some of the deeper fragrances that Yankee produce though and the scent from my wax tart had all but gone after 6 hours or so, I used 2 tea lights on mine before it started to lose its strength and a third tea light managed to squeeze every last bit of fragrance out of mine. I'd still recommend this one though as I do think it still works out as good value for money when you consider how much they cost but it isn't one of the most long-lasting fragrances available so worth mentioning here if you're expecting this one to last more than 8 hours.
Overall Sicilian Lemon lived up to my expectations although admittedly I was a little disappointed not to get the full 8 hours worth of fragrance from mine, this wouldn't be enough of a reason for me not to buy it again though as I loved the fragrance it produced and I do think it's perfect for this time of the year. Four stars as a rating from me, it would have been five but I'm deducting a star because of its longevity, definitely recommended though, thanks for reading my review.
Sicilian lemon Yankee candle tart
I have read so many reviews for Yankee candles and tarts etc. to the point of getting sick of reading them. However my curiosity got the better of me as I was looking for something with a strong scent that was going to fragrance my home for a decent period of time. So I went ahead and bought myself everything I'd need in order to burn these very much talked about Yankee Tarts.
I actually ordered a pack of 10 individual tarts from Amazon which cost me around £10.00, all different fruit scents, the one I'm going to review is the Sicilian Lemon tart.
I was immediately hit by the strong scents of all the tarts together, which was somewhat over bearing when I first opened the pack, however on separating this one from the others I noticed its own very strong individual lemon scent. Opening the packet was a bit of a pain, by the time I got into it my hands smelt very strongly of lemon.
I did like the way it fit nice and neatly into the burner I'd bought, but thought to myself it was a lot smaller than I had imagined it to be, for some reason I expected the tart to be bigger than just a couple of inches diameter, anyway I lit the tea light under the burner and waited for a lovely strong scent of lemon to fill my room. It actually didn't take long at all for the tart to start melting and for the scent to start circulating around the room. At first I was really impressed I really liked it, but after a while all I could smell was lockets and any other throat sweets. I know the scent was lemon which you would associate with throat sweets and the like but it began to make me feel like we were all munching away on throat sweets. My husband said the scent was very strong and it gave him a headache.
Now I don't really mind the scent that much but I don't think I'd buy another lemon tart, I guess this one just wasn't for me or my household.
But that aside, the tart cost me around £1.00, it was worth it because I actually decided to time the amount of burn time it gave me and I clearly got more than the eight hours they say you get. So for me I think this tart was value for money. Each time I blew the tea light out the smell of lemon lingered for a fair amount of time afterwards as well.
So all in all I'm pleased I went ahead and bought the burner and tarts and I'm looking forward to trying all the others in the pack.
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About the Author
Shani Boianjiu was born in Jerusalem in 1987 and grew up in the Galilee. She served in the Israeli Defense Forces for two years. She graduated from Harvard in 2011. Her debut novel has been published or will soon be published in 23 countries. It has been longlisted for the UK's Women's Prize for Fiction and selected as one of the ten best fiction titles of 2012 by the Wall Street Journal. She is the youngest recipient ever of the National Book Foundation's 5 under 35 award. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Zoetrope, Vice, the Wall Street Journal, The Globe and Mail, Dazed and Confused, the Guardian and NPR.Com. She lives in Israel.

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text: @metro: maybe we could use Bell, but I'm tired of our FO going after 40 years old injury-prone guards or players willing to come out of retirement. Damn, this team needs to get younger, we've got Hardaway and Leslie, but this crew is still freaking old. All our core players are around 30.


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Empowering deserving military families with educational support and opportunities.
Jimmy Walker held off his pursuants to take home the AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am this weekend on a cold, wet, and windy day on the Monterey Peninsula.
Carrying a six stroke lead into the final round, Walker made it his tournament to win. He proceeded to card a front nine one-under par 35 to keep the big lead. On the back, Walker dropped a few shots but still got the job done by holing a par putt on the famous 18th at Pebble securing tory.
Walker relied on FJ Icon and StaSof during all four days of the inclement weather-plagued tournament.
This is Walker's third victory of the still infantile 2014 PGA Season. The win also increases his lead in the season long 2014 Fedex Cup points race.
AT&T Pebble Beach National Pro-Am Shoe Count
Nearest Competitor - 21%
Glove Count
Nearest Competitor - 12%
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On the European Tour, George Coetzee broke through in Johannesburg for his first Euro Tour victory. Several shots out of the lead to start the final round, Coetzee pieced together a brilliant six-under par round of 66 to win by three in his home country of South Africa.
Coetzee trusted DryJoys Casual, StaSof, and FJ Performance Apparel en route to the ground breaking victory. He is the first player on a major professional tour to win in the DryJoys Casual, the latest performance spikeless golf shoe from FJ.
Coetzee, who has recorded 24 top 25 finishes on the European tour, added post round, "I've been waiting a while and I started doubting, so I'm very happy...I got to share this with my family and my friends. It was my mum's birthday yesterday and I wanted to do it for her as I forgot to buy her a present!"
Joburg Open Shoe Count
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Social, Demographic, and Educational Data for France, 1801-1897 (ICPSR 48)
Principal Investigator(s): Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research
This data collection consists of 161 selected social, demographic, and educational datasets for France in the period 1801-1897. The data were collected from published reports of three national statistical series: (1) National Censuses, (2) Vital Statistics, and (3) Primary Education. This project was supported by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the National Science Foundation. The National Census data were derived from the quinquennial population censuses of France from 1801 to 1896 and were obtained from the Statistique Generale de la France. The data provide detailed social and economic information for the period 1851 to 1896. The data for 1801-1851 are less rich in subject matter coverage but do present some basic information on population characteristics. The National Census data in general describe the population, including the composition of the population by categories of age, sex, place of birth, marital status, religion, place of residence, and occupation. There is also some limited information on migration, transportation and communication, housing, and families. A large segment of the census data pertains to occupations of the population, specifying job classifications within professions, as well as information on non-employed household members that were dependent on employees in the various industries, in addition to enumerations of persons employed in various professions and trades. The Vital Statistics data files contain annual vital statistics for the French population. These data were obtained from two printed series, MOUVEMENT DE LA POPULATION (1801-1868), and STATISTIQUE ANNUELLE (1869-1897). The basic variables included in the vital statistics datasets record births, deaths, and marriages in France. Detailed cross-tabulations of these demographic indicators are presented for births, tabulated by sex, month, legitimacy status, and characteristics of the parents, and deaths, categorized by age and previous marital status of the partners. Additional cross-tabulations are provided for variables such as divorces, passports issued, medical personnel and hospitals, and a literacy indicator (signing of marriage certificates). The Primary Education data files provide information on primary schools and were obtained from the Statistique de l'enseignement Primaire. The data obtained from the series basically cover the period 1829-1897, although some recapitulative information for earlier years is also presented. The main focus of the data in this series is on primary schools, classes and buildings, enrollment, teachers, sources of funding and expenditure, and academic proficiency of the pupils. Additional information is included on literacy, teacher training (normal) schools, school age population, and libraries. A machine-readable French language codebook, describing the data items as well as the sources from which they were obtained, is provided with each dataset supplied. In addition, lists of the variables included in each dataset are included in Parts 162-164. See the related collection, DEMOGRAPHIC, SOCIAL, EDUCATIONAL AND ECONOMIC DATA FOR FRANCE, 1833-1925 (ICPSR 7529).
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Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research. Social, Demographic, and Educational Data for France, 1801-1897. ICPSR00048-v1. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2009-02-20. https://doi.org/10.3886/ICPSR00048.v1
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Subject Terms: birth rates, census data, demographic characteristics, divorce rates, education, elementary school students, elementary schools, employment, families, housing, libraries, literacy, marriage rates, migration, mortality rates, nativity, occupations, religion, schools, teacher training, transportation, vital statistics
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The future of Britain's largest lowland peat bogs is looking brighter thanks to new funding from a European cash kitty.
Natural England has confirmed that the LIFE+ programme - the EU's funding programme for the environment and climate action - has awarded a grant of £2.2 million to support additional conservation management work on the precious lowland raised bog habitat of the Humberhead Peatlands, near Doncaster.
The funding will extend the area of peatbog habitat under active restoration and will help provide a long-term future for the rare plants, birds and insects that have evolved to live on the unique wetland habitat.
Natural England is already carrying out restoration work on its Humberhead Peatlands National Nature Reserve (NNR) which is part of two internationally important sites - Thorne Moors Special Area of Conservation (SAC) and Hatfield Moors SAC – which together make up the UK's largest lowland raised bog complex.
The will help ensure that the peat across the 28 square kilometres of the area is wet enough so that wildlife can thrive.
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That's what can't happen if we expect to compete with the elite teams. Teams like the bulls, thunder, heat, magic, etc just don't lose to a team like the raptors period! Let alone by 20 points
The Knicks lost this game because they were missing their superstar Jared Jeffries.
Humility is a virtue and pride is a vice.
What worries me about this loss is our inability to play against agressive zone defense. Woodson should look at this game as a chance to instill a few offensive moves against zone D. Otherwise lots of teams would be exploiting this.
From the opening play when Chandler fumbled the ball out of bounds I knew this was going to be a strange game.
OK I'm getting concerned about Melo on offense. WTH is up with him. He should be dominating these cats. His shot is so off that you just dont want to feed him the rock. He has to get it together. FAST.
This is a bad loss. No doubt about it. I think we were reading the press clippings. Toronto wanted us baaaad.
Lets see how we play tomorrow. Dare I say if we lose to the Pistons, maybe it wasnt all MDA...
Smh Milwaukee won tonight.. **** **** ****
We sniff the 500 mark then.. we find ourselves fighting to get back to the 500 mark.. when will it end
Stat played ok tonight minus his buttfingers
Melo played like crap im disappointed with his performance, he was grabbing rebounds and all but that jumper is broken
Tyson, he had a terrible night today
Fields is a piece crap waste bum scrub punk b*tch, i hope we dont resign him. He cant shoot, cant make 2 consecutive free throws, brings the ball up the court like he's about to do something incredible then does absolutely nothing but drive and chuck up crap.
LIN disappointed by his performance as well, tired of him giving fields the ball all the time wasting our possession.
someone who isn't banged up right now...what's our "Friday Night Knicks" record?
They better bring it tomorrow!
@ClydeFacts "When one of his ladys asked clyde why he doesnt text he said if you dont get the message by now a phone aint gonna help." Except for Kate. Wobble Wobble!


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After looking around for a good C++ forum I decided to give these forums a try
I just started learning C++ recently, and I'm on Day 16 of Sams Teach Yourself C++ in 21 Days (by Jesse Liberty). On March 1st I'm going to be competing in: http://contest-cemc.uwaterloo.ca/ccc...overview.shtml
Not so much to win, simply because I know that University of Waterloo (where I'm thinking of taking courses) checks to see if you have participated in that contest (along with others).
I was wondering if anybody could give me some good newb C++ pointers. (not the kind that points to a variable's location in the memory and can be accessed by dereferencing! )
PS: I'm not a complete newb. I learned PHP and have some previous Javascript experience...so some of the basic ideas and concepts are looking familiar.


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Recent product recalls
Here are just a few recent product recalls as announced by the US Consumer Product Safety Commission. For the most up-to-date recall information, please visit www.cpsc.gov and click on the Recalls tab from the home page.
Name of Product: Imaginarium Activity Walkers
Hazard: The small bolt and spacer that attaches each front wheel to the walker can detach, posing a choking hazard to young children.
Incidents/Injuries: Toys R Us has received five reports of the front wheels detaching. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The recalled Imaginarium Activity Walkers have a round wooden push handle on the top of a curved triangle-shaped wooden walker base with four wheels. There is a multi-colored metal xylophone with two triangle mallets, one multi-colored abacus and one scratch noise maker on the front of the walker. The walkers have multi-colored wooden, disc-shaped wheels. The walkers measure about 19 inches tall and about 13 inches wide. The recalled walkers have model number "Toys 'R' Us 5F5E972" printed on the bottom of the activity walkers. Barcode number "3700217300319" is printed on the bottom of the activity walker box.
Sold at: Toys R Us stores nationwide and online at www.toysrus.com from August 2011 through January 2013 for about $30.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the recalled walker immediately, put it out of reach of young children and return it to a Toys R Us store for a full refund or store credit.
Consumer Contact: Toys R Us at 800.869.7787 from 9:00 am to 11:00 pm ET Monday through Saturday and from 11:00 am to 7:00 pm Sunday, or visit the firm's website at www.toysrus.com and click on Safety Information and Recalls for more information.
Name of Product: 2012 Huffy® 20-inch Slider Tricycle
Hazard: The handlebar can unexpectedly loosen while in use, causing the rider to lose control. This poses crash and fall hazards for the rider.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: The recalled product is 2012 model year 20-inch, three-wheeled Slider. The tricycle has a white frame with a black seat and black handlebars. "Huffy" is printed on the front of the frame; "Slider" is printed on the frame's side. The model number, 98682, is located on the frame under the seat.
Sold at: Toys R Us nationwide from January 2013 through February 2013 for about $100.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately stop using the tricycle and contact Huffy for instructions on how to obtain a refund.
Consumer Contact: Huffy toll-free at 888.366.3828 from 8:00 am to 8:00 pm ET Monday through Friday or online at www.huffybikes.com and click on Product Recall on the bottom of the page.
Name of Product: Spin-A-Mals Farm & Safari Puzzles
Hazard: Small pegs on the puzzle boards can loosen and separate from the boards, posing a choking hazard to children.
Incidents/Injuries: The firm has received four reports of pegs separating from puzzle boards. No injuries have been reported.
Description: The recalled products are Ryan's Room brand Spin-A-Mals Farm and Spin-A-Mals Safari puzzles intended for children over 12 months of age. Both toys are made of wood. The puzzles consist of a painted, rectangular board with pegs mounted to it and removable gear and animal-shaped pieces. The farm puzzle has 14 puzzle pieces including three animal pieces: a cow, a dog and a sheep. The safari puzzle has 11 puzzle pieces. Children place the pieces onto the pegs and use the knob on one of the pieces or insert an animal figure into other pieces to rotate all of the gears. The puzzle boards have "2012 Small World Toys" on the bottom right.
Sold at: Toy stores nationwide and catalogs from May 2012 through October 2012 for about $25.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should immediately take the puzzles away from children and contact Small World Toys for a free replacement toy. After contacting Small World Toys, the recalled toys should be destroyed and disposed of in a manner to prevent future use.
Consumer Contact: Small World Toys at 800.421.4153 from 7:00 am to 4:00 pm PT Monday through Friday, e-mail email@example.com, or online at www.smallworldtoys.com, then click on Recall for more information.
Name of Product: BabyHome High Chair
Hazard: The front opening between the tray and seat bottom of the high chair can allow a child's body to pass through and become entrapped at the neck. This poses a strangulation hazard to young children when the child is not harnessed.
Incidents/Injuries: None reported.
Description: This recall includes Eat model high chairs in red, black, green, purple, navy, orange, and brown. The model number BH2104 is located on a label on the back of the high chair. The word "babyhome" is printed on one leg of the chair and the word "eat" is printed on the opposite leg of the chair. The high chairs have a nylon fabric seat with a plastic tray and metal frame. The high chairs measure about 36 inches high and 24 inches wide. There is a printed white "babyhome" logo shaped like a backwards letter "h" on the seatback. The recalled high chairs have lot numbers: BH00301/01-2012, BH00303/07-2012, BH00304/09-2012 and BH00304/09-2012. The lot numbers are located on a sticker affixed to the bottom of the footrest.
Sold at: Juvenile product stores nationwide including USA Baby, Magic Beans and RC Willey and online at Amazon.com, Babiesrus.com and Diapers.com from March 2012 through February 2013 for about $150.
Manufactured in: China
Remedy: Consumers should stop using the high chairs immediately and contact BabyHome USA to receive a free crotch restraint repair kit.
Consumer Contact: BabyHome USA Inc. toll-free at 888.758.5712 from 9:00 am to 5:00 pm ET Monday through Friday, or online at www.babyhome.es and click on Eat Recall for more information.


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The Audio Spotlight: Beams of Sound from Ultrasound
F. Joseph Pompei, Holosonics
Friday, March 2, 2012, 3:30pm
Spanos Auditorium
This seminar is part of the Jones Seminars on Science, Technology, and Society series.
Audio Spotlight technology allows extremely narrow beams of sound to be generated via the nonlinear interaction of ultrasound in air. Invented at MIT by Dr. Joseph Pompei, the technology has been commercialized and is now widely adapted for display applications, private listening in shared spaces, artistic use, and special effects. The physics and mathematics behind the technology will be presented, along with a live demonstration, and various real-world applications will be discussed.
About the Speaker
Dr. Joseph Pompei began his career in acoustics at 16 as the youngest engineer at Bose Corporation, continuing at Bose while earning a degree in Electrical Engineering with an Electronic Arts minor from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. Recognizing the importance and underutilization of spatialized sound, he decided to pursue research in psychoacoustics at Northwestern University, earning a Master's degree. Acutely aware of the limitations of traditional loudspeakers, he had the idea of using ultrasound as an acoustic projector, calling it the "Audio Spotlight," and developed the fundamental technology at the MIT Media Lab while earning his Ph.D. Without external investors, he founded Holosonics.


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ACParadise Network: American Cosplay Paradise American Cosplay Experience American Cosplay Snapshots
Cosplayer Eve > Costume of Kuroh Yatogami (K / K Project)
- Most Recent Photo
- 02-02-2013
- Series
- K / K Project
- Character
- Kuroh Yatogami
- Special Variation:
- apron waifu
- Year Completed:
- 2012
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- Anime LA 2013
About this Costume
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Not confident enough to put the little puppy face and went with my own version on the official apron. Lined with pink bubbles on the other side and inside the working pockets. Pocket details done with fabric markers.
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If we're all being put to work as consumers in the production of the things we buy, it must be having an effect on the landscape of our cities.
During the Industrial Revolution, the United States filled its cities with factories. Those manufacturing facilities quickly came to define the landscape of a time when America was in the business of producing things.
Then came a new era after the 1950s, when we started to produce less but consumed much more. Our communities came to be defined instead by "cathedrals of consumption," as sociologist George Ritzer calls them, or malls, fast-food joints and big-box stores.
Now we may be shifting yet again, this time back to the kind of society that was the norm for most of human history. Increasingly, we live in neither a producer nor a consumer society. Most of us, throughout our days, do both, often simultaneously. We're all prosumers now.
So it stands to reason that just as America's industrial and consumer revolutions changed our landscape, so too will this one, in ways both potentially good and bad that we have yet to define. The idea of "prosumption" may also be a more useful tool for thinking about communities, cities and how we consume than the more niche modern concepts of the "sharing economy" and "collaborative consumption."
Writer Alvin Toffler first coined the term "prosumer" back in 1980. And Ritzer, a professor at the University of Maryland, has thought and published extensively about it since. Twenty years ago, he wrote the first edition of the book The McDonaldization of Society, which warned that more and more of us were being put to work as consumers in the production of the things we buy. Think about your experience at a McDonald's. Servers don't wait on you. You wait for them, in line at the cash register. You also fill your own soft drink cup, collect your own condiments, carry it all to your own table, and then clean up after yourself when you're done.
In Ritzer's view, you've just done half the work involved with your hamburger – and you've done it for free. "I'm not sure the consumer reflects upon the fact that basically they're working for nothing," he says (and he's unconvinced that you've just done all that work in exchange for a cheaper hamburger). But the trick of prosumption is that consumers like doing this. We appreciate the ability to do our banking at an ATM, and to pump our own gas, and to print our own tickets at the airport. Some of us even enjoy swiping our own shampoo across the counter at the drug store.
"From this point of view of a capitalism system, this is a boon," Ritzer says. Consumers have taken on many of the roles formerly done by workers, and so large corporations like McDonald's don't have to hire quite so many of them.
The same concept has taken off on the Internet, where consumers now have the ability to put in their own orders for just about everything, to customize what they buy, to create their own markets on Craigslist or make their own TV clips for YouTube. On the Internet, anyone can create their own content (please comment below on this story for free!). And this newfound sense of producer empowerment – or exploitation, depending on how you look at it – migrates into how we behave and consume offline.
Ritzer looks at all of this, he acknowledges, from the vantage point of an older generation.
"I remember a time before McDonald's, and McDonald's was a striking phenomenon for me. The cathedrals of consumption were a striking phenomenon for me," he says. "My baseline is always to remember when I went to the corner grocery store in New York and the grocer did the work. I came in with a list, and the grocer went around the store and got my stuff for me, and off I went."
Ritzer's work has never specifically focused on urban society, but his own memory speaks to the fact that these sociological shifts change the shape of our cities, too. So many of the trends afoot in cities today are also a form of "prosumption," even if we haven't been calling them that. Urban gardeners are prosumers. So are homebrewers. If you've ever done your day job out of a coffee shop (producing your spreadsheet while consuming their coffee), that's a kind of prosumption. Carshare services are, too: They entail consumers working together to produce their own transit (or, to look at it differently, to cab themselves around town). And, just like at McDonald's, you're supposed to clean up after yourself when you're done.
Among the younger generation, many of these activities bear a different name, one with none of the uneasy connotations that "prosumption" carries for Ritzer. It's called, of course, "DIY." Ritzer, though, has focused on the kind of prosumption that benefits corporations trying to sell you something (as in building your own Ikea furniture).
"From my critical perspective, raising community gardens, or DIY, what I fear is that this gives all of this a romantic, positive take and obscures the exploitative side of it," Ritzer says. "Probably what needs to be done is that those two types of prosumption need to be carefully separated."
It does seem undeniable, though, that both prosumption types are on the rise, and that together they will change our physical landscape as well. "In the United States we are moving toward some other kind of model, which I don't think is well defined," Ritzer says. "Whatever it is, I think it's going to rely more and more on the prosumer."
Here is one thing we already know: Some places like bookshops and electronics stores will physically disappear just as Ritzer's old-school grocer did, because the digital prosumer needs only an internet connection on one end of a transaction and an anonymous warehouse somewhere on the other. Perhaps, as the factory was to the industrial age, and the mega-mall to the consumer one, the vast Amazon warehouse is the symbol of the next phase.
Cities will surely also change in ways that seem less concerning, as more urban farms or rooftop gardens crop up, or as traditional office space gives way to the less structured coffee shop/cowork café, or as the distinction between home and work fades away yet more.
The industrial revolution introduced for the first time this physical and theoretical separation between production and consumption. At the start of the industrial revolution, millions of people left home to go to work for the first time (imagine, before then, the shopkeeper who lived above his shop). Over the years we came to literally codify this separation in our cities, creating zones meant for factories and commerce, and neighborhoods reserved for our homes. If a new prosumer society can also help blur all the lines we've drawn between the separate uses of urban space, that could be a good thing.
But beware, Ritzer warns, of its darker side.
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Commuter rail service resumed Friday in the San Francisco Bay area after unions called off a strike, agreeing with the transit agency to extend a labor contract for a month while they continue bargaining.
At the Civic Center station in San Francisco the whooshing sound of trains could be heard around 3 p.m. as lines started forming at the ticket machines and Clipper cards were tapped at the turnstiles.
An announcement over the PA system stated, "BART is now open for service."
Friday morning commuters still had to get to work for a fifth day without BART service, however.
As the two parties broke off negotiations shortly before 11 p.m. Thursday, California Labor Secretary Marty Morgenstern announced that the parties will return to work Friday morning and have trains running "in time for the Giants game."
Negotiations will continue for the next month as a new contract has yet to be agreed on, but the agreement recommended by state mediators to extend BART's exiting contract will keep the trains running until at least Aug. 4, Morgenstern said.
Once a new contract is approved, it will be retroactive to July 1, the day that the previous contract had expired.
"We're very, very pleased that these workers will be back to work and the trains will be running again in the Bay Area," Morgenstern said. "The battle's not over, the job's not done, and everyone will be working as hard as they have between now and Aug. 4 to make sure that they have a good contract that keeps the trains running."
Morgenstern said he and two top state mediators urged the bargaining parties to agree to an extension of the current labor deal as both groups have said repeatedly that they were far apart in terms of reaching a new deal.
BART General Manager Grace Crunican agreed there is still a wide gap. Key sticking points in the labor dispute include salaries, pensions, health care and safety.
"Unfortunately, the issues that brought us to this point remain unresolved," Crunican said. "Despite lots of hard work, BART and its unions have failed to come to an agreement on contract issues that matter to all of us today and into the future."
Josie Mooney, a chief negotiator for SEIU, Local 1021, said late Thursday that there's still a lot of work left to do and asked the public to keep the parties on task.
"We stand together tonight and we expect to be standing together with a new contract at the end of August 4 and we hope to goodness that you insist that all the parties do the right thing," Mooney said.
BART serves more than 400,000 commuters each weekday. The transit system carries passengers from the farthest reaches of San Francisco's densely populated eastern suburbs to San Francisco International Airport across the bay.
A total of 35 trains were in service as of 3 p.m., when service resumed on the BART system, according to agency officials.
BART has said workers from the two unions average about $71,000 in base salary and $11,000 in overtime annually. The workers also pay a flat $92 monthly fee for health insurance.
The unions -- which represent nearly 2,400 train operators, station agents, mechanics, maintenance workers and professional staff -- want a 5 percent raise each year over the next three years.
BART said it is offering an 8 percent salary increase over the next four years as well as reducing the amount of employee contributions it originally requested for pension and medical benefits.
Antonette Bryant, the ATU Local 1555 president, said late Thursday that BART is "on notice" and has 30 days to hammer out a deal.
"We're not going to let them hijack us and the riding public and we are deeply sorry this had to happen," Bryant said.
Bay City News contributed to this report.


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When We Make It In America, America's Families Will Make It Too
This Congress, Democrats continue to advance the "Make It In America" agenda, a plan to support job creation today and in the future by encouraging businesses to innovate and make products in the US and sell them to the world through strengthening our infrastructure and prioritizing investments in key areas like education and energy innovation. This effort builds on House Democrats' actions to create jobs and continue growing the economy and focuses on investing in key priorities while cutting wasteful spending.
Since the 1970's, manufacturing has been in a steep decline, shrinking from 20 million jobs in 1979 to fewer than 12 million jobs today. However, 2010 and 2011 have seen a resurgence of the manufacturing sector that we need to build on.
- Manufacturing in the U.S. expanded in March at close to the fastest pace in almost seven years, and has seen 21 straight months of growth.
- In 2010, the manufacturing sector added 152,000 jobs.
- Manufacturing employment increases in 2010 and 2011 mark the longest stretch of growth since 1997.
Job losses in the manufacturing sector contributed to the stagnation of the middle class over the past decade—from 2002 to 2008, the median household income fell by $2,000. Democrats are focused on reversing this trend and rebuilding the middle class by making sound investments in:
- Our ability to out-educate our competitors and ensure we have a competitive workforce;
- Our ability to out-innovate our competitors and keep America the world leader in cutting-edge fields and technology;
- And our ability to out-build our competitor and strengthen infrastructure so that we can move products quickly and cheaply.
This is a comprehensive effort that includes:
- Investing in infrastructure and supporting the flow of commerce
- Keeping America competitive
- Supporting small businesses
- Smart tax policy
- Clean energy jobs
- Innovative education policy
By focusing on these critical investments in our future, we can create an environment that:
- Creates good-paying middle class jobs;
- Boosts America's global competitiveness;
- Helps to spur growth in other areas of the economy that support manufacturing.
A number of Make It In America bills have already been signed into law and are helping to foster an environment that encourages manufacturers to innovate, grow, keep and create good jobs in the U.S.:
- U.S. Manufacturing Enhancement Act: Makes it cheaper for American companies to obtain the materials they need to manufacture goods.
- Protecting American Patents: Helps the Patent Office to begin to unclog the backlog – totaling about 1.2 million pending applications – by giving the agency access to more of the fees it collects so that patent applications can continue to be processed and innovative ideas can continue to move to market.
- Preventing Outsourcing: Legislation prevents the outsourcing of U.S. jobs by closing tax loopholes that encourage companies to send U.S. jobs overseas.
- Small Business Jobs Act: Expands much needed lending to millions of small businesses and offers tax incentives to help small businesses grow, hire, and fuel our economy, without adding a dime to the deficit.
- Energy Jobs and Training for Veterans Act: Provides grants for programs to provide on-the-job training, apprenticeship, real experience, and long-term employment in all energy fields.
- COMPETES Act: Establishes innovative technology federal loan guarantees for small- and medium-sized manufacturers and invests in science, technology, engineering, and math education.


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"The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only one example."
"Thirty was so strange for me. I've really had to come to terms with the fact that I am now a walking and talking adult."
"Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees."
"I have never been bored an hour in my life. I get up every morning wondering what new strange glamorous thing is going to happen and it happens at fairly regular intervals."
"The modern American tourist now fills his experience with pseudo-events. He has come to expect both more strangeness and more familiarity than the world naturally offers. He has come to believe that he can have a lifetime of adventure in two weeks and all the thrills of risking his life without any real risk at all."


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Though the personnel went unchanged, the Crew side that took the field to start the second half of Saturday's match at Sporting Kansas City looked dramatically different than the team that went into halftime trailing 1-0 following Kei Kamara's sublime finish in the 34th minute.
"We said at halftime, 'just go and win the second half, win the next 45 minutes,'" Crew Head Coach Robert Warzycha said after the match.
"Actually, the second 45 minutes were much better than the first half."
With Jairo Arrieta moving forward into the attack from the wing, the Black & Gold came out firing as the Costa Rican single handedly led a 65-yard effort to split defenders and beat Kansas City 'keeper Jimmy Nielsen to level the match in the 48th minute.
Sporting went ahead once again in the 50th minute on Claudio Bieler's volley past Andy Gruenebaum, but the resilient Crew answered just three minutes later when Dominic Oduro intercepted Seth Sinovic's pass to finish past Nielsen for the equalizer.
"Both of our goals kind of came from nothing. We weren't really able to keep possession tonight," veteran defender Chad Marshall said after the match. "Jairo [Arrieta] made a good run to beat their center back and he slotted it well."
But the night belonged to Kamara, as the former Crew striker tallied in the 80th minute to lead Sporting to victory despite a Konrad Warzycha chance to even things up in the 94th minute that missed inches wide.
Now the Crew must regroup before flying to Los Angeles for an Independence Day tilt with the Galaxy.
"We just need to tighten up defensively and take advantage of our chances," Goalkeeper Andy Gruenebaum said. "I'd like to score one without giving one up for a change."
Added Robert Warzycha: "We have to go to LA and try to play the same way, play with intensity and try to win the game."


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MLB-record 11 straight hits power Rox in rout
By Thomas Harding / MLB.com
Gonzalez's two-out RBI single in the eighth gave the Rockies a four-run lead, meaning it was no longer a save situation.
"I was like, 'OK, Huston, I'm going to try to get this run, then you're not going to get to work,'" Gonzalez said. "That's when everything started."
It didn't end until the Rockies had hit their way into the record book. The Rockies finished the inning with a club single-inning record 13 hits, and a Major League-record 11 consecutive hits while turning a potential save situation into a 17-2 victory at Coors Field.
The consecutive hits record and the Rockies' franchise-record 12 runs in the eighth all came with two outs. The Rockies sent 18 batters to the plate against three pitchers. Melvin Mora singled with no outs as a pinch-hitter and was one of five Rockies with two hits in an inning that saw Ian Stewart and Dexter Fowler hit two-run homers, and Troy Tulowitzki double twice.
"I was up there twice and was like, 'It would be OK if we ended it now,' but I didn't want to be the guy that made the last out," said catcher Chris Iannetta, who tripled and walked. "I think everyone felt the same way."
By the time Gonzalez came up a second time, he had forgotten about the original goal of adding to a lead and saving Street for another night.
"I was like, 'Are you kidding me? Are we still scoring?'" he said.
Just a couple days ago, the Rockies were reeling from an eight-game losing streak and report after report was claiming they were going to start breaking up the club before Saturday's 2 p.m. MT non-waiver Trade Deadline.
But after a 9-3 victory Thursday to avert being swept by the lowly Pirates and Friday's romp, the Rockies have suddenly found offense and hope. They trail the Padres in the National League West by eight games and the Giants in the Wild Card by 5 1/2.
"Those are good pitchers they're throwing out there, too," Tulowitzki said. "It wasn't like guys that just got called up. Those guys had some good numbers.
"I don't know what the difference is. Baseball is a game of momentum. Once you get going, you roll a little bit."
Since the eighth inning bordered on absurd, let's take that away for a moment. Friday still would have been a ship-righting game.
Starting pitcher Jeff Francis (4-3) held the Cubs to four hits, struck out five and walked one in six innings, and didn't crack until the Cubs scored twice in the sixth.
Seth Smith doubled in two runs and Iannetta drew a bases-loaded walk from Ryan Dempster (8-8) in a three-run second, and Gonzalez knocked his team-leading 20th homer of the season off Dempster to open a two-run fifth.
Relief pitchers Matt Belisle and Rafael Betancourt combined for five strikeouts in the seventh and eighth innings.
"It was a terrific baseball tonight," Rockies manager Jim Tracy said. "Even if we wouldn't have gotten 17 runs."
It could have easily been Street trying to prevent a Cubs comeback, instead of recently activated Taylor Buchholz, easing into action after missing a year because of right elbow surgery, working with a 15-run lead in the ninth.
Clint Barmes doubled and Mora singled to open the eighth, but Sean Marshall struck out Fowler and Ryan Spilborghs. Gonzalez's single and doubles by Tulowitkzi and Brad Hawpe drove him from the game. Andrew Cashner gave up six straight hits, including the Stewart and Fowler homers, and Brian Schlitter walked two and yielded two hits before Stewart flied to center -- two batters from seeing Mora appear three times in an inning he entered as a pinch-hitter.
"If you come in as a pinch-hitter in an inning, how many hits is a record?" Iannetta said.
Cubs manager Lou Piniella was just happy to close the book.
"Forget me," Piniella said. "I feel bad for my pitchers. I feel bad for the young kids trying to get the job done and they get in trouble and don't have the answers on how to get out of it."
Two of the key figures in the inning, Gonzalez, who singled twice, and Fowler, whose homer was his third of the season, showed the benefits of coming to work sick.
Fowler said he has strep throat. His airways were nearly closed Thursday, and he visited a doctor Friday.
"My head was pounding the whole game," Fowler said.
Gonzalez said he's suffering from stomach aches and general soreness, and did not eat all day.
"During batting practice, Dexter and I were talking to each other, trying to keep ourselves in the lineup and trying to do the best we can," Gonzalez said.
Both were still ill, but 17 runs and a good night's rest should help.
Thomas Harding is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Pete Wentz has nothing but love for his ex-wife Ashlee Simpson, with whom he shares custody of their 4-year-old son, Bronx. During an appearance on Bravo's Watch What Happens Live April 15, the Fall Out Boy bassist praised the "Bat for a Heart" singer's mothering skills.
PHOTOS: Pete Wentz and Ashlee Simpson, the way they were
"I feel like we both realize that we're parents and we're in it for our kid. That's made it really easy," Wentz said of the musician, 28. "I feel like, as a mom, she's awesome. She's an awesome mom and we get along really well when it comes to our kid now."
PHOTOS: Ashlee Simpson's ever-changing hairstyles
Wentz, 33, also had some kind words for his former father-in-law, Joe Simpson. "I think he is a really great grandfather," the rocker said. "Really good guy." (Joe and Tina Simpson filed for divorce in the fall of 2012 after 30 years of marriage.)
PHOTOS: Ashlee and Jessica Simpson through the years
Since his split with Ashlee in 2011, Wentz has been dating model Meagan Camper. The former MTV reality star, meanwhile, dated Boardwalk Empire's Vincent Piazza for a year and a half; they split in November 2012.
This article originally appeared on Usmagazine.com: Pete Wentz Praises Ex-Wife Ashlee Simpson: "She's an Awesome Mom" to Bronx


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Guests have the choice between relaxing in the communal swimming pool connected to the apartment or swimming in the sea which is just a 10 minute walk away. The popular Kolimpithres Beach is located in the bay and is just a 5-minute drive away.
The apartment is situated on the outskirts of the popular fishing settlement of Naousa. The town boasts some excellent bars, traditional whitewashed houses and boutiques. The waterfront is packed with restaurants serving freshly caught fish.
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Speaker examines 'Memoir Boom'
BRATTLEBORO -- The Vermont Humanities Council First Wednesdays Lecture series continues on Jan. 2 at 7 p.m., with Dartmouth professor Irene Kacandes, who will examine the broad appeal of memoirs in her talk, "The Memoir Boom: Who, What, Why" at Brooks Memorial Library.
An experimental memoirist, Kacandes will discuss current approaches to life writing and consider why people continue to love reading about others' lives.
Kacandes is professor of German studies and comparative literature at Dartmouth College, and is currently chairwoman of the German Studies Department. She is author of "Daddy's War: Greek American Stories" and "Talk Fiction: Literature and the Talk Explosion." She holds undergraduate and graduate degrees from Harvard University.
The Vermont Humanities Council's First Wednesdays series is held on the first Wednesday of every month from October through May, featuring speakers of national and regional renown. Talks in Brattleboro are held at Brooks Memorial Library unless otherwise noted. All First Wednesdays talks are free.
Upcoming Brattleboro talks include "Concrete, Culture, and Community: The Impact of the Interstate Highway on Vermont" with UVM professor Frank Bryan on Feb. 6; "Confront and Conceal: Obama's Secret Wars and Surprising Use of American Power" with New York Times chief Washington correspondent David Sanger on Monday, Feb. 18 (at First Baptist Church, a rescheduled talk); and "Giants: The Parallel Lives of Frederick Douglass and Abraham Lincoln" with Harvard professor John Stauffer on March 6.
The Vermont Department of Libraries is the statewide underwriter of First Wednesdays. The 2012-13
Brooks Memorial Library is sponsored by Brattleboro Savings and Loan, Downs Rachlin Martin PLLC, Friends of Brooks Memorial Library, New Chapter, Inc., Vermont Country Store and Windham World Affairs Council of Vermont.
For more information, contact Brooks Memorial Library at 802-254-5290 or www.brooks.lib.vt.us or contact the Vermont Humanities Council at 802-262-2626 or email@example.com, or visit www.vermonthumanities .org.
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CNN's First Openly Gay News Anchor Is Not Anderson Cooper
CNN anchor Don Lemon has a new memoir out. In it, he admits that he is gay—something that was widely known within the news industry already. Let's parse this quote that Don gives to the NYT:
"I abhor hypocrisy. I think if you're going to be in the business of news, and telling people the truth, of trying to shed light in dark places, then you've got to be honest. You've got to have the same rules for yourself as you do for everyone else."
What's the subtext there, I wonder? Eh, it was probably nothing.
We salute you, first openly gay CNN news anchor!
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo.—The partnership that owns the Garden of the Gods Club is putting it on the market.
The properties include 66 guest rooms, a 27-hole golf course, a 43,000-square-foot main building, a golf clubhouse and recreation center near one of Colorado's iconic tourist attractions, where rocks and spires tower in the sky.
According to the Colorado Springs Gazette ( http://tinyurl.com/bfthrjl), the partnership is in the process of hiring a resort broker to market the property and hasn't set an asking price.
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With a design aesthetic that is dangerously sexy, yet classically innocent, Anenberg's inimitable style is unique, edgy and versatile. Her work has garnered the acclaim of fashion and pop culture media, such as Marie Claire, People Magazine, and Fine Jewelry News. InStyle Magazine promoted its "What's Sexy Now" issue with 5,000 of her sterling-silver word rings and Elton John ordered 1,000 of Erica's specialty key chains for his legendary gift bags for the Oscars Governor's Ball. Erica's achievements as a businesswoman and groundbreaking artist has resulted in articles on her everywhere from the Los Angeles Times to Entrepreneur Magazine's list of Rising Stars.
Although Erica is best known for her talent in bringing fashion jewelry to life; for example, she is the original designer of the Twosome� ring which debuted in Maxfield LA in 2001, she is a true multimedia artist. She has been honored to design public works projects, such as the stained glass windows which adorn L.A.'s famed Kabbalah Center Synagogue, and signature event pieces, such as the 16-foot stained-glass ice bar for the Oscars and intimate glass keepsakes for guests at the Emmy Awards.
"My collection is how I help people tell their own story through creative expression," says Erica, "I make jewelry which reflects the individuality of the wearer." Her line of braille jewelry, in particular, has been recognized for its subtle conveyance of powerful messages. The Today Show has highlighted Erica's rings, pendants, and bracelets as an example of "the best trend" in fashion jewelry and Daily Candy declared Erica's jewelry to be the "go-to pieces in your jewelry box."
After graduating from California State University (Northridge) with a degree in photography, Erica studied glass at Pilchuck in Seattle and jewelry design at Otis Parsons College of Art and Design. Erica's collection is available at high-end retail locations in the U.S. and Japan, such as Dillards, Henri Bendel, Nordstrom and Kitson (who cited her as its top-selling accessory designer).