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PORTLAND, Ore. MIT researchers said they have succeeded in using radio waves to mix the 50 million degree C plasma at its Alcator C-Mod fusion reactor.
While a host of obstacles remain for bringing commercial fusion reactors online, the ability to use radio waves to quell plasma turbulence has been a stumbling block to further progress.
"Ours is the first definitive result showing that high-power radio waves can significantly affect the flow of the plasma," said physicist Earl Marmar, division head of the Alcator Project at MIT's Plasma Science and Fusion Center.
"We launched several million watts of radio waves into the plasma using a dipole antenna at frequencies ranging between 50 and 80 megahertz," Marmar added. "In the process, we are breaking up the turbulent eddies--making them smaller--which will ultimately determine how well the magnetic bottle is confining the plasma."
A doughnut-shaped magnetic bottle is required to confine plasma heated to temperatures that no solid container could withstand. The Alcator C-Mod, which has the highest plasma pressure of any facility, contains plasma using the highest magnetic field of any fusion reactor. Thus, MIT's demonstration of RF "mix and stir" also be used in other fusion reactors, such as International Thermonuclear Experimental Reactor now under construction in France.
Radio frequencies were first proposed to control plasma flow 20 years ago. MIT researchers claim their technique is the first to experimentally confirm that the technique works in a fusion reactor. The RF mix-and-stir method was perfected by MIT physicist Yijun Lin and principal researcher John Rice.
Next, the MIT researchers plan to optimize their process by adjusting the frequency of the radio waves, the strength of the magnetic field and the mix of ions in the plasma.
Nevertheless, several hurdles still must be overcome before fusion reactors can be commercialized, including engineering materials to capture and neutralize the high-energy neutron flux, a by-product of the fusion reaction. Neutrons are not radioactive, but current methods of capturing them in a blanket surrounding the reactor produce radioactive by-products.
Marmar noted that neutron flux is not part of the radioactive waste created when they are captured in a "blanket" surrounding the reactor.
Compared to fusion reactors, current commercial fission reactors produce many times more radioactive waste, with half-lives in the tens of thousands of years. Proponents of nuclear fusion reactors argue that radioactive by-products from the fusing of atoms has a half-life shorter than 100 years.
Fusion critics say confinement and storage of radioactive by-products must still be solved before fusion reactors can be commercialized.


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For liberals, facts are never really important. "Truth" to liberals like Democrat New York City Congressman Jerrold Nadler is what he "feels" it is. Nadler has said: "Hunters don't use large ammunition clips, and as far as self- defense, I mean who are you defending yourself against? If you're defending yourself against a robber… two or three or four shots should be enough—period."
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It's a safe bet Nadler has never faced an assailant fueled by adrenalin drugs and alcohol. That doesn't matter, of course, since no one will ever challenge Nadler on his supposed knowledge of the danger presented by people who are psychotic and drunk – "period."
The "period" at the end of Nadler's pronouncement is the classic liberal dismissal of anyone daring to disagree with their use of "feelings" as facts.
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Nadler's fantasy about real shooting combat brings up the death of New York City Police Sergeant Edward J. Johnson.
On January 8, 1960, Sergeant Johnson and his driver were on patrol in the Bowery district of lower Manhattan. The area was dotted with dozens of soup kitchens that catered to the skid row drunks and mental patients who freely walked New York's streets.
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Johnson responded to a call of a man with a knife who was menacing the staff and clients of one of those soup kitchens. When Johnson arrived, another team of cops was already on the scene and attempting to subdue the man in a narrow hallway. He was clearly a drunken paranoid schizophrenic. He had a 16 inch bread knife and was not giving it up.
At some point, the man lunged at Johnson; and all four cops started shooting from less than seven feet away. They fired 24 shots, hitting him 16 times. Four of the shots should have killed the drunken psychotic instantly. One cleanly severed his spinal cord; another went through his heart. None of those shots killed him fast enough to stop him from plunging his knife into Sergeant Edward Johnson's heart. Johnson died at the scene. The drunken psychotic died seconds later, but way too late.
Jerrold Nadler is a jackass; but he "feels" the right way about guns, so that's good enough – period.
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Fort Lewis College womens lacrosse added a California prospect during the early signing period.
Shea Wales will head from Oakland, Calif., to Durango next fall and will join the Skyhawks for the 2014 campaign.
The versatile 5-5 Wales played center, attack and defensive wing for Bishop ODowd High School, starting on varsity the last two seasons and earning all-conference second-team honors as a junior last season.
She led the Dragons in assists, caused turnovers and groundballs as a junior, and she was second on the team in draw controls and fourth in scoring.
Shea is an excellent athlete who has a great field sense from also playing competitive soccer in high school, FLC third-year head coach Kelsey MacDonald said in a news release. She is a hard worker both on the lacrosse field and in the classroom.
Wales competed in club lacrosse for Tenacity10 and BearLax and helped Bishop ODowd to a league soccer title as a junior.
FLC finished 7-8 last year with a 4-4 record in the Western Intercollegiate Lacrosse Association. The Skyhawks will open their 2013 campaign Feb. 22 at Colorado Mesa before opening at home against McKendree on March 12.


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Reus hat-trick leads Dortmund to easy win
Germany midfielder Marco Reus netted a hat-trick in Borussia Dortmund's 3-0 win over Eintracht Frankfurt on Saturday, but the champions had a striker sent off for the second time in the space of a week.
Dortmund's win left them second in the league, but 15 points behind leaders Bayern Munich, who show no sign of releasing their grip on the Bundesliga after earning their 18th win in 22 matches with a 2-0 win at VfL Wolfsburg on Friday.
After Dortmund's Poland striker Robert Lewandowski had earned a three-game ban for being sent off against Hamburg last Saturday, his replacement Julian Schieber was dismissed for a second yellow against Frankfurt.
He is also now banned for the next game, leaving Dortmund without a specialist striker in their squad.
There were two goals, two yellow cards and the subsequent red in a frantic opening 30 minutes.
Reus hit the back of the net on eight minutes after a dream pass from Mario Goetze, while centre-back Mats Hummels produced a similar pass soon after as Reus made it 2-0 in as many minutes.
With Lewandowski suspended, Schieber was clearly eager to take his opportunity, but his over-zealous challenge on Frankfurt's Carlos Zambrano earned him a yellow card on 27 minutes.
He then saw red just four minutes later when his stray elbow on defender Bastian Oczipka earned him a second booking.
Despite the numerical disadvantage, Reus moved up front to complete his hat-trick on 65 minutes when he fired home after Goetze had again caused havoc.
Frankfurt were also reduced to 10 men with 15 minutes left when Japan midfielder Takashi Inui earned a second yellow card.
Schalke's poor Bundesliga form continued on as they twice came from behind for a 2-2 draw at Mainz ahead of Wednesday's Champions League trip to Istanbul's Galatasaray.
Bayer Leverkusen are third after their 2-1 win at home to relegation-threatened Augsburg as striker Stefan Kiessling and midfielder Lars Bender both scored.
Dutch midfielder Rafael van der Vaart scored his first goal for Hamburg since May 2008 with a spectacular 24th-minute thunderbolt to secure a 1-0 win over Borussia Moenchengladbach to move his team up to sixth.
Freiburg stay fifth, and amongst the European places, with a 3-2 win at Werder Bremen while Greuther Fuerth stay bottom after their 1-0 defeat to Fortuna Duesseldorf.
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RWC organisers must learn from London 2012
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England Rugby 2015 officials have been urged to take note of the national pride evident at London 2012 including that on-show following cyclist Bradley Wiggins gold medal triumph © Getty Images
Former England international Ben Kay has urged the organisers of the 2015 Rugby World Cup to tap into London's successful staging of the 2012 Olympics.
Writing in his exclusive ESPNscrum column, Kay has heaped praise on the London Organising Committee of the Olympic Games (LOCOG) and believes they have produced a template that can only benefit England's staging of rugby's showpiece event in a little over three years' time.
"I have been fortunate enough to go to a number of sporting events and I can't remember one as organised as well as this one - and as much fun," said the ESPN analyst. "It make you very proud to be British and hopefully it will serve as the perfect warm-up for when the Rugby World Cup returns here in a few years' time.
"It could be argued that the successful staging of the Olympics could cast a shadow across any future event but the World Cup organisers will have no doubt learnt so much. I am sure they will be mining the brains of those people who put it all together for LOCOG and there will probably also be a crossover of people who worked on the Olympics who will now move onto the World Cup."
England Rugby 2015 (ER2015), a subsidiary of the Rugby Football Union, is responsible for organising and delivering what is expected to be the biggest-ever Rugby World Cup, delivering a forecasted record boost to the global game, but Kay has warned that the action is just one part of puzzle.
"The Olympics has been phenomenally successful in so many ways. I went to the beach volleyball this week and was not only impressed by the action but the events around what is a superb temporary arena at Horse Guards Parade. I know ER2015 are already onto that and thinking about what they can do outside the stadiums that will generate the interest.
"Not everyone will be able to go to the games or want to but if you can generate the feeling around it and the national pride and party atmosphere then they are onto a winner - the rugby will look after itself."
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Sunday Rewind: "My Interview with Victor,the GIECO Caveman
Blogger's Note: As usual it is Sunday, which means a drop back into the Rays Renegade vault for a blog posted sometimes between the end of the 2008 season and the 2009 final game. Today I am going to be posting again my Interview with Victor, the GIECO Caveman that took in a game at Tropicana Field back on July 29,2009. It was fun chatting with him and getting to know a person outside of the Rays Republic's views on the game.
Prior to the fifth inning of last night's "rubber match" against the New York Yankees, I got to sit down for a few minutes and do a short 1-on-1 interview with an Cleo award winning icon. No, it was not movie actress and A Rod squeeze Kate Hudson, but it was someone we have gotten to know better from watching their lighthearted humor in their classic television commercials.
I had the honor to go back-and-forth for about five minutes with Victor,the GIECO Caveman and we chatted right there in the Checker's Bullpen Cafe during the top of the inning about life,art and the constant similarities of fame and recognition (or that was the idea).
Rays Renegade: Victor, thank you again for taking the time during this thrilling game tonight to chat with me. It is amazing that you can give me some of your valuable time today to chat here in this great setting just off the Rays Bullpen area. So what do you think of the Rays home? It does have some wild things about it.
Victor: First off, let me thank the enitre Tampa Bay Rays organization and their cowbell wielding fans for the opportunity to take in such a zany game environment and check out this techno 1970's style indoor stadium. It is amazing that it is always 72 degrees in this white dome. Simply Amazing! But why is it tilted? Did someone not put a firm foundation in one end?
Rays Renegade: Well, Victor, thank you for noticing that. It is our home, even with it odd imperfections. It is actually a economic factor put into the original design to have a 6.5 degree tilt in the building to decreases the volume of air under the dome by 16.8 million cubic feet by taking a lean towards the outfield fences. It is said to save massive amount of energy and electric because of the funky shape. Plus this structure is built to withstand sustained winds of up to 115 mph during a hurricane
Victor: Hey, I dig funky man, but this place is just insane with the catwalks and the Rays tank, and even that guy in the Centerfield Street crashing through the building by the Taco stand. Speaking of funky, you ever see my dance moves video. Classic Jazz hands moves man, you would love it! Oh, and check out that video of me on "the View" with the ladies. Whoopie was loving me that day.
Rays Renegade: Uh, yeah. The Rays Touch Tank is actually in conjunction with the Florida Aquarium over in Tampa to let kids and adults get the joy of petting over 20 real live cownose rays without fear of the bards or shuffling your feet in the sand. I am surprised they did not let you up into the catwalks during BP to just survey the place from a different angle? You know the center bottom of the cupola is about 225 feet above the playing surface.
Victor: Dude, that was not going to be in the cards, but it was on my "wish list" while visiting the stadium. Even though I am not the kind of guy to go swinging up in the rafters, it would have been a once in a lifetime adventure . Man is meant to be on terra firma, not up in the fabricated steel of a lop-sided building. But anyways, did you see those fake and negative drawings on the wall at the Outback Steakhouse over in the Third Base Food Court?
Rays Renegade: What are you talking about? I thought those were Aborigines drawing depicting life in the Australian outback country. Do they have a negative imagery we do not know about? and why do you know that again? Come on Victor, you know something here.
Victor: First of all, just because I have long hair and a beard doesn't make me out to be a scientist or master in the ways of archeology here. I put in my long hours at the salt mines working just like the rest of Tampa Bay. And by the way, I am a practicing Paleolithic investigator that specializes in the art and culture of the "wild men" theory brought about in the 17th Century by Thomas Hobbes. I dig his theory on materialism.
Rays Renegade: Oh, you mean the British philosopher Thomas Hobbes. I never knew that the art of philosophy can bring about a job description, but I guess anything is possible. So you dabble in the fine arts and ancient cave drawing? How is it you got to know a thing or two about that Era of life?
Victor: What is with the sarcasm there buddy! Hey, I am someone who is investigating the meaning of life "without civilization" that Hobbes taught back about the time of the English Civil War in 1642. That during the Middle Ages these "wild men" were often unshaven and grew massive beards and long hair to define who they were in society. And that their unusual appearance led to them wielding sticks and club for protection and their survival in cave dwelling was for safety, not pleasure. It was a dark time to be different.
Rays Renegade: Sorry, did not mean to rattle your cage about your ancestry. But what about those drawing in the Outback booth again? And why do they seem so "fake" or unoriginal to you?
Victor: Not meaning to be so over dramatic, but that old commercial series we did for such a long time will not die. And I have spawned some trust and security issues because of it. Again, thank you for not asking about that advertising part of my life.
Okay, the drawing are really not badly racial or utterly fake in nature, they just portray the "corporate" settlers of the region eating Blooming Onions and Steak N 'Srooms instead of cooking and killing their prey like their ancestors. It is another example of this advertising mumbo jumbo to look like an authentic ritual drawing that is basically a subconscious advertising tool by the corporation that spawned the Outback name. It is a symbolic drawing of people eating……..fast food.
Rays Renegade: Wow! I usually come to a baseball game to watch history unfold, not explore the deep. dark secret of Corporate America. I guess I will look at that wall a bit differently from now on. Thank you for that. So, have you been around this area before?
Victor: Well, I did have distant relatives who lived here a long time ago and spoke highly about the seafood and the warm waters of the Gulf of Mexico, but this is my first time outside my area of the country. Back where I live, we do not get these balmy days with a shower in the afternoon and evenings. It actually has been a wild time seeing a sunset to the west, and a lightning storm to the east. Amazing stuff, and you guys are hidden from all of that under a dome.
Rays Renegade: Okay. That is a whole ball of wax in itself. The "Dome or no Dome theories". With all of that in mind. Victor where do you call home, you know lay your head at night and look up at the stars and dream?
Victor: Oh, there is that sarcastic wit I was told about with you. Are you trying to imply that I was born in a cave somewhere amongst the Catskill Mountains of New York or that I am a descendant of someone who resides in the hills of Kentucky or Tennessee, or that I have a striking similarity to some of the fans here tonight wearing pinstripes?
Rays Renegade: No, that is not my intention, but since you brought it up, you are not from the region of New York or New Jersey then? You strike me more as a guy from South Philly, maybe even from Chinatown. So where does Victor call home?
Victor: I live in the metropolis of New York City, but I am not a guy who lives in the Bronx, Brooklyn or even Queens. Because of the continuing success of the advertising campaign and their residual checks, I can afford to live life to the fullest. Why don't you just call me a Soho kind of guy, you know the bohemian, the relic, the "caveman". I live on the Lower East side, but I am a closet Mets fan.
Rays Renegade: Man, chill. I am just seeking the truth, nothing else. I just felt that you were hiding something from us here. The truth shall set you free Victor. Dude why are you so paranoid right now? Do you feel like someone is watching you?
Oh My Gosh. Dude, you are on camera right now on the Jumbotron!
And at that fastly developing moment, the Interview was definitely over. Not because Victor or myself was at odds with each other with our questions and answers banter, but as Victor had just looked up and he seen that he was the Rays nightly winner of the "GEICO Fan of the Game", his mood quickly went another direction.
And he instantly went a bit hyper on me and began to run around the Bullpen Cafe area wandering ever close to the playing field, and he then flew over the 3 foot blue wall and streaked quickly towards the GEICO advertisement sign in rightfield. At this point he flung his fists in rage at the plastic GEICO sign covering the right outfield wall and fell to the turf after a few moments in a heap of frustration and defeat before Rays security began to storm towards him.
It seems that the pressures of being both a caveman and a advertising icon/celebrity had gotten him past his threshold of anger and he took matters into his own hands that night. As the Rays security guards took a hold of him and they were physically dragging him from the field, all of us in the stadium could hear him mutter over and over again the phrase "Why could they have not just stayed with the animal theme. Why us!"
So as Rays security men Eric and Dan lead Victor off the field and towards a holding cell deep under the cavernous walls of Tropicana Field I wonder what would become of Victor. As he came off the field you could notice a distinctive change in his appearance and in his demeanor. He spoke briefly of the demons and resentments within him, but was this a cry for help, or a reassurance of the way his relatives have been singled out in recent years.
He had become more primal, more like, a caveman. And it was a pity. I still had a few interesting questions on his appearance in this area, and what is in his immediate future. But for right now, the future might be a little chat with the fine uniformed members of the St. Petersburg Police Department,and the Rays management team, then depending on the outcome of that chat, maybe a short ride to another location.
I hope to some day get a post-incident interview with him to talk about the event and clear the air on the situation. There was so much more to him than just that short interview. The commercials only show a small side of him and his struggle for acceptance within our society. For Victor right now, life is more like a reality show set to a Sit-Com soundtrack instead of living large and in charge.
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I remember that interview and enjoyed it. But what popped out at me this time was that you broke news! The Caveman and Whoopi were an item after his appearance on "The View?" Wow. :)
I actually break news more than people realize, but I am a blogger, so the "big boys" get the credit.
I mean I am the one who predicted correctly where Jason Grilli would end up.
I got the scoop on the Rays "throwback " jerseys in 2009, And I got the off season plans for some of the Rays players. Not the St Pete Times or ESPN, just little ol' me………..
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Thanks for reprising the Caveman interview, Renegade. So Victor is a "Practicing Paleolith"? When does he get to stop "practicing" and be one for real? ;) Intriguing, also, that he had a fascination with Thomas Hobbes and Wild Man Cave Art. Quite in contrast to the iconoclastic (i.e., no religious artistic images) John Calvin. Calvin and Hobbes, quite a pair, those two!
So what are the names of the other cavemen in those GEICO ads? Did Victor divulge that info, also? Hopefully, they won't end up in the can like Victor did! Hmmm!…
Really did not get to get "down and dirty" during the short interview.
Yeah, that "career" he spoke of had me laughing a bit. I actually had to look it up to get a clear understanding of it all.
Hopefully he will use his brain for more than a hatrack in the future.
Some day I hope to again talk to him, but you never know….
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i would have loved to meet the caveman. Though he does seem a little crazy running into policemen.
I guess it was just his karma to run into them.
Could have been worse, the Gecko could have been there and a battle royale would happen.
Hmmm, now that is an idea!
Rays Renegade
That's great and you have a great team down in Tampa. What a joy to watch so many great players. The Rays are one of the few teams with such great talent. I'm a HUGE fan of Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford. Merry Christmas, and thanks for commenting on my blog "Opinions of a Teen-Fan"
Merry Christmas!
That's great and you have a great team down in Tampa. What a joy to watch so many great players. The Rays are one of the few teams with such great talent. I'm a HUGE fan of Evan Longoria and Carl Crawford. Merry Christmas, and thanks for commenting on my blog "Opinions of a Teen-Fan"
Merry Christmas!
Comment was so good it popped on twice.
Thank you for that.
The team is set to again try and battle the "Evil Empire" and the Red Sox Nation in 2010.
The team has the talent and the fans to make a great run again at the playoffs in 2010.
But, we never know how things will turn out. That is why we play 162 games to decide it all.
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Dreaming of home for Syrian refugees
Today begins the last week of #Dreamshare with a post from blogger Rachel Held Evans! Share your dreams at our Share My Dream website, use the hashtag #dreamshare on Twitter and Instagram, and if you're a blogger, add your own posts about Syria and sharing dreams with our link-up!
Rachel writes about the importance of home, and how -- while the Syrian refugees are forced away from theirs -- we can help make this separation more bearable.


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Here's the one Mike Patrick did for my birthday!
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0First tell me how you do it. Times, mixtures, type of dye, etc. That way I know what you need to know!Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
Originally posted by CarlitosBonitos View PostSo I have been using rit dye, powder and liquid, I seem to prefer the liquid as i dont have to spend too much time mixing it versus the powder. I am willing to use a different dye if you have any suggestions. Next I put about 4 cups of water to one package/ container of dye, and heat it for a few minutes on medium until it just barely begins to give heat off the top of the surface of the dye, then i take the heat off and touch the side of the pot and make sure it is not too hot, then I tilt the disc at an angle and lower it into the dye, and leave it for 20 minutes and then use semi hot water to wash and peal the vinyl... any suggestions are seriously appreciated. Thanks mang!
I'd say that 4 cups is probably a little too diluted. I use 1 1/2 - 2 cups max. The more water you add, the less potent your solution will be. I have two "dying" pans that I use, both are standard 10" x 2" pans. I usually fill them with approximately 1 1/2" of solution, you don't want the disc to be touching the bottom, obviously, but you don't have too be way far away either.
I Always heat the solution to a "heavy steam" level, maybe a minute before it starts to boil. Then I turn off the heat completely and immediately drop the disc in. I let it sit for a couple minutes, pull it out and check for airbubbles, then I immediately put it back in for 5 minutes. After 5 minutes I take it out and check it again to make sure everything is going according to plan. At this point it should be getting dark, but not pure black yet. If everything is still good, I put the heat on a low setting (2/10 or something) and let the disc float on that for 3 minutes, then check, if not dark enough, 2 minutes, check, etc.
The disc will get very warm, and that's ok as long as you are paying attention. Some people might tell you that using this method is an easy way to ruin the disc, and that can be true, if you're not paying attention. I've used this method for all of my dyes, and I've only messed up one disc. That was when I was first starting to dye, and I was goofing around. This will give you PITCH BLACK results.
If you're uncomfortable, try it with a junky disc first!Last edited by gwillim; November 21st, 2008, 08:24 PM.
The way I do it is much the same as others, but here is my specifics. I bring water to a boil. I pour that water into a 2 inch deep tupperware container that fits a disc. whatever color I am using, I only use 1 packet of powdered Rit, and sometimes mix in a bit of liquid dye. I dont use the angled technique as described by others, but i do pick up the disc after a few mins an re soak. i let it soak for an hour or so to achieve the best color, then rinse off and repeat as desired until the color is there.All I want for Christmas is Sharpies and Rit Dye!!!!
Hey: Great looking discs. I am an artist and have worked many mediums, curently into wood. This looks very appealing to me and I have been thinking about giving it a try. I have done a little bit of research but found nothing solid. All I seem to find is trial and error methods. Don't care to be waistful because my cash comes as hard as anyone elses. Would there be a chance that you would be willing to share your secrets on the subject? If so great.
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I think any one of us dye artists around here will be more than happy to share our knowledge with you. None of us are into it for the money, although some of us make a few bucks off of it every now and then. give me a bit of time, an i will tell you all my secretsAll I want for Christmas is Sharpies and Rit Dye!!!!
I was working on a prototype for Mat Crider's birthday present today and came up with this. It's not actually going to look like this, but I thought it was still pretty sweet art, none-the-less. The actual disc will hopefully still be cool in it's own right.
Here's the foto that the silhouette is from...
I use powdered RIT because it's much cheaper than the liquid. I've used the liquid in the past, and I don't think there is much difference. You can get sharp blacks with either one, if you prefer the liquid, stick with it.Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
Originally posted by CarlitosBonitos View PostI am not sure what I should be using to cut outlines with? Do you reccomend any kind of product that Ican print images out on to with my computer, the current stuff I am using smears and tears when I cut corners. Also it is kind of thick. Thanks seriously appreciated
Thank you, He does look a *little* bit better without the bazongas.
Here are two more we just got done, my wife did the beavers logo, whilest I did the geometric cubes, on one of the sweetest white washed flight plates I found on ebay, looks cool, wish I hadnt cut it so close to the corners and could of avoided some minor bleeding. Thanks to everyone for the help thus far...
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Future's so bright, I gotta wear shades.
Well, since Carl decided to put his pride on the line and posts his early attempts at dye jobs I figured I'd do the same. Hopefully, you'll be able to see some improvement from my first (about 1 1/2 weeks ago) to now. Keep in mind these discs have been thrown quite a bit and look like crap to begin with. I'm trying to hone in a bit before I go messing up anything pretty.
This first one bled quite a bit. It's on a champ Boss
Next one of Ernesto "Che" turned out better, but I had a little trouble with the lettering.
I really regret getting in a hurry on this one, because it's the only one that I've used a new disc for. The stamp smeared, etc. Here's the Samurai.
The cuts on this STAR Gator came out pretty well, in my opinion. Sorry if this offends anyone. I call it "Unplanned Parenthood", but I'm pretty sure it's a Banksy.
This one just didn't come out very well and I should have scrapped it and tried again, but yeah. It's a Coyote...and it's REAL!
Okay, just got done with this one and I'm actually really happy with the way it turned out on a beat Monarch.
There they are and hopefully many more to come. Thanks Chuck for the inspiration and tutorials.
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Birmingham & Glasgow
Following the decision to postpone the show at the Birmingham LG Arena tonight and after seeking medical advice, Arctic Monkeys must also postpone the show at the Glasgow Hydro on Fri November 1st.
Alex Turner has been diagnosed with Laryngitis and is regrettably not able to perform. The show at the LG Arena in Birmingham will now take place on November 20th and the show at the Glasgow Hydro will now take place on November 21st. All tickets will remain valid for these shows.
We wish to apologise to all ticket holders for any inconvenience this has caused. Please contact the customer services at the box office you purchased your tickets for any further assistance.
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I was due to go to Glasgow Hydro for tomorrow's gig. Can't get cancellation on train or hotel (hotel won't change my booking to the new date, so will have to pay twice). Won't stop me going on the 21st tho. Get well soon. I don't see that they could have done anything differently if you're ill you're ill and everyone would still have had the same problem with cancellation charges etc.
31.10.13 10:44 pm
Some of the crawlers on here make me sick. I bet they all were nicely tucked up in doors when were all being let down at the last minute. Again if your ill your ill that can't be helped. But the short notice is unacceptable. Was last nights performance at the mercurys prerecorded then? Or was that not them leaving the Groucho at 3am this morning not the sort of behaviour of an ill man.
31.10.13 10:42 pm
Get @#$*!ed. I want a full refund.
31.10.13 10:41 pm
Totally agree with you hammerfan11!
31.10.13 10:35 pm
So didn't you know about this earlier today. If you were so ill surely you could have let us know a lot sooner, maybe before we all paid £100 to check in hotels. So who do we speak to about this, as a minimum you should be footing the bill for everyone who has had to pay for rooms they didn't need. I understand people get ill but you were out last night and only let us know 1 hour and a half before show time. This isn't on. I think if you can produce a receipt for your hotel you should be taking care of it due to the late notice. We didn't check in until 4oclock and you were tweeting the support band if you had the foresight/decency to let us all know your fans would have saved on paying money that is a lot to the normal person., at least the fans going to Glasgow have adequate warning. Oh and another week night nice one that really makes it easier for us all to find the time of work again.
31.10.13 10:34 pm
Get well soon. Great news on rescheduled gig. Thought we'd have to wait till next year x
31.10.13 10:34 pm
Some ridiculous responses from people here, understand the disappointment but calling them Frauds and telling them they could have given more notice makes you look a tool. Sorry, I didn't know you were their manager and we're fully informed on the situation. Idiots...
31.10.13 10:32 pm
What do you want them to do he can't sing with laryngitis can he I'm sure it states in the small print on the ticket that dates are subject to change I can see why people are disappointed but @#$*! happens
31.10.13 10:30 pm
Can't believe some of the things I'm reading, would you prefer they played the show without him singing or something? There's no other alternative
31.10.13 10:29 pm
I really do hope Alex's voice is rested for Sheffield actually. Glasgow will be the last night of the tour then and we will @#$*!ing wreck the place.


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1. What was your reaction to Jacob and Paul fighting as wolves?
2. What was your first reaction to Emily? Did you instantly like her? Did you think she and Bella would get along?
I did instantly like her. Yes. She loves a "monster" just like Bella--who loves 2
3. What was your reaction to the abilities that the wolves seemed to possess that were uncovered in this chapter - accelerated healing and quick reflexes? Where you worried about them fighting a vampire?
No, I assumed from the beginning that they would be able to fight a vampire.
4. How did you feel about Jacob and Bella's relationship at this point?
Since I'm seriously TEAM EDWARD, I was a little rattled. BUT I like Jacob and I thought he was an essential friend for Bella.
5. What are your thoughts and feelings on Bella's conclusion that she would love Edward even if he was the vampire who was killing innocent hikers/people?
huh? Do you mean Jacob?


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I hadn't tried Fox's Rocky Caramel bars before until seeing them at my local supermarket on offer for One pound for a pack of eight. I tried one today when I had my afternoon cup of tea and found it to be a really nice tasting shortcake biscuit topped with caramel and then coated in lovely milk chocolate. They have 104 calories per biscuit and although they are a nice treat they seem to be gone in a couple of bites, but maybe that is because having such a sweet tooth I devour any type of chocolate biscuit usually in seconds.
These biscuits are normally priced at £1.40 and I think they are worth the full price as a pack of eight is a good size for a family. I felt that for a pound it was well worth trying out these lovely biscuits and did find them to be a delicious treat. The chocolate covering is generous and tastes like good quality chocolate, and the caramel centre is soft and gooey and the biscuit base has a very good texture.
The yellow and black packaging is distinctive and looks like the quality brand it is. I know there are other flavours to try so I might look out for those at some stage but for now these caramel ones are going to be a favourite of mine I should think for some time.
These are definitely worth buying and I recommend them to anyone who has a liking for caramel and chocolate. A nice accompaniment to a cup of tea or coffee.
~*~*Can't Resist A Bargain!~*~*
Not so long ago I reviewed the 'classic' Rocky biscuit. There's something about writing a review that seems to make me more aware of similar products, or variations from the same range. When I noticed that the caramel version of the Rocky biscuit was selling in Lidl for the bargain price of £0.75 I just had to get a pack and try them - oh, and let the men in the house have a taste, too! A more typical price would be in the region of £1.59, as currently in Tesco, though they are not infrequently seen on offer at £1, along with others in the range.
~*~*Wrapped Up~*~*
The packaging for these caramel biscuits is very similar to the traditional Rocky, except that the wrappers are yellow rather than red. I don't think it's a great surprise, then, that the biscuits seem to be identical in size and weight - 24g, according to my kitchen scales: the things you do for reviews!
You get 9 biscuits in a pack. I have the same gripe with the packaging as I had with the traditional Rocky: I feel the nutritional information - calories etc - should be on each wrapper, not just the overall wrapper.
~*~*The Important Bit!~*~*
Never mind the packaging; it's the taste that counts! I will just say, though, that they are easy to unwrap as the zig zag closure at each end tears easily. This seems to be quite standard for most biscuits of this kind.
As I bite into the biscuit I notice that the chocolate layer is noticeably thinner than on the plain Rocky Bars. The biscuit itself has a concave surface and I presume this is to accommodate the caramel layer so that the final top surface is still level, if that makes sense. The biscuit looks like something similar to shortbread in colour and texture, though little comes through in the way of flavour as the chocolate and caramel dominate. It lacks the coconut that for me gives the original Rocky its character. The caramel is of a similar texture to the one used in Twix bars. It's no surprise that the main sensation I get is one of sweetness. I don't find these biscuits particularly crumbly, which I like.
Milk Chocolate (43%), Caramel (26%), Wheatflour, Vegetable Oil, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Raising Agents: Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate, Cornflour, Dried Skimmed Milk, Salt, Flavouring, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin.
Milk Chocolate contains Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Skimmed Milk, Cocoa Mass, Dried Whey, Dried Whole Milk, Vegetable Oil, Butteroil, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin, Disodium Diphosphate.
Caramel contains Invert Sugar Syrup blend (Invert Sugar Syrup, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Salt), Sweetened Condensed Milk, Vegetable Oil, Butter Oil, Emulsifier: E471, Acidity Regulator: Sodium Carbonate.
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Suitable for vegetarians
101 calories [5%]
9.3g sugar [10% ]
4,7 g fat [7%]
2.7g saturated fat [14% ]
0.14g salt [2% ]
Standard Rocky Bars are 107 calories, so I guess these are slightly healthier. The fat levels are slightly lower, too. It's not going to make a significant difference, though, unless you eat them by the packet!
~*~*Allergy Awareness~*~*
Contains Cows Milk and Gluten, Wheat, Milk, Soya\Soybeans
The product has been made in a factory where nuts may have been used.
There are so many of these kind of biscuits that I feel we're spoiled for choice and am hard pushed to name a favourite. I would have to say this isn't one. There's nothing wrong with it at all, but for me there's nothing that stands out. I would still prefer the traditional Rocky over this, and I think Twix has a more satisfying flavour. The Rocky wafer biscuit - blue wrapper - has a lower calorie count if you're looking for a diet treat. However it's one I would buy from time to time to make a change or to have a selection available for guests. Certainly it's worth buying when it's available at £1 or less for 9. Three stars from me - maybe a bit tight but I rated Rocky original as 4 and I'm not quite so keen of this to buy it at full price.
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I will always make sure my two younger brothers are sent off to school with one of these delicious Rocky bars in their lunch pack - and they'll make sure they have more than one!
These scrummy biscuits come in a pack of nine, encased in yellow plastic, with a rather funky and urban looking re-designed Rocky logo. Individually wrapped, they each have the Rocky logo branded, just to remind you who to go to if you start getting chocolate cravings again. Because they each have their own wrapper, this prolongs the freshness and you can keep them in the cupboard for ages without them going soggy - not that they ever last long in this house! The wrapper is the routine grab and pull so that it splits down the middle, easy and quick for a little treat.
I wasn't surprised that I began drooling the moment the wrapper was opened up, as you can smell the delicious biscuit and milk chocolate. A rather flat but long oblong shaped bar, it includes a biscuity shortbread - the likes of which I can only compare to a cross between a twix base and millionaires shortbread - covered in a smooth caramel and all layered in Fox's milk chocolate. The chocolate has little folds occasionally along the biscuit, giving it textural and aesthetic appeal, and the caramel is silky to taste with the perfect amount of chewyness. The biscuit, chocolate and caramel work really well together, and I can admit I became a little bit addicted to them!
I got these at ASDA for £1.00, working out at around 11p a bar. As you can probably tell, this is amazing value! I would definitely buy these again and recommend them to a friend. There is an 18 pack on sale, but for more than double the price at £2.69, so its better value to grab two 9 packs than one single 18 pack. However, saying this, I have seen them on rollback for £2, putting them at the exact same value for money as the 9 pack.
Great for a little snack, and perfect size for putting in lunchboxes or handbags. Cheap enough too!
When it comes to chocolate I'm rather a fan of it sadly. I say sadly cos my hips hate the stuff but oh well lol!
I was in my local Tesco the other night and spotted a packet of 9 bars of these on offer for a pound and decided that as they were that cheap (they usually cost more like £1.50 for 9 bars) I'd give them a whirl!
The Packaging:
Well these as I have stated come in a packet which is plastic and of 9 and then they are all individually wrapped too. All of the packaging is bright yellow and the outer wrapper clearly states what they are on them with an at a glance nutritional chart shown and on the back all the usual information such as ingredients, allergy advice, nutritional information and contact details for the manufacturer (Fox Biscuits) are given. Each individual wrapper again tells us what they are on it and the ingredients are listed. Simple enough to tear off and get to to the bar of chocolate they are and thats the main thing I think!
The Bar Itself:
What you get is a milk chocolate quite wide but not very thick biscuit based bar. The milk chocolate is smooth and creamy yet a little thin then under that you get a healthy dollop of very sweet caramel that is spread evenly over the biscuit and then under that a whitish coloured crunchy biscuit...think Twix though shaped slightly different and not as nice tasting as it is sweeter!
For me though these are not coated in enough chocolate and are way to small...probably best for lunchboxes and the likes opposed to a greedy guts like me. I like the textures being smooth and then crunchy however I find the caramel a little to much on the sweet side!
Not a bad buy but only worth a quid for 9 bars in my opinion. Good enough quality but personally I'll stick with my beloved Twixs from now on as they really are a poor copy to the original and the best!
Nutritional Information Per Biscuit:
Calories: 101
Sugars: 9.3g
Fat: 4.7g
Saturates: 2.7g
Salt: 0.14g
Available in all good supermarkets etc.
Caramel Rocky is a biscuit bar made by Fox's, a major UK biscuit company. The Caramel rocky is biscuit and caramel, surrounded by a thick layer of yummy milk chocolate. The bars are quite small, about half the size of a normal chocolate bar, but they are still good enough to satisfy a chocolate craving.
The bar gives a nice crunch when you bite into it, and the texture is thick yet smooth at the same time. The caramel is lovely and creamy and soft, without being over thick or sickly sweet. I get about 4 bites out of each small bar. The bars comes in a shiny gold foil wrapper, which is crimp pressed closed on each end, and has Rocky printed on the front in chunky blue writing. These are only available to buy in multipacks, but they are are pretty good for price and are available in most UK supermarkets. I recommend these to everyone, although please eat them once in a while as they do contain fat and calories on the high end of the scale.
Biscuit, with a caramel topping, all coated in chocolate. Kind of like a twix, but flatter - and nicer :-) The difference is in the proportions - this is a thinner biscuit with a more generour serving of caramel
They don't have quite the same sugar "hit" as the Fox's Classic but when you want something a bit less intense, or with just a bit more flavour than straight sugar then these hit the spot. It's almost like the poor man's caramel (Millionaire's) shortbread - the same idea and very tasty but not quite as rich.
The caramel is lovely, and smooth, and there is enough of it to taste properly (compared with some chocolate bars which have a scant layer). The caramel also gives the biscuit a round domed top which makes it feel more than a basic flat biscuit somehow. The chocolate is very nice too and the whole thing comes together well.
The Rocky bars come in caramel and chocolate varieties, the chocolate one is just a chocolate coated biscuit - ok but not great. They are reasonably priced, and both Tesco & Asda regularly have them on special offer - although watch out for smaller pack sizes sometimes! Around 100 calories per bar and an excellent choccyy biccy.
Fox's Rocky Caramel bar coated in yummy milk chocolate was made in heaven. For some reason it took me a very long time until I discovered this chocolate bar in the Sainsbury's but now I am addict.
I bought a pack of 9 individually wrapped bars for only 1 pound as almost all Fox's products are on offer in Sainsbury's at the moment. Its full price is 1.31 pounds. It comes in a yellow plastic wrapper and although there is an eye-catching huge Rocky logo on it I have to admit it looks a cheap product. For some reason I decided to buy this one and since we opened it with my son we are addict to this chocolate bar.
The individual bars have the same design packaging as the large one was. The bar itself weights about 21 g which was quite small one so I had to open a second one to be sure that this lovely biscuit tastes as good as I felt. After you opened the packaging you can see a medium brown chocolate coated bar which has very chocolaty scent. Then you bite into the bar and you see the crunchy biscuit base topped with runny but thick caramel and the thick and creamy milk chocolate coat around them. It is simple and very very tasty.
I really like Fox's products one is better than the other they never let you down. I like that they work with premium quality ingredients and all their biscuits are really crunchy and their sugar content is well matched. The chocolate they use to coat their biscuits and cookies is really creamy and very tasty as well.
The ingredients are as follows: Milk Chocolate (43%), Caramel (26%), Wheatflour, Vegetable Oil, Sugar, Glucose Syrup, Raising Agents: Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate, Disodium Diphosphate, Cornflour, Salt, Flavourings, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin, Milk Chocolate contains Sugar, Cocoa Butter, Dried Whole Milk, Cocoa Mass, Dried Whey, Vegetable Oil, Emulsifier: Soya Lecithin, Caramel contains Invert Sugar Syrup Blend (Invert Sugar Syrup, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Salt), Sweetened Condensed Milk, Vegetable Oil, Butteroil, Emulsifier: E471, Acidity Regulator: Sodium Carbonate.
The nutritional values for 100 g are as follows:
Energy: 479kcal
Protein: 4.9g
Carbohydrate: 63.9g
of which sugars: 49.2g
Fat: 22.7g
of which saturates: 13.7g
Fibre: 1.4g
Sodium*: 0.25g
Equivalent as Salt*: 0.62g
I think this is a cheap looking but very well done biscuit bar topped with yummy caramel and coated in Fox's best milk chocolate. I will definitely buy the Rocky bar in the future.
I do like to have a little snack at around 3pm every work day with the obligatory 3pm cup of tea. This usually means a chocolate bar of some sort, to help me get though the final few hours of the working day. A regular staple at this point is a Fox's Rocky Caramel Bar. This is a chunky milk chocolate and caramel covered biscuit.
Fox's State that these are rugged biscuit, smooth caramel. I'm not quite sure about the 'rugged' bit up these bars are super tasty. The chocolate is really thick and milky (what I mean is that it tastes really smooth and creamy, because for me some milk chocolate is not milky enough but this is just great). The caramel filling is really rich and toffee flavoured and almost treacle like, with a much deeper flavour than you would normally get with a caramel filling. What you do need to me careful of is that the chocolate has a tendency to melt really quickly so you do end up getting chocolaty fingers! But because the chocolate is so soft and the caramel with a good consistency it really does melt in the mouth.
Each bar contains 101 calories, with 4.8g of fat (with 2.9g of that saturated). So you can see that they are far from low in calories, in fact they are quite high for the size of the bar. They only problem is that they are so darn tasty.
As well as the caramel bar you can also purchase a milk chocolate bar, but for me I far prefer the caramel version.
A pack of 8 bars usually costs between £1 to £1.50 and they are on offer a lot in major supermarkets, so you can pick them put at a reasonable price.
Overall: These biscuits are really tasty, but the great taste does come at a price, that being that they are quite high in calorific content. So if you like a bit of a treat great, but if you are a calorie counter there are other products out there that could relieve your chocolate craving for a few less calories.
I've gone a bit mad on these Caramel Rocky bars just lately, I'm cutting down at the minute and these are a nice small chocolate biscuit but the caramel in them makes it feel like you're eating a bar of chocolate. There are still shedloads of calories in one but not as many as a Whole Nut! lol
It's about the size of a Club but the ends are a bit of an oval shape, that makes them look smaller but they're not really because the biscuits are quite tall.
The chocolate on them is milk chocolate and it's yummy. It's quite thick on the biscuit and when you bite through it the chocolate is soft and it melts nice in your mouth. That means it also melts on your fingers so I'd say keep it in the wrapper for as long as possible unless you want to be washing your hands after.
Actually you'll probably have to wash your hands anyway because the caramel is a bit stretchy and you'll deffo either get it on your chin or your fingers! lol The caramel is proper nice, it's not madly sweet like the caramel in other chocolate bars but it's got a bit of a toffee or teacle flavour. It's not spread majorly thick but is just right because you get a strong taste of caramel and the texture of it is yummy with the chocolate and biscuit.
I LOVE the digestive biscuit in these Rocky bars, it's got a different taste to eating an actual digestive and is mega addictive. I reckon out of the whole bar it's the biscuit that gives it most of it's delish flavour, I could eat loads of these one after the other just because of the taste of the biscuit and I'd love it if they started selling packs of the biscuit without the chocolate or caramel! Yummy!
Caramel Rocky bars are about £1.25 for 8 in the shop by me, it's weird because I've never brought them in the supermarkets so don't know how much they are in the bigger shops.
Fox's Rocky caramel bar, a quick and cheerful way to beat of chocolate cravings without piling on the pounds. A great addition to packed lunches or to have with a mid-morning cup of tea or coffee these little bars seem to always find their way into my shopping basket.
Sold in packs of 9 (DooYoos picture seems to say 10, but my pack is 9) each individual biscuit is wrapped in a cheerful yellow wrapper with the brand name across the centre, it is described as being a "Rugged biscuit with smooth caramel", personally I think the term "Rugged" is pushing it a bit but nevertheless its the taste thats important, especially with chocolate.
The chocolate coating covers the biscuit nicely, not too thick and not too thin and as you bite into one you immediately notice the sweetness of caramel, you dont get a huge amount of caramel admittedly but it is a lovely sweet contrast to the biscuit itself. I always find Fox's biscuits to have a satisfying crunch to them and these are no exceptions!
Each biscuit contains:
101 kcals
10.4g sugar
4.8g fat
2.9g saturates
0.13g salt
So cant be classed as a health food, but certainly hits the spot if you are having cravings for something sweet.
Fox's do this variety and also the chocolate covered biscuit without the caramel and both to me are always handy to have in your cupboards.
The list of ingredients is quite extensive to say its only a little bar so I wont bore you with the details, suffice to say Allergy suffered need to be aware that the product does contain Cows milk, Soya, Wheat and Gluten and does warn that the bars have been made in a factory that uses nut ingredients.
All in all then I think these are fabulous little bars to have in, and by getting a pack of 9 they should last you quite a few days if you can manage not to eat more than one at a time! Normally priced around £1.20 for a pack of 9, available on the biscuit aisles at your regular supermarkets.
4/5 for me, the bars are on the small side, but great for a cuppa or a quick fix
First thing to say is that a Rocky Caramel biscuit is no health food so logically it is loaded with calories, sugars, fats and additives. That's 101 kcal, 10.4 grams and 4.8 grams of fat per biscuit. Or to put it another way it's nearly half sugar and not far off a quarter fat.
That's not healthy but is it tasty? I'd say yes. The nearest thing to it in my experience is a Twix but the Rocky Caramel has a lighter biscuit and a creamier, less sticky caramel. The milk chocolate coating is similar in both. Overall, I prefer Rocky Caramel as do my children and best of all it is usually cheaper, depending on your local supermarket's special offers. I have just bought an 18 pack from Tesco for £1.12, which is a little over 6 pence per biscuit.
The current packaging is rather different to the illustration with a large crowned and winged "R" above the word "Rocky" on a scroll. The accompanying slogan - Rugged biscuit, smooth caramel - seems a bit lame and suggests not much money has gone into the marketing budget, which is probably a good thing. You will only discover they are made by Fox's Biscuits by turning the pack over. The nutritional information on the pack is clear and complete as well as legible, even for my aging eyes.
These biscuits are suitable for vegetarians but not for anyone with a nut allergy, since they are made in a factory that uses nut ingredients.
I love all kinds of snacks but sometime I have a very sweet tooth and that's when a nice chocolate biscuit or bar comes in handy, lol!
These 'Rocky Caramel' bars are made by Fox's Biscuits in the UK in a factory that uses nut ingredients so not good for allergists then, plus they contain milk, Soya, wheat and gluten.
At the moment they are half price in Morrisons so we picked up a pack of each for only 49p for six which is really good :)
Suitable for vegetarians and containing 43% milk chocolate which is pretty nice in flavour actually...
The calories per biscuit are 101 with 10.4g sugar and 4.8g of fats so not healthy at all, but then they are treats :(
This means one portion is 5% of an adult's daily allowance if you fancy a sugary indulgence...
Describes as 'Rugged biscuit, smooth caramel' on the front of the eye-catching bright yellow plastic pack, the best before date isn't until next April not that they will last that long!
Each bar is individually wrapped to keep then fresh so are perfect for packed lunches which is what mine are for, the six is roughly one inch by three inches in length so not bad...
The texture is really crunchy with the dry crisp biscuit inside and then the softer chocolate coating which is really thick and tasty, yum! The top has a deep rippled effect which looks really good. The caramel is really thick and gloopy and chewy, lovely!
It make a nice combination I think I and I really enjoy the appetising sweetness of all three texture combinations. Best with a hot drink to bring out the flavours properly in my opinion though...
Five stars from me as they are very satisfying and you only need one!
Rocky's are my favourite snack chocolate bar. They have everything that you should look for, a good taste, a good price and a small snack. Rocky's tick every single one of those boxes. Fox's Rocky has been around for quite a while and over the years they have got better and better. The caramel version basically consists of a biscuit base with caramel on top and then the whole thing wrapped in chocolate.
The 3 main parts of the Rocky chocolate bar all get along very well with each other. As everyone knows, caramel and chocolate is already a successful combination. The biscuit just adds that extra bit of texture and taste that separates the Rocky bar from it's rivals. The most prominent taste in the Rocky is the caramel, by quite a long way. Although the caramel doesn't completely dominate the whole of the bar, the chocolate and biscuit also add to the taste quite a bit. The milk chocolate tastes very good and is just right. Not to milky, but not to rich; just in between. The biscuit at the bottom adds the feels to the bar and also gives off a good taste. Think of it like a chassis, without it, the whole thing would fall apart. Taste wise and literally too. So overall, the taste is very good, the caramel tastes brilliant as does the chocolate.
Appearance and Price
On Appearance, the Rocky is short, but think bar. The top is slightly textured with several straight lines going across it. In terms of price, I can honestly say that I think Rocky's are the best value, edible item out in the UK today. I mean, you can buy 20 Rockys for a pound. That really is something. Rockys are stocked in any supermarket and a few other shops too. Unfortunately they only come in multi packs of 12 or 20. Although it would be a waste of time selling them separately. So overall, Rockys are unbelievably good value.
So on the whole, Rocky's are bargain of the century. They taste absolutely fantastic and they are super cheap too.
Biscuits are my Diet downfall and especially Chocolate ones. I've been a fan of Rocky Bar since my mum used to have them in the Biscuit tin and there was the choice of these or Penguins, which I was totally bored with at that point.
Anyway back to these Biscuits. Rocky Bars are made by Fox's and you get them in Milk Chocolate or these ones which are Milk Chocolate with Caramel. You buy them in a pack of 10 and they normally cost about £1.20 at my local Asda and Tesco. Sometimes Asda has a deal of 2 for £2 on their branded Chocolate Bars, so it helps save the pennies a bit.
The packaging is alright for these. They are in a quite long, thin rectangular pack and it is nice and metallic Yellow colour. The bars are individually wrapped in the same type of wrapper and the Rocky writing is in a shiny Purple Colour, so it stands out well on the pack.
Each Chocolate Bar has 106 calories, and I would say that is pretty average for the item. Each Bar is about as long as an average index finger and they are quite chunky in width. They are about the thickenss of 1cm as well.
So what are these? They are a hard Biscuit base which has a thick hard caramel topping and this is all covered in thick hard Milk Chocolate. The base of these are flat but the top where the Caramel is is slightly rounded and there is a ridged pattern on the top. The Caramel taste quite sweet and a bit sickly but that isn't so bad as there isn't too much of it. It is enough for the bar size though. The Chocolate is nice and Milky and although it isn't in the same league in my view of Dairy Milk and Galaxy, I think Fox's have nice Milk Chocolate.
Although I could eat Biscuits for fun, I could only probably manage 2 of them and then I would feel full up of the product, but that doesn't bother me - it makes them last a bit longer after all!
Although I normally store these in the fridge and they are nice to eat when they are cold, if you eat them at room temperature then the Caramel melts a little and tastes a little sweeter if thats what you're after.
A nice Chocolate Biscuit.
We are hosting foreign language students this summer, and one of the things we have to do is to provide them with a decent packed lunch. Whilst my own children are used to having jam sandwiches and an apple, the specification for the language school is to include such luxuries as a chocolate bar or biscuit.....
So, the last few grocery shops have seen me looking for cheap and cheerful packed lunch items that will satisfy the students' requirements, yet won't cost me the earth.....after all, I take students in to earn money, not to spend it all in Tescos!!
This weeks students have had "Rocky Caramel bars" in their lunchboxes......they were about 90p for 9 bars - so 10p each.....that's about right for a lunchbox treat I reckon. I certainly wouldn't want to pay any more.
Of course, for the purposes of dooyoo research, I had to sample one of these for myself.
These are individually wrapped chocolate biscuits. You can also get a version that does not contain caramel, but they are, in my opinion, very boring, and not worth bothering about at all, when you can have a biscuit with a bit of extra in, for no extra money!
Each biscuit is about an inch wide, by about 3 inches long.....so not huge. The biscuit itself is shortcake type plain biscuit, not too crumbly, with a dollop of caramel on top, with the whole thing then covered completely in milk chocolate.
The chocolate is "weak" - it doesn't have the quality of Cadbury's, for example, and is definitely cheap....but hey, it is chocolate, and the kids won't really worry about the quality of it. The caramel is noticeable if you are looking for it, but really isn't dominant enough for my liking.....boy, I am sounding quite fussy now! The biscuit itself is fine, nothing to write home about, but ok.
All in all, this is an OK biscuit, not substantial - it is gone in just two bites - but it is fine for a lunch box treat for a child, or to put several on a plate for a childrens' party. It certainly isn't "man enough" for an adult, unless that adult is on a diet. Which brings me on to the fact that each biscuit only contains 103 calories, so if you ARE watching calories, this might be just enough to satisfy your sweet tooth without ruining your diet for the day.
I wouldn't rush to buy these again - there are far better chocolate biscuits on the shelf at the same sort of price, but no one has complained about these this week, so I suppose they have done their job.


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IT was the picture perfect moment the world had been waiting for.
Royal baby Prince George giggled, smiled and played his way through just his second public engagement - a trip to the zoo with his parents Prince William and Kate on Sunday.
The trio arrived at Sydney's Taronga Zoo to visit the bilby enclosure named after Prince George as part of Australia's gift marking his birth on July 22 last year.
It was just the fifth time the royal tot, who is almost nine months old, had been seen in public on this trip.
Dressed in royal blue shorts and a striped, light blue shirt and blue shoes and socks, he appeared to wriggle mischievously in Kate's arms as the family strolled to the bilby enclosure.
For much of this royal tour of New Zealand and Australia, the eyes of the world have been trained on Kate and her fashion choices.
For the zoo, she had changed out of the dove-grey Alexander McQueen outfit she had worn to an Easter church service, into a lemon cream broderie anglaise dress.
At the enclosure, George met a bilby - also called George, then helped his parents unveil a plaque, renaming the enclosure the Prince George Bilby Exhibit.
Bilby keeper Paul Davies said the royal couple were relaxed with George inside the enclosure.
"All of a sudden they were just a family in the zoo," Mr Davies said.
He said at one point George wanted to grab the bilby's ear.
"I said 'he can touch the bilby', but they said no, he (the bilby) will have one ear less," Mr Davies said.
After the bilbies, George returned to Admiralty House and William and Kate viewed other animals at Taronga.
They fed tree kangaroos, strolled past giraffes, enjoyed a bird show, and took in the rhino conservation display.
At the bird show, the couple had galahs and owls swooping just centimetres above their heads.
Taronga Zoo bird trainer Brendan Host presented the bird show, before introducing the duke and duchess to two echidnas, a quokka and a koala named Leuca.
"I think Kate was very taken with Leuca," Mr Host, 27, told reporters after the show.
"She didn't realise the koala would smell the way it did because they eat eucalyptus leaves.
"I think she just really enjoyed the moment."
The royals posed with Leuca and the echidnas with iconic Sydney Harbour Bridge and Opera House in the background.
This was Australia - as much as the royals - on show.
As he touched the koala, William commented: "This is the moment everyone's been waiting for."
The couple also heard about a number of Australia's endangered species at the bird show - and appeared to take a keen interest.
Taronga Zoo volunteer Meghan was in the audience at the bird show and said the duchess looked "incredible".
"She's stunning, she's perfectly put together, there's never anything out of place."
Michael, 49, at the zoo with his three-year-old son Jimmy, described George as "quite a handsome little man.
"And the duke and duchess; they're a beautiful couple of course."
He said Jimmy "wanted to have a little bit of a play" with the young prince, adding that he hoped the royals had a "great day out" at the zoo.
The duke and duchess finished their tour at the rhino conservation area and the Taronga Wild!, a mass public art exhibition and community conservation initiative raising awareness and support for Taronga's black rhinoceros breeding program.
They also met John Scanlon, secretary-general of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora.
"The duke speaks passionately about his child - Prince George - having the opportunity to see these animals in the wild," Mr Scanlon said afterwards.
"He's very passionate and engaged in this issue."
In February, William attended a high-level summit on the illegal wildlife trade in London alongside his father Prince Charles and brother Prince Harry to ensure the "survival of some of the world's most treasured species" and set up his own initiative, a wildlife charity, United For Wildlife.
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"What to do if you find yourself stuck in a crack in the ground underneath a giant boulder you can't move, with no hope of rescue. Consider how lucky you are that life has been good to you so far. Alternatively, if life hasn't been good to you so far, which given your current circumstances seems more likely, consider how lucky you are that it won't be troubling you much longer."
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"I just thought everybody lived around abandoned buildings and crack-heads, ... I lived in the ghetto until I was like 19. I came to (Los Angeles), stayed at hotels and stuff. When I got back and I saw what my neighborhood looked like, I started getting scared."


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Time: 8:57 AM
Tune in on your comute to work, as IceHogs player, Brad Winchester will be chatting with Stone and Double T on 104.9 this morning, talking about all things hockey! You won't want to miss it!
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Networks are expensive, and organizations of all sizes are concerned about making the shift to software-defined networking (SDN), given the time and money they've invested in their current infrastructure. Organizations that embark on SDN want to ensure that the benefits of migration will exceed the risks involved.
One of the most common questions we hear about SDN migration at the Open Networking Foundation (ONF) is "How do I get there?" To help answer that question, ONF created the Migration Working Group almost a year ago.
The ONF Migration Working Group has spent the last year exploring a variety of SDN use cases in order to develop a collection of methods, metrics, tools, and best practices to help companies transition from their traditional networks to SDN using the OpenFlow protocol standard.
There are currently three specific use cases that we've found very helpful for users who are considering migration:
- Google's inter-datacenter WAN
- NTT's provider edge, and
- Stanford University's campus network
Google's global user-based services are highly WAN-intensive due to the significant amount of data required to be moved from one region's datacenter to another, and the company concluded that delivery of its services couldn't be scalable with the technologies it had at the time. Google decided to use a 100% OpenFlow SDN for managing the WAN as a fabric, rather than a collection of boxes, to deploy centralized routing and traffic-engineering algorithms customized to the company's unique requirements. The target network has been in deployment for three years, and it carries more traffic than Google's public-facing WAN, with a higher growth rate.
Prior to its SDN migration, NTT used a traditional BGP deployment model. However, handling BGP state machines, processing BGP updates per configured policies, and calculating the best paths for each address family put a heavy load on NTT's routers. The company switched to a BGP-free edge, leveraging OpenFlow-based SDN to program the forwarding entries for data-plane traffic on its provider edge routers. NTT is now experiencing benefits including simplified and lower-cost routing edge architecture, accelerated deployment of new edge services, and better control of traffic patterns.
Stanford University migrated part of its campus network to support OpenFlow in 2010. Initially, the migration focused on wireless users. It then expanded to include select wired users in the 3A wing of its Gates Computer Science building and, later, multiple islands across two additional buildings. Each phase included one week of planning, one week of change, and six months of production use. Driving factors of this deployment included motivating the need for SDN through innovative experiments, understanding and verifying the new SDN technology, and contributing back to the OpenFlow specification and community.
Leveraging the experiences of these end users, ONF has identified and validated the top reasons for SDN migration, and has assembled best practices, guidelines, and processes for the transition. In addition, we've developed and recommend a planning framework for enterprises considering migration, which includes the following:
- Pre-migration planning: A successful migration includes a pre-migration planning phase where practices including gap analyses, checklists, back-out procedures, and feature-set analyses are recommended.
- Migration process: Provisioning tools, OpenFlow version control, upgrades, connectivity, service availability, and troubleshooting are important practices for a smooth migration.
It is our hope that, through the experiences of other adopters, SDN users will realize that the process of network migration is feasible, realistic, and attainable. There are always risks associated with implementing and deploying new technology, but with risk comes reward -- in these cases a good one.
Emerging technologies are cutting costs and boosting setup speed and flexibility. IT's intrigued, our survey shows. Also in the How Cloud Will Transform The WAN issue of InformationWeek: Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has a vision that needs a dose of reality. (Free registration required.)


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Learn how to make some fashion Fall accessories with DIY guru, Erica Domesek and Refinery 29. Erica created some stylish accessories for Refinery 29 featuring M&J Trimming's pleated ribbons, dupioni ribbons, pearls, sequins, unique stitch glue and nailheads. There's so many things you can do when you put a little exta creativity. Visit Refinery 29 for instructions.
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There hasn't been anyone quite like Captain Beefheart (aka Don Van Vliet), before or since. While the Captain's audacious and wholly original blend of avant-garde jazz, delta blues, and lyrical surrealism in a rock-band context has influenced countless other musical artists, his own music has never attained any great degree of popularity. This excellent 2-CD retrospective may get him some well-deserved attention, but I've a feeling this stubbornly idiosyncratic artist could care less – he walked away from music in the early '80s and has never looked back. 8/15/1999 - Don Yates


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With her individual championship, Surtevall advances to the NCAA Division II Golf Championships on May 15-18 at the LPGA International in Daytona Beach, Fla.
The sophomore finished with a three-round score of 231, winning the event by two strokes over Central Oklahoma's Aly Seng. The Golden Suns placed seventh in the event with a three-round score of 997 and missed the cut for the national championship event by 22 strokes.
Central Oklahoma captured the team title by 13 strokes and posted a three-round score of 951. Augustana finished in second at 964, while Northeastern State was the final team to advance to championship play with a score of 975.
The three top teams advance to championship play, while the top three individuals from non-qualifying teams also advance to the championship field. Surtevall was joined by Southwestern Oklahoma's Ashlynn Hall (fifth place) and Harding's Emily Plyler (tied for sixth place), who won a playoff over Henderson State's Kendall Earp for the third and final individual spot.
Niki Possage of Dardanelle carded a final-round 84 to finish tied for 16th, Taylor Kline added an 84 to tie for 23rd, while Megan Jeffery finished 48th after her final-round 88 and Megan Kelley's 94 placed her 48th.
The Golden Suns were one of five teams separated by seven strokes in the fourth through eighth-place finishes in the tournament as fourth-place Southwestern Oklahoma was just four strokes ahead of the Golden Suns with a 993, Harding and Henderson tied for fifth at 994, and Concordia-St. Paul finished in eighth with a score of 1,000. Minnesota State-Mankato rounded out the regional field with a 1,023.
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PARKSIDE, Wisc. — Rowdy Garrett sits in a tie for 38th place after a second-round 80, Graham Rucker and Brian Belz sit tied for 54th after Rucker carded a 76 and Belz turned in a 79, as the Arkansas Tech Wonder Boys golf team concluded the second round in a tie for 15th place after a day two 308.
ATU trails overall leaders Missouri St. Louis and Central Oklahoma by 28 strokes. The top three teams from each respective region will advance to championship play in Hershey, Pa., along with the top three individual finishers on non-qualifying teams.
Among Central Region teams, the Wonder Boys rank seventh, sitting 19 strokes behind the cutline, currently set by fifth-place Southwestern Oklahoma at 582. Central Oklahoma and third-place Central Missouri are the other two Central Region teams above the cutline.
Individually, Garrett's two-round score of 149 places him five strokes behind the cutline set by Northeastern State's Jackson Hess, who sits in a tie for 15th place. Hess, Washburn's Trey Siegel (T-12th) and Northeastern State's Zach Tucker (T-12th) are the three Central Region players above the cutline heading into the final day of play.
Jason Purdy shaved six strokes off his Monday score and sits in a tie for 68th place, while Dillon Young's 87 places him in 108th place.
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Note that I haven't downloaded Adobe's click-through EULA, but there's at least a chance it might un-break the module. Note that it does nothing about encryption.
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Oh, bravo. Your 1334 skillz amaze us all.
It wasn't my goal, but hey, I always like having my ego stroked. However, I don't like annoying make-work restrictions in software. If you make me re-type excerpts instead of copy and pasting, or take screen captures instead of printing, you are just annoying me, not protecting your precious intellectual property. If you expect to send people a piece of text without letting them copy excerpts or print it out, you are an idiot.


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I'm still trying to get dimensions and a better image, but I think that's dead on. I don't know how you guys do that.
I'll post again if I get better information but thank you so much. You rock!
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wow that is very cool.
I really do think it is from an oreodont.
(I'm not sure if those are inches or cm, but it seems maybe a little bit larger then your skull)
here's a close up of it's teeth.
the shape, size and location seems right.
I believe it is an oreodont.
(Unfortunately I am not a proffesional, so I cannot guarantee that it is.)
I hope this helps!
The scale doesn't seem to be too far off. The tape measurer in this latest photo is in inches.
Oh I don't expect you to make a gaurentee. If if makes you feel any better I ran these same pictures accross an American group and they just came back with the same thing: Oreodont. They didn't provide images as you have though. That helps alot.
Thanks again so much for your help!
oh good! I'm glad I could help!
What group was it? (if you don't mind me asking)
I would like to be able to get help identifying some of my own unidentified skulls, but by someone a little closer to canada since the species in america and europe are pretty different..


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SIT737 introduces the concepts, mechanisms and applications of service oriented architectures (SOA), and the key focus is to deploy a real-world SOA web service application. This unit defines the notion of "service" in the field of IT and describes various categories of services from which the concept of service oriented architectures are formed. Students will work on case studies involving business strategies and business needs, and then evaluate the feasibility whether the business can be migrated to a service oriented architecture design. Students will also develop and implement a SOA-compliant web service for a particular business. Students will conduct programming practices in the Microsoft Visual Studio environment. SIT737 also discusses the SOA management issues including the ethical, legal and regulatory implications.
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I'm planning a SS1000 from Austin to Fabens and return to Austin on April 28th, 2012. Just putting it out there to see if anyone else might be interested.
I'm planning a SS1000 from Austin to Fabens and return to Austin on April 28th, 2012. Just putting it out there to see if anyone else might be interested.
What route would you be taking? I am north of Dallas and might be interested.
Starting in South Austin heading west on 290, I-10 to Fabens, Tx, and return. There is one guy starting in San Antonio and doing the same route out I-10. We agreed to meet in Junction at the first fuel stop. I might even ride to SA the night before and just start with him. The advantage to San Antonio start is Interstate the entire way. I would still come home 290 through Fredericksburg on return to sleep in my own bed.
You have an interesting option although I think it would take longer. I-35 to San Antonio, I-10 west to the I-10/I-20 junction just outside Ft. Stockton, and then back to Dallas. That is just over 1000 miles.
Let me know what you have in mind.
I wouldn't mind coming down early to SA. I used to live there and still have a number of friends down there. I have been meaning to do a SS since I got my 2011 RT back in October. I have been wanting to go sooner but this might work out. I am just a little concerned about running the IH10. Keep me posted.
Hi, Randy,
If you are serious about the ride, I have a suggestion. You have 24 hours to do the 1000 miles. About 5 miles north of the Fabens exit is Cattlemens Steakhouse. It is a Very good steakhouse. Ride out from Austin, grab a motel room, have a great dinner, and ride back the next day. If I'm home then, I'd be glad to meet you at Cattlemens.
Ride Safe,
Phil Marvin - El Paso, TX
Sounds tempting but if I have a steak I'd need that motel room to sleep it off. I would like to grab lunch but the ride will take 16 to 18 hours without long stops. My plan is to head back and if needed I would stop near Junction or Fredericksburg. Then I would only have a couple of hours left after a nap.
If the group is up for lunch we might contact you and let you know. I am supporting another member of Two Wheel Texan's on his ride so I'm letting him set the pace and plan.
Hi, Randy,
Remember, on I-20 a few miles east of Monahans and most of I-10 from somewhere east of Junction is posted at an 80mph speed limit. The 80mph stops at the El Paso County line. Careful - the highway patrol is very active in El Paso county.
Ride Safe,
Phil Marvin - El Paso, TX
I have always considered group riding risky. A risk I have accepted many times. Group LD riding is a risk I have never accepted. I have never asked nor been asked to participate in a group LD. If I did, short of catastrophy, collision or health concerns, I would have an understanding that I could drop out at any time and anyone else could do the same without hindering the success of others in the group. YAH! I know that no one asked my opinion. Harold in Kansas
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We're all adults here Harold, you can give your opinion anytime. That is pretty much the plan. Plan together, start together, it isn't a race and a patch isn't worth road rash. My plan is pretty fluid, if I get too tired I stop for 4 or 5 hours. It is nice to know that you have a few attempting the same out and back. We don't have to stay staggered with a 2 second gap. We all know the gas stops and turn around point. Point it west, turn around at 520 miles, come back east, keep it rubber side down. Simple!


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More than 500 Surprise residents attending a protest Tuesday night against Arizona American Water Co.'s 82 percent rate hike request made it clear how they feel with blasts from air horns, shouts of "No" and applause as speaker after speaker denounced the proposed increase.
Surprise resident Robert Stewart called Arizona American's 82 percent rate hike "outrageous" and a decision he believes could force many families out of Surprise. Customers like Stewart would not only be hit with increased monthly utility bills, but also potentially higher homeowner association fees and increased prices at carwashes, restaurants and golf courses.
"This city could turn into a ghost town with this approval," Stewart said. "People are close to the edge already with small paychecks. This would be bad for the local economy."
The rally, organized by the city of Surprise, took place at Surprise Stadium and featured remarks from Mayor Lyn Truitt, Mitzi Mills, executive director of Sun City Grand, and several City Council members and residents.
Truitt commended the crowd for gathering for the roughly 30-minute event in temperatures that were in the mid- to high 40s.
"This 82 percent rate increase is absolutely ridiculous," Truitt said.
Arizona American is in the midst of petitioning the Arizona Corporation Commission for a water-rate increase for customers in the Agua Fria district, which includes Sun City Grand and other parts of Surprise.
According to its ACC filing, Arizona American seeks to recover $73 million in rate base, of which $64 million is associated with the construction of the White Tanks Regional Water Treatment Facility. The private utility also is seeking a $17.9 million increase in revenue, which would result in an 82 percent increase in water rates for residential ratepayers.
If commissioners approve the proposal in full, Agua Fria district customers could see their monthly bills rise by almost $25. The increase in average residential customer bills, using 7,000 gallons of water a month, would be an estimated $24.62, or about 82 cents a day.
Company officials say the rate hike is necessary to pay off debt tied to the White Tanks facility, which sits on 46 acres near Cactus and Perryville roads, and treats and provides 14 million gallons of surface water every day to Surprise and other surrounding communities.
In addition, officials say, operating costs within the Agua Fria district have increased by more than 37 percent since Arizona American's last rate case in 2007, largely due to sizeable increases in the cost of labor, fuel, power and purchased water.
Nevertheless, customers have said Arizona American chose to construct its new water treatment facility, which opened in December 2009, at a time when the economy was tanking and the housing market sank. The facility was built on anticipated future West Valley growth that has slowed or never occurred, leaving customers to foot the bill that many call unfair and bad business.
The rate case also comes at a time when Arizona American is selling all company assets to EPCOR Water, a Canadian water provider based in Edmonton. The sale is expected to close in early 2012, and some say Arizona American is trying to increase its value with the rate hike.
Mills, who's representing Sun City Grand and several HOAs during the hearing in front of the corporation commission, said she's been sitting across the table with Arizona American's lawyers during settlement hearings. She couldn't share what has been taking place behind closed doors, but told residents to keep fighting.
While acknowledging Arizona American's notification to customers about the rate case "flew under the radar," Councilman Richard Alton contends the rate hike is "an outrage by any definition" considering high unemployment and foreclosure rates and the most difficult economy in mrecent emory.
"To casually suggest an 82 percent rate hike is a basic necessity shows a callous disregard for the well-being of their customers," he said. "Say 'no' to corporations treating you with such disrespect."
Jim McManus, Sun City Grand board of director's president, said customers are dealing with a company that has a monopoly in the marketplace, noting corporation commissioners need to defend customers' rights and pocketbooks as the private utility faces no local competition.
"A company's most important asset is its customers," McManus said. "Arizona American needs to operate with a level of intelligence and regard for its customers."
Hearings on the Arizona American rate case continue at 9:30 a.m. through Friday at the Arizona Corporation Commission, 1300 W. Washington St., Phoenix. A decision is not expected until early next year.
Visit www.azcc.gov for information about how to contact the five corporation commissioners.
Zach Colick can be reached at 623-876-2522 or email@example.com.