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Budget crises at public colleges haven't just meant higher tuition, but also significant setbacks in training for jobs needed the most in the country, according to a front-page article in today's New York Times.
And to show the real-world effects of budget cuts, the article turned to Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh where nursing classes are in such high demand that there's now a waiting list to a waiting list, all despite a well-documented nursing shortage in the state.
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If they are not eliminating job-friendly technical programs outright, many colleges are simply not expanding them to meet demand. Students then have to stay in college longer to squeeze in required classes, increasing both their debt and the chance that they will drop out.
At Wake Technical Community College in Raleigh, N.C., enrollment has grown by about 30 percent in the last three years, while total state funding has fallen by 21 percent, an amount not fully offset by tuition increases. The college cannot afford to expand its popular nursing program beyond its 275 slots, leaving 1,000 frustrated students on the waiting list. To keep these students, the college has enrolled them in a "pre-nursing" program, a new prerequisite for staying on the waiting list. But even those courses have a waiting list of more than 400 students.


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New Yorkers of past eras Lindy-hopped at the legendary Savoy Ballroom, packed the nosebleed seats for ball games at beloved Ebbets Field and the Polo Grounds, rode the rattling Third Avenue El and thronged under the clock at the grand original Penn Station. Images of such long-gone city activities and landmarks—as well as the iconic World Trade Center towers, tragically felled not by progress but by terrorists—still survive in extraordinary photographs recently displayed at the CUNY Graduate Center. Many were taken by photographers working for Manhattan-based Associated Press, and the city they saw was shown in "Lost New York"—part of the larger exhibit based on the AP's recently published history, BREAKING NEWS: How the Associated Press Has Covered War, Peace, and Everything Else.
"It's a real, great pleasure for us to be associated with City University," said Tom Curley, President and CEO of The Associated Press. "This is such an important center in New York, and we can think of no finer place to house our exhibit and show off our history." The display included the "banquet" of New York City images of people and places to "customize" it for CUNY, said Chuck Zoeller, director of The Associated Press Photo Library and exhibit curator. The overall exhibit and book recount how AP's newsmen and newswomen covered some of the biggest stories in the news service's 161-year history—from President Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address during the Civil War and the 1906 San Francisco earthquake to World War II, the Iraq War and 9/11.
Top Filmmaker and Editors Are Mentoring Students
Top editors at leading publications are guiding students this semester in the new CUNY Graduate Center Writers Institute, and an Emmy award-winning filmmaker is teaching a documentary course via the Jack Newfield Visiting Professorship of Journalism at Hunter College.
The spring faculty of the new Graduate Center program features Jonathan Landman, deputy managing editor of The New York Times, and Daniel Menaker, executive editor-in-chief of Random House. Also on the 2008 faculty of the Institute: Robert Messenger, deputy managing editor of The Atlantic Monthly; Katherine Bouton, deputy editor of The New York Times Magazine; Rachel Donadio, editor and writer for The New York Times Book Review; Michael Miller, deputy editor at The Wall Street Journal. The program is coordinated by noted author Andre Aciman, who heads the Graduate Center's Comparative Literature Ph.D. program. Students are published writers who want to hone their skills in nonfiction writing. "I realized that over the years I have learned the most from editors . . ." said Mr. Aciman. "So, I wanted to offer a faculty that features famous writers' editors, rather than famous writers."
At Hunter, filmmaker Charles C. Stuart is teaching advanced documentary filmmaking for television and the Internet as the college's third Jack Newfield Visiting Professor. Stuart co-produced documentaries with Newfield, the crusading investigative reporter whose legacy is honored by the professorship at his alma mater. Newfield "gave voice to the disenfranchised, and it is in keeping with Jack's spirit that all the stories produced by the students in this course will have an element of social justice at their core," Stuart said.
New Vice Chancellors Appointed by Trustees
Two new Vice Chancellors, with responsibilities in the areas of human resources and labor relations, have been appointed by the CUNY Board of Trustees.
Vice Chancellor Gloriana B. Waters, who has been serving as Interim Vice Chancellor of CUNY's Office of Faculty and Staff Relations, will be responsible for developing, coordinating and implementing Universitywide Human Resources policies. Vice Chancellor Pamela S. Silverblatt, who has served as First Deputy Commissioner at the Mayor's Office of Labor Relations for the last six years, will have responsibility for CUNY instructional staff and classified staff labor relations, including negotiation of collective bargaining agreements, labor hearings and appeals.
Chancellor Matthew Goldstein, who recommended the appointments after a nationwide search, said: "Vice Chancellors Waters and Silverblatt each bring an impressive array of talent, experience and commitment to their respective positions. As the integrated university continues to develop and grow, their leadership will be essential to our progress."
Hear Malcolm X, Former Slaves Via New CUNY Site
Listen as Civil Rights activist Malcolm X delivers his impassioned "Message to the Grass Roots" calling for black unity, barely a year before he was assassinated during a Manhattan speech on the first day of National Brother-hood Week in 1965. Hear former American slaves describe lives of bondage and surprising reactions at the end of the Civil War. These rare opportunities to hear/read voices from American history are available via "Let Freedom Ring," the new 2008 CUNY/New York Times Knowledge Network calendar and website—fourth in a groundbreaking educational series exploring the fundamental American principle of freedom. Other themes in the series include "A Nation of Immigrants," "Voting Rights and Citizenship" and "Women's Leadership in American History." All are rich with facts, documents and rare photographs from The LaGuardia and Wagner Archives at LaGuardia Community College and the photo archives of The New York Times. The calendars have been prepared under the direction of CUNY Senior Vice Chancellor Jay Hershenson and LaGuardia Community College History Professor Richard Lieberman. Project co-sponsors are JP Morgan Chase and TIAA-CREF. For more, go to www.cuny.edu/letfreedomring and www.cuny.edu/freedom.
What Is Leadership? It's "Not All About You"
Women worldwide are gaining more respect personally and professionally—notably exemplified by their achievements at CUNY. Two recent events presented advice and role models to CUNY women students and honored administrators in top positions at the University.
At "Women's Leadership for Change: Building a Better New York," the Third CUNY Women's Leadership Conference held to inspire student interest in public service and women's issues everywhere, co-keynote speaker Sheryl McCarthy set the stage for discussion. Although women are "making great strides," she said, all over the world they still are brutalized, barred from controlling their own money and prohibited from participating in public or political life. Leadership, she said, is "about listening to the ideas, and concerns and the knowledge of others… delegating responsibility, encouraging other people to be creative and giving them credit for it. In short, leadership is not all about you," said Ms. McCarthy, Distinguished Lecturer in Journalism at Queens College and host of the weekly public affairs program "One on One" on CUNY TV.
At the second event—the 37th anniversary gala of The Feminist Press, the world's oldest continuing women's publisher—nine women Presidents and Deans of CUNY colleges and professional schools received the Sue Rosenberg Zalk Award, given for dedication and service to The City University of New York. The Feminist Press also honored Philip Alfonso Berry, Vice Chairperson of the CUNY Board of Trustees.

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Development of corn hybrids that better tolerate stress has allowed corn growers in the Southeast to increase plant populations by 25-35 percent over the past decade — the result is potentially higher yields.
With so many growers returning to corn or growing it for the first time in 2007, it is important to recognize changes in corn planting and the impact this has on nutrient management.
With fertilizer costs, particularly nitrogen, doubling over the past few years, it becomes even more critical for growers to find the optimum nutrient use rate for their high value corn.
"We have planted corn this year at 4-inch plant spacing and over 130,000 plants per year. Ten years ago, if you planted available varieties at such narrow plant spacings there would be bare stalks up and down the rows. Though we don't recommend plant populations nearly that high, these new hybrids do make double and triple the normal number of plants possible," says Ronnie Heiniger, North Carolina State corn specialist.
"In tests in a grower field near Shawboro, N.C., we measured ears in some of the 4-inch plant spacings and narrow row spacings that produced enough ears and kernels to produce more than 300 bushels per acre. The ears weren't very large, but they should produce a big yield," the North Carolina corn specialist says.
New, improved corn hybrids have allowed growers to dramatically increase plant populations to 35,000-40,000 plants per acre and increase yield potential. The increased yield potential comes at a price. Heiniger says plants at close spacings have more needs and the grower has to manage the corn plant differently than corn planted at much lower plant spacings.
He says that by the V6 stage of plant development, the number of rows on the ear has been determined. Nothing a grower can do will cause that plant to set more rows. However, at this growth stage, many growers are putting out lay-by fertilizer or herbicide, yet the corn ear's production potential has already been set.
By growth stage V14, the length of the ear of the corn has been set. To manage that corn plant for best growth potential, the grower needs to do whatever he can to set the maximum number of ears by growth stage V6 and to finish that plant's growth potential by growth stage V14.
The first step in good nutrition management in corn at both narrow row and narrow plant spacings, Heiniger says, is to get enough starter fertilizer to the plant before the V6 stage to get good ears on every corn plant in the field.
Speaking at the recent annual Northeast Ag Expo in Shawboro, N.C., Heiniger held up root systems from corn plants with 10-27-0 fertilizer plus Avail at 10 gallons per acre compared to check plots with no starter fertilizer. The root system from the check plot was only half the size of the root system with starter fertilizer plus Avail.
Avail, Heiniger explains keeps phosphorous in the 10-27-0 mixture from being tied up by the clay soils in the area into a form that is unavailable to the plant.
In tests in 2006, Heiniger says a 19-19-0 fertilizer was used as a starter. "In every case we say yields increase with the starter fertilizer. The yield increase is directly related to increased plant populations," he explains.
The 10 gallon per acre rate of 19-19-0 formulation, plus some potassium applied as a dry fertilizer banded over the row at planting has been the basic starter fertilizer used by many North Carolina corn growers. Back to 2004, this basic starter fertilizer performed well, leading Heiniger and other researchers in the Southeast to wonder whether this formula can be tweaked a little bit and improved even more for narrow row and narrow plant spacings.
By simply upping the rate of 19-19-0 from 10 gallons to 40 gallons per acre clearly made a difference in ear length. Whether the additional fertilizer is economically beneficial remains to be seen (when the test plots are harvested), he says.
In the test plots, without exception, corn ears did not completely fill out to the tip. The period of growth most impacted was V6-V14 — when the corn plant sets rows. Starter fertilizer, by comparison, expanded the root system, giving the plant the ability to uptake water and put it where it needs to be.
Clearly applying some of the total nitrogen application in a starter formulation is beneficial to corn in narrow row, narrow plant spacings. How use of 17-17-0 or 19-19-0 or other one to one formulations affects total nitrogen use over the season is another factor Heiniger hopes to determine from the grower tests in Shawboro.
Heiniger showed the crowd results from 30, 60, and all the way up to 210 pounds of total nitrogen use on corn. The 30 pound rate produced plants obviously stressed from lack of nitrogen. The yellowing typical of nitrogen stress extended to the ear leaves in these plants.
In the 60 pound nitrogen plots, the tale-tale yellowing was significantly less. "These plants don't look too bad. They are not all filling to the tip of the ear, which means we are not getting everything we need from this treatment," Heiniger says.
The 90 pound per acre plots showed little difference from the 210 pounds per acre of nitrogen. "It looks like in this field in this year, the optimum nitrogen use will work out to be somewhere between 60 and 90 pounds of total nitrogen per acre," Heiniger concludes.
The North Carolina researchers also applied Nutrisphere to the various nitrogen rates to determine the effects of this slow release mechanism on total nitrogen use in the crop.
Normally, when urea comes into contact with urease in the soil, urease works to break down urea into a state can volatize some to all of the applied nitrogen. NutriSphere-N creates a shield that stabilizes nitrogen in the soil by preventing urease volitization.


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giorgos wrote:Hello to everyone.New here.I'm ww2 collector.I just finished my 50 cal replica for my jeep and now need to make a MG34 for my collection.I have a problem to see the photos of this post.Anything wrong with my computer?Because i can see photos from other posts.Please can you provide me a link from the pirates buils?
Thank you
Pirate wrote:First before you begin there are a couple of modifications that must be done to the receiver
BEFORE you start welding it to make it legal. The gripstick area must be machined out to not
accept an unmodified full auto grip stick. Second the receiver must be modified so that a
full auto bolt will not fit in. This is done by welding in a block or stud in the rear of the receiver.
I have had my kit for several days and have been figuring out how I am going to get the
receiver welded up properly. While the kit contains all the parts for a complete gun, I do not
Think that is is a parts set from one gun, hopefully this will not matter.
I am planning on starting from the rear of the gun and working my way forward.
The first step is to grind all the cuts and remove ALL the slag and burned metal to get to a
clean solid surface. I would recomment blasting the weld areas before welding. I plan on
TIG welding it and the rule for TIG is the cleaner the better.
I made a set of plates from 1" x 1/8" and 1 1/4" x 1/8" steel to use as a guide in clamping and
locating the parts for welding. These are nothing fanct, set them inside the receiver along
the bottom and drill a few holes through the rivet holes to hold them in with #8 si
These will aid in the alignment and setting the length. The bottom photos show them in place.
TOM R wrote:pirate sells premodded bolts and grips, or just the parts, you need to be present for a reciever weld up or send it to a licensed builder
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SAN JOSE — San Jose police opened contract talks with the city by seeking pay increases totaling 16 percent over the next three years, raises that would include restoring 10-percent pay cuts this year that the officers had accepted to limit layoffs amid record budget deficits, plus 3 percent raises in 2014 and 2015.
The officers' opening salvo comes amid heightened concern about rising crime and a shrinking police force whose ranks have been thinned by a combination of layoffs, retirements and resignations. City leaders have said they would support modest raises. But the San Jose Police Officers' Association has argued that bigger raises are needed to keep officers from leaving for other departments offering richer pay and benefits. The union also called for opening negotiations to the public, something few city leaders have supported on grounds it could hinder talks.
"With councilmembers floating trial balloons, disguised as proposals, the POA wanted our members to know what we believe is necessary to stem the exodus of officers from San Jose to other jurisdictions," said police union President Jim Unland. "We hope the city will join us and open negotiations to the public so that light will shine on a process that is now broken and in need of repair."
Councilmen Pete Constant and Sam Liccardo last month proposed that the city consider one-time bonus payments to keep officers from leaving the force.
And Mayor Chuck Reed in the fall suggested the city could offer some additional pay to the officers as the city's budget slowly recovers from the recession. But he said San Jose cannot afford the increases the officers are seeking without significant cutbacks to other departments. Just restoring the 10-percent pay cut to the police, Reed said, would cost $20 million, an amount equal to the annual cost of 100 officers.
"We don't have the money," Reed said. "I wish we did. I think we'll be able to restore some of the cuts, but very modest amounts."
Reed said the union indicated it expects its contract to be decided in arbitration. But the mayor said the voter-approved arbitration limits he sought in 2010 require the arbitrator to consider any raise's impact on the city's budget and other programs.
The contract talks come as the city battles the Police Officers' Association and other unions in court over pension reforms voters approved in June. Reed argued his Measure B pension reforms would deliver substantial savings to a city that has seen its employee retirement bill balloon from $73 million to $245 million in a decade due to benefit increases, investment losses and flawed assumptions.
That growing retirement bill was a key driver in record budget deficits that led the city to lay off 66 officers in 2011 even as the police union agreed to the 10-percent cuts.
The officers and other city employee unions say the Measure B pension cuts are illegal and that the city should have accepted their retirement concessions, which Reed and other city leaders had deemed insufficient.
In an update on litigation over the pension measure Tuesday, City Attorney Rick Doyle said the city faces a half-dozen lawsuits from city unions and retirees, most of which are expected to be decided together in Santa Clara County Superior Court some time in the spring. There also are an additional seven challenges to the measure before the Public Employee Relations Board.
Both sides were in court last week arguing over the scope of what could be litigated. In a ruling this week, Judge Peter Kirwan sided with the city on a few matters and the unions on others. Doyle said the unions also have just filed court papers to block Measure B implementation.
The ongoing legal battle drew sharp arguments from council members who remain bitterly divided over the pension reforms. Councilman Ash Kalra said the city has started a "war" with its employee unions that will only enrich the private law firms the city has hired to defend the pension cuts in an uphill legal battle. Councilman Kansen Chu noted the city already has spent close to $1 million defending Measure B and about $300,000 fighting related claims before the Public Employee Relations Board.
But Reed said the most controversial provision of his pension reforms — making employees pay up to 16 percent more toward their underfunded retirement plans — would save the city $70 million a year if upheld in court. Elimination of "bonus" pension checks would save $17 million a year.
"We're leading the effort to find a fiscally sustainable way to reform retirement," Liccardo said. "It's a cost we should pay and I think will benefit our residents."
Contact John Woolfolk at 408-975-9346. Follow him on Twitter at Twitter.com/johnwoolfolk1.


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not a big savage fan. so this is the first time i've heard of this muzzle loader. 10ML-II. i don't know if there are any other muzzle loader companies making the claim, that you can use smokeless powder in them.
but anyway, i stumbled on this news article.
more poking around, i found this chuckhawks article.
i guess at the time it was revolutionary.
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I've been optimistic about the "Evil Dead" remake and now that this red band trailer has hit the tubes I will go on record as saying I am actually excited. I mean not jump up and down excited, but a "well, that looks like it might be good" kind of excited. So I guess that's not really excited at all, is it? Anyway, it kind of made me go in my pants a little bit because Jane Levy, the film's star, is kind of scary as hell in it. She also has weird stumpy arms. But that's in real life so we shouldn't talk about it because it's rude.
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On February 1st, we made our way to the on-snow demo at Winter Park in Colorado. When we heard about the uphill/downhill race, our very own Will Ritter couldn't help himself and just HAD to sign up. The only splitboarder amongst a group of nearly 70 competitors, Will was welcomed into the fray with looks of surprise, disbelief and a whole lot of admiration and camaraderie. The course went 1,700 vertical feet up to the Sunspot Lodge, skins were removed, and then the downhill meandered through some moguls and gates until reaching the finish line. The winning time came at an unbelievable 27.22 minutes from Travis Scheefer from Team Dynafit, but the majority of the finishing times were between 35 and 60 minutes.
We were all psyched to see Will steam through the finish line at 47 minutes – even after switching over to ride mode and taking time to crack open a beer at the top! I hope that inspires everyone that Splitboarding is the Answer and dispels the myth that pegs splitboarding as heavy and slow. During the award ceremony, Will got called up to the stage for a special award for being the only splitboarder. Woot, Woot!


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Don't sweat the small stuff. It's a cliché sometimes offered as advice for overcoming a difficult situation.
But for Chestnut Hill resident Scott Gordon, CEO and founder of Germantown's The Mastery School – perhaps more familiar as the man whose institution was granted $1 million this September on the Oprah Winfrey show – to sweat the small stuff is what he wanted.
Ten years ago, Gordon, a product of the Yale University graduate program, was running a company in the private sector, training individuals for work in the home-care industry when he decided he wanted to work with younger people.
Gordon connected with a group of educators who developed the Mastery model, designed to help all students learn the academic and personal skills they need to succeed in higher education, to compete in the global economy and to pursue their dreams. Their application for a grant to turn around a Philadelphia School District school was accepted. And so, the first Mastery campus, Lenfest, was founded in Center City.
Since then, the Mastery organization has grown to seven charter schools in the Philadelphia area and has been recognized in USA Today and talked about in speeches by President Barack Obama.
Six of those seven schools are "turnaround" schools, meaning low-performing Philadelphia School District Schools. According to the Mastery website, after Mastery assumed management of each turnaround school, test scores at the schools increased an average of 52 percentage points a subject in every grade, while violence dropped 80 percent. The school's motto is "Excellence. No excuses."
By small stuff, Gordon refers to all aspects of education, from curriculum to scouring the nation for superior teachers, to creating a school atmosphere that inspires learning, to having clean lavatories and healthier food. In the past, the atmosphere in failing schools was often chaotic.
Gordon, who once worked as a substitute teacher, founded Mastery along with other educators and educational advocates including Deborah Stern, and modeled its mission in some respects after private schools.
"Often schools focus on curriculum, but the thing that sets Mastery apart is we focus on the ways adults work," said Gordon, a busy man in a brief telephone interview early in November conducted from his car. "The idea behind Mastery is to have great teachers."
Gordon said staff at Mastery schools know the material they want their students to absorb from the time students enter as kindergarteners through the time they graduate from high school as young women and men, some old enough to vote.
Every six weeks, staff members congregate without students to discuss the development of their students. It's a time to "plan and re-plan," according to Gordon. If faculty members think a child might benefit from extra help after school or additional emotional support, these annual meetings provide the chance for teachers to discuss those possibilities and to develop plans to address the issues.
The teachers and staff at Mastery Charter Schools prepare their students for higher education, Gordon said. Students in high school participate in internships.
One critique of the models of charter schools like Mastery is their pay system, which rewards faculty members based on criteria like the performance of their students and the quality of the teachers' work. Gordon explained that Mastery staff set academic and social goals for their students, and peer-review contributes to the way teachers are evaluated.
"You can design a good system or you design a bad system," Gordon said. "Teachers get a bonus based on the school as a whole. We send the message it's a team effort."


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Senior Bowl Executive Director Phil Savage thinks Rice TE Vance McDonald will be a second-round pick.
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When my daughter was born, my sister-in-law gave her a beautiful cashmere sweater. My baby promptly spit up all over it. The next time I tried to put it on her, it was already too small. Model and designer Julia Restoin Roitfeld, the wealthy daughter of former French Vogue editor Carine Roitfeld, wants to help me buy a new one. In March she launched a website for mothers called Romy & the Bunnies, featuring interviews with socialite mommies—publishing heiress Fabiola Beracasa says of her postpartum workout, "We have been spending a lot of time in our Hamptons house, where I have access to a fantastic indoor swimming pool"—and very high-end baby clothes. "Must-haves" include a $70 LemLem sleeveless cotton onesie and a cotton Appleseed sweater from Tane Organics that retails for $83.
Romy joins the upscale playgroup of Gwyneth Paltrow's website Goop, which recommends $700 Ouef cribs, and the flash sale site Gilt Groupe, whose baby gear section offers $52 Bensimon Tennis Forres shoes. Even the devoutly middlebrow People magazine has a celebrity baby website that links to $200 Stella McCartney bomber jackets for toddlers.
The luxury baby market didn't really exist before the 1990s, says Alan Fields, the co-author of Baby Bargains, a consumer handbook for baby products. Baby-only megastores such as Buybuy Baby and Babies "R" Us (both founded in 1996) included products at all price points and helped to stoke demand for $500 cribs and $200 baby monitors. So did the introduction of online commerce in the early aughts, which allowed pricier European companies such as the Italian brand Peg Perego to pick up market share with its $800 strollers. And when the Bugaboo Frogs stroller was featured on Sex and the City in August 2002, it pushed the entire stroller market up, says personal finance expert Helaine Olen. "Suddenly, a $700 UppaBaby stroller looked reasonable."
The luxury baby market declined precipitously in 2008. IBISWorld senior retail analyst Nikoleta Panteva says sales of baby and kids clothing dipped 9.2 percent during the recession, and revenue fell from $10.3 billion in 2007 to $9.4 billion a year later. But the category has rebounded; by 2014 it's projected to grow 4.3 percent to $10.6 billion.
This return in part reflects the improvement of the economy but also a growing number of older parents who have more disposable income. Since 1990 the number of first babies born to women older than 40 has tripled. Our parenting-obsessed culture is sold on the idea of buying the "right" products for our children, says Olen. "A lot of cribmakers are having their cribs Greenguard certified," author Fields says. The process, allowing companies to guarantee their furniture doesn't contain dangerous chemicals, raises the price of a crib from about $200 to at least $600. Fields estimates that organic crib bedding is 15 percent to 20 percent more costly than its nonorganic counterpart.
Fields and Olen also point to the tabloids. Both Us Weekly and People have weekly sections devoted to celebrities and their offspring, featuring shots of stars such as Hillary Duff shopping at Splendid with her baby son. IBISWorld's Panteva adds that Gen Y moms and dads, born between about 1970 and 1990, are particularly brand aware. Sites such as Romy & the Bunnies may have a sort of Bugaboo effect, pushing the rest of the market up. Unless you're well-off, you probably won't shell out $70 for a onesie. But that $35 organic-cotton baby dress that Gisele Bündchen's daughter was photographed in starts to seem completely affordable. Spit-up not included.


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Opinion: Day One of ObamaCare
Editorial board member Joe Rago on the law's first days, plus what Justice Sotomayor's injunction against the contraception mandate means for religious freedom. Photo credit: Getty Images.
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By the late fall of 1942, British prisoner of war camps were filled to capacity with captured Axis soldiers. With the Allied victory in North Africa in November of that year, the United States became the new destination for an increasing number of German and Italian war captives. Most were shipped to the American South and Southwest, where the winter climate was temperate and there were sparsely inhabited areas ideal for camp construction. Alabama was the site for four major P.O.W. camps beginning in 1943, hosting some 17,000 prisoners over the course of World War II. Aliceville, in west Alabama's Pickens County, was the first and the largest of these camps.
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Sony's annual update to the NEX range has so far failed to deliver the expected high-end replacement to the NEX-7. However, Sony has added the promising NEX-6 and refrevshed the popular, entry-level NEX-F3 with this new sleek looking model. Read on to see how well it performed in our labs.
Announced at IFA 2012, Sony's NEX-5R is the third version of its very popular NEX-5 camera. This new model features a 16-megapixel APS-C EXMOR sensor composed of photosites that provide autofocusing by phase detection. Has Sony improved the image quality of its latest mid-range compact hybrid? Our tests reveal the answer.
The NEX-F3 is one of three Sony mirrorless camera models released in 2012, and it's the company's eighth since the launch of the NEX line in 2010. The NEX-F3 borrows heavily from higher-end models, but also taps much of the technology found in its predecessor. So is there any big evolution in sensor quality for the NEX-F3? Or were most of the changes to the camera cosmetic? DxOMark has some answers.
Panasonic is adding its ninth model to its growing Lumix G-series lineup. In July, the Japanese electronics giant announced the Lumix DMC G5 would replace the Lumix DMC G3. Like its predecessor, the G5 taps the increasingly popular mirrorless Micro Four Thirds technology that Panasonic co-developed back in 2008 with its cross-town Tokyo rival Olympus.
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JOHNSBURG – "Creating the Life of Your Dreams," a three-part series, will start Wednesday at the Johnsburg Public Library, 3000 N. Johnsburg Road.
Participants will learn to reduce the stressors that drain energy and sabotage efforts to improve one's life.
Presented by stress-management consultant Laura Kreassig, this three-part series will cover setting smart goals by using one's own values and strengths; tackling procrastination and time-management issues; and developing the mindset to receive what is desired.
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The previous characters' escape involved running for the rooftop, but Johnny's has players blasting their way out of the front door and evading the police on the back of a bike. This type of interweaving is pretty tastefully done throughout and helps fill in GTA IV's story, although it can eventually begin to feel like playing a game of "Where's Niko" when watching cinemas or listening to dialogue.
The look of the expansion has also been slightly modified to make it stand out from its disc-based predecessor. Most of the color choices in the game have been changed, utilizing more reds, grays, and blacks throughout its menus and maps. Even the minimap located in the corner of the screen appears to be covered in scuff marks, accentuating the tough life lived by the expansion's protagonist. There has also been a noticeable filter applied to the entirety of the game that adds to the game's gritty nature. Unfortunately, while I understand the intent of this grainy filter and even appreciate it at times, it makes what was an amazing-looking title appear as though it was filmed using a cheap camera in low light.
In addition to its remarkably lengthy single-player experience, which easily provides upwards of ten to fifteen hours of gameplay, The Lost and Damned offers up several multiplayer options as well. The standard Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, and Free Mode are all included along with six other newcomers. Club Business is essentially a variant of GTA IV's Mafiya Work, having players completing numerous random jobs given to them via calls to their cell phones. Own the City involves taking over as much territory as possible by killing its current defenders. Witness Protection pits two teams, one made of The Lost members and the other of N.O.O.S.E. agents, against one another, where the objective is to destroy a bus carrying a state witness or to deliver it safely to a police station, respectively.
Chopper vs. Chopper is an interesting addition as well, with one player driving a motorcycle through checkpoints while the other attempts to destroy this mobile target using an attack helicopter. If the helicopter is successful in annihilating the biker, the two players switch vehicles and continue. The same also occurs when playing in the Lone Wolf Biker mode. Here one player starts out as the target, attempting to make it through checkpoints while evading the other players. Everyone else is attempting to kill the lone biker, which in turn makes them the next target. And perhaps my favorite of the bunch are the Races. This is about as close to the classic game Road Rash as any game has come in probably a decade, having players racing through checkpoints on the backs of motorcycles while brandishing a baseball bat. With a push of a button you can swing it towards the left or to the right, making it rather easy to crack adversaries in the skull while sliding through turns at high speeds.
The sheer amount of content in The Lost and Damned is truly impressive considering its modest twenty dollar asking price. With its lengthy single-player experience that provides a good amount of new content, while also shedding light on some of the events of GTA IV, as well as its enjoyable new multiplayer options, it would be impossible to not recommend this title to fans of the series. Hell, the inclusion of checkpoints in every mission throughout the expansion, avoiding the frustration experienced in GTA IV from having to drive back to every mission after failing, is worth it alone. Actually, the only real downside to this expansion pack, besides perhaps that grainy filter I mentioned earlier, is that it is completely self-contained. None of the new weapons, vehicles, events, mid-mission check points, music, or multiplayer modes carry over to GTA IV. While this would have been an excellent option, it certainly isn't a deal breaker. Seriously, if you have GTA IV and twenty bucks, what are you waiting for? It isn't very often that DLC is done this well.
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Yahoo ties up with CNBC on financial news
The website is partnering with CNBC to produce original financial news stories and video. It will feature CNBC content prominently on the Yahoo Finance page.business Updated: Jun 13, 2012 13:31 IST
Yahoo is taking another step toward original news programming.
The website is partnering with CNBC to produce original financial news stories and video. It will feature CNBC content prominently on the Yahoo Finance page.
CNBC, the pay TV channel owned by Comcast Corp.'s NBCUniversal, airs shows such as "Fast Money," "Mad Money with Jim Cramer" and "Squawk on the Street."
Starting immediately, Yahoo will feature a breaking news ticker, new material on stock quote pages and other content produced by the CNBC newsroom.
In one of the first examples of the partnership, CNBC international correspondent Michelle Caruso-Cabrera will collaborate with Yahoo to cover the upcoming Greek parliamentary elections and investor concerns about the euro zone.
Yahoo vice president of news and finance Rob Barrett said the partnership is similar to Yahoo's deal with ABC News, which began in October.
"This partnership represents a paradigm shift for Yahoo," Barrett said in an interview. "We're really moving from having many partnerships in which Yahoo has a small amount of original content to building up our own original profile and partnering with the best in each category to build a premium experience."
The companies will be able to use search data to help determine the content they'll produce for visitors. They also aim to match original video with the interests of advertisers.
The two companies will bear their own costs of paying reporters and other staff but will share revenue. Barrett said the combined offering should take advantage of growing demand for online video advertising and command higher ad rates.
Combined, the companies reach more than 40 million people in the U.S. online every month.
CNBC digital senior vice president Kevin Krim said the tie-up represents more than just a way to expand CNBC's online audience. The partnership will combine its Web presence with TV offerings and enable it to reach the highly informed businesspeople advertisers value. He said third party research has shown that CNBC and Yahoo reach 71 percent of all active traders and 54 percent of top company executives in the U.S.
"It's not just empty calories, as we call it," Krim said. "We are able to deliver very high quality content to a very high quality audience at an unprecedented scale."
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November is a month most of us express thanks for all that we have — for home, family, friends and faith.
But that was "so yesterday!" Now, Thanksgiving seems to be only a speed bump slowing us before our holiday buying frenzy, while the turkey and stuffing fueled our race toward the Black Friday sales.
If this holiday track meet left you frazzled, I want to offer you a choice of two very different running lanes. First, you can align yourself with denial and tell yourself that you are only spending more this year so that you'll have more to be thankful over next year.
Choice No. 2 is to pause before you get trapped in the StuffMart or CostlyCo aisles, and recite what I like to call the Black Friday prayer.
While you'll likely recognize the prayer as "The Lord's Prayer," let's reframe it to see how it might be said to rescue us from our manic materialism.
The opening salutation, "Our Father," is best read in the tone of a small child who is asking a loving parent for help. The words assert that God alone is the giver of all good things, not credit cards.
"Who art in heaven." These words may sound like a description of a detached deity, but in truth, God contains the world. That means that our money can't buy our world, so why do we try?
"Hallowed be thy name." There seems little that is hallowed today, but when we find that hallowedness in God, it should reflect something outside of our own name and holiday wish lists.
"Thy Kingdom come" doesn't mean that we're sitting around waiting for God to come to us. It means that we must invite the presence of God into our own lives. It means that God's presence always outshines the pretense of presents.
"Thy will be done, on Earth as it is in Heaven." This part means that seeking God's will in my life is not seeking an earthly plan. Simply put, I've never seen a U-Haul behind a hearse, so I don't think God wants me to accumulate more earthly goods than are useful for heavenly purposes. Reciting this part of the prayer makes it nearly impossible to exceed your credit card limit.
"Give us this day our daily bread." The recovering alcoholic knows this as the key to living one day at a time, but the recovering shopper should see this as a way to express gratitude for the gifts we find in today, not the presents we'll return tomorrow.
"Forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us." This plea for forgiveness reminds me that God forgives me my selfish ways and that my overspending transgressions of the past don't have to be repeated today.
"Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." This phrase reminds me that I am powerless before my shopping addictions, and I can only overcome them with God's help.
While Protestants add the closing line, "For thine is the Kingdom, the power, the glory, forever," both Catholic and Protestants end with "Amen," which means, "Let all of this be so!"
I have to believe the last phrase is the best part of prayer, as the word "This" points to the holiness God bestows in our lives through the fulfillment of this prayer.
NORRIS BURKES is a syndicated columnist, national speaker and the author of "No Small Miracles." He also serves as an Air National Guard chaplain and is board certified in the Assn. of Professional Chaplains. You can call him at (321) 549-2500 or email him at firstname.lastname@example.com or visit http://www.thechaplain.net. Write him at P.O. Box 247, Elk Grove, Calif., 95759.


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Besides being Natalie Portman's favorite band in the 2004 art-house movie hit "Garden State," the Shins have put out a series of albums brimming with lyrically cryptic pop-guitar jangle.
The band's fourth studio album, "Port of Morrow" (Columbia), is its first in five years. In that time, the band's singer and songwriter, James Mercer, has overhauled the band and worked on side projects such as Broken Bells, with the producer Danger Mouse. For the Shins major-label debut, he has enlisted pop producer Greg Kurstin (who has worked with everyone from Kesha to Beck) to sharpen, polish and broaden the sound, and the results are decidely mixed.
Fans of the band's relatively modest indie releases may find the production oddly sparkly, layered with keyboards, wordless harmonies, and exotic little noisemakers and ear-catching details. But Mercer's gift for the insinuating melody remains acute, and his lyrics have never been more straight-forward.
Kurstin packs the album with sonic forget-me-nots: The contrast between Mercer's falsetto and the bubbling bass line in "The Rifle's Spiral," the woozy psychedelic folk of "September," the ghostly cries that trip memories in "40 Mark Strasse." Mercer even tries on a new vocal persona in the title track: the gender-bending soul balladeer, and it works.
But not every song measures up; the horns on "Fall of 82" can't mask its slightness and "Simple Song" isn't nearly simple enough, a heart-felt statement sunk by grandiose production. Similarly, a potentially beautiful song of consolation, "It's Only Life," feels overdone. Such are the compromises made when the budgets and the business stakes are raised.


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Demi Lovato Dishes on Pre-Rehab Problems
Demi Lovato revealed a lot of her personal demons in her 'Stay Strong' documentary, and she's opening up even more in a new interview with U.K. magazine Fabulous. Lovato talks about her descent into the dark life of her eating disorder, self-harm and substance abuse.
What seems to be the root cause of Lovato's issues? Perhaps her parents' divorce. They split when she was 2 years old (she's still estranged from her father), so she never had a stable, secure home life. As a result, she threw herself into her work to distract herself from her emotional problems — but it wound up burning her out and making them worse. "I went from movie to album to touring to television and back," she said. "Being in the limelight wasn't the root of my problems, but it didn't help. I never took more than two weeks off in four years and it caught up with me."
Lovato says that with stardom came bullies at school. "They called me a w—- and told me I was fat and ugly," she vented. "I shouldn't have listened, but I took it to heart and it hurt. I thought maybe I didn't have friends because I was too fat."
"There were times I wish I'd been a normal teenager so I could make mistakes and not be scrutinized," she said, "but I don't mourn the childhood I never had. I'd rather have been traveling the world and making albums than at high school." Lovato also says that the bullies who tormented her are the furthest thing from her pretty little mind now. "I don't think or care about them. I wouldn't change what I went through. I've learned from it and it's made me stronger."
Before she grew and recovered, though, their words about her weight stung. As a result, Lovato began to starve herself, throwing up anything she actually ate. "I'd make myself sick up to six times a day. My mom was worried, but because I was going through puberty I was having growth spurts, so she assumed that was why I was thinner."
Along with her eating disorder and body image issues came drug use. Lovato was hesitant to go into too much detail for fear of a trigger effect on her young fanbase, but cocaine use was widely reported to be a cause of her breakdown. "It's something I don't really want to talk about," she said. "What I can say is that I was depressed. I would come off stage in front of 18,000 people and suddenly be alone in a hotel room. I'd come crashing down and would try to find a way to recreate that feeling, to stay 'up'."
Lovato says that a lot of the people who paid her to appear also provided her with the illegal substances that would eventually lead to her public breakdown. "Promoters gave me drugs and alcohol in restaurants or clubs. They wanted me to come back so I would be seen there," she said. "They were basically kissing my a–. I thought they were my friends. I thought I was having fun," she added. "Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no'. That's why so many end up overdosing and dying. It could definitely have happened to me."
The 'Give Your Heart a Break' singer said that once drugs stopped numbing the pain she felt inside, she turned to self-harm to express her frustrations. "It started with my wrists. People saw that, so I cut in places they couldn't see," she admitted. "You do it because you feel so bad inside. You don't know how to take it out other than on yourself."
Lovato's self-destruction came to a head in 2010 when she punched a backup dancer. Shortly thereafter, she entered rehab, which she says wasn't her idea but that she "didn't fight it." While she's grateful for her treatment now, she wasn't thrilled about it while she was there.
"It was really, really hard and scary. I was homesick and lonely and several times I thought f— it, I'm leaving," she confessed. "But my mom told me I would regret it. This was my only chance." Lovato's days consisted of about 14 hours of therapy, listening to music and knitting. While she appreciates her second chance, she admits, "When I finally left, it was like being let out of prison."
One thing Lovato was happy to leave, at least for a while, was the front of a camera. "I need to be secure in my body before I go back in front of the camera," she said. "Anyone in recovery from an eating disorder would find that triggering, and I'm not ready."


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Monday, September 27, 2010
Whitman's Candy Corn Marshmallow
Most of what I love about Halloween is the tradition. But sometimes I do like to see a bit of novelty thrown into the mix. Earlier this year I saw that Whitman's, makers of the famous Whitman's Sampler boxed candies, started making holiday novelty candies. Their first entry for Easter was a series of pastel confection coated marshmallows. Their entry for Halloween is similar, a candy corn shaped Marshmallow covered in Halloween Pastelle.
The candies are sold individually wrapped, I found mine at RiteAid but I also saw them at Walgreen's. Each piece is an ounce and comes in a simple cellophane sleeve with a decorative Halloween black & orange border. At fifty cents each it wasn't hard to take a gamble on them.
The construction is simple. It's a rounded triangle of soft, almost gooey marshmallow covered in a white confection. The coating is orange and yellow and frosted in the form of a piece of candy corn. Of course it's missing a whole stripe, which was a bit disappointing. But the shades and ratios of the colors that they do have are dead on good mimics.
This is pure sugar with scant other ingredients to break up the sweetness. The "pastelle" coating has a good snap like a white chocolate but no other flavor - no milky notes, no vanilla. It's smooth enough though that it creates a bit of a creamy container for the marshmallow. Since this was exceptionally fresh the marshmallow was moist and fluffy, though also a bit sticky. It melts into a fluffed cream instead of a latexy marshmallow. It's less sweet than the coating, but on it's own it's still throat searing.
It's cute to look at and of course quite economical as far as Halloween-themed edible decorations go. While I found the Easter ones a little off-putting because part of me wanted them to be flavored, this one actually reminded me a little of candy corn. Not enough to make me buy it again.
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Thursday, February 25, 2010
Whitman's Marshmallow Eggs & Carrot
Whitman's is out of the box this Easter. Until I spotted these little Marshmallow Egg covered in Easter Pastelle I didn't know that Whitman's didn't make anything but boxed chocolates.
Whitman's is now owned by Russell Stover's, so it isn't surprising that they might move into the single serving items and it makes more sense that if they did, it wouldn't be with an item identical to a Russell Stover product. The new line seems to be all "Easter Pastelle" covered marshmallows.
The eggs were priced as I expected, regular price was 59 cents but on sale at two for a dollar at Walgreen's where I found them (also spotted at RiteAid).
I found them in three colors: Green, Yellow and Magenta.
I also found that they were not flavored, which might have been fun. A raspberry flavored Easter Pastelle coating with a plain marshmallow would be an innovative piece of candy. A white confection on a marshmallow is, well, ordinary.
Each egg is one ounce. They're approximately 2.5" long and 1" high. The Easter Pastelle is thin and not quite crisp. It smells like, well, an Easter basket. A fake vanilla and sugar scent.
The Pastelle coating is made of sugar, hydrogenated palm kernel oil and milk products plus some food coloring.
The marshmallow is very soft and foamy, moist and sticky, not chewy and latexy like some. It's all very, very sweet. In the case of the pink one shown above, I got a bitter metallic aftertaste from the pink Pastelle. The green was tastier in that it had fewer aftertastes to mess with the tastes.
The more exciting product in the new line though was this Whitman's Marshmallow Carrot which cost a whole dollar.
The large orange carrot shaped marshmallow is covered in two different colors of Easter Pastelle, the orange body and a green carrot top. The whole thing weighs 1.75 ounces.It's a little over 4" long, so it's a hefty piece of fluffed sugar. This package has a little waxed card in it, I'm guessing this candy needed a little more support than the eggs. (It also helped to show off the product well in the package.
The flavor profile is similar to the Egg, except that the carrot is a little flatter, so there's not quite as much marshmallow to Pastelle.
The marshmallow didn't seem quite as moist either. But still, this is some intense sugar. I couldn't eat more than two bites before I had to slip it back into its package.
These aren't stellar, but they are different enough from what you can get in the drug store aisle from Russell Stover, RM Palmer, Hershey's or Dove, so they have that going for them. Folks who like really high glycemic load (28 g total weight: 21g of carbs, 3g of fat) fluffed confectionery will probably go crazy for these. The carrot would make an amazing decoration on top of a carrot cake or a plate of Easter desserts.
I still think a bit of flavor thrown in would be interesting. Orange-flavored, Mint-flavored, Lemon-flavored coatings would really set this apart from the ordinary.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:09 pm
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
Private Reserve Russell Stover and Whitman's Reserve
I was at the drug store a few weeks ago and wasn't really thrilled with the selection of candy. Well, it was a nice selection but I've tried all of that stuff before. Then I spotted the new display of Russell Stover & Whitman's Samplers (they're owned by the same company now) and was debating whether to review a full box of candy from them.
Instead I wussed out, blaming the heat that it was impractical to bring a large amount of chocolate into my 90+ degree home. So I got one of each of their little 1 ounce boxes - just as a teaser. I thought, here's an opportunity for Russell Stover & Whitman's to wow me ... they have two pieces to do it. For the opportunity to snare me, I gave them $1.25 for each sample sized box.
Russell Stover Private Reserve features two pieces of their premium assorted chocolates. The red foiled box is elegant and simple.
I have no idea what they are, the box tells me nothing specifically about them, well, it specifically tells me the combined ingredients and that's about it. I only have the shapes go on. Inside is a little tray with spaces shaped like the candies.
The nut looking one was in fact a nut flavored paste inside ... perhaps a gianduia since far down on the list of ingredients were hazelnuts.
This was terrible. It looked great, I'll grant you but had an odd waxy & greasy feel to it. The hazelnut paste as more of an amaretto flavor, which is fine with me ... though confusing because the nut shape was kind of like a walnut and kind of like a hazelnut but definitely not an almond.
The second one was a lovely milk chocolate covered caramel. The caramel was stiff & had an excellent pull. It had a good combination of toasted sugar flavors and a touch of butter. A little bit of vanilla. It was sweet, the milk chocolate was decent but didn't really contribute much of a chocolate punch.
The Whitman's Reserve was the same price, but honestly didn't look as appealing on the box. It bills itself as a Premium mini collection as if a pair is a collection. Like the Russell Stover, it makes no mention on the box as to what's actually in the box besides the ingredients. As far as the actual ingredients go - they both use vanillin (fake vanilla) but otherwise rather decent source materials.
The large and puzzling piece here was the white chocolate item with the stripes. It does look just like the one on the box - both pieces are pristine - so I'm satisfied right away with the appearance.
Sniffing it brought me no closer to discerning what it was (no nuts, that was certain, though). It smells simply sweet & milky.
The bite is soft and I decided it was either a poor excuse for a truffle or simply a chocolate cream. It's a milk chocolate center - sweet and greasy but at least not as sweet as the white chocolate coating. It doesn't do a thing for me.
Happily the second piece was identical to the second piece in the Russell Stover - a simple milk chocolate covered caramel. I couldn't tell it apart at all and that's not a bad thing.
For the $1.25 I spent, I got two pieces of candy. One I liked and one I didn't. So for the future I'll probably stick to the Russell Stover Pecan Delights, which are usually a better value and of course a good variety of textures & flavors. (They can now be found in a "candy bar" format for about the same price in stores.)
Am I missing something about the appeal of Russell Stover & Whitman's boxed chocolates?
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:04 am
Thursday, January 4, 2007
Whitman's Sampler Tin
This was a super-cute stocking stuffer that Santa gave me this year. I have to say that Whitman's has never been of much interest to me. Perhaps it's that I've found them a bit stale tasting. But it also might be the package, sure Whitman's Samplers are retro looking, but that not-so-fresh appearance may have been affecting my taste.
But without the regular packaging, I have to say these looked pretty good. The tin has a Tiffany blue background and gold printing. It's about the same size as a Sucrets lozenge tin, but a little deeper. Each piece of candy is nestled in a little perfect-shaped spot in the plastic tray.
The long milk chocolate rectangle was called Milk Chocolate Butter Cream, which was a kind of chewy sweet fudge. Very sweet, but a pleasant flavor combination.
The round dark chocolate piece was called Dark Chocolate Coconut and unsurprisingly had a coconut center like a Mounds bar. Fresh tasting and not too sweet, the real winner in the box.
The Messenger Boy was cute, with it's little cross-stitch look. It was a small tablet of milk chocolate. Sweet and unremarkable.
The last one was the Milk Chocolate Caramel which was just the right consistency. Easy to bite but chewy with nice long strands of caramelized sugar and butter. It could have used some more salt to balance the very sweet milk chocolate.
Do they beat See's (my touchstone for inexpensive boxed chocolates)? No, not even close. These were fresh tasting but a little too "middle of the road" for me. I wanted more zing, more flavor and less sweet. But I do love the tin.
I am curious to try their new Organic Sampler at some point.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:00 pm
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Stunning original jewelry featuring the signature blue "flash" of the provincial mineral of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Stunning original jewelry featuring the signature blue "flash" of the provincial mineral of Newfoundland and Labrador.
Beautiful ultra light Labradorite earrings in a Sterling Silver setting. Earrings measure about 3/4" long and 1/2" wide, not including stem. Comes packaged in a velvet jewelry box.
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Labradorite is a Feldspar mineral and is known for it's characteristic blue "flash", also known as labradoresence. It was discovered in Labrador, but can also be found in Madagasgar and Russia.
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Guinea's opposition coalition called on Friday for the annulment of last week's legislative election, citing alleged irregularities and fraud in the voting process and threatening to call for protests.
Guinea's political opposition demanded Friday the results from last weekend's legislative election be invalidated, vowing to protest in the streets if their concerns about fraud and irregularities are not addressed.
The announcement by opposition leader Sidya Toure raised fears about whether the election will remain peaceful as previous demonstrations before the vote had turned deadly.
"If this demand to invalidate the results is not taken into consideration, the Guinean opposition will be forced to resort to all legal forms of protest including public demonstrations," said fellow opposition leader Aboubacar Sylla.
Supporters of the president's ruling party immediately later organized their own news conference, where they alleged that hard-line opposition members also had committed acts of fraud.
"We are asking for the public to take responsibility and preserve peace in this country," spokesman Moustapha Naite said. "We've had enough of the intimidation and making people live in fear."
Guinea's opposition initially had sought a one-month delay of the highly contested vote, citing irregularities with voter lists at polling stations that they did not believe could be resolved by last Saturday's vote. Within hours of the polls closing, the opposition began charging incidents of alleged irregularities and fraud.
The government's ruling party has denied the accusations of vote-rigging, and President Alpha Conde has called on the country to accept the results of the vote.
Tensions, though, have grown amid delays of vote counting and the opposition alleges that tallies are being changed while the ballots are transported to the capital of Conakry. Under the constitution, results had been expected within 72 hours. However, authorities later said that the 72-hour window would not start until it had received all the voting materials.
Guinea suffered decades of dictatorship and strongman rule, and did not hold a democratic presidential election until 2010 _ more than a half-century after independence from France. However, disputes have led to repeated delays over the legislative vote, leaving the country without a functioning parliament.
U.N. special envoy Said Djinnit, who brokered more than a dozen meetings between the two sides ahead of the vote, has urged Guinea's electoral commission to release provisional results as soon as possible.
Djinnit "encourages the political parties to respect the outcome of the polls and, if need be, to use legal means for a solution to any contentious issues ensuing from the elections."


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Hazelnut Brownies
October 29th, 2008 | Category: Brownies, Chocolate
Here's the second recipe I developed for BRAVACASA: Hazelnut Brownies. These brownies fall into the "fudgy" category, with a moist and intensely chocolaty interior. It is almost as if you're biting into a bar of dark chocolate with hazelnuts. Doesn't it sound good? And wait (if you can) until the next day and taste them right after a good night's sleep in the refrigerator. It is almost as ...


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UC Berkeley Bake Sale Discriminates [VIDEO]
A bake sale being held by the Republican student group at the University of California, Berkeley is garnering nationwide attention.
Why? Because the advertised prices show men pay more than women, and whites pay more than Asians, Latinos, African-Americans, and Native Americans.
Members of the Berkeley College Republicans say the sale is designed to draw attention to pending legislation that would permit California universities to consider race, gender, ethnicity and national origin during the admissions process.
BCR President Shawn Lewis says, "We agree that the event is inherently racist, but that is the point. It is no more racist than giving an individual an advantage in college admissions based solely on their race (or) gender."
But Vishalli Loomba, president of the Associated Students of the University of California, says the tactic is making students uncomfortable.
"I think student members of BCR have a full right to express their feelings," she adds, "but I don't necessarily think this … is constructive. I strongly encourage them to engage in this dialogue in a more constructive manner, such as a forum or a town hall meeting."


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Picture Perfect Poppy Montgomery Leads a Double Life in the Lifetime Television Original Movie Lying to be Perfect
ADAM KAUFMAN Co-Stars in the Film Based on the Novel, The Cinderella Pact, by Sarah Strohmeyer
LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 -- Jumpstart your New Year's resolution and live happily ever after with the Lifetime Original Movie Lying to be Perfect, starring Poppy Montgomery (Without a Trace) and Adam Kaufman (Melrose Place). Adapted from Sarah Strohmeyer's novel, The Cinderella Pact, the dramedy tells the story of Nola Devlin (Montgomery) and her two best friends who, in a last ditch effort to lose weight, band together to follow the advice of their "fairy godmother" and end up changing their lives forever. Lying to be Perfect premieres on Saturday, January 30, 2010, at 9 PM ET/PT on Lifetime Television.
Nola Devlin (Montgomery) is an unassuming, frumpy editor who is mistreated and disregarded by her boss at Shine! Magazine. When the sun sets, though, she lives behind the glow and anonymity of her computer screen and becomes Belinda Apple, the magazine's famous and "reclusive" star advice columnist. One day, tired of being overworked and overweight, Nola and her two best friends Deb (Audrey Wasilewski, Mad Men) and Nancy (Chelah Horsdal, The L Word) follow the advice of their "fairy godmother," Belinda Apple, and band together to lose weight once and for all. At the same time, Nola's secret identity is threatened, and she must keep everything in her life straight, including the arrival of her own potential Prince Charming (Kaufman). As the group of friends drops dress sizes, their real issues are exposed, and better-than-expected life changes begin to blossom.
Lying to be Perfect is a Lifetime Pictures Presentation. Barbara Lieberman (Murder in the Hamptons) serves as executive producer. Gary Harvey (What Color is Love) directs a script from Nancey Silvers (Girl, Positive), based on novel by Sarah Strohmeyer (The Sleeping Beauty Proposal).
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Miles refutes Spurrier's claim
By CARL DUBOIS
Advocate sportswriter
Published: Sep 27, 2007
LSU football coach Les Miles refuted allegations by South Carolina coach Steve Spurrier there were helmet-to-helmet hits by LSU blockers on a punt return Saturday in the Tigers' 28-16 victory against the Gamecocks.
"There was no helmet-to-helmet contact," Miles said Wednesday during a Southeastern Conference teleconference.
A few minutes later, Spurrier reacted to Miles' interpretation of events.
"You guys need to go watch the tape," Spurrier told reporters.
The CBS video of the play is inconclusive. Several LSU blocks, and the initial hit by South Carolina's Captain Munnerlyn on LSU punt returner Jared Mitchell, are close enough calls at full speed to justify a closer look, but slow-motion replays reveal no clear helmet-to-helmet blows.
NCAA rules prohibit "spearing," the use of a helmet to butt or ram an opponent in an attempt to punish him.
Spurrier made his initial comments Tuesday at his regular weekly news conference with reporters in Columbia, S.C.
After a reporter asked if LSU was guilty of dirty play against the Gamecocks, Spurrier replied with a long, meandering commentary. Before concluding the Tigers played "fair," Spurrier brought up a series of plays that troubled him, and he danced back and forth across the line of calling LSU's play dirty.
"No," Spurrier said after his monologue, "LSU, I thought, played fair. There's no problems except for that one punt return when they had a few clips there, but anyway … ."
An illegal block in the back against LSU negated Mitchell's 78-yard punt return into the end zone midway through the second quarter.
"They had a couple of helmet-to-helmet hits on that punt return," Spurrier said in his initial response. "They had about five (penalties) on that one."
A handful of penalty flags littered the field during Mitchell's return.
Spurrier said it looked like the Tigers took liberties with what he called a "penalty play," thinking they could take some free shots once they knew they'd already been flagged for an infraction.
"They knew that one flag was already thrown there, so one guy caught (punter) Ryan (Succop) in the back of the helmet," Spurrier said, "and then he gave his NFL thing (crossed-arms celebration) on the flag.
"That was a little ... but I've never, well, I guess I have accused some teams of playing dirty," Spurrier said.
"They did a little bit on that play, but the others — no, they were OK."
He said the Tigers saw the first flag thrown and concluded "well, they can't penalize us any more. Let's go take a shot."
Spurrier said, "They had about, what'd they have, about four or five clips on that play? It appeared that way. I'm sure it was an accident."
Miles acknowledged LSU's Jai Eugene was guilty of a block in the back, for which the Tigers were penalized 10 yards after Mitchell's run was nullified.
"The one that the flag was thrown on was a push in the back," Miles said, "and the second clip was a helmet-to-back, helmet-to-shoulder (hit), but there was no helmet-to-helmet contact, in my opinion."
Miles said the Tigers were guilty only of poor fundamentals.
"The issue," he said, "is we need to correct our technique. There's, in my opinion, poor technique being employed, and it's something that we're going to work on again (Wednesday) in that phase of our special teams."
Miles on Monday said better technique could help tackle Marlon Favorite avoid the type of face-mask penalty he incurred after sacking South Carolina quarterback Chris Smelley. Spurrier seemed bothered by Favorite's "little celebration" after the play, during which Smelley's helmet flew off his head.
Spurrier acknowledged the official "did throw the penalty" flag. Favorite said he didn't know at first he'd pulled off Smelley's helmet.
Favorite also said the Tigers don't play dirty. He had another explanation for the ongoing discussion in South Carolina.
"I think it just comes from us being so aggressive," Favorite said. "We practice hard every day out here, work hard in the offseason during the summer, have extremely good conditioning coaches and stuff like that."
He said his aggressive style of play dates to his childhood in the Greater New Orleans area.
"Me, personally, ever since I was small, I can remember being, like, a real small kid on the West Bank, just going out there, and it could be 40 degrees outside and I'd go out there with no jacket, snot running all down my nose, still playing through a football tackle," Favorite said.
"Not only me ... We have other guys on our defense. Our offensive players run tough and stuff like that. I think it's just people just think we're going to play dirty because we're showing up aggressive. I think it's more of an aggression than being dirty."
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