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I really liked these on my colleague. The stitch and color work keep these from looking too '80s. I may have to knit myself up a pair. But I am curious: what do you think about Legwarmers?
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Kerry, Edwards ditch the Iowa picnic http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/news/archive/2003/06/08/national1558EDT0506.DTL
The candidates who were there - Lieberman, Kucinich, Graham, and Dean - took the opportunity to stay on message about Bush and the Credibility Thing. And Dean took the lead - in keeping the Bush bashing restrained (!):
Former Vermont Gov. Howard Dean revived a Watergate-era phrase to raise questions about whether Bush withheld information from Congress: "The question now is going to become, `What did the president know, and when did he know it?"
Dean, the former Vermont governor, warned against attacking Bush too harshly.
"I think we ought to take a measured approach to this," Dean said. "Somebody's credibility is on the line, and I would prefer it to be a Republican president's."
Graham's soundbite was much more aggressive - cementing in my mind the idea that he's angling for the Veepstakes. Lieberman stood by his pro-war position, but did support Congressional investigations. And Gephardt, speaking from Washington, critiqued all such critique of Bush - demonstrating that when it comes to Iowa, he's in the wrong place and saying the wrong thing.
All in all, this was a home run for Dean. I've predicted before that Dean will win Iowa, and given his recent surge in the polls and his position on issues such as the war and (ugh) farming subsidies, I think that Gephardt, Kerry, and Edwards see the writing on the wall. Or, if they don't see it yet, they will.
UPDATE: Nonpartisan for Dean, in the comments, relays the following quotes:
1) Tom Vilsack, after Dean's speech, to Dean (half in the microphone): "Great lines about the balanced budgets. Tremendous job."
2) (the bigger story) Bob Graham, after describing himself for ten minutes in ways identical to Dean: "Recent Democratic presidents have been able to talk directly to the American people -- and I want to thank Governor Dean, because he's been doing just that."
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Thanks for the pics... Bane is by far the star of the show, in my opinion. Could get several of him for some sort of rogue army.
I don't know take off the helmet off the guy in black throw on a neck peg and head and it might make a fairly non-specific trooper/guerilla. I've been thinking about using the helmet there as a space helmet w/that little thing on the top being a light and connecting some tubes to his grill and a backpack tank, or rebreather. He's the only army builder for me w/Han being custom fodder for a Bespin Han and Endor Han-just didn't like the waist artic. on the VTAC and a skiff version.
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Mr. Vance:
I am writing to you today with regard to your Internet item, "Are you a Christian Warmonger?" It is certainly an interesting piece, and perhaps one which can provide a great insight into the relationship between Christianity and war. But this potential can only be reached with a drastic editing of your list, as the questions are rife with logical fallacies. With humility, I would like to address each of these point-by-point.
Before beginning, I will ensure that we are all on the same page by defining the term "Warmonger." In general, the term means "one who is eager for war" (Encarta Dictionary). Though you do not overtly state a definition, it appears that you would agree, based on the following two statements:
"…Christian warmongers are just as militant. They consider this [Iraqi] war to be a Christian crusade against Islam and view the thousands of dead Iraqi civilians as collateral damage."…
"Other Christians are passive warmongers. …[they] cherish the thought of dead Iraqis, or 'joke' about nuking Muslims, they excuse, dismiss, make apologies for, and defend the war…"
you are dangerously close here to creating a logical flaw upon which the entire
premise is based. You seem to be defining a Christian warmonger as any
Christian who supports the war on
I will assume that this is not what you meant to say, and that you simply meant to define a Christian warmonger as a Christian who cherishes the thought of any war and is calloused to the "collateral damage" thereof. Such a statement is not logically fallacious, and now we may move on to the list. My comments shall be in blue.
Fallacies (2): Complex Question, False Dichotomy
(1) Complex Question
The fallacy of complex questions is when an arguer poses a question which includes something in its construction which is presumed true by the question itself. One such example is the statement, "Have you stopped beating your wife?" This statement presupposes something in its construction (in this case, that you beat your wife) which has not been established. Of course, Complex Questions are rarely as obvious as "Have you stopped beating your wife?"; more often, they are similar to your first question here. The question above presupposes that the Scripture, "Thou shalt not kill," refers to the taking of any life—a fact which has not yet been established. In fact, the literal Hebrew translation of the word for "kill" (ratsach) is "to murder," and is otherwise used in the Bible only in phrases which refer to taking lives without just cause. For generations, Hebrews have interpreted that passage as non-contradictory to God's required destruction of evil cultures in battle. For example, no Hebrew believes that David's slaying of Goliath, blessed by God, was a violation of the commandment in Exodus 20:13.
Whether this verse should apply to the taking of any life, or only to justified taking of life has yet to be established. Your question is assuming that you have already established it to mean "the taking of any life."
(2) False Dichotomy
Similarly, you make the logical flaw of setting up a false dichotomy with this question. By asking if the commandment "never" applies, you are stating that there are only two positions regarding this verse: if you answer "True" then you must claim that there are never unjustified killings in war; if answering "False" then you are claiming that there are never justified killings in war. Since you have failed to establish the meaning of the phrase "Thou shalt not kill," it is fallacious to assume that these are the only two positions available. What if someone were to claim, "It is neither true nor false. To kill in self-defense or in combat of evil is not a violation of Exodus 20:13, and to kill for any other reason (e.g., the My Lai Massacre) is a violation of the commandment. Thus, the verse sometimes applies and sometimes doesn't." This is a perfectly valid response; in this case, you are assuming a dichotomy exists, when in fact the answer "sometimes" is logically defensible.
Fallacy: Non Sequitur
A non sequitur ("it does not follow") fallacy is when an argument's conclusion does not strictly follow from its premises. Here, if someone answers "True", you give them 1 point—a move toward 'Christian warmonger.' But nowhere have you demonstrated a case for why belief in submission to authority is equivalent with warmongering. One could quite presumably be horrified by war and yet still believe that they have a responsibility to submit to authority (Christian, secular, or otherwise). So it does not follow from the question that a response of "True" is evidence of warmongering.
Fallacy: Non Sequitur
This is the same fallacy made in question number two: namely, that your conclusion ("that is a warmonger response") does not follow from the acceptance of the statement above. Again, both you and the dictionary define warmongering as an enthusiasm for war, whereas you have not demonstrated that it acceptance of question three necessarily shows eagerness or enthusiasm. Presumably, one could state that they believe it is for the "greater good" to torture if it saves lives, but it breaks their hearts to do so (a necessary evil, you might say). Whether they are morally correct or not is irrelevant—it is still a logically consistent answer. And thus, you are making a non-sequitur error when you automatically conclude that any "True" answer to the above question is necessarily an example of warmongering.
Fallacy: Non Sequitur
See # 2-3. Simply because a person agrees with the above statement does not indicate that they are a warmonger, or eager for wartime activities. The conclusion does not follow from the premise.
Fallacy: Red Herring
is called a "red herring" fallacy—the inclusion of an argument irrelevant to
the basic point. Whether a person believes in the necessity of
No Fallacy.
This is a fair question, although it is dangerously close to being an argumentum ad misericordiam (argument or appeal to pity).
Fallacy: Straw Man.
This is a straw man fallacy, whereby you set up an unfairly
simplistic opponent simply to provide easy attack. Few Christians who support
the war in
No Fallacy.
This is, I think, the first completely fair question. One might rightly assume that if a person answers "True"—that it is okay to eliminate members of one religion purely because that religion has done evil against the Jews—is eager for war.
Fallacies (2): Straw Man, Non Sequitur.
This is simple another way of stating Questions 4 and 7, which have already been answered. It is a non sequitur to conclude that a person is eager for war simply because they believe in submission to the government, and it is a straw man to imply that if a Christian believes in submission to the government they will agree with any governmental decision regarding war.
No Fallacy.
This is a fair question. Congrats—3/10 completely free from fallacy!
Fallacies (3): Straw Man, Non Sequitur, Appeal to Pity.
This is virtually the same question as Question 9, so I wonder why you felt the need to ask it again. It has the same two errors as # 9 had. In addition, you add an appeal to pity, by referring to "war" as the more emotionally-loaded "drop bombs on foreign countries."
No Fallacy.
This is a fair question, as long as you are clear about it. It is not necessarily
warmongering to believe that the
Fallacy: Straw Man.
This one isn't even close to a fair question. Firstly, few Christians support war solely based on the reading of Exodus 15:3, so it is an overly simplistic argument when applied to any war. But you take a Straw Man argument to a new level by stating that Christians interpret this verse—and this verse alone, with no other biblical, sociopolitical, or theological views—as justification for "a perpetual war against the Muslim world." In your introduction you state how common Christian warmongering is: find me a video clip of a moderately intelligent Christian saying, "Based on my reading of Exodus 15:3, I think we should go to war against all Muslims forever." That is an transparent straw man argument.
No Fallacy.
This one is fair—in fact, it is the perfect question for what you are asking. Some people would interpret it that way (so it isn't a straw man), you do not appeal to pity, and you say "Christians can wholeheartedly participate…" (avoiding a non sequitur). The way you have worded the question makes it impossible for someone to answer that they hesitatingly participate—you are asking if they can participate without facing moral dilemmas. A very well-stated question.
Fallacies (2): Non Sequitur, Sweeping Generalization
You follow up your best question with maybe your worst question.
(1) Non Sequitur
The conclusion here does not follow from its statement.
Because someone believes that a Christian could proudly serve in the military in
any capacity, you conclude they are a warmonger? What about the pacifist
Christian who nonetheless becomes a Chaplain, risking his life in order to try
and preach to those he disagrees with? What about the pacifist Christian doctor
who, when America is being invaded by some outside force, is willing to risk
his life to save dying patients? What about the Christian who hates even the
sight of blood, but is proud to be a part of what
(2) Sweeping Generalization
In addition, by classifying all who serve proudly in any capacity as warmongers is a dicto simpliciter—a sweeping generalization error. It is akin to claiming, "Women are not as strong as men, and thus cannot win in a fight against a man." It is true that on the average women are less strong than men, but the conclusion only holds if all women are weaker than all men. Certainly, some women are stronger than some men. Likewise, you may be correct that there are many Christian warmongers who proudly serve in the military in some capacity. You may even be right (though I disagree, and it is an opinion) that the majority of Christians in the military are warmongers. But it is a logical fallacy to claim your conclusion: that proud service "in any capacity" is equivalent to warmongering.
Fallacies (3): Non Sequitur, Sweeping Generalization, Red Herring
As this is almost identical to question 15, I refer you there to see the first two fallacies you make. The third is an addition of a Red Herring—the CIA. The Christian's service in the CIA in any capacity is irrelevant to the discussion, as you have not demonstrated in any way that service in the CIA is at all connected to a desire to war.
Fallacies (2): Straw Man, Non Sequitur.
A restatement of Questions 4, 7, 9, 11, and 13. Clearly you feel it is important, but it is full of the same logical flaws as its predecessors. Why make this a 20-question quiz, if you are just going to add in the same argument 5 times? Why not just make it a 15-question quiz?
(Interestingly, you yourself are showing that this is a Straw Man argument. These five questions use 5 different scriptures to try and support war and/or the government, showing that there are at least 5 scriptures which a Christian could use for such an argument. Yet in each question, you include only 1 scripture—clearly showing that even you realize that there is more scriptural evidence available than you are allowing in any question. You aren't only setting up straw men—you know that you're setting up straw men.)
Fallacies (2): Red Herring, Non Sequitur
(1) Red Herring
This is a completely irrelevant point. Let's say that God does approve—or at least, that the reader believes He approves, and writes "True". Does that have anything whatsoever to do with whether the reader is a warmonger? He may think God approves and hate that fact. So it is a red herring—the question is irrelevant to the debate. A True or False answer gives only information regarding God or God's view toward war—not the person doing the answering.
(2) Non Sequitur
Along the same lines, just because someone believes that God approves of the war does not mean that the person is eager for the war. It does not follow from the question above that the person is a warmonger.
Fallacies (2): Red Herring, Non Sequitur
The flaws here are identical to Question 18. This is a fact—either true or false. Whether Muslims hate Americans—or whether the reader thinks they do—is irrelevant to the determination of whether the reader is a warmonger (Red Herring). For the same reason, it does not follow that an answer of true implies a warmongering spirit (non sequitur).
Fallacies (2): Red Herring, Non Sequitur
The flaws here are identical to Questions 18-19. Whether
Christians in
Summary Statistics
Questions: 20
Non-Fallacious Questions: 5 (25%)
Logical Fallacies: at least 26
Non Sequiturs: 11
Red Herrings: 5
Straw Man Arguments: 5
Sweeping Generalizations: 2
Appeals to Pity: 1
Complex Questions: 1
False Dichotomies: 1
In conclusion, though the debate on the role of Christians in warfare is an intriguing one which should certainly be addressed by all Christians, your quiz has added nothing substantive to the debate. In fact, quite the opposite: it is a logically fallacious quiz which appears to be deliberately designed to mislead those taking it into agreeing with your position—not out of genuine moral concern and logical reasoning, but rather out of trickery.
I respectfully request that, if you wish your quiz to be a part of a genuine scholarly debate on the subject, you repair the flaws in your argument as posted on the website http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance40.html.
Thank you for your time,
Michael D. Belote


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Could you talk to us a little bit about how black money circulates through the formal economy and the informal economy, and how this step (demonetisation) is going to affect that black money? Is it going to go after it? Your thoughts on that.
One of the things we really need to understand is that not all of the cash economy is black economy and clearly not all of the black economy is cash economy. And, so what really is black money? Black money is money on which tax is supposed to be paid but is not paid. And, of course, there are large parts of the economy, many many millions of Indians who don't have to pay tax legally. For example, farmers don't have to pay tax on agricultural income. Anyone who earns less than two and a half lakhs does not have to pay tax. And, so you have a large part of the cash economy which is legitimate and white. Of course, only 1% of Indians pay tax. Only 1.25 crore* Indians are actually tax payers and that's a very small amount. All of us know there are many more people who should be paying tax and who have a lot of black money.
So to your question, how is black money generated? Let me give you a very simple example: suppose an industrialist or a businessman is selling goods worth a thousand rupees but he only declares three hundred rupees as his actual sales and he pays tax on only three hundred. Then the seven hundred which is generated is essentially black money. Now what does he do with that black money? Let's say he keeps two hundred of that for himself. He buys himself a fancy car, he buys his wife some fancy jewellery, he spends a lot of money on his daughter's wedding. What does he do with the rest? With the rest, that five hundred, let's be very practical, he gives it to the system; he gives it to the politician or to the corrupt babu or official who he has to deal with. In fact, most small businesses in India have to pay this amount as a cost of doing business. We all know that.
But what do the big industrialists do? They give this to the big politicians and to the big political parties. What does the politician do with the money? So let's say the politician has now got five hundred. He keeps two hundred for himself; similarly, for a nice fancy house, nice fancy car, nice lavish wedding for his daughter but three hundred goes toward elections. Of this three hundred, some of this is official because political parties have to show official expenditure as per the EC rules. But how do they show this because this is black money? So let's say he takes two hundred out of this three hundred which is going for elections and he breaks it up into small chunks of twenty thousand rupees cash donations. That is why all political parties are showing such large amounts of cash donations. Over 80% of their funding comes ostensibly from cash donations, which are less than twenty thousand rupees. What does he do with the remaining hundred? That goes as unofficial election expenditure—the type of expense that the EC is trying to control – money given to voters, alcohol given to voters, clothes given to voters, etc. But note that in all of this, the money which was black, some of it has been converted into white money in the hands of the politician, in the hands of the political party.
But this is not the real scandal. The real scam is what happens next. After all, why should a big industrialist or a big businessman give away five hundred rupees of his own money? What does he do? What does he expect in return? And, here is the real scam. What happens is that the politician, when they come to power, gives them access to things they should not have access to. For example, resources of the country. You have mining contracts being given for iron ore, for coal, for aluminum, for oil and gas –resources which are worth thousands of crores to India; resources which are given away for a few hundred crores. Spectrum allocation, you have contracts for roads, for bridges, for highways, for airports, which cost a few hundred crores but which are shown as costing thousands of crores. You have bank loans where a balance sheet cannot support more than ten crores. They are given hundreds of crores of loans and in due course these loans are written off.
You know we talk about the enemies of the state. We have neighbouring countries but they have a name, they have a face, we know who they are, we know what the danger is. These politicians and industrialists who are looting the country, these are also enemies of the state. They are nameless and they are faceless and these are the people who must be caught.
You can do a quick search on Google. You can see the scams of India, thousands and thousands of crores. But I want to say one thing: that money leaves a trail. Comptroller Auditor General has investigated many of these scams. Many of these are lying before the courts. It is time that we prioritise these and find out who these people are and take action to punish them.
If the Modi government's strike against black money is to be successful, in your view, what are the next top three decisions that need to be taken, to sort of follow up on this and really carry through and make it a success?
I think it is very simple. I think the first step that we need to do is to strike at the root cause, which is political funding. Let the ruling party say completely, immediately, that they will not accept any cash donations. All donations need to be by check or by electronic payment, and you don't have to do complicated electoral reforms for this and you don't have to do all party meets. Let the ruling party declare, their intention is honest, they will accept only by cheque and electronic means. I think every honest industrialist in this country will rejoice. It will make doing business in India easier, but remember that an official check donation to a political party is 100% tax exempt. So everyone will be happy with this step.
Second thing that I think we need to do, which is very important, we are basically facing a national emergency. This is a very big step. Millions and millions of Indians are taking a lot of short term pain, making big sacrifices; people are dying, people have lost their jobs, people are standing in queues for hours on end. This needs to count for something. The Prime Minister should tell the chief justice of India to prioritise the investigation of all the scams. Let us put these on a fast track. Let these scams, which have been pending for many years, let them be investigated swiftly. Let it be known before the next elections who are the dishonest politicians and industrialists. Let's take action so the nation can be cleaned of this scourge.
And the third step of course is simply on implementation. A lot needs to be done on that.
Coming to implementation and inconvenience and the suffering by a lot of India's residents…So we're seeing, yesterday Narendra Modi, our prime minister, he announced the results of a survey that he had conducted and so of course the representativeness of it can be questioned. But the overwhelming 90% support this move. And we're seeing a lot of people fall into sort of two camps. A certain section of people think that this is a bad move. This is flawed fundamentally and principally. But there's also, perhaps a larger section of our country's population that perhaps feel that it was a good move but the implementation has been very bad. Could you talk a little bit about this dichotomy and whether a policy can truly be good if its implementation was not taken into account, if preparation was not done, it was not executed?
I really think there are three steps in this. The first is, what is the intention? Secondly, what are the policy measures? And thirdly, what is the execution? I think there is no doubt that all of us are united; every single honest Indian wants black money and corruption to stop. Every single, honest, patriotic Indian does not want counterfeit money in the system, and all of us want to move to a digital and cashless economy. So the objectives, I think we're all united, are good objectives.
The question is on the policy measures and you know you have some very eminent economists both within the country and abroad saying that demonetisation, and basically when we're talking about demonetisation it is removal of liquidity of 86% of our currency from a system, from an economy which is basically a cash economy. I think the majority of economists and some very eminent people in this category are saying that you are risking bringing the entire economy to a crashing halt. It is a catastrophic move from an economic policy point of view. I have to say, I believe they are right.
Let us talk about counterfeit money. You do want to move counterfeit money out, absolutely right. Unfortunately, the speed and the shoddiness with which this has been done – you have notes which are running colour, you have very senior government officials saying that there are no new security features in this note. Now if you were a counterfeiter from across the border I think you would be having a good laugh and saying, 'Alright, how long is it going to take us to get our act together and counterfeit these notes as well?' So I think that's regrettable. I think if the aim was to remove counterfeit notes you could have easily gone to technology which is available, which a lot of other countries are using. You have notes which have polymer substrate, which are very very secure. If that was the aim, it should have been done with a little bit more thought and we could have had better notes, which were not amenable to counterfeiting.
And, certainly in cashless, I have a lot of questions. I think that could have certainly been better done.
We had an article on The Wire the other day that said if we're talking about surgical strikes, the Indian army might have been up to the task of going across the border and doing its job but India's financial industry and banking industry has not risen to the battle cry. We're seeing a lot of chaos; we're not seeing a lot of assurance. Our central bank RBI governor Urjit Patel has not clearly addressed many of the concerns arising from demonetisation since November 8, the day since demonetisation was announced. Clearly we can't place blame on any one bank or any one official but clearly the banking industry has not come up to the mark with regards to implementation here. Can you give us some insight?
In fairness, and of course I'm a banker and I speak in defense of my fellow bankers, I think the Indian banking industry and bankers across the board whether they are in private banks or in public sector banks have really risen to the occasion. They are working from early hours in the morning to late at night. From what we gather, none of the bank chairmen or chairpersons were consulted because the move was secret. And so banks have geared up to the best of their ability.
However, I do want to make a point. The real issue that the country is facing at the moment is not that we don't have enough banks, the real issue is that we don't have enough notes. We don't have enough currency. So you have sucked out 86% of India's currency and you haven't replaced it with anything. And to me the really shocking thing is, what was the planning? So first of all, who did the planning? Was it the Ministry of Finance, was it the RBI, was it the Niti Ayog, or was this just done by one or two people who thought up this idea and then felt like they didn't have to tell anyone?
However, that's all in the past and there is no use crying over spilt milk. I think what we need at the moment is that the person who is the custodian of the monetary policy and of the currency in the country, which is the governor of the Reserve Bank, Mr. Urjit Patel. I think it is time for him to come in front of the nation and explain what the planning going forward is. Doesn't matter what happened in the past. Let us know how many notes of which denominations have already been printed and are going to be released, and how many notes of which denominations are going to be printed in the coming timeframe. Because at the moment there is a sense of panic and confusion.
I, as a citizen, am being told that the money which I own legally, because 90% of the cash economy is legal, my legal money is no longer valuable, it is worthless. I have to go deposit it in the bank. Once I have deposited it in the bank I can withdraw in little bits and amounts. If I have an emergency I have to jump hoops to prove that my daughter is actually getting married or that I am actually doing something. And, it's creating a sense of real unease. People are frightened. They don't know what is happening, and everyday the rules change. So first it is one week, then it is fifty days, then some people are saying five months, some people are saying longer. The issue is that anyone speaking in the media and on TV channels—none of us are in the know. We don't know what is happening so we can only give best case estimates.
But the person who does know is the governor of the Reserve Bank and if he were to come in front of us and say, 'Look, don't worry, everyday we can print so many two thousand rupee notes, we can print so many 500 rupee notes, we can print so many 100 rupee notes; by the first of December this much money will be in circulation. By the thirtieth of December this much money will be in circulation. By the first of January you can withdraw all the money you have placed in your bank. You can draw it out'. Then people will have a sense of comfort. And, I think that must be done immediately.
Without this sense of comfort, we are seeing a lot of panic mostly because, as you pointed out, many of the institutions and people responsible for this have not come out. Is there a fear or is there a real risk of the common man's trust within the former financial system actually failing at this point? So rather than pushing us towards the cashless economy that this move may have supposed to, would they now fear going to a bank ever again, trusting cash and instead funnelling it towards other assets such as gold?
For a poor person, entering a bank is in any case a little bit of an intimidating atmosphere – you're entering a very formal looking place where there's a guard standing outside. Millions of Jan Dhan Yojna accounts have been opened, and that's a very good thing that people should enter the banking system. But now what has happened is that almost your first experience of the bank is a very intimidating thing. You have to stand in a long queue for several hours, you get in and you're dealing with a very very harassed bank official who is trying to push you away; you are putting your money in and you have no certainties as to when you can get it out.
If you finally figure out how to use your Rupay card or an ATM then the cash runs out. It's a bit frightening. It's a bit unnerving, and really it doesn't build any confidence in the system. My personal view is that we have actually done the banking industry a great disservice by this shoddily planned execution. We really will have to make a lot of effort to bring people's confidence back. I have spoken to a lot of people who are saying that they will take out their cash and buy gold because that will stay with them, and that's not the objective of this move.
Even people within India's financial system, especially this Fintech startup ecosystem, when demonetisation was announced they really cheered it. They said this is the "Whatsapp moment" for us to move towards a cashless economy. But now it's increasingly becoming clear that to the extent that our economy depends on cash, depends on liquidity, we can't just turn it on or off like a switch and say that now we are cashless. It is clear our move towards a digital economy is still far away and the process to transform will take multiple years. What are your views on this?
No, that's true. Once again I come back to the objective. Is the objective of a cashless digital society a desirable objective? I, for one, believe it absolutely is. And, I do want to say that the RBI has taken many steps over many years to bring us to this point. For example, the INPS platform. That has been developed five or six years ago. It is a very robust platform and for the last four or five years you can make mobile payments on it very effectively. We have NEFT, we have RTGS. In fact, I'd go so far as to saying that India's digital platform systems are amongst the best in the world and the most secure in the world.
Earlier this year, in April 2016, we launched the Unified Payment Interface (UPI). I tell you that this is a path breaking step. It is something, from a banking perspective, it is a space moment, it is a Eureka moment because you have now enabled every bank in the country, every public sector bank, every private bank, every cooperative bank to have an app which allows its customers to pay seamlessly, free of cost, instantaneously to anyone else. You can pay for a small transaction, you can pay for one kilo of tomatoes, you can pay your corner store, you can pay your doctor, you can pay anyone from one rupee to one lakh rupees free of cost. Now this is a wonderful move. To me, it is a really a surprise that the finance minister, that the chairman of every bank did not make this a popular move.
We opened the Jan Dhan Yojana accounts. We were talking about cashless benefits, transfers into those accounts. Those should have happened and every bank should have got people and said, 'Look, this is very simple.' Of course, let's be very clear: you need a mobile phone. In fact, you need a smart phone for the UPI app and not everyone has that. But for those who do, and a lot of people do, this is very very simple. A child can use it, and it's safe, and it's secure, and it's free.
To me, this is a big mystery as to if this move was planned, why did we not do it better? Still it's not too late. Even today, only twenty-seven banks are using UPI. The question is why. If this is your objective, move on to that. Instead of that, and I must say this, I have nothing against the private sector, I think competition is good but the UPI is far superior and far cheaper than PayTM, JioMoney, all of these things. Why are we not popularising things that will take us to that digital cashless economy?
That's very true, Meera. I think many people have pointed out that an ideal step would have been to first really familiarise, let our citizens understand UPI, understand this technology. One of the biggest banks in India only formally adopted UPI a couple of weeks after the demonetisation move was announced. So clearly, even when it comes to shifting towards a cashless economy our implementation is lacking. Maybe it could have come after a couple of months, for instance. That seems to be the sort of general consensus.
Yes, you know as I said, I come back to the basic thing: the objectives of this move were good; the policy measures are questionable, the execution has been fatally flawed on every step. And, I think we are now stuck between a rock and a hard place. I think what we really need to do is to figure out how do we go forward from here? And, if you were to ask me I would say that what is really critical – cashless can wait, you can tackle the counterfeit story, you can do different types of notes – but what can't wait is the economy. I would like to say one thing; I think it's a basic principle of business – no business goes bankrupt because they don't have money or they don't have profits. They go bankrupt when they go out of cash; when you can't pay your employees, when you can't pay your creditors. You may have cash somewhere sitting as an aero plane or as a house or whatever it might be. But if you can't pay that month, you go bankrupt. And, the problem is that millions of small and medium businesses are being pushed towards bankruptcy.
We're getting all kinds of messages that many start-ups are going belly up. Small farmers, small businesses, small mandi traders. This is pushing millions of Indians and millions of businesses into liquidation. We need to inject liquidity into the system urgently and it boils down to this: if you can't give me my own money in usable cash, you have to give me more time to use the cash I have. This is now a matter of critical urgency.
*Note: In the video, Meera Sanyal mentions 1.25 lakh. The correct figure is 1.25 crore.


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This is the blogpost version of a talk that I gave at CMC-S 2016 and NCTM 2017 on Desmos Card Sorts. I usually post slides, but in this case I'm not sure how useful the slides are without context. Hope this post can give you a sense of the value of a card sort and ways in which a card sort can support student learning along with the benefits of using a digital card sort.
The first card sort we did in the session was Card Sort: Quadrilaterals, inspired by Lisa Bejarano. This card sort asks students to sort a set of statements about quadrilaterals according to whether they are always, sometimes, or never true.
Here's the "Responses" view of the dashboard for the first four students in the activity (using "Anonymize").
The green piles indicate that all of the cards in the pile have been correctly matched. Red piles tell you that one or more of the cards in the group are incorrectly matched. Gray cards haven't been grouped yet. You can also see how many cards are missing from a group.
You can click into individual student work (above) and check the answer key to see which cards students have missed. The image above shows that Hermann only misplaced one card for the "Sometimes" true pile.
You can also use the up/down arrows on the top left to scroll through student work to get a general sense of which cards students are matching incorrectly. Better than this though, you can go back to the summary view and see right away which cards students are incorrectly matching.
From here I might pause the class and zoom in on the card that students have incorrectly matched so we can have a conversation. I might ask my students to share how they paired the card and why, and let the conversation progress from there so that I can help students build towards a correct understanding. What I love about this is the way in which it honors existing ways of thinking. Students have a chance to share what they know about rectangles, and we can use this to develop a need for a precise definition. From there, once we've agreed that a quadrilateral with four right angles is the way to define a rectangle, students can see that a square is an example of a rectangle that has perpendicular diagonals.
The second card sort we did is Card Sort: Linear Functions from the Linear Bundle, and it is an open card sort. This means that it has no answer key. After working on this card sort I showed the dashboard and we talked about different ways that the dashboard can be used to support student learning.
For an open card sort, you can see the most common groupings (above). Since there is no one right answer, the teacher can pair different groups of students together to talk about how they sorted. This is especially helpful in this open card sort where the goal is for students to deepen their understanding of the characteristics of linear functions. Instead of pairing students or groups to discuss, you might screenshot some pairings that highlight similarities and differences that you'd like the entire class to see.
Here the teacher might pose the questions "Which did you pick and why? How might the other group have decided to pair these cards together?"
This card sort had two additional screens that also provide opportunities for rich conversation and student learning. Screen 2 is below.
There are two choices a teacher can make on this screen. First, a teacher can select a set of answers that will be most beneficial for the class to hear. In many cases, sequencing these answers from less formal to more formal can help students at all levels to access the conversation and grow in their understanding of the mathematics involved. Second, a teacher can make use of a screen like this give a voice to students that don't usually raise their hands to participate. One move I've seen teachers make is to let the student know ahead of time that they have an answer that will be valuable for the class to hear.
Screen 3 (above) is similar to Screen 2 in that teachers can strategically select students to share student work. An additional benefit of a screen like this is the controversy that it can introduce. Below are some of the responses from Screen 3 from the NCTM session.
Most of us gave a response along the lines of the first three bullets. I intentionally planted three of the "Other" responses based on responses I've seen in classrooms, but there were still 5 responses from our session where participants had differing views. Being able to see these responses in the dashboard lets the teacher pair these students with other students to sort out their differences. Between this screen and the others in this open card sort, I appreciate the message that the knowledge doesn't have to come from the teacher. I can learn from my classmates, and the can learn from me!
We ended the session with a brief tour of teacher.desmos.com, along with how to find pre-made card sorts and how to build your own. For more info on this head to learn.desmos.com/cardsort and learn.desmos.com/create. Also please feel free to chime in with your card sort successes! I'd love to hear more about how people are using card sorts to support student learning.


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Sorry for the delay between posts. It's hard to believe that Sarah and I only have just more than two months left in Panama! We will definitely miss the people here, but we will also be very happy to see many friends and family again after long absences. The plan is to fly into Florida, visit with Sarah's family in September, then head to Tampa for October to finish my thesis. Then, we begin the great migration north to Madison and Minneapolis for November. December, the job search begins--location TBA.
In the past month or so I've been able to do some visits to other nearby communities, offering advice for spring maintenance, giving presentations on latrine construction, and preparing another community for a future Peace Corps Volunteer. I enjoy being able to meet new people of the same culture as my home community--they are also surprised when I can speak their lanugage and know their customs.
A continuing project throughout my whole service has been rehabilitating aqueduct. We did one more material purchase to now work on house connection lines after we completed the main line. Work has been extremely slow but I'm confident they will have a working aqueduct system by the time I leave.
Quite randomly I ran into a visiting group of 25 USF School of Nursing students who arrived to Panama, staying in a nearby community and working in more rural communities. After explaining how I was also a USF student and working in Environmental Health with the Peace Corps in a nearby indiginous community, they asked for my participation in giving an informal presentation about my experience working with communities to improve health. Sarah and I even ran into a mutual friend from USF ultimate!
Thesis testing has kept me very busy. The last rounds have been testing two different communities every two hours throughout two consecutive days, testing the chlorine residual at six different locations. I've found out that the chlorine tablet is disintegrating a bit too fast, leaving the chlorine residual a bit higher than the recommended range. I will continue to do more field testing and then polish up the thesis at USF, and then defened my thesis and submit a copy to the American Water Works Association.
In June we also went to Panama City, where we visited my host family from training and helped make some additions to the training materials for Project Management and Leadership seminar that Peace Corps hosts. We also watched the new Pirates of the Caribbean in a really nice theater for $2.50 each!
That's a quick (or maybe not so quick) update from Panama. See you stateside in two months!
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Friday, April 22, 2011
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In our latest episode, the Three Stuffed Tomatoes (Menick, Palmer and Cruz—Bietz sat out) talk about NDCA, inevitably winding up in the region of neg bias. For reasons explained only by sun spots or the lack thereof, the podcast fades off at the end as first Palmer and then Menick and Cruz crash their Skype. But, as we point out in the program, it's not as if you're paying for this, so don't expect to get your money back any time soon. Episode 42.
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However painful or awkward the truth may be, it is "truly" our only opportunity to create harmony and receive God's grace. The Bible reminds us of the power of truth quite frequently and we'd be wise to follow its advice. Here are 20 brilliant Bible verses about the Power of Truth. May these scripture quotes help you to muster the courage to live honestly despite how difficult that may become


text: Red CBR150R, registered July 2011, tax and insurance paid for one year, around 3,600 km, very clean, no scratches or dents, always garaged or covered, no extras, for sale. 66,000 THB or make reasonable offer. New one is 79,900 THB in Songkhla and there's a two month waiting list. Reason for sale: I'm in my 50s and the seating position is too extreme for me. The bike is great, quite an improvement over the older version, which I had about eight years ago. Better handling on the wider tires, a bit longer wheelbase, enough room for a 5'10" (1,79m) rider. Acceleration is great for a 150cc bike, way better than other 150cc bikes on the market. Uses less gas than my carbed Nouvo 135! {} {} Oops, just noticed that I posted an ad already! :shock:


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Trial and Improvement, solving equations in algebra - Essential GCSE mathematics revision
This video demonstrates how to use trial and improvement to find the solution of an equation to 1dp. It also shows how to use the midpoint at the end to ascertain which of the values to take as your final solution.
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Depression is a serious illness which can affect anybody.
'Health professionals use the terms 'depression', 'depressive illness' or ' clinical depression' to refer to something very different from the common experience of feeling miserable or fed up for a short period of time.'
'In depression you may have feelings of extreme sadness that can last for a long time. These feelings are severe enough to interfere with your daily life, and can last for weeks or months rather than days.' (NHS Direct, 2013)
Research shows that many people on the autism spectrum suffer from depression.


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Queen and Portland Condos and Lofts will be located in one of Toronto's most popular and historical neighbourhoods and shopping districts. The Building will offer a combined 90 suites and will be part of seven-story condominium/retail complex, that blends into the look of the Queen West heritage conservation district.
This new development will respect the building heights along Queen Street, and will include five separate retailers in different sizes of store on the ground floor along Queen (the big home improvement store will mostly be on the second and third floors). As well, there will be residential units along the Queen Street frontage, with a residential entrance.
Queen & Portland Lofts & Condos in the Heart of Queen West. 5 Storey Condominium residence built above a 2 storey retail space that includes Toronto's first Urban Home Depot Store.
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Hello, - first post and all that.
I have been reading about vitamins and there seem to be 3 that people suggest:
1. proxceed
2. those by a lady called m. glenville - although I am not sure which ones of hers exactly are recommended
3. and again some by zita west.
Is there one which people do recommend.
My sperm count and mobility are both low (around 4m and 20% I think).
We just aborted a cycle at Hammersmith due to OHSS (and thanks to this forum my wife is doing better due to sleeping upright and taking in more fluids).
Thanks for any advice and what does DH stand for?


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Gabrielle Taylor Goodlin
Undergraduate Major in Iberian and Latin American Cultures
Coming into my freshman year, I imagined myself following a very science-based, pre-medical track that would land me in the medical field. I also wanted to continue studying the Spanish language and Hispanic cultures, an interest of mine that had grown throughout high school. But I figured I would get to that later in my college career. After several quarters of pure chemistry, however, I was completely overwhelmed by the cutthroat nature of the large introductory classes, whose sole purpose was to weed down Stanford's pre-med student population. I realized that I needed to create balance in order to maintain my sanity, and committed to a double major in Biology and Iberian and Latin American Cultures (ILAC) during my sophomore year. Since then, I have been forced to maintain equilibrium between classes that fulfill pre-med requirements and those that count for ILAC in order to graduate on time...and it has been wonderful. The small, intimate classes offered by the ILAC department were a great change of pace from the larger science courses. The variety of projects and assignments that comes from tak- ing classes in different disciplines kept me engaged in my coursework and kept me from burning out.
I considered myself to be primarily interested in Latin American Studies due to previous travels, so it was a pleasant surprise when I took an introductory class on Iberian literature that was required for the ILAC major, and discovered how much I enjoyed the subject. I owe a great deal of thanks to my advisor, Vincent Barletta, for first introducing me to the beautiful works of Garcilaso de la Vega and Luís de Camões, encouraging me to write an honors thesis on the two, and then displaying a remarkable amount of patience during the process of writing said thesis.
I applied the balance I found in my academic schedule to my extracurricular one as well. For the past three years, I have worked with the Department of Sports Medicine to provide our varsity sports team with elite medical care that encompasses cutting edge technology and treatments. I also spent a summer in Ecuador volunteering through a rotation program that showed me the other side of medicine, in which public resources are scarce. For my own personal health and fitness goals, I joined the Stanford Triathlon Team, and competed in our collegiate conference. Shortly after graduation I will be attempting a half-ironman distance, with the hopes of completing a full ironman during my time off before medical school. Many thanks to all of those who contributed to my outstanding time at Stanford; your support carried me through the toughest of times and helped me shine at my best.


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I absolutely loved working with this yarn - it is soft and so easy to knit - so this scarf just got longer and longer until the entire skein was knit up! The pattern is slightly challenging, but since it is only about 5 inches wide it's a great start into lace knitting. BASIC SKILLS NECESSARY lace GAUGE 24 st and 36 rows = 4inches SIZING / FINISHED MEASUREMENTS 10 feet long by 5 inches wide


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Raúl Williamson, ('01) earned his B.S. in Electrical Engineering Technology and launched his career as an electrical testing technician at Dashiell Corporation fresh out of college. Since then, he has risen to technical director, the highest technical position in the company.
Born and raised in San Antonio, Texas, Williamson said he had many choices when it was time to attend college. He was attracted to the University of Houston's College of Technology because the program sounded like it was the best fit for him. "Growing up, I was very attracted to mechanical and electrical work and eventually discovered how exciting it was to come up with solutions for various projects using my skills in those areas," he said. Having climbed Dashiell's company ladder into a position that is what he calls best of both worlds, "I have become the technical bridge between engineering, testing technicians and project management for the company and it's an awesome position," said Williamson.
Reflecting on his decision to attend the University of Houston, Raúl said, "I thought that engineering was where I wanted to be, and after my first semester at UH, I realized that I had a love for the hands-on projects and lab work offered by the College of Technology."
Acknowledging the importance of hard work and persistence, he recalled how his dad inspired his journey. "Not only did it seem as if he could fix just about anything, he was always hardworking, encouraging, and dedicated to making sure that whatever I did was going to be my best," he said. A busy married father of four children, Raúl passes on the same inspiration to his own family.
When asked about what advice he would share with students in their pursuit of a career, Williamson emphasizes that self-motivation, willingness to continue learning and determination are critical, in addition to knowing your talents, gifts, and enjoying what you are doing. "I especially appreciate several supportive faculty and staff, who were extremely busy, but approachable and willing to give the time, which is important," he added.
What's next for Raúl? "My position is very dynamic, which makes it exciting. I figure things out and come up with solutions for a variety of entities, from customers to the technicians, construction group, and engineering." My philosophy is that I am here to support people and solve problems. I am grateful that Dashiell recognizes my abilities and provides outstanding opportunities to deepen my experience and knowledge."


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Robotic Leg Controlled With Thoughts: Man Becomes First Amputee To Control Prosthetic With His Mind [VIDEO]
One of the fundamental problems with using robot technology is finding an intuitive way to control the challenges, but a team of biomedical engineers in Chicago may have found an answer. Last week, their patient, a 32-year-old man who lost is knee and lower leg in a motorcycle accident, became the first person missing a lower leg to control a robot leg with nothing but his mind last week.
That's right, this robot prosthetic didn't require a remote control, a joystick or even a Bluetooth headband; it moved solely when the patient willed it to. A video shows the man walking up and down stairs and ramps and moving uninhibited around town.
The breakthrough was made by a team at the Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago. A report published by The New England Journal of Medicine says that the team found that electromyographic signals from nerves left in thigh muscles of an amputated leg could be used to control a robotic prosthesis. The EMG signals were decoded and combined with data from sensors in the robotic prosthesis and used to interpret the intended movements.
"This provided robust and intuitive control of ambulation -- with seamless transitions between walking on level ground, stairs and ramps -- and of the ability to reposition the leg while the patient was seated," the report said.
According to Nature, scientists have already gotten paralyzed people to move robotic arms with their minds, and able-bodied people have used thoughts to control robotic legs, but this is the first time the system has been used by an amputee.
The Rehabilitation Institute of Chicago hopes that this technology will be available for people with missing limbs in as little as three to five years.


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•'Sapon-Itoku Bridge'll be ready by December'
Ogun State Governor Ibikunle Amosun yesterday locked out hundreds of civil servants, including commissioners, who were late to their duty posts.
He told them to go back home, if they could not resume at work punctually.
The two gates of the secretariat were locked by 8am on the governor's order.
The Secretary to the State Government, Mr. Taiwo Adeoluwa, who was appalled by the number of affected workers, warned that the government would not condone such indiscipline any longer.
Adeoluwa said: "This action is a routine exercise to ensure that civil servants know the essence of punctuality and imbibe it as a virtue. It is not aimed at frustrating or scaring anybody. If the governor could make it to the office before 7:30am, there is no excuse for anyone who comes late to work."
He said late comers would be sanctioned in the future.
The Head of Service, Mrs. Modupe Adekunle, also warned that, henceforth, lateness would be taken seriously.
Also yesterday, Amosun said the Itoku-Sapon Bridge would be ready by December.
He spoke after inspecting the work done on the bridge.
Amosun said: "Many of our people were inconvenienced to pave the way for this bridge, but in the next few months, they are going to see the benefits. We will build shops to take the traders off the roadsides. We are intensifying efforts to build the roads and shops simultaneously to boost economic activities and create wealth.
"I am satisfied with the pace of the work, despite the rainy season. We work everyday and I assure you that by December, the bridge would be completed. Work is in progress and we are not resting on our oars.
"We started demolition last December and construction began in February. When our shops are ready in December, traders whose shops were demolished would use the shops free for a year."
He said his critics lack the intelligence to appreciate the work done by his administration in the last 23 months, adding that they "are not cerebral and cannot give what they do not have".


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A simple image editing application has become necessary for all the computer users. Especially for writers and web masters, an image editor with multiple platform support is pretty important. We have plenty of simple image editors in the Internet and today I came with a best one called "Fotor". It is a new web application which is also available for various PC and mobile platforms. Fotor is a simple and powerful image editor with plenty of professional features. Let's have a look at the features and functions of the application below.
You don't need to register for using the application. Click the "Get Started Now" button on the home screen to start using it. As soon as you open the application, you will see a dashboard as shown in the screenshot below. There will be four major categories, in the first section you will have all the basic and some professional image editing options. You can add various effects, frames and clip arts to your image. The text option in the application will let you find new fonts online and add to your image instantly.
The next section is "Photo collage". It lets you create collages instantly using different templates on the application. All you have to do is, select a template from the list, add the images you need, re-size the images and save the collage. It has different types of funky templates, shape templates, etc.
Next you have the inbuilt "Templates" to create greeting cards for Father's Day, Mother's Day and much more. The instructions to edit the templates will be available on the left side of the window. The cards are completely customizable, you can either use the existing image or your own image from the PC or mobile devices.
In the next category "HDR", you can edit pictures with multiple exposures and combine them to form a perfect image. In the screenshot below, you can see pictures with three different exposures at the right side. It requires minimum of three different images to adjust the exposure. Once you upload the pictures, Fotor will analyze the images and adjust the exposure automatically. You can also edit tones of the final image in sidebar.
Fotor is available for Windows, Mac, Android and iOS devices. You can edit and sync the images between different devices using the application. Try this application in your PC and mobile devices and share your experience with us in the comments. Thanks for reading, do share this post with your friends.


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Friday, January 22, 2016
Moon Pie Bites
Moon Pies are a Tennessee treat, a little marshmallow sandwich featuring round graham crackers and then a thin mockolate coating. They've been around since 1917, though they're a bit of a regional treat and sometimes hard to find. They're something between a candy and a snack, because of the graham cracker element. They're also pretty big, so I can see why it's an appealing idea to morselize them.
Taste of Nature makes Cookie Dough Bites and a variety of other little morsel items sold in theater boxes. The Moon Pie Bites sound pretty good, "Delicious marshmallow & graham in a chocolatey coating." Well, until you get to the coating part.
The pieces actually smell pretty good. They vary in size, but most are between the size of a pea and a garbanzo.
The the description says it's marshmallow, it's actually just marshmallow flavored and there's no gelatin in the list of ingredients. So these are fine for vegetarians and they're Kosher. However, it is a mockolate coating, which is made from sugar and palm oil and whey and some cocoa, among other ingredients. It looks decent, but doesn't really add a chocolate component to this combination candy.
The overwhelming scent of the pieces is graham. It's a pleasant cereal sort of smell, kind of like vanilla and digestive biscuits and maple syrup.
The pieces are a bit crumbly and dry inside. They're grainy and have little crumbly graham cracker bits in them. The mockolate coating is neither waxy or greasy, so that's kind of a blessing. It's a little cool on the tongue but doesn't really ruin the otherwise disappointing candy. All elements are equally bad. The center has little sugary bits, the vanilla flavor is overly fake, the graham bits have little of the crunch of real crackers and the chocolatey coating isn't chocolatey.
Moon Pie Bites contain wheat, milk and soy. They area also made in a facility with peanuts, tree nuts and eggs.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:47 pm Candy • Morselization • Review • Taste of Nature • Cookie • Kosher • Mockolate • 3-Unappealing • United States • 99 Cent Only Store •
Thursday, January 14, 2016
Take 5 (2016 Formula)
Hershey's contacted me last month to introduce the new look of the Take 5 candy bar and offered me some samples. I've been following the Take 5, which is a rare candy bar, since it was introduced. It came out in December 2004, and since it's survived over 10 years, it's one of a handful of combination candy bar launches to go the distance since the Twix introduction. (I'm talking about a completely new bar brand, not one that falls under an existing product line, like a dark chocolate KitKat.)
If you're interested in taking a trip with me through this decade or so, then follow along. If you're more interested in the review of the current formulation hitting shelves, skip to the bottom.
In my first review in July 2005 I gave it the following review:
Sometime around 2008 Hershey's made a change, replacing the milk chocolate coating with a milk chocolate compound, which contained cocoa butter, but also some other vegetable fats (to save money).
In the intervening years I didn't actually buy them, but I did read the wrappers and found around 2008 or so, they substituted in high fructose corn sweetener and the list of possible oils used in the different components grew quite long (see lists of ingredients below)
2010 Take 5 (source)
2015 Take 5 (source: wrapper pictured in review)
2016 Take 5 (source: wrapper pictured in review)
The new ingredients look different, but that's partly because of the formatting, they regrouped the ingredients based on the elements, so the coating is listed separately from the caramel and pretzels. It makes more sense from the standpoint of knowing what the ingredients are being used for, but muddies things when you want to know how much of the overall product is sugar. (But that's what the nutrition panel is for.)
About a year ago Hershey's announced a return to simple ingredients. Slowly their classic products, like Hershey's Milk Chocolate have seen a tweak. PGPR is going away as an additional emulsifier. I was hoping that meant that the Take 5 would be a cleaner bar, made with more wholesome ingredients, not so much hydrogenated oil and not so many fillers. But the key here with the head to head is that Hershey's has replaced the not-quite-chocolate coating with a real chocolate coating. Does it make a difference? Yes, yes it does.
The expiry on the two bars is very similar. The red package says May 2016 and new black package says September 2016. Obviously they both look great, they've been stored and transported responsibly. The packaging includes a little tray with sides that protects the pair of bars well.
The old red package in its most recent design barely mentions Hershey, there's no brand on the front of the package, the only claim to who manufacturers it is in the small print sandwiched between the nutrition panel and the UPC code. The new bar in the black wrapper similarly disavows its maker. The black wrapper is more like a nutrition bar than candy. The package clearly shows the elements for the bar, the peanut butter, the pretzel, peanuts and chunks of chocolate (but no caramel, or maybe the peanut butter is caramel). I think it's pleasant, but not compelling.
The Red bar (pictured left) is sweet, crunchy and salty. The combination is wholly enjoyable, but the chocolate flavor is lost. There's a decent chocolate texture, but not much of a cocoa note to it.
The Black bar is actually less sweet, seems more peanutty and the chocolate, well, is, still only okay. I don't know if anything is perceptibly different, since I was only testing one bar against another single package, and there are probably variations.
The new packaging is fine, but confusing. It looks like a snack bar, not a candy bar. It truly is a candy bar, adding a single savory element doesn't change that. The design is clear and certainly more distinctive than the much-used red tones on the previous. In a perfect world, the bar would have lived in the Reese's branding universe.
As for the current iteration of the bar: I'd prefer a better chew experience with the caramel element, I don't know why there's actually any "caramel color" in the ingredients. But aside from the expectations of the bar based on the elements on the list, I enjoy it. I will probably buy it again sometime, mostly because it's the only sweet and salty bar that's easy to find. The portion size is good and I'm hoping that Hershey's will continue to work on making the ingredients list shorter.
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Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Candyology 101 - Podcast Episode 29 - Coffee
In these dark days of winter, we all need a little something to boost our alertness. Enter coffee ... in candy form. In this episode of Candyology 101, Maria and I discuss all the fantastic coffee candies that we've tried over the years. There's more to coffee candy than chocolate covered espresso beans.
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Monday, January 4, 2016
Wild Ophelia Caramelized Bananas Peanut Butter Cups
Early last year at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, I tried a new line of chocolate cups from the confectioners at Vosges. These sets of mini peanut butter cups are from the Wild Ophelia line of chocolates and come in a few varieties. The first one I picked up at the store, when I finally found them last month at Whole Foods are the Wild Ophelia Caramelized Bananas Peanut Butter Cups.
The packages look like a regular twin set of chocolate cups (though they're actually 2.1 ounces) but inside is actually a try that holds a set of six little cups.
I call them cups, but there's actually no paper fluting on them, just the cups on a tray inside a wrapper.
The cups are made from 41% cacao milk chocolate, which is from fair trade certified beans (the sugar is also fair trade). The bananas are not the typical Cavendish most of us eat, but a varietal grown on Kauai known as Williams. The bananas are actually caramelized with some cream and sugar and sprinkled on top of the cups. The filling is peanut butter, and as far as I can tell, more chocolate.
They're almost savory. The milk chocolate has a good dairy flavor without tasting like powdered milk. The melt is smooth and buttery with a little toffee note. Once I bit into the cups the peanut butter is pretty evident as a scent, but the texture of the peanut butter is barely there, it's quite smooth and mixed in. The banana notes were hard to tease out sometimes, it wasn't a lot of banana and often just a little fresh caramelized and honey note.
Some cups had more banana bits, and some of the banana bits were a little toothsticky.
I liked the cups better than the bar version that I tired a few years ago. Part of is that I like the format of cups, and the ability to have a teensy but full-featured portion. They're expensive, but the package holds more than a Justin's or Theo PB cup, though it's still more per ounce. I liked the inventive combinations and I welcome more products that play with these formats.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:29 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Vosges • Chocolate • Ethically Sourced • Peanuts • 8-Tasty • United States • Whole Foods •
Thursday, December 24, 2015
Trader Joe's Candy Coated Milk Chocolate Pieces
Trader Joe's had a fair number of new products this year, but this holiday treat caught my eye: Trader Joe's Candy Coated Milk Chocolate Pieces.
I'm a sucker for a nice bottle with a cork top, and even though this was $5.99, I figured it would be good for holding some freshly squeezed orange juice at home. Even with the large price tag, it is important to note that it's a full pound of candy, not the skimpy 12 ounces like many candy bags have now.
The pieces are made in Spain, which is definitely not a country I think of when it comes to chocolate. (They do lovely gummis and nougats.)
The bottle itself looks like it holds more than a pint, less than a quart (but I'll have to measure when it's empty). It's pretty thick glass and has the Trader Joe's logo molded into it ... which makes me wonder if it will show up in the future for other packaged items. (Maybe we'll see this again for Valentines with just white and red lentils with hearts and lips printed on them.)
The pieces, especially for a naturally colored product, are well made and lovely to look at. There are three colors: white, light red and muted green. Each piece also has a little printed icon. The white ones have Ts and Js and the green and red ones have a mixture of snowflakes, bells and stocking caps.
The lentils are a little larger and flatter than an M&M. They're more like Nestle Smarties, though not quite that big.
The shells are very thick. Since they're rather flat, there's a sharper edge to the, which in this case with the bottle, means that they're more easily broken and chipped. (Of course I also carried the bottle around for a full week back and forth to work while I was sampling them for review.)
The crunchy shell is very pleasant and has no flavor of its own, just a mildly sweet crunch. The chocolate centers have a very strong dairy milk flavor, a light hint of malt and honey and then some cocoa notes.
They're inoffensive and pretty, certainly different from M&Ms with the packaging and natural colors. They don't quite warrant the price tag on their own, but I wasn't sorry I picked them up. Flavors might also be fun, especially if they could figure out a way to mix the flavors in the same package.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:16 pm Candy • Review • Christmas • Trader Joe's • Chocolate • 7-Worth It • Spain •
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