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Fifteen of the mice in each of these groups were injected with paclitaxel at days 10, 17 and 24 following tumor removal. Although paclitaxel is effective in its ability to treat breast cancer, it also encourages metastasis when used for a long period of time and is therefore not effective to treat the advanced form of the disease. Upon examination of the animals' lungs five weeks after the tumors were removed, 96 percent of the mice who received neither curcumin nor paclitaxel had visible metastases. While paclitaxel alone elicited a modest reduction in visible metastases, curcumin provided significant reduction, and the combination of curcumin and paclitaxel prevented these macrometastases entirely. Microscopic metastases were found in only 28 percent of the mice receiving the curcumin/drug combination, and these consisted of only a few cells, suggesting that the treatment prevented the growth of tumor cells present in the lungs before the primary tumors were removed. 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A woman who died after a Humboldt Park blaze in a vacant building last week has been identified.
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Firefighters, who put the blaze out in 15 minutes, found a man who was badly burned inside the home, Langford said. He claimed his 30-year-old wife, Sarah Amann, was still stuck inside, who firefighters later found on the second floor of the building, authorities said.
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GAINESVILLE- Great news for Gator football fans.
Head Coach Will Muschamp confirms that starting quarterback Jeff Driskel will be avaliable to play for Saturday's game vs. rival FSU.
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At first glance, Hawaii Fish Co. in Mokuleia doesn't look like a hotbed of innovation. For more than 20 years, owner Ron Weidenbach has run a simple operation, raising tilapia in floating cages in the deep waters of an old quarry that he leases from the state. It's a picturesque setting. Nestled against the craggy Waianae Mountains, the 4-acre fishpond resembles an alpine lake, its shores blanketed in koa haole, its still waters reflecting the clouds overhead.
The operation seems decidedly low tech: a dusty gravel road and a few ramshackle outbuildings. Because he has a short-term lease, Weidenbach can't get a loan to make improvements, so the fishpond doesn't even have electricity for aeration. And at harvest, someone has to swim into the chilly water and tow the cages ashore by hand.
But Weidenbach is an inveterate entrepreneur and he has elaborate plans for Hawaii Fish Co. Those plans got a boost last year when he won two research grants from the U.S. Department of Agriculture – one to develop a national marketing plan for pongee, a fish normally sold only in Chinatown, and the other to study the feasibility of a new wind- and solar-powered aeration system for fish farms. Both $90,000 grants were through the popular Small Business Innovation Research program. If his SBIR projects are successful, they could transform business for his company.
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SBIR, as the name implies, is a federal program designed to support research and innovation by small businesses. The 13 federal agencies with significant research budgets that participate in the program each set aside a minimum of 2.5 percent of their research funds for small businesses (rising to 3.2 percent over the next five years). The federal agencies range from the Department of Defense, which accounts for nearly 40 percent of all SBIR funding, to the Department of Agriculture and the National Institutes of Health, at 19 percent each, to minor players such as the Department of Transportation and Environmental Protection Agency. Every year, each agency (or sub-agency, such as DoD's Department of the Navy or USDA's Rural Development program) publishes a list of solicitations for technological issues it would like small businesses to address. Typically, agencies use peer review or special committees to select the winning proposals. The Small Business Technology Transfer program, or STTR, is a smaller, sister program for small firms that want to commercialize university-based research.
SBIR awards come in three phases:
• Beginning this year, Phase I awardees receive up to $150,000 for a six- to nine-month feasibility study of their innovations.
• Only companies that have successfully completed Phase I are eligible to apply for Phase II: up to $1.5 million for a two-year project to build a prototype or demonstration project.
• Phase III, which is typically unfunded, is commercialization, which is, as Weidenbach points out, the whole point of SBIR.
"Phase I is really proof of concept," Weidenbach says. "Phase II is research and development to bring you up to the stage where private money can take you forward to commercialization."
It's not small change. In 2010, SBIR funding amounted to $2.5 billion. Over the past 30 years, the program has funneled at least $21 billion into small business R&D programs. About 120,000 individual awards have been made to more than 15,000 firms, generating more than 50,000 patents. At this pace, SBIR has supported the work of more than 400,000 scientists and engineers spread throughout every state in the country.
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When the temperatures drop, the calls go up at AAA Mid-Atlantic. The auto club had road crews out all night and all day rescuing thousands of drivers in the deep freeze.
On routine days, tow trucks and service crews jump start batteries and tow disabled cars. Then there are days like this when the calls keep multiplying.
"I should be there in 30 minutes or less," Travis Williams tells a motorist.
He has been driving a tow truck for AAA the past two years.
"This is the first time in a while I've seen this many calls on my screen," he said.
We rode along with Williams and his partner and they went from one distressed motorist to the next and the calls never seem to stop. When he pulls up on the shoulder of I-295 near Hyattsville, he takes a look the car. It had overheated and steam was pouring out. He quickly finds the issue.
"She's leaking coolant bad," he said.
As temperatures hovered most of the day in single digits, Kevawanna Bennett felt the chill as she waited.
"I have on about three layers, but my toes started to get a bit nippy," Bennett said while warming up in the cab of the tow truck.
That's one down. Between midnight and 3:30 p.m. in Maryland, Virginia and D.C., AAA Mid-Atlantic received more than 3,000 calls.
Drivers stranded on the side of the road in the cold got priority over those with a disabled car in the driveway. Ric Blackwell didn't mind the wait. He didn't have to work and stayed warm inside his girlfriend's apartment while he waited for AAA to arrive.
"I tried to come out here turn it on. It wouldn't start," he explained. "I called around 9:30 a.m., about 9:38 a.m. They said someone would be out by 11:18 a.m."
When Williams pulled up, he checked under the battery under the hood. According to AAA, about one out of every three calls it got Tuesday was for a dead battery. Within a few minutes, he had the charger and cables hooked up, and with one turn of the key, the engine came to life.
"That was good," Williams added.
Minutes later, the car drove off.
Others were not as lucky. One car got towed to Danny's Auto Body and Repair in Hyattsville after a problem with the ignition couldn't be fixed.
"I got nowhere to park them right now," owner Danny Pironto said.
The frigid weather is good for the auto business. Danny's Auto Body is doing five times the usual number of repairs.
"I've had a whole lot of calls this morning. Cars on the side of the road, overheating. Blown hoses. Had a few calls, locks stuck, couldn't get in the car," he rattled off.
He's got enough business to last into next week and he's got more waiting.
It's more than enough to keep the tow trucks on the road.
"They are my superheroes for the day!" gushed Bennett, after being rescued along I-295.
Looking at the number of calls and the still chilly temperatures, these heroes' job is far from done.
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The app, created by teenager Nick D'Aloisio, will shut down for now but will "come to life" through Yahoo's various mobile offerings soon.
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Decisions on greg oden and andre miller must be made by the portland trail blazers very soon. With the end of the NBA Finals, the opportunity arises to get both players under contract before the meat of the offseason really begins. The question quickly becomes whether the team is going to head in the same direction as when Greg Cho was the general manager.
For Miller, the Blazers control a team option that would pay him just over $7.8 million for next year. The team has until June 29 to decide whether or not to put that option into play, and it could be a deal that another team gets to make the decision about. If the Blazers were to trade Miller away before that deadline, he could be used as salary compensation in any deal. The new team could then deny his contract if he wasn't in the plans.
The reason that deal might work well, is because it could allow another franchise to dump a contract that they might not like, with the full intent on declining Miller's option to get further under the salary cap. The Blazers could also simply decide to put the option into play and keep Miller as their starting point guard for the next NBA season.
Things are a little trickier with Oden, because the franchise has to commit to holding on to an asset that might never pan out. The Blazers have the option to give Oden a qualifying offer of about $8.8 million for next year; a deal that would keep Oden under contract if no other team wanted to try and sign him. He is what is called a restricted free agent, because another franchise can offer him a deal that the Blazers would then have the opportunity to match. Will the new Blazers GM decide to match a large contract offer though?
It had really looked like both Miller and Oden were going to be retained under Cho, and maybe he lost his job because some of the brass for the Blazers wanted to go in a different direction. There are just a few days left to make that final decision though, and it could pave the way for action during the 2011 NBA Draft on June 23 or set the Blazers up to compete next season with roughly the same roster.
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'Sister Wives' Recap: Insensitive Kody Makes Meri Cry, AGAIN (VIDEO)
You know how TV shows always promote certain episodes as "very special" or "eye-opening" or whatever? Well, tonight's episode of Sister Wives really was very special. Because guess what? Turns out the Browns ain't the only polygamists going public. Nope. Tonight on Sister Wives, the Browns took a joint vacation with another plural family: The Dargers. And it was EYE-OPENING, all right. Polygamist beach party, what could go wrong?!
Well, a lot. Because for all the similarities between the Dargers and the Browns, there are lots of differences, too. Drastic differences. The kinds of differences that can hurt certain wives people's feelings when brought up over dinner, for example. And I'm not even talking about the identical twins thing!
Yup, that's the first major difference between Joe Darger and Kody Brown: Joe Darger has 3 wives, and they were all related way before the vows took place. Cause, well, Joe Darger married identical twins. And their cousin.
Now THAT'S a thought-provoking arrangement. Sadly, most of the issues you're probably wondering about went unaddressed, at least on camera. Of all the very, very interesting questions the Browns could have asked the Dargers, what they really wanted to know was: How do the wives share a kitchen without killing each other?
See, unlike the Browns, the Dargers (and their 24 children) all live in the same house. So, you know, same kitchen, same interior decorating scheme, yada yada. And while one might think that sharing a dishwasher is small potatoes compared to sharing a husband, apparently the Browns just can't handle the "too many cooks" thing like the Dargers.
"We had more problems stem from sharing a kitchen," said Kody, adding, "I have two wives who feel like sharing a kitchen is abusive."
Uh-oh. Apparently back in the day, Meri and Janelle had some serious kitchen battles. So Meri took Kody's "abusive" comment rather "personally." (Meaning she had to cry and cry and cry on the couch about it later.) And I can't blame her, really, because she just wants to speak her mind, okay? She just wants to HAVE A SAY.
In the end, Kody kinda smoothed things over, in that goofy sort of "Gawrsh, did I do that?" way he has. But still. The Dargers have a point. If you can't share a kitchen, what business do you have sharing a husband? Or maybe the Browns are actually the progressive ones?
Also, is TLC footing the bill for these HUGE houses or what? Does Kody even have a job anymore?
Do you think the Sister Wives should be able to share a kitchen?
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LaurenDecember 2, 2012 at 11:30 PMOk, I was totally confused throughout the entire episode because I thought they were talking about "sharing a kichen" in a metaphorical way. I was trying to figure out what they meant by that. When I realized they literally meant sharing a kitchen, my first thought was that's the stupidest thing I have ever heard in my life. My second thought was, exactly what the Dargers said, if they can't share a room in a house, how can they share a husband? How can they share children? I mean, I get sharing a family is way different than sharing a kitchen, but if you can't pull together to share a room, how can you pull together to share a family?
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kaeraeDecember 2, 2012 at 11:56 PMI'd be only too happy to relinquiish the kitchen to someone else...and all the activities done therein!
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RhondaVeggieDecember 3, 2012 at 7:06 AMI think I'd have an easier time sharing a husband than a kitchen. Not that I'd share my husband but I'm very territorial when it comes to my kitchen. I get twitchy if people bring through their dirty dishes after a dinner party. If you try to open a cupboard or stir a pan you may as well be walking in to a lion den wearing a lady gaga meat dress. The kitchen is my domain and mine alone.
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silverdawn99December 3, 2012 at 8:38 AM
I wouldnt be surprised if the browns got divorced.
It seems like Cody doesnt really want the polyamist style he just wants four wives. The other family thought long and hard about what they wanted to achieve and they compromised. Cody just threw shit together and called it a family. if you cant learn to get along with your sister wives what is the point of having one?
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JanDecember 3, 2012 at 10:33 AMIf they stayed out of the kitchen, they would be thinner they always bring that up, how thin the Darger's were ok do something about it. They seem real flaky to me.
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mary_allbrightDecember 3, 2012 at 11:28 AM
My big question is... WHY DO THEY NEED 4 HOUSES WHEN IN UTAH THEY SHARED ONE HOUSE. I THOUGHT THE THEME OF PLURAL MARRIAGE WAS TO HAVE A HUGE FAMILY THAT LIVES UNDER ONE ROOF WITH MULTIPLE CHILDREN, MANY WIVES, AND ONE HUSBAND! Seems like building one huge house for everyone would be cheaper and fit the scenario that we have been spoon-fed about having a plural marriage!
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mary_allbrightDecember 3, 2012 at 11:34 AM
It also sounds and looks (by Kody's facial expressions) is a little jealous of the Darger family and especially Joe and his organization of his family!
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mary_allbrightDecember 3, 2012 at 11:36 AM
And it seems like Janeele is so jealous of Meri! And Kody seems to enjoy making Meri cry all the time! Feels kind of like adding the fourth wife has caused some additional emotional problems!
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Tracie Blackmon MarcumDecember 3, 2012 at 2:05 PM
This episode was like a train wreck. I couldn't stop watching...I can't for the life of me see how anyone would NOT be jealous sharing a husband. And what is Kody doing? He looks goofy to me and what is he trying to do? Give himself a heart attack trying to please 4 very different women? I think silverdawn99 is right. I don't think he's a polg, I think he's a swinger and just wants to make it with 4 women. And make lots of babies because that makes him feel manly. Hence all the issues with Meri. I also agree with mary_allbright. I thought the whole point was having the big family under one roof. I have 2 kids and sometimes they drive me nuts even though I love them to death, I cannot image 24 of them under one roof and how that in ANY WAY would make me happy. So I don't know. I do think the Dargers were a lot more organized and Joe took control which I think is what these women like. I'm not into that, but apparently they are. It just got way too weird for me when I realized it was twin sisters and a cousin. I mean, that's just.......just.........I can't even THINK of the words that is.
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twweatyDecember 3, 2012 at 8:07 PM
Too each their own.. WHO CARES???? if you wanna share a husband but not a house.. or a house but not a husband?? does it matter, i think its cool that their happy... and that their open enough to share it with the world! why judge... be happy for them! thats my thought ...


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The Art of Chinese Medicine
The past month has been brutal, scheduling wise. I shan't bore my handful of readers with the details of the non-essentials. One of the things keeping me busy though, is having a 4th year medical student rotate with me in Traditional and Integrative Medicine. For a whole month, I have a future M.D. to "convert" to Chinese medicine heh heh.
Anyway, during one of our rounds, she mentions to me that the subject of Chinese herbal medicine was brought up during her rounds with another doctor. This other doctor encouraged her to study Philippine herbs instead of Chinese herbs because obviously, using indigenous resources is more cost-efficient than importing from China. Also, indigenous materia medica would also be more apt and appropriate for the environment in which it grows. Ma Huang works well in northern China for example, but not in tropical Philippines.
This got me thinking. Just what IS the essence of Chinese medicine? When I talk to most westerners about Chinese materia medica, most people think of stuff like Ginseng or Cordyceps. In other words, they think about the individual materials. Some folks with more experience might think of individual formulas – I know of a local nephrologist who actually tells patients with stones to take an over the counter stone "melting" formula from China with much success.
But is that what Chinese medicine is? The individual materia medica? The Formulae?
The World Health Organization defines traditional medicine as "the sum total of knowledge, skills and practices based on the theories, beliefs and experiences indigenous to different cultures that are used to maintain health, as well as to prevent, diagnose, improve or treat physical and mental illnesses." If used outside it's indigenous culture, it is termed alternative or complementary medicine. (http://www.who.int/mediacentre/factsheets/fs134/en/).
Hence, the idea of medicine is not the drugs, not the acupuncture, not the materia medica. I've even given this example to medical students – if for example, a person takes a certain common antibiotic but uses it for "off-label" purposes (as is rampant in the Philippines), is that person practicing medicine? Sure, that person is using a medical tool, but not based on the knowledge, skill, and practice on which the art of medicine is based.
Chinese medicine, it can be imputed, is not about the individual materia medica. It is about the unique theory that the practice is based on. In particular, Chinese herbal medicine is not about the individual materia, it is about how they are used and the framework in which they are used.
Ephedra has it's specific indications in Chinese Medicine. Weight loss is not one of them. Therefore, using ephedra in weight loss - even if the ephedra is a commonly used Chinese materia medica – is not practicing Chinese medicine.
American Ginseng is grown in Wisconsin in the United States. Frankincense and Myrrh are more associated with the Middle than the Far East. Yet all are used in Chinese herbal medicine so long as they can be made to fit within the tradition.
So how do I reconcile my student's story with this?
Philippine herbs can be studied and classified according to the system of Four Natures and Five Tastes. Once this is done, it is a matter of substituting appropriate local medicinals for the imported ones, but STILL WITHIN THE FRAMEWORK OF CHINESE MEDICAL THEORY. Let's take a formula – Dang Gui Bu Xue Tang – with two ingredients Dang Gui and Huang Qi. What if we can find two local materials that can be used to replace either one (with dose adjustments of course). We could help more people at less cost.
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Friday, December 9, 2005
Artisan Marshmallows: Plush Puffs
Name: Plush Puffs Assortment
Yes, artisanal marshmallows. And why not? The stuff we've been getting from Kraft are not what marshmallows are capable of. And those things that you find in cereal? Please, let's not even grace them with the name marshmallow. They're not even marshy!
I was sent a generous sample pack from Ann of Plush Puffs, which is based here in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks, to be exact). The weird thing is that until I started Candy Blog, I didn't really think much of marshmallows. Besides the See's Scotchmallows, there were very few marshmallow things that I would even try. Peeps were never on the menu, but I have been known to toast marshmallows, if only because they're the only grillable dessert I know.
Instead of just plain marshmallows, Plush Puffs are flavored with intense combinations of spice, nuts and/or fruit essences:
Caramel Swirl - I think I'd rename this one to "sticky toffee" because it had a nice carmelized sugar note to it and it was sticky. It was very sweet and had a little bit of caramelly fudge topping on it.
Chocolate Chipetta - this is the only one that doesn't feel "sweet" to me. It's rich and toasty tasting with a good chocolate hit. One of my top three flavors.
Maple Pecan - holy moly! These were really good. The maple flavor wasn't artificial or chemically like some candies can be. It was a good sweet woodsy backdrop to the sweet, chewy foam. It had almost a toffee-like flavor and I even had a few pecans in mine.
Peppi-Mint - it's like a fluffy candy cane! Seriously minty, like someone's made a foam Altoid or something. The color and texture looks more like a cake than a marshmallow but the intense flavor made me want to eat both but I settled for doing a mash-up with the Chocolate Chipetta which was really good. One of my top three flavors.
Toasted Coconut - this one smelled divine and tasted just a good. I love coconut and I love the nutty smell that reminds me of the beach and all the kids that could tan wearing that coconut oil suntan lotion. One of my top three flavors.
Sydney's Cinnamon - this was not my favorite, though I had high hopes for it. It's definitely cinnamonny, but it also has cinnamon oil, which gives it more of a candy hit than a spiciness (like eating a cinnamon hard candy). But where this puff really showed itself was in the toasting. (see below)
Vanilla Bean - I know, vanilla, kind of bland. It wasn't really bland, a little salty and it just didn't wow me. I think this would be good with something else, like maybe over pie or toasted or in s'mores.
Sam's Sour Lemon - these had a gorgeous zesty lemon smell and pretty creamy and vivid yellow swirls in them. Calling them "sour" lemon doesn't work at all for me (in fact, I would call them "zesty" lemon instead) but the flavor is really nice and mellow. I also didn't care much for the mix of textures wtih the crunchy lemon sugar but it's not a dealbreaker or anything.
There's one more flavor on their list that for some reason I didn't get in my grab bag, which is the one that sadly interested me most - Orange Honey. The honey flavor is not that noticeable in the other Plush Puffs but is one of the things that I've always found so intense about the See's Scotchmallows. (I guess I'll have to place an order.)
Per the recommendation of Ann at Plush Puffs, I tried some in my tea and of course toasted some of Sydney's cinnamon:
I brewed a cup of Revolution Lavender Earl Grey tea and and dropped in about a quarter of a puff (I didn't want to overload). As I took the photos I noticed the marshmallow dissolving into a beautiful aromatic foam. I enjoyed the combination of flavors, the creaminess of the marshmallow, the interaction of the botanicals of bergamot, lemon and lavender was really nice. And of course the sweetness of the puff was a nice change from my usually naked tea. Even after I'd slurped off the foamy dissolved puffiness there was still a nice lingering sweetness and lemony flavor. Definitely a cool way to decorate an ordinary after-dinner or afternoon tea. I still prefer my naked tea, because that's just the way I am.
The drink marshmallows were invented for, of course, is hot chocolate. I got some amazing Mayan Hot Chocolate mix from Xocoatl from my sister-in-law at Thanksgiving which I made here at the office with some milk in the microwave. In went a half of a Sydney's Cinnamon. Instead of dissolving in a bubbly foam and spreading across the surface like the lemon one in the tea did, this one hung together really well. But once I tried poking it with a spoon it melted completely. I scooped it up like some sort of dessert soup with some of the hot chocolate and enjoyed that until all I had left was my cocoa broth. The spice of the cinnamon went really well with the Mayan chocolate which already had a hit of spices in it.
I kept a few of the Sydney's Cinnamon aside for toasting. I loaded one up on a carving fork because I know that a single prong really doesn't do very well with a marshmallow. I put it over the open flame on the gas burner on my stove and it carmelized so beautifully and left the house smelling so good, I think I'll just start toasting these like incense. Here's a tip about toasting them. They're huge. They're actually too big to toast whole. There's no way to get a fully molten center (I do not like medium rare toasted marshmallows) with a marshmallow this size. What is so intense about these is that they melt even at moderate heat, which turns them into this molten, intense foamy sauce with a crispy carmelized shell. In the future I think I'll slice them in half and then have a greater surface area to center ratio.
I've been looking for a summer dessert to have after grilling and this just might be the thing. Everyone can choose their own flavor and I think it'd be really cool to make some grown-up s'mores and drinks with them. They don't quite fit into the "candy" family for me for some reason. They feel more like food, maybe that's because they're so satisfying and slightly saltier (more savory) than an ordinary marshmallow.
I should go back and add them to the gift guide, especially since they have baskets where you can choose the selection of flavors. Also, if you're dubious about them, you can try their "scraps" which are not quite perfect marshmallows. I love factory stores. Overall this is the kind of thing I'd like to offer guests at a party and I can see myself ordering them for a summer grill or maybe part of dessert a holiday cocktail party. I don't see myself just ordering them to eat, maybe it's because they feel kind of precious being handmade and all, I just can bring myself to just wolf them down like so many handfuls of M&Ms or Skittles.
Rating - 8 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:31 am Candy • Los Angeles • Review • Caramel • Chocolate • Coconut • Marshmallow • Mints • Nuts • 8-Tasty • United States • Comments (10)
Friday, November 11, 2005
Tom's Coconut Slice
Name: Coconut Slice
I've seen this a few times while in the 99 Cent Only store. My neighbor, Robin, won $99 worth of gift certificates to the store, so on our recent shopping trip I was a lot more adventurous with my choices (cuz it was really free).
The first think I have to say about these is that they're really pretty. Some foods I just like because they'd make a nice sweater, scarf or piece of jewelry.
This candy is basically a coconut slab, kind of like a fruit rollup ... call it coconut leather. The different colored strips might actually be flavored. I detected a little bit of raspberry in the red stripe, but really couldn't tell the difference between the yellow one and the white one.
The coconut is chewy and not too sweet. If you like coconut and don't want to bother with all that other stuff like nuts and chocolate, this is the stuff for you. Two grams of fiber in each bar but it does contain about 5 grams of saturated fat (that's the coconut oil).
Tom's isn't really known for their candies, more for their nuts and snacks. They seem like rather a niche company (based in Georgia) and I don't often see their products here on the West Coast except for the nuts, and those are usually at convenience stores on the highway.
Rating: 6 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:22 am Candy • Review • Coconut • 6-Tempting • United States • 99 Cent Only Store • Comments (17)
Thursday, October 20, 2005
Name: Chick-o-Stick
These have always scared me. I think because they're called Chick-o-Sticks and look like they could be chicken legs. Not something I'd consider to be a sweet treat. And let's face it, the orange color is pretty freaky. The Atkinson site doesn't really say why they're called that except that that's what they've always been called.
What they really are is a peanut butter toffee crisp covered in coconut. Pretty simple. A lot like the inside of a Butterfinger bar, but a bit more solid (as you can see in the close up if you click on the photo).
The taste is good, sweet with a nice hit of salt and a really good roasted peanut butter flavor. Even though the coconut looks pretty minimal, the taste is pretty significant. Unlike some of the other crisped peanut butter candies, this one contains no trans fats, in fact the only fat in it comes from the peanut butter itself. They're much easier to carry around than some chocolate candies because it doesn't melt, so I can see this being a good treat for hiking or shipping long distances (the Atkinson website mentions shipping them to Iraq).
I know, I need to get a hold of a Clark bar and Zagnut to round out my tour of peanut crisp.
Rating - 7 out of 10
Related: Butterfinger & 5th Avenue head-to-head
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:41 pm Candy • Review • Atkinson's • Coconut • Peanuts • 7-Worth It • United States • 99 Cent Only Store • Comments (26)
Tuesday, October 11, 2005
Almond Joy Cookies
Name: Almond Joy Cookies
I know they say they're cookies, but if something is coated in real chocolate and has a creamy filling, it's probably a candy. I mean, no one calls Twix a cookie.
I tried the York version of these over the summer and absolutely loved them. They fixed everything that's wrong with the Girl Scout Thin Mints ... York Peppermint Patty cookies have no trans fats and real chocolate. The Almond Joy cookies aren't quite as revolutionary, but they're dang tasty.
It starts with a crisp chocolate cookie on the bottom then is slathered in a lighter coconut cream (not as dense as the center of an Almond Joy) that has some crushed almonds mixed in. The whole thing is dipped in real milk chocolate.
It was very coco-nutty tasting, very smooth. Sweet, but with a lot of different textures including a little hit of salt from the cookie.
They're really pricey for a cookie, but only slightly more expensive than a regular candy bar. The serving size on the package says all four cookies, but I was pretty satisfied with only two of them.
Related - The Implusive Buy loved the Reese's cookies (which I haven't found yet) and Cheap Eats loves them if they're free.
Rating - 8 out of 10
Tuesday, August 30, 2005
The Mysterious Cup-O-White Gold
Name: Peppermint Cup-O-Gold
This candy cup has left me mystified. Is it really from Adams-Brooks? They don't mention it on their website ... no one mentions it on their website on any of the internets. Have I stumbled across an inter-dimensional 99 cent store that sells candy unknown to us here?
Why is it called Cup-o-Gold anyway? The center is clearly white. The package is silver ... these things trouble me. But not enough to keep me from eating it.
Like the original Cup-O-Gold, this milk chocolate cup sports toasted coconut and almond bits in the chocolate. The ratio of chocolate to the filling is a little off. Upon my first small bite (not pictured), I didn't hit filling, just chocolate. The second bite, which was sizeable (like the photo) didn't hit filling. Finally on the fourth bite which by now meant half the cup was gone, I hit a small hidden cavity of filling. Instead of a light, frothy filling like the Cup-O-Gold, this one was a little tacky, a little stiff. The mint was barely perceptible.
I bought this thinking it'd be like a milk chocolate Junior Mint - a gooey minty cream center. Alas, the coconut competes too much with the scant mint. If there were less chocolate and more filling, perhaps it wouldn't seem so overpowering. However, the package does say thick rich milk chocolate, so who am I to go expecting things not advertised?
Rating - 4 out of 10.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:29 pm Candy • Review • Adams & Brooks • Chocolate • Coconut • Marshmallow • Mints • 4-Benign • United States • 99 Cent Only Store • Comments (5)
Monday, August 8, 2005
Vosges Exotic Candy Bars
Name: Exotic Candy Bars (Red Fire, Black Pearl & Naga)
A kind reader, flickerfly, emailed me a few weeks ago to point me to Vosges, specifically their Red Fire Bar. Their website is sure sassy but the prices are pretty darn, well, pricey. If you have a moment, browse their website. It's an odd combination of haute, indulgence, health and yoga. I'm not going to be in Chicago or New York for a while, so I figured I'd see what they had at Neiman Marcus in Beverly Hills (I'd actually never been to the Neiman Marcus there before).
The woman behind the counter was on the phone pretty much the whole time I was there and all I saw of interest were three of the bars that they offered, and even though they were $6.50 each, I picked up all three. The back of each tells me how to eat an exotic candy bar (which is apparently different than eating other bars). You can read that here.
The first is called Naga Bar and is milk chocolate with Sweet Indian curry powder and coconut flakes. Upon opening the mylar package inside the box, the curry is quite pronounced along with a sugary smell and a slight aroma of chocolate. The chocolate itself is very milky and sweet. After sitting on the tongue for a moment, if bursts with the curry. The milk and the muskyness of the curry is a good blend and the choice of milk chocolate over dark is the right impulse. The curry leaves a little burning feeling on the tongue and throat. The coconut added a nice little texture to it, but I never got the flavor of it.
Next was the bar that I was most looking forward to, Red Fire Bar. It's Mexican ancho and chipotle chili and cinnamon in dark chocolate (55%). The cinnamon is the top note on this bar. I've always enjoyed the combination of cinnamon and chocolate and usually use it in my hot chocolate. The next thing I taste is that it's a very sweet bar, though buttery smooth to melt there's a slight grain to it, which I must assume are the spices. Then the chili hits. It's not so much a flavor as a feeling. A burning on the insides of my lips and my throat. There's a bit of a smoky note to the bar as well. It's a really nice combination, though not one I could eat a lot of in one sitting because of the fire element. Of the three bars, this is the one I finished first.
Last was a bar I wasn't quite sure of. Called Black Pearl Bar, it's Japanese ginger, wasabi and black sesame seeds in dark chocolate (55%). There was little scent to this bar, a slight woodsy note which I figured was the ginger and of course the chocolate. Upon melting in the mouth, this bar had none of the grain that the fire bar had, just a few sesame seeds (which I could have done without, thank you). The ginger is nice and earthy with a slight burn to it - or was it the wasabi. The horseradish notes didn't really stick out, but the combination of wasabi and ginger is spicy without a painful throat burn.
As with many of these gourmet bars, I found the price to be a bit prohibitive. As a treat, I certainly plan on going to one of their shops in Las Vegas, Chicago or New York (whichever city I get to first). The Aztec truffle collection would be the first thing I'd try. Of course this riot of flavors has inspired me to try some different things in my own candy next time I whip up a batch of truffles.
Ratings - Naga - 6 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:31 am Candy • Review • Vosges • Chocolate • Coconut • 6-Tempting • 7-Worth It • United States •
Tuesday, July 12, 2005
Name: Cup-O-Gold
Okay, I'll admit I bought this in an effort to diversify my offerings on the site. I like the idea of supporting some smaller candy companies, and this one is made right here in Los Angeles. I didn't think I'd like it. I'm not that keen on marshmallow as a rule. I love toasted marshmallows, but for some reason I don't think of those as candy. Most other marshmallow candies are just to sticky sweet. The only one to date that I like (and buy regularly) is See's Scotchmallow - which is a marshmallow top on a disc of caramel covered in chocolate. Their mallow has a bit of a honey note to it, which complements the caramel well.
Anyway, this little delightful cup is made with milk chocolate with bits of coconut mixed in and crushed of almonds. Inside that is an incredibly light and foamy marshmallow creamy filling. I also liked the package. The graphics are bold and smooth and appealing.
The complex flavors really blend together well. The bits in the chocolate offset the sweetness of the chocolate and the foamy center gives a smooth texture and lightness to it all. The thing is, I'm still not sure if I'll buy these again. Maybe if I get a jones for a scotchmallow and I'm not in the mall.
Rating: 7 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:56 am Candy • Review • Adams & Brooks • Chocolate • Coconut • Marshmallow • 7-Worth It • United States • 99 Cent Only Store • Comments (7)
Friday, July 1, 2005
Almond Joy Chocolate Chocolate
Name: Almond Joy Chocolate Chocolate
I wholeheartedly support making Almond Joys with dark chocolate. Because the difference between an Almond Joy and a Mounds bar is not just the nut ... it's the milk chocolate/dark chocolate respectively. In fact, I think the dark chocolate/almond/coconut combo is even better.
This is not that bar though. Because they threw something else in the mix (literally), some chocolate into the coconut center.
You'd hardly know it though. At least I don't. I'm not sure I can tell that there is anything different with this filling. Maybe it's a ruse to get me to now buy a regular Almond Joy to do a side-by-side comparison.
Here's a fun fact though ... this Almond Joy bar has 12% of your daily recommended intake of fiber.
Though they messed around with the perfect simplicity of a classic, this is still a very good bar. I've always found the coconut center of the Mounds/Almond Joy family to be sweeter and moister than the Bounty bars (do they still make those).
Rating: 8 out of 10.
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Death Knights' damage from their abilities come from AP. If you read the Unholy talent Impurity it says "your spells gain an additional X% benefit from your AP".
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At low rate prices, Royal Park Hotel and Hostel offers great accommodation at an affordable price in Manhattan, just off Broadway.
It's located on 97th Street, right beside Riverside Park and at just walking distance to subway 1, 2 and 3 (red line), which leaves you right in the middle of the lively town centre, full of restaurants, cafés, bars and jazz clubs.
Close by is the famous Central Park, Columbia University, Cathedral St. John the Divine (the largest gothic cathedral in the world) and the American Museum of Natural History.
All rooms are private with shared bathroom; ensuite rooms are also available. We offer some in-room facilities, such as free towels and blankets provided daily, daily housekeeping services and hairdryers (on request). All rooms have air conditioning/ceiling fans; ensuite bedrooms have individual air conditioning. All 64 rooms are private to suit your comfort and are non-smoking.
Our Single Private Shared Bathroom sleeps one on one twin bed; the Double Bed Private Shared Bathroom sleeps two on a double bed; the Twin Private Shared Bathroom sleeps two across two twin beds; the Four Bed Private Shared Bathroom sleeps four across two double beds; the Double Bed Private Ensuite sleeps two in a double bed; and the Four Bed Private Ensuite sleeps four across two double beds.
Our multilingual staff are happy to help with any queries. Vending machines and an ATM are available, as well as a printer (fees apply), luggage storage ($2 per day) and a shuttle bus to and from the airport (fees apply). There's no curfew or lockout.
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- Recepción 24 horas
- Seguridad 24 horas
- Aire acondicionado
- Ascensor
- Servicio de fax
- Incluye ropa de cama
- Guardaequipajes
- Aparcamiento
- Piscina
Política de cancelaciónEsta propiedad cuenta con una política de cancelación de 2 días. Si no se realiza la cancelación dentro de ese plazo se aplicará un recargo de anulación igual a la primera noche de tu estancia.
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We do not accept NY state residents. Rates do not include taxes (14.75% NYC Tax plus $3.50 Occupancy Tax per room per day).
Check-in: 3pm. Check-out: 11am. Payment is due upon arrival in cash only, please. The maximum stay is 14 days. Valid government-issued ID is required upon check-in. We have a 24hr cancellation policy. Reservations are not guaranteed after midnight on the day of arrival; please notify us ahead of time if you will be arriving after midnight.
The entire property is non-smoking.
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We're located at 258 West 97th Street between Broadway and West End Avenue. The 96th Street subway (the # 1, 2 & 3 trains 'the red line') is just around the corner.
From Penn Station or the Port Authority bus terminal:
Take the #1,2 or 3 line to 96th Street and the walk one block north, make a left on 97th Street and the Hotel is located on your left-hand side.


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Vitaly Krivenko of the Russian Federation -- an interview
Vitaly Krivenko, Russian Federation
An interview by Katerina Pavlova
arranged by Wetlands International - Russia Programme
"Its a shame, that sometimes the subjects that we study are characterized by periods longer than our lives. Such situations demand another type of explorer a pioneer and adventurer."
One can use these words to characterize Vitaly Grigorevich Krivenko. His work is a continuation of the best traditions of Russian scientists, who used to attain global, synthetic attitudes to the subjects that they studied. V. G. Krivenko has good reasons to call L. N. Gumilev and A. L. Chizhevsky his spiritual teachers. Having perceived their ideas about the link between electromagnetic fluxes in space and life on Earth, he applied them to the dynamic of wetland ecosystems. V. G. Krivenko combines deep understanding of the laws of nature with an exceptional knowledge of his own country, which makes him one of the leaders of Russian environmental science and helps to form a reasonable strategy for wetland protection all over the country. But what has his life been like? Our correspondent Katherine Pavlova tries to find it out.
KP: The Volga delta became one of the first three Ramsar sites in Russia. This coincidence looks highly symbolic, as from the very beginning your life has been connected with the area. So, it seems you feel at home in wetlands?
I grew up in a suburb of Astrakhan, which was a hundred kilometers from the Volga delta. Not far from our house there were a lot of lakes, where as child I spent all my time. We rambled through the canes, caught fish, and then, when I was fourteen, I started hunting. At that time I understood what it was like to be alone with nature. I became a part of the world where fish plashed at dawn, ducks flew, and herons cried. And I already knew that all my future life would be connected with nature and, of course, with wetlands.
I returned to the Volga delta only in 1965, after I graduated from Irkutsk school of hunting. The expectation of spending most of my time going on expeditions was not frightening for me. On the contrary, it seemed very attractive. After I came back to my hometown, the Astrakhan union of hunters, which owned vast hunting grounds in the area, offered me the position of a director. The chairman of the union was a wise man. He told me: I see, you are interested in science, and we offer you a practical job. But no one can prevent you from combining both careers. So I took over five hunting grounds, which included almost 70% of the territories of the Volga delta. My duty was to conduct water bird counts, but I also started some projects to carry out inventories of wetland sites. Three years later I got my PhD degree.
I owe a lot to this period of my life. The Volga delta near the mouth is a sea bay, which is 40 km wide and 250 km long. This is a country of canes and open sand beaches where it is very difficult to orient yourself. It is the land where you either acquire good physical conditioning and the skills of surviving or you leave. But those who stay become true sea dogs. I stayed. I learned a lot from local huntsmen. They were really good at their jobs and had a deep understanding of nature; they did not work just for a salary, for them the job was a calling. I had to travel a lot through the wetlands, to be able to orient myself and to anchor in stormy weather. All together it was a very good school for me.
In 1969 I had to leave this land of tough guys, as I met my future wife. At that time she studied in Moscow State University, so I had to move to Moscow.
KP: Vitaly Grigorevich, the range of your scientific interests is unusually wide, and so is the geography of your expeditions. How did your travel influence your scientific views?
To answer your question I would tell you the whole story of my life. But in a few words the events unfold in the following way:
As students we often went to practical studies. In 1963, after the second year at the high school, I came to Kazakhstan, to Narzum reserve. At that time, the research & development director of the reserve, K. F.Yelkin, organized an expedition all over northern Kazakhstan. There is a geographical term for that the Turgay depression. It is an area of lowlands, where in prehistoric times there was a sea channel connecting the ancient West Siberian Sea with the South Sea. Where once there was a sea, now there is a gigantic wetland site. I spent two years of practical studies there.
In Kazakhstan the water level of lakes varies greatly from year to year. One year can be very dry and when you come there another time, there is a flood. These changes in the conditions of wetland and water birds captivated my attention. Since then I have always been interested in the dynamic of water ecosystems. I wanted to understand the rhythm of these oscillations, and the laws they obey.
Later I worked in the upper reaches of the Lena, on the banks of Lake Baikal, in Kalmykia. After 1969, when I started working in the Central Laboratory of hunting grounds and reserves, I have been to the foothills of the Caucasus, Western Siberia, and Taimyr.
During one season I managed to visit several sites. In March I was working in the Volga delta, at the end of May I was in Western Siberia, and at the end of July I was leaving for Taimyr. I managed to stick to this timetable for three years in succession. I could see a great variety of landscapes and ecosystems. I began my journey in a desert and finished it in arctic tundra. Such a style of life gives you a lot of impressions and allows you to develop a wide understanding of the global laws of nature.
KP: In order to understand the global laws of nature one should attain a synthetic attitude to science, because this level of generalization is only possible for those who have wide knowledge in different areas of science. Who were the people whose ideas helped you to form this attitude?
I was very lucky both with my teachers and with my books. When as a student I was in Narzum reserve, and in the library there I found a book by A. V. Shitnikov which was devoted to cyclic changes in wetland sites. In the book I first met a conception that the dynamics of water level relate to the long-term changes of the climate. I thought it very interesting and important. But even now we do not use the conception of the century dynamic of the climate, and it is really a pity.
My teachers gave me some books by A. L. Chigevsky. Until the end of the 1980s those books were not widely known in our country. And when I got to know his conception that there is a link between space and the biosphere, I perceived these ideas at once. From his book I learned about another remarkable Russian scientist, M. A. Bogolepov. Even on the threshold of the 20th century he spotted the link between climatic cataclysms, which influence every aspect of life on Earth, and events in space. He had a brilliant idea that not only the sun has its impact on the earth, but so too does the wider electromagnetic activity in space.
I have also read a lot by L. N. Gumilev. All these people saw events on a large scale, and I tried to apply what I learned from their books to the research of wetland ecosystems.
KP: Did you manage to unite your conceptions into a logical system?
I think that, in my book, I achieved this goal in application to vertebrates and wetland ecosystems.
A wetland site could be compared with a man. It forms, matures, and than starts to decline, and almost dies in the end. But there come some forces, which are able to regenerate it. If we use global analysis here, it would be possible to state that wetland sites have a polycyclic type of development.
There is another example. Many scientists consider the enlarging of areas of animals, which we see nowadays, to be caused by the anthropogenic pressure or by the change of the climate, which has happened in recent time. But the vast majority of specialists do not pay attention to the fact that this global warming is a part of a thousand-year trend. I think that a conception of cyclic dynamic of the climate of the northern hemisphere gives us a clear explanation of all these events. If you handle all the problems as a whole, you are more likely to achieve an understanding of what is happening and to form the effective strategy for environmental protection. Now it is obvious that we should support the cyclic development of wetlands. We have also changed our views on the dynamic of the water regime in river mouths.
KP: You are not only a well-known scientist but also a founder of your own scientific school. Many hydrologists, climatologists, zoologists and even economists consider you to be their teacher. How did it happen?
I had a lot of teachers, and now I have a lot of students, who understand our problems and try to find the ways to decide them.
When I came to work in Moscow, I worked under the leadership of the well-known scientist V. F. Gavrin. After his accidental death in 1975, I took over the department, and since then I have had to plan the work not only for myself, but also for the whole group of researchers. We were mainly busy with protection of fishery species. Our laboratory was the only scientific center of this kind in the whole country. So I started organizing the work in Western Siberia, in the Caspian region, and at the foothills of the Caucasus. I myself did not make it to the Far East, but several researchers from our laboratory worked in Kamchatka and in the Maritime Territory. At that time I gained some experience in the organization of environmental protection. In 1982 I started work at the Institute of Environment Protection, where I have been working ever since. It is not easy to say who is my student and who is not. There were seven people who got their PhD under my supervision, but there were also a lot of others whom I helped with some advice. I often consult people who come from reserves all over the country. Perhaps it is possible to say that a new school is formed now.
KP: What was your reaction to the international prize, the Ramsar Award, you were recently awarded?
I accept the reward on behalf of my country. It is an acknowledgement of all the efforts of many people who do their best to protect wetlands in Russia. We are also very grateful to Secretariat of Ramsar Convention. Their help was decisive in many aspects. The Secretariat has very important experience and we often use it in our practice. We still have a lot to do, and for me the main aim is to protect wetlands in Russia in accordance with the terms of Ramsar Convention.
-- translated from the Russian original by Tatiana Kitaina


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