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cap1Syllabification: cap
Pronunciation: /kap /
1A kind of soft, flat hat without a brim, and sometimes having a visor.
Example sentences
- He wore a flat cap, old woolen trousers, and a brown shirt that was several sizes too large for him.
- Outside the grand clubhouse at the Legends course, at the heart of Château Elan, you almost expect chaps to be wandering around in plus-fours and flat caps.
- Most men covered their heads with flat wool caps or skullcaps or turbans in a variety of sizes and colours.
1.1 [with adjective or noun modifier] A kind of soft, close-fitting head covering worn for a particular purpose or as a mark of a particular profession or status: a nurse's cap a bathing cap
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- Those early wheelmen didn't have bicycle helmets, but they did wear close-fitting long-visored caps.
- Opened in November 2001, it's run by two brothers with similar close-cut reddish beards, ethnic clothes and close-fitting caps.
- If you think you can pull off any look, then I suggest you try on this chalk-stripe driving cap.
1.2An academic mortarboard: graduates in cap and gown
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- But in field after field, paper journals are becoming like academic caps and gowns, a purely ceremonial relict of an obsolete culture.
- The same percentage of MIT engineering graduates in their caps and gowns could not light a bulb with a battery and one wire.
- Your proud high school graduate has gone from caps and gowns to the fast-paced, challenging world of summer jobs.
2A protective lid or cover for an object such as a bottle, the point of a pen, or a camera lens.
Example sentences
- She pointedly puts the cap on her camera lens and walks with him.
- Someone cleared their throat, and Artemesia straightened up, snapping the lens cap onto the camera.
- This includes bottle caps, tin covers or aluminum foil - these are some of the items service technicians commonly find in clogged or broken disposals.
lid, top;
stopper, cork, bung
2.1 Dentistry An artificial protective covering for a tooth.
Example sentences
- Then, Bodine suffered a concussion and a broken collarbone and needed eight caps for his teeth because of a practice crash at Michigan.
- Her whole jaw was bruised, her cap for her tooth cost £404.
- While your dentist might still recommend an apple a day and be able to fit natural-looking caps, the latest orthodontic innovations concentrate on stopping decay before it has a chance to do any damage.
2.2The top of a bird's head when distinctively colored.
Example sentences
- Their heads are also relatively smaller and their gray caps less distinct than the Cooper's.
- The crane has light to dark blue-gray plumage and a crimson cap at the back of its crown.
- Males and females look the same, with white chins extending up just below the eyes and gray-brown caps.
2.3The broad upper part of the fruiting body of most mushrooms and toadstools, at the top of a stem and bearing gills or pores.
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- Coral mushrooms do not have caps but instead have a fruiting body of branched clusters.
- The cap & stem that we commonly eat is just the fruiting body.
- Five tall, slender mushrooms with yellow stems and glowing orange caps reach through the decaying foliage toward the sky as ants burrow underground.
3An upper limit imposed on spending or other activities: a cap on government purchases
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- He promises to impose spending caps and offset spending increases with mandatory spending cuts or tax increases.
- He was complaining about the absence of a cap in campaign spending before the formal election period, even though it was his party that exploited this loophole prior to the last election.
- This time around, spending caps may not be enough.
limit, upper limit, ceiling;
curb, check
4 short for percussion cap.
Example sentences
- So, before you buy that cap gun or bouncing ball for your child, take some precautions.
- We started selling snap caps a little over a year ago.
- Like many boys he had been fascinated with guns when a young child and had the usual cap guns and nerd guns.
verb (caps, capped, capping)[with object] Back to top
1Put a lid or cover on: he capped his pen
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- After capping it, the bottle should be shaken for 20 seconds.
- He said that there have been discussions to change the technology of capping the wine bottles but so far the cork has remained.
- When I capped the pen and folded the paper R. asked with surprise, 'You're done?'
1.1Form a covering layer or top part of: several towers were capped by domes [as adjective, in combination]: (-capped) snow-capped mountains
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- The controversial hole in the ground will be capped with a layer of clay when planning permission runs out in December and landfill operators begin what they call 'restoration' of the site.
- The radiocarbon-dated feature that produced the wild rice was located at the bottom of an undisturbed Late Woodland midden that had been capped with a layer of sterile sand.
- Reclamation dredging is nearing completion and all reclaimed land will then be capped with a layer of rock, imported from a nearby quarry.
1.2Put an artificial protective covering on (a tooth).
Example sentences
- Coals flashed Marcus a grin, so full of perfectly capped teeth, so taut at the lips, so fleshy at the gum line that for a split second the image of a shark in an expensive wool suit was unavoidable.
- If they've got bad teeth, you'll cap the teeth, if they need a makeover, you give them a makeover.
- The scenes that are presumably supposed to depict camaraderie are hilariously forced; three sets of perfectly capped teeth clenched into rictus grins of barely suppressed hatred.
1.3Provide a fitting climax or conclusion to: he capped a memorable season by becoming champion
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- It capped a memorable first season in charge for Wetheriggs manager Andrew Ridley, his assistant Bob Norman and coach Paul Renwick.
- Katie Heginbotham from Barrows Green triumphed at HOYS to cap a memorable season.
- The Reds, however, were not finished and they capped a memorable afternoon with a fifth try in the final minute when Darren Treacy forced his way over from close range.
round off, crown, top off, be a fitting climax to
1.4Follow or reply to (a story, remark, or joke) by producing a better or more apposite one: they capped each other's stories
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- Cave's not a lunatic on a killing spree; he's a lovelorn bombmaker, and he caps this cinematic story of devotion with a spirited sing-along.
- Mac McMurray capped this story by saying a townsman had a piece of petrified fence post with the drilled holes for wire with a piece of the wire attached.
- Ruth would have felt the need to cap the comment in some way, or qualify it, or even dismiss it out of hand as arrant nonsense.
2Place a limit or restriction on (prices, expenditure, or other activity): council budgets will be capped
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- If it caps the price of wonder drugs, pharmaceutical companies will fight it.
- One of the most controversial recommendations of the report calls for the government to endorse a package of measures to fundamentally reform the property market by capping the price of development land.
- He said he hoped the government's measure to cap fuel prices should not last too long because it could have repercussions in the long run.
set a limit on, limit, restrict;
curb, control
Old English cæppe 'hood', from late Latin cappa, perhaps from Latin caput 'head'.
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cap (or hat) in hand
- Humbly asking for a favor: we have to go cap in hand begging for fundsMore example sentences
- Tight new spending limits are set to be imposed on Britain's political parties to stop them going cap in hand to donors angling for peerages, knighthoods and other favours.
- With every voter putting no more than five dollars into the Clean Money pool, candidates won't have to go hat in hand to lobbyists and fat cats, instead spending their time talking to voters.
- Rather than going hat in hand to pharmaceutical executives, Canada uses single-payer's price controls to cap drug prices.
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set one's cap for (or at)
- dated (Of a woman) try to attract (a particular man) as a suitor.Example sentences
- Had she picked a Lord, or a Viscount, or someone of standard to set her cap at then her father wouldn't have voiced a single complaint.
- Into this mix Brooks introduces two young catalysts, journalist Eve, who immediately draws Dan's attentions, and easygoing Gord, who sets his cap for Gena.
- A brutalised war veteran, Harvey has begun a steamed - up adulterous affair with Signoret and finally found something like love, but sets his cap for a millionaire factory boss's daughter.
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- Example sentences
- I like to incorporate a capful of liquid wetting agent into the water when I am feeding my annuals, vegetables, pot plants and hanging baskets with soluble fertiliser.
- The next stage is to soak them for a day or so in a diluted solution of household bleach (say two pints of water to a capful of bleach).
- A cup of white vinegar or one capful of eucalyptus oil may be added to the soapy water as a disinfectant and freshener.
Pronunciation: /-ˌfo͝ol/noun (plural capfuls)
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cap2Syllabification: cap
Pronunciation: /kap /
Short for capitalization: [as modifier]: mid-cap companies small-cap stocks
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- The cap is short for capitalization, which is a measure by which we can classify a company's size.
- It used to be companies evaluated their size based on revenue and number of people; now it's market cap or market valuation.
- There is a positive impact on earnings per share, cash flow, market cap and share prices.
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Evans Explains Why He's Perfect Fit For Bucs (VIDEO)
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There's no doubt that the Tampa Bay Buccaneers needed a strong wide receiver. Mike Evans being paired with Vincent Jackson will be a serious threat and they have already been named the "Twin Towers."
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This paper of mine is now available online in Constitutional Political Economy. It empirically investigates competing theories of how fiscal federalism constrains government. The main conclusion is that different federal systems conform roughly to different theoretical models, with the U.S. – a bit surprisingly – coming closest to "market-preserving federalism." Some of the early findings from this paper were blogged here at Pileus some time ago.
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"Fiscal Federalism, Jurisdictional Competition, and the Size of Government"
Posted in federalism, institutions, tagged fiscal federalism, size of government on May 21, 2014 | 1 Comment »
The Difference Between Governments and States
Posted in institutions, international relations, tagged Anarcho-Capitalism, david friedman, franz oppenheimer, global governance, Government, max weber, the state on May 14, 2014 | 10 Comments »
"The state," wrote sociologist Max Weber, "is a relation of men dominating men." I agree. Furthermore, no human being should dominate another human being. Therefore, the state should not exist.
But I'm not an anarchist. How can that be? We have to distinguish between "governments" and "states." Anarchy is the absence of formal government, and I do not advocate the abolition of formal government.
Governments of all sorts are all around us. Companies and nonprofits have boards of directors with the authority to decide policies for their organizations.
"Very well," the anarchist may say, "but they do not have direct coercive authority over their members, which is what I oppose." Yet other "private governments" do have coercive authority of some kind: private security and arbitration companies.
"Very well," the anarchist may say, "but they do not have a territorial monopoly over the legitimation of the use of coercion, which is what I oppose." Yet any kind of supposedly private security and dispute resolution system will end up having a territorial basis. Imagine that, per David Friedman's Machinery of Freedom, you and I are represented by different dispute resolution agencies, A and B, respectively. We end up in a dispute, and we call in our agencies. How will they resolve the dispute? By themselves settling on a third arbitrator. Therefore, any competitive private justice system will end up becoming a single, connected network, with a definite process for appeals beyond a single agency. That network is a territorial monopoly over the legitimation of the use of coercion: a formal government.
"But then what if two networks come into conflict?" the anarchist may respond. "Then you are committed to a global network, a global government, which is obviously undesirable." Actually, a global government of this kind already exists to some extent and seems obviously desirable. Global governance includes organizations adapted to serve specific dispute resolution functions: the World Trade Organization's Dispute Settlement Mechanism, various international investment tribunals, United Nations peacekeeping (which the evidence suggests works very well when invited by both sides in a dispute), and so on. Global governance does not constitute a world state, because it exists at the pleasure of the contracting parties: any government may secede from the WTO or the UN whenever it wishes. Yet it is a kind of highly decentralized, functionally differentiated "world government."
"Very well," says the anarchist, "I may concede that a loose governance network is necessary, but I still think that membership in the `primary' dispute settlement agency should be non-territorial. You shouldn't automatically have to deal with a particular court because of where you live." Yet territorial exclusiveness is the way that dispute settlement has always evolved historically. There must be a reason for that. If nonterritorial coercive governance has never been stable for long periods (e.g., medieval Iceland and contemporary Somalia), then on what basis can anyone confidently predict that nonterritorial governance must be superior to territorial governance? Only a constructivist rationalist, Adam Smith's "man of system," who thinks he can design a new society from scratch, could be confident that some idealized legal system could efficiently replace the only one any of us have ever known. And if we are men of system, then we might as well design a centrally planned economy while we are about it. You can't confidently claim that anarcho-capitalism will work, while sneering at the idea that socialism ever could.
So if government refers to some kind of integrated, territorially exclusive system by which security can be provided and disputes settled, I advocate government — of a particular kind. But what then is a state, and how does it differ from a government?
If government can be a (more…)
More Evidence on Law of Political Entropy
Posted in Economic geography, institutions, Political Science, tagged city-states, size of nations on May 1, 2014 | Leave a Comment »
"Why did the autonomous city-state die?" asks political-economic historian David Stasavage in a new American Political Science Review article. He finds that new autonomous city-states enjoyed higher population growth rates than nonautonomous city-states, up to 108 years. After that point, their population growth was lower than that of nonautonomous city-states. His argument is that the fusion of political and guild power within autonomous city-states at first promoted growth, but as technology changed came to suppress growth, relative to more "inclusive" institutions.
A better interpretation is that political institutions deteriorate with age, the law of political entropy. After all, if changing technology meant that constant institutions became less efficient, then population growth in autonomous city-states should vary by century, not by age of the city-state. Since in fact population growth varies by age of the city-state, we have evidence that the institutions were not constant: they became less efficient.
HT: Chris Blattman
A Law of Political Entropy?
Posted in institutions, tagged great britain, Netherlands, Switzerland, Thomas Jefferson on April 19, 2014 | 4 Comments »
Libertarians often bemoan the expansion of the federal government over the centuries and cite Thomas Jefferson's quotation, "The natural progress of things is for liberty to yeild [sic], and government to gain ground." Of course, there have been important advances for liberty in the U.S. in the 20th and 21st centuries too, yet overall, government's impact on the economy has increased dramatically. In his book, The Rise and Decline of Nations, political economist Mancur Olson theorized that the simple passage of time permitted the accretion of more and more interest groups ("distributive coalitions"), who would lobby government to increase their share of the economic pie at the expense of the total size of the pie. Therefore, more stable societies would see relative economic decline.
I have always been skeptical that the mere passage of time was an important predictor of interest-group power and bad economic policy. Indeed, all of Olson's data came from the post-World War 2 period, and he had good things to say about France and Japan, particularly in relation to Britain, that do not ring true 30 years after he wrote the book.
However, as I investigate the economic history of early modern Europe, I am struck by what looks like a "law of political entropy," that is, a tendency for relatively "associational" governments that act as agents for the taxpayer to become ossified, oligarchic, "predatory" states that exploit the taxpayer. Consider the Dutch Republic and Switzerland, probably the two most "associational" states in early modern Europe.
During the Dutch Golden Age, the highly decentralized federation acted as an agent of the provinces, who in turn were federated associations of the towns. The towns were ruled by the principal merchants. There was a semi-hereditary "stadtholder" position at the central level, demanded by the monarchical ideology of the day, but the real political power lay with the great taxpayers.In fact, during the period of the Republic's most rapid economic growth, there was no stadtholder, just an elected "grand pensionary," the proto-liberal Johan de Witt, who supported free trade, republicanism, and religious toleration, opposed imperialism and military meddling, and strongly endorsing the doctrine of provincial (and town) sovereignty over Republic-level control.
Unfortunately, after the French and English launched a combined sneak attack on the Republic in 1672, de Witt was overthrown and lynched, and the stadtholders returned. Although the Dutch escaped that war with their independence, over time the political system became more ossified, and by the end of the 18th century English GDP per capita had caught up with Dutch. According to Wikipedia,
At first the lower-class citizens in the guilds and schutterijen could unite to form a certain counterbalance to the regenten, but in the course of the 16th, 17th and 18th century the administration of the cities and towns became oligarchical in character, and it became harder and harder to enter their caste. From the latter part of the 17th century the regent families were able to reserve government offices to themselves via quasi-formal contractual arrangements. Most offices were filled by co-option for life. Thus the regent class tended to perpetuate itself into a closed class.
Similarly, Switzerland started off as an extremely loose confederation of republican cantons in the late Middle Ages (individual cantons could even declare war). The cantons themselves were originally established by peasants who had thrown out the Habsburg aristocracy, winning a bloody victory over their knights at the Battle of Morgarten:
When the Confederates attacked from above with rocks, logs and halberds, the Austrian knights had no room to defend themselves and suffered a crushing defeat, while the foot soldiers in the rear fled back to the city of Zug. About 1,500 Habsburg soldiers were killed in the attack. According to Karl von Elgger, the Confederates, unfamiliar with the customs of battles between knights, brutally butchered (more…)
Why So Little Decentralization? Part Two: Secession Prevention
Posted in federalism, institutions, tagged decentralization, fiscal federalism, india, political economy, secessionism on April 16, 2014 | 1 Comment »
Having finally turned the corner on a brutal, 11-day (and counting) cold, I feel up to getting back to my blogging routine. First up: a followup to last month's post, "Why So Little Decentralization?"
To review, that post posed a puzzle (a problem for political scientists to ponder, you might say). The puzzle is this: developing countries are far more centralized than developed countries. That is so despite the fact that some developing countries are much larger and more diverse than developed countries, and many of them have now been democratic for quite some time. Furthermore, if decentralization were simply a relict of post-medieval state-building (some might venture that sort of claim about Switzerland, for instance), then the fact that developing countries have lower state capacity and a more recent independence than almost all developed countries deepens the puzzle.
I went through two explanations that do not actually explain the puzzle very well: shallow local talent pools and illiberalism. In particular, they cannot explain why developing countries are often very decentralized along some dimensions (allowing discrimination against goods and workers from other regions, linguistic and cultural rights, etc.), but not others (chiefly tax policy).
I think there are two explanations that actually work: secession prevention (in ethnic federations) and excessively personalist electoral systems (in nonethnic federations). In this post I'll talk about secession prevention.
Some developing democracies are ethnoregionally diverse, that is, they contain minority ethnic homelands that could form the basis of independent states. Examples include (more…)
Why So Little Decentralization?
Posted in federalism, institutions, public finance, tagged decentralization, democracy, fiscal federalism, heterogeneity, regionalism on March 14, 2014 | 2 Comments »
Many scholars (for instance) have noted a trend around the world of greater decentralization, at least on certain dimensions. Many non-federal, unitary states have tried to devolve some spending and decision-making authority on local or regional governments. Virtually every democratic government nowadays at least feigns some interest in decentralization.
Yet what strikes me is how little decentralization there has been, especially in the developing world. Some developing democracies that are sometimes described (or describe themselves) as "federal" or "semi-federal" include Mexico, India, Indonesia, Brazil, Argentina, Venezuela (before it went authoritarian some time in the 2000s), South Africa, Malaysia, Pakistan, Iraq, Nepal, and Nigeria. Yet none of these countries, other than Mexico, affords its constituent state or regional governments autonomy commensurate with that found in federal and semi-federal "Western liberal democracies" like Spain, Canada, the U.S., Switzerland, Belgium, Germany, Austria, Australia, and Italy. For instance, in Brazil, states do not have exclusive powers, and the federal government may overrule any state law with its own legislation. In India, the federal government may suspend state governments from operating at all and impose "President's Rule." Of all developing democracies, only India, Mexico, and Brazil routinely allow subcentral governments to raise significant revenue through autonomous taxation policies. (I count 9 Western democracies with such fiscal autonomy.)
Some of these developing countries are both huge and ethnically and regionally diverse, India and Indonesia most notably. One might think that these governments would have even more reason to decentralize than would the governments of comparatively homogeneous Western democracies. Therefore, the relative lack of decentralization in developing countries remains a puzzle.
One explanation might be the smaller talent pool in developing countries. Decentralization might not be feasible because uneducated or politically unsophisticated local officials require close supervision from a small cadre of Western-educated central administrators. While this explanation might have some weight in very poor democracies like Mali (before the recent coup), it likely does not apply to the majority of the cases just mentioned. If the talent pool in developing democracies were desperately shallow, then small developing democracies should have little state capacity plus all the adverse sequelae political scientists typically attribute to state weakness. Yet many small democracies in the developing world have performed fairly well: Costa Rica, Jamaica, Trinidad, Botswana, Mauritius, and Namibia, not to mention Slovenia and the Baltic republics in central and eastern Europe. There is no obvious positive relationship between country size and economic or political performance in the developing world.
Furthermore, many of the cases just mentioned do boast significant decentralization along some dimensions. For instance, India and Indonesia lack a unified internal market, allowing local and state or provincial governments to impose trade barriers on products from other regions. This is an economically perverse form of decentralization and one that has been nearly stamped out in the West, apart from certain discriminatory government procurement regulations. In addition, many developing democracies feature significant decentralization of expenditures: local and regional governments control significant budgets, but those budgets are funded by central grants, and most policy authority lies with the center. This set of policy choices is also likely economically perverse, as "vertical fiscal imbalance," whereby subcentral governments depend heavily on grants or mandatory revenues from the center, tends to encourage fiscal irresponsibility. In Argentina in the 1980s and 1990s, provincial governments established their own banks, which were forced to lend money to those governments, leading to repeated fiscal crisis.
Another explanation might be that there is something about the Western liberal tradition of political philosophy that encourages decentralization. Many developing democracies fit within the category of "illiberal democracies," where majorities use their political power to trample the rights of minorities. Sri Lanka might be just such a country, where the Sinhalese majority has repeatedly refused to countenance significant autonomy for the Tamil minority, and the central government fought a brutal civil war against Tamil rebels, complete with vast numbers of civilian killings and other human rights violations.
There may well be something to this explanation, but there are also hazards. As Vito Tanzi noted (PDF), demand for decentralization rises with size of government. A nightwatchman state can afford to be centralized because no one really cares about who controls it. Developing countries have bigger governments than Western democracies, not in the government spending as a share of GDP sense, but in the sense that the distribution of resources in such societies is more elastic with respect to the distribution of political power. So demand for decentralization should be higher there. True, the constraint might instead be supply: the views of political leadership in such societies. But then why the "perverse" decentralization in some countries?
To examine the extent and form of decentralization in developing democracies, I have, with the help of University at Buffalo Ph.D. student Govinda Bhattarai, developed a new dataset of regional self-rule in consolidated democracies worldwide. The coding scheme extends that introduced by Liesbet Hooghe, Gary Marks, and Arjan Schakel for Western democracies and various postsocialist European countries. Without going into details here, I will simply note that we coded the scope of policy powers of subcentral governments, the scope of taxation powers of subcentral governments, the local electoral accountability of subcentral officials, and the ability of the central government to veto subcentral laws.
Using those indicators, I then construct two higher-level, multiplicative indices of economic self-rule and political self-rule. Economic self-rule takes into account political self-rule as well as the tax autonomy of subcentral governments. Economic self-rule ranges from 0 (none) to 48 (maximum). Political self-rule ranges from 0 (none) to 16 (maximum).
The scatter plot below shows regional self-rule on the economic (Y axis) and political (X axis) dimensions in 2006, the latest year for which data on regional self-rule in the Hooghe, Marks, and Schakel dataset are available (our data go to 2010, however). Each observation in this plot is a type of region: either a particular region with its own autonomy statute (like Aaland in Finland or Scotland in the UK), or a type of regional government with the same autonomy arrangement (like states in the U.S. or in India).
(You can click the image to get a better view.)
Look at how few (more…)
WTO Reaches First-Ever Agreement
Posted in institutions, international political economy, trade, tagged agricultural subsidies, international relations, international trade, WTO on December 7, 2013 | Leave a Comment »
Twenty years after its establishment, the World Trade Organization finally reached its first global trade deal last night at the meeting of the world's trade ministers in Bali. The successful agreement foiled expectations that this meeting, like all others of the Doha Round, would end in failure and acrimony. Media outlets have been reporting the Peterson Institute's estimate of $1 trillion in higher global output as a result of the deal, but what's most interesting about the deal is that it happened only because the member states decided to focus on a narrow slice of the issues under discussion in the Doha Round. The deal focuses mostly on streamlining customs procedures to facilitate timely cross-border transportation, along with measures to eliminate tariff and quota barriers against exports from "least developed countries" to richer countries, to reduce agricultural export subsidies (here the deal merely makes a "strong political statement" and doesn't require specific changes in law), and to permit developing countries' governments to stockpile food.
Why did it happen? Ten days ago, after talks in Geneva, WTO head Roberto Azevedo warned that global trade talks would collapse if ministers did not narrow down the scope of their deliberations to issues on which consensus was achievable. Global trade talks have been bogged down over the last 20 years over severe distributional issues: developing-country governments want sharp cuts in rich-world agricultural subsidies, tariffs, and quotas, while rich-country governments want their poorer counterparts to cut trade barriers on services, beef up intellectual-property enforcement, and liberalize foreign investment. None of those big issues were solved in Geneva and Bali. A narrow deal on customs procedures happened because the distributional and enforcement issues here are far less severe. Few governments have any interest in holding up traffic at the border longer than necessary. Simplifying customs procedures is more like a coordination game than a Prisoner's Dilemma: everyone benefits if forms are standardized and simplified. Rich-country governments also promised poor-country governments help with hiring customs officials to help speed up processes.
The conventional wisdom in international relations is that a broad scope of issues helps international organizations solve distributional problems, all else equal, because broad scope makes it easier for governments to trade off gains to one side on one dimension with gains to the other on another dimension. But all else was not equal here: some issues faced much lower distributional conflict than others, and on those it was relatively easy for governments to reach agreement. They chose to go for a small deal rather than a big one because, frankly, the WTO needed a win. Another collapse of talks would have called into question whether multilateral trade liberalization is even possible.
This deal does not end the Doha Round. Talks will continue on the "big issues" mentioned above. This is fortunate, since the Bali deal does little to reduce the extent to which U.S. and European agricultural policies kill poor people. While the deal helps with market access for least developed countries, essentially all rich countries have already implemented duty-free, quota-free access for these countries' exports, and least developed countries contain merely 12% of the world's population and less than half of those living in extreme poverty. There need to be binding legal limits, actionable before the Dispute Settlement Body, on agricultural subsidies, quotas, and tariffs in rich countries.


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Whoo-hoo!! | Reviewer: pedro | 3/24/09
i concur with most of what is being said.. but noone has mentioned the actual MUSICAL composition of the song which is excellent... and like the other contributer said here.. it is soooo catchy - a great sign of a great pop song, and pop songs have the same validity as great rock'n'roll (we all love "POPular Culture" in all it's forms after all. Be it Beatles, Stones, Pollock, Warhol, and yes, in their own way the Spice Girls!!!)lol
So, it's thumbs up for this most excellent of music, and great lyrics.
Lyrics | Reviewer: Sugar | 4/16/08
'He's looking kinda BUMMED' is actually 'He's looking pretty "Whoa, dude." ' Now, can anyone tell me what they are saying in the refrain of the heavy bass reverb? It sounds like a word or a name.....
got it all wrong.. | Reviewer: Anonymous | 2/24/08
it's a guy. he's hitting on another guy. they are both guys. the tune's catchy 'cause it's yer dad's music - like the Stones, but these guys bring more to the table - a contemporary cultural twist on the music and the relationship theme.
where the sarcasim is | Reviewer: Jaibe | 2/3/08
Well, the lyricists are clearly having fun, but I think that while the narrator / character is BSing, I think the two characters may be on to a great thing. Kind of like the characters in "life in the fastlane".
I don't like the reviewers who make the woman just sound like a stupid victim -- she's also jacking the guy around with her "ex", they all know and no one cares. Very realistic / well observed.
It IS sarcastic | Reviewer: Ishy | 12/24/07
I agree with Olivia. Clearly this song is sarcastic and even cynical in my opinion. It is juste a story about an arrogant guy who looks cool and make a girl believe he's "like her" while obviously he doesn't give a crap about her.
to "blub" | Reviewer: spanish.bee | 11/4/07
blub, in your review you say:
"P.S.- they're new song we used to B friends is awesome...look it up on youtube....great stuff.... if u like them a lot...like myself..."
We Used to Be Friends is a track on the album "Welcome to the Monkey House" which was released in 2003, meaning We Used to Be Friends is in no way a 'new' song.
It's sarcastic | Reviewer: Roja | 10/29/07
The song is (clearly) about trying to be unique, all the while acting and doing what millions of other "bohemians" do and being exactly like them. So basically the song is about being fake, mundane and predictable.
woaa whooo | Reviewer: Anonymous | 8/14/07
(Im spanish), I dont understand so much this song but however I understand i like so much coz it redacs stages of the real life.
couch sleeping | Reviewer: Anonymous | 7/4/07
i first heard this song today...wow..super groovy...i like songs that tell a story and you can understand...i think because of this song i can postpone rehad a bit longer....
cool song but... | Reviewer: vegan who knows | 6/3/07
Why spell "vegan" with a capital V? It's a diet and a lifestyle, not a planet.
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They want him gone. If his re-election bid were held today, just 29 percent of registered voters would support Mayor Rahm Emanuel, according to a new poll commissioned by the Chicago Sun-Times.
Karen Lewis is on it. The Chicago Teachers Union president is Emanuel's most vocal and prominent critic. In the 2012 school strike, she beat him at his own game. Now she wants to take him out of the 2015 game.
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Last week we met in a quiet conference room at CTU headquarters in the Merchandise Mart, where she calmly, methodically and resolutely explained why Emanuel must go.
"When I met him," she recalls, "I thought, well, he'll be kind of interesting and fun to work with," Lewis recalled.
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Since then they have battled bitterly over the CTU contract, pension reform and school closings. Emanuel is an elitist who governs by fiat and press release, she argues. He ignores best practices, disrespects both allies and foes. He has "contempt for certain parts of town," she says, specifically the South and West sides, where he closed 50 Chicago public schools last year.
The CTU, in alliance with other unions and community groups, will spend the summer working to register 75,000 to 100,000 new voters, raise $2 million, and find a candidate who will "understand the platform of what working people in this city really need."
And, she said, "I will support anyone who will be on those platforms and who can beat him" in the February 2015 mayoral race.
But it won't be her, she says.
Still, Lewis is getting in fighting shape. In March, she flew to Puerto Vallarta, Mexico, to undergo bariatric surgery. Her health insurance would not cover it, so going abroad was the only affordable cost option — $8,500.
She has tried. She knows all about food choice, portion control, exercise. "I have never been a thin person, Laura. I have always struggled with my weight."
She is 60, and in a highly stressful job. "I was getting to the point where physically I couldn't do the things I want to do." The arthritis in her knees was "curtailing my playing tennis, which is my favorite thing to do."
She raves about the surgery and care she received. A team of doctors monitors her progress. She has lost 50 pounds.
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Her bottom line: "I feel so much better. It has been a highly positive experience for me I would highly recommend it."
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Nothing resonates quite like a relationship in peril. We've all been there. She complains you're not spending enough time with her, but your schedule hasn't been normal in months. You left the seat up, and it's the third time, you jackass. All that seems to be left in it for both of you is inertia.
That's what the Polyphonic Spree's "Carefully Try" is all about, filled with lines like "The two of us prepare to trust/While all we do is sigh." The original is surprisingly poppy. Replete with horns and drums and rock 'n' roll, it's what you'd expect from the band that recorded one of the most uplifting songs of the last 20 years. But it doesn't match the tone of the lyrics, so a remix would make sense, wouldn't it?
Enter Psychphonic, a new album of the Polyphonic Spree's songs taken under an electronic-music scalpel. That's where this awesome remix by Little People comes from. Here, have a listen:
We hear a little Postal Service, in a good way. Stripped down and paired with keys and a drum machine, the vocals breathe and become harder to ignore. Lines like "I fell away/It seems Im much too late" come off more honestly when they're not paired with the guitar hooks they were originally written for.
The remix seems like a breath of fresh air for a band that's supposed to be primarily about just that breathing, living, thriving. But those things don't mean anything without their counterpoint. The Polyphonic Spree's best-known song, "Light and Day," is a carpe diem anthem, but its Scrubs appearance juxtaposed it against one of the show's most melancholy moments.
Think of this track that way. Listen to it on a lonely drive and give your relationships a good think. We owe it to the people we love.
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I am doing this question at codechef and think I have developed my algorithm but I also got a tutorial in which they have mentioned how to solve it.
My Algorithm:
Since the car is infinitely maneuverable so the shortest distance between any two points should be the maximal possible diameter. Also note that while calculating this shortest distance we need to take care of the inner and outer radius of the track.
Editorial: Their Solution
In the editorial they have nicely converted the problem to graph theory but I am unable to understand haw they make the last inference while making the following statement: "Therefore the length of the removed edge is the maximal diameter"
Basically I do not understand this logic completely and it is also possible that my algorithm is also wrong.
A number of traffic cones have been placed on a circular racetrack to form an obstacle course. You are asked to determine the largest sized car that can navigate the course. For simplicity, the cones are assumed to have zero width and the car is perfectly circular and infinitely maneuverable. The track itself is the area between 2 concentric circles. Formally, the course can be navigated by a car of radius c if there exists a closed loop around the center of the track which lies between the circles forming the track, and every point on the loop is at least c distance away from each cone and each boundary of the track.
Their Solution:
Consider the cones and circles as vertices of a graph, where the edge between any 2 vertices has length equal to the distance between the corresponding elements of the obstacle course. Note that the longest edge in the graph is the one that connects the edges corresponding to the 2 circles. Our goal is to partition the vertices of the graph into 2 sets representing the "inside" and "outside" of the car's path, so that the distance between any two vertices from different sets is at least the diameter of the car. We do this by constructing the minimum spanning tree (MST) of the graph, then removing the longest edge on the path from the outer edge of the track to the inner edge. Because the spanning tree is minimal, no two verticies from different sets can have an edge longer than the removed edge. Because there exists a path from the outer circle to the inner circle consisting only of edges not exceeding the length of the removed edge, there cannot be a partition which is separated by a longer distance. Therefore the length of the removed edge is the maximal diameter. The MST can be easily computed in O(N2) time using Prim's algorithm, though a O(N2log N) algorithm such as Kruskal's will suffice. Both Prim's and Kruskal's can be modified to compute the length of the edge in question without actually computing the MST itself. Because the graph is mostly Euclidean, a more complicated O(N log N) solution also exists.


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Looking for a Chocolate Shop in NJ
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- jerseygirl1969 Jul 10, 2008 11:44 AM
I have some diehard chocolate lovers coming to visit me in about a month and was hoping I could pick the board's brains to see if there were any neat chocolate/candy shops anywhere in NJ?
I know of a few in NYC but was hoping to find one in NJ that would be fun to visit and have a large variety of different types of chocolate. The only "different" kind of shop that I know is "Its Sugar" on the A.C. boardwalk (that's sort of fun but doesn't really offer a great deal of high end chocolate).
Any suggestions? I'm in Central NJ but would not mind traveling.
there is a store in Merchantville called Aunt Charlottes that is an old timey candy store. It has the old wood floors and candy all over the store. I think there is also an old fashioned candy store in Spring Lake that my mother talks about. Sorry, I don't remember the name.
re: mschow
The store in Spring Lake is called Third Avenue Chocolate Shop. It is, appropriately, located on Third Avenue. There is another location in Manasquan. Each is relatively small.
I am not a big sweet fan, so I will not offer an opinion on the candies. I do, however, have in-laws who routinely ask us to send Third Ave. chocolates to Charlotte.
re: MGZ
Also Jean Louise on Third Ave. in Spring Lake is known for it's chocolate dipped strawberries and chocolate houses at Christmas.
re: SusieQQ
Jean Louise is the better shop.
re: mschow
I can safely vouch for Aunt Charlotte's. When we lived in Cherry Hill and had two little boys growing up, that is where all our Christmas and Easter chocolates came from. Everything was top quality, wholesome, and delicious. Don't know if it is still so, but just about everything was made in their own candy kitchen. Family owned and a family conducted business.
Very friendly people to deal with, too. Our two "little boys" are now in their 50's! We now live some 25 miles away from Merchantville, but when we drive into that direction, we always stop at Aunt Charlotte's to buy something to bring home with us.
re: mschow
If you travel to Merchantville, drive a few more minutes to Bayards Chocolates in Cherry Hill...huge selection.
The Fudge Shoppe on Route 202 just north of Flemington hand makes its own chocolate candies on site.
They also have a load of old fashion candies from suppliers.
There is or was an excellent chocolate shop in Chester - I haven't checked in out in years so it might be gone. Something like J Emmanuel is or was the name.
re: CompareFranco
Brummer's in Westfield. They were in Jersey City for sixty years and moved to Westfield about twenty years ago. The Best
re: fatnut
Tried Brummer's for the first time - The Dark Chocolate Raspberry Truffle was wonderful. IMO better than Godiva.
Then we walked to Chocolate Bar also in Westfield NJ tried a brownie covered in chocolate on a stick, this was good but sadly not good enough to eat the whole thing. They serve Gelato as well.
re: CompareFranco
I love the Fudge Shoppe!
re: CompareFranco
Yes, J. Emanuel Chocolatier is still in Chester and yes, it's a wonderful little shop. The last time I was there they were advertising chocolates that the owner had developed in conjunction with Craig Shelton, late of the Ryland Inn. If you haven't been to J. Emanuel for a while, it has recently moved and is now right in town - much more convenient for foot traffic.
There's also a pretty good chocolate shop on South Main Street in Phillipsburg. It's called Antoinette Chocolatier and is owned by a woman who used to practice law!
re: ambrose
I've never been to either of these shops - I'm making a point of checking them both out this summer.... (but I still love the Fudge Shoppe - different kind of store, but sometimes I just don't want the fancy stuff and get a craving for the Fudge Shoppe's almond bark... I just find it's old-fashioned atmosphere appealing too and it reminds me of the "old days" out here in
Flemington when I was little.)
re: ambrose
Stopped in at J Emanuel Chocolatier.
This was a great chocolate shop!
Tried a Ginger Truffle that was very good.
They have an interesting assortment of Wine Truffles.
We tried a Cabernet Dark Chocolate Truffle that was AMAZING!
They also have chocolate covered gummy bears.
re: ambrose
For what it's worth, Antoinette's was recently featured on WCBS's Small Business Report as an example of a business that had an internet following before a store was opened.
Phillipsburg is out of the way for most people but if you're in the vicinity you should definitely stop in. It's a tiny little place in the old part of P'burg (right by the Delaware River) but part of the fun is that you can actually see the chocolates being made.
re: ambrose
All of your suggestions are much appreciated! :)
When you say die-hard chocolate lovers, do you mean they love single source chocolate from various parts of the world, and interesting mixes like chocolate with curry? Or are you looking for a shop that sells homemade chocolates in a glass case, like you would select for a gift box?
If you're near Middletown, Harmony Natural Foods has a great selection of single-source and fair-trade chocolate bars.
re: val ann c
You hit the nail on the head - that is EXACTLY what they are interested in.
They enjoy trying chocolates from different regions (they once brought me some truffles that they had made w/ chocolate from Madagascar) and like also trying different types of infusions. I was hoping to find a place that also dealt with more "exotic" chocolate like this that was sold in a fun candy shop type atmosphere.
re: jerseygirl1969
The Chocolate Path in Montclair would probably fit the bill. Chocolate from all sources, exotic, organic, interesting...On Lackawanna Plaza.
re: Passadumkeg
really? trying to picture it where it's at...it's not in the "house-turned-store-that-has a different nail salon every month" is it? I drive that road weekly...how can i miss it!
re: jerseygirl1969
Be sure to visit and sample both shops in Spring Lake as they each have their stong points...
David Bradley on Route 9 in Manalapan, high end prices, great chocolate covered pretzels and hazelnut truffles. The also just added an old school Staten Island and Brooklyn favorite, a Sedutto's ice cream parlor. When I was a kid, their tortoni was the best, I am anxious to see if they can still deliver after all these years.
However, David Bradley isn't my idea of high end chocolate sourced from around the world.
Outside of NYC, can't think of any place. I would recommend simply going to Wegman's, they now carry a complete line of Vosges chocolate bars fro about $5. ( http://www.vosgeschocolate.com/ ) My personal favorite is the dark chocolate with almonds and sea salt. The chocolate with bacon, yes bacon was yummy and weird at the same time as was the dark chocolate with chili pepper.
re: angelo04
We love Sedutto's ice cream. It is worth the trip just for that alone. Thanks for the mention. Can you pinpoint the location?
re: JerzeyShore
On the North side of 9, just after the gordons corner road exit, by that long stark white strip mall across form that nursing home and a bit south of Covered Bridge, the entrance to that golf course. Can't seem to get the exact address on-line.
re: angelo04
Good directions - thanks much.
re: JerzeyShore
You are welcome but based on this link, I am afraid you and I might be disappointed. Seems Sedutto's isn't the same local yocal brand we new from the '80's
re: angelo04
Yes - this does not look good. But maybe I'll try a chocolate cone anyway the next time I'm over on Rt 9. Thanks much for the link and your follow up.
BTW an excellent product is Double Rainbow out of San Fran California.
Hard to find in NJ but the Starving Artist in Ocean Grove carries it. Their Ultimate Chocolate is the best chocolate I've ever tasted including Seduttos.
re: JerzeyShore
(I know this is a chocolate topic, not ice cream but...)
Funny you mentioned Starving Artist. I was just there this past Friday afternoon. The ice cream shop is actually called "Days," is it not? I think the just breakfast/lunch place is Starving Artist. I didn't realize their ice cream was "imported." It is *really* good, though. My wife and I left the beach early in order to make a trip over there before we needed to get on the road. Had the Cappuccino Chocolate Crunch -- yummy!!
In Englewood, Bergen County.......there's a great chocolate shop named Matisse Chocolatier. They do some very great and creative things with dipped chocolate fresh fruits(strawberries, apples, oranges and pineapple) and also with items such ad Oreo Cookies. I have a friend who throws a few parties each year at her home coinciding with the seasons and the chocolate party platters she has made are the talk and delight of each one,
If you do decide to make the trip up north, as an added bonus there are many nice restaurants located nearby Matisse all within walking distances, including:
Sol & Sol Kosher Delicatessen...voted Best Pastrami in Bergen County
I drive past this place every day, but haven't stopped in yet:
Criterion Chocolates Incorporated
125 Lewis St, Eatontown, NJ 07724
(732) 542-7847
re: njfoodies
In my opinion, Criterion has the best chocolates in the area. I live really close and try to only stop in once a month. Criterion had been on the Asbury Park boardwalk so I've been buying their chocolates for a long time.
re: njfoodies
My grandmother worked in Criterion on the boardwalk. They do have the best chocolate.
re: njfoodies
Criterion is certainly not high-end chocolate, in my opinion, and definately not the best chocolate in the area, unless you are comparing it to Hersheys... then it could be considered really good chocolate.
If you are looking for high-end boutique chocolates, Lil Cutie Pops on Monmouth Street in Red Bank carries the most delicious, high-end jewel-like chocolates I've ever seen or tasted. Perfect for gift-giving - nothing beats the presentation.
For anytime chocolate I buy fair-trade THEO 85% dark at my local supermarket. I don't eat Hersheys because I know where the fat comes from. :)
When you walk into Jean Louise on Third Ave in Spring Lake, you know you're in a very good chocolate shop. That wonderful smell of chocolate! Their truffles are excellent, and the store has had the same owner for many years--and she started out as a salesperson there as a teen. The store itself has been around for about 80 years.There are benches just outside the shop at the corner, near the town clock. The other cholocate shop (Third Ave Chocolate) is just okay.
Visited a quaint chocolate shop today.
The Chocolate Box Lambertville NJ.
An interesting assortment of imports and dipped items.
Unique items that caught my eye were the Pear Truffle rolled in walnuts and Chocolate Covered Peeps!
A good stop while walking in Lambertville or New Hope.
re: shabbystorm
I love The Chocolate Box! If they happen to have the Earl Grey truffle when you're there, it's worth the calories.
There's Chocolate Alley on Avenel Street of Rte 27 , St Georges Ave , in Avenel . Not far from Rte 1.
Washington is one of the nicer areas in NJ and is home to The Chocolate Shoppe.
"We are famous for our hand-dipped chocolate-covered fruit, melt-in-your-mouth mousse and cordial cherries, as well as our homemade caramels and buttercrunch."-from their website
The Chocolate Shoppe (10-5:30 Mon-Sat)
22 E Washington Ave
Washington, NJ 07882
Phone: (908)689-4606
website: http://www.washingtonchocolateshoppe....
list of chocolate: http://www.washingtonchocolateshoppe....
map (at the top of the actual map you'll see a button that says "more", click that button and then select "photos" and you can see photos of the area: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&s...
If anyone travels there I'd suggest a sidetrip to Valley Shepherd Creamery for sheep products.
Valley Shepherd Creamery
Hours: Thur-Sat 10-5, Sun 11-5
50 Fairmount Rd, Long Valley, NJ - (908) 876-3200
website: http://www.valleyshepherd.com/
list of cheeses: http://www.valleyshepherd.com/cheeseT...
map: http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&s...
Visited Pierre Chocolat today - A Must Try In NJ!
An example of amazing Food Art!
Located in Wall NJ and Point Pleasant NJ
The chocolates are creative, unique, and delicious.
Tried the following flavors:
Chocolate Chip Cookie Dough Truffle
Green Tea Buddha
Guinness Chocolate Cup
Wasabi Pyramid
Champagne Truffle
Chocolate chip cookie sandwich dipped in chocolate
re: shabbystorm
Had a Chocolate Covered Brownie from my Pierre Chocolat box today
It was Instant Sunshine!
Had to mention it because it was that good!
re: shabbystorm
mmmmm I just had a box of chocolate from Pierre Chocolat. Luckily someone in my family bought me one for new years! It was a dream as always. Here is some of what I had.
Cookie dough truffle
Torona( amazing little cake treat!)
Port Wine Bon Bon
Rasberry Truffle
Cookie Extreme!(2 chocolate covered cookies with buttercream inside!)
champagne truffle(i think?)
Coconut Truffle
(It was a big box! hehe)
It was all amazing with my favorite being the Torona! My wife picked it all up from Pierre who says the Point Pleasant Beach location has wireless internet for free! You may see me in there using that pretty soon!
re: frogman2
Unfortunately, Pierre Chocolat no longer has a store front. Just a page on FB... Not sure if they are still in business.
re: jrzcat
I know this is old, but I was just at their new store. I've been constantly trying to find great chocolate in NJ since they left, so I'm really glad they are back. Still has all the delicious candies, plus it looked like much more.
I found them again through their facebook page. I couldn't find a website, so I guess facebook will do.
Wow - these are amazing places! Thanks for the heads up - I will definitely venture out and try some of them.
A friend of mine actually gave me some chocolate from a place called "2 Chicks with Chocolate" - it was amazing. The collection was dk and milk chocolate with a Merlot and Spicy Cabernet fillings. The fillings weren't your normal liquid alcohol junk but a smooth almost truffle-like consistency. Very delish. She said that the chocolatier for the company was a guy that is one of the judges on the Food Network challenge. They are supposed to have a website up and running soon - I'm guessing it will be "2 Chicks with Chocolate.com"? I'm just anxious to try more of their stuff b/c it was very different and I had never heard of them before.
re: jerseygirl1969
Thanks - Cool!
Will check out this local central NJ Place
2 Chicks with Chocolate, Inc.
1056 Highway 9 South #220
Parlin, NJ 08859
re: shabbystorm
This is NOT a storefront.
They are mail order only and there is no where to try the chocolate before buying it.
Was at Godiva in the Short Hills Mall today - they had a limited edition Mini Ice Cream Cone Truffle. Basically a mini ice cream cone with a limited edition ice cream chocolate truffle on the top.
The one I sampled was Neapolitan ice cream covered in chocolate. It was Yummy!
They did have a few other flavors.
Have no idea if they are offering this at all locations but it was a HAPPY and super creative treat! Thought I would share.
Here is a link with the general idea but at the store they were selling the product.
For really high end good chocolate, Jacque Torres now opened in the Harrahs Casino in Atlantic City. Also, if you head further South, to Wildwood at the Jersey Shore, theres a candy store called Douglas Fudge on the Wildwood boardwalk. Their also known for their salt water taffys and make all their own chocolate. I recently had them mail me a lb of their Cashew Turtles for my husbands b-day and another lb of all of my favorites(almond bark, marshmellow delight, molassas patty, coconut creams) Then my family, not knowing the following week also sent us candy from there. Good thing I like chocolate. Anyway, its kind of nostalga for me since I grew up in that area but its a neat place and if your friends have never been to that area of Jersey it might be kind of fun for them too. Visit Cape May and. Stone Harbor also. Both have some great restaurants as well and are really nice coastal towns.
www. mrchocolate.com
In Allentown Nj found a charming little chocolate shop and LOUNGE owned by a lovely women, Debra.
In the spirit of supporting the local guy will give it a try in the future.
This is a great site. I have just started a blog on North Jersey specialty, gourmet, and home made foods. To start and celebrate Valentine's day I am looking for great and different shops in North Jersey. I know there were some older posts. These places still in business? Any new ones? Thanks for any help. http://www.northjerseyfoodies.com/
ArribaNoir Chocolatier on Rte. 33, Millstone NJ, The Rolls Royce of chocolate.
Sciascia Confections at the Stockton Farm Market in Stockton NJ (3 miles north of Lambertville) he has amazing truffles and Macarons. Plus the market is a food destination with BBQ, Metropolitan Seafood, El Mariachi Mexican, French Crepes, Juice Bar, Coffee bar, plus Phillips Fine Wines is next door. Make a dinner reservation at "The Pass" which is just around the corner.voted EXCELLENT in the NYT.


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Prospective owners of the Chevrolet Volt and Nissan Leaf shouldn't get too excited about driving in California carpool lanes as soon as they take delivery. Late Tuesday night California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger signed SB 535 into law, extending access to the high-occupancy-vehicle (HOV) lanes to certain very low and zero emissions vehicles. This new class of vehicles known as Enhanced Advanced Technology Partial Zero Emissions Vehicles (enh-ATPZEVs) and includes plug-in hybrid and battery electric vehicles like the Leaf and Toyota's Prius PHEV.
Unfortunately, there are some caveats. SB 535 doesn't take effect until January 1, 2012 and even then only 40,000 of the special stickers needed for HOV access will be made available. In order to qualify, the vehicle has to be rated as an enh-ATPZEV, which brings up the second problem for Volt drivers. A General Motors spokesperson confirmed that the 2011 and 2012 Volt will not be enh-ATPZEV certified. The requirements to earn the enh-ATPZEV label are significantly tougher than the standard ATPZEV. Given the escalated development of the Volt, GM didn't have enough time to calibrate and verify that the plug-in hybrid would meet the standard over a 10-year/150,000-mile period.
That's also why the Volt battery only has the eight-year/100,000-mile warranty required for the non-enhanced ATPZEV. GM spokesman Rob Peterson verified that the Volt will be updated to enh-ATPZEV in mid-2012 when the 2013 model is introduced. In the meantime, you'll just to make sure to bring a friend if you want to ride in the carpool lane.
UPDATE: We just got word from Nissan that the Leaf is eligible for the All Access stickers under a previous bill passed (AB 1500) earlier this year. That means if you take delivery of a Leaf today, you can be flying in the HOV lanes tomorrow.
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2012 was the inaugrual year of the Asia-Pacific Tennis League. The league was supported by a combined NSW/ACT conference of which three teams, ATP Sydney (men), Asia-Pacific Tennis Institute Steelers (women) and Canberra Velocity (women) made the final in Melbourne during the Australian Open.
In 2013 NSW/ACT was again represented by three teams; Canberra Velocity (men and women) and the Stanmore Wyverns (women) made their debut down at the Australian Open.
The league, heralded as one of the most innovative competitions to come to Australia, provides athletes the opportunity to play in a team environment similar to the U.S College and European club system.
The Asia- Pacific Tennis League was successfully piloted in South Australia, Western Australia and Victoria in 2011 as a national league and allowed those professional and semi-professional players to compete for their club. Matthew Ebden (WA) and Luke Saville (SA) both competed last year, which provided both players a solid lead up to this year's Australian summer of tennis.
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