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College Basketball Talk "Wisconsin senior guard Traevon Jackson has been cleared to play and could return to practice on Monday, he told NBCSports.com on Friday. The 6-foot-2 guard has been out since Jan. 12 with a fractured right foot, which Jackson suffered during the Badgers' Big Ten loss to Rutgers. "I'm going..." March 14
Racine Journal-Times "Traevon Jackson put up a good front Sunday afternoon at the Kohl Center, but University of Wisconsin men's basketball coach Bo Ryan could tell the senior point guard was hurting on the inside. Jackson, who has missed 12 consecutive games since breaking his right foot in mid-January, wanted to..." March 03
Fox Sports Wisconsin "The stories of Wisconsin's four-man senior class differ, each one filled with moments of doubt that tested the limits of their basketball convictions. There was Josh Gasser missing an entire season because of a torn ACL, Duje Dukan sitting for a year after complications from mononucleosis, Traevon..." March 01
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Fox Sports Wisconsin "The most improved player on Wisconsin's basketball team won't see the court for any meaningful time at all this season. The days in which he scores on a flurry of impressive post moves or snags 10 offensive rebounds in a 5-on-5 scrimmage session are charted by student managers in front of no..." February 10
Madison.com "It was a frustrating feeling for Frank Kaminsky as the senior center for the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team sat on the bench Sunday night and watched the Badgers lose their first Big Ten Conference game of the season. The good news for Kaminsky — and UW — is he once again will be..." January 14
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Wisconsin will be without senior point guard Traevon Jackson for the remainder of January and likely longer. Jackson, who suffered a right-foot injury in the second half of UW's 67-62 loss to Rutgers on Sunday, is to undergo surgery on Thursday. According to UW officials, his initial..." January 13
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Fox Sports Wisconsin "Duje Dukan is a fifth-year senior now, which means he's learned his share of tricks about how to please head coach Bo Ryan. Limit mistakes. Work hard. Play defense. Make the extra pass. Take the open shot with confidence. "As long as you show the effort, I think coach will respect that," Dukan..." December 02
College Basketball Talk "Despite losing their best three-point shooter from last year's Final Four team in Ben Brust, the Wisconsin Badgers won't lack for depth on the perimeter in 2014-15. Starters Josh Gasser and Traevon Jackson are back in Madison, as is sophomore Bronson Koenig, and both Zak Showalter and Riley..." November 13
SI.com "The Associated Press released its preseason All-America team on Monday. The five players who made the team are Duke's Jahlil Okafor, Wichita State's Fred VanVleet, North Carolina's Marcus Paige, Wisconsin's Frank Kaminsky and Louisville's Montrezl Harrell. Okafor, a freshman center, was the..." November 04
Baltimore Sun "River Hill senior Charlie Thomas' basketball dreams became a reality on Tuesday night. After a recruitment process that had picked up steam over the last four months, the 6-foot-7 forward made the announcement that he has committed to play collegiately at the University of..." October 15
CBSSports.com "Duke, Wisconsin, Georgetown, and VCU will be the four headline programs in the 2015 2K Sports Classic at Madison Square Garden. Specific dates and matchups for the event have yet to be determined." October 14
Madison.com "The University of Wisconsin men's basketball program received an oral commitment from forward Alex Illikainen on Sunday morning. The 6-foot-9 Illikainen, who took his official visit to the UW campus over the weekend, becomes the second member of the Badgers' 2015 recruiting class. He joins..." September 22
ESPN.com "In a landmark decision, a federal judge ruled Friday that the NCAA is in violation of the nation's antitrust laws by restricting the compensation that major college football and men's basketball student-athletes can receive for use of their names, images and likenesses. U.S. District Court..." August 08
ESPN.com "The Battle 4 Atlantis -- with a field that includes Final Four teams Wisconsin and Florida as well as traditional powers North Carolina, Georgetown and UCLA -- highlights eight college basketball tournament pairings announced by ESPN for the upcoming 2014-15 season. Other tournament pairings..." August 05
Madison.com "It's been a long time since Josh Gasser stepped on a court and felt 100 percent, but the day when he can do so again appears to be getting closer for the fifth-year senior guard on the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team. For starters, Gasser has ditched the brace he wore last season..." July 20
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "No one should have been surprised to learn recently that Frank Kaminsky chose to return Wisconsin for his senior season rather than take a shot at making an NBA roster next season. Kaminsky, who was a first-team all-Big Ten pick and the most outstanding player in the NCAA West Regional as a..." May 01
College Basketball Talk "As you might have expected, after losing just two players to the NBA Draft, Kentucky has become the favorite to win the national title at 5/1 odds. Duke (9/1) and Wisconsin (16/1) round out the top three, but the most interesting bet here seems to be Arizona, who is getting 16/1 odds. After..." April 28
ESPN.com "Wisconsin big man Frank Kaminsky had second thoughts in recent weeks and was seriously considering leaving for the NBA, but the Badgers junior ultimately decided to remain in Madison for his final season. "It was a tough decision, but I think the best thing for me is to stay another year and..." April 25
Covers.com "The nets at AT&T Stadium in Dallas are just freshly cut down by national champions Connecticut, but that doesn't mean we cant start looking ahead to futures for the winner of next year's Big Dance. The Arizona Wildcats and head coach Sean Miller, were oh so close to this year's Final Four and..." April 09
CBSSports.com "The Wisconsin locker room after Saturday night's Final Four loss to Kentucky was an emotional one, to say the least. Hugging, audible sobbing, very quiet. It was one of the most emotional locker rooms I've been in following a game. And then less than 30 minutes after leaving the locker room,..." April 06
Louisville Courier-Journal "Aaron Harrison is the hero again, John Calipari looks like a prophet and the University of Kentucky basketball team is playing for the NCAA championship on Monday night against Connecticut. The Wildcats won yet another wild one — their fourth thriller in a row — this time 74-73 over Wisconsin on..." April 06
Wisconsin State Journal "Greg Gard was asked Friday afternoon if the University of Wisconsin men's basketball team's defense has improved to the point where he'd consider labeling it a good one. The Badgers associate head coach paused for a second before nodding his head. "Yeah, I think we are," he said. "But you're..." April 05
Fox Sports Wisconsin "Wisconsin players already know what you're thinking about their Final Four matchup against Kentucky. They've heard all the talk this week about the so-called discrepancies in talent level between the two teams. In fact, allow Badgers center Frank Kaminsky to break down what seems to be the..." April 05
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "The most pertinent question asked in October about Frank Kaminsky was whether the junior would provide Wisconsin with a consistent inside presence to fill the void created by the departure of three seniors. Today the most intriguing question some panicky UW fans are asking is whether Kaminsky,..." April 05
Lexington Herald-Leader "Point guard Against the defending NCAA champion (Louisville) and runner-up (Michigan) last weekend in Indianapolis, Kentucky's Andrew Harrison had 13 assists vs. six turnovers and did a solid job distributing. What the 6-foot-6, 215-pound freshman from Richland, Texas, did not do especially..." April 05
Wisconsin State Journal "Pat Murphy didn't need to hear the buzzer that signals a pending substitution to know he was coming out of the game. It was late in his career with the UW-Platteville men's basketball program in the early 1990s, and Murphy had just committed a cardinal sin in epic fashion during a game against..." April 04
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Whether it's on an upper-echelon state recruit like Dominican's Diamond Stone or Rice Lake's Henry Ellenson or just some 12-year-old gym rat shooting buckets in his driveway hundreds of miles from Madison, you have to wonder what kind of impression the Wisconsin Badgers playing in the Final Four..." April 04
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Turner Sports analyst Steve Kerr had a front-row seat to watch Wisconsin oust Baylor and Arizona in the NCAA West Regional to secure a berth in the Final Four. An outstanding shooting guard at Arizona from 1983-'88 who later was a part of five NBA championship teams, Kerr raved about the play..." April 03
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "The record was unblemished at 16-0. The ranking was dizzying — No. 3 in both top-25 men's basketball polls. Their fans were, understandably, giddy. Meanwhile, Wisconsin's coaches understood underlying issues needed to be addressed despite the unprecedented success. A suspect defense..." April 02
Louisville Courier-Journal "Kentucky's basketball team has raised the bar during the NCAA Tournament, so much that Gov. Steve Beshear is betting his. Beshear and Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker placed a wager on Saturday's Final Four game, with beer, bratwursts and cheese headed Beshear's way for a Wildcats victory. Should..." April 02
Fox Sports Wisconsin "Kentucky basketball has so many stars on its team that astrologers ought to consider naming a constellation after the best players. OK, not really. But as star-studded college basketball teams go, you'd be hard-pressed to find one with more depth of ridiculous talent than these..." April 01
The Capital Times "The No.1-ranked team at the beginning of the 2013-14 college basketball season was Kentucky, with an incoming group of highly talented freshmen who have NBA aspirations. After an up-and-down season, the resurgent Wildcats are hoping to be back in the No. 1 spot at the end of the season...." April 01
The Capital Times "Wisconsin men's basketball coach Bo Ryan has been given a lot of love from the national media during the NCAA tournament this year. The Badgers have made it to the Final Four for the first time since 2000 and for the first time under Ryan. Until last weekend, he was often called the best..." April 01
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel "Surrounded by reporters and TV cameras, Sam Dekker reclined in the noisy Wisconsin locker room and tried to capture the difficulty of UW's latest victory, arguably its most memorable of the season. "That was the toughest test we've had all year, the toughest fight we've had," Dekker said after..." April 01
New York Daily News "Frank Kaminsky III cut a piece of twine from the net at Honda Center in Anaheim Saturday. Delirious Wisconsin fans showered him with chants of "Frank the Tank!" The 7-footer has never stood taller. He wasn't always The Tank. Francis Stanley Kaminsky's family used to call the boy "The Turd"..." April 01
USA Today "When Sam Dekker tried — and failed — to catch a pass with one hand the other night, Saul Phillips knew what would come next. The buzzer sounded. Another Badger entered the game. Dekker went to the bench. Bo Ryan followed him to his seat. "Anybody who ever played for Bo knew what Bo was gonna..." April 01
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By Connie Osborne Thursday 05 June 2014 Updated: 06/06 09:31
STUDLEY skippers swapped the rope for running to raise money for Birmingham Children's Hospital.
A total of 56 members of Jump Rope UK hopped on the treadmill for a 24-hour sponsored challenge.
Aged between five and 27, each fund-raiser ran for 10 minute intervals on two treadmills, with many bringing sleeping bags to rest during their interval.
A total of £1,250 was raised for the hospital's £4million Children's Cancer Centre Appeal which will fund new facilities and accommodation including age-appropriate play zones, better communal areas for families and an improved outpatient area.
Club coach Rachael Dale chose the charity after spending time at the hospital when she was a child.
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3 days down & 2 to go here on Oahu. In general it's been rough with the kids, especially during meal times. 6 yr. Old constantly whining finding every little thing to get upset about, and 3 yr. Old running off non-stop and throwing huge tantrums whenever he's picked up and not allowed to run off to where he wants.
I'd say we spend 50% of the time chasing the 3 yr. Old, 20% of the time dealing with the 6 yr. Old's fussy whining, leaving only 30% of actual enjoyment. The best part of the trip has been a 1 hr cruise on a catamaran sailboat and the next most relaxing time has been breakfast since the kids will actually sit & eat then.
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 01:46 AM
JKool 1
Admiral Ron 1
Nate 1
Fred Wozere 1
Jansued 1
Pellaeon 2
These are all awesome!
Posted 03 December 2009 - 01:59 AM
Jkool - 2
lorenzen - 2
Jansued - 2
lego warlord 8 - 1
Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:00 AM
Selander - 2
JDHinten - 2
To Do Is To Be - Nietzsche
To Be Is To Do - Kant
To Be Or Not To Be - Shakespeare
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:07 AM
Admiral Ron....1 - I especially enjoyed the minifigs details and actions using nice tools. All the minifigs are doing something interesting. The man in the attic using a listening device to spy on the men below. The jeweler inspecting jewels with the real magnifying glass. The chest has gold bars in it.
Lorenzen........2 - "Tell me a story grandpa" gave me a warm nice feeling of good family thoughts. I love the treasure underneath the boards laying hidden. Gold coins, silver coins, gold goblets, old wine bottle, etc.
Nate..............1 - I like the lady's outfit and the room. The floor boards are a nice brown black brown design. Door has nice latch that helps the picture story. Nice candle on wall and I like the tapestry in the background. Most of all I just like the lady's expression on her face it's so funny I don't know why but I think it's cut and it brings me a giggle. :)
Selander.......2 - Gotta love the pie stand! The signs are awesome, "Pie-Rates" haha :D I like how one slice has already been sold or eaten and the rickety wooden table is neat and interesting. Who doesn't love a pie stand? :D
Fenrir...........1 - I just love the lady, she looks annoyed and bothered to have to go answer the door and it reminds me a bit of Nate's moc. Using a yellow hand as the candle flame was interesting.
Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:21 AM
I love all of the wonderful creations, but in the end my votes go to:
Jansued - 3 (I love the idea of a pirate dentist, and his wife is beautiful )
Pelleaon - 2 (Great model of a golf course!)
Selander - 2 (The decals are fantastic, and did you know that I like pie? )
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:35 AM
Admiral Croissant- 1 (Nice concept, I especially like the clouds and the door).
Tereglith- 1 (Good job on taking advantage of no height limits. I like the tree technique).
Lego Warlord 8- 1 ( )
Tombricks- 1 (Again, taking advantage of no height restrictions. Simple, yet effective).
Pellaeon- 2 (Very creative. You stepped off of the beaten path to make vignette in an unusual shape).
Mariann Asanuma- 1 (MINI!)
Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:40 AM
Scop - 2
Nate - 3
General - 2
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:48 AM
Lorenzen - 3
Selander - 2
Posted 03 December 2009 - 05:20 AM
Ratshot- 4
Curtisrlee- 3
Good job everyone!
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 05:32 AM
JKool - 1
Admiral Ron - 1
Lorenzen - 1
Jansued - 1
Selander - 2
Fenrir - 1
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 05:41 AM
Admiral Ron - 1
Lorenzen - 1
Nat - 2
Caprtain Blackmore - 2
Posted 03 December 2009 - 05:45 AM
Newright - 2
JDHinten - 2
This is some of the hardest voting I've ever done! I thought every entry into PTVII small was great - this also pays tribute to some of the great constructive feedback given throughout the contest. Great work to all who entered!
Posted 03 December 2009 - 06:55 AM
Captain Blackmoor -3
Rampant Dingo - 1
Scop, very creative idea. Loved the head choices. Blackmoor, fantastic idea. Rampant Dingo, great concept, great execution. Everyone's entries were great, I enjoyed then immensely.
Posted 03 December 2009 - 08:04 AM
Admiral Ron - 2
Jansued - 2
Selander - 1
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 09:06 AM
Nate - 1
JDHinten - 1
curtisrlee - 2
jansued - 2
I'm extremely impressed with the quality of the entries, and it's great how the non-violent theme for this contest led to such creative (even demented) ideas. As such, I spread the love around a bit... JKool's "Warrent Service" for design (the chair, the mix of uniforms, the catty-corner floors), Nate's "Late night visitor" for design (his MOC has atmosphere), JDHinten's "Gardening" for creativity (and oddness), curtisrlee's "Trail of Candy" for outright dementedness , and jansued's "Pain in Paradise" for a very well executed, very silly idea. Great work.
And thank you to everyone who's voted for mine!
Posted 03 December 2009 - 09:12 AM
Admiral Ron - 2
Jansued - 2
JDHinten - 2
TomBricks - 1
Admiral Ron
I don't know how many times Admiral Ron updated his MOC, but at least 3 or 4 times. He really listened to the creative critics and with every update his entry kept getting better and better.
Because I still find his idea one of the most original in the small division. I love how it is crammed with so many details. The palm roof looks lovely, the shark sign is perfect and I really like the fact that the evil pirates till can do evil! The window and the floor are magnificent too! (ps I love going to the dentist)
We saw a lot of hobbies passing by, from golfing to fishing and personally I liked this idea the best. And I personally really love the use of the all green minifigs with some brown elements (guns, peg legs and hands) to create those lovely tree sculptures.
Because of all the tudor houses in the small division I liked this one the best. I love how peaceful this MOC is. Brickbeard dressing up to finally see his wife after all those years of sailing the seven sees plundering and pillaging.
Great work guys!
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 09:26 AM
2 points for Lego Warlord 8
1 points for Selander
1 points for JDHinten
Good luck to those who'll count all these votes :D
Posted 03 December 2009 - 09:29 AM
Selander 2
Mariann Asanuma 2
Lots of nice entries, very tricky choosing my favourites.
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 10:14 AM
2 Mariann Asanuma
Posted 03 December 2009 - 10:19 AM
Fenrir - 2
Lego Warlord 8 - 2
Trubal - 1
Posted 03 December 2009 - 10:53 AM
JKool 2
Fred Wozere 2
Wish I had more points to share. So many good entrys.
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 02:53 PM
Jansued -2
Captain Blackmoor -2
Good job everyone!
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Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:16 PM
Fred Wozere - 2
Jansued - 3
Congrats for these magnificient creations.
Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:42 PM
Excellent use of color and size. I would love to have this sitting on my work desk. Others are good but this feels nearly universal.
Posted 03 December 2009 - 03:56 PM
Rampant Dingo__1
Admiral Ron_____1
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Wednesday, April 25, 2007
Gandour Bars from Malaysia
I love the names on all of these candy bars! Santos of Scent of Green Bananas gave them to me a while back. They reminded me a bit of my uneven bunch of Peruvian candies.
The brand Gandour heralds they have the ingredients for happiness. Those ingredients include shea butter. Okee dokee.
The chocolate filling is rather firm, a little salty and pretty creamy. It's not very chocolatey, more on the fudgy side. The crisp wafers are fun, though a little dry. The whole thing reminded me of the Happy Hippo, though there's no hazelnut in this creme paste filling.
6 out of 10 (Halal)
This one is sporting a sassy jungle green wraper and woodsy font. Inside is a stack of wafers and creme then some caramel and crunchies with a mockolate coating.
It's a big old jumble not jungle inside the package. The lumpy crispies and mockolate don't quite get a good grip on the caramel and wafer center. It just doesn't work for me. There's too much mockolate and not enough caramel.
4 out of 10 (Halal)
M&M knock-offs made with mockolate. These were kind of a hybrid in size between Smarties and M&Ms. They're bigger than M&Ms but thicker than Smarties. The colors were vivid. Though the package showed red, blue, yellow, green and orange, I only had orange, red and green in my bag (which held 17 morsels). The mockolate was less milky than the other products and passably good. It actually tasted better than Garfield's Chocobites. Kind of smoky and rounded, though not quite the smooth mouthfeel of cocoa butter chocolate. For a treat for little kids, I guess these would be just fine, but I could probably only bring myself to decorate a cake with them.
4 out of 10 (Halal)
Tofi Luk
This is one that I had no clue about judging from the name. But the description and image on the wrapper seemed pretty agreeable. A biscuit bar with caramel and a chocolate flavored coating. So it's like a Twix! The bar was just a little flatter and a little shorter than a Twix, but it's kind of fun that they sell these smaller portions. It looked pretty good, with the same rippled appearance on the coating.
The inside was a lot different from a Twix. Instead of being a very dry shortbread, this one was a little salty and reminded me of a dense Ritz Cracker plank. The caramel was not chewy or gooey here, just a sweeter texture between the cookie and mockolate (and not always there either). The whole thing had a rather strong "butter flavor" to it.
5 out of 10 (Halal)
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Twizzlers Rainbow Twists
I bought this package of the new Twizzlers Rainbow Twists as couple of months ago but I just had to wait for the crush of Easter to be over before I could open them up. They are stunning. The colors are vivid and opaque, a little less shiny than the regular Twizzlers.
I've always been fond of black licorice and find red licorice passably good. You know, if someone puts one of those tubs on my desk, I'll eat it. For a while I was obsessed with weird twist flavors. There was a fruit stand I would stop at on the 126 somewhere between Piru and Fillmore that had Root Beer flavored vines.
When I think about it, non-licorice twists are one of the few flour-based candies out there (except for candies like Twix or KitKat that have actual cookies in them).
Each color of the Rainbow is a different flavor.
Grape (magenta) - a little tangy and pretty much tastes like a grape soda.
I was worried that the fake and plastic appearance of the candy reflected a lack of flavor, but they were all pretty punchy. But almost all of them had a weird metallic/bitter aftertaste to me. As a variety pack, I wasn't fond of all the flavors, but this is pretty much always the way with mixes. I'm just not keen on them. I'm not alone either, the comments on this Slashfood post echo some of my sentiments.
While I had a good time photographing them (check out Sugar-Bliss-Gnome's cool use of Twizzlers Rainbow Twists for cupcake decorations), I have no desire to finish any of the twists.
Here's an alternate review that you might want to read (because it's funny and does not endorse these).
Sunday, April 8, 2007
Chocolate Hellfire Chip Cookies
I picked up these Koppers chocolate morsels called Cayenne Pepper Savory. They were powerful strong. Every once in a while I would eat another one and I'd be back to my original assement, "It burns! It burns!" (Review over here.)
But I really liked them and thought there might be a way to use them in something else that would temper that sizzling aftertaste.
So I dug out the traditional recipe for Nestle Toll House Cookies and mucked around with it.
375 F Degree Oven - Bakes 9-11 Minutes - Makes 48 cookies (I make mine big)
Here's where I diverged from the regular recipe ... I didn't have the 3/4 of a cup of brown sugar the traditional recipe calls for so I just made up the difference with white sugar. Really, this is a bad compromise. Get yourself some brown sugar - the cookie part was just too bland and didn't have that good crystalized crunch that brown sugar gives it.
Second divergence, I only had 1 cup of the Cayenne Chocolate, so I chopped up another cup of a mix of milk and dark chocolate Wilbur Buds. (That probably saved the cookies from being totally noxious.)
Third divergence, I prefer Pecans in my chocolate chip cookies. But I didn't have those. So I took some raw whole almonds, chopped them up coarsely and stuck them in the pre-warming oven to toast up.
I used my new KitchenAide mixer and place the butter and sugar in there and blended on low with the mixing paddle until it seemed pretty smooth. Then I added one egg at a time and let those beat in. Then a dash or two of vanilla.
In a separate bowl I combined the other dry ingredients: flour, baking soda and salt. Then poured that in, in thirds, to the mixer and let it mix together on one of the lower settings.
Then I pulled out the beater paddle and mixed in the two cups of chocolate and the nuts (remember to let the nuts cool, I didn't, and they can make the batter a little runny).
Scoop small spoonfuls onto a clean, ungreased cookie sheet and place in center of oven to bake.
Mine ended up going about 13 minutes each. It might have been the change of the brown sugar/white sugar that made the difference, or I might just prefer mine a little crispier.
If you're looking for a cookie recipe that you can make and not end up eating all of them at once, well, this might be for you.
I give these a 4 out of 10. (My husband gave them a 7 out of 10, but he doesn't have the same issues with overly spicy things that I do.) I don't like having to pick the chocolate out of my chocolate chip cookies. What was I thinking?
Thursday, March 22, 2007
Melster Marshmallow Eggs
Eek! The end of the week is coming and I still have oodles of Easter candy left to review. Time to double up!
I've never heard of Melster before this year, but I have to say that I found their packaging of their Marshmallow Eggs prety appealing. It's just an egg carton, so call me easily pleased.
The eggs themselves are about half the size of an actual chicken egg (sliced longways), so they don't sit quite right in the egg carton. In fact, if you don't carry the carton horizontally, they'll all roll out of their little pockets. But not with the messy effect of real eggs. At 45 calories per egg and only 1.5 grams of fat they're not a bad little treat for someone looking for a little chocolate and a bit more interaction satisfaction than 45 calories of straight chocolate can give.
The marshmallow inside is bouncy and light, not terribly moist. The chocolate outside wasn't eggciting, just a rather unremarkable coating of plain dark sweet chocolate. The first one I ate (the one pictured) tasted rather like the carton they were in ... a little chemical-y. So for my next tasting I took them out of the carton and left them on a little plate for a half an hour. You know, "to breathe." That little airing out helped. Now they taste sweet and flavorless. Not bad ... not eggstraodinary by any means, but I only paid 99 cents for the carton of twelve ... what could I have been eggspecting?
Rating: 4 out of 10
After I picked up the carton of Marshmallow Eggs, I found more of the Melster marshmallow line at the 99 Cent Only Store. They had the plain eggs in individually wrapped packets like this as well as these Caramel Marshmallow Eggs. There are only 6 eggs in this package and it doesn't even weigh as much. But I still considered the price more than reasonable.
Where the plain eggs were only 45 calories each, the addition of caramel here makes them 60 calories though still only a gram of fat. I'm guessing the difference is that the caramel eggs are just a little denser (though the same size).
While I wanted to like these, they had a latexy quality ... and I don't mean the texture. They tasted like someone had just painted my mouth. That fresh paint smell was coupled with the taste of cereal, maybe corn flakes.
So, maybe these needed the same "airing out" ... and that's what I did. A half an hour out of the package. Ugh, it still tasted like a can of latex wall paint (maybe ceiling paint, my palette isn't that sophisticated when it comes to interior coatings).
Now, I recognize that I've not reviewed candies for fans of paint fumes, so consider this your first whole hearted recommendation.
For those of you who are not fans of sitting around smelling the paint dry, well, I'd advise sticking to the plain eggs or splurge for Russell Stover or even better See's.
Rating: 2 out of 10
More about the history of the Melster Company which is now owned by Impact Confections (makers of Warheads).
Wednesday, March 14, 2007
Oriental Trading Company Candy Shot Glasses
The final item that I hadn't reviewed from my Oriental Trading Company order is the set of Candy Shot Glasses.
It wasn't an impulse purchase, it was just one of those things that I've been looking at on their website for well over six months (along with the later disappointing gummi bracelets). The idea fascinated me, but I had trouble grasping the concept that you would put liquids in an effectively dissolvable container.
The little shot glasses are exactly the same size as a regular shot glass. They come in three flavors (two of each in the box of six). They were packaged nicely to prevent breakage. They were in a sealed plastic bag, then wrapped in some bubble wrap, then inside a box that had little cubbies for each of the candy glasses.
Mine arrived in one piece, however, as you can tell from this photo the candy itself wasn't as "candy-like" as I expected. The yellow one was the only transparent one, the rest were rather opaque and a bit chewy. I've seen this happen with ordinary hard candies. They get exposed to a little moisture which eventually penetrates and softens the outer layer of the candy. It doesn't usually change the flavor, just the texture. Instead of shattering like glass, it bends a bit.
They also appear to have "melted" a bit. I ordered them in January, so it's not as though I exposed them to any heat. Again, I figured this was because of the age of the product and/or the exposure to moisture. (Check the photo on the OTC site to understand what I was expecting.)
The shot glasses come in three flavors:
Lemon (Yellow) - not quite lemon drop flavored, it was a mild citrus flavor without much tartness.
Apple (Green) - fragrant and floral with a small burst of tartness when you chew it up.
Cherry (Red) - sharply medicinal with mild sour bite.
I invited over Amy (the neighbor who spits things out) and we tried a variety of liquors in the cups. I had Ouzo (an anise liquor from Greece) in a lemon cup, my husband had Limoncello in a cherry cup and Amy had vodka in the apple cup.
My first advice is to use it for drinks that are not chilled. Tequila shots are probably most appropriate. We keep our Ouzo, Limoncello and Vodka in the freezer, so the candy glass gets a layer of condensation on the outside, which then means that it gets sticky.
The flavor of the glasses does not seem to pass to the liquor easily, so the only way to combine flavors is to chew on the glass. I nibbled on the rim of mine and took little sips of Ouzo. I think lemon and licorice go well together, so it was rather nice. Ouzo isn't a syrupy-sweet liquor like Limoncello, so the addition of the little sugar crunch was kind of nice. It's a little much with Limoncello.
I left one of the glasses with some liquor in it on the counter (on a plate) overnight. It did not dissolve the glass as I thought, which is a plus. It did make the vodka rather syrupy.
Overall I don't think I throw the right kind of parties for these to be a welcome addition to my hostessing (I'm just not a "shot" person). However, if you're the type who does shots (especially tequila) and can get an assurance from OTC that they can send you some fresh unclouded ones, they might be fun. And hey, no dishes to do afterwards!
Friday, March 2, 2007
Peruvian Candies
My next door neighbors went to Peru for three weeks and brought back a huge cache of Peruvian (and South American) consumer candies. (They also brought some cookies, but I'll try to keep this focused.) I find it quite fun to sample the consumer candies of all countries and regions and Peru was no different. So here are nine candies from Peru:
Name: Lentejas
These little guys probably look familiar. They're chocolate lentils ala Nestle Smarties. Only they're not quite Smartie-like ... they're the same size as M&Ms (Smarties are just slightly flatter and larger than M&Ms). The shell on these is very thick and crunchy. The colors are unbelievably bright.
The chocolate itself is only so so - grainy, too sweet and completely lacking in chocolate taste.
Rating: 4 out of 10.
Name: Prime Peruvian Milk Chocolate
This bar had a lovely photo of the cloud-wrapped city of Machu Picchu on the box. Inside the box the large chocolate tablet was inside a plastic wrapper that looked exactly the same.
The bar was attractive: a dark looking milk chocolate.
The snap was not as sharp as some dark chocolates can be and it had a rather soft bite as many milk chocolates do. The flavor is rather milky, in a goat-cheese sort of way, with a little tangy note. The flavor of the chocolate was also strongly raisiny. It was very pleasant though completely different than most other milk chocolate bars I've had.
Rating: 7 out of 10.
Name: Cua Cua
This is one of those bars that looks huge. The package is about the size a set of Twix bars, yet it only weighs 18 grams. This featherweight bar is all wafers with some light mockolate coating. Between the wafers is a little cocoa cream.
The bar, called Cua Cua, I'm guessing is a play on the sound a duck makes.
The bar smells sweet and a bit of chocolate. It's also a little smoky smelling, though I couldn't quite figure that out from the ingredients.
The smoky notes gave it a little bacon flavor that I wasn't really happy with. The wafers were crunchy and foamy - providing more light texture than taste in this party in my mouth.
The mockolate was of course waxy and unappealing. It often flaked off the bar when I bit into it. I'm a big fan of wafer with cream (I can't imagine how many pounds of Nabisco Wafers I've eaten over the years) but this one just wasn't quite as ducky as I'd hoped.
Rating: 3 out of 10.
Name: Ca?onazo
This bar calls itself "barrita ba?ada rellena con crema de chocolate" which I'm guessing means chocolate filling with crisp wafers bathed in chocolate.
The crisp log of wafer was interesting, kind of like a sweet Cheeto. The chocolate filling was like a frosting, with a good chocolate taste and slightly grain. Like the Cua Cua, this was a light bar. Though it's big it only weighs 26 grams (and is the size of a Snickers ... which are 58 grams). Unfortunately the coating on the outside isn't chocolate and it's rather waxy and uninteresting.
Rating: 4 out of 10.
Name: Gomas Eucalypto
These are crazy! Crazy, I tell you.
They're little gummis covered with granulated sugar. About the size and shape of an incense cone. Nice and soft but with a good gelatin bounce. They look like they could be green apple or lime or maybe even spearmint. But they're not. They're mentholated eucaplytus flavored. Just like Hall's Cough Drops.
They're sweet and aromatic and tingly.
It's rather refreshing to get a cough drop that's not all crunchy and hard, instead it's soothing and invigorating all at once.
Definitely a winner in my book.
Rating: 7 out of 10.
Name: Nikolo
The packaging here is pretty, it's a white thick plastic wrap with a bold brown logo for the name of the bar and pretty little pictures of the nuts in the bar.
The label says, "tableta con sabor a chocolate rellena con mani almendra y cereal crocante" which means "peanut, almond and crispy cereal filled chocolatey bar."
The chunky look of the bar reminded me of Legos and was just about as tasty.
The nuts were fresh and crunchy and gave the bar a promising aroma, but the mockolate in this bar was waxy, chalky and just so bad. Look at it in the photo ... does that look like something you're supposed to eat or something I molded out of dung?
Rating: 2 out of 10.
Name: Golpe
If it weren't for the Arcor brand on this, I'd be looking forward to this bar. The label says "Oblea rellena cubierta con caramelo y cereal crocante, con cobertura sabor chocolate" ... which translates to (courtesy of the wrapper, thankyouverymuch) "Filled wafer, toffee, crispies, all covered with chocolate flavor."
Oh Arcor, again with the chocolate flavor? Is that why your company motto is "Le damos sabor al mundo" (translation: We flavor the world)?
It's a nice looking wrapper and it made me think of soccer.
The bar looks promising as well, with it's crunchy studded mockolate. Inside are wafers with creme filling and then a scant covering of glistening caramel (I'm guessing that's the toffee). The wafers are nice, and the toffee adds some nice flavor to the whole thing, but the bar had a rather chemical taste, like licking fresh dry cleaning. I don't know if that's the taste of Carbox/Methylcellulose (the last ingredient on the list), but it made my tongue buzz.
After this series of Arcor products they are now on my list as the Worst Candymakers in the World. (Granted, I haven't tried everything made by everyone yet.)
This candy bar was made in Chile.
Rating: 2 out of 10.
Name: Sublime
This is a cute little bar. The wrapper says, "Chocolate Blanco de leche con Mani" which is "white milk chocolate with peanuts." Doesn't sound too bad.
And it is pretty cute to look at.
The chocolate is rather sweet, but also has a salty bite to it, which helped the peanut flavors stand out. I'm wondering if this was not de-odorized cocoa butter (most white chocolate is deodorized, so it has no chocolate flavor to it). It just may have been that the milk flavors with the peanuts were strong.
It was actually pretty good white chocolate bar. A little grainy but not the least bit waxy.
This bar was made in Bolivia.
Rating: 5 out of 10.
Name: Princesa
This is a cute little bar and of course has a upscale appeal of a regal name like Princesa. The ingredients are promising too, real chocolate in there.
The bar says that it's "chocolate relleno con crema de mani" which means "chocolate stuffed with peanut butter." Yum!
The chocolate here is dark (though there's some milk listed in the ingredients, it's way down the list). It's a creamy though sweet bar. The peanut butter is very smooth and creamy as well and is completely overshadowed by the chocolate.
There's a little spicy taste in the background, kind of like cinnamon.
This is a nice bar, not as peanutty as I expected, but as sedate and reserved as you'd expect from royalty.
Rating: 6 out of 10.
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007
Nestle Turtles
If you haven't already guessed, it's Turtle Tuesday on Candy Blog. (Maybe it's the candy equivalent of Faschtnacht Day/Shrove Tuesday/Mardis Gras.)
I picked these Nestle Turtles up at the drug store where everything Valentine's was already 75% off. I haven't had Nestle Turtles in a long, long time. They weren't always a Nestle product, they were originally made by Rowntree DeMet's Inc. which was bought by Nestle in 1988 and eventually in 1996 rolled into the Nestle branding.
Although I've always loved the idea of Turtles, no one does them better than See's (who call them Pecan Buds). But then again, I couldn't go around thinking that without actually putting it to the test.
Nestle Milk Chocolate Turtles are rather uniform looking but have pretty good pieces of pecans in there. They smell very sweet and taste that way, too. Kind of milky, kind of mapley. The nuts are fresh but the chocolate tastes a little chalky and lacks a chocolate punch. They're just too sweet and hurt my throat. They also taste kind of doughy even though there are no wheat ingredients.
Nope, I'm not keen on the real Nestle Turtles. I'll stick to my various other versions. At the regular price they're about $35 pound ... a total rip because you can get See's for half that price online and even Sanders has an equally good deal (though I haven't tried the pecan version of their Titans).
Fun Note: The character of Rochelle (Chris Rock's mom) in Everybody Hates Chris is obsessed with Turtles. In the episode Everybody Hates the Lottery (ep 16) she agrees to give them up ... which of course goes poorly.
Monday, February 19, 2007
Short & Sweet: Gums
I'm a little sick, just bronchitis, nothing to block my enjoyment of candy but I'm a little tired. I'm spending more time on the computer and just read an interesting article about some of the benefits of gum to help build memory or as a delivery method for supplements. (Link to LATimes.)
So I thought I'd profile a few gums today, just in short because, well, it's just gum.
I picked this Cool Cola Hubba Bubba up at Munchies here in Los Angeles. I rather enjoy cola flavor, though I rarely drink soda. This gum is from Israel and I can't tell you what the label says beyond the flavor.
The chew is soft like Hubba Bubba but has a really good rounded cola flavor, complete with a tangy lemon element and the spicy cola notes. The flavor doesn't last very long, but as it peters out it does taste a bit like old cinnamon gum, which isn't unpleasant at all. The bubble blowing is pretty good too. I can't say that the color is as appealing as regular pink bubble gum, but the size of the bubbles can be impressive. While I wasn't a huge fan of this, I really think it should be marketed in the US, it fills a gaping hole in the flavor range of our bubble gums.
(A little housekeeping note, I like to put on some lip balm before blowing bubbles to keep the gum from sticking to my lips.)
Rating: 6 out of 10
I bought this gum in a Family Guy tin with Stewie on the front last summer at Powell's Sweet Shoppe. It mostly bought it for the tin and this one was the least offensive of the Family Guy sayings there. (Not that I don't like Family Guy, but this is a family-friendly blog.)
The little gum pieces are as cute as can be, light orange and shiny. The flavor says it's orange, but I'd call it a juicyfruit plus orange. It's not very strong gum and not really that good. It sticks to my teeth (I have fillings) and doesn't last very long. But I liked the tin and will find something to stuff in there at some point when I bring myself to finish the gum that's probably all tacky and stuck to the bottom now.
Rating: 4 out of 10
Talk about your unimaginative names. Cafe Coffee Gum! Whee!
I picked this up because I was actually curious about the new Wrigley Kona Coffee gum, but I'm not gonna buy that, because it's got artificial sweeteners in it. So when I saw this, and that it had sugar, I figured it was destiny. And though I make fun of the name, the package design was rather pleasing.
It's not strongly flavored, but rather nice and mildly sweet coffee-flavored. The flavor doesn't last very long and when it peters out along with the sugar it's rather musty tasting. But swapping for another piece solves that problem. I can go through a pack of gum in a matter of an hour that way.
Rating: 4 out of 10
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I'm in Dallas, and my rain lilies are so happy that they don't completely die back in the winter. I'm left with many still-green (but slightly droopy) leaves and much dieback at the beginning of spring. I think it will take hours to carefully pull the dieback out. May I just cut it all back? Green and brown together at once?


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I would like to share my story. I'm a divorce mom with 2 kids (5,7) got divorced cause he was cheating on me and gave love a second chance with a man who's single dad of twins (girl and boy, 5). I'm from a different country so our relationship as boyfriends was through Internet and he went couple of times visiting so did I came. Now we finally moved cause we got our visas. When I visited before the things with his kids were ok yeah the girl won't let me be much time with her dad but she wasn't rude. My kids didn't liked his cause they considered them immature and destroyers on Anyang they had on their hands but they do well. I guess there weren't big issues cause I came visit and went back home but this time that we arrive for stay life is being hell and I never thought it would be this hard.
The boy he has a light retardation due to his mother who consume alcohol and maybe drugs during the pregnancy but he's a good boy even with his problem what you need is patience. The girl she was used to be the ruler of this house, she's used to get things as she wants and when she wants. They both are spoiled due to the fact that the mother left them since they were 1.5 years and since then my fianc� has be responsible of them.
I don't doubt he has done a good job but this kids doesn't have limits, they don't take care of things and destroy every single thing (toys, electronic equipment, books, whatever, furniture and even house walls are all painted with markers)... When I arrived and began to set rules and order they hated me (more so the girl) and they began to do lot of things.
I understand that the girl is jealous and she doesn't like how things are tuning out at home, but she began to act directly against my little girl and me, I think since we are the women she feels like we are the enemy or the threatened for her, she doesn't have a problem with my boy. She began with little childish games but went up into very serious things like trying to force my daughter to jump through a second floor window, putting her a plastic bag on the head and of course punching and pushing, also telling her she's ugly and stupid. For me kicks, scratches and lately since she found that I love to have a clean house she began with her brother to pee everywhere as a dogs and last week they both poop themselves just to make me upset cause they know I'm the one who cleans and make laundry. She lied at school and said I hit them and was very aggressive with them and I was so sad and pissed cause I read all the cops process and I don't want to pass it because a girl decides to lie to scare me away. I'm to the point of madness!! We have tried many things spankings, talking, take away things, time out and these are just strong will kinds who really doesn't care. They just keep going, well she's the brain he just follows.
She has expressed her hate to me and my daughter and that she want my girl to die and that we go away so she can have her dad to herself.
Lately talking with some people at church they recommended to give many love to the girls and pay extra attention to her and not punish her an then she will fix the situation. My fianc� was never so much time with them cause of this work they spend most time with the sitter, uncles and grandparents. When he was at home they won't even be together twins would play even in a different room granted he will hug them a kiss the and tell the he loves them everyday and that hasn't change.
Since we got that advice he has been very involved in being with twins specially with the girl holding her hand all the time taking her to our room to spend time there or being in their room every single moment he has free at home he's with them.
Of course now besides of all the stress I have to deal everyday with his brats I have to deal with the fact that he stop paying attention to me for trying to fix his daughter even when there are times where she can be left alone and we can spend time together he won't. He even forgot my birthday.
I speak to him to explain him how neglected and tire of the situation I was cause even her having all his attention continue being a bra she even goes to my room to show off and tell me "see I told my daddy doesn't loves you". I know he loves me but I'm not sure this is what I want for me and my kids at least for another 14 years with this little mean girl.
This week we supposed to get married and I don't know what to do, if I give up on this man I love so much for my peace or I should continue with the hope this someday change. He says his kids won't drive his life but they already do and this girl is turning the whole "family" upside down, all fights we have had are because of her.
Give me your wise advise please!!!!
I don't know when your visa expires but I definitely would not marry when such serious issues are involved.
When children pee and defecate all over the house that indicates there is a very severe problem. And the girl is a threat to your daughter's safety. To be this violent at the age of 5 is extremely troubling.
The father of these children needs to be more involved in their daily lives and in their discipline. To give his daughter all his attention is rewarding her for her bad behavior. That won't fix anything.
Personally I would consider this family too great a risk to marry into. The daughter is violent and the son (apparently) has fetal alcohol syndrome. Both may become far more difficult as they age and their father has taken the easy way out by spoiling them.
He has not offered his children appropriate discipline and he is not giving you the support you need. Even at the best of times this would be a difficult situation.
Marrying is a serious decision and if you had a child together that would make your life even more difficult. I hope you consider carefully before taking this risk.
For the sake of your own children, please do not marry into this family.
As the previous poster said, pooing and peeing is extreme behavior and signals very deep problems. Same for encouraging your child to jump out of a window or putting a plastic bag on their head.
You will be putting your children at risk by living with them. These children of your fiance need serious professional help. It may not just be about discipline, but there may be mental illness involved.
Please find a better life and situation for yourself. You deserve much better and you won't be able to fix them.


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In 2010, the 55 highest-expenditure Part B drugs represented $16.9 billion in spending, or about 85 percent of all Medicare spending on Part B drugs, which totaled $19.5 billion. The number of Medicare beneficiaries who received each of these drugs varied from 15.2 million receiving the influenza vaccines to 660 hemophilia A patients receiving a group of biologicals known collectively as factor viii recombinant, which had the largest average annual cost per beneficiary--$217,000. Our analysis showed that most of the 55 drugs increased in expenditures, prices, and average annual cost per beneficiary from 2008 to 2010. The 5 drugs with the largest increase in Medicare expenditures over this time period also had the largest increase in the number of beneficiaries receiving each drug. Four of the 10 drugs which showed the greatest increase in expenditures were also among the 10 drugs showing the greatest price increases.
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In 2010, the Medicare program and its beneficiaries spent about $19.5 billion on Part B drugs--drugs that are commonly administered by a physician or under a physician's close supervision in physicians' offices and hospital outpatient departments. Some of these drugs are particularly expensive for Medicare, either because they are used by a large number of beneficiaries or because their prices are high. These drugs generally differ from drugs beneficiaries obtain through Medicare Part D, which are usually self-administered and for which Medicare, its beneficiaries, and the states spent $61.7 billion in 2010.
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Sauteed Gala Apples
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- 2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 3 medium Gala apples, peeled and sliced, divided
- 2 tablespoons maple syrup
- 3/4 cup apple cider
- 1 pinch kosher salt
Set a large saute pan over medium-high heat. Add the olive oil and half of the peeled and sliced apples. Cook, stirring constantly, until the apples are wilted and slightly caramelized, 5 to 6 minutes. Add the maple syrup, apple cider, and salt. Bring to a simmer, and then reduce the heat and cook until the apples start to fall apart and the texture becomes like applesauce, 6 to 8 minutes.
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8.02 Electricity and Magnetism
In the ITunes store there is a ITunes U(niversity) section with heaps of lectures and coarses available for free download. I just downloaded the whole of MIT's 8.02 Electricity and Magnetism by Professor Walter Lewin and am just amazed. I had some good teachers at my schools but this guy is amazing. It's just a joy to watch his lectures. They are interesting and funny and he transfers the passion for the subject very well. It's sure beats television !! so if you think that there is not much on on the tube..try this one


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im reserving opinion till i can see one in person. ive been less than impressed with everything else ke-tec has come up with once ive been able to handle one.
i really like the idea and concept, keltec just falls on their face when it comes to execution of their ideas so im taking a wait and see on it
"Gun control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound." L. Neil Smith
The problem with being stupid is you cannot simply decide to stop doing dumb things...
"I crapped my pants to avoid the draft!!" -Ted Nugent
I may be able to help you with a different opinion, as soon as they are back in stock my order will be filled. I will take it on the chin for this one. I also looked at the Saiga 12 Bullpup stock, not a bad deal either. We know the Saiga frame is tried and true
a complete POS just like all their products...
I handled the gun at a local dealer. It feels cheap and not very well built. KT makes garbage. Sorry, it's the truth. I owned two of them, never again...
All the reviews on the KSg are looking good..... IMHO
If you outlaw guns then only outlaws have guns.


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Sailing to the Moon
By Dan | Published: February 3, 2012
Gave you a little hint last month on my Pirate's blog on what we will be reviewing today. If you couldn't figure it out, we will be talking about Sailor Moon. Not really one of the shows I watched regularly as it was more for girls. I did however catch it as it came on [...]
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