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It all started with the dial that turned up to 11 on music amplifiers.
As someone who takes a keen interest in marketing trends I think The Economist is simply scare-mongering by generating such articles in order to increase the number of pages in each issue and thus prepare the way for a price increase this year. I'm quite happy with the American sizing system in grocery stores: Large, Family Size, and Oh-My-God-I've-Just-Burst. We all know that Bigger Is Better, so what's wrong with Even-Bigger? Surely it is Even Better, right? Most of my male friends are twice the man their father was, women say "there's more of me to love" and companies making diet supplements and heart-attack medicines are all thriving, so the economy is healthy even if the people aren't. And as Senior Executive Vice President for Non-Core Peripheral Operations I'm pretty happy with my job title. Really the only inflated aspect of the whole article was the original assumption. Life (or rather, Larger-than-Life) is good so why knock a growing trend?
Job title inflation definitely bit Goldman Sachs when the world's media reported that an "Executive Director" had sensationally quit the bank. The newspapers in London seemed to think he was a senior big shot blowing the whistle. He probably had less than five people reporting to him.
I recall an April Fools article from long ago (probably 10 years or more) entitled "Number Inflation" which bemoaned that the value of numbers was decreasing, e.g. a 10 today is only worth a 9.5 in last year's numbers. You didn't have a solution then either.
Standards can only be maintained by a powerful, vigilent bureaucracy of the sort that liberal democracies hate. Singapore's good at that sort of thing. Go live there if you want rigid standards.
In a world where anyone can say anything to anyone anywhere, hype wins out over substance, and truth is difficult to validate. Nearly free communication will make us all cynics, because everyone lies when there is no accountability.
Grade inflation is a serious problem I can relate to. The worse bit about is that for those places resisting the trend, particularly universities, it can actually disadvantage your students.
Even though it's usually big-name institutions that resist grade inflation trends, the first people to see your job application are computers that cut you out if your grade point average is worse than a B+, not taking into account whether your college's grades are representative of relative effort. Name recognition doesn't happen, and grade inflation becomes a self-reinforcing trend.
One day the airlines will simply run out of superlatives. They'll have to start all over again. The folks in the back of the plane will then be known as Cargo Class.
I was once a Trundler Relocation Officer at my local supermarket. Basically it was my job to collect the shopping trollies from the carpark. I don't think my souped-up title contributed much to wage inflation. I was paid the princely sum of NZ$4.50/hr. I eventually earned promotion to shelf stacker, or more specifically, Cleaning Products Replacement Officer.
Granting the existence of this panflation, the idea that we can "slay it together" through some collective effort is just pure dreaming. Give me a break. Just point out the phenomenon and leave it at that.
It seems to me there is a more serious problem than those given above related to grade inflation. It's that students working towards today's A grade now have to learn less to achieve it, and therefore skills are silently worsening in the economy.
The grade inflation at American Universities reminds me of the few American lecturers I have at my university (GO NUI MAYNOOTH). All the new lecturers from the States get confused that the highest grade given out regularly are in the high 60's, very high grades to mid 70's and anything over that was like a glimpse of a Siberian Tiger in the wild. I only recall hearing of one 80 in our history department in the three years I have been attending.
Conversely, the American lecturers also told us that many Irish graduates hoping to attend American universities for MA's or Phd's routinely had to get letters from the university to say: Actually, 75% is a very high grade, exceptional even.
This devaluation of everything can only be defeated if everyone is prepared to stop talking such tripe and learn to love plain English, which seems now to be seen as belittling, so used have people become to hearing every mundane subject inflated by grander terms. Missed by your article was the English football leagues. Until 1992 they stretched from Divisions 1-4. Now they run through the Premier League, Championship, League 1 and League 2. The winners of the Championship division even receive the trophy given to the winners of the old Division. 1, now the Premier Lague.
Jeez it's real nice to read a light-hearted article and start my day with a smile. Thanks, Economist.
I found out about the meaningless of job titles pretty early in my career when interviewing - for what turned out to be my second job - at Ernst & Young, with a cosmopolitan Italian partner.
He asked me what my former job was and I gave him the name of the employer and my job title. He smiled politely and waited in silence for about five seconds for me to continue, then he said: 'ok. You have given me the name of your former employer and job title. Noted. But I asked you what was your job, the rest is just BS.'
No. People should be eating less. The size of celebrities isn't the point. The measurements of the dress size should remain the same regardless of the average size of the waist.
Don't forget musical notes: four hundred years ago there were breves and longas; the longa was twice as long as the breve. Nowadays the longest note in common use is the semibreve which is, as the name suggests, is half as long as a breve.
I'd like to believe I've reached the limits of cynicism from one mortal man; but then I'm remind that I too am an honest liar.
I thoroughly enjoyed this article and laughed through most of it. I totally agree that just about everything in life has been "over-flated" for want of a better word. I especially loved the job title quip that it is easier to pump up titles as it is cheaper than a pay rise.....That happens a lot here in Jamaica! Karl Marx must be turning in his grave at the thought of his utterances on false consciousness constantly bearing fruit....a big name with a big office means more than big money to some people because it inflates their ego.....keep up the good work Economist!!
Or, going a bit more up-market, a butler :)
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I take nothing at face value. As a matter of fact my default setting is that the world is full of stupid people. If you're speaking it's probably not the truth and I go one step further and ask what the heck is truth anyway? If you have an impressive title I logically assume it's because you knew someone, were independently wealthy to begin with or came from a wealthy family.
The observations of this problem is all well and good, but what do you propose we do to limit marketing gimmicks? My own thoughts, although perhaps a bit cold-hearted, are that if you get fooled by them you deserve it. Food is a serious problem though. This is why weight, volume, serving size and nutrition facts per serving and per package are all required by law for food in the US. I'm sure its the same in Europe, although I can't verify that.
But then again, I also take joy in refusing to call sizes whatever ridiculous name someone has given them -- it's small, medium, and large. The "burista" (title inflation) at Starbucks knows what you mean.
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A man convicted of armed robbery, aggravated assault and other charges against a SCAD student was sentenced Friday morning in Chatham County.
Judge Timothy Walmsley sentenced Raynard Lexie to a probated life in prison sentence. Lexie must serve 25 years for the aggravated sodomy charge, with the rest of the life sentence on probation.
The judge sentenced Lexie to 20 years each to the following charges: aggravated assault, kidnapping, burglary, and armed robbery, which he will serve concurrently.
On Sept. 21, 2012, Lexie was one of two men who ambushed a SCAD student at gunpoint as she was coming home. The two armed men forced her into a back room, robbed her and attempted to force sexual acts on her.
The victim's roommate then came home and was pushed down as the burglars left.
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At a time when many schools are struggling with limited funding, one school has come up with a new way to get high-tech tools to boost learning.
Teachers at Taylor Ridge Elementary School are using the website, donorschoose.org to help bring technology into their classrooms and on Thursday, students got to check out the latest shipment of goods, such as iPods, digital cameras and tablets. Teachers say the devices help get kids excited about learning and levels the playing field.
Donorschoose.org is an online charity designed to help public schools across the country. The teachers learned about the program through Quad City Educators Insurance, which has contributed to the charity website.
In the past year, the Quad City area has seen a total of 69 projects funded through the online organization.
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text: I've always liked Disturbed, but I never really thought of them as one of those bands that would stick around for a substantial amount of time. But after buying this CD, I might change my mind. Listening to The Sickness, I figured "this is good enough music for the moment." Enter their sophomore release, Believe. Disturbed have done EXACTLY what every band should do with their second release. This album, in a way, answered my "prayer" for a better and more diverse Disturbed. Believe improves everything that was wrong with The Sickness. There are no boring spots, this CD is pure energy and David's vocals and lyrics are so much more mature and not as repetitive as before (no monkey noises this time, either). There are songs on here for everyone: the heavy "Liberate" and "Bound," the melodic "Darkness" and nine other tracks that fall somewhere in the middle. Standout tracks: "Breathe" "Believe" "Liberate" "Rise" and "Bound." If you liked The Sickness, check this out. If you HATED The Sickness, check this out. Everyone can find something they like in it. Also, make sure you see them live, you'll appreciate their music so much more after you do.


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College Athletic Director Peter
Dryer announced the hiring of Bluefield College alum Travis Roberts as
head cross country coach. Roberts returns to Bluefield with extensive
leadership experience and will lead the Rams as their new head cross
country coach.
Coach Roberts we have someone who loves the Lord, loves Bluefield
College, and is serious about building an elite cross country program
here at
BC," said Athletic Director Peter Dryer.
his time as a scholastic athlete at Tazewell high School, Roberts was a
member of the school's inaugural cross country team and ran under Coach
Tom Keene.
being a self-proclaimed average runner through the tutelage of Keene
and hard work, Roberts was able to develop his mile time below five
and his 5k time below 17 minutes.
Country is similar to the race of life we are all running spiritually,"
said Roberts. "It takes discipline, personal integrity and commitment
to reach the prize and I am looking forward to bringing my running
experience and leadership experience to the team at my Alma matter."
is the owner of Techpacity, a multimedia business that provides
corporate video production, public relation services, web design and
media related services.
served fulltime at Destiny Outreach ministries for six and a half years
as executive pastor under Pastor Steve Branch where he gave oversight
to the ministry teams within the church.
earned his Bachelor of Arts in Communications from Bluefield College in
2001. He resides in Tazewell, Va., with his wife, Rebekah Roberts
and their two children, Carter (7) and Albany (2).


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A pair of favourites from the east coast's competitive curling ranks advanced to the 2013 Scotties Tournament of Hearts with victories in provincial play Sunday, Jan. 27.
The quest for the Canadian Women's Curling Championship begins this week in the Atlantic provinces with the Newfoundland/Labrador playdowns taking place January 15-20 at the Bally Haly Golf and Curling Club in St. John's, Newfoundland.
Click here to watch. Kim Dolan, Heather Strong and Jennifer Jones chat with media following Draw 16 of the 2012 Scotties Tournament of Hearts.
Here's the Video On Demand of Draw 16 – Team Manitoba vs Team Quebec – courtesy of TSN.CA
It had the potential to be one of the best shots at a Scotties in a very long time. In Draw Seven at the Enmax Centrium on Monday afternoon, Saskatchewan's Michelle Englot looked to be in complete control against P.E.I.


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I am trying to add DIN rail to my panel layout and keep getting this message "Cannot find or cannot open WDDINRL.XLS". I've had AutoCad Electrical 2012 since it was released and this is the first time I have seen this issue.
I am able to find and open the excel file in "Documents\Acade 2012\AeData\Catalogs".
Solved! Go to Solution.
From your description, it sounds like you have successfully used the Din Rail insertion successfully before with the 2012 product. That being the case, I'd say that it should still be working unless something has changed.
I did a little testing here by removing that file from its default location in the Catalogs folder and Electrical searched through all of the other defined support paths to find it, resulting in a 'File not found:wddinrl.xls' message, which lists all of the various locations in which it looked. It doesn't sound like that's the kind of message you're getting, so I'm inclined to think that there might be some sort of formatting problem with the file (as far as AutoCAD Electrical is concerned; I realize it opens fine in Excel).
I've attached a ZIP file to this post which contains the wddinrl.xls file from the 2012 source installation media. Please back up your current file and then replace it with this one. Let us know how it works.
That fixed it. Thanks.
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LONDON Ś One European queen has announced her retirement. Any chance EuropeÆs most famous queen Ś Elizabeth II of Britain Ś might join her?
Not likely, experts say.
The spectacle of Queen Beatrix of the Netherlands stepping down in April at age 75 so her 45-year-old son can become king is sparking some speculation in Britain about whether Elizabeth might follow suite so her eldest son, Prince Charles, can start his reign.
Elizabeth is 86. Charles, 64, has been heir to the throne since he was 3.
The British press tweaked these concerns Tuesday, with the Daily Mirror featuring a photo of Beatrix with the headline: ōQueen Gives Up Her Throne to Son.ö Then, in smaller type, ōEasy, Charles...ItÆs Queen Beatrix of Netherlands.ö
Others said, ōSorry Charles...itÆs in Holland, not here!ö
But commentators quickly noted that Elizabeth Ś who seems to be in excellent health Ś has said in the past that she regards being queen as a ōjob for life.ö
At her Diamond Jubilee last summer marking 60 years on the throne, former Prime Minister John Major said the idea that the queen would abdicate was ōabsolutely absurd.ö He said she would serve her entire life unless a health crisis made it impossible.
Author Robert Lacey, who has written several books about the British monarchy, said BeatrixÆs decision would likely firm up ElizabethÆs resolve.
ōIt would reinforce her feeling that the Dutch donÆt know what monarchy is about, and that she should go on forever,ö he said. ōThe crown is a job for life in the British system.ö
He said the queenÆs mother, who lived to be 101, had made a ōsnarkyö comment when BeatrixÆs own mother stepped down as monarch decades ago.
Lacey said the idea of abdicating is particularly unpleasant for Elizabeth because her uncle, King Edward VIII, abdicated in 1936 so he could marry Wallis Simpson, a divorced American woman.
The resulting scandal, remembered as a low point for the monarchy, brought her father, King George VI, to the throne.
No one in British history has been heir apparent as long as the now greying Charles, who is set to become a grandfather when his daughter-in-law, the former Kate Middleton, gives birth this summer.


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Monday, September 22, 2008
Milk Maid Caramel Apple Candy Corn
It's the first day of fall, so my thoughts turned to harvest.
Brach's is pretty much the gold standard for Candy Corn for me. There are other good quality makers out there too, like Jelly Belly and Zachary, but I prefer the Brach's stuff because I can actually taste the honey and that's what I prefer.
Brach's has a pretty extensive line of candy corn products and they've returned to shelves for fall. I've seen the Autumn Mix, Indian Corn and regular Candy Corn on shelves. I picked up this newer version called Milk Maid Caramel Apple Candy Corn this year. I tried the other flavor introduced last year as well, Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn which I found tasted more like buttered popcorn than caramel.
The pieces are fun and feel like fall and harvest. They're a medium brown on the bottom, a milky red in the middle and have white tips.
Unlike my experience with the Caramel Candy Corn, this didn't smell at all before opening the package. Once I did, I found it a pleasant mix of apple, sugar and vanilla - exactly what I would have expected from the name.
Most of the pieces seem pretty big and dominated by the red center.
Like most candy corn, this bag had its assortment of not-quite-ready-for-primetime players. These were shorter pieces that were missing one or more colors. I rather like the variation and ability to eat just one of the flavor layers if I want, so I don't hold it against them.
The red center has a light apple flavor, rather like apple peels not the sour green apple candy flavor. The brown caramel layer at the bottom has a light salty hit to it and a butter flavor that bugged me when I just at the brown bits alone. But as I've noted before, confections that use Red 40 tend to leave a bitter aftertaste in my mouth. So I enjoy these for about five minutes and then I regret eating them. Then I toss them in a drawer in my desk, go away for the weekend and come back and it's like I've completely forgotten about the aftertaste (maybe it has some sort of short-term memory wiping properties?).
As a novelty flavor, I like these better than most. I wouldn't mind it being added to the Autumn Mix, but I still prefer Indian Corn. Brach's also makes a Milk Maid Chocolate Caramel Candy Corn which isn't even mentioned on their website but I saw on ebay. I'm still looking for it.
This candy corn has gelatin in it, so it's unsuitable for vegetarians and isn't Kosher or Halal.
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Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Mint Cremes from the Makers of Jelly Belly
Long before Jelly Belly made jelly beans, they made all sorts of other kinds of candy including dozens of different fondant-type confections. The Goelitz Bros. Candy Company made buttercream candies which took many different shapes and flavors - the best known is candy corn.
One lesser-known version of those buttercreams were little treats like these Mint Cremes (there is no butter in there).
Last year while in Pennsylvania
Looking at the through the cellophane wrapper they were exceptionally regular. About the size of a quarter they came in four colors: yellow, pink, white and green.
They're smooth and firm to the touch (the hand crafted variety break easily).
They don't smell like much, so I worried at first that I'd bought something completely different.
But after biting into the first one it was clear, these are a very stiff fondant, flavored strongly with peppermint.
They're all the same flavor.
The outer shell is glossy and seals in the flavor and scent and keeps them a bit softer than I think they'd be otherwise. It's a combination of carnauba wax, beeswax and confectioners glaze.
Inside the center is dense, like a mello creme or candy corn but with a strong and heavy mint. Not as strong as an Altoid, but a bit more than a peppermint starlight. It's pretty much the inside of a York Peppermint Pattie.
I was hoping they'd have a more "melt in my mouth" quality than I got. They're a bit stiff and lacking some personality. But they're very pretty and would make a different offering in a wedding favor mix or at the end of a meal at a restaurant with the check. I was hoping for a bit more creamy consistency, especially since they're called cremes like the Romanego Fondants I had last year as well, but considering the price of these, I really shouldn't have been expecting something that delicate. But it's not as though these were cheap either. At $12 a pound I'm entitled to expect something.
In the end, I think I prefer good old fashioned pillow mints (after dinner style).
These have a confectioners glaze so may not be appropriate for vegetarians who don't wish to consume shellac.
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Monday, August 4, 2008
Junior Fruit Cremes
Sometimes I let me curiosity get the better of me. And in the case of Limited Edition Junior Fruit Cremes, it wasn't that exhilarating sense of discovery that made me do it. It was because I'd already seen a bunch of reviews and was pretty convinced that they were bad.
But sometimes I have to find out how bad they are for myself (call it the curiosity of Schrodinger's cat). Here are a few highlights of what I knew I was in for:
Joann at Sugar Hi: All I could taste was sweet. The raspberry was also sickeningly sweet and reminded me of those candy coated marshmallow Easter eggs that are always leftover on the store shelves weeks after Easter.
AV Club: A.V. Club testers back at the office were pretty dubious about Junior Fruit Cremes, praising their initial tart burst of juicy fruit taste, but not so much the way the flavor quickly passed, leaving us all with waxy mouthfuls of the outer coating.
Sera at The Candy Enthusiast: I couldn't finish the recommended serving of these since I they were burning out my esophagus with the sugar hit. I am not kidding, my throat just *burns* for all the sugar in this.
Patti at Candy Yum Yum: On the package, the drawings of the cremes look all bright and shiny and oozy in the center. In reality, they're grayish, and the centers are dry, like a thin mint patty. I can't even describe the taste. Gross, like a bad grammar school fruit dessert.
At first glance they look a lot like the Pastel Junior Mints that were out around Easter. It's some sort of white confection (well, pastel colored in this case) that looks like melted crayons but is probably supposed to remind us of real white chocolate. They're nicely domed and have little belly buttons on the underside like regular Junor Mints.
The smell, well, even if I wasn't getting over a bout of food poisoning (and I wasn't when I took the pictures and had a similar reaction), I found the too sweet and fake fruity scent repulsive. It smells more like cheap air freshener than something to eat. And let's face it, that's odd for me because orange blossom is one of my favorite ice cream flavors.
The box has three flavors: Black Cherry (the darkest pink), Orange and Raspberry (light pink). They don't smell any different from each other.
The candy shell is soft and waxy. It melts slowly and reveals a fondant center with a bit more of a flavor pop and some sort of super sweet center. When I say super sweet, I mean that it exhibits extraordinary characteristics not known in nature. It's as if Tootsie has taken over a particle accelerator and has somehow found a way to use supercolliders to violate the laws of two objects existing in the same space. There's twice as much sugar in here as was formerly possible in confectionery to this point.
But of course in order to contain this physical impossibility they've contained the super dense fondant in some sort of subspace warp field with an oscillating polarity and improbability drive to power it (that's housed in the little belly button area). I think the base material was a pile of used crayons found behind on of those restaurants that has the paper on the tables & little cups of generic crayons.
The density of it shocks my teeth, and perhaps creates some sort of electrical field or radiation or something because it makes me woozy and gives the bones in my lower jaw a deep ache.
I fear for the scientists creating these, the texture of the candies was inconsistent. The orange ones had a rather soft center, the cherry ones a sort of crumbly one (apparently the firmness effects the glucose delivery via the wormhole or whatever and it wasn't as painful). Raspberry was the mildest of the three, which isn't really a recommendation.
I'm all for investigating the cosmos and believe that many problems can be solved through innovation, but these incredible scientific feats are being used for evil. Pure evil.
They must be destroyed.
And the way to destroy a limited edition candy is to look away. Yes, that's right, don't buy it, don't even pick it up and handle it at the store. Just walk away ... keep going. The fate of the universe depends on you. Don't try to save me, I'm already infected. Save yourself!
I couldn't give it a rating of 1 for inedible, as I have to applaud the scientific breakthrough of super-density sweetness.
(Special note, these have no candy category. I have 30 or so "candy type" categories like chocolate or mint or chew and these don't fit into any of them! They simply cannot exist.)
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Tuesday, November 27, 2007
Junior Mints Peppermint Crunch
I was really excited about the idea of Peppermint Crunch Junior Mints. Then I started reading the package and somehow it was pushing all my irritation buttons.
First, the description: Real Junior Mints (tm) made with a real candy crunch. Are there fake Junior Mints (tm) out there ... is this an issue? There are other dark chocolate peppermints out there, sure, but is there anything that's trying to occupy the Junior Mints (tm) niche? What makes them Junior Mints anyway? Is it the dark chocolate and flowing fondant? Because the Junior Mints Deluxe had the Junior Mints name. So it's not size or proportion.
The thing I have the real hangup on is the "CRUNCH!" that they advertise. The little image on the box shows what looks like a Starlight mint, which is basically a hard candy with peppermint flavoring ... they're good crunched up and put in things (see my list o' uses for Candy Canes). At first I though they were nonpareils, which are little spheres of sugar found on SnoCaps.
But on closer examination they weren't. They're too irregular. So I read the ingredients: Sugar, Semi Sweet Chocolate, Corn Syrup, Flaked Corn, Yellow Corn Flour, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil, Corn Starch, Confectioner's Glaze, Modified Food Starch, Peppermint Oil, Invertase, Invert Sugar Syrup, Artificial Color (Red 40) and Corn Syrup Solids.
In an effort to figure out what these nibbles are, I've boldfaced those ingredients that are not found in regular Real Junior Mints (tm). Seems like we have some red polenta or something. Definitely not crushed Starlight Mints (like those little candy flakes on the Peeps Peppermint Stars). One thing I'm quite sure of, they're not that tasty. They don't dissolve like a bit of candy crunch should, but they do remain crunchy no matter how long you roll them around in your mouth!
They just don't look that good. They look like they fell in something. I like traditional Junior Mints, they're pretty! Usually so slick and dark, these are lumpy and malformed. The taste is pretty much the same but the crunch isn't crunchy enough, doesn't add any pep to the whole thing. If it was real candy (you know something that you'd actually buy and eat separately ... tell me you'd eat flaked corn, yellow corn flour, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil and corn syrup solids!) then I think they'd have something. I haven't been particular fond of the other versions of Junior Mints so far: Pastel, Inside Out or Heart Shaped (only because the red ones tasted weird). I think I'll just stick with the Real Junior Mints from now on.
Nicole of Baking Bites reviewed them earlier this month.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2007
Cadbury Ornament Creme Egg
I've talked a lot over the years about Candy Season and the accompanying seasonal candies that go with each. Slowly the candy companies are seeing that those seasonal favorites can be re-purposed into other seasons. Just like M&Ms are found in color combos for every time of the year and Russell Stover is making a marshmallow-filled pumpkin, Santa and egg, it seems that Cadbury doesn't want anyone to miss out on incorporating their egg-shaped candies into the major holidays.
This is where the Cadbury Ornament Creme Egg comes in. It's just a Cadbury Creme Egg with a red foil wrapper.
It seems silly, but I'm going to re-review these, even though they're no different than the Easter version. However, the last time I ate one was back in '06 when they were 1.38 ounces. This made for a very large reservoir of fondant ... which is not my favorite part of the Cadbury Creme Egg. (My favorite part of the Cadbury Creme Egg, for the record, was the clucking bunny commercial.) The more recent version is 1.2 ounces.
The egg has a wonderful sweet dairy chocolate smell to it that reminded me of powdered milk. Both of mine had a small sticky problem around the seam (and I tried to hard to pick good ones).
The nose cone of both seemed extremely thick, which gave a good dose of chocolate to the otherwise too-sweet fondant density.
The fondant creme center is sweet, it's nice and smooth indicating its freshness (an old Creme Egg will have a slight grain to the fondant). But really, it's just a big hunk of sugar, and while I often enjoy big hunks of sugar (rock candy anyone?), I still felt a little too much of a sugar rush aftewards.
I think I prefer the smaller one. I'd love it if they made a mint one (and I did find the orange one a bit better). That said, it's still not a favorite of mine. But I'm sure fans of the Creme Egg will be happy to see it now as their stockpiles from Easter are probably long gone.
While I can fault them for doing nothing more than slapping a different color wrapper on it and the word "ornament" to make it a Christmas product, I did find that making the Mini Eggs into little spheres for their new Christmas thingies did actually muck with perfection.
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Thursday, October 18, 2007
Zachary Candy Corn & Jelly Pumpkins
Since All Candy Expo this year was so close to Halloween, there were a lot of Halloween treats on display. One booth, Zachary Confections, had a huge table with bins holding these little packets of goodies: Indian Corn and Jelly Pumpkins. What sets them apart from other individual packets of ordinary sugar candies for the Trick-or-Treaters is that these have cute little black & white Halloween-themed designs on them: black cats, witches, ghosts, bats and skeletons.
Zachary is one of those candy companies that kind of flies under the radar of most people. They make a lot of "house brand" candies, as Joanna at Sugar Savvy found out, they're the ones behind Target's candy corn. But I've never been terribly aware of their products as a whole, mostly because so many different companies make candy corn, jellies and chocolate covered nuts in bulk.
After Joanna named Zachary the best candy corn in her taste test, I thought maybe I should give it a try. Unfortunately I didn't grab any of the traditional candy corn, instead I got some Indian Corn. Indian Corn is usually chocolate flavored on the bottom.
This candy corn wasn't quite as dark looking as most others I've tried. In fact, it looks a little wrong, the orange is kind of peachy and the brown a little watery instead of dark and dense.
But taste? The Zachary candy corn is very smooth. It doesn't have any graininess at all to it, just a stiffness that melts pretty well after a couple of chews. The flavor is lightly honey ... no different than a regular candy corn, it lacks those toasted notes that the Indian Corn usually has. I liked it well enough to eat two small packets over a couple of weeks. I still prefer Brach's because I enjoy the slight grain and the stronger honey notes, but this is definitely high quality stuff.
I wonder how many kids like little sugared jelly candies. I have to admit that these are super cute. The little Pumpkin Jelly shapes have a green stem and little fluting on the side like real pumpkins.
They're lightly orange flavored. Not a vibrant flavor, just sweet and slightly zesty. It doesn't have any of the tangy elements you'd find in a Sunkist Fruit Gem. I've always been a huge fan of Orange Slices (and Spearmint Leaves), so these are a great harvest-themed version. Even better, they fit in my mouth in one bite, instead of Orange Slices that are usually two bites. It's not easy to find individual packets of Orange Slices, so they get major points on that front.
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Junior Mints Deluxe
I'm keen on the combination of dark chocolate and mint. I'd say that there's nothing better, but then avid readers will probably find instances where I've said the same about the combination of chocolate and peanut butter and probably orange and chocolate and probably pretzels and chocolate.
There have been a few new versions of Junior Mints, including the Inside Out, Junior Mints Pastels and Heart Shaped Junior Mints over the past few years. They didn't mess with the peppermint flavor or the proportions of the elements. Instead they messed with the chocolate element.
The new Junior Mints Deluxe are jumbo sized. They're the same size as Cella's Chocolate Covered Cherries, which are also made by Tootsie. At the top of the chocolate shell are the initials JM.
They're two bites big (about a half an ounce each) and the soft fondant center flows quickly if you don't tip it up quickly after biting it open. The chocolate shell is thick and dark but is pretty sweet. It doesn't have that waxy shellac that Junior Mints usually have.
I really liked the flavor of the huge reservoir of the fondant center. It was intensely minty, so much that it cut through what would ordinarily be very sweet. The large two bite version can be messy and I haven't quite gotten the hang of it. I suspect popping the whole thing in the mouth at once is the way to go, but I can't resist looking at the innards.
Again, there is the issue of proportions here, I think this is a little off for my tastes with the gooey center, but if you're a fan of the gooey center, this may be your new favorite. They should be available in stores after Halloween. This box comes with 12 in it and weighs 6 ounces. There are no dairy or egg products in this (though may be processed on equipment that comes in contact with milk) so it may be suitable for liberal vegans.
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Milk Maid Caramel Candy Corn
There used to be rules and people followed them. Oh, they were informal; things like no white shoes after Labor Day, your shoes should match your belt. Seasonal merchandise wouldn't be put out until the previous holiday was over (no Christmas goodies before Thanksgiving). But those rules are long gone.
So I shouldn't have been surprised to see Halloween candy out already at the RiteAid before Labor Day. But at least this was something different. Instead of fruity flavors, this twist is from Brach's Milk Maid line and is called Caramel Candy Corn.
Most of us have a love-hate relationship with Candy Corn. Well, some folks have a love-love or a hate-hate ... which averages out in the big scheme of things to a love-hate for the general population. I hate-love candy corn. I don't really like eating it, but I love looking at it and the smell of it.
This stuff smells really promising, if a little overwhelming. Like caramelized sugar. It smelled so great in the store, I really wanted to take it home. Of course in the car (which I admit was as hot as one of those scented oil diffusers) the smell started getting to me in the way that candle stores do.
It all boils down to this, if you like Buttered Popcorn Jelly Belly, you'll probably like Caramel Candy Corn. I don't and I didn't.
The texture is good, a nice smooth fondant. The white tip is unflavored and the two lower layers, orange and brown, are butter flavored fondant. The caramel flavor that the smell implies is completely missing, instead it has that intense note of butter flavored popcorn just crackling away in the microwave.
I just didn't like them as much as I wanted to. Not nearly as much as the Brach's Autum Mix (candy corn, Indian corn and mellow cremes). I was really unhappy that it was $2.29 for the bag to boot ... yeah, it's a 19 ounce bag, but what do I need 19 ounces of buttered popcorn flavored candy corn for?
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I sauté the greens in olive oil and add some red chili flakes to give it a kick. I also usually add feta cheese or goat cheese.
Really enjoyed this salad. Left out the greens, but otherwise followed the recipe. My husband, who thinks beets taste "like dirt," also raved about this salad. Easy, healthy and I'll definitely make it again.
Very good @ my Polish inspired Christmas get together [Fresh Polish sausage, sauerkraut/caraway seed, mashed Yukon Gold/Turnip, and Polish Rye]and these beets rounded out a great earthy Winter meal. Everyone LOVED the flavor combination, even my non-veggie loving hubby. The greens didn't look too fresh so I left them out, but otherwise didn't change anything else. Nice and sweet using the roasting method. Will make again.
Simple and elegant. Added squeeze of honey and orange juice to dressing and goat cheese to the salad. Loved by all.
Great recipe. My husband and I loved it. I substituted kale for the beet greens and did not have red wine vinegar so used sherry vinegar. Wow.
I made this last night with 2 small subs - I didn't use the beet greens & I used Spring Onion greens instead of sweet onion wedges. Hubby & I both loved it. We eat alot of beets, so this is going to be a staple in our house.
I never would have made this on my own, but a friend brought it to a picnic and now I am HOOKED! I am so glad to have finally found a reason to incorporate beets into my culinary repertoire.
I often make this recipe without the greens and it is delicious. Especially if you add bacon and crumbled cheese (feta, goat, blue...). To make this in the summer without heating up the whole kitchen, I simmer diced cubes of beets in a pan for about 15 min, then carmelize them with some onion. This time around I tried them with the greens (mine usually wilt before I get to them). Not sure that the greens were worth it -- they have a very overpowering vegetal taste, like a strong chard flavor. I think you'd have to be one who really loves dark green leafy greens to appreciate it. Next time around I'll just stick to the usual.
I made this with fresh beets from the garden. I forgot to pick up a sweet onion so I used very thinly sliced yellow onion and I added soft goat cheese. It was awesome!!!! Everyone loved it. I never know beet greens were so good.
My husband thought this salad looked weird, but then he asked me to fix it again! The onion needs to be sliced paper thin. I thought the dressing was pedestrian. The concept of the salad is good, not brilliant. But hey, beets never win anything. (Quoted from a frequent cooking contest winner interviewed in the New York Times.)


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We purchased this mattress for my toddlers room. It arrived tightly rolled up and expanded immediately. Because of other reviews we took extra precaution in wiping down the plastic cover thoroughly so there wasn't a problem with any dirt on the actual matress. It was really clean though allready. We were also preparing for a chemical odor due to other reviews, but we were happily surprised that there really was no odor. We did not need to air out the mattress at all. The reason I gave 4 stars instead of 5 is that I find this to be a firm firm matress not a medium firm. But a very firm mattress without springs is very different than a traditional firm mattress. It is still very comfortable! Also you really do need to purchase an extra padded cover as there is no provided cover for this particular matress. I bought a 3" padded matress pad that is working well. My son is sleeping better and that was what we really needed!! I wish I bought this sooner.
I was a little skeptical about getting this mattress as I have never had a foam mattress and this was a blind online purchase, but it arrived exactly on schedule, was easy to move (needed two people to get it upstairs...cumbersome, but not heavy. Box was the width of the mattress X 1 foot X 1 foot), and reached it's full size quickly. I bought a full size mattress and am using it on my old box spring, but that doesn't seem to make a difference. We have been sleeping on it now for 2-3 weeks and it's truly amazing how much better I sleep and how less sore and achy I am when I wake up. I was considering getting a queen size as my boyfriend and I live together, but as I couldn't check this mattress out in person, I didn't want to buy a new bed, frame, linens, etc for something that I had no idea what what to expect. I will say, however, that when we do decide to go up to a queen size bed, I hope that this mattress will still be available. I can't picture sleeping on anything else and it's a great buy. I was a little concerned that it would be too firm, but it's not. You certainly don't sink right into it, but it does mold around you after you've been there for a bit and I find it to be extremely comfortable. There was no odor and I have not noticed it to make us hot when we sleep, but we also use 100% cotton sheets. This was my first Overstock purchase and I am extremely satisfied. I would recommend this mattress to anyone!
I had been looking for a mattress for 2 months. never really considered a foam one , but was so under impressed with standard box spring sets that I started to read the foam reviews. this mattress is recommended by many and I'll tell you why. I arrived 2 days early, thats a plus right there. It was about 2 inches tall and rolled like a burrito in what seems to be a giant space bag, in a large box. I opened the bag and removed it. There was no smell or other wise unpleasant odor. The mattress plumped up over the next several hours. The fabric is bright and clean and well stitched. The mattress reached its complete size and the fitted sheet fit perfectly. The firmness is perfect. I weigh 150 and do not crush it down at all. The surface is never chilly and the bed stays an even temperature all night. It is on a platform bed frame. Love it and will not buy a box spring set ever again.
I have purchased a foam mattress from overstock before and was extremely pleased with the results. I bought a different firmness this time, because the more firm mattress was out of my price range. I like the fact that this mattress is reversible, and I feel this feature will help it last longer. All the beds in my home now have a memory foam mattress, and for the price, it is absolutely unbeatable.
Bought this mattress for a vacation home. Was very concerned since I have a sleep number bed in my primary residence. I like it so much I actually purchased a second for another room in the house
I purchased it off the other reviews for it as I have never had a foam mattress before. I wasn't expecting anything spectacular so the fact that it isn't very comfortable isn't surprising. I purchased a feather bed to go over it and it seems to work for now.
Thanks to overstock for good price and fast shipping and a comfy bed! for those who don't like soft beds I would recommend get a firmer one!
Buyer beware! You will not want to get out of bed once you lay on this bad boy. I have a protruding disc in my upper back and for years I have spent $ on the typical box spring and mattress set, believing that waking up each morning with an aching back was status quo. But holy-gee-willikers Batman was I wrong! Miracles upon miracles I am waking up every morning with no back ache! What more can I say. Buy it.
I have had this mattress for a few months now it is actually my first mattress purchase. The mattress sinks on me while I am sleeping. I am only 140 lbs, so I don't know if my weight is too much for it. Its just disappointing because all of the other reviews are great so I thought that Iwould be able to receive the same comfort as others. NOT too sure what to do it bc I am unable to return it so it seems as if I am stuck sinking until I am able to buy another mattress.
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It seems to me that various websites keep mentioning that Giants are interested in signing Fukudome. Mlbtraderumors.com placed him as going to the Giants.
Here are the stats for those who are not familiar with him.
In 2007, he batted .294, with 13 HR, and 48 RBI's with a .443 OBP and .520 SLG. That seemed to be a down year and he was also injured and played in only 81 games. His defense in right field is pretty decent, and has a cannon for an arm. He might be moved to third base.
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NEW YORK (AP) - New York City has begun coming back to life Wednesday in the wake of superstorm Sandy. Across the river in New Jersey, fires still rage and National Guardsmen are working to rescue flood victims two days after the storm moved ashore.The storm has been blamed for at least 59 deaths and has caused billions of dollars in damage. Close to 6.5 million homes and businesses remain without power, including 4 million in New York and New Jersey.In the New York region, Kennedy and Newark Liberty airports have reopened with limited service.
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The Kearney City Council has passed a vote allowing the city's only homeless shelter to expand, and begin housing more people.
The decision was made during Tuesday's city council meeting, in response to a request from Crossroads Rescue Mission and Homeless Shelter's Executive Director Jerry Bumgardner.
Bumgardner says the shelter has been at capacity since opening its doors in February, with a waiting list of at least 15 people every single day. But with the city council's blessing, the shelter will now be able to house 42 people instead of 27, and Bumgardner says they won't waste any time filling those extra spots.
"Now having the additional 15, which makes it 42, it gives us a lot of relief," he said. "What it means is those people that are on the waiting list, actually tonight we can call them and give them a place to stay."
Bumgardner says he's been amazed at the support the shelter has received since opening its doors.
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Leon St. Giovanni and I, in Inter Species Wrestling, are taxidermists. While LSG is the hunter and gatherer of the crew, I am the Nigel Thornberry, the one who looks for rare game and in search of a victory. We implore the Snuff 'Em -N- Stuff 'Em strategy. It has worked in the past, and most definitely in the future, it will work for us in bigger and badder ways.
Despite my rant, I immediately started to think about what would happen if the Taxidermists were able to exterminate the Red Rooster from the WWF in 1989. We probably would have saved Terry Taylor's career for starters. In fact, dare I say, LSG and I would be heroes to the WWF audience back then. Better yet, there could have been a plethora of animal based characters all over wrestling that we could have exterminated once and for all...
Which leads to this week's Professional 3. This week, I have taken the time to go back into the annuls of the crazy and daring gimmicks of yesteryear and find out what animal based characters existed. I then decided on my least favorite ones and use them in this week's P3. So without further adieu...
Brady Boone was a journeyman in the world of professional wrestling, working primarily as an underneath wrestling in the WWF in the late 1980s, until he received his big break in 1990. Trying to match the great success of Tiger Mask in Japan, Brady Boone became Battle Kat, a high flying athlete underneath a unique costume. The topper: a furry cat mask. I'll be completely honest: I dug Battle Kat as a kid. He was much different than all of the other WWF Superstars in 1990. He could fly, do cool moves, and wear a mask. However, despite being undefeated, Battle Kat lost the last of his nine lives and was released in 1991. Sad, but sometimes, that's the way it works sometimes. Brady Boone was a talented competitor, but Battle Kat just didn't pan out the way it should have.
After SuperBrawl 1 in 1991, Brian Pillman lost a Loser Leaves WCW match against Barry Windham and was forced to never be seen again. Approximately a few weeks later, a man who a similar body type and style to Flyin' Brian made his WCW debut...the Yellow Dog. Fighting out of the Kennel Club, the Dog was accompanied to ringside by...a yellow dog named Man's Best Friend. Crazy as it sounds, it was. The Yellow Dog was one of Jim Herd's failed attempts to create a gimmick in his reign at WCW. The Dog was ultimately euthanized and what seemed like literally the next day, Flyin' Brian returned to WCW. There are just some ideas you can't make up. At least he wasn't this one.
What more can you say? The biggest bust in wrestling history. After hyping up for months that a giant egg was going to hatch at the 1990 WWF Survivor Series, fans bared witness to the hatching...of a turkey. The Gobbledy Gooker was born at Survivor Series and unleashed a reign of terror onto the WWF...for about 10 minutes. The Gooker disappeared but always lived on in infamy. WrestleCrap named its yearly awards after the Gooker. Mean Gene made fun of the incident at his 2006 Hall of Fame induction speech. So much mockery as taken place because of this character; however, there are two notes that have never been discussed about the Gooker.
1) The original idea was for the Gobbledy Gooker to be the official mascot of the Survivor Series from that point on.
2) IT MADE SENSE. A bird hatched from an egg. Come on, at least it wasn't a swerve.
Now, those are my personal WORST animal based characters. But before I close it out, what was my favorite of all time?
Yes, I know it was an actual animal, but it was established as an actual wrestler. IT WORKED THE TERRITORIES! Georgia, New York, San Francisco, and most notably, Stampede Wrestling. Bret Hart has told stories about the bear licking the feet of the Hart children when Ted lived in the basement of Hart House. Most importantly, Terrible Ted was exciting for the fans who wanted to see something different and entertaining. Things like this are missing nowadays in the sport i.e. the carny feel. This was something that was a special attraction and would really strike a local fan as a MUST SEE event. Terrible Ted was one of a kind and he really made the most of his career.
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A man is dead and a woman under arrest after a deadly stabbing Saturday night on Tucson's southwest side.
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The stabbing followed a fight between the suspect, Yvonne Elizabeth Parra, 30, and victim, Clayton Etsitty, 24. Parra reportedly stabbed the man multiple times. He was pronounced dead at the scene.
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The Secretary of State, acting through the United States Commissioner, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico, is hereby authorized to conclude with the appropriate official or officials of the Government of Mexico an agreement for the joint construction, operation, and maintenance by the United States and Mexico, in accordance with the provisions of the treaty of February 3, 1944, with Mexico, of an international flood control project for the Tijuana River, which shall be located and have substantially the characteristics described in "Report on an International Flood Control Project, Tijuana River Basin", prepared by the United States Section, International Boundary and Water Commission, United States and Mexico.
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Mandatory Auditor Rotation is Dead
Almost two years ago, I wrote about a PCAOB proposal that would require companies to rotate auditors every 5 to 10 years. The theory was that forcing companies to change auditors regularly would make audits better, because fresh eyes on the books every few years would mean a more skeptical audit.
My position was that it doesn't matter how long an auditor worked on the same engagement. Instead, the problem is audits themselves. Audits have never been designed to detect fraud. Thus, audits rarely find fraud. I wrote previously:
Research by the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners supports the notion that financial statement audits are not effective at finding fraud. In the most recent Report to the Nations on Occupational Fraud and Abuse, external audits were responsible for detecting only 4.6% of the frauds examined in the underlying study. This was in spite of the fact that in more than 76% of the cases studied, the victimized organizations had regular external audits.
Further, 31.5% of fraud examiners participating in the study stated that external audits were "very important" in detecting or limiting the fraud. This demonstrates the disconnect between the perception of the effectiveness of audits in detecting fraud and the reality. Even though independent audits detected only a tiny portion of the frauds, the fraud investigators still thought they were very important to doing so.
If this kind of disconnect exists with those investigating fraud, it is likely even worse for management and outside investors. Despite boiler plate disclaimers on the auditors' responsibility for detecting fraud, and the independent evidence that demonstrates over and over that audits do not regularly find fraud, users of financial statements still appear to expect that external auditors can and will find fraud.
Unless the process of auditing is changed substantially, the rate of detection of fraud during audits will not increase in any meaningful way. And Sarbanes Oxley has proven that regulations don't make auditors better at preventing and detecting fraud.
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Joel Ungar
You are preaching to the choir Tracy. As a now former auditor who has done a lot of PCAOB audits, I thought this proposal was totally useless, but for different reasons. Yours make a lot of sense.
Your last sentence is also right on the money. I've attended three or four PCAOB seminars on auditing in the small business environment and found them to also be mostly useless. They always started with 30 minutes of horror stories on bad audits designed to scare us. Then more criticism. And more. The PCAOB views auditors as the enemy; they don't think that auditors want to do a good audit. I always wished they would have spent time in these sessions working with auditors to make the audits more effective period, both from a misstatement perspective and towards finding fraud. That apparently made too much sense.
Tracy Coenen
Good to hear from you, Joel!
As much as I think auditors want to do a good job, I also realize they are out to protect their own asses. Enhancing procedures to better detect fraud would inherently place more responsibility (perceived or real) on the auditors to detect fraud. That means more liability with each and every audit. That is the reason why I think auditors in general are quietly opposed to any large scale changes.


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Clinton Trial: Day One: The Rules of the Hearing
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The Chief Justice presides in the chamber. William Rehnquist, 72, will be addressed as Mr Chief Justice. He is a specialist in constitutional law and has made a special study of impeachment.
One of the rules altered for President Clinton's trial is the timetable. On most days proceedings are to start at 1pm rather than noon, to accommodate Mr Rehnquist's Supreme Court commitments.
The prosecution is represented by the 13 "managers" appointed by the House of Representatives. All are Republicans, all are lawyers and all are on the Judiciary Committee, which formulated articles of impeachment against Mr Clinton in the House. They are led by Henry Hyde, who chaired the Judiciary Committee proceedings.
The President's defence counsel consists of seven lawyers, led by Charles Ruff. Mr Ruff, the White House chief counsel, will sum up.
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