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4 tablespoons self rising flour
4 tablespoons white granulated sugar
1 egg
3 tablespoons cocoa powder
3 tablespoons Nutella
3 tablespoons milk
3 tablespoons olive or vegetable oil
1. Combine all ingredients in a large coffee mug. Whisk well with a fork until smooth. Microwave on high for 1 1/2 – 3 minutes. (Time depends on microwave wattage. Mine took 1 /2 minutes.) Top with whipped cream and a little chocolate sauce if desired.
2. Top with whipped cream and chocolate syrup. Enjoy!
Note: Depending on the wattage of your microwave, you may have to increase cooking time.
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> Anyhow I think the minimal and the installer cd are the way to go.
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To use my spec files, you would need my hand-hacked copy of catalyst,
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We had two days of rain so no gardenwork there. So today is nice again and sunny. Back to work in the garden. I plant and I plant but I can't keep up. If I get anywhere near seeing light at the end of the tunnel another nursery order shows up in the mail or UPS. Then of course I keep going to the local nurseries and buying more plants.
If all that is not enough I dig up something already here and move it. Today I had divided a big clump of daylilies and replanted to make a mini row of 5 clumps, I planted my yarrows, I planted my order of mail order tiny Lupines from American Meadows and did some general garden chores. I also planted two pots, one on my patio of Zahara red zinnias and the order I did a combo. I put a Victoria Blue Salvia and around it I put pink blush verbena. I should go out and plant my cucumbers. Or maybe I will plant something else. Got enough to choose from sitting on my driveway waiting for planting. |
Follow-Up Postings:
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 18:54
You go girl. (Better you than me! wink) |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 18:58
Ah, but this is why my garden looks so pretty. Doesn't happen without lots of work LOL! |
Rita, I'm almost to seeing daylight and today my hips are giving me fits! No stooping and bending for me for a while. I guess my alliums are going to sit in the driveway and die a slow painful death. Sigh. Your gardens are so beautiful and it's because of your time and dedication to them. I know you'll get it all done and you will be rewarded for your efforts. Keep goin' girl! MeMo |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 19:36
I always feel like I am behind each spring. Actually it hasn't been too bad as I was very organised early spring and started on the moving of stuff projects in March. So it is all going much more smoothly than it does some years. But I have just bought too much lately and its a backlog sitting here to be planted. I hope your hips feel better asap and that your alliums get planted and flurish. You have such a project there with a blank slate. Endless possabilities but too much work. |
I feel like that this year more than usual for some reason. We keep working away at things but the list of things to do (planting + other garden related chores) never seems to get any shorter. |
I really dislike letting plants sit in their pots for too long as they can get root-bound and that's like money down the drain. What I do is to pot them up with a good potting soil in a larger pot so they can wait longer. I always buy a bale or 2 of a good potting soil with my first plant purchase. Sure it takes a bit of time but also buys me some time. I've almost got all mine planted - maybe about 10 perennials waiting in larger pots and all my annuals potted in a wheelbarrow full of potting soil but won't plant them til frost danger is over next week. I'm also going to the city again next week so will likely get more! I do *try* to restrain myself but sometimes it's not possible as you know, Rita! It's another reason I don't shop online - way too easy to go overboard for me. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 20:47
I don't like to leave them long either, that is why all the big rush to get it all done. Everyone has their own way of doing things but for me, I don't pot things up unless there is no way around it. Like the gardenbed is not done yet. I never repot, much too much work and I don't want to have to dig an even larger planting hole. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 22:22
Rita, All of that work is the cost of the gorgeous garden. Today, I received and planted orders from Garden Crossings: (Little Joe Pye Weed, Raspberry Angelonia and a Wild Thing salvia. I also planted several goldenrods, a penstemon, and a stacchys from High country Gardens. I still have seedlings and a few plants in the greenhouse to plant yet. But, like Memo, my hips hurt, and I am tired to the bone. I know all the extra shifts are to blame, but only two more extra shifts to work and I'll be back to 2 a week. Much better. My butterfly garden is almost all planted now. Hardscape and mulch remain to be done, but the planting is almost complete! |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Thu, May 20, 10 at 23:15
kay- You and I are alot alike. Neither one of us can quit with the adding and planting. Did your lupines from American Meadows arrive yet? At least I think that is were you ordered them. I bought 9 lupine plants there. Little things but what I needed as that was the size I could work with were I wanted them. |
Rita, your UPS driver and mailman must really get a kick out of all the nursery packages they deliver. Surely they can SEE why they are delivering so much beautiful plant material. I'd be willing to bet your garden is the highlight of their route. It's funny when I'm in nurseries going crazy, packing the car full to the brim with plants, every once in a while I stop and think "hmmm...I have to PLANT all of these!" But then I just move on and continue adding to the cart knowing that all the work is worth it in the end with a nice, interesting garden. I'm leaving in a few days on a trip and just got 2 deliveries yesterday (fairly small, only about 6 items) and then I still have a handful of perennials backed up. I find the planting goes very quickly if you actually already know where all the plant material is going to be planted. Rita, it sounds like you've been pretty organized so it's going smoothly. Isn't it such a great feeling of accomplishment? |
I know how you feel Rita. I have been doing way too much this Spring also. Constantly adding which usually means moving other things around. But it's a nice tired. Like you I can't let things sit, need to get them in the ground. Cher |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Fri, May 21, 10 at 18:49
The mailman knows all about the plant crazies, and laughs when I get another package. I finally planted those cucumbers today as I didn't do it yesterday. I had no place to put them so just took some tomato cages (so they could climb up off the ground) stuck them in the middle of lawn space, poured some compost directly on top of grass, planted cucumber seedlings in compost and then put some bricks around the newly created gardenbed to hold the compost in. Its a temporary thing as the cucumbers are usully done by late August. Sometimes sooner. I did get my four potted clematis planted and that was a big chore as digging big holes is hard work for me. So now I have another clematis tower. Of course it doesn't look like much now as I cut the newly planted clematis back and that means the last of the flowers were cut off too. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Fri, May 21, 10 at 18:55
Rita, No they aren't here yet, but are on the way. I expected them to be small. kay |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Fri, May 21, 10 at 19:08
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Fri, May 21, 10 at 19:35
I just dug out a nice sized dead shrub rose. I was going to say it died over the winter but I think it might have even died already last fall. I moved it and in August and it did not take it too well. Unusual that it died as I have had them sulk but then they come back. Not this one. Anyway, I moved another of exactly the same rose at the same time and that one is fine. So I still have one anyway and that is enough. Tomorrow I will fuss with centering the trellis were I want it and then I will plant honeysuckle vines on it and plant my hollyhocks in front. So the space from the dead rose becomes an opporunity to plant something else. Plus I really wanted the honeysuckle back there. I used to have one there for years and years but then it died out and I miss it. Well, I will just plant another. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 10:18
I ordered a honeysuckle and a marachino salvia, a Nancy Red hot Poker and the paprika yarrow (didn't have a red one. They are supposed to ship next week. I have a little order coming from Garden Crossings, and I couldn't resist American Meadows sale, although I am mainly replacing snail damage with it. kay |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 11:47
I do love honeysuckle vines. I have so many here and this year am replacing ones that died out for some reason. Hummingbirds love honeysuckle flowers. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 13:02
The American Meadows order came today. Of course I had to order some sale plants. Their shipping is so reasonable, that I don't feel bad about multiple orders from them. kay |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 13:17
Their shipping is a bargain and their prices are very good. I just ordered again. This time I ordered the annual lupine dwarf Pixie Delight seeds. Since these are annuals I can just scatter them were I want summer color but don't need to overthink it as they are only for one year. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 14:34
They had some really good prices. I also ordered from Great Gardens. I got that buttercream shasta, a Little Kim lilac (Couldn't resist) and a re double knock-out for DH. He loves the red ones. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 14:55
Double Knockouts are really pretty. I have eight of the red double ones. I haven't bought the Buttercream shastas yet but I would like to get them. If I don't see them locally next time I go, I might order on line. |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 15:30
I obviously am continuing to order. kay |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 15:42
Well, Kay, you are the only person I know that might be worse than me when it comes to adding plants for the garden LOL :-)) But I think it might be highly debatable which of us buys the most. One of my two Siberian Iris orders that I had not received yet just came in the mail so I have to go unpack and put them to soak overnight now. I will be planting them tomorrow. |
- Posted by scottyboipdx 8 (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 15:55
Oh man, I am so in the same boat as y'all. I spent the last 2 weeks feeling pretty smug that I had pretty much gotten all the plants that have been sitting on my porch planted. I've even withstood the nagging desire to order some plants from Bluestone (not sure if I can withstand it much longer). Then, today, I went to the nursery to find a few little fillers (maybe some sanguisorbia) and guess what...they actually had some veronicastrum! I've been looking for these locally for the past 2 years...and they finally had them! So now my porch is once again populated with plants that I have to find room for in my tiny, tiny garden. I guess it's a happy problem, at least :-) Scott |
Here is a link that might be useful: My Garden Blog
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 16:02
But somehow we always manage to find the room, don't we? Besides who could (or should) resist buying when you find something that you have been looking to get for a long time. |
- Posted by sweetannie4u midOK_z6b/7a (My Page) on Sat, May 22, 10 at 16:14
Me too Rita, because I can't keep up with all the weeding! Sheesh! ~Annie |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sun, May 23, 10 at 18:16
I had to plant the siberian Iris today and I am pleased at how that turned out. Good thing I had done that second Clematis tower as that is the area of the garden near there that the Siberians got planted in and around. I didn't even think of that when I decided to do the second tower. I couldn't have planted these until that was done. I am glad that worked out :-)) So I also moved afew daylilies around, watered everything and called it quits for the day. Yes, I know I need to stop moving things around but I can't help myself. Hopefully tomorrow I get back to the project by the trellis to plant the two honeysuckle vines and the hollyhocks. I planted the third honeysuckle vine I had yesterday and dug out the overrunn wood hycinth bulbs and the wild onions that gets mixed in with them yesterday. I needed to get that cleared and workable to reposition the trellis in order to plant. But that is as far as I got. |
- Posted by schoolhouse z5/ohio (My Page) on Sun, May 23, 10 at 19:02
This coming week it is suppose to be in the high 70's and even up to 80, with overnight temps in the 60's. That means it's time to plant and sow seed at last. Since it was such a beautiful (and warm) day today I went ahead and planted some morning glory seeds and also put in my tomato and green pepper plants. Now that those are out of the way, I can spend all day tomorrow trimming boxwood hedge and topiary - their first trim of the season. It's going to be a job because I let them grow really long, didn't trim in April like I usually do. But I was glad I didn't because we had all the frosts this month. It may take a couple of days, esp. if the sun gets too hot and I have to take many breaks. Thank goodness the edging is done. Then I have some perennials to find places for, which means digging new areas I suppose, and zinnia and sunflower seeds to get in. Aw well, it's all worth it! |
- Posted by aimeekitty (My Page) on Mon, May 24, 10 at 13:57
I know how you feel... I was out of town this past weekend, had a project the previous weekend and I'm out of town this weekend. but I got 2 orders of roses in, an order of bulbs and bought some plants at a plant sale. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Mon, May 24, 10 at 18:12
I finially planted my Dahlia Tubers today. Nothing like being alittle late LOL!! Put in some Cardinal Climber seeds too, annual vines simiar sort of to morning glories. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Tue, May 25, 10 at 17:51
I fussed with and fixed the trellis finially today so I could plant my honeysuckle vines. Only had it scheduled for Saturday but never got around to it and did something else. So both my Mandarin and Major Wheeler are planted there. Then in front my five new purple 'Queeny Purple' hollyhocks are planted. I mulched it and watered it. I am again very pleased, it looks so good. I bet the hummingbirds discover this summer that there is a honeysuckle back in that spot again. It took me as long to fix the trellis, that is get it centered and shoved into the ground so that it was solid, as it did to plant the two honeysuckle vines up against it. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Wed, May 26, 10 at 19:50
Here is the picture of that stuff I planted yesterday. Turned out real good even if I do say so myself, |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Fri, May 28, 10 at 17:12
My last of the three Siberian Iris orders came today. I put them to soak and will plant them tomorrow. Meanwhile I did get all the daylilies that arrived yesterday planted today. I was so glad to get the last of my daylilies planted. Now I can put in the two flats of zinnias that have been sitting here for weeks because I had to have the daylilies in first as the zinnias fill in the remaining space. Not up for that job today. I think I will go out now and plant my Lupines from Bluestone. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Fri, May 28, 10 at 18:06
It was so funny. The catbird came and took a nice long and splashy bath in the tub with the soaking siberian iris. Then another catbird came and did the same as soon as the first was finished. I couldn't get my camera to get a picture as if I had walked toward the kitchen door to go inside, I would have scared them away. So my soaking plants provided big interest for my local catbirds that live here in my yard. |
Our local Walmart has had a fantastic garden center the past two years. So every time I go to the store (once a week), I lug home something. Usually a Knock Out. And get this. I have a torn rotator cuff in my shoulder too! I can live with it as long as I don't move the arm a certain way. lol. But every week I say "I'm DONE." And then I go to the store again. :) Now we've got a new bed going along the fence line, and my goal is to fill it with all KO roses with Lavender in between. I only need about 3 more KO's. Call me a fan of KO's! Plus the large wildflower bed my dh built which is growing like crazy. HE takes care of that plot. I do have my limits. lol It never ends. Can't wait until Winter so my poor body can catch a break! |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Fri, May 28, 10 at 20:13
Things are just getting going in the garden and your ready for winter already? Not me. I am so ready for things to just keep right on blooming around here. Your knockout and lavender hedgerow sounds beautiful. And one just can't stop gardening no matter what. |
- Posted by ensatagirl 6a Floyd VA (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 10 at 6:34
I started my little Eden in Nov.,2007 at age of 65. This year I lost the last half of April and all of May due to septesis (sp) and a stroke (all due to Dr. error.) Now I am almost recovered except for slightly slurred speech But I anticipated spring over the winter and started many kinds of plants under lights: several kinds of delphiniums, Now under lights in the laundry room, I have about 10 kinds of hollyhocks, agastache Navaho Sunset, 2 kinds of campanula, liatris, giant platycodon, columbine (blue), and veronica. Of course, I will have more plants than I need, and I may sell them. But my point is that for a $2.95 or less packet If you start your perennials now, you can design an entire opulent garden for next year which will last for years. Now, my garden is weeds in most places because the lost month and a half, the the structure is there thanks primarily to seed grown plants. I use bought and seeds. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 10 at 12:03
I admire anyone who does start seeds but its not my method of doing things. I start seeds if necessary as you just can't get some plants unless you do. But there are never going to be plant shelves and grow lights in my basement, just the idea makes me shutter and turns me off. I don't even like houseplants. To me plants belong outside and I will stick with my way of doing things. That's the great part about gardening, we can all do it our own ways. No way is right or wrong or better or worse than anything else that works. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 10 at 16:13
I at least got my soaking Siberian Iris planted and watered. I am not working very quickly today. My goal for the day is to get the Lupines from Bluestone planted also and then I don't care if I get anything else done or not today. |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sat, May 29, 10 at 19:32
Ha, lupines planted. I had bought 9 of the three packs because they sold them by the threes. But I hadn't measured too well, nine was too crowded. I have them in a row in back of a section of roses by the side of the house. So I made 8 plants. Three of them had the extra added to them to make 4 together, most had three together. What I did was plant the three (or four) little plantlets squished together so that it will look like one plant like I bought in the pots locally. They should look so nice when they bloom next year. This year their job is too settle in and grow. |
Where can I get a picture of the foliage of Salvia "Victoria blue"? I used to have some of this plant about 4 yrs/ ago and I remember it didn't do well, but I think it has come back to haunt me. The leaves look just like it. Is this possible? |
- Posted by organic_kitten 7 (My Page) on Sun, May 30, 10 at 7:06
Salvias often come back. Check that web site we can't mention here and they may have a picture. kay |
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Sun, May 30, 10 at 19:02
- Posted by newyorkrita z6b/7a LI NY (My Page) on Wed, Jun 2, 10 at 16:28
Hurray for me. My High Country Gardens order frrom last week is planted. Just finished now. 28 plants. I have Agastache 'Rosita' Columbine 'Swallowtail' and orange Butterfly Weed. Have to go out now to water. It really made a big different in the pots and plants sitting around here to be planted. Now these pots were really small but there were lots of them. Still have 2 vines, one blueberry shrub,a columbine and a partial flat of verbena to plant. Plus my own started from seed plants of 2 kinds of poppies. |
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A sewage facility in a state capitol city had sewage odor problems from the grit washer and chamber, and two sludge beds. They eliminated all sewage smells by using our super concentrated liquid (10131WS), diluting it 1 gallon to 27.5 gallons of water. This mixture was added to the grit washer by drip-feed system at 10 gallons per day. They also use a spray/fan system to disperse the mixture into the air. COST: $7200/yr
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On 20 December 2012, Japan requested consultations with China concerning measures imposing anti-dumping duties on high-performance stainless steel seamless tubes ("HP-SSST") from Japan, as set forth in Ministry of Commerce of the People's Republic of China ("MOFCOM") Notice No. 21 [2012] and Notice No. 72 [2012], including any and all annexes and any amendments thereof.
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On 15 January 2013, the European Union requested to join the consultations. Subsequently, China informed the DSB that it had accepted the request of the European Union to join the consultations. On 11 April 2013, Japan requested the establishment of a panel. At its meeting on 24 April 2013, the DSB deferred the establishment of a panel.
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Silicon Knights' Dennis Dyack isn't feeling the love, people. On the one hand, he reckons the pre-owned market is responsible for massive publisher focus on launch week sales and thus, rising game prices. On the other, he entertains serious doubts about next generation development costs. Let's look at the last of these worries first.
"On the top side of the triple-A, highly-funded titles, you have $100 million games, and looking towards next generation people once again are saying we're going to have development costs that are two or three times of what they were last generation," Dyack told GamesIndustry International in an interview. "I cannot see how that economy is going to continue."
"I don't think as an industry we can afford $300 million budgets. I think some games can, don't get me wrong. For a game like Call of Duty, if they had a $100 million budget, or whatever their budget is, they can afford it. That's not the industry, that's sort of a one-off. But what is everyone else going do?"
Epic's Cliff Bleszinski has also sounded a note of caution about next gen development costs, suggesting that "the six-to-eight hour triple-A game might be going away" save for a handful of mega-franchises.
The answer to upward-spiralling budgets could be "recurring revenue systems" that squeeze moolah from games post-release, reducing the importance of initial sales spikes. "We need a system with recurring revenue and that's why I think digital distribution is going to play a big role in things to come," Dyack continued. "That's why I am still very big on cloud computing."
It was easier to maintain sell-through before pre-owned came to power, he reflected. "From a consumer side, [in the last few years] we started seeing used games really come into fruition, and I believe that has caused quite a problem. I would argue that used games actually increase the cost of games."
"There used to be something in games for 20 years called a tail, where say you have a game called Warcraft that would sell for 10 years. Because there are no used games, you could actually sell a game for a long time, and get recurring revenue for quite a while. Recurring revenue is very key."
"Now there is no tail. Literally, you will get most of your sales within three months of launch, which has created this really unhealthy extreme where you have to sell it really fast and then you have to do anything else to get money," he went on, in a possible allusion to strategies like day one DLC.
"I would argue, and I've said this before, that used games are cannibalizing the industry. If developers and publishers don't see revenue from that, it's not a matter of hey 'we're trying to increase the price of games to consumers, and we want more,' we're just trying to survive as an industry.
"If used games continue the way that they are, it's going to cannibalize, there's not going to be an industry. People won't make those kinds of games. So I think that's inflated the price of games, and I think that prices would have come down if there was a longer tail, but there isn't."
Frontier Developments boss David Braben made a similar case last week.
"People will say 'Oh well, I paid all this money and it's mine to do with as I will', but the problem is that's what's keeping the retail price up," he argued. "Prices would have come down long ago if the industry was getting a share of the resells.
"Developers and publishers need that revenue to be able to keep doing high production value games, and so we keep seeing fewer and fewer of them."
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During the investigation, police found a vehicle part near the collision site that is believed to be from the vehicle involved. The part is thought to have possibly come from a newer model Volkswagen Jetta. A search of the vehicle was conducted with negative results. The victim, whose name is not being released at this time, was transported by Ocean City EMS to Peninsula Regional Medical Center with non-life threatening injuries.
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This past Sunday, Catholics celebrated the feast of the Holy Family. Jesus, Mary and Joseph are great role models for our modern families today.
In the gospel, we see how Joseph was under incredible stress to protect the child Jesus and his mother from harm intended by Herod. For their safety, the family traveled to Egypt, then to Israel and finally to Nazareth on a long and difficult journey. They got through it with love, understanding, and respect for one another. Most important, they got through it with trust in God and the direction He provided.
Some of us are fortunate enough to live in loving families. Some are faced with troubled family situations. The Holy Family calls all of us to trust in God.
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Where a student attends college has become increasingly important in the last few decades. As education has grown significantly more important in the labor market, competition among students for access to the most selective colleges and universities has grown as well. In this brief we examine patterns of enrollment, by race and family income, in the most selective colleges and universities. We also simulate racial and socioeconomic patterns of admission to selective colleges under several types of "race-blind" admissions policies, including policies like the Top Ten Percent admissions policy currently in use in Texas and a similar policy in California. For the analyses in this study, we rely on data from three national longitudinal studies of students in the high school classes of 1982, 1992, and 2004.
Minority Enrollment: Black And Hispanic Students Underrepresented At Highly Selective Colleges, Stanford Study Finds
Black and Hispanic students remain significantly underrepresented in the most selective colleges, according to a new report.
The study, released by Stanford University's Center for Education Policy Analysis, analyzed race, income and enrollment patterns at top-tier universities from 1982 to 2004.
Researchers found that as recently as 2004, white students were five times as likely as black students to enroll in a highly selective college, and two to three times as likely to gain admission -- even after accounting for income differences between black and white families. White students were also three times as likely as Hispanic students to enroll in a selective college.
According to the study, the racial disparities in enrollment at highly selective colleges increased from 1982-2004, and even though there is a lack of more recent, comparable data, it is reasonable to infer that these patterns have not drastically improved in the past eight years.
Additionally, low-income students -- independent of race -- were found to be dramatically underrepresented in highly selective institutions. Almost 58 percent of the students enrolled in these universities come from families in the top quartile of the income distribution, while only 6 percent come from families in the bottom quartile of the income distribution.
CEPA researchers also examined the Texas Top 10 Percent rule, which guarantees Texas students who graduate in the top 10 percent of their class automatic admission to all state-funded universities. Simulation results showed that while applying similar policies to selective schools could promote racial and socioeconomic diversity among admitted students, such policies are unlikely to increase the proportion of black and Hispanic students enrolled in highly selective colleges. This is due to the fact that economic constraints and preferences of some minority students to attend racially diverse colleges lead to racial differences in enrollment rates among those admitted to highly selective schools.
The study's authors, who include Stanford researcher Sean Reardon, point out that racial disparity in access to the most selective institutions cannot be attributed to a widening racial gap in academic preparation, because such gaps have actually narrowed in the last four decades, albeit slowly.
"All else being equal, we would expect these narrowing achievement gaps to lead to a corresponding narrowing of the racial enrollment gaps in highly-selective colleges and university, but the data do not show such a trend," the study reads.
The authors conclude that the growing racial enrollment gap must be driven by changes in college application-admission-enrollment decision processes -- not by changes in the relative academic preparation of white and minority students.
In February, the Supreme Court agreed to hear a challenge to the University of Texas' affirmative action program, which is used in assessing applicants who would not be automatically admitted under the "Top 10 Percent" rule.
In Fisher v. University of Texas, Abigail Noel Fisher claims that she was unconstitutionally denied admission because she is white. The university asserts that the use of race in its admissions process is indistinguishable from the University of Michigan Law School practices that the Supreme Court approved in 2003.
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Sam Fisher doesn't negotiate with terrorists. He doesn't negotiate with guard dogs, either, or with locked doors, or with hired thugs who notice things like every lightbulb in a room exploding. But he is prepared to negotiate with the mass market. Building on the ambitious, troubled Conviction, Blacklist is a stealth game for all shapes and sizes that sneaks, somewhat miraculously, into the realm of an essential purchase.
The only area in which the game's an outright disappointment is the plot, which is the usual glowering, jingoist nonsense that Mr Clancy's been serving up for decades. Suffice to say, somebody wants to blow up America again and only Sam Fisher can stop them, aided by Ballsy Redhead, Whimsical Nerd, Different Ethnicity Fisher and Traumatised Off-Screen Daughter. On the plus side, the story does somehow justify the introduction of a tricked-out plane called the Paladin to serve as the mission hub.
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Mass Effect's Normandy is an obvious inspiration - as in BioWare's game, you are able to customise loadouts, view meta-data such as multiplayer rankings, buy weapons and gadgets, and even discover more about the characters. If the idea's to foster a sort of cosy domestic bond with the franchise that can be leveraged on Xbox One, this is probably too little, too late, but there are lots of neat touches, such as a Batcave-style alcove for your sneaking gear.
Speaking of Batman, he's the real threat to Fisher's operations at this point - eclipsing even ancient rival Solid Snake. Ubisoft's Toronto team has sought to endow Fourth Echelon's finest with a little of the Dark Knight's balletic savagery, care of an eye-watering array of slick execution moves and the returning Mark & Execute mechanic, which converts melee takedowns into automatic headshots on up to three pre-selected targets.
At the same time, the studio has made it so that attention-hating players can get through whole levels unnoticed, save for the odd story-mandated sequence, using gadgets such as noise-makers and sticky cameras to out-manoeuvre the foe. While hardly cutting edge right now, the engine does the job when it comes to those mission-critical distinctions of light and shadow (there's a telltale green indicator on Sam's nape, should you be in any doubt). Fans of garden-variety shooters, meanwhile, are catered for in the form of a lock-to-cover system, armour upgrades and punchier secondary weapons like shotguns and assault rifles.
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They're also going to have fun with the returning, excellent Spies vs Mercs multiplayer, which casts one set of players as slow, heavily armed goons who are controlled in first-person, tasked with defending a set of terminals. As a Spy, you'll need to initiate a hack up-close then survive (i.e. hide) in the vicinity while it completes. At the mode's best, matches can be as tense and tactical as a round of Versus in Left 4 Dead. There's nothing quite as terrifying as seeing a patch of darkness flit past the mouth of a corridor - unless it's crouching idiotically atop a well-lit cupboard, while a nearby chap in elephant armour cooks up a grenade.


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Before cars, there were horses, and many of us have heard the near-cliche "If Henry Ford had given people what they wanted, he would have made faster horses." But he didn't, and now we have traffic jams. Something important to realize though is that when Ford combined mobility with an engine, he didn't rely on the design of a horse – he didn't make a mechanical four-legged machine that mimicked a horse at all. Instead, he looked at the motor, and understood the underlying need (mobility), and designed the car around the new technologies at his disposal. Think about that for a second.
Over at Eurobike this year, I saw a lot of ugly bikes. And they were all electric. This is not to say that all electric bikes were ugly, but rather to make a point of something that struck me squarely between the eyes as I browsed around Eurobike: Electric bikes are evolving, but as they come into mainstream, they do not yet have an established design. We (the bike universe) simply don't yet know what electric bikes are going to be, or even look like.
At the outset, I should draw an important distinction between North America and a healthy-sized swath of the rest of the industrial world. In Europe, and even more so in Asia, e-bikes are nothing new. They've been around for years, and the mindset of the bicycle as "transportation" made the transition to e-bikes very, very easy for people to understand and accept. But unlike the cheap electric bike swarms in Taipei intersections, the trekking or transport bikes in Europe are a hugely lucrative category. Average price (depending on who you ask) seems to be around 1,500 to 2,000 Euro, and one brand manager confided to me that their european e-bike sales last year were $50M.
Meanwhile, over here in North America, bicycles are recreation. An electric bike strikes some as about as sensible as an electric tennis racket, to make it electric defeats its entire purpose. It's supposed to be exercise, complete with sweat and the promise that you'll "lose 5 pounds in just one week, guaranteed or your money back!". Maybe, some might concede, e-bikes could be good for the elderly or the obese. This is a dangerous conclusion to reach, as the electric bike is not likely an answer to questions that either of these demographics are asking.
It's not that e-bikes are new; they're not. What's new is the number of new brands getting into the mix, from new upstarts to established bigger players. And with these new players and bigger guys come a unique new promise to e-bikes: more of the cycling industry's top talent focused on it, and wider global distribution. These are the real changes to e-bikes.
For e-bikes to be commercially viable in an expanding market, it logically follows that the current customer base should show potential for expansion. To expand the customer base, we'll need new customer segments, or new geographies, or both. This is where things got very murky at Eurobike this year: e-bikes for freeriding with dual crown forks? Carbon fiber XC racing models with motors? And who can forget the Cancellara debacle? In trying to expand into new segments and geographies, e-Bikes represent an interesting congruence between chasing trends and rapid prototyping: in a short time, we've seen the introduction of lots and lots of new models, and everyone is simultaneously trying different things pretty quickly to see what might work. I'm reminded of the first full suspension mountain bikes, and how the first models were all vastly different, and the visual design was mostly a residual by-product of the engineering behind it. I love prototypes – they're an awesome and essential part of the design process. But they're rarely great sellers.
I'm excited by the idea of electric bikes, and I am even more excited about their potential. But as the market expands, I'm concerned about three big things: First, if the world is introduced to electric bikes with such blockish, frankensteinish designs, we'll miss an important opportunity to get people excited about them. if the first iPods resembled a homemade bomb with a battery bolted to a logic board, connected by exposed wires, they'd hardly have gained a solid footing with the fashionable crowd. These bikes have every opportunity to look f@#king cool, to be a fashionable and hip addition to an urban lifestyle, a non-douchey and practical alternative to the fixie. I'm thinking here about Vespa, about electric motorbikes like the zero, and about matching helmets and bags accented by a Burberry tartan scarf. But with few exceptions, the e-bikes I saw resembled at best an unremarkable cheap bike, and at worst, the something tantamount to fashion suicide, right up there with recumbents.
Second, I don't think we're clear about how many different customer segments these new e-bikes might appeal to, nor are we clear who we're targeting with these new options. When mountain bikes got started, they were just mountain bikes. Now there are dozens of categories of mountain bikes, from DH race bikes to lightweight XC race bikes to singlespeeds. At Eurobike, I didn't see much evidence of people trying to clearly identify who they were designing their bikes for, and I think that's largely because collectively, I don't think we're very sure about the potential customer segments that might exist.
Third, an e-bike renaissance in North America would ask bike shops to hire and/or train electronics-savvy mechanics – it's one thing to fix a flat, quite another to identify a faulty capacitor or a blown power supply. Bike shops that are quick to embrace this new revenue could gain a valuable position as an entrenched expert in the e-bike domain, and become the go-to shop for a region that's far wider than the current customer radius. But somewhere, that training has to happen. Those shops need to be retrofitted to deal with problems. And we don't know in advance what those problems will be.
All of these concerns are opportunities: the first is to design an e-bike that people get excited about, in the exact way Tesla did for electric cars in the sports car demographic. The second is for manufacturers to understand who they're designing it for, and why, so that the story gets told in the right way, to the right people. The third is the retail support structure that will make it possible for this category to do well. When Henry Ford started selling the model T, the first car customers couldn't take the car to see the same vet that they took their horse to when it got sick. But that's not to say that some veterinarians didn't see a more lucrative opportunity in opening a car repair shop.
Many of the e-bikes I saw were, essentially, motorized horses: previous bike designs, with motors and batteries bolted to them in rather haphazard ways. This is not design, it is panic. It's my hope that e-bikes evolve into bikes that don't look much like the bikes I saw. Some of the options available now might have the right function, but the form seems questionable at best. To settle for nothing more than retrofit design doesn't seem appropriate for a category that offers this much potential. There were very few I saw that seemed to approach this as an entirely new category that might not need to be limited by the classic frame design, or handlebar design, or drive system, or anything else. Even fewer seemed to have a clear message of who they were built for.
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See the work of Wytse van Mansum on the Urban Arrow.
that doesn't just pop a motor onto anything with two wheels.
Excellent piece, Chris. And I couldn't agree more.
Well, I could, if you'd talked a bit about the wattage and speed issue. In the EU, e-bikes can't be throttle-only, are limited to 25kph and can't be above 250w. In US it's much different and I'd very worried about the motorbikes that could soon be on bikepaths, but described as bicycles.
Many e-bike orgs in the EU want wattage and speeds increased. Big mistake.
If people wanted more speed and power they'd buy mopeds and motorbikes.
I'm with you on the design front. Before Eurobike I got lots of press releases on how companies are making e-bikes sexier for the new, younger e-bike demographic.
When I got to the show these bikes weren't anywhere near as sexy as predicted.
I worry that bike companies will start devoting way too much of their R&D budgets on a sector that's very possibly close to saturation point, in Europe at least.
It worries me that journalists continue to plug e-bikes as though they are Next Big Thing just because their market share, in percentage terms, is growing year on year. But big deal if it's 25 percent YoY growth if the base was pitifully low in the first place.
At Eurobike a German trade org revealed that e-bikes will sell 600,000 units in 2010. Sounds a lot but this is just 4 percent of the EU market for bikes. Prediction for 2011? Five percent.
Why all the brouhaha for such a tiny market? Sure, the bikes are expensive, so lucrative, but if it ain't mass market, why bother?
[...] This post was mentioned on Twitter by Carlton Reid, Mark Sanders and Paul Run, chris matthews. chris matthews said: What did I see at Eurobike? Electric bikes. Lots and lots of hideous electric bikes. http://creativextreme.com/?p=381 [...]
A refreshing change to the regular 'sheep-like' mantra.
Change is 100% inevitable, and makes news. Taking change in the best direction is a bit more tricky. New product development, without long term direction, sometimes feels just another route – lithium to landfill… merely looking for the next craze to make a few $$$ on. This is a damn tough dilemma for me and anyone else in the design business.
Like you and Carlton, the if we can promote products that the vast 'blue ocean' of non-cyclist find not only 'soundbite' / momentarily cool, but also give long term, health, fun pleasure and hassle free personal transport then i'll feel much more comfortable.
I loved your quotes: "…..if the first iPods resembled a homemade bomb with a battery bolted to a logic board, connected by exposed wires, they'd hardly have gained a solid footing with the fashionable crowd"
" … e-bikes I saw resembled at best an unremarkable cheap bike, and at worst, the something tantamount to fashion suicide, right up there with recumbents."Phew, At least you didn't add folding bikes to that
Electric wheelchairs have also made as much sense as electric bicycles, or electric tennis rackets, for year and years. I know from experience.
First of all, what is also clear is that the terminology is still not sorted out, including at the consumer level.
"E-bikes" is perhaps more of an umbrella category to include electric scooters, I think, and "pedalecs"(PEDAL EleCtricity bikeS, or close.. is it "pedelecs"?) are the EU-term for those assisted-only-to-25kph electric-assist bikes.
Imprecise, velo-related language can be distracting: Like many, I cringe at "bikers" used instead of "cyclists", not because I want to sound douchey but because of the Hell's Angels association.. or ha ha is this preference a kind of douchey thing?
Aesthetically-only appealing pedalecs will probably self-select in a Darwinian sort of way, but what is more interesting to me is the new and heavily-invested involvement of companies like Bosch and Shimano. Should the market insist that they offer long-term warranties on their gear? I think so. Are they training mechanics at the relevant shops? I hope so, but when someone mail orders a bike and then has to ship it out for repair things get nasty, and if this person does not have a second bike…
Personally, I first look for a competent bicycle manufacturer or retailer and then see what and even if they offer an electric option… and wait til they do.
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The optibike has all of the sexy design elements, but at around $10,000, it's way beyond what most people are willing to pay. I'd like to see it go full production. http://www.optibike.com/
I will say that this is somewhat of an interesting post, but I think that it may misunderstand what e-bikes are, its purpose and its potential.
Having DIY my own ebike, I can say my design would probably resemble those frankenbikes you mention. Ie.Norco six dual suspension with a big clunky box for the battery. (this becomes a 70 pound bike with battery) Furthermore, in canada we can go up to 32km/h, use a 500w motor and there is no need for a pedelec (which is by the way pedal control assistance instead of a throttle).
I disagree that a bicycle is for recreation purpose as stated. A bicycle is a transportation device, the reason and way you use them will vary. I have my ebike to comute to work and a road bike when I want to do exercise. Each have a specific function, and both are optimised for that function.
My ebike ride to work takes 15 minutes less then when I pedal with my road bike. It has better acceleration, better speed at hill climbing and can maintain a top speed of 32 km/h most of my comute. I dont arrive sweaty, do not need to take a shower, and can start to work immediately, without counting no traffic, free parking in the garage and availability of a secure way via bikepaths (oh, and it cost about 0.03$ of electricity each way)
I do think that the ebike is oriented toward the crowd that do wishes to lose 5 pound in a week. Using mine to work, I can wear a suit and not be a sweaty mess when I arrive. If I wish I can pedal as much as I like, to do some exercise.
My question, how much does one pay for the lightest road bike? The reason is an increase in performance do to lighter weight components and more fluid and efficient components. Would a low power motor with a battery do better for cheaper in terms of increase in performance. I says yes absolutely.
I think there are 4 user groups:
- comuter, which used to take a car of bus.
- performers, use motor to enhance their performance
- less in shape persons looking to get back into bicycling with being to slow. Assistance for steep hill climbing, a little faster top speed but for exercise purpose.
- experimenter, creating crazy bike that goes to 100km/h or other (see endless-sphere.com to see more about this community)Lastly in terms of repainring ebike, I think it will be more a question of replacing entire component then repairing a specific fault. Example, swapping a controller, a switch, or a cable. I don't think bike repairs will ever need to have electric engineer to do such work.
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Below is a growing list of participating farms and farmers:
– Miss Scarlet's Blue Ribbon Farm, Yarmouthport (Sue and James Knieriem), small diversified farm produce poultry, hogs and flowers
– Not Enough Acres Farm, East Dennis (Jeff Deck), small produce farm
– E & T Farms, West Barnstable (Ed and Betty Osmond), aquaculture and hydroponic farm, honeybees, beeswax candles and creams, diversified small fruit and produce farm
– Cedar Spring Herb Farm, Harwich (Donna Wood Eaton) natural herbalist, small produce and herbs, consultations for healthy eating, natural remedies & medicines
– Cape Cod Lavender Farm, Harwich (Cynthia & Matthew Sutphin), potted lavender, dried lavender, fresh cut lavender, lavender specialty gifts
– Cape Farm Supply, North Harwich (Leo & Andrea Cakounes), locally raised lamb and pork, organic cranberries
– Cape Cod Mushroom Club & Nantucket Mushrooms (Wes Price)
– Tuckernuck Farm, West Dennis, Lettuce Queen Of Cape Cod, small produce and wool sheep
– Eldredge Farms, Brewster
– Hidden Acres Farm, Dennisport (Jan Rollins)
– Hemeon's Farm, Harwich Port
– Cape Cod Farms book by Stephanie Foster
– Bits & Bridals Horse Farm, Dennis, riding lessons, boarding stables
– Pleasant Lake Farm, Harwich (Rebekah & Skipper Lee)
– Resilient Farms, Barry Viprino
– Tuck-A-Way Farm, Harwich (Mark Coleman)
– Cape Cod Cranberry Harvest "Jelly Girls," Harwich (Deb Greiner)
– Town of Harwich Agricultural Commission
– True North Farm, Harwich, riding lessons, stables, pony club
– www.buyfreshbuylocalcapecod.org
Learn about local businesses that enhance local products with that special something that sets them apart from the rest. For example, learn more about jellies and jams made with local berries by Cape Cod Cranberry Harvest.
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Local farms follow a long history of Cape Cod agriculture, form the foundation of our relationship with food, and help shape the rural character of our communities. Locally grown produce, economic opportunities, niche products, and community involvement are just some of the benefits offered by your local, small town farm.
At the Harwich Conservation Trust, we hope to cultivate common ground between local farms and our land protection endeavors. For example, striving for sustainable management of natural resources is vital to viable farms as well as important for land and water resources. Also, our local economy is largely supported by visitors from far and wide who choose Cape Cod because of the quality of our natural resources and sense of place.
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*TOP REVIEWER* faija on 11/15/2011 2:40:00 AM more reviews by faija
Age: 36-43 Skin: Combination, Dark, Cool Hair: Black, Relaxed, Fine Eyes: Brown
I bought thismto wash my weaves. I tried it one am on my natural 4a hair and it was wonderful. I'm leery of most shampoos because they strip the mess out of my hair. This one left my hair soft and moisturized before I even conditioned. Im going to keep this in my arsenal as one of the few shampoos I use.
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cookiefaced on 9/21/2011 2:15:00 AM more reviews by cookiefaced
Age: 25-29 Skin: Combination, Tan, Warm Hair: Brown, Curly, Medium Eyes: Hazel
This product made my hair look dull, greasy, and weighed-down after a few hours of washing. In addition to that, for a company that prides itself on offering products "gentle" for the skin, I was shocked to see that Dove uses FORMALDEHYDE (DMDM hydantoin) in their shampoo!! I do not want to be rubbing formaldehyde into my scalp. For a drug store shampoo, Dove is kind of pricey, it does not work as claimed, and it uses a dangerous chemical in their shampoo. I would not repurchase.
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zigglemonster on 8/27/2011 8:12:00 AM more reviews by zigglemonster
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Combination, Medium Hair: Brunette Eyes: Green
Dove is my favourite shampoo, soap and deodorant brand as their scents smell amazing! This shampoo is really good and I use it alot in combination with the conditioner. It smells so good and feels really nice and does'nt make my hair feel dry or scrunchy when I rinse it out. The results afterwards are great as my hair looks shiny, feels smooth and sooo soft! It feels and looks healthy! I love this shampoo, its probably my favourite as its one I always come back to and rotate around with my sunsilk longer and stronger shampoo.
Will always be re-purchasing this stuff!
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turnthisaround on 8/7/2011 7:06:00 PM more reviews by turnthisaround
Age: 19-24 Skin: Sensitive, Fair, Cool Hair: Blond, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Green
I used this when I regularly colored my hair and just generally beat it to death with chemicals.
Terrible. It never repaired or made my hair feel any different. It just left a bunch of buildup and waxy feeling in my hair.
My hairdresser even commented one day and told me to stay away from dove shampoos because of that issue.
I listened and that day I stopped using it.
Don't waste your money.
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*TOP REVIEWER* nubletta on 2/28/2011 1:32:00 AM more reviews by nubletta
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Oily, Fair-Medium, Warm Hair: Brown, Curly, Fine Eyes: Brown
The smell of this shampoo is absolutely divine! I've re-bought this shampoo about twice, which I don't normally do. I like to try different shampoos. I have extremely damaged hair and this did the job to make it feel better. This shampoo has a very good price point and is easily available as well!
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chloeemina on 2/27/2011 10:29:00 PM more reviews by chloeemina
Age: 18 & Under Skin: Normal, Medium Hair: Brunette, Straight Eyes: Brown
This shampoo makes my hair so soft and silky! It has a fresh laundry type of scent that I love, and even when my hair is dry, I can still smell it. This is probably one of the best shampoos I have ever tried since it really made my hair so smooth. The thing I don't like is the cap, for some reason I find it hard to open and I have to struggle!
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suzerxxx on 1/2/2011 5:51:00 AM more reviews by suzerxxx
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair-Medium, Neutral Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Medium Eyes: Blue
this is one of my fave shampoo's makes my heat damaged ends soft and healtier and isint to heavy! smells fab too and a great price in boots buy one get one free!
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XomakeupjunkyXo on 11/7/2010 1:18:00 AM more reviews by XomakeupjunkyXo
Age: 19-24 Skin: Combination, Fair, Cool Hair: Blond, Wavy, Fine Eyes: Blue
This used to smell amazing and work really well, but now it smells gross and it's not as moisturizing. Skip it.
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obsess1beauty on 10/6/2010 1:21:00 PM more reviews by obsess1beauty
Age: 19-24 Skin: Oily, Tan, Warm Hair: Brunette, Wavy, Coarse Eyes: Brown
This product rates average for me.
It worked for about two washes and after that, my scalp became itchy and the ends of my hair felt real crunchy! Mind you I used the 'reformulated' version of the one that's depicted (in dark blue bottle).
The new one comes in a shiny white and blue plastic bottle with a flip top.
I really hate this packaging because the bigger bottles are too heavy to fool around with in the shower.
They aren't hard to open, but a pump top would be a lot better!
The consistency of the shampoo is very creamy and smells lightly of baby powder. it lathers well and it moisturizes okay, but does cause build-up (has two different cones in it). After washing my wavy/thick/long hair with this shampoo, it felt somewhat stiff.
In all, I don't think I'll be repurchasing. They should have left the old shampoo formula as was !!! ):
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its a pretty good shampoo and conditioner combo. it made my hair very moisturized and it helped with damage and my hair felt healthier. it smelled pretty good too. like very fresh powder. the only thing i dont like about it is that i weighed my hair down and i have very thick hair so its very hard for things to weigh my hair down. but other than that its great.
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ZANESVILLE, Ohio — The Utica shale boom hasn't brought drilling rigs to this eastern Ohio town, but it has transformed one local company. Producers Service Corp. used to make its money selling low-volume fracking services to companies that drilled conventional oil and gas wells. Inspired by the large-scale fracking demands of horizontal shale drilling, the 32-year-old company has acquired new equipment and more than doubled its work force, from 40 to 100 employees.
Fracking: So where's the economic boom that was promised?
CADIZ, Ohio — Rich Moore, a formerly out-of-work Detroit pipefitter, now lives in a trailer in a cold, muddy Harrison County campground in order to work in the fracking boom in Ohio. Moore is one of thousands of transient workers who live in campers, motels and apartments in shale country. But out-of-state workers weren't among the economic benefits touted by politicians and industry leaders in a region desperate for jobs.
Ohio EPA, health officials dismiss radioactive threat from fracking
When Pennsylvania environmental officials tested creek mud near a fracking wastewater-treatment plant last year, they found radiation at levels 45 times higher than federal drinking-water standards. As the plant owner prepares to dredge radium from Blacklick Creek, Pennsylvania officials are examining other radiation problems related to Marcellus shale fracking.
Plants, pipelines part of fracking
After drilling companies pull natural gas from shale wells, processing plants separate the gas from gas liquids.
State agency fast tracks permits for fracking, raising concerns
NEW MIDDLETOWN, Ohio — The shale-gas company wanted a pollution permit in less than four months. To help it meet that goal, Ohio Environmental Protection Agency officials had to do two things: avoid a public hearing and make sure the feds didn't get involved.
Shale Promises
Shale gas pipelines growing, but oversight is not
Getting Utica shale gas to processing plants and people's houses has created a growing web of pipelines across eastern Ohio. Placed end to end, these pipelines, called "gathering lines," would extend more than 470 miles — enough to cross the state at its widest point. Twice.