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Jewish Ethiopians. The Falasha call themselves House of Israel and claim descent from Menilek I, son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. Probably descended from local Agew peoples converted by Jews in southern Arabia, they remained faithful to Judaism after the Ethiopian kingdom was converted to Christianity in the 4th century AD. Persecuted by Christians, they settled in the area around Lake Tana in northern Ethiopia. Though ignorant of the Talmud, members adhered strictly to the Mosaic law and observed some festivals of Judaism. In 1975 the Israeli rabbinate affirmed that Falashas were Jews, and from 1980 to 1992 some 45,000 Falasha emigrated to Israel, leaving probably only a few thousand in Ethiopia.
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture has sanctioned two businesses and filed actions against three others under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.
The USDA restricted the following from operating in the produce industry:
- Suh Young Trading Co. Inc., Falls Church, Va., for failing to pay $9,311 to a Florida seller. The responsibly connected individuals are Chung Choi, Myung Choi, and Jin Choi.
- Georgia Vegetable Co. Inc., Tifton, Ga., for failing to pay $20,311 to a Florida seller. The responsibly connected individuals are Rebecca Kilby, Billy Thomas, and (trust under will) of Robert Grist.
The USDA filed administrative actions against three companies:
- Prime Tropical Inc., Los Angeles, for allegedly failing to pay 18 sellers $825,808.09 for produce purchased from September 2010 to June 2011.
- Action Produce Inc., South San Francisco, for failing to pay 12 sellers $543,196 for produce purchased from February 2010 to November 2010.
- Let Us Produce Inc., Norfolk, Va., for failing to pay 20 sellers $1,176,259 for produce purchased from August 2009 to May 2010.


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56 and having turned back, they made ready spices and ointments, and on the sabbath, indeed, they rested, according to the command. | 56 Then they went home and prepared spices and perfumes. But they rested on the Sabbath in obedience to the commandment. |
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Wed, Apr 24, 13 at 23:30
Due to the dramatic increase in lilies bulblets, I need to manipulate room for the rest of my plants. Can I group gladiolus bulbs in masses? If I bunch them, will they flower? I usually spread the bulbs 2 to 3 inches apart, I don't have that option now. When the fall comes, I am going to bounce the lily bulblets. |
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- Posted by maplerbirch 4 (My Page) on Sun, Apr 28, 13 at 15:22
Are you placing them 2-3 inches in all directions? I planted glads in an oblong raised bed, spaced at 4 inches in all directions. I even had a watering pond in the center of the plot. They blossomed great and stood up w/out staking. :) |
- Posted by ladyrose65 6bNJ (My Page) on Mon, Apr 29, 13 at 21:06
I want to put them an 1-inch apart in all directions. |
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I CANNOT find a 3/8" hardware cloth or sieve to screen my pine fines. I can find 1/2" and 1/4" as often as the day is long, however. If you had to choose between either a few pieces too big, or a smaller overall mix, which would be best? |
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1/4" is better IMHO. You have to order 3/8" online. Impossible to find in stores. |
You can make aa 3/8" screen by offset overlapping of two sheets of 1/2", resulting in 3/8" and 1/4" grids. This might be cheaper than ordering 3/8" online. |
Some of the 16 inch square nursery flats/trays have 3/8 mesh on the bottom. You can usually get them for free at a nursery or garden store. Zeuspaul |
Some of the 16 inch square nursery flats/trays have 3/8 mesh on the bottom. You can usually get them for free at a nursery or garden store. Zeuspaul |
I'd definitely go with the 1/2". No worries. Up to 1/2" is totally acceptable for the 511 mix. And look at it this way, you'll have more mix. |
- Posted by maple_grove 6 (My Page) on Thu, Apr 10, 14 at 9:04
Agreed, I started off using 1/4" and later moved to a 1/2" screen for bark in both mixes. A few pieces too big can easily be picked out by hand. |
- Posted by hairmetal4ever Z7 MD (My Page) on Fri, Apr 11, 14 at 12:03
I actually found a 4' X 6' piece of 1/4" hardware cloth I had in the shed. I did screen some fines with it. The end result looks good but I worry it is too small. I might rescreen the big pieces with a 1/2" to see what I get. Although I'd say 80% of the pieces that didn't fit through the 1/4" are actually bigger than 1/2" as well, and definitely bigger than 3/8". The downside is that I "lost" about 1/3 of the bag this way - there are a lot more bigger pieces (and chunks of sapwood) than I thought originally. However it blends well with the "mini nuggets" I mulched the outdoor landscaping with, so I might just use them there. |
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The theme is "Ben Roy's Science Zone." Ben Roy of News Channel 9's Science Theatre will be helping youngsters learn about God, nature, science and the Bible. Special guest will be Drus, the border collie.
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Ok here is the actual music for this song! Bass Intro: F# F# F# E E E C# C# D D D C# C# C# A A (Ok the bass does this all the way to the chorus so dont think it changes but you can do a funk style variation like this: F# F# E F# C# D D D C# C# C# A A) Verse 1: F#m Don't want to stand here and shout your praise, F#m And walk away and forget Your name. F#m I stand for You if that's all all I do, F#m 'cause there is non that compares to You. Pre Chorus: F#m F#m 'Cause all I want in this life is you. F#m And all I want in this whole World is You, You. You. Chorus: Bm7 D A E Tell the world that Jesus lives. F#m D Tell the world that. Tell the world that. A E Tell the world that He died for them. F#m D Tell the world that He lives again. Verse 2: F#m No longer I, But Christ in me. F#m 'Cause it's the truth that set me free. F#m F#m How could this world be a better place, by Thy mercy, and by Thy grace. back to pre chorus then play verse twice then go onto Bridge But the drums only throught the first time then have the bass come in quiet then the guitars then whatever else and play it with everyone on the last time. Bridge: A Bm9 F#m D Come on, Come on, we'll tell the world about you. A Bm9 F#m D Come on, Come on, we'll tell the world about you. F#m D Comments
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The events in Japan over the last week have been truly horrible. Aksys Games is doing what they can to help, by donating 100% of their profits from this sale to the relief effort.
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As I said before, we moved this epiphyllum to the front stoop to get it out of direct sun, and it has been doing better. When I bought it a couple of years ago, it already had snail and slug damage, but it is growing okay now, and I've eliminated the slugs.
We photographed two earlier flowers the night before but missed the first two. There should be another one tonight, but possibly not as large. We went out in one hour intervals to document how it opens, as it changes throughout the night and by morning is done. This one has a very strong, sweet fragrance, and Kevin could smell it whenever I opened to door. |
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How beautiful!!! Would love to see the time lapse. very cool! |
- Posted by publickman (My Page) on Sat, Jul 30, 11 at 3:17
I should put the additional pictures in my Photobucket account, but I haven't gotten around to that yet. We took a lot of great pictures, but I haven't edited most of them yet. It took six months for anyone to reply to this photo, and so I felt there was essentially no interest here. I'll try to make a Photobucket album for these flowers, but not until September. Kevin is taking more vacation time than I am, and so maybe he will get more pictures posted, although he tends to use facebook. Maybe I can convince him to use Photobucket instead, which can be linked to facebook. I never liked facebook, and I like it less and less each day. Lars |
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Ingredients for Dill Sauce:
½ c. plain Greek yogurt
2 TBS. fresh dill
½ lemon, juiced
½ tsp. salt
¼ tsp. black pepper
Ingredients for Baked Halibut:
2 halibut steaks
½ c. cornmeal
¼ c. milk
½ tsp. salt
½ tsp. black pepper
To make the sauce, chop 2 tablespoons of dill and mix it together with the rest of the ingredients. For best results, do this a few hours ahead or even the day before, so that the flavors have time to meld.
Get together the ingredients for the halibut and preheat the oven to 375° F.
Did you know that you can make your own cornmeal from regular popcorn? Run the popcorn through a grain mill such as the Wondermill and the cornmeal comes out very fresh and soft.
Put the cornmeal on a plate and the milk in a bowl; season them with the salt and pepper.
Dip the halibut steaks into the milk, and then coat completely with the cornmeal. Put them on a baking sheet and bake for 10 to 12 minutes, until the fish is hot and flaky.
Serve with the dill sauce and other sides.
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FFG is proud to announce Descent: Sea of Blood |
Descent: Journeys In The Dark | Published 25 August 2009 |
We're going to need a bigger ship...
This fall the lands of Terrinoth will have an all new area to explore- The mysterious shores of Torue Albes! This brand new expansion for Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a full length campaign system to be added to your Descent experience. Heroes will be able to sail their ship, which can be upgraded and improved for a price, across the seas. Standing in their way are four new avatars for the dread Overlord to manifest, along with seven new lieutenants that will plague the heroes as they attempt to foil the nefarious schemes being put into motion.
Featuring new enemies for the heroes to battle, islands for them to explore, treasure to be unearthed, and ship-to-ship battles to prove their heroism, this expansion promises to be some of the biggest adventure to be found this year. Cannons may be added to your ship to increase your prowess on the seas, and heroes can now swing from the ropes to board enemy vessels. Discover ancient islands, journey down into the depths of all new dungeons, and scout out the rumors that are spoken of in whisper in taverns. Ghost ships, giant crocodiles, bloodthirsty pirates all await the chance to dine on hero, so get kraken... err cracking.
And don't forget to say hi to Sweetheart, the sweetest addition to the lieutenants...
Descent: Sea of Blood contains;
6 storage boxes for hero, Overlord, and graveyard components
1 Pad of Campaign Sheets
1 Torue Albes Map Board
1 double-sided Ocean Poster Map
10 Power Dice
220 Cards
11 Ship and Map Pieces
Over 225 tokens, including Cannons, Lieutenants, props, map markers, training, and effects
Descent: Journeys in the Dark is a scenario-driven board game that takes a party of adventurers deep into the dungeons of Terrinoth for adventure, treasure, and glory, but beware: the Overlord and his minions stand poised to oppose any heroes foolhardy enough to enter the dungeon. Descent: Sea of Blood takes the game to the next level, introducing campaigns and long-term character development for both the heroes and the Overlord. Cross the dungeon's threshold and step into a world of adventure today!
It seems odd to me that you presume to know everything about how the new campaign works. There is a new map, new avatars, new tokens, and on and on and on....so wouldn't it be possible to have new rules or better rules too? Something to think about before you just write off Sea of Blood as more of the same.
Give the commas a little break, Sycore.
After the release of rtl, which is great, i think there is no need, to announce another campaign box, which can't be combined with the old one.
Its hard to play, the campaign, with one Avatar until, the end. So why should I buy, a new expansion, when I haven't played even the existing game, with one of the other Avatars with one of the other gametypes.
So I think, rtl is a good game, which i will play, for over 100 hours and beyond, until I have explored all secrets, and all variants. And therefore i see no need in an new campaign wich delivers the same, but in a stupid "pirate" setting.
What descent really needs, is not a new campaign-expansion but, an expansion wich balances the game. And if this expansion includes some new Avatars, a new map, new dungeons, new, Monsters, and treaures, it would be a worthy one.
Why reinvent the wheel, when you could make it smoother.
So I hope theres more in the box, then just a new campaign with pirates!
It looks like the Lt's, Avatar, Dungeons, Rumors, and (some) Encounters will be able to be combines. There also might be some treasures?
I was wondering if the bosses from Island of dread are Avatars but looking trough photos from GenCon I saw that they aren't. The are some new created just for Sea Of Blood - that's nice becouse it's meaning that we will get more Jesper Ejsing drawing for the game. I love the cover and I'm waiting for more info.
Now you are talking, this is something that will really get things shaken up while playing a campaign. Will be following this closely.
I want As 'Af Shibsa is an Avatar!!!! (that's the boss from Runebound: Isle of Dread)
"I guess that we'll see really the Kraken among the seven new Lieutents...."
Unless you want avatars for skeletons/razorwings/ogres/nagas/hellhounds/manticores, they'll probably make entirely new ones. A Kraken would be a better Avatar than lieutenant, IMO.
There will probably be synergy with RtL in the way of Avatars, Lieutenants, plots and dungeon layouts.
aaaarrrrghhh! now me have to paint lil pirate hats for all my characters!!!! cant wait to play this...
I seem to recall the presentation video from GenCon saying that this is another Campaign Expansion for Decsent (the basic game). It is similar to RtL but that expansion is not required to play.
Whether there is some synergies or not I have no idea.
And even though it doens't say so explicitly I for one HOPE that there is a Rule Book in the contents as well... (: - P)
As far as it is described it is an alternative to RTL. Just like the different figure expansions are separate from each other. However, I wonder if there is any synergy between RTL and this one for a combined game. Would be kinda sad if it wasn't.
I was very excited when I saw there is a new expansion! Then I read further and discovered it looks like an expansion for Road to Legend.
Sadly, I don't like RtL. So it disappoints me that this doesn't contain any parts for regular Descent. I hope I'm jumping to conclusions... but they had better not be phasing out regular Descent. It's *so* much better than RtL!


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At the outset of its work, the Growth Commission identified a series of themes which it thought relevant and directly related to economic growth and development. For most of these themes, the Commission invited leading experts, academics and practitioners to contribute to its work either by authoring papers that captured the current thinking on specific topics or by presenting their ongoing current work at one of twelve workshops. Most of the themes listed below are detailed in "The Statement of Purpose"--the Commission's founding document--and others have been added as the Commission's work evolved over the last two years. All papers are available for free download.
The nature of the growth challenge
Our understanding of growth
The macroeconomics of growth
Projecting future trends
Global integration as a force of growth, and the role of industrial and trade policies
Demographics and migration
International trade in services
Bottom-up development strategies
Technological catch up, internet and communications technology
Labor Market policies and employment
Infrastructure and growth
Human resources and social policies as a source of growth
Women in development and in labor and capital markets
Income inequality
Risk management and mitigation
Development finance
Lagging Regions and Growth
Financial development
The nature of the growth challenge varies across countries, and over time. In some countries the challenge now is to break away from stagnation and put the economy on a sustained growth path. In others it is to address growing income disparities. And yet in others it is to modernize institutions, deal with vulnerability, or to reduce rapid environmental degradation.
A half century of theoretical and empirical work has enriched our understanding of growth experiences, as well as awareness of the strengths and weaknesses of economics in this area. The Commission will endeavor to clarify our best understanding of t he underlying dynamic model of rapid economic growth -- is export oriented growth the only model of growth that has generated sustained growth in the last few decades? Are there any other variants?
Understood as the incentives and rules governing human action -- in the economic, political and social areas, there has been increasing awareness that governance and institutions play a central role in development processes. At the same time there is much less clarity as to which institutions matter most for growth and development, and how they come about. Of all the aspects of development, the creation of institutions and the incentives ensuring their efficient functioning are perhaps the least understood.
The importance of sound macroeconomic policies to ensure a predictable environment is well recognized and accepted. Less well recognized and accepted is the fact that not all stable macroeconomic environments are equally conducive to long-term growth. The Commission will seek to explore these issues, review what we have learned from the currency and banking crises of the last decade, and identify the policies most likely to lead both to a stable macro-economy, and growth.
Several trends underway -- trade, migration, globalization of the labor force, aging of the labor force, aid, globalization of finance, technology -- are changing developing countries prospects and opportunities. In addition, over the next two decades, some developing countries will account for a much larger share of the world GDP, and claim a much larger share of natural resources.
Successful growth experiences are typically associated with greater integration in the world economy -- developing countries' domestic markets are much too small to support rapid and sustained expansions of production. And what a country has a comparative advantage in producing may not be what it should or wants to consume at the relatively low levels of income that define early stages of growth. The extent to which a country is able to trade is the result of its domestic policies, as much as of the policies of trading partners.
Changing demographics in the world is creating new opportunities and challenges for job creation and migration. Cross-border movement of people and labor has been significant in the last few decades, and has been an increasingly important source of prosperity in developing and industrialized countries alike. At the same time, this has created pressures in industrialized countries stemming from the strains associated to assimilation of diverse cultures, and actual or perceived loss of employment and income opportunities to the national labor force. The Commission may review the evidence on migration, its costs and benefits, and explore practical measures that could help create greater labor mobility.
For a few developing countries, trade in services, and exports of skills, have become important sources of income, growth, and employment. The Commission will examine the opportunities created by the internet and the expanding trade in services, potential for further growth in services trade, the resistance(s) likely to be encountered, both in developing (when accompanied by brain drain) and in industrialized countries (because potential losses of unemployment), and what are the possible policy responses that would facilitate the expansion of trade in services, and the technology changes that would be associated with such expansion.
For developing countries, the challenge has been less to innovate and create new technologies, than to absorb and adapt technologies existing already elsewhere in the world. Technological progress plays an important role in economic growth, and available estimates suggest that productivity growth has been an important factor in developing countries that have sustained their growth. Trade, particularly imports of capital equipment, FDI, tertiary education, basic and applied research, all played a role in this process. No papers were commissioned on this topic specifically. This topic was dealt with in a variety of papers and presentations during the Workshop on global trends and challenges.
While the majority of the poor live and work in rural areas today, this is not necessarily where they will live and work in the future. The world's urban population is projected to reach 4 billion in 2017 and 5 billion in 2030 (up from 3 billion in 2003). As urban areas gain in size, the share of the poor living in urban areas is expected to reach two-thirds by 2025 in Latin America and Eastern Europe, and between a third and a half in other regions. Economies of agglomeration have proven to be one of the main forces of growth and development, and thus urbanization has been central to modernization of society.
On the employment front, the Commission will take as point of departure the fact that growth is important not only to improve the living standards of the population, but also to provide jobs. How growth is translated into employment is determined by the structure and workings of labor markets. Most governments intervene in labor markets, sometimes to strengthen the power of firms vis-à-vis workers, and sometimes for the opposite reason. As a result emerge different degrees of informality in the labor market, different degrees of efficiency in the use of capital and labor, and different capacities in economies' ability to translate growth into expanding jobs.
This paper will provide an overview of the major current issues in infrastructure. The paper will start with a brief review of the evidence on the macroeconomic significance of the sector and of its role in defining the growth level and the growth path of countries. This will include a discussion of the role of infrastructure in the context of the rural s. urban debate. It will then discuss the evidence on its relevance for the poor, summarizing the evidence on access and affordability issues. Finally, it will address the institutional dimensions of the sector. This will include a discussion of the evolution on the view of the scope for the private sector in terms of financing and operating the sector -- including a discussion of large scale vs small scale operators--, the concerns for independent regulation and the importance of decentralization for the sector.
Technological innovation and diffusion have caused the green revolution and tremendous increases in agriculture productivity in the last few decades. At least in East and South Asia, famines have been eradicated. In other parts of the world, however, particularly in Africa, adoption of agriculture technology has lagged behind. And even in East and South Asia, yields remain well below potential in many areas. The "soft" institutional and policy aspects of adoption of modern agriculture technology (ownership rights, pricing policies, risk management, access to markets, access to credit, marketing, health conditions, female education, adaptive research) have proven at least as important as the "hard" aspects -- i.e. availability of high yielding seed varieties, fertilized and other basic inputs. No papers were commissioned on this topic specifically. The World Development Report 2008: Agriculture for Development was a useful source of analysis and information.
Over the last few decades, most developing countries have increased public spending on health and education. Higher spending has not always been translated into actual outcomes, however, e.g. in actual learning achievements in the case of education. In addition, measured rates of return on education tend to be low in most countries for which data exist, though there are probably measurement issues. The Commission could focus on the measures that could lead to a better use of public resources, and accelerate development of human resources while at the same time ensuring better economic returns from their development.
There is little question that the integration of women in the economy and in labor markets influences both growth and the achievement of broader development goals. The issue is what actions can governments take that would accelerate the process of integration? The Commission may wish to focus on reviewing the experience of different developing countries and draw lessons from failures and successes, and seek to formulate a practical agenda that in the next decade or so could make a material difference in this area. No papers were commissioned on this topic specifically. This topic was dealt with in a variety of papers and presentations during the Workshop on equity and growth.
Correcting for egregious income inequality and finding the appropriate balance between production incentives and redistributive programs is a long standing issue in economics and policy making. It is likely to gain even more prominence in the coming decades, as globalization continues, as growth rates are likely to continue to be highly differentiated, both within and across countries, and as labor relocates as new activities take off and old ones decline, also both within and across countries. Significant changes in income distribution can affect the political consensus underlying growth strategies.
Micro and macro risks are a major source of macro-economic instability in developing countries where they tend both to be more frequent and less insurable. This has been a particularly important challenge for smaller countries and highly specialized economies. From natural disasters (floods, earthquakes, cyclones, droughts) and exports prone to commodity price fluctuations, to macro-economic vulnerabilities and financial weaknesses, enterprises and households in developing countries face a much more uncertain world than those in industrialized countries. The Commission will explore possible actions, at the national and international levels that could help mitigate some of these risks, and increase their insurability.
First experimented with in the Marshall Plan in Europe and Japan, large scale external finance for development -- both through international development agencies (World Bank or the Asian Development Bank) and bilateral development agencies (USAID, Canadian CIDA or Swedish SIDA) -- has provided resources for a wide range of investment projects and also, support for policy reform in developing countries. Whereas in Japan and Europe external finance is believed to have accelerated the recovery while permitting higher consumption, there is much less confidence that aid has been effectively deployed elsewhere. No papers were commissioned on this topic specifically. This topic was dealt with in a variety of papers and presentations during the Workshop on global trends and challenges.
The Commission will endeavor to contribute to our understanding of regional growth issues. Against the background of economies of agglomeration, the Commission will explore the extent of regional imbalances in growth processes and the effectiveness and nature of policies needed to redress those imbalances, including fiscal federalism issues as appropriate.
Economists hold very different views on the role of financial sector in economic development. On the one hand, prominent researchers believe that the operation of the financial sector merely responds to economic development, adjusting to changing demands from the real sector and is therefore overemphasized. On the other hand, equally prominent researchers believe that financial systems play a crucial role in alleviating market frictions and hence influencing savings rates, investment decisions, technological innovation and therefore long-run growth rates.
The Commission will examine the nature of bottom-up development strategies, their effectiveness in reducing large-scale poverty, and the nature of policies and institutions supporting bottom-up poverty reduction strategies.
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raw chocolate mango parfait with goji berries + cacao nibs
Hi there :) A busy week has begun, not much time for cooking or recipe writing, but I wanted to share with you a ridiculously easy and delicious dessert that I made over the weekend. I woke up on Saturday morning all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed (don't you just love days like that?), and while the coffee was brewing I was already gathering ingredients for this chocolate and mango parfait.
The chocolate mousse layers are raw and made without eggs or dairy, a simple combination of avocado, banana, cacao powder, cinnamon, and a pinch of cayenne pepper. (I got the idea for the chocolate avocado mousse here and have been looking forward to trying it for ages.) Creamy, rich and chocolately, I would happily eat the mousse solo -- and I'm not kidding when I say nobody would ever guess there is avocado in there!
The layers of luscious, earthy, and bittersweet mousse contrast perfectly with chunks of juicy, sweet mango, with chewy goji berries and crunchy cacao nibs for pops of textural contrast. This is THE chocolate dessert for those summer days when you're in the mood for something light and fruity with a decadent twist. And it's so nutritious you could even eat it for breakfast (I admit to nothing).
raw chocolate mango parfait with goji berries + cacao nibs
serves 2
1 ripe large avocado
1/2 banana
2-3 tablespoons raw cacao powder
1 tablespoon maple syrup, raw honey or coconut nectar (or to taste)
1 teaspoon ground cinnamon
pinch of cayenne pepper
pinch of fine-grained Himalayan salt
1/2 cup diced mango
2 to 3 tablespoons dried goji berries
2 to 3 tablespoons raw cacao nibs
In a food processor combine the avocado, banana, cacao powder, sweetener of choice, cinnamon, cayenne, and salt. Process until completely smooth. (Alternately, mash the ingredients with a fork until combined well.)
To serve, sprinkle about a tablespoon of mango, 1/2 teaspoon of goji berries, and 1/2 teaspoon of cacao nibs in the bottom of a glass or small bowl. Spoon some of the chocolate mousse on top. Add another layer of fruit and nibs, then another layer of mousse, ending with a layer of mango, goji, and nibs.
Serve immediately, or chill for 30 to 60 minutes before serving. Best on the day it is prepared.
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Yeeeeessss! I love the "real food" jive happening here on k&c. It's amazing how simple, whole foods combine deliciously. Avocado is a healthy, creamy miracle, and has totally replaced mayonnaise in my life. I've seen avo/choc puddings put into ground nut crusts ... eeeeyaa!
ReplyDeleteIt's amazing how much more energy you have when you take the time to make whole foods. I have been on the hunt for cacao to no avail ;(
looking forward to making this for dessert soon.RepliesHello Gwen!
Happy to see you here, and so sorry to hear about the lack of cacao in your neck of the woods. If you can't find it in stores, try online - Amazon, for one, carries some of the Navitas products, and they sell cacao powder and nibs. Other smaller cacao companies likely also sell online.
Good luck with the hunt!


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Now, this was interesting. It hadn't occurred to me that for golfers there might be a virtue in forgetting—the sooner the better. I've always assumed the opposite: that if I could only figure out how to exploit it, my photographic memory ought to give me some sort of advantage over my amnesiac friends. If visualization is a useful tool, surely sitting in a hotel and picturing the holes you'll be playing ought to help immensely. And even if it doesn't, I still really enjoy visiting the courses in my mind. In idle moments, I take a deep, almost Wordsworthian pleasure in visualizing my gallery of golf holes.
I should point out that it's not only in Scotland that I do this. It's pretty much everywhere—local courses and ones overseas. In mid-September, I had a fantastic trip to the north of Ireland, playing six courses in six days. Sitting here in New Jersey, a month later, I can see, very clearly, virtually every hole we played. I know that numbers eleven and twelve at Carne are short, quirky, downhill dogleg par fours and that the par threes are numbers two, seven, fourteen and sixteen. I know that Enniscrone, a fantastic course west of Sligo on Killala Bay, has a relatively flat middle section starting at the fifth and works its way back into some monstrously dramatic dunes beginning at the par-three eleventh.
I should also note that my memory for certain other things is good but not extraordinary. (In some areas, my memory seems to be actually deficient. I'm terrible at remembering movie plots, for instance.) I'm decent at memorizing piano music, but only decent. I do have lots of poetry stored in my head that I recite for my own amusement when I'm driving alone and get tired of the radio. The difference between those areas of memory and this golf course thing is that I've worked hard to memorize all that music and poetry. The golf courses are just there, retained with no conscious effort.
The official web site of Moe Norman, the late, weirdly talented Canadian golf legend, avows that he could remember the exact yardage of 375 of the 434 courses he played. That skill I can't claim, which is probably good, because some chalk Norman's extraordinary memory up to autism.
I also went to the web site of the World Memory Sports Council, an organization that actually holds a World Memory Championship each year. Events include memorizing decks of cards, random words and numbers, and faces and names—everything, it would seem, but golf courses. The site also offers a series of memory tests. After trying to memorize playing cards and doing a pretty lousy job of it, I was interested to see that memory athletes draw a distinction between tests of "pure memory," meaning memorizing things with no discernible pattern or logic, and those where knowledge of a specific field helps.
Of course, there's not much that's really random about golf courses. You know that there are going to be three basic types of holes: par threes, fours and fives. You also know that most courses have four par threes, four fives and ten fours, and that if they are not classic links courses, chances are that numbers one and ten will begin near the clubhouse and numbers nine and eighteen will end near it. That's quite a lot to have in place before you've even reached the first tee.
Yet there is still a part of this I just can't explain, that being the sort of gyroscope I seem to have in my head that always keeps me oriented. Plunk me down in a strange city and I'll have a pretty good idea how to get back to my hotel. I've always wondered whether this visual and spatial memory might not have helped me in some alternative career it's probably too late to pursue. I once asked Tom Doak if he thought it might mean that I'd have made a good golf course architect, and he said yes.
Now that my talent has been identified and chortled over and marveled at by my friends, I pay far more attention to a layout than I ever would have before. So perhaps Bruce is right and it's become a distraction. But if doing my thing gives my friends pleasure, well...I don't mind doing it. I'm the Idiot Savant, and I've got a reputation to keep up.


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Hans Holbein
Hans Holbein was born in Augsburg, Germany in 1497. Later the family moved to Basle in Switzerland. The son of a painter, Holbein soon developed a reputation as a talented artist.
Like most artists of this period, Holbein mainly painted religious subjects, specializing in painting altarpieces. However, in the 1520s, Basle came under the influence of the teachings of Desiderius Erasmus and Martin Luther. Luther did not approve of highly decorated churches and so Holbein found it difficult to find work.
In 1526, Holbein moved to England which at that time was still a Catholic country. Soon after he arrived he was commissioned to paint a picture of Thomas More and his family. More was impressed with the painting and began telling his friends about Holbein's amazing ability to accurately represent what people really looked like.
Other wealthy people in England commissioned Holbein to paint their portraits. These included Thomas Cromwell, who was at this time one of the king's advisers. When Henry VIII saw this picture he asked Holbein to become one of the artists working for the royal family. Holbein painted several portraits of Henry. Other artists employed by the king made copies of these portraits. Some of these copies were displayed in England while others were sent to foreign monarchs. In many cases it is the copies rather than the original paintings that have survived.
One of Holbein's most important tasks was to paint pictures on the the walls of Whitehall Palace. Unfortunately, the palace was destroyed by fire in 1698. Luckily, copies were made of some of these paintings.
After the death of Jane Seymour, Henry began to look for another wife. Holbein was sent to Europe where he painted the portraits of five potential brides. From these portraits. Henry picked the beautiful Christina, Duchess of Milan. However, Christina eventually decided against the marriage. She is reported to have said she was worried she might lose her head if she failed to provide Henry with a son. Henry eventually married another woman that Holbein painted, Anne of Cleves.
As well as painting pictures for Henry VIII, Holbein designed furniture, banners and jewellery, and continued to work for Henry until his death from the plague in 1543.
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(1) Thomas More, letter to Desiderius Erasmus (18 December, 1526)
Your painter... is a wonderful artist, but I fear he is not likely to find England so fertile as he hoped; although I will do what I can.
(2) Letter of introduction from Desiderius Erasmus to his friends in England (29 August, 1526)
Here the arts are freezing, so Holbein is on the way to England to pick up some coins there.


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On October 13, 2003, MALIZIA was convicted of a crime punishable by imprisonment for a term exceeding one year under the laws of the State of Washington, which thereby prohibited him from possession of firearms.
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As I drive my tiny rental car down a winding country road into Modena, the first thing I see is a giant spire puncturing the clouds. It is "Il Tridente," a stylized steel trident that is the emblem of the Maserati motor company and to many serves as the symbol of this city. At first, the landmark's prominence seems overstated. But as I explore this former medieval ducal capital in Italy's Emilia-Romagna region, I realize just how fitting it is. For if the Modenese do not worship the automobile, they certainly honor it—the city may be best known for its production of balsamic vinegar, but the sign on the autostrada welcomes visitors to La Terra Dei Motori.
To car aficionados like me, the spire points to a place of pilgrimage. It was here, in 1929, that Enzo Ferrari founded the racing team that became the world's most famous sports-car manufacturer; here that Maserati made the Birdcage race cars that scorched European tracks in the late 50's; and only 12 miles east, in the village of Sant'Agata Bolognese, that a Ferrari fan named Ferruccio Lamborghini expanded his tractor factory into one of the world's most prestigious auto plants. Without a doubt, the Modenese pride is justified. The fastest four-wheelers in the world are made in their city, and they regard sports cars the way Bordeaux natives regard wine: as something they may not have invented, but certainly perfected.
The Modenese approach to the automobile as art becomes clear at Galleria Ferrari in Maranello, a suburb 20 minutes south of Modena. By the 1950's, high modernism had infiltrated consumer culture, and looking at these cars, you would be hard-pressed to find a purer expression of the idea that an object realizes its potential for beauty in pure functionality. These cars were built for speed and, no less important, built to look fast. Tours of the 27,000-square-foot modern glass-and-steel factory, which was set up here in 1947, are strictly reserved for Ferrari owners (patrons considered worthy—and wealthy—enough). Luckily, there's an adjoining museum, and I queue up with Italian students on a field trip. Enzo Ferrari, a former race-car driver, had more passion for racing cars than making them, and much of the museum is dedicated to the company's victories on the track. Inside, racing lanes map the floor, where a half-dozen Formula One cars sit side by side—small, sleek automobiles that resemble spaceships out of Star Wars and are packed with enough advanced technology that they probably operate like them, too. The first floor is dedicated to Ferrari's big wins, but classic street cars dominate the upstairs. Arranged in a circle—hood down, on an angular floor—are the most gorgeous cars the company has ever made. Some, like the 275 GTB4, are old roadsters; others, carbon-fiber modern convertibles. My favorite, however, sits in a corner by itself: a glistening, red Ferrari GTO. Its smooth geometrical form gives the illusion that it's about to speed away.
The next stop is the Collezione Umberto Panini, a private car collection owned by Umberto Panini, a retired Italian business mogul. Off the SP486 highway, a small sign for the museum points left, down a long driveway to what looks like a dairy farm. A rugged-looking Italian working under the hood of an old red English roadster looks up at me. "Il museo?" I ask, pointing to the barn behind me. "Yes," he replies.
As a young man, Panini worked as a test driver at Maserati before starting a soccer trading-card business, which he sold in 1990 to become a gentleman farmer. A few years later, when Fiat bought the company, the Maserati collection was excluded from the deal, so Panini bought 19 of the cars to keep them in Modena. While Ferraris were associated with flash and speed, Maseratis were built for the Italian gentleman.
The museum is dark and quiet, but when I turn on the lights, 40 cars lined up like colorfully wrapped candies in a box surround me: a green Mistral from the 60's, a gleaming red Bora from the 70's, a dark metallic brown Khamsin—for a time Maserati named its cars after winds, some of them rather obscure. While I'm examining an old engine a group of businessmen walks in. With them is Panini himself, a distinguished old man in a cap, along with the guy who was working on the roadster outside, who turns out to be his son. Panini is gesturing wildly, as he points toward his prized possessions. Eager to convey my appreciation, I point to the cars. "Bellissima," I say. His eyes light up. "Bellissima," he agrees.
I drive to the Maserati facility, a set of factories in Modena's Crocetta district, the following morning. My guide is Giorgio Manicardi, a retired executive who loved Maserati too much to leave and is now a volunteer. He speaks of the cars as if they were sculptures, and tells me that the company is so particular that it turns out fewer than 10,000 cars per year—what most factories do in a week. The first building Manicardi shows me is a factory the size of an airplane hangar, with two yellow metal tracks hanging from the ceiling, on which car bodies are suspended. Every half-hour, they advance in stages along the tracks until they are lowered to the ground to be joined to an engine and fitted with an interior. The workers often finish their tasks in 20 minutes. There is none of the frenetic energy that I expect to see in an auto plant. Their tradition of hand assembly, so full of craftsmanship and at times so prone to quirks, is part of what Maserati is selling. In the 80's, its Biturbo even had a suede-lined roof and a Swiss clock set in its dashboard.
On my way out, I spot yet another group of schoolchildren listening to their guide recounting the history of car manufacturing. As a kid, I remember visiting places like the National Air & Space Museum and other institutions dedicated to the technological advancements of our country. They were doing the same here—only Italian rockets take off parallel to the earth.
Robert Levine is a New York–based writer who contributes to the New York Times, Portfolio, and Rolling Stone.


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Actor and film producer Brad Pitt, together with Studio Furniture maker Frank Pollaro are to launch a new line of high-end furniture. Pitt's collaboration with renowned NJ based designer and artisan Frank Pollaro was recently reported by Architectural Digest. Pollaro has been crowned as one of the most reputable makers of contemporary French Art Deco style. His work is heavily inspired by 20th century iconic designer-makers such as Émile-Jacques Ruhlmann, Pierre Chareau, and Paul Dupré-Lafon. Exquisite veneers, nickel plated metals parts, brass, shagreen and other gems of superb furniture making are just some of the materials that can be found in his work.
Pollaro's work has been featured in many woodworking magazines including our own American Woodworker (A love affair with veneer, October 1998). Until now Pitt's interest in furniture design has been known to only a few, and his furniture ideas and drawings had been kept hidden in his sketch book. But, thanks to the recent collaboration with Pollaro we will be able to appreciate him not just as an action star, but also as a first class designer.
Pitt's and Pollaro's website is still under construction, but some images of their new creations can be seen in an Architectural Digest slide show. There are two things you can be sure of with regards to this new line of furniture:
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The World's oldest woman has died at the age of 116.
Besse Cooper was only 1 of 8 people recognized by the Guinness World Records to have lived that long.
Before women gained the right to vote in 1920, Cooper joined the suffrage movement. Then 24, the Georgia school teacher registered women to vote and spoke to others about the importance of having a voice in politics.
Cooper voted in every election after the 19th Amendment was passed, save for two.
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What are press conferences for?
We know what they are. The anodyne Wikipedia definition is clear enough:
A news conference or press conference is a media event in which newsmakers invite journalists to hear them speak and, most often, ask questions.
One could argue that in the Age of Newspapers, press conferences provided real value to the public. After all, most households once subscribed to a single paper with its own staff of writers, editors and reporters. This made it imperative for each news organization to send their own reporter get quotes, ask questions, and file a unique story by deadline. It wasn't redundant to have forty guys covering the same presser, because most readers had access to a single source.
It's hard to say exactly when this began to change, but television certainly played a part. On January 25th 1961, US president John F Kennedy became the first president to hold a live televised press conference. Kennedy's decision to read a prepared statement on the Congo and take questions from assembled reporters on TV wasn't just a public service; as the 1960 debate with Republican presidential candidate Richard Nixon demonstrated, Kennedy looked awesome on television, and that apparently mattered a great deal to voters. The press conference was a way for the president to be calm, assertive, knowledgeable, decisive, presidential.
Luckily for the press, this wasn't a one-sided deal. In return for offering a potentially flattering platform to public officials, press conferences gave reporters an opportunity to ask prodding, uncomfortable questions, catch their subject in a lie, and try and best represent the views and concerns of reading/viewing public. The press corps got to play the part of the loyal (and rarely not-so-loyal) opposition. Press conferences became an elaborate game of one-up-man-ship, a quid pro quo arrangement which allowed democracy's major players to look good doing their jobs.
This isn't to say they were suddenly no longer a means to hold public officials accountable, but any actual truth to emerge was accidental to the main event: the Performance.
These Performances were, for a long time, justified because they still ostensibly provided the public with valuable information and kept public officials accountable. For a long time the media were still regarded as Fourth Estate, the last line of accountability from those in power. But with the increasing politicization and stratification of news organizations in a digital age of self-publication and live news, public trust in the media is eroding, and with it, respect for the purpose and importance of the presser.
Take for example the recent drugs scandal in Toronto involving the mayor. Large scrums of reporters insist on repeatedly asking him questions on drugs allegations they know he will not answer, and then report on this failure as "news." This makes for okay television perhaps, but doesn't have any purpose except to let partisans on either side draw their own obvious conclusions ("They mayor isn't giving the liberal media the time of day," "He's stonewalling because he's guilty"). Increasingly, the actual reporting takes place on the sidelines with an army of unnamed sources, an indication that many in power don't feel any compulsion anymore to give honest answers to reporters.
In football, or sports in general, the press conference is even more removed from its original purpose. Witness Jose Mourinho's performance today. A handful of accredited journalists attend and "live-Tweet" the proceedings in real time. There is little pretense to gleaning any interesting information from the new Chelsea manager, except for a few tidbits on player acquisitions. There are no questions on tactics. Most of the reporters ask about his priorities, his problems at Real Madrid, his ability to work with Abramovich again.
Mourinho's answers don't exactly jump from the page. When he first arrived at Chelsea, he called himself the Special One. Now he calls himself the "Happy One." RT, please. How does he feel returning to a club from which he was sacked by Roman Abramovich? Well no, Mou says, he wasn't sacked. His priority is winning trophies. He will make Chelsea champions again. He won't play favourites with his former players. He will try to help out John Terry. He regrets not being able to face Sir Alex Ferguson once more. He didn't damage Spanish football. He selected the players he wanted at Real Madrid based on merit.
The banal answers to broad questions didn't matter though, because the press conference was really about celebrating/denigrating Mourinho's personality. One reporter wrote that his "bravado" was "toned down," and "the swagger subdued." Another pointed out how he made a point of repeating he was "very calm" and "very relaxed." The obvious subtext here is whether Mourinho can maintain 'self-control' or work on "repairing" his relationship with Roman Abramovich (the man who just hired him as manager), as if these were the things which Chelsea's future success under Mourinho most depended on.
In the end beyond this armchair psychoanalyzing that will be forgotten in a week's time, we learn absolutely nothing. In fact, the entire purpose of the exchange seems obscure. This is sports of course; it's hard to tell most of the time if anyone has anything of interest to say to anyone ever. The logical question here might be, why bother? Surely asking if a manager who's losing games is also "losing the dressing room" is a pointless exercise?
I think the answer is press conferences work best once reporters put off airs and understand that they're an extension of football as entertainment. The tabloid press, with all their earnest, idiotic questions on wives as distractions or the desire to win seem to get this best. Beyond that, the press conference might eventually be transformed into a moment for various reporters to ask incredibly specific questions for their own targeted article, the wider public be damned.
We've reached peak presser, in other words. It's hard to know where we go from here, but anywhere away from the po-faced notion that some public service is being provided by these events would be a good start.


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Reen Doser, left, was among a group that got an opportunity to fly in a 1944 Douglas DC-3 in a flight that began from the Historic Flight Foundation. The trip was a special one for Doser, whose parents both worked on DC-3's. "I was with my mom and dad on a plane that started their lives together," she said of her late parents.
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The sales price on a home isn't the only thing that can affect your pocketbook when you're considering the purchase of a new home. The location can also have a significant effect on both your wallet and your time, which can be even more priceless.
If you're new to the area, or looking to land someplace entirely new, one of your first considerations should be Seattle-side or Eastside? The two areas, traditionally denoted by which side of the 520 floating bridge you're on, should be a big consideration in choosing where you want to live. If you choose to live on one side of the bridge and work on the other, get yourself satellite radio, because you're in for one long commute. Though I-90 is generally less traffic impacted than the 520, it can still be an epic trip to other side. And, though legislators are proposing ways to alleviate this gridlock, don't expect any remedies anytime soon (i.e. 2018) though you could feel the sting of these proposals as soon as next year.
Governor Christine Gregoire has already pitched a plan collect revenues for bridge expansion by turning the 520 and I-90 into toll bridges, suggesting $6-7 as a possible fee. To go back and forth over the bridge for a work commute, this would cost you $12-14/day. In one 20-day work month, that could be $240+. Add that to current gas prices, and you're looking at a pretty penny if you need to cross that bridge for work.
Bottom line, check out the traffic situation between any potential new home and that place that you spend more hours at than your home itself–your place of employment. You should drive the commute during your regular work hours and to establish some real expectations. Consider living on the Eastside if you work on the Eastside, or living on the Seattle-side, if you work on the Seattle-side. Make sense? It probably makes more sense than building a 4 lane bridge across Lake Washington to begin with. In the meantime, our beloved Seattle continues to plunk down more of your change than you realize for traffic and road improvements.
In the meantime, if you work on the Eastside, here are a couple of homes in the Microsoft/Redmond area.
7923 152nd Ave NE
5 br/2.5 ba, 2,650 sq.ft.
Price $844,000
6613 152 Ave NE
4 br/2.5 ba, 2,560 sq.ft.
Price $750,000
6220 145th Ave NE
4 br/2.25 ba, 2,360 sq.ft.
Price $620,000
9110 182nd Ave NE
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More than two decades after exiting the home business, Lord & Taylor has decided that home is where its customer's heart is.
The department store last month unveiled a new 21,000-square-foot home department on the ninth floor of its flagship store on New York's Fifth Avenue, part of a massive store-wide renovation that reportedly cost between $20 and $25 million.
The department store chain decided to re-enter the home business based on what it perceived to be a void in its business, said Barbara Zinn-Moore, general merchandise manager. The store had carried only a small assortment of tabletop gift items in recent years. "We saw it as a big opportunity for the future to go back into [the home] business," she told HFN.
Lord & Taylor's new approach to home differs from its past with an almost exclusive use of the shop concept and its presentation within a lifestyle environment. Lauren Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein, two of Lord & Taylor's strongest brands, account for the majority of floor space. Lauren Ralph Lauren occupies 45 percent of the floor with its shop-within-a-shop that offers furniture, bedding, bath, tabletop, gifts and lighting. Calvin Klein's lifestyle shop, which marks the debut of the brand's fully dedicated lifestyle space in New York City, takes up 30 percent of the floor; its offerings span furniture, bed and bath, down, rugs and tabletop and giftware. The remaining floor space is devoted to the retailer's gourmet food offerings (primarily chocolate) and seasonal merchandise. During the fall, the trim-a-home shop will share space on the ninth floor.
There are currently no plans to carry other home furnishings vendors, Zinn-Moore said. Lauren Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein are important names to the people who shop Lord & Taylor, according to Zinn-Moore. They are strong brands across every category, "so home seemed a natural fit for our customers. The product and price points are exactly what we think our customers are looking for."
"Calvin Klein home is a business with strong growth potential for our brand and we are pleased to join forces with Lord & Taylor and be a part of their re-entry into the home arena," said Tom Murry, president and chief executive officer of Calvin Klein, Inc. "The new Calvin Klein lifestyle home shop within Lord & Taylor gives us a beautiful platform to communicate our complete lifestyle vision to our consumer."
Calvin Klein's shop will feature the latest introductions in its furniture line, which the company describes as "inspired by urban living with unique designer details, generously proportioned to scale with bold clean lines and soft edges."
Lord & Taylor's home floor will have 19 Lauren Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein display beds and six fully set tables featuring dinnerware, stemware, flatware and placemats. The floor will be "heavily" staffed with employees well-versed in home and gifts, and associates are attending "immersion training" in both brands, according to Lord & Taylor.
The department is presented in a lifestyle format in which all the categories are shown together as they would in a real home. There are no individual fixtures for sheets and towels, or walls of china. This merchandising strategy, Zinn-Moore said, helps differentiate Lord & Taylor from other department stores. "In one location we're selling all facets of home in one place," she said. "We think it's easier for our customers to shop."
Bentley Hardwick, vice president, managing director Calvin Klein Home, said Lord & Taylor's approach helps cement the Calvin Klein outlook. "We've always been a big proponent of sharing Calvin Klein in a lifestyle format," she said. "It makes it exciting and appealing to consumers."
Lord & Taylor is selling the same home goods featured in its store on its website and has plans to expand the home concept to a few other stores in the spring, according to Zinn-Moore. It will evaluate the program to determine its roll-out strategy, she added.
It's too early to say how much money the home store will generate for Lord & Taylor, but Zinn-Moore believes it has significant potential. "The customer votes at the end of the day," she said. "She will determine how big the business will be. We're optimistic that it's a nice opportunity for us."


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