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Friday, March 17, 2006
Russell Stover Cream Eggs
One of the candies of Easter that has always scared me has been the Russell Stover Cream Egg. Of course this all goes back to traumatic childhood experiences where I would get excited when my mother or grandmother would allow me a piece of candy from their fancy box of chocolates. I was allowed to pick only one, of course, and I always picked the foulest things (to my young palate). The Cream Eggs looked like a huge tease - all flash and style and no substance. I didn't realize until I took this assignment that I was very wrong.
The unlikely first candidate was the Strawberry Cream Egg. It's a milk chocolate egg with a frothy strawberry cream with real strawberry seeds! Kind of latexy looking filling, but it smells nice. Sweet, but with a nice smooth and fluffy consistency. The chocolate is good quality and not too sweet for the filling. The center is rather bland, I wasn't detecting a lot of "strawberry" flavor to it. For my first try, this wasn't bad. I think I'd prefer it with dark chocolate.
Next was the Coconut Cream Egg, which I expected this to be much too sweet. Just looking at it, it seemed to be more froth than coconut substance. I'm a huge fan of Mounds bars, and this is no Mounds bar. But putting aside the comparisons, it's not too sweet, it's fluffy and has really good coconut flavor without being oily. The dark chocolate provides the proper bittersweet balance to the whole thing. There were ample coconut bits in there, but not dense enough to make it chewy. These were pretty cheap when I picked them up, so if they're even MORE on sale after the holiday, I might lay in a stock of them.
(Note: my camera ceased to function during this photoshoot, so you'll just have to imagine a picture of a dark chocolate cream egg with a beige cream filling in this position.)
Finally there was the Maple Cream Egg, which is a dark chocolate egg with a whipped maple cream center. No maple trees were harmed in the creation of this treat as no maple ingredients were mentioned on the label. The maple flavor actually had a good woodsy quality to it, not just the high sweet notes. It reminded me more of pecan, but that's a good flavor, too! Sweet, mellow and creamy, this is much better than I expected it to be. The understated bitterness of the dark chocolate really held this one together.
I have to thank the readers for suggesting these, I had no idea they were so fresh tasting. I was expecting a solid and bland fondant but instead it was quite a treat. Given a choice, I think I'll always go for the dark chocolate ones. There are a few I didn't try ... and now I'm looking forward to finding the coconut nests. There's a huge assortment of flavors too, I didn't see them all at the Rite Aid where I picked these up, but they also have a large number of "sugar free" varieties as well ... I'm not willing to try them myself, but if someone else can chime in on whether or not their good, they might make a nice treat for diabetic or dieting friends.
They're also pretty satisfying as a single treat goes and because they're mostly fluffed sugar, they're much lower in calories than an all-chocolate candy, ranging from 130 to 150 calories for a single egg. If they don't sell them near you, the web price for these nuggets by the case is pretty good, only $.49 cents per egg. I wish they sold a sampler case that had two of each in it. I'd really like to try the Pecan/Caramel one.
Wednesday, March 15, 2006
Cadbury Eggs: Creme & Caramel
One of the best things about the Cadbury Creme eggs is the commercial campaign they used to have. It was a white bunny that would cluck like a chicken and leave behind the eggs. The voice over, I believe, was done by Mason Adams who also did the Smuckers commercials. Of course, I loved bunnies (I even had two as a child) so it gave me a special fondness for the idea of the Cadbury Creme Eggs.
For those of you who are new to Planet Earth, a Cadbury Creme Egg is a milk chocolate shell in the shape of an egg filled with a fondant creme of two different colors - the outer layer is white and the inner glob is yellow (so they say).
The reality of Cadbury Creme Eggs is radically different. First, they never look like the commercials or ads. I've pulled apart a lot of Cadbury Creme Eggs in my life, and I've never found a glossy yellow yolk in the center. What I find is a dark patch in the white fondant. So all nostalgia and effective advertising aside, I have never been pleased by eating one. They're too sweet. I've tried eating just the chocolate, but what's the point in that? It's just really sticky, the fondant doesn't have enough flavor to it, or fat to give it a buttery consistency that I might enjoy. I'm not saying that these aren't spectacular candies, but I really detest them.
While the Creme Egg has no non-Easter counterpart, the Caramel Egg does. This is a Caramello bar on steroids, a caramel mega-blister, a huge bubble of salty, flowing caramel inside a sweet, chocolate shell. Just as I discussed the aspects of ratio with the Reese's Eggs, I don't think that the Caramello bar can withstand so much tinkering with ratios. However, I liked this egg quite a bit more than the Creme Egg ... what I probably should have done is buy some of the mini-eggs, which might have a more satisfying ratio to them. (I'll probably pick them up at the after-Easter sales.)
I think that these are great candies ... for people other than me. I'm not going to dish them the way I did with the Bunny Basket Eggs ... Cadbury Creme Eggs are a valid confectionery expression, just not one I'm capable of throwing my support towards. However, I would be very disappointed if they went away. I like seeing them, and I like the fact that they have so many fervent fans.
For more positive poetic waxings on the subject of Cadbury Creme Eggs, visit X-Entertainment or see the Writers and Artists Snacking at Work page devoted to the ovoids.
UPDATE: Cadbury has introduced the Cadbury Orange Creme Egg for Easter 2007.
UPDATED UPDATE: This review from 2006 documents the weight of the egg at 1.38 ounces. The 2007 eggs are 1.2 ounces.
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Reese's Eggs
The standard of Easter themed "regular" candies has been the Reese's egg for quite a while in my mind. It's not really that different from a Reese's Peanut Butter cup, yet it is.
The Reese's egg has naked sides. Instead of sitting all snuggled in a cup with fluted sides to keep it protected, the Reese's egg sits there on a little flimsy tray. And when you pull it out of its wrapper, you can see the whole thing, with no little bits and flecks lost during the unwrapping.
One of the things that's different about the Egg is that it's slightly skewed in the proportion of chocolate to peanut butter that we're used to in the regular cup. Just look at how much of that is peanut butter. Reese's peanut butter is interesting too. It's slightly cool on the tongue and a little dry. It crumbles in the mouth and dissolves as well as melts. It has a good hit of salt, which makes the milk chocolate coating seem all the sweeter and smoother.
I'll admit that there are some people who prefer a smoother peanut butter in their cups, but I like the crumbly texture that includes the bitty bits of nuts in it.
The Reese's Eggs are nothing like the Hershey's Eggs, except that they're egg-shaped. These are little foil wrapped chocolate eggs filled with the Reese's peanut butter found in the Peanut Butter cups. Honestly, I was worried that I'd end up with the stuff that's inside Reese's Pieces.
I'm not sure how they make these, but it appears that they create a half-shell of an egg and fill it with the peanut butter and then join it with another half-shell. There's a bit of a void in the center of most of the ones I ate (and I ate quite a few just to see).
The proportions on this variety of Reese's egg are probably one to one on the chocolate and peanut butter. The shell is very thick and with the void there's not that much peanut butter in there. The combination in the mouth is nice, again, the salty hit and crumbly texture of the peanut butter blends well with the sweet and creamy milk chocolate. The chocolate shell feels just slightly oily to the touch, I'm not sure if it's because some of the eggs seeped a bit of their peanut oil or they make them that way so they'll come out of their molds ... or maybe it's because I'm used to eating things sealed with carnauba wax.
I like both versions. Aesthetically I think I prefer the little foil wrapped ones, they're easier to share and of course save some for later. I haven't tried freezing them (I like my Reese's Miniatures frozen) but I imagine they'll do very well. These are definitely on my list of items to pick up on sale after the holiday. I think what's interesting is that these plus the original Peanut Butter cup and the miniatures demonstrate what a difference proportion makes, even when you have, basically, two ingredients.
UPDATE 4/7/2009: Hershey's has changed the formula on this classic egg. Not only that, there are several versions lurking in stores. There are packages like that reviewed above that say Milk Chocolate Reese's Egg and then there are others that just say Reese's Egg that may or may not have a real chocolate shell.
The new ingredients indicated that they're really not chocolate (I know, the photo looks like all the other photos, but trust me, this is what the reverse says):
Peanuts, sugar, dextrose, vegetable oil (cocoa butter, palm, shea, sunflower and/or safflower oil), chocolate, nonfat milk, contains 2% or less of milk fat, lactose, salt, whey, partially hydrogenated vegetable oil, corn syrup, soy lecithin, cornstarch, glycerin, TBHQ & PGPR, vanillin.
They look a little flatter than the milk chocolate eggs (labeled or not). As for the taste, well, this one seemed really salty to me, but maybe that's what happens when I have peanut butter eggs for breakfast. (Hey, eggs are a breakfast food!)
The mockolate coating wasn't bad, it wasn't any worse looking than the current eggs. It has a similar melt and cool feeling on the tongue, it's sweet but I didn't taste any milky component to it.
I still don't know what's going on. I don't know why they've have both on the market at the same time, why they'd make two versions and ruin something that was perfectly good and perfect. As for the ruining part, well, they're not that bad but I'm not fond of eating palm oil when I could be eating cocoa butter. Read more about it here.
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Monday, March 13, 2006
Hershey Eggs
For a while Hershey's made a candy-shelled chocolate candy called Hershey-ets. They're still produced at Christmas and sold in inside little ornaments or plastic cane-shaped tubes, but they're not a regular product. Then came Hershey's Kissables. While they're a wonderful addition to the Hershey's line, they're still not the same as Hershey's Eggs. Like Cadbury Mini Eggs, these are an Easter Only Item.
There are a lot of egg shaped candies this time of year, and just calling something Hershey's Eggs seems like a poorly differentiated name. But candy lovers know what we're talking about. Forget that the packaging probably hasn't change much in twenty years ... these are just a jolt of chocolate wrapped in hard sugar.
Hershey's Eggs have it all going on. It's a large egg of chocolate, bigger than the size of an M&M Peanut. They come in lovely pastel shades of blue, yellow, pink and green. The shells are thick and hard, and give each candy a rather substantial feel. They're solid milk chocolate and each Egg weighs the same as a single Hershey's Kiss (really! I checked). The shells are super-thick and crunch but often I find that my shells have cracks in them. As I don't think you can get salmonella from chocolate eggs, I don't reject the broken-shelled ones as I would with a carton of chicken eggs. I do find that I'm not able to cleave off the shell with my teeth like I can with an M&M, but the different type of crunch is wholly satisfying. If someone is eating these near you, unless they're suckers, you're gonna know it.
Where the bag of Cadbury Mini Eggs smells like sugar and milk, the Hershey's Eggs smell like chocolate. That tangy milk chocolate from Pennsylvania that you either love or hate. Fortunately there's enough room in my heart to give both Hershey's Eggs and Cabury Mini Eggs a ten. And of course I'll proceed to stock up on these when Easter is over.
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Cadbury Mini Eggs
Many other holiday candies are just different packaging for regular candies. Really, what's so Christmassy about red and green M&Ms or Peppermint Patties in red and green foil? Cadbury Mini Eggs stand as one of those candies that aren't sold any other time of year and as much as I'd like them to be, I treasure them when I see them in a way that I might not if they were as ubiquitous as M&Ms (whatever color they might be).
Cadbury Mini Eggs are unique. While there are plenty of other candy covered chocolates ala M&Ms, the Hershey's Eggs, Kissables, Jots and other imitators. There's nothing else like the Mini Eggs, Cadbury doesn't make a candy covered chocolate bean. They're even oddly shaped, irregular, more like little rounded cones than eggs, they're just such satisfying shapes.
What sets them apart from other chocolate candies at this time of years, first and foremost, is that they contain Cadbury chocolate. Cadbury is rather milky tasting, and certainly very sweet. Then it's all cloaked in this amazingly odd slightly sanded, matte shell. The shell is crunchy and has slightly cool feel in the mouth. You can dissolve it away to get to the chocolate centers, or you can crunch the whole thing together for a sweeter burst.
The colors are even a little less common. Because of the matte finish the yellow, pink, blue and white morsels look like chunks of colored chalk and even have a slightly chalky feel when you first put them in your mouth.
Here's the big surprise, when I turned them over to see where they were made it said "manufactured by Hershey Foods Corp under license from Cadbury, Ltd." How long has that been going on? Um, since 1988 ... jeeze, shows you how much I pay attention!
UPDATE: New for 2007! Cadbury Royal Dark Mini Eggs ... hmm.
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Friday, March 10, 2006
Pearson's Buns
I've ignored these bars for years. Well, they're not really bars, they're lumps. Maybe that's why I avoided them, they're just plops, like something you'd make at home.
I can't say that I see them very often, but after the pleasant Pearson's Salted Nut Roll experience, I thought I would give these a try. So what is a Bun? It's a nut and milk chocolate patty filled with a white fudge/fondant (vanilla or maple) or caramel. The Bun bar was originally made by Wayne Bun Candy Company back in the 1920s, which was based, oddly enough in Fort Wayne, Indiana. Later the bar was bought by Clark of Pittsburgh (the Clark bar) but when Clark was ailing they sold the Bun rights off to Pearson's in 1998, which only makes sense as Pearson's was already known for their high protein Salted Nut Roll.
The version that appealed to me most was the caramel, so I'll start with it. The nuts are whole (or halves, actually) so they provide a huge boost of texture to the sweet milk chocolate. The center is a thick and soft caramel. The whole bar doesn't smell like peanuts or caramelized sugar, instead it smells like coconut. It also has a tangy quality to it that I can't quite put my finger on that kind of ruined the experience. It's salty, but not quite in the right balance.
The chocolate on this one was glossier and I have to say, when it's fresh, it's a rather handsome looking candy plop. This one has the requisite nut and chocolate smell. The vanilla center is sweet and has a nice vanilla flavor (part artificial and part natural). The peanuts keep the whole thing from being too sweet. It's not a bar I would buy again, but I appreciate that when it first came out, as a combination bar it's filling and interesting.
What kind of confuses me about the whole history of the Bun and Pearson's is that they already have a candy similar to this, called the Nut Goodie. The Nut Goodie came on the market a good ten years earlier than the Bun Maple, yet Pearson's still continues to make this regional favorite. (I'll need to get a hold of one and do a comparison.) Anyway, this is definitely the highlight of the Bun line. The center on this is a maple fudge. It's smooth and soft and has a microfine crystalline structure that melts quickly in the mouth and mingles well with the nuts and milk chocolate. It's quite a bit saltier tasting than the Vanilla one, but I think that's what makes the flavors pop. Of the three, this is the one that was consumed first. I suspect that these are the hardest to find of the three varieties, so I can't bump up the whole rating for the line.
If you're looking for Pearson's candy, look no further than their affiliate website. You have to buy in whole boxes, but their prices are excellent (less than $.65 a bar) and they offer assortments of Pearson's and even retro candy boxes that include Rocky Road, GooGoo Clusters and Moon Pies.
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Thursday, March 9, 2006
Milky Way Crispy Rolls
Our friend Matt (the one who brought back the Olympics candy) also picked up a great assortment of mass-market candy bars and I'm going to try to sprinkle those into the CandyBlog.net repertoire in the next few weeks.
This Milky Way bar is nothing like any Mars product here in the States. Each little stick is a tube ala Pirouline but instead of being hollow, these have a wonderful buttercream filling. Then the whole thing is dipped in chocolate. They smell sweet and milky, like walking into an ice cream parlor.
The chocolate is very sweet, but smooth, with that European milk taste. The cookie shell is crispy and flaky with lots of micro thin layers. It tastes like a fantastic ice cream cone. The cream center is firm but still soft. It's buttery smooth without any graininess to the sugar. There was no English ingredients list, but my German and my tongue is good enough to recognize hydrogenated oils.
Again, here's a tasty little morsel that you just can't get in the States and sometimes I wonder why. The package is a scant 25 grams, so even though it's very high in calories per ounce, the package only has 130 total calories for the two fingers (about 150 per ounce, much less than a pure chocolate bar). Even though they look delicate, I got them in perfect condition, unbroken and unsmashed.
Note: Milky Way in Europe is actually what we know of as Three Musketeers in the United States - it's a fluffy nougat covered in milk chocolate.
Wednesday, March 8, 2006
See's Peanut Brittle Bar
See's recently moved into the "candy bar" arena with their Awesome collection. They're candy bars you can buy singly at their stores or in boxes of eight bars. They're a buck a piece and prepackaged and a pretty good deal for a premium candy bar (unlike Lake Champlain's 5 Star line).
See's packaged an old favorite, peanut brittle into a compact bar and covered it with chocolate. It's less of a nut brittle and more of a toffee though, in my opinion, but the recipe is absolutey for brittle (baking soda being the operative ingredient).
The bar is a little tiny, at only one ounce, it's a little less of a candy bar than I'm used to. But the whole peanuts and salty brittle is a really great combination. It tastes really salty, but when I checked the sodium content, it's not really any different than any other standard nut candy bar like a Reese's or Snickers. The milk chocolate coating is sweet and smooth. The bar crunches and flakes easily with a slight foamy texture (that's brittle for you). I liked the bar, but it's not going to knock the Awesome Nut & Chew bar from that top spot in my mind.
I'm glad See's created some more portable versions of their best candies. I'm just waiting for a Scotchmallow version in dark chocolate. I read in Los Angeles Magazine that the candy bars were actually created by the workers at the factory, who had been making them with short ends for themselves and as gifts when the corporate folks decided it was a really good idea. I know it sounds odd, but for dieters, these could be a good option. The bars are smaller than standard candy bars (this one is an ounce, the Nut & Chew and Walnut Brittle are 1.5 ounces) so you can feel indulgent without being tempted by a full box of mixed chocolates. I'm a firm believer in giving yourself what you crave, in moderation. Because there are a lot of nuts in all versions they're very filling (the protein and all).
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Southern California — home to Disneyland, the mother of all amusement parks — welcomed a new attraction this month. But this theme park has no Mickey Mouse or roller coasters and is housed inside a mall instead of spread out over a swath of space.
For water, it's still Chinatown, Jake
To help prepare myself for the water series we've been running, I went to the movies. Or brought home a DVD, anyway. I rented "Chinatown," the fictional 1974 Roman Polanski movie with Jack Nicholson and Faye Dunaway, which is all about the growth of Los Angeles and the search/theft for water.
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See as if for the first time a beauteous person or an ordinary object.
Some basic things first; then you can do this technique. We look at things always with old eyes. You come to your home; you look at it without looking at it. You know it - there is no need to look at it. You have entered it again and again for years together. You go to the door, you enter the door; you may unlock the door. But there is no need to look.
This whole process goes on robot-like, mechanically, unconsciously. If something goes wrong, only if your key is not fitting into the lock, then you look at the lock. If the key fits, you never look at the lock. Because of mechanical habits, repeatedly doing the same thing again and again, you lose the capacity to look; you lose the freshness to look. Really, you lose the function of your eyes - remember this. You become basically blind, because eyes are not needed.
Remember the last time you looked at your wife. The last time you looked at your wife or at your husband may have been years ago. For how many years have you not looked? You just pass, giving a casual glimpse, but not a look. Go again and look at your wife or at your husband as if you were looking for the first time. Why? Because if you are looking for the first time, your eyes will be filled with a freshness. They will become alive.
You are passing through a street, and a beautiful woman passes. Your eyes become alive - lighted. A sudden flame comes to them. This woman may be a wife to someone. He will not look at her; he may become as blind as you have become seeing your wife. Why? For the first time eyes are needed, the second time not so much, and the third time they are not needed. After a few repetitions you become blind. We live blindly.
Be aware. When you meet your children, are you looking at them? You are not looking at them. This habit kills the eyes; the eyes become bored - repeatedly there is the old again and again. And nothing is old really, it is just that your habit makes you feel that it is so. Your wife is not the same as she was yesterday, she cannot be; otherwise she is a miracle. Nothing can be the same the next moment. Life is flux, everything is flowing, nothing is the same.
The same sunrise will not happen again. In a sense also, the sun is not the same. Every day it is new; basic changes have occurred. And the sky will not be the same again; this morning is not going to come again. Every morning has its own individuality, and the sky and the colors, they will not gather in the same pattern again. But you go on moving as if everything is just the same.


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old navy jeans ALWAYS give me camel toe. so unflattering.
i can't believe this woman had a show
there's no way in hell that's really cody.
am i the only one who has never heard of jane the virgin?
You're both quite social and always game to try something new, making parts of your relationship pretty effortless and nothing short of exciting. You have the most fun when you're traveling together because you're both obsessed with having unique experiences — and neither one of you is the type to just stay in a hotel. Together, you always overcome boredom. lol forever. we hate socializing and i'm always bored.
what do you expect? she's never been to school!
her lips are 100% fake. you can't fake a bottom lip that big, it looks swollen.
the cat lady or cat woman or something. she looked like a cat. what's weird is that she still has signs of aging, like wrinkles around the eyes and mouth…but her nose looks weird and so do her lips.
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Under 10 U.S.C. 2466, the military departments and defense agencies can use no more than 50 percent of annual depot maintenance funding for work performed by private-sector contractors. The Department of Defense (DOD) must submit a report to Congress annually on the division of depot maintenance funding between the public and private sectors during the preceding fiscal year and projected distribution for the current and ensuing fiscal years. As required, GAO reviewed the report submitted in April 2005 and is, with this report, submitting its views to Congress on whether (1) the military departments complied with the "50-50 requirement" for fiscal year 2004 and (2) the projections for fiscal years 2005 and 2006 represent reasonable estimates. Additionally, GAO is assessing whether the data currently provided in DOD's annual 50-50 report are useful to Congress in exercising its oversight role.
As in previous years, systemic weaknesses in DOD's financial systems and persistent deficiencies in 50-50 data reporting processes continue to prevent GAO from determining whether the military departments complied with the 50-50 requirement for public- and private-sector depot maintenance funding allocations for fiscal year 2004. Persistent deficiencies, such as inadequate management attention and review to ensure accurate and complete reporting, limited independent review and validation of data by audit services or other third parties, and inadequate training for those responsible for data gathering and reporting, continue to limit the quality of the 50-50 data submitted to Congress. GAO's previous reports over the last 7 years identified similar problems and recommended corrective actions, but DOD and the military services have failed to consistently implement corrective actions sufficient to resolve the deficiencies and alleviate data accuracy problems. The recurring nature of these problems indicates a management control weakness as defined under the Federal Managers' Financial Integrity Act. Reported projections do not represent reasonable estimates of public- and private-sector depot maintenance funding allocations for fiscal years 2005 through 2006 because some data errors and omissions in DOD's prior-year report are carried into the projected years. It is difficult to project out-year data due to factors such as changing depot maintenance requirements, the ongoing consolidation of maintenance facilities, and the trend toward more contractor logistics support for new and existing weapon systems. Although DOD's current 50-50 report to Congress satisfies the annual mandate, it lacks additional detail that might be useful to Congress as it exercises its oversight role. The report currently submitted by DOD contains data that are aggregated at a high level and provides no analysis of changes from the prior years or long-term trends. The report also does not identify actual funding and workload distribution variances from year to year, nor explain the reasons behind them. Furthermore, it does not contain information as to the methodologies used to prepare the current and future year projections.
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Status: Closed - Implemented
Comments: While Congress has not amended the annual 50-50 reporting requirement as we recommended, it has been reevaluating the 50-50 reporting requirement as an oversight tool. Specifically, the Senate Report on the National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2008 required GAO to review and make recommendations regarding the reports, assessments, analyses, and documents used for determining the compliance of DOD and the military departments with the 50-50 percentage limitation. The committee expressed particular interest in learning whether there are better methods than the current system for meeting its oversight responsibilities of DOD compliance with the 50-50 requirement. In response to the Senate Report, we issued a briefing document in May 2008 (GAO-08-761R).
Matter: If Congress determines, for oversight purposes, that improvements are needed in the reliability and usefulness of DOD's annual report on depot maintenance funding allocations, Congress may wish to require the Secretary of Defense to enhance its annual 50-50 report to Congress as stated in our recommendations. Specifically, this enhanced reporting should include (1) variance analyses of significant changes in depot maintenance workload allocations from the prior year's report and the reasons for these variances; (2) analysis of historical workload allocation trends; (3) explanation of the methodologies used to estimate workload allocation projections; and (4) plans to ensure continued compliance with the 50-50 requirement, including the identification of decisions on new weapon systems maintenance workload sourcing that could be made to support remaining within the 50 percent threshold. Additionally, the enhanced reporting should address the corrective actions DOD is taking to improve the persistent deficiencies we have identified in DOD's 50-50 data reporting processes.
Recommendations for Executive Action
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: DOD partially concurred with this recommendation, stating that systemic changes to the 50-50 reporting process had already been made in response to previous recommendations. On the basis of this response, we recommended to Congress that it require DOD to report annually on corrective actions taken to address persistent deficiencies we had identified in 50-50 reporting.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Defense, in future accountability reports, should disclose a management control weakness in DOD's 50-50 data reporting processes along with planned corrective actions to improve management control in (1) management review, attention, and policies sufficient to ensure accurate and complete 50-50 reporting; and (2) independent review and validation of 50-50 data by service audit agencies or other third parties, with auditor-identified data inaccuracies corrected prior to submission of the annual report to Congress; and (3) annual training on 50-50 policies and procedures for all individuals participating in data gathering and reporting.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
Status: Closed - Not Implemented
Comments: DOD, in partially concurring with this recommendation, stated that producing this type of information would require a massive undertaking and may be of limited value. We disagreed, and on the basis of DOD's response added a matter for Congressional consideration suggesting that Congress require the Secretary of Defense to enhance the department's annual 50-50 report as stated in this recommendation.
Recommendation: The Secretary of Defense should enhance DOD's annual 50-50 report submitted to Congress. This enhanced reporting should include (1) variance analyses that identify significant changes in depot maintenance workload allocations from the prior year's report and the reasons for these variances; (2) analysis of historical trends in depot maintenance workload allocations; (3) explanation of the methodologies used to estimate workload allocation projections for the current and ensuing fiscal years; and (4) the military departments' plans to ensure continued compliance with the 50-50 requirement, including the identification of decisions on new weapon systems maintenance workload sourcing that could be made to support remaining within the 50 percent threshold.
Agency Affected: Department of Defense
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Nicki Bluhm is a rock-and-roll natural. She's disarmingly sincere in an age of market-fueled, machine-driven divas—a pure voice singing broadly appealing tunes with a stellar, meat-and-potatoes-satisfying, road-sharpened band at her back.
"I have no training and I didn't go to music school," says Bluhm. "I came into making music totally cold. I'm hanging on tight to the reins, hoping I can keep a good handle on everything." She laughs at the metaphor.
Bluhm decided to embrace her musical calling in 2007 and, egged on by husband/producer Tim Bluhm (The Mother Hips), she's been steadily evolving since—sculpting a song-centric, rootsy and immediate sound that harks back to the 1970s but does so with modern twists.
"Once I got a taste of it, I fell in love," says Bluhm. "Now, to think of my life without music is almost as intense and shocking as it was when I first started doing this. I'm glad my life took this path. I'm on tour with my best friends and my husband. What's not to like about that?"
Years of increasingly heavy touring, including gigs with bands like Gov't Mule and crowd-sparking appearances at major festivals like Bonnaroo, Newport Folk and The Hangout, have developed Bluhm and her group The Gramblers into a true band. Yet, her recently released third album Nicki Bluhm and The Gramblers is the first studio effort to reflect the San Francisco-based group's shared mission.
"This is the first record that we didn't use many outside musicians on," says Bluhm. "It's a Gramblers record and reflective of how we are now and what our live shows are like. It's a labor of love and we all feel incredibly lucky to be in a position in our lives to pour 100 percent of our desire, faith and inspiration into this. It's not often where you have eight people—including our crew—willing to work their asses off and make no money to play the lottery to do what we love."
The album showcases Bluhm's charmingly untutored style as well as the musicianship and songwriting talents of The Gramblers—Deren Ney (guitar), Dave Mulligan (guitar, harmonies), ALO's Steve Adams (bass, harmonies), Mike Curry (drums) and Tim Bluhm (the band's musical director, frequent keyboardist and harmony foil). Leadoff single "Little Too Late" has the saucy infectiousness of Bonnie Raitt's "Something to Talk About" and B-side "Ravenous" could be a lost Stevie Nicks gem. Yet none of this is mimicry; The Gramblers simply truck in the same style of sturdy, populist-wooing fare.
"Comparisons get drawn because you physically resemble somebody or you dress like somebody, but I get compared to people I wish I sounded like," chuckles Bluhm. "I don't sound anything like Linda Ronstadt. I don't have her way of belting or Bonnie Raitt's rasp, but it's an easy comparison to draw because aesthetically, I remind people of them. They're definitely influences and I adore them but I don't sound like them—even though I wish I did! At some point, you have to find your own style, like it or not, and I am what I am."
Bluhm says the band studies great performers—past and present. "To witness a master like Paul McCartney [at Outside Lands] is a magical thing," she says. "It's not trying too hard, it's not too showy and it's personable. We're all building our own history and learning how to best convey that as musicians. I hope I gleaned some tricks from [McCartney], or at least some of his charm rubbed off on me." She laughs heartily again.
This past August, Bluhm made a guest appearance at the post-Outside Lands SuperJam with Dumpstaphunk and John Oates, who first took notice of The Gramblers after a video of the band covering Hall & Oates' "I Can't Go for That" in their tour van went viral. (The video, which currently has more than two million YouTube views, was part of the "Van Sessions," which also yielded popular takes of George Michael's "Faith" and Funkadelic's "Can You Get To That.") And she's also collaborated with other Bay Area luminaries like Phil Lesh and Boz Scaggs.
But as the band's new self-titled release indicates, this is thoroughly a group effort.
"I couldn't do this without them," Bluhm insists. "I started out as a solo artist and that lasted about two weeks. I hated it and it was so scary. To do it with my boys, well, there's no going back. We have a shared sense of mission and great group camaraderie. It's all about the music and there's a vibe with this group of people that couldn't happen alone. Our goal is to make music that will last and stand the test of time."
Saw Nicki and the Gramblers in Sacramento recently and love all the songs on their new cd. Wishing them continued success and hope to see them all soon in Northern California.
I've been following this awesome lady, who first inspired me to do music full time after seeing Nicki's first CD release party at Cafe Du Nord back in 2008. As a fellow musician, I look up to this band as a big sister following the path that is exhilarating, but not always easy, while staying true to their identity! Now they're headed to Europe!CONGRATS!


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Penn State Basketball / Re: Recruiting« on: Yesterday at 06:45 PM »
QuoteJosh Verlin @jmverlin 16m16 minutes ago
Hershey (Pa.)/Team Final 2015 PF Dylan Painter tells me he's been offered by Penn State.
He's 2016 though, not 2015
Guess the staff feels he's capable already. I'd be shocked if PSU doesn't close this one sooner than later.


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Watershed Systems Robert Curry, Ph.D., P.G. Hydrology - Geology - Soil Science 600 Twin Lanes, Soquel, Calif. 95073 831 426-6131; FAX 426-9604; email@example.com field: 760 932-7700 January 21, 2007 Thomas Lippe, Esq Law Offices of Thomas N. Lippe 329 Bryant Street, Suite 3D San Francisco, CA 94107 RE: Upper Range Vineyard Draft EIR of December, 2006 SCH # 2006022132 Dear Mr. Lippe: You have asked me to evaluate the geologic and hydrologic sections of the dEIR for the Rodgers – Upper Range vineyard conversion in Napa County. I have coordinated with Dennis Jackson on parts of my response, and concur with his evaluation of the serious shortcomings of the groundwater impacts evaluation in this dEIR. I will briefly address this issue further and then address issues of impacts of increased runoff, increased sediment yield, and cumulative effects on the Napa River, Conn Creek and the Lake Hennessey reservoir. 1. The groundwater Impact evaluation is seriously flawed. The tests were not conducted for a sufficient time or under limiting summer drought conditions to establish that there were no significant reductions in static water tables in adjacent wells. The farther the "monitoring" wells away from the pumped well, the longer the time before a perturbation in water level is recorded. Assuming reasonable permeabilities out on the floodplain and porous alluvial fans, and noting that the single evaluated well on the subject property is much deeper than the domestic wells used as monitoring wells, I would estimate that no effects would be recorded in the most distant monitoring well for on the order of 5 days. The Rodgers well may even be in a totally different aquifer and/or substrate than the other observation wells. A further difficulty is that the single Rodgers well is so far from many of the vineyard blocks that it cannot reasonably serve all the projected water demands. We are not given any details of the design and well log for the primary Rodgers supply well. The testing was done in springtime when active recharge was occurring and the adjacent wells used for monitoring were probably not under significant stress. Basically, the testing was not in accord with fundamental principles of hydrogeological investigation. Further, as pointed out by Jackson, the water balance discussion seems to ignore the fact that the recharge area for the Rodgers supply well is but a small part of the total Rodgers parcel and cannot supply the volume of water proposed in any sustainable fashion. 1 2. The "mechanical contouring" that Martin Trso reports is not described in any fashion that allows us to evaluate its impacts. The "ripping and tilling" that is described to prepare the vineyard blocks and remove stones greater than 4- inches in diameter is apparently different from the mechanical contouring, but I cannot be certain. 3. The site preparation by removing the very numerous stones in the dominant soil types (cf Henneke and Sobrante) is a serious concern. We have argued this case in Napa County vineyard conversions before. My discussions in the 2000 Pahlmeyer Vineyards [Napa Valley Hillside Vineyards] review and the 2001 Suscol Vineyard review should be incorporated herein by reference. The soils and conditions for those prior reports are similar to the Upper Range site under review today. To summarize those issues: a. The Soil Descriptions relied upon for the erosion control and erosion modeling are not adequate or accurate for soils that are ripped to 3 feet depth and raked to remove the stones. The stones armor the soil and have been moved to the surface and near the surface through long geologic time (18,000 to 200,000 years). Volcanic ash deposits that at one time mantled all of the various soil units have been incorporated into the subsoils through frost action, bioturbation, and many other soil processes. These fine grained volcanic materials have weathered to clays and have been washed out of some of the hilltop areas and most steep hillside sites. The photo on the cover of the EIR says it all to the geomorphologist. The surface stones need to be left in place or restored as stone mulch to achieve the projected reductions in erosion as was done at Suscol (South). Those projected estimates are based on the current soil descriptions and soil characteristics. The proposed actions will alter those conditions dramatically. b. The biggest concern that I have is the proposed deep ripping and raking of stone armor and the exposure of silt and clay rich subsoils derived from airfall volcanic ash. While eroding hillslopes may not deliver sediment to watercourses for many years to several decades, it will ultimately be transported by soil creep and sheetwash to the mainstem Napa River and Conn Creek. Short-term snapshots of sediment transport are useful but do not evaluate the long-term impacts of vineyard conversion. Erosion reduces site productivity. This is a one-way street. You cannot return to oak woodland and grazing with the exposed fine grained subsoils until those 10's of thousands of years of accumulation of silt and clay are gone and a stony infertile bedrock remains. Yes, the present land uses are degrading the site and yes, the proposed vineyards may temporarily reverse the current trends. But without retransport of soils from the alluvial fans and rivers to the hilltops in the coming millennia, once we clear the protective stones from the surface soils, we are committed to energy and labor intensive site maintenance in perpetuity. c. Martin Trso argues that much of the proposed vineyard is "disconnected" from watercourses that lead to the Napa River, Conn Creek and Lake Hennessey. He thus discounts erosion from those vineyard blocks. It is important to realize that his approach is based on short-term geologic 2 storage of sediments on- and off-site. By short-term, we mean decades but not millennia. Sediments delivered to vineyards and channels west of Silverado Trail may, indeed, be stored as accumulations of sediment in fields, grasslands, vineyards and drainage channels. Some of the eroded sediments will be deposited on the Rodgers property in low-gradient natural swales, grasslands, and the two on-site reservoirs. These are drainage systems that he considers as topographically isolated from the Napa County watercourses. But this concept is only valid from a short term perspective. d. The proposed northern vineyard blocks drain directly to Conn Creek and thence into the Napa River. There are no low-gradient hillslopes or reservoirs that can temporarily capture sediments. The southeastern vineyard blocks will drain directly into Lake Hennessey. Only the western blocks and some of those near the ridgetop can be considered temporarily "disconnected". Because there is no closed internal drainage, all fine-grained sediments ultimately are discharged west of Silverado Trail or into the temporary North and South Rodgers ponds. Before extensive agricultural development of the Napa Valley floor, the ephemeral gullies carried infrequent runoff from the Rodgers property out onto the Napa River floodplain through small discontinuous gullies and swales. Most of these have been filled in and erased by intensive vineyard development. The culverts still exist under Silverado Trail and the soils eroded from the Rodgers hillsides are now supporting vineyards west of Silverado Trail. But the topographic map of the Valley Floor does not support the Trso contention that there are alluvial fans to capture sediments. For example, look at the drainages below proposed blocks 31-34. The 5-foot dotted contour intervals do not define an alluvial fan than can capture sediments and water from those proposed vineyard blocks. e. Regrading or "mechanical contouring" and ripping and raking the protective stone cover will without doubt release fine-grained sediments from the vineyard blocks despite cover cropping and erosion control to capture those dislodged sediments. You can capture sediments on the property or close to it. But the only topographically "closed" portions of the parcel that can be seen on topographic maps are the two very small reservoirs. Those have limited capture capacity for the coarser sediment fractions only. Fine grained sediments pass directly through them under storm conditions. Even those ponds will fill and need to be emptied periodically, as will the capture capacities of hay bales and check-dams as proposed in the erosion control plans. Unless the sediments are routinely carried back to the specific sites of erosion, net site productivity will decrease. Ultimately, in 20-50 years, the ability to support cover crops declines so much that a new sediment yield equilibrium is reached and the so-called "disconnected" sediment storage sites on hillsides begin to be eroded to the watercourses below. f. This loss of site productivity through erosive loss of subsoils has been observed widely in Europe, and has led to the mandate to preserve surface stones in vineyards and to bring in more stones from the river- beds where they are in short supply. The "stone-mulch" protected 3 vineyards have much longer productivity, higher rainfall infiltration, and reduced sediment yield. The very act of ripping to 2-3 feet depth tears the carefully stratified soils apart. It may lead to short-term grape yield increases, and may facilitate some kinds of mechanized vineyard maintenance, but those gains are lost in 1-2 decades, and wine grape quality is permanently reduced thereafter. This is why smarter growers on the east side of Napa Valley reject the practices proposed for Upper Range. 4. The site is overgrazed and thus provides an opportunity to increase infiltration and reduce runoff as is modeled by HSI and Trso. But simply pulling the 50 cattle off the site would accomplish the same or better sediment reduction, without the need for a complex erosion control system that will demand continuous maintenance for millennia to come. Because the vineyard blocks are widely separated and the slopes are steep, maintenance during a 20-50 year interval intensity rainstorm will be next to impossible. It would require 20-30 people with shovels and emergency erosion control supplies to be on site throughout any intense rainfall. 5. The hydrologic evaluation (p. 3-22 and preceding tables) admits that a 31.5% increase in runoff at the Silverado Trail highway crossing is anticipated. Such a volume will possibly overwhelm any corrective actions that Napa County may have made recently to improve runoff capacity for this often flooded site. This increase is admitted but not considered further. The consequences of such increased runoff to the valley floor include a reduction in carrying capacity for floodwaters crossing Silverado Trail and increased maintenance costs for the County. 6. Unpaved roads will be constructed around the vineyard blocks. These will be seeded but may still be used for tractor and worker access, especially at fall harvest time when soils are dry. The EIR claims that the roads will reduce sediment yield (DEIR p 4.3-7). The reasoning escapes me. Apparently the assumption is that roads will break up sheet flow runoff and guide it to become infiltration. This simply violates all principles of hillslope soil hydrology. The roads comprise a restricted infiltration site surrounding each block that impedes infiltration before the water gets to the vineyard block where infiltration might be enhanced. I believe that this presumption may follow from incomplete use of the RUSLE equations that assume reduced slope lengths correspond to reduced erosion. But, in fact, the peripheral roads increase slope lengths by diverting runoff along the roads and around the vineyard blocks rather than directly down the slopes. The roads are purported to be "disconnected" from watercourses, thus not subject to increased sediment delivery. This, again, belies the short- term philosophical approach of Martin Trso who believes that sediments eroded from a hillside do no damage so long as they do not directly enter watercourses and can be stored indefinitely on the hillsides and in alluvial fans. 7. Cumulative Effects related to soils, sediments and runoff are of two general types, neither of which is adequately evaluated in the dEIR. First, the assimilative capacity of the region to accept increased sediment yield and/or runoff is reduced when the characteristics of the site are changed. For example, the west-flowing drainage ditches that carry runoff today from the Rodgers and adjacent hillsides toward Conn Creek and the Napa River are partly filled with 4 sediment. These must be maintained by the valley-floor landowners and County to carry runoff during times of high rainfall and local flooding. Increased sediment delivery to these drainage systems displaces runoff carrying capacity and leads to greater and longer saturation of the valley floor vineyards, which reduces quality of vines adjacent to these features or sites. Second, as soils erode on the hillside vineyard blocks, the finer silt and clay fractions that cannot be retained by the two ponds or other erosion control methods on-site ultimately reach the Napa River or Lake Hennessey. While the capacity of Lake Hennessey to capture silt and clay is high, the carrying capacity of Conn Creek below the reservoir and the Napa River itself are diminished. The models of sediment yield developed for this project separate the sediments that can be captured (sand and larger sizes) from the clay and fine silt particles that increase turbidity and pass off the Rodgers parcel. Not all of that increased turbidity can be captured in low-gradient hillsides or valley floor vineyards. Ultimately, over long times (centuries) soil creep rates increase to re-equilibrate the sediment transport capacity. This means that, on the hillside sites where runoff may spread out and allow sediments to be captured in vegetation, central controlling gullies ultimately reentrain those sediments in the 80 to 150 year time frame to deliver them to the trunk streams of the Napa River system. The more stone- armored hillsides that are cumulatively converted to unarmored vineyards, the more sediments are temporarily stored on hillsides and the deeper the mantle of soil that is creeping toward watercourses. Thus, ultimately, the more sediment is delivered to the Valley's trunk streams during high-intensity rainfall events of about a 20-year or greater return interval. Stormflow runoff increases cannot all be captured in the two tiny ponds or on the flat valley floor. Many of the hillsides of the present Rodgers parcel are deeply rilled and severely eroded. Conversion to vineyards can reduce sheet- and rill- flow and could lead to increased infiltration. However, subsoil properties are not discussed or demonstrated in the dEIR, so we cannot establish if, and for how long, increased infiltration can decrease storm runoff. Increased infiltration may change the frequency and character of storm flow runoff up to a limiting rainfall intensity. To model post- conversion cumulative hydrologic effects we need more thorough evaluation of post-conversion vineyard block soil hydrology. 8. My overall conclusions are that the draft EIR needs to be reconsidered and that better documentation and reasoning needs to be developed. Water resource demands may require new wells or different levels of application for temporally spaced new vineyard blocks. The implications of removal of surface stones and deep ripping must be modeled in light of the significant changes that such actions will make in soil properties. These changes will alter both the hydrology and sediment yield of the site for very long times (many centuries). These factors will create significant adverse impacts that have either not been evaluated or are not clearly discussed and revealed. Robert R. Curry Registered Professional Geologist 5
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