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Recipe by James Bovy
"Candy-like base, melted chocolate over that with crushed walnuts on top."
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1 cup
1 cup
white sugar
2 tablespoons
1 tablespoon
light corn syrup
3/4 cup
finely chopped walnuts
1 cup
semisweet chocolate chips
1/4 cup
finely chopped walnuts
I experimented with this recipe several times. I found that it worked best for me if I let it reach 300 degrees on my candy thermometer, but I had to stir constantly to keep it from burning. As soon as I removed it from the burner I added 1 1/2 cups of chopped pecans. I poured it onto an ungreased cookie sheet and quickly spread it out as thin as possible. I put five Hershey's chocolate bars on top and evenly spread the chocolate as soon as it melted. It does take the chocolate a long time to harden, so I usually leave the pan for hours before I break the toffee apart. A spatula will lift the candy from the pan and then it breaks apart easily.
This recipe has good proportions, but the method is a little off. Melt the sugar first, let it lightly caramelize, then add the butter. I can see where people were having problems because I had it too; my butter started burning before the sugar could emulsify. You'd think I'd remember the proper way to make toffee after going to school for baking.
38 Ratings
LOVE IT! This is the same recipe that I have used for years and I am always asked for the recipe.
Although it isn't a kid friendly recipe due to the candy temperature, both of my "little judges" rate this one a 5 star for taste! I use toasted almonds instead of Walnuts and it is too good to quit eating!
the mixture seperated before reaching 290. Butter to the top, sort of a curdled effect. Any suggestions?? Haven't tasted it yet.
Whisk it - that white separation will blend in completely. I removed it from the heat at 290. The temp rose a bit more. I'd flatten the cooling blob more next time.
I omitted the nuts and added a 1/4 c of dark rum. If you have a silpat for your large jellyroll pan you can pour the candy onto that. I highly recommend very cautiously tasting the sauce as it cooks. That rum, sugar and buttery goodness will curl your toes it's so good.
I am not a great cook/baker at all, and I made this toffee recipe last Christmas for my family who does not traditionally like candy. It is so wonderful and easy, we can't wait to make it this year. What makes it special is that it's not super hard and chewy, but rather it really does melt in your mouth! This is the only toffee recipe that I will use on Allrecipes.com now.
I can't believe how easy this recipe was. Also, my first time attempting toffee so I looked at all of the comments and went with the "cook the sugar first, then add the butter" and it came out perfect. I also used chopped pecans instead of walnuts. I have already passed this recipe on to friends!
This recipe is easy, but it lacks the stamina to reach the correct temp without burning, even at a slow pace.
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Toffee I
Serving Size: 1/40 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 40
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 115
Calories from Fat: 74
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Meet Ashley Tisdale's New Boyfriend Christopher French — New Couple Alert!
Eat your heart out, Scott Speer. Ashley Tisdale is moving on!
Us Weekly reports that Ashley is dating Annie Automatic musician Christopher French. The couple made their public debut on Dec. 26, when they went to the Apple Store in L.A.
"She likes those rocker types. They have mutual friends and just met through hanging out," a source told Us Weekly.
French has previously been linked to The Big Bang Theory's Kaley Cuoco.
Well, if chest tattoos are Ashley's thing, it looks like this relationship could end up getting serious.
Source: Us Weekly

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Here's 2 photos from our 2012 May 19 and 20th 2 Day Group Class. We had 6 riders who had fun and learned a lot. This group photo was taken during our lunch break on day one. Every rider receives a sponsor packet with the schools 12 sponsors's catalogs, stickers, discount coupons and some free products.
This year in 2012 the companies giving discount coupons are;
Maxima – 35% off.
Factory Connection – 20% off.
Scott USA – 50% off.
Renthal – 50% off.
Companies giving away free product;
Maxima – Can of Chain Lube.
Renthal – Pit Towel, Caps and Crossbar Pads.
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I got talking recently to Scott Levy over at Fuel Marketing and in a fascinating discussion about SEO (it's really about social now) Scott made a chance comment that seemed to suggest there's a new trend out there.
Yes, marketing online is all about social but it's also about inspiration and motivation.
And, as Twitter is the best platform for this new marketing genre, Twitter has also become the channel for the new motivational micro-speech.
I guess that's a way of saying that to maintain leadership you need to figure out ways to keep a following interested. But do people need motivating and inspiring in 140 characters? Several times a day?
It means that a large part of the Twitter leader-follower relationship is almost like therapy. It's like motivational speaking but in short hand.
There's definitely a group of social media influencers whose tweets and interactions are regularly interspersed with homilies. And since Scott said it, the trend has become obvious, like a sub-culture that's suddenly mainstream, there if you look closely enough.
Below are some examples and a question…. well two:
Is this new?
Have I lost my way in life? Because I would never think of it as my role to communicate with you in these ways. Yet it seems to be part of the packaging of a social media leader.
Kim Garst has 128,00 followers and posts several times an hour….
@KimGarst – successful people are simply those with successful habits
@KimGarst – Shoot for the moon and if you miss you will still be among the stars
@KimGarst – Man, alone, has the power to transform his thoughts into physical reality
Scott in fact does a lot less of those types of tweets, even though he talks about the need to really reveal personality. Scott also tweets every hour, several times an hour infact. But it's a varied bunch of content – tweeting out newspaper articles, tweeting interactively with other people in social media, and then therapy too:
@fuelonline – Good Morning everyone! I hope you have a kick ass day & challenge yourself to do something great today!
@fuelonline – The difference between a successful person & others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack in will
@fuelonine – Good morning Twitterverse! Just wanted to say I love & appreciate all of you!
Mari Smith has 180,000 followers:
@marismith – Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people
@marismith – Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody expects of you. Never excuse yourself
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Omalee Elizabeth Blalock Wilson
Omalee Elizabeth Blalock Wilson, born September 11, 1917, left this world on Thursday, July 18, 2013 at age 95. She went peacefully while surrounded by all her loved ones. Omalee lived a wonderful and exciting life. She attended college on a basketball scholarship and after graduation began teaching school. She taught for 44 years. She loved teaching and loved every student she had in class. In 2011 she was inducted into the Teacher's Hall of Fame.
She was preceded in death by her husband Herman Frank Wilson; brothers Lillard, Arthur, Charles, Westley, Clyde, Ralph, and Hugh Blalock; sisters Virgie Blalock, Iva Jenkins and Pearl Watson.
Survivors include: Sons: Michael Wilson and wife Barbara, Dennis Wilson, Jeffery Wilson; Granddaughters: Taylor Wilson, Jenny Wilson and husband Brandon Hatcher, Jessica McWilliams and husband Nic; Grandson: Logan Wilson; Great-grandchildren: Kayla Brooke Harris, Emma Lee Grace Wilson; Brothers: Bill and Ted Blalock; a multitude of special nieces and nephews, great-nieces and great-nephews, in-laws and many, many special friends.
The family would like to extend a special "thanks" to Judy Parham and Debra Conner.
The family will receive friends 2-4 PM Sunday with funeral service to follow at 4 PM in the West Chapel of Atchley Funeral Home with Rev. Curtis Wells and Rev. Ed Parton officiating. Interment 10 AM Monday in Smoky Mountain Memory Gardens. Arrangements by Atchley Funeral Home, Sevierville.


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Mr. Bacon: Good afternoon.
Let me start with two announcements. First, as you all know, two years ago today terrorists killed 19 airmen at Khobar Towers, Dhahran, Saudi Arabia. These terrorists are still at large, and as Attorney General Reno said last night, the United States is still working hard to bring them to justice. A remembrance was held today at Patrick Air Force Base for the airmen who perished at Khobar Towers, and it's an appropriate time for all Americans to remember the sacrifices and the risks that American soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines face every day as they do their duties.
As you know, following the Khobar Towers bombing, the Defense Department worked very hard to improve force protection all around the world -- particularly in the Middle East, but all around the world -- and we have made a number of very significant changes in our force protection procedures. Nevertheless, the effort to protect our forces from terrorists is never ending and we can never be 100 percent sure that we have done enough, and therefore we are always striving to do more when we see threats before us.
Second, I'd like to announce that next week at Crane Army Ammunition Activity in Indiana, the Army will destroy the last of 3.3 million non-self-destructing landmines. This is to comply with the presidential order that all non-self-destructing antipersonnel landmines in our arsenal be destroyed except for a small number that are needed to continue our defense in Korea and to continue training. So, since May 16, 1996 when President Clinton ordered the U.S. to get rid of its stock of non-self-destructing antipersonnel landmines, the Army has destroyed 3.3 million, or will have by June 30th. This will actually complete the destruction earlier than anticipated. I think the original deadline was December 31, 1999.
That will be open to media coverage. I think 80 landmines will be destroyed next week on June 30th to bring that to the end.
With that, I'll take your questions.
Q: Is there a point of contact on that, Ken?
A: There is a point of contact which I don't have here, but DDI will give it to you.
Q: On the Saudi bombing, is there frustration in this building at the apparent lack of progress two years after this blast in bringing people to justice? And when are the American people and the families of the victims going to get some kind of progress report on how the investigation is going?
I mean all we get so far, including from the FBI, is that the investigation is in progress, and the FBI's the spokesman on it and they don't seem to be saying much about it at all.
A: In answer to your first question, there's frustration in this government with the inability to bring these killers to justice. It transcends the Defense Department. There is clearly frustration here, but there's also frustration in the Justice Department and throughout the entire government. However, it frequently takes a long while to bring terrorists to justice, and as the Attorney General said yesterday, that effort is continuing and it will continue until we find out who did this, who's responsible.
Second, last year or early this year, the government did meet with all of the families of the airmen who perished at Khobar Towers. The Attorney General addressed them, the Secretary of Defense addressed them, and the Director of the FBI addressed them, along with Air Force officials. This was an effort to bring them up to date on what has happened since the bombing and to listen to some of their concerns, and there are meetings with family members from time to time. I suspect there will be another one sometime in the future. We've made a very strong effort to stay in touch with the family members.
Q: Two points on this particular issue. One, the Saudis have solved the case, and they're not doing any more investigating, but have they shared with this government, to your knowledge, the details of their investigation?
A: As I've said many times, this is the FBI's job, to investigate, and as the Attorney General said, the FBI is continuing its work. So I don't want to comment on where the investigation stands or what one group has said about it or another group.
Q: Has the Department of Defense been able to share any of the light shed by the Saudis with the families that you mentioned?
A: I think it's very clear the investigation is not complete in our minds and is not complete because no one has been brought to justice.
Q: The second point has to do with this article about Janet Reno about Iran being thought to be the perpetrator of this terrorist act, having supplied explosives, etc. A number of our intelligence people here in the United States believe it's Iran. Is there any more light shed on that or do you have any more comment on that?
A: It's up to the FBI to comment on the results of the investigation.
Q: Is the Pentagon satisfied with Saudi Arabia's cooperation in these matters?
A: I think we're frustrated with our inability to bring this investigation to a close.
Q: Does that frustration stem from a lack of cooperation by the Saudis?
A: The frustration stems from the fact that we don't know who did this yet and we haven't been able to bring them to justice. There are a number of reasons for that.
Q: The Senate passed an in-house amendment to the Defense Authorization Bill today, supposedly to head off a Pentagon end run on the BRAC process. They seem to think you folks are about to close bases without congressional authorization. Other than the Secretary saying a couple of times that that independent base closing was a possibility, are there any such plans for either base closing or major restructuring that warranted this amendment?
A: First of all, that amendment is extremely unfortunate. As the Secretary said to the Senate, it will tie his hands and make it more difficult for him to manage the Department. He's also told the Senate that he believes that the inclusion of this amendment in the Defense Authorization Bill puts the entire bill at risk. He's made it very clear in his comments to the public and his comments to Congress that we have excess base capacity, it's costing us too much money, it will hinder our ability to fund readiness and modernization in the future, and it will ultimately be a stone around the neck of the men and women in the military. So this is an unfortunate amendment.
In terms of future plans, I think it's very clear that the Secretary is looking at a variety of plans to make the Department operate more efficiently. One of those was two more BRAC rounds. He has not given up on the hope of achieving additional BRAC rounds in the future, in the next century, actually, because neither of the BRAC rounds he proposed this year would have taken place until after the year 2000. He will continue to press that case and look for other ways to cut back unnecessary expenditure and infrastructure. That's all I can tell you right now. I can't be more specific.
Q: The Air Force has plans to create, or looking at creating what they call superbases which would help alleviate the problem they're having in supporting their Air Expeditionary Forces from spread out facilities. Are you, or has the Secretary been made aware of those plans, and is there any problem with that...?
A: The Secretary has discussed those plans with General Ryan, the Air Force Chief of Staff. The Secretary strongly favors reforms that will make military deployments more efficient and more effective, and General Ryan has told him that this type of change would do that. This is precisely the type of management change, important management efficiency, that could be choked off by the amendment as I understand it. The Secretary, in a letter to Congress, has said that the amendment would "seriously undermine my capacity to manage the Department of Defense," and it's precisely because of restrictions on this type of change that he said that.
Q: Can we get a copy of the letter?
A: We'll get you a copy of the letter.
Q: When was that written?
A: Relatively recently. I don't have the date.
Q: Can you update us on the state of NATO planning for military intervention in Kosovo?
A: It continues. First of all...
Q: Aren't we past the option stage now? There's a story in the Early Bird about the direction being given to come up with detailed plans.
A: That's true.
Q: When did that happen?
A: It happened yesterday or the day before. But, basically, the Military Committee was instructed to look at nine options. They looked at those options. They've narrowed them down to a much smaller number of options -- two or three, possibly four options -- and now the job is to take the next step which is to take these options which are just described in a sentence or a paragraph or two, and turn them into more detailed contingency plans. When they do this they'll come back, they'll report this up the chain to the political authorities, the Permanent Representatives of the North Atlantic Council, and they'll have to decide what to do next.
So far no one has made a decision to deploy force in Kosovo. We're still at the stage of coming up with sort of a road map for doing that should the decision be made to move forward.
Q: Do these options that were narrowed down from nine to two, three or four, did they satisfy the Pentagon's insistence that any air campaign include a suppression of Yugoslav air defenses?
A: The exact details of these options are still being worked out, but I think it's clear in our mind that we have to be able to survey and deal with any threat that might be posed to American or NATO planes flying over Kosovo.
Q: What was that word, survey?
A: We have to know what the threat is and be able to deal with the threat.
Q: Suppress?
A: Suppress would be a way to deal with it, yes.
Q: When are these options or these contingency plans supposed to be complete?
A: I think we're looking probably not at next week, a couple more weeks, I would guess.
Q: The story that I read said they were supposed to report back next Wednesday.
A: I don't think the process will be completed for at least another week and perhaps longer is my sense from talking to people who are involved in the process.
Q: Is that all, is there planning going on in this building or is it all Brussels...
A: There's always planning going on in this building. Any day or night there's planning going on in this building, I can assure you.
Q: In this narrowing of options, does this actually involve options for Serbia in particular, or does this involve options for operations in Albania and Macedonia?
A: It involves options over Serbia.
Q: Are you seeking permission from Albania or seeking cooperation from Albania for potential operations down the line in that area?
A: I think Albania, which is a member of the Partnership for Peace, has made it very clear that it would welcome some military support, but I'm not aware what we've made a specific request at this time. It's premature. No one in NATO, and no member of NATO that I'm aware of, has made a firm decision to employ force over, in, or around Kosovo at this time. That's a decision that will have to be made after more planning and more consideration is complete.
Q: Options over Serbia. So the contingency planning that's going on now in NATO does not include the positioning of ground forces in Albania, Serbia, Macedonia, you name it.
A: There's actually, as I understand it, a two-track process. The track of putting preventive deployments into Albania and Macedonia began prior to looking at a more robust list of options which included some air options. My understanding is they're still looking at the possibility of preventive deployments, but I think that right now a central element of the thinking is to find a way to make sure that any military action is closely integrated with political goals. So there's a seamless connection between what our political and diplomatic goals are on the one hand and what our military options are on the other hand. It's that knitting together that I suspect will take a little bit of time, and that is one of the things that's happening both in Brussels and in other capitals outside of Brussels.
Q: But they're only studying uses of air power?
A: You asked me about, over Kosovo essentially, and that's what they're looking at is primarily air power.
Q: When will NATO reach the point when it will decide or must decide whether or not it will first go to the UN and seek a resolution and...
A: I can't make a prediction when NATO will make decisions like that. Right now the primary focus is on the continuing diplomatic efforts to find a solution. As you know, Richard Holbrooke is in the area. He has been meeting with Milosevic, he's been meeting with President Rugova and he's also been meeting with representatives of the UCK. And he's been meeting in countries, he's been to Macedonia, he's been to countries in that area as well. So there's a full fledged diplomatic initiative underway and that continues.
We've said from the very beginning, and it remains the case, that we prefer a diplomatic solution. We're working very hard to try to craft one now.
Q: Then this planning, going ahead with the supposition that it will be a NATO operation, you will not have to seek UN...
A: I think, as you know as well as anybody, NATO members differ on this, and it's something that will have to be sorted out. The United States doesn't believe that a UN Security Council resolution is necessary. We think it would be helpful and desirable, but not necessary to act. Other countries have different views, and that's one of the things that will be sorted out. Right now, I think the primary focus is on the diplomatic efforts to achieve a solution.
Q: Can you go back and re-explain, you said there's a two track process?
A: They started out initially looking at preventive deployments along the border, right? They sent teams down to Macedonia and Albania. They came back and reported. Before they were able to make their report officially to NATO, the Defense Ministers met and decided that there should be a broader range of options on the table. They came up with a list of nine options. The preventive deployment people were still working on their plans and, I think, have made a presentation to NATO by now.
In the end, everything's going to be considered all together. In the end, in an effort to put together a package that involves diplomacy backed by the credible threat of force if necessary, will all be knitted together. That's one of the things that's happening right now. No one has made any decision to use force. NATO continues to work on planning.
Q: So the contingency planning that's going on that we're talking about now that was decided upon yesterday, the narrowing of the options... Have in fact then the two tracks been put together now? Do those narrowed options...
A: Whether they have been, formally or not, eventually they will end up together, yes.
Q: So they are considering both preventive deployments as well as uninvited type action.
A: What do you mean by uninvited?
Q: You would be invited into Albania or Macedonia. You wouldn't be invited into Serbia or Kosovo.
A: No decision has been made to use force. Obviously, if a decision were to be made, we and other allies who already have troops in Macedonia would have to look at the security of those troops, among other things. We also would want to look at what the impact of any military action over Kosovo or in Kosovo would mean for Albania, so all of these things would have to be joined together eventually in planning. But we're a long way from that right now. We're focusing primarily on diplomacy.
Q: Can you update us on the employment status of Linda Tripp? Does she come into the Pentagon at all to do any work? Or is she still working entirely..
A: She is working at home and has not been in here for some time. I don't remember the exact date.
Q: What are her duties at this point? Is she producing any sort of work product for the salary that she's drawing?
A: The terms of her flexi-place agreement, which allow her to work at home, grant her administrative leave for time she spends with the Office of the Independent Counsel. She has been spending large amounts of time -- I don't have the hours here -- with the Office of the Independent Counsel and she reports those to us as she's required to do.
She has been given a specific assignment and presumably she's working on that assignment. I don't think we've received any reports from her recently on the progress of that assignment.
Let me just speak to the broader point here. This, as I've said before, is a somewhat unusual situation that I think is awkward for her and awkward for the Department. We're trying to make it work as well as we can. This is the arrangement we have before us now.
Q: Her attorney has said that she has been, in effect, demoted because she doesn't have the kind of responsibilities she had...
A: I've addressed that many times, and I'm sure you have my answer on the record. But she is getting the same salary, $88,000 a year plus a little, $88,200 a year I think it is, and she has the same title.
Q: The fraternization report...
A: There has not been... There were some meetings, as you probably heard yesterday on this. They were not decision meetings, they were discussion meetings, and the discussions continue. What we're hoping to do is to bring to closure the two remaining initiatives that the Secretary launched about a year ago. The first, of course, was the Kassebaum Baker Report. He's already acted on that report, adopted a whole package of recommendations designed to improve the standards of basic training. And also to ensure a separation of men and women in barracks. That's the first point.
The second point was the good order and discipline, and the third was a review of specific rules on adultery. We hope to bring those two issues to closure under the -- bring them together under a Statement of Good Order and Discipline relatively soon, but work on that isn't complete.
Q: The meeting yesterday included who?
A: There were several meetings. I don't want to get into a laundry list of who...
Q: Was the Secretary...
A: The Secretary did go to one of the meetings, yes.
Q: The Korean submarine?
A: The North Korean submarine. We have reports from South Korea that they found eight bodies on the submarine. The submarine has been raised. That's about all I know about it.
Q: That should account for everyone, right?
A: We believe so.
Q: Is it known how they died?
A: I don't know. The South Koreans may know by now, but I don't know.
Q: How about the nature of the North Korean mission?
A: I don't know what the nature of their mission was. In the past these submarines have been used to infiltrate people into South Korea, but I don't know what this mission was. I think that's among the issues that will come out in the course of the South Korean investigation.
Q: At the technology transfer hearings on the Hill, an official from the Defense Technology Security Administration has raised a lot of allegations that that agency has essentially been defanged and that he is constantly being suppressed when he points out the security problems of technology transfers. His name is Peter Leitner. He's raised some serious allegations.
A: First of all, you should be on the Hill for those hearings because there is a Defense Department official, Frank Miller, who is going to testify about the operation of the Defense Technology Security Administration, and deal directly with Mr. Leitner's charges.
The agency processes some, or reviews some 21,000 export licenses a year. We believe that the agency works effectively to stop damaging technology transfers. I'm sure there is debate within the agency from time to time among employees as there is probably even in news organizations about what actions to take in response to specific licensing requests. But Frank Miller will testify that we believe the Defense Technology Security Agency is doing a good job. It certainly attempts to enforce the law designed to prevent damaging transfers of technology.
Q: One follow-up on Linda Tripp. If she spends 40 hours a week in Ken Starr's office or working with the Independent Counsel, does that count as work time? Does that count against her time she's been asked to provide DoD with the hours that she's spending with them? Does that fulfill her requirement for a work week, as it were?
A: My understanding is that it would qualify as paid administrative leave and count as work time.
Q: So if she spends the entire week or month or so there, then that fulfills her requirement.
A: Yes.
Q: Can you comment on the report that the President will nominate Richard Danzig to be Secretary of the Navy?
A: I think I'll let the President make his own announcement about that.
Q: Has Secretary Cohen made a recommendation?
A: Secretary Cohen has made a recommendation to the President and we'll just let the President make his own announcement.
Q: You mentioned about the Army destroying the last of its non-self-destructing landmines...
A: Antipersonnel landmines.
Q: Can you just give us an update on the efforts to destroy sarin nerve gas in stockpiles? There was an item in one of the newspapers saying that some of the last sarin had been destroyed. How is that program progressing, to destroy stockpiles of sarin nerve gas and how much do we have left at this point?
A: Well, a lot's been destroyed and we still have some left. We had large stockpiles of sarin. My understanding is that at Johnston Atoll, 2.6 million pounds of sarin has been destroyed and that is all of the sarin that was set to be destroyed at Johnston Atoll. There still are quantities of sarin left. Also, 3.6 million pounds of sarin have been destroyed at Tuelle Chemical Agent Disposal Facility in Utah. We still have some amounts to be destroyed at other chemical disposal facilities.
Q: Do you have any rough number of how much is left before we're completely rid of sarin in our stockpile?
A: I don't, but we can get you that. It's just a question of adding up a lot of numbers here. There's still a fair amount left. We can get you that.
Q: On the mines, you mentioned mines in Korea. How many mines has the United States got in Korea? Were you talking about the buried mines or mines stored...
A: In Korea, where we continue to use non-self-destructing antipersonnel landmines as part of a very clearly delineated and fenced off demilitarized zone, we have made a commitment to find alternatives for all landmines by the year 2006. We will keep mines in Korea until we develop an alternative. There are mines in the ground there, and we also have a stockpile of probably close to a million non-self-destructing antipersonnel landmines in Korea for use in the event of military action.
Q: Aside from the buried mines?
A: Yeah, that's a stockpile there aside from the buried mines.
Q: How many buried mines?
A: We've never described the number of buried mines.
Q: Would it be in the tens of thousands?
A: I think it would be safe to say that as a minimum.
Q: Has the late Admiral Jeremy Boorda been exonerated by Mr. Dalton?
A: I think you should talk to the Navy about that. Secretary Dalton has taken a step to clarify the status of Admiral Boorda's decorations, and the Navy can describe what that was.
Q: The alternatives to landmines, how is that research going?
A: Well, it's going. We've got some time, but the services are working on that and I can't give you a specific rundown right now of where we stand, but the services have been working on it and will continue to work on it. They're reviewing over 20 alternatives or concepts for alternatives right now. Some are lethal and some are non-lethal. That is, there could be the possibility of non-lethal barriers that could be erected quickly. They're looking at working with industry to come up with new proposals.
Q: The Secretary has a couple of speeches over the coming days. What are the topics of them?
A: He's in Illinois today at Scott Air Force Base, and he's participating in a seminar on defense reform. This was organized by General Kross who briefed you here a month or six weeks ago on work of the Transportation Command. General Kross has been a leader in finding ways to bring some of the innovative solutions industry has found to transportation to the way the Air Force operates. So, for instance, the Chairman of Federal Express and the Chairman of some other major corporations will be meeting with Secretary Cohen to talk about some of their transportation initiatives.
Tomorrow he'll be at Rocky Mountain Arsenal in Denver to talk about environmental remediation and some of the progress we've made there. He'll be meeting with corporate and political leaders in Colorado to talk to them about defense issues. And then he'll be going on to an annual conference hosted by former President Gerald Ford in Beaver Creek, Colorado to talk about, at a private conference, to talk about nuclear security issues and some weapons of mass destruction issues.
On Monday he'll need to talk to the Los Angeles World Affairs Council, and we'll get you the title of that speech. I don't have it with me right now. Then he stops off at Tinker Air Force Base on the way back, in Oklahoma.
Q: I'm sorry, is he in Beaver Creek for this conference through the weekend?
A: I think he leaves on Saturday.
Q: One thing further on the landmines. What is the US stockpile of self-destroying landmines?
A: I don't have that figure.
Q: Will you take that question?
A: We'll try to get the answer for you.
Q: With regard to this issue of nuclear disarmament and the like, General Habiger last week told us about some very hopeful things in the inspection, mutual inspection regime between the United States and Russia; that he has actually seen guidance systems that had been detargeted on Russian missiles. A very hopeful confidence building measure.
Would the United States like to see both the Russians and the United States to have some kind of random inspection of missiles to see that in fact they are detargeted? Because I understand he could have been shown something that was simply detargeted for his benefit. Some kind of random inspection?
A: I don't know what our current procedures are for monitoring this. I don't think we have current procedures, and that's certainly one of the things we could talk about with the Russians in the future. I'm not aware that we have plans to do that at this stage, though.
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By John Perrotto
*Analysis, Rumblings & Musings*
Jamie Moyer is as studious as any pitcher in the major leagues.
The Colorado Rockies left-hander has no choice. A 49-year-old pitcher with a fastball that tops out at 79 mph can't possibly be successful without knowing the strengths and weaknesses of the opposing hitters.
Thus, the Pirates should be encouraged by Moyer's assessment of their offense. Despite allowing just one run in six innings in his start Tuesday night at PNC Park, Moyer was impressed by the Pirates' lineup.
"They're going score runs, especially in this ballpark," Moyer said. "They have dangerous hitters and some young guys with a lot of talent. They really battled me. My line in the box score probably looks better than it should. I felt fortunate to come out of it having allowed only one run."
The Pirates remain last in the major leagues in runs per game (2.28), on-base percentage (.269) and slugging percentage (.325).
However, the Pirates showed signs of life in taking two of three from the Rockies this week at PNC Park. The Pirates scored five runs in both wins, which may not seem like a lot but matched their season high. Furthermore, they had 30 hits in the series.
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"We're not on any milk cartons yet," Pirates manager Clint Hurdle said, referring to his offense.
The biggest development of the series for the Pirates was third baseman Pedro Alvarez (.156 avg - 4 HR - 6 RBI) hitting home runs in both games of Wednesday's doubleheader. He became just the second Pirates player to accomplish that feat since 1991, joining Rob Mackowiak, who did so in 2004.
Alvarez's batting average is still a sickly .156 and his on-base percentage is an anemic .174. However, his slugging percentage is .444 as four of his six hits have been home runs. The homers provide hope that Alvarez can still turn into the middle-of-the-order threat the Pirates believed they were drafting when they used the No. 2 overall selection on him in 2008.
"I'm just thankful for getting the opportunities I'm getting with the way I've been struggling," Alvarez said. "It's just a matter of going out there and trying to compete, trying not to over-analyze the situation and keep things as simple as possible. I think when you just go out and trust your ability and play the game that everything takes care of itself."
In other matters:
--No one has ever questioned right-hander James McDonald's (0-1, 2.78 ERA) pure ability. It was on display in the first game of Wednesday's doubleheader when he took a no-hitter into the seventh inning and wound up allowing just one run and one hit in seven innings with eight strikeouts.
Yet, as one member of the Pirates' brain trust pointed out, who knows what to expect from McDonald the next time he takes the mound Monday at Atlanta. "It's like he steps right up to the edge of being a top-of-the-rotation starter then backs away," the front office type said. "I really don't think James understands how good he can be."
-- The scouts who have been following the Pirates since spring training are falling in love with left fielder Alex Presley (.284 avg - 1 HR - 4 RBI). "He's a real energy guy," one scout said. "He makes things happen. Even though they are struggling to score runs, he adds some life to that lineup."
--The Pirates are the lowest-scoring team in baseball yet lead the major leagues with 19 infield hits. There has to be a correlation in there somewhere.
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sulawalum, you seem to be arguing a minor point, counselor. Each time SU deems it necessary to call or write me, soliciting contributions, I certainly have a right to question their expenditures. And I made a passing comment on student honesty/dishonesty, which is an academic issue. In most schools, that matter is handled by the academic dean.
I have several SU degrees, you sulaw alum, including a doctorate from the Maxwell School, regularly rated as the top school of public affairs in the world. (the kennedy school at harvard is #2)
You, on the other hand, have a law degree from a college of law not exactly known for being in the top 10, much less in the company of the Maxwell School. But you are in good company with VP joe bidet, the best that SU has to offer! Good grief!
mdsoc, try to pay attention here. I did not say Pryor was a tight end. He was, indeed, an incredibly gifted qb. But he was big enough to play tight end in high school!
My point was that there used to be college athletes who played more than one sport in college. Now that is a rarity.(Although Pryor was promised that he could also play bb at ohio state, but seems to have chosen not to do so.)
sufan, are you familiar with anatomy and physiology? Apparently they don't have those things in the Garden State.
orangeallum, you are misinformed. New York is not a 'common law' marriage state. Pennsylvania used to be a 'common law' marriage state until a couple of years ago.
A common law marriage is a situation where a man and a woman who are otherwise legally able to be married present themselves as a married couple.
Let me try to help you people. The Wage and Hour Division, U.S. department of labor, is responsible for the enforcement provisions of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938-39. Employers not only have to pay minimum wage under the law, they must pay time and one half for any overtime worked beyond a 40 work week. The work week is defined by the employer, and must contain 40 hours in a seven consequtive day period. (Except in health care, where the rules call for overtime beyond 80 hours in a two week period.)
Floor installers often are treated as independent contractors, and as self-employed individuals, the overtime rules would not apply. A flooring company would not want installers sitting around with nothing to do, so they try to contract out the work. The definitions of an employee under the law can be tricky.
Ronz, you are being too rational! I just like the idea of a big guy banging some people around up at the line.
In the olden days, football players would play a second sport. Jimmy Brown played some basketball at SU, I think, plus lacrosse and track.
The Pennsylvania lad who went to ohio state on a football scholarship last year was all-state in football and basketball. (and I believe his team won the state championship in each sport.)
imafan, you are correct. I have flown many commuter flights on US airways express, and delta express, and the names are meaningless. We know that a fledgling pilot will typically start out on an express airline, and one of the prices we pay for the airline deregulation of three decades ago is the express air business.
Kind of scary, hey?
Batty, mother theresa never charged for sex.
(think about that one for a moment, and interpret what I just said, you people!)
(It will help to think of Bill Clinton testifying before a federal judge.)
Iambystander, Old Joe Bidet took the work and research of another SU law student and presented it as his own. That is called academic dishonesty. He was caught, flunked the course, had to retake it.
During the 1988 presidential primaries, Old Joe Bidet said that he had an academic scholarshp to SU law (a lie) and that he graduated in the top half of his class. (a lie - he graduated near the bottom.) He also stole a stump speech from Neil kinnock, British labor party politician, and substituted 'Bidet' wherever Kinnock talked about the Kinnock family.
That caused a series of humorous lies. (first Bidet to go to college - a lie, and Bidet came from a long line of coal miners - a lie - no Bidets were coal miners.)
He is a fundamentally dishonest person, who lies at will. And for little nancy cantor to call bidet the best that SU has to offer, is an insult to thousands and thousands of su graduates.
Miss Shaw was correct. She freaked out. Captain Renslow was incorrect. He didn't know what to do.
Gerrym, they checked his exam when he was a student at SU Law. He cheated, so they flunked him and made him take the course over again. Then he went back to Delaware, where the voters are remarkably stupid, at least as stupid as little nancy cantor, and that was that.
And it is not Biden. It is Bidet.
Tina, try to pay attention here. Let's say that you are driving drunk (and stupid) and crash your little car into a group of pre-schoolers walking down the sidewalk, killing several and maiming the rest of them. You need a lawyer - a good lawyer!
Is there any responsibility on the part of law schools to produce honest, knowledgeable lawyers? Or will the law schools produce more bidets?
Think about that, Tina.
Also, get him for the football team, Tight End. what a target for those short passes!
pontiac, I suspect that voting would be too big a burden for them. Instead, it is likely that ACORN would cast absentee ballots for each of them, several times.
Slim, one has to strike while the irony is hot.
An assistant dean for student life at a law school? Tuition money at work. And in nearly every other setting, an academic dean handles student cheating. (I speak with experience, having served as an academic dean.)
Slim, it should be called the Bidet rule. (spelling intentional)
And for the rest of you people, why is is hating to comment on an amusing story that happens to coincide with the visit from the vice-president? What if the article had been written last Friday?
Tax, if they turn him loose, he may crash a bus the next time, instead of an airplane.
If I read the article correctly, the neurosurgeon, who not only botched the operation but discharged the victim with evidence and complications of the botched surgery.
In addition, the victim does not get the money up front, but apparently will be paid via an annuity, as will his wife. He is completely disabled, so, depending on his age, he personally will not see much of the money.
But I believe his attorney will get his money up front.
Finally, Dr. Gingold does not look so good right now, does he?


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By Paul StoneAmerican Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jan. 15, 2004 Within 10 years, U.S. forces around the world will enjoy greater combat effectiveness as a result of network-centric operations. That's a vision John Stenbit has pursued for the past two years, and it is already bad news for America's enemies.
Stenbit is the assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, and DoD's chief information officer.
The term "network-centric warfare" broadly describes the combination of emerging tactics, techniques and procedures that a fully or even partially networked force can employ to create a decisive warfighting advantage.
NCW increases combat power by networking sensors, decision makers, shooters and their weapons platforms to achieve shared situation awareness, increased speed of command, high tempo of operations, greater lethality, increased survivability and a degree of self-synchronization.
Stenbit said that to truly understand NCW, it's important to take a historical look at how forces have operated in the past.
"Up through the mid-1970s, the paradigm of command and control and information exchange was the telephone. I knew your phone number, and when I wanted to call you, I did. In that kind of paradigm you're stuck in place and you're stuck in time," he explained. "Wherever you happened to be, if you moved, the phone number didn't go with you. If somebody called you and you weren't there, there wasn't even an answering machine.
"You have to think of it as a pretty static system," he continued. "When somebody would find out something, they needed to be smart twice they needed to be smart enough to know that it was important to tell somebody, and then they had to be smart enough to know who needed to know it, and that second part is really hard if it's outside your normal bureaucracy."
Since that time, Stenbit said we now have moved into what he likes to refer to as "the direct broadcast TV paradigm," in which there are multiple channels of information received simultaneously among many places around the world.
"Now, if somebody finds something out, he doesn't need to know who has the gun, all he needs to know is how to get the information he needs on the broadcast system. And if you're the guy with the gun, you don't need to know who's seeing things -- all you need to do is listen."
He used the example of the special forces soldier in Afghanistan, who, while riding a horse with Northern Alliance forces, was calling in air support.
"So what you had was a B-2 or B-52 pilot -- who didn't know this guy, didn't know his frequency, had no knowledge of how that guy was operating -- getting the word he wanted a bomb, and it would happen," Stenbit said. "That's an enormous change."
He refers to this type of operating mode as Smart Push -- the ability to gather data from a lot of sources, put it together and make decisions based on the data.
He said Smart Push was used very effectively in both Afghanistan and Iraq. During a visit to Afghanistan, Stenbit said he got a first-hand look at Smart Push in action.
"At one base, there were about 1,000 people with a large area network, including about 10 satellite dishes all looking in different directions, and taking data from those broadcasts, putting it together, and then working the problem of what the data meant to what they were facing that day."
In Iraq, Stenbit said the Smart Push concept was even more evident.
"For example, the ability of the Marines and the Army and the Air Force to all know something about the same target was no longer a question of whose sensor it was, because they all had the same data," Stenbit explained. "So the good news is we were free in space and able, with the same information, to attack from the north, the south, the east and the west. It was very dynamic, and the Iraqis suffered from that. We were coming at them from all directions, and that's not a good place to be. If you stood still you were dead, and if you moved you were dead."
Stenbit said the goal now is to get from Smart Push to what he calls Smart Pull the ability to give warfighters the freedom not to be locked into either time or space, so they can obtain the information they need at the moment they need it, regardless of where they are.
And that's where the concept of NCW comes into play.
Stenbit said it involves moving from the broadcast TV paradigm to the paradigm of the Internet.
"Today, if you want all the information, you need you have to carry around 10 satellite dishes and a thousand people to pull it all together," Stenbit said. "What we have to do is go to the paradigm of the Internet. If you do that, you erase both the barriers of time and space."
He said that this would allow warfighters on the battlefield to have the information they need, when they need it, and the ability to tailor the information to their own needs, instead of relying on command and control staffs to feed them the information.
This, he said, is heart and soul of NCW.
So how does the Defense Department get there?
Stenbit said the primary barrier to achieving the Internet paradigm is bandwidth.
"We have to have an infrastructure of communications which has enough bandwidth in it to allow, for instance, three people to pull the same data at the same time because if you're going to Smart Pull, you need more communications or it won't work," Stenbit explained. "Then you need to put the data and applications on the network not in a way that's pre-aligned against a task, but much more openly, so that it's more like the Internet."
And indeed, Stenbit said DoD is moving forward to begin building just such an infrastructure.
He said by the end of next year, DoD plans to build a base network connecting 100 locations throughout the world, involving mostly major headquarters, intelligence centers and some support organizations.
"If you can get the same data to a warfighter, but it's the answer instead of a problem they have to solve -- man is that a good deal," Stenbit said. "It's a great and exciting time, and we're making real progress."
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Wednesday, January 9, 2013
Our Printz Predictions for 2013
Kimberly and I like to do a mid-year Printz and Morris award prediction post, and then we like to follow it up before the actual Youth Media Awards to take a stab at what we think the winners and honorees could be. Since we know the Morris shortlist already, at least we have a 1 in 5 shot of guessing correctly.
Kelly's Predictions
Morris Award
I already talked at length about Seraphina and the Morris Award, and even though it's one of the titles I haven't read yet, I put my bets on it. Seraphina earned six starred reviews, and the reviews of it outside the trades were glowing. It combines literary merit with reader appeal. As much as I loved Laura Buzo's Love and Other Perishable Items, I think it may lack in the literary department at the end of the day. That's not to say it's not literary or well written -- it is -- but I think Seraphina will edge the other titles out.
Printz Award
I've been horrible about keeping up with commenting over at the Someday My Printz blog, but I have kept a close eye on it. I've also been spending a little time over at Crossreferencing, too, because there's been a lot of good discussion of Printz titles there. Between those two blogs, my own reading, and other review reading, I've got a few titles that are standing out to me as potential Printz picks.
A number of these titles are ones I was thinking about at the mid-way point of 2012. I don't want to say last year was a bad year for YA fiction, but it might have been a weaker year for literary, Printz-y fiction.
Let me start with my dark horse title. I saw this pop up over at Crossreferencing as a dark horse title, and the more I think about it, the more I think there just may be something to this title that could give it an honor.
Anna Jarzab's The Opposite of Hallelujah has much to unpack. There's not only spirituality and religion, but there's family dynamics, there's PTSD, there's disordered eating, there's romance, and then there's science and art and so much more. The writing is great, the pacing is strong, and even if it's not a perfect book, I do think it has a lot of the qualities of a Printz title.
I've been keeping an eye on the reviews of Jarzab's title on Goodreads, and I'm surprised and baffled by the fact there are only 56 reviews. The book came out in early October, so it hasn't been around a super long time, but that still seems like a very low number of reviews. A number of bloggers who I read have read and reviewed this one to similarly strong positive opinions as mine. I'd love to see this title get more attention, and I think it's possible the Printz committee could look favorably upon so many elements of the story.
Both Kat Rosenfield's Amelia Anne is Dead and Gone and Adam Rapp's The Children and the Wolves were titles on my mid-year list, and I still stand by them both. Rosenfield's book didn't make any of the "best of" lists this year, which was a shocker to me. The writing, the dual perspectives, and the mystery woven throughout were compelling. This book is literary without trying too hard to be so. As for Rapp's title, I think it's the way he tackles such a horrid story that makes it stand out. The writing is strong, the three voices are distinct, and the way he manages to make these kids so middle school, despite their awful situations, is noteworthy.
I think Martine Leavitt's My Book of Life by Angel has a good shot, too, and this hasn't gotten a whole lot of talk, either. It's a realistic title, set in the late 80s (or maybe early 90s) and it's told in verse. This is a story about a girl caught up in childhood prostitution in Vancouver. It's a painful, dark read and its writing is strong. Leavitt's been a National Book Award finalist before, so she's got the writing chops.
I don't need to say much more about AS King's Ask the Passengers which hasn't already been addressed by Kim and my's joint review.
I haven't read Elizabeth Fama's Monstrous Beauty, but Kimberly has. From the reviews, it sounds like it has the literary chops of Printz-muster. Even though I wasn't enamored with Elizabeth Wein's Code Name Verity the way many others were, I do think there's something to be said about not only the number of starred reviews it earned, but the number of times it appeared on last year's "best of" lists. In my own reading, I see what's working here and I see how it has the traits to take it to Printz contender.
I think Matthew Quick's Boy21 might be another dark horse title, but it's one that I think has the potential. It's well-written, tackles race and fitting in and does so without ever becoming an issue book, and it has that something to it that feels classic. I've also already spent significant time talking about why Antonia Michaelis's The Storyteller feels like a Printz to me. It's dark. It's a fairy tale. It's got so much literary depth to it. It reminds me, like I've mentioned before, of Janne Teller's Nothing.
My last Printz prediction -- and I know I've offered up more than 5 by this point -- is Rachel Hartman's Seraphina, for all of the reasons I listed about as to why it's the most likely Morris winner. Do I think this year can see a debut on the Printz list as well as the Morris list, like last year? I do.
I lied. A couple other title contenders include The Wicked and the Just (another title overlooked on the "best of" lists) and Margo Lanagan's The Brides of Rollrock Island. I wonder, too, about Jodi Anderson's Tiger Lily.
Note I still don't include John Green's The Fault in Our Stars here. I think the title has too much baggage attached to it for people to read it without seeing the actual problems which may exist in it. I haven't read it personally, but, there is something to be said about how many lists it made and how much people just expect it to be a Printz. I still stand by the statement that I don't think it will make the cut.
Kimberly's Predictions
I agree almost completely with Kelly's picks. Since this year was a pretty slim reading year for me, I don't have any to add. I did want to highlight Code Name Verity, Ask the Passengers, and The Wicked and the Just as having particular Printz possibility, though. It should come as no shock to you that I'm rooting for Code Name Verity. Historical fiction books are often awards darlings (such as the Newbery last year), and this book was so well-crafted. (I don't think any other book deserves the term "well-crafted" as much as this one.) The other two are great books, too, with The Wicked and the Just being a bit of a dark horse. Like the folks at Someday My Printz Will Come, I felt the chapters from Gwenhwyfar's perspective were a bit weaker, but the book overall is original, well-researched, and integrates the two girls' character arcs with the historical setting very, very well.
Still, I wouldn't be at all surprised if the winner turned out to be a book that flew completely under the radar, that I didn't even think to consider, but that, after some thought, I should have included. That's how these things generally seem to go, and it always makes the award ceremony exciting. (That said, I would shed not a single tear if Code Name Verity won, thereby proving me right after all...)
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Interesting list including a few I haven't read and now want to. Of the ones I have read on your list and mine, my vote goes to CODE NAME VERITY.ReplyDeleteReplies
I think it's the favored among a LOT of people and for good reason.Delete
It's such a thrill to have MB included in your Printz mullings--among so many wonderful books. It's dizzying! Thank you both.ReplyDelete
Kimberly, historical fiction isn't statistically an award darling when it comes to the Printz. My husband and I wrote a guest post for Someday My Printz Will Come, and the last graph shows that realistic contemporary fiction wins the bulk of the Printz awards, with fantasy a distant second. (Books in categories other than realistic contemporary fiction are also more likely to win silver than gold, if they do win a Printz.)
My gut feeling is that you may be right about the Newbery, though. That is, historical fiction may win other awards more frequently than it wins the Printz. I've always wanted to look at those numbers.Replies
You should look at those numbers -- what you've pulled out for the Printz has been fascinating to think about, especially in light of our predictions.Delete
I still have to read Seraphina and I'm looking forward to it. I think you are both on the right track with this list. I'm hoping to see Code Name Verity announced that morning, but I'd also love to see Boy21 and The Opposite of Hallelujah (speaking of which, I need to review that).ReplyDelete
I think The Storyteller has a good shot and it should also take home Batchelder Award.Replies
If The Storyteller DOESN'T get a Batchedler, I would be fascinated to see what does and how it stacks up.Delete
I'd love to see the Quick and Jarzab titles get some further recognition. I think both have a shot, despite not necessarily being high on the radars this year.
I'm really happy to see Seraphina on this list. I think it was a really strong debut this year and it had a lot of interesting things to say about politics, humanity, religion... the list goes on. It was a truly amazing book and I would recommend it to everyoneReplyDelete


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Last year's funding was almost $1.7 million, Fire Chief Richard Hooks said in his presentation to the council. Funding for 2006, which runs through December 2007, is about $1.4 million including the reclaimed money, he said.
If the council voted to accept a Governor's Division of Emergency Management plan to use locally designated grant money for state projects, the city's homeland security budget would've been cut by up to 90 percent, Hooks said.
The $700,000 was earmarked for an information sharing system and the digitalization of finger and palm prints, Police Chief Bryan Smith said. Because federal guidelines say 80 percent of homeland security grant money has to go to local governments, the money can't be taken by the state unless Corpus Christi agrees, Hooks said.
"The state basically messed up," Hooks said after briefing the council. "They took funds from local jurisdictions, and we told them to give it back."
Homeland security grant money helps pay for new equipment, building security and emergency response, Hooks said.
John Murray, EMS director for Corpus Christi, said the decrease in money will prevent the city from upgrading equipment and security, such as new cameras or door locks, but there won't be a noticeable drop in services.
"Over the past three years, with the benefit of homeland security funding, our capacity has improved dramatically," Murray said. "There's still more to be done but we'll have to wait."
Murray added he couldn't go into specifics due to security reasons exactly how the money is spent.
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In September 2009 we launched the very first version of Pig Rush for iPhone. Now, three years later, MILLIONS of you are playing Pig Rush on iPhone, iPad, Android, Facebook and Mac! To celebrate our third anniversary, we're making Pig Rush on iPhone and iPad completely FREE to download for one week. Tell your friends to visit http://pigrush.com/download now!
Pig Rush Coloring Contest
By popular demand, we're running a new contest to win one of our awesome Pig Rush plush toys!
To enter:
1. Print out a copy of this outline drawing of Jumpy the Pig...
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5. Closing date is 31 July
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Happy #INDIEpendenceDay
As it's the Fourth of July, we'd like to wish all our friends in the United States a happy Independence Day. To celebrate, some indie game developers have banded together to make their apps free for the day, under the hashtag #INDIEpendenceDay. We're pleased to announce that our hit game Pig Rush for iPhone and iPad is available absolutely FREE today! Download it now from the App Store.
Archos Child Pad: a tablet for kids, pre-installed with everybody's favorite pig
Attention parents! Tablet maker Archos might have exactly what you're looking for to stop the little ones from monopolizing your iPad or Android device. Their new aptly named "Child Pad" is a 7-inch tablet that will be running a customized version of Android 4.0, 1GHZ CPU, 1GB of RAM, and comes with a micro SD slot.
While its focus will be online safety for kids, you can rest assured that the fun won't be compromised. With access to a library of over 10,000 apps, and coming pre-installed with addictive game like Angry Birds and our very own Pig Rush, the kids will not be bored!
The Child Pad will retail for around $129.00, and should be available in April.
For more info. on the Child Pad, check out this review on Engadget.
Pig Rush Valentine's Day Contest Winners
We recently held a Pig Rush contest on our Pig Rush Facebook page, where fans could submit Valentine's Day drawings of Jumpy to win a stuffed pig toy. In case you missed it, here is the contest video:
The results are in, and we had no idea so many of Jumpy's fans were so talented - but the proof is in the pics! We were so overwhelmed by the amount of adorable entries, everyone who entered gets a pig. We've posted a collection of some of our favorite submission for your perusal, or you can view them all on Facebook.
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