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Susquehanna Hosts Landmark Conference Research Symposium
Published on July 25, 2013
More than 130 participants gathered on Susquehanna's campus July 24 for the 5th Annual Landmark Conference Summer Research Symposium. The daylong event brought together students and faculty from colleges and universities in the NCAA Division III Landmark Conference to share findings from their summer research projects.
This year, the symposium featured 16 academic discussions and 64 poster presentations on a variety of research, in such areas as physics, biochemistry, biology, ecology, environmental science, mathematics, history, economics and computer science.
Presentations by Lauren Beck, a rising sophomore biology and psychology major from Manchester, N.J., and Dylan Furlano, a rising senior creative writing and economics major from Avondale, Pa., were examples of the varied research interests represented by Susquehanna students during the symposium. Beck presented on the topic of visual depth perception, a topic she is researching with Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences Toshiro Kubota, while Furlano spoke on the economics of fracking, which she is studying with Associate Professor of Economics Matt Rousu.
Many Susquehanna students are collaborating together on research. For instance, rising sophomore biology majors Amanda Abrams, of Tannersville, Pa., and Karlee Goldberg, of Conshohocken, Pa., are researching sexual aggression in wolf spiders with Professor of Biology Matt Persons. Almost all of Susquehanna's participants have performed their research in conjunction with—or under the guidance of—faculty members, and many have done so through Susquehanna's Summer Research Partners program. Summer Research Partners are given stipends to support their full-time research work with professors.
Students and faculty from Moravian College, Juniata College, Goucher College and the University of Scranton also participated in the symposium. Their presentation topics included the chemistry of wine, women in the Civil Rights Movement, the Lake Muhlenberg Dam, and the cultural validity of an inventory that measures good character.
This is Susquehanna University's second time hosting the conference. The first Landmark Conference Summer Research Symposium was held on Susquehanna's campus in 2009. The symposium has since been hosted by Juniata, Goucher and Moravian colleges.
The Landmark Conference is an intercollegiate athletics conference established in 2006 to bring together schools with strong academic emphases. Landmark Conference members are Catholic University, Drew University, Goucher, Juniata, Moravian, Susquehanna, Scranton, and the U.S. Merchant Marine Academy.
Since the creation of the Landmark Conference, one of its goals has been to find "ways to collaborate beyond athletic venues," said Professor of Biology Margaret Peeler, who serves as Susquehanna's faculty representative to the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA). "The symposium has done just that."


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Trees and Storms: A Recipe for Hazards
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When a powerful storm rolls through, trees are often left in shambles. To assess and remedy the damage, identifying key threats is important. While some storms may cause damage that a rake and blower can fix, others may make an area unsafe to even stand in. Here are a few tips to help you to remain safe after a storm.
One of the biggest threats to your safety is downed utility lines. When professionals arrive at a scene where severe tree-damage has occurred, the first course of action is to locate all utility lines present. While an electrical conductor lying on the ground may appear harmless, it should never be considered as such. Any professional trained to work in proximity to electrical hazards will tell you, they are all hot unless tested and grounded! Do not touch itno matter what!
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It's truly a challenge to maintain a healthy diet and work out daily when you have to go to class and study all the time. Over the summer, I lost 25lbs because I was so dedicated. All I did over the summer was volunteer and work so I had plenty of time to work out but now I'm struggling. It's really not hard to fit in workouts however the hard part is the feeling exhausted afterwards when you have two papers to write and an exam to study for. I'm trying to get my belly down at least a little bit more for spring break, which is in two weeks! I'm a smaller woman so I'm not fat nor do I look fat, but I have a little gut that I have been trying to get rid of since my daughter was born. She will be having a birthday in 3 months and by then all my fat has to be gone!
Currently, I'm taking a nutrition class so I'm learning a lot about how to have a healthful diet, portion control, and how the body digests etc. This class is helping me stay aware of the foods that I'm eating and keeping me from eating too many sweets. I think freshman should take a nutrition class in their first semester. Everyone knows about the freshman 15 and instead of having college 101 the incoming students should take nutrition. Maybe the college 101 classes should have a nutrition speaker come in and talk to the students. I've taken college 101 and learned a lot about relaxation, so if we implement nutrition they can get a taste of how to maintain a healthy weight during their college years.


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I was 100%, now I'm abou 85%, which is good considering I was at about 4% with Blinkity Blanko. She was a freakin' petty little moron. Anyone that thinks we were better off with her than Jindal is completely misguided and so blinded by political affiliation that they will always be miserable. LiberNazi's if you will. You know, the closed mind type. If you have an (R) behind your name, you are evil no matter what.
No. Raise the per diem and give them 20somethin' year. I want the per diem to hold their money. The more they work, the more they make. What if they have to be at 3 or 4 not so special sessions?
We love you Johnny! You are an integral part of the heart on N.O.! Glad things are looking up!
We love you Johnny! You are an integral part of the heart on N.O.! Glad things are looking up!
Thuggery. That's what continues to keep the brand out there every day. It's the influence of turds like this.
Thuggery. That's what continues to keep the brand out there every day. It's the influence of turds like this.
Well, the world needs ditch diggers too!
Well, they already know that Bobby is a Piyushy, so why not. They should create a bill that gives their entire extended family free cars and rent...no...free houses! They should raise their pay to EQUAL that of US Congress. Why not!? Then Jindal can "urge" them to stop. Then maybe we can get some good people in there, like the Jeffersons.
Saw the video of Bobby dodging reporters questions today. His approval rating is now on the negative side for me.
I didn't vote for Tucker or Duplesis or most of those cretons (nor would I have if given the opportunity), but I did vote for Bobby Jindal based on his promises. He knew this was coming and that is why he advertised his intention to stop it. If he would have run for governor and said "And I believe it is the will of the people of Louisiana to give a 128% raise to our lawmakers!" then I most likely would not have voted for him. But, if I did, then I could not complain. If he vetoes and gets hamstringed by the Legislature, then the people will make our voice heard again. WE ARE THE ONES WHO PAY THEIR SALARIES,VOTE FOR THEM, AND ARE DIRECTLY AFFECTED BY THEIR CHOICES. THEY WILL DO WHAT THE PEOPLE ASK OR FACE THE CONSEQUENCES.
That is crap. Not good enough Bobby. We didn't urge for you to become governor. WE voted for you. Now you can veto this bill NOW! The people do NOT want this to happen and if you allow it to pass, it will be a slap in the face of the people who put you into office and I swear that I, for one, will NEVER forget.
Now is really a good time to sit on a porch and drink packaged liquor all day.
Sit on the porch all day. It's much cheaper. If you need another cold beer, ride your bike to the store.
Heitmeier & Alario get enough kickbacks already. The pay raise is a joke. It's like a waiter getting a raise from $2.15 to $6.00/hr. They make all their money in tips anyway. Big surprise Shepherd voted for it... He is a bad crook and needs every penny he can get. His greed WILL be his ultimate downfall. Foxes watching the henhouse folks. Big fat, stupid, greedy, petty, stanky, shifty eyed, wasteful, evil foxes.
I hope they can get some buffer zone rebuilt or we are in a world of trouble.
It's not that you went to go see the Sex In the City movie that makes you a flaming color. It's that you and your friends made T-Shirts proclaiming your manhood. Anyone who acually has to do that is obviously weakened by the might of his wife's wishes. I'll bet you have your club in the garage and you hide things like beer and junkfood. You should be ashamed of yourself. Did you and your friends color all over your T-shirt? Go cut the grass you subdued colorer. You probably have the front baby strap and wear a helmet when you ride a bike. The great WWII generation would be embarassed to even look at you.
I haven't seen such a list of profound achievements since the Steve Gutenberg chronicles. I'll bet those two have been in some piece of crap together.
Police Acedemy 12 anyone?
I'm sure we could get some tax credits for it!!!
Whoop! Whoop!!!!
I don't know what ticks me off more, Californian carpetbaggers or dysfunctional local leadership asd processes. Well, either way, we have a blighted crappy park. The NBA Cares Foundation would have just made a nice park for the kids via volunteers without all the television series garbage.
I look at that picture and all I can think is that he was sitting back watching Andy Griffith and one of his aids told him to look serious and stare out the window.


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This year I tackled a simple advent calendar for the the kids. My main challenge was to find time when the kids were sleeping to number, fill and hang the bags.
I used paper lunch bags found at the dollarstore. I chose them over other craft paper bags because they are cheaper, large and quite pliable - this made it great to have two gifts per bag, some of them small, others larger and odd in size.
I numbered them with number stickers in black, added a circle in silver paint pen and some other drawn squiggles to fancy them up a bit. Your options here are endless - you could use a stamp set, add craft paper, make number tags, stencils, etc. I wanted an approach that wasn't too time consuming as these bags won't be used again next year.
To hang I put four nails in my window frame where holes already existed. I added red gift string and tied it across the window - two rows.
My initial thought was to hang the bags with clothes pins, but some gifts were quite heavy and the clothes pins couldn't take the weight. So I opted for office file clips (the black and silver matched) - this turned more industrial looking than I first envisioned. The key to the heavier bags staying put is to drape the top of the bags over the string and then clip them together.
The gifts in bag 1 were too heavy even for that, so I placed it on the window sill and set a companion next to it.
Gifts in the bags:
- Miniature books
- Soaps
- Erasers
- Stickers
- Card games
- Hot wheels
- Princess figurines
- Farm animals
- Chocolate, etc.
All things were found at the dollar store, Michaels or the office supply store and cost around $1 each.
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Ireland visitors participate in tourism promotion video
Ireland's renowned musical group, The Celtic Tenors spent an extended stay in Western North Carolina's Rutherford County during a tour stop at The Foundation Performing Arts Center in Spindale.
As part of Rutherford County Tourism's "Visitor Instant Movie Program," a promo video told through the eyes of its visitors, The Celtic Tenors agreed to accompany a local tourism guide and share their feedback on and off camera about the county. Despite not being able to pronounce the names of certain towns, like "Ruth-er-ford-ton," the feedback received from each member was sincere, glowing, and enough to make any resident proud.
Watch the YouTube video of their visit: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Te5D35Ty5HU
Tenors member Matthew Gilsenan loved that the small towns of Rutherford County were "unspoiled by modern, nasty architecture," and found the streets to be very "calming." Matthew also enjoyed learning where the first one-dollar gold coin in the U.S. was made declaring Rutherfordton's Bechtler House and Mint Site "absolutely fantastic."
A special stop for vocalist James Nelson was seeing St. Francis Episcopal Church in Rutherfordton with its pair of Tiffany stained-glass windows. He also raved about The Firehouse Inn, a historic B&B in Rutherfordton, calling it "magnificent" and giving high praise to its welcoming and hospitable staff.
Daryl Simpson amusingly tried to avoid a cliché by naming the Blue Ridge Distilling Company – makers of Defiant Whiskey - as his favorite stop on the tour, but emphasized that he was sincerely impressed by the "imagination that went behind putting this distillery together."
"This is an amazing part of the country, and steeped in history," said Daryl, naming the area's hospitality as the most attractive element of their Rutherford County tour.
"I thoroughly enjoyed the hospitality of the people here," said Daryl. "They've just been so warm and friendly and welcoming, and I think it's something that people should realize locally is their number one selling point for attracting visitors and tourists."
The trio, along with pianist Vinnie, rounded out their trip with a pontoon boat tour of Lake Lure and an invitation to Mayor Bob and Pam Keith's house for some lakeside hospitality.
"On departure we were treated to sad, but beautiful "Danny Boy" a capella," said Keith. "I wish you all could have been there for this 'hands across the water' experience. I'm sure they will be back someday."
Learn more about The Celtic Tenors at www.celtic-tenors.com.


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UW finds creative way to get workers back to class
The new, flexible online program coming next fall should boost educational attainment in the state.
It may be a first in the nation: Come next fall, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee and the two-year UW Colleges will offer a 100% competency-based online degree program for working adults. »Read Full Article


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By Diogenes (articles ) | Dec 04, 2006
The LA Times reports that the Archdiocese is not only a landlord, but a landlord with a fully developed post-Conciliar sense of social responsibility.
The L.A. Archdiocese seems to have some cushion against selling churches and schools. Its nonreligious properties run the gamut of real estate investments: as varied as undeveloped desert parcels, six dozen single-family homes, the land beneath Goudy Honda in Alhambra and a Mission Hills self-storage business, county assessor records show. One property in the fashion district is home to a number of stores, including the Berry Sexy Too clothing boutique.
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Fifty suits settled for $60 million, with 500 more in the pipeline. Looks like Mahoney is down to his last pair of Prada slippers.
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The diocese had extensive holdings on the Wilshire Miracle Mile at one time. Maybe it still does. Cdl. Mahony might want to build another cathedral one of these days when he gets tired of the monstrosity that he had built. The property might come in handy.
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Take Shelter
Jeff Nichols' film is, by far, the most terrifying and most beautiful film of the year, a story of a regular man driven mad by the ordinary things in life. Michael Shannon delivers the best performance of his already pitch-perfect career, with it-girl Jessica Chastain lingering on the sidelines before turning in an awe-inspiring scene in the depths of a modified storm shelter. An unnerving achievement that stuck with me from its Sundance debut in January through the rest of the year, and likely for many years to come.
A documentary about a Brazilian Formula-1 driver that transcends those apparent boundaries to simply be a film about a man and his dreams. Director Asif Kapadia and writer Manish Pandey meticulously built their film from thousands of hours of video, turning in a technical marvel that comes complete with its own (unexpected) emotional punch. The best documentary of the year.
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Nearly perfectly constructed, ceaselessly terrifying, a true piece of art from first-time director Sean Durkin. While another Sundance it-girl, Felicity Jones, is racking up the accolades for her work in Like Crazy, it is this film's star, Elizabeth Olsen, who truly broke out with her first feature role. As the titular character, she's just as lost and confused as most filmgoers were when they tried to say the alliterative-filled title. A classic runaway tale pumped up by the influence of John Hawkes and his magnetic cult, there was nowhere for Martha to run, and I couldn't turn away.
The Skin I Live In
Pedro Almodovar again pushed the envelope with the year's most bizarre and weirdly absorbing love story. Film as cipher, identity as malleable, sex as currency, revenge as salvation, lies as truth. Ask ten audience members what the film was about, and you will get ten different answers, all of them as true and as rich as the others.
Sex wasn't sexy in 2011, and no film proved that point more than Steve McQueen's stunner. Starring Michael Fassbender as a tortured sex addict, the film stripped bare a man in the year's finest (and most wrenching) character study. Less about sex addiction, and more about pain and (forgive me) shame in the general sense, the film is oddly accessible and undeniably human.
Nathan Adams
Martha Marcy May Marlene
No other film this year struck me as being as well crafted a piece of art as MMMM. From the jumbled timeline of the storytelling, to the powerfully manic performances, to the visuals of the film blending one gorgeous scene into another; everything worked together in perfect sync to recreate the disorienting yet euphoric feeling of being a brainwashed cult member. This film truly plays as something you experience rather than just passively watch. Or maybe I'm just a sucker for John Hawkes gazing into my eyes and crooning.
Living in a society that's swimming in pornography where people spit on and strangle each other and Girls Gone Wild advertisements where people are glorified for getting drunk and exposing themselves in public has us so numbed to sexual dysfunction that the dysfunction is becoming the norm. It's only a society like this that could create Brandon, Michael Fassbender's compulsive, sex addicted, isolated character in Shame. Fassbender's hypnotizing performance and director Steve McQueen's experimental, yet assured use of the camera hold a mirror up to the darkest parts of the soul of modern man, and seeing that twisted reflection looking back at me was a first visceral, then haunting experience that I'm not going to forget anytime soon.
Super 8
I'm a sucker for 80s genre nostalgia, and Super 8 has that in spades, but I honestly don't think that's why I responded so strongly to it. While J.J. Abrams' monster movie delights in making us remember all of the Amblin Entertainment films from my childhood, it's not content just to reference or pay homage to them. It creates characters that are memorable and relatable on their own, it explores human relationships and how sometimes we can live so deeply in our own minds that we create barriers between ourselves and other people, and then it systematically breaks down those barriers in a cathartic, joy inducing third act that I'm sure had to make an old softy like Steven Spielberg smile.
Attack the Block
If Super 8 is a movie designed to bring back the warm fuzzies of 80s era family fare, then Attack the Block is it's older teenage brother, meant to give us spine tingling recollections of the crasser 80s genre works of legends like Joe Dante and Walter Hill. But aside from that it's just a thrilling sci-fi/horror film that gives us big laughs, crazy action, memorable characters, and a breakneck pace that never lets up from the film's ominous opening to its inspirational end. It's probably the most fun I had in a theater all year.
Joseph Gordon-Levitt is probably the last actor I would ever cast as a metalhead drifter, but that's why I don't get paid to make movies, because in Hesher he plays the best metalhead drifter I've ever seen. Hesher in his hands is a mythic figure, a catalyst for change that steps into a grounded and sad story and completely turns everything on its ear with juvenile, destructive nonsense. He practices the zen of lighting shit on fire and breaking stuff, and watching him shake the shattered Forney family out of their doldrums made for one of the most hysterical and affecting films of the year. Also, it contains the most absurd Star Wars homage I've ever seen in my life.


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When: February 2, 2014
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Jason Motte: Crazy? Awesome? Or Crazy Awesome?
Categories: Aaron Schafer, Cardinals
I was watching the Cardinals last night, watching Edwin Jackson allow eleven base runners in five and a third innings before leaving with an injury (just a dynamite pickup, that), and then Jason Motte entered the ballgame to pull Jackson's irons out of the fire. (Irons is the polite version of what I had originally planned on saying, by the way. If you want the uncensored version come back for my midnight post. I have to warn you, though. It gets a little blue.) As Motte came stomping in from the 'pen, I thought to myself, "You know, Motte's been doing this fireman thing a bunch lately. He's been pretty good, too, I think."
At which point it occurred to me I really don't know exactly how good Jason Motte has actually been this year other than in a very general way, so I grabbed the laptop and pulled up his season line. Suffice to say, I was shocked at myself for somehow failing to notice that Jason Motte has been one of the best relievers in all of baseball this year.
On the season, Motte is sporting a shiny 1.90 ERA, to go a long with a 2.49 FIP. That compares favorably with the seasons being had by pitchers like Mariano Rivera (2.48 FIP), Jordan Walden (2.47), Daniel Bard (3.03), Carlos Marmol (3.06), and -- ahem -- Heath Bell (2.88). Note that Bard is the only one of that group not currently shouldering the closer role, and only because of the presence of Jonathan Papelbon.
Even more than his overall season line, though, Motte's performance since the beginning of July is just otherwordly. Since June gave way to July, a time period in which Motte has played in 21 games, accounting for 14.2 innings, he's struck out 12, allowed 10 hits, and walked just one batter. That's right, he's walked one hitter in the last month and a half. Oh, and he hasn't allowed any runs, either. Zero. Nada. Zilch. The last run Jason Motte gave up came on the 23rd of June against the Phillies.
What is a little odd about Motte's usage during this time period is the fact he hasn't thrown more than one inning in any outing. In fact, he's thrown less than a full inning in 14 of those 21 appearances. Jason Motte is, in short, basically fulfilling the wet dream of old-school bullpen watchers and newfangled sabermetric types alike: he's been the best reliever on the team, but he isn't closing. Instead, he's appearing anywhere from the sixth to ninth innings, taking care of the highest-leverage situations that come up. As much as I criticise Tony La Russa for myriad reasons, his use of Motte the past six weeks or so has been nothing short of brilliant.
So can Motte maintain this recent level of performance? Well, in short, no, but only because no reliever maintains a 0.00 ERA for all that long. As for his season line, though, the only real red flag is the fact his home run rate is probably unsustainable. Eventually Motte is going to give up a few long balls, and his numbers are going to suffer as a result. Even when that day comes, though, Jason Motte will still have some pretty phenomenal numbers next to his name. I admit when the Cards traded away Chris Perez two years ago to bring in Mark DeRosa, I wished it had been Motte instead. I thought he was a one-trick pony, whereas Perez had the potential for a pair of plus-plus pitches. Time has proven me wrong. Motte may still be a one-trick pony (one and a half, tops), but looking at what's he accomplished this season for the Redbirds I have to admit it's one hell of a trick.
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Heroes of Herodor Ch. 02bySuperjoe99999©
But on the other hand, he was going to be executed the next day. How much worse could things get? So he told the man his story, in-between gulps of the foul gruel. When he came to the part of the Emperor gloating over the fate of Earth, the man closed his eyes and shook his head.
"Saar loves to gloat. That's something he needs to work on. Of course, no one has the guts to tell him otherwise. I did, and look where I am."
"You knew the Emperor?"
"Of course." Temmen smiled. "I was once a general in his army. For five centuries I kept the peace...."
"Five centuries? How old are you?"
"Nine hundred years, give or take a few." After a moment, he said, "People live a long time on this world. Time is different here. The Emperor is five thousand years old. Fifty centuries has he ruled over Herodor, despite efforts by many to unseat him. But when he came to power, all seemed full of promise." And then, without further preamble, he began to tell the story of his world.
"This world has always been a harsh place. one hundred and fifty three kingdoms, dozens of races, religions and whatnot. No one could agree on anything. Then, nine thousand years ago, a warrior prince names Daal unified the planet under his rule. After the usual turmoil and rebellions had died down, it turned out to be a very good thing for everyone. Daal ruled with a firm hand, but he was just and fair, and gave justice where it was due. The wars stopped, and Herodor began to prosper."
"In time Daal had sons of his own. One of them was named Saar, and he lusted after his fathers power. Daal looked like he was going to live a very long time, so Saar hatched a plot, and killed his father with his own hands. Then he killed his brothers so that none of them had the same idea. He seized power, and began a reign of terror that hasn't stopped. Where his father ruled with justice, he ruled with tyranny. Where Daal showed mercy, he inflicts additional pain. He believes the world, the universe, exists solely for his amusement, and after five thousand years the things that amuse him are very dark indeed."
"My God," Tommy breathed. "Amy."
Temmen looked over. "She was taken by him?"
"Then best let her go. The Emperor will use her until she begins to bore him. Then he will undoubtedly use her in some perversion that will lead to her death. She is dead already."
"No!" He stood and paced. He didn't know the girl until a few days ago, and from what he saw she deserved every bit of her reputation as a prima donna Hollywood bitch. But he couldn't leave her here in the hands of that psycho. "I can't do that! I have to rescue her!"
"You can't even get out of this cell! How are you going to get into the Royal Seraglio? And need I remind you that by this time tomorrow you're going to be dead?"
"I'll think of something!" Plans rushed through his head, and were just as quickly discarded. He could try rushing the guards...but they might gas him again. Or outnumber him, or simply shoot him on sight....
With a roar of anger he slammed his fist against the door, casing a hollow boom. "You bastard, I'll you!" he yelled.
"I'm sure he heard you," Temmen said with some amusement.
Tommy spun around. "If you can't help, than just shut up." "Boy, I have been in here for seven years, and seen hundreds of men just like you come in here and say the same thing. And they all end up the same way, a dead body being fed to the beasts."
"I just can't give up!"
"Why not? I did." He smiled at that. "I served the Emperor for a very long time. I kept my eyes closed at the many things he did. I hoped that maybe he didn't change. I liked the life I led. But finally I couldn't turn away. I...did something, helped someone who wanted things to change. And now I'm here. Take my advice. Enjoy what few hours you have left in this life, because they will not come again."
"Bullshit! Maybe you have given up, but I won't."
Temmen sighed, and leaned back again. "You remind me of someone I once knew. He said the same things you did."
"What happened to him?"
"For all I know, he's dead." Another long pause. And then Temmen stood. "I don't know why I'm doing this. I'm dead already, I know this. Saar just hasn't gotten around to signing my death warrant. And once I'm gone, it will be lost forever."
"What are you talking about?" Tommy asked.
"Use it well." And then with a blinding burst of speed, he rushed up and grabbed Tommy's head.
Tommy gurgled and his world became filled with brilliant light. His head felt like it was being filled up with water, until it would burst, and then filled up some more. Through a red haze he saw Temmen's mouth moving, but he couldn't hear the words. Then two of them came through, repeating over and over. "Remember this...remember this....remember this....."
He fell away, falling onto his back. Just before he blacked out again, he sat Temmen collapse to the ground, mouth open eyes unseeing, as his life left his body.
Amy lost all track of time after the first day.
She hung on the straps, face listless, lost in a sea of unfulfilled desire. Her thighs were shining with the juices of her arousal. Her nipples had been hard for so long they felt little stones. She breathed hoarsely through her open mouth, red hair hanging around her.
At some point they had brought her into the Halls of Pillars and placed her in the very center, where she could have a view of everything that went on. By the looks of it, there were at least a hundred and fifty women chained in here, and nearly everyone was in the same situation as she was. The only difference being, they had the hope of eventual release.
Every so often a man, or at least something looking like a man, would stroll in. Mostly they appeared to be soldiers from the guards. Oddly enough, they always kept their helmets on, so she never got a look at their faces. Every time one of them entered, the woman would send up a cry of pleading, calling him over. "Use me...take me for you pleasure...I will give delights to remember forever...." They thrust forward their breasts, played with themselves, reached to touch the visitor. Some even kept up after he had picked his choice.
It wasn't only the guards who came in. Other did as well, minor nobles and court functionaries. Amy remembered seeing one being, a short greenskinned creature with eyes like an insects. He—she assumed it was a male—eventually settled on a busty blond not too far away. His robes opened and out flopped a green, segmented penis, which the woman sucked on eagerly until it was stiff. The she turned around and raised her rump, like a dog, while the stranger creature took her from behind. Thrusting in several times, he made a buzzing sound, while the woman screamed and thrashed. Personally Amy didn't know why she was making such a noise. Even from here she could see that the creatures cock was on the small side, and it finished quickly, pouring greenish seed after only three or four thrusts.
The man gave a buzzing groan as he came. He pulled out his penis, glistening from the encounter, and tucked it back under his robe. The woman slumped and slammed her fist on the floor. Th lights on the side of the collar blinked, and Amy realized that the collar had prevented her orgasm. Her number hadn't come up.
She witnessed several dozen more encounters like this. Most ended the same way. But one didn't. A black-skinned woman, her hair pulled out in dreaded, was humped by a guard, who lifted her up and held her against the pillar while he ravaged her. She screamed as he pumped her. He groaned, and Amy could see drips of semen oozing from the lips of her cunt. And then she screamed again, a long, lingering howl, eyes wide, back arched. The collar on her neck blinked once, and then snapped open and fell to the floor. The guard let her down, and dressed himself, even as the woman continued to thrash and moan. He was walking out the door when her orgasm finally subsided. She lay still then, and Amy wondered if she was dead. A pair of female servants entered and carried out her on a stretcher. An hour later another woman, this one fair skinned, with brown hair, was chained to the pillar, the same collar clamped on her neck.
Amy tried to witness as much as she could, but her own condition made it difficult at best. The buzzing sphere seemed to work on a irregular schedule. It would do its thing, driving her insane, for an hour, and then stop for another hour. It would begin again, then let off after ten minutes. It would stimulate her for half a day, then break off for a minute then continue again for five minutes, and then for several more hours. Once a full day went by between sessions.
And every time it finished, she was left even more aroused than before, and permanently kept there by the collar. After a while it left her almost comatose at times. She wondered why her heart hadn't stopped. After while she began to look hungrily at the men who came in. She watched every encounter with hunger, wished it was her being used, wishing it was her that was being brought to a screaming, even life-stopping orgasm. Several times she called out to men who walked in. "Hey big boy....come trey this treat....I'll suck you dry...." and even more graphic suggestions that would put the whores of Hollywood Boulevard to shame. The first time that happened, the man in question, a plump official took a look at her, hanging from the rack, paled, and then hurried out back without taking any of the girls.
Several of the woman called out curses at her as a result.
She passed out several times. After what seemed an eternity, she came to in a different room. It was smaller than the Hall of pillars, but still quite enormous. She was set in the center, and from the dampness on her skin had been washed down while she was out. Looking around, she saw cushions and divans set along the walls and to the back. Men and women in silks and finery lounged on them, served by naked slave girls with golden platters. Seated on a golden couch was the Emperor, wearing a g9lden robe open to the waist, a pair of maidens on either side.
Music began to play from a hidden place. A soft murmur began as a young woman entered, wearing a purple hooded robe. With a shock Amy realized she recognized her. She had been at the audience, the daughter of the Hippolyan Queen.
A slender, trembling hand went to the laces of her robe and tugged them loose. The heavy robe fell to the ground, revealing a slender body, small breasts, and long firm legs. Her long hair was tied out in a tail, and her blue eyes looked out nervously. She wore seven strips of silk wound around her body.
She fell to her knees and leaned back, hands on her thighs, breasts thrust outwards, breathing deeply. The music began to play more quickly, and Lady Karila—that was her name, Amy would learn later—suddenly rose to her small, delicate feet, and began to dance. Arms out, hands twirling, she leapt across the floor, jumping gracefully in time with the music. It was a traditional dance of the Amazons of Hippolya, done on the day they were reckoned a woman and worthy to take a another woman as a mate, and a male slave as a breeding partner. But Princess Karila, delivered up as tribute by her mother, danced for the gratification of the Emperor. One thing was certain; while this may have begun with a dance, it would not end. That way.
The strips of silk began to peel away, fluttering from her body, now shining with perspiration. One by one that came free, revealing sights of slender, pale leg, flat, narrow waist, small breasts, and finally shaved cunt. And then she was naked, springing and dancing, coming to a sudden halt as the music crecendoed, kneeling before the Emperor.
"Well done," Saar said, touching the panting girl on the head. "You are a credit to your people, and to your mother. She had trained you well."
"You honor me," Karila replied in a breathless voice.
"There is only one test left for you to face."
She looked up, surprise on her face. "I don't understand...."
She then flew back as a rose spray struck her in the face, released by one of Saar's slaves. She stumbled back, blinking, momentarily dizzy. But the sensation soon passed, just as a large set of doors to the rear opened.
A few gasps came from the audience as a large shadow appeared. Others leaned forward eagerly, wondering what entertainment their depraved monarch had in store for tonight. Lady Karila just stood there, eyes wide, tears streaming down her face, as her worst nightmare entered the chamber.
Amy couldn't believe what she saw. The creature was seven feet tall, with a human shaped, heavily muscled body. It was a dark green color, with thick hair matting the flesh. Hooves were on the end of its legs instead of feet. Its arms were much longer than they would have been on a human, with six fingers tipped with blunt claws. It's head was not even vaguely human like, resembling a bulls head, with two large curving horns, and two small tusks jutting up from it's lower jaw. In all, it resembled and overgrown minotaur, and was now fastening it's eyes on the shaking girl.
A sword clattered to the ground next to her feet. "Show us your warrior spirit," Saar called out. "Prove why the Hippolyans still rule with an iron hand."
She picked it up, staring at the beast with wide eyes, ancestral hatred mixing with raw, gibbering terror. It was a Taurr, the ancestral enemy of the Amazons. For countless generations they had warred for control of the jungles both called home. When the Amazons came upon one, they cut it down without mercy, often taking the time to castrate it first. When a Taurr captured an Amazon, it slaked its bestial lust on it's body. In fact, among some of their tribes, a Taurr male was not counted as a warrior until it had captured and raped an Amazon.
And now the daughter of the Hippolyan Queen was facing a fully grown Taurr warrior, which stared at her with contempt, his hands bare. She assumed a defensive stance, praying to the goddess for help. With a rumbling laugh., the Taurr strode forward hands at the ready.
Karila dodged it's first swipe, and scored a cut along his side. The Taurr didn't even seem to notice. It was at that point that she noticed the strange smell coming from it, saw the ointment he had rubbed into her fur. She felt woozy...and to her horror found herself becoming aroused. What was happening?
Another slash, this one missed, and the Taurr grabbed her sword arm and twisted. She cried in pain as the sword fell from her fingers, and then was thrown to the floor. The smell of the Taurr was overwhelming. Too late she realized the Emperors cruel joke. The spray she had been struck with was reacting to the smell coming from the ointment, causing sexual arousal. Not only was she going to be used like a whore by the ancestral enemy of her people, her body was going to be very willing.
The Taurr snuffled as he pulled aside her thighs, one hand clamped around the back of her neck to prevent struggling. He looked up at the Emperor, who nodded once. With a earsplitting bellow it pulled away the rank loincloth around its waist, revealing a massive penis already stiffening to attention. He looked down, and saw her female passage, already wet with arousal. Bellowing again, he rammed itself into the weeping girl, grunting at the tightness of her passage.
From her position in the cage, Amy watched in fascinated, lustful fascination. The penis seemed too large, that it would split her in two. Karila screamed as her passage was stretched wide open, her cunny lips wrapped tightly round the giant cock. The Taurr thrust forward once, and four inches slipped it. He halted, feeling the head press up against her hymen. He laughed, realizing the girl was virgin. With a roar he smashed forward, and Karila screamed as her virginity was raped away.
The Taurr began to fuck her crazily, like the beast he was. Pulling back and slamming in, Karila young tight body shuddering from the impact. She wept and grunted, and then began to moan. With a shock, she realized her body was reacting to the harsh treatment, and wept at her shame.
The Taurr then suddenly stood, grabbing her by the hips and lifting her up, With the girl still impaled on his cock, he planted his hooves firmly on the floor, thrust his hips out, and began to lift her up and down, rising Karila upward, than slamming her back down. The first time she gasped. The second time, she began to whimper. And the third time she screamed as her own orgasm struck. Screamed with pleasure and humiliation, for she had been used by the one creature she hated above others.
She was then lifted off and dropped on the ground. She tried to crawl away, but little strength was left in her body. Her pussy was stretched horribly wide, blood and juices trickling out mixed. The Taurr stood above her gripping it's huge shaft in one hand. Gobs of yellowing semen shot out, splashing across her body in the Ritual of Domination. The Taurr groaned, as it cock twitched for one last time, softening as the last drop splashed across her face.
Saar clapped his hands, the others quickly following suit. He nodded at the Taurr, which shuffle out, breathing deeply. Two guards rushed forward and grabbed the stunned girl by the arms, dragged her out. They would take her through the palace, display her to all who saw, as a sign of her complete and utter humiliation for the amusement of the Emperor.
Amy hung from the cage, breathing heavily. The smell of sex was still string in the air, and she drew it in deeply. Idly, she wished it was her who had been so brutally ravaged by the Taurr, then started at what she just thought., She had just fantasized about being raped by a monster! What was happening to her?
The Emperor looked at her, and smiled his cruel smile.
Yet again Tommy awoke to a blinding headache.
This time his head was ringing like a church bell on a Sunday morning. Blinking away the gumminess, he opened his eyes, and found himself staring at a pair of black boots.
"Get up." The guard stood over him, gun at the ready.
Tommy did as he was ordered, a cold chill running through his veins. The time had come. He was going to die, unless he did something about it immediately. Standing on shaky feet, he saw another guard examining Temmen. Lying still in the corner, eyes open wide, mouth hanging down. "He's dead," the guard finally said, turning back his voice slightly buzzy from the helmet.
"About time." The first guard lowered the gun. "Move!"
They pushed him out the door and into a wide, metal hallway, standing with rust and things less savory. At the far end was a metal door, which lay open. Beyond it was a small chamber lined with glowing red panels.
The inferno chamber, he realized, then wondered how he knew the name. The guards kept pushing him up. The first one had his finger away from the trigger....move left, break his neck...they are weak in the neck....He blinked. How did he know that?
The gun prodded him again, and this he heard the ominous whine. Have to kill them...NOW!
He moved without thinking, slipping smoothly around the guard, who was unable to pull the trigger, wrapping his arm around the neck and squeezing, feeling the bones crunch as he twisted the neck almost completely around.
The second guard whirled and fired two red bolts, which impacted into the dead body, Tommy using it as a shield, he gripped the arms, and hurled at the remaining guard, throwing him to the ground. Before he could get back up, Tommy leapt into the air, his feet smashing down on a particular spot in the guards back, where he knew there was a small, but fatal pressure point....
He rolled away and came to his feet, and realized he was still breathing slowly. His hands began to shake. How had he known all that? How could have possibly known?


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The Belle and Lion in Sheerness has released figures for its first few weeks of trading, which show just how popular it has become.
From opening day at the High Street watering hole on Tuesday, July 22, to Sunday, August 17, 2,575 breakfasts were sold.
Staff poured 3,503 hot drinks, dished out 3,191 burgers and hot dogs and pulled 10,791 pints of lager.
The top two food products are fish and chips, ordered 780 times, and the chicken and rib combo, sold to 679 customers.
Manager Kelly Smith, who runs the pub with her husband Chris, says the busiest periods have been lunchtimes and club nights, where punters can get a deal on food and drink.
She said: "We have had a fantastic month with the first two weeks exceeding ours and the company's expectations.
"The highlight was the Mayor and Mayoress of Swale joining us for lunch on open day, and myself and some of the team watching the fireworks last weekend from the roof.
"General feedback has been good.
"We can't please everyone, yet the team are working hard to ensure every customer receives the best service first time.
"We are very pleased with the way we have been so well received in the town and look forward to strengthening our community links."
She says things have calmed down slightly now and they are looking forward to the future which include a menu change on October 1 and a J.D. Wetherspoon Real Ale Festival from October 17 to November 2.
Christmas meals will start mid-November until December 23 and it will even be open for food on Christmas Day for bookings only.
The firm has also set up good links with some local companies and they hope to continue collaborating next year.
The £1.2 million refurbishment of the former Brittain and Hobbs shop in the High Street was approved in February and has created around 60 jobs.
Tommy Holland, co-owner of the nearby Goat pub and Tantra nightclub, welcomed Wetherspoon when it was announced and says he is delighted to say it has made a positive difference to his own trade.
He said: "Since it opened I'm well up. I said it would bring people down to the town and I'm pleased to say that what I expected to happen has happened, and I'm grateful.
"There are more customers and it's busier of an evening."
He has just spent £14,000 on revamping the front of the buildings along the High Street with wooden cladding.
It was supposed to take around four weeks but after some cracks were discovered it turned into a bigger job and took 10 weeks or so.
He said he wanted the area to have a bit of an impact and give it back its character. He said: "It was originally a wooden building so we decided to put it back to its former glory. I'm proud of it – a lot of people have commented on how it looks."
Work is also going to refurbish the inside of the pub and he will then turn his attention to revamping the arcade and Tantra, off Bridge Road.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Brach's Spiced Jelly Bird Eggs
When I was very little, as far as I knew, Jelly Beans came in a scant few flavors and they were basically the same as Spice Drops. Later Jelly Belly came along and revolutionized jelly beans by trying to make everything into a flavor at least once.
Brach's now calls their fruit blend of Jelly Bird Eggs their Classic Flavors, and they call what were, for about 100 years the classic flavors simply Spiced. I guess when a couple of generations grow up with fruity jelly beans, that happens. Now, I might complain that things have changed over the years, and a pound of coffee is no longer a pound of coffee ... but this bag is actually a pound of jelly beans. For only $2.49 ... not a bad deal overall ... if they're any good.
Nowhere on the bag does it go beyond that name to describe what the flavors actually are. It appears there are six flavors.
I'll start with Green which is epitome of a Spearmint jelly bean. It's like a jelly bean version of Spearmint Leaves. The shell is grainy and far too sweet, but the center has a lot of fresh spearmint flavor, with little pops of extra flavor now and then. Very refreshing. I picked these out of the bag and ate them first.
Black is Licorice, which is not surprising to anyone who's ever had jelly beans. The flavor is strongly anise, crisp and sweet but with a little bitter edge that I think may come from the artificial colors. I liked them, they were good but there were far fewer blacks than any other color in the bag.
White is Peppermint but a rather mild mint. As much as I like peppermint, it simply doesn't go very well here. It's weak and watery, kind of like a peppermint tea instead of a peppermint candy. Still, I didn't avoid them and I enjoyed the fact that they didn't have any colorings in them.
Orange is Orange Spice. I think it's spiced orange, because it's not Orange Slice orange, there's a note of cinnamon and clove to the shell, but the center is orange. These irritated me, because I wanted a zesty Jelly Bird Egg equivalent of the Orange Slice. However, I applaud them for making an orange that was actually in keeping with the spice theme.
Pink is Wintergreen. I love wintergreen and these were pretty good, aromatic and medicinal but with a bitter finish.
Purple is Clove. I don't care for clove as a candy flavor or spice, so I'll pass on this one. It was strong and well rounded, with both aromatic notes and the bitterness that I'm never sure is coming from the flavorings or the colorings.
Red is Cinnamon. I like cinnamon a lot and I eat plenty of Hot Tamales. These were spicy and sweet, a good balance, especially since it seemed to come from the jelly center, not just the sugary shell.
On the whole, they're an acceptable blend of flavors, just what I expected. I wish the sugar shell wasn't quite so grainy and sweet, but the jelly center is actually rather smooth. The contain no pectin, they're only jelled with corn starch.
The beans were made in Mexico. They have a beeswax and confectioners glaze on them, so most vegans would not eat these. Jelly Bird Eggs are made in a facility that also uses milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:07 pm Candy • Review • Easter • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Cinnamon • Jelly Candy • Mints • 5-Pleasant • Mexico • Walgreen's • Comments (8)
Monday, February 9, 2015
Torie & Howard: Meyer Lemon & Raspberry
Torie & Howard makes organic hard candies in a variety of fruit flavors.
I got this sample from the Fancy Food Show last month in their newest variety: Meyer Lemon & Raspberry Organic Hard Candy
They come in lovely tins, or can be purchased in bulk to refill the tin as well. There are some elegant touches, such as the inside of the tin is turquoise blue, instead of the default tin color.
As hard candies, the ingredients are pretty simple, so they're organic, contain no corn syrup or gluten and are also free from GMO, soy and dairy products.
The little wrappers take up a substantial amount of space in the tin, but they do hold 2 ounces of actual candy (more than the discontinued Altoids Sours).
The pieces are small, but fit well in the mouth. There are very few voids and the dissolve yields and intense flavor burst. I can't quite tell that it's a Meyer Lemon and not Eureka lemon flavors, but I can say that it's lemony. The raspberry gives it a little more floral note, kissed with a bit of jam. The zest comes out later, and has a lasting bitter bite to it, so much that I kind of felt burned after eating five in succession (that is the serving size).
These are very refreshing, and I find them most useful in situations where I might want to stay alert, like driving or a long meeting. Since they're small, they're quite discreet. I think they're a lovely gift or special occasion item, something to put in a gift basket for a baby shower or housewarming present. I don't see buying these for myself except for extraordinary circumstances.
I would be curious to try spice flavors, though. I don't know if I've seen a chai, or cinnamon in organic before.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 4:13 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Torie & Howard • Gummi Candy • Organic • 7-Worth It • Mexico • Comments (0)
Wednesday, February 4, 2015
Brach's Red Velvet Candy Corn & Candyology Episode 7
Brach's Red Velvet Candy Corn is one of the newest in Brach's wide-ranging attempt to create a Candy Corn for every flavor under the sun. Many of their flavors are inspired by desserts, like Apple Pie and Carrot Cake ... it's not surprising that they went for Red Velvet Cake, and certainly appropriate for a Valentine's-themed candy.
It's no secret if you've been reading Candy Blog that I think Red Velvet as a flavor is stupid. So, you can guess where this review is going to end up, if you're not the kind of person who scrolls to the bottom to see the rating before reading.
For those who are blissfully unaware, Red Velvet Cake is a yellow cake made with a touch of cocoa (classically with some vinegar to bring out the red) and buttermilk and then topped with ermine icing or the easier-to-make cream cheese frosting. So the flavor has become it's a not-quite-chocolate cake with some cream cheese. For the most part the appeal of the cake is the stunning visual appeal of the layers of velvety dark red (usually enhanced with colorings) and the creamy white frosting. Sadly, most people experience it as a cupcake.
Since Red Velvet Cake is a layered item, making a Candy Corn variety is actually kind of logical. The layers, however, make no sense. It's like they took the ingredients and used those, instead of an assembled cake. The base is dark brown, and like Red Velvet Cake, it's not actually chocolatey, simply less sweet. The middle layer is just red food coloring in otherwise unflavored fondant. So, for me, it's bitter. The top is white, and has a more crumbly texture and even less flavor. There's a general vanilla note, especially when I smelled the candy in the bag.
One of the things I like about classic candy corn is the honey note and the light hint of salt. There's 70 mg of sodium in each serving (19 pieces) but I didn't really get any pleasure from it.
They're fine, but not as good as regular candy corn, and not inventive enough to make me either loathe it or love it.
If you'd like other thoughts on Red Velvet, listen in as Episode 7 of Candyology101 covers Valentine's Day candy ... and Maria and I get to rant about our pet peeves.
Download MP3 directly. and read our full show notes.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:43 pm Candy • Review • Valentines • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Fondant • 5-Pleasant • Mexico • Target • Comments (0)
Thursday, November 13, 2014
Brach's Candy Cane Candy Corn
New this year for the holidays is Brach's Candy Cane Candy Corn. I've never seen a product that uses the word candy so much in its name.
Now, there's nothing new about Christmas-themed candy corn, Reindeer Corn has been around at least since 1997, probably longer though perhaps by a different name. What I was intrigued by when I saw this on the shelf was that it's called Candy Cane Candy Corn. Though the package doesn't actually describe what's inside, I was left to hope that it was peppermint flavored until I read the ingredients which list peppermint oil.
It was expensive, for candy corn, at $2.99 for the bag, but it is 15 ounces, which is just shy of a pound ... and more candy corn than I actually needed.
The pieces are actually different from Reindeer Corn, the current Jelly Belly version features a red base, green middle and white tip. These have a red base, white middle and green tip. Honestly, if I was making this, I'd make them in two colors only - red base with white tip and white base with red tip ... the effect of the randomized pieces would be much more candy-cane-ish than the inclusion of green.
The red base, however, uses Red #40 to color it. Which I don't like. Which disappoints me.
In the package the candies smell pleasantly minty, but not overwhelming.
The pieces are beautifully formed and very nicely made. There were very few broken or incomplete pieces. I always like how Brach's balances the slender look of their candy corn with a tender bite. They're soft but not crumbly or sticky.
The mint flavor is like the fondant filling of a peppermint patty. So basically, if you like peppermint patties without the chocolate (and maybe a little food coloring) then you'll find these refreshing. I compared the minty flavor to the center of a Pearson's Peppermint Pattie (because that's what I had sitting around in inventory) and found that the fondant inside the patty is a little fluffier, but otherwise has the same smooth texture and mint density.
I think this is a great idea. It's a great little after dinner mint that looks great in a bowl but isn't chalky or messy or too sensitive to heat. I'm shocked that I'm not only giving these a positive review, but going further to recommend them. Often I end a review by "wanting" something else out of the product, like a different flavor version, but this is good the way it is.
(Okay, I still kind of want root beer float candy corn.)
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Thursday, October 30, 2014
Brach's Royals: Caramel Apple and Sea Salt Caramel
The Brach's Milk Maid Royals candies were always quite special looking. I remember seeing them in the pick-a-mix assortments at the dime store as a kid. I was attracted to the bold foil wrappers that each little flavored caramel rod sported. The looked expensive and sophisticated. The are a lot more caramel choices in the stores now and it seems harder to find the Brach's individually wrapped candies since the bins of the candy disappeared from many grocery store candy aisles.
Royals Caramels are a layered candy, a flavored center chew is surrounded by caramel. It's a simple construction that's helped by the fact that caramel goes with just about everything.
I've noticed that Brach's has recently started repackaging their standard line of candy and sprucing up the flavor assortments to match current tastes. The new Brach's Apple Caramel Royals come in a stand-up gusset bag and are positioned right next to M&Ms and the new morsel sized candies like York Minis and Snickers Bites.
The package is a lovely apple red but the candies inside are wrapped in neon green waxed paper. It's kind of an odd, especially because I had two flavors sitting around at one time and I kept grabbing the wrong package. However, Brach's did use red for their Caramel Apple Candy Corn, so the flavor colors do match on the outside at least.
Unlike the foil-wrapped ancestors, these candies don't look like much in the wrapper. They're the kind of candy that would probably sit around with the Tootsie Rolls at the end of Trick-or-Treat until I was desperate.
The look of the candies unwrapped is odd, the caramel looks good - an opaque medium brown color. But the green center is on the blue side, which makes it look a little more like a caramel filled with toothpaste than a green apple candy. Luckily the smell aligns everything again. It's sweet and with a light apple peel and milk scent. The chew is soft, the caramel and sort of taffy center mix well. It could use a little bit of salt to bring it together. It's never quite a smooth and creamy caramel, but much more satisfying than the Brach's Candy Corn Nougats I tried last week.
The ingredients list actual apples plus buttermilk as an ingredient in these, which really makes them one of the closest candies on drug store shelves to actual caramel apples.
The Brach's Sea Salt Caramel Royals come in the same style of gusset bag. It's a more sedate design, as the colors are more subdued.
While caramel apple candies are quite trendy right now for fall, the general salted caramel rage is a year round thing and still going strong. It only makes sense that Brach's, now owned by the Ferrara Candy Company, would expand into some of these mainstream trends.
While they say sea salt on the front of the package, the ingredients list only salt. The nutrition panel shows that there are 180 mgs of salt per serving of 6 pieces. As a point of reference, the Apple Caramel Royals have only 75 mgs.
The Sea Salt Caramel Royals are, well, quite nice! The chew is soft with a little difference between the caramel outside and the sort of pasty chew inside. They're definitely salty, but it does highlight the brown sugar notes of the caramel. I wouldn't be likely to buy these again, especially at the price when I can get some really good sea salt caramels from Trader Joe's or just some Sugar Babies ... but I will finish this bag.
These candies are made in Mexico. The contain milk, soy and egg ingredients. There's no notation about nuts or gluten, though.
Brach's Milk Maid Royals have been made since the late 1920s (though I'm sure the wrappers have changed over the years). The flavors are probably also cyclical with changing tastes. The last time I had them I enjoyed the extra-sweet Maple and Butter Rum, but didn't care for the sherbet flavored Orange. The Chocolate is softer than a Tootsie Roll but didn't have the reliably long chew.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Brach's Candy Corn Nougats
I've purchased quite a few candy corn themed candies this year, so it was easy to toss the Brach's Candy Corn Nougats in my basket as well.
Brach's makes a variety of holiday versions of their individually wrapped nougats, but this is the first year they've made a Halloween Candy Corn version. The bag holds 12 ounces of three different color varieties of the candies. They come in yellow, white and orange, just like the layers of candy corn and each features a little image of candy corn at the center. Like many of Brach's other candies, these are made in Mexico.
Nougat is already very similar to Candy Corn in its ingredients. It's basically sugar, glucose (sugar syrup), honey and a little protein (in this case egg whites, some candy corn uses gelatin). It's a little different from taffy in that it's usually a bit softer chew and has a mild honey flavor. Nougat is usually a smoother texture than fondant, but they should both have a clean and fresh melt on the tongue without much tooth-sticky.
It's hard to say that these are bad when they succeed at being exactly what they're supposed to be. They're a soft nougat that tastes like candy corn. So that's good.
The chew is soft, really too soft. They're not quite foamy or puffy like a marshmallow, but not chewy like a taffy. They're not quite melt in your mouth divine like a French nougat, either.
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Thursday, October 16, 2014
Brach's Apple Pie Candy Corn
Brach's has quite a few new candy products on shelves, including some for Halloween. One of the new seasonal twists on Candy Corn is Brach's Apple Pie Candy Corn.
Brach's Candy Corn is widely available this year in a variety of flavors and shapes. I was able to find my 4.2 ounce peg bag at the Walgreen's near my house and on sale. The previous bags I'd seen were over 10 ounces, which is too much of a novelty flavor. (But I admit that I did buy two bags of the Halloween Mellocremes.)
There is no description on the package of what the Apple Pie flavor is supposed to be. Just a picture on the front of a slice of apple pie with a dollop of whipped cream on top. I'm amused the shape of a slice of pie and a Candy Corn piece a similar, though the stacked nature of the Candy Corn layers doesn't say pie.
It smells like a bad candle (of course I just watched this, so maybe I have Bath & Body works on my mind).
Brach's Candy Corn is always some of the nicest at stores. The pieces are elegant and tall, and are unusually durable. Many other Candy Corn brands are easily broken or have a problem with sticking together.
These are subtle, just a creamy white base and a caramel middle/top.
The flavor is definitely like apple, like a baked apple. It's very sweet but has a little hint of salt as well (75 mg per serving). The apple flavor is like a hint of juice, but there's no citrus tartness at all. The cinnamon note is very mild, but welcome.
It's not an ideal flavor for adaptation ... though I could see a whole Pie Candy Corn series, with Chocolate Cream Pie, Lemon Meringue Pie, Cherry Pie, Pecan Pie and of course they already have Pumpkin Spice.
Like other Brach's mellocremes, this contains gelatin so it's not suitable for vegetarians and not kosher. Though the packaging makes note in several places that they're America's Candy Maker (tm), these were made in Mexico.
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Wednesday, September 3, 2014
Brach's Caramel Macchiato Candy Corn
Labor Day is kind of the marker for the beginning of Candy Season ... which is the ramp up to Halloween. Candy Corn is inextricably tied with this time of year, for its associations with harvest and, of course, North America is known for its corn.
In order to keep people interested in Candy Corn, Brach's has been introducing new flavored varieties for the past five years or so, in addition to their classic Candy Corn, Indian Corn and Mellocremes. I was rather interested in the Brach's Caramel Macchiato Candy Corn because it sounded less sweet. Coffee actually sounds like a natural flavor combination for Candy Corn, and a touch of salty caramel should help it fit in nicely with the fondant flavor profile.
The pieces do a good job of replicating the look of a coffee drink: dark base, caramel orange middle and white top. (Though the picture shows the caramel on the top of the foamed milk.)
The ingredients list real coffee as a flavoring, as well as honey. The ingredients also list sesame oil, which I don't think I've seen on the list before and note that the candy was made on equipment with milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy are present. Brach's also uses gelatin in their Candy Corn.
The base is a bit salty and a wonderfully sweet, woodsy coffee flavor. It's a bit of a stale flavor, like coffee powder, but this is Candy Corn, not a high end truffle. The middle section is lightly salty with a note of honey plus a little hint of butter and the continuing coffee flavor. The white top is less flavorful and also a bit on the crunchy side.
I'm finding that I like these. I was surprised, but I also enjoyed the Carrot Cake Candy Corn earlier this year. If you like Candy Corn, you may enjoy these as a little change of pace. If you don't, these will not change your mind.
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Woohoo, 1st for once…
I Just bought and download your new book and did a 'fast scan'. Looks like another exciting book from you. Cheers Maik.
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10 Aug 2012, 18:05
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Hi Stephan!
Thank you very much for sharing the LCD link! I haven't seen this before and I'll give it a try.
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By Jim GaramoneAmerican Forces Press Service
ARLINGTON, Va., Sept. 27, 2001 Students in Defense Department schools are seeing changes designed to beef up the curriculum and measure their accomplishments, said Elizabeth Middlemiss, associate director for education for the DoD Education Activity.
"We have wonderful programs in DoDEA, but we're in constant communication with schools and districts and areas and we're looking to see those pockets of excellence, finding the best that's out there and improving on it," she said.
Middlemiss said the agency has a number of initiatives in the works on literacy. These cover the gamut from preschool through Grade 12.
"Reading is involved in every segment of education," she said. "We're looking now to see at all levels what's in place, what's working well, what's working for those students who need additional help. Are there special programs that people have found out about that we can move to different schools?"
The agency is also looking at special programs for the top performers in the DoD schools. One program, for instance, offers high school juniors who score above 750 on both the math and verbal portions of the SAT to go to a special program offered by the Research Science Institute. "We also work to support gifted instruction at all levels in all areas of DoDEA," Middlemiss said.
Officials noted a high percentage of eligible DoDEA students -- some 61 percent -- take the SAT in the junior or senior years as part of their college preparations. So DoDEA has a program that pays for all its 10th graders to take the Preliminary SAT, a kind of dress rehearsal. The PSAT will be offered Oct. 16, and more than 5,000 DoDEA sophomores worldwide are scheduled to participate.
Middlemiss said the program gives parents and students information about basic performance, gives students real- life practice and, third, DoDEA can see where students are performing well and where the activity might provide additional support.
DoDEA is looking to expand distance learning opportunities for students and staff, Middlemiss said. Distance learning in the agency began a few years ago with DoDEA teachers developing courses they thought were appropriate. Over the summer, Middlemiss said, teachers from around the agency met to improve those projects and develop others. The agency is working with colleges to expand the program.
One program developed in Europe, on computer repair, has expanded throughout DoDEA. "It involves our own students teaching other students how to take a computer apart and repair it," DoDEA spokeswoman Pat Lambe remarked.
The next agency move will gather all system principals for a work session. "We look at the optimal high school program for DoDEA," Middlemiss said. "We will look at the programs as they currently exist, we will look at distance learning opportunities, we will look at a variety of transition issues that our youngsters face -- whether that's (moving between schools) within DoDEA or to schools outside."


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Eileen Davidson
Birthday: June 15 1959
Eileen was born and raised in Southern California. Her parents are Charlotte, a homemaker, and Richard Davidson, an airplane parts manufacturer.
Eileen originated the role of Ashley Abbott on "Y&R" in 1982 before leaving for a Primetime role in "Broken Badges" in 1989. By 1991, she was enticed into taking the role of Kelly Capwell on "Santa Barbara" and remained there until the show ended in 1993. Next for Eileen was "Days Of Our Lives," where she started out playing Kristen Blake, and wound up taking on an additional 4 roles, making her the first actress to play 5 parts simultaneously! She left "Days" in 1998, took a well-deserved year off, and returned to "Y&R" in 1999 as Ashley once again. In 2006, the show let her go due to lack of storyline, but "The Bold and the Beautiful" snapped up Eileen and Ashley right away. In September 2008, Eileen and her Abbott alter-ego jumped back to "Y&R" where she signed a long-term contract. She was let go in June 2012 and snapped up by "Days" to reprise her role as Kristen Blake.
The actress has been penning novels based on soap operas. Her first novel, "Death in Daytime" came out in the fall of 2008, "Dial Emmy for Murder" which was out 2009, "Diva Las Vegas," in (2010), and "Swinging in the Rain" in 2011.
When Eileen is not working, she enjoys surfing and scuba diving. She plays the piano, paints and enjoys writing. She currently lives in Los Angeles with her husband Vince Van Patton, with their son Jesse.
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COKER: America needs to reach out to stars
The impact of a large, exploding meteorite over the city of Chelyabinsk, Oblast near the Ural mountain range in Russia and a near miss of Asteroid 2012 DA 14 the next day briefly captured the attention of world media outlets and scientists around the world last week.
As if visited by the Germanic god Thor, casting down gigantic thunderbolts upon the people of Chelyabinsk, some 1,100 people required medical attention largely from broken glass and assorted property damage related to the strange celestial event where a chunk of rock weighing an estimated 10,000 tons with a 50-foot diameter streaked through the clear morning sky, was traveling at a speed of 40,000 miles per hour and exploded with a force of some 500 kilotons, roughly 20 to 25 times the blast of the bombs dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki to end World War II.
On the other hand, the near miss of the even larger asteroid, thought to be 150 feet long and weighing an estimated 140,000 tons, merely altered the solar orbital trajectory of the spinning celestial projectile. Largely composed of silicate materials, the asteroid which was first discovered by a Spanish astronomer last February, passed over some 17,000 miles from Earth's surface at its nearest point over the South Pacific Ocean region of Indonesia as it moved on a south-to-north trajectory.
Having been a student of science virtually all of my life, and, having witnessed many technological milestones achieved during the course of my brief lifetime, one cannot help but be awed by a few of them which readily come to mind. While Chuck Yeager broke the aviation sound barrier a few years before my birth in 1947, I was watching a black-and-white television set at my grandparent's home on Wimberg Road the moment recently deceased astronaut Neil Armstrong took his hallowed "one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind" in July 1969 onto the lunar surface.
Since then, advancements in integrated circuitry, semiconductors, global communication and all manner of scientific investigation literally boggles the mind. While the computer upon which I am writing this column is more powerful than the computer that accompanied Armstrong to the moon, we take for granted the Internet, a form of communication unheard of as recently as three decades ago. This technology allows me to send this article through a wireless router and cable modem to the newspaper offices, where the hard copy is set, papers are printed and the newspaper website is assembled from various sources.
The mapping of the entire human genome — the estimated 25,000 unit genetic alphabet which describes all of human life — was declared complete in April 2003 although further study continues. We have yet to discover the full meaning of this research in terms of medical advancements and an understanding of the genetics other species of life on earth.
In the realm of resource extraction, controversial new discoveries involving horizontal drilling and shale fracturing techniques have opened up vast new areas of discovery of oil and natural gas previously not known to exist on the North American continent.
At the same time, the advent of genetically altered crops being used for food sources have been met with derision by many who claim potential harm which could come from consuming such food, a lack of labeling and government regulation and their control by multinational corporations more preoccupied with profit than actually feeding a hungry world.
When it comes to space science, however, and future manned missions to outer space, the Obama administration has been getting low marks from the scientific community. In October, 2012, The Scientist magazine gave Obama a C- for the category of space science, noting that when the president announced a doubling of the budgets of "key agencies" including the National Science Foundation, the National Institute of Standards and the Department of Energy's Office of Science, NASA was left off "In fact," the magazine continued, "for the past 4 years, the Obama administration has been generally hands-off with regard to space science, which came as a surprise given the President's demonstrated emphasis on science and technology.
"The Obama administration has not focused on NASA science at all," says Bethany Johns, the John Bahcall Public Policy Fellow at the American Astronomical Society (AAS). "NASA's budget has stayed relatively flat."
The situation apparently changed for the worse last year when the administration released its fiscal 2013 budget in which Obama would see NASA's robotic planetary science program cut by some $300 million or 20 percent.
This drop in funding compelled the U.S. to drop out of upcoming missions to bring back samples from the surface of Mars, even after the relatively successful landing of Curiosity, the latest Martian rover, which captured the nation's imagination last summer.
In conversation recently, an enlightened colleague inquires, "what do we do with the information of this encounter and how will it affect human behavior on into the future?" Since the smaller meteorite appeared out of nowhere giving the residents of central Russia virtually no advanced warning, "should watching for these things become a portion of the future activities of NASA" which seems to remain a federal agency in search of a specific, clearly defined mission.
So, while our nation's commitment to future lunar and planetary investigation remains uncertain, these encounters with two celestial visitors from galactic parts unknown impresses upon us precisely how relatively fragile and vulnerable human life remains on this planet.
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Wait, what do you mean Thanksgiving isn't about giving thanks for me? Well, that is just the silliest thing I have ever heard! Ok, ok, I'll humor you. But only because I am such a kind and benevolent cat.
I am thankful for a never ending supply of treats.
I am thankful the staff doesn't dress me up in a ridiculous outfit every day.
I am thankful for tuna fish. Yum!
I am thankful for soft places to nap.
Even hard places, if it inconveniences the staff.
I am thankful for my dashing good looks.
From the tip of my nose.
All the way to my toes.
What are you thankful for this Thanksgiving? Other than me, of course.


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2003 - Started 12 games in the pitcher's circle and 16 games in the field ... Led the team with four field positions played during the year (pitcher, 1B, LF, RF) ... Went 2-4 in two appearances at the Fun & Sun Classic ... Scored first career run against Mississippi State, March 30 ... First career extra base hit (2 doubles) and multi-hit game against Tennessee 4/9 - Also scored a season-high two runs in that game ... Only player with two doubles in one game this season ... Made first career start against Florida International ... First career win and shutout against Louisville on April 23 ... Pitched a one-hit shutout of Arkansas on April 26, the first UK player to record a one-hitter since March 8, 2001 and the first Kentucky pitcher to throw two consecutive complete game shutouts since April 22-23, 2000 ... Named SEC Pitcher of the Week 4/21-4/27.
2002 - Batted .321 with one home run and 16 RBI at Palomar Jr. College ... Had a pitching record of 23-2 with 67 strikeouts and a 0.70 ERA ... Named First-Team All-State in California.
High School - Named First-Team All-State as a senior ... Four-year letterwinner ... Two-time All-Conference selection ... Also lettered in basketball and track.
Personal - Born on March 4, 1982 ... Parents names are Lori Tysdal and Tom Wolfe ... Has two sisters, Chelsie and Buffi ... Lists standing on the pitchers mound her senior year of high school in the state semifinals and looking up at the crowd as her most memorable softball moment.
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BY Brandon Voss
August 11 2011 11:30 PM ET
4. FILM: Glee: The 3D Concert Movie
Directed by Kevin Tancharoen of the 2009 Fame remake, the film version of Glee's U.S. summer tour opens August 12. Jane Lynch is relegated to the DVD extras, but you'll be center stage with gay-fan favorites like Chris Colfer, Ashley Fink, Naya Rivera, and Heather Morris, who maximizes the 3D potential of her boobs. Between numbers we meet teens whose lives are impacted by Glee, including a gay kid forced out of the closet.
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I agree with syst3merror, don't hack online.
are you kidding me? Did you even red any of the posts?
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IM sick of hackers that cheat online it anoying that takes away the fun DONT HACK ONLINE!!!! |P
>IT'S Time To Die SpiderMan!!!
I saw a video about a guy online that threw spiny shells all the time.
does anyone know how to do it?
because it is the only way they can feel like they are cool is to p*ss everyone else off and cheat!
If you suck at the game, then don't play it......but don't freaking cheat to make yourself look good and make everyone hate playing!!!!!
I was looking SOOOOO forward to playing games online since its not like LIVE with people getting banned all the time but then I get on there and everyone freaking cheats....so who actually wants to play?!?!
i know its hopeless
>IT'S Time To Die SpiderMan!!!
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Unseasonably warm weather food?
It's not too uncommon for temps to reach the 80s here at this time of year, but tomorrow we're getting close to 90.
So my question is, what do you like to eat when the temperature far surpasses the season? I'm craving something fresh and bright (especially since I've been able to cook for the past couple of weeks), but the produce hasn't caught up to the temperature... Maybe it's time to hit the citrus hard.
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