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Bed and Terrace Guesthouse Chiang MaiChiang Mai, Thailand
It is a perfectly fine place to stay for one or two nights, nothing special. It is a bit disappointing that there was no breakfast included and this was a little far walk.
Number Eight GuesthouseKuala Lumpur, Malaysia
Although the price was very affordable I was very disappointed. The staff was always staring at their phones and always gave me the feeling I was disturbing them when approaching them. There are no atmosphere at all, and it was very run down.
Quarters HostelSingapore, Singapore
No customer comment
Hotel L KamataTokyo, Japan
A very normal average hotel. Nothing special whatsoever.
Tama RyokanTokyo, Japan
This is really a family home you are staying in. Do not expect to stay in a Ryokan. But if you expect this then it is a good place to stay. It is located in a very central spot.
Mt. Fuji Hostel Michael'sMount Fuji, Japan
I wasn´t the biggest fan of this hostel. The location was ok, close to a train station but quite far away from all activities. The facilities were ok but there was no common area to relax in. Thus you were stuck to relax in your bed, which is not very nice. You can go downstairs to Micheal´s pub but they happened to be closed on the day we were there.
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The Deer Park InnNara, Japan
This was truly a great hostel. It is right in the middle of the dear park which i found great. Although it is about 30 minutes walk from the centre, a pretty walk though. The owner is super nice and welcoming and goes out of his way to make your stay perfect. I really recommend this hostel if you plan to stay in Nara!
Aso Base BackpackersKumamoto Pref Volcano Aso, Japan
The best hostel I've ever been in in terms of cleanliness and facilities. There was however not really a "hostel" atmosphere. But i did not see this as a problem.
Nagasaki International Hostel AKARINagasaki, Japan
A really great hostel with very friendly guys who run it. We felt right at home here and really enjoyed our (short) stay.
Fukuoka Backpackers HostelFukuoka City, Japan
Overall a fine hostel
Dream ComfortSeoul, South Korea
A centrally located hostel where you are enthusiastically welcomed by the owners Lucy and John. There is however not really an atmosphere that lets people interact. It is mostly used by Koreans.
Station Airport Easy PisaPisa, Italy
The hostel was really nice except for the fact that it was quite hard to find. The directions given were not very clear and the hostel is not clearly visible as an hostel. If you would improve upon that it would make it even better!
Dragon King HostelBeijing, China
The staff was extremely helpful, the room was good enough and the bar/restaurant was sufficient but good value for money. We wanted to go to another opera show than the one offered by the hostel so one of the ladies went out of the way to find tickets for us and reserved them on her own name. Additionally, I was looking for a set of dumpling baskets (for steaming them) but could not find them anywhere. While we were in the city the next day one of the staff members went to buy them for me.
Yijia International Youth HostelLuoyang, China
The hostel was very pubertal. The staff was not helpful at all and made you feel unwelcome at times. The food was bad and you had to wait for 45 minutes for it to arrive.
Xiangzimen International Youth HostelXi'an, China
The location was good, but overall it was just a regular hostel, nothing special about it. However the staff was horrible, not helpful at all. First we were brought to a room without windows and told there were no other rooms at all in the hostel. After getting quite annoyed we were suddenly brought to a regular room. In addition, we were told there was a dryer in the hostel, but after we washed all our clothes we found out there was none.
Zhuo Ma's Jiuzhaigou Home-StayJiuzhaigou, China
We had a nice stay here, it was a good and different experience then normal hotel/hostels. However, Zhuo Ma was absent during our stay, thus it was difficult to communicate as we do not speak Chinese or Tibetan.
Hello Chengdu International Youth HostelChengdu, China
The only thing that is annoying about this hostel is that there is really nothing to complain....
Yangshuo Travelling With HostelYangshuo, China
It was an average hostel with helpful staff in a good location. There is nothing really special about it but a good hostel overall.
Wada Hostel in GuilinGuilin, China
Just your run of the mill hostel.


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Eminem decided to unveil personal home videos of his family for the new video to his track MOCKINGBIRD because he feels as though he owes a constant debt to his fans.
Ex-wife Kim Mathers, daughter HAILIE and niece LANEY, as well as the SLIM SHADY superstar himself, are featured as Eminem raps about his tough days as a dad having to explain Kim's incarceration for drug offences to the young girls.
He tells MTV, "We went into the old home footage and you're gonna see my daughter and my niece and how they kinda grew up together from the cradle... It's basically real footage. This is the first and last time I'm gonna do it.
"I felt like with the song Mockingbird that it introduced such a visual already that you couldn't make it (any way) otherwise...
"Anybody who respects me as an artist knows I've let 'em into my personal life so much, probably more than any artist out there. I feel like I owe it to my fans. It's like a little shotgun in the chest, a little tearjerker."22/02/2005 09:27

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, Volume 155, Issue 3, pp 345-369
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The metaphysics of rule-following
- Markus E. SchlosserAffiliated withDepartment of Philosophy, University of Leiden Email author
This paper proposes a causal–dispositional account of rule-following as it occurs in reasoning and intentional agency. It defends this view against Kripke's (Wittgenstein on rules and private language, Harvard University Press, Cambridge, 1982) objection to dispositional accounts of rule-following, and it proposes a solution to the problem of deviant causal chains. In the first part, I will outline the causal–dispositional approach. In the second part, I will follow Martin and Heil's (Philos Perspect 12:283–312, 1998) realist response to Kripke's challenge. I will propose an account that distinguishes between two kinds of rule-conformity and two kinds of rule-following, and I will defend the realist approach against two challenges that have recently been raised by Handfield and Bird (Philos Stud 140:285–298, 2008). In the third part, I will turn to the problem of deviant causal chains, and I will propose a new solution that is partly based on the realist account of rule-following.
KeywordsRule-following Reasoning Deviant causal chains Dispositions Metaphysics of mind Metaphysics of agency
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- 2011-09
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Featuring over 70 full colour and black & white photographs from around the UK, Day & Night is a photographic portfolio documenting over two years of photographs. Pushing the boundaries of conventional photography, this book explores the often forgotten hours of darkness with powerful imagery as well as more traditional photography through the seasons.
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This new CEPR eReport is devoted to exploring the general issue of the origins of excessive risk-taking in the banking industry. In doing so, it provides the analytical ammunition required to rigorously examine regulatory policy at a time when it is undergoing a complete metamorphosis.
The Editors, 30 March 2012
Richard Baldwin, 30 March 2012
Risk-taking by banks played a critical role in the global crisis and Eurozone crisis. This column introduces a new eReport that focuses on four aspects of excessive risk-taking by banks, highlighting the causes and the cures. The eReport applies the best available theory and data, bringing together the main insights and views that have emerged from the crisis.
Steven Ongena, José-Luis Peydró, 25 October 2011
Do low interest rates encourage excessive risk-taking by banks? This column summarises two studies analysing the impact of short-term interest rates on the risk composition of the supply of credit. They find that lower rates spur greater risk-taking by lower-capitalised banks and greater liquidity risk exposure.
Ruediger Fahlenbrach, Robert Prilmeier, René M Stulz, 27 May 2011
Crises are a regular event in financial markets. But do banks that have been hit particularly hard in one crisis learn from the experience and suffer less in future crises? This column suggests not. It shows that banks particularly hard hit by the 1998 financial crisis were also badly affected by the recent financial crisis. It blames the high-risk business models on which these banks rely.
Thomas Gehrig, Lukas Menkhoff, 02 March 2009
Bonuses are seen as drivers of greed, irresponsibly, and short-sighted behaviour. This column discusses the research on how bonuses affect bankers' behaviour. It argues that bonuses are a valuable tool for guiding managers to do what's right for corporations and even society. The debate should be about performance criteria and sustainable goals, not the size of bonus payments.
Ulrike Malmendier, 08 August 2008
Do people's personal experiences of economic fluctuations affect their attitudes to risk? Ulrike Malmendier of the University of California, Berkeley, talks to Romesh Vaitilingam about her research on the impact of stock market returns and inflation early in life on risk-taking later in life. The interview was recorded at the American Economic Association meetings in New Orleans in January 2008.
Vasso P. Ioannidou, Steven Ongena, José-Luis Peydró, 17 October 2007
Do low levels of short-term interest encourage risk-taking that can be considered 'excessive'? Do low interest rates imply higher credit risk in the short-run? In the medium-run? New empirical research suggests that the answers are a resounding 'yes', a subtle 'no' and a qualifying 'it depends'.


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Elena Kagan
Bill Clinton, Constitutional Law, Elena Kagan, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Judicial Nominations, Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Solicitor General's Office, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court
4 Top Tidbits From The Latest Batch Of Clinton Papers
What juicy revelations about Justices Breyer and Ginsburg appear in the latest set of presidential papers?
1st Circuit, Antonin Scalia, Copyright, Elena Kagan, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Privacy, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology
* Justice Kagan received a Supreme Court fact check when she confused the site of the nation's oldest standing synagogue with the home of the nation's first Jewish community. At least she didn't make a mistake about the actual law that she actually wrote. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Justice Scalia may not understand how cell phones work, but even he gets net neutrality — because it's a lot like pizza. [The Atlantic]
* Marc Randazza describes the need for a right to be forgotten online. Getting forgotten online? Hey, we found a new job for Jill Abramson. [CNN]
* A woman threatened to shoot up a South Carolina Burger King over a stale roll. Don't tell her what "pink slime" is. [New York Daily News]
* Cops arrest upwards of 40 people while trying to catch a bank robber. When you read the whole history, it's actually surprising they weren't limiting their search to people in stripes carrying bags with dollar signs on them. [Slate]
* Corporate lawyer fits right into the rising phenomenon of "Bulls**t Jobs." [Strike! Magazine]
* Earlier today we wrote about a possible crowdfunded lawsuit. Here's a discussion of legal issues involved in crowdfunding generally. [IT-Lex]
* Sen. Rand Paul has a stupid idea, so he'll probably convince a bunch of liberals to go along with it. And that would be bad news for Professor David Barron's nomination to the First Circuit. [New Republic]
* Led Zeppelin is getting sued over allegedly stealing the opening riff from Stairway to Heaven. It turns out there's some band out there who's sure that all that glitters is gold and they want some of it. A clip of the alleged original below…. [The Guardian]
Hire Kinney–Or Work at Kinney?
Getting to know those of us on Kinney Recruiting's Asia team in 2016 presents a unique opportunity for two major constituencies: first, associates and future associates with an interest in (and realistic chances of) working in top US practices in Asia, especially those who aspire to become partner in a law firm; second, successful recruiters […]
Elena Kagan, Larry Lessig, Law Professors, Law Schools, Quote of the Day, Richard Posner, SCOTUS, Stephen Breyer, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, Tim Wu
The Letter Of The Law — And How To Get A SCOTUS Clerkship With Weak Grades
How can you get B grades in 1L classes and go on to clerk for the Supreme Court?
Antonin Scalia, Elena Kagan, Guns / Firearms, Law School Deans, Murder, Non-Sequiturs, SCOTUS, State Judges, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, White-Collar Crime
* Florida is woefully unprepared for a zombie apocalypse. [Lowering the Bar]
* Congratulations to Sujit Choudhry on being named dean at Boalt Hall. [Prawfs Blawg]
* Justice Scalia is a delusional hack. Well, that's not really news… [Salon]
* Just how suspect was that referendum on Crimean annexation? Even the Russian government is questioning it. [The Volokh Conspiracy / Washington Post]
* A look at how Lauren Giddings's killer could have gotten free. [The Telegraph (Macon)]
* The KABA and JABA have issued a joint statement on the lawsuit surrounding the Glendale, CA, Comfort Women Memorial. [Korean American Bar Association / Japanese American Bar Association]
* A governor's cronies get the plum state judgeships. That may not be surprising, but the negative impact it has on the quality of the judiciary deserves more attention. [The Center for Public Integrity]
* I'd never heard of "The Full Kagan," and I'm not sure I want to know what it relates to. [Excess of Democracy]
* Much has been made of federal prosecutors failing to go after the "Too Big To Fail" banks. After the jump is a primer on why they haven't. [Bloomberg TV]
American Bar Association / ABA, Antonin Scalia, Deaths, Elena Kagan, Law Professors, Law Schools, Morning Docket, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
* Justice Elena Kagan is looking forward to hunting a new kind of game next year with Justice Antonin Scalia. Gobble gobble, bitches. They're going after wild turkeys, and not the whiskey. [Legal Times]
* If you've been wondering why Morrison & Foerster is referred to as MoFo, the backstory isn't as cool as we were led to believe. It was the firm's teletype address. [Capital Business / Washington Post]
* Don't worry, law profs, your precious tenure protections aren't going anywhere yet. The ABA has officially given up on its quest to remove tenure as an accreditation requirement. [National Law Journal]
* Nicholas Spaeth, the former state attorney general of North Dakota who sued a slew of law schools for age discrimination after being passed over for a job after AALS, was found dead yesterday. RIP. [Inforum]
* If you've been waitlisted, send a letter of continuing interest. Convince them you'll be employed within 10 months of graduation, and watch the acceptance letters roll on in. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News]
Barack Obama, Biglaw, Celebrities, Department of Justice, Elena Kagan, Eric Holder, Fabulosity, Federal Government, Federal Judges, Joe Biden, Parties, Partner Issues, Politics, Samantha Power, SCOTUS, Senate Judiciary Committee, Supreme Court, Supreme Court Clerks, White House Counsel
18 Legal Celebrities At The White House State Dinner
Who were some of the famous lawyers at Tuesday night's White House State Dinner?
D.C. Circuit, Elena Kagan, Federal Judges, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
Justice Kagan: Not Ready For Her Close-Up?
What are Justice Kagan's aspirations for her opinions?
Elena Kagan, Gay, Gay Marriage, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Sports
* Kentucky joins all those other liberal bastions in recognizing gay marriages. [The Courier-Journal (Louisville)]
* Brilliant… especially the last line. [The Onion]
* Legal luminaries at last night's White House State Dinner included Justice Elena Kagan, Secretary Jeh Johnson, and ATL's reigning Lawyer of the Year, Roberta Kaplan. [White House]
* An EMT-trained judge came to the rescue of a criminal defendant critically injured in a car accident. She was assisted by several other criminal defendants due to appear before her that day. When they finally made it to court, she sentenced him to death row. Just kidding, but admit it, that would have been the better ending. [Albuquerque Journal]
* A tipster asks if this guy is the most embarrassing HLS grad. Isn't Ted Cruz still around? [Associated Press via ABC15]
* Judge Victor Marerro is none too pleased to have to do this whole MF Global case. [Dealbreaker]
* The winter weather in Minnesota is continuing to make lawyers crazy. This time the bug allegedly bit Frank Schulte, who is accused of freaking out at the "mere sight of a car parked too far from the curb for his liking," battering the car, punching the driver, and hurling racial epithets. Just as warm and fuzzy as the Mary Tyler Moore show made it seem. [CityPages]
* What courts could learn from AA meetings. [Law and More]
* A few events coming up for sports law fans in New York. This Friday, Fordham is hosting its 18th Annual Sports Law Symposium covering issues from the Redskins to Jay-Z. Then a week later, New York Law School is hosting an event on doping, the NCAA, and getting into the sports business on February 21. [Sports Agent Blog]
Clerkships, D.C. Circuit, Elena Kagan, Quote of the Day, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Women's Issues
Elena Kagan Has Been Pissed At Ruth Bader Ginsburg For Three Decades, But Why?
Even back in the day, RBG was still notorious. What happened?
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Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Canada, Elena Kagan, Gender, Law Schools, Minority Issues, Morning Docket, Partner Issues, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, SCOTUS, Staff Layoffs, Supreme Court, Women's Issues
* According to Justice Kagan, Justice Ginsburg "is responsible for eliminating sex discrimination from American law." Whoa, that's a nice thought, but let's not get ahead of ourselves with wishful thinking. [New York Law Journal]
* After handing out pink slips staff, Heenan Blaikie lawyers sat down and voted to dissolve the Canadian firm's partnership and wind up its business. It's kind of like Dewey, but with maple syrup! [Legal Post / Financial Post]
* Jack W. Butler, the bankruptcy bigwig who managed to negotiate the American Airlines / US Airways merger, will leave his home at Skadden Arps after 23 years and head to Hilco Global. [DealBook / New York Times]
* Vermont Law School has partnered with several historically black colleges and universities in order to put warm bodies in empty seats promote the expansion of racial diversity in the legal profession. [VT Digger]
* David Savner, a corporate partner at Jenner & Block, recently donated $1 million to his alma mater, Northwestern Law, to fund a high-tech classroom. It must be nice to be rich. [Crain's Chicago Business]
* The ABA Journal wants to know what the "oddest" elective course you ever took in law school was. If you took a "Law and _____" class and didn't get an "A," you should hang your head in shame. [ABA Journal]
Asians, Books, Cass Sunstein, Celebrities, Drinking, Drugs, Elena Kagan, Jed Rubenfeld, Kids, Law Professors, Law Schools, Non-Sequiturs, Racism, SCOTUS, Student Loans, Supreme Court, Tax Law
* Woody Allen's lawyer, Elkan Abramowitz, responds to Dylan Farrow's account of alleged sexual abuse at the hands of her famous father. [Gawker; Gothamist]
* Sound advice from Professor Glenn Reynolds on how not to increase applications to your law school. [Instapundit]
* What is a "nitro dump," and will it provide information about who (or what) killed Philip Seymour Hoffman? [ATL Redline]
* "Is Elena Kagan a 'paranoid libertarian?' Judging by [Cass] Sunstein's definition, the answer is yes." [Reason via Althouse]
* A petition of possible interest to debt-laden law school graduates: "Increase the student loan interest deduction from $2,500 to the interest actually paid." [WhiteHouse.gov]
* Vivia Chen wonders: Is Amy Chua, co-author of The Triple Package (affiliate link), being attacked as racist in a way that it itself racist? [Time]
* Yikes — journalists around the country have been receiving "a flurry of subpoenas in recent months," according to Jeff Kosseff of Covington & Burling. [InsideTechMedia]
* Congratulations to Orrick's 15 new partners — an impressively diverse group, from a wide range of practice areas and from offices around the world. [Orrick Herrington & Sutcliffe]
Elena Kagan, Fashion, Immigration, Jury Duty, Music, Non-Sequiturs, Rape, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
* Kanye West sent out a cease and desist letter to the makers of Coinye, a Bitcoin alternative with a mocking, parody image of Kanye. This whole Bitcoin thing may be incredibly stupid, but these poor entrepreneurs are going to have to junk all their work just because they shamelessly stole the artist's image. I guess it's back to their electronic currency based on a busted-up parody of Kim Kardashian, which they call "Khloe." [Ars Technica]">Ars Technica]
* The FBI classified Juggalos as criminals and the Insane Clown Posse has gone ahead and filed a federal suit. And who better for the New York Times to consult about this case than our own Juggalo Law! [New York Times]
* Justice Kagan once again performed her civic duty and showed up for jury duty today. Unfortunately, this report doesn't explain what book she brought with her to kill time, which is the best part of people-watching at jury duty. [Washington Post]
* For those that think we always focus on the negative, here's a nice narrative about lawyers who really help people. [XO Jane]
* How do you deal with a blazer that just won't button? Advice from our occasional contributor. [Corporette]
* A group of Vietnamese fishermen sued a Texas lawyer alleging that he falsely claimed to represent thousands of deckhands to get rich serving on the committee of attorneys representing victims of the BP oil spill. BP's just happy someone might come out of this looking worse than they do. [Miami Herald]
* Sergio Garcia, the newly-minted California lawyer and not the racist golfer, says he's looking to a future as the governor of California. [Fox News]
* The judge who sentenced a convicted rapist to a month in jail is retiring. Don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out! [USA Today]
* Clients don't grow on trees. So what are you gonna do about that? Huh? I'm talking to you! [At Counsel Table]
Art, Baseball, Biglaw, D.C. Circuit, Elena Kagan, Federal Judges, Holland & Knight, Judicial Nominations, LSAT, Morning Docket, Perks / Fringe Benefits, Pregnancy / Paternity, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sandra Day O'Connor, SCOTUS, Sonia Sotomayor, Supreme Court, You Go Girl
* The four female Supremes gathered last night (and kept RBG up past her bedtime) to celebrate the unveiling of a lifelike painting of themselves that'll be on display for years. You go girls! [Reliable Source / Washington Post]
* Now that cloture's been filed on a would-be D.C. Circuit judge, these judicial nominations are getting exciting. You should probably get ready for a battle royal on Patricia Millett's qualifications later this week. [Blog of Legal Times]
* The women over at Holland & Knight must be pregnant with glee now that the firm is offering incredibly attractive paid maternity and adoption leave packages in the hope of retaining its lady lawyers. [Daily Business Review]
* People want to know if they should take the LSAT in December or February. Are they serious? Take it in December so you can retake it if you screw up. [Law Admissions Lowdown / U.S. News & World Report]
* Aww, Barry Bonds wants the Ninth Circuit to rehear his obstruction of justice conviction with 11 judges instead of three. Perhaps he thinks that more judges will equal more sympathy. [San Jose Mercury News]
Antonin Scalia, Election Law, Elena Kagan, Free Speech, Money, Politics, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Samuel Alito, SCOTUS, Supreme Court
McCutcheon Oral Argument: Or, Justice Scalia Explains How $3.5 Million Isn't That Much Money
The Supreme Court returns to the incremental destruction of campaign finance laws.
Elena Kagan, Quote of the Day, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Video games, Violence
So How Many Hookers Did Justice Ginsburg Kill For Their Loot?
Query whether the justices played Grand Theft Auto for research purposes.
Bankruptcy, Biglaw, Boalt Hall, Deaths, Elena Kagan, Federal Judges, Law School Deans, Law Schools, Money, Morning Docket, S.D.N.Y., SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Technology, Townsend and Townsend and Crew, United Kingdom / Great Britain
* According to Justice Elena Kagan, the rest of her colleagues are Supreme technophobes. Because "[t]he court hasn't really 'gotten to' email," they still pass handwritten memos to each other. [Associated Press]
* "[I]f we don't get some relief we might as well close our doors." Thanks to sequestration, budget cuts to the federal judiciary have resulted in layoffs in the Southern District of New York. Sad. [New York Law Journal]
* Kodak's Chapter 11 reorganization was approved by Judge Allan Gropper, who called the affair "a tragedy of American economic life." He must've had fond memories of getting other people's pictures. [Bloomberg]
* Bankruptcy lawyers for corporate debtors are going to have to crack down on churning their bills. Starting in November, they will be subject to additional rules, and even (gasp!) fee examiners. [WSJ Law Blog]
* Guardian reporter Glenn Greenwald's partner, David Miranda (because of course his surname is Miranda), has lawyered up after his unusual nine-hour detainment at Heathrow airport this weekend. [Am Law Daily]
* So long, Nuts and Boalts: Christopher Edley, dean of Boalt Hall, is taking a medical leave and cutting short his term as the school's leader at the end of the year. [Bottom Line / San Francisco Chronicle]
* "We'll take him." Indiana Tech Law School opens today, and its founding dean is very excited to add a 33rd student — one who was admitted yesterday — to the school's inaugural class. [National Law Journal]
* Eugene Crew, co-founder of the firm once known as Townsend and Townsend and Crew, RIP. [Recorder]
Alex Kozinski, Bloomberg, Elena Kagan, Non-Sequiturs, Rape, Sports, United Kingdom / Great Britain
* Sorry, ladies — the Duchess of Cambridge gave birth to a baby boy. Unlikely to be named "Joffrey." [Today]
* The PAC-12 is trying to block a for-profit university from joining Division I athletics. Hear hear. Division I athletics is for making millions exploiting an unpaid labor force and is no place for something as crass as a for-profit school. [Sports Illustrated]
* Professor Kyle Graham wonders: Do judges have slumps? [noncuratlex]
* If you're fed up with the law, consider being a trophy wife! [The Careerist]
* For those high school graduates who already know they want to be lawyers, Denver Law has a joint Bachelor's/J.D. program. So what's the angle here? Locking undergrads into DU Law years in advance, or protecting DU's LSAT median by filling the class with students who don't take the LSAT? [University of Denver Law School]
* Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum of Dubai has pardoned a Norwegian woman who had been sentenced to prison for the transgression of being raped. Remember, Dubai is the relatively forward-thinking country in the region. [CNN]
* Justice Kagan can get a little snarky, can't she? [Dorf on Law]
* Trevor Faure of Ernst & Young explains how a variety of market forces have placed law firms and their clients in an almost adversarial setting. Video after the jump…. [Bloomberg Law via YouTube]
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* Who is the real John Roberts? Will he forever be known as health care reform's savior, or the man who disregarded precedent to gut minority voting rights? Hell if we know, so we'll let you be the judge. [Opinionator / New York Times]
* The man may be a mystery, but one thing's for sure when it comes to Chief Justice Roberts: it's fair to say that at this point, he'd sincerely appreciate it if his colleagues would kindly STFU during oral argument. [Big Story / Associated Press]
* Elena Kagan, a justice who was never a judge, is now being praised for her ability to put the law into terms that non-lawyers can understand. That's a score for law professors everywhere. [New York Times]
* In terms of the Voting Rights Act, while the chances of the current Congress enacting a universal voting law are approximately nil, there are other effective avenues that could be taken. [New York Times]
* On Friday, the Ninth Circuit lifted the stay on gay marriages in California, and less than 24 hours later, Prop 8 supporters filed an emergency motion with SCOTUS to stop all of the weddings. Lovely. [NPR]
* Meanwhile, ex-judge Vaughn Walker thinks Justice Scalia's having joined the high court's majority on standing telegraphed the fact that he didn't have votes to uphold Prop 8 as constitutional. [NPR]
* Rubber stamp this: Judges on the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court are so upset that they're being made out as government patsies that they're talking to the press about it. [Washington Post]
* Whether you think Chevron is "suing [Patton Boggs] lawyers for litigating" or for promoting fraud that "shocks the conscience," here's a summary of what's going on in an epic case. [Washington Post]
* Got a high-profile criminal defense firm? Look out, because you may have captured Biglaw's eye. Take, for example, Stillman & Friedman, which will be merging with Ballard Spahr. [New York Times]
* Apparently being in your mid-50s is a "good time to [retire]" for law deans who pull in six figures. Ken Randall, outgoing dean of Alabama Law, says he's "really ready for the next challenge." [AL.com]


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I must admit, 9 times out of 10 I'm feeling pretty good about the way a photo turns out. I'm not saying there aren't thousands of peeps out there with far better food photography skills because there truly are, but I'm okay with that.
This isn't one of those times. I'm looking at my pic as I write this and feel like my risotto deserves a full blown apology from me. Poor risotto!
The truth of the matter is that if you take away my sub par photography skills for just a moment, you'll be left with just the dish. And as dishes go, this one is marvelous. But there are some tricks to getting a risotto just right. And I mean any risotto.
First, forget Arborio rice! Whhhhaaaaatttt!
Trust me, I just finished teaching a few sessions of risotto classes and everyone agreed hands down, Vialone Nano riso from Veneto wins hands down! You'll be able to get that lovely creamy risotto texture that we all aspire for as well as the flavors reaching into the very core of the rice.
Step 2, toast the rice. And that involves, sauteing with onions, shallots whatever.
Step 3, adding liquids - some vino and then ladle after ladle of stock which involves stirring.
Yes, there is stirring involved, I cannot lie but that's it. If you can stir and spend about 40 minutes from start to finish, you can make awesome risotto. So yes, you'll have to step away from House of Cards for a bit but so what!
Did I mention, risotto with shrimp and asparagus?
And if that itself is not mouthwatering & 'springy' enough for you, think lovely lemon zest and Parmigiano Reggiano cheese for an elegant finish.
So don't let Spring get away from you and make this gorgeous risotto while succulent asparagus spears beckon!
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after a few weeks of frustrating hiatus, I am back in my drawing groove! with a new art style apparently!
You've got something here. Great job!
nice, i like this art style. love the hair too.
Everytime I get over an art hiatus, I get a totally different style.
it looks pretty awesome, you are really good at drawing ^-^...i wish i could do that .-.
thanks! I would say with practice you could, but clearly this came out of nowhere
space cowgirl ....just needs some kind of steampunk lone ranger mask XD
Oh noes, your style appears to have been resurrected as a hipster...
haha fuck, well I DID IT FIRST!
You are getting better.....bravo!
thanks! I am quite pleased! however my colouring it didnt quite improve D:
well it depends on your coloring....if you want to color in a realistic way, you must understand the behavior of lights and shadows on everything....the shading is very important to....be patient when you color
1 Of your best work!!!!
good thus far
Holy crap, just noticed this. Rad line work. Look forward to a possible final render.
i like this! the blue is like a clean sketch layer (well, compared to my sketches hehe) that really sets a nice mood to it! thanks for sharing!
thanks! that layer is gone now, but I'm not used to actually doing an undersketch so I find it helps if its pretty coloured haha
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Disc Golf Links
Disc Golf Courses I've Played
- Cliff Stephens Park DGC, Clearwater, FL
- Easterlin Park DGC, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Floral Park DGC, Floral City, FL
- Jim Warner Memorial DGC, Appling, GA
- Lutz Executive DGC, Lutz, FL
- Magnolia DGC, Live Oak, FL
- North East Coachman Park DGC, Clearwater, FL
- North Watertower Park DGC, Sarasota, FL
- Ocala Greenway DGC, Ocala, FL
- Pine Oaks DGC, Ocala, FL
- Steady Ed Headrick Memorial DGC, Appling, GA
- Taylor Lake Park DGC, Largo, FL
- Tocobaga DGC, St. Petersburg, FL
- Tradewinds DGC, Fort Lauderdale, FL
- Whispering Pines DGC, Inverness, FL
- Word of Life Camp DGC, Hudson, FL
- WR Jackson Memorial DGC, Appling, GA
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Monthly Archives: July 2011
Played Floral Park a couple of times….
I went and played Floral Park twice this week after work. On Tuesday I played with Al Sampsell and his son Matt. Matt just started playing a couple of weeks ago and is doing very well so far. He used … Continue reading
July 24th, 2011 @ Taylor Lake Park
Disc Golf Sunday's! I love 'em. Today I played with Josh Balkenhol (-6) and Everett Chimbidis (-12) and had a great time as I always do when I fly with them. Josh scored a 55 scratch and Everett a 65. … Continue reading
July 23rd, 2011 @ Floral Park
Saturday came again and I eagerly drove myself to Floral Park for my weekly round of disc golf with the gang. Some of the gang is out of town so there were only six of us today. I had the … Continue reading
July 19th, 2011 @ Floral Park
I drove up to play a round at Floral Park today after work. I had the pleasure of running into and playing with Doug and Shanna Smith. As before, they both amazed me with their consistent accurate shot making abilities. … Continue reading
July 17th, 2011 @ Taylor Park
Got up this morning really looking forward to playing. I shot well yesterday and felt good about my game. As it turns out I matched my best score ever at Taylor Park. Shot a 66. I had the pleasure of … Continue reading
July 16th, 2011 @ Floral Park
I woke up this morning another year older and got to spend the morning playing Disc Golf with the gang at Floral Park. Steve and I played with two players new to me; Bob and Richard. We had a wonderful … Continue reading
Disc Golf Videos
Here's a good site for all types of Disc Golf Videos.
July 10th, 2011 @ Taylor Lake Park (Amber Mohn Fundraiser)
Another great Disc Golf Sunday! Today, the Taylor Lake Disc Golf Club did a fundraiser for one of our members whose daughter has leukemia. The turnout was awesome! I'm proud to be associated with this group of people. We are … Continue reading
July 9th, 2011 @ Floral Park
Another great day on the disc golf course. Played with the Saturday gang up in Floral City today. I played with Al, Bob, Jules and Steve today. We all played really well for the most part. Steve birdied three consecutive … Continue reading
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Monday, November 2, 2015
Spearmint Mix Tic Tac
Tic Tacs are reliable and shareable little mints that come in a dispenser box that you can always find by the sound it makes.
The Spearmint Mix Tic Tac is pretty simple, and not that different than the classic Peppermint.
Spearmint is a less common mint flavor when it comes to candy (though an easier herb to grow than peppermint, strange how that happens). The package holds equal quantities of medium and light green mints. I picked these up at Target a little over a month ago, but no I can't seem to find them again.
If there's a difference in the flavor between the two colors, I'm not sure I ever figured it out. It's possible the darker color was stronger but both were suitably flavorful.
The nice thing about Tic Tacs are the smoothness. The coating on the outside is slick and kind of eases me into the minty notes. I'm a cruncher, so I get to the very minty core pretty quickly. They're quite strong for such a small mint, though not as caustic as Altoids can be.
But here's where things go awry. As I was preparing this review, I wanted to make sure I knew what all the allergen specifications were and noticed that the ingredients on the package said that this variety includes sucralose (sold as Splenda in yellow packets). I rechecked old reviews and packages posted online to confirm that this is not the case with other varieties. I specifically avoid artificial sweeteners and some are actually called out on the labels like allergens, but in this case the sucralose was just in the list way at the end and the word resembles sucrose at first glance. (And there's some printing in a different direction on that part of the label that's rather confusing, design-wise.)
Basically, I'm bummed. I have never experienced a reaction to sucralose specifically (my problems are with Aspartame, but I'm tarring a lot of other sweeteners with that brush, because, well, why not, it's a big world and I should be able to get candies with sugar in them.) At first experience I was very enthusiastic about this variety, now I don't care to eat Tic Tacs any longer. They were my go-to mint for full sugar and shareability.
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Friday, September 11, 2015
Bubblicious Cotton Candy
I'm a big bubble gum fan, though not much of a chewer. I'm a purist, I like my bubble gum to be the traditional bubble gum flavor. I saw this Cotton Candy Bubblicious at the beginning of summer, though, and thought it was a splendid idea for a gum flavor.
The pieces are ridiculously blue, the package design is wonderfully summery, and it all smells like an air freshener designed for a child's room.
The lightly strawberry sweet scent is strong enough that I new which room I'd left this package in without even looking. It's not chemically or unappealing, though it doesn't necessarily smell like food.
The pieces were easy to open from the little paper wrappers and soft. The easy chew was very sweet with less of the strawberry or cotton candy notes and more of just a clean sweeteness.
However, as the sugar in the chew dissipated, I was left with the taste of the gum base, which is rather like some door mats I got at Ikea. It's just a touch of asphalt with the berry. The longer I chewed, the more that note came out, until I was pretty sure it was a sign that the whole thing had turned into a big tar ball. Nope, when I took it out of my mouth, it was just a piece of blue gum.
So, if you're looking for some room freshener that looks like blocks of sidewalk chalk that you're not going to chew, these are great. But even for the type of person who chews the gum until the sugar is gone, the awful aftertaste is too much.
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Tuesday, July 14, 2015
Tic Tac Mixers: Peach Lemonade
Earlier this year Ferrero announced an innovation in the world of Tic Tac. They were creating layered flavors in a new line called Tic Tac Mixers and their first introductions would be Peach Lemonade and Cherry Cola. Because they're beverages.
I wasn't able to find the Cherry Cola but did see the Peach Lemonade at several locations and picked mine up at 7-11.
The press release described, "Peach Lemonade flavor Tic Tac Mixers: change from a peach flavor to the sweet flavor of lemonade." But the reality is that peaches are sweet and lemonade is tangy.
If you've ever eaten a Yankee Candle Mango Peach Salsa Candle and thought, "That was unsatisfying." You may find that this Tic Tac experience is preferable, but only slightly because this is actually meant to be eaten.
The initial flavor is definitely candle-like. It's peachy in the most fragrant and least-food-like way. Unlike the candles, these don't smell like anything in the package, the scent is only release in the mouth. The sweet peach layer gives way to a tangy layer that I think is supposed to be lemonade, but still has a strong peach note ... it's tart and has a lot of zest but that combined with the lightly pine notes of the peach makes it all a bit caustic. The more I ate of these, the more my mouth burned like I might have been eating bits of lye.
The innovation of layering was definitely there, but I've always felt like Tic Tacs have a little layering to them. The standard peppermint has a bit of a fennel or anise on the outside and then peppermint inside. So doing a completely different flavor is cool ... but these are not the flavors I'm looking for. Strawberry Lemonade might be more up my alley.
I have to admit that the flavor did linger for a long time. I felt, for at least half an hour that I had "candle fresh breath." That's a thing.
Tic Tac Mixers are made in Canada.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:33 pm Candy • Review • Ferrero • Compressed Dextrose • 5-Pleasant • Canada • 7-11 • Comments (5)
Monday, April 6, 2015
SweetWorks Celebration Candies - Bears
I've been putting off this review of SweetWorks Celebration Candies for months. I've seen them at stores quite a bit lately, not just the bears, but SweetWorks makes a wide variety of shapes and color variations for different party needs. My hesitation was that they look great, but didn't taste like much at all.
This particular variation is little candy coated bears in pearlescent yellow, green and white. The sparkly coating is created with food-safe mica based pigments.
I got a sample of their peg bag of this variety that's 12 ounces, but I've seen smaller 6 ounce bags and of course some wholesalers will sell by the case. They're a very popular item for candy buffets, or for decorating and party favors for baby showers and birthday parties. They're made by OakLeaf in Canada. The package says that it's peanut free, tree nut free and gluten free, however, the package says that their facility does use milk and soy.
The bears don't smell like much, a little perfumey but otherwise a clean smell. I don't know if they have particular flavors, as the package only mentions what you can do with them: candy buffet, baked goods, party favors, themed events, candy dish, bridal shower, baby showers. Nowhere does it mention just eating or how they'll taste.
They're a pressed dextrose candy, a compacted powder made from glucose (dextrose) is flavored and stamped out under high pressure to make the candies. Then they're tumbled with some colors and glazes to make them even prettier.
What is also nice about them is that they're designed on both sides, so the front is the bear's face and belly, the back has a tiny little buttocks tushy thing going on.
When I was at the Lolli & Pops candy store, I noticed that they had some uncoated multicolored bears as well, so I picked those up to see if there was a flavor difference.
These are actually quite different from the coated version, which is kind of sad, because these are nicer. The texture is a little on the powdery side, compared to the SweeTarts tablets but not as chalky as Smarties.
Green is Lime - which is rare. It's a more floral flavor than most lime candies, and much less sour than a traditional SweeTart.
Red is Cherry and passable, though more sour than cherry flavored. Heck, it might even be strawberry.
Orange is Orange and has a good orange soda flavor that balances the tart and juicy flavors.
Yellow is Lemon or maybe Pineapple. It was terrible, sweet and soapy.
Purple is Grape and probably my favorite - tart, floral and completely artificial.
Blue is Raspberry and so flowery, it was more like a soap.
These are nice edible decorations, but not great candy. I think the pearlescent bears may work well in decorating recipes since they don't have a flavor, they won't compete with anything. OakLeaf also makes Cry Baby Tears, which are the candies you'd want to get if you want something extremely sour with very little flavor variation.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 7:49 am Candy • Review • SweetWorks, Inc • Compressed Dextrose • 3-Unappealing • 4-Benign • Canada • Comments (1)
Tuesday, November 18, 2014
Dubble Bubble Snow Balls
Christmas candy is mostly about peppermint and chocolate and shiny colored foil wrapping. Holiday gum is rather unusual, so I was pleased to see Concord Confections part of the Tootsie Roll company has a variety for winter: Dubble Bubble Snow Balls.
I enjoy novelty gums for the same reason I enjoy other candy coated morsels: they're fun to look at before eating. The Snow Balls are extremely cute. Each is the size of a garbanzo bean and rattle around easily in the theater size box. What I also liked about this particular gum was that they were white ... there was no artificial coloring (though there is titanium dioxide as a whitener), so I didn't have to worry about anything getting into the flavor except what they intended as the flavor. The gum is made with sugar and corn syrup with no artificial sweeteners.
The pieces are beautiful. They're rough and white and though spherical, they don't roll around. The bite was wonderfully soft and easy to chew, but the flavor is ... well, it's kind of like fabric softener at first. It's floral - somewhere in the neighborhood of violet and maybe musk. After chewing (two pieces seemed like a good portion), the crunchy shell and gum base were very soft. However, within a minute, the sugar dissipated to the point that the gum was getting quite stiff ... another two minutes and it was an unchewable lump that was less appealing than a wad of paper. My style is to switch out at that point anyway, so I just spit out the first piece and repeat.
Now, since this was bubble gum, I should comment on those qualities. It works. The bubbles can't get that big, as the gum base is too stiff and unforgiving. But it's not particularly sticky, which is a plus. But it's most definitely not bubble gum flavored, and any children you give this to might be turned off by the soapy notes.
After chewing, even a half hour later, I did notice a lingering floral taste in my mouth, rather like jasmine tea.
Dubble Bubble is peanut free and gluten free ... and in this instance is also free from dyes but may contain traces of soy. The gumballs are made in Canada.
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Wednesday, October 22, 2014
Theo Peanut Butter Cups (Milk and Dark Chocolate)
What the world needs is more versions of the peanut butter cup.
What Theo Chocolate is offering in their new line of peanut butter cup are the following qualities: organic ingredients, ethically sourced chocolate, kosher, no palm oil or soy ingredients and free from genetically modified organisms. The new cups come in two varieties, milk and dark chocolate, and the dark chocolate is vegan. Though they're Theo Chocolate branded, they're actually made in Canada.
The Theo Chocolate Milk Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups were $2.25 a package, I picked them up at the factory store in Seattle (I'll have a write up about the factory tour after Halloween) but they should be available at stores that carry Theo Chocolate soon as well. The packages are 1.3 ounces, so they're only .2 ounces smaller than the usual Reese's Peanut Butter Cup packages. Theo uses peanut butter from CB's Nuts, a small batch nut roaster and butterer.
They're not your ordinary round cups, nope, these are little heart shapes. They're .65 ounces each, a nice size with a more even proportion of chocolate to peanut butter than some cups with thinner chocolate shells. There's no oily puddle on the top, but my cups were probably extremely fresh since I bought them at the factory store.
They smell very toasty, the chocolate is crisp and has a good snap to it. The peanut butter is not fatty or oily, but also not quite crumbly. The overall roasted notes of both the chocolate and peanut butter are very strong. For a milk chocolate product, this is only very barely sweet. If you're a fan of the more savory elements of peanut butter and chocolate, this is probably a good match for you.
The texture of the peanut butter is similar in particle size to Reese's ... it's not whipped smooth, there are little crunchy bits and a dryness to it that keeps it from feeling to slick on the tongue. The chocolate is lightly bitter as well but has a milky note and smooth melt.
There's no notation as to the percentage of cacao, but this photos shows that the milk chocolate cups are very dark looking compared to the dark ones.
The Theo Chocolate Dark Chocolate Peanut Butter Cups are packaged so similarly to the milk chocolate variety, the sales staff at the factory store would let each customer know as they rang up their order that they'd chosen a particular variety ... so I sense that there may be a change in the future to help distinguish them.
The cups are beautiful, again, a little smaller than the Reese's Peanut Butter version, but lacking the little fluted paper cups. Instead they just sit on a little paperboard tray. The mold detail includes the Theo logo on the bottom of the cups, if you're so inclined to actually look at them before you gobble them up.
These have the same deep roasted scent as the milk chocolate, but without the light dairy note to it. The dark chocolate is immediately bitter and creamy, with a very silky melt but a strong coffee flavor. The peanut butter balanced the intensity of the chocolate with a lightness, a little hint of salt and a comforting peanut flavor.
Just one cup was exceptionally satisfying.
These are much pricier than the traditionally produced peanut butter cups on store shelves, but have none of the additional ingredients that give many folks pause. However, they're still made in a facility that processes wheat, tree nuts, egg and soy so they're not for those sensitive folks.
Though Justin's Peanut Butter Cups were first to market with ethically sourced ingredients, I think I prefer these for the texture and intensity. (But I'll probably still hand out Justin's for Halloween since they're available in singles.)
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Tuesday, October 14, 2014
Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Speculoos Cookie Butter Cups
While Trader Joe's has been pouring on the pumpkin around their stores, they haven't forgotten about one of their other core flavors: Speculoos. Their newest item is their Trader Joe's Dark Chocolate Speculoos Cookie Butter Cups.
There are a few spice mix flavors that are popular right now: Chai Spice, Gingerbread and Pumpkin Spice. Another one would be Speculoos. The odd thing about the Speculoos flavor is that it's not just the mild cinnamon and nutmeg mix which is similar to Pumpkin Spice and Gingerbread, it includes the actual cookie. The Speculoos cookie is a crispy butter cookie with some brown sugar notes along with the mild spice. I grew up eating Speculoos, though I didn't know it by that name, they were just called Windmill Spice Cookies.
The tub holds 11 ounces of foil wrapped cups. This quantity doesn't fill the tub completely, but it's true to its weight. The cups are wrapped in gold foil, and inside each little piece does not actually have a fluted paper cup like the dark chocolate Peanut Butter Cups which come in a similar format. Each cup is about 11 grams, basically the same size as a Reese's Peanut Butter Cup Miniature.
Trader Joe's also offered up a bar version of the Cookie Butter in dark chocolate a couple of years ago. That bar was made with Belgian chocolate in Belgium. This version is made in Canada (the Peanut Butter Cups that Trader Joe's sells are made in the USA, which might also explain some of the small cosmetic differences.)
They smell lightly spicy, like cloves and cinnamon. The cups are shiny and nicely formed. The bite is easy, the center is soft and mostly creamy. It's not as crumbly as a peanut butter cup can be, with a much creamier texture. The chocolate isn't overpowered by the center, the chocolate flavors are well balanced with a berry/fruit note and a little dry finish to the quite slick melt. The cookie butter center is not overly sweet, not overly grainy. There are a few little bits of cookie, but for the most part it's more like a batter than a paste.
They're not completely peanut free, so it's not like these are a great option for those with allergies. But if you're a lover of candy cups but don't actually like Peanut Butter, this might be what you've been searching for. I think it's a unique new product and look forward to more cupification of Trader Joe's products, such as the new Cookies and Creme Cookie Butter.
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Tuesday, August 12, 2014
PUR Sugarless Gum - Coolmint & Cinnamon
I'm a bit of a picky chewer, when it comes to gum. Part of it may be that I'm just such a minority in my tastes that it's not profitable to make the kind of gum I might like.
I mostly chew gum made with sugar, not because I necessarily want sugar in my gum, but because it's so hard to find sugar free gum that's not made with artificial sweeteners like aspartame (NutraSweet), sucralose (Splenda), acesulfame potassium (AceK) and saccharine. It's very rare to find a gum like the PUR line that is sugarless but also made only with xylitol, which is a sugar alcohol. Xylitol has been around for years and is often used in sugar free mints and gums, though usually in combination with artificial sweeteners. It has a light ans sweet note to it, but like most sugar alcohols, it also has an odd cooling effect on the tongue (which is usually a desirable feature for mints).
The PUR Gum is is gluten free, nut free, dairy free, vegan and free of GMO ingredients. I've tried the other flavors that were introduced when the gum line launched about three years ago: Peppermint, Spearmint and Pomegranate Mint. I liked them quite a bit, though they're not easy to find.
The pieces are simple chiclets, rounded rectangular pieces, a little rustic and uneven, measuring about 3/4 of an inch long and about 1/3 of an inch wide. A serving, for me, is two pieces. (With actual Chiclets it's usually 3 pieces at a time.)
The chew is very soft at first, with a very cool note on top and a strong sweetness before the other flavors kick in. The sweetness is not the same as sugar, it's less round, cool on the tongue and rather slippery.
The flavor is very odd. At first it was a bit on the wintergreen side, which some people find medicinal ... or repulsive. There are other notes to it, a little hint of eucalyptus and then another more balsam note, it reminded me of mastic, which is a resin that's also used a chewing gum in the Mediterranean. (If you've never had mastic, it's also similar in its flavor profile to tea tree oil, which is not meant to be eaten but is found in many natural personal care products.)
The wintergreen notes dissolve away and all that seemed to be left was that sort of resin note with a hint of something like jasmine tea. It's pleasant, at least for me and did definitely freshen my mouth after eating some curry for lunch.
Cinnamon is predictable and comforting. It's woodsy and a little on the clove side of spicy, but has a wonderful warming hotness to it. The intense and rounded flavors dissipate pretty quickly, but the lingering flavor is just sweet and with the lightest tough of cinnamon.
There's no weird bitter note, either, which I think is often caused by artificial colors. There are no colors here, so it's all about the gum flavor. The xylitol sweetness lasts for a while, I'd say the pieces are satisfying for about 15 minutes. After I tossed the gum, I still had that lingering warmth of the cinnamon for at least a half an hour. It definitely cut through coffee breath.
I'd probably still stick with the Peppermint (from the original review) for a gum to keep in my desk, but for travel, I think I would go with the Coolmint because I really felt like chewing the pieces longer than the other flavors. It's a little expensive and the packaging takes up a lot of space for such a small amount of gum. (I might like it if the blister pack was scored so I could just tear off a few of them to keep them in my little case that I take on airplanes.)
The gum is not easy to find, and not cheap. I've seen it at natural food stores and grocers, such as Sprouts and Erewhon.
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Evapotranspiration ¯uxes over mixed vegetation
areas measured from large aperture scintillometer
H.M. Hemakumara
, Lalith Chandrapala
Arnold F. Moene
International Water Management Institute, P.O. Box 2075, Colombo, Sri Lanka
Meteorological Department, Bauddhaloka Mawatha, Colombo 7, Sri Lanka
Meteorology and Air Quality Group, Wageningen University and Research Center,
Duivendaal 2, 6701 AP Wageningen, The Netherlands
Routine measurement of spatially averaged surface ¯uxes of sensible heat (H) in river basins is
now feasible. These ¯uxes, when combined with net radiation estimates, can be used to derive areally
averaged actual evapotranspiration (ET). The scintillation method is shown to be promising method
for estimating areally averaged sensible heat ¯uxes. The large aperture scintillometer (LAS) is an
optical device used to monitor ¯uctuations in refractive index of the turbulent atmosphere over a
relatively large area. The study reported here has estimated ET ¯uxes for an area of mixed vegetation
at Horana, a ®eld site about 40 km southeast of Colombo, Sri Lanka. ET estimates derived from the
scintillometer and net radiometer were compared with estimates obtained from a remote sensing
based surface energy balance algorithm for land (SEBAL). The SEBAL estimating of ET were
derived using NOAA satellite images without any a priori calibration. The average deviation of ET
estimates between SEBAL and LAS for 10-day periods was 17%. However, this deviation fell to 1%
when monthly estimates were considered. This suggests regional ET values derived from remote
sensing are reasonable estimates, however, the LAS was used in only one agro-ecosystem to validate
the SEBAL model. The LAS is a low cost alternative to other methods of estimating heat ¯uxes for
use in basin scale water use studies.
# 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.
Keywords: Scintillometer; Sensible heat ¯ux; Energy balance; Evaporative fraction; Evapotranspiration
Agricultural Water Management 58 (2003) 109±122
Corresponding author. Tel.: 94-178-7404; fax: 94-178-6854.
E-mail addresses: email@example.com (H.M. Hemakumara), email@example.com (L. Chandrapala).
Tel.: 94-169-3943.
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Political Tourists Flock To New Hampshire
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Political Tourists Flock To New Hampshire
As the 2016 campaign plays out through televised debates for the rest of the nation, political tourists flocked to New Hampshire in the week leading up to the state's presidential primary on Tuesday. (Feb. 8)
A Triumphant Denver Broncos Returns Home
A triumphant Denver Broncos team arrived in Denver on a charted plane on Monday, a day after beating the Carolina Panthers 24-10 in the Super Bowl. (Feb. 8)
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Larson, DiCaprio Hit Carpet at Oscar Luncheon
Brie Larson, Leonardo DiCaprio, Mark Ruffalo, Steven Spielberg and Rachel McAdams are among the stars on the red carpet ahead of the Oscar nominees luncheon. (Feb. 8)
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Inside the Oscars Nominees Luncheon with Adam Benzine
Interview with the producer/director nominee for best documentary short.
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Inside The Oscars Nominees Luncheon with Frank A. Monta�±o
Interview with soundmixing editor nominee for the film, 'The Revenant'
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Inside the Oscars Nominees Luncheon with 'Cartel Land'
Meet the team behind the best documentary feature nominee.
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Inside the Oscars Nominees Luncheon with nominees Love Larson and Eva Von Bahr
Interview with makeup and hairstyling nominees for the film, 'the 100-year-old man who climbed out the window and disappeared'
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Behind the Scenes from Oscar Nominees Luncheon
The Beverly Hilton Hotel hosts the nominees ahead of the Academy Awards
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Panda Express Celebrates Chinese New Year
ABC News' Rachel Scott and Michael Rothman check out the specialty items Panda Express is offering for Chinese New Year.