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The Competition is based on a hypothetical case written by experts in the Inter-American human rights legal system and reflects a cutting-edge legal issue currently being debated in the region. The 2016 Hypothetical Case will focus on the topic of "Extractive Industries and Human Rights " and will be written by Katya Salazar and Daniel Cerqueira, from the Due Process of Law Foundation (DPLF). The case will be published on December 9, 2015. You can read biographies of the authors below.
The 2016 Hypothetical Case is available here.
Katya Salazar
Katya Salazar is a Peruvian attorney and has worked at the DPLF since 2004. After having worked as Programs Director, she assumed the direction of the organization in 2009. Since then, she has promoted a greater involvement of DPLF in the new challenges presented in the region. Under her leadership, DPLF created the human rights and extractive industries program and became involved in the defense of the inter-American system of human rights. Katya has authored various articles and has lead several conferences on the topics in which she specializes, representing DPLF in many Latin American countries and the world. The central topics on which she works at DPLF are: judicial independence, inter-American law, the rights of indigenous peoples, access to justice, and transitional justice.
Before joining the DPLF team, Katya was the Adjunct Coordinator of the Special Investigations Unit of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission of Peru, where she was in charge of investigating grave human rights violations that occurred during the armed conflict in that country. She was also part of the legal team of the Coalition Against Impunity (Nuremberg, Germany) that prepared the denunciation and promoted the criminal procedure in Germany against members of the Argentinian military for the disappearance of German citizens during the Argentinian dictatorship.
Katya studied law at the Catholic University of Peru and has a Masters in German Law and International Public Law from the University of Heidelberg, Germany. In 1997, she was the Latin American Legal Fellow for the International Human Rights Law Group (currently Global Rights), where she carried out investigations and human rights-related activities before the Organization of American States (OAS).
Daniel Cerqueira
Daniel Cerqueira is a Brazilian lawyer that joined the DPLF team in January of 2014 to work on our Human Rights and Extractive Industries Program. As Senior Program Officer of our Human Rights and Extractive Industries Program Daniel carries out research, advocacy and outreach activities on human rights violations related to extractive activities and the international responsibilities of States involved in this industry. Daniel also assists our Executive Director in monitoring deliberations at the OAS and civil society discussions on the functioning of the Inter-American Human Rights System.
Daniel has a Masters in International Law with Honors from Georgetown University (USA) and is currently completing a Masters Degree with the Global Rights and Constitutional Democracy Program at the Universitá degli Studi di Genova in Italy. He obtained his law degree from the Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais and a bachelor's degree in International Relations from the Pontificia Universidade Católica de Minas Gerais in Brazil. Before joining DPLF, he worked for 8 years as a lawyer at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) where he worked with the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression, the Protection Division and the Andean II (Bolivia and Peru) Regional Section. Daniel was also part of the team responsible for extending technical advice to the Commissioners during the IACHR's 2012-2013 reform process. He has given presentations and trainings on various issues related to the Inter-American Human Rights System to judicial officials, indigenous groups, human rights defenders and academics. Daniel has also written articles and opinion columns on international relations, international public rights and international human rights.
The 2015 Hypothetical Case is available here.
Previous topics have addressed:
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- Rights of Persons with Disabilities and International Human Rights Law
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- labor unions
- indigenous rights
- terrorism
- environment and human rights
- migration
- freedom of expression
- Transitional Justice, International Human Rights and Humanitarian Law
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- Inter-American Commission on Human Rights attorneys
- Former Indigenous Rights Rapporteur to the OAS
- Leaders of prominent NGOs
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Unisex Names..... Your thoughts
When I was in the 7th grade, we had a sub and while taking attendance, she called out Kelley Woods. There was no reply so she said guess she's not here. The whole class laughed. Kelley was a boy. Funny how that incident stuck with me. I am partial to girly names for girls but unisex names have become a big trend and it doesn't bother me. Diversity is good!
That being said I think so people go way overboard on what they are now calling unisex. People are picking total boy names and naming their daughters. There has to be a stopping point or there will be no true boy names left. Most people think its cool to replace a i/e/o with a y. Well that's normally how people do it with girls, now they are doing it with boys. If a y is not in the original spelling then leave it out!
Wow I sound like such a bitch.
Personally, I like feminine names for girls. I feel bad for boys with names that are becoming trendy girl names.
I do see middle ground in nicknaming your girl with a boy name. "Jo" for Josephine or "Charlie" for Charlotte.
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Let me say I hate why my parents named me Lauren. They liked it and it was unisex. I can't stand the name and I want to get it legally changed lori lie or something more feminine. For a girl it's Lauren for a boy it's Loran. Let me say when I was a young girl and met the chief of the fire department, his name was Loran and all my classmates teased me for having a boy name.
I love Unisex names for girls!!! My 11 yo daughter is Taylor Faith, My new baby girl is Dylan Rachel. I love both of their names!!! People always ask if she's a boy. The greatest is when she's in a dress with a pink blanket and a minnie mouse, and they say what's her name?? I tell them Dylan, then they say, oh he's a big guy!! It makes me laugh every time. I just kindly tell them that she's still a girl, but i completely understand their confusion. I don't mind at all! I've always read that girls with unisex names have more opportunity of being heard in the big picture before people find their gender. Of course, i understand that one should be able to have a certain presense that their name doesn't matter, however it is just a study that has been done and states that girls with gender neutral names are generally more successful. Wow! I just rambled on and on. Anyway, i don't care either way. I love girly names, tough boy names, gender neutral names. I think it's up to the parents.
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Alpe d'huez triathlon. 2nd place. Every now and then I question my own sanity. Last Thursday was one of those days. 2 days after Ironman UK I flew out to Lake Annecy for a holiday with some of my best friends. Hiking, biking, Tour de France, lake swims, red wine, good.....
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Here is the race report from Lucy Gossage after winnig her 3rd IronMan UK. Well done Lucy and remeber to visit her website for more race reports http://lucygossage.com/ Ironman UK 2016 will be a race that I remember forever. I.....
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Carrying one of motorsport's most revered names, Pietro Fittipaldi is laying the foundations for his own push at racing greatness. Grandson of the two-time Formula 1 World Champion and double Indy 500 winner, Emerson Fittipaldi, the Miami-born Brazilian quickly rose through the.....
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"The Magic of Belle Isle," once titled "Summer at Dog Dave's," the Rob Reiner film starring Morgan Freeman that was shot in Greenwood Lake, may be coming to a theater near you in summer 2012.
Magnolia Pictures on Wednesday announced the acquisition of distribution rights of the film, wich stars Freeman and Virginia Madsen and takes place in the fictional lakeside town of Belle Isle. Greenwood Lake served as Belle Isle during the summer shoot, with residents serving as extras in the film.
Freeman plays Monte Wildhorn, a writer who has been slowed down by alcoholism. Living in a Belle Isle cabin, he befriends a neighbor (Madsen), who helps him rediscover his purpose.
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The Aztecs football players have chosen four seniors -- cornerback J.J. Whittaker, defensive lineman Sam Meredith, left tackle Terry Poole and receiver Ezell Ruffin -- as their captains for the season. The picks were announced at a team meeting on Friday night, when SDSU coach Rocky Long also awarded scholarships to two former walk-on players – senior punter Joel Alesi and junior safety Pierre Romain.
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After a brief reprieve from the really cold air, it looks like another shot of cold air is due for midweek. Recently, most of northern Canada has had temperatures well below zero and today was no exception. Check it out:
While we likely won't see temperatures quite that cold, late Wednesday and Thursday will provide a pretty good shock to the system. Luckily for us, the core of the coldest air will be felt in the Plains and Midwest. By late Wednesday, the front should be completely through Southern Colorado:
Some snow and wind will occur with this front, but snow amounts do not look to become an issue. An inch or two here or there, but nothing that would snarl travel. High temperatures on Thursday likely won't get out of the lower to middle teens for most of us. So, get ready for more cold...
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A footnote in yesterday's post mentioned that one of the many reasons behind the razor-thin margins in the tradgames space is the stagnating price.
RPG books are ridiculously fucking cheap compared to books of similar production values in other areas. The price of the book has not risen in any significant proportion to the increase in costs. Instead, the increase in production price has eaten in to the margins, the amount of money that the publisher gets and uses to pay for writers and artists and game designers.
This has two drivers:
- A lot of people who start gaming are in university or younger, and don't have a significant amount of disposable income.
- Old gamers have ossified to the point that they refuse to believe that production costs have increased by anywhere near as much as they have, and believe that a 300-page full-colour glossy hardback rulebook should cost as much as the 200-page black and white softcover that they remember from when they got started.
The target market of trad RPGs thus can't (point 1) or can but won't (point 2) pay a reasonable price for the books that they're getting.
In order to pay people fairly for their labour, publishers need more available cash. One of the ways to do this is to increase prices of the premium end. Full-colour glossy hardbacks should be priced as what they are. Not even commesurate with said books of equivalent publication values in other areas, just enough to reflect the actual cost of making such a book and paying a publisher enough that they can continue putting the books out without ridiculous financial pressure.
Another way is to present rulebooks as they used to be — black and white softcovers, shorter and with less art. These days the market will happily bear them at 6×9 rather than "full" size. Those can be priced at the entry level, giving people enough to play the game without being overwhelming.
So let's talk about an elephant in the room: if you want to get involved with new projects and new companies as a freelancer, you have to go to GenCon.
GenCon is the biggest tradgames convention. It is the only one, as far as most of the work goes. And if you don't go, you don't exist.
I am a professional writer and game designer. As I may have mentioned, I have eleven years' experience as a professional game designer. That doesn't count the years I spent beforehand doing fan-work and building up my skills, just the amount of time I've been paid for doing the job. I have a million and a half words in print. I have done work for publishers set up by people I've worked with at White Wolf/Onyx Path because they know my output even if they've not met me in person.
Yet to the wider industry, I don't exist.
Thing is, I pretty much can't go to GenCon. Getting there costs more than I make in the industry. It is a financial drain, and no amount of extra work that I'd pick up from being there would push that into the positive. I have other things going on that mean even if I could fund it from gaming work, it probably still won't happen.
I have tried to get freelance work with people & publishers I haven't worked with at White Wolf/Onyx Path. I have pointed to my list of publications, I've provided references, and I've provided writing samples of both published and first-draft work. In return, I've been treated like I'm a total n00b, like I'm trying to break in to the industry and don't know how things really work. Patronised, patted on the head, or just ignored. Because how could someone be in the industry if you haven't met them at GenCon?
This isn't just true of freelancers looking to work for other publishers. It's sometimes true for people in the same company — no matter how many referrals you have from other folks, not having that in-person connection puts you at a significant disadvantage. It's also true for indie designers and publishers. Not having a presence at GenCon means your game — hell, you as a writer/designer/publisher — don't exist.
The unstated requirement of GenCon attendance is an issue because it acts as a barrier to the free movement of labour in the industry. Free movement is beneficial to creatives because they get more work, they get more experience with new systems, and they are better-known by people who buy games which in turn means that if they do want to go it alone they have a built-in fan base that people stuck working for one or two publishers don't have. GenCon creates two classes of RPG pros. Those who have free movement, and those who don't. In order to be a healthy place to work, the industry needs to do a hell of a lot better.
For people who can go, GenCon is great. For those of us who can't, it poisons the industry and wider community against us.
A small but significant amount of commentary on the shitty situation for freelancers in the industry side of the TRPG industry is along the lines of "Well, just run a Kickstarter or Patreon for the games you want to design".
This is bad advice. Kickstarter and Patreon are not the tools to free writers from the shackles of the game design industry.1
They are crowdfunding platforms, and crowdfunding works on a bunch of different assumptions. Primarily, if you want to run a successful Kickstarter or make an amount of money that isn't a joke on Patreon, you need a pretty much constant stream of marketing and self-promotion.
The idea that "quality" will somehow attract money is bullshit; it was proven to be bullshit as soon as nerds started complaining that the only way Microsoft remained in a dominant position despite poor software was "marketing", like that was some kind of black magic. Well no shit, Sherlock. Of course marketing is how Microsoft remained popular. Without marketing, nobody wants to use your shit.
That is a truism of doing business. "Quality" gets you dick. Marketing gets you popular. Anyone saying otherwise is a liar.
People point to small-press kickstarters and patreons that succeeded. Dungeon World, f'rex. They succeeded because marketing.2
The point of all of this is simple: marketing and self-promotion are not part of the writing and game design toolkit; they're entirely orthogonal to it. Sometimes you can manage it in the short-term, say, during a KS. Even then, if you're not good at it you end up promising things you can't reasonably deliver. That's not a factor of budgeting as much as it is self-promotion — you need people to get involved with what you're doing. And so the KS crushes you.
I've been part of two Kickstarters so far: W20: Changing Breeds and W20 Book of the Wyrm. In neither case was I the main person on the project. Rich and Rose took point. And yet, it was a full-time job. While the Kickstarters were running, I straight-up could not do any design work. It was absolutely fucking exhausting. I know from that experience that I cannot do that with any regularity; I do not have the skills or the energy to run a successful KS.
Patreon is similar: you need to build the initial following to get enough money per-release (or per-month, but in the trad-games space that's code for "fund my life") that doing the work for that release is worth it. And to make enough to recoup the costs of the work involved, you'd need to be in the top 1% of trad-games Patreons. Otherwise, compared to freelancing — even as it is now, even with all the unpaid bullshit — you lose money.
If I had to self-promote to get paid, I'd be out of the industry in a New York second, and I know that I am not unusual in this.
The other factor of crowdfunding is cash. Because of a string of massive delays and total failures, one of the best ways to guarantee funding is to have at least the pre-release text ready to go when you launch. You also need a video and at least some art; text-only kickstarters don't succeed.
Except that means writing the damn thing happens before you know if you can pay for it. Art-ing the damn thing likewise. As for the video? Sure, count it under "self-promotion" but even if you're just doing voice-over, if you have the skill to do it as a pro that's £100-£150 of work you're doing for free.
Thing is, this whole thing came about because of the amount of work that we as writers & game designers already do for free. By the time you factor in art and video, a kickstarter for a 60-page game — say, if I'd kickstarted BLACK SEVEN — would have left me over £1000 out of pocket with no guarantee of recouping that cash.
Instead, I stuck it on DriveThru, where it has a chance of people noticing it without dedicating a month to doing nothing creative but using skills I don't have. With the tiny bit of self-promotion I managed, it's an electrum bestseller (top 3% of products on the site).
TL;DR: Crowdfunding works for people with the skills to crowdfund. Those are separate skills. Most creatives, especially those freelancing, do not have those skills. It is not a silver bullet, and attempts to claim that it is are disingenuous and insulting.
Naturally, a lot of discussion on the issues raised in and around my last post happened elsewhere on social media. Mostly Google+, as that site tends to have the largest gamer population1.
Because I don't want it locked in a proprietary social network bubble, I'm going to revise and condense a lot of what I posted and what the discussion moved on to here.
As well as some really ardent defenders.2 Despite posts auto-truncating, a random algorithm deciding which posts to display in the first place because gød forbid you'd want to see what the people you followed posted, a UI that's slow in everything but Chrome3, and a page design that actively hates wide monitors. ↩
Mention that all the evidence points to G+ dying sooner or later and you get walls-of-text "proving" that it won't based on some loony's anecdotal experience that totally ignores how Google treats its services. ↩
But that's true of every Google tool. Docs in Firefox and Safari is a laggy sack of shit. ↩
Yeah, I've been keeping up with David Hill, Ryan Macklin, and Michelle Lyons on the current state of the industry for freelance game writers and designers. Might as well weigh in.
Those of you who a) read me on Livejournal and b) I trust can see that I've had my own thoughts around this. I'm not making that post public as it's tied in to my personal feelings of frustration in addition to the broader topic.
Fundamentally though, I agree with the others:
- Per-word rates do not reflect the work that game designers put in
- Pay-on-publication leaves writers hanging when publication is delayed
- Too much work is done in the background (reading, research, probability, systems design) that isn't compensated at all
- People above "writer" in the game development chain should be treated (and paid) as consultants rather than just by the wordcount of a given book.
- If per-word won't die, the rate needs a serious increase and a secondary revenue stream needs to come in to reflect the non-word related workload.
These issues have been in the back of my mind for quite a while — they're hard to avoid when you've been doing the job for eleven years and have one and a half million words in print — but I've not generally talked about this before, even as compensation's dropped (when I started with WW, we got 3 print comps, now it's a voucher for a standard-color PoD at cost) and pay rates increased glacially if at all.
I've not talked about it because it feels like I'm calling out one publisher because 95% of my work is through them, but I'm really not. I repeat, this is not about any one publisher. It is about the industry as a whole. Freelancers talk. We know what goes on at other publishers, and we know that these problems are endemic across the traditional games space.
The tabletop gaming space operates on razor-thin margins. People say "the market pays what the market can bear". But y'know what? If the market can't afford good designers it doesn't deserve good designers. If your market is shitty it deserves to die. That's the point of markets, right? Unfortunately, it's kept alive, artificially buoyed up by people willing to work for peanuts out of love.
If the non-indie side of the tradgames space doesn't change, it won't die but it might as well, as it suffers a sudden and significant dearth of talent.
I was somewhat reluctant to write this because I don't have any solutions, no suggestions for how to make things better.1 Part of the problem-solver's brain in me feels like a failure for not coming up with something better. Any solution has to be twofold. It needs to ensure that all of the work a designer does is fairly compensated, and it needs to ensure that publishers have the funds available to afford that compensation.
- Really, it comes down to a bunch of whining grognards who will spend from now until forever crying about how books aren't priced the same as they were in nineteen-fuckety-five, rather than being priced equivalent to books of similar size and production values. It's this sense of entitled bullshit that aritificially deflates prices and keeps margins thinner than a blue Rizla. ↩
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I made a new game. It's called Unfinished, it's about ghosts, and it's just 150 words long.
It's small enough that it fits in a tweet:
A 150-word RPG in a tweet. If you like it, it's Pay What You Want over on DriveThruRPG http://t.co/W0prC80hXa pic.twitter.com/JNdX5HXyiN
— Turquoise Dreaming (@digitalraven) April 22, 2015
I put it up on DriveThruRPG as a Pay What You Want download, so if you like it (or just think I'm mad enough to reward) you can toss me a buck or two. It's CC-BY licensed, so share it with whoever.
EDIT: Unfinished was just featured on BoingBoing!
You all know I make games, right?[1] Not just for myself, but also for Onyx Path Publishing?[2]
OPP don't just let me play in their sandbox, they gave me a corner of it as my own — I'm the
madman line developer for both Werewolf: The Apocalypse and Werewolf: The Forsaken.
A little over two years ago, I sent in a pitch for what would become Werewolf: The Forsaken Second Edition. You might have heard me wittering about it. Two years of my life went in to that book.
Werewolf: The Forsaken Second Edition is out now for you to purchase with your earth-monies. Go check it out!
If you like werewolves, I think — hope — you'll like Werewolf: The Forsaken. We did our damndest to capture a broad range of werewolf mythology and story beats, and used them to build on the excellent foundation of the game's first edition. Much of what changed has been discussed on the Onyx Path forums, the RPGnet forums, and the open development blog posts on the Onyx Path site.
If not, I dread to think how you found this site. ↩
For those who haven't been paying attention, when CCP/White Wolf got out of making roleplaying games, Onyx Path got the license. We're a bunch of ex-White Wolf staff & freelancers putting out new material for pretty much all White Wolf games at a rate not seen in the past six years. ↩
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This is pretty much a followup to yesterday's post. People thinking I should talk about games more and the industry/community less can go fuck themselves. This shit is important. Continue reading »
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One of the less enjoyable parts of being on the internet is dealing with other people. Don't get me wrong, some of them are lovely—Matt McFarland and the fine folks of Growling Door, Alyssa and the Fünhaver crew, Avery McDonaldo, and many others that I'm forgetting.
But of the seven billion people in the world, a lot of them are arseholes.
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Part of me wants to talk about the closure of the World of Darkness MMO. It's not an easy thing to think of – the people working on the MMO were the remaining parts of White Wolf. I have friends among the people who have lost their jobs. I don't want to trivialise the fact that they must now find new places to work.
At the same time, I do want to note the passing. Papa Chuck must have taught me wrong, though, because I can't find them. So instead, I'm going to point you to the words of two friends, and two better writers: Chuck Wendig and Aaron Debski-Bowden
I guess I don't share quite their outlook. I'm heavily involved in writing and developing World of Darkness games for Onyx Path. I've got both Werewolf games to my name. I'm working on the system for the new edition of Trinity and Scion (which Onyx Path own outright). I've got my name on Vampire books – something I was sure would never happen when I started. We've been publishing what people think of as White Wolf tabletop RPGs for a couple of years now and that's continuing apace.
I think part of why I can't find the words is that so many of us at Onyx Path are ex-employees and ex-freelancers for White Wolf. From my perspective behind a keyboard in Scotland I'm talking to the same people and writing words for the same game lines – and some new ones – as I was when working for White Wolf. Sure, some of the friends I needed to get through those first books — people like Aaron and Chuck — have gone off to become bestselling writers, but that's how the world works.
I played White Wolf games as a teenager. One of my first characters was a bitterly sarcastic Corax with long hair and a leather trenchcoat; not so much a character as a prediction of what I would become. I created him for the first edition of Werewolf: The Apocalypse when I got my hands on the Werewolf Players' Guide. Just recently I dug out his sheet and converted him to the updated rules in Werewolf: The Apocalypse 20th Anniversary Edition and W20: Changing Breeds – the latter being the first book I developed. He's still the same, though I'd play him differently now.
The key thing, I think, is to note White Wolf's passing but not to mourn the pale pooch – not as an entity. White Wolf, as a collection of games and worlds, hasn't died – it's changed. As the God-Machine Chronicle says:
What rises may fall. What has fallen may rise again.
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Friday, January 19, 2007
Frangos Dark (62%)
I've mentioned Frangos a lot on this blog, but I've never reviewed them before. So after Christmas when I stumbled on a 50% off sale, I picked up a variety I'd never had before, 62% Cocoa Dark Chocolate Frangos. They were regularly $20 a pound, but at $10 a pound, I thought it was time they made an appearance here.
But first, how about a little background about Frangos?
People in the Pacific Northwest and the Chicago area are most familiar with Frangos, as the history of the confection is closely tied to both areas.
The Frango confectionery line was first introduced by Frederick & Nelson department stores in Seattle in 1918. The Frango name was applied at F&N to a few confectionery products, but the Frango mint meltaway (which joined their line in 1927) is the one that struck a lasting chord with consumers. (Note: there's some disagreement about the early name of the candy, which may have been Francos, but was changed after Francisco Franco and the Spanish Civil War gave the chocolates a less festive feel.)
A Frango is a small chocolate - currently they're taller than they are about 3/4" high and 1/2" wide and deep. The center is a firm meltaway - harder than a truffle but softer than pure chocolate. The original flavor and still the most popular is Mint.
Frangos made their migration to Chicago in 1929 when Marshall Fields (now Macy's) bought the store and started up Frango production right there at the flaship State Street store. Though the products are virtually identical they are packaged differently - the Northwest version are individually wrapped and the Chicago version are sold in a traditional candy box in little fluted cups.
I first had Frangos in the late seventies when my mother returned from a trip to Chicago with a box. I despised most of the flavors (Coffee, Raspberry, Cherry, Double Chocolate) but I rather liked the Lemon and of course was obsessed with the Mint. Boxes were sold with mixes of flavors and the ultimate gift was the "Foot of Frangos." (The little paper cups gave a clue to the flavor, so there was no problem with little dents in the bottom from picky children.)
The 62% Cocoa Dark Chocolates are quite nice. They have a strong vanilla aroma mixed with the smoky notes of the chocolate. The centers are firm but the pieces are small and easy to pop into your mouth whole. The meltaway middle gets a little kick from a hit of salt (which I always loved in the mint version).
The worst thing about them right now though, is that they use partially hydrogenated soybean oil to get them "melty" in the center. This adds 1.5 gram of trans fats to a serving of 4 pieces (about 40 grams). Hopefully, they're reformulating.
My interest in Frangos faded when I discovered chocolate truffles. It was nice to have some again and they do hold a strong place in American confectionery history, but probably not much of a place in my current candy-eating repertoire.
You can learn lots more from the Wikipedia article about Frangos (be sure to click through to the links if you're really obsessed). I've glossed over most of the controversy about the Macy's/Marshall Fields/Northwest bruhahah but feel free to weigh in about it here.
Thursday, January 18, 2007
American Value Chocolate Bars
Come on, admit it! Sometimes you go into the store and see something at an unbelievably low price and you turn up your nose because it could not possibly be any good at that price.
I'll save you from skimming to the end of the review. Yeah, that holds true in the case of American Value bars.
This is a long thin Milk Chocolate bar that clocks in at a respectable 1.4 ounce portion and mentions the price of "4 for a Dollar every day" in a ghastly yellow logo in the corner. The label couldn't possibly be less compelling if you gave me a version of Microsoft Word 95 to make it in. The package says nothing to recommend it, it doesn't get our hopes up, it doesn't lend any expectation to the experience.
Inside the package things get a bit better. It looks like a chocolate bar (and the ingredients reveal it's real chocolate as well). It smells a little nutty and a little like chocolate. Sweet and less that ultra smooth, it's a passable chocolate bar to give a child that isn't very finicky, has a short attention span or perhaps you don't like that much.
Since the bars are rather attractive (probably more so if you don't leave it at the bottom of your bag when traveling) I would be comfortable recommending this bar for craft projects like Gingerbread Houses in the style of mid-eighties cubicle farms.
Though the Milk Chocolate bar was plain, it wasn't pretending to be anything it wasn't. The Four Finger Wafer Bar is a KitKat clone. Instead of the simple declaration of the contents that the Milk Chocolate bar has, this one says that it's "Crisp Wafer Fingers Covered in Smooth Milk Chocolate."
Oh, now they've raised my expectations. I'm expecting some smoothiness and some crispiness.
The wrapper features more design than a lowly word processing program could handle. This does not make it any more attractive. It's not your monitor either, there's a strange green cast to the package as well.
There are, in fact, four fingers. They are, in fact, crisp. They do not taste like KitKat fingers, and there's nothing wrong with that. These are a bit less flaky and light. Looking at the ingredients I see that maize flour (corn) is used instead of wheat flour of a Hershey's or Nestle's KitKat. I actually rather enjoyed the malty corn flavor of the wafers. However, the chocolate here was funky. It had an odd flavor to it, kind of like a new car smell.
This bar was made in the UK (the Milk Chocolate bar was made in the USA). Taquitos.net has a few of the other Dollar General candies reviewed. I get the sense that Dollar General just subs out the manufacture of all of their candy - the Rocklets they sell under their own name are made by Arcor in Brazil, this four fingered bar in the UK and the milk chocolate bar in the US ... so you wouldn't expect them to be so consistent.
Wednesday, January 17, 2007
Reese's Big Cup with Caramel & Nuts
Another Limited Edition item from Reese's and again playing around with similar ingredients. This time they've taken the Big Cup with Nuts (which was also a limited edition item - review here) and added some caramel to the bottom of the cup.
I don't have a cross section of the actual cup because I kind of trashed it taking it out of the package and though it was certainly edible, it was not photogenic. So have a look at the Big Cup with Peanuts (click to get a pop up photo) and imagine a smidge of caramel at the bottom there.
The cup itself is nice and meaty, with lots of room to explore the nuts and peanut butter and a good balance of chocolate. The center is a bit salty which is good because the milk chocolate is a bit sweet and kind of greasy (I know that's the hazard with chocolate and peanut butter). The caramel blends in well, it has its own salty kick but it doesn't detract from the crunchy nuts or add too much sweetness. I'd prefer a chewier caramel like you find in a Snickers, but that's not Hershey's way.
I actually liked this one a bit better than the Reese's with Caramel, the caramel was distinctive and the roominess of the peanut butter/peanut stack let it all breathe.
Just to give you a sense, here are the previous Reese's reviews: Reese's Bites (soon to be discontinued), Reese's Cookies, FastBreak, Reese's Sticks, Nutrageous, Reese's Snack Barz, Reese's Pieces Peanut, Reese's Easter Eggs (two versions), Reese's Bars for those who don't like their candy in cups or shaped like trees, and of course the less-than-comprehensive Reese's Full Line, another Big Cup (with mixed nuts) and their new favorite child, the Reese's Crispy Crunchy Bar.
Tuesday, January 16, 2007
One Dollar Bars
My mother lives in a neighborhood where, without fail, every time I visit there's a kid at the door at some point either trying to sell her something or delivering something she bought. This time it's the One Dollar Bar. (Actually, I'd never seen these before, I'd only seen the World's Finest Chocolate bars.)
The bars are sizeable - at 2.25 ounces it's like a king size bar and at a buck, it's a pretty good deal as consumer chocolate bars for a cause go. (I remember buying single boxes of M&Ms from the band kids when I was in high school, the boxes were probably a buck but had less than a similar king sized snack pack ... and that was, um, a few years ago.)
The Roasted Almond bar comes in a red wrapper and like all the One Dollar Bars, it's certified peanut free. The little domed segments smelled nice and sweet with a bit of a milky boost. The chocolate is very sweet but creamy and has a good nutty note from the almonds. The almonds were fresh tasting and extra crunchy. One the whole, the milk chocolate was far too sweet for me to eat, even with the nuts cutting it. I think with some extra almonds on the side or maybe some salty pretzels I could make do with this bar.
The Mint Chocolate bar is milk chocolate with a flowing mint fondant filling. The bar was beautifully glossy, smelled sweet with a light hint of mint. Though the chocolate here was identically sweet to the Roasted Almond bar, the creamy consistency of the filling and mint hit seemed to moderate it well. I'm guessing part of the reason for that is the filling is a sugar and condensed milk concoction with some salt in it as well. (The Almond bar has 20 mg of sodium, the Mint bar has 140 mg!)
I'm not sure I'd ever buy these just because I wanted one, but if some kids were selling them in front of the grocery store (where I buy all my fundraiser candies ... the just don't seem to go door to door in Los Angeles as much) I might pick up a couple since they're decent quality. They come in a few other varieties as well - Crispy Rice, Creamy Caramel, Dark Chocolate & Tasty Truffle.
Van Wyck Confections, who makes the One Dollar Bar is based in Denver, CO, but the bars were made in Canada. I'm not quite sure who makes the chocolate for them.
Monday, January 15, 2007
Short & Sweet: Japanese Goodies
I have too much candy and at one review a day I'm never going to get to it all.
And if I review more than one a day, well, I'm just not going to have enough time for anything else.
So here it is, a "Short & Sweet" review of a buncha stuff Japanese stuff:
High Concentration Milk Candy (made by UHA) -are little hard candies, kind of like a hard toffee. They taste distinctly of milk and are very sweet. They're also rather satisfying without being too sticky. I'm sure there's some high calcium content in there but the wrapper was all in Japanese.
Cubyrop (made by Bourbon) - oh they're such cute candies! Little fruit flavored hard candies in Strawberry, Pineapple, Orange, Peach, Lemon, Muscat and Grape. Some flavors were very tasty, but I didn't care much for the peach, which was a rather difficult flavor to distinguish from the orange. Lots of vitamin C.
They came in little wrappers that held two little candy cubes. They were completely random, so you'd never know when you were going to get a muscat and grape together.
Look Nut ala Mode (made by Fujiya) is a strange little tray of chocolates in a box with a wide, envelope-like flap. Great for sharing, they're pretty and of descent quality even for less than $2.00.
It took me quite a while to realize that there were four different nut flavors ... not that each chocolate contained all flavors. I have no idea, beyond the rather green pistachio one which was which. I enjoyed all of them except for the macadamia, which seemed more coconutty.
Saturday, January 13, 2007
Candy Around the Net
Here are a few links for the long holiday weekend:
Missed Manners did more than just a gingerbread house for the holidays. He and his family recreated the seige on Helm Deep from Lord of the Rings book Two Towers in gummis, licorice and even catapults made from Tootsie Pops.
Pretty inventive stuff. If I had to do a diorama for a book report, I'd definitely tackle it in candy like they did!
Second - if you haven't read it yet, there was an interesting expose by Scott at DallasFood.org about a super-expensive chocolate called Noka. If you read through all of it, including the comments in the forums you'll find out that Noka later engaged one of the defenders of Noka in the comments. It's a very odd story. I have nothing against expensive chocolate. I highly doubt that any chocolate is worth that much, but as has been pointed out in the newest press release since this whole thing broke, you get a really nice collectible box! (I've never tried Noka but now I'm curious to try Bonnat.)
Powell's Sweet Shoppe has opened in Boise, Idaho. I mention this because people have been visiting Candy Blog looking for info about this. I did email Powell's corporate headquarters for more info, but my request went unanswered. Luckily KTVB did a story on it and gave me the scoop. The new store (only the second outside of California) is off Parkcenter in Bown Crossing.
I'll use this as my opportunity to rant about the Powell's website, which has NEVER listed the locations of the other stores besides the one in Windsor.
UPDATE 1/16/07 - I found the Boise location:
Powell's Sweet Shoppe
(208) 424-6099
Finally, if you're planning a wedding, there's a great article about the new trend in Candy Bars for a make your own wedding favor area at the reception. What's really great about it is that people get to pick. It's great when a wedding recognizes that the people who attend are individuals and might not like the little chocolate truffles and might prefer some jordan almonds. And let's face it, a huge table of candy can be drop dead gorgeous. You can adapt this idea for all sorts of occasions like birthday parties, corporate thingies, baby showers, engagements, retirements and anniversaries.
Friday, January 12, 2007
New Years Resolution Poll Results
Wow, these are really interesting results. Not to mention the fact that this was a poorly constructed poll, because it assumed that you either made resolutions about candy or you made no resolutions at all.
I'm actually glad to hear that so many folks are going to try to eat better candy. I mean really, life's too short for bad candy! I'm hoping that those who said that they were going to eat less candy meant that the candy they were going to eat was going to be better as well.
Blow Pop Minis
I'm a big lollipop fan. (No, not that I like big lollipops.) My favorite cheapo lollipop is the Orange Tootsie Pop (though I enjoyed the Limited Edition Tropical flavors last year, too). Blow Pops aren't quite as good, mostly because the gum isn't candy and they don't come in orange.
While wasting time at the Pittsburgh Airport, I found these Blow Pop Minis. They herald, "It's a Blow Pop with NO Stick!" Hallelujah! Now adults can eat their Blow Pops without being branded Rejuveniles.
While they say they're Blow Pops without sticks, they're also without mass. They're wee little candies, about the size of a smooshed garbanzo bean. And they're mostly candy. They come in four flavors: Watermelon, Blue Razz, Cherry and Sour Apple. (No, no grape, which is a classic Blow Pop flavor.)
I talk a lot about proportions when it comes to candy. Sometimes something can be coated in too much chocolate or not have enough of a particular element. Let me just say that the blow part of the Blow Pop Minis is sadly lacking.
First, the gum is hard and tacky. Some of the time it wouldn't even chew, just sit in the crevasses of my molars until I picked it out or ate something to dislodge it. Second, if I got the gum to chew, it was a wee amount. We're talking the size of a BB. It would probably take six candies to make the amount of gum in one Chicklet.
These are stupid. Why not make one large enough to hold a responsible amount of gum? These little candies are probably a third of the size of a Root Beer Barrel. And you're wondering, why not just sell them has plain old unfilled hard candies? Well, then they'd just be Charms.
The gum ends up being tough and flavorless ... rather like chewing a stamp or a piece of paper.
The candy part isn't bad but, of course, none of the flavors are favorites of mine.
This is just a bad idea.
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Calculus--> bobpursley
How do you get m=0? from taking the second derivative? does c=1? Can you check my work on how I get the derivative of R=M^2(c/2-m/3) NEXT R=1/2(CM^2)-1/3(M^3) NEXT dR/dM=CM-M^2. I checked in the back, and that was the answer for the first part of the equation. Isn't the ...
May 30, 2007 by Anonymous
Calculus - derivatives
Okay, I want to find the derivative of (x^x)^(x^x)... Well, I already went through the process of finding the derivative of just x^x (I used ln to do this). This is what I found... dy/dx = x^x(lnx+1) So now I want to find the derivative of (x^x)^(x^x) (using ln). This is what ...
November 29, 2009 by Lucy X
I need to find the second derivative of y=x(x-1)^1/2. I found the first derivative is 2x-1/2(x-1)^1/2, if someone could check, but I am miserably stuck on the second derivative.
April 18, 2011 by Amie
Maths Calculus Derivative Integral - Urgent Please
Use 2nd Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to find derivative of f(x) = integral of 2x^2 (at the top) to x-5 (at the bottom) of square root of Sin(x)dx
October 18, 2010 by Nick
1.) Find the derivative of tan (sec x). 2.) Find the derivative if 1/x in four ways, using the limit process, power rule, quotient rule and implicit differentiation. 3.) Show that the derivative of sec^-1 x is 1/(|x|*sqrt(x^2 -1)). 4. Find the derivative of 2^(e^(sin x)). ...
February 24, 2015 by Anonymous
Please help with this. I need the first derivative of f(x)=4(x+squareroot (x(8-x)) and then the second derivative of this to show by the second derivative test that it is a local maximum. This is difficult to put into form here and I hope I have got it right. Many thanks.
February 24, 2011 by Frank
what is the derivative of ln(x-1)? If you are studying the calculus of logarithms your question surprises me, since that is one of the most basic ones in that topic. in general if y = ln("anything") then y' = 1/"anything" * derivative of "anything" just apply this rule and let...
May 6, 2007 by URGENT
Find the second derivative for the function 5x^3+60x^2-36x-41 and solve the equation F(X)=0 i got to the second derivative but what do we do next to be able to get one of these answers.. F(x) = 5x3+60x2−36x−41 1. derivative of F(x) with respect to x = 15x2+120x...
September 26, 2012 by Herosugar
Please help with this. I submitted it below and was asked to clarify by Henry (hope this is clearer and thank you). I need the first derivative of f(x)=4(x+ sqrt (x(8-x)).And then the second derivative of this to show by the second derivative test that it is a local maximum. ...
March 4, 2011 by Frank
Calculus (Help)
Also I would like to know how to set this problem up in finding the answer: Find the second derivative. y= sqrt(3x+4) Thanks, P.S. I tried taking 3x+4 and squaring it to the 1/2. I thought that might've been the same, then I took the derivative of that and got 1/2(3x+4)^(-1/2...
February 21, 2007 by Confused
Find the derivative of the function using the definition of derivative. g(t)= 9/sqrt(t) g'(t)= state the domain of the function and the domain of the derivative (use interval notation)
September 19, 2012 by maura urgent!!
Differentiate both sides of the double angle identify sin 2x= 2 sin x cos x to determine an identify for cos x. Find the first derivative, second derivative, third fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh and eighth derivative. Use the results to find the twelfth and fifteenth derivative...
February 21, 2012 by john
Find the first and second derivative - simplify your answer. y=x/4x+1 I solved the first derivative and got 1/(4x+1)^2 Not sure if I did the first derivative right and not sure how to do the second derivative.
March 16, 2011 by Janet
Any help would be much appreciated with the steps involved in each problem given. Thank you. 1) Find derivative if y =cot x + sin x 2) Find derivative if y = (3x+5)^8 3) Find derivative if y = x csc x 4) Find derivative if y = x üŃ3x + 1 (3x + 1 is under the square root) 5) ( ...
September 30, 2007 by Matt
Applied Calculus
Find the first and second derivative of the function: x/(7x+10) Using quotient rule. This is part of my homework in the section named "Higher Order Derivatives". I am confused on getting the second derivative, as I found the first derivative to be 10/(7x+10)^2
February 20, 2013 by Jacob
Any help would be much appreciated with the steps involved in each problem given. Thank you. 1) Find derivative if y =cot x + sin x 2) Find derivative if y = (3x+5)^8 3) Find derivative if y = x csc x 4) Find derivative if y = x /3x + 1 (3x + 1 is under a square root(/) 5) ( f...
September 30, 2007 by Matt
If I have a function f(x), and am given its derivative, f'(x): may I take it as a given that f(x) is an integral of f'(x). My reasoning is that 'undoing' the derivative gives me the derivative. Eg is 1/3x^3 an integral of x^2? Thanks.
September 15, 2007 by charlie
Calculus derivatives
f(a) = a + √a (a) Find the derivative of the function using the definition of derivative.
October 27, 2008 by Ben
Calculus 1
Find the derivative dy/dx for the following. Simplify your answer. y=(ln(x^2))/(x^3) I got (2/x x^3-3x^2 ln(x^2))/((x^3)^2) for the derivative is that correct? Or no?
October 20, 2015 by TayB
Calculate the derivative of the function. Then find the value of the derivative as specified. f(x) = 8/(x+2); f '(0)
July 4, 2010 by theo
Calculus I
Find the derivative of y=ln((1+e^x)/(1-e^x)) I know that the derivative of y=ln(1+e^x) would be (e^x)/(1+e^x), but I'm not sure what to do with the 1-e^x on the bottom here. Can someone help please? Thanks!
May 21, 2012 by Marissa
R=M^2(c/2-m/3) dR/dM=CM-M^2 I found the derivative. Now how would I find the vale of M that maximize the derivative dR/dM? set it to zero, and solve for m. You get two solutions. Use the second derivative to see which one is the max. I get M=C. How do I go from there? What do ...
May 29, 2007 by Anonymous
If P'(t)= [10(t+2)]/t. What is P(t)? It is asking for the derivative, and I am so lost! Because so far we haven't covered how to find the derivative of something so complicated. Any ideas? TY
August 15, 2010 by Jaimie
Use the function defined below to calculate the indicated derivative. f(t)= 4/(t^3)+3 what is f''(2) (second derivative) Need help!!
September 22, 2010 by Ben
Use derivative formulas to find the derivative of the function. please show your work h(x)=10^3-25x^6+3x^15
September 25, 2012 by Sarah
3. Plot f(x) =ln(x) and fÆ(x) = 1/x in your calculator. Remembering that the derivative of f(x) is the instantaneous rate of change of f(x) why does it make sense that 1/x is the derivative of ln(x)?
February 10, 2014 by karim
Calculus Please check
Please check my answers and let me know if I did something wrong. Thank you! Find the partial derivative of x, and the partial derivative of y, then the partial derivative of x (1,-1), and the partal derivative of y (1,-1). f(x,y) = x^4 y^2 -x here is what I got @f/@x = 3x^3 y...
November 20, 2014 by Jennifer
Find the derivative of the function using the definition of a derivative. F(x)=squareroot(1-3x) Please show work for understanding, thank you! :)
February 14, 2013 by Tori
Please help with this. I submitted it below but no one responded. I need the first derivative of f(x)=4(x+ then the square root to include (x(8-x)), then close bracket.And then the second derivative of this to show by the second derivative test that it is a local maximum. This...
March 1, 2011 by Frank
Find the derivative of f(x)=x(1-4^x) f'(x)=(1-4^x)+ (-4^x)(ln-4)(-4)(x) ln can't be negative. Is the derivative correct?
October 29, 2010 by sh
Find the derivative of m(x)=1/(x+1) by using the definition of the derivative.
February 12, 2013 by Becky
Calculus derivative
find the slope m and an equation of the tangent line to the graph of the function f at the specified point. original: x^2/x+10 point: (3,9/13) After I found the derivative: (x+10)(2x)-(x^2)(1)/((x+10))^2 How do I get the slope? Should I put 3 into the derivative equation?
September 17, 2013 by Eve
Show that the curves r=acos(Ķ) and r=cos(Ķ) intersect at right angles. can it be shown that the derivative of one is the negative reciprocal of the derivative of the other?
April 5, 2007 by Amy
Calculus Derivative
I'm trying to calculate the derivative of this: P= mv/ sqrt(1-v^2/c^2)where m and c are constants, and v depends on t. I know about the chain and product rules but I'm not even sure where to start. :/ Thank you for your help.
March 6, 2013 by Mary
can sumeone plz help me find the derivative of (2x^2 - 12x -2) / ((x^2 + x - 2) ^ 2) thx a lot Use the following rule: derivative of u(x)/v(x) = [v du/dx - u dv/dx]/ v^2 In your case, du/dx = 4x - 12; dv/dx = 2 (x^2 + x -2)*(2x +1) v^2 = (x^2 + x - 2)^4 Put it all together
June 3, 2007 by Jinal
Hello. I need help finding the open intervals of this equation: f(x)=3x^2-12 I already took the derivative of it by using the derivative test and I got 2,-2 as critical numbers
January 28, 2008 by Mandy
Hello. I need help finding the open intervals of this equation: f(x)=3x^2-12 I already took the derivative of it by using the derivative test and I got 2,-2 as critical numbers
January 28, 2008 by Mandy
For a function f(x) the derivative at x=2 is 5. Is the derivative of f(x) continuous at x=2? Thanks!
December 1, 2008 by Ginger
Would the derivative of ln(x^2) be 1/x^2? and also the derivative of ln(2^s) be 1/2^s
October 7, 2010 by Help asap!! plz
Calculus derivative
How do you do the derivative of a^x, for example, (3/4)^x Thank you for helping!
September 27, 2012 by Grateful
calculus derivative HELP!
Find the derivative of: y=2sqrt(x)-(1/x)
October 8, 2012 by erica
let F(x) = f(2x) and suppose that the derivative of F(x) = x^(2). Find the derivative of f(2x).
October 5, 2014 by Tom
Does my answer look correct? Find the derivative. 11, y= (e^3-e)(e+5)/6e my work: ((6e)(4e^3 + 15e^2 - 2e - 5) - (6)(e^4 + 5e^3 - e^2 - 5e))/ (6e)^2 Multiplied/divided everything through My answer: (10e^2 + 30e - 3)/ 18 I cant follow your work: I assume e is a derivative. (e^3...
December 19, 2006 by Alexandra
i need to use implicit differentiation to find the derivative: yx+y = 8 i keep getting y'=-1-y. i already know the derivative of this, by using explicit by simplification: y(x+1)=8 y=(8)/(x+1) y'= -(8)/(x+1)^2 how do i go about doing this the right way?
January 17, 2014 by eric
Explain the global optimization process for a continuous function over a closed interval. Be sure to identify all steps involved and clearly explain how the derivative is utilized in this process. Does this have to do with the first derivative rule or second derivative rule ...
October 25, 2008 by George
Explain the global optimization process for a continuous function over a closed interval. Be sure to identify all steps involved and clearly explain how the derivative is utilized in this process. Does this have to do with the first derivative rule or second derivative rule ...
October 27, 2008 by George
Use a symbolic differentiation utility to find the derivative of the function g(x)=xüŃ((x^2)+1). Use the utility to graph the function and is derivative on the same set of coordinate axes. Describe the behavior of the function that corresponds to any zeroes of the graph of the...
November 11, 2007 by Jon
Could someone check my reasoning? thanx Find the derivative of the function. sin(sin[sinx]) I need to use the chain rule to solve. So I take the derivative sin(sin[sinx) first. Then multiply that by the inside which is the derivative of sin[sinx]. And multiply that by ...
May 7, 2009 by XCS
Let f be a real value function and x ╬ Df then 0 lim ( ) ( ) h f x h f x « h + - when it exists is called A) The derivative of f at a B) The derivative of f at h C) The derivative of f at x D) The derivative of f at x = h
November 2, 2012 by Zaheer
How would I go about finding the derivative of f(x)=ln(x)(7x-2)^3 first=ln(x) second= (7x-2)^3 Would I do first times the derivative of the second + second times the derivative of the first? If so, what is the derivative of lnx? I'm confused. Thanks for your help. --Cori
August 24, 2007 by Corin
Derivative Calculus
I just need my answers checked. 1) Find the derivative. f(x)=3x^5/4 - 8/9x^9/8 + x^2 - 9x + 1 Answer: fÆ(x)= 15/4x^1/4 - x ^1/8 + 2x -9 2) Let f(x)= 7x^3 - 9x. Find fÆ(5) Answer: fÆ(x)=21x^2-9 fÆ(5)=516 3) Find the given limit by evaluating the derivative. lim h⇒0 5(7+h...
June 14, 2011 by Steff
College Calculus 1
We have to find the first and second derivative of f(x)=x^(2/3)(6-x)^(1/3) I have the first derivative as being (4-x)/(x^(1/3)(6-x)^(2/3)) And that I know is right. The second derivative is -8/(x^(4/3)(6-x)^(5/3)) I did all the work but I am not getting the right answer... I ...
October 14, 2010 by Please help
how do you find the derivative of (X^2(2+x^1/2))/x^4. I'm confused because of the exponents rules. please show me the steps in simplifying the exponents then taking the derivative.
October 23, 2007 by jennifer
find the second derivative of F(x)=3e^-2x(^2) to find the inflection points. I am trying but I don't think I'm finding the first derivative correctly.
April 14, 2012 by casidhe
y= ln3x *e^2x^2 + sin5x^2 find the derivative. i know what to do. but what is the derivative of ln3x? I can plug it into the product rule then nd solve
January 19, 2012 by Aaron
Calculus (Global Max)
Explain the global optimization process for a continuous function over a closed interval. Be sure to identify all steps involved and clearly explain how the derivative is utilized in this process. Does this have to do with the first derivative rule or second derivative rule ...
October 25, 2008 by George
What is the derivative and second derivative of 3x/(x^2-4)
June 22, 2010 by Lala
calculus derivative
find the derivative of: y=(x/(x+1))^3
October 8, 2012 by erica
Calculus Derivative
Find derivative: y= e^(x^x)
July 1, 2015 by Anonymous
How do I use the product rule to solve these two questions. Much appreciated! xo Find the derivative for k(x) = (5x4 + 2)(3sin x) Find the derivative for m(x) = -ex cos x at x = 1
July 17, 2008 by Veronica
find the derivative of f(x)=x^2sec^2(3x) also with g(x)=sqrt(cosxsecx) i get zero because cos and sec cancel each other out and derivative of a constant is zero... am i doing something wrong?
March 20, 2011 by anonymous
Decide if the following function f(x) is differentiable at x=0. Try zooming in on a graphing calculator, or calculating the derivative f'(0) from the definition. f(x) = x^4sin(2/x), if x is not equal to 0, and f(x) = 0 if x = 0. If it is differentiable, what is the derivative...
February 23, 2011 by Abigail
If the hands on a clocktower's clock are 2ft and 3ft long, how fast is the distance between the tips of the hands of the clock changing at 9:20? I know that the derivative of the minute hand is pi/30 rad/min and derivative of the hour hand is pi/360 rad/min. what is the ...
November 11, 2012 by nico
in a time of t seconds, a particle moves a distance pf s meters from it's starting point, where s=3t^2 Find the ave velocity between t =1 and t=1+h if.... a) h=.1 b)h+.01 c)h=.001 Which approximation is closest to the EXACT derivative at ...t=1? Estimate the exact derivative ...
February 17, 2011 by anthony
I know the derivative of x is 1, but I'm having a hard time proving it with the limit definition of the derivative. I have... Lim delta x ->0 (x+ delta x)-(x)/delta x = 0 But I know the answer is 1. I don't understand what I am doing wrong
September 14, 2015 by K
If x = t^2 + 1 and y = t^3, then d^2y/dx^2 = I know I can solve for t in terms of x and substitute that into y = t^3 and find the double derivative. I also know that I can take the derivative of x and y then divide dy/dt by dx/dt. Then take the derivative to get the answer. ...
May 15, 2008 by Anonymous
What is the second derivative of f(x) = 5/3x^(3) - x^(3/2) + 6? Second derivative of f(x) = 5/3x^(3) - x^(3/2) + 6 is f''(x)=10x + 3/(4sqrt of x)
March 7, 2012 by jessica
You are given the following function. f(x)= (8+x)/(1-8x) (a) Find the derivative of the function using the definition of derivative. (b) Give the domain of the function. c) Give the domain of derivative of function?
February 28, 2010 by isha
I need help with finding first and second derivative--simplify your answer. Y=xtan(x) I solved first derivative xsec^2(x) + tan(x) I don't understand how to get the first...can someone show me the steps with explanation?
March 20, 2011 by Janet
Differential Calculus
Determine all local extrema, concavity and inflection point/s for y = -2cos(x) in (0, 2Pi). Test by both First Derivative Test and Second Derivative Test and sketch the graph.
January 20, 2016 by Sel
derivative of (x^3/6)+(1/2x)? i got (x^2/2)-(1/2x^2) is that correct? and then wut is the (F'(x))2?...meaning the derivative squred? if you meant (1/2)x^2 - 1/(2x^2) you are correct I don't think they are looking for the square of the derivative, but rather the second ...
May 6, 2007 by MARY
Use the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to find the derivative of g(x)=1/(1+t^5)dt in the interval 1 to x.
November 22, 2010 by HELP!!!!
Calculus - First Derivative
Original Equation: f(x) = e^(-x) - e^(-2x) Did I take the first derivative correctly? I seem to get undefined when I isolate for x to determine the extreme values? f'(x) = -e/ x + 2e/2x f'(x) = (-2ex + 2ex) / 2x^2
June 4, 2008 by Anonymous
math, calculus 2
Use part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to find the derivative of g(x)= integrate from 9x to 4x of ((u+4)/(u-1))du
August 29, 2012 by bobby
Calculus Help STEVE
find y'' by implicit differentiation. 2x^3 + 3y^3 = 8 I got the first derivative as you but the problem was asking for second derivative by implicit diff. this is where i got confused. Thank you!!!
March 20, 2014 by Matt
find the derivative of y= x^3+8/x+2 the / is meant to be a fraction bar, I am really really bad at finding the derivative of a fraction function, could you help by showing me exactly how, Thanks
November 9, 2014 by Minnie
Find the anti derivative of the following: 1. u^-2(1-u^2+u^4)du 2. (sqrt(x)+ 3/x - 2e^(x))dx The anti derivative symbol is in front of the equations. Also need help on find f(x) so that it satisfies f'(x) = 1+e^x+1/x and f(1) = 3+e. Please show steps so I can understand. Thanks.
April 16, 2013 by Rene
math derivative please help
the derivative of 2x^e is zero right or no? do i have to use the log formula 2 x^e is x to the power 2.718.. It is not a constant and therefore the derivative is not zero. Use the formula for the derivative of x to a power that is constant (x^a). The formula for that may ...
September 24, 2006 by Anonymous
Calculus (Derivatives)
What is the derivative of the this functon? g(x) = -500/x, x cannot equal 0. I know that in order to fnd the derivative I need to put the function into the equation for evaluating derivatives as limits. lim as h -> 0 (f(x+h) - f(x))/h I did this, but I am having ...
November 1, 2011 by Mishaka
What would an example of a logarithmic function that contains two trig functions within it where you would need to use chain rule and product rule to take derivative look like? How would taking the derivative of the function in its original form look different when using log ...
February 12, 2015 by Robin
Calculus AP need help!
Use Part 1 of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus to find the derivative of the function. If f(x)= ∫(4,x^3)√(t^2+10) dt then f '(x).
April 17, 2012 by dania
1. is the derivative of the function f(x)=5e^(4x-9z) f'(x)= -25e^(4x-9z)? 2. Is the derivative of the function f(x)=e^(2x)-e^(-2x) f'(x)=2e^(2x)+2e^(-2x)? 3. If f(x)=e^-x^-1, would f'(2)=-1/4e^(1/4)?
February 13, 2015 by Sara
Find the derivative of the following function using the appropriate form of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. intergral s^2/(1+3s^4) ds from sqrtx to 1 F'(x)=?
April 18, 2014 by Brady
Calculus,Stationary Points,First derivative test
Good afternoon, I need a bit of help. So ive got my first derivative which is 6x^2-6x-12 and the stationary points ive found are x=-1 and x=2 at which points the value of the derivative is zero. So im attempting to classify the points. From my derivative tests the value of -2 ...
January 17, 2016 by Mat
Given the function: f(x) = x^2 + 1 / x^2 - 9 a)find y and x intercepts b) find the first derivative c) find any critical values d) find any local(relative) extrema e) find second derivative Please show me how u got this!!
April 27, 2013 by Gabby
find derivitive of 1/square root of x 1/square root of x = x^(-1/2) The derivative is -1/2 x^(-3/2) can you keep going on the problem to not have negative exponents? You can also use that the derivative of 1/f(x) is given by: -f'(x)/[f(x)]^2 If you take f(x) = sqrt(x) and use ...
January 18, 2007 by Linds
A) How do you prove that if 0(<or=)x(<or=)10, then 0(<or=)sqrt(x+1)(<or=)10? B) So once that is found, then how can you prove that if 0(<or=)u(<or=)v(<or=)10, then 0(<or=)sqrt(u+1)(<or=)sqrt(v+1)(<or=)10? * calculus - Damon, Saturday, April 3, ...
April 4, 2010 by Sarita
Calculus:check please
given: 1st derivative is 2(2-3x-2x^2)/(1+x^2)^2 (quotient rule) I've found the stationary points to be x=1/2 and x=-2 Am I on the right track? If so, I plan to plug in values to the L andR of them into the whole derivative so as to clasify them. Still on track? Thanks those ...
August 10, 2007 by charlie
For 0 < x < PI/2, if y = sin(x)^x, then dy/dx is.. I understand that you can take the natural logarithm of both sides and then take the derivative but why can't I simply take the derivative of it and get.. dy/dx = x(cos(x))(sin(x))^(x-1). Thanks in advance :).
March 30, 2008 by Anonymous
1.) values of f(t) are given in the following table: t 0 2 4 6 8 10 f(t) 137 112 88 68 49 34 a. Does this function appear to have a positive or negative first derivative? Second derivative? * I think both derivatives are negative b. Estimate (f prime) f^' (2) and f^' (8) ...
February 22, 2012 by JJ
12th Grade Calculus
Find d^2y/dx^2 by implicit differentiation. x^(1/3) + y^(1/3) = 4 I know that first you must find the 1st derivative & for y prime I got 1/3x^(-2/3) + 1/3y^(-2/3) dy/dx = 0 Then for dy/dx I got dy/dx = [-1/3x^(-2/3)] / [1/3y^(-2/3)] I think that from here I would use the ...
December 14, 2010 by Liz
h(x)= x + cos(ax), where a is a positive constant such that 0 < a < 4. For what values of a will h(x) have a relative maximum at x=1? So I found the derivative and got h'(x) = 1- asin(ax). Then I plugged in 1 for x and set the derivative equal to zero, so I have 1 - asin...
May 1, 2015 by ashley
h(x)= x + cos(ax), where a is a positive constant such that 0 < a < 4. For what values of a will h(x) have a relative maximum at x=1? So I found the derivative and got h'(x) = 1- asin(ax). Then I plugged in 1 for x and set the derivative equal to zero, so I have 1 + asin...
May 1, 2015 by ashley
Given the function: f(x) = x^2 + 1 / x^2 - 9 a)find y and x intercepts b) find the first derivative c) find any critical values d) find any local(relative) extrema e) find second derivative f) discuss the concavity g) find any inflection points Please show me how u got this!
April 28, 2013 by Gabby
Given the function: f(x) = x^2 + 1 / x^2 - 9 a)find y and x intercepts b) find the first derivative c) find any critical values d) find any local(relative) extrema e) find second derivative f) discuss the concavity g) find any inflection points Please show me how u got this!
April 28, 2013 by Gabby
Calculus Please Need Urgent3 :/
Find the derivative of the following function using the appropriate form of the Fundamental Theorem of Calculus. F(x)= (s^2)/(1+3s^4)ds from sqrtx to 1 F'(x)=? Thank you so much guys!
April 19, 2014 by Jay
Find the derivative of y=3x-2(4^x) Here is my attempt: Derivative of 3x is 3 Derivative of 2 is 0 derivative of 4^x is 4^x(ln(4)) Answer: 12^x(ln(4)) Is this correct? If not please explain what I did wrong and what the correct answer is and why. Thanks!
October 15, 2013 by Anonymous
Given y^4 -x^4=16 find and simplify d2y/dx2 using implicit differentiation. I got the first derivative which was x^3/y^3 and no im am stuck on using implicit differentiation for the second derivative part
March 1, 2012 by Anonymous
Please help. Applying the chain rule, how do I find the derivative of f(x)=In(e^x-e^-x) (x>0) and then using this answer use the quotient rule to find the second derivative. I cannot do this so any answer greatly appreciated.
May 3, 2011 by mary
Find the length of the arc formed by y = (1/8)(4x^2-2ln(x)) from x=4 to x=8. I found the derivative of the function and got y'= x-(1/4x) Where I'm lost now is after plugging it into the arc length equation: integral of sqrt(1+(x-(1/4x))^2). Squaring the derivative yields me ...
August 24, 2008 by Arc Length