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The Corning Museum of Glass is home to the world's most important collection of glass, including the finest examples of glassmaking spanning 3,500 years. Live glassblowing demonstrations (offered at the Museum, on the road, and at sea on Celebrity Cruises) bring the material to life. Daily Make Your Own Glass experiences at the Museum enable visitors to create work in a state-of-the-art glassmaking studio. The campus in Corning includes a year-round glassmaking school, The Studio, and the Rakow Research Library, the world's preeminent collection of materials on the art and history of glass. Located in the heart of the Finger Lakes Wine Country of New York State, the Museum is open daily, year-round. Kids and teens, 17 and under, receive free admission. www.cmog.org.
The Museum recently opened a 100,000-square-foot Contemporary Art + Design Wing, designed by Thomas Phifer. The new wing includes a new 26,000-square-foot contemporary art gallery building, as well as one of the world's largest facilities for glassblowing demonstrations and live glass design sessions.


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Humanitarians and their moral stance in war: the underlying values
31-12-2009 Article, International Review of the Red Cross, No. 876, by Eva Wartel
In this article the moral values underlying humanitarian principles are analysed. What were the original moral values, have they changed and to what extent are they in danger today? Has humanity itself become an instrumental value?
Eva Wortel is Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Military Ethics at the Netherlands Defence Academy. She is currently completing a PhD on Civil-Military Relations at the Institute for International Law of Peace and Armed Conflict (IFHV) and the Institute of Development Research and Development Policy at Ruhr University, Bochum.
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A NELSON school has been told it 'requires improvement' after an inspection from education watchdog Ofsted.
St John Southworth Primary School was rated as 'good' in its last inspection, but it has now dropped a level.
Inspectors said that standards in Year Six in 2013 were below average and progress was slow, with the quality of teaching in Key Stage Two not always good enough.
David Byrne, lead Ofsted inspector, said: "Achievement requires improvement because progress in Key Stage Two, until recently, has been slow and standards have been below average.
The school has taken action to remedy this situation.
"A legacy of underachievement remains, however.
"Standards are still, at best, average in reading, writing and mathematics; the most able pupils are not yet making consistently good progress.
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Learning the alphabet and the shapes of letters is not all about handwriting. Before introducing your children to writing the alphabet, take them on a colourful journey into the wonderful world of letters and sounds with this free, printable ABC colouring page for kids.
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It's time to break out the watermelon – Los Altos and Los Altos Hills have scheduled Fourth of July events.
C elebrate the Fourth of July at events scheduled in and around Los Altos.
• Union Presbyterian Church of Los Altos will host its 42nd annual Pancake Breakfast 8:30-11:30 a.m. on the church's patio, 858 University Ave.
The menu includes pancakes, sausage, fruit, juice and coffee.
Admission is free. Volunteers will collect a free-will offering for Help One Child, a nonprofit organization that supports foster children and their families.
For more information, visit unionpc.org.
• Los Altos Hills' fourth annual Fourth of July Parade is slated 10 a.m. at town hall, 26379 W. Fremont Road. The parade concludes at Gardner Bullis School, 25890 W. Fremont Road. Participants are encouraged to walk or bike in the parade. Watermelon and beverages will be served.
For more information, visit www.losaltoshills.ca.gov.
• The Los Altos Community Foundation's "Glorious Fourth" Independence Day Celebration is scheduled 10:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. at Shoup Park, 400 University Ave. In addition to musical entertainment by the Unicorns and Ye Olde Towne Band, the event will include family-friendly activities, hot dogs, ice cream and shaved ice.
For more information, visit losaltoscf.org.
• The Rejoicing Ringers handbell choir is set to perform in a nationwide ringing of bells 11 a.m. at Los Altos Lutheran Church, 460 S. El Monte Ave. The program will include a concert of handbell music, a sing-along of military service songs and a family potluck picnic.
For more information, visit www.losaltoslutheran.org.
• The Fourth of July Fireworks Spectacular featuring the San Francisco Symphony is scheduled 8 p.m. at Shoreline Amphitheatre, 1 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View. Tickets are $33-$47.35 (fees included); parking is $10.
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Chivas USA, which hasn't reached the MLS playoffs since 2009, announced Thursday that Wilmer Cabrera will be the club's sixth head coach during that span.
The 46-year-old Cabrera, a native of Colombia, has been an assistant for the Colorado Rapids the past two seasons. In the previous five years, he was coach of the U.S. under-17 national team and guided it to the round of 16 in the 2009 and 2011 World Cup competitions.
"I'm really excited and motivated to be joining Chivas USA, as well as very grateful to the organization for the support they have given me," Cabrera said in a statement released by the club. "It's a big opportunity join an MLS professional club and an institution that wants to be one of the top teams in the League, a team that is not only eager to participate but that also wants to be competitive in MLS.
"I'm proud to be part of Chivas USA and MLS and I hope that this year the team can show that mind-set and motivation in each and every of the 34 games we are going to play during the regular season."
Cabrera is a former defender for the Colombia national team and competed for his country in the 1990 and 1998 World Cup. He missed the 1994 World Cup in the U.S. with a knee injury, but he spent nine years with the national team and played in 48 international matches.
He played for 18 seasons as a professional in Colombia, Argentina and Costa Rica. His last two seasons as a player were in 2003-04 with the Long Island Rough Riders of the United Soccer League.
Since Preki led Chivas to its its fourth consecutive postseason appearance in 2009, Chivas has been coached by Martin Vasquez, Robin Fraser (two years) and Jose Luis Sanchez Sola and Jose Luis Real last year.
Real was contractually obligated to return to his duties with Chivas of Guadalajara.


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Burnzone/Serenity Valley vs. 900 lb Gorilla
Burnzone/Mal vs Skaut Ech
Mass Probation vs. Belfast
Lone Granger vs Jose Slaughter
Strong Badia vs. Indianapolis
Shade vs Magic Rat
DC vs. Young Turks
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I've lost the season series 3-1 to DC...gotta hope for a better outcome this time around...
The Clipper game has about 5 minutes left, but if you ended it now Kaman would net me 40 fantasy points, which should give me the win! So unless he starts fouling like a madman, gets 2 T's and a bunch of turnovers in the next 5 minutes, I think I've done it!
Check that: Rondo's minutes are going to come in too, giving me (at a quick glance) at least 20 fantasy points!
Congrats Mal, you're in!
Serenity Valley vs. 900 lb Gorilla
Mal vs Skaut Ech
Mass Probation vs. Belfast
Lone Granger vs Jose Slaughter
Strong Badia vs. Indianapolis
Shade vs Magic Rat
DC vs. Young Turks
bnd45 vs Bellisimo
See 'ya in the Finals!
Looks like I'll probably drop Game 1. Randolph is still on paid vacation , and Jack thanked my moving him up in the rotation by dropping negative points in 16 minutes.
I'm done for. My best player is freakin' Jason Kidd.
Wow, Rat apparently had a sub-par game as well. Game 1 is completely up for grabs. The winner is likely to score under 200 points.
Every. Freaking. Year.
I might not be completely screwed, though, as long as my other guards continue to play well.
Off to make some roster changes...
Oh, and fuck you, Riley. If this isn't intentional tanking, I don't know what is. I hope he gets the worst draft pick possible.
Grr...the server's down now for some reason. Must be a mass rush of people dropping Wade.
Is our site MIA for anyone else? I can get to the main sign-up page, but I can't find our league anywhere.
I also couldn't get in, which is good considering the pounding I'm taking in Round 2...
This is a problem.
I have Marcus Bank, who is injured for the next two weeks possibly, on my roster. I picked up Bobby Jackson off the wire, but since I haven't had access since Bobby was picked up, he'll be dropped at todays deadline, since I can't access the site, meaning I get unfairly screwed but being forced to drop a player I want to keep and keep a player I was planning to drop.
Hey! What're you kicking me for? You want me to ask? All right, I'll ask! Ma'am, where do the high school girls hang out in this town?
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The military tradition going all the way back to the country's founding will be scrapped and women will be allowed to volunteer for ground combat duty.
School districts – every last one in the country – must now offer students with disabilities the same sports opportunities as other children.
You'd think these enormous changes would have evolved through long and thoughtful discussions aimed at understanding the consequences and forming a consensus. But, no, they arrived fully formed without warning. No debate is desired, thank you very much.
The women-in-combat issue raises serious questions about this country's very safety and the military's obligation to protect it. How can there be combat-ready standards that let enough women pass muster but don't weaken the caliber of soldier required? Shouldn't this have been hashed out in Congress for years so the American people could understand and support it? Instead, we had Defense Secretary Leon Panetta deciding it was time to be fair and equal in the military. "Make it so."
The athletics-for-the-disabled mandate is a sweeping move that will affect all American schools. Making the changes will be complicated and confusing – which students can we let into existing programs, when do we have to set up alternative programs – and incredibly expensive. Shouldn't this have been tried out here and there in selected school districts or experimented with at the state level? Nope. An obscure law is passed, put on the shelf and ignored until the Washington education bureaucracy decides to unleash it on an unsuspecting public. "Make it so."
Ah, that silly old federalism concept is such an old-fashioned way of doing things. Running complicated issues through Congress is so inefficient. Starting at the state or local level takes so long. How much faster and more efficient it is for the federal government to just order it done, consequences be dammed. That is the way more and more things get done these days. And far more often than not, we merely shrug and accept it.
In 1789, when George Washington started his first term as president, there were 3.9 million Americans being served by 1,000 civilian federal workers. That worked out to one federal employee for every 3,900 Americans. Doing the same math using today's population figures and federal roster, we get one federal employee for every 147 Americans. That about says it all, doesn't it?


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The Special Operations Forensic Tool Kit
The Mission: A British attempt to destroy a Nazi dock in occupied St Nazaire, France
Result: Successful, but with heavy casualties
Historians have dubbed it "The Greatest Raid of All." British forces loaded an obsolete WWI-era ship, the HMS Campbletown, with self-destructive explosives and obliterated the dry dock controlled by the Nazis in St. Nazaire, France. The blast rendered the dry dock useless for the rest of the war, forcing any Nazi warship to return to Germany for repairs.
Because bombing guidance was so rudimentary at the time, trying to destroy the dock from the air would have obliterated the city—and Chariot happened earlier in the war, when the Allies were more concerned with reducing civilian casualties than they were later on. So Britain began this risky mission, sending 18 other ships (two destroyers, 16 smaller ships) along with the Campbletown to escort it and to bring back the men aboard the doomed ship. The explosion aboard the Campbletown was delayed—the soldiers rammed the vessel into the dock and then scurried off to other ships. The Campbletown just sat there for a while, so the Nazis didn't actually know it was rigged with explosives—that is, until the ship erupted with a thunderous explosion.
However, because the raid wasn't backed up with enough heavy air power, the Nazis were free to fire upon the armada with the full force of artillery surrounding St. Nazaire. Only three ships survived to return to England; the surviving attack team had to escape on foot through France. Of the 622 soldiers who were part of the operation, only 228 returned home in the end.
It was a high-risk mission by choice, and it shares that with the raid that killed Osama bin Laden. Reports indicate President Obama considered bombing bin Laden's compound once he was confident that the terrorist leader was there. But the President wanted to be able to test bin Laden's DNA to know the al Qaida chief was truly dead, and so he authorized the riskier mission of sending in Navy SEALs.
The Mission: The German-led rescue of Italian dictator Benito Mussolini
Result: A free Mussolini with zero casualties
On July 25, 1943, Italy's Grand Council of Fascism ordered that Italian dictator Benito Mussolini be replaced and, later, arrested. Adolph Hitler, not wanting to lose a valuable ally, ordered Nazi paratroopers to rescue him. Led by SS Captain Otto Skorzeny, the team glided into the stronghold where Mussolini was being held prisoner: a ski resort called the Campo Imperatore Hotel atop a mountain called Gran Sasso. Twelve gliders towed by aircraft were released over Gran Sasso. One of the gliders crash-landed, injuring the manned team on board. But that was the only hitch in this operation, which succeeded without a single shot being fired. Once the SS stormed the hotel, the mission was over in four minutes. Mussolini was later restored to power in the German-occupied portions of Italy, though he would lose power at the end of the war and was executed on April 28, 1945.
Navy SEAL and special-ops historian William McRaven writes that the rescue of Mussolini succeeded because it "demonstrates all three elements of surprise: timing, deception, and exploiting the weak points in the defense." The American raid that killed Osama bin Laden, of course, saw shots fired. But its similar emphasis on surprise ensured that no member of the American force was harmed.
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MIAMI—The headband came off.
Of all the moments that will go down in NBA lore, of all the twists that marked a tense, taut, miracle of a Game 6—and there were a dozen or so—it will be the play that took place with 8:59 in the fourth quarter of Miami's season-saving 103-100 overtime win that could go on to define what this series is all about for the most important player in the league, forward LeBron James.
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Following a Mario Chalmers missed shot, James came from the weak side and soared after the rebound. As he leapt, Spurs center Tim Duncan reached up and knocked James' headband free. James dunked, cutting what had been a 13-point Spurs lead to 80-77, then—still headbandless—scored again less than a minute later on a driving layup.
Shortly after that James not only blocked a Duncan shot from behind in the paint, he drove into the lane and wheeled around Duncan, finishing with a tricky layup and drawing a foul.
"I don't even remember the play much," James said. "I was just focused on the job, the task at hand, and just trying to be aggressive, just trying to figure out ways I could help the team get back into the game. And you know, I guess the headband was the least of my worries at that point."
The final line on James, in the end, was almost unthinkable, as he scored 32 points, with 11 assists, 10 rebounds and three steals. What makes it unthinkable is that those numbers don't nearly tell the story of this game, not even close.
James was awful in the early going, seemingly setting up the universe of NBA observer-types up for another go-round of pronouncements about his legacy, a favorite offseason tradition in these parts. Through three quarters, James had 14 points, mostly thanks to 10 free-throw attempts—he was 3-for-12 from the field, unable to make shots from the perimeter or in the lane.
"I was struggling shooting the ball," James said. "We were struggling. And they took a commanding 12‑point lead to start the fourth. After we came out before we entered the ball, I basically just told myself, give it all I got. If we go down losing, I'm going to go down with no bullets. I'm going all out. I can be satisfied with the results. That's exactly what I did."
Those bullets were spraying all over the arena in the fourth quarter, and all that aggression James is often criticized for not having bubbled over.
James attacked the paint. He pushed the Heat's pace. He went into the post, and operated on Kawhi Leonard. The shots he was clanging off the rim to start the game, he was now forcing in. James was 7-for-11 from the field in the fourth quarter, and four of those makes came at the rim.
It wasn't perfect, of course. Most notably, James nearly kicked away all his hard work in the final minute of regulation, committing turnovers on back-to-back possessions that allowed the Spurs to push a two-point lead to five with 28.2 seconds left.
He redeemed himself eight seconds later when he knocked down a 3-pointer—after missing his first attempt from the top of the key—and it wasn't until Ray Allen made a clutch 3 from the corner that the Heat were able to secure their chance in overtime.
And as much as the missing headband will go down in the Hall of Fame of NBA accessories, James said it was actually another adornment that helped push the Heat to this improbable win—as the final minute unfolded, arena security began laying down the yellow lines over which spectators cannot cross when the game is over, which James and his teammates took as a white-flag move.
"I noticed it," James said, when told that Chris Bosh said the appearance of the tape angered him. "It kind of did the same to all of us. There's a few guys in the locker room that talked about it. We seen the championship board already out there, the yellow tape. And you know, that's why you play the game, to the final buzzer. And that's what we did tonight. We gave it everything that we had and more."
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High winds knocked out power in central Fontana this morning.
Electricity was restored to more than 175 homes and businesses Thursday afternoon after strong winds knocked out power to a Fontana neighborhood, according to officials.
The outage was reported at 10:18 a.m. and was centered near the corner of Citrus and Upland avenues, according to Southern California Edison's website.
SCE officials estimated 186 homes and businesses were affected by the outage. Crews had power restored by 4 p.m. Thursday.
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One person died and six others were injured Saturday when a pickup truck and a tour bus collided on the 15 Freeway near Baker, a California Highway Patrol spokesman said.
The incident caused the northbound freeway traffic to back up for about 25 miles at the peak of the tie-up, said CHP Officer Don Spiker.
"If this was Friday, it would have been a lot worse," he said.
The driver of the pickup died and the driver of the tour bus, identified as Jimmy Ming Giang, suffered major injuries and was taken by air ambulance to University Medical Center in Las Vegas, Spiker said.
Four bus passengers and the tour bus guide were taken to Barstow Community Hospital with minor injuries, he said.
The names of the pickup's driver and all those injured were not immediately available.
The crash occurred around 10:40 a.m. as the pickup was headed south on the freeway near Zzyzx Road, just south of Baker, Spiker said.
"For unknown reasons, the driver lost control of the truck and went into the center divider, then overturned," he said.
As the truck overturned, it crossed onto the northbound side of the freeway.
The truck and the bus then crashed with the truck hitting the oncoming bus "in a head-on direction," Spiker said.
The bus then went off the shoulder and into the desert where it came to a rest on its wheels.
The truck caught fire with the driver inside and he died at the scene, Spiker said.
Initial reports that two people had died in the collision were erroneous, said Vanessa Martinez, a dispatcher for the CHP's Barstow division.
"We thought it was two, but our unit advised us that it was just one at 11:51 a.m.," she said.
Saturday afternoon it was unclear if the bus was headed to Las Vegas but Spiker said that could have been its destination.
The tour bus was from El Monte and has the name Eagle Tours on the side, he said.
A woman who answered the phone at Eagle Tours LLC in El Monte said the passengers on the bus were members of an overseas group but she did not know where they were from or if they were headed for Las Vegas.
She said Eagle Tours does not do tours involving local people.
The CHP reported in a statement released early Saturday evening that the bus passengers were from China.
The two northbound lanes of the freeway were closed until just before 1 p.m. when one lane was opened, Spiker said.
Southbound traffic was slow but not nearly as backed up as the northbound traffic.
The bus had 31 people on board, 29 of them passengers.
Initially it was believed the passengers would have to remain at the scene until some other form of transportation was available but another tour bus provided assistance, Spiker said.
The bus, also from Eagle Tours, took the passengers to Las Vegas, the CHP statement said.
During the freeway closure of northbound lanes a CHP cruiser escorted motorists through the collision scene, Martinez said.
There were initial reports of the CHP turning traffic around north of Barstow.


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Southwestern University Opera Theatre
7:00pm - 8:30pm CST November 9, 2013
Alma Thomas Theater
The performance titled, Nuit d'amour will include scenes from four different operas.
The program will include opera scenes from The Tales of Hoffman, by Jacques Offenbach, Cosi fan tutte, by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, The Merry Widow, by Franz Lehár, and The Barber of Seville, by Gioachino Rossini.
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Visitors can hike the hills between Fairfield, Benicia, and Vallejo - known as the King-Swett Ranches - from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. May 4 with naturalist Jim Walsh.
Walsh will share insights about the birds and other wildlife that call the area home that is otherwise closed to the public.
On a clear day visitors can see views from atop King Ranch that sweep across the Suisun Marsh all the way to the Sierra, with Mount Diablo rising to the south. From the western edge of Vallejo-Swett Ranch, you can see the Golden Gate Bridge and Mount Tamalpais, the San Francisco and San Pablo Bays, and the Napa River and marshes.
All ages are welcome, but participants must be prepared for a strenuous pace hiking 4-6 miles off-trail, up and down rugged, steep, and slippery hills that are full of sticky seeds, thorny plants, and thistle, passing free range cattle along the way.
Bring a backpack with plenty of water and snacks; boots or sturdy closed-toe shoes with good grip for rugged, steep, and slippery off-trail terrain; long, sturdy pants and layered clothes that you don't mind getting dirty; and protection from sun, wind, fog and rain. Binoculars, a camera, bug repellent, hiking sticks and gaiters are also recommended.
Meet Walsh promptly beside his white "TruGreen" pickup truck, at the Park-and-Ride lot where McGary Road, Hiddenbrooke Parkway, and American Canyon Road intersect (on the Hiddenbrooke side of the American Canyon/Hiddenbrooke Parkway exit, off Interstate 80). Be ready to carpool or caravan from there to the trailhead.
Since its founding in 1986, Solano Land Trust has permanently protected more than 20,000 acres of working farms and natural areas in Solano County. Learn more at www.solanolandtrust.org.


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Dow Gains 105 as Earnings Season Approaches, Stocks Get Back to Winning Ways
After three days of broad-market losses, investors decided they were sick of their losing ways and got back to buying, as United Health (UNH), Johnson & Johnson (JNJ), Exxon Mobil (XOM), Tenet Healthcare (THC) and Newfield Exploration (NFX) helped lead stocks higher.
Of course, the sign of a good team is how it deals with losing.
Take my Colorado Avalanche. Last season, it lost--a lot. So much so, that the Avalanche fired its coach at the end of the year and hired it's former goalie, Patrick Roy, to lead the team. At the time of his hiring, ridicule was the most prevalent response, as if the idea that the Avalanche could reclaim its winning was by hiring not one, but two retired stars from its glory days.
The laughter died down a bit after Colorado started the season by winning 14 of its first 16 games. But then it's first losing streak hit and everyone was ready for the bottom to drop out. Except it didn't. And now the Avalanche has a 97.9% chance of making the playoffs.
Why do I bring this up in a post about the market? It's all about how the market has reacted to the S&P 500's three-day losing streak that has started off 2014. And today at least investors responded the way you would expect them--they bought.
The S&P 500 rose 0.6% to $1,837.88, while the Dow Jones Industrial Average gained 105.84 points, or 0.6%, to 16,530.94. Healthcare resumed it's positive ways as Tenet Healthcare gained 4.9% to $46.10, and UnitedHealth advanced 3.1% to $76.51 after being upgraded by Deutsche Bank. Newfield Exploration popped 3.6% to $24.65 and Exxon Mobil rose 1.4% to $101.70, as crude oil rose. Johnson & Johnson jumped 2.1% to $94.29 after being upgraded at RBC Capital Markets.
The question now is whether stocks can get back to their winning ways. LPL Financial's Jeffrey Kleintop thinks they can, especially with earnings season set to begin on Thursday. He writes:
This week starts the earnings reporting season — the start of which is traditionally marked by the earnings report from Alcoa, no longer a component of the Dow Jones Industrial Average, but still a well-known company. Alcoa's (AA) report on Thursday, January 9, 2014 is joined late this week by reports from retailers Bed Bath & Beyond (BBBY) and Family Dollar (FDO).
The earnings season tends to be a good period for stock market performance. Stocks posted gains during the six-week period that runs from two weeks before to four weeks after Alcoa reports since the bull market began around the start of the second quarter of 2009. In fact, nearly 80% of rises in the S&P 500 Index since the second quarter of 2009 took place during these quarterly earnings periods. Moreover, since the end of 2009, the entire gain in the index came during those quarterly periods, leaving nothing on average but volatility during the other seven weeks of every quarter.
Of course, most investors are thinking a little more long term than just the next four weeks. Neuberger Berman's Leah Modigliani has some advice for them too:
At this point, U.S. equities are closer to what we consider fair value than they were at the start of 2013, but remain well within the range of historical norms. Over the past 50 years, the average price-to-earnings multiple of the stock market has been around 15.5 times forward earnings. In our view, profits should continue to improve. This, combined with low inflation and a reduction in global economic uncertainty, could facilitate earnings multiple expansion—perhaps even above long-term averages, despite modest headwinds in the form of rising rates and some already-scheduled federal spending cuts due to sequestration.
The market can't go up forever, however, and Citi Private Bank's Steven Wieting is already starting to think about a "less robust" future. He writes:
We're bullish. We've long been bullish. And when we write Outlook 2015 there's a reasonable chance we'll still be bullish on the prospects for financial markets. Nonetheless, now is the time to acknowledge and position portfolios for a future return period that is less robust than today. When a reversal in fortune for the financial markets comes, history suggests the opportunity to take evasive action will shrink away quickly.


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" Brand: Green & Black's / Type: Dark / Food quality: Organic food "
Through the week my boyfriend and I are quite healthy but on the weekend we like to kick back watch a film and enjoy a few treats. We always buy a bar of chocolate. Last week I was shopping in Tesco and was happy to discover that some bars of Green and Black were on offer for just £1 there usual price being around £2. We both really like Green and Black so I decided to pick up a few different varieties, today I am reviewing the Butterscotch which we tried last night.
Green and Blacks Butterscotch must have recently updated their packaging as it is a little different to Dooyoo's picture above. The chocolate comes presented in a orange paper slip which clearly displays the brand and product name along with the fact that this is a "milk chocolate with crunchy toffee pieces for an extremely moreish taste." This particular bar is 100g, but a smaller version can also be purchased as part of the miniature bar collection.
The chocolate has been given the Fair trade certified mark, which guarantees that the ingredients are indeed fair trade. It also has the Soil Association symbol and is therefore "certified to Soil Associations standard for organic food and farming".
I won't list the full ingredients or nutritional information as this information is easily available online, failing that its all on the back of the packaging. However, I do think it is worth noting that the chocolate contains 34% Cocoa and 10% Butterscotch. It may contain soya, nuts and cereal. It is suitable for vegetarians, but not vegans as it contains milk.
The chocolate itself is dark brown in colour and divided up into squares which are really easy to snap off. This one is great for sharing, which is good as I think I would struggle eating a 100g chocolate bar all to myself! It tastes absolutely delicious and is clearly of a much better quality compared to other cheaper brands. The chocolate is nice and creamy and melts in the mouth, the toffee pieces are quite small but give a added texture which I found interesting and enjoyable. All the ingredients worked really well together and provided an enjoyable chocolate experience. I did find it quite sweet, but not overly sickly. My boyfriend and I found this to be a really luxury chocolate bar, however its usual high price means it is just a little too expensive for us to buy every weekend, but I would definitely buy it again should I see it on offer.
Being a lover of both rich quality chocolate, and butterscotch, I have got to say without doubt that green and blacks is an exceptional combination of the two. Personally, I feel it's worth paying that little bit extra if you can, for more intense chocolate experience (plus altogether more wholesome ingredients), and this really is a delicious bar.The chocolate itself is creamy, sublimely chocolatey and of course sweet but not sickly so. Really melts in the mouth. Then enter the crisp but chewy caramelistic notes of butterscotch, adding that extra texture sensation and really enhancing the bar in my opinion. Having tried other butterscotch bars, I have to say that so far this has maintained the place of favourite.As you can tell from the above description, this is definitely a favourite treat of mine! Would definitely recommend! :)
As I have said in previous reviews, I am not really much of a chocolate fan, preferring savoury snacks such as crisps. However, I was in my local petrol station and I noticed that they had Green and Blacks Organic Butterscotch Chocolate on special offer, so I decided to treat myself to a bar.
About Green & Blacks
The name Green and Black actually comes from 'green for organic' and black for 'dark, rich colour of the chocolate'. Green and Blacks is based in London and is owned by Cadbury Schweppes.
The outer wrapper of this bar of chocolate is pretty much just glossy paper. The packaging is a dark brown colour and the top section of the packaging is a yellow colour (for butterscotch I assume). The actual chocolate is in a gold coloured foil wrapper with Green & Blacks Organic written on it.
The Chocolate Bar
The bar I am reviewing is a 100g bar which is about 6 inches by 3 inches. In total there are 30 pieces of chocolate in the bar and each piece has the Green and Blacks organic symbol on it. The chocolate bar is obviously a dark brown colour and you can see the pieces of butterscotch inside.
I bought this when it was on special offer at my local petrol station and it cost me £1 at the time, although I think they normally sell for £1.99.
What I Thought
I really enjoyed this chocolate bar. I like to suck my chocolate rather than crunch it and I found that the mix of rich chocolate and the sweet butterscotch worked really well together. The chocolate is rich and creamy and the butterscotch is crunchy and tastes like toffee (similar to Crunchie bars). I felt that this chocolate bar had just the right about of butterscotch pieces and long after eating the chocolate you can still taste the butterscotch.
I would definitely recommend this chocolate bar to any chocolate lover. You really can taste the fact that this is organic chocolate. Although Green and Black products are more expensive that other chocolate brands, I do think that it is worth paying a little bit extra to get good quality chocolate.
Green and Blacks milk chocolate is a darker shade of milk chocolate. Available in both 35g treatsize bars and 100g larger bars, this chocolate is absolutely delicious for a special chocolatey treat.
--Price and availability--
I tend to buy mine from the supermarket, and they sometimes have a two for £3 deal on for the big bars which is probably when it is best to buy as they are £2.06 each from Tesco at full price, and this gives you an idea of the average price across the range.
They are available from the majority of supermarkets though some supermarkets will have larger varieties of flavour than others, and you will definitely find them in a large supermarket as they are a popular luxury chocolate brand.
--Personal experience--
I first tried this chocolate when I was about 14 and it was a favourite of my mum's and have loved it since then!
It comes in a variety of flavours and I have tried many - butterscotch, milk chocolate, white chocolate, dark chocolate, very dark chocolate, burnt toffee dark chocolate, cherry dark chocolate, almond milk chocolate and mint chocolate.
Butterscotch is one of the best I have tried and the reason for this is the taste combination of a darker shade of milk chocolate alongside a sweet satisfyingly crunchy texture of butterscotch pieces.
I could happily eat a large bar to myself in a short space of time, but the treatsize bars are also great as a chocolatey snack, though the big ones tend to be better value for money (unfortunately...)
This chocolate comes in Easter egg form at Easter time and there are always gift boxes of miniature versions of each bar if you wanted to try them all out first! (These retail at £6.99).
Delicious and moreish bar of chocolate with satisfyingly crunchy and sweet pieces which complement the darker shade of milk chocolate perfectly!
Luxury product as the price is quite high for a sweet treat.
Buying Green and Black's chocolate is good for the soul, good for the environment and good for the cocoa farmers. It's not, however, very good for the pocket...and I don't mean leaving a bar in yer pooch to melt into a gooey, pooey mush giving the appearance of a sudden onslaught of incontinence, although that's certainly not good for your pocket. No. I mean it's a bit on the pricey side.
Still, I was given a pack of Green & Black mini bars at Christmas so price didn't really matter anyway.
Green & Black's chocolate bars are organic, but then pedantically, isn't all chocolate? Unless, even more pedantically, you consider that man-made is an antonym of organic and I'm pretty sure most chocolate is man-made...or woman-made.
Let's stop splitting hairs and get on, shall we? Yes, let's.
So anyway, I've munched my way through the various bars but I have to say, that the butterscotch variety was probably my favourite. But then, I like butterscotch.
These mini bars are a great way to sample G&Bs chocolate bars as shelling out for a full size bar just to discover you are less than impressed with the variety is a real bummer. For example, I would have thought the Cherry bar would be really tasty...I would've thought wrong. It's rotten. Luckily, the Butterscotch one wasn't.
It's milk chocolate, which I have to say on the evidence of this mini pack, is far superior to the dark chocolate.
The chocolate itself isn't too bad. Firm and brittle, it has a smooth mouthfeel and isn't at all gritty as some brands can be. It has quite a high melting point though. I was under the impression that quality chocolate should melt at body temperature whereas this stuff seems to take an age to melt-in-the-mouth. The chocolate flavour is there though...no complaints on that front.
As for the butterscotch flavour, well that hits the spot too. It's rich and creamy and loaded with burnt sugar caramel. It's quite strong, but not overpowering.
These bars leave a lovely aftertaste - smooth and not-too-sweet yet not bitter at all. I don't think this combination would work nearly so well with dark chocolate. However, since it's not made with the dark stuff, that last point is totally extraneous..so don't bother reading it.
Would I recommend G&B's Butterscotch chocolate?
Yes and no. I thought the 25g bar was just this side of dinky, but any more than 20g or so would be maybe a little too much. I suppose, of course, it's possible to buy a full size bar and eat a little one day then save the rest for later but then this is the real world - hands up all those peeps who make a bar of chocolate last all week?
Well, that was short and sweet.
When I recently spotted Green & Blacks bars of chocolate on a 3 for 2 offer in Morrisons I couldn't resist picking a few up. I love real good quality chocolate but it is expensive so I don't get to buy it very often. The usual price per bar is £2.09.
The packaging certainly gives an image of high quality chocolate, it looks really expensive and well made. It has an outer paper wrapper and an inner foil one to keep the chocolate fresh. Inside the bar is split into small pieces, smaller than most chocolate bars, which break off easily.
When I open the bar there is a strong smell of cocoa, but I can't catch any hint of butterscotch in the scent. The chocolate has a really soft texture which breaks easily and makes no snap or crunch as it breaks. It's really smooth and melts easily in the mouth allowing the flavour to come out.
The flavour of the chocolate is much more rich and intense than 'normal' milk chocolate like cadburys because it's made with 34% cocoa. You can definitely taste the quality in the chocolate and it's less sweet and cloying than cheaper milk chocolates. Within the chocolate are lots of little crunchy pieces of toffee which are again not too sweet and taste rich and high quality. The flavours of the chocolate and the toffee go together extremely well, making for a beautiful tasting chocolate bar, but I don't really get a specific Butterscotch flavour from it.
The 100g bar contains 540 calories, 49.4g of sugar and 31.4g of fat, so as you would expect it's not greatly healthy, but I find that because it's much richer and less sweet than other milk chocolates, it's not as moreish and I am satisfied with just a few pieces rather than wanting to finish off the whole bar at once.
i love this chocolate - it's the absolute best. When I really want to treat myself this is the one I turn to.
Green and Black's produce excellent quality organic chocolate. it's high in cocoa and some of the flavours are fair trade.
The butterscotch chocolate bar is milk chocolate but it's a richer, darker type of milk chocolate than you are probably used to. It's sort of in between traditional dark chocolate and milk chocolate. It means it's rich and smooth but with enough of a kick to satisfy a real chocolate junkie.
The butterscotch is also rich and tastes of molasses. The bar is full of little crunchy pieces which the chocolate melts around in the mouth. There's an unmistakable taste of toffee with it too - and it's rice but never sickly. I should know - I've eaten enough of it in the past couple of years!
Green and Blacks is on the pricey side but it is so rich that you can't devour a whole bar in one sitting (well you could but you'd probably regret it!) It's intense flavours mean you don't need to eat as much as an ordinary chocolate bar and so it can last 2, 3, even 4 times as long.
Green and black's aren't the most high profile brand, they certainly don't get as much publicity as Cadbury but they are my favourite brand now after tasting this variety of their chocolate! They are actually an organic brand , and it seems that a lot more care has been put into the product than say a bar of Dairy milk as this just seems a lot more authentic somehow! Before having this I just used to think that organic chocolate was just a con, but this is so nice that I think I'm a convert!
The packaging is simple, after all it is just chocolate so nothing fancy needed yet, at the same time it manages to look quite sophisticated - the majority of the paper is black, with the Green and Black's logo written on in gold writing and there is a yellow bit at the top where the flavour of butterscotch is written and this is the same for all their flavours, each one is a different colour. The paper is quite thick, and there is then gold paper inside of this. Overall its quite good since it can be recycled unlike the packaging of most chocolate bars. You can get it in two sizes, one is probably for sharing and about the size of two dairy milks maybe and the other is a bit bigger than a freddo.
When you open the chocolate you get the most delicious smell ever! It's normally divided up into tiny pieces, unless you want melted chocolate on your fingers then I wouldn't recommend trying to snap it into each individual piece! Each piece has a tiny green and blacks logo on.
Although the majority of green and blacks chocolate seems to be dark, this is milk and judging from this I really think that they should start making more milk chocolate, because I don't think I've tasted better. It is utterly gorgeous, each bite is so nice - it is rich, creamy and not all fake tasting! It means that you will eat less of it then dairy milk because it's rich, while I do normally want more I stop myself! The butterscotch pieces are a really nice addition because they provide a nice contrast to the creamy chocolate as the pieces are fairly crunchy - I tend to suck the chocolate then bite the pieces that are left!
It's not as available as other chocolates, but you should still find it most places, definitely in both supermarkets and Fenwicks! Because it is organic, the price is slightly higher - about 70p for the little bar and £1.50 for the big bar, but I don't really mind paying the extra because I know that it will be worth it for the taste!
I shared a bar of this Butterscotch Green And Blacks chocolate with my mum the other day and even though I usually LOVE Green And Blacks chocolate I wasn't all that mad on this one.
It's a 100g slab of milk chocolate with pieces of butterscotch in it, the bar costs about £1.79 but if you look in some BP garages they sell smaller Freddo sized bars for about 69p.
When I first opened it I had to double check that it was milk chocolate because it looked very dark compared to Dairy Milk and I thought I'd read it wrong and it was actually going to be dark chocolate! It's not though, it's a delish creamy milk chocolate that tastes like much better quality than most other standard milk chocolate.
The smell that comes off the chocolate is lovely, it's mega sweet and you can deffo smell the butterscotch coming through the richer smell of the chocolate. The sweet smell made me think this chocolate bar was going to be sickly but even though the idea of good quality milk chocolate and butterscotch sounds wicked I was bored of it by the time I'd eaten my half a bar.
The chocolate is delish, I LOVE Green And Blacks chocolate anyway and most of the ingredients they add to it are usually wicked but I didn't think the butterscotch went all that well with it. It's in quite small pieces and is quite crunchy but some of the butterscotch was a bit chewy and it has got a bit of a weird texture that made it dead hard to chew properly.
There are loads of butterscotch pieces in the chocolate, my fave way to eat it was to suck the chocolate until it was all melted away and I was left with just the butterscotch in my mouth. Then I think the best way to eat that is to suck the butterscotch until it goes into one biggish bit and then try your best to chew it up. It goes a bit sticky when you've done that but that doesn't always make it easier to eat because it kind of all gels into one lump! lol
The taste of the butterscotch doesn't go all that well with the chocolate either I don't think, it's got a proper nice flavour but isn't right for the creamy sweet milk chocolate.
I don't know if to recommend this or not because I know other people will like this a lot more than I do. On quality I deffo recommend it, it's just that I wasn't mad keen on the texture of the butterscotch with the chocolate.
Green and Black's Butterscotch was the second of the two chocolate bars I bought in Tesco's the other day. I bought two because there was a special offer in which two 100g bars cost £3 - they normally cost around £1.80 each. Whereas the other bar was dark chocolate with cherries, this one is milk chocolate with butterscotch which I thought would make a nice contrast.
Green and Black's is a brand of organic chocolate whose name reflects the company's principles: Green represents sustainability and Black stands for the colour of the original 70% cocoa dark chocolate. It was also the first fair trade brand to be sold in the UK.
This bar is milk chocolate, made with 34% cocoa. One 100g bar provides 529 calories and 31g of fat - ouch! Milk chocolate is more unhealthy than dark chocolate I suppose, and the butterscotch probably adds calories!
The packaging, which is a distinctive orangey-yellow topped with brown (the opposite of the packet in the picture) describes the bar as "Milk Chocolate with crunchy toffee pieces for an extremely moreish taste".
It certainly was moreish - the milk chocolate was rich, creamy and delicious and the butterscotch pieces added crunch and extra sweetness. It tasted a bit like Crunchie - but nicer.
I love milk chocolate anyway so this bar had no chance - I ate it in one go, as I have no willpower!
Green and Black's is one of the nicest chocolate brands I've tried and this bar is no exception. It's ideal when you want a treat or something a bit different.
Today I was lucky enough (or unlucky enough perhaps, as I'm on a diet!) to receive a little pack of chocolate bars as a gift from a colleague. I tried hard to resist them but I've scoffed two of them already, including this Butterscotch flavoured one.
A bit of quick research told me that Green and Black's chocolate was the first Fair Trade product to be sold in the UK, and is all organic. The company was originally founded by two individuals but they weren't named Green and Black as I originally had thought. Instead Green stands for the company's environmentally sustainable principles, and Black for the dark, rich colour of the dark chocolate they first started by selling. Now Green and Black's is owned by Cadbury's but they have pledged to continue to run it as a separate company.
All of the above is important to me because I once read an article in the newspaper about slave labour on the Ivory Coast where children were forced to harvest cocoa beans but had never even tasted chocolate themselves. This brought home to be the incredibly cruel and unfair business practices of most chocolate manufacturers. For some reason, though, until my colleague gave me this Green and Black's chocolate, I had the idea that Fair Trade chocolate wouldn't taste as nice as Cadbury's. I can now say that it tastes even better, and I feel really grateful to be able to purchase a delicious alternative which means I don't have to choose between chocolate and principles.
So how was this butterscotch-flavoured bar? Well, firstly it was milk chocolate which is my absolute favourite, and it was very creamy. The texture was perfect, as it melted in my mouth, and the taste was heavenly. The chocolate was darker than most milk chocolates which made it taste stronger and richer than milk chocolate usually does, but it was also sweet the way milk chocolate should be.
The butterscotch tasted very similar to what you find in a Dime Bar, but it was just flecks of butterscotch rather than the far too solid Dime Bar stuff you break your teeth on. This butterscotch was nice and crunchy but since the pieces were so small it was easy to chew.
The only problem with this bar is the high calorie content, but that's to be expected in a chocolate bar. This stuff has 529 calories per 100 grams which compares quite favourably to the average Cadbury's offering. A 100 gram bar costs £2.05 on Goodness Direct, which is about twice the price of other milk chocolate bars. However, I think this is well worth it if it means that the people working to make it can have a better life. While I know I don't have the willpower to give up all other chocolate bars, I will try to buy this as often as possible to cure my chocolate cravings from now on.
I have tried numerous types of chocolate and this is probably one of the best around. You can really taste and smell the cocoa which makes the experience that much better. Unlike the more commercial chocolates like Dairy Milk and Galaxy where all you can taste is the sugar this actually tastes like it was made from real cocoa beans. It has a strong and rich aroma and taste and simply melts in your mouth leaving the crunchy pieces of butterscotch. Another great thing about this is that you don't have to feel guilty eating it. It's organic and they use ingredients which are ethically sourced. Green and Blacks do a range of chocolate but butterscotch is my favourite. It just gives the chocolate another dimension with the caramel flavour and the crunch. It's incredibly moorish and you have to stop yourself from eating the whole thing in one go. The packaging is also sophisticated and you feel like your really buying a great product. The chocolate is lined in gold foil and a card like paper wraps the whole thing. On the inside of the wrapping you get a brief description of the origins of the product. It really makes you feel like they've put in a lot of effort and that they are really proud of what they do and hope that you will enjoy it. You really can taste the difference in the quality and for chocolate lovers everywhere this will just brighten up your day.
My favourite Green and Blacks bar. The chocolate is so creamy and then there are the lovely sweet and crunchy chunks of butterscotch mixed in with it. I would advise to refrigerate this - it lasts longer that way as you need to suck it. One bar would last me a week as it is so rich. Also very yummy crushed and sprinkled over a good quality vanilla ice cream. Unfortuately I won't be buying any more as Green and Blacks has been bought by Cadburys and I refuse to buy from them due to their planned closure of the Bristol factory - which will move to Poland - with the loss of 500 jobs plus more connected to the factory in the surrounding area..
See http://www.tgwu.org.uk/Templates/Campaign.asp?Action=Display&NodeID=93856
You can read more at the website. I'm switching now to Hotel Chocolat and Coop fairtrade which is as yummy and to my knowledge so far, nothing to do with Cadburys.
My boyfriend was given a box of assorted mini bars of Green & Black's for his birthday. So naturally I had to help him out on his quest to find the best flavour! Well, it just so happens that this one came a close second after the plain dark bar. The chocolate itself is rich and creamy, melts in the mouth and made me feel instantly better! The butterscotch pieces make it extra special though - a bit like a crunchy bar but much nicer! The small bars we had were probably just about right, leaving you wanting a little bit more, but I'm not sure how I'd feel confronted by the larger bar - I might have to eat it all in one go and I think that would be bad! All in all, this is premium chocolate for grown ups, very addictive and makes you feel soooooo much better!
Having just been to Tesco this morning, I decided to treat myself to a lovely big bar of Green and Black's Butterscotch Milk Chocolate.
I have bought the 100g bar (this is the biggest size available) and it is currently on a special offer at two bars for £3.00 (I also bought the Green and Black's Dark Chocolate with Mint - I have not tried that one yet, but will review it later when I have!)
The normal price was £1.85 each, so quite a good offer there.
All the Green and Black's chocolate bars are easily identifiable in smooth matt brown wrappers, then a different coloured top to identify the different flavours - in this case, it's Yellow for Butterscotch.
The blurb on the front tells me that this is milk chocolate with 34% cocoa, so still pretty high cocoa content for a milk chocolate, also that it's organic and has 'crunchy butterscotch pieces for an extremely moreish taste".
Inside, I open the gold foil wrapper and break up the little squares. First impressions? Well, it's that familiar good quality Green and Black's Chocolate, very creamy tasting and dense with chocolate flavour.
However, not so sure about the butterscotch. It' s scattered throughout the chocolate in little chunks, but I don't find it crunchy, it is actually quite soft, which is still fine, but I am not sure about the flavour:
As the name suggests, it's buttery, but I find it a little bit too buttery - You know when you eat butter that's been out of the fridge for a bit too long and it's slightly ripe? Well it's a bit like that I'm afraid.
I would have preferred the butterscotch to be more sweet and crunchy and less , well , buttery!
The nutritional information tells me that this chocolate has 529 calories per 100g, which in this case means per bar, and 31g of fat.
Each bite of this bar reveals crisp, crunchy pieces of organic butterscotch submerged in our wonderfully cocoay darker shade of milk chocolate.


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New York Mets All-Star third baseman David Wright, who was placed on the 15-day disabled list Saturday, will likely be out three to five weeks, according to manager Terry Collins.
Wright underwent an MRI on Saturday morning, a day after he strained his right hamstring while legging out an infield hit vs. the Kansas City Royals. The MRI revealed a Grade 3 hamstring strain, Collins said.
Wright had been feeling discomfort in the hamstring while the Mets took on the Marlins in Miami last week, but it was described as cramping, and he played through it. He doesn't think that was a mistake.
"Being around for as long as I've been around, I have a pretty good sense of what my body can and can't take," Wright told ESPNNewYork.com. "I felt like I could go out there and play through it. It didn't really bother me regularly. It was just when I needed to try to kick it into that extra gear is when it caught me a couple of times. And last night it caught me pretty good."
Wright is hitting .309/.391/.512 with 16 homers and 54 RBIs.


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Should Coach Vogel consider: Reason I ask is Popavich obviously sat Duncan Manu TP. granted they are older. Heat are currently sitting Wade intermittently.
Heat may concede 1 seed and be rested and ready postseason. I want to keep winning, want the 1 seed. But should Coach Vogel rest players as well at times. Maybe Hibbs a game here or there, Paul a game here or there. Granger it would be a good idea with.
This is alos bodes well for other reasons. Lets see this team prove to it can get a win without Paul or Roy (say one fouls out). also builds the team.
most of all, keeps players rested. we got so much depth at this time, some nites we can pull it off. bobcats for example or whoever at home. let OJ play 30 minutes one nite, may need him, or Solo 25, sit DWEST and let Cope gets some minutes.
you all get the point.
LeHeat know they need Wade 100%. Lets make sure our boys get the 1 seed but are ready for the postseason first and foremost.
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SUNBURY, Pa. — Weis Markets' official Facebook page is celebrating its 10,000th fan with exclusive coupon offers, the grocer announced Tuesday.
Weis Markets' Facebook fans now are eligible for these coupons at Facebook.com/WeisSuperMarket. The coupon offers include $5 off a $50 purchase; $1 off 12-oz. Weis quality granola; $1 off 12-count Weis quality coffee solos and $1 off a Weis Five Star item.
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"What does ''EF-4'' mean?' and other tornado questions answered
With tornadoes in the news lately I figured it'd be a good time to post answers to some frequently asked questions about the powerful storms:
What does "EF-4" mean?
WIth the devastating tornado in Moore, Oklahoma, you'll be hearing a lot of about "EF" ratings -- that's from the Enhanced Fujita Scale that rates tornadoes on a scale of 0 to 5, 5 being the strongest.
The Moore tornado was given a preliminary rating of EF-4 ("Devastating") with estimated tornadic wind speeds of up to 200 mph, although many are thinking that rating could be increased to an EF-5 ("Incredible") once more damage assessment is done.
Sadly, it's not the first time Moore has had to deal with such a catastrophic storm. On May 3, 1999, Moore was struck by an EF-5 tornado which recorded the strongest wind speed ever registered near Earth's surface. this map provided by the National Weather Service in Norman, Oklahoma shows just how close the two tracks were.
How rare are tornadoes here?
It used to be that Washington averaged just one tornado per year in the state, but factoring in more recent data, our official average is now up to two -- most likely helped by our 1997 season that had a record 14 tornadoes.
Still, tornadoes are typically very weak here, typically rating an EF0 or EF1 on the Enhanced Fujita Scale
Strong tornadoes need severe thunderstorms fed by large changes in temperature in the upper atmosphere. Severe thunderstorms typically need much colder air moving in aloft to make the air very unstable.
The so-called "Tornado Alley" in the Midwest is ripe for severe weather due to frequent battles between cold, arctic air marching south of out Canada colliding with very warm, moist air moving north from the Gulf of Mexico.
But in the Pacific Northwest, the cool waters of the Pacific Ocean are a great moderating force that keeps temperature changes from being too drastic, and thus tornadoes are quite rare.
What are more common here are what we call "cold core funnels"
They are different from typical devastating Midwest tornadoes in that these are spawned from non-severe storms and can occur when you get a tightly wrapped rush of rising air that can appear as a funnel.
They get their name from the usual pattern when you have a storm bringing much colder air into the higher altitudes -- a common occurrence around here in spring and fall.
Cold-core funnels rarely reach the ground, and if they do, are very weak. They are not all *that* rare with well-formed Convergence Zones -- especially in spring and autumn.
Has there ever been a bad tornado here?
There has only been one deadly tornado in recorded history in Washington -- an F3 tornado that touched down in Vancouver on April 5, 1972. Six people were killed and 300 were injured in that tornado.
There have been two other storms in Washington that rated an F3 -- one was the same date as the Vancouver tornado, but in Lincoln County. One person was injured there.
An F3 tornado also struck the Kent Valley on Dec. 12, 1969. One person was injured there as well. Finally, one tornado that touched down near LaCenter in Clark County on June 29, 1989 injured one person when their car was lifted six feet.
Those are the only tornadoes that have injured anyone since records have been kept in 1880.
In Oregon, there were reports of a tornado that killed three and injured 5 on June 14, 1888 near Lexington in Morrow County, and another one on June 3, 1894 in Grant County that killed three and injured 10. There have been no tornado-related deaths in Oregon since that 1894 tornado.
What's the difference between a funnel cloud and tornado?
A funnel cloud is basically a tornado that doesn't touch the ground. They don't do any damage by itself, but a funnel cloud can certainly become a tornado, so they need to be reported and monitored. Once the funnel touches the ground -- even for an instant -- it gets classified as a tornado.
You might have also heard of "waterspout" which is a tornado that is over water. There have been documented cases where waterspouts have been known to make it rain frogs or fish, having been sucked up out of the water.
Then there is a "gustnado" which is not a tornado at all. This is a swirling vortex along the ground that is caused by straight-line winds. These don't connect to the clouds and are more visually along the lines of a dust devil (although not the same!). Gustnadoes do minor, if any damage.
More tornado information:
Storm Prediction Center's Online Tornado FAQ
List of all tornadoes in Washington, 1950-2008
List of all tornadoes in Washington State, broken down by county, 1880-2000


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text: Latest News Second Sight Names 12 Distributors for Retinal Prosthesis System By Staff Monday, July 1, 2013 12:36 AM SYLMAR, Calif.— Second Sight Medical Products announced that its Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System ("Argus II") will be initially offered in 12 major markets across the U.S. to treat patients with late stage retinitis pigmentosa (RP). This news follows U.S. market approval for the Argus II by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) in February of this year. The Argus II is the first and only "bionic eye" to be approved in countries throughout the world, including the U.S. In preparation for the launch of Argus II later this year, implanting centers will soon begin to accept consultations for patients with RP. These centers will be located at nationally recognized and prestigious hospitals in Ann Arbor, Mich.; Atlanta, Ga.; Baltimore, Md.; Chicago, Ill.; Cleveland, Ohio; Dallas, Texas; Durham, N.C.; Los Angeles, Calif.; Miami, Fla.; Nashville, Tenn.; Philadelphia, Pa.; and San Francisco, Calif. "We are thrilled that several of the nation's top hospitals will be the first to offer Argus II to patients in the U.S.," said Brian Mech, vice president of business development, Second Sight. "After an intensive and difficult selection process, these sites were chosen for their cutting-edge approach to medicine and unparalleled commitment to patient care. We are confident that RP patients seeking treatment at these centers will benefit greatly from the best-in-class services these sites provide." The Argus II is a retinal implant that is designed to provide electrical stimulation to the retina, to induce visual perception in blind individuals with RP. In order to make the Argus II therapy more widely accessible to patients with end-stage RP, the company will continue to actively identify additional centers across the country, while at the same time working to ensure adequate insurance coverage for the system and the medical activities surrounding the delivery of the therapy. Second Sight encourages interested patients and surgical centers to contact the company for more information.


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Long overdue dye for a friend of mine. Said he wanted the Scream image from a Pink Floyd album cover. Been busy as hell for the last couple of months and figured this would take forever since I'd have to do it by hand. Turns out it wasn't too bad for time. I'm knocking out a lot of vinyl work this weekend so I figured I'd get this out of the way along with everything else.
I had to keep referencing colors from a picture on my iPhone since my damn printer is actin the ass with color prints.
So some of the colors are different. Overall I like it. Looking at it from 6-10 feet it looks sick because the colors really blend in well with each other.


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Money the military gives its men and women to live in Monterey will significantly drop this year.
The average housing allowance will fall 7.5 percent — the biggest decline in the country, said the U.S. Department of Defense.
Military currently stationed in the county are protected from the change, but new troops will receive the lower rate.
Real estate groups and housing associations fear the change will significantly hurt local markets.
"An adjustment of this magnitude is substantial," said Kevin Stone, spokesman for the Monterey County Association of Realtors, "and has very real impact on housing in this area."
The Department of Defense said its rates are determined by median current market rent, average utilities and average renter's insurance.
"It's not just done for Monterey County," said Rep. Sam Farr, D-Carmel, on Monday. "It's done any place where real estate values have dropped."
The changes will vary greatly based on pay grade.
Officers with dependents are facing the biggest decrease, averaging nearly 9 percent. The highest paid officer with dependents will now get $2,979 a month, $252 less than last year.
The lowest-paid individual without dependents was given $1,362 a month in 2012, but will now get $1,332. The highest paid without dependents received $2,235 a month last year, but now receives $2,049.
Mary Lynn Pinto, president of the Monterey Bay chapter of the National Association of Residential Property Managers, said the formula did not seem to match up to reality.
"I can tell you that none of my rental properties has experienced a decrease in market rent," she said, "and some have had significant increases in the past 12 months."
Adding to Pinto's concern is the vast majority of military outside Monterey saw their rates go up and that she cannot remember such a significant decrease in her 29 years in the industry.
The rental property organization and the Association of Realtors are trying to set up a meeting with Farr over the change, Stone and Pinto said.
In the meantime, Pinto said they are willing to work with military renters.
"We'll try to accommodate them to the best of our ability," she said.
The Department of Defense said in a news release that it will spend $20 billion in housing for about 1 million service members this year at more than 350 military housing areas.
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Ol'blue I want you to copy and paste a quote from Luck that makes him sound even remotely cocky
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Ol'blue I want you to copy and paste a quote from Luck that makes him sound even remotely cocky
Last edited by BlueCollarColts; 11-16-2012 at 09:59 PM.
You're spending a lot of time on this board for someone who was "done with the Colts" after their 6-3 start last week.
Now where do you think you can find something to cut and paste from a TV interview......Watch Sports Center tonight and perhaps they will run it for you....
I have learned all I care to about him..... He is very stuck on himself and I have no use for that. Brady was a man. Luck was a punk.....
I quit watching a week ago or so....... I just get angry when I see Mr. Cocky *** behind the center..... I'll come back to watch when either Luck or Irsay is gone preferably both....
Now you have called me a liar and accused me of making things up. It is easy for me to hate Luck. Brady was a man in the interview. Luck was a classless brat.... I'm sure you won't see that because of your blind hero worship but that is what happened....
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Sigh. Stop. Talking. To. Him.
Don't ask Marvin Harrison what he did during the bye week. "Batman never told where the Bat Cave is," he explained.
RG3 and all his "no one doubts who the leader is out there" crap is what's cocky. Luck defers almost completely any compliments and never pats himself on the back.
There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
Look, you are going to start losing posters if this is allowed to continue. Fix the problem. I don't care if this gets me an infraction because I am a big boy but something needs to get done.
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All of this because I think Luck is a cocky punk? Well, that is exactly what he is and tell him to shave, he looks like some kind of hippy goat with that scruffy beard... If he can't grow a proper one, then give it up.....
I will give you that RGIII is also cocky.... They will both get that knocked out of them eventually..... If Luck reached any further back, he would break his arm.... I have never liked Phillip Rivers for the same reason.
Well sorry to disappoint you Ol'blue but Luck isnt leaving anytime soon. Irsay also made the right move to get rid of Manning so he isn't leaving any time soon either. I am glad to have them both. Irsay also made the great move of hiring Grigson
We will see.... It takes a few years for these things to play out...
It looks like Coach Pagano had another inspiring visit with the team:
Pagano "broke his team down" during practice, interim coach Bruce Arians said.
"It was a beautiful moment ... He came and enjoyed a good bunch of sunshine and talked to the guys and it was another beautiful day," Arians said.
Luck is the exact opposite of cocky.
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There are two types of quarterbacks in the league: Those whom over time, the league figures out ... and those who figure out the league.
I went to the fundraiser last night and I talked to Luck. He's relaxed and ready to go. Arians was very confident and so was Reggie. I think this will be a great game
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I know, I find it funny that Ol'blue cant tell me one thing Luck said that made him sound cocky........... Luck "I don't deserve Brady comparisons" SO COCKY!!!!!!!!
It was just his whole attitude. I will admit that I don't like the guy and I didn't even before he was drafted. He sounded like Phillip Rivers to me and that isn't a compliment....
What kind of chance does Luck have of breaking the rookie record of most 300+ yard games in a season? I'm sure he will be throwing a lot since it is pretty much expected that the Pats will be putting points on the board.


text: Utah Jazz coach Tyrone Corbin met with the media Thursday morning, about 15 hours after his team had been eliminated from the playoffs.Corbin touched on the busy summer that is ahead for the franchise, which has only five players under contract beyond July 1, including Marvin Williams. He owns a player option for next season.Of course, the problem with having so many pending free agents is whether they are more worried about the future than the present. According to Corbin, however, his players mostly kept their eye on the prize, despite missing the playoffs after an 86-70 loss to Memphis on the final night of the regular season."It was hard," Corbin said. "But we talked about it and this group of guys was really good. For the most part we hung in there and guys were playing for the team."Corbin understood players like Paul Millsap, Al Jefferson and Mo Williams looking to the future."... It's their livlihood," the Jazz coach said. "They have to stay healthy and they don't want to get hurt because if you get hurt at this point in their career it could hurt you. So getting them to stay on course is a juggling thing. [But] you have so many guys, it's hard to work around it times because the next guy was in the same boat. So it was a little difficult and it was a learning experience. But the guys were great. with so many guys being free." Steve Luhm


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Famous for mega anthems like Smoke On The Water, Highway Star and Black Knight, British rockers Deep Purple have been dishing out heavy metal for over 40 years.
One of the many wondrous things about Purple is how they have successfully they have absorbed disparate musical influences into their distinctive sound.
As practitioners of hard rock they have captured the attention of millions of fans around the world, enveloping people's senses with their catchy melodies, sly improvisation and articulate rhythms.
Not surprisingly, they have earned a reputation as the personification of classic rock, and Deep Purple brings their magic to Dubai next year when they perform at the Emirates Airline Dubai Jazz Festival 2013 at Festival Park, Dubai Festival City on February 21.
"Thank you very much for having us," frontman Ian Gillan told tabloid! this week, giving a hint of the passion that we can expect from the band onstage. "That will be our first show after Christmas so the band will be exploding with energy."
The Emirates Airline Dubai Jazz Festival, with a new sponsor this time around, runs from February 14-22, with an opening weekend of concerts, the Jazz Garden from February 16-20 and a closing weekend of concerts from February 21-22.
"The Emirates Airline sponsorship adds to the allure of the Dubai Jazz Festival and we are very pleased to be associated with a highly acclaimed international brand over the next five years, said Anthony Younes, CEO of Chillout Productions, the organisers of the festival.
"The 2013 edition of the Emirates Airline Dubai Jazz Festival will include some of the finest musicians who will perform a diverse portfolio of musical genres. We invite music lovers from around the region to attend this special event that will offer much more than jazz."
As to why a band known for its heavy rock are playing a jazz festival, Younes has a bit of history to cite. Deep Purple played many international jazz fests, including the most famous one, Montreux Jazz Festival, and this where they came up with Smoke On The Water," he said.
"We always had non-jazzy acts to attract the crowd, as we all know that jazz is very niche."
Ticket sales will be announced in December for the annual event, now in its eleventh year.
tabloid! spoke to Gillan about his music, fans, and the legendary Elvis Presley.
How do you keep up the enthusiasm and energy over the tours and the years? What's the secret?
Well, I don't really know. We never planned this far ahead. Possibly it's the way we set ourselves up in the beginning. We had no ambition, except to make the band as good as possible. Every street where I lived in the south of England had a band, so you try and steal the guitar player or the drummer from the band in the next street, just to improve your own band and all we cared about was just playing music that we loved. We didn't give much thought to image, in fact we don't have a publicist -- never had one -- and we never [gave] thought to the normal business things. So there's a basic simplicity to the ethos of the band which has survived and I don't think it's changed in any way. The music's kinda matured with us -- it's grown up a little bit I suppose -- but it's still got all the energy and enthusiasm that we had as kids. Apart from that, I couldn't answer your question because I'm too close to it. All I know is that it's full of energy and we still love it.
How would you best describe the Deep Purple sound?
It's very easy to describe a solo artist because you instantly recognise the voice. And I think with Deep Purple you instantly recognise the sound. It's not just a sound, it's a feel. I think it's quite instantly recognisable. The rhythm section is very important. Our drummer swings like a train and that's very unusual for rock'n'roll drummers -- they normally bash their drums, so there's a little more subtlety to Ian Paice and Roger [Glover]. I think the combination of the Hammond [organ] and the guitar are fairly distinctive and probably my voice is recognisable, I expect. And I think the style of the music also ,because of the input of everyone in those formative years. We had influences such as orchestral compositions, Hammond organ, jazz, blues, rock'n'roll, soul, Tampa Mowtown, folk, you name it, it's all in there. So there's quite a range of texture and that's as simple as I can make it.
What classic Deep Purple songs best lend themselves to where the band is at this stage of its career?
The construction of a song doesn't change, it's just the way that the food is cooked. It's also the improvisation. A friend of mine came to two shows in Germany on the last tour, in Hamburg and Frankfurt, and he said to me, 'you did the same set as you did last night'. But I said to him, 'last night was one hour and 40 minutes, tonight was two hours and 16 minutes'. So how do you account for that? It's the improvisation. All of that provides the excitement and I think probably the menu has changed much.
You have had a lot of changes in band members over the years. What are Steve Morse and Don Airey like to work with?
Steve joined us 20 years ago and I think his style was different to Ritchie's and also to Joe Satriani who bridged the gap between Ritchie and Steve Morse. Steve is an American to start off, so his roots are quite different to ours, that southern rock kind of style, and he uses the guitar in a different kinda way. He's got four fingers and a thumb on his left hand so he figures he might as well use them all. So he's quite an incredible technician and Ritchie was too, but in a different way. Don is a mountain, he's got so much energy and power and he absolute stuns me every night.
You have been screaming rock music for over 40 years. How do you do it?
I think it's quite natural, I do a lot of it, and so I keep myself fairly fit. My mates who were singers they quit to enjoy their success or raise families and they didn't continue. Then they tried to come back years later but it was very difficult because vocal cords, unlike guitar strings, are unforgiving, you can't change them. So I think I've been singing all my life, and therefore I'm pretty match-fit, so to speak. Most things are within my scope, I sing pretty naturally so it's not a strain, never has been.
How do you define a rock singer? Who in your opinion is the greatest?
It's all very different; I don't think it's a science but if you were ask me who had the greatest voice in rock music of all time I would have to say a young Elvis Presley, without a doubt. He was the Pavarotti of rock music. I remember listening to Dame Kiri Te Kanawa a few years ago on the BBC and the presenter asked her who she thought was the greatest voice she had ever heard. I was expecting her to say something like Caruso, Joan Sutherland or Pavarotti, but she said the young Elvis. He touched us all, he got through to us, his personality. Technically he was perfect, his pitch and tone were absolutely wonderful and his sense of rhythm, something came deep inside him that literally did touch us all. That's a secret of greatness.
Befitting the success Deep Purple has achieved, the band has been nominated for the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame. How much of an honour is this, or is it?
(Laughs.) Without being asked I was nominated for an MBE a little while ago and I was a bit fed up with these sorts of things and then I rationalised the situation. When I was a kid, the last thing that I wanted was to be institutionalised and sort of fought against the establishment all my life. However, when I had a chance to think about the nomination I realised I saw people getting excited about it around me and I realised it's for family and friends and it's not for me alone, it's for the people who have supported us all through these years particularly through the bad times. So I look at it in a different way now,with a certain amount of humility.
In your day you had to go through auditions before you were given a recording contract. Is it easier for today's entertainers?
I think it's probably a double-edged sword. It's more difficult in one sense because there is so much of it around now -- the completion is so fierce. In our day there wasn't so much going on and you only had to be good enough to entertain people, which we did when we were kids. You just had to be capable rather than anything else, you had to have minimum of 120 songs in your repertoire. But I think really the idea then was to follow what the public wanted rather than try and do it through the business. I wouldn't want to be starting right now, I think it would be a lot more difficult, to be honest.
How do you measure the role that the internet played in the world of popular music?
If you're over a certain age you can only be objective about it and if you're not of that age you've got to accept that you're not part of it. I to start off resented youtube because every little note that you did was on the internet before the end of the concert virtually and I couldn't understand how people would sit and listen to a concert that sounded great to me in a venue, on some rubbishing little ear-pod. How could understand the music or appreciate it? But then again it's a question of expectation and entitlement.
What kind of music do you listen to these days?
Rasputin, which I play when I want people to go home -- a bass singer and a baritone singer. It's gorgeous but it scares the hell out of people. I also like big band swing, Dean Martin is one of my favourites.
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Reynolds relishes getting first Major League save
SAN FRANCISCO -- D-backs left-hander Matt Reynolds picked up his first Major League save Tuesday night in his 174th career appearance.
"It was pretty exciting," Reynolds said. "There was a lot of emotion, a lot of excitement. It was great for us to get the win."
The save came at an important time for the D-backs, who had watched a late-inning lead slip away for the second straight night. They rebounded to score a pair of runs in the 11th, and with setup man David Hernandez and closer J.J. Putz already having pitched, the D-backs turned to Reynolds.
"It's one of those games where it's back and forth and everyone is fighting tooth and nail," Reynolds said. "And to come in there and kind of shut it down and get the victory is always fun."
Reynolds, who was acquired from the Rockies in an offseason trade, has thrown 10 1/3 scoreless innings to start the season after struggling during the spring.
"I didn't feel like I was necessarily throwing the ball as poorly as my numbers showed," Reynolds said of his spring struggles. "I felt like I had some things that didn't go my way. As long as your arm is feeling good and you feel like you're doing whatever you can to get moving in the right direction, I feel like that's the most important thing."
Steve Gilbert is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Inside the D-backs, and follow him on Twitter @SteveGilbertMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.