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Review subjectI'm not quite sure what all the hype is about this product! It smells good, nice clean smell. But once I used it, I was disapointed. The first time I used it, I used a dif brand shampoo and conditioner, but was very disapointed. I then (silly me) went out, and purchased the matching Infusium shampoo and conditioner. On a side note, the shampoo was not that bad, but the conditioner was not good at ...read moreall. Anyway, even after I used it with the matching products my hair still felt like straw. I have really thick/curly/coarse hair, but I have tried other products that can handle it. I used it one last time; with dif shampoo/conditioner, and also with additional styling products. But, I was still disapointed with it. My hair (after the third try) felt good, and seemed healthy and softer, but again I had to use additional products to style it. And, if I have to use all the additional products it makes the leave-in not worth it to purchase (and it's also additional time and money lost). So, in this case I would not recommend this product to anyone. — 6 years, 1 month agoMissPurple | 611 reviews
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Love this hair repair productI've been using this product for years. I love that it helps moisturize my dry hair. Its great at getting out tangles and leaving hair shiny, silky, and smooth. Its one of my go to products when my hair could use a little TLC. — 6 years, 1 month agoladyboarder9669 | 210 reviews
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No more bad hair day!Although I miss their original Infusium 23 Leave-in Treatment packaging and design, the new (Repair)ologie works as good as the original. I use it when I have a bad hair day. It quickly detangles hair, leave my hair smooth, shiny and more manageable. But don't use too much because it will make hair somewhat sticky too. — 9 years, 2 months agoluckybetty | 895 reviews
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Perfect For Thinner/Shorter HairI've tried using this but it doesn't really do anything on my hair. I have long, thick, wavy hair & this doesn't help with tangles at all unless I use a lot of product. Unfortunately that causes my hair to feel sticky so it seems very pointless to use it on just washed hair. It does seem to help a bit with preventing breakage but not as well as other products I have tried & it doesn't help keep aw...read moreay frizz. I don't really notice any shine either. It does seem to work better on shorter or thinner hair. My mother has fine, shoulder length hair & loves the Infusium line since she can use a small amount for effective detangling & it doesn't weight down her hair. It does seem to remove tangles on her but I still don't notice any shine from it on her. I am also not a big fan of the scent which is a problem because the scent of it doesn't seem to go away until you wash your hair again. — 6 years, 3 months agorunee89 | 299 reviews
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OKI tried this because I heard that it was a good detangler and would make my hair soft and shiny, but it really didn't do much! It says you can use it on wet or dry hair and I have very long, thick hair. It didn't really help with the tangles and it didn't make it shiny either and I don't really like the smell. I'm not sure if they changed the formula because the packaging is different, but it didn't really work for me. — 6 years, 3 months agoRoleModel | 157 reviews
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A Neccessity!This is an excellent product for severely abused hair. Mine is pretty much fried from years of highlights and daily blow-drying and curling iron use, and this has really helped! It makes my hair softer and shinier, and I believe it's helping with the breakage issues I've been having. I'll be buying this stuff forever. — 8 years, 1 month agoamygab1126 | 242 reviews
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Its ok, but...This leave in conditioner does work well, especially on ends and knots, but they test on animals. So its not worth it. I would not recommend this product, simply for that fact. — 6 years, 11 months agoKatatonia | 191 reviews
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Using for yearsI have been using this for years, and love it. If I don't use it, I'm in trouble.... — 4 years, 3 months agodebbiewhite767 | 2 reviews
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text: Lawyer board files more charges against Mingo prosecutor By Kate White September 26, 2013 Story Share Federal prosecutors provided the state lawyer Office of Disciplinary Counsel with proof that Mingo County Prosecuting Attorney Michael Sparks admitted his involvement in a conspiracy involving other county officials, the office says in a new Supreme Court filing.Rachael Cipoletti, chief attorney for the ODC, filed charges of more alleged misconduct by Sparks on Wednesday evening with the West Virginia Supreme Court. She has asked the court to immediately suspend Sparks' law license.The Supreme Court set a hearing for Oct. 16 to hear arguments.Sparks' attorney, Lonnie Simmons, filed a response Thursday morning pointing out that Sparks hasn't been charged by federal prosecutors and continues to perform his duties as county prosecutor.The information Assistant U.S. Attorney Steve Ruby provided Cipoletti is sealed, but she wrote that it details "admissions made by [Sparks] to federal authorities as it pertains to the conspiracies as outlined in the Thornsbury Indictment and Thornsbury Information."According to a federal information charge filed last week against Mingo Circuit Judge Michael Thornsbury, three county officials -- Sparks, Sheriff Eugene Crum and Commissioner David Baisden -- conspired to interrupt a federal investigation of Crum and cover up allegations that Crum illegally received prescription painkillers from a drug dealerLast month, Sparks, who has been the county prosecutor since 2005, was mentioned in a federal indictment that charged Thornsbury with conspiring to get his former secretary's husband thrown in jail. Sparks testified before a federal grand jury on Aug. 14, according to court documents.Sparks was not given immunity by federal prosecutors, the ODC's filing points out.Ruby gave Cipoletti a sworn affidavit from FBI Special Agent Joseph Ciccarelli that detail Sparks's admissions, according to the filing. Also, U.S. District Court Chief Judge Robert Chambers issued a sealed order which will allow grand jury materials that pertain to Sparks' disciplinary proceedings to be provided to the Supreme Court, the filing states. "By his own admissions to the United States Attorney and the Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, [Sparks'] verified response to the ethics complaint filed with this Court are false," according to the ODC.The state Office of Disciplinary Counsel filed a petition last week asking the Supreme Court to immediately suspend Sparks' law license.Sparks has said he never engaged in any misconduct and never had enough information to report alleged misconduct by other public officials.Thornsbury is expected to plead guilty on Wednesday to the charge in the information, concerning the conspiracy to shut down the federal investigation into Crum.Cipoletti attached a sworn affidavit to the ODC's filing from George White, the drug dealer whose rights were allegedly violated by Thornsbury and others. Sparks and Baisden allegedly told White's brother that White would get a light sentence if he would stop talking to federal investigators about Crum. They also asked White to fire his lawyer, Charles "Butch" West. In the ODC's filing, Cipoletti also provided the Supreme Court with a signed affidavit from West -- whom Thornsbury, Crum, Baisden and Sparks allegedly wanted off the case in favor of former county prosecutor Ronald Rumora."Mr. White also informed me that Eugene Crum had sold him moonshine and whisky and had brought oxycodone from him while he was Magistrate of Mingo County," West's affidavit states. "Mr. White indicated that Mr. Crum had made several buys of oxycodone from him."West says in the statement that he gave Sparks a motion to dismiss the charges against White, based on the allegations of misconduct by Crum.After that, according to West's statement, White was offered a sentence of 30 days in jail and home confinement if he stopped talking to federal investigators and removed West as his attorney.The charge against Thornsbury alleges that, once West was removed as White's attorney, White gave a statement that he never gave prescription pills to Crum.White was sentenced to 1 to 15 years in jail after pleading guilty on April 12. Thornsbury had scheduled a hearing for Thursday to reconsider White's sentence. The hearing was canceled, said a secretary in the office of John Cummings, the Cabell County senior status judge assigned to take over Thornsbury's cases. Cummings was reviewing White's file, the secretary said.Sparks "has neither disqualified himself as the Prosecuting Attorney on [White's] case, nor has he sought the appointment of a special prosecutor," Cipoletti writes.Crum was shot to death in his police cruise in Williamson on April 3. Earlier this month, Sparks stepped down from the case dealing with Crum's murder, citing an "emerging conflict of interest." Kanawha County prosecutors were appointed this week to prosecute Tennis Maynard, who is accused of killing Crum.Reach Kate White at email@example.com or 304-348-1723. 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During the campaign for the country's elections last July, party leaders—even those from moderate parties, such as Mahmoud Jibril, leader of the National Forces Alliance—acknowledged that sharia would significantly influence any Constitution. New laws should have a "reference to sharia," Jibril told The Daily Beast, arguing, "Sharia law, when it was understood in the proper way, managed to create one of the great civilizations in human history. The problem is not with sharia or Islam; the problem is with the interpretation of sharia."
Even among women agitating for a greater role in public and political life here, there's agreement that sharia law should be at the heart of the country's new Constitution. The only disputes are about the drafting process; whether the members of a 60-strong drafting panel should be elected or appointed by the country's new Parliament, the General National Congress; and whether sharia should be the "only source of law" or a "principal source of law," with the latter allowing greater possibility of adopting laws used in non-Muslim countries.
"Libyans wouldn't accept a Constitution that isn't informed by Sharia," says 20-year-old Issraa Murabit, a second-year medical student from the town of Zawiyah and vice president of The Voice of Libyan Women, an NGO campaigning for greater women's rights…
Like other political leaders—including luminaries in the Muslim Brotherhood—Saadi argues there are many interpretations of Islamic law. He says in the case of Libya, the Sharia provisions most likely to be enshrined in a Constitution would only be those that deal with behavior deemed haraam, or expressly forbidden. That would include usury, he acknowledges. "But some in the West may think in the aftermath of the financial crisis, banning usury may be useful," he muses.


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The historic Saint-Germain-des-Prés district is the setting for this Left Bank boutique hotel. Pont Neuf and Luxembourg Palace are 0.6 km (0.4 mi) from Artus Hotel. The Louvre is 0.9 km (0.6 mi) away.
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By Chris Mooney • Monday, May 7, 2012 - 06:11
Debate over The Republican Brain is mounting, as emotional (and highly extraverted?) conservatives fling meaningless attacks at the book–attacks so off target it's doubtful in most cases that the critics read the book–but scientists admit that it represents the research on ideology accurately. That's what just happened Saturday morning on MSNBC's Up With Chris Hayes, where Jonathan Haidt, the University of Virginia moral psychologist and author of The Righteous Mind, basically agreed with me that liberals are indeed more open to new experiences, with all that entails—which is why they are more sympathetic to scientists, and take their knowledge more seriously. Conservatives, meanwhile, just do it differently, Haidt explained:
I want to fully agree with Chris that the psychology does predispose liberals more to be receptive to science; my own research has found that conservatives are better at group-binding, at loyalty, and so if you put them in a group-versus-group conflict, yes, the right is more prone, psychologically, to band around and sort of, circle the wagons.
Haidt nevertheless went on to talk about a lot of cases of the left attacking science too, enough that both Michelle Goldberg (of the Daily Beast) and Chris Hayes eventually challenged his stance. Goldberg worried about a "morass of cultural relativism, in which everybody's equally irrational," and later, Hayes suggested that Haidt was trying to put himself at a "remove" that may not exist:
It's the claim to special enlightenment that centrists have that drives me crazy…the fact of the matter is that [centrism] is as ideologically binding and team oriented as [anything else].
This drives me crazy too–but I don't think Haidt is an un-thoughtful or knee-jerk centrist, of the sort that we so often see out there. Indeed, I think Haidt is incredibly close to my own views, and have no problem with him problematizing things and pointing out cases of left science denial, which clearly do exist. I point out these cases myself, whenever I can. Haidt's argument, in other words, is not simply that "everybody does it equally"—it is more complex than that, more accurate than that (as I think the Haidt quotation above shows). But a lot of people are going to hear it that way. And it's this mishearing that requires answering.
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For instance, this argument popped up recently on The Young Turks' "The Point," a great web show that did a special science focused episode hosted by Cara Santa Maria of the Huffington Post. I did a minute-and-a-half video to spark discussion for the show, and in response to it, science writer K.C. Cole really did seem to articulate what I consider the knee-jerk centrist stance (something that Phil Plait, also appearing on this episode of The Point, also criticizes). Here's Cole at around 8:07:
I was recently at a meeting of the American Chemical Society, and somebody showed this great slide, it was of a health food store in Princeton, New Jersey, and a sign out front, on a chalk board, saying, "Chemical Free Sunblock." "Chemical Free Bug Spray." And these people are not Republicans. There is a lot on the loony left that is as anti-science, truly, as there is on the right.
Here, unlike with Haidt, it sounds like we really are getting the centrist "pox on both your houses" approach–which to me, is pretty weak. Let's state it plainly: Just because the left is not always 100 percent factually correct, it does not follow that the left and right are equally wrong, or that the left and right handle or process information in the same way, or that they're equally biased, just in opposite directions. None of this follows from simply pointing out a few cases of left wrongness.
How do you defeat the knee-jerk centrist argument? Other than by articulating the logic above, I mean.
Well, first you can show just how overwhelmingly wrong the right is, not just about science, but about facts in general—something that The Republican Brain actually does in detail. And when you do this, not only do you find much more right unreality. You also find that in cases where some on the left actually are wrong, the misinformation doesn't go politically mainstream in the same way.
On Up with Chris Hayes, for instance, I pointed out that some on the left do seem to believe wrong information about nuclear power, and particularly about the risks of low dose radiation. "It doesn't travel all the way across the Pacific from Fukushima and kill babies on the West Coast," I noted. But as Hayes quickly pointed out, that's exactly the point: Lots of Democrats today are pretty okay with nuclear power. Dubious ideas about low dose radiation risks over vast distances aren't in the Democratic mainstream. But climate denial, evolution denial, and so on really are in the conservative mainstream.
Another way to make the argument is to point out that liberals today trust scientists much more than conservatives do—the data are unequivocal on that. This is something that Haidt full recognizes, for instance–he mentioned it on air–but that K.C. Cole doesn't appear to concede.
Most important and insightful, I think, are the psychological arguments for why the left and scientists are naturally aligned—in much the same way that the right and the military are naturally aligned, or the right and the business community are naturally aligned. This, again, is what Haidt and I agree about, as discussed on Up with Chris Hayes.
Anyway, what all of this leads to is the following. If knee-jerk centrists really want to make a serious argument, then they should start by showing one or more of the following:
1. The dramatic extent of left anti-science, and how it equals or surpasses right anti-science.
2. The regular mainstreaming of left anti-science in the Democratic Party.
3. Left wing distrust of science that is equal to or greater than right wing distrust, as shown in national polling data.
4. Psychological evidence that the left and scientific community aren't actually aligned, or that the right and the scientific community are just as well aligned as the left and the scientific community.
Until they do this, the centrist "view from nowhere" will continue to seem pretty hard to distinguish from simple blindness.
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"After deep discussions about evolution and brain function At Science 2.0 the scientists there were very critical of the tribalistic nonsense Mooney is selling."
Argument from hearsay fallacy. The fact that somone at some website gave some un referenced criticism does not make their criticism valid. You provide no link and do not repeat whatever argument they made.
You are just gossiping and you expect others to take your hearsay as true.
The ad hom is just icing on your denialist cake.
Even funnier...
The journalist backs his claims with Fox surveys.
Even muppets know Fox doesn't do news, and can't even follow its own line of logic.
What kind of idiots are running the show at Fox? And who's stupid enough to listen to them.
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I say it's mostly morality based
and the explanation for everything from their high cohesiveness to the way it manifests itself in the form of denialism across a wide spectrum of issues, has a significant "moral" element to it that they've found themselves on the wrong side of.
Even in the case of global warming, what is being assaulted on their "morality" front, is really the same thing that divides the right and the left on just about every issue, the space between the "rugged individualist" and those that promote an interconnected society that knocks the RI position into a more subordinate one that they find unacceptable. The global warming issue goes to the heart/core of the righty libertarian/con ideology of property rights, because to do something about it collectively is a denying to them by way of analogy, of their right to poison the river for the consumption of those downstream from them. This is of course to those of us in the other camp, a disgusting and deplorable pov, and indefensible on moral grounds as well.
The same morality based disgust, fear, and loathing they have over this issue, can also be seen in just about every other issue in which they live in daily denial of, ranging from rights to self-determination they willingly deprived the Iraqi people of with their war based on lies, to the way in which they "otherize" every single group they see as a threat to their profits and content of their wallets. "let them eat dirt/hurry up and die" and all the other ways they reveal themselves on econ/healthcare – the things their "god" JC was all about, similarly make them weightless on the moral scales.
The reason why their fear, loathing, and disgust for BHO (and lefties generally, and that liberal bias the facts have) that we witness daily is way outta proportion with the rational reasons they can provide to uphold it, is because they are desperately seeking vindication and validation for their many and varied failures that the Bush admin of error and terror made truly inarguable, with that war based on lies, the continuning class warfare, and the time lost in the battle with glabal warming are but a part of their moral failings.
Their disgust for their ideological opposition requires their complete abandonment of the concept of "agreed upon facts" and the level of denial we're currently witnessing about just about everything, because the only other alternative for the party of personal responsibility, is to take responsibility for their failures then and NOW. This I might add, didn't happen over night, but rather over decades as the license to lie without fear of political or financial reprisal for their pols and pundits became increasingly unimpeded by the sense of shame (morality-based, self-disgust produced stuff, no?) to the point of a and all but complete abandonment of the (th Commandment by these "good" xtian folks we see today. They can't even do more than pay lip service to the old testament, much less the new one.
Their current level of morality-based denial about so much correlates in proportion to that slow erosion of the concept of agreed upon facts, which is why I see the avoidance of shame and the ego-preservation tool known as denial in large part, as causal for their denialisms and conduct today.
If I had wholly supported the record of failure and achieved a level of awareness (which most of them have imo) that made the toll in the form of unneeded and avoidable human misery undeniable, I'd certainly have a bit of shame and disgust with myself over it, and particularly if that awareness included the knowledge that it was all done in the support and service of monied interests that worship ONLY the almighty dollar, not my own self-interests.
Of course some lefties have problems of the denial kind, but I'd attribute them far more to simple ignorance than what is seen outta those on the right. I can only speak from persoanl experience on this, but having debated both sides on this and that over the years, I've found a great deal of success in changing lefty minds once they run outta rope/reasons to be hung up on something, whereas righties cling to their BS and gladly hang before giving up the ghost of unreality.
The centrists of today – if that's to mean those square in the middle of the lefties and extreme righties of today in DC and in the punditry – need to show how they aren't really righties of yesteryear, given how far off the ideological center we use to have they are. http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/04/10/150349438/gops-rightward-shift-higher-polarization-fills-political-scientist-with-dread That imo makes their povs biased and therefore suspect from the onset.
That's why we read and hear so many of those "both sides do it/are equally guilty" false equivalencies, and they have the lifespan they do.
walter.borden replied on Permalink
Love Knee-Jerk Centrism (also isn't it -- Extr"o"version)....
Many commentors state that the equivalent on the left is resistance to GMO and Nuclear Energy, but that's a false comparison. Whatever one'e view – there are legitimate scientifc debates and inquiry around the safety of GMOs as well as the cost and burden of NPP on society, combined with its saferty hazards. They are difficult, complex matters that are still being resolved and supporters of both have strong arguments.
Not so with AGW, CO2 pollution in general, or evolution/natural selection.
And in any case, the far right response seems to be one of anger for even daring to question GMO and NPP, most of the time. So its quite clear there is no equal to or worse than relation and Mooney is correct.
David B. Benson replied on Permalink
No knee-jerking!
HarveyPuca replied on Permalink
Watts and Willis are part of the world Libertarian movement
And so are the Koch brothers So I don't see them as being Republican, rather anti-government wanting complete laissez-faire for business…no pollution rules, no unions, no carbon taxes,
Check out the authors on this site……
are authoritarian and extremely concerned about what goes on in your bedroom. They bankrolled the rabid right, Tea Party.
This is old news.
Anyways, I want government. I want regulations. The absense of such would be, well, criminal. History is full stories of people getting slimed for someone else's pocket book.


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This review is for the 165g recyclable brown plastic packet with is also resealable thanks to a little sticker attached to the rear side. It is opened by tearing the top edge off the package using the tear points on either side.
They are as I'm sure you are aware little sugar coated blobs of milk chocolate containing at least 14% milk solids, with the letter 'm' written on them. They are produced by the Mars Corporation and usually can be found for £1 a bag in Sainsbury's.
The bag claims to contain 4 portions, but I'm guessing most people going to the cinema will consume a bag in one sitting, and thus consuming 20.8 grams of saturated fat and 800 kcal. Not exactly one for the health conscious!
ALLERGENS: This product is not suitable for people allergic to milk and soya, and may also contain traces of nuts and/or peanuts.
For the price these are a decent purchase, however I prefer the crispy ones (blue packet) for a bit of crunch whilst eating them.
I am a big fans of chocolate. I do not normally like milk chocolate as I do think that they are a bit too sweet and I prefer the dark ones, which has a little taste of bitterness. But you can never go wrong with M&Ms. It just tastes so good. I like it when I was a child and am still loving it despite I am already a grown-up now!
M&Ms are available in many different packages and the simple ones are those which come in plastic bags. Do you remember the first time you open the little bag and see the various colourful chocolates in there? Wow! There are chocolates with a sugar shell in various colours: red, yellow, green, blue, orange and brown. I always wonder: is there a difference in taste for the chocolates in different colours? Or are they just taste the same? I am always under the impression that the red and orange ones taste better and always fetch them first.
What I like about M&M is that unlike other chocolate, it normally will not melt in your hand! (Although I have to say that while it don't melt, it will still crack into tiny pieces if you just throw the bag of chocolate into your bag and not eating it right away!) It has a bit of crunchiness which is great. You can either let it melt in your mouth or you can bite on it and enjoy the bit of crunchiness.
A word of caution to myself: don't open the bag when alone... because it means that the whole bag of chocolate will be gone in less than 5 minutes! It's probably a good idea to open it with others so that there will always be someone out there sharing the calories =)
Last week I got myself some M&M's again, it was quite a while ago that I ate these colorfull chocolate friends and as always I enjoyed my little chocolate treat...
**About M&M**M&M's are colored little chocolates formed like flying saucers. M&M's were first introduced in the year 1941, and could be found in the food packs that soldiers got in World War 2. At that time, there was only one color of M&M's, the brown one. Forrest Mars and Bruce Murrie invented the M&M's (the name of this candy is a combination of the frist letter of their last name). The M&M's colors have changed over the years. Brown and green were the first colors used, Red was introduced around 1941 as well but taken out of the M&M assortment in 1976, but introduced again in 1986. Other M&M colors are oragne and blue (blue was introduced in 1996) and in some countries you can also find purple/tan M&M's in your bag. The only place you can find M&M's in unique colors like silver, black, white and gold, are the major M&M stores in for example New York. I had the pleasure visiting that store in 2008 and they sell M&M's in many colors and a lot of M&M merchandise. Worth a visit if your there! Nowadays there also are M&M video games for sale.
**Ingredients**Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Skim Milk, Lactose, Milkfat, Peanuts, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Artificial Flavors), Sugar, Peanuts, Cornstarch, Less than 1% - Corn Syrup, Gum Acacia, Coloring (Includes Red 40 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Blue 2, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake), Dextrin, titanium oxide.
**M&M variations**There are several types of M&M variations for sale. I prefer the original version in the dark brown bags, but if your a peanut lover you can also choose to buy the yellow bags. These M&M's have a nice peanut in the middel and are poored with chocolate and have a round form. M&M's crunchy is sold in blue bags, this variation has e crunchy inside that tastes really nice and light.
**Why would I try these?**Well first of all, you probably have eaten them at some point in your life, these little colored chocolates. M&M's are sold everywhere so I guess (unless you are allergice to chocolate) you must have lived in a cave to not have had a taste of this candy. Second, you should try these nice chocolates because there colors give you a smile and the nice milk chocolate makes you want to eat more and more....which I generally do after eating a few, I really want to buy myself more!
Great, Yummie and worth the treat
I love these M&M's they are by far my favourite of the M&M's products.
I rarely see them in the small bags, but I don't really look too hard for them as if I buy them I always purchase the bigger sharing bags. I think at the moment a big bag from Sainsburys costs about £1.70 for 185g which is pretty expensive but as I don't buy them very often I don't mind that.
I love the chocolate that they use in M&M's but I just don't really like the peanuts so these are definitely the best for me. They are a little sweet hard crispy shell with quite hard chocolate inside. I like to keep mine in the fridge as it makes them extra crunchy! The coloured shell always reminds me of smarties, I imagine it's much the same but the colours of these are far more vibrant than smarties and they are a bit smaller.
On the bag it says that there is 22.4g of fat in each 100g, so these really aren't good for you, so if you are on a diet I would give them a miss, or just eat a couple (which is incredibly hard to do).
I really like these and would recommend them to anyone who likes smarties, they are smaller and brighter and taste a bit better, but beware they are very moreish and before you know it the bag will be gone!
M&M's are in my view a nicer version of Smarties. Although I am normally more into Cadbury's Chocolate, these little nuggets of Chocolate from Mars are very, cery nice.
You can get M&M's in a few different ways such as Milk Chocolate ones, Peanut, and Crispy. I like them all, but the Milk Chocolate ones are probably my favourite. There is nothing much to these, as it is just a little lump of Milk Chocolate contained in a Crisp Sugar Shell, but I quite like simple Chocolate most of the time.
The M&M's are a mixture of different colours. They are green, red, orange, yellow and brown. Each 1 has a white M on the front, but often this M is a bit faded and part of it is sometimes rubbed away.
You can get these in individual bags which cost about 45p or larger 125g bags, which are about the £1.40 mark. The bag for the Milk Chocolate ones are a dark brown colour, and not that interesting to be honest.
You get a lot of these in a bag, probably because they are so small. They are smaller than a 1p piece and slightly curved. There is a good amount of Chocolate in there, and although the shell is quite thin, it is thick enough, and I like the crack from these when I bite into them.
There is 220 calories per bag, and I'm sure if you were able to stop yourself eating all the bag at once, and perhaps eat half of it, then you could incorporate this into a healthy eating plan. I wouldn't want to try and stop eating these, as I would be so tempted to keep eating them.
Yummy little bits of Milky Chocolate.
As a kid, i preferred Smarties, but now i prefer M&M's! The chocolate ones are obviously the original version and the best. Maybe because Smarties deliberately targets kids, from what you see in their adverts down the years.
Some history about M&M: You could say it's like the American cousin of Smarties, but more grown-up, possibly a more mature taste! Anyway, they're different-coloured coated shells encased around small, rounded, chocolate. The most handy draw of M&M's is, because of the shells, they won't melt in your hand, which has been heavily celebrated in it's vintage ads( "melts in your mouth, not in your hands"), and that's what the founder Forrest Mars, Sr. (also founded the Mars company obviously), discovered this, when he was in Spain in the 1930's during the Spanish Civil War. He noticed soldiers eating hardenend-cased chocolate at that time, and a phonomenon was born.
M&M's came into production in 1940. They came in the separate colours of red, yellow, blue, green and brown. Pretty much all the original colours except brown. As it's North American, it was made with Hershey's chocolate. Now when i taste them now, i don't really taste that sickingly sweet taste you get with Hershey's, but i might be wrong as it's only small doses we're talking here.
The printed "M" wasn't in effect until 1950. It was black at first, but then to the famous white in 1954. Also, M&M's used to be sold in a cardboard tube, just like Smarties!
Don't know if anyone else does this, i sometimes eat M&M by one colour at a time. So i could eat all the green ones first then so on. I did this as a kid with Smarties, so i've continued that legacy. Would you say there's cganges in the tastes according to what colour the shell is? Well, there's the obvious ones, the orange one just tastes more orange-y, the brown ones taste more chocolate-y, but what about the other ones? How can you describe what a blue one tastes like. Well, the blue one is my favourite, all being it's my favourite colour, but, i may be mad, but there seems to be a more "refreshing" taste to it over the other ones! It's hard to realise M&M's didn't realise blue ones until 1995!
Another thing that annoys me, is i've been to America, and we in the UK, don't get every M&M product going! No almond ones and Peanut butter ones. However, lets get back to chocolate in the next paragraph.
Does anyone remember the limited purple M&M's? Well this was a few years ago, when i started getting into them. In the 90's, i could probably count with my fingers how many times i had M&M's. This was maybe about 2003, there was a competition to add in another colour M&M, and it was between purple, pink (like in Smarties) and aqua green, YES, aqua green. The other annoying thing was, the packaging seemed to be saying that it was only these new M&M's that were in the packet, as a means to test, and for people to vote for their favourite. Well, i opened the packet and all i found was the normal M&M's along with purple M&Ms, so i never got to taste a pink or aqua green M&M. I know, i wasn't like devastated or anything, but just a nuisance it was. So i thought purple (or violet) were here to stay, but they disappeared, but anyway, still enjoying M&M's.
For some bizarre reason, I seem to have given up the gym of late, and opted for chocolate instead -must be something in the air. My choice was dictated by, first and foremost, previous experience, and then secondly, price. These M&M's were marketed in Tesco's at 2for £3 as opposed to being £1.71 each - a bit of a saving as well as a treat - can the day get any better?!?
The original colours were not as varied as we see them today. Yellow, red, brown, green and violet were the first colours to hit the block and through the years, they have been amended to include other colours and eliminate others for various reasons. There have been various special occasions throughout the years when Mars have put some, what may be seen as 'out of the extraordinary' combinations i.e.2008 Valentine's Day period bags of all green M&M's were introduced - apparently there was an urban myth doing the rounds that they have aphrodisiac qualities .
The idea behind these came from Forest Mars Senior when, during the Spanish Civil War he saw that soldiers were feasting on pellets of chocolate that they were coating in a hard shell. In those conditions the chances of the chocolate melting must have been higher, so they used this method to prevent the chocolate from melting. As a quick rush of glucose in harsh conditions, I was impressed to find the origins out.
The packaging is brown with images of multi coloured M&M's clearly wanting to rip out of the bag and be devoured. They are very distinctive, with the small 'm's imprinted on each sweet. What makes these melt in the mouth sublime sweets so irresistible? I believe it is the crisp, melt in the mouth quality, that won't melt in your hands (unless of course, you're purposely trying to squash them).
Mars are the little known company behind these deliciously, scrumptious, cute sweets. The ingredients are as follows: Milk Chocolate (Sugar, Chocolate, Cocoa Butter, Skim Milk, Lactose, Milkfat, Peanuts, Soy Lecithin, Salt, Artificial Flavors), Sugar, Peanuts, Cornstarch, Less than 1% - Corn Syrup, Gum Acacia, Coloring (Includes Red 40 Lake, Blue 2 Lake, Blue 1 Lake, Yellow 6, Yellow 5, Red 40, Blue 1, Blue 2, Yellow 5 Lake, Yellow 6 Lake), Dextrin, titanium oxide.
On a positive note, these are very low in sodium and cholesterol , the silver lining is there, if you want to see it! In theory, I suppose the size of the packet dictates that its to be shared, but I must admit, that has not been the case - the portion of choco sweets, was just enough for moi. Calorie wise, a portion is classed as being a 45g standard bag (making me realise I probably had all my daily calories, and then some, within minutes!) and equates to a whopping 221kcal - im not willing to do the math, will live in blissful ignorance. There are 29.2 sugars and 10.1g of fat with 6.2g saturates, and, the highlight, 0.03g sodium!
As a variation, you can get cakes/chocolate brownies that are coated in M&M's - not really my cup of tea, think i'll stick to what i know and love ;-) I think its abit premature for the makers to think if ways to seal the bag, should you not finish them - but that option is available! If this bag is too much to work your way through, they are available in smaller sizes - 45g for approximately 40p. Very bizarrely, a recent study indicated that a dye similar to that used for blue M&M's, actually helped paralyzed rats to walk again! I'm sure the rate community are extremely grateful!
M&Ms are one of the oldest and most original products out there, they have been around fro ages and are very well known amongst that chocolate brands. They are actually produced by mars and firstly because popular in America where they are still more popular then over here, however I love them any way.
The chocolate M&Ms are basically little pill shaped, and sized chocolate beans which are coated in a crispy sugar coating which is coloured and flavoured as well.
I think the crispy outer shell is what really makes M&Ms as after all they would only be little drops of chocolate if it weren't for this layer. This adds a crunch to the chocolate and also adds a bit of flavour too which is nice, there are several different colours and unlike some chocolate of different colours, all of these taste nice and pretty similar I have to say.
You can get these in small or large bags for about he same price as all the other chocolate brands on the shelves and there does seem to be quite a few in a packet and because they are quite small you can make them last too.
After recently having some Crispy and Peanut m&m's I decided I would complete the set and have some of the original ones, funnily in my office these actually seem to be the second choice ones behind the peanut ones when people we're asked about their favourite. Like the others them come in 2 standard packet sizes the snack packet size of 45g and the bigger re-sealable share packets of 185g (4 servings), in this case I purchased a bigger bag for £1.68 (42p a serving). The bag this time is brown to differentiate between the Peanut, Crispy and this, the choco variety. The wrappers like all the others feature images of the product, the products name and "Red" and "Yellow" the brands macot.
A little bit of M&M history the products have been around since the 1940's originating as a hard shelled chocolate candy they have since branched out in to other variations including the peanut, and crispy, as well as Mint, almond and a host of others. The product took the names from two men key to the deal struck up between Mars and Hershey (and so are Mars and Murrie). The shell is said to have originally been designed to keep the chocolate inside from melting though now a days seems to have a few additional purposes:
It adds something (though little) to the actual taste of the of the candy's
The colours are eye catching, especially to the young
The "m" on the coat allows them to be differentiated with Smarties.
In fact whilst I'm on the subject of Smarties, the product also features 2 slight differences visually, the first is the "m" and the second is that there is no Pink m&m. Also Smarties don't feature artificial colours and more whilst M&M's do. The biggest difference however is that these are Mars chocolate and Smarties are Nestle.
The candy's hard shell can either be crunched when they are being eaten or sucked, I've decided to do both for this little part (as the manner in which they were eaten made them taste different). If you're a cruncher the shell doesn't really last very long and inside the chocolate for whatever reason seems rather powdery (a bit of a problem with the Mars chocolate on the whole to be honest). It's nice enough but not as nice as the slightly better tasting chocolate of the Smarties.
For the suckers out there, the shell lasts about 30 seconds before being pretty much dissolved as which point the chocolate has pretty much melted as well and run all over the inside of you're mouth to a rather nice effect that stops it from tasting powdery. This is probably the preferable way to eat them for taste to tell you the truth.
Nutritional information (per 45g serving)
221 Calories (11% RDA)
29.2g Sugars (32%)
10.1g Fat (14%)
6.2g Saturates (31%) (personally I must admit this was surprisingly high)
0.03g Salt (1%)
The product contains Milk, Vegetable oil, added starch, Soya, E#'s 120, 137, 160a, 160e 171 (which are all colours). Traces of peanut, hazelnuts and almonds may be there as well.
These taste like slightly tough Smarties with Mars chocolate filling in the centre, of which make a nice candy overall, some parents may go with Smarties due to the natural colours, though to be honest they are both delightful and pretty much the same thing. Coated chocolate. One thing to note, the Smarties do seem to melt much easier than these, due to them having a much thinner coating.
I LOVE M&Ms so much. They are a deliciously addictive bag of snacky goodness. In fact, while I am sitting here writing this, trying to think how to sum up how wonderful they are I am wondering to myself why I dont buy them more often! Well even if this review doesn't persuade other people to buy more M&Ms it will have persuaded me!
M&Ms are made by the hughely popular Mars confectionary brand. Mars makes a wide variety of products, most of which are popular in the UK and quite a few abroad too. Mars has been going for many years now and M&Ms are one of the oldest products.
M&Ms come in many sizes of bags. The smallest being a grab bag, costing about 45 pence and being available in supermarkets and corner shops etc. They also do larger bags, most often found in petrol stations, supermarkets and the cinema. They also come in different varieties, for example peanut ones, but I only like the normal chocolate ones so they are the ones I am reviewing today.
M&Ms come in a small brown bag which is easy to tear open to reveal the sweeties inside. I am not sure if the packaging is recyclable or not. Inside the bag are about 30 (my counting / guessing is terrible) little round sweets, shaped similar to smarties, but a bit chunkier. They are a variety of colours, including blue yellow, red etc. As far as I can tell the colour does not effect the flavour!
Each sweet is suagr coated in its coloured crunchie capsule. Inside the sweet is delicious powdery chocolate. The chocolate does not taste quite like anything else I have tried, it is not like galaxy or dairy milk. It is very unique. The combination of the two tastes go together perfectly as does the textures. In my opinion these are 100 times better than smarties, and if you havent tried them you are missing out!
M&MS are 70% milk chocolate inside a crisp coloured shell. M&Ms are available in six colours: Brown, Yellow, Orange, Red, Blue & Green.
They are contained within a brown packet which displays the characters of M & M, a chocolate and a peanut M&M. The bag is adorned with lots of pictures of milk chocolate M&Ms which is nice and tempting and always makes me remember just how nice they are before I purchase a bag.
The milk chocolate is delicious and creamy and the crisp outer shell is ideal to give a real delicious treat. I love breaking through the exterior and finding the smooth delicious chocolate within.
Milk chocolate M&Ms are the ideal treat and fantastic sweets for eating in the cinema as they don't make too much noise and they are ideal for just popping in to your handbag to save some money when going on a normally expensive few hours out with your friends or loved ones.
M&M Milk chocolate are the basis for lots of the other varieties including Peanut & Peanut Butter and this makes these varieties even more popular with me and my fiancé Tom.
Per 100g there is 491 calories & 22.4g of fat so these should definitely be enjoyed in moderation. However, I often find myself eating 100g of these in any one time and therefore these are something that I try to limit my purchases of to just once a month or something.
I would recommend these as they are a great snack and you get many sweets in each bag so it's easy enough to just take a small handful now and again to try and make them last a little longer.
These are a hit with most people I know and the larger bags are resealable which makes it even easier for keeping fresh and keeping for longer. See, now there is no excuse that you had to eat them all as you couldn't seal up the bag!
M&MS come in lots of different sizes including the individual 45g bags and the 185g sharing bags which are currently available on 2 for £2.00 from Tesco stores and www.tesco.com.
I am going to rate these 5/5 as I love them and they really are delicious!
M&Ms are lush, the taste is filling and nice. You also get a really large portion in a packet. Whe you get them you tear the bag open and it's hard not to eat them too fast because they are so nice.
The M&Ms packet isn't very nice and I don't like it, the brown packet with the logo in the centre is boring and doesn't look like other sweets wrappers on the Market. I hate it because most sweet wrappers are bright and jolly.
The chocolate ones are so much nicer than the peanut ones from my view.
Each packet of M&Ms are about 60p and big bags are around £1.20! It is a good price because you do get a pot of them. M&Ms have been around since 1980 and have been going for 29 years. I like the chocolate M&Ms because they taste better than all sweets!
I so wish this sweet tooth would go away, it's all Dooyoo's fault! Reading all your reviews is making me fat as I keep wanting to try new things, resulting in an expansion of my waistband! Shame! Something to add to the waist was M&M's Choco! I've already reviewed the peanut version and I have to admit I was impressed and can't believe I hadn't ate them in so long.
So how did M&M's Choco do in Jemma's taste test eh?
Well as most of us know M&M's come in a different coloured bags, each colour representing the different filling. M&M's Choco come in the brown bag - chocolate coloured in fact, clever stuff right? You can, like the Peanut version, by them in the standard 45g bags (such as maltesers, revels etc) or if you're greedy like myself you can buy them in sharebags. M&M's is proudly stamped in the middle of the packet with those two cheeky character M&M's up top. Choco is written in the corner so no confusing what M&M's you choose.
Each 45g bag contains,
221 calories
10.1g fat
M&M's chocolate are shaped very similarly to smarties, only a little more compact circle wise yet thicker too. The multicoloured theme remains the same and there are generous amounts of each colour.
The coloured sugar shell creates a slight crunch and sweetness to begin with but you soon sink your teeth into the soft and smooth milk chocolate which tastes surprisingly light.
These sweets are very small, and although the outer shell is slightly crunchy they are not too hard or solid to bite so it is quite easy to pour a handful in your gob and chew the lot - just to really devour the creamy milk chocolate with the slight snap and crunch here and there from the sweet sugar shell.
These sweets are enjoyable and tasty, but are nothing compared to the beasty M&M's peanuts! I would eat these again - but only if someone bought them for me as I would opt for the peanut version anyday!
I remember my first bag of these, I was abroad in the Carribean of all places, when I first stumbled across them. The packaging has probably changed since then, but I do vaguely remember being intrigued by the design on the packet.
What are they?
Imagine Smarties, well they are of a similar size. Small chocolate pellets encased in a crispy sugar shell. They don't taste like Smarties though, more on that shortly.
The sweets come in a plastic bag, which is usually pretty easy to tear into. I have never bought some and found them not to be fresh. Once opened, they should stay crispy for a couple of weeks. Leave them in the sun though and they will melt!
The Texture:
Tap them, they won't break. The shell provides a strong home for the chocolate inside. It is a hardened shell, much like the Smartie shell. To break it, you would need to really squish it with full force. The chocolate inside is moulded firmly too, a small nutlike mass, that has been perfectly formed into a tiny pellet. It is possible to leave one in the mouth and it will slowly dissolve, but temptation will usually set in and you will want to crunch down on it.
The Taste:
A wonderful taste these have, the shell has a mild sugary taste which sets the mood, before the chocolate breezes in with a distinctive richness. There are nutty undertones and the chocolate makes me think of sipping thick hot cocoa by the fireside. They are like a more sophisticated Smartie.
How To Eat:
Consume by the bag, or buy a bag and drizzle over vanilla ice cream. The bags are available in regular or cinema sized packs. For a cinema sized bag, you will be looking to pay about £2.50 for a bag.
Finally, they don't seem to be readily available of late. I have struggled to find them in most of my local supermarkets.
M&Ms Milk Chocolate are sold mainly in the large grab bags. I find I haven;t seen the chocolate small paper bags of them around a great deal in recent years. I love the peanut M&Ms and these are still sold in the small bags, but not the chocolate ones.
When we went to get married in Las Vegas a few months ago, whilst we were there we went into a HUGE (5 floors) M&S Store and it rekindled my relationship with this chocolate. I picked up an 18 slot box of coloured chocolate M&Ms whilst there and I really had my eyes opened to just how HUGE M&Ms are in the USA. In the store for example there was a whole wall of floor to ceiling tubes filled with different colour M&Ms - pink, silver, black, white etc., It showed me in the UK we aren't really as into or as aware of the range and products the company has.
I remember when M&Ms frst came out in the UK (or I first became aware of them) in the 1990s and the consensus was they were good as they are designed not to melt in summer as they have these sugar shells.
I find M&Ms tasty, but they are similar to smarties. Now Nestle have changed smarties so much and gone on a bit of a health kick (getting rid of the blue smarties etc) I actually much prefer the chocolate M&Ms as they are more interesting to look at (all smarties are now a shade of orange) atleast M&Ms have some colour about them!
Overall- these are nice to have for a change. Good for summer as they are designed for hot weather, but I would keep them in the fridge.
M&M's Milk Chocolate Candies were first manufactured in 1940, when Forrest E. Mars, Sr. formed the company in Newark, New Jersey. His original idea was to offer chocolates with a sugar shell that could be sold throughout the year and wouldn't melt during the summer.


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Indeed, the economy has seemed virtually bulletproof from Washington's self-inflicted wounds, based on recent reports.
Recent trends positive
Last week, we got reports on consumer confidence, new home sales and new claims for unemployment benefits pointing toward improvement. While personal income dipped largely because of the evaporation of the payroll tax cut (another Washington creation), the Commerce Department reported that consumer spending rose slightly in January. That spending was at the expense of savings, which fell to its lowest level in several years.
Many employers and consumers appear to be taking the mandatory budget cuts in stride. Economist Joel Naroff, president and founder of Naroff Economic Advisors, says most Americans remain unconvinced that the sequestration will directly affect them. Says Naroff, "I think people are fatigued, but they are more angry than fatigued. People don't see the connection to their particular business."
Are people finding jobs?
Naroff expects the February unemployment report will show that the job market remains steady. Last month, the Labor Department reported that employers added nearly 160,000 jobs to payrolls. Based on recent new applications for unemployment benefits, Naroff says payrolls could have grown by 175,000 or 180,000 in February. As for the jobless rate, he says it could slip from 7.9 to 7.8 percent.
Economist John Canally with LPL Financial puts a different twist on raising the bar. He says expectations for the report "have moved higher over the past week, perhaps setting the market up for a disappointment." Canally says the "big northeastern blizzard in February could be a big swing factor" in producing fewer-than-expected jobs.
As he puts it, "The claims are not indicative of a negative reaction to the situation (in Washington)."
White collar sector snapshot
Also on the economic docket this week, the Institute for Supply Management releases its services index at 10 a.m. Tuesday. The previous report, covering January, showed expansion in the white-collar sector for a 37th straight month, but at a slightly slower pace. Naroff doesn't see much change in the updated report.
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On March 6, the Oreo cookie turns 101 years old. It was in 1912 that Nabisco introduced the Oreo, said to be the best-selling cookie in the United States. It was launched to knock off the Hyrdox sandwich cookie, which had been introduced four years earlier by Sunshine Biscuits. Oreo went on to own the market, despite having been a knockoff. But that's as they say, the way the cookie crumbles.


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CHICAGO—Quarterback Jay Cutler did what he could to ignite a sputtering Chicago Bears offense in the first half against the Houston Texans on Sunday night and wound up out of the game with a concussion.
Cutler took several shots and scrambled for 37 yards but completed only seven of 14 passes for 40 yards with two interceptions. He didn't come back onto the field for the second half and was replaced by Jason Campbell in a game the Bears lost 13-6.
The scene has to bring bad memories to Bears followers, as the team went 1-5 without Cutler last year following a broken thumb he suffered in the 10th game of the season.
Ironically, the injury Sunday occurred in a half when the much-maligned Bears offensive line did a fair job of protecting Cutler. He wasn't sacked. His scrambles occurred after waiting several seconds for receivers to come open.
In 2010, Cutler suffered a concussion against the Giants in a loss on a Sunday night and left under similar circumstances, failing to come back in for the second half.
Campbell is not as mobile as Cutler, and although he has a strong arm, the Bears lose something down the field with their backup on the field. Campbell, however, did hit Brandon Marshall with a 45-yard pass in the third quarter that set up a field goal that made it 10-6. Campbell finished 11 of 19 for 94 yards.
"That's why we got Jason," linebacker Brian Urlacher said. "We're better off now than we were last year at this time. Jason did a good job. (It's) a tough situation throwing the ball in these conditions. It can't be easy. I thought he came in and did a good job for us."
Campbell has a lot of experience (70 NFL starts), something that Caleb Hanie did not have when he took over for Cutler last season. Hanie failed miserably, and the Bears fell out of playoff contention.
Going forward, the injury could set up a battle of backup quarterbacks next Monday night when the Bears travel to play at San Francisco. 49ers QB Alex Smith suffered a concussion Sunday in the second quarter and didn't return.


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Don't get too excited. There's no way to discover planets by tapping the Rockies. But as a joint team of Tel Aviv University and Harvard researchers found last year, you can discover them by using rules laid down by the Special Theory of Relativity. The team used the BEER (beaming, ellipsodal, and reflection effects) algorithm to find a Hot Jupiter in the data from the Kepler telescope.
The Kepler found most of its new worlds via the transit method, in which it detects the dip in luminosity as a planet passes in front of its star. Instead, this team looked for subtle changes in the light around the star Kepler-76, which could be caused by the tug of an unseen, nontransiting planet, and in the process, found Kepler 76-b. Though it won't find the next Earth, the method of measuring photon intensity could detect more planets with eccentric orbits hiding in the Kepler data.
The Giant Magellan Telescope, set to be installed in the Las Campanas Observatory in Chile, will feature four large mirrors 27 feet in diameter. It's one of three huge telescopes on the horizon, each with a name more extreme than the last. When Magellan opens in 2020, it will have roughly 22 meters of telescope. Not to be outdone, another group has been pushing for the Thirty Meter Telescope in Hawaii, which could break ground as early as this year. The European Extremely Large Telescope will dwarf them all at 39 meters (though run by Europeans, it will be located in the Chilean Andes.)
These next-gen ground observatories will have powerful exoplanet-hunting features, including the ability to study the atmospheres of exoplanets in near infrared at high resolutions. Not only will we see more distant worlds with these telescopes but we might get an idea of what they're made of, too, and perhaps find signs of intelligent life in the process.
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Three big takeaways from the Chicago Blackhawks' 4-1 win over the Detroit Red Wings in Game 1 of their Western Conference semifinal series Wednesday:
1. Too much pressure. The Blackhawks' offensive attack never seemed to let up. Wave after wave of Chicago players rushed the net, firing what they could at Red Wings goaltender Jimmy Howard. Howard was mostly able to fight off the flurry; he was particularly impressive in the second period, when he stopped all 17 Chicago shots that period.
The constant pressure seemed to get to Detroit in the third period, though, as Johnny Oduya and Marcus Kruger scored 3:21 apart.
Howard finished with 38 saves, and despite allowing three goals (the fourth was an empty-netter), he did all he could to give the Red Wings a chance to win.
Chicago's persistent forecheck in particular caused Detroit problems throughout Game 1. Whenever it wasn't creating trouble, Detroit would hurt itself by failing to clear the zone.
Such a failure by Red Wings defenseman Brendan Smith led to the game's first goal, a power-play tally by Marian Hossa's 9:03 into the game. Detroit would answer 1:54 later when Damien Brunner snapped a wrist shot past Blackhawks goalie Corey Crawford.
Smith twice failed to clear the puck in the second period, which led to good chances for the Blackhawks that Howard turned aside.
After outshooting the Blackhawks in the first period, the Red Wings didn't muster much offense again until the final games's final five minutes. Chicago outshot Detroit for the game, 42-21.
2. Sharp makes a difference. Blackhawks forward Patrick Sharp was involved in three of Chicago's four goals. He had a secondary assist on Hossa's goal in the first. His nifty pass set up Oduya's game-winning goal. He added the empty-netter for good measure.
The 31-year-old leads the Blackhawks with six goals and nine points in the postseason. More than that, his presence seems to serve as a spark for the team.
Sharp played in just 28 games in the regular season. He missed about a month due to a shoulder injury, then missed nearly two weeks near the end of the season with an upper-body injury. Chicago was 25-0-3 in the games that Sharp played, 11-7-2 when he was out.
Add in the Blackhawks' first-round series win over the Minnesota Wild, in which Chicago lost Game 3 in overtime, and Chicago has not lost in regulation this year with Sharp in the lineup. One more fun fact: Chicago's first regulation loss this season came in the first game Sharp missed, on March 8.
3. More closely matched then you think. Chicago cruised to the Presidents' Trophy while Detroit had to fight tooth and nail to make the playoffs, needing a win on the last day of the regular season to secure the seventh seed.
But these two Original Six rivals played three regular-season games that were decided in overtime or a shootout. Chicago won all three, and it won an additional meeting in very convincing fashion.
Game 1 played out much like the three tightly contested games. There was plenty of hitting, which is to be expected between two longtime rivals. Blachkawks defenseman Michal Rozsival delivered a big early hit to Red Wings forward Justin Abdelkader. Play was stopped after the hit, but Abdelkader was fine.
The hit made one think that the Blackhawks would be the more physical team, but the opposite turned out to be true. The Red Wings outhit Chicago, 43-24; Abdelkader led the way with eight.
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MONTGOMERY -- Gov. Robert Bentley said Friday that he is extremely disappointed over legislative defeats in two top Republican priorities this session -- charter schools and business tax incentives.
The governor pointed particularly to the Alabama Senate, where Republicans hold a majority just as they do in the House of Representatives, because senators did not pass a version of the charter school bill many Republican leaders wanted. A tax incentive bill also did not come up for debate in the Senate after it failed on a procedural vote.
"I've been disappointed in a lot of things the Senate has done or not done," Bentley said Friday morning. "The Senate has killed some major pieces of legislation that they said they were for. I would just like to say I think they have done very poorly."
Bentley later clarified that he was pleased with the performance of Senate GOP leaders -- including Sen. Majority Leader Jabo Waggoner, R-Vestavia Hills, and President Pro Tem Del Marsh, R-Anniston -- and that his remarks were in no way meant to disparage them.
"I'm just frustrated with three or four of the Republican senators that did not help us," Bentley said.
Waggoner said the Senate's overall performance shouldn't be judged by a few bills.
"He is wrong to judge our effectiveness because there were two or three bills that did not pass. ... He needs to look at the hundreds of the bills we have passed," Waggoner said.
One of the disappointments came this week when an economic incentive bill failed on a procedural vote and so did not come up for debate.
The bill was aimed at letting companies that build or expand facilities in Alabama keep much of the state income taxes withheld from the pay of new employees. The bill was a proposed constitutional amendment and would have required approval by voters to become law.
Bentley had called the bill his top legislative priority, but it was fought vigorously by the Alabama Education Association. Henry Mabry, AEA's executive secretary, had argued that it would take money from schools and give it to companies.
"Every Republican stood with me and said my number one priority is to create jobs for this state. And most of the Democrats did the same thing," Bentley said. "And then for them to kill the only major jobs stimulation bill we had in the Legislature is just not acceptable."
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Another key GOP initiative was shot down this week when the House Ways and Means-Education Committee declined to vote on a version of the charter school bill that had passed out of the Senate. The move effectively killed the charter school initiative for the session.
Rep. Phil Williams, R-Huntsville, the sponsor of a separate House version of the bill, said the version passed by the Senate put so many restrictions on creating charter schools that it wasn't worth passing.
Bentley agreed, saying that no charter school would have been created under the Senate version of the bill.
"The bill that came out of the Senate really didn't do anything. It's better not to even pass a bad bill," Bentley said.
The Senate historically has been tough legislative territory to get bills approved. With just 35 senators, each has significant ability to delay or stop legislation.
Waggoner said that while Bentley's staff members often are on the Senate floor, Bentley hasn't personally been as engaged with "rank and file" members as past governors.
The governor responded that he had worked the tax incentive bill on the House floor and had planned to on the Senate floor, but it was "unusual" that the bill didn't get up for debate.
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Toll road operator Transurban's first-half profit has fallen by 16 per cent but the company has increased its payout to securityholders.
Transurban owns Melbourne's CityLink and the M2 and Lane Cove Tunnel in Sydney. It also holds a major stake in Sydney's Eastern Distributor and a 50 per cent interest in Sydney's M7 and M5.
The company made a net profit of $81.1 million in the six months to December 31, down from $96.6 million in the previous corresponding period.
Its shares were up as much as 0.49 per cent, or 3 cents, to $6.12 in early trade.
In a statement to the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX), Transurban offered no reasons for the fall in profit.
Its toll revenue in the six months to December was $397.7 million, up 3.1 per cent on the same period in the previous corresponding period.
Revenue increased due to a rise in the toll for CityLink, which was partially offset by the impact of upgrade work on Sydney's M2.
Upgrading work on the M2 was 84 per cent complete and was due to be finished in mid-2013, Transurban said.
"We have made good progress on key development projects during the period and are now focused on completing the Hills M2 upgrade so that we can see the full benefit of that project flow through all of our northern Sydney assets," chief executive Scott Charlton said in a statement.
Mr Charlton said in a media conference call that while revenue from CityLink was showing "great resilience", traffic levels were subdued compared to those before the global financial crisis.
"We opened Southern Link ... a year ago, so I think you're seeing the benefit of that Southern Link upgrade still coming through in the traffic," he said.
"These assets are great assets and they are resilient in the downtimes, but I'm still not quite as bullish as the rest of the market.
"I think there's still some softness around the economy. We're quite comfortable with our position, but we're still not seeing the traffic growth [at] where it was pre-GFC days."
Mr Charlton added that traffic from its 495 Express Lanes in Virginia in the United States, which opened in November 2012, had ''disappointed with some of the early ... numbers''.
''It is in that situation because it's been under construction for five years and it's the biggest change to the network since 1960s, [so] it's going to take some time for some adjustment,'' he said.
''To be honest, we are a bit disappointed with how it's started, but it's a 75-year concession period and we expect a significant ramp-up period so hopefully by the time we get to the full-year results, we have some trends that we can analyse.''
Transurban declared an interim distribution of 15.5 cents per stapled security, up from 14.5 cents at the same time in the previous year, due to a rise in its cash flow.
The company expects to pay 31 cents per security, partially franked, for the full 2012/13 financial year.
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