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Kcal 265 Fat 15.1g Fat(sats) 8.0g Carbs 29.3g (per 50.0g bar)
On your marks ... Get set ... GO!!! Phase 2 of Cadbury's SpotsVStripes campaign starts today with the National launch of the Cadbury SpotsVStripes The Big Race bar. Last week I was approached by the Cadbury's SpotsVStripes Twitter feed team, who asked me if I wanted a sneak preview of this latest 'The Big Race' project. Of course I didn't turn them down, and just a few days later I was the recipetent of a jam packed press release pack containing: 3 x 'The Big Race' bars, 1 x pen, 1 x SpotsVStripes playing cards, 2 x bookmarks and lastly a wad of papers containing all the information I needed to know about 'The Big Race' campaign (so I thought).
So what is 'The Big Race' all about then? Well to be totally honest with you, despite the wealth of documentation included in my PR pack, I still don't 100% know. From what I can gather, each Big Race bar includes a code on the inside of the wrapper that you have to enter at www.spotsvsstripes.com/bigrace. This is unfortunately where details get a bit sketchy - 'Who's the fastest? Race for your team using the code inside the wrapper' is the single bit of information given on the wrapper. I'll save you all from my marketing spiel about how this ambiguity wont prompt your average consumer to take part in this competition, for my response to your comments.
Lets talk about more important things - 'The Big Race' bar itself! Described as 'Crispy wafer with cocoa creme and biscuit pieces with Cadbury milk chocolate', it at least sounded like a totally new bar for the UK market and credit must be given to Cadbury for making something a lot more interesting than their first Cadbury SpotsVStripes offering. Praise must also be given to Cadbury for not skimping on the size of the bar, which was a sizeable 50.0g despite it's heavy wafer constituents. Taking the bar out of it's wrapper, my mind was immediatedly cast back to my experience with the Cadbury Tokke (a bar I bought from Spain - See HERE). The unbranded, single piece bar didn't strike me as being British made, indeed a quick check of the wrapper revealed the words 'made in the EU for Cadbury Bournville, Birmingham' (NOTE: Currently awaiting information from SpotsVsStripes as to where it was made).
You may have already picked up on the absence of the words 'Dairy Milk' so far in this review, and unfortunately I can confirm that for the second SpotsVStripes bar it was once again MIA. The chocolate that coated the bar was instantly recogniseable as Cadbury with it's sugary, milky taste, but again one couldn't help but be disappointed with the lacking cream based taste and thick textural feel of Cadbury's lead recipe. On a more positive note, the textural interplay of the four core constituents - the outer chocolate, wafer, cocoa cream and biscuit pieces, was delightful and made for an interesting variety of mouth feel sensations. Flavourwise I was hoping for a little more from both the wafer and cocoa creme layers, as they only added minor notes of malt and sugar respectivelly. There was however, a far more telling contribution from the small biscuit pieces which offered the desired flavour progression in the form of some buttery shortcake flavour bursts.
Overall whilst this bar is undoubtedly superior compared to the first SpotsVStripes offering, it is one that I feel could have been made even better with just a few minor adaptations. The lack of Dairy Milk chocolate is a particular sore point for me. The last couple of new Cadbury products I have tried recently have been lacking Cadbury's leading chocolate recipe, and I really hope this isn't a trend that will continue in the future - just give us your best chocolate guys!!! Another slight disappointment for me were the layers of wafer, which have to be said were not only light in texture, but also light in the flavour department. The things that I think the bar did well were that although not being Dairy Milk, the Cadbury chocolate was still altogether tasty and the biscuit pieces ensured that the overall taste was at least progressive to some degree. As far as the total 'The Big Race' campagin goes I will have to reserve judgement until I can fully scope out the construct of the project. Now it's over to you guys - what do you make of 'The Big Race'? Most importantly what do you make of the bar? I would love to hear your thoughts.
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Because it was filmed weeks ago, I've gotten the opportunity to see some backstage footage and get the inside scoop on all the makeup worn in the show.
The makeup for the show usually has a theme that carries on year after year: bronze, glowy skin, defined and ultra-sexy eyes done in natural shades, and glossy lips. This year was no different. However, each year there's always something that they do on each model that makes that year unique. This year the eye shadow was toned down and the eyes were centered around a heavier (but soft and smudged) application of liner. The skin was really the focus of the look. Bronzed and glowy. But the glow was very golden. I actually used the same highlight color on my eyes as my face which pulled the whole look together.
To see a step-by-step tutorial of the look so you can re-create the look yourself, check out my video at the bottom of the post.
xoxo, Tiffany
Products Used:
Urban Decay Primer Potion
MAC Cream Colour Base in Pearl
NARS eye shadow duo in All About Eve
NARS eye shadow duo in Cordura
MAC Pro Longwear eye shadow in Carefree (LOVE)
Tarte Emphaseyes pencil liner (LOVE LOVE LOVE)
Giorgio Armani Eyes To Kill Mascara
MAC False Lashes in #36
Maybelline Age Rewind Eraser Foundation and Under Eye Concealer
NARS Laguna powder bronzer
MAC Pro Longwear eye shadow in Carefree (as highlighter)
Tarina Tarantino Sparklicity shimmer powder
MAC Subculture lipliner
MAC Politely Pink lipstick
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The sun rises, spring comes, and it is time for a fresh look at an old problem.
Today is one minute longer than yesterday. The earth has turned and the sun appears brilliant red on the horizon. But it is not on the horizon. My perception is an illusion. It is a natural phenomenon. A ball of fire which allows life on Earth.
The red reminds me of the blood of 20 children and 6 teachers murdered last week. It also reminds me that spring always follows winter. In spite of many people erroneouly believing that the Mayan Calendar predicted the world would end yesterday, it did not. Birds are at the feeders, squirrels and chasing each other around trees, our dog is snoring in front of the fire place. I'd like to say "All's right with the world," but I know it is not.
Families in Connecticut are grieving. Families all across America have suffered with them, with the people who are victims of Hurricane Sandy and floods and tornadoes, who are victims of wars around the world, victims of violence and hunger. I recently read that each day in the US, three pregnant women are killed by their "significant other." Thirty two Americans die---eight of them being children---each day of Gun Violence! Recenlty, in Minnesota a retired man killed two teenaged cousins. Granted, it seemed they were in his home to steal, but they were not armed and did not threaten him. Since when is death the penalty for robbery? And worse, a grandfather heard a sound out his door, became alarmed, and shot through the door----killing his grand daughter!
Yesterday, Wayne LaPierre of the NRA spoke to the nation. His answer to the recent school shootings was an armed policeman in every school. Rep. Gomer of Texas wants to arm the teachers! This I know---at DLHS, it is a long walk from the west side to the east side of the building, and longer if that guard would have to get to the second floor! Teachers do not become teachers so they can shoot people. We like kids and learning.
LaPierre and Gomer know NOTHING about schools and less about kids. The person most likely to bring a gun into a school, is a student!!!
LaPierre gets a salary of $1.4 million a year. Rep Gomer gets a life time of benefits as a congress critter. The latest poll shows congress has an 11% approval rating. A majority of Americans want controls on who can buy a gun, on the kinds of guns sold, and where they are sold. Are these two "spokesmen" wise men who can solve problems for the rest of us? The are quick to speak, and slow to think!
It isn't just in schools where kids are in danger from"bad men" with guns. Sadly, kids are killed while walking down the street. They are killed in homes---recenlty a four year old found a pistol at home, and killed his two year old brother! The most dangerous person to a little boy, is his mother's boy friend!
I know the cliche, "Guns don't kill people, people do." Yes, indeed, people with Guns kill people!
Spring is a time of renewal and new Life. We cannot put life back into those killed, but we can awaken as the "light dawns." Let us have a sane conversation about how to protect each other from violence--of all kinds.


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Tat's Revolution "Because every dark cloud has a silver IODIDE lining", BECAUSE THERE IS A WAR ON FOR YOUR MIND,Your Mind is Your Weapon
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Since 1871 the United States president and the United States Congress has been playing politics under a different set of rules and policies. The American people do not know that there are two Constitutions in the United States. The first penned by the leaders of the newly independent states of the United States in 1776. On July 4, 1776, the people claimed their independence from Britain and DEMOCRATIC REPUBLIC was born.


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Companies Coming For Breakfast Bundle. This is truly perfect for when you have company coming for breakfast or just for breakfast!! This pack includes a box of saigon swirl cinnamon roll mix and some white chocolate pear flavored cider!! I will have to admit that my favorite part of the pack I received was the Girls Night Out Kit! This is the perfect kit to add to a great evening with the girls! This amazing kit includes some chocolate martini mix, four martini glasses and a cocktail shaker. The only thing missing is some vodka and the girls! I think what would make for an even more perfect girls night would be some more goodies from the Dove Chocolate Discoveries line of products. Maybe even book a Dove Chocolate Discoveries Party for a perfect girls night. Lots of chocolate and some chocolate martinis, on top of some shopping while in the comfort of your living room? That to me, would make for a perfect girls night party!! Well, since the holidays are coming, the wonderful people from Dove Chocolate Discoveries would like to give one of my amazing readers their own Girls Night Out Kit but with some other products as well to make it a perfect Girls Night In package!!!
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As much as I enjoy reviewing all the newest and latest products from the likes of Cadbury and Nestle etc, nothing give me more pleasure than featuring a niche UK British brand. These reviews can be especially exciting for me when I believe the brand to have as much potential as the one I am featuring today - enter centre stage LUCKY'S!!
Lucky's are a newly established British based firm who have a brand proposition inspired by the book Alice in Wonderland. Their product range consists of 'unique luxury cakes covered in pure chocolate', in which they combine their own handmade cake recipes with the finest chocolate from fancy pants Valrhona (winner of many a prestigious choco snob award).
I've not done Lucky's justice with my introduction to their brand, so I suggest you check out their website to read further into them (See HERE). All you guys need to know for the minute however is that today, alongside my trusted family tasting panel, I got the chance to try out their 'Honey Time Collection' set of cakes. These came described as 'premium chocolate enrobed spiced honey cakes with cream fillings', and contained three different variants of cake - 'Fancy Fudge', 'Sour Kick' and 'Nutty Delight'. These were each portioned twice (thank god! Haha!)
As you can see from my photos, presentation was absolutely first class. The entire box was wonderfully designed and gave the product a real sense of premiumality with everything from the on-pack design, inner menu cards and fancy bow ribbon making it one of the best presented products I think I have ever received to review on the site. Hopefully my photos of the cakes also do justice to just how impeccable and appetising they looked. We were all tremendously excited about tasting these - see our thoughts below.
Sour Kick - 'Valrhona 40% milk chocolate covered and apricot in bourbon'. My mother latched on to one these as soon as the box was opened and she wasn't left disappointed. She said the milk chocolate was wonderfully smooth flowing in it's sweet, cocoa rich flavours, and that the sweetness that came from the honey cake and chocolate contrasted quite superbly with the fruity tartness of the apricot jam. Texturally she said it was a dream, with the soft melting chocolate and jam giving a lovely moistness. She obviously must of thought a lot of it as she was quick to strike up a deal with to secure a large portion of the second piece :D. I wouldn't argue against her awarding it the elusive rating of Superb.
Fancy Fudge - 'Valrhona 60% dark chocolate covered milk caramel'. My father and I were the ones who nabbed these two, with him claiming this was about perfect when it came to proposition given that he loved dark chocolate, honey cake and of course fudge. As we expected these were delicious cakes, with the three different chief constituents proving highly complimentary to each other. The 60% dark chocolate could of perhaps been a little stronger, however it was still glorious tasting with it's unsweetened cocoa flavours setting a rich taste from the outset. The inner honey cake and milk caramel were highly sweet in comparison, but left delicious toffee and butter influences in the mouth. My Father has insisted on I give it a rating of Superb.
Nutty Delay - 'Valrhona 35% white chocolate covered chocolate praline'. Doesn't this cake look absolutely fantastic!? I thought so! I think we are all aware that white chocolate isn't my favourite chocolate type, but it has to be said this was extremely high quality. As with all good white chocolate, the taste was more rooted in it's cream based flavours rather sugar, and it had a cool, flowing milkyness to it. At the heart of these cakes the honey cake was every bit as good as the other variants, though I personally wanted just a little more woody nuttyness from the praline chocolate cream. I was told that this was me being ultra fussy, however with just a little bit rawness in the nutty flavours I think these could have been just as special as the other two above. Very Good.
Overall I can't quite praise these Lucky luxury chocolate cakes enough - they are the best product I have reviewed on ChocolateMission so far this year. I simply loved everything about the entire package I received. The idea behind the brand, product concept, product delivery, product quality - all I can say is that it was just all exceptional. It's not often that I come across a totally unique proposition that is as well executed as these cakes were from Lucky's. The guys over at Lucky's are still very much in their infancy as a company, but if they can keep up this level of quality as they develop then they are surely in for great things in the very near future. If you want to treat yourself to some chocolatey treats that are nothing like you have ever tried before, then I will just point you in the direction of Lucky's. I can't wait for my next experience with this fantastic new brand - neither can the rest of family.
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It's been a wonderful ride. You and your mobile device are like two perfectly synchronized swimmers navigating the sea of life. It was a dynamic, fulfilling partnership – and it was beautiful.
Right up until said smartphone or tablet was left behind in that last taxi, train, coffee shop or hotel bar. Now you've got maybe an hour if you're lucky – a few minutes if not – before the whole world comes crashing in.
These days when you lose your smartphone or tablet, you really do lose a piece of yourself. And if that piece falls into the wrong hands, your identity, finances, family and career could be devastated.
The good news: There's plenty that can be done to protect your mobile devices both before and during such a nightmarish event.
Let's assume you're not reading this in a fit of sheer panic after just losing your device (if that is the case, take a deep breath and keep reading). Here are the security measures you should take before inevitably winding up in the worst-case scenario:
Password protect your partner. Yeah, yeah, so obvious! Everybody has his or her device password protec…. oh wait, you never bothered to do that, did you? According to Javelin Strategy and Research only "33 percent of smartphone users password protect their devices." So, what are you waiting for? Do it right NOW.
Leave a paper trail. Shockingly, not everyone in the world is a scheming, malevolent thief, and some people may even want to return your missing device. Tuck a note or business card into your smartphone or tablet case with an email address where you can be reached. Yes, we are trying to keep your personal info out of a bad guy's hands, but you can always use an old email address or set up a dummy account just for this purpose.
Arm your mobile device with an app that keeps your data safe. Luckily, there are a number of apps and tools that can help track down your device and protect it if it lands in the wrong hands.
Apps like Seekdroid ($2.99), Lookout (free), and Webroot SecureAnywhere Mobile (free; premium service also available) will allow you to track your device's location, lock its functions and remotely wipe all data to protect your sensitive personal information.
Find My iPhone (free) will give you the same ability to remotely track, lock and wipe your iPhone or iPad. All you need is another iOS device to access the app's features and find your device.
Currently, only Android users have one last chance to recoup their phones if they lose them before downloading anti-theft apps: Plan B. This app uses cell towers and GPS technology in an attempt to track down mobile devices that's MIA. Plan B will send an email every 10 minutes while the device can be located.
Now that you know what to do if you lose your smartphone or tablet, it would be a good idea to go that extra mile and make sure your digital life-partner has the best mobile security protection at all times, not just when it's out of your hands. Malware and hackers can be a mobile security threat even when your device is tucked away safely in your pocket or lounging next to you in bed, but if you take good care of your partner, it will do the same for you.
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The words of the English poet William Blake still resonate 185 years after his death. Blake, who was also a painter and printmaker, wrote the famous lines, "Tyger! Tyger! burning bright / In the forests of the night."
Blake called many of his poems "songs," and over the years, many composers have set them to music. "Jerusalem" was adapted by Sir Charles Hubert Parry a century after it was written, and became a staple hymn in Anglican churches. Benjamin Britten wrote an arrangement of Blake's "The Fly," to be sung by a baritone.
The latest release from singer Martha Redbone is a new take on Blake's poems, titled The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake. With collaborators John McEuen and Aaron Whitby, she created new settings for 12 Blake songs.
Redbone spoke with NPR's Robert Siegel about making the album and identifying connections between Blake's English roots and her own Appalachian ones.
Interview Highlights
On the origins of the project
"We had his book of poetry out, and the first song that jumped off the page was 'A Poison Tree.' Just the title sounded so naturally Appalachian, which is where my family is from. And the verse says, 'I was angry with my friend: I told my wrath, my wrath did end.' To me, it was just almost as if the song had always existed in the words. As we read more and more of his poems, it just got more exciting."
On making a natural connection with Blake
"We studied him in high school, and I loved his work back then — so to rediscover Blake in such an intimate way, and also to discover how much his words fit the imagery of Appalachia, of Black Mountain and Clinch Mountain and the Great Smokies, where my family has been for hundreds and hundreds of years ... In a way I kind of imagined, what if my ancestor, who was English, came over and married my Cherokee-Shawnee great-great-grandma? What if these works just stayed in our family and we discovered them all these years later?"
On Blake's modern relevance
"There's a Lakota saying, 'Mitakuye Oyasin,' which means, 'We're all related.' I guess the older I get, I see that, of course, we are all related. Especially our country, the United States, is this huge melting pot and this really rich history. I wanted people to be reminded of the beauty of [Blake's] messages and the relevance that rings so true today — his sentiments of 'Mercy, Pity and Peace / Is the world's release.' "
This is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. I'm Robert Siegel. And now, old lyrics, new music. The words of the English poet, William Blake, still resonate 185 years after his death. Blake, who was also a painter and print maker, wrote, "Tyger, Tyger, burning bright, in the forests of the night." His poem "Jerusalem" was set to music by Sir Charles Hubert Parry a century after it was written and it became a staple hymn in Anglican churches.
UNIDENTIFIED PEOPLE: (Singing) And did the countenance divine...
SIEGEL: And did the countenance divine, shine forth upon our clouded hills, and was Jerusalem builded here, among these dark satanic mills. Blake called many of his poems, songs, and over the years composers have set them to music. This is how Benjamin Britten set Blake's song, "The Fly" to music to be sung by a baritone. In this case, baritone, Gerald Finley.
GERALD FINLEY: (Singing) Little fly, little fly, thy summer's play, my thoughtless hand has brushed away.
SIEGEL: And now, here is a delightful surprise. A new album from Martha Redbone, with a new take on the songs of William Blake. Here's her version of "The Fly."
MARTHA REDBONE: (Singing) Oh, little fly. Thy summer's play. My thoughtless hand has brushed away. Am not I a fly like thee? Or art not thou a man like me? For I dance and drink and sing, till some blind hand shall brush my wing.
SIEGEL: Martha Redbone's album is called "The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake." She and John McEuen and Aaron Whitby have created these new settings of 12 Blake songs. And she joins us now from New York. Welcome to the program. Terrific album.
REDBONE: Thank you very much. Glad to be here.
SIEGEL: And tell us, what led you to this project. Why William Blake?
REDBONE: I'm a lyricist and write lots of songs for people. And, you know, we had his book of poetry out and the first song that jumped off the page was "A Poison Tree." Just the title sounded so naturally Appalachian, which is where my family's from. And the verse says, you know, I was angry with my friend. I told my wrath, my wrath did end. And to me, it was just almost as if the song had always existed in the words.
SIEGEL: Yeah, the fit with Appalachia seems at many points to be a very natural one. On the other hand, you've got to do a lot of theeing and thouing in these songs. Art thou not a fly like me? You know, it must be a little awkward singing those lyrics.
REDBONE: Well, for us, you know, the church is a big part of mountain life. We always had the bible and the language in the bible is very similar, so to me it wasn't anything unusual.
SIEGEL: You did your theeing and thouing once a week.
REDBONE: That's right.
SIEGEL: Did you go back to listen to what other people had done with the Blake songs or go straight at it?
REDBONE: You know, I didn't at the time. I mean, I kind of went through all the poetry and looked at the imagery and things that spoke to me about the lay of the land and the church. And just things that reminded me of home. And then, once we had written like the bulk of the songs I said, I wonder if anybody's done this? And so, Alan Ginsberg had his collection of works and then there were a couple of other artists. But for me, I felt the messages in all the songs that we ended up setting music to were so relevant. I just wanted to do a whole album of his works.
SIEGEL: You know, you mentioned some of the songs that you went back and listened to. This is one, the composer Rodney Money did of the Blake song, "Garden of Love." And this is actually a recording of it by the Honors Women's Chorus of Apex High School in Apex, North Carolina. A little bit of it.
SIEGEL: It's a beautiful composition from a few years ago. I'd like people to hear, Martha Redbone, your singing of the title track from the album "Garden of Love."
SIEGEL: I could believe that William Blake came from Kentucky or West Virginia hearing that tune.
REDBONE: The "Garden of Love" to me just sounded swampy, you know. And it's about sexual repression. In this case, you know, because of the church. And we ended up finding two stanzas from his notes that we used as a setup to the introduction to this about someone who's laying on a dank river bank, you know, where love lay sleeping, you know.
(Singing) I lay me down upon a bank when love lay sleeping. I heard among the rushes dank, weeping, weeping.
And I thought that was a great setup for the crying with frustration. And then I went to this "Garden of Love" and then saw all this imagery and for me, it's memories of my grandma on her front porch.
SIEGEL: And Blake was kind of a libertine character for his day.
REDBONE: Absolutely.
SIEGEL: Early 19th century. Did you become more of a Blake fan through all of this?
REDBONE: Absolutely. You know, we studied him in high school. I loved his work back then. So to rediscover Blake in such an intimate way and also to discover how much his words fit the imagery of Black Mountain and Clinch Mountain and the Great Smokies, where my family's been for hundreds and hundreds of years, this connection to me just felt so natural. And I wanted people to be reminded of the beauty of his messages and the relevance. It rings so true today, you know, his sentiments of mercy, pity and peace, you know, is the world's release in the song "I Heard An Angel Singing." And to me, that just sounded like a hymn. So I did that as a hymn.
SIEGEL: Well, Martha Redbone, thank you very much for talking with us about the new album "The Garden of Love: Songs of William Blake."
REDBONE: Thank you.
SIEGEL: You can hear tracks from Martha Redbone's new album at npr.org. You're listening to ALL THINGS CONSIDERED from NPR News. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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Has anyone else been out shopping the last couple days? Was it crowded by you? It was really eerily UNcrowded here.
After I finished my errands at the mall, I headed to the grocery store. You know how I shop when I'm by myself? However I darn well please, that's how! I take exorbitant amounts of time to walk up and down every single aisle. Very, very slowly. I see products I never knew existed when I shop by myself. I can easily get lost for hours if it's one of those super stores. The car maintenance aisle? Sure, why not? I don't need motor oil or tree shaped air fresheners, but I'll check it out anyway. Why? Because I don't have the kids with me and I'm not in a hurry to get back home. Baby food aisle? Bring it on! I don't have any little babies, but I'll check out what new flavors Gerber has come up with. Office supply aisle? I now know how many different types of pencils they sell.
Know another thing I do when I shop by myself? As I move the groceries from the cart to my van, I search for the cookies. Then, looking around to make sure no one is watching me (because that would be embarrassing) I sneak the cookies into the front seat with me. I just know there's a guy watching the parking lot surveillance cameras, laughing at me, and calling his security buddies over, saying, "Check this out! This woman is gonna chow down a whole package of cookies before she's even out of the parking lot! I bet you! Odds are five to one." All the security guards gather round the monitor and slap their money down. Of course I made sure I was out of the parking lot before tearing into the cookies just in case.
I showed my husband that Yo Gabba Gabba video last night. He didn't believe me that it was from an actual show that is on TV. Then we got to talking about old shows that we watched as kids. After digging up the following classics, we decided that Yo Gabba Gabba isn't quite as psychotic as the shows we watched when we were kids! If you have time and are interested, just click the titles of the shows and it'll take you to a YouTube video. Enjoy!
HR Pufnstuff is quite possibly the most warped show of the 70s. There's a kid who runs away from home with his magic flute. He steals a boat. A witch, appropriately name Witchiepoo, tries to get him. A very creepy looking thing (seriously what IS that thing? He's got a collar like Kermit the frog. He's got a tail- Maybe it's a dragon? A dinosaur? He has terrible bags under his eyes- Maybe it's a mom? I have no idea, but it's a wonder more kids of the 70s aren't seriously messed up.
Gigglesnort Hotel. Now here's a show that has everything! Strange crow puppets, a blob of clay that just makes strangled sounds, a puppet who thinks he's W.C. Fields, a dragon who smokes, and other assorted wacko puppets.
And who could forget The Great Space Coaster, Gary Gnu, and Goriddle Gorilla? And look at the end of this clip. There's yet another person dressed up in a creepy looking costume!
Sigmund and the Sea Monsters is another show that follows that simple rule for kids' shows in the 70s - you MUST have people dressed up in creepy costumes. And how can you go wrong when you've got Rip Taylor with green hair and some kid with five foot hair?
The Bugaloos is another great 70s show. It featured 4 kids (or were they bugs) and, of course, the requisite person in a creepy costume. Is anyone else getting the feeling that Sid & Marty Kroft were on some serious drugs when they created these shows?
The New Zoo Review is another show with, yes you guessed it - people dressed in creepy costumes! Check out the spectacular choreography in this clip.
Banana Splits is yet another show with creepy costumed characters. Apparently my generation really got into this. These guys are having fun at an amusement park though, so it's all ok.
The Land of the Lost didn't have any people dressed up like creepy things. Nope, this show had some grade A animation! A bunch of folks go for a river ride (down a very realistic river, I might add) and somehow wind up in a land of dinosaurs. What? It could happen.
And let's not forget all the educational cartoons we enjoyed as kids like Clutch Cargo who taught us that cartoons can be creepy too, what with their human mouths, Speed Racer who taught us that driving really, really fast and hanging out with monkeys is a good idea, Underdog, Magilla Gorilla, School House Rock, Zoom, Hong Kong Phooey, The Jetsons, TheFlintstones, Gilligan's Island, Scooby Doo, Fat Albert, Mr. Magoo, Bozo's Circus, Captain Kangaroo, Mr. Rogers, Shmoo, Popeye, The Adams Family, and The Munsters, and of course Tom and Jerry. What would cartoon violence be today if it weren't for groundbreaking shows like that?
I never thought Id say this, but Yo Gabba Gabba somehow doesn't look all that bad anymore.


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Although it's been about a year since the release of Dragon Age 2, BioWare's RPG sequel was apparently set to receive an expansion, entitled "Exalted March." However, executive producer Mark Darrah says it has now been canceled.
Darrah revealed on Twitter that the expansion was abandoned in favor of "other DA opportunities." A sequel seems likely, given BioWare's vague hints.
He further elaborated on the BioWare forums. "You've most certainly heard the rumors floating around, and unfortunately I can't really comment on them," he wrote. "However, what I can say is that we've been thinking a lot about Dragon Age - what it means, and where it could go. This past year, we've spent a lot of time both going back to the 'BioWare vault' of games and re-examining them, and looking at some new possibilities that today's industry allows.
While the company prepares for the announcement of whatever comes next for the series, it's inviting feedback on what fans would like to see from the series. Given the outcry over Dragon Age 2, the obvious answer would seem to be "not that."


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Mine the depths of a volatile volcano and escape with its riches before it erupts!
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Can you guide Moin through Mount Magros? Youll have to mine the precious minerals and put the murmurings of mythic miner-munching monsters out of your mind! Will you be able to escape the molten magma to make him a truly eminent miner?
Choose your equipment carefully. Will you grab the aqualung and forfeit the scanner? Can you afford to leave the gas mask behind? And what about the map? With so many decisions, random map generation and a variety of dangers along the way, Miner Disturbance is a game you will come back to again and again.
1. When will the volcano erupt?
In its own time, thank you very much! That said, mining it and blowing stuff up might hurry it along, so be careful. Keep an eye on your seismograph at all times!
2. Is it better to mine at the top or bottom of the volcano?
Legend (and some science) tells us that the more valuable minerals only occur in numbers near the base of the volcano.
3. What dangers lurk in the dark of Mount Magros?
No one has come back alive, except gibbering cowards. You should keep an eye out for trouble, though - who knows what you may find in the deep, dark places of the world...
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Americans are suspicious of drones. Reports of the unmanned aerial vehicles' use in war zones have raised concerns about what they might do here at home. For instance, in Seattle earlier this year, a public outcry forced the police department to abandon plans for eye-in-the-sky UAV helicopters.
The backlash worries Paul Applewhite, an aerospace engineer with 10 years of experience at companies like McDonnell Douglas and Sikorsky. He now runs his own startup company, Applewhite Aero, in an industrial park on the south side of Seattle. Applewhite is developing drones — or UAVs, as the industry calls them. He shows off a 3-pound Styrofoam plane he has dubbed the Invenio.
"We bought the airframe and the motor off of an online hobby shop," he says. To make it a UAV, he added a GPS antenna and a circuit board that allows it to fly autonomously. He hopes to sell it to aid agencies; medical teams could use it to fly tissue samples back to a lab, for instance. They'd enter the coordinates, and the Invenio would find its way back.
That's the theory. The reality is, Applewhite can't know for sure what his plane can do, because he's not allowed fly it.
The Federal Aviation Administration bars the use of UAVs for commercial purposes. That means, even though it's perfectly legal for hobbyists to fly small UAVs, Applewhite may not, because he's in business.
He has applied for a special test permit, called a certificate of airworthiness, but that process has dragged on since last August.
"We've generated a 62-page document that we've submitted to the federal government," he says, and he assumes he'll have to meet personally with regulators in Washington, D.C., before he's allowed to make a few short flights with his modified toy.
"Quite frankly, I could do what I need to do in a cow pasture," he says. "I just need some legal and efficient way to test this aircraft."
Applewhite is quick to stress his respect for the FAA's thoroughness in the interest of safety. But in the case of lightweight experimental UAVs, he says, that thoroughness threatens to stifle startups like his — and perhaps a whole nascent industry. He says he's losing valuable time while potential customers go elsewhere.
"A lot of our universities that are developing [UAV] training programs, they're buying a vehicle from Latvia," he says. "I think I could compete on that, but I just can't test mine in the United States."
Developers say the U.S. light drone industry is being overtaken by manufacturers in Israel and Australia; Seattle's controversial police UAVs came from Canada.
The FAA won't comment on the permitting process for UAV tests. Heidi Williams, vice president for air traffic services and modernization at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association, defends the FAA's cautious approach.
"Their primary mission is ensuring that the airspace environment that we all operate in is safe," says Williams, who is also a pilot. "Things that are really tiny or small to see, sometimes can be very close before you actually have time to see them and react and avoid them."
UAV developers admit there's still no reliable way to "teach" small drones to avoid other aircraft, but they say there's little danger as long as they're tested at low altitudes, away from airports — the same rules that already apply to radio-controlled hobby aircraft.
Juris Vagners, a professor emeritus of aeronautics at the University of Washington, helped pioneer UAVs in the 1990s. "There was some paperwork, but it wasn't anything like what's going on today," he says. Now the permitting process verges on the absurd. During a recent application, he says, it took a couple of months to satisfy the FAA that the University of Washington is, in fact, a public institution.
Vagners blames the red tape on the public's hostility toward drones.
"As everyone can't help but be aware, there's the whole big flap about privacy issues," Vagners says. "And the approach that is being taken by the FAA is basically a one size fits all."
For example, commercial developers of 3-pound modified toy airplanes find themselves having to apply for an "N-number" — the same flying license plate that's required for Cessnas and 747s.
Some frustrated American companies are now taking their prototypes to Mexico and Australia for testing. In Canada, the Canadian Centre for Unmanned Vehicle Systems is offering access to a test site among the flat farm fields of southern Alberta. One American drone developer has already used the facility, which is run by Sterling Cripps. He marvels at the bureaucratic hurdles for UAVs, both in Canada and in the U.S.
"Here's the hypocrisy: Our governments allow us to fly UAVs over war-stricken, terrified civilians in other lands, but the moment you bring them back to our precious neck of the woods, where we're not getting shot at, where we have insurance, we have lawyers, they won't allow it," Cripps says.
Regulators say they will allow it — eventually. Congress has given the FAA until September 2015 to come up with a plan for integrating commercial UAVs to the domestic airspace. As part of that process, the FAA will pick six sites around the country for UAV testing. The sites are expected to be selected by the end of the year.
That's an eternity to UAV developers like Paul Applewhite. "We have a technology — we have an industry — that could be ours for the taking," Applewhite says. "We're losing it because we can't test the vehicles."
Many Americans have been raising questions about the widespread use of drones, but the debate looks very different when you talk to people in the drone industry - especially those selling unmanned aircraft for civilian use. They complain the debate is hurting business.
NPR's Martin Kaste has our Business Bottom Line.
MARTIN KASTE, BYLINE: Paul Applewhite worked for 10 years at aerospace companies like McDonnell Douglas and Sikorski. Now he has own startup, Applewhite Aero, and he's working on his own planes.
KASTE: Smaller-scale planes, to be sure.
PAUL APPLEWHITE: This is a three-pound Styrofoam airplane. We bought the airframe and the motor off of an online hobby shop.
KASTE: Really, this is a toy, but with one very important difference: this toy can fly itself.
APPLEWHITE: To make it into a UAV, we add this little circuit board in here and that's kind of what makes it autonomous.
KASTE: He hopes to sell this mini UAV to aid agencies. In the field, medical teams could use it to fly tissue samples back to a lab. They'd just punch in the coordinates, and the plane would find its way. It could go up to 20 miles. There's just one problem: Applewhite is not allowed fly it. Right now there's a nationwide ban on the commercial use of UAVs. He is trying to get a test permit, but that's an arduous process.
APPLEWHITE: We started applying for the permits to fly this vehicle last August. We've generated a 62-page document that we've submitted to the federal government.
KASTE: To fly what essentially to the layman looks like a hobby airplane.
APPLEWHITE: Exactly.
KASTE: In fact, if Applewhite were just a hobbyist, he wouldn't need FAA permission. It's perfectly legal for you to fly a UAV right now, within certain guidelines, as long as you're not in business. The FAA is supposed to come up with a plan for integrating commercial drones into civilian airspace, but it has until September 2015. In the meantime, Applewhite says, American companies like his are losing ground to overseas rivals.
APPLEWHITE: A lot of our universities that are developing training programs, they're buying a vehicle from Latvia, which is an outstanding vehicle, but I think I could compete on that. I just can't test mine in the United States.
KASTE: Heidi Williams understands this frustration, but she defends the FAA's take-it-slow approach.
HEIDI WILLIAMS: You know, their primary mission is ensuring that the airspace environment that we all operate in is safe.
KASTE: She is the VP for air traffic services and modernization at the Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association - and she's a pilot. Styrofoam UAVs may look like toys, she says, but there's still a potential danger.
WILLIAMS: Things that are really tiny or small to see sometimes can be very close before you actually have time to see them and react and avoid them.
KASTE: True enough, say the UAV developers, but the danger would recede if they just kept their aircraft low and away from airports - the same rules that already govern the flying toys. Some developers believe the FAA's restrictiveness is really a response to public hostility toward UAVs. Sterling Cripps runs a UAV testing site in southern Alberta. It's already hosted one American drone company and it's looking for more business. Cripps marvels at how onerous the rules have become south of the border.
STERLING CRIPPS: Here's the hypocrisy, is that our governments allow us to fly UAVs over war-stricken, terrified civilians in other lands, but the moment you bring them back to our precious neck of the woods, where we're not getting shot at, where we have insurance, we have lawyers, they won't allow it.
KASTE: But it looks like they will allow it eventually. Congress has directed the FAA to set up six sites around the country for UAV testing. But those sites won't even be chosen until the end of this year. Martin Kaste, NPR News, Seattle. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR.


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The Nebraska swimming and diving team travels to Champaign, Ill., on Jan. 26 for a dual against the Illinois Fighting Illini beginning at 11 a.m. at the ARC Pool. The contest will be the first Big Ten dual for the Huskers this season, as they will try to avenge last season's 152-148 loss to the Illini at the Devaney Natatorium.
Nebraska (10-1) will be hoping for a different result than last weekend's 158-142 home loss to San Diego State that knocked them from the ranks of the unbeaten. Illinois (2-3) will also be looking to bounce back after suffering a home dual meet loss to Iowa 196-102 last weekend.
This weekend's meet is the first and last conference dual meet of the season for the Huskers. Next weekend the squad will travel to Evanston, Illinois, for the Northwestern Dual Meet Invite on Feb 1-2. After that, Nebraska will have nearly three weeks to prepare for the Big Ten Championships held Feb. 20-23.
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The Nebraska swimming and diving team lost a tight contest to San Diego State 158-142 on Saturday afternoon at the Devaney Natatorium. The Huskers fell to 10-1 on the season following the loss.
The Huskers got off to a great start, winning the meet's opening event, the 200-yard medley relay by 31 hundredths of a second.
Bailey Pons and Hayley Martin then won the 1,000- and 200-yard freestyles, respectively, to give Nebraska an early lead. Pons' time of 10:06.52 beat her previous career-best in the 1,000-yard freestyle by 6.36 seconds.
San Diego State started to chip away at the lead with wins by Leona Jennings in the 100-yard backstroke and Katelyn Weddle in the 100-yard breaststroke. Anna Steiner added a victory in the three-meter dive to draw the Aztecs even closer.
Ariel Weech and Taryn Collura would then split first place in the 50-yard freestyle and finish first and second, respectively, in the 100-yard freestyle to push the Huskers back in front.
Following the 100-yard freestyle, the Aztecs would win six of the last seven events on the way to victory. Junior Mikaela Macklin led the charge, winning the 200-yard breaststroke and 200-yard individual medley.
Senior Leona Jennings added her second victory of the day in the 200-yard backstroke as San Diego State improved to 9-1 on the season.
Other Husker winners on the day were Natalie Morris in the 200-yard butterfly (2:05.31) and Amy Herman in the one-meter dive (296.32). Herman's score was a career best in the event.
Last Time Vs. Illinois: Huskers Drop Close Dual to Illinois (1/21/12)
The Nebraska swimming and diving team dropped its second dual of the season on Saturday against the Illinois Fighting Illini at the Devaney Natatorium.NU fell to the Illini, 148-152, in a dual that went down to the last event. Nebraska drops to 2-2 on the season and 1-4 all-time against new conference foe Illinois.
The Illini started the day hot, winning the 200-yard medley relay in 1:45.70 over the Husker squad of Ellan Dufour, Shannon Guy, Natalie Morris and Ariel Weech (1:47.16). NU's Bailey Pons, Morgan Flannigan and Mailene Leslie got things started for the Huskers by sweeping the second event of the morning, the 1,000-yard freestyle.
Hayley Martin (1:51.99) kept things going for the Huskers in the 200-yard freestyle event, winning over the Illini's Courtney Pope (1:53.24). Illinois went on to win events 4-7 in the 100-yard backstroke, 100-yard breaststroke, 200-yard butterfly and the 50-yard freestyle. Weech notched a second-place finish in the 50-free, just .11 behind Illinois' Kristen Manias.
Payton Michaud swept the diving events for NU, earning wins in the 1-meter and 3-meter events (291.60, 299.18). Kaitlan Walker and Alyson Ramsey finished second and third, respectively, in the 1-meter event while Kailey Harmon notched a third-place finish in the 3-meter dive.
Weech swam to a victory in the 100-yard freestyle before Pons earned her second win of the day in the 500-yard freestyle. Pons, Flannigan and Leslie swept the event for the Huskers.
Guy followed Pons' victory with a victory of her own in the 100-yard butterfly (56.53). Morris finished third in the event for NU as well.
In the final and deciding event of the afternoon, the Nebraska team of Martin, Kelly Dunn, Pons and Weech won the 400-yard freestyle relay, but it wasn't enough to stop the Illini squad from finishing second and third, ensuring the dual for the Illini.


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Sheryl Sandberg's best-seller Lean In has sparked a national debate among women about reaching for success in the workplace. But in order for women to lean in to their ambition and spend the arduous hours embracing the success Sandberg urges them to, they need to lean on support at home. That often comes in the form of household help — the housekeeper or nanny. But because being the help has figured large in the history of African-American women, some who are in the position to lean in are torn about hiring domestic employees.
That ambivalence was reflected back in 1975, when America met George and Louise Jefferson. In the maiden episode of their now-iconic TV series, the Jeffersons were, as the title song indicated, "movin' on up ... to that dee-luxe apartment in the sky." The black middle class had begun to expand, and George and Weezy, now affluent from several dry cleaning businesses, were moving into a high rise on Manhattan's swank Upper East Side.
The tension in that first show revolved around who was going to clean the shiny new palace. George pressed hard for Louise to hire a black maid she'd met in the elevator; Louise refused. She reminded George that when they were a young married couple, she did domestic work a couple of times a week, and had to "yes ma'am, no ma'am" the white woman who employed her. "How can I ask Diane to say 'yes ma'am to me?' " she fretted.
"Easy," George replied. " 'Cause now you're the ma'am!"
Louise Jefferson was reflecting the real-life ambivalence many African-American women have about being the ma'am.
After more than a century of working as domestics because of restricted employment options, black women's communal memory of often being taken advantage of economically and sometimes sexually can still be painful.
It doesn't help that the media images of black maids and nannies through the ages tended to run a narrow gamut: self-sacrificing mammy figure at one end, eye-rolling sass pot at the other. (From Hattie McDaniel's patient Beulah to Marla Gibbs as the Jeffersons' wisecracking Florence.)
Duchess Harris, a professor of American studies at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., says history haunts many black women who might want household help but hesitate to hire it.
From the end of slavery to the end of World War I, Harris says, "the job that black American women could get was being domestics. They were often incredibly disrespected." She knows this because Harris has heard the tales firsthand: "My paternal grandmother was a domestic," she says. "So for a lot of black American women, we can't let [the memories of] that go."
Harris definitely needs help. In addition to teaching history at Macalester, she also lectures at a nearby law school and is on the speakers' circuit. Her husband is a surgeon and spends long hours at the hospital. Their domestics have been au pairs from Europe who are part of an exchange program, and they're part of the team that watches over the Harris' three children.
The au pair arrangement works well for Harris and her immediate family, but, she says, her extended family and friends are not shy about telling her what they think. "I find that black Americans are open with how uncomfortable it would make them to have someone living in their home of a different race," she admits.
Solange Bumbaugh isn't as worried about race or ethnicity as she is about class. She and her husband agreed to hire a housekeeper several years ago to ensure domestic tranquility — no more fighting over who cleans what. But Bumbaugh still feels bad sometimes about asking for specific chores to be done. Knowing that communal history, "It feels uncomfortable, being on this side of the divide."
Then Bumbaugh shakes herself, and acknowledges reality: "That's clearly why [the housekeeper] is here, to make money for her children."
Maria Reyes has some advice for Bumbaugh: How you treat your housekeeper is more important than the fact that you have one. Reyes is a former housekeeper and nanny who now works on the staff of the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the union for household staff, many of whom are immigrants. She's had good and bad employers of all ethnicities, Reyes says, and that doesn't matter: "What matters is that as an employee, you be treated with dignity and respect."
But sometimes respect is a subjective thing. Natalie Preston-Washington is a marketing and communications specialist at a university in Florida, and when she had her first baby, she looked for someone to come to her home monthly for large-scale cleaning. She hired a husband-and-wife team who were African-American and about her age. They had a cordial relationship — until she couldn't be home one day and left a to-do list for the couple.
"My list was not well-received," Preston-Washington sighs.
Looking back on it, Preston-Washington says the problem might have been boundaries: "I feel like they treated me like it was a personal relationship, rather than a professional one." She figured the cleaning arrangement was business; they might have thought the commonalities — same race, same age — made a bond.
Through history, though, when black women had help, it often was of a personal nature — maybe a cousin came to help out, or a neighbor from down the street, or a friend of a friend. These women were paid, but they weren't referred to as housekeepers. They were just folk who came and "did" for the family. But that was then. The new generation doesn't seem to mind a little distance.
Most social observers agree that the era of the black housekeeper has faded away. The duster has been passed to a new generation: Latinas now dominate the household and personal services industry. But just as the black middle class expanded in the '70s, the Latino middle class is expanding now. Which means Latinas in the position to hire a housekeeper or nanny are going to have to ask themselves the same questions their African-American sisters did: "Can I hire someone who looks like me? Is it OK for me to be the ma'am?"
From NPR News, this is ALL THINGS CONSIDERED. I'm Robert Siegel.
And I'm Melissa Block. For generations of African-Americans, especially women, the job most available to them was working in someone else's home as a domestic. With the expansion of the black middle class, many black women are themselves hiring help. We have the latest story now in our series on The Changing Lives Of Women. Karen Grigsby Bates, of NPR's Code Switch team, explores why some African-American women are conflicted about being the ma'am their help answers to.
KAREN GRIGSBY BATES, BYLINE: Solange Bumbaugh has a busy life. She's a mother of two small boys, and she's also completing a doctoral degree. She and her husband have a housekeeper, and she believes the money they spend on paying her is a good tradeoff for eliminating the marital spats they used to have over who cleaned what. But even though she's had help for several years now, Solange Bumbaugh remains conflicted about being the boss lady.
SOLANGE BUMBAUGH: It feels very weird. I know for me, certainly because of - you know, African-American history in this country, it feels uncomfortable being on this side of the divide.
BATES: Her current housekeeper is from Central America, and they speak to each other in Spanish. They have a good working relationship, but Bumbaugh says she still flinches a little bit every time she asks for work to be done. She doesn't want to feel like one of the housewives in "The Help," barking orders to their black maids.
BRYCE DALLAS HOWARD: (As Hilly Holbrook) Put mama in a chair before she breaks a hip.
BATES: But she's not a white socialite in 1960s Mississippi. So Solange Bumbaugh tries to put aside her middle-class guilt, to realize not employing her housekeeper isn't going to help either of them.
BUMBAUGH: Clearly, that's why she's here. She's here to make money for her children.
BATES: Maria Reyes says, in essence, get over that guilt thing. Reyes has worked as both a nanny and a housekeeper. She's now on staff with the National Domestic Workers Alliance, and says having an employer of the same race doesn't guarantee anything.
MARIA REYES: (Foreign language spoken)
BATES: You and your employer don't have to be of the same race, Reyes says. What matters is that as an employee, you be treated with dignity and respect. We're human beings, she insists, and we deserve respect.
Natalie Preston-Washington is a marketing communications specialist in Tampa. She says friends and colleagues her age have no problem hiring help if they can afford it, and they are not conflicted in the least.
NATALIE PRESTON-WASHINGTON: We recognize that - you know, you can't be all things at all times to all people; and there is something that, you know, you will have to let go of. And for me, you know, it was cleaning.
BATES: So Preston-Washington hired a black couple to deep-clean her home monthly, after she had her son. She thought she was being respectful. But things got rocky when one day, she left a list of to-dos for the husband-and-wife team. The couple was offended, and so was Preston-Washington.
PRESTON-WASHINGTON: I feel like they treated me like it was a personal relationship rather than a professional one.
BATES: Forty years ago, if a black woman had help, frequently it was a personal relationship. Her housekeeper often was a friend of a friend or a neighbor, or someone from church. In 1975, the hit TV sitcom "The Jeffersons" built its first episode around Louise Jefferson's refusal to hire a housekeeper friend to clean the deluxe apartment in the sky she shared with her husband, George.
ISABEL SANFORD: (As Louise Jefferson) Remember when Lionel was growing up, and I did domestic work twice a week to - sort of help out?
SHERMAN HEMSLEY: (As George Jefferson) Yes.
SANFORD: (As Louise) Remember the folks I worked for?
HEMSLEY: (As George) Uh-huh.
SANFORD: (As Louise) It was all "yes, ma'am, no ma'am." Now, how can I ask Diane to say"yes ma'am" to me?
HEMSLEY: (As George) Because now, you're the ma'am.
BATES: "Weezy" Jefferson eventually did hire an opinionated maid who stole the show. But Duchess Harris, professor of American history at Macalester College in St. Paul, Minn., sympathizes with black women who cannot get comfortable with the notion of being the ma'am. She says for more than a century, there was one occupation open to them.
DUCHESS HARRIS: The job that black American women could get was being domestics. And they were awfully - incredibly disrespected. I mean, even my paternal grandmother was a domestic. And so for a lot of black American women, we can't let it go.
BATES: Harris and her husband, a surgeon, have gotten around that problem by hiring au pairs from an exchange program, to live with them and help with their three children. The young women mostly come from European countries that are part of the exchange, and it works well for her family. But Harris says a lot of her black friends and acquaintances wouldn't consider it.
HARRIS: I find that black Americans are open with how uncomfortable it would make them, to have someone living in their home from a different background.
BATES: Given demographic shifts, it's quite likely that "someone" will be a person of a different background. The majority of housekeepers in the U.S. are no longer African-American; they're Latina. And as the Latino middle class grows, many Latinos, like their African-American counterparts, have begun to ask themselves the same questions: Can I hire someone who looks like me? Is it OK to be the ma'am?
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Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) resolved dozens of export issues in 2012
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today highlighted how the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) resolved dozens of export issues in 2012, freeing up an estimated $4 billion in U.S. agricultural and forestry exports and protecting roughly 30,000 American jobs in the process. The work is highlighted on Performance.gov, a resource for demonstrating how the Obama Administration is improving performance and accountability for the American people and businesses.
"As consumers around the world demand high-quality, American-grown products, USDA staff are monitoring more than 160 markets to ensure an open system of trade, free from unwarranted and unjustified barriers," said Vilsack. "Since 2009, USDA has acted to remove hundreds of unfair barriers to trade for American companies and is providing businesses with the resources they need to reach new markets. These efforts have resulted in the most successful period in the history for American agriculture and a boon for America's rural economies and agriculture-related businesses."
Over the past year, USDA has aggressively worked to eliminate barriers, open new markets, secure the release of U.S. shipments detained at foreign ports, and ensure the safe movement of agricultural products in a manner consistent with science and international standards. Overall, a highly-dedicated group of USDA Foreign Service officers, animal and plant health experts, and analysts monitor 162 markets around the world, ensuring a level playing field for U.S. businesses and products. USDA works in partnership with the Office of the U.S. Trade Representative (USTR) and other federal offices and agencies.


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Tony's Three-Time World Champion Clam Chowder launched into the food service industry on Friday, Aug 10, at the Florida Food Service annual summer Food Show in St. Augustine.
Tony's Chowder is now available in cases of six 51 oz. cans, and is being distributed by Florida Food Service, Inc. and City Line Distributors in New England.
Tony's Chowder fans can also order a case for themselves at www.tonyschowder.com.
For years, diners have made the long trek to tiny Cedar Key to enjoy the World Champion Clam Chowder at Tony's Seafood Restaurant. The chowder has won three times in the annual national competition at Newport, R.I.
This new product changes the food industry significantly.
Restaurants will now have access to an affordable, premium chowder with effortless storage and preparation that is unlike anything available.
Tony's owner and chef Eric Jungklaus is proud to certify this product to be as close to his kitchen-made product that could ever be made available. "Tony's canned product has all of the flavor profile that so many folks around the world have known and loved for years," he said. "In fact, Tony's canned chowder has over twice the clams of any other product of its type that is available on the market today."
"Bold flavors, high quality offerings stand out," says Seafood Business Magazine's July feature on Tony's Chowder and the trend in foodservice soups and chowders.
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In addition to the MMR Titer, we are also happy to be able to offer a comprehensive list of other titer tests that are commonly needed with the MMR Titer. Tens of thousands of people have used our lab testing service and have provided testimonials that we do what we say we can do. We are delighted to offer the MMR Titer in North Haven, CT.
Updated as of July 1, 2018
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