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Odd Man Rush: Conference finals a place for players to shine
Philadelphia, PA – Nothing can erase the memory of a disappointing regular season quicker than excelling come playoff time.
Not that Los Angeles goaltender Jonathan Quick was a letdown this season for the Kings, who are back in the Western Conference finals for a second straight year. But the 27-year-old set the bar pretty high after his amazing 2011-12 campaign and there were times this season when it looked like the netminder may struggle under the weight of expectations.
Take his season debut on Jan. 19 against the Chicago Blackhawks, who just happen to be Quick's next playoff opponent. Fresh off a Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoff MVP, Quick gave up five goals in a 5-2 setback as the Blackhawks spoiled the Kings' raising of their first-ever championship banner.
Now it is Quick who will look to disappoint a Blackhawks team that came into the postseason as the top seed in the Western Conference and heavy favorites to win the Cup.
Quick won 35 games and notched 10 shutouts in the regular season for Los Angeles a season ago, then went 16-4 in the playoffs with a 1.41 goals against average. The American-born goaltender's numbers were not as good this season, but still solid: 18-13-4 with a 2.45 GAA in 37 games but with only one shutout.
Whether by design or not, Kings head coach Darryl Sutter gave backup goaltender Jonathan Bernier more work in 2013, with the 24-year-old appearing in 14 games in the lockout-shortened season compared to 16 the campaign before.
But Quick has quickly morphed into playoff form, going 8-5 with three shutouts and a 1.50 GAA in 13 games. And the Kings have needed him to be good because they are struggling to score goals this postseason.
"Obviously, we've become fans like the rest of the people in the building and people watching on TV," Kings forward Dustin Penner said recently of Quick. "We get kind of spoiled and get used to it. He does it in practice too. He never gives up on a puck. We also expect those saves during the game because we see them so often during practice."
While top Los Angeles defenseman Drew Doughty noted the Kings would like to take some of the pressure off Quick, there is no doubt the netminder is ready to shine for the remainder of the postseason.
Here are three other players -- one from each remaining team -- to keep an eye on in the conference finals.
Like Quick, Toews is a former Conn Smythe Trophy winner. But unlike the player he will be taking his shots against, Toews has underperformed for a majority of the postseason.
Toews averaged a point per game during the regular season, notching 23 goals and 48 points in 47 games. He recorded 29 points in 22 playoff games in helping Chicago claim the Stanley Cup in 2010.
This postseason, the 25-year-old captain has logged only one goal and six points in 12 games and the frustrated winger took three costly penalties in a Game 4 loss to the Detroit Red Wings in the Western Conference semifinals that gave the Blackhawks a 3-1 series deficit.
However, he responded with a goal in Game 5 and notched two assists to help the Blackhawks force a seventh game with the Red Wings, which Chicago won 2-1 in overtime. While Toews didn't score in that series-clincher, he logged over 20 minutes of ice time and won 60 percent of his face-offs.
Even with his subpar numbers, the Kings should have plenty of focus on Toews.
It's a no-brainer that the likes of Sidney Crosby, Evgeni Malkin and Kris Letang will be contributors if the Pittsburgh Penguins are to defeat the Boston Bruins and reach the Stanley Cup Finals for the first time since their last Cup victory in 2009.
But if that happens, it appears as if it will be with Vokoun and not Marc-Andre Fleury leading the way in net.
Fleury put up solid numbers when the Penguins knocked off the Detroit Red Wings in the 2009 Cup Finals, but his career postseason stats don't scream success and things finally caught up to the former No. 1 overall draft pick this year.
Fleury allowed 14 goals and had just a 3.40 GAA and .891 save percentage as the Penguins split their first four games with the New York Islanders in the opening round. And after the 28-year-old had been torched for 26 goals in six games of a first-round exit at the hands of the Philadelphia Flyers the previous season, Pittsburgh head coach Dan Bylsma made the gutsy move and went to Vokoun in net.
It paid off.
The 36-year-old Vokoun has gone 6-1 with a 1.85 GAA and .941 save percentage since replacing Fleury, helping the Penguins finish off the Islanders before a five-game series win over the Ottawa Senators.
"He never gets too rattled, never gets too excited. He's pretty even-keeled," defenseman Brooks Orpik told his club's website of Vokoun. "Being a veteran, I think a lot of guys look to him to see how he carries himself ... Even in the games, when things aren't going his way, he moves on pretty quick. It doesn't carry over to the next game."
With the Penguins not having much of an issue versus the Senators, it is unknown how quickly Bylsma would go back to Fleury if Vokoun struggles, but for now the 36-year-old is thriving in his first deep playoff run.
The days of Jagr shouldering the load like Alec Baldwin at a family reunion are long gone, but he still has enough left in the tank to deal his former Penguins club a painful blow.
Jagr, of course, began his NHL career after Pittsburgh took him fifth overall in the 1990 draft and spent his first 11 seasons with the Penguins. He helped the club capture back-to-back Stanley Cups in 1991 and '92 and is second to only Mario Lemieux on the club's all-time playoff scoring list in goals, assists and points.
The 41-year-old leads all active players with 193 career playoff points over 192 games with 78 goals and 115 points, but has just four assists in this year's postseason.
Still, the Bruins acquired Jagr at the trade deadline from the Dallas Stars for his leadership and veteran knowledge, only furthering the depth of a Boston franchise that was Stanley Cup winners as recent as 2011.
"He doesn't need to be the Jagr of 20 years ago or 15 years ago," Bruins head coach Claude Julien said. "He needs to be the Jags that we have right now."
That is a talented forward who should be extra motivated against the club for which he laid the foundation of his future Hall of Fame career.


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Bufonidae Gray, 1825
Bufonina Gray, 1825, Ann. Philos., London, Ser. 2, 10: 214. Type genus: Bufo Laurenti, 1768.
Bufonoidea — Fitzinger, 1826, Neue Class. Rept.: 37 (explicit family); Schinz, 1833, Naturgesch. Abbild Rept.: 228; Wied-Neuwied, 1865, Nova Acta Phys. Med. Acad. Caesar Leopold Carol., Halle, 32: 121; Laurent, 1967, Acta Zool. Lilloana, 22: 207; Lynch, 1973, in Vial (ed.), Evol. Biol. Anurans: 162; Duellman, 1975, Occas. Pap. Mus. Nat. Hist. Univ. Kansas, 42: 5.
Bufonidea — Fitzinger, 1826, Isis von Oken, 20: 264.
Bufones — Wiegmann, 1832, in Wiegmann and Ruthe (eds.), Handbuch der Zool., Amph.: 202; Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 26; Leunis, 1844, Synops. Drei Naturr., Zool., Ed. 1: 146.
Bufonini — Bonaparte, 1835, Iconograph. Fauna Ital., 2 (Fasc. 14): unnumbered (although "124" in left hand lower corner).
Bufonina — Bonaparte, 1838, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 1: 393; Bonaparte, 1840, Nuovi Ann. Sci. Nat., Bologna, 4: 100 (p. 11 of offprint).
Bufonidae — Bell, 1839, Hist. Brit. Rept.: 105.
Bufoidae — Swainson, 1839, Nat. Hist. Fishes Amph. Rept., 2: 88.
Bufoniformes — Duméril and Bibron, 1841, Erp. Gen., 8: plate opposite page 53, 640. Explicit family-group name.
Atelopoda Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 32. Type genus: Atelopus Duméril and Bibron, 1841. Synonymy by Duellman and Lynch, 1969, Herpetologica, 25: 239; McDiarmid, 1971, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 12: 52; and Trueb, 1971, Contrib. Sci. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 216: 1-40.
Bufonia — Gravenhorst, 1845, Das Thierreich: 43.
Phryniscidae Günther, 1858, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1858: 346. Type genus: Phryniscus Wiegmann, 1834. Synonymy by implication of Boulenger, 1894, Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist., Ser. 6, 14: 374.
Atelopodes — Fitzinger, 1861 "1860", Sitzungsber. Akad. Wiss. Wien, Phys. Math. Naturwiss. Kl., 42: 414.
Adenomidae Cope, 1861 "1860", Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 12: 371. Type genus: Adenomus Cope, 1861. Synonymy ; by implication of synonymy of Adenomus with Bufo) by Cope, 1862, Proc. Acad. Nat. Sci. Philadelphia, 14: 358; Günther, 1864, Rept. Brit. India: 421; and Boulenger, 1882, Cat. Batr. Sal. Coll. Brit. Mus., Ed. 2: 281.
Bufonides — Bruch, 1862, Würzb. Naturwiss. Z., 3: 221.
Bufonida — Haeckel, 1866, Gen. Morphol. Organ., 2: cxxxii.
Phryniscina — Mivart, 1869, Proc. Zool. Soc. London, 1869: 288. Explicit subfamily.
Dendrophryniscina Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 65. Type genus: Dendrophryniscus Jiménez de la Espada, 1870. Treatment as a subfamily of Bufonidae by Gadow, 1901, Amphibia and Reptiles: 139; subsequently ignored.
Dendrophryniscidae — Jiménez de la Espada, 1870, J. Sci. Math. Phys. Nat., Lisboa, 3: 65.
Bufonida — Knauer, 1878, Naturgesch. Lurche: 109; Bayer, 1885 "1884", Abh. K. Böhm. Ges. Wiss., Prague, 12: 18.
Bufoniidae — Boulenger, 1893, Zool. Rec., 29: 39.
Bufonidi — Acloque, 1900, Fauna de France, 1: 489.
Dendrophryniscinae — Gadow, 1901, Amphibia and Reptiles: 139.
Platosphinae Fejérváry, 1917, Földtani Közlöny, Budapest, 47: 147. Type genus: Platosphus d'Isle, 1877. Synonymy by Sanchíz, 1998, Handb. Palaeoherpetol., 4: 122.
Bufoninae — Fejérváry, 1917, Földtani Közlöny, Budapest, 47: 148.
Bufavidae Fejérváry, 1920, Ann. Hist. Nat. Mus. Natl. Hungarici, 18: 30. Type genus: Bufavus Portis, 1885. Fossil taxon. Synonymy by implication of Sanchíz, 1998, Handb. Palaeoherpetol., 4: 125.
Bufonidae — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 19.
Tornierobatidae Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 19. Type genus: Tornierobates Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926. Synonymy by Noble, 1926, Am. Mus. Novit., 212: 15.
Dendrophryniscidae — Miranda-Ribeiro, 1926, Arq. Mus. Nac., Rio de Janeiro, 27: 19.
Atelopodidae — Parker, 1934, Monogr. Frogs Fam. Microhylidae: 8; Davis, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 91; Gallardo, 1961, 1° Reunion Trab. Comun. Cienc. Nat. Geograf., Univ. Nac. Litoral, Santa Fe, Argentina: 205.
Atelopodinae — Davis, 1935, Field Mus. Nat. Hist. Publ., Zool. Ser., 20: 91.
Nectophrynidae Laurent, 1942, Bull. Mus. R. Hist. Nat. Belg., 18: 6. Type genus: Nectophryne Buchholz and Peters, 1875. Synonymy by Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 27.
Nectophrynoidini — Dubois, 1982, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 16: 50. Type genus: Nectophrynoides Noble, 1926.
Tornierobatinae — Dubois, 1983, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 52: 273.
Adenominae — Dubois, 1983, Bull. Mens. Soc. Linn. Lyon, 52: 273.
Tornierobatini — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 25.
Nectophrynini — Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 27.
Stephopaedini Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 27. Type genus: Stephopaedes Channing, 1978.
Nomina inquirenda - Name(s) unassigned to a living or extinct population
Rana marginata Linnaeus, 1758, Syst. Nat., Ed. 10, 1: 212. Types: Not designated; although Laurenti, 1768, Spec. Med. Exhib. Synops. Rept.: 30, notes specimens in "Museo regio suecico", presumably available to Linnaeus. Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto: 54, regarded this taxon to be synonymous with his Rana typhonia (= Leptodactylus fuscus). (See Daudin, 1802 "An. XI", Hist. Nat. Rain. Gren. Crap., Quarto for access to NHRM type.) Type locality: "Indiis". Andersson considered one specimen from the Linnaean collection to be Linnaeus' Rana marginata, and synonymous with Bufo molitor Tschudi and Bufo andianus Cope. However, this name has not been used subsequently and sufficient ambiguities exist in Andersson's discussion to render this name a nomen dubium. Lönnberg, 1896, Bih. K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 22: 35, considered the taxon unidentifiable. * Bufo marginatus—Andersson, 1900, Bih. K. Svenska Vetensk. Akad. Handl., 26: 25.
Bufo siamensis Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 231. Type(s): By indication frog(s) mentioned in "Turpin Histoire civile et naturelle de Siam I page 256". Type locality: "Siam" (= Thailand).
Bufo arboreus Schneider, 1799, Hist. Amph. Nat.: 231. Type(s): By indication including frog(s) mentioned in "Britanni Itinerarium exceptum in Promtuario physico Lichtenbergii Vol. III. P. III. page 77." Type locality: "Americae eiusdem septentrionalis".
Bufo panamensis Daudin in Sonnini de Manoncourt and Latreille, 1801 "An. X", Hist. Nat. Rept., 2: 129. Type(s): MNHNP 742, according to Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 15. Type locality: "isthme de Panama".
Palaeophrynos Tschudi, 1838, Classif. Batr.: 52. Type species: Palaeophrynos gessneri Tschudi, 1838. Fossil taxon. Synonymy with Bufo (sensu lato) by Sanchíz, 1998, Handb. Palaeoherpetol., 4: 12, and Dubois and Bour, 2010, Zootaxa, 2447: 24. * Palaeophryne—Fitzinger, 1843, Syst. Rept.: 32. Incorrect subsequent spelling of Palaeophrynos Tschudi, 1838.
English Names
Toads (Fowler, 1907, Annu. Rep. N.J. State Mus. for 1906: 85; Conant, Cagle, Goin, Lowe, Neill, Netting, Schmidt, Shaw, Stebbins, and Bogert, 1956, Copeia, 1956: 176; Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: v).
True Toads (Ananjeva, Borkin, Darevsky, and Orlov, 1988, Dict. Amph. Rept. Five Languages: 35; Frank and Ramus, 1995, Compl. Guide Scient. Common Names Amph. Rept. World: 38; Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 144).
Cosmopolitan except for the Australian, Madagascan, and Oceanic regions, although introduced widely.
Frost, Grant, Faivovich, Bain, Haas, Haddad, de Sá, Channing, Wilkinson, Donnellan, Raxworthy, Campbell, Blotto, Moler, Drewes, Nussbaum, Lynch, Green, and Wheeler, 2006, Bull. Am. Mus. Nat. Hist., 297, reviewed systematic literature, discussed phylogeny, and provided a taxonomy of bufonids, although because these authors partitioned Bufo (sensu lato), much of the literature of that nominal genus refers to taxa other than Bufo (sensu stricto). McDiarmid, 1971, Sci. Bull. Nat. Hist. Mus. Los Angeles Co., 12: 1–66, discussed the relationships of the genera Atelopus, Dendrophryniscus, Melanophryniscus, and Oreophrynella and reformulated the family to include much of the content of former Atelopodidae. Ruiz-Carranza and Hernández-Camacho, 1976, Caldasia, 11: 93–148, discussed the relationships of the genera Atelopus, Crepidophryne, Dendrophryniscus, Melanophryniscus, Oreophrynella, Osornophryne, and Rhamphophryne. Cruz and Peixoto, 1982, Rev. Brasil. Biol., 42: 627–629, discussed the relationships between Atelopus pernambucensis (now Frostius), Atelopus, and Dendrophryniscus. Pauly, Hillis, and Cannatella, 2004, Evolution, 58: 2517–2535, discussed relationships among New World bufonids. Cannatella, 1986, Herpetologica, 42: 197–205, discussed the relationships of Frostius, Atelopus, Osornophryne, Oreophrynella, Melanophryniscus, and Dendrophryniscus. Dubois, 1987 "1986", Alytes, 5: 25, provisionally recognized five subfamilies: Bufoninae (for Bufo), Atelopodinae (for Atelopus, Crepidophryne, Dendrophryniscus, Melanophryniscus, Oreophrynella, Osornophryne, Peltophryne, and Rhamphophryne), Tornieriobatinae (containing three tribes—Nectophrynini [for Laurentophryne, Nectophryne, Werneria, and Wolterstorffina], Stephopaedini [for Stephopaedes, Mertensophryne, and Schismaderma], and Tornieriobatini [for Capensibufo, Didynamipus, and Nectophrynoides (sensu lato)]), Adenominae (for Ansonia, Bufoides, Leptophryne, Pedostibes, Pelophryne, and Pseudobufo [and without explaining where Adenomus was placed, then in the synonymy of Bufo]), and Allophryninae (now in Centrolenidae). These taxa were recognized on the basis of previously published evidence (e.g., Grandison, 1978, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 11: 119–172; Grandison, 1981, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Suppl., 15: 187–215; Wake, 1980, Copeia, 1980: 193–209), although some proposed groups (e.g., Dubois' Atelopodinae) are clearly polyphyletic on the basis of literature published at the time. Accounts and keys to most of the genera (prior to the partition of Bufo) are supplied by Laurent, 1986, in Grassé and Delsol (eds.), Traite de Zool., 14: 594–797. Graybeal and Cannatella, 1995, Herpetologica, 51: 105–133, discussed the evidence for the monophyly of various genera. Graybeal, 1997, Zool. J. Linn. Soc., 119: 297–338, discussed a phylogeny of bufonids and did not recognize Dubois' subfamilies. Unfortunately, Graybeal presented only her molecular evidence and did not disclose the relevant morphological evidence. Channing, 2001, Amph. Cent. S. Afr.: 56–61, provided a key to the species of southern Africa. Manthey and Grossmann, 1997, Amph. Rept. Südostasiens: 25–44, provided accounts and keys to the species of the Sunda Shelf. Cei, 1980, Monit. Zool. Ital., N.S., Monogr., 2: 157–213, discussed the species found in Argentina. Savage, 2002, Amph. Rept. Costa Rica: 185–212, provide accounts and keys to the species of Costa Rica. Liu and Hu, 1961, Tailless Amph. China: 113–126, discussed the Chinese species. Anders, 2002, in Schleich and Kästle (eds.), Amph. Rept. Nepal: 145–162, provided a key and accounts for the species of Nepal. Stöck, Günther, and Böhme, 2001, Zool. Abh. Staatl. Mus. Tierkd. Dresden, 51: 253–319, reviewed the nomenclature and taxonomy of Asian members of the Bufo viridis group (now Bufotes). Clarke, 2001, Afr. J. Herpetol., 50: 19–30, provided a critique of the systematics of African bufonids with discussion of the evidentiary basis of alternative viewpoints. Smith and Chiszar, 2006, Herpetol. Conserv. Biol., 1: 6–8, discussed the taxonomy of former "Bufo" insofar as it affects North American species. Because the implied combinations from that paper were unclear and provisional in text, the intention of the authors was verified by email correspondence (DRF); these authors intended world-wide application of their view, a view that if applied would require that most, if not all bufonid genera other than Melanophryniscus, Osornophryne, Atelopus, Truebella, and Dendrophryniscus, would be treated as subgenera of a hugely enlarged Bufo. Fouquette and Dubois, 2014, Checklist N.A. Amph. Rept.: 287, are the most recent authors to include the North American genera (Anaxyrus, Incilius, and Rhinella, as well as the extralimital Amietophrynus, Bufo, Bufotes, Capensibufo, Peltophryne, Stephopaedes, Torrentophryne, and Vandijkophrynus) as subgenera of Bufo in an attempt to maintain the North American status quo; like other authors who have suggested this, they ignore the fact that this synonymy requires under our current understanding of phylogeny that all Old World genera also be synonymized with Bufo, something that is unlikely to happen in any non-colonial world. Of course, Fouquette and Dubois (2014) may alternatively be comfortable with a paraphyletic Bufo, something certainly consistent with Dubois' publication record, but this would hardly represent a step forward. Matsui, Yambun Imbun, and Sudin, 2007, Zool. Sci., Tokyo, 24: 1159–1166, provided additional evidence for the polyphyly of "Bufo", with Ingerophrynus being in a clade with Sabahphrynus, Leptophryne, and Didynamipus; Duttaphrynus being likely closely related to Pelophryne, and Phrynoidis being the sister taxon of Pedostibes. Pramuk, Robertson, Sites, and Noonan, 2008, Global Ecol. Biogeograph., 17: 72–83, provided a phylogenetic hypothesis of Bufonidae and applied a monophyletic taxonomy. Díaz and Cádiz, 2008, Guía Taxon. Anf. Cuba: 1–294, provided accounts for the bufonids of Cuba. Fei, Hu, Ye, and Huang, 2009, Fauna Sinica, Amph. 2: 486–590, provided a key and accounts for the Chinese species. Van Bocxlaer, Biju, Loader, and Bossuyt, 2009, BMC Evol. Biol., 9 (e131): 1–10, provided an analysis of bufonid diversity, focused primarily on Asian diversity, that suggested that the New World component of diversity is paraphyletic with respect to the Old World component. This same tree is provided by Van Bocxlaer, Loader, Roelants, Biju, Menegon, and Bossuyt, 2010, Science, 327: 679–682. Pyron and Wiens, 2011, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 61: 543–583, largely confirmed the results of previous authors, although this is obscured by their explicit adoption of an out-dated and non-monophyletic taxonomy. See generic accounts for more information. Powell, Collins, and Hooper, 2011, Key Herpetofauna U.S. & Canada, 2nd Ed.: 38–42, provided a key to the genera and species of North America north of Mexico. Martín, Alonso-Zarazaga, and Sanchíz, 2012, Graellsia, 68: 159–180, discussed the allocation of fossils previously associated with the name Bufo, but referrable to other currently-recognized genera. Cole, Townsend, Reynolds, MacCulloch, and Lathrop, 2013, Proc. Biol. Soc. Washington, 125: 317–578, provided identification keys and accounts for the species in Guyana. Fei, Ye, and Jiang, 2012, Colored Atlas Chinese Amph. Distr.: 246–274, provided accounts, photographs, and range maps for Chinese taxa. Oliver-López, Woolrich-Piña, and Lemos-Espinal, 2009, Fam. Bufonidae Mex., reviewed the species of Mexico. Vitt and Caldwell, 2013, Herpetology, 4th Ed., provided a summary of life history, diagnosis, and taxonomy. Brandvain, Pauly, May, and Turelli, 2014, Genetics, 197: 743–747, constrained the paraphyletic "Bufo" by excluding all genera that render it paraphyletic, then reported on relative branch lengths of within the tree and tested whether these were correlated with F1 viability. Portik and Papenfuss, 2015, BMC Evol. Biol., 15 (152): 1–19, provided a molecular phylogeny of bufonids that largely corroborated the current generic taxonomy, but suggested that Pedostibes as currently understood is nonmonophyletic and by excluding Incilius bocourti avoided a strong test of its monophyly. Fei and Ye, 2016, Amph. China, 1: 737–824, reviewed the species of China. Liedtke, Müller, Rödel, Menegon, Gonwouo, Barej, Gvoždík, Schmitz, Channing, Nagel, and Loader, 2016, Evolution, 70: 1717–1733, provided a discussion of lineage and life history diversification of the genera in the family, with special reference to the African clade. Streicher, Miller, Guerrero, Correa-Quezada, Ortiz, Crawford, Pie, and Wiens, 2018, Mol. Phylogenet. Evol., 119: 128–143, provided a large molecular tree suggesting that Bufonidae is the sister taxon of Odontophrynidae, compared their tree to previous hypotheses, and found Odontophrynidae is a member of a large monophyletic group, termed Commutibirana by them, composed of Brachycephaloidea, Allophrynidae, Centrolenidae, Dendrobatoidea, Leptodactylidae, Odontophrynidae, and Bufonidae.
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Sabine Lautenschlaeger, who is also a member of the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision which wrote the new global banking standards known as Basel III, told Reuters current regulation was setting the wrong incentives.
During the debt crisis, banks especially in troubled euro zone countries like Spain and Italy increasingly bought government debt and under Basel III they don't have to set capital aside to counter possible default risks.
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Europe and the United States, the world's two largest banking markets, will miss the globally-agreed January deadline.
Lautenschlaeger said her U.S. colleagues in the Basel Committee had stressed that they wanted to implement Basel III, but they hadn't been able to give a date when they would do so.
Lautenschlaeger's calls for a cap on banks' exposure to government debt echoes earlier comments by Bundesbank President Jens Weidmann, who had raised the issue back in November as a means to break the negative feedback loop between indebted states and troubled banks.
The planned banking union also aims to address the close tie by putting a new European banking supervision regime under the roof of the ECB, as well as with a scheme to wind down banks and a combined means of deposit protection to prevent bank runs.
Lautenschlaeger praised the agreement struck earlier this month to put the ECB in charge to directly police at least 150 of the euro zone's biggest banks from 2014 and intervene in smaller banks at the first sign of trouble.
But she questioned whether the new supervisory body's proposed operating structure was in line with EU law.
"To my understanding, the ECB Governing Council should only be able to approve or reject proposals made by the supervisory board; it should not be able to include own ideas. Beyond that an arbitration committee was introduced," she explained, adding that this was done to separate supervisory and monetary policy.
"It is questionable whether this is possible under EU law, and whether it is justified that the ECB Council will be responsible for administrative decisions without direct scope for influencing them," Lautenschlaeger said.
German magazine der Spiegel reported earlier this month that the Bundesbank had serious reservations about the legal framework.
Reporting by Eva Kuehnen and Alexander Huebner; editing by Patrick Graham


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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Asf Fue: IV" This episode is the fourth segment of the four-part review of the entire series and features Raquel talking about her experiences since arriving in Mexico.G
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Destinos: An Introduction to Spanish "Siempre Lo Amo'" This episode is the final episode of the Destinos series.G
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Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices "Students Making Choices" Becky Pursley teaches first grade in Austin, Texas. Her students have a broad range of reading levels. Ms. Pursley uses a workshop approach to meet individual needs and provide many choices for learning. D
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Teaching Reading K-2: A Library of Classroom Practices "William Finds His Base" William Daley is a typical second-grade boy who attends the Hemenway Elementary School in Framingham, Massachusetts. William's teacher Stacey Soto discovered early in the year that he was pretending to read better than he tested. Over the course of six months, she works with him on decoding and comprehension, giving him books for both guided and independent reading that present a strong challenge. D
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Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Energy and Eccentricity" The precise orbit of a heavenly body. D
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Mechanical Universe And Beyond, The "Navigating In Space" Voyages to other planets use the same laws that guide planets around the solar system. D
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Discovering Psychology "The Self" Explores how psychologists systematically study the origins of self identity and self-esteem, social determinants of self-conceptions, and the emotional and motivational consequences of beliefs about oneself.G
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Discovering Psychology "Testing and Intelligence" Focuses on the field of psychological assessment and the efforts of psychologists and other professionals to assign values to different abilities, behaviors, and personalities.G
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Design Squad Nation "Apache Skateboarders" Ronnie, a 17-year-old skateboarder from the White Mountain Apache Reservation in Whiteriver, Arizona, teams up with co-hosts Judy and Adam to build a skateboarding street course. Engineered to be modular, durable and weather-resistant, this is the skate park of Ronnie's dreams.G
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Biz Kid$ "Money Moves (Global Economy)" Around the world with the Biz Kids! Join us and you'll follow the flow of imports and exports that make up the interconnected world economy. You will discover who makes the many things we use every day that come from all over the world. You'll also see how several entrepreneurs have made a success of their businesses, despite the pressures of the world economy. D
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The Electric Company "Electric Accompany" Annie hypnotizes Keith to sing an annoying jingle. The Electric Company needs to cure Keith in time for him to perform the song he wrote for his dad's birthday. D
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Cyberchase "Size Me Up" The kids cope with disparities in scale and size and use their brainpower to stop Hacker's plan.G
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Quilting Arts "Stitch, Quilt, and Finish" It's hard to define the common elements of an art quilt, but at the most basic level all have stitching, quilting, and finishing plus the added element of a contemporary attitude. This episode begins with a segment taped on location with Valori Wells: fabric designer, sewer, and quilter. She presents a modern quilt featuring paint, embroidery, machine stitching, and specialty fabric-for an integrated design. D
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Best of the Joy of Painting "Lake in the Valley" Travel into mountain country with Bob Ross and discover a quiet little lake hidden in the wilderness. D
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Chef John Besh's New Orleans Chilled Tomato Soup with Tapenade, Trout Amandine, and Buttermilk Panna Cotta. D
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Joanne Weir's Cooking Confidence "Argentina Remembered" Craving the bold flavors she tasted in Argentina, Joanne shows her student Leigh how to give grilled skirt steak a boost with a fresh and zesty chimichurri sauce. And potatoes get the double treatment of roasting and grilling becoming twice as flavorful. Recipes: Gazpacho Salad, Grilled Skirt Steak with Chimichurri, Roasted and Grilled Potatoes. D
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Hometime "Timber Shed Finishing Touches" The HOMETIME crew finishes the exterior and gets the new shed ready for winter. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Rick Steves' Europe: The Making Of" After 16 years and more than 100 travel shows, Rick and his crew take you behind the scenes to show you just how they produce this series. Joining the crew as they scamper through Milan and around Lake Como, you'll follow the creative process as the challenges and surprises that come with travel are shaped into a finished show. D
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Burt Wolf: Travels & Traditions "Jungfrau Region, Switzerland" Burt takes a steamer to the ancient villages on Lake Thun, rides the highest railroad in Europe and climbs inside a million-year-old waterfall.G
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Essential Pepin "Souper Soups for Supper" Tomato Chowder With Mollet Eggs; Black Bean Soup With Bananas; Garlic Soup; Onion Soup Lyonnaise-Style; Consomme. D
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America's Test Kitchen from Cook's Illustrated "Irish Comfort Classics" Host Christopher Kimball heads into the test kitchen with test cook Julia Collin Davison to update a classic recipe for Shepherd's Pie. Next, gadget guru Lisa McManus reveals her favorite quirky kitchen gadgets. Then, Chris answers questions from viewers. D
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Caprial and John's Kitchen: Cooking for Family and Friends "U-Pick Tomatoes" Learn how to pick the best tomatoes, and preparing them for a bountiful summer meal. Tomato Herb Salad; Fresh Tomato Parmesan Sauce with Grilled Shrimp. D
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Kimchi Chronicles "The Kimchi Chronicles Conclude" The final episode in the series begins in the ethereal countryside where Marja spends a day with the "Alice Waters of Korea" and learns the authentic way to make kimchi and holiday dishes to celebrate the new year. Marja and Jean-Georges also taste royal court cuisine and Marja visits Sanchon Restaurant in Seoul for a transformative meal of temple cuisine. Marja joins her Korean family in the northern beach town of Sokcho for a picnic and then brings the spirit home to New York for a roast pig celebration with the Vongerichten family. D
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Rick Steves' Europe "Rick Steves' Europe: The Making Of" After 16 years and more than 100 travel shows, Rick and his crew take you behind the scenes to show you just how they produce this series. Joining the crew as they scamper through Milan and around Lake Como, you'll follow the creative process as the challenges and surprises that come with travel are shaped into a finished show. D
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Great Conversations "Sandra Day O'connor and Pete Williams" Sandra Day O'Connor (The Majesty of the Law) and Pete Williams (NBC news correspondent). D


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Irving Bacheller Collection
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Born in Pierrepont, NY, and a graduate of St. Lawrence University, Bacheller was a best-selling turn-of-the-century author who later founded the Bacheller Syndicate which introduced several major authors, e.g. Stephen Crane, to American readers. His final career was that of circuit lecturer for the J. B. Pond Lyceum Bureau. Bacheller spent his final years in Winter Park, FL, home of Rollins College. The collection consists of business and personal letters, photographs, newspaper clippings, and manuscripts of published and unpublished works by Bacheller. It also contains material on some of the people about whom Bacheller wrote, such as Philo Scott and Jane Gentry.


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Turquoise Acorn Necklace
Suzan Zahedi has been collecting metal, seeds, pods, and paper since she was 11. In high school her father taught her the art of jewelry making in their New York home studio, beginning a life-long passion for metal craft.
Years of creating, a lifetime of trial, and her entrepreneurial spirit gave rise to SUZAN's unique jewelry business in 1996. Today, in her southern California studio, she handcrafts each piece of gold and silver jewelry, incorporating stones, wood, and chains. Her unique hand forging techniques leave natural marks which serve as constant reminders of life's scars and imperfections, the very things that give us character and make us special and unique. Each piece tells a story of hope, resilience, and natural beauty with the juxtaposition of classic design with a modern twist. Highly sought after Southern California jewelry collection Studio SUZAN pieces are all handmade signed and dated and come with a velvet pouch.
SUZAN used to collect acorns as a child. In awe of the meaning and purpose of such a tiny seed she would collect them, keep them in her closet, and watch them sprout like onions. Today she crafts these acorn charms and pendants as reminder to women of the seed within them. We are all meaningful, purposeful, and elegant; these acorns remind women of their precious natural beauty.
Sterling silver hand forged acorn top with turquoise bead and tiny turquoise charm on a long delicate sterling chain (33.5").


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Via Yahoo, Stern wants to improve the flow of the game by extending the 2 minute rule which takes place at the end of games to the full 48 minutes for off-the-ball fouling. Intentional fouls of the non-ballhandler would (and do in the last 2 minutes) result in 2 free throws plus retaining possession of the ball.
The argument that follows Stern's line of thinking is that the game becomes disjointed and unenjoyable to watch when it turns into a special olympics of free throwing (my words not his).
Counter arguments include the opinion that the big fellas simply need to learn how to shoot the freebies, it's a tactical part of the NBA (like no DH in the NL of baseball) and that off-the-ball fouls are not always intentional and could be unfairly punished.


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IX_Legion wrote:Just thought of a potential problem with armor. I was reading the section in the 2010 rulebook on collisions, and it said trample damage was equal to the difference in the sizes of the attacker and defender. What happens when a size 6 tank runs over an armored size 1 minifig? The five difference in size will cause enough damage to kill the minifig, and no die is rolled for the armor to remove. So is armor ineffective vs. trample damage?
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
stubby wrote:Yeah, a size 6 tank is a pretty big tank. I'm pretty sure the armor just pops at that point.
Warhead wrote:my head burns with War.
Chapter 5 wrote:A cowardly minifig wishing to escape Close Combat can attempt to Withdraw, moving away as part of his regular Movement.
Chapter H wrote:Normally, if a minifig in Close Combat attempts to Withdraw (5.2: Close Combat), he must use his Action to do so
Tzan wrote:Quantumsurfer wrote:I generally agree with TzanWarhead wrote:I agree with QuantumSmurfer.
I agree with Warhead.
Natalya wrote:Wtf is going on in this thread?
Tzan wrote:"The frontiers of space are a giant sausage fest." ~ Admiral Ackbar
mercury19 wrote:I don't know if this has been posted already, and I'm not going through 43 pages to find out, but, for me at least, chapters ten and eleven go to a 404 page, on all of my browsers (IE 9, google chrome, and safari)
stubby wrote: my floppy penis gets first dibs on it for tradition's sake, but it doesn't seem likely that he'll want to stick around long enough to play.
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Tzan wrote:Quantumsurfer wrote:I generally agree with TzanWarhead wrote:I agree with QuantumSmurfer.
I agree with Warhead.
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The Temperance Movement began in the early 1800s and by 1833 there were 6,000 local societies in the United States. This article, reprinted from the Hampshire Gazette, hopes that the Franklin County Commissioners will refuse to give a license to a rum distillery in Whately, Massachusetts. The writer feels that it is a curse to the entire area, and that when previously in operation, supplied the "drunkards" in Northampton. The Greenfield Gazette and Franklin Herald was the newspaper in Greenfield, Massachusetts, from June 26, 1827 to June 27, 1837. It changed its name to the Gazette & Mercury.
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October 19, 2016: Meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee
|October 19, 2016
|8:15 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
|FDA White Oak Campus
10903 New Hampshire Avenue
Building 31 Conference Center
The Great Room (Rm. 1503)
Silver Spring, Maryland
The committee will discuss the efficacy and safety of new drug application (NDA) 201656 (desmopressin), 0.75 mcg/0.1 mL and 1.5 mcg/0.1 mL nasal spray, submitted by Serenity Pharmaceuticals, LLC, for the proposed treatment of adult onset nocturia.
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FDA intends to make background material available to the public no later than 2 business days before the meeting. If FDA is unable to post the background material on its Web site prior to the meeting, the background material will be made publicly available at the location of the advisory committee meeting, and the background material will be posted on FDA's Web site after the meeting. Background material is available at: 2016 Meeting Materials, Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee (formerly Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs (ACRHD))
Public Participation Information
Interested persons may present data, information, or views, orally or in writing, on issues pending before the committees.
- Written submissions may be made to the contact person on or before October 4, 2016.
- Oral presentations from the public will be scheduled between approximately 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m. on October 19, 2016. Those individuals interested in making formal oral presentations should notify the contact person and submit a brief statement of the general nature of the evidence or arguments they wish to present, the names and addresses of proposed participants, and an indication of the approximate time requested to make their presentation on or before September 26, 2016.
Time allotted for each presentation may be limited. If the number of registrants requesting to speak is greater than can be reasonably accommodated during the scheduled open public hearing session, FDA may conduct a lottery to determine the speakers for the scheduled open public hearing session. The contact person will notify interested persons regarding their request to speak by September 27, 2016.
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CDER plans to provide a free of charge, live webcast of the October 19, 2016, meeting of the Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee. While CDER is working to make webcasts available to the public for all advisory committee meetings held at the White Oak campus, there are instances where the webcast transmission is not successful; staff will work to re-establish the transmission as soon as possible. Further information regarding the webcast, including the web address for the webcast, will be made available at least 2 days in advance of the meeting at the following website: 2016 Meeting Materials, Bone, Reproductive and Urologic Drugs Advisory Committee (formerly Advisory Committee for Reproductive Health Drugs (ACRHD)).
CDER plans to post archived webcasts after the meeting, however, in cases where transmission was not successful, archived webcasts will not be available.
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The Bungalow is a charming restaurant in a building that actually looks like a bungalow.
The main entry is in the rear, where there is valet parking. The low walls are made of stone, as is the entryway. A trellis of flowers adorns the area.
You walk up a few steps to a covered patio dining area featuring a stone fireplace. Continue up the stairs to reach the main dining rooms and the hostess station. A large bar room in the front also serves as a dining area, and there are two other rooms, one on the lower level.
The rooms are distinguished by the fine reproduction of the dark woods and beautiful joinery of the Craftsman style. A brightly colored abstract mural covers one wall.
The first menu category is "Plates." These are not exactly appetizers but include a cheese plate and a prawn cocktail. Also offered are items like a half-pound filet mignon burger, shrimp scampi, lamb lollipops and ahi poke.
I couldn't resist the crab cakes. The large square plate had two plump cakes at each corner, accompanied by a salad of bright green baby spinach and roasted yellow corn in a very light dressing. Also on the plate were swatches of a rich cream sauce with just a hint of jalapeno. On two sides were three dots each of hot sauce. It all made a pretty picture.
The minced crab was seasoned with spicy green chilies, bits of red pepper and green onion. The cakes had a lovely browned crust. It was fun to be able to add heat and creaminess to taste with these delicious patties. They were certainly big enough to share as well.
On the lighter side was a pear salad. It was also very large, the size of a dinner plate. Romaine and purple lettuce were mounded high and topped with pear slices, dried cranberries, candied walnuts and a sprinkling of feta cheese. The dressing was light and lemony.
Our only complaint was that the pears were unripe and thus tasteless. Otherwise the salad was quite good.
Chilean sea bass is hard to find on menus these days, since it is strictly regulated. It is one of my favorite fishes and I order it whenever I can. The bass, with its mahogany-colored skin, was also beautifully presented. It rested on a bed of rice and was surrounded by a gorgeous sauce of dark sweet balsamic reduction intertwined with coconut cream.
On top of the moist and tender fish were salty green pea sprouts, bits of green onion and sautéed mushrooms. Two fried slices of lotus blossom finished the picture.
All of the restaurant's steaks are prime. The rib eye was cooked exactly as requested, medium rare, and slathered with a sauce of banyuls jus (old vine sweet dessert wine). The quality of the steak was excellent, and it had a deep meaty flavor. It was also nicely presented, with a bed of spinach mixed with olive oil, smashed fingerling potatoes and caramelized shallots.
If you can't make up your mind, a "surf and turf" made of any combination from the menu might satisfy.
The special dessert of the evening was a dulce de leche cheesecake with a very dense layer of regular cheese cake filling. It was then topped with a layer of caramel–flavored dulce de leche filling and finally with a thick layer of cream cheese.
It rested on a crisscross pattern of caramel and raspberry drizzles. A somewhat unnecessary mound of whipped cream rested on the side. the dessert was very rich and very good except that being in the refrigerator had made the crumbly crust soggy.
The Bungalow is an attractive place to dine, with good food, good service and a pleasant atmosphere. The menu is rather pricey, and perhaps this is why it draws largely an older crowd.
TERRY MARKOWITZ was in the gourmet food and catering business for 20 years. She can be reached for comments or questions at email@example.com.
If You Go
The Bungalow
Where: 2441 E. Coast Hwy., Corona del Mar
When: 5 p.m. to 10 p.m. Monday through Wednesday; 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. Thursday through Saturday;
5 p.m. to 9 p.m. Sunday
Plates: $11 to $20
Soup & Salad: $9 to $36
Entrées: $17 to $48
Desserts: $9 to $10
Bottles: $40 to $300
Half Bottles: $20 to $45
By the glass: $9 to $25
Corkage Fee: $20
Information: (949) 673-6585 or thebungalowrestaurant.com


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Sworn in earlier this month, James T. Smith Jr. is Maryland's 13th transportation secretary. At an age when many people have begun or are contemplating retirement, Smith, 71, is taking the helm of a 10,000-employee agency that oversees highways, bridges, tunnels, BWI Marshall Airport, the port of Baltimore, the Motor Vehicle Administration and mass transit. He said he took the job because of an infusion of $4.4 billion tied to passage this year of a comprehensive transportation revenue bill and because he has long known and admired many of the professionals who now work for him.
It seems like Baltimore's Red Line light rail project is on the cusp of becoming shovel-ready. What's the timeline?
We have $170 million from the Transportation Infrastructure Investment Act programmed for final design and right-of-way acquisition. We're proceeding with that. With the feds, we're going to ask them for full funding in the upcoming year and we're moving ahead to make the project a reality. You ask for all and you hope to get as close to all as you can. We have some pretty heavy hitters as supporters, so I'm optimistic. Whether we get it next year or whether we get it the following year, that's not as important. We asked for it this year because we wanted to get it on everybody's radar. I met with Senator [Barbara A.] Mikulski just this week and I'm going to get her more information because I want her to be fully on top of this. Senator [Ben] Cardin is also being very supportive. In fact, our congressional delegation has been very effective, and I'm going to use that strength as much as I can.
Because of the enormous backlog of projects that built up during the lean years, how long is the Baltimore area's wish list, and how much money are we talking about?
I haven't added it all up, but there are a lot of projects in the queue and a lot of projects on planning tables and in planning rooms that have had no momentum whatsoever. My biggest challenge is getting some excellent projects in the queue out into the field and doing it as fast as is reasonably possible. … There's a need. We have congestion on highways. We have mass transit needs. We have port needs to get that new terminal and expand into the Sparrows Point peninsula. We have the need both from a quality-of-life standpoint and from an economic development and jobs standpoint. There haven't been any new construction projects to speak of in the last four or five years because there has been no money. A lot of the BRAC interests at Aberdeen and the MARC train interests in Baltimore City and Baltimore County and beyond, we haven't been able to respond to that.
I'd like to circle back on Sparrows Point. That's a heavy lift. It has implications for the surrounding communities, the business future of not only Baltimore County but the state's maritime industry, and the environment. How close is the state to making something happen? What is the time frame?
Now is the time frame. We're attempting to stimulate negotiations right now. This is the time to look at the need to expand the port. I mean, the port is going gangbusters. It is an economic engine for the state. If we don't move now we're going to be landlocked. We're going to lose the opportunity to move into the Sparrows Point peninsula, and we can't afford to do that. We need the additional terminal. We'll be able to take advantage of creating jobs — both direct and indirect.
Once again, the state is looking at the need for a third Chesapeake Bay crossing. The Bay Bridge, if and when capacity is expanded, could be the biggest political football of all time, given the scope of the project, the cost and the communities on both the Eastern and Western shores that will be affected. Is this just another study to be put on a shelf next to other studies or is this the first step to something tangible?
We have a study that's supposed to be completed in two years that will determine whether we need a third crossing and what kind of a bridge we need. We're taking steps to preserve what we've got. We're looking at repair and/or repaving of the westbound span of the Bay Bridge and we're in the process of rewrapping the suspension cables because of corrosion that occurred. We've got to get these studies done in order to know when we have to move and what kind of a structure we're going to have to have in order to satisfy the growing demands. Sure, it can be done. Anything can be done. The question is, should it be done, and when should it be done, and what should it look like? You have to get through all of those before you start planning where you're going to put it and what impacts you're going to get beyond traffic relief it's going to provide. I think we're taking the steps in the right order. In a couple of years, we're going to have the answers.
What have transportation officials learned about the impact of Base Realignment and Closure — BRAC — and how is that knowledge being applied to mitigate problems?
I don't think we necessarily learned anything new. I was involved in this as Baltimore County executive in pushing for BRAC improvements, particularly at Aberdeen. I think our expectations have been met, only we had no money to prepare for those expectations. As a result, we've got a lot of catch-up to do. We're going to be evaluating how much of that catch-up we can work into our six-year planning time. Aberdeen, Fort Meade, Bethesda — they're all going to get attention for intersection improvements, for some road widening. Folks who are impacted should be pleased that there was enough courage in the General Assembly to apply the resources to make improvements. They're going to see the results of the money they're paying for the gas tax and they're going to be pleased because it's going to make a difference in their drive time and it's going to make a difference in the quality of their lives. This money is not going into a black hole. This money is going into the streets, in the tracks, in the air and on the water.
The final question — and I know it makes six, not five. Why did the Washington suburbs get to call their light rail project the Purple Line, when that name would have been more at home in Baltimore, the home of the Super Bowl champion Ravens?
It should have [laughing]. But I wasn't here then.
James T. Smith Jr.
Age: 71
Resides: Cockeysville
Family: Sandy (wife), four children, 12 grandchildren
Resume: Public defender, four years; Baltimore County Council, seven years; Circuit Court judge, 16 years; Baltimore County executive, two terms


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Jan. 10, 2012- Watch out, here they come. One hundred twenty-five enthusiastic women will fill the woods in Pollock at Camp Grant Walker in the rolling hills of central Louisiana. On March 23-25, 2012, the Louisiana Department of Wildlife and Fisheries (LDWF) will sponsor its 24th Becoming an Outdoors-Woman (BOW) workshop. Women throughout Louisiana and neighboring states will attend an educational hands-on outdoor skill workshop. If you are a woman 18 or older and like the outdoors, you will love this three-day skill workshop.
Registration will open on January 23, 2012. Interested persons are urged to register as soon as possible beginning on this date. The $170 fee (check or money order only) includes instruction for four selected classes, program materials, demonstration equipment, lodging, meals and T-shirt.
Participants will enroll in four classes from a selection of more than 30 topics. These subjects include bucks and does, shotgun, rifle, handguns, fly-fishing, kayaking, camping, archery, horseback riding, fishing, boating/trailering, compass skills, outdoor photography, camp cooking and more. Expert instructors donate their time and skills in classes taught in and around the nearby streams, lakes, wooded ridges and forest trails of beautiful Louisiana.
Natural resource scientist Christine Thomas of the University of Wisconsin founded the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman program. She completed a survey in 1991 entitled 'Barriers to Women Participating in Hunting and Fishing.' It documented that the most obvious problem was lack of instruction and encouragement.
To receive a registration form contact Dana Norsworthy in Monroe at (318) 345-3912 or Bill Breed in Monroe at (318) 343-1241. Forms can be faxed, mailed or retrieved from the LDWF web site at www.wlf.louisiana.gov/becoming-outdoors-woman-bow. The forms will not be available until January 23, 2012 and must be returned by mail to the address on the form. If you decide to hand-deliver your registration form it will not be accepted until January 24, 2012. The first 125 completed registration forms received with payment will be accepted. Registration will be taken until the workshop is full. All forms received after the workshop is full will be placed on a waiting list in case of cancellations.
Join the fun and be one of those 125 women in the woods. Register for the Becoming an Outdoors-Woman workshop and become skilled in something that you always dreamed about doing.


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Edward Jay Epstein writes:
We are now approaching the 48th anniversary of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and every year since I first wrote on this subject in 1965, I am asked "Was Oswald alone, and, if not, who was behind the assassination?" While researching Legend: The Secret World of Lee Harvey Oswald, I interviewed Thomas Mann, the former US Ambassador to Mexico in 1976. He told me that after Kennedy's assassination in Dallas in November 1963, the CIA station in Mexico believed Castro might have behind the assassination based on "opportunity and means."
According to Mann, their case was built on the witnesses in the Cuban Embassy reporting that Oswald had offered his services and one witness saying Oswald met with a Cuban official outside the Embassy. The Warren Commission rejected these allegations in its Report, and Mann himself was abruptly recalled from Mexico. So the allegations seemed at the time a dead end.
What I did not know then was that Castro also had a very direct motive. The CIA had used a double agent in an attempt to assassinate him. This agent was deemed "insecure" which meant he likely informed Castro in the fall of 1963 that the CIA was trying to kill him.
The twists in this 1963 plot are revealed in a secret document –- the CIA's Inspector General report "On Plots To Assassinate Fidel Castro." It was hand delivered to CIA Director Richard Helms in May 1967 and Helms considered it so explosive that he ordered all but one copy destroyed, as well as all the typing ribbons used to type it. That remaining single copy was kept in a vault and only released under the Freedom of Information Act on June 23, 1998. It raises serious questions about whether blowback from that operation, code named AMLASH, resulted in JFK's assassination. My new ebook Killing Castro is based on that report (which is included as the appendix).
Ed has posted an excerpt of the book online for our readers to take a look: "The Day of the Two Jackals." Please check it out.


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I have just the thing for all you folks out there who are in a relationship. If you're like every other couple I know, you have your share of tension. And let's face it—tension leads to fighting. And fighting, if not done fairly, can lead to hurting your partner—even if that's not your intention.
Here are Cheryl and Vern; they have a problem:
We've been married for 11 years and have two great kids, ages 4 and 7. We both have full-time jobs, so family life is at a premium. Lately we've hit a rough patch and we seem to be fighting more than usual. We still love each other very much, but the sniping and bitchiness is getting us down. I know this is not specifically a sex question, but do you know how we could cut down on all this bickering or make it so we don't lose it with each other?
Every relationship has its bones of contention. And it's natural and healthy to want to hash things out. I think it's so much better to get things out in the open, rather than let them fester all bottled up inside. Of course, there is a danger of exploding and letting things just fly in every direction. Someone is liable to get hurt. But if you give your venting some structure—fair fighting technique, for example—you'll be more likely to get your point across with out bludgeoning one another.
First thing—we tend to fight more when we're irritable. Stress and sleep deprivation make us cranky. And from the sound of it, you guys are definitely stressed, if not also sleep deprived. Your lifestyle is setting you up for confrontation. So no amount of fair fight training is gonna make a difference until there's some change in your lifestyle. In fact, I suggest that you not even attempt to embrace these techniques if you're not serious about integrating them into your lifestyle. It would be like committing to non-violence while you're stocking up on guns and ammo.
Let's take a look at some of the basics. The way you word a complaint will make a big difference. For instance, avoid "you" statements as much as possible. "You" statements tend to make your partner feel like he/she is to blame. "You make me angry." "You don't trust me." "You're not making sense." "You never take the time to compliment me anymore." "You are always to busy for me and my needs."
I suggest that you use "I" statements instead. "I" statements reflect the way you feel. "I feel angry when I hear things like that." "I want you to trust me." "I don't understand what you are saying." "I don't hear compliments from you anymore." "I feel like I'm not important to you anymore."
You see how in the first instance, the "you" statements blame your partner. They also assume he/she should know better, and that they're doing this to you on purpose. The problem with assumptions like these is they only make things worse. They also put your partner in a defensive posture. "No, I didn't." "That ridiculous." "I am, too!" "You've got to be kidding."
In the second instance the "I" statements are more open-ended. They invite a response without putting your partner on the defensive. This is also a useful way of soliciting your partner's feedback. "I'm not trying to make you angry." "I want to trust you too, but how can I?" "Let me put it another way." "I know I should try harder to compliment you." "I'm so swamped; I have a difficult time prioritizing everything these days."
Another basic to fighting fair is giving concrete examples of what you are talking about. Let's say you're talking about money matters. That's always a big bugaboo in any relationship. Use "I" statements along with an example: "I felt like you just blew off the family budget when you made that purchase. I know you were thinking of the whole family when you bought it. It's just I would really like some input on major expenditures like this. How are we going to adjust the budget for next month to pay for this?"
You see how the concrete example demonstrates your concern without clobbering your partner? You also suggested that you understood why the thing happened. And, most importantly, you offer a solution—that the two of you pull together as a team to resolve the budget crisis.
You know how sometimes you know exactly what you want to say, but it doesn't come out right? This is more likely to happen in the heat of an argument. To short-circuit this dangerous hazard, I suggest that before either of you launches into a tirade against the other, you take the time to plan out what you want to say. Jot down some notes, bullet points, if you will. This, of course, also creates a natural cooling off period. The goal of fighting fair is to make the situation better, not worse.
If you guys are prone to fighting, I suggest that you take a cue from those in the kink community. In negotiating a BDSM scene, the participants always agree on a safeword before the scene begins. This safeword is a word that will be out of the context in the scenario, or in your case the argument. This safe word is used when someone is reaching his/her limit in the scene, or in your case, when your fight is veering toward emotional violence.
For example, let's say you guys decide on the word "pickle." You find yourself in a spat; things are heating up. You are dangerously close to saying some very hurtful things, things you know you will regret later. This is the time to employ the safe word. Or, let's say, you are being browbeaten and harangued and you feel emotionally vulnerable. You don't want to react or turn up the volume, so you use the safe word. If you commit to a safe word and one of you uses it and the other one ignores it, then that person is not only breaking the rules of fighting fair, he or she is guilty of domestic violence. And that ought never be tolerated. Get it? Got it? Good!
Here are some other things to consider when structuring your arguments so as not to devastate your partner. The time to commit to fighting fair must happen before there is a row. So I suggest that you sit down one quiet evening and pound out your own guidelines. You'll also need to give these rules teeth. If there are no consequences for breaking an agreed upon rule, then what's the point?
1. Pick the right time and place for the fight. Don't bring up problems when you don't have time to talk about them (like right before you or your partner has to leave for work). Don't fight when you're drinking. If things are coming to a head, but there's no time for a fair fight, commit to a concrete time later to take on the issue. Be sure you honor that commitment and not just avoid the fight.
2. State your feelings honestly, without sarcasm or insults. Jot down the points you want to make. Delete anything that is intended to hurt or humiliate your partner.
3. Stick to the issue at hand. Don't go bringing up things that happened in the past, even to make your point.
4. Fair fighting is not about placing blame. It's about solving problems.
5. Stick to "I" statements and stay away from "you" statements.
6. Avoid words like "always" and "never." "You always do that." "I never get what I need." This will help you avoid criticizing your partner's entire personality.
7. Don't mind-read. If you don't know how your partner feels or what he/she thinks, then ASK.
8. Incorporate positive statements and compliments along with your complaints. Make a sandwich: complaint—compliment—criticism. Like this: "You're a lying sonofabitch!" "I love your shoes!" "You should eat shit and die!"
Okay, I'm kidding on the last part up. But you could say something like: "I sometimes feel so alone. I know you're trying to be more present. Is there any way we can work it that we have more quality time together, to love and nurture one another?" This sandwich technique will soften the blow of any complaint and your partner will be less defensive.
Remember, you are not alone. All couples have their share of problems. No couple will see eye to eye on everything. But if you know how to fight fair when fighting is called for, you'll be able to structure your arguments so that you can resolve the issues without damaging your partner's ego.
Good luck!


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Saturday, February 13, 2016
Brach's Valen-tiny's
One of the new items from Brach's is a fun looking product. They're called Brach's Valen-tiny's. They're tiny double layer hearts in the style of SweeTarts.
I found the share size bag at Target, which is a great size for a new product like this. The bag has no further description aside from advising that they're good for snacking or decorating. The little window in the bag shows that they are actually tiny hearts that are two layers, one white and the other a pastel.
As far as I can tell, there are five flavors:
The quality of the flavors is so widely varied that I can't recommend them. It's hard to tell them apart because they're small and only colored on one side, so it's easy to eat the wrong one if you're avoiding a color.
I'd like to see Brach's try again with these because the concept shows a lot of promise. But they're fine for decorating and I only spent a buck on them. I was disappointed to see that they're made in China, which means that Brach's or Ferrara Candy Company didn't actually make them at all.
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Tuesday, September 29, 2015
Brach's Sea Salt Chocolate Candy Corn
Brach's has a few new versions of their classic Candy Corn this year, in addition to the return of Apple Pie, Pumpkin Pie and Caramel Macchiatto. The Brach's Sea Salt Chocolate Candy Corn says it's made with real honey and comes from the same factory in Mexico that makes all the other Brach's candy corn.
The image on the front of the bag shows what looks like chocolate truffles coated with far more salt than anyone should be eating. The good news is that it's just an artistic representation, it's there's not that much salt on them and certainly none that's visible.
Brach's classic candy corn has 70 mg of sodium per serving of 19 pieces. The Sea Salt Chocolate version has 95 mg of sodium. The ingredients label lists both regular salt and sea salt as ingredients. The sea salt, which is the defining feature that the product leads with is way down at the end of the list after the first salt, after the palm kernel oil, after the natural and artificial colors and some extra dextrose. The only items lower on the list are gelatin, honey and the artificial colors plus sesame oil and soy lecithin.
So, back to that picture on the front of the bag, it took me a little while of eating the pieces in layers to realize that the picture is actually a code for the candy.
The base layer is sweet, though a little less sweet than a standard candy corn fondant. There's a light cocoa note, like that feeling that you get when you go into the kitchen and realize that someone left a package of hot cocoa mix open. The next layer, the middle one, is pretty much the same, expect I think I caught some fake butter notes. Then the white top layer is not that "bland white tip of the candy corn flavor", instead it's actually salty. There are actually little crunchy bits of salt in there.
The whole thing tastes every so slightly less sweet than standard orange and yellow candy corn, but not actually chocolatey. It's missing the honey notes and the weird butter flavoring really didn't belong at all.
Of the recent novelty flavors, I think the Caramel Macchiatto was my favorite, but I'd love them to try an espresso or maybe affogato. This one seemed a little too late for the trend and not well executed.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:58 pm Candy • Review • Halloween • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Fondant • 5-Pleasant • Mexico • Target •
Wednesday, August 26, 2015
Brach's Peanut Butter Cup Candy Corn
Brach's has introduced over a dozen flavors of Candy Corn in the past five years. There are the more traditional flavors like Harvest Corn and Pastel Corn, but also some more trendy flavors like Carrot Cake, Caramel Macchiato and Red Velvet.
Though I find myself a purist when it comes to certain candies, I think that the fondant candies are ripe for this sort of flavor exploration. I also think a lot more could be done with shape. I'm not sure why we're hung up on the layered corn. Perhaps it's just economical to use the same mold for all new variations and use color to distinguish them. So, I welcome these new Candy Corn shaped flavor experiences.
Last spring Ferrara Candy announced the new Brach's Peanut Butter Cup Candy Corn and I was immediately intrigued. It's a great idea, peanut butter cups are already layered and the flavors might translate well. Might.
The pieces look like a lot of other Brach's candy corn pieces. They're large and narrow and have a little notch that goes across the bottom layer and the middle of the center layer. The layers appear to be distinctive flavors, the base is cocoa, the center beige is peanut and the top is "white."
The candy corn has an odd but convincing peanut aroma. It smells more like boiled peanuts than roasted peanuts, there's a thinness about the scent that becomes more obvious when I ate them.
The ingredients list no peanuts or peanut butter. The only thing close is some sesame oil. There is cocoa in the ingredients list, in fact it's the third item after sugar and corn syrup. I guess the peanuts are all in the natural and artificial flavors. I actually assumed they used defatted peanut powder in this, but sadly no.
The peanut layer is bland and has an artificial butter note to it and a sort of diluted peanut flavor, kind of like a cheap frosting. The cocoa base is decent and at least isn't as sweet as the other layers.
I didn't despise the Peanut Butter Cup Candy Corn, but I didn't find it as good as I thought it could be. It's still munchable, just not terribly distinctive. Throw it in with some popcorn or nuts for a snack, and it becomes more than passable.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:19 pm Candy • Review • Halloween • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Fondant • 5-Pleasant • Mexico • Rite Aid •
Monday, July 6, 2015
Brach's Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Bites
Brach's has reintroduced their whole line of chocolate panned candies over the past two years. They've redone their classic Bridge Mix and now have several varieties of chocolate covered nuts. One of the surprising new items is Brach's Chocolate Caramel Pretzel Bites.
The gussetted, resealable bag holds a half of a pound. Like most other Brach's products, the description on the package is only contained in the product name ... nothing else to go on except the very long ingredients list.
The image on the bag shows some chocolate pieces, and then a cross section of the actual candies ... sitting next to that is a rustic pretzel nugget and a little square of caramel. That is really not what the product is.
The little spheres are a great size, about the same size as a garbanzo bean or hazelnut. The milk chocolate coating is shiny and the bag had a nice sweet scent, a little on the milky side. The pieces have a good crunch, the pretzel center isn't too hard or crumbly. The pretzel flavor was good, not too much of the washed crust that can get kind of bitter, and no big bits of salt. But upon eating the pieces, this is where the caramel part comes in. The caramel is actually little shards mixed into the milk chocolate. So at first it's just a pretzel with some milk chocolate, but after chewing, the chocolate melts away and the starchy pretzel dissolves ... and what was left was some sort of tacky residue of hard caramel. It was weird and kind of waxy and unpleasant.
So, after a while I took to letting the milk chocolate melt away instead of crunching them up, but that was unsatisfying because then my pretzel would get mushy before the caramel bits were all gone. I've had other confections like almonds, that had a little toffee coating before the milk chocolate, I'm not sure why that wasn't the process here.
I'll pass on these in the future, which is too bad because it's a unique selling proposition in the rather crowded field of morselized products.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:28 pm Candy • Morselization • Review • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Caramel • Chocolate • Cookie • 5-Pleasant • United States • Walgreen's •
Monday, May 11, 2015
Brach's Milk and Dark Chocolate Caramel and Nut Mix
Brach's has expanded their line of stand up bag offerings. I spotted these at Target: Brach's Milk and Dark Chocolate Caramel & Nut Mix. It sounds like a much simpler Bridge Mix.
Like most Brach's products, the package is vague about the product once you get past the name. There's a list of ingredients, but other than that, I was kind of left to guess what was in my mix.
So, what do we have? Pretty much what the name says. There's an assortment of two different shapes of chocolate covered nuts ... peanuts and almonds. Then there are some gumdrop looking things that are caramels and some oblong bits that are chocolate covered brittle.
The whole mix smells sweet, a little like peanuts and cocoa. The sweetness has a fake vanilla note to it that isn't very encouraging, though the appearance of the mix is pretty attractive. The panning is good, everything is shiny and smooth.
Milk Chocolate Peanuts are satisfying. There's not a lot of chocolate, but far better than Nestle's Goobers. There's a little hint of salt to make these much more of a snack than a sweet.
Dark Chocolate Peanuts also have a hint of salt and a noticeable bitterness to the chocolate which again keeps the whole mix from getting to sticky sweet.
Milk Chocolate Caramels were lackluster. The texture was excellent, the caramel was chewy but not too stiff and it had a smooth consistency. However, it lacked actual caramel flavor and didn't offset the milk chocolate coating much.
Dark Chocolate Covered Peanut Brittle are easy to spot. They're large and have a thick coating of chocolate. The brittle center may be big, but it crunches easily. The nutty flavor is not front and center, this piece is more about the textures of the crushed nuts, the dark chocolate and the sugary brittle. The nut bits are quite small, so it's almost like the sesame brittle found in Kosher delis.
Dark Chocolate Covered Almonds are one of the larger pieces, though some are small enough to be mistaken for peanuts. The almonds have a light blanching, they're not overly roasted. They're crunchy and hold up well to the rather sweet dark chocolate.
This mix takes a lot of guess work out of what can be candy roulette. I liked all the pieces and didn't really long for anything else that wasn't in here. I thought the peanuts were great, and it all looked good in a little bowl. I certainly preferred it to the actual Bridge Mix that Brach's sells.
The product contains milk, peanuts, almonds and soy and is made on shared equipment with other tree nuts, eggs and wheat.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:33 am Candy • Review • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Caramel • Chocolate • Nuts • Peanuts • 7-Worth It • United States • Target •
Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Recent History of Brach's Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
I'm a big fan of Malted Milk Balls and consider the candy coated Pastel Malted Milk Egg to be one of the best holiday candy creations ever. Brach's has been making a pastel egg for at least 55 years, and malted milk balls for even longer.
Though the Brach's brand has been around for over 110 years, they've changed ownership, leadership and product focus dozens of times. This means that the products themselves also change. The changes can be for consumer-driven reasons, supply issues and costs. I've noticed, since Candy Blog is coming up on 10 years, that the Brach's Fiesta Eggs have changed quite a bit over the years, and have some photos and notes to document it.
Name: Pastel Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
Though this was my first year reviewing them, it wasn't the first time I had them and thought they used to be better.
Name: Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
I'd say that this was a lackluster version, though I liked the center, the chocolate brought the whole thing down.
Name: Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
These were simply too difficult to eat because of the size and shell. The center was good, especially because the ratio was so high.
2015 Malted Milk Eggs Compared
Name: Malted Milk Pastel Fiesta Eggs
The center this year is different. It's darker in color, which does indicate that the recipe or manufacturing process has changed. The colors are great, I like the shell, though many commenters do not like the new version. I can't put my finger on what's wrong here, except that I don't plan on buying them again, but I'll finish the bags I have.
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Wednesday, March 25, 2015
Brach's Spiced Jelly Bird Eggs
When I was very little, as far as I knew, Jelly Beans came in a scant few flavors and they were basically the same as Spice Drops. Later Jelly Belly came along and revolutionized jelly beans by trying to make everything into a flavor at least once.
Brach's now calls their fruit blend of Jelly Bird Eggs their Classic Flavors, and they call what were, for about 100 years the classic flavors simply Spiced. I guess when a couple of generations grow up with fruity jelly beans, that happens. Now, I might complain that things have changed over the years, and a pound of coffee is no longer a pound of coffee ... but this bag is actually a pound of jelly beans. For only $2.49 ... not a bad deal overall ... if they're any good.
Nowhere on the bag does it go beyond that name to describe what the flavors actually are. It appears there are six flavors.
I'll start with Green which is epitome of a Spearmint jelly bean. It's like a jelly bean version of Spearmint Leaves. The shell is grainy and far too sweet, but the center has a lot of fresh spearmint flavor, with little pops of extra flavor now and then. Very refreshing. I picked these out of the bag and ate them first.
Black is Licorice, which is not surprising to anyone who's ever had jelly beans. The flavor is strongly anise, crisp and sweet but with a little bitter edge that I think may come from the artificial colors. I liked them, they were good but there were far fewer blacks than any other color in the bag.
White is Peppermint but a rather mild mint. As much as I like peppermint, it simply doesn't go very well here. It's weak and watery, kind of like a peppermint tea instead of a peppermint candy. Still, I didn't avoid them and I enjoyed the fact that they didn't have any colorings in them.
Orange is Orange Spice. I think it's spiced orange, because it's not Orange Slice orange, there's a note of cinnamon and clove to the shell, but the center is orange. These irritated me, because I wanted a zesty Jelly Bird Egg equivalent of the Orange Slice. However, I applaud them for making an orange that was actually in keeping with the spice theme.
Pink is Wintergreen. I love wintergreen and these were pretty good, aromatic and medicinal but with a bitter finish.
Purple is Clove. I don't care for clove as a candy flavor or spice, so I'll pass on this one. It was strong and well rounded, with both aromatic notes and the bitterness that I'm never sure is coming from the flavorings or the colorings.
Red is Cinnamon. I like cinnamon a lot and I eat plenty of Hot Tamales. These were spicy and sweet, a good balance, especially since it seemed to come from the jelly center, not just the sugary shell.
On the whole, they're an acceptable blend of flavors, just what I expected. I wish the sugar shell wasn't quite so grainy and sweet, but the jelly center is actually rather smooth. The contain no pectin, they're only jelled with corn starch.
The beans were made in Mexico. They have a beeswax and confectioners glaze on them, so most vegans would not eat these. Jelly Bird Eggs are made in a facility that also uses milk, eggs, tree nuts, peanuts, wheat and soy.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:07 pm Candy • Review • Easter • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Cinnamon • Jelly Candy • Mints • 5-Pleasant • Mexico • Walgreen's •
Tuesday, March 24, 2015
Pastel Malted Milk Eggs Compared
One of my favorite candies is malted milk balls. Easter brings the pastel version, which is egg shaped and has a candy coating. I rounded up four of the most popular versions in stores today for a little comparison.
I have various sized bags from Jelly Belly, Necco, Brach's (Ferrara Candy) and Whoppers (Hershey's).
Though there are some size differences in the eggs, and some other sizes available from these brands, pastel malted eggs are usually larger than malted milk balls and less focused on the milk chocolate coating.
They're generally an attractive candy, but with a large variation on the look and texture of the shell and color palettes.
From left to right: Necco Mighty Malts, Jelly Belly, Whoppers and then Brach's.
Name: Mighty Malts Speckled Malted Milk Eggs
Verdict: It's too messy to eat around the awful coating, so I can't recommend these at all for eating, only decoration.
Name: Speckled Chocolate Malted Eggs
Verdict: The shells are very thick, probably too much shell for me and the flavor was not a good mix for the other flavors. I still loved the colors and have eaten two full bags so far this season. However, they're also very expensive ... about 5 times more expensive than the Necco Mighty Malts, though imminently more edible.
Name: Whoppers Robin Eggs
Verdict: The unappealing pink shells and less appealing mockolate layer just make these unbearable. I actually find myself doing the extra work on the Necco Mighty Malts instead of eating these, even though they have an excellent malt center.
Name: Malted Milk Pastel Fiesta Eggs
Verdict: Of the four, I prefer these, though they still don't quite shine on their own merits, only in comparison. I've eaten two bags so far this season and do find them comforting, but I only keep eating them on the naive hope that I'll find "a good one" as if that's ever happened or will happen.
The result of this tour only confirms that I love the idea of a great Malted Milk Pastel Egg, but I haven't found it yet.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 2:54 pm Candy • Review • Easter • Brach's • Ferrara Pan • Hershey's • Jelly Belly • Necco • Chocolate • Malt • Mockolate • 4-Benign • United States • Dollar Tree • Target • Walgreen's •
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Vintage Portland
Season 22 Episode 21 | 52m 22s
How much has the antiques market evolved in the past 20 years? Find out as ANTIQUES ROADSHOW revisits and updates standout Portland appraisals from 1998, including one treasure with a new valuation that jumps to $70,000-$90,000!
Aired: 07/09/18
Expires: 07/09/22Video has closed captioning.


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