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Security Analysis is the bible of fundamental analysis. Originally published in 1934, the tome systematically lays bare the science of security analysis. Written with the assistance of cowriter David Dodd, Benjamin Graham's intellectual tour de force has yet to be equaled in the annals of investing. Written only a few years after the devastating stock market crash of 1929, Graham had one objective--to make the investment process as safe as possible using knowledge of key factors about the business.
Beginning with bonds and moving quickly to stocks, Graham and Dodd go over all of the angles. Articulating a comprehensive theory of fixed-value and common stock investment, they examine in detail the various factors that one should consider when valuing securities. Dividends, extraordinary items, depreciation, amortization, capital structure and balance sheet analysis are all described and defined in lurid detail. It is impossible to read Security Analysis and not come away with a deeper understanding of corporate finance and how it relates to investing.
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2004 Nissan Titan ReviewThis car review is specific to this model, not the actual vehicle for sale.
Is this America's best full-size pickup?.
A man and his truck. It's a beautiful thing.' So read the legend on a sweatshirt. I smiled in understanding. Most certainly pickups inspire in their owners, male or female, an emotion rarely generated by other wheeled objects. It's a feeling more often associated with a favored dog, or maybe a sports team.
That unique relationship is a force to be reckoned with if you're a manufacturer looking to move up in the market. That's the task Nissan has set for itself with what it terms the first truly full-size pickup from a company other than Ford, Dodge, or General Motors. Titan is significantly larger than the Toyota Tundra, which is not quite full-size.
Nissan has done its research, benchmarking favored pickups and edging the bar higher for its Titan. The Titan boasts best in class headroom; best in class torque; best in class interior volume (for the Crew Cab); best 4x4 ground clearance; best 4x4 approach angle; largest in class 4x4 tires. Titan can tow up to 9,500 pounds, putting it at the top of the class alongside the new Ford F-150.
The Titan features a new 5.6-liter V8 and five-speed automatic that deliver dazzling response. Its handling is equally responsive, making it among the most enjoyable of the full-size half-ton pickups. Brakes, suspension, drivetrain all feel refined. This is a serious pickup that pleases all the senses.
Titan boasts clever innovations that improve on the traditional pickup bed, such as the factory-applied spray-in bedliner and a C-channel tie-down system. A stash box integrated into the driver's rear fender offers a neat place to store a hitch or other small items. The rear doors on the King Cab open nearly 180 degrees for quick access.
The Titan was designed in California. It's built at Nissan's new plant at Canton, Mississippi, and its new V8 is built at Nissan's Decherd, Tennessee, production facility.
Nissan Titan is available in two body styles: King Cab with a 6-foot, 7-inch bed or a Crew Cab with a larger cabin and conventional doors and a 5-foot, 6-inch bed.
All Titans boast Nissan's new 5.6-liter V8 engine and a 5-speed automatic transmission. All models are available in 2WD and 4WD versions.
Three trim levels are available, XE, SE, and LE. The XE comes standard with a split front bench seat with a fold-down armrest storage bin and split pop-up rear seat; XE comes with 17-inch aluminum wheels, but has manual door locks and wind-up windows. SE adds captain's chairs, a better grade of cloth, 18-inch wheels, power everything, and host of other features; SE is expected to be the most popular trim level. LE comes with leather front seats. All models come with a high level of standard equipment including features such as a tire-pressure monitor, automatic headlamps, cruise control, and a CD stereo.
A navigation system is optional and comes bundled with a rear park-assist system. Also optional is a package that includes front-seat side-impact air bags and curtain air bags, always good choices in tall vehicles like SUVs and trucks. The Utility Bed Package includes a clever channel system in the bed for flexible tie-down configurations to fit a wide range of cargo; a lockable storage system in the outside of the bed; tailgate lighting; a power point at the rear; and that factory-applied spray-in bedliner. The Rockford Fosgate system boasts 10 speakers and is standard on LE, optional on SE.
An off-road package is available with a unique lower-ratio Dana axle, switch-on-demand electronically activated locking rear differential, off-road-style Rancho performance gas shock absorbers, large all-terrain tires, fog lights and lower radiator, oil pan and transfer case skid plates.
Nissan has made no effort to match the staggering mix of options in engine, transmissions, body styles and accessories that greet, say, a Ford pickup buyer. So you'll have to look elsewhere if you want a big duallie or a cheap, V6-powered regular cab. Nissan says its plan is to get the basics right and then build on that with a new level of style and innovation. We think the Nissan Titan has achieved those goals.
For that all-important view in someone's rearview mirror the Titan styling bellies over toward the Dodge Ram school of intimidation rather than Ford or Chevy. (The Ford F-150, deemed almost too pretty in its present guise, has also shifted toward Ram ruggedness for its new version.) The Titan's blocky front-end view with its twin sloping chrome bars angling down across a bee-comb radiator says 'here's a BIG truck.' At that the look is simple and direct, short of braggadocio.
The rest of the truck fulfills that impression. Direct and shaped by its function. True truckness. Big square-shaped fender flares give it a look of rugged sportiness. Lots of chrome up front adds to the boldness.
The Crew Cab features four full-size conventional doors.
The King Cab's unique door design is one of the prize light bulb innovations on the Titan. Like most extended cab pickups, the Titan's has a conventional front door hinged at the front with a rear-hinged back door and you must open the front door before you can open the rear door. But the Titan's rear door opens not just to the near 90 degrees expected; it swings farther yet, yawning all the way open, flat against the truck's body. Wide-Open they call it and it is. On both sides, too. It's surprising how often this feature becomes useful. At the grocery store, it makes it much easier to maneuver a cart closely into position for unloading. Next to a curbside tree, you can open the main door just wide enough to get out, open the rear door nearly 180 degrees, close the main door, and you have unencumbered access to the cargo area behind the seats. Doing the same thing on the driver's side means you can unload cargo without having a big door open into the traffic. This clever door design adds greatly to the King Cab's utility.
King Cab models come with 6 1/2-foot beds. Crew Cab models feature 5 1/2-foot beds, trading a foot of bed space for roomy back seats and more interior cargo room. With the tailgate lowered, the beds can accommodate 4x8-foot sheets of building material between the wheel housings. Four big eyelets are bolted to the insides of the bed for tying things down. Like the Ford and Dodge trucks, the load height (the distance from the bed to the ground) is high on 4WD Titans, measuring approximately 37 inches to the open tailgate by our tape measure. On 2WD Titans it's about 34 inches, a big difference. Higher may be better in terms of machoism, but lower is better when loading heavy cargo. A 2WD Chevy Silverado appears to be the lowest in this regard.
The optional sprayed-in bedliner looks terrific. The anti-skid surface keeps cargo from sliding around, prevents scratches and rust, and reduces noise. Unlike plastic drop-in liners, it doesn't trap moisture. Covered by the truck's warranty, the coating is applied at a $2 million facility specifically built for this purpose at Nissan's spanking-new truck factory in Mississippi. The anti-skid surface can make it harder to slide a box out, but this seems to be greatly outweighed by the upsides.
The available C-channel tie-down system is designed to accommodate a variety of scenarios. It features C-section rails mounted in the bed, two on the floor, and one each on the side and forward walls of the bed. Removable cleats slide into the channels and can be positioned anywhere along its length thus permitting customized securing of cargo. Sliding cargo trays, a sliding tool box and other modular storage units are being designed by Nissan for kayaks, bikes, and other needs. The bed channels feature protective caps that slide on to keep out debris when they're not being used. It appears to be a great system.
An innovative storage compartment integrated into left rear fender is convenient for storing at tow-hitch ball, work gloves, road flares, or a first aid kit. Measuring 11x15 inches, this small bedside compartment is double sealed to be weather and dust proo.
The Titan interior manages to feel spacious and snug at the same time. It's roomy in cubic feet, yet the interior is organized into handy tucking spaces and storage bins that corral all the stuff we are heir to.
Two interior configurations are available: a standard bench seat with column shifter that seats six passengers or an optional Captain's Chair Package that features two front bucket seats with a gated floor shifter and a large center console. The leather upholstery in the LE models is sporty, attractive and quite pleasing; the rear seats in the LE are covered in matching vinyl that most people will assume is leather.
The bucket seats are firm and comfortable. The seat bottoms are relatively flat, making it easy to slide in and out, yet they offer good support and feel like they'd be comfortable on crosscountry trips. We find them more comfortable than the cushy seats in the GM trucks or those we've seen in the new Ford F-150 which could use more side support. The driver's seat and passenger's seat are power adjustable. Memory and seat heaters are available.
The King Cab has 60/40 flip-up rear seats and the nearly flat floor beneath makes loading and toting a wide mix of people and things a breeze. Three people can ride in the back seat, enjoying lots of legroom and headroom, but the upright seatbacks make anything longer than a trip to the restaurant or store feel like a journey. Bottle holders are provided in the rear doors to keep back-seat riders contented. Flip up the rear seat bottoms and the King Cab can carry a 160-pound dog in comfort. Hooks provided on the seat bottoms useful for hanging grocery bags, tote bags, or gear bags so their contents don't end up scattered around the floor. The seat backs also fold down, adding another cargo-carrying option. Add the benefits of the 180-degree rear door and the King Cab offers real flexibility.
The Crew Cab is roomy and comfortable whether sitting in the front or rear seats. Nissan claims the Crew Cab offers more front legroom and rear legroom than other full-size half-ton pickups and it feels like it. The rear seat is large and relaxing, with a full 24 degrees of seat back angle. The rear seats are split 60/40 with bottoms that flip up, revealing much more interior cargo space than what's available in the King Cab. The fold-up seat bottoms leave more usable space available than fold and tumble designs. Ample storage is available in the rear compartment, including door storage bins and rear door bottle holders in the armrests.
Up front, both models feature large knobs, handles and grips friendly to hands wearing heavy work gloves. Increasingly, Nissan interiors are standouts and the Titan continues the trend. 'Smart' could be the operative word both in looks and in function. It looks as if it would work and it does.
The manual heating/air conditioning controls feature big knobs. The topline Rockford Fosgate audio system has a big volume knob and large station buttons that can be set simply by holding them down for a couple of seconds. Secondary audio functions are easy to access and operate. An auxiliary input is provided on the dash for plugging in an Apple iPod or other MP3 player.
Thoughtfulness in the design is everywhere in evidence, inside and out, making the Titan a singularly useful truck. The lid on the center console is flat, so you can set a clipboard there without having it slide off; the lid is indented and lined with rubber for small items. The center console on bench-seat models is larger than that in the Dodge Ram, large enough to accommodate laptops. The center console in bucket-seat models is designed to hold DVDs and CDs. Well-designed cup holders are provided that are welcome homes for that sleeved grande cappuccino. Decent-sized coat hooks are easily accessed for hanging a coat or a load of dry cleaning. The glove box is large with a damped lid that doesn't slam open. Battery power points are pr.
Driving Impression
Looking good isn't enough for a truck, not even one bristling with clever ideas. It has to perform well, too. The Nissan Titan does just fine in that department. Driving the Titan is a pleasure. Nissan in the past has sometimes muddied a neat package with weakness in power. Lesson clearly learned.
The Titan's 305 horses are hairy-legged enough to get the job done. Doubly welcome is the well-shaped torque curve with the segment-leading 379 pounds-feet of torque. The Titan's engine delivers 90 percent of its peak torque across a wide band down to low rpm. (Torque is that force that propels you from intersections and pulls heavy trailers up long grades.)
Nissan's new Endurance 5.6-liter V8 is a modern design with double overhead-cams (four total) and four-valve heads (32 valves). It's designed to strike the ideal balance between performance and fuel economy. Titan 2WD gets EPA ratings of 14/19 mpg City/Highway, while Titan 4WD models are rated 14/18 mpg. Regular unleaded is recommended.
Towing capacity is 9,500 pounds, which is more often seen in 3/4-ton trucks, not 1/2-ton trucks like this. Nissan thought it had a first in class for towing but it got snookered by Ford. Ford purposely understated the towing capacity in the specs it first released on its new 2004 F-150 hoping to con its rivals into benchmarking the low figure. Nissan did just that. Then Ford announced its 'true' towing capacity of 9,900. Nyah-nyah-nyah. Ford might just need such trickery to sell the 700,000 F-150s it must sell. Nissan is looking to sell 100,000 Titans. Titan's V8 (standard) has more horses than Ford's V8 (optional) and Titan has a five-speed automatic to Ford's four-speed, but towing capacity is one of the bragging points that rank high with truck buyers.
Anything rated to tow 9500 pounds can really move its bod when unencumbered. Our first impression of the Titan was its responsive powertrain, perhaps the most responsive among the full-size pickups with comparable engines. The Titan always feels alert and wide awake, like it started the morning with a double espresso. The V8 delivers quick acceleration performance whether launching off the line or pulling a quick pass at speed. It isn't a whisper quiet engine, but has a deep exhaust note that sounds pleasing when accelerating.
The five-speed automatic is equally responsive, quickly downshifting whenever needed. With five gears to choose from, it can always find an appropriate ratio for smooth, rather than abrupt, downshifts. The transmission features a Tow/Haul mode.
Titan handles twists and turns just fine. It's easy to drive quickly and smoothly at the same time. It does well in the braking department with big four-wheel disc brakes standard. It's easy to modulate the brakes for smooth stops in everyday driving. Anti-lock brakes come standard with electronic brake-force distribution and Brake Assist. (ABS helps the driver maintain steering control in a skid. EBD improves balance and stopping power by apportioning the braking force to whichever tires are getting the best grip. Brake Assist helps ensure full braking potential in a panic stop.)
4x4 models offer a shift-on-the-fly four-wheel-drive system with an electronically controlled part-time transfer case. Simply turn a knob to shift from two-wheel drive to four-wheel drive; this can be done on the fly, while driving. At very low speeds, almost a full stop, push in the knob and turn it to shift into low range. The low creeper gear keeps steep descents in the comfort zone. An off-road package includes a feature exclusive to the Titan in this market segment: an electronically activated locking rear differential to aid the slog through the toughest conditions.
The 4WD King Cab we drove rode very well in most situations and its suspension offered quick and agile handling. One rippled section of I-405 in Los Angeles, however, set up a harmonic that had the Titan 4x4 pogoing unc.
Nissan's marketing research has broken pickup buyers into two groups it calls Traditional Truckers and Modern Truck Guys (and presumably Gals though they used a lot of 'he' and 'his' words at the introduction).
Traditional Truckers, Nissan says, use their trucks primarily for business and work, mostly in rural areas. They are brand-loyal to the extreme and are not quick to embrace changes in styling or technology.
The Modern Truck Guys are more apt to switch brands if drawn by innovations and styling. Their primary use for a truck is personal, pressing it into service on weekends for home-improvement and gardening projects.
Clearly, Nissan sees most of its buyers in the second group rather than as conquests from the ultra loyal-to-brand Traditional Trucker. However, as the new truck on the scene the Titan has one advantage: A trucker deciding to switch after years with the same brand is unlikely to move his loyalties to what has been 'the enemy' all these years. The switcher is more likely to settle on neutral ground. Like a politician switching parties, it is easier to go to Independent than to cross the aisle. The Titan is an attractive truck with which to express that independence.
Time will tell.
Model Lineup
Nissan Titan King Cab XE 2WD ($22,400), SE 2WD ($24,400), LE 2WD ($28,800); Crew Cab XE 2WD ($25,100), SE 2WD ($26,700), LE 2WD ($31,100); King Cab XE 4WD ($25,500), SE 4WD ($27,500), LE 4WD ($31,900); Crew Cab XE 4WD ($28,200), SE 4WD ($29,800), LE 4WD ($34,200).
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Side-Airbag Package ($850) includes side-impact and curtain airbags; Navigation Package ($2200); Tow Package ($600) includes receiver hitch, lower final gear ratio (3.357), 7-pin wiring harness plug, trailer brake pre-wiring on I/P, transmission oil temperature gauge, extended mirrors, heavy duty battery and cooling and Vehicle Dynamic Control (VDC).
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Nissan Titan King Cab 4WD LE ($31,900).
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11.03.12: The No. 3 ranked (NJCAA DII pre-season poll) CCRI Knights men's basketball team traveled to the Reggie Lewis Center in Roxbury Crossing, Ma to compete in the Roxbury Invitational on Friday and Sunday. In their first game of the season the Knights fell to Region XXI non-league game to the No. 7 ranked (NJCAA DIII poll) tigers of Roxbury Community College 88-75. With the loss the Knights begin the season 0-1 overall and in Region XXI play.
The Knights started well taking leads of 8-5 and then later 19-18 with about 10 minutes left in the half but Roxbury would score on their next possession to take a 20-19 lead and they would never trail again. The Tigers took a 41-36 lead into halftime.
In the second half the Tigers quickly extended their lead to nine points with the score 45-36 and later to 16 points 64-48 midway through the second half. The Knights cut the lead to eight points 58-66 with about six minutes remaining but the tiger would call a timeout and re-group to go on to the 88-75 victory.
Leading the way for the Knights was Co-Captain Desmond Williams (Torrington, CT) with 26 points followed by fellow Co-Captain Bryan Yarce (Cranston, RI) with 16 points, six assists, two steals and two offensive charges taken. Also helping the Knights was Co-Captain Steve Bevilacqua (Exeter, RI) with seven points and a steal, Jerome Harris (Hartford, CT) with nine points including 3-4 from behind the 3-point arc, and Co-Captain Isaac Medeiros (Johnston, RI) added six points, five rebounds, two blocked shots and two steals.
Head Coach Rick Harris commented after the game "Very challenging opener for us this evening. Roxbury is a talented veteran team with National Tournament experience. We played hard the entire night but our inexperience with 11 freshmen really showed. We have not developed any chemistry as of yet but we will as we play more games. We have the personnel to be very good but it will be a process. We may go through some growing pains before we become the team we expect."
The Knights will have one day off before they have to play the Spartans of Cayuga Community College form Auburn, NY at 11:00am at the Reggie Lewis Center as part of the Roxbury Invitational.
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Ken Ham, president and CEO of Answers in Genesis, reviews Peter Enns' new book, The Evolution of Adam.
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Paul Taylor reviews the book Reclaiming Genesis written by Melvin Tinker and offers advice on how to truly reclaim Genesis.
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Today's top-selling biology textbooks present evolution as the only scientific view of the history of life.
No one who accepts the idea of millions of years or says that the age of the earth doesn't matter can ignore the careful arguments that Coming to Grips with Genesis presents.
Fourteen scholars came together to address key topics related to the age of the earth. The result was a substantial historical, theological, and exegetical defense of the biblical account of creation
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The newest guidebook, the Museum Guide from Answers in Genesis, will help. This guide tells the true history about dinosaurs, plate tectonics, the Stone Age, the Ice Age, human origins, and more.
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Despite scouring the Shanghai Motor Show floor for two days, somehow we managed to miss this god-awful mash-up of two known super car enemies, the Audi R8 and Ferrari F430. Shame on you Tong Jian S11 for not telling us.
According to China Car Times, the development of the Tong Jian S11 is nearly complete, but details surrounding the hybrid-powered sports car are scarce. The car's designer gleefully lifted the best design cues from both the R8 and most any modern Ferrari, mashing them together to create this Chinese love fusion. Will it ever be produced? We're sure both the boys from Ingolstadt and Maranello are paying very close attention to that.


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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Annabelle's Rocky Road S'Mores
I heard about this new version of Annabelle's Rocky Road bar last year and I've been hoping to find them in stores. It's called Rocky Road S'Mores bar and the package describes it like this: Handmade Milk Chocolate Coated Marshmallow with Real Graham Cracker and Cashews
It's absolutely obvious that the Rocky Road line of bars should have a S'Mores variety.
The bar comes in a bronzy mylar wrapper, it's kind of hard to tell apart from the Dark Chocolate Rocky Road from a distance, so I almost grabbed the wrong one when I went out to find more.
The bar smells nicely of marshmallow (basically vanilla and sugar) with an hint of the cereal quality of graham crackers. The bar bends and pulls apart very easily. The marshmallow is pillowy and sticky and though the chocolate sticks well to it, it's rather a thin coating.
The chocolate is very sweet, but melts quickly and gives a creamy component to bind the flavors together. The graham center is interesting, it's more like a hearty digestive biscuit than a traditional grocery store graham cracker. It's not sweet, though could use a little pop of salt. The marshmallow is soft and easy to bite, sticky but not really flavorful on its own. It's so airy, it's almost a meringue.
I wanted the graham cracker to be crunchier, crisper. It kind of hides in there, where I feel like it should have more of a texture contribution. The bars don't travel well, they're easily smashed, though really look no different even when pristine. The rocky part of the rocky road, the nuts, are small bits and don't do much for me either. It's unheard of for a commercial candy bar to even have cashews, which are expensive. So, I'll accept that they're subtle rocks. Overall ... my favorite of the Rocky Road line.
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Monday, February 18, 2013
Annabelle's Abba-Zaba Strawberry Peanut Butter
The original Abba-Zaba bar has been around since the 1920s. It's a simple construction, a ribbon of thick peanut butter inside a chewy vanilla taffy.
Annabelle's, the California company that now makes Abba-Zabas came out with a new flavor last year, the Abba-Zaba Strawberry & Peanut Butter. The little starburst on the side of the package says "PB&J with real peanut butter."
The color of the package is extraordinary. The regular flavor is taxi-cab yellow and black ... for strawberry they went magenta and black. It looks like nothing else on the shelves.
I'm not a huge consumer of Abba-Zaba, I'm more of a Look or Big Hunk fan, as the Annabelle's bars go. The concept is strong, but the flavor profiles & textures are just a little off for my tastes.
The Strawberry Abba-Zaba has a fruity taffy outside. It's sweet, though not sickeningly. The bar is best if you smack it on the edge of a table before you open it to break it into easy to eat pieces. The taffy is flavored only with the scent of strawberries, it's not a tangy taffy. So the idea of getting the flavor of a Peanut Butter & Jelly Sandwich is a little off ... because it doesn't taste like jam. It's more like a strawberry cake - all sweetness and not tart. The chew is good, not too tough, it's soft and combines well with the peanut butter center. The peanut butter is smooth and creamy, but lacking a big salty punch or enough texture to differentiate it well from the taffy when it's chewed together. I like the graininess of peanut butter in candies like Mary Janes.
Overall, it's not my thing. It's different ... but I'd be more inclined to go for a honey taffy or maybe even Banana if it was just going to be sweet.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:54 pm Candy • Review • Annabelle's • Chews • Kosher • Peanuts • 5-Pleasant • United States •
Wednesday, September 9, 2009
Rocky Road Supreme Peanut Butter
A couple of years ago I got a preview of a new line of candy bars from Annabelle's, makers of Rocky Road. The new Rocky Road Supreme bars didn't even have wrappers yet when I tried them at the All Candy Expo in September of 2007. They were finally released last year, but it took me another full year to find them on store shelves.
I finally found them at a new shop in Burbank called Rocket Fizz. Though it's supposed to be a soda pop store - with hundreds and hundreds of varieties of sodas sold in single bottles, it was also a candy shop with hundreds and hundreds of items to choose from. Amongst the mostly classic offerings I found the Rocky Road Supreme Peanut Butter Bar. Though it was a whopping $1.99, it's also nearly 3 ounces ... so consider it a king sized bar.
The package describes it as Handmade Marshmallow and Peanut Butter with Crunchy Peanuts, Double Dipped in Velvety Milk Chocolate. I stopped eating several days ago in order to accommodate this extra 460 calorie pop.
The bar was a little worse for wear, though I tried to choose carefully from the bars on the shelf. I often have this problem often with Rocky Road bars ... they might benefit from at least a waxed paperboard tray.
The layers are nearly equal strips of marshmallow and peanut butter. Luckily the peanut butter is on the bottom, as it's the densest. Considering how much peanut butter there is in this bar, plus the peanuts on the top, it doesn't smell very peanutty. Just vanilla-sweet, a little milky and a little like roasted nuts.
The bar has a nice bite to it. The chocolate is soft and not at all flaky and the marshmallow is firm enough that it springs back easily but is dense enough not to give into the weight of the chocolate shell.
The flavors at first do well. The peanut butter layer has a salty pop and a mellow nutty flavor. The vanilla marshmallow isn't too sweet and gives a bouncy chew to the whole thing. The chocolate coating is a little lackluster in the flavor department, but also not too sweet. The peanuts give a little crunch. The whole thing is a bit slick & fatty though, it never quite melts.
As I went on, I tried eating the separate elements. The chocolate is satiny smooth, but lacks a real cocoa punch. It's all about the texture, I guess. The peanuts on top were kind of chewy instead of crunchy. The marshmallow is actually great, mostly because it's foamy and has a smooth texture without being too sweet. The peanut butter layer though is weird. It's very firm and has a greasy Crisco texture to it. A look at the list of ingredients reveals why #4 on the list is partially hydrogenated soybean & cottonseed oils ... that comes before #5 which is peanut butter.
Now I'm as much a fan of fat as the next person, but fat has to add texture ... it needs to give a pleasing mouthfeel as well as deliver flavors. This peanutty layer simply doesn't. It's like the grease is a cloaking device.
I really wanted to like this, I wanted it to be a powerful combination of textures & flavors. Instead it just left me feeling heavy & unsatisfied. (And I didn't finish it, so now I get to have lunch!)
Here's Sera's review from Candy Addict.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:23 am
Monday, June 23, 2008
Look! and Big Hunk
I mention summer candy every now and then and this past weekend with sweltering June heat I figured it was time to start concentrating more on it.
Annabelle Candy makes a few good summer candy bars, ones that are exceptionally tolerant of the heat. The Abba Zaba is probably one of the best known, perhaps because of the name and whackable bar.
The Look! bar isn't summer friendly, but the Big Hunk is. For a long time I though that the Look! bar as just a chocolate covered Big Hunk.
The Look! is a narrow and flat bar of rich chocolate covered nougat with peanuts and if that sounds like a Snickers without the caramel, it's a bit more simple than that. Basically, as the package announces, it's Chewy Good!.
It's about 6 inches long but only a quarter of an inch high.
I've never had one of these. Though the appealing wrapper tells me to Look! and I do, I never buy.
And what a fool I've been! It's everything I love about Bit-o-Honey plus real chocolate and even a hint of molasses.
The golden nougat center isn't easy to bite, so I've found peeling back the wrapper and nibbling off a little bite is best (not as big a picture, please, spare yourself that drama of "will it pull out my teeth!").
The dark, creamy and smokey chocolate melts quickly into a buttery chocolate mess just as the peanut molasses chew starts to warm and soften. As the chocolate taste drifts away the lightly salty, woodsy and nutty chew comes forward. It's smooth and pliable, reminding me a bit of Goldenberg's Peanut Chews (except for, you know, that real chocolate part).
The only thing I wish was that it was easier to eat. I need to find the snack size version.
Rating: 8 out of 10.
Big Hunk is exactly that. It's 2 full ounces of chewy nougat studded with peanuts. This bar is about 7 inches long and about a third of an inch thick.
Unlike the Look! bar, Big Hunk contains no molasses.
Like the Look!, the Big Hunk were first made by another San Francisco-based-confectioner called Golden Nugget Candy Company. Annabelle Candy took them over in 1972 and helped to expand these regional bars to larger national prominence via placement at drug stores and discount retailers. I've found, though, that they're easiest to find on the West Coast.
I like to whack the bar to break it into pieces, though this isn't always easy.
It's studded with peanut & peanut pieces, the nougat itself is a bit lighter in color than the Look!, a bit on the yellow side, I'm guessing from the peanuts. It's easy to bend, or if you bend it very quickly it also breaks. The wrapper also suggests microwaving for 5 to 10 seconds to make it super soft, but I don't believe that candy should ever require preparation ... that's veering into recipe territory. However, leaving on the dashboard of the car in the summertime can have the same result. It can actually become rather stringy this way, depending on how long you leave it in there and how hot it is.
It softens up quickly in the mouth, even at room temperature. It's smooth and has a light honey flavor but mostly it tastes like dark roasted peanuts. It has far more flavor than the Abba Zaba and is a winner in my book. Besides chewing, you can suck on it to disslove it. It reminds me of Cap'n Crunch cereal milk - sweet, a little hint of malt perhaps and of course a creamy background.
I'm not as fond of it as the Look!, but it's still very appealing and as mentioned earlier, this is an ideal summer treat. No melting but still a satisfying creamy experience along with the little boost of protein from the peanuts (3 grams). It's also promoted as a low fat bar, and the fat that's in there comes from the peanuts ... but that also means that it's full of carbs ... which, you know, makes it pretty darn appealing in my book.
Rating: 6 out of 10.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:30 am
Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Dark Chocolate Rocky Road
There are a couple of other iterations of the famous red foil Rocky Road. One is Mint, which I found only recently but was in such bad condition, I could hardly give it a fair review. The second is this one, which I found at the Rite-Aid which is Dark Chocolate.
This bar comes in a pleasant, lightly gold-tinted wrapper. I've decided that all Rocky Road bars are dented and cracked as a consequence of the scant packaging. No matter, it doesn't seem to affect the taste at all. This bar doesn't smell quite as chocolately as the milk chocolate one does, but does have a very sweet aroma.
The marshmallow is thick and foamy, but not very moist. It has some good give to it without being too rubbery and a not-too-fake vanilla taste to it. There's very little contribution from the cashews in the chocolate coating except for some texture. I think the bar might be better served without them, but then I'd probably notice that the quality of the coating chocolate isn't really that good.
Overall, I liked it quite a bit better than the traditional milk Rocky Road, but its rarity is an impediment to purchasing it again. I've been in plenty of Rite-Aids in Los Angeles and this is the first time I've seen this there and it's not good enough for me to keep going back to that particular Rite-Aid (Santa Monica Blvd. & La Brea).
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:34 am
Monday, October 24, 2005
Abba Zaba
Name: Abba Zaba
Again, I grew up on the eastern seaboard, so some of the candies I see on the west coast are unfamiliar to me. Abba Zabas are one of them. I think we had something similar, but I can't recall what it was. The website for Annabelle's is quaint, circa 1996, and entirely sincere like the candy. It's a little disturbing that the ingredients label on the candy spells it Palm Kernal instead of kernel, but I have to admit that many spelling mistakes have made to the screen in this site.
Abba Zabas are a white taffy with a stripe of peanut butter in the center. If you open the package and take it out, it looks like a white subway tile and kind of sounds like one if you whack it on the side of the table. They're dangerous things, really, the taffy is firm and sticky, so if you have any sort of dental work (fillings, crowns, bridges, dentures) you're liable to lose it or loosen it. If you have firmly planted teeth, you're probably their target consumer.
I found the taste to be very nice, the sweet taffy is a really good backdrop to the peanut butter, but I have to admit that I prefer either a hard candy shell on my peanut butter or a molasses chew like Mary Janes or Peanut Butter Kisses. The dental destroying qualities are just too overwhelming for me, so I'll leave this one to the kids.
Rating - 4 out of 10.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:31 am Candy • Review • Annabelle's • Chews • Peanuts • 4-Benign • United States •
Wednesday, October 5, 2005
Annabelle's U-No
Name: U-No
Like many of the other West Coast candy bars (Rocky Road), I think I ignored this one because I didn't know what it was. After all, if it was good, I would have tried it by now. I'd never seen anyone eating one and certainly never heard it in conversation. Now I've heard two different pronunciations of it. One is: You-Know and the other us Ooh! No! I have no idea which is right.
Their website describes the bar like this, "Smooth, Rich Milk Chocolate truffle-like center, covered with Milk Chocolate and ground almonds. Guaranteed to melt in your mouth!"
The bar is huge but very light for its size. It looks pretty and smells chocolatey and less sugary than many other bars. Honestly, I'm not sure if I'd like to invoke that guarantee or not, but it definitely doesn't melt in my mouth. I bit into it, and found it soft and yielding, but not mushy. It did melt, in the sense that it spread out on my tongue, but it didn't give itself up, but kind of rolled around in a strange oiliness. The chocolate on the outside is a different matter, just nice and chocolatey.
The flavor of the center is like a fluffy truffle with a bit of grainy salt to it (which is actually a nice way to balance the sweet). As excited as I was to see that it was a fluffy truffle bar when I was photographing it, I was equally disappointed when I read the third ingredient on the label is Hydrogenated Coconut Oil and the bar packs 11 grams of saturated fat (I have no idea how much of that is trans fat). It's just not a bar I can recommend to those who aren't already terminally ill. I know, it's candy and it's all unhealthy, but let's face it, there are other candies out there that can be satisfying and not nearly as laden with hydrogenated oils.
I know, you think it's odd that the candy blogger is talking about health issues, so I should make a few things clear. I'm a fit person for the most part. I keep my weight within norms and I am pretty active. So I can afford some discretionary calories on candy (usually limited to 500 calories per day). But sometimes it's not just calories that you have to look at. A lot of candies contain trans fats, but usually in smaller amounts. A candy that contains a large percentage of hydrogenated oils just isn't a good idea for regular indulgence. If it's just a once or twice a year thing, I'd say you're in the clear. (Please do not substitute candy blog advice for that of a qualified physician or dietician.)
If they, however, created a new recipe using butterfat, I am so there!
Rating - 4 out of 10.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:19 am Candy • Review • Annabelle's • Chocolate • 4-Benign • United States •
Wednesday, September 28, 2005
Rocky Road
Name: Rocky Road
I know it seems odd that I've never had a Rocky Road bar before, but I've never been much of a marshmallow fan. To me the best thing about marshmallows is that they're a dessert you can make on the grill. If marshmallows disappeared from the earth, I'd probably only lament the loss of Rice Krispies treats.
But, I thought it was high time I gave it a try - after all, how did I know I wouldn't like it? First, the package is just fantabulous. It's flashy red mylar and the lettering is bold and you can spot it easily from 20 feet. No wonder, it's a big bar. At 1.8 ounces and the size of a tree limb, it's a sizeable purchase for 75 cents.
The bar is rather unappealing when pulled out of the package, but really, when you look at most candy analytically it's unattractive. I first pulled the bar apart for the photo and the sugary smell is just fantastic. It's like putting your head into a box of Count Chocula.
The marshmallow isn't overly sweet, but it's foamy and has a good rubbery pull to it. The chocolate coating though is very sweet and the cashews are rather hard to discern. The mixture of textures is the real treat in this bar, with a real focus on the marshmallow, the light airyness of the bar sets it apart from just about everything out there. I hardly feel like I've eaten almost two ounces. It still hasn't changed my mind about marshmallow in general, but I can see why it's such an enduring favorite.
Rating - 6 out of 10
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:00 am Candy • Review • Annabelle's • Chocolate • Marshmallow • 6-Tempting • United States •
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All urban papertoys that I've been collected for several years.
all designs: me, salazad, nick knite, tougui, shin tanaka, phil, dolly oblong, idham, marko zubak, zerolabor, willie beren, 3eyedbear, marshall alexander, and others
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Location: Soerabaja, Indonesia
Thanksss.. I would share it soonnnn
In some space inside the box stages, I put some papertoys so if u look closer then u'll find another.
It's such a fun activity to create this one :D
nice collection Joel!! still love your popset design!!!! ^__^
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Home › Forums › Korean food discussion › Kaenip, perilla leaves
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I fell in love with Kaenip kimchi in Seoul, Korea. I was taught how to make it when we lived there. I can not find the leaves anywhere. I am going to try and grow it. Any tips on where to buy the seeds and growing it.
Is that really Kenyip kimchi?I kinda forgot what it's called. I'll be all over the forums here with perilla. haha!
I also wanna try to grow it. Just need someone to show the ropes; the to do's and don'ts. It seems that there are varieties of perilla (as used and grown in Korea, Japan, Vietnam, China and West).
Not much info about growing it in my country though. hmm….
Any info would be also appreciated. :)
You can find peilla seeds at this website.
I ordered some from them recently… I planted them a few days ago and am waiting for them to grow. A single seed packet contains an abundant amount of seeds – I planted a row about 25 feet long, with seeds about 6 inches apart, and probably only used about a third of the packet.
This vendor has many other Korean and Asian seeds, including chrysanthemum leaves (ssukgat – 쑥갓).
I'll let you know how the seeds do in a bit of time, and good luck.
Update on the perilla plants:
The seeds came up after about ten days. About 90% of them came up. The plants are about two inches tall right now, with leaves about 3/4″ in diameter. They look healthy.
A friend of mine who works in the botanical sciences told me that this is a very hardy plant, and that I'll have trouble controlling it in the future… he knows it as "beefsteak plant". Apparently it grows wild across much of the US. Lots of times in cow pastures, but the cows won't eat it because of its minty scent.
I'll post another update in a couple of weeks.
oh, thank you very much for your update!
I wanna see it! Please upload the photo of your perilla leaves later. Cow doesn't eat it because of its minty scent? haha! Cute cow!
If you don't want the hardy plant to occupy all your garden someday in the future, give them away to all your friends!
One of my friends, growing kkaennip in her garden, is giving the leaves to all her friends. She simply says, "come to my house and pick them up!"
I mean you don't have to work hard and let them pick.
Hello Maangchi, thank you for your reply.
Here is a photo I just took of the kkaenip plants. As you can see, they are still quite small.
They serve these leaves in Daegu with kalbi. It seems to me that what is called "kalbi" in Daegu is the same thing that is called "bulgogi" in other parts of Korea, and in Korean restaurants in New York. When we order bulgogi in Daegu, we always get the noodle dish with lots of fresh vegetables (especially mushrooms) and thinly sliced beef. It is delicious.
I'll post more pics as the plants continue to grow… and I can't wait to make kalbi and eat them when they are large enough. ;~)
Aww… the digital pic was too large for the website. I'm sorry. Anyway, I'll post updates as the plants grow.
Bluecrab –
I increased the upload limit, can you try again? If the photos are big, it might take a long time, but I'd love to see them!
Hi Maangchi, thank you for that… here we go…
…still doesn't work, which I don't understand. The file seems to be within the size limit of the forum software.
Oh well… if you give me an e-mail address, I could e-mail you the photos.
btw, your kimchi recipe is excellent! The best I've ever tried.
OK, I've modified the pic to make it a smaller file… here we go again…
Still doesn't work… 모르갰어요 ;~)
aw sorry bluecrab. Please email them to me at [email protected] and I will see what the problem is.
Sorry to make you frustrated!
Hi Maangchi,
I just e-mailed you two pics… I hope you receive them. Please let me know.
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"In three to five years I think you will see a real change in the makeup of the demographic of the audience," said Bryan Rogers, the curator of 109 Square who was hired to select programing that would appeal to a younger crowd. "What I think it might do in the shorter term is raise its profile in the art world across the city."
So far 109 Square has had a "soft" opening, a preview period to gauge the kind of response it gets from audiences. Rogers said the feedback has been pretty positive so far. Audiences have enjoyed a variety of performances including a "Caburlesque" show, a du-wop group and a bluegrass group.
"The normal programming of the theater is really mainstream and very accessible, and I come from a background that's much more sort of avant garde and experimental, so I'm trying to choose things that are sort of in the middle, that are to some degree experimental but are also accessible to anyone," said Rogers, who is also the artistic director for the very contemporary Chocolate Factory Theater in Long Island City.
The 1,278-square foot Cabaret room where 109 Square is housed is part of the Queens Theatre's recent $23 million renovation. A kitchen and bar will open early next year, providing theater-goers with an on-site dining option before shows. The space will be converted for 109 Square performances later in the night, in a more intimate setting than that of the building's 500-seat and 99-seat theaters.
Queens Theatre is currently hosting 109 Square events every other week, but executive director Jeffrey Rosenstock hopes to increase it to five nights a week once once it builds a solid following.
"There are clubs that people are visiting because they don't have an alternative in Queens, and we're looking to see if we can create that alternative in Queens, an environment where they can say 'Hey, this is as good as going into the city,'" said Rosenstock.
He recalls when two years ago the director of Performance Space 122 admitted that PS122 was out of the loop when it came to the emerging art scene because 2nd Avenue and the Lower East Side had been completely gentrified.
Rosenstock said that up-and-coming artists are now flocking to Queens because they can't afford to live in Manhattan or Brooklyn, so the borough is reaping the benefits big-time.
"I think Queens is the frontier-land of the five boroughs right now, and I think the biggest changes are going to happen in Queens," said Rosenstock. "If people want to see what's going to be coming up next, they should keep their eye on Queens."


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What: Cassie Taylor
When: 7:30 p.m. Wednesday
Where: Boulder Outlook Hotel, 800 28th St., Boulder, 303-443-3322
Cost: free
More info: boulderoutlook.com
W hen we talk about the careers of musicians' children, the influence or even shadow of a parent's success can be touchy. The protégé-progeny want to stand on their own.
Cassie Taylor isn't worried about that. The talented daughter of Boulder trance and blues legend Otis Taylor recognizes her own story as inextricable from her father's, and she's proud.
"Well, my mom calls him my twin," she said. "I think it's just, like, absolutely imperative to the storyline of my life. If it wasn't for him, I would be trying to be an actor or a teacher or something like that. He was the person who really introduced music as a career field that I could not only be successful at, but just make a living at."
Her father's influence is on her next record, Out Of My Mind, in the music she grew up loving. Though the record will get a broad classification as blues, Taylor said she wanted to incorporate other styles that seem a little disparate on the surface, but have a lot in common.
"I use a lot of different influences in music that I've listened to all my life, from psychedelic West African, to classic rock, to industrial metal. I fell in love with so much different music and I didn't want to fall into the basic 12-bar blues."
For those unfamiliar, Taylor described West African psych rock as something similar to trance. It has a "droning, really tinny delayed guitar" and songs usually sit within one key.
The familial influence goes beyond the records played at home and Taylor's years in her father's band, though. It's in stories behind the songs and it comes from her mother, too. "Lay Your Head On My Pillow," off Out Of My Mind, was written as a 23rd anniversary gift to her parents when she couldn't afford to give them anything else.
"I was really inspired by their commitment to each other ... My parents are probably the least likely couple," she said. "I was really inspired by how they stuck it out and they wouldn't let all the crazy things going on in their lives get in the way of truly, deeply loving each other."
Love finds it's way onto other tracks, too, like "No Ring Blues." It was written for her now-husband, while he was still just a boyfriend and Taylor "felt like it was shit or get off the pot time." Obviously, he proposed.
Her interest in social issues comes up on Out Of My Mind, most notably in the first song, "Ol' Mama Dean." That one was inspired by a character on a documentary about women's correctional facilities.
Whatever the subject matter, the album finds Taylor in a more calm place than the last.
"I think in my first album, my life was more turbulent and you hear a lot more of someone who's more angsty and in a questionable place," she said. "This album is definitely pulling from different places outside of my life."
Out Of My Mind -- which Taylor recorded here in Boulder at Immersive Studios, where she once worked -- is out on May 7 and she'll be running around the country to support it. For the hometown show, she'll play the Boulder Outlook Hotel on Wednesday.


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9′ 9″ Mitchell Rammelsberg Bedstead Highlights Stevens Auction Sale
Several months ago I had the opportunity of weighing in on this bed having been made by Mitchell & Rammelsberg and here it is coming available during tomorrow's Steven's Auction sale. Be sure to peruse all the lots on the Stevens site, but for me, the bedstead steals the show.
What's not apparent from the Stevens photos is that the lovebirds can be removed which may allow you to fit it into your bedroom if you can't accommodate the full 9′ 9″ height. The current owner shared an image of a stand with me that she had made to put the birds on due to her room height not exceeding the full height of the bed. See the last photo.


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Like much of France, Germany's harvest was small and early, with spring frost mainly responsible for the low yields. Midsummer rains increased the disease pressure, which has compromised quality in the lower ranks, but the most prestigious producers and vineyards have made great wine from all varieties in 2017. Riper, sweeter categories flourished.
High rainfall in early summer created serious disease pressure, especially in Nahe and Mosel. What with late frost and hail, prospects for the 2016 harvest did not look good. However, the weather improved from July onwards and the overall quality is good, while the wines tend to be lower in alcohol and higher in acidity than 2015.
Yields across the country met the ten-year average, though they varied from region to region. In the Mosel, for instance, quality is especially promising but yields were 8% down on 2014. The Rheingau is also tipped for excellence, while reds from Baden are expected to be powerful and dark.
'Too cold and too wet' is the general summary for Germany in 2014. Yields were higher than the much smaller preceding vintage, but quality is surmised as 'good, bad and ugly' by Michael Schmidt, with the proviso that the better producers are inevitably the better performers.
A chill spring and fine, mild summer gave way to wet weather in September and October which proved many producers' undoing. Astute vineyard management was essential to coax grapes to ripeness and avoid rot. Low yields and fair quality across the board.
A cool, wet summer in Germany, saved by late warmth in September and October. Yields were overall in line with long term averages, although the Mosel lost up to 25% of its crop. Quality is widely agreed to be very good indeed, and possibly the best vintage in recent memory for Spätburgunder. Dry Rieslings are excellent too, but noble sweet wines are in even smaller supply than usual.
Extremely good quality, with yields back at average after two more depressed years. There is palpable excitement about these wines, with top quality examples across the board from trocken Riesling and Spätburgunder and record-breaking noble whites.
A tricky, high-acid vintage, with low sunshine and high rain. Despite this, July was extremely hot, skewing the average temperature to well above average. Yields were devastated, but Riesling quality is nonetheless promising when in expert hands.
Amongst the greatest vintages, 2009 is proving very alluring at a very early stage. The growing season was dry, warm and reliable. The wines are ripe and appealing but 12% down on volume compared to 2008.
A very late-ripening vintage marked by cool autumn temperatures. Acidities are therefore high, and only the best-exposed sites produced truly great wines. Very few botrytis wines were made, but there was a reasonable crop of Eiswein.
Unusual vintage during which a hot April and record early flowering was followed by a very cool summer but then the grapes were ripened, after a suitably extended growing season, by a very fine autumn. A distinct shortage of Kabinett.
A less than glorious summer and autumn rain bounced many growers into picking earlier than they would have liked, as rampant rot threatened. Very careful selection was needed and it is even more important than usual to stick to the top producers.
Exceptional vintage combining the luscious fruit of 2003 with the minerality and structure of 2004. Quantities were low but, to compensate growers financially, noble rot took hold very rapidly in the autumn so that large quantities of Beerenauslese and TBA were made, of especial note in the Saar.
Yet again autumn rescued the wines after a less than wonderful summer. Yields were relatively high but the wines have good crisp acidity and fine focus. Start drinking these around 2008.
Uncomfortably hot year for the Riesling vine, and even more of an assault on varieties such as Grauburgunder and Weissburgunder with their naturally lower acid levels. But some exceptional wines were made at the top of the tree.
German growers were in general much happier than their French counterparts throughout the summer but many were finally caught out by rain before harvest in October which meant that very few wines above Auslese quality resulted and the rather soft wines have aged relatively rapidly.
A very great, long-term vintage with remarkable levels of both grape ripeness (thanks to a wonderful Indian summer) and acidity (thanks to a nerve-wrackingly wet but cool September). A high proportion of botrytised sweet wines were made - in fact there was such a shortage of basic QbA wine that considerable amounts were declassified to satisfy market demand.
Very difficult vintage. Early optimism was finally dashed by September rains which severely compromised the health of the grapes. In many cases the earliest-picked grapes were the best because they were the least affected by rot. Early-picked Spätburgunders were relatively unscathed.
Everything was going so well...until the rains which began on 20 September and continued throughout the harvest. Careful selection was needed and in some cases yields were too high for real quality. Acids were generally low but some delicious wines for relatively early drinking were made by the best producers.
Despite a wet growing season the wines showed vibrant acidity and bright fruit. Eiswein was made in some quantity.
Early, large crop of very attractive wines – generally clustered around Spätlese level of ripeness, although there are some lovely Mosel Auslesen.
Attractive, lightish Mosels and southern wines with more stuffing. A very good year for Eiswein.
An unusually warm summer was followed by a cold, wet late August and September so that the bulk of wine produced was rather ordinary, but the late, great Riesling showed its stuff in the Mosel after a very warm October.
Horribly variable, but Riesling showed its class with superb quality from the good estates.
A nerve-racking year. Rain hit the early harvests but patient growers picked grapes with welcome botrytis. Some fine wines still showing well.
Not bad, particularly in the Rhine. Estates had to control yields to overcome dilution from the rains and maintain balance.
Ripe, crisp, even slightly austere wines, just the stuff for Kabinetts!
Europe's wonder year: a perfect autumn with plenty of late-picked sweet wines after a botrytis bonanza.
A phenomenal harvest. The late-harvested Rieslings show profound complexity. Probably best in the Mosel.
Overshadowed by two remarkable years, this is still an excellent vintage of elegance and fruit.
Classy and stylish, these show how well Riesling ages.


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Wednesday, May 9, 2012
Stamped Garden Markers
We've been hard at work getting our vegetable garden started in the backyard. In the meantime, we put in a couple of small raised beds right off the back patio for herbs. I wanted a fun way to label the herbs and I have seen lots of people use jewelry stamps on old spoons for garden markers. When I searched around the internet, it seemed like most people were flattening out the spoon before stamping and a few people had done the same on forks.
When I headed out to my local Goodwill in search of some utensils, there was a wide selection of butter knives, but very few spoons and forks. At the high price of 5 for $1, I figured I would give it a try. I tried to pick out knives that had a flat-ish area on the handle for stamping.
I stamped the knife handles just as I would any jewelry piece. The only real difference was that I had to hit them HARD. The thickness of the handle made it more difficult to get a good impression. I only ruined one knife in the process. It was more rounded than I realized and I couldn't get it to lay flat enough to get a good hit on the stamp.
After stamping, I went over the letters with an industrial Sharpie and polished them off with a silver polishing cloth.
I think they look so fun stuck in the dirt by the herbs! It almost looks like someone is in the process of eating them all up! I'll give you an update later in the summer to see how they're holding up. I'm curious to see if the letters will still be readable and if the knives themselves will get too tarnished. At $2 for the entire project, I'll be happy if they only last for one year!
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The Ethical, Legal and Social Implications (ELSI) program is an integral part of the Human Genome Project (HGP), and it will continue to be essential as the focus of scientific research increasingly shifts to applied genetics.The responsibilities currently being undertaken by the Joint National Institutes of Health-Department of Energy (NIH-DOE ELSI) Working Group (Working Group) are much too broad to be satisfied by any single body. Moreover, the placement of the Working Group, as a joint subcommittee of the National Advisory Council on Human Genome Research (NACHHGR) at NIH and the Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (HERAC) at DOE is not commensurate with the more global role of some important policy formulation.
Accordingly, this committee recommends dividing the Working Group's responsibilities among committees and at levels in the government better suited to the specific objectives assigned them. First, a newly established ELSI Research Evaluation Committee should have responsibility for oversight of the extramural ELSI grant portfolios at NHGRI and DOE. Second, an NIH-wide process should be used to coordinate the ELSI activities of the various institutes engaged in genetic research. Third, a federally-chartered Advisory Committee on Genetics and Public Policy should be established in the Office of the Secretary of HHS to undertake the formulation of public policy resulting from advances in genetics. The efforts of these committees must be coordinated so that there is two-way communication and facilitation of their common objectives.
The Committee to Evaluate the Ethical, Legal, and Social Implications Program of the Human Genome Project (ELSI Evaluation Committee) was appointed on April 30, 1996, by Dr. Francis S. Collins, director of the National Center for Human Genome Research (now NHGRI), the National Institutes of Health (NIH); and Dr. Ari Patrinos, associate director for Health and Environmental Research, Office of Health and Environmental Research, United States Department of Energy (DOE). The committee was charged with taking a comprehensive look at the Joint NIH/DOE Working Group on the Ethical, Legal,and Social Implications of Human Genome Research (Working Group).
According to the charge to the committee (see Appendix A), "the main task of the committee will be to identify the functions that will need to be addressed in the future and to recommend an appropriate structure for effectively carrying these out." The members of the committee (see Appendix B for a roster of members) developed the following mission statement to guide their inquiries and deliberations:
The committee will evaluate the appropriate scope of ELSI activities and the role of external advisers in the ELSI program. The committee will assess how, in the near term, it would be best to structure input on ELSI issues raised by and as a consequence of the Human Genome Project. The Committee also will assess how, in the longer term, it would be best to structure input on ELSI issues raised more generally by research involving human genetics.
In its evaluations and recommendations the committee will consider the organizational structure, staffing, and budgetary needs of an entity or program that has the responsibility of facilitating the free and open discussion by diverse groups and individuals of a wide range of ELSI issues. The committee also will consider how the study of ELSI issues raised by genetics research can be coordinated with other related activities at NIH and DOE as well as with other governmental and private bodies that deal with similar issues of bioethics and health policy.The committee utilized various procedures in obtaining information relevant to this report. It obtained copies of documents from NIH and DOE related to their ELSI programs and the Working Group. It also conducted interviews with numerous individuals, including past and present officials of NIH and DOE, past and present members of the Working Group, and experts on ELSI issues. In addition, it solicited public input through written and electronic comments, as well as a public forum announced in the Federal Register.
Dr. Bettie Graham of the NHGRI served as Executive Secretary to the Committee. The members of the committee are indebted to Dr. Graham and her staff for obtaining the necessary documents for the committee and for logistical support. All interviewing, deliberating, and drafting were undertaken by the committee members alone, within subcommittees, or in executive session.
While the HGP is unquestionably an exciting and vitally important scientific research endeavor, it also presents formidable challenges to science policy and public affairs. From the outset, leaders of Congress and the Executive Branch recognized that as scientific research proceeded, it was essential to support parallel research on the ethical,legal, and social implications of human genome research. To this end,separate ELSI research programs were established at NIH and DOE. These unprecedented programs support important scholarly research on genetic counseling, privacy, discrimination, education, intellectual property, and numerous other issues.
In addition to establishing ELSI research programs, NIH and DOE established a Joint Working Group for the study of ELSI issues. The Working Group is currently structured as a subcommittee of the National Advisory Council on Human Genome Research (NACHGR) of the NHGRI at NIH and as a subcommittee of the Health and Environmental Research Advisory Committee (HERAC) of the DOE. The Working Group is composed of experts in the fields of bioethics, law, the social sciences, and basic and applied genetics, as well as representatives of professional societies and the public. The dedicated members of the Working Group have labored diligently to identify emerging issues, increase the level of public understanding and help shape public policy. With the support of the leadership at NIH and DOE, the Working Group has made some important contributions to the analysis of ELSI issues, including the Report of the Task Force on Genetic Information and Insurance and the work of the ongoing Task Force on Genetic Testing.
As the HGP turns its attention to large-scale sequencing, it is appropriate to consider the mission and structure of future ELSI research. This assessment is particularly timely for four reasons.
First, scientific developments are proceeding at an accelerating pace, thereby raising new ELSI issues calling for a rapid response.
Second, the expanding potential of genomic technology will increasingly require research designed to anticipate, rather than simply respond to, emerging ELSI issues.
Third, as large-scale sequencing projects are completed, a growing proportion of biomedical research will entail applied and clinical genetics, giving rise to a new set of substantive ELSI issues throughout the NIH. Finally, in the emerging era of applied genetics and molecular medicine, a variety of government agencies with regulatory responsibility for health issues will be involved to a much greater extent in implementing policies related to human genetics. For these reasons, new challenges will emerge in the coming years that can only be met by strengthening the ELSI program.
The committee carefully considered the input of the numerous individuals who shared their views on the ELSI program. From these views and the committee's own analysis, we determined that the following are essential elements of an effective ELSI program.
The charge of the ELSI Working Group is so broad and complex as to be confusing to various participants and observers. This confusion has led to uncertainty about its primary functions and reporting relationships. For example, while the Working Group has addressed broad policy issues, it has not provided in-depth advice regarding the extramural research program to the extent that it might. The inadequately defined mission of the Working Group also has led to inefficiencies in operation. Furthermore, serious concerns have been raised about the Working Group's lack of resources and independence, as well as conflicts with the intramural policy making activities at NHGRI and the inadequate sharing of essential information by staff at NHGRI. The Working Group is not positioned within the governmental scientific structure so as to fulfill the breadth of its charge. There is a fundamental discordance between a narrowly defined scientific research program and a much broader effort to formulate and implement policy regarding the social consequences of all genetic developments, both research and clinical. The NHGRI and the Office of Health and Environmental Research (OHER) at DOE are charged with genomic research. It is appropriate and essential for these agencies to fund research on a wide range of ELSI issues. It does not necessarily follow, however, that policy development on ELSI issues (such as clinical genetics, confidentiality of genetic data in medical records, health insurance coverage, and genetic discrimination in employment), is best achieved under the aegis of centers at NIH and DOE whose missions are limited to genome mapping and sequencing.
Several considerations - the breadth of ELSI issues, the rapid pace of the science, the difference between running a research program and developing policy, and the variety of government agencies relevant to policies involving genetics - converge to make it clear that effective research and policy development on ELSI issues cannot be accomplished by a single Working Group in its present location. Similarly, appropriate public and professional interactions in health policy development cannot be achieved under the current structure.
At the NIH, ELSI-type activities occur in multiple institutes and programs,some overlapping others to a significant extent. Research strategies, human subjects issues, and many other ELSI activities in the various institutes and programs require coordination and information sharing. Addressing the ethical, legal, and social implications of developments in genetics will require strong support and continuing attention at NHGRI, throughout NIH and DHHS, at DOE, and at all government agencies with responsibilities in related fields.
The committee assessed the relative importance, interactions, and requirements for meeting the above enumerated essentials for the ELSI program. This assessment was carried out utilizing the available information and opinions from all forms of input and the committee's own discussions. There is total agreement among the committee and those we surveyed that the ethical, legal, and social implications raised by the HGP are of immense significance to all individuals,including the scientific community. Therefore, it is of the highest priority that an appropriate mechanism should be established to ensure that a rigorous, focused research program exists to build a foundation of knowledge about ELSI issues and to provide an open, independent forum for a full discussion of the issues. Extensive interdisciplinary research on ELSI issues must be continued, and the current extramural funding mechanisms within NHGRI and DOE provide an appropriate means to carry forward this crucial mission.
The majority of research within the HGP has a very limited focus, that of producing the complete genome sequence on a tight time line. By contrast, the research goals of ELSI reach across all of genetics and beyond to clinical and social issues. In spite of the discordance between these two very different arenas, the location of the ELSI research program within the genome project is essential because it ensures a realistic connection between the research issues raised by the former and those addressed by the latter. As discussed above, however, the current NIH/DOE Joint Working Group on the Ethical, Legal and Social Implications of Human Genome Research can no longer address the plethora of issues under the ELSI umbrella. A new structure is required to ensure that the public, government, and research community's interests in ELSI issues,as outlined above, are adequately met in a timely and informed fashion.Therefore, the committee proposes the following three recommendations for restructuring the ELSI effort. These recommendations are given first in summary form and then in more detail.
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Missouri Gov. Jay Nixon signed legislation Tuesday allowing parents more time to give up their newborns without legal consequences, requiring screening for heart defects and dealing with reporting suspected child abuse or neglect.
Nixon held a bill signing ceremony at St. Louis Children's Hospital for three bills. He said changes to child abuse reporting will help eliminate delays while additional screening for infants could help catch heart defects that can be treated with quick intervention.
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Pointing to figures from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the governor's office said critical congenital heart disease accounts for nearly 30 percent of infant deaths due to birth defects.
"We want to make sure every child has every opportunity to grow up health and strong," Nixon said.
The newly signed legislation will require starting in 2014 that all infants be screened for critical congenital heart disease. It is named Chloe's Law after a girl born in 2008 with a rare congenital heart defect that the girl's mother said was discovered nine hours after her birth by a pulse oximetry screening.
Another measure signed by Nixon gives parents up to 45 days instead of the current five days to leave their babies with medical professionals, firefighters, emergency medical technicians or law enforcement officers without repercussions. Parents also will be allowed to leave babies at pregnancy resource centers and maternity homes.
Nixon also signed legislation aimed at closing a loophole in child abuse reporting.
Existing Missouri law has required mandatory reporters of child abuse and neglect to report or "cause a report to be made" to the Children's Division. Supporters of the new legislation said state law has allowed mandatory reporters such as doctors, social workers and teachers to submit information to another person in his or her organization. The new law requires those people to make reports directly to the Children's Division.
A state Task Force on the Prevention of Sexual Abuse of Children had recommended the change in a report released this year. The task force said allowing mandated reporters to submit information to a "designated agent" in their organizations sometimes resulted in reports not being made.


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If you've been blogging for any length of time, you'll probably feel that it's old hat. The principle is simple – you talk about something that you're interested and/or passionate about, and through that you find people that are interested in the same sort of things that you are.
Over time if you're a good write or really passionate or you simply create / get hold of good content, you'll rise to the top of that niche vertical interest, which in turn will result in more readers.
The problem is that until very recently blogging was kind of hard to do – you have to be at least a little technically literate to be able to use the blog software interfaces. The result being that until recently blogging definitely wasn't part of the mainstream consciousness.
Shoot forward to today and I'm pretty confident that blogging is at the tipping point (at least in the UK that is – I've no idea what's happening in the US or the rest of the world for that matter), for three different reasons which I'll outline below.
For starters, MySpace seems to be everywhere. A week or so ago, my brother went to the O2 Wireless festival here in London, and he came back with several MySpace stickers and buttons for me – he didn't know what MySpace was but he did know what blogging was (I've just introduced him to Flickr, so he's starting to open his eyes a little), and that means something because he's definitely in the 'pragmatic adopter' category.
Today, I was listening to Radio 1 while working so I had the conversation blanked out, until I heard the word blog. I almost jumped up with joy (I am a blogging evangelist in my spare time – Thursday nights are blog rally nights if you're interested) and started singing Kumbaya. The Radio 1 DJ legitimised the artist Lily Allen's blog by stating that she was just reading her blog and found it interesting. If you go and visit her blog you'll see just why MySpace is so popular.
As a parallel to this, the rise of teenagers in school using MySpace and posting photos to their blogs was also all over the UK news today. Whilst I'm not keen on youngsters posting revealing or even semi-revealing photos to any site at all, it still does point to the apparent ubiquity of MySpace. Which concerns me, but that's another entry…
Completely opposite to this, in the last three weeks I've been approached by various organisations to consult on, project manage and implement blogging solutions for corporate clients, a large property Plc amongst them. Although this in itself is not important, the fact that a large traditional property Plc based in London is looking at a blog solution as a tool to develop a community voice around one of their property projects is, and it's exciting.
I'm not completely and absolutely sure we're on the cusp of an enterprise blogging awakening, but I am pretty sure that the rise of MySpace and other community sites like it is signalling a wind change on the consumer driven internet, and that this in turn is realising the potential of what the internet is all about – conversation and community. The next 18 months are going to be interesting!
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Physical Therapist Assistants (PTA) have been assisting Physical Therapists since 1969. PTAs work under the direction of a Physical Therapist to provide outstanding patient care. Central Penn College's Physical Therapist Assistant program strives to develop skilled paraprofessionals through education that stresses problem-solving, critical thinking and independent skill performance to ensure that our graduates will provide quality care to the public in a positive and professional manner.
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TALLAHASSEE – Florida's teacher union is appealing a recent ruling that upheld the state's contentious teacher evaluation law.
A federal judge in May concluded the 2011 law was unfair but stated there was no legal reason to overturn it.
Seven teachers from three counties, as well as the Florida Education Association, contended that the 2011 law tying teacher evaluations and pay to standardized testing is unconstitutional.
U.S District Judge Mark Walker dismissed the lawsuit. FEA President Andy Ford said in a statement that Walker erred in concluding the evaluation system is rational. The appeal is being filed with a federal appeals court in Atlanta.
Gov. Charlie Crist vetoed the measure in 2010, but Gov. Rick Scott approved it the following year.
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