The Great Twinkie Drought Comes to an End

Hostess's Twinkies are returning to retailer shelves across the country Monday, in what the company says is "the sweetest comeback in the history of ever."

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The cream-filled snack cakes – along with other Hostess products such as Ding Dongs, CupCakes and Ho Hos – disappeared from stores when the company filed for bankruptcy in January 2012 and then suddenly shut down in November of 2012 amid employee strikes and financial troubles. But two private companies, Metropoulos & Co. and Apollo Global Management, purchased the brands for $410 million and announced the snacks' return in March.

The company touted its return to stores as it tracked its "snack truck" route through New York City on Twitter Monday morning, with a stop at NBC's "Today" show.

Discussion of the famed snacks increased in recent days, as many consumers also took to Twitter – some expressing their excitement, and others questioning whether anyone noticed that Twinkies disappeared in the first place.

"Thank goodness, we can still get a deep fried Twinkie at the Iowa State Fair!" tweeted Sen. John McCain.

"I think I would care more about Twinkies being back in stores if it hadn't already been 20+ years since the last time I had one," says a tweet from California radio host Casey Dolan.

Still, the company's new owners said public demand prompted the return.

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"America wanted Hostess back – they wanted the original," Daren Metropoulos, principal of Metropoulos & Co., told ABC News. "Very soon consumers will once again be able to enjoy Twinkies, CupCakes and other great Hostess snack cakes. A comeback by any other name could never be as sweet."

But the new Twinkies are slightly different from the original: The snack's shelf life has been extended by almost three weeks, from 26 days to 45 days, according to ABC News.

An although Hostess says it asked retailers not to sell the revamped snacks until Monday, some stores, including Wal-Mart and Kroger, said they stocked their shelves on Friday.

Wal-Mart had a first batch of Twinkies available in 1,600 stores on Friday, and by Sunday the snacks were available in 3,000 stores, according to CNN.

"Hostess has shipped product to every major retail customer across the country ... These shipments were coordinated to give everyone the same opportunity to display the product on July 15th," Hostess said in a statement to The Associated Press. "Hostess has not, and is not, giving any particular retailer exclusivity or preference to have products first."

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Kroger, the company that owns the grocery stores Ralph's, Fry's and Food 4 Less, also said it had Twinkies stocked in about a quarter of its 2,400 stores on Friday, the AP reported.

The Bakery, Confectionary, Tobacco Workers and Grain Millers International Union said in a statement that it was interested in working with the new owners of Hostess to ensure the "long-term viability" of the products.

"Last year's demise of Hostess was due in large measure to critical mistakes made by a series of management teams that simply did not have any meaningful experience in the wholesale bread and cake baking business," said union President David Durkee in the statement. "To avoid the same fate, the BCTGM encourages the two private equity firms ... to change their approach and work with our union and our members in a cooperative manner. This is their best hope for long-term success."

Study: solar 'tsunami' gives insight into Sun's magnetic field

Two solar "tsunamis", travelling across the Sun at over a million kilometres per hour, have been used to measure the Sun's magnetic field.

Thought to be caused when the surface of the Sun explodes matter out into space -- events known as coronal mass ejections (CMEs) -- solar tsunamis are waves of ionised gas and magnetic field distortions that travel through the Sun's atmosphere, or corona, sometimes covering the Sun in less than an hour.

By measuring how the tsunami travelled across the Sun, a team from University College London was able to record the strength of the Sun's magnetic field. The research, due to be published in Solar Physics, could help us better understand CMEs, which can disrupt satellites and power grids on Earth.
Although the interior of the Sun is thought to have an extremely powerful magnetic field, the team found that the magnetic field in its atmosphere is about ten times weaker than a fridge magnet.

 Solar tsunamis, also known as "EIT Waves" after the telescope that first detected them in 1997, are notoriously difficult to spot. They propagate radially out from a point on the Sun's surface where a coronal mass ejection has taken place.

"They're only visible when the Sun is quiet," says lead author David Long. "If the Sun is quite active, they're very difficult to spot" as they become hidden by the huge amount of radiation emanating from the Sun.
Even when the Sun is quiet, "you have to look at the right time, in the right place, and have everything going for you," he says.

In 2007 and 2010, Japan's Hinode spacecraft and Nasa's Solar Dynamics Observatory (SDO) did indeed have everything going for them.
Long and his colleagues used the data from the two tsunami events recorded by Hinode and SDO to track the change in velocity and acceleration of the tsunamis.

The way a wave travels can tell you something about the thing it's travelling through. For example, sound travels faster in water than in air, so we can deduce that water is denser than air. For these solar tsunamis, the waves are travelling through the Sun's magnetic field, so if they accelerate or slow down, that tells you something about the density and therefore strength of the magnetic field.
"By looking at how [the waves] deform," says Long. "We can measure the strength of the Sun's magnetic field".
 As the solar tsunamis may be directly caused by CMEs, Long hopes that the research will help our understanding of CMEs, potentially helping us reduce the impact on Earth of explosions of solar matter.

Deus Ex: The Fall review

Having hacked into a stranger's computer, I'm presented with a curious email: "My game of the year is Final Fantasy 27. Giving it back to the Japanese developer was the right move!"

Yes, Deus Ex: The Fall has a subtle sense of humour if you go looking for it; the iOS sci-fi action-RPG, released this week by Square Enix, is not without hints of corporate self-parody.

otherwise a dark adventure set in the year 2027. Rival drug companies are creating havoc on the streets of Panama, causing humans who have augmented their bodies with technology to suffer as a result. Ben Saxon, a British ex-military operative, is balls-deep in this conspiracy, aiming to set it straight. The story, which spans about four to six hours of gameplay, is the first chapter in this franchise's storyline, with sequels (and an eventual Android release) set to drop in the future.

This is an adventurous creation for sure. It was developed exclusively for mobile devices, yet it plays as convincingly as a console title. Plus it fosters one of the most intuitive and satisfying set of touchscreen inputs, baking in rich graphics over a subtly brilliant soundtrack reminiscent of Deus Ex: Human Revolution in the process.

 Plot-wise it won't win any awards for depth, but it's concise and well-suited for jump-in, jump-out enjoyment on public transport and stays true to the Deus Ex universe and atmosphere. There are a few side-quests, although the vast majority are forgettable fetch missions. They're worth doing in order to earn in-game money if nothing else but they cause little deviation from the otherwise linear-feeling storyline.

 You'll explore an array of orange-and-brown-tinted environments, from underground medical institutions littered with drug addicts, to hotel, office complexes and train stations. Liaisons with characters who choose to hold their meetings behind urinals in a gent's toilet are also present. Rejoice! Important NPCs, such as Anna Kelso (possibly Saxon's girlfriend, though I wasn't entirely sure -- readers may correct me here) make regular appearances in your earpiece, helping flesh out backstory or reminding you of current objectives. I'd have preferred to hear a bit more from them, but this is something else that's distilled down to just the essentials for this release. 

Where The Fall -- pardon the expression -- falls down, is with unconvincing mediocre voice acting and a giant question mark over the usefulness of your inventory: you won't find many exciting guns in the field, and you won't find enough money in your playthrough to buy them from the in-game shop. As such, combat gets repetitive, although admittedly never outwardly boring.

 You'll find other collectibles around the game, such as damage reducers and energy boosts, but you rarely need them. Augmentations, which are as central to Deus Ex as a musicians are to a music festival, are a similar tale -- there are heaps of upgrades you can make to your character, but they just don't seem to be essential. I went through huge chunks of the game seeing I could upgrade, but few made any tangible difference to how I played. The only exception is the hacking augmentation, which enables you to break into computers and unlock doors; and the ability to move heavy objects.

 The result of this was that my game climaxed with a wallet stuffed full of looted finances. Good job, too: the last boss was tough to beat with my standard weapons and remaining ammo. I had to buy the rocket launcher, and if I'd have spent my cash throughout the previous five hours on other perks, I probably would have felt pressured to buy it with in-app payments -- yes, they're here.

 It's also worth noting that the game is painfully bug-ridden -- it probably crashed as many times as it was loaded it to play, and takes your recent game progress with it. (A workaround is to close all open apps on your device, then turn on Airplane mode, then turn your device off and on again, leaving Airplane mode on when it reboots. Playing the game under these condition then prevents any major crashes. Also: save as often as you can to be extra safe.)

These issues notwithstanding, Deus Ex: The Fall is a tremendously enjoyable game and left me excited for the next instalment. Its ambition is only let down by inconsistent game balance caused by unnecessary augmentations, lacklustre weaponry on an initial playthough and modest possibilities to deviate from the main quest at hand. But that doesn't make it any less fun, nor any less worthy of praise.
For £4.99 it's without question worth the download for any fan of Deus Ex, sci-fi adventure games in general, or anyone who wants a glimpse at what the future of big-budget mobile-only gaming can be.
  If nothing else it'll give you something to do until Square Enix releases Final Fantasy 27.

10 Einstein Wise Advice About Life Success

"If you want to successfully learn from the experience of successful" this article will discuss a brief light on Einstein's philosophy of life. No physics, nuclear, or other genius things. Just a small thing but often forgotten, but a major effect on our lives. Any wise counsel Einstein? Let's take a look.1. Continue to follow your Curiosity"I do not have a special talent. Just a curiosity always enjoyed it. "Reading Einstein quote above makes us wonder. What kind of curiosity that? I always wondered why some people succeed while many others fail?Because of this many-many spend a lot of time reading a lot of material. Figuring out the connection of things against the word 'success'. Pursuing answers your curiosity is the secret key kesukesan.
2. Diligent is Invaluable"I'm not smart, so to speak just last longer face the problem."Imagine a turtle in the middle of the jungle mountain, while he wants to reach the beach. Or, do you setekun mango shoots continuously grow, develop and eventually bear fruit?There is a nice phrase popular among postal workers, 'A sheet of stamps to be valuable only because when he was attached to the letter to him to the goal'. Be like a postage stamp, finish what you've started.
3. Focus on the moment."A man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl, is not really a decent reward to kiss it."Einstein really talking about kissing you? Ah, that's just the term alone, but I want a story about what happened when someone keep durian orchard in the garden.So many monkeys like waiting for the keeper off guard and brush durian ripe on the tree. Then the other said, that you will not be able to shoot two monkeys at a time.Understanding can be inferred on these words is, "A person can do many things, but not all at once '.Learning to 'be here now', give attention to what you are doing. Focused energy is a source of strength. That is the difference between success and failure.
4. Imagination is power"Imagination is everything. Imagination is towing the future. Imagination is more important than knowledge. "Einstein's famous phrase. Do you imagine every day? Imagination is more important than knowledge!Imagination plays a round of early stage life in your future. Again, Einstein said, "The sign kejeneniusan actually is not knowledge but imagination."Again, if you have trained your imagination muscles every day? Do not let those muscles become emaciated and sickly.Life without imagination as to follow the flow of the river, following the resignation of any will and where it goes. It has no power over any of the choices or desires. Pathetic.
5. Make Mistakes"A person who never made a mistake never actually tried anything new."Einstein was never afraid of mistakes. Needless to allergies with errors. Note well, not ERROR FAILURE.Two things were different. Mistakes can help you become a better, faster, smarter, if you use it right, of course.Look for something smelled new (something new) from your mistakes. As already spelled out earlier, if you want to succeed, learn more from your mistakes.6. Life at the moment"I never think of the future-it will come shortly."The only way to make your life better in the future is to live well in the present. Ah, yet another wise counsel to address the exact time by quantum physicists Einstein.Very unlikely to change because it happened yesterday. All you can do now is to change the way you look at it on today to make it better.You also can not change for the better tomorrow, unless you do your best at the moment. The problem is just about time, and time is never going anywhere anyway.7. Respect yourself"Strive not to be a success, but to become more valuable."No need lah worked hard to become more success. Take your time to increase your self worth.If you are really worth, success will come over to you. Did Einstein to work harder to be successful? Maybe he just continuously investing to improve her value. Success came himself to him.Recognize talents and blessings with His gift to you. Learn to hone them to become more sharp, use to give maximum benefit to others banyaknyak.Work to be worth, success will chase you. Are diamonds cost the same as gravel? You have the answer. Both had different pressures thus differentiating value.8. Do not go expecting Different Results"Insanity: is doing something the same way over and over again and expecting different results."Einstein wise advice above is my favorite. You do not expect to get better results if you still persist in a way that you wear now.Put differently, you dream of expecting your biceps become more 'sexy' if they lift light weights continuously.If you want your life to change, you must change. Changing ways of thinking, perspectives and ways of doing things.When you change your thoughts, change your perspective, change your actions, your life will change by itself.Imagine the following: There is a sweet girl right in front of you. Compare the following two actions. First, you smile, her reaction is a reply to your smile. Secondly, you glared at him, can guess what her reaction?9. Knowledge honed through experience"Information is not knowledge. The only source of knowledge is experience. "Knowledge comes from experience. You can discuss a project, but discussion will only give you the information.You have to do a project to 'know' whether the project is running correctly or not.You have to do to address the emerging issues in the middle of the project. It makes you have a new and rewarding experience.What message Einstein? Look for experience! Do not spend time watching soap operas while you love desperately wanted a boyfriend, for example. Get out of your world now and invaluable experience waiting out there.
10. Understand Code Of Conduct, Then Play Better"You have to understand the rules of the game. Then you have to play better than the other players. "For Einstein, he quite understands the basic rules of physics and think and work better than other physicists. Simply put, you just do two things.First, you have to do is understand the 'rules' how do you do it.Second, do the job better than anyone else. If you are able to do these two things well, success surely go into your bag