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Bioethanol Market By Type (Corn-based Ethanol, Sugarcane-based Ethanol, Others) By Blend (E10, E15 to E70, E75 to E85) By Application (Transportation, Alcoholic Beverages, Pharmaceuticals, Others) and Region - Global Forecast to 2026
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The global bioethanol market was valued at US$ 57,650 million in 2017 and is expected to register a CAGR of over 5%. The report offers in-depth insights, revenue details, and other vital information regarding the global bioethanol market and the various trends, drivers, restraints, opportunities, and threats in the target market till 2026. The report also offers insightful and detailed information regarding the various key players operating in the global bioethanol market, and their financials, apart from strategies, acquisitions & mergers, and market footprint. The global bioethanol market is segmented on the basis of type, blend, application, and region.
Bioethanol is a biodegradable, renewable energy resource that is produced from biomass through sugar fermentation and chemical process. Bioethanol forms an attractive alternative to conventional fuel sources owing to its high-octane value and lower greenhouse gas emissions. Bioethanol is used in transportation, alcoholic beverages, and pharmaceuticals.
Global Bioethanol Market Dynamics:
Growing awareness regarding usage of biofuels is expected to drive the bioethanol market over the forecast period. Biofuels are renewable energy resource that is derived from the crops waste, manure, and plants grown for fuel. Most of the fossil fuels may expire someday were as biofuels are renewable fuel that can be generated from plants and these plants can be replanted again and again for fuel generation.
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Rising awareness regarding the greenhouse gas emissions is expected to have a positive impact on the bioethanol market over the forecast period. Combustion emission is lower for bioethanol than that of fossil fuels. Ethanol is mixed with gasoline, the mixture burns cleaner and has higher octane levels than that of pure gasoline.
However, production cost and environmental effects during production are primary factors expected to hamper the growth of the global bioethanol market. Bioethanol manufacture has long process from growing plants, fermenting, and distilling. The entire production process is costly compared to fossil fuel extraction. Growing these crops require water, countries that do not receive sufficient rainfall will lead to rising in production cost of the ethanol fuel.
Various government policies across the world and growing agribusiness have boosted the production of ethanol. In the US, the government offered subsidies under Energy Policy Act 1978 to boost the farm income and stabilize the energy security. Later Clean Air Act was passed by the government in which the vendors of gasoline were ordered to oxygenate their products. Hence the favorable government policies and mandates for production of bioethanol is expected to create high potential revenue opportunities for existing as well as new entrants in the target market.
Market analysis by bioethanol type:
On the basis of type segmentation, corn-based bioethanol segment is expected to contribute major revenue share and expected to maintain its dominance over the forecast period. Corn-based bioethanol witness highest CAGR over 5.0%, owing to low prices and large availability of corn. Governments of North America and Latin America provide subsidies for corn production to promote corn production.
Market analysis by blend:
On the basis of blend segmentation, E15 to E70 segment is estimated to contribute major revenue share and expected to maintain its dominance over the forecast period. US government passed a regulation under Energy Independence and Security Act, which mandates consumption of renewable fuels in transportation sector. E70 blend is used as winter blend in US and Sweden as transportation fuel during cold weather to avoid starting problems of vehicles. While, the Brazilian government made mandated of blending ethanol with gasoline between 10% to 22%.
Market analysis by application:
Among all the application segments, transportation segment is expected to register highest CAGR over 5.5%. Bioethanol is used to blend the petrol that is used fuel in transportation. Ethanol burns clean and protects the engines, and often extends engine maintenance, boosting octane, and release low greenhouse gas emissions compared to pure gasoline.
Government initiatives to promote the use of bioethanol as fuel in transportation is expected to fuel the market growth over the forecast period. Bioethanol for Sustainable Transport (BEST) was a four-year plan started by European Union for promoting bioethanol as vehicle fuel in Europe.
Analysis by Region:
North America market is expected to dominate the global bioethanol market, and it accounts for largest market revenue over US$ 24,500 million in 2017 as compared to that of markets in other regions. Dominance by North America market is expected to continue over the forecast period with comparatively higher CAGR than that of other regions, owing to higher demand among consumers in countries in the region. Presence of leading bioethanol manufacturers in this region and increasing consumers of bioethanol in this region is expected to fuel the market growth over the forecast period.
North America is the largest producer and consumer of bioethanol. The renewable fuel standard (RFS) program started by the US government under Energy Policy Act of 2005 to reduce the greenhouse gas emission is anticipated to fuel the growth of the market over the forecast
The governments in the region have mandated the blending of ethanol with petrol. Blending oxygenates the fuel mixture so that it burns completely and reduce the harmful emissions. The most common blend used in the region is 10% ethanol with 90% of petrol.
In 2017, Latin America accounted for the second largest revenue share contribution to the global bioethanol market. Revenue from the bioethanol market in Brazil is expected to expand significantly over the forecast period, owing to increasing number of industries engaged in ethanol manufacturing, and abundant availability of sugarcane in the country.
Brazil is a major exporter of bioethanol, which is further expected to drive market growth. According to the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC), Brazil is the second largest producer of bioethanol. Most of the vehicles in Brazil are ran on ethanol fuel. Bioethanol accounts about 40% of the fuel consumed in the country.
The Asia Pacific is expected to be the fastest growing region in the global bioethanol market. China has been one of the largest importers of bioethanol in the Asia Pacific region and is expected to continue this trend over the forecast period. This can be attributed to rapidly growing transportation industry and rising demand for bioethanol for alcoholic beverages in the country.
Market Segmentation:
Global bioethanol segmentation, by type:
- Corn-based Ethanol
- Sugarcane-based Ethanol
- Others
Global bioethanol segmentation, by blend:
- E15 to E70
- E75 to E85
Global bioethanol segmentation, by application:
- Transportation
- Alcoholic Beverages
- Pharmaceuticals
- Others
Global bioethanol segmentation, by region:
- North America
- Europe
- Asia Pacific
- Latin America
- Middle East & Africa
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It is with great honor to showcase the accepted artists and artworks to our "Conversation of Art & Nature" exhibition in our Online Gallery. We received over 400 works from around the world including Canada, China, Czech Republic, France, Germany, Indonesia, Iran, Ireland, South Africa, Ukraine, United Kingdom, and United States. Many of the works were in high quality and selecting works among them was extremely difficult task.
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Amy Kim Keeler, Arthur Koch, Bahar Rezania, Behnaz Karjoo, Belgin Yucelen, Blake McFarland, Edith Hillinger, Elahe Rostami, Elisabeth Burgun, Erika Gagnon, Fariba Abedin, Farimah Shahgholian, Firouzeh Bakhtiari, Ghader Mansoori, Hamed Tabein, Hosein Mohamadi, Judi Iranyi, June Yokell, Karim Allahkhani, Leesette Turner, Leili Estaki, Marjorie Darrow, Marie-Jeanne Jacob, Maryam Rostampour, Narges Soleimanzadeh, Naser Arabpour, Nikola Klanicova, Pamela Pitt, Robert Ryan, Sara Madandar, Sarah Misra, Simonetta Ferrante, Sossi Madzounian, Tirazheh Eslami, Yuri (Youli) Hyun, Zinat Masalehgou
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I've just finished reading Eben Pagan's latest giveaway, the 21-page Marketing Voodoo report.
Eben is too humble to take credit for it, but he's famous for the phrase "move the free line", in regards to offering high-quality content, freely, in order to capture and captivate prospects, customers, and associates.
To promote the launch of his Guru Home Study Course, Eben has been over-delivering 1000s of dollars worth of free tips, training, and even mini sales letters – stuff that could easily sell for at least $40, only to WOW his prospects to the point where they have to have his course.
Honestly, it's working.
After taking the time to watch his 40 min video twice and reading his marketing voodoo report over and over, I've reached the point where I can't imagine what's left for the actual paid course. The information Eben shared on the marketing voodoo report alone is 100% actionable, and I already see it increasing my conversion rates and capturing customers for life.
I'm trying my best not to sound like a groupie, but it's not easy.
What is impressive is that Eben leaves no doubt that what's in the video and in the marketing voodoo report is his best, most precious strategies, and he is not afraid to reveal it publicly. The reason for is that despite the immediate potential his free reports have, with his guidance and special exercises, exploring its full potential will take much less than having to study it on your own.
Basically, Eben Pagan is giving you an amazing toy without the full, 400 page instruction. He gives you a 20 page instruction, and full access to the toy; you may play with it for a while, but without the entire manual, it gets boring… So you have to come and ask for the full instruction set.
It is your decision to seek Eben Pagan as a solution provider, not only because he gave you the toy, but because he knows exactly how to have lots and lots of fun playing it.
The entire "move the free line" strategy revolves around the fact that Eben (or any knowledgeable entrepreneur, for that matter) is confident that it will be our decision to seek his solution, which brings us to another point discussed on the Marketing voodoo report:
An info-product has to solve an immediate pain, and if done correctly, has no perceived competition.
Notice the cycle?
- The Bait – high-quality information
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- The solution – pay to get more training
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"Just noise, white noise," sings Aluna Francis of AlunaGeorge on Disclosure's track "White Noise."
"I'm hearing static, you're like an automatic/You just wanna keep me on repeat and hear me crying."
Whether intentional or not, those lyrics describe the current state of popular electronic dance music, AKA EDM -- just bland background sound with no intent or purpose, not exactly moving the genre forward.
So how is that brothers Guy and Howard Lawrence -- ages 22 and 19, respectively -- were able to deliver one of the most exciting dance records in recent memory while mining the kind of classic vibes that have recently seemed to be drowned out by arena EDM and brostep?
See also: Disclosure and Nine Other Artists Who Could Save EDM
The siblings' debut album, 2013's Settle, tore up the British charts, making them superstars in their home country. In the United States, the response was initially a bit more tepid.
Even at last year's Ultra Music Festival, the brothers played to a sparse crowd despite enjoying praise from American critics that saw Settle as a return to the original mission of house music: to bring people together for a good time.
Somehow, the Frankenstein genre called EDM forgot that.
See also: Ultra 2013: Disclosure Shows America Can Love Dance Music That Isn't Dumb
When I put together my end-of-year list for Village Voice's Pazz & Jop poll, the easiest decision for me was to include Disclosure's debut. (Really, only four electronic music records mattered to me in 2013: Settle, Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, the Knife's Shaking the Habitual, and Darkside's Psychic.)
Here was an album that was hell-bent on bringing back the dance in dance music.
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Back in 2010, with their first release, "Offline Dexterity," the Lawrences showcased a bit of their potential on that skittish cut, which featured no real hooks or instrumentation beyond a dizzying array of samples.
This approach eventually morphed into the complex pop structures they would exhibit on Settle, allowing themselves to learn as they went along via extended plays like Carnival and The Face.
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Ultimately, though, it would be 2012 single "Latch" that thrust the brothers into the mainstream, becoming their first proper hit in the U.K.
Yes, the song is flawless pop. But hooks aside, "Latch" is also interested in the evolution of house music -- where it's gone and where it's going -- because unlike many of their peers, the brothers have also taken time to learn about and honor the history of what's now called EDM.
Chicago house and Detroit techno play a major influence in their work. Those styles are mixed with touches of gospel, U.K. garage, and electro to create the signature Disclosure sound. And as cliché-ridden as four-to-the-floor can be, the boys really seem to hit their stride when it is the basis for their beat. (See "F for You" for four-to-the-floor perfection.)
Another key to the Lawrences' smart, exciting take on dance music is their move away from samples -- which, according to an Interview magazine article, had to with the pain in the ass of getting them cleared.
For their debut album, the brothers opted to actually make their own sounds by playing their own instruments. And sure, even with electronic music, such a thing isn't exactly a rarity. But when compared to most of popular EDM's overreliance on rattling bass and the drop, a track off Settle can sound like a revelation.
The prevailing EDM formula was OK on the first go 'round. But at this point, it's become a sonic color by numbers. And the Lawrences aren't interested in painting inside those lines.
With a flair for pop, a willingness to experiment, and a fully developed understanding of dance-music history, the Disclosure brothers may be the kick in the ass dance music needs.
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My colleague, Torbjorn Skardhamar, and I recently carried out a study on the relationship between alcohol- and drug-related criminality on the one hand, and mortality on the other. We found that people with drug-related criminal records in Norway have a mortality rate that can be up to 15-16 times higher than people with no criminal record. We also found that people with a police record of driving under the influence of alcohol have significantly shortened life-spans compared to the overall population.
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The BBC News website recently featured a quiz based on Hans Rosling's TV show, The Truth about Population. Judging by the results, people in Britain have a relatively poor understanding of how much life expectancy has increased over the last few decades. At present, average life expectancy in the world is approximately 70 years. However, 56% of respondents thought that it was 60 years or lower. And 76% of university graduates thought it was 60 years or lower. Only 30% of respondents, and only 20% of university graduates, gave the correct answer of 70 years.
Fertility in England and Wales – The Possible Role of Changes in the Timing of Childbearing Among the UK-Born and Immigrants
Over the last decade England and Wales has seen an increase in the total fertility rate (TFR) from a low of 1.63 in 2001 to 1.9 in recent years. While the TFR measures the current quantum of childbearing it can be influenced by changes in the timing of childbearing. Potential drivers of the increase in the TFR include increasing fertility among older women, increasing fertility among women in their 20s and possible influence from government benefits (e.g. tax credits and maternity and paternity leave) (ONS, 2013).


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SDN NFV World Congress organisers Layer123, confirm a two year contract extension with World Forum The Hague
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In October 2018 and 2019 approx 2,000 executives will again join The World's leading and largest meeting place for the carrier Network Transformation industry at World Forum The Hague after two successful editions in 2016 and 2017.
Launched in the spring of 2012 - the first global SDN conference – SDN NFV World Congress is the industry leading debating forum and showcase for the rapidly growing and massively influential, Software-Defined Networking and Network Functions Virtualisation industries. Hosting 2,000 executives, decision makers, leaders and activists meet, learn and exchange knowledge face-to-face in The Hague.
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World Forum The Hague will offer a fantastic home for the conference and with its recent investments including a brand new exhibition space it offers an amazing showcase area for the latest technologies, new product launches, and industry services from around the world. "We are extremely proud that World Forum The Hague is the hosting venue again for SDN NFV World Congress in 2018 and 2019. The Hague's Telecom sector is one of the main business clusters of the city. It is fantastic to see that our local excellence and knowledge in this field gives a great community for conferences on this subject in The Hague. Furthermore the support of the City of The Hague contributed to the decision forThe Hague in 2018 and 2019" says Kirsten Vosmer, Commercial Manager at World Forum The Hague.
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A "community remote sensing" tool that operates in a similar way to social networking sites has been set up to help disaster relief in Haiti.
The Web-based tool allows earthquake experts worldwide to pool knowledge quickly and effectively, according to the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), the UK Government's funding agency for research and training in engineering and the physical sciences.
"The Virtual Disaster Viewer (VDV) is being used by relief agencies operating in Haiti to target emergency food and medical supplies, prioritise repairs to infrastructure to allow aid to reach where it's most needed, and to plan reconstruction and recovery," EPSRC said in a statement about the tool.
The development of the VDV, believed to be the first Web portal of its kind, was supported by funding from EPSRC. Its use to assist Haiti relief is funded by the World Bank.
"Hundreds of earthquake scientists and engineers have been working with the VDV to access high-resolution 'before and after' satellite and aerial photos of the disaster zone. These specialists are part of the newly created Global Earth Observation Catastrophe Assessment Network (GEO-CAN)," EPSRC added.
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GEO-CAN has deployed more than 500 scientists and engineers from universities and other establishments in 19 countries to assess the the impact of the Haiti earthquake. The network is coordinated worldwide by ImageCat, Inc., a US and UK-based R&D company providing technologies for risk and disaster management.
Each expert contributing to the Virtual Disaster Viewer is assigned a number of squares for damage assessment, with an area of over 300 square kilometers (115 square miles) covered in all, EPSRC said.
"The satellite and aerial photos show details down to the level of individual buildings, cars, vegetation and even folds in tents in temporary encampments.
"The experts then submit detailed assessments about the type and extent of damage caused to buildings, roads, bridges and other key infrastructure, and of where refugees are congregating," EPSRC said.
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Monday 24 October 2016
A comprehensive guide to the new MDA rules
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How the new rules will affect advisers
The Australian Securities and Investments Commission (ASIC) has recently changed the rules governing Managed Discretionary Accounts (MDAs) in Class Order 2016/968 and updated its guidance in Regulatory Guide 179 Managed Discretionary Accounts (RG 179).
After a three-year wait, advisers who offer MDAs or are thinking of doing so, now have clear direction.
"The new requirements are balanced. They take into account the need to protect clients' interests and at the same time recognise the variety of ways in which MDA services are offered," says Claire Wivell Plater, managing director of The Fold Legal, a specialist law firm that advises clients on financial services regulation. She's pleased ASIC has taken industry concerns into account in the design of the changes.
New licensing requirements for 'limited' MDA providers are the most significant change. Advisers who have been operating managing discretionary accounts within a regulated platform without holding a specific licence authorisation will need to apply for one.
"The good news is there's a two year transition period for this. During this time, although advisers will need to demonstrate they have the required relevant skills, experience and training, ASIC will recognise experience gained from operating an MDA within a platform. That's very important, because it provides continuity for advisers and their clients," she adds.
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Wivell Plater warns advisers the process for applying for an authorisation to offer clients MDAs is rigorous and involved. Aside from applying for the license, advisers will need to demonstrate they can comply with the MDA requirements.
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The changes also mean advice practices that offer MDAs will need to ensure they have robust practices to manage actual and potential conflicts of interest.
Additional disclosures will be required in financial services guides (FSG), and MDA contracts and investment programs will require new content. "Because the FSG disclosures are detailed and complex, our suggestion to clients is to have two FSGs, a standard FSG that covers their non-MDA services and a supplementary MDA FSG. The supplementary document can be given to clients when advisers know they're likely to recommend an MDA service," she says.
The changes also mean advice practices that offer MDAs will need to ensure they have robust practices to manage actual and potential conflicts of interest. Wivell Plater suggests appropriately managing conflict of interest risk involves a number of considerations.
Most importantly, advisers must ensure any decisions to recommend an MDA service are made objectively following an assessment of whether an MDA is appropriate for the client. Providing an in-house service such as an MDA service can generate more income for advisers who generally charge additional fees for managing clients' investments on a discretionary basis.
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Another ASIC recommendation is for advisers to flag potentially conflicted transactions and subject these to an additional level of approval.
Wivell Plater explains the regulator expects advice practices to have information barriers that insulate advisers who make discretionary investment decisions from information that could give rise to conflicts.
"So if there is an in-house benefit from an investment, the idea is to ensure advisers aren't aware of it, so they can't unduly promote an investment that's in the licensee's interests," she explains.
The new requirements will require more focus on custodial arrangements.
According to Wivell Plater, ASIC also expects practices to have arrangements to automatically suspend their discretionary authority in certain circumstances. This would include unexpected events such as significant market dislocations.
Additionally, ASIC has said advisers must obtain specific client consent before trading unlimited recourse products such as contracts-for-difference on a discretionary basis. Wivell Plater says this won't affect most practices.
"It takes expertise to trade these instruments on a discretionary basis. Advisers who do this need to make the client aware of the risks in the FSG and MDA contract and get their specific consent," she notes.
ASIC has decided not to introduce any new financial requirements for practices that offer MDAs. It was considering introducing a net tangible assets condition similar to those that apply to managed investment schemes and custodians, but has decided to defer this until after the impact of the other MDA changes can be assessed, i.e. for at least 2 years.
On top of this, MDA operators are still required to have $5 million in insurance cover.
Industry impact
According to Wivell Plater, the changes are likely to be a positive for platforms.
"Over the past few years, in response to heightened demand for MDAs, a number of platforms have created bulk trading facilities so practices can implement a bulk change across all clients' portfolios with one rolled up trade. This avoids having to go into each client's portfolio individually to effect the change. These platforms are well placed to assist advisers to operate MDAs," she adds.
Start preparing for the new regime now because the changes impact almost every aspect of MDA services.
Some platforms also offer investment committees and model portfolios. So advisers who don't have the capacity to establish their own investment committees can work with the platform's capabilities.
On the other hand, the new requirements will require more focus on custodial arrangements. MDA providers who delegate custody must ensure the custodian and their sub-custodians satisfy rigorous standards when holding clients' assets on trusts; most particularly, holding them separately from other property and keeping meticulous records of ownership.
"That will require written agreements about what the custodian can and cannot do," says Wivell Plater.
The agreement must give MDA providers the right to review, monitor and give instructions to the custodian and any sub custodian. It must prevent custodians from taking security interests such as a mortgage or lien over clients' assets, even to secure payment of their fees. And custodians must agree to be liable to the MDA provider and clients about any losses that might be caused by the custodian's acts or omissions.
The custodian must also certify at least once every 13 months it has met the agreement's terms and minimum standards. This means advisers must have much more robust selection, contracting and monitoring obligations in relation to an external custodian. However this really just brings the custodial requirements for MDAs in line with other custodial arrangements.
All the new requirements must be in place on or before 1 October 2017, other than licence variations for limited MDA operators, which have until 1 October 2018 to apply for an MDA authorisation.
Wivell Plater's message to MDA providers is to start preparing for the new regime now because the changes impact almost every aspect of MDA services.
And for limited MDA operators who will need to vary their licences, while two years seems like a long time, it can take many months to get an application through.
"Limited MDA variations are new, and our experience has been that novel applications take even longer than usual. So it would be advisable to start soon," Wivell Plater says.
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\nOriginal Publication Date	\n1946	\n
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\nCurrent Publication Date	\n2014	\n
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\nTheme	\nDisplacement; Evils of racism; Expression through art; Will to survive	\n
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\nGenre	\nMemoir; Graphic Novels	\n
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Published in 1946 as the last camps were being shuttered, Nisei artist Miné Okubo's illustrated eponymous memoir, Citizen 13660, has the distinction of being the earliest, first-person, book-length account of the American concentration camp experience. Always a vigorous booster of her own work, Okubo promoted the book that came to define her career as \"the first and only documentary story of the Japanese evacuation and relocation written and illustrated by one who was there.\"[1] All told, Okubo produced an estimated 2,000 portraits of camp life in a range of styles and materials, including ink, charcoal, and gouache, while imprisoned at the Tanforan temporary detention camp in California and the Topaz concentration camp in Utah. Okubo's voluminous output notwithstanding, it was primarily Citizen 13660's roughly 200 line-drawings that established her standing as a major chronicler of and historic witness to the camp experience. \n
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1 Description and Synopsis
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2 Historical Background and Early Reception
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3 Publication History
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4 Text, Context, and Cultural Form
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5 For More Information
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6 Footnotes
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Description and Synopsis

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Its title taken from the government-issued family identification number that Okubo and her brother affixed to both their baggage and themselves prior to their incarceration, Citizen 13660 offers a first-person account of the irony of citizenship for Japanese Americans whose Constitutional rights were violated on the U.S. homefront during World War II. It opens in September 1939 as war is breaking out in Europe where Okubo is on an arts fellowship, moves quickly to May 1942 when Okubo and her brother leave for Tanforan, and closes in January 1944 when she, having finished her sketches of camp life, is cleared to leave Topaz for work in New York. In the main, Citizen 13660 focuses on the details of everyday life under the dehumanizing conditions of mass incarceration. As with other minority literary texts, it privileges cultural representation because access to political representation has been foreclosed. Denied the right to cameras and conventional forms of mimetic technology with evidentiary weight, Okubo produced Citizen 13660's line-drawings \"on the spot\" while behind barbed wire—where, as she stated, she was \"close to freedom and yet far from it.\"[2] She insisted that her book be recognized as a documentary record of the American concentration camp experience. \n
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Historical Background and Early Reception

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Citizen 13660 is today typically read and widely taught as a subtle yet discerning exposé of racist unfreedom at the heart of American democracy. This interpretation, however, obscures the degree to which Okubo's memoir, as the first published Nisei account of the camps, arose out of the fraught politics of the transwar years when every aspect of the mass incarceration process, including cultural representation, was scrutinized and subjected to a national security calculus. Anachronistic retrievals of Citizen 13660 as a transparent critique of rights violations on a massive state-sponsored scale therefore overlook the fact that Okubo's illustrated account of life behind barbed wire was aligned, in its first circulation, with the objectives of the War Relocation Authority (WRA), the federal agency in charge of the camps. \"Cameras and photographs were not permitted in the camps,\" Okubo pointed out in her 1983 preface, \"so I recorded everything in sketches, drawings, and paintings.\"[3] Far from stealthily executed or subversively realized, however, her documentary book project generated active interest from and garnered the support of WRA officials. In internal WRA and Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) records, Okubo was singled out as one of a handful of \"young people in the evacuee group\" deemed to possess \"special abilities and talents\" that might prove useful for \"all the projects\" (\"projects\" being the WRA euphemism for \"camps\").[4] Toward this end, camp administrators not only vetted her drawings and writings for Trek, the Topaz journal, but also approved of her open goal of \"writ[ing] a book on her experiences here.\"[5]\n

Although Okubo would retrospectively maintain that there was limited appetite, indeed revulsion, for anything that could be construed as \"Japanese\" in the wake of World War II, the fact that Citizen 13660 was published during this time attests to complex politics of visibility around representations of the camps. If the camps, located as they were in remote settings, were generally meant to be off-limits, it was also true that figures within the WRA and the white liberal establishment converged on the \"democratic\" value of Nisei self-representation relative to the camp experience. For example, in a classified June 1942 naval intelligence report, Lieutenant Kenneth Ringle specifically argued the \"Americanizing\" merits of \"a history of the entire evacuation and resettlement program from the point of view of those affected...with accompanying pictorial illustrations.\"[6] In her memoir, Okubo states that the \"humor and pathos of the scenes\" of recent arrivals going through the induction process at Tanforan in May of 1942 inspired her \"to keep a record of camp life in sketches and drawings.\"[7] Although Okubo would later claim that \"Citizen 13660 began as a special group of drawings made to tell the story of camp life for my many friends who faithfully sent letters and packages\" while she was incarcerated, her correspondence suggests it was a more formal undertaking from the outset.[8] As early as March 22, 1943, Common Ground editor M. Margaret Anderson, on the basis of having seen a copy of Trek, inquired in a letter to Okubo: \"What chance is there of a story, in sketches, of life in a relocation center?\"[9] Pointing out that \"[w]e all have so much more in common than we have in differences,\" she urged Okubo to adopt a universalizing perspective by \"emphasiz[ing] the very human situations in which the evacuees find themselves.\"[10] By fall of that year, Citizen 13660, as a formal book project, seems to have been well underway. In an October 1 letter, UC Berkeley administrator Monroe Deutsch encouraged Okubo in her plans to \"finish [her] book by November\" and added that Dorothy Swaine Thomas, of the Japanese Evacuation and Resettlement Study (JERS), had also remarked on the \"considerable documentary importance\" of a standalone volume of drawings.[11]\n

Tellingly, in its early reception, Citizen 13660 elicited plaudits from liberal administrators and liberal critics of the camps alike. WRA director Dillon Myer, WRA public relations chief M. M. Tozier, Nobel laureate Pearl Buck, Survey Graphic literary critic Harry Hansen, writer Carey McWilliams, and Margaret Anderson all praised what they deemed the authenticity and pedagogical value of Okubo's camp-life tableaux for a postwar American audience. Early reviews likewise described Okubo's illustrated memoir as an unvarnished historical record. Library Journal hailed Citizen 13660 as \"a revealing pictorial record which should take its place among the documents of World War II.\" The St. Louis Post-Dispatch referred to it as \"documentary evidence\" and a \"graphic report.\" The Chicago Tribune commended it as \"an honest record.\"[12]\n
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Publication History

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Citizen 13660 was originally published by Columbia University Press a year into the postwar period when, Okubo would later quip, \"anything Japanese was still rat poison.\"[13] Indeed, its early reception notwithstanding, Okubo's illustrated chronicle of life in an American concentration camp would not be reprinted for two decades—and only then by minor New York-based publishing houses that specialized in book reprints principally for the purpose of library distribution. In the late 1960s, in response to Okubo's inquiry about whether it viewed the time as ripe for her memoir to be reprinted, the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) exhibited cautious interest in its historical value.[14] Ultimately, Citizen 13660 did not gain momentum or currency until its 1983 republication by the University of Washington Press, a publisher known for its commitment to Asian American studies and Asian American arts and letters. The symbolic homecoming of Citizen 13660, as a synecdoche for Japanese Americans stripped of their rights in World War II, thus occurred over four decades after the government-mandated mass expulsion of the California-born Okubo and other ethnic Japanese, citizens and aliens alike, from the West Coast of the United States. \n

Long after Citizen 13660's initial publication, Okubo continued to play an instrumental role in curating its meaning, most influentially by framing it, in the last decades of her life, as aligned with the politics of the Japanese American redress movement. Significant in terms of the contemporary interpretation of her memoir, Okubo penned a preface for the 1983 University of Washington Press reissue, updating Citizen 13660's meaning for subsequent generations of readers. Underscoring the \"untold hardships, sadness, and misery\" that \"all those who were evacuated and interned\" had experienced as a result of official wartime policies of mass removal and incarceration, Okubo, in this preface, explicitly called on the U.S. government to issue \"some form of reparations and an apology.\"[15] Activist in tone and tenor, this preface followed from her November 23, 1981, statement before the Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians (CWRIC), the federal committee charged with recommending redressive measures. Okubo submitted a copy of Citizen 13660 as part of her testimony to the Commission \"for the record.\"[16] In so doing, she encouraged that it be read as a self-evident indictment of government wrongdoing. \n

One gauge of the impact of Citizen 13660's republication was its enthusiastic transpacific reception. In 1984, a year after its University of Washington Press reissue, Okubo's memoir of camp life was distinguished with an American Book Award by the Before Columbus Foundation, earning it a durable place within a U.S. multicultural literary canon. That same year, Ochanomizu Shobo, a Tokyo publishing house, translated it into Japanese.\n
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Text, Context, and Cultural Form

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Created, in the first instance, for outside viewers, the line-drawings in Citizen 13660 allow for border-crossing access into the camps. With her side-profile serving as a formal framing device, Okubo's self-figuration as a historic witness to scenes of camp life characterizes almost every image in Citizen 13660 and authenticates her memoir's documentary value. The message to the general readership is \"I saw it therefore you can see it.\"[17] In the text accompanying her images, Okubo also takes pains to translate camp-life for outside readers, explaining, for example, that geta are \"handmade wooden clogs\" and \"'Caucasian' was the camp term for non-evacuee workers.\"[18]\n

Citizen 13660 invites contradictory interpretations. In its earliest circulation, Okubo's memoir of life behind barbed wire and under armed guard was often situated in an overarching political context conditioned by the WRA's \"liberal\" goals of assimilation and resettlement. Within this framework, the American concentration camp was rationalized as essentially democratic in intention, if flawed in execution and consequence—a regrettable yet ultimately temporary node, to parse the logic, in a government-sponsored program of ethnic dispersal. In more recent decades, colored by the politics of the redress movement, Citizen 13660 tends to be read along testimonial lines as an indictment of structural racism and massive government injustice. Central to any reading of Citizen 13660 is how the American concentration camp should be historically theorized—for example, as evidence of American fascism, as historical aberration, or as \"an exciting adventure in the democratic method.\"[19] At issue in the reading of camp narratives is, in other words, the question of whether a democratic society is capable of correcting its mistakes or, more disturbingly, whether these accounts expose unfreedom to be a constitutive feature of the American political system.\n

Resisting easy genre classification, Citizen 13660, with its signature combination of words and images and inset figuration of Okubo as a viewer in the frame, lends itself to a range of hybrid descriptions: graphic memoir, visual autobiography, documentary drawing, and comics, to list a few.[20] In contrast to illustrated literary works in which images supplement largely seamless text, Okubo's images in Citizen 13660 predominate. Single images occupy the top half of nearly every page, whereas her written reflections appear as supplementary text ranging from a single line to a few paragraphs in length. \n

The question of Citizen 13660's genre is related to the question of how to theorize cultural form when it comes to the historical American concentration camp experience. Reissued in 2014 in hardcover by the University of Washington Press, Citizen 13660 is now marketed avant la lettre as a \"graphic novel.\" If, however, comics and its variants, including graphic novels, are more than a commixture of word and image but rather are \"sequential art\" in the sense of \"juxtaposed pictorial and other images in deliberate sequence, intended to convey information and/or to produce an aesthetic response in the viewer,\" the question we must ask is whether the American concentration camp experience can or should be narrated along progressive lines.[21] Although loosely chronological in ordering logic, neither the written narrative nor the line drawings in Citizen 13660 are consistently forward in propulsion. The ambivalent temporality of Citizen 13660 can be discerned in the pairing of Okubo's closing statement describing her departure from Topaz, \"My thoughts shifted from the past to the future,\" with an unsettling image of \"the very old or very young\"—presumably elderly Issei and small children—who remain positioned behind barbed wire.[22]\n

The comparison of Citizen 13660 to comics is not new. In an early postwar review, The New York Herald Tribune likened Okubo's memoir to World War II veteran Bill Mauldin's 1945 Up Front, a multimedia work that combined written reflections and captioned cartoons. In a November 1946 letter to Okubo, J. Charles Laue, publisher of the Foxy Fagan comic books, commended her on whimsical details in her drawings, in particular the hats \"worn by the Honorable Author.\"[23] It is worth noting, however, that Okubo invokes political cartoons and comic strips in Citizen 13660 in implied contrast to the realism of what she referred to as her \"documentary sketches of camp life.\"[24] In an era in which even Dr. Seuss went to war, so to speak, by infamously rendering Japanese Americans as a fifth column, Okubo depicts herself in Citizen 13660 in the act of reading the \"funnies\" and in another image contrasts her drawn self-figuration to a racist caricature with buckteeth and slanted eyes that bears the caption, \"A Jap Looks Like This.\"[25]\n
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Gesensway, Deborah, and Mindy Roseman. \"Miné Okubo.\" In Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1987. 66-74.\n

Lampert, Nicolas. \"The Visual Politics of Miné Okubo.\" In A People's Art History of the United States: 250 Years of Activist Art and Artists Working in Social Justice Movements. New York: New Press, 2015. 177-87.\n

Robinson, Greg. \"Birth of a Citizen: Miné Okubo and the Politics of Symbolism.\" In Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road. Ed. Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima-Creef. Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008. \n

Simpson, Caroline Chung. \"'That Faint and Elusive Insinuation': Remembering Internment and the Dawn of the Postwar.\" In An Absent Presence: Japanese Americans in Postwar American Culture, 1945-1960. Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001. 12-42.\n
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↑ Miné Okubo, \"Japanese American Resource Registry Data Form,\" c. 1979, Miné Okubo Papers, Center for Social Justice and Civil Liberties, Riverside Community College District, Riverside, CA. Hereafter cited as \"Miné Okubo Papers.\"\n
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↑ Citizen 13660 (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 1983), 81; Toyo (Suyemoto) Kawakami, letter to Miné Okubo, March 1, 1979, Miné Okubo Papers. The ban on cameras that Okubo refers to was eased later in the war, and there is a considerable oeuvre of photographic images of life inside the camps from the perspectives of the incarcerated.\n
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↑ \"Preface to the 1983 Edition,\" Citizen 13660, ix; hereafter cited as \"Preface.\"\n
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↑ Miles E. Cary, memorandum to E. R. Fryer, August 25, 1942, Miné Okubo evacuee case file, record group 210, stack area 18W3, row 8, compartment 27, shelf 5, National Archives, Washington, DC.\n
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↑ Loyalty and Character Report on Mine [sic] Okubo, September 23, 1943, Miné Okubo evacuee case file. Also, Evelyn K. Johnson, assessment of Miné Okubo, January 30, 1943, Miné Okubo evacuee case file.\n
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↑ K. D. Ringle, \"On the Japanese Question in the United States,\" Miscellaneous WRA Publications, Office File of Commissioner John Collier, 1933–1945, Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, record group 75, stack area 11E-Z, row 30, compartment 9, shelf 5, National Archives.\n
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↑ M. Margaret Anderson, letter to Miné Okubo, March 22, 1943, Miné Okubo Papers.\n
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↑ Anderson, letter to Miné Okubo, April 7, 1943, Miné Okubo Papers.\n
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↑ Monroe Deutsch, letter to Miné Okubo, October 1, 1943, Miné Okubo Papers.\n
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↑ These reviews are collated in a Columbia University Press press-packet archived in the Miné Okubo Materials at the Rivera Library at the University of California. See \"Excerpts from Comments on 'Citizen 13660' by Miné Okubo,\" Miné Okubo Materials, History of California Collections, UC Riverside Library.\n
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↑ Deborah Gesensway and Mindy Roseman, Beyond Words: Images from America's Concentration Camps (Ithaca, NY, and London: Cornell University Press, 1987), 74. Following its initial 1946 publication, Citizen 13660 would be reprinted in 1966 by AMS Press, a minor East Coast academic publishing house. In 1979, another New York-based publisher, Arno Press, reissued the memoir.\n
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↑ Mike Masaoka, letters to Miné Okubo, May 10, 1967 and June 1, 1967, Miné Okubo Papers. \n
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↑ \"Preface,\" xi, ix, xi. Okubo appears to have maintained friendly relations with the political factions pushing for redress and offered varying degrees of support. She appears to have donated signed copies of her reissued memoir to the New York JACL chapter, with any proceeds to be marshaled toward its fundraising efforts for its National Committee for Redress. See John Tateishi, letter to Miné Okubo, September 8, 1983, Miné Okubo Papers. By contrast, the William Hohri-led National Council for Japanese American Redress purchased 25 copies of her reissued memoir directly from the University of Washington Press also for the purpose of fundraising; Okubo obliged Hohri, with whom she had a long epistolary friendship, by sending him \"stickers\" of her signature. See William Hohri, letters to Miné Okubo, September 24, 1983, and October 10, 1983, Miné Okubo Papers.\n
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↑ Commission on Wartime Relocation and Internment of Civilians, November 23, 1981, New York hearing, Roosevelt Hotel (statement of Miné Okubo), Miné Okubo Papers.\n
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↑ As a visual strategy, Okubo's depiction of herself as an observer of camp-life anticipates the \"testimonial comics image\" of late twentieth-century human rights-themed manga, graphic novels, and graphic journalism like Keiji Nakazawa's Barefoot Gen, Art Spiegelman's Maus, and Joe Sacco's Palestine. See Christine Hong, \"Flashforward Democracy: American Exceptionalism and the Atomic Bomb in Barefoot Gen,\" Comparative Literature Studies 46.1 (2009): 145.\n
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↑ Citizen 13660, 161, 60.\n
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↑ Dillon S. Myer, \"Japanese American Relocation: Final Chapter,\" Survey Graphic: Magazine of Social Interpretation 6.1 (1945): 66.\n
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↑ On the similarity of Citizen 13660 to Taro Yashima's 1943 The New Sun, see Greg Robinson, \"Birth of a Citizen: Miné Okubo and the Politics of Symbolism,\" in Miné Okubo: Following Her Own Road, ed. Greg Robinson and Elena Tajima-Creef (Seattle and London: University of Washington Press, 2008), 167.\n
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↑ Scott McCloud, Understanding Comics: The Invisible Art (New York: HarperPerennial, 1993), 9. The term \"sequential art\" is Will Eisner's.\n
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↑ J. Charles Laue, letter to Miné Okubo, November 19, 1946, Miné Okubo Papers.\n
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↑ Citizen 13660, 19, 10. On Theodor Geisel's racist and jingoistic wartime political cartoons, see Richard H. Minear, Dr. Seuss Goes to War: The World War II Editorial Cartoons of Theodor Seuss Geisel (New York: The New Press, 1999).\n
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The Chocolate Sensations story started on a cold and gloomy day back in August 2012 in Hilton, a small town that lies on the brow of the escarpment, about 10Km's outside Pietermaritzburg in KwaZulu-Natal. Judy had undertaken to have a stall at her local church fair but after casually explaining to her neighbour Gwynne - over a cup of coffee - that she was in a quandary as to what her stall would sell. Judy mentioned that she had some old, unused chocolate moulds from years back - Gwynne jumped at the opportunity to help her make chocolates - at this stage they had no idea of how to go about it! They bought some Belgian Chocolate, melted it down into the moulds and packaged them for the fete stall - they were a sell out! Gwynne jokingly said to Judy that they should start their own business - they both laughed heartily at the thought - little did they know!
Chocolate Sensations officially opened for business on 1 December 2012 and they have been perfecting their craft ever since - being self taught - they watched many Youtube videos and with tears and hard work they even tempered their chocolate - no mean feat - by hand! In their own words they were 'so green' but with time and understanding, they've come to realise the conditions that govern production of fine chocolate and have since then invested in a tempering machine, which also speeds up production. Using the finest Callebaut Belgian Couverture Chocolate, in dark, milk and white - no compromising in quality here, as this chocolate has been the preferred choice by Belgium Chocolate makers for the last 100 years - their chocolate's and chocolate related goodies are deluxe, handcrafted and hand decorated - they even personalise their products, depending on their customer's requirements - personalised, handmade merchandise that is packed to suit your needs - how awesome is that?
Now for those of you who may be diabetic - they offer a Couverture Diabetic range that contains Maltitol - or if you're health conscious - their Carob range is non-dairy and sugar-free and instead contains sun-dried fruit which include dates, berries and various nuts. There really is something for everyone and something tells me if they don't offer what you're looking for, they'll do their best to accommodate your request!
Their products are made from 100% sustainably grown cocoa beans - yay for sustainability - and include (but are not limited to) corporate hampers, wedding favours, single novelty chocolates, gifts for special functions and occasions. They also make fudge, brownies / squares, chocolate dipper spoons and ready-to-use sweet sauces! They have managed to perfect upmarket, handcrafted products at affordable prices - that's a feat in and of itself.
Say hello to Gwynne and Judy.
In the interest of research, we bought a few of their wares to taste - it may have been the few glasses of wine - it was a food & wine fair after all! - that I had already consumed by the time we reached their stall, but I found myself engaging with them; appreciating their passion and customer service dedication, I found myself offering to blog about them! Promise kept, here goes!
Where do I start with their Pecan Squares? In my opinion, it came across very much like Millionaire's Shortbread - but with Chocolate Sensations spin on it. The buttery, short, melt-in-your-mouth biscuit base? Generous portions of pecans? Thick shards - no thin shavings here - of white chocolate that covered the top? Tasty layer of caramel that's not sickly sweet (just the right amount) but marries oh-so-well with the biscuit base? Chris is no fan of anything too sweet and he even agreed that they were tasty, I managed to even get a 'lovely' out of him. So - if anything - if he liked them, then you know you're on to a winner! What impressed me most, was the near perfect ratio of white chocolate to the pecans, to the caramel that topped the biscuit. Every bite delivered the perfect amount of each ingredient - which you could taste individually - there's no hiding behind fancy flavourings, each co-starred perfectly to form a well balanced treat. Rich and decadent but in a subtle, non-pretentious way; I even like how each piece wasn't perfectly square - just what you'd expect from a homemade, small-batch treat.
Maraschino Cherry & Whiskey Liquor singles; White & Milk Chocolate covered Honeycomb.
The Maraschino Cherry & Whiskey Liquor single's are the perfect pop-in-your-mouth treats! Both are covered in the delectable, dark chocolate which is the perfect pairing to their respective fillings. The slight bitterness of the dark chocolate offset's the rich, Lindt-like-centre consistency of the Whiskey Liquor single - the whiskey shone through perfectly. It is oh so rich; oh so creamy; oh so indulgent. The perfect - adult alternative - to an 'After Dinner Mint'! The Maraschino Cherry single is also paired with the dark chocolate, a match made for each other - as with the Whiskey Liquor single - the coating of chocolate is generous (no skimping here). As you bite into the Maraschino Cherry - which was plump and juicy - the burst of the subtle cherry flavour combines so well, again, with the the dark chocolate. I found myself wanting more - sadly we only bought one of each for ourselves!
Chris does love him some chocolate covered honeycomb - he chose to buy the pack that we took home. - and what a pleasure it was to taste. The honeycomb had a decent crunch to it, that melted to a chewy, gooey consistency that we've all come to know from honeycomb. I sampled the white chocolate whilst Chris happily munched on the milk chocolate. Chris assured me that it was one of the best chocolate coated honeycomb treats he's ever had! In fact, he has asked me to place an order for more - Gwynne and Judy, expect an order to be placed shortly! I found the white chocolate a nice alternative to the normally found milk chocolate covering - the balance between the sweetness of the honeycomb and the milkiness of the chocolate was perfect. Again, a decent coating of chocolate could be found - it managed to straddle the line of rich and decadent without being overly sweet, thus allowing the ingredients to shine. It is simply made, yet well executed.
The ladies' gifted me a Lime and Chilli in Dark Chocolate Ganache treat to sample and review - I happily obliged!
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The lime and chilli in dark chocolate ganache is an unlikely combination of flavours, yet they compliment each other so well; I suppose it's the citrus flavour that reminds me of a 'Terry's Orange Chocolate' but with a surprisingly pleasant hint of chilli after-taste! The smooth and creamy ganache was encased in a thick layer of dark and white chocolate - as with all their other goodies we tasted, there certainly is no skimping here! It's something different - may not be for everyone - but well worth the trying!
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So what are my final thoughts on Chocolate Sensations? It's simple, their final product easily reflects the quality of ingredients used; then there's the perfectly paired combinations of flavours - not an easy thing to achieve - and their generosity with regards to the amount of chocolate used. As I had the pleasure to meet them both in person, it did not surprise me that their product's are not only well made but demonstrated a high level of care and thought that has gone into producing each chocolate treat - one can taste that they've used the best quality ingredients possible.
I'd happily tell anyone looking for handcrafted, locally made and personalised Belgium Chocolate goodies to give Chocolate Sensations a go - now, how do I convince both Gwynne and Judy that they need me as their official taste-tester?!
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I really couldn't care less if the fighters pass was all female characters or no female characters, as long as said characters are fan favorites. That's what I'm about.
Also, as a side note, you can roughly separate the characters into four categories (that are not mutually exclusive in the least bit): Sakurai picks, Fan Requests, Legacy picks/third parties, and recent all-stars/new game picks. Joker acts as a Sakurai pick, Banjo Kazooie operates as the fan request, and Dragon Quest operates under the legacy pick AND the new game pick. The DLC has been actually quite balanced with a pick from seemingly each category so far haha.
I have to say one small piece on the earlier conversations and I'll leave it at that. I've had female friends of mine talk about how much representation matters for them. Like the big female team-up scene in Endgame nearly reduced one of my friends to tears just because she got to see something she didn't traditionally grow up seeing on the big screen. The base line of representation can mean a lot to some people, so let's not be ****ty and discredit people who say they want to see a particular type of character in game, especially when it's potentially born of a very personal and real feelings that go well beyond a damn video game.
(I realize I've been harsh on people about being anti-Swordsman and I would like to take a moment to maybe contextualize. I don't like exclusionary practices period. I think it's absolutely fine to say, "I want more cartoon-ish, animal-like, etc. characters in the game." I just don't think that should come with the anti-swordsman rhetoric that it can sometimes come with and I try to focus on that part of an argument. If I've seemed more hostile than intended in those moments or less inclusive than I should have been, I genuinely apologize for any issues I may have caused in that area).