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The Schedule
Game No. 18
Thursday, January 25, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at Cal State Northridge Matadors
at CSUN's Matadome
Game No. 19
Saturday, January 27, 2007 at 7:00 p.m.
UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at the University of the Pacific Tigers
at UOP's Alex Spanos Center
On The Radio
All UC Santa Barbara basketball games are broadcast live in Santa Barbara on KTMS, 990-AM. KEYT-TV Sports Director Gerry Fall is in his third year as the play-by-play voice of the Gauchos. Former Los Angeles Lakers' and UCSB star Don Ford handles the color commentary for the majority of games, home and road. When Ford is not available for road games, Bill Mahoney, yours truly, will handle the task. Steve Wendt, the voice of the UCSB women's basketball team, will handle the play-by-play for a handful of men's games this season.
The Bob Williams Show
The Bob Williams show will be aired each Tuesday night from 7:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m. on KTMS 990-AM in Santa Barbara. Coach Williams will talk about past and upcoming games, interview Gaucho players and welcome guests from the Santa Barbara sports community.
The Gaucho Record
UC Santa Barbara enter the week with an overall record of 11-6 and a Big West record of 3-2. The Gauchos have lost their last two games and three of their last four. On Saturday, UCSB was beaten at the Thunderdome by Cal Poly, 71-61. It marked the first time since the 1997-98 season that the Mustangs had defeated the Gauchos in Santa Barbara. UCSB has lost consecutive games twice this season.
Two Games In One Week? There's A Novel Approach
The Gaucho coaching staff may have a tough time convincing their team that they really do play two games this week. Following two consecutive weeks of just one game, UCSB will travel to Cal State Northridge and Pacific this week. The Gauchos, however, need not get used to playing two games in a week. The following week will they will play just one, at UC Davis, making it three out of four weeks with just one game. When this bizarre run is over, Santa Barbara will have played just five games from Jan. 7 through Feb. 7, a span of 32 days. Following the current stretch, the Gauchos will return to a two-game per week pattern, not unlike most of the other schools in the Big West Conference.
UCSB Stifled By Cal Poly, 71-61
Trae Clark scored 19 points to lead a trio of Cal Poly players in double-figures as the Mustangs handed UC Santa Barbara its second straight home loss, 71-61 on Saturday night. The Gauchos also struggled with Cal Poly's zone defense, particularly in the first half, when they shot just 30.8%. UCSB trailed 37-28 at halftime and never pulled closer than six in the final 20 minutes. The Mustangs, which received 14 points from Tyler McGinn and 12 points from Titus Shelton, had their biggest lead of 15 points at 54-39 with 11:40 remaining in the game. The Gauchos held Cal Poly scoreless for the next six minutes, but could shave just eight points off the lead. Paul Roemer scored on a driving lay-up and was fouled with 5:59 left to pull UCSB within seven, 54-47, but he missed the free throw and Shelton scored on a lay-up at the other end to extend the edge to 56-47 with 5:29 left. After the Mustangs extended the lead to 11 on a pair of free throws from Derek Stockalper with 3:40 to play, the Gauchos got a lay-up from Emmanuel Bidias a Mouté and a lay-up and a free throw from Chris Devine to make it 58-52. On the defensive end, Alex Harris fouled Cal Poly guard Dawin Whiten, but Whiten missed the front end of a one-and-one free throw. UCSB rebounded and with a chance to cut the lead in half, missed a three-point attempt. The Mustangs responded with a lay-up from Stockalper and the rest was history. The win was Cal Poly's first at the Thunderdome against a Bob Williams-coached Gaucho team. The loss was UCSB's second in a row and third in the last four games. Harris led Santa Barbara with 19 points, but he missed his first nine shots from the field and finished just 4-for-16. He did made 10-of-12 free throws. Devine had 12 points, but he also struggled with his shooting, making just 2-of-7 from the field. Cecil Brown had 10 points. Ivan Elliott helped the Gauchos to a 42-28 rebounding edge by collecting a season-high 11, including 10 in the first half. UCSB committed just 12 turnovers, but had just five assists. Cal Poly had a season-low five turnovers and finished the game at 44.6% shooting. The Mustangs, who came into the game shooting below 60.0% from the free throw line, made 13-of-16, 81.3%.
Probable Starters - Notes
G - Cecil Brown - Has scored 10 or more in six of his last nine games.
G - Alex Harris - With 19 points vs. Cal Poly, he has had 16 or more in 15 of 17 games .
G - Justin Joyner - His 51 assists tie him for ninth on UCSB's all-time freshman list.
F - Chris Devine - Has had a total of just 13 field goal attempts in last two games.
F - Ivan Elliott - Posted a career-high 11 rebounds in loss to Cal Poly.
Probable Reserves - Notes
G - James Powell - Was not in the starting lineup vs. Cal Poly, a season-first.
G - Paul Roemer - Played 11 minutes in each of the last two games.
G - Trevor Bing - Scored season-high nine points at Long Beach State on Jan. 4.
F - Tom Garlepp - Has totaled just 15 minutes in the last four games.
F - Emmanuel Bidias a Mouté - After not playing in two games, has played 32 in last four.
F - Beau Gibb - Has played in just one of the last six games.
F - David Massey - Played in only game and scored only points on Nov. 13 at Montana State.
F - Sam Phippen - Freshman forward is redshirting the 2006-07 season.
F - Glenn Turner - Has made eight of 10 shots in the last five games, 80.0%.
The Bob Williams File
Bob Williams is in his ninth season as the head coach at UC Santa Barbara. Last year his team overcame a slow start to finish over the .500 mark for the fourth time in five seasons. UCSB was 15-14 overall and 6-8 in the Big West. Prior to the 2004-05 season, when an injury-ravaged Gaucho team finished below .500, Williams had guided the program to three straight winning seasons for the first time since the late 1980s. In 2002-03, Williams' Gauchos went 18-14 overall and 14-4 in league. The 2002-03 Big West mark earned Santa Barbara its first-ever Big West regular season championship along with a trip to the postseason National Invitation Tournament. Additionally, the success earned Williams his second Big West Coach of the Year award, his first coming after an impressive 1999 campaign. In 2001-02, Williams guided UCSB to its first Big West Conference Tournament Championship ever and first NCAA Tournament appearance in 12 years. Including this season, Williams' UCSB teams have posted a 134-117 (.534) overall record and an 81-57 (.593) record in Big West games. Prior to his arrival at UCSB, he spent eight years at UC Davis and in those eight years, his teams recorded 20 or more wins five times and a 158-76 record. In Williams' final season, the Aggies went 31-2, won the NCAA Division II National Championship and he was named NABC Division II Coach of the Year. Including two seasons at Menlo College, Williams has a record of 322-217 (.597) at four-year schools.
The Opponents
The Gauchos and Cal State Northridge have played 32 times since the first meeting in 1960. The Gauchos hold a decisive 24-8 edge all-time, but the teams split games last season. In 2005-06, UCSB and CSUN each won on the other team's home floor. The Matadors won at the Thunderdome, 59-46, and the Gauchos won in overtime at the Matadome, 82-76. Santa Barbara and Pacific have played 93 times in a series that began in 1947. The Tigers hold a 49-44 all-time edge and they have won the last six in a row. In 2005-06, UOP defeated UCSB in Stockton by a score of 64-36, and in Santa Barbara by a score of 65-53. The 36 points that the Gauchos scored in their last loss to the Tigers were the fourth-fewest points in school history. The last time UCSB won in the series was in the first round of the 2003 Big West Tournament, 53-44.
The Gauchos On The Road
UCSB is 6-2 in road games this season. The Gauchos opened the road portion of their schedule with an 88-56 win at Montana State on Nov. 13. On Nov. 17, they won at UNLV, 79-76 and on Nov. 21 they won at Pepperdine, 89-80 in double overtime. On Dec. 2, they won at Portland, 75-67 and then on Dec. 17, they won at San Francisco, 74-69. On Dec. 22, UCSB had its school record-tying six game road winning streak ended at the University of San Diego, 81-63 and then on Jan. 4, Long Beach State handed the Gauchos their second consecutive road loss, 101-65. In its last road game, UCSB ended a two-game road losing streak with a 64-59 win at UC Irvine. This year's 5-0 start was the first 5-0 start in true road games since the 1987-88 campaign when the team jumped out of the gates with the same 5-0 road record. UCSB posted a 5-9 record in true road games in 2005-06 and a 6-10 mark in all non-home games. While the 5-9 doesn't seem like much, it includes an 0-7 start and a 5-2 finish. The Gauchos opened the 2005-06 season with seven straight road losses, extending a two-season streak to nine straight road defeats. However, since the end of that streak, UCSB has gone 11-4 on the road.
The Gauchos At Home
UCSB is 5-4 at home in 2006-07. The Gauchos defeated San Jose State on Nov. 10 and, after losing consecutive games to San Diego State and Loyola Marymount, they posted four straight wins, defeating Fresno State on Dec. 6 , Vanguard on Dec. 19, UC Riverside on Dec. 28 and Cal State Fullerton on Dec. 30. UCSB, however, has lost its last two home games, 70-66 to UC Davis on Jan. 13, and 71-61 to Cal Poly on Jan. 20. UCSB went 9-4 in home games during the 2005-06 season. Since Bob Williams became head coach in 1998-99, the Gauchos have gone 78-32 at home.
What's The Point?
After a very good start on the offensive end of the court in 2006-07, UCSB has hit a major offensive lull in the last four games. The Gauchos opened the season by scoring 70 or more points in five straight and nine of 10. This season, they have tallied 80 or more four times, most recently on Dec. 30 in an 84-76 win over Cal State Fullerton. Following that game, Santa Barbara was averaging 75.9 points per game. In the last four games, however, things have not gone as smoothly on the offensive end. While the shooting percentage has not been that bad over the last four, the point totals have been. UCSB has made 93-of-211 shots, 44.1%, but they have scored just 256 points, 64.0 per game. In Saturday's loss to Cal Poly, the Gauchos scored just 61 points and shot just 36.7%; both figures were the team's second lowest of the season.
Road, Sweet Road
UCSB has not only posted a better road record (6-2) than home record (5-4), but statistically it has been better too. The Gauchos have scored 597 points in their eight road games, 74.6 per game, as compared to the 646 points they have scored in nine home games, 71.8 per game. UCSB is shooting 49.8% away from home and 46.9% at the Thunderdome. Santa Barbara has shot below 40.0% just three times this season, at home against San Jose State, Loyola Marymount and Cal Poly. Conversely, the worst Gaucho shooting performance in a road game came at San Diego when they shot 42.6%. Ironically, the best field goal percentage this season, 62.5%, came in a home win over Vanguard. If that game is not included, UCSB is making 44.5% of its field goals in home games.
The Bright Side
In Saturday's loss to Cal Poly, the Gauchos did have one bright spot as they outrebounded the Mustangs 42-28. The 14-rebound margin was the most by UCSB this season. Previously, the largest rebounding margin by the Gauchos was 13 over Vanguard. Santa Barbara has now outrebounded seven of its last 10 opponents and it is now outrebounding the opposition by a +1.7 rebound margin for the season.
Three-Point Imbalance
UCSB was outscored 24-12 from three-point territory in its loss to Cal Poly on Saturday. The three-point shot has not been the weapon of choice for the Gauchos in recent games, but the same cannot be said of their opponents. UCSB opponents have made 129 three-point baskets this season, 31 more than the Gauchos. Opponents have attempted 122 more three-pointers, a primary reason for the more makes, but while UCSB is averaging 5.8 three-pointers per game for the season, it has averaged just 4.7 per game in the last seven games and over that same span, the opposition has averaged 9.6 per game.
Junior Partners
In UCSB's November 21 double-overtime victory over Pepperdine, two Gaucho players eclipsed the 25-point mark. Junior forward Chris Devine poured in a career-high 28 points, while junior guard Alex Harris had 27. Before Nov. 21, the last time a Santa Barbara duo achieved the feat was at Long Beach State on Feb. 25, 1988, when sophomore forward Mike Doyle scored 31 points and senior guard Brian Shaw scored 26. Three times this season Harris and Devine have scored 20 or more points in the same game, the first time a UCSB duo has pulled that off since 1990-91 when Gary Gray and Lucius Davis did it three times. Finally, through 17 games the Harris-Devine tandem has combined for 620 of the Gauchos' 1,243 points, 49.9%. They are combining for 36.5 points per game and if they can remain anywhere near that figure, they could become the highest scoring duo in school history. The highest combined average for two UCSB players was in 1991-92 when Lucius Davis and Idris Jones combined to score 1,014 points in 29 games, an average of just a tick under 35.0 points per game.
Active Scoring Leaders
Player Points Games Avg. Cecil Brown 840 99 8.5 Alex Harris 816 75 10.9 Chris Devine 617 46 13.4
Working Overtime
UCSB defeated Pepperdine in double-overtime on November 21 in Malibu. It marked the fourth consecutive overtime victory for the Gauchos, a streak that dates back to the 2003-04 season. The win over the Waves was also the second double-overtime game during the current streak. The last time UCSB lost a game in overtime was on March 19, 2003, when it lost to San Diego State in the first round of the postseason NIT.
Double Dipping
Led by Alex Harris and Chris Devine, seven different UCSB players have scored in double-figures this season. Harris has scored 10 or more points in all 17 games and Devine has done so 15 times. Here is a list of all Gaucho players and the number of times they have hit double-digits this season.
Player GP 10+ Alex Harris 17 17 Chris Devine 17 15 James Powell 17 7 Cecil Brown 12 6 Ivan Elliott 17 5 Tom Garlepp 16 1 Justin Joyner 17 1
Double-Double Dipping>
The Gauchos have produced five statistical double-doubles this season. Chris Devine has four of them and Ivan Elliott has the the other.
Player Opponent Stats Chris Devine at Pepperdine 28p, 13r Chris Devine at USF 12p, 10r Chris Devine Vanguard 22p, 11r Chris Devine at UC Irvine 15p, 11r Ivan Elliott UC Riverside 12p, 10r
The Harris Poll
Junior guard Alex Harris continues to lead UCSB in scoring at 21.2 points per game, a figure that also leads the Big West Conference and ranks 14th nationally. In Saturday's home loss to Cal Poly, Harris scored 19 points, but he did so in an odd fashion. He was just 4-of-16 shooting from the field and 10-of-12 from the free throw line. It was by far Harris's worst shooting game of the season. He did, however, finish the game better than he started it. After missing his first nine shots, he made four of his final seven. In UCSB's previous game, on Jan. 20 against UC Davis, Harris had 28 points, the second-highest total of his career. He made 8-of-16 shots overall, including 3-of-6 from three-point range, and he was 9-of-12 from the free throw line. On Jan. 4, in a loss at Long Beach State, Harris scored a season-low 10 points, but in his last three games he has averaged 23.3. On Dec. 28, in the Big West opener against UC Riverside, Harris scored a career-high 32 points on 8-of-17 from the field and 12-of-16 from the free throw line. The 32 points were the most points scored by a Gaucho player since Mark Hull went for 32 against Arizona in the first round of the 2002 NCAA Tournament. He followed the 32-point performance with a 16-point, nine-rebound game in a win over Cal State Fullerton. Following that opening Big West weekend, Harris was named the league's Player of the Week for the second time this season. In the Riverside game, he also had career-highs for free throws with 12, and free throw attempts with 16. Harris has now scored 358 points in 17 games this season, 116 more than he scored in 29 games last season. He has been in double-figures in all 17 games this season. He has also scored 20 or more points 11 times, including the first seven in a row, the longest streak by a Gaucho since the 1996-97 season and the longest ever to open a season. Harris has had the 14 highest scoring games of his career this season. Among other things, he has been extremely consistent, making five or more field goals in 15 of 17 games. Just once this year, at San Diego, Harris has gone without a three-point basket. He has made at least one in 16 of 17 games, two or more in 11 games and three or more seven times. Harris is shooting 45.1% from three-point range and has gone 22-of-47 in the last 11 games, 46.8%. His 37 threes are a career-high, and he now has 86 for his career. With four more, he would enter the school's all-time top-10. Harris, who had eight rebounds on Saturday against Cal Poly, is averaging 4.9 per game, third on the team. He has had five or more rebounds in eight of the last 12 games and nine times in his last 14 games, a span over which he has averaged 5.6 per game. This season, in addition to points, Harris has also recorded single-game career-highs in assists (six on two occasions), three-point baskets (five on Nov. 10 against San Jose State), steals (five on Nov. 13 at Montana State), free throws made (12 on Dec. 28 vs. UC Riverside), field goals made (nine on Dec. 2 in Portland) and minutes played (48 on Nov. 21 at Pepperdine). Harris earned his first Big West Player of the Week honor after scoring 25 points in the Gauchos season-opening come-from-behind win over San Jose State.
The Devine File
Junior forward Chris Devine is averaging 15.4 points per game, but he has averaged just 11.0 per game in the last two and 11.7 per game in the last four. In the last two games, Devine attempted just 13 shots in 63 minutes, 6.5 per game. It is the fewest shots he has attempted in consecutive games this season. On Saturday against Cal Poly, Devine had 12 points and six rebounds, but he made just 2-of-7 field goal attempts. He did hit 8-of-11 free throws, both season-highs. In UCSB's most recent win, a Jan. 6 victory over UC Irvine, Devine had one of his best all-around games with 15 points and 11 rebounds. He continues to lead the team in rebounding at 7.0 per game and since averaging 3.5 per game over a four-game stretch, he has averaged 8.3 per game over the last three. Devine has recorded four double-doubles this season, the same number he had in 29 games last year. He has had his double-doubles this season in games at Pepperdine (28 points and 13 rebounds), at San Francisco (12 points and 10 rebounds), at home against Vanguard (22 points and 11 rebounds) and at UC Irvine (15 points and 11 rebounds). Three of Devine's four double-doubles have come on the road. Dating back to the 2005-06 season, six of his eight career double-doubles have come away from the Thunderdome. In fact, this season he is averaging 17.0 points per game on the road and 14.2 points per game at home. The 28 points that Devine scored on Nov. 21 at Pepperdine was a career-high, and the 13 rebounds were his second-highest total ever. He has paced UCSB in scoring six times this season. Devine has made 60.0% or better from the field seven times in 2006-07. He has been in double-figures in 15 of 17 games and 10 times in the last 11 games. He has scored 20 or more five times this season, most recently going for 25 on Dec. 30 against Cal State Fullerton. Devine has had five or more rebounds in 13 games. In addition to points, he has had career-highs this season in steals (five vs. San Jose State on Nov. 13) and assists (five at San Francisco on Dec. 17). However, since he had a career-high five assists at USF, he has had a total of four in eight games. Devine was named Big West Player of the Week after leading the Gauchos to road wins at Montana State and UNLV.
Help Cecil! Help!
After missing both exhibition games and the first five regular season games, senior guard Cecil Brown has played in each of the last 12 games. Assuming he plays on Thursday, it will be his 100th game as a Gaucho. He is averaging 8.0 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.7 assists per game. Since scoring two points in each of his first two games, Brown has averaged 9.2 points per game. He had a season-high 13 in the Dec. 30 win over Cal State Fullerton and he has been in double-figures in four of the last five games, averaging 10.6 per game over that span. Also, since his consecutive two-point games to start his comeback, he has had six or more in 10 straight. In Saturday's loss to Cal Poly, Brown made his second start of the season and had 10 points, five rebounds and a team-high three assists. He has had two or more boards 11 times. He had a career-high six assists on Dec. 19 against Vanguard and he has had two or more 10 times in 12 games. Finally, after averaging 18.3 minutes per game through the first three games, he has averaged 26.1 per game over the last nine games. In each of the nine he has played at least 20 minutes, and on six occasions he has logged 25 or more.
Justin Joins In
Freshman point guard Justin Joyner struggled in the last two games. While Joyner did make 3-of-6 field goal attempts and 2-of-3 from three-point range in the last two, he had just one total assist and five turnovers. In each of the last two, he played just 21 minutes. Joyner continues to lead the Gauchos in assists with 51, equaling the ninth-highest total by a UCSB freshman ever, but since passing off for a career-high 10 assists on Dec. 30 against Cal State Fullerton, he has had just six in four games, 1.5 per game. It has become clear that Joyner's ability to distribute the ball is a pretty accurate gauge of UCSB success. Joyner has had four or more assists seven times in 2006-07 and the Gauchos have gone 7-0 in those games. When he has fewer than four assists, they are 4-6. When he has one or no assists, UCSB is 1-6, the only win coming against Vanguard. Joyner still leads the team in assist-to-turnover ratio. He is collecting 1.5 assists for every turnover that he commits. He had a season-high 11 points on Nov. 25 against San Diego State. He has had seven or more points four times and, interestingly, Santa Barbara is 1-3 in those games. Finally, while he is making just 21.6% (8-of-37) from three-point range, he has made 13-of-26 shots from two-point range, 50.0%.
Old Buddy, Old Powell
Freshman guard James Powell continues to rank third on the team in scoring at 9.1 points per game and third in assists at 2.6 per outing. He also paces the team with 19 steals. Powell is, however, struggling. On Saturday against Cal Poly, he came off the bench for the first time this season. After starting the season's first 16 games, Powell came off the bench and played a season-low 13 minutes. He scored just four points on 1-of-3 shooting overall and 0-for-2 from three-point range. Since scoring in double-figures in six straight games near the beginning of the season, Powell has done so just once in the last 10 games, averaging 5.2 over that span. When he scored 10 points in UCSB's last win, Jan. 6 at UC Irvine, it ended a streak of seven straight single-digit games. In the first seven games of the year, he averaged 14.7 points per game. In the last 10 games, Powell has also seen his field goal percentage drift below 40-percent at 38.9%. In the last 10, he has made just 15-of-57 from the field, 26.3%. Despite his recent shooting woes, he still ranks second on the team with his 21 three-point baskets, eighth all-time among Gaucho freshmen. Powell's 68 three-point attempts rank sixth all-time among freshmen. He scored a season-high 18 points in a Nov. 21 double-overtime win at Pepperdine, and he has a a pair of 17-point games: at UNLV and against Loyola Marymount. Powell's total of 44 assists on the season rank 11th on UCSB's all-time freshman list, and he needs eight to move into 10th-place. His 19 steals tie him for 10th on the freshman list, but if he can produce nine more this season, he would jump all the way into second.
Ivan The Good
After coming off the bench for seven games, junior forward Ivan Elliott has started the last 10 for UCSB. Elliott is averaging 6.1 points and 5.5 rebounds overall, but in his 10 starts, he is scoring 7.8 points per game and collecting 7.4 rebounds. Despite playing just 24 minutes in Saturday's loss to Cal Poly, Elliott had a career-high 11 rebounds, and his average of 5.5 per game is at its highest point of the year. He has now had 10 or more rebounds three times this year, also doing so at Pepperdine on Nov. 21 and against UC Riverside on Dec. 28. In the game against UCR, he also collected the first double-double of his career with 12 points to go along with the 10 rebounds. In the following game, Dec. 30 game against Cal State Fullerton, he came within one rebound of repeating the feat as he had 13 points and nine boards. Elliott is also leading UCSB in field goal percentage at 58.7%, but in the last two games he made just 5-of-11, 45.5%. He has scored 10 or more points five times, including four times in the last nine games. He tallied a season-high 14 on Nov. 13 at Montana State. He has also had five or more rebounds nine times, including six times in the last 10. Elliott has taken over the team-lead in blocked shots with 15, and he has swatted at least one in seven of the last nine games. Finally, after averaging just 14 minutes per game in the first three games, he has averaged 24.2 per game in the last 14.
Turning Point
In five games since scoring eight points, collecting nine rebounds and blocking five shots on Dec. 28 against UC Riverside, senior forward Glenn Turner has played 49 minutes and totaled just 10 points, 10 rebounds, and one blocked shot. In the last two games, Turner has been playing with strained ligaments in his right thumb, which has hampered his ability to hold onto the ball. He made both of his field goal attempts and had a pair of rebounds against Cal Poly. Turner has now made 10-of-13 shots this season, 76.9%. Through the eight games played, he has scored 24 points and gathered 21 rebounds. This could mark the first time in Turner's career that he finishes a season with more points than rebounds. Finally, with eight blocked shots this season, he now has 89 in his career, fourth on the all-time list.
More Player Notes
Emmanuel Bidias a Mouté has played in four straight games after a stretch when he played just once in five games. In the last four games, Bidias a Mouté has played 33 minutes and pulled down 10 rebounds, including a personal-best five on Jan. 4 at Long Beach State...Paul Roemer has played 11 minutes in each of the last two games, the second time this year he has played 10 or more in back-to-back games...After making 4-of-7 shots in 11 minutes at Long Beach State on Jan. 4, Trevor Bing has played 11 in the last three and attempted no shots...Tom Garlepp started the first seven games of the season and averaged 25.5 minutes in those games. Garlepp has not started in the last 10 games, playing in nine, and in his nine appearances over the last 10 he has averaged 7.7 minutes per game.


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Do Meryl Streep, Anne Hathaway and Helen Mirren really need a category just for women — a singular kind of affirmative action — to snare one of Hollywood's favorite accessories, an Oscar, Emmy or Screen Actors Guild trophy?
In a society tilting steadily toward gender neutrality, the separate-but-equal awards that divide actors into one camp and actresses into another have the whiff of a moldy anachronism.
True, the Association for Women in Science gives honors to encourage female success in male-dominated fields. But to mark enduring achievements, would its members ever yearn for a Women's Nobel Prize in physics?
In contests of intellect or artistry, should gender ever matter?
"It's not like it's upper body strength," Gloria Steinem dryly observed of the requirements of acting.
The separate labeling of male and female performers is losing favor in the industry. Actresses often swat the distinction away by calling themselves "actors," standing shoulder to shoulder with their male counterparts.
Usherettes are long gone from movie theater lobbies, after all. And defense officials said Wednesday the Pentagon will be lifting its ban on women in combat.
SAG, which holds its awards ceremony Sunday, edged toward neutrality with its trophy dubbed the Actor, although the guild gives separate honors to best performance by a male actor and by a female actor.
That cracks the door open, but only slightly. Fling it wide so that Daniel Day-Lewis' majestic performance in "Lincoln" and Jessica Chastain's steely turn in "Zero Dark Thirty" vie for the grand prize!
"That's a great idea," said Mark Andrews, writer-director of the animated film "Brave." "At the end of the day, we're all storytellers, and I don't think when we're defining a character that the gender is the major defining factor."
In all other awards-eligible fields, including directing, writing or cinematography, everyone is "going for it," male and female alike, Andrews said.
That may be progress in theory for performers but not in practice, according to Sally Field, a SAG and Oscar best supporting actress nominee for "Lincoln."
"If you do that you won't see any actresses up there (on stage) at all," she said. "The percentage of roles is so weighted toward actors. That's the way it's always been."
Exactly, concurred Naomi Watts, "The Impossible" best actress SAG and Academy Award nominee.
"There's so much competition in life and I do think we are different," she said. "Yes, we should be able to have the same things as much as possible ... (but) life's a battle already and there's so many great roles written for men. Women are definitely at a disadvantage when it comes to volume."
Rapper Nicki Minaj, who's considering launching an acting career, has a pragmatic take on the issue.
"You see all those divas in the audience looking so pretty, and they all want to beat each other out," she said. "It's entertainment."
Hathaway, in the running for SAG and Oscar supporting actress honors for "Les Miserables," considers the gender split "an awesome question worthy of an awesome debate."
"Can I conceive of a world where performance becomes a genderless concept? Absolutely. Do I think it's going to happen anytime soon? No," she said.
As Field pointed out, the bedrock challenge is that women get fewer substantive roles than men. Ironically, that's obscured by the artificial parity on stage each year at awards shows. Five women compete, five men compete, two winners are crowned.
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The Oscars Awards, a reflection of their time, launched in the 1920s with his-and-hers acting trophies (for Emil Jannings and Janet Gaynor) and stuck with the formula.
Television showed its modernity by kicking off the Emmy Awards in 1949 with a gender-neutral trophy for best TV personality — which was won by a woman, Shirley Dinsdale, according to Emmy archives.
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Tom O'Neil, editor of the Gold Derby awards prediction site, said strong forces are arrayed against change.
Awards shows routinely try to add celebrity-driven categories, not drop them, to increase a show's "glamor and glitz" quotient, he said, as well as mask the industry's unequal treatment of women.
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In the behind-the-scenes film and TV categories in which the sexes compete, women rarely make it on stage at awards ceremonies. The Oscars started in 1929, but it wasn't until 2010 that the first woman, Kathryn Bigelow, was honored as best director (for "The Hurt Locker"). Statistics again provide clarity: Women made up a paltry 9 percent of the directors on 2012's top-grossing films, a new San Diego State University study found.
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Our brains, it turns out, are eco-friendly. A study published in Science and reviewed by F1000 Biology members Venkatesh Murthy and Jakob Sorensen reveals that our brains have the amazing ability to be energy efficient.
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- Parag Hede said...
India is a deeply religious country and therefore ND vision and thoughts were,always,likely to be taken with a pinch of salt.Having said that,murder was not at all a solution.Assuming ND was an atheist,the killers were no religious either.
- August 24, 2013 at 7:07 PM
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- August 25, 2013 at 3:53 AM
- Another Kiran In NYC said...
Some women who were kidding themselves should pack their bags and go home to... Patna. Ek teer do nishane. Maan gaye :)
Mumbai has surrendered itself to politicians. The rich guys and goons are just tools in the hands of politicians.
Indian women need to make gender equality an ELECTION ISSUE. They need to make sure that governments are elected and toppled based on gender equality legislation. There is no other way to ensure the safety of women.
- August 25, 2013 at 4:29 AM
- Rising Sun said...
"Safety and Security"..it no longer exist for women..thanks to our government for making special appearance all the time ..the way these criminals play with women our government play with words..Guess its time for Newton's 3rd law..
- August 25, 2013 at 4:56 AM
- Rajive Singh said...
the city was great so long as it was bobbay. it has gone to the dogs ever since it became mumbai. rip india your time's up.
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hi the mumbai rape case is just the symptom of the malaise that is fast changing the moral fabric of the society. May be time for us to fend ourselves by using community guards. few ideas at http://recklessmusings.blogspot.in/2013/08/mumbai-gang-rape.html
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- August 25, 2013 at 5:14 PM
You are on the dot again!
Nail the rogues!
I roundly slam the cowards who killed Dr Dabholkar.
The businesses of Aasaami Babas who befuddled gullible babes to rape, loot, pillage all in the name of superstition - obviously were being affected. So, they got him bumped off.
I very much doubt whether the Maharashtra police will really find the killers and even if they do, whether the killers will be given an exemplary punishment.
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Pertinent questions raised on the safety of the young girl. Has she seen something? Knowing Mumbai ongoing romance with the dons, anything can happen. It's a shame! I don't feel to be a proud adopted child of Mumbai today, a city I took pride in saying, "We Mumbaikars live in a city that is a safe haven for women. I also blogged about the gang rape.
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It doesn't say much on the front of the package, beyond the brand name and the product but it's quite clear: No artificial colors, flavors or preservatives.
So a quick flip to the back of the package where they talk more about the traditional soft licorice and the heritage of the company that dates back to 1927 in Finland and how meticulous they are and how they use traditional ingredients. Those ingredients?
Yes, Panda's licorice that's otherwise free of artificial flavors, preservatives and colors, suitable for vegans, fat free and Kosher ... it's made with high fructose corn syrup.
The price for this product? It was $2.99 at Cost Plus World Market for a 7 ounce bag.
The pieces of the Traditional Soft Original Licorice has 87.75 calories per ounce and 1 gram of protein. The pieces are large, sticky and very sweet. The one inch nubs are doughy and a little more "wheat" flavored than the classic variety.
It's downright wet. In fact that may account for the lower calories on this variety, the fact that they have more water in them.
The licorice flavor is bland, though distinctly natural. It tastes more like anise though the sweetness has that soft licorice note to it. What's missing for me is the molasses, that earthy flavor that has lots of toffee, burnt sugar, charcoal, oak and beets in it.
It sticks to my teeth. It sticks to my ribs. It sticks to my fingers, it sticks to the package.
In the interest of fairness, I had to revisit the stuff that's made Finland famous. The All Natural Soft Licorice is made from an even shorter list of ingredients: Molasses, wheat flour, licorice extract, natural flavor (aniseseed oil). It has 92.14 calories per ounce but 2 grams of protein per serving. The price? It was $2.99 for a 6 ounce bag.
So for the same price you get about 14% less. But what was in that 14%? I have to wonder if it's just high fructose corn syrup, watering the whole thing down.
The classic pieces in the bag are 3/4" tall and just a little smaller in diameter. They're also far less sticky. They feel lighter and stiffer than their doughy counterparts. Plus it has all those complex flavors of molasses and licorice and less of the wheat flour.
It's just baffling to me, since Panda has spent at least 40 years marketing itself in the United States as the premiere natural licorice brand, and competing against all brands, they're still the fourth largest seller in the US. Much of their marketing, either by their hand or through the efforts of the stores that sell them have specified that Panda contains no "bad stuff" including high fructose corn syrup. So this change not only makes the candy taste bad, I think it's done to purposely confuse consumers. The package uses the words traditional and original and says lots about how they don't use those other bad ingredients. (But they do use a dubious ingredient that no one else uses, not even the cheapest of the cheap licorices.)
Lisa Gawthorne, Panda Liquorice spokesperson comments:
I tried engaging Panda in a dialogue about this change. I tweeted to them in March (they've answered in the past) but didn't hear anything back. Then I tweeted to them again in June and they responded (though one of their responses they've since deleted). Here's the exchange as it stands now.
Here's the thing, though all this battle over high fructose corn sweetener, even as a candy writer, I haven't had much to say. There's not much to say, because HFCS in candy is incredibly rare. I've seen it in probably about five candies I've reviewed, and often when it does appear in other candies, it's part of a whole ingredient like crushed cookies or a jelly, not something the candy company actually made themselves. HFCS just doesn't behave the same way as a pure glucose syrup would or actual full sucrose. Ordinarily I would just be baffled that someone would use HFCS, but in this case I'm angry because Panda has cultivated their brand so carefully, in many cases specifically saying that they don't use HFCS, as if everyone else does. When in reality it's just them, in this lower price point line.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:14 pm Candy • Review • Panda • Chews • Licorice Candy • 3-Unappealing • Finland • Cost Plus •
Monday, January 30, 2012
Fazer Vodka Filled Chocolates
On my trip to Europe last month I was eager to see what sort of interesting candies were at the airport shops. I departed from Stuttgart, Germany late enough in the morning that the stores were open. (My layover in Paris was a bust, as I had barely enough time to get from one terminal to the other, go back through security and only glance at the Maison du Chocolat kiosk and buy two macaron at the Lauderee cart.)
Even though I was in Germany, there were quite a few varieties of Fazer confections. Fazer is a huge Finnish brand that's also available in the United States. The sets there were rather reasonably priced boxes for 5.95 Euro (a little less than $8.00) that held about 11 ounces. They had a mix called Geisha, which was themed with lots of Japanese elements but had little milk chocolates with various hazelnut and almond fillings. The other mix was of the classic Fazermints and the third was the one I chose to buy for review: Fazer Liqueur Fills Vodka. I figured Finland is known for Vodka, so this should be something they do well.
It's a long box that was nicely textured and looked like a good size and shape for gifting but easy enough to tuck into my carry on luggage (I left lots of room in case I saw things at the airport.)
The box has a lid to it that lifts to reveal a perforated opening sealed with plastic, so they're well protected from evaporation. It's kind of like poking out that little piece of cardboard on a tissue box. The pieces are individually wrapped in color coded mylar.
The Vodka Liqueur Fills Chocolates come in three flavors: Original, Cranberry and Lemon-Lime.
Inside the mild dark chocolate shell is an inner grainy sugar shell and then a full liquid vodka syrup filling.
Each piece is long and nicely formed. They're not quite shiny but still well tempered and all were in good condition. However, I noticed the longer I went after opening the package the more likely it was that the underside would be a little dented as the alcohol filling had evaporated.
It's like a little geode. The chocolate shell cracked well, usually uniformly where I bit it. I liked to bite off a little bit of the end, keep it tipped up so that I could sip out the vodka instead of eating it all at once. The inside of the chocolate was lined with large sugar crystals.
The vodka filling is not very strong, though certainly the real thing. The sugar lining keeps the vodka from leaking out.
Cranberry is sweet and fragrant without any hint of tartness of actual berries. The sugar inner shell is grainy and extremely sweet. The vodka is a little syrupy but also doesn't have the throat burning bite of full proof alcohol. I liked this one least of all.
Lemon-Lime is mild. It doesn't have a lot of zest or any bitterness, it's just lightly citrusy and vaguely generic.
Original is slightly medicinal, like there's a touch of gin in there. It's okay, sweet but at least in this version the chocolate flavors come through. I liked this one best, though it seemed I had the fewest of these in the assortment.
For the most part, I found the sugar shell to be far too prominent. It was grainy and sweet and distracted from the other textures and flavors. I've had plenty of other alcohol filled chocolates, and I don't think any had this much sugar by proportion. I'll finish the box, but I don't see myself buying these again. It might that I prefer an liqueur that's more distinctive than vodka, as I do enjoy brandy beans and other flavored liqueurs. I also wanted better quality chocolate. As you'll see in the other reviews this week, what alcohol does well is help reveal the flavors in good dark chocolate. It does nothing for mediocre chocolate.
As a little bonus review, I picked up a handful of Fazer's classic Fazermint while at the Fancy Food Show in San Francisco, since I've never reviewed them before. They're a simple candy. It's a dark chocolate shell with a flowing fondant with a light touch of peppermint. I had six of them and tried photographing all of them by biting into it and taking a photo. In all instances I only ended up cracking the thing into sticky pieces. So take my word for it, there's a flowing white filling, like a Junior Mint. The chocolate is better than a Junior Mint though not fantastic either. The mint is fresh and it's not all too sweet. It's really only a one bite item, so it's a good little treat after a meal or with coffee or tea.
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Tuesday, August 23, 2011
Halva Finnish Soft Strawberry Licorice
Chewy, fruity and soft red licorice is just the thing on a hot summer day. It travels better than chocolate and of course the tart and fragrant flavor can give a little burst of thirst quenching without all that pesky drinking.
I picked up this package of Halva Strawberry Finnish Soft Licorice when I was at the ISM Cologne candy far earlier this year. I knew that they sold it at Cost Plus World Market here in the United States, so the brand gets around. The Halva brand is widely sold in Finland and is generally affordable but not necessarily gourmet.
The package is nicely designed, the format reminds me of the classic box of raisins. The stark and modern design uses a lot of white space, a bold photo of the candy (that actually looks like the candy) and some brief descriptions.
Each strip is about one and a half inches long and are soft and pliable, quite shiny. They have a coating of beeswax and oil, so they're a little greasy. They're slightly translucent and a light shade of red.
They don't smell like much, but once I bit into them I got a lot of other sensory input. The texture is soft and chewy, though a little gummy and doughy. The strawberry flavor is nice, it's very smooth but mostly middle of the road, not deep and jammy like Panda Strawberry Licorice and not crumbly and artificial like Twizzlers either. It's satisfying in the sense that it fills me up, but irritating that it sticks to my teeth. The red food coloring has no perceptible flavor, so I enjoyed that part. The light tartness kept it all from feeling like it was too sticky.
The base of the candy is made from glucose-fructose syrup and wheat flour. In case you're wondering if glucose-fructose syrup is pretty much the same thing as high fructose corn syrup, it is except that it's probably not derived from corn. Use of glucose-fructose syrup is quite rare in American candies, not because of some high standards candy makers have or any health reasons for shunning them. Simply put, many of the sugars that candy makers choose are because of the way they perform physically and chemically. In a soda, HFCS will sweeten and bulk just the same as sucrose. But in a caramel, the free fructose (it's bonded to a glucose molecule in sucrose and isn't unbonded until well into the heating process of caramelization) will not work at all as the sole sugar. In the case of a wheat based chew like red licorice, it turns out you can use glucose-fructose syrup quite nicely.
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Monday, March 14, 2011
Panda Candy Coated Licorice
One of the candies I was looking forward to seeing in the United States from Panda Licorice was their Candy Coated Licorice.
They're little, beefy one inch rods of licorice with a candy shell. What's interesting about these that's different from most licorice pastels is the fact that the shells are flavored. They come with two flavors in each bag - lemon (yellow) and peppermint (white). As with all Panda licorice, the ingredients are all natural and vegan.
In Europe a slightly different version of this candy is available. I bought a bag in Amsterdam called Liquorice Comfits, which had three different colors (more about that in a moment).
This particular bag is small, it holds 100 grams which is 3.5 ounces. The retail price is pretty steep for a sugar candy, I paid over 2 Euros for mine in Europe and it appears that the American version will be prices around $2.50 to $3.00 per bag.
The pieces are consistent and attractive. They're not slickly smooth, but they are shiny. The yellow is creamy and the white is stark and bright. (The green ones are from the European mix.)
The white ones are Peppermint and I was hoping they'd be similar to Skoolkrit, which I love so much. The licorice center is soft and chewy but not deeply flavored. It's a bit doughy, like Panda can be, but missing the dark molasses notes. The licorice flavors are exactly that, the mellow and lingering sweetness of the licorice root. Though they have aniseseed oil in them, there's less of that flavor in the profile. The mint shell gives is a fresh start and finish. It's crunchy and sweet as well, but doesn't really stick with me after consuming.
The lemon was a bit more of an unconventional combination. It was definitely sweeter to me with a lemony start that reminded me of icing. The licorice just seemed sweeter in this version.
Both are fun to eat, but I kept waiting for some stronger licorice flavors that I was relieved when the bag was empty and I could move on to something else.
The European bag I picked up of the Panda Liquorice Comfits is unflavored, as far as I can tell, though I did get a bit more of a floral note from the green ones, but natural colorings can do that.
Without the flavored shell, you'd think they'd have more of a licorice punch, but it was the same thing. Too sweet, not enough rich burnt toffee notes.
I don't expect that I'll pick these up again. I'm sure there are plenty of folks who will like these and I expect for parents who want a great family licorice, this is a good place to start, especially with younger kids who are turned off by strong flavors.
I can't believe I'm saying this, but I think I like Good and Plenty better, I certainly prefer the price.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:39 pm All Natural • Candy • Panda • Kosher • Licorice Candy • Mints • 6-Tempting • Finland •
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
Panda Blueberry Liquorice
I was surprised to learn at the candy fair (ISM Cologne) last week that Panda Liquorice is the #4 brand of licorice in the United States (Twizzlers, Red Vines and Good & Plenty come in ahead). What was surprising and pleasing about this little tidbit is that Panda makes all natural licorice, the real stuff with real licorice extract and no artificial colors or flavors.
Their newest introduction at the show is their Panda Blueberry Liquorice. It features a very short list of ingredients: molasses syrup, wheat flour, blueberry puree, citric acid, natural flavoring and liquorice extract. The package they gave me as a sample is 200 g (7 ounces) and features a gusseted bottom so it stands up and a zipper top to make it easier to reseal it to keep the candy fresh.
The pieces are striking in that they smell like blueberry pie: a bit like jam and a little like a fruit Danish. But they're also quite light in color, like little caramel nibs instead of what I was expecting which would have been darker purple.
They're very soft and have a light, easy chew. They're not dense at all and have a tart and sweet blueberry flavor. Because of the wheat flour in there, there's more snack satisfaction going on than candy. They're satisfying but also feel more like little cookies than a licorice chew. The molasses keeps them from being too sweet, though the licorice extract does give it a little bit of a lighter tea-like sweetness than a straight sugar candy might have.
They're considered vegan and have very little fat in them, so the caloric load is only 88 calories per ounce. Though I like blueberries as a fruit, a chewy candy made with blueberries isn't quite the same thing. These would be fun as a trail mix addition (mixed with pretzels and nuts and maybe a few chocolate chips) but I don't see myself eating them straight in one sitting. I'm sure there are other folks, though, who have been looking forward to a realistic blueberry candy like this.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 5:21 pm All Natural • Candy • Panda • Chews • Kosher • 7-Worth It • Finland •
Wednesday, November 10, 2010
Halva Luxus Lakritsi
I spotted these new hexagonal boxes of Finnish licorice at Cost Plus World Market. They were rather expensive, but they were also over one pound, so the value wasn't too bad.
I like the licorice style known as Rockies, they're a black licorice tube filled with a cream, which is usually flavored. Many European versions are made with salted licorice, but according to this list of ingredients, it was sweet licorice. This package didn't say what the flavors were (there was another variety that were filled with a pastel cream that said Fruit) but the ingredients mentioned cocoa, mint, coffee and toffee flavors.
The illustration on the box appears to show four varieties (white, caramel, gray and brown) but I could really only discern three ... and I ate the whole box.
They were just a little sticky in spots but were fresh and moist. The bag smelled nicely of licorice and toffee with a little hint of smoke, beets and molasses. Each is about 3/4 of an inch long and varied in diameter, though most were about 1/3 of an inch.
The middle pieces, the light beige ones were a coffee flavored center. This was fascinating. I like the combination of licorice and coffee and it's not an easy pair to find together. The center is a little grainy, like frosting. It's sweet and has a very mellow coffee and toffee note to it. The licorice flavors and the texture of the licorice chew were at the front with the most dominance. I found myself picking through the package to find these.
The darkest looking centers were chocolate, I think. It was a sort of Tootsie Roll version of chocolate. There were some vague cocoa notes but it was rather empty and couldn't compete with the licorice and sugar flavors.
The white ones appear to be mint. The mint fondant filling is soft with a bit of a crumble though not completely dry. The minty notes are peppermint and menthol. It's a strange combination with the licorice, the whole thing has a medicated vibe but it's also fresh and doesn't feel heavy like some other licorice can. The mint though was very strong and overshadowed the licorice notes.
Overall in this mix, the actual licorice wasn't that strong. I liked it, it made it very munchable without giving me that feeling that I was eating too much licorice (it can have side effects) but it also left me wanting more licorice/anise punch.
I don't know why there aren't American licorice candies like this, it's rather like Licorice Allsorts, but without the coconut. I'd venture that many folks who say they don't like licorice might like it in this version where it's just a container, not the main event.
I saw that Cost Plus World Market also carries the plain licorice and salted licorice from Halva, I'm thinking I might want to try their straight varieties. I get the impression that this isn't the most elegant variety from Finland (which is known for its licorice), it's more like the kid's version of licorice or mass-produced like Twizzlers or Red Vines though I'm guessing with better ingredients (but perhaps some Finnish readers can help with that).
These contain gelatin, so are not vegetarian.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:24 pm Candy • Review • Licorice Candy • 7-Worth It • Finland • Cost Plus •
Monday, April 12, 2010
Panda Soft Herb Licorice and Licorice Cremes
It's National Licorice Day and I'm always up for some good black licorice.
I picked up the Panda Soft Herb Licorice after seeing Gigi Reviews coverage of the product.
First, I like the box that Panda uses. It's foil lined and completely sealed, after opening the tab top there's a little plastic film that keeps the contents fresh. Then I just tuck in the double tab top to keep it soft. The contents were soft for weeks, though there is some toughening after that.
This version of Panda's licorice bites are all natural black licorice tubes made with molasses and wheat flour with an added punch of 18 herbal extracts. They include peppermint, blackberry, plantain, torch weed, sage, star anise and thyme. Sniffing the box it's like a tea shop: minty, woodsy and clean.
The pieces are soft but separate easily. I like the aerated tubes, it makes it easier to chew them if they do get a little stale. The color is nice, it's dark but not artificially colored.
The taste isn't licorice immediately and it's not molasses either. It's more like brown sugar in peppermint and chamomile tea. The licorice and woodsier notes come in later. It's delicate and not as overwhelmingly dark and charcoal-like as Panda's usual far. There's a cool menthol aftertaste that makes this kind of like a mint.
There's a little sticking to the teeth, but it's not as bad as some other Aussie-style brands. Overall, I enjoyed it a lot. It's mellow and might be a good "starter" licorice for folks who don't care for the bitter, smoky and overwhelming licorice of Panda.
As a little change of pace I picked up Panda Cremes as well. The stand up bag holds the same amount as the box but has a zipper lock to keep it fresh. I have to admit that it's not as eco friendly but did a better job of keeping these soft and fresh. A bonus is that the bag is collapsible, so it takes up less space the more you eat. The box is always the size of the box.
Cremes are the same shape as the bites but inside those little tubes are creme fillings. They come in three flavors: Banana, Caramel and Strawberry. I can't say that any of these were ever really on my mind as great complements to the flavor of black licorice, but Panda usually knows what they're doing.
The bag says that they're all natural and suitable for vegetarians (but not vegans, as there's some milk in there). The creme center is made from palm oil and there's no indication of the source of it. A 39 gram serving (9 pieces) has 160 calories and 4 grams of fat (3.5 of those are saturated). In case you're curious, 40 grams of the Soft Herb are 130 calories and no fat. It's not like either is calorie-dense but still, it's notable.
The package smelled like strawberries and banana, like some sort of smoothie or yogurt.
The Strawberry were easy to pick out as they were pink. The Caramel and Banana were the same color as far as I could tell.
The creme isn't soft and flowing, it's kind of crunchy at first - but at mouth temperature it softens up. It's cool on the tongue and not too sweet. The Strawberry is fresh and floral. Banana is actually pretty fun, it's strong banana flavoring but the sweet notes go well. The Caramel had a slightly darker note but the toasted sugar was missing or maybe overshadowed by the strength of the licorice itself.
I don't think I need this much fat for something that didn't really satisfy me the same way that a creamy chocolate product does. I think I'll stick to the regular Panda licorice products. These are pretty enough to put in a clear jar and as compelling as Allsorts (especially if you're not a coconut fan).
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:35 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Panda • Kosher • Licorice Candy • 6-Tempting • 8-Tasty • Finland • Whole Foods •
Tuesday, May 6, 2008
Chewing gum is a logical product to make sugar free, and for many years there have been products that use Xylitol as an alternative (and better) gum sweetener.
I got a few samples at ExpoWest of their different flavors, but ended up opting for a full package of the Cinnamon XyliChew for this review.
The package is a nice paperboard box with a blisterpack that holds 12 pieces inside. Two pieces are normal serving size (though sometimes I go for three pieces).
XyliChew boasts 70% of its content is xylitol, which is supposed to have many health benefits. Studies link lower incidences of dental caries (cavities) to consistent use of xylitol (either in gum or mouthwash) and others have said that it keeps teeth & bones strong as we age. But the amount needed for those more substantial positive effects are probably greater than would be consumed normally. A pair of pieces gives the chewer only 1.6 grams per serving. (Studies were using dosages of 20-40 grams per day.) You can read more of the features at their website.
But that aside, this is gum and most often we're chewing it for other reasons, such as to freshen the breath, a boost of flavor, keep us from munching and just plain old enjoyment of chewing.
These are cool on the tongue immediately, which is one of the big appeals of xylitol as a confectionery sweetener. The cinnamon flavor is much more like the powdered spice or chewing on an actual stick of the bark than those "cinnamon flavors", so it's a bit deeper. It's not at all spicy though, there's no burning feeling to it. The chew lacks much grain to it like sugared gums have (well, there's a little from the shell, but that dissipates quickly). The flavor remains for quite a while, I tracked it as still having a satisfactory amount of cinnamon flavor after 30 minutes, though the sweetness had abated.
It didn't stick to my teeth, which is also a nice feature (yes, I have fillings - those old fashioned amalgam & those new fangled white composite ones).
As a sugar free product, I don't feel like I'm missing a thing. Some folks may not like that cooling sensation and of course you have to get used to xylitol. I still prefer my good old Peppermint Chiclets, but I could get used to this, too.
XyliChew is all natural, even the gum base is from the sapodilla tree. It uses beeswax though, so may not be appropriate for all vegans.
Many stores like Whole Foods, Nature Mart and health food shops carry XyliChew, you can also order online through Nature Mart or Amazon. They retail for about $2 a package. It also comes in other flavors like: spearmint, peppermint, tropical fruit, licorice and chocolate.
UPDATE: Also, be aware that xylitol is dangerous to dogs, so be very careful to keep xylitol sweetened products away from pets.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:00 am
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