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|College of Southern Idaho
Above all else, senior forward Juliano Jordani needs one thing in 2000-01. He needs his health. He needs his ankle to stay unsprained and his back to remain unstrained. The Gauchos need that too. To be successful this season, Jordani simply needs to stay healthy and if he does, he could become one of UCSB's top rebounders and offensive threats. He has the ability to score both inside and out, if, that is, he stays healthy.
Cruising. Cruising. Cruising. Ouch!
Jordani was cruising along last year. Through six games, he was averaging 10.3 points and 7.5 rebounds per game. He had scored a career-high 19 points and had a career-high 11 rebounds in a game at the University of San Francisco. He'd had a game of eight points and eight rebounds against Stanford. He had 13 points and eight rebounds against both USC and Pepperdine. Then, he injured his ankle and things went downhill. He missed two games and never truly rebounded. In the seven games immediately following his return from the ankle injury, Jordani went 6-for-32 from the field, a miserable 27.3%, and he averaged 3.1 points and 2.7 rebound per outing.
Welcome Back, Juliano...On Second Thought
Just when it seemed as if he was about to hit his stride again last season, Jordani suffered another injury. In a home victory over Idaho, Jordani scored nine points, his highest scoring output in the 11 games following his return from the ankle injury. Then, in practice prior to a two game road trip, he suffered a strained back and it was, no pun intended, back to square one. He missed back-to-back (sorry) games at Cal State Fullerton and UC Irvine and when he returned, he went scoreless in three straight games.
Welcome Back Juliano, Take Two
In his final four games last year, Jordani seemed to show signs that he had returned to form. He averaged 7.0 points and 4.0 rebounds over that span. But it was in the season finale, a Big West Tournament loss at Nevada, where he really showed signs of life. In the game against the Wolf Pack, Jordani made all six of his field goal attempts, including a pair of three-pointers, and scored 15 points in 12 minutes. His 15-point total in the game against Nevada was exactly two more points than he had scored in the previous six games combined, a span that covered 70 minutes.
Don't You Have That Backwards?
It is easy to assume that a 6-foot-7 forward will be more of an inside threat than an outside threat. In the case of Jordani, if you assume you make a, well you know the rest. Either way, due in great part to injuries, the native of Brazil shot only 33.9% from the floor overall last season. He hit 20-of-54 shots from three-point range, 37.0% and he hit 20-of-64 shots from two-point range, 31.2%. During one four game span, prior to his ankle injury, Jordani made 10-of-21 three-pointers (47.6%) and 5-for-18 two-pointers (27.8%).
Juliano Jordani Notes:
Juliano Jordani and his ability to stay healthy in 2000-01 is a key to UCSB fortunes...A very good outside shooter, Jordani is also a tough and strong presence inside...Needs to continue improving offensively with his back to the basket.
Jordani played in 24 games in his first year as a Gaucho, averaging 5.6 points and 3.8 rebounds per game...He missed four games, two because of a severe ankle sprain and two because of a lower back strain...Sprained his ankle after the sixth game of the year...In the first six contests of the season, he averaged 10.3 points and 7.0 rebounds per game and he had made ten three-pointers...In his final 18 games, Jordani averaged 4.1 points and 2.8 rebounds per game and he made ten three-pointers...Produced season-highs of 19 points and 11 rebounds at USF...Also had 13 points and eight rebounds at USC and 13 points eight rebounds against Pepperdine...Closed the season with one of his best offensive games of the year when he had 15 points, making all six of his field goal attempts (including a pair of three-pointers) in the Big West Tournament against Nevada...Scored in double-figures four times...Made a high of five three-point baskets at USF...Made at least one three-pointer 13 times and two or more four times...While Jordani shot 33.9% overall for the season, he actually hit 37.0% from three-point range...Only made 20-of-64 shots from two-point range, 31.2%...On the season, he averaged 18.9 minutes per game...Prior to spraining his ankle, he was in the starting lineup and averaged 29.2 minutes per game and after the injury, he averaged only 15.4 minutes
Junior College
Came to UCSB after spending two seasons at the College of Southern Idaho...Averaged 13.3 points, 5.8 rebounds, 3.0 assists and 2.0 steals per game as a sophomore...Made 49% of his field goal attempts, 31% of his three-pointers and 64% of his free throws...After leading Southern Idaho to a 21-12 record and an appearance in the Junior College Regional Championship game, he was named second team All-Region and first team all-league...Jordani was selected the MVP of the Arctic Circle Tournament as a sophomore...Scored a career-high 35 points against Seminole State College...Had a career-best 17 rebounds vs. Colorado Northwest...Jordani recorded career-highs of 11 assists (vs. Salt Lake City Community College), four steals (vs. Utah Valley Community College) and three blocked shots (vs. Barton County College)...Hit five three-point baskets on two occasions, once each as a freshman (vs. Snow College) and as a sophomore (vs. Seminole State College)...Jordani suffered an ankle injury during his sophomore season that limited his effectiveness during the middle of the season...As a freshman, he averaged 7.0 points, 5.0 rebounds, 1.5 assists and 1.2 steals per game...Made 47% of his shots as a freshman and 49% of his three-pointers...In his two years, he hit 50 three-pointers.
High School
Jordani attended Danté Alighieri School in Sao Paulo, Brazil...Averaged 26.0 points, 9.0 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 2.8 steals as a senior...As a junior, he averaged 24.0 points, 11.0 rebounds and 4.5 assists...Named All-State twice...He was named MVP of the State in 1994 after leading Danté Alighieri to the State Championship...Scored a career-high and a school record 47 points in a game against Batiste High School...Collected 22 rebounds in a game against Anglo High School...Jordani also had career-bests of 13 assists (Palmeiros High School) and eight blocked shots (vs. Santo André High School)... Once had nine three-point baskets in a game...Set a school record for points in a season...Coached by Eduardo Rios.
Juliano Costa Jordani was born October 13, 1976 in Sao Paulo, Brazil...A Business/Economics Major...He was an honor student in high school and last year he was Southern Idaho's Student-Athlete of the Year...Jordani was a member of the Brazilian Junior National Team...His most memorable moment in sports came when Brazil defeated Puerto Rico in the 1995 Junior Pan American Games...As a member of the Brazilian Junior National Team, Jordani played against a United States team in 1995 that included Shareef Abdur-Rahim, Stephon Marbury and Robert Traylor...His favorite athletes are Michael Jordan and Brazilian soccer star Ronaldo...Also played soccer and volleyball in high school...Brazilian Jorge Amedo is his favorite author...The son of Claudio and Ana Maria Costa Jordani.


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CAIRO — At least 51 people were killed nationwide Sunday as clashes erupted between security forces and protesters on a major holiday.
Hundreds more were also injured when the violence broke out as rival protesters took to the streets and the country marked the 40th anniversary of a celebrated Egyptian military campaign against Israeli forces in the Sinai Peninsula.
Security forces fired tear gas as the sounds of gunfire echoed across the capital while anti-military backers of ousted leader Mohammed Morsi tried to reach Tahrir Square, where supporters of the military had already gathered.
Tanks surrounded the square as thousands of people converged, waving Egyptian flags and cheering on military helicopters and jets flying above as part of the celebration.
Authorities over the weekend had warned opponents of the military not to protest, and security was boosted in anticipation of marches across the capital.
Protester Khaled Hassein, 46, a teacher, said he expected clashes to erupt. "But I came anyway," he said, standing among a crowd in the Cairo neighborhood Dokki as clashes spewed nearby and tear gas billowed. "My principles forced me to come."
For three months, thousands of Egyptians like Hassein have protested a July 3 coup that ousted the Muslim Brotherhood's Morsi, who was democratically elected in June last year but blamed by many for governing the country inadequately.
Since the coup, the military-backed leadership has continued a crackdown on the Brotherhood and other Islamists, claiming the government is fighting terrorism.
Authorities have thrown thousands of Brotherhood members in jail, effectively decapitating the movement's leadership. Hundreds of people have died in the violence and last month, an Egyptian court banned the Brotherhood.
But the movement has kept up its protests.
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Golfers looking for a birdie will find an osprey at Park City course
November 27, 2012
Players looking for a birdie next year at the Park City Golf Club should head to the fifteenth green.
City Hall, which owns and manages the municipal golf course, and Rocky Mountain Power at the end of October installed an artificial nest designed for osprey birds. The nest is situated just behind the green on the fifteenth hole, close to the south shore of a water hazard. The nest is visible from S.R. 224 as drivers pass Hotel Park City.
The pole is approximately 40 feet tall. At the top is a platform for an osprey to build a nest. Sticks for the birds to use were put onto the platform, which is made of redwood and measures two feet by six feet.
The osprey birds have left for the winter and are expected to return to the Park City area in late March or early April.
Craig Sanchez, who is the manager of the golf course, said it is the first such nest installed in Park City. He said an artificial nest like the one installed at the golf course is safer for the birds than power poles, where osprey birds sometimes locate their nests.
"We certainly embrace wildlife at the course. We try to do everything we can to accept that responsibility," Sanchez said.
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Sanchez said he sees osprey birds frequently in the vicinity of the water hazard, sometimes in pine trees. They hunt for fish in the water, he said.
Osprey birds that build nests on power poles could cause fires or electrical interruptions if they are on or touch a line, the state Division of Wildlife Resources says.
The division says osprey bird nests typically are built between ten and 60 feet off the ground, and they are normally located close to or above water. The nests sometimes are used over a span of years. The division calls osprey birds "a rare summer resident at mountain lakes" and in the area of the Green River in Utah.
"It is much less common in Utah than it formerly was, and nesting of this species in Utah is now geographically much reduced, being limited mainly to the margins of Flaming Gorge Reservoir," the Division of Wildlife Resources says in an entry about the osprey bird.
The division says osprey birds normally eat fish, and they also feed on vertebrates and sometimes crustaceans.
Both parents tend to young birds, and the hatchlings spend between 48 and 59 days preparing to leave the nest, according to the Division of Wildlife Resources.
Bob Walters, who coordinates what is known as the watchable wildlife program for the division, built the platform while Rocky Mountain Power provided the personnel and equipment to install the pole. Walters said one nesting pair of osprey birds use a platform.
"That's just what they're looking for," Walters said.
There are between 50 and 75 similar poles outfitted with nesting platforms in the state, he said, including a few close to the Jordanelle Reservoir, the Echo Reservoir and the Rockport Reservoir.


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The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 23.0275 Thursday, 28 June 2012
Date: June 28, 2012 4:36:18 AM EDT
Subject: Cahiers Elisabethains: 40th Anniversary Special Issue
Dear SHAKSPER List Members,
Cahiers Elisabethains is proud to announce the publication of its 40th Anniversary Special Issue: "Nothing if not Critical": International Perspectives on Shakespearean Theatre Reviewing, guest edited by Paul Prescott, Peter J. Smith and Janice Valls-Russell.
* Please note also that article submissions are now open for the next issues of the journal.
More information: <http://recherche.univ-montp3.fr/cahiers/>
Jean-Christophe Mayer and Nathalie Vienne-Guerrin
Co-General Editors
Cahiers Elisabethains
Introduction (Paul Prescott, Peter J. Smith, Janice Valls-Russell)
Theatre Reviewing a la mode des Cahiers (Janice Valls-Russell)
Academic Reviewing, Interculturalism and Committed Aesthetics: Syncretic Itineraries of a Reviewer (Nathalie Rivere de Carles)
Objective Reviews? No, Thanks! (Markus Marti)
Valuing Shakespearean Theatre Reviews (Rob Ormsby)
Surveying Survey (Rob Conkie)
"She will a handmaid be to his desires": Theatre Reviewing in the Service of Education in Rex Gibson's Shakespeare and Schools (Sarah Olive)
The Disappearing Audience: Reviewing Shakespeare in the UK (Irene Middleton)
When is a Theatre Record not a Theatre Record? (Jeannie Farr)
The Newspaper Review: Constructing an Understanding of Shakespearean Performance in Madrid (1900-1936) (Juan F. Cerda)
What Becomes of a Performance Through (Second-Hand) Quotations of (Second-Hand) Reviews? (Isabelle Schwartz-Gastine)
"So That's Where That Phrase Comes From" Moments and Taffety Punks: Some Thoughts on the State of Theatre Reviewing in Washington, DC (Sara Thompson)
Reviewing the Reception of Yukio Ninagawa's Shakespeare Productions (1999-2009) in the British and Japanese Press (Tomonari Kuwayama)
Reviewing Shakespeare in Bulgaria: Past and Present (Alexander Shurbanov & Boika Sokolova)
Shakespearean Performance Reviewing in Brazil (Margarida Gandara Rauen)
Reviewing Tunisian Productions of Shakespeare's Plays under Bourguiba and Ben Ali (Francis Guinle)
Critical Conditions: Reviewing Shakespeare in South Africa (Colette Gordon)
Australian Newspaper Reviewers of Shakespeare: Writing with the Head or with the Heart? (Penny Gay)
Amateur Reviewing at the Avignon Festival: the "Mirror Group" (Florence March)
Afterword (Peter Holland)
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Theatre reviews of Shakespeare's plays tend — inevitably — to be overwhelmingly focused on the Anglophone scene. (…) Hence, academic thinking about Shakespeare theatre reviewing has hitherto tended to be dominated by what is happening on the UK stage, and the way it is being written about in the press, academic journals and, more recently, blogs. (…) All of the papers in this special edition of Cahiers Élisabéthains anatomize the critical conditions of the performance and reception of Shakespeare's plays across decades and across continents. (…) Our aim has been to cast our net wide, to prospect further afield, to explore theatre reviewing of Shakespeare through other perspectives/nationalities/geographies/cultures. That these papers should be published in Cahiers is especially appropriate since it continues the journal's own unique international tradition of theatre reviewing in its biennial numbers as well as the previous special issue of 2007 which covered the uniquely international range of productions offered by the RSC's Complete Works Festival in Stratford-upon-Avon in 2006-2007. (…). We are delighted to include essays here which consider the place of Shakespeare reviewing in France, Switzerland, UK, Spain, Australia, Japan, Canada, South Africa, USA, Tunisia, Bulgaria and Brazil.


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An allusion to being corporally punished, where the victim would be sent to the woodshed to await his punisher. The woodshed was a popular location, because it was remote from the rest of the family, and there was abundant material there for fashioning a paddle or a switch.
Get to the woodshed boy - your pa is gonna tan your hide when he gets home from the mill.
by Rod Brock July 26, 2006
To lock oneself away with a musical instrument and practice, either a particular piece or in general, until the player has improved greatly or can perfectly play the piece he has been practicing.
Due to the many hours he spent woodshedding, Jon became a better guitarist.
by Jake Higgins April 23, 2005
A small shack to store wood for burning...usually logs. Back in the old days when a whooping was legal to give your children, a parent would take a child there to whoop them good for being bad.
Son in 1930: Fuck off mom!...oops.
Father in 1930: I heard that...you best go back to the woodshed now.
Son in 1930 woodshed: oooowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
Father in 1930: I heard that...you best go back to the woodshed now.
Son in 1930 woodshed: oooowwwwwwwwwwwww!!!
by thedzone October 09, 2009
To practice a musical instrument. The woodshed is where you go to sharpen your axe.
by d-to April 26, 2007
AKA shedding, woodshedding is one of the most ambiguous jazz terms around (but the version I learned from old time players will be posted here). Sheddin is the act of intensely practicing your instrument after being publicly humiliated by your bad playing. This humiliation might be from a terrible solo or from not knowing the key the piece is played in (not being able to improvise in all keys). Shedding usually includes
This is derived from getting your ass beaten (with scraps from a woodshed).
This is derived from getting your ass beaten (with scraps from a woodshed).
I went down to a jam session at ----- about a month ago, and this other tenor player just tore my ass UP. So I shedded every day since, and I'm finally confident and able enough to play in public again. Ima tear this shit up, ya heard?! I went down to the woodshed.
by Jazzbo023211 September 02, 2007
To beat an opponant comfortably. In soccer terms, its equivelent to a goal difference of 4 between teams.
by theMaddog October 13, 2005
Jazz musicians call the hard work of improvising being in the woodshed. To aid these skills they copy and memorize the jazz solos of the masters and experiment with their own ideas.
Her best musical ideas came after spending hours woodshedding.
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Islamism and the First Egyptian Presidential Election
By Zackery M. Heern
Recorded for WKMS
June 5, 2012
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Dr. Zackery M. Heern, Assistant Professor of Middle East Studies at Murray State University, gives some historical insight into Islam and Egypt's first presidential election.
Last week, Egyptians participated in their first free democratic presidential election in history. For a country that is more than five thousand years old, this is monumental. It is an indicator that democracy is on the rise in the Arab world. The elections come in the wake of hard fought battles by protesters, insurgents, and the international community to rid the Arab world of long-standing dictators.
One of these autocrats was Egypt's Hosni Mubarak. This week, he became the first Arab dictator to be sentenced to life in prison by his own people. Mubarak's successor will likely play an important role in laying a new foundation for the course of Egypt. In practical terms, this means drafting a new constitution, setting the tone for international relations with Israel, the United States, and so forth.
The Arab uprisings will prove to be a new phase in the history of the Middle East. However, only future historians will be able to determine what the long-term impact will be. At this early stage, the increase in democracy is bringing Islamists to power. Islamists represent a wide spectrum of political ideals. But, their common ground is the goal of implementing Islamic principles in the government. Islamists throughout the Middle East owe their popular support to their ability to provide the disenfranchised with social services.
The Muslim Brotherhood is the original Islamist organization. It began in Egypt in the 1920s and has since spread throughout the Islamic world. In fact, Palestine's Hamas originated as a splinter group of the Muslim Brotherhood. For much of its history, the Egyptian government deemed the Muslim Brotherhood a terrorist organization, forcing it to operate underground. In recent history, however, the Muslim Brotherhood has toned down its rhetoric and extremist methods.
Islamists have already had success in the parliamentary elections held earlier this year in Egypt. More than two-thirds of parliament members represent the Muslim Brotherhood and the ultra-conservative Nour Party.
As a result of the first round of presidential elections held last week, two candidates remain standing. The run-off election will be held in mid-June. The front-runner – Dr. Muhammad Morsi – is the Muslim Brotherhood's candidate.
His rival is Ahmad Shafiq, who was the last prime minister of ousted president Mubarak. Thousands of protesters poured into the streets of multiple Egyptian cities on Friday demanding that Shafiq be disqualified from the race. This comes after a mob set fire to his campaign headquarters last week. These protesters denounce Shafiq as a remnant of the Mubarak regime. If these protesters are any indication, Morsi, the Islamist candidate, will win the election.
It is worth noting that neither Morsi nor Shafiq represent the will of many of the protesters who originally took to the streets to bring down the Mubarak regime. Indeed, many Egyptians shutter at the remaining candidates, whom they see as a choice between an Islamist and authoritarian regime. If democracy firmly takes root in Egypt, it is possible that alternative political parties will emerge.
For now, Morsi and the Muslim Brotherhood seem poised to control the immediate future of Egypt. Morsi has been painted by the media as an un-charismatic politician, who will carry out the will of the Muslim Brotherhood. His campaign rally-cry is "The Qur'an is our constitution and Islamic law is our guide." He is clearly committed to making Egypt an Islamic state.
The major precedent for Morsi's vision of a democratic Islamic state is Iran. Similar to Iran, Morsi has suggested that the government should have a council of Muslim scholars who advise the government. Additionally, non-Muslims and women will not be eligible to run in future presidential elections. However, Egypt will not look to Iran as a model to be followed. It will likely create a new Egyptian model.
Dr. Zackery Heern is a Middle East Specialist in the Department of History at Murray State.


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I know many of you out there have pretty good ideas and theories about our wind patterns here in the Bay, on the Coast and out at the Delta, so i thought I'd throw this out there.
In past recent years, we've had some great seasons, average ones, and not so great ones as far as the wind goes and the patterns we've seen at various spots. Some years the season is affected by El Nino, La Nina, etc.
Based on what you've seen, know or have researched or observed, what do you think is in store for us this season? Will 2009 be great, average, or so-so?


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Film Review: Jack ReacherLoner vet Jack Reacher tackles a case of multiple murders in a gritty adaptation of a Lee Child novel.
A lean, violent thriller, Jack Reacher introduces what the filmmakers hope will be a new franchise based on Lee Child's bestsellers. With Tom Cruise playing against type, and with clever, noir-ish plotting, the film should find an appreciative audience of action fans and Cruise junkies.
The gimmick behind Child's Jack Reacher novels is his hero, a decorated veteran and all-around tough guy who chooses to live off the grid after his career in the Military Police goes south. With no fixed address and no belongings but the clothes on his back, Reacher is an enigma to cops. Like a gunslinger riding into a frontier town, he operates outside the law, with his own sense of right and wrong.
Reacher may be a compelling character, but what makes Child's books work is their plotting. For this film, director and screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie (who won an Oscar for his The Usual Suspects screenplay) has done a smart job transferring the novel One Shot to the screen. He combines some characters, eliminates others, and finds ingenious ways to tell a complicated story—like an eight-minute opening sequence that details a mass shooting without any dialogue.
Police detective Emerson (David Oyelowo) solves the murder of five Pittsburgh pedestrians quickly, bringing District Attorney Rodin (Richard Jenkins) a solid case against Barr (Joseph Sikora), a sniper Reacher once investigated in the Army. But Rodin's daughter Helen (Rosamund Pike), a novice lawyer starting her own practice, has doubts about the case. When Reacher comes on board, they uncover evidence of a larger conspiracy behind the killings.
The case boils down to a straightforward battle between good guys and bad guys, with characters switching sides now and then. With Barr in a coma after a jailhouse beating, Reacher must piece together the case on his own, explaining clues the police either overlooked or misinterpreted. It's not revealing too much to say that the solution involves a sports bar, an auto-parts store, a sinister shooting range, and a truly creepy Soviet gulag survivor known only as "Zec" (played by German director Werner Herzog).
The fights here tend to be fast and brutal, with Cruise in good form both on the street and in tighter quarters. McQuarrie has also worked in a car chase reminiscent of old-school movies, heavy on physical stunts and light on digital effects.
The result is a solid action film, but Reacher fans might expect more. In the novels, Reacher is effortlessly confident no matter what the situation. Cruise is one of the most popular movie stars in the world, but physically he's just not that menacing. He has to act at being tough, something that makes sense for his Ethan Hunt character in the Mission: Impossible series, but is less convincing here.
But it's nice seeing the actor stepping away from his usual parts and trying something new. It helps that he's working with such superior genre material.


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Tuesday, October 13, 2015
Toblerone Toasted Corn Crunch
Last year about this time Toblerone introduced a new version of their classic milk chocolate mountain bar: Toblerone Toasted Corn Crunch. Oddly enough, they were available exclusively at that time at duty free shops in Europe. I never thought I'd run across a bar. But I was strolling the candy section at Cost Plus World Market and not only did they have a stack of them, they were also on sale for 99 cents for a 3.52 ounce bar.
The bar features Toblerone's Swiss milk chocolate with toasted crushed corn, honey and almond nougat.
The bar format is exactly like all the other Toblerones. This comes in the classic cardboard prism box. Inside there's a foil wrapped bar made of 12 triangular segments.
The bar looks like any other milk chocolate Toblerone from the sides, but the bottom reveals there's lots of bumpy stuff inside. The scent is sweet and milky along with a really strong corn note. The corn doesn't smell quite like popcorn, more like, well, corn or maybe polenta. The chocolate is quite sweet, though smooth, it's very sugary. The corn bits are like corn nuts, very crunchy though not quite hard enough to break any teeth. (Sometimes I feel like I'm chewing on teeth when I eat corn nuts.)
The combination of the lightly malty, cereal flavor and the very mild chocolate is pretty good. There's a nice boost of salt in there, which also offset the sugary chocolate. But I never really got the nougat and honey flavors that I enjoy so much in a Toblerone. The only good thing is that I felt like it keep me busy a long time, as I was working those corn bits out of my teeth for about 20 minutes.
It's an interesting bar but I see no need to consider it as a replacement for a Ritter Sport Knusperflakes (Corn Flakes). It's hard to be harsh on the bar when it's so much better than a Nestle Crunch Bar which is half the size and the same price. As far as their new bars, I think the Toblerone Salted Almond is worth seeking out.
Toblerone still does not provide consumers with any information about their cacao sourcing with regards to ethics or sustainability. The bar contains eggs, soy, milk, corn and almonds. It's made in facility that also handles other tree nuts. There's no gluten statement on the package.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:11 pm Candy • Review • Kraft/Mondelez • Chocolate • Kosher • Nougat • Nuts • 7-Worth It • Switzerland • Cost Plus •
Tuesday, December 23, 2014
Villars Mini Tasting Chocolates
For Christmas stockings, I prefer a bit of international flair for the contents. Since Santa Claus travels the world, I figure he must know all about candies from different areas.
I picked up this box of Villars Mini Tasting Chocolates made in Switzerland. It was a bit expensive at $12. The box says it's "at least" 45 pieces, but I counted 50 in mine. There are four different kinds of chocolate: Milk Chocolate (20 pieces), Milk Chocolate with Caramel 10 pieces), Milk Chocolate with Hazelnuts (9 pieces) and 72% Dark Chocolate (11 pieces).
I used to pick up Villars milk chocolate with hazelnut bars at Trader Joe's many years ago. I suspect that Villars is still making products for Trader Joe's under the house label, but I can't be certain. This is the first time I found them at the local grocery store, though it seems like the kind of package you might see at an airport duty free shop.
Villars is a small chocolate company, according to Wikipedia they're bean to bar, based in Fribourg, Switzerland and employ about 140 people. They've been around over a hundred years.
In my assortment, it was pretty well balanced, with slightly more of the Milk variety than the other three. The little bars are, well, tiny. They're about 5 grams each, but that also means there's only about 30 calories in each one.
The pieces are 1.3 inches high and .8 inches wide. The wrappers are made of some sort of mylar type plastic. They're shiny on the inside but devilishly hard to tear. Each piece is glued shut with a teensy little dot of well-stuck glue.
Just smelling this little Lait bar I was reminded why I liked Villars: they add barley malt to their chocolate. It's just a little hint of malt that keeps it from being too sweet. It's a little roasted and the quality of the milk gives it a light yogurt bite. I can't eat a lot of it, which is why these little bites are just right for me.
The Lait Caramel smelled quite milky. It's not actual caramel though, it's more like toffee chips, which is great. I enjoy a little toffee mixed into my milk chocolate and this is a good version. Like the milk chocolate, it's sweet but wonderfully creamy and rich. The little toffee bits break up the stickiness with a little crunch and hit of caramelized sugar. The thinness of the little bars means that the bits are also small, but Barbie dolls and Star Wars action figures may find them just right.
The little Lait Noisettes bars come in a purple accented wrapper.
The sweetness of this bar is quite strong, but the chips of nicely roasted hazelnuts mellow that out. It's a little chewy, almost like coconut. It could use a touch of salt, but otherwise, I liked the Noisettes best.
I was looking forward to the Noir 72% quite a bit. It's hard to find little tasting squares in very dark chocolate. I also noticed that Gelson's, where I bought these, also has Villars in bulk tubs, so I could buy little callets and disks of their dark chocolate for about $12 a pound. Well, that's not going to happen, now that I've tried this. The chocolate smells good, a little toasty and like coffee. The melt is quite nice ... but the feeling on the tongue is dry and chalky. The finish is far too dry for me, far too acidic and yet it's quite sweet for a 72%.
I think for baking or maybe as a base for chocolate mousse, this would be excellent. But it's not my style for straight eating.
For the price, these aren't phenomenal, I want a lot better dark chocolate for $24 a pound. But the miniature size and variations are just what I needed this week. Now that I've had my samples for the review, the rest will be distributed by Santa Claus into the Christmas stockings. I'm hoping for lots of the Noisettes in mine. I also wonder if Villars has also made repackaged items for Aldi, as these were rather similar (though the chocolate moulds were different, the tasting notes are very similar).
Villars is owned by a French company called Bongrain, which bills itself as one of the top transformers of milk in Europe and worldwide. Maybe it sounds better in French. They make cheese and yogurt in dozens of different countries in Europe, North America and Africa ... and chocolate in Switzerland.
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Monday, April 7, 2014
Equal Exchange Dark Bars: Raspberry, Lemon Ginger, and Coconut
Equal Exchange Organic Dark Chocolate with Raspberries 60% is part of the Equal Exchange line of chocolate bars.
They're 3.5 ounces and priced competitively with other premium chocolate bars. Equal Exchange (I reviewed some Easter items on Friday) is a cooperative using fair trade standards to create a whole store filled with chocolate, coffee, tea and other goods.
This bar features organic freeze dried raspberries in organic and fair trade dark chocolate. The cacao is sourced from fair trade cooperatives in The Dominican Republic, Panama, Ecuador and Peru with sugar from Paraguay and vanilla from Madagascar. There's no soy lecithin and it's considered gluten free though it may contain traces of milk, hazelnuts, cashews and coconut. Equal Exchange makes their chocolate in Switzerland.
The bar is wrapped simply, in thin foil and then a thicker paper overwrap (the inside had all the sourcing details about the bar).
The bar is glossy and attractive, with some bumps on the bottom from the raspberry bits. The molding is good as is the temper, it's very consistent and I noticed no voids or swirling in any of the bars (which can happen with inclusions). It smells rich, though barely sweet. Like cherries, coffee and honey. Once snapped in half though, the raspberry scent, with its floral notes becomes much more noticeable. The chocolate is sweet on the tongue and has a good, cool melt with a creamy texture. The raspberry bits are crunchy and tangy, though the seeds in the center can be a bit tougher.
It's a very easy to eat bar, with a lot more acidic tang than most other 60% bars. I don't care much for the grassy, woody note of the seeds, but that's berries for you.
The Equal Exchange Organic Lemon Ginger Chocolate with Black Pepper is 55% cacao, so it's the lightest chocolate intensity of the bunch. The package gives the identical sourcing info for the major ingredients but doesn't say where the lemon, ginger and black pepper is from, though they're all organic.
It's nice to see lemon used with chocolate, it's not as common as orange, but can still combine well, especially with dark chocolate. The addition of ginger and black pepper makes this the most unconventional flavor in the Equal Exchange line. This package looked the same on the outside as the other bars, but instead of a foil inner liner, it's in some sort of compostable mylar. I also noticed that the nutritional panel listed this one at only 200 calories a portion, not 230 ...which actually sounds more plausible. (But calorie calculations are fraught with error, as the basis for it is over 100 years old, so really they're just a guide.)
Though the bar contains no milk, it doesn't look like a particularly dark chocolate bar. It smells woodsy and fresh, with a little note of rosemary and cedar.
The melt of the dark chocolate is very smooth, but I did start to detect a bit of sugar grain ... this was from the crystallized ginger in the bar. The lemon is a bit strong, rather astringent at first, but it dissipates. The chocolate is mild, woodsy and of course creamy. The ginger and black pepper hit come in slowly as a hint of warmth in the throat. The sugar from the crystallized ginger rather disguised the ginger kick at first, then it came forward.
It's a satisfying bar.
The final bar is the Equal Exchange Organic Dark Chocolate with Coconut 60%. Like the Raspberry bar, this one has a thin silver foil wrapping.
It is also 60% cacao content and contains only one additional ingredient to the chocolate, the organic coconut flakes.
This bar reminded me most of Passover, which I've often thought of as Macaroon Season, as coconut macaroons (often dipped in chocolate) are a typical treat since they can be made without only coconut, chocolate, egg whites and sugar to follow the Kosher for Passover rules.
The bar has a lot of coconut in it, and the silky chocolate goes well with it. There are cherry and raisin notes to go with the more tropical scent of the coconut and hints of the Madagascar vanilla bean.
The exciting development this year for Equal Exchange is their new designation of their dark chocolates as Kosher for Passover. Equal Exchange chocolates that are marked pareve (the 3.5 oz or 100 g line and dark chocolate minis) may be purchased before Passover and consumed on Passover according to Rabbi Aaron Alexander, Associate Dean, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies at the American Jewish University. The specific bars from Equal Exchange that qualify for this designation are: Organic Chocolate Espresso Bean Bar, Organic Dark Chocolate with Almonds Bar, Organic Ecuador Dark Chocolate Bar, Organic Mint with a Delicate Crunch Bar, Organic Orange Dark Chocolate Bar, Organic Panama Extra Dark Chocolate Bar, Organic Very Dark Chocolate Bar, Organic Lemon Ginger with Black Pepper, Organic Dark Chocolate Minis.
It's interesting that before this, there were no certified fair trade chocolates that were designated Kosher for Passover. Which is odd, because Passover is all about the commemoration of Jewish liberation from slavery in Egypt. The best news is that these are tasty and come in a pretty wide variety of flavor options.
CNN has been covering modern day slavery, including in the cocoa trade in a series of articles, segments and documentaries.
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Friday, April 4, 2014
Equal Exchange Milk and Dark Chocolate Foil Eggs
Equal Exchange is cooperative that sells products with fair trade ingredients and/or labor. Many of these are products where the farmers that grow them live in poverty, lack educational opportunities. Things like coffee, tea, bananas and of course, cocoa. These are all grown in tropical regions and depend on a high degree of manual labor. With the chocolate industry, there's the added issue of slavery of hundreds of thousands of children on farms, mostly in Western Africa.
Equal Exchange also makes its own chocolate, which uses fair trade certified ingredients, not just ethically sourced cocoa. The result isn't charity, these are real, sustainable products that you can buy at a fair price that are actually good quality as well.
They've been making chocolate for a while, but only more recently has it become more mainstream ... and now they have holiday packaged foil-wrapped eggs.
Equal Exchange Milk Chocolate Foil Eggs are 41% cacao, which is as dark as some semisweet chocolate sold these days. The ingredients sound delicious: cacao butter, whole milk powder, cane sugar, chocolate liquor, unrefined white cane sugar, ground hazelnuts and vanilla. The ingredients are also fair trade (except for the hazelnuts and milk) and all organic. There's no soy, no lecithin, no other fillers.
The melt is smooth and creamy. It's not at all grainy but very fatty and thick on the tongue. The flavor is interesting and not something I initially liked. It's deep and not terribly sweet. The milk flavors are definitely more on the powdered milk, flirting with the cheesy side. But the roasted flavors of the hazelnuts balances that. The chocolate itself is woodsy with a sort of green banana note to it. It sounds weird.
I can't stop eating these. I actually did stop, when I ran out. Then I realized they also sent this to me:
Yes, that's over a pound and a half of mini milk chocolate bars. In a handy dispenser box. I have it on my desk, like it's dispensing tissues during allergy season.
The Equal Exchange Dark Chocolate Foil Eggs are also quite rich. They feature the same high fat, though in this case there are no nuts and no dairy at all. The 55% cacao content is rounded out only with sugar and vanilla beans. Like the Milk Chocolate, it's all organic, but in this case it's also all fair trade certified. There's no soy in there, no GMOs though there may be traces of milk, peanuts, cashews, almonds, hazelnuts, pistachios and/or pecans. Though it doesn't say on the ingredients, they should be gluten free. Finally, they're vegan. While there's not a lot in there, there are a lot of folks these could satisfy. ]
The 55% cacao content makes these quite mild. They smell woodsy, with a light cherry note. The chocolate has a good, silky melt with a light dry finish to it. The flavor profile is all over the map. I taste coffee, cherries, figs and bananas and sometimes even a hint of malt ... though that could have been its storage adjacent to my milk chocolate pieces. There's a light bitterness in there, nothing too difficult to conquer, but might be enough to keep children away.
You could put these in front of anyone without any information about the origins or disposition and they'd never know that this is more transparently source, ethically accountable stuff. It's just tasty. As you can tell, I preferred the milk chocolate version, but the dark is a wonderful middle of the road chocolate that's not too dark for wide appeal.
The only hesitations for most folks will be where to find them and how much you pay. Equal Exchange has them on their website for $6.99 per package, which is pretty steep compared to their very competitively priced bars. (For some reason foil wrapping just amps up the price of any chocolate, good quality or bad.) Some Whole Foods Markets and other natural product stores may carry them as well. The fall back is always the little mini-bars, which are also extremely cute and a bit better deal per ounce, but come in this 23.8 ounce box (yes, a pound a half) for $35.00 plus shipping. It's hard to compare that to R.M. Palmer (which isn't even real chocolate, let alone sustainably sourced), but Godiva or Lindt may be a good comparison on both price and ingredients.
On Monday I'll have a review of Kosher for Passover chocolates, also from Equal Exchange.
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
Original Beans Piura Porcelana and Esmeraldas Milk
Original Beans is a small chocolate company that starts with carefully selected, direct-purchased beans and makes them into single-origin bars. They take special care with all aspects of the sourcing, manufacturing and packaging, as their name might imply. The bars are not easy to find in the United States, but luckily a very good chocolate source has developed walking distance from my office, so you'll be seeing more of these interesting finds in the coming months and years.
The selection of bars from Original Beans is very small, but quite specific. I chose to review their Original Beans Piura Porcelana 75% as my first. You can read up on the Peruvian Porcelana beans on the Original Beans website and on other chocolate aficionado sites. The history of chocolate is fascinating and many people have become interested in the generic diversity of the trees and their distribution. The Porcelana beans, as a variety of Criollo, are characterized by their white color and distinctive flavor. They're quite rare and grown in a few small areas in South America, so single origin bars are not common and often limited editions.
The bar features all organic ingredients and is made only exclusively with white Criollo cacao from the Pirua River Valley in the Peruvian Andes. The cacao is 75% and the package says that it's a 22 hour conch. The ingredients list is simple and short: Direct-trade cacao beans, cacao butter, cane sugar. There's no soy and it's vegan and gluten free.
The tasting notes for the bar online are: Vibrant, luscious with kumquat, lime, apricot, raspberry flavours and notes of toasted pecan; wonderfully balanced acidity and lingering finish.
Though the beans are white, the chocolate is brown. The fermenting and roasting of the beans makes them indistinguishable at first glance from any other bean.
The bar is simply and beautifully molded. The segments have a great snap and neutral medium-brown color. The scent is mild, it has some smoky vanilla notes
The flavor is an interesting balance of acid like citrus and tannins, for the most part the flavors I got were black tea and roasted nuts. The texture was smooth and has and excellent melt and lack of grit. It still has a bit of a dry finish that's sharp from the tannins.
I loved this bar, this is the third one I've eaten, I bought the first two over the summer but found they weren't doing well in the heat so I ate them and waited for it to cool off to do a proper review. The flavor is not too intense but still very satisfying after three or four squares. The cocoa butter balanced out the clean but sweet sugar to make it very munchable for a high cacao bar.
The next bar I picked for review is Original Beans Esmeraldas Milk, which is a 42% cacao bar with a touch of fleur de sel. Like the dark bar, it's made with organic ingredients. From the photo above you can see that it's a dark looking bar for milk chocolate, but compared to many commercial milk chocolate bars, I'm inclined to call it a dark milk.
The beans for the Esmeraldas Milk is from the Esmeraldas Rain Forest of Ecuador. The conch is 16 hours, according to the package.
Original Beans is in The Netherlands, and the packaging is largely in Dutch (though the website also in English) while the chocolate is made in Switzerland.
The ingredients list is a little longer than the dark bar, but still short: direct trade cacao, sugar, cocoa butter, milk and sea salt. The tasting notes suggest: Exceptionally velvety with salted caramel, hints of summer red fruits and spice.
The Original Beans website has a feature where you input the batch code from your bar into their website that says:
Unfortunately that feature just takes you to the same page you could browse to based on the name of the chocolate bar. For true transparency and education, I kind of wanted specifics about the harvest that made my bar. What was that year like? Were there special issues that would distinguish that vintage from the previous year or the coming year? Or even just things like how many pounds of beans were harvested, how many bars were made in that batch.
The bar has a roasted, caramelized scent that has a bit of a cheese note to it, something a little more savory. The melt is great, it's soft and fudgy without feeling too sugary or sticky. The flavor has molasses notes, maybe even a little fennel but a lot of milk. The hint of salt does keep it from tasting too much like sugar, but it doesn't jump out. There's a sharpness to the bar, again, that powdered milk cheese-ness that doesn't quite satisfy me. I'm not a big fan of the powdered milk flavors in some milk chocolates; it's a personal preference, not an indication of quality.
I also tried the Bolivian Beni Wild Harvest bar, as I was a big fan of Lillie Belle's Wild Thing, also from wild beans, but found the 66% far too sweet for me.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:22 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Chocolate • Ethically Sourced • Organic • Single Origin • 8-Tasty • 9-Yummy • Switzerland •
Monday, October 15, 2012
Toblerone Crunchy Salted Almond
As a kid, a Toblerone bar was a special treat reserved for holidays, partly because they were expensive and partly because they were difficult to find year round. The bar was different from anything else on the market from the shape of the box and the exotic name to the interesting combination of flavors and textures.
The Toblerone company was bought from Jacob Suchard in 1990 by Kraft and is still made in Bern, Switzerland. The bars are much easier to find now, and easily located any time of the year. Their newest bar released in the United States is the Toblerone Crunchy Salted Almond and features Swiss milk chocolate with salted caramelized almonds and honey and almond nougat.
Rosa at ZOMG Candy gave the bar pretty high marks, so I was eager to find one in the wild. I spotted them at Walgreen's over the weekend, though not on sale. It's $2.99 for the 100 gram (3.5 ounce) bar, which is what I'd expect to pay for something from Kraft that's in their Green & Black's range of ethically sourced and all natural chocolate.
The serving size is 1/3 of the bar, and it would be nice if they just said how many peaks that is (there are 12 in the bar, so 4 is a serving). But I did like the packaging. The snug triangular box protects the bar, even though it's just in a thin foil wrapper inside. I liked the color and the bold, simple design. The nutrition panel, otherwise, is really easy to read.
The look of the bar is the same as the classic milk chocolate bar. Inside I expected to see more almonds, as they're both in the nougat bits and included as the salted pieces as well. The bar smells milky and sweet. The bite is soft and has a lot more crispy bits in it than I was accustomed to. The chocolate is fudgy and has a lot of milky flavors to it, mostly it holds together the inclusions. The nougat pieces are crispy ... unless they're a little bigger which may mean that they're a little tacky if chewed. The almonds are a little larger and have a nice, fresh crunch to them. As for the salt promised, I didn't really taste it. There's only 55 mg per serving, so it's not a liberal dose. Though I can't say that I perceived it, I will say that this bar seemed less sweet than the standard Toblerone. I actually prefer this to the Classic.
Kraft and Toblerone have scant information on the sourcing of their ingredients except to say that the chocolate is not Fair Trade on their website in the FAQ section and the the cocoa is sourced from around the world (well, at least it's Earth chocolate). The bars contain milk, soy, almonds and eggs plus are manufactured on shared equipment with other tree nuts.
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Thursday, March 29, 2012
Ovomaltine Chocolate Bar
Europeans have an appreciation for malt beverages. I'm not talking about beer, I mean malted milk. One of the most popular is Ovomaltine, which is sold as Ovaltine in the United States.
Of interest to Candy Blog readers though is the line of confections made by Wander, the Swiss company that makes Ovomaltine. I picked up this 100 gram (3.5 ounce) Ovomaltine Milk Chocolate Bar, called Schweizer Milkchschokolade mit Ovomaltine in Germany.
The front of the wrapper is bold and uncomplicated, just the familiar logo of the drink and some squares of chocolate.
The bar isn't really that attractive. The squares all bear the logo for the Ovomaltine, but the inclusion of the actual malted milk powder makes the surface of the chocolate bar itself a bit dusty looking. The segments are nicely sized and scored for easy breaking and sharing.
Ovaltine is not just a flavoring for milk, it's also supercharged with vitamins and minerals. The chocolate bar is no different, though it's not exactly the same as swallowing a couple of multivitams there are a few B vitamins and minerals in there.
The bar smells just like a jar or Chocolate Ovaltine. There's a light milky and malty note to it along with that scent of B Vitamins. I don't know what that smell is, but it reminds me of baby formula.
The bar is grainy, the flavors are bold, the malt is front and center. The milk chocolate is passable, it's smooth but barely gives a cocoa kick to the bar. There's a strange umami quality to the whole thing, it's not too sweet but still tastes like a treat. I would definitely eat this bar regularly if I could find it.
While in Amsterdam in January 2011, I also picked up this bar called Wander Ovolino, though I don't recall where (I think it was at Jamin). It was a little on the small side but very light. The center was a creamy, malty nougatine. I would have bought more but I never saw them at the stores again on my trip. It had more of a hazelnut note to it instead of the sort of multivitamin flavor that Ovaltine sometimes has.
If you want to know more about the origin of Ovaltine, here's a good article from Slate shortly after Nestle scooped up the rights to the powdered mix in the US. Also, Wikipedia explains why it's called Ovaltine in English speaking regions instead of Ovomaltine ... there was a typo on the trademark registration. More importantly, in France they have a version that's spreadable like Nutella or Speculoos. Please, someone send this to me!
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Tuesday, December 20, 2011
Organic Moo Milk Chocolate with Crisped Rice & Corn Flakes
I saw the Organic Moo Chocolate bars from Organic Children's Chocolate, LLC at Whole Foods. It's a line of chocolate just for kids with fun cereal inclusions like crisped rice, corn flakes, granola and graham crackers.
It's great to see some organic candy products that are formulated just for kids, because most of them seem to be just for adults, with mature palates. The packaging here is easy to read and appeals to youngsters with cartoon cows and simple formulations. It's really about time someone came up with an organic version of the Nestle Crunch bar.
But the big question becomes, why organic chocolate? Is it better than traditionally grown chocolate? Well, yes and no. Traditionally grown cocoa is fraught with pests, so most of the cacao grown is treated with a variety of inorganic pesticides. Because of the way the cacao beans are situation with a hard pod, and the fact that most treatments are on the canopy of the tree (not in the soil) means that very is absorbed or becomes a residue in finished chocolate. (For example spot tests in the UK have found very low levels of Lindane at less than .02 mg per kilogram in about 45% of chocolate tested.)
Chocolate is a very small part of our diet (about 12 pounds per person per year in the US), so that's a very small, very slowly ingested amount. But children are smaller and more susceptible to toxins, so it's understandable that many parents want to limit their exposure. There's also the fact that the farm workers who apply the stuff are exposed to it at much higher levels and are for more likely to suffer from side effects than we would be. So you have a choice now, organic chocolate is available. But how does it taste?
The Organic Moo Milk Chocolate with Rice Crisps bar is made with all organic ingredients, including organic crisped brown rice. Even the packaging is made from recycled paper.
The bars are big, 2.1 ounces for this one, and a lot of crisped rice there when I flipped it over.
The bar smells milky and sweet, but has a toasted sugar and malty cereal scent to it ... along with a kind of musty odor, a bit like hot cocoa but also slightly reminiscent of wet paper.
The texture is quite smooth, much smoother than Hershey's or Nestle. The milk flavors are strong and a little earthier, but that could be the malt of the crisped rice. It's sweet, much sweeter than other organic chocolates, as this is a chocolate for kids so it's a little less intense. The flavor reminds me of the Thompson's Organic I've had before. When I contacted Moo Chocolate to ask about the source of their organic chocolate, they wouldn't say except that it is Swiss.
The crisped rice are crunchy, but also not quite airy and light, as I think many of us might be accustomed to with Rice Krispies. It's quite satisfying to eat just half the bar (a little over one ounce). The sections (whimsically alternating between a cow and the Moo logo) are easy to break off and small hand friendly.
Overall, it's a great combination of textures, but the kind of goaty flavor of the chocolate is not to my liking, so I'd probably skip this entire brand line. However, kids are often less discriminating and the packaging here doesn't make this feel like it's "special", just that it's fun and tasty.
The Organic Moo Chocolate Milk Chocolate with Corn Flakes is also made with the same milk chocolate, though the bar weighs a little more at 2.7 ounces (I guess corn flakes are denser than crisped rice).
The ingredients are all organic, except for the sea salt. The package has a pleasing yellow color coding, which actually helped me make the natural assumption for corn.
This bar was not as amusing to look at as the Rice Crisps. The mold is generic, and only breaks into fourths instead of eighths. The breaks were messy, as the corn flakes were big and would keep the cleavage irregular. I didn't get as much of the musty taste in this bar as the Rice Crisps one, but it tasted much sweeter.
The corn flakes are thick and a little rustic. I didn't find them as light and crispy as the commercial brands though I'd probably love them in actual milk. I wanted to like this bar, because of my deep devotion to the Ritter Sport Knusperflakes (milk chocolate and corn flake bar), but the textures, chocolate flavor notes and ratios just weren't there. Plus it cost more than twice as much.
I did a little research about organic chocolate versus traditionally grown for this post. It's hard to find independent information on the subject, as most publishers of information freely available are biased one way or the other (usually in favor of selling their own product). This article was well researched with plenty of citations, if you want to read more on the subject. As far as my opinion, it would be good to reduce pesticide use through sustainable methods that both preserve the ecology of the plantations, are safe for the workers and the final consumers. For the latter folks though, chocolate is such a small part of our diets, there are far better places to spend your money to reduce pesticide residue exposures. I would advise prioritizing the "dirty dozen" and working from there.
If you're a parent looking for something a little more wholesome for your kid, the Moo Chocolate brand is well rounded and a good bet. Of course with all things organic you're going to pay more. Ultimately, I'd like to see Fair Trade go with that and maybe some diversity of package sizes (little one ounce bars are more appropriate for kids). A great stocking stuffer, they're available at Whole Foods and other stores that sell natural products.
They're Kosher and contain milk and soy. Also made in a facility that processes wheat, peanuts and tree nuts.
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We all know that just about anything can happen when Jerry Jones is running the war room on draft day. But there seems to be a pretty decent consensus forming that the Cowboys would prefer to trade out of the #9 spot. It isn't that there isn't anyone available. The problem is that the players that seem to fit best for the Cowboys will all be off the board by the time they pick or picking the next best on their draft board would be a reach at #9. So a trade down makes sense. Of course that is all assuming the Cowboys can find someone willing to make the move up in the draft.
With that said, I tend to agree with the draft gurus and predict a trade out of the #9 spot for the Cowboys. The Dolphins always seem to be willing to work with the Cowboys when it comes to trades. So a trade down to the #15 spot makes sense. The Cowboys could pick up a 2nd or 3rd round pick with the trade down and still get a top tier player at tackle which is what I think is the #1 priority for the team on draft day.
Anthony Castanzo from Boston College fits the Cowboys need on the offensive line perfectly. He has 54 games of starting experience for a big time division I program. He could step in immediately at right tackle if the Cowboys decide to unload Mark Colombo or he could start inside at guard for a season or two if the Cowboys think they can milk another season or two out of Colombo. Castanzo is a mauler in the running game and he could get the job done pass protecting on the right side. I'd like to see the Cowboys see if Colombo has anything left before cutting him loose but Colombo may not ever be the guy he was a few years ago after all of his knee injuries.
Now this is where I think the Cowboys will make a surprise move. While some might think the Cowboys will be content to sit back and wait for their 2nd round pick I think a trade down gives the Cowboys the ammunition they need to trade back into the latter part of the first round. And with the needs the Cowboys have it would make perfect sense to give up a pick to move back up to get another player who can make an immediate impact next season.
The Patriots are sitting at #28 and they love to trade down as much as Jerry Jones does. It would make perfect sense to get back into the late first round to get a defensive end since the defensive line is in a state of flux thanks to the delayed start to free agency. The Cowboys will have some options with this pick since so many defensive lineman are projected to go late in the first round. I don't have a specific player in mind here but you can count on one of the top defensive ends slipping a little more than the gurus are currently predicting. There are always a few surprise picks every year that allow some of the better players to slip down a few more picks that everyone originally thought. The Cowboys need to find a guy who can step in as an impact player at defensive end.
So my perfect world scenario has the Cowboys trading down to pick one of the top tackles (Castanzo) and then trading back into the latter part of the first round for a defensive end. Will it happen? Probably not, but I think it would be the best case scenario for the Cowboys. By addressing two of the top need positions so early in the draft the Cowboys could then get serious about getting a safety in the second round.


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Coming off a season that yielded a conference championship and a run to the quarterfinal round of the Nassau Class A playoffs, Sewanhaka entered the 2012-13 basketball season looking to continue to move up among the ranks of the elite teams in the county.
With some new personnel, and wearing the proverbial bull's eye on their back that comes with success, the Lady Indians have undergone some growing pains, but seem to be on the way to another solid season. After a 44-35 non-league win over Syosset last Friday, the Lady Indians are 6-4 overall, 4-1 in Conference A-II. Senior Shantell McCall scored eight points, pulled down 13 rebounds, and dished out six assists to lead the way.
Head coach Alex Soupios likes the direction his team is going. "It's taken some time for the girls to get used to playing with one another, but we're starting to hit our stride," Soupios said. "We have some girls who are starting for the first time, and others who are getting their first taste of varsity basketball. We haven't fired on all cylinders as of yet. It's a learning process. You never want to peak too early. I think we're coming together at the right time."
After dropping back-to-back contests to Floral Park and Division, both in heartbreaking fashion, the Lady Indians have won three straight games. In a 67-43 victory over Glen Cove, McCall had a game-high 19 points, and freshman forward Casey Hayes scored 15 points and pulled down 10 rebounds. Sophomore Michelle Niles added 14 points in the win.
Soupios is impressed with Niles. "Michelle is one of those girls who works incredibly hard, and plays year round," Soupios said. "She has stepped up considerably, and has become a terrific outside threat for us. She's a big part of the present and the future for us." Niles leads the team with 15 three-point baskets on the year, including four in the win over Glen Cove.
McCall, who leads the team with 12 points per game, has been a rock for Sewanhaka. A switch from guard to forward has not only enabled McCall to attack defenses from a different vantage point, it's allowed her to be a presence on the offensive boards, and to set up teammates for easy looks in the paint. Jenny Pechacek has come alive of late for the Lady Indians. The junior guard has scored 10 points in back-to-back games.
Soupios believes much of the credit for Sewanhaka's success should go to its feeder program, the St. Vincent de Paul CYO. "Nearly every girl on the team started out playing ball at St. Vincent," Soupios said. "Without the support of the local CYO program, there's no way that we would we having as much success as we've had. It's a very important part of our program's growth. I'm very fortunate and grateful to have a strong feeder program."
The Lady Indians host Great Neck North this Friday at 4:30 p.m.


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Today's post is for the groom out there who is preparing to marry a Yoruba bride and wondering: what are the list of things/ gifts a groom need to buy to take to the bride's family during the traditional marriage ceremony in Nigeria?, or what does the Yoruba bride price list look like? or even how much do I need to prepare for a Yoruba traditional marriage/ engagement?
So, to provide you the answers, I reached out to a Yoruba man to ask what and what he bought as part of the customary wedding list for his traditional engagement ceremony. I also confirmed from two newlywed Yoruba brides; I asked them about the list of things their grooms brought to their traditional Yoruba marriage ceremony. This post presents my findings – I hope it helps prepare your mind before you receive the traditional engagement list from your inlaws.Photo Credit: Obi Nwokedi, Nigerian Wedding Photographer
Yoruba Engagement List: See What Goes Inside (Guide for Budgeting)
- 1 Bible
- Engagement ring
- 1 box/ suitcase of clothes
- Umbrella
- Yams (42 big tubers)
- Palm Oil and Vegetable Oil (25 Litres)
- Honey (1 bottle)
- Kolanut (Obi in yoruba language; 25 pieces)
- Bitter kola (orogbo, in yoruba language)
- Alligator pepper (42 pieces; Atare, in yoruba language))
- Sugar cane
- Maize/ corn Cake (Aadun, in yoruba language)
- Fruits (different types)
- Rice (1 bag)
- She-Goat
- Yoruba Traditional Cloth (Aso- Oke)
For items below, the groom can bring as much as he can afford:
- Salt (1 bag)
- Bottled water
- Wine (1 bottle)
- Soft drinks
- Some cash for some traditional customary rites during the engagement ceremony: this includes the bride price, which I am told that is Five thousand Naira (N5,000) in most yoruba villages. The rest of the cash gifts, as I was told. Is about ten thousand Naira (N10,000) and is just a symbolic/ ceremonial thing and not about the money – N500 here and N1,000 there for things such as "owo isigba" (money to open the list of items that the groom brought), "owo ijoko iyawo" (money to bring in your bride), Owo Iya Gbo(money to seek the bride's mother's consent) , money to ask for her father's consent, money to unveil the bride etc. And the traditional MC (Alaga in yoruba language) makes it all very interesting by playfully 'making the groom pay' before they unveil the bride, get her parents consent and so on.
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How Yoruba Engagement List Varies Slightly From Place to Place
When cow is part of the list: On how the basic engagement list varies slightly across different Yoruba towns and villages, one of our readers (Seun) added that "Some in-laws ask for specific gifts/ contributions towards the traditional wedding reception catering, to support feeding of guests". Seun continues: "Typical additional items include a cow, a bag of rice, a keg of palm-wine and vegetable oil. The reason for these is to have the groom share in the catering bill at the traditional engagement or reception, so that as the groom provides the cow to be used (for meat), the in-laws would provide the remaining catering/ food items".
Is cash accepted as an alternative for missing Yoruba engagement list items: I also reached out to ask an old Yoruba woman (a grandmother/ mama) about the typical yoruba traditional engagement list – she told me that some items can be done in cash, meaning that the groom may be allowed to put down a cash value for an item in place of bringing the item.
It's in bad taste for a groom to go empty handed: The mama says that it is not good for the groom to visit his in-laws empty-handed – he is expected to bring all or some of the items and confirm from the bride's family if he could bring cash in place of specific items in the list.
The grandma also told me that there may be a slight variation across different Yoruba villages, in what makes up the traditional engagement list, but that many of the items are the same all over.
By the way, you need to plan for how many guests to invite to your engagement ceremony. That depends on whether you want the event to be low key or over-the-top. You also need to consider how much space you have at the venue where the traditional marriage will take place. Just so you get an idea, most couples invite only a handful of their friends and the rest are close family members.
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Budgeting for a Yoruba Bride Price and Traditional Engagement
Now, for our dear grooms, if you're in the middle of going to see your bride's Yoruba family, now you have an idea of how much a Yoruba engagement ceremony would cost you to. It's important to get the bride price and your traditional marriage settled as soon as possible before your white wedding; although we are seeing more grooms doing this on the same day as their white wedding or a few days or weeks apart, the choice is yours.
ALSO: How to make a budget for a Nigerian marriage ceremony
And if you've already done your engagement ceremony, is there anything in the list above that was different from your own list? Or were there other items you bought that are not listed above? Also, I'd love to hear what the engagement list is like for other Nigerian tribes – from newlywed brides, grooms, as well as those who already completed their trad engagement ceremonies. Let's hear it in the comments section below.


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