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If you have never suffered from low back pain, consider yourself one of the fortunate few. Back pain is a common reason for Americans under the age of 45 to limit their activity. It is also a common reason for visits to the doctor and for surgery. There is some good news, though. Most people recover from an acute episode in a few days or weeks without much disruption to daily activities or medical treatment. For others however, low back pain becomes a chronic or recurrent condition, often resulting in considerable social and occupational disability.
Many factors contribute to low back pain, such as inadequate fitness, heavy lifting, and poor posture. But our evolutionary history is to blame for our susceptibility to this pain. At some point in the distant past, some of our ancestors decided to stand on two feet, presumably so their hands would be free to fashion tools and use them efficiently. While their reasons were good, going vertical was not without its drawbacks.
Walking around on all fours distributes the force of gravity evenly over the length of the spine. Standing up, however, concentrates this force in one location—the lumbosacral region, just north of the buttocks. Our vulnerability to low back pain is the price we pay for bipedal locomotion.
Several factors can contribute to persistent back pain:
Most cases of chronic back pain are idiopathic, meaning they have no clear explanation. Without a known cause, treatment is very difficult and often unsuccessful. This leads many people to alternative therapies. Below are among the most commonly used alternative therapies to treat chronic low back pain:
There is some evidence that, at least in the short-term, each of these therapies may be effective at alleviating discomfort, improving function, and/or enhancing a sense of well-being. However, it is unclear if any one of these therapies is superior to the others or to physical therapy, the standard conventional treatment. Furthermore, it is unclear that any of these approaches provides more than short-term benefit.
So, what then is the best treatment for chronic low back pain?
According to evidence, what seems to matter is not which one, but how
treatments you use.
In other words, interventions that address not only the physical aspects of the pain, but also its psychological, social, and occupational influences seem to be the most effective. An effective rehabilitation program may encompass:
This combination of therapies makes a lot of sense. It is well known that an enormously complex range of factors, affecting many aspects of life, contribute to our experience of chronic pain. It is hard to imagine, then, that any single intervention—alternative or conventional—could succeed. An alternative therapy therefore, should be part of a multi-dimensional treatment strategy.
Chronic back pain can affect your ability to keep up with your normal activities. These treatments will help you slowly increase your activity level until over time.
If you suffer from idiopathic chronic pain anywhere in your body consider the following steps:
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Of Muppets and Men is a 52 minute documentary produced during the fifth season of The Muppet Show. It was syndicated in 1981.
The documentary features appearances by Muppet Show performers Jim Henson, Frank Oz, Dave Goelz, Louise Gold, Richard Hunt, Jerry Nelson, Kathryn Mullen, Steve Whitmire, Brian Muehl and Betsy Baytos; writers Jerry Juhl, Don Hinkley, David Odell, and Chris Langham; director Peter Harris; producer David Lazer; and guest stars Roger Moore and Raquel Welch.
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Because of lack of promotion tourist areas on the island of Java to become International Destination in Indonesia area is very unfortunate. Because we know so much history on the island of Java, even perhaps the biggest part of Indonesian history in the island of Java. So many places and potential that can be used as tourist attractions on the island of Java Indonesia. Like an art gallery Javanese dance in Indonesia is also one of cultural tourism on the island of Java. Place where traditional foods are typically used for local foods in Indonesia can also be used as an international destination that is an culinary tourism of the island of Java, Indonesia , place of calligraphy production Batik art that we usually see in Indonesian can also be used as an international destination for tourism cultural and arts in Indonesia. Historic heritage of the ancient kingdoms that existed in Indonesia can be a tourism history. If all of that we can promote with marketing professionals, it will be many tourists who come to the island of Java and see the wealth of the island of Java. That way it will increase International Destination of the island of Java in Indonesia, so that Java can be a International Destination as the resorts on the island of Java in Indonesia, as we expected.
Let's say one of the areas in East Java that has the potential to become Indonesia Java International Destination is the National Park Bromo-Semeru.
This national park is one of the main tourist destination in East Java. With direct flights and Malang-Jakarta-Denpasar Malang expected number of visits of foreign and domestic tourists will increase. Instead Mount Bromo which is the main attraction, Mount Semeru which is the highest mountain on the island Java the main attraction for hikers. Yet to get to the top of Semeru is not as easy to climb Mount Bromo and the climbers are required to get permission from the national park management office is located in Malang.
Hiking enthusiasts are advised to take the route from Malang to be able to enjoy the beauty of the sand sea longer. Start points can be started from Ngadas which is the last village in the area of national parks and places to complete the supplies, especially water supply because after this will not be found source of water.
This tourist resort promises a beauty you can not find elsewhere. From the top of the volcano is still active, you can enjoy the wide expanse of ocean sand 10km square, and witnessed the grandeur of towering mountain Semeru through clouds. You can also look beautiful sun went out of the dusk
Let's see one of the areas in East Java that has the potential to become Indonesia Java International Destination is the National Park Bromo-Semeru.
In addition to witnessing the beauty of the panorama offered by the Bromo-Semeru as a tourist destination on the island of Java Indonesia, if you come at the right time, then you can see Kesodo ceremony, which was held by Tengger society. This ceremony usually starts at midnight until the early hours of each full moon around the 14th or 15th of the month Kesodo [the ten] according to the Javanese calendar. Kesodo ceremony is a ceremony to plead for an abundant harvest or reject requested reinforcements and healing of various diseases, in particular by offerings with tossed into the crater of Mount Bromo. When the procession took place, other Tengger people trooped down the cliff crater and offerings that were thrown into the crater, as a symbol of blessing from the Almighty.
See the other video one of the areas in East Java that has the potential to become Indonesia Java International Destination is the National Park Bromo-Semeru.
Why national park Bromo-Semeru will become Indonesia Java International Destination, because national park Bromo-Semeru have some locations / attractions to be visited:
- Cemorolawang. One of the entrance to the national park is often visited to see from a distance expanse of sand and sea Bromo crater, and camping.
- Sand Sea and Mount Bromo Tengger. Riding and hiking through the steps Bromo and see the sun rise.
- Pananjakan. Seeing the mountain landscape Bromo, Mount Batok and Mount Semeru.
- Ranu Pani, Ranu Regulo, Ranu Kumbolo and the Peak of Mount Semeru. These lakes are very cold and always foggy (± 2200 m asl) is often used as a transit climbers of Mount Semeru (3676 m asl).
- Ranu Darungan. Camping, observing animals / plants and a charming natural scenery.


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Uncle Verne was cagey about this one. He's seen a lot of sports history—more than 50 years of it—and he was understandably wary about trying to contextualize an amazing Alabama-Auburn game just two days later. But Newsday's Neil Best tried to pin him down: what's the greatest sporting event he's ever worked?
At first, Lundquist slotted it second, alongside the Duke-Kentucky Elite Eight game in 1992, but behind Jack Nicklaus winning the Masters in 1986 at age 46.
"I'm a stubborn old goat, so I said, 'It ties for No. 2 with [Christian] Laettner's shot [for Duke over Kentucky in the 1992 NCAA Tournament], but behind Jack,'" he said.
But, given a chance to reconsider, Verne bumps the Iron Bowl up.
"Then the more I thought about it, from start to finish, this one was really something else," he said.
"For 27 years, having experienced Nicklaus winning at Augusta in '86, I have been consistent and I've always said that that was the single greatest sporting event I've ever seen.
"This one is right up there equal to it. And that takes into consideration a lot of different events that I've been lucky enough to be a part of. From start to finish, especially the finish, this was an extraordinary afternoon and evening."
There you have it. We all knew that was one hell of a football game. Now, with Verne's stamp of approval, we can call it historically great.


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ProTraining needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 48 designs submitted by 12 freelance designers.
We are developing a site called TotalSafety.ca. The site will allow Canadian businesses to deliver Safety training Online.
2nd Place: Because we appreciate the work you do (and really wish we could award prizes to all of the designers who put in their time and energy) we will award $100 to the second place entry as well.
This site has two distinct markets to target:
- Companies who oversee the safety training of their employees. This group will need a corporate login area. The key feature for this group is that they can track and keep permanent records of their employees' training progress and test scores.
- Individuals who need to get safety certified. The highlight for this group will be that they will receive a certificate as proof of their training completion.The content that we need on the page is ready and waiting at TotalSafety.ca. This site has not been launched yet and the information was dumped on the page for the web design contest purposes.
Our T2 Platform training application allows nearly full customization of this page. The page must be made up of three elements: a Header Graphic, a menu bar, and the Body.
- You can see samples of our other websites on our platform at http://www.protraining.com ---> Customer Showcase
- The logo is on the TotalSafety.ca site. The color scheme has not been determined for the site, but should complement the logo colors.
- Preferably CLEAN / uncluttered look
- Header must be 770 x pixels wide (no height restrictions). The header that is currently on TotalSafety.ca is something that was thrown on and does not necessarily represent what we are looking for in the finished product.
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Every now and then I'm asked what my favorite Chevys are. Well, since 1960 I've seen my share and my faves would easily number in the tens of thousands. I love Chevys!
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Google Aims to Defrag Android Universe
Jul 1, 2014 10:27 AM PT
As any Android user knows, the version of the operating system you're using can vary widely because it depends on parties other than Google. That's why nearly two-thirds of users are running a version of Android introduced in 2012 or earlier.
With Android making the leap to wearables and the Internet of Things (IoT), however, Google is aiming to make that kind of fragmentation of its mobile operating system a thing of the past. It plans to limit what a hardware maker can do to the Android interface and control updates to the operating system.
"I think Google has discovered that an open operating system is nice to get a lot of units deployed, but it doesn't necessarily provide a consistent user experience," Yankee Group Vice President Carl Howe told TechNewsWorld.
"They could have chosen to exercise more control when they started," he added. "They chose not to. If they had, they might not have gotten the rate of adoption they got."
Google did not respond to our request to comment for this story.
Bold Move
The move toward greater control over Android in wearables, autos and TVs makes sense, said Ross Rubin, principal analyst with Reticle Research.
With smartphones, people typically are wedded to one device, but a person may have multiple watches and TVs.
"Google wants to enforce more consistency across different devices from different brands, which is less important in the smartphone market," Rubin told TechNewsWorld.
"It's also an opportunity for Google to address industry criticism about difficulties in upgrading to new versions of Android," he added.
Times have changed since Google was an upstart in a market dominated by Apple.
"Google may feel emboldened to do this at this point, because it feels the polish and functionality of its user interface is such that it can deliver a good, consistent user experience in these products," Rubin said.
If what Google is doing on the IoT side of Android catches on among consumers, it could influence the smartphone side of the operating system as well.
"If initiatives like TVs and smartwatches take off, consumers will want more consistency between those products and their phones, so Google will have more negotiating leverage to insist on cleaner software interfaces from their phone partners."
Getting Ahead of the Curve
Choosing to exercise control over Android now, as it enters the IoT market, as opposed to later is a smart move, contended Marc Rogers, a principal security researcher at Lookout Mobile Security.
"Instead of trying to tackle fragmentation after the fact, as they did with the smartphone industry, they're trying to get ahead of it and trying to prevent fragmentation from happening with things," Rogers told TechNewsWorld.
"We have millions of smartphones, and we're anticipating 10 billion things," he continued. "You can imagine the scale of the problem with an exponential increase in manufacturers all modifying Google's code."
Google's tightening the reins on Android for things will reduce the kind of variety found in the smartphone market, but that's not necessarily a bad thing, he noted.
"From a security perspective, less variability and predictability is a good thing," Rogers said. "The less manufacturers have to tweak and code themselves, the less of a headache Google has managing security."
Security Problems
Fragmentation often is viewed as a contributor to Android's security problems.
"When a vulnerability is discovered, the ability to get a patch or move to the latest upgrade isn't in the hands of Google; it's in the hands of the hardware vendor," noted Michael Sutton, vice president of security research at Zscaler.
"We've seen many situations over time where some vulnerability is discovered, and end users end up waiting for -- or in some cases never get -- a patch that they need, because it has to be blessed by the hardware vendor," he told TechNewsWorld.
By the same token, as Google improves the security of Android over time, many users can't take advantage of those advances because they're not allowed to upgrade their versions of the OS.
"If you can't upgrade to that latest edition, you can't benefit from those improvements," Sutton said.
Reducing or even eliminating fragmentation won't end Android's security problems, however.
"I still consider Android less secure than other operating systems -- even if it's the latest version," NSS Labs Practice Manager Chris Morales told TechNewsWorld.
"There tend to be more flaws with Android than in Windows Phone or iOS," he said.
"I don't know, though, if that's because it's targeted more often or it actually has more issues," he added. "A lot of times more flaws are found because a platform has lots of users."


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Thanksgiving is a time to be grateful, to be with family and friends and to enjoy good food.
A Vanderbilt dietitian says that making sure the food you serve is prepared and stored properly can ensure that everyone has a safe and healthy experience.
"Nobody is thankful about food that ends up making them sick," says Vanderbilt University Medical Center dietitian and certified personal trainer Jessica Bennett. "But with some simple steps, foodborne illness can be kept away from the Thanksgiving table."
10 Tips for Safe Thanksgiving Meals
1. Turkey should be thawed properly in the refrigerator, 24 hours for every five pounds. Don't thaw the turkey on the counter or outdoors, and avoid placing it where juices could drip on other foods.
2. It is safer to cook stuffing in its own dish outside of the turkey. If you are going to use it to stuff the turkey, make sure it is heated to at least 165 degrees F.
3. In general, all raw meats should be kept separated from foods that are not cooked, such as raw fruits and vegetables, and all fruits and vegetables should be washed with cool water.
4. Use a dedicated cutting board for meats to avoid cross contamination, and be sure to wash utensils and cutting boards well.
5. Wash hands before and after handling food to avoid cross contamination. Make sure any kitchen helpers wash their hands too.
6. Before serving, keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold.
7. Store leftovers within two hours. Stay away from the temperature danger zone: Bacteria grow quickly between 40 and 140 degrees F.
8. If traveling, also remember to keep foods outside the temperature danger zone. Don't overload coolers, and make sure ice is around the food.
9. When you arrive at your destination, be sure to reheat food to 165 degrees F. before serving. That also goes for leftovers at home.
10. Eat leftovers within 3-4 days, and reheat them to at least 165 degrees F. When in doubt throw it out. Smelling food does not determine safety because spoiled food doesn't always smell bad.
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Federal judge in Indiana strikes down marriage ban
June 25, 2014
Today, June 25, 2014, U.S. District Judge Richard L. Young ruled in favor of the freedom to marry, striking down Indiana's ban on marriage for same-sex couples and becoming the latest judge in an amazing year of victories for marriage in every corner of the country. The ruling is the 21st consecutive victory in state and federal court for the freedom to marry since the U.S. Supreme Court's ruling in Windsor v. United States in June 2013. The ruling is the 17th win in federal court for marriage since June and comes just one day before the landmark first anniversary of the Windsor ruling.
The decision was issued in Baskin v. Bogan, a federal marriage case brought by Lambda Legal. Previously, Judge Young granted emergency relief for one same-sex couple by respecting their marriage.
Judge Young wrote in the ruling:
The court has never witnessed a phenomenon throughout the federal court system as is presented with this issue. In less than a year, every federal district court to consider the issue has reached the same conclusion in thoughtful and thorough opinions – laws prohibiting the celebration and recognition of same-sex marriages are unconstitutional. It is clear that the fundamental right to marry shall not be deprived to some individuals based solely on the person they choose to love. In time, Americans will look at the marriage of couples such as Plaintiffs, and refer to it simply as a marriage – not a same-sex marriage. These couples, when gender and sexual orientation are taken away, are in all respects like the family down the street. The Constitution demands that we treat them as such.
Freedom to Marry is a founding and leading partner in Hoosiers Unite for Marriage and celebrates this momentous day in the Hoosier State.
Judges have struck down marriage bans now in 9 states in the past few months: Utah, Oklahoma, Virginia, Texas, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Idaho, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin, and now Indiana. More limited decisions in favor of the freedom to marry have been handed down in Kentucky, Indiana, Tennessee, and Ohio.
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The wreckage of a Twin Otter aircraft missing for several days in Antarctica was found late Friday night and the three-member Canadian crew is believed to be dead.
Two helicopters dispatched by the Rescue Coordination Centre in New Zealand — it was early Saturday evening local time — confirmed earlier sightings of the wreckage of the craft operated by Kenn Borek Air of Calgary on a steep slope near the summit of Mount Elizabeth.
Officials with the centre said the impact appears to have been direct and would not have been survivable.
The next of kin of the three men have been informed.
The pilot has been identified by friends as Bob Heath of Inuvik while media reports have identified a second crew member as Mike Denton, a newlywed from Calgary whose photographs of planes appear on the Kenn Borek website.
The third crew member had not yet been identified.
Rescue mission coordinator Tracy Brickles said it was very sad end to the operation.
"It has been difficult operation in challenging conditions but we remained hopeful of a positive result," she said. "Our thoughts are now with the families of the crewmen."
The plane took off last Wednesday from the South Pole, headed to an Italian base in Antarctica's Terra Nova Bay, but it never arrived.
An emergency locator beacon was detected coming from the north end of Antarctica's Queen Alexandra range — about halfway between the South Pole and McMurdo Station, a U.S. research centre.
New Zealand search and rescue teams were hampered by bad weather over the next couple of days — snow, bitter cold, high winds and low cloud cover made it impossible for planes passing over the site to see anything.
Then, the locator signal stopped. Officials said that wasn't unusual, as the battery life of the device is not long, but the information they had gleaned allowed them to pinpoint the plane's coordinates.
On Friday, a break in the weather allowed rescuers to set up a forward base at Beardmore Glacier, about 50 kilometres from the crash site, where there is a landing strip and a fuel depot.
Working in their favour was the fact that at this time of year, nearly 24-hour daylight allowed for longer search hours.
Helicopters and other planes were called in to bring supplies and aid in the search.
A statement on the Kenn Borek Air website said visual contact with the wreckage was first made by a C-130 Hercules aircraft of the New York Air National Guard, and the sighting was later confirmed by another Twin Otter deployed by the airline.
"Every rescue mission, you hope for the best," said Pania Shingleton, a spokeswoman for the rescue centre.
"Even yesterday we were hopeful because they were pretty well equipped and they knew what to do in a tough environment."
Indeed, those who knew Heath said if anyone would know how to survive such a crash, it would be the highly experienced pilot.
"He's a bit of a living legend up (North)," friend and fellow pilot Sebastien Seykora said earlier this week.
"He's been flying down there for at least a decade. If somebody had a question about how to do things, especially about going down there, he would be the guy they would ask."
Heath had logged thousands of hours teaching young flyers in regions from the Maritimes to northern Ontario, said Roger Townsend, who was a co-pilot with Heath out of Red Lake, Ont.
His Twin Otter was well-equipped with survival equipment, including mountain tents and supplies which could have lasted five days.
What will happen next was not immediately clear.
According to the Kenn Borek statement, if weather conditions are favourable, helicopter crews and mountain rescue personnel will attempt to access the crash site on Saturday morning.
Shingleton said no decisions had yet been made on any recovery mission.
"There are obviously things that still need to be decided. We're just determining those between New Zealand and the U.S. McMurdo base and others," she said.
Kenn Borek Air has been in operation since 1970. According to the company's website, 14 aircraft participated in its 2012 Antarctic season.
The company, which is also a fixture in Canada's North, has been sending planes to Antarctica for the past 28 years.
In 2001, its pilots and planes were involved in the daring rescue of an ailing American doctor from the Amundsen-Scott South Pole Station.
In 2009, the company was commissioned to recover an aircraft that had been involved in an accident nearly a year earlier. A 12-person Kenn Borek recovery crew spent 25 days at a remote field camp on the eastern side of the Antarctic Plateau to carry out the operation.


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Rodeo association rules upheld at trial
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A crash landing leaves Kitai Raige (Jaden Smith) and his legendary father Cypher (Will Smith) stranded on Earth, 1,000 years after cataclysmic events forced humanity's escape. With Cypher injured, Kitai must embark on a treacherous journey to signal for help. They must learn to work together and trust each other, if they want any chance of returning home.
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Amber Riley breaks down in tears as she opens up about body image.
Glee star Amber Riley, who plays the confident Mercedes on the Fox hit, broke down in tears as she admitted her struggles with her body image as a Hollywood actress.
In an honest and moving interview for the MTV series This Is How I Made It, the actress, who is currently making her Broadway debut in Cotton Club Parade revealed how the pressure to be thin has taken its toll.
The 26-year-old, size 16, actress said: 'Hollywood is a very hard place to be in. It really is. Being the person I am, you know, the size I am, being a woman, being a black woman, there's not a lot of roles for us.
'After I did St Sass, I kept on auditioning. I was being offered the girl who sits in the corner and eats all day, the girl who committed suicide because she was fat,' she continued.
'I never wanted to play a character that hated herself. I wanted people to know that those aren't the only roles for people like me, normal girls.'
It took 14 years of battling with her body image for Miss Riley to finally get her dream yes.
'Going to the auditions and having the casting director say you need to loose a little weight, I didn't understand why people couldn't accept me for who I was. And the rejection started wearing on my self-esteem,' she said.
'I'm not going to conform, and hurt myself, and do something crazy to be a size 2,' she explained.
'My parents always instilled knowing that your beautiful, that your fearfully and wonderfully made, and that you know who you are.'
Even so, the slightly-unsure-of-herself five-foot-two-inch star went through multiple weight fluctuations while growing up in La Mirada, California.
Ultimately, however, she said: 'I'm a healthy person. have great friends around me that are positive.
'That's the key to life, is make your own path, set your own rules. There is no set rule, no set look, no set anything, you make your own rules in life, and your own decisions.'
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Theories, both crazy and plausible, abound on Malaysian plane's disappearance
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Since Malaysian Airlines Flight 370's disappearance, plenty of experts have come forward to give their opinion on what happened.
Oil slicks, missing data from flight simulations and stolen passports have created plenty of fodder for analysts and conspiracy theorists.
Some of the theories tackle terror scenarios, mechanical problems and possible espionage. Other theories, far less sensitive to the plight of the plane's 239 passengers and crew, have covered extraterrestrials, celebrity conspiracies and "invisible jets."
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Game Boy Advance Titles Hitting Wii U Virtual Console
The Wii U's Virtual Console will start having Game Boy Advance games added to its library, starting this April.
In Japan, the first wave of GBA titles that are due for the Wii U Virtual Console are Super Mario World: Super Mario Advance 2, WarioWare, Golden Sun, F-Zero and Advance Wars. The second set of GBA games billed for the Wii U are The Legend of Zelda: Minish Cap, Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Mario Tennis Advance and Metroid Fusion. Given that all of these GBA titles have all had North American releases, we can assume a similar line up.
Unfortunately, these Game Boy Advance games are only being ported to the Wii U's Virtual Console and not the logical choice of the Nintendo 3DS. The 3DS' ambassador program showed that Nintendo does have the capability to port GBA games to their new handheld, but like the Super Nintendo library, Nintendo has yet to move on trying to expand the 3DS' retro, Virtual Console library to anything beyond the 8-bit era.


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Someone pick up my jaw, I'm stunned. In a totally unexpected move Steve Jobs posted a personal letter to customers delivering a peace offering to angry iPhone users upset over yesterdays dramatic price cut. Jobs goes on to reiterate his stance that price cuts come with the territory of being an ealry adopter, but also concedes that we are the pioneers that propelled iPhone on the road to success.
In short he's rewarding our loyalty by offering a $100 coupon good towards the purchase of any new Apple product, redeemable at any Apple Store, for iPhone users not covered under a 14-day rebate, regardless of whether their iPhone was purchased at an AT&T or Apple Store. You can read Steve's open letter here. A method for claiming your coupon will be available on Apple's website next week.
That my friends is class. As the saying goes...always dance with the one that brung you, and he did. Way to go Steve.


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Rapper Freddie Gibbs got his stash by airport security… kind of.
The baggage screeners at the Denver airport found a half ounce of weed in his luggage and scribbled him the words "C'mon son" on the screening notice.
Gibbs tweeted a photo:
"The TSA found my weed and let me keep it," he wrote. "They just left me a note. 'C'mon Son.'"
Houston rapper Bun B, who's collaborated with Freddie Gibbs in the past, replied on Twitter, "easy…"
A gangster rapper, Gibbs hasn't really hidden his smoking habit. He talks about drug-dealing in his lyrics and gets high before shows.
"I definitely smoke weed, pray, and just rap to myself and pace around. Just get in the mode for the show," he told NPR. "What's the last thing I do before I go onstage? Smoke weed."
Sharing the note on Twitter, though, may mean some lenient TSA employee gets fired, which happened in a case earlier this year where a screener left a freaky note for a woman who had a vibrator in her bag.
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Here's everything we know so far about both iPhones:
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Bigger, beautiful screens
The smaller iPhone 6 features a 4.7-inch screen with a pixel resolution of 1334 x 750, which amounts to 366 pixels per inch. The entire phone measures just 6.9-millimeters thick. Meanwhile, the iPhone 6 Plus has a 5.5-inch screen with a 1920 x 1080 pixel resolution and measures just 7.1-millimeters thick. Both models feature the super thin design we saw in leaked images before the event. The power button has been moved to the side for easier access one-handed on the two larger iPhones.
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Faster, 64-bit A8 processor and M8 coprocessor
The iPhone 6 is powered by a 64-bit A8 processor, which is 25 percent faster than the A7. The A8 offers 50 percent faster graphics performance and is 50 percent more energy efficient than previous iPhones. Apple also added the updated M8 motion coprocessor to the iPhone 6, which pairs well with fitness apps. The M8 can even tell the difference between cycling, running, and other activities to better gauge your performance. It calculates distance and elevation, using a barometer.
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Long battery life, VoLTE, and iOS 8
Apple says that the iPhone 6 can last up to 14 hours of 3G talk time, while the iPhone 6 Plus can last for 24 hours of 3G talk time. The iPhone 6 supports 20 LTE bands and supports VoLTE. Users can also make calls over Wi-Fi on select carriers' networks, including T-Mobile. Of course, both iPhone 6 models will run iOS 8, which will be available for download on September 17 for all iOS users with compatible devices.
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Apple Pay mobile wallet
Apple introduced its new mobile payments app, called Apple Pay alongside the iPhone 6. The system works anywhere that mobile payments are already accepted, but Apple's also worked closely with retailers to bring Apple Pay everywhere. Starbucks, Uber, Panera Bread, Sephora, Walgreens, Disney, Whole Foods, and more will accept Apple Pay. Apple Pay works with Visa, Mastercard, and American Express accounts. It will be available in October.
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Sharper camera with better autofocus
Apple also gave the iPhone 6 camera a huge boost. On the back of the device is an 8-megapixel camera with a true-tone flash, 1.5 micron pixels, and a f/2.2 aperture (Apple claims the new camera captures 81 percent more light). The camera also has a new iSight sensor with a new Focus Pixels system, which allows for phase-detection autofocusing that is twice as fast as it was before. With the Focus Pixels' phase detection, autofocus is achieved by, as Apple says, using dedicated pairs of focus pixels that read the light coming from objects; the lens moves in and out of phase to determine autofocus. Apple says this is considered faster and more accurate than what was used before, and is found in high-end DSLRs.
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The iPhone 6 has digital image stabilization, while the iPhone 6 Plus has optical image stabilization (OIS), which is generally accepted as "real" image stabilization (the camera stabilizes a photo by compensating with lens movement, not through software manipulation); image stabilization is also available in movie mode. Both of the iPhones cameras can record video at 1080p at 30 or 60 frames per second. There's also a Slo-Mo mode that can record at 240 fps. Panoramas can now be shot at up to 43 megapixels, allowing for larger-size images; stitching is "near seamless" due to the next-gen gyroscope. Burst mode can detect smiles and blinks, and then recommend the best photo out of the bunch taken; it can also detect faces better, all thanks to the new A8 sensor. With these enhanced optics and features, the iPhone is becoming more and more like traditional digital camera in functionality, offering features once found only in higher-end models.
The front camera, known as the FaceTime HD camera, has also gotten a boost. It now lets you shoot one-shot high dynamic range (HDR) photos (getting great foreground and background exposures without multiple shots), and shoot multiple photos in burst mode. HDR is also available in video shot via the front camera.
Price and release date
The smaller iPhone 6 with 16GB of storage will start at $200, the 64GB version will cost $300, and the 128GB version will cost $400. Meanwhile, the larger iPhone 6 Plus starts at $300 for the 16GB version, while the 64GB model costs $400, and the 128GB model costs $500. Both models come in gold, silver, and space grey color options. The two iPhones will arrive in stores on September 19, but you can pre-order them online starting September 12.
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HIV Is curable as you can cure HIV using Herbal Medicines In Holistic Treatment. This is not a single medicine But a treatment. Only a treatment can cure HIV Not a single medicines can't. This site claims they can cure this disease but one has to pay 300 dollars a month. "email@example.com" Is this true????
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HIV is curable using herbal medicines and holistic treatment???? Gosh! Why didn't anyone tell me? Here I am popping fistfuls of antiretrovirals for over 16 years just to stay alive and all I needed to do was go to this bizarre little Web site and send them $300 every month and I'd be cured? Wow! Hang on; I want to call Magic Johnson right away and let him know. In fact, I guess I should get busy calling all 40,000,000 HIVers around the world so that we can all be cured by cocktail hour tomorrow night!
Dude, be reasonable! Did you ever hear of the expression "if something sounds too good to be true, often it turns out to indeed be too good to be true?"
Now let's read the fine print. Hmm . . . 300 dollars a month? That's interesting. If they claim to cure the disease, why do they want $300 every month? Curious, eh? And let's see if there is a disclaimer. Oh yes, here it is:
"Legal Disclaimer: It is disclaimed that our liability and responsibility is limited to the level of providing the viewer, latest up dates of news and information on the concerned subject, and that too as far as we can go to. We shall try our best to keep the given info up to the mark always, but if any follies or misrepresentations or wrong elements come to that, we are not responsible, and we can not check the veracity of each and every info piece we get from out side sources. We G Associates here by clear thing that any one who access the information should check the veracity of the same before accepting or practicing tem. That is not our responsibility."
Oh my, my, my . . . . ". . . but if any follies or misrepresentations or wrong elements come to that, we are not responsible . . . ." Follies??? Misrepresentations??? Wrong elements??? Yikes! And if you read a bit further . . . ". . . we can not check the veracity of each and every info piece . . . ."
These assholes are total charlatans. I'm quite sure there is a special place in hell reserved for folks like these who try to swindle the sick, scared and vulnerable. These folks will return in their next life as dung beetles or perhaps pond scum or, worse yet, as Dubya's elocution coach!
Needless to say this claim is a lie and those who make these claims should be ashamed of themselves.
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Shia LaBeouf leaves Broadway's 'Orphans'
Film actor cancels Main Stem debut, citing "creative differences."
Those who were hoping to watch rising film star Shia LaBeouf (Transformers, Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull) make his Broadway debut this spring will have to wait at least a little longer.
LaBeouf was to have appeared in a new production of the Lyle Kessler play Orphans, opposite Alec Baldwin and Tom Sturridge, set to begin previews March 19 and open April 7. But producers issued a statement Wednesday acknowledging that they would be "parting ways" with LaBeouf, due to unspecified "creative differences."
LaBeouf had been cast as Treat, one of two brothers who kidnap a wealthy, suspicious older man, Baldwin's role. The announcement specified that a replacement for the part of Treat would be made shortly, and that there were no plans as of now to change the production schedule.


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JP is one of Japans largest manufacturers of aerodynamics and has been in business since 1970. In 2002, JP Vizage was founded as the American version of the company to better provide car enthusiasts with quality aerodynamics that were specially designed for the American market. The Super-Polyurethane (SPU) products carried by JP Vizage are made in their American facilities and contain all of the advances and innovations put into the material that were created and tested in their Japanese parent company. Making the SPU products onsite has allowed JP Vizage to adjust the material to meet the unique driving and performance needs of American drivers. JP Vizage is located in California and is one of the leading manufacturers and distributors of OEM and custom aerodynamic products in the USA.Super Polyurethane (SPU) was developed by JP of Japan to resolve an issue that had long plagued drivers seeking to increase performance and style with aerodynamics. The original ground effects kits were often heavier than other parts of the body and wound up increasing drag to slow performance. The industry then switched to fiberglass as their preferred composite material, but there were issues with that too.
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The "Mc" that saved Pittsburgh
As story this good hasn't hit Pittsburgh since 1979.
Back then, a fictional basketball team hit the big screen. The Warner Brothers movie, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, was about a struggling team – The Pittsburgh Pythons. Playing in front of minuscule crowds at the now-ripped up Civic Arena, the Pythons were led by Moses Gurthrie (played Julius Erving aka Dr. J.). He was the star, one of the best in the league and the only worthwhile player on a forgotten franchise.
The Pythons were bad, we're talking Pittsburgh Pirates bad. Plenty of losing strung together with no real chance of ever getting better. Hopeless, downtrodden and demoralized, some players walked out on the team in Derek Bell-like fashion.
That's where the story gets good. Wacky, rather.
Ready to attempt anything for the slim chance that the Pythons get better, Guthrie and chief team advisers go seek the tutelage of a star gazer. The fortune teller, of sorts, tell them to gather a team similar to Guthrie's personal attributes if the Pythons wish to ever seek success. His astrological sign was Pisces, which is represented by a fish. The fortune teller advised them to assemble a team around the Pisces vibe, gathering players that all shared the zodiac sign of Pisces. Hence, the fish that saved Pittsburgh.
So, a ragtag group of less than-skilled players were signed by the team and, believe it or not, the Pythons who renamed themselves the Pisces in a true reshaping process, won the championships. It's a tale that can only come true in Hollywood.
Or is it?
The Pirates may have taken a page from the Pisces, whether General Manager Neal Huntington and other front office brass have talked to a psychic remains to be seen, but they may have sought the guidance of a Waynesburg University student — Jon Anderson.
He's had this blog called The McEffect for few years now. Started in homage to Nate McLouth and rising star Andrew McCutchen, the site is a popular source for Pirates news, stats and all kinds of information. Jon has turned it into its own social media empire that has received national recognition and hundreds of thousands of views.
Huntington must have taken notice.
Even though McLouth was traded in early 2009, McCutchen came up to the bigs and made his mark right away. Then, along came pitcher Daniel McCutchen, who was acquired from the Yankees and James McDonald, who was acquired from the Dodgers.
In a flashback to the 1979 silver screen, things got even wackier.
Michael McKenry was brought in last year to help with catching duties and this offseason, Pittsburgh traded with the Brewers for 3B Casey McGehee and brought back McLouth. It rose the Mc total to six during spring training.
Jon had the above shirts produced and they've drawn greater attention to the blog and the sheer ridiculousness of having six players with eerily similar names on the same team. They've been a hit, this off-season, with Pirates announcers giving them a shout out, WTAE news in Pittsburgh doing a story on him and in Flat Stanley-style, taking these shirts to cool place like Spring Training.
Bonus points for a picture with an actual Mc, like this fan with James McDonald.
If the Mc's aren't the reason to believe in 2012, the B's certainly are. Sticking with the name game, Huntington brought in catcher Rod Barajas, along with pitchers Erik Bedard and A.J. Burnett. Not a McEffect, but rather a bomb of B's, the signings were a viable fall back plan that further fuels the conspiracy.
It's been 33 years since a made up basketball team from Pittsburgh used some goofy formula to save their season and fix their losing ways.
Nineteen years have passed since the Pirates have finished a season with more wins than losses. Maybe it was just time — time to do something crazy of their own. If Pittsburgh does have its first winning baseball season since 1992, you have to think the Mc's are to thank.
It's like Jon said in his television interview, "what else would it be?"
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Friday, April 26, 2013
Meiji Dark Rum Chocolate Sticks
One of my favorite items I picked up for Candy Blog review early on were some chocolate sticks from Japan. I thought their packaging was so clever and chic, I've been hoping to find them again. (Mostly I find they package their chocolate in little squares like the US.)
I was excited to see Meiji Dark Rum Milk Chocolate on eBay, so when my friends Robin & Amy were going to Japan, I put it on my wishlist. I got two boxes, which is good, because I ate the whole first box before even doing this review.
The box has a curious design, featuring a cut crystal goblet with rum as the main element below a medallion with the name of the candy. I'm not that familiar with how to serve rum straight, as I usually mix it, but in a goblet or even a more petite appertif size would still not be the way I'd go. (I'd probably serve it in a snifter or a lowball.)
Inside the box, each stick of chocolate is in a little individual wrapper. The box is not really full, they're loosely packed in there and the whole thing weighs barely more than an ounce, so there's no way to overindulge here.
Most of the package is in Japanese, so I can't say for sure what the weight actually is but the figure 2.2% is mentioned on the front, I'm guessing that's the alcohol content ... and there is real alcohol in here.
The sticks are three inches long and an ideal size (about 3.3 grams) for a very light treat.
One of my favorite candy bars is the Ritter Sport Rum Trauben Nuss, which also has real rum in it. This is a bit more pure, as it doesn't have any fussy nuts or dried fruit in it. The sticks have a soft bite to them, this is not a dense or intense chocolate, though the rum notes are quite apparent when I opened it.
The chocolate has a quick and oily melt, a smooth and slick texture and a strange warm and cold sensation all at once. The oils in the chocolate (I suspect there are some other tropical oils in there) give it a cooling effect on the tongue, but the rum has a sort of warming effect on my throat. The chocolate isn't very strong, it's not terribly sweet and has a well rounded woodsy and milky profile.
I like my rum dark, I go for blackstrap because it has more of the smoky and toffee flavors. The rum here was more medicinal, more light, not quite smooth.
It's not a candy for everyone, I find them pretty indulgent and a little weird, but I also enjoy rum balls.
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Wednesday, August 15, 2012
Meiji Chelsea Kokutou Black Sugar
As a kid I would eat brown sugar straight from the bag. I loved finding chunks of the stuff in my oatmeal. As an adult I discovered muscovado sugar and love finding new ways to use it in everyday food.
As a candy, this molasses rich sugar is quite popular in Japan, where Japanese prize their Okanawan Black Sugar. It's mostly found in hard candies but sometimes used in caramels. I was excited to see the Meiji Chelsea line of hard butterscotch candies came out with a variety pack based on flavors of Kuro Sato called Chelsea Kokutou Black Sugar. The flavors are milk, black sugar and ginger.
The packaging is always charming. A stark black background with little calico inspired flowers dot the wrappers. In this case each wrapper is a different muted pastel with black flowers on it.
The candy comes in two different packaging styles. There are little flat boxes that hold foil wrapped pieces of butterscotch, then there are the bags, which often have assortments instead of a single flavor. The sealed wrappers are great because they keep the candies from becoming sticky. However, the candy is expensive. I think I paid 3.99 for this package that holds only 2.5 ounces. I've seen other packages for sale online for over $5 a package as well.
The light purple wrapper holds the Milk flavored piece. It looks like ordinary butterscotch but tastes like sweet, creamy rum. The texture of Chelsea is extraordinary. It's smooth. The pieces always look and sound like glass. If you like to let your candy dissolve, these last a long time with consistent flavor all the way through. If you're a cruncher, these are crispy and buttery.
The milk flavor mellows the strength of the black sugar, which can have bitter components to it. It's fresh tasting, like a very mellow black tea.
The light red wrappers hold the best of all, the Black Sugar flavor. The pieces are very dark brown, glossy and hard. The flavor is dark and complex. It's like that charcoal-like flavor of a toasted marshmallow. It's more earthy and cereal-like than just molasses. It's creamy and smooth, woodsy with a hint of toffee and coffee.
What's so amazing about black sugar are all the flavors and nuances. It's like chocolate, coffee or wine in that way.
The lightest looking piece of the set is the Ginger. This is less about the black sugar but an interesting combination of flavors. The ginger is woodsy and smooth with a warm component to it. The flavor is less of the tangy fresh juice flavor and more of the dried ginger with milk profile. The black sugar is lost, so the sugary notes are more like maple than molasses. Still, a great ginger candy, far and away better than most other toffee style gingers.
This was a great mix and I found it hard not to eat them all right away. I even tried going back to Little Tokyo to find more, but couldn't find a single grocer that carried them still. I'm very sad, but hoping that Meiji will bring back the Black Sugar at least as a single flavor in the boxes at some point and I will stock up.
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Meiji Creamy Marshmallow Chocolate
The Meiji Creamy Marshmallow Chocolate has been around for a while in Japan, though it's not easy to find in stores in the United States. I happened upon a display of them in Little Tokyo and got the last one on the shelf.
The first thing I have to ask about this bar is why we don't have anything like this in the United States?
The bar is very simple, a single serving of milk chocolate in bar format with mini marshmallows dotted throughout. In North America we have plenty of options for chocolate covered single marshmallows (Rocky Road, various seasonal novelties) but nothing with this specific ratio.
The bar is nicely boxes, like many of Meiji's other candy products. Inside the sturdy paperboard box is a mylar pouch with the bar in it. Mine was in excellent condition - no scuffs, not even broken.
The bar is thicker than the standard Meiji Milk Chocolate bar, and has lightly defined sections.
The bar has varying amounts of the little marshmallows in it. Around the edges, it was hard to find marshmallows, but deeper into the bar, they were quite dense. The marshmallows are small, about the size of a pencil eraser or a green pea.
The chocolate is not quite the same formula as the classic Milk Chocolate Meiji bar, which is too bad, because I really enjoy that bar. This bar is technically not even chocolate, as it contains some other vegetable oils in addition to cocoa butter, such as sunflower, shea nut and illpe butter. This gives the chocolate a smooth melt, but a very cool feeling on the tongue. The flavors are dominated by a dried milk dairy taste. The marshmallows are soft and bouncy, a little tacky and chewy around the edges of the bar.
My disappointment with the bar is with the chocolate itself. I was fully expecting the deep, smoky Meiji Milk Chocolate that I've tried before. What I got was a little less than that, and when paying the full import prices, it's a little steep. Next time I'll just get the milk chocolate bar and some other marshmallows and do the rest myself.
Still, there's something to be learned here .... there's a product out there that our confectionery giants are neglecting. (Though it could also use some little salty pretzel bits to complete it.)
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:04 pm Candy • Review • Meiji • Marshmallow • Mockolate • 6-Tempting • Japan •
Friday, August 19, 2011
Meiji Poifull Mint
One of my favorite Japanese products are the Meiji Poilful. They're not as easy to find in the United States as some other Japanese candies and are often quite expensive for a sugar candy. Every once in a while Meiji issues a new flavor variety. I found this Poifull Mint at the Japanese grocery store a few weeks ago. It features two flavors, Lemon and Muscat with an added dash of Mint.
These are not mere jelly beans, though they look like it. Instead they're gummi beans. Inside the typical grainy sugar shell there's a small gummi. Like gourmet jelly beans, the center is flavored, not just a plain sugary center.
I have to say that I find the flavors a little odd. The idea of mint and lemon is not that uncommon, though it's something I associate with cough drops more than candy. (Though I admit that I do eat cough drops like candy sometimes.)
Lemon & Mint (yellow) starts out very tangy and zesty but the mint comes in like a strong menthol. It is absolutely like a cough drop but could probably use a little touch of honey to put it over the top. I liked the intensity of it, I was satisfied with one or two of them as the zest and menthol lingered.
Muscat & Mint (green) is much more subdued. The white grape flavor is tart and robust, with notes of grape juice and grape skin in there. The mint tastes more like mint than menthol, though still has that same cooling tingle. I still find it a strange and incongruous combination that I wouldn't choose as a single flavor package, but I can enjoy as part of a mix.
Overall, I love how intense and authentic Meiji makes all of their fruit flavored candies, these are no exception. They're a little fringe but make a nice change up for a little mouth freshener that's different from Altoids. The box is nicely designed, unlike some other Meiji products where the box isn't full, this one is and has a nice little flip top with a dispenser hole for sharing easily.
On a side note, one of the hazards of buying these import candies are the little translated labels they put on them. The box is quite small, but the label is even smaller with microprint. I had to take this photograph and then zoom in on it in order to read the label.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:11 am All Natural • Candy • Review • Meiji • Gummi Candy • Mints • 7-Worth It • Japan •
Tuesday, August 9, 2011
Meiji Corot & CoffeeBeat
Meiji is one of the major confectionery companies of Japan with recognizable brands like Yan Yan, Hello Panda, Chelsea and my favorite GummyChoco. I admire their products quite a bit, their flavors are bright and authentic and the attention to detail is excellent. Last year I reviewed their standard Meiji Milk Chocolate bar and found I really liked their intense flavor style. So I picked up this box called Meiji Corot which simply called them chocolate ball in English on the otherwise Japanese package.
Meiji also packages their candies well, but this is the first one I've really had an issue with. The box is large, it's 4.25 inches high and 2.75 inches wide, that's larger than a deck of poker cards or a box of cigarettes. Inside the box is a little mylar packet. It protects the candy well and certainly kept it fresh, but there's only 1.48 ounces of candy in here - a standard bag of Milk Chocolate M&Ms as 1.69 ounces.
Hershey's came out with a similar product last year, called Hershey's Drops. They're also big disks of solid chocolate with a light, shiny glaze to keep them from sticking together.
The chocolate balls are actually oblate spheroids - a squashed ball. The aspect ratio or flatness of the spheroid is determined by the dimensions. The major axis is 1.5 times the length as the minor axis. (They're .75 inches across and about .5 inches thick at the center.)
The candies are 3.5 grams each, so a hefty little bite of chocolate compared to an M&M which are about .85 grams.
They're creamy and milky with a chocolate pudding flavor to them. The dairy flavors are distinct and the chocolate is quite powerful, certainly a more dominant note. There's a strong bitterness that I don't think I get with most consumer milk chocolate products. It's toasted and maybe even a little smoky with notes of plain old charcoal. I enjoy the flavor, it's munchable with a great texture but a little more sophisticated than a standard milk chocolate candy.
The ingredients are not quite as desirable as the plain Meiji Milk Chocolate bar. This version of Meiji's milk chocolate also contains some vegetable oil filler (though there's also plenty of cocoa butter in there). The curious ingredient towards the end of the list was trehalose. Trehalose is a sugar, a disaccharide made of two glucose molecules. It's only 40% as sweet as the standard sucrose (a disaccharide made of one glucose and one fructose molecule). I'm not quite sure what its purpose here is, it's not here in great quantities, as it's on the list after the soy lecithin (which is usually less than 2% of the overall mass of any chocolate product).
I also recently picked up some of Meiji's 40th Anniversary editions of their popular Meiji CoffeeBeat chocolate candies. I've reviewed them before, but these versions were in different packaging and came in two versions - a milk and dark version.
The Milk version, in the tube, has a great sweet latte flavor to it. The coffee is quite strong and rich and the sugar and milk mixture is reminiscent of caramel. The one in the box didn't come with any additional English descriptions but I can say that the milk flavors are downplayed at the coffee flavor is extremely strong, yet the texture is still creamy and smooth with a lingering charcoal bitterness.
I love these little nuggets. They're about the size of a real coffee bean or an M&M and feature a solid coffee flavored chocolate core covered in a thin crunchy shell. I don't know why we don't have these or something like these widely available in the United States.
The Meiji CoffeeBeat keep their 9 out of 10 rating. (If they were more affordable and easier to find, they might get a 10 out of 10.)
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Monday, June 7, 2010
Meiji Milk Chocolate
I couple of months ago I went on a buying spree in Little Tokyo and bought this Meiji Milk Chocolate bar. I photographed the packaged but then ate it without taking a picture of the contents. After consuming it, I thought, I should really review this.
I don't know much about Meiji as a company. Everything I know about them is what I have experience interacting (eating) their products that I can get a hold of in the United States. I don't know their politics, I don't know how the Japanese regard the products and company and I don't know anything about their history (except that they're over 80 years old). It's kind of a strange approach for me, as I often like to immerse myself with a lot of context when it comes to candy.
Late last year Meiji's chocolate bar line got a new look. (Here's what the package used to look with along with Orchid64's review and some other more professional evaluations of the redesign.) Here's another view of their classic-style packages.
I loved their old wrapper, but I have to say, I really dig the new one. I like the font but what I really enjoy is the bold simplicity; partly because what's inside is simple and partly because it stands out so well amongst the very chaotic and colorful candy packaging common in Japan.
The ingredients are great: sugar, cacao mass, whole milk powder, cocoa butter, soy lecithin, artificial flavor.
The bar measures 6.25" long and 2.75" wide. There are 15 segments - five across and three down. They don't really do much besides provide visual interest - I found the bar broke into pieces wherever it felt like, not along the supposed section dividers. Under the embossed paper sleeve the bar is wrapped in a rather thin and devilish foil. I found it difficult to get the bar out and even worse to get it back in. (Basically I just re-wrapped it the best I could and put it in a zipper plastic bag for later consumption.)
In Japan the bar is about a dollar, so it's like the Hershey bar in that it's widely available and cheap. (In the US I paid twice that though, $1.99 in Little Tokyo.) The bar is bigger than a Hershey's Milk Chocolate which is 1.55 ounces and the Meiji Milk Chocolate is 2.04 ounces.
The flavor is deep and smoky. It's much darker than ordinary milk chocolates, but also much less milky. It has charcoal and cocoa overtones, it reminds me of chocolate pudding I make at home - which is often very low in sugar and very high in chocolate (usually a mix of chocolate and cocoa). The melt is cool and exceptionally smooth - smoother and more consistent than Dove. It was actually comparable in mouthfeel to Amano's Milk Chocolate bars. It's thick but not sticky, silky but not greasy.
The toasty caramel and charcoal notes have a bitter aftertaste that's quite pronounced. I enjoyed it quite a bit and found no problem eating a whole bar in one sitting. It's not for everyone, but I applaud the good use of ingredients, fresh and unique flavor profile and decent price. The bar is extremely fatty - it clocks in at 167 calories per ounce, which is much higher than many milk chocolate bars which are known to be very sugary - but there's also 15% of your calcium in each serving, 6% of your Vitamin C & Iron plus 2 grams of protein.
I'm willing to continue spending $2 for this bar and seeking it out in Japanese markets.
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Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Meiji Poifull
I'm gaga for Meiji's Gummy Choco, which are little gummi beans of various natural fruit flavors covered in milk and flavored white chocolate. But I've also wondered what it'd be like to just eat the gummi centers.
The gummi jellybean centers are called Poifull and are rather harder to find in the United States.
I picked up a few boxes via JBox.com and then ended up finding some more at Nijiya Market in Little Tokyo a few weeks later. The flavors vary from time to time. (Sometimes the yellow ones are pineapple as shown in this box and other times they're lemon or white peach.)
While it's tempting to call these jelly beans, they're not. Jelly beans have jelly centers - that means that they're a thickened candy syrup, usually gelled using corn starch but good quality ones use pectin, a natural fruit product. Poifull are a gummi product, so the centers are bouncy and chewy and thickened with gelatin. (So my vegetarian friends, you can't have these.)
They come in four flavors and all are equally fresh and transcendent. The shell is light and a little grainy after chewing, it mostly seals in the soft and fresh flavors of the gummis themselves.
Pineapple - is sweet and bright but more like canned pineapple than the fresh stuff. Not quite as acidic but still quite credible.
Grape - is the darker purple color. The flavor is amazing, like a condensed droplet of concord grape juice. Vivid, sweet and tangy.
Muscat Grape - is the green one and like the grape has an authentic juice flavor. Muscat is a white grape so is often a little milder in its juice form. This one was tasty but didn't wow me like the others by comparison.
Apple - is the lighter pink one. It's definitely just like a fresh glass of apple juice, or actually, more like cider. Tangy and with a good touch of apple peel flavors in there.
(I had another box & can review the Lemon - is a mild and marmalade-like flavor. The sugar notes are boiled and toasted and the zest is still quite authentic but lacking most of the bitter qualities. It's not terribly tart, but still has a nice snap.)
The flavors are much more intense than even Jelly Belly, very well rounded and of course the gummi texture makes them last longer. I didn't find myself gulping them down like I do with some jelly candies, they're absolutely more in the gummi style of eating for me. I've only found them in these small boxes (and sometimes in the tiny boxes for the Meiji Mini Mix - photo).
They're pretty expensive since they're an import product, but as far as I can tell they're also all natural - so parents can feel good about a super-flavorful product that comes in small portions. They'd make a great addition to an Easter basket.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:35 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Easter • Meiji • Gummi Candy • 8-Tasty • Japan •
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Meiji Pokka Coffee Caramel
One of the iconic candies in Japan are caramels. There are oodles of caramels available, most in the classic style of a hard, short caramel (meaning it's rather chewy but dry).
Often they come in different flavors, but the classic caramel has endured for nearly 100 years. One line is the Meiji Dice, which are little caramels that come in pairs inside cube boxes that also double as dice. More recently, as Meiji has acquired the Pokka Coffee company, they introduced the Pokka Coffee Caramel.
The cute packages feature half with icons of the Pokka coffee brand with their logo & seal. The other half are the dice - in this case using little coffee beans on each side to mark the numbers.
The caramels are bigger than the Morinaga ones I've had before, or the other, similar Meiji cubes.
They're about 5/8 of an inch square with a distinct checkerboard texture on them. Each pair is wrapped in waxed paper and tucked into a box. So there are eight caramels total.
They smell very sweet and a lot like dark roasted coffee or espresso. There's very little milk taste to it, though milk is a major ingredient. It's definitely a sweet black coffee flavor. (Some coffee caramels taste like coffee ice cream.) I liked it much better than the grainy & gone texture of the Chewy Coffee Rio.
The dark, rich flavor and the soft, ample chew was really appealing to me. I found I ate three of the boxes before I was even ready to do this review. They were a bit on the expensive side for a mass-manufactured candy ... and the overpackaging is sweet for the first day or so, but silly and wasteful after that. I'll likely stick with the Morinaga Caramels I know and love so well, or perhaps try the Meiji Chelsea Coffee if I can find them.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:50 pm
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"Like sands through the hourglass, so go the days of our lives." Soap opera fans will readily recognize the opening to a popular daytime drama on television. But, this could also be applied to the cyclical events agricultural producers encounter each year.
One of those cyclical events is the summertime development of an ergot fungus in the seedheads of dallisgrass and other small grains used for forage. The ergot fungus produces honeydew that eventually turns gray or black When consumed by cattle in sufficient quantities, it can produce serious and deadly reactions.
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