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Tuesday, April 21, 2009
Things I'm Not Going to Get Around to Reviewing
I'd say that I don't review about half of the candy that I acquire. Some is for personal consumption or gifts, but a good proportion I just never get around to. Most of that you'll never even see. These shown below are ones I at least took photos of, yet I still couldn't muster a review.
Do if you've had any of these, please feel free to chime in with your thoughts so that at least other folks can get some feedback on them.
Brix Chocolate - Special milk & dark chocolate blends made just for eating with wine. It comes in huge blocks that seem like they'd be difficult and messy. I picked up these tasting squares at the Fancy Food Show. I photographed them, I ate them. I read some other reviews.
These are Valerie Confections liquid caramel eggs in a dark chocolate shell with a dusting of gold flakes. They were divine and I ate a half a dozen of them in a matter of three days. (Along with a fabulous box of my favorite Lemon & Hazelnut Nougat.)
I bought this in Pennsylvania last year at the grocery store near my sister's house. Eurocrem Blok - it sounds like it could be the name of any number of products. A brand of butter. A solid deodorant stick. Maybe a fine chocolate.
I bought it because of the name and the package design, not because I thought it'd be good. Even though the package clearly says it's good until October 2009, it was bloomed. Could have been my fault, could have been something that happened in my luggage. Could have been the store. But it wouldn't be fair to review it and I'm not really into eating chalky chocolate.
Brandini Toffee has been suggested for review several times by readers. I thought that the Fancy Food Show was a perfect opportunity to do that. They gave me these itty-bitty samples (mostly because I visited them on the last day, not because they were stingy or anything ... not that any candy company is obliged to give me free samples just to get reviewed, because that's also not true).
Not really the way to review toffee. One of these days I'll find it in stores and buy a real-sized portion, not these sugar-cube-sized stuff made for Barbie dolls.
I diligently picked out these samples of the missing flavors in my set of Lake Champlain truffle eggs when at the Fancy Food Show.
These are the Java Truffle Eggs.
Then I ate them. They were good. I did actually intend on getting more of them, since they were already photographed at the Whole Foods by my office, but sometimes I get lazy.
These are little plain dark chocolate tasting pieces of Frey Swiss Delice Dark Chocolate in 72% and 55% cacao.
I picked them up because I thought it'd be interesting to taste the chocolate base for the bars that seem to be so popular at Target and come in a bajillion flavor combinations except just plain chocolate.
I never got around to it and then I lost these eensy little pieces. (Seriously, you think they're small, but they're actually smaller than that.)
I thought this was a fabulous little bite of caramel.
Goat's milk is a little gamier, a little tangy and sometimes a little musty tasting compared to cow's milk. These Beurre et Lait de chevre were no exception. It was like eating a bit of cream cheese with my caramel.
At the point where I ate them after the Fancy Food Show, I'd completely forgotten where I got them from. Then I found the second one a few weeks ago and I have to say that I think they're product best eaten fresh.
So there you have it, if not full reviews, at least lots of eye candy.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:34 pm Candy • Lake Champlain • Valerie Confections • Featured News •
Thursday, March 20, 2008
Lake Champlain & See's Bunny Battle
You thought I was done with hollow chocolate rabbits?
I can't stop buying them. (And, um, taking photos of them, as this post will demonstrate, it's mostly photos.)
Here are a couple of other more upscale models, in case you still haven't outfitted your Easter basket for the year. Call it my Bunny Battle, spawned in part by sticker shock at Whole Foods (who doesn't come away from WF without some degree of sticker shock?).
I picked up this extremely cute and extremely small goodie basket (I think they call it a favor basket) from Lake Champlain. It contains three filled half eggs and one tiny .6 ounce hollow milk chocolate rabbit. The price? $8.49.
Now, lest you think that it's the little eggs that are racking up the tally there, the bunny all by itself on the Lake Champlain website is $3.25 ... it's just chocolate, nothin' special there. Just all natural milk chocolate.
I'll get to the bunny in a moment, but first the unique items in this little basket (well, more like a cup) are the Lake Champlain filled eggs. They're lovely little half eggs with a pretty molded shell that has the Lake Champlain logo and the word "Vermont" on it.
It comes with three eggs. I reviewed the blue foil wrapped egg before that has a hazelnut cream inside before, so I picked up the rest of the eggs in their set to make sure that I've covered them all. (The basket came with Raspberry, Caramel & Peanut Butter.)
Gold = Caramel in Milk Chocolate. The shell is sweet and firm, the center is creamy and flowing. It's pretty salty on the inside and with a real taste of burnt sugars.
Pink = Raspberry Cream in Dark Chocolate - very jammy center, definitely more fruit than chocolate.
I didn't want to overwhelm everyone with too many See's items, so I've had these Rabbits for a while. I picked up one of the milk (small in gold foil) and one of the dark (in blue foil). They're hollow, but still rather hefty.
The See's Milk Chocolate bunny is less than 5" tall, yet it towers over the little one bite Lake Champlain Hollow Rabbit.
Lake Champlain Milk Chocolate - it's sweet and milky, but smooth and has a very slick melt on the tongue, almost like it has hazelnut in it. ($3.25 for .6 ounces) The larger sizes are priced at: $15 for a 9.5 ounce solid rabbit and a novelty one driving a car for $20 for 8 ounces.
Lake Champlain uses Belgian chocolate for their molded items. The ingredients are all natural.
See's Milk Chocolate - it's sweet and slightly less milky, with more of a roasted base to it. It's not quite as sweet as the Lake Champlain, but still has similar silky qualities. ($2.45 for 2.2 ounces.) There is a smaller one that's solid that goes for $1.00 at the stores and the other hollow novelites available are $4.90 for 4.5 ounces and the largest standing rabbit is $8.50 for 10 ounces.
The ingredients on the See's are pretty standard, the only one that throws up a flag is the use of vanillin (but they also use real vanilla, go figure).
So they both taste good. They're both good quality. They're both cute ... I'll admit that I like the squat and fat Lake Champlain format, but the foil wrapping and doe-like eye of the See's is awfully lovable, too.
It comes down to two other things, I guess. Price and availability. See's is pretty easy to find on the West Coast and of course you can order via the internet.
There's a nice campaign to raise awareness about the hazards of giving children real rabbits (or baby ducks or chicks) at the holidays called Make Mine Chocolate. While a chocolate rabbit is not going to engender the same sort of squishy lovey feelings in a kid that a real animal will, it's much more humane.
I had rabbits as a kid and I can attest to how much responsibility it is to care for a pet (especially one in a cage).
Finally, there is my huge friend the See's Dark Chocolate Hollow Rabbit who clocks in at 4.5 ounces.
He sat around my office for weeks, I really liked the look of this rabbit in the light blue foil with his drowsy, heavily-lashed eyes and real bow.
Eventually the foil had to come off though, I had no idea what was beneath, I expected something similar to the milk chocolate one. The 2.2 ounce version (which also comes in dark chocolate) has those little drawn on hairs, so you know it's a rabbit.
This one, well, it was startling. Mostly because it's so stylized. I immediately thought of those Draw Me! ads that used to appear in the back of comic books and magazines.
It's so smooth yet angular. And the eyes are so vacant.
The dark chocolate is tasty, very smooth but middle-of-the-road. Kind of like very good chocolate chips or a good cup of hot chocolate. A little hint of bitterness, no dry finish and a buttery melt.
The bunny isn't really that much taller than the 2.2 ounce one, just wider and of course has a very thick wall. (Honestly, I had a hard time ringing his neck to break him after I bit off the ears.) They come in milk or dark, but no white.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:25 am Candy • Review • Easter • Lake Champlain • See's • Caramel • Chocolate • Coffee • Kosher • Peanuts • 8-Tasty • Belgium • United States • Head to Head •
Tuesday, September 11, 2007
Lake Champlain Organic Dark Bars
Yesterday I did a little roundup of all natural candies and I forgot to mention Lake Champlain. It's a little expensive to feed to kids but they do make actual candy bars. It's an excellent brand that uses carefully selected ingredients, which I always appreciate and recently introduced an organic line.
Each bar is 1.25 ounces, which I think is the perfect portion of good chocolate.
The bars look like they'd be great for traveling too, small enough to tuck in your bag and finish in one sitting but they also feature a nice paper wrap with an inner foil wrapper that means you can actually close it back up (some of these foil wraps used these days are two atoms thick and fall apart in a light breeze).
Dark Spicy Aztec also features a 55% cocoa base chocolate. This one also has spices and pumpkin seeds. I've had a few spicy bars over the past few years and my share of spicy hot chocolate as well. This is probably the best of all of them. The spices, while strong, are still very flavorful and don't overpower the chocolateness. I love pumpkin seeds (pepitas) and they go so well here, adding a little crunch and setting off the spicy flavors all over again.
While it tastes like there's a whole cupboard of spices in here, the label says only cayenne and cinnamon. I could have sworn I tasted a little nutmeg, some clove and cumin. Amazing!
I have to admit that the spice is, well, spicy. It gave me a bit of a tingly burn on the back of my tongue and in my throat. Not so much to stop me from eating it, but more tender mouths may not appreciate the power. 9 out of 10
Dark Chocolate is a basic semi sweet bar. It's on the sweet side but also very creamy and has a good, quick melt on the tongue.
I'm not as keen on this as the Spicy Aztec, but since it's the same chocolate base, it's a good place to finish off the review. The chocolate notes are rather middle of the road - there's nothing that jumps out at me like coffee or balsam or raisins. It's just nice and thoroughly chocolatey. It doesn't feel like a "better for me" compromise because it's organic. It's smoothly conched and nicely tempered. 8 out of 10
The Organic bar line from Lake Champlain also includes milk chocolate, with a plain bar and a sea salt and almonds bar. The Lake Champlain website offers a kit of all four bars as an introduction or you can order them singly. They also make little squares, which I've tasted at the Fancy Food Show before, but to be honest, I don't care for very thin chocolate, l like it a little thicker ... these bars are the ideal thickness.
My hesitations on Lake Champlain as a whole are that it's not that easy to find and a bit expensive (and I don't like the logo much). Of course it's good quality, nicely packaged and all natural, so you get what you pay for. If you're tentative about them, keep an eye on their Sale Page on their website, sometimes there are insane deals in there (nothing at this writing though).
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:48 am
Tuesday, May 2, 2006
Fairway NYC
I talk about Trader Joe's a lot as a candy source; the store opening in Manhattan was big news. But on my trip to NYC, I found that they already have an extraordinary store, Fairway. We pretty much stumbled upon the market while walking back from the Upper West Side to our hotel in Times Square.
Like Trader Joe's the store focuses on more gourmet, upscale or wholesome fare, with many items sold with their private label but at super-delicious prices. The best part, of course, was their candy section. They had a huge aisle of pre-packaged bulk nuts and panned chocolate goods, most of which made by Koppers.
The first thing that caught my eye were these little M&M sized dark chocolate goodies called Cayenne Pepper Savory. It was just what I was looking for all these years, a peppered chocolate in easy to eat morsels. But when they say Cayenne Pepper, they really mean it. It's far too spicy for comfort. I might try putting them in cookies or something, but it's too bad, the chocolate is really nice, but the afterburn is serious. ($5.99/lb)
Of course I have a hard time believing that they really were that hot, so after a couple of days I try another one. Same result ... whoo! I don't know, it's growing on me.
This was by far the best of the Koppers finds. It's little cubes of dried apricot covered in dark chocolate. So simple. The chocolate has a nice smoky, dark bite. It's sweet but doesn't overpower the natural sweetness and tart chewy bite of the apricot.
It's nice to find an affordable version of the glace apricots that I've seen at the upscale chocolatiers. Of course these don't replace them, but they're portable and high quality. ($5.99/lb)
Oh, I had such high hopes. Look at them, they're gorgeous! Dark and glossy and sweet smelling. But there's something so wrong about the taste and even though I've been sampling these for weeks, I can't quite put my finger on it. They chocolate is sweet, but bitter. Smooth but a little waxy and it has this odd dairy taste to it, even though it's dark chocolate. The malted center is not really malty or maybe the chocolate is overpowering it. I was just so disappointed. ($4.99/lb)
And here's the big secret - Fairway sells Lake Champlain! Only it's their house brand and it's far cheaper. I picked up two 5 Star Bars and they were only $2.19 each! I picked up the Caramel one, just to make sure the Fairway house brand was truly the same as the Lake Champlain, and I also got this one, the Fruit & Nut Bar.
This stunning 2 ounce brick 'o chocolate is dark chocolate on the outside, filled with a hazelnut praline (think Caffarel's Guanduia) studded with pecans and dried cherries. Now I know I say that I don't like cherry flavored things, but I have no problem at all with the real ones. This bar was really nice, the dark chocolate was bold and reigned in the thick flavor of the hazelnut praline quite nicely.
The nuts weren't as numerous as I'd hoped, but the bite of the sour cherries and the chewy texture was a nice mix. I do like the inventiveness of mixing pecans and hazelnuts - two sadly neglected nuts in American candybars. Of the two that I've had now, I still prefer the Caramel bar, but this one is certainly interesting and I'm wondering how it compares to the 5-Star Hazelnut bar.
Fairway had a large selection of candies, both in their own packaged bulk items like the Koppers, upscale brands like Scharffen Berger and Valrhona. I also saw a huge variety of imported candies like European brands like Cadbury and Nestle (not the American versions).
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:26 am New York City • Review • Koppers • Lake Champlain • Chocolate • Malt • Nuts • 8-Tasty • United States • Shopping •
Wednesday, March 22, 2006
Lake Champlain Hazelnut Eggs
I would be remiss in reviewing Easter candies not to include something a little more upscale. Besides the usual drug-store fare such as Russell Stovers, I found quite a few candies at Whole Foods. I got a wonderful birthday basket of Lake Champlain a couple of months ago and have been nibbling away on it, so I thought I'd check out their seasonal items.
These little impluse buys were in a bucket by the checkout stand. At $.79 each, I was willing to give them a try (I didn't even know what they were except that they were blue and from Lake Champlain). When I got home and bit into one (I know, brave!) I was pleasantly surprised to find a hazelnut praline. The eggs are actually "half-eggs" and about the size of an egg-shaped walnut and probably weigh a little less than a half an ounce.
In fact, if you were wondering where to get those Caffarel Guanduia chocolates in the States, look no further than these for your domestic equivalent.
The outside is rich milky chocolate and the filling is a soft hazelnut and chocolate mixture. It's thick and clingy, nutty and buttery. Yum. I can't eat a lot of these at once (I only bought two, so I'm safe). They're very rich tasting and utterly filling. One with a cup of coffee is quite a treat.
The Lake Champlain Easter eggs come in a variety of flavors (caramel, raspberry & coconut) that you can order from their website and I'm sure some Whole Foods carry them as well.
There's no way I can possibly keep up with all the Easter candies, but Joanna over at Sugar Savvy has created a roundup of a lot of dark chocolate Easter eggs.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 6:02 am
Monday, January 2, 2006
Lake Champlain Select Origins
I've reviewed a few single orgin chocolates before (and I really liked the Chocovic). I find the idea of it being like fine wine and elusive and all that intriguing, but it's also kind of frustrating because you might find something really fantastic that can never be replicated. That's why chocolate blends like we're used to are so widely used. A Hershey bar always tastes like a Hershey bar. Godiva always tastes like Godiva.
Lake Champlain is also the maker of the highly esteemed and highly expensive Five Star Bars. And of course my friends Will & Susan are well aware of my affection for good chocolates and gave this to me for Christmas.
The packaging is very pretty, four different single origin/cocoa percentages in pretty little wrappers and six of each little square. They're in a clear plastic box that lets you see the delectable stacks of squares. Not only did I review these in alphabetical order, but it also happens to be the order of increasing cocoa solids.
African Blend (54% cocoa solids) - This one was by far the sweetest, it has a good mild woodsy aroma with a slight smoky note. It's not at all complex, but very pleasant.
Sao Thome (70% cocoa solids) - This one has more immediate bitter notes and though very smooth it was also rather dry. The buttery melt has a slightly tart bite towards the end, complex blend of woodsy notes and vanilla. By far my favorite, the most chocolatey in my feeling.
Tanzania (75% cocoa solids) - This one was exceptionally smooth and buttery, which surprised me given its high cocoa solids. It was also bitter and had a very dry finish. There was a bit of a sour bite on the front of the mouth and a slight cherry note to the whole flavor (a blend of both the sour cherry and the more robust wild cherry flavor).
I tasted all of these without looking at the website and was pleased to see that I was tasting the same things that they're selling these squares on. These types of tasting squares are a great way to get a good cross section of all the flavors that chocolate can hold within it.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:26 am
Monday, September 12, 2005
Lake Champlain Five Star Bar
Name: Five Star Bar - Caramel
A few weeks ago I did a radio interview and on the show Steve Almond gave the host a Five Star Bar. Steve had also featured the bar in his book Candy Freak, so I was already aware of its virtues. Still, I'd not seen one in person. I did get a gift over the holidays though, of a little package of their milk and dark chocolate squares, which were very nice and smooth.
The bar has it all. It's a hefty little log, about as wide as it is high and twice as long as that. At two ounces, it's bigger than your normal candy bar, but smaller than a king-size. It's not quite gourmet, but too good for the regular candy shelf.
Upon biting into it there's an intense explosion of caramel. The first ingredient on the package is CREAM, so you know how fatty and smooth this bar has got to be. The caramel has a good carmelize sugar taste to it, without going too far into toffee land. It's very sticky and smooth. Inside there are nuts and a few dark chocolate bits (not enough for me, but you know, who am I to quibble with something so positively reviewed).
One thing's for sure, I'm going to try all their Five Star Bars. For the record, my husband also picked up the Java Truffle Bar and a Peppermint Bark (I don't have the package in front of me and their website is down). The Java bar is really nice, with a good smokey coffee flavor to it and it's not too sweet (and made with dark chocolate). The mint one is really smooth but not quite minty enough for me.
Interesting note - I give high marks to all candies with the word five in their name. Coincidence?
Rating - 9 out of 10 (they're really expensive)
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The only muscles they never exercised were their brains.
OK, fine. The brain's technically an organ. But it's not like the members of the Sun Gym Gang would know the difference.
The trio of lunkheads at the heart of the midnight-in-a-coal-mine dark comedy "Pain & Gain" come off like the Three Stooges on steroids.
Convicted swindler Daniel Lugo (Mark Wahlberg) benches 400 pounds, squats 500 and shows up at a business meeting sporting a briefcase and jean shorts.
Paul Doyle (Dwayne Johnson), a hair-trigger violent, born-again recovering addict, is freshly sprung from Attica for a coked-up Christmastime burglary.
And Adrian Doorbal (Anthony Mackie), Lugo's fellow personal trainer who's suffering from "defeated phallus syndrome," will do anything for bigger muscles, including guzzling breast milk.
For his first self-described "little movie," director Michael Bay seems to be aiming for a comic caper that the Coen brothers and Carl Hiassen might have hatched in the supplements aisle of a GNC.
And surprisingly, given his "Transformers"-heavy resume, Bay comes dangerously close to succeeding.
Wahlberg's Lugo is a dreamer — a thick-necked, even-thicker-skulled dreamer, but a dreamer nonetheless.
He idolizes Rocky, Scarface and the guys from "The Godfather" because they were self-made men. And he's particularly susceptible to a get-rich-now seminar hosted by infomercial king Johnny Wu (a perfectly cast Ken Jeong).
So when Victor Kershaw (Tony Shalhoub), one of his smarmier Sun Gym clients, won't stop flaunting his wealth — after all, he owns the Schlotzsky's by the airport — Lugo decides that the fastest way to achieve the American dream is to steal it.
He enlists Doyle and Doorbal for what should be a simple snatch-and-grab, thinking they can kidnap Kershaw, have him sign over his fortune and then set him free without him ever learning their identities.
After a couple of failed attempts involving ridiculous costumes, hand signals and tactics gleaned from action movies, and less-than-superior logic — Lugo tells his cohorts the Delta Force could conduct the raid they're planning in 53 seconds, but with the trio's superior athleticism, it should only take them 40 — they get their man.
They just have no idea what to do with him once they have him.
Wahlberg, who packed on so much muscle for the role that he looks like a special effect, makes for an enjoyably dim ringleader — the kind who takes time to "get a pump" in the middle of cleaning up a crime scene.
But as both the team's strongest member and its weakest link, Johnson is a revelation.
Wearing a succession of religious-themed T-shirts stretched across his massive chest, Johnson sinks his teeth into his best, most-layered role yet.
When Kershaw becomes convinced he's not going to make it out alive, he lashes out at Johnson's Doyle by declaring, "When I get to heaven, I'm gonna tell Jesus what you did." Doyle's frightened response —
"You're not gonna tell Jesus anything!" — is delivered with such childlike conviction, it's hard not to root for the big galoot.
If this were "Of Mice and Muscleheads," Johnson would be playing Lennie Small.
But just when you think "Pain & Gain" couldn't possibly get any darker than having a victim held hostage for weeks and beaten with sex toys (don't ask), it does.
Exponentially so.
As over-the-top as things ultimately get — seeing Lugo and Doorbal return a chain saw clogged with human hair to Home Depot isn't even the apex of its wrongness — "Pain & Gain" is based on a true story.
Screenwriters Christopher Markus and Stephen McFeely (the "Captain America" movies) adapted Pete Collins' Miami New Times articles, and Bay goes to great lengths to remind you that what you're seeing really happened. He even interrupts a particularly outrageous scene with the onscreen title, "This is still a true story."
It's that kind of movie.
And it doesn't always work.
For one thing, there are so many voiceovers and inner monologues that much of "Pain & Gain" could double as a radio play.
But there's enough that does — especially Johnson's character work, a low-key turn by Ed Harris as a private investigator and some laughs from Rebel Wilson as Doorbal's penis nurse — to hold out hope that Bay can continue down this more-ambitious, less-commercial (at least for him) path.
Just as soon as he and Wahlberg finish shooting "Transformers 4."
Christopher Lawrence is the movie reviewer for the Las Vegas Review-Journal. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com


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THE ENTERTAINING ISSUE - November December Issue 2018
Bruno Bloody Beets Barbabietola
Sept/Oct 2011
From Pierre Lamielle, chef, author, from his clever, cheeky book Kitchen Scraps
Unless you are lucky enough to have someone like Bruno to do your dirty work, you are going to have to get your own hands dirty with this job. The hours are long, but the result is bloody good risotto, and it will certainly be a good opportunity to prove dedication to the family. When handling the beets try some rubber gloves or risk getting caught red-handed.
8 tiny red beets, peeled and halved
8 c. water with 2 T. kosher or sea salt
3 T. olive oil
1 white onion, finely chopped
3 garlic cloves, finely minced
2 c. arborio rice
1 cup red wine
3 T. butter
splash of red wine vinegar
salt to taste
8 oz. ricotta (for homemade ricotta, see recipe below
1/2 c. toasted pine nuts or hazelnuts
fresh-cracked pepper and olive oil
Get two large pots on the stove. Put the beet halves in one of the pots and cover with the water and salt. Bring to a boil on high, then reduce to medium heat. Usually you would use stock to make risotto, but the water the beets are cooking in will also act as the risotto's flavour and colour enhancer.
Place the other pot over medium, heat the oil, and sweat the onions and garlic until soft and translucent, stirring with a wooden spoon. Add the arborio and stir to coat the individual grains with oil. Add the red wine, and stir until the boozy smell evaporates.
Now add 1 ladleful of the hot beet-cooking liquid, and stir to distribute. When the liquid evaporates a bit and the rice is no longer soupy you can ladle in more beet water. Continue this progression of ladling and stirring and ladling and stirring until all the beet water has been used and the rice is creamy and cooked with just a little bite to it.
With only the beets left in the pot, add the butter and sauté until the beets are well covered and glossy. Add a splash of red wine vinegar and a sprinkle of salt to taste.
Serve the risotto in shallow bowls with 4 pieces of beet arranged on top, a scoop of ricotta, and a scattering of toasted nuts. Finish it off with a good crack of black pepper and a drizzle of olive oil.
Serves 6 bloody-hungry family members.
Making the Ricotta:
Try making your own ricotta sometime. It's not really about saving money (only about $1 per batch) but more about the flavour, which is awesome if you use organic milk. Plus you can add flavours of your own.
Place 16 c. (4 quarts) of whole milk in a large pot and bring to a light simmer. Add 1/4 c. of vinegar (plain white vinegar is the most neutral, but you can use any kind, and even lemon juice) and stir it once. Remove from the heat and put a lid on it. Let it sit for 1 hour.
Place a colander in a large bowl, and line the colander with a double layer of cheesecloth.
In the pot, the milk will have separated into cheese curds. Gently transfer the curds using a slotted spoon to the colander, making sure to get every last ricotta nugget.
Allow the ricotta to drain for at least an hour or overnight in the fridge, depending on how firm and dry you want it.
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WASHINGTON, DC--(Marketwired - May 14, 2014) - The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) congratulates member Dean Baquet on being named Executive Editor of The New York Times, effective Wednesday.
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Dave Reid, the general manager over at KVOS-TV, is familiar with wrestling and says the "evolution" of the sport is what has traditionally kept local TV stations from carrying any kind of local wrestling show. "Wrestling has been a popular form of entertainment since ancient times," Reid said in a recent interview. "In the early days of television, wrestling was featured as a weekly staple. In those days, a strong fan base was created, but the product began to lose credibility as the promoters took over. Then, the environment surrounding the wrestling events became less family-friendly, and as a television programming product, television stations such as KVOS became uncomfortable carrying the wrestling events."
Long-time wrestling fans willremember the glory days of All-Star Wrestling -- the televised wrestling show which aired Saturdays on BCTV until the '80s. In the wrestling universe, those days were like a different galaxy, explains the co-promoter of TRW, Layne Fontaine.
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"TRW has kept their product clean and family friendly," Reid said. "The people associated with the events in Abbotsford are honorable, and are determined to keep the venue family friendly. KVOS saw an opportunity to become the medium of delivery of this great product into the homes of many formerly disenfranchised fans who would love to see clean wrestling back on television."
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"I will do whatever it takes to make this work," he promised. "The local indy wrestling scene has needed this for a long time." Doing "whatever" is going to mean putting some of MacDonald's other projects on hold for a bit -- including collecting news video. "This going to take all my time to get this off the ground, but that's okay. I have a never-say-die attitude and I am used to working around the clock to get a project completed."
TRW is busily preparing as well. While certain technical aspects of putting on their shows may change, the promotion has not forgotten what brought them to the dance. "If it ain't broke, don't fix it," Fontaine said, echoing the promotion's philosophy. Still, putting on a wrestling show is a lot of work. And a spot on TV isn't necessarily the magic bullet that will return wrestling to its glory days.
"Being on TV is certainly progress," Fontaine continued, "but it's not everything. We still have to put up posters and promote the local shows. If anything, we have to work twice as hard now. We're going to make this work."
Because it's not like KVOS has just given TRW and Kevin MacDonald a free pass. "The conditions of the deal are simply that Kevin's production company will deliver a clean, well-produced hour of wrestling," Reid explained. "The program will meet FCC standards, and will be technically sound."
MacDonald says fulfilling that promise won't be an issue. "As long as it stays family friendly and we stick to what our philosophy is, we'll have no problems." MacDonald also says that helping KVOS sell ads during their one-hour time slot will be a huge plus as well. But he is eagerly anticipating the opportunity to give local wrestling fans what they want. "The fans will get interviews and instant replays, so it should be a fun show to watch. I know I'm looking forward to producing it and working with the wrestlers."
And Dave Reid is looking forward to giving local athletes the opportunity to shine and presenting a once-vilified sport the opportunity to shine again. "KVOS is pleased to bring wrestling back to the fans of Abbotsford, the Fraser Valley, and the Lower Mainland of Vancouver," he said.
For those wishing to take part in this experience, TRW will begin taping its shows starting with their July 2nd show in Abbotsford. Fans are welcome to come and watch the shows live - the more, the merrier. Fontaine promises a fun, entertaining and family-friendly show for all that attend. The way he sees it, they deserve at least that.
"The fans are also what got us on T.V.," he said. "Ultimately, what's best for the fans is what is best for us."
Fred Johns lives in Port Coquitlam, B.C., and is the editor of the SomethingCool.ca website. He can be reached at email@example.com.


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Genealogy: The "Hip" FactorHas anyone else noticed how "hip" genealogy is lately? The celebs are all over it, the new FamilySearch.org site got a sleek makeover, and Season 2 of The Generations Project features some really interesting stories. What's going to be cool next, canning?
(Oh, wait. It is.)
No doubt about it, genealogy is going artsy.
For instance, a quick look on etsy.com (an online flea market/craft bazaar) shows you just how cool family history has become, especially in the gift/design/home decor world.
Like this interesting typographical take on a family tree (customized version available here):
Is your family more of the whimsical type? You can get a family portrait in Russian Doll format:
Silhouetting is big lately, and now you can get custom silhouettes made of your family members for about $15 bucks each. Might make a great Mother's day gift?
This 3-D family portrait takes the cake for originality. And tangibility. Plus little kids will love these. Love to chew on them, that is. And probably throw them when they're mad at you. Ah, families.
And best of all, here's a cute customizable family tree that's free! There are a few cool designs to pick from and you can share it on your blog or Facebook page, or print it off and frame it.
Which of these would you love to put in your house or on your wall?
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synchronizer, on Nov 16 2008, 01:14 PM, said:
Honestly, Apple moved off PPC 2 years ago - less and less software is going to use it now, and next to no new software is going to. As a Mac user, you should be expecting to have to buy new hardware to keep running Apple's stuff - this isn't the first time this has happened, no? Look up the 68k --> PPC transition.
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Verizon CFO Fran Shammo revealed today that iPhone 5 is still on track to be a dual-mode CDMA/GSM world phone, and additionally that it will ship at the same time as the AT&T and other GSM versions.
When the next iPhone model launches Verizon will be able to offer it at the same time as AT&T. Verizon's version will also work in as many countries as AT&T's iPhone, which has global coverage, Shammo said.
Verizon began selling the Verizon iPhone 4 some 8 months after the AT&T version, and almost 4 years after the first iPhone debuted on AT&T. So for those worried there might be another delay between GSM and CDMA release dates, you can rest a little easier. (Unless Apple obliterates Verizon for leaking this...)
As previously suspected, LTE still looks to be off the table until 2012, and Verizon was happy enough to throw Apple under the bus for that one as well.
"I think it's a bigger issue for Apple than it is for us," he said. "Depending on where Apple plays, that's where we'll sell."
Apple has commented in the past that current LTE radios require too many compromises when it comes to battery life.
Lastly, tiered pricing is still on its way to Verizon this summer, so get your unlimited data early if you want to be grandfathered in.
Would a hybrid iPhone 5 on Verizon that could roam internationally be a better draw than an AT&T iPhone 5 that couldn't do CDMA in the USA?
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All Red and Ready-to-Go Pizza
Put the flat bread spread with the toppings on a toaster oven tray and use the "top brown" setting. It's ready when the cheese bubbles, in three to five minutes.
Amish Potatoes with Lima Beans
Cubed potatoes are sautéed with onions and lima beans and seasoned with parsley and paprika.
Apple Carrot Salad
Perfect combination of fall flavors
Apple Coffee Cake
This cake gets its moistness from the apples and raisins, so it requires little oil.
Barley Pilaf
This is a lovely side dish for chicken or fish.
Base for a Variation on Hummus
Keep this on hand for a quick meal, or prepare in batches to give as gifts.
Blender Bean Dip
Process the beans and spices in a blender, then refrigerate until ready to serve with baked corn chips or toasted whole-wheat pita triangles.
Blueberry Banana Smoothie
Bananas that are getting past ripe work perfectly in smoothies. Peel them, wrap them in plastic, and freeze them.
Blue-Green Canapés
Healthy appetizers for you and your guests.
Broccoli and Walnut Salad
This nutty salad is chock full of vegetables and complementary flavors.
Bronzed Mushrooms
Fabulous creamed mushrooms that can be served over toast, pasta, chicken, or beef.
Carrot Oat Bran Muffins
Applesauce adds moistness without fat. A non-nutritive sweetener also cuts the calories.
Cheddar-Vegetable Surprise
Each serving contains about 202 calories, 10 g protein, 4 g fat (18 percent calories from fat), 4 mg cholesterol, 33 g carbohydrates, 4 g fiber, and 551 mg sodium.
Ciabatta Pizza
Ciabatta, the Italian flat bread popular in toasted sandwiches, makes a handy pizza base. You can reduce the carbs and calories slightly by pulling out some of the soft interior.
Classic Tomato Sauce
A 1/2-cup serving of the basic sauce contains approximately 71 calories, 3 g protein, 2 g fat, and 12 g carbohydrates.
Do-It-Yourself Minestrone Soup
In a large pot, heat oil over medium-high heat. Add onion, carrots, celery, garlic, and pot herbs.
Do-It-Yourself Trail Mix
Toss wheat cereal and cashews with raisins, dried blueberries, dried cranberries, or chopped dried apricots.
Florentine-Swiss Omelet for One
Two eggs, shredded spinach, and reduced-fat Swiss are perfect partners.
Fresh Cranberry Applesauce
Cook chopped apples and cranberries in the microwave for four minutes. Then stir in sugar or sweetener and mash with a fork to desired consistency.
Fresh Lemon Broccoli Pesto-Style Sauce
Put all ingredients in blender and blend for about 20 seconds. If mixture is too thick, add a little more vegetable broth. Serve hot or cold.
Fresh Mushroom Sauce
Pour over pasta or serve with grilled meat, chicken, or fish.
Fresh Tomato Sauce
Mix all ingredients and refrigerate until ready to use, or use immediately. To make the dipping sauce, put it in a blender and blend on high about 10 seconds.
Fruited Buckwheat Pancakes
Add chopped peaches after you have poured the pancakes on the griddle.
Fruity Nutty Spinach
A salad that provides a host of health benefits.
Garlic Walnut Sauce
This is a great sauce for meat, fish, fowl, or pasta. You can also use it as a spread for crackers or bread.
Garlic Whipped Potatoes
Boil potatoes with garlic, then mash with sour cream, and whip until smooth.
Go Swiss with Rosti
Rosti has been called the national dish of German-speaking Switzerland. Rosti is similar to hash browns and is usually topped with cheese.
Herb Roasted Potatoes
Roast new potatoes with fresh rosemary and a little olive oil.
Lima Bean, Mushroom, and Barley Soup
A protein-packed vegetable soup.
Mediterranean Vegetable Strata
Bake at 350 degrees for 45 minutes and let sit for 10 minutes before serving.
Mushroom Barley Soup
A fast and delicious meal that's perfect for lunch or dinner.
Oriental Greens
After combining ingredients, cover and chill for two hours before serving.
Pear and Quinoa Salad
A salad that's packed with protein.
Pineapple Smoothies
Just three ingredients: pineapple chunks, vanilla yogurt, and ice. Quick and yummy!
Pink Lemonade
Turn your lemonade pink with fresh, ripe strawberries.
Pitcher-Perfect Iced Tea
You can use regular, decaffeinated, or herbal tea. Let it steep for five to seven minutes.
Polenta with Peppers and Cheese
Southwestern flavors add flare to this easy favorite.
Raspberry Mustard Dip
You can buy ready-made raspberry mustard, but you won't find the depth of flavor you get when you mix your own.
Red Rosemary Vinegar
To prepare as a gift, strain the vinegar into pretty bottles. Add a fresh sprig of rosemary to each.
Roasted Asparagus
Roast for 15 to 20 minutes (depending on thickness of asparagus), shaking once to turn spears. Pour on balsamic vinegar and serve hot or at room temperature.
Roasted Asparagus and Mushrooms with Rosemary
Roasting really brings out the flavors of this delicious combination.
Roasted Vegetables
Roast carrots, turnips, squash, and garlic for about an hour, stirring once or twice.
Seedless Raspberry Sauce
This takes some patience, but you will be rewarded with a rich, seedless sauce, perfect for topping anything from fruit, to meat, to chocolate cake!
Skillet Zucchini with Chopped Tomatoes
Fast and easy side dish that's ready in minutes.
Spicy Asian Veggie Pasta
Serve this dish hot, at room temperature, or chilled as a side dish—to grilled salmon, for instance.
Stacked Fruit Salad for One
Cover the salad loosely and refrigerate, unless you're ready to eat it at once.
Strawberry Spinach Salad
Sweet and savory combine into a delicious Spring salad.
Strawberry Spread
A healthy topper for toast, waffle or pancakes.
Strawberry-Kiwi Spritzer
For a cool, summer drink, mash kiwi and strawberries and mix with plain seltzer and ice.
Stuffed Peppers
This meal is generally lightly seasoned, which allows each diner to add condiments to individual taste.
Summer Squash Saute
This recipe takes about 10 minutes to cook, once you've cut all your vegetables. It's a good dish to top pasta or serve with grilled chicken, lean beef, or salmon.
Summer Vegetable Curry
Serve with hot rice and garnish with fresh chopped cilantro.
Tofu Stir-Fry
This dish takes only minutes to prepare. Shrimp are a nice addition.
Topped Potatoes
Sour cream or butter taste delicious on baked potatoes, but they come with a price: Both contain saturated fat and cholesterol. Here's a healthy, and tasty, alternative topping for your next baked potato.
Tortilla Pizzas
Low-calorie, kid-friendly recipe that provides 1 cup of healthy vegetables per serving!
Updated Macaroni and Cheese
A healthier version of an all-time family favorite.
Vegetable Dip Mix
These ingredients are in the right proportions for one batch of dip mix. For a gift jar, keep adding a round of all five ingredients until you have enough to fill the jar.
Vegetable Tart
Pre-bake the crust, then spoon in the filling and top with shredded cheese.
Vegetarian Chili
Textured vegetable protein makes this dish a hearty vegetarian meal.
Whole-Grain Party Mix
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New York Knicks Get Right Formula in Post D'Antoni Era
NEW YORK – While all eyes may have been on former coach Mike D'Antoni and his new team the Los Angeles Lakers Tuesday night, it is his former team the New York Knicks who have found the right formula.
The superstar wants to be more than just a scorer. The role players are committed to being good defenders and better teammates. The old guys play the game with an old-school mentality. The coach holds everyone accountable for stopping his man, no matter who he is.
Yes, these Knicks are doing everything it takes to be a contender.
"We're playing for something, guys," coach Mike Woodson said. "We're trying to stay at the top, we're trying to win our division, and host first round at home."
The Knicks used to have similar lofty goals, but that was long ago. Expectations had fallen so low that when the Knicks finally won a playoff game last spring, snapping an NBA-record, 13-game postseason losing streak that lasted more than a decade, streamers rained down from the Madison Square Garden rafters as if they were celebrating a championship, instead of just avoiding a sweep in a first-round series.
Miami eliminated New York a couple of nights later, and the Knicks spent the offseason building a team they felt could compete with the Heat on the court, even if not in the headlines and highlights.
Woodson was given the job full-time after replacing Mike D'Antoni on an interim basis last March. He told Carmelo Anthony to come back in better shape, sent Amare Stoudemire out to expand his game, and asked for veteran players to fill the numerous holes that were on the roster.
But for me to be able to go out there and say today I'm going to lead my team, I'm going to defend, I'm going to help out, I'm going to sacrifice something out there on the basketball court, that was my motivation.
The Knicks were ridiculed when they assembled the oldest team in NBA history, adding players such as Jason Kidd, Marcus Camby and Kurt Thomas before Woodson lured the 38-year-old Rasheed Wallace out of a two-year retirement. But look around the locker room, Wallace said Sunday following an 88-76 victory over Indiana. Tyson Chandler and Camby have been Defensive Players of the Year, defense has always been Woodson's specialty and some of the newcomers' strength, so apparently the Knicks knew what they were doing.
"It's just a matter of time before everyone buys into it, and once we all do, it's going to be hellacious," Wallace said.
At 7-1, the Knicks are off to their best start since winning their first seven games of the 1993-94 season. The 1990s Knicks were beloved in New York, a rugged team built around Patrick Ewing that worked its way toward the top one defensive stop at a time.
But the Knicks got away from that under Isiah Thomas, who kept adding scorers such as Stephon Marbury, Steve Francis and Eddy Curry while never grasping how to build a team. Former president Donnie Walsh and D'Antoni cleaned up the mess, but neither stayed long enough to finish the job, and D'Antoni and Anthony couldn't make things work last season before the coach resigned.
Anthony seems dedicated to doing more this season, defending bigger players while sliding into the power forward spot in the injured Stoudemire's absence, even diving into the second row trying to save a ball he had batted away in a victory over Philadelphia.
"With the team I have, everybody knows I can score the basketball, that's a no-brainer," Anthony said. "But for me to be able to go out there and say today I'm going to lead my team, I'm going to defend, I'm going to help out, I'm going to sacrifice something out there on the basketball court, that was my motivation, especially coming off of last season and the season before last. To approach this season as a new beginning for me. My focus is extremely high right now."
Woodson's response to Anthony's defensive light going on?
"He's supposed to play defense. I mean, he's no different from the last guy that comes off the bench," Woodson said. "Everybody's supposed to play defense. I mean it's not just the star. If you're committed and you're all about team, you're supposed to play defense when you're out there. Everybody. It's a team effort."
D'Antoni never had the proper roster for his system, and Larry Brown and Thomas had mismatched ones before him, but Woodson seems perfect for this group. Thought to be just a placeholder until the Knicks made a run at Phil Jackson or some other big name last summer, he's gone 25-7 in the regular season, and the players seem loyal to him and his values, a welcome change after the Marbury-Brown, Marbury-Thomas, or Anthony-D'Antoni soap operas.
"He's implemented principles and that's what we're going to stand by throughout the year," Chandler said.
There will be rough patches. The Knicks will have to fit Stoudemire in at some point when his knee is healthy, and though the old guys haven't looked old yet, check back in the spring. Still, hard-nosed defense and unselfish play have been a winning formula around here before, and the Knicks are seeing the benefit of getting back to it.
"I think we believe in one another. I don't want to say it's a surprise," Kidd said of the Knicks' success. "I think with the knowledge and the understanding of the game and the principles that Coach has put out for us, I think guys have picked it up quickly and it's kind of fun as you can see."
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Call of Duty: Ghosts Trailer: DLC Trades out Dogs for Aliens
In just a few days, Onslaught, the first downloadable content map pack for Call of Duty: Ghosts will be released, and with Onslaught, comes Nightfall. Infinity Ward has just released a new trailer about the first story-based episode of Call of Duty: Ghosts' Extinction mode.
The video tells the backstory of the monsters featured in Extinction mode and how they came about, hinting that the aliens you previously encountered were just the beginning. Apparently, alien samples were sent to a research lab in Alaska, and those samples woke up, multiplied and are on a rampage. All the drones, perks and various unlocked weapons you have accumulated throughout Ghosts aren't going to be enough to combat these alien forces. That's why Infinity Ward has included some new alien weaponry for you to use in order to fight back, and based on the size of some of these aliens, you're going to need it.
The Onslaught map pack, featuring Extinction mode's Chapter 1: Nightfall DLC, will be available to download on Jan. 28 exclusively for the Xbox 360 and Xbox One. Onslaught will be available for other platforms at a later date. It will also be included as a part of the Season Pass for Call of Duty: Ghosts.


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President Obama has extended federal benefits to same-sex spouses of military veterans, the Justice Department announced.
The move comes after the Supreme Court struck down a major provision of the Defense of Marriage Act -- which defined marriage as between a man and a woman -- though the law did not apply to veterans benefits specifically. Federal statute defining benefits to veterans did not simply say "marriage" or "spouse," as did the more than 1,000 laws affected by the DOMA decision; instead, the U.S. code explicitly stated the following for veterans: "The term 'spouse' means a person of the opposite sex who is a wife or husband."
"Although the Supreme Court did not directly address the constitutionality of the Title 38 provisions in Windsor [v. United States], the reasoning of the opinion strongly supports the conclusion that those provisions are unconstitutional under the Fifth Amendment," Attorney General Eric Holder wrote in a letter to congressional leaders explaining the decision.
The Veterans Affairs Department was among the last holdouts in the federal government to extend benefits to same-sex spouses, with the Office of Personnel Management and Defense Department already issuing guidance extending benefits to legally married same-sex couples.
The announcement comes after a federal judge recently ruled a married same-sex couple in California was eligible for extra benefits reserved for married veterans. In July, House Republicans -- who sponsored the DOMA defense in the Supreme Court -- said they would no longer defend the statute prohibiting the extension of veterans' benefits to same-sex spouses.
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LeaseMunky necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 233 diseños de 42 diseñadores freelance.
LeaseMunky / http://www.LeaseMunky.com
LeaseMunky is a rental service to both renters and landlords. Operating as a residential leasing company, we are able to stay nimble and cover a wide market area without being tied down to any certain region, such as large management companies are. By providing ONLY leasing services, we are able to devote all staff and marketing dollars towards what we do best: delivering high quality rentals to high quality tenants.
State of the Company:
As of summer 2009, we are a startup company in Los Angeles focusing on a few sub-markets for now, but gaining ground quickly. Our vision is to eventually be nationwide, but our model is of smart growth (and not necessarily fast). After Los Angeles County and Orange County -- we are looking to move into Hawaii, Oahu to be specific.
higher-end renters, younger to older professionals, property owners
How is LeaseMunky different?
Our culture is inherently different from the competition by the quality of our inventory: we embrace our unique ability to "turn down business." We will only list a rental if it meets certain quality standards, which we set by unit amenities as well as location desirability. Most other rental services will take anything under the sun as long as the landlord can pay to list it. We prefer to take in less business but retain a higher quality inventory.
Solution: The LeaseMunky Vision
We visualize a rental destination for renters. Whether you have lived in the area forever or are an out-of-towner -- LeaseMunky.com will be the first place you begin your rental search. Instead of carrying every vacancy available, we will carry only a few listings in each GOOD neighborhood. Each listing will be a good deal.
Simplifying your rental search, that is our vision.
The LeaseMunky logo should:
appeal most to renters, young to middle-aged professional crowd, without being too cute to alienate a 65+ owner of a $5m Brentwood home.
be somewhat abstract but must obviously be "monkey" related
invoke a professional & "cool" feel
be simple & scalable
still invoke the same feeling if black & white
Here is a link to 3 "munky" logos I like: http://picasaweb.google.com/trojant…nkeyLogos#
The "DrunknMunky" logo is one of my all time favorite monkey logos. I like the YellowMonkey logo (came from 99Designs too!) b/c of it's simplicity and abstractness. TenMonkeys (99Designs too) makes good use of the company name tying it into the logo, but it's more playful than we want to be.
***Other than that, we don't have anything specific in mind.
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I told you not to get too excited. The next Uncharted game will be a "casino/card game", according to its Brazilian ratings clasification.
Called Uncharted: Fight for Fortune, it's for the PlayStation Vita, and given its lack of marketing to the point where it's being revealed by ratings boards, you can bet it'll be a fairly simple and cheap affair.
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text: McCormick USA Adds T-Max Series September 2, 2010 11:13 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By MyMachinery.com Editors Email The McCormick T-MAX Series features three models: T 90 Maz, T100 Max and T110 Max offering 70.5 to 86.5 PTO horsepower (83 to 102 engine horsepower.) Powered by 4-cylinder Perkins 1104D Tier 3 compliant diesel engines, a forward-tilting hood provides easy access to the engine for service and maintenance. The synchromesh transmission features four speeds in three. The standard 12+12 transmission offers a mechanical reverse shuttle. With an optional factory-installed creeper, the transmission is expanded to 16 forward and reverse speeds. Another option is a power shuttle transmission that provides 36 forward and 12 reverse speeds and allows the operator to change direction (forward to reverse) with a lever integrated into the steering column, without using the clutch pedal. The power shuttle transmission is also equipped with a de-clutch system, allowing the operator to change mechanical gears by depressing a button placed on the gearshift lever without using the clutch pedal. A factory-installed creeper is available, which expands the transmission to 48 forward and 16 reverse speeds. The hydraulic circuit provides a total flow of 21.7 gpm with up to four auxiliary hydraulic outlets. Operators can control two of the valves using control levers integrated in the console on the driver's right-hand side. Joysticks provide control to the other two valves for loader operation. With a lift capacity of 9590 lb. and draft control function on the lower links. Customers can choose between a 2WD and 4WD front axle. The 4WD front axle features electro-hydraulic engagement and offers a 55 degree steering angle. A 540 or 1000 rpm PTO is standard on the T-Max Series. The T-MaxSeries is available in either an open station or cab version. For more: www.mccormickusa.com Back to news


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Hi everybody,
I'm currently writing a thesis paper about the kitesurfing industry, but information about the industry is now where to be found. I searched online, used the school library database system, and even emailed Cabrinha and Naish. But i still can't find any statisics about the kitesurfing industry.
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What bugs people the most about grocery shopping? It's not the in-store Muzak or the occasional squished loaf of bread. It's the dreaded wait at the checkout line, according to Kroger customer surveys, prompting the supermarket chain to test a variety of technical solutions over the years. Kroger thinks it finally has the right mix of technology: QueVision, which combines infrared sensors over store doors and cash registers, predictive analytics, and real-time data feeds from point-of-sale systems.
From the moment customers walk through the door of a Kroger store, the QueVision technology works toward one goal: ensuring that they never have more than one person ahead of them in the checkout line. The technology, now deployed at more than 2,300 Kroger stores across 31 states, has cut the average wait time from more than four minutes to less than 30 seconds, the company says.
Kroger was doing data analytics simulations on the queuing problem as far back as 2007. "We asked a question: If we could open up a lane exactly when we needed it, what would happen?" says Doug Meiser, operations research manager. "We just wanted to ask the question from an analytics standpoint. And we found we could dramatically improve customer satisfaction." From there, he says, it became a matter of "the math is sound; how do we go do this?"
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Sensors, meet analytics. Brett Bonner, senior director of R&D at Kroger, says the key business metric is higher customer satisfaction levels. "We weren't interested in cutting [employee] hours," he says. "We were interested in a better shopping experience." Customer loyalty is especially key in the low-margin grocery business. (Kroger, with 2013 sales of $98.4 billion, operates throughout much of the US under various store names, including Ralph's and Harris Teeter.) "At the heart of loyalty is analytics," Bonner says. "We actually have a very long history with that."
Meiser's team did the discrete-event analysis, using a front-end simulator developed with Visual Thinking International. That simulator let the Kroger team adjust inputs such as store layout, staffing levels for cashiers and baggers, and historical transaction logs -- because factors such as time of day and time of month affect how people shop. Kroger's R&D group then partnered with Irisys, a maker of appliances and infrared sensors, to count customers entering the store and at checkout lanes.
The Kroger team combined its analytics-based forecasting tools and a tweaked version of the Irisys appliance to calculate the magic number of registers needed -- in real time and looking ahead 15 and 30 minutes.
Kroger already had custom reporting software (well-liked by managers because it was easy to use) that broke down key metrics by district and store, with the goal of "three mouse clicks to the store you're looking for," Meiser says. That software became the reporting back end for the new data on checkout wait times.
Kroger's R&D team began rolling out QueVision in select stores in 2010. Its retail operations team and store managers drove the project and enhanced it. "We had to install an enterprise system in a way that was seamless to the shopper," Bonner says. "That was a huge challenge. We spent about 18 months learning to do that. You just can't inflict an R&D system on a store."
The R&D team's original idea was to notify employees and managers of the wait-time data via handhelds. But a store manager's suggestion to
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Candidate presented by: John F. Bergstrom, Chair of the Board of Trustees
Elaine L. Chao was confirmed by the United States Senate in January 2001 as the nation's 24th Secretary of Labor. As Secretary of Labor, she directs one of the largest governmental regulatory departments with a $72.6 billion budget and responsibilities for such labor issues as worker safety, child labor, overtime pay, retirement benefits, and job training.
She is the first Asian American woman appointed to a President's cabinet in U.S. history. When President George W. Bush nominated Secretary Chao, he described her as an individual with "strong executive talent, compassion, and commitment to helping people build better lives." A dedicated champion of the nation's workforce, Secretary Chao is focused on carrying out the Department of Labor's mission of promoting and protecting the health, safety, retirement security, and competitiveness of our nation's workforce.
Secretary Chao's commitment to helping others stems from her background as an immigrant. She arrived in the United States at the age of eight from Taiwan speaking no English. Unable to understand her lessons at school, she quietly copied every letter from the blackboard to her notebook. Then she would wait – often late into the night -- until her father, who worked three jobs, came home to their one bedroom apartment in Queens and explained what the words meant.
Her experience in transitioning to a new country — supported by family, friends, and neighbors — inspired her to dedicate her professional life to ensuring that people have the opportunity to pursue lives of dignity and financial independence.
Under her leadership, the Labor Department set new worker protection records through targeted enforcement efforts. The Department also championed comprehensive reform of the nation's publicly funded job training programs so it can better assist dislocated workers. In addition, Secretary Chao oversaw efforts to update the white collar exemption of the Fair Labor Standards Act, which provided millions of low-wage, vulnerable workers with strengthened overtime protections. For the first time in 40 years, the Department is enforcing the law requiring unions to file annual financial disclosure forms. This gives rank and file members better information about how their dues are spent. To better protect workers, the Department launched a compliance assistance program to help employers and unions understand and comply with the nation's numerous, complex labor laws.
These accomplishments build on Secretary Chao's record of public, private, and non-profit sector leadership. Prior to her service as Secretary of Labor, she served as President and Chief Executive Officer of United Way of America. In that position, by initiating fiscal reforms and rebuilding connections with estranged local chapters, she restored public trust and confidence in the nation's largest institution of private charitable giving, which had been tarnished by previous mismanagement and financial abuse.
As Director of the Peace Corps, Secretary Chao was responsible for establishing the agency's presence in the Baltic nations of Latvia, Lithuania, and Estonia as well as in several of the newly independent states of the former Soviet Union: Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, and Uzbekistan.
Prior to her service as Director of the Peace Corps, Secretary Chao had been Deputy Secretary at the U.S. Department of Transportation, Chairman of the Federal Maritime Commission, Deputy Maritime Administrator in the U.S. Department of Transportation, and a White House Fellow. Her private sector experience includes serving as Vice President of Syndications at BankAmerica Capital Markets Group and as a banker with Citicorp. Prior to her nomination as Secretary, she was a Distinguished Fellow at The Heritage Foundation.
Secretary Chao earned her M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School and her undergraduate degree in economics from Mount Holyoke College. She has received numerous awards for her professional accomplishments and public service. She is the recipient of 27 honorary doctoral degrees from colleges and universities around the world.
Because of her meritorious public service on behalf of the people of our nation and her commitment to helping those in need, Reverend President, I hereby recommend Elaine L. Chao for the Marquette degree of Doctor of Laws, honoris causa.