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Tickets for the 113th Monon Bell Classic between Wabash College and DePauw University are now on sale at the Wabash Bookstore.
Tickets are priced at $15 for the November 11th meeting between the two schools at Byron P. Hollett Little Giant Stadium. Kickoff is scheduled for 1 p.m.
Wabash "W" pass holders can also receive their single complimentary ticket at this time. Contact the bookstore at 765-361-6406 or stop by between the regular business hours of 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. to receive a "W" pass ticket. "W" pass holders have already received a letter explaining the ticket procedure. Pass holders have until October 13 to get their Bell ticket.
Tickets for the general public are now available. Orders can be placed online from the Wabash College Bookstore web site. An $8 postage and handling fee will be charged for all online VISA and MasterCard orders. Orders will be mailed via UPS to arrive before the game on November 11. Online tickets can also be held for will-call pickup the day of the game at no extra cost.
Tickets can also be purchased in person during regular weekday bookstore business hours (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) and Saturday's of home football games. Questions regarding online orders can be made by calling the bookstore at 765-361-6406.
Wabash students, faculty, and staff may also pick up their tickets from the bookstore beginning Wednesday. Each Wabash student receives one complimentary ticket and may purchase any additional tickets beginning Wednesday morning. Faculty and staff receive one complimentary ticket in addition to a complimentary ticket for a spouse or significant other. Complimentary tickets are available until Wednesday, November 8.
Tickets are sold on a first-come, first-served basis until the event is officially sold out. There is no exit and re-entry for the game. Tickets purchased from the Wabash Bookstore are for seating on the Wabash side of the field only. Tickets for the DePauw stands will be handled by DePauw University.


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Thursday, March 16, 2006
Starburst and Jelly Belly Jelly Beans
The traditional icon for Easter candy has always been Jelly Beans. I'm not sure when they were invented, but they're a great candy because they are their own wrapper. You can hold them in your hand and unless you're exceptionally sweaty, they don't melt. Back in the day jelly beans were like gumdrops and came in spice flavors. Sometime late in the last century this changed and spice beans fell out of favor and now just about all jelly beans are fruit flavored.
The Starburst Jelly Beans are really fruity flavored jelly beans. A little smaller than the old fashioned spice ones but not as small as a Jelly Belly. They come in Cherry, Strawberry, Green Apple, Orange, Lemon and Grape. Like Jelly Belly, the Starburst beans use both a flavored center and flavored shell to maximize the taste. The Starburst beans are zesty and fruity, with a nice ring of tart. The shell, though a little grainy at first when you chew it, dissolves nicely. The whole candy dissolves very well instead of sticking like the Jelly Belly tend to do. (Note: Starburst Jelly Beans are made in Mexico.)
Here's the array to match up the flavors of (Jelly Belly) and Starbursts for my taste test. From top left to lower right it goes: (Green Apple) Green Apple, (Blueberry) Grape, (Orange) Orange, (Strawberry Daquiri) Strawberry, (Lemon) Lemon, (Very Cherry) Cherry.
I've already said lots about the Jelly Belly. I think they're fantastic jelly beans. I don't really care for the flavor mix boxes, I prefer to pick out my own jelly bean flavors. I usually go with a citrus mix of the various lemons, orange, tangerine and grapefruit and maybe a little pina colada.
What I prefer about the Starburst is that there's just fewer flavors, and the colors are pretty easy to distinguish so there are no surprises. I found the cherry flavor okay and if I had to drop a flavor, it'd be the grape.
When I was at the store it was obvious that there's been an explosion of jelly bean brands. Everyone is making them now. You can get Lifesaver branded ones, Ferrara Pan, SweeTarts, Starburst has several other flavor mixes ... I could go on and on. If you're looking for value, well, the Starburst are FAR less expensive and with Easter candy half the fun is the insane quantity. Really, you can't go wrong with jelly beans. What I always liked about jelly beans is that they were a candy you could leave out, unwrapped, in a bowl or in the grass of your Easter basket and as long as they didn't get wet, they seemed to stay fresh forever. Well, I've never tested forever ... a jelly bean never lasted long in my house.
If you've tried these or one of the other brands of jelly beans, like SweeTarts or Lifesavers, what did you think?
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March 2008
Monday, March 31, 2008
Spring Candie's
As the weather gets warmer, I stop wearing socks and start thinking about cute open-toed shoes.
But I was really taken by this little Candie's(r) Short Trench Coat.
I'm not sure if I could carry off the yellow (they call it Banana Yellow), but I like the fact that it's cotton and machine washable.
It's marked down from $58 to $37.70. (It says imported, but doesn't say where it's imported from.)
I'd have to take a look at it in person to see if it was really as soft and comfy as I'd hope it to be.
I do know that I don't like the new shorts they're showing. (That everyone is showing.) Either make them capris or make them shorts, it's not some sort of fashion innovation to split the difference.
Yeah, there is no way I could pull that outfit off. (Come to think of it, nor would I want to.)
Now, this, this is more my style. The shoes are even on sale.
UPDATE 6:00 PM: Yes, it was an April Fool's joke. It was all my brother's idea. (You can see how it looked here.)
The regular edible candy reviews will resume tomorrow.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:13 pm
Cadbury Popping Mini Eggs
Amber, a dear reader from Toronto, came to Los Angeles over Easter weekend and was kind enough to run around to three stores before leaving Canada in search of a list o' candies from the Great White North. Her timing couldn't have been better for this one, the Cadbury Popping Mini Eggs which are pretty much what the name implies.
They're Cadbury Mini Eggs (a creamy milk chocolate egg with a crunchy shell) with a little bit of carbonated candy thrown in.
They look just like their non-bubbly counterparts, except they don't have the little speckles on them. They come in all the standard eraser colors: white, yellow, pink and turquoise.
I have to say that the bag is teensy and contains a rather small amount: 32 grams (1.13 ounces). The standard Canadian single serve bags are 39 grams. I guess instead of charging more for that special ingredient they just give you less.
Where the Pop Rocks Chocolate Bar had an odd texture because of the addition of Pop Rocks, these don't have that jarring granularity, because we're already accustomed to the crunchy bits of the shell.
After chewing a few times the chocolate melts away, it's sweet, creamy and a little malty ... then the popping starts. It's not a lot of popping, not as much as the Pop Rocks bar, but still a nice experience.
The regular packaging is purple, this is yellow, so it's hard to mistake one for the other on the shelves. And once you pop it in your mouth, well, it's the same sort of shocking difference.
I thought these were a bit of a novelty item, but I like it. I wouldn't want to have a huge 11 ounce bag of them, but a little handful brought a smile to my face.
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Friday, March 28, 2008
Snickers Rockin' Nut Road Bar
I know nothing about this bar except what is in front of me: Limited Edition Snickers Rockin' Nut Road Bar.
I got it directly from the Mars company, but no press materials. So all I have to go by is what's on the wrapper and of course what's inside that chocolate enrobing.
The package says: Almonds, Caramel and Marshmallow-Flavored Nougat wrapped in Dark Chocolate.
I was kind of dubious. I wasn't fond of the Hershey's S'Mores bar ... but that's S'Mores, this is Rocky Road, which has the addition of nuts and the subtraction of graham crackers.
Like all the limited edition Snickers bars, this is smaller than the regular, clocking in at 1.83 ounces instead of 2.07 for the original. I'm okay with the slight of .24 ounces, it's a satisfying bar, it says so right on the back.
It smells lightly of vanilla and dark toasted nuts with a touch of chocolate. The chocolate shell is decent, and sets off the sweet innards well. The caramel has a good mix of almond pieces in it, they're all fresh and crunchy and much more noticeable than those in the Snickers Almond. The nougat though is where this bar really differs from all others I've tried. It's not the grainy fluffed nougat that ends up in Milky Way and 3 Musketeers. Instead this is like a dense marshmallow. Smooth and not too sweet, a little stringy like the caramel.
It's a completely different texture experience with this smoother "marshmallow flavored nougat", kind of like real European-style nougats. (The ingredients list says egg whites, there is no gelatin in here like marshmallows have, so this is still vegetarian-safe ... and probably a nice option for vegetarians who miss marshmallows.)
Perhaps it's because I have a bounty of these bars and have eaten at least five for this review (instead of the usual 1 or 2 for most reviews), it's grown on me quite a bit. Dark chocolate was a good choice, it keeps it all from feeling heavy and sticky. Brian also liked them, but also stopped short of love (and I agree, regular Snickers is still the best.)
Still, I can't tell you where you can find them or when they'll be available. (Except, of course, from me if you read on.)
Here's a special peek into the life of a candy blogger.
On February 27th I got an email from someone at Mars, thanking me for my positive review on the Twix Java and offering, "I will be happy to send you samples of new products as they become available." (Emphasis mine.) She also mentioned that Mars has launched a new direct buy store, where you can pick up boxes of their candies, including the hard to find Munch and Snickers Dark. Instead of being more expensive than regular stores (like the M&Ms online store - $5.99 for 7 ounces of green M&Ms?) it's about $.68 cents a bar.
Well, I've been looking for an "in" with Mars for quite a while, as I'd love to know about the new releases and get them in advance of release (it's pretty frustrating to have people ask about something they found in the store, and I can't find it in any stores near me and no where to order it on the web). I do get some notice from PR folks, but it's not always consistent.
I replied with my address and reminded her that there is no need for thanks for any reviews, "I just call them like I taste them." (And it's not like I've raved about everything Mars has ever made, but in general I like their products and usually turn down offers for items I don't think I'd like.)
Then on March 5th I came home from work and found this in my kitchen. Perhaps I don't understand the term "samples" but even in the world of generous interpretations a single box of 24 bars would be an ample sample. A full case of the bars? (Yes, that's 12 boxes of Snickers Rockin' Nut Road Bars with 24 bars each = 288 bars.)
Plus a case of Twix Java! (360 bars.) And another more responsible box of 24 packages of Starbust GummiBurst (goo filled gummis) and another box of 24 Snickers Charged.
I wrote back to Mars, thanking them for their generosity, but gently nudging that I really don't know what to do with all that candy (seriously, almost 700 portions!). She responded, "Share with your friends "
So here I am, with oodles of candy. I've given away quite a bit, boxes to the office, a couple for raffle prizes for the American Cetacean Society, three to a neighbor to take to work.
It's drawing time.
I'm offering a box of candy bars (your choice: Twix Java with 36 bars or this new Snickers Rockin' Nut Road Bar with 24 bars - you can tell me which you want if you win). There will be two lucky winners of this drawing. The rules are as follows:
And there you have it, dear readers. With great candy comes great responsibility.
UPDATE 3/30/2008: Since this post has now been linked a couple of places (I kind of thought it was a treat for regular readers), I'm going to award three prize boxes instead of two if the entries reach 500. Just to keep the odds similar. (So if the deadline is coming and we haven't hit it yet, tell your friends!) Thanks to everyone new who's stopped by, I hope you keep reading!
UPDATE 4/9/2008: Thanks to everyone who entered. I drew three winners: Elise, Stijn & Donna ... two picked the Snickers Rockin' Nut Road Bars and one chose the Twix Java. They're all in the mail on their way to their recipients! To everyone else who is interested in trying the bars, they'll be available starting in July 2008 according to Mars. Comments are open again.
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Thursday, March 27, 2008
Cinnamon Fire Twizzlers
I teased Twizzlers Fire last fall when I first heard about them. Then I was further teased when Brian at Candy Addict found them (and loved them!) and I still hadn't seen hide nor hair of them.
They turned up at Walgreens, and on sale to boot (well, it was strange sale where they'd charge $2.99 a bag to mortals off the street, but someone with a coupon could get 3 for the price of 2 or something like that, but I was charged $1.59 after I gave them my best, "I don't understand, the tag on the shelf says they're a dollar each, but I don't want to buy three." and then they tried to explain it and I just kind of kept sweetly repeating that I should be able to just buy one and still get a sale price, even if it's not the super-low price. Finally they just put a key in the register and that's what I paid).
These Twizzlers are the pull-n-peel variety. They're a long, 9.5" long twist of 9 pieces of chewy "red licorice" in cinnamon flavor.
Each of these ropes is just shy of an ounce (.988 ounces), so it's a satisfying portion and about 100 calories to boot.
They're very soft, sometimes so soft that it's hard to pull apart the ropes without breaking off pieces.
They're fun to twist and roll, even tie in knots or probably do macrame. (I should have photographed the little scarf I made for a Peeps Bunny.)
And the taste? Well, it's definitely a spicy cinnamon. It smells like Red Hots and has both a sweet flavor, a bit of a tangy bite and then after chewing for a bit, a low and pleasant cinnamon burn.
I don't know what's taken Twizzlers so long to make a really good cinnamon twist like this, but I'm glad they did. For those minding their calories, you may enjoy the interactivity and the low caloric density and overall satisfaction of the candy. I'm not sure when they'll come out with these in single serving packages, but they should.
For some bizarro reason, these aren't listed on the Hershey's website even though they've been on shelves for at least three months.
These are made with a corn syrup and wheat base, so they're not suitable for those who cannot have gluten.
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Wednesday, March 26, 2008
Candy Tease: Edition Five
Here are some new candies that will be hitting store shelves soon:
Name: Jones Carbonated Sours
Name: Revved-Up Cinnamon Mentos
Name: Wiley Wallaby Australian-style Licorice
Name:Ritter Sport Peppermint
(images courtesy of the respective manufacturers)
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Perth's Fringe World is brimming with art entrepreneurs, says 720's cultural correspondent Victoria Laurie.
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Forget Perth's staid old mining magnates - the most uber-industrious Perthling entrepreneurs are performers in Fringe World, which began in earnest on Australia Day and ends on February 24.
The Twisted Sisters' Contortion Trio is a case in point - three leotarded young women who don't look at day over 15 or, indeed, likely to have ten dollars between them ("We're mostly uni students but SHE'S got a job!", gushes one girl).
On Fringe opening night, the trio were spruiking their show with the aplomb of old pros, handing out flyers for their 'Vintage Variety Hour' and contorting on cue for the crowds.
Elsewhere, Moya and boyfriend Ben were explaining that she directs, he helps with sets. Between them and their two flatmates, they are involved in no fewer than five Fringe festival shows. And all without an arts grant in sight.
The Fringe is on the R and D end of the art-making spectrum, the place where 2000 performers make spectacles of themselves for little or no money. Sometimes - as happened with Tim Minchin - a fringe gig leads to bigger things, like money and fame. Moya and Ben and the Twisted Sisters fervently hope so.
From a mere 900 performers last year, Fringe World has grown huge. Like King Kong, it is taking over the city. Not just the Urban Orchard and popular De Parel Spiegeltent, but a lively mini-city of new pop-up venues in the Perth Cultural Precinct, including a wonderful carousel island bar topped by a water fountain. Fringe World occupies other nooks and crannies in the city, and most are within a 10 minute walking radius.
Fringe World seems to vault over the dull old obstacles put in artists' way in Perth. Venues too big/expensive/decrepit? Why not import them from Holland? After all, says Fringe World director Marcus Canning, Sandgropers have been commingling with the Dutch since the Batavia and Vergulde Draeck (although two gruesome shipwrecks off the coast of WA doesn't seem such an auspicious analogy).
Canning went to Rotterdam last July for De Parade Festival, a travelling street festival produced by a prominent Dutch family. He convinced them to "do something they'd never done before - leave Holland for Australia." So youngest son Luc Brinkhoff has arrived with his dozen 'chuck-em-up' tent venues, Canning has added some novel lighting effects (lampshades made of plastic colanders and lurid shopping bags from Mrs Tran's Emporium) and venues have filled before you can say Dutch Gouda.
It gets back to entrepreneurial spirit and lateral thinking. Perth is changing fast, and many commentators have already observed that the Fringe caters to a fast-growing, dynamic demographic - hip Perthlings who want more fun in the state of flux that is Westralia. It's no coincidence that the median age of metropolitan Perth has dropped from 35 to 32 years of age.
This 'boutique festival at the end of the world', as Canning describes it, is selling out fast. Spend an evening wandering around watching the crowds, or buy a ticket - $20 or less - and catch a show. From festival favourites like Frisky and Mannish to new-kids-on-the-block like the Twisted Sisters, Fringe World is art entrepreneurship of the ultimate, fun kind.


text: AgDay Daily Recap - January 5, 2012 January 5, 2012 02:48 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By AgDay TV TODAY ON AGDAY JANUARY 5, 2012 ANTIBIOTIC BAN: Good morning. The Food and Drug Administration is setting up new antibiotic restrictions for America's livestock producers. The announcement came down Wednesday from federal drug regulators. Starting in April certain uses of the drug class cephalosporin will be prohibited. That tops our Beef Today Report. The FDA says cephalosporins are important antimicrobial drugs for treating diseases in both humans and animals. It's worried about bacteria developing resistance to the drug if overused. In humans, for example cephalosporins are used to treat pneumonia, skin and soft tissue infections. The FDA is prohibiting extra-label or unapproved uses of the drugs in cattle, swine, chickens and turkeys. Prohibited uses include: Using the drugs at unapproved levels, frequencies, durations or routes of administration. Using cephalosporins in those animals that are intended to be used in humans or dogs and cats. And thirdly, using the drugs for disease prevention. The order doesn't, however, limit the use an earlier form of the antibiotic. Veterinarians will still be able to prescribe the drugs for livestock as long as labels are followed. And they're also available for use in ducks and rabbits. The FDA initially proposed restrictions back in 2008 but withdrew the rule before it became effective. Late Wednesday the National Cattlemens Beef Association released a statement. Executive director of legislative affairs Kristina Butts responded saying and I quote, "Antimicrobial resistance is a complex, multi-faceted issue that affects human and animal health. That being said, there is no conclusive scientific evidence indicating the judicious use of antibiotics in cattle leads to antimicrobial resistance in humans." The NCBA says it plans to analyze the proposed order to make sure it's based on sound science. BTR CATTLE PRICES: Cattle prices are holding steady this week. On Tuesday Chicago MERC live cattle were up slightly at $121.62. Fed cattle were up nearly a dollar. January contracts closed at $147.75 per hundred. Forecasters say sluggish beef demand is keeping prices tempered to start the New Year. That's expected to improve in the months ahead. BTR EATING WEEDS: And a new report from the prairie star says it's possible to teach cattle to eat unwanted weeds. The research comes from the Montana Farmers Union and NRCS scientists in Colorado and Montana. Cows are put in groups and fed different mixtures, textures and types of feed over a series of days. At the end, weeds--like Russian thistle are introduced. After being turn back out the cows continue to eat the thistles, pods and all. Experts recommend confirming target weeds aren't toxic to the cattle long term. CONSERVATION RESERVE: Thanks Mike. Rising land values and strong commodity prices helped pull more land out of the USDA's conservation reserve program. Now with budget getting tight there's worry the program could lose funding. As Bob Ellison of the USDA reports, the department's conservation programs are the backbone of its efforts to address environmental concerns. TAX TIPS: In Agribusiness this morning we're continuing our tax tips for the pending tax season. Today Paul Neiffer--farm CPA and tax specialist--reminds our viewers about new tax credits available in 2012. ANALYSIS: Thanks Paul. In analysis this morning world markets are gearing up for the pending supply and demand report from the USDA. One of the questions, analysts hope to have answered is regarding carry over or grain stocks. That number will likely drive prices and planted acres in 2012. But can producers--even if they plant more corn--keep up with world demand. I recently spoke with Gary Sherrer of Informa Economics about improving productivity and yields and asked the question, are we slowing down or have we stalled out? IN THE COUNTRY; YOUNG ENTREPRENUERS: There are a few indicators the nation's economy is starting to turn around. But in order for growth to continue--it's going to innovation and an entrepreneurial spirit. That's why kids in some of the hardest hit economic parts of Kentucky are training and incentives to be the state's next entrepreneurs. Brad Beckman with the Kentucky College of Agriculture has the story. Thanks Brad. So far, 55 teachers in fifteen rural Kentucky counties are teaching the entrepreneurial curriculum. Up next a new study says dieters shouldn't skimp on lean meat or dairy. Food and Your Family is next. LEAN MEAT DIET: In Food and Your Family this morning new research says dieters shouldn't cut back on protein if they want a lean muscular body. The study comes from the journal of the American Medical Association. The research used three different diets for male and female volunteers aged 18-35. Protein in the diets were adjusted to low, medium and high. The results show people lose lean body mass--muscle and organ tissue-- on a low protein diet. But those on a high protein diet-- of lean meats or dairy-- saw their lean body mass improve...in spite of eating more calories for the studies. MEAT CASE: So when it comes to selecting lean meats, which product gets the largest portion? A new study done by the Beef Checkoff program, the National Pork Board and the sealed air's cryovac food packaging unit--found beef is still king of the case. The national meat case study--conducted every three years-- found a typical store features roughly 60 unique beef products. Researchers looked at retailers in 31 states. New trends to the meat case included more products showing up pre-wrapped and case ready, more retailers branding the product or selling it under a specific name, and a greater number of thin cut steaks...a favorite of the Hispanic market. CONTACT: We'd love to hear from you! Contact us at 800-792-4329. Or drop an email to email@example.com. You can also check us out on some of that new technology, at www.facebook.com/agday. Back to news


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Shot in Beverly Hills, Calif., this video extolling the virtues of Porsche's design language for the Porsche Panamera Sport Turismo Concept and shows the car in its natural habitat. That's because Beverly Hills is one of those places where a Panamera is as omnipresent as a Camry is everywhere else.
As the mansion-dwelling German designers featured in the video point out, this is one sexy partially-electric shooting brake. Perhaps you should build it, then, Porsche?


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It's not every undergraduate who has the chance to do research that will have a life-altering impact on thousands of people at risk from the side-effects of diabetes. But industrial engineering major Jennifer Badylak-Reals of Plymouth, New Hampshire did. She carried out key research for faculty member Jenna Marquard of the Mechanical and Industrial Engineering Department on a $2-million NIH project to develop special, low-cost, health-information technology, which allows diabetics to test their blood pressure in the comfort of home and then send those readings automatically to nurses so their medication can be adjusted as frequently as needed.
"One of my jobs was to create simple, step-by-step instructions for older patients who were not computer savvy," Badylak-Reals explains. "Even for me, it was a little complicated."
The integration system being tested, including Mircosoft Health Vault, teaches diabetics how to use a measuring device at home to monitor their blood pressure, a crucial reading which has many short- and long-term implications for any diabetic's overall heath. The blood-pressure instrument is plugged into a computer and feeds the readings automatically into each patient's centralized electronic health records, and from there is sent directly to the patient's clinicians.
Since the target population for Type 2 diabetics in this NIH study tends to be older and less familiar with technology, the task of Badylak-Reals was especially critical. She identified potential issues for people with limited computer skills, created strategies to improve their comprehension of the instructions, such as adding step-wise procedures or pictures, and developed a survey of the participants to assess the effectiveness.
Never assume that one life-changing experience was enough to quench her thirst to become a well-rounded industrial engineer. In fact, during her four years at the College of Engineering, she also participated in a range of other important learning experiences, including working one summer internship at the Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, another at Berry Plastics in Easthampton, Mass., and staying active in the UMass Amherst chapter of the Society of Women's Engineers.
Among her other duties at the Children's Hospital, Badylak-Reals constructed a task list for the Child Life division based on observation of all work performed daily, gathered productivity data in Microsoft Access, designed standardized, step-by-step, maintenance plans for acuity and productivity tools for the medics, and worked up reasonable standards for the number of tasks to be performed by these clinicians each day.
"It's a big research hospital, and one issue is that they had a lot of tasks to do in addition to their clinical work with the children," explains Badylak-Reals. "So they wanted to set up a standard for the workloads that their clinicians were doing. It would make sure that they were doing a standard amount of work, but also make certain they weren't being overworked, because of all the extra research-related tasks they had to perform. That was the big issue for them, being overworked."
Her other summer internship was something completely different. At Berry Plastics, she tackled a large tool room that basically hadn't been reorganized in decades and ultimately created a clean, well-marked, safe, and updated tooling area with a concise product spec book.
"The location of the tools was unmarked," she recalls, "and new employees had a really hard time finding the tools they needed. So I had to begin by inventorying the whole tool room, marking where all the tools were located, and organizing the whole place. Then I went back to the computer and marked the reorganization on the computer, so it was all mapped out correctly, with the locations of tools labeled there."
For the past four years, Badylak-Reals has also been closely involved in the campus Society of Women Engineers (SWE), and is currently its president. Since SWE has thousands of professional branches made up of women in numerous industries, she has found her time with the campus chapter especially rewarding.
"One thing that was really neat for me was being part of this group made up of engineers and relaxing with them and doing a lot of mutual support," she says. "It really helps with professional networking too. I found that if I talk to any woman professionally who is a SWE member, then suddenly the doors are wide open there."
Just so she wouldn't feel bored while carrying out all these challenging extracurricular activities and maintaining an excellent 3.6 GPA in the demanding industrial engineering program, she has also played on the UMass Lady Zoo Ultimate Frisbee Team and participated in intramural basketball, soccer, and field hockey.
All this activity demonstrates that Badylak-Reals has learned her lessons as an industrial engineer quite well. How else could she have developed such an efficient, well-organized, cost-effective, safe plan for becoming a professional? (October 2012)


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Professor A. Rashad Abdel-khalik, Director
The Vernon K. Zimmerman Center for International Education and Research in Accounting was originally established in 1962 as the Center for International Education and Research in Accounting (CIERA), leading the nation in the study and teaching of international topics as they relate to the field of accounting.
The Zimmerman Center serves the academic and professional communities through leadership in international accountancy, business research, and educational support. The Center coordinates an annual symposium and, in the late 1990s, began cosponsoring the symposium with prominent international accounting research and practice groups. The International Journal of Accounting, coordinated and published by the Zimmerman Center, advances scholarly and professional understanding of accounting theory and practice from an international perspective. Published by Elsevier Science Inc. and edited by Professor A. Rashad Abdel-khalik and a number of internationally known professors, the Journal encourages a broad view of the origins and development of accounting with an emphasis on its functions in an increasingly interdependent global economy and invites manuscripts that help explain current international accounting practice.
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The Zimmerman Center supports the vision of the College of Business: "to be a world class business school renowned for its commitment to learning and the principle of innovation, its academic leadership, the focus and quality of its programs, the impact of its research, its internationalism, and strong ties to business and community."
The Zimmerman Center serves the academic and professional communities by providing world-class leadership in international accountancy and business research and education support. It strives to provide innovative learning experiences for faculty, students, and professionals in all aspects of scholarship, including the creation, integration, dissemination and management of accounting knowledge in the international domain.
The Zimmerman Center has set a goal to be a world-class Center for faculty, students, and visiting scholars.


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WSGI deployment under a subpath using uWSGI and Nginx
It's relatively obvious how to deploy a WSGI application using Nginx, and there are many tutorials out there dealing with this very task. It took me quite a few minutes, however, to figure out how to deploy the application under non-root URL, e.g.
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The Office of Special Prosecutions announces that on March 1, 2013, 23 year old Edward Gullion of Fairbanks, Alaska was sentenced to prison for distribution of indecent material to minors. Fairbanks Superior Court Judge McConahy sentenced Gullion to spend six months in prison. Upon his release from prison, Gullion will be on probation for three years and will be required to register as a sex offender for fifteen years. If Gullion violates his probation conditions, he could be sent to prison for another eighteen months.
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Two Reasons: Why President Obama May Lose in 2012.
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(ThyBlackMan.com) Around the media world and blogosphere I incessantly see articles suggesting how Barack Obama has assured a victory in the 2012 Presidential election after his decision to go into Pakistan and kill Osama bin Laden. Now I too, wrote a piece some weeks ago asserting six reasons why he had the inside road to winning in 2012. Although I stand by it, it was written before the raid on Osama bin Laden and more importantly, the actual redistricting of the GOP. Redistricting occurs once every ten years which just happens to be now.
Redistricting efforts will be very important in the 2012 Presidential elections since many states have become Republican dominated since the November 2010 elections which saw sweeping changes in legislations across the nation. The census shift that was documented last year will more than likely hurt Obama in 2012 since people have left traditional blue states for Red ones. Texas is one such case where it is expected to pick up three house seats and electoral college votes while Michigan, a traditional democratic state is expected to lose a house seat. In fact, census data indicate that states won by John McCain in 2009 are projected to gain six seats in congress, meaning states Obama won will lose six. New York and Ohio, also traditional democratic states are expected to lose congressional seats as well.
In North Carolina for example, the Republican-controlled state legislature looks to create new districts benefiting its party and are planning to try to re-draw the districts that would shift power to Republicans statewide by increasing GOP voting strength in non-Black regions. The reality is that November's elections put Republicans in control of dozens of state legislatures and governorships, just as states prepare to redraw their congressional and legislative district maps. Republicans now control the governor's offices and both legislative chambers in Ohio, Pennsylvania, Florida, Indiana, Maine and Wisconsin. They are governors' in Nevada, New Mexico, Virginia and Iowa.
Those that assert his re-election is assured by the raid on the bin Laden compound are missing or lack the foresight to include the aforementioned and the electoral college on the selection of the Presidency. The Electoral College, administered by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA), is a process that began as part of the original design of the U.S. Constitution. It was established to serve as a compromise between election of the president by Congress and election by popular vote. The political parties nominate electors at their State party conventions or by a vote of the party's central committee in each State and often recognize and are dedicated to their political party first.
Although Obama has a good chance of being re-elected, he may just as likely lose due to the census, gains in republican dominated states and the electoral college. So if he doesn't win and the projections of pundits based on one political/military event that he would, just remember their failure was due to a lack of knowledge of the constitution and middle school civics.
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Many football fans are calling Seattle Seahawks receiver Golden Tate\'s questionable game-winning touchdown reception against the Green Bay Packers on \"Monday Night Football\" this week the worst call in NFL history. Those in the gambling community are calling it one of the most expensive calls in recent memory.
That\'s right: Packers fans, and shareholders, weren\'t the only folks crying in their beer Tuesday morning. The blown call threw a monkey wrench into the orderly rituals of gambling.
Gamblers like sports. They understand sports because there are rules, time limits and, generally, decent regulation by on-field officials. That\'s broken down this year, though, with league officials locked out and dissatisfaction with the NFL\'s replacement referees unabated.
Darren Rovell of ESPN reports that:
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Instead, the replacement officials\' ruling that Tate had possession shifted payouts from those who\'d bet on the Packers to those taking the underdog Seahawks.
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| China's alarming involvement in Sudan
By Frederick Stakelbeck
Sudan's brutal Islamist President Omar al-Bashir and Chinese President Hu Jintao have become fast friends as of late, forging a Sino-Sudanese alliance that has serious implications for the Sudanese people and the future stability of the African continent. " China has burst on the African scene with a presence that has been frightening to many people who hadn't realized how wide its reach is," U.S. Representative Randy Forbes (R-VA), chairman of the new House China Caucus, noted in January.
The recent announcement by Beijing of a new Africa policy based upon the concept of "mutual fulfillment with no preconditions" has raised concerns in Washington by those who say that China's Sudan foreign policy is manipulative and opportunistic; and that it ignores the displacement of an estimated 2 million Sudanese villagers and the murder of 180,000 others for its own economic gain.
In testimony before the U.S.-China Economic and Security Review Commission in late 2005, Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI) stated, "In Sudan, Chinese oil investments have helped to prop up a regime in Khartoum that our president and this Congress have accused of involvement in genocide."
While humanitarian issues have little value in Beijing's new Africa policy, energy interests—and the military means to protect those interests—play important roles in the Red Dragon's actions on the continent, particularly in poverty-ravaged Sudan.
China currently imports 7 percent of its oil from Sudan; making Sino-Sudanese relations an extremely important part of China's evolving energy strategy. As a result, Beijing has blanketed Sudan with over $4 billion in investment over the past several years, hoping to secure long-term energy agreements, while increasing its economic, political and military influence in Africa. "Chinese investment and development in Africa has strong potential because Africa is abundant in natural resources, which are urgently needed for China's economic development," noted Chinese Foreign Minister Li Guozeng recently.
Since 1996, numerous Chinese state-controlled enterprises have been hard at work in Sudan cultivating energy relationships. The state-controlled China National Petroleum Corporation (CNPC), which owns a 40 percent share in Sudan's largest oil venture, the Greater Nile Petroleum Operating Company, currently pumps 300,000 barrels per day, most of which is sent to mainland China. Sinopec, another energy enterprise, has completed an oil pipeline to Port Sudan on the Red Sea, where Chinese tankers ferry oil to China's developing industrial cities. China's Petroleum Engineering Construction Group has also been instrumental is the construction of a large tanker terminal at Port Sudan, as well as roads, bridges and dams.
To protect its vast energy investments in Sudan and to secure additional lands for energy development and exploration, China has readily supplied weapons to the Bashir regime, delivering F-7 jet fighters, assault helicopters and armored vehicles to the country.
With the help of its Muslim "Janjaweed" militia groups and the blessing of Bashir, the Sudanese Air Force has used Chinese-made weapons against defenseless villagers in Darfur. There have also been persistent claims by independent aid groups that Sudanese government troops and rebels have used Chinese oil company airstrips to conduct bombing raids on villages and hospitals.
On more than one occasion, China has purposely blocked the U.N. from taking punitive action against the murderous Bashir regime. In 2004, strong Chinese opposition forced the U.N. Security Council to tone down a resolution that would have referred the Darfur matter to the International Criminal Court. Sudanese Vice President Ali Osman Mohamed Taha told the country's cabinet he had Chinese assurances the resolution would not be passed, "He [Taha] was confident it would not get through and told them not to worry," a cabinet source said.
Since that disappointing vote, Beijing has continued to use its permanent seat on the U.N. Security Council to protect Khartoum, pledging to veto any U.N. bid to impose an oil embargo on Sudan. Serious questions concerning China's intentions in Sudan surfaced again last month, when Beijing announced that it was indefinitely delaying the deployment of a critical Chinese medical unit to the conflict-stricken Darfur region.
The upcoming China-Africa Summit, scheduled for later this year in Beijing, is a perfect opportunity for the U.S. to regain its footing on the Africa issue. With U.S.-Africa trade at approximately $45 billion a year and numerous U.S.-sponsored humanitarian and investment projects evident throughout the continent; the U.S. is not merely an interested African observer – it is a committed partner.
One question remains for Sudan's tyrant Bashir – what will the thousands of entrenched Chinese nationals do in Sudan once the oil disappears?
Fred Stakelbeck is a foreign affairs writer based in Philadelphia. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com.
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By Kelley Freund ('07)
James Madison University President Jonathan Alger has a goal. He wants JMU to be the national model for an engaged university. He says that, "a community that combines a commitment to learning with a conviction that all humans are interconnected has the potential to solve any issue..."
The JMU Department of Political Science has already started on this mission. The department launched the Partners in Community Leadership Program, part of the Public Policy and Administration program. This program was formed to better connect with the greater community by making available the expertise of the program's faculty and students. The PCLP offers a variety of assistance to public service organizations. Government agencies, city and county governments, and nonprofit organizations have benefited from expertise offered by program faculty and students.
Projects have included program evaluations for Mercy House, the Harrisonburg Volunteer Fire Company, and the Elkton Area Community Center and the Elkton Police Department. For the fire department, students produced new fundraising initiatives and created a residency program. For Elkton, students created an economic development plan for the town.
The program allows such organizations to receive free or cheaper services. "We are serving the Valley. A lot of theses organizations' resources are strapped. We're helping them to better meet their mission, " says Dr. Nicholas Swartz, the program's director. "The organizations are getting access to faculty and students at a reduced or free rate, and getting products like a development plan, needs assessment and other things that help the organization improve."
The program is a win-win, in that it also benefits the faculty and students. "By helping the organization, it provides faculty the opportunity to apply theory to practice and it keeps us current in the field," says Swartz. "Students are able to develop more skills and gain real-world experiences."
One of the students in the program had a job opportunity and gave the employer a portfolio of the plan they had done for the class. That student was offered the position and was told it was because of the direct involvement of the project.
"Reciprocal—that's what a partnership is all about," says Swartz. "Seeing that partnership is the most rewarding part of being head of the program."
Programs like PCLP are what set JMU apart from other universities. "This program is innovative," says Swartz. "Other universities might provide internships, but there's no formal program and that makes us unique. It's what Alger is talking about with being an engaged university. We're at a place where engagement is truly valued. It will be great to see JMU as the national leader for engagement as we move forward."
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Tampa, Florida -- At USF on Wednesday, jugglers took center grass in front of the Marshall Center, pins and balls flying through the air.
But across campus where students live, police are investigating something much more weighty. A female student reports being raped early Sunday morning inside the Holly G residence hall.
"The individuals do know each other. This is not a stranger situation and we continue to investigate what the next course of action will be," said Lt. Charlotte Domingo of the USF Police Department.
Last fall, another woman was raped inside a residence hall by a stranger.
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And while that type of attack tends to garner a lot of attention, experts say acquaintance rapes are much more common.
The Director of the USF Center for Victim Advocacy tells 10 News that 98% of the rape victims seeking assistance there know their attacker.
At a campus rally last November, people spoke out against what they called a "Rape Culture" on campus, the thought that somehow violence against women is okay.
Matthew Hastings helped organize that event. On Wednesday, he had heard about the reported rape and he's convinced many more such attacks go unreported, because the victim fears she'll be blamed.
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You do have a good collection of photos of your grandfather and they all are very nice. How lucky, wish I had a colection as wellReplyDelete
Like you, I have photos of my Dad during the Korean War. Some have names on them. I should post them on the blog and see if anyone out there is related. Thanks for this idea, Tina.ReplyDelete
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What's Wrong With Video Games That You Can Finish In Three Hours?
from the that's-not-how-it's-done! deptClive Thompson tries to bust apart the commonly held wisdom that it should take 40 hours to complete a video game. He points to a recently well-received game that many reviewers dinged for the fact that it could be completed in three hours. They seemed to like pretty much everything about the game... other than that it was "too short." The standard, apparently (I had no idea) is that a video game should take approximately 40 hours to finish. But Thompson points out how silly that is. For many games, they just start to feel repetitive or stretched out. If you can do everything that needs to be done in just three hours -- why not do it. My guess is that many of the complaints just come from what people think they're "buying" with the game, and that includes "time spent on the game." So a game that seems short feels like "less value" even if that's not necessarily the case. Still, as Thompson points out, the game he's talking about, The Maw is much cheaper than the average 40-hour game anyway, so he's not clear why people are complaining. To be honest, I was unaware of the 40-hour standard, and am a bit surprised that it's apparently so standardized. I'd always just assumed that different games had different time-lengths (if they were "finishable" at all).
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Thursday, April 2, 2015
The Recent History of Brach's Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
I'm a big fan of Malted Milk Balls and consider the candy coated Pastel Malted Milk Egg to be one of the best holiday candy creations ever. Brach's has been making a pastel egg for at least 55 years, and malted milk balls for even longer.
Though the Brach's brand has been around for over 110 years, they've changed ownership, leadership and product focus dozens of times. This means that the products themselves also change. The changes can be for consumer-driven reasons, supply issues and costs. I've noticed, since Candy Blog is coming up on 10 years, that the Brach's Fiesta Eggs have changed quite a bit over the years, and have some photos and notes to document it.
Name: Pastel Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
Though this was my first year reviewing them, it wasn't the first time I had them and thought they used to be better.
Name: Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
I'd say that this was a lackluster version, though I liked the center, the chocolate brought the whole thing down.
Name: Fiesta Malted Milk Eggs
These were simply too difficult to eat because of the size and shell. The center was good, especially because the ratio was so high.
2015 Malted Milk Eggs Compared
Name: Malted Milk Pastel Fiesta Eggs
The center this year is different. It's darker in color, which does indicate that the recipe or manufacturing process has changed. The colors are great, I like the shell, though many commenters do not like the new version. I can't put my finger on what's wrong here, except that I don't plan on buying them again, but I'll finish the bags I have.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:32 am Candy • Review • Easter • Brach's • Farley's & Sathers • Ferrara Pan • Chocolate • Malt • 5-Pleasant • 6-Tempting • United Kingdom • Highlight • Featured News •
Monday, March 30, 2015
Willie's Cacao - Venezuelan Gold 72%
While in London last year, I picked up quite a few chocolate bars. One brand that I noticed had good distribution and prices, was Willie's Cacao. The company direct sources their cocoa beans and manufacturers their chocolate in England. For a small company they make a wide array of chocolate products, like the bars I picked up in single origin varieties like Madagascar, Peru, Indonesia and two different sourcings from Venezuela. In addition they also have a line of single origin cocoas, chocolate pearls and bars with flavors and inclusions.
I picked up the Venezuela Gold Las Trincheras 72% at Waitrose. The package is two little 40 gram bars that are wrapped separately for £2.99, or about $4.50. A lot of other single origin bars are priced at twice that, so it was a gamble that this was going to be passable stuff. The box is quite elegant, dark brown with orange, creamy yellow and gold foiled lettering. The package states that the single estate cacao comes from Hacienda Las Trincheras in northern Venezuela.
The flavor profile is described as smooth nutty notes, which is exactly why I like Venezuelan origin cacao.
The box helpfully gave me both the bar's origin date and the best by date. It was produced in November 2013 and good until May 2015. I ate one of the bars after I returned from my trip last year, and saved the other in my climate controlled chocolate fridge until last month.
The bars are lovely, the mold, which says Willie's Delectable Cacao gives the otherwise ordinary 2.75 inch square a bit more flair. The tempering is very nice, there's a good snap to the bar and no bubbles or voids. The color is a little on the red side of dark brown.
The melt is easy but not too quick. The ingredients are very simple, no emulsifiers. Just cacao, raw cane sugar and cocoa butter. There's a little dryness early on, and some bright fruit notes. The overwhelming flavor I get is not nutty but raisins. I usually associate strong raisin flavors with Peruvian chocolate. There are some other notes of rosemary, roses and plums, but I didn't catch more than a fleeting cashew note. It's a bit bitter at times as well, but not so much that it distracted from the other flavors, just enough to keep it from getting too sweet.
For the price, I think they're very well done bars, and I appreciate the packaging style that allows me to actually eat some now and really save some for later, as I did here. However, I didn't love this particular bar enough that I would import it. I am interested enough in the brand that I would pick it up again, especially some of the other origins.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:15 am All Natural • Candy • Review • Chocolate • Ethically Sourced • Single Origin • 8-Tasty • United Kingdom •
Thursday, October 9, 2014
Eat with your Eyes: Thornton's Classics
Ah, the classic box of chocolates. Each little piece is like a gift unto itself, the chocolate wrapping holds a sweet treasure inside.
These are Thornton's Classics, a mostly milk chocolate assortment from the United Kingdom. They're tasty, but sadly the high heat of Southern California has not been kind to them, so I'll need to get a hold of more someday for a proper review.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:37 pm Candy • United Kingdom • Highlight • Photography •
Thursday, September 18, 2014
Churchill's Toffee and Fudge Carousel Tin
One of the fun things about candy is that it makes a great gift. But it's not terribly special to grab some pick-a-mix at the local candy shop and drop the twist-tie plastic bag on someone's lap and consider it a present. Churchill's Confectionery recognizes that half and sticks their candy in decorative tins.
The company offered to send me a sample of their line. I've actually had Churchill's before, I have a little red London bus tin that doubles as a bank on my desk at work. So when they offered, I thought it would be good to have some fresh candy to try.
They sent two tins, one was this classic looking embossed Carousel tin that holds English Toffees and Vanilla Fudge and another tin that held three trays of biscuits (cookies). I don't review cookies ... but I did eat them. The tin holds 14 ounces, which is separated into two 7 ounce bags of candy. So it's not quite the lush look of a tin full of candy until you dump the cellophane bags into it, but they do stay fresh.
I've never quite understood fudge, and this version does little to help me out. Fudge is basically a mixture of sugar and butter ... though modern versions use more advanced ingredients. Many candies have the same ingredients; it's the texture of fudge that differentiates it from caramel or toffee. Fudge has a slight grain to it, on purpose, which is reintroduced by carefully heating it to a precise temperature and then allowing it to cool partially before stirring. Stirring too soon will make the sugar crystals too large and not stirring enough just makes the texture incomplete. (More in this excellent and slightly technical explanation.)
The great thing about fudge is that it's a wonderful blank slate for so many other flavors, including chocolate or pecan penuche. As this is Vanilla, it's actually a blank slate. You can see that the ingredients are decent enough. The pieces are well formed and the color is of a camel-colored coat. Churchill's has mastered the smooth texture style of fudge (I actually like mine a little grainy). It smells sweet and buttery but has no browned sugar notes (And has no brown sugar ingredients, either.)
The pieces are nice little rectangles, wrapped in silver mylar. This vanilla fudge is extremely sweet with only a slight note of actual vanilla bean. A little note of the woodsy bourbon would be nice, or some deeper toasted sugar notes would have pleased me. Overall, this is too sweet. And coming from a person who actually eats sugar lumps from time to time, that's saying a lot.
I could really only eat these with a very strong cup of coffee or some salted nuts. They're just too sweet straight.
Rating: 6 out of 10
One of the oddities in the confection world is how the same candy is called different things in different places. What's even more vexing is when the new word means something else completely. Take toffee. In the United States we know toffee as a hard, crunchy, caramel brittle. But in the United Kingdom, for the most part, toffee is actually what we call caramel. However, I didn't need anyone to tell me what this was ... I know a caramel when I see one.
They're nice rounded pieces wrapped in gold mylar, with a soft milky scent. They're about the size of Coffee Nips, and if Coffee Nips were chewable, that's what they'd be like. They're extremely smooth. The chew is stiff but not sticky or tough. The flavor is a bit salty with burnt sugar notes. It dissolves away to nothing with very little left stuck to my teeth.
Rating: 8 out of 10
Both recipes include milk and soy ingredients and may contain traces of nuts. The glucose syrup is also from wheat, so I don't think it's gluten free.
There are a wide variety of tin designs available from Churchill's. They're very traditional but do feature a few classic tourist items (like the double decker red bus). I don't think it's something I'd buy for myself, but with the right contents and design, I could see them as a good quality hostess gift or thank you item.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:17 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Caramel • 6-Tempting • 8-Tasty • United Kingdom •
Monday, August 4, 2014
Hotel Chocolat Rabot 1745 Venezuela Chuao
While in London earlier this year, I made sure to visit some of the finer chocolate shops. One I wanted to go to in particular was one of the Hotel Chocolat locations known as Roast+Conch, where they actually make some bean to bar chocolate. The location in the Borough Market in the Bankside district of London and includes a full restaurant that features cacao as an ingredient in every dish.
After eating a wonderful lunch, my mother and I browsed the store on the ground level. The cacao of the day was Trinidad, with the beans being served before lunch and some pieces of freshly made chocolate served at the end of the meal. So I was sure to pick up a bar of that. Then I also wanted to try another bar from their Rabot 1745 line. Though Hotel Chocolate uses Callebaut chocolate in their other confections, their Rabot line is made in conjunction with Coppeneur in Germany (one of my favorite chocolate makers). I didn't know that at the time, but now it doesn't surprise me at all.
I picked out a Venezuela Chuao 70% bar. Chuao cacao has a strong reputation as some of the best beans in the world (here's a sampling of some bars I tasted a few years ago).
Hotel Chocolat gives extensive information about the handling of the beans and making of the cacao. The bar itself is 70% cacao with just three ingredients: cacao mass, cane sugar and soy lecithin.
The description of this bar from Hotel Chocolat goes something like this: Prima Donna with talent. She's good and she knows it – an interplay of cream and caramel with malt and raisins, roast nuts and plenty of elegant poise.
Harvest: 2012
Roasting time: 35min @135 C.
Refining & Conching: 72hrs
The bar is wonderfully dark with an interesting texture from the mold. Though it's rather thick, it's quite easy to snap.
The scent is woodsy with some green notes like jasmine and olives. The melt is smooth, though it has a bitter note right away, a sort of dryness that gives it an acidic bite. But the buttery texture makes that all quite palatable. I caught a burnt note to it, a sort of smoke but nothing that's unpleasant. It doesn't have some of the other nutty notes I enjoy in other Venezuelan chocolate, mostly those from Ocumare. But I'd definitely eat this again, mostly because the texture is so nice, especially since it's such a high cacao content.
The smaller Trinidad bar I picked up was good. It was noticeably different than the Chuao in a few ways.
The bar itself just came in the cellophane sleeve with a label, there was no box. The label also didn't say anything about the conch time or the harvest, just the date the bar was best by. The Hotel Chocolat website says that they use Trinitario beans (which makes sense, since they're from Trinidad where the varietal originated).
It's a 75% bar, so it's only a little bit darker than the Chuao. The texture is far and away different, it's grittier and sort of rustic in its overall flavors. It's woodsy with some coffee and black pepper notes, a little toffee and brown sugar as well. It's kind of bitter, but not overly dry at the finish. The meal we had in the restaurant started with these beans and then later finished with little medallions of chocolate also from Trinidad beans. I like the idea of buying chocolate that's made right before my eyes, but the reality is that I prefer to eat the chocolate that's been carefully crafted ... and I don't have to witness it to enjoy it.
I've found that I like a long conch on my chocolate, part of what I like about a good chocolate bar is the texture. In most cases a long conch gives the cacao not only the time it needs to become smooth, but also for the flavors to develop. I did a taste test a few years back with some Coppeneur Chuao that had been conched 70 hours and 100 hours. Much of the mass-market chocolate we consume is conched for less than a day, some for two days ... I found that a 3 day conch is fine for me, anything over that gets kind of muddy in the flavor department but does create an amazingly smooth texture.
The Rabot 1745 line from Hotel Chocolat is a worthwhile way to experience single origin chocolate along with a lot of information about the making of the bar itself, as few chocolate makers include the origin, harvest date, roasting and conch time.
POSTED BY Cybele AT 3:13 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Hotel Chocolat • Chocolate • Ethically Sourced • Single Origin • 7-Worth It • United Kingdom •
Monday, May 5, 2014
Mars challenges Hershey's over the use of the name Malteser in US
In the battle for marketshare in the confectionery sector, it seems that some candy companies are more interested in getting our business by eliminating competition than gaining brand loyalty with exemplary products.
The latest battle involves old rivals Hershey and Mars, this time over malted milk balls. Mars makes Maltesers and Hershey's makes Whoppers. But Hershey's is also trying to assert the exclusive right to also make something called Malteser in the United States.
I don't have the figures, but I'm going to guess that Hershey's holds more than 70% of the market in malted milk balls with their Whoppers brand, but not necessarily because they're the best but because they're ubiquitous. Though I don't have current figures, I'd estimate the brand is worth about $40 to $50 million in sales a year.
Here's a little history. Mars Maltesers were first sold in the United Kingdom in 1937. They were created as a diet candy; a chocolate candy with less chocolate and therefore less fat and calories. They're also sold in Canada, New Zealand and Australia and exported to many other European countries. They can be purchased in shops that specialize in UK imports. Based on the number of brand extensions I've seen for Maltesers on my recent trip to London, I'd say that the candy is a much more important brand to Mars than Whoppers are to Hershey's. Which may make them appear a threat.
In 1939 an American candy company called Overland, introduced a malted milk ball candy sold under the name Giants, as they were larger than earlier versions called Malt-ettes. In 1949, two years after the company was sold to Leaf Inc, they were renamed Whoppers. There were many other companies that came and went that sold malted milk balls, but Whoppers have been made continuously ever since, even if their corporate overlords have changed.
Leaf Inc was once a formidable sugar candy company, the fourth largest in the US. They acquired many favorite American candy brands, including Jolly Rancher, Hollywood Brands (maker of Payday bars), Heath Bar, and Now and Later. Sometime in the 1960s Leaf started making something called Malteser and even registered a trademark for the name in 1962. I doubt they were widely distributed or advertised, as I can't find any record of them . In 1983 Leaf was bought out by Huhtamäki Oyj, a Finnish company, which maintained the trademark registration. Mars sued Leaf over this trademark in 1993 and later settled out of court (so we don't know the details) but Leaf retained the trademark.
For reasons I don't quite understand, Leaf Inc divested and sold off many of its best brands, most to Hershey's: Whoppers, Payday, Jolly Rancher and Heath Bar.
Fast forward and lately Hershey's has been releasing a product called Matleser: a malted milk ball that in all ways except packaging is identical to Whoppers. Though it's a singular in the name, not Maltesers as the Mars product is, it's also packaged in red.
The way trademarks work, not only do you need to register the trademark in all territories you plan to exercise it, you also need to use it. So if Hershey's wanted to keep Mars from using Malteser in the US, by claiming it was an abandoned trademark, they had to demonstrate that Hershey's wasn't using it. I was able to find Hershey's Malteser for sale on both the Hershey's site and Amazon. I bought a box to confirm that they are just Whoppers in a different package. (They are.)
Mars contends that not only is Hershey's squatting on the trademark in the United States, but that their packaging is intentionally confusing consumers to think that they're purchasing the Mars version. I admit, they do look similar and even though I'm the candy blogger, I couldn't remember of the top of my head if the Mars version was plural or singular until I started this research.
American trademark law is governed for the most part under the Lanham Act which covers trademark infringement and false advertising. The act was also revised in 1999 to encompass cybersquatting, the practice of registering domain names and then sitting on them or directing them to a competitor.
While Hershey's practices up to the point where they created similar packaging were probably within the letter, though not the spirit of the law, my opinion after looking at the history, reading Mars' brief on the case leads me to conclude that Hershey's is just acting scummy. Whoppers are known by 300 million people in this country ... and if it's not a favorable brand then Hershey's should improve their quality, price point or packaging to the point where people are loyal to them.
I tried both again, just to check. Neither is great, but the do differ. Both have a mockolate coating, though the Mars version does have some cocoa butter in there. The centers, though both malty, have different textures. The Mars version is more honeycombed and has a easier crunch. The Hershey's version is more milky tasting with a firm crunch that dissolves nicely. Both are excellent centers ... both have disappointing coatings. I prefer the Mars Maltesers.
I'm a extremely curious if Mars were to introduced Maltesers in the United States if they would change the coating to real chocolate, as they do not make any mockolate products for the American market. However, Mars does not have a good track record for introducing the European candies to the US when there is another similar candy already on the market. They tried this with the Bounty bars, which are similar to Mounds and Almond Joy and they never took hold. Twix was a European launch that was then introduced in the US, but is a unique candy construction, which is how it established itself in its niche.
This is not an isolated issue in the candy business. Many candy companies go head to head in the courts instead of on the store shelves.
- The UK the courts have been deciding whether Cadbury should have exclusive rights to their shade of purple. Currently, the answer is no.
For more reading on the issue, here are some other trade articles on the case:
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 11:41 am Candy • Hershey's • Mars • Malt • Mockolate • United Kingdom • United States • Highlight • News •
Friday, May 2, 2014
Cadbury Dairy Milk Pebbles
The trend of making little poppable versions of popular candies extends to Europe, so when I saw these new Cadbury Dairy Milk Pebbles in London, I picked them up. Cadbury already makes several morsel versions of their popular Dairy Milk chocolate. They make Buttons, which are little disks and of course the Easter version, the Cadbury Mini Eggs which have a shell.
Now Cadbury has a shell candy for all year round consumption, completing their entry into the world of morselization. I've also seen that Cadbury's parent company, Mondelez (once part of Kraft) has created bagged mixes that include the Pebbles, mini Oreos, and Maynard's gummi candies. Kind of like the M&Ms Sweet & Salty Snack Mix that came out from Mars.
Like most Cadbury chocolate products in the United Kingdom, this is not real milk chocolate. It's what's commonly called "family chocolate" which is a nice way of saying, "We don't need to waste expensive cocoa butter on children, we'll substitute some oil in there." So it's a quasi-mockolate product that uses some cocoa butter and some vegetable oil. Still, it's not like it's R. M. Palmer mockolate, it's made from 23% milk content and 20% cocoa content ... then, you know, some sugar and a few oils, natural colors and shellac.
Instead of going with the typical lentil shape, the pieces are like flattened Cadbury Mini Eggs. They're kind of like guitar picks. The colors are plain, for the most part when I dumped them out of the bag they were a little chalky looking but polished up pretty easily with a paper towel. (I figured they deserved a little spa treatment after being carted partway around the world.)
The yellow ones are a bit strange though, because of the all natural colorings, the ingredients on this particular one is a little odd. It's kind of like curry ...a little grassy. The chocolate center is smooth, a little malty but with a thin punch of chocolate flavor. The shell is wonderfully crunchy, outside of the odd yellow one. The whole combination is really a great candy, I enjoyed eating them, though it certainly didn't satisfy my desire for chocolate. I would be interested in trying these in some sort of mixed bag with mini Oreos and perhaps a few nuts.
I doubt that Cadbury will attempt to license this to Hershey's for production under their deal. So American's will have to content themselves with imports or just stocking up in the Easter version.
They contain milk, corn and soy. There's no statement about nuts or gluten. Though Cadbury has started certifying some candies with sourcing information, the Dairy Milk Pebbles did not have a the Fair Trade or Rainforest Alliance stamp.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 10:48 am Candy • Morselization • Review • Cadbury • Kraft/Mondelez • Chocolate • Mockolate • 7-Worth It • United Kingdom •
Wednesday, April 16, 2014
Marks and Spencer Chicky Choccy Mini Eggs
There was a time when the only choice for candy-coated chocolate eggs for Easter was Cadbury Mini Eggs. Times have changed and there are many versions, ranging from fair trade and all natural to tiny versions with Belgian chocolate to Hershey's.
The the United Kingdom, there are also plenty of varieties available from store brands. I picked up some from Marks and Spencer, a department store with a chain of grocers. Marks and Spencer is already known for many unique confections, like their line of gummis featuring Percy Pig. I picked up the Marks and Spencer Chicky Choccy Mini Eggs.
They're pretty bit eggs, at about one inch long. They come in three different speckled colors. The colorings used are all natural, derived from vegetable sources, making the end of the ingredients label look more like the contents of a green smoothie. The ingredients state that the cocoa solids make up 30% while the milk solids are 20% minimum. (The rest is sugar, you know, because it's candy.)
The shells are quite thick and crunchy. Some natural colors can give a faint flavor to candy shells, but I didn't notice that here. The shells are shiny and slick (not matte like Cadbury Mini Eggs).
The milk chocolate center is sweet and very milky. The melt is good, a little cool on the tongue with a mix of toasted cereal flavors, a little hint of malted milk and cocoa. The intensity of the chocolate is quite weak, though it's still a pleasant profile. I found them very satisfying to eat, but definitely not high in chocolate content.
The allergy information is very easy to find. It contains soy and milk and is not suitable for people with nut allergies because of manufacturing methods. Suitable for vegetarians (not vegans) with all natural flavors and colors.
If you'd like a little more Easter fun, here's the recent episode of The Nosh Show with Marvo, Dubba, Ryan and Eric where we talk a bit about Easter candy.
The #1 reason why I love Easter candy: the crunchy candy shell.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:09 pm All Natural • Candy • Review • Easter • Chocolate • 7-Worth It • United Kingdom •
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