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When I was in London a couple of weeks ago speaking at the Academy of Chocolate conference, I had the great privilege of being the last speaker of the day. This enabled me to pay attention to what everybody else was saying and present a summary of what I heard in the context of my own panel presentation which was billed as, "The Global Future of Chocolate."
After presenting a summation, I urged the audience to consider a number of calls to action. Too often at conferences like this one a great deal of good information is shared but then that information does not get disseminated after the conference is over. We all go our own separate ways and little substantive really occurs.
I presented two calls to action that are related to each other:
1) The fine chocolate industry needs professional certification programs similar to ones that graduate professional sommeliers in wine.
2) The fine chocolate industry needs a $100 bar of chocolate.
If you think about it, if all wine was priced under $20/bottle and the majority of it was mass market and not very well differentiated, there would be no need for sommeliers. The fact that there are $1000 bottles makes $100 bottles seem less extravagant and the $100 bottles make $10-20 bottles seem like very good deals indeed.
More to the point, the actual manufacturing cost difference between the $1000 bottle and the $100 (or $20 bottle) are not as great as the price differences indicate. The price differences are a result of many factors that include wine quality, origin, manufacturer, scarcity, and reviews. What this means in practice is that there is a lot of money in the system that can be used to pay professionals whose job it is to educate people about why it's okay to pay $1000 for a bottle - or $100 for a bottle - when there are lots of much-more-than-adequate $10-20 bottles around.
Getting back to chocolate, most of it is mass market blah that costs $1-3 per bar. Most bars are in the $3-7 range. There is a small handful of bars that cost $10-15, and an even small number of bars that cost $20 or more — at least here in the US. Some of the price differential is related to manufacturing costs - e.g., higher prices for beans in smaller quantities. However, here in the US, the largest factors contributing to high retail prices on the most expensive bars are exchange rates (the US$ is fairly weak right now), the cost of importing, and a relatively high cost of specialty foods distribution here in the US. The Bonnat Porcelana bars that cost $25 here in New York can be purchased for half that price in France.
Because the vast majority of chocolate bars is under $7 at retail, there is no money in the system to pay for professional chocolate sommeliers and professional chocolate critics. There is a small group of people - relatively speaking - who do this, but I don't know a one who can make a decent full-time living being just a chocolate sommelier/critic.
What this means is that there is neither any need for, nor any economic value in, someone pursuing a professional certification because there is no way for anyone to generate a decent return on investment on the time and money invested in earning the certification, in part because the market does not recognize the need for it.
With a $100 chocolate bar (or, ideally, many $100 chocolate bars), the stage is set for the conditions that support professional certifications. The $100 chocolate bar makes the $10-20 bar seem not so unreasonable in price, and, thus "more affordable" for people looking to expand their taste. More importantly, the actual cost of production of a $100 bar is not 10x the cost of a $10 bar, which means that there would be more money in the system for marketing - which supports a host of other activities.
It is also very important that any $100 bar of chocolate be worth that price based on intrinsic factors that people who are knowledgeable about chocolate will agree support that price. The bar doesn't cost $100 because it is decorated with gold leaf or contains every expensive other ingredients: the bar costs $100 because of what went in to its making.
Now, having said that, I don't know exactly what those factors are. However, the idea was also presented at the Origin Chocolate conference in Amsterdam — actually for a €100 bar — just four days after I proposed it by Philipp Kauffmann, one of the founders of the Original Beans chocolate company, independently of my bringing it up in London. So I am not the only one thinking this way.
Having said all that, I am writing this in the hopes of hearing from members: a) what they think of the idea, in general, and b) what they think attributes of a $100 bar might include. Following are some of my ideas for factors that could contribute to a $100 bar:
#1) When I was talking with Mikkel Friis-Holm in London, he mentioned that he had some chocolate that was inedibly tannic when it was made. He put it away for a couple of months and then tasted it again and the level of tannins was much lower than it was when the chocolate was made. Still inedible, but much better. He is going to taste the chocolate again several months from now to see if it's any better. The corollary here is that there is actually very little wine that is made to be drunk in the days or weeks immediately after it's produced. Virtually all wine made is aged to some extent - and a lot of wine is made knowing that it will take years (or decades) before the wine reaches its optimal drinking condition. Virtually all chocolate is made to consume "young." Even when it's got a shelf life rating of two years, it's made to be consumed within weeks of being made. I wonder what would happen if people deliberately started making chocolate that was not going to be fit for consumption for two to five years, or more? And then selling "bar futures" on the chocolate.
#2) I was talking with Sepp Schönbächler of Felchlin in Amsterdam and he mentioned that Felchlin has quantities of the the 65% Grand Cru Maracaibo dating back to 1999. Whenever a new person comes into his department, they are tasked with re-tempering some of that chocolate which is, of course, all Form VI crystals at this point. Sepp notices some differences in taste between the 1999 "vintage" and the current "vintage" -- mainly in the fact that some of the top-note aromatic notes have disappeared. At the same time, the loss of those top notes should allow other flavor notes to come forward. There are wine and spirits industry practices of vintage blending. For example, in rums, solera blending adds small amounts of aged rum to younger rums to up the "tasting age" and make a limited supply of aged rum go much farther. I wonder what the outcome would be of blending a small amount of a much older chocolate with younger versions of the same chocolate (or different chocolates)? You could get the "youth and vitality" of the newer chocolates with some of the depth and complexity of the older chocolates.
#3) What about inoculating a milk chocolate with a specific mold spore after being aged for one year and then age it for one or more years longer?
The fact is, no-one really knows what the outcomes of such practices would be, because the economics of the $7 bar market don't support such lines of experimentation. But I put the challenge out there to chocolate makers around the word, especially to companies with stock of older chocolates, to start exactly that sort of experimentation - to set aside a very short-term outlook and think about practices that could result in a $100 bar of chocolate that everyone agrees is worth it.
I don't think that the $100 bar will appear this year or next, but it could. Five to ten years is a more reasonable time frame, but only if we get started down this path soon.
Your thoughts?
[Note: Edited on 11/4 by the OP to correct grammar and typos. ]
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Cool. My first experience with high end beans was getting some nibs from Amano. I went straight from the Cuisinart to the Santha, added some vanilla and it was incredibly fruity and great all around. thanks for the link, I'll check them out.
I think a few people have touched on this in various ways, but an important part of the whole wine/chocolate thing is: a bottle of wine is (usually) to be shared whereas a bar of chocolate is (usually) for an individual.
Maybe a bar is not the best vehicle for delivering 75-100g of $100 chocolate? Maybe tasting squares that can be eaten like a cheese platter would be a better format to share the chocolate? Extending the cheese platter analogy, you could have various origins for different tastes. Just throwing it out there . . .
Gap -
A good observation and one that is being hinted at in other responses. For example, Starbucks costs as much as it does not because it's such good coffee (objectively, it's not), people are paying for the experience, buying into the brand's lifestyle. Most people don't know this, but the two ingredients that comprise most of what Starbucks consumes are water and milk. Actual coffee is #3.
That said, is the presentation of the chocolate curated and moderated? Is there someone with expertise who's making the selection, providing the information, and more? Or, are the tastings unguided?
:: Clay
It might be useful in this pursuit to have a some well presented place(s) on the Internet where consumers can learn about the chocolate world in ways that they understand the wine world. I'm not sure what the best one is today. Perhaps it could be a joint effort of this group, but it needs to be a consistent format.
- Detailed history and style of chocolate makers, bios, videos and interviews
- Detailed information about chocolate appellations (a world map would be good). I think single origin is the only way to get the prices up.
Again, the idea being to allow customers to begin to go deeper in a way that enables them to build preferences, for which they may pay more.
Clay –
Re: your question, "Still the questions remain, what are more of the characteristics that define this $100 bar?"
My take on this is similar to Lane's. Among other things I own a marketing company, so from a purely marketing perspective it seems to me that a legitimate $100 chocolate bar requires the same three things as any other product that is priced in the top tier and substantially above the norm:
1) A level of quality that is significantly and unquestionably above the norm.
2) A level of rarity that makes the item prized beyond even the issue of quality.
3) A pool of possible customers who can be identified and reached, and who have both the desire and ability to spend money on this product.
And here in my opinion is where we run into the main problem. When we ask whether or not any chocolate exists that is worth $50/ounce, or what the traits of that chocolate would be, we are asking the wrong questions. The issue is not the product. The issue is the customer. And by that I mean that there is no pool of customers for a $100 chocolate bar. And if there is no customer for a $100 chocolate bar, then there is no $100 chocolate bar. And there are no meaningful traits for a product that cannot be sold.
I'm not trying to be cynical for effect. I think that this is an important topic. But I also think that the discussions I see about this nearly always confuse what generates value and therefore pricing. I think it's critical to remember that the makers control quality, but the buyers control value.
Let's recall the history of lobster. Until the mid-19th century lobster was considered garbage food. It was only eaten by the very poor, and even then only if nothing else was available. Servants on the east coast even had it written into their contracts that they could not be forced to eat lobster more than twice a week. Suffice it to say that one of the most popular uses for lobster at that time was as fertilizer. It wasn't until well into the 20th century that lobster became a "gourmet" item. Now imagine a discussion in 1850 about the traits for a $50 lobster roll. It would have been a short conversation, but not for lack of quality. The reason you could not have sold a $50 lobster roll in 1850 was not that the quality was not possible. The reason is that the customer was not possible.
And at the risk of sounding like a broken record, the same thing applies to coffee. What are the traits of a $100 pound of coffee? In 2012 we can now delineate those traits. In 1972 we could not have done so because there were no customers for that product then. It took the specialty coffee industry 40 years to get to this point, and there is still much work to be done. Currently, at least in the U.S., it does not appear that craft chocolate is anywhere close to this.
The good news is that Americans love chocolate. The further good news is that the American appreciation of craft (dark, specialty, etc) chocolate is definitely rising. The bad news is that after 100+ years of buying cheap industrial chocolate, most Americans still don't value chocolate very much and simply don't believe it should ever be that expensive. Chocolate, as was the case with coffee until the second wave, is viewed as both inexpensive and common.
Changing that viewpoint and building a pool of customers who understand, accept and value the difference between craft and industrial chocolate is the key, and is directly analogous to the change in consumer viewpoints and buying habits that happened (and is still happening) in the specialty coffee industry. Only when a large enough pool of potential customers understand craft chocolate and are invested in it, will a $100 bar begin to be possible. In other words, the path to a $100 chocolate bar does not begin with the product. It begins with the customer.
The specialty coffee movement had thousands of coffee houses spread across the country with which to evangelize the masses. What does the craft chocolate movement have? That is the question we should be asking. In my view, it's only when we have a suitable answer to that question that we can really even begin to start talking about $100 bars.
i have followed some of this discussion and you all make valid points on this discussion. I can talk only from an Australian point of view. My family has been in wine starting with vineyards in the Barossa Valley around 1830, though i grewup in wine and worked in the industry for many years my main work is speciality tea and chocolate .
Wine got to where it is by evolving over hundreds of years by making the public more knowledgeable about wine. Every major media has columns devoted to this topic every week. Craft beer is following the same path.
The type of discussion you are having is happening in speciality tea as well, many of Clay's opening comments and thoughts have appeared in speciality teas pages.
Cafes are my industry and i've watched the rise and rise of coffee, again in Australia its evolved naturally, not by some grand master plan. Sure COE coffees can fetch hundreds of dollars per kilo but could be awhile before your local cafe has $50 cups of coffee . Here most speciality cafes offer origin coffee as an option to the main blend, at an extra cost of $1-2/cup, this is for coffee beans which cost double the house blend = breakeven at best. real price should be $10 based on standard 18g double shot ristretto.
If your going to aim for a $100 bar (a rising tide lifts all boats) it'll be through media, public awareness, tastings. If you look at wine its tastings tastings tastings- from corner bottle shop, wine cellar, restaurant hosting dinners, lets not forget wine clubs,
Wine prices are also influenced by collectors, i was only reading tonight that the stocks of very old wines 1900-1940 have all but disappeared, so stocks of 50-80's are more valuable.
Anyone got a 1952 Cruizel or Pralus chocolate ???
origin chocolate is the start lets just get out there and let people taste it the rest will follow
The big thing chocolate has (tea hasn't) is that emotional connection just like wine & coffee
A couple of points:
1) For this discussion there needs to be a standard weight for the bar. I suggest 100 grams. Obviously, a 50 g bar for $100 is much more expensive per gram than a 500 g bar at the same cost. Or perhaps more realistically, you get twice as much chocolate for a 100 g bar than you do for a 50 g bar. For sake of argument, and just to be consistent, can we just say we're talking about a 100 g bar?
2) The most expensive 100 g of chocolate that I've seen so far is $50 for 100 g of Oialla at Caputo's Market. It's still listed, but no longer for sale. Oialla might be a bar worth discussing because it is way overpriced and the chocolate is not very memorable. I'm guessing that in this case paying a PR firm for marketing and individually wrapping each 5g piece are at least 2 factors that drove up the price. Apparently Caputo's also agreed that there is better chocolate for a lower price. They said, "Be sure to check out the "Beni Bar" from Original Beans. It is made with the same beans from the same area and is a fraction of the price. While it is not in super fancy packaging like Oialla, we feel the chocolate is tastier."
3) I guess that the question of this thread presupposes $100 bar that is actually worth the price.
Well, I should have looked closer. Caputo's also still has listed a 50g box of Oialla for $30. Thus, per gram, it would be even more expensive than the 100g box since it is $60 for 100 g, and proves my point of the need for a standardized weight for this discussion.
I was thinking the chocolate equivalent of the classic 750ml wine bottle. So 100gr was what I was using as a benchmark.
What weight do you propose? Smaller quantities get a premium as packaging and labor take up a relatively higher percentage of the COGS.
The Oialla box is what - 10, 5gr squares? Personally, I think the ratio of packaging to product is way too high. I cringe when I think about it.
Domori is selling in 25gr bars of four squares. Their 100% Criollo is well under €10 for that quantity.
I agree with using 100g as a benchmark.
FWIW I paid $34/100g for Domori Chuao 2011. ($8.50 for 25g).
I think that with such specialty chocolate it ought to be 50g. 100g always seems more like munching chocolate to me.
Here is a $44 bar of chocolate. Forte Fortunato #4. ($20/45g = $44.44/100g.) Made from, and I quote from their website, "the rarest chocolate in the world". I bet the "colorful storybook depicting its amazing discovery" cost a quite a bit to put together too.
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NORMAN – The American Historical Association has awarded University of Oklahoma educator Kyle Harper with the prestigious James Henry Breasted Prize for his book, Slavery in the Late Roman World, AD 275-425, published by Cambridge University Press in 2011, marking the second award this year for the book. Harper, associate professor in the Department of Classics and Letters and the director of OU's Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, earlier was presented the Classical Association of the Middle West and South's Outstanding Publication Award for the same book.
"Dr. Harper's receipt of this signal honor is a source of pride for the entire University community," said OU President David L. Boren. "We are indeed fortunate to have a scholar of his stature as a member of our faculty."
Harper's first book is a study of slavery in its essential dimensions—economic, social, and legal—over the final period during which the Mediterranean was united under Roman rule. His second book, From Shame to Sin: The Christian Transformation of Sexual Morality in Late Antiquity, will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring 2013.
"It is tremendously exciting to win an award like this," says Harper. "I am honored to be recognized for my work. An award like this is a reflection of the support and mentorship I have received while at the University of Oklahoma and previously at Harvard University."
"Today, I enjoy working at an outstanding research institution that cares about teaching, where the research enterprise feeds into the teaching mission. It is vitally important for the economy of Oklahoma to have a flagship research university in the state. And, it is important for our students to have the world-class research opportunities that top research universities offer."
"Research is an important part of the humanities and the social sciences," says Harper. "My research is greatly enriched by the electronic search tools available today. Even in history and literature there is important new knowledge being gained and it is at research universities where that happens."
"Research makes you a better teacher, especially in the humanities. It is essential that we understand human history, including the ancient past," Harper said. "The late antique period saw the fall of the ancient empires before the Middle Ages and laid the spiritual and political foundation for the world that we know today."
Harper, an Oklahoman and an OU graduate, earned a Ph.D. in History from Harvard University in 2007. Currently, he teaches Greek and Roman history, early Christianity, late antiquity and ancient law. He also directs OU's Institute for the American Constitutional Heritage, an interdisciplinary center for the study of constitutionalism.
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The Belfast Museum's "Civil War Trail" exhibit entitled Belfast During the Civil War– The Home Front, will feature the newly-conserved Belfast Civil War Flag quilt as the centerpiece, and tell the story of the Belfast home front during the war. Also on display: documents, letters and diaries, a recruiting broadside, period photographs and many artifacts. As aways, addimission to our exhibits is free.
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Girls just wanna have fun...and we did!
So tonite was the kick-a '80s party at Sigma Tau Gamma. Not usually a frattie fan, but Jen invited me along with her, and her friends Oliver and Tiggy, because they were going with a bunch of girls from color guard. The pre-party was a little awkward, just a bunch of people getting drunk, but some parts of it were hysterical. These people were really cool, I have to say I respect how they conducted themselves, and they were really nice. They weren't sloppy, they drank in one place before they went anywhere, they weren't all messed up and outta control, and they made sure they had DDs before going anywhere. Those girls were tons of fun.Ok, dressing up for the '80s party alone was the best. I got invited along at the last minute, but I threw something together and it ended up being soooo cute and fun. You all know me, I love the '80s, and I swear, I was born in the wrong era. Most of the stuff I was wearing was stuff I wear every day anyway. It would have been so awesome to have been this age in the '80s. I mean, the music alone-freakin' amazing. Anyway, we finally got to the party, and as any good '80s chicks, we got the party started by dancing like crazy, and singing at the top of our lungs. I haven't danced that much in so long, and it was the best. I forgot how much it is to just let go and dance and just have fun: no drama, no boys even. Just a bunch of girls dancing together and having fun. I don't know if I've ever been to a party sans drama. It was really good times, so yay. It filled up pretty fast. There was some weird guy who kept dancing near me and staring at me, but finally, he left, so that was good. We find out later that someone has pooed on the couch behind us. It was disgusting. They took the couch out, and were offering $20 to anyone who knew who did it. We all ended up going outside to sit on the steps because it was a tad toasty, and this random guy walks up and starts talking to us. Hooooly crap, was he hot. Like super hot. Like oven-mitt hot. (haha roomies) He kept telling us he was 16, and was like "I'm just really smart, blah blah..." We got to talking, and he was like "My birthday is September 10." I was like, "That's my dad's birthday!" He was like "Your dad is 16?" I was like, "No, his birthday is just September 10." He was like "Oh ok, so is mine. Here, I'll show you." So he gives his license to me, after refusing to give it to anyone else, and STUPID STUPID ME, I just look at his birthday, and not his friggin' name. Turns out he's 22, and I guess he's only a junior, but will be here for another year and a half. Then we have to leave because Oliver wanted to go, and Tiggy had to pee. So I pat him on the shoudler and was like "It was nice talking to you, Van Wilder." (you know, bc he's gonna be here for so long...yeah) and he's all like "Whaaat?" Then we leave. So I still don't know his name. And he went into the party after we left. Crap crappity crap crap crap. I am mad at myself. Jen, Oliver and Tiggy were all like "WHY DIDN'T YOU LOOK AT HIS NAME???!!!" I really should have. They just don't make guys this hot very often. Mmm...:)Anyway, my generation switch for the night was absolutely loads of fun, and I think it should be mandatory to have one every weekend. I would love it. I miss dancing. Ok, I shall see most of you soooon, turkey time is almost upon us. Lotsa love...*big ole hugs*
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Applied Nanotech Announces Strategic Relationship With Sichuan Anxian Yinhe Construction And Chemical Group Co. Ltd ("YHCC")
YHCC is Granted Option to Key Technologies
YHCC Makes Strategic Investment in Applied Nanotech
AUSTIN, Texas, Feb. 17, 2011 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Applied Nanotech Holdings, Inc. (OTCBB:APNT) is pleased to announce that it has formed a strategic relationship with Sichuan Anxian Yinhe Construction and Chemical Group Co., Ltd ("YHCC"). The companies signed a letter of intent, giving YHCC the exclusive right to license and commercialize two of APNT's technologies. Any licenses signed will be exclusive in China and other specific parts of Asia, and nonexclusive for the rest of the world. This right is valid until August 31, 2011, and can be extended further upon mutual agreement of the parties. YHCC is providing APNT with a deposit, for this exclusive right, which will be applied against the upfront payment on the two licenses, if and when completed.YHCC has expressed a strong interest in licensing additional technologies from APNT, after successful conclusion of the first two, with the ultimate goal of commercializing or representing all APNT technologies in China. In addition to the letter of intent, YHCC is making a strategic investment of $2.5 million in APNT, for which it will receive 6,578,948 shares of restricted common stock and a board seat on APNT's Board of Directors. Terms were agreed upon in January 2011 with final documents signed on February 13, 2011 in Mianyang, China. The share price of $0.38 was based on the market price of APNT's common stock at the time the terms of the agreement were reached. "Along with their strong interest in licensing our technology, YHCC's strategic investment clearly demonstrates both their commitment and confidence in our technologies. With YHCC, we believe we have found the right partner in China with the financial resources and know-how to help us commercialize our technology," commented Dr. Zvi Yaniv, CEO of Applied Nanotech, Inc.
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Students can acquire a greater understanding of triangle congruence through this hands-on-activity: constructing a quilt pattern and writing its description for a catalogue. Ultimately, student writers become conversant about the technical geometric jargon.
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Friday, November 23, 2012
Gingerbread Bundt Cake
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Jermaine O'Neal claims he'll return before the regular season ends
Jermaine O'Neal used his Twitter page to notify Celtics nation of his plans to return before the regular season ends.
"To answer all of your questions," he wrote, "yes I will be back for the playoffs! But to be honest I will be back before the regular season is over!"
So he should return shortly before the end of the regular season, meaning he might help in the playoffs? Then again, I quote O'Neal himself, speaking in January about why he did not want surgery in the first place.
"If you miss basically the rest of the season, there's no way you can really help the team going into the playoffs," O'Neal said. "There's just no way because the team already has a nice rhythm, rotations [are] set — you don't want to interrupt that. You can't play your way back into rhythm in the playoffs because every game, every possession really counts. So I'm looking at it in that manner. I never want to be in that position."
Ah. So he didn't want surgery in the first place, because then he wouldn't help at all in the playoffs. I see.
Let me now point you to a time frame beginning in early November:
November 8: Jermaine O'Neal hurts himself against the Dallas Mavericks, sitting out the game's second half.
November 10: O'Neal is listed as day-to-day. Keep that "day-to-day" in mind. It will become funny.
November 11, morning: O'Neal "ponders sitting out the remainder of Boston's four-game road trip." Oh, it's getting worse? We should have known.
November 11, evening: O'Neal seeks a second medical opinion after "a series of flare-ups" in his knee. "This is the third time it's blown up on me," he said, "so i have to do something."
November 12: O'Neal skips the C's trip to Memphis, to return to Boston. "This is the most swelling I've had since I tore my meniscus three or four years ago," he said. So much for "day-to-day," or "pondering sitting out the remainder of Boston's four-game road trip." This might take a while, the Celtics realize.
November 15: Peter May writes a report about Jermaine O'Neal, and the opening sentence reads, "The news on Jermaine O'Neal is not good." He is now expected to miss 2-3 weeks.
November 29: Two weeks have now passed since O'Neal was supposed to miss 2-3 weeks. Needless to say, he still hasn't returned to the court.
December 6: Three weeks have now passed since O'Neal was supposed to miss 2-3 weeks. Still no word.
December 18: More than a month after O'Neal was supposed to miss 2-3 weeks, O'Neal returns to practice. "It felt good to be out there, more than anything" he said. But "I didn't expect anything, because when you expect too much, you'll just be disappointed." Remember those words, people. Words Jermaine O'Neal fans have to live by: "I didn't expect anything, because when you expect too much, you'll just be disappointed."
December 22: O'Neal is "50-50″ to play against Philadelphia on December 23.
December 23: O'Neal does not play against Philadelphia, due to illness. "I think he'll play next game," says Doc Rivers. "Hopefully."
December 25: Forty-five days after being considered "day-to-day", and six weeks after being "2-3 weeks" away from a return, O'Neal finally returns to the court. He scores two points, grabs two rebounds, and fouls four opponents.
January 7: O'Neal misses the second half of a win against Toronto. This again, eh? "We had a lead, so we just looked at it and, if we could get him through this game and maybe play him tomorrow, it would be great," said Doc Rivers.
January 8: Tomorrow comes. Jermaine O'Neal actually plays. Ineffectively, and only for twelve minutes, but he plays.
January 10: O'Neal plays, again. His tenth straight game played. The eleventh won't come.
January 13: O'Neal discusses in-season surgery for the first time. "You don't want to miss extended periods of time," he said. "And for myself, I already did that." Yes. Yes, you did.
January 14: O'Neal decides to decide his fate on January 18th. He will either have surgery, or he will elect not to have surgery and go through rehab. "Surgery is the worst-case scenario for me," said O'Neal. "If it's going to elevate me and get me out of this mode, then I'm all for it. If you can't guarantee me that it's going to get me out of this mode, then I'm not going to do it."
January 18: O'Neal's decision is delayed, after snow and ice push back O'Neal's meeting with Danny Ainge and the Celtics' doctors. The winter storm, I promise, won't be the last setback he faces.
January 19: O'Neal decides against knee surgery. The timetable for his return is four weeks. "We'll take the next four weeks to do nothing but work to build up his glutes and quads, with the sole purpose of that," said Danny Ainge. "So he'll be rehabbing to build strength in his leg to get ready for the end of the season."
February 4: O'Neal decides to get surgery. "Last time we talked, Jermaine was not getting surgery," said Ainge. "[But the knee] didn't respond like we had hoped for the first four or five days of that." Jermaine O'Neal's body, not responding properly? Shocking. The new timetable is 6-8 weeks.
February 26: O'Neal claims, via Twitter, that he will return before the regular season ends. Do you see yet why I don't exactly believe him?
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How do you think he looked by his 7th to tenth game in a row? Did you think his play was OK?
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OKC announced Perkins to miss 2-3 weeks… i thought it was after Monday. Is there something to the injury we don't know?
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Duh, DA knows and that's why he didn't want to risk another injury with KP. Let's end all the speculation and stupid assumptions and deal with the facts. KP isn't worth a $50M contract and has weak knees so DA found a taker and improved the Celtics bench and defense vs wings. Trade looks better and better each day that goes by. Go Cs…
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I have to disagree with you on this post..I see that you don't believe him to be healthy this time neighter, and I completely understand that you are upset with JO, he hasn't performed this season. Not at all. And yes, he has missed way to many games.
But, didn't we go through this last year as well? – All we need, is to be healthy and ready for the playoffs. Nothing else matters.
Healthy, we are better than any team in the league.
As Celtics' fans, we all should know that after last season's playoffs.
Especially with Perkins gone, it is important to have our true bigs ready to be out there when the playoffs roll around..
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Hey Jay I love your posts and always look forward to them… however, you are starting to sound borderline rooting against our bigs… I don't believe you are but it sounding like you are starting to sound like you hope JO doesn't help us at all. The trade is done, I rather have stayed put myself.. but now I'm forced to pray JO comes back strong and green is the best thing since HD TV… Get back to at least sounding like a fan
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Jay…don't you think DA obviously knows how Shaq and JO are recovering ergo the decision to move KP? He wouldn't have done so without the utmost confidence. Their health is what I believe led him to make this move. Looking forward to Green and Krstic's debuts tonight. I have faith you'll be back from mourning soon! Go Cs…
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Jermaine badly wants to play in the NBA, but so did I, and many people commenting on this website. But, as Jay pointed out, let's get real here.
Please tell me Shaq is on a diet. No more Hamburger Helper and Doritos. If he could have a dietician supervising him 24-7 (i.e. food police) he could be mean and lean for the playoffs. I truly believe it's his weight, not his age, that is his greatest handicap.
Maybe he can hang out with Jared from the Subway commercial.
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Jay…but you could trust KP? Bad point. Go Cs…
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Lockheed Martin, Syracuse, New York, is being awarded a $15,450,907 contract modification for fiscal 2012 engineering services in support of the Navy's AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 Undersea Warfare Combat System. The AN/SQQ-89A(V)15 is a surface ship combat system with the capabilities to search, detect, classify, localize and track undersea contacts; and to engage and evade submarines, mine-like small objects, and torpedo threats. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems and Sensors, Manassas, Virginia, is being awarded a $107,992,068 cost-plus-incentive-fee contract modification to exercise options for Acoustic Rapid Commercial-Off-The-Shelf Insertion (A-RCI) engineering services. A-RCI is a sonar system that integrates and improves towed array, hull array, sphere array, and other ship sensor processing. Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.
Sechan Electronics Incorporated, Lititz, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $64,207,078 indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract for signal data processor - Sierra (SDP-S) production units and engineering support services in support of the Cooperative Engagement Capabilities (CEC) program. The SDP-S incorporates the Sierra II cryptographic chip to meet cryptographic modernization requirements and uses commercial-off-the-shelf components to provide an open architecture CEC system. The SDP-S provides the core of the CEC system providing the processing capability for sensor track fusion. The SDP-S assemblies are used on CEC shipboard, airborne and land mobile platforms to provide a composite network picture. Concurrently, the company is being issued the initial firm-fixed-price delivery order in the amount $13,765,500 for 84 SDP-S assemblies. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, D.C., is the contracting activity.


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ABU DHABI�The Abu Dhabi Refining Co. (Takreer) is aiming to increase its refining capacity to 500,000 b/d, it was reported by Dubai's daily Gulf News.
Production of sulfur would also be expanded to satisfy demand, in view of the ongoing expansion of the Ruwais refinery and Phase 2 of the liquefied natural gas development scheme at Habshan, according to Ali Saeed Al Badi, director general of Takreer. He said the move was part of the company's plan to satisfy increasing local and international demand for oil products, adding that several projects were under construction in the Ruwais industrial zone.
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I am a former Army Officer and combat veteran. I was commissioned from the University of Arizona's Army ROTC Program. As a Cadet and as a young Lieutenant I believed that women should not serve in combat units for all of the same reasons we are used to hearing; physical ability, unit cohesion, rape, capture, etc. However, as most of us know, actual experience vs theory often changes one's opinion. Once in combat my opinion changed as I witnessed all of my seemingly legitimate reasons fall to pieces one by one; they just never materialized. I expected to see combat units fall apart once a woman was attached, I expected to see women fail physically on the combat field and get men killed, I expected to see women raped when captured, I expected to see men flee a post or duty because a woman was in danger ... none of it happened, none of it. Experience trumps theory every time, and when it does intelligent humans must begin to change their mind.
I am about 98 percent sure I could not have rose to the physical standard to serve in a combat unit, and I was in very good physical shape. I am not sure I would have wanted to. ... maybe? However, there are women who can, I know them, have served with them, and that opportunity for promotion and extension of one's career, should be extended to them. I guess we will see, wont we? Many will try and few will be able to, and there will be a lot of injury and a lot of adjustment but we will see, wont we? We cannot fail to at least offer equality to women in the military. Our military has and must continue to take risk. We are taught as Officers that in order to crush your enemy one must take risk; so let's just see how it all shakes out Hooah. Ponder this: right now there is a Senior Cadet at West Point or in ROTC that will likely spend her entire military career in a combat branch, and will be promoted to the General Officer ranks accordingly. Panetta's decision is life-altering for women in the military, a little scary for some men in the military, but mostly it seems that talking heads and politicians with absolutely zero combat experience are the ones with all the "reasons" that women should not serve in combat units.
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One week of commuting down and three months to go... Does that sound pessimistic? I really don't mean it to. On the contrary, my week of commuting went better than expected! I used both two hour bus rides to catch up on my leisure reading and had three full days in Boston for classes, schoolwork and catching up on errands (including lunch and a shopping trip to the Copley Plaza with my aunt).
After a full semester in the spring and my trip to Rome over the summer, GSLIS is finally starting to feel like home. I already know at least one student in each of my classes and a couple of my professors as well. As I mentioned in my last post, I have signed up for four courses with the intention of dropping one and this decision is proving more difficult than I had anticipated. I had hoped after the first week of classes I would have a clear idea of which course I should drop. That was not the case, I absolutely loved all four courses and cannot decide. It's a tribute to the strength of the GSLIS curriculum that I am so torn between my courses. (That said, I wish I had a crystal ball to see if one of these classes is being offered again in the spring.)
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The Tumblr Who Pays Writers was launched in December 2012 by Manjula Martin. It grew innocently out of a Twitter conversation the San Francisco-based freelancer was having with some friends.
"There's been a lot of talk lately about how publishing is changing," Martin tells FishbowlLA. "Whether or not everyone agrees with that, it inspired a question for me: How can we as culture workers navigate this industry – or help it evolve new models – if we're not talking openly about its economic realities?"
"I had been thinking about this a lot as a freelance writer and editor who moves between copywriting, consulting, journalistic work and "creative" writing," she continues. "Then one Saturday morning, I was having a conversation on Twitter with some other writers about how a lot of publications don't pay at all, and it seems like that's not common knowledge. I had been making my own running list of rates I knew about, and I decided to ask others to contribute to a public listing on Tumblr. The response was much larger than I anticipated, which is great."