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Hershey'sWednesday, January 14, 2015
Hershey's Symphony with Almonds and Toffee ChipsIt's odd to think that the 10 most popular chocolate candy bars have been around longer than most of us. Those bars are Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, Snickers, M&Ms, Hershey's Milk Chocolate and KitKat, all of which were introduced before 1950. Plenty of candy bars have come and gone over the past century, but it's so crowded at the top with those tried and true favorites. I bring this up because it's rare for me to remember the introduction of a new candy bar that's actually still on the market 25 years later. Hershey's launched a new line of chocolate bars in 1989 with a simple idea, that they were a little creamier than their famous Milk Chocolate and Milk Chocolate with Almonds. They came up with the brand called Symphony and introduced them with actual fanfare ... commercials featuring classical music. Their tagline was pretty good: They'll never be another unfinished Symphony. The packaging design is largely unchanged since their introduction in 1989. There are two different bars in the line, the same as at the launch. There's a plain milk chocolate bar (with red accents) and the Symphony Creamy Milk Chocolate Almonds & Toffee Chips with blue accents. Though they're both still on the market, the Almond and Toffee Chips is the easiest to find, since it's distinctively different from those other top 10 bars. The bars themselves have changed quite a bit, partly because Hershey's no longer wraps their bars in foil with a paper sleeve. The Symphony bar I picked up bore a striking resemblance in shape to the Hershey's Almond bar ... once I opened it, it was pretty clear why. It's now the same mold. The previous versions of the bar had segments with the Symphony logo at the center of each. The current ingredients are not at all premium: I found a wrapper online from 2001 that tells a simpler story (but the current bar is .1 ounces larger): When I was photographing the bar, I noticed that it had a lot of voids and bubbles in it, so I weighed it to make sure that it was accounted for in the bar. Sure enough, the bar weighed 43 grams, the wrapper states 42 grams. Though it looks like a Hershey's chocolate bar, it doesn't taste like it. That's not to say that it's spectacular or that different from many of the other inexpensive chocolate bars, but it definitely doesn't have the Hershey's sharpness. Instead of the bar is fudgy sweet, so sweet that there's very little chocolate flavor. The dairy notes are good, and combine well with the toasty flavors of the toffee chips and almond bits. It's exceptionally sweet overall, only the inclusions give a little relief. For the most part the bar gave me a sore throat. The combination is refreshing for the price point, but for a little more I could just get a Ritter Sport bar or even a Toblerone (but really the same price per ounce), since their bars are two times or more the size). If Hershey's wants to step up their game with this bar, I think it needs a brand refresh - I'm not saying they need to go dark chocolate, but actual better chocolate like the Bliss line or going with a certified cacao source would help it stand out. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 4:57 pm Candy • Review • Hershey's • Chocolate • Kosher • Nuts • Toffee • 6-Tempting • United States • Walgreen's • Comments (5) Tuesday, September 23, 2014
Jolly Rancher Caramel Apple Crunch 'n ChewLast year Jolly Rancher introduced Jolly Rancher Caramel Apple Lollipops for Halloween. They're back again, along with a version of the more recent Crunch 'n Chew in the same flavor. The Jolly Rancher Caramel Apple Crunch 'n Chew is available in large lay down bags and even this little individual portion size. The individually wrapped candies are quite different from the traditional Jolly Rancher hard candies. In this case the candy features a hard candy shell in two flavors, caramel and apple. Then there's a soft chewy filling in a caramel flavor. Crunch 'n Chew were introduced in 2012 and come in the standard Jolly Rancher flavors (green apple, blue raspberry, watermelon and cherry). As I noted in my original review, they're interesting but lack some of the great features I love about Jolly Rancher hard candies, which is the smooth dissolve without any voids and the light pliability of the candy as it melts. All that Jolly Rancher brings to the table here is the name recognition that basically invented the green apple flavor. The image on the front of the package isn't quite accurate (it's also enlarged to show detail). It shows that the candy filling is a large portion of the mass of the candy, and that the caramel and apple portions are equal. Cleaving a piece in half showed that the caramel is actually a thin layer on top of the apple (which is fine, really, because that's the way actual caramel apples are), but it's the relatively small amount of chewy filling that's revealed here. The brown layer is polite and has a sweet brown sugar flavor. The green part is green apple, which is tart and artificial and mostly tasty. The crunch takes a little while. I don't feel confident crunching right away, I usually let the candy dissolve for about 30 seconds. The filling is quite stiff and hard to chew, though the work is worth it. The center isn't really much, it's sweet and has a note of butter flavor to it. But the combination of all the elements chewed together is, well, impressively original. It's probably not a candy I would buy in the large 10 ounce bag, but this little 1.55 ounces was fun and I'll probably finish the bag. Of the three candies I've tried now: the classic flavor Crunch 'n Chew, the Caramel Apple Lollipop and these Caramel Apple Crunch 'n Chew, I think these are by far the most successful. Like the Caramel Apple Lollipops, these contain no dairy ingredients, so they may be a good option for someone who wants a caramel experience but is lactose intolerant. (There's no actual allergen statement though, so check with Hershey's if you have any allergy issues.) The candy also contains soy and gelatin (so it's not vegetarian). They're made in Brazil.
Wednesday, September 17, 2014
Twizzlers Filled Strawberry BitesTwizzlers Filled Strawberry Bites have been out for a while, part of the morsel trend. Though Twizzlers already come in Nibs, this version of the fruity twists has a little twist of its own. Back in 2005 Hershey's introduced Twizzler Twerpz which were little snips of Twizzlers (orange and strawberry) filled with a sour paste. They didn't make it very long, but did have some strong fans who continue to post on that review hoping Hershey's would revive them. More recently Twizzlers brought out Sweet & Sour Filled Twists which were full twist length in cherry and lemon. In this case, the little Bites, or niblets, are about a half an inch long. They're cut from the extruded strawberry twist and filled with more strawberry-flavored goo. The packaging for this King Size bag is a little odd. I understand the goal is to create a candy bowl, but I don't think it succeeds. The package is gusseted on both the top and bottom and the opening for the package is in the middle of the pleats on the top. That all worked fine when I opened it at first. However, later on I wanted to read the nutrition information, which was covered by a flap, I tried to lift the flap and ended up pulling the whole seam apart. The packages also don't sit well on the shelf, they look slumped and hard to read. It's a great idea, and I really hope they're able to overcome some of these challenges. I think cookies have really solved this with the snack and reseal flaps. The pieces smell like strawberry - sweet and floral. The chew is like a regular Twizzler, but a little softer. The filling is lightly tangy and has no chew of its own, really no other properties except that it's soft (I believe it's a jelly made from pectin). The size of the pieces is good, it's easy to eat one or two at a time. The chew has a little bit of a pasty quality towards the end, which is remedied by eating another. I ate them all, but I don't think strawberry would be my favorite flavor from Twizzlers. I can't see them making this in black licorice (what would the filling flavor be?) but raspberry or chocolate might be fun. They're easy to munch on and are a better format for movie sharing. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:19 pm Candy • Morselization • Review • Hershey's • Chews • Kosher • 5-Pleasant • United States • Target • Comments (1) Monday, September 8, 2014
Twizzlers Caramel Apple Filled TwistsAs the seasonal flavors hit the store shelves, Caramel Apple seems to be all the rage this year. Hershey's has introduced Twizzlers Caramel Apple Filled Twists. The candy comes in a few formats. I saw them in the stores as a full sized bag of Twizzler Twists and saw some photos online of the King Sized package. I found this Snack Size package at the grocery story and liked that they were individually wrapped pairs of twists. Each twist is about 2.25 inches long, and each package is about a half an ounce and 50 calories. The color of the candy is quite striking. The pair of short twists are joined together, but easy to pull apart. The green twists are very green but slightly translucent and shiny. The filling is a creamy camel color, not gooey enough to spill out even when the pieces are cut or pulled apart. (So it's not a real caramel, just a caramel cream filling ... sort of like an Oreo center.) They smell like green apple Jolly Ranchers. The bite is very soft, the chew is also soft. The flavor is odd. After the smell, I expect a tangy bite to it, but it's not. It's sweet and tastes like fake apple with that light note of PlayDoh that red licorice often has ... but there's no tartness to it at all. The caramel filling is grainy, like frosting with a little buttery toffee note to it. Overall, it's not a bad candy. It's not as artificial as I'd expect, without any overtly weird green apple bitterness or too-much-fake-butter flavor. I question the need for a red licorice version of caramel apple flavors, but I think it's a nice take on the idea. Related Candies
Tuesday, September 2, 2014
Hershey's Candy Corn Creme with Candy BitsHershey's has a lot of returning holiday favorites for Halloween, but hasn't neglected to introduce a few new items. Hershey's Candy Corn Creme with Candy Bits was one of the odd items that really has no name (I think the best adaptation of an existing name to Halloween would be the Cadbury S'creme Egg). A few years back Hershey's had a seasonal variety of Kisses called Candy Corn Kisses. It made perfect sense, Kisses are kind of triangular and the layered look was a nice adaptation of the idea. The white confectionery base was simple enough, just a sort of honey/strawberry flavored version. In the Hershey's brand scheme, though, the Cookies n Creme bar has already captured the white confection lovers, so they're more likely to spark to the new Hershey's Candy Corn Creme with Candy Bits. The bar is simply a white chocolate style confection (Hershey's uses a combination of cocoa butter and other oils instead of just cocoa butter which it would need to be a true white chocolate). Scattered within the bar are orange and yellow candy sprinkles. The effect is that it does have a similar coloring to candy corn, though the yellow-white of the creme is dominant instead of the yellow-orange of Candy Corn. If you've always wanted Candy Corn to have fat in it, that would be why you'd want to buy this. The snack size bars are simple, they're long and have four little segments with the name Hershey's inside each. The bars smell sweet and milky, with a hint of strawberry. It reminds me of a glass of Strawberry Qwik in smell only (certainly not in color). The melt is decent, not creamy smooth, but a little waxy. It's quite sugary and extremely sweet, though the flavor and a hint of salt moderates that slightly. The sprinkles are annoying. They're waxy and add no actual flavor or real textural interest. I would have preferred either nonpareils or perhaps if they swirled different colors of confection into it instead. I think the Kiss version was more successful visually, but I didn't care for the butter flavoring. This one is definitely less intense, but neither is great to eat. If Hershey's wants to capitalize on their Cookies n Creme bar, I think making a seasonal version with a cookie in it, a la Golden Oreos might actually be more tasty. There are all sorts of ingredients in here, including partially hydrogenated oils, PGPR, resinous glaze (on the jimmies), tocopherols and artificial colors. The candy contains milk products and soy and is made on shared equipment with almonds. There is no statement about gluten or peanuts. Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:35 am Candy • Review • Halloween • Hershey's • Mockolate • White Chocolate • United States • Kmart • Comments (0) Friday, July 25, 2014
Hershey's Milk Chocolate KrackelFor many years I have chronicled the demise of once-great candies that were cultural touchstones for generations of Americans. The usual trajectory of a candy like this is that the company making it compromises too many times with cheaper ingredients and formulas until consumers lose interest in the product entirely and it is quietly discontinued. No one misses it much, because it broke their heart before it died. It's rare to see a reversal. I'm glad to be here to tell you about it. Hershey's Krackel bar was one of the last candy bars that Milton Hershey personally developed before he passed away. It was introduced in 1938 (and had nuts in as well, for a time). When the Hershey's Miniatures were developed, it was one of the bars chosen to represent the favorite of the Hershey bar assortment. The single-serving bar always stood out at the candy counter, in a bold red wrapper and large letter with a made-up word for the name.
In 2006 Hershey's discontinued the single-serving, king-size and larger sizes of the Krackel bar. It was still included in the Hershey's Miniatures ... but with a substantial change to the formula, it was now "made with chocolate" but also adulterated with other vegetable oil fillers. (What they were, I can't say, because Hershey's would not disclose the ingredients at the time, though later packaging did list each bar separately.) At the same time Mr. Goodbar continued to be produced in all sizes, though they did move to the mockolate recipe. With some small fanfare Hershey's announced the return of the Krackel bar, citing shareholders as part of the reason for the return. The change to real chocolate was made in miniatures early this year and the bars returned in May. The current ingredients are: I can't exactly recall the actual Krackel bar any longer. I know I liked it as a kid and I know that I preferred it in the miniature version, because the chocolate was thicker. But other than that, I'll have to judge the Krackel on its current merits without any comparisons because I don't have a time machine and if I did, I probably wouldn't use it to taste old candy recipes. The bar smells sweet and lightly milky. It's not like the regular Hershey's chocolate that has that yogurty tang. Instead it's just sort of fudgy, like cheap frosting. The crunches are good, they're spaced out a bit, so it's not terribly airy, just crunchy. Crisped rice often has malt in it, as this does, which usually gives Krackel a sort of malted-milk-ball-in bar-form vibe. Sadly, there's not much going on here, though the hint of salt keeps it from being too sweet. It's much better than the previous mockolate version, though a far cry from being a good chocolate bar. It's simply a passable candy bar. I did pick up a Nestle Crunch bar at the same time, which has gone through a few formula changes over the years as well. The ingredients are similar, they're both 1.55 ounces, though the Nestle has 10 more calories. The ingredients on the Nestle Crunch are actually a bit better, with no preservatives or PGPR. When I tried the bar last time, I found it much better than previous versions, but not something I was likely to seek out. As you can see from the comparison of the bars, the Crunch is on the bottom and has a lot more crisped rice in it. I did prefer the airy texture and crispy rice, but the chocolate flavor was nearly impossible to discern. As a piece of candy, it was passable. As a chocolate bar with crisped rice, it was very disappointing. The Hershey's chocolate texture was a bit better, but that could be that there was just a slightly higher chocolate ratio, since there were fewer crisped rice bits. Neither comes out a huge winner, really. I like both package designs. Both are made in the United States. Neither Nestle or Hershey's are using ethically source chocolate yet. (Though Nestle does have a "Cocoa Plan", its little seals are just to direct you to information about its plan, not as a notation that this bar is actually using traceable cacao.) You can see more examples of classic Krackel wrappers here. I'm still going to say that the Trader Joe's Crispy Rice Milk Chocolate is my favorite. Though the ingredients don't differ that much, there are no preservatives and no PGPR and it has 18% cacao content (about 1.5x the amount of Hershey's). Still ... even though it's made with Belgian chocolate, I don't know the sourcing of it, but would like to see Trader Joe's give some assurances about the ethical sourcing in the future.
Wednesday, July 9, 2014
Twizzlers Mixed BerryIn the category of licorice-free extruded starch gels, Twizzlers are at the top of the heap. Though they're known mostly for the standard hollow Strawberry twist, Twizzlers come in a vast array of flavors, color and formats. One of the newer versions Twizzlers has been expanding is the Pull n Peel varieties. Pull n Peel is basically the old fashioned laces, but formatted in a way that makes them easier to portion and package. I picked up this king size version of Twizzlers Mixed Berry at Walgreen's, mostly because it came in the king size instead of the big nearly-a-pound bag. There are six twists in the package, a mix of three flavors: Cherry, Black Raspberry and Strawberry. The twists look kind of like a swollen version of what you'd find if you stripped the insulation off a phone cable. There are nine different colored "wires" in each bundle. The effect is quite appealing, as they twist gently and stick together lightly in the package. It's kind of like a wheat-based package of mozzarella cheese sticks. The texture is much more smooth and pliable than the regular Twizzlers, which I find a bit on the stuff and crumbly side of the plastic realm. My twists stuck together quite a bit, so it was hard to just pull off a single lace to eat separately. Cherry was the most discernible of the flavors. It had a deep medicinal note. It was smooth, not too sweet but also had a hint of salt to it. Strawberry was very mild and more sweet than Cherry. It didn't have any tangy note, which I didn't expect, but was also missing that fresh floral hint that usually evokes cotton candy in many other strawberry candies. The Black Raspberry (the blue strand) didn't do much for me, it wasn't distinct as a raspberry flavor on its own, but it definitely wasn't the same as the other two. Eaten as a whole bite of multiple strands, it works well. None of them stand out, it's just a generic fruity-berry flavor. There's a bitter note towards the end though, which I'd guess are the artificial colors or flavors. I could say that one twist is satisfying enough (about .7 ounces), since I didn't want to eat another after that. But if you're the kind of person who misses that period of life known as kindergarten when it was socially acceptable to eat PlayDoh, then the Twizzlers Pull n Peel are probably right up your alley. (I'm not making that up, either. The ingredients of Play Doh are also largely starch based, though it's not sold as a food item and Hasbro dissuades people from eating it, it's really the salt that might make that a bad idea and the fact that it contains wheat so it's not gluten free.) Related Candies
POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:55 pm Candy • Review • Hershey's • Chews • Kosher • 5-Pleasant • United States • Walgreen's • Comments (2) Tuesday, May 27, 2014
York Peppermint Pattie MinisHershey's won the The Most Innovative New Product Award at the 2014 Sweets & Snacks Expo last week for their new York Peppermint Pattie Minis. This innovative new product innovatively reduced the size of a regular York Peppermint Pattie to the diameter of a penny. Hershey's previously used this innovative innovation to shrink the size of their Reese's Peanut Butter Cups, KitKat and Rolo. It's a stunning development in the world of confections ... duplicated only by the recent innovations by Mars (with their Bites format of Snickers, Milky Way, Simply Caramel, 3 Musketeers and Twix) and Wrigley's (Starburst Minis). The morselization world is actually quite busy and crowded. It's not Hershey's fault that they were declared innovative (well, they probably entered the product in that category). The point is that there is an new, unwrapped version of York Peppermint Patties. The package is simple, though it's King Size bag holding 2.5 ounces, it was still listed as 1 portion on the nutrition panel and had no front of package tally of the calories and serving. Even though it's a massive amount of candy, because it's almost all sugar, it's pretty low in calories: 260. The pieces are really just tiny peppermint patties, a fraction of the size of the small snack sized versions, which are the preferred size for me. In the case of these, the ratios are particularly nice, as there's just slightly more consistent distribution of chocolate in each bite ... because each piece is a bite. The chocolate is quite bitter, and though it's not particularly creamy, it sets off the sweet and soft fondant well. It's not innovative, but it is successful. The texture difference from Junior Mints is notable. Junior Mints have a runnier center, a thicker chocolate shell and a light waxy glaze that keeps it from melting right away. Like the other sizes of York Peppermint Patties, the Minis are made in Mexico. There is no notation on the traceability of the cacao for the coating. York Peppermint Patties contain egg whites, soy and milk. There's nothing on the package about gluten or nuts/peanuts, but the AskHershey.com website specifically says that York Minis are not gluten free. Related Candies
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This is cool but i don't see how trundle get the rework when some champ needs rework than him!(Sejuani) nobody even use her now! Trundle is fine the way he is! Thanks anyway! And sivir her hair looks like a hoodie xD
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Professor Karen Peterson Wilson has been named to to the Patrick J. Quade Endowed Chair in Theater recently established with the support of gifts from alumnus Steven Fox '77. Read more here.
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Australia has a total of only 30 "official" sperm donors. Why?
SYDNEY, Australia — The line goes like this: "You've got millions to spare, we only need one."
There is such a critical shortage of sperm donors in Australia that one of the country's major IVF companies has taken desperate measures — an advertising campaign targeting men's ''generosity.''
In Australia, it is illegal to have a commercial (buy or sell) arrangement for human tissue, including sperm, eggs and embryos, so would-be parents rely on donations.
Michael Chapman, a senior fertility specialist with IVF Australia, said that over the past few years, the number of sperm donors had dwindled from over 100 in Australia to less than 30, largely due to changes to the law governing anonymity.
All sperm donors must agree to provide identifying information so that the child can contact them once they reach 18 — a change that has been gradually brought into force over the past three years in all states.
And doctors cannot bring in sperm from overseas that has been donated anonymously. Chapman said that about 15 percent of all sperm donations in Australia came from overseas.
However, some clinics in Australia import up to 80 percent of their sperm supply from the United States, which is legal as long as the person is not anonymous and not paid for supplying the sperm.
IVF Australia only uses local donors because it believes using overseas donors may make it difficult to track down fathers in the future. But it has an 18-month waiting list, which is too long for most women aged over 38, Chapman said.
He hoped the advertising campaign, which is running on major sporting and business websites — and also includes the line ''A donation to us won't save a life; hopefully it will create one'' — will reduce the wait to six months.
"I think there are probably men out there …who if they think about it might actually consider it a useful thing to do and take the consequences of loss of anonymity in the future. Men without children [and] in their late 30s might see this as a way of carrying on their gene pool, they might not have thought about it before,'' Chapman said.
Supply has also been affected by tighter laws governing risk assessments for genetic conditions and diseases.
In the state of New South Wales, the law also required, from January this year, that donors in Australia and overseas be on a register kept by the health department in the same way that it holds information on the HIV status of people.
New South Wales also has far stricter rules. In other states, each donor can provide for 10 families, but in New South Wales, from January, only five families (including the donor's own), can benefit. This has effectively doubled demand.
There are now only about 10 New South Wales donors.
Sydney clinic Fertility First has been importing sperm from America for the past five years, gradually increasing its supply to between 70 and 80 percent.
The medical director of Fertility First, Anne Clark, said Americans were far more altruistic than Australians when it comes to sperm donation.


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Home Cable Labels & Printers Label Printers DYMO® DateMark Date/Time Stamper
DYMO® DateMark Date/Time Stamper
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What's special about date/time stamper ?
The DateMark Electronic Date & Time Stamper from DYMO® is one of the most versatile time stamping tools around. Imprinting important tracking information directly onto invoices, mailing materials, or other documents has been simplified. You can easily and quickly mark this information prior to the documents reaching your client or colleague's desk. More |
The large LCD on the DateMark displays the current date, time, and any active stamper functions. There are 7 available message options, including: IN, OUT, PAID, FILE, REF, CFMD, RCVD. The DateMark also has a built-in auto-counter to help you print out serial numbers.
The calendar on the DateMark is programmed for up to 200 years in the future and will automatically adjust for a leap year. It's amazing that this advanced piece of equipment only weighs 1/2 pound.
- Large LCD display
- 7 message options
- Prints 4- or 6-digit sequential numbers
- Uses 4 AA batteries (not included) and 1 lithium coin cell (included)
Part # | DY-47002 |
Price | DISCONTINUED |
Width | 4" |
Height | 3" |
Depth | 1-5/16" |
Weight | 0.5 lb |
Batteries | 1 Lithium-Ion (included) and 4 AA batteries (not included) |
Display | LCD |
Prints | Current date, time, sequential numbers and messages |
Available Messages | 7 - IN, OUT, PAID, FILE, REF, CFMD, RCVD |
Numbers | 4- or 6-digit sequential |
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DY-47002 | DYMO® DateMark Electronic Date/Time Stamper | 4" x 1-5/16" x 3" | DISCONTINUED |
DY-47001 | Replacement Ink Roller for DateMark Electronic Date/Time Stamper | DISCONTINUED |
Quick Instructions on Setting the Date/Time:
- To set the current date and time, press and hold down the SET/EDIT button for a few seconds. Release the SET/EDIT button when the Month (M) and Day (D) indicators start flashing.
Note: The unit will revert back to normal display if no other key is pressed for 10 seconds. - While the Month (M) and Day (D) indicators are flashing press the LOCK button to cycle through the 3 available date formats.
- Once you have chosen an appropriate date format press the SHIFT button to switch between each of the different DATE, MONTH, YEAR, HOUR, and MINUTE fields. The field that is currently active will start flashing. To change the field's value press the LOCK button. Each stroke of the LOCK button moves one value up.
Note: If you go past the current year, you will need to press the LOCK button to cycle through the year 2189 and back up to the current year. - Once you are finished setting the Date and Time press the Set/Edit button to return to the normal display. The Date/Time Stamper is now ready to print.
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- Easy to Use
- Good Value
- Hospital use
- Long Lasting
- Sensitive stamper
Best Uses
- Time saver for Dr's
Comments about DYMO DateMark-Electronic Date/Time Stamper:
Physicians using paper-based records who are reluctang to date and time entries use it in our small 75 bed rehabilitation hospital we use 3 of them! Joint Commission surveyor loved it.
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It's seeing the bright world afresh after a dark nightmare, when you first wake.
It's when you make them laugh and, in that moment, everyone loves a clown.
It's when your heart stops before the roller coaster plummets down, down.
It's when the lights go out before your favourite band plays and you scream.
It's that moment you look around and everything's perfect enough to be a dream.
It's the anticipation of waiting for a new episode of your favourite television show.
It's the first time you listen to your favourite record and you just sort of know.
It's reading a book cover-to-cover and a million times more and still crying at the ending.
It's the stiff, tight, real feeling of a smiling scab as you watch the wound mending.
It's when you first meet your best friend and you hate each other (but in a good way).
It's the butterflies you get when you hear that they like you (or so your pals say).
It's the feeling of rain dancing down your cold skin and clinging to your sodden hair.
It's when that brilliant idea comes to you and you grin madly, making everyone stare.
It's how the sun bites into your skin and scratches at your eyes, but it's still stunning.
It's that one time you get in so much deep trouble you have to laugh and start running.
It's the soft, warm reassurance of someone else's skin caressing against your own.
It's having fun with friends and then remembering them when you're just alone.
It's being full of crazy, fantastic emotions and not understanding how they feel.
It's having that one dream over and over and over and waiting for it to become real.
And it's everything in between.


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Editors' Review
+TreedBNotes Pro is a personal information manager, database program, and word processor. TreedBNotes Pro also includes an alarm and reminder feature plus password protection and encryption capabilities. Still not impressed? TreedBNotes Pro's e-book feature helps you write that great American novel or training manual (that is, formatting the text, sharing or not with other readers, and creating a Table of Contents and fully searchable text; the creative writing part, well, TreedBNote Pro leaves that to aspiring Melvilles and Grishams).
TreedBNotes Pro sets itself apart from similar programs in the way it stores data in tree-like structures which lets users organize (and find!) complex information in an intuitive way. Each of the particular tree's substructures (called nodes) is actually a document such as a contact or a note or folder. With TreedBNotes Pro, one can have as many trees as your hard drive can accommodate. Another great feature of TreedBNotes Pro (other than the very nifty e-book feature) is its robust Contacts template, which gives users the opportunity to include all kinds of pertinent and not-so-pertinent information about the many people in one's life, including birthdays, children's names, Web sites, and photos. It's also easy to change the template background color, add a photo, an icon selected from a menu of icons, or with the capability to include a note or two about that particular person (for example: "Nancy collects antique watering cans and is allergic to carrots"). You can create lists of contacts and quickly send them all a file created in the program's word processor.
Although quite easy to use overall, novice users may find it initially overwhelming. That said, TreedBNotes Pro offers a 30-day trial that is long enough for you to determine just how useful this program's many features are to you.
Publisher's Description
+TreeDBNotes is a powerful and easy-to-use personal database program, PIM, word processor, e-book maker, alarm and reminders, contacts and passwords manager with tree structure, advanced encryption and password protection. Features include search, replace, case options, and insert file, link, image, time, date, symbols, table , or HTML table. Import TXT, WRI, RTF, Excel, Word, TreePad, CSV, and HTML. Export to TXT, HTML, WRI, and DOC. Has multi-language interface.
What's new in this version:
Version 4.34 Build 01 has added Export notes to DocX (Microsoft Word 2009/2012/2013) format.