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Why Fintech Startups Aren't Killing Banks — Yet
We are beyond the stage where it's easy to get impressed by the number of new fintech startups on a chart.
The Revolution Will Be Streamed
By James Higa, Index Ventures mentor-in-residence.
Deciphering the Buzz Around Security
Shardul Shah on why enterprise security is currently at an inflection point.
IPOs: A how-to guide for tech startups
After a decade-long drought, there has been a rush of tech IPOs in the U.S. and Europe, and Index Ventures has been able to observe this at close hand through our investments in companies like Arista Networks, Criteo, Etsy, Hortonworks, Just Eat, King and Zendesk.
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Everything Must Go – why a retail revolution is transforming the industry for the better
Technology-powered innovation is rapidly reshaping industries as diverse as financial services and entertainment, changing delivery and business models, stripping out middle men and pitching agile, nothing-to-lose upstarts against even the largest of incumbents.
Property Partner raises £5.2m to build 'global stock exchange for residential property'
Residential property crowdfunding platform, Property Partner, today announces a £5.2m funding round to transform the way people invest in the residential property market.
Contemporizing Collectibles: How 1stdibs CEO David Rosenblatt Is Leading the Digital Charge in Luxury
Climbing the Mountain: What Zuora CEO Tien Tzuo Thinks About When Scaling A Company
Zuora Chief Executive Tien Tzuo knows a thing or two about scaling companies.
Zuora Receives $115 Million Investment as Subscription Economy Goes Mainstream
Today's $115 million funding announcement from Zuora underscores the significant shift all companies are making toward subscription business models. The latest funding round brings the total amount of capital raised by Zuora to $250 million.
Culture Amp secures $6.3m in Series A funding to grow culture-first companies
Airbnb, Uber, Pandora, Adobe, Pinterest, Warby Parker, Lyft, Etsy, GoDaddy among the companies using Culture Amp for employee surveys.
The Opportunities and Challenges of Building a Lasting Ecommerce Brand
As an investor, I have a particular fondness for the ecommerce space—not because I'm particularly fashion-savvy, but because I find investing in ecommerce more challenging than investing in apps or services.
Managing Hypergrowth at LinkedIn: The Importance of Iteration
Index Ventures Mentor-in-Residence Steve Cadigan on the importance of using an iterative approach to leadership.
Visa to Acquire TrialPay
TrialPay's Innovative Offers Platform Extends Visa's Suite of Merchant Solutions
Peoplevox raises $6M to offer state-of-the-art warehouse management software to booming e-commerce sector
Peoplevox, the leading provider of software-as-a-service warehouse management system, today announces a $6 million investment led by Index Ventures to help e-commerce companies modernise their warehouse operations. In a competitive and fast-growing market, seamless warehouse management is mission critical for all e-commerce players, with ineffective systems resulting in delayed, cancelled or wrong orders – which are damaging both to brand and customer loyalty.
Supporting Zebras not just Unicorns
Now that nearly two billion people have smartphones in their pockets and software is profoundly changing the way we live and work, national and local governments around the world are paying serious attention to how the Internet is changing GDP. In an increasingly connected world, cities and countries are vying to attract the entrepreneurs and innovators who not just drive economic growth, but can also help to deliver against long-term policy objectives.
British Gas to Acquire AlertMe, Pioneer in Connected Home Technology, In Deal Estimated at £65m
AlertMe today announces it has entered into an agreement for the sale of the company to British Gas (part of the Centrica plc group) in a deal estimated to be worth £65m ($100m).
A 10 Year Journey: Q&A with Quentin Gallivan on Pentaho's Road to Success
On Tuesday, Hitachi Data Systems, a wholly owned subsidiary of Hitachi, Ltd., announced its intent to acquire Pentaho.
Hitachi Data Systems Announces Intent to Acquire Pentaho to Deliver More Value From Big Data and the Internet of Things that Matter
Acquisition delivers data integration, business analytics expertise, and foundational technologies that accelerate big data value
Online Furniture Marketplace Move Loot Raises $9M
Move Loot, the first full-service online marketplace for pre-owned home goods, has teamed up with the e-commerce experts at venture capital firm Metamorphic Ventures and raised $9 million in new funding to prepare for rapid geographic expansion.
'Be creative with a deal you can't afford' and 'get on a plane'
Pro tips on M&A from serial acquirer and MyHeritage CEO Gilad Japhet.
Datadog Raises $31M in Series C Funding Round Led by Index Ventures
New round enables company to strengthen the leadership position and growth trajectory for its cloud monitoring platform.
Deliveroo raises $25m in Series B funding to transform the food delivery experience
Investment will fuel UK and international expansion of meal delivery from favourite local restaurants.
TransferWise raises $58m as it rolls out global expansion plans
Andreessen Horowitz the venture capital firm created by Netscape and Opsware founders Marc Andreessen and Ben Horowitz - has led a Series C $58m round in Europe's leading financial tech start-up TransferWise. TransferWise's existing investors, including Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel's Valar Ventures, Index Ventures, IA Ventures, and Seedcamp, also participated in the round.
Interana Secures $20 Million in Series B Funding Led by Index Ventures
Data Analytics Company Expands Reach With New Customers, Making Data a Part of Everyone's Day
Gaining Insights: Interana ushers the era of data democratization
Plus size fashion retailer navabi announces €25m worth of funding
navabi, the global leader in women's premium plus size fashion, has announced a new funding round worth €25 million.
Investing in the Enterprise in 2015
Enterprise technology investing is probably in one of the most interesting places it has been in the last 20 years. The confluence of critical technology transition, open source software, mobility, and the consumerization of the enterprise has created fertile ground for the next generation of iconic enterprise companies.
Stack Exchange Raises $40 Million Series D Financing
Stack Exchange, Inc., best known for Stack Overflow, a site where millions of developers have built and curated the largest online repository of programming knowledge in the world, today announced a $40 million round of Series D funding led by Andreessen Horowitz.
Welcoming Our Newest Mentor-in-Residence, Steve Cadigan
Platforms of Purpose
As we close out 2014, I thought it appropriate to repost something I had written about what we think is one of the most important trends that took shape this year.
Adyen Raises $250M in Funding to Accelerate Growth of Its Global Payments Platform
Funding for Leading Global Payments Technology Company Led by General Atlantic with Significant Investments from Temasek and Existing Investors, Index Ventures and Felicis Ventures.
Adyen's mission to build new payment rails for the world
Jan Hammer on the payment technology company that's set to change how the world transacts.
Hortonworks Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Hortonworks, Inc. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 6,250,000 shares of its common stock at a price to the public of $16.00 per share.
Understanding Brand: Lessons from Sonos Brand Chief Greg Perlot
Greg Perlot, chief brand officer at Sonos, and Mike Volpi were joined by a group of entrepreneurs at Index Ventures to discuss how a tech and product oriented company with a complex message transformed into a true consumer lifestyle brand.
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Elasticsearch Raises $70 Million in Series C Financing
Elasticsearch to accelerate mission of making it simple for businesses worldwide to obtain meaningful insights from data.
Codecademy Goes Global to Help Millions-Strong Community Succeed in Today's Workforce
TheFamily raises $1M to expand its activities in the French startup ecosystem
TheFamily, the strategic startup shareholder in France with a portfolio of 126 companies, has raised $1M of funding from Index Ventures and a number of angel investors.
Revolutionary music keyboard firm ROLI raises $12.8m to scale production
London music start-up ROLI, whose award-winning product, the Seaboard GRAND, met with unexpectedly strong demand creating waiting lists of up to a year, is now poised to scale production and expand globally.
Centrify Announces $42 Million in Funding
Centrify Corporation, the leader in Unified Identity Services across data center, cloud and mobile, today announced it has raised $42 million in funding with participation by strategic investors Samsung Ventures, Fortinet Inc. and Docomo Capital.
Zendesk, Inc. Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
Zendesk, Inc. today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 11,111,111 shares of its common stock at a price of $9.00 per share. The shares are expected to begin trading on the New York Stock Exchange on May 15, 2014 under the ticker "ZEN."
Sinch Launches Communications Platform for Mobile Developers
Sinch today announced the launch of its communications platform enabling iOS and Android developers to add a layer of voice and messaging to their apps for free or at fraction of the cost of competitors.
#GIRLBOSS by Sophia Amoruso, Founder and CEO of Nasty Gal
In 2002, Sophia Amoruso was hitchhiking up and down the West Coast, dumpster diving for meals and dabbling in petty thievery. Fast forward to 2014: Sophia Amoruso is the Founder and CEO of Nasty Gal, the fastest growing online fashion retailer in the country.
auxmoney Raises $16M to Take Crowdlending Mainstream
auxmoney, Germany's leading online marketplace for peer-to-peer loans, where private consumers can borrow up to €25,000 directly from private and institutional investors, today announced an investment round of $16 million.
Bitcoin payments pioneer BitPay raises record $30M in Series A led by Index Ventures
BitPay, the world leader in business solutions for Bitcoin digital currency, today announces a Series A funding round of $30M (€22M), led by Index Ventures, with participation from Horizons Ventures, Founders Fund, Felicis Ventures, RRE Ventures, TTV Capital, Sir Richard Branson, and AME Cloud Ventures.
iZettle Raises €40M ($55.5M) Series C
Growth investor Zouk Capital is joined by Dawn Capital, Intel Capital and early investors Creandum, Greylock, Index, Northzone and SEB
Europe's largest peer-to-peer car rental service Drivy raises €6m to expand internationally
Drivy hits 250,000 users mark and 20% month-to-month growth, as people forgo buying a car to rent one from neighbours instead. Average car owner on Drivy makes €1,000 a year from a car that would otherwise sit idle.
OZON Holdings Announces $150 Million Investment from Sistema and MTS to Support Continued Company Growth
OZON Holdings Limited ("Ozon Group" or the "Company"), Russia's leading e-commerce group, today announced that it has completed a $150 million funding round (the "Transaction").
Digital Health Start-Up, Big Health, Raises $3.3 million Series A Round
Creators of online sleep improvement programme, Sleepio, announce plans for US office
The Business of Fashion Introduces BoF Careers
Today, The Business of Fashion is pleased to introduce BoF Careers (1), a global talent marketplace embedded at the heart of the fashion ecosystem, where top professional talent and the industry's leading companies can connect and interact.
Pure Storage Raises $225M, Valued at Over $3B by Leading Public Market Investors
With Plans for Continued Business Acceleration, Pure Storage Raises New Capital to Meet Market Demand, Expand Global Footprint and Preserve Long-Term Independence in Pioneering the All-Flash Future for Enterprise Storage.
Squarespace Raises $40M in Series B Funding
Squarespace, the leading all-in-one website publishing and e-commerce platform used by hundreds of thousands of businesses, today announced it has raised $40 million in Series B funding from global growth investor General Atlantic.
Lookout appoints Jim Dolce as new CEO and John Hering as Executive Chairman
Lookout appoints Jim Dolce as new CEO and John Hering as Executive Chairman
London Stock Exchange Welcomes Just Eat - First High Growth Segment IPO
London Stock Exchange today welcomes JUST EAT, the first company to be admitted to London Stock Exchange's High Growth Segment.
King Announces Pricing of Initial Public Offering
LONDON and STOCKHOLM -- King Digital Entertainment plc (NYSE: KING), a leading interactive entertainment company for the mobile world, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 22,200,000 of its ordinary shares at a price to the public of $22.50 per share.
Hortonworks to Extend Leadership of Enterprise Hadoop and Expand Ecosystem with $100M Funding
Hortonworks, the leading contributor to and provider of enterprise Apache™ Hadoop®, today announced an oversubscribed $100 million funding round led by funds managed by BlackRock and Passport Capital, joined by all existing investors.
Socialbakers Completes $26M Financing for International Expansion and Innovation
Series C round is one of the largest for a social analytics company outside North America
Blaze launches laserlight for cyclists to save lives
The Laserlight projects an image ahead of the cyclist to tackle the most common cause of cycling accidents - vehicles turning across an unseen bike.
The Cambridge Satchel Company Raises $21M From Index Ventures
The Cambridge Satchel Company, the leather goods brand and maker of the original and best satchel, today announces funding of $21m from Index Ventures, backers of global brands and fashion retailers including ASOS, Moleskine, Net-á-Porter and Nasty Gal.
Trustpilot Secures $25 Million Funding to Accelerate Growth
New York – London – Copenhagen – Trustpilot, the leading review community for online shoppers, today announces it has raised $25m in Series C financing.
MyOptique Group announces £8 million funding
MyOptique Group, Europe's leading online optical retailer selling prescription glasses (Glasses Direct, MyOptique), sunglasses (Sunglasses Shop) and contact lenses (LensOn), today announced it has secured £8 million in investment and appointed a new Chairman to bolster its aggressive international expansion plans.
MetaPack accelerates international growth following £20m investment
MetaPack, the leading provider of delivery management solutions for retailers, announces today a £20m investment from Index Ventures, a leading venture capital investor in growth companies.
SoftBank and GungHo Announce Strategic Investment of USD 1.5 Billion in Supercell
SoftBank and GungHo today announced that they have entered into an agreement with Supercell.
Criteo Prices Initial Public Offering
Criteo S.A. (CRTOF), a leading global technology company that specializes in performance display advertising, today announced the pricing of its initial public offering of 8,082,580 American Depository Shares, representing the company's ordinary shares, at a price to the public of $31.00 per American Depositary Share.
Funding Circle Launches In U.S. With $37M Investment
Online business lending pioneer joins forces with San Francisco-based Endurance Lending Network.
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The Tech cluster phenomenon powering Europe's startup boom
Where is Europe's Silicon Valley? This is the inevitable opening question the U.S.- tech media has for a European venture capitalist.
Signal in the Noise
Hortonworks CEO Rob Bearden on enterprise-grade Hadoop and the Big Data opportunity.
Disrupting the Multi-trillion Wealth Management Industry: Wealthfront Raises $35M Round
London's Digital Revolution Is Incomplete
London's position as the centre of Europe's digital revolution is assured -- at least for now.
A Perfect Storm: Now is the Time for Multibillion Dollar Open Source Companies
At Index we've been investing in open source for 12 years and have never seen such a 'perfect storm' for open source companies to make the jump from scrappy-and-free to large-and-profitable.
MOO: 'Scaling can be painful'
MOO CEO and Founder Richard Moross on serving customers in 200+ countries.
Keyboard Revolutionaries
SwiftKey CEO and co-founder Jon Reynolds on marketing an app to millions and scaling to the U.S.
Don't cook, JUST EAT
JUST EAT's executive team on making marketing count
Criteo: It's all about the team
It was November 2007 and I had just joined Index to launch the firm's new growth fund, when a close member of my network, Pascal Gauthier, told me about a company called Criteo.
We give a voice to ideas
Squarespace CEO Anthony Casalena on "solving" publishing and why we will all need a place to live online.
The Etsy Factor
Etsy CEO Chad Dickerson on reinventing retail and why community must have soul.
Sharing Intelligence
HouseTrip CEO Arnaud Bertrand on how to launch -- and scale -- a global sharing economy business.
Another Cambridge Phenomenon
Index Ventures backs The Cambridge Satchel Company.
13 lessons from the Salesforce frontline
Index companies and Salesforce discuss how to get the most out of CRM.
The New Perimeter: Why We Invested in Adallom
Since SaaS emerged as a viable enterprise model over a decade ago, IT directors have lost sleep many nights worrying how to secure the ever-growing, ever-morphing, perimeter-less network known unassumingly as the 'cloud'. And that challenge is only getting more complex by the day.
Mobile-focused brokerage for all
With technology reshaping and demystifying all aspects of financial services, from foreign exchange and insurance to asset and wealth management, Index is very excited to be part of an early stage investment in Robinhood (www.Robinhoodapp.com), an iOS (and soon, Android) app, which is transforming the way people invest in individual stocks.
Saul Klein's Keynote at Dublin Web Summit
Majority World Report 2013: Risk and Reward
The best startup in Europe we can't invest in
Everyone is rightly excited about the wall of amazing tech-enabled startups being born in Europe and Israel, disrupting massive industries including media, marketing, fashion, retail, travel, finance and transportation.
A Letter to German Entrepreneurs
As the European startup ecosystem matures, you would expect young entrepreneurs to enjoy ever-increasing access to useful advice from mentors, business leaders, experienced entrepreneurs, legal advisors and investors.
"Don't Trust the Horse, Trojans!"
The myth of the Trojan horse is epic, but you might not remember an important character - Lacoon.
Supercell Achieves Orbit
In 2010, the thirtieth year of SoftBank's existence, its founder Masayoshi Son outlined the company's vision for the next 30 years.
Helping Farmers Protect Their Crops From Adverse Weather
This morning Monsanto announced its acquisition of The Climate Corporation. Index Ventures led Climate's seed round and co-led or participated in every round the company has raised since.
LSE readies for lift off
There comes a time in the life-span of any large, successful company when they consider an IPO.
Meet The "Mind-Reading" Startup
We at Index are leading a $17.5m Series B round into London-based app developer SwiftKey (TouchType Ltd), makers of the best-selling Android app of 2012, the SwiftKey virtual keyboard.
Why We Are Investing in Rad
Index Ventures is leading a €2.5m Series A investment alongside Angel investors in Paris-based Rad, a discovery platform for cool fashion, art and design products and I will be joining the board. Here is why we are excited to be working with them.
Financial services facing surge of disruption
If ever there was an industry overripe for disruption it was financial services. With its arcane fee structures, drawn-out decision-making processes and the sheer opaqueness of its operations, the sector has long been almost impervious to change.
Why We Are Investing In Capitaine Train (Again)
Anki: why the demo sealed the deal
If ever there was a case of a demo sealing the deal, then this was it. From the moment we saw Anki Drive cars racing around their track, our minds were made up. Those hundreds of hours I'd spent as a kid, battling electric-powered cars against my friends came flooding back.
The end of retail (as we know it)
The carnage on the British High street - and its Main Street, USA equivalent - is no blip. The cycle of decline, which has seen a run of recent closures of UK household name retailers and a total of more than 200 medium or large retail businesses going bust over the past five years, is here to stay.
How Shapeways landed a landmark $30m
Delighted to report that today Shapeways announced a $30m fundraising led by Andreesen Horowitz.
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BDAqua Dec 6, 2012 10:06 AM
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Hwllo Nikki,
Never neen to Facebook, so not sure I can help, but PPC Macs generally have problems with FB due to our outdated Flash version.
The last really supported Flash for PPC was 10.1.102.64, but if it's for like Facebook or such, people have been fooling FB to think they have a leter version installed.
Texas Mac Man's Flash hack/post...
Flash player 11.1 hack on PowerPC - https://discussions.apple.com/message/16990862
Might be later ones around also... saw 11.3 I think.
(If you are running a PPC Mac with Flash Player 10.1.102.64 and are having problems with watching videos on FaceBook or other sites, contributor Texas Mac Man suggests the following solution which fools the site into thinking that you are running the latest version:)
Download this http://www.steelbin.com/FPforFBPPC.zip to your desktop, unzip it, and replace the current Flash Player plug-in which is in your main/Library/Internet Plug-Ins folder, (not the user Library). Save the old one just in case this one doesn't work.
You should also consider the Shockwave Player, which displays Web content that has been created by Adobe Director, much used for multimedia: For PPC Macs: http://get.adobe.com/shockwave/
See in each Browser which version of Flash it thinks it has...

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I tested this at sephora. This frag. is VERY strong at first spray ! the drydow after 1 hour is a very pleasing vanilla with some spice. The vanilla note is syntheticky to...Read complete review
I tested this at sephora. This frag. is VERY strong at first spray ! the drydow after 1 hour is a very pleasing vanilla with some spice. The vanilla note is syntheticky to me very synthetic and makes the vanilla overpowering (impo). Other people around you wont smell the syntetic in it but you will cuz your wearing it all day!! If you can take the synthetic in it , then this frag. is a very good winter choice !!! BUT my review i put 4 stars (im being genorus). projection:excelent , versatility:good , Strength:excelent 8+hours , smell:good. DO NOT BLIND BUY TEST IT FIRST
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This was a huge waste of money. I'm throwing it out. I've never been complimented on it, most women I ask don't like it because it isn't masculine smelling at all and most...Read complete review
This was a huge waste of money. I'm throwing it out. I've never been complimented on it, most women I ask don't like it because it isn't masculine smelling at all and most people can't even smell anything on me at all because it fades so fast. The only lingering smell is a very weird smelling vanilla and as a grown man why would I want that? Cologne should make me smell like a man, not a teenage girl. The main point though is that this stuff doesn't do what I want it to do, make me smell good! It either fades and can't be smelled at all which is most often, or takes away my masculinity.
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I've been reading similar questions, but many of the answers are outdated or not clear enough for me.
I'd like to be able to just do something like (in a controller action):
respond_to do |format|
I know I'd then need a view such as action.csv.erb
So my questions are:
1) What do I need to configure in rails to allow this to happen in general.
2) How should I setup the CSV view to display some basic fields from a model?
So I've tried to go the route of comma, I installed and vendored the gem.
Then according to the read me, I threw this into my model (customized to my needs):
comma do
user_id 'User'
created_at 'Date'
name 'Name'
I then threw this in the control for the index action (according to the readme):
format.csv { render :csv => MyModel.limited(50) }
Then when accessing the index (not in CSV format) I receive the following ActionController Exception error:
undefined method `comma' for
So then I googled that, and I read that I should put require 'comma' in my model.
After doing that, I refreshed (my local index page), and the error changed to:
no such file to load -- comma
So at this point I decided it must not be finding the comma files obviously. So I copied the files from the vendored gem folder of comma, from comma's lib folder, to the rails lib folder. I then refreshed the page and landed on this error:
uninitialized constant Error
Then I pretty much gave up.
The errors from the trace were:
load_missing_constant' /Users/elliot/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:80:inconst_missing' /Users/elliot/.gem/ruby/1.8/gems/activesupport-2.3.5/lib/active_support/dependencies.rb:92:in `const_missing'
Other notes, I have already installed FasterCSV
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Im thinking of Jim Beans, Black Bourbon or some Hennessy. But I guess if my water breaks and I'm in like super fast labor Ill just pick up a 40 of Colt 45 on the way, What are you bringing ?
What kind of liquor are you bringing to the hospital?
- Kat
�Wife to Jimmy & 1st time Momma to Layla Faye.
Absolut....maybe some cranberry on the side
Proud mommy to...I 5/07 & L 3/10
NONE it's the hospital, they have the good drugs
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A nice big bottle of Stella Rosa...yummm...
Married to my Best Friend Bradley
Mom to Brayden, the greatest kid alive and looking forward to Gavin Aen Moore on the way!
we always have a little champagne toast.. but its when we get home and i have less t3 in my system ;)
lol i just want baileys to start out with hmm...
"I love you as the moon loves each shining star, I love all that you will be and everything you are."
Noah 3-06, ,�Lilly 4-10, Baby due 8-11
Why would you bring liquor to the hospital? I've never heard of this?
Mommy + Daddy (4/18/09) = Our two little angels - 3/30/2010 & 12/14/2012
would the nurses look at me funny if i pulled out my blender to make a daiquiri?
Proud first time super momma to Nova� Elizabeth, born April 14, 2010.� 6lbs 15oz,19inches of perfection. All natural birth.
ya know kat, those bottle chillers for baby bottles work on other bottles too and nobody checks the birth bag
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That is cool :)
I wish this could happen
If this would happen, I lose significant reason to be a misanthroph. Good thing IMO.
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Most of the speakers and panels at today's Faith & Freedom Conference and Strategy Briefing were disappointingly dull, but Ralph Reed wisely scheduled Glenn Beck to close out the afternoon program by delivering just the sort of tear-filled, impassioned speech that only Glenn Beck can provide. During his speech, Beck declared repeatedly that "I have seen the finger of God" and assured the audience that miracles are coming ... but only if we turn back to God , warning that if we don't God "is going to withdraw his protection" over this nation: MORE >
SUBMITTED BY: Brian Tashman, Friday 06/15/2012, 9:55am
Jim Martin of the pro-corporate, Koch Brothers-funded 60 Plus Association, which claims to be the conservative alternative to the AARP, told attendees at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Washington D.C. summit today that if lying was a crime, President Obama would be in jail. "Candidate Obama said we won't deal with lobbyists, we'll be open, we'll be out front, we'll be transparent," Martin said in reference to the negotiations over the health care reform law. "Look, if lying were a federal or criminal offense, then the President of the United... MORE >
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Ralph Reed's Faith and Freedom Coalition kicked off its 2012 conference with a splashy show of the Reed's political muscle in the form of three U.S. Senators. Rob Portman of Ohio, Jim DeMint of South Carolina, and Marco Rubio of Florida all delivered speeches that reflect Reed's goal for 2012 and beyond: merging the messages and organizing energies of the overlapping Tea Party and Religious Right movements to elect conservative Republicans. "American exceptionalism" was a major theme of the day – defined generally as America being uniquely blessed by... MORE >
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Tomorrow morning in Waukesha, WI, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, among others (Gov. Scott Walker is listed as an invited speaker), will rally with corrupt former lobbyist Ralph Reed and the state chapter of his Faith & Freedom Coalition, which Reed created to rehabilitate his image in the wake of his deep involvement in the Jack Abramoff lobbying scandal. Here are the event details: It is our distinct pleasure to invite you to the Wisconsin Faith & Freedom Presidential Kick-Off, sponsored by the Wisconsin Faith & Freedom Coalition, to be held at the Country Springs Hotel on... MORE >
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Former House Majority Leader Tom Delay (R-TX) is out on bail after he was found guilty of money laundering and conspiracy to commit money laundering. DeLay was also subject to an investigation over his links to disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff. In fact, DeLay played a central role in the Abramoff scandal on the illegal use of Indian gambling money. Another member of the Abramoff's crooked scheme was Religious Right activist Ralph Reed, the former head of the Christian Coalition. Abramoff stealthily financed Reed's anti-gambling organization in Alabama with money from casinos in... MORE >
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There are few political operatives active today that are as ruthless and cynical as Ralph Reed. Reed is, after all, the man who infamously declared that he specializes in "guerrilla warfare," and bragged "I paint my face and travel at night. You don't know it's over until you're in a body bag." Reed also knowingly took hundreds of thousands of dollars from corrupt lobbyist Jack Abramoff to manipulate and mobilize his Religious Right allies to fight gambling expansions in order to protect Abramoff's client's gambling interests. Reed even had some of the money... MORE >
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The warning came none too soon, for a gust of wind hit the biplane and all but made it "turn turtle," as the saying goes.
Her tail rose, and she started, with dreadful deliberateness, to turn turtle.
Many times the boat buried her rail and deck, but she did not turn turtle.
His boat would "turn turtle" or be cut in two by the craft behind.
Almost every man aboard was thrown to the deck, and the vessel heeled over to starboard until it seemed she must turn turtle.
Herein lay real danger, for if the deck-load of ashes grew too heavy the Bear might turn turtle.
For the yellow car made a sudden swerve and seemed about to turn turtle.
If they went down in that the touring car would most likely turn turtle, and they might all be killed.
Pointed ladders are the best for tall trees and less liable to injure the tree or turn turtle and upset the picker.
Then I got alarmed, thinking the machine might turn turtle on me, so I shut off the engine, intending to glide to earth.
reptile, c.1600, "marine tortoise," from French tortue "turtle, tortoise," of unknown origin. The English word is perhaps a sailors' mauling of the French one, influenced by the similar sounding turtle (n.2). Later extended to land tortoises; sea-turtle is attested from 1610s. Turtleneck "close-fitting collar" is recorded from 1895.
"turtledove," Old English turtle, dissimilation of Latin turtur "turtledove," a reduplicated form imitative of the bird's call. Graceful, harmonious and affectionate to its mate, hence a term of endearment in Middle English. Turtledove is attested from c.1300.
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To ransack or rifle, esp to steal: turned over the tavern after closing (1859+)
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To regard or treat with contempt: turned up his nose at the new recipe (1818+)


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Fighting Fraud with Both Fists
Weisman, Adam, Brodsky, Michael, The CPA Journal
Few people imagined the events of the past two years: case after spectacular case of alleged and actual occurrences of fraud that have shaken not only the financial industry and investor confidence, but also the very core of the global economy. The fallout from the subprime mortgage failure, far-reaching Ponzi schemes, prominent hedge fund closures, and highly publicized SEC and Department of Justice (DOJ) investigations have made it imperative for companies to increase their efforts to combat fraud. Why? Because the potential damage of not addressing fraud risk is so high, including not only the obvious financial risk, but also reputational risk. The mere accusation of wrongdoing in the current fraud-sensitive environment can result in the loss of trust on the part of investors and regulators that a company may never recover from.
Why act now? Because fraud detection and punishment has become a top-of-mind issue for the government, the media, and the public at large. On the federal front, passage of the Fraud Enforcement and Recovery Act of 2009 (FERA) as weU as antifraud provisions in both the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 (commonly known as the economic stimulus plan) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (the recently enacted healthcare reform legislation), reflects the government's determination to combat fraud. The FERA amends and strengthens the False Claims Act, which protects the government from being deliberately overcharged for goods and services. Once primarily invoked against defense contractors, in recent years, the False Claims Act's most active target has become healthcare fraud.
Even more recently, the 2010 DoddFrank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act introduces whistleblower provisions that provide monetary rewards of 10% to 30% for information leading to SEC enforcement actions that recover more than $1 million. Given that in July 2010, the SEC settled three securities cases with recoveries of $550 million, SlOO million, and $75 million, respectively, the potential reward for whistleblowers is considerable. For companies, these new financial incentives to report securities law violations create equally strong incentives to prevent such violations in the first place through rigorous internal fraud detection and prevention programs.
These legislative activities are supported by stepped-up enforcement. The SEC reported 671 enforcement actions in fiscal year 2008 (the second highest on record) and 664 in fiscal year 2009 (the third highest) ("SEC Announces Fiscal 2008 Enforcement Results," www.sec.gov/ news/press/2008/2008-254.htm; "FBI Financial Crimes Report to the Public," www.fbi.gov/publications/fmancial/fcs_rep ort2009/financial_crime_2009.htm). The FBI reported nearly 600 open corporate fraud investigations through fiscal year 2009, as well as more than 1,500 pending cases of securities and commodities fraud, nearly 2,800 pending cases of mortgage fraud, and 350 pending cases of money laundering. We believe it's reasonable to expect this brisk enforcement emphasis and activity will continue, if not increase. The DOJ's fiscal year 2010 budget requested "a $62.6 million increase, including 54 agents and 165 attorneys, to aggressively pursue mortgage fraud, corporate fraud, and other economic crimes" (www.justice.gov/jmd/2010summary/pdf/ bud-summary .pdi).
Finally, the magnitude of recent fraud events has drawn heightened media attention, and, in turn, public attention, to such a degree that even the accusation of fraud can pose a serious threat to a company's reputation. An actual investigation of a company by regulatory authorities further raises the threat of reputational damage, even if no wrongdoing is found.
In fact, what constitutes wrongdoing has been an issue in recent investigations. A number of practices in the financial industry, some quite common, have come under intense scrutiny and debate as government investigators, attorneys, investors, and the public at large attempt to clarify what is legal behavior and what is fraud. …


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Friday, April 7, 2006
The Saga of the Valomilk - Review
The Original "Flowing Center" Candy Cups!
I've come to realize that about half of how we experience things we eat has to do with experience that we bring to it. A piece of the most amazing cake or the best chocolate during a horrible dinner or at a traumatic time in your life may, actually, leave a bad taste in your mouth. The most mundane sugar morsel might be elevated to ambrosia based on other fantastic associations. Things like candied apples, candy corn and cotton candy all seem to benefit from this phenomenon.
Candy is most often associated with good experiences, as it's often a reward or an indulgence in the first place. So Valomilks were getting high marks before I even ate them because of my pursuit of them and the lore associated with them.
But really, 2,400 words and four posts later, you're wondering, what's all the fuss about? Are they that good?
The chocolate is smooth, a little sugary and has a slight cool feeling when melting on the tongue. The cream is impossibly sticky, though I never had the "run down your chin" experience with them. The flattened marshmallow is sweet, without being cloying or sappy, but it lacks a vanilla kick I was hoping it would have. I was hoping for real vanilla bean essence here, and perhaps it's my fault for making the candy into something in my head that it would never be. It was smooth, and it's true that the chocolate and filling go together well, the proportions are just right, but to be honest ... I wasn't that keen on them.
I've given them at least a half a dozen chances now. I'm not a neat freak, but I really don't like being sticky. It's just too hard to eat. As I sit here and eat another package of them, I have a moistened washcloth with me to keep wiping my hands and face. I end up taking bigger bites than I want, and instead of thinking about what I'm eating, I'm thinking about what a mess it is. Really, if there were a candy I could advocate for the nude, this would be it (as long as they're not sitting near an ant hill).
I know there was a lot of build up in this series, but most of that is immaterial to the candy itself. I may end up doing the same for some other coveted bar in the future, though I hope it's one that's more transportable. I hope you've enjoyed the Saga of the Valomilk and hopefully the actual Valomilks should you get a chance to try them.
Thursday, April 6, 2006
Boyer's Mallo Cup
While on that fateful trip to Pennsylvania in February I picked up some Mallo Cups. How could I not? They're made right there in Altoona by the Boyer Candy Co. Soon, I will have tasted all the marshmallow cups there are. Boyer is known for cup candies, they also have the Smoothie Peanut Butter Cup, which has a devoted following.
The Mallo Cup is the East Coast version of the Cup-o-Gold which consists of a milk chocolate cup filled with marshmallow (of differing consistencies) and a little coconut on the top.
The coconut smell is quite apparent when raising the cup to the mouth. The chocolate is sweet and very creamy with the coconut bits providing a chewy texture. The marshmallow center is soft and runny, but not too flowing as to make a mess.
Like the Valomilk, the Mallo Cup suffers from some structural integrity issues - in this case the chocolate base is too thin, so I was not able to remove either cup in my package from the paper without leaving some chocolate behind - basically bottoming out. (If you look closely at the photo, which you can click to enlarge, you'll see that there is no base at all as I wasn't able to peel it off for the photo. Maybe refrigeration would help.) The marshmallow itself has a nice flavor and consistency - it's not at all foamy but not viscous or grainy like some others marshmallows. It doesn't have any perceptible flavor of its own so I came away with more of a chocolate/coconut vibe.
I liked it quite a bit better than the Cup-O-Gold, I liked the sweetness of the chocolate, nutty scent of the coconut and mellow filling and the proportions seem better balanced (the Cup-O-Gold seemed to be too much chocolate and of course was single cup in a package).
The unique selling proposition of the Boyer Candies, though, is the "Play Money Rebate Offer". The tray in the Mallo Cup package is actually a coupon advertising their rebate program - save up 500 Points and you can get a $1.00 rebate. Each Mallo Cup tray is worth 5 points. Yes, you get a dollar for every 100 Mallo Cups you buy! The points are also good for other merchandise such as candy tins, sweatshirts, mugs and caps. I have no idea how long they've been doing this, but the copyright notice on the package says 1983.
Other opinions: Writers/Artists Snacking at Work gave it a 7.5, Candy Wrapper Museum just doesn't like marshmallow, Taquitos.net thinks it smells like coconut and finally, read about the long road back for the Mallo Cup production line.
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Friday, March 24, 2006
In case you didn't notice, All Easter Week kind of overlapped and is now two weeks. (I don't hear any complaints!) Of course any discussion of Easter candy would be incomplete without Peeps which is why I saved them for last.
The thing is, there are lots of people who talk about Peeps and chances are you either love them or hate them already. Here's what I think about Peeps: I think Peeps are pretty cute. The colors are great and the idea of a crusty crusted soft marshmallow is a good one. I think the name Peeps is pure genius. And the idea of a little yellow marshmallow candy shaped like a baby chicken is pretty good too. The manufacturing variations of them allows them to have their own personality. (According to the Peeps factory tour on their website their eyes are added by hand. It gives them a rather personal touch.)
But see, I don't really like the taste of them that much. They're sweet and all, and that's good. And I know yesterday I said I liked plain old rock candy, so it seems odd that I wouldn't like fluffy sugar.
If I do like Peeps, it's when they're stale. At least they have a little texture then. They're tacky and lose their springiness and suddenly have a little tooth to them (well, Peeps can't have teeth). Anyway, a slightly stale Peep is chewy and kind of a nice change of pace. A very stale Peep is almost like cookie. I've tried toasting them, but it's tricky, because they catch fire quite easily. I guess the best thing to do with them is to do a mashup where you pull one apart and mash it into something else like crushed Oreos or chocolate chips.
There are several iterations of Peeps. There are different colors of the little chicks and little bunny shapes (which I don't like as much for no good reasons I can verbalize). You can get white egg shaped ones for decorating and of course they're not just for Easter anymore with other shapes/colors/flavors for all the major Candy Holidays.
Of course the thing I most like to do with Peeps is take photos of them (stay tuned for more of those, my new camera arrives today). There's a whole Flickr group devoted to them, called Peep-Tastic. Then there's Peeps Research, more Peep Research, a PeepShow, and of course the official site. For more literary expressions in Peeps, check out Lord of the Peeps, Peeps Haiku and then the definitive resource, the Wikipedia entry. Click here for some worksafe PeepPr0n and finally, for the last word on Peeps, check out this article from Salon's archives.
I took my photos about two weeks ago and the Peeps have been in an open plastic baggie every since, I think they're ready to eat.
So, do you love em' or hate em' and how do you eat 'em?
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Tuesday, March 14, 2006
Brachs Bunny Basket Eggs
Candy is a microcosm of society and existence. I know this because there are certain candies that indicate the presence of the divine in every scrumptious bite. Then there is evidence of evil on this planet. The Easter "marshmallow egg" is one of the latter candies.
This candy has promise on the outside, as all temptresses do. It's big, so of course it's appealing to any foolish child who hasn't learned that "bigger is not always better." What's more, it is an evil that has no name. Really, what are these things called? If I say marshmallow egg, you might thing of the satisfying marshmallow half-hemispheres that are drenched in chocolate this time of year. Or even something that resembles an Easter-themed Circus Peanut. Brachs has chosen to call their version of these Bunny Basket Eggs. I will hereafter refer to them as BBBE, which when pronounced as an acronym (as all good acronyms should be) it will sound like a stuttered bee-bee or a very cold person trying to say 'bean.'
Part of their temptation lies in their beguiling size, which is made up entirely of sugar with a dash of artificial color and carnauba wax. That's a Starburst Jelly bean there; it's no match for the Mastodon known as a Brachs Bunny Basket Egg.
I hope you understand that Brachs probably makes the finest BBBEs there are. They're generous with the color and they're even flavored. The green ones are lime and orange ones are orange. I can't tell you what the rest are. Please don't make me eat more of them.
If you haven't already guessed, these are horrid candies. It's not like I'm against eating pure sugar, I have in fact indulged in full spoonfuls of honey or brown sugar as a treat quite often. The shell of a BBBE is similar to a jelly bean. It's a rather grainy sugar coating that's smooth on the outside and lightly flavored. The center of a BBBE is a fluffy, grainy sugar that really isn't like marshmallow, but I call it that because the ingredients mention gelatin and corn starch.
I don't think BBBEs can be made and delivered fresh, not to mention the fact that few people eat them right out of a pristine bag. They're intended to sit in amongst the pastel cello grass of an Easter basket until all the other choice candies are consumed and a desperate sugar-toothed child is force to eat it. Then the last thing this child remembers of his Easter experience is this deplorable egg. The smell of these inside the bag is like a mess of flavored lipsticks or a bad candle shop. A combination of fake fruit flavors and of course airborne microfine sugar which is intent on giving you that satisfying sweet feeling on your tongue before you even eat one.
I realize that this candy has its champions, and that by no means makes you minions of evil. I can only surmise that the experience of eating these foul little fingers of pure sucrose is inextricably tied to a pleasant experience and these help you relive a little of it. If that's the reason, then I completely support their continued, but limited, production as a therapy device. If you would like to read someone who might share your unending love of these, you might want to pick up Hilary Lifton's memoir called Candy and Me: A Love Story (you can preview the chapter online).
I honestly did try to like these. I never cared for them as a child, but I did buy them, make them look pretty in the photos (they are actually very pretty) and of course ate TWO! That's why they get a rating of two instead of one. (You may now commence in the comments section telling me how wrong I am.)
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Monday, March 6, 2006
2006 Independent Food Awards
As part of this year's Independent Food Festival and Awards sponsored by tasteEverything, I've been tapped as a jurist to give out an award for excellence in food. (You know it's gonna be candy.) I decided after my mind-blowing experience touring candy factories in the Bay Area last December that it had to be something that really helped me to immerse myself in the true source of chocolate.
My 2006 Winner of the Independent Food Awards is The Best Things to Stick to your Marshmallow: Scharffen Berger Chocolate Covered Cacao Nibs.
Cacao nibs are roasted cocoa beans, what all chocolate is made from. Scharffen Berger then pan coats them with 62% cacao semisweet chocolate. They're complexly flavored little buggers, about the size of rice crispies - they're crunchy, sometimes fibery, sometimes buttery and nutty ... always a surprise. Some flavors are like wine, raisins, coconut, coffee, oak, banana, apricot, sweet almond, grapefruit, cherry, cinnamon, clove ... I could go on and on. They're like a blank canvas and a symphony all at once. They take over the senses and make you forget your train of thought. The coolest part is that each little morsel is independent of the others - it might have come from a different tree, might have been harvested weeks before or after its buddies in the tube. Eat one and get a sense of the particular, eat a palmful and travel the world.
So, what do you do with these besides just eat them like candy? You can bake with them, as I saw at Tartine in San Francisco, where you can get Rochers (like soft meringues) made with cacao nibs.
But I'm not really a baker. You can't just serve an olive boat of these morsels to guests. Then oddly enough the answer came to me in the mail the same week. I was reviewing Plush Puffs, flavored, handmade marshmallows. With proximity being the mother of invetion, I tried putting things on my marshmallow. Actually, I tried mashing my marshmallow into things.
Now, given that I have the title of jurist, it was incumbent upon me to evaluate at least several other marsh-mashables. So I ordered up more Scharffen Berger Cacao Nibs and a full array of Plush Puffs (Orange-Honey, Sam's Sour Lemon, Maple Pecan and Vanilla Bean) and scoured my kitchen and a few stores for some options.
In the interests of trying to find the perfect thing to mash into my marshmallows, I pulled a few things out of the cupboard and ordered some others off of Chocosphere. Here are the results:
The definition of pure confection heaven has to be Orange-Honey Plush Puffs with Scharffen Berger Chocolate Covered Cacao Beans. This is the standard by which all other mashmallow-ables will be judged. (Really, why did I go on, how much better could I expect things to get?)
My second favorite thing to mash into my marshmallows has to be these Valrhona Chocolate Covered Orange Peels (Equinoxe Noir des d'ecorces d'oranges confites). They're tiny pieces of lightly candied orange peel pan coated with 66% cacao dark chocolate. Smooth, sweet, crisp and with a great zesty orange taste. At $4.00 for 1.8 ounces, they're even more expensive than the Scharffen Berger Cacao Nibs, but as a little dash mixed in with the Cacao Nibs, it's a welcome little burst of citrus energy. They go really well with both the Vanilla Bean and Maple Pecan ones but unlike the cacao nibs, they don't work with everything.
It wouldn't be fair of me to evaluate chocolate covered cacao nibs without trying out the naked ones. So I selected the Dagoba Cacao Nibs, which are also organic. The pieces are less consistent in size and shape than the chocolate covered brethren. They have a wild, alcoholic aroma. Smoky and woodsy to the nose, they provide a huge burst of flavor when eaten on their own but they're also incredibly acidic and sometimes acrid, astringent and puckeringly dry. When pressed into the Vanilla Bean marshmallow, the sweetness and blankness allows the subtle cacao notes to shine while moderating the overt acidity.
With the success of the malted rice krispies squares, I thought I'd just go with the source materials. This wasn't as pleasant. The malted milk powder is a bit salty and of course dry. The milk powder, I think, is part of the issue. Milk doesn't really belong with marshmallow. In fact, it turns out that I don't really care for the flavor of powdered milk.
I love molasses and my favorite sugar is Billington's Muscovado. It's got a sort of whiskey aroma to it, a complexity that you won't find in refined sugars. I like to let it dry out in chunk and eat it that way. It doesn't really stick to the marshmallows very well, and frankly, it makes it too sweet.
As a final confirmation about the Chocolate Covered Cacao Nibs, I brought the array of my top contenders to an Oscars (tm) viewing party Sunday night. At the end of the night the marshmallows were nearly gone and so were the CCCN while the plain nibs were largely untouched. On top of that, people were pleased with the fun combination of flavors. (And as a capper we got to taste some new regionally-sourced chocolate ice creams. Yum!)
There is one other company that I know of that makes chocolate covered cacao beans, called SweetRiot. I haven't tried them yet, but I imagine they too are awesome.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2006
Littlejohn Caramel Marshmallows
I think it might be marshmallow day here at CandyBlog.net.
Last week I was at the Farmers Market at Third and Fairfax to meet up with some other bloggers and I knew I had to stop at Littlejohn's Candies because a reader told me they had the best toffee. Of course once I got there my eyes were drawn to these plump caramel kisses - soft caramel drenching a puffy marshmallow. I completely forgot about the toffee.
So, I got two, one in chocolate and one in vanilla. (And a pecan praline which was divine and I ate before I could take a photo of it.) I figured I can always go back for more toffee ... and another pecan praline.
Once I opened the wrapper it was obvious that these caramels were made with lots and lots of butter. They were creamy, very smooth and exceptionally sweet with a slight hit of salt to it. The marshmallow center was smooth and light without being too foamy. The center also wasn't very sweet, so it gave a nice backdrop to let the caramel dominate the flavor stage. The chocolate caramel wasn't as tasty to me, there wasn't enough chocolate to set it apart from the regular caramel and I plan on sticking to the vanilla in the future.
These are messy candies. They stuck to the cellophane wrapper and to my fingers as I held it. They're too big to put in your mouth all at once (about the size of a squashed golf ball), so eating them posed a challenge. I ended up with sticky fingers. In the future I think I'll leave them in the cello and scrape them off with my teeth.
Since the Farmers Market and the adjacent Grove shopping center are such a tourist destination in Los Angeles, if you do come to the city be sure to seek this place out for something a little different from the tourist fudge that you find at many places. (Though they certainly have fudge.) It's a classic, working farmers market and they actually make the candy right there with big plate glass windows so you can learn all of their sugary secrets.
Dark Chocolate Rocky Road
There are a couple of other iterations of the famous red foil Rocky Road. One is Mint, which I found only recently but was in such bad condition, I could hardly give it a fair review. The second is this one, which I found at the Rite-Aid which is Dark Chocolate.
This bar comes in a pleasant, lightly gold-tinted wrapper. I've decided that all Rocky Road bars are dented and cracked as a consequence of the scant packaging. No matter, it doesn't seem to affect the taste at all. This bar doesn't smell quite as chocolately as the milk chocolate one does, but does have a very sweet aroma.
The marshmallow is thick and foamy, but not very moist. It has some good give to it without being too rubbery and a not-too-fake vanilla taste to it. There's very little contribution from the cashews in the chocolate coating except for some texture. I think the bar might be better served without them, but then I'd probably notice that the quality of the coating chocolate isn't really that good.
Overall, I liked it quite a bit better than the traditional milk Rocky Road, but its rarity is an impediment to purchasing it again. I've been in plenty of Rite-Aids in Los Angeles and this is the first time I've seen this there and it's not good enough for me to keep going back to that particular Rite-Aid (Santa Monica Blvd. & La Brea).
Friday, December 9, 2005
Artisan Marshmallows: Plush Puffs
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Yes, artisanal marshmallows. And why not? The stuff we've been getting from Kraft are not what marshmallows are capable of. And those things that you find in cereal? Please, let's not even grace them with the name marshmallow. They're not even marshy!
I was sent a generous sample pack from Ann of Plush Puffs, which is based here in Los Angeles (Sherman Oaks, to be exact). The weird thing is that until I started Candy Blog, I didn't really think much of marshmallows. Besides the See's Scotchmallows, there were very few marshmallow things that I would even try. Peeps were never on the menu, but I have been known to toast marshmallows, if only because they're the only grillable dessert I know.
Instead of just plain marshmallows, Plush Puffs are flavored with intense combinations of spice, nuts and/or fruit essences:
Caramel Swirl - I think I'd rename this one to "sticky toffee" because it had a nice carmelized sugar note to it and it was sticky. It was very sweet and had a little bit of caramelly fudge topping on it.
Chocolate Chipetta - this is the only one that doesn't feel "sweet" to me. It's rich and toasty tasting with a good chocolate hit. One of my top three flavors.
Maple Pecan - holy moly! These were really good. The maple flavor wasn't artificial or chemically like some candies can be. It was a good sweet woodsy backdrop to the sweet, chewy foam. It had almost a toffee-like flavor and I even had a few pecans in mine.
Peppi-Mint - it's like a fluffy candy cane! Seriously minty, like someone's made a foam Altoid or something. The color and texture looks more like a cake than a marshmallow but the intense flavor made me want to eat both but I settled for doing a mash-up with the Chocolate Chipetta which was really good. One of my top three flavors.
Toasted Coconut - this one smelled divine and tasted just a good. I love coconut and I love the nutty smell that reminds me of the beach and all the kids that could tan wearing that coconut oil suntan lotion. One of my top three flavors.
Sydney's Cinnamon - this was not my favorite, though I had high hopes for it. It's definitely cinnamonny, but it also has cinnamon oil, which gives it more of a candy hit than a spiciness (like eating a cinnamon hard candy). But where this puff really showed itself was in the toasting. (see below)
Vanilla Bean - I know, vanilla, kind of bland. It wasn't really bland, a little salty and it just didn't wow me. I think this would be good with something else, like maybe over pie or toasted or in s'mores.
Sam's Sour Lemon - these had a gorgeous zesty lemon smell and pretty creamy and vivid yellow swirls in them. Calling them "sour" lemon doesn't work at all for me (in fact, I would call them "zesty" lemon instead) but the flavor is really nice and mellow. I also didn't care much for the mix of textures wtih the crunchy lemon sugar but it's not a dealbreaker or anything.
There's one more flavor on their list that for some reason I didn't get in my grab bag, which is the one that sadly interested me most - Orange Honey. The honey flavor is not that noticeable in the other Plush Puffs but is one of the things that I've always found so intense about the See's Scotchmallows. (I guess I'll have to place an order.)
Per the recommendation of Ann at Plush Puffs, I tried some in my tea and of course toasted some of Sydney's cinnamon:
I brewed a cup of Revolution Lavender Earl Grey tea and and dropped in about a quarter of a puff (I didn't want to overload). As I took the photos I noticed the marshmallow dissolving into a beautiful aromatic foam. I enjoyed the combination of flavors, the creaminess of the marshmallow, the interaction of the botanicals of bergamot, lemon and lavender was really nice. And of course the sweetness of the puff was a nice change from my usually naked tea. Even after I'd slurped off the foamy dissolved puffiness there was still a nice lingering sweetness and lemony flavor. Definitely a cool way to decorate an ordinary after-dinner or afternoon tea. I still prefer my naked tea, because that's just the way I am.
The drink marshmallows were invented for, of course, is hot chocolate. I got some amazing Mayan Hot Chocolate mix from Xocoatl from my sister-in-law at Thanksgiving which I made here at the office with some milk in the microwave. In went a half of a Sydney's Cinnamon. Instead of dissolving in a bubbly foam and spreading across the surface like the lemon one in the tea did, this one hung together really well. But once I tried poking it with a spoon it melted completely. I scooped it up like some sort of dessert soup with some of the hot chocolate and enjoyed that until all I had left was my cocoa broth. The spice of the cinnamon went really well with the Mayan chocolate which already had a hit of spices in it.
I kept a few of the Sydney's Cinnamon aside for toasting. I loaded one up on a carving fork because I know that a single prong really doesn't do very well with a marshmallow. I put it over the open flame on the gas burner on my stove and it carmelized so beautifully and left the house smelling so good, I think I'll just start toasting these like incense. Here's a tip about toasting them. They're huge. They're actually too big to toast whole. There's no way to get a fully molten center (I do not like medium rare toasted marshmallows) with a marshmallow this size. What is so intense about these is that they melt even at moderate heat, which turns them into this molten, intense foamy sauce with a crispy carmelized shell. In the future I think I'll slice them in half and then have a greater surface area to center ratio.
I've been looking for a summer dessert to have after grilling and this just might be the thing. Everyone can choose their own flavor and I think it'd be really cool to make some grown-up s'mores and drinks with them. They don't quite fit into the "candy" family for me for some reason. They feel more like food, maybe that's because they're so satisfying and slightly saltier (more savory) than an ordinary marshmallow.
I should go back and add them to the gift guide, especially since they have baskets where you can choose the selection of flavors. Also, if you're dubious about them, you can try their "scraps" which are not quite perfect marshmallows. I love factory stores. Overall this is the kind of thing I'd like to offer guests at a party and I can see myself ordering them for a summer grill or maybe part of dessert a holiday cocktail party. I don't see myself just ordering them to eat, maybe it's because they feel kind of precious being handmade and all, I just can bring myself to just wolf them down like so many handfuls of M&Ms or Skittles.
Rating - 8 out of 10
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TNT analyst Reggie Miller on picking Boston in the Eastern Conference playoffs:
"It's going to be such a blood bath out West, where I see every series going at least six games. The least resistance is in the East. It's going to come down to Boston and Detroit, the two best teams in the East. Charles (Barkley) and I are in unison that we love the passion that Kevin Garnett has brought to Boston, there is something special that Doc (Rivers) has resurrected in his team. I like the addition of Sam Cassell, he's been great as of late. I like Boston in the East."
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Plenty of us look at our paycheck every week and hope some kind of mistake puts a few extra bucks in our pockets. Giants left-hander Jeremy Affeldt benefited from such a mistake in 2010, a mistake that put an extra $500,000 in his pocket. Here are the details, courtesy of Hank Schulman of the San Francisco Chronicle:
Affeldt was set to earn $4 million in 2010 under an existing contract with the Giants when they negotiated a two-year, $10 million extension. When the 2010 amount was rewritten into the new contract, someone made a clerical error and typed $4.5 million instead. The Giants and Affeldt signed it without recognizing the mistake.
Affeldt got three opinions saying the contract was ironclad and he could keep the extra $500,000, from the Players Association, agent Michael Moye and even Giants assistant general manager Bobby Evans.
Affeldt recalled Moye telling him, "You know what? As your agent I've got to tell you that legally you can keep it. As a man who represents integrity, I'm saying you should give it back."
Affeldt, 33, discussed the mistake in his recently released book, To Stir A Movement. He ultimately decided he couldn't keep the extra money and sleep well at night. It was one or the other, so the money was returned. They reworked the contract to remove the extra $500,000.
"I talked to Bobby the next day and said, 'I can't take that money,' " Affeldt said. " 'I won't sleep well at night knowing I took that money because every time I open my paycheck I'll know it's not right.' "
Five-hundred grand is a lot of money to anyone, even a millionaire athlete. I can't say I would have made the same decision had someone overpaid me by 12.5 percent one year, but kudos to Affeldt.
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this is one of the cutest things i've ever seen.
i absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it to bits!!! !!!!
a definite
i absolutely LOVE LOVE LOVE it to bits!!! !!!!
a definite
awww, so cute and adorable
Oh this is highly symbolic and wonderful... Such a picture and such a message...!!! Thank you for being here my dear friend...
Wow that's one of your most incredible shots! Did you take it on your vacation? Where is it and what kind of creatures are they? I guess it's a zoo - which I don't really care for - but on the otherhand, where else could we have a chance to see such wonders! Maybe they are even safer there these days...oh well, even without seeing their faces - are they sleeping? - they look so lovely. Well balanced, the colour is fantastic and your graphic lay-out, even the branch which partly blocks out the cement perch looks good, just the right amount of shiny white, is just brilliant! Favourite for sure!
Yes, this is plus one photo taken during my vacations. In the zoo of Sorocaba (near São Paulo). They make an interesting work of preservation and spreading of threatened species of extinguishing
I don't remember that species of primate is this, but it was in the same section of marmoset and the capuchin. I remember to have read that to sleep hugged it is a characteristic of them... what catch my attention... is pretty!
I don't remember that species of primate is this, but it was in the same section of marmoset and the capuchin. I remember to have read that to sleep hugged it is a characteristic of them... what catch my attention... is pretty!
awww that's sooo cute! you should submit it into the *ArtistsForCharity contest because this would make such a beautiful valentines picture
Wonderful shot!!! I it!!


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Great work
That's cool! good job it almost looks like it could be the cover for the next HEART album (oops i'm dating myself )
so which is the lesser? nice work, but still confused!
very beautiful
Awesome weork dear!!!!!
Amazing !
This is wonderful
woow! Stunning work Frederic