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Friday, February 29, 2008
Upscale Hollow Chocolate: Michel Cluizel & Hotel Chocolat
Though the standard big item in an Easter basket is a chocolate bunny, there's nothing in the books that says that is must be a bunny. In fact, many companies make things like eggs (often filled with other chocolate or confectionery items), chicks, ducks, filled baskets, geese and some folks even do crosses.
This week I looked at four different options that could be purchased at just about any drug store or discount retailer: R.M. Palmer, Wonka, Russell Stover & Lindt, though this isn't the first time I've reviewed hollow chocolate items.
Two years ago I visited Jacques Torres Chocolate Haven, and if you were ever looking for a Tiffany-style experience for Easter baskets, that'd be the place. You can get a hollow chocolate bunny the size of a toddler. (Well, toddlers aren't hollow.)
Oddly enough at this writing there's nothing on the Jacques Torres website that mentions anything about the impending holiday (I always figured Lent was the classic time to display Easter goodies).
So I thought I'd wrap up the week with two other devilish hollow chocolate items, though they're not exactly for Easter, they give a good sense of some more pricey items that are out there.
Milk Chocolate Gnome by Michel Cluizel with a white chocolate beard - I was sent this as a sample a few days before Christmas along with some other items that I'd already tried (the single origin tasting kit, being one of them).
Cluizel is known as one of the few bean to bar to bonbon companies in the world, so they have exclusive control over everything from the quality of the beans to the molding and packaging of the product. This fellow came in a flat bottomed clear bag and in perfect condition. He's made with a dark milk chocolate that is tempered to perfection. It has a nice milky scent and perfect snap when I bit the top of his hat off.
The chocolate itself isn't very thick at the top but moreso as I got down to his little feet. The chocolate is sweet, perhaps a little too much for me, but extremely creamy with a well balanced chocolate flavor.
I also had a white chocolate flat snowman with a candied orange peel scarf and a nose and buttons made from chocolate pearls. The white chocolate was indeed buttery and sweet with wonderful vanilla notes.
I don't know what you can get from Cluizel in the States via the web, but a visit to their NYC shop or any of their French locations would probably be divine. The closest item I can find online right now is in the Chocosphere "Bargain Basement".
Rating: 7 out of 10
Chocolate Penguin from Hotel Chocolat - again, just before Christmas I got a package of some items from Hotel Chocolate which included some things that I couldn't eat because of walnuts (okay, I actually ate one of them and besides being very uncomfortable from a swollen throat I was mostly cross).
The mostly milk hollow figure is a bit thicker than the Cluizel. It's nicely formed and decorated in the shape of a penguin with both dark and white chocolate accents.
The Hotel Chocolat dark chocolate is 40%, which is really high in cacao for a milk. It's very creamy with a strong dairy component, good malty tones and a mellow chocolatey base.
Hotel Chocolat is new to the States, but has a strong following in the UK (see the coverage at Chocablog for more reviews). They source their chocolate ethically and use natural ingredients. They don't actually have any chocolate bunnies here in the States, but a really attractive "engraved egg" that's either hollow or filled with an assortment of their chocolates. Their UK assortment is much wider (and has a great mix of elegance and casual kookiness.)
Rating: 7 out of 10
My hollow chocolate adventures are not over, I'm still planning on getting some from See's (which uses Guittard milk and dark chocolate), Vosges, L.A. Burdick, Lake Champlain among others.
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Thursday, February 28, 2008
Wonka Golden Egg
Okay, this isn't a hollow chocolate rabbit, but it is hollow and it is chocolate and probably has bunny-shaped candies inside.
It's the Wonka Chocolate Golden Egg. It's Wonka because it's made by Nestle. It's chocolate because that's what it's made from. It's golden because that's what color the foil wrapper is and finally, it's egg shaped.
It's sold in a rather large box, which I suppose protects it well, but seems a bit of overkill for the amount of actual candy you get.
The whole confection clocks in at 4.5 ounces (the largest of my candy reviews in Hollow Chocolate Rabbit Week). What's also different about this one is that it has something inside, a handful of SweeTarts Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies. The egg itself is 4.5" tall. The box that holds it is 7" tall.
The chocolate shell is woodgrained. Or maybe it's supposed to look like a nut. I have no idea why it would be either. Eggs are smooth.
The chocolate itself is, well at least real. It's very sweet, sticky and milky. It's definitely not the wonderful Swiss milk chocolate that Nestle makes, but as novelty fare goes, it does pretty well.
Some pieces taste a little "fruitier" because of the SweeTarts.
My egg had eight SweeTarts Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies. Three red and five purple. I was spared the recent atrocity of the blue/tropical punch. I kind of hoped for more candy inside, but the amount matched the image on the box. Also, the candies rattle around inside and ding up the chocolate with little nicks and leave a SweeTart dust.
It's fun, it's well made (in Canada), but it's a bit pricey at $7 to $8 retail (I haven't found a store with them in stock, I got mine as a sample from CandyWarehouse.com). That ends up about $1.67 per ounce.
The Wonka Golden Egg is one of the few Wonka products that relates back to the 1971 movie adaptation. (And the best candy-themed musical rant ever.)
So if you have your own Veruca Salt at home, this might be the perfect featured item for an Easter basket.
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Hoppin' down the bunny trail
Easter is in full swing as the Valentine's candies are gone from the shelves and replaced by a profusion of pastels. It comes a bit earlier this year, March 23rd.
I did my regular seasonal circuit of the major retailers to see what was returning, absent and new:
There's a hoarde of new eggs this year. Notably from Russell Stover (who has always done the larger enrobed eggs). I'll have a roundup of those later next week and even a new one from Princess for UK readers.
I found the Dark Chocolate Rasperry 3 Musketeers Minis at RiteAid (but not Walgreen's, Target or CVS). I've heard tale that there are also Orange, but I haven't found those yet. (See Gigi's review.)
Wonka has again mucked up the classicly wonderful SweeTarts Chicks, Ducks & Bunnies. The first year I reviewed them they contained Grape, Apple, Lemon & Cherry. Last year the lemon were dropped. This year they replaced the Apple with Blue Tropical Punch. Yuck. I am official on the wagon and refuse to buy these any longer as the only ones I'm interested in now are the Grape.
On the Jelly Bean front, Smarties have come out with their own Jelly Bean brand. They look a whole lot like the pre-existing SweeTart ones, so I'll have a head to head on that.
Wonka has introduced Nerds Bumpy Jelly Beans. I was dubious, but think of them like a cross between Chewy Lemonheads and Nerds.
I've seen some "bunny corn" but still no sightings of the spring mix MelloCremes from Brach's. You can get a quasi-substitute from Jelly Belly though.
Hershey's has plenty of Kisses to chose from, including the return of the Coconut Creme Kiss, Vanilla Creme, Orange Creme & Lemon Creme, Pastel foil versions of regular, caramel, almond and dark chocolate and Pastel Kissables.
Wednesday, February 27, 2008
Palmer Hollow Chocolate Flavored Bunny
It's bad.
It looks good, but it's always bad.
Why do I keep buying it?
For you, dear readers. It's a public service that I'm obligated to perform.
The thing about Palmer is that they have so many other things going for them. They have cute designs, usually their packaging is nice, they're Kosher and of course they're made in the USA (Pennsylvania for locavores). But it's like they go out of their way to disappoint once the stuff hits my mouth.
"Sugar, Partially Hydrogenated Vegetable Oil (Palm Kernel Oil and/or Palm Oil), Whey, Cocoa, Lactose, Skim Milk, Soy Lecithin, Vanillin, Artificial Colors (Blue #1, Blue #2, Red #40, Yellow #5, Yellow #6 & Red #3). May contain Peanuts/Nuts."
Look how far the cocoa is down on that list, #4 ... I think it's only in there for coloring!
The rabbit is admirably attractive. It has a nice dark sheen, it's shiny and has little details like the winsome eyeroll and it's holding a flower. It took me a while to figure out that the white blob at his belly is a little fluffy white chick ... maybe. It's also pretty thick. It's just a little shorter than the Russell Stover one and weighs and extra quarter of an ounce. The walls of the shell are a bit thicker.
But you know, the taste is not that good. It has a cool feeling on the tongue, it's very sweet and has a fudgy grain to it. It tastes nothing like chocolate, more like milk powder and peanut shells. (Oddly, that's not really a bad taste, just not chocolate and not as sweet as I'd have thought based on the ingredients.)
The serving size is the whole rabbit, which clocks in at 260 calories, with only 50% of that from fat. Yes, the rest comes from carbs (usually chocolate is a 60/30/10 mix of fat/carbs/protein ... with some room for movement depending on dark or milk varieties - some extreme darks I've had are 85% fat).
Sometimes I wonder if Palmer is doing the cocoa industry a service by buying beans that would otherwise be turned into compost or rot in the co-op storehouses. I don't think I'd mind their products if they were sold as "biodegradable decorations" ... but sadly the appearance of a nutrition label seems to indicate they really do think people want to eat it.
Considering the fact that there are actually good real chocolate bunnies around at similar prices if you keep your eyes open (Russell Stover isn't quite as cute, but there's also a Hershey's version, too), there's no reason to buy these except for off-label uses: Easter dioramas, photo shoots or just buy them all as a public service to remove them from the shelves so that others may not be faced with similar disappointment.
R. M. Palmer Hollow Milk Chocolate Flavored Bunny ... the Easter equivalent of a lump of coal.
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Russell Stover Hollow Milk Chocolate Bunny
Russell Stover has often had a rather stale image as one of the drug store chocolate brands. They're trying to push themselves a bit lately and I think it shows, at least it's caused me to give them a second look and for the most part I've been pleased.
They'll never replace upscale chocolatiers, but they're dependable and consistent, especially for holiday specialties.
Their Hollow Milk Chocolate Bunny's appearance is a rather ghastly caricature. The yellow foil wrapper with its green bow, blue eyes and huge eyelashes are trying too hard. (But I really like the touch of the pink inner ear.)
If the outside is akin to a drag queen, the inside is a fresh and athletic 22-year-old with clear skin and shiny hair. No need for any pasted on eyelashes here or colored contacts. The smooth sheen of the medium color of the milk chocolate is lovely, with its little curls of fur every once in a while for a bit of verisimilitude.
The shell is rather thin, as I expected when I picked it up. The thing is very light at 1.5 ounces (and rather similar is volume to the Lindt bunnies). The easy-to-break shell doesn't detract from the appeal though, it just makes it easier to pick off a piece of your own chosing. Honestly, I don't mind hollow bunnies. I was always rather stymied by solid bunnies as a kid, as they required whacking them on a hard surface or going to the kitchen and taking a meat fork to them. Hollow bunnies are easy to crack and munch.
I think this is the first time I've simply eaten Russell Stover's milk chocolate. According to an article in Candy Industry magazine, they age their milk chocolate for 90 days (and dark for 150 days). I'm not sure who makes Russell Stover's chocolate, an article mentioned that they're using Callebaut for their Private Reserve line. No PGPR or milk solids in here, just real milk chocolate and fake vanilla.
The chocolate smells rather, well, sweet. More like fake vanilla and a little malty.
It has a nice quick and silky melt. It's a little sticky and very sweet but has a lot of flavor packed into that.
The foil wrapping could be updated a bit without losing the appeal to children, but the product is rather good and an admirable value at 66 cents an ounce (probably less if you find them on sale).
They also come in 3 ounce and 6 ounce versions (and the website shows dark chocolate as well, but I had no luck in the stores).
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Monday, February 25, 2008
Lindt Chocolate Bunnies (Dark & Milk)
I'll admit that finding a palatable chocolate bunny at the drug store isn't easy. Lindt has led the way over the past few years, virtually taking over the high-end bunny domain. Instead of depending on novelty, the Lindt Bunny is the same year after year.
This year was the first time I saw a dark chocolate version, so I scooped it up, even at regular retail of $3.49 for a 3.5 ounce bunny. (But then again a 3.5 ounce Lindt Dark Bar is often about $3 anyway).
The elegant gold foil and dark brown bow is part of the appeal of this confection - it feels timeless but not dated.
Lindt uses their 60% dark blend for this bunny which also features no added dairy ingredients like many other so-called "dark" chocolates from big manufacturers these days. However, it's not all natural, instead the use vanillin, an artificial vanilla flavoring.
Even out of the wrapper the bunny is quite beautiful. The sheen was pleasant and I was fortunate to get one that hadn't been nicked & dinged up on the shelf.
It may be billed as a hollow bunny, but this is pretty substantial stuff. The ears are nearly solid and the head pretty thick as is the base. Most other rabbits this size would probably weigh 30% less. (And require additional packaging to protect them.)
The chocolate is pleasant. I don't think the 60% is Lindt's best, but is creamy and has a nice robust flavor with some coffee & cherry notes. It has a slightly dry & chalky finish, which makes me feel like I've just had a cup of cocoa. Seeing how Easter is in March this year, cocoa is quite welcome.
I'm kinda cheap and didn't want to buy the Milk Chocolate Gold Bunny. So I planned ahead this year and bought the Milk Reindeer after Christmas. It was only $1.25 ... how could I pass it up?
The Reindeer, like the Bunny, is equally handsome and actually sports the Lindt name on the side (the Bunny doesn't).
Like the Bunny, the Reindeer had nearly solid ears and a thick base.
Since it's the same size and has the same recipe as the Lindt Gold Bunny, just substitute that mentally. (Besides, you want to be prepared for Christmas, don't you?)
Honestly, I'm not sure if I've ever had Lindt Milk Chocolate before this. I've had their Lindor Truffles, but this all milk chocolate, all the time and quite a change for me.
It's very milky but still maintains a robust chocolate flavor and none of the "powdered milk" flavor that I don't care for in many European milk chocolates. It has more than a hint of malt to it, which of course I gravitate towards. It's quite silky on the tongue and not so sweet that it makes my throat hurt.
As chocolate animals go, they're both real winners. The price is a bit steep ... but if you have a mind to start some sort of new tradition of Easter Reindeer, you could get away with buying them after Christmas (this one was good until 5/31/2008).
The German Lindt website lists all sorts of other versions of the iconic Bunny, including 1,000 gram versions (yowza! that's almost three pounds!), white chocolate and minis.
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Peeps Chick & Bunny Candy
I stumbled across these little Chick and Bunny Candy at the Dollar Tree in January and have been hanging onto them every since.
Now it's Easter season and time to trot out these cute little baby farm creatures. The package calls them Artificially Flavored Marshmallow candies, which doesn't really explain them that well. Inside there are 10 little pouches that hold 9 or 10 candies in each.
The candies come in two shapes: Chick & Bunny (could you have guessed?). They also come in four colors: yellow, lavender, fuschia and turquoise.
They're really cute. The colors are vibrant and actually go through and through, the insides are soft pastel versions of the exterior colors.
Each is about the size of a Flintstone's Chewable Vitamin, but happily tastes nothing like it. They're not a compressed dextrose candy (like SweeTarts), these are made of sugar and corn syrup (like marshmallows, actually).
They're very crunchy and have a light marshmallow flavor. Marshmallow flavor? Well, it's kind of like the lightest fake vanilla and light sugar. Kind of like a tasteless Altoid.
Not really something I want to eat as a candy, but they are really cute and the bags are really tiny, so it's an appropriate size indulgence. (Heck, each bag has only 36 calories.) They're probably better as decorations ... on cupcakes ... scatter them around on the table or maybe in a mix of other candies. I suppose you could also use them for a Peeps Mash Up. They certainly maintain the Peeps appeal as being one primarily of appearance.
Just Born raised a bit of a controversy last year when they introduced their Spooky Friends individually wrapped Halloween marshmallows. Instead of being manufactured in Bethlehem, PA, they were made in China. Though the company says that this is the first time they has outsourced their production, it's not the first time that they've licensed their name. Flix introduced the Peeps Lollipop Rings & Slider Pops last year, which are also made in China, just as these are.
Just Born also added new Tulip shaped Peeps to their line this spring.
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Friday, January 4, 2008
3 Musketeers Cherry & Raspberry
Mars has done everything it can with Skittles (chocolate anyone?), Twix (a home run with the Java!) and Snickers so they've moved on to the 3 Musketeers.
Last fall they introduced the seasonal Autumn Mini Mix that had Strawberry, French Vanilla and Mocha Cappuccino. I was quite surprised that I liked the Strawberry and was rather excited to hear of the new flavors coming out this year: Cherry 3 Musketeers for Valentine's Day and Raspberry 3 Musketeers for Easter.
Like the new 3 Muskteers Mint (not a limited edition item), these are covered in dark chocolate.
I admit that I approached these with a bit of trepidation. I'll also admit that my strong dislike of cherry flavored candies has dissolved into the "don't prefer" column. I eat cherry things in service of my reviews and sometimes when no one is looking.
This little morsel is quite cute. They smell very strongly of maraschino, even before I bit into it. They center on this one is very strongly pink, almost fuschia courtesy of my nemesis Red 40.
The center is fluffy and has the slightest salty hit to it that offsets what is otherwise an ordinary cherry flavored fluff. The dark chocolate shell is pretty thin, but passably creamy.
There are a few varieties of the little wrappers for the individual candies. Some are pink, some are silver with little hearts. They also feature little "conversation" sayings like, "Hug Me", "Be Mine" and "Crazy 4U". Kind of fun, though until I read the package I didn't realize they were there.
When I was offered this preview of the new 3 Musketeers flavors by some PR folks for Mars, it was the prospect of trying the Raspberry 3 Musketeers without having to search five or six stores to find them.
The format here is the same, dark chocolate covering a raspberry flavored fluff center.
The package here specifies that it's a Limited Edition item and has some crocus on the front in addition to the freakishly glossy raspberry close-ups.
The individual pieces are also pink, though two different shades. They don't have any sayings on them, as I don't think Easter really lends itself to such things and usually sticks with symbols of spring like bunnies, chicks and eggs.
These do not smell quite as strongly as the Cherry ones, but are still sweet and fragrant. The scent is rather like flowers and a bit like berries with a little woodsy component that I can only say smells like raspberry seeds. It also smells like chocolate, hooray!
The interior fluff is only lightly lavender (Red 40 and Blue Lake 5 in here!). It has the same fluffy texture, very sweet but with a good airy melt on the tongue. The raspberry flavor is all on the sweet side, no tangy bite.
I preferred the Raspberry by a longshot, but I still think as a fruit 3 Musketeers go, I liked the Strawberry from last fall best. I think these work well as minis, but I doubt I would be able to stomach a full sized bar or even the pair of smaller bars like the Mint 3Musketeers in these flavors. The small size is ideal.
Honestly I would have preferred a mix of flavors like the Autumn Mini Mix. Strawberry, Raspberry and Cherry all in one bag would have suited me fine.
I've heard from readers that the Cherry ones are now appearing in stores with the Valentines merchandise, so keep your eyes peeled. The Raspberry should go on store shelves after Valentines (but you never know, I found Russell Stover Maple Eggs in with the Christmas stuff at Walgreen's this year).
UPDATE 2/17/2009: The Cherry & Raspberry returned for 2009. Raspberry is on the shelves with the Easter merchandise.
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Saturday Night Live had a great little sketch on the iPhone 5. They hyphenated CNet, but we'll let that one slide.
Tag Archives: Apple
Velocity Engine Lives
Doing a little network test and ran a traceroute to apple.com:
$ sudo tcptraceroute apple.com Selected device ppp0, address 172.17.152.110, port 55167 for outgoing packets Tracing the path to apple.com (184.108.40.206) on TCP port 80 (http), 30 hops max 1 xxx.xx.xx.xx 12.847 ms 12.899 ms 13.736 ms 2 xxx.xx.xx.xx 14.734 ms 14.966 ms 16.143 ms 3 10.255.12.45 14.335 ms 14.712 ms 13.902 ms 4 10.253.44.242 14.992 ms 14.204 ms 13.693 ms 5 velocity-engine.com (188.8.131.52) [open] 14.639 ms 17.666 ms 15.295 ms
Check out that last host. Velocity Engine was part of the marketing for AltiVec in the late 90's early 2000's. Curious that Apple is re-purposing that.
Steve Jobs On Life
Steve Jobs in interview for PBS' 'One Last Thing' documentary, 1994 (via Wikipedia):
When you grow up you tend to get told the world is the way it is and your life is just to live your life inside the world. Try not to bash into the walls too much. Try to have a nice family life, have fun, save a little money.
That's a very limited life. Life can be much broader once you discover one simple fact, and that is – everything around you that you call life, was made up by people that were no smarter than you. And you can change it, you can influence it, you can build your own things that other people can use.
The minute that you understand that you can poke life and actually something will, you know if you push in, something will pop out the other side, that you can change it, you can mold it. That's maybe the most important thing. It's to shake off this erroneous notion that life is there and you're just gonna live in it, versus embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it.
I think that's very important and however you learn that, once you learn it, you'll want to change life and make it better, cause it's kind of messed up, in a lot of ways. Once you learn that, you'll never be the same again.
I've always admired how he pushed the limits. I can't help but read "… embrace it, change it, improve it, make your mark upon it" and think of the "Crazy Ones" ad campaign's: "because the people who are crazy enough to think they can change the world, are the ones who do".
He was a crazy one.
iPhone 5 Teardown
iFixit posted their teardown and as always it's fascinating to look at. Chipworks did some analysis as well. Some observations:
- Easier to repair – Looks to be substantially easier to repair than previous iPhones. Major win.
- Broadcom nearly expunged? – Apple looks to be moving away from using Broadcom chips. The Broadcom BCM5976 touchscreen controller looks like all that's left. I'm surprised as the iPad 3 included the Broadcom BCM4330 wireless chip. I assumed that would be in there.
- New WiFi Chip – Interestingly Apple instead of a Broadcom BCM4330 went with a Murata 339S0171. Murata is apparently based on a Broadcom BCM4334 + Skyworks frontend chips according to Chipworks. Guessing this saves at the very least space. Possibly also power. Apple must be serious about cutting size/weight.
- Lots of Qualcomm inside – Not a shocker for an LTE device.
- Got rid of the linear oscillating vibrator – I wonder why this is. It seems in every way superior to keep the linear oscillating vibrator vs the rotational motor with counterweight. No idea why they would have done that. Cost?
- Easier to repair home button? – The home button is the weak point of the iPhone hardware wise. It inevitably becomes less sensitive, and for some will just die. This appears to be stronger and easier to repair.
- Sony based image sensor – Chipworks identified the rear camera as a Sony design, but not much than that. The Galaxy SIII uses the Sony IMX145, which the iPhone 4S also used. Presumably this is the next generation based on the specs.
On Apple Maps
Apple switching from Google Maps to its own "creation" is a pretty interesting move. By "creation" I of course mean a mashup of TomTom data and OpenStreetMap data among other sources with their own vector maps and 3D imaging. The 3D thing is a cool effect, but that's all it is, an effect. I can't think of many, if any practical uses for it.
The maps from a visual standpoint are quite nice. They look great and are quite readable. At least as good, if not better than Google Maps. The quality of the data however is pretty terrible. The maps are sometimes incomplete and things aren't placed correctly.
In my opinion the worst offense is the lack of public transit data. For larger cities like New York, San Francisco, London that is a high-profile gap. Given the size of the population in those cities (and how much of the press operates out of those), it just makes the problem that much worse. Given that data is pretty accessible (NY's MTA even has a website dedicated to it), I can't see how they let that one slip. Simply showing stations and what trains are there would have been a huge improvement.
The upside to all this is maps is really a web-based service. That means Apple can iterate on it 24×7 without having to release a ton of updates. That means the maps in theory will improve in quality over time without most people even realizing.
That said, cartography is really difficult stuff.
Apple's A6 CPU It's Own Design?
Anand Lal Shimpi blew my mind with a report:
The A6 is the first Apple SoC to use its own ARMv7 based processor design. The CPU core(s) aren't based on a vanilla A9 or A15 design from ARM IP, but instead are something of Apple's own creation.
I had just assumed Apple licensed the designs as they have in the past. I figured with their interest in silicon designs that they would want more control in the future, but not to this level.
This just shows what sort of cash Apple has in the bank. I can't imagine anyone other than Samsung possibly going this route, and even Samsung wouldn't likely do it for just one product of theirs.
iPhone 5 Thoughts
Some thoughts on the iPhone 5:
- Design – The black model is a bit of a departure having finally removed the metal ring that's framed the iPhones of the past. It looks more subtle in white. Otherwise it's the classic iPhone design, just longer.
- Dimensions – The larger screen will be nice, I suspect they've held the line in dimensions with the 4S to avoid fragmenting the ecosystem too much and upsetting developers (see: Android). Letterboxing makes old apps usable. It's hardly perfect but a respectable long term move. Unlike many other phones it still seems usable with one hand.
- Camera – In my opinion one of the bigger features is the improved camera. "The best camera is the one you have on you". For more and more people it's their phone. It will never replace an SLR, sheer physics and properties of light limit that. It however is substantially better than previous incarnations. Sapphire Crystal lens is pretty cool too. My lens scratched once before and it cost $30 to swap out the back panel. This means that won't be likely to happen again. Backside ilumination sensor and large aperture mean better night photos. Something just about every mobile phone stinks at.
- Panorama – Lots of apps already offer this feature. Apple did mention there's new "image processing chip". Curious if some of the algorithms to do panorama's are accelerated for performance. That would make it a huge win. Also potentially better quality for the time it takes to process.
- LTE – About time. I suspect they've been playing with LTE for ages, but opted against it because of power consumption. Apple held the line with power consumption. Seems like a win.
- Dual band WiFi – I'm assuming both the iPhone 5 and Kindle HD include 5 GHz because the chipset offers it. While 5 GHz is fast, it's got pretty limited range, and isn't really necessary on a mobile device, especially one that can only process so much data at a time. You're not pushing 300 Mbps to the iPhone 5. Marketing hype, but it's not a bad thing to have.
- New Display – Integrated touch is pretty neat. Rather than 2 layers to the screen it's now one. Given the previous one generation was glued, this doesn't really make repairs any more expensive. You had to replace the whole thing anyway. Apple mentions it makes things brighter. I'm betting that means they need less power per pixel to light the screen meaning it's more energy efficient and thus cuts power needs despite the larger size or at least offsets it.
- Lightning – New cable isn't terribly surprising. It sounds like an active cable, but it doesn't seem 100% certain. I'm betting it will be difficult or impossible to see cheap 3rd party cables like we did in the past if that's the case. The adapter is ugly, and I'll likely be using those for a while to keep my old stuff working with it. Budget for a few cables and at least one adapter. Eventually we'll forget about that migration.
- New earbuds – I'll hold judgement. The original ear buds were actually decent sound wise, however it was virtually impossible properly position them in your ear to appreciate it. I ditched the Apple ones long ago for something more comfortable.
Overall the announcement met my expectations. I didn't expect an all new phone, just a ton of revisions. It makes sense Apple didn't include NFC. If Apple wants to go the payment route I'd expect them to do so via a Pay with Square like geofencing scheme.
Lastly, it appears AT&T will grandfather existing unlimited data customers even with LTE. Not so for Verizon customers.
SVN In Mountain Lion
This one caught me by surprise. With 10.8 Mountain Lion, installing Xcode doesn't mean tools like svn will be automatically available via command line. If you want to use svn by terminal for example you'll have to first open Xcode, next go into Preferences and find the Downloads tab. Then install "Command Line Tools". After a few minutes you'll then have all the old tools you know and love available just like before.
Seems SVN is 1.6 what shipped with Mountain Lion:
$ svn --version svn, version 1.6.18 (r1303927) compiled Jun 15 2012, 19:07:58
To bad it's not 1.7. Lots of nice improvements since 1.6 shipped. Apple tends to be somewhat conservative in what it bundles, so it shouldn't surprise anyone.
On Apple's Lack Of Adaptive Image Support In WebKit
It's becoming clear to me that despite Apple having a huge chunk of the mobile web, it still treats the web as a second class citizen on iOS and Mac OS X. My latest battle is adaptive images, in particular for use in High DPI devices ("Retina" on the Mac). High DPI displays are awesome. I own an iPad 3, and it's one of the greatest displays I've ever looked at. What I don't get is why Apple is making it so difficult to take advantage of as a developer.
Currently, there's no easy way to switch image resolutions based on the display being used. The basis of that isn't Apple's fault. Nobody thought of the problem when HTML was first created. All of the methods have ugly tradeoffs. They are hacks. Even Apple.com doesn't have a great solution. They were doing image replacement (easier to read version here). Apple does however have a solution called
image-set which looks like it will be in iOS 6 and Mac OS X 10.8.
That's several months later. The iPad 3 was announced March 7, which was only about 2 weeks after the initial proposal. Why wasn't a solution for web authors included when the iPad 3 shipped? It seems silly that there's no API to properly interface with one of the most touted features of the new device. Of course there's a way to take advantage of that brilliant display if you build a native app.
You could argue that Apple didn't want to rush implementing something proprietary without discussing it with the community at large, but Apple has said in the past:
tantek (Mozilla): I think if you're working on open standards, you should propose your features before you implement them and discuss that here.
smfr (Apple): We can't do that.
sylvaing (Microsoft): We can't do that either.
So Apple is pretty candid about reserving the right to implement features without discussion, yet nothing happened. It's not that such a discussion would have been a "leak". The iPhone 4's display would be adequate justification for the feature. In fact it's mentioned in the first sentence of that proposal in www-style by Edward O'Connor. So not disclosing the new product doesn't seem to be the reason either. Apple could have done this a year ago without anyone being any wiser about the iPad 3's display.
I can't be the only one who's scratching his head over this. Why didn't the iPad 3 ship with a browser capable of providing an efficient way to switch images? The cynic in me would say "to encourage native app development", but then why bother now?
The upside is Apple products have high OS adoption rates. All those retina iPad 3's will be running iOS 6 relatively quickly. If it were a popular Android device I'd be much more concerned because we'd be dealing with 2 years of devices on a stale OS with no support. This is why we need more competition in mobile. We need web solutions to be a priority, not an afterthought.
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image-set is also prefixed, but that's another rant.
Full SPDY Ahead
For those not keeping score, Twitter, and Facebook have both come out publicly in favor of SPDY. Twitter is already using it in production. It sounds like Facebook will be soon. Mozilla implemented it in Firefox. Opera has SPDY. Google, the author of SPDY is using it in production.
This leaves Microsoft and Apple as the holdouts. Microsoft's HTTP + Mobility is SPDY at it's core. Microsoft hasn't started supporting SPDY in any products, but it seems inevitable at some point. They are a holdout in implementation but not opposed to SPDY it seems.
Apple is the last major holdout. SPDY hasn't been announced for iOS 6 or Mac OS X 10.8. As far as I'm aware Apple hasn't made any statement suggesting support or opposition to SPDY. However I can't see why they would oppose it. There's nothing for them to disapprove of, other than it's not using their IP. I'd be surprised if they don't want to implement it.
However given SPDY is a rather backwards compatible thing to support, I don't see this holding back adoption. Nginx is adding support for SPDY (thanks to WordPress creator Automattic), and Google is working on mod_spdy for Apache. That makes adoption for lots of large websites possible.
While the details of SPDY and the direction it will go are still in flux, it seems nearly certain that SPDY is the future of the web. Time to start digging into how to adopt it and ease the transition. The primary concerns I see are as follow:
- TLS Required – While not explicitly required, SPDY essentially builds on TLS and virtually any real world application needs it. This means purchasing SSL certificates for any website you wish to use SPDY with. Some have argued performance and scalability, but Google, Facebook and Twitter use SSL extensively on commodity hardware.
- IP Address – Unless you use Server Name Indication (SNI), which almost no websites do because of compatibility, you need an IP address for every hostname that you use TLS with. That means until IPv6 is widely adopted, it will be putting further strain on the remaining IPv4 pool.
Both of the above concerns increase complexity and cost of building websites at scale and for those who are on a very tight budget (the rest of us will manage). Because of this, I don't think we'll see a 100% SPDY or HTTP 2.0 web for quite some time. Don't expect SPDY for shared hosting sites anytime soon.
In a world of increasing surveillance and user data being integrated into everything, the benefits of TLS will be realized. Both Facebook and Twitter acknowledge it's importance in preventing user data from getting into the wrong hands.
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In this Aug. 9, 2013, photo limousine tour guide Harold Davis is dressed as "Breaking Bad" character Walter White, as Albuquerque tourists officials get ready for an event celebrating the premiere of the final season of AMC's television series. The show was filmed in Albuquerque and has sparked interests in this Southwestern city from tourists. Local businesses also have sought to cash in on the show's popularity. (AP Photo/Russell Contreras)
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Throughout the filming of AMC hit television series "Breaking Bad" in Albuquerque, interest in the Southwestern city from tourists has grown and local businesses have sought to cash in.
But "Breaking Bad" started its final season Sunday, and Albuquerque shops and tourist attractions are trying to take advantage of the popular show's last moments before the series fades from memory.
The city's visitors' bureau hosted a watch party drawing 450 fans. Even an Albuquerque Catholic church held a marathon of recent episodes, held Mass, then hosted its own viewing of the premiere.
"Breaking Bad," which was filmed largely in Albuquerque, follows former high school teacher Walter White, played by Bryan Cranston, producing and selling methamphetamine with a former student, Jesse Pinkman, played by Aaron Paul.
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Alan M. Kraut is Professor of History at American University in Washington, D.C., where he has taught since 1974, In addition to teaching at American University, in 1995, he was Visiting Professor in the History of Science at Harvard University. He is a specialist in U.S. immigration and ethnic history, the history of medicine I the United States, and nineteenth century U.S. social history. Dr. Kraut is the author of four books and over a hundred articles and book reviews. His books besides The Huddled Masses: The Immigrant in American Society, 1880-1921, second Edition (2001), include an edited volume, Crusaders and Compromisers: Essays on the Relationship of the Antislavery Struggle to the Antebellum Party System (1983), American Refugee Policy and European Jewry, 1933-1945 (co-authored), and Silent Travelers: Germs, Genes, and the "Immigrant Menace" (1994). He is also the editor of the Records of the Immigration and Naturalization Service in the National Archives of the United States published in microfilm by University Publication of America (1991=present). Silent Travelers won several national awards, including the Theodore Saloutos Award from the Immigration and Ethnic history Society and the Phi Alpha Theta Award for the Best Book in History by an established author. Dr. Kraut's scholarship has been supported by grants and fellowships from the Rockefeller Foundation, The National Endowment for the Humanities, the Smithsonian Institution, the American Philosophical Society, and the National Institutes of Health.
In April 2000, he became the President of the Immigration and Ethnic History Society, the largest organization of immigration scholars in the country. He also serves on the Executive Committee of the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Executive Board of the Society for the History of the Gilded Age and Progressive Era. He is a member of the editorial board of the Journal of American Ethnic History and has previously serves as a member of the editorial board of The Journal of Immigrant Health.
An active public historian on immigration and public health matters, Dr. Kraut has served as a member of the Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island History Committee, a consultant to the National park Service, and an adviser to the Lower East Side Tenement Museum (NYC), the Stanford L. Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, and the Strawbery-Banke Museum (Portsmouth, New Hampshire). He has been a historical consultant to documentaries broadcast on the Public Broadcasting Station and the History Channel./ These include "Journey to America" (1989), "America and the Holocaust: Deceit and Indifference Fear: The Story of Polio" (1998) and "Maters of Life and Death" and "In Search of Ourselves," two episodes in the PBS Series, A Science Odyssey (1998). As a member of the Committee on the Health and Adjustment of Immigrant Children and Families of the National Research Council, Dr. Kraut Participated in a two-year study, From Generation to Generation: The Health and Well-Being of Children in Immigrant Families (1998).
Dr. Kraut was awarded the University Faculty Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1984. For the academic year 1999/2000 he was named American University's Scholar/Teacher of the Year, the Institution's highest academic honor.--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.


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News for Monday, May 6, 2013
Notebook: Scurlock wins mid-am division at Timuquana Cup
In what has quickly become one of the nation's best events, Blair Scurlock withstood a final-round surge to win the Mid-Amateur Division at the 2013 Timuquana Cup.
Regional fields set for Div. I men's championship
California, Alabama, UCLA, Texas, New Mexico and Washington are the No. 1 seeds heading into the NCAA postseason, which begins May 16. They are among the 81 teams that will make up the six NCAA Regional fields.
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Tis the season of U.S. Open qualifying. Keep track of local qualifying here as tournaments are staged at 111 sites across the country.
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NCAA announces Div. III women's championships
The NCAA has announced the 21 teams and six individuals that will compete in the Division III Women's National Championship field.
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When Auburn hosts the NCAA East Regional later this week, head women's golf coach Kim Evans won't be there. Evans is taking a brief leave of absence due to undisclosed health issues, according to the university.
Kaufman steps down after 15 years leading UAB men
Alan Kaufman has announced he will retire as head golf coach at Alabama-Birmingham. He has guided the Blazer men's golf team for the past 15 seasons, and will become the Director of Golf.
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The NCAA has announced the 41 teams and five individuals that will comprise the NCAA Division III Men's National Championship field.
Player of the week: Kristine Odaiyar
Kristine Odaiyar of Ocala, Fla., won the Florida Junior Golf Tour event at Via Mizner Golf and Country Club on May 5.
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Carson Young of Pendleton, S.C., claimed the prestigious Junior Invitational at Sage Valley title on April 28 in Graniteville, S.C., with a final round 2-under 70.
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Senior Anderson earned her 20th career victory at the Summit League Championship on April 24, and her third conference title.
Team of the week: North Dakota State
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Player of the week: Max Homa, California
Senior Homa became the third Golden Bear in Cal history to win the individual title at the Pac-12 Championship.
Team of the week: California
California, the top-ranked team in the Golfweek/Sagarin College Rankings, defended its title May 1 at the Pac-12 Championship.
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Quarterbacks: Isaiah Black, Wise; Matty Callahn, Northwest; Matt Choi, Quince Orchard; Colar Kuhns, Calvert Hall; Antonio Washington, Potomac; Calvin Reighard, Seneca Valley; Wesley Wolfork, Suitland.
Running Backs: James Jones-Williams, Seneca Valley; Darren Kelley, Potomac; Zac Morton, Whitman; Trevor Patton, Damascus; Chase Powell, Wise; Anthony Squire, Suitland; Solomon Vault, Gaithersburg; Darius Victor, Northwestern-PG; Moses Vines, Sherwood.
Offensive Linemen: Anthony Combs, Gaithersburg; James Faucet, Quince Orchard; Jai Franklin, Wise; Antonio Harris, Wise; Diontae Jordan, Bladensburg; Lucas Kane, Northwood; Darion Locke, Churchill; Andrew Nickel, Damascus; Anthony Royster, Bethesda-CC; Joel Singh, Whitman; Victor Tamba, Northwestern-PG; Zach Thompson, Clarksburg; Timmy Walko, Seneca Valley; Stephen Wright, Wise.
Receivers/Tight Ends: Darren Ambush, Urbana; Charlie Barry, Walter Johnson; Zach Bradshaw, Damascus; Jalen Christian, Damascus; Trevon Diggs, Wootton; Breon Herbert, Blake; John Johnson, Northwestern-PG; Kevin Joppy, Seneca Valley; Ryan Markush, Northwest; Mohamed Roberts, Bowie; Jack Rogers, Damascus; Micah Till, Wise; Brendan Wharton, Urbana.
All-Purpose: Travor Barber, Whitman; Donte Hears, Watkins Mill; D'Andre Johnson, Quince Orchard; Elijah Spottswood, Sherwood PK: Jake Ryder, Sherwood; Pat Schlosser, Watkins Mill; Denzel Sesay, DuVal.
Defensive Linemen: Andrew Ankrah, Quince Orchard; Alex Attia, Whitman; Anthony Bell, Seneca Valley; Karsten Bratt, Watkins Mill; Elishua Brown, Bladensburg; Rashard Budd, Damascus; Cole Burdette, Urbana; Dmitri Clemons, Paint Branch; Azzan Goode, Springbrook; Miles Green, Wootton; Kieran Gregory, Quince Orchard; Tyrce Holmes, DuVal; Myles Humphry, Wise; Jaylen Powell, Eleanor Roosevelt; Raymond Washington, Wise.
Linebackers: Kevin Bettis, Urbana; Blake Dove, Churchill; Jerimiah Hall, DuVal; Austen Hebert, Seneca Valley; Jack Giblin, Einstein; Anthony Jackson, Suitland; Fitz Mofor, Sherwood; Tatah Ndeh, Springbrook; Marcus Newby, Quince Orchard; Marcus Pickens, Potomac; Frank Porter, Wise; D'Angelo Niler, Wise; Benjamin Robinson, Wise; Carlo St. Regis, Quince Orchard; George Vinson, Damascus.
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Paul calmly replied that he's not in favor of letting the man die. A physician who practiced before Medicare and Medicaid were enacted, Paul noted that hospitals were never in the practice of turning away patients in need. "We've given up on this whole concept that we might take care of ourselves and assume responsibility for ourselves," he observed. "Our neighbors, our friends, our churches would do it."
Both Mitt Romney and Rick Perry have condemned the response from the Paulistas in the audience and endorsed a more active role in government in health care.
Still, it's amazing how quickly status quo bias kicks in. Since the 1960s, it has become a given not only that the government should be more involved in areas like health care and poverty but that these problems remain intractable because the government has not gotten more involved. That's the premise behind so many of the anti-libertarian questions at the GOP debates. Any rejection of the assumption is derided as a right-wing effort to "turn back the clock."
Well, let's do just that for a moment. Charles Murray, my colleague at the American Enterprise Institute, notes that the most remarkable drop in the poverty rate didn't come after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared war on poverty but when President Eisenhower ignored it. Over a mere 12 years, from 1949 to 1961, the poverty rate was cut in half. Similarly the biggest gains in health coverage came when government was less involved in health care, i.e. before the passage of Medicare and Medicaid in 1966. Duke University Professor Christopher Conover notes that in 1940, 90 percent of Americans were uninsured, but by 1960, that number was down to 25 percent.
Blitzer's specific error was to use "society" and "government" as interchangeable terms. People need shoes. But that doesn't require the government to provide shoes for everyone. Similarly, poverty rates should go down. But does that mean it's the government's responsibility?
Maybe the answer is yes. But if it is, the burden of proof that the government can do better than "society" should fall on those who, in effect, want the government to win the future by "investing" in shoes -- rather than on those of us who are open to the idea of turning back the clock.
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It's pretty clear that Democrats are less enthusiastic about voting this year than Republicans. The latest evidence comes from Gallup, which reports that Republicans' 3 percent edge in congressional voting among registered voters increases to 13 and 18 points when you include just those likely and very likely to actually vote.
So why are Democrats less enthusiastic? And why has "the progressive donor base," as Democratic consultant Jim Jordans reports, "stopped writing checks"?
I don't think it's just because the economy remains sour or that Barack Obama failed to jam a public option in the health care bill.
I find a more convincing explanation in an offhand phrase in a subordinate clause in a brief article by Adam Serwer of the Center for American Progress on The Washington Post's opinion pages. "There's no question," Serwer writes, defying anyone to disagree, "that Obama has completely reversed on his promises to roll back Bush-era national security policies."
For it is not economics but foreign policy that has motivated the left half of the Democratic Party over the last decade.
When Howard Dean's supporters were declaring that they wanted to "take our country back" in 2003 and 2004, they weren't talking about repealing the Bush tax cuts. They were talking about withdrawing U.S. troops from Iraq and taking a more conciliatory and respectful stance to the leaders of Old Europe and revolutionary Iran.
Similarly, Barack Obama's refusal in 2007 and 2008 to admit that there was even a smidgen of success to George W. Bush's surge strategy in Iraq -- even today he will only hint that the surge worked -- cannot be chalked up to an intellectual incapacity to assimilate the facts.
It can only be explained as an unwillingness to rile the base of the Democratic Party, whose concerns, as we know from Bob Woodward's account of his conduct of deliberations over what to do in Afghanistan, are never far from his mind.
Nevertheless, he has left these Democrats disappointed.
They hoped to see an abject and abrupt withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq within weeks of the Obama inauguration. They hoped to see a beginning of withdrawal from Afghanistan not in July 2011, but in the early months of 2009. They hoped to see the detention facility at Guantanamo closed and shuttered, and the detainees tried in civilian courts or freed to regale the media with tales of torture.
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11 of 13 people found this review helpful:
Expensive but Works!
September 1, 2011 Verified Purchase
I use Fusilade II to kill the bermuda and crab grass growing in a large bed in which I'm trying to get Periwinkle (vinca minor) to take over as the predominant ground cover. I mixed the Fusilade with a spreader/sticker/penetrant called Cadence made by KALO, Inc. I oversprayed the Periwinkle and grass with the mix and (you have to be patient) after about 5 to 7 days the grass was dead and gone and the Periwinkle was untouched.
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9 of 10 people found this review helpful:
A great Herbicide for grasses
June 6, 2011 Verified Purchase
After early research on Fusilade in the 80s with UCCE in CA for crop use, I (aswell as my friends) now find it useful in my flower garden for selective control of annoying annual and perennial grass in Seattle's wonderful gardening climate. But it doesn't control annual bluegrass or fescues. It has some odor so wear plastic gloves. It takes more than a week to get control, but rest after that week. Prompt shipping by this online company.
8 of 11 people found this review helpful:
Fusilade II for Torpedo grass
July 13, 2012 Verified Purchase
I recently received Fusilade and have tried it in spot areas to se if it effects the flowers planted in the same areas. So far it is working well. It was recommended by our County Extension Agent.
7 of 9 people found this review helpful:
Bermuda control
June 17, 2011 Verified Purchase
After first application mixed with Ester, the Bermuda has taken a hit. The second application a month later is coming up.
5 of 27 people found this review helpful:
Waste of money!!!
April 17, 2013 Verified Purchase
Did not work well at all!!!! Followed instructions, but SOOOOO MANY weeds did NOT die!!!! I will still need to hire somebody to hand pick all those weeds! Disappointing considering how expensive it is.
4 of 5 people found this review helpful:
Nothing Else Gets Bermuda Grass
October 27, 2012
The active ingredient in Fusilade is very effective against Bermuda Grass and moderately effective (but the best there is) agains Johnson Grass.
Fusilade is cheaper than Roundup because even for Bermuda you use less to the gallon even with the cost of the surfectant added in. And it is grass-specific -- it won't kill your favorite rose if a drop drifts onto it, as Roundup will. But read the label -- some non-grass plants are a bit susceptible to it.
This is the best deal on Fusilade I found and I like the new container. Even though I live in a big agricultural area, DoMyOwnPestControl's price was less than any I found here and much less than any other Web source. It arrived promptly and well packed, mostly in biodegradable shredded cardboard.
3 of 3 people found this review helpful:
Great Grass-Specific Herbicide
October 1, 2012 Verified Purchase
Fusilade kills grass without harming broad-leafed plants. It is perfect for eliminating grass that has invaded flower beds. Crabgrass is especially vulnerable to Fusilade; so, you can mix a dilute batch to kill crabgrass and not harm a fescue lawn. You can get the same herbicide in Grass-B-Gone, pre-mixed in a spray bottle, but it is really expensive.
3 of 4 people found this review helpful:
Great product Fantastic Price
July 17, 2013 Verified Purchase
Unfortunately, I have used this twice since I got it and it has poured rain afterwards for days, so though I can see some results, I think the rain certainly diluted it. Shame too because it is expensive. BUT, this was 30 dollars less than I am able to get it at my local store. My landscapers have used this for me before with good results, but this is something that needs to be applied about 10 days apart to get the best lasting results. I like that I can overspray in most of my plants with no harm to them. I am not over spraying on veggies or fruit trees as I'm not sure if it will affect them. If anybody knows, please post. I will use this site again. It was very easy, great price, great product and was shipped very quickly. I also told my landscapers about the site as it was an even better price than they could get here locally.
2 of 4 people found this review helpful:
AND Free Shipping
July 17, 2013 Verified Purchase
I forgot to add that not only was it offered at a great price, shipping was free! Thank you so much for making it easy!
2 of 2 people found this review helpful:
Fusilade II Herbicide
July 9, 2015
Received from DoMyOwnPestControl before expected date: rate the team a 5.
Have applied one time and Bermuda dying, fescue surviving with some noticeable color loss. Happy at this point. Computing mixture instructions could be made much easier.
Hard to find chemcials
February 23, 2013 Verified Purchase
As usual, the service was smooth and fast and I was able to get some chemicals that aren't easy to find in my area. I have used Do My Own several times and never been disappointed.
1 of 2 people found this review helpful:
Zenith Zoysia vs Bermuda
July 13, 2014 Verified Purchase
This is a must have herbicide if you are growing a zoysia lawn from seed (or you have a neighbor with bermuda). If you previously had a little bermuda grass, then you will have a ton before the seed can germinate. I combined it with Turflon Ester to reduce injury to my desired grass while killing the bermuda. I only use .1 oz/gallon (with .25 oz/gal Turflon) application so this should last me a while. Expect stunt growth on zoysia for about a couple weeks and multiple applications since bermuda never stops invading.
works on bermuda and crabgrass
July 14, 2014 Verified Purchase
This is my second bottle, I had real problem with bermuda taking over front yard. Used roundup and did it three different times 2 yrs. ago. Reseeded the area and last yr the bermuda was back. Saw this product and tried it last yr., it killed the bermuda roots and all hasn't came back in that area. Works on growing crabgrass too. "Two thumbs up"
1 of 1 people found this review helpful:
Zoysia application rate
October 15, 2014
bought product to control weeds and misc grasses on a Zoysia lawn in W Central Florida. Applied at .5 oz per gallon. Probably applied too heavy? Both zoysia and weeds are still stunted and turning yellow after 3 weeks.....recovery of zoysia is TBD. It is not clear on the label what rate to apply on a zoysia lawn. Can anybody help with the application rate for a healthy zoysia lawn?
Kills sand burs
October 19, 2015
We bought this specifically to kill out sand burs and that's what it does. We're using it in combo with pre-emergents and glyphosate, hopefully we'll bring the situation under control next spring/
Works great!!!
August 31, 2015
I mixed the Fusilade w/surfactant per the label instructions and applied it to my lawn 8 days ago with a garden sprayer. Already the Bermuda grass has yellowed and looks dead. I will reapply in 20 more days just to make sure and then reseed in 14 days. The fescue seems to have survived quite well.
Fusilade II
August 29, 2015
As advertised the product is killing burmuda grass in my rose beds. I have an old lawn and the grass in unwanted areas has always been a problem. The product was recommended by a friend and along with the spreader is working and cleaning out the burmuda grass.
0 of 8 people found this review helpful:
Fusilade in Floratam
March 28, 2012 Verified Purchase
I applied Fusilade II to bermuda growing in my Floratam yars, using the recommended dosage (two teaspoons per gallon of water) sited by Steve from Cape Coral. It is not "mildly affecting" the Floratam, but killing a lot of it! Thanks for the crappy advice!
It does appear to be knocking out the bermuda, but now I'll have to re-sod that part of the lawn that I treated. Fortunately, I didn't do the whole yard (about 12,000 sq ft). I sure as heck won't put an Turfon Ester on it!
0 of 1 people found this review helpful:
July 6, 2015
Used a 1% solution with the recommended non- ionic surfactant over the top of the winter creeper ground cover two weeks ago. It's been a slow death to the unwanted broadleaf weeds. The winter creeped tolerated the Fusilade without any discoloration. I will probably spray other areas with a 1.5% solution next application.
kills grass in shrubs
September 2, 2014 Verified Purchase
If you are tired of pulling grassy weeds from your low growing shrubs, this product will do the trick. Not cheap, but saves a lot of hand weeding.
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