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Wednesday, December 3, 2014
Godiva Chef Inspirations Flavors of the World
Godiva was founded in Belgium as a premium chocolatier. The company is now owned by a Turkish holding coming (Yıldız Holding) but is headquartered in New York and named after an Old English noblewoman.
The chocolate is reliably of good quality, though the prices are on the high side compared to other brands now available. I love their packaging, but I'm usually disappointed by the products as they tend to be bland.
Still, I was tempted enough by a press release about a new collaboration collection that I stopped by the local Godiva shop and picked up a box of the Chef Inspirations Flavors of the World Collection. It was $18 for a box of eight chocolates in six different flavors.
So, six flavors and eight pieces means that I got two duplicates. The box is nice, a rounded rectangle with a plastic formed tray inside. The whole thing was shrink-wrapped and definitely fresh and flawless when I opened it. It included a little brochure that described both the chef and chocolates themselves. Here's a little bit from the website:
Banana & Caramelized Coconut: Milk and white chocolate enhanced with caramelized coconut flakes, coconut milk and banana essence topped with the crunch of West African cocoa nibs. The banana flavors are sweet and have a bit of a creamy note. The coconut has a little tropical flavor, the whole thing is soft and chewy. The milk chocolate is smooth, but extremely sweet.
Black Tea Mousse & Sichuan Pepper: Chinese Sichuan pepper flavored ganache blended with an aromatic black tea mousse and wrapped in pure Belgian dark chocolate. The mousse has a very light chocolate note but strong tannins from the black tea. I didn't catch much of the pepper, which is too bad. But I did enjoy the tea and this one was less sweet than the others.
Sirop de Liege with Speculoos: Classic Belgian Sirop de Liege, a pear and apple syrup, and a Speculoos cookie mousse wrapped in pure Belgian dark chocolate. This is a beautiful piece and an interesting combination. It is by far the most innovative and successful in the assortment. The speculoos is soft and creamy with a hint of gingerbread spices. The syrup is more like a fruit jelly, tart and smooth and bright, it's really a great pairing with the dark chocolate and cookie butter. They should make this in a bar format.
Japanese Dark Sugar Ganache: Dark chocolate layered with Kuromitsu molasses and Valencia almond praliné mixed with diced hazelnuts and Guerande sea salt. Since I started Candy Blog, I've been obsessed with Japanese black sugar, so this was the piece was thinking would be a home run. It's nice, don't get me wrong, but lacks any sort of black sugar note at all. The almond and hazelnut notes are great and the touch of sea salt does really balance the piece which gets a bit sweet, but the molasses is just so slight, I missed it. And I had three of these ... the two that came in the box and I bought one on the spot and ate it at the mall.
Brazilian Coffee Nut Praliné: Brazilian coffee and Costa Rican chocolate blended with hazelnut praliné enrobed in white chocolate and decorated with crispy chocolate confetti. As you would expect, this one was sweet with the white chocolate coating. The coffee notes a fresh and bright and the hazelnut flavors really mixed well. The little crisps on top gave it the texture it needed as a finish. Dark chocolate enrobing would have made me a bit more satisfied.
Honey Roasted Caramel: Caramel infused with hints of honey, almonds, brown sugar and condensed milk covered in milk chocolate and crunchy almonds. This sounds rather pedestrian and it really is, but that's no reason not to appreciate it. It was chewy, but not too sticky. The honey and darker toffee notes were good and the milk chocolate brought it together well with some other dairy notes. The almonds were kind of lost, but at least fresh and crunchy.
Overall ... well, it was too sweet and not intense enough. I liked the attempts and part of the fun was just imagining what the combinations would be like. But I think I'll stick with my local chocolatiers like Compartes or Valerie if I want to get into that price range, or just stop at See's and be happy with their caramels.
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Monday, November 12, 2012
Godiva Cake Truffles
Godiva Chocolate was founded in Belgium in 1926 and since then has become a worldwide sensation and perhaps even a synonym for chocolate indulgence.
I'm often attracted to Godiva, because their packaging is so lovely and the marketing evokes all the right elements of delectability and luxury. But then I'm disappointed by the actual product. I've come to learn that the adjective Belgian is no better at describing quality than saying the word quality.
A reader, Sherrie, suggested I try the new Cake Truffle collection from Godiva. I saw the box at Barnes & Noble, and found it enchantingly appealing.
Since I can't have walnuts, I decided to visit one of their shops to make sure I only bought pieces I could eat and since I spotted it in the case, I substituted their Red Velvet Cake Truffle for the Butterscotch Walnut Brownie.
This truffle had a nice soft bite to it with a light cocoa flavor from the shell and the rustic sprinkles. It wasn't as sweet as I expected, but didn't really have the flavor profile or notes of actual cookie dough to satisfy me from its name alone. Other than that, it was just a not-quite-as-sweet-as-all-white-chocolate truffle.
I liked this one the best of the assortment. The flavors were mild and it was certainly a sweet truffle, but it did have a nice touch of pineapple. The milky white chocolate was a bit like coconut, so the whole thing was evocative of a Pina Colada.
I have to say that this was one of the most attractive of the set. I loved how they looked in the tray in the candy case. The reminded me of the ever-so-trendy cake pops right now. As far as birthday cake, I would say that this truffle, with this mostly white chocolate ingredients really nailed the yellow cake profile. It's sweet and milky, but also a little greasy feeling on the tongue. There are more vanilla notes in this one but the one saving grace are the little crunches of the sprinkles.
I'm not fond of Red Velvet cake to begin with, but the key elements of the cake would be its light cocoa note to a buttermilk cake and a cream cheese frosting. What I found here was a weakly chocolate ganache center and a bland white chocolate shell. Sweet but lacking the tangy notes that buttermilk and cream cheese bring along. It was just a bland chocolate truffle.
I bought my truffles by the piece, saving myself a smidge of money. I got five truffles (the fifth is not pictured and was the 70% Noir, which was good but not intense) and spent over $11. The standard box of 8 truffles (5.25 ounces) is $25. That works out to about $76 per pound. Ultimately this purchase confirmed my current feelings about Godiva. There are so many wonderful local confectioners that use high quality ingredients to create fresh and scrumptious delicacies, I don't need this sort of mass produced product any longer. If I'm going to buy boxed chocolates at the mall, I will go to See's, where the price is around $20 a pound and there are always free samples.
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Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Godiva Gems Peppermint Truffles
Godiva Chocolatier has been moving into more stores lately - places like Cost Plus World Market and even drug stores like CVS. This holiday was the first time I saw them in my ordinary grocery store (Von's). The mass-market fare isn't quite like the stuff in their shops, it's small bites (Gems) and bars along with their Chocoiste line of little pearls.
They're still rather expensive, this bag of Godiva Gems Peppermint Truffles was selling for $6.00 before Christmas. Though the bag looks pretty big (similar to the stand up bags from Ghirardelli which holds nearly 3 times as much), it only holds 3.5 ounces. But after Christmas I snagged this for only $2.64 ... a fair price for a real white chocolate product.
The package says: White chocolate with creamy candy cane filling.
The package warns that some settling of contents may occur in shipping, and they're not kidding. There are 10 individually wrapped Gems inside, making two layers - that's a lot of empty space in the bag. Each sphere is wrapped in a candy cane striped mylar twist.
The truffles are about 1 inch in diameter. They're not completely spherical, they're slightly faceted, I'm guessing to go with the Gems part of the name. They remind me of well-used polyhedral dice.
They're formed from two hemispheres, so there's a distinct seam in the center. Sometimes with a little gentle pressure on opposite sides of the seam, I can pop the sides apart. They're each filled with the pink cream and then joined together with some more white chocolate.
The pieces are soft, the shell yields easily when bitten. The center is a soft cream made of white chocolate, sugar alcohols, butter and some palm oil along with some red food coloring and peppermint flavor. There's just a little dash of salt in there. The sorbitol and xylitol are used as sweeteners to good effect. Both of them are lower in calories but they also are less sweet and provide a cooling effect on the tongue. (Some folks cannot tolerate sugar alcohols, but I don't think there's much in here.)
They were good quality, I liked that the ganache filling wasn't greasy and thin tasting like the Lindt Lindor Truffles, which I see these as competing with. But the flavor combo wasn't really best for me, I wanted a rich, silky dark chocolate shell and the white chocolate, minty ganache center. White chocolate lovers may disagree though. They're not too sweet, which is also refreshing.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:53 pm Candy • Review • Christmas • Godiva • Kosher • Mints • White Chocolate • 6-Tempting • United States • Von's •
Thursday, March 25, 2010
Godiva Spring Pearls
After a long and very white winter I'm guessing some folks are looking for a colorful spring rebirth with their Easter candy. Godiva sent me a few of their extensive Easter candy offerings and I do say that they have a great aesthetic.
I like to play with my candy, so the item I was most interested in getting a hold of is their Spring Pearls bag. The new Milk Chocolate Pearls come in two versions. The all orange candy coated milk chocolate spheres inside a cone shaped bag to look like a carrot. It's not original but their version is drop-dead cute even if I find the ideas of carrots appearing as a spring or Easter motif hilarious. Carrots are a root vegetable and are planted in the spring but not harvested until the fall.
Even if the carrot is vexing I was still far more interested in the Spring Pearls because of the soft colors (less food coloring). There are three colors in this assortment: pale yellow, light green and soft pink.
The bag holds four ounces but the tag says that a single portion is 1.4 ounces (about 23 pearls) - which means that there are 2.86 servings in the package. Each pearl is approximately 1.74 grams and provides 8.26 calories.
But yeah, they're $8.00 for a four ounce bag, which makes them $32 a pound or $2.00 for a single ounce.
This would be a serving size.
Just look at them! They're so pretty. How can you argue with $2.00 an ounce when you'd get such enjoyment out of simply looking at them?
First I wanted to show the scale. Though the little spheres vary, they're approximately 1/2 inch in diameter.
I found a Sixlet to photograph with one of the Orange Pearls as a comparison. The Pearl is on the left and the Sixlet is on the right. The colors are practically identical. Of course the difference is inside, Sixlets are a chocolate flavored candy and Pearls are actual milk chocolate.
In case you don't know what Sixlets are or can't recall their size, here's an M&M. The Pearl in this photo is on the left and the M&M is on the right and has a little M on it.
The color of the M&M is a smidge darker if you're trying to imagine the shade of orange the Pearls are.
The most vexing thing about these Pearls is the fact that they're shiny spheres. They roll. So lining them up on the desk according to color isn't easy. I'd need a special tray but I improvised by putting them between my F keys and number keys on my keyboard. (This doesn't work so well on my laptop, which gets warmer. When sugar shelled panned chocolates get warm the shells tend to crack.)
The flavor is great. The shell is crunchy and the chocolate inside is smooth and creamy with a good dairy milk chocolate flavor. So much better than M&Ms which I sampled at the same time. But they actually weren't better than the new Russell Stover Color Me Candies which are only 37 cents per ounce. (Yes, that's 80% less.) The pretty bag simply isn't worth that much.
I honestly had no trouble eating all of them. They are really well made and the fact that they're spherical, I think, keeps them from chipping like the lentil shaped candy coated chocolate kin. I just can't rationalize the price unless you simply must have a sphere - then I would definitely pay the difference instead of Sixlets. But hey, it's Godiva, and giving a gift that has such an esteemed logo attached to it also means something. If you're in the shop picking up something else that they do better than anyone else (and that's always worth it), then it might be a nice addition. (I really vacillated between a 6 and a 7 out of 10 but let the price sway me towards the lower number.)
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:30 pm
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Godiva Shamrock Truffles
Saint Patrick's Day isn't exactly a big candy holiday. Potato and shamrock flavored candies, thought they exist, aren't exactly mainstream.
Godiva, who is always good at merchandising, has a limited edition Shamrock Mint Truffle. These dipped bonbons are right up my alley, they're a a classic mint ganache with Godiva chocolate chips enrobed in a dark chocolate shell and strung with a lucky green shamrock.
Godiva was kind enough to send a box of them to me, you can also get them as singles in the store. A box of 5 retails for $12. (The samples I got came in a box of six ... dunno why that was.)
The spheres are beautiful. I've mentioned before that I prefer enrobed chocolate over molded pieces, there's something about the tempering of enrobed chocolate that I think has a better mouthfeel. So these had me right away with their excellent attention to detail. The little clovers in a white chocolate colored light green were cute - the flavoring wasn't too sweet and didn't distract from the rest of the confection.
The pieces smelled mostly of minty chocolate. The whole thing reminded me of mint chocolate chip ice cream. The shells were thin and coated the cream filling expertly - none had any cracks or leaks.
The filling was creamy smooth with a light mint touch. They were sweet, but the dark chocolate did a good job of balancing it out. They really were the bonbon version of mint chocolate chip ice cream. The only hesitation I had with them were the colors - I don't know what the ingredients are but the center looks like it might have a touch of coloring in it, which makes it look like grout, not some sort of decadent peppermint ganache. There's no reason why this couldn't be a year round item (though I could see a little peppermint candy candy decoration for Christmas).
I ate the whole box with very little help: Happy Saint Patrick's Day.
Johnny also has a review of them.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 1:07 pm
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
Godiva Chocoiste Pearls
Since I knew I was going to be traveling, I thought I'd pick up some easy to carry chocolate for my trip a few weeks ago. I know that I'm guilty of ignoring Godiva here on the blog, even though it's a major upscale brand of chocolate here in the United States, so I thought this would be a good opportunity to give some of their chocolate a go.
Godiva introduced their Chocoiste line which features all sorts of fun goodies that are convenient to carry for a little pick-me-up and sold at lots of stores, not just their outlets.
I chose the Godiva Chocoiste Dark Chocolate Pearls as a way to experience their dark chocolate without any of the muss of fuss of their fancy boxes.
The tin is lovely, tall and narrow with an elegant simplicity and holds 1.5 ounces.
I ran into trouble quickly though. I couldn't and still can't get the frelling thing open. Once I did get it open, my thumbtips were sore and this experience repeated each bowb-bowb time I wanted to try a little more. (I even thought it'd losen up, but after three weeks with this frakking thing, I feel like I'm demonstrating my inability to learn from my ficky-fick mistakes and I should just dump them into a ziploc.)
Each of the little pearls are the size of garden peas. Glossy and dark, they are attractive and ready to prove they're spherical by rolling around the airplane tray table. (Yes, I put down a napkin first, I do have some standards of sanitation.) Luckily they also sit easily on my keyboard near lesser used keys.
The dark chocolate isn't particularly dark (and contains dairy products like butteroil and milk) but is mellow and rich with a smooth melt. It's certainly a step up from M&Ms, but at this price ($3.95 a tin) it's hardly worth it. I would enjoy the tin if it weren't so expletively frustrating.
Though I tried the dark chocolate first, I spent more time with the Godiva Chocoiste Dark Chocolate Pearls with Mint simply because the tin worked. It opened easily but stayed snapped shut firmly during all my travels.
The pearls looked exactly the same as the plain dark chocolate ones. They smelled like freshly crushed peppermint and spearmint leaves. The chocolate was smooth and had a cool touch of mint that tasted absolutely fresh and authentic.
Both pearl varieties use a resinous glaze, so are unsuitable for strict vegetarians.
Godiva also makes a Mandarin Orange version of the Dark Chocolate that I think I would like very much. Their other versions include Milk Chocolate Pearls, White Chocolate Pearls and Milk Chocolate Caffe Latte Pearls. Other items in the Chocoiste line include chocolate panned nuts & fruits, and solid chocolate bars.
I can see these being a nice gift item or stocking stuffer and the tins are wonderfully shaped and reusable (you could stuff your iPod earbuds in there or just refill with some other treat of your choice). As an everyday item, in this economy and most others I've experienced, I'd have to pass.
Other Chocoiste reviews: Sugar Hog tried the Milk Chocolate Domes, The Eating Well tried the Raspberry Bar and Food Mayhem sampled many of the Chocoiste products.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 8:52 am
Tuesday, April 3, 2007
Godiva Easter Eggs
I've been asked a few times what I think of Godiva. To be honest, I don't think much about it. When I was a kid and the same company who owned Pepperidge Farm (Campbell Soup) also owned Godiva (well, that's still true today). There was a Pepperidge Farm thrift store not far from our home that we'd shop at once a month. Much of the time they'd have Godiva at ridiculously low prices. Besides chocolates at holidays, this was my only interaction with fine chocolates.
Of course I was in love with the elegant packaging. But I also appreciated the nice flavor and beauty of the chocolates as well. As I got a little older and became less impressed by those things, I realized, I didn't like the chocolates themselves much. It's not that they were bad, by any means, they just weren't within my set of preferred flavors (you know, peanut butter and citrus) and I found the chocolate a little waxy.
So I don't eat them, I don't pay much attention to them.
But hey, it's Easter and it's about time I had something from Godiva represented here. So I popped into their shop over the weekend to see what was there for Easter. Lo and behold, it seemed they had a product that sounded right up my alley: an assortment of foil-wrapped Easter Eggs.
The assortment included Solid Dark Chocolate, Solid Milk Chocolate, Dark Chocolate with Coconut and Milk Chocolate with Almond Butter. Seeing that there were 16 eggs in the box and there were four flavors, I naturally assumed that there would be four of each flavor. Unfortunately there were only three of each of the filled eggs and five each of the solid eggs. Grrrr. I don't want Godiva's chocolate ... I want Godiva's chocolates.
The eggs themselves are sizeable. At about .42 ounces each they're twice the size of the regular foil-wrapped eggs we're used to in Easter baskets.
The milk chocolate is nice. Creamy with a good caramelly milk flavor, though a little sticky and cloying as it melts on the tongue. The dark chocolate has a sweet but compelling scent, a little on the smoky side. It's super creamy on the tongue with a slight dry finish. It doesn't have the berry or fruity notes, just sticks to the woodsy/smoky side of things.
But let's get to the fun ones! The pink foil holds a Dark Chocolate with Coconut egg. I could smell the nutty coconut as I unwrapped it. The center is a light and creamy fondant with little flecks of coconut. It smelled like coconut but also a little floral, like lilacs. Amazingly good.
The light blue foil holds a Milk Chocolate with Almond Butter egg. This one smelled immediately of dark toasted almonds. It was very soft to bite, I'm guessing from all the oils in the almond butter. Very thick and rich, the almond butter was fabulous, very much like a peanut butter, but with that unmistakeable almond taste. The milk chocolate set off the texture and flavor very well.
I really liked these but at almost a DOLLAR PER EGG they were horrendously expensive. Over $35.00 per pound. That price is fine for high quality boxed chocolates, but not for a product that was mostly solid chocolate. Keep your eye out for their post-Easter sale though if you've just gotta have them. (This particular box of foil eggs is already sold out on the site, but they have this more expensive version with only six eggs. (Jeeze, where's a thrift store when you need it!)
Does anyone have any insider info on who supplies Godiva with their chocolate?
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No business owner sets out to mistreat employees or customers. But not every entrepreneur puts an equal amount of thought into whether their employees are growing and being challenged or whether their customers need anything above and beyond what's already being provided to them.
Servant leadership is a pretty intuitive concept; in fact you might be practicing it already unawares. However, it also clashes with many of the values instilled by modern American culture.
"I think the simplest way to explain it would be to say that servant leaders focus on identifying and meeting the needs of others rather than trying to acquire power, wealth, and fame for themselves,"says Kent Keith, CEO of the Greenleaf Center for Servant Leadership, a Westfield, Indiana-based non-profit that promotes education about and implementation of servant leadership.
But servant leadership goes even beyond your personal interactions within your company. "In business [practicing servant leadership] would start with your customers and ultimately [involve] serving society through the good work you're doing on behalf of your customers,"says Bill George, a professor of management at Harvard Business School and the former CEO of Medtronic, a large medical technology company.
Here's how to listen to and respect those you work with, flatten your organizational hierarchy, and stay focused doing it.
How to Become a Servant Leader: The Origins of Servant Leadership
The Greenleaf Center, which Keith presides over, takes its name from Robert Greenleaf, the originator of the concept of servant leadership. Greenleaf spent much of his career handling HR and personnel for AT&T. "He observed over time that there were leaders who were in it for themselves and leaders who were in it for others," Keith explains, "and his conclusion was that those who focused on others were the most effective."
Greenleaf's observations don't just apply to the workings of a single company. Keith feels that the behaviors exemplified by servant leaders makes capitalism itself more efficient. "Servant leaders really are good at listening, they stay close to their colleagues, they have a good understanding of what their colleagues need to perform at a high level and they work hard to get that to them," Keith explains. Another reason it boosts economic efficiency is "if you're really paying attention, then you can provide the programs, products, and services that people really want."
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How to Become a Servant Leader: Signs You Aren't Practicing Servant Leadership
Much as Keith holds that servant leadership makes the wheels of free enterprise turn smoother, George believes that people practicing a very unservant-like form of leadership precipitated much of the recent economic crisis.
He says you can tell if you're serving your own interests or those of others simply by how much and how well you're listening to those around you. "Many entrepreneurs are brilliant people at getting a business going. They're very self-determined, very committed, but you can see at some point in time a separation [between] them and their team and they feel like they're carrying the weight of the world on their shoulders,"says George. When entrepreneurs shoulder an excessive portion of the burden, they neglect opportunities to delegate to their team, opportunities which would help them grow and develop as employees and as people. That's why George cautions entrepreneurs not to play Atlas.
The antithesis of servant leadership, which Keith refers to as the "power, wealth and fame model," also manifests in low employee morale and lower levels of commitment to the organization. "People kind of do their jobs and leave when the clock says five o'clock. They don't put in any extra effort, they give you the minimum," says George. High turnover rates can be another symptom.
One type of behavior, which can lower employee morale, is any examples of extreme executive privilege or hypocrisy. If a company "imposes very strict expense control limits on an organization, but spends lavishly themselves," it creates a climate where people feel unfairness and hostility.
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How to Become a Servant Leader: Improving Your Servant Leadership
So becoming a servant leader sounds pretty straightforward so far but, as with most things, it's far easier to talk the talk than to walk the walk. Here are suggestions for ways to reorganize your personal and professional habits to improve your servant leadership:
- Get started early – The best way to make servant leadership a part of how you run your business is to build it into the founding values of the company. "There's a lot of talk these days about corporate social responsibility. I think the way that companies fulfill their responsibility to society is through the core missions of their business, not peripheral activities that look good to others but may not be central to the business," says George. Building in profit sharing or other ways to let employees share in the company's success is also important.
- Stay introspective – When you're directing so much energy outwards into your company it can be hard to recognize your own strengths and weaknesses and their impact on the people around you. It is a strategic necessity and potentially a source of stress relief getting others to step in where you fall short. George has been meditating since the 70's although running and other forms of exercise can also work well as stress relievers that simultaneously provide reflection time.
- Upend the pyramid – When your org chart looks like a steep pyramid with you at the top, it can cause a number of problems within the organization. Keith feels that people in those organizations focus excessively on pleasing their bosses to the exclusion of doing as much as they can for the customer. Additionally, "when you have that kind of a pyramid it's hard for the person at the top to get information and it's hard for that person to test new ideas," Keith says. As a solution, he proposes a team at the top. The chief executive still retains final say on things but creates a flatter organization with more openness to dialogue and dissent.
- Listen – One of the most central tenets of servant leadership is listening to the people around you and listening well. "Particularly if you're successful,"George cautions, "you start to believe your own press, but when you get down with people and you get honest, gut-level feedback from them, [you ask] 'Hey, how are things going?' 'Well they're not going so well, here's why.'"As CEO of Medtronic, George used to hold a program called Breakfast with Bill in which he would travel around the world to meet cross sections of the companies workforce, which was in the tens of thousands. Rather than meeting with management he sat down with employees from all levels of the organization.
- Expand the family - Servant leadership also influences how you treat your suppliers and business partners, not just your customers and employees. Keith says that Greenleaf believed that "leaders of organizations should care about everyone that the organization touches." So how can you try to develop mutually beneficial relationships rather than stoic exchanges of goods and services? George feels you should make vendors and partners feel like part of the family by selling them on the importance of the companies mission. TD Industries, a Texas-based mechanical construction company, invites their vendors to the servant leadership trainings that it hold for staff; and Kohler, Wisconsin-based Johnsonville Sausage sends their people out to work in restaurants and stores where their sausages are eaten and sold. It's all about understanding each other's philosophies and needs to improve the partnership and cooperation.
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How to Become a Servant Leader: Dispelling Misconceptions
So if servant leadership has all these benefits, why don't you hear about more people practicing it? For starters, Keith says, "it's more widely spread than we know, people just aren't using the word servant leadership, but they're doing what servant leaders do."He was able to think of a number of large corporations who have practiced servant leadership, including Southwest Airlines, Starbucks, and FedEx, but far fewer examples of start-ups practicing it.
In addition to business owners practicing servant leadership without giving it a name, there are certain misimpressions surrounding the practice of servant leadership that Keith hypothesizes might deter people from attempting it. "People hear about it and think 'oh, it's warm and fuzzy, but it doesn't work.' We've got plenty of evidence that it works from individuals and companies that are using it."
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* I am really hoping in that experimental chemotherapy. That's what will beat this tumor!* What do you mean my mother is dying? This is your fault!
*Why won't you put in a feeding tube? Just because he has cancer doesn't mean that it is right to let him starve or die from thirst. After all, we're Catholic!
These three snippets of conversation, and variations on these themes, can be heard around many medical centers in the United States. They have a peculiar ring in the ears of believers brought up in a tradition of praying for the grace of a happy death, a recognition that death is part of our life and a hope that, as the liturgy tells us, for God's faithful people life is changed, not ended. The Catholic Church in the United States is deeply concerned about a variety of threats to life, including the clamor for assisted suicide and euthanasia. But there may be a need for increased evangelization on one part of the core of our faith: We are destined to die, and that dying is our birth into eternal life.
The conversational fragments mentioned above are understandable in the context of illness, family struggles and the confusion and sadness that are part of life-threatening illness. It is also true that many problems result from doctors who are not good at communication and who avoid talking to patients about death and dying. But I worry that American Catholics, like the larger culture of which they are a part, are unconsciously replacing hope in Jesus and the power of the resurrection with the false gods that fill contemporary American culture. Let me point out what appear to me to be three manifestations of that idolatrous culture: an unrealistic faith in technology; the view that death is always someone's failure; and a moral sense that pays little attention to clinical realities but veers from wildly lax to painfully scrupulous.
False Gods at the End of Life
Technology is a favorite target for those who like to criticize medicine. Technology is part of who we are as Americans; our lives are made very good and very full by our responsible use of the advances of the last century. But technology has its limits, and death is one of those limits. My concern is with patients and families whose hopes are limited to the next treatment, the new medication, the advance in surgery, the doctor who has the latest therapy. Of course, when one faces serious illness, one reasonably wants the best that is available. But hope is more than gifted doctors, pharmaceutical wonders and amazing diagnostic and therapeutic options. No matter how spectacular the treatment, everyone eventually dies. Our hope in technology will ultimately be disappointed.
So what is there to hope in when the tumor keeps on advancing, the dementia progresses, the congestive heart failure worsens, the thousand natural shocks that flesh is heir to begin to overwhelm the person and his or her loved ones?
A mistaken response, closely allied with an unsound faith in technology, is to turn to the doctor, the health care team or the latest treatment, whether orthodox or alternative. Perhaps this reflects another American obsession: a reliance on expertise and special knowledge coupled with an expectation that there are no limits on what is possible. When events seem out of control, there must be someone who can control the chaos that threatens to overwhelm.
My clinical practice is in geriatric medicine, and I see patients in referral who are extremely frail or sick, or who have progressive dementing illnesses. It is humbling to see the hope and faith that my patients and their families bring to their doctor. They hope to be helped, they have faith in my skills and my character, they have come to be healed. My greatest privilege as a physician is to work to improve function, relieve discomfort, treat bothersome symptoms and accompany my patients with the care and concern I can muster as they live with illness.
But chilling are the encounters when patient and family are angry that there is no magic treatment, that medicine does not always work and that this doctor cannot definitively repair the ravages of disease. Thus, for these individuals, pneumonia, myocardial infarction, metastatic cancer, advanced dementia are not part of lifethey are a mistake. There is someone to blame, and death is always avoidable. The end of life is not viewed as a tragedy with the doctor being but a supporting player; rather, illness has become an action-adventure, in which the physician who cannot bring life from death is a villain or a buffoon. In whom, then, do we have faith when the doctor disappoints?
Our problems with hope and faith in the setting of very serious illness also play out in the moral arena. There are two extremes. One is the mind-set that nothing need be done to preserve life in circumstances where death is a real possibility and there are concerns that the person who is sick may not recover to a fully active life. One evening, in a busy emergency room, a daughter told me: Nothing extraordinary is to be done.... It is my father's time to die; just make him comfortable. Her father, who was in his 80's and moderately demented, had a bad cold. I was able to convince the gentleman's daughter that Tylenol and chicken soup constituted reasonable measures. More wrenching are situations of real clinical uncertainty, where decisions require time and thought and are not without anguish. One can encounter family members and patients who reject even the simplest of therapies that might prolong life when there is chronic illness, or decreased function or less than perfect cognitive abilities. It is not loving to reject any type of potentially life saving treatment because we cannot bear disability.
The other extreme comes into play when Catholic faith is transformed into legalism and scrupulosity. One encounters an attitude that everything must be done for reasons that suggest homage to a vengeful god rather than faith that death is not the end for a Christian. This may take the form of insistence on treatments that will prolong dying and actually have the potential to increase suffering. An example is the situation of a person in the last stages of cancer who stops eating and drinking. The use of feeding tubes or aggressive intravenous therapy in such a setting carries with it the potential for fluid overload, discomfort from the tube or intravenous catheter and worsening shortness of breath as the lungs fill with fluid that the weakened heart cannot pump or the kidneys cannot excrete. An appropriate respect for the sanctity of life does not require therapy that increases suffering. Our love of God and love for our family members does not require that life be endlessly prolonged. Our moral life as Catholics allows the recognition of ambiguity and is grounded in a God whose love calls us not only to difficult choices, but to forgiveness, acceptance and eternal life.
Resources at the End of Life
The end of life requires faith, hope and love. What place does our Catholic tradition play in assisting American Catholics in facing death? As always, the church, through its people and its ministers, proclaims the Gospel, administers the sacraments and provides comfort for the sick and those who mourn. Looking at how Catholicism can address dying is not a suggestion that something radically new and different must be developed. It is a question of emphasis. I would put emphasis on five points.
First, preaching the good news that dying is part of our journey to Christ adds urgency in a culture that pretends that death is something under human control and not to be talked about, unless it is to legalize assisted suicide. I am continuously surprised by patients and families who are Catholic who tell me that we don't think about death and greet my discussion of planning for death with advance directives with a response that suggests I am totally nuts. I am not suggesting a lugubrious emphasis from the pulpit on morbidity and mortality. But the death of Christ is not a minor theme in Catholicism. Facing who we are and seeing the end of our life journey in the light of Jesus' life, death and resurrection is an important part of Christian preaching.
Second, emphasizing our respect for life as Catholics is also part of recognizing that life on this earth is not an absolute value, as John Paul II made clear in the encyclical Evangelium Vitae. The pope writes of the relative character of each individual's earthly life...life on earth is not an ultimate' but a penultimate' reality. Catholic moral teaching is meant to empower Christians to make choices in the light of reason, the Scriptures and church tradition. All of those sources recognize ambiguity, and none requires a servile fear that God will punish the honest person who does his or her best to follow an informed conscience. This is not a license that anything goes in serious illness. One needs sensitivity and concern that reasonable measures are taken to preserve and prolong life. The realization that dying is a natural process and ultimately inevitable is a key element in Catholic teaching. It allows for a flexibility in decision-making that permits the limitation of medical therapies without ever seeking the death of a person. In 1998, John Paul II, while touring a hospice in Vienna, Austria, neatly related the push for assisted suicide and euthanasia to the argument that everything must be done, regardless of the clinical situation: Both the artificial extension of human life and the hastening of death, although they stem from different principles, conceal the same assumption: the conviction that life and death are realities entrusted to human beings to be disposed of at will. This false vision must be overcome. It must be made clear that life is a gift to be responsibly led in God's sight.
Third, our faith can deepen its witness to the responsible living of God's gift of life by proclaiming the value of suffering, the evangelical imperative of care for the sick and dying and the necessity of expert care for those who are facing the end of life. Dorothy Soelle, a German theologian, has critiqued some of the emphasis on suffering in Christianity as theological sado-masochism. My point is not that suffering by itself is valuable, but that the life of the individual who endures, struggles, loves and chooses faith and love in the midst of suffering is a powerful sign of grace and an instrument of God's love in our midst. One wonders if the current peculiar stance toward dying in our culturewhere we vacillate between insanely aggressive care and a supposed right to take lives deliberatelyis not part of our own discomfort with the untidiness of life and the obnoxious reality that everything is not under our own control. The Catholic Church in the United States has extraordinary opportunities to give witness to the meaning of a civilization of love in the midst of a culture of death.
Many favor assisted suicide and euthanasia because of concerns that dying necessarily involves terrible pain, horrible symptoms and suffering unrelieved by human contact. In other words, dying means pain, being a burden and having your dignity stripped away. Those are all big lies, and Catholic health care has the resources to prove it. In fact, many Catholic medical centers are cooperating with a variety of ventures to improve care of the dying with good pain control, symptom relief and a focus on patient and family centered efforts to provide human comfort and maintain dignity. Increased emphasis on the abilities of medicine to provide the conditions for a more peaceful dying can be an important counter to those who are zealous for euthanasia. The vigorous relief of pain and other symptoms will not erase every trace of the suffering that is part of the human condition. But it can make dying a more peaceful process where we can attend to those whom we love and help them prepare to meet our God.
Fourth, and at the heart of our experience as Catholics, we need to recapture our sense of dying with a deepening appropriation of our spiritual traditions. Much of Catholic culture is filled with reminders that our lives will come to a close. Re-exploring these devotions and rediscovering the gentle recollection of our mortality can be a way to strengthen us and those who love us when life draws to a close. Our liturgical traditions speak to us of God's nearness in illness. Many parishes communally celebrate the sacrament of the sick in gatherings that provide witness of the community's solidarity in caring for the seriously ill. Wake services and funerals are filled with the promise of resurrection, even at a time when grief may numb our faith.
Fifth, and finally, is a call that we as Catholics take seriously our own dying. An ever-present theme of my Catholic childhood was that death is something for which one prepares and that one expects. As a Jesuit on retreat with the Spiritual Exercises of St. Ignatius, I was called to contemplate my own dying. The point was not to be morbid but to take stock, recognizing the limits of my life, and also the need to seek God's love, amend my failings and live my life more fully in the light of the love that Jesus has for me. Prayer and contemplation are important in taking our own death seriously. But equally important is honest family conversation about desires for health care in the event of serious illness and formulating advance directives that allow those desires to be carried out even if the person is too ill to speak. It is more than prudent planning that suggests these conversations. In our families, we need to think about how our faith in the resurrection informs our choices. In a culture where so many are free to talk on any topic but death, the witness of a home where dying is talked about and the fullness of life is celebrated is a powerful antidote to contemporary forces that would devalue our death.
Instead of faith in doctors, hope in technology and a fear that love consists only in aggressive life-sustaining treatments, we as Catholics have a treasure. Our faith in the resurrection, our hope in the promises of Christ and our love for God give us the resources to transform America's way of dying. Rediscovering the riches of our heritage can be a source of great comfort for all of us on our way to meet God, as well as a powerful sign to a culture that is desperate for true hope.


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SIMON MALLS CELEBRATE SIMON KIDGITS CLUB'S 10th ANNIVERSARY
Simon Kidgits Club highlights a decade of fun, educational programming
for children and parents
(LONGVIEW, TX), April 9, 2013 — To celebrate Simon Kidgits Club®'s 10 years of delivering entertaining, educational programming to kids at Simon® malls, Longview Mall is hosting a Simon Kidgits Club anniversary celebration the entire month of April.
Introduced to Simon mall shoppers in 2003 by Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE:SPG), the world's leading retail real estate company, the Simon Kidgits Club is a fun and informative program that focuses on health, wellness, education, safety and entertainment for children ages 3 to 8. Throughout the past decade, the Simon Kidgits Club has served as a community event staple for kids and parents by rewarding young members for good behavior; offering reading hours featuring favorite children's authors; helping children enjoy time in the kitchen; and celebrating holidays like Halloween, Christmas and Easter. More than 100 Simon malls, including Longview Mall, offer Simon Kidgits' Club programs which have played a key role in reaching the following milestones:
· Engaging with over 1.8 million parents and kids since the inception of the program.
· Hosting more than 10,000 family-focused events with more than 1,000 events annually.
· Celebrating more than one million children's birthdays by sending cards and receiving gifts.
Families are invited to join Simon Kidgits Club and receive a variety of benefits. Each Simon Kidgits Club member receives his or her own official Simon Kidgits Club membership package and T-shirt at the time of enrollment. Other benefits include: a 'spin' at the prize wheel whenever the Kidgits Club member visits the mall; special invitations to programs and events at the mall; special discounts and rewards for members only; a Birthday Club (including birthday card and gift redemption certificate); and a periodic newsletter with games, educational features and special news.
"The impact the Simon Kidgits Club has had on our members over the last decade has been phenomenal," said Cathi Weiner, Senior Vice President, Simon Brand Ventures, "and we have also been able to use the platform as a catalyst to build relationships with consumer packaged goods companies, toy brands, and entertainment properties who want to easily and directly reach parents and kids. Shoppers and sponsors alike realize the power of the mall as an entertainment and learning destination. The scope of the program has exceeded our expectations and we're looking forward to the next 10 years."
"Thousands of children and their parents participate in Kidgits Club activities each year," said Jayne Stilson, SPG's Assistant Vice President of Business Development who helped launch the Kidgits Club and has directed the program since its inception. Stilson continues, "Kidgits Club programming is varied but has always emphasized fun and learning. We've had a great time."
Longview Mall is offering Simon Kidgits Club members a free Peapod Express train ride pass that can be picked up at Guest Services.
For more information about the Simon Kidgits Club, visit Simon.com/Kidgits.
About Simon Property Group
Simon Property Group, Inc. (NYSE:SPG) is an S&P 100 company and the largest real estate company in the world. The Company currently owns or has an interest in 325 retail real estate properties in North America and Asia comprising 242 million square feet. We are headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana and employ approximately 5,500 people in the U.S. For more information, visit the Simon Property Group website at www.simon.com.
About Simon Brand Ventures
Simon Brand Ventures (SBV), Simon's business-to-consumer arm, is pioneering the transformation of shopping centers into a medium where consumer brands can build relationships with Simon shoppers who make over 2.8 billion visits each year. Simon's vast franchise of market-leading shopping centers nationwide provides SBV the foundation to monetize the distribution system through numerous consumer ventures. SBV and its affiliates have engaged in a number of consumer business initiatives, including the Simon Visa Giftcard® and the American Express®/Simon Giftcard; launch of Simon platform programs such as Simon dTour Live® and Simon Kidgits Club®; a national media delivery channel including static, digital and experiential marketing and advertising vehicles; and multiple national and local marketing alliances with Coca-Cola and Visa U.S.A. among others.


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A urinalysis is a test that measures substances found in urine, such as electrolytes, hormones or waste products of metabolism. It is one of the many studies that can be done to examine urine.
Why a urinalysis is done
A urinalysis may be done:
- as part of a routine checkup
- to provide information about a person's general health and how organs of the urinary tract (kidneys, ureters, bladder and urethra) are functioning
- to screen for metabolic and kidney disorders
- to screen for urinary tract infections
- to check for cancer in the urinary tract
- to look for and measure substances that aren't normally found in urine
- cells lining the kidneys and bladder
- red blood cells and white blood cells
- bacteria or other organisms
- substances that the kidneys filter (such as glucose)
How a urinalysis is done
A urinalysis test is usually done in a private laboratory or hospital laboratory. Urine is collected in a clean container (at home, the doctor's office or laboratory). No special preparation is usually needed, unless specific urine studies are also being done. These urine studies may require food restrictions, medication restrictions or fasting overnight.
The method of collecting the urine may vary:
- random sample
- This is the most common type of sample collected.
- It can be done any time of the day.
- first (early) morning sample
- Urine is most concentrated first thing in the morning and is more likely to show abnormalities.
- clean-catch (midstream) urine sample
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- The first bit of the urine goes into the toilet, and then some of the urine is collected in the container.
- The genitals are cleaned before the urine sample is collected.
- timed or 24-hour urine collection
- For a timed sample, urine is collected at a certain time of the day.
- For 24-hour sample, urine is collected over a period of 24 hours.
- All urine voided during a 24-hour period is saved and put into a large container, which sometimes contains special preservatives or needs to be refrigerated.
- At the end of the 24-hour period, the person urinates and adds this last voiding to the specimen container.
- creatinine clearance
- Creatinine is a protein that is removed from the blood by the kidneys.
- This test measures the clearance rate (how quickly creatinine is removed from the blood) to determine how well the kidneys are working.
- Creatinine is measured in both the urine and the blood over a 24-hour period.
The urine sample collected is sent to the laboratory to be analyzed and examined under a microscope.
- Physical characteristics, such as appearance and colour of the urine, are noted, and then a microscopic examination of the urine is done.
- A dipstick (a special reagent strip with chemicals on it) is dipped into the urine, then removed and compared to a chart.
- A series of chemical tests are done.
What the results mean
A complete urinalysis involves visual examination, chemical examination and microscopic examination. Many abnormalities in urine are not cancer-related. Diet, medications, physical activity, stress and many other factors can affect urine study results.
glucose (sugar)
ketones (by-products of metabolism)
bilirubin (a by-product of red blood cell breakdown)
white blood cells (WBCs or leukocytes)
specific gravity
Note: Not all components of urine or urinalysis findings are listed above. Only the main cancer-related ones have been included
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The doctor will decide if more tests, procedures, follow-up care or additional treatment are needed.
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A substance that regulates specific body functions, such as metabolism, growth and reproduction.
Natural hormones are produced by glands. Artificial or synthetic hormones can be made in the lab.
The chemical processes in the body that create and use energy. It includes breaking down food and transforming it into energy, eliminating wastes and toxins, breathing, circulating blood and regulating temperature.
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I absolutely recommend this book to kids from grades 4-6. It might be too hard for kids under fourth grade, but any age would like it.


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For the WWII history buff, this content is fascinating:
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A pair of squash teams with 1-1 records met on the Penn Charter squash courts last Thursday, and it was the lads from the host school who earned their second win of the season, easily overcoming the visiting Gators of Shipley School, 8-1.
Although the final score was lopsided, many individual bouts were hard fought affairs, with no fewer than four of them extending to a full complement of five games.
Coming in, each team had lost to a strong Haverford School squad. Charter balanced that out with a victory against another Inter-Ac League rival, Malvern Prep, while Shipley rang up a "W" against Radnor High School.
Back in the number one spot for PC this winter is Randy Beck, a senior who will attend the U.S. Naval Academy. After winning a close first game, 12-10, over fellow upperclassman Nat Fry of Shipley, Beck carried the next two games more comfortably, 11-5, 11-8.
All of the other returning players for the Quakers have had to move up on the team ladder, due to the graduation of last year's number two man, Alex Reisley (who's on the team at Bowdoin College), and number four Luke Schweitzer (SMU).
Last Thursday, Charter wrapped up three matches in straight games, starting with an 11-5, 11-6, 11-4 victory by senior number five Scott Marcus over Shipley sophomore Ethan Bradlow. Two juniors squared off at number seven, where PC's Noah Hollin handled Justin Hoden, 11-7, 11-6, 11-5, and in the ninth spot sophomore Aidan Porges of the Quakers overcame Shipley senior R.J. Bowman, 11-6, 11-4, 11-8.
Another tilt between 11th-graders occurred in the eighth position, where visitor David Litner went up on PC's Quinn Crofton, 12-10, 8-11, 11-4. Crofton responded with authority, winning the contest with 11-6, 11-3 scores in the next two games.
His brother August, the senior number six for the Quakers, also pulled out a five-game battle, topping Gators freshman Will Field, 3-11, 11-8, 11-6, 9-11, 11-9. After Charter sophomore Owen Davis won his first two games by 11-7 scores, Shipley number four Kevin Staples staved off defeat by scrapping for a 13-11 decision in the third round. Davis downed the visiting senior in the fourth game, 11-5, to take the match.
The lone win of the afternoon for the visiting bunch from Bryn Mawr came in the third spot, where Luke Angelakis (PC co-captain along with Beck) faced a fellow senior, Ian Udvarhelyi. The pair went into extra innings in the third game and fought through five rounds overall, with Udvarhelyi eventually prevailing, 4-11, 11-9, 14-12, 6-11, 11-8.
Although the team victory had long since been decided, PC senior Max Reiff and Gators sophomore Zach Quayle went at it tooth-and-nail at number two. Reiff took the first and third games, 11-6, 11-0, and Quayle answered each time, carrying the second and fourth rounds, 11-8, 11-4.
Quayle got out to a 5-1 advantage in the fifth, but Reiff caught him at 7-7 and from there the score seesawed to 10-10. Quayle's shot into the tin gave the edge to Reiff, who then wrapped up a 12-10 victory by directing a rail down the right wall.


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The 14th annual SIMA Surf Summit kicked off Wednesday evening in San Jose Del Cabo, Mexico, with a keynote speech from SDSI Founder and former professional basketball player Bill Walton, followed by a day of presentations which included a state of the industry address from SIMA President Doug Palladini, revealing the results from SIMA's 2010 Retail Distribution Study.
The study, which is SIMA's fourth biannual in-depth look at the surf and skate retail market, indicates that overall sales in the core retail channel were down 13.5% compared to 2008. The surf and skate market, just looking at the core retail channel, was a $4.6 billion industry in 2010. Footwear made up for $1.5 billion of those sales, increasing 8.2% over 2008, and wetsuit sales also saw an increase of 23.4%. Apparel saw the biggest loss, down 41.1%. Hardgoods sales, although staying relatively flat over the last few years, did see a spike in the SUP category, with sales growing 35%.
On Wednesday, SIMA's Sean Smith moderated a chat with Jeff Yokoyama, founder of Maui & Sons and Pirate Surf, and mastermind behind brands like Stussy, Modern Amusement and Generic Youth. Yokoyama, who spoke about his inspiration behind each of the brands, has recently launched a project called Yoki's Garden, an effort to recycle college uniforms, beach towels and other old clothing and make it into new clothing as a way of "closing the loop" on the life cycle of consumer goods. Giving all of his endeavors what he calls "the warm water" test, Yokoyama says the key to any good brand is when the people behind it are still passionate about what they're doing no matter how long they've been in business. "You have to witness it," he says. "You have to live it. Everyone in this room who has created their own brand has lived it."
Kit Yarrow, consumer psychologist, spoke about how brands can understand and communicate with Generation Y. Amongst the takeaways from her presentation, Yarrow reminds brands to keep their message personal, giving teenagers a sense of belonging to the brand by letting them participate in campaigns via social media outlets, and by "making it faster" when it comes to that communication to cater to shorter attention spans.
Closing the afternoon was a look at The Onion's approach to drawing in an audience through social media from Director of Digital Content Baratunde Thurston. Through a series of specific case studies, Thurston showed how The Onion uses social media to give its event coverage a unique voice and perspective, getting the audience involved through games and driving its community of readers to action when it comes to using Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, Tumblr or any other social media sites.
On day two, the group split up into roundtable discussions on several key issues surrounding retail including rejuvenating the juniors market, product innovation and the value of West Coast trade shows. The conference wrapped up with a closing ceremony on the beach which featured discussions with professional surfers Jamie O'Brien, Mark Healey, and Lisa Andersen, moderated by Martin "Pottz" Potter.
For a look at more photos, visit the gallery on SIMA's Facebook page.


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by John Colgan-Davis
"Don't forget to turn your clock back 50 years before you go to bed tonight."– Quote attributed to former pro football player Warren Sapp in response to the verdict in the George Zimmerman trial.
" Voting is no racial entitlement?"– Letter to Justice Scalia from journalist Melissa Harris-Perry.
I visited the National Constitution Center two weeks ago and saw their current exhibit, "1968: An Extraordinary Year in American History." I was 18 in 1968, so this exhibit has incredible relevance for me. Looking back from the vantage point of 2013, a lot of who I was and who I became can be seen coming into focus and/or being solidified in that year.
I was learning to play music in a serious way at that time, and I was involved in the Civil Rights and Social Justice Movements, took an active role in the anti-Vietnam War movement and expanded my reach in terms of literature and culture. The exhibit looks at a lot of those things, and there were parts of it that were very emotional to me. There were, of course, parts of the exhibit I didn't care about all that much — 1968 fashion and television, for example.
But the cultural and especially the political changes and challenges engaged me and deeply. Touched me. Hearing and seeing a video of Dr. King's "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech and then seeing his funeral and news coverage of the riots following his assassination; watching news coverage of Bobby Kennedy's assassination and funeral procession; hearing interviews with former U.S. soldiers on their experiences during the Tet Offensive and doing so in front of an actual Huey helicopter used in the war, watching the chaos of the 1968 Democratic Convention in Chicago: these things caused me to stop several times and weep.
1968 was a time when U.S. culture went through one of those seismic changes that echo long after the year has passed; it set into motion many things that still affect us today. We now see real blood and hear real language in movies; colleges like Yale finally admitted women; "underground" music such as country soul and blues went mainstream; distinctions based on class became less important. And the politics of the nation were challenged in new and startling ways that affect us to this very day.
This was a time in which different politics went toe-to-toe in the public arena, in political organizing and on the news. The Black Panthers and Black Power movements appeared; radical leftists such as Students for a Democratic Society came into view; the rebirth of the KKK, American Nazi Party and like-minded groups occurred; Ceasar Chavez organized the Farmworkers union; NOW had helped make feminism a household word, and the Communist and Socialist parties were still organizing and running candidates.
In 1968 the sitting President, Lyndon Johnson, decided not to run for re-election due to the turmoil in the country about the Vietnam war, and this led many people from all different perspectives to join the race. There was an anti-war candidate in Eugene McCarthy, a somewhat anti-war candidate in Bobby Kennedy; there was Vice-President Hubert Humphrey, who represented the last of the Roosevelt coalition with an eye toward Civil Rights.
There were other, very different perspectives. There was eventual winner, Richard Nixon, who promised a return to old values and Law and Order. He devised what was later called "A Southern Strategy" to take advantage of much Southern upset over Civil Rights legislation. There was arch segregationist George Wallace, who had once stood in the doorway at the University of Alabama to deny entrance to black students and whose most famous line was "Segregation now, segregation tomorrow, segregation forever."
He won five states outright and captured 46 electoral votes. The 1968 election, then, was monumental, even if it didn't seem so at the time. It was the election that shattered the remains of the Franklin Roosevelt-built coalition that had been in place since the Depression and WWII, leading most notably to the rise of the powerful state conservative movements that have since moved on to the national scene It was the election that set the stage for the gradual emergence of the Libertarians, and the Tea Party.
So in some very important ways, 1968 represented an attempt of much of the U.S. to get past a lot of its early baggage such as government-sanctioned racism and old gender roles. But as so often happens in dynamic societies, change is not necessarily permanent. I took in the exhibit in light of recent events in both U.S. courts and state legislatures. Pennsylvania and 20 other states passed voter ID laws that many acknowledged would make it more difficult for certain groups of voters to register and vote.
So hearing and watching the "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech and knowing the pain, suffering and death that were behind that 1965 Voting Rights Act was a bitter irony indeed. I was watching that speech after legislatures in the U.S. said it is alright to make voting harder for some people in the U.S., and the Supreme Court said that doing so is sanctioned by the highest court in the land.
The verdict in the Zimmerman trial affected me in much the same way. A legislature has decided that it makes perfect sense for to pass a law which says that even if I instigate an action that results in a life threatening situation, I have a right to take another person's life and not be held accountable. (Remember that Zimmerman got out of his car and approached Trayvon Martin AFTER being told by police not to follow Martin.)
What this means is that the gains represented by 1968 will remain in place only as long as citizens actively work to keep them in place. And that social progress exists only to the extent that it is not taken for granted . So we need to be actively involved in the process. We need to register to vote AND help others do so. Rights are not things given to nations. They are gained with struggle, and they are maintained with work and vigilance. And we won't notice them being taken until they are already gone. The "1968" exhibit will run through Sept. 2. at the Constitution Center, 525 Arch St. For more information: 215-409-6600 or constitutioncenter.org.
John Colgan-Davis can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com. He is a Mt. Airy resident, teacher and member of the Dukes of Destiny, a rockin' blues band.


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