nampai :): พฤษภาคม 2012

วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 24 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Billboard Music Awards Winner 2012

Top Artist — Adele

Top Female Artist — Adele

Top Male Artist — Lil Wayne

Billboard Millennium Award — Whitney Houston

Top Touring Artist — U2

Top Country Artist — Lady Antebellum

Top Rock Artist — Coldplay

Top R&B Artist — Chris Brown

Top Pop Artist — Adele

Top Rap Artist — Lil Wayne

Top Alternative Artist — Coldplay

Top Latin Artist — Shakira

Top Christian Artist — Casting Crowns

Top Duo/Group — LMFAO

Hot 100 Song — Party Rock Anthem by LMFAO ft. Lauren Bennett & GoonRock

วันจันทร์ที่ 14 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2555

Mother

A Precious Mother
Mom You've given me so much,
Love from your heart
and the warmth of your touch.
The gift of life and you're a friend to me.
We have a very Special Bond
which only comes from God...
I'm sure you agree.
As a child I would say Mommy I Love You,
Now you're my Mother so dear
I love you even more
with each and every new year.
If I could had chosen,
I would have picked no other.
Than for you...to be my lifelong friend
and Precious Mother.

วันพฤหัสบดีที่ 3 พฤษภาคม พ.ศ. 2555

vegemite

Vegemite is a dark brown Australian food paste made from yeast extract. It is a spread for sandwiches, toast,crumpets and cracker biscuits, and filling for pastries. It is similar to British, New Zealand and South African Marmite, Australian Promite and SwissCenovis and German Hefeextrakt.

Vegemite is made from used brewers' yeast extract, a by-product of beer manufacturing, various vegetables, wheat and spice additives. It is salty, slightly bitter, and umami or malty – similar to beef bouillon. The texture is smooth, and the product is a paste. It is not as intensely flavoured as British Marmite and it is less sweet than the New Zealand version of Marmite.

History
In 1919, prior to the introduction of Vegemite, the Sanitarium Health Food Company in New Zealand began manufacturing and shipping to Australia a version of Vegemite's biggest competitor, Marmite. Vegemite was invented in 1922 by food technologist Cyril P . Callister when, following the disruption of British Marmite imports after World War I, his employer, the Australian company Fred Walker & Co., gave him the task of developing a spread from the used yeast being dumped by breweries. Callister had been hired by the chairman Fred Walker. Vegemite was registered as a trademark in Australia that same year. Callister used autolysis to break down the yeast cells from waste obtained from the Carlton & United brewery. Concentrating the clear liquid extract and blending with salt and celery and onion extracts formed a sticky black paste.
Following a nationwide competition with a prize of £50 (2010:$3,527) to find a name for the new spread, the name "Vegemite" was selected out of a hat by Fred Walker's daughter, Sheilah. Vegemite first appeared on the market in 1923 with advertising emphasising the value of Vegemite to children's health but failed to sell very well. Faced with growing competition from Marmite, from 1928 to 1935 the product was renamed as "Parwill" to make use of the advertising slogan "Marmite but Parwill", a convoluted pun on the new name and that of its competitor; "If Ma [mother] might... then Pa [father] will." This attempt to expand market share was unsuccessful and the name was changed back to Vegemite; but did not recover lost market share.

In 1925, Walker had established the Kraft Walker Cheese Co. as a joint venture company with J.L . Kraf t & Bros to market processed cheese and, following the failure of Parwill, in 1935 he used the success of Kraft Walker Cheese to promote Vegemite. In a two-year campaign to promote sales, Vegemite was given away free with Kraft Walker cheese products via coupon redemption and this was followed by poetry competitions with imported American Pontiac cars being offered as prizes. Sales responded and in 1939 Vegemite was officially endorsed by the British Medical Association as a rich source of B vitamins. Rationed in Australia during World War II, Vegemite was included in Australian Army rations and by the late 1940s was used in nine out of ten Australian homes.

In April 1984, a 115g jar of vegemite became the first product in Australia to be electronically scanned at acheckout.

Vegemite is produced in Australia at Kraft Foods' Port Melbourne manufacturing facility which produces more than 22 million jars per year. Virtually unchanged from Callister's original recipe, Vegemite now far outsells Marmite and other similar spreads in Australia. The billionth jar of Vegemite was produced in October 2008.