Florida, though still known worldwide for its oranges and grapefruit, is now home to a small annual peach harvest, as citrus farmers look to diversify or to replace groves ravaged by disease and insects. Amy Simmons was en route to becoming a doctor. Now she's celebrating her 27th year as an ice cream entrepreneur. **"What I like about ice cream** is that it's not just a food," says Amy Simmons, the founder of Austin-based Amy's Ice Creams. "People don't just go to an ice cream store because they're hungry. They go because they're happy or because they want to celebrate or because they're going on a date. It can be a reward. There's something about it that's just bigger than a food." "Ice cream," she says, "is magic." It's also, practically speaking, a very good business--for Simmons, at least. In 2010, the company brought in $6.2 million in revenue throughout its 15 Texas locations. It employs about 200 people, many of whom are part-time high school students. Simmons, a Michigan native who attended college at Tufts University, started the business in 1984 after studying psychology, biology, and taking the pre- med track as an undergrad. On nights and weekends, Simmons worked in Steve's Ice Cream, where, she says, "I always left feeling happy." At 23, Simmons decided to put her career in medicine on hold. She filled out a business plan ... > BEVERLY HILLS, CA -- Anchor Bay Films announced today the acquisition of Katsuhito Ishii's REDLINE with all rights in North America, the U.K. as well as Australia and New Zealand. The film will be released under Anchor Bay's Manga brand this fall. Written by Katsuhito Ishii (director of _The Taste of Tea_, _Funky Forest_, _Shark Skin Man _& _Peach Hip Girl _and the anime segment of _Kill Bill Vol. 1_) and directed by the up-and-coming Takeshi Koike, who participated in the "World Record" segment of Animatrix (2003), REDLINE was seven years in the making and proudly demonstrates the new possibilities of 2D animation, amidst the current prominence of 3D animation. Bill Clark, President of Anchor Bay Entertainment, made the announcement. Additionally, REDLINE has received rave reviews even from those admittedly not anime fans. From its premiere at Fantastic Fest, Harry Knowles said "REDLINE should not be missed, everyone came out smiling and happy. FANTASTIC!" He called it the "…coolest Speed Racer ever…and that counts the Wachowski film." AnimeNewsNetwork.com called it "… the most insanely exciting, visually exhilarating anime film you've seen in decades. Incredible fun!" REDLINE is a racing film created by studio Madhouse (Paprika, ... They called me the Round Mound of Puget Sound Durantula know I'm the baddest white man around. I'm the white on your rice, the crimp in your stylo, the fuzz on ya peach, the wax on ya 'cumba the foil to yo best laid plans. I'm 6-feet-9-inches of emeffin' shutdown. King Kong [...] ABC News' Arlette Saenz reports: Newt Gingrich returned home to Georgia Friday night to deliver his first major speech as an official presidential candidate. Gingrich, who served as a representative from the Peach State for 20 years, headlined the Georgia... Britney Spears serves her own 'homemade sweet tea' in peach and lemon flavors for the star-studded crowd which also include Hilary Duff. About 1,000 new daylilies are registered every year. It's obviously not easy to come up with names for all of them. You could have a garden growing 142 daylies with some variation of the name 'plum' or 314 with 'peach.' The race for the Republican presidential nomination will have a decidedly Georgia flavor as former Congressman Newt Gingrich on Wednesday became the second candidate with serious Peach State credentials to enter the race. Gisele Bundchen's svelte figure gets a bit of Photoshopping, but not the way you think... It seems even fully dressed, the supermodel's sexy frame still makes waves. Gisele's ad campaign for H&M, featuring the model in a peach jumpsuit as well as a floral maxi dress, underwent a makeover for its Dubai debut. Paul Winter Consort Miho, Journey to the Mountain (Living Music LMU-42, 2010) Renowned saxophonist and composer Paul Winter has the ability of recruiting some of the world's finest musicians in his numerous projects. Miho, Journey to the Mountain is no exception. For this occasion The Paul Winter Consort includes Paul Winter on soprano sax; Armenian [...] Researchers have found that feeding infants twice a day on the shop-bought baby foods can increase their exposure to arsenic by up to fifty times. In Britain, officials are conducting an urgent review to establish new limits for the long term exposure of toxic metals in food. Exposure to other toxic metals, such as cadmium, which is known to cause neurological and kidney damage, increased by up to 150 times in some of the foods tested. Young infants are thought to be particularly vulnerable to these substances. According to the Telegraph: _"Experts now believe there are no safe limits for arsenic and manufacturers should be making more efforts to remove it from their food ... Among the baby foods found to contain elevated levels of arsenic, cadmium and lead in the tests by the researchers was Organix First Organic Whole Grain Baby Rice ... HiPP Organic Peach and Banana Breakfast porridge ... [and] Holle Organic Rice Porridge"._ I'm never quite sure about these things, but my first impression is that we should be happy with the news that Philadelphia's Tasty Baking Co. will be purchased by Flowers Foods of Georgia. Flowers says it will assume Tasty's indebtedness,... Kevin Mazur/WireImage; Jon Kopaloff/FilmMagic; Jason Kempin/Getty When it comes to color, less is more. Or at least that was the case Tuesday evening, when Hollywood's leading ladies stepped out wearing different versions of nude-toned dresses. Gwyneth Paltrow showed that neutral doesn't have to be boring when she took the stage at Good Housekeeping's Shine [...] The Wall Street Journal profiles flavorist Marie Wright, who has created more than 1,000 flavors for major food companies, including "bourbon vanilla for coffee beans, apple-peach for cookies and rosemary and garlic for crackers." Alan Smith: After Lionel Messi netted a perfect individual strike, Pedro's peach was the ultimate team goal. The complete genome sequence of the woodland strawberry will allow researchers to conduct comparative genomics to investigate similarities and/or differences between strawberry and apple or strawberry and peach and other more complex fruits in the same family. Photos of a Samsung phone that's rumoured to be the Galaxy S Mini have leaked like a mouldy peach. We'll never get that stain out. Get your thrill on in New Zealand where a sense of adventure seems to be imprinted into the locals' DNA. Try one of these five epic adventures in New Zealand, like heli-hiking or canyon swinging, to really get your adrenalin pumping. [Go Backpacking] Weelicious.com's Catherine McCord shows TODAY's Al Roker how to cook up blueberry cream cheese French toast and a strawberry peach smoothie -- an easy and delicious meal for Mother's Day. (TODAY)
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Tuesday, May 24, 2011
Peaches cropping up in Florida Giving Us a Sweet Break From Stressful World Anchor Bay Films Acquires 'Redline' Sports Casualties The Baddest White Boy On Planet Newt Goes Back Home to Georgia as Presidential Candidate Selena Gomez and Kim Kardashian Attending Britney's Charity Dinner Daylilies are wonderful flowers but oh their names Gingrich makes bid for House official Gisele Bundchen Censored In Dubai Inspiration Heavily Realm Arsenic Toxic Metals Found Baby Foods Best Five Tastykakes 24 Hour Trend Alert NudeToned Dresses A Literal Tastemaker Alan Smith Barcelona's daring attitude against Real Madrid reaps beautiful Champions League results Simpler woodland strawberry genome aids research on more complex fruits Samsung Galaxy S Mini photos leaked Radar E
