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...excitement of the start-up since the day she came to work, her laptop and mobile phone in tow. Her work ethic, she says, comes from her entrepreneurial family and a father who has done everything from construction to property development. Having grown up on a ranch as the youngest of five, she jokes that she was on the family payroll...
...Astronaut Farmer” opens with a shot of a vast swathe of desert, with Charles Farmer (Thornton) surveying his majestic ranch, outfitted in his homemade space suit. We hear Neil Armstrong epoch-defining words: “That’s one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind...
DIED. Joseph Gallo, 87, who broke away from the family wine business to form his own dairy empire, sparking a lifelong battle with his elder brothers, Ernest and Julio, over the use of the Gallo name; in Livingston, Calif. As a ranch manager for his brothers' wineries, he started a dairy in 1979 with 4,000 cows. Though he lost the fight to use the Gallo name, his Joseph Farms company, which encompasses nearly 13,000 acres, is now one of California's biggest makers of cheddar, Colby and other cheeses...
...January he lifted the veil somewhat, releasing a video of the first test flight last November--a cozy affair on his ranch, with a Jumbotron for the spectators, a bouncy castle for the kids and a chuck wagon. The scaled-down prototype flew up 285 ft.--and 30 sec. later landed successfully. "My only job at the launch was to open the champagne, and I broke the cork off in the bottle," he blogged later. (You can almost hear that mad-scientist laugh of his.) "Fortunately, our other valve operations went more smoothly...
...with the flavor of blue-cheese dip. Kettle Krinkle Cut Chips Buffalo Bleu is a thick potato chip that manages to deliver the slight spice of barbecue with a cool, creamy aftertaste. It's impressive, but there's a vinegar taste that gets in the way. Doritos Blazin' Buffalo & Ranch isn't nearly as complicated, but it takes that weird Cool Ranch flavor I never liked, puts it up front and then immediately buries it with a shot of hot sauce. It tastes new and stupid and wonderful...