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Bill Veeck | |
Veeck in 1944 as he recuperated from his World War II injuries. | |
Born | Chicago, Illinois | February 9, 1914
Died | January 2, 1986 Maryland | (aged 71)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | baseball executive |
Known for | principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox |
Bill Veeck | |
Veeck in 1944 as he recuperated from his World War II injuries. | |
Born | Chicago, Illinois | February 9, 1914
Died | January 2, 1986 Maryland | (aged 71)
Nationality | American |
Occupation | baseball executive |
Known for | principal owner of the Milwaukee Brewers, Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns, Chicago White Sox |
William Louis "Bill" Veeck, Jr. (/ˈvɛk/; February 9, 1914 – January 2, 1986), also known as "Sport Shirt Bill", was a native of Chicago, Illinois, and a franchise owner and promoter in Major League Baseball. Veeck was at various times the owner of the Cleveland Indians, St. Louis Browns and Chicago White Sox. As owner and team president of the Indians in 1947, Veeck signed Larry Doby and thus successfully integrated the American League. Veeck was the last owner to purchase a baseball franchise without an independent fortune, and is responsible for many innovations and contributions to baseball.[1]
Finding it hard to financially compete, Veeck retired after the 1980 Chicago White Sox season. He died of cancer six years later. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame five years later in 1991.
Bill Veeck was born on February 9, 1914, in Chicago, Illinois. While Veeck was growing up in Hinsdale, Illinois, his father, William Veeck, Sr., became president of the Chicago Cubs. Veeck Sr. was a local sports writer who wrote several columns about how he would have run the Cubs differently, and the team's owner, William Wrigley Jr., took him up on it. While growing up, Bill Veeck worked as a popcorn vendor for the Cubs. At age 13, Veeck came up with the idea of planting ivy on the walls of Wrigley Field.[2] (Bill Veeck Jr. was 23 years old when the ivy was planted). Veeck attended Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts. In 1933, when his father died, Veeck left Kenyon College and eventually became club treasurer for the Cubs. In 1935 he married his first wife, Eleanor.[3]
In 1941, Veeck left Chicago and, in partnership with former Cubs star and manager Charlie Grimm, purchased the American Association Triple-A Milwaukee Brewers. After winning three pennants in five years Veeck sold his Milwaukee franchise in 1945 for a $275,000 profit.[4]
According to his autobiography Veeck – As in Wreck, Veeck claimed to have installed a screen to make the right field target a little more difficult for left-handed pull hitters of the opposing team. The screen was on wheels, so any given day it might be in place or not, depending on the batting strength of the opposing team. There was no rule against that activity as such, but Veeck then took it to an extreme, rolling it out when the opponents batted, and pulling it back when the Brewers batted. Veeck reported that the league passed a rule against it the very next day. However, extensive research by two members of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) suggests that this story was made up by Veeck. The two researchers could not find any references to a moveable fence or any reference to the gear required for a moveable fence to work.[5]
While a half-owner of the Brewers, Veeck served for nearly three years in the United States Marine Corps during World War II in an artillery unit. During this time a recoiling artillery piece crushed his leg, requiring amputation first of the foot, and shortly after of the leg above the knee. Over the course of his life he had 36 operations on the leg.[1] He had a series of wooden legs and, as an inveterate smoker, cut holes in them to use as an ashtray.
Veeck had been a fan of the Negro Leagues since his early teens. He had also admired Abe Saperstein's Harlem Globetrotters basketball team, which was based in Chicago. Saperstein saved Veeck from financial disaster early on in Milwaukee by giving him the right to promote the Globetrotters in the upper Midwest in the winter of 1941-42.
In the fall of 1942, Veeck met with Gerry Nugent, president of the Philadelphia Phillies, to discuss the possibility of buying the struggling National League team. He later wrote in his memoirs that he intended to buy the Phillies and stock the team's roster with stars from the Negro Leagues. Veeck quickly secured financing to buy the Phillies, and agreed in principle to buy the team from Nugent. While on his way to Philadelphia to close on the purchase, Veeck decided to alert MLB Commissioner Kenesaw Mountain Landis of his intentions. Although Veeck knew Landis was an ardent segregationist, he did not believe Landis would dare say black players were unwelcome while blacks were fighting in World War II. By the time he arrived in Philadelphia, Veeck discovered the Phillies had been officially taken over by the National League and that a new owner was being sought (the Phillies were ultimately sold to lumber baron William D. Cox).
The authors of a controversial article in the 1998 issue of SABR's The National Pastime argued that Veeck invented the story of buying the Phillies and filling their roster with Negro leaguers, claiming Philadelphia's black press made no mention of a prospective sale to Veeck. Subsequently, the article was strongly challenged by the late historian Jules Tygiel, who refuted it point-by-point in an article in the 2006 issue of SABR's The Baseball Research Journal,[6] and in an appendix, entitled "Did Bill Veeck Lie About His Plan to Purchase the '43 Phillies?," published in Paul Dickson's biography, Bill Veeck: Baseball's Greatest Maverick.[7] Joseph Thomas Moore wrote in his biography of Doby, "Bill Veeck planned to buy the Philadelphia Phillies with the as yet unannounced intention of breaking that color line."[8]
In 1946, Veeck became the owner of a major league team, the Cleveland Indians. He immediately put the team's games on radio. He also moved the team to Cleveland Municipal Stadium permanently in 1947. The team had split their games between the larger Municipal Stadium and the smaller League Park since the 1930s, but Veeck concluded that League Park was far too small to be viable.[9]
In July of that year he signed Larry Doby, the first black player to play in the American League.[10] Doby's first game was on July 5 and before the game, Doby was introduced to his teammates by player-manager Lou Boudreau. "One by one, Lou introduced me to each player. 'This is Joe Gordon,' and Gordon put his hand out. 'This is Bob Lemon,' and Lemon put his hand out. 'This is Jim Hegan,' and Hegan put his hand out. All the guys put their hand out, all but three. As soon as he could, Bill Veeck got rid of those three," Doby said.[11] The following year later Veeck signed Satchel Paige to a contract, making the hurler the oldest rookie in major league history.[12][13]
As in Milwaukee, Veeck took a unique approach to promotions, hiring Max Patkin, the "Clown Prince of Baseball", as a coach. Patkin's appearance in the coaching box delighted fans and infuriated the front office of the American League.[14]
Although Veeck had become extremely popular, an attempt in 1947 to trade Boudreau to the St. Louis Browns led to mass protests and petitions supporting Boudreau. Veeck, in response, said he would listen to the fans, and re-signed Boudreau to a new two-year contract.[15]
By 1948, led by Boudreau's .355 batting average, Cleveland won its first pennant and World Series since 1920.[16] Famously, the following season Veeck buried the 1948 flag, once it became obvious the team could not repeat its championship in 1949. Later that year, Veeck's first wife divorced him. Most of his money was tied up in the Indians, so he was forced to sell the team to fund the divorce settlement.[17] One year later, Veeck married his second wife Mary Frances Ackerman in 1950. He had met her the previous year while in Cleveland.[18]
After marrying Mary Frances Ackerman, Veeck bought an 80 percent stake in the St. Louis Browns in 1951.[19] Hoping to force the NL's St. Louis Cardinals out of town, Veeck hired Cardinal greats Rogers Hornsby and Marty Marion as managers, and Dizzy Dean as an announcer; and he decorated their shared home park, Sportsman's Park, exclusively with Browns memorabilia.[1] Ironically the Cardinals had been the Browns' tenants since 1920, even though they had long since passed the Browns as St. Louis' favorite team. Nonetheless, Veeck made a concerted effort to drive the Cardinals out of town.
Some of Veeck's most memorable publicity stunts occurred during his tenure with the Browns, including the appearance on August 19, 1951, by little person Eddie Gaedel. Veeck sent Gaedel to pinch hit in the bottom of the first of the game. Wearing elf like shoes and "1/8" as his uniform number, Gaedel was walked on four straight pitches and then was pulled for a pinch runner.[20] Shortly afterwards "Grandstand Manager's Day" – involving Veeck, Connie Mack, and thousands of regular fans, enabled the crowd to vote on various in-game strategic decisions by holding up placards: the Browns won, 5–3, snapping a four-game losing streak.[21]
After the 1952 season, Veeck suggested that the American League clubs share radio and television revenue with visiting clubs. Outvoted, he refused to allow the Browns' opponents to broadcast games played against his team on the road. The league responded by eliminating the lucrative Friday night games in St. Louis. A year later, Cardinals owner Fred Saigh was convicted of tax evasion. Facing certain banishment from baseball, he was forced to put the Cardinals up for sale. Most of the bids came from out-of-town interests, and it appeared that Veeck would succeed in driving the Cardinals out of town. However, Saigh accepted a much lower bid from St. Louis-based brewing giant Anheuser-Busch, who entered the picture with the specific intent of keeping the Cardinals in town.[21] Veeck quickly realized that the Cardinals now had more resources than he could even begin to match, especially since he had no other source of income. Reluctantly, he decided to leave St. Louis and find another place to play. As a preliminary step, he sold Sportsman's Park to the Cardinals.[22] Veeck would have probably had to sell it in any event; the 44-year old park was in a poor state of repair, and even with the rent from the Cardinals he did not have the money to bring it up to code.
At first Veeck considered moving the Browns back to Milwaukee (where they had played their inaugural season in 1901). Milwaukee used recently built Milwaukee County Stadium in an attempt to entice the Browns. However, the decision was in the hands of the Boston Braves, the parent team of the Brewers. Under major league rules of the time, the Braves held the major league rights to Milwaukee. The Braves wanted another team with the same talent if the Brewers were shut down, and an agreement was not made in time for opening day. Ironically, a few weeks later, the Braves themselves moved to Milwaukee.[23] St. Louis was known to want the team to stay, so some in St. Louis campaigned for the removal of Veeck.[24] He then got in touch with a group that was looking to bring a Major League franchise to Baltimore. After the 1953 season, Veeck agreed in principle to sell half his stock to Baltimore attorney Clarence Miles, the leader of the Baltimore group, and his other partners. He would have remained the principal owner, with approximately a 40 percent interest. Even though league president Will Harridge told him approval was certain, only four owners—two short of the necessary six for passage—supported it. Realizing that the other owners simply wanted him out of the picture (indeed, he was facing threats of having his franchise canceled), Veeck agreed to sell his entire stake to Miles' group, who then moved the Browns to Baltimore as the Orioles.[25]
In 1959, Veeck became head of a group that purchased a controlling interest in the Chicago White Sox, who went on to win their first pennant in 40 years.[26][27] That year the White Sox broke a team attendance record for home games with 1.4 million. The next year the team broke the same record with 1.6 million visitors to Comiskey Park with the addition of the first "exploding scoreboard" in the major leagues – producing electrical and sound effects, and shooting fireworks whenever the White Sox hit a home run, and also began adding players' surnames on the back of their uniform, a practice now standard by 25 of 30 clubs on all jerseys, and by three more clubs on road jerseys.[1] He also installed an electric blower to blow the dirt off home plate, and a mechanical box with fresh baseballs that would rise from underground. Both were operated by the umpire with foot switches.
One year later in 1960, Veeck and former Detroit Tigers great Hank Greenberg, his partner with the Indians and White Sox, reportedly made a strong bid for the American League expansion franchise in Los Angeles, California, with Veeck as a minority partner.[28] However Los Angeles Dodgers owner Walter O'Malley was not willing to compete with a team owned by Veeck, even if he would only be a minority partner. When O'Malley heard of the deal he brought it to a halt by invoking his exclusive right to operate a major league team in Southern California. Rather than persuade his friend to back out, Greenberg abandoned his bid for what became the Los Angeles Angels.[28]
In 1961, due to poor health, Veeck sold his share of the team to John and Arthur Allyn for $2.5 million.[29] After selling the White Sox, Veeck spent a short time working as a television commentator.[30] When his health improved, Veeck made an unsuccessful attempt to buy the Washington Senators, then operated the Suffolk Downs race track in Boston in 1969–70. Veeck was not heard from again in baseball circles until 1975, when he repurchased the White Sox from John Allyn (sole owner since 1969).[1] Veeck's return rankled baseball's owner establishment, most of the old guard viewing him as a pariah after both exposing most of his peers in his 1961 book Veeck As In Wreck. However, he was the only potential buyer willing to keep the White Sox in Chicago after an offer was made to buy the team and move it to Seattle.
Almost immediately after taking control of the Sox for a second time Veeck unleashed another publicity stunt designed to irritate his fellow owners. He and general manager Roland Hemond conducted four trades in a hotel lobby, in full view of the public. Two weeks later, however, arbitrator Peter Seitz's ruling struck down the reserve clause and ushered in the era of free agency. Veeck's power as an owner began to wane relative to richer owners. Ironically Veeck had been the only baseball owner to testify in support of Curt Flood during his famous court case, at which Flood had attempted to gain free agency after being traded to the Philadelphia Phillies.[1]
Veeck presented a Bicentennial-themed "Spirit of '76" parade on Opening Day in 1976, casting himself as the peg-legged fifer bringing up the rear.[1] In the same year he reactivated Minnie Miñoso for eight at-bats, in order to give Miñoso a claim towards playing in four decades; he did so again in 1980, to expand the claim to five.[31] He also had the team play in shorts for one contest.
In an attempt to adapt to free agency he developed a "rent-a-player" model, centering on the acquisition of other clubs' stars in their option years. The gambit was moderately successful: in 1977 the White Sox won 90 games, and finished third with additions Oscar Gamble and Richie Zisk.[32]
During this last run Veeck decided to have announcer Harry Caray sing "Take Me Out to the Ball Game" during the seventh-inning stretch. Veeck asked Caray to sing for the entire park, and he refused. Veeck replied that he already had a recording, and he would be heard either way. Caray reluctantly agreed to sing it live, and went on to become famous for singing the tune.[33]
The 1979 season was filled with more promotions. On April 10 he offered fans free admission the day after a 10–2 Opening Day defeat by the Toronto Blue Jays. On July 12, Veeck, with assistance from son Mike and radio host Steve Dahl, held one of his most infamous promotion nights, Disco Demolition Night, which resulted in a riot at Comiskey Park and a forfeit to the visiting Detroit Tigers.[34]
Finding himself no longer able to financially compete in the free agent era, Veeck sold the White Sox in January 1981. He retired to his home in St. Michaels, Maryland, where he had earlier discovered White Sox star Harold Baines while Baines was in high school there.
Although he never owned the Cubs, Veeck spent his last years as a frequent visitor of Wrigley Field, becoming a fan of the team he grew up with.[2] Veeck had been a heavy smoker and drinker until 1980. In 1984 Veeck underwent two operations for lung cancer.[4] Two years later he died at the age of 71 from cancer.[1] He was elected five years later to the Baseball Hall of Fame.[35]
When he died Veeck was survived by eight children. From his first marriage he had two children, Peter and Ellen. With his second wife, Mary Frances, he fathered six more children.[36]
Veeck wrote three autobiographical works, each a collaboration with journalist Ed Linn:
Gordon C. Bennett has written a one-man show with power point illustrations, "VEECK!", or "Baseball's Eminent Impresario."


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This is interesting, but being a fan of Brahms, I want more details:
Orchestra brawl: Fistfight in elite seats stuns symphony patrons
So exactly what part of the 2nd movement did this happen during? The music evolves through a remarkably wide range of moods, from ethereal to agitated to apocalyptic. Only an utter clod could start a fistfight during the opening theme of that movement. Later on, though, it could actually have been pretty well synchronized with the music. But the article suggests that the fight broke out during a quiet episode.
I wonder what classical music would be most likely to provoke/inspire/accompany fistfights? There actually are a lot of pugilistic moments in the Brahms symphonies.


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How In The World Did We Find This Place?
Nov. 20, 2012, Los Islotes, Panama: Construction at Los Islotes, on the western coast of Panama's Azuero Peninsula, will commence January 2013.
Dear Live and Invest Overseas Reader,
"How did you all ever find this place?" wondered the attendees from last week's Offshore Summit who Lief and I escorted on an overnight visit to Los Islotes last weekend.
Fair question. Los Islotes isn't on the way to anywhere.
Five years ago, Lief and a friend, David Stubbs, spent more than a year scouting Panama's Azuero Peninsula. They'd identified this region as the logical path of progress in this country. So they traveled up and down Auzero's east coast, looking at Las Tablas, Pedasi, Chitre, Pocri... Then they traveled up and down Azuero's west coast, exploring the shores around Mariato, Torrio, Arenas, Quebro... A few things became clear.
First, the western coast of the Auzero Peninsula has what Lief and David perceived as a geographic advantage over the eastern coast: It's hillier, making for dramatic and ever-changing views of the Pacific Ocean from almost any point.
Second, from this side of the peninsula, you can watch the sun set over the water each night.
The third thing that Lief and David recognized years ago when they started paying attention was that Azuero's western coast was also decidedly less developed than its eastern coast. Less developed means more potential.
Several more months of focused scouting along the stretch of Azuero's western coast that Lief and David agreed was the most naturally beautiful led them to the cattle ranch called Los Islotes. They were wowed and invited me on a return visit. I agreed. These 300 hectares had everything we'd been looking for—a long stretch of beachfront...hilly terrain along the coast, meaning almost every point on the property has a water view...mountains in the near-distance on the backside, meaning more views...a protected cove for swimming and, a little farther along the beach, frothier waters, great for surfing...plus three little islands just offshore, one of which you can walk to via a land bridge at low tide.
Standing on the beach at Los Islotes this past weekend with the group from the conference, I remembered those early days and all the twists and turns we've navigated since. Surveys, inspections, environmental reviews, water analysis, approvals, permissions...then more reviews, approvals, permissions...then, oh, wait...more reviews, approvals, permissions...until, finally, just this month, the last of 17 required stamps, meaning we're finally, at long last, we're assured, once and for all, fully compliant. Good to go.
Standing on the beach with our group of 18 last weekend, I looked up and down the long coast in both directions and couldn't help but smile. Things are about to get interesting.
We've got the stamps. We've got the master plan. We've lined up the equipment and the crews. Our architect is finalizing the drawings for the first houses. Our project manager Gary is chomping at the bit.
As soon as it stops raining, Gary and his guys will begin moving dirt.
Lief and I have been imagining what we'd like to create at Los Islotes for a long time. Now we're in a position to get to it.
Construction of the first houses will commence in January 2013.
And I can't wait.
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More petrol price pain for motorists
PUBLISHED: 13 Aug 2012 17:24:00 | UPDATED: 13 Aug 2012 17:30:58PRINT EDITION: 13 Aug 2012
Motorists should budget for even higher petrol prices over the next couple of weeks as regional prices continue to rise against the backdrop of improved global investor sentiment and continuing tensions in the Middle East, Commonwealth Securities (CommSec) says.
The Australian Institute of Petroleum, in its weekly report, said the national average price for unleaded petrol rose 2.7¢ a litre in the past week to 140.3¢.
The metropolitan average rose by 3.7¢ a litre to 139.9¢, while the regional average rose by 0.7¢ to 141.3¢.
"Unfortunately for motorists there are further increases to come," CommSec economist Savanth Sebastian said in a client note on Monday.
"Not only have pump prices risen sharply over the last month but further gains are likely."
He said the benchmark Singapore unleaded price had risen by a staggering $A29 in the past seven weeks to a three-month high, with almost half the gain having been in the past fortnight.
"The sharp rise in regional prices should filter through to wholesale prices and then through to dearer fuel prices over the next fortnight," he said, adding he expected another 3-4 cents a litre increase in that period.
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The Great Typo Hunt
(Read article summary)An interview with the men who spent two and a half months on a cross-country mission to eliminate typos.
They're irritating, pop up everywhere, and we've all made them. They are typos.
And unless you were unfortunate enough to spell "SHCOOL" in giant white letters, as did a road crew in North Carolina last week, or neglected to doublecheck your resume before you hit send, probably the mistake didn't wreck your day.
But two authors, Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson, set off on a cross-country mission to wipe out as many misspellings and unfortunately positioned commas as they could in 2-1/2 months. Armed with a handy Correction Kit – including an array of Sharpies, chalk, and the "elixir of correction" (Wite-Out) – they spotted 437 typos and were able to fix 236 of them. (The corrections kit was not stocked with neon tubing, for one thing, and in other cases, people were adamant about letting the mistakes stand.)
The most frequent typos they ran into were misplaced apostrophes dangling erratically all over the American landscape, but there was no region of the country more error-prone than another. They found typos at museums – the Cartoon Art Museum in San Franscisco had so many that the artists' bios at times were reduced to gibberish – and churches ("Frances of Assissi" is apparently a little-known Spanish variant of the saint's name, or so a tour guide would have them believe). They even found typos at the Grand Canyon.
While their grammarian mission might seem like the most mild-mannered and quixotic of quests, Deck and Herson were argued with, lied to, asked to leave stores, and prosecuted by the US Park Service.
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A Review Of The Samsung Galaxy S5
Today I am going to review one of the most important smartphones of 2014 – the Samsung Galaxy S5. The Galaxy S5 is the latest flagship device of the Galaxy S series and it was just launched at Mobile World Congress in Barcelona.
Display & Design
The Samsung Galaxy S5 is quite similar in design to the Galaxy S4, it has a very similar design language with rounded corners and a metal trim alongside. The only major difference in design and hardware is actually on the back.
The back features a soft touch finish with a dimple patter, it really feels a lot nicer than Samsung's older glossy finishes, it feels very similar to the Note 3 without the leather looks but otherwise it feels pretty much like the Galaxy S4 in your hand.
The phone comes in with a 5.1 inch display with a capacitive button for multitasking and a new fingerprint scanning home button on the front. You can still take the back cover off to access the battery and the SIM card slot.This is definitely a Samsung phone as it has got all of Samsung's apps and helpers and things like that.
Hardware & Software
On the back of the device you can find a 16 megapixel camera, a LED flash and a new heart rate sensor that uses your fingertip to measure your heart rate. The phone has a micro SD card as well and a 2100 mAh battery that Samsung says gets 20% better battery life than the Galaxy S4.
Inside the Galaxy S5 is a quad core processor clocked at 2.5 GHz and 2GB of RAM, this is what makes the phone really fast and responsive. There is actually no lag that I can particularly see, the interface is definitely very familiar to Samsung users even if there are some slight differences.
For example, if you swipe over the home screen you can access the My Magazine feature which was available with a swipe-up in the Note 3 but otherwise it is a pretty standard home screen. The settings menu and the tabs are gone for a more icon based approach and it is running Android 4.4.2.
The great thing is that S-health has been greatly improved in addition to the heart rate sensor on the back. It has a new exercise coach and pedometer and it has the ability to be expanded with third party apps that can tap into that Samsung feature that they will release soon.
The heart rate sensor uses the sensor near the LED on the back and in order to use it you just need to place your fingertip on it and it will give you a reading for your heart rate in about 5 to 10 seconds.
Samsung is going to be releasing the Galaxy S5 in a variety of different colored backs, there is blue, black gold and white so depending on which market it will be released the color will be available but in the U.S. they are going to launch the Black and White model.
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How does Facebook gain financially from WhatsApp?
How does Facebook gain financially from WhatsApp?
With more than 450 million active users and million people seen signing up over WhatsApp, Facebook has simply stepped a big steps towards making loads of profits from the recent deal of 19 billion dollars. The historical deal that worked out between the owners of WhatsApp and Facebook has simply added an edge to this giant social media site in getting the most acclaimed and popular international mobile messaging services. The company CEO Mark Zuckerberg has the plans to operate WhatsApp independently rather than merging it with the giant social media site. Well, let's check how Facebook has gained financially by acquiring this popular international mobile messaging service as under:
What is WhatsApp?
Well before you dig deep into the moot topic, let's understand WhatsApp. Well, it is a messaging service, which is very much popular in Latin America, Europe and India. The users get free of cost messaging service, which help them to interact with their friends and known people all across the world that uses the same platform. You have the options to share, text, pictures and videos, which is carried out in fraction of seconds and that too at no cost. It came into being in the year 2009 and has presently more than 450 million active users and as per the Valley venture company called Sequoia Capital; half of the users were seen joining this service in the past nine months. In a sense, it has a much faster growing platform in terms of users as compared to the Facebook. This will certainly, going to benefit Facebook financially a lot. The experts visualize seeing one billion users in the one or two years, which the Facebook took ten long years to achieve.
What is there for the Facebook?
This is one of the most obvious questions, which people are seen posing all across the world. So, how Facebook is going to benefit (financially) by investing a whopping amount of 19 billion dollars for this historic deal, is an important question to answer. The fact is, Facebook is supposed to gain from this deal in many ways. As per reports, a sizeable amount of teen population, which has drifted from Facebook to the messaging services like WhatsApp is back to Facebook. Thus the crisis for teen demographics, Facebook has been facing will be resolved to a great extent. One of the fastest growing markets, which Facebook was seen lagging behind, would be accomplished with this deal.
If you look at the third quarterly report of Facebook of 2013, the chief financial officer David Ebersman, was seen a bit concerned about the slower earning in this period especially the younger teens. The decline of popularity of Facebook amongst the teens was the major worry of the company heads, however, with incredible deal; the lost crowd is more likely to return to Facebook family.
With this deal FB is at the top in Mobile messaging
With the acquisition of WhatsApp, Facebook is certainly going to be the number one player in mobile messaging service, which was one of the vital markets, in which the giant of social media was seen lagging behind. With two failed efforts of Facebook to acquire the photo messaging application called Snapchat and the poor performance of company's own messaging application called Facebook Messenger (launched in the year 2011) was one of the biggest worry, which was addressed by this deal to a great extent.
With this deal, Facebook will now get a massive database of users all across the world, and more data is more money for the company. This will multiply the opportunities in order to understand the mobile messaging customers and this new format of communication by Facebook. Thus the company would be able to leverage the most by this mobile channel, which Facebook was seen lagging behind at. If you look at the users of WhatsApp, a sizeable amount of its users hail from developing countries, which again the Facebook was seen lagging behind. In a sense, this deal has simply accelerated the amount of people drastically.
Wrapping up
Interestingly, Facebook – the giant in social media was seen struggling in certain areas. This is due to a specific crowd, which was ironically seen big in number of WhatsApp. Hence with this deal, the flaws within Facebook seems to be diminishing, which means the company is all set to make huge money from this historic acquisition. Let's wait and watch!
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Does Wikipedia Need A Facelift?
Virtually everyone loves Wikipedia for what it has to offer. It is a gigantic resource that can be used by students, academics, and even doctors to help provide valuable information on perhaps the widest range of topics ever compiled. It is filled with millions of articles, images, and pieces of information in over 280 different languages. It's also home to around 75,000 dedicated editors who are all a part of a wide ranging community that tries to keep Wikipedia as reliable and helpful as possible. With all these plaudits and accolades, you might think that Wikipedia is free from criticism. Of course, one of the major criticisms against Wikipedia is its design.
Since it was created in 2001, Wikipedia has largely stuck with the familiar white and black color scheme and utilitarian formatting. If you have ever used Wikipedia for anything, then you are probably familiar with the design. There's nothing really flashy about it, and it's certainly not winning any graphic design contests, but the design is functional. Over the years, it's received minor facelifts, but nothing that has been particularly noteworthy.
Wikipedia has also received a number of different proposals for redesign over the years. As one of the most popular websites on the internet, Wikipedia has stayed surprisingly true to its design form. For anyone looking for no-nonsense information, Wikipedia is ideal. But, for creative types, the website can be almost unreadable. Blocks of text aren't spaced out well, there is too much white space, and the typography in general is out of date. But, again, this is a website with some of the highest traffic rates on the web. Another top-ten website, Yahoo, has seen innumerable changes since it was first unveiled in the 90's. In fact, the original Yahoo website is almost unrecognizable by comparison.
So, what's the deal with Wikipedia? For starters, many people at Wikipedia sort of work off the philosophy of, "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." For the most part, this rings true. Although Wikipedia can, at times, be difficult to read, it still gets the job done quite well (especially considering it's got over 30 million pages to deal with). Another reason that Wikipedia has yet to update or streamline its look is because most redesign proposals don't take into account the complex infrastructure of the Wikipedia community and Wikipedia editing in general. Most redesigns focus purely on the aesthetic aspects of the site on not the functional ones.
There is even an official discussion page on Wikipedia titled "Unsolicited redesigns." This is a place to lay out the rules for redesigns and talk about why they may or may not be feasible. One of the newest redesign proposals comes from a Swedish design studio called "1910." The design looks very similar to the current Wikipedia, but it utilizes white space more, separates blocks of text, enlarges images, and effectively makes the website more readable as a whole.
Of course, if we're just talking about aesthetics, most redesign proposals look nicer than the current Wikipedia design. For the most part, however, redesign proposals are largely put on the back burner. It does not look like Wikipedia is going to make a large-scale redesign any time soon, so you might as well get used to the utilitarian functionality of the site.
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Three Things BlackBerry Has to do to recreate its Former Success
BlackBerry hasn't had a good few years, seeing their stocks plummet, their technology fail and their sales diminish. Nobody sees BlackBerry as a 'go to' brand like they used to, but we've come up with three ways the company could reclaim that former success.
Fix the design
Does a BlackBerry phone have a physical QWERTY phone or not? The company has flipped the keyboard design on and off like a light switch over the past year and the result has been far from successful.
There are very few phones being released which actually have a physical keyboard. Is that a sign of the times? We think so, and BlackBerry isn't letting the age of the QWERTY keyboard pass, and it is paying for it.
The Canadian company needs to focus on releasing a range of phones with a responsive and vivid touch screen that is reliable. Even with the latest releases, we've been given touch screens which aren't as responsive as other manufacturers, and that flaw is driving people away.
To put it simply, BlackBerry needs to fix the design issues, if it doesn't, it's unlikely that the firm will exist this time next year.
Change its Audience
Another thing BlackBerry could do is change its audience. For the past few years BlackBerry has been targeting younger audiences, losing track of where its original success was found: in the business sector.
Instead of trying to focus on the teenage audience, why doesn't BlackBerry head back to basics and become the business phone manufacturer on the market.
When business people are looking for a new handset, you won't see them hunting around for the best phone deals, instead, they will know to head straight for a BlackBerry. This is the ideal situation for BlackBerry and what it should be striving to secure.
Sort out the OS
If your own system doesn't run well, it's unlikely people will buy your phone, simple as that. The BlackBerry 10 operating system wasn't bad in all fairness, but before that BlackBerry was a much maligned system, thanks to multiple issues from lack of apps to constant crashing.
Windows Phone 8 was released at a similar time to BlackBerry 10, so why has it stuck around when BB10 hasn't? Because WP8 secured the most important apps, and released the most important updates to its users when BlackBerry didn't, and now it is stealing away the users BlackBerry once had.
If BlackBerry is to get out of the mess it's found itself in, it needs to keep improving its OS in an effort to bring more customers in.
If BlackBerry improves its OS further, it could begin to compete effectively against the likes of Windows Phone, Android and Apple, just like the good old days.
If BlackBerry does any one of these three things, it might be able to climb out of this hole it's stuck in. Hopefully we might just be seeing BlackBerry make a resurgence this year if it gets things right.
What Are the Benefits of Using Dedicated Server Hosting
Almost all companies across the world use hosting services, but dedicated server hosting offers the resources and capabilities of the entire server with the whole server completely devoted to the cause of the company. Dedicated servers are for those who don't want to share their hosting server with any other hosting partner. This kind of hosting is much easier in comparison to shared server hosting. This is because in this type of server, there is an option for devoted assets like hardware and software. Therefore, a dedicated server web hosting service, a dedicated server, or an organized hosting service is a kind of Internet hosting in which the purchaser leases a whole server, not shared with anyone else. There are many advantages of using a dedicated hosting.
If you share your server with other server hosting clients, you are inviting risks. There is the risk of losing memory or bandwidth of the server as others are using it. Dedicated server web hosting can easily solve those problems by providing you the entire server to your service without the interference of others.
It is one hundred percent secure with 24×7 day and night support system. Regular system updates and security patches are available. As business across the world is increasing with innumerable companies coming up in the global scenario, no one can afford the luxury of risking security questions. Dedicated server hosting is secure and the data is safe from outside traffic.
Control and Flexibility:
If you share your server with other clients, there are many things you cannot control over the server. But dedicated server hosting provides this opportunity for the growth of your business. It can provide flexibility by managing almost everything for you with your own developers and engineers.
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Dedicated hosting, not being shared with any other client, can raise the performance of your server. Whether your server is crowded with web traffic every day or loaded with high-resolution photos and videos, the dedicated server hosting service make your server work smoothly and accurately. As competition across the world is growing with bitter rivalry, better performance in quick succession of time is what the companies require. Dedicated web hosting provides them with the desired quality performance.
Custom configuration:
Many hosting services like the shared hosting service do not provide the opportunity to install or manage any new software of hardware to your server, as being shared by other clients. The traffic is also very dense, affecting the performance of the server a great deal. However, the dedicated web hosting service allows custom configuration of the server by allowing you to install special software or configure the server according to the need of the company's profile.
Unique IP address:
Most of the shared hosting services use a shared IP address, risking the security of the server but the dedicated server hosting service has its own unique IP address.
Gone are those days when the majority of enterprises chose to host their websites overseas. The United States was the most favored hosting place visited amidst many businesses. Today, thanks to the growing IT sector, countries like India are emerging destinations in the arena of dedicated server hosting.
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Frank X Walker is the author of six poetry collections: Turn Me Loose: The Unghosting of Medgar Evers, winner of the 2014 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Poetry; Isaac Murphy: I dedicate this ride; When Winter Come: the Ascension of York; Black Box; Buffalo Dance: the Journey of York, which won the Lillian Smith Book Award in 2004; and Affrilachia. A 2005 recipient of the Lannan Literary Fellowship in Poetry, Walker is cofounder of the Affrilachian Poets. He currently serves as an associate professor in the Department of English and director of the African American and Africana studies program, both at the University of Kentucky.
Walker is known internationally for his unique approach to teaching writing and numerous literary accomplishments. Most famously among them is his creation of the word "Affrilachia," a term that unifies Appalachian identity and the region's African-American culture and history. The word Affrilachia is included in the Oxford American Dictionary. He is a leader of the Affrilachian literary movement that prides itself in giving voice to previously muted and silenced people and promotes excellence in teaching, writing, art and activism.
Walker is a native of Danville, Ky., a graduate of the University of Kentucky, and he completed a master of fine arts in writing at Spalding University. He has lectured, conducted workshops, read poetry and exhibited at more than 300 national conferences and universities including the Verbal Arts Centre in Derry, Northern Ireland; Santiago, Cuba; University of California at Berkeley; Notre Dame; Appalachian State University and many more.
Walker has served as founder/executive director of the Bluegrass Black Arts Consortium, and the program coordinator of the University of Kentucky's King Cultural Center. He was awarded an honorary doctorate of humanities in 2001 from UK for his collective community work and artistic achievements. Transylvania University awarded Walker an honorary doctor of letters degree in 2002.
Walker is the recipient of the 2006 Thomas D. Clark Literary Award for Excellence, and an Actors Theatre of Louisville Keeper of the Chronicle Award. He has held board positions for the Kentucky Humanities Council, Appalshop and the Kentucky Writers Coalition, as well as a government appointment to the former Cabinet for Education, Arts and Humanities and the Committee on Gifted Education. He has served as vice president of the Kentucky Center for the Arts and the executive director of Kentucky's Governor's School for the Arts. He is a past recipient of an Al Smith Individual Artist Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council.
Walker is the recipient of the 2013 Appalachian Heritage Literary Award from the West Virginia Humanities Council. The Kentucky Conference for Community and Justice named him one of its Humanitarian Award winners. In 2011, he was named one of "The most creative teachers in the South" by the "Oxford American: The Southern Magazine of Good Writing."
Walker's literary background has deep roots in Kentucky and his work draws heavily on his experiences in the state. He lives in Lexington, Ky.


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It's that time of year! FHM magazine has released it's list of the world's 100 sexiest woman, and Taylor, Selena and Rihanna all made the list, while Mila Kunis nabbed the top spot.
Rihanna, Selena Gomez and Taylor Swift have many things in common, including the fact that they are all considered to be the sexiest women in the world! Our favorite girls are all on FHM's 2013 list of 100 Sexiest Women In The World, with Rihanna placing at #2, Taylor at #12 and Selena at #32. Kristen Stewart (#91), Kim Kardashian (#38), and Mila Kunis (#1) also made the coveted list. Read on to see who else is considered one of the sexiest women in the world!
Full List Of FHM's 100 Sexiest Women In The World 2013
100. Sofia Vergara
99. Nathalie Emmanuel
98. Chloe Cummings
97. Olivia Godfrey
96. Susanna Reid
95. Layla Anna-Lee
94. Imogen Poots
93. Linda Barker
92. Rachel Shenton
91. Kristen Stewart
90. Rachel Riley
89. Lucy Collett
88. Franziska Klein
87. Eva Mendes
86. Gemma Merna
85. Britney Spears
84. Mary Elizabeth Winstead
83. Lacey Banghard
82. Carly Rae Jepsen
81. Hannah Tointon
80. Ashley Roberts
79. Arianny Celeste
78. Hayley Williams
77. Fearne Cotton
76. Lea Michele
75. Candice Swanepoel
74. Kristin Kreuk
73. Louise Thompson
72. Emma Watson
71. Amanda-Byram
70. Caroline Flack
69. Rachel Bilson
68. Jessie J
67. Jade Ewen
66. Millie Clode
65. Jennifer Love Hewitt
64. Gemma Atkinson
63. Juno Temple
62. Berenice Marlohe
61. Jenna-Louise Coleman
60. Hannah Simone
59. Katrina Bowden
58. Pippa Middleton
57. Alison Brie
56. Miranda Kerr
55. Perrie Edwards
54. Nicole Scherzinger
53. Lana Del Rey
52. Cher Lloyd
51. Brittney Palmer
50. Georgia May Foote
49. Scarlett Johannson
48. Seren Gibson
47. Jessica Ennis
46. Lyndsy Fonseca
45. Rosie Huntington-Whiteley
44. Hetti Bywater
43. Charlie Webster
42. Laura Trott
41. Roxanne McKee
40. Daisy Lowe
39. Victoria Pendleton
38. Kim Kardashian
37. Frankie Sandford
36. Emma Stone
35. Emily Atack
34. Jennifer Aniston
33. Emilia-Clarke
32. Selena Gomez
31. Zooey Deschanel
30. Kimberley Walsh
29. Laura Whitmore
28. Vanessa Hudgens
27. Christina Hendricks
26. Millie Mackintosh
25. Jennifer Metcalfe
24. Mellisa Clarke
23. Holly Willoughby
22. Amanda Seyfried
21. Keeley Hazell
20. Jennifer Lawrence
19. Beyonce Knowles
18. Mollie King
17. Megan Fox
16. Katy Perry
15. Rita Ora
14. Rosie Jones
13. Jorgie Porter
12. Taylor Swift
11. Tulisa Contostavlos
10. Georgia Salpa
9. Cheryl Cole
8. Kate Upton
7. Pixie Lott
6. Kaley Cuoco
5. Kelly Brook
4. Michelle Keegan
3. Helen Flanagan
2. Rihanna
1. Mila Kunis
What do YOU think HollywoodLifers? Was Mila a worthy winner? Should Taylor and Selena have ranked higher?
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I have been too busy to make a call to Hodgdon, but there has some very good points brought up on the older post. Here is some of the information I gathered regarding the 350 grn rn Hornady bullet.
A quick summarization on my part................
I choose imr 4198 because it is a tad faster burning and I have the Guide Gun with a 18 1/2" bbl. The faster powder I assume from MY experience can overcome the disadvantage of the shorter tube WITHIN REASONABLE LOADS. I like the Hornady bullets, I've been using them quite abit. I would like to try the Kodiak's but lost the address.
so..Marlin load.....4th edition. .350 grn.. start 32.0 grns.....max 45.3 grns
neither the 2007 manual for Hodgdon or IMR have the 45 /70 Marlin loads anymore! :?:
Hodgdon on line info....350grn rn......start 47 grns for 32,500 cup
maximum load........................................50 grns. .for 36,600 cup
Lee dippers for imr 4198 vary but in usuable range.....31.6 grns....35.4 grns...39.2 grns....42.9 grns....46.7 gns
My experience with dippers is I always check the dipper with my RCBS scale a few times and and see just what the "normal" variance might be. But because those dippers for that powder are well within manual data, I wouldn't worry too much.
So my conclusion is what others have said, start low and work up to the most accurate load for the bullet / rifle. I am not recoil sensitve and don't normally shoot deer, so I what something accurate around 1900, 2000 fps. I hunt elk with a 375 H&H mag but killed a bunch with my 30/06. I do see an advantage using BIG rifles, & with ports on my guide gun. But shooting my frinds long bbl seems to tame the loads too. So, I like ported bbl in the shorter tube.
I hope to get to make a phone call soon when work permits just to see what I am told. I don't think anything that I have said is contradicting. I do think there is too many variances in manuals, [ I didnot even talk about Speer , Sierra, etc for the sake of brievity] to go willy nilly loading the modern 45/70.
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I know this is off the subject but just for some food for thought. I have the same rifle as you are writing about and I have been usingIMR 3o31 with hornady 350 Rn with 56.5 grains with win cases WLR primer ,this is after I called Hodgdon. They told me their loads are tailord to the strength of the firearm ,that worked for me.My first loads at the starting load give me consistant 1865 fps with moderate recoil and pretty damn good accuracy. I may experiment a little but these loads seem to work well, I hope to get a chance in Vt this next week to try one on a deer or bear. I may try some hard cast bullets later as the hornady prices are getting a little rich for this old retired reloader ,I still have powder that was marked $2.25 LB that 's from almost 40 yr ag, been at the bench for 50 years where does time go..good luck ..
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Thanks for the info, after I get done playing with imr 4198 I'll check out 3031. That is the fun part , trying new loads. I can appreciate what you're saying about cost. I see it every year, powder primers, bullets, ammo just keeps going up! Do you think the gun powder ever deteroates over time?
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I've never had any that I used that seemed bad ,but I think if you keep it sealed in the original container it will keep longer than I want to use it. Storage environment is important as well . I put some of my powder in zip lock bags as a barrier against moisture just as a extra margin of safety. If I don't like the way it smells it is GONE or if it get lumpy in the can.I have thrown out probably only about 6 or 8 cans that I didn't care to take a chance with, better to err on the safe side. Keeping it cool and dry is the key, but most of my powder has a short stay on the bench with the exception of the ones that did not do as it was suposed to ,I may keep that stuff for a future project then time flies and what was at the back of the shelf is now OLD STUFF.. Just like me... :lol: :lol:
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US ARMY vet,1961-1964
Life member VVA
Life member NRA
Life member NAHC
Oath Keeper
Team Browning- #30
Team 45/70- # 460
Team Old Pharts- #113
I have been working my up the ladder with H4198 and 405gr cast bullets. Started at 27grs at around 1150 and am now at 32grains and have reached 1350fps avg. What a sweet shooting round at 100yds been shooting a Uberti 1874 single shot and a Marlin 1895 45-70 22" barrel. I had been reading about IMR 4198 being a good shooting powder so I changed my last loads to 31grs of IMR 4198. Both are just good shooting rounds and not shoulder busters. What a shock I got from the IMR 4198 on how much dirtier it burns than the H4198. Just loved the H4198 hardly had to clean the rifles at all. Just a couple of good lubricated patches and the barrels were clean. Not he IMR4198 very dirty burning am going back to H4198 whenever I get shoot up this H4198. 32grs of H4198 is a very clean burning and accurate load. We are trying to get two rifles set up for a buffalo hunt so we are working our way to 500gr cast bullets.
Hope this helps
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US Army Veteran
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Southend United FC avoided administration in the High Court yesterday after it reached a repayment deal with HM Revenue & Customs following a winding up petition from the tax office.
The High Court ruled existing debts at the club had been settled and future payments would be made on time.
HMRC petitioned at the High Court on 8 July for a winding up order at Southend United, and for the appointment of administrators over a £238,710 tax bill.
Chairman for Southend United Ron Martin said a deal had been made due to a partnership with Sainsbury's, the BBC reports.
HMRC warned Southend United they would take the club to court again if the club failed to make future payments.
A spokesman for the tax office said ensuring tax is paid should be at the " centre of football's business strategy" as it should with all businesses.
"HMRC doesn't initiate insolvency action against football clubs - or any other business - lightly but we will not hesitate to do so when that is the right way to protect the country's tax revenues and other creditors from those who trade whilst insolvent and run up debts that they simply cannot pay," the spokesmand said.
The deal with Sainsbury's includes building a new store on the Roots Hall site with the club moving to another stadium.
Chairman Martin said all costs at the club for the next 12 months had been " underwritten".
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A water-soluble polysaccharide-peptidoglycan complex (PSPG) was prepared from heat-killedLactobacillus casei by digesting the bacteria with N-acetylmuramidase. The molecular weight of PSPG was over 30,000, and the polysaccharide portion of PSPG, its main component was composed of rhamnose, glucose, galactose, glucosamine and galactosamine. Mice pretreated intraperitoneally with PSPG survived after a lethal infection withListeria monocytogenes orPseudomonas aeruginosa. The growth of infecting bacteria (L. monocytogenes, P. aeruginosa, Salmonella typhimurium, Escherichia coli) in both the peritoneal cavity and the liver was inhibited markedly in the mice that had been treated with PSPG. It was suggested that macrophages may be the main effector for the anti-infectious effect of PSPG since treatment of mice with carrageenan, a selective macrophage blocker, markedly reduced the anti-infectious effect of PSPG.
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- Title
- Augmentation of resistance of mice to bacterial infection by a polysaccharide-peptidoglycan complex (PSPG) extracted fromLactobacillus casei
- Journal
Volume 1, Issue 3 , pp 169-177
- Cover Date
- 1989-09-01
- Print ISSN
- Online ISSN
- 1573-8280
- Publisher
- Kluwer Academic Publishers
- Additional Links
- Topics
- Keywords
- Lactobacillus casei
- polysaccharide-peptidoglycan complex (PSPG)
- bacterial infection
- macrophage
- Authors
- Koji Nomoto (1)
- Masato Nagaoka (1)
- Teruo Yokokura (1)
- Masahiko Mutai (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Yakult Central Institute for Microbiological Research, 1796 Yaho, 186, Kunitachi-shi, Tokyo, Japan


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Food labelling: Consistent system 'to start next year'
A consistent system of front-of-pack food labelling will be introduced in the UK next year, the government says.
A combination of guideline daily amounts, colour coding and "high, medium or low" wording will be used to show how much fat, salt and sugar and how many calories are in each product.
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Talks will take place later this week over the exact design of the labels.
If those discussions go well it could mark the end of what has been a long-running campaign to introduce front-of-pack labelling.
The issue has been under discussion for the past decade with campaigners seeing it as a way of tackling the rising rates of obesity.
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If a consistent system is not in place by the summer of next year the government will feel it can lay the blame elsewhere.
Some retailers and manufacturers have used "traffic-light" labelling, in which the least healthy foods are labelled red and the most healthy are in green, while others use guideline daily amounts - or GDAs - which give the percentage of recommended intake. Some use both.
There has also been confusion over how a system could be introduced.
To make it mandatory, regulations would have to be agreed on a European level, but agreement between countries has been hard to reach.
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- Consumers prefer the traffic light system because it offers key information 'at a glance', according to a Food Standards Agency study.
- The GDA system is based on percentages of daily value for fat, sugar, and salt. The study suggests GDA proponents prefer more information over the simplistic colour coding system.
- For each nutritional category there are specfic high, medium and low ranges that are based on recommended daily values.
Public Health Minister Anna Soubry said: "The UK already has the largest number of products with front-of-pack labels in Europe, but research has shown that consumers get confused by the wide variety of labels used.
"By having a consistent system we will all be able to see, at a glance, what is in our food. This will help us all choose healthier options and control our calorie intake.
"Obesity and poor diet cost the NHS billions of pounds every year. Making small changes to our diet can have a big impact on our health and could stop us getting serious illnesses - such as heart disease - later in life."
She said she expected the new system to be in use by the summer of 2013.
Guideline daily amounts (GDA) |
Source: Institute of Grocery Distribution |
Women |
Men |
Children (5-10 years) |
Calories (kcal) |
2000 |
2500 |
1800 |
Protein |
45g |
55g |
24g |
Carbohydrate |
230g |
300g |
220g |
Fat |
70g |
95g |
70g |
Fibre |
24g |
24g |
15g |
Sodium |
2.4g |
2.4g |
1.4g |
Prof Alan Maryon-Davis, an expert in health promotion from King's College London and a former president of the UK Faculty of Public Health, said: "This is welcome news - at long last.
"The Food Standards Agency recommended this scheme years ago - but a few big retailers succeeded in blocking it until now.
"This is a triumph for public health and common sense - but just goes to show how the voluntary approach can be so much slower than government regulation."
But Barbara Gallani, of the Food and Drink Federation, said the industry in the UK had "led the way" on the issue.
She added: "Our members are committed to continuing to provide clear nutrition information to consumers and we well be actively engaged in further discussions with the Department of Health following today's announcement."