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Vendor: Oasis Audio LLC
Publication Date: 2003
Dimensions: 4.88 X 5.64 X 0.98 (inches)
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Series: Complete Idiot's Guide
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Keep your cool! You're no idiot, of course. You know you're not going to get along with everybody you meet, much less those people you deal with on a daily basis. But when dicey encounters escalate into tense confrontations, the instinctual "fight or flight" response is neither effective nor appropriate. The Complete Idiot's Guide to Coping with Difficult People offers effective techniques for keeping your cool in heated situations. In this audiobook, you get helpful information about the four types of difficult people – including how to recognize and respond to them, useful self-protection strategies such as active listening, setting limits, and using your sense of humor, tactics for minimizing toxic behavior in any situation, and practical tips about how to make positive changes in difficult people. When they're difficult, take it easy. Understand why avoidance and aggression only make matters worse. Maintain your sense of worth among self-centered co-workers. Don't lose yourself in a relationship with someone who's self-absorbed. Choose your battles wisely. Watch out for signs of toxicity in others. Defend yourself against abuse without being abusive. Remember that anyone can have a bad day. Nurture your own patience, tolerance, and compassion for those around you.


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Using total trilinear filtering costs about an extra 30% or so performance on ATi cards if I remember correctly even with their agressive adaptive filtering, the number will most probably be similar for nVidia cards.
nVidia are doing some trilinear in UT2003, but not on the whole scene, and nowhere near what they should be for the settings selected in the driver control panel.
As for having a nVidia logo in the game, that should mean the optimisations should be in the game, not via application detection in the driver.
So you're saying that total trilinear filtering will cost an extra 30% in performance in ADDITION to the performance hit already taken by using the bilinear/trilinear combo? Err...
Also, as for the nVidia optimizations, it could very well be in the driver as well as the game... Epic could simply be working with nVidia on optomizing the engine EVEN AFTER the game is shipped and the game can then call for driver optimizations when newer optomizations are created.
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Renee Fleming plays a femme fatale renowned for her ruthless pursuit of power that reveals poignant vulnerability when she comes face to face with her long-lost son. Fleming, 'America's most-loved and most-lauded opera singer' (The Times, London) plays Borgia with passion and outstanding virtuosity in line with a top-notch cast and led by internationally acclaimed conductor Riccardo Frizza.Notes & Reviews:
Run Time: 204 min.
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Works DetailsDonizetti, Gaetano : Lucrezia Borgia
- Performers: Renée Fleming; Michael Fabiano; Elizabeth DeShong; Vitalij Kowaljow
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After looking around a bit, I couldn't find an answer to this question, though I suspect it's been asked before. The closest I could find is this Function pointers in objects though it doesn't get quite what I'm after.
Suppose we have a piece of code like this:
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I'm not sure how the Javascript evaluation process works, but let's say it keeps track of some internally represented environment, which we'll represent abstractly here as a set of key value pairs.
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Monday, October 28, 2013
Walgreen's Good and Delish Milk Chocolate Cornflake Clusters
Walgreen's has expanded their house brand line of candy called Good & Delish with some strong packaging designs and diverse product offerings.
Their products come from numerous suppliers and in a way remind me of the now discontinued Choxie line from Target. The line includes cookies and trail mixes, but has an exceptionally strong presence in the candy aisle, especially in the larger Walgreen's stores. They have large chocolate bars featuring Belgian chocolate (like Dark Chocolate, Pear & Almond), individually wrapped and bagged chocolate pieces (like Red Velvet Caramels) and gable boxes of caramels and of course this offering: Good & Delish Milk Chocolate Cornflake Clusters.
The package was on sale for $2.99 for 5 ounces, which seemed pretty fair to me since it was real chocolate. Some of the other products are made in Belgium, but this one is made in the United States.
Each piece is about a third of an ounce and 1.25 to 1.5 inches in diameter. They're just plops of milk chocolate mixed with corn flakes. They reminded me of the Harry London Mint Cookie Joys that were minted milk chocolate mixed with chocolate cookie bits. In fact, I wouldn't be surprised if these were made by Harry London under the Walgreen's house brand.
The milk chocolate is sweet but quite creamy and sets off the crunchy, malty and slightly salty corn flakes very well. I found them a little on the sweet side at first, but I enjoyed the density of the corn flakes. The crunch made them feel more like a snack, but the sweetness made me set a limit of three in a sitting, otherwise it was just too overwhelming.
My go to treat for corn flakes and chocolate has always been the Ritter Sport Knusperflakes, which is about $2 to $2.50 per 3.5 ounce bar, which is still a better deal. I bought one just for comparison, and found the corn flakes a bit lighter but less malty. But I did like the portioning of the Good & Delish and the fact that a house brand is doing something that the big brands aren't. I want to explore more of their unique offerings in the future.
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Monday, October 21, 2013
Charms Super Candy Corn Blow Pop
After experiencing the lackluster Super Caramel Apple Blow Pop last week, it's a wonder that I was still looking for the Candy Corn Super Blow Pop. An astute reader said that Walgreen's was carrying them (which is where I found the Caramel Apple version) so I tried what I call the Super Walgreen's in Hollywood. It's near the Arclight Cinema/Cinerama Dome and Amoeba Music, so it was easy to find a reason to be over there this weekend. The store is like a movie set of what a Walgreen's should be (and maybe it is used as a set for their commercials). The cosmetics have LED lights on each shelf, the aisles are wide and they have a snack bar and prepared sushi in a refrigerated section. And of course there's a huge candy aisle that's both clean and has a wide selection. It bears virtually no resemblance to the Walgreen's where I usually shop in Echo Park, which isn't even 5 miles down the same road. (Though the staff at both is quite good, no complaints.)
Their seasonal aisle had a good selection of the specialty Halloween items (though not as much bagged candy as other places like Target or KMart). I found the Super Blow Pops there on sale at 50 cents each, so I bought two. Instead of an opaque printed wrapper, this version of the Blow Pop uses a clear wrapper to show off the candy inside, something I've not seen them use on the Blow Pop line before. There are only two colors on this, orange and yellow ... there's no white top on the layers.
The candy part of the Blow Pop is just like the flavor of the Charms Candy Corn Lollipops. It's a mellow, salty sort of butterscotch without the creamy texture. I found these far brighter and more fun to eat, as the colors were sparkly, unlike the Caramel Apple version which was downright depressing with its brown and dark green. However, the sparkle in this case was created by adding some air to the hard candy, this can create sharp areas as it dissolves. Because the pop is so large, this meant I had a couple of sore spots on my tongue by the time I finished.
The gum at the center smelled terrible, just like the Caramel Apple version. There's some sort of caustic chemical scent to it and the chew is stiff at first. Biting it sounds like tearing a phone book, a multitude of ripping layers all at once. It softens up and in this case, the flavor is pretty bland. It does become a bubble gum eventually, for a few minutes there's a right balance between flavor and sugar before it all gives up and becomes like a wad of chewed paper. I'm not sure what flavor the gum is supposed to be, it's not green apple, it's not colorful ... it might have been butterscotch.
The initial experience was probably better than any other I've had with a Blow Pop this year, but that's not saying much. But I'll go ahead and give this a positive review, if you want a jumbo butterscotch Blow Pop, this would be the lollipop for you. It's pretty, it's pretty cheap.
Charms pops are made in a nut free and gluten free facility, but always check the labels or call the manufacturer if you're in doubt.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2013
Charms Super Blow Pop Caramel Apple
Tootsie is always a go-to brand for Halloween candy, as they make the popular Tootsie Rolls, Tootsie Pops and Charms Blow Pops. Though some adults like to rank them on the Worst Halloween Candy lists every year, they wouldn't keep making them if someone wasn't buying them and eating them enthusiastically.
Tootsie has two new Super Blow Pops out for Halloween this year: Charms Super Blow Pop Caramel Apple and Charms Super Blow Pop Candy Corn. I couldn't find the candy corn version (though I did find the flat Charms Candy Corn Pops), so I wanted to go ahead with this review of the Caramel Apple version.
The Super Blow Pop line is a beefy version of the standard Blow Pop. The regular Blow Pop is .65 ounces, the Super Blow Pop is 1.125 ounces. As a point of reference, a single Starlight Mint is about 5 grams, so this pop is like eating 6 or 7 mints in one sitting.
The pop is structured in layers, the center is bubble gum, the middle layer is green apple hard candy and the outer layer is caramel flavored hard candy. It's an odd combination and I'd say my initial impression was not good. The caramel flavoring was just that, flavoring with a heavy dose of artificial butter. There was a little hint of salt, so that was interesting. After getting to the apple layer (which was very dark green) I did start noticing a good combination of the two, the falseness of the butter combined with the reassuringly fake green apple flavors.
The texture was a little more ... sandy than I like in my hard candy. It wasn't completely smooth, though the bubbles were minimal. The size of the pop means that there's a lot of lollipop before you can crunch to the center.
The most surprising part is the center. It's not pink bubble gum. It's green. The texture was horrible, biting into it, it was like packaging material. When I bit off a piece, it sounded like I was pulling apart the paper stick. The smell was bizarre and I can only say that it reminded me of the Pennsylvania Turnpike tunnels. (Maybe it's a mix of the smell of asphalt, gasoline, diesel and apple juice.)
I wanted to like this, mostly because I found the Tootsie Caramel Apple Pops to be quite fun. It just kept getting worse as I got closer to the center. I can only hope that the Candy Corn version was better.
Charms Pops are made in a facility that's gluten free and peanut free.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 12:42 pm Candy • Review • Halloween • Tootsie • Gum • Hard Candy & Lollipops • 4-Benign • United States • Walgreen's • Comments (1)
Friday, October 11, 2013
Lindt Bars: Wafer, Cresta and Dark Hazelnut
Lindt has a new line called Hello, but I also noticed this array of single serving bars at several drug stores and Target over the past few months. I picked up a full set (or at least I think it's all of them - at the time I wrote this, I couldn't find them on their website).
The packaging is very simple with a color coding that made it easy to check that I had all of them. (I had to go to two stores.) They're small portions, at 190-230 calories per bar, they're not too filling.
The Lindt Wafer Bar is described on the package as Milk chocolate with wafer and creamy hazelnut filling.. The little picture shows that the wafer part is like a flattened tube inside the hazelnutty center.
The actual bar I got wasn't as much like the picture as the others, which were exactly as depicted. In this case, the first section contained only hazelnut paste (so the photo is of the second section). The wafers do not take up nearly as much volume as I'd hoped, so the effect is milk chocolate bar with a lot of hazelnut (nothing wrong with that) and a little bit of wafer.
The wafers are malty and less sweet than the rest of the bar. The milk chocolate is very sweet as is the filling, so it's kind of throat searing at first. The mix of textures and flavors is quite good though, I like the Lindt milk chocolate in small bites, it's very creamy and though it has a dairy note to it, it tastes fresh, not like dried milk. Perhaps I'm looking at the wrong brand, but I wanted more hazelnut in there, it seemed more cream than hazelnut. (But maybe I'm just used to the Ferraro style.)
The Lindt Cresta Bar is the only one of the assortment that has anything that resembles an invented name instead of just a description.
The bar is: Milk chocolate with hazelnut cream filling and pieces of almond brittle.
This bar is bigger than the first one, at 1.3 ounces. It feels hefty as well.
The milk chocolate bar looks the same as the Wafer bar, glossy and light milk chocolate. There's a whiff of cereal about it and a hint of hazelnut but mostly it smells sweet.
The chocolate is smooth and has a milky melt to it, kind of like pudding. The center is very crunchy, with little bits of almond in the hazelnut cream. It's not terribly nutty, but very sweet with just a hint of salt to it. Overall, the filling was good, the textures nice and the proportions very well done ... but I wanted it to be less sweet.
The final bar simply called Lindt Dark Chocolate Hazelnut. Unlike the other bars, which were made in Austria, this one was made in Italy. Perhaps to be closer to hazelnuts.
The package says that the bar is Dark chocolate with hazelnut filling and whole hazelnuts. And so it is.
It's the biggest bar of the assortment I picked up, as well, at 1.4 ounces. It's also the fattiest, at 164 calories per ounce. If I'm going to spend twice as much on the bar, I'd better be getting something high quality in there.
The bar is stunning. Three molded hazelnut sections in glossy dark chocolate. The dark chocolate looks great and smell a lot like roasted hazelnuts and coffee.
The chocolate is buttery and has a good melt, although like many Lindt chocolate, it might be a little too slick on the tongue and not enough chocolate flavor in there.
The hazelnut center is fantastic. The hazelnut paste is soft and has a great fresh flavor and though it's sweet, it's not too sticky. The whole hazelnut is crisp and crunchy and I believe blanched to remove the skin, which keeps away some of those bitter notes.
Of the three bars, this was my favorite, though it could benefit from darker chocolate.
I don't see myself picking them up again, as interesting as I thought they were. They're overpriced, though my guess is that perhaps in Europe they're more economical. It's odd, because the Hello Crunchy Nougat was a very similar bar to the Wafer, but twice the size for the same price. They also don't use natural vanilla, it's artificially flavored, which makes me wonder if there may be cut corners elsewhere. I think I'll stick with Ritter-Sport's Knusperflakes and Dark Chocolate Whole Hazelnut but if I feel like spending a little more, I'd step up to the Gardini Bitter Chocolate and Gianduia with Sea Salt.
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Friday, September 20, 2013
Russell Stover Pumpkin Pie
Russell Stover is often up on flavor trends with their seasonal single serve shapes. Their most recent introduction was the Red Velvet, which is now available in a Halloween version.
I spotted the listing for the Russell Stover Pumpkin Pie on the Russell Stover website about a month ago and I went on the search as soon as the stores in my area started putting out their Halloween candy.
The package looks generally the same as all the other Russell Stover pumpkins, of which there are at least a dozen now. It's a mylar wrapping with a generic pumpkin illustration on the front an simple lettering to depict the contents.
The pumpkin is interesting to look at. I like enrobed candies and this one looks rustic and handmade. The shape isn't specifically pumpkin though, as it has no ribs, so I can imagine this being sold as an ornament in different packaging later this year. This is the first time, though, that I've found the shape of the candy to actually reflect the candy flavor. Note that this is pumpkin pie, not pumpkin spice. I wanted to know what made this different from a regular spiced cream center and the ingredients list brought the answer.
It's like pumpkin pie, including the crust. There's wheat flour in the ingredients. In fact the ingredients list "spice cake mix" which includes wheat flour, egg whites and nonfat milk in addition to the spices. So the center here is more like cookie dough than a cream, rather like the Red Velvet piece they're also making now.
So, after I got my head around that weirdness, I just adjusted my expectations. This is like a chocolate covered cookie dough, but instead of those lackluster Cookie Dough Bites, these are actually made with pretty good milk chocolate and some nice proportions.
The milk chocolate is creamy, the center is a bit doughy and has a slight sugar grain to it. It's dense but not too sticky. The spices are light, not overwhelming but also not terribly distinct. It's a generic background of cinnamon, ginger and nutmeg with a touch of clove.
I appreciate that it's different from other sticky cream candies right now. I would have preferred a dark chocolate and maybe a little more powerful spice, but overall, for a 50 cent candy, it's pretty good.
Russell Stover Dark Chocolate Orange CreamThe Russell Stover Dark Chocolate Orange Cream is also new, though I couldn't find it on the Russell Stover website.
This pumpkin is a bit thicker than the Pumpkin Pie version. The glossy dark chocolate looks great, with robust swirls on top. It smells like dark chocolate with a hint of orange zest. The cream filling is actually something like a meringue. It has egg whites in it, though I ended up calling it a marshmallow, it's actually okay for vegetarians. The texture is wonderfully smooth and though it tastes like it's creamy, there's far fewer calories in this treat than the other creams that Russell Stover sells. (120 calories per ounce, so this is a pretty slim little candy if you're watching calories but want something fulfilling.)
The filling has a sweetness, but it's not as cloying as some of the more fudgy creams. There are bits of orange zest and an authentic orange flavor to the whole thing (though some artificial coloring which I thought was unnecessary). The chocolate is thick and stands up well to the center and doesn't fall apart as you eat it.
Russell Stover Coconut & Almond is also a new twist on an old favorite from Russell Stover.
The center is coconut cream and the milk chocolate enrobing includes lots of crushed almonds on top. Think of it like an Almond Joy, but without the large lumps on top. This is also a new item, and unfortunately doesn't seem to come in dark chocolate right now.
Russell Stover makes two coconut seasonal candies right now. There's the Nest, which is just coconut and milk chocolate. They also make their coconut creams, which are covered in either milk chocolate or dark chocolate.
Each of these elements is well balanced. The coconut is soft and chewy, a bit sweeter than I care for, but still fresh and tasty. The almonds, though not spread evenly are crunchy and big enough to provide the added texture to the experience. The milk chocolate, though also sweet, is far and away better than the Hershey's version on Almond Joy bars. This is a bit on the milky side, but creamy and fudgy. I would definitely buy this again, but what would put it over the top would be a dark chocolate version. It's a good value at 50 cents for a one ounce piece made with real chocolate right here in the United States.
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POSTED BY Cybele AT 9:52 am Candy • Review • Halloween • Russell Stover • Chocolate • Coconut • Marshmallow • Nuts • 7-Worth It • United States • Walgreen's • Comments (0)
Monday, September 16, 2013
Russell Stover Big Bite Caramel Apple
Russell Stover started releasing some of their favorite items in a new, larger format called Big Bites about two years ago. Most are sold year round and represent a cross over sort of candy. They look like giant box candy chocolates but are portioned more like a traditional single serving candy bar.
The new Russell Stover Big Bite Caramel Apple come in two versions. The first is a traditional caramel pattie, flavored with apple and covered in milk chocolate. The second goes further and gives it a coating of crushed peanuts.
The candy emulates a caramel coated apple, but in this case it should be easier to eat and probably has a better shelf life.
The package says naturally flavored, which was a bit of a surprise after eating some other, well, not-so-natural green apple candies lately. The piece is very attractive, it's a caramel center covered in milk chocolate and then drizzled with dark chocolate. Even out of the rather flimsy package, it looked nearly pristine.
There's a light apple sauce note to the sweet chocolatey scent. The bite is soft, though the chocolate is pretty thick. I was surprised at the smoothness of the caramel center. It has a pleasant apple peel note to it but not much in the salty or caramelized sugar family. The chocolate was passable, sweet and though note exceptionally smooth, it was creamy. The overall sweetness got to me about halfway through. Basically, a two ounce caramel pattie is just too much for me. A couple of small ones and I'm pretty happy, I don't need quite this much at once, even if the shape is done well.
The crushed peanuts on the Russell Stover Big Bite Caramel Apple with Peanuts adhered pretty well. The package had a little pile in the bottom, though, about a third more peanuts. Though the no nuts version is 2 ounces, the peanutty one is 2.25 ounces, I'm guessing that's the nuts and no dark chocolate stripes. Overall, the peanut notes overshadowed the apple flavors, but the whole thing seemed even sweeter, giving me a sore throat in about half the time as the straight one.
I like the Russell Stover caramel, and think they do a good job, especially for the price with these items. This is, by far, one of the best caramel apple candies I've had, but it's still not my thing. I'd just like to see some flavors I'm interested in, like Coffee Caramel (maybe call it a Caramel Macchiato and shape it like a coffee cup) or perhaps Bananas Foster.
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Friday, March 15, 2013
Russell Stover Cookie Dough Egg
Russell Stover is a fixture at American drug stores at Easter with their large variety of single serving Easter eggs. New this year is the Russell Stover Cookie Dough Egg.
This new egg follows the same sort of construction as the Red Velvet Santa first spotted for Christmas (also available as an egg). The center is an actual flour-based dough. Unlike other fondant centers which are just whipped up sugars, this one is a bit more complex. Here's the ingredient list (forgive me for any transcription errors, it's green printing on a cream background):
So, instead of a short list, this is long and includes lots of flour, so it's not gluten free. It also contains high fructose corn syrup a few times, which is disappointing because Russell Stover, while not being top of the line, is usually filled with plain old sugar and corn syrup. This is what happens when candy makers start adding bakery items. Unlike actually cookie dough, this has no egg products.
The egg looks like many of the other milk chocolate Russell Stover varieties. It's on the flat side, and has two rows of glossy ripples. It's about two inches long and one and a quarter inches wide.
The bite is soft and the center is, well, doughy. It's not dry but not quite as moist as I expect. It has a grain to it, with the sugar being noticeable and I might have detected a little salt as well. The flour taste is not noticeable (sometimes real cookie dough can taste like raw flour).
Unlike cookie dough nugget products, this has more of the satisfaction of eating a spoonful of dough. The chocolate chips didn't do much for me, but the milk chocolate coating was smooth, creamy and a sweet complement to the dough. I'd prefer a dark chocolate version, as I put dark chips in my cookies. It's similar to their Brownie Egg (which it turns out, I've never reviewed), but naturally less chocolatey.
It's a good rendition of cookie dough as a candy. I don't know if I'd grab this over something like their marshmallows or the Pecan Delight, but I know there are some folks who will really appreciate this.
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Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Dove 71% Cacao Silky Smooth Dark Chocolate (Rainforest Alliance)
I mentioned a while back that Mars was going to convert all of their Dove Chocolate over to Rainforest Alliance certified cocoa this year. I saw the first bars in the store sometime around New Years and picked up this Dove 71% Cacao Silky Smooth Dark Chocolate.
The bar was on sale for $2.49, so it's a pretty good deal for a 71% bar that's 3.3 ounces. The nutritional panel lists that half the bar is a single serving. The 42 gram portion is 20 grams of fat. Good fat, of course… it's made with cocoa butter which is supposed to be pretty good for your heart or at least not bad for it.
The bar looks like all the other Dove items these days. It's seductively smooth with easy to break off domed pieces. The snap isn't quite stiff, but not soft either. It's, well, I can't describe it any other way except fatty. See the above fat content for confirmation.
The Dove flavor profile is always a bit thin for my tastes, it's like the chocolate is parallel to the cocoa butter instead of integrated. That may have something to do with Mars' proprietary Cocoapro flavanol enhancement. Perhaps there's some sort of process that it goes through that sanitizes it in this manner. The good news is that in this bar, that's less of an issue. The melt is wonderful, buoyant and soft without a hint of grit. The cocoa flavors are lightly bitter, woodsy with a floral note that I don't get from their regular dark. The melt is like a pudding, soft and creamy but still quite thick.
I had a few Dove Promises in the regular dark to compare. The regular dark is quite sweet and again, a little thin on intensity though a well rounded brownie batter chocolate flavor. I much preferred the 71% and didn't feel like the lack of sweetness was a compromise. The deepness of the flavors was much more concentrated. I'll be curious to see if these show up in the foil-wrapped Dove Promises line.
I know that in many stores this will be one of the few certified sustainably sourced bars, so it's nice to finally have a choice when you're at the drug store or a big box retailer.
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Nescafé Original 3in1 launched in 2003 across Europe and its UK rollout next month will be supported by a "significant through-the-line campaign" undertaken by McCann-Erickson. The campaign will include TV advertising, which will kick off in January next year.
Nestlé, which owns Nescafé Original 3in1, is hoping the product will attract students and young professionals.
Katy Hilditch, head of marketing at Nescafé, said: "Convenience continues to dominate the hot beverage category, but nowhere is this more prominent than when targeting consumers under 25.
"Targeting this group of young consumers and growing their consumption of soluble coffee presents a great opportunity for the category. Research shows that they see coffee as providing them with a boost, and as an aspirational rite of passage."
The sachets will be available in two formats. The format for the grocery channel will comprise packs of 10 sachets at a cost of £1.99, while single sachets priced at £0.25 each will be the focus of the convenience channel.
Both formats will be in stores from September, as Nescafé looks to target the student fraternity returning to college.
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The head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals might be one of the best gigs in the NFL. Seriously.
Think about it. What's the average head-coaching life for an NFL head coach these days? 2-3 years? Well, if you're the head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals you'll get that. Heck, unlike Al Davis, your owner will wait and not fire you until your contract is up and you will get ALL OF YOUR MONEY!
If you win, you're a genius, because you have won in spite of Mike Brown and his bass-ackwards organization. Luck your way into winning 10-11 games and they might name a street after you. You are the savior! 8-8 and you get an extension and the city thinks you're the next Lombardi!
If you lose, it's Mike Brown's fault and there was nothing you ever could have done to insure winning anyway.
If you lose bad, you still get your money and probably complete your time. Then the media comes to your defense saying how impossible it is for anyone to coach in that environment....blah...blah...blah and next thing you know you're one of the top candidates to move on to another organization in some capacity. There is no guilt by association to worry about.
So, in summary...
You get paid.
If you happen to win, you're a genius.
If you lose, it wasn't your fault anyway.
People feel sorry for you.
Move on to another gig.
Being head coach of the Cincinnati Bengals is a no-lose (except for on the field) situation.


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Ryan Ludwick left the Reds to see if there was a better deal available on the free agent market. He found at least one, but turned it down to stay with Cincinnati. The left fielder signed a two-year, $15 million deal on Monday that includes a mutual option for the 2015 season. He agreed to the contract over the weekend and came for the formal announcement. The 34-year-old outfielder batted .275 with 26 homers and 80 RBI in 125 games last season, when he started 107 times in left field. After first baseman Joey Votto got hurt at midseason, Ludwick emerged as one of the team's most consistent run producers, helping the Reds win the NL Central for the second time in three years. ''I've always wanted to prove that one All-Star year wasn't a fluke and I can be an All-Star again,'' said Ludwick, an All-Star with St. Louis in 2008. ''The ultimate goal would be to win a World Series. That's one of the reasons I came back here. I think we have guys in place one through nine (in the battin...
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A present given by a woman's father on her marriage. At betrothal the bridegroom gave a compensatory gift, known as the bride-price, to the woman's family.
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The London Times got an interview with a bunch of Goldman Sachs people including its CEO, Lloyd Blankfein. The headline quote was "I'm doing God's work." It's so Gordon Gekko, you can feel Blankfein's nostalgia for the 80's. But the article reads more like a Stephen King novel, with creepy crawly things sliming the reader.
"We're very important," he says, abandoning self-flagellation. "We help companies to grow by helping them to raise capital. Companies that grow create wealth. This, in turn, allows people to have jobs that create more growth and more wealth. It's a virtuous cycle." To drive home his point, he makes a remarkably bold claim. "We have a social purpose."
The GS 10-Q tells a completely different story. For the nine months ended 9/30, GS derived 82% of its total revenues from trading and principal investments. Every penny of that came out of someone else's pocket, and some unknown part came from $1.71bn (at 9/30) in borrowings guaranteed by the FDIC. See note 6, p. 50. About 10% of revenues came from investment banking, the business of raising capital. A big part of that seems to come from securitizations. See Note 4:
During the three and nine months ended September 2009, the firm securitized $18.75 billion and $35.22 billion, respectively, of financial assets…, including $18.75 billion and $34.63 billion, respectively, of residential mortgages, primarily in connection with government agency securitizations….
They packaged up a bunch of mortgages, sliced and diced them, sold them and included the profits in investment banking income. That doesn't create jobs.
Here's a better description of Goldman Sachs' hard work:
You can't see the cash whizzing around 85 Broad Street as you walk through the place, but you can feel it being shuffled 24 hours a day between central, commercial and investment banks, vast companies, Russian oligarchs, Middle Eastern movers and sheikhers, Texas oilmen and secretive billionaires in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands.
I'm not feeling the hand of the Almighty in this. And since Blankfein and the Company Pastor, Lord Griffiths, invited it, let's look at the morality of all this money-shuffling.
Most of the people in the world work and play by the rules. They work for their income, they take care of their families, they do volunteer work through churches and other groups, they pay taxes, and they act responsibly. The work of the world is in their hands, and they do it, because they are socially responsible, or because their religion requires it or because mother and daddy taught them to, whatever, they do it. We all eat and sleep safely because others of us are responsible, contributing members of society.
Then there are the pirates. Some of them are Somalis, who raid ships in the ocean. Some are banksters, who raid the productive work of their neighbors. They ignore the laws, as Sanford Weil and John Reed did when they merged Citicorp and Travelers; or they get Congress to change laws to suit them. They don't pay taxes, and they arrange transactions so other rich people won't pay taxes either. They jack up fees and interest rates on credit cards in the face of legislation to stop them. They set up trading computers at the site of an exchange, and use them to cut in front of other traders. They trade stocks in dark pools without exposing the prices or the securities to the public. And here's another example:
Goldman trades securities for big firms and pension funds. It also acts as adviser to many of the companies whose securities it trades. This means the firm has a view on what everyone in the market is doing. Say an investor approaches Goldman and says it wants to buy into the oil market. Goldman can offer an accurate view of what is likely to happen in that market because it knows what its own corporate energy clients are doing on its advice and what other big investors are trading. This also means the bank can do well on its own oil trades.
Responsibility and piracy define the relationship between two sectors of society. One produces goods, security and civilization. The other takes. In the entire article, Mr. Blankfein doesn't point to a single thing he has done in his life besides making money. Well, he has saved a few kitties.


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Baltimore Orioles - Selected the contract of pitcher Julio DePaula from Bowie
(Eastern); optioned pitcher Kevin Gausman to Norfolk (IL).
Boston Red Sox - Activated first baseman/outfielder Mike Carp from the 15-day
disabled list; optioned infielder Jonathan Herrera to Pawtucket (IL); signed
pitcher Kevin Steen.
Chicago Cubs - Signed pitcher Dylan Cease.
Chicago White Sox - Signed catcher Ryan Plourde.
Cleveland Indians - Acquired outfielder Chris Dickerson from the Pittsburgh
Pirates for a player to be named later or cash and selected his contract from
Columbus (IL); designated catcher George Kottaras for assignment.
Houston Astros - Agreed to terms with outfielders Angel DeLeon, Ronny Rafael
and Hector Martinez and pitcher Cristofer Melendez.
Major League Baseball - Suspended Oakland Athletics minor league outfielder
Herschel Powell 50 games for violation of the Minor League Drug Prevention and
Treatment Program.
New York Yankees - Recalled pitcher Shane Greene from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre
Oakland Athletics - Claimed outfielder Kenny Wilson off waivers from the
Toronto Blue Jays and optioned him to Sacramento (PCL).
Seattle Mariners - Designated catcher John Buck for assignment.
St. Louis Cardinals - Recalled pitcher Tyler Lyons from Memphis (PCL);
optioned pitcher Marco Gonzales to Memphis.
Tampa Bay Rays - Activated pitcher Cesar Ramos from the paternity list;
optioned pitcher Jeff Beliveau to Durham (IL).
Texas Rangers - Recalled pitcher Roman Mendez from Round Rock (PCL); selected
the contract of outfielder Jake Smolinski from Round Rock; optioned outfielder
Michael Choice to Round Rock; designated infielder Donnie Murphy for
Toronto Blue Jays - Placed first baseman Edwin Encarnacion on the 15-day
disabled list; activated outfielder Nolan Reimold from the 15-day disabled
Detroit Pistons - Named Brian Wright assistant general manager.
Memphis Grizzlies - Signed guard Jordan Adams to a multi-year contract;
announced that forward Zach Randolph exercised his player option for the
2014-15 season and signed a multi-year contract extension.
New York Knicks - Named Kurt Rambis associate head coach.
San Antonio Spurs - Signed guard Bryce Cotton.
Calgary Stampeders (CFL) - Signed wide receiver Eric Rogers to the practice
Edmonton Eskimos (CFL) - Signed wide receiver L.J. Castile and defensive back
Markus Smith to the practice roster.
Toronto Argonauts (CFL) - Acquired defensive back Dwight Anderson from the
Saskatchewan Roughriders in exchange for a conditional pick in the 2015 draft.
Winnipeg Blue Bombers (CFL) - Signed linebacker Teague Sherman and defensive
tackle Jake Thomas to contract extensions.
Chicago Blackhawks - Named Jimmy Waite goaltending coach.
Columbus Blue Jackets - Re-signed forward Corey Tropp to a two-year contract
extension; re-signed defenseman Cody Goloubef to a one-year, two-way contract.
Dallas Stars - Signed goaltender Jussi Rynnas to a two-year contract.
Edmonton Oilers - Agreed to terms with defenseman Jeff Petry on a one-year
Florida Panthers - Named Mike Kelly and Mark Morris assistant coaches.
Nashville Predators - Signed defenseman Anton Volchenkov to a one-year
Connecticut - Named Jen McIntyre head softball coach.


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And it seems very fitting that "When Will This End?" was stuck in my head the entire time hahaha
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Yeah it was pure torture lol and then they squeeze as many people together in the smallest little isles in the courtroom just in case u didn't hate being there enough already lol and yes, it is an AMAZING song to have stuck n ur head ;)
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That's a great song to have stuck in your head. Some of the words in the song are very fitting. It can be a long day when waiting to see if you get jury duty.
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Former foreign affairs minister Stephen Smith slams the WA Government's plan to close the state's trade office in Indonesia.
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The World Food Programme has suspended crucial aid to Syrian refugees because of a funding crisis.
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China's president has announced a range of initiatives to increase Beijing's engagement with eight countries in the Pacific region.
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Chinese president Xi Jinping has signed five agreements with Fiji's prime minister Frank Bainimarama, with the aim of strengthening economic and strategic ties with Pacific island nations.
Five memorandums of understanding (MOU) were signed following a meeting between Mr Xi and Mr Bainimarama.
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David Thompson from Cervantes lobster exporting company Indian Ocean Rock Lobster says other nations have been enjoying free trade with China for years. Read more
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott and French President Francois Hollande joint press conference (with interpreter) on an FTA with the European Union. President Hollande says importation bans on products like pork would need to be lifted Read more
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The French President says any free trade negotiations between Australia and the European Union (EU) should look at easing restrictions on pork imports.
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It's 25 years since the United Nations set standards for protecting children, and Save the Children's Mat Tinkler says many countries still need to improve children's access to education.
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Cloncurry grazier Dan Lynch is waiting to hear if health protocol negotiations will lift China's ban on the export of northern Australian cattle to its shores. Australian Live Exporters Association (ALEC) Chief Executive Alison Penfold says experts are doing all they can to make sure northern cattle exposed to a strain of non-clinical bluetongue virus are included in the free trade deal. Read more
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The international money transfer sector is uniting to try to stop Australian banks from shutting down the industry this month.
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Australia and France are still considered allies more than a century after World War I because the two countries are fighting terrorism together, French president Francois Hollande says.
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A free trade agreement with China would see a Red Centre mango wine exporter dancing in the street. The current Chinese import tariff on the fruit wine is around 40%. Following signing an FTA with China, Australian mango wine makers would see the current tariff disappear over four years. Red Centre mango wine maker and exporter, John Crayford, is pretty excited as he's worked hard over the years to establish and maintain a business relationship with Chinese wine distributors. He also provides some insight on how the unique wine is made. Read more.
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A free trade agreement (FTA) with China would see a Central Australian mango wine exporter dancing in the street.
Topics: fruit, trade, international-aid-and-trade, alice-springs-0870
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It was the battle of two Frenchmen in the Final at Metz. Gilles Simon defeated Jo-Wilfried Tsonga 6-4, 6-3 to earn the Championship.
Tsonga entered the tournament looking for his third consecutive Metz title but Simon had a different idea. Simon took advantage of Tsonga struggling serve, breaking 4 times in the match.
Simon served brilliantly in the tournament and was broken only once in the match and earned his 11th career title. Simon came into the tournament as the 18h ranked player on the tour and will see his stock continue to rise after the victory. His next stop is Bangkok for the Thailand Open, where he has earned a 4 seed and a first round bye.
Tomas Berdych, Milos Raonic and Richard Gasquet will join Simon as the top 4 seeds, all receiving first round byes.
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I just wanted to plug my AR-15 blocks in case any of you guys are planning on building your own AR-15.
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I just wanted to plug my AR-15 blocks in case any of you guys are planning on building your own AR-15.
AR-15 Tooling Blocks
Looks nice! Ive always contemplated an AR-15 build. Lets say excluding tools and jigs that need to build one, what would you estimate the costs of such a build to be. Taking into consideration buying an 80% receiver and parts kit.
Justin-- I am in awe of the work which you produce.
Recognizing that the operator skill level is always the largest component; is it possible to produce that quality of work on a 50-year-old Bridgeport, with out DRO, and with a 30 thousands backlash in the lead screw?
yosuthnmasa: It really just depends on what kinda of rifle you are wanting build and how many bells and whistles you want to have. You don't really save a whole lot of money building your own rifle, but it's nice to know that you built it yourself when your done. I would probably say you could build a basic gun for $400-$500... just depending on where you get the parts from. I really like using Model 1 Sales for the AR parts.
Winn R: Thanks, I'm glad you like the work I've done Huh...you could probably build a gun on a 50 year old mill w/o a DRO, but the 0.030" backlash could be a problem. You would really have to be on your toes to always be thinking about that backlash. I'm not that good with a manual mill, since most of my work has been done on CNC machines.....so I probably couldn't do it, but there are people out there that could probably work with the backlash problem and still make a good part.
I'll have to say, I'm constantly in awe of your work Justin. I wish I had half your skills and resources. I do have a set of your blocks and have used them a few times - those things are priceless. The workmanship is immaculate and they have saved me hours. Thanks!
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