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Posted by Mark J. Miller on March 26, 2013 04:17 PM
Cigarette buyers in Uruguay, Thailand, Australia and about 35 other countries and jurisdictions all have to deal with nasty images on the packs that remind them of just how unhealthy smoking can be. But the FDA, despite years of trying, can't seem to get the same thing done in the United States.
Last week, the agency abandoned its long battle to put such images on packs as it faced an April 5 deadline of whether to appeal a court ruling that favored Big Tobacco. Don't think the plan is totally dead, though. The FDA will "undertake research to support a new rulemaking consistent with the Tobacco Control Act," MedicalDaily.com reports.Continue reading...
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Posted by Mark J. Miller on July 23, 2012 12:32 PM
PepsiCo today announced a multi-year relationship with the Pittsburgh Steelers to be the NFL team's exclusive "non-alcoholic beverage, salty snacks and sports fuel provider."
The deal marks the Steelers' first such partnership, and gives PepsiCo the rights to exclusive selling, dispensing and serving at Heinz Field; fixed stadium signage; venue and team sponsor assets; integration into the team's mobile, TV and digital assets; and local media and retail promotional opportunities.
The stadium conversion will be complete by the start of the Steelers' 2012 season. PepsiCo is also introducing a limited-edition commemorative Pepsi MAX can in honor of the Steelers' 80th anniversary, available throughout Pennsylvania beginning in the fall. That's not PepsiCo's only limited-edition commemorative can.
PepsiCo is preparing to roll out "a new malt-flavored version of its Mountain Dew soda" that will appear in select 7-Eleven and Kroger stores, according to CSPnet.com.
The gold-tinted premium version of Mountain Dew just received trademark approval to be called Mountain Dew Johnson City Gold and will appear in refrigerator cases in late August in a few Midwestern cities as well as Denver and Charlotte, N.C.Continue reading...
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truth in packaging
Posted by Dale Buss on June 22, 2012 04:01 PM
Supermarket Sweep was a TV game show that started in the Sixties in which contestants jammed as many high-value products into their shopping carts as possible in just a minute or two. For CPG brands, the contemporary version of supermarket sweep isn't so kind. It's one reason there are so many lawsuits against companies over "misleading" advertising about the nutritional value of their foods these days: plaintiffs' lawyers.
A common factor behind new and recent suits against brands including Nutella, General Mills, Kellogg, Kraft and Quaker Oats is that nutrition advocacy groups such as Center for Science in the Public Interest conduct "supermarket sweeps" (as CSPI has urged the FDA).
The goal is to find ordinary American consumers in the grocery aisle who are willing to complain — or join a lawsuit — about language on their labels that might be less than completely forthcoming about how healthy the product is. And they turn over their leads to their litigious partners.Continue reading...
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what's in a name
Posted by Dale Buss on May 31, 2012 04:31 PM
What's in a name? A lot, if you've got an inconvenient one and you want to change it. Would John Denver ever have become beloved, or even reviled, as Henry John Deuschendorf?
Thus you can understand the disappointment of the makers of high-fructose corn syrup this week after the U.S. Food & Drug Administration rejected a request by the corn-refining giants to allow them to change the name of their product to "corn sugar."
The agency said that it defines sugar as a solid, dried and crystallized food — not a syrup. Plus there's already something that technically is a solid corn-based sweetener, dextrose. Thus, the corn refiners are stuck with the moniker — better known by the acronym HFCS — that might as well appear as a skull and crossbones on nutritional labels, the way many American mothers see it.Continue reading...
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health matters
Posted by Mark J. Miller on March 8, 2012 11:58 AM
When the news came out of the state of California a year ago that the stuff that makes your cola beverage brown has been linked to cancer, there were a number of consumers that likely didn't put their change into the vending machine that day.
The amount of that compound (4-methylimidazole, or 4-MEI) in soda would cause the state to need to put warning labels on all of its cans, NPR reports. This, in turn, led to the Washington, D.C.-based Center for Science in the Public Interest (CSPI) to lobby the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to "ban ammonia-sulfite caramel color," according to NPR. Coke Clear, anyone?
While the cola companies and caramel manufacturers are obviously stating that there is no validity to these claims, the FDA is also chiming in that this could be much ado about not much. In any event, Coca-Cola and PepsiCo, which account for almost 90% of the U.S. soda market, have tweaked their formulas in compliance with the Californian law — averting the need to add a cancer warning label.Continue reading...
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brand commentary
Posted by Barry Silverstein on February 9, 2012 06:15 PM
Built on the back of its ubiquitous retail operation, Walmart has become the largest grocer in the U.S. That position carries with it a certain responsibility, and Walmart is rising to the occasion. The company, for example, has been publicly acknowledged by the first lady, Michelle Obama, for its work in helping to encourage healthy eating and fight childhood obesity.
As we noted here earlier, Walmart's latest entry into the nutritional battlefield is a product labeling strategy it calls "Great for You." As the company explains, this "nutrition icon" will begin appearing this spring on foods that "meet rigorous nutrition criteria informed by the latest nutrition science and authoritative guidance from the 2010 Dietary Guidelines for Americans, U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA), U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and Institute of Medicine (IOM)."
At first, the green "Great for You" labels, depicting a non-descript person with arms raised, will appear only on products within Walmart's own brands, Great Value and Marketside. Walmart claims, however, that it will allow other brands to make use of the label on products adhering to the same criteria with no licensing fee. In theory, this would help level the playing field between Walmart branded products and other brands sitting on Walmart shelves. But does it?Continue reading...
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Posted by Mark J. Miller on February 9, 2012 10:02 AM
The Food and Drug Administration said in 2009 that it was going to develop standards for what food products can claim to be healthy and what can't. But there hasn't been any kind of report as of yet, and Walmart has decided to stop waiting and make one of its own.
A year after pledging to develop a front-of-pack label that would give its customers an easier way to identify healthier food, and a month after a public commitment with First Lady Michelle Obama to putting nutrition front and center in its stores, the nation's largest food retailer this week unveiled a "Great For You" icon to create a visual system to educate customers.
The Arkansas-based grocery behemoth announced this week that the seal will appear on a variety of house brand food items, with a WalmartGreatforYou.com website supporting the effort.
The green and white seal, "which shows the stylized outline of a human figure with its arms spread toward the sky, is part of a multiyear campaign the world's largest retailer is undertaking to promote healthier products and fight childhood obesity," the Associated Press reports.
Walmart says it will adapt to whatever the FDA's regulations are whenever that list actually is produced, but will for now add the icon to products with lower levels of fat, sugar, and artificial additives. Plus, the seal will appear on signage in the fruits and vegetable section of its grocery area.
"It helps customers see very, very quickly what healthier choices are for them," stated Andrea Thomas, SVP of sustainability for Wal-Mart Stores. More details are in its press release below.Continue reading...
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Posted by Mark J. Miller on January 26, 2012 12:29 PM
As the world becomes more and more aware of environmental issues, pretty much everybody and their brother is thinking globally and acting locally.
And marketers, of course, have taken plenty of notice and are more than willing to share just how great their product is for the environment or how great the production of their product is good for the environment (or at least isn't that harmful). The incredible growth of these little notices to consumers, which generally come in the form of stickers of symbols and little logos stuck to their products, are starting to seemingly mean nothing.
The Seattle Times notes that the government has not set up "one central eco-labeling system" because it "would be extremely expensive and complicated to operate." Instead, there are numerous eco-labeling programs that are generally dedicated to one industry.Continue reading...
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Cill Aodain Court Hotel is located in Kiltimagh village, in the heart of County Mayo. This newly refurbished hotel is the perfect haven for a relaxing break away in the beautiful Irish countryside. Kiltimagh is a picturesque village which offers a variety of activities from a sculpture park to horseriding, fishing and golf. At Cill Aodain Court Hotel, you are guaranteed comfortable accommodation and exquisite service. Why not enjoy a meal in the candle lit dining room and bistro, which specialise in continental and country cuisine or unwind in the intimate modern bar with open fires? AA Recommended
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Present Prosthetics 25 year old Matthew Nagle, former football star became involved in a melee at the beach and he was stabbed. Doctors said that Nagle would most likely die. Luckily he survived and volunteered for an experimental trial to see if a human can effectively manipulate a computer cursor using a brain-computer interface. Surgically implanted beneath Nagle's skull, is an array of electrodes. On a chip contiguous to the part of his brain that controls motor activity. The chip has 100 tiny hairs thin to pick up the electrical signals transmitted by the brain, each electrode picking up signals from a few nearby neurons. A square gray plug is screwed onto a pedestal, which is connected by wires to a nearby computer. When Nagle's neurons fire the impulses are decoded by special software that can interpret the electrical pop of sets neurons, in other wise reading his mind. This software is used to decipher a few simple commands spoken in the electrical language. Nagle can sit in front of a prosthetic hand hooked up to a computer and it will open and closed to the thoughts of Nagle opening and closing his own hand. Nagle is the first human to control a prosthetic limb with his mind. Scientist at a rehabilitation institute in Chicago describes a procedure to surgically implant nerves from the shoulder to the upper chest muscles of a woman who has lost her arm. The rerouted nerves then grew into the muscle which strengthens the messages sent to the muscle in the arm and hands; which are now read by the sensors of a prosthetic limb. The patient has developed a surprising degree of sensory perception, scientist say that will be the key in the next generation of prosthetics. Most artificial arms are controlled by remaining muscles in the arm but the devices can be frustrating and slow. The user must consciously contract the muscles for any movement at all, and only one movement can be performed at a time. Scientist have transplanted to the upper chest both motor and sensory nerves that would have traveled from the shoulder to the muscles in the arm and the hand in the months after the surgery the transplanted nerves grew into the chest muscle triggering twitches in the shoulder muscle when the patient thought about moving her arm or elbow. Within a few days afterwards the patient was able to use her new arm four times as fast on movement test as she would have been with traditional prosthetics. She said that the device was much easier to use, she could now move the elbow hand and wrist at the same time. We have come a long way in the engineering and mechanizing prosthetics over the last few centuries, but we still have a lot of room to improve on. |
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Our little family is beginning to find a new normal since the birth of Teddy. Each day feels a little less chaotic and I'm starting to see glimpses of rhythm to our day. I am working on reducing our time spent watching shows, but I think this will happen naturally as the snow melts and we go outdoors more and more.
Making three meals a day is still hit and miss. I didn't freeze meals before Teddy was born because my freezers were already full of meat. Luckily, my friends have dropped off soups, lasagnas and granola with yoghurt and these have been very handy. My slow cooker is getting a lot of use, which would make my sister-in-law proud. Yesterday I made a delicious slow-cooker potato soup.
My knitting last week was abysmal. I gave up on the Pembroke Vest after frogging it a third time. Apparently, I can't read a pattern or knit properly while I have a fever. After putting that project aside I needed something quick and easy to boost my knitting-esteem. Enter the Milo vest, stage right. This vest seems to be my go to project these days. I've promised myself that once I've finished the vest for Teddy I'll make something for myself. Perhaps a cardigan or shawl.
As for reading, I'm working through House at Riverton (still) and reading the little ones books about spring, Mud, The Curious Garden and Make Way For Ducklings to name a few.
To see what others are knitting this week visit Ginny's Yarn Along.
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I learned this winter that I can't knit while sick either. I was attempting such a simple pattern too! Ugh! I finally got it finished and decided to give the needles (and me) a break and get busy with the garden plans. We had snow again this week, so actual planting is on hold...
"Make Way" is such an adorable book! My kids love it. Enjoy your reading time and get well!
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Who Do You Account ToAuthor: Catherine Pulsifer |
Reflect on these words of wisdom from Charles M. Schwab: The person you have to account to is you. You should never try to mold yourself to meet anyone else's desires, or views. Attempting to please everyone in your life will only cause internal conflict, a sure formula for failure. As well, you may easily find yourself working on their dreams and not your own. As you work to achieve your goals, some people will criticize you. Their criticism, however, may be no more than jealousy. You may well find that even members of your own family will question your intentions or try and dissuade you from continuing on. This also applies to friends that may be more envious than supportive. It is difficult to accept their criticism and the long and short of it is this: do not let anyone stop you, influence you, or degrade your vision a new life, career, or education. Don't let someone else's opinions stop you. Rather than focusing your energy on trying to become what other people want, decide on who you want to become. Only you can live your life - you do not live someone else's life, so why should someone attempt to make you do so? And, you do not advance your desires if you constantly focus on what you see other people have including those big fancy houses, or those high paying jobs. And, what you see on TV or in the movies about celebrity mansions doesn't translate into action for you to advance your own strategy. The real problem is to focus your energy where it counts. That specific energy should not be wasted on daydreaming or wishing that your wants will somehow appear out of the blue. It is also far too easy to find excuses to do something else with your available time especially when you run into a rough patch, or, using your available time to do household chores that can wait or are not critical. If you have a partner or spouse, you desperately need them to buy into your need to use the majority of your time to keep your momentum going towards the accomplishment of your own dream. And, this is not the time to give away your energy and time to extraneous demands made on you by friends and relatives. It is really easy to give in to others who do not help advance your goals. It is not that you are being stingy or selfish; you are being focused on the real necessity of going forward because not to makes it much too easy to quit altogether. In the process of achieving what you want, there are sacrifices you will have to make. I know this will not sit well with your desire to enjoy those relaxing times you have had in the past, or those trips, or those evenings in front of the TV watching a fantastic movie but sacrifice now will pay huge dividends in the future. After all, you are working for the future satisfaction of accomplishing a very important goal but you must be aware that a lot of people quit far too early into their action plan because they see other things to do that are enjoyable right now. Focus your energy on achieving your own wants and desires. To summarize I will leave you with wisdom from Anita Septimus: You don't choose the day you enter the world and you don't chose the day you leave. It's what you do in between that makes all the difference." |
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MissingUser.Save() overrides User.Save() and does nothing.
Side note: we could definitely go with checking cache.Contains("John"), and acting on the result, but I think this is too much detail for this level of abstraction, and may be violating Tell, Don't Ask.
Suppose we want to display a User's profile. Our User class has a string called Name and a bitmap called Picture.
User user = profiles.Get("Mark");
if (user != null)
this.Name = user.Name; // Binding is for the weak.
this.Picture = user.Picture;
When a User is not found in the profiles repository, we could make it return an instance of the regular User class, where User.Name = "Not Found", and Picture is something like
This way, we can just write:
User user = profiles.Get("Mark");
this.Name = user.Name;
this.Picture = user.Picture;
and a profile will always be displayed.
What if we wanted to check if a User exists in a managers repository, and only if it is not found, fetch it from a clerks repository? One might be tempted to write something like:
User user = managers.Get("Ahmed");
if (user != null)
// Ahmed is a manager.
// Ahmed must be a clerk.
user = clerks.Get("Ahmed");
In the previous examples, we avoided the conditional (null check) by using Special Case. If you look at the requirement for this example, you'll see that the conditional is built into it, and there is no way to get around it.
But if we use the same technique we used in the second example, we could create an instance of User, that has a boolean property called Exists, which will be populated according to the result. This way, we could express our condition much better:
User user = managers.Get("Ahmed");
if (user.Exists)
// Ahmed is a manager.
// Ahmed must be a clerk.
user = clerks.Get("Ahmed");
No code saved here, but our intention is much clearer this way.
What the hell is a "if (user != null)"? English, people.
]]>public IEnumerable<Picture> GetAllPictures()
if ( .. there are pictures .. )
return pictures;
return null;
Oh boy, users of this method would have to check for nulls every time before they operate on it: (if they don't they might get a NullReferenceException, which s-uhhh-cks)
var pictures = GetAllPictures();
if (pictures != null)
foreach (var picture in pictures)
Isn't that null check a big distraction from the actual logic? If you use a Special Case for that enumerable and return Enumerable<Picture>.Empty(), the calling code could be reduced to:
var pictures = GetAllPictures();
foreach (var picture in pictures)
Much better, no?
]]>When you get assigned to implement feature X, unit tests are just another part of that assignment. Just like planning, compiling, banging your head on the keyboard or writing documentation.
Sure, I get it, you want to show that you are very trendy and professional, especially since the project manager has asked everyone to unit test. But if you want to be a real professional, just silently work on unit tests and say "I'm working on feature X".
And write those unit tests before code. And don't drink water from a puddle.
]]>For example, I am currently testing a custom IList<T> implementation, and in a specific test case, I want to make sure a specific entry exists instead of another. Before compound constraints, I would have written these 2 asserts:
Assert.That(this.subject, Has.Member("rauchy"));
Assert.That(this.subject, Has.No.Member("Omer"));
My problem with this code is that these two asserts represent a single fact - I want to make sure that rauchy makes it to the list, and not Omer. One might interpert them as two independent facts. With compound constraints, I can just write:
Assert.That(this.subject, Has.Member("rauchy") & Has.No.Member("Omer"));
This way, you cannot think of this as two independent facts. Also, this helps follow the one-assert-per-test rule.
]]>I've seen dozens of holy wars regarding the subject of naming conventions - when a project starts, when a new team member comes along, when the team leader is replaced etc.
I used to think that a project should have a single naming convention, and everyone should follow it. Now, I'm not so sure any more. I mean, what is really so important about naming conventions? What makes a project with a unified naming convention better than a project without one?
The first argument for naming conventions is always unity. You want all your data members to look the same.
But, think of it, what is really that important about unity? What business value do you get from it? Does it cut down development time? Does it improve performance?
IMO, if one developer wants his field to be called "_identifier", another wants "m_identifier" and the other wants "nIdentifier", just let them! No one ever died from Hungarian notation or a "m_" prefix, I believe.
For those who still believe in Hungarian notation (or any of its siblings), readability seems to be a great argument for naming conventions.
However, Hungarian notation might have been a good argument a decade ago. Today, all IDE's provide great intellisense, and one could determine the type of a member in a second by hovering on it.
Determining the scope of a variable (method or class) is important, but can also be easily discovered by intellisense.
I'm not trying to say you shouldn't have a naming convention in your project. I'm just trying to say, don't let it bother you so much.
Set up a naming convention at the beginning of the project, have your team members agree on it, but don't hunt down any exception and have it fixed.
Write a unit test or get a cup of coffee instead.
Do you think naming conventions are important? Where would you draw the line?
]]>I hope to learn some stuff I just never get around to, such as:
I don't think I'll be able to share any knowledge, since I'm positive that I will be stunned by the high-level knowledge of the people there.
So I'm off to stare and drool. See you there!
]]>I did, however, try to keep up and see what's the fuss about extension methods, but I never got it. I mean, this is anti-encapsulation at it best - break into any type, do whatever you feel like. Total chaos.
So I gave it some time. I didn't force it into any of my projects until the time was right. Then I finally got it - extension methods are ideal for little pieces of code which you need, but creating a utility class for them feels wrong.
For example, I was implementing a new feature for Regionerate a couple of days ago in which I had to sort a list, split it into distinct values and recursively sort it again.
Its a reflection-based sort and it has quite a bit of logic in it, so it had a class & unit tests just for it. I had to take care of the splitting thingy, but it felt wrong to add it as a method in the sort class, as it operates on lists. It really feels like a method that should run on IList<T>.
Subclassing List<T> for the job feels wrong - c'mon, how would you pitch such a class? "It's a list that you can split!". Unpersuasive.
That's how I got it: If IList<T> was built especially for Regionerate, it would have had a reflection-based Split function, but since its not, I should implement it as an extension method.
Took me 2 minutes and works like a charm.
1: public static IDictionary<object, IList<T>> Slice<T>(
2: this IList<T> list, PropertyInfo propertyInfo)
3: {
4: IDictionary<object, IList<T>> slices =
5: new Dictionary<object, IList<T>>();
6: foreach (T t in list)
7: {
8: // Get the value of propertyInfo.
9: object value = propertyInfo.GetValue(t, null);
11: // Add it to slices.
12: if (slices.Keys.Contains(value))
13: {
14: // slices already has a slice for this value.
15: slices[value].Add(t);
16: }
17: else
18: {
19: // there is no slice for this value
20: // inside slices, create a new slice.
21: IList<T> newSlice = new List<T>();
22: newSlice.Add(t);
23: slices.Add(value, newSlice);
24: }
25: }
27: return slices;
28: }
A fully documented, well-aligned version of this extension method is freely available here.
]]>I've read Framework Design Guidelines a couple of years back and learned a whole lot from it. It definitely makes it to my top 5.
However, I've had problems convincing my staff members to read it, as it contains~400 pages of design tips, which are quite hard to read in succession.
The Framework Design Guidelines Digest narrows the basics down to 9 pages. I recommend everyone to download and read it every once in a while.
Quoting Krzysztof:
This document is a distillation and a simplification of the most basic guidelines described in detail in a book titled Framework Design Guidelines by Krzysztof Cwalina and Brad Abrams. Framework Design Guidelines were created in the early days of .NET Framework development. They started as a small set of naming and design conventions but have been enhanced, scrutinized, and refined to a point where they are generally considered the canonical way to design frameworks at Microsoft. They carry the experience and cumulative wisdom of thousands of developer hours over several versions of the .NET Framework.
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We apologize for the second notice if you have already received notification of this important DC Council hearing from WABA. But I am sending a special email to all those who completed our Crash Tracker form to alert you to the opportunity to tell your story before the DC Council in a public hearing on bicyclist and pedestrian safety. WABA will be there pushing for better enforcement of bicycle laws, better training of police officers, and improved legal protections for cyclists and vulnerable road users--including the proposed Assault of Bicyclists Prevention Act.
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Thank you,
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In February, WABA--along with many of you--testified before the DC Council's Committee on the Judiciary regarding the need for better enforcement of traffic laws to protect bicyclists. The stories told that day were compelling and, in some cases heartbreaking, and led Councilmember Mendelson to refer the issue to the Office of Police Complaints for investigation. Earlier this month, the Office of Police Complaints released its reports verifying our claims and finding that, indeed, the DC Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) is in need of improvements to its crash reporting and response systems and training regarding bicyclists.
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Straight From The Barrel: The Glenlivet Cellar Collection 1964 Limited Edition
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Posted: May 28, 2004
The Glenlivet master distiller Jim Cryle has scored another hit with its fifth release of the company's series of Cellar Collection whiskies, this time with a 40-year-old quaff laid down in the same year the Beatles scored their first hit in the United States.
Unlike the 1959 vintage released last year, The Glenlivet Cellar Collection 1964 Limited Edition will be sold in select liquor stores this year at a set price of $2,000 a bottle. Of the 1,824 bottles rendered by the batch of 14 casks, 800 will be available in the United States. The previous year's edition (100 bottles in the U.S.) was auctioned for charity and raised $106,000. The top price paid for a bottle of the whisky, which was estimated to be worth between $500 and $700, was $6,000.
This year's edition marries whiskies aged in barrels formerly used for Sherry and Bourbon. The result is a sublime meeting of the two. The nose speaks of Sherry, but hints at the vanilla with nuts and some oakiness, consistent with Bourbon. The spice of Sherry transforms on the palate into licorice, and the Bourbon characteristics become bread dough. But then come fruits and flowers that hadn't shown on the nose. The fruit is sweet but never cloying, something like sloe or currant. The flowers are pure heather without the typical perfume of many Speysides. The finish will keep you waiting for minutes to take your next sip as full barrage of tastes overcome you.
The full effect is one that brings together the smoothness of the region with the complexity that comes with age. Or as Cryle himself puts it: "It's mature, rich and sexy, the Sean Connery of malt whisky."
This taste was distilled two years before Cryle first worked in the Scotch whisky industry and 27 years before he would take over at The Glenlivet as master distiller in 1991. Cryle, who came from a background as a chemist at the North Scotland College of Agriculture, nevertheless confessed to some alchemy in the creation of the 1964 edition. "There are mysteries of maturation," he said, "things that we don't understand."
As such, these Cellar Collection releases, which Cryle oversees, are the product not so much of advanced planning, but constant monitoring to pick the most opportune time to bottle the casks. At that age Scotch is in danger of going bad from over aging and losing too much alcohol content to be classified as whisky (less than 40 percent, or 80 proof). Happily, neither occurred. The single malt is presented at cask strength of 44.7 percent (85.4 proof) and is not chill filtered.
Other releases in the Cellar Collection include: The Glenlivet French Oak Finish 1983, The Glenlivet Cellar Collection 1967 and The Glenlivet American Oak Finish 30-Year-Old. Glenlivet also sells an 18-year-old single malt, a 21-year-old dubbed Archive, and two 12-year-olds, one with a French oak finish.
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Man on a Ledge
Nick Cassidy is a convicted cop who got sent to jail after stealing a diamond worth 40 million dollars from wealthy businessman David Englander. Although he always kept saying he was innocent, nobody believed him and when his final appeal comes up short, he's left with nothing but his ultimate plan to prove his innocense. When his dad dies, he gets permission to visit the funeral and takes that opportunity to escape. A few days later, he arrives in the Roosevelt Hotel where he crawls out of the window and stands on the ledge, ready to jump. At least, that's what people are supposed to believe.
While negotiator Lydia Mercer tries to talk him off the ledge, his brother Joey and his girlfriend Angie are across the street, breaking into Englander's building to retrieve the diamond and as such show the world Englander never lost it and scammed the world.
Man on a Ledge lacks credibility. The entire scheme to prove Cassidy's innocense is supposedly planned for over a year, but when you watch the movie there's a ton of inconsistencies and the script relies heavily on coincidences that each time just suddenly happen and help our hero in achieving his goal. As such, you really have to turn off your brain if you want to enjoy this movie especially towards the end which even completely undermines Cassidy's entire escape in the first place.
If you do manage to stop thinking about what's going on, then you'll find director Asger Leth did deliver an enjoyable thriller that contains a bit of Ocean's Eleven combined with The Negotiator. Add to that a Sam Worthington who shows why he's one of the rising stars in Hollywood, Ed Harris who as always is perfectly cast as the villain, Elizabeth Banks as the understanding and supportive negotiator, and Genesis Rodriguez as the smoking hot babe who cannot be left out, and you've got everything for almost two hours of pure entertainment.
The image looks very clean, skin tones are natural and strong, compression errors are absent, the sky shots of New York are great and for once hardly contain any aliasing, and Rodriguez's pink bra is just pure perfection. Yes, we do like to see some female flesh in a movie now and then, especially when it look as gorgious as in Man on a Ledge.
The soundtrack nicely supports the movie with good use of the surrounds for environment sounds created by the people in the streets and the wind wooshing around the building where Worthington is standing. The subwoofer meanwhile actively supports the whole, giving the extra oomph with explosions and music. Technically, Man on a Ledge is near perfection.
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In less than two weeks the original social network site Friendster will disappear into the digital ether. Many readers will not be aware that it ever existed, nor that it was the pioneer in the field - the forerunner to MySpace and Facebook.
Meanwhile, MySpace is still alive but experiencing declining fortunes despite the efforts of its owner, Rupert Murdoch, to retain its pulse and sell it.
The reality is that Facebook is the new black in the social network fashion stakes. In the non-listed grey market the business is supposed to be worth $50 billion.
But right now in the dotcom 2.0 era all attention is focused on another business networking site, Linkedin, which is about to hit the US listed space with a value of about $4 billion.
Three weeks ago it was being ascribed a value 30 per cent below this, but expectation and greed have taken over. The investment banks and entrepreneurs that invested in the business network - covering the professional end of the networking market - are set to make a killing by selling shares to the punters in investor land.
Only a small proportion of the company is being offered for sale and the limited supply is further whetting investor appetite.
The pricing defies the general trend in world equities markets. Instead, digital social networks are viewed as the new growth engine - much like the dotcom stocks were 10 years ago.
The public offering of Linkedin shares will provide some kind of a curtain-raiser for the upcoming public sale of the big boys in the market, Facebook and Groupon.
Both are slated to list over the next year and Linkedin is said to be the litmus test for their success.
The spate of IPOs in the digital networking space is probably no coincidence. To the more cynical observers it is seen as an opportunity to cash in on the popularity of dotcom 2.0.
For companies such as these, brimming with potential and opportunity, the question needs to be asked: why are the owners selling?
In the business development cycle there are three phases.
The first stage has unfulfilled potential, the middle phase is established but with the ability to grow, and the final part is mature, where the market is fully evolved but there are no new customers on the horizon.
Social networking sits in phase one. The establishment work has been done, and the next group of owners get to take the real risk. There are plenty of users. Linkedin has 100,000 professionals on its digital books. Facebook has half a billion people hooked into its site.
Pregnant with revenue potential, it is no surprise that investors can see that these companies are the way to make new fortunes.
The risk is that none has found a way to generate serious revenue. They have yet to monetise all these millions of people that use their networks. We don't pay to use
Linkedin or Facebook.
The nirvana for online sites is to attract advertising. This notion is still in its infancy when it comes to social networking , whether it's a site for professionals or general users.
But first, in order for the business model to work, users need to be ''sticky''. The demise of Friendster and the decline of MySpace defy the conventions of economic theory.
Critical mass is meant to ensure success. The larger the population of users, the more difficult it should be for new entrants to break in. Large crowds bring with them momentum.
Strangely, this has not been the case in social networks. If it was, Friendster would rule today. Who is to say that Facebook will remain the go-to site for catching up with those in your social network?
Those who reckon the business is worth $50 billion are banking that it will. And let's assume they and the investors valuing Linkedin at $4 billion are right.
They have only passed the first hurdle. The next is for these networks to make sufficient profit to justify the heady values. To date, there is not sufficient evidence that the advertisers have committed. So there is no proper business model.
Thus, these are not conventional companies that can be properly valued on a multiple of earnings. If they can find advertisers to match the audience they will be.
The internet search companies like Google appear to have mastered the commercial side of their product offering, having found the formula for attracting advertisers.
It's therefore no surprise that there has been lots of noise about Facebook cuddling up to search engines.
Meanwhile, introducing advertising to Facebook has it own set of problems. The site is a personal one. There could easily be resistance to advertising popping up next to one's personal wall. Why is it all that different to an ad for Coke interrupting a phone conversation?
It may be premature to place Linkedin and Facebook in the same basket. Linkedin users may be more relaxed about an advertisement on their site.
All these notions fall into the unknown basket. And this is exactly why the sceptics are pondering whether these businesses will ultimately make the big returns needed to justify the sharemarket values being ascribed to them.
They are clearly larger and more evolved than the original dotcom contestants.
But there are a number of similar and worrying features - not the least of which is that the earnings potential is untested but the valuations are fulsome.


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It used to be that we kept children away from funerals and did not talk to them about what was happening around them. Today, we know that children grieve when they experience loss, and they will experience that loss and grief in a wide variety of ways, just as adults do.
Children need to have their questions answered, in a way that they can understand. Be sensitive to their age , in the language they use and can understand, and without lies. Use concrete words, such as "died" or "killed", rather than "passed away" or "lost his wife". The latter implies that his wife will return or needs to be found.
Children can often cope better with a situation if they have choices and are allowed to express their opinions. They may have a view about how they want to say goodbye to a loved one who has died, and may want to participate in the funeral is some way.
Remembering the person (or pet) who has died is a part of the healing process. Talking about the deceased with fond memories can give a child permission to share their feelings about the situation. Children also often like to retain keepsakes which hold an emotional attachment, and can help them to remember and feel closer to the person who has died.
Everyone grieves in their own way, so respecting the differences is important. Listening to the children, and respecting their feelings and what they have to say helps to reinforce that the child's grief is legitimate and helps them to heal. Using open ended questions to help them to talk, rather than telling them that you know how they feel or to get over it.
Children may surprise you by taking a break from their grief to play or have fun. This is normal and is not disrespectful. It is just part of being human.
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Anne Hathaway Wedding Photos Leaked
Anne Hathaway wedding photos have leaked!
The brand new photos show Anne and Adam Shulman getting married in Big Sur, California over the weekend. Anne wore a custom Valentino gown in front of about 100 guests at the private wedding. The got engaged back in November and had been dating for about four years.
Check out Anne Hathaway getting married to Adam Shulman and sound off in the comments! (Splash)


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The City will host a free flu shot clinic through the Orange County Health Care Agency for people 50 years of age and older on Wednesday, Dec. 16.
The agency just received its shipment of the seasonal flu vaccine for the clinic that takes place from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. (as the vaccine is available) at the Norman P. Murray Community and Senior Center, 24932 Veterans Way.
The clinic is also offered to caregivers and people with chronic health conditions.
People who are allergic to eggs or who are sick should refrain from getting the flu shot.
For more information, call 949-470-3062.


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This WIKI provides an overview of the most common inconsistencies and display issues that may occur on transaction MD04.
MD04 is a key transaction for production planning and control, which displays the up-to date stock and requirements situation. Every time transaction MD04 is accessed, planning elements and documents from different areas are read from database, compiled and displayed to the user.
In some cases, these elements may be incorrectly displayed on MD04, and this is generally caused by database inconsistencies. Since planning elements are read directly from database and they may belong to different areas, there are several possible causes and corrections for such inconsistencies. The most common problems are listed on this WIKI.
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- Overview
- Deleted or already completed sales order/delivery
- Sales order/delivery number is not displayed
- Inconsistent subcontracting dependent requirement
- Inconsistent "Nproc" dependent requirement
- Dependent requirement without parent planned order
- Field Available Quantity is blank
Deleted or already completed sales order/delivery
A deleted, already completed or simply inconsistent sales order, delivery, quotation or SD schedule agreement can be found on transaction MD04.
This is an inconsistency that can be corrected by the report SDRQCR21, which should be already available on your system. For more details about the report execution and the parameters, please refer to SAP Note 25444 .
In some cases, on a make-to-order scenario, the sales order is already completed, but the sales order stock is still displayed on MD04 because there is still a quantity linked to the sales order special stock. SAP Note 1723507 provides instructions to remove the stock and the sales order will not be displayed on MD04 anymore.
If you need further assistance to find the root cause of this issue, you may refer to question 1 of the SAP FAQ Note 547277 .
Sales order/delivery number is not displayed
A sales order, delivery, quotation or SD schedule agreement is displayed on transaction MD04 without any reference to the document number. Error message "61111 - Selected function cannot be used for the element" is displayed when you try to open the element.
This is not an inconsistency. It happens when "daily requirement" or "weekly requirement" is selected for the availability check in the material master. More information about this system is provided on SAP Notes 70408 and 1649669.
Inconsistent subcontracting dependent requirement
A subcontracting dependent requirement (planning element SubReq) for a purchase order or schedule agreement which was already processed or deleted is still displayed on transaction MD04.
This is an inconsistency that can be corrected by the report RM06C020, which should be already available on your system. You can find more details about this report and the source code (in case it is missing on your system) on SAP Note 115899 .
A known program error that can cause this inconsistency is corrected by SAP Note 1578969.
1578969 Active subcontracting requirement of deleted PReq
Inconsistent "Nproc" dependent requirement
"Nproc" dependent requirements are reprocessing records for goods movements that failed during a REM backflush. These records should be processed using transaction COGI or MF47, however, in some cases, they are inconsistent and they can't be processed.
If the report can be found on MF47 or COGI, but they can't be processed, it is an inconsistency that can be corrected by the report ZINCON_REPROC. This report is attached to SAP Note 383141 , which brings more information.
Otherwise, if this record can't be found on COGI or MF47, it is a 'lost' reprocessing record, for which the planned order does not exist anymore. You should implement and run the report ZRMBF06, which is attached to SAP note 95307 or following the procedure from SAP note 901146 .
Dependent requirement without parent planned order
A dependent requirement is displayed on transaction MD04 for which the planned order has already been deleted. The planned order number is displayed in the MRP element data of the dependent requirement, however, this planned order can't be accessed on transaction MD12 and it does not exist on table PLAF. When you try to access the planned order the error message "61 003 - Planned order XXX does not exist".
Report Z_CHECKRESB can be used to clear this inconsistency. You should open an OSS message so that SAP Support can analyze the issue and provide you the report.
Field Available Quantity is blank
The field "available quantity" from transaction MD04 is empty for an specific planning element. There are several possible causes and you can find an overview on knowledge base article 1825187.
Related Content
Related Documents
Related Notes
SAP Note 25444 : SDRQCR21: Recovery of sales and delivery
SAP Note 547277 : FAQ: Requirements in SD and in the delivery
SAP Note 70408 : No display of sales order number in MD04
SAP Note 115899 : Correction report for subcontractor requirements
SAP Note 383141 : RM887, RM757: Collect. note inconsistent postprocessing recs
SAP Note 95307 : Deletion report for 'lost' reprocessing records
SAP Note 901146 : NPROC dependent requirements can not be processed
SAP Note 1825187 : Available quantity incorrect on MD04/MD05
SAP Note 1578969 : Active subcontracting requirement of deleted PReq
SAP Note 1649669 - Sales order number or delivery number is not displayed in transaction MD04.
SAP Note 1723507 - Completed sales order displayed on MD04


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The Illinois Department of Transportation has settled on a route for Amtrak's new Chicago-to-Dubuque service and the City of Freeport is still on the list of stops for the new line. On the Otherhand, Several mudslides along Amtrak routes from Vancouver, B.C. to Portland have caused the cancellation of all trains between the two cities [...]
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Linux Distribtutions
There are over a hundred Linux distributions available. Knowing which one to choose only makes it more challenging for users to adopt Linux. This section aims to provide good information about different distributions and why you would want to choose one over the other. Covers the most popular distributions out there.


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CHIPPENHAM & DISTRICT SUNDAY LEAGUE DIVISION TWO: Miller Boys keep up with the top sides (From The Wiltshire Gazette and Herald)
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CHIPPENHAM & DISTRICT SUNDAY LEAGUE DIVISION TWO: Miller Boys keep up with the top sides
3:00pm Monday 9th September 2013 in News
MILLER Sports avoided relegation to Division Three at the end of the previous campaign due to the withdrawal of a number of sides and although Mike Stevens side may have had reservations about staying in Division Two for another season they look to have been unfounded.
Miller have built on their good pre-season, with a draw in their opening game against the highly-rated Buscots side which they followed up with a 4-2 victory over Potterne CFC.
Potterne were one up in the first couple of minutes when a mistake by manager Stevens was latched onto by Potterne and the ball played to Ben Mason, who slotted home to put the visitors to the Beeches in front.
Although heads could have gone down Miller started to play the ball around and created a number of chances with Stevens, Paul Walker and David Jenkins going close.
Miller made a change at half time and this paid off immediately, John Bridgman's cross causing uncertainty at the near post and Potterne defender Luke Campbell side-footing into his own net to bring the score level.
Miller then pressed on and two perfect crosses from Scott Boyd both found James Webb firstly with a side foot and then with his head to make it 3-1 to the hosts.
Miller then had a goal disallowed for offside and continued to push on. A corner from Potterne was claimed by goalkeeper Alex Coombs, who distributed perfectly to Joe Murray just in his own half.
His mazy run caused the Potterne defence all sorts of problems and they finally stopped him with a late tackle in the box he confidently stepped up and slotted the ball home from the penalty spot for 4-1.
Potterne took advantage of a bit of tiredness in the final few minutes and after some good build up play down the right wing, a cross picked out Ashley Huntley who beat the offside trap a tucked the ball under the advancing keeper to score the second for the losers.
Southwick Wanderers 3 FC Buscots 5
A 5-3 VICTORY for FC Buscots at home to Southwick Wanderers saw them earn their first victory of the new season and extend their unbeaten run to 24 games.
Rob Whyte scored the only goal of the first half to give Buscots their lead. Rob Drown increased the advantage at the start of the second half before Southwick got a foothold in the game when Carl Mackness reduced the arrears.
Phil Little regained a two-goal cushion for Buscots ans a first goal for the club from new signing Craig Townsend made it 4-1.
Craig Shepherd kept Southwick in the game but they lost further ground on the hosts when a second of the morning from Townsend made it 5-2.
Jamie Wallen put through his own net to give Southwick their third buy by that time the points were already in the bag for the Buscots.
Talbot FC 3 Sutton Benger 5
TALBOT FC and Sutton Benger met at Priestly Grove both looking to open their account for the season, and it was Benger who got their campaign up and running as they chalked up three points thanks to a 5-3 win.
Benger scored after 15 minutes when James Weston slotted a ball through for Chris Miles to rolled it the onrushing keeper. The villagers lead was shortlived as Andy Law levelled the score for Talbot.
Benger started the better of the two teams in the second half and retook the lead through a delicate chip over the keeper from Luke Watson.
Watson was on hand to score a third for Benger when a half saved free kick fell kindly for him to poke home.
Talbot kept themselves in the game with Nathan West reducing the arrears, but Benger responded in kind to restore their two-goal cushion, Tom Merriman's bullet header making it 4-2.
Talbot wouldn't lie down and a second from West kept them in touch with Benger who finally saw them off when Luke Watson scored a third to complete his hat-trick to give Benger victory.
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markmucher, I am always open to listening to what you have to say. However, I don't agree with your assessment of Mark Schumann. That's the beauty of being able to speak our minds because I I always learn new things when reading others' opinions.
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