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Ghator Gab: New Product Review: Dole Shakers

by Posted on February 9, 2012

I coupon. I love browsing matchups between weekly specials and coupons and saving tons of money. I also love trying new products and figure if the financial investment is minimal then it’s worth the risk of a new product. And, although I don’t really do product reviews in my blog, this disaster could not go unremarked.

This time the couponing/bargain-shopping gamble most certainly did NOT pay off.

I present to you: Dole Fruit Smoothie Shakers.

Lose the blender … simply add juice, shake vigorously and enjoy. Right? Simple, tasty and remotely healthy. Right?

Wrong.*

I followed the directions (add juice until one reaches the “fill zone,” shake for 30-45 seconds, open and enjoy) and when I re-opened the lid I was greeted by a fresh, pleasing aroma and a satisfying pile of foamy goodness at the top of the canister.

I took a sip … yummy. A few more swallows … hhhmmmmmm, unpleasant bit of pulp** here and there, but nothing too bad.

I put the canister down to take a breath. Joe and Emily were watching me expectantly. I commented on the pulp. Joe gave a knowing look, “Wait ’til you get to the bottom.” Again, I figured I shouldn’t waste the money I’d spent and that I could just power through. I mean, how bad could it be?

It could be very, very bad. That’s what. After a few more seconds of sipping, the pulpy sludge began to accumulate along my upper lip. I opened my mouth wider to accommodate swallowing the goop in one big*** gulp. The resulting sensation in my throat triggered a violent gag reflex.

My eyes watering, I dumped the rest of the nasty concoction down the kitchen drain.

Eeew. SOOO wrong despite tasting quite good.

I wrote to Dole’s customer service department. The berries reconstitute really very poorly and most certainly do not form anything that should be described with the adjective “smooth,” as in smoothie.

Bleah. Avoid at all costs.

–End–

* To be fair, I was duly warned. “Try one of the smoothie thingies,” Joe said, “Watch out, though, they’re nasty.” I figured he must have done it wrong. I was wrong. He did it right. Dole did it wrong.

** Again, to be fair, I’m not a fan of pulp. We buy pulp-free OJ, too. The flakes of fruity matter always make me think I’m swallowing little caterpillar legs. (good luck shaking that image the next time you drink some freshly-squeezed juice!) I could never handle a Survivor-esque eat gross creepy, crawly things contest.

***I initially typoed “bug” here. Freudian?

Source: http://alleghator.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-product-review-dole-shakers.html

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First Lady Takes Down Jimmy Fallon in Fitness Challenge (ABC News)

by Posted on February 9, 2012

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Sarkozy: Greece should create fund to pay debt

by Posted on February 9, 2012

PARIS (AP) ? French President Nicolas Sarkozy says France and Germany agree that Greece should place state revenues into a separate fund to pay down its crushing debt and avoid bankruptcy.

Sarkozy has also told a Paris news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel that Greece’s new leaders must “take their responsibility” and that any new bailout will require taking decisions to reduce debt.

The comments came after Monday’s 14th French-German Council of Ministers, which focused on coordinating the countries’ tax policies as well as Europe’s debt crisis.

France and Germany have helped underpin a second planned euro130 billion ($171 billion) bailout for Greece to avoid bankruptcy next month. The plan has run into political resistance in Greece over the strict austerity terms involved in the bailout.

Associated Press

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Information About East Asia Zodiacal Monkey | Articles Beacon

by Posted on February 9, 2012

The Chinese zodiac of the monkey has perhaps the most colorful personality traits amongst all the zodiac signs of the globe. The monkey occupies the 9th position within the Chinese zodiac calendar and has all of the traits that make it the most animated character of them all.

The monkey people have the spirit to live life to its fullest. They?re enjoyable loving individuals that are typically as much as mischief. They like to act clever and make their way around individuals often poking enjoyable and creating wise remarks.

The monkey is very inquisitive and seeks to delve into points out of its curiosity. Monkey people are purpose-oriented, but tend to astonish individuals with their practical jokes. This in turn might upset individuals, although they don?t mean to hurt them.

The merry-making good quality of monkey men and women overrides their sound intellect and creative talents. Because of this, their scholarly capabilities go unnoticed, although their intellect and frivolity have the same intensity. The former is based on its thinking ability, even though the latter is according to its passion.

The monkey?s character might seem puzzling, but in actuality it really is on a continual trend of progress so as to discover and realize new issues. It does not bother about other people?s opinion and is inclined to confront challenges. So, it copes with life in its own style.

Monkey men and women prefer to remain awake and active. Even when they?re sick, their be concerned is the fact that they are missing the fun in their routine because of their sickness. However, their active way of living helps them to preserve sound well being.

Multitalented by nature monkey people can excel at just about something they put their minds too. They are able to jump careers and master them in small time. They know their worth and will charge you for their services according to how very good they believe they?ve performed your duty. Fields like accounting, engineering and trading are deemed to become ideal for the monkey males.

They are quite very good at making friends and take a good deal of time to accommodate having a new relationship. If there is no amusement in a relationship, they prefer to break the relationship. However, after they find an ideal companion, they cherish the relationship for a lifetime.

Monkey folks are really ambitious and they sincerely seek to come up in life, whilst getting a joyous experience all of the while. Therefore, they?ve the self-motivation to touch the peak of good results. They are sincere and reliable in their profession or career. They admit their mistakes with no hesitation and take up any assignment which is within their capability. They are pardoned effortlessly because of their vivid personality.

Chinese Zodiac Calendars are loved by astrology fans all over the world. There is considerably more detailed info available if you click on our guide to Chinese Astrology Snakes.

Source: http://articlesbeacon.com/arts-entertainment/astrology/information-about-east-asia-zodiacal-monkey

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EU probes new Google privacy policy

by Posted on February 8, 2012

BRUSSELS (AP) ? The European Union’s data protection authorities have asked Google to delay the rollout of its new privacy policy until they have verified that it doesn’t break the bloc’s data protection laws.

Google publicized its new privacy rules ? which regulate how the Web giant uses the enormous amounts of personal data its collects through its search engine, email and other services ? with much fanfare last week.

Since then, it has launched a huge publicity campaign informing its users around the globe of the new policy, which is set to come into force on March 1.

But that launch date may now be under threat.

In a letter to Google Chief Executive Larry Page, Jacob Kohnstamm, the chairman of the group of 27 national privacy regulators in the EU, said the French data protection agency has started a probe of the new rules and how they will affect Google users in the EU.

“We call for a pause (in the rollout of the new rules) in the interests of ensuring that there can be no misunderstanding about Google’s commitments to information rights of their users and EU citizens, until we have completed our analysis,” Kohnstamm wrote in the letter, which was sent Thursday and published on Friday.

Google’s search engine has a market share of more than 90 percent in the EU, with rival services like Microsoft’s Bing gaining little traction. The EU’s competition authorities are already examining whether Google uses this dominance to stop other search engines from entering the market.

The new policy makes it easier for Google to combine the data of one person using different services such as the search engine, YouTube or Gmail if he is logged into his Google account. That allows Google to create a broader profile of that user and thus target advertising based on that person’s interests and search history more accurately. Advertising is the main way Google makes its money.

But the company argues that combining the data into one profile also makes search results more relevant and allows a user to cross-navigate between different services more easily.

Google said in a statement Friday that it had briefed data protection agencies before making its new policy announcement and that none of them had had substantial concerns at the time.

“Delaying the policy would cause significant confusion,” it said in the emailed note.

The company also published a letter by Global Privacy Counsel Peter Fleischer in response to Kohnstamm. Fleischer said the main purpose of the new policy is to combine the more than 70 different rules for Google’s wide-ranging services into one, that is simpler and more readable.

“Our updated privacy policy makes it clear in one comprehensive document that if a user is signed in we may combine information she has provided from one service with information from other services,” Fleischer wrote. He added that people can continue to use Google services without being logged into an account or create different profiles for different services.

Koosje Verhaar, a spokeswoman for Kohnstamm, who is also the head of the Dutch data protection agency, said she couldn’t comment on how long the analysis of the new policy will take.

She declined to say whether there were specific parts of the new rules that triggered the probe, but added that the data protection authorities of several nations, including France, Ireland and Germany, had already publicly expressed concerns over the policy just days after it was announced.

Associated Press

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Steven Spielberg, J.J. Abrams, And Other Prolific Movie Producers Moonlighting On Television

by Posted on February 8, 2012

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With the musical “Smash” and horror drama “The River” premiering back to back, it seems like Steven Spielberg is executive producing just about everything on TV these days. How many shows is the busy media mogul responsible for, anyway? More than other multi-hyphenates like J.J. Abrams and Jerry Bruckheimer? We did the math and figured out which big-name exec producer has bragging rights to being the busiest this season.

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Inside Kourtney Kardashian’s Mexican Babymoon! (omg!)

by Posted on February 8, 2012

Inside Kourtney Kardashian's Mexican Babymoon!

Party of three!

They’ll have a newborn to look after come summertime, so on January 19, Kourtney Kardashian, 32, and Scott Disick, 28, escaped to Mexico for what she tweeted was “an unforgettable vacation.”

SEE US WEEKLY’S PHOTOS OF KOURTNEY KARDASHIAN’S BABYMOON

During the four-day trip to pal Joe Francis’ Punta Mita estate, the beaming E! stars romped on the beach with their son Mason, 2, and squeezed in couple time.

“Scott and Kourt just took walks all say on the beach together,” a source tells Us Weekly. “Scott also played with Mason while Kourtney relaxed. They were in complete family mode.”

PHOTOS: See Mason’s baby album

Click here to see more pics of Kardashian showing off her baby bump.

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Greece declares emergency in flood-hit north

by Posted on February 8, 2012

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Greece declares emergency in flood-hit north
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An abandoned car is seen in a flooded field near to the town of Harmanly, 275 km ( 170 miles) east of the capital Sofia, Bulgaria on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding Bisser village and killing at least eight people, with 10 others still missing, authorities said. Civil defense chief Nikolai Nikolov said a 2.5-meter (8-foot) flood hit 700 houses in the village of Bisser, near the Greek border, after the dam on the Ivanovo reservoir collapsed. (AP Photo)

A man sorts through the remains of his home in the village of Bisser, 288 km ( aprox. 180 miles) east of the capital Sofia, on Monday, Feb 6, 2012. A dam in southern Bulgaria collapsed after heavy rain on Monday, flooding Bisser village and killing at least eight people, with 10 others still missing, authorities said. Civil defense chief Nikolai Nikolov said a 2.5-meter (8-foot) flood hit 700 houses in the village of Bisser, near the Greek border, after the dam on the Ivanovo reservoir collapsed. (AP Photo/)

A view of the Cannaregio channel, partially iced because of unusually low temperatures, in Venice, Italy, Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Schools will be closed in Rome on Tuesday, as Italy copes with unusually heavy snow for the Mediterranean country. So far, ten deaths have been linked to winter weather, including two people who were crushed under a collapsed roof south of Rome, and a 91-year-old woman in the northeast port of Trieste who was knocked down by strong winds. In the north, rescuers had to pluck people from their homes, as piles of snow reached 3 meters (10 feet) in some areas. In Milan, Italy’s fashion and financial capital, temperatures fell to minus 12 Celsius (10 Fahrenheit) on Monday, and the authorities opened a section of the city subway to shelter some 100 homeless people. (AP Photo/Luigi Costantini)

Passengers look through a window of a bus during a heavy rainfall in central Athens,on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Authorities in northeastern Greece announced the voluntary evacuation of people in flood-stricken villages on the Turkish border. (AP Photo/Petros Giannakouris)

Passengers are seen through a window of a bus during a heavy rainfall in central Athens on Monday, Feb. 6, 2012. Authorities in northeastern Greece announced the voluntary evacuation of people in flood-stricken villages on the Turkish border. (AP Photo / Petros Giannakouris)

THESSALONIKI, Greece (AP) ? A swollen river in Greece bursts its banks, flooding homes and forcing authorities to declare a state of emergency Tuesday, officials said.

In Poland, meanwhile, the big freeze that is holding the rest of Europe in its icy grip killed another six people in the last 24 hours, the Interior Ministry said in a statement.

Ministry spokeswoman Malgorzata Wozniak said Tuesday that three other people died of asphyxiation with carbon monoxide from heaters they were using to heat their homes. The temperatures in Poland have plunged as low as minus 32 C (minus 26 F) since the freeze began.

In Greece, rescuers had to extract five elderly people Tuesday from their flooded homes after the river Evros burst its banks near the contry’s northeastern border with Bulgaria. Sevaral elderly residents were also evacuated overnight from another three villages in the area.

Evros, which enters Greece from Bulgaria and runs along the border with Turkey, is swollen after days of heavy rainfall, compounded by a burst dam in southern Bulgaria.

The dam on Bulgaria’s Ivanovo Reservoir collapsed on Monday, sending a torrent into the nearby village of Bisser that killed eight people and flooded 700 houses.

Associated Press

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by Posted on February 8, 2012

Islam is not a religion nor is it a cult. It is a complete system.
Islam has religious, legal, political, economic and military components. The religious component is a beard for all the other components.

Islamization occurs when there are sufficient Muslims in a country to agitate for their so-called ?religious rights.?
When politically correct and culturally diverse societies agree to ?the reasonable? Muslim demands for their ?religious rights,? they also get the other components under the table. Here?s how it works (percentages source CIA: The World Fact Book (2007)).
As long as the Muslim population remains around 1% of any given country they will be regarded as a peace-loving minority and not as a threat to anyone. In fact, they may be featured in articles and films, stereotyped for their colorful uniqueness:

United States ? Muslim 1.0%
Australia ? Muslim 1.5%
Canada ? Muslim 1.9%
China ? Muslim 1%-2%
Italy ? Muslim 1.5%
Norway ? Muslim 1.8%

At 2% and 3% they begin to proselytize from other ethnic minorities and disaffected groups with major recruiting from the jails and among street gangs:

Denmark ? Muslim 2%
Germany ? Muslim 3.7%
United Kingdom ? Muslim 2.7%
Spain ? Muslim 4%
Thailand ? Muslim 4.6%

From 5% on they exercise an inordinate influence in proportion to their percentage of the population.
They will push for the introduction of halal (clean by Islamic standards) food, thereby securing food preparation jobs for Muslims. They will increase pressure on supermarket chains to feature it on their shelves ? along with threats for failure to comply. ( United States ).

France ? Muslim 8%
Philippines ? Muslim 5%
Sweden ? Muslim 5%
Switzerland ? Muslim 4.3%
The Netherlands ? Muslim 5.5%
Trinidad &Tobago ? Muslim 5.8%

At this point, they will work to get the ruling government to allow them to rule themselves under Sharia, the Islamic Law. The ultimate goal of Islam is not to convert the world but to establish Sharia law over the entire world.
When Muslims reach 10% of the population, they will increase lawlessness as a means of complaint about their conditions ( Paris ?car-burnings). Any non-Muslim action that offends Islam will result in uprisings and threats ( Amsterdam ? Mohammed cartoons).

Guyana ? Muslim 10%
India ? Muslim 13.4%
Israel ? Muslim 16%
Kenya ? Muslim 10%
Russia ? Muslim 10-15%

After reaching 20% expect hair-trigger rioting, jihad militia formations, sporadic killings and church and synagogue burning:
Ethiopia ? Muslim 32.8%

At 40% you will find widespread massacres, chronic terror attacks and ongoing militia warfare:

Bosnia ? Muslim 40%
Chad ? Muslim 53.1%
Lebanon ? Muslim 59.7%

From 60% you may expect unfettered persecution of non-believers and other religions, sporadic ethnic cleansing (genocide), use of Sharia Law as a weapon and Jizya, the tax placed on infidels:

Albania ? Muslim 70%
Malaysia ? Muslim 60.4%
Qatar ? Muslim 77.5%
Sudan ? Muslim 70%

After 80% expect State run ethnic cleansing and genocide:

Bangladesh ? Muslim 83%
Egypt ? Muslim 90%
Gaza ? Muslim 98.7%
Indonesia ? Muslim 86.1%
Iran ? Muslim 98%
Iraq ? Muslim 97%
Jordan ? Muslim 92%
Morocco ? Muslim 98.7%
Pakistan ? Muslim 97%
Palestine ? Muslim 99%
Syria ? Muslim 90%
Tajikistan ? Muslim 90%
Turkey ? Muslim 99.8%
United Arab Emirates ? Muslim 96%

100% will usher in the peace of ?Dar-es-Salaam? ? the Islamic House of Peace ? there?s (supposed) to be peace because everybody is a Muslim: we know however that this isnt true is it…?

Afghanistan ? Muslim 100%
Saudi Arabia ? Muslim 100%
Somalia ? Muslim 100%
Yemen ? Muslim 99.9%

Of course, that?s not the case. To satisfy their religiously ordained blood lust, Muslims then start killing each other for a variety of reasons…and they are coming to a neighborhood near you…so keep thinking they are not going to harm you and they “accept” you.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/mideast/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20120206/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_apnewsalert

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Make job search easy with recruitment agency London …

by Posted on February 8, 2012

We are surviving in the hyper competitive market where getting involved with the right employer demands great efforts and time. Not everybody is fortunate to find a good job on their own but an employment agency can be relied on when it comes to finding a decent work opportunity. It is actually true that candidate?s efforts and experience make a difference but a recruiter is the person who best represents the credentials. They are well versed and can effectively represent the qualifications of a candidate in front of employers. Possessing the knack organizing the skills; recruiting firms make them highly appealing which many job seekers fail to do.

How recruitment agencies London can help in attaining a worthy job

London?s employment agency offers job seekers a fair chances and can be beneficial in many ways as mentioned below:

Recruitment agencies London are capable of selling the skill in most desired in precise and direct way. They utilise job seekers? strategies to their advantage rather than just submitting CV to companies. Agencies are aware about the that aspects which canattract employers.

Job hunters can save time, as association with the right recruitment agencies lets candidates eliminate the feeling that their resumes are lost in the huge virtual world, staying positive when you fail to receive any response. Besides, the agency makes sure that relevant employers should approach the job seeker matching the skills and experience.

London employment agency can be banked on for all type of jobs; from temporary to full time. They also offer jobs in a vast number of career fields including Bodyguards/Close Protection Officers, Nurse, Chauffeurs, Administrative Household Managers, Party/Event/ Wedding Planners, Receptionists, Chefs, Butlers, Valets and other private household, support and corporate staff.

The internet is recognised as wide platform for information. There are several websites which are associated with job advertising and job searches. An individual can mark his or her presence by registering on these websites, building a profile or portfolio. By posting the ?Curriculum Vitae?(CV) over the internet, employers can view your resume. Candidates are contacted, if the profile attracts the companies. With just few clicks and profile creation on online recruitment agencies London, can benefit the job seeker with several reputed job offers.

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