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This orange juice comes in a nice plastic bottle and I like the packaging. Whilst obviously not adding anything to the taste I like the way that it looks when it's in my fridge! It certainly has a better 'look' than the other brands available in my opinion.
This juice is made from 100% pure Florida orange juice, squeezed from fresh picked oranges and never from concentrate. Whether juices are better when made from concentrate or not I'm not so sure about because there has been a lot of conflicting research, however, if there are two products of a similar price I do tend to go for the product not from concentrate.
I like the nutritional benefits that this orange juice provides as I know that my diet is far from a healthy one. This juice contains as much potassium as a banana and a full day's supply of vitamin C, as well as counting towards your 5 a day (usually my only serving of my 5).
Now for the important part - the taste. This juice has a smooth consistency and definitely tastes of oranges, although whether or not it tastes as good as Florida oranges is questionable. I've tasted home made Florida orange juice and this doesn't even come close in flavour. Whilst I like the flavour of this juice I don't favour it over other brands and unless it's on offer I don't purchase it as I believe that it is quite pricey. For half the price you can get Tesco's Value range orange juice and I prefer the taste of that so I would rather spend my money on the cheaper juice.
I never used to really like or enjoy orange juice, however in recent years it has become a staple in my diet. As many people who read my reviews regulary will be aware, I struggled with the eating disorder Anorexia in the past which I am 99% recovered from. As part of my recovery plan I had to incorporate pure, un diluted fruit juice into my diet as a regular alternative to water and diet pepsi/coke, as obviously it is much healthier and has more nutrients. Orange juice is a healthy, nutritious drink that helps to mantain my healthy sugar levels and it boosts my calorie intake up by a little too, as well as giving me a generous amount of vitamin C. I used to just buy the Tesco value orange juice, and was quite content with it, however at my friends house a few months ago she gave me a glass of tropicana. It was gorgeous, as sad as it sounds, and much, much tastier than the value stuff I was used to! Since then, Tropicana has been a regular in my shopping basket. I certianly will never be going back to the value stuff after trying this.
This orange juice can be bought in either a smooth version without bits, or with bits. I drink the smooth version purely because I can't stand orange juice with bits in, however my boyfriend is a fan of the version that has bits in. The bits are quite fine and not chunky or blobby, however I still don't really want to try it! The smooth version that I like is very lightweight in texture if that makes sense, it glides into my mouth and down my throat and it's incredibly refreshing. It's not one of those drinks that is thick which I like as it is much more thirst quenching. Tropicana describe this orange juice as being a great tasting, pure orange juice made with fresh oranges - it is not from concentrate. It is naturally nutritious and each 8 ounce glass of the juice is equivellent to two servings of fruit. The juice obviously has plenty of vitamin C in it too, which is great for mantaining a healthy immune system and it also keeps bones strong. There are no preservatives, water or sugar added either - this is simply pure and fresh orange juice.
The taste is fresh and it's much 'softer' (if that makes sense - it's not got that kind of hard edge to it that some of the cheaper brands have) and less citrussy than a majority of other brands of orange juice, it tastes sweet but not overlly sweet with a subtle citrussy edge. It hasn't got a sour or acidic taste to it at all and it doesn't taste wattered down. It is very rich and flavoursome while not being overpowering, I personally don't think it tastes like an average glass of orange juice - it definetly lives upto its name as a premium brand and the texture is so thin with a silky feel to it. It tastes completely natural and it's really refreshing, especially when I have a glass with my breakfast. It doesn't have a nasty, fake after taste at all. The packaging of it is easy to open, it comes in either large cartons (1 litre), smaller multi pack cartons (250ml) or plastic bottles (330ml). I usaully buy the 1 litre bottle which is made of cardboard. It has a plastic screw top lid which has a seal on it, this is easy to break and the lid can be screwed back on. I like this more than the cartons that you have to cut to open as it keeps the juice much fresher.
The branding is nice and simple and the packaging is recycable. I really like this brand of orange juice and the only disadvantage that I can think of is the price. For a 1 litre bottle it'll set you back by around £2.30, and a 1 litre bottle doesn't last very long (not in my house anyway!) Most supermarkets have a long term offer on this juice though - buy 2 for £4, which I think is a ridiculous price and I usually buy one 1 litre bottle whenever I really want it - it's not a regular brand that I buy purely due to the price, however I would say that I get through 4 or 5 bottles of it a month - drinking cheaper brands of orange juice after trying this is horrible as I know what i'm missing out on, haha.
I store this orange juice on my kitchen worktop as my fridge is ridiculously tiny and doesn't hold very much at all. The orange juice tastes fine at room temperature as well as chilled, I have even had it warmed up when I was pregnant & feeling run down as it's a very comforting and soothing kind of drink when it's warm. The juice, once opened should be consumed within about a week (although Tropicana state to use within five days after opening), however a 1 litre carton only lasts for around 3 days in my house hold as we all love it! Even my neice loves it and she hates fruit, yet she will quite happily drink a glass of this which I think is good as atleast that way she's getting all the vitamins and goodness that would be found in fruit. If you have a child I certianly would reccomend giving them this to drink as an alternative to suggary pop or cordial as this tastes just as good and it's natural and much healthier. If you're concerned about the high sugar content then you could always water it down a little.
The calorie contents isn't too bad considering how satisfyingly sweet it is and per 100ml serving it has 107 calories along with 22.5 grams of carbs (all of which is sugar) which I guess is kind of high however it has plenty of goodness in it to balance this out. It has no saturated fat, chloesterol or sodium. For anyone who likes the sound of Tropicana but don't like orange juice there are plenty of other flavours - apple, mango, grapefruit and so on. Despite the price, I think this orange juice is brilliant and it's by far my favourite drink and the minute. It's just like drinking freshly squeezed orange juice, without spending 20mins plus juicing them! Overall I would reccomend this brand of orange juice as it's completely natural with no added rubbish and it tastes much better than a majority of other brands that I have tried. To sum it up:
Tasty, natural, healthy, refreshing
Contains lots of goodness including vitamin C and fibre. Not from concentrate
No sodium, preservatives or saturated fat
Range of different versions/flavours
Widely available
The price!
So, as you can see the advantages highly outweigh the disadvantages and I give this juice 4/5 stars, marking it down because of the price. Some people may argue that you're paying for the high quality, which is true - it's brillant quality but I think the RRP is just a little too much, especially in the current economic climate where a many families don't prioritise buying 'premium' brands of drinks on their weekly shops and can't afford to fork out £2.50 or so on a litre of juice. I think if the price was 30-40p cheaper though, or was on offer more I would of 100% awarded it 5/5 stars!
This is the best orange juice on the market - much better than the shop's own versions.
The reason that I love this orange juice so much is because it's so natural and pure. It tastes great too - very smooth and tangy. I would describe the taste as citrusy - very much like orange - of course! The juice is hydrating and it really quenches your thirst. It's suitable to be drunk anywhere and anytime and it's an ideal drink for summer as it helps to cool you down. It does taste better when it's been chilled, it's not very nice drunk when it's warm. Chilled orange juice is the way forward! It's quite filling too. I find that if I have just one 250ml glass of this it's enough to keep me going for an hour or so. I do monitor how much of this that I drink though as the acid in the natural fruit juice can actually rot the teeth. Drinking the juice with a straw can reduce this effect by around 70%, so I usually drink it that way now.
The juice is lovely served simply in a tall glass either on it's own or with ice added. You can also add fresh slices of lemon and/ or orange if you wish - however the juice is such good quality that it's great just served as it is. It's great for kids too as it tickles the tastebuds! It would be healthy for them too - in moderation.
The juice keeps well in the fridge. It can also be drunk with vodka to make a lovely vodka and orange drink. It's great value too as it's NOT from concentrate, so there's no added water in the juice. It's just lovely and pure! There's nothing added and nothing taken away - great stuff!
The best tasting orange juice!
Having been brought up on long life, from concentrate orange juice, Tropicana is miles away. Nowadays I am generally very fussy about the orange juice that I drink and have been served up some aweful drinks when out in pubs and restaurants.
Tropicana is a lovely fresh orange juice, I always go for the smooth as I don't like bits in my juice, but there's an option for one with juicy bits or even extra juice bits if it suits you. I think that fact that it is not from concentrate is and important factor in this.
Off all the juices I've tried this is my stable weekly purchase, only occassionally will I go for a different brand if it is on a much better offer. Other juices I would consider are the supermarkets own premium brand (e.g. Tesco Finest & JS TTD) which I find slightly fresher but do have a shorter life and are more expensice than Tripicana, and Innocent have just bought out a juice, which is slightly zingier than Tropicana.
I've always found Tropicana to be very consistent between week to week, which to me is important. With the long life cartons I drank previously there seeed to always be a duff one every so often.
I love orange juice especially in the morning for breakfast, preferably with a nice bacon roll! One of my favourite orange juices is Tropicana although I do not very often purchase it as it is one of the most expensive. But the other day on the way to work I could feel my glands swelling and my throat getting sore so decided that I needed a vitamin c boost so popped into the local shop near work to get some orange juice and thought I would treat myself to a small bottle of Tropicana.
I paid just £0.59 for a small 330ml bottle of the Tropicana pure premium original orange juice with juicy bits. To be fair I expected to pay much more than this but think the lady on the till was unsure of the price so just rang it in for this which I was not going to complain about.
The juice comes in a clear plastic bottle which forms into a slight ball shape at the top with is textured like the peel of a real orange. The bottle has a green screw cap lid which has a seal which can easily be broken the first time you unscrew the cap. The bottle has a plastic wrap around label containing all of the necessary information about the juice.
This juice is a freshly squeezed orange juice and contains nothing else other than 100% orange juice. The 330ml bottle contains just over 2 portions of the recommended daily amount of fruit and vegetables. It also contains 99mg of Vitamin C which is 165% of the recommended daily allowance and no fat or salt.
I really like this orange juice it has a lovely fresh taste but is not too sharp and sour but still has a nice zing to it. The juice itself it very smooth and although contains the juicy bits they are quite evenly distributed if you shake the bottle before drinking and are quite small and soft so are not really that noticeable. You can also buy this juice in a smooth variety which does not contain any bits, this is the one that my husband prefers but to me it does not really matter as the bits are much nicer than other juices I have tried with bits in. Although I very rarely buy freshly squeezed juice and tend to opt for juice made from concentrate instead due to the price difference I much prefer the fresh juice as it certainly tastes better. I find Tropicana to be a very tasty and high quality juice that although is expensive is nice to have occasionally or if you can find it on a special offer.
Tropicana is for me the best orange juice on the market lately. We did try the Tesco cheaper concentrated variety but there is just no comparison as far as I'm concerned. Tropicana is more expensive but is widely available in all the supermarkets I have been in. It is a popular choice.
I prefer the Tropicana Original which has the fruity pulpy bits in, though my other half prefers the smooth variety (depending on what mood she is in at the time).
We tend to buy the smaller cartons but only because we have such a small fridge and cannot fit the larger ones inside properly without them causing the door to jam.
This is NOT concentrated juice, it is freshly squeezed, and in my opinion, far better for you. Occasionally we have let a carton go past it's sell by date as it has been forgotten about and been left at the back of the fridge. On these occasions we have poured it into an ice lolly mould and frozen it to make ice lollies which have been enjoyed by the whole family.
Tropicana is so nice at breakfast time or if you have hit the drink too much the night before and need a nice refreshing hit of vitamin C. It hits the spot every time in my personal opinion.
This as a great drink and suitable for all the family to enjoy and is the premium orange juice for me.
Highly recommended.
There are many things I have started buying non-branded versions of just lately, with the country being in the state its in, job insecurity and planning a wedding. However, fresh orange juice is just not something I'm willing to scrimp on, because it's one of the few things I buy where I believe the cheap imitations just don't taste the same.
With Tropicana juices, you get a choice of smooth or with 'bits'. When I was little I used to hate the bits because they reminded me of dead flies (I was a strange child), but these days I prefer the juice with bits in because it feels like I'm having real squeezed oranges and I'm sure it's got to inject a bit more vitamin C into my diet.
Tropicana tastes like freshly squeezed oranges. There is nothing artificial tasting about this juice, and you know it's a quality product made from quality ingredients. One litre will cost you about £2, but they are often on offer in the supermarkets e.g. 3 for 2. This is only useful if you intend to get through a lot of orange quite quickly though because once the carton is open you're supposed to finish it within five days.
The thing that draws me to this product over the cheaper alternatives is that it is not made from concentrate but contains actual fruit. Quite often, fruit juices don't contain a lot of real fruit, are made from concentrate and taste a bit artificial. They're also not as good for you nutritionally as you might think because they contain lots of other added ingredients to compensate for the fruit. Tropicana on the other hand is the real deal and provides one of your 5-a-day. If you look at the ingredients it contains 100% freshly squeezed orange juice and nothing else.
Tropicana should be stored in the fridge and used within five days of opening. This happens quite easily in our house because not only do we drink it with breakfast, but we also use it as a base for making smoothies.
Nutritionally, per 200ml serving this juice contains:
Calories 94
Sugars 20g
Fat 0g
Saturates 0g
Salt 0g
The sugars are quite high but they're natural sugars from the fruit so I never feel too guilty about this. It's a great way to kickstart your day and an easy way of increasing your fruit intake.
I enjoy orange juice with breakfast as it's healthy, nourishing, tasty - and it's one of my five a day. However, I am pretty picky when it comes to orange juice, probably on account of the fact that I used to have a juicer and insisted on making my own orange juice whenever possible. However, time constraints these days means that I just don't have time to do this anymore and so I end up buying orange juice in a carton. Tropicana Pure Premium Orange Juice is one of the brands that I have sampled.
The Tropicana I buy comes in a carton and cost me £2.19 from Tescos for a 1 litre carton - but they often have offers on this product, including the present offer which is three cartons for £5.50 - a saving of £1.07. This price is higher than most other brands and I do think that its probably a little overpriced considering the fact that 1 litre really doesn't last that long (usually we get through two cartons per breakfast with my family!). The carton can be resealed but, unfortunately, the shelf life really isn't as long as some other orange juices - although I have frozen this juice before and it really doesn't seem to impact on flavour too much.
Although the image is that Tropicana OJ is "fresh" - an image portrayed mostly from the carton which shows fresh, juicy oranges on the front. Certainly, when it's poured, it looks and smells fresh enough and as its not made from concentrate its 100% OJ. However, I have to say that it really doesn't taste as fresh as I would expect it to taste. While it clearly is all orange juice (without concentrate), it has that processed taste that is present in so many of the orange juice brands. Having said that, its got the right balance of sweetness and tartness that you do get in fresh orange juice. It is a nice flavour but, unsurprisingly is not as good as just squeezed oranges.
I do think this is a decent orange juice and it is one of the better ones. It's best served ice cold (it really does have to be ice cold) - and it's really nice with crushed ice as well.
I have reviewed Tesco Value orange juice. Tropicana is luxurary against that!
Fresh juice and not from concentrate so you know it is just Orange juice in it. I am not keen on the bits so tend to go for the smooth one. I always find the bits just stuck in my teeth and if you dont wash the glass staraight away after, the bits stick like glue to the sides of the glass and they are there forever!
This really is a luxurary item in my house hold and only bought when ther eis an offer or I have been paid some overtime!!
For one bottle you can pay up to £2.20 depending on where you buy it from. The smaller the bottle, the more expensive it is per volume too. A tiny 200ml bottle can be as much as £1.50 which is silly really when you can buy a litre carton of tesco value for 40p. Yeah slight difference in the quality of the two there!
The juice looks nice and bright and it a slightly thick texture. It can be quite acidic so I tend to mix it with a bit of water to take the acid taste out, make it kinder on your stomach and make it last longer!
If I could I'd have a glass of this each morning. It is really refreshing and feels really healthy and satifying too. Too much gives me a stomache ache but that is just the acidity or orange juice not the fact it is Tropicana.
One of the best fresh fruit juices, it really is good quality and only has one ingrediant - oranges.
I love oranges. They taste great, they're good for your health and generally considered a super fruit. However, the taste of oranges can be fickle especially if you don't live in a tropical region; sometimes they can even sour as lemons. Therefore, turned to orange juices to get my daily orange fix. I have tried many different brands of orange juices and none of them even come close to the superior taste of Tropicana.
As for the packaging and appearance, Tropicana juices come in ergonomic shapes that easily fit into your fridge. Tropicana brand has a large variety of flavours including golden grapefruit, ruby breakfast and so on. As for the orange variety, on the carton it has a very juicy looking orange displayed with emphasises the freshness of the juice. The orange variety comes into two types; the one with the pulp and the one without it (i.e. smooth). Also I have no qualms with either of them, I usually tend to go the one with 'bits' in it as I feel as if I'm drinking freshly squeezed juice.
Taste-wise, Tropicana juices are indisputable. The juices taste naturally sweet with a bit of zest, but the richness of oranges can be savoured with each sip. All tropicana juices are 100% pure squeezed juices and not from concentrate, so the taste has depth and freshness. One thing I love about Tropicana orange juice is that it does not taste bitter like the rest (I've tried many and the rest, other than Tropicana, taste bitter). I think this is due to the fact that Tropicana don't use the orange peel when making the juice unlike other brands.
As for the nutritional values, the juice has no 'fats' or 'salts' and just contains naturally occurring sugar from oranges. It can't get any healthier than this. Another great news is that a glass (about 200 ml) of Tropicana juice can be constituted as one of your 5 a day. So it makes a great-tasting healthy drink. Also you get ample supply of Vitamin C for your bones ; 50 mg of vitamin C per 100 ml juice, so drinking a glass would provide enough for a day. As for those diet-conscious consumers out there, a 200 ml glass of juice only contains about 90 kcals and energy comes from natural ingredients. Fab, isn't it?
Nevertheless, the downside to this juice is the price. A normal 1 litre carton would easily cost £2.20 in most supermarkets but sometimes they do an 2 for £4 offer (not much reduced to be honest). If you have space in your fridge, the 1.75 litres ones are usually on offer of 2 for £5 which is much more economical.
Tropicana juices are best served chilled and must be consumed within a week for freshness. To be honest, a 1 litre carton would hardly last me 3 days as the juice can be really addicting. Overall, this is a quality juice worth the pennies.
In general, I do not consume much juice but I seem to want juice more when the weather gets warmer. I am quite traditional and consider orange my favourite flavour.
Tropicana does loads of different flavours including Grapefruit, Ruby Breakfast, Apple, Mango and so on but I am sure that Orange is the best seller.
This comes in two formats, smooth, i.e with no bits in, and original, with the orange pulp in. I imagine the smooth sells particuarly well for kids and this is the one I prefer though I would drink the other.
The juice comes in lots of different formats, a small handbag sized bottle will cost you £1.15, cartons are normally £2 to £3 and you can get really big cartons of it but they are about £5.
This always smells very fresh and full flavoured and if of course a nice bright orange colour. I really dislike the fake orange squash look.
In terms of taste, it is good and is refreshing, it is a tad sharper than some other juices I have tried but I guess it varies from bottle to bottle and orange to orange really.
Though this is nice, and a bit of a classic, I don't think that it is that much better than the supermarket versions, I am not sure that if I blind tasted it, I would be able to point out Tropicana and it is significantly more pricey.
I absolutely love orange juice and regularly have two cartons open at once - something along the lines of Tesco Value concentrate, and a Tropicana or, as we call them in our family, cheap and posh. Lots of people don't understand this, but to me the drinks are both great, but both completely different and having the two is no stranger than having one juice and one bottle of coke open at the same time.
Tropicana was the first and best. Even though most supermarkets now do their own versions, nothing beats the original for me. I will often buy the small bottles when I'm out and about and don't want a fizzy drink or if I'm grabbing a Meal Deal. Over here, you cannot buy cheap orange juice - all the long-life cartons are sugar laden nectars - so I'm back on the Tropicana even at the hideous import price they slap on it.
Tropicana is a fresh orange juice which means it is squeezed and cartoned and that's it: they don't have a concentrate they add water to or anything. The cartons over here show and orange with a straw in them which is literally what you get - it's as if you're sucking straight from the fruit itself. The interesting thing I learnt from the website is that it's not always as 'fresh' as you think. Because oranges don't grow all year round, they keep some squeezed juice in dark, airless tanks, storing it for later in the year.
Tropicana looks like sunshine in a glass. It smells delicious and fruity, as if it really has just come straight from a juicer. The taste is distinctive and sets it apart not only from cheap juices but also from other fresh versions. It is tangy and tart, juicy and sweet, all in the same glass. The flavour is much sharper than with concentrated versions
I always go for the Smooth as I don't like bits (true story: we used to travel with a tea strainer so my juice could be sieved when venturing to juicy bit loving continental Europe). I love how it is thick but still silky, and of course totally smooth. Other varieties in the USA (and, by default, in Colombia) include some pulp (i.e. juicy bits), or extra pulp - perhaps what they sieve out of mine, they put into those ones... They also have a version with added Calcium which is nice.
To me, Tropicana is more than just something you sip alongside a meal. It is more filling and satisfying than normal juices. A problem I have with concentrate is that is slips down like water so I can drink gallons of the stuff, which isn't great because although naturally low fat, any juice has calories and I, like lots of people, cna convince myself that calories drunk rather than eaten don't really count. With Tropicana, a small glass is enough because it has so much flavour. I will also drink a glass in place of a pudding is I want something sweet after a meal. When I am at the gym super early before breakfast, I will have a glass to give me a kick and a burst of sugary energy - because it's liquid, I don't worry about having it right before exercise the way I might with food.
Packaging is not usually worth a mention, but I do like Tropicana's cartons. They have screw on lids which not only keeps the juice fresh but also allow you to lie an open carton on its side in the fridge. My one in my apartment here is tiny so nothing really fits in the door. I can't therefore have normal cut-the-corner-off cartons as they would spill, but Tropicana seals right back up like a bottle. I know other brands have the same design, bu they never seem quite as strong as Tropicana.
Any downsides? Because it's fresh, the shelf life is not that long. If I'm driving to the supermarket and doing a big shop I can buy 30 cartons of cheap juice and know I'll use them up before the expire, but Tropicana purchases are limited by the date on the carton and also fridge space. I went this weekend hoping to get some for when my sister visits in a few weeks, but the supermarket only had stuff expiring before then (this is a bit shorter a shelf life than you'd find in the UK...probabaly because here it's imported from several countries away).
You are advised to drink within 5 days of opening. Sometimes mine goes a little longer here as they only sell the larger cartons (1.5lt not the normal 1lt) but I have never had any problems with it going off. In the UK the standard advice is that however much juice you drink, it only counts as one of your 5 a day. In the USA Tropicana claims it provides two servings of fruit in every glass. Either way, I eat tons of vegetables but not much fruit (except tomatoes if we're being pedantic) and I feel a glass or two of this every day is a good rather than a bad thing.
Tropicana costs more than concentrated because it's fresh, and more than supermarkets' own because it is branded (on its own, and owned by Pepsi), but it's also often on multibuy offers too. Prices for comparison (taken from Mysupermarket.com for April 2nd 2011):
1 litre Tropicana Smooth
Tesco £2.18 or 3 for £5.50
Asda £2.18 or 2 for £4
Sainsburys £2.24 or 3 for £5.50
Ocado £2.18 or 3 for £4.50
Interestingly, Tesco and Asda both have the larger one on offer for less - £2 for a 1.5 litre, great if you have space in the fridge
I didn't try Tropicana for ages, simply because I thought it would taste too tangy! Then one time about 6 months ago, I decided to try my boyfriends.. turns out its not tangy at all. In fact, it's GORGEOUS!!
The packaging --> Tropicana drinks stand out from the rest. This one is in a creamy coloured carton, with a blue plastic screw cap. The design is striking, yet glorious. It has the logo in green, and then different colour texts for the certain flavour you have chosen. This one is blue writing. It then has an orange as its main image, which looks juicy itself! Very appealing graphics.
The product --> What makes this product stand out is that this juice is 100% pure squeezed orange juice, not from concentrate. So this really is all fresh, pure orange juice. Lovely! Much healthier, which is what I love. I enjoy the orange smooth one more than the one with pulp in, as I don't like the bits as much. It tastes it completely refreshing and smooth, unlike other ones I have had before. I like that there aren't other ingredients in it, even preservatives to keep it fresher for longer.
The drink is to be drank within about 5 days, but if you have a sip its completely addictive I think, so fresh and good for you that it won't last that long! I always keep this in the fridge, because it loses some of the flavour if it goes warm! Not nice!
The cost --> It is noticeably more expensive than other brands, so it is for me a luxury product. In Asda is costs £2 for 1.5l, but there are usually offers like 2 for £3, or the other sizes on offer. I do like to mix and match because they have some gorgeous flavours!
Nutritional values in 100ml serving-->
47 cals
10g sugar
no fat, no salt, no salt
There is also 50mg of RDA of Vitamin C, in 100ml, which is fantastic. If you need more Vit C in your diet, this really is great as so much (30g) is in there already. To build up the immune system, especially during a cold, I would recommend this drink!
Fantastic quality, the others just don't match up.
I love to drink pure orange juice as I find it a great way to contribute to one of my 5 a day, in the past I have tried and tested cheaper brands of orange juice but have always been disapointed with the product. Orange juices from concentrate tend to be rather sour in taste whereas Tropicana tastes like a freshly squeezed orange straight from the tree. As you would expect from a premium product you do have to pay quite a considerable amount more so I tend to opt for Tropicana as a treat, I would love to always have it in my fridge but at over £2 a litre I just can't afford it, especially the amount I seem to go through!
The juice in question is thicker than other brands as it isn't mixed with water like juice from concentrate, the juice is rich and zingy with a sweetness that can only come from real oranges, there is nothing synthetic about the flavour at all. I prefer to drink mine cold from the fridge and it especially goes down well on warm summer days. There are different varieties available - the smooth one and the stuff with bits in, my personal preferance is the smooth version. As with all orange juice you get vital vitamin C, one of the only drawbacks I can think of about the actual product is the fact that a 200ml serving has nearly 100 calories, though in the grand scheme of things this isn't much.
Tropicana orange juice is regularly on offer in various supermarkets and it is only when it is on offer that I really buy it, though if you are suffering from a cold I find it really helps to perk you up. If the price was cheaper I wouldn't hesitate on buying this juice on a weekly basis, you do get what you pay for though, a quality pure orange juice that is just that, orange juice and nothing else.
Out of all the fruit juices Orange is pretty much a weekly shopping staple. The other flavours can come and go and be given or taken from week to week, but orange juice has to be there everytime. if you want good quality orange juice then Tropicana is the best brand you can get and the nearest to freshly squeezed that there is in a carton on a supermarket shelf.
They come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes and you can even get some as part of Macdonalds meals. From a supermarket a 100ml carton should cost approx £1.70 and £2.99 for 200ml, double the size. You can also get it in a wide variety of smoothness levels, completely smooth, + pulp, or somewhere in the middle. There should be something to suit everyones tastes.
The next thing I am about to say is a real sticking point with me. Juice drinks are often sold to be healthier than the really are, but not this one, it really is just oranges, it is not made from concentrate, or previously dried down juice, or whatever, it is fresh! It is so much more healthier than the average juice, so not only are you having a drink you really like, but you are doing something really good for you at the same time. It's not often that good food tastes good!
The orange juice has a really tangy, acidy zest to it, really alike to freshly squeezed orange juice. The taste is really supreme and unlike any other. I know the price is a little more than supermarket own brand juice, and there are less frequent special offers on it, but even if you can't afford to buy it everytime it is nice for an every now and then treat, and then you appreciate it even more if it's more of a one off thing.


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Work in JDeveloper's IDE to create the page flow and pages that comprise the view and navigation portion of your application targeted for mobile device browsers.
Create a Mobile Project: Create the view project for your ADF Mobile Browser application and select the Mobile Browser technology scope.
Set the Screen Size: Use the Preferences dialog to set the default screen size for target mobile devices.
Create the Page Flow: Use the diagrammer to create a page flow diagram by adding pages and navigation cases.
Create a JSF Page: Use the Create JSF Page dialog to create JSP XML documents with the starter page structure targeted for mobile devices.
Create the Browse Page: Use the Data Controls panel to add buttons, a read-only form and a read-only table to define a page for browsing orders.
Create the Edit Page: Use the Data Controls panel to add an editable input form and commit button to define a page for editing order details.
Run the Application: Run the application in the IDE.
Optimize the Layout: Set the properties for various components on the pages to ensure that page contents are displayed on mobile device screens with minimal scrolling.
A JDeveloper project is used to logically group files that are related. A project keeps track of the source files, packages, classes, images, and other elements that your program may need. You can add multiple projects to your application to easily access, modify, and reuse your source code. [ tell me more...]
mvc as the project name.
Entering short, lowercase names for ADF Mobile applications and projects creates a shorter URL, which is easier to enter from a mobile device. For example, use
mvc for "mobile view controller" project. [
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After completing the steps for creating a mobile project, the Application Navigator should look similar to this, if the model and ViewController project folders are collapsed: [ tell me more...]
JDeveloper enables you to set the visual editor to the dimensions of a mobile device screen. In the example below, the screen size of the visual editor is set to 240X320 pixels. This provides a visual aid when designing pages for mobile browsers. [ tell me more...]
The Preferences dialog, Mobile page, enables you to set the default size of the visual editor to give you an approximation of how the components fit on a mobile device screen. [ tell me more...]
mvc (mobile view controller) project in the application contains a JSF configuration file, named by default
faces-config.xml. The JSF configuration file contains details of your application, such as the locales you are supporting and the rules for navigating between application pages. It also holds details of the resources needed by your application, such as managed beans and custom message bundles. [
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When you complete the steps for creating the page flow on a diagram, the diagrammer should look similar to this: [ tell me more...]
The JSF pages you create for your application using JavaServer Faces technology can be JSP documents (which have the file extension
.jspx) or JSP pages (which have the file extension
.jsp). [
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br-o.jspx and confirm that both
Create as XML Document (*.jspx)
Render in Mobile Device
are selected. Then click
JDeveloper provides the Component Palette for you to drag and drop UI components onto your JSF page. To see the libraries and components that are currently available, click the dropdown list in the Component Palette. To create a user interface for mobile devices, add Apache MyFaces Trinidad components to your JSF page in the visual editor. [ tell me more...]
Browse Order and press Enter.
When you complete the steps for creating a JSF page and adding Trinidad components, the visual editor looks similar to this: [ tell me more...]
The role of the browse page is to allow the user to view and navigate the data objects, one at a time. You will add databound components to the
br-o.jspx page to create a read-only form and table. Both the read-only form and read-only table supply the master/detail functionality in this browse page. At runtime, the orders are shown one at a time, with the order information in the read-only form, and the order's line items in the read-only table. [
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The Data Controls panel shows the structure of your business components data model in a hierarchical display of business objects, methods, and data control operations. [ tell me more...]
#{bindings.OrderId.hints.label}, then press Enter.
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goEdit from the
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ID and press Enter.
Quan., the
UnitPrice column to
Price, and the
ProductName column to
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Width field and press Enter.
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ADF drag and drop data binding allows you to bind UI components on a page to data or actions. You will use both techniques: you will create a form to edit orders data, and you will bind a button to the commit action. [ tell me more...]
ed-o.jspx and confirm that both
Create as XML Document (*.jspx)
Render in Mobile Device
are selected. Then click
Edit Order and press Enter.
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property menu at the end of the
Disabled field, choose
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Text field. Then select
goBrowse from the
Action property
dropdown list.
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Since you have both the user interface and model of your application complete, you can run your application in the IDE by running the
br-o.jspx page. In the Application Navigator, right-click the page and choose
from the context menu. [
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To test an Oracle ADF Mobile Browser Client application using an emulator, enter your computer's IP address into the application URL, in place of the localhost reference. Device emulator cannot resolve the localhost reference as it simulates a network device, so you must substitute the localhost reference with the IP address of your computer. Other than the host name, the remainder of the application URL is the same. For example, enter
http://<IP Address>:<Port Number>/adfm-mvc-context-root/faces/br-o.jspx in the device browser. [
tell me more...]
When you run the
br-o.jspx page in a desktop web browser, the page should look similar to this: [
tell me more...]
In this cue card, you will optimize the layout of both pages for display on mobile devices. [ tell me more...]
2 and press Enter.
meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/
meta tag places lines of code in between the
<head></head> tags in your web page code. To improve the presentation of web page contents on mobile devices, use the
viewport key on the
meta tag to specify the initial scale and width of the viewport. [
tell me more...]
meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width; initial-scale=1.0; maximum-scale=1.0; user-scalable=0;"/
ed-o.jspx, expand
tr:panelGroupLayout and then
5 and press Enter.
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ed-o.jspx, select the following
tr:inputText components:
ShiptoPhoneNumber, and
12 and press Enter.
When you run the
br-o.jspx page and navigate to an order that has more than two items in the table, the page in a desktop web browser should look similar to this: [
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Oregon Military Department Records Guide
Record Series Descriptions
3rd Infantry Regiment Correspondence
89A-012 - Box 14
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Arrangement: Chronological by date of communication
Series documents letters received and sent by the 3rd Infantry Regiment. Series consists of letterpress copies which show date, sender's and recipient's names, and text. Most of the letters deal with personnel matters, but some correspondence discusses unit organization, maneuvers, training camps, and Spanish American War veterans.


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The Impaq 3000 doesn't offer the sort of all-encompassing feature list you'd expect for north of £600. For starters, there's no networking functionality, which is found on almost all of the Teufel's rivals, most of whom offer it at a much cheaper price too.
You do get a USB port for playing back media from memory devices, which is found under a flap on the right-hand side of the fascia next to the headphone port. Using the USB port you can play back MP3, WMA, JPEG, WMV HD, XviD and DivX HD files, which is a good selection.
So what else is there to get excited about? Well, the receiver can decode all of the Blu-ray HD audio formats, plus it can upscale DVDs to 1080p – but then so can every other Blu-ray system on the market. Elsewhere there's Dolby Pro Logic II processing and a few audio tweaks to tailor the sound to your liking, such as Tone Control, distance/level settings for each channel and a separate subwoofer setting ranging from -10 to +10. You can use the built-in test tone to check your settings.
Using the Impaq 3000 is a piece of cake. There's an attractive-looking main menu, the same one as we encountered on the Marantz Melody Movie in fact. It sports an intuitive layout, moving smoothly from left to right across the screen and reacting quickly to button presses. The key settings are easy to find, while the Audio Settings mentioned above are controlled on the unit's front panel, which sounds disjointed but actually makes it easier to fiddle with them during playback.
Aside from the familiar main menu, elements of the Impaq 3000 are reminiscent of Samsung's systems from a couple of years ago – the connections and remote are very similar. That's not a bad thing, and if this is a Samsung in disguise, Teufel could have chosen a lot worse.
"the Impaq 3000 feels like a relic from another time, when 3D was only watched in the cinema"
Do you want to say that 3D is commonplace in home theatres now? There are like three commercially available 3D-blurays you can actually buy. And I'd guess less than 0.1% of the households would be equipped to play them.
It feels more like a novelty to me. A handful of tech-pioneers showing their friends some IMAX-flick to demonstrate the awesomeness of the third dimension.
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Live In Ukraine
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Album Details
Live in Ukraine
By Gary Taylor and Georg Purvis (www.queenpedia.com)
Live in Ukraine was a CD/DVD package by Queen + Paul Rodgers, and was released in the UK on 15 June 2009, reached No 2 in the music video charts went platinum.
The free concert took place in Kharkov's historic and massive Freedom Square (during World War II the area was used to land planes), where the band played to some 350,000 fans (Queen's biggest audience yet) to raise AIDS awareness, and over 10 million homes tuned in to watch the concert live on TV. The band were approached to help Ukraine's Elena Franchuk ANTIAIDS Foundation reach out to the youth of the country with the message "Don't Let Aids Ruin Your Life", in a country facing the highest rising rate of infection throughout Europe, and the band duly obliged.
The concert titled "Life Must Go On", was filmed and directed by David Mallet, with whom Queen had previously worked on concerts and various promotional videos since Under Pressure in 1981, and was not only broadcast live on television, but was also released in cinemas in the UK and across Europe (as well as South Africa and Brazil), for one night only as Let The Cosmos Rock on 1 December 2008, World AIDS Day. The film was shown in American movie theatres for one night only on 6 November. A special high definition cinema version of the concert, Let the Cosmos Rock - Queen + Paul Rodgers Live in Ukraine, played in over 100 specially selected cinemas in a unique one-night-only presentation. In the UK alone, the film reached more than 40 screens. "The big screen setting is an ideal medium in which to feel a sense of participation in the Kharkov event," says director David Mallet. "This was by far the biggest show of its kind ever staged. The equipment needed two Antonov 124 aircraft - the world's biggest cargo planes - to get it into the Ukraine, and it is almost impossible to imagine the scale of it once it was built. You would never get a sense of that on television or DVD, which is why it had to be made for the biggest of screens. You could never otherwise experience that feeling of being in there among that crowd; think of it - this was four or five times bigger than your normal Hyde Park concert audience."
Kicking off Queen + Paul Rodgers' 2008 Rock the Cosmos tour in Kharkov was indeed a unique starting point for a tour and took place 3 days before the tour properly started in Russia, and two shows at Moscow's SCO Olympic Arena. The tour continued on through Europe with gigs in Latvia, Germany, France, Italy, Switzerland, Holland, Luxembourg, UK, Spain, Hungary, Serbia, Czech Republic, Austria, Dubai and ending the tour in Sout America with dates in Chile, Argentina and Brazil.
The concert is beautifully shot, but the similarity of the set list to Return Of The Champions was disappointing to some fans. For whatever reason, the band hadn't yet incorporated a lot of the new material from The Cosmos Rocks album into the set list, so only Cosmos Rockin' and C-lebrity are performed, though Say It's Not True was played like the new, harder rocking version on the album than on the previous tour. Some other adventurous material was performed, too: One Vision was brought out for the first time since 1986 and used as the opener, and Paul's Shooting Star was played live for the first time too. Perhaps the biggest and most welcome surprise came after Brian's guitar solo, when he and Freddie (by way of the video screen and the original audio recording) duetted on Bijou. Roger also included a unique drum solo, longer than on the previous tour, where he and Danny Miranda fooled around on an upright electric bass for a few minutes, and playing parts to Another One Bites The Dust and Under Pressure, before Roger sat down at a basic drum set of bass, snare drum and hi-hat. As he started his solo, a roadie would assemble a much larger kit around him as Roger carried on playing the drums, before breaking into I'm In Love With My Car.
Roger Taylor - "What a team, what an audience, what a night So glad we came. I will remember this when I'm even older!" A Kind Of Magic, Radio Ga Ga and Wishing Well were all omitted from this release, though they were made available as bonus audio downloads from the likes of Amazon and itunes.
The DVD was produced by Justin Shirley-Smith and Kris Fredriksson with the packaging designed by Richard Gray. The DVD was released as a single disc DVD and a double pack limited DVD set with a corresponding 2-CD version of the show included. A limited edition custom tin box was also issued and included the 1-DVD and 2-CD set plus a unique t-shirt featuring a design previously only available from the unforgettable night in Kharkov. The American release on 1 September 2009, was issued as a 2-CD set in a double jewel case with the DVD added as the extra disc to the package. Funds raised through sponsorship and public contribution since the event have contributed to building an Aids orphanage in Kharkov.
Brian May - "an unforgettable experience…one of those rare things in life which you know you will never forget. A meeting in Music, but also a coming together to fight a common enemy…"
Roger Taylor - "We would like to say a big thank you to the people of the Ukraine in giving Queen such a wonderful welcome after so many years. We hope the concert helped to bring a message of awareness of the terrible threat of HIV/AIDS to all the people! We have suffered the great loss of our dear singer Freddie Mercury - we hope this kind of loss does not happen to you. Be kind to yourselves - be careful - be alive!"
Paul Rodgers - "To all who came out and rocked with us thank you. We believe that our Aids Awareness message was received by 20 million! Hopefully we touched those hearts and minds and I pray that it makes a difference."
Did You Know?
1. Album features over 350,000 non English speaking audience singing Love Of My Life
2. Recorded in Kharkov's huge Freedom Square - it was used as a landing strip in the Second World War!
3. First gig of an extremely successful Cosmos Rocks tour
4. More than 10 million watched the concert live on TV
5. The bands 3rd live and last recording with Paul Rodgers
Track Listing
- 9. Seagull
- 12. Drum Solo
- 15. Shooting Star
- 16. Bad Company
- 19. Last Horizon
- 22. Feel Like Makin' Love
- 25. All Right Now
9. Seagull
Seagull, you fly across the horizon Into the misty morning sun. Nobody asks you where you are going, Nobody knows where you're from. Here is a man asking the question Is this really the end of the world? Seagull, you must have known for a long time The shape of things to come. Now you fly, through the sky, never asking why, And you fly all around 'til somebody, Shoots you down. Da da da da da da da down. Mm mm mm mm, mm mm. Seagull, you fly, across the horizon, Into the misty morning sun. Nobody asks you where you are going, Nobody knows where you are from, Now you fly through the sky, never asking why, And you fly all around 'til somebody, yeah, Shoots you down. Mm mm, yeah. Seagull you fly, seagull you fly away. And you fly away today And you fly away tomorrow And you fly away, leave me to my sorrow. Mm, mm, mm. Seagull go and fly, mm, mm, mm, Fly to your tomorrow, leave me to my sorrow, fly.
12. Drum Solo
No lyrics - Instrumental
15. Shooting Star
Johnny was a schoolboy When he heard his first Beatles song Love Me Do I think it was And from there it didn't take him long Got himself a guitar Used to play every night Now he's in a rock and roll outfit and everything's all right Don't ya know Johnny told his mama Hey, Mama, I'm going away I'm gonna hit the big time Gonna be a big star someday Momma came to the door With a teardrop in her eye Johnny said "Don't cry Momma, Smile and wave goodbye." Don't you know Don't you know That you are a shooting star,..(don't you know, don't you know) Don't you know that you are A Shooting Star And all the world will love you Just as long..as long as you are? Johnny made a record Went straight up to number one Suddenly everyone loved to hear him sing his song Watching the world go by Surprising it goes so fast Johnny looked around him And said "Well I made the big time at last." a shooting star.,.... Johnny died one night Died in his bed Bottle of whiskey, sleeping tablets By his head Johnny's life passed him by like a warm summer day If you listen to the wind You can still hear him play Don't you know...
16. Bad Company
Company, always on the run Destiny, oooh, and the rising sun I was born, six gun in my hand Behind the gun, I make my final stand That's why they call me Bad company, Oh, I can't deny Bad, Bad company Till the day I die Rebel souls Deserters we are called Chose the gun And threw away the sword All these towns They all know our name Six gun sound Ooh, is our claim to fame That's why they call me Bad company, Oh, I can't deny Bad, Bad company Till the day I die
19. Last Horizon
No lyrics - Instrumental
22. Feel Like Makin' Love
Baby, when I think about you I think about love. Darlin, couldn't live without you And your love. If I had those golden dreams of my yesterday I would wrap you In the heavens And feel it dyin (dyin, dyin) all the way I feel like makin
25. All Right Now
Whoa-oh-oh-woah-ahh There she stood in the street Smilin' from her head to her feet; I said, "Hey, what is this? Now baby, maybe, Maybe she's in need of a kiss." I said, "Hey, what's your name? Maybe we can see things the same." "Now don't you wait, or hesitate Let's move before they raise the parking rate." Ohh All right now, baby, it's a-all right now. All right now, baby, it's a-all right now. (Let me tell you now) I took her home to my place, Watchin' every move on her face; She said, "Look, what's your game, baby? Are you tryna' put me to shame?" I said "Slow, don't go so fast, don't you think that love can last?" She said, "Love, Lord above, Now you're tryna' trick me in love." All right now, baby, it's a-all right now. All right now, baby, it's a-all right now. Whoo, oh yeah All right now, baby, it's a-all right now, yeah All right now, baby, it's a-all right now All right now, baby, it's a-a-all right now All right n-now, baby baby baby it's all right All right now, it's all right, it's all right, it's all right All right now, baby, it's a-all right now Yeah, we're so happy together It's all right, it's all right it's all right Everything's all right


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Pre-planning Underway in Stephens Co. Schools
A new school year inches ever closer for students in Stephens County.
That new year is already underway for teachers, who started pre-planning on Tuesday.
Stephens County School Superintendent Bryan Dorsey said they are excited to have staff back and start the process of getting a new school year underway.
"We are ready to get back to what I would call our work, which is our kids," said Dorsey. "We are excited about a great school year."
Pre-planning continues in the Stephens County School System continues today and Friday.
School starts for students in Stephens County on Monday.


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LS 206 Payment of Compensation Without Award under LHWCA
LS 206 Payment of Compensation Without Award
Your employer under the LHWCA may complete an LS 206 form if your employer is voluntarily making payments to you under the LHWCA. In general, the LS 206 form simply documents to the Department of Labor that your employer is voluntarily making payments under the Longshore Act due to a work-related injury or illness which you have suffered. Most employers will send copies of the LS 206 to the injured employee notifying them that payments are being made voluntarily. Generally an employee under the Longshore Act is not required to take any action or steps when they receive the LS 206 form from their employer.


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WHY Cindy Reed, CPA?Our personalized and responsive service will provide your business with comprehensive accounting and tax strategies that will improve your profits and help you plan for the future. You'll feel confident knowing that you don't have to worry about complicated tax issues because a professional is overseeing the financial side of your business.
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XBee RS-485 Adapter
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Product Description
The XBee RS-485 is claimed to support RS-422 and RS-485. RS-422 means 4-wire (separate TX/RX pairs). RS-485 strictly means 2-wire with the TX/RX function on a single wire pair for half-duplex only. If you want RS-485 4-wire, then configure the product for RS-422.
The XBee RS-485 has a 6-screw removable terminal block. Pin #1 is on the same side as the DIP switches - or if the adapter is mounted (screwed down), then if you face the open ends of the terminals, then pin #1 is on the left (opposite the power connector)
|When RS-422
|When RS-485
|Dat+ (B)
|Dat- (A)
|Not Used
|Not Used
|12vdc Switched Power
|12vdc Switched Power
Note on Pin 5: This pin is used as power, signal, and reference ground. Since the Digi AC/DC supply has a floating earth, you will need to tie this to your RS-485 device (or at least the same ground reference they use). This is also the return for the 12vdc switched power.
Note on Pin 6: When enabled, provides up to 50mA of 12vdc power - see programming options below
DIP Switch Settings
|Not used
|OFF for RS-422, ON for RS-485
|ON to enable BIAS and Termination, OFF to disable
Note on Line Bias: Line bias is available only when external power is used, but it should always be enabled unless there is a specific reason to disable it. Enabling line bias 'quiets' a floating line, which prevents noise from generating large amounts of XBee traffic.
Note on ON setting: the lebeling on the DIP switch can be hard to see - as of Sep 2009 the black DIP switch block used is ON when the switch button is AWAY from the etched numbers.
Programming Options
There are many options to consider when making wireless programmatic access to an XBee network of devices or device adapters. In broad terms, one may write a program which runs on a PC to interact with a network or one may use a gateway device, such a ConnectPort X [2] gateway.
When using a PC, one may consider using the simplistic and easy "AT-Command" mode for the XBee attached to the computer. Although using this mode is straight-forward it does not offer one as fine of control as when using the "API mode" firmware option.
One may also consider using a Digi ConnectPort X family of gateway device to provide additional intelligence and flexibility when connecting to a network of wireless devices. The ConnectPort X [3] offers a customizable Python Programming Environment and instant connectivity to the Device Cloud Management Platform. The ConnectPort X offers users the ability to choose to write their own applications from the ground-up, using Digi's and Python's[4] reference and example information, or to use the highly extensible DIA Application to collect and aggregate information.
Using the Aux-Power output
The auxiliary power output can be used to selectively power up an external RS-485 equiped sensor. When the XBee RS-485 adapter sleeps, the aux-power drop.
To turn the auxiliary power on, send the AT command 'D2\x05' (set D2 to 5)
To turn the auxiliary power off, send the AT command 'D2\x04' (set D2 to 4)
To make use of this power option with sleeping sensors, you will need the following things to occur:
- Set the XBee sleep settings as required - the length of time to remain awake will be tricky to calculate.
- Enable the aux-power output to be true
- if the sensor transmits its data automatically, then this will be sent over the mesh to either the MAC address loaded in the DH/DL register pair, or for Zigbee to the coordinator
- if the sensor must be polled, then you must enable one of the I/O settings with the XBee so that it sends an dummy message to the host. Then your host application must wait for that dummy message and quickly send any serial poll required.


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Opis Network MasterMind & Peer:Peer classes (12/13/12)
Opis Network
Thursday, December 13, 2012 from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM (PST)
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Remember: every three months you get a free bonus equal to or greater than what you paid in class tuition. It's like attending for free!
Join us for our REGIONAL program at Concordia University in partnership with Orange County cities, OC Business Council and media outlets.
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Architectural Guidelines
I just purchased a new single detached home in a brand new neighborhood. Our city hasn't had much for architectural guidelines in the past including my previous home built in 2004 but I was informed after purchase that there is quite the detailed package for this area.
While most of the guidelines are reasonable, what are your experiences if you fail to comply? Two I have an issue with are:
1) They want a brown stained fence built from spruce using only nails when I want to use pressure treated unstained/unpainted built with screws.
2) No front facing satellite dishes, or dishes over 1m(3.3ft) in the rear. Not an issue for me as my backyard faces south, however I know many other people will have an issue with this since they face north onto the street.
There is no home owners association present, this is not a condo, and these are not city bylaws. Can they actually force you to do anything or are these guidelines just highly recommended to maintain property value?
That is a HOA, not architectural guidelines. As for the satellite dish, they can not restrict you from where you place it on your property, nor keep you from placing one on your property, per the FCC, but with Canada, it would not apply. Because of HOA & cities have become over critical how their appearances are, they have caused not only ATT to not finish their build out of U-Verse in the states, but also have cause multiple headaches other ways. The fence, yes they can enforce that to make everything look the same for asthetics.
That's the weird part - there is no HOA and this was one of the things I made sure of when I bought. These guidelines mentioned above are straight from the developer and was a bit of a shock to read.
I agree - it sounds like an HOA. PT would make a better material for the fence and you should be able to stain it make it look like the other fences depending on how dark the stain is. You can probably ask the HOA for permission to use PT. Typically the concern over the dishes is that they not be in sight. I don't understand why having your house face N/S makes a difference unless the lots are small and the houses are two story.
Look around your neighborhood and see if there are any violations. If you see a lot, the HOA is not strong. If you don't see any, the HOA is likely strict. If you violate the covenants they can sue you. I would find out who is on the HOA committee and talk to them about your concerns.
The good news is now is the time to challenge them if you want, say a pink, rather than brown fence.
Satellite dishes are rather hideous looking. But I think a prior poster is correct and you cannot be denied placement of a device that delivers telecommunications to you. Check this out though.
sdsester, here in the U.S. they can not restrict you from putting up a antenna for OTA or Satellite. As you know in Chicago, they wrecked havoc on the placement of the VRAD's for ATT, even though there are cabinets all over the city for telecommunications, CATV and power. People that rule neighborhoods only care about their own narrow mindedness, not the positive for everyone, with still the restrictions of no broken down cars, etc.
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The Decameronby Giovanni Boccaccio, Peter Bondanella (Translator), Mark Musa (Translator), Teodolinda Barolini (Afterword), Thomas G. Bergin (Introduction)
Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature.
Set against the background of the Black Death of 1348, Giovanni Boccaccio's undisputed masterpiece recaptures both the tragedies and comedies of medieval life and is surely one of the greatest achievements in the history of literature.
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- 9780451531735
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- Publication date:
- 12/07/2010
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Just as Hamlet has been described as full of quotations, so the Decameron may at times seem to be full of stories we have heard before. That so many later writers have drawn on this work is of course a testimony to Boccaccio's skill as a storyteller: few if any of these tales were of his own invention, but – as is often said about jokes – it is the way they are told that counts. To imply a comparison with telling jokes is not inapposite and is not to depreciate these stories: true words can be spoken in jest. The complexities of this work are such that not only the book as a whole, but each of the hundred tales has acquired its own extensive critical bibliography. Nevertheless, the essential thing is as always (in the words of Pope) simply to
. . . read each work of wit
With the same spirit that its author writ
(Pope, An Essay on Criticism, 233–4)
which in this case involves being alive to the subtle play of the writer's mind over his narrative, and being especially sensitive to Boccaccio's nods and winks. In his Conclusion to the work he gives some advice to readers who might be offended by the inclusion of bawdy tales: they can easily check first with the summaries given at the head of the tales and thus avoid any which are likely to upset them (or, although Boccaccio does not quite say this, use the same method if they want to find those tales in order to read them). In his Conclusion he says he could hardly have avoided mentioning everyday objects, such as pestles and mortars, which might be thought by some to have a sexual significance, and in saying this he draws attention to their significance for the sake of any reader who might have missed it.
It is natural, when reading a book of short stories, particularly when they are placed in a fictional framework, to look for some purpose in their arrangement, and in the Decameron it is not difficult to find reasons for the way they are set out. Against what might be called the ''blackground'' of the 1348 plague in Florence, with its breakdown of law and order and the usual decencies, a civilized assembly of seven young women and three young men in a villa outside the city and their entertaining tales stand out in bright relief. At the same time it should be recognized that the reader does not remain conscious of this background for very long, as the stories themselves distract him. Similarly, order is given to the tales by various devices: many of them are grouped under common themes; they may be placed in opposition to each other, comic ones to contrast with solemn ones, and so on. All this is true, but it does not mean that the work as a whole is a kind of bourgeois epic, as has been suggested, or even simply one long story. Short stories are by their nature enclosed works, each with a beginning, a middle and an end, and however many there are, and however they are arranged, they remain separate. They are like sonnets in this respect and, like sonnets arranged in a sequence, they are strikingly ill suited to the telling of one long tale. Like a group of sonnets, however, they do have to be arranged in some fashion, they do have to be put down one after another, and their author does well to place each sonnet or short story in a position where it may be seen at its best, and this Boccaccio has done. There are patterns to be found, but they are such as reveal themselves to later consideration rather than in the act of reading.
It is also natural for anyone to ponder what each story adds up to, what its point is, or perhaps what moral comes out of it. In the Decameron we are again and again encouraged to do this, although often the encouragement is not explicit but implicit in the actions of the stories themselves. The storytellers frequently appear to be little concerned with moral issues. For instance the merchant Landolfo Rufolo (ii.4), after losing all his money by unwise investment in stock, decides to become a pirate (as an indirect result of which he eventually prospers); there is no adverse comment on this kind of business diversification, merely a slight hint of extenuation when we are told that he ''devoted himself to making other people's property his own, especially that of the Turks.''
There is even at times in the Decameron a pleasure in flagrantly unchristian actions, as in the tale (viii.7) of the scholar's meticulous and sadistic revenge on the widow, where the symmetry between the initial offence and the revenge triumphs over all other considerations: there is very often a Kiplingesque delight in getting one's own back. Again, sheer cleverness is often seen as an admirable characteristic, particularly when it enables people to extricate themselves from tricky situations, as with the erring wife in Arezzo (vii.4) who manages so unerringly to put her innocent husband in the wrong. And although friars are attacked fiercely for their failure to live up to Christian standards, this does not prevent our taking pleasure in the glorious lying eloquence of Brother Cipolla (vi.10), who could give Chaucer's Pardoner a run for his money. Both of them are adept at openly mocking their audiences in the very instant of deceiving them. Perhaps this glorification of smart-aleckry ought not to be so surprising: most of us have been familiar from a very early age with folk tales such as that of Puss-in-Boots, the arch confidence trickster; but it does shock when it comes in stories of such evident moral sophistication, in a collection where many of the tales exalt Christian values of honesty, trustworthiness, and kindness. Oscar Wilde's Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest said of the novel she had written: ''The good ended happily, and the bad unhappily. That is what Fiction means.'' She had clearly not read the Decameron.
The desire to put one over on others is closely connected with an emphasis on worldly honour, most obviously in the great concern for reputation. This can be taken to extraordinary lengths, as when a man is prepared to commit murder (x.3) in order to take over his victim's reputation as the most hospitable of men!
We are not dealing here merely with the expected cultural differences between a fourteenth-century Florentine and ourselves: indeed the popularity of the Decameron over so many hundreds of years testifies rather to what we have in common with Boccaccio, which is basically our humanity. To try to extract a set of generally applicable abstract principles of morality from these tales is a waste of time. The moral attitude varies with the storyteller and the story, and the net result is a whole world of conflicting, and frequently unresolved, reactions and attitudes – in short, the world we live in.
Meet the Author
Giovanni Boccaccio was born in Florence, Italy, in 1313, and he died there in 1375. His life thus coincided with the flowering of the early Renaissance and indeed his closest friend was Petrarch, the other towering literary figure of the period. During his lifetime, Boccaccio was a diplomat, businessman, and international traveler, as well as the creator of numerous works of prose and poetry. Of his achievements, The Decameron, completed sometime between 1350 and 1352, remains his lasting contribution—immensely popular from its original appearance to the present day—to world literature.
Mark Musa is a professor at the Center for Italian Studies at Indiana University. A former Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, Musa is the author of a highly acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy.
Mark Musa and Peter Bondanella are professors at the Center for Italian Studies at Indiana University. Mark Musa, a former Fulbright and Guggenheim Fellow, is the author of a highly acclaimed translation of Dante's Divine Comedy. Peter Bondanella, a former Younger Humanist and Senior Fellow of the National Endowment for the Humanities, has published, among other works, Machiavelli and the Art of Renaissance History and Federico Fellini: Essays in Criticism. He is coeditor of The Dictionary of Italian Literature and The Portable Machiavelli.
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Ten young people flee medieval Florence during the plague and take refuge on a beautiful country estate, where they amuse themselves telling stories for ten days. For me, the stories were more intriguing than entertaining. It was interesting to see what sorts of stories people told at that time. Some of the "clever" speeches or retorts made by characters don't seem to transcend time and translation, but the values these admired characters espouse are timeless. On the other hand, many other characters are applauded for their trickery, and at times the storytellers laughed over a story when I thought the outcome was cruel. There's an overabundance of stories about men trying to lock down their wives and daughters, and women tricking their husbands and fathers so they can be with their lovers. Then there are guys who trick the ladies, too. It's a long book, but the individual stories are short, so it's easy to put it down and pick it up another time without having to remember what was going on. If you read a couple here and there, eventually you're finished -- and sorry to see it end.
Reminded me a bit of Spoon River Anthology. Very vivid, interesting portrayals of a wide cross-section of humanity in a very difficult historical period. It almost reads like a census forum of sorts. Very interesting.
I enjoyed this book. It had a great historical feel and it had kind of a sensual feel.
This book is a true masterpiece of literature. It incorporates beauty with wit, and is a must for any reader.
Bocaccio writes an excellent and entertaining book. It's a very easy read since it's a collection of stories 'told' by a group of friends during the age of the Black Death. It's racy and funny and tells of all the follies and foibles of humanity. I would recommend it even to non-readers since it is very easy to pick up and put down.
This is the best translation of the Decameron I have come across. it is easy to read due to McWilliams very intelligent literary style. While other translations are hard to follow and often choppy, this one flows like any good book. I recomend a read even if you have read other translations. In my opinion this is the only translation that does this delightful collection of tales justice.


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The Pirate hits Pullman: Mike Leach back on the sideline
PULLMAN, Wash. - On the bottom level of his new five-bedroom house, Mike Leach has been adding some finishing touches to his home movie theater.
Two statues of pirates stand on the floor. A few feet away, two framed photos of Clint Eastwood and John Wayne lean on the ground. In front, a movie screen covers an entire wall, blankly waiting for an audience.
After moving into town late last year, Leach's show is nearly ready to roll, at home and at his new job at Washington State. By morning, he's completing a home construction project. By night, he's working late at the office, using a familiar blueprint — one that builds winning football programs. In his last 21 years as a head coach or assistant, Leach has had just one losing season — his 1997 Kentucky team finished 5-6.
"And we shouldn't have had one then," Leach says in an exclusive interview with USA TODAY Sports, as he prepares the Cougars to play Thursday night at BYU, his alma mater. "There were some games we could have won."
Two seasons since his controversial firing at Texas Tech, there's a new attraction in college football. It's Mike Leach, The Sequel. He's got the same spread offense, with a wrinkle: the pistol alignment. He's got the same active imagination, now fueled by beet and kale juice. He's got the same trademark quirks, right down to the cinematic motifs.
The only difference might be that he's bigger than ever, already so beloved in his new community that WSU might sell out every home game for the first time.
"I've been around a long, long time, and I have never seen the energy that we're seeing now in our fan base," says Bill Moos, Washington State's athletic director and former co-captain of the team in 1972.
Since Leach's hiring, more than 3,200 new season tickets have been sold, up to about 13,400. All 21 stadium suites sold within 10 days of Leach's hiring, Moos says, at a price of $30,000 to $50,000 per season. Donations to WSU athletics are up more than $3 million from last year, with the number of donors increasing from 4,123 to 6,000-plus.
Players are feeling it, too.
"It's such a change in the level of confidence around here," quarterback Jeff Tuel says.
The great equalizer
Take away some trees and add a few barbecue joints, and Leach's new home closely resembles his old one in Lubbock, Texas. Like Tech, WSU is a rurally located, resource-challenged athletic department trying to keep up with its more urban rivals. Its 2010-11 athletics budget was by far the smallest of the public universities in the Pac-12 Conference, according to information the schools reported to the NCAA. Southern California and Stanford are private, but both spent more on athletics.
"Texas Tech to the Big 12 is similar to Washington State to the Pac-12," Moos says.
WSU also hasn't had a winning season since 2003, which contributed to the firing last November of head coach Paul Wulff.
To make up for the disadvantages, Moos needed somebody with star power who could buck conventional wisdom and sell the program.
Who better for the job than Leach, a coffee-drinking Mormon with a law degree — a football junkie who never played college football but still led Tech to 10 bowl games in 10 seasons before being dumped in December 2009?
Perhaps just as importantly, who better than a New York Times best-selling author who's been featured on 60 Minutes and has friends in high places, including celebrities such as Donald Trump, actor Matthew McConaughey and director Peter Berg?
Leach, 51, has won at every level of NCAA football: Division III (Iowa Wesleyan), Division II (Valdosta State) and Division I (Kentucky, Oklahoma and Tech).
He's used the same system at every stop: a pass-happy spread offense that's hard to stop no matter how big the opponent's players or budget. In the offense, players spread across the field horizontally to force the defense to cover more space. The quarterback distributes the ball, often picking from among five receivers or running backs, the goal being to find mismatches, such as a fast receiver against a slower linebacker. Since his days at Iowa Wesleyan, Leach has called the plays. "We're not changing much," he says.
No matter the offense, the key is recruiting. It's harder to attract players to Pullman instead of Seattle or Los Angeles. Leach faced the same challenge at Tech going against Texas in Austin. But Leach says he can compete if he can convince prospects to visit Washington State, an isolated campus amid rolling hills of wheat and lentils.
"Once we get them here, parents love it because it's clean and safe," Moos says. "It's collegial. There's no freeways, no drive-by shootings, all those things which appeal to the parents. While they're ooing and aahing about that, the kid is usually saying, 'Show me your locker room. Show me your weight room.' We're addressing that."
The drawings sit in Leach's office: plans for a $61 million new football operations building that includes a new locker room and other amenities. If approved, it'll match the three-level press box recently built at Martin Stadium for about $65 million. The money source is the new Pac-12 television contract: Washington State's payout jumped from $2.8 million in the previous deal to at least $20 million per year.
Recruits have noticed. Signing day doesn't come until February, but WSU has verbal commitments from a dozen players, ahead of Leach's pace at Tech.
"This year, it's really started to shape up well," Leach says.
The Texas exit
Moos says Leach was his "first and only candidate" to replace Wulff. Leach even had been on his short list at Oregon, where Moos left as athletic director in 2007.
So last November, Moos visited Key West, Fla., where the Leach family had moved. Within minutes, Leach had charmed Moos with his gift of free association.
"We were talking about Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, re-runs of Gunsmoke, missing snow days in school and World War II," Moos said. "He was all over the place, and it was great."
Moos was sold, which prompts a question: If Leach is this good and this charming, why hadn't he been hired?
The answer lies in his messy exit from Tech. In Lubbock, Leach publicly clashed with his athletic director over his budget and contract. Then in late 2009, ESPN reported that Leach "punished" one of his players for having a concussion, locking him in an electrical closet for hours. The player was receiver Adam James, son of then-ESPN broadcaster Craig James.
Tech fired Leach a day before he was due an $800,000 tenure bonus on his contract. Leach sued Tech for breach of contract, but the university was protected under sovereign immunity. Leach said he will appeal to the state legislature to change that protection. Leach also sued ESPN for defamation, a case that is still pending.
Adam James later said in deposition testimony that he wasn't forced or locked in the closet, that he wasn't there very long and wasn't in danger of being harmed. ESPN says Leach's suit is without merit. Efforts to reach Craig James were unsuccessful.
While the public feud likely had a chilling effect on other potential employers, Moos said it helped him get the "pick of the litter."
Leach was raring to get back in the game, sprier than ever after developing a healthier lifestyle in Key West. He frequently exercised, riding a bike and rollerblading. He started using a Vitamix blender, which he uses to consume 16 ounces of liquefied produce each morning, including kale, beets, garlic and ginger. Last year, he published a best-selling memoir, Swing Your Sword.
The book title is a reference to his fascination with pirates. But it's also a personal motto. To make his point, when Leach attended McConaughey's June wedding in Texas, he gave the newlyweds a special gift: a real sword.
The quirks
Pullman marks Leach's 21st city of residence, dating to his birth in Susanville, Calif. His father Frank worked in the forest service, which led the family to several small towns, including Cody, Wyo. He met his wife Sharon at BYU, and the two have three daughters and a son, Cody, 16, who this summer was often at his father's desk, using the computer.
Leach has never turned it on. "I'm not great at technology," he says.
He has more than 36,000 followers on Twitter, but his wife sends out the tweets, one of several Leach-esque quirks.
He's a church-going Mormon who likes caffeine — coffee and tea are both no-nos. "I'm not perfect as far as the obedience thing," he says. He's also an affable person who can have a conversation with anybody about nearly anything.
But he can have a sharp tongue with his players. When energy started to lag at a recent practice, he stopped the workout and chewed out the team. Some players have been kicked off the team for not meeting his standards.
"He said, 'Even little old ladies can give effort,'" WSU safety Deone Bucannon said. "He said, 'They may not get great results, but they can give great effort.' "
Tuel, the quarterback says, "Things are going to be done one way, and that's his way. There are no ifs, ands or buts about it… It's really caused people to follow him."
Leach is sort of like the sheriff in one of his favorite films: Rio Bravo. John Wayne plays the sheriff, who leads a scrappy bunch to defend the town.
In real life, Leach is like the mayor, the most popular guy in town. Pullman's real mayor, Glenn Johnson, who also is WSU's public-address announcer at football games, has been elected to three terms, the current one ending in 2015.
"Since (Leach) is still relatively new here, I think I still have a good shot" at reelection, Johnson says. "But we'll see what happens after a couple of good seasons."