Nestlé Big Turk colors

I was wondering about the red color in Big Turk and now I know it's not from animal source.

Dear Consumer,

Thank you for contacting us recently about Nestlé Big Turk. We value
your feedback and appreciate the time you took to share your comments with
us.

We have read your email and are pleased to provide the following information in response to your inquiry. Animal source, no animal sourced materials are used in the manufacture of the raw materials except for milk. The ingredients in the Big Turk are Sugar, Glucose, Corn Starch, Milk Ingredients, Cocoa Butter, Chocolate, Citric Acid, Artificial Flavors (Contain Tartrazine), Soya Lecithin, Color, Salt.

The Big Turk bar is coloured with red dyes, Red #2 and Red #3.

Consumer Response Representative Nestlé

I can put your site at the top of a search engines listings

Sure you can!

The website placementrecruiter.com is still "under construction" and the exact text used in this spam email has been used for quite a long time.

Just don't believe these things.

I can put your site at the top of a search engines listings. This is no joke and I can show proven results from all our past clients. If this is something you might be interested in, send me a reply with the web addresses you want to promote and the best way to contact you with some options.

Thanks in advance,

Jen Evans [jen@placementrecruiter.com]

Toys from BRIO for the nerd kid

So, you are a nerd or are your kid a nerd? Here are the toys for your kids. Take a look at the network series from BRIO. Learn them how a hub works, viruses, mailboxes, etc.

BRIO is popular and internationally known for the classic wooden railway system, which was created over 40 years ago.

But as time moved on - so did BRIO, by reinventing the classic railway. We created the Network. A railway system based on the metaphor for the construction of a computer. The Network-world consists of ordinary wooden railway tracks and funky, small characters that live inside your computer.

Though the Networkers are inspired by the computer world, a computer is not required to play with them. The Network consists of physical toys, compatible with the classic railway tracks. Play and build with the magnetic Network houses that fit perfect around the new railway. Add the characters and their vehicles and you have a complete little computer community.

The BRIO Network is fully compatible to the classic BRIO railway tracks, all sold in different packs. The BRIO Network components can make sounds and lights when you interact with them.

Watch out for CD Earth, read the fine print and don't get fooled

Be very careful if you are going to buy anything from http://www.cdearth.com, http://www.thinkall.com or www.FREESOFTWARECD.NET.
Many would consider this a scam.
More details here.

Earnings with us (I don't think so)

Don't be fooled by emails like this. It's obviously spam just by looking at the sender details compared to the signature.

From: Anderson Burks [mailto:giv@bobreyes.com]
Subject: Earnings with us

Hello Sir/Madam,

I am Oleg Kalina, owner Softline, we specializingin enterprise application development, systemintegration,corporate networks and other software solutions for business, finance, and for various types of problems.

My company based in Ukraine. We've earned ourselves a reputation of a reliable and trustworthy partner working successfully with a number of West European companies and providing them with reliable software development services in financial and media sectors.

Unfortunately we are currently facing some difficulties with receiving payments for our services. It usually takes us 10-30

days to receive a payment and clearing from your country and such delays are harmful to our business. We do not have so much time to accept every wire transfer.

That's why we are currently looking for partners inyour country tohelp us accept and process these payments faster.

If you are looking for a chance to make an additional profit you can become our representative in your country. As our

representative you will receive 8% of every deal we conduct. Your job will be accepting funds in the form of wire transfers and check payments and forwarding

them to us. It is not a full-time job, but rather a very convenient and fast way to receive additional income. We also consider opening an office in your country in the nearest future and you will then have certain privileges should you decide to apply for a

full-time job.

Please if you are interested in transacting business with us we will be very glad.

Please contact me for more information via softlineuapoljob@aim.com and send us the following information about yourself:

1. Your Full Name as it appears on your resume.

2. Education.

3. Your Contact Address.

4. Telephone/Fax number.

5. Your present Occupation and Position currently held.

6. Your Age

Please respond and we will provide you with additional details on how you can become our representative. Joining us and

starting business today will cost you nothing and you will be able to earn a bit of extra money fast and easy. Should you have any questions, please feel free to contact us with all your questions.

Sincerely,

Oleg Kalina,

Director of Softline

iuhgeee.bat and tvprunner.exe Joost problem

I got a problem when iuhgeee.bat was locking up.
Looking at the code below it's obviusly running into an endless loop and the process iuhgeee.bat has to be killed.
After I upgraded to the latest version of Joost the problem run away.
Not sure what the bug was about but suddenly Joost just didn't want to run

@ECHO OFF
:rev
DEL "C:\Program Files\Joost\xulrunner\tvprunner.exe"
IF EXIST "C:\Program Files\Joost\xulrunner\tvprunner.exe" GOTO rev
DEL "C:\Users\cc\AppData\Local\Temp\iuhgeee.bat"

Wrigley products OK for vegans

Here is a reply from Wrigley when asking about the ingredients they use:

In answer to your question, the vast majority of Wrigley products sold in Canada are free from ingredients of animal origin, including egg and dairy products. Glycerin is the most common ingredient in our gum products. Glycerin can come from animal, vegetable or synthetic sources. The glycerin we use comes from vegetable sources only.

At present, the only exceptions are Extra® Polar IceTM, Altoids® mints, Juicy Fruit Twisted Green, Lifesavers Gummies, Excel Cool Blast mints and Lifesavers Cremesavers.

Extra® Polar Ice gum contains tiny flavour beads encased in a microscopic layer of gelatin, which is animal based. This brand is not to be confused with Excel ® Polar Ice, which does not contain gelatin. Juicy Fruit Twisted Green gum uses shellac (also known as Confectioner's Glaze) as a coating agent.

In addition, the different varieties of our ALTOIDS® mints, Lifesavers Gummies and Excel Cool Blast (liquid-filled) mints do contain very small quantities of gelatin which is derived from pork. Gelatin does not impart any flavor to ALTOIDS, but it's a necessary ingredient for the texture of the mints. When we use gelatin it is thoroughly purified and dried during its manufacturing process. Lifesavers Cremesavers brands use dairy products.

Our staff is continually looking at alternatives to animal gelatin, but at the moment we've not been able to find a substitute that produces the same quality consumers expect of our products.

Another common question concerns whether glycerin or sugar alcohols are true alcohols or not. Glycerin is an alcohol but this type of alcohol is a natural byproduct of most plants, fruits and vegetables or it sometimes has a synthetic source. Sugar alcohols refers to the group of ingredients that are artificial sweeteners. We would like to point out that these alcohols are NOT the same as the ethyl alcohol found in alcoholic beverages.

Blog Action Day for the environment

Make a change.

Print to an electronic format like PDF and make reviews on the computer and save some paper. Unless you keep your computer on too long.
Send an email instead of a snail mail.

Here's the action blog and website.

Zellers Sportek shoe material

I checked with Zellers customer service and shoes of the Sportek brand that Zellers have are never made of leather, they are synthetic.

This is just another spam email

If you have not found out that already. This email from garry_williams888@myway.com below is just another way to spam you.

They try to use a Swedish website as reference to trick you.
"Your email was forwarded by www.expedia.se at our request"
This is just fool play.
"donotsubscribe@myway.com" Sure this will work. Not.

Hello Dear Friend,

My name is Garry Williams, I am an artist with my wife Pia Wahlenberg and we are the owners of DaPia Art Gallerie and We live in Sweden, europe. I make original Sculptural Paintings and sell Limited Edition Prints. I create artwork that combines sculpture and painting using sheets of wood, metal, and glass to create depth.

I have sold in galleries and to private collectors from all around the world. I am always facing serious difficulties when it comes to selling my art works to my U.S and Canadian customers as they are always offering to pay with cheques and money orders, which is difficult for me to cash here in Sweden. It takes a minimum of four weeks to clear our banks here in Sweden as they are been treated as out of country cheques.

We are looking for a reliable and trustworthy representative in the States who will be working for me as a part time worker and I will be willing to pay 10% for every transaction, which wouldn't affect your present state of work. I need a representative in the United States who will be handling the payment aspect.

All the payments are in certified cheques or money orders and my customers will issue them (payments) in your name and send to you. So all you need do is to take the cheques to your bank and cash them, then deduct your 10% and wire the balance back to us in Sweden. This business will not cost you any amount of money, my customers will send payments to you through registered mail as soon as you receive the package just take these payments to your bank and have them cashed.

The following will be required of you once you show interest to work for me:

1. Your full name

2. Your complete address

3. Occupation

4. Age

5. Sex

6. Telephone number

We are grateful for your attention. Your email was forwarded by www.expedia.se at our request, because you or somebody else has subscribed for the delivery of the job offers on the Internet.

IF INTERESTED, PLEASE REPLY TO: williams.garry8@gmail.com

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Friendly Regards,

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Dapia Art Gallerie Sweden

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List of non vegan colors and dyes

BETA CAROTENE: Provitamin A. Carotene. Found in many animal tissues an in all plants. Used as a coloring in cosmetics and in the manufacture of Vitamin A. Question is if it really has animal source in any cases?

CARMINE: Cochineal. Carminic Acid. E120. Red pigment from the crushed female cochineal insect. Reportedly 70,000 beetles may be killed to produce one pound of this red dye. Used in cosmetics, shampoos, red apple sauce and other foods. May cause allergic reactions. Alternatives: beet juice, no known toxicity (used in powders, rouges, shampoos); alkanet root, from the root of an herblike tree, no known toxicity (used as a red dye for inks, wines, lip balms, etc. and can be combined to make a copper or blue coloring). Natural Red 4 (Red#4) also known as crimson lake, carmine, carminic acid, or cochineal. The dye is made from an insect called the cochineal, which lives on cacti in Mexico and South America, and is neither vegetarian, kosher, nor halal.

SILK POWDER: Obtained from the secretion of the silkworm. Used as a coloring agent in face powders, soaps, etc. Causes severe allergic reactions; systemic reactions if inhaled or ingested.

Some color that might have animal source:
E101 (B): Riboflavin, Vitamin B2
E101a (B): Riboflavin-5-Phosphate
E104 (B): Quinoline Yellow
E150a (B): plain caramel. It is manufactured by heating carbohydrates with or without acids or alkalis
E150b (B): caustic caramel. It is produced like E150a, but in the presence of sulfite compounds
E150c (B): ammonia caramel. It is produced like E150a, but in the presence of ammonium compounds
E150d (B): sulfite ammonia caramel. It is produced like E150a, but with both sulfite and ammonium compounds
E153 (B): Carbon Black, Vegetable Carbon
E160a (B): Alpha-carotene, Beta-carotene, Gamma-carotene. Can be made synthetically, but usually extracted from carrots. Gelatine may be used as a stabiliser
E170 (B): Calcium Carbonate, Chalk

Some artificial colors are made with animal ingredients. But I have not found any information on what colors that would be.

More non vegan ingredients can be found here.

A website with everything about food colors is found here.

Vegan Society has more information as well with Animal-Derived Possibly Animal-Derived Additives and more.

A list of food additives and food coloring and E-numbers on Wikipedia.

Old Fashioned Candy Drops

I found Old Fashioned Candy Drops on the store and purchased a bag and I got some kind of reaction to it. I felt stressed, hyperactive, it felt like itching inside my body and wonder what it could be.

It was the Licorice one I purchased.

The colors/dyes in the product are:
FD&C blue #1 lake (Brilliant Blue) (E133) more info
red #40 lake (FD&C Red #40) http://www.hacsg.org.uk(Red Dye #40) more info
caramel color yellow #6 lake (FD&C Yellow #6) (Sunset Yellow FCF)

It seems like I'm allergic, sensitive or hypersensitive to some or all of the colors. Just as warned by for example http://www.hacsg.org.uk
Looking further these colors are also labeled AZO colors (E 102, E 110, E 122, E 123, E 124, E 128, E 129, E 151, E 154, E 155, E 180) and having for example asthma you should try to stay away from them.
The Lemon one contained the color FD&C Yellow #5 (E 102 tartrazin)

From what I understand the ingredients are ok for a vegans but for me it was a bad idea. Never eating them again, that's for sure.

After some research I found that they are manufactured by King Leo. Hard to find.
http://www.kingleocandy.com
I wonder why the Old Fashioned Candy Drops are not on their website though.
Calling them helped me to got confirm what the ingredients where.

Th drops are in a 6oz. bag of Old Fashioned Assorted Fruit Candy Drops, Old Fashioned Cherry Candy Drops, Old Fashioned Cinnamon Candy Drops, Old Fashioned Horehound Candy Drops, Old Fashioned Lemon Candy Drops, Old Fashioned Licorice Candy Drops, Old Fashioned Root Beer Candy Drops, or Old Fashioned Watermelon Candy Drops.

SkypeOut and caller identification

Is it possible to restrict so that when you use SkypeOut not your skype name shows up?

Unfortunately not. I really wish it was possible to select if you want that to happen or not. Sometimes you want the privacy to not have your number show up as caller id.

The only thing that can be done is if you have SkypeIn. Then you can make a setting so that the SkypeIn number shows up instead of your Skype name. But it sometimes might show up and sometimes not.

To learn more about Skype caller identification:

http://support.skype.com/index.php?_a=knowledgebase&_j=questiondetails&_i=1248

Fragrance free Laundry Detergent

I am allergic and sensitive to a lot of stuff and need a perfume/fragrance free Laundry Detergent preferably for a HE front loaded machine. I have tried some different ones but none makes my clothes real clean. Not even from sweat after using a t-shirt for one day. There are still splotches on the clothes. Please come with good suggestions.

SPRAY ‘n WASH fragrance free

SPRAY ‘n WASH from Reckitt Benckiser seems to have great products to get out the toughest laundry stains. But there is a problem with the products. They contain fragrances.
A big wish is that they make products without fragrances. That would also make their market larger because so many are allergic or sensitive to perfumes and fragrances. Many fragrance free laundry detergents need some kind of booster to really clean the clothes.

I would especially like to have these two products without the strong fragrances they have today.

SPRAY 'n WASH Dual Power Laundry Stain Remover
SPRAY 'n WASH In-Wash Liquid

If you too agree on this please contact the company and let them know what the customers want. Do it through their website or call at 1-800-888-0192 or 1-800-228-4722. Please also add a comment below as well as if you have a suggestion for an alternative that contains enzymes. Oxidizing agents seems to exists as separate products. Or is it possible to buy just the enzymes?