Kit Kat

Kit Kat is a chocolate-covered wafer biscuit bar confection that was created by Rowntree's of York, England, and is now produced worldwide by Nestlé, which acquired Rowntree in 1988, except in the United States where it is made under license by The Hershey Company. Each bar consists of fingers composed of three layers of wafer, covered in an outer layer of chocolate. Each finger can be snapped from the bar separately. Bars typically have 2 or 4 fingers. Larger Kit Kat Chunky bars are also popular.
Use of the name "Kit Kat" or "Kit Cat" for a type of food goes back to the 18th century, when mutton pies known as a Kit-Kat were served at meetings of the political Kit-Cat Club in London.
The origins of what is now known as the "Kit Kat" brand go back to 1911, when Rowntree's, a confectionery company based in York in the United Kingdom, trademarked the terms "Kit Cat" and "Kit Kat". Although the terms were not immediately utilised, the first conception of the Kit Kat appeared in the 1920s, when Rowntree launched a brand of boxed chocolates entitled "Kit Cat". This continued into the 1930s, when Rowntree's shifted focus and production onto its "Black Magic" and "Dairy Box" brands. With the promotion of alternative products the "Kit Cat" brand decreased and was eventually discontinued. The original four-finger bar was developed after a worker at Rowntree's York Factory put a suggestion in a recommendation box for a snack that "a man could take to work in his pack".The bar launched on 29 August 1935, under the title of "Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp" and was sold in London and throughout Southern England.
The product's official title of "Rowntree's Chocolate Crisp" was renamed "Kit Kat Chocolate Crisp" in 1937, the same year that 'Kit Kat' began to incorporate "Break" into its recognisable advertising strategy.The colour scheme and first flavour variation to the brand came in 1942, owing to World War II, when food shortages prompted an alteration in the recipe. The flavour of "Kit Kat" was changed to "dark"; the packaging abandoned its "Chocolate Crisp" title, and was adorned in blue. After the war the title was altered to "Kit Kat" and resumed its original milk recipe and red packaging.

  4-finger Kit Kat

Following on from its success in the United Kingdom, in the 1940s "Kit Kat" was exported to Canada, South Africa, Ireland, Australia, and New Zealand. In 1958, Donald Gilles, the executive at JWT Orland, created the iconic advertising line "Have a Break, Have a Kit Kat". The brand further expanded in the 1970s when Rowntree created a new distribution factory in Germany to meet European demand, and established agreements to distribute the brand in the USA and Japan through the Hershey and Fujiya companies, respectively. In June 1988 Nestlé acquired Kit Kat through the purchase of Rowntree's. This gave Nestlé global control over the brand, except in North America, and production and distribution increased with new facilities in Japan and additional manufacturing operations set up in Malaysia, India and China.
The Hershey Company has a licence to produce Kit Kat bars in the United States which dates from 1970, when Hershey executed a licensing agreement with Rowntree. Nestlé, which has a substantial presence in the US, had to honour the licensing agreement when it bought Rowntree in 1988 which allowed Hershey to retain the Kit Kat licence so long as Hershey was not sold. As Kit-Kat is one of Hershey's top five brands in the U.S. market, the Kit Kat licence was a key factor in Hershey's failed attempt to attract a serious buyer in 2002.
Variants in the traditional chocolate bar first appeared in 1996 when "Kit Kat Orange", the first flavour variant, was introduced in the United Kingdom. Its success was followed by several varieties including mint and caramel, and in 1999 "Kit Kat Chunky" was launched and received favourably by international consumers. Variations on the traditional "Kit Kat" have continued to develop throughout the 2000s. In 2000 Nestlé acquired Fujiya’s share of the brand in Japan, and also expanded its marketplace in Japan, Russia, Turkey, and Venezuela, in addition to markets in Eastern and Central Europe. Throughout the decade 'Kit Kat' has introduced dozens of flavours and line extensions within specific consumer markets, and celebrated its 75th anniversary on 10 October 2009.
The traditional bar has four fingers which each measure approximately 1 centimetre (0.39 in) by 9 centimetres (3.5 in). A two-finger bar was launched in the 1930s, and has remained the company's best-selling biscuit brand ever since. The 1999 "Kit Kat Chunky" (known as "Big Kat" in the US) has one large finger approximately 2.5 centimetres (0.98 in) wide. Kit Kat bars contain varying numbers of fingers depending on the market, ranging from the half-finger sized Kit Kat Petit in Japan, to the three-fingered variants in Arabia, to the twelve-finger family-size bars in Australia and France. Kit Kat bars are sold individually and in bags, boxes and multi-packs. In Ireland, the UK and America Nestlé also produces a Kit Kat Ice Cream, and in Australia and Malaysia, "Kit Kat Drumsticks".
In 2010 a new £5 million manufacturing line was opened by Nestlé in York, UK. This will produce more than a billion Kit Kat bars each year.

HARIBO

Haribo is a German confectionery company, founded in 1920 by Johannes ("Hans") Riegel Sr. Haribo is headquartered in Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, and the name is an acronym for Hans Riegel, Bonn.
Haribo made the first gummy candy in 1922 when Hans Riegel Sr. made the first gummy bear. After Hans Riegel Sr. died during World War II, his son, also named Hans Riegel, took over the company. Haribo expanded its operations taking over many local sweet manufacturers in countries all over the world.
Haribo is one of the biggest manufacturers of gummy and jelly sweets in the world, with its products mainly consisting of Gummy Bears, other jelly sweets and liquorice. There are five factories in Germany and 13 throughout the rest of Europe. There are sales offices in almost every country in Europe as well as in the United StatesAustralia and Thailand

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BTS

The Bangkok Mass Transit System, commonly known as the BTS Skytrain is an ele

vated rapid transit system in Bangkok, Thailand. It is operated by Bangkok Mass Transit System Public Company Limited (BTSC) under a concession granted by the Bangkok Metropolitan Administration (BMA). The system consists of 34 stations along two lines: the Sukhumvit Line running northwards and eastwards, terminating at Mo Chit and Bearing respectively, and the Silom Line which plies Silom and Sathon Roads, the Central Business District of Bangkok, terminating at the National Stadium and Wongwian Yai. The lines interchange at Siam Station and have a combined route distance of 55 km. The system is formally known as the Elevated Train in Commemoration of HM the King's 6th Cycle Birthday

The company implemented a contactless ticketing system in 2007 named 'BTS SmartPass', and plans to allow both BTS and Airport Link passengers to use their RFID smart cards as single ticketing system not before 2014. A one-ticket system for BTS and MRT will be expected by 2015.

• 5 Dec 1999: Sukhumvit Line: Mo Chit – On Nut; Silom Line: National Stadium – Saphan Taksin
• 15 May 2009: Silom Line: Saphan Taksin – Wong Wian Yai
• 12 Aug 2011: Sukhumvit Line: On Nut – Bearing
• 12 Jan 2013: Silom Line: Wong Wian Yai – Pho Nimit

BlackBerry Messenger The Good experience in old day

BlackBerry Messenger (BBM) is a proprietary Internet-based instant messenger and videotelephony application included on BlackBerry devices that allows messaging (and videocalls for BlackBerry 10 smartphones) between BlackBerry users. It was developed by the manufacturer of the BlackBerry, BlackBerry Limited (formerly known as Research In Motion Limited (RIM)). Messages sent via BlackBerry Messenger are sent over the Internet and use the BlackBerry PIN system, so communication is only possible between BlackBerry devices.
The service communicates over the phone's Internet connection using the mobile phone network. A wireless LAN ("Wi-Fi") network connected to the Internet may also be used to send messages, most service providers allow sign-in to BlackBerry Messenger if you have a BlackBerry data plan.^[3]
Exchanging messages is possible to a single person or via dedicated discussion or chat groups, which allow multiple BlackBerry devices to communicate in a single session. In addition to offering text-based instant messages, BlackBerry Messenger also allows users to send pictures, voicenotes (audio recordings), files, location on a map and a wide selection of emoticons and the top spec devices can even make videocalls over the WiFi or mobile network.
With the release of BlackBerry Messenger 5.0, BlackBerry allows users to use a QR Code to add each other to their respective friends lists rather than using only numeric PIN identification or an email address associated with the user's BlackBerry. Recent BlackBerry devices can also exchange BBM contacts using Near Field Communication technology.
The release of BlackBerry Messenger 6.0 introduced additional traits. This update is focused on social communication mediums, including 'BBM Connected Apps', which allow the user to invite friends to share their favourite BlackBerry Applications.
With the release of BlackBerry Messenger 7.0 in December 2012, voice chat was introduced. The new feature is called BBM Voice Call.

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Yann Tiersen My Favorite artist

Yann Tiersen

Yann has been honing his musical aesthetic since he could stand on two legs. Born in 1970 in Brest, Brittany, on the western edge of continental Europe, he started learning piano at the age of four, taking up violin at the age of six and receiving classical training at musical academies in Rennes, Nantes and Boulogne. Then, at the age of 13, he chose to alter his destiny, breaking his violin into pieces, buying a guitar and forming a rock band.
Yann got a musical education from the city’s annual Transmusicales festival, seeing acts like Nirvana, Einstürzende Neubaten, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, The Cramps, Television and Suicide. When his band broke up a few years later, instead of hunting for some new musicians, he bought a cheap mixing desk, an eight-track reel, and started recording music solo with a synth, sampler and drum machine, poring over the grooves of old records on the hunt for loops and orchestral strings to plunder.
As it turned out, though, the key to his new approach lay in his own past. “One day I thought, instead of spending days on research and listening to tons of records to find the nearest sound of what I have in mind, why don’t I fix this fucking violin and use it?” Through the summer of 1993, Yann stayed in his apartment, recording music alone with guitar, violin and accordion, guided not by the classical canon, but by intuition and his vision of “a musical anarchy”.
“Let’s live in an enormous world of sound we can use randomly, with no rules at all,” says Yann, of his vision. “Let’s play with sound, forget all knowledge and instrumental skills, and just use instinct – the same way punk did.”
By the end of the summer of 1993, Yann had recorded over 40 tracks, which would form the bulk of his first two albums. 1995′s La Valse Des Monstres, inspired by Tod Browning’s Freaks and Yukio Mishima’s The Damask Drum was the second album to be released on Nancy-based label Ici, d’ailleurs. It would be followed six months later by Rue Des Cascades, a collection of short pieces recorded with toy piano, harpsichord, violin, accordion and mandolin. Six years later, the record would find a much larger audience when several tracks, along with a couple of Yann originals, would be used on the soundtrack to Jean-Pierre Jeunet’s film Amelie (2001).
Yann’s commercial breakthrough would come earlier, though, and off his own back. 1998′s Le Phare (The Light House) was recorded in self-imposed seclusion on the isle of Ouessant, where Yann spent two months living in a rented house. At night, he watched the Creach’h, the most powerful lighthouse in Europe, as it illuminated the surrounding scenery. “I was amazed how the rays of lights from the lighthouse revealed some hidden details of the land, how we can rediscover something we have everyday, just in front of us, by a light pointing on it,” says Yann.
Le Phare went on to sell over 160,000 copies, confirming Yann’s status as one of the most pioneering and original artists of his generation and commencing a run of successful albums like 2001′s L’Absente (featuring orchestral group Synaxis, Lisa Germano and the Divine Comedy’s Neil Hannon) and 2005′s Les Retrouvailles (with guests Stuart Staples of Tindersticks, Jane Birkin and Elizabeth Fraser of Cocteau Twins). In this period, Yann also took his music out around the world, playing shows with a full orchestra and an amplified string quartet – a set-up captured on 2002′s electrifying live album C’etait ici. And following the box-office success of Amelie, Yann’s skills as a soundtracker were much in demand, leading to scores for the likes of Wolfgang Becker’s tragicomedy Good Bye Lenin! (2003) and Tabarly (2008), a documentary about the French sailor Éric Tabarly, who ate his final meal on Ouessant Island before he meeting a watery end in the Irish sea.

Amélie

I love the film Amélie, and when thinking about passport photography, I immediately thought of one of the characters in the film. Nino collects torn up photo-booth photos from bins/around the booths and sticks them into an album, like a strange, eclectic family album.
Around 40 minutes into the film is when Amélie first comes across Nino, scraping under a booth for photo parts. His photo album ends up in the hands of Amélie, and it is then that we get to see exactly what his collection entails. The album in the film is something I’ve always been fascinated with, and would love to flick through it, studying all the pictures. It’s a very physical thing to look through a photo album.






The bottom photograph is a still from the film. All of the photographs are ripped up ‘jigsaws’, carefully reassembled with care in the album. With each of the photos is written the date it was found, for example the bottom left picture in the top photo states: “18 avril 1995, Louvre” – it was found 18th April 1995, either in the Louvre gallery or one of the Metro stations closest to the museum (Louvre Rivoli or Royal Musée de Louvre) [http://parisbytrain.com/closest-metro-stations-to-louvre-museum/]
The photos that Nino collects in the film have been thrown away by someone else – the person within the photo has regarded them as rubbish, whereas Nino regards them as a treasure, and something worth collecting. This is one of the reasons that the album is so intriguing in my eyes – the people within the photos are unknown to the viewer, and also the collector.
Displaying photographs in a book like this, which is almost like a scrapbook, and isn’t necessarily neat, would be a hands-on experience for the viewer.

MINIREX Rabbit

Mini Rex is a rabbit breed derived from in France in the late 19th century. The Rex mutation is recessive and causes the hair to protrude outwards from the body, instead of lying flat, and the guard hairs to be shortened to the length of the undercoat.
The small size, plush coat and friendly personalities of mini rex rabbits make them one of the most popular rabbit breeds in the United States. They were first recognized by the American Rabbit Breeders Association (ARBA) in 1988, and have been very popular with exhibitors ever since. They weigh from 3.5 to 4.5 pounds when fully grown. They are short and rather close coupled. The ideal length of fur is 5/8 inch, and the fur is to have a lustrous appearance, good body, and a plush-like effect which offers a distinct springy resistance to the touch.

Coloration and Markings

The Mini Rex color spectrum includes Blue, Blue Eyed White, the Broken Group, Castor, Chinchilla, Chocolate, Himalayan, Lilac, Lynx, Opal, Otter, Red, Sable Point, Seal, Tortoise, and White. New certificates of development have been awarded by ARBA for Sable, Smoke Pearl, Silver Marten, and Tan Mini Rex, all to be presented in the next few years.

A Castor Mini Rex doe

Opus, A Chinchilla Mini Rex

A male Lynx Mini Rex

• Black – dark, rich, lustrous black, running deeply towards the skin, blending into a dark blue under color. Eyes are dark brown.
• Blue – dark blue, running as deeply towards the skin as possible, with a medium blue under color. Eyes are a blueish grey.
• Castor – a rich chestnut color tipped with black. The under color is slate blue or white with an orange intermediate band of color. Ears are laced in black. Surface color of the belly is cream, as well as the eye circles and jowls. Eyes are brown or black tinted with blue.
• Chinchilla – sparkling mix of pearl and black. Slate blue under color, white belly color. Ears are laced with black, and eye circles are pearl. Upper of tail is black, bottom is white. Eyes are brown or blueish grey.
• Chocolate – lustrous chocolate brown. Dove-grey under color. Brown eyes.
• Himalayan – body is bright white. Ears, feet, tail and nose dark blue or black. Dark toenails, pink eyes.
• Lilac – dove grey lightly tinted with a lilac shade. Matching toenails and blueish grey eyes.
• Lynx – light fawn color tipped with lilac. White under color. Eye circles, jowls, belly, inside of ears and underside of tail are white. Eyes are blueish grey. '
• Opal – medium blue top color, fawn intermediate color and grayish blue under color. Underside of tail, jowls, belly, inside of ears and eye circles are to be white of cream. Eyes are blueish grey.
• Otter – Mainly gray, blue, chocolate or lilac, with tan under belly, chin, tail and circular eye markings..
• Red – rich red with as little shading as possible. White or cream belly color. Eyes are brown.
• Sable – light brown body, with even darker ears, nose, tail, & feet. Eyes are brown.
• Sable Point – lighter brown all over and darker ears, nose, tail, feet. Eyes are brown.
• Seal – dark, dark brown body, fading to lighter brown on the belly and chest. Eyes are brown.
• Tortoise – rich orange with dark shading on the belly, feet, rear, sides, face and ears. Eyes are brown.
• Red Eyed White – pure white. Eyes are pink.
• Blue Eyed White – pure white, eyes blue.
• Broken – Any accepted variety in conjunction with white.
• Tri-Color – white with Black & Orange, Lilac & Fawn, Chocolate & Orange, or Blue & Fawn.
• Pattern – a broken with a balanced nose marking, eye markings, colored ears, colored tail and body spots. Colored area covering 10% to 50% of rabbit.

                                     MY Minirex

Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel+ New!!

I'm still a huge fan of my La Roche Posay  Effaclar Mat (review here) and still recommend it as a great mattifying moisturiser, but I've found something that I feel is more beneficial to my skin as far as moisture goes. Enter Clinique Dramatically Different Moisturizing Gel, my new favourite fuss free moisturiser for Combination/Oily and Oily skin gals like myself.

I first discovered this yellow bottle of goodness when I bought my Mum some Clinique skincare for Mothers Day a year or so back. I remember trying it out a few times and really liking how it didn't add any excess gunk to my face. It moisturised beautifully and left my skin not looking oily throughout the day - result! 

I stopped using my Mum's as I felt bad and happily fell in love with Effaclar Mat. 

The newest release from Clinique is their Dramatically Different Moisturizing Lotion+, which I had seen around at work as the girls were promoting the new addition to the DD family. It reminded me of my brief affair with the gel alternative and led me to getting a bottle for myself, which I'm really glad I did!

DD gives me the same kind of mattifying feeling that the Effaclar Mat does, it's definitely not rich or dewy looking which is what I want. Make-up goes on beautifully over the top of it and my Estée Lauder Idealist Pore Minimizing Skin Refinisher (review soon!) works really well underneath it. Both of these together provide the perfect base for make-up and a nice shine-free base for no make-up also. 

Unlike the Effaclar, it feels like its really moisturising my skin deep down, not just providing a mattifying layer that won't make me look like a chip pan face. My face feels plump and smooth after I use it, which I love. 

Moisture in the skin is so important, and I'd rather have moisture in my skin and be slightly oiler than to not moisturise at all just so that my skin looks matte all day. Having said that, this moisturiser controls my oil really well and gives me more of a glow than an oily look throughout the day, which I'm really happy with. 

Another great thing about this product is the price point. A massive 100ml will only set you back £29.50 (most high end moisturisers are 50ml and some cost much more for only half the amount of the Clinique) and will last a lifetime. I got mine with my employee discount and managed to snag a whopping 200ml for an absolutely bargain-ous price *very happy Chlo*. (I don't know if this size is available to buy on counter but it's not on the Clinique website! It is showing up on the clinique.co.th for 1290.00 but is not in stock so may have been discontinued!) I use roughly the size of a 5p coin and it does my whole face and spreads partway down my neck. 

DD is 100% Fragrance Free, as all of Clinique's products are, which is great for those who's skin is irritated by fragrance.

A fantastic, fantastic product that I really recommend if you have Combination/Oily or Oily skin. 

Apple's brains are starting to drain away

Money matters. No matter how much Silicon Valley types talk about the joys of working for an innovative company, at the end of the day it's really about money. That's why startups and mature companies alike offer stock options as a perk to lure the best and brightest. It shouldn't be a huge surprise, then, to learn that the collapse of Apple's stock price is beginning to hurt morale at the company.
Although it's probably more a trickle than a flood, it appears that rank-and-file engineers and developers are leaving Apple as their retirement accounts melt like snow in the drought-stricken Sahara, says Trip Chowdhry, principal analyst of Global Equities Research. "Recruiters are seeing more and more employees from Apple applying for jobs at Google, LinkedIn, Facebook, and even HP," he says.
[ Apple's perceived innovation has also taken a hit -- Galen Gruman tells why it's not necessarily true. | Stay ahead of the key tech business news with InfoWorld's Today's Headlines: First Look newsletter. ]
Apple is hardly suffering a near-death experience, and anyone who says so isn't worth listening to. The company makes a lot of money, sits on a huge pile of cash, and sells millions of products every month. But it is suffering a crisis of perception. And like money, perceptions matter.
Consider the very cool reception for iOS 7. Admittedly it's still in beta, but the outlines of the new mobile OS are clear, and it's not going to be a smash hit. (My colleague Galen Gruman agrees, seeing it not as a "oh my God" upgrade but as a smart evolution of Apple's underlying services business, part of a long-term direction from a tech company that still thinks in the long term.) Even if it's better than the digerati give it credit for, there is a perception that Apple has lost its innovative edge and iOS 7 is a symptom of creative fatigue.
Apple is a victim of its own successIn a sense, Apple is a victim of its own success and the wildly optimistic expectations of fanboys and investment bankers alike. The company created great products that quite literally changed the world and for years seemed to have a lock on the mobile market. As a result, Wall Street, which so often lacks a sense of proportion, vastly overvalued the company.
Just 10 months ago, Apple's stock was trading at $700 a share, a frothy valuation that could probably never be supported by a realistic sense of the company's earnings potential. As of this week, shares are worth about $420, a plunge of 40 percent. I believe that the current price is too low and is yet another example of Wall Street's naive herd mentality.

http://www.infoworld.com/d/the-industry-standard/apples-brains-are-starting-drain-away-222475

Apple’s Business Unit Strategy

Admiring Apple for only its well-designed products and clever commercials is only scratching the surface. Apple is actually a great case study on brilliant business modeling. Apple treats every product as its own business unit. What this means is that every product line could exist as its own standalone store. Even though all Apple products fit into each other in some way, every Apple product also has to standalone in terms of generating revenue.
Apple’s free iTunes software is a good example of business unit success. The iTunes software isn’t just an application that plays music. The iTunes software is the gateway to the iTunes Store where consumers can subscribe to podcasts, purchase ebooks, and download applications. Since it also runs on Windows, you don’t need to own an Apple device to use it. In fact, you don’t even need to own an mp3 device to use it. Although iTunes is free, it has literally generated billions of dollars in revenue.
The iPad is another good example. To upgrade its operating system and to backup the software, you will need to actually sync it to a computer using the free iTunes software. In the end, however you actually don’t need to own a computer to own the iPad because the iPad is a computer all by itself. The iPad has its own line of applications that can be purchased and installed straight onto the iPad through the built in Apple App Store. Books and music can also be purchased straight onto the iPad using the built in iTunes Store application. In this sense, the iPad is a portable cash cow for Apple. And let’s not forget the billions of collars in commission that Apple gets for every iPad accessory that is on the market.
Take a look at your own products and services, and examine if they could standalone as a business unit. Think about the kinds of accessories that could go with your product, or how you could provide add-ons to your services. Even your website should stand up to this scrutiny. Just like the Apple website, your website should be its own revenue generating business unit, and not just a collection of words. Look at your business through the Apple lens to see how you can maximize revenue for every product and service in your business.