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Dell Battery Pack Recall Widens 
KXAN 36 Austin - Oct 08 12:48 PM
Computer maker Dell says it is widening the recall of Sony battery packs used in its systems to 4.2 million. That's an increase of 100,000 from the initial number.

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Bottler's design creates tempest in a water bottle 
CBC via Yahoo! Canada News - 1 hour, 0 minute ago
A bottle of water has created some controversy in northern Manitoba, as educators and addictions counsellors complained that a Flin Flon-based company's water bottle looks like a mickey of liquor.

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Battlefield 2142 Tweak Guide 
Voodoo Extreme - 2 hours, 25 minutes ago
The new BF2142 demo is based on a slightly improved version of the Battlefield 2 engine, and indeed also performs roughly the same as BF2 does.

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Climb aboard 'Battlestar Galactica' 
Arizona Daily Star - Oct 09 10:06 AM
"Battlestar Galactica" tops the list of "Shows You Really Should Be Watching." Seriously. Just stick with me on this one, OK?

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A diverse discipline 
The Charlotte Observer - 40 minutes ago
A diverse discipline Charlotte studio shows how acrobatics, music and strategy intersect in the Brazilian martial art of capoeira Tracy Boyd

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MOVIES/SPECIALS 
Anime News Network - Oct 07 11:38 AM
Just your simple story of meteor meets earth, Pokemon arises out of said meteor, other Pokemon perceive meteor-born Pokemon to be evil, other Pokemon and meteor-Pokemon fight.

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Family distraught over poodle's death from BB shot 
Poughkeepsie Journal - 2 hours, 39 minutes ago
A Lynbrook Avenue family mourns its French poodle killed last week by a wound from a BB gun. "We had Desiree (the poodle) for 14-and-a-half years," Dina Eckhoff said, crying. "She [was] a little powder puff."

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Purulia case: Bleach willing to testify 
IBN live - Oct 09 4:30 AM
Yorkshire arms dealer Peter Bleach, who was freed after spending eight years in a Kolkata jail in the Purulia arms drop case.

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Sister act 
The Times of Northwest Indiana - 34 minutes ago
They come on like a dream, peaches and cream, lips like strawberry wine. Flattery will get you nowhere with Cinderella's stepsisters. "We're not pretty," sniffs Gary Chryst in a tone that equates looks with "bean dip for brains."

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Oscar Beach party? 
The Ottawa Sun - Oct 10 1:00 AM
Ottawa actor Adam Beach is generating a lot of buzz over his biggest role ever

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Isle of Springs 
Boothbay Register - 11 minutes ago
The pickings were slim on the island this weekend. Cottages lit up and parties heard from (please don't be offended if I didn't see you!) included Bogart, Pierce, Woolson, Bean (SCC), Phillips, and MacGilvra. Not many people ventured out - it was very bitter - so I hope I saw all that were there.

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LightSand Receives IBM Certification For Pear-to-Pear VTS Extension Over IP 
[Press Release] Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance - Oct 10 6:05 AM
PLANO, Texas----LightSand® Communications, Inc., a company pioneering SAN Connectivity solutions, announced today that it is providing the solution chosen by IBM Portugal to extend its Pear-to-Pear VTS mission critical architecture over IP.

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Bear Stearns Starts Taiwan Acer At Outperform 
New Ratings - Oct 08 5:08 PM
2245 GMT [Dow Jones] STOCK CALL: Bear Stearns starts Taiwan PC vendor Acer (2353.TW) at Outperform, pegging company for increased market share in years ahead; Acer is No. 4 PC brand in world by shipments, is biggest notebook vendor in Western Europe.

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New Breast Cancer Gene Discovered 
Fox News - 2 hours, 1 minute ago
A newly discovered breast cancer gene mutation doubles a woman's risk of breast cancer, U.K. researchers report.

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Pataki in N.H. for football, boating, politics 
Boston Globe - 2 hours, 42 minutes ago
New York Gov. George Pataki was back in New Hampshire during the holiday weekend, watching his alma mater's football team beat Dartmouth, taking in some boating and talking some politics.

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SportsDay runner of the week: Ursuline's Becky Wade 
WFAA Dallas-Fort Worth - Oct 08 10:52 PM
What she did: Becky Wade turned in one of the most impressive races of her career by finishing second Saturday in the elite division 5K at the Nike South Invitational at The Woodlands. Wade finished in 18 minutes, 10.3 seconds.

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Reusable glass milk bottles

A bottle is a small container with a neck that is narrower than the body and a "mouth." Bottles are often made of glass, plastic or aluminum, and typically used to store liquids. e.g. water, milk, soft drinks, beer, wine, oil for cooking and as fuel, medicine, liquid soap, shampoo, ink, etc.

For some bottles a deposit is paid, which is returned after returning the bottle to the retailer. For other glass bottles there is often separate garbage collection for recycling.

A device used to close the mouth of a bottle is called a bottle cap.

A make-shift mail method after stranding on a deserted island is a message in a bottle: current may bring it to a shore where the message is read so that a rescue operation can be started. Glass is inert, rigid, and almost completely impermeable, so if the bottle is properly closed a letter inside can stay intact and readable for a long time.

Contents

  • 1 Use for wine
  • 2 Codd-neck bottles
  • 3 Plastic bottles
  • 4 See also
  • 5 External links

Use for wine

Main article: Wine bottle

The glass bottle was an important development in the history of wine, because, when combined with a high-quality stopper such as a cork, it allowed long-term aging of wine. Glass has all qualities required for long-term storage (see above). It also eventually gave rise to "château bottling," the practice where an estate's wine is put in bottle at the source, rather than by a merchant. Prior to this, wine would be sold by the barrel (and before that, the amphora) and put into bottles only at the merchant's shop, if at all. This left a huge and often abused opportunity for fraud and adulteration, as the final consumer had to trust the merchant as to the contents of his or her glass. It is thought that most wine consumed outside of wine producing regions had been tampered with in some way. Also, not all merchants were especially careful to avoid oxidation or contamination while bottling, leading to large bottle variation. Particularly in the case of port, certain conscientious merchants' bottling of old ports fetch higher prices even today. To avoid all these associated problems, most fine wine is bottled at the place of production (including all port, since 1974).

There are many sizes and shapes of bottles used for wine. Some of the best known shapes:

  • "Bordeaux" - This bottle is roughly straight sided with a curved "shoulder" that is useful for catching sediment and is also the easiest to stack. Traditionally used in Bordeaux but now worldwide, this is probably the most common type.
  • "Burgundy" - Traditionally used in Burgundy, this has sides that taper down about 2/3rds of the height to a short cylindrical section, and does not have a shoulder.
  • "Champagne" - Traditionally used for Champagne, this looks similar to a Burgundy bottle but is wider at the base. Much heavier because of the pressure it must contain.

Codd-neck bottles

A Codd bottle.

In 1872, British soft drink maker Hiram Codd designed and patented a bottle designed specifically for carbonated drinks. The Codd-neck bottle, as it was called, was designed and manufactured to enclose a marble and a rubber washer/gasket in the neck. The bottles were filled upside down, and pressure of the gas in the bottle forced the marble against the washer, sealing in the carbonation. The bottle was pinched into a special shape, as can be seen in the photo at right, to provide a chamber into which the marble was pushed to open the bottle. This prevented the marble from blocking the neck as the drink was poured

Soon after its introduction, the bottle became extremely popular with the soft drink and brewing industries in mainly Europe, Asia and Australasia, though some alcohol drinkers disdained the use of the bottle. It has been been claimed that the term codswallop originated from beer sold in Codd bottles, beer being popularly known as wallop at the time. There is no definitive evidence for this claim, and there is no mention of the word codswallop in print until the 1960s.

The bottles were regularly produced for many decades, but gradually became unfashionable. Because children smashed the bottles to get at the marbles, they are relatively rare and have become collectors items, partcularly in the UK. A cobalt coloured Codd bottle today fetches thousands of British pounds at auction. The Codd-neck design is still used used for the Japanese soft drink ramune.


A plastic Lilt bottle

Plastic bottles

Plastic soft drink bottles (two-liter, one-liter, etc) can withstand tremendous pressure from the inside. One use of this property is the water rocket.

See also

  • Container deposit legislation

External links

  • Antique Bottles
  • http://www.delta.edu/slime/images/2Launcher.pdf
  • Milk Bottle News
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Bottler's design creates tempest in a water bottle 

CBC via Yahoo! Canada News - 1 hour, 0 minute ago
A bottle of water has created some controversy in northern Manitoba, as educators and addictions counsellors complained that a Flin Flon-based company's water bottle looks like a mickey of liquor.

Baseball Playoffs: Blown Away 
Sports Illustrated - Oct 10 6:12 AM
In the wild-card era the baseball world can be turned upside down almost as fast as the bottle of champagne that lefthander Kenny Rogers emptied onto the behatted head of a uniformed Detroit police officer in plain view of a delirious Comerica Park crowd last Saturday night. It would have been preposterous to imagine such a tableau only a year ago, when the Tigers lost 91 games in a 12th straight

Police still searching for suspect after 'bottle bomb' found at Swartz Creek 
The Flint Journal - Oct 10 8:04 AM
SWARTZ CREEK - Students were expected to pass by security to return to school this morning after a home-made explosive device was found in the high school boys restroom Monday.

FLYING NAKED 
Linda Chavez via Yahoo! News - Oct 10 3:10 AM
Air travel quit being fun about the time snazzy Braniff Airlines went out of business, but it has become a nightmare as a result of the most recent security rules. Not only can't you bring a bottle of water aboard to stave off dehydration on a five-hour flight, but even a tube of lipstick or mascara has become suddenly suspect in response to the recently foiled plot against American carriers in

Only one in two back Sunday trading by all bottle shops 
The West Australian - Oct 08 7:04 PM
Only one in two West Australians support all bottle shops, including those run by retail giants Coles and Woolworths, being allowed to trade on Sunday, the latest Westpoll shows.

Drinking is on the rise in prime-time TV shows 
The Arizona Republic - 4 minutes ago
NEW YORK - Whether characters are bellying up to Joe's Emerald City Bar in ''Grey's Anatomy'' or swigging a martini at MacLaren's on ''How I Met Your Mother,'' booze is getting a bottle full of free exposure on primetime TV this fall.

Martinelli's Introduces New, Award-Winning Plastic Apple Bottle 
BeverageOnline - Oct 10 2:25 AM
S. Martinelli & Company, the 138-year-old Watsonville, California producer of Martinelli's Gold Medal Apple Juice and Sparkling Cider

At 41, Rogers tastes playoff champagne 
USA Today - Oct 09 9:15 PM
Kenny Rogers stood in the corner of the euphoric Tigers clubhouse, yelling for his 9-year-old son, wondering what in the world Taylor did with that $120 bottle of champagne. So much for that prized keepsake. Taylor popped the cork and sprayed the champagne right along with the other cheap bottles, not knowing the difference between Dom Perignon and Korbel.

Rogers: 'Maybe I got rewarded for persevering through it all' 
Detroit Free Press - 2 hours, 48 minutes ago
Kenny Rogers stood in the corner of the euphoric Detroit Tigers clubhouse, yelling for his 9-year-old son, wondering what in the world Taylor did with that $120 bottle of champagne. So much for that prized keepsake. Taylor, the younger of his two kids, got caught up in the moment. He popped the cork and sprayed the champagne right along with the other cheap bottles, not knowing the difference

Strike force to probe armed robberies 
Australian Broadcasting Corporation - 39 minutes ago
A police strike force has been set up to investigate a string of armed robberies, mainly at fast food outlets, across Sydney. Detectives believe there may be links between robberies at 10 fast food outlets, a service station and a bottle shop that have happened since mid-August.

Last Update: 2006-10-10 23:50:41