Site claims to have uncovered Coca-Cola's top secret formula

t's one of the most closely guarded trade secrets, supposedly only known by a handful of executives.

But a website claims to have uncovered the precise formula to make Coca-Cola.

The exact ingredients of the popular soft drink, invented by a medicinal chemist called John Pemberton in 1886, have always been shrouded in mystery.

The details of the recipe are said to be kept under 24-hour guard in a vault in Atlanta, Georgia

But now Thisamericanlife.org claims to have uncovered a list, in a 1979 newspaper article, showing the ingredients and quantities used to make the drink.

The February 8 edition of the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a photo of someone holding open a book showing a recipe which is purported to be an exact replica of Pemberton's.

The U.S. website has also published a similar list by Joe Jacobs, owner of the pharmacy where Coca-Cola was first served.

Teenagers sharing a bottle of Coke. Coca-Cola contains a number of essential oils and it is the precise way that these are blended together that is responsible for the drink's unique flavour

The exact ingredients of the popular soft drink, invented by a medicinal chemist called John Pemberton in 1886, have always been shrouded in mystery

Thisamericanlife.org claims to have uncovered a list, in a 1979 newspaper article, showing the ingredients and quantities used to make the drink

SO IS THIS HOW TO MAKE THE FAMOUS DRINK?

Fluid extract of Coca 3 drams USP
Citric acid 3 oz
Caffeine 1oz
Sugar 30 (it is unclear from the markings what quantity is required)
Water 2.5 gal
Lime juice 2 pints 1 qrt
Vanilla 1oz
Caramel 1.5oz or more to colour

7X flavour (use 2oz of flavour to 5 gals syrup):
Alcohol 8oz
Orange oil 20 drops
Lemon oil 30 drops
Nutmeg oil 10 drops
Coriander 5 drops
Neroli 10 drops
Cinnamon 10 drops

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However, Jacobs's list has extra ingredients such as prune juice and clover.

Coca-Cola contains a number of essential oils and it is the precise way that these are blended together that is responsible for the drink's unique flavour.

This blend makes up the secret ingredient, known as Merchandise 7X, which comprises less than one per cent of the formula.

In 1993, author Mark Pendergrast published an exposé of the cola industry, For God, Country & Coca-Cola, and included what he said was the original formula.

The ingredients and quantities on this list are very similar to those seen in the photo, although the company has always said that Pendergrast's recipe is not the same as the one it uses.

The soft drink, which was first sold in Atlanta in a single pharmacy in 1886, can now be bought in more than 200 countries around the world.

In 2010 Coca-Cola had become the first brand to top £1 billion in annual UK grocery sales.

Bhopal campaigners condemn 'insulting' sentences over disaster-Former staff of Union Carbide Indian subsidiary guilty of death by negligence over disaster that killed up to 25,000 people

Campaign groups representing survivors of the Bhopal disaster expressed outrage today at the "insulting" sentences given to seven men for their roles in the tragedy.

The accused, several of them now in their 70s, were convicted of criminal negligence and sentenced to two years in prison but bailed pending an appeal.

The convictions are the only ones so far in a case that was opened the day after the tragedy, which happened 26 years ago.

Up to 25,000 people are thought to have died after being exposed to clouds of lethal gas that escaped from a chemical plant run by the US company Union Carbide on 2 and 3 December 1984.



Half a million are estimated to have been harmed in some way in what remains one of the worst industrial accidents in the world.

"There is a sense of betrayal, of major outrage. This is not merely too little too late, but it is also a slap in the face of all those who were hoping for some kind of salve on their wounds," said Nitiyanand Jayaraman, of the International Campaign for Justice in Bhopal.

Hundreds of protesters, many waving placards saying "hang the guilty" and "traitors of the nation", tried to force their way into the court complex but were stopped by police.

Ram Prasad, a 75-year-old resident of the area, said the sentence was not enough. "I lost my son, younger brother and my father and I still have nightmares," he told reporters.

The prosecution, one of India's longest-running, was brought by the national Central Bureau of Investigation (CB). More serious charges – which could have meant sentences of up to 10 years – were controversially downgraded in 1996.

Most of those in the dock were operational managers at the plant. They included the then chairman of the Indian subsidiary of Union Carbide, the industrialist Keshub Mahindra.

Those convicted were also ordered to pay fines of 100,000 rupees (£1,400) each. The survivors' groups have criticised the prosecution, which involved around 3,000 documents and 170 witnesses, as "sloppy", and attacked the level of the fines.

"This is just pocket change to some of them. It is what they make in a month. The fine is an insult," Jayaraman said.

The Bophal plant was built in 1969 on wasteland outside the then limits of the city in order to produce pesticide for use in India's green revolution.

A series of investigations revealed how poor design and maintenance, as well inadequately trained and ill-equipped staff, contributed to the disaster, which happened when water was allowed to enter a tank of volatile methyl isocyanate, triggering a chemical reaction.

The toxic gas produced then flowed out into the slum areas that had grown up around the plant.

The Bhopal disaster has deep resonance in a country where the interests of poor or marginalised communities are regularly sacrificed in the name of development, and where enforcement of safety regulations is haphazard at best. Many Indians are deeply suspicious of foreign companies looking to invest.

A separate action is still pending against Union Carbide and its then chairman, Warren Anderson. Anderson, who lives in the US, has refused to return to India to face charges against him.

Dow Chemicals, which bought the company, says an agreement with the Indian government under which it paid $470m (£323m) in compensation resolved all outstanding legal issues.

A spokesman for Union Carbide said that as "the Bhopal plant was detail designed, owned, operated and managed on a day-to-day basis by Union Carbide India Limited (UCIL) and its employees … all the appropriate people … have appeared to face charges".

Although a previous attempt to extradite Anderson failed, Rachna Dhingra, of the Bhopal Group for Information and Action, said efforts to secure a trial of the former chairman would continue.

An appeal against the decision to downgrade charges to criminal negligence is also being planned.

"These men have been convicted of the equivalent offence of causing a road traffic accident. The government of India has shown it cares more about the corporations than the people. But there is still hope yet – we will keep the pressure on," Dhingra said.

Kicked out aged four for ‘belting’ teachers,beat other kids,sent hour 4 times in 2 months

McKenzie Dunkley is one of the youngest children in Britain to have been expelled

The school claims the youngster lashed out at a teacher

The youngster was expelled from Sacred Heart Catholic Primary School in Preston

A BOY aged FOUR was expelled from school after being accused of attacking his teachers.

Little McKenzie Dunkley was permanently excluded for an alleged catalogue of anti-social behaviour.

He had been sent home four times in his first two months in class and was banned altogether after being blamed for assaulting two teachers.

Staff at Sacred Heart Primary in Preston, Lancs, said he could not concentrate, did not do as he was told and was disruptive. He was said to have lashed out at one teacher after being made to stop switching a light on and off and another in a row over a jigsaw.

His mum Shelley, 27, branded his expulsion "a disgrace", saying: "If he did lash out there's no way he meant it. He's a good little boy, but the school have treated him like a teenage thug. They said he was immature - but he isn't even five."

Head Carol Seagraves insisted the school was right, saying: "Behaviour that leads to exclusion needs to be investigated and dealt with by specialists."

Officials are looking for an alternative place for McKenzie.

With that infectious grin, four-year-old McKenzie Dunkley looks like any cheeky four-year-old.

But it's the skull and crossbones on his top that teachers might claim gives a bigger clue as to his character.

McKenzie has just become one of the youngest children in Britain to be expelled from school, thrown out weeks after starting for constantly disrupting classes and attacking teachers.

In one incident he is said to have lashed out at a teacher after he was dragged away from light switches he was repeatedly flicking on and off.

Another claims McKenzie kicked her after he got into an argument with a pupil over a jigsaw.

Up to a dozen five-year-olds have been given their marching orders from schools but McKenzie is one of the first four-year-olds to be expelled.

He was sent home from his reception class on four separate occasions by the head at the Sacred Heart Primary School in Ashton-on-Ribble, Lancashire, before finally being thrown out a week ago.

His parents had refused to agree to a special action plan to deal with his behaviour.

They say he is a lively and lovable little boy who never caused any problems before starting school in September.

Now they are worried he will find it difficult to settle in a new school.

His mother, Shelley Dunkley, 27, said: 'They are making him out to be a thug and I think they are treating him far too old.

'They are saying he won't listen, is disruptive and is just doing what he wants but he's still only four and getting used to school and they just don't know how to be with him.

'There is absolutely nothing wrong with McKenzie and he knows the difference between right and wrong.

'At home he is quiet and if he does get a bit boisterous then he gets told off and told to behave himself.'

Mrs Dunkley, who is married to Mark, 33, a civil engineer, added: 'He was one of the youngest in the class and it is down to the teachers to help him settle and I don't think that has been done.

'They are saying he's very violent and all the other kids are scared of him. I've never heard such nonsense.'

Under education guidelines, children who behave badly can be sent home from school by the head for a fixed period or permanently.

But Mrs Dunkley, a caterer, said she was 'shocked' when she was called out of work to collect her son from the school.

'They said he is being disruptive and he is very immature, but he is only four years old for goodness sake,' she added.
McKenzie was kicked out after what teachers described as a catalogue of problems.

Head Carol Seagraves said: 'It is only on very rare occasions that a school would consider permanently excluding a child as young as four.

'At such a young age, behaviour of the kind that could lead to exclusion needs to be investigated and dealt with quickly by the appropriate specialists.

'In order to do this, we do, of course, need the full co-operation of the family so that we can put the right support in place.

'Our aim is not to punish but to carry out an assessment and successfully reintegrate the child into mainstream school as quickly as possible.'

She added: 'When children are excluded permanently, if parents disagree with the decision, the usual course is for them to appeal to the school governors and then to an independent panel. Both have the power to overturn the decision.' A spokesman for the National Association of Headteachers said: 'Fixed-term exclusions for a four-year-old are highly unusual but they demonstrate the seriousness of the problems with this child.'

The youngest pupil to be expelled from a British school was a girl of three who was thrown out for violent behaviour.

The unnamed child was sent home for assaulting a fellow student at a primary school in Caerphilly in Wales last year.
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Intimate pix of Michael Jackson Childrens.

Intimate photos from Michael Jackson friend Al Malnik reveal the faces of Michael Jackson's children, who often appeared masked or veiled in public. Here are Jackson's daughter, Paris, and his elder son, Prince Michael.




Michael Jackson's children frequently played with the children of Jackson friend Al
Malnik. Here Jackson's daughter Paris (left) hangs out with Malnik's daughter.


Michael Jackson's eldest child, Prince Michael, is clearly enjoying bubble fun with
the son of Jackson friend Al Malnik, who is the godfather of Jackson's younger son,
Blanket.




Michael Jackson poses with daughter Paris in one of a trove of previously unseen
photos revealed by Jackson friend Al Malnik.





Michael Jackson enjoys a movie and snacks with son Prince Michael II, nicknamed
Blanket (right), and the daughter of friend Al Malnik.




Michael Jackson sometimes longed for the simple life, according to his friend Al
Malnik. In one of the intimate photos recently revealed by Malnik, Michael enjoys a
specially arranged nighttime visit to a supermarket.





Michael Jackson was a frequent visitor to Al Malnik's home and enjoyed an easy
camaraderie with his friend's children. Here he poses with Malnik's daughter.





By all accounts an affectionate father, Michael Jackson enjoys an intimate moment with
son Prince Michael (top) and daughter Paris.





Mugging for the camera, Michael Jackson and friend Al Malnik point to an image of a
younger Jackson on the T-shirt Jackson is wearing.




Kid stuff
Michael Jackson's children regularly played with Al Malnik's children at Malnik's
home. Seated at center among Malnik's kids is Jackson's daughter Paris; at far right
is his elder son, Prince Michael.





Happy birthday to Al
For the 70th birthday party of friend Al Malnik, the godfather of his son Blanket,
Michael Jackson donned an Afro wig.




Happy birthday, dear Blanket
An affectionate Michael Jackson shares intimate moments with children Prince Michael
II (nicknamed Blanket), Paris and Prince Michael in previously unseen photos that
reveal the faces that so often appeared masked or veiled in public.Here Jackson
celebrates the first birthday of Blanket, his youngest child, who sits on Jackson's
lap while Prince Michael I (on Jackson's left) and Paris join the celebration. The
photo is one of a trove recently revealed by Blanket's