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Kraft's New Campaign Wants You To Believe That Kraft Singles Come From Farms
Just don't call them cheese. Inside the food science behind Kraft's new artisanal branding.
It would appear that something revolutionary has happened to Kraft Singles. This year, some of the cheesy, terror alert-yellow squares have ditched artificial preservatives and added natural ones. Or at least that's what Kraft's telling us in its new marketing campaign, Know Your Singles.
"Now with no artificial preservatives, but lots of love," the site reads.
"Always made with milk and no artificial flavors."
"A few simple ingredients that turn cheddar into Kraft Singles."
"Look for new Kraft Singles now with a natural preservative that keeps them fresh."
"Our story begins on a farm."
And so on. But what, exactly, is natural about Kraft Singles? What changed in the recipe?
Sorbic Acid No More
In February, Kraft announced that it would be releasing a line of Kraft Singles with no artificial preservatives. A subsequent report from the Chicago Tribune clarified that the company would be switching a preservative called sorbic acid in the ingredient list to natamycin, a mold inhibitor. Kraft also added something else: A "proprietary unnamed ingredient for food safety."
Sorbic acid is a naturally occurring compound, originally produced from the rowan tree. But it's also produced synthetically from a reaction among various chemicals. Natamycin does the same job, but it's an anti-fungal agent that comes about from the fermentation process of certain soil bacteria. While sorbic acid is commonly used in wines and juices, food processors add natamycin to cheese rinds and sausage casings to combat mold. Doctors also use the stuff to treat specific types of eye infections.
"That's why they would put [natamycin] in. Because it would be called 'natural,'" speculates Michael Hansen, a senior scientist at the Consumers Union, the public policy arm of Consumer Reports.
But what about the other new additive, the "proprietary unknown ingredient?"
Kraft spokesperson Jody Moore said that because the ingredient was proprietary she would be unable to provide any additional information, but touted its ability to make a new, purer version of Kraft Singles:
"We developed a proprietary process which allows us to remove artificial preservatives while still maintaining the same product quality that fans of Kraft Singles expect," Moore wrote in an email. "We're proud to deliver the same great tasting American cheese we always have—made with real cheese, milk, and no artificial flavors—but now with no artificial preservatives."
If you drill down into Kraft's claims, it's clear the company is doing some very careful word wrangling to make sure it doesn't assert the whole Singles product is "natural." As some food and beverage companies have already discovered, using that descriptor could get you sued. While Kraft may have removed all artificial preservatives, the "unnamed proprietary ingredient" could still be artificial, too.
"That proprietary unknown ingredient is obviously something that's synthetic," Hansen says. "If this were something commonly known to nature, you couldn't patent it. If it's an unnamed ingredient, it's no doubt a chemical. And you can apply it to cheese."
But is it actually cheese?
Then again, Kraft is careful not to identify the Singles as actual cheese. Or food, for that matter.
"Our advice to people is to buy cheese, which this is not," explains Patty Lovera, assistant director of Food and Water Watch, a consumer advocacy nonprofit.
Lovera explains that in order for a food to qualify as cheese, it has to maintain a "standard of identity" determined by the Food and Drug Administration. "So if you're buying Swiss cheese or cheddar or American, there are certain criteria you have to make," she says. "When you get down to Kraft or Velveeta, they're working outside the standards of identity."
Kraft Singles do have some real cheese on their ingredient list. But that list also includes whey, milk, milk protein concentrate, milkfat, whey protein concentrate, sodium citrate, less than 2% of calcium phosphate, salt, lactic acid, annatto and paprika extract (color), natamycin, enzymes, cheese culture, and vitamin D3.
It does begin with a farm...somewhere
Milk protein concentrate (MPC), one of the items on the Kraft Singles ingredient list, has proven itself a controversial substance in the past. But MPC's are not synthetic ingredients; the white-ish powder consists of many different milk proteins that arrive as dairy processing byproducts.
"Basically, [MPC] comes from making cheese and all sorts of other milk, and it's really valuable protein," explains University of California-Davis food science professor David Mills. "We really hate to throw them away. And thankfully people have figured out uses for them."
But the controversy over MPC's deals with where that powder comes from. Often, MPC's are imported from New Zealand. China and Mexico also export significant amounts of an MPC component to the U.S. After showing that MPC imports were undercutting New York dairy farmers by tens of millions of dollars a year, in 2009, New York Senator Chuck Schumer proposed federal legislation to impose a tariff on the stuff. The legislation died in committee.
"There's been some reports that some are being made domestically, but it's likely being imported," says Food and Water Watch's Lovera. "We think it's just a way to find a cheaper source of dairy and undercut domestic dairy farmers. We also have to struggle more with safety; you're putting a lot of trust in a government you have no ability to impact."
In 2002, Kraft's use of MPC's also motivated the FDA to send a warning letter to the company, arguing that Kraft's then-marketing of Singles as "pasteurized process cheese food" didn't conform to the FDA's standard of identity for "pasteurized process cheese food." But that was easy enough to get around. Now, if you look at how Kraft defines Singles, they're described as "pasteurized prepared cheese product."
Can it be called natural?
Kraft, to be clear, does not claim that the Singles are natural. Instead, it refers to natamycin, the anti-fungal, as a natural preservative. But just about anything can qualify as natural. The FDA "has not developed a definition for use of the term natural or its derivatives." At the same time, the agency has not "objected" to the use of the word if the product leaves out artificial flavors, colors, and synthetics, according to its website.
"They get to call it whatever they want," says Lovera. "We just tell people it's a meaningless label."
Still, some companies are finding that the "natural" claim, while nice for marketing purposes, is far more trouble than its worth. Over the last two years, at least 100 false advertising lawsuits have been filed because of the term, according to the Wall Street Journal. Some of those lawsuits, WSJ notes, have ended in multi-million dollar settlements.
But even if Kraft is careful about its wording, Hansen, the Consumers Union scientist, cautions against buying into the spirit of Kraft's wholesome, farm-fresh campaign.
"As people get more and more interested in the labels that are on foods, more of these sort of artificial food products—they're trying to make them look healthier or more natural," he says. "But this is really more trying to put lipstick on a pig."
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Well David Mills knows food science. Doubtful that there's anyone else in this article that does. I'm not impressed with Fast Company's reporting on food.
Thanks for your comment. Is there anything in particular that you take issue with? I'd like to know!
Where to start Michael Hansen is a Biologist/Ecologist That proprietary unknown ingredient is obviously something that's synthetic," Hansen says. "If this were something commonly known to nature, you couldn't patent ..." Proprietary="trade secret" not a patent. Even if there was a patent, it could be on the process to extract it. Regardless of all that, if it's in the "recipe" it's on the label. Patty Lovera is also an environmentalist. There are SOIs on many things. Just because it doesn't meet the SOI for process cheese food doesn't mean it's not food. Likely (speculation on my part, since I don't know as a fact) the SOI was written prior to the commercial availability of MPC so no one added it to the list of ingredients in the SOI. In reality, adding MPC vs. whey makes it more like cheese since the main cheese protein is casein, which is in MPC, but not in whey. The MPC controversy was mainly protectionism, not safety. If you want the rest, FC needs a longer comment limit.
Everything I've written is factual: Kraft does not meet the SOI for cheese or process cheese food (and therefore does not identify the Singles as such), there's debate over how the U.S. sources its MPC, and it's an open question as to whether that "unnamed proprietary ingredient" is synthetic. Unfortunately, Kraft wouldn't answer my question about whether it was, so we cannot know if the ingredient is artificial, or the process to extract that ingredient is exceptionally novel. I included the company's comments--that's the extent they chose to respond. Past that, your criticism is that I didn't argue the merits of casein, which you say makes the Singles "more like cheese." That's a valid opinion, but I'm not sure the FDA, or consumers--based on the consumer advocacy organizations I spoke to--would agree. But I do appreciate your input. The next time I write a piece like this, I will reach out to you.
Happy to answer any questions and direct you to other experts that can explain food science, food safety and food laws. Probably even food marketing.


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Right now, U.S. network operators are pushing the concept of the "mobile wallet," which would enable subscribers to buy all sorts of digital goods with their handsets. The problem? There's little evidence consumers would prefer whipping out their phones for transactions in place of using cash or credit cards. Carriers, then, would be wise to follow Sprint's lead and view themselves not as ersatz billing companies but as extensions of existing payment systems to mobile.
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AT&T recently launched payment trials to allow its 93 million customers to charge digital content directly to their wireless bills. Users simply enter their phone numbers instead of a credit card number and are sent a text message asking them to confirm the transaction. Similarly, Verizon Wireless earlier this year stuck its toe in the mobile payments water with an offering that allows users to charge their phone bills up to $25 a month (in an apparent attempt to limit its liability) in digital goods from some undisclosed gaming sites and social networks.
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Nairobi — Census results were postponed indefinitely over claims that data on the number of Somalis in the country had been doctored, the Star has learnt.
An impromptu Cabinet meeting, chaired by President Kibaki at Harambee House and also attended by Prime Minister Raila Odinga on Wednesday to get a briefing on the census decided to shelve the release of the census results after they indicated that the number of Somalis had risen by 140% over the last ten years.
The Cabinet was being taken through the report by Planning Minister Wycliffe Oparanya, before its scheduled launch on Thursday.
Some of those who attended said the meeting was alarmed when Oparanya explained that the huge rise in number was boosted by naturalised Somalis and not those who were citizens by birth. According to the 1989 census figures, the populationof Somalis in the country was 900,000. The yet to be released results indicated that their number had now risen to 2.3 million.
"It is the issue of this rapid increase in the population and the fact that the boost was mainly from the naturalised Somalis that were pointed out by some senior security intelligence officers who were at the meeting," a source who was at the same meeting said.
The meeting was doubly concerned that the population of Mandera, which borders Somalia, had exploded to 1.1 million from less than 400,000 in 1989.
"The Cabinet wondered why naturalized Somalis would be more than indigenous Somalis in the area and indicated that this was an anomaly," another source said.
A Cabinet minister who was present at the briefing told the Star the meeting was 'shocked' that the census results had been interfered and the extent to which this had happened.
"One of the senior security officials presented a very worrying picture.
He told us that nearly 100,000 enumeration forms were distributed to Muslim clerics and village elders in parts of North Eastern province and in Nairobi's Eastleigh area who then completed them and exaggerated the numbers," said the minister.
He said from the presentation it was clear that some officials at the National Bureau of Statistics Bureau and the Ministry of Planning had been involved in manipulating the census data.
"There were double agents both at the bureau and at the parent ministry(Planning) who were earning double salaries-the legitimate one from the government and the other from people who wanted them to fiddle with the figures. When we were told this, we all agreed that it was important to defer the release of the results indefinitely until they can be reviewed," said the minister The security officers present at the meeting informed the meeting that the double agents continue to 'earn' their double salaries.
The participants said it was impossible for the Somalis to record such a monumental growth considering the harsh conditions in the region, the lack of infrastructure and health services.
MARTERNAL-CHILD DEATHS IN NEP ARE THE HIGHEST IN THE COUNTRY AND LIFE EXPECTANCY IS CONSIDERED TO BE X BELOW THE NATIONAL AVERAGE OF YEARS FOR MEN AND Z FOR WOMEN "The Somalis infiltrated the Central Bureau of Statistics and interefered with the data to show their phenomenol growth in numbers," said another minister.
Oparanya was tongue-tied as the senior security officers gave a power point presentation to counter the findings of the census report.
" For the first time, the minister was hearing details of how the report was tampered with. He was as shocked as we were," said the minister.
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"This has been occasioned by in part by the fact that the government is currently implementing various important national activities which require more comprehensive information than that released in the provisional report," Oparanya said.
In November, The Star carried an exlusive story based on the provisional report of the population and housing census report which said the country's population had hit the 40 million mark. The census was conducted on August 24/25 last year.
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The somber inactivation ceremony for the 33d Maintenance Operations Squadron on June 13 here was one of many such events occurring throughout the Air Force.
Like the recent 96th MOS inactivation, the 33rd MOS retired its colors as the result of a service decision last year to reorganize maintenance support and more efficiently utilize maintenance officers in the service.
Different from other Air Force units, the 33rd MOS changes affected other services collocated in the squadron.
"MOS was a huge part of the success enjoyed by the 33rd Fighter Wing. They were here before the first F-35 Lightning II aircraft arrived and before the first flight was generated," said Navy Captain Lance Massey, 33rd Maintenance Group commander.
Maj. Craig Williams, former 33rd MOS commanding officer, stood at attention as Marine Capt. Mitchell Grey, then 33rd MOS operations officer, called the formation of 35 squadron military personnel to attention for the formal farewell to the unit.
"Without the leadership, dedication, expertise from the various services and global experience of our people, we would not have made the achievements of the past 12 months," said Williams.
As the ceremony's presiding officer, Massey reflected on the unit's distinguished history in his opening remarks to the squadron.
"This relatively small group of folks laid the foundation for maintenance of this unique and innovative F-35 program," said Massey. "These men and women provided the safety piece, training, quality assurance and maintenance operations pieces of a complex, multi-service puzzle."
The unit was the only military maintenance organization to house Airmen, Marines and Sailors in the Department of Defense's first of its kind for the F-35 Program.
"Not only is there a long list of firsts for the 33rd MOS, many personal celebrations were enjoyed as a unit," said Williams who has orders to the 3rd Equipment Maintenance Squadron, Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson, Alaska, as a result of the inactivation. "I move on with great satisfaction knowing the wing and group are in great hands."
Air Force maintenance squadrons were directly responsible to the group commander for administration, analysis, training management, programs and resources and any necessary support production efforts. Aircraft maintenance planning, controlling, scheduling and executing responsibilities are met through the actions of an MOS.
"The duties and responsibilities of MOS are key to establishing any unit, even before the jets get on board," Williams said.
During the ceremony, the inactivation orders were read to 33rd FW senior leadership and others in attendance. The 33rd MOS guidon was passed for its final exchange between squadron and group commanders before being encased in a royal blue sleeve.
Although clearly disheartened to see his unit inactivated, most of Williams' tenure as commander was spent preparing for the day. Three months after assuming command, he was told of a future reorganization of maintenance officers and inactivation of MOS units.
Williams likened the situation to that of any superior athlete.
"Air Force calls the play, and it is the commander's job to run with it," he said.
Twenty-nine percent of the squadron started transitioning late last year to other organizations. Most personnel were absorbed into the 33rd MXG staff or the new maintenance operations flight in the group while a few had the opportunity to go to a squadron in their service.
"The joint environment allows individuals to put their service perspective aside and focus on the main mission of aircraft readiness," said Marine Capt. Daniel Emunson, a supply officer who was in charge of the 33rd MOS Joint Integration and Quality Assurance section. "Typically (Marine) supply officers are not embedded with a unit. But the hybrid nature of the F-35 program warranted integrating more Marines with the program. Whether 'Mar(ine)-print' or 'Blue-suiter,' the mission is to get aircraft into the sky, to get steel on target and hopefully we will be doing that with the F-35 in three to five years."
Emunson has orders for a Marine school in Quantico, Va.
"MOS leads the rest was our motto, "said Chief Master Sgt. Christopher Wilber, former 33rd MOS superintendant who now helps lead the unit as a flight in the 33rd MXG. "I guess now we'll have to say, MOS led the best."


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OKLAHOMA CITY, Okla. – Following a three day selection camp at the ASA Hall of Fame complex in Oklahoma City, the roster for the 2013 USA Softball Women's National Team is now set as announced by the Amateur Softball Association (ASA) of America and USA Softball. The 18-person roster will regroup next month for their first competition, the World Cup of Softball in Oklahoma City July 11-14.
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Valerie Arioto (Pleasanton, Calif./California 2012)
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THE Zambia netball team's quest for a gold medal at the on-going 2012 Supreme Council for Sports in Africa (SCSA) Zone Six Youth Games suffered a setback yesterday after losing 35-43 to Botswana.
Zambia, who kicked off with a 52-40 win over Namibia, led the first quarter 10-8 and continued dominating the second quarter 21-17.
But the tactical substitution that saw Wing Attacker (WA) Esther Phiri introduced as a Centre for Agnes Bwalya with Brenda Mwamba taking up as WA.
This could not help improve the game and Bwalya was brought back for Mwamba.
The indecision saw the Zambian team surrendering their lead, trailing 27-32 and finally went on to lose 35-43 and will now need to beat Malawi in today's 11:00 hours fixture to keep alive hopes of winning a medal.
"The players played well. In sport you have to win and lose some. We just have to concentrate on winning our next match against Malawi, not all hope is lost as we still have hope of winning a gold medal," Zambian team official Charles Zulu said.
It was the same story for the tennis team who recorded defeats with Zambia's top junior seed Idah Longwe losing her singles quarter-final match 2-0 to Malawi's Mary Luhanga.
Longwe, playing on the third court, lacked physical fitness as she repeatedly kept failing to return the balls into her opponent who ended up cruising to a 7-6, 6-2 victory to sail to the semi finals.
The country junior top seed beat Claudia Sumaia of Mozambique in the opening encounter win via 6-2 and 6-2 set scores but just failed to find her winning rhythm against the Malawian in the quarters.
Luhanga was joined in the last four by of the girl's singles by Zamarie Pinnar of South Africa and Mpho Kotzie of Lesotho. Other casualties were Chiwena Mwele, who lost his opening game 2-0 to Malawian Chipangano Sandukili on court three with set scores 6-4 and 6-2 respectively and Caroline Zulu, who had a bad swing losing 2-0 to Diana Da-Costa of Mozambique.
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The (Java) MIDlet Bible
Posted 12 April 2008 - 01:56 PM
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Posted 13 April 2008 - 08:01 AM
Just received this on my blog (http://www.pocketpcm...1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 ):
...did you notice that the free navigation application nav4all at http://www.nav4all.com is also using a midlet manager for smartphones? It supplies Fullscreen, Bluetooth and Cleartype support but is unfortunately tightly linked to this single application. Do you know any way to get this decoupled? The midlet manager is called AIMSmidp.exe and I could not find any reference around the internet for this one. I did some primitve renaming of files to trick it - but no success.
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Posted 13 April 2008 - 01:12 PM
Hackers needed: new MIDlet Manager with BT support! Can anyone help?
Just received this on my blog (http://www.pocketpcm...1&c=1&tb=1&pb=1 ):
...did you notice that the free navigation application nav4all at http://www.nav4all.com is also using a midlet manager for smartphones? It supplies Fullscreen, Bluetooth and Cleartype support but is unfortunately tightly linked to this single application. Do you know any way to get this decoupled? The midlet manager is called AIMSmidp.exe and I could not find any reference around the internet for this one. I did some primitve renaming of files to trick it - but no success.
Hi Menneisyys,
...thought to keep this a little more off the big wall for a start :-)
Anyway - the bluetooth support is achieved by some additional dlls and what the rest is concerned, I really have no clue how powerfull this VM may be. It has sound as well for the vocal announcments (despite in low quality compared to TomTom), but I have no idea about midi - which the gamers may need. I thought that you with your expertise and reputation could contact nav4all for some more info - I tried but without success. Maybe its better to be polite in the first place before ripping apart their bundle.
Also notice that the midlet manager is NOT terminated when the application quits. You have to remove it (AIMSmidp.exe) manually with a suitable taskmanager (e.g. CeleTask).
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Posted 14 April 2008 - 04:12 PM
Nice one, thanks. It's a shame there's no way of retaining all the existing app settings when updating the JVM.
UPDATE (04/11/2008): XDA-Devs forum member Ebenezer has released a version of Jbed 20080222 3.1 that can be directly installed to a storage card......
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Posted 17 April 2008 - 10:00 AM
Therefore, you'll want to switch back to the Ebenezer version available HERE (requires registration at XDA-Devs) or HERE (direct download from my DB back-end) if you encounter these problems and want to keep your deployed MIDlets on your card. Again, note that you will need to manually create (copy) a shortcut to Jbed.exe with this version – this is the only problem with it. It runs (the signed version of) Opera Mini 4.1b (and, of course, all the other compatible MIDlets, including games) just great.
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Posted 19 April 2008 - 05:18 PM
1. Unfortunately, it seems none of the Jbed 3.1 versions are able to run Opera Mini 4.1 beta on touchscreen-less MS Smartphones (but NOT on Pocket PC's!!!) if you switch to other apps (for example, the home screen) and, then, back, you will no longer be able to control Opera Mini. I've tested this on my WM5 s310 / Oxygen (major problems) and, with HTC's recently-released ROM upgrade, upgraded WM6 s710 / Vox (not that frequent problems but still annoying). At XDA-Devs, other people have also reported the same problem with their Smartphones.
If you do encounter problems like this and can't refrain from task switching, you'll want to downgrade to the Cloudyfa 2.1 version available HERE. Note that it can safely co-exist with 3.1 if you've installed the latter in another directory (for example, on a storage card or a flash disk) - then, it's only the file associations that will be needed to, say, quickly switched if you don't want to manually deploy a MIDlet from inside the GUI of the specific MIDlet manager. That is, you don't need to delete Jbed 3.1 if you plan to keep it for example for M3G gaming.
Note that touchscreen-equipped Pocket PC's do NOT suffer from this problem!
2. Ebenezer has released a fixed version of his Jbed 3.1 MIDlet manager HERE. Now, it does create a link file in Start Menu / Programs on both Pocket PC's and MS Smartphones. It also installs to any target media (not only "Storage Card"s) without problems. Note one caveat, though: the link file (the one the installer puts in the Start menu) has \Storage Card wired in, which doesn't work with any storage card (or flash disk) named other than "Storage Card". Hope this is fixed some time; in the meantime, just manually edit the link file to have the correct path.
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Posted 25 April 2008 - 05:23 PM
1. XDA-Developers forum member m3uch4 has published a decent tutorial on creating shortcuts for Jbed – highly recommended.
2. badbob001, who has just released a new, 0.09b version of his StartOperaMini by adding the exclude list feature (and a LOT of other goodies – make sur eyou check out the dedicated XDA-Devs thread!), has found out a pretty easy-to-use fix for the above-mentioned Jbed 3.1 resume bug: if you have Direct Address Input disabled (it's enabled by default), press #1 to open the Enter Address window. Then cancel out and the Opera Mini screen should be responsive again. (BTW, this might work with other dialogs requiring manual input – I don't know, haven't tested the latter.) Incidentally, he has also found out the problem is surely a Jbed-related issue because the Gmail MIDlet is also affected by it. Let me cite him: "One thing you may want to investigate is Jbed's background running option. If I run jbed, turn on background running, then launch opera mini, the problem seems to not occur with my limited testing. Since I prefer to directly launch opera mini, it would also be nice to have a way to enable background running by default.
If enabling background running really fixes the issue, then I guess it's a bug with jbed 3.1 restoring itself from its own suspend mode."
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Posted 18 June 2008 - 02:34 PM
Also at the moment when a jar file is clicked it is installed and associated with JBLEND directly. If I do get to install JBED as well, how will the association change and is it possible to mix and match MIDlets with KVMs? If these questions are irrelevant or stupid please advise.
Edited by Tikky7, 18 June 2008 - 02:55 PM.
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Posted 04 July 2008 - 12:13 AM
Can you have multiple KVMs on one phone JBLEND + JBED, I have a Samsung Blackjack 2 with JBLEND pre-installed but would also like to try out JBED. Could you post the details in getting this installed?
Also at the moment when a jar file is clicked it is installed and associated with JBLEND directly. If I do get to install JBED as well, how will the association change and is it possible to mix and match MIDlets with KVMs? If these questions are irrelevant or stupid please advise.
you can. i think i've explained this somewhere in the Bible. The only problem is the need for re-assigning file extensions if you Want to deploy Millets by clicking them from Fite Explorer
However both apps allow for deploying MIDlets from inside them so they can perfectly co-exist
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Posted 13 August 2008 - 07:53 PM
on my xda flame, I have great problems with java ( 3d games ) in vga resolution, which one is best to be used as almost all games are displayed ate one 1/4 of the screen
Look up the games in the game compatibility chart that fill up the entire VGA screen. There are quite a few of them.
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Posted 27 August 2008 - 11:13 PM
Any advice please on how to uninstall / remove it completely? (Without hard resetting / flashing please)
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Posted 02 January 2009 - 01:36 AM
I tried to install the GMail application and it's just unusable on my Diamond.
Any advice please on how to uninstall / remove it completely? (Without hard resetting / flashing please)
If you have Jbed, highlight it from Jbed and select Menu / Actions / Uninstall.
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Posted 02 January 2009 - 02:15 AM
(Technical note: as of 01/02/2009 2:57 AM CET, the images in the article and the mirrored download aren't accessible. Hope they'll become available in about 10 hours. That is, make sure you check back in 10-15 hours if you'd really want to see them. Sorry for the inconvenience - my database back-end has been having problems and the CS people have been away.)
As has been explained in THIS article (alternative HERE), the probably best MIDlet manager (the environment needed to run, among other things, the excellent, free Opera Mini Web browser), Jbed has never been the most optimal solution to run Opera Mini (or other text-intensive apps) on high-resolution (VGA or WVGA – that is, not QVGA!) devices, mostly because it only used pretty small characters even with Opera Mini's using extra large ones.
Up until now, the only solution was going for alternative MIDlet managers if you wanted something better with considerably larger character sizes: either the vastly outdated and no longer supported IBM J9, TAO Intent (see the MIDlet bible for more info on them) or the somewhat better, but still handicapped (no full screen mode) hacked Jblend.
Fortunately, a helpful soul at XDA-Developers has hacked the latest and greatest 20080912.5.1 version of Jbed for VGA devices. Now, it sports considerably larger characters than the non-hacked version. Let me show you a direct comparison between the two.
First, the old version displaying a DPReview article and the main menu:
Then, the new version, showing the DPR article:
and the main menu:
See the difference? Huge, isn't it?
You can download the new Jbed version HERE – get the Esmertec Jbed 20080912.5.1.zip (direct link HERE; requires free registration ; I've also mirrored it HERE).
Warning: No sound!
As opposed to the, in this regard, best Cloudyfa 20070802.2.1 (see THIS), it doesn't support sound. That is, you might want to hack the two into separate directories, should you want to keep a Jbed version with sound for your games.
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Posted 04 January 2009 - 07:15 AM
Link: http://www.mayrhofer...p...4&pageid=80
I have copied the JVM from the Omnia to my HTC Diamond but it does not work because credential issues or something like that.
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Posted 05 January 2009 - 12:22 AM
I have tried my JSR82 apps on the Samsung OMNIA i900, it has a JVM with JSR82 support and work fine. Then I have tried on my HTC Doamind and it does not work but I have followed the next guide and I verified that the support is possible because the couple Mysaifu J2SE virtual machine + bluecove work fine.
Link: http://www.mayrhofer...p...4&pageid=80
I have copied the JVM from the Omnia to my HTC Diamond but it does not work because credential issues or something like that.
You might want to repost your q to the Dev & Hacking forum ( http://forum.xda-dev...splay.php?f=260 ) of XDA-Devs - probably someone is able to help there. After all, a lot of WinMo people are looking for a JVM with working JSR82.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Sen. Charles Schumer says voluntary standards agreed to by federal regulators and the rail industry for oil shipping should be amended to phase out unsafe tanker cars and reduce train speed in populated areas.
The New York Democrat says Wednesday that the agreement announced by the federal Department of Transportation and Association of American Railroads doesn't go far enough to protect upstate communities.Trains pull hundreds of tankers of highly volatile crude oil from North Dakota cross New York daily in a virtual moving pipeline to East Coast refineries.
The agreement announced last week proposes numerous voluntary safety measures but doesn't bar companies from continuing to use cars known as DOT-111s that are at risk of rupture in a crash.
NY Gov launches property tax cut campaign
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) — Gov. Andrew Cuomo is trying to drum up support for his proposals to cut property taxes for residents in municipalities that meet spending targets he set.
The so-called "No Excuses" campaign announced Wednesday includes a new website, statements by some officials in support and links for contacting individual state legislators.
Cuomo proposes a two-year freeze on property taxes if local governments stay within a 2 percent tax-cap the first year and develop a consolidation plan with other local governments in the second year.
The Cuomo administration projects the program will cost $1 billion and save 2.8 million homeowners an average of $354 on their property taxes.
A coalition of groups came out against the plan Monday, saying it amounts to a tax break to the wealthiest homeowners at the expense of the needy.
NY charity report: Telemarketers still get most
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - The New York Attorney General's Charities Bureau reports that telemarketers kept on average 62 cents of every dollar they raised in New York in 2012, leaving 38 cents for the charities themselves.
The bureau report shows for-profit telemarketers operating in the state kept more than $154 million out of $249 million that was intended to help those in need.
Following a similar report last year, the Attorney General's Office says it subpoenaed records and launched investigations and shut down three charities and one fundraiser.
In 459 of the 589 campaigns in the report, the charities retained less than half the funds raised.
New Yorkers filing tax returns electronically
ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York state officials say 97 percent of tax returns received so far this year have been electronically filed.
Tax officials said Wednesday that 3.1 million returns have been received this year. So-called e-filing can cut the wait time for a refund from 8 to 12 weeks down to about three weeks.
The state Department of Taxation and Finance this year has issued $1 billion in refunds to more than 1.1 million taxpayers. The average refund so far is $906.
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Bachelorette 2012 Spoilers: Who Is Arie Luyendyk, Jr?
Age: 30
Occupation: Race car driver
Hometown: Scottsdale, AZ (born in s'Hertogenbosch, Netherlands)
Thanks to Reality Steve, we already know a fair amount of background scoop on the guys competing for Emily Maynard's heart on The Bachelorette Season 8. Footballer Ryan Bowers and fitness model Sean Lowe have some serious competition in one dark-haired contestant spotted canoodling with Emily this past weekend in Prague (check out our exclusive photos of their date here). We received an early-morning tip from the Emily & Ricki Fan Page suggesting the name of the dark-haired suitor: Arie Luyendyk, Jr. And guess what? He's speed racing royalty! Arie's dad, Arie Luyendyk, Sr., is a two-time winner of the Indianapolis 500.
Then, Reality Steve alerted us to one juicy detail: On April 12, Arie Sr. tweeted an update that his son was "last in Croatia," which was right around the time ABC filming was taking place in the Croatian coastal city of Dubrovnik. So, before we get any more emotionally attached to this contestant, who is he and what's the story behind his pretty face?
In this interview from 2008, Arie gushes about his love for hiking, snowboarding, traveling, and seeing new places. If he wasn't a race car driver and had to get a "real job," Arie says he would want to be an architect. He even has his real estate license in Arizona and sells houses on occasion. Arie also started a clothing line in 2010 called Anti-Celeb, but the domain name has since expired. In a 2010 interview, Arie described his vision for the line: "Anti-Celeb is the counter culture to the main stream gossip that fills our news these days...basically we promote individualism."
Arie does have a few run-ins with the law on his record, but they all have to do with driving, natch. TMZ reports the younger Luyendyk was stopped by police twice within a six-day span back in 2008 — once for driving without registration and once for driving with a suspended license.
Last, but certainly not least, is this fun fact: Arie allegedly used to date Cassie Lambert, the ABC producer currently traveling the world with Emily Maynard and her guys. Uh… Awkward? This fact wasn't so fun for Emily, who only recently found out about Arie's link to Cassie, who's been 'handling' her for the entirety of filming.
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(Español) Menú de los Enamorados
5 Febposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
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Tags: Día de los Enamorados
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New Year Eve Menu
22 Decposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
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(Español) Día de la Madre: Regalale este Menú Especial
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(Español) Día del Amigo y un Excelente Tapeo para Compartir
15 Julposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
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(Español) Menú 9 de Julio Acompañado por la Semifinal de Argentina
7 Julposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
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Father´s Day: Enjoy it with this Lunch!
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If you Are in Mendoza, Don´t Miss this Locro
21 Mayposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
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(Español) Día de los Enamorados en Villa Mansa
11 Febposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
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7 Recommended Wines from Mendoza to Pair our Restaurant Menu
23 Janposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
Categories: Restaurant, Vino
Tags: Finca La Linda, Luigi Bosca, Nieto Senetiner, Rutini
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Do you like to choose just the perfect wine to accompany your meal? But you are not always sure which wine is the ideal?No problem! Keep reading and Ruth Ade (Our Sommelier ) will suggest a few wines that are a perfect match to the delicious menu of our Restaurant.
Let's begin with your Starter…
The delicate combination of seafood, seasonings and crispy wrapper make our Seafood Empanadas one of the most requested in the Restaurant.To accompany this entree we recommend you a bottle of Finca La Linda Blend (Chardonnay/Viognier) at a temperature between 8 ° and 12 °.This temperature allows you to appreciate the characteristics and flavors of the wine and the soft texture of seafood without covering it flavor!
As Main Course, What will you choose?
If you choose the Steak with Caramelized Onions on Potato Rosti with Malbec …
We encourage you to try a Cabernet Sauvignon to pair this meal (even though the dish is prepared with Malbec).This dish is fantastically tasty, by its delicious marbling that draw lines between the muscles of the rib-eye.The sweet but dim s touch of caramelized onions and crispy potatoes are the perfect complement.
Either Rutini Cabernet Sauvignon or Nieto Senetiner Cabernet Sauvignon, will be an excellent choice to pair this dish with robust flavors.
If you prefer our Goat Cake with Zucchinis in butter with lemon chutney Plums and Red Onions
We suggest you to opt for a delicate and velvety Syrah from our wine cellar. With the delicious goat cake, your palate can taste the fresh for one side the citric acid touch of lemon and butter, an in the other side, the sweet touch that gives us the plum chutney and red onions.
Which Syrah do we recommend? The first, a Nieto Senetiner made ??from grapes of Lujan de Cuyo and the other a Luigi Bosca Reserva Syrah of delicate bouquet and palate, made ??with grapes from their farms in Maipú.
Time for Desserts
As for the desserts on our menu, whatever your choice, we are humbly sure that it will be successful.Each dessert contains a finely thought combination of fresh and regional products that will make your after dinner a special moment.And the wines, what better opportunity to accompany this occasion with a selection of sparkling wines from our wine list.
We can suggest either a the sparkling wine Finca La Linda Extra Brut or a Trumpeter Brut.But at this point, we don´t want you to keep making decisions, so we suggest you to start our first recommendation and then continue with the other one.
Cheers and "Bon Appétit" and answer this: Whats the best COMBINATION of wine and food you ever experienced?
New Year Eve Dinner Flames in Villa Mansa
26 Decposted by Villa Mansa Wine Hotel
Categories: Restaurant
Tags: cena fin de año
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2013 is heading to its end, and 2014 is beginning. We thought: What can we do to honor and celebrate the end of one and the beginning of the other one? The answer is obvious, with a Special Dinner, as good food lovers we all are!
So, we prepared a special menu with Flames in the center of the scene! Keep reading and we'll let you know what we are including in this menu!
Flames in Villa Mansa
First Course
- Appetizers and Empanadas tasting.
Second Course
- Chorizo and morcilla.
Third Course
- Flamed ribs, clay owen baked pork, Grilled beefs cuts.
- Accompanied with green selection, roasted vegetables and potatoes with fresh rosemary.
Fourth Course
- Wet Chocolate cake with Baileys ice cream, berries jelly sauce and caramel tuil.
Figth Course
- Traditional sweet appetizers with Champagne.
- Selected red, white and sparking wines of our cellar.
- Water and soft drinks service.
Homemade bakery with our extra virgin olive oil.
Service starts at 9:30 pm.
Please come back in a few weeks because our Sommelier will show you how to pair our Restaurant Menu with the best wines from our cellar!


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No More Cheddar Half Marathon
Posted: December 03, 2009|
This is the last picture of Cheddar Half Marathon to be taken after organisers announced the race will not be held again.
The news has left the running community disappointed after Cheddar Running Club reluctantly called time on holding the massively popular event after nine years.
The last "Nippy Ninth" race took place nearly four weeks ago.
Club chairman Pete Hicks said: "The race is run along public roads with traffic on them and there have been a couple of 'near misses' with cars getting close to runners, as well as one injury a couple of years ago.
"Three hundred runners have to share the narrow country roads with fast moving traffic. Unfortunately it is only a matter of time until we have a serious accident.
"It has been a very hard decision, but safety has to come first. We thought it was best to stop now, and perhaps devise a race that can be run off road – one that will both capture the imagination of runners and act a good advertisement for Cheddar."
Kings Fitness and Leisure Centre manager Paul Whittaker said he was disappointed by the announcement as the 13-mile run brought hundreds to the village and put Cheddar on the sporting calendar in the West and Wales.
"Its been running for many years and attracted a lot of visitors both to the village and the leisure centre," he said.
"It was a great route for elite runners seeking to do their best half marathon times and for newer runners looking to do a half marathon.
"I think an alternative route could be done to avoid traffic, perhaps something like up to the top of Cheddar Gorge and down again."
The endurance race is also credited with doing a lot for local charities and in its nine years raised about £10,000.
But Cheddar Running Club is hopeful a successful alternative to the half marathon can be found and continue the tradition of raising a £1,000 a year for charity.
Mr Hicks said: "The Cheddar Half has always been one of the most sought after races in the West – it's fast, flat and run through some fantastic countryside, and the available places always get taken up months ahead of the race.
"I think we have also become famous for the quality of our after race cakes – which are all home made by members and supporters!
"I don't think we'll be able to get a race organised for 2010. But we'll spend this summer looking for suitable courses. And, of course, the famous cake tradition will definitely continue.
"Can I also thank the many supporters who have turned out over the years to marshal the race in all winds and weathers, and for Kings of Wessex School for letting us use their premises. Without them the races could never have taken place."
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Ferrari 599 GTO driven
A Ferrari GTO is a rare beast – this 599 version is only the third in 63 years. TopGear tracks it down in Tuscany...
Posted: 21 Jan 2011
Like the XX, the GTO's new suspension was designed from the outset to work with the stability-control system. Most of the chassis control work has been concentrated at the front end - Matteo Lanzavecchia, Ferrari's chief chassis engineer, talks about the 'power' of the front end, its ability to turn the car and generate G-force. The front tyres on the GTO are 285/30s and 9.5in wide, compared with 245/35s at 8.0in wide on the standard 599. So the GTO's front rubber is about halfway in width between the GTB's and the XX's. At the rear, the width has gone up from 11.0in to 11.5in. So the relative 'power' of the front end has increased a lot more than the rear - it gives a 20 per cent increase in lateral G for any given steering input over the GTB, and a 20 per cent reduction in the time it takes the car to settle. The steering ratio itself is unchanged.


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The management of Adamawa Polytechnic,Yola, yesterday confirmed the accreditation and approval of seven new courses in the institute by the National Board for Technical Education (NBTE).
Rector of the institution, Prof. Bobboi Umar, told newsmen in Yola that the development was first of its kind in the history of the institution.
Umar said, "the institution has recorded a remarkable achievement where about seven new courses were accredited by the NBTE."
He said the accredited programmes include mass communication, social development, business administration and four engineering courses.
According to him, the management of the institution is making arrangements to establish a radio station where students will receive training, following the approval of the mass communication course.
Umar added that the institution is making efforts to ensure that the accreditation of other relevant courses during the next visit of the board.
He said the state government spent a lot on the upgrade and expansion of the institution, where nine departments and administrative buildings were constructed.
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Issue release date: May–June 1999
|Section title: Original Paper
Aspirin Intolerance in Patients with Chronic SinusitisGosepath J.a · Hoffmann F.a · Schäfer D.a · Amedee R.G.b · Mann W.J.a
aDepartment of Otolaryngology, University of Mainz, School of Medicine, Mainz, Germany; bTulane University Medical Center, New Orleans, School of Medicine, New Orleans, La., USA
Published online: 5/7/1999
Issue release date: May–June 1999
Number of Print Pages: 5
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 1
ISSN: 0301-1569 (Print)
eISSN: 1423-0275 (Online)
For additional information: http://www.karger.com/ORL
Aspirin intolerance in patients with chronic sinusitis is often a cause of early recurrence of symptoms after surgical treatment. This study assesses 84 patients who were tested for acetylsalicylic acid intolerance after presenting with symptoms like chronic rhinosinusitis, sometimes bronchial asthma, coexisting allergies or a history of aspirin sensitivity. Nasal polyposis was found in a majority of cases, often recurrent after previous surgery. The levels of eicosanoids such as peptido-leukotrienes and prostaglandin E2 were analyzed in isolated blood cells and compared with a healthy control group. Aspirin-intolerant patients showed elevated basal levels of peptido-leukotrienes and reduced basal levels of prostaglandin E2. Test results were graded in a system ranging from positive (68%), signifying aspirin intolerance, to borderline (18%) and negative results (14%). After screening patients with clinical findings indicating a possible aspirin intolerance, the results of this investigation reveal a strong correlation between the clinical symptomatology and the in vitro parameters of eicosanoid levels in isolated blood cells, indicating the need to induce aspirin tolerance to reduce the risk of recurrent rhinosinusitis.
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Received: Received: January 6, 1999
Accepted: January 14, 1999
Number of Print Pages : 5
Number of Figures : 2, Number of Tables : 1, Number of References : 22
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Founded 1938 as 'Practica Oto-Rhino-Laryngologica' by J. Berberich and E. Schlittler, continued by L. Rüedi 1947–1970, E. Huizinga 1948–1970, C.R. Pfaltz 1968–1984
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ISSN: 0301–1569 (print), 1423–0275 (Online)
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Published online: 5/7/1999
Issue release date: May–June 1999
Number of Print Pages: 5
Number of Figures: 2
Number of Tables: 1
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eISSN: 1423-0275 (Online)
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