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Seedless Kishu Tangerines and Yellow Limes!
I had the great pleasure of meeting Jim Churchill who grows the most beautiful and delicious Seedless Kishu Tangerines!
Churchill Orchard in the Ojai Valley
And coincidentally, he is located in Ojai, so of course, I visited him and his orchards while on our winter retreat last week. He shared his story on how he came to grow the Kishus that are only available in January. If I put my index finger and my thumb together and form a circle, a Kishu will fit between the hole- that is how small they are!
I asked him why I couldn't find these little beauties at any of the local markets. He explained that he only sells his at the local Farmer's Market and ships the rest to Texas and San Francisco. There are only five other growers in the region who grow these, and all are distributed through Churchill.
I asked how he came to grow them. He went to University of California at Riverside and asked the graduate students there what their favorite citrus was – they all said "Seedless Kishu". Now that's solid marketing!
So are they Clementines, Mandarins or Tangerines?
I asked and he clarifies:
Seedless Kishus (seedless is part of the name) are tangerines/mandarins: "tangerine" and "mandarin" are essentially two words for the same thing – named tangerines because they came from North Africa (Tangiers) and mandarin oranges because they came from China – both of which are true… citrus originated in South Asia and the first tangerines came to this country from North Africa.
< Here Jim measures the sweetness of his Seedless Kishus so he knows exactly when to harvest them! These sweet tiny gems of sweetness!
Clementines are also "mandarins" or "tangerines" — just another variety, with a number of sub-varieties. Most East Coast clementines come from Spain or North Africa; some very large operations have started growing them in California and they are marketed as "Cuties" (usually – "cuties" is a trademarked name for whatever they put in the box, which is usually one sub-variety or other of clementine, or else it's a different variety of tangerine called a W. Murcott, all chosen because they ripen sequentially).
So Seedless Kishus are only, in a very general way, related to clementines – they're both in the family of fruit called tangerines.
I've included some information below about some varieties of citrus I came across and learned about while in Ojai. You can learn even more from the Citrus Variety Collection at the University of California at Riverside. It's a wonderful website for a wonderful place from which we have learned a lot over the years.
Seedless Kishu: small, seedless, very easy to peel, fabulous flavor. Children 'get it' immediately; adults sometimes take a few minutes. There just isn't a better tangerine… short season – available in January only
Owari Satsuma: most growers' Satsumas get ripe in October or November – ours don't even start until January and develop their fullest flavor in February. They're seedless and easy to peel, but too fragile to ship so if you want ours you'll have to come to Ojai. available January-February
Also growing:
Oro Blanco: Oh my oh my… A hybrid between a pummelo and a mandarin. Think of a grapefruit with the sugar built in, and no bitterness. The best.
Celestial Golden Juice Queen (Cocktail Grapefruit): This wonderful fruit needs a new name – it's not a grapefruit at all – it's another pummelo-mandarin hybrid. Intense gold color; lots of seeds; amazing quantities of delicious, sweet juice.
I love learning this stuff and I love eating all this new citrus!


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Screen Gems Picks Up Easy A
Scarlet Letter reimagined as a comedy
Will Gluck will direct Easy A, a modern-day, high school-set comedy update of The Scarlet Letter, for Screen Gems.
That may sound potentially awful, but let us remind you that Clueless was a remake of Emma, and 10 Things I Hate About You was an update of The Taming Of The Shrew, so clearly setting classics against a high school backdrop has worked in the past – and Gluck will be hoping that it can work again.
The story will revolve around a high school junior who wants to be noticed, so she pretends to be the school slut. Which seems to us to be somewhat of a loose retelling of Nathaniel Hawthorne's classic novel, but let's see how it turns out.
Gluck, who just finished directing the comedy Fired Up for Screen Gems, will polish the spec script by playwright Bert V. Royal. "This is the sharpest, funniest script I have read in a long time," said Gluck, neglecting to explain why he was then going to rewrite it.

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U Of L Baseball One Series Away From Heading Back To Omaha
LOUISVILLE, Ky. -- The Louisville Cardinals are one weekend series win away from returning to the College World Series.
The Cards will host their second NCAA Super Regional in program history when Kennesaw State comes to town.The Owls earned the right to play the Cards after winning the Gainesville Regional. Head coach Dan McDonnell says their lack of name recognition shouldn't fool fans, saying they have some top ten draft picks on their roster.
The Cards and Owls will play a best two out of three series that starts Friday evening at Jim Patterson Stadium.


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Company Background
Vanstar Civil Engineering Pte Ltd was established in 2008. We stared off with just a handful of workers but we are dedicated to provide the best quality work and reliable services to our customers. Over these past few years, we have grown with more knowledge, experience and skills. We are confident that with these skill and experience, we are able to understand better and respond swiftly to our customer's needs and requirement.
At Vanstar, we prioritize the overall safety of the society as well as the safety of our workers in many different aspects. Vanstar is commited to provide good safety working environment as comply with Biz safe certification.
We specialize in doing road pavement, drainage, kerb, guardrill, demolition, reinstatement work and etc. We are dedicated in building our customer's trust by delievering the good quailty services with good business and working etiquettes.
Our vision is to be one of the more reliable construction service providers in singapore, delivering long-term value to our customer.
Our Mission is to ensure customer's satisfaction by offering cost effective, timely and quality construction work.
We aim
Core Values
Core values have intrinsic meaning and they play an important role to organizational members. It serves as a principle that guides us in our day to day business conduct as well as building a relationship with the external parties.
They serve as a compass for our actions, daily decisions and motivate us to work toward our vision and mission.
We believe
Our Policies
Vanstar Civil Engineering Pte Ltd is committed to provide a safe and healthy workplace through:
- Clearly defining the responsibilities, resources and accountability of every employees toward the area of workplace health and safety;
- Ensuring proper facilities, equipment and safety wear are provided to all employees;
- Providing adequate information, instruction and training on workplace health and safety;
- Integrating risk management principles into all operations such as identifying hazards, risk assessments and determine control of workplace safety;
- Conduct regular audits and periodically review for relevance and appropriateness to ensure continual improvement of safety performance;
- Adopting good workplace safety and health practices and fulfilling the requirement of the Workplace Safety and Health legislations
Vanstar prioritizes the overall safety of our workers as well as the safety of the public.
This Safety Policy shall be communicated to all employees and make available to the public and any interested parties.
VANSTAR strives to deliver the most Cost Effective, Timely and Quality products and services that meet customers' needs and expectations.
VANSTAR is committed to the continual improvement to the Quality Management System in order to achieve
Vanstar Civil Engineering Pte Ltd's Environmental Policy is as follows:
We are committed to:
- Comply with the applicable environmental legislation (Singapore), and other customers' requirements;
- Improve efficiency in the use and conservation of energy (electricity) and natural resources thoughout the Office, improving waste minimization and recycling programs (effective use of materials) throughout the Operation of the Organization;
- Encourage environmental protection and implement effective pollution control measures (noise, surface water discharge and vector control) for projects undertaken by the Company, in order to minimize the impact to the environment;
- Conduct regular audits and review our objectives and targets periodically to ensure continual improvement;
- Provide awareness on environmental issues and sustainable construction methods for all our employees, suppliers and customers;
- Committed to the continual improvement of our environment performance through effective Objectives, Targets and Programmes,
This Environmental Policy shall be communicated to all employees and make available to the public and any interested parties.
Vanstar Civil Engr. Pte Ltd's Green & Gracious Policy is as follows:
Management is committed to implement the Green & Gracious practices for our construction projects in order to prevent and minimize the adverse environmental impact as well as the occupational health and safety risks.
Improve efficiency in the use and conservation of energy, water and natural resources throughout the office and projects, improving waste minimization and recycling programs through the effective use of materials, as well as minimizing the level of dust, noise and other health, hazards and risks throughout the operations of the Organization.
Maintain effective and regular communications pertaining to relevant project information for the affected stakeholders, neighbours or general public. In addition, we will maintain a clean environment at the work area including relevant areas affecting public, site facilities, which include the site office, workers quarters and canteen. Office and project site shall maintain good housekeeping habits.
Inculcate a work culture for Green & Gracious worksite with our employees and sub-contractors; and be responsive to good Corporate Social Responsibility through the provision of appropriate resources, implementation, communication & conducive working environment and relevant welfare programs.
Strive for continual improvement in all our Environmental, Health & Safety, Green & Gracious programs and activities.
This Policy shall be communicated to all employees and make available to the public and any interested parties.


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A4/V2 Test Stands
The V2 was the largest and most advanced rocket of that time. It was 14.20 metres long, 1.65 metres in diameter and weighed more than 12,000 kilogram's. It carried its 1,100 kilogramme payload from 290 to 340 kilometres, propelled by an engine using turbo-pumped liquid oxygen and alcohol and generated an average thrust of 25,000 to 30,000 kilogram's. It had a range nearly double that of Germany's famous Paris Gun of World War I and it carried a warhead with ten times as much explosive.
In May 1942 Flight Lieutenant D. W. Steventon flying a Spitfire on a routine photo-reconnaissance mission over northern Germany, brought back photographs of the Peenemunde airfield that revealed evidence of construction activity with circular emplacements on the ground. Photographic interpreters, however, were unable to locate anything out of the ordinary from the photographs. Intelligence reports months later disclosed that rockets at Peenemunde had been test-fired.
|To the north of the Peenemunde peninsula , on the boundary between the forest and the sandy foreshore, the `Test Stands' used for the test firing of rockets were constructed. In this image from left to right you can Test Stand VIII, I and the large VII from which the famous V2 was actually launched.
|A close up image of Test Stand VII, It clearly shows a V2 rocket on its trailer inside of the test firing area.
This imagery was taken by 540 Sqn on the 23rd June 1943.
The two red arrows on the building on the left, show possible anti-aircraft gun positions.
The V-2 was propelled by 3800 kg of alcohol (ethanol and water) fuel, and the oxidizer was 4900 kg of liquid oxygen. The fuel and oxidizer pumps were steam turbines, and the steam was produced by concentrated hydrogen peroxide with potassium permanganate catalyst. The water-alcohol fuel was kept in a tank of aluminium to save weight, which put a high pressure on German war economy, as this metal was rare and valuable. Ignition was by injecting two hypergolic substances into the combustion chamber, self-igniting upon mixing, basically creating the spark that would light the main thrust.
Following the discovery of the V-2 rocket, the Defence Committee decided that Bomber Command should make the heaviest possible attack on
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SLO Assessment
The SPEECH COMMUNICATION department follows the CCSF assessment process as documented on the Outcomes Assessment Reporting website.
The Speech Communication Department has created assessment calenders for all courses in the discipline. All course SLOs are assessed at least once every three years. Assessment calendars attempt to align SLO and PSLO assessments with GE and ILO assessment timelines articulated in the CCSF Assessment Plan. Instructors of courses meet to discuss rubrics, assessment practices. and sampling techniques. Lately, the Department has been using Master Rubrics to quickly and directly assess larger samples of students. Program level SLOs are assessed through the department's capstone course, Competitive Forensics, and through assessment data of courses mapped to each Program Level Outcome.
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Our programs are on a regular cycle of review, during which outcomes
are updated and revised. Course SLOs are mapped to Program SLOs.
Program SLOs are mapped to ILOs. Mappings and program information are
recorded in reports in CurricUNET.
Programs are also fully described in the catalog.
Course-level SLOs are recorded in the official course outline of record in CurricUNET. Course outlines are on a regular cycle of review, during which class outcomes are updated and revised.
|Outline Last Updated
|SPCH 1A. Elements of Public Speaking Calendar
|SPCH 2. Introduction to Rhetorical Criticism Calendar
|SPCH 3. Argumentation and Debate Calendar
|SPCH 4. Group Communication Calendar
|SPCH 5. Intercultural Communication Calendar
|SPCH 6. Workplace Communication Calendar
|SPCH 7. Oral Interpretation of Literature not recently offered
|SPCH 11. Basic Public Speaking Calendar
|SPCH 12. Fundamentals of Oral Communication Calendar
|SPCH 20. Interpersonal Communication Calendar
|SPCH 38. Forensics Competition Calendar


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my beloved wife, it is thanks to you that I
found the strength to live in Istanbul. If you
had not come earlier and made a circle of friends,
and if you had not given me courage, perhaps
Istanbul would have continued to be the dream
of mysterious colours of which I read in Edmondo
d'Amicis' book. I am thinking of the early years
when we made a living by painting watercolours,
repairing frames and printing photographs...
I will never forget Signor Zellich, the owner
of Zellich bookshop on Yüksekkaldirim, and his
sons, who were so kind in their attentions.
We placed my paintings in his large window and
priced them at one lira each. Four paintings
were sold and he paid me the sums immediately.
That was the first money I earned in Istanbul.'
When Fausto Zonaro first arrived in Istanbul
he could not find words to describe the city's
beauty, saying that the descriptions by Gautier,
Amicis and Loti could not be surpassed. Zonaro
was born on 18 September 1854, the son of a
middle-class family in Masi in the district
of Padua.
studied drawing and painting as a young man,
and worked in Italy and France before coming
to Istanbul in 1891. In 1896 he was appointed
painter to the Ottoman sultan. A magnificent
book about this Italian painter by Erol Makzume
and Osman Öndes has now been published on the
occasion of a retrospective exhibition of his
work. One of Zonaro's first friends in Istanbul
was Director of Customs Mahmud Bey, who helped
him when he was having difficulty at the Customs
on his arrival in the city, invited him to his
office and offered him coffee. This first acquaintance
turned into a lasting friendship, and Zonaro
was a frequent visitor at Mahmud Bey's house
in Salacak. When Illustrierte Zeitung magazine
published in Leipzig featured Zonaro's masterpiece
Il Banditore, illustrating a scene from the
Napoleonic period, on the cover in November
1892, Zonaro became sought after in Istanbul's
diplomatic circles and high society.
One Friday in 1896 Zonaro watched the Ertugrul
cavalry regiment passing over Galata Bridge,
and began to visit the same spot every week
to sketch the procession. After completing his
oil painting based on these sketches, friends
suggested that he present it to Sultan Abdülhamid
II. The sultan admired the painting so much
that he awarded Zonaro the Mecidi Order and
appointed him court painter. A year later Zonaro
was rewarded for his painting of the Battle
of Dömeke in the Turkish-Greek War by being
allocated one of the houses for palace officials
in Besiktas. Zonaro lived and worked at No 50
Akaretler for the next 12 years, and the house
became a gathering place for intellectuals,
eminent members of Istanbul society, leaders
of its different religious communities and foreign
visitors, who came to watch Zonaro at work and
converse with him. His visitors included Enver
Pasa, Winston Churchill, Ali Sami, Adolphe Thalasso,
Sehzade Burhaneddin, Sehzade Abdülmecid, Sevket
Cenani, Max Olaf Heckmann, Dr Fritz Fraumberger,
Mario Perrone, Attilio Centelli, Emilie Helferich,
Dr A Kampf,
Ekrem and Osman Hamdi Bey. Zonaro often used
to paint in the gardens of Yildiz Palace: 'Yildiz
Park always enchanted me with its exquisite
beauty, tranquillity and birdsong. I loved to
paint there. First I did sketches based on drawings,
and then began to paint. Usually Sehzade Burhaneddin
Efendi would join me, and we would converse
in French as he shyly watched me from a corner
beneath his sunshade.' Zonaro was friends with
another of the Ottoman princes, Sehzade Abdülmecid,
whom he described as 'a gracious man, filled
with love of art.' Sehzade Abdülmecid purchased
Zonaro's painting entitled The Wildflower for
the unprecedented sum of 200 liras, after extracting
from him a promise that he would not paint another
similar composition. From the time he was appointed
court painter, Zonaro desired to paint a portrait
of Sultan Abdülhamid II, and the sultan finally
agreed to this in 1908. After Abdülhamid was
deposed in 1909 Zonaro's close association with
the sultan made him persona non grata with the
new regime.
In November that year he was called to the palace and told that his position as court painter and his salary were revoked, and that he could only remain in the house on Akaretler on condition he paid rent.
Early in the morning on 20 March 1910 two phaetons drew up outside the house. Zonaro, his wife Elisa and their children left the house where they had lived for over 12 years for the last time. Until his death in 1929 Zonaro's love of Istanbul was perhaps accompanied by feelings of bitterness. In his memoirs he wrote, 'Now I yearn for those sorrowful days that pain me to remember. But I was not crushed by those times of sadness, and nor shall I be. I continue to work with all my strength, and with respect and passion for my art. The mystery of the East still holds me in its grasp.
* Ömer Faruk Serifoglu is an art historian.


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Sales person is the face of the company in the market and represents the company, therefore salesperson duties and responsibilities are vast and of high importance to the company. The sale person being the representative of the company helps establish the identity and image of the company in the market and is equally responsible to the consumers also, thereby playing a crucial role of an interlink.
Salesperson duties & responsibilities can be defined as…
Face of the company: The sales person is the one who goes into the market and sells the products for the company, this way he is the one primarily responsible for establishing the identity of the company. Anything he does, good or bad is the liability or asset to the company. Therefore for a company which has done million dollar investments in the production capabilities lays a big responsibility on the sales person as he is the one who manages the distribution channel, intermediaries, key consumers, financial transactions and key consumers. Therefore the entire business process for the territory is the wholesome accountability of the salesperson.
Source of Knowledge: Sales person is the one point stop for any type of product or related queries for the consumers of business parties. Therefore the sales person needs to be very Knowledgeable in terms of the product features, Price, competitive advantages and mode of use. Queries not just for the product but for aspects related to availability, bulk sales, grievances, tax related queries and feedback. To manage all this the sales person needs to be very informative and responsive in his approach. It is for this reason, all the sales persons are given a initial training, wherein they are briefed about the product details and its other aspects like sales, transactions & trade formalities.
Customer Relationship: One of the key aspect of gaining more consumers is to keep holding back the present one. Once the product is sold into the market, the actual sales process starts, not by just selling it. It is once the consumer has used the product, he or she should be transformed to a regular consumer so that the purchase keep on happening on regular basis. It is here, the Customer Relationship comes into play and for this the sales person must do a list of things ..
Organizing feedback camps
Calling consumers and meeting them on regular basis
Early grievance settlement
Wishing consumers on their special occasions for a personal touch
Organizing trade fairs or events for increasing the noise level about the products
Maintain Profitability of the company: the prime reason for appointing a sales person is to get the sales and increase it on a regular basis. The motive behind this is to generate profits and maintain the profitability. As one of the main Salesperson duties & responsibilities, profits need to keep coming in and for this the sales person must focus on..
Increasing genuine sales turnover
Customer retention
Increasing the consumer Base
Maintaining the expenses to an optimum ratio
Be cost-effective
Cut down on inappropriate ways of promotion or publicity
Managing Inventory: The whole process of managing sales goes waste if the product is not there in the market as per the demand. Non-Availability of products on the shelf not only result in loss of sales but the consumer might shift to competitor Brand or might create a bad image of the company. Salesperson duties & responsibilities definitely demand for an effective Inventory management skill for
an unhindered flow of products
always keep a rich supply chain
first of all the payments should always be in good shape.
Market Feedback & competition: the Sales process is more about communication of features about the product and its relevant features in comparison to the competition. It is very important for the company or the product management department to be apprised of what's happening in the market and equally for the competition and who else then our sales person can fit the requirement. Under Salesperson duties & responsibilities the sales person is supposed to update the parent company all about the current market information about the competition-
selling points
consumer feedback
discounts or promotional events
All this with an objective of helping the company to build the communication accordingly.
Ethics and Followup: While all this is being done the key Salesperson duties & responsibilities of the sales person is to do the entire activity in line with the rule and regulation of the market. The sales person should never involve into gray market activities or sub-standard marketing gimmicks. This all to keep up the image of the company.
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105 Year Old Woman Gets Surprise From Wienermobile
A 105 year old grandmother from Richland Springs, Texas is a huge fan of bacon! Just a month ago, Pearl was interviewed by CNN and talked about her little secret to a long, happy life. She says:
"I love bacon, I could eat it for every meal– and I do!. I want other people to eat bacon, I tell them to. My kids all eat it."
Well Oscar Mayer heard of her story and decided to pay a visit to the bacon loving fan by sending the Wienermobile! So with Pearl riding shotgun, they drove all around town waving at all of the towns people. Afterwards she received a box of…what else…BACON!
She says, "I will never, ever forget it, as long as I live."


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Movies: I've got a varied taste in movies. Some of my favourite movies are The Godfather, both Hangovers, Wayne's World, Borat, Crash, Brothers, Source Code, American Pie, Clueless, Carlito's Way, the Jackass movies and The Wedding Singer. I love action movies and raunchy comedies. A well done dramatic thriller is good too! And pretty much anything with Jake Gyllenhaal!
Music: My taste in music is porbably as varied as my taste in movies! Bon Iver, Friendly Fires, New Order, Hot Chip, David Guetta, Deadmau5, Delphic, Muse, Julian Casablancas, Kylie Minogue, The Strokes, Adele, Sam Roberts, Lil Wayne, Depeche Mode, Hercules and Love Affair, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, HURTS, Lady Gaga, UK hip hop and Cheesy late 80s and early 90s dance music.
Food: I've started to become a bit of a foodie. I love Italian, Indian and Greek food the most. Anything hot and spicy is good with me! Love Korean BBQs, but I'm sadly not very good with chopsticks (I'm working on it though lol).
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2012 Cars Critters Campaign
Just in time for Easter, Cars 108 is again looking for new and gently used stuffed animals. We will donate them to the Genesee County Department of Human Services to help fill Easter Baskets for foster kids in our area.
The campaign runs until March 29th, and drop-off locations are located all over Flint and Genesee County. Donate your 'Cars Critters' at these area locations.
Laurie's & Timothy's Children's Fashions – Saginaw Street, Grand Blanc
Halo Burger – Holly Road, Grand Blanc
Creative Jewelers – LinCor Plaza, Flint
Play It Again Sports – Miller Road, Flint
IO Software – Yorkshire Plaza, Flint
Plato's Closet – Linden Road, Flint
Gaines Jewelers – Beecher Road, Flint


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Potwin Fiber Artisans (PFA)
A Studio, Educational & Gallery Collaborative
Join Us
Become a part of NE Kansas' newest non-profit fiber arts movement.
Based in Topeka, KS we offer classes in the fiber arts and community outreach to groups who are interested in learning fiber arts from weaving, crocheting, knitting, tatting, spinning, bobbin lace, and much more!
Our members are all types of fibery folk. We have some who enjoy just stitching with friends on our open stitch nights; to the very ambitious artists with products to sell.
Email firstname.lastname@example.com to get on the mailing list.
All are Welcome!
Open Stitch, Learn & Market, Last Wed. of the month 6-9pm. A featured special guest will speak at 6:30pm, followed by an open market and stitchin' away. Join us!


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NASA looks to solar eclipse to help understand Earth's energy system
21.07.2017 | NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center
Scientists shed light on carbon's descent into the deep Earth
19.07.2017 | European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Physicists have developed a new technique that uses electrical voltages to control the electron spin on a chip. The newly-developed method provides protection from spin decay, meaning that the contained information can be maintained and transmitted over comparatively large distances, as has been demonstrated by a team from the University of Basel's Department of Physics and the Swiss Nanoscience Institute. The results have been published in Physical Review X.
For several years, researchers have been trying to use the spin of an electron to store and transmit information. The spin of each electron is always coupled...
What is the mass of a proton? Scientists from Germany and Japan successfully did an important step towards the most exact knowledge of this fundamental constant. By means of precision measurements on a single proton, they could improve the precision by a factor of three and also correct the existing value.
To determine the mass of a single proton still more accurate – a group of physicists led by Klaus Blaum and Sven Sturm of the Max Planck Institute for Nuclear...
The research team of Prof. Dr. Oliver Einsle at the University of Freiburg's Institute of Biochemistry has long been exploring the functioning of nitrogenase....
A one trillion tonne iceberg - one of the biggest ever recorded -- has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica, after a rift in the ice,...
Physics supports biology: Researchers from PTB have developed a model system to investigate friction phenomena with atomic precision
Friction: what you want from car brakes, otherwise rather a nuisance. In any case, it is useful to know as precisely as possible how friction phenomena arise –...
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The Office of Student Diversity and Inclusion (OSDI), formerly known as the Center for Diversity & Inclusion, welcomes all students from various cultures, backgrounds and social identities. We serve as a resource center and hub to the Edgewood College community by providing a space for all to engage effectively with others, to establish healthy relationships and to reflect on matters of social justice, power and privilege.
We work closely with Edgewood's Multicultural Student Organizations: the Asian Student Association (ASA), Association of Latin@ Students (ALaS), the Black Student Union (BSU), Edgewood's LGBTQ student organization SAFE, and the Multicultural Men's & Women's Groups!
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Reminiscing about a friends garden and the bounty of beautiful flowers and vegetables that bring a smile to my face.
Now for the winter gardens…
Reminiscing about a friends garden and the bounty of beautiful flowers and vegetables that bring a smile to my face.
Now for the winter gardens…
Been enjoying the bounty of zucchini's this year from the garden.
Also enjoy eating the beautiful flowers!
You only eat the male flowers…as the females produce the zucchini.
Try making a white wine batter and gently fry them in olive oil.
Very flavourful and tender. Yummy
Plus zucchini's are good for you!
From my dear friend Robyn Campbell
This features fresh and roasted garlic…if you're gonna do it, might as well go all the way.
3 heads of garlic
a bit of oil to drizzle for the roasted garlic
a soup spoon of olive or vegetable oil
a leek
a small onion
3 medium potatoes
about 4 cups water
1-2 cups milk
salt, pepper
serve with chunks of bread
Roast 2 heads of garlic in the oven: leave the skins on, toss them in olive oil and put them on a baking tray at 350º F for about 20-25 minutes until soft. Take them out, let them cool so you can handle them. The garlic should squeeze out of the cloves. Tasty!
Take the remaining head of fresh garlic and crush the cloves with a knife. Add to soup pan: oil, fresh garlic, onion, leek. Fry one medium heat until onion is translucent (about 5-10mins). Add water and potatoes, plus roasted garlicky goodness, and a bit of salt and pepper (add more later to suit your taste – this is just to get the flavours blending…).
Bring to a boil, then turn down to simmer on medium-low for at least 20 minutes. Feel free to keep it on the stove for hours. I swear the smell of garlic will warm your heart.
When you've finished cooking it, blend it up with a hand blender to get all the chunks out. This soup is a smooth operator! At the end, add enough milk to meet your desired thickness and creaminess, and warm the soup again but not to a boil.
"I first had this soup in Austria, and the soup itself was quite thin (i.e liquidy)… but then we threw in chunks of bread (baguette, or french loaf, or homemade wholewheat) and it was awesome. Season with salt and pepper to taste before serving.
I made this last week – we ate it for three days straight and longed for more. Phenomenal. Share with your closest friends, and nearest and dearest companions." Robyn Campbell
Thanks for sharing Robyn…now here's a couple of articles on the health benefits of Garlic:
Unlocking the Benefits of Garlic – NY Times online, October 15, 2007
Garlic's Curative Powers – from MacLeans' Magazine, May 20, 1996 via The Canadian Encyclopedia


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Through a set of solid mahogany doors, the dining room at Remington's teems with seasonal dishes inspired by the Jersey Shore. Executive Chef Dominick Rizzo gathers ingredients from farmers, fishmongers, and local cheese makers from the tri-state area, letting the harvest inform his constantly changing menu of upscale American cuisine. Recent dishes have included locally caught fluke sautéed with yellowfoot chanterelle mushrooms and served with lentils and a drizzle of chive oil. For libations, Remington's sommeliers refer to a long list of wines from Europe, South America, and California. All this good cooking comes with good scenery to match—there's a 5-foot freshwater aquarium decorating the dining room, alongside hand-painted murals of beaches, ocean scenes, and Moondoggie's leash.


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Beijing (AFP) May 10, 2011
China has spent nearly 800 billion yuan ($123 billion) to rebuild areas in the southwest that were devastated by a massive earthquake three years ago, senior officials said Tuesday.
Nearly 3,000 schools and more than 1,200 health care facilities have so far been rebuilt or renovated in quake-ravaged areas of Sichuan, along with millions of houses, provincial vice-governor Wei Hong told reporters.
"The economic development of the disaster-hit areas and the living conditions of the people have basically been restored to or outperformed the levels before the earthquake," he said.
An 8.0-magnitude quake rocked Sichuan and parts of neighbouring Shaanxi and Gansu provinces on May 12, 2008, leaving nearly 87,000 people dead or missing.
China's State Council, or cabinet, in September 2008 issued a plan to rebuild 51 quake-struck counties covering 130,000 square kilometres (50,200 square miles), the official Xinhua news agency said.
Mu Hong, a vice director of the National Development and Reform Commission, the country's top economic planning agency, said that work on 95 percent of the reconstruction projects in the plan had been completed.
He called the restoration and reconstruction of the quake-hit areas a "decisive victory".
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"The final countdown has started," Wang Chao-hung, better known to his followers and the public as "Teacher Wang", told AFP in the central Taiwanese town of Puli, home to about 80,000 people.
The 54-year-old said a 14-magnitude killer quake would strike the island at 10:42:37 Wednesday morning (0242 GMT), killing at least one million people.
"It will have enormous consequences for most countries around the Pacific," Wang said.
Five days later, the island, together with many parts of the Pacific area, will be hit by a tsunami featuring 170-metre (560-foot) waves, he warned.
In expectation of these cataclysmic events, he has set up a shelter in Puli, converting more than 30 cargo containers into makeshift homes, stockpiling them with enough rice, bottled water and fuel to last for several weeks.
As of late Tuesday, it was unclear whether Wang had persuaded anyone to move into the containers, but the otherwise quiet town had attracted dozens of journalists, some of them reporting live from the area.
Wang has advised people to stay in cargo containers, which he says will be safer than regular buildings once the alleged catastrophe happens.
The prediction, which has caused widespread media attention over the past week, has prompted prosecutors to launch an investigation into an alleged fraud case.
Investigators are looking into the theory that Wang might be cooperating with businesses in the container industry, a charge he has flatly denied.
Fraud convictions carry a maximum five-year jail term while breaking the law on social order is punished by a fine of up to Tw$30,000 ($1,000), prosecutors say.
A weather bureau spokesman has said that "issuing unauthorised forecasts on earthquakes is punishable by a fine" of up to Tw$1 million ($33,000).
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TOP STORY >> Lonoke County a disaster area
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Nine trackhoes are working 18-20 hours a day, building levees on top of 10 or 15 miles worth of levees at the Malone Fish Farm on Hwy. 31, according to Jim B. Malone.
The rescue plan could cost $100,000 for the trackhoe work alone, he said, but the fish in his ponds could be worth closer to $1 million or $2 million and hed hate to see them washed down Crooked Creek and out into the bayou, he said.
Weve been underwater for a week or 10 days, said Dow Brantley, who farms 8,000 acres with his father, Laudies Brantley, near Coy in Lonoke County, which has been declared a disaster area and is eligible for low-cost loans.
Its so wet we havent planted rice yet, he said. Havent even thought about it. Weve planted corn and a few beans wed have been better off leaving it in the sack.
We dont have a plan, he said, then approximated a plan. Well plant rice till the first day of June, but itll take three weeks for the fields to dry out. Well plant a little cotton and a lot of soybeans. Were in a position weve never been in before.
I havent seen it this flooded, said Brantley, who has worked the farm for about 10 years. My dad says its close to the worst hes seen in 35 or 36 years.
Brantley said the water couldnt drain because Indian Bayou is swollen and it cant drain into Bayou Meto, which is also backed up and cant drain into the Arkansas River.
On Tuesday, Gov. Mike Beebe declared Lonoke County a disaster area. The declaration authorizes $200,000 in individual assistance from the Governors Disaster Fund for flood victims.
Meanwhile, Brantley and the others are doing normal maintenance and resting, getting ready because when it dries up, every- body will get busy.
Well have to farm in shifts, Brantley said.
Roads throughout much of the county are underwater, and Lonoke County Judge Charlie Troutman said he wouldnt know the extent of the damage until the water recedes.
This is the worst Ive ever seen it. We got 14 to 16 inches of rain (in the past few days), and around 20 inches in Searcy, he said.
Troutman said flooding was bad in the Kerr area, around Snake Island and in much of the southeast part of the county.
He said hes had crews tearing out old collapsed or blocked culverts and replacing them with new ones to allow water to drain.
Everywhere theres a flood plain, theres a flood, Troutman said.
Its going to take a few weeks to fix all this, he predicted.
He said Mt. Tabor Road has washed out, been cleared and washed out again.
I know weve had water in some homes in Humnoke, the judge said.
He said school buses couldnt get to some homes south of Carlisle and that some areas had no mail service.
Brantley said that conceivably this will be the worst flooding and worst production ever on his farm.
Every time you look, its raining again. This is the wettest May in 127 years, Brantley said.
We should be 90 percent planted on the whole farm, he said, and today its 30 percent planted.
Speaking of himself and his neighbors, he said, None of us have enough equipment to put this crop in the next 30 days. Im having to call a landlord and tell him we might not get his farm planted.
Malone said his farm ponds are probably three feet below the water level outside his reinforced levees. He raises grass carpabout 95 percent sterilesome bait fish and fish for mitigation stocking.
If the water breeches the levees?
Ill lose 800 acres of ponds in a matter of hours, he said.
In the winter of 1987-88, when all the family had was a levee disc and eight employees with shovels, he lost 790 acres to flooding and contamination.
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The new farm office is protected by levees of its own, he said.
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Burger King hack exposes media vulnerability
Yesterday, fast-food chain Burger King lost its Twitter account. The feed was shut down following a hack, during which the restaurant's larger competitor's images and golden arches were posted on the page.
Now it is doubtful that McDonald's went through the trouble to target a rival's Twitter account, but the hacking incident does highlight how fragile digital reputation is and how important social media engagement is for multinational firms.
When we think of the term media, we remember days-gone-past where the morning, and later, the afternoon newspapers were delivered to your front porch. We remember the crackle and pops of early AM dial broadcasts, and the first streaming images on a handful of stations sending video to TV sets.
These days, media is everything from ads rolling through a mobile app to audio files you hear in between Spotify songs streaming on your computer. We've gone a long way from the first Ronald McDonald outfit worn by "Today" weatherman Willard Scott to Burger King having to pull down one of its social media outlets.
Besides images of the new fish McBites, hackers used obscenities and racial slurs in the posts that were made over the course of an hour. Other messages included:
"If I catch you at a Wendys, we're fightin!"
"We just got sold to McDonalds! Look for McDonalds in a hood near you."
Burger King officials said on Monday that the company will post an apology on its Facebook account.
McDonald's was proactive in its response to what happened, posting, "We empathize with our @BurgerKing counterparts. Rest assured, we had nothing to do with the hacking."
This latest attack comes a merely a week after pranksters broke into a television station's emergency broadcast system and sent out messages warning of the zombie apocalypse. The incident on KRTC-TV in Montana also happened to stations in three other states – Michigan, New Mexico and California.
According to the Michigan Broadcasters Association, the worry isn't in the zombie message that was broadcast, it was the fact that hackers were able to get into the system. The FCC's response was to tell station IT staffers to make sure to change the default passwords.
VIDEO GAMES: Angry Birds is far from the first game that made money licensing its image and characters for merchandising. Back in the day, my brother and I had Pac-Man sleeping bags.
However, the maker of Angry Birds is entering new territory by creating its own advertising network. Instead of using a third-party to deliver ads inside its game portals and collecting revenue, Rovio is creating its own integrated ad unit. By cutting out the middle man, the video game maker has the opportunity to manage its own revenue stream and offer advertisers unique access to the millions of players around the globe.
REVOLVING DOOR: We already knew that L.A. Reid and Britney Spears were not going to be returning for the next season of Simon Cowell's "X-Factor." However, the latest news coming out of Hollywood is that co-host Khloe Kardashian wasn't asked to come back, leaving Mario Lopez as the sole returning host on the talent competition show.
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Girl Talk: On Bridal Underwear
There were a lot of things I knew I'd have to think about when we decided to get married. I don't just mean the lofty "What is marriage for?" questions. I mean the practical questions about the ceremony and party. What I'd be wearing underneath my dress for the big day wasn't, however, one of the things on my mind.
That is until I watched an episode of "Say Yes to the Dress" in which a former beauty queen is lectured by her father about not wearing a thong to her dress fitting. "Thong" is not a word I would ever want to hear come out of my own father's mouth, but I guess if that's their relationship, who am I to judge? Prior to that, however, I wasn't privy to the entire world that is bridal undergarments — a world wherein you're not just expected to wear something stain-free and seamless, but sexy too. Indeed, "bridal underwear" is its own species in the genus of undergarments.
Now, my general approach to underwear is that if it fits and it doesn't have holes that are big enough make it unusable, then it's a go. I don't spend a lot of time thinking about underwear. Last week, I was wearing a pair for at least three hours before I realized it was inside-out. But like the Mormons' temple garments, proper under-attire is apparently a prerequisite to marital heaven. That, or it's a way to atone for the sins of never making it to the gym or always saying yes to happy hour. Either way, brides are given the distinct impression, through a variety of sources, that on no other day will her choice of panties be as important. There are practical reasons for this. Satin, lace, and tulle don't make for the greatest of camouflage, nor are they particularly forgiving of love handles. Anything that doesn't sort of match your skin tone is going to show through, and they offer little cover for anything that fits poorly.
Then there's the ever-present question every bride finds herself asking: to Spanx or not to Spanx? Because even if you're a keeping-your-last-name, body-positive feminist, you generally have some part you want to contain on the most-photographed day of your life. For me, it came down to a question of how I want to spend my time. Daily gym sessions to shave off a few pounds, after working I-don't-want-to-say how many hours at my job and before going home to do wedding planning? No thanks. But I will take some extra-double-reinforced underwear that sucks everything in for a few hours.
I had no desire go into a store in which I might actually have to discuss shapewear with a stranger. So instead, I ordered something called the "In-Power Line Super Higher Power Power Panties" from Amazon.com. That sounded like an unprecedented amount of power in my pants. A friend-of-a-friend who works for in retail assures me they were just mislabeled on Amazon, combining the names of the "Super Higher Power Panties" and the "Super Power Panties"—two different products. I'm still not sure which one I actually purchased.
I ordered them on a Tuesday, and by Thursday, they were sitting in my mail pile in a pink cardboard box that read, "Live the Dream." Which would be true, if my dream were to be crammed kielbasa-like into a sheer unitard. I couldn't imagine spending an entire day stuffed into that contraption, and promptly shipped them back. This led to a frantic search for alternative panties on a few nights before I was supposed to meet with the dressmaker. I spent a few confusing minutes wandering the underwear department and fondling various fabrics before finding something beige, stretchy, and disinclined to chafe. I left feeling glad that the whole episode was behind me.
But then came the actual dress fitting, in which I was presented with the question of the bra. The back is open, so simply going strapless isn't enough, and I hadn't considered this conundrum, either. I was sent off to Nordstrom's to find something sufficient — and if nothing existed, to find something she could cut up and sew in. There, I met Jacqueline, a gruff lingerie section staffer that I was apparently supposed to let feel me up to figure out what size bra I should actually be wearing. (Turns out I've been wearing the wrong size all these years.) She pulled a few off the racks and the two of us crammed into a fitting room. I stripped off my shirt. "Now," she said, handing me a pushup—a concept I was not familiar with, either. "Put the girl up on the shelf." It took me a few seconds to grasp that "the girl" she was referring to was my breast, and "the shelf" was the firm ridge of padding inside the bra meant to give your boobs some volume. I bought the first one, thanked Jackie, and got out of there, paying far more than I've ever paid for a bra in my life — especially for one that would be cut up and sewn into a dress I would never wear again.
Even as someone who tries not to spend too much time thinking about body image in a world that so desperately wants you to obsess over it, it's hard not to avoid the anxiety that comes with this particular day. I've now spent more money on underwear than I spend on food and rent most weeks, and the Spanx ads still haven't stopped following me around the internet like a spurned lover. But I'm fairly certainly that when I look back on my wedding day, my underwear won't be what I'm thinking about. And if it is, then my problems are much larger than my love handles.


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(PopSci.com) -- Last winter, inventor John Kanzius was already attempting one seemingly impossible feat -- building a machine to cure cancer with radio waves -- when his device inadvertently succeeded in another: He made saltwater catch fire.
TV footage of his bizarre discovery has been burning up the blogosphere ever since, drawing crackpots and Ph.D.s alike into a raging debate. Can water burn? And if so, what good can come of it?