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Arlington TX (SPX) Aug 13, 2014
Scientists hunting for life beyond Earth have discovered more than 1,800 planets outside our solar system, or exoplanets, in recent years, but so far, no one has been able to confirm an exomoon. Now, physicists from The University of Texas at Arlington believe following a trail of radio wave emissions may lead them to that discovery.
Their recent findings, published in The Astrophysical Journal, describe radio wave emissions that result from the interaction between Jupiter's magnetic field and its moon Io. They suggest using detailed calculations about the Jupiter/Io dynamic to look for radio emissions that could indicate moons orbiting an exoplanet.
"This is a new way of looking at these things," said Zdzislaw Musielak, professor of physics in the UT Arlington College of Science and co-author of the new paper.
"We said, 'What if this mechanism happens outside of our solar system?' Then, we did the calculations and they show that actually there are some star systems that if they have moons, it could be discovered in this way." Joaquin Noyola, a Ph.D. graduate student in Musielak's research group, is lead author on the new paper and Suman Satyal, a Ph.D. graduate student in the same group, is another co-author.
It is titled "Detection of Exomoons Through Observation of Radio Emissions." The idea of life thriving on a moon has inspired science fiction, such as Star Wars' furry Ewoks. Scientists even think some moons in our own Solar System - Saturn's Enceladus and Jupiter's Europa - are good candidates for supporting life based on their atmospheric composition, potential for water and distance from the sun.
The difficulty comes in trying to spot an exomoon using existing methods, Musielak said. NASA's Kepler telescope, for example, measures changes in brightness from a star to identify transits, or passes, by an orbiting planet. Reliably isolating whether a moon is part of that transit hasn't been possible, so far.
The UT Arlington team builds on earlier theories about using radio wave observations to discover exoplanets, but applies it in a new way. Their focus is on Io and its ionosphere, a charged upper atmosphere that is likely created by the moon's extremely active volcanoes. During its orbit, Io's ionosphere interacts with Jupiter's magnetosphere, a layer of charged plasma that protects the planet from radiation, to create a frictional current that causes radio wave emissions.
These are called "Io-controlled decametric emissions" and the researchers believe finding similar emissions near known exoplanets could be key to predicting where other moons exist. Noyola said it is important to note when modeling the Io example to other planet/moon pairs that other moons do not necessarily have to have the volcanic activity of Io to have an ionosphere.
"Larger moons - such as Saturn's largest moon, Titan - can sustain a thick atmosphere, and that could also mean they have an ionosphere. So volcanic activity isn't a requirement," Noyola said.
The paper also addresses Alfven waves that are produced by the Io and Jupiter magnetosphere interaction and says those waves also could be used to spot exomoons in similar situations. Alfven waves are the rippling of the plasma in a magnetic field, first described by Hannes Alfven in the early 1940s.
In their paper, the UT Arlington team even pinpointed two exoplanets where they are "cautiously optimistic" that the observational community could apply the study's calculations to search for exomoons the size of our moon with future, more sensitive radio telescopes - Gliese 876b, which is about 15 light years way, and Epsilon Eridani b, which is about 10.5 light years away. Current telescopes - such as the National Science Foundation-supported Long Wavelength Array - could be used to detect exomoons in closer planetary systems, with the bigger moons holding better the possibilities of detection, Satyal said.
"Most of the detected exoplanets are gas giants, many of which are in the habitable zone," he said. "These gas giants cannot support life, but it is believed that the exomoons orbiting these planets could still be habitable."
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Between doctors, magazines, news reports, and the guy at the gym who won't stop talking, there is no shortage of places to get advice about your health these days. But one place we didn't expect was on our shopping bags! Yet some customers at Lululemon were surprised to note that among the inspirational phrases on the store's trademark red and white tote was some advice about sunscreen.
"Sunscreen absorbed into the skin might be worse for you than sunshine," advised the (ironically) recyclable tote.
Even though the famous athletic apparel company is known for promoting a healthy lifestyle—and cute yoga butts!—they aren't necessarily seen as a place you'd go for medical advice. And this piece of advice in particular has shoppers and health professionals alike raising their eyebrows.
While it's true that sunshine on your skin is the best source of vitamin D and that some sunscreens can contain harmful chemicals, that doesn't mean you should avoid sunscreen all together. The American Cancer Society recommends that all people wear sunscreen, adding, "Because of its negative effects, intentional, unprotected sun exposure should not be used as a way to increase vitamin D level."
RELATED: The Best Sun Protection Products of 2014
But while we may not want our shopping bags giving us medical advice, we love this mantra also printed on the bag: "A daily hit of athletic-induced endorphins helps you make better decisions, feel at peace and reduce stress!" That's a message we can definitely get behind.

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Currently, lists make a second page when you add over 50 entries. It would be great if we could set this to custom values, or at least be offered a few alternates; 10, 20, 40, 60, etc.
I have a list of embedded videos that's getting pretty unruly as it nears 50 entries.


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A WILDLIFE ranger has lived to tell after he was beaten up by a crocodile.
John Pomeroy said he was headbutted twice by a 4.4m crocodile named Shrek.
Pomeroy, who escaped with only a black eye, said he remained calmed throughout the ordeal.
"I wasn't afraid," he said.
"I've got a high threshold for fear - and that gets me into trouble at times."
Read the full story at NT News
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No, it's always been off. No hints are being delivered ever, but the HintedHandoffManager still does some stuff when nodes come back online. -Jeffrey -----Original Message----- From: Ryan King [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: Thursday, June 23, 2011 3:00 PM To: email@example.com Subject: Re: hinted handoff sleeping On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Jeffrey Wang <email@example.com> wrote: > Hey all, > > > > We're running a slightly patched version of 0.7.3 on a cluster of 5 nodes. > I've been noticing a number of messages in our logs which look like this > (after a node goes "down" and comes back up, usually just due to a GC): > > > > 2011-06-23 14:46:35,381 INFO [HintedHandoff:1] > org.apache.cassandra.db.HintedHandOffManager.deliverHintsToEndpoint(HintedHandOffManager.java:290) > {USER='',IP=''} - Sleeping 32649ms to stagger hint delivery > > > > The interesting thing is that we have hinted_handoff_enabled = false in the > YAML configuration, so it always says 0 rows are handed off (later, after > the sleep). Thus this sleeping seems quite wasteful. Is this part of the > code supposed to be reach even with hinted handoff disabled? Thanks. Did you previously run with HH on? That config setting prohibits new hints from being created, but doesn't prevent existing ones from being delivered. -ryan
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EGRP News Flash - January 31, 2011
NCI Soliciting Feedback on Provocative Questions in Cancer Research
The National Cancer Institute (NCI) recently launched the Provocative Questions Web site to engage the cancer research community in this important initiative. The project is intended to assemble a list of novel questions that will help guide NCI and its scientific communities in efforts to control cancer through laboratory, clinical, and population sciences. The Web site allows individuals to submit questions, rank questions submitted by others, and participate in an online discussion of the initiative.
Provocative Questions are inquiries that address important problems and paradoxes in cancer research considered to have received insufficient attention, for a variety of reasons. Some may be built on older, neglected observations that have never been adequately explored; some on more recent findings that are perplexing; and some on problems that were traditionally thought to be intractable but that now might be vulnerable to attack with new methods. The questions are not intended to represent the full range of important questions that NCI and its constituencies should be studying, but they should draw attention to significant underappreciated opportunities for advancing the understanding of cancer and developing new prospects for controlling it.


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FreshStart's Smutsville Recycle Swop Shop
'Every month at the Smutsville Recycle Swop Shop, we have hundreds of trading opportunities, with children coming in with a total of up to a ton of recyclable material that would otherwise be on the streets and in the landfills in the area. This earns them " mula", or points, that they can swop for a range of items at our shop,' explains project leader Jennifer Tooley.
Initiated in March 2014 and run by not-for-profit organisation FreshStart Sedgefield, the Smutsville Swop Shop is based on the successful model pioneered in Hermanus in 2003. 'We have 500 children registered as collectors and about 200 children actively trade in a week,' says Jennifer, who has been impressed by the way the community from Sedgefield's Smutsville township has responded to the initiative.
It's helping children help themselves; it's changing young people's mindsets.
The rubbish each child brings weekly is weighed, and points, known as ' mula', are given per kilogram of plastic, glass, paper or cans deposited. Each child's 'mula' may either be redeemed the same day or saved until the child has accumulated enough for larger purchases. 'But it is the child's decision as to how they use it,' explains Jennifer, adding that parents aren't allowed into the shop.
The children can use their mula to buy things like second-hand clothing, toys, sports equipment, bedding, books, pens and pencils, as well as new stationery items needed for school. 'Our most popular products are toiletries, with children using their mula for toilet soap, facecloths, toothpaste, toothbrushes, deodorants and toilet paper,' says Jennifer. 'Incomes in this area are low and people don't realise that many school and personal items we take for granted are actually luxury items for these kids.'
She believes the project works because it's truly empowering. 'It's helping children help themselves; it's changing young people's mindsets, from ones of entitlement to ones of reward through effort, and it's good for the environment.'
While it took about eight months of consensus building and agreement on what was needed and how best to run the project, Jennifer believes that most people are happy with how it's operating now.
There are 10 volunteers from the Smutsville community who assist at the swop shop sessions. 'We observe the children during each session and those showing real energy and enthusiasm are chosen to become part of an upcycling team, where they are taught skills that will enable them to start earning a living later on in life,' explains Jennifer. The first of these skills-training programmes has begun to teach learners how to use a special loom to produce scarves, beanies and leggings.
As the 'real' value of the reward items in the shop is higher than the value of the materials the children bring in, 'ensuring we have the stock in the recycle swop shop (both second-hand and new goods) to keep the children motivated is one of our biggest challenges', says Jennifer. As a result, gifts and donations are critical to the success of the Smutsville Recycle Swop Shop, and '100% of what is gifted to the project, be it time or goods, goes to the children'.
Jennifer believes that by moving into upcycling, the project will be better able to fund itself, making it more sustainable. 'We have already started the first upcycling project to enable people to start their own businesses and generate income. Eventually, we'd like to see all schools in the greater area have similar programmes, with each town having one or two core upcycling projects.' Materials that they can't currently upcycle are taken to a locally owned recycling company.
Not only are the streets of Smutsville cleaner as a result of the swop shop, but the project is also gradually instilling a sense of pride in the appearance of the township. 'We're also giving people hope for better futures. We really do care for the children of Smutsville and will go the extra mile for them.'
The shop is located at the Sedgefield Primary School in Smutsville; it operates from 1pm to 5pm every Wednesday during school terms.
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|635 sq. ft.
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|2 - 5 nights
In the heart of Villefranche sur Mer old town, in a 1700 building, our apartment is on top the floor and has been fully renovated in 2016 again:) with all high end amenities, to create a real home away from home.
The first amazing point is that we are on the top floor but you will only have to walk up 5 steps to the main door, which is a luxury itself in the old town!
Charm, comfort, cozy feeling,is all you will find staying here as a family, or for a romantic stay, and even for friends gathering.
The apartment has been set to offer everyone privacy : the living room and open plan kitchen are central, while the master bedroom with it's full shower room is on one side, and the second bedroom and full bathroom on the other side. So if you're travelling with children or with another couple of friends, everyone gets it's own space !
The Italian designed kitchen has a granit top, easy to clean, and absolutely all you need to cook after shopping at the local market.
Heaven's nest is a real home away from home with 7 double glazed windows, lots of lights, a nice view on roof tops.
The master bedroom has a view on an old Villefranche Arch, with it's full ensuite shower room (antique marble). Bed is 160 cm queen size.
The second bedroom, as you can see in the pictures, can be set with twin beds, brand new matteresses, or a queen size, or as a triple. The third bed comes down from the wall, and is only adapated for children or teenagers, but it's great to be able to fit 3 children in the same bedroom, so everyone can enjoy the living room with nobody sleeping on a sofa !
When I say full bathroom,or full shower room it includes in each a WC,a sink,and a shower or bath.We also thought that it would be great for friends to be each on one side,and each their own bathroom.
Right nearby second bathroom, is our mini laundry room,with a washer and a dryer on top, so you can travel light, or if Villefranche is only a stop during your journey in Europe, we thougt it would be great to have access to a full laundry system !
Our street is very quiet during the day, but of course in season, are you will be centrally located, there might be fun things with a little noise in the area, including some restaurants. However, Villefranche's is not a nightlife city, so by midnight maximum and in high season or special week ends, there might be some noise, but we never had any complaints though.
It's very important for us that our guests know exactly what to expect, so be aware that in Villefranche old town, everything is super handy, but no cars, so you need to walk up and down steps and through narrow medieval streets all the time.
The train station is about 7 mn's walk away, the seashore only 2 mn's away, and the beach about 7/10 mn's walk away.
The first restaurant is only steps from our place, and all the others are withing 5 mn's walk from Heaven's nest. As we love to share our tips about the area, we do provide a full guide about where to eat, what to do, what to see, with also off the touristy path sightseeing !
For the groceries, everything is accessible in the old town, bakery, butcher, small supermarket, news papers, etc... and within 5 mn walk from the apartment.
As previously said, there are no cars in the old historical town, so we don't have private parking and a car is not necessary as public transportation is great, Monaco is only 6 mn's away with the train and so is Nice.
However, should you travel with a car, just let us know, we can share information about free parking and best spots, but also about city parking places to park 5 mn's away from the apartment, in case you cannot find a space after exploring the area.
The apartment has unlimited phone calls to 103 countries on land lines, and also on locals, which our guests find great and feel secure about having a phone they can use in any case.
The TV has English news channels, but also entertainment and sports in English.
Pricing : All the pricing includes the linens, the towels, the beach towels, the air con, the heat, the high speed WIFI internet, starting cleaning kit and more as again, it's a home, not just a vacation rental (I don't like traveling and renting places where you have 2 skillets and one pot, or 4 glasses, 4 plates, etc....). unlimited phone calls to 103 countries.
For any requested period and quote, price always includes all the above. Balance is due 60 days prior to arrival.
Security deposit is only charged on credit card authorization for 600 € and only debited if damages. Off course you will always receive all the invoices showing what has been paid and a refund of the remaining funds.
Off course, breaking a glass or a plate is ok, and will not be debited.
I take pride in giving places that are spotless in every way, linens ironed, washed with bacteria killers, etc...., and will only give you what I would actually put my own family in :)
If you travel with toddlers or babies, we can provide with a cot and a high chair if needed.
We also have toys, DVD's and all you need to have a good time at the beach. With all the restriction now when we fly, we have tried to provide everything so that our guests can travel light !
We can also organize an airport pick up for you in a van, and our past guests find it easy and smooth to have someone meet them in the airport terminal and take them directly to us so we can hand over keys and show you around.
We try to be very flexible upon arrivals, as we have a family too, as long as you can communicate with us in advance about arrival. If the apartment is not ready, you can drop your luggage off, and we will do the best we can to have it ready ASAP. Late check in are also easy, so just let us know, we've never left anyone out ! Check out is at 10 am or before. If you have a late flight, we offer the possibility to stay in the apartment for the charge of half a night if that day is open when you book. Just contact us as soon as you book, so we can provide.
Should you need assistance during your stay, we're only 10 mn's drive away and will be happy to help or give you advice.
We will also very happy to host guests willing to spend the low season month enjoying the French Riviera and our amazing weather. So feel free to ask us.
We are also used to host guests attending the French Institute willing to relax after a day spent hearing French !
If you are looking to explore our magic area, but would also like to feel like locals, you are only steps away !
Returning clients over the years, many friendships, are our best rewards.
Looking forward hearing from you !
My name is Muriel, and I have been a property manager in the area for now over 20 years. Years spent trying to give the maximum service to all my guests, to share my love for the area, and my love for the local people too.
Many years ago, I have decided to manage and rent only apartments or villas that I would feel comfortable putting my own family in. To me they need to be spotless, and very very well equiped. Not just 2 skillets and 2 pots for 5 people, or only 4 plates ! A nice reward is when I hear : it's just like the pictures, but my best reward is actually : It's even better than in the pictures ! All the properties are well maintained, I always add little things here and there by listening to our guests comments.
Should you need anything during your stay, I can assure that even the impossible is sometimes done to fix anything as fast as possible. Lots of my guests have become friends and come back regularly. I love to travel, and I know how important a vacation is, especially when you come from far away.
In each of my properties, you'll find a book with all my little inside tips and information, to find the places to see, or to eat, and live like locals if you'd like !
As a property manager, by Law in France, I have a license, and I have an insurance up to 110 000 euro to protect owners and renters of any problem. To keep my license and my insurance, I am audited once a year. This is your best guarantee that I 'll always work my best to meet you needs and follow my ethic line and standard.
I am a the happy mother of 3 great children, a 18 year old and twins 11 years old, the wife of a great man of heart, and an elected city council of my little town Eze where I leave.
Should you not know the area, feel free to ask what would be best for you according to your needs, I'll be more than happy to help. Wishing you a very pleasant Villefranche and the Riviera discovery.
Muriel Berdat purchased this apartment in 2010
I have been a property manager on the Riviera for 22 years now, and when my husband and I saw this apartment, we just loved it because of all the windows, the light that was coming in ( I am a little claustrophobic and usually all the places in the odl town are really close to each other). Plus it was a top floor, but no high steps to reach it as it's only 5 steps up to main door. Very high diamond shape ceilings, the perfect display to have a parent ensuite bedroom on one side, with a romantic view on typical old town street and arch, and the children's bedroom on the other side with their own full bathroom, a well sized for the area living space. So we bought it ! We have remodeled it completely and have made it a home away from home. We have used all our experience as a travelling family, to give you all you need to have the perfect vacation, cosy, comfort, and typical. Because this is what we are looking for when we travel. We want the real experience,not only what tourists area offer. And on Rue Baron de Bres, with all the old stones, the locals taking out their chair after dinner to talk a bit, it is the real atmosphere of a southern France village. We would not say the apartment has a sea view even if you can see a little bit of the sea from the bedroom windows on the side. But so you know, when you are down here, you have a sea view all the time : having a coffee at a local café by the water, driving, having a train ride, the Mediterranean is present all the time. Villefranche sur mer is a unique picturesque little town or village. The old historical town, is right by the seashore, lots to do in the summer but also in the winter. Very easy to get around, train, buses, pedestrian area so no cars around. Only 20 mn from Nice International airport, Monaco is just 20 mn's away, Italy is so close. And Villefranche has everything, lots of restaurants, pubs, bars, shops. Very touristy area, but in the heart of the old town, so quiet, time seems to have stopped!
It's a very short walk to the beach, and to everything, and at the same time, so quiet. Take a coffee or a glass of wine beeing in an historical area is just amazing. Stress is washed away in seconds. But if you want the crowd, well it will just take 1 mn walk to find it !
Your hospitality is evident in every detail found throughout this beautiful space.
It truly felt like home while we were here and we are genuinely saddened to be leaving.
Thank you so much for everything and we will certainly tell our friends in Canada about this little piece of Heaven !
John, Kelly, Lindsay, Michelle, Amanda
PS : We will definitely be returning in future !
This was a fabulous part of our vacation. Everything you could possibly need or want was in the flat. Muriel made us feel very welcome! The location is fabulous and her restaurant recommendations were excellent. I don,t believe we could do better anywhere else
Thank you
This is such a wonderful flat in the most amazing location. Do it, book it now!
We absolutely adored the apartment in Villefranche-sur-Mer. It truly was Heaven's Nest! There were two couples and the layout was perfect for privacy and communal living. The apartment was well equipped and it felt like home. We loved feeling a part of the village, overlooking the outdoor dining of the restaurant just below (we had dinner there too and it was one of our best meals in France!).
Trying to find the location using GPS was the only challenge since you can't drive directly to the apartment. I knew we couldn't do that, but I don't think it registered with my friends nor did I likely explain that well enough. Not to mention, coming from the US, we were sleep deprived! We finally asked a lovely lady who helped explain where we were. Wrapping our heads around it all, we then quite easily found parking and left the car where it was until it was time to go. Everything else we needed we could do by foot or train.
We enjoyed the beach and especially were grateful for the umbrellas and beach towels. If we get back to Villefranche-sur-Mer, Heaven's Nest will be the first place I check for availability.
Merci Beaucoup!!
If you are considering Villefranche please consider William & Muriel's apartment. The best location absolutely! A lovely two bedroom, two bathroom accommodation for three of us. This apartment had everything. The only missing feature was a lovely balcony to sit out on. Just Juliet balcony. It was close to everything which made our stay wonderful.
This apartment is delightful! From the moment we arrived we felt completely at home. The pictures are accurate. The apartment was very clean and well maintained. There were plenty of windows which added to the overall ambiance. The WIFI is fast. We loved the location. The train station is only a five minute walk from the apartment. Muriel is a very considerate owner to deal with and provided so many useful tips regarding the area. We dined at Le Serre twice (it is only a few steps from the apartment) and were impressed with the food, wine, warmth and hospitality. We highly recommend this apartment and are sure to return!
We just got home from a 10 night stay in Muriel's apartment in Villefranche. The apartment and the location could not have been any better....it was heaven! It was really nice to come home to a quiet and quaint place away from the hustle of Nice or Monaco. We loved the restaurants, pastry shops, local shops and walks through the small medieval streets. The walk to the beach was pleasant (about 10 min) downhill....the walk back was uphill and we sure did get our workout for the day carrying our beach chairs and umbrella but well worth it. The sea is unbelievable and the best we have ever swam in and we miss it already. The food in the restaurants was very good and the atmosphere quaint and relaxed. Everything is accessible to you by foot, train, beach, grocery, bus etc......just perfect. I recommend you rent a boat and sail around the coast..the view from the water is unbelievable (you can rent with no license). We rented a car for the day and drove to Italy and Monaco...would not recommend it. The train is much easier, less stressful and more enjoyable. Muriel was a gem and the information in her place is phenomenal....thanks again for a wonderful and memorable family vacation.
Villefranche sur Mer historical town is considered a real gem on the French Riviera. From the 1500 Fortress to the Cocteau chapel, all the old medieval pedestrian streets,and the easy access to a long sandy beach with clear waters makes it a real picturesque little French town to visit. Also, besides the few but very very busy streets, you will be amazed to find that if you turn on another street, you can hear the birds sing !If you'd like the crowd,you can have it,lots of shops,restaurants,bars,in the old town and by the water front promenade. Everything is within walking distance. If you'd like to visit Monaco,or cross the Italian border, it will only take 20 min by train. On the other side,you could be in Nice in 15 min. Local open markets, fisherman selling fish in the morning. And all the Mediterranean colors to greet you. The Rue Obscure the blind street is one of the most famous you should not miss. From a romantic stay to family visits and friends getaway, Villefranche has it all.
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1 Jul 2017 - 8 Sep 2017
2 night minimum stay
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Indian Summer
9 Sep 2017 - 30 Sep 2017
2 night minimum stay
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Low Season
1 Oct 2017 - 22 Dec 2017
2 night minimum stay
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Winter Holidays
23 Dec 2017 - 6 Jan 2018
5 night minimum stay
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Low Season
7 Jan 2018 - 20 Apr 2018
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24 May 2018 - 28 May 2018
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Rates are subject to change and confirmation, until reservation is confirmed. Rates include linens, towels, beach towels, heat or air con, water, electricity, starting cleaning kit, internet WIFI. Final cleaning mandatory 135 euro up to 4 people to be paid cash upon arrival. Security deposit is held by credit card authorization and release upon departure if no damages.
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Aspinwall woman serves up compassion for people in need
Aggie Lotz-Paff is no professional chef but she loves whipping up meals for a hungry lot — her most recent effort fed 200.
From the kitchen at Shepherd's Heart Church in Pittsburgh, Paff prepared a hardy feast of chicken chili, cornbread and spinach salad for the crowd who gathered, many of whom she said likely hadn't eaten all day.
The meal served some of the region's homeless who gather each Sunday to feed their bodies and souls.
"Some want to talk, others are just hungry," said Paff, of Aspinwall. "We make sure we have enough so they can have two or three servings."
A member of Shady-side's Church of the Ascension, Paff and other parishioners volunteer four times a year to feed the homeless.
About 45 churches in the Anglican Diocese of Pittsburgh share the responsibility of covering the weekly meals.
Shepherd's Heart also runs a homeless veteran's shelter in the city. There are 15 beds, a kitchen, living room and showers for veterans with no other place to go.
This was Paff's first foray into cooking for a wedding-sized crowd, although she's led kitchen functions for other church events.
She wasn't deterred by the hectic preparation; she was instead drawn by the possibility of reaching so many in need.
"It was fulfilling that we were able to touch so many at once," said Paff, who recruited her son, Dan Block, a senior at Fox Chapel Area High School, to help serve the food.
"That's what Christ calls us to do."
Block, 18, said there was a lot of work in just transporting all the ingredients to Shepherd's Heart. There were carloads of food to transfer and unpack, he said.
Paff said she wanted the menu to be warm, filling, "and something other than pasta."
"I had no idea how to cook for large numbers but the chili was something I thought I could manage," she said.
Her pride swelled as she watched one man in particular eat four helpings of her spinach salad, Paff said.
"It was kind of eye-opening," Block said. "We think of America as a country where we have all this prosperity.
"Some people seemed uncomfortable to be there. Some seemed grateful, but they all were hungry."
Tawnya Panizzi is a staff writer for Trib Total Media. She can be reached at 412-782-2121, ext. 2 or at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Hi, My name is Jen and I am 34 years old. I will be 35 when I deliver. I also have a 4 year old and a 1 year old. How many other moms are in their 30s or 40s?
I will be 31 before baby is born in June. This is my first, and I am NOT an old mom. =)
S & J Married 6/2005
DD born 6/15/2013
I'm a 39 year old FTM, and will be 40 when the baby is born.
Due June 27, 2013.
Married to the love of my life ~ DH (34) Me (40).
DD born on June 20, 2013. We love her so much! :)
I'm almost 36 and I have a 12 yo son and a 9 month old son.
~Holly~ Proud Single mama to:
Alan 8-23-00 (31w) & Ace 2/2/12 (35w) & my angel Serenity 12/10 (MMC @12w)
My 3rd Prince- Abbott arrived 6-16-13
I'm 30, will be 31 when baby #2 arrives.
Alicia ~ mommy to Norah ~ August 24th, 2008
Hoping for a rainbow!
I'm 31, will be 32 in February. This is my second baby, my first will be 8 in March She is not very excited about having a brother or sister poor kid.
Me(35)DH(33) 6.26.12 DD Lily 3.21.05 ^Batman^ 1.11.13 16w3d DD Kira 9.1.14 ^Tictac^1.27.16 10w DS Rhys 1.22.17
31 and 2nd baby
Melissa (31) and husband (33) married since 7/23/05
Brady 9/17/09
Baby #2 due 6/17/13.
I will be 34 when I deliver. I have a soon to be 10 year old son and a 6 year old daughter. I used to say that age 30 will be my age limit for having kids...little did I know!
I will be 31 in June when I deliver baby # 4! My others are 14, 8 and 6! I went from young mom to old mom also!! We may have one more after this one so he's not all alone!! 😃
I don't feel a day past 25.... Seriously, I am going to live to be a hundred..so it doesn't matter the age. I'm young enough to be healthy and enjoy life to the fullest. AMEN!


text: While you have snipped a correct potion of their web-site, you have missed the section just before this TradeXCH bridges the gap between Outlook users and UNIX/Linux workstations allowing them to exchange messages and collaborate with ease. This client enables a number of messaging protocols to communicate so that various platforms can work together---the way systems designers intended. "Results... the entire enterprise communicates as one, scheduling and calendaring are enabled throughout, and global addressing becomes a reality. " Currently, TradeXCH binaries are available for all X86 Processor versions of Linux, Solaris Sparc, Solaris X86 HPUX and SCO UNIXWare 7.1. You will note here that it states that it does support enterprise calendaring, scheduling, and addressing. I have not implemented this yet (but will within the week). This product may not be a perfect replacement, but I see it as better than nothing. Especially since it helps me move from MS to Linux. Jamin W. Collins -----Original Message----- From: Chris Harvey [mailto:chris e-harvey com] Sent: Wednesday, October 25, 2000 10:15 AM To: redhat-install-list redhat com Subject: Re: MS Exchange Client (IT DOES EXIST) > There seems to be a little confusion here. There IS an MS Exchange client > for Linux its called TradeXCH from Bynari. Their web-site can be found at > www.bynari.com. Hope this helps. That's all very nice and good but the key here is from their web site: snip~ SMTP LDAP IMAP MIME Support snip~ Essentially from everything I've ever read about the product it is essentially an IMAP/POP client with LDAP support. It won't do shared calendar (which is completely MS proprietary and not even defined in the MAPI spec), it won't look up the address book unless the Exchange server has LDAP turned on. In other words, it is NOT a MAPI client. If you are going to use this, you might as well use Netcape Mail in IMAP mode with LDAP... same difference. Either way, both suggestions will NOT have the complete environment that an Outlook Windows client would have, which I 'think' was the original question. Of course I could be wrong.. If the user really wants all the Outlook'ish features such as shared calendar, delegates, tasks etc.. OWA is the only solution. If you just want basic messaging via IMAP or POP and directory services via LDAP, most IMAP clients including Bynari will do the trick. Of course all this assumes that these services have been turned on by the Exchange admins.. which they may have elected not to do if they want to force their users to use Outlook on MS Windows.. Chris _______________________________________________ Redhat-install-list mailing list Redhat-install-list redhat com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-install-list


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Vikuit is an advanced social networking engine optimized for Google App Engine. It aims to possess every feature for a social network engine while remaining easy to deploy and manage. It is built with Python and is focused on running on Google App Engine (GAE). Vikuit is intended to fill the gap between software-as-a-service platforms like Ning and on-site deployments. Its key features include articles and news, support for multiple languages, groups, Google native authentication, microbloging, following a user, profiles and profile comments, comments, photo galleries, full searching, user dashboard, and recent activity. For developers, Vikuit uses themes based on jinja templates and special modules, called Vikuitlets, that provide an easy way to extend it.
phpMyGPX is a Web application based on PHP, MySQL, and OpenLayers to manage photos and GPX files with a browser, on your local machine or online, to share your tracks and images. GPX is an XML file format containing track points and routes collected by GPS receivers, and is very popular with navigation, geocaching, and OpenStreetMap.
ClassicMenu Indicator is a notification area applet (application indicator) for the top panel of Ubuntu's Unity desktop environment. It provides a simple way to get a classic GNOME-style application menu for those who prefer this over the Unity dash menu. Like the classic GNOME menu, it includes Wine games and applications if you have those installed.
PuntoEngine is a PHP MVC framework that mixes the best practices of diferent Web frameworks. PuntoEngine mixes ideas from ASP.Net MVC, Java Servlets, and PHP. It lets you easily configure a Servlet to cast request GET, POST, Webservice XML. It can also be configured to draw a page with a master page.
Chamilo is an e-learning and collaboration platform. Chamilo is currently used by more than 7,000,000 students around the world. Governments, private companies, public and private universities, and NGOs use the Chamilo software suite to manage activities from simple live training to full distant learning, certification, and staff selection.
A utility that finds (and optionally removes) unneeded #includes from C and C++ source files.
A tool for managing Route53.


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Queens University has several partnerships with foreign universities and is a member of the International Student Exchange Program (ISEP). ISEP is a network of 300 universities in more than 50 countries. This allows Queens students to study almost any subject almost anywhere in the world!
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BERLIN – Voters in the German capital on Sunday rejected plans for a large-scale property development on the former Tempelhof Airport, which has become a popular inner-city park.
Early results show almost 65 percent of voters rejected development plans proposed by city authorities. Tempelhof, measuring 300 hectares, is located in the middle of the capital.
Early in the Cold War, the airfield was the site of the Berlin Airlift, when Allied planes made around 277,000 landings to supply the western part of the war-ravaged city with food and fuel during the 1948-1949 Soviet blockade.
The city had proposed building around 4,700 apartments, homes and commercial spaces, as well as a large public library, sports fields and a lake, that between them would cover about 20 percent of the field.


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A Wood Kindergarten is a type of preschool that was first conceived in Scandinavia. A Wood Kindergarten is a daycare for children between the ages of three and six that is held exclusively outdoors, in nature.
Also known asEdit
- Outdoor preschool (British English)
- Waldkindergarten (German)
- Nature preschool
In the 1950s, Ella Flautau created the first Wood Kindergartens in Denmark. The idea formed gradually as a result of her often spending time with her own and neighbors' children in a nearby forest, a form of daycare which elicited great interest among the neighborhood parents. The parents formed a group and created an initiative to establish the first Wood Kindergarten. Since then, the idea has spread to other Scandinavian countries and beyond.
Wood Kindergartens have existed in Germany since 1968, but were first officially recognized as a form of daycare in 1993, enabling state subsidies to reduce the daycare fees of children who attended Wood Kindergarten. Since then, the Wood Kindergartens have become increasingly popular. As of 2005, there were approximately 450 Wood Kindergartens in Germany.
The idea was brought to Britain by Scottish childminder Cathy Bache, who opened her project with support from funding authorities and private donors. The Secret Garden is near Monimail Tower, south of the Firth of Tay in Fife. It aims to counter the over-protection and lack of risk in everyday life, as well as the health threats of childhood obesity. [1]
In the United States new examples include the Ecoinstitute.
A Wood Kindergarten can be described as a "kindergarten without a ceiling or walls." The distinction between it and other forms of preschool is that in a Wood Kindergarten, the daycare workers and children spend their time outdoors, in a forest, meadow, or on a beach. Another distinctive feature of Wood Kindergartens is the emphasis on play with toys that are fashioned out of objects that can be found in nature, rather than commercial toys. Despite these differences, Wood Kindergartens are meant to fulfill the same basic purpose as other preschools, namely, to care for, stimulate, and educate young children.
The kindergarten is held outdoors in all seasons and under most weather conditions, although for safety, it is moved indoors if the temperature is below -10°C, or if there is a thunderstorm, wind storm, extreme snow storm, or hail. Near the outdoor area of the Wood Kindergarten, there must be a sheltered, heated indoor area provided in case of bad weather. Wood Kindergartens are generally composed of a group of 15 to 20 children and at least two daycare specialists.
Impact of outdoor educationEdit
Playing outside for prolonged periods has been shown to have a positive impact on children's development, particularly in the areas of manual dexterity, physical coordination, tactile sensitivity, and depth perception. [2] According to these studies, children who attend Wood Kindergartens experience fewer injuries due to accidents and are less likely to injure themselves in a fall. Other studies have shown that playing outdoors strengthens the immune systems of children and daycare professionals.
The fact that most Wood Kindergartens do not provide commercial toys that have a predefined meaning or purpose supports the development of language skills, as children verbally create a common understanding of the objects used as toys in the context of their play. Wood Kindergartens are also generally less noisy than closed rooms, and noise has been shown to be a factor in the stress level of children and daycare professionals.
See alsoEdit
External linksEdit
- Outdoor Preschool at Lakeside School
- Macleans' article on outdoor preschool in the UK, and outdoor education for children in general
- The Guardian article on outdoor preschool in Fife, Scotland
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Kevin Love might be getting carded at the next bar he visits.
The Minnesota Timberwolves forward showed up to Saturday's practice without his beard, and his baby-faced new look made him almost unrecognizable.
"He looks like he's about 12 years old," Timberwolves coach Rick Adelman told Minneapolis' The Star-Tribune. "I don't think anybody recognized him."
Love first sported a creepy mustache, tweeting "What do you think of my new haircut?" He opted to get rid of his new look, saying "I couldn't look in the mirror and see my dad every time."
Teammate Ricky Rubio was quick to make a very politically incorrect tweet: "Ok, he doesn't look like a mexican anymore but I think he looks even worst … Here is our superstar."
The injury-riddled Timberwolves (26-38) have two games remaining and Love is hopeful to make a return after missing five games with a neck sprain and concussion. He's averaging 26 points and 13.3 rebounds a game this season.
Reid Cherner has been with USA TODAY since 1982 and written Game On! since March 2008.
He has covered everything from high schools to horse racing to the college and the pros. The only thing he likes more than his own voice is the sound of readers telling him when he's right and wrong.
Michael Hiestand has covered sports media and marketing for USA TODAY, tackling the sports biz ranging from what's behind mega-events such as the Olympics and Super Bowl to the sometimes-hidden numbers behind the sports world's bottom line.


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Cider-Dijon Pork Chops with Roasted Sweet Potatoes and Apples
When you want to show off your weeknight pork chop game, here's how: Use a tangy Dijon mustard sauce and bright tasting fennel.1/12
Grilled, pan-seared, brined: pork chops are a delicious, meaty blank canvas.
When you want to show off your weeknight pork chop game, here's how: Use a tangy Dijon mustard sauce and bright tasting fennel.1/12
Pork chop 101: Never throw out your marinade. Bring it to a boil, then reduce to make a thick sauce.2/12
We're about to flip your notions about browning pork. To get a crisp, brown exterior, flip the meat after each minute of cooking.3/12
Sauce like a boss: reduce balsamic vinegar to make the buttery glaze in this grilled pork chop dish.4/12
Skip extra dishes by using one pan—it's easy to do if you cut the potatoes and shallots into uniform pieces.5/12
If you don't have whole grain mustard, do yourself (and these pork chops) a favor: go out and get some.6/12
Your genius marinades don't have to be fancy: this quick Dijon-herb mixture comes primarily from pantry ingredients. If you can't find fresh marjoram, use oregano.7/12
A 1-inch-thick rib pork chop is just right: big enough to take a commanding spot on the plate, but not a gut-buster. A brine takes only an hour and makes all the difference.8/12
Don't go overboard with accompaniments—use this killer side dish idea: citrus-tossed carrots and dill-tossed wheat berry salad.9/12
Chops, meet avocado. The inspiration for this creamy-meets-crispy recipe comes from poc chuc, a grilled pork dish from Mexico's Yucatán region.10/12
Flattened pork chops=entrees in less than 10 minutes.11/12
Fire up the grill for this mouth watering pork chop: The sugar content in the marinade is too high to pan-fry these pork chops. Serve these lemongrass-rich chops with rice noodles like vermicelli.12/12


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CLLR Fletcher will not get into trouble for confusing reality with the European Union and his shameless use of statistics was roundly debunked over 100 years ago, attributed to both Samuel Clemens and Benjamin Disraeli, the aphorism (and axiom), "there are lies, damned lies, and then there are statistics,"
meaning that any argument promoted this way has no basis in fact.
Also his 'bonus', (from EU membership), of limitless travel within this zone, has been noticed by a comparably limitless number of economic migrants and illegal immigrants.
As regards what 'Priority One' really is paraphrased in the words of the ever irrepressibly rambunctious William Jefferson Clinton: "It is the economy, stupid."
Yet for many in the UK the penny has yet to drop: the reason that the UK's economy is currently doing so well, is specifically down to the fact that we are outside the 'euro' zone, while precisely because they are saddled with the 'single currency', the economies of most of the other countries in the EU eurozone, are not just flatlining, they are sliding into the economic abyss known as 'deflation'.
Whither UK democracy, when MPs elected to the Westminster parliament have their legislative function subordinated to un-elected civil servants in Brussels? Tam Dalyell's 'West Lothian' question writ large or the rallying call of another plan of escape from sterile overarching authority, shortly before 1776 – "no taxation without representation?"
In every way the unelected EU bureaucrats and their unrepresentative coat-tail-riders in the UK need to display a lot more respect for national and international borders.
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More disruption is expected at Farnborough Main railway station this week.
Further works at the station started on Monday (August 4) as part of a £2.8m project from South West Trains to help ease traffic during rush hour.
A new decked car park, providing an additional 243 spaces was built and completed in April, following delays. Many commuters were left inconvenienced by the reduced number of spaces available while works were ongoing.
Now more disruption is expected as the construction of a new access road to the car park gets underway.
The new road will link the Union Street and main station car parks, meaning users won't have to drive out of one to get to the other.
The road will follow the route of the footpath that currently links the two car parks, and a patch of ground has already been cleared to allow the work to begin.
Some changes have been made to the operation of the car parks to allow for construction. Pay and display ticket machines cannot be used so car park users will have to purchase parking tickets at the station ticket office or by the cashless mobile phone service.
The number of car parking spaces available has also been reduced and there will be restricted pedestrian access to and from the main station car park.
A spokesperson for Network Rail said: "We appreciate people's patience while the project continues and look forward to providing them with a more convenient service when the job is done."
The works are expected to take around 10 weeks.


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Hello, and welcome to another week! I tried to do nothing as much as possible last weekend -- I caught up on a bunch of TV, saw a play, wandered the streets, ate noodles, bought a lamp. That pretty much sums it up. It was beautiful.
Some headlines:
- 24 has been canceled. (I think I know what Jack Bauer might say to that ...)
- Mayim Bialik is headed to The Big Bang Theory.
- The Guardian interviews Courtney Love.
- Vanilla Ice has booked a gig at this year's Glastonbury festival.
- Watch the trailer for Micmacs, directed by Amelie's Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
- We have a story about Dakota Fanning's evolution in The Runaways.
- The Broadway revival of The Miracle Worker is closing after it failed to take off. (Abigail Breslin starred.)
- Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet!) talks to TVGuide.com about V's return.
- Gamervision does a great analysis of the Scott Pilgrim trailer.
- Ha, the guy who wrote the screenplay for Battlefield Earth is apologizing for penning the "worst movie of the decade."
- Spinner features 20 outrageous tribute bands.
- Here's a Q&A with the Sex Pistols' Steve Jones, who has returned to the radio.
- Brian K. Vaughan is shopping around a script.
- I love this list of "Nods, Cameos and Easter Eggs in Alan Moore's Top 10 Comics."
- Comics fans are mourning the death of influential editor and artist Dick Giordano.
- Wanna start reading Chris Ware's work? Here's a primer.
- Here's a nice photo gallery of Paul Weller through the years.
- TripAdvisor's Schrute Farms listing is still a hit. (And nice shout-out to my hometown in this story.)
- Here's a very long roundup of 75 movie remakes/reboots in the works.
- Everybody's talking about this Saul Bass-inspired Lost credit sequence.
- And the next time you're depressed, grab a bottle of Hello Kitty wine.
Whitney has been writing about pop culture for USA TODAY since 1999, when Pop Candy began as a weekly column. Her interests include music festivals, mustaches, Lost, comic books and Andy Warhol. She lives in New York City. More about Whitney | E-mail Whitney


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text: On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 12:02 AM, Chris Samuel <csamuel at vpac.org> wrote: > > ----- "Joshua Bernstein" <jbernstein at penguincomputing.com> wrote: > >> Where are we on getting the new public bug tracker up? > > Waiting for CR to purge it, going on Josh @ CR's > email of the 7th I guess.. > > There's 44 open bugs on it at present, mainly Maui > related from what I can see. they should update bugzilla while they are at it. I also had the idea of a TORQUE "community portal". That had info for developers (SVN info, links to bugzilla, etc). Maybe torque.supercluster.org (something outside of the .com TLD). Right now supercluster.org just redirects to clusterresources.com That is if anyone else were interested.


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Release Date: 11/3/1998
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Grant presented at November 3 city council meeting
(San Francisco) -- To help give the city of Montebello an environmental and economic boost, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (U.S.EPA) today awarded the city of Montebello a $191,371 brownfields grant to help in the redevelopment of about 100 acres of industrial land in the southeast corner of the city.
Brownfields are abandoned or under-used industrial or commercial areas where redevelopment is complicated by real or perceived environmental contamination. Property owners, lenders, investors and developers fear that involvement with these sites will make them liable for contamination they did not create.
"The energy and commitment of Montebello to assess these properties and determine their future use can be a key to this community's future," said Keith Takata, U.S. EPA's Superfund director. "This area has the potential to generate a solid economic and employment base for the city."
Montebello's pilot will feature environmental assessments of the industrial properties and community involvement in decisions regarding the contaminated properties. Fear of potential environmental liability has prevented business expansion of the area.
In Region 9, U.S. EPA currently has existing brownfields pilot projects in the cities of Long Beach, Montebello, Los Angeles, West Hollywood, Sacramento, Stockton, East Palo Alto, Emeryville, Richmond, San Francisco, Oakland, Santa Barbara, Pomona, Colton, San Diego, Las Vegas, Tucson and Phoenix. There are also projects in the Navajo Nation in New Mexico, the Hoopa Valley Tribe in Northern California, Tohono O'odham Nation in Arizona, the Ely Shoshone Tribe in Nevada, Alameda County, and the State of California Trade and Commerce Agency. There are 228 brownfields pilot projects nationwide.
The brownfields initiative was launched to empower states, local governments, and other stakeholders in economic redevelopment to work together to assess, clean up, and sustainably reuse these brownfields properties. The initiative also addresses the concerns of prospective developers and lenders concerned about inheriting cleanup liability for property that is contaminated or perceived to be contaminated.
Information on the new brownfields pilot grant awards can be obtained from the U.S. EPA's brownfields home page at: http:// www.epa.gov/brownfields .
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|Consumer-Directed Promotion of Regulated Medical Products; Part 15 Public Hearing
|FDA Comment Number :
|Submitter :
|Mrs. Caralyn Percy
|Date & Time:
|12/09/2005 10:12:52
|Organization :
|Mrs. Caralyn Percy
|Category :
|Drug Industry
|Issue Areas/Comments
| Dear FDA;
The thing I've never really understood is how a campaign can be run in our schools that tells our young people 'DON'T TAKE DRUGS'. And at the same time the drug pushers in white coats and (not so white coats) say 'TAKE THESE MIND ALTERING ANTI-PSYCHOTIC DRUGS WITH SIDE EFFECTS LIKE SUICIDE'.
That 'chemical imbalance' crap is just that. It's a lie. There is no medical test for this marketing ploy. Psychiatrists admit this outright.
Yet they are pushing and selling these drugs in magazines and on line.
Please do your job and prevent these drug pushers in shirts and ties from adding your family members to the growing statistics of 'innocent bystanders' shot and or killed by some 'normal guy' reacting to the side effects of psych drugs.


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By Bruce Horovitz, USA TODAY
Simple is better.
This could be 2010's most powerful marketing mantra.
If 2009's hottest sales pitch was all about buying stuff on the cheap, 2010 marketing will increasingly stress less as more, as in fewer parts, additives or ingredients. While the trend is taking hold in many product categories, including health and beauty items, nowhere is it more apparent than with things we eat and drink.
This may be more marketing magic than reality. How can a product made by Kraft, Campbell's or Dreyer's be made to sound as simply healthy as something made fresh in your kitchen? "One way to spin this is talk about how few ingredients your product contains," says Tom Vierhile, product analyst at researcher Datamonitor.
Companies that offer products with the fewest number of ingredients compared with rivals stand to win big in 2010, says Lynn Dornblaser, trends guru at Mintel. Mintel has tracked decreases this year in the average number of ingredients in 19 product categories including dairy products, processed meats and even pet foods.
Consumers these days not only want to know what's in the stuff they eat and drink — they want to know what's not. In a nation bedeviled by a whirlwind of food scares and mounting worries about the healthiness of a plethora of things commonly used in processed foods, folks increasingly are demanding cleaner food labels: no artificial food colorings (some of which have been linked to hyperactivity in children), no chemical additives (such as MSG) and no chemical preservatives (such as BHA). If they can't pronounce it, consumers don't want it.
The new marketing code word being used to boast about fewer ingredients: simple. From 2005 to 2008, there's been a 64.7% increase in new products using the words "simple" or "simply" in the product or brand name, reports researcher Datamonitor.
In 2010, products that tout simplified labels will be more sought after than those clinging to the formerly hot buzzwords "organic" or "natural," says Dornblaser.
At its simplest, simple sells.
"The food business has always been ingenious at turning any criticism into a new way to sell food to us," says Michael Pollan, author of In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto. The best-selling book popularized the notion of buying only foods with five or fewer ingredients. "As soon as you stress fewer ingredients, you're implying that the food is healthy."
New York University nutrition professor Marion Nestle has long-advised folks to eat mostly minimally processed food: items with ingredients as close to raw — and in their natural state — as is safe. Typically, that also means fewer ingredients. "Any trend towards less processing is good," she says.
But fewer ingredients in high-sugar, high-salt or high-fat items such as ice cream, cookies or chips isn't what she had in mind. When it comes to healthy eating, she is talking about five ingredients in a loaf of bread — not a box of cookies. Simplifying such snack foods "is savvy marketing that consumers are buying right into," Nestle says.
Perhaps that's why Häagen-Dazs launched an ice cream line this year dubbed and marketed as simply Five for its five ingredients — milk, cream, sugar, eggs and one natural flavor, such as mint. Also this summer, Starbucks rejiggered its entire food menu primarily with an eye toward simplifying the items' ingredients. Beech-Nut touts "No Junk" on its new Let's Grow line of toddler foods.
From the marketers' kitchen
Few are talking louder about simplifying ingredients than Häagen-Dazs. But its red-hot Five ice cream line did not come from a breakthrough in its new product lab. Five was born in the marketing department of parent company Dreyer's Grand Ice Cream.
Early in 2008, Ching-Yee Hu, a self-proclaimed foodie and brand manager at the company, observed a consumer focus group meeting that convinced her it was time for Häagen-Dazs to create a line with an absolute minimum of ingredients.
At the gathering in San Francisco, one of Häagen-Dazs' strongest markets, a panelist mentioned that when he shopped recently, he found himself comparing a bag of potato chips that had 20 ingredients with a bag that had three. He said the bag with the short list was the obvious choice.
"As he told this story, I could see all the other consumers in the room nodding their heads in agreement. And I wondered: Why can't we bring ice cream down to the bare minimum?" Hu recalls.
Lots of names were considered for the line, including Simple and Simply Häagen-Dazs. "But if you use the word 'simple,' what does that really mean?" asks Hu. By naming the line Five, "We're forcing ourselves to be true to who we are."
The line rolled out in March with seven flavors. The marketing campaign included an online chat asking folks about the five most essential things they want to do in their lives. The response was so strong that it crashed the servers at Dreyer's within two hours.
Häagen-Dazs also opted to list the ingredients on the front of the package. Although executives won't detail sales, the line already accounts for 10% of the brand's business, says Gulbin Hoeberechts, brand director. The "repeat rates" of first-time buyers coming back to buy the Five line are exceeding the industry average by 30%.
Executives are considering extending the Five line with other sizes and other forms of ice cream.
That suits Joel Vancil, an alarm-monitoring technician from Seattle. Vancil is a big fan of Five. "If you're going to eat ice cream, it might as well not contain all the junk that's usually in ice cream," he says. Vancil and his girlfriend have plowed through about 10 pints of Five's mint flavor since spring. "We have to contain ourselves not to buy more," he says.
Among other familiar food names adding to the trend:
•Starbucks. Five years ago, consumers started asking Starbucks for healthier foods, says Sarah Osmer, director of health and wellness at the chain. Last year, the company began to study in the food lab how to improve quality.
Its banana bread, for example, had been made with 15 ingredients. But food scientists have slimmed that to 10. One way: Stop using banana flavoring. "We can just put more bananas in and do the same job," Osmer says.
When the revamped food line was rolled out earlier this year, baristas handed out samples of the new banana bread along with index cards listing the ingredients. "It's so real, you'd want to make it at home," Osmer says.
This same thinking was applied last year to a Starbucks beverage. Vivanno, the fruit smoothie line, now comes with four ingredients: milk, juice, banana and natural protein fiber powder.
As Häagen-Dazs did for Five, ads for Vivanno listed the ingredients. "In the past it had always been about romancing. Now it's about us telling you exactly what's in it," Osmer says.
•Kraft. At the nation's largest processed-food maker, many products have lots of ingredients. But its Triscuit cracker brand has embraced the less-is-more trend. What's in the box: wheat, salt and oil. This year, it began replacing palm oil with healthier soybean oil. And Triscuit marketing and labeling spell out the specific whole-grain wheat: soft white winter wheat.
"Consumers want all the details you can provide on ingredients," says Jim Low, marketing director at Kraft Foods. "They want us to be more transparent."
Even the package design has been simplified in earth-tone colors.
Something's working. Triscuit had a double-digit sales increase in the second quarter of 2009.
At the same time, the Back to Nature line that Kraft acquired in 2003 continues to limit the ingredients in products. Its Triple Ginger cookie due in January will be about as simple as it can be: whole-grain wheat, cane juice, crystallized ginger, ground ginger and ginger extract. That's it.
"The more specific and less airy we are about ingredients in our food, the more people respond," says Dan Anglemyer, the line's senior brand manager.
•Campbell. Campbell's most popular soup, Chicken Noodle, has a lengthy ingredient list with items such as monosodium glutamate (MSG) and sodium phosphates. But its Select Harvest line limits the number of ingredients — and spells out what each one is.
Campbell spoke with hundreds of Select Harvest's key customers — women over age 35 — and found "they want more transparency and simplicity in the foods they eat," says Sean Connolly, president at Campbell USA.
For example, maltodextrin is found in soups in both its Chunky and Select Harvest lines. For Select Harvest, Campbell provides a simple description of what it is: a carbohydrate from potato or corn starch. It provides no such explanation on Chunky soups.
Also, caramel color is used in some Campbell's soups but not in Select Harvest, because the line does not use artificial colorings.
•Beech-Nut. When Beech-Nut rolled out the Let's Grow toddler foods late last year, it put a "No Junk" promise on the container and in its marketing. That means no added sugars, modified starches or fillers, says Dennis Warner, vice president of marketing.
"We don't put in any ingredients that moms might not know what they mean," he says.
Simple for Fido, too
Even pets aren't immune.
Natura Pet Products makes four premium pet-food lines. Its California Natural dog and cat foods have the shortest ingredient list of any pet food on the market, claims President Don Scott.
For example, its Lamb Meal & Rice dry dog food lists just nine ingredients. By comparison, many dry dog foods include food colorings, artificial preservatives and corn gluten meal as a filler.
California Natural, whose tagline is "pure and simple," is priced at about $40 for a 30-pound bag. Since simplifying the packaging last year — and stressing the short ingredient list — California Natural has become the company's fastest-growing line.
"It's surprised us," says Scott. "And not a lot surprises us here."
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Five Indian Institutes of Science Education and Research (IISERs) were created by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), Government of India, to promote quality education and research in basic science. The first two institutes established under this initiative are IISER Kolkata and IISER Pune in 2006, followed by IISER Mohali in 2007, and IISER Bhopal and IISER Trivandrum in 2008. These are autonomous institutes for higher education and research in science. IISERs are devoted to both teaching and research in an integrated manner – thus nurturing both curiosity and creativity. The mandates have been to teach, motivate, and train students for research in basic science.
The strength of IISER Kolkata (IISER-K) is derived from its talented students, faculty of excellent academic repute, state-of-the-art research facilities, and flexibility of academic program. An important aspect of IISER-K is its interdisciplinary character, as modern science education and research focus on broader perspectives. Keeping this in mind, IISER-K offers BS-MS (5-yr. Integrated Masters) program, involving two years of compulsory exposure to all the science disciplines to study Physics, Chemistry, Mathematics, Biology, and Earth and Planetary Sciences along with introduction to Computer Programming and Electronics, followed by two years of study in a 'major' discipline, and finally one year devoted to research leading to a Masters' thesis. In addition to BS-MS program, IISER-K also has post-BSc Integrated PhD program, 2-yr. MS (by thesis) program for BTech students, as well as post-MSc PhD program. PhD programs are specifically focused on cutting-edge research. Notably, all pre-doctoral students receive stipends to meet their academic expenses. We are very happy that first-batch BS-MS pass outs of IISER-K have booked their places in some of world's best research institutes for advanced studies. We are sure a similar trend will continue.
With 91 regular faculty, 426 pre-doctoral, 130 doctoral, and 05 post-doctoral students IISER-K is vibrant with academic activities. It is a matter of great satisfaction that faculty members have started publishing their research papers in journals of international repute, based on work done at IISER-K. Some of our young faculty members have excelled in research and have been recognized with national and international fellowships/awards. Apart from engaging in scientific activities, students and faculty of IISER-K are also involved in various social and outreach activities. The academic activities of IISER-K are supported by sincere staff members. We all – the members of IISER-K family - feel proud of being a part of this budding institution.
To conclude, for inquisitive young minds looking for a platform for experiencing a fine blend of quality teaching with world-class research in basic science, IISER-K is one of the best institutions to reckon with. Personally, I am humbled and grateful to be a part of this challenging environment of IISER Kolkata.


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New York's Landmarks Preservation Committee on Tuesday voted unanimously to deny landmark status to a building that developers want to convert into an Islamic community center and mosque just two blocks from Ground Zero of the Sept. 11 attacks.
Some, like New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, say, "We would be untrue to the best part of ourselves, and who we are as New Yorkers and Americans, if we said no to a mosque in Lower Manhattan."
While on a strictly legalistic and politically correct basis, that statement may very well be true, the overwhelming majority of Americans, regardless of religion, should see this as an incredibly provocative and in fact offensive attempt to add insult to injury, using our own Constitution and sense of common decency against us.
The location of the proposed site is unabashedly incendiary, basically about a 3-wood from the former WTC site. I mean, you cannot tell me that there aren't thousands of other sites that wouldn't be much better suited to the placing of this new mosque within a few miles of Ground Zero.
The presumably well-funded group seeking to build what proponents plan to call the "Cordoba Mosque" is lead by the imam Feisal Abdul Rauf, Rauf was quoted shortly after the 9/11 attacks as saying "that the United States policies were an accessory to the crime that happened."
Basically saying that America deserved what it got. Now am I not correct in assuming that any Muslim group that truly wished to promote healing would not pick a figurehead with such baggage? Unless of course the funding for this project was being funneled from abroad.
Now if I were a Muslim anywhere in America, I personally would be aghast at the thought of what would be, without a doubt, the main focus of the American media when issues of Islamic relevance arise, being at Ground Zero of 9/11.
If I were a Muslim, I would absolutely cringe when thinking about further inflaming American sensitivities about 9/11, again, everytime anything of Muslim relevance was being discussed.
Those opposing theist for this new mosque know that sometimes common decency and respect for the 3,000 innocent Americans who died on 9/11, trumps the right of followers of the hijackers' Muslim faith, to basically build a memorial to those that perpetrated the before then, unimaginable tragedy and mass murder of 9/11.
While I fully realize that freedom of speech is hardly a cornerstone of many Muslim countries' culture, I find the lack of ANY Islamic group speaking out against this new mosque quite troubling, if not telling.
Build the Cordoba Mosque, just not at Ground Zero! I think that the overwhelming majority of right-minded Americans and moderate Muslims would agree.
But if this is the best nationwide type statement that the Muslim faith can come up with just nine short years after 9/11, I'm left wondering if the term "moderate Muslim" is not an oxymoron.
J. Kurt Roberts can be reached at email@example.com.


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Vegetable Crop Production (HORT 352)
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Course description
Vegetable cultural methods, postharvest handling method and marketing. Special emphasis will be placed on growing crops for market sales. Pre: Hort 262 or consent of the instructor.
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Dr. S. Furutani
Office CAB Rm 101B
Office hrs. by appt.
Phone 933-0852 w/voice mail
Email: email@example.com
Hort 262.
Course Objectives
To introduce students to (1) vegetable production, cultural methods, variety selection, and marketing, and (2) commercial growing operations in Hawaii .
Lecture Topics
- Classification systems used for vegetable crops.
- Production statistics and marketing.
- Climatic requirements of vegetables and the effect of climate on crop growth.
- Cultural practices associated with various
crops with an emphasis on Solanaceous crops, Cucurbits, Legumes, Salad
crops, and Cole crops.
- planting
- fertilization
- pest control (weeds, insects and diesases)
- harvesting
Laboratory Topics
- Student participation in the growing of various crops. Includes land preparation, planting, control pests, fertilization, harvesting.
- Participation in the grading and marketing of vegetable crops. Includes grading, packing and sales.
Any student with a documented disability who would like to request accommodation should contact either the instructor or Student Services as early in the semester as possible.
Guide for Term Paper
Objective: To familiarize the student with obtaining information on crop production and marketing.
Choosing a topic: Topics are confined to vegetable crop production or innovative horticultural practices. Consult with the instructor if you have questions or problems in identifying a topic.
Scope: The paper should review the topic thoroughly. Literature citations are encouraged.
Format: Paper must be type-written and double spaced. Hand-written papers will not be accepted.
The topic should be approached systematically. The outline presented below is an example of an acceptable format:
- Title
- Introduction - Statistics (import vs production)
- biology - climatic - soil requirements.
- origin
- morphology
- Crop Culture
- land preparation
- fertility
- planting and time to harvest
- pest and pest control
- Harvesting
- marketable stage
- method for harvesting crop
- Hawaii's standard of grading
- Post Harvest
- best storage method
- shelf-life
- Common problems in post harvest loss.
- Economics
- Cost of producing the crop
- Seasonal farm price
- income per acre.
- Conclusion
- Literature Cited
Citations: Articles are numerically i.e., (1, 2, 3 etc.) cited in text. Articles are arranged alphabetically by author's last name in Literature Cited. Alphabetically arranged articles are preceeded by corresponding numeral in text.
Example: Text
Seasonal dormancy in ginger maybe induced by photoperiod and temperature (3).
Literature Cited
3. Furutani , S.C. 2004. Seasonal Control of Edible Ginger in Hawaii. Amer. J. Hort. Sci. 301:109-121.
Class policies
- Exams & Quizzes - No make ups will
be given. Exceptions are:
- Medical - Doctor's verification required.
- Family Crisis - arrangements to be prior to exam date.
- Lab Reports: Due at the start of the following lab period.
- Term Paper
- Risk and release forms: All students enrolled will complete the UHH-Risk and Release Form.
- Late assignments. 10% per day late.