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Fellow Members,
I know that the "new management" has done a wonderful job in updating the message boards, but was wondering if anyone else missed the great articles that used to be featured on the homepage. I would diligently check sailnet.com each week for the new featured articles and often cruise into the message board after.
I find that with the lack of new material on the homepage I rarely visit the site even though I am thoroughly impressed with the new board.
If you feel the same please make yourself heard as I know the administrators do keep a close eye on the board.
Thanks to the new management for the enhancements but please work to return a fresh set of articles to the homepage.
Yes, but I would expect those articles (often by leading authors) have to be paid for and that could endanger the budget for the entire operation. Or at least, the profitability of the business.
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Michael Smith is a British author and screenwriter who specializes in spies and espionage. He is a former journalist who obtaining the documents collectively known as the The Downing Street Memos. The Downing Street memo itself was an official record of a meeting of the British war cabinet held in July 2002.[1]It revealed the disclosure by Sir Richard Dearlove, then the head of the British Secret Intelligence Service (MI6), that the intelligence to justify an invasion was being "fixed around the policy". The Downing Street memo was in fact just one of eight documents obtained by Smith which showed that President George W. Bush and Prime Minister Tony Blair agreed in April 2002 to invade Iraq; that they planned to "wrongfoot" Saddam Hussein to give them the excuse to do so; and that they used flights over the southern no-fly zone of Iraq to begin the air war against Iraq in May 2002, with "spikes of activity" which they hoped might provoke Iraq into reacting and giving them the excuse to go to war.
Smith won a British Press Award in 2006 for specialist of the year.[2] The award was for his work in revealing the Downing Street memo.
Smith obtained the first six of the eight Downing St Memos while working for the Daily Telegraph. The second set of two documents, including the Downing Street memo itself, were obtained while he was working for the Sunday Times. He has also worked for the BBC and contributed to The Raw Story and New Statesman. Smith has authored a number of books, including the UK Number 1 bestseller Station X: The Codebreakers of Bletchley Park (1998). This was subsequently televised and updated in 2011 as The Secrets of Station X: How the Bletchley Park Codebreakers Helped Win the War. Other books by Smith include Killer Elite: The Inside Story of America's Most Secret Special Operations Team (2006), which was updated in May 2011 to include the first accurate account of the killing of Osama bin Laden. His book Foley: The Spy Who Saved 10,000 Jews (1999), led to Frank Foley, the MI6 head of station in Berlin during the 1930s being made Righteous Among the Nations, the highest award the Jewish state can award to a gentile. According to Jewish aid workers, Foley saved "tens of thousands" of Jews from the Holocaust, giving them visas and passports to which they were not entitled, going into the concentration camps to get Jews out, and in the period after Kristallnacht in November 1938, hiding five or six Jews in his home every night.
Before becoming a full-time author, Smith was the Defence Correspondent at the Sunday Times and before that the Daily Telegraph. Prior to becoming a newspaper journalist, he worked for BBC Monitoring. Smith was previously a member of the British Army and worked in intelligence operations. He is currently working on a novel and a three-part history of MI6 entitled: SIX: A History of Britain's Secret Intelligence Service. The first part, entitled: SIX: The Real James Bonds, 1909-1939, was published by Biteback in July 2010. His most recent book is Britain's "Secret War 1939-45: How Espionage, Codebreaking and Covert Operations Helped Win the War.
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museumofmodernerotica said: Maybe this is a crazy question, but how did Europeans know what Africans looked like? I know that some of the paintings here are of North Africans/Middle Easterners, but others clearly depict people born south of the Sahara. I've heard of Prester John but I never imagined that medieval Europeans were aware that Prester John would have had brown skin. Am I missing something?
Like. There are a lot of things I could say here. But I'm just going to do my best to answer your question, and the answer is either very simple or very complicated, depending on your current point of view.
1. "They" knew what people with brown skin looked like because people with brown skin had been there literally THE ENTIRE TIME. Some (and father back, ALL) of "them" had brown skin themselves.
2. "People with Brown Skin" and "Europeans" are not separate and mutually exclusive groups.
3. No matter how far back you go, the mythical time that you're looking for, when all-white, racially and culturally isolated Europe was "real", will continue to recede from your grasp until it winkles out the like imaginary place it is.
We can just keep going back. In every area, from all walks of life, rich and poor, kings and peasants, artists and iconoclasts, before there were countries and continents, before there were white people.
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The time when "EVERYONE" in Europe was White does not exist. They knew what people with brown skin looked like because they were there. They knew what "Africans" looked like because they were there, and they weren't "they", they were us, or you. I think what you're missing is something that never existed.
That is wrong. Black people in Europe came from Africa. You are forgetting that people traveled long distances even in Antiquity. There are no, and there never were indigenous black people in Europe.
And half of pictures posted are not really black people.
I just can't argue with the exactly zero sources you provided for those statements. We all have to go home now.
This specifically refers to a hand striking the side of a person's face, tells quite a different story when placed in it's proper historical context. In Jesus's time, striking someone of a lower class ( a servant) with the back of the hand was used to assert authority and dominance. If the persecuted person "turned the other cheek," the discipliner was faced with a dilemma. The left hand was used for unclean purposes, so a back-hand strike on the opposite cheek would not be performed. Another alternative would be a slap with the open hand as a challenge or to punch the person, but this was seen as a statement of equality. Thus, by turning the other cheek the persecuted was in effect putting an end to the behavior or if the slapping continued the person would lawfully be deemed equal and have to be released as a servant/slave.
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I can attest to the original poster's comments. A few years back I took an intensive seminar on faith-based progressive activism, and we spent an entire unit discussing how many of Jesus' instructions and stories were performative protests designed to shed light on and ridicule the oppressions of that time period as a way to emphasize the absurdity of the social hierarchy and give people the will and motivation to make changes for a more free and equal society.
For example, the next verse (Matthew 5:40) states "And if anyone wants to sue you and take your shirt, hand over your coat as well." In that time period, men traditionally wore a shirt and a coat-like garment as their daily wear. To sue someone for their shirt was to put them in their place - suing was generally only performed to take care of outstanding debts, and to be sued for one's shirt meant that the person was so destitute the only valuable thing they could repay with was their own clothing. However, many cultures at that time (including Hebrew peoples) had prohibitions bordering on taboo against public nudity, so for a sued man to surrender both his shirt and his coat was to turn the system on its head and symbolically state, in a very public forum, that "I have no money with which to repay this person, but they are so insistent on taking advantage of my poverty that I am leaving this hearing buck-ass naked. His greed is the cause of a shameful public spectacle."
All of a sudden an action of power (suing someone for their shirt) becomes a powerful symbol of subversion and mockery, as the suing patron either accepts the coat (and therefore full responsibility as the cause of the other man's shameful display) or desperately chases the protester around trying to return his clothes to him, making a fool of himself in front of his peers and the entire gathered community.
Additionally, the next verse (Matthew 5:41; "If anyone forces you to go one mile, go with them two miles.") was a big middle finger to the Romans who had taken over Judea and were not seen as legitimate authority by the majority of the population there. Roman law stated that a centurion on the march could require a Jew (and possibly other civilians as well, although I don't remember explicitly) to carry his pack at any time and for any reason for one mile along the road (and because of the importance of the Roman highway system in maintaining rule over the expansive empire, the roads tended to be very well ordered and marked), however hecould not require any service beyond the next mile marker. For a Jewish civilian to carry a centurion's pack for an entire second mile was a way to subvert the authority of the occupying forces. If the civilian wouldn't give the pack back at the end of the first mile, the centurion would either have to forcibly take it back or report the civilian to his commanding officer (both of which would result in discipline being taken against the soldier for breaking Roman law) or wait until the civilian volunteered to return the pack, giving the Judean native implicit power over the occupying Roman and completely subverting the power structure of the Empire. Can you imagine how demoralizing that must have been for the highly ordered Roman armies that patrolled the region?
Jesus was a pacifist, but his teachings were in no way passive. There's a reason he was practically considered a terrorist by the reigning powers, and it wasn't because he healed the sick and fed the hungry.
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Post harvest technology is inter-disciplinary "Science and Technique" applied to agricultural produce after harvest for its protection, conservation, processing, packaging, distribution, marketing, and utilization to meet the food and nutritional requirements of the people in relation to their needs. It has to develop in consonance with the needs of each society to stimulate agricultural production; prevent post-harvest losses, improve nutrition and add value to the products. In this process, it must be able to generate employment, reduce poverty and stimulate growth of other related economic sectors. The process of developing of post harvest technology and its purposeful use needs an inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional approach, which must include, scientific creativity, technological innovations, commercial entrepreneurship and institutions capable of inter-disciplinary research and development all of which must respond in an integrated manner to the developmental needs.
Importance of Post-harvest technology lies in the fact that it has capability to meet food requirement of growing population by eliminating avoidable losses making more nutritive food items from low grade raw commodity by proper processing and fortification, diverting portion of food material being fed to cattle by way of processing and fortifying low grade food and organic wastes and by-products into nutritive animal feed. Post-harvest technology has potential to create rural industries. In India, where 80 percent of people live in the villages and 70 percent depend on agriculture have experienced that the process of industrialization has shifted the food, feed and fibre industries to urban areas. This process has resulted in capital drain from rural to urban areas, decreased employment opportunities in the rural areas, balance of trade in favour of urban sector and mismatched growth in economy and standard of living including the gap between rural and urban people. It is possible to evolve appropriate technologies, which can establish agricultural based rural industries.
The purpose of post harvest processing is to maintain or enhance quality of the products and make it readily marketable. Prime example of post harvest processing of agricultural products is rice, a major crop in India. Paddy is harvested and processed into rice. Experiments with paddy crop in farmer's field in India have shown that if the crop is harvested at 20 to 22 per cent moisture as traditionally done, the field yield is increased by 10 to 20 percent. Similar is the case with respect to wheat, jowar and other crops.
Post Harvest Losses
Due to old and outdated method of paddy milling, improper and inefficient methods of storage of paddy, rice, transport and handling we lose about nine percent of production. It is estimated that ten percent of food grains produced in India are lost in processing and storage. The traditional methods of storage are responsible for about six percent losses. If better methods of processing and storage are adopted, the losses could be reduced to 2 to 3 percent and more food grains could be available to the people. It is estimated that 10-15 percent of horticultural crop such as vegetables and fruits perish due to lack of proper methods of processing and storing. The loss in monetary term is estimated to be about Rs.20 crores annually.
Proper methods of processing, storage, packaging, transport and marketing are required for export of crops such as jute, tea, cashew nuts, tobacco, mango, litchi, nut, spices and condiments. One of the attributes to this post harvest system, as it is now constituted, is the large amount of wastage it involves. In case of food grains, some estimates suggest that in developing countries as much as 1/4th to 1/3rd of total crop may be lost as a result of inefficiencies in the post harvest system.
Losses of food crops refer to many different kinds of loss produced by a variety of factors. These include weight loss, loss of food values, loss of economic value, loss of quality or acceptability and actual loss of seeds themselves.
Priorities and Strategies
The priority areas in food processing are,
(i) Processing of special fruits and nuts like, banana, litchi, mango, pineapple, makhana etc. and canning and storage facility for the above produce.
(ii) Large scale introduction of mini rice mill in villages and mandies coupled with semi-modern parboiling plant for paddy to have higher head rice recovery with better quality bran. Oil production from bran with a chain of collection mechanism for supplying raw material for the plant.
(iii) More emphasis on the use of power Ghani or expeller in place of Kolhu for higher recovery.
(iv) Establishment of dal mills in pulse growing belt as a village cooperative programme.
(v) Emphasis on cottage industry involving village women for the manufacture of food products.
(vi) Popularization of low cost engineering storage structures.
(vi) Starch production from maize and potato and simultaneous oil production from maize.
(vii) Strengthening of research base with adequate financial support.
(viii) Emphasis on production of value added products from locally available fruits and vegetables.
There are many other areas of processing aspects which should be given priority. Once the processing, research and industry programme picks up many other outlets shall come up automatically. Processing industry has very good employment potential.
Post Harvest Industries
The post harvest industry includes the following main components
Harvesting and threshing
Drying and storage
Processing (conservation and / or transformation of the produce)
Utilization by consumer including home processing.
Other components of the system include.
Transportation and distribution.
Grading and quality control.
Pest control.
Communication among all concerned.
Information, demonstration and advisory systems.
Manufacture and supply of essential equipment and machinery.
Financial control.
Price stabilization
Management and integration of the total system.
Potential of Income and Employment Generation through Post Harvest Operations
Use of appropriate post harvest technology reduces the post harvest and storage losses; adds value to the product, generate employment in village and reestablishes agro-industries in rural sector. Presently, the farmers sell their products without processing. If they do primary processing and value addition in the villages, it will generate more income and employment in rural sector. The processing of food, feed, fibre, oilseeds and sugarcane will generate enough employment in rural areas. If an agro processing center is established in each big village or a cluster of small villages for primary processing, it will generate employment to about 4-5 persons and will increase income of the farmer/processor by about 15-20 percent. Use of proper post harvest technology of perishables and semi-perishables will reduce the wastage to great extent.
Potential of Income and Employment Generation in other Areas
Besides potential for income and employment generation in crop production and post harvest sector, there is a great potential of income and employment generation in allied sectors also by using Agricultural Engineering Technology. They are
1. Animal production - Fodder, boiling, briquething, palleting, - Poultry feed Industry.
2. Fish Production - Improved hatchery, production and transport of fish seed fingerlings etc.
3. Dairying - Processing of milk and making dairy products.
4. Energy management in agriculture - Efficient use of biomass, wind and solar energy.
5. Wasteland development - Conservation of wasteland, afforestation, management of trees and grasses.
6. Agro-forestry.
7. Watershed Management.
Action taken to tap the Potential
In order to take advantage of agricultural engineering technology for generating income and employment in rural areas following actions are suggested.
1. Bringing awareness amongst the rural people about the new developments in agricultural engineering technology in different fields.
2. Organizing training programmes for the farmers/agricultural laboures / entrepreneurs about the use of new technology.
3. Mass production of different types of agricultural machinery for farmers/entrepreneurs.
4. Starting agro - processing centers in each village for primary processing of food grains, fruits and vegetables.
5. Providing institutional credit for the purchase of agrl. machinery and starting agro-processing centres.
6. Developing market network for purchase/supply of processed material from agro-processing centers.
7. Developing proper network and infrastructures for popularization of agricultural machinery for crop production, and setting up agro-processing centers.
Packaging Techniques for Fruits and Vegetables
India is a land of large varieties of fruits and vegetables due to its vast soil and climatic diversity. With 38 and 71 million tons of production of fruits and vegetables, India is the second largest producer of fruits and vegetables next to Brazil and China respectively. It is also a matter of concern that there is a wide gap between availability and the per capita nutritional requirement of fruits. The low availability of quality fruits & vegetables is mainly due to considerably high post harvest losses, poor transportation facilities, improper storage and low processing capacity coupled with the growing population. Around 20-30% losses take place during harvesting, grading, packaging, transportation and marketing of fruits.
The fruits of increased production of fruits and vegetables and other agricultural produce will be realized only when they reach the consumer in good condition and at a reasonable price. The existing post harvest loss of fruits and vegetables could be considerably reduced by adopting improved packaging, handling and efficient system of transport. Packaging of fruits and vegetables is undertaken primarily to assemble the produce in convenient units for marketing and distribution.
Requirements of Packaging
The package must stand up to long distance transportation, multiple handling, and the climate changes of different storage places, transport methods and market conditions. In designing fruit packages one should consider both the physiological characteristics of the fruit as well as the whole distribution network.
The package must be capable of
Protecting the product from the transport hazards.
Preventing the microbial and insect damage and
Minimizing the physiological and biochemical changes and losses in weight.
The present packaging systems for fresh vegetables in our country is unsuitable and unscientific. The uses of traditional forms of packages like bamboo baskets are still prevalent. The other types of packages generally used are wooden boxes and gunnysacks. The use of corrugated fiberboard boxes is limited. The use of baskets besides being unhygienic also does not allow adequate aeration and convenience of easy handling and stocking. Considering the long term needs of eco-systems and to achieve an overall economy, other alternatives available like corrugated fibre board boxes, corrugated polypropylene board boxes, plastic trays / crates / wooden sacks, moulded pulp trays / thermoformed plastic trays and stretched film and shrink wrapping would have to be considered.
Modern packages for fresh fruits and vegetables are expected to meet a wide range of requirements, which may be summarized as follows.
The packages must have sufficient mechanical strength to protect the contents during handling, transport and while sacked.
The construction material must not contain chemicals, which would transfer to the produce and cause toxic to it or to humans.
The package must meet handling and marketing in terms of weight, size and shape.
The packages should allow rapid coding of the contents.
The security of the package or its ease of opening and closing might be important in some marketing situations.
The package should identify its contents.
The package must be required to aid retail presentation.
The package might need to be designed for ease of disposal, reuse or recycling.
The cost of the package should be as less as possible.
Packaging may or may not delay or prevent fresh fruits and vegetables from spoiling. However, incorrect packaging will accelerate spoilage. Packaging should serve to protect against contamination, damage and excess moisture loss.
Packaging Materials in Use
A great variety of materials are used for the packing of perishable commodities. They include wood, bamboo, rigid and foam plastic, solid cardboard and corrugated fibre board. The kind of material or structure adopted depends on the method of perforation, the distance to its destination, the value of the product and the requirement of the market.
1. CFBC Boxes
Corrugated fiberboard is the most widely used material for fruit & vegetable packages because of the following characteristics:
o Light in weight
o Reasonably strong
o Flexibility of shape and size
o Easy to store and use
o Good pointing capability
o Economical
2. Wooden Boxes
Materials used for manufacture of wooden boxes include natural wood and industrially manufactured wood based sheet materials.
3. Sacks
Sacks are traditionally made of jute fibre or similar natural materials. Most jute sacks are provided in a plain weave. For one tonne transportation of vegetables, materials of 250 grams per square meter or less are used. Natural fibre sacks have in many cases been replaced by sacks made of synthetic materials and paper due to cost factors, appearance, mechanical properties and risk of infestation and spreading of insects. Sacks made of polypropylene of type plain weave are extensively used for root vegetables. The most common fabric weight is 70-80 grams per square meter.
Pallets are widely used for the transport of fruit & vegetable packages, in all developed countries.
The advantages of handling packages on pallets are:
o Labour cost in handling is greatly reduced.
o Transport cost is reduced.
o Goods are protected and damage reduced.
o Mechanized handling is very rapid.
o Through high stacking, storage space can be more efficiently used.
o Pallets encourage the introduction of standard package sizes.
Ventilation of Packages
Reduction of moisture loss from the product is a principal requirement of limited permeability packaging materials. A solution to moisture loss problems from produce appeared with the development and wide distribution of semi permeable plastic films. Airflow through the ventilation holes allows hot fruit or vegetable to slowly cool and avoid the buildup of heat produced by the commodity in respiration. Holes are also important in cooling the fruit when the packages are placed in a cold storage, especially with forced air-cooling. Ventilation holes improve the dispersal of ethylene produced.
Cushioning Materials
The function of cushioning materials is to fix the commodities inside the packages and prevent them from mixing about in relation to each other and the package itself, when there is a vibration or impact. Some cushioning materials can also provide packages with additional stacking strength. The cushioning materials used vary with the commodity and may be made of wrapping papers, fibreboard (single or double wall), moulded paper pulp trays, moulded foam polystyrene trays, moulded plastic trays, foam plastic sheet, plastic bubble pads, fine shredded wood, plastic film liners or bags.
Controlled and Modified Atmospheric Packaging (CAP and MAP)
The normal composition of air is 78% Nitrogen, 21% Oxygen, 0.03% Carbon dioxide and traces of other noble gases. Modified atmosphere packaging is the method for extending the shelf-life of perishable and semi-perishable food products by altering the relative proportions of atmospheric gases that surround the produce. Although the terms Controlled Atmosphere (CA) and Modified Atmosphere (MA) are often used interchangeably a precise difference exists between these two terms.
Controlled Atmosphere (CA)
This refers to a storage atmosphere that is different from the normal atmosphere in its composition, wherein the component gases are precisely adjusted to specific concentrations and maintained throughout the storage and distribution of the perishable foods. Controlled atmosphere relies on the continuous measurement of the composition of the storage atmosphere and injection of the appropriate gases or gas mixtures into it, if and when needed. Hence, the system requires sophisticated instruments to monitor the gas levels and is therefore practical only for refrigerated bulk storage or shipment of commodities in large containers.
If the composition of atmosphere in CA system is not closely controlled or if the storage atmosphere is accidentally modified, potential benefit can turn into actual disaster. The degree of susceptibility to injury and the specific symptoms vary, not only between cultivars, but even between growing areas for the same cultivars and between years for a given location. With tomatoes, excessively low O2 or high CO2 prevents proper ripening even after removal of the fruit to air, and CA enhances the danger of chilling injury.
Modified Atmospheric Packaging (MAP)
Unlike CAPs, there is no means to control precisely the atmospheric components at a specific concentration in MAP once a package has been hermetically sealed.
Modified atmosphere conditions are created inside the packages by the commodity itself and / or by active modification. Commodity generated or passive MA (Modified Atmosphere) is evolved as a consequence of the commoditys respiration. Active modification involves creating a slight vacuum inside the package and replacing it with a desired mixture of gases, so as to establish desired EMA (Equilibrated Modified Atmosphere) quickly composed to a passively generated
Another active modification technique is the use of carbon dioxide or ethyl absorbers (scavengers) within the package to prevent the build-up of the particular gas within the package. This method is called active packaging. Compounds like hydrated lime, activated charcoal, magnesium oxide are known to absorb carbon dioxide while iron powder is known as a scavenger to carbon dioxide. Potassium permanganate and phenyl methyl silicone can be used to absorb ethylene within the packages. These scavengers can be held in small sachets within the packages or impregnated in the wrappers or into porous materials like vermiculite. For the actively respiring commodities like fruits and vegetables, the package atmosphere should contain oxygen and carbon dioxide at levels optimum to the particular commodity. In general, MA containing between 2-5% oxygen and 3.8% carbon dioxide have shown to extend the shelf life of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables.
If the shelf life of a commodity at 20-25C is one day, then by employing MAP, it will get doubled, whereas refrigeration can extend the shelf life to 3, and refrigeration combined with MAP can increase it to four days. Few types of films are routinely used for MAP. The important ones are polyvinyl chloride, (PVC), polystyrene, (PS), polyethylene (PE) and polypropylene (PP). The recent developments in co-extrusion technology have made it possible to manufacture films with designed transmission rates of oxygen.
Vacuum packaging
Vacuum packaging offers an extensive barrier against corrosion, oxidation, moisture, drying out, dirt, attraction of dust by electric charge, ultra violet rays and mechanical damages, fungus growth or perishability etc. This technology has commendable relevance for tropical countries with high atmospheric humidity.
In vacuum packaging, the product to be packed is put in a vacuum bag (made of special, hermetic fills) that is then evacuated in a vacuum chamber and then sealed hermetically in order to provide a total barrier against air and moisture. If some of the product cannot bear the atmospheric pressure due to vacuum inside the package then the packages are flushed with inert gases like Nitrogen and CO2 after evacuation.
Edible Packaging
An edible film or coating is simply defined as a thin continuous layer of edible material formed on, placed on, or between the foods or food components. The package is an integral part of the food, which can be eaten as a part of the whole food product. Selection of material for use in edible packaging is based on its properties to act as barrier to moisture and gases, mechanical strength, physical properties, and resistance to microbial growth. The types of materials used for edible packaging include lipids, proteins and polysaccharides or a combination of any two or all of these. Many lipid compounds, such as animal and vegetable fats, acetoglycerides have been used in the formulation of edible packaging for fresh produces because of their excellent moisture barrier properties. Lipid coatings on fresh fruits and vegetables reduce weight losses due to dehydration during storage by 40-70 per cent. Research and development effort is required to develop edible films and coatings that have good packaging performance besides being economical.
Improved packaging will become more essential in India as International trade expands after globalization. Standardized packaging of sized and graded produce that will protect the quality during marketing can greatly aid transactions between sellers and buyers. Better packaging should be of immediate value in reducing waste. Much background research on packaging of perishable products and flowers is needed simulating the actual handling conditions expected during marketing.
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After harvest the biological produce can be either preserved or processed. Value addition is a terminology used to define the processing of biological produce. Through processing the value of the commodities can be increased by converting it to different products by using conventional or modern processing techniques, thereby the storage life of the produce is enhanced.
Value added products
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Brittana become regulars and Heather Morris talks "Glee"
First things first, you totally saw that little moment between Brittany and Santana on Glee last night, right? The pinky holding. The head resting. Oh, girls – you're killing us, killing us.
And then there's the Brittana news. We've got some good and some bad, so take your pick. Fine, good news first. According to Entertainment Weekly, Naya Rivera and Heather Morris, who play our favorite possibly gay, definitely sleeping together Cheerios Santana and Brittany, are being upgraded to series regulars.
This is fantastic news and means we can look forward to more in-depth discussions about how dolphins are gay sharks, cats are reading your diary and ballads are male ducks. Also, with any luck, we'll progress pass pinky holding into something a little more substantive.
Which brings us to the bad-ish news. Heather Morrison (adorably nicknamed HeMo), spoke with The Advocate recently and spilled a little on the prospects for a full-blown Brittana relationship on the show.
On the first time she read the now-famous "sex is not dating" scene:
I asked Ryan Murphy about it too. We were like, what does this mean for Brittany and Santana? [Laughs] Because Naya and I are best friends off-camera too, and we're always together, so that's always sort of been a joke with the writers. But I think it's great.
I know some younger girls go through confusion, and I had friends who weren't sure about their sexuality at that age. So even if it's never spoken about directly, it's great if someone can relate to that. I'm glad Ryan Murphy touched on it a bit for people who might be struggling with that.
On whether the writers are teasing or if the pairing will pay off:
I'm with you because I'm always anticipating getting a script that's going to be about our love story line, but I don't think I ever will. Brittany and Santana are just best friends, and you know how sometimes best friends tickle each others' arms and hold pinkies?
On if we'll ever see a Brittana makeout session:
I don't think so. I asked Ryan about that and he said there was no way. He said that since we're a prime-time television show, he didn't want to do that.
Boo! No makeout session just because it's primetime? That's so 1997. Think of all the primetime lesbian makeouts since Ellen's chaste coming out. Just off the top of my head we've got Kerry and Kim on ER in 2000, Willow and Tara on Buffy the Vampire Slayer in 2001, Marissa and Alex on The O.C. in 2004, Callie and Erica on Grey's Anatomy in 2008, Callie and Arizona on Grey's Anatomy in 2009, Katherine and Robin on Desperate Housewives in 2010. Shall I go on?
Grumbling aside, Heather doesn't shut the door entirely on the possibility of seeing some Brittana action, saying "We'll see what happens." She also spreads some interesting insight into how she sees the Brittany-Santana relationship dynamic. She told The Advocate:
It's like Brittany's a lost puppy dog and Santana's her owner, so she follows Santana around and does whatever she tells her to do because she doesn't know how to do things for herself. Naya and I have talked about their relationship, and we do think Brittany's just dumb and crazy about Santana, like, "I'm her best friend and I love her so much!"
Oh, girl, we've all been crazy about someone like that in high school or otherwise. We all know where that leads. Did you ever see All Over Me? "Everyone knows I'm your dog," much? Perhaps if it doesn't work out with Santana, Brittany should find her own pink-haired Leisha Hailey.
Heather, who started as a dancer and famously backed up Beyonce on tour, expressed her love for her gay fans in the interview, saying most of her guy friends growing up were gay. I think it's safe to say after the Brittana subtext, she'd be able to make tons of female gay friends as well.
But instead of leaving on the somewhat sour note of no kissing for our Cheerios, how about another little bit of awesome. Did you know that Heather was the one wearing the cone bra in last week's "Vogue" number. Yeah, that's her bump and grinding like the Material Girl herself. Hello.
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Joseph Donald Walsh Jr., better known as Donnie Walsh (born March 1, 1941 in New York City) is a former professional basketball coach, and former president of basketball operations for the New York Knicks.
Walsh was born in Manhattan, then attended Fordham Preparatory School in The Bronx, New York. Walsh played college basketball at the University of North Carolina for coaches Frank McGuire and Dean Smith and was selected by the Philadelphia Warriors in the NBA draft, but never played in the NBA. Walsh earned both a bachelor's degree and a law degree at UNC. He turned down opportunities to practice law in order to coach basketball.
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Chad Johnson patted his lawyer's ass in court Monday as a sign of respect ... so claims the tapee, attorney Adam Swickle.
Swickle filed legal docs -- just obtained by TMZ -- in which he pleads with the judge to reconsider her decision to throw out Chad's plea deal and throw him in the slammer for 30 days -- all because she believed the former NFLer disrespected the court with the tap.
In the legal docs, Chad's lawyer says "Mr. Johnson has been a professional football player in the National Football League for eleven (11) years and patting another individual on the backside is viewed as a sign of respect and gratitude."
Swickle also noted that Chad was goaded into finding some form of compliment by the judge herself, who told him to thank his lawyer.
As for the judge's outrage that people in the court were laughing at the ass tap ... Swickle says, "This is not Mr. Johnson's fault and he should not be punished for the actions of third parties."
Swickle says the 30-day jail sentence is "somewhat excessive" and is asking the judge to reconsider. A hearing is set for Monday. Until then ... it's pokey time for Chad.
Alot of idiots deffending this douchebag
Then i hope your shown alot of respect during your lockdown turd....
holy crap, i just noticed his attorney is white. lawyer should wait three days then file a civil suit against the turd for sexual battery, emotional distress, mental anguish, public humiliation, etc. Then top it off by throwin the old race card at him on the way out..
We need a tough Judge like this to punish that scanc Lindsay Lohan.
Adam Swickle the Florida Attorney who thinks Jodi Arias is innocent of Slaughtering her Boyfriend? Good to know that he has trouble handling a Simple Plea Agreement.
harvey, i'm Jonesin for another Paris Klein Jackson story....
Yeah she definitely overreacted. Make it right biatch
I am not a fan of this man but really? This was such BS to go to jail for!! The judge didn't have a problem with him slapping the wife but catches feeling over this?!?
If there hadn't been an audience in the courtroom and he did that she wouldn't have even cared that it happened.
They'll be no respect in her court room!!!!!!
She wont stand for that. Off with his head!!!!!
The judge acted rashly and emotionally. The punishment does not fit the crime at all. She needs to reconsider stat.
The judge acted rashly and emotionally. The punishment does not fit the crime at all. She needs to reconsider stat.
The judge overreacted. But Chad belongs in jail and I hope Chris Brown gets this judge next.
This is what happens when you give a women to much power. She allows her emotions to interfere with her judgement. I think she was just jealous that Chad wasn't tapping her ass instead? Jungle Fever!
He's not in the NFL anymore and the judge wasn't presiding on a football field. He was in a courtroom and if he can't tell the difference, then I hope he takes some GED courses while he's in jail. If a drag queen had said 'Work bitch' to the judge, does anyone think their lawyer could say 'Well, in the drag world, that's a form of respect' and have anyone accept that as a reasonable answer? It doesn't matter what you used to do for a living or what is considered a sign of respect there. He was in a courtroom and his actions were disrespectful. He was also disrespectful when he willingly didn't follow the rules of his probation. I hope his dumb ass stays locked up.


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I'm not adverse to picking up the Rokinon 24 if it is actually good for this type of shot. The problem is I understand it can be soft, and I'm not sure what use I would have for it besides night shots, where the 24L I could see myself using more.Wrong Rokinon lens. Get the 14mm f/2.8, generally considered one of the best astro lenses out there. It's got a hard-stop for infinity, and the f/2.8 is plenty at that focal length. Honest truth is many lenses are not great for night work, as they are designed for other purposes. There's only a small handful of lenses that are ideal, and that Rokinon is the cheapest.
Night photography needs 3 key things
1. Dark skies (way away from cities, you can see here: http://www.jshine.net/astronomy/dark_sky/). No combo of high ISO and f/1.4 will make up for light pollution.
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First Kiss
It was Robby. Beautiful Robby whose house we lived in – in the upstairs apartment in their Victorian farmhouse in the city. Robby whose family raised geese. Terribly mean, knee-biting geese. Robby who was at times as mean as that one goose, particularly that time he herded the goose towards me so that when I began to run away, the chased me across the yard. Robby laughing at me running in my patent leather church shoes, screaming in terror of this giant white creature whose wing span was wider than my stride, who stood almost as tall as me at five years old. Robby who dropped the boulder from the back step reconstruction right on my bare foot, permanently disfiguring three of my toes so that the nails really don't like to take polish even now, thirty-eight years later, Robby so long dead it seems a dream remembering any of this.
I think he was my first kiss. That's the narrative I've told myself – I think I've told it all my life, but maybe I started telling it after Robby wrote his note to me about the voices in his head the day he took his bed pillow and a gun and walked into the patch of woods across the street from his house. Maybe it was after I found out about how he stretched out in the dry leaves and put the barrel in his mouth and the pillow over his face and pulled the trigger.
Maybe I blocked out any other potential first kiss for this kiss, the one that he set down on my lips that time his mom was babysitting me, long after we had moved into our own house in another town. His bunk bed was tucked in the corner of our old kitchen, the paint the same yellow, and the pantry turned into some sort of laboratory where he kept his bugs, and frogs, and feathers, and stones, and lists of things he knew, and things he wanted to know.
He slept on the top bunk and I slept on the bottom. He had tucked a baseball card and a marble into the springs of the top mattress, just above my pillow. I was nine or ten, he eleven or twelve. Did he kiss me then? Or was it earlier in the evening? I think it was then, when I saw the tokens in the springs and I asked are these for me and he swung his torso over the edge of the mattress, his blonde hair flipping across his forehead then popping straight down towards the floor, and he gave me a quick kiss that I think I can still feel, then disappeared again.
Thursday Theme: Making Progress
Inch by inch, right? Task by task. I'm making tremendous progress with my soon-to-be business partner every single day. We're watching the to-do list grow, but also watching the items receive a cross-out, one at a time. At least one item a day, sometimes a dozen or more.
That's the key – doing something on that list every single day, no matter what I feel like, no matter how overwhelmed I am by everything I've heaped onto this life-transition platter. Things are shifting quickly now as I take action, the world around me reacts to push me along in the right direction. So often in the past when I've attempted something like this, it felt as if everything around me reacted negatively, pushing back against me, pushing me away from my goal. That is not happening this time. It's like watching a huge jigsaw puzzle coming together on the table in front of me.
For more than 20 years I have dreamed of having a career working within the local food movement, and over the last seven years, I've taken steps that have brought me into the fold. Now I'm ready to go all-in with everything I've got - I must before I'm too old to take on such a huge undertaking. I need to do it while I still have enough energy to put in the many hours it will take to make it a success.
Tomorrow we meet with our regional small business association to go over the plan in detail and talk about financing options. The counselor already looked at the plan and said our numbers look realistic for a downtown food establishment, especially in light of the two big businesses that are moving into the new downtown corporate spaces within the year. All of the food businesses are seeing a lot more customers in the past year with all of the development going on downtown. We're doing this at the perfect time and we're doing it in a smart and practical way.
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This product was terrible for me. it did not control oil at all and no matter how many layers of this i put on, it did not give me the slightest bit of coverage. I didn't expect a lot from this but it was even lower than my low expectation. I only used it twice. Once - to try it, and twice- to give it another chance. I will not ever repurchase this.
To put it simply, this product sucks. I got oily after an hour and it cakes up. It really does nothing for shine and no coverage either. Not wanting to waste, I used it til I hit pan and then gave up on it.
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After using this for a while I noticed the finishing powder did nothing that any ordinary finishing powder did, it just matched my foundation type.
Its not worth the about $10 you spend on it when you could be buying cheaper ones that do the same maybe better!
Packaging is poor Ive dropped one and it completely shattered, the tops are very loose.
I have some mad oily skin, ladies... I'm talking the BP Oil Spill over here. And on top of my greasy skin, I have moderate acne. My acne is hereditary, and nothing really breaks me out.
I used to use the Revlon Colorstay liquid foundation in addition to this setting powder, but I really DON'T like that foundation. Therefore, I used this powder with whatever other foundation I randomly found that could keep me oil free for 2 or 3 hours (yeah, my oil is that bad). I can't say that I know how this press powder would do on top of my new holy grail liquid foundation (Make Up For Ever Mat Velvet Plus <3) but I will say that I think Revlon's Colorstay Presser Powder Foundation was one of the best drugstore powders I've ever used. It covered my acne very well and held up for a few hours before I started getting oily (which I think was from the liquid foundation rather than the powder itself).
I am now using Make Up For Ever's Duo Mat Powder Foundation (which is great for a high-end powder) instead of Revlon Colorstay's Powder foundaiton, but if I were to suggest a drug store press powder, Revlon Color's Powder Foundation would be it.
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I tried this after Revlon ColorStay Mineral Foundation, was changed to Revlon ColorStay Aqua Mineral Makeup. The original powder worked so well for me! Then they changed it w/ coconut water, which didn't workout for me AT ALL. I was hoping to find another powder kind of like the original...
This pressed powder was ok. I felt it was a lot more pink undertoned than the first powder I liked. The mineral foundation was pink undertoned too, but blended very well! I'm yellow/olive undertoned, but it still worked! This powder kind of blended, but it didn't look as natural :( Kind of had that powdery look to it :P The coverage was ok...I couldn't really cover everything, b/c the color wouldn't really blend into my neck. It did even out my skin though. I felt this worked best in warmer weather, the color seemed to change in colder weather. In colder weather it seemed to get darker, like into this pinkish/almost rust color. I got this in Medium Deep btw. This didn't make me breakout and controlled my oily skin :) It's also quick to apply, the puff thing is somewhat useful. I would recommend a brush instead though. The price was kind of high for the quality imo.
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Mine doesn't come with Softflex. In fact, I don't think any of the stores I've been to carry this powder with Softflex. So perhaps that's the problem.
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This powder is average as many have stated before. I do like that "Light" matches my NW15 skintone. Many powders are too yellow for me but this one is unnoticeable. I apply it with a kabuki brush and then pat it on my T-zone. It doesn't appear to be cakey whatsoever.
I noticed that the package says this stays on for 16-hours. I think they meant to say 1.6 hours because it almost reached the 2-hour mark...but not quite. I might as well have not been wearing powder. My face looked just as oily without it.
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To me, there was nothing really special about this product. It is just an average powder. Nothing too special. I didn't like the fact is dosen't set well with oily skin.
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I used this with the ColorStay foundation and together they make my skin look flawless. I applied it with a kabuki brush which helped it to look more natural. I'm very happy with this product and highly recommend it!
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I'm not a huge fan of powders, and this is nothing to write home about. I can't speak for oil control because that's not a problem for me. It stops my makeup from transferring, but makes everything cakey
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Saturday, November 20, 2010
Aspiring Bakers #1: Pandan Chiffon Cake
I bake another chiffon cake for this event. Actually I wanted to be kiasu and bake 4 chiffon cakes, but I just didn't find the time, so I think this will be my 2nd and last entry for Aspiring Bakers #1.
This is my second time making Pandan Chiffon Cake. The first one failed miserably. This time I read through the How to make a Pandan Chiffon Cake: Almost everything you need to know guide, written by Dr Leslie Tay, the man behind the famous food blog ieatishootipost. To my mum who doesn't read his blog but have seen him on tv, he is the "Roti Prata man" cos I have shown her the video of this doctor making roti prata. I really want to try it out some day.
Back to this Pandan Chiffon Cake, I didn't follow his recipe exactly as he uses really big chiffon tin. I took reference from the Kiamnianwong extra egg whites recipe and roughly adjusted it to suit my small chiffon tin, trying to retain the flour to liquid ratio. Instead of using pandan essence, I use homemade pandan paste using the method from Wendy and Sonia.
Just blend 1 cup of pandan leaves with 1 cup of water. Filter and leave the liquid mixture in the fridge for a few days for it to settle down. Use the layer of pandan paste at the bottom only.
Pandan Chiffon Cake
Ingredients (makes 16cm chiffon tin)
2 egg yolks (I use 50g egg)
20g sugar
A small pinch of salt
30g vegetable oil
40g coconut milk
1 tbsp pandan paste (homemade)
55g cake flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
3 egg whites (I use 50g egg)
45g sugar
1. Whisk egg yolks, sugar and salt until the sugar dissolves.
2. Gradually add in vegetable oil, followed by coconut milk and pandan paste, and stir until well-mixed.
3. Fold in sifted cake flour and baking powder until well-mixed. Set aside.
4. In another bowl, whisk egg whites until soft peaks form. Add in sugar gradually and continue whisking until stiff peak form.
5. Gently fold in the egg white into the egg yolk batter (in step 3) in 3 batches.
6. Pour the batter into an ungreased chiffon tin. Bake in preheated oven at 170 deg C for 30 minutes. (I bake at 180 deg C for the first 10 minutes, then reduce to 170 deg C for the next 20 minutes, for my 6 inch tin.)
7. Remove from oven and invert the tin immediately onto a cooling rack.
8. Unmould the cake only when it is completely cool.
Recipe adapted from: ieatishootipost.sg - How to make a Pandan Chiffon Cake: Almost everything you need to know
I am submitting this chiffon cake to Aspiring Bakers #1: Chiffon Cakes (Nov 2010), the very first monthly baking event hosted by me. If you have baked any chiffon cakes in the month of Nov 2010, you can submit it to me by 30 Nov 2010. Click here for the details.
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That's a very nice Pandan Chiffon!ReplyDelete
So nice to use homemade pandan paste huh, fresh and good! I have yet to try out pandan chiffon using homemade pandan paste, must make one soon.ReplyDelete
looks perfect, and with home-made pandan paste, no less :DReplyDelete
I never get bored eating pandan chiffon. Yours really have the soft & fine texture. Love it!ReplyDelete
Pandan chiffon is always the classic! Your cake is great and all made with homemade natural ingredients. Nice!ReplyDelete
You did a good job,it looks very soft and fluffy!ReplyDelete
Thanks for stopping by my blog and for the kind comment :)
- Anonymous1 April 2011 14:59
Hello small small bakerReplyDelete
I have chiffon cake tin 18 cm. I read ur post for 2 yolks and 3 white was baked in a 16 cm tin. Kindly advise me can I can my 18 cm to bake for this chiffon proportion?
Thank you and look for your ur reply soon.
Warm rgds
Priscilla Poh
Hi Priscilla, I think you can. It was overfilled for my 16cm tin. But I have never baked in a 18cm tin before so I'm not too sure if it will become too short in a 18cm tin. You can bake a little longer. Hope it turns out good. :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous3 April 2011 07:57
Thanks Small small Baker for your kind response.ReplyDelete
My 18 cm tin which measured 7 inch across diameter. As I have not used my 18 cm tin yet, I do not wish to buy another smaller tin 16 cm which I saw in a shop. The 16 cm tin I saw comes with three legs/stands. I have not seen a 16 cm tube chiffon tin with legs before, hence, I think quite unusual and I think is good.
Perhaps, if u do not mind, cud u let me know what is the measurement of your 16 cm (across diameter) tin in order for me to decide whether I should go ahead to purchase that 16 cm c/w legs from the shop.
Priscilla Poh
Hi Priscilla, my 16cm tin measures 16cm/6.5inch in diameter. It is quite small for my family. I have been wanting to get a bigger chiffon tin. My chiffon cakes don't succeed all the time, so it is good to use a smaller tin as practice. :)ReplyDelete
- Anonymous15 April 2011 15:08
Can you teach me the correct way of 'Fold in'? Does 'fold in' means using a spatula stir in clockwise direction?
Many thanks :)
Hi chilliqueen,ReplyDelete
I found 2 videos for you on youtube, both in Chinese. I find it very useful for me too. Hope it helps.
- Anonymous19 April 2011 13:22
Hi Small Small Baker,ReplyDelete
Many thanks in answering my query. I find the video clips very helpful indeed.
Meanwhile, I am curious about the difference between buttercream and buttercream icing. If I would like to decorate my cupcakes, which one should I use? Hope you have some ideas on this...
Best regards,
Chilliqueen :)
Hi Chilliqueen, I think buttercream and buttercream icing means the same thing. Unfortunately, as you can see I hardly do decorations, so I'm not experienced enough to give you any advice. You can refer to this site for understanding about buttercream.ReplyDelete
The classic buttercream is easier for beginner but it is very sweet. If you are confident, you can try Italian or Swiss Meringue Buttercream, which is quite popular with many bloggers.
Hope it helps!
It looks so fluffy and soft!! I love pandan flavor, somemore is natural one.ReplyDelete
Hankerie: Thanks for your compliments! Yes, it's natural, no colouring added!ReplyDelete
Hihi, can I ask how do I measure the chiffon tin. If it is 16cm? Does it mean the circumference or across the tin? Thanks!ReplyDeleteReplies
The measurements like 16 cm or 6 inch is the diameter across the tin. When you are buying, they will also label the chiffon tins either in cm or inch. From mini ones like 10cm to big ones 25cm.Delete
Thanks for the response! Can I also ask what is considered self raising flour? Do you mean cake flour or all purpose flour. I am new in baking and is abit confuse on the difference in the flour used.Delete
Self raising flour has baking powder in it. It's plain flour + baking powder.Delete
All purpose is the same as plain flour. Plain flour and cake flour do not have baking powder. You can check joy of baking for the ingredient substitution.
Plain flour can be used to make most things like cakes, cookies, tarts, muffins. For cakes with finer texture like sponge cakes and chiffon, cake flour is better than plain flour.
Hope it helps! :)
May I ask how much is 30g of veg oil and 40g of coconut milk in ml? Thks
wow..nice cake..must try it!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous10 March 2014 10:08
Can you please provide a vegetarian version of this cake ?ReplyDelete