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Extension:Email notification
This page is obsolete. It is being retained for archival purposes. It may document extensions or features that are obsolete and/or no longer supported. Do not rely on the information here being up-to-date.
This feature is part of MediaWiki core
|Email notification
Release status: unmaintained
|E-mail notification (ENotif) - a scheme allowing for page change or creation notifications sent as e-mail and E-mail address confirmation (EConfirm) - a mechanism to confirm the stored e-mail address by mailing a link
|Latest version
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|Check usage and version matrix.
- Note: The documentation of the extension has only partially been maintained since March 2006, but most of its features have been added to MediaWiki version REL1_6 in 2006. See Manual:Configuration settings#Email notification (Enotif) settings et al. Please take note that all Foundation wikis have Email notification enabled since May 14, 2011 - check your personal preferences to opt-in if you like to receive notification mails for changes on your user page (see also the help page).
- This page and related bugzilla bugs will be updated in the next couple of days to reflect the current state. --Wikinaut 11:35, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
- 1 For the impatient: quick how-to
- 2 EConfirm: E-mail address confirmation
- 3 List of bugs in Bugzilla that it influences, implements, or solves
- 4 "What can I expect and how does it work ?"
- 5 Prerequisites
- 6 Code security and general issues
- 7 "It does not work": common pitfalls
- 8 Inside ENotif and EConfirm
- 8.1 Download
- 8.2 Installation
- 8.3 Implementation details and flowcharts
- 8.4 Release Notes
- 8.5 Configuration
- 9 Internationalisation (I18N)
- 10 Related extensions
- E-mail notification (ENotif) - a program notifies a user by e-mail of page changes or page creation (listed as enhancement bugzilla 454) and
- E-mail address confirmation (EConfirm) - a program that confirms the stored e-mail address by e-mailing a link (enhancement bugzilla 866)
For the impatient: quick how-toEdit
|Operating System
|Debian Jessie
|Mediawiki version
|E-mail server
|Postfix, installed on the same server as mediawiki
1. Installing PHP PEAR:
sudo aptitude update; sudo aptitude install php-pear
2. Install PEAR packages:
sudo pear install mail net_smtp
3. Edit:
sudo cp /srv/www/wiki/LocalSettings.php /srv/www/wiki/LocalSettings.php.bak sudo vim /srv/www/wiki/LocalSettings.php
And add below lines:
# Email
$wgEnableEmail = true;
$wgEnableUserEmail = true;
$wgEmergencyContact = "email@example.com";
$wgPasswordSender = "email@example.com";
$wgEnotifUserTalk = true;
$wgEnotifWatchlist = true;
$wgEmailAuthentication = true;
$wgSMTP = array(
'host' => "127.0.0.1",
'IDHost' => "www-1.dev.local.jamgo.org",
'port' => 25,
'auth' => false,
NOTE : the value " IDHost " must match the hostname (run command "hostname")
4. Edit the postfix config file:
sudo cp /etc/postfix/main.cf /etc/postfix/main.cf.bak sudo vim /etc/postfix/main.cf
And make sure the lines are as follows:
myhostname = www-1.dev.local.jamgo.org mydestination = www-1.dev.local.jamgo.org
5. Restart services:
sudo /etc/init.d/postfix restart sudo /etc/init.d/apache restart
6. Setting the User "watcher " to receive emails
6.1. Sign in mediawiki
6.2 . Go to "preferences/user profile"
6.3 . Make sure that you have valid email address and check all the options on "Email options" box
6.4 . Edit "page" and watch it.
7. Log in with user "editor" and edit "page". Once you are done save the changes.
Expected behaviour: www-1.dev.local.jamgo.org host should send an e-mail to e-mail address of user "watcher". You can check it live with:
sudo tail -F /var/log/mail.log
If it's not working, just in case:
1. Log out both users 2. Login user "watcher" and unwatch and watch again page "page" 3. Repeat step 7
EConfirm: E-mail address confirmationEdit
- When a user adds or changes the e-mail address during account creation or on the user preferences form, the wiki sends a confirmation link to this address. The address remains marked as unconfirmed until the user follows the link. All enhanced mail functions, currently a) e-mail to user and b) e-mail notification, do only send mails to confirmed addresses, and nothing to unconfirmed addresses.
- E-mail address confirmation can be used and configured independently from ENotif: enabled or disabled with the switch $wgEmailAuthentication. If the switch is set to false, messages regarding (un)confirmed addresses are suppressed, and all e-mail functions do work (if e-mails as such are enabled on this wiki) as in standard MediaWiki.
- When using ENotif, you should always enable EConfirm. In that case, the wiki mails only to confirmed addresses.
- E-Mail addresses of bureaucrats, developers or sysops become confirmed as they are entered, i.e. without the confirmation cycle. This behaviour can be configured (enabled as described or disabled) with switch $wgEmailConfirmationRequiredForAll.
- The status (unconfirmed or date/time of confirmation) is always shown beneath the address on the user preferences page
- E-mail addresses are currently not checked for compliance with RFC-2822 when they are stored in the database. This is issue of bugzilla:959.
- If a user changes their e-mail address to another, non-empty address, the wiki automatically sends a link for confirmation.
List of bugs in Bugzilla that it influences, implements, or solvesEdit
- Bug 1932 Tracking ENotif/EConfirm & further enhancements (tracking)
- add your address to the CC list of this enhancement bugzilla, if you want to be informed of any changes on one of the others
- Bug 454 E-mail notification (EN) for page changes of watch-listed pages, user_talk page, and for new pages
- add your address to the CC list of this enhancement bugzilla, if you want to be informed of changes and new versions of ENotif only
- Bug 181 Assign lasting ID to latest revision of articles (OPEN)
- Bug 505 Specify timezones by location, to allow automatic adjustments (OPEN; TOUCHED HERE BY INTRODUCING $wgTimeCorrectionOverwrite)
- Bug 536 For pages on watchlist save last seen version number (OK)
- Bug 581 treat user_talk pages as every other "normal" page (OK)
- Bug 603 Delete + undelete cycle doesn't preserve old_id (OK in REL1_5)
- Bug 664 UserMailer.php php mail() -f additional parameter field for SMTP mail sender envelope vs. PHP safe mode enabled (TOUCHED)
- Bug 727 Number of watching users per page to show on recent changes view (OK)
- Bug 782 User option "show only the current revisions of pages" suppresses listing of all older revisions of pages in recent changes view (OK)
- Bug 804 create an LVR REPOSITORY for last-visited revisions until they are visited (OK)
- Bug 824 user preference page: do not show help for realname if "realname" field is disabled by sysop (OK)
- Bug 866 EConfirm (EC): e-mail address confirmation by sending a link comprising a token to the unconfirmed mailaddress (OK)
- Bug 907 UserMailer() function revision to allow for parameters in the form "name (..) <emailaddress>" (OK)
- Bug 952 table user got new columns user_email_confirmed, user_email_token, user_email_token_expires
- Bug 959 Email addresses must be checked before storing in database to comply with RFC-2822 (OPEN)
- Bug 1116 E-mail notification for page changes or new pages, where title or body or category matches a regular expression (OPEN)
- Bug 1125 WYSIWYG editor integration (FCKeditor 2.0) (OK)
- Bug 1133 EmailUser: additional option to send a (blind) copy to oneself (OPEN)
- Bug 1363 Enotif Reset Nofication Flags does not work (OK)
- Bug 1370 ENotif mails are not automatically reenabled after sent when watching users visits watched and notified page (OK)
- Bug 1541 "mail me a new password" email has no FROM: (OK)
- Bug 1572 Add diff link to "You have new messages" (OK)
- Bug 1746 Subject of email-notifications must be quoted-printable. (OK)
- Bug 1831 request for 3 CVS HEAD changes (please fix) (OK)
- Bug 1855 waste through varchar in database (OK)
- Bug 1876 Show "You have new messages on your user or user_talk page" -- i.e. both pages are notified (OK)
- Bug 1891 Assign lasting ID to oldest (=first, =initial) revision of articles (OPEN)
- Bug 1895 Recent changes views show "(last seen)" -- for "difference to my last seen revision of that page" (OK)
- Bug 2014 ENotif code clean-up patch for REL1_5 (patchlet #1)
- Bug 2066 adding e-mail notification for _new_ pages to ENotif patch (patchlet #2)
- Bug 2082 Related changes views (Special:Recentchangeslinked) do not indicate one's watched page (OPEN)
- Bug 2105 Any mediawiki mail functions are potentially blocked by missing "space"in php mail() call in UserMailer::userMailer() (OK)
- Bug 2126 Unable to set new password after using emailed password (problem confirmed and found; will be fixed in Enotif > 3.25)
- Bug 2259 patch for User.php: login with temp.password also indicates that the e-mail address is valid
- Bug 2439 e-mail confirmation error message issues (OK in EnotifWiki 3.28)
- Bug 5220 E-mail notification: proposal to enable now $wgEnotifUserTalk in Default/LocalSettings in the major wiki (enwiki, dewiki, frwiki, nlwiki) (OK) --Wikinaut 11:24, 14 May 2011 (UTC)
Some of the enhancement bugs are marked as (OPEN); this means, that I will implement these enhancements in one my next versions.
"What can I expect and how does it work ?"Edit
A single e-mail is sent to the watching user x
- if the WikiSysop has globally enabled this feature in the DefaultSettings.php or LocalSettings.php
- and if the user has stored an email address in the user preferences
- and if the user has enabled the personal enotif options in the user preferences
on the event that
- someone else changes a watched page listed in user x's watch list or
- someone else changes the user or user_talk page of user x or
- someone else creates a new page (if enabled by WikiSysop; a user option is shown in the preferences page)
No further mails are sent to you until you re-visit the watched page - or a difference view against it.
Update markerEdit
All users can enjoy a side-effect of enotif - regardless whether they have enabled or disabled their personal enotif options:
- A garish updated marker updated (since my last visit) indicates new content on watch-listed pages since the last visit (of user x). The updated marker appears on the a) watchlist page, b) recent changes page close to the bold-titled page names of watched pages, and c) page history. Note: your own changes never trigger notification mails or "updated" markers, so you only get e-mails about somebody else's changes that you haven't seen.
- The marker is so garish and big to attract your attention and because it directly links to show you the difference between current and last seen version of that page, see below. Before complaining: you can switch it off by un-checking the corresponding option in your preferences.
- 1: updated (since my last visit)
- Markers indicate all watched pages with unseen changes.
- Markers are also direct links to the (same) difference view between the current revision of that page and the(my) last-visited revision.
- They link to
http://server/testwiki/index.php?title=User:Test&diff=0&oldid=1956in the example.
- 2: (last seen) : a direct link to Difference between this revision and the last seen revision (lsr)
- not implemented in ENotif version v2.x
- These links are also active for older-than lsr revisions (e.g. you can quickly compare any arbitrary revision with the version, you saw last)
- Only watched pages having unseen changes bear active (last seen) links; in the example you see some black inactive (last seen) links, because these pages are not watched pages. They cannot show unseen changes, because only watched pages offer information about last seen revision, which determines unseen changes of any watching the user.
- 3: (last seen) :
- The(my) last visited revision of that page
- not implemented in ENotif version v2.x
- 4: [4] :
- Number of users watching that page
See further screenshots on the versions page.
- The ENotif patch was developed for small- to medium-scale MediaWiki implementations. Personalised e-mails (with recipient's name; times expressed in local time of the recipients) for every watching user. [The program flow will change in future versions to provide bulk notification e-mails, depending on parameters, to save processing time and bandwidth.]
- The sub-feature notification on user_talk page (UTP) changes could be enabled even for the largest WikiPedia, because the number of UTP changes is surprisingly low - according to Brion Vibber. About 800 alien UTP changes (changes by others than yourself) per day have been counted in August 2004, which would result in the same (relatively low) number of enotifs sent to the UTP owners.
- All features are configurable (enable/disable) in module DefaultSettings.php respectively LocalSettings.php for the WikiSysop, who can separately allow or disallow notifications for
- changes of pages in all name spaces (AO/UO) and/or
- changes of user and user_talk pages (AO/UO)
- creation of new pages (AO/SO/UO)
- Implements and solves
- (AO) admin option:
- allows to disable or fine-tune these extensions globally
- (SO) special user option:
- for bureaucrats, developers and sysops only
- (UO) user option:
- if the admin option enables the feature globally, a user option in user preferences is shown and allows the users to opt-in or opt-out to this feature at their discretion.
- The subject line and text of the notification message are pages in the MediaWiki:namespace and can therefore be changed live by Sysops. You can use several named $variables such as $PAGEEDITOR, see example below.
- The notification message contains a direkt link to the difference view (last seen) between the current page version and the last one the watching user has seen i.e. the page version just before the page change notification was sent. Remark: the (last seen) link is valid forever, because page revision identifiers are now sticky (permanent), they survive delete/undelete cycles since REL1_5 (this is not the case in older MediaWiki versions).
- Your own page changes or creation of a page (if enabled) never trigger a notification mail sent to yourself.
- Minor edits may trigger notification e-mails sent out depending on your preferences (AO/UO).
- All UTP changes trigger a notification, no matter whether the changing editor declared the change as minor edit or not.
- Only one mail is sent on the first page change. Further mails are suppressed until you re-visit the changed page or until you reset all notification flags. A new button has been introduced for this purpose on the watchlist page.
- On the watchlist page, a new marker updated (since my last visit) indicates such watched pages for which a notification mail was sent, meaning that the page has new content since your last visit (AO/UO).
- The marker also appears on your recent changes page and on page history pages for the pages watched by you (already marked bold) and have new content since your last visit (AO/UO).
- Recent changes view and page(article) footers show number of watching users (AO/UO).
- You can add non-existent page names to your watch list and receive e-mail notification if someone creates a page with that name. The updated marker appears for the page until you actually visit it.
- Debuggers can activate server beeps on notification mails, this is disabled by default. (AO)
You definitely need a working php mail() system on your server. I suggest you quickly check your current wiki installation before trying the E-mail notification patch. Try requesting a temporary password for your wiki user account by clicking the button mail me a temporary password on the wiki login screen. If, sooner or later, you receive an e-mail from your "old" wiki, everything looks fine and ready for the installation of ENotif.
ENotif/EConfirm has been developed to work smoothly with
- php mail()
- thus it is not using the PEAR:Mail() module; see /includes/UserMailer.php
- $wgSMTP = false;
- MySQL database server
- thus it is not checked to work with PostgreSQL
- $wgDBtype = "mysql";
- $wgSearchType = "MyISAM";
For further information such as
- how to configure the php mail()
- Why do I need to set up a sender address information ("FROM:")
- and how to configure MySQL
please consult /includes/DefaultSettings.php
If you want to use it together with PEAR:Mail and/or PostgreSQL
- please let me know.
Code security and general issuesEdit
The code was peer-reviewed several times and the version 2.00 was committed to CVS HEAD (version 1.5) in December 2004. However, since then, several persons have modified this and that in the CVS HEAD version, which could have led to a non-working version in CVS.
I always publish a complete diff on the accompanying ENotif bugzilla.
"It does not work": common pitfallsEdit
- Avoid the most common pitfalls from the beginning and read carefully:
Be aware, that
- your wiki e-mail system must be working as such - test it by mailing you a temporary password (this is independent from ENotif)
- see provisionally Bug 664 for problems with PHP mail() function and PHP SAFE MODE mode enabled.
- you obviously need an e-mail address - check the address field in user preferences
- e-mail address must be marked as confirmed (if EConfirm is mandatory on your wiki)
- there are never notifications for your own changes. Change a page watched by A as other user B and check, whether an ENotif is sent to watching user A.
- only one ENotif is sent for the first page change of a page you are watching or, when a new page is created (if this feature is enabled)
- notification is automatically re-enabled when you visit the current version of the page or the difference view to the current version
- you also can clear all notification flags at one click (button on your watchlist)
- you need to update the text message cache, if you have customized test strings in a LanguageXX.php file
Inside ENotif and EConfirmEdit
|Available versions (see also version history)
|always see EnotifWiki file release download section on BerliOS Open Source server
|For MediaWiki developers version (CVS HEAD REL1_5)
|Enotif v.2.x
special version EnotifWiki v3.x for CVS REL1_5 beta versions
|For MediaWiki version 1.4.6
|For older MediaWiki versions
|See my archive or contact me.
Implementation details and flowchartsEdit
Release NotesEdit
ENotif configuration: sysop settings in /includes/DefaultSettings.phpEdit
- in LocalSettings.php or DefaultSettings.php
- (coming soon)
Notification mail (text templates and variables therein)Edit
- In languages/Language.php, amongst other new constants, there are two important text templates with $VARIABLES, which get substituted with values when the ENotif mails are composed. The text templates are shown here for the sake of completeness of the documentation, so that you know in advance, what you can change.
- Please consult /includes/UserMailer.php if you are curious to learn where the variables such as $PAGEEDITOR get their values from, but you usually don't have to study this file.
- If you encounter problems with the message cache - e.g. that your changes on LanguageXX.php are not effective and do not work - please consult the pages you get with this search on MetaWiki. It is standard MediaWiki procedure, that you need to run an update program in certain cases !
This is the text template for the body of the notification mails. It resides in file /languages/Language.php and can be adapted by yourself according to your needs. You can change the text before or after the installation of your EnotifWiki. However, when you changed the text in the file /languages/Language.php after the installation, then it might be necessary to run once the program
run /maintenance/php rebuildMessages.php --rebuild
as explained above. This might take a few seconds. A detailed explanation, why this might be necessary, can be found on here.
Alternatively, you can also change the text live on your wiki by editing the page [[MediaWiki:email_notification_body]], but such a change must be done for every wiki, if you run several wikis.
Dear $WATCHINGUSERNAME, the {{SITENAME}} page $PAGETITLE has been $CHANGEDORCREATED on $PAGEEDITDATE by $PAGEEDITOR, see {{SERVER}}{{localurl:$PAGETITLE_RAWURL}} for the current version. $NEWPAGE Editor\'s summary: $PAGESUMMARY $PAGEMINOREDIT Contact the editor: mail {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Emailuser|target=$PAGEEDITOR_RAWURL}} wiki {{SERVER}}{{localurl:User:$PAGEEDITOR_RAWURL}} There are no other notifications of further changes unless you visit this page or reset the notification flags for all watched pages on your watchlist. Your friendly {{SITENAME}} notification system --- To change your watchlist settings, visit {{SERVER}}{{localurl:Special:Watchlist|magic=yes}} Feedback and further assistance: {{SERVER}}{{localurl:WikiHelpdesk}}'
The previous section explains how you can change this text (change file /language/Language.php and run a maintenance program, or edit page [[MediaWiki:email_notification_subject]]).
{{SITENAME}} page $PAGETITLE has been $CHANGEDORCREATED by $PAGEEDITOR
Notification mail (sample)Edit
- The subject text comes from language/Language.php MediaWiki:email_notification_subject as described above
- The body text comes from languages/Language.php MediaWiki:email_notification_body as described above
- This comprehensive (and therefore heavy) example shows all possibilities. If you wish to shorten the mail, you need to edit the Language.php file(s) or to change the mentioned MediaWiki: pages in your live system.
Example for a typical email notification message
MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 X-Mailer: MediaWiki mailer From: WikiAdmin <firstname.lastname@example.com> Reply-To: firstname.lastname@example.com To: Albert Einstein <email@example.com> Subject: Testwiki page Main Page has been changed by TestUser Dear Albert Einstein, the Testwiki page Main_Page has been changed on 21:25:06, 19 Apr 2005 by TestUser, see http://www.myserver.com/testwiki/index.php/Main_Page for the current version. See http://www.myserver.com/testwiki/index.php?title=Main_Page&diff=0&oldid=9807 for all changes since your last visit. Editor's summary: typo correction: I like ENotif Contact the editor: mail http://www.myserver.com/testwiki/index.php?title=Special:Emailuser&target=TestUser wiki http://www.myserver.com/testwiki/index.php/User:TestUser There are no other notifications of further changes unless you visit this page or reset the notification flags for all your watched pages on your watchlist. Your friendly Testwiki notification system --- To change your watchlist settings, visit http://www.myserver.com/testwiki/index.php?title=Special:Watchlist&magic=yes Feedback and further assistance: http://www.myserver.com/testwiki/index.php/WikiHelpdesk
Internationalisation (I18N)Edit
- The localised version for German language is ready and will be published soon. --Wikinaut [mail] 23:24, 20 Apr 2005 (UTC)
- Deutsche Dokumentation/German Documentation (im Aufbau/under construction)


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The departure of Yormark didn't come as a complete surprise as rumors had been circulating since last month following his appearance at a Broward County Board of Commissioners workshop in which the Panthers are requesting to restructure their contract and lessen (or completely erase) their financial obligation for use of the Sunrise arena.
Yormark has been at the forefront of the team's dealings with the county over the past decade and secured funding for a $4.2 million scoreboard and video command center last summer.
The commission appears poised to help the Panthers shed a good portion of their financial obligation to the county on a lease that runs through 2028.
Babich will join Cifu in working with the county as Yormark moves on.
"Having a strong hockey franchise here in a county-owned arena that brings in all of the top acts really does benefit the city of Sunrise, Broward County, right from the beaches to the Everglades and all of South Florida,'' Babich said. "We're looking to be cooperative and continue discussions with the commissioners.''
Brett Yormark, Michael's twin brother, is CEO of the Brooklyn Nets and the new Barclays Center and a business associate of Jay-Z.
Roc Nation as well as concert promoter Live Nation have had a close relationship with Yormark and Sunrise Sports & Entertainment over the years. Two of Yormark's closest employees with the Panthers recently took jobs in New York with Roc Nation.
When Viola and Cifu bought the team last summer, Yormark was promoted to CEO and allowed a small financial stake in the organization from stock options. Yormark will not take any ownership in the team moving forward.
"I'll still catch games when I can,'' Yormark said, "catch concerts and shows here when I can -- especially when we have our artists here. I'll be around. I wish Vinnie and his family the best of luck. I hope they can take this thing to the next level. That's what our fans want to see. I'll be cheering for them.''


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Starting the like of paperwork so we can extend our stay in Canada. We have definitely liked Toronto and look forward to spending more time here.
Below the thunders of the upper deep,
Far, far beneath in the abysmal sea,
His ancient, dreamless, uninvaded sleep
The Kraken sleepeth: faintest sunlights flee
About his shadowy sides; above him swell
Huge sponges of millennial growth and height;
And far away into the sickly light,
From many a wondrous and secret cell
Unnumber'd and enormous polypi
Winnow with giant arms the lumbering green.
There hath he lain for ages, and will lie
Battening upon huge sea-worms in his sleep,
Until the latter fire shall heat the deep;
Then once by man and angels to be seen,
In roaring he shall rise and on the surface die.
— "The Kraken" by Alfred Lord Tennyson, 1830
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Dear Friends,
Dear Friends,
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Dear Friends,
I'd like to thank everyone once again for their submissions.
I'm grateful for all the time and effort people put into this. I'm also encouraged by seeing everyone's enthusiam for OrthodoxWiki. I wish I could award everyone a prize!
It's nice to see something of a consensus emerging with regard to HappyGrevling's "SealLogo1." I concur with this judgment.
I think it looks dignified and professional, while capturing the Orthodox character and international scope of OrthodoxWiki.
It's challenging to produce not only something that is of professional qulity, but also something which really captures the mission.
My only hesitation is that I'd love to see it brightened up a bit, especially the greenish band behind the letters. We could definitely work with it as is, though.
According to Joe's suggestion, I'd also like to ask if H.G. would be willing to donate the black and white version for use on letterhead.
I'd like to give runner-up recognition to a number of others too:
- I'd like to ask User:Baker if he would be willing to donate his logos for possible use as a decoration for future printed publications.
- I'd like to ask User:Rublevpupil if he would be willing to donate his logos, especially #2 for use as a promotional link button.
- I would like to suggest that User:Raphael make his first logo available to the fledgling [1].
I'd also like to ask "a friend of Magda" if he'd be willing to donate "DEOWlogo2.png" as a possible link button as well.
Of course, if anyone else would like to formally donate their logos to OrthodoxWiki, we'd love to be keep them on hand for any future use. We don't want OWiki's visual identity to become too dispersed, but who knows what will come up?
Thanks again to everybody!
Yours in Christ,
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The popular Top Pot Bakery chain caused an outrage last week with its admission that it has been using artificial flavoring in products it advertised as "all-natural."
The Taipei City Government's Department of Health has since slapped the chain with a NT$180,000 fine for false advertising, with Taipei Mayor Hau Lung-bin (郝龍斌) asserting toughness in the city government's handling of the incident and demanding that the bakery adopt a stringent refund plan.
"Top Pot Bakery set a bad example by mislabeling the ingredients in its baked goods. It was a dishonest, deceptive act," Hau said on Tuesday.
Indeed, the chain needs be held responsible for deceiving consumers, and it is encouraging to see Hau carry out his duty as mayor by speaking for the protection of residents' rights and showing uncompromising firmness on food safety.
However, as exasperated consumers expressed disbelief and panned the chain for its fraudulent behavior, some were struck by a disturbing thought: They have become aware of how, for a long time, they have harbored a double standard toward politicians, indulging their shamelessly deceitful rhetoric and conduct without taking action to deter them.
If people are upset over a bakery's deceptive advertising, why are they not angry at the misleading claims, brazen lies and broken promises of politicians?
Let's take President Ma Ying-jeou (馬英九) as an example: Elected as the head of the state, Ma has disappointed voters and set a bad example by failing to make good on his election-time promises.
To name a few, he has failed to deliver on his "6-3-3" campaign pledge — 6 percent annual GDP growth, an unemployment rate of less than 3 percent and US$30,000 annual per capita income; he has failed to donate half his salary as he had said he would if he fell short of the "6-3-3" targets; and he broke his pledge not to double as president and Chinese Nationalist Party (KMT) chairman.
The government under his leadership has failed to seek compensation from Beijing for the damage caused to Taiwanese firms in 2008 over the imports of melamine-tainted milk products; failed to honor pledges to create a "golden decade"; and forsook national interests by resorting to back-room dealings.
Having lost much of their credibility because of broken promises and vacillating policies, it is evident that both Ma and his administration are not just incompetent, but also insincere.
Ma would not have gotten away with his unscrupulous behavior had it not been for lawmakers who serve as his accomplices in the Legislative Yuan, blindly endorsing any policy put forth by their party headquarters and sacrificing the nation's interests.
Almost always, legislators who fail to serve the public and keep the executive branch in check complete their terms, enjoying the privileges that come with their status as lawmakers, while the taxpayers who voted them into office and pay their salaries continue to suffer.
Democracy is more than just people casting votes. While voters know they are responsible for electing public servants, they should be equally aware that they can recall any official who forsakes their duty to serve the public's best interests.
Luckily, a recall campaign recently launched by the civic group Constitution 133 Alliance has reminded the public of its power to root out incompetent lawmakers.


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We were fairly confident that Apple would be announcing its smaller tablet, the iPad mini, at Tuesday's keynote, but we weren't as sure about the Mac mini. Though rumors suggested we might see a refresh on the 15-month-old Mac mini, we weren't holding our breath. However, Apple launched three new Mac minis at the event, including the 2.5GHz Core i5 version for $600 (shown below), an upgraded 2.3GHz version Core i7 version for $800, and the top-of-the-line Mac mini OS X Server for $1,000. All three versions are available to order, but should you go with the new and improved model, which is still Apple's smallest and most affordable computer, or should you look into buying an older, refurbished model? Considering that the specs between the two aren't drastically different, you might want to think about the latter if you're on a tight budget. Read on to see how the brand new Mac mini stacks up with July of 2011's version.
It appears that Apple might be sticking with the old saying: "If it ain't broke, don't fix it." There are minimal upgrades to the new Mac mini, so those who already have a Mac mini from 2011 need not rush out to buy a new one. If you're thinking about investing in a Mac mini — after all, Apple's senior vice president of worldwide marketing, Phil Schiller, did say it's the world's most energy-efficient desktop — then you might want to consider buying an older or refurbished model for a slight discount. Aside from the upgrade in OS, slight bump in graphics, and 2GB more RAM at the base price, there aren't a ton of new features that make the 2012 Mac mini outstanding. If you can get your hands on a 2011 model for $400 or less, it might be worth grabbing while you can.
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Fenway Park was the site of "Morgan Magic" in 1988, as interim skipper Joe Morgan sparked a dramatic, mid-season turnaround and the team made the playoffs. After a short postseason run, significant construction on a new press box and premium club commenced.
Record: 89-73, 1st in American League East
Manager: John F. McNamara (43-42), Joseph M. Morgan (46-31)
Attendance: 2,464,851
Postseason: Played in American League Championship Series
The 1988 season started nicely for the Red Sox and they stood at 14-6 by the end of April. However, the team began to slide and manager John McNamara lost his job at the All-Star break with his team just one game above .500.
Third-base coach Joe Morgan took over as interim manager and the team subsequently won their next 12 consecutive games. The club emerged victorious in 19 of its first 20 games under the new skipper, whose immediate success gave rise to the term "Morgan Magic." When Mike Boddicker beat the Tigers 16-4 at Fenway Park on August 13, the Red Sox set a league record with their 24th consecutive home victory.
The Red Sox reached first place on September 4 and stayed there for good. Wade Boggs won the batting title for the fourth consecutive year (.366), collecting 214 hits, 125 walks, and 128 runs scored. Left-fielder Mike Greenwell led the team in home runs (22) and RBIs (119) and batted .325 with an AL-record 23 game-winning hits in 1988.
Boston's pitching staff had two 18-game winners, Roger Clemens and Bruce Hurst, but no other Red Sox pitcher won more than nine games.
The Red Sox advanced to the playoffs and a best-of-seven ALCS against the Oakland A's but the result was nasty, brutish and short. The powerful A's swept Boston and former Boston pitcher Dennis Eckersley picked up the save in each game.
In 1988, a multicolored video board was installed in the center-field scoreboard, replacing the electronic message board that was built in 1976. On May 21, 1988, Bobby Doerr's # 1 was officially retired and joined Ted Williams' #9 and Joe Cronin's #4 on the façade of the right-field roof. Late in the 1988 season, the two-year process of creating a new premium seating area and new press box began with work on the supporting structural columns in the area behind home plate. After the season, the press box was gutted to make room for the new construction.


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Wednesday, March 20, 2013
But doctors should forget these things for the Electronic Medical Record of tomorrow. After all, our biggest EMR, EPIC, has been developed and tested with Windows XP or Windows 7 and it uses the MUMPS programming language.
I wonder, how long will the our next Windows platforms remain backwardly compatible to support our expensive EMRs? How long will a non-graphic and cumbersome user interface MUMPS survive in tomorrow's graphical computer world? More to the point: how much would updating to a more current operating system cost in the future?
Yeah, we're stuck with what we've got for a very long time.
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Really? Who's in charge of purchasing these things?
Why would such as person even consider something that isn't platform independent? The motto should be 'Use our EMR, securely, when you want, where you want, on your terms'.
Technologically, it's not hard. We've been doing it for years.
I know, HIPPA and all the other excuses for why big medicine has such a hard time solving problems that other industries conquered long ago.
Consider this, I can trade $100,000 of equities instantly, on any computer, tablet, smartphone, or ...gasp... telephone that I want to. Financial services are a highly regulated industry where security, privacy, and record keeping are paramount. As screwed up as that industry is, they solved platform dependence years ago.
I imagine a gathering of EMR salesmen, laughing, at the crap they sell to hospitals and practices for such big money. Laughing...all the way to the bank.
Who's falling for this stuff?
- Wed Mar 20, 01:43:00 PM CDT
- Dave said...
I don't think the previous poster quite realizes how EMR's (particularly EPIC) are implemented. Rarely are you running the EMR natively on your machine. Rather you are utilizing a remote desktop program (Citrix is very popular) which connects to a centralized server that is running a virtual instance of windows XP (or windows 7). Thus you are often in the situation of running a virtual instance of windows, while concurrently running windows.
So yeah, you can access the EMR from any computer/android tablet/ipad/phone/etc provided things are set up correctly. The utilization of virtual machines is pretty common across multiple industries, so this isn't that egregious of a situation.
The problem is is that the way the data is stored is proprietary. You can't simply replace the EPIC program with another to read a patient's file; which is flat out wrong. The government needed to put in place a standard file format for health records, but due to industry lobbying that'll never happen.
- Thu Mar 21, 02:31:00 PM CDT
Isn't it the hospital IT managers responsibility for making sure the associated data on the system they manage is forward looking? 20 years ago I worked with 9-track tape in the graphics industry and in order to serve our customers and keep the legacy data we needed to make sure it was available at all times, over time. Where are the plans to migrate the O/S? Windows XP... not supported any longer...
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Happy Friday everyone! I've been meaning to share some pictures from my trip to San Francisco last week. It was my second time in the city (last January was my first) and I fell in love all over again.
First time going over the Golden Gate…
and then into the rainbow tunnel…
{Sausalito looking towards SF}
{massive amounts of rosemary growing along the sidewalk!}
{back in SF at The Fairmont}
{scrumptious vegeterian pho from Grandehos Kamelkyo II on Hyde St.}
{walking down a typically inclined SF street}
{heavenly lattes made w/ogranic espresso & local milk from Blue Bottle (the Mint St. Location aka their best location, in my humble opinion :)}
{my favorite friends at Pier 39}
{green tea at Samovar in the Yerba Buena Gardens}
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Not since penny auctions hit the network marketing community have I seen a topic split this community so deeply! A few weeks ago, I was at the Association of Network Marketing Professionals (ANMP) annual conference, and just listened as proponents and opponents of Kannay tried to explain what the company stood for and what their products were all about.
Well, today I am not here to try and explain all there is to know about Kannaway or even share the controversy surrounding the company. My goal is to give some insight to what I have found on the differences between legal Cannabis (Hemp) which is what Kannaway products are made from, and illegal Cannabis, what those in Colorado just celebrated at the 4/20 festival.
History of Hemp in the USA
Although history proves Hemp has been cultivated by humans as far back as 10,000 years ago, I want to focus on Hemp in the USA, and why companies like Kannaway are starting to focus on Hemp products in the USA.
Back in the 17th Century when the USA was getting started there were laws on the books which made it mandatory to grow Indian Hemp. By the 18th Century if you lived in the USA and owned land, then you had better be growing some Hemp or you could look at some jail time.
One interesting historical fact, I uncovered is that by 1850 when the Census was taken, there ware 8500 Hemp Plantations in the USA with a minimum of 2200 acres each. Now, I am not sure how many smaller Plantations there might have been but without a doubt Hemp was a mainstay. As a matter of fact, Hemp was seen as legal tender during the same time period. Similar to Oil today!
Around the turn of the 20th Century Hemp Fuel was used in such engines in the famous Rudolph Diesel Engine. History shows that Mr. Diesel assumed his engine would be fueled by a variety of fuels, especially Eco friendly fuels which came from plants. I could not find anything about animal oils, such a whale, bear and mink oil or if he thought that would work as well as plant based fuels.
One of my business hero's Henry Ford, operated what was known as a biomass fuel conversion plant where he mass produced Hemp Oil for his and other vehicles on the road at the time. However, as more and more vehicles hit the road, and the production of petroleum started to create multi-millionaires and the tycoons of the time started buying or growing their financial states in the oil industry, we started to see a shift in the USA to somehow outlaw the production of Hemp. Lord knows Hemp was cheaper to produce, could be produced faster and it was NOT controlled by the wealthiest of all businessmen.
We might even say it was like direct selling today. It gave the average person the ability to earn a good living.
By the 1930's there was a full blown campaign to figure out how to outlaw Hemp. And since certain Cannabis plants (Cannabis Sativa) do produce a high level of THC in their leaves which was used to make hashish, those who were opposed to the Hemp and were working to get the Government to outlaw it, had the foundation of the campaign they needed.
Something interesting I found while doing this research was the fact, the word Marihauna is a derivative of the spanish word Matiguana first used in the 1890 – 95 Americanism; < Mexican Spanish marihuana, mariguana;
Well, I could go on and on, but let me close with a few great reference resources we used for this article so you can gather additional info to understand the difference between Legal and illegal Cannibas.
First, I want to show a couple of videos we found from the 1930s showing the propaganda from both sides of the Cannabis debate… Kind of like today 🙂
Reefer Madness – 1937
Hemp For Victory – 1942
Hemp – The First Twelve Thousand Years
History of Hemp
Wikipedia – Hemp
Wikipedia – Cannabis Sativa
Wikipedia – Cannabis Indica
Wikipedia – Cannabis Ruderalis
USDA – Identification of Hemp or Marijuana
2014 Farm Bill – Legalizes Industrial Hemp In The USA
Full 2014 Farm Bill
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* George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and other founding fathers GREW HEMP; Washington and Jefferson Diaries. Jefferson smuggled hemp seeds from China to France then to America.
* Benjamin Franklin owned one of the first paper mills in America and it processed hemp. Also, the War of 1812 was fought over hemp. Napoleon wanted to cut off Moscow's export to England; Emperor Wears No Clothes, Jack Herer.
* For thousands of years, 90% of all ships' sails and rope were made from hemp. The word 'canvas' is Dutch for cannabis; Webster's New World Dictionary.
* 80% of all textiles, fabrics, clothes, linen, drapes, bed sheets, etc. were made from hemp until the 1820s with the introduction of the cotton gin.
* The first Bibles, maps, charts, Betsy Ross's flag, the first drafts of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution were made from hemp; U.S. Government Archives.
* The first crop grown in many states was hemp. 1850 was a peak year for Kentucky producing 40,000 tons. Hemp was the largest cash crop until the 20th Century; State Archives.
* Oldest known records of hemp farming go back 5000 years in China, although hemp industrialization probably goes back to ancient Egypt.
* Rembrants, Gainsboroughs, Van Goghs as well as most early canvas paintings were principally painted on hemp linen.
* In 1916, the U.S. Government predicted that by the 1940s all paper would come from hemp and that no more trees need to be cut down. Government studies report that 1 acre of hemp equals 4.1 acres of trees. Plans were in the works to implement such programs; Department of Agriculture
* Quality paints and varnishes were made from hemp seed oil until 1937. 58,000 tons of hemp seeds were used in America for paint products in 1935; Sherman Williams Paint Co. testimony before Congress against the 1937 Marijuana Tax Act.
* Henry Ford's first Model-T was built to run on hemp gasoline and the CAR ITSELF WAS CONTRUCTED FROM HEMP! On his large estate, Ford was photographed among his hemp fields. The car, 'grown from the soil,' had hemp plastic panels whose impact strength was 10 times stronger than steel; Popular Mechanics, 1941.
* Hemp called 'Billion Dollar Crop.' It was the first time a cash crop had a business potential to exceed a billion dollars; Popular Mechanics, Feb., 1938.
* Mechanical Engineering Magazine (Feb. 1938) published an article entitled 'The Most Profitable and Desirable Crop that Can be Grown.' It stated that if hemp was cultivated using 20th Century technology, it would be the single largest agricultural crop in the U.S. and the rest of the world.


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Swerving to avoid hitting a moose standing in the middle of the road, a Norwegian motorist accidentally hit a bear instead, inadvertently doing a Norwegian version of Sweden's moose test.
That isn't exactly hitting a tree to avoid a squirrel or anything, but man, what are the odds?
Luckily, the driver escaped unscathed, although the same can't be said for his car. Authorities are still on the lookout for the bear, who scurried off into the woods dripping blood. Poor thing.
According to Bear Trust International, an adult brown bear can weigh as much as 860 pounds, while the Ontario Ministry of Natural Resources says that a fully grown moose can tip the scales at more than 1,000 pounds.
So the bear isn't quite as heavy, but talk about out of the frying pan and into the fire. (Hat tip to Lars!)
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Commander Chris Hadfield gave new meaning to the song "Space Oddity" when he bid farewell to the International Space Station with his own music video rendition of the David Bowie classic.
The Canadian astronaut ended his five-month stint on the I.S.S. by tweeting his over 821,000 followers the YouTube video on Sunday. He is seen "floating in a most peculiar way" through the space station with guitar in hand, as spectacular views of Earth loom in the background.
The video went viral with over 2.7 million views as of Monday evening.
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With deference to the genius of David Bowie, here's Space Oddity, recorded on Station. A last glimpse of the World. youtube.com/watch?v=KaOC9d… — Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) May 12, 2013
Among those more than 2.7 million viewers was the man behind the song himself.
"It's possibly the most poignant version of the song ever created," David Bowie called Hadfield's performance on his official Facebook page. He described the video as "breathtaking."
Among the collaborators on the project was musician Emm Gryner, who was once part of Bowie's live band. In a blog post she described how the video was made.
"The task was in front of me. I came up with a piano part. i then enlisted my friend, producer and fellow Canadian Joe Corcoran to take my piano idea and Chris' vocal and blow it up into a fully produced song," Gryner wrote. "Drums! mellotrons! fuzz bass! We also incorporated into the track ambient space station noises which Chris had put on his Soundcloud. I was mostly blown away by how pure and earnest Chris' singing is on this track. Like weightlessness and his voice agreed to agree."
Hadfield has been tweeting a series of YouTube videos from the space station to drum up awareness and excitement for space travel. He's demonstrated how to open a can of soda, clip your nails and make a peanut butter sandwich in space — and what crying looks like in zero gravity.
The 53-year-old space traveler, along with NASA astronaut Tom Marshburn and Russian cosmonaut Roman Romanenko, landed in a Soyuz capsule in Kazakhstan on Tuesday morning, around 8:31 a.m. local time.


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Trolltech Releases Preview of Qt for Java
Trolltech has released a preview of the long awaited Java bindings for Qt 4. "Qt Jambi technology integrates Qt with the Java programming language, providing new possibilities for both Java and C++ programmers. This technology enables Java developers to take advantage of the powerful features of Qt from within Java Standard Edition 5.0 and Java Enterprise Edition 5.0." More information on the Jambi press release and tech details in the Jambi whitepaper. To get your copy sign up to the preview licence (final release will be also available under an open source license) and download. There is an FAQ
Re: Pretty much irrelevant
Java won't be used for retail applications regardless of whether there are Qt bindings.
Once again, nobody cares about Java Qt bindings. Windows people will just be using .NET and open source desktop people just don't use Java.
By ac at Tue, 2006/08/01 - 5:00am
Weird, seems like a forced idea
Why put in sooo much effort to enter a saturated market when there are other languages and platform dying for real GUI support?
I mean, java has AWT, SWING, SWT, Eclipse RCP, GTK bindings, etc, etc
If Trolltech put in the same effort at all to support QtRuby or PyQt, it would quickly become the default GUI development system.
Just my $0.02
By ben at Sat, 2006/07/29 - 5:00am
Re: Weird, seems like a forced idea
It's a pure business decision, the Java market is way bigger than Ruby and Python put together. Getting a few percentages of the Java market(the closed source part) will generate more revenue, in the same way regular Qt does(The saturated market comment was used when that was introduced too).
Besides, the existing Python bindings for Qt are already widely used and mature. Making any inroad there harder, and they will essentially compete against themselves. While the existing Ruby bindings don't have the track record in stability and completeness of it's Python counterpart, it has come a long way and it's still improving.
By Morty at Sun, 2006/07/30 - 5:00am
Re: Weird, seems like a forced idea
"While the existing Ruby bindings don't have the track record in stability and completeness of it's Python counterpart, it has come a long way and it's still improving."
I think the Qt3 version of QtRuby is complete, stable and directly comparable with PyQt. They are both pretty much feature complete and cover the KDE apis too. It makes more sense to compare the Qt4 versions of PyQt and QtRuby, and I get the impression that they are at a similar stage.
Note that Ruby book sales have just surpassed perl book sales, after overtaking python sales a few months ago, so don't underestimate the coming popularity of the language...
-- Richard
By Richard Dale at Wed, 2006/08/02 - 5:00am
my 2 cent
i agree too little too late in the sence of cookies in the cookie jar, it is a great idea dont get me wronge.. just a few years behind like said, 4 or even 2 years ago would have been key but the fact that they are doing ti now is a) a Great idea and B)Well Over due!
By anon2 at Mon, 2006/07/31 - 5:00am
What about the KDE libraries
Will KDE also provide the KDE libraries in Java. When will I use KPrinter from Java.
By Mike Tammerman at Tue, 2006/08/01 - 5:00am
Qt Jambi
I found it to be good looking, but slower than other toolkits.
Note to those "not interested in Java", omfg, can you please leave this forum, why are you posting such comments if you are not even using it? It's like me leaving an opinion in a Cobol forum... just a waste of space and time (yes, the entire continuum...)
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NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - College students threw out 15 percent less food after researchers peppered dining halls with short anti-waste slogans, according to new study.
"If you can get it into people's minds to talk about food waste, that's when little changes take effect," said lead author Kelly Whitehair, an instructor of hospitality management and dietetics at Kansas State University. "Change doesn't have to involve a huge elaborate campaign," she told Reuters Health.
Worldwide, up to half the food produced is wasted, according to an estimate published this week by the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, an independent London-based engineering society (see Reuters story of January 10, 2013 here: reut.rs/Vmb7Ca).
In the U.S., school cafeterias have been a particular target for change since students tend to waste a lot of food - especially those on all-you-can-eat meal plans typical at many colleges - but they may also be open to learning new habits.
To determine the best way to use written messages to change food waste behavior and get students thinking, Whitehair's team posted the simple slogans "All Taste... NO WASTE" and "EAT WHAT YOU TAKE, DON'T WASTE FOOD" for two weeks at campus all-you-can-eat dining halls.
The messages were placed near the cashier, food lines, tray drop-offs and as table place cards.
After two weeks, the researchers replaced the simple slogans around the cafeteria with new, more in-depth, data-laden messages that included statistics on food waste for an additional week.
Before, during and after the awareness campaign researchers collected and measured food scraps from 119,046 trays and weighed them.
On average, the school's 540 students wasted more than 57 grams (around two ounces) of edible food per tray - adding up to 1.5 tons of waste during the six-week study, the group reports in the Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics.
About a third of the students wasted nothing over the whole study period, and a quarter of the students threw away less than 56 grams of food per meal. At the extreme, one student wasted over two pounds (998 grams) of food at a single meal.
Overall, food waste decreased from an average of 62 grams per tray in the beginning to 53 grams at the end of the study. Food waste levels did not decrease further, however, during the stage of the study that exposed students to more data-heavy messages, researchers found.
Nearly 40 percent of the students participated in accompanying surveys that showed little change in overall attitudes about food waste before and after being exposed to the simple slogans.
Whitehair and colleagues found that most wasted food came from self-serve items such as condiments and whole fruit.
The researchers weren't able to determine if students ate more or threw away less, since the amount on each tray at the beginning of the meal wasn't measured, to avoid alerting students to the fact that they were being studied.
However, one expert not involved in the study doubted that researchers measuring food on discarded trays would go unnoticed, and so questioned the study's findings.
Andrew Shakman, cofounder and president of LeanPath, a company that tracks foodservice-generated waste said the slogans and the presence of the researchers might have worked together to influence the results.
"There would have been an understanding that there was some degree of social surveillance going on," Shakman told Reuters Health. "Given that, the reduction isn't surprising."
Previous studies have shown that warning signs can reduce food waste, but Whitehair and colleagues concluded that simple slogans that cafeteria managers can produce with a computer and printer are just as effective as more complex marketing campaigns.
"The point was to look at ways to possibly reduce food waste that were really applicable to the (foodservice) managers - something that they could actually implement in their own operation without having to do some giant overhaul or remodel," Whitehair said.
Universities and colleges recognize that wasted food adds to expenses and have explored various strategies to keep food from ending in the trash.
The most common is tray-free cafeterias that "save us from our own eyes being too big for our stomachs and forces us to only take what we can carry," said Jonathan Bloom, author of American Wasteland and an independent food waste consultant. Bloom was not involved in the current study.
Dozens of universities have adopted tray-free dining halls and a recent independent study at American University in Washington, D.C., found that tray-free dining over a six-day period reduced waste by 32 percent.
Other strategies include single-day food weigh-ins to show students the amount they waste; offering samples before students order an entire entree; cooking stations that include make-your-own omelets, stir fry or grills so students can control ingredients and portions; and moving from all-you-can-eat to "à la carte" menus.
Tray-free dining typically yields 25-30 percent reductions in food waste according to a 2009 analysis of previous research. Experts said that many other strategies lack data to determine the effect on food waste levels.
The University of Newcastle in the U.K. is even exploring a "bin cam" - a camera that takes a picture of food waste from individual students, which then gets posted on social media sites.
Whitehair is satisfied with the evidence that even simple anti-waste slogans got students thinking, and the university has adopted the signs as permanent fixtures in its cafeterias.
During the research, Whitehair says, she overheard conversations as she scraped food from thousands of trays.
"It was funny, you'd hear these big guys go by and be like 'All taste, no waste today, baby.' Whitehair recalled.
"That's exactly why we did it, to get it in the kids' heads. That was enough for me," she said.
SOURCE: bit.ly/13bQqM6 Journal of the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, January 2013.


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Alexander McQueen was inspired by Friends.
Rock Hudson was gay. Here's a look at his hidden "bachelorhood."
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The guy who designed the literal Wheel of Fortune and did art direction for Jeopardy! died. His name was Ed Flesh. Yes. Also the man who invented Doritos died, and he was buried with them.
Linda Ronstadt is writing a memoir. So is Neil Young. And Patti Smith's Just Kids will become a movie.
A very thorough look at time zones and how ridiculous they are.
I appreciate any recent reference to Simply Red.
Make some egg salad sandwiches, but in a very classy way. Also make some potato pancakes with leftover mashed potatoes courtesy of Gretchen (as if there would ever be leftovers!)
A glimpse of anything you ever wanted to know about Paul Taylor and all that dance is now available.
Roseanne is back with a vengeance, with her major policy position based on legalizing marijuana.
As if we even thought it was possible, Craig Ferguson steps up the crazy and films a week's worth of shows in Paris.
My piano teacher growing up would have been all over these.
I would stay in this hotel in a hot second. If I had my stockpile of old magazines with me right now I'd pull out this amazing Times Magazine where these designers used salvaged oil tankers as rooms in their homes.
Pre-fabs and contemporary ranch style homes? Sign me up (and remember the great MOMA exhibit on pre-fabs from a couple years ago).
Glass Beach is in MacKerricher State Park in California. There's all this sea glass because of years trash being dumped nearby.
A connect-the-dots Mona Lisa, and a Mona Lisa made of far fewer dots.
An Apple tree.
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Dress your life like you're in Benny and Joon.
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Steve Earle's "Galway Girl." Fun fact: He's been married seven times, twice to the same woman (the current wife is Allison Moorer, a talented singer-songwriter in her own right). Must be why his music is so good.
Do a day in the life with Pixar genius John Lassater.
Running on Empty (Revisited) from Ross Ching on Vimeo.
LA didn't have cars for a bit and it was glorious.
Check out "The Secret Life of Swimmers," by photographer Judy Starkman. She took photos of people who swim at public pools. It is a bit of a secret club.